skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again. I’m not talking about that definition of vendor. But if you insist to use that one, Amazon can be liable for products sold on their marketplace (at least in California).

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/1/22414185/california-appeal...
I have mixed feelings about this.

One the one hand, blatantly copying a manufacturer's custom design is kinda scummy. In the article they show some Williams & Sonoma furniture that was copied and looks similar but not identical. I've read similar stories about bike bags and other things.

On the other hand, sourcing the same item from the same factory that two dozen other sellers are already selling isn't. TBH I wouldn't mind if those duplicative items just went away because they just pollute results. There's a similar problem on eBay where there are 1500 listings for the exact same item from 100 different sellers all using the same stock photos but with slightly different prices.
What about replicators?
Self-Supervised Learning Advances Medical Image Classification
> We don't need super-cheap launch to make space kidneys worthwhile.

It'd still be a giant gamble, because both progress in artificial kidneys and new methods for 3d-printing organs could make dialysis obsolete faster than space-grown organs could be available.
PC hardware of recent years is much longer lived in terms of performance than in earlier years.
Hence the need for reform.
Your logic is that a government would want a backdoor in this app because another app was successful? Just because the same founder? That's a lot of hopeful backdoors - poor return on investment for the government. I've worked on bigger projects than that without backdoors. "Pretty huge" is relative I guess - I certainly wouldn't describe it as that. I seriously doubt that app had a government backdoor, and neither will this one. Was that an attempted appeal to authority?
Walgreens to Close Five San Francisco Stores on Shoplifting
I'm sure someone somewhere has managed to do it wrong but where I live it's done decently well and there's a fair number of main roads that meet the description I gave and are fine as a pedestrian, not perfect but fine.
> This is chat in countless 10-player-games, not some Battlefield server that runs 24/7 with 64 players where moderation/admins in realtime actually make sense.

What about griefers? People who join games only to sabotage their own team?

There are some problems that can only really be solved by an intelligent human watching a player for multiple games, and figuring out a pattern.
That does sound similar except you'd have younger employed members making money to add to the pool of equity and also working on self sustainability like farming to feed the members. Not all members in the aforementioned org lived together past the 1970s or whatever; they often were sent to live and maintain on properties the org owned all around the world.
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How many minds do split-brain patients have?
Once you can harvest organs from prisoners who committed outrageous crimes, the number of those prisoners will magically increase.
The main question for me is whether it has persistent data structures with structural sharing. If it has that, I'm happy to call it "functional." Without that it's hard to write efficient pure functions.
I just realized I've been browsing HN at 150% zoom this whole time. 100% looks ridiculously tiny.
I'm not Catholic, but I think a better question to get from that analogy would be

>Is the scientific method perfect though? Isn't it the result of the same fallible human minds that make it's implementation inherently flawed as well?

Maybe the scientific method is not perfect, but itself is still open to improvement in fundamental ways. This is more interesting to me than debates about ancient Judaean fig tree parables.

But in case you're curious! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursing_the_fig_tree
That's only vis-a-vis the Main.java Java implementation, which has a different algorithm, not implementation. The author is not referring to the CL implementation (note that the author explicitly calls out Main2.java, CL, and the Rust versions as being the most similar and worthy of being benchmarked). The Main.java one is more of a curio than anything else, which the author threw in because it was the first implementation they wrote (the article acknowledges it has a different algo and is therefore not directly comparable to the other two). This is not what the author is referring to when they say "well-optimised" (note that the article explicitly excludes Main.java from a lot of its valid comparisons, e.g. "Because the Rust code implements a similar algorihm to Java’s Main2, NOT Main, we should not conclude that Java can beat Rust in speed!")

The main comparison of the article is Main2.java, main.rs, and main.lisp, as the author both calls out in the article and the attached GitHub repo (as is apparent in the author's choice of optimizations; if it was a comparison of algos, then the CL and Rust versions would be rewritten to use tries as well).

The point is the author did not explicitly call out this current Rust iteration as explicitly suboptimal RE CL. The closest the article comes to calling the Rust iteration suboptimal is

> However, the Java and Rust implementations were, as CL’s, written without much thought given to performance, after all the description of the original study which introduced the problem asked participants to focus on correctness and readability, not performance.

which is referring to the previous iteration of the code, not the current one.

(It's also evident from Cryptonic and chrismorgan's comments they are talking about implementation-level concerns, not algo-level ones such as Main2.java vs the other implementations)
Speaking of which, these seem like the kind of thing that would integrate well, but cell phones are still stuck with gyros/accelerometers/magnetometers that are pretty bad, especially in cities, double especially near buried power lines. The old "my heading spins rapidly in circles whenever I walk on a certain section of sidewalk" problem. Are there engineering challenges to integration or is it a spooky controlled technology conspiracy?
Plug-In Cars are the Future. The Grid Isn’t Ready
Did you remove edge by chance? I had an update some time ago that rolled itself back because edge not being present on the system was not a handled edge case.
Thunderbolt 3 and 4 both use USB-C.
> But mistrusting the science doesn't mean turning to the snake oil salesmen.

Unfortunately those who 'mistrust science' usually do. Snake oil salesmen will sound trustworthy to them, because they also 'mistrust the science' (which happens to disagree about the usefulness of the product/opinion they are offering).
I'm not sure on the exist economics, but much of the "cost" of a return ends up being passed to the seller, so it's much easier for Amazon to green light returns much more loosely.
I’m not referring to foone’s post getting in Twitter. I’m referring to his post later on:

“There are endless Twitter bots which do exactly the same thing; scrape all the HN links and cross-post them to Twitter”

Here’s a single account example I found… and I’ve seen more like it before.

https://twitter.com/park_junbeom/status/1447511436666675203

You’ll notice that, that account also has numerous random links to products, probably farming traffic to those as well. In the ad business this is a strategy to foster network effect traffic signals.

And then there’s karma. I don’t have direct evidence because I don’t have the time to investigate, but this quote rings true to me, and I’m sure other here:

“hacker news is a nexus of karma farming bot activity”

Here’s an example of what I’m referring too. In this case it’s not a bot, but a human run vote system:

https://www.appsally.com/products/hacker-news-karma/

I’ve been in the advertising space for a long time. It’s very hard to combat this type of stuff. There are basically sweat shops in places like India devoted to these things, and it took google years to rid its ad system of it, and they threw enormous money and AI at the problem.

So when you say with 100% certainty it’s not happening, but you have many serious users complaining, it feels like an issue.

I truly think that social media companies are not really aware of the depth of what they are fighting. Here’s a report from Oxford university:

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-01-13-social-media-manipulati...
Singapore Covid: Airline websites crash as borders set to open
Since GDP is calculated based on expenditure the trillions of covid govt spending count towards GDP just as the proposed spending on the table (infra and BBB) would.

GDP = C + G + I + NX

I think the layman interpretation of GDP is actual economic growth.
Windows 10 feature updates (recently twice a year, named $year'H'$term) have been gated by hardware compatibility lists for quite a while (since the start?), and there's even a distinction between feature update versions that have their own "Long Term Servicing Channel" and those that don't. Sounds familiar?

The boundaries you ask for have already been in place, long before 11.
Oh, that's really cool. :) Thanks for mentioning it.
> fringe theories like this one

How do you define "fringe theory"? I'm pretty sure inflation has been the mainstream view among cosmologists since the 1980s.
So why don't they just not renew the lease on 50-80% of that expensive office space? It's not like a majority of tech businesses own the buildings their office is in. Or if they do, rent the excess out to others. (Sure, right now if everyone does either, the office-space rental market will pretty much crash... But a lot more tech corps would profit from that than would suffer from not getting good profits from renting out their property.)
> He's liberal in the pre-woke sense - government should spend more to fix everything

Couldn't have put it better.
Didn't SF have a ridiculous number of Walgreens stores at some point several years ago? Like aside from the issue of shoplifting, could they really afford that many stores in such a small area?
Journalists can address misinformation on Telegram
And, importantly, it's also their money. Perhaps personal, perhaps a loan. But they don't get to just pull in VC funding under the assumption that they can burn through it, close shop, and carry on like nothing happened. This is the real entrepreneurial risk.
Which is utterly, brainlessly, grubbily stupid as a facet of modern digital content streaming. Aside from being absurd in principle, will large numbers of people suddenly migrate to another country so they can use its Netflix selection? Probably not.
I think I tend to run a little low on seratonin and I know the exact feeling you're talking about. It's a gentle, pleasant sense that everything is going to be ok, that somehow still feels oddly artificial. Usually happens in bright sunlight, but rarely in other situations where it's really hard to figure out what triggered it.

Adrenaline is one that is more common for me, and impossible to mistake. I can literally taste it.
Did you just put in 100h of work this week? Poor time management not dedication
> It's gravely concerning to see hostility directed at people who tell others to think for themselves, question experts, and adopt a general attitude of informed skepticism.

This trend of blind trust has been extremely alarming to me as well these days!

Lobotomies won the Nobel prize in the early 20th century championed by experts!

Experts aren't immune to agendas, or corruption, or any of the human vices.

Appeal to authority is a literal logical fallacy but it's lost on people.

Scary world we're in.
The scientific method is a human invention. It is not 'perfect'. This is ridiculous religious dogmatism.
it is still very steep after that adjustment.
Black Swans and Pink Flamingos: Five Principles for Force Design
> Even if the state had the best of intentions (and it clearly doesn't), this creates a very perverse and dangerous set of incentives, wherein the state materially benefits from treating prisoners as less-than-human.

Yeah, this is like the incentive problem with prison labor (and the 13th Amendment loophole) in the US, except that it creates an incentive for mass killing rather than mass long-term incarceration.
Ah, we use the first location's view of the world, so [0] does Mar-May, and [1] does Sep-Nov

[0]: https://weatherspark.com/compare/s/0/23912~149466/Comparison...

[1]: https://weatherspark.com/compare/s/0/149466~23912/Comparison...

We've added double-x-axis for comparisons to the todo-list.
One day we'll have these kinds of projects for the M1.
This is not what pumaontheprowl said.

You are right, simply presenting people with data doesn't work. If it did, you would never see a fat nurse, or a doctor who smokes, or... the list is endless.

pumaontheprowl's suggestion is to design a (thought) experiment that involves the skeptic. There are various ways to do this, but history is literally built on this exact phenomena. Getting people to change their mind on an issue requires that you have a real conversation with them. You can't just shove data in their face and see "See, look dummy you're wrong I'm right!" There are all sorts of people that do this for a living: helping people leave cults/white supremacy groups/etc.
I remember going to a talk once by the Bishop of Columbus about the Gospels. Someone asked him what he thought the hardest passage of the Bible to interpret was and he responded with this one.
Do you believe the pareto distribution of resources/wealth has changed, or that the over-all growth in total wealth maintaining a similar pareto distribution results in the chart you posted?
Some jobs are just gross. Plumbing. Cleaning school bathrooms. Pest control. Embalming. Urology.

Unless we never want our trash picked up, some folks are gonna have to work gross jobs.

What I find interesting and perhaps "problematic" is that these gross jobs do not always pay well.
> Retail stores actually buy everything they sell

This is true in general, but not absolutely true.

In some cases, manufacturers rent shelf space from stores, then pay the store a commission for each unit sold.

Various power tool manufacturers use this model, the name of which eludes me at this moment. I think Moleskine also does it.
“Be the match”-like programs would be ill advised if you are a rare match due to the risk of powerful political actors using imprisonment to extract from you.

Nice dystopia.
Ah, the art of balance between trying to help your sponsors plunder as much taxpayer money as possible while avoiding to get overthrown by outraged and impoverished citizens....
It used to be a redirect, but lately I have only seen the iFrame version.
IMO this isn't a big enough issue to worry about. Most progress bars break when you resize the terminal, I just expect it at this point.
They talk about Jack Welch and his impact on ESW, and it's worth considering Welch's legacy: https://www.thestreet.com/opinion/the-sad-story-of-jack-welc...
Walmart doesn't know where I live/lived, what I've purchased for the past decade, what I might be mildly interested in (searched for at one point), what movies I watch, what books I read, etc, etc.

Walmart cannot cater it's experience to what it thinks I might buy. Amazon can.

It's just not the same. There is a huge asymmetry of information (from both suppliers and customers) that makes Amazons overall practice feel much more predatory.

Oh, and Amazon is 50% of all online retail. Walmart is something like 10% of all brick and mortar retail.
I wonder if that makes finding replacements easier too, since you can comfortably find (or even make) new ones.
Bareflank/bsl: AUTOSAR-compliant header library to support critical systems
>Seems Kubernetes-y:

Two guesses as to where the folks who implemented Kubernetes hail from (as in: which programming language)
All those windows on the 4 train
not necessary:

These companies have limited traction, keep them as is and they will die a slowly death after some years.

Or significantly reduce costs (by going offshore - probably with a smaller team), makes numbers much more attractive and sustainable long term.
The real trick would be to find a way to get the same economies of scale with a smaller company that let large companies out-compete smaller companies in spite of their drastically larger management overhead.
Half of nutrition science is completely bogus. Just look at what's in the supermarkets today.

From there, it's difficult to have any trust in science at all. I can't blame people.
These changes are so minor that they don't count as a new product IMO.
chuckles did that daily in 1986-87 on 68020 asm
except: "Excessive consumption may induce laxative effects"

I wonder about this. Is this a benign side effect, or the body's way of moving a troublesome substance out of the digestive system?
It’s funny how wrong this is.[1] No, `--porcelain` is machine output format, and the machine output format is (sensibly) versioned (you of course need to version such output—the output of `git status` writ large is not versioned afaik).

This [2] answer by VonC even quotes a mail where someone said that it was “[their] fault, to some degree.”

[1] Because it proves the opposite point.

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6976473/what-does-the-te...
Medium term, in long term we end up getting lot less new novel products as cost of developing those won't be recouped.
CryptoRom Fake iOS Cryptocurrency Apps Hit US, European Victims
There is good reason to not want to be in the system. During COVID, both my aunt and grandmother were abused during their hospitalizations (not for COVID). The experience left my aunt feeling she'd rather have died than endure what she had to, and after hearing her experiences, I think that would have been a perfectly rational decision to make had she known what was going to happen.

Why are we so upset when people decide to refuse treatment?
I did similar violence to my old HDD-based iPod. One day it just made a chugga chugga noise. Meaning the HDD was dead. In researching how to recover some music a forum member mentioned dropping it really hard. So I slammed it into my desk and terrified the office. And it continued working for the next few years.
Taking C02 from greenhouse gas emissions. Sounds neat! But I can see there being a dark side.... at the beginning of the 21st century we have too much C02 in the atmosphere... and by the end we have too little! Maybe a good sci-fi short story in there....
>>The phrase "disingenuous skepticism" is difficult to imagine.

I find it easy to imagine and indeed can pinpoint many observed instances. A lot of "I'm not saying anything, I'm just asking questions" ARE in fact saying something, quite strongly, with minds made up and no curiosity or eagerness to learn, but are being disingenuous. It's not skepticism: they are not awaiting or hoping for data or facts or claims, rational discourse or healthy discussion; their mind is not open to change; they have an objective, they are aiming to persuade and recruit, or sow doubt. To the point that when a user made an innocuous comment in this thread and ended it with "not a criticism, just an observation:)" we all assumed he was in fact disingenuous and was criticizing, because that's the current (unfortunate!) norm for that form of statement.

A lot of cult-like institutions or groups understand, consciously or subconsciously, that their views are not agreed upon and appreciated. So they have devised disingenuous ways of promoting them. From naming ("Discovery Institute" is hard-core creationists, "National Vaccine Information Center" is hard-core anti-vaxx group etc), to appearances (websites are full of stock photos of people in white lab coats and charts, to appear science-y), to discourse (again, the frequent, "I'm not SAYING anything, I'm just ASKING"; "I'm not AGAINST vaccines, I just have QUESTIONS on the timing" - all pulled from distributed talking points),disingenuous skepticism has become the norm, I'm sad to say... and thus trivial to imagine.

edit: All forms of discussion like this ultimately converge to definitions; so to be explicit and hopefully drive us to point of mutual understanding, to me, skepticism implies seeking facts, data, truth; openness to change your mind; genuine looking for mutual objective truth and agreement. As such, there's disingenuous skepticism aplenty in this world of ours :-/
Is “care” the right word? I would be curious about the number of people who don't like it but feel that they do not have much ability to change it or that it's lower priority than other problems.
The brand described in the post does not contain any dairy, though it does contain animal by-products (specifically, the vitamin D3).
Airlines reject Texas ban on vaccine mandates
Yes, there was a fad for making mattresses that sort of fold into a weak, uncomfortable couch. That combo is called a futon here. Now they have frames that give them some supportive structure, but the earlier ones looked like this: https://thehousingforum.com/single-futon/
There is no such thing as easy jobs anymore because the job of your boss is make your life miserable and get you bored and frustrated until you break. Once you are broken, your boss will fire you and hire another person to replace you as if you were a piece of disposable junk.

Welcome to modern capitalism.
Seems great if you like Microsoft's opinionated design
my apologies for being overly critical of you particularly, because that’s not the strict intent, as there is a larger audience to consider. it’s hard to thread the needle between the personal and the general on an open forum like this.

i do stand by what i said in general however. masks are an insignificant mitigation in most situations (but not for grandma). we can reduce deaths at the margin (like vaccinating the elderly and unhealthy), but without a sterilizing vaccine, many were very likely going to die no matter what else we do/did. it’s ok (better, even) that we don’t all think the exact same things and do the exact same things, since that more completely explores the solution space. in that vein, share information, rather than trying to ‘help’ or convince.
Exactly. Just because such a function exists does not necessarily mean that you can find it.
This is US capitalism. The alternative is somewhere like PyongYang. Either way, under either system (and its amazing how similar both systems are in terms of elite power dynamics) YOU the minnow get screwed.
> I have never been successful getting any of the UI or drawing libraries to work.

Have you tried jaylib (built on top of raylib)? I have gotten that to work well on macos, linux and windows. :)

> The main http server circlet is MIT licensed, but it is built on top of Mongoose, which is GPL/paid commercial. Something to be aware of if you want to distribute binaries made with this library.

While I haven't used it outside of development, chidi is MIT licensed. :) https://git.sr.ht/~pepe/chidi
Is dark matter cold, warm or hot?
I thought maybe this was the famous "gray goo" interview, but it's apparently much earlier, mostly about the vi editor (which I think I like a lot more than Joy does -- unless he's had a change of heart).
I see, makes sense, I knew about the experiments conducted by Germans in the concentration camps, I thought we brought them home afterwards. I understand.
From the fist comment in a similar thread a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28818494

> It’s hard to tell looking at FRED but it seems like it may be due to a change in how they do their accounting starting in May of 2020 (when all the dollars “seem” to appear). From FRED: [...]
Yeah, I agree it would be interesting. Very often I'd like to be able to reply to everyone who brigade-downvotes things on reddit when for example they don't have some context or something counterintuitive is actually true according to reputable source.
Religion and superstition are terms that came to mind when I started walking there.

It's actually fascinating, neurologically, even if a bit morbidly so.