skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not a history expert but it is interesting to hear that re: Rome, given the author's background

> Ugo Bardi is professor of physical chemistry at the University of Florence, Italy. He is a full member of the Club of Rome, an international organization dedicated to promoting a clean and prosperous world for all humankind, and the author, among other books, of The Seneca Effect (2017), Before the Collapse (2019), and The Empty Sea (2021).
> I don't think it is doing anything proprietary.

Does github provide the code of their servers that implements the API? Can you self-host it? If not, then it is pretty proprietary.
I feel like the biggest blocker to modern adoption of LibreOffice is the inability to collaborate in ways that Google Docs enables.

Are there open-source implementation of Docs, even poor ones?
Is this based on the same study which misattributed ALL particles the car kicked up off the road as being made of tires?
Parental leave is exclusive to parenting. See the original comment:

> Some countries give more than a year paid parental leave

You yourself are making my point by saying “similar compensation” “albeit spread across the length of a career.” There is nothing for non-parents that is equivalent to parental leave.
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On the meta level, Zissner's "On Writing Well" is excellent. The book is enjoyable to read which proves that he knew what he was writing about, and it makes a very strong case that whenever you're writing, it's worth the effort to do it well.
why lose trust in yourself and become owned by whatever science is popular?

believe in yourself or become owned by the world.

ignorance may be the price to pay but the alternative is worse
I think the way you judge people is anti-social.
I appreciate your good intentions, but you should consider not writing things on the internet like this - as both of your posts are effectively misinformation.

> As with most experiments

This isn't true. It's absolutely standard in earlier trials of investigational agents to not have any sort of control arm.

> there's a control group (6 patients).

This isn't true. Within the study you posted, there are two different cohorts, with different patient types included.

> The control cohort may not have had cancer at all

This isn't true. The group you're calling a control cohort (cohort 2) must all absolutely have cancer, and are all actively treated with the study drug (TSR-042).
Hough was looking for the tracks from charged particles in cloud chambers, so the algorithm comes home after a while I guess.
> Some of this is almost certainly related to discrimination and lingering aftereffects of past discrimination.

Certainly possible. I think the divide between right and left on this issue is in their perception of how much this is the case. I’d be in favor of rigorous research on this topic.

My own experience in the tech industry at many companies leads me to believe that if there is discrimination, it must be either historical or occurring earlier in the pipeline than tech company hiring. It’s been fairly consistent in my experience for thumbs to be put on the scales rather heavily to hire from historically disadvantaged groups, and clear bold statements have been made to exclude majority populations from interview pipelines that would be recognized as howling racism and sexism if applied to any other group.

> Naively picking who appears most capable, especially based on metrics that are strongly influenced by class, may instead just be perpetuating these biases.

It seems to me that we’re currently getting the worst of all possible worlds. The way we’re influencing the interview pipeline excludes low income people from the majority demographics and assists high income people from non majority demographics, with the overall effect of selecting for class above all else.

I say all this as a kind person who wishes well for everyone and wants everyone to have the opportunity to self actualize to the best of their ability.
>> It is so sad that "make good game, sell it" model no longer works.

That model still works very well, probably as well as it ever has. But now there are also other models for your phone and computer. If people rejected them, only the "make good game, sell it" model would be left.
Life expectancy has improved with technological progress.

https://aperioncare.com/blog/inventions-life-expectancy/
At least in Seattle, I find a fair amount of places that stay open to accommodate weekend business generally close on Mondays and Tuesdays.

One fairly awful bit about the nighttime economy is commuting. Light rail is closed from midnight to 5, parking is also not good during night hours. When I lived in Berlin they ran 24/3, so weekdays they would do nighttime maintainance but they would maintain service for the weekend nighttime economy.
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It's the perfect format to film tall people standing in closets.
Wow that's cool. I didn't know that existed. Similar to RobotWar. Doesn't seem to have a cool IDE and source level debugger like RobotWar. Looks very fun though!
Doesn't matter if someone does altruism for selfish reasons - some people argue all altruism is inherently selfish - as long as the actions happen. And with SBF they do.
I wouldn't want to mess with outdated software that communicates over a network, especially not from AOL given their record with AOL Instant Messenger.

Did you know that the original way that AOL checked that you were using a genuine version of AIM was to send a buffer overflow attack to you? It would then execute some code that checked process memory for signs that it was the genuine AIM executable.
And in a country where these things are supposed to be guaranteed at a higher level by their government, compared to other countries.

Peculiar how despite all the promises, marketing, media, and government revenue, these things still happen.
My impression (just an impression) is that the "woke" (or whatever label you want to put on in) stuff is much wider spread and much longer-lived than "political correctness" was.

Political correctness didn't get much traction outside of universities. "Woke" has.
What about the British Empire?
Why? Multiple studies have concluded that renewables can power 100% of grids, and they seem to be scaling from a manufacturing and installation basis much faster than nuclear.
First of all, mirrord runs on the process level. Telepresence either runs on your local machine, changing its network behavior or in a container making development less smooth than running a local process.
Second, mirrord's default is to duplicate traffic and not intercept it, so useful when you don't want to disrupt the cloud environment, want to work concurrently with other developers on the same service, etc.
Troubled waters: the forces behind the death of the River Tees
Slightly later game comes to mind as well - Core War

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
Austrian Armed Forces Explains Battle of Donbas [video]
I used to work Wed-Sun and it was the best. My "weekends" (Mondays and Tuesdays) happened when everyone else was at work, so there was never a crowd anywhere I needed to go on my days off. Bliss.
Remember, if you're not cheating, you're not really trying.
I don't know. I'm not a doctor I'm just another dog on the internet.
The Nokia N900 was the perfect form factor with Linux already running on it. Too bad the Neo900 stalled :(
I try to convert the company I work to use Nextcloud with thé collaborativ solutions.
> At mentioning all admins and developers in general on a PR is bad etiquette. Look at the title of the PR here as well. "Merge ASAP"?

I think this is highly dependent on your org. Usually you should look at previously merged PRs and follow what they were doing, if they mention admins/developers then it should be fine to do so.

I agree that with the admins ping and "merge ASAP" it seems that this particular PR is kind of terrible from an etiquette and usefulness perspective, but PRs with little usefulness and bad etiquette don't make it to the top of HN every day.

I am merely saying that the "sending notifications to 400k" people is a side effect that is entirely Epic Games' fault, not the author's.
Is it really so terrible, given that every student in Denmark receives 900$ monthly stipend?
I think it's pretty likely that the AOL client and AIM could have shared some code for instant messages.
We're a ~40 person wholesale distribution company and I moved our company to LibreOffice. We also use Google Suite.

The issues I face with my company are usually accountants/bookkeepers are used to using Excel. LibreOffice usually can handle anything they are wanting to do. It just means a little extra time googling/playing around with it to work the same way. I try to keep everything on Google Sheets however.

That said, if we were scaling post Series A (we are not), I'd look to see whether there are teams that need advanced modeling or feel comfortable with Excel. Everyone whose job is not spreadsheet wrangling can go with LibreOffice and Google Sheets.
On Android, they tried to improve this by adding notification channels[1] (aka categories). Channels are mandatory, and users can turn each channel on/off in system settings.

The problem is few apps assign meaningful or useful channels. Instead:

(1) Some apps use the dark UI pattern of putting important notifications and junk/spam notifications together in one channel. They use the ones you do want as leverage to make you see the ones you don't want.

(2) With some apps, they just don't make an effort. For example, the JustWatch app has two channels: "Default" and "Miscellaneous". The KAYAK app has two channels; one is called "Offers & promotions", and the other is also called "Offers & promotions".

(3) Defining useful, meaningful channels is actually a bit of a UI challenge. Some apps try but don't divide things up in a useful way. The Meetup app has a ton of channels, including 12 at the top level and 3 for each Meetup group that you're a member of. They made an effort, and it helps some, but it's a bit overwhelming.

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[1] https://developer.android.com/training/notify-user/channels
Turned into Reddit's armchair experts' discussion.
“7. The cumulative escalation in pollution causes a dramatic increase in cancer, which overwhelms the ill-prepared health system.”

That’s the one that stands out as an unambiguous miss. The rest of the predictions were either spot-on (Russia), or predicted too large of a change or effect (COVID, by about an order of magnitude).

But cancer? Pretty flat.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-population-with-...

And the death rate has decreased.

https://ourworldindata.org/cancer#is-the-world-making-progre...
>Is there anyone speaking against this, at the EU level?

"Speaking" never changes laws in our favor though. Big changes only happen when protests and violence are directed towards the ruling class.
Thanks for the feedback - we have actually discussed how the current footer UX isn't the most discoverable (not due to infinite scroll though :)

We're looking for ways to communicate the concepts better - please feel free to message me at https://radiopaper.com/Evan if you have any ideas!
We're using two different senses of a word that seem irreconcilable.
You offer a very narrow, statistical definition that pertains to the
goodness/accuracy of information. I am using a psychological term that
reflects the feelings people have irrespective of ground truths.
These are almost opposite (at least incompatible) interpretations. And
yet semantically I suspect we completely agree - acting on good
information is good, and acting on bad judgement is bad.

As I am sure you know, a "confidence trick" is a way to defraud
another by influencing their (psychological) confidence (or pessimism)
against their better judgement and in spite of the objective facts.
Too bad. People encounter all forms of real discrimination but ski-lift discrimination sound really contrived.
Right, because all white Americans are racist! Subconsciously! Gee, I wonder on which side of the woke debate you fall?

Has it ever occurred to you that the certainty with which you express your views actually comes across as very arrogant and plainly racist, and turns people against your way of thinking?

Try debating with rational arguments, not by calling those who disagree with you racists.
But then the Danish taxpayer is subsidizing someone's business by taking on the costs of the employer should be responsible of paying for staff wages.
I agree, in an ideal utopian world there would be no need for armies or defense. But that's not the world we live in, and at least in my personal belief, it's unlikely we ever will and we must judge what things are and act accordingly.

I think nuclear weapons are a fantastic success story in preventing major war between nations for the past 77 years. Probably the single greatest enabler of peace in the 20th and 21st century. Do I wish that they weren't needed? 100%. I would love if we could focus on using nuclear for non-destructive purposes. But I firmly believe they are the reason there was no WWIII or even WWIV during the Cold War or now during rising tensions between the USA and Russia and/or China. I respect that nuclear weapons are terrible devices, awful in their destruction beyond comprehension, but unless humanity as a society evolves into some kind of "better" race, I would not wish for a world without them. Popularity does not mean that something is needed.

I will grant that we should strive toward that better world, and constrain the military from acting toward it's easier, destructive attitudes and maybe one day we will no longer need it. But to simply say that the most positive outcome is that it "intimidates others so that they don't attack" and to treat that as something that's barely worth mention and almost "evil"? That's beyond reckless and a dangerous, misguided, and ultimately against the best interests of humanities future.

I won't claim to be as deeply knowledgeable about pharma, it's an industry in clear need of reform and regulation, but it also proved itself during COVID to make vaccines for the world, and while I completely agree that it prioritizes profit over saving lives, and likely allowing people to die because it's just not profitable to produce a drug it researched, it has developed many life saving drugs that have saved more lives. I would not call them "pure" evil, if for no other reason than as soon as you start treating an industry, a people as "pure" evil, they have no reason whatsoever to listen to you and work with you.
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> What stops you from using discord messages as a database? :p I really enjoy this type of stuff though, is there a term for it?

"Our tech stack is Clojure hosted on the JVM of massively distributed workers running opportunistically on Robocode Tank Royale with homebrew float-encoded protobuf message passing, and using NoSQL Discord messages as a backend."
1) it should be said, that Yahoo had a lot of problems, and Marissa Meyer was unable to solve them.

2) Yahoo also may not have done a great job managing remote workers.

3) Small, remote-only companies probably do a better job of understanding how to make remote work productive.

...however...

4) As soon as there is a slack labor market (and maybe even sooner), the big companies will either force everyone back to the office, or have layoffs in which coincidentally most of the remaining remote workforce gets axed.
No, this guy just wants to get involved in stuff like this and you're telling him its impossible; in a field where amateurs are making meaningful contributions; in response to a paper that is more data science than astrophysics.

> No one here could have divinated that algorithm without doing the legwork.

No one here could understand how to combine rudimentary image processing in such a way as to track a moving object over time? It's impressive, certainly, but there's more data processing here than astrophysics.

Most people with a BA in science or math would have enough requisite knowledge to pick up what they would need for this paper over the course of a weekend. The part they couldn't do that with would be the image processing and data science. If they already have that? Yes, this is absolutely achievable. Just copying this work on a different data set? Also very achievable. The knowledge of which datasets are in use? In this field those are both mostly public and easy to find.

Yes, those who don't have some of this knowledge will have to put in more time than others, but the implication you make about the sheer amount of time needed and what would actually be required just to get involved just doesn't apply here. There was a time half a decade ago where someone like the original poster could literally get a job doing this stuff. That may still even be the case.
Context: there has been a gigantic and sudden die-off of marine life in the River Tees and the nearby coastline since autumn of last year. The cause remains a mystery and is the focus of intense dispute between local residents and bodies of the UK government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Tees#2021_North-East_Eng...
the housing market is definitely bad - but are tech workers really a significant driver? Here in Vanouver the amount of tech workers overall are still low (far below 1% of population) - and a lot of them are younger singles which maybe are in the market for 1 bedroom condo. However prices for all housing types exploded, including single-family homes being now at an average sales price of 2M which isn't even affordable to lots of tech workers.

What I also found interesting about link [2] is that Alberta households have the highest average income, and despite that housing is a lot more affordable there. That somewhat contradicts that housing cost is driven by income.
It was not at all my intention to critizise research about population movements in the past. To the contrary, I find it extreemly fantastic what modern science can find out here. What annoyed me in this particular case was the fact that a particular statement was given a headline that I could not help but call an aberration. It is an example of a not so uncommon narrative in popularized history that is not only naïve, but can become dangerous if it becomes dominant, such as in present-day Russia.

Perhaps people may find my complaint about this headline a bit nitpicking. But as a sort of historian by profession, such observations force themselves upon me, and I hope that HN is a place where at least a couple of people feel some affinity with a nerdy scholar.
Autogenerated by tailwind css. It was my first time using the library after using tachyons a lot in the past. Overall pretty nice and cool that it only includes rules that you use, but I do miss just being able to look at tachyons.css to find a rule rather than searching tailwind’s docs, which are way more verbose and in like 1k different pages.

Also overjoyed you liked the game ::)
My girlfriend says "post me images or videos in vertical, othervise they appear on my screen very small". And you cannot rotate images in most messaging applications.
> all the promises, marketing, media?

Which promises, marketing, and media?
Maybe this: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/
It's the type of nursing home. If you are in an "assisted living" home, it is less. As a data point, maybe $5800/mo in CA, which includes food and various social programs.
Scriptable fuzzy-finders like rofi or dmenu are really the best innovation since tab-completion IMHO. It's so easy to create good enough customized workflows with them, it really changed my way of interaction. I've even got to the point where I use per-app-menus to call external scripts for some stuff. And now I wish apps would support some level of remote-control to make them accessible for such customization. At the moment I'm limited to using shortcut-keys and window-titles. Which is ok, but also a bit brittle and slow.
If monogamy is valuable, and I think it is, then most men should be parents as well. I can’t imagine a world with a few guys fathering most of the kids, that seems like it would cause lots of problems.
Codewars is a poor recommendation for becoming a better programmer, the solutions are sorted by popularity and so generally "cool" solutions are at the top. I've yet to see a clear/good python solution anywhere near the top.

I suppose you could just do the tasks and ignore the website itself.
That's pretty much just a statement about your frame of reference. These people could go and get jobs in a shipyard or a tire factory and their conduct wouldn't really raise any eyebrows.
> but that is not at all how you presented it, you presented it as though the study is wrong because of your experience.

Absolutely not. To be clear, I'm not arguing against this study. In fact I absolutely believe the results to be conclusive and am trying to offer a possible explanation based on my experiences.

I very well understand what a placebo is (or, at least, sufficiently enough), maybe the misunderstanding of my intentions behind commenting made it seem like I didn't. With the knowledge that I am arguing for the study and not against it, maybe my comments will make sense in a different way now.
Amazon notified me that they thought I might like to buy a new stove.
generally speaking, “holy shit it worked?!!!” drowns out a lot. It’s not so much exhilaration as it is a kind of astonished joy.
The PHP documentation is excellent. I wish other PHP projects / frameworks like Laravel had clear, concise, down to earth documentation like PHP.net's, and doesn't require me to have a degree in computer science to understand the terminology.
> I find a fair amount of places that stay open to accommodate weekend business generally close on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Which makes sense to me, but people still raise a stink that retail isn't seven days a week "like it used to be."

A lot of people still remember the early 2010s when Seattle was open later than it is today. There used to be a lot of 24-hour or late-night spots. Beth's, Lost Lake, 13 Coins, North Star, Third Shift Bar, and the like. QFC, Metro Market, and Safeway all had 24-hour grocery shopping. The big Starbucks in University Village used to be open 24/7, then got trimmed back to "just" 2am, and is now 9pm.

But this comes with trade-offs: people don't want to work miserable jobs with crap scheduling and low pay (hoping for tips) and not get appreciated for it. The pandemic showed people they don't have to do that, but those who are used to plentiful services are salty because, hey, it turns out service employees are humans, too!

> Light rail is closed from midnight to 5

I agree that Sound Transit needs to explain exactly why they need 35 hours a week for maintenance when other agencies manage to pull it off in a fraction of the time.

But, to be fair to the rail, buses do still exist and we did a big restructure of our overnight bus service such that the routes actually exist and make some sense. Having ridden the 83 or 84 home more than once, those old owl routes were a travesty.
This seems to make sense to me, as I’ve read that tolerance for all serotonergic psychedelics builds up drastically after using any quantity/dose of LSD-25. SWIM has micro dosed before in the 50 ug range, and anecdotally had felt the salient features of the drug, while not necessarily experiencing a full trip.
Renewables failing to pan out could have seemed plausible in 1997. Nuclear as a reaction to an oil shock had already panned out two decades earlier.
> Similarly, software should automatically be open-source after 30 years.

30 years seems a lot to me. I would rather force by law companies to open source every piece of firmware after some time (2-5 years?) it is declared obsolete or doesn't receive direct support anymore. The goal should be rather to prevent perfectly good hardware to become bricks and be thrown away than to help retrocomputing enthusiasts revive the few surviving devices decades later. I understand there would be huge legal implications but still...
Or to run on MacOS without crashing.