skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medical sector has one responsibility: take care of the patients.

Doctors that share a racial and cultural with their patients are able to provide better care. It's been seen in multiple studies that elder African American women are more likely to follow the advice of the doctor if the doctor shared their background. There is little controversy around the fact that diversity leads to improved health outcomes ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8675280/ / https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24787/w247... )

Similar trends can be seen in other fields. So affirmative action is not just good because it is the morally right thing to do, but also because it is the more practical solution quite often.
This is awesome. Noticed you mentioned building an accurate product graph. Do you use a knowledge graph behind the scenes to find lookalikes?
Circlefavshape, it’s a really good point. I think it is a position, too, which can be disputed. Does a star approximate a sphere or a sphere describe a star? Obviously the latter, right?
I'm hoping that this all converges into video not having an "orientation". Currently there's a lot of good technical reasons behind this, but as far as the viewer is concerned, they're not always able to watch videos that suit their viewing preference, and authors have to pick beforehand.

Videos have been an unnecessarily rigid experience for some reason. For example, one can't typically watch a video while zoomed in and pan around the same way one can to when viewing photos... Because reasons?
Sonos. Ordered a small Bose afterwards. I know the Bose headphones have their 'use the app feature' but the smaller soundbsrs (not sure how the new ones are named right now) just work for coupling by long pressing the bt-button.

I was able to remotely lead my mom through the process on the phone.
>RPA replicates the work that these workers do by automating on the UI of the legacy application and replacing them. It is championed by ambitious business professionals who

>1) Don't know that a more elegant solution exists in the traditional IT world

>2) Don't receive enough support from the IT org to solve this business problem that is crucial to them.

>Therefore, such business professionals collaborate with consultants to spear-head RPA projects in the name of digitization, ushering in AI or similarly varnished back-doors.

Sounds like Conway's Law taken to an absurd degree and turned into a multibillion dollar industry.
Yes, there's many in Western society as well. I'd get downvoted if I mentioned them, however.

I'm sure there's also beliefs I hold that would fit this description as well, though I try to be as open-minded as possible and willing to let go beliefs that don't stand up to scrutiny. I've definitely changed my mind on many things over the years as I learn more. Some beliefs are hard to disprove.

But some are trivial.

But if someone wants to sell me a charm that makes them stab-proof, I'm not paying until I see it in action. You don't need to be a scientist to think of an experiment that determines if it works.
Can you swap them at the store like your empty propane tank though?
You almost need a scooter in these large third world mega cities. The streets are narrow as hell, they can’t really handle cars. On the flip side. Cars are stuck in traffic all day and rarely get to cruising speeds without making a left turn into another traffic jam. Scooters let you move around in that clusterfuck and no car is moving fast enough to kill you. Good luck staying safe in scooter in America though.
The American Bar Association is very much a private institution not bound by the 1st amendment.

ABA membership and accreditation is voluntary and not legally mandated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admission_to_the_bar_in_the_...

States also have mandatory bar associations, where 1st amendment concerns would apply but they are not being discussed here.
I don't care what's on PeerTube's front page any more than I care about what's on YouTube's front page (ie. not at all), since I always just search for what I want.
About MaidSafe's 16 Year Journey to Decentralize the Entire Internet
I remember in 2013 electric skateboards were all of the rage. I felt like a pariah with an electric scooter. I told people they were the future because skateboards are just too dangerous imo.

I’m glad to see this happen.

What I want now is an electric assist scooter, where then battery is smaller and it simply makes your manual pushes far stronger.

I’m no electric engineer, but I think there’s an opportunity here. If you can minimize the resistance added by adding an electric motor you might be able to really decrease the weight of the scooter if it only propels you on push.
two more to add: b,l
What would be really amazing is if we all leased the batteries but owned our vehicles (whether its scooters, cars, etc) AND there were super fast quickswap stations built into the road itself. Imagine if pulled up to a red stop light and the light knew it was going to be red for the next 30 seconds at least - your vehicle could communicate with some type of in-road underground battery swap station and then at the press of a button it could quickly reach up, remove your existing battery, and replace it with a fully charged one.

Larger vehicles could even have multiple batteries - one quick swap one on the bottom and then another one elsewhere in the vehicle that was a bit more work to swap - this way you could mainly use and stress the swap battery and ideally keep swapping it out as needed on a road trip but worst case you still have a large energy reserve to fall back to.
One nice feature modern frontend frameworks have nowadays is automatic component specific css rules

IIRC in Vue, <style scoped> allows each element of the component to have an data-{id} attribute and every CSS rule is appended with [data={id}] selector so you're guaranteed no CSS rule leaks out and is contained in the same file
Show HN: Chemiscripts: translate ASCII chemical formulas into Unicode
Collaborative online digital tools aren't simply adequate, they are vastly superior to analog alternatives. It is less effective, less efficient, to meet in person. Making in-person a requirement limits your access to talent, by excluding those in other time zones and those with differences in ability; and it isn't recorded, cannot be referenced or edited, cannot be a living document, and cannot easily include rich multimedia without finicking with AV gear.

And you force everyone to commute into the office.

I've been working remotely for 6y; we have multiple external business partners, and a team of over 50. We have team members and business partners in Russia, Finland, Sweden, Germany, UK, France, NYC, BC, Cali, Japan, and elsewhere; we operate without core hours. I, personally, regularly interact with people in all those listed locations every day.

Never once has there ever been a need for an in-person meeting. Never.
This can be a slippery slope. I’ve seen projects with an initial nice hierarchy become spaghetti when engineers looking to save time start throwing important everywhere.

Not that it should never be used. It’s like gotos in C code. They definitely have a purpose but if you find you’ve implemented more than half of your program control via gotos you’ve probably made your codebase into a horrific mess.
My wife is thinking of upgrading her iPhone for better snapshots of our baby.

I’m a professional photographer. Hell, she is too - she second shoots at my weddings. We have the best cameras and lenses money can buy…but they aren’t in her pocket when our baby does something cute.
I was just suggesting that they not link to white nationalist content their website. The website that is the first result of searching for "peertube" in duckduckgo or Google.
That's how HDR was originally. Everyone used it to the Xtreme++!! Everything looked post-apocolyptic instead of just rolling the highlights back to proper exposure and pulling details out of the shadows. It's perfectly fine to shoot HDR without going nuts, but very few people choose to do it that way.
It was a small Sonos. Would need to look up the model. Was around the size of a Bose Soundbar (the smallest model). With these Bose Soumdbars it is just long pressing the BT button. No app, no nothing. Just works for me.
> Your statements appear to be a good summary of the paper.

Thanks. I found the authors' claims relatively easy to grok. What I'd like to understand, intuitively, is how they got there!
There's a big difference between "we are the only people who sell hardware using these chips" and "we are the only people who have access to hardware using these chips".
A 120 average IQ population would run circles around a 100 average IQ population, even starting from a much lower position. Of course, there's still the question of whether society is organized such that people of exceptional talent rise to power, and whether they have the incentive to do great things.

My main concern isn't the tech being inaccessible to poorer people or countries. International intellectual property protection has always been precarious, and I guarantee that e.g. India won't just accept having a dumber population because "oh well, an American company owns the patents and we can't afford mass licensing."

Rather, Western societies have strong anti-eugenic impulses because of 1) the Christian legacy, 2) the popular fixation on WW2 atrocities, and 3) a political taboo against acknowledging population-level differences in mental (and to a lesser extent, even physical) attributes. I could see China being much more willing to embrace eugenic technology on a shorter timescale than the United States. And that could be the death blow to the US.
You need a Web2Tor a.k.a Tor2Web service to see this site (if you are not using Tor);

<https://archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqtkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpc...>

Edit: Note the addition of .ws to the url - ie. -> .onion.ws
Drinking a lot of water prior to exertion isn't helpful. You'll just piss it out.
Show HN: Bose-dfu, a reverse-engineered firmware updater for Bose devices
Setting aside the arguments around infringement equaling/not equaling actual theft, is the actual incidence of piracy high enough that it's on beancounters' radar? I may be wrong, but my impression is that streaming made it a non-issue. This feels like a smokescreen.
> Something illegal doesn't become illegal only after law enforcement is informed.

I didn't say that. Only that law enforcement (or data privacy regulators) probably were not aware of it happening.
And then get sued to death by media cartels and carted off to jail for hosting child porn.

If you are hosting only your own content it's pretty easy. Once you put that upload link on the site it gets a lot more complicated.
But technically Russian government isn’t killing their citizens unless you were conscripted.

And for all it is western governments don’t have a good history of accepting refugees, let alone refugees who just decided the leave the country because it’s just not too good there.
Damn! You are like the bystander who gets taken out during a gang raid in your neighbourhood.
React Arborist – A full-featured tree component for React
I get where you're coming from, and agree with you on the effects of media focus.

But I don't think that's a reason not to be worried about this. Reading various threads here, there are people describing pretty awful post-COVID conditions, some that seem way more severe than anything associated with post-flu conditions.

Yes, these are anecdotes. But if we believe them to be true, they should still worry us, even if the incidence is less than 1%. Because if there is even a 0.1% (or maybe even 0.01%)[0] chance that, after recovering from COVID, I might end up physically debilitated for months or years, I will absolutely change my behavior to make it less likely that I get COVID in the first place, regardless of loosening of masking and distancing restrictions. Some might consider that an overreaction, but that's my choice to make.

As you and others point out in this thread, it's not just incidence that matters; severity is important too. If I have a 0.1% chance of dying doing a particular optional activity, I would not do that activity. If instead I have a 0.1% chance of a minor injury doing that activity, I would probably still do it if it was something I believe I'd enjoy.

[0] Just to give you an idea of my own personal risk tolerance: I just did a quick search on fatalities from skydiving, and it looks like it's around 0.0002% (tandem, not solo, based on 2019 reports). That's pretty low, but still high enough for me to not be particularly interested in doing it, even though I think it would be fun. Granted, this is a very different situation than trying to avoid getting COVID.
Dogs created civilization out of humans by consistently helping the most cooperative ones. Even today, dog “owners” live longer and attract more mates. It’s consistent selection pressure.
I’ve noticed many CSS authors don’t seem to know that you can just repeat a selector to increase its specificity. For your example, `.className.className` increases the specificity without adding more reliance on DOM structure.
The best maintainer is one who need personally to have a certain software maintained, that's why FLOSS tend to have a mean better quality and less refinements than commercial software.

Honestly my personal opinion is "when labeled 'professional' or 'enterprise' is something similar to Star Trek Enterprise ship, something that keep having terrible troubles, extremely bad design (for instance a single 'reactor') etc"...
Surprised nobody mentioned Mux yet, who are really great at providing a video platform for all sorts of apps and businesses: https://mux.com/
Well, geopolitics is (generally) rational players in a non-zero sum game. I can't imagine how any world leader could have "nothing to lose", but regardless, it doesn't describe Putin.
>handing (ideally) every white-collar worker the ability to write scripts that can automate pieces of their daily-work.

surely much of this could be done already with a tool like AutoHotKey? I mean it won't have some of the fancier stuff like screen scraping, but it gets you 80% of the way there in a lot of cases. the barrier is not the tools, it's the IT policies that prevent ordinary workers from being allowed to use them.
It should have been "!legally-required", or "lawful-font-size:"

or the React way, "!enforce--only-use-this-for-legal-font-size-or-you-will-be-fired"
When you read this with the classical crypto-skeptic arguments in mind, it's hard not to "cringe".
How can "Rare Pepes" and "Crypto-kitties" be the reason you invest in a teghnology ?
And yet those investments must have been highly profitable.

I am still a crypto-skeptic but I wonder if in the future my tendency to over-analyze (based on intuition and generalist tech knowledge) will make me overlook a truly revolutionary innovation.

Am I wrong about crypto ? Will the metaverse be this tech I overlooked ?

Maybe this article is right and I should keep it simple. Trust the hype and stop worrying ?
Yes, I finally looked at the browser tab to see that indication of "activity" was occurring. However, if the website knows that it is going to take some time to pull in a large asset, it would be better to have a page that loads quickly and shows some sort of activity to the user via UI rather than just "browser default". In fact, I don't even know what the the default indicator on a mobile browser looks like
Unless it turns out the sanctions actually worked and it topples the Russian government.
Our secondary made me clean out most of my books on relationships but I kept the books by...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Illouz
It’s pretty common for groups of people to have domain-specific language.

I’ve done programming on and off for years. Recently I’ve seen the term “closure/clojure” in various places. Context is no help on the meaning. If it matter’s I’ll just have to look it up. Another term that comes up if “Turing complete” and there are large arguments about whether X is turning complete or not. I’m sure that it means something to those using it but it has no meaning to someone who is not in the know.

I don’t point this out to shame anyone. It’s just a natural process that happens within a specialize knowledge space that needs it’s own terms to define concepts.
Boy this is exactly how it felt to me as a junior. I was just sure it was the fault of everyone else’s configuration that was the problem, not mine. The hardest lesson a junior has to learn is that the customer is always right. No one cares if your program runs perfectly on your machine, because of course it does, it has to run perfectly on every machine.
Ok, we've replaced the baity title with the hopefully less baity subtitle. Thanks!
Please, put an id on the HTML element, and a CSS rule targeting that id, rather than use !important. !important really was a mistake and should only be used to counteract other uses of !important you don't have control over.
> ...but also its science missions as it searches for evidence of microbial life on Mars, taking core samples that could be returned to Earth one day.

NOOOOOO!!!! no no no
On the other hand, I find Svelte's handling of this half-baked, as there's no way to pass scoped classes to a component, only to a HTML element. [1] In fact, I find this so frustrating that I have actually given up on Svelte's CSS scoping entirely and I use Tailwind instead, which also solves the same problem by almost [2] completely disregarding the cascade altogether.

[1] Why would you want to do this? Well, what about layout? And what if you have a component that wraps or otherwise behaves like an HTML element?

[2] Of course Tailwind supports modifiers, which do cascade, but everything is still local to a single element.
Metaverse Roadmap from 2006 [pdf]
Who is Russia's Top Field-Commander in Ukraine? – The U.S. isn't sure
worse:

"why dont you just use ..."
> The CEO capped the full time headcount at 49 people so he wouldn't be subject to a California law requiring him to provide his employees with a health care plan.

...

words fail me
You mean as Siberia turns into beautiful sunlit coastal area?

I've long suggested buying seaside plots there as a viable investment strategy, with the only issue not knowing where the coast will be :D
This is a good point, but there is a larger problem anytime you are relying on SD cards for a R/W root partition. Especially when making a product out of one of these boards. It's so easy to follow a tutorial and start an idea from a Bone or Pi or whatever and have some cool functionality and think it's ready to sell. Unfortunately, many of these boards don't have on board flash and by default are booting from SD card with a Linux distribution. It will fail a lot more than a real hard drive does. A cheap SD card is not the same as an SSD when you get down to it, no way around it. Absolutely use the SD card to log data, but don't make booting dependent on cheap removable flash media. Choose an SBC that has high quality flash with good EEC. Source: Experience datalogging with SBCs for 3 companies for 10 years of my career.
Well, I'd argue tech people have a unique perspective on tech: we've used it the longest and understand it better than most people.

I for one have a fundamental creed from using the internet since the 1980s and computers since the 1970s:

99% of a all problems best solved without technology and if your first go-to is a technology solution, you are an idiot, a shitty engineer and questionable as a solution creator.

Why? Because I've seen technologies come and go all bleating the same promises that are never kept. And if you truly examine the problems they are trying to address, you see most of the time that the question is wrong or the answer is ill-posed. Most peoples are solvable by communication between humans in a negotiated fashion. These are also the cheapest and fastest solutions. The details of what negotiation means are pretty wide open, but still technology should NEVER be your first, second, third or fifth solution proposal!
The scale. Tesla batteries are like 900 pounds. You now have to make a machine that can move 900 pounds of electronic hardware at mass scale. Meanwhile, if your machine only needs maybe 20lbs of batteries, suddenly that machine can be your user, and the infrastructure problem got a lot simpler and cheaper to solve. I have no clue why tesla isn't considering a low cost, <$500 EV, be it scooter or bike. I think their brand name and a price point that makes it easy for people currently on the sidelines to buy in would easily be enough to dominate this market overnight. At this point is just these companies from china you get from sketchy amazon sellers. I don't see schwinn ebikes when I drive around, they are too costly, I just see these cheapo foldable amazon ones that go by 50 different names, which I think is telling where the latent demand really lies (not in the saturated luxury ebike/escooter market which doesn't seem to move much product).
Anecdata, but I think this method is popular with Steam phishing sites. I have received a few links that mimicked the Steam web login prompt with a Windows window appareance.
They tried and failed already. Lots of reasons why this wouldn't work with cars:

- The battery is expensive and makes up a large chunk of value of the car itself. Being able to swap out a dying years-old battery for a fresh new one doesn't make sense.

- Swapping an electric car's battery is time consuming and requires specialized equipment and labor.

- The real utility for battery swaps for cars isn't in the middle of the city but in remote highway stops, where setting up such stations isn't feasible.
Correction, I fall into the category of people who think the US probably should never have helped finance and foment the coup in 2014, picked our guy to lead Ukraine after the coup, and then rewrite the Constitution specifically to put NATO expansion on the menu knowing it would antagonize Russia.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

And that's not to absolve Putin, but if I pay a guy to wrestle a wild grizzly bear because I want to piss the bear off, then I deserve some of the blame because the bear just did what bears do. And the guy who wrestled the bear should have known better too.
Liability issues make this challenging, but definitely a great idea. in FL I was able to get discharged from a hospital and get an Uber, but maybe I just got lucky.
Comments are misunderstood far too often as some sort of accompanying inner monologue. Instead, I see a lot of noise like

# Sleeps before continuing
time.sleep(…)

# Time before request timeout
timeout = …
I don't pirate music, I don't pirate games, I don't pirate software, I don't pirate anything but TV and movies and the reason is simple: piracy is a service problem for me. I know where to get music/games/software, I have no idea where to get the movies and TV I want to watch, they're spread over 20 different services, 90% of which are not available in my country and the ones that are don't have that specific content available in my country, I've even ran into issues where a streaming service say they for sure have some content and I just need to sign up to start watching, great! but after signing up and paying boop nope that content isn't available in your country anymore. And even in the cases I find the content available I am treated like a pirate, use a browser without DRM support? nope go away, use a VPN even when connected to the country your payment details come from? nope go away, oh and by the way we removed that content you were watching but we still have season 1 and 2 if you want anything after that it's on this other streaming platform and no it's not in your country. Even when everything goes right I get a highly compressed stream with all sorts of ugly artifacting. Piracy fixes every single one of those issues for me so I will continue to do it without feeling bad about it. I am very willing to pay for these services by why would I if paying is an inherently worse experience? And I didn't even list all the issues I've faced with these services.