skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do, and this is an appropriate situation to call them about, regardless of your race. There are problems with the police, to be sure, but this is not a situation where someone is getting beaten up (or worse) over a traffic stop or misidentification during the commission of a crime.
There’s more to it than depression/chronic fatigue. See for example https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/articles/on-the-heels-o...
Facebook's virtual reality push is about data, not gaming
> You don't even need a study for this, it's just common sense

Lots of common sense things turn out to be false, and the plural of anecdote is not data. We absolutely need studies.
All these recommendations seem great, Im kind of wondering if anyone has any thoughs on coding books / resources for a 1-2 year old.

My kid loves books but not much out there in toddler programming related board books. Also been pushing duplo legos and play dough which seem somehow programming related, no idea why. And someone gave him a linux penguin (tux) plush.

Other than that not sure where to go next. Maybe hes ready for a pi but I dont know about any special linux distros for kids.
China has a President-for-life. That’s not a republic by any measure.
so I just watched the Get Back documentary and one of the thoughts I had is that the amount of cigarettes smoked in the production of a Beatles album likely had an effect on the band's creative output (spoilers - there was a lot of smoking, lol).

I'm not saying that I would want to be exposed to any of that second hand smoke myself or that I would want to get addicted to the substance, but there's something that was part of that magic formula that affects the mindset of an artist.
That app, which isn't available everywhere (why?), requires users to perform manual scans. It doesn't warn users that they're being tracked like iPhones do.
I mean no disrespect, but his parents allowed people to have s*x with him, as a teenager? WTF?
The solution to this is simple, but not easy: block everything by default and do not prompt to enable it (but do show an indicator of what has been blocked).

This is how Firefox tracker protection, uMatrix, noscript, and a plethora of ad blockers and other privacy tools work.
I always find pitches like this a little obnoxious:

> You list files hundreds of times a day. Why spend your time squinting at black and white text?

Uh, `ls` has colors, if you know how or some benevolent distro-maintainer did.

Now there's a ton of value in sane defaults and cutting out cruft and targeting specific use-cases, so not here to criticize the tool, at all. Just the marketing. Why not talk about what's actually special and different about it?
So your claim is that we weren't aware in the year 2003 that organ harvesting was wrong?

I'm not making any claim about ethics, merely that the perception that China is doing so many bad things all at once because they "want the rest of the world to hate them" is more likely driven by US media highlighting terrible things China does because we view them as a great power competitor now, and it is important that our populace is rallied against them.
A post-secondary 4-year education in the humanities is a luxury almost by definition, since it is not available to a substantial portion of the population (including many who attend 4-year college!), and wouldn't be even if tuition were free. The arts are important too, but owning a Renoir is still a luxury.

I reject the argument that taking 4 years of courses on "communication, conflict, power, democracy, capitalism, communism, etc" is "more important" than "whatever most of us do", and I reject it for a bunch of reasons, not just the obvious one that taking a class on power is not the same thing is engaging with power.
I'd say I think I need a sense of purpose or fulfillment in my life. If you're describing that as a void that needs to be filled, than sure, that's me.
>Just because you disagree with them, it doesn't make them the "bad guys".

I was replying on the consistency topic. some projects offer the user a consistent experience by offering both Qt/GTK support and others don't care and would rather force their branding on you.
I could see this being very useful. The standard cache + db architecture has some sharp edges that end up biting people all of the time e.g. the thundering herd problem.
Please review the data behind your catchy "1 in 3" headline. At the very least it's out of date, if not sensationalist.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/06/...
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Throughout highschool I was told by many adults that the internet wasn't an "accurate source for information" and "don't believe what you read online" etc. I obviously ignored them. I was also told multiple times by my guidance counselor in highschool that Software Engineers needed to be very good at math and that I would never succeed in that field and I should choose something more realistic. I also ignored her. I'm now a SWE at a FAANG company. I've helped scale multiple start ups (multiple of which are successful and one of which was just acquired).

Society is set up in such a way that people are trained to:

1. Respect authority figures

2. Follow what your parents tell you to do

3. Your education is the most important thing in your life (between 10 and 30 yo)

All of these things lead to situations where people are more than willing to take out massive loans because everyone in their life tells them "it will be ok!" and "don't think about the money right now, it's about the experience" which is one of the most disgusting ideas that I think is perpetuated. Basically when your parents, your teachers, your politicians, your peers, etc are doing something it's hard to think "that's a bad idea".
We should ban US companies from marketing cigarettes to people (kids) in other countries. They are doing it right now in Africa.
West Virginia is wealthy?
Double Fine released a really fun game where you have to hack the underlying code to solve the puzzles. It's a good introduction to programming.
https://www.doublefine.com/games/hack-n-slash

After that, I'd point them at Pico-8
https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
The example you gave is not relevant. The researchers in this study are already directly contacting everyone they need consent from, and if an individual declines, the rest of the sample can still be studied (unlike in a classroom setting, where everyone's physically in the same room and it's impossible to study any of them in isolation).

Further, the study would still have worked if the researchers had simply asked for the information as researchers, instead of lying about their identity and making thinly-veiled threats of legal action if the subject doesn't comply.
I don't know about the rest, but this part is patented nonsense:

> Vast vast area of Siberia including the city Vladivostok were taken by Russia from China.

Chinese nationalists can draw whatever maps they want, but China never settled or administered West Siberia. Vladivostok was a de novo settlement, not a rebranding of some pre-existing Chinese town.

If anything, Russia gave up some territory to China over the 20th century to placate the Chinese. The most obvious of them is the city of Kharbin, which the Russians founded as a trading colony in late 19th century [1]. In Northern China you can still find remnants of Russian villages with Chinese-speaking Slavs living there on marginal border territories that Stalin gave up to China to resolve border disputes. The most recent of those disputes was solved under Putin, where again, it was Russia that gave up some territory to China [3].

I don't know whether your over-arching point is reasonable, but the evidence you provided re: Russia/China relations is factually incorrect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbJ7VM46QVs

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-russia-border/china...
> Cigar smoking in moderation (all the way up to one cigar per day) has been shown to be a fairly minimal risk multiplier for cancer

Honestly curious about this one, do you have a source?
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I think of it as a bit of social selection for websites. If a website has content people value, they find ways to support the website. If not, well, maybe the site not existing is not a terrible loss.
What makes you think the future is going to be any different?

The world didn’t go back to normal after 9/11, it’s not going to happen now either.

If it’s not COVID it’ll just be the next pandemic.
Both halves of my sentence you partially quoted are important. If your lawyer thinks it could be a real problem, obviously that entails more work.
Oh good we are breeding a generation of even stupider people
A year of rocker launches is less than a day of transatlantic flights. Airplanes are far worse for the environment.
That's the one plus but, unfortunately, our CS program didn't have a stats requirement so many of the students didn't even learn about this in college :)
I wonder in some cases how far the standards would drop... That would incentivise to pass just about everyone with glowing credentials. Ofc, the employers should wisen up in year or a few... But hey, at that point the cohort is already out making money...
Did you read the reviews ? Maybe because the bad guys do not want you to use it. You need to underestand that there are a lot of people paid to have an opinion on the internet.
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Ask HN: What to Do with £100K ($132k)
Hi HN!

I have a main account but am using a throwaway for hopefully obvious reasons.

The background to my situation is:

I'm younger than 34 years old. I recently split with my partner and will get about £100,000 after selling the house.

I have a daughter (younger than 4 years old), but otherwise no obligations.

I have been living in the South West of the UK (Cornwall) but have temporarily relocated to East Europe in order to save money and also create a 'clean break' financially from my former partner who has tried various underhand means of extracting more money from me (while she both didn't parent or work during the relationship; long story).

I earn circa £100k/year via a limited company for tax reasons.

My question to ya'll is therefore:

What would _you_ do with £100K?

- Invest nearly all of it?
- Get an apartment that I AirBnb?
- Spend it on beanie babies / NFTs?
- Keep it in the bank?
- Something else?

I'm very curious to harness the collective hive-mind of HN-ers; an eccentric community I respect.

Potentially relevant side-note:

I would like to buy my own property again one day, especially when I relocate back to the South West of the UK (in the next 12 months I suspect). But on my salary, saving for a mortgage deposit shouldn't be too difficult anyway.
And I think it is a valid concern even today. It’s not that there’s anything inherently bad or dangerous with books, videos or computer games. But too much of anything steal time that is needed for other parts of a well rounded upbringing. If you spend too much time in front of a screen or books, you won’t spend enough time being outdoors and being physically active, or being with friends practicing social skills and conflict resolution. And the opposite is of course also true: if you spend all days doing sports or just hanging out with friends, there won’t be enough time for reading or other types of experiences.
It is a much more likely and sensible (for the bad guy) outcome though.
There are so many more people out there that want to rob someone than want to rape someone. Especially when the target is a stranger.
Look up “Knob And Tube Wiring” on Wikipedia for details (which claim that the wires should have been insulated, but I believe I’ve seen the same as you report, in a California house built in the 1950s).
I think that's fair to a certain extent - a queue is the simplest form of message passing or work distribution. There are many other data structures that have been developed that work well with multiple threads. I think what _is_ out of vogue is just protecting an arbitrary data structure with a mutex and calling it thread safe.
"Why do we still permit tobacco use?"

Because society chooses to. That's the case for most things. Why should I want to control what others do if it doesn't directly affect me? If we look hard enough, chances are there is one activity or another that we each engage in that could also be eliminated or highly regulated on this same basis.
> use cash for immodest lifestyle

Do you have evidence of this? Most students I know who have borrowed are struggling. Many can't afford books, housing, food. People are living on ramen.

> free money

Loans aren't free money. Do we say the same about loans to wealthy people and corporations?

I think there is often (I don't know about you) a bias against students or the poor as inherently untrustworthy or just unworthy, and therefore credit to them will just be used for bad things. That is, the issue is the preconceived notions, not the economics or policy.

> If college loans are a problem, then the cost of college is the real problem. Let's not use government to selectively reward individuals based on how they paid rather than the price they paid.

Education is essential to the general welfare. We can't wait for the perfect system and lose another generation of talent to waste (not developing) or bankruptcy; we need to address that is happening now.
You made an automatic assumption that this bill is in the best interests of the masses. That may not be the case.
"They’re using a modernist mindset, they just happen to be wrong."

They are certainly not using a scientific mindset - they are just using language that sounds scientific, so it sounds smart and solid.
But is not, when you look closer and try to find their data and sources. But common people does not do that - and fall for it.
It is basically fraud, in most instances.
> and they are willing to fight for it.

No, they aren't. China has been making empty threats for literally decades.

Yes, I am sure they will throw around more empty threats and not follow through on them.

But this "red line" thing is just internal propaganda that they never actually follow through on.

It is time the rest of the world stops pretending.
A while ago, out of the blue, I've been diagnosed with a very rare medical condition. Online ads and recommended videos then started showing relevant and very specific drugs, treatments, therapies, self-help groups etc. for me. I had not performed any online or offline research about the topic, had not talked to anyone about it at all, except the MD, and had bought all drugs with cash. What are the odds?
Then at work, in a web meeting, I made a completely spontaneous pun about having a divorce. Minutes later, my social media were completely plastered with ads for divorce lawyers, which they had never been before. I've never been married, don't want to be, and I don't even know anyone who has gotten a divorce in the last five years.
And more, and more. If social media companies are selling health and other personal data to advertisers, what's stopping them from selling it to insurances and recruiters? Maybe I am all wrong about this, and maybe many others are also. Or maybe we'll start seeing a big wave of whisteblowing and revelation books once the current crop of software engineers, managers and directors retire and/ or are sufficiently strapped for cash.
> Like most of you I learned to code as a kid

I didn't start learning to code until I was 27. I think probably the most compelling reason to teach your kids to code is so that you can work on projects with them and have that shared interest.

But, of course, that could backfire. My dad was interested in antiques, opera, gothic architecture, etc and tried to force that down my throat. I couldn't stand it and that made me rebel hard against it.

Your kids might just want to be different people than their parents, or maybe they really are interested in the things you're interested. I don't know. I say try to expose them to a bunch of different things, not just what you like. Maybe they'll make great software engineers, or maybe they want to become marketeers or lawyers or designers. If you encourage good social, communication, and learning skills, they'll be successful in whatever career path most interests them.

Sorry, I get a little uppity when people start talking about teaching kids to code.
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Worth what reward? Once an HFT firm buys a security, they now have to sell it again. Or vice versa if they sell a security. Do you think they earn a profit on every trade? There is risk in every trade, sometimes they overpay, sometimes they underpay.

It makes no material difference to the profits of a buy and hold investor. If it did, buy and hold investors would not trade with HFT firms.
The danger is that predators could track a child to a secluded area and abduct them.
The thing is that GNOME project and GNOME based distros should put just a bit of effort to support Qt programs, like have the same File Picker Dialog or even have GTK2 and GTK3 use the same fucking File Picker or at least with the same fucking File Sorting.

About easy of use I am sure that you are more productive with a professional toolkit like Qt and a mature language like c++ then fucking around with some broken/incomplete/buggy C# or Rust GTK bindings. Though I think you can do simple Python apps with GTK GUIs but for professional applications that are targeting crossplatform trust me Qt is the solution (I never seen a good GUI cross platform pro application , Linus Torvalds himself used Qt for his app because his Red Hat friends could not answer him on how to do some complex GUI in GTK)
Simple answer, because we live in a free society and the consideration for what is outlawed isn't how beneficial an activity is for the person who engages in it but how dangerous it is to others.

And so while I'm okay with banning smoking from places where others are affected, tobacco consumption in private or voluntary settings shouldn't really be an issue.

Also interesting angle in the piece to declare that tobacco has 'no benefits'. Is the author the enjoyment police? First thing that comes to mind for me is, I have a lot of Arab and Turkish friends and there's a strong cafe and smoking culture within those communities that's an important part of social gatherings.

In the world of health professionals which appear to attempt to pathologize everything this apparently doesn't hold a lot of value but for most people it does.
I said "run speech-to-text on your device". Also TTS would be the other way around as it means text to speech.
I tried both and ended up with lsd, but both have my favourite feature which is the icons via Nerd Fonts.
They claim the pandemic has dropped kids IQ scores by a full standard deviation? N=40? Hmmm.

Nothing about that paper inspires confidence.
It is not a hereditary position. One could even argue that USA isn't republic as there was two people elected from same family as head of state.
> Because there's a precise definition of "human subject research" which is actually a lot more limited than many people think.

We've had two different cases now where that disconnect has led to studies which cause stress and other harm to human subjects, because the study was classified as "not human subject research" despite directly involving humans at every step of the way. Perhaps that definition needs to be rewritten.
What kind of things does your daughter play?

Personally I wonder whether there's a big difference between playing YouTube stimulation videos vs logic puzzle/math/mystery games vs the latest dopamine-addiction-of-day game
I just did a test and it worked fine for me. So you received the result message with "Release ID", and after this typing last did not show your release? It shows only the last 5. If after you another 5 releases are done, it will not be shown.
Could you try again and check if it works?
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How would you use this tool?

What feature would be of most benefit to you?

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Not true, no app is necessary. The AirTag will start beeping once it's been separated from its owner for longer than 8-24 hours.
Catalonia, the Basque region, Ireland, etc are not comparable to Taiwan. Taiwan _is_ a separate country today already. There is no separatist movement. It’s all just Chinese propaganda. (Officially Taiwan has similar claims, but they clearly have stopped actually exercising them hence that fact isn’t really relevant).

If you want a more accurate comparison it would would be as if Spain started claiming that Portugal is a part of its territory and pushing the world to accept that position.
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Somehow I don't think the Trump, DeSantis or Youngkin adminstrations in 2025 will care much for what Fauci says.
I once read that office basically functions like a VM. I don't know how true that was but I guess it makes it not really software but a deployment.
Yea, let’s punish the 18 year olds who hoped they might be able to follow their passion instead of getting a business degree and sitting behind a desk for 40 years.

Are their decisions good ones? No, not really. But at 18 I can’t really fault someone for not understanding the decades long implications of interest payments and job market dynamics.
It sounds like you just spend too much time sitting down and reading/computing, which is a major reason why I'm still not sure if I want my career to be coding.
We also have a unlimited screen time policy with our kids

It’s been nothing but great!

They turned into information sponges with a huge amount of knowledge about the world, way ahead of their peers.

Our son watches a lot of extrem sports YouTube content which always inspires him to push harder to get better at those sports himself.

He is the only one in his class who will tackle the large half pipes at the local dirt park for example. It’s the result of watching the pro’s do it on YouTube and then practicing relentlessly!

Society has this thing where everything new is stamped as bad…book, bad! Bicycles, bad! Radio, bad!, TV, bad! Computer games, bad! Drugs, bad! Sugar, bad! People are just a bunch of scaredy cats

We ought to provide kids some more nuance about the things in the world

Is there bad things to watch or do on your screens, like scary stuff or things that are incredibly dull…absolutely. But the only way to learn what that is, is to let them experience it and learn.
I’m sorry you live in the UK. That must be very difficult for you.

In other places we weren’t nearly so concerned about shutting down pubs; actually the bad case that often happened in the US was leaving bars open (for tax revenue) but closing schools (because parents and teachers are more neurotic than bar goers).

Still I haven’t met a whole lot of people complaining they weren’t allowed to work. Our stimulus worked quite well there.

I don’t think lockdowns are necessary or reasonable in 2022 but at least, as someone temporarily in the UK, I’ll be able to get out of my local family trying to make me see some ridiculously quaint British thing called a “panto”.