skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the main issues are polarization and the two party political landscape for you guys across the pond. Don't forget that the grass often seems greener on the other side, we here in germany also have a lot of polarization going on esp. in recent times. Also these coalition agreements are not reliable, politicians talk a lot if the day is long, we'll have to wait and see what actually comes of it.
Ah, I like this analogy. NSO's role isn't so much selling a weapon as it is selling "cyberwarfare as a service."
Show HN: An audio app to create music, stories, etc, in collaboration others.
Zipstage is a free audio platform where users can make music, create stories, jokes, quizzes, and anything-audio in collaboration with other people through the smartphone (Android only for now).

I started building this because I loved to play music with friends when I was younger. It became harder to do since I moved from my home town to study and work.
I also like to write poetry and stories, so I thought it would be great if other people could also collaborate with their own views and ideas.

There are other music collaboration apps out there, but they're mostly designed for professionals, thus hard to use. Zipstage is intended to be very easy to use.

Any feedback will be absolutely welcome.

On Zipstage, users can create and publish content through 3 tools, called Release, Mix, and Extension.

* Release:
Create new content.
Example:
- you can record a musical instrument;
- record your voice while singing a song;
- tell a story;
- recite a poem;
- etc.

* Mix:
Record an audio track over other people's content.
Example:
- you can record a musical instrument over someone else's voice;
- sing over a musical instrument published by yourself or someone else;
- record a musical instrument over someone else's storytelling or poetry;
- etc.

* Extension:
Continue a topic initiated by other people.
Example:
- you can continue a story that someone else started;
- participate in a discussion about a specific topic that you care for;
- create and participate in jokes, quizzes, and other kinds of games;
- etc.
I remember visiting Mexico from the US at the beginning of the current century and walking through a market and seeing bootleg DVDs for sale, nestled among the movies copies of AutoCad and Maya. Thinking, huh this software is really quite expensive and there must be demand for it world wide.

Being excellent, open source and free it pretty much changed the 3d software landscape globally.

I found it odd they didn't include that video on the homepage. Its pretty great showcase of the tool (I learned its python scriptable!)
I'm sorry this isn't much use to the parent poster, but I think these conversations really need to happen years if not decades before it's time for the change. 70-somethings can be lively and wonderful, but as a generalization they are going to be very set in their ways and extremely loathe to changing their valued routines. At their age, even something simple like getting acquainted with new neighbors (and losing decades-long connections with old neighbors) can be really intimidating. They can have emotional attachments to rooms of their house that they probably can't even verbalize.
New treatments are becoming available all the time, better vaccines will emerge, why wouldn't I want to delay? I take care of an elderly parent; becoming sick and not knowing it is potentially fatal to her.

I can be cautious and likely avoid significant exposure for another year or two at least, but not if my employer disallows it.
> I’m judged by the passing rate so I’m maximizing that metric.

We really need to divorce the teaching and accreditation functions bundled in the modern university. There is a clear conflict of interest.
This ain't it. Hard pass. May as well just be a hosted PDF.
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/private-i...
On Firefox I use the "Font Contrast" add-on.

HN is acceptable (barely) on OLED mobile for me, but I’d prefer a white background and blacker text (like e.g. reddit). On other displays I often compensate by increasing the font size, but obviously that’s not optimal.
Because partial but not complete genetic isolation is a criteria in the IMHO applicable (or rather not applicable) definition of race here.

I am not confusing race and species.
I mean, alternatively old crotchety people don't care about resale value because they won't have to move to chase a job or follow a partner who needs to move.
It's a shame that this is still the perception because this actually was a real issue for a while in the early 2000s. Back then lego was losing money and was not as successful as it had been in the past.

Then lego seriously addressed this problem and since then have made a large effort to avoid having unique parts in sets. And they were incentivised to do so, because the more unique parts you have, the more money it is going to cost you. Reusing parts is just simply a lot cheaper.

Now there still often are unique parts in a lot of sets, but they are usually unique only in colour or printing.

For example, the current set with the record for the number of unique parts is the Diagon Alley set.

Here is the list of unique parts in the set: https://brickset.com/inventories/75978-1/unique

The thing you will note is that even though there are a lot of parts that only appear in this set, I wouldn't say that these parts are not useful generally. They are mostly just bits of custom lego characters, which you would happily use in any context, or a custom colour for a generally applicable part.
I understand that you're trying to show the parent commenter a different perspective, but telling somebody that a comment is not condescending is unconvincing, especially when the statement is followed by an exposition of your world view.

Empathy is the opposite of condescension; if you want to show someone that you're on their level, and genuinely want to convince them, you should try to state their premise in your own words, and then show the advantages of your outlook.
How does a software engineer pass up the opportunity to reference either Spinal Tap or Douglas Adams?
Imagine all the dirt the NSA has on congress.
I loved the idea about privacy.com - used them for a while - but a significant (>40%?) of the vendors that I tried to use them with didn't accept pre-paid cards (which I guess what these appear as) - and almost 90% of the vendors that I really needed them for would not accept them.

Perhaps this re-issue will make them more useful - here's hoping, because I think the idea is brilliant.
"UFO Haiti", 2007
Read without paywall: https://archive.md/Rs2lC
There is always an apparent negative correlation.

I am struggling to understand why people find this to be so difficult. It's inherent in the idea of "trade-off" that if one is high the other is low and vice versa, i.e., a negative correlation.
Privately owned, commercial space stations get NASA funding
I agree, it’s bizarre the German government wants to enshrine the right to encryption in law, but is mulling whether to violate individual sovereignty and control over one’s body by imposing mandatory vaccinations.
What kind of double-speak is this?! Risk and No Risk = Logically null nonsense!

BTW after 30, the chances of getting pregnant at all drops ~50%

After 40, it's 25% and drops to essentially 0% by 50.

Not a medical risk, or risk at all, unless having a kid was a priority. Seems to be intentionally obfuscating the definition of risk.

Also if you have sex for six months without protection in your 20s, and you don't get pregnant , you HAVE a fertility problem: in that age range, the odds should have reached 100% pregnant.
Uganda is not an American enemy.
> I had to look it up: Adult Fan Of Legos.

An AFOL would likely tell you that it's actually "Adult Fan Of Lego"
Yes, and in many places you won't know what ambulance company will come when you call, and many of them intentionally aren't in-network for many/most insurance plans, because they believe that they get screwed over by the insurance companies. So even if you have insurance (good insurance!), you could get hit with a multi-thousand-dollar bill after a 10-minute ride to the hospital.

It's disgusting.
> a space launch trebuchet would also be an anti-tank trebuchet

There are much easier ways to destroy a tank than a 20-billion-dollar centrifuge.
Sorry about that! It doesn't work on touch devices very well right now because it relies on mouse movements. However, I just fixed it.
Interesting to consider that bit about the USDA and home pasteurizing eggs. I do a lot of ice cream/frozen custard style things and have used raw yolks before after using low temperature cooking via immersion circulator to "pasteurize" them first. I usually refer to Douglas Baldwin for a majority of this stuff.
http://www.douglasbaldwin.com/sous-vide.html
Though the first article that popped up on the search has some good reading on it from what I'm seeing. https://www.streetsmartkitchen.com/how-to-pasteurize-eggs-so...
> Given that the number of victims is an estimate

I'm very used to engineers' quibbles, very focused views ending up being very narrow views, clever/stupid explanations of why various laws can't be enforced, and so on.

But this has the be the biggest instance of missing the point, intentionally or not, I've seen in quite some time.
Dual use tools are not exempt. If it can be used for nefarious haxxoring then you’re out of luck. Let alone having something like msf on your box…
Or, for the contrarian view, you have a few people mutually reinforcing poor coding practices under the guise of whatever they view as readable and maintainable, which in my experience is equally likely.
Nice!

If you add a dark background inline style to the html root element, you get rid of the white background lurking from behind when pulling down. The white is blinding.
14 years old article is a good reason to take note of it as it shows it is not just some fad but important long-term issue.

I don't think the issue itself is controversial. I was taught at university that our life expectancy is determined roughly speaking one third by our genes, one third by our lifestyle and one third by healthcare.

And then it became apparent that most healthcare interventions (childhood vaccinations, antibiotics, most medicines) that have a big effect are relatively cheap. The most costly interventions have the least effect. We could easily cut the health budget in half with only a marginal decrease of actual outcomes. But it would be very hard to do due to politics, the structure of incentives etc. But we really need to critically examine and educate people that expecting more and more from healthcare despite progress in this field can only lead to diminishing results.

We cannot change our genes (yet) but we need to think more about our lifestyle (obesity, drug and alcohol use) which could provide considerable potential as well.
Why DAOs Change Everything
Germany and the US have completely different electoral and legislative systems.

The US, notably has single member districts with plurality voting, which is extremely likely to produce two dominant parties. That's combined with a Senate that requires a supermajority to pass most legislation. Add a little more polarization than usual to that mix and the government can't legislate.

Neither plurality voting nor the filibuster rule are in the constitution. States have the authority to determine their own voting systems, and two states, Maine and Alaska have adopted instant-runoff voting for some elections. The Senate has the authority to change its rules, and has chosen to keep the filibuster in something resembling its present form since the 1970s with a small number of exceptions.
From when Youtube wasn't monetizable.
Follow the link via Twitter, enter reader mode in Firefox and reload the page from there.
> the laptop class liking WFH is one of the brakes for a return to normality

I see what you're saying, but you can't separate WFH from fear of the virus, so I think you're assuming nearly all workers don't fear the virus at all.

It's a real risk for anyone in the high-risk group, but a lot more people also face real risk if they: interact with older family members, go to church services or participate in gatherings outside of work, have small kids, have at-risk family members living with them, interact with unvaccinated people, or interact with health care workers.

I still reduce my interactions because even being vaxed + boosted, I know I could spread a new variant. Asking me to go into a cramped, shared office space for many hours per day would not sit well. Even worse would be if I knew it made me less productive and eliminated some of the flexibility I had in my schedule.
The King's Knot – Stirling, Scotland
I've read a term for this: the bigotry of low expectations.
>it seems like a sizable portion of the staff wants to be in the office ~3 days per week

That's pretty consistent with a number of surveys I've seen. We'll probably see more people fully remote at the end of the day but most aren't moving to mountain towns and, if they weren't fully remote before, they mostly won't be after.

(And I suspect that a lot of the new "officially" remote workers were de facto mostly remote before. I'm one of those. I was assigned to an office but I even gave up my desk the last time there was a furniture reconfiguration.)
> To that end, opening up all the corporate offices for those that feel the need to be in the office once again whilst 100% allowing work from home seems the best of both worlds.

Except that's not what's likely to happen. Even if 100% WFH is the official policy, people will be leaned on to come into the office. And as the number of people working remotely shrinks, that will only get worse, because it's very hard to be an outlier when everyone else is communicating real-time face to face.
>They are, PP in particular as opposed to mass produced Rolexes, works of human excellence.

You are getting increasingly metaphysical.

These watches are built on antiquated technology and, by design, cannot be mass-produced, so clearly they will never lead to technological innovation.

These watches are so rare that they can provide very little beauty. The vast majority of people will never lay eyes on one.

Let me ask you a question: would you support the government purchasing Patek Philippe watches and putting them in libraries for the common people to check out? This would lead to much more beauty than letting them sit in rich people's collections and would encourage even more "human excellence". But I suspect you'd find it a waste of tax money.
But those "fit, healthy" (the genuinely so, I'm not sure I even agree with the characterization for many of the mediatized cases), are OUTLIERS. Yes, you are never invincible, but it's 100% correct to characterize Covid as a disease of the metabolically dysfunctional. Sadly, this is a HUGE percentage of the population of the world nowadays, which seems to be the point of the article (disclaimer: in true HN tradition, I haven't read it)

Traditionnal post-downvote comment:

Covid affects those:

- on immunosuppressant medication most often for a PREVENTABLE "lifestyle" disease

- otherwise negatively affected by said disease, particularly in the vascular system, we know that Covid kills most those that have hypertension, long-term vascular damage from chronically-elevated blood sugar, etc.

- nutritional deficient / malnourished (low vitamin D, absence of sunlight, etc. etc.); this is also very common
Most of the responses here seem to be focused around "your social fulfillment should be _completely_ separate from work". I've found this attitude to be very limiting. I don't know any of my current coworkers well at all -- they're all just 2D heads on screens and avatars in text chat. This definitely affects my work, compared to the _very same company_ pre-pandemic. Maybe for some people, the ability to work with others doesn't depend at all on being friendly with those people, but I personally find that important. Being able to grab ad-hoc lunch with coworkers -- including a walk to/from wherever, eating in a common space, talking about things other than work -- really helped strengthen the culture and the relationships between folks. Ditto Friday beers after work -- or going out after. Some coworkers can be coworkers _and_ friends.

Maybe this is different for folks with families (those who generally didn't hang out after work even pre-pandemic -- no judgment there), but for some of us more social single folks, I'm surprised at the vitriol here from people who don't seem to understand us at all. Isn't there some middle ground here? I definitely don't miss being _forced_ to go to work (sick coworkers spreading flu around the office, loud talkers interrupting focus time, etc) but on the flip side why are people so happy to be _forced_ to never interact with people?
Perhaps not, but the purpose of the public school system is not to turn out a couple of geniuses every year. It’s to maintain a well-educated populace. Most resources should be going towards making the average student better. I can’t tell you how many people have told me that I must be very smart for going into computer science, and that they could never do it because they’re just not math/stem people. That negative self-talk certainly has a huge amount to do with whether they’re capable of going into STEM.

To me, it seems these changes are oriented towards helping everyone succeed in STEM, even those who don’t think they’re math people. Which, again, is less to do with their actual abilities and much more to do with their mental dialogue.

This makes a ton of sense. Basically any skill or habit you might want to develop can be easily thwarted if you’re struggling mentally with discipline, focus, self-image, etc. In my opinion, the “mental game” is crucial to nearly everything and doesn’t get enough focus. (Think of how in sports, a bad mental game can easily loose you the physical game even if you’re an incredible athlete.)

I doubt these educational changes would ever have much of an impact on bonafide geniuses, because they are operating in an entirely different context.
The U.S sells super sophisticated weapons such as attack drones, F-15s or nuclear submarines. The tech behind these things is probably super interesting and there's a lot of software involved. If you look at the comments here, around 90% of them don't care about the tech at all but focus on bashing Israel. This isn't a tech story.
the escape characters are embedded as comments in the source code whether or not you curl it
>The tumbling in this video is a good demonstration of the angular momentum problem. The projectile has a carp ton of angular momentum after release

I'm not sure I follow; if the object is held rigidly to the launch arm until the point of release, it's going to have a lot of angular velocity, sure, but that doesn't imply rotation, does it?
Why? "Do as I say without clear motivation except that I'm telling you it's supposed to be done this way" is maybe the worst way to teach. Is that justification going to keep a group of 15 year olds engaged? It certainly didn't for me.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/KDFLe-kvVS34briUiLj2nhQXkP...
Why is it ironic? The outcome from a proper vaccine would be eliminating masks and other measures. It seems 100% aligned with the company goals, but not the common perpetually-anxious-but-loves-to-look-rational dream.
The quality is also much better for tea brewed properly. These machines are terrible at making both coffee and tea, while being horrible for the environment to boot. I realize not everyone does WFH though where you can grind your own fresh beans and use the best methods.
This is the same type of problem as the popular 2011 problem [1] of evaluating 48/2(9+3). The answer, really, is that it is ambiguous, so 8/2(2+2)/16 cannot be evaluated without further clarification or assumption. Any rule that anyone comes up with will not be widely accepted enough to be a convincing result.

The lesson is that you shouldn't write ambiguous expressions. 8/2(2+2)/16 is clearly worked out using the left-to-right rule, giving an answer of 1, while 8/(2(2+2))/16 gives 1/16.

[1] https://math.berkeley.edu/~gbergman/misc/numbers/ord_ops.htm...
I sadly don't know how to fix it without reworking the entire teacher education system, sadly, but I do believe it's the problem affecting primary schools especially. How many times are you taught to read and the 'importance' of reading by a teacher who doesn't like to read themselves? Or 'science' by a teacher who has no grasp of what science is and just reads the slides (I distinctly remember having to correct my 5th grade teacher becasue the notes she used were so old it said Saturn was the only planet with rings...I was that kid, but at least it was after class!).

We need teachers who have trained in those areas, and then wanted to become teachers. And it needs to go all the way up through middle and high schools, but I truly think the focus should be on primary first. It's why we get so many kids who don't understand multiplication when they get to high school, let alone division -- their teachers don't either and they just give them calculators at a young age! And it all boils down to how teachers themselves are trained.

Back to math at the school I taught at, there are two there who understand it. Funnily enough, they both came out of retirement to teach again (one has been doing it for 15 years, and the other just retired from her VP job a few years ago), and they're related. The older one married the younger one's uncle. It's funny how it stays in the family. The younger one's dad was also a math/chem/physics teacher, and was an amazing teacher until he just got too old. They were the only teachers I know or had at that school when I was there who truly knew math, and it showed in how they taught and the general outcomes of their students -- A "C" student in the accelerated algebra II class made an easy "A" on college algebra when they got there two years later, simply because it had been imparted to them that well.
> The FAQ is at [2] and directly responds to these characterizations.

I don't know whether it's intentional but the FAQ reads like it's intending to deceive me. They answer questions with "no we're not doing that", then follow up with how they do exactly that with different words. For example:

Q: "Does the draft Mathematics Framework eliminate middle school mathematics acceleration programs?"

A: "No. The draft Mathematics Framework does not eliminate middle school mathematics acceleration programs (including programs that offer Integrated Math 1 or Algebra 1 courses to grade eight students). The draft Mathematics Framework emphasizes the importance of following the sequenced progression of topics laid out in the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) and considers the latest research on the impact of skipping grades or undermining the sequences progression."

They're not "eliminating", they're "emphasising" and "considering". Maybe what they're doing really isn't eliminating but it sure reads like it is. The tone reads like corporate damage control. 'We didn't "spill" the oil, we misplaced it.'
A central pillar of Equitable Math is that all children must always be at the same level up until their last year. This is what is in contention, and not whether the Common Core needs more revision in terms of depth or rearrangement of subjects.

Under the Common Core, children in middle school who are ready for Algebra may opt for Algebra, and children who benefit from a delay may opt for a delay — but this is viewed by Equitable Math as sustaining White Supremacy in math education.
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