skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting to see population growth being listed as one of the prime factors, and that "Girl's Education" is proposed as a solution to this. I get why sex-ed and more widespread access/knowledge/acceptance of contraceptives might help the situation slightly, but aren't there much more deeply rooted problems than "girls don't know what a condom is"?

And further, it brings up interesting moral questions touching on eco-justified anti-natalism. Would it be morally justified to have a hundred kids?

EDIT: I largely take back the first paragraph, but I'll leave it for posterity. Helping girls to create a career for themselves probably has a larger impact on population growth. The anti-natalism thing is still interesting though.
This is my experience. They can be good emotional support resources but often develop an orthodoxy unsupported by science and enforced through shaming/berating (e.g. people with lupus shouldn’t drink orange juice or supplement with vitamin C, and similar nonsense).

My advice is read all you can to thoroughly understand what’s happening to you - The Lupus Book by Dr. Wallace, The Lupus Encyclopedia by Dr. Thomas are two great compendiums and candidates for Kindle. Then find support resources that look at the condition as something that can be and should be managed, eschewing the mesmerizing appeal of self-pity and one-upsmanship with symptoms.

The fact is that managing lupus puts a higher priority than normies have on diet, fitness, sleep, mental and physical stress management, and UV exposure. Ordering your own blood work - understanding the tests that are valuable and how to diagnose results is also a good practice for taking charge of your condition - i.e. what are the early warning signs that my kidneys may be “silently” failing; what are my baseline CBC numbers, specifically white blood cells, and can I provide those to a GP/PCP on the fly; etc.

Social media, I found, doesn’t really advance what is mostly a solo journey to preserve function through daily mental and physical discipline. However, another thing I’ve come to appreciate is that most (healthy) people don’t enjoy listening to stories about medical problems, and if you just need to tell your story and get some brief positivity and empathy, online groups can fill that need.
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Exactly. The non-EU migrants to the EU have to go through a lot of paperwork and it takes a lot of time. And if you then leave without naturalizing (which for most non-EU citizens is probably going to take over 10 years from the day of arrival, not to mention the daunting requirements to actually achieve it in most of the EU), you’ll likely have to through the same paperwork again, because “permanent residence” is only permanent if you remain a resident.

For example I’m a permanent resident in the UK (under the EU settlement scheme, post-Brexit), but I haven’t lived in the UK for 2 years now. So in 3 years my status there will lapse. I can go back now, but I won’t be able to in 3 years. And I have it easy. Permanent resident status (ILR, or indefinite leave to remain, as it’s called in the UK) lapses in 2 years for people who didn’t gain it under the EU settlement scheme.

I went back to my home country precisely because I knew that it’s no big deal for the next 5 years. I wouldn’t have left if I knew that I’d have to return within 2 years. I would have naturalised, and maybe then. Which, again, costs a lot of money, takes a lot of paperwork, and takes a lot of time. (Which, again, is easy for me, because my home country allows you to hold multiple citizenships. That’s not the case for everyone.)
Mental Secure Hash Function
What's the rationale behind this omission on NVIDIA's part?
Do you want to get access to your brain from your program? Here how you can do it.

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This exercise of "if everyone/everything was like X" is very fallacious. There is no path that takes the current world we are living in all the way to this simulated reality that makes no sense. "If everyone were like Elon Musk..." reads like a start of a joke or a horror story, but never a feasible reality.

The truth is that, once resources become scarce, various optimization mechanisms kick in. For example, Israel produces a lot of food in the desert thanks to various water usage optimization techniques.

Human civilization uses a tiny percentage of the total energy delivered to Earth. This again is tiny percentage of power generated by Sun. There are abundant resources all around us that we simply need to learn how to effectively utilise. This is not sci-fi stuff, these are "merely" engineering problems.

The challenge is to get to that "post-scarcity" (or whatever you call it) future sustainably, without killing ourselves or making Earth a toxic hellhole. This requires cooperation, but you won't get that by going around and claiming falsehoods or persuading people with fallacies.
This is why I hate plug-ins that claim to produce readability or code-cleanliness metrics, because they very typically have the opposite effect.

A 1000 line function broken down into 100 different 10 line functions which are then each called in turn (and need lots of parameters to pass around the inevitable shared state) is actually often less readable than just a 1000 line function.

The way to deal with such a function to ask why there needed to be a 1000 line function. Why does so much apparently need to be done here and now and so much state shared across so many lines.

Code metrics tools would rather you break everything down into micro-functions which if you're blindly trying to follow the tooling recommendations to get it past a check-in gate will probably end up badly named and with little thinking into actual abstraction.

If you have two functions but whenever you call function foo = Bar() you have to then call function Baz(foo) then you don't really have two functions at all.
I like to think that it's an enormous tree, and with every step that we take, the number of open topics effectively doubles.
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Ask HN: What are your favorite CS / ML (also RL and DL) / OR research papers?
I want to get into a habit of reading a few research papers every month. I used to read papers every day in my previous job, but as I transitioned from academia to industry I have less and less time to do so. Also, while I was working in academia, I felt that a lot of papers were just noise: too incremental, poorly written, dished out fast to get to a conference. What are you top 10 papers that are high quality, an interesting read, and generally worth the time?
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I don't think people are getting overwhelmed or anxious from the information, but rather from the way that information is presented. The past was, in nearly every measurable way, vastly worse than the present. In the span of a single life you go from WW1 to the Spanish Flu to the Great Depression to WW2 to the very real threat of nuclear annihilation which nearly came to be multiple times.

And you didn't need to seek out information on this. You were likely directly affected by some of these events. If you weren't, you certainly knew somebody who died or was otherwise severely affected themselves. I mean think about COVID and then bump up its impact exponentially. And then imagine living through events of this scale over and over and over and over again. That is what people in the past lived through.

Today you can present data impartially, or emotionally. Emotional narrative gives a million clicks, a million shares, and drives extreme "engagement" that is a hair's breadth away from mob mentality. You can also present data impartially, which drives little more than a more informed society. It's not a surprise which path we take.
You can get also get an ANA test for lupus.
GrapheneOS.org

WebUSB-based phone-flash OS installer!
Musk Says Twitter Must Prove Bot Claims for $44B Deal to Proceed
how does this differ from superrare or zora?
Yes, this is right. Big Tech is mostly focused on Canada and EU because they can hire people from (chiefly) China and India without H1-Bs.

According to a director I spoke with it’s because they can’t find enough qualified engineers, not to save money.

Seems we should just be opening more offices in Hyderabad, I don’t know why that isn’t done more. Political security maybe?
Fine, but my values say that fraud is fraud whether you do it on a blockchain or not. I expect most of the public to agree and the laws of most countries to eventually reflect that even if some crypto maximalists don't like it.
What attack? I was under the impression the general market correction brought it down.
Even if USDC instantly went to $0 DAI would still be overcollaterized.
I would hazard a guess that it is about being proprietary along with the moderation/admins not being too well liked.
This is seriously bizarre.

Arguably the world's leading CI/CD tool doesn't support iOS builds on M1.

But yet they can deliver 100+ far less fundamental features: https://github.blog/changelog/
congrats on the acquisition! what changes are you planning to make to icy?
If someone disagrees with you, fire him. If you cannot, be careful /s
Definitely. I had to go in for a back operation some years ago, after which I wasn't allowed to sit or bend down to pick things up off the ground for three months.

Beforehand I reworked my whole house to lift everything up and to make arrangements for computer use/entertainment while lying down.

I used an older iPad as a remote screen with a sturdy heavy use bendable arm to hold it, while just putting the keyboard on myself with the mouse down next to me which worked well enough. His mounted keyboard would probably have been an improvement, but using the mouse next to your body on a sturdy surface+mat worked really well.

I also made a temporary standing desk using boxes of paper to lift up my screen, keyboard and mouse, so that when I got tired of lying down I could stand for a bit.

All in all it turned out to be a really cheap and fast to implement solution that easily worked for the 3+ months.
The single novel (to me) idea I pulled out of that is the idea that distance is the inverse of entanglement.

So the hamming distance between states would also be the real world distance (in effect) That's a very interesting theory, that could go places. (No pun intended)

If this theory is correct, you might be able to modify spacetime within a superconducting container, as at least some of the electrons in them are in superposition. It's a small mass fraction, but could be a starting point. It true, there could be some basis to the plot of the movie Primer.

Also, Dimensional Engineering? Maybe you could shove an aircraft sized structure inside something the size of a phone booth... ;-)
How to cut map usage costs with OpenStreetMap
That's unfortunate, we've had a similar law on the books here in Norway since 2006. There where some noise about it at the beginning. But the consensus now seem to be that it is a positive.
It doesn't matter what Congress passes, this corrupt hyper-partisan court will do whatever the right wants.
Girls education is not about sex-ed, it's so they can get a job and have opportunities other than being a mom.
I think I'd end up falling asleep ...
> even if said car on average kills fewer people

That is only based on butchered up statistics. You would get very good statistics with a goddamn robot vacuum on a motorway, because it is a relatively uneventful driving environment. Guess where people will take over the wheel? In dangerous situations, basically self-filtering any negatives from the statistics. Very convenient.
This is the obligatory post suggesting Affinity Designer.

It also appears they're running a 50% off sale:

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/

(No affiliation. I just notice it comes up in a lot of conversations here about Inkscape)
I don't think HN fits to the "Social Media" of today. It's more of a slow churning RSS feed with comments underpinned by a strong social contract.

Another difference is, while we disagree, we don't fight bona fide flame wars. A more civilized and skilled discussion is favored here, and this is a very good thing (TM).

Feeling a lot of completed projects or new things kindle the impostor syndrome sometimes, but it's not creating the same insecurity of image based social platforms or "free for all" comment platforms.

I've first deleted reddit back then, then removed Instagram from my phone. I can say that I'm much happier. However, HN is not creating same type of tension for me.
I learn a lot of things, for a start.
Presumably that the fine will be much, much less than whatever the value of the benefit is that they earned from the omission.
Minimizing the perception of downside risk in sales when it dries up to keep share prices higher than they otherwise would be. Had they come out and said approximately X% of a given quarter's sales were mining related, it would have most likely been priced into the stock as cyclical sales with a lower resulting multiple.

edit: this is an old story see previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31284952
> Yeah, but the ergonomics suck. Especially for random cleanup tasks that aren’t necessarily one-object, one-task.

Doesn’t seem much more of a problem? Put a tuple in, get references out, cleanup gets the entire tuple.

If lifetimes get complicated, use refcells and / or Rcs.
Most wars involve resource control. That doesn't mean most wars are about capturing resources.

Sure, if you simplify things enough you could argue that all wars are about resource interdependence because attacking someone for cutting you off from resources or for withholding your resources is also "about resource interdependence" and even civil wars are ultimately about unequal access to resources. But at that point you could say a peasant revolt is about "resource interdependence" because the lords own the land and the peasants provide them the food.

I don't think "resource interdependence" is the right framing. Colonialism was essentially "resource interdependence" but that is clearly a different dynamic than e.g. the European Economic Area (or EFTA).

Realistically, it's probably more about a mix of defensive pacts (essentially military MAD), economic interdependence (essentially economic MAD) and a somewhat level power dynamic (limiting the potential for exploitation).
As a developer I too am interested in this, as I have often thought about making some tools for recruitment.
> Trackpads are superior anyway

... no, they aren't? What a weirdly absolute but subjective statement.
There is a video game wiki gopher hole that I use occasionally. gopher://giantgopher.com/ is a gopher front end for GiantBomb.com but with what I find to be a better search interface.

There aren't a whole lot of good Gopher browsers out there for Windows. I use http://jaruzel.com/gopher/gopher-client-browser-for-windows with the text color set to green and the background set to black. From what I hear there is also a Gopher chrome plugin that isn't too bad.

For those interested in playing around with gopher development in addition to the tools that are mentioned in the the article there is an old abandoned yet serviceable gopher version of flask kicking around out there that is quick and easy to get going.
That's assuming that USDC going under would not crater with WBTC and ETH, which is a naive assumption.
Why should one use this over Inkscape?
How can you tell ? Their product page is the worst:

https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/

None of those sections seems to correlate to actually building code.
GPS jammers are like $50 from many chinese sellers. That's why GPS/GSM trackers are not accepted by insurance companies as vehicle trackers in my places, you need to have a VHF tracker which is much harder to jam.
Python 3.10 match statements are faster than if-statements
There is a difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome.
If a friend gets a great job or starts to live a healthy life you don't feel great for them? I don't believe that puts me in the minority of people, not a chance.
Not having a #memes channel sounds like not having any trash bins in the house because you expect everyone to take their trash outside to the large bin / container. What actually happens is that the trash will litter the entire house.
Yes, it's better. And esp. for your feet. Much less work for your venes.
I think you're thinking too narrowly about general chit chat content. E-commerce for example is still very much in the function of using your own website. As I would say is documentation, e-learning, saas, company information, etc. It's a more purposeful web.

What is dead though is the general blog like content and community platforms of old, the era of Wordpress blogs, forums and hobbyist websites is certainly gone.
If it’s widely accepted that placing more women on corporate boards delivers better results for companies, then investors will push companies to do just that.

Those that fail to do so will see their share price lag behind their competitors.
Great! I did see there was some mention of snapping but didn't dare to believe that it would be exactly the thing I was missing.
> This is an incoherent straw man caricature of "the right". Unfortunately for us all, there are tons of people in every side of politics who hold incoherent sets of positions. They're the "sound of a potato rotating" [0] kind of folks.

I actually very much dislike labels such as "the right" and "the left", that said the "pro-life" movement as in the political movement that is trying to overturn Roe are very much exactly how I portrait them above. Name any prominent figure in the pro-life movement who also strongly opposes the death penalty.

> By "incoherent" I mean that I agree with you that it doesn't make sense for somebody to both be "pro-life" and also support the death penalty. But there are people who hold positions that are at least internally consistent.

> Why bother crafting arguments against the former (where you'll gain little if anything from winning) when you could against the latter (where you have a chance of changing the minds of a lot of people, if you make a strong argument)?

The issue is that the debate is not about convincing the fundamentalists, they can not be convinced, this is about pointing out the motivations of the fundamentalists to others. There is a very good book in German (unfortunately I do not believe there is an English translation): "Wie man mit Fundamentalisten diskutiert, ohne den Verstand zu verlieren: Anleitung zum subversiven Denken" which analyses forms of argumentation and historical debates and their philosophical underpinnings. One of the central concluding arguments is that in fighting totalitarism and fundamentalism the debate with a fundamentalist can will never convince them, because fundamentally their belief trumps rational arguments (something that fundamentalists on all sides of the spectrum consistently repeat), the debate should be to convince/warn the observers, to point out the inconsistencies, the real motivations.
> In this example above, it would always be the caller closing the file:

You missed the entire point, literally. Maybe try reading the original comment again?
Wegbier is "preloading"

En plein air is long-time now a "loan word phrase in English and understood as such

Chutzpah likewise.

How about kitsch?
The constitutional case there is far weaker than the case for encryption (or firearms, for that matter).
My guess is that GP means that it's not actually a competitive advantage, otherwise the markets would already be including women on their boards in equal proportions to men?

Markets don't tend to experiment that much when they have something that works unless further competition shows up, see electric cars for example.

Markets are meant to serve humans, not the other way around.
Yeah, but why even bring abortion up? It was a bad segway.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31284952
Equal opportunity is a lot different than equal outcome. The first does not guarantee equal outcomes, as individuals vary in all sorts of ways, including skill and ambition. Achieving equal outcome almost certainly means a serious reduction of liberty, because you can't allow people to be free to do better than others.
It is difficult to imagine that some apps won't take advantage of this and since Apple takes their cut that cut will only be bigger. Is this sort of thing lawful in the EU?
Good thing we used the IMF to make starving African countries self-sustaining and food secure instead of pressuring them to mass produce non-food crops for the international market then. Oh, wait.
> I don't really care whether fetuses are people are not.

... well, if they are, then abortion is murder, right? I don't see why you wouldn't care whether they "are people" or not. It seems crucial, at least if you think, like I do, that murder is just about the worst thing a person could do.

> The fact is that bodily autonomy is never restricted so much [...] I'm not forced to donate organs, to donate blood, or even to do something so simple as get a vaccine.

These are not in the same category. All of these might give another person a chance at living longer (and yes, some of them like organ donation in particular carry some risk of death for the donor). Abortion definitely takes away any possibility of living from another person.

I don't buy the bodily autonomy argument. Yes, ~half the human population bears the burden of carrying children, and no, that's not fair. Everybody (men and women, of all generations) should be invested in living in a society where we don't create incentives for anybody to kill anybody else, up to and including not having sex outside of some setup/framework where any children produced will be loved and cared for.

If we can't agree to something like that, then it seems like we would have to collectively accept that murder isn't all that bad.
I was thinking about reading every book in my local library and how many celebrity autobiographies that would be
Thats still strange as the lowered gaming sales are partly due to increasing prices from crypto miners and higher material costs. Their profit margin and sales only grew larger during this time
I really think a 7 day fast should be 'mandatory reading' as far as life experience goes. You learn a lot about yourself.

Also echo the mental clarity side of fasting. The weight loss was great, but how I felt was even better.

The crazy thing is, if you can get to 7 days, anything past that is just mental and you can go as long as you have the body fat to sustain the fast, provided you're keeping an eye on your electrolytes and not drinking too much water.
See Section 7 of RFC 9250 that is the subject of this submission.

QUIC is designed by a company that prioritises personal data collection and advertising over user privacy with respect to the company. If compromises have to be made in order to satisfy the company's interests in collecting user data and administering programmatic advertising services that include subjugating user privacy from the company, then what happens. CurveCP and dnscurve do not suffer from such commercial pressures. CurveCP and dnscurve were not designed by an online advertising services provider.
I mean that information is being lost
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08237
See xlnet for the rethoric
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/mpnet-m...
Or mpnet which attempt to combine the best of both worlds information wise but still find that masked modeling is much less useful than autoregressive.
I'm a bit immune to a lot of this because I don't like travel, jobs of any kind, having family, excessive fitness (the one you need to excercise to get) and facebook does fairly good job of exposing me only to rants that confirm my biases. But this also makes Facebook way less engaging for me because it does invoke barely any feelings in me.
Wouldn’t this have been obvious to anyone trading in nvidia shares though?