skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can see that by the time I retire, the knowledge I have spent my adult life acquiring will be useless historical trivia. It's depressing.

Is that so bad? I expect the more important thing are the results that the learning allowed you to render. If the knowledge has a half-life but you contributed to or built something meaningful that endures, isn't that what matters? The knowledge and skills are like the scaffolding that allow you to arrive at a certain height or build something of value. And at the end they can be taken away and you're left with the fruits.

Unless, of course, your intention is to have knowledge that you can pass on to future generations via writing/training.
Fun With 3 Colors: The Vectrex 3-D Imager
This doesn't answer why the end product (the person receiving the ad) is exposed to anything but images and text, which was the question.

Step outside technical approach mode and look at it from the highest level possible -- why are end users ever given more than images and text, or, why are ads anything more than a very simple a href tag.

Spam detection and other protection of the ad platform should be done long before this information ever goes to the eyeball product owners.
>covid response should have been even stricter and of even greater scope than it was

always amazes me how one of the biggest criticisms of Trump is that he didn't take advantage of an emergency to seize more power. What would their reaction have been if he'd pulled a Xi and started welding people into their apartments in New York City at the start of the pandemic like China did in Wuhan? Or forced them to download a real time tracking app onto their phones for contact tracing? Surely that couldn't be abused at all
Definitely not. We reply this way, moderate this way, etc., regardless of which ideological flag an account is flying.
It's a technical distinction lost on the public. Maybe that's a bad thing, but it is what it is.
Animations can be CSS, yes. That's what you do in https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/learn/a4a... (declarative ad format, no advertiser-written JS)
Your own misunderstanding of the difference between SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 do not entitle you to assert anything about the subject.
yes the author has taken it way out of context. imagine if auto manufacturers produced MVP vehicles without seatbelts etc.
You know what I call a project without a practical use? Art.
> They never claimed it stopped infection

True, but they sure as hell implied it did. For example, this fact check appeared in the search container of google early on: note the use of the double negative in the VERDICT.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-transmission/fa...
Did you read the comment I was responding to?

> I always worry about our oceans. We farm them as if there is a limitless supply and our actions have no consequences.
It’s a genuinely baffling omission.
Right, and I'm pretty sure you can use the same display manager with both (at least if it's lightdm), and then switching back and forth between gnome and KDE is literally a matter of switching between the words "gnome" to "plasma5" in one place.
> So if you make a commit to the README.md fixing a typo, now your build of the source code has a different checksum?

Yes...? What's the problem?

> why they don't instead hash all the source files and then embed that hash.

This is almost exactly what the git sha is. If you're arguing that README.md files shouldn't be included in the checksum, that's subjective. Many people would argue otherwise. And it doesn't hurt to be more accurate than less.
So capitalism is the best option because capitalism causes pressure on other countries and other systems to fail while also being good at resisting the pressure caused by itself? This seems like a poor argument too, and is definitely not supporting the claim that free markets lift people out of poverty.
I'm losing your point. So, you wanted to patch it, and you couldn't, so how is it bad then that a compiled binary would make patching more difficult?
I’m gonna guess the screenshot is fake. Their support page still says he should get a refund: https://help.uber.com/ubereats/article/i-was-charged-for-can...
I'm not sure the taxpayers will pay for that if you are unvaccinated.

This pill is for "high-risk patients who took the antiviral within three days of symptom onset".

The vaccination even seems to be a bit more effective than this pill?
Seems pretty likely that these drones are operated by another branch of the US armed forces.
There was a Eurasian introgression back into Africa from either the Arabian Peninsula or (less likely) across the Sahara into Chadic ethnic groups visible in Y-DNA haplogroups. Most likely that's the source of the 0.3%
So is not following laws... Or being certain that they don't apply.
There's no way to argue that less than zero funding would have prevented the log4j maintainers from merging a patch that was sent to them by a third party.
Vikings Razed the Forests. Can Iceland Regrow Them? (2017)
The good and bad of Typed Racket
The article is somewhat schizophrenic. It starts off talking about the shrinking of Japan's labour supply (number of working age people), which is about to apply to the rest of the developed world and China.

But it then goes on to talk about headline numbers (Japan's total GDP growth) rather than adjusting those numbers for labour supply. When you do adjust for labour supply, Japan's performance is average.

It also talks about fiscal and monetary actions taken by Japan's government and central bank, without linking those in any coherent way to the other things.
> Is this just click bait?

It is not. It sounds like something that should have been taken care of by Google at least 10 years ago.
Well I don't think anyone suggested anything actually helpful or relevant, so....
What we need to do (in part) is accept that some students are not learning much in high school and offer them an off-ramp into the labor force. Right now, failing to earn a traditional high school diploma is half a step from an economic life sentence, so we force kids to fake their way through for years while they could instead be gaining knowledge and skills in a profession. Reducing the penalty of opting out would inarguably increase the quality of education for those who remain. Additionally, we should write in stone what obligations are truly school obligations and what are we offering as services/expectations within schools because they are one of the very few opportunities to provide social services to a large segment of our population. We would need to have a grown up conversation about other social spending, but teachers and admins are being pulled ten different directions by unclear mandates. We should also include an agreed upon optional exit exam that can be taken at any time so students who are capable of graduating and moving on with their lives are not being stifled. We would also (probably) benefit from decoupling schools and sports - even if some high school type equivalent remained publicly funded.
Your hand is in the wheel well for a fraction of a second, just enough for a magnet to stick. You can still say "oh I was just picking up my air tag" and it'll be fairly reasonable. I'd buy it if it were done so you didn't look like you were fiddling with the car too long.
"in silico" doesn't mean that is actually real. We are almost getting into 2022 now and there is ample evidence from prospective double-blind studies proving that Ivermectin doesn't work against covid. And here in Brazil we have a pile of corpses showing what happens when the government tries to use innefective drugs as the main answer to the pandemic.
Interesting idea! Most productivity apps have some kind of a nudge built-in (for example, DayOne sends periodic reminders and even writing prompts to keep you journaling). It rarely works for me, though, as they pop up at times when I’m focused on something else.

What usually works is a physical reminder that something I have planned to do is not complete. Two examples:

- For a couple of years I had that large sticky note posted on my fridge on which each day I would draw a stick every time I drank a glass of water. Simply seeing this note with no sticks drawn for particular day was enough of a motivation to drink my recommended daily number of glasses. I made sure an empty glass was always strategically positioned nearby. I had many attempts to track that electronically, with reminders and such, but only after reading Atomic Habits I was able to design this simple ‘off-the-grid’ solution, and it just worked.

(I have since stopped tracking exact number of glasses, but I still set an empty glass on my kitchen counter, which is enough to trigger my habit and drink more every time I see it)

— Similar thing with vitamin D which I take during the winter. At my kitchen table I have this pill case with seven transparent cells per each day of the week, so any time I go to the kitchen and notice the case, and it’s not empty, it motivates me to take this day’s pill. Just keeping a bottle full of pills on the table was not enough to build a habit, but as soon as I made “lack of progress” visible, it worked.
That seems methodologically quite questionable for the conclusions drawn. Like many blind semantic analysis attempts which consider language of a crash report for bug testing toxic due to the instances of "does not work", and "kill" and "fail". Meanwhile "I hope you enjoy eating your family then." is positive.

Falsely presenting subjective viewpoints as objective would appear more rational. It isn't the trappings which make it rational or even distance from emotions. One can rationally make "non-optimal" decisions from subjective personal costs.
I think this is the best advice given, though others have offered good advice as well.

A couple things I've learned are "do whatever they ask you to do". There have been more than a few times I've pointed out flaws in design plans and was ignored and/or dismissed. In those cases I or someone produced exactly what they wanted and the issues I tried to point out came to light.

The reactions to that can go both ways. They now see what you tried to show them and understand, or it foments animosity because you made someone "look bad". That can happen even if you point something out in a very non-judgemental and technical way.

When you do it their way, and do it very good their way, and it doesn't work, if they don't despise you they'll start listening to you. If they do despise you move on.

But most importantly, leave that bullshit at work. Don't let it get under your skin and bring it home.
Nothing was clear unless you already knew enough not to need the description at all.

A "USB switch" reads like a switch with a USB cable on it, that the computer it is plugged into can see when it changes. Which is fine, except the fact that a keyboard and mouse are also presumed to be plugged in is not said or hinted.

"DDC/CI" is similarly undefined. A program switching video inputs makes no sense: a computer produces video output, not input. You would need to know the program is sending commands to the monitor to tell that to switch to a different input.

Both of these facts could easily have been in the first sentence. Without, the whole article is noise.
Good point which I hadn't thought of. I really like GNOME 4 for my own workflow, but it doesn't have much in common with GNOME 2.
It's not the features Apple and Google add to their systems. It's that I need something to run the banking apps I need to log into my bank accounts with 2FA. It's closer to needing a Windows PC because that program (filing taxes?) runs only there or only with IE6. The solution used to be a VM, maybe I'll be able to reliably virtualize any Android app on a Linux phone. Then I'll buy one.
> for our democracy spreading.

Don't go trying blame them for our actions. Assuming ur from the US or EU.
The efficacy is pretty well proven to be > 90% at this point. Per your comment where you admit the number was pulled out of thin air:

> Anecdotal. You do not need to be a meteorologist to know when it's raining. Look outside.

I'll raise you this... where I am 100% of ICU cases are unvaccinated. Read that again 100%. And over 85% of hospitalizations. And before you say "see, 15% of them were breakthrough cases," please learn about base rates. 65% of the people here are vaccinated so to have only 15% of the hospital cases be vaccinated is even more conclusive.

Please, get out of your bubble. If you think it is 10%... or even 50%... or even 70% you need to do some serious introspection.

Please, actually "look outside"! Because if you spent more than 10 seconds actually looking outside, the efficacy is obvious.
The only criticism I can see coming is that this should've been done months ago.
If something does go wrong there's no way to send a repair crew like on Hubble.

Talk about pressure to get everything right on the first try.
Yes that would be a tricky issue to decide and I personally don’t think we should worry about it. The future generations will have to decide what their ethical framework allows for however I don’t think we’re on the path to putting a human brain in a PC and attaching wires. Though we may meet half way where a lot of our computing resembles biologically accurate neural nets by the end of the century or something (billions or neurons speaking through trillions of connections.)

Maybe this is the first step into getting our society to quit pretending we’re a generation away from human brains being irrelevant. If so I say that’s a good thing, there’s enough doomsaying about the world without trying to write off building cool technology as another apocalyptic fall into dystopia we’re on the verge of.
Low income folks have low vaccination rates, high income folks have high vaccination rates

It’s just as foolish to believe CNN as Fox
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
So is this a Libc issue? Or other standard libraries?

Can we not just try to have a fixed set of interfaces for these libraries or am I insane to think that they don't need to change really any more? (In 99% of cases?)

It feels like everyone doing their own thing in these areas is just making everything totally painful for application authors and so people are coming up with insane bundler systems that just hide the real problem.
not sure if you are trolling or not but i have around 60 programs that i use on linux and 1 program that only supports windows, so having to dual boot just so i could run 1 program would make things a lot more difficult
I agree with your point but most things you might want "ls|grep" for is better done with "find" which can do both in one.
Fair, and I can see that we've diverged from the subject of the article. I might suggest that

> It's like they want the rest of the world to hate them.

is a pretty incendiary comment, but I will avoid fanning the flames in the future.
I'd guess nowadays it doesn't make a difference
As the Japanese economy took off a more western style diet was adopted, with a stronger focus on meat. As well sausages are typically lower quality/cheaper protein so an increase in wealth would correspond with a move away from sausages.
Ironical that a story touting how a miracle product was given away for free is not itself free.
Ask HN: What are some good blogs/sites about formal/computer languages?
I'm currently reading and studying formal languages using books, mainly 'Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation' by Hopcroft and Ullman. But I also been enjoying reading articles from Tomasseti[0] and would like to know if there are some other sites/blogs that focus on topics like programming languages, parsing, natural language processing, regular expressions, grammar, text processing, text encoding, Unicode and even non-computer linguistics.

I guess I wouldn't mind some book recommendations as well

[0] https://tomassetti.me/
Flight Tracker Fight Off: App in the Air vs. Flighty
>Good luck! I look forward to your references to peer-reviewed, reproduced, double-blind studies upending decades of well established medical science.

Why is my burden of proof higher than yours? I at least linked one study in my sibling comment.

I haven't seen that from anyone, studying anything, in years. Around 2018 there were actually a ton of articles and discussions right here on HN about the reproducibility problem in science, and that there's no funding for reproducing studies anymore. Everything is just cite and move on. We were actually making significant progress in reforming our ideas of science, and the effects that scientific funding sources have on our knowledge, as a species (hint if it's not profitable we probably aren't studying it).

That all got thrown by the wayside as "trust the science" became the political rallying cry of half the population over the last year.
>I'm not 100% certain that was the cause

I'll leave this,

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211148

>Make sure the camera cover is not thicker than an average piece of printer paper (0.1mm).

>If you install a camera cover that is thicker than 0.1mm, remove the camera cover before closing your computer.
You're right and I misinterpreted the sqlite implementation. I will edit my comment to reflect my error.
What happens when neither party is functioning?
Well, Gendo is definitely seen as an antagonist by this point. But Ritsuko was the flirtatious smart lady up until this point.

And honestly, her flirting was mostly just trolling / fun. So I don't think anyone suspected the horrors of her designs until this scene.
> An airtag do not require a SIM card. Are they easily traceable or is it hard to get to the owner?

I turned my laptop into a functional airtag one bored day. Not sure how to get the data from apple with a Mac because it requires a bit of hackery due to them not having a public API but it can be done using their email app IIRC.

They store the encrypted location data on their servers so without the private key nobody can read it which also means nobody can determine who owns the tracker — I’d imagine they could use access logs or something to figure out who’s been reading the public key which the tracker broadcasts.

TFA could have not thrown the airtag away, read the serial number off it and used that as a “clue” methinks.

I actually want to get an esp-32 and turn that into a airtag but I’m lazy and would also need to buy a Mac so…though I’m not too lazy to code up a little daemon which will set off the beeper on every airtag in range once I get ahold of one.
But I am not vaccinated for health reasons. When are we going to start differentiating? Were I not a freelancer, I would have lost my job because I am not vaccinated, for health reasons. It is a pretty shitty thing to do to people.
Scripts using ls should keep using ls whatever you use for interactive use. Though more often than not such scripts ought to use something else like find to begin with.
You might also like Andreas Kling building an OS in C++

https://youtube.com/c/AndreasKling/videos
Unix was created on a PDP-7.
Two letters was generous considering that they had to use an electromechanical terminal.
They also had only 4K words of store in the beginning so they wouldn't run out of meaningful shorthands.
It's not hard to see that QAnon worldview contradicts a Bible-based worldview. For any well-rooted Christians, who have spent some time looking into their own faith's claims and reading the Bible, it should be blindingly obvious that there's something very suspicious about QAnon - if not that it's outright incompatible with Christianity.

Unfortunately, there is still plenty of "casual" Christians who don't care, and people who are Christians in name only. They get snared fairly easily.

IMO, a well-rooted Christian will essentially resist having their faith changed or added to. But they are the minority group in many places, because it's a path that requires personal sacrifice that not many want to undergo.
very much looking forward to this!
The BBC also has a free, ad-free mobile weather app for both iOS and Android. The apps are available via the Apple and Google app stores.

The app includes detailed forecasts for the UK, but it includes forecasts for many global cities.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bbc.mobile.wea...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/bbc-weather/id649420946
> where to buy a GPS tracker.

Have you heard about amazon.com? There are multiple around $20 devices there.
You can't prove anything is conscious. How would you test for that?
At some point there was some PR about 100% effectiveness of the product on kids, according to, the guys who actually manufacture the product :)

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
Help an ignorant person. Wouldn’t this kind of alert let a thief know that whatever they stole has an airtag attached to it? I know it’s probably not marketed as an anti-theft device, but isn’t this anti-stalking measure also a ”pro-theft” measure?
If your system can’t function in the presence of adversaries it isn’t practical. Adversaries will always exist.
I don't know, just apply?

Obviously it is important to get hands on experience even as an undergrad. Ideally you can do that at your university, otherwise there are plenty of opportunities for internships. At least in Europe I had absolutely no problem finding one. It can't hurt to also look for second tier companies.
It is an interesting argument. I take exception to the suggestion that the earth and animals would be happier if we were gone. Happiness seems to be a purely human concept. Without humans there would be no happiness. It is true that animals would almost certainly be better off without us. But I’m not sure it’s possible to say that the earth would be. The earth doesn’t care one way or another if life thrives.

And concepts like justice are only meaningful in the context of intelligent life so it’s hard to argue that justice requires the elimination of the only known life-form that has a concept of justice.
Then I don't understand the necessity for javascript in ads?
If the company doesn't do business in the EU (i.e. has no EU customers), there are still some things that can be done. Maybe target suppliers to Clearview? The cloud providers are obvious targets. Put out arrest orders for Clearview employees? Maybe try to have the US govt enforce it?
As far as I can tell, this is just a clever trick. The cultured neurons aren't really learning anything. The researchers are stimulating one side of the array (top or bottom), to indicate if the ball is above or below the paddle, and based on the ensuing response the computer moves the paddle up or down.

Here's the trick - if you stimulate a group of neurons, their spontaneous activity will be (briefly) different from an unstimulated group. You can use this fact to make it seem like the NN is learning to play pong.

It would be like claiming a network of cats can learn to play pong. I put cats in two different boxes. To tell the cats whether the ball is above or below the paddle I will spray water into one of the boxes. Then I will listen for hissing from both boxes. Based on where I hear the most hissing is the direction i move the paddle.
>How many people here are "engineers" (Licenced P.E.s with EE degreee)? Most people here string npm modules together and aren't qualified to assess LiON battery risks -- myself included.

The point of the remark you are quoting was that it's unreasonable to think that the engineers that designed that product were unaware of dangers associated with this kind of battery.

I.e. if people here know about these dangers, so does Bose.
Actually, political affiliation is the strongest demographic predictor for Covid-19 vaccine refusal.

Check the actual stats. Unfortunately a lot of GOP leaning media sources including top rated Fox News opinion hosts have been spreading FUD about the vaccine for a year. People listen to their trusted news hosts and media sources…
Oh good. Glad to hear it. :-)
It took 10 seconds of searching to find a flat fucking image file exploit. I even skipped the recent NSO group zero-click exploit. Enjoy - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-stegano-e...