skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As soon as I saw the tiles I thought “oh no”. They’re so fragile, they have to be a major hurdle for reusability. During the everyday astronaut interview Elon is talking and then looks over at a worker smacking a tile trying to get it to stay in place. Elon whips out his cellphone and then the interview cuts to a different scene. I imagine the amount of curse words being yelled into that cellphone would not pass YouTube’s guidelines. The heat tiles suck.
The trucker protests originated over vaccine mandates.
Fully agreed with the last paragraph - consider the morality of direct exploitation of user data, and the risks that it is used in ways not originally intended. Maybe read some history too such as McCarthyism, Stalinism and many related instances throughout history. This data exploitation that has swept through the world has the potential to be a terrible nightmare in the making.
Truckers (in general, according to published data) are over 90% voluntarily vaccinated; that's more than the general population.
Our luckily, given the way it worked out with crypto.
The meaning in the abstract doesn't appear to change signficantly when you substitute the word "clarity," with "complexity." However, the paper does talk about some mechanisms for persuasion and manipulation that have a patina of accuracy. I think an "epistemic bubble," is just a fancy way of patronizing people who are vulnerable to that, and what they call it when they want to convince you you're losing and should give up.

I'm also not sure whether people who use this term have self awareness about it or not, but the culture is at the point where someone using the phrase conspiracy theory is effectively guaranteed to be using it to troll on behalf of their ingroup, and to flatter what they percieve to be an actual conspiracy of people who will reward them for scoring points against their outgroup and toeing the line. I have started to see it as an epithet, and attribute it to a malicious litigation of narrative and not an appeal to truth.

However, I'm optimistic about people I don't think anyone is reliably as dumb as we often sound, so an elaborate theory of how to prevent misinformation and conspiracy theories is just middling concern by the aspirants and pretenders to an increasingly illigitimate establishment. That doesn't say much for the author, but on the topic of cognitive tools for resisting manipulation, conspiracy theories are a lot like jokes, where they slide off sincerity like teflon, but stick to failures of leadership like napalm. It's not our fault they're funny. I think it would be worth looking more closely at why these theories stick and get traction, not by blaming skeptics, but by holding power to account.
Thanks for a comprehensive comparison.

> you may find that it's more productive to do work where you're unclear about the object lifetimes in a garbage collected language where it isn't your problem.

This is exactly why I haven't ventured into Rust yet.

But lately I've taken interest in WASM and HW programming. I write in Go-WASM, But have realized that concurrency prowess of Go is irrelevant in WASM as threads are not implemented yet, More over it's a recipe for getting the UI thread blocked.

And GC languages are generally a pain on HW with low memory.

Is Rust worth the effort for writing WASM? Thereby gaining the necessary skills to apply in HW systems programming?
What exactly prevents whoever filmed this of simply not posting any clip that's offensive? Because I've seen many videos and photos of hate symbols, and there are quite a few examples of assault and harassment
Its curious that in tv/film people's identity is censored by blur/pixelation/black bars on eyes and, documents are always censored by black bars. I dont recall seeing pixelation used for text, then why do we mostly go for pixelation in the first place when wanting to omit info on screen.
I've done some books myself. The proofreading of the OCR'd text takes a great deal of time.
How Do Vision Transformers Work?
nope, I remember starting my first tech job in 2013, and the only people in tech who cared about it were libertarians, which was a very small subgroup of tech
is this a joke? What's created public support for invasion countries all over the world in the past decades, if not propaganda from the military industrial complex?

Have you read any piece of international news recently that's not about how bad Russia or China is?
Thank you so much! And yes! To answer it's pronounced Andi like Andy :)
pretty much what we're doing at https://breezethat.com, a topic search engine

- we currently curate domains / pages internally based on trust
- we'll be adding an open low-code way for others to vote / moderate
Seems like managing every decommissioned factory or industrial plot of land will require an enormous bureaucracy? Perhaps even larger than present day if we really want to clean them up properly and enforce it?

Sure it could be outsourced in part but that’s just moving around the goalposts because there would, and could only be, one customer.
If it’s a one-time purchase, I’d definitely consider it.

Subscription-model stuff would be an instant disqualifier.
I note the tagline says "Enjoy your inbox".

This is liable to create the impression the service is platform-neutral, but it is not. It relies solely on the Gmail API? I don't use Gmail, so your product doesn't work for me.

A simple way to fix this is to adjust the title to the more accurate, "Enjoy your Gmail inbox", thereby enabling us to determine whether it is usable or not.

In the long run, I hope you consider platform-neutral JMAP support once it has matured.
Facebook staff now to be known as “Metamates”
> I have my gripes with Google, but from working there, I can definitely give them props for how much they cared about accessibility.

Accessibility at Google suffers in the same way as most UX-related things suffer at Google. Namely, the fact that everything is constantly reinvented from scratch, rather than there being one unified way to do it. As a screen reader user, I can say that in some Google products, there can be instances of what, on the surface, should be exactly the same component, but was apparently developed in multiple different ways. This leads to the constant need to work out how accessible each instance is (and e.g. what keyboard support it has), even though I dealt with the same UI pattern minutes ago.
I have built Unix/Linux stuff from the 1990s with no code changes. Programs that do well defined things generally have a long shelf life. Even X stuff often works, though it can look bad on modern displays.

Math kernels, codecs, and so forth can more or less live forever.
pretty much what we're building at breezethat.com -- currently launching about one topic / week, and opening door soon so others can curate / moderate a topic
You don't fix rowhammer with ECC, you fix it by tracking row activation counts and then refreshing nearby rows. Without any cheap-outs like using small hash tables.
Found a transcript of an interview with her, not sure how old. Talks a great deal about the statistical analysis of text that McIlroy praised her for.

https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/mike/transcripts/cherry.htm
Well, if it makes you lads feel any better, we're not the only ones who feel this way

Paul Graham has been pushing for someone to disrupt web search on and off for at least the last 10 years: http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

(he tweeted about it more recently, but I couldn't dig it up since I'm not much of a tweet man)
Ah, does doppler effect or relativistic stretching affect the photon wave packet? I was told, that's what causes red/blue shift but aren't photons immune to relativistic effects since they travel at v = c?
>And yet, it's hard to look at Netflix as anything more than a total failure of the promises of data analytics and personalization. Netflix should be putting out nothing but hits. A dozen Breaking Bads or Game of Thrones.

I don't follow this argument. Knowing what people like has very little to do with the quality of original creative content; surely you don't expect Goodreads to put out Shakespearean novels, or Spotify to be producing original hits on par with the Rolling Stones? Should ESPN have better pro sports scouting and coaching talent than the professional leagues?

Knowing what people like, however, _does_ have to do quite a bit with selling those people a product - which Netflix just reported 15% YoY growth to $7.7B yearly revenue, they're clearly very successful to this end. I think you actually have it backwards - if anything, Netflix represents a total fulfillment of the promises of data analytics and personalization. Despite mediocre original content, this is a $200B company with 200M subscribers growing revenues by double digits two decades after IPO.

If Netflix paid $450k+ salaries to screenwriters instead of engineers, you'd very likely get better movies on a worse streaming platform. And when Netflix has shelled out for Hollywood talent, like Mindhunter which has David Fincher and Charlize Theron, the results are quite good.

Regardless, to take the fact that Netflix pays for premium engineering and analytics talent, but does not pay for premium filmmaking talent, and then spin that fact into Netflix being "a total failure of the promises of data analytics and personalization" is a questionable criticism.
The example commits the perennial sin of using 100vw, so that it’s somewhat broken on all platforms where scrollbars take width. There is unfortunately probably no way of getting this specific case correct without JavaScript.

You may have heard of new viewport units in the pipeline to fix the problems with viewport units, but ugh, they’re only interested in fixing the problems caused by retractable UI chrome, common in mobile browsers, and are still frustratingly utterly broken by design for most desktop platforms. https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6551, https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6026. Until all of this stuff gets sorted out, I continue to advise against at least viewport width units in any capacity.

I would also add that scroll snapping in general is a misguided feature, enabling functionality that is almost never actually desirable. My observation is that places that use it are almost universally frustrating in some way. Browsers’ implementations are definitely getting better, so that the viewport units problem is almost all that’s left for this example, though accidentally swiping/scrolling past more than one slide is still a problem.
Tell HN: Everything Needs a TLDR
TLDR: anything without a TLDR is not worth reading. You are trading your attention for words of unknown value.

If you are reading something online which does not clearly tell you what it is about or a strong hint of its conclusion, then you are likely just a pair of eyes which are measured by advertising value.

A "tldr" - "too long, didn't read" gives us the summary at the start, before we waste our valuable time reading words which may be multiplied and expanded with the intent to keep us reading longer.

In times past there were bookstores. You could flip through a book, TLDRing your way toward the end. If you found enough sections of value you would buy it. On the web, we can't flip (unless it's a PDF, which may even be worse).

Always consider the source of the information. What is their motive, how do the earn money to survive? Do they really want to share information, or do they just want to lure advertising targets? Well written, summary-first content can tell you this quickly and potentially save you hours each week.
Sorry for going off topic a bit, but what is wrong/not ideal with RTMP? I've been using RTMP with Nginx for a couple projects and didn't notice anything inherently wrong. However, I was working with streaming for the first time so whatever problems I ran into were probably overlooked as a part of learning the tech.

What problems do you have with "maintaining an RTMP stack" does any of these newer protocols alleviate? What do you mean exactly by RTMP stack so I can be sure I understand you correctly? Thanks.
The article is incredibly misleading. They don't mention the year that the events in the first paragraph happened until halfway down the page and even if you read that far you might not have connected the two.

Her implant failing is not even related to the company going bankrupt (although maybe it was a precursor)
Like this? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/double-shot-search...
I don't see what would be so different than what we have now? A company in bankruptcy is already forced to sell all IP to satisfy creditors. Now the only additional requirement is they sell to a company planning to make use of the IP. If they can't the IP is worthless, and so should just end up in public domain.
It's not that the interesting Turing machines are chaotic, but they are close to the boundary, in the sense that they have interesting dynamical behaviour. The reason why it's so hard to do static analysis of computer programs (for example, an automated detection of memory vulnerabilities in C programs) is pretty much this near-chaotic dynamic behaviour that doesn't easily yield to static analysis.
> The problem I have is that resurrecting old devices like an iPod or a Sansa falls back onto era of proprietary chargers, which I worry about losing and not being able to find replacements.

Personally, I think one great thing about Apple is that because the branding is so strong, it's much easier to find cables for the iPod 30-pin connector than for most other brands.
I only turn it on for my boss and some from the business side.
Yes, you can also register with a party and vote in the other party's primary if it's an open primary state. However, you are usually barred from voting twice in a primary, which means you need high confidence in the outcome of your preferred party's candidate to do this. Otherwise, you're throwing away your vote on that party's pick.

EDIT: I had to double check this before commenting, but in some states you don't even register with a party as far as the state is concerned (Georgia, for example, it's been 12 years and I'd forgotten). Though they still have the party primaries.
Ask HN: Am I Misunderstanding TailwindCSS?
I suck at CSS. There, I said it.

I've always loved frameworks like Bootstrap, Bulma, etc... that let's me build frontends the same way I would play Legos as a kid.

I understand CSS, what the properties do, individually. But I lack the creativity and design skills required to come up with half of what is provided by those frameworks. I could do it if I had infinite time and patience, but I don't.

I've heard a lot of good about TailwindCSS for a couple of years now. So I gave it a try. From what I've gather after a few days, I don't understand it.

Instead of writing CSS, I add classes to my HTML. Ok, but I don't want to rewrite everything all the time, it would be like using the inline style attribute.

Ok, then I install PostCSS, and start writing classes with @apply. Wait, hang on, isn't that just writing plain old CSS with a new syntax and new names to learn?

I must be missing something, right?
Because the results are forced and for-profit instead of for-the-interest-of-information.
yes, loved these games! Point Blank especially Light guns are a lot harder these days, and even then you can't do the same thing with modern expensive guns, my 4 year old son would literally get up point blank to the TV screen and play point blank putting the gun on the glass.
You pounced on their use of the word "life", but of course the question here is "human life", not "life" in general, and that's a term that does not simply mean live human cells, and does not have a straightforward scientific definition the way "life" does (at least, not when used in the sense it's used in the abortion debate).
yes, DDG & most non-Google engines are Bing under hood - easy way to check this is pairwise image searches on say Bing and DDG in anonymous browser sessions

Startpage one of few that's actually Google under the hood; we do mix of Bing, Google, and our own scraping at breezethat.com (founder here)
Just tried this and you're completely right.

Shameless how they think anyone would be gaslit.
That sounds extremely confusing
My quick survey with this antipode map tool[0] says you are incorrect.

[0] https://engaging-data.com/antipodes-map/
This addresses the problems with the hype related to digital note tools but does not apply to the effectiveness of a real analog zettelkasten: https://youtube.com/user/scottscheper
Because you want more than just the messages and the handshakes - you want to maintain consistency and if possible even recover from desync and other network weirdness - without allowing cheating.
A site which translates simplified to traditional is popular? Seems like an opportunity to me.

I don't get the blackhat angle. I think casting shade on this is a bit silly. The SEO outcome isn't 2 million SIM in a rack being soft touched by rubber gloves on a chain drive: real people want to see this stuff.

Wikipedia in Portuguese isn't blackhat SEO stealing.
When are you going to have a VC fork over $10,000,000 and start your empire??

I use your crazy search engine all the time, and it's fucking great. Last time I checked, though, you're getting like $30 a month from Patreon and that's it, haha.

You're too much of a well-adjusted normal human being, that's your problem. You need that touch of Zuckerwellian sociopathy to get to the next level
When I was a case manager for WINZ, you tried your best, but ongoing discretionary assistance (Special Purposes Benefit, now called Temporary Additional Supplement) above a certain time period required a manager's sign-off, and then you hoped that your manager wasn't a dick.
The bit of the article where it lists the challenges of vat-beef and how evolution solved these problems millions of years ago, it really makes you think that a topdown approach as you describe would be easier than trying to engineer the necessities for life piecemeal.
“A student asked, ‘is enlightenment a complete remedy?’

Suzuki Roshi replied ‘no’”
In official communication only I have to believe
> Why wouldn't one expect the chaotic system to produce as much or more random output?

Because neurons as systems don't like random input. Noisy random input doesn't make (most) neurons fire. Rather the opposite, actually.

Neurons aren't (usually) simple threshold comparators of a single input; they're arbitrarily-complex gate-like recognizers, that fire in response to detecting signals in their combined inputs, or even upon matching temporal firing patterns within the signals of their combined inputs.

In that sense, if you tune every component in the system to produce more noise (chaos), you decrease the signal-to-noise ratio, and so the components that react to "important recognizable changes in the signal" within that noise have a harder time recognizing the thing they're looking for, and so they recognize it less, and so switch less.

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By trite analogy: suppose you're a security guard. Your job is to recognize+report "real crimes in progress", while not reporting "false alarms." (Pretend that the police charge for false dispatches in your town, so your boss wants to optimize shrinkage vs. call budget.)

Also, your boss has decided to "keep you on your toes" by introducing "noise" into your computerized security system. Sometimes it'll show a burglary in progress when there isn't one. Sometimes it'll show that everything's fine, when actually the boss has secretly sent in a white-hat burglar of his own.

How willing to believe the security cameras should you be, to optimize your output signal to downstream demand?

As it turns out, you should probably try to figure out the false-positive vs. false-negative rate you're seeing reported by the downstream, and then calibrate your confidence up/down until you're making a balanced number of Type 1 vs. Type 2 errors. That level of confidence is the "critical point" — where the noise in the system is equally likely to help your detection (by "correcting" a false negative/positive, turning it into a true positive/negative) as it is to harm.

Moving away from that critical point, in either direction, makes your output less useful as a downstream signal.
we're launching a bird identification search engine this month via breezethat.com ahead of the spring bird migration if you'd like early access to test it for this very reason. We can add others after that for plants etc., say one / quarter as part of what we're dubbing our planet saver topic searches. dm here or on twitter as DotDotJames if want to test the bird identification finder
> Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came
To be fair that's literally the 2nd line on the landing page: "Email smarter & faster with a reinvented experience for your Gmail", with the first line having an underlined "Enjoy" - I believe to double convince the future users.

On the other hand it definitely looks like another snake oil email client in a long list of snake oil email clients. My another guess is (and I maybe wrong) - it is entirely electron or web based - the apps I mean.
> Do you have an example of a website with a comment hierarchy that works well for you?

I'm not the original commenter, but I am a screen reader user who works in accessibility.

Unfortunately, I don't have too many good examples; the problem of hierarchical commenting systems being difficult to navigate is common across the web. There is a Reddit client for iOS, Dystopia[1], that does this extremely well for users of the built-in screen reader, VoiceOver[2], by allowing entire threads/subthreads to be collapsed and/or skipped over. On the web, you'd want to look into using hierarchical headings, nested lists and the like, to allow the structure to be conveyed semantically. HN is inexcusably bad at this, as there isn't a single heading anywhere on the site.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/DystopiaForReddit/
[2] https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/turn-on-and-practice-...
Sure, but these concerns do not apply so much to turn based games. In a turn based design all clients move in lockstep by virtue of the core game mechanics. Clients that send invalid commands will have them ignored by the server, and the client view will be updated to the current valid state when the client catches up.
You don't register your party unless you want to vote in that parties primary election. This is where a political party decides which of their candidates should actually run in the real election.

Most people just vote in the general election where this isn't necessary. The reason the Democrats or Republican might want voters to register for their party primary is to avoid the other party getting their weakest primary candidate the win so that they can beat them in the actual election.

Also keep in mind that there is no federal election, so when you hear people talk about "the popular vote" it's a misnomer. There isn't actually a national popular vote. All elections are run by individual states, and in fact even national offices like President can have different candidates on the ballot in different states, depending on what happened earlier in the election season during the party primaries.
It's worth noting that the author of this article, Vinay Prasad, is not someone that would normally be criticizing the CDC. He has consistently advocated for universal vaccination of adults and has criticized those arguing against vaccination. But for anyone paying attention to the science and the policies being implemented in European countries, it's obvious that something is wrong with CDC policies.
And then there's normal consciousness, and Normies in general. Funny how these always escape scrutiny, and then we're surprised things are so screwed up. Look in the mirror people, thats where the problem is.