skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's like saying putting something on a scale isn't an objective measure of its weight because you can just take the batteries out of the scale. I'm considering it objective because the more correct answers you get, the higher your score.

We can argue about whether or not the stuff on the test is important. We can discuss the various environmental, cultural, and socioeconomic factors that go into the kids taking it and how that impacts scores statistically. We can even talk about the various medical and neurological factors that go into test taking generally and standardized test taking specifically that can affect some people more than others. I'll even concede that the SAT/ACT isn't a test of your intelligence so much as it is a test of how well you did on the SAT/ACT, just like putting things on a scale may at best be a measure of its weight relative to other things on that specific scale.

But at the end of the day, more right answers === a higher score, and I'm not sure how you get any more objective than that when it comes to something as fluid as academic ability.
Wow! I did not know about textract. It worked like a charm. Extracted all the tables out perfectly - something I wasn't able to do with the web services out there.
Yes? Tesla isn't the only company making driver assist systems. I have the equivalent functionality in my Genesis right now and no one is making noise about it.
What on earth are you talking about?

You think the reason they're so desperate they're willing to gaslight minorities over their abilities (according to this anonymous unelaborated source) is because they have diverse teams?

Did you just stop reading after the ellipses or what?
Rsync.net has an HN member discount if you ask, they have for years. They mention it on here sometimes
I have seen new notifications recently when moving dumb stuff (old downloads?) around, so the new error message stuff tracks.
Cute. The dead giveaway in the documentary is that nobody bothered to pick up a screwdriver and open the thing. In 1968 the only way to build such a device would have been with individual transistors, and quite a large number of them given that it had a sequencer. The box would have been jam-packed, and the linear power supply alone would have made it quite heavy.

Today you could probably build the thing with an arduino.
Aren't these issues common in many other societal studies, for example fake resume hiring studies?
She clearly loved life, and her son shares that. Thank you for sharing.
100mish people are born on two dollars or less a day and it's not slowing down , that's what.
It should be a rubber stamp. (There should be no religious exemption in the first place). I grew up thinking America’s ideal was to be a country with separation of church and state.

I do not see why a religion I make up 10 minutes ago should be any less of a religion than one made 100 years ago.
Yes, but a bit backwards.

We recognize that are are part of something greater than themselves.

And part of that might be helping to cope with death.
Oh, but you could read this?
We always respond, and we get a plethora of them. Far beyond this particular study.

There's a whole other blog post waiting to be written about the intersection between GDPR/CCPA threats and spam.
Accurate. Edited. Thank you.
Why do others need to adopt it?

It's a useful tool regardless of how widely it's used. Would it become better if others used it as well?
I’m digging the idea of the remote conference pattern in TFA: 10 min talk, followed by audio/video free form chat, to simulate the dynamism of a meatspace conference.
Not sure that the issue is settled, but there is good science that suggests natural immunity is longer lasting than vaccines.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/study-covid-recovery-gave-isra...
Bah - SF DA's will not prosecute anything so it wouldn't matter if the buildings had doormen or not.

I'm not sure why it's so hard to for people to understand when you don't prosecute all crime, crime starts to bubble up and grow rampant but here you go. None of this is a surprise to anyone paying the least bit of attention to what has been going on in CA for a long time now. We are seeing in real time the effects of this grand experiment - how many people's lives and livelihoods have to be destroyed before CA residents start demanding real accountability?

I'm not holding my breath. Just stay in CA. Do not leave and then start to shit up other states with your batshit crazy politics too.
So much mentions of Kafka or RMQ. What are peoples thoughts on Active MQ?
How are "we" going to go get the data? Tesla isn't exactly open about these things. (no, marketing numbers aren't enough)
Some code reviewers are just not qualified to review, just as some interviewers aren't.

Code reviewers are often not trained in what they should be looking for. Sometimes they are badly trained.

Ultimately this is a management problem. Record the time wasting back and forth and ask your management what they prefer. A skilled manager will separate your project from the reviewer and coach the reviewer in how to be an effective reviewer.

If management can't handle it, you could do what I did, let projects slide and interview around. Let them hold the bag.
That’s hilarious, what did the senior engineer say?
Web 3: Tech vs. the Human Condition
Because identity and values/"what matters" are intertwined.
They should get rid of legacy admissions before doing this.
The sound of freedom comes to Vermont. /s?
The comment is based on their own religious beliefs.
Let me help:

We’re some students from Princeton trying to understand how businesses are responding to CCPA and GRPR requests. Could you help us with our study? How would you answer these questions?

…

The point is disclosure. It’s unethical to do otherwise, especially given that is about the use of data. I’d love for there to be more data published about the impacts of these policies, but please don’t use the tactics of creeps in the process.
My current issue with tqdm is nested progress bars in multi-threading/processing causing dead locks + tqdm.write just being broken in those contexts, either deadlocking or the ui just being wrong. Does pqdm do a better job?
seems that type 2 might also have an autoimmune connection (paper linked in article)

https://www.healthline.com/health/type-2-diabetes/is-type-2-...
Anecdotally, as a novice, I was left really confused by Veritasium’s video, whereas after watching this video I feel (hopefully accurately) like I basically understand the situation. If people are missing the point of Veritasium’s video, maybe that’s because it didn’t make its point very clearly…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton%27s_fork
I had a Lead like this. It go to the point where I would spend a significant portion of my working time in existential dread about submitting a PR because I knew they would just rip it to pieces. The worst part was small styling issues that would have been picked up by any linter - but the lead refused any requests for the team to use linting because “we have never used it and everything works fine”

I lasted 4 months before resigning but I took longer to get my confidence back.
> When you do something to people to see how they act, it's a human experiment.

That's not the official definition an IRB would use. The official definition is a lot less broad than a lot of people on this thread seem to think. It requires that are collecting biospecimens, identifiable private information, or certain kinds of information about a specific person. [0]

[0]: https://grants.nih.gov/policy/humansubjects/research.htm
There are different levels of suggestions, and if your team don't have them you could work on introducing them.

On my current job, one of guidelines says that if something is not important/very personal preference, you can prefix the comment with words "nit:" that means "nitpicking", and author can either change if it sees fit, or just acknowledge comment and go on.

Other thing is not to be shy to tell that suggested change is outside of the scope of this changeset, and will/may/might be addressed later.

Sometimes, if there is a lot of back and forth, it is easier to set pair programming session and address everything in one session.

Last option is raise that with management, if you can justify your opinion that such loop doesn't bring the value for the time spent on it, especially if you know that there are other engineers in the team who feel the same.
For sure! To them, Asians are boring robots. Gotta keep civilization interesting!
Pirates eat salmon, and pirates prevent global warming, so yes: this just might work!
> Blanket statements like this continue to promote distrust.

Hypothetically, if the vaccine was safe and effective, what messaging would you use that would be different from "everyone should get vaccinated"?
This is in fact a commonly told story about how diabetes comes about. It matches with some of the science. But it's also clearly incomplete, as there are numerous cultures around the world that live on lots and lots of carbohydrates without developing diabetes, such as much of Asia eating mostly white rice, and hunter gatherer tribes that live off honey, and others.
Are you saying this is a totally new network? As in not Visa or Mastercard etc? If so what sort of acceptance at merchants do you anticipate and how do you solve for that?
I think folks tend to focus too much on the visual hallucinations caused by psychedelic drugs. I can only speak about LSD, so I might be wrong about DMT, but there's far more to these experiences than just "visuals". There's nothing wrong with talking about the visuals and the exploration in the blog post is interesting. I just want to point out for anyone looking to experience this stuff, bear in mind that you're going to get A LOT more than you bargained for if you think it's only going to be visual hallucinations.

There are also auditory and cognitive hallucinations. The perception of time gets incredibly distorted. Emotions and feelings especially about other people get a profoundly different and intense perspective. The experience can be very very unpleasant for some. For me it was an overall positive experience despite some rough spots. I was glad to have trustworthy folks around me when I was tripping.
People who have spent thousands of dollars to do X are biased towards thinking X is a good idea.
The last controversial era where they allowed free reign of misinformation, they were criticized for being a spreader of misinformation. Turns out if you have a platform where billions or hundreds of millions interact, you'll be damned either way.

I'm unclear what the solution is but I'm quite sure no one will be please with either direction.
> A plus-sized Jewish lady redneck died in El Paso on Saturday.

> Of itself hardly news, or good news if you're the type that subscribes to the notion that anybody not named you dying in El Paso, Texas is good news. In which case have I got news for you: the bawdy, fertile, redheaded matriarch of a sprawling Jewish-Mexican-Redneck American family has kicked it. This was not good news to Renay Mandel Corren's many surviving children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, many of whom she even knew and, in her own way, loved. There will be much mourning in the many glamorous locales she went bankrupt in: McKeesport, PA, Renay's birthplace and where she first fell in love with ham, and atheism; Fayetteville and Kill Devil Hills, NC, where Renay's dreams, credit rating and marriage are all buried; and of course Miami, FL, where Renay's parents, uncles, aunts, and eternal hopes of all Miami Dolphins fans everywhere, are all buried pretty deep. Renay was preceded in death by Don Shula.
Thank you for making this point. I didn't articulate it, but this is part of why I felt I had to say something.
Raymond Mill for Charcoal Power Grinding
The Raymond mill is very common and efficient in the shisha or hookah charcoal and bbq charcoal production line, which can crush and grind the charcoal blocks into fine powder, and then the charcoal powder can be mixed with the binder for making good charcoal briquettes.
Unbreakable phone screens could be made with a new material
The middle finger statue was removed in 2004 when the pornographer who owned it went bankrupt. Pretty funny though.

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-al-goldstein-b...
Potential and actual usage aren't related. They might be having a lot of records and read/writes but maybe the actual pub/sub isn't that intensive. They seem to be using the same DB for everything
I very much like backlit keys. My Max Keyboard Blackbird is red, which is just right at its dimmest, although when the side panels reset I always turn them back off.

On the Kinesis Freestyle Edge, I actually like the per-key RGB lighting as well. Most of the alphanumeric and punctuation keys are red, the home keys are green, and the rest are blue. I also turn off the backlight for keys that I don't use, like PRTSC. It looks gaudy as hell, but I feel like it makes it easier to find certain keys in the Freestyle's slightly unusual layout, and to come back to home position.

The other thing I like to do with RGB lighting is to make different layouts different colors--QWERTY is all blue to distinguish it from my multi-color Dvorak.
What ideas did Steve Jobs illegally copy?
You don't need to part of major religion to gain exemption. Some people simply stated that their body is their temple. I don't think you even need religious thinking at all. If you held strong sincere moral and ethical position, like the need to preserve your right to bodily autonomy.
Joe Rogan has entered the chat.
Is there really an epidemic of EE's who know how to use a field solver, but don't know to consider coupling between signal lines? My intuition is the opposite of yours: most EEs actually know the ideas from the Veritasium video. Therefore, the way EE is taught is not a lie, since it includes that knowledge.

(For completeness, the alternate take is that Veritasium was claiming "the way _elementary_ EE is taught is a lie" -- but that still leaves Veritasium having left out critical context for such an audience)

> I found the responses from other EEs on youtube like Electroboom and EEVBlog disappointing. [...] Rather than responding towards him with hostility, perhaps they should have considered if their own mental models weren't quite as accurate as they had thought.

Personally, I didn't get hostility from any of their videos. They were just injecting some engineering sensibility to bridge the gap between most people's EE knowledge and Derek saying "everything you've been taught is a lie."

Also, to my recollection they both absolutely attested that yes Maxwell's equations are the correct description which supports Derek's results (modulo Electroboom's callout about the bulb actually always being on)
I just wish they'd make non-gaming styled keycaps, with a font like the ones on my MacBook.
"Throughout history and regardless of color, culture and creed, the ruling classes have applied more or less the same techniques to control the people. Besides the application of brute force or the mere threat of it, we are manipulated by a plethora of psychological methods that have been refined throughout the ages. Sophisticated technological tools and toys work wonders in manipulating our thoughts, beliefs, and behavior."

⇐ Arne Klingenberg
Well it kind of is too late when the historical videos are pulled down and you do not have another source besides Youtube. I am sure that academic and even possibly open source intelligence researchers are similarly frustrated assuming they did not all download the videos many of which had been on the platform for many years.
You're kind of oversimplifying a lot of things and making strong (potentially unfounded) assumptions. "chronic ingestion of excess carbohydrates" can't be the cause because plenty of people do that and do not get diabetes, therefore it is just a contributing factor. We do not know exactly what goes wrong and where to lead to this condition.

For a more comprehensive source, try reading:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7503727/
Matrix Multiplication Inches Closer To Mythic Goal
The dirty little secret is that warplanes have tiny wings so they can go fast. The problem is that at any given speed compared to ordinary aircraft, more engine power is needed to maintain velocity. That means much more noise. The solution? There is none. Except to keep them at remote bases.
IEEE-CIS Technical Challenge for predict+optimize renewable energy
The actual link is https://securityplanner.consumerreports.org - www was added in there.
For a similar program as this one, UCLA, USC, and UCSD would be my top choices. Given the heavy CRISPR focus, Caltech would also make sense here. But it really depends on goals. All of the outside funding sources (HHMI, Chan/Zuckerberg, Parker) all have their own focuses. I’m not sure funding well established labs or new PIs that have a high likelihood of succeeding with NIH funding is what I’d focus on.
johnchristopher says:>"So we don't need vaccines because cures - which we don't have so far - are better."<

I didn't say that.

What I'm saying is that we should research treatments (non-vaccine cures) as well as vaccines.

After all, of our current medical solutions that do work for various ailments, what percentage are vaccines and what percentage are treatments found by experiment or accident (like quinine for malaria)?
And you're flat wrong about that. The typical response as pointed out by the Biden Administration has been "I wasn't aware of that but now that I am I will not use those products as well."
The science doesn't indicate that:

1. Vaccine response is longer lasting than natural immunity

2. That omicron is as deadly as predecessors

3. That current vaccines make you less likely to contract omicron

know the facts and make informed decisions
> had the brazen nerve to post this lie

That's excessive, crosses into personal attack, and breaks the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Please make your substantive points without stooping to that.

This is not a site for stirring up internet mobs. We're trying to avoid the online callout/shaming culture here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...
It seems to me two things are happening. [1] The brain is really good at filling in gaps in its perception of the world and [2] there seems to be some kind of strange loopy recursion in the way the brain analyzes and observes things including itself.

I think on DMT and similar, you are actually seeing less of the world, and the recursive/fractal aspect is coming from the brain filling in gaps with observations including its own analyzing patterns.

The world at our scale has a lot of data and is really complex. These "hypbolic geometries" seem like simplifications. One strand of a flower that happens to follow something roughly like the golden ration becomes a fibonacci spiral repeated at every degree; the sense of self gets muddled with the modeling of this pattern, allowing the pattern to permeate the entire observation, and now you too are the spiral. You notice the observation and how muddled it is with the pattern and the self, creating a loop which also gets modeled, and down the recursive rabbit hole you go.
It's outdated in many ways. You might try instead "Modern C" by Jen Gustedt, which is free online [0]. (This recommendation assumes previous programming experience.)

[0] https://gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr/modern-c/
Portugal?!? Never heard of Brazil?
There is a "data minig" exception from copyright law, saying that you can use any available code to feed your AI and don't have respect the license. And the output of your AI is yours. So TikTok could claim they either use Copilot, which was fed OBS source, or that they created their own private AI similar to Copilot. Microsoft showed the way.

It hasn't been tested at court AFAIK, but if a company can use this defense to protect their profits, for sure they will try.
>It's just sad that a historically prestigious institution is essentially committing suicide by no longer even pretending to uphold the ideal of meritocracy.

That's pretty melodramatic.

But, maybe don't assume that, because they expand or modify their admission criteria or attempt to achieve some balance that is reflective of broader society, they're letting in waves of completely unworthy people. I mean, that's a pretty absurd notion, right?

Their admission rate is a lowly 4.6%. They're getting the cream of the crop. Admission to top schools (or any schools) has never been the imaginary 100% objective panacea that you're swooning over, wherein someone edges out the next candidate by a point on their SAT score. And, I would argue that we wouldn't want such a system that so overlooks the near limitless variables embodied by humans. Neither does Harvard.

>I still believe western democracy, as embodied by America is a positive force on the world...we'll lose that as we abandon our ideals of objectivity, meritocracy and actual fairness...

More melodrama. But, these "loftier" concerns are convoluted and contradictory. That is, if you really believe in western democracy and are concerned about it continuing to be a "positive force in the world", then you shouldn't want a monolithic group of people shaping that world. You should see the value of democratic participation by all groups.
The subject being discussed is literally the regulatory authority of the California Department of Motor Vehicles. You don't think they track accidents statistic?

I mean, if someone was coming along from the DMV and saying "here's a report showing a 95% confidence of a higher than average accident rate among FSD beta vehicles" then I'd be first in line to admit that, yes, we should probably halt deployment while we figure out what's going wrong.

But that's not what's happening here at all. The people with the data are silent, which tells me something that confirms my priors as a FSD beta tester: this system as deployed is safe. It is.
Here is a list of other companies to use

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_serv...
> When CA goes from the most prosperous state to loosing enough pop to get demoted a representative in the House

It didn't lose any population. Because of the fixed size of the House, you can lose a rep while gaining population (in California’s case, gaining more than 2.2 million between the 2010 and 2020 census.) Also, apportionment isn't tied at all to prosperitt; California didn't get any less relatively prosperous to lose a seat, so your “going from...” doesn't make any sense, even ignoring the factual error about losing population.
I believe a variant of: "It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

... applies to code reviewers.

I like Google's review standard:

"In general, reviewers should favor approving a [PR] once it is in a state where it definitely improves the overall code health of the system being worked on, even if the [PR] isn’t perfect."

https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/reviewer/stand...
Being automatically deleted from Facebook would be a dream come true, if it were really all deleted. Normally it is practically impossible to get that.
this might be the definition of human experiment in everyday speech but it is not for the purposes of an IRB -- they would have to be collecting PII from the subjects
Tell your employer this isn't Reddit.
Dumb question: what should Amazon have realistically done instead? It feels like there is no incentive for corporations and companies to do the right thing and while Amazon taking a stand would be great it isn't likely.