skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My take is that the gym changed course, and instead of having half ghost customers who only reluctantly pay, they choose to go for heavy users who will take space, but also book coaching sessions, buy products and are more than willing to put the money on the table.

If it's really what happened I'd see that as a pretty great move.
It's not what happened: it was actually invented and developed in France by Félix d'Hérelle[1] (who taught George Eliava, the Georgian scientist responsible for the Soviet developments of the field) and used to be quite popular here too before it was supplanted by the antibiotics, more convenient and easier to industrialize, during the 70s.

Having lost all that knowledge is really a pity, and it's quite fortunate that the Soviets then the Georgians kept it going.

On a side note, d'Hérelle was a fantastic adventurer and his life is fascinating (the French version of [1] has a nice summary), even moreso than Yersin's (the discoverer of the bacteria responsible for the Plague[2], and founder of the city of Đà Lạt[3] in Vietnam).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_d%27H%C3%A9relle

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yersinia_pestis

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Lat
It's hard to defend this without arguing for allowing the government to lie to people without any defense.

However, even if it delivers to you true information about abuses and lies being told to you, you should still be aware that the system is doing this so that you will be outraged, rather than that you will be informed.
I think it works as a kind of discipline or short-term reward mechanism. Like I can say just for this day, I won't read or browse Hacker News and that helps to structure my day/week. But in terms of total abstinence or total boredom, I don't think it works.

It's not like not reading Reddit or Hacker News, will make a person suddenly more efficient. What abstaining can do is that it provide some more structure just like how Pomodoro provides structure.

Like there is a schedule and so mind can focus better a little bit since instead of checking-out Hacker News; the discipline will be there that I can check-out You-Tube or Hacker News after my work hours are done. So there is less constant interruption as well.

At least in my office, we don't allow browsing of video sites during work hours, and it provides some helpful structure which I imagine is similar to just not browsing HN for a period of time.
Solar phootovoltatic was an alternative tech tree that was discovered as early as 1839, basically during the industrial revolution.

Imagine an alternative timeline where it was a discovered in a nation whose theology involved lot of plants and trees. Powering civilization itself based on solar energy would be a dream from the getgo, so you would have a lot of academic attention and research early on.
They do... It is called "monitor".
It's noisy as hell in most sciences. It takes a loooong time for true consensus to be established, and much longer to challenge an existing consensus. So "provably false", while admirable, is not applicable to any of the topics that the authorities are upset over, like vaccine efficacy/safety, climate change and so on. Much less the appropriate reaction - like vaccine mandates or what energy sources we should invest in. Anyone who claims consensus is either lying or I'll informed.
Trust the [government] scien[tists]ce. As if "science" is a pure endeavor beyond the reach of human corruption. How do I know who is acting in my best interest? Are we paying their salary, or are corporations and government agencies paying them? Who are they beholden to? Are our interests the same?

We all aren't in the same boat. Certain decisions are harmful to certain groups and beneficial to others. Lockdowns, for example, decimated small businesses and crushed the working class. Amazon and many corporations, on the other hand, welcomed the lockdowns as a boon to their businesses.

We are not one nation. We are not one world. These centralized authorities are sanctifying the plundering of certain groups on behalf of others--or so it seems.
If only they had different websites or domains to use for those different login pages.
You can't reach top 1% without being very good at taking advantage of time pressure, though, or am I wrong? The term rapid chess includes many time controls - both with and without increment, so I'm not sure how to understand you.
From your second link:

> It tested students by asking them to take notes from a lecture, using either a laptop or a pen and paper, and then tested their recall on both facts and deeper conceptual questions.

>

> Essentially, the study found that students taking long-form notes on pen and paper tended to process the information on a deeper level.

And that's what we (should) send kids to school for.
Dacias have gotten surprisingly good, yes. The initial models were... dubious, to say the least, but the recent offerings have had an amazing cost/quality ratio. Hell, their EV offerings are some of the best on the market.
We're also living in the world where certain governments are mandating vaccines that pose 50% higher excess risk of myocarditis compared to an infection[1] for those aged under 40, according to a peer-reviewed, UK population-level study.

Or shutdowns of discussion that some health authorities, like Sweden, have (IMO correctly) judged that there is no clear benefit to vaccinating kids under 12 against COVID [2].

The issue I see is less on the fringe 'microchips' but more around the complete shutdown of discussion of complex topics are not binary.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0/figures/2

[2]: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-decides-against-...
Which indeed proves that it can be done.
Why would I want to play music? I enjoy driving more than listening to music. I don't get bored even when I'm driving thru heavy traffic on I-5 or I-405, so, why would I need music not being in a traffic jam and having beautiful scenery?!
Pancakes

- 1 teaspoon of salt.

- 1.5 cups of milk.

- 2 cups of flour.

- 2 eggs.

- 2 tablespoons sugar.

- 4 tablespoons of melted butter.

- 6 teaspoons of baking powder.

Batter may be thick, add more milk if you prefer.

Crepes

- 1.5 cups flour.

- 1 tablespoom sugar.

- 1.5 teaspoon of baking poweder.

- 1.5 teaspoon of salt.

- 2 cups of milk.

- 2 tablespoons of melted butter.

- 1.5 teaspoon of vanilla.

- 2 eggs.
Could be everything from clicking a malicious link, receiving a malicious message or a 0 click we don't know about yet.
Well, I more meant that if they're "short" as opposed to "20 character one-liners" then it sounds as though they should be tested, whether or not they're defined using lambda syntax.
By about two and a half million years ago, early humans started to occasionally eat meat. By about 2 million years ago, this happened more regularly. By probably about a million and a half years ago, humans started to get the better parts of animals. They shifted from just scavenging the leftovers to maybe getting earlier access to carcasses.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natu...
Hard disagree on that one. In 2 years of driving this car the updates have been a clear net positive. Even this update with the botched UI included a new automatic seat heating feature that's a benefit. I definitely have criticisms of their UX, particularly around a few features that are used while driving, but they still have by far the best infotainment in the industry and keep improving it.
> Lots of people are blowhards with odd opinions.

And the ones that are masquerading as having Nobel worthy research chops to get the audience to believe their gripes about the scientific establishment is on topic enough.
I propose that any article like this don't refer to it as "NSO spyware", but instead refer to it as "Israeli spyware".

The reality is that while NSO Group is a private company, it has deep links to the Israeli government and generally doesn't allow it's services to be used against the interests of the Israeli state.

Hiding behind a corporate name to maintain Israel's reputation in international media isn't really okay.
Rapid is better (for the audience). Slow enough to be able to catch more of the game going on, while a lot of decisive results happen.
Document-Term Matrix in NLP
progressive enhancement is kind of a solution looking for a problem

Progressive enhancement is a solution to the problem of giving users the best experience possible without serving unnecessary code, or breaking the site, for users who don't have the capability to run particular features. It's not a perf thing. It's a features thing. And it's a very real problem (see every site that only works in Chrome for details.)
Is it really that high stress?

My dad flew 30 some missions over Germany. The cohort he went over with had an 80% casualty rate. Some missons had a 10% death rate. He could do the math, and assumed he was going to die.

(Obviously, he did not die, since I exist, but he came literally within a couple inches.)

When he arrived back in the US, he was bemused by all the stuff back home people worried about. He thought "what the heck are you worried about, you're going to live another day!"
Now I can even get new music recommendations from hackernews!

Thanks, am loving The Armed. Discovering new bands helps me stay young.
Absolutely. Indicate all the time, even when not needed. It trains you to indicate when it is definitely needed, and prevents me from having to yell at you because you suddenly jerked to the lane I was on without any warnings.
I went back to the office. I immensely enjoy the amount of stuff I don't have to deal with, like lunch, coffee, cleaning and whatever may pop up.
For those who might want to explore SSG themselves here's a great directory: https://jamstack.org/generators/
That is very uninformed feel-good-projecting-ones-bias-into-reinterpreting-solid-evidence-of-history. First, any anthropology book will dispel such notion, and or watch youtube videos featuring few days living as a hunter-gatherer, such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAGjuRwx_Y8 or more here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny4bHOnSg0o

If one is to learn from evidence rather than to confirm once cherished biases it would take no time to read even so distant history narratives to wake up from this anti-meat re-interpretation of our ancestor's life-styles. To what degree and how meat should be collected today is a separate issue ... but do not let political correctness of today let us bias the solid evidence of our how our ancestors lived. Meat has been and still is in many areas of planet the highest value (wealth, prosperity, health -wise).

And whether the question in the title is worth answering as posed is yet another issue. I think Tim Minchin's song "the fence" would fit well as an audio epilogue to this post.
Jeeze ... this whole thread is a complete undermining of the scientific process.

I thought we had more faith in the majority of our scientists.

Shameful.
AVE did a breakdown some time ago. Watching annoying ass ads was worth something like $0.007 per view aka Google taking home 90% aka no need to feel guilty over it. One patreon supporter easily offloaded >1-10K free viewers.
Jury duty.
At least I caught the Gell-Mann reference in time
The problem here is that your initial post, critical of how academia is presented, reads as very black and white to me.

I get the feeling that you claim that it is all fraud and lies, and that those who disagree can see no wrong with it at all.

Then someone responds with a nuanced reply, something that I, as someone who lives in a university town in Sweden, have the impression that almost everyone in academia actually agrees with.

And then it turns out that you also mostly agree. So, now I'm asking myself (and you): Why did I read that first post of yours as so hostile? As someone who was actively trying to create mistrust?

Is it just because how the debate climate is on the internet, or should you perhaps consider trying to be a bit more nuanced when communicating on the internet?
So we finally reached web X.0 where data is shared and open - we only got there accidentally
> it served up a document that contained the reference

A document that is expected to be executed by the receiving system. Might as well log in to your companies production server as root and send the completely meaningless string of letters "rm -rf / \n", not your fault if the receiving system actually executes it.
Seceding from the US is, literally, an insurrection.
Depends on version of phone but usually either receiving some message (there has been some zero-click iMessage exploits) or clicking a link on one.

for example https://citizenlab.ca/2021/09/forcedentry-nso-group-imessage...
Music while driving seems to be one those divisive subjects. Some people basically need music while driving and some people find it pointless or annoying.
> It allows high income earners to move to lower cost of living areas (or never leave them to begin with)

But the algorithms are already compensating for that. Many companies are paying “location differential” salaries. It will probably result in a new form of outsourcing.

The “good” news, however, is that it won’t last. Many formerly affordable areas are already seeing gentrification and median income jumps, as a result, so they are being flooded with yuppies, and driving out the lifelong residents. I’m watching that happen to Brooklyn, in New York. I know that it is almost catastrophic, in San Francisco. I’ve seen the “Google buses,” on 101.

I’m hoping that unions make a comeback, but that’s a damoclean sword; as the American system is highly adversarial, and can be corrupted fairly easily.

It’s also becoming almost impossible to get jobs, unless you jump through crazy hoops, and don’t get me started on the silly whiteboard tests. It’s resulting in things like “leetcode bootcamps,” and consultants, that will help you to “optimize” your CV for scanning algos.

Background checks are almost certain to find something wrong; especially in this age of social media. I remember, a few years ago, when a teacher was fired, because she posted a Facebook picture of herself on vacation, with a drink in her hand[0], and there’s a prominent Canadian psychologist, permanently barred from the US, because he wrote an article, where he mentioned taking LSD, while in college, in the 1960s[1].

Also, politicians almost always have something in their past, that can be used in “oppo research.”

[0] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354515/Teacher-sac...

[1] https://www.wired.com/2007/04/canadian-psycho/
I'd be generally fine with "smart" cars, provided they can be kept disconnected 24/7, that is, no phoning home to report where I am going or at what speed, and no ads. Otherwise, then thanks but no thanks.
No, they use zero-day exploits in common media formats. The spy sends you a message containing an image or pdf, your device parses it, is exploited, and then removes the message, before there ever is a notification about it. You will never know that it ever happened.

For example, see FORCEDENTRY, which is one of theirs, and the technical deep dive of it is about the most amazing piece of technical writing released last year:
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...
OOC question regarding console scripts: unless it's specified by the code that the function will stop at a certain point, most functions like yours will loop forever. Is there a way to stop them, once pasted in the console, apart from refreshing the page? Is there no way to "stop" the loop of that specific function that was started? I googled around a bit but I think I'm out of my depth here.
Have you ever heard of the field of HCI? Human Computer Interaction was born out of Human Factors, and understanding user behavior through a mixed methods approach i.e. quantitative and qualitative research to understand human behavior.

You are reducing this whole academic field that produces UX designers with the like of UI/visual/graphic designers who never studied or learned how to evaluate designs and study how people use designs (usability testing), which would TRIVIALLY catch and solve the issue in the OP of a severe usability issue with the V11 Tesla UI redesign.

A lot of time design is outsourced to low grade ux designers in other countries who start with design and never test anything in my experience, Accenture, TCS, etc. that churn out these usability design disasters.

If the team is in house, then they aren’t running a legit UX research practice, just focused on aesthetics, minimalism, and cool factor of Tesla in-house and I will bet you money their resume is visual/UI design heavy and HCI is not even mentioned.

UX =\ UI, and you have proven that this misconception still exists and we need to try harder as an industry to call out the dilettante UX teams who are really UI designers faking it to command a higher salary without doing the real hard work to understand user behavior and test designs for usability issues, etc.
We're trying to stop millions of deaths in the process.
Perón was close personal friends with Mussolini and Hitler, modeling his policies explicitly and in some detail on Mussolini's, and when he had to flee Argentina, he went to Franco's Spain. Mussolini and Hitler rose to power largely on their opposition to socialism, though they did of course attempt to co-opt its more popular policies (and in the case of Hitler even its name), and Franco's opponents in the Spanish Civil War were anarchists who were very explicitly extreme left wing. When Perón returned to Argentina, there were left-wing and right-wing factions of the Peronist Party, who immediately started killing each other --- like, literally at the airport when his plane came in. (This is not a literary invention by Garcia Márquez; it actually happened historically.) Perón sided with the right-wing factions.

Perón is hard to pin down: he adopted the most popular socialist policies with even greater enthusiasm than Hitler did. It's true that he welcomed fleeing Nazis, but he also welcomed fleeing Jews. The clearest aspect of his political alignment is that he was authoritarian and anti-elitist. But I think it's a clear mistake to identify him as a "left-wing populist".

As for the 19 teens, that's when Argentina was at its richest.
We didn't use antibiotics, we abused them! For example, often doctors, instead of testing, and then prescribing a targeted antibiotic, give you on, two, three until you have an improvement without getting culture and prescribing the right antibiotic! Also, often, antibiotics are prescribed preventively for viral infection (like pneumonia), and not given ONLY when you have a proven bacterial infection, so, being lazy and cutting costs pretty much erase a whole arsenal of drugs!
There is some advantage in security, deployment is easier, performance can be better if page generation is intensive, and backend data stores can be avoided completely. None of these are major reasons though and it’s mostly just popular tech stacks from the rise of javascript frameworks and UI.

Most static hosting providers are just a basic file/web server with a CDN in front. It’s especially interesting as they now have come full circle with generate-on-demand pages, which is basically a dynamic backend.
Contrary to popular belief, iPhones and Android phones have really poor security and new exploits are discovered all the time.
So a properly formatted text message is all that's required these days.

It's like in the dotcom days when 90% of the web was open to SQL injection.
Because that was closest to the idea of what's conceptually happening in the game world, and it was the quickest to implement - he mentions it in the article
"allows" as in "you can hack it to support that use case" [1].

Moreover, Nextjs's devs are increasingly ignoring that use case to the point where it is unclear if you'll hit a roadblock where you can't update anymore because the required amount of hacking is just too much to continue using it like that.

https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/5054
Yes, there are a lot of people who disagree with me about that metaphor because they do think of employees as livestock. I wasn't saying it's an uncommon opinion. I was saying it's a deplorable one.
Hey there, read my comment above this to the person you are quoting. Let me know what you think! Thanks for calling this person out. UX =\ UI
I don't write by hand much anymore, but I sure wrote a lot in university. I would think the same would be true for most students, which would account for more than 0.1% of people. Sure I could have printed my notes, but cursive was easier and faster. Could have typed them too (at least in most classes; some profs don't like it), but writing tends to result in better retention.
We like to think "abmahnen" was a particularity of German law - but it is not. Americans know it as the "Cease and Desist"-letter.

When you now do what was the right thing to do to begin with - not introducing third-party tracking from unreliable countries - then all is well.
Sadly cloud flare blocks TOR, most of the time.
Going back 10-ish years or so, basically everybody was writing requirement specifications to be included in RFQs. Primarily sent to the multinational suppliers like Continental. Sourcing and integration was the technical focus. And project management etc.

Now it is 100% in the other direction. There are engineers everywhere. Basically, if there is a space (under stairs even), there is a desk with an engineer. Doing serious design work. The new automotive cybersecurity requirements also contribute to renewed need for control and detailed knowledge of subsystems.
Ask HN: Post Your “Favourited” Links
Sometimes it feels like you miss the “best of” HN - people may find something interesting/helpful in your favourites
Immobilizers are now standard on all models effective with the 2022 model year.
even if more cancer treatments didn't have horrible side effects and treatment increased survival rates for all cancers by a significant margin,

I think COVID has demonstrated that a substantial fraction of people would still be opting for quackery instead of conventional treatment.
When light loses symmetry, it can hold particles
> How do you think government policy should have changed in relation to natural immunity?

This is my own opinion based on my observations in South Africa. Yes it is unfortunate we could not get access to the vaccine at the quantities and time we would have liked to but the lesson is we need to improve our ability to manufacture vaccines. There are some promising initiatives in this regard. I digress though. South Africa keeps an eye on weekly deaths[1] and can then work out excess deaths. The excess deaths during the recent Omicron wave which peaked at the end of December were significantly lower than the deaths during previous waves. Government continues to encourage vaccination but the restrictions to reduce spread Covid are at the lowest we have had. Even during the peak of the Omicron variant over New Years restrictions were being lifted [2]. So without coming out and saying it, it looks to me that SA government acknowledges that natural immunity seems to be helping keep hospitalisations and deaths low. This is because most of the research in SA anyway tends to place less emphasis on natural immunity but focuses on the vaccine. So all communication from government continues to stress need to vaccinate yet restrictions continue to fall. It could be that I have not read enough but government's attitude has been welcomed.

[1]https://www.samrc.ac.za/reports/report-weekly-deaths-south-a...
[2]https://www.capetalk.co.za/articles/435601/government-lifts-...
Really seems Tesla is regressing a lot of _important_ controls :(
It appears they may already have a diagnosis of oppositional defiant disorder.
There is no web substitute for Excel yet, especially when you get into bigger files.
Yeah, some need country music, others - techno. I personally like to be able to hear the engine. I then wonder why race drivers don't listen to music if it has benefits to some people.