skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These models all seem to have the flaw that faces don't come out symmetrically. Especially eyes look like they are in the wrong location.
The OP is upset about the following opinion column published on Scientific American, titled "The Complicated Legacy of E. O. Wilson -- We must reckon with his and other scientists’ racist ideas if we want an equitable future:"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-complicated-l...

That opinion column is essentially evidence-free. It's main point is that it is dangerous and therefore "wrong" to think, as E. O. Wilson did, that differences among human beings can be explained in part by genetic inheritance and other biological mechanisms, regardless of evidence.

Keep in mind: Most biologists think, as E. O. Wilson clearly did, that differences among human beings can also be explained in part by family dynamics, societal contexts, economic incentives, institutional structures, and other cultural mechanisms.

I wouldn't have expected to see this on Scientific American.
except for tax reasons. then you have to keep track of every penny for a thousand years.
I prefer the case where no one does it.

Private corporations at least do it for money. Governments do it for power. I think it’s a hard case to make that that’s a better reason than to do it for money.
Who Should Get First Dibs on Pfizer’s Covid Pill?
Supply chains are more relevant now than labor of assembly costs. It is cheaper to produce many of the components in China for a lot of other reasons (much of them not pretty, like reduced enforcement of environmental standards).
This is automakers responding to buyer demands and a lax enforcement of government regulations. Nearly every state has bumper height restrictions, yet it is commonplace to see "brodozers" on the road built for decapitating motorcyclists and gassing EV drivers, not for off-roading. Most truck makers are now selling ready-made "brodozers" because trucks and CUV/SUVs are outselling cars.

Not only are these vehicles massively more dangerous to pedestrians and people on two-wheel vehicles, but they're also more stressful and dangerous for anyone driving a normal car on the road, because you can't see through them, they block ahead. When multiple normal cars are in a line on a highway, you can usually see beyond the cars in front partially by seeing through their rear window and windshield, but when all you can see is a solid aluminum tailgate, the pumpkin for the rear differential, and a hanging pair of truck nuts, it means you cannot plan ahead and react as quickly as possible to changing road conditions ahead.

Nothing is quite as disturbing to me as a conscientious driver as being behind a "brodozer" where I can't see anything ahead of me or having one with an unnecessary cattle/bull bar right behind me, essentially threatening me with certain death as their unnecessary monument to their small penis would roll right over the top of my normal car crushing me if we were to be in an "accident". These vehicles violate existing regulations in nearly every state in the US, yet seem to be epidemic on American highways and not disappearing any time soon.
I find the introduction video [0] better shows what it does/can do. So... I guess inserters [1] are a thing, wonder how long until we get the tech for fast and stack inserters. Glad we skipped the burners, good strategy as it is such a mess to reconfigure.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYUuWWnfRsk

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLb8TJ6-Z2M
From another front page article about that yacht crash, I went to Wikipedia about MLM schemes, and then went down a Wiki-hole of reading about various religions. I was kind of curious if reading objectively about them would give me a paradigm of seeing where they actually differed on their philosophical points. Instead, I came away with a headache thinking it was a lot of disagreement over arbitrary implications of some arbitrary initial assumptions, ultimately driven by people looking to preserve their own status but cloaking it in the trappings of something greater. Thousands of years of wars, narrated by sophomoric intellectual strife over nonsense.

I feel like this is a modern version of that. Somehow these people have gotten themselves elevated within our societal zeitgeist - misapplying ideas, preaching nonsense, and invoking social sanctions to punish anyone who points out the hollowness of their bullshit. They do more harm than good on the topics they purport to care about, yet their ignorance imbues them with the strength to speak the loudest and most confidently. And they find symbiotic collaborators from the other tribe who mirror them perfectly, creating a false dichotomy of pointless argument.

I do hope it's a passing societal phase and we'll gain more immunity from such behavior, rather than the mysticism pendulum swinging back hard under the trappings of secularism.
Just assume they’re lowballing and move on.
I wasn’t aware that the workers were prevented from quitting.
This article is a bit backwards - the number of pedestrians walking in front of vehicles is much higher than vehicles being at fault for hitting pedestrians.
We need to reintroduce the concept of pedestrians and cyclists being mindful of where they are... Or put barriers in place to keep pedestrians where they should be (out of the street).
> All USB-C cables do PD. They all do 20V 3A. ALL OF THEM. This is wrong. What FUD.

No you are the one who is wrong. Nothwithstanding optical TB3 cables which can't even carry power, there are a large number of USB-C cables that only do 5V 3A on Amazon such as this one:

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-USB-C-Cable-USB-IF-Certi...

> There's no mode other than 40Gbps that is official, from what research I've done. But I do see some cables that list as 20Gbps. To me, this seems like a spec violation, but I could be wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)#Thunde...

Intel shipped at least 2 controllers that uses PCIe 3.0 x2, which only allows 20 Gbps.

Here is a CERTIFIED TB3 cable only capable of 20 Gbps:

https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Cable-Matters-Thunderbolt-U...

> In practice, nearly all TB3 cables are 40Gbps capable. They will almost completely certainly run USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 more than fine and will run DisplayPort Alt Mode more than fine. They'll do great.

No they won't. Some don't even support USB 3.0 (5 Gbps), especially if they are longer than 0.5m.

https://tidbits.com/2017/08/23/how-some-thunderbolt-3-cables...

"Instead of carrying up to 5 Gbps of USB 3.1 Gen 1 data, these active Thunderbolt cables throttle down to USB 2.0 speeds, offering about one-tenth as much throughput."
https://encryptobiography.com/2021/12/15/ethereum-transactio...

According to this article a single Ethereum transaction takes 30 kwh of electricity. It’s disingenuous to say that is nothing compared to playing video games or other ordinary activities, which consume far less as they aren’t dictated by game theoretical escalatory mechanics. We make a big fuss about changing 60w light bulbs to 5w led equivalents when the amount of energy that saves in a month is spent on the minting of another artless NFT. And sure, maybe that power is coming from renewable sources, but that doesn’t make it free, rather as an opportunity cost that may have been spent on something almost certainly more productive.
I don't like hair trimmers. I have no use for them and they only occupy space and eventually I return them when I get them as gifts. And yet, every 2 or 3 years I get one as a gift.

His blog is a hair trimmer, now I have to kill the memory it occupied in my brain (return the gift).
Are Messenger/WhatsApp messages also telecommunications data?
Capitalism can be a very efficient system, but it also has flaws. We have seen a trend towards larger, more sophisticated and more expensive cars. It simply wouldn't be as profitable for manufacturers to make small, reliable and efficient cars. There's less profit in that.
Seems slightly ironic for the company that invented the unibody to re-invent a separate chassis and body.
Public disclosing it seems to clearly fall under the ‘ Act for the common good through the prompt’ since SEGA’s user are the real victims in this situation and have the right to known that SEGA us incapable of keeping their data safe.
> If you don't give any guarantees beside "it's a hobby project", you can't expect anyone else to use your software beyond hobby projects either.

Can't speak for log4j, but I don't expect anyone to use my SW beyond hobby projects. If they do, I expect them to be responsible for how they use it.
to be fair, in case the dependencies are pegged to specific known-good versions and are bundled into one or a few files then two concerns with dependencies go away, namely, insanely deep and wide file system trees and the lingering danger of any one of hundreds of software titles getting malware-ized. One could even add that it's probably a good idea to prefer tried-and-tested existing software over writing everything from scratch.
I think of platonic ideal FOSS as liberal art in the ancient definition: you do it because you can afford it.

Having said that, this does not imply FOSS developers shouldn't have the "product mindset". Quite the opposite, in fact.
Oh come on now, we all know the Covid vaccines pushed in the west are nothing like what came before.

It's a completely new approach, which is why we know very little about long term consequences yet.

I'd say it feels straight insane to run this experiment on children when there's little to no risk of them getting sick from the actual virus.
Cytoscapejs works pretty well for me as a react component, I use it to draw elk graphs, which is apparently a step up from sugiyama (graphviz).

There's also dagre-d3 which uses sugiyama. I have a different react project that uses that. I think I like cytoscapejs better, although the animated transitions from graph state to graph state are a bit clunkier.

I'm not aware of anything better for open source web that allows you to edit/animate, but I haven't tried gephi/graphology/sigma.js.
Malcolm Gladwell says it's often an accident of birth, circumstances and a system that provide fertile ground for achievement, a cultural belief system that encourages intellectual achievement or at least does not discourage it and most of all -- hard work

Malcolm Gladwell at Microsoft Research: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don't

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcMKLwVlpJk
Well, you know that the military has a lot of secret stuff you know nothing about right? Let’s use Area 51 as an example.
Leaks like Snowden or Manning are a drop in the bucket compared to the total amount of secrets that were not leaked.

As far as examples of successfully kept secrets, I can’t give those, because I’m in on it.

All a conspiracy is, is a group of people keeping a secret.

As far as conspiracies not being successful long term, history tells us no such thing. Conspiracies with tons of people are successfully kept every single day, only to be discovered decades later when something is declassified for example.

You can never prove if a conspiracy to keep a secret is not successful if you never knew it existed.

Am I making any sense?
Apple is the most valuable public company in the world. They have plenty of leverage to force their suppliers to treat workers better. Apple just chooses not to use it to the degree they could. It is laughable to compare the market power of an enormous multinational that frequently buys out factories' entire production capacity, to some random middleman who sells branded cups and pencils.
I'm referring to the situation in the UK.

The sole rationale for restrictions and vaccinations has been to stop our healthcare system from being overwhelmed.

That's the way it was presented by the government to the public. It wasn't the rationale, for example, to wait for a vaccine to reduce the chances of some individuals from getting longer term symptoms of the disease, given there are any proven.

If our healthcare system was somehow able to handle every case, there would have been no rationale for restrictions.
I mean, they are, and I agree, one is a sucker if they buy them. But I could say that same about any luxury goods. 'Patek Philippe Watches are terrible and anyone that buys one should be ashamed of themselves'.

Now, wanting a world where nobody can buy 'Patek Philippe' watches is not a world I want to live in. If you feel that your life is more complete with a $25k watch, that is your business. This doesnt stop me from wanting to make fun of someone wasting a year of after-tax earnings of the average person for some jewelry that tells the time no better than my phone.
Off topic, but this is the author of my favourite Lua C++ binding library (https://github.com/ThePhD/sol2). Great guy!
One reason people don't like doing this is that by assuming this role you lose all the privileges in your own account. It's not something you can't overcome (e.g. by using separate credential chains in different parts of the app), but people are lazy.
Dalle vecchie chat come IRC e ICQ ai nuovi social network.
The dystopian future leaders applaud you attitude.
I would expect that to accumulate over years, because less proficiency in early age would mean less exposure to texts of increased difficulty. And if reading is not fun, cool and neither is it easy -- why even do that. Add absence of reading parents and general socioeconomical situation and it makes a disaster.
Are Apple AirTags Being Used to Track People and Steal Cars?
I work with the systems on a warehouse where robot arms similar to these are doing stacking of boxes. It's not really that efficient. Using robot arms is the natural improvement when automating a previously manual step, but rethinking the whole process instead yields a much bigger boost.

At least that's what we hope with our new process soon up and running.. If anything, the new automation process is much simpler at least, there are sooo much that can go wrong with big robot arms. They look cool, though, great for recruiting.
are you saying HN is NOT populated by regular programmers screwing around who want to sound cool?
All those "opinions" are editorial. Try to post an "opinion piece" there with the opposite viewpoint and see if the editor allows it to happen.
When I wrote that comment, the idea had even more flaws than currently, at that time I suggested using "WITH" and a new "->" operator. Thanks to new ideas coming from other users in the PostgreSQL and Hacker News community, those problems have been solved, and we now have less remaining problems with the proposal. I'm really grateful for all the help.

Like I said in another reply, I will put together a "Drawbacks / Remaining issues" section and update the Gist, based on all replies. Perhaps the end result will be Status Quo, but at least then we have documented the reasons why this idea is a dead end. However, thanks to all the improvements just during the last couple of days, I feel really optimistic and motivated, so I think there is a great chance we can solve the remaining issues together if we try.

To comment on the response from the direct/hash person:

The point made by the user, "not currently any SQL statements that depend on structural information as defined in the foreign key relationships", is true, but I don't see why that's an argument by itself against the idea?

I find the other argument, claiming there would be a problem with tooling and processes, much more interesting and I'm eager to fully understand it. I asked a question in hope to do so, "what do you suggest would be the problem from the tools perspective", but has so far not received any reply.
Basically yes, but his statement is mixing up things a bit. The Discrete Fourier Transform transforms a complex vector of length N to another complex vector of length N. In the latter, each of the N elements corresponds to a frequency "bin" and, like complex numbers in general, can be represented either by a real and an imaginary part (like Cartesian coordinates), or by a phase (==atan(Im/Re)) and a magnitude (==sqrt(Re^2+Im^2)) (like polar coordinates). Obviously, whichever you choose, you need both components for unambiguous representation.
Basic SQL has lots of tutorials. Graduate from them to Markus Winand's use-the-index-luke.com and modern-sql.com
Technically, there are many. The two primary being radar and watch-standers. Both rely on the crew paying attention.
The curious history of the clothespeg (2016)
That's a fever, but not a particularly high one, right? 40C/104F is what I'd consider high and that seems to be the norm around here, though I've met parents who wait even beyond that before giving medication. Hope your kid is back on their feet soon!
There’s different cohorts of trumpists. Remember that he’s a demagogue/personality cult figure, with an orbit of parasites adjacent to him.

Rural people are lowercase conservative in general, but his real power base are blue collar low information nihilists. They see his vulgarity as “straight talk”. But the man isn’t conservative.

Somebody will figure out how to divide and conquer those groups.
Sure. But CVEs don't enumerate RCEs/vulnerabilities that reveal user passwords - they care about a superset of all of that. And when you look at the common vulnerabilities in phpBB3, "phpBB3 hasn't had a single severe vulnerability" seems like very selective language.

I am merely giving my unprofessional opinion that phpBB(1+) has only caused harm. A significant portion of leaks seem to be attributed to it. They really could have done better, and their reputation is forever dead.

To make clear: I am sure that the current version of phpBB works just fine and isn't as disease ridden as we all know it to be. However, the fact that all of these issues have existed for so long means that perhaps we need to take a look at the software as a product and determine that its performance has not been good enough, and to expect similar performance in the future.
Do you think Scientific American would air the contentious opinion that race exists in a pratical/statistical manner, like physicians needing to be aware of sickle cell anemia being more prevalent in African-Americans? I'm going to guess that such a contentious opinion would go unaired there.

It's important to air contentious opinions ... so long as you air enough of them so that everyone gets a turn at being offended.
> You're advocating a particular ethical framework

Treating human beings decently is the ethical point here

Why should others adopt it? For me it is enough to treat others decently, and by that I can only use my own standards (and I do not have a flush toilet in my house, but there is running water to wash with).

But perhaps some people need another reason. Perhaps they should ask their priest?

Perhaps they should consider how they wish to be treated themselves, and what goes around comes around.

But for me: Just be decent. Remember the Golden Rule: Do not be a dick
It's one of the problems with urban designs, large swathes of the public spaces are now "off-limits" to pedestrians.

Either way, there's nothing wrong with trying to make cars safer for pedestrians too.
How many of those enacting mandates for a particular product of certain publicly traded corporations also happen be shareholders of those corporations? I wouldn't know, because that information needs not be disclosed.
I'm not sure I understand you correctly. You do not want to take a vaccine that provides a tenfold reduction of the risk of dying from the Omicron variant?

Or are you arguing that vaccinations with the existing vaccines should continue until better vaccines are available, in combination with other measures such as lockdowns, mask wearing, mandatory testing and quarantine, etc.

If it's the latter, that's what most countries are doing right now. If it's the former, then I don't understand your position.
Eh, I don't think it's the same. People don't run games on warehouses of GPUs 24x7. They boot up games for a couple of hours and then turn them off.

A big reason why these comparisons fall flat is because the only way people can make gaming and crypto energy use look the same is by comparing a niche activity to a mainstream one. Gaming overall takes up a lot of energy because a lot of people do it. When we ignore that fact and only compare the global numbers then NFTs look a bit better than they should, they look like they're maybe competitive by some metrics. But that's because they're an incredibly niche product with double-digit transaction fees that people don't really spend much time interacting with.

When we break things apart into a per-person comparison, there's basically no way I've been able to find to make proof-of-work energy usage look good. Just think about it from a purely physical perspective, every transaction on the blockchain uses GPU time spread across multiple actors. Of course that uses more power than a single person's GPU running for their own personal gaming system. Distributed systems pretty much always use more power because they duplicate work.

We know this, it's the entire foundation of proof-of-work systems, they're impossible for a single actor to keep up with and that's why they have security guarantees. But the other side of that is that a distributed network of multiple GPUs that needs to be run for every chunk of transactions on the chain is of course going to be more expensive per-transaction then the equivalent "play-session" of an individual playing a game.

Maybe if everyone did their gaming on Google Stadia the comparison would be more accurate (although even there I bet Google's less-decentralized system would still probably be more efficient than a network of GPUs duplicating the same work). But that's not the case right now, most GPU work for graphics for games are happening locally, and those GPUs get powered down afterwards. There's no way someone playing a Switch for an hour is using the same amount of energy as an NFT transaction.
I would say: if its Tier 1 cities like Mumbai do not have a reliable supply of electricity and running water (infrastructure necessary for industry), then it is not industrialized.
Wins and lessons from running my first CBC
Prior to reading your comment, I had not been aware of such feeling.

I aspire to be in a leadership position in the future. However, right now let me tell you why and how I would like to be led or directed by somebody:

- You give me space to voice my opinions as if I am a specialist in the subject;
- You give me space to make mistake and learn from them;
- You are willing to admit that you don't know a certain topic;
- You carry about your own self-development;
- You are willing to support me on areas where I lack knowledge or experience without judging;
- You often show that you care about the people in the team, and whether we are doing what matters;
- You deal with me as the adult that I am, and you are open to have difficult conversations with empathy about topics such as: under-performance, misfit, interpersonal conflicts, or even about letting me go (firing);

"who are you to tell us what to do"

Well, you are the human capable of trusting each member of your team of doing the best they can, and capable of sitting with them when things are not working.
Use go-to-definition in your editor.
When I was doing some research into building an app that encrypted data similar to these cloud password managers, I encountered OPAQUE[1] which seems to be the ideal way to perform authentication and securing a master encryption key. It is an asymmetric PAKE that also has a step for providing a salt. This removes the need to do what LastPass does with treating the first hash as a password. There is a great article from Cloudflare on how it works[2], and a working implementation of the spec in rust[3].

[1]: https://github.com/cfrg/draft-irtf-cfrg-opaque

[2]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/opaque-oblivious-passwords/

[3]: https://github.com/novifinancial/opaque-ke