skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You just did! Let me know when you're canceled

On an anonymous account. Meanwhile our org's job postings are "gendered" because they contain words like "strong", "independent", "analysis", and if I dare to pushback on the insanity I'm liable to lose my job. If I wrote publicly about it and gained any notoriety I'd risk being publicly shamed by the woke mob and effectively blacklisted a la James Damore.

>You're saying the purported suppression can't be detected because its effect is already so widespread. And it's widespread because of the threat of cancellation. Which didn't happen. See the problem

Your argument is dishonest. It does happen and these is evidence, I'm saying it's harder to detect. Look at the unwarranted treatment of James Watson for daring to suggest the relationship between genes, race, and intelligence.

>that this research doesn't exist because it's being suppressed, and not merely because it's wrong

See above. It doesn't take more than a few public examples to deter people from asking certain questions or even participating in a system when asking the wrong questions regarding certain topics becomes career and social suicide.
I've only been a passenger on a private jet once: a lightly loaded Lear 60. The takeoff was amazing; there was a fairly high level of initial acceleration and the acceleration got stronger and stronger as the airspeed built on the runway. I went up to the cockpit door early in the climb and we were climbing at over 5K feet per minute. It was obvious that the aircraft was not short on engine power. :)

611mi (641mi flown) in 1h09m for an average speed of 531mph direct (557mph/485 knots as flown). Peak climb rate per flightaware (slightly noisy): 5781 fpm.
Yup, pretty much everything on this guy's channel is top drawer.
Elon Musk, the richest person, says he doesn't own a home
Shouldn't it be possible to sell a game while making it open source at the same time?

I mean that's a bit what quake 3 did, the content kept its copyright.

I honestly don't think it's posing a threat to the company who makes the game, because there won't really be anybody forking the game and making it better than the original creator, in a short period of time, while also selling it. It will only bring bad publicity.
> for no good reason

Why would it need to be a good reason? Especially why would it need to be a good reason, from our perspective?

Hardly an original thought but it's entirely possible that an alien civilization pro-forma sends out an unmanned planet-killer-scale weapon at every alien civilization they detect, simply to avoid the possibility that we might grow up to be hostile to them, or even compete with them for resources.

An unmanned bomb like that wouldn't take many resources and it's possible they would view us as primitively as we view stomping on an ant hill in africa.

Now that's a depressing thought.
I think the guy was just trolling. Esp that TLB stuff thats quite speculative and if true means memory hopping, write heavy, gpu bound apps can't squeeze all of the fastest, niche version of m1 ultra. I mean, thats just ridiculous. Its obvious to any programmer that squeezing all from a processor requires optimizations, usually for rapidly diminishing returns.

My m1 max laptop is so good that if it broke today, I'd lament having to wait for a replacement, but wouldnt hesitate. Felt the same way about m1. And thats coming after three decades of low level programming work on dos, windows and linux x86 with the best hardware money could buy.
I mean density in terms of amount of plasma through the device. You can cluster these together too but that gets complex from a systems design perspective. It's something that's being researched though
As someone who see fairly well in the dark: I too often find myself nearly unable to see what's in front of me because of the car behind.
It also makes judging the distance and speed of a passing vehicle a literal pain.
Well, I just think they're neat
Economies of scale and some sort of insufficient-competition market failure seem to sometimes make relatively-niche choices far more expensive than they "should" be, and TVs seem to be one of those cases—so you end up with manufacturers making $100 extra dollars (numbers made up, but bear with me) per panel on ads, but it'd cost you $1,000 to get the same panel without ads, which distorts apparent consumer preferences (pushing that niche even farther out of the mainstream, and so making the gap even worse).
Interestingly, Cash App Taxes was sold to Square just before Credit Karma was acquired by Intuit:

https://finovate.com/square-takes-on-taxes-as-justice-oks-in...
> Not sure why all of the hate.

You're being facetious, right?

They have dark patterns every step of the way to try to get you to pay more and to share your tax information. Their "free" is oftentimes not free. And on top of all this, there are countless articles about them lobbying to maintain the status quo of complicated taxes.
Well, the Google Cache[1] shows it as last snap-shotted at Apr 2, 2022 05:48:34 GMT, and the captured page doesn't have any announcement about the site shutting down or anything. If I had to guess, I'd say it went down because of a server crash or some network issue. The open question, if I'm correct, is "will it be back up, and if so, when?" Not sure about that. I hope it is coming back though, as it's a site I also enjoyed perusing from time to time.

[1]: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XjPUGeG...
What I've found working with geometric data like SVG is that your software will use some kind of internal representation that looks quite different than SVG, so you will do some kind of parsing into your data structure and then serializing out to SVG at the end. Even doing something like serialize(parse(number)) is not guaranteed to be lossless.

The only way to avoid doing that losslessly is to track the original text that you parsed into your IR nodes, which is a bit expensive if you think about it. A double is 64 bits, most shape/path data is packed and dense lists of doubles. Interleaving strings or ids that can be used to track them can be really annoying to thread through your program without performance or memory issues.
I missed the slide where it tells you what to do when your hacker space is taken over by militant communists who are more interested in organizing demonstrations about third toilets and the evil of leather shoes. German 'hacker' spaces are infested with people like this. Heaven forbid you just want to make something or are simply interested in experimenting with technology and don't follow the same political dogma. German hacker space? No thanks...
Missile as in asteroid. Why bother with anything but the engines, big rocks are more than enough for interstellar warfare. Perhaps that's what got the dinosaurs and there's another one on its way right now :)
If my energy is sufficiently changed from it's present form such that I can no longer enjoy my morning coffee, it doesn't really matter to me.
I'm sure this isn't enough money but ... car users pay taxes on gasoline to maintain the roads. Cyclists pay nothing equivalent. Of course cyclists pay normal taxes like everyone else. It does raise the question of should their be a cycle tax. Cars will have a similar problem soon, as they go electric all over the world whatever taxes come from gas will disappear and governments will have to find a new way to pay for the roads.
Now I am convinced that Mockingbirds are merely bird repeaters helping move messages through a bird network.
So cool. I just joined the Arizona Audubon Society a month ago and I go out with birding groups a couple of times a week, really fun activity!
There are a lot of different types of charter schools with vastly different rules and regulations.
I'm really not following what you're talking about. What is the phase diagram you're referring to?
He just reply according to where the cursor is placed regarding ethics.

The same way anyone who think selling metamphetamines to vulnerable people and kids is unethical and wrong, then you should not do it and find another income to feed your family.

Nobody is put a gun to the temple and forced to write proprietary software to make a living. There are myriads of other jobs.
> They would have been there the whole time, they didn't just pop into existence because it got observed.

Unless they are quantum beings.

But more seriously, at cosmic scales it is possible we observe something/some civilization in our present that actually no longer exists. There should be something like the Drake Equation to determine the likelihood of a civilization we observe actually currently existing based on the observed distance.

To your point the oldest radio broadcasts are just over 100 years old, since they travel at the speed of light they will need 100,000 years to travel the length of the Milky Way, so if a civilization as advanced as ours were on the other side of the galaxy in the future to receive them, what are the odds humans will still be around? Assuming we are around, then it would be about another 100,000 years for them to send a directed communication at the speed of light, so I think you are correct it’s not worth the effort to worry.
Because they need to change SIM's all the time. There are websites listing suspicious numbers, simply Googling the number reveals if the number is is used for scamming. Unsuccessful or successful attempts often result someone writing about it in one of those phone number websites.

I don't know if the SIM card limit is by national ID number or operator but there are not that many GSM operators in Bulgaria anyway, it's a small country. There were more before but they merged and now there are 3 in total.
Or someone will actually build a nice platform for once, like, I don't know, maybe Subreply.
Always wanted to start a hackerspace!

What's interesting to me about this is that I used to run a student org, and the same principals apply. Was a great learning experience for me, and I think if you're interested in leadership and building social spaces like this it's something you should take if you get the opportunity.
This is absolutely exceptional if true. As far as I am concerned you should be a good artists out of the box. The argument that "well, it's drawing the line well" is mostly bs - it's being able to visualize proportions, distance between things, etc. Most artists actually don't - they follow rules. A person starts as a square and gets broken into quarters with each quarter denoting say the middle of the chest, the groin, the knees, etc. Each box is then broken down more (eyes in the middle of the top box, etc). If you can actually visualize things accurately, especially "wiremap it", you should be able to draw a portrait from memory in 3D. Otherwise you are lying to yourself.

As far as use - Tesla was said to have "run" schematics in his head to see what would break. I believe it. This allowed him to rapidly prototype.

Also, your working memory should be off the charts, which should be indicative of a very high IQ
This has been happening to me for a long time. I have an alias set up in my terminal that will send a ping to speedtest.net every few seconds to make my ISP think that I am doing a speedtest. I will start it if I am noticing throttling. It seems to work some of the time, but not if the network is extremely overloaded.

Something like this:
alias pingspeed="ping -i 4 speedtest.net"
Taxi services in my city already had apps that showed the price and car location, along with online payment well before Uber was allowed to operate.

Uber bought it's way into the market here by losing more money than any reasonable business would be able to afford. Now it's more expensive than the services it displaced and still losing money hand over fist.
He won by less than 40k votes (something like less than half a percent) [1], I’m sorry but that’s a dangerous game to play if you want to win general elections.
Polls this early don’t matter, polls the weeks before election does.
This is nothing but political grand standing.

Also independent voters are a misnomer. Independents will typically vote for their preferred party the majority of the time, they're still partisans they just don't vote in primaries. [2] [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Florida_gubernatorial_ele...

[2] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/few-americans-who-ident...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/01/0...
> You know its funny. I always hear this “folk devil” described regarding the charter school movement

Only indirectly. It's about the voucher movement (parochial schools can't be charter schools).
The main connection to the charter movement (with regard to support specifically for parochial schools) is that the pro-parochial voucher movement sometimes uses push for charters as an Overton-window shifting technique to break down resistance to public funding of private schools where they can't win outright.

(The voucher and charter movements are more deeply connected through the broader private-for-profit schooling industry and it's lobbying, but that's a different angle than the parochial schooling one, though it connects back because the industry definitely uses the religious community much the same way the auto insurance industry uses MADD.)
Come on - you didn't "simply list facts" you stated wildly confident and extreme opinions and then you labeled them facts. That you can't or won't recognize this is what I'm talking about.

"Literally no new thing", "I look at reality" (implying I only make stuff up), "wishful thinking", "precisely zero knowledge", "Without fail in 100% of cases this is the case", etc. etc.

There are interesting conversations to have on this topic, but it's hard to have them with someone only willing to engage in this way. It requires some amount of willingness to be uncertain of what you currently believe and you're not. The more you reply, the more you confirm my initial suspicion of bad faith.

I'm not some blind crypto nut (at best I'm cautiously optimistic), but I find it hard to engage with the baseline anti-crypto hostility on HN which makes interesting conversation hard.
As long as it has been investigated scientifically, then "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" is actually not correct. To my understanding that is exactly how particle physics research is conducted.

My understanding is that there is no evidence for pre-historic human societies that had advanced technologies. We have hard data in our genetics for the timeframes of human existence (statistical rate of random genetic drift vs nearest ancestors) in addition to the fossil record, we have good information from ice cores about when/what of particulates were in the atmosphere, we know general rates of tectonic movements , and it's easy to observe what's under kilometers of strata with drilling cores if anyone has a good hypothesis as to where to drill.
If we are going that route, we should also desolve the NYT for using shaky evidence to sell the war in Iraq.
I've watched Armageddon. All you need is a nuke and Bruce Willis.
We Chose to Build on Snowflake
In my experience most weather is reported with relative humidity, but dew point is also important. When the dew point reaches a certain level it is described by some as feeling "muggy". There is a feeling that your skin is wet because moisture on your skin has slowed (or stopped) evaporating because the air has saturated with moisture.

https://www.weather.gov/arx/why_dewpoint_vs_humidity
I always associate muggy with humidity
The solution to this is Square, not Uber.
I think that’s a good way to put it, but instead of BAYC I’d say almost all NFT animals
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That isn't quite on the nose: if a parent finds something goes against their beliefs should they be able to stop everybody's kids from learning about it in school?
"Oh, of course there's life on other planets, God made them, too".

Tbh, churches funding an interstellar mission (to convert the heathens) would be a mostly good thing
> We can only go by what we know and what we have evidence for

There is nuance here, in the degree to which uncertainty due to lack of evidence is surfaced in scientific communications for the public.

Take for instance, the behavior of dogs. Science cannot [yet] objectively answer the question of how much the subjective qualia of a dog is comparable to the qualia of humans. What then can we say about whether dogs feel 'love'? Some might say that science has not yet answered this question; that is fine.

But others get overeager and assert that because science hasn't demonstrated that dogs feel love, the scientific position is to assume all apparent demonstrations of love from dogs are little more than elaborate food seeking behavior. This goes too far, it assumes a lack of evidence is evidence to the contrary, implicitly treating science as complete until proven otherwise. I think this overzealous sort of 'scientific' thinking reflects a dogmatic attitude which is actually antithetical to the real scientific method.
Or, they send out probes for science, because only humans have the insatiable appetite for destroying each other.
That's what we do! But that's also what we've been doing for 40 years and it's nice to have some theoretical grounding to why stuff works.
The point is interacting with them via smart contracts and other blockchain tools. Done correctly, NFTs are simply an API from real world to the blockchain.
Divine/Holy are how powerful people prevent others from questioning things. I didn't mention Divine or Holy, just theology.

The core difference between Science and Theology is how they deal with statements of "truth" without evidence.

Theology starts with "it's true because I said so"

Science starts with "it's true because I can demonstrate it"

That humans were complex in the past is a good hypothesis. It needs evidence before it can be accepted as fact, or even necessarily expect respect from others. The lack of recent skull changes would seem to be a good start.

If someone believes the hypothesis to be true, they will go explore and find evidence to back their claims. If there was a complex society in the English Channel, it's likely well preserved, just waiting to be found!
Weaving baskets and braiding hair for quantum computing
I would not be trying to solve the problem forever. I would be trying to effectively control it.

The alternative was to send police to fire rubber bullets, with somebody losing an eye (https://www.spainenglish.com/2019/10/01/eye-rubber-bullet-ca...), against people that wanted to... vote.

Rubber bullets happen to be a weapon invented by the British to use during The Troubles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_bullet). But even the British, the inventors, stopped used them. In fact, the Catalan local police were also banned from using them and were shot in Catalonia only because it came from the non-Catalan police (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/catalonia-pr...).

(Not to mention all the other images of police violence).

Being able to say "I have given them the referendum, they are not taking it" vs giving the other party such a great narrative "That's why we want independence. We are more civilized than them. They are aggressive animals." changes something.
Go read facebook or reddit for a few minutes, if you don't want to puke you're part of the problem.
A simpler alternative assumption could be this:

1. sophistication is driven by specialization

2. the ability to specialize is driven by access to surplus energy

3. before the advent of agriculture bands of humans simply did not have the excess calories available to them to support a priesthood and philosophers and bureaucrats, etc.
Recently, I’ve seen much talk about writing code on an iPad. What’s the use case here, or are people just geeking out over what’s possible?
You know it's a sad state of affairs when you assume the article will be about physical mail spam but it's actually about phone spam. Could have just as easily been about email newsletter spam you somehow get auto signed up for all the time.
College became the default – Let's rethink that
Dumb legal question:

Why can a poison pill dilute away a single shareholder’s stake, but doing some scheme where 51% of the shareholders dilute away the stake of the remaining 49% is illegal?
one of the greatest personal assets, is to own nothing, but have anything you need, by simply asking nicely, and sharing the benefits
Synthetic data was used to train the pose estimation model that shipped with the microsoft kinect [0].

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
Facebook is not the gold standard example of a social media platform in 2022 is it?
Given his history of making statements which, if I am being generous, are wildly optimistic year after year while not allowing experience to impact what he is saying I have less faith that he will actually do what he says.

Value wise his other states goals would be far better advanced if he used that money to speed them along instead of buying Twitter.
ECS Liva has 4GB RAM and 32GB of storage with Windows 10.

It is going to be extremely limited in what it can do.

In that case the iPad at $329 becomes a legitimate competitor and it includes a screen.
3D Printed F/A-18 Hornet Cockpit for DCS World (2021)
I never had this problem on my Android phone because it had a Google Voice related service where I could block known spammers. Almost no one got through. Since switching to iPhone I've noticed a significant uptick. This might be coincidental, maybe Android would have been letting more through also.
I hope to learn the stories of the people who made it work, despite the cost overruns and bureaucracy!
Then you should probably suppress or delete the objectionable disruption or the person causing said disruption.
Yeah that’s sort of what I’m driving at. He called a lot of stuff that wasn’t exactly an easy take.
Yup, I'm in the same boat. I have no "past logins" because VPN, so haven't been able to access my Google accounts for years.
Convert to parquet and use spark.
The delays, the cost overruns and the general bureaucracy surrounding the whole project are likely the reasons why it _didn't_ fail miserably. It's definitely not a situation where you want to move fast and break things.
Two easy projects that I think are a good intro to any language are a tiny LISP parser/interpreter and an echo or chat server. They'll get you up to speed on internal libraries, project setup, building and testing (all the boring stuff you need to know) and then are complex enough that you can learn the core syntax and semantics with opportunities to flex the neater parts of a language.
Agreed. Have been using it for 3 years and user experience is better than TurboTax.
Yeah - the config is somewhat granular so for known spam I don't even see it happening.