skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Literally” has been used figuratively for hundreds of years and is more akin to hyperbole than additional definitions like we see with factoid.

I think it’s fair to say that hardlining a correct vs. incorrect distinction with how literally is used today is mostly pointless.
"Clearly investment, or "trickling down" (as its critics like to call it) isn't just effective, it is the only thing that works to make people's lives better."

I'm not sure if you're being hyperbolic or not but innovation is often cited as the thing that improves people's lives. You might say that innovation requires investment but there have been many examples of poor people, without outside investment, innovating to make people's lives better.
Yet we can't house the homeless.
Does anyone know (or guess) what kind of index they use to provide regex searches? I'm really curious.
technically you are right. However delta is dominate and we don't sequence most tests so we don't really have any data to work with.
But then people complain about ITER costing 25 billion although its possible impact in the world is much bigger.
AUTOSAR is an industry standard that requires C++14, in the process of being ratified for C++17.
Xbox One: Guarding Against Physical Attacks (Platform Security Summit 2019)
I'm not saying there's not a real effect here. Hell, if there wasn't, that would be unexpected: just about any sickness is correlated with measuring lower cognitively for a time afterwards, and being hospitalized and being on a vent are more so, independent of COVID-19.

I'm just saying that:

* The claim that there's a 7 IQ point drop from being a COVID-19 survivor is completely bogus, unless you're only a survivor after being on an ventilator.

* The effect size and causative relationship are dubious, because the controls and matching on this study are imperfect. There's plenty of opportunity for significant confound. E.g. if dumb people were more likely to not take precautions against getting COVID, it would look like getting COVID was associated with lower cognitive performance in this study.
Phil Mosby, the guy who did the Webb inspired piece that Nasa bought and hung in their library is from Tahoe and good friends with my brother... we have one of his pieces hanging in our living room, but whats REALLY cool is his astro-calendar (a calendar with a whole bunch of space facts and beautiful pics.. Highly recommend...

https://i.imgur.com/B7aA3Xw.jpg
Equally likely to be enough motivation for potential iPhone buyers to instead get a Pixel or whatever other top-end phones are made for Android. That seems like a more likely compass for Apple's decision making. Besides, when has there even been uproar that translated into material change of users behavior like an exodus? We're a bunch of self-selected nerds/geeks on this forum which makes us forget how much people do not give a shit about privacy issues and other wrong-doings of the FAAMGs. If they do care, the threshold is either really hard to cross or the addiction/network effect too strong to move the needle. These controversies come and go - The Social Network, Cambridge Analytica, addiction/dopamine, Social Dilemma, Chinese interference (TikTok), censorship, election manipulation, terrorism funnels and countless other issues - but users, as an aggregate, they just come. Same way they never stopped buying iPhones despite suicide nets at Foxconn's factories or coffee made with child labor.

What users would care about is if you'd tell them "No, you can't use these apps with billions of users on our phones". I'm ready to be proven wrong, but I'd take a bet Apple will not act on delisting or banning updates for Facebook & Instagram, that's wishful thinking in my book. Their morale high ground PR is clearly effective however.
I always come away from these articles about lead more confused than before. I grew up in a house that almost certainly had lead paint. We currently live in a house (in Rhode Island) that almost certainly has lead paint (an initial test was inconclusive, but it's very likely). Millions and millions of households have lead paint.

So why was the kid in this article found to have levels many, many times higher than the average kid living in houses with lead paint? What are the practical concerns for a parent living in such a house? What happened here?

It's not even remotely clear.
Your approach and their approach. It sounded like you have a different perspective about who is responsible for an outage.
> which, btw, was posted with a disingenuous title...shame on you OP

How is it disingenuous? They introduced DRM. Call it "protected content" if you want,but that honestly seems more disingenuous than simply calling it "DRM".

> This is a boon to content creators as it protects their payed Telegram content from being easily shared into other Telegram Channels.

No it doesn't. DRM doesn't work. End of story. Telegram has a public API and a Free Software client. All someone has to do is fork the client and disable screenshot / screen recorder blocking. At best they can block "forwarding" so you can't actually see what user originally sent the message. Once you send someone content on Telegram, you have no technical capability to stop them from doing what they want with it.
Increasing the Accuracy of Textual Data Analysis on a Corpus of 2B Words
Yes, gravitational wave are governed by the wave equation. A standard way to treat them is as a small perturbation around a known spacetime geometry. Then the metric would be $g = g_0 + \epsilon h$, where $g_0$ is the background, $\epsilon$ is a small parameter and $h$ is the perturbation.

In general Einstein's field equations govern the dynamics of $g$, and if you take the first order behaviour in $\epsilon$ around $g_0$ as flat space, then you recover the wave equation for $h$ as in the article you linked, with propagation speed $c$ the speed of light. (There are some additional subtleties about choice of gauge, but this is not physical).

I'm not sure what you mean with your moon example.
We're not yeeting $11B USD into a Lagrange halo orbit. It's funding STEM jobs.

Yes we should have UBI but like, that doesn't meant we can't do science at the same time. Maybe look to the MIC to cut first.
I wonder how much of the vehicle's final cost is directly attributable to the complexity of deployment. I.E. how much easier would this be if we had a launch vehicle with a fairing capable of fitting fully deployed configuration.
Dubai’s Emirates Airlines Is Hiring 500 IT Professionals for Multiple Roles
1. Honeypots are controversial and practically invite an entrapment defense. Better to have police infiltrate forums, identify people, and give prosecutors unambiguous evidence.

2. Calling people who view these images "monsters" contributes to a stigma that makes people hesitant to seek help before their urges lead them to abuse children.

2.5. If they are "monsters" and someone you know and love is not a "monster," what do you do when you discover that your loved one is one of those people? We go around asking why people look the other way; the way we reflexively dehumanize pedophiles is one of the reasons. We need to recognize pedophiles as human beings who have serious and potentially dangerous mental health problems, and instead of calling them "monsters" we need to reoriented ourselves to say "let's get this person help before they do something monstrous." Obviously a person who is actively abusing children needs to be arrested, but let's not forget that we are talking about people who actively consume imagery of children being abused, many of whom are not necessarily abusing children (yet).
I can’t agree more with this post. This brings to mind some Milton Friedman quotes:

* Governments never learn. Only people learn.

* One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

* He moves fastest who moves alone.

* Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else’s resources as carefully as he uses his own…

* It's always so attractive to be able to do good at someone else’s expense.
They have. There are driver patches that allow unlimited encoding streams and other "enterprise" features.
>but his general attitude was that we were overblowing the problem.

I've had similar experience when talking with contractors about it. I've been told multiple times that unless a child eats a handful everyday its not a problem.
> The hash method considers the token’s first and second characters and the length.

Quite a kludgey optimization for the token hash
The U.S. and China Should Compete on This
Did they publish the study under their own name, being up front about their conflict of interest, or did they pay someone else for the study (and desired outcome)?
ITT we all pat ourselves on the back for pretending we don't know what NFTs are for when any idiot could figure out what NFTs are for if he thought about it for five seconds instead just repeating shit he overheard some other pseudo-intellectual say.
Application SpaceWarp
> But all a seller has to do is check on the form that they have no knowledge of lead in the house. The house could literally be filled with it on the walls, door jams, windows, but if they check "we're not sure", then both them and the state have washed their hands of the issue

You're using moralizing language, but what else do you think could happen here? Barring government funding, by-the-book remediation costs a lot of money. So the two options are either completely remediating the lead and offer that as a selling point, or just kicking the can down the road ("I don't know but it was painted before 1978 so make your own informed guess"). If the seller checked the box for positive existence of lead, they would be doing you no favors since you'd be getting the exact same physical house, but would also have to check the known-lead box when selling the house down the line.

If you only want to buy a house that has been fully remediated, you could make your offer contingent upon that. But since your offer has to be competitive with the rest of the market, that would cost a similar amount to buying the house as it is and then doing your own remediation afterwards.

If you go to rent that house out and the renters have small kids, then you can no longer kick the can down the road. It makes for a painful immediate situation, but barring government funded remediation or straight up mandating that every bit of lead paint needs to be remediated before a house can be sold (despite it being fine for the majority of people), I don't see how else it could be handled.
They weren't killed, they died of diseases. As we see today with the pandemic, the respiratory illnesses were unstoppable, so you cant ascribe guilt through some assumed knowledge of proto-germ theory.

The first law is from 1512, 20 years after the discover of the Americas. Given transportation at the time it is clear that he vast majority of the troops overthrowing the Inca were recruited by the subjugated native peoples. Kinda what progressives [1] tried to do in Afghanistan. Pray, what noble accomplishment do we have to show in Afghanistan after 20 years?

The enslavement of natives was against the law of King. Ignored by criminals, sure, but the law was clear and its violators criminals.

Forced conversion to Catholicism from a blood thirst cult that stained their monuments with the blood of innocents. Ya, they were real bad for that. Btw, if you insist on cultural relativism, what were progressives doing in Afghanistan but proselytizing feminism?

[1] I used the word progressive, as opposed to Americans, on purpose as the war was a multi nation effort cheered on by people, “right” or “left” who believe we have to impose democracy and liberalism on others. I remember before 9/11 when leftist wanted to liberate Afghani women. I remember in August, when leftists were aghast we left the women behind
What happens if an owner loses his private key, or it gets stolen? Does he legally lose his property?
Yeah, I'd bet on https://about.sourcegraph.com. Fully focused on code search and are still light years ahead.
Only once have I physically encountered leaded solder, and immediately wrapped it up with the lead-acid batteries I had to take to hazardous waste in my city.

I always try to reduce the exposure I have for myself if at all possible. My family's house was built in the 80's and we've ensured that there's no leaded paint on the house or water pipes on the property.
The causality is the other way around. Because Americans distrust their government it is easily hobbled. It's open to corruption because it's too weak, not to strong.

The US has an usual degree of openness when it comes to the political process. Directly elected representatives, local politics, everything is broadcasted to the public, everything's open to money, and so forth. This kind of openness enables lobbying, it creates the opportunity to influence elected officials, which is considered a feature because it looks superficially 'democratic', but in reality just aids oligarchic interest groups.

The way to fix it is literally give more power to the US government, in particular the executive and regulatory bodies and shield them from outside influence, so they can do their job.

This debate also has an analog on the other side of the political spectrum, namely policing. The US police is not unusually violent because it's too strong but too weak, because there is too much symmetry between force wielded by citizens and force wielded by authority.
It used to be people with the Alexa tool bar were measured to produce a ranking. I wonder how they have been doing it more recently and how accurate it actually was now?
> have never heard of vcpkg

14.4k+ stars, and it's a product from Microsoft. It uses cmake under the covers (for now?). Doesn't mean it will win, but it's a contender.

> Binaries are platform specific

Yes? Each new platform has to be more or less officially adopted into a build-system. Maybe better one "official" build-system rather than dozens. Reduce the surface-area for adding a new platform and maybe it won't seem so herculean anymore.

> trying to tell me how to deal with them

An official build-system doesn't have to be any less feature-ful than the hodge-podge of current offerings.

> creating binaries is a potentially complex task that is [...] an important step for programmers

It doesn't need to be as complicated as it is today. And I don't think you intended it, but this last bit reads as dismissive and condescending.

Many of us veteran C++ folks are so used to the way things have always been that it's hard to imagine an alternate universe where a sane and powerful build-system was "in the language" from the start.

It may be a hard problem, but `cargo` has some interesting ideas, and I don't hear anyone complaining about not being able to do low-level and platform-specific things in Rust...
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately, and we're trying for the opposite here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Does anyone have any precise details to help affirm or deny Dyson’s claims?
What do you mean "which personality I want to get"? You don't choose between five personalities, you find where you are on the scale of different personality traits that are present to some extent in everyone.

And yes, you can affect the outcome if you want. You can affect the results of any test if you want. I can make my IQ test look like I'm very stupid. I can cram for some certification exam and forget all the material the next day. The idea is that if people actually want an accurate reading then they will answer truthfully.

I feel like you're conflating two arguments that are unrelated. The fact that the results of psychometric tests can be misused and manipulated by bad actors is a separate issue to whether or not they are scientifically valid when administered properly and taken in good faith. You've admitting that various tests can provide useful --though not 100% accurate-- information. That's the whole point: To provide useful information, which can be further explored.

Psychologists creating and using a test to evaluate five personality traits does is not them saying that there are only five personality traits or that everyone with a given result is the same. The tests are basic, they are primitive in our understanding of how the mind and personalities work, and they have just been shown to be statistically valid enough to be useful in informing other things.

On that note, I completely agree that psych tests shouldn't be used to determine anything of importance outside of clinical settings. As I said, none of this is anything but a primitive understanding and shouldn't be used to determine career tracks or anything about our place in society. I hear about companies using the MBTI (which I personally loathe) to place people and I cringe so bad.
Indeed - it was built-in hardware functionality that developers (or GameShark users!) could enable/disable on a case-by-case basis https://www.chrismcovell.com/psxdither.html
>There are only very few applications where it would make sense to take the risk and use an AI that occasionally makes gigantic mistakes without any understanding why. Even seemingly harmless applications like automated customer support could go horribly wrong.

Hey, it's just a few quantization errors. Nobody walking across a street or voting in an election has anything to worry about from those. /s

These are the fatal flaws, the hamartia if you will, in attempts to democratize technologies that are based on digitizing the real world and making decisions based on its interpretations of a quantized dataset. The opposite of the uncanny valley is you getting run over by a Waymo.
It's not easy to hire good staff when budgets are cut.
The language isn't extensible, so these are changes that happen very rarely; the compiler is simply optimized for the actual task it has. What would be weird would be expending any real effort --- or, worse, runtime cost --- for an engineering case we know is never going to happen.
Ask a physicist but as far as I understood gravitational waves are dents in spacetime[0] and as they travel their energy, momentum, and angular momentum change over time because of interaction and collision with other "stuff" in space. Idk how you can measure any of that.

[0]https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gravit...
How did you go about getting it unlocked? Mine has been locked and now I suspect this is why, but I can’t get any sort of response from Instagram in any way.
Sourcegraph[6]

[6] https://about.sourcegraph.com
Intel's Oregon Trail Game for Processors
3 Pfizers is basically 1 moderna...
Most of those file sharing platforms get a lot of business from copyright infringers. Keeping files password-protected allows the platform to respond to takedown requests but deal with a minimal number of takedowns. The platform doesn't need to tell its users to do things that way; it's just a natural outcome of incentives. Uploaders don't want their uploads removed. I remember downloading encrypted .rar files to get expensive textbooks even back in the early days of RapidShare. The sites are by their nature pretty sketchy but usually for less heinous reasons than those under discussion here.
I could see an argument being made for 'fake 3D' pretty strongly here. DF Retro has a few videos comparing various consoles, and one of the things that the PS1 and Saturn both got wrong, IIRC, was that textures would warp*, because the 3D look was being provided by affine transforms (as I understand, I may be misremembering the details), rather than perspective correct rasterization.

So, like, the vertexes are in the right spots, but the texture mapping is off. So it kinda depends on if you need texture mapping to be perspective correct to consider a given example of 3D "real" vs "fake". Dark Forces also has perspective warping that happens in it's engine when you look up/down, as an example.

* https://youtu.be/VutzIK3DqZE?t=341 DF Retro analyzes ports of Tomb Raider
Gravitational waves are waves of the metric tensor. Einstein's field equations provide the "restoring force."

Importantly, gravitational waves are not waves of Newtonian gravity. Gravitational waves do not "push and pull" along the direction of propagation. They stretch and compress space along axes perpendicular to the direction of propagation.

> E.g., if the moon suddenly lurched towards the Earth, we'd perceive an increase in gravity between the two. But that would be a semi-permanent change in the strength of that attraction between the two objects; not what I'd think of as a wave-like fluctuation.

Indeed, gravitational waves do not work this way.

Unfortunately it is hard to explain gravitational waves without significant math.

In fairness, even Einstein himself waffled over whether gravitational waves would be a real effect predicted by the theory. Then it took nearly a century to detect them experimentally, and there were plenty of doubters along the way.

The results one gets from intuition are generally incorrect in important ways. Here's a derivation of a wave equation from Einstein's field equations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linearized_gravity

A more helpful introduction for a layperson might be the paper titled "Gravitational Waves on the back of an envelope":

https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.13627

But, infuriatingly, that paper does not seem to be open-access. Here's someone's scanned copy:

https://www.ru.ac.za/media/rhodesuniversity/content/mathemat...
Explicitly ordering our priorities is probably a good conversation to have; better to have it in the open than hidden in a pork bill somewhere.

We should also talk about fossil fuel subsidies ~5T/yr (!), infra $1.2T (one time), defense at $768B/yr, etc etc.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuels-received-5-9-trill...
Your house can't run. And not everyone can leave their house and belongings behind, much less doing that frequently. And there are more things that just can't pack and leave, from crops to infrastructure in general, and such strong climate events can damage/flood enough them.

And if you need to evacuate and live for some weeks in a tent, another thing harder to pack is an air conditioner, if following a hurricane comes a stronger heat dome than what we had last year. maybe coupled with humidity, things could become lethal.
The difference is that all the tools you just used were created by Microsoft. It's essentially a curated experience. From that angle, it's a fucking mess. If Office didn't support PDFs and was created by a 3rd party. The integration would be really cool. As it stands, powerpoint should just have a bulk convert feature instead of scripting language hooks.

The reason bash is cool is because i can open it up, and run all these different programs written by different people, in different languages, for different use cases, and they all just work. It's the diversity of the ecosystem that makes the interoperability so cool. If it was all made by a single company, I'd say the usability is a fucking mess.
Exactly how is BDS going beyond criticism?

Do the recent reports on Israeli treatment of Palestinians go beyond criticism?

https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/isra...

What about B'Tselem's report? Is that beyond criticism?

https://www.btselem.org/topic/apartheid
inkscape: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Using_the_Command_L...

how is it ad-hoc? this IS the unix interface: command line params mixed with stdin/stdout

instead of DDE/OLE/COM/DCOM/DCOM+/ActiveX/CLR/whatever_it_is_this_week bullshit (mixed in with mountains of crap in the registry)
Isreal hasn't been among the highest vaccinated countries in quite a while. They got over 50% early, but stalled out. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations (Isreal isn't selected by default) Check out countries like Portugal if you want to see what high vaccination does.