skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In-game digital items, tickets, reservations, certificates, coupons, keys, and many more use cases that haven't even been thought of yet because the technology has been around for barely ~4 years and is just now starting to see people to actually notice the potential in it, and the infrastructure to support it is finally maturing enough to realize that potential.

Remember that you only see overpriced JPEGs and the outrage about it because that's where the money (and hype, and marketing) is, but that doesn´t mean that people aren't using them to build other stuff. You need to give time for actually useful dapps to actually pop up, as opposed to just slapping a price on an image and calling it a day.
The best is to comment early on a front page story, not necessarily a top-level, but if you land within a few folds of the top, more eyes more votes.
Its mostly the KPIs. They just follow the A/B test that says people spend more time on the site without asking why the people spend more time on the site, when the answer is that the people are extremely frustrated.
That's my biggest concern with the Steam deck. It's too expensive to not replace the analog sticks and buttons from time to time but I haven't heard Valve commit to long term parts availability.
SP was popular because it was what the Advance should have been to start. I got an Advance at release and the screen was really nice when I could strain my eyes enough to see anything.

My other favorite Nintendo “WTF” is anything to do with the N64 controller, look it up a teardown if you’re bored
Maybe the title should be "An Algorithm for Passing Algorithm Programming Interviews". This wouldn't help you pass our Programming Interview in the slightest.
Well - yeah! Jeez. I never thought about relevance. I quit all my social media years ago. Buy I guess technically that puts our opinions in the top 0.01% of the internet; HN usually surfaces things about six hours ahead of the mob ;)

FWIW, everyone I know who worries about their irrelevance to humanity or the zeitgeist is already someone who's contributed way more imagination and creativity than most other people. I feel irrelevant, too; I got to that feeling by proving to myself how little it means to build even the grandest projects, in the medium we work in (code). Recording music again, painting again, just remind me how irrelevant we all are. That's okay. It's in line with realizing you're not the only person with brains on earth; the dude your girlfriend leaves you for might have some brains too, he's not just a cartoon. There's a glimmer of reassurance there when you realize we're all just human. It means you're not expected to be relevant like Julius Caesar, just, it's enough be a good and humble craftsman who's appreciated and compensated for his work.
Thank you! She really is.
Covid-19 LFTs may have a sensitivity of 80% for transmissible individuals
I'm not sure what you read, but I don't see any methodological critique of other studies' statistics. The link under discussion still insists on the "myth of the default human" and has some pretty inflammatory and dishonest language. GP is exactly right.
OpenBSD Based Challenge Day 2
I would pay $10.00/mo. to make google disappear forever.
>pretty hot if you've ever been the target of actual racism

I've been rejected from graduate programs that I would have been accepted to had I been black, does that count?
> It's very difficult in HN to put comment and gain points

One can have better luck in getting noticed if you are early on the thread.

In a way those members who pickup new threads for discussion are pivotal for a community to thrive.
> In your mind, it’s “fine work” but in their minds, it’s winning a political battle, and they’re just empowered for the next battle.

Why should I spend energy to try to gauge their motivations? And why should I care if I don't like the outcome of that estimation? I feel your criticism is refusing to admit a (low-priority, highly cosmetic) bugfix into an open source project because you don't like the political views of the committer.

To me, it's a pure calculation:

* To me, the words "master" and "main" equally well describe the most-important branch of my git repository.

* To some people, "master" is offensive. I don't understand this at all, but to these people, "main" is better.

* Someone else is offering to do the work.

So letting them is a net change for some people, and neutral for me. So why not?

> Bad politics (exclusionary, racist, destructive, forcefully equalising, speech controlling, bullying, anti-meritocratic - i.e. wokeism) need to be opposed.

Also by ignoring non-negative contributions from such people?

> If the change was proposed & made on technical merit, I wouldn’t oppose it. But it wasn’t - it was based on ideological bullying

That's the pointing: I'm arguing it has non-negative technical merits. So why care?

I'd be all on your side if "main" wasn't actually an equally good word! In fact, I think I'm driving people a little bit nuts by opposing things that have small negative impact all the time. I try not to compromise in that department. But I'm simply arguing that changing "master" to "main" here has no negative impact.
I'm making a different argument. We may not like ads, but all sorts of real things happen in the world in order to make ads, and as a consequence of ads. The ad industry is not on a trajectory to turn every last grain of sand into an ad-making machine.

I also made a prediction: It will be banned eventually. Not because I or anyone else doesn't like it, but because it is a disaster in the making. PoW currencies are already a significant drag factor on, for example, ML research. The drag factor is increasing, and it will be felt in more and more industries.

You can only replace so much real economic activity by literal hot air production before it causes an acute crisis.
>It’s ridiculously obvious when people have seen the question before

>We started doing it this way precisely because we kept running into people who would have 3 nearly perfect interviews and one “hard fail”

So which is it? Obvious they've seen the question before, or only obvious after they fail on an unseen problem...

Your arrogance and hostility is hilarious.
That doesn't (significantly) account for volatility. The dropdown allows either fixed returns (beta = 0.0), some Monte-Carlo approximation (beta = 0.0 with extra steps), and historical cycles (beta = 1.0).

Letting choose a beta on the historical cycles would help with these projections.
What if the test thinks it is creating its own data, but that has failed, and the old data is mistaken for new data?
The main issue is none of these though, it's that Go's DCE is generally quite bad so any package you import will lead to significant increases in binary size.

`fmt` is (or was) a big one in every sense of the word, and why using the `print` and `println` builtin functions was sometimes a workaround (probably still is): a few years back, converting a `fmt.Print` call to `print` would save you a cool megabyte (if that was the only cause for importing fmt obviously).

I've always expected that was a major reason for the Go compiler being so anal about unused import, it's essentially making the user perform DCE.
I reckon that most software services in the world are B2B rather than B2C (guessing from the fact that most users spend most of their time on a handful of services).
Putting a coat of paint on the house the week before it has to be demolished is technically an improvement as well.
Problem is, there is not a lot of incentive for people looking for a job to use LC and similar to understand algorithms and data structures, and with good reason;

Many interviewers do not ask the questions to check for thought process or problem solving ability, they treat it like some TV quiz: Ask question, get answer, compare answer to note in hand, applaud if its the same answer, next question. Why? Because its a lot easier to sit there watching the candidate squirm at the whiteboard, while thinking about what's for lunch, than engaging the candidate and gasp talking to him/her.

This creates incentive for people taking these BS interviews to learn-for-the-test: Get a list of the current top50 questions asked regularly at interviews (there are resources for that) and memorize them.

Why? Two reasons:

1. It is alot easier than understanding the concepts and purpose of different algos and data structures.

2. Trying to solve them by applying actual understanding, runs the risk of getting stuck on an unfamiliar problem, or producing a slightly sub-par solution instead of the "correct" answer, and getting booted out despite demonstrating the exakt thing aka."problem solving ability" the interviewers allegedly look for

And, unsurprising, because there is money involved, an industry has sprung up around this: Pay-For-Tech-Interview-Training is a thing, including regular updates on popular questions.

The result of course: Companies running the risk of hiring people who are great at answering LC questions but fail when they actually have to solve a problem where they cannot copypaste the solution from SO.
FWIW I've been re-using the same test number on all my trips and no one ever stops me. I've saved hundreds of pounds doing this and I just have the NHS send me the same test for free.
I don't think that anyone seriously questions that Omicron is a mutation of the original strain from Wuhan? So yes, if Omicron comes from mice it's a jump from humans to mice and back.
It's human behavior. Unfortunately.

What could we replace capitalism with? Won't underlying human behavior remain the same?
Thank you for pointing this out! I really appreciate people talking and being open about this topic and discussions/threads like these. But with this topic, generalization in general is pretty hard. With mental illnesses there are so much individual conditions, personal history/socialization, charachter etc. playing into it, that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to this.

Coping with depression and similar with others is a very individual task and just like you said, different situations and characters call for dealing with it very specifically.
Ok they are better than currencies that ended up being pieces of papers.

But only slightly.
This is very true, it reminds me of when Chip Wilson said LuLuLemon yoga pants are not meant for fat girls!

https://dietsinreview.com/diet_column/11/no-fat-girls-allowe...
Having different names for main branches in different repositories is "next to zero effort" like git submodules are "next to zero effort"
When they started out with the original Gameboy, I wondered "why are they doing a CT scan when they could just disassemble it?", but with the newer devices it quickly becomes apparent that getting to all the internals has become more challenging recently...
Name one that's apolitical, anonymous, and personally moderated post by post? Some reddit subs might fit the bill, or some car enthusiast forums or something where wide-ranging conversations are banned. But this is a hard, hard thing to mod. I don't think we have anything else like it these days. That's why I'm actually here.
Accuracy aside, I find one of the biggest barriers to easy searching is content padding.

So many queries can be answered in a sentence or two but are spun out into an entire article so that it is more search engine 'friendly'.

Same goes for YouTube videos, pad it out so there's enough time for ads.

I think Google would like something like Pagerank but for authors. Unfortunately Google+ never reached critical mass. Structured data is more prevalent, though, but the accuracy/trustworthiness of it is something that'd have to be taken into consideration.
My wife is delicious. After I met her my mosquito bite incidents decreased markedly but hers rose sharply. My skin is olive but hers is Victorian heroine-level pale.
> Then your test code needs to take into account the current state ... [ etc ]

... and you're on your way to writing an application, not a test!

Tests should be as simple as possible, and a clean slate goes a long way toward that.

A test should be riddled with as few "needs to do" responsibilities as possible while still achieving the intended coverage.
You will never get an answer if you're unwilling to hear the answers.
I'm not sure GP was intending to make that distinction (rates globally for the test vs. the sample population being tested by.. what a given doctor/hospital?) - I haven't come across that before.

If the population is the same then your changed-order definitions are just inverses, and they're just different terms for the same thing.
By now, there should be enough data to automate dang? On a more serious note: Is he really doing this all by himself? If so, I am sure he could train some junior people to off-load the work.
CHAZ's security forces also killed more unarmed black men per capita than US police do by a few orders of magnitude
Users are the last ones to blame.

If anything it’s policy makers, investors and industrialists.

If you want to participate in society, you need a smartphone, and guess what? The whole world is okay with only 2 companies doing this….
The full title was Recalibrating SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Lateral Flow Test Relative Sensitivity from Validation Studies to Absolute Sensitivity for Indicating Individuals Shedding Transmissible Virus which was not descriptive in terms of the main finding, and too long for HN.

The paper's main argument is the PCRs are very sensitive to individuals with Covid-19 RNA shedding in their upper respiratory tract, but that this often doesn't indicate infectiousness. Adjusting for this fact, they show that LFTs may offer a sensitivity of above 80 % for transmissible individuals.
The linked tweets imply that this decline in search results was Google's choice, led by desire for further monetization or exec incompetence, but I think Google is simply facing an impossible task.

Receiving an arbitrary question and finding the most helpful site for that question out of the entire web is already nearly impossible.

Now consider the above problem, except the sites you have to search are highly adversarial. More precisely, the internet is roughly divided into people who post useful content and have little interest in SEO and those who only care about SEO and clicks and not about creating useful content. The latter are more motivated and have more resources. For every useful site, they can take that site and create 100 of their own copies with the same content, more aggressive SEO and their own ads.

How is Google, or anyone else, supposed to navigate this landscape?
> even paying for software which is hostile to them and their interests

Consumers have been sold a dream, and after the tech advances and sweatshoping can't go farther, they would rather eat skimpflation day after day than pay more. This is most evident online, where a good chunk of the population expect everything to be free.
Perhaps not an HN-friendly link, but I love zefrank's "True Facts about the Cuttlefish": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDwOi7HpHtQ
> There are some other mistakes:

((ab . c) . d . nil)

isn't a valid s-expression. Maybe it should be

((ab . c) d . nil)

Can someone explain why ?
Valve do have a lot of experience with hardware at this point, if it was their first device I would be worried. Also they have committed to repairability with the tear down video if I remember correctly.

Then again, experience with hardware design didn't stop Nintendo releasing a critically flawed design for a ~25 year old invention.
I still think VB 6.0 was the most productive IDE for small businesses that didn't have the budget for a software department. We still run VB6 code that is delightful to use (CRM with a almost restaurant style map of customer repairs and their physical location)
Well it's an issue is very politicized and that many people believe they can considerably improve the problem. Automobile safety is pretty non partisan and has been considered an acceptable risk by most.

There are stranger things about the issue though, for example the number of people murdered by handguns vs by rifles does not match the gun control rhetoric.
Pros:

- based on Linux

- runs most Linux/Windows Steam games

Cons:

- based on Linux

- runs most Linux/Windows Steam games

Seriously: I think the Switch will still offer the better "out-of-the-box" experience because all Switch games have been, you know, developed for and tested on the Switch.
My comment is a quote from the journal so...
I really hope this isn’t new to anyone (excluding those who are still learning of course)
No, it's selective evolution towards comment that appease the majority of the commenters, which is different. It's how you end up with reddit-like echo chambers.
There is also ever-increasing ubiquitous digitalization of many aspects of our life. In a lot of countries, you either spend minutes to hours online to do government-required paperwork or days "the old way", and the old way is mostly dwindling, catering mostly to elderly internet-inept citizens. There are services you're only going to get online.

And all those online things are way easier once you're committed to the Clown® Computing, Clown® fatigue notwithstanding.

So you opt to not have those things, and for all intents and purposes you look like a digital hermit with a disturbing tendency for self-flagellation. "Why do you keep doing these things to yourself?"

So, yeah, so far, personal comfort beats the hostility. So far.
Exactly and it's the same eerie silence found when the subject is cryptocurrency. Everyone knows what's going on but those that are not involved stay quiet out of 'respect' for those who are.
I think it's mostly which services you are choosing to use, a choice that may or may not be explicit. You don't have to put up with bullshit on the Internet. It's about drawing a line in terms of what you will allow, and saying no to the services that cross that line.

If someone offers a service that is useful, but does so in a way that is annoying, you can just say "thanks but no thanks" and be on your merry way. Few do, but again, it's a choice.
O M G

Your view here is abusive of one of the genders, and a cause of untold misery.

At the end you have an apology - but again you are shitting on men as you should direct that apology to the male half of the human race whose mental health and wellbeing you're just shitting on.
I went to the rijksmuseum when they were scanning it... sucked a bit but it's great that everyone on earth can see it in such glorious detail ! but that painting is so large in real life, I'd recommend anyone to go there and be amazed
> It's not bipolar because it's not random, there are things that trigger the change.

I am not a mental health professional, and neither are you. Perhaps you can use the opportunity that you have right now, living in Europe, to access free public health services, and seek professional advice.
Front triple is a way to extend the range of gearing without spending much. It's also used to dishonestly claim "21 speeds" since a lot of those are in the overlap; the standard is to be explicit, e.g. 3x7.

In other words it's a sign that the bike is built to a price, and maybe to a list of features and not actually to a quality standard.

Not necessarily bad (I'd trust any 3x Shimano drivetrain assuming it's installed correctly) but it's a sign to watch out.
Heavily off-topic but I think he means that you pay and get the test _before_ actually making the trip on which you might actually get the virus. Which indeed makes no sense other than making Dublin airport richer. OTOH if you spend some time in Dublin I'm afraid you get used to burning money for no good reason as the city has become absurdly expensive in recent years.
The ongoing debate is culture versus biology, with genes being the focus on the biological side. The prenatal environment isn't cultural, although some cultural factors can play a role in the mother's health. Biological factors are always mixed in with the environment, but that doesn't mean the environment in terms of human culture is 100% the determining factor for behavior.
Thank you for the recommendation, will check it out
Glad to see this getting exposure on HN. I gave a PyCon keynote [1] last year about how this was done. I've also put the image online in my own viewer [2], which has a few additional features: it encodes the viewing location in the URL and it allows for multi-pane synchronized views [3]. (Please be nice to my server.) I'm happy to answer questions here or on Twitter (@erdmann).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_hm5oX7ZlE

[2] https://hyper-resolution.org/Nightwatch5

[3] https://hyper-resolution.org/view.html?mode=trumpet&pointer=...
Immigrating alone to a previously unknown country is very hard. I did it with my spouse and we struggled a lot.

I also had to stay in my job for 5+ years to keep my visa, I am just out of it now. I also struggle with on-off work ethic. Mostly depends on how interesting the work is (after 6 years it often is not.)

The best advice I have is to find ways to entertain yourself (in ways that make you grow, OR NOT) aside from the job. Looks like you’re thinking about it A LOT, for understandable reasons.
The internet you have in mind is from corporations for corporations.

Humans are the livestock.

And as the corpos are huge, Conway predicts so will be the webpages. (=> 'Website obesity crisis' https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm)
People trust science, so to take control of a science publication, and twist it's output to advance your agenda seems to be rather effective. Not to sound like Alex Jones, but it makes one wonder what other "trusted news sources" might be compromised.
I find it quite hard to not feel like I've lived or felt many of the symptoms on the second column.

Yet, when I searched for help the diagnosis seemed rushed and I decided not to take lithium. Years later after much therapy a new psi prescribed me an SSRI. It did wonders to my anxiety and subsided the thoughts of taking my life. But the main motivational problems persist.

Now I'm convinced to stop taking them because they make me kinda numb. It's like I miss crying or taking some issues as serious and important.

Then a question arises: just from taking SSRIs these two years and not going nuts, does that prove I'm not bipolar?
I agree with you. I think Google works very well. People expect to go on Google, pay nothing, and get good information. So industries have arisen that do just that. I find it amazing that I can type obscure questions into Google and get content custom crafted to answer my question.

Often the answers are not the best. What can I expect? I paid nothing for them! When I want good information, I pay for it.
What a ridiculous comment. A flame war? Do we still live in the 90s?

It is clear I am being unfairly targeted for my views by you and this community.

You happen to disagree with what I am saying and are not creative or brave enough to come up with a meaningful response. Be honest with yourself.

Ive said nothing abhorrent. I defended my religious and spiritual beliefs against a community which is clearly very pro atheist.

Dont tell other people what to do and stop disrespecting others’ religious beliefs. Let’s start with that.
Nearly all of them allows Paypal/Google/Apple pay among other. This is definitely not what I would call obscure 3rd party. Figuring out wether ticking or not ticking the box usually involve knowing how to read. And as I said many of them allow for guest access without any account creation.
It would be interesting to see a network graph of how commenters are connected and grouped.
I find Quanta Magazine to be a pretty good replacement to SA.
Not necessarily. It could be same ancestral source or the mouse could have been the original vector, not the bats. Vector and mutation tracing is not an exact science, but a probability game - nobody catches all mice everywhere, or has access to all intermediate variants.

Now, the origin in a different country does suggest a human host somewhere but it is not strictly necessary.