skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow wow wow what an absolutely horrible article, I can not believe this has got to the front page of HN. First of all, Roland Fryer was indeed suspended for sexual harassment. He himself admits that and has talked about the work he's done to improve himself after learning the affect that his comments had on young people. That's behavior very unbefitting of someone who got fired for "just spitting facts in the face of the woke mob". You'd expect him to, you know, actually fight the claims if it was the case.

Quote from Fryer: “I apologize for the insensitive and inappropriate comments that led to my suspension, which I regret deeply and which brought shame on the department and disrepute on me personally,” Fryer wrote. “I didn’t appreciate the inherent power dynamics in my interactions, which led me to act in ways that I now realize were deeply inappropriate for someone in my position.”

Failing to mention any of that is 100% journalistic malpractice and should immediately tip anyone off that this is not a real piece of journalism, it's a quick, hacked together culture war piece. It even says this "Gone are those such as Roland Fryer who sought to inquire freely into the most important questions facing society today through well-gathered evidence and rigorous logic." one paragraph after talking about how Fryer was welcomed back. Truly masterful levels of journalistic trash.

The rest of the article is just your standard fox news CRT bait piece about how every classroom (including, somehow, all the engineering and maths classes) are teaching your kids that America is bad and racist and only you can save them by teaching them the lost, forgotten idea that America is actually exceptional and never once destabilized a South American government to make bananas cheaper. There's no real evidence in the article to support this, you just have to take the author (who has already established themselves as someone willing to hide information to make a point).

If you want to criticize Harvard and other major institutions, I have no problem with that. They are institutions that admit legacy candidates by the boatload despite what often is a lack of merit, for example. But this isn't criticism here, it's just culture war. Its just "cultural Marxism" but avoiding saying that so that it can appear credible. But read any article about cultural Marxism and you'll find practically copy pasted content. What's cultural Marxism? A conspiracy theory that was originated by the Nazis (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism) and is being peddled by neo-nazis (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_...) try to justify the idea that people are actively destroying "culture". The Nazis did it to justify the most industrial genocide ever committed. Please don't buy into genocidal conspiracies because of hacked articles like this.
Fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud --- and then more fraud.

This is why regulations came to exist. Good riddance to the crypto fools and their money who think they are unnecessary.
> simply hold people accountable for the content.

Yes but by what level of accountability? If I make a video about changing a clutch, and then some kid drops a gearbox on his face and kills himself, who is responsible? Is Demolition Ranch responsponsible for mass shootings? Is the History channel actually racist because it rebroadcasts Hitler all the time?
Too bad there’s nowhere to import nazi scientists from this time :/
On the one hand, you started this conversation certain that I was the one with a reading comprehension problem. On the other hand, you ended it calling me a loathsome narcissist. So on balance...
> Forget about competitors ripping you off. It could happen, but probably won't at the start.

That was the point I was making. If competition is your concern then the problem is either too simple or your solution doesn't meet the customers requirements.

> If you're building an SaaS for some company/client that needs, it there's almost 0% chance of them ripping you off. A bank that needs some specialized HR software is not going to start making HR software.

Depends on the problem you're solving. Not every problem requires a building a SaaS, for example.

> It's absolutely reasonable that customers have a hard time grasping abstractions. 'Seeing It' is a huge chunk of the story.

I'm sure there are instances where that's true but the problem is if it's hard to grasp then it's harder to sell. This is particularly true when you factor in that spend is usually signed off by non-engineering managers. So if you're building something that is hard to grasp then you better be damn sure that you're solving a problem that is easy to conceptualise as important (like security tooling).

> It's very valid that 'early users' will pull you in a bunch of different directions - many of them are rabbit holes, not generalizable, poorly thought out. They will literally ask for things they don't even actually need. It happens all the time customer XYZ demands some feature, then they don't use it.

Nobody is suggesting you should implement each and every suggestion raised in your market research. However not doing any prior research means you're essentially taking a shot in the dark.

> This is why it usually helps to have faced the problem yourself, you can get to an MVP that has some 'coherence' and then go from there.

It helps but you shouldn't blindly assume your problem is identical to everyone else's. You made an earlier point about early users pulling you in a bunch of different directions, not all of them being well thought out. Well there's nothing stopping you going down your own rabbit hole of poorly thought out assumptions even when you have faced the problem yourself.
We both know they were educated enough to not use those exact words (you won't ever get an OxBridge graduate to write the word "prostitute" down on "paper", even if his/her life depended on it, they're above this plebeian stuff), but that was the gist of the reports back then, yes (I'm thinking mostly December 2016). Of course, the likes of the NYTimes did an 180 (I'd call it a 360, but that's just me) and last year came out with this gem [1]:

> Why the Discredited [Steele] Dossier Does Not Undercut the Russia Investigation (...)

> No. The Mueller report does not present claims from the dossier as evidence, and many of the issues focused on by investigators did not come up in the dossier.

"So, we were damn wrong on the "prostitutes" thing, someone will most likely go to prison for it (not us, fortunately), but trust us when we say this other bad thing about Trump!"

On a more general note, it takes more and more mental, I don't even know how to call it, I guess hygiene is the word, to remain sane among all this stuff. I mean, as a reader of news and as a citizen (of the world, I'm not personally from the States) who wants to remain on top of things by staying educated on what's happening and why it is happening. It just isn't humanly possible anymore, the alienating forces have become too powerful. That also explains part of the article posted by the OP.

[1] https://archive.ph/2fHH5#selection-313.0-313.70
Even just bringing thumbs down would go a long way. They took a very useful metric away from technical how-to videos.
Fermyon wants to reinvent the way programmers develop microservices
Panini presses are less common here only* because they take up more kitchen real estate than a smaller upright appliance and can be reasonably replaced by a skillet. "George Foreman grills" were in vogue for a few years in the 2000s, but I rarely ever see them now.

*Probably also because American bread is awful.
It has more to do with the RPI people not communicating about their supply issues effectively and not being effective in working with customers to plan for them.

While that doesn't currently affect the Pico, maybe it will in the future. So its probably just better to sidestep the whole thing and not use their products.
IIRC in one of the interviews he had he said that it wasn't staged.
I don't think anyone alive would consider "Red" Ken Livingston to be right wing
It's true, emotions and argumentivity require a different tact than just "steelmanning". I can think of plenty of reasons where steelmanning is not the best rhetoric in those kinds of situations.

On the flip side, steelmanning is a really good "high ground maneuver". A good faith effort at trying to understand and strengthen the argument of someone who is being argumentative is a way to take the emotion out of the argument. You might find you have endeared yourself to them, and doing so have created a chance to shift their thinking a degree.
> You go to Eastern Europe and wonder how things seem to be progressing much faster there.

Is there a kind of fetish among germans to demonise east europe? Perhaps the recovery process after 45 years of communism is slow and takes time. And perhaps east europeans arent as inferior are a certain german ideology claims they are? Anyway pathetic analogy.
Here's the comment that I attached to that (It's one that a friend of mine wrote up).

It's quite long, so I will not repeat it, here, but I think it's pretty useful. It was written by someone that has had quite a few health issues, and for whom, this is not an academic exercise.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752778
> Physical currency is an absolutely vital component of a stable economy. Its very lack of instantaneous fluidity (it relative inconvenience) means it acts like a capacitor to stabilise markets if you can manage circulation and interest. Moreover, governments have a strict monopoly on that, and physical currencies can take on many new guises with modern cash technology. Abandoning that would be suicide.

Governments are made of individual actors, in the US these are often buying cryptocurrency. Their friends have invested in and built cryptocurrency companies. They hold investments in cryptocurrency companies.

Cryptocurrency IS the capacitor you're talking about, the policy of the US is showing this more weekly.
Keyword: previous version. If you scroll down in thread, it's stated that all issues raised in the blog have been fixed. Side note: Github has an issues section on every project which is a better medium.
Sure, the publisher can also be responsible but YouTube is not a publisher. They are like electrical company that provides you with cables and electricity.

Youtube removing videos is like the electric company cutting of your electricity when they believe there's something harmful on the TV.

There are plenty of publishers on youtube and as they do curate their content, they should definitely be responsible. They are already responsible actually.
All of the issues there were fixed several days ago, so it's no longer relevant.

Since it was another anonymous attack, it's not going to be updated and will stay like this for years.

And the issues discussed are questionable at best. Half the article is about a type checker bug, which was a 3 line fix.

Then false claims like being able to modify array.len.
You mean Red Ken Livingston. I think he would be insulted by being called conservative
Saasrock – no-code, low-code, and custom-code
The US does attract plenty of scientists from other parts of the world, including China and Russia.
Not working for me (I am from India)
Consciousness is the experience if processing information, there is no reason to believe its anything more than that

There are also other studies besides the Libet ones, more recent ones using things like fMRI and in vivo electrophysiology in awake human patients.

If we think about how neurons and their networks function, there isn't a mechanism in the realm of biophysics that allows for nondeterminism. That alone precludes the possibility of what people classically think of as free will. I've had discussions with other neuroscientists about this and they came to the same conclusion.

Just because something seems "weird" doesn't actually mean anything and its likely the person's perception of the situation that instills that feeling.

Near death experiences are entirely subjective, again its perception and information processing. The brain is great at connecting concepts and generating ideas even while we're unconscious. Its not like we stop processing sensory information when we aren't active.

As someone who studies behavioral neuroscience, I would never use an NDE itself as evidence of anything besides the fact that it is a phenomena that happens sometimes

There is a decent overview on wikipedia, they do discuss criticisms as well:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will

As a side note, I don't think that paper on pnas concludes what you think it does. They state that a stochastic model could account for the buildup, in reality the stochastic model is simulating the chaotic environment of biochemistry. That environment is still deterministic and we absolutely could predict the entire system if we are able to simulate all of the variables.

Neurons are complex, but no matter how you slice it they are still a deterministic system
That's up to the courts to decide. Definitely not Youtube's business though.
Replacing it teaches the kid that if you break something, it magically comes back like a respawn in a video game.

I'd be very tempted to work with him to help clean it; let him do much of the grunt work whilst I helped and supervised (though to be honest I wouldn't be that hard on my kid for doing this unless he had been told don't do it beforehand. I've done enough boneheaded things in my day!).
Dissolving implantable device relieves pain without drugs
Yep, even with certification you'll get these from time to time.

Two options:

1) point them to your existing policies and processes for SOC2, IRAP, ISO27001 and similar, the questionnaire is already filled

2) fill it out as best you can if it's going to earn you bank.
Combining them in general makes sense to me, at least to the extent of having an Optional<T> be an alias of Result<T, ()>.

There are some obvious cases where a none optional is separate from failure, like a hash map lookup or an element from an iterator. But I often also see optionals used to signal e.g. an unparseable string, where it would seem equally reasonable to return a Result or throw an error.

I’ve been writing a lot of Swift lately, and because it uses `throws` rather than a Result type, it’s made the often arbitrary choice of returning an optional value or raising an error more noticeable to me. Especially when using `async`, as pretty much everything declared `async` also throws, so if an Optional is actually what you want to return, you get some fairly gross boilerplate at the site of use:

guard let value = try await getValue() else { … }

This has turned into a bit of a ramble but my main point is that implementing Optional as a Result with void error type makes a lot of sense in my head.
Straight to criticizing something else. lol
A single NAND package as used in SSDs almost always contains multiple NAND dies (up to 16), commonly exposed through two or four independent channels per package (M.2 drives with 8-channel controllers frequently have just 2 NAND packages). A 256GByte NAND package must contain multiple NAND dies, because nobody makes 2Tbit NAND dies yet. Each NAND die is partitioned into two or four planes that can operate more or less independently, save for sharing the same uplink to the SSD controller.

So while it is reasonable to worry about reduced parallelism in small SSDs when moving to newer, larger NAND dies, it is wildly incorrect to say that a 256GB drive has no capability for parallelization.
Whatever comes to replace Facebook I really hope it is a distributed system that doesn't have a single unique owner. And that monetization is not done through advertising.

The problem with Friendster, MySpace and then Facebook was their centralized nature. It sucks to produce/place your content in a place you have to pay for.
Probably one of the best trends towards weight loss in the general public. Beer is often an underrated contributor to weight gain with all of the social aspects.
> a Russian sub could pop up off the coast of New Jersey and 5 million people including 99% of all US politicians would be dead 6 minutes later

Anyone pitching this is talking tripe. Russia can already do this. They’ve been able to do this since the 60s. We have no missile defence against a MAD attack, which is what you propose involves.

Also, mechanically, Russia’s hypersonics are air-to-ground, anti-ship and ballistic or semi-ballistic. They evade naval and missile defences with more kinetic energy. Even theoretically, a gliding hypersonic missile (a) screams a heat signature more trivially detectable than a ballistic and (b) rapidly bleeds off the kinetic energy that separates it from a cruise missile. In summary, it’s not some magic new category of weapon, but a trade-off between ICBMs and cruise missiles. (Note: not best of both worlds. More expensive, more detectable and less accurate than ballistic. More expensive, more detectable and less manoeuvrable than cruise.)

The real threat hypersonics pose is to carrier groups. With Russia that’s mostly hypothetical, since they apparently can’t even get their subsonic weapons to hit targets with accuracy.
No, this is what identity politics is, reducing technical matters to which camp you're in ("your post gives me crypto vibes, scam!!"). Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe this doesn't belong on HN.
HN is flooded by "archive.ph" campaign which injects Russian (and other) tracking scripts to copies of crawled 3rd party sites and requires JS to load on Firefox/Linux (and some other browsers) while pretending to be "archiving".
a galvanically isolated transformer, i.e. a voltage that is not referenced to ground, meaning an RCD/GFCI will not be able to trigger if you touch it and it starts zapping you
>The only possible explanation I see is heavy lobbying from big pharma groups or wine interests.

What about church ? Last time I checked church was very much against this, and is a far larger political influence than those you mentioned. I could be wrong - but in my peer group the first people I would see vote against weed would be the religious.
Daily Harvest hit with lawsuits from people who say they had their gallbladders
It's unfortunate but true, there will be a lot of dross retained because they are seen as 'team players'. To me that translates to 'incapable of independent thought' and certainly not capable of pulling your ass out of the proverbial fire when push comes to shove.
Linux kernel might be a tricky one with all the inline assembly code.
It would never even occur to me to watch a video on finding my AirPods case. Either there is an article or forum post for it, or I need to post a question on a forum, but no way am I sifting through the garbage that is YouTube.
Several people here are conflating steelmanning with strawmanning, but the latter is, at best, an attempt to make a bad argument out of how the other person chose to express their position, and it is downhill from there, with tricks like willful misunderstanding, the introduction of non-sequiturs, and claims of tacit premises that were never intended.

Steelmanning can also be used as preemptive self-defense for your position, assuming that it is actually defensible (if it is not, the sooner you come to that conclusion, the better for all concerned, especially yourself.)
There was a time where I wanted to work at Meta/Facebook someday - it was actually "next" on my list. I didn't care about the negative press that Facebook got, I felt like they were unfairly targeted because of the 2016 election.

And a lot of the engineering work that has come out of Facebook has been excellent, like React/React Native have changed the world.

But it's just really hard to see Zuckerberg as a good business leader. When you compare the business to something like Amazon - which has a strong culture around decision making and cultivates a style of leadership in it's executives.

So far, it seems like he hit a really good product/market fit and had good timing with Facebook. The strategy since then has basically been to stay ahead by acquiring social platforms that become successful. Until one came along that he couldn't just throw money at and acquire. Oops.

And now with the turn on the dime to "Meta" - other companies have been trying to figure out VR for a long time. Apple has reportedly had a VR headset concept going for years and is probably still several years from releasing it. For Amazon to come out with a product like that, it would have to start with a PRFAQ and a lot of vetting just to release the product. To rename the company and start putting all their energy towards it, which letting actual profit centers languish just wouldn't happen.

So not only has he not validated this new direction, he's now asking people working comfy FAANG jobs to knuckle down and suffer for it. It works when Elon Musk does it because he can make appeals like "we're going to make humanity multi-planetary"

Meta's pitch is "What if we convinced everybody to live in a virtual world controlled entirely by us, where we take 50% of a cut of every digital good that is purchased" - who wants to work 70 hours a week towards making that dystopia a reality?

I feel like Epic Games, with Fortnite being basically a social hub for kids and monetizing skins/associating social status with skins is closer to realizing some early version of "the metaverse" then what we've seen from Meta. I think that metaverse behavior is already happening in a lot of ways, it just isn't happening with dorky headsets and probably won't until the tech matures enough to get there.
Kudos for not just throwing away the toaster. Will have benefited the learning experience.
It's also wasteful of energy and materials to scrap and replace something that's still perfectly functional.
Canada overtakes US for weekly podcast listening
Definitely need the legal documents/etc. all properly done. But the legal docs aren't always going to have details on how to connect a new device to the wifi network or how the router is setup, regular tasks/maintenance schedules, etc. It's basically a way of communicating mundane information that isn't important enough for legal docs but can be a significant hindrance to someone if a person is no longer around.

I also look at repos/documents like this more of a way to provide a checklist and for passing information on that often isn't captured in the legal documents that make it easier to perform or access things. For example, the information on logging into a password manager, how to use a backup code (or the 2FA if possible) could prevent having to go through the courts to gain access (and some of the more code-first policies may even prevent other users from gaining access without the proper credentials even if a company wants to help - not even talking about things like crypto where it could just be totally lost without the encryption password).
My wife died unexpectedly a year ago. A little before that I had set her up with a 1Password account and she had diligently moved all her details into it. She shared her master password with me.

It was an incredible lifesaver in the first few months. Everything was really easy to get in order, and anything that wasn't well documented, I could find in her laptop or inbox.

I'm so glad that she did it, and it saved us so much headache.

Banking and such things are the easy bit, they've got streamlined and established bereavement processes. It's all the other small stuff that's hard, like loyalty cards, airmiles, gym memberships etc that causes the headaches.
The decline in insect populations is terrifying and real, but windshields are a bad way to measure it.

Consumer vehicles have benefitted from improvements in the process to make safety glass, and are substantially more aerodynamic than they were.

This leads to much less bug splatter, which is good! But it exaggerates the decline as well.
But DOES IT MAKE FRACTAL PATTERNS ON THE TOAST?!?