skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone disagrees with you ... thereby demonstrating homogeneity ... proving you right?

Jokes aside, have you heard about this hypothesis that because TV and Video are transmitting the same (usually American) shows all over the world, they are also transmitting the "sensibility" and this leads to a "monoculture"?

Not saying I agree or disagree, but if you are interested, you should look it up.

Edit: found an updated look at the concerns in the age of streaming:
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/12/17/21024439/monocultur...

And this is their definition:

"What Was the Monoculture?
The monoculture seems to refer to some ill-defined age of universality made up of everything from Johnny Carson hosting the Tonight Show to Friends, Seinfeld, and The Office — the 20th-century aegis of white, middlebrow American entertainment, usually starring white Americans. This was also the ascendant era of broadcast media in radio, film, and linear television (the term for cable and network TV that isn’t on-demand). Industry gatekeepers made top-down decisions about what content would be made and when it would be shown, resulting in a lack of diversity that is only now beginning to change.

Monoculture is a Pleasantville image of a lost togetherness that was maybe just an illusion in the first place, or a byproduct of socioeconomic hegemony. It wasn’t that everyone wanted to watch primetime Seinfeld, but that’s what was on, and it became universal by default."
Hubble Captures Largest Comet Ever Seen and It’s Headed This Way
This is very well said, and true in my experience.
Started baking bread with kids recently. They love it. But next day the leftover bread is stale. I explained that it isn’t full of preservatives.

After a moment, they look at me and ask where we can get some.
Thanks for the advice, just uploaded stats on my Ubuntu 20.04 machine.
In a company with 10000 computers you don't want to have an IT person walk to each of them to roll out new software or install an update. Sure, attackers would have a harder time, but IT departments would also have to be orders of magnitude larger
> put bread in the freezer

Except frozen bread tastes bloody awful.
PostScript struck me as a really nice concatenative language. It has some really nice extras. It's probably in the nature of the languages and their users, but they seem like a class of languages where a specialized IDE would really help.
And what moral reasons could those possibly be for Wikipedia?
I’d prefer Coinbase insider trading over Nancy Pelosi insider trading. So this isn’t the end of the world.

There’s no universe where there’s no insider trading and you’re asking me to switch the Coinbase situation for the Pelosi situation. And I prefer the Coinbase situation.

So I can accept the lesser of two evils and kick up a fuss when I don’t like it. After all, if switching to regulated finance is what you recommend, the cure is worse than the disease.
There are differing concerns.

The first is what you're addressing: is this particular bit of value from a bad place? Both systems have issues there. I still think fiat is better, because the bank the transfer originates from has presumably done KYC. I also don't think it's that big of a deal; there are much worse things to do with drug money.

The second is entirely different: is accepting this currency going to help proliferate problems associated with the currency? I.e. does accepting Bitcoin legitimize it and implicitly encourage others to use Bitcoin, amplifying any environmental or money laundering concerns?

I don't have a hard stance, I'm not a member of any of the relevant groups. I can see where they're coming from, and I don't find it a crazy stance. Really, either side seems fair.
There's a whole spectrum, from misalignment on the proper state of the house, to the feelings of respect, to the increase in household jobs for the other partner.

If the husband puts his cup by the sink at night, then picks it back up again in the morning, and finally after a few days it ends up in the dishwasher, then you'll never convince him that it's mismatched emotional labor, because in his eyes the cup didn't need to be put away.

If you try to tell him that it's not fair for her to put his cup in the dishwasher every night and his response is "I was going to use the cup again tomorrow" then the conversation will never make any progress.

No one is right or wrong in a conversation about whether it's ok to put your cup by the sink at night and then pick it up again the next day. It's just one of those things in marriage that you need to agree on how it will be, based on effort vs. how much one partner is bothered. And then stick to the agreement while giving your partner some occasional leeway.
https://archive.ph/t3m62
Ask HN: How to Master Java Generics?
Hi, I am a very happy Java programmer who likes writing internal DSLs. (Mainly generic methods where you don't have to fight with type erasure.)

I feel like I understand how generics work in Java pretty well but every so often I am scratching my head about "Why doesn't it solve for the right type here?"

Asking on forums I find a lot of people give up, there are some others at the same level or who know a little more but it's not a complete understanding. Looking online there is a lot of thing content.

Is there a really good book and/or a set of problem sets for this one?
I’ve literally heard this “everything is the same now, there used to be more creativity” consistently long enough that the good times people point to now are often decades in to when I had been hearing the complaint.
> I don't understand how Windows still works off of you receiving packages at your door and the only way to verify its safety is guess that the timing of your package syncs up with what you ordered and the packaging looks like what you got, and to have hope that the place that packed it wasn't malicious. While nearly all programs do include bombs (unwanted tracking / malware / bad design), usually they're just fairly harmless firecrackers. The only way to open your package up is to put it on the flammable gas pipe in the middle of the house (a left over design from earlier versions of the house) which has a very heavy flaming chainsaw attached to a 1 inch chain.

This is exactly what the "Signed by Windows" MSI feature is for. Of course it is also a cash-in with a prohibitively lengthy and expensive process for publishers though (IMHO)
Super off topic, but the wealth gap is exacerbated by not taxing the wealthiest at a high enough rate, not regulations against capital market participation in highly speculative ventures. To argue that accredited investor regulations are the problem is no different than arguing for lottery tickets or penny stocks as an investment strategy for low income citizens.
My wife and I wrote our own marriage vows. The first two were pretty conventional (stay together, share joys and sorrows). The third was the most important IMO and also hardest to keep.

"Treat each other's needs and priorities as equal to our own"

If you don't think it's hard, try it. I don't mean just respecting each other's time and attention in a general sense, which BTW I've come to believe is a good rule for all interactions. I mean treating their habits and preferences and pet peeves, no matter how silly they seem to you, as seriously as your own. Also, no double standards anywhere in your life together. No matter how exhausted or aggravated you are yourself at that moment. Consistently doing that takes a lot more self discipline than most people have. I can't say we've always succeeded, but after 26 years I'd say it has been worth the effort.

N.B. I'm not saying you shouldn't have your own preferences and habits and pet peeves. I'm totally not into that "become one person" thing; my wife and I are in fact pretty notoriously independent and happy to do our own separate things e.g. at social gatherings. There will be conflicts between your priorities and theirs. I'm just saying that those conflicts should be resolved starting from a position of equality.
What I love about this is the way half loaves are found, simple but really clever.

Search for "bread" with the correct category, and then filter out all results that are greater than 300 grams. It works out because all the artisanal bread are excluded with a regex.

https://github.com/prashantbaid/halfloaf/blob/master/lambda/...
Why would you want a half loaf of bread?

Maybe if you don't have a freezer or toaster? Because bread freezes very well, and if you buy a full loaf it's cheaper per serving.

I might be taking this too seriously, but I just started freezing bread in my 40's LOL (artisan bread). All you need is a bread knife and zip loc bags.

Big quality of life improvement. After you toast it, it's better than fresh. There is some science behind this that I don't remember.
While everyone is plugging their favorite streamers allow me to plug GothamChess. Definitely most entertaining for me as well as educational, followed by the Botez sisters, Agadmator and then Hikaru. I like watching him, but he plays lines that I can’t possibly hope to remember ( I’m around 1800 blitz / bullet ), and so it’s more like watching a magician. “So guys, let’s play the sodium…”
1) It's mob swarming behavior that drives every social/cultural trend everywhere, so no, that's not new. It's just received greater facilitation via technology.

2) It's what happens at every single intersection of profit and scale that we've encountered in human history to date, so no, that's not new. It's just received greater facilitation via technology.

3) It's what happens whenever the barrier to entry is lowered, so no, that's not new. It's just received greater facilitation via technology.

4) It is parasitic behavior driven by people and companies and etc who are focused primarily on extracting (wealth, revenue, profit, status, whatever) rather than creating/producing guided by some vision/purpose, and again, no, that isn't new. It's just received greater facilitation via technology.
God the ending of that is great
Nice work. It inspired me to interrupt work and create this

https://imgur.com/a/MBIx7jJ
on the contrary, dude seems to have done pretty extensive research—did you read the article?
Piracy on YouTube decreased due to more accountability, not less. These don't seem like similar situations in the slightest.
I read somewhere that even if we max out on wind turbine, the flow of blades to landfill would be about 1% of the current flow of comparable materiels from recreationnal boating.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/06/nautical...

As mentionned by other the fact that we talk about "waste" from wind turbine is likely due to fossil companies funding media campaigns about it.
It seems like what the author really wants is not to play a video game, but to participate in society.
Hikaru learning "5-D Chess with Time Travel":

https://youtu.be/v2zg-66eTY8
> This seems like a one-sided stopgap to a problem that is undoubtedly two-sided and it sets a precedent for [the author's definition of] respect that cannot be maintained indefinitely.

I don't know that it's one-sided. The author may have asked their spouse to similarly adjust behavior in various ways; if they were amenable to that, but didn't get a corresponding response on their own pet peeves, that'd be an imbalance that'd stew over time.

> For example, what if you were just about to put the glass in the dishwasher but the doorbell rings?

Doing it very occasionally and doing it all the time are likely to have substantially different impacts on the spouse.
It would be, if it was true. So far, the only source is the "China Tribunal" - a private NGO operating without any kind of legal mandate or even oversight, which to me looks like a propaganda outlet masquerading as a proper law institution.
> It's one thing to be against crypto, but refusing it when you are a charity for the most asinine moral purity tests is absurd.

How can you write that when you just called crypto a "scam, a ponzi scheme or a platform for pump and dumps?" If your characterization is in earnest then any charity would reflexively avoid such a thing. (Possibly excepting Sci-hub who cannot receive donations any other way-- at least that's the only positive edge case I can think of that warrants the "for the most part" hedge)

Edit: clarification
Meta will take a 48 percent cut from sales in Horizon Worlds
It would be wrong to say that there isn't unique creativity still out there. What's happened is that the mainstream drivel is now so pervasively marketed that everything else has been effectively pushed out of sight and out of mind.

I see it as a narrowing of a three-tier culture. It used to be that we shared a cultural "core" (shows, bands, books, etc. that /everybody/ knew) and beyond that there were cultures shared by large portions of us and beyond that niche subcultures shared by small groups of us. Recently, it seems to me that the core has been eroded (there's not much that /everybody/ knows any more), the larger cultures have been over-commercialized (Disney Drivel), and the smaller subcultures are starved for exposure. Despite what many of these "platforms" recite about "discovery", a person nowadays has to really search to find a bona-fide niche, a real, independent cultural community.
In terms of #1, it’s the fact you pay taxes on inflation, not just real growth.

So if you buy a stock at $100 and sell at $200 ten years later, but with inflation that same dollar is worth $1.50 ten years later, your real return is $50, not $100, but you’ll pay taxes on the full $100 of $20, which means a 40% real tax rate.

With income the brackets are indexed to inflation so that issue is removed.
Your link shows 81% in favour of abortion, with or without some restrictions, with 19% against abortion. Wanting abortion rights is not synonymous with being pro-choice, which carries implications of no restrictions at all.
You have to thaw it before you eat it.
Love reading about the Bloomsbury Set in London early 1900s. I think the finest novelization of that world is the E. M. Forester *Howard's End". Movie & TV versions work as well. One of those stories you can set in any generation and it holds sort of true ;)
Guix Home: Keeping one’s home tidy
My research involve applying Popper's epistemology to natural language processing.
So I am quite involved in this.

As far as I can tell, almost all of what Popper tried to do with quantification measures of information are exactly what you are talking about.

In particular Conjectures and Refutations covers this really extensively so I'd recommend reading or re-reading that. Though Logic of Scientific Probability covers an early form. David Miller's Critical Rationalism covers it well too and some of it's problems.

I.e:
His notion (shared with positivists like Carnap and others) that science is a set of logical statements. A collection of statements is a theory, a theory entails a set of predictions which is called the information content of the theory (sometimes I(c) or C(I) in his notation).

If the I(c) > I(c') where c' is a competing theory then it is said to have more explanitory power. I.e. it makes more predictions.

This is part of his defnition of what makes a good explanation and what david desutch calls "hard to vary".

The other main part of the definitition is about whether these statements reflect Truth in anyway.. that is covered by his notion of verisimiltude or truthlikeness which is quantified as the degree to which the information content of a theory I(c) can be corroborated.

Both of these are essentailly "The predictive strength of someone's Truth"

The problem you and many other have probably encountered is the information content of an explanation is *intractable* it's an open set of statements which cannot full by fleshed out. So instead we can never have a perfect quantification of whether my theories or your theories are better... there may indeed be statements entailed by flat earth theory that have yet to be discovered and could indeed be more corroborated and provide better information content than a non-flat earth theory! Popper revels in this fact and fully embraces it.

Beyond Popper though, we need to understand more of the dynamics of "predictive strength" - I am finding causality a great source of literature that for which I would recommend Judea Perl and the Book of Why among other things.

For Philosophy of Science in particular there are ton's of great articles on stanford encyclopedia of philosophy about Explanation that go into this in depth - in fact the positivists like Carnap wrote amazing things about this which I would recommend.
I once made a homebrew GraphLink parallel port cable so that I could upload games and programs to my TI graphing calculator. Made it a lot easier to write programs than to tap them out on the calculator itself.

A friend and I wrote a chat program that used the calculator-to-calculator GraphLink cable to send messages back and forth so we could chat in class. This was a neat hack, but considering the cable that came with the 85 was like 2 feet long, it was kinda useless in practice unless we were sitting at the same table. So I made a longer cable at home out of stuff from RadioShack.

Everything was cool until we got caught using the homebrew cable in class. Fortunately, once we showed the principal what we'd done, we were told that it was very clever, but not to have the cable in class anymore. :)

You know, I think I might still have my TI-85 and homebrew cables in a box somewhere. I wonder if any of my old programs are still there.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, April 2022 Edition
Sorry to be solutioning here, and I'd imagine you've already tried this after 14 years, but sometimes changing habits can be solved with things like buying an extra laundry basket. It's seems like a small thing, but these adjustments can provide the accessibility that make it simpler to meet in the middle. In the kitchen, we keep a mini-waste bin on our countertop for used coffee grinds. It works for us.
This is a very important lesson - the chance of finding a "perfect" partner is vanishingly small if considered in the normal view - but the chance of finding someone who is willing to work together is higher.

And most marriages are "arranged" in some way or another, we just like to pretend that random chance plays little part and somehow we've got it down to a science.
Funny to see this. I kind of turned this into a YouTube channel as well: https://www.youtube.com/c/BehindtheScreens
I’m shocked by how many people in this thread have been completely derailed thinking the literal glass is the issue rather than being symbolic of the issue. I always hated how much teachers would drill symbolism and literary device analysis into you in school but then I come across threads like this I wonder whether we aren’t focusing on it enough.
I think trading on the basis of private information at the expense of other shareholders without the same information is the problem. I'm less concerned about the specifics of filing requirements, and more concerned about information asymmetry regardless of auditing/reporting obligations. I'm not sure I know enough to recommend a specific policy here, my original comment was just what I believe to be some of the flaws that 'crypto fans' see in traditional systems.
> Having dual nationality was marked as a big risk indicator

Dual nationality indeed has its ups and downs. FWIW, our children have dual nationality, and on top of that, are all bilingual.

On enrolling them in their first school the school insisted on tweaking the enrollment data we'd submitted to list the locally-spoken language second, and so put the non-local language first, as "mother tongue" (and yes, that's exactly how it's described round here <sigh>). This meant the school would get extra money from the government from a pot of money intended to support migrant kids with language issues.

The first time this happened we pushed straight back and asked to get this corrected (all our kids were born locally and speak the local language and dialect like everyone else round here), but the school wasn't having it. They couldn't understand why we didn't want to support the school getting extra money.

What did we learn from this? If the incentives and/or system are broken by design, it can get very hard for anyone wanting to get the system corrected later.
Identifying Europe's Critical Open Source Software – Fosseps
I love seeing elderly couples. If you get into the house of old folks couples that have been married for 30 or 40 years the "peacefulness" you perceive in their relationship is great. They have learned that nothing really matters. A broken glass? some mud in the house? a stack of books/magazines in the floor? Who freaking cares? They have each other and they have had each other for 30+ years and they have each other until they die.
Study suggests mechanism through which psychedelics may alleviate depression
There's the theory that the aliens are really demons and it's not water they're vulnerable to, but holy water.
You will soon need a billion usd budget to implement a new font
The Hubble Space Telescope has an aperture of a pathetic f/24 [1]. I guess they should just fire an iPhone up there instead, huh.

[1] §5.2.2 in https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/hubble/a_pdf/news/SM2-Medi...
There is no "Unintentional fraud". If it's unintentional, it's a mistake. See also:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fraud
I'll be very happy if you give Stacktape a try and let me know if there's something you're missing (or something that dotCloud did better).
They were able to add a 'part 1' to the title. Phew.
I've never seen a mower with an automatic deck height adjustment, most require you to move a lever on the wheels to change the deck height.

Maybe a full size riding mower would have something automated there? So you'd turn that into a robotic one?
FashionCLIP: Connecting Language and Images for Product Representations
Serverless Speech-to-Text
If you haven't read "The Five Love Languages" yet and are in a relationship, then I highly suggest you do. It might save it before it's too late.

And just to make this slightly more startup-related as well: as team members, we also have "love languages", ways we communicate respect and appreciation to each other. Sometimes we speak different languages and don't understand each other. That breaks the team.
>That's not managing the server. That's managing your application setup and not something that takes additional time for managed servers over cloud setups, because you still need all of those things for a cloud setup.

It is additional time because the cloud handles the whole class of "your hardware died" problems.
I think these were way more fun to play with if your line voltage was 220, than if your line voltage was 110; I only remember it as a thing to check if stuff isn't working, not a source of magic smoke or sparks.
There’s the other slang meaning as in, “I’d hit that”. Of course there is the darker physical hitting interpretation which advocates against domestic violence have a problem with.
I'm eating loads of bread, good bread is not easy to come by in London, at least to my taste. There is this one place I like, they do big loafs that reminds me of the bread my grand parents were buying in France. Problem is that they won't sell me halves and my partner doesn't eat much so I freeze it from time to time.
Frozen bread from a decent bakery always beat any kind of "fresh" supermarket bread.
US sentences crypto expert to 5 years after North Korea blockchain presentation
> This is similar today to what is happening in web3/crypto. If you don't think the ingenuity of humans will get us somewhere productive with these technologies, then I don't know what to say to you.

They won't, because they achieve nothing that can't already be accomplished with proven technologies. Axie Infinity could easily be built using regular plain old databases, but they built in on the blockchain using a terrible bridge architecture and as a result had $600 million stole. Such innovation.