skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't always need these additional things, and that you can (sometimes? often?) keep things simple. I think that's an interesting point to discuss.

Agreed, however in my experience advocates for this kind of simplicity "don't need" these things, except they ad-hoc rely on piecemeal solutions.

> Dunno, talk it through? I hope you have a good enough relationship with your coworker that you can discuss your work with them.

This works on a team of 2. On a team of 10/20/50/100, pausing everything for everyone to figure out seems like a terrible idea. And teams of 2 quickly become teams of 10.

> they actually mentioned a git server - ie. a central point.

But they ignore all of the overhead of running a server, and fall back on it being decentralized as a solution to the "problems" of runnign a server.

> Rationally, this argument is so off it can only be result of an emotional outburst.

I'd really rather you didn't stoop to personal attacks on me, especially as I've done nothing of the sort.

> OP never mentioned sharing patches over mailing lists, and has in fact stated that it's easy to host git server.

OP said in his comment "Most of the things you're struggling to solve are effectively preventing it from actually working as intended. ". Given that git was designed for the linux kernel [0], a reasonable criticism of "working as intended" is criticising the workflow it was designed around. Running a git server doesn't give you _any_ way to collaborate or work with people, you need to build all of that tooling on top of it. The linux kernel uses patches distributed by email, despite hosting a git server.

> But gees, chill out, man. https://xkcd.com/386/

I've downvoted you specifically for this part of your comment, it's an unnecessary personal attack.

[0] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-A-Short-Histo...
Fake it until you make it is acceptable in terms of marketing or sales but I don't think it should apply to the tech powering your business, you can't fake that. But you can fake an active community (Reddit, HN) for a while until it takes off, and you probably could fake a classifier that you know you will be able to build once you have access to a particular training set given reasonable assumptions about failure rates. But that would be a borderline case: after all, you may never get that access.

> Often the only thing that separates startup from fraud is that the founders believe in what they are selling.

Unfortunately true.

> How does one determine what is true belief and what is an act?

You can usually tell once you point out that the technology isn't there and likely will not be there for the foreseeable future. The frauds press on, threaten lawsuits and move from one investor to another until one bites, the non-frauds pivot or give up. Personally I think that anything offered to customers should do what it says on the tin and if it doesn't then it might as well not be there, what the future will bring and when it will bring is anybody's guess so making definitive statements to that effect is not something that will make you friends during a due diligence.

What is more surprising is that after many 100's of these borderline scams and outright scams that there are still investors that are willing to plunk down ridiculous sums of money because 'it would be so nice if the story were true'.

I've had a couple of cases where I was pretty sure the start-up people knew exactly what they were doing and one (fairly famous) case where I will never know whether the founder knew that he was defrauding people or whether he truly believed that success was just around the corner. He died one day before making a big and irreversible step, there are rumors that the death wasn't an accident but no autopsy was ever performed so it will remain a mystery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot_Digital_Coding_System

For anybody with even a passing familiarity with data compression and the practical limits thereof the product is clearly an impossibility, and the demos they gave were fairly obviously rigged. Having it under 'lost inventions' in Wikipedia, even under 'questionable examples' is giving it more credit than it deserves.
My favourite patch note of all time is from Path of Exile and reads simply “Fixed keming.”
That's because you live in a totalitarian state.
> zero knowledge proofs are [...] possible to check for yourself

Only if you're an expert cryptographer, else you're deferring to the authority.

> Paper voting is extremely expensive to scale

That's a feature.
Plot twist: PoS, nuff said.
One thing I don't understand: he said he 'bought clinical trials'. What does that mean?

Imho, the main thing that prevented this product from being useful was the lack of evidence that using it actually improves treatment outcomes compared to what doctors/patients already do. If he could have pointed to studies showing this, the doctors might have reacted differently. Even better, if he could have used his fancy statistics to create personalized recommendations and then demonstrated that they improve outcomes, he might have been on to something. The current tool was optimizing for the average patient, but nowadays we want personalized medicine.
This is sometimes the case here in Germany, and one reason we do it is because our representatives are explicitly, by the basic law bound only to their own conscience.

Representatives toeing party lines is seen as an impoverishment to democracy.
As a total outsider my first instinct was to agree. Then I thought about aspects in my country (Germany) and thought that while not so obvious and blatant we have basically the same problems. And they grow year over year.

Let's take the example that the public prosecutor's office is bound by the instructions of the Ministry of Justice. Let us now assume that someone files charges against two politicians on the (justified) suspicion of supporting tax evasion by banks, and let us assume that these politicians now hold very prominent positions in the country. How would the public prosecutor's office react?

Exactly. The initial suspicion necessary for an investigation is denied. Despite demonstrable false statements made by the politicians in question before parliamentary investigative committees.

There are also regular rulings by the Hamburg court (think Delaware) regarding copyright, addblockers and the like.

Here, too, the individual can do nothing. Because the system is not made to allow such influence of individuals.

The elected representatives have gone through years of party school. Polished smoothly. Streamlined. Who questions things or acts in the sense of the people will find no place on the list to be elected. Who wants to found an own party must do a lot and will fail in the vast majority of cases because you need 5% of the votes to be represented at all in parliament.

Demonstrations, petitions and the like have not changed anything for a long time.

Imho we live in a corporate democracy. Not a democracy that represents any "people".

So the rational thing to do is to stop caring and to "only" protect one's own personal life and that of one's loved ones.
I’m not too familiar with UMN admissions stats are, but a 3.8 weighted GPA might have hurt your son considering a lot of people applying for computer science will have an unweighted GPA that is around that or higher. You haven’t shared the unweighted GPA here but if it’s substantially lower colleges will not like that, especially state ones, since they think it shows you just take classes beyond your level.
I clicked through the slideshare like a dummy but Thanks to ~10 seconds of google searching I found a slideshare downloader[0], and downloaded the PDF of this slide set[1]. Dunno how long the link will be available, but just drop the slide share URL in again if you need to view the PDF again.

There is some useful information in there though:

- (Slide 20) know your offramps and offramps (if that matters to your business)

- (Slide 23[2]) basic funnel theory, what to measure and tools to measure it

- (Slide 26[2]) basic funnel debugging

[0]: https://downloader.la/slideshare-downloader.html

[1]: https://downloader.la/temp/6242de7e74227.pdf

[2]: https://imgur.com/a/LKZplvx
The race to upcycle CO2 into fuels, concrete and more
Kids will bully each other for any difference under the Sun & adults will bully each other for them, too. We never truly grow up.
semi related: is anyone else seeing hotmail addresses bypass apples ios known number feature?
Are we different then all other animals in natural terms? We need to eat like any other living being, we need to eat well, to reproduce to keep our species alive, we need to rest, ... whats the difference?

It's because living in an network of intensive farms, named cities, detached from our natural environment, seeing the foods popping up regularly in certain place, already prepared, no need to hunt/source it, we thing that food arrive here by nature, that our intensive farm is actually nature?

Is that really different? Oh, yes we are not slaughtered at a certain point of our life, except in case of wars etc, but we are equally "used" for doing various jobs by some of us who think they are puppet-masters and we are the puppets (cfr. famous JP Morgan leaked phrase, various neoliberal books etc). Oh, yes, in our case the shepherd is not from another species (witch made things even worse), but we equally born in such intensive farms not free in nature.

It's just a matter about how much bad farming is bad, how much ethical farming is ethical.
Something else which hasn't been suggested yet. Basically it could be that you are not opposed to the secret voting in principle, but you think current proposed options are not fully baked yet and you also think that current status quo is sub-optimal too.
Programming games is hard. That's why most of them are texture decompressors.
Not the OP and not trans, but do have several trans people in my sphere of relationships. This attitude and threats definitely exist more than 0%, in the USA. Especially outside major metropolitans.
My Indian friends complain that despite being on the DND list, the unsolicited commercial message situation in India is pretty bad, due to the lack of data protection laws.

> do people not use multiple phone numbers in USA?

The e-SIM is the easiest way to get two numbers on the same iPhone. Having multi-SIM phones isn’t popular for a number of reasons, including the fact that Americans and Europeans can get a 2nd number via services like Skype and Vonage anytime they want — something India still prohibits.

Incidentally I wrote about having multiple SIMs in India a week ago[1]… they’re an interesting historical accident, and the well-to-do in India will continue to use them, but they’ll become increasingly less common as telcos raise prices.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30770786
What's Smart Sync?

Edit: https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/sync-uploads/...
Wow, I ran a question about Godot Engine, which is not the most popular tech out there, and it did a better job than Google to find good answers.

I asked "how to add margin space to a node in godot"

It responded on spot with "use a MarginContainer" and provided a bunch of links for me to explore more, while Google pointed me to a page answering a different question:

"How can I make control node margins adjust to the window resolution?" [1]

[1] https://godotengine.org/qa/109645/how-can-make-control-node-...
Oh we made criminal many things, just look around in the world how common they are... Just look how ethical are our most well known citizens from governments to big enterprises...
This can't come soon enough as far as I'm concerned. Being constrained to only memory map 2 Gb chunks of memory, with no control over their lifecycle, is extremely cumbersome and arguably one of the biggest problem with Java right now.
Usually comments where I do disclose I'm trans (it's also on my profile, but nobody checks) end up in the slightly positive upvote range.

Right now, for instance, it is at +2.

I've noticed that sometimes it even depends on the specific time of day I post, I've had comments that weren't incendinary at all sent to [dead] pretty fast a few times.

It does make HN pretty atypically balanced for an online community, though of course the low bar anti intellectual engagement (there's a [dead] "cuck" comment here, for instance) always exists, followed by people who are too tethered to their own experience to consider others situation and reflexively disapprove of everything that looks "social justice".
U.S. FTC accuses Intuit of deceptively advertising free tax filing
Eliminate voting?
I've scraped the country pages, and then the internal links, removed all the URLs they won't be scroll-tracking (like '/email-signup'), and turned them into a JS file for a total size of 153742 bytes uncompressed. If you take advantage of the fact that all those country pages share a prefix, you can get the array down to 84423[1] (whilst still knowing the prefix.) Convert it to plain text (because you don't always need it immediatelyas an array) and it comes down to 81399. Then use `lz-string` to compress it and you end up with 26656 bytes.

Also since there's only 226 unique prefixes for the links, you could use another level of prefix removal and get it down even further - the JS array is now 38659 bytes, which `lz-string` gets down to 9372 bytes.

I'm pretty sure someone smarter than me can get it down even further.

[edit: discovered some blank URLs that could be stripped]
> while at the same time giving weapons that will end up in the Azov regiment

Azov has about 1,000 members, while the Ukrainian active personel is 245,000.
Why would the non-nazi majority hand the power to the 0.4% minority?
Video of the challenge live streamed to youtube:

https://youtu.be/DHpeHCsojbI

Final score card:

https://youtu.be/DHpeHCsojbI?t=15886

> Bot: 6147, humans: 5238

One of the human players, Thomas Bessis, speaks about playing against the bot
(before the end of the challenge, when the final results were not yet known; in
French):

https://youtu.be/DHpeHCsojbI?t=12173

Another of the human players, Anna Gulevich speaking about playing against the
bot after the end of the challenge (in English):

https://youtu.be/DHpeHCsojbI?t=16703

Closing speeches by NukkAI:

https://youtu.be/DHpeHCsojbI?t=18472

The bot, Nukk, was created using Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) and
Probabilistic Inductive Logic Programming (PILP).

ILP2018 paper by Legras, Rouveirol and Ventos on developing an AI player for
Bridge using ILP:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-99960-9_...
Did you know that Sigmund Freud and WordPress plugins actually have some things in common? Check out our new article to find out more:
I can get it down to 38726 bytes as a JS array, or 9490 if you use `lz-string` on that.
They are expensive compared to traditional LCDs, you can easily buy a portable 13" 1080p monitor that includes all the parts to hook it up to a computer, a plastic case etc. for less than $200. Heck you can even get a 2560x1600 one for less than $200 taking a quick peek at Amazon.
You could say this is P/Invoke for Java, which .NET had for more than a decade now. Better late than never I guess.
They'll move the classes to the final packages in Java 19 :-)
Abstraction: Not what you think it is
That is like worrying about satellites hitting birds. We are talking literally orders of magnitude difference.

Many areas have water aquifer levels that start a hundred or more feet down. No tree roots are in that, let alone other plants.
Towards the Robotic Processing Unit (RPU)
Hmm, but seen under this angle, it seems even worse, no? The tool lists about a dozen well-known public data sources that it's compatible to work with, you can't expect to gain any edge from those.

Sure, you could learn how to fit your proprietary data into this tool, but that goes back to my point, why not learn how to work with TensorFlow or whatever ML framework directly? They're not that difficult that you'd need a wrapper.
Show HN: Generate a scrum/agile/hackathon team name
I wrote an ingredient parser that is basically just one giant regular expression:
https://github.com/falk-hueffner/metric-cooking/blob/master/...

The use case is a bit different (the task includes finding ingredients mentioned in a longer text, and it'll rather not parse something rather than parsing it wrong), but it works fairly OK and can even parse things like "3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons packed light-brown sugar".
Building an Interactive Sparkline Graph with D3.js
Goodluck!

I think that native support for queries like "What is my IP?" would be great. Quite a low-hanging fruit with a lot of value.

Something about the UX seems off.

Other than that, it's a great search engine!
I agree.

I don't understand the argument of reducing cost of elections and scaling. The current paper system in place in most works (at least in European countries where I've witnessed the process) and doesn't need to scale more. If actors in a democracy can't afford such a system, and the occasional (once, twice a year) walk to the voting place, 15 minutes wait and fellow-citizen interaction, can't we accept they don't care for voting and participating and stop listening?

I'm all for accommodation of special cases (people with reduced mobility or unability to be in contact with other people) but we already have the necessary systems in place (mail-in or vote delegation).

Literally one of the last places I'd check for change or optimization. It works, leave it alone, I'll happily pay the 3 or 10eur a year.
>I think it may depend on what you consider 'quality' and the purposes of the course. Is the typical 'literary canon' type of books 'the best' reading from 1600?

Yes.
This is a fundamental misunderstanding, not just of "privileged cishet white males" but also a lot of the time of the people invoking these words.

This should not ever be meant as a judgement, but as a reminder which forms of discrimination a person will have a hard time to relate to (and also not that they will have a hard time relating to discrimination in general).

It has turned into a pretty useless phrase, almost as useless as "stay woke" (which, believe it or not, was originally not pure irony), so I generally phrase it differently when it is relevant.
I wonder if there is something, some phenomena or rare event that can cause smoke rings in space?
Translating the languages which are still left out by Google Translate
Internet penetration in rural Africa is still blocked by the language problem. But actually, building NMT models for these languages is not as hard as it sounds.
For comparison, the crown SVG included on every single page is 2043 bytes.
A Retro Computer Museum in Mariupol Beloved by Children Was Attacked by Russia
GitHub Actions Is Down Again (2022-03-29)
At least they admit it on their status page this time: https://www.githubstatus.com/
Consider that elected representatives' votes are also, as a rule, not secret.
Using Clover is incorrect. It is outdated, full of hacks and nowadays based on OpenCore anyway. However, the right way to go about putting macOS on custom hardware is using OpenCore directly. Depending on your hardware, you may actually get native level of experience or even sometimes better.
Incident with GitHub Actions
Representatives being able to conceal their legislative actions from the constituents that put them there is an impoverishment to democracy.
Hi, OP here. I'm grateful for getting this exposure. Thank you!

I wanna give a shout out to the commentators on /r/programming and that we had a meaningful discussion that may be relevant too: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/tptbzb/the_use... <3
> or they're just as good as any other lawyer

My experience is that some advocates are much better than most advocates. The best lawyer I've had was a trainee barrister, standing in for a run-of-the-mill high-street solicitor, who couldn't show up. Presumably because she was a trainee, she did a really meticulous job for me, on what was a trivial offence: speeding. Few lawyers would put much effort into a speeding ticket.

She got me off; I was speeding, but I had been charged under the wrong section of the Road Traffic Act. "I humbly submit, your honour, that it would be quite wrong, your honour, for my client to be convicted of an offence he didn't commit, your honour".
that broom sound is the worst. compare this to the sounds available on apple systems. in the directory /System/Library/Sounds: Funk, Morse, Blow.
Has P/Invoke been cross-platform for a decade? Additionally, does it parse C headers to create native type wrappers automatically? Last I checked (a long time ago), P/Invoke required you to annotate manually written prototypes?
"A dog, having walked into an inn, did not see anything, (and so he said): 'Shall I open this (door)?'."

gets me everytime
Some of these are pasting over product weaknesses:
- inability to change private channels to public "as you might accidentally reveal secret info". Yes, but that's _my_ decision, not Slacks.
- more than 1 or 2 active threads/channels is extremely painful and very easy to lose your way
- whilst search is good, finding a thread from just a day or so ago can be very difficult (especially when there are many channels)
- abuse of @here, @channel - this only seems controllable at a workspace or org level, not a per-channel level.

Yes, email and ticket systems have drawbacks, however slack is almost an anti-knowledge base in it's current state.
Courts don’t actually need to deal with vary many cases though. I suspect the average person needs to deal with the legal system for anything more complex than a speeding ticket less than once per decade.

And as it turns out five minutes in front of a judge can easily handle: “The speed camera is showing a picture of a pickup truck, I drive an SUV.”

It’s only a minute fraction of cases that take significant time to resolve. The UK has ~700 homicide victims per year and significantly fewer murder trials. Individual trials can be long and expensive without it actually adding up to a significant expense.
> Only if you're an expert cryptographer, else you're deferring to the authority.

At least it’s still provable, a plenty of people can afford to hire their own cryptographers to do verification. Foreign observers can also do the same.
Ahh ok. I imagine you would lose all the nice Nitro stuff though like enhanced networking etc which is a bummer.
Just to respond to this and all the others at once:

The reason my family optimizes for law school as a default is that it's not a specialization, it's a baseline way of thinking about and dealing with any business or life situation you find yourself in. Just as "programming" in the general sense is not a speciality and is something I think everyone should be versed in as a logical form to call upon when needed, their view is that thinking as a lawyer is crucial. Whether you ever practice law or not. This is far different from delving into the specifics of some field of law or, in your example, medicine. It's as general a type of logic as you might get from a degree in philosophy; it just happens to be a lot more useful when you need to get things done in the here and now.

My father's command was: Be whatever you want but do it after you're a lawyer. I didn't do that, but then again, I'm the least successful of my brothers.

All I meant by my original comment was that there's a rationale to it: This is not one aspect of medicine. It's applicable to every endeavor in life. Taking the time to become intimately familiar with the ins and outs of the law is roughly the same as learning the CLI for the operating system that your society runs on. Most people are only familiar with the GUI.

And for the person who said no one can afford to go to law school: Many of the best I know went to night school or even studied completely on their own, and passed the bar while they were working other jobs full-time. Just like many of the best coders.
My bad, it was a review of A Beginner's Guide to Mathematical Logic, in American Mathematical Monthly.
It can be built easily, but perhaps not yet cheaply. Just buy a Tesla PowerWall or similar.