skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm finding it surprisingly difficult to find unassailable evidence that vaccinated people are less likely to pass the virus on to someone else.

Then search for the studies that look into this; my point is that they won't be using R0 as a measure.
My bet is you’re overworking yourself. Not necessarily just in work - you may be cramming too much into time you consider non-work as well.

If you give yourself true slack, and stimulate yourself during that slack (go for walks!), you’ll slowly uncover ideas.
Emails show what happened before Missouri gov falsely called journalist a hacker
Except this isn't reddit, I'm not making karma farming posts, and there haven't been federal investigations and congressional hearings that confirmed HackerNews is a known target for propaganda campaigns.

You're actually agreeing with me.
I second this one. Don't make me think deeply influenced me!

Smashing Magazine is also definitely an awesome resource.
CSS Tricks is also an excellent one
Someone has been hacking Tor servers to de-anonymize users for four years
I really like Word's shortcuts to apply headings, and the built-in navigation pane that makes a clickable outline from the headings. I made a shortcut to apply "code style" and one to apply "comment style". Styles have been very useful as I decided to change the font size and indent over the years.

Word for Mac is pretty slow, though. Takes 3-5 seconds to open a document after I hit the Karabiner shortcut for it.
Kàra Màr becomes the first Social AI-Driven Artist to release an album
Storybook is AWESOME to build reusable components and more importantly to showcase all of their possible variants. It makes it a breeze to ensure that UI elements are consistent and to build an overview of a design system.
Does that create perfect clones ?
Ask HN: How to break the habit of bad financial management?
Anybody have any experiences to draw upon?
Ah Grandpa (his father immigrated over in 1914) served in the Korean War. Other half of the family was a wave of German farmers to Texas mid civil war and served in the Confederate Army. I am lucky that they are strangely meticulous keepers of family history.
BREAKING: Private company does something to selfishly protect their profit!! More at 11
It immediately reminds me of Voyelles a poem, written in 1895 by Arthur Rimbaud

A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu : voyelles,
Je dirai quelque jour vos naissances latentes :
A, noir corset velu des mouches éclatantes
Qui bombinent autour des puanteurs cruelles,

Golfes d’ombre ; E, candeurs des vapeurs et des tentes,
Lances des glaciers fiers, rois blancs, frissons d’ombelles ;
I, pourpres, sang craché, rire des lèvres belles
Dans la colère ou les ivresses pénitentes ;

U, cycles, vibrements divins des mers virides,
Paix des pâtis semés d’animaux, paix des rides
Que l’alchimie imprime aux grands fronts studieux ;

O, suprême Clairon plein des strideurs étranges,
Silences traversés des Mondes et des Anges :
— O l’Oméga, rayon violet de Ses Yeux !

Arthur Rimbaud, Poésies

But you’re right, it also looks like an alien alphabet. Very cool
If you’re gonna do this, hard to see many ways to make it less painful.
Is that simpler? Dev boards are a dime a dozen, and far from everyone who wants to use FPGAs to mimic game consoles wants (or can) solder them themselves... I feel like if this platform runs out, people will mostly switch to another generic one with not too much effort.
the videos may be decent, and I do kind of appreciate there being a part for only rather short videos, but the UI is terrible. If you want to write a comment on one, it keeps playing the audio on loop. Who's idea was that? It's a terrible idea. Did they not do any user testing on it? Or is it in order to artificially inflate the viewcount numbers?
Interesting how it's almost opposite of what the field is now.

That's exactly what makes this stuff interesting. People sometime seem to be struck by something you might call "path dependence blindness" where they see the path taken as the only path that might have been taken, and assume that anything which is off that precise path is useless. However, it it sometimes useful to look back and ponder those forks in the path which were not chosen, or which were abandoned (perhaps prematurely).

Can you take an old idea from something like MYCIN and apply it in a new way, combined with other, newer ideas? Or maybe find something that was a good idea in principle, but was "ahead of its time" in regards to computing power or some other constraint? Maybe, maybe not. But it's exploring those kinds of things that always leads me back to stuff like this.
You might disagree with the premise. But the statement is meaningful, interpretable, and testable. I don't think that qualifies as "bullshitting" because there is clarity.

I could imagine the content of workshop involving bullshitting. (Regardless of whether diversity is positive) but I don't think the title counts as bullshit.

As for me having a blindspot, I hope you see I wasn't arguing about diversity at all.
"You can expect to make about USD 30,000 (before taxes) for the academic year."

Well that's a lie. NC State is $20k for a CS PhD Student, oh, and that's before you pay the $4k a year on student fees.

The article glosses over it, but you're paid dirt. And what sucks more, is you're paid good dirt, so all the other PhD departments look at your with their barely 10k stipends and think you're ungrateful for your poverty line wage.
I agree that it does seem rather suspect that a subreddit can seemingly multiply its number of subscribers in a matter of months. I further agree that it does seem like agent provocateurs are at work, namely in this very thread, because if I was in charge of a disinfo op, the easiest thing I would do to throw off the trail is to immediately prematurely saturate it with hyperbolic paranoiac allegations like “greatest psyop of our time”, to discredit the idea that my op is an op, by making the idea seem ridiculous and absurd and fringe and cringe.
Reminder:

> St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Josh Renaud identified a security flaw that exposed the Social Security numbers of teachers and other school employees in unencrypted form in the HTML source code of a publicly accessible website. Renaud and the Post-Dispatch handled the problem the way responsible security researchers do - by notifying the state of the security flaw and keeping it secret until after it was fixed. Despite that, Missouri Gov. [] called Renaud a "hacker"

Most recent past submission, from stltoday.com, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29421466
Another alternative in Rust is Quickwit[1]. Only search is currently distributed but indexing distribution will soon come up.

Disclaimer: I'm a cofounder.

[1] https://github.com/quickwit-inc/quickwit
The Philidorian (A Magazine of Chess and other Scientific Games) – 1838
I believe it’s a mix of an explosion of recreation and entertainment options that people can’t wait to get back to and it getting increasingly hard to maintain the paradigm of work being a virtue.
I (at my workplace) use Amplify only for the SPA frontend which is a typical React app. Setting it up was bit of a challenge due to CORS issues, not something to do with Amplify as such. I like the nifty PR feature where it automatically creates an end point to test a patch. I've also setup auto-deploy on the master branch.

So far no challenges.

IMO if we don't use too many features of Amplify and use it as a pure frontend build + deploy + host then we could extract good value out of it. An alternative is Cloudfront + S3 in which case you need to maintain a deploy script.

I'm fairly confident Amplify is in fact a wrapper over Route 53, Cloudfront and S3 plus a few lambda functions to take care of build+deploy.
No, it is much more specific.

It identifies a specific goal, a reason to reach that goal, and a way to attain that goal.

The idea could actually be wrong. Whilst "do things that work well" is a tautological statement.
To me, both don't make much sense, but the American example can be exploited very easily by a holiday indeed, if someone desires to do so.
> It's not like we colour words in a sentence based on their type,

All of today's human languages were developed in a time without computers, pens (and their predecessors) have trouble switching ink color for every word. If goose quills and inkwells could change color as easily as computer monitors, I bet there would have been at least a few languages that use color to denote meaning.
My son is in the boy scouts. A few years ago we met a man who had planted trees on a barren hill for his eagle project. He went back 30 years later and saw that that hill was now completely reforested. He was so inspired that he went around giving demonstrations to young scouts to try and get them interested in ecology.
Not the parent commenter, but Thank you fellow Internet stranger.
With people speculating about re-incarnation and linking it with Quantum stuff (basically pulling things out of their cloaca), I had to scroll way far down to see your direct, logical and sensible reply.

Having lived (and born into) all my life amongst followers of an eastern religion, I've observed that religious texts in my region of the world that specifically talk about re-incarnation attempt to 'make us go against our own instincts' (somewhat analogous to Puritanism).
It's a clever way to make you 'regret your misdeeds' in past lives and be 'hopeful' about future lives (assuming you perform good deeds and don't rock the boat)-- if you learn to believe it. Call it Chicken Soup for the Primitive Soul.

Has all that attempt to promote 'Love thy neighbor, selflessness and self-actualization' from these religious texts been successful ? Mostly No. If anything, humans have used these same religious texts to rationalize their agenda of 'Hate thy neighbor, selfishness and materialism' covertly - Who would've guessed a several millenia old human genes would handily defeat a few thousand year old advice+propaganda disseminated in the form of these religious texts.

Anyone reading this might think I'm only bashing religious texts but as long as someone who cares to casually read any of those texts would realize - If you ignore the miracles & non-tangible stuff (propaganda) like immortality, re-incarnation, teleportation et al, these religious texts does include several down-to-earth advice for humans living in those eras - simple things like - living in the present moment, keeping a calm mind and eating a nutritious diet - stuff that seems so obvious now but is perhaps more relevant in the 21st century
>you may end up hitting some kind of unarguable problem.

Another example: there's multiple countries (for example, here in Russia) where personal data must be stored in data centers located in the country's borders and not every country has a AWS datacenter on its soil
.
How about Logo?

https://www.transum.org/software/Logo/
The promise was it was going to get much cheaper to live. That didn't happen, and here we are.
But it is in fact selfish, and dangerous to others, to choose against the vaccine when you can get it for free and you are healthy.

It is that simple. It is wrong and dangerous to ignore the impact of your choices on those around you.
It depends how you define work. I have built systems that are used in large production services. But even if you're just going to dinners and meetings then that's still work in a way. Possibly a more important kind. We all need to have some reason to exist. Tech is weird historically speaking since once the work is done the code runs itself which leaves builders as the architects of their own demise, since few folks are interested in disrupting cash cows with a better mousetrap.
Also worth checking out: Nuitka [1]. It actually compiles your Python into machine code (albeit still making use of the CPython interpreter).

Despite the title, pyinstaller doesn't really compile anything, it just bundles your bytecode and the interpreter into a binary. That's often useful, but it's not the same thing. You can get similar-ish results to Nuitka by combining pyinstaller with Cython but it's quite a bit of work.

[1] https://nuitka.net/
I can't dismiss anything you say, but it reminds me of my freshman year at college, long ago, when I had to give a speech in some class and my topic was affirmative action. I talked about the standard stuff, how legacies and stuff are really just affirmative action for privileged people, and actual affirmative action is hardly a deviation from ideal fairness that never existed.

So I'm up there, and I just feel stupid. Because I'm basically talking about, like, Harvard or whatever, that is thousands of miles away, and a completely alien world that neither I nor my classmates will ever be anywhere near attending or qualifying for. Also, we all chose to attend this specialized school that's the farthest thing from an ivy league.

You could certainly say something about diversity or affirmative action that would be relevant to people at that school, but my presentation wasn't.

I read what you write, and I imagine trying to tell people that impoverished people are oppressed by not being allowed to transport large amounts of cash and feeling stupid. Like, I picture them being polite and not arguing with me, but me suddenly being conscious that I really have no clue what I'm talking about, and it doesn't relate to their world either, so I'm just creating barriers to understanding.

By no means am I saying you're wrong or I haven't heard similar things before. Just that, if stuff needs changing, I don't think I know how to advocate it. I have lived my whole life without transporting large amounts of cash, or coming in contact with someone who does.

When you say "there is no reason whatsoever for ACH's to cost a cent", well, when/where/how do they cost a cent? What would impoverished people use ACHs for anyway?

Can you explain more about why a bill payment service is the price of being poor?

If Fintech is making the world worse, does that mean they have already displaced large swaths of the financial industry? If not, what forces people to engage?
That is not a tautology at all. It is closer to a contradiction.

My point wasn't that I agree with the statement. My point is that the statement has clarity, and that it actually communicates an idea.

The very fact that the statement could be falsified means to me that it is not bullshit as meant in the article. That is not to say the statement is true!
That would increase GDP but I'm not sure it would increase productivity as a barista can only make so many lattes in an hour. Extra demand would require more staff who would work at the normal industry rate.
It’s a long rant of an experience sharing.

I was so excited about Apple’s HideMyEmail feature, part of its basic 50GB plan iCloud+. I noticed it also includes Custom Domain.

Then I went around checking information about these products and features.

As usual Apple found it insulting to provide sufficient documentation, so they haven’t.

Naturally I approached customer care which is essentially phone only. At least in India. There used to be a chat option but the last time I tried I couldn’t find it. Besides I always had to go on phone from chat to get anything worthwhile.

Then the Apple support pingpong started. Very polite, very earnest executives. Giving irrelevant, conflicting answers. Always promising to callback with more information, never doing that. Had to explain the question to every new executive. Rinse repeat.

Can I escalate? “I’m afraid there’s no way.”

Can you send me a mail stating what you’ve said on phone? Because you didn’t provide any publicly available documentation so I need this on email. “Sorry, can’t send email”.

Can you connect me to someone who can say this on email? “Sorry there’s no way to do that”.

Can I talk to your supervisor? Senior? “I am a senior advisor”.

Someone above you? “Sorry that’s not possible”

Can I get an email address where I can ask this question and they can answer? “Sorry support portal and phone is the way to connect with Apple Support”

After lots of head-banging and shouting (Yup! They finally managed to get it out of me) they provided me an email where I could request recording of these customer care calls. I was also told I may or may not get those recordings. Anyway I wrote to that mail from my @icloud.com email account. After two weeks I got a response asking for lots of information about me, including some documents and IDs to prove it was me. I gave up.

It was frustrating to say the least.

But after this I got my answer. That Apple is not a company I should trust. Its anti-consumer behaviour is well known and documented (if one wants to look at it as anyone but a fan) and I realised I was doing what moved me out of Google’s ecosystem.

I was locking myself down into Apple’s ecosystem even further down and worst part of it is they have quite inferior online products and services.

I moved all those HideMyEail and Apple Login accounts to throwaway emails on my secondary domain and cancelled iCloud+.

Their Custom Domain feature is anyway useless from any standards, besides HideMyEmail is not available on Custom Domain (why would Apple do something that’s not locking you down!).

This also reinforced my decision to make my next laptop a non-Apple. I can get a laptop at probably the same price that I will have to spend to get 2 years extended warranty for an Apple laptop (and that costly service provided by shitty third party here).

The last thing I wanted to do was keeping all eggs in one basket. Because at this point I don’t even know whether I will be able to access the @icloud.com account if I have no Apple devices with me. I don’t even want to find out.
I bought some books and a 3D printer. With this I can implement creative ideas in my free time and I do not get bored so quickly.
Tutorial videos are a great example why this is a big problem.
I know nothing about replacing brake pads in a car but there are videos on YT that show you how to do it. Sadly among tutorials you will definitely find some that despite high view count are misleading or even dangerous.

High view count does not mean high quality. They are pretty orthogonal.
I have been using Blender for over 15 years and I also love it but also for different reasons.

When I started using Blender I came from 3DsMax. Max took almost half aminute to start, Blender maybe 2 seconds. And now, years later, Blender is still fast. The architecture is just very good. And maybe it's one of the best in the wold.

A lot of people hated the UI, but I always loved it. I love that you can arrange the panels the way you like. I wish programs like Photoshop could do this as well.
And yes, since v2.8 everything became even better and the learning curve was lowered.

I also love all shortcuts and user interactions. This was really made for users. And maybe that's because Blender is mostly made by users.

And now v3.0! I am excited about two things: Cycles X (very fast rendering) and the overhauled Geometry Nodes.

I believe Geometry Nodes are the next big thing because this is Blender's answer to Houdini.

Edit: if you are interested in Geometry Nodes you should check out Erindale @ YT https://youtube.com/c/Erindale

He creates complete scenes without modeling a thing. The models are all procedurally built.
> For instance, if you’re behind schedule they can allocate more resources to your project, etc

See: The Mythical Man-Month

I agree that making sure that your work is observable is important, and usually Management's attention needs to be called to where the observed changes are being made. This is not the same as holding you hostage in a meeting culture where you need to sit through everyone else's reports on their progress. Instead of people taking five minutes to write out their progress report to their manager, who can then skim the progress reports and the work for a full team in fifteen to twenty minutes, instead we hold everybody hostage for thirty to sixty minutes. Typically this is a syndrome of a culture where labor is not expected to document their work, and nothing will scale without pulling senior engineers off their IC work to synchronously bring people up to speed. This necessarily reduces engineering velocity to a crawl.

Nobody can speak as fast as a progress report can be read. Verbal meetings cannot be indexed or searched. All meetings should have a product - a decision, language that is agreed upon, written out, saved to a knowledge base. If you call too many meetings, it's a sign that you're not delegating authority enough.
Right, but is Machine Learning used to do medical diagnosis?
The AFD, a right wing party with quite a few ties to known neo-nazis or nazi symphatizers/apologists and also quite a bit of ties to some of the uglier right wing extremism that pops up its ugly head in Germany every once in a while. For example, there were a few arrests near the Polish border recently of some people who took it upon themselves to do a little policing in that area.

Also, it's easy to forget that this country had active right wing and left wing terrorists not so long ago.

So, yes Germany may have slightly overstepped their authority putting AFD party members under surveillance considering it is now a major party in several of its states and of course the parliament. In that sense it's a big scandal actually. But it's not entirely without reason. There are some really shady and scary people associating themselves with that party.
SAFA: Structure Aware Face Animation
Follow Me, Looking for Boyfriend
I have not read the book, but I did look at the TOC. It seems remarkably trival and not very useful. I am a great believer in teaching algorithms and algorithmic thinking to everyone, but this book seems too simple-minded.
I agree with this. I tend to remember a lot more when I take time to write things down. It was the way I studied, and is now the main way I learn new things.

Writing can take different forms (written words or code), but in both cases, it makes ideas clearer, helps me create mental models, and help me shape my thoughts.

I heavily recommend journaling and PKM in general. I recently wrote a few articles on the subject:

https://dsebastien.net/blog/2021-10-07-periodic-journaling-p...
https://dsebastien.net/blog/2021-10-07-periodic-journaling-p...
https://dsebastien.net/blog/2021-12-03-personal-knowledge-ma...
This is nonsensical argument to use. Out of all the videos you've watched on YT in years how much do you really think got brigaded?
Even accepting that there's no moral difference between those scenarios of "parents mattering" (which I do not, but that is a separate argument), in one system someone becoming say a doctor depends more on their parents giving them an "IQ gene", instilling good work habits, and giving them access to good medical education. In the other, non-meritocratic system, it depends more on parents having power and connections. One of these still produces outcomes that are way better.
Artstation-Artistic-face-HQ Dataset: an image dataset of artistic-face images
Compared to what is allowed in germany it feels like that, though.
Intelligent behavior depends on the ecological niche
> The Apple Engineer I spoke to was confident, “Nobody at Apple can unblock your account.”

What a load of extrement, not to mention an insult to anyone's intelligence.
Same people investing
I’ve tried all the options and my view is unless you test bundling from the start of the project you’re in for a world of hurt, either having to manually patch packages (ntlk); or produce executables that are missing dependencies.

It’s the main reason I’m looking at switching to Go for these kinds of apps. Python should have a working solution as part of the standard library.
Please explain how this gives better chances to new creators.
Oh no we're back to October levels!!
>> But as with every casino, the only way to win is to own the casino, not to play the games. We’re all the proverbial suckers at the table.

Lol wut? Does the author advocate keep their money under their couch?