skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EMBL-EBI and others had some RDF-related effort to provide machine readable abstracts, which I thought was a really cool idea.

IMHO, the biggest problem with papers is politics and reviews. In many top journals like Nature there's no double-blind review (actually in Nature it's now optional but big groups never use it). And even if there was double-blind review, referees have no skin in the game. So the usual outcome is to get reviewed by a big name in your field, who is actually interested in controlling research trends and killing "competitors".

This is hindering progress and hurting new ideas. For example, proponents of Alzheimer's disease being caused by an infection or dysbiosis have had a hard time to do research, get grants and publish articles during the last 2 decades. Despite their theory is able to explain the etiology quite well, unlike competing alternatives.

Another problem is that to publish in good journals you need cool results. Cool results are rare, but Nature, Science, Cell et al. are full of articles every month. So, most groups are overselling and misreporting things. Research fraud, p-value hacking and data manipulation are really common.
Well, here's another one, a Kaleidoscope scheme from 2005, MacStep (includes lot's of Mac icns icons) :-)

> "NeXt's OPENSTEP refined for Mac – "macStep" is a derivative scheme based on the OPENSTEP 4 scheme by Scott Naness, specially adjusted for Mac usability"

https://www.masswerk.at/schemes/macstep.sit
Also in the "too late" vein, at least in the US, I believe cars are still required to have a latch to open the trunk from the inside. Not sure if other countries have these.
What is the point of an NFT if you can just copy the artwork and use for free!?!? A painting you know its the original piece and can never be replicated in the same manner....but this is 1s and 0s....exact copies are perfectly identical..
There should probably be a Zawinski-like law for this. "Over time, all question-and-answers sites attempt to expand until they become Yahoo Answers."
Why do you say that? Did you have a first hand experience with not-only-vision approach?
JASON Report on Facilities Cybersecurity
That's not what the original paper says. This is why you want to read the actual scientific paper and not the article about it. The researchers, in the article's text, state:

> "Steep declines in North American birds parallel patterns of avian declines emerging globally (14, 15, 22, 24). In particular, depletion of native grassland bird populations in North America, driven by habitat loss and more toxic pesticide use in both breeding and wintering areas (25), mirrors loss of farmland birds throughout Europe and elsewhere (15). Even declines among introduced species match similar declines within these same species’ native ranges (26). Agricultural intensification and urbanization have been similarly linked to declines in insect diversity and biomass (27), with cascading impacts on birds and other consumers (24, 28, 29). Given that birds are one of the best monitored animal groups, birds may also represent the tip of the iceberg, indicating similar or greater losses in other taxonomic groups (28, 30)."

This points to agricultural pesticides having impacts on insect populations, and additionally this mirrors where losses have been most extreme, in grasslands most impacted by agricultural activity:

> "Across breeding biomes, grassland birds showed the largest magnitude of total population loss since 1970—more than 700 million breeding individuals across 31 species— and the largest proportional loss (53%); 74% of grassland species
are declining. (Fig. 1 and Table 1)."

I've made it a habit to always seek out the original paper instead of just reading the 'science journalism' take on it, for reasons like this.

https://www.flatheadaudubon.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/R...
Also: This website desperately needs to limit the number of characters per line instead of just going to the side of the screen and wrapping. It's an abomination on a widescreen monitor.
Proof of concept:

#include <optional>
#include <functional>
#include <type_traits>

using std::optional;
using std::conditional_t;
using std::reference_wrapper;
using std::cout;
using std::endl;

template <typename T>
class optref {
T *ptr;
public:
optref<T>() : ptr(nullptr) { }
optref<T>(T &obj) : ptr(&obj) { }
optref<T> &operator =(const T &rhs)
{
if (!ptr)
throw 42;
*ptr = rhs;
return *this;
}
};

template <bool ref, typename T>
using opt = conditional_t<ref, optref<T>, optional<T>>;

int main()
{
int x = 42;
opt<true, int> rox = x;
rox = 3;
cout << x << endl;
}

Compiles with GNU g++ -std=c++17 -Wall -W -pedantic.

The output is

3

showing that rox is a reference to x. Via the hacky assignment operator I threw in for this purpose.

We can build abstractions on opt<ref, T> but they have to carry that pesky parameter. If we can move it to the right and default it to false, that helps if most of our optionals aren't references.

It's not obvious how to get rid of it.
Thank God for Mondays
I woke up this morning all excited. It was Monday, again! My favorite day of the week to start something! To get things done! To put an end to disappointing NFL results! In my first waking moments, I quickly assembled nine great reasons to love Mondays. (Plus one note of caution….)
Who else other than the manufacturer would you expect to provide such an app?
The app does not scan in the background and will only display "airtags" that are in "lost mode".
10 year old Toyota Prius is going to be roughly $45/mo TCO for registration, insurance, and minimal maintenance. Depreciation is probably another $40/mth. I'm pretty sure that and a Chevy Volt or Nissan Leaf (for low range reqs) is the best you can do.
Yep, that "representative" Paul Graham snippet does capture him wonderfully; a bloated windbag, more tolerable than ESR only by virtue of not having any oral sex tips on his website, but with just as many references to the "hacker" life and plenty of gatekeeping alike.

Is there a cult of personality thing on HN? Just because it's Dan Luu with his fashionably-ugly website, or it's Paul Graham soothing the fevered brows of yearning youthful techbros, that it must get voted to the front page?

There isn't much more to this article than an author clarifying for himself how he thinks about things. He succeeds at that, sure, and is better off for it, but it's dreary for the rest of us! He even says that himself!
Seems mostly reasonable. Except maybe labeling progressive (what's the definition of the progress, again?) democrats the ones who wouldn't go to space - ?..

More specific - we know how to fly to Mars every 22 months or so. What could prevent SpaceX launching the first unmanned Starship to Mars soon? Stubbornness of FAA refusing to allow enough Starship launches to fuel up one of them for the flight? Last time checked, technical problems were still bigger than navigating bureaucracy - did things change over the last few years? Asking because technical problems with getting Spaceship to LEO are getting solved like on schedule.
Have read that the decline in insects in rippling across the ecosystem. Here's an article in this issue in birds:
https://abcbirds.org/blog/insect-freefall/
I think it was a stop gap solution because Google was overrun with spam sites, like Expert Village, before Google did the Panda update.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda
Well, even though there's a strong argument that around 50% of psychology studies fail to be reproduced when they try to, they are still studies which try to follow something as close as possible to the scientific method (some of the time, at least). Jung and Freud never did that. They just listened to a lot of patients and came up with explanations. Psychology today is still very far from the hard sciences, but it's more scientific than Freud ever was. And Jung.
> When I clicked RSS links, big walls of XML appeared

Putting a (small) tinfoil hat on, Google intentionally chose to botch the handling of rss links in Chrome because they couldn't collect ad revenue through text-only RSS feeds.
Brain surgeons and rocket scientists no brighter than the rest of us
I always liked how they portrayed the EVAs, too. Unit 0 was a prototype, which in most shows would mean that it has some awesome special capabilities. But no, in Evangelion, unit 0 is a flaky but very expensive piece of equipment that's dangerous to operate, doesn't even work half the time, and no one really trusts for anything important. Unit 1 is more reliable but the pilot isn't, so it kind of evens out.

It's also a nice touch how, as the series goes on, the EVAs end up with different colored parts because they just use whatever replacement was on hand at the time. The city, too, goes from being a semi-normal modern city to barren, dystopian landscape. Not all at once, but in stages.
Watch this... this made me realize how tough car windows really are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L91_K-s4pMM
"To be fair, the others just aren't as important as me. Therefore, we should find a way to...shall we say, flush the excess."

Read in this voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G19B7lTgwCE
Not defending Toyota, their model is abusive, however your comparison is not accurate/fair. The TCO is just parts/raw material costs, your time and skill are very expensive!.

For me, even if I had to pop the hood of the car I need a mechanic, that is probably a couple of hundred to start with, and add anything he says I need to buy whether I actually I need to or not, it can quickly add up.

It is like me saying why pay for managed email or website hosting, when I can run those myself for much cheaper, even if my time was not a factor, I cannot compare those costs I would have to costs for someone without the skills needed .
I'm still waiting for DisplayPort to replace HDMI, but some profit a lot on the patents for it, that's why you don't see DP in TVs and such.
Wow - you went to a dark place real fast... You ever hear about this thing called family planning?
Here's your wonky bootleg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNRBcjhT2Wc

Sonic The Hegehog. For the NES. And you play as Mario.
It actually is a blockchain, just that it outsources a part of work to humans.
We're discussing how to set up a maintainable website where you can do things like change your company's brand colour from red to blue in one place and apply that consistently across your website. "Use Tailwind" isn't an answer to that any more than "Use CSS" or "Use HTML" is.
Thanks for the fake news.
> it’s a question of the feedback loop where the model is used to both inform your decisions and validate they where correct.

Who exactly are we criticizing for doing this? Seems a bit like a straw man argument tbh. I'm not even sure how that relates to the more general concept raised above, of a single model of reality being reliable.
Is that name a bit racist?
It hurts Google to allow the product to choose what customers have access to it.
yes, the article mentions coupons briefly, which are ancestors and a very large topic. Diligent literature search turned up very little. The way the money is actually handled is trade secret it seems. This is a very old aspect of money handling in retail.
I love the way this looks and in Japan they sell kits hobby/DIY stores with everything you need. They have them on Amazon too.

I thought this was an art form but, living in Japan I couldn't find any ... I found a couple of schools and the schools had student and teacher projects on display but I didn't find places selling much as "art" or "crafts". I'm not saying I found zero. Rather I'm saying I found so little that my conclusion is this is mostly (a) a fun hobby and (b) a service where you can hire someone to fix a cherished item.
I mean, they had a forward P/E ration of like 22, which was overvalued. They’re a more respectable 13x, it seems.

But that’s the idea…SWI was overvalued, and when the hack came, they sold off.

Basically, what I’m trying to say is that any overvalued company will sell off on bad news but “good” companies will hardly budge.

P.S. I do believe that Coinbase would sell off on similar news, for a myriad of reasons. But I’ve been wrong enough times that I wouldn’t put money on it.
>Until human society stops serving abstractions (like money) over things that are real, then real things will continually face consequence.

But birds aren't real![0]

[0] https://birdsarentreal.com/
Could you share the list>
>Asymptotically spreading COVID has been discussed and documented all over the world. I don’t believe this question is in good faith.

Then you should easily be able to back that up with data. So please provide it. Hypothesis are not evidence. I have plenty of evidence that shows the opposite.

https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/7/618

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200710100934.h...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32430964/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32914746/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.26394

Have fun. If you'd like more to keep you busy let me know :).

>Some people would like to spend time with their families this Christmas without having to worry about their children being vectors for a fucking plague that has now mutated to dodge the vaccine.

Normal people will not be wearing masks to Christmas. Why would we worry about children being vectors? "The science" doesn't back this up and even if it did there's a vaccine for it. Are you confused about how the vaccine works? If COVID is this big of a deal then you should just avoid Christmas and leave the rest of us alone. Why are you venturing out if it affects you that much? I have a hard time believing you're acting in good faith when it comes to stopping COVID infection and then talking about social gatherings. It appears that you just want to control others.

>Wear a mask ffs so we can move on with our lives.

Massive strawman happening here.

I've already moved on with my life.. That happened like year ago when everyone was able to get the vaccine if they wished. You have health anxiety, get it treated please and stop turning your personal fears into authoritarian rhetoric you think you have the right to shove down other people's throats.
There is a Soviet children's book with the same topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunno_on_the_Moon#Lunar_capita...
What would it take for you to trust a site like Quora in the future? A way to export questions and data as .json?
Dokku is basically what you described. Its not hard to set up & that its open source and has commercial support is even more attractive.

I'm a bit skeptical something could be easier to install. You go to the dokku homepage copy and paste the command on your server and its done.
Abstractions and models tend to get more correct over time. Sure sometimes we get off track or even go backwards, but if you look back at all of recorded human history our abstractions and models are generally a better fit to objective reality than ever before. You have an opportunity to help improve them further, if you choose to take it.
Sure but it actually benchmarks well broadly maybe despite its heavy web optimizations.
In my field, at least, I think the problem is less about the medium, and more about the incentives. Researchers are incentivized to write papers that seem impressive (and intimidating) rather than clear and intuitive.

To make matters worse, this is an evolved trait: researchers whose papers are intimidating are more likely to succeed, which means they're more likely to have future PhD students, which means that the style of writing is more likely to get passed on.

I think the main way to address this is to change the incentives. In particular, by creating publication venues that value simplicity and clarity (one such conference is SOSA, which has had a lot of impact on theoretical computer science in the last few years).
> When I track the source[1] of research

Ah, the famous anti-cat "study" (giving its huge glaring deficiencies it is more like propaganda pamphlet) by Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center where a postdoc got convicted several years ago for animal cruelty committed toward cats! That is really objective people without agenda... Would you take seriously for example a study by child molesters on societal benefits of child molestation?
The best way to learn about writing is to:

1. Read a copy of On Writing by Stephen King

2. Write a lot

3. No, more than that

And always get feedback from your target audience. Publish, share, see what happens, adapt.
"Error: cannot start (no connectivity). Please call a licensed repair technician to service your vehicle."
I always find funny how the IT community in the country decides who to vote for or whether to vote at all. But to address your concerns, although I don't understand how the technicalities around someone's personal blog relate to what kind of a politician they'll be (as opposed to... idk... its 10+ years of content for example):

1. Superhosting is the largest Bulgarian shared hosting provider. Although they indeed offer a relatively mediocre service, they're far from unusable and have low latency for his Bulgarian readership. Also his blog is somewhat old, so there may not have been much choice at the time.

2. He has configured TLS for both https://blog.bozho.net/ and https://techblog.bozho.net/ although no redirect has been added for the first site. As far as we know this may have even been intentional.
>In all honesty, flooding a market with cheap, substandard products claiming standards they don't comply with is dumping.

I think you may have misread the article. The problem isn't that manufacturers are lying about HDMI 2.1 compliance. They are complying with the HDMI 2.1 requirements; the standards body chose a weird set of requirements, that's all.
Based on the incredible work of Ted Chiang
Are you referring to default black list?
I agree that it'd be easier to read with wrapping, though "abomination" is rather too strong. You can just click "reader mode" in your browser, or size the window down to something readable.
Can the title be changed to: Ublacklist - Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
The same people are the ones that decide to put _final/_latest/_etc in file names
Actually, is that really what the article said?

> Experts believe that habitat loss due to agricultural development and intensification is most likely the driving factor.

But I don't think the numbers in the article make sense together.

> wild bird populations in the continental U.S. and Canada have declined by 29 percent—or a total net loss of around three billion birds—since 1970.

> between 365 million and one billion birds die each year across the U.S. as a result of window strikes.)

> pet felines kill some 2.6 billion birds annually in the U.S. alone.

So ... the total decline over 50 years (~3B) is approximately the same as the annual deaths from cats and windows at somewhere between a quarter and a third of all birds? I think this is one of those cases where uncritically accepting estimates from independent sources who used different methods produces an incoherent picture.
Would you people gift something like an expensive cruise travel package in a gift card?
I briefly tried to make my own template in Google Drive. In Docs you can set a table's width and minimum height. In Sheets, column width can be set in pixels. Neither seemed great for this purpose.

I think Microsoft Publisher used to be the go-to tool for this type of document. Is there an online alternative that might be usable to make my own? Basically looking for formatting tools that can be used inside a series of rectangles of a constant height and width.
I guess it's all about your perspective on how to interact with strangers via email. For me, I think it's best to keep an open mind and have empathy with someone reaching out instead of demeaning them for a strategy that they personally didn't craft. The rep saying "You're right, it's a low effort sales template" was his way of saying that it's not his preferred choice either, but he has his hands tied and this is how he puts food on the table.

It just seems really weird to take all of that and then jump to a massive conclusion that everyone should stop using Mailgun as a mail provider. The author took an innocuous email, created a battle which he won, and then decided to start a war.

I'm less taking issue with the absolute specifics of the email and more with the decision to turn this into something I'm reading about on the front page of HN.
For some context, the likely reason that this is on the front page is that most of his essays, which are many, do very well on HN[1]. If you consider that body of work, this may be a more interesting insight into writing to explore.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=danluu.com
Good move.

Sometimes contributing like that is good for society though. It’s guys like him that makes it possible for us to search for the answers to things and actually find them.

But if you’re a creator - Quora especially has no rewards for anyone.

That amount of time is best spent creating portable content that can be put into any platform and these days that’s mostly video.

Just think if he made a video answering questions on quora for the last 10 years - the outcome would be vastly different.
I'd say we should educate people about the value of family planning to steer the world to a better place. Don't know why so many people here think getting the population down requires atrocities.

I think if the world really got behind this, we could get the population down in 3 or 4 generations.
yes i love that episode of netflix’s dirty money - if through private investigation you find evidence of wrong doing you’re totally entitled to the profits of short selling, great incentive, if only we could fund more journalism this way
Wait until you learn that an NFT doesn't even contain the 1s and 0s. It contains a URL to the 1s and 0s that are stored on someones server, and can be taken down at any time.
Chevy Express vans and trucks didn't unlock the door when you pulled the handle. You had to manually slide the unlock toggle or hit the electronic unlock button before opening the door.
That's odd: personally, I was drawn in. And the first two paragraphs convey its subject and aims pretty explicitly, don't they?
“I think a gift card is a bad gift. You take money that is good everywhere...” (long pause, punctuated by applause and laughter)

—Mitch Hedberg, 1968 - 2005
It was a major feature of blekko's search engine.

Google had it for a while, too.
My assumption was just that it was something about how the EQ is mixed for that jack, because it is labelled specifically as headphones. The other replies about surround sound are true, as well, but I don't think should apply to my tv -> stereo soundbar set-up.

But the difference is definitely noticeably, even to my relatively forgiving ear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigengrau
What a completely nonsensical comparison. There are plenty of valid criticisms of crypto speculation and the underlying assets, but this is just hateful posturing painted up as sophisticated opinion.
You’re supposed to do it like this: https://youtu.be/tZTa8Nh0VlE
The persistence of this phenomenon has puzzled me for decades. From the 1980s, I have asked Japanese women who are married to foreigners, "Since you care about how your husband is perceived in Japanese society, why don't you correct him away from overtly female speech habits?" The usual reaction is to be simply dumbfounded at the question. I've never talked to a Japanese woman who reacted like, "Hey, that's a good idea."
Why is this surprising? When all truth is subjective no truth matters.