skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article ends on a couple of pretty bizarre points.

>Politico founding editor and editorial chairman John Harris reminded Smith on stage that "in the old days," a handful of people at a small number of outlets had all the agenda-setting power and they "would’ve all been white men."

Diversity in the newsroom eroded trust!?

>"All of us have biases and that maybe true objectivity is, what does your newsroom look like? How diverse is it?" said Al Jazeera English host Femi Oke at the event.

Al Jazeera is Qatar's state-funded news agency. It's not the diversity of their newsroom, which probably isn't any higher than average, that matters but the topic that determines how much you can trust them. The language of coverage also apparently matters, since their Arabic coverage often has a significantly different slant than their English language coverage.

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I probably put more trust in traditional media than average, but that trust has definitely declined. This is for a few reasons not really covered in the article.

Practically all but one or two newspapers in my country are owned by the same corporation. They target different demographics with different papers, but show a remarkable unity on topics that the owners have an interest in. Consolidation of media into a smaller number of wealthy, corporate hands has undeniably introduced significant bias, but it's gotten harder to identify that bias as the diversity of news publications has decreased. We are no longer presented with multiple independent viewpoints on a given event. Rather, we get multiple columnists from the same media conglomerate under the same editorial pressure.

The internet has also played a role by making the monetization of news more difficult, and the typical corporate response when revenue drops is to cut costs. Why fund a bunch of war-zone reporters to get different views of a conflict when you can fill the same amount of air-time for a fraction of the cost with a bunch of pundits arguing with each other? This is cheaper, but also produces far less reliable information about the conflict.

Bottom line, we need to find a way increase the diversity of ownership of news sources and also find a way to fund quality journalism.

I still do appreciate traditional media because, if you're aware of their ownership biases, you at least know what you're dealing with. Alternative and social media are often much harder to vet.
Then they could have simply communicated that fact the first time they ran into the limits and they certainly would have been lifted. This happens to me during DD all the time and it has never caused a problem or an investor/acquirer to back out of the deal.
I take the opposite view to most of the comments below, and have a strong opinion on it. I think the idea of long term loyalty to one company is naive, I'm sure there are exceptions, but, I believe staying at one place limits your personal growth, experience/variety, and most importantly earning potential. Work is transactional, most of us only do it because we get paid, if you get a better offer you should go, you owe your employer nothing. From the employers perspective, to keep good employees for as long as possible, you should devise a career and reward plan to keep good people engaged, and not relay on good will to keep people in your organisation. But factor in that people will leave and have good processes in place to deal with it.
> The To and BCC line is not that important

bcc in inbound mails?
You still could have edge cases you don't want or want
Email addresses are notoriously hard to parse.[0]

I'd wager that one probably misses a bunch of corner cases.

[0] https://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html
Don't buy that propaganda, however well-intentioned it is.

At the time when that post was written (including the "no bugs") the web version would continuously fail in the simplest of tasks while having a fraction of the features of the app version.
Apologies, I didn't realize my own tone deafness despite your slightly uncharitable interpretation of what I wrote.
The thread model in Japan for these events usually does not involve guns, it tends to center on direct physical threats.
And those shareholder's wouldn't like to get a piece of Tesla and / or SpaceX in exchange for Twitter? At, what, 40 billion evaluation of Twitter? Sure as hell I would push the board of Twitter to sue for that if I were a Twitter share holder.
Wow. It loads instantly on my phone. Even HN needs 30 seconds.
> If the threat escalates to break-in level, the vehicle sounds an alarm and begins blasting music

Thanks. Well, on paper this sounds a lot more reasonable than what the parent described, but what they might be experiencing might simply be the difference between marketing speak and the reality of AI systems where the cost of false positives is practically entirely externalized, whereas anger about false negatives gets fed back right to the devs.
Could you please email me at p.mcgee@meta.com to discuss your UX complaint further?
Go 's compilation speed is only impressive for newer generations that never used compilers for Pascal dialects, Modula languages, BASIC,....
And so it’s likely he owns Twitter at the end of this. Gonna be a field day at the courts then!
God forbid someone would learn from these events and make necessary changes.

There’s a middle ground, the US approach of putting your head into the ground unless a donor can benefit financially isn’t necessarily true for the entire world.
Then it would apply to a lot more situations. The problem is that the only reason people are that close is that they are recording. If they try to say "no one can be closer than 8 feet" that complicates things considerably.... I mean, I've walked by such situations on the sidewalk and gotten closer than 8 feet, because it was unavoidable without crossing the street. (these situations weren't ones likely to be filmed, though, just typical city stuff like with homeless and/or mentally ill people) But I wasn't just hanging out really closely, as I'd be if recording.

I think they were just trying to address a relatively new situation that was causing them problems.

I don't really agree with this law, but I also don't think your cynicism on that particular thing is entirely warranted.
Gamification of Bell's Theorem
By 1%, and they corrected it?
Which is ironic given the whole plethora of hiring practices at Google.

Also Go is mostly used externally, Google's key projects are all based on Java and C++, even Kubernetes would have stayed in Java if it wasn't for some Go folks joining the project and pushing for a rewrite.
Protect them from what? Being able to listen to the call?
Re twitter: What a waste of life time and resources that could be otherwise have been used. All for what? For the ego of a madman?
Out of coriousity, would Musk's legal team have to proof Twitter restricted his bandwidth out of malice? And wouldn't that be hard if they never conplaibed about to Twitter?
The point is that self-policing never works. It's not (only) a matter of motivation.
I do like me some serverless.

That said, for my own projects I don't go that route because when it is my own money I need the certainty of cost that something like a $10 droplet gives.

I know serverless will be much cheaper (probably almost free) for most likely loads, but if I'm hit with the extremely unlikely loads I'd rather a small droplet that struggles and dies than a performant serverless system that spins up my bill as well as my resources.
It was far more than 8 feet away. And if it wasn't, they could easily step back and keep filming.
wow, once upon a time you could have a discussion here on any topic, hope that feature is not disappearing....
Impressive since it exemplifies the natural intelligence inherent in dolphins
It’s not about “love”. (Few people in respective countries love Biden or Boris Johnson either.)

There is popular support for the government (that means, people are not looking to reelect or overthrow the government) because people think the government did good (a.k.a. did not screw up enough). But the government may have, in fact, screwed up; it just successfully manipulated popular opinion and benefitted from economic context.

It has also screwed up in the most fundamental way, by preventing people from peacefully replacing it (meaning the first key objective of any of its policies is to ensure it maintains power).

You fail to recognize your life may have improved despite the policies, not necessarily thanks to them; meanwhile, those policies may have degraded individual moral values such that the only thing keeping the country from descending into chaos is total surveillance, all the while benefiting the ruling elites.
Hmmm, it might works, but need a unit test to verify.
Porsche designed the beetle (to the sketches of an Austrian painter). VW was founded for making beetles and they did that for decades. VW combined with Audi. Audi people designed the Golf that was the opposite of the beetle. It was a great success.
I agree with the moderator that those comments were transphobic. The author seem to say one can "cure"/treat being trans by changing habits. This reminds me of those gay conversion camps, which at least where I live, is considered very homophobic.
That's why disposable email addresses exist
I think that this article is an example of a phenomenon wherein we subconsciously associate the flaws and artifacts of the medium with the medium itself -- and once those flaws and artifacts are removed, yielding a more accurate reproduction of the world or the artist's vision, we get the sense that something is missing and consider the result to be of lower quality rather than higher. Examples abound:

* You will never, ever get an old rockist audiophile to admit that digital formats yield better results than vinyl. To them, vinyl sounds better -- "richer, warmer", more like you're actually there listening to the band. One such person of my acquaintance went on about "fat synths" that CDs couldn't reproduce. Let alone the fact that physical properties of vinyl prevent records from having the dynamic range of uncompressed digital music on the first playthrough, let alone after the needle has worn imprecisions into those grooves. Let alone the fact that almost no band sounds live the way they do in a recording because you can't control the acoustic properties of a concert hall the way you can in a studio, or mix tracks or adjust the relative mix of various parts in quite the same way.

* In cinema, someone else mentioned the idea, beloved among cinemaphiles and even directors like Quentin Tarantino, that only 24fps celluloid with grain and scratches counts as "real film" and everything else looks "lifeless".

* In video games, there is the phenomenon of CRT purism. Some of this is justified; developers have been able to achieve color and transparency effects on CRTs that haven't translated well to LCDs without additional filtering. I also understand that the lower latency of CRTs improved the situation for e.g. fighting or light gun games. But mostly, the "truer image" people associate with CRTs were artifacts of grotty TVs and, specifically, NTSC composite video signals. A new arcade machine of the era would use a top-quality CRT engineered to deliver the crispest possible image -- closer to the LCD or OLED displays of today than to the smearfests of home systems played on spare TVs. And if you lived in Europe and could play on a PAL or, better yet, SCART set, many of those artifacts went away there as well.

* Oddly enough, no one seems to miss VHS tracking artifacts. But they are used for effect, to signify an aesthetic associated with a particular time and place, as in for example the game Katana Zero or the Local 58 YouTube channel. I guess that's what we should be aiming for here: the "richer sound", the NTSC color effects, the film grain, and the camera aberration can be used as tools to shape the audience's experience and evoke a time or mood. I just wish that people were honest about what they were doing, and not be all like "old good, new bad". I like having high-quality Opus rips and sharp LCD monitors.
I take it you're a MWI fan then? Isn't the answer for why we "force wave-describing partial differential equations into a probabilistic model" because in our reality, when we look at an electron we observe something that looks like a particle and not a wave?
You can have it both ways in C++ depending on your compiler flags!

And people wonder why we complain about C++..
Some of the issue with junior employees is that what worked before won’t work as well now (or at minimum, won’t work the same way).

When I was a junior programmer, I ate lunch every day with junior and senior programmers. I developed a trust that let me easily ask one of them to “walk me through how a variable of char * and char[256] are related” or show me some trick in the debugger or help me get unstuck.

It’s not that you can’t do any of those things remotely. It’s that the social constructs are vastly different in the absence of repeated casual interactions.

In a remote-mostly world, a junior programmer is likely to struggle longer solo on any given issue (which brings along some benefits, of course), but once they get into a spot where they’re underwater, they don’t have an easy, low-stakes, smooth way to recover as “asking one of the 10 people you’ve eaten lunch with 100 times.”
From what I've read on Wikipedia [1], my guess would be that the answer is probably: "Since it's impossible to falsify, we should only be satisfied with it if science can eliminate literally all other possible falsifiable explanations." In which case, I guess if your goal is solely to "push the boundaries of science", then this is fair enough. But in that case, it seems to me the amount of effort and resources we could ostensibly pour into eliminating falsifiable explanations might well be unlimited, which raises the question of: at precisely what point do you cut your losses and realize you need to move on (to philosophy? idk), so to speak. Science is supposed to be a means to an end, after all, and I thought that end was "understanding the universe"—not "exploring the space of all falsifiable predictions just for the sake of it".

But I'm curious to hear physicists' takes on this! e.g., the implausibility claim in the Wikipedia article would seem like a compelling rebuttal, except that I don't see why I should believe superdeterminism to be an implausible explanation at all. If anything, it sounds like the most plausible explanation we have—either that, or the Big Bang somehow doesn't imply superdeterminism (how is that even possible?), or the Big Bang theory is bogus to begin with.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism
The $1bn is in case something else makes the closing impossible (a regulatory decision, for example).
Nice utility!

It uses Tesseract internally. Has anyone done a comparison on Tesseract 4 vs 5 vs PaddlePaddle?
A simple mess
Show HN: Maze Generation Visualization
We have a very substantial part of the population becoming chronically ill after an infection of a disease labeled “mostly mild”, yet we decided low-key interventions such as masking and air filtration are not worth it.
Best radios to use in an emergency (2021)
Why does Bart make that horrible squealing noise all the time though?
I completely understand their concerns about remote work long term. Maybe it really does make it harder for new employees to form networks, and productivity does take a hit. This might make the company less innovative, less competitive and even deliver a lower return on capital.

The thing is though, I don't give a shit. I am generally not rewarded for being productive.

Employees might be more inclined to think like owners if they actually reaped the benefits of ownership. Benefits like a share of profits or any semblance of decision making power for important decisions. All of this stuff is doable.

Until then, work from home sounds good because it's all upside for employees.
Yes, it is the wheels that are beveled. However, the BART wheels are not beveled, they are flat (cylindrical) at the part where the cars usually ride. See https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/2t7x49/the_bart_wh....

This is what causes a lot of noise and wear and tear. I actually researched this and it seems that it was not as stupid of a decision as a lot of people say it is. There is a problem with beveled wheels -- it is called hunting. This is when the car oscillates from side to side. Hunting is unpleasant, also causes wear and tear and noise and creates a danger of derailing.

Hunting becomes more likely if the car is lighter and if it is going high speed. The bart was designed to be lighter than most existing metro systems and to go much faster than existing metro systems in certain corridors. So they wanted to prevent hunting and thus made a portion of the wheel cylindrical.

So it seems that they just made another engineering trade off. And I am sure they had justification. But I do wish that when engineers make these trade offs they take human comfort into account. I does not seem that they gave sound much of a weight when making their trade offs.

I think the solution is to keep the wheels cylindrical but just decouple them. I.e., not to have the right and left wheel connected by an axle. If they are independent they can move at different speeds on the turns and will not cause grinding and noise. And the wheels that are driven may be driven by different electric motors that drive the wheels by the necessary different speeds on turns. This is called vectoring and is already being done for some electric cars.
A mysterious cult that predates Stonehenge
To protect them from accidentally speaking their mind, mentioning things that might get them in trouble if the other side hears it. to prevent this, Zoom (and others) ask you to click to open the mic. It's a GDPR thing: The default setting in most tools is that the user has to actively switch on their camera and microphone when they begin to participate.
Tesla and SpaceX success is depending on the public opinion of Musk. If he ends up paying 15 billion (or whatever the number is) over a botched take over, one that had a negative impact on Tesla shares, this opinion might just change. In which case Teslas future preception as a tech company might be at risk.
Right, but that’s a lot different from following mountain slopes to maintain a constant depth.
Gun Applicants in NY Will Have to List Social Media Accounts
I find jetbrains mono the most pleasant to use of the ones I've tried: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

Though admittedly I haven't tried any of the expensive paid fonts.
Thanks. We'll do ligatures, but it won't be like anything else out there.

> There is an unspoken expectation that 1 key press = 1 symbol printed on the screen. That shouldn't be violated in our view. A lot of our customers have requested ligatures, so we're working on them. But it will be anything but typical in Berkeley Mono.

https://twitter.com/berkeleygfx/status/1515047847506325508
Fascinating information to supplement. However the Wikipedia doesn't produce any citations either, so tough to accept human edits as truth. additionally, the Wikipedia article actually doesn't contradict what ehhhhhh commented.
They’re saying that if everyone just did what they agreed to do:
- Musk would give Twitter shareholders $44B in cash,
- Twitter shareholders would give Musk ownership of the company.

Note that today, Twitter is worth $28B.
So the agreed deal essentially gives the shareholders $16B in profit.

So a judge might tell Musk he can’t back out and has to buy Twitter for $44B like he said he would.
Or it might let him just give the shareholders $16B and not get the company.
Obligatory example where the extra backslash makes a difference:

$ printf '%s\n' 'asterisk: *' 'backslash: \' | grep '[*]'
asterisk: *
$ printf '%s\n' 'asterisk: *' 'backslash: \' | grep '[\*]'
asterisk: *
backslash: \

It depends on the regex flavour though (doesn't happen with Python, JavaScript, or Perl for example).
Japan is much more complicated than that and apply capitalist measures of success isnt doing it justice

- Demographic crunch, as mentioned. The country not descending into uncontrolled decline may already been a decent achievement

- Focus on quality. This is unique to Japan and runs counter capitalist growth stories. Japanese consumers value quality. a lot. But it’s bad for business in the growth sense, you don’t need to buy a new fridge for 10-15 years because it works and isn’t made obsolete artificially, Japanese consumers are happy, growth : consumption metrics are not.

Quality is just not captured as a variable in the western / American way of looking at economic health. Not having train delays, having great customer service, no forced obsolete products, high reliability in services and products are not reflected / incentivized in that model - they don’t exist but that’s not how Japan works.

Japan has issues, quite a few, but it’s not nearly the hellhole American economic publications love to make it out for decades now. It may be a nightmare scenarios for the get rich quick dudes with US MBAs, but quality of life is pretty decent for a country this far down the demographic curve.

We can only really judge how they fared when America enters that demographic slope.
> Arguably, email addresses are (much) simpler to parse than postal addresses (including thing's like c/o, post boxes, etc.)

Both are equally easy to fake. The difference is sending fake bulk postal mail is much more expensive than email.
And so far this behaviour earned him a law suite.
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If I have entangled particles A and B, and then B interacts with and becomes entangled with particle C, can that interaction not qualify as an "observation" that collapses the wave function of A + B and de-entangles them?
Jobs are a cost center. Companies don't create them on purpose anymore than having a higher electricity bill.

I have no idea why you would think that is an argument for anything.
It makes it more complicated. The wheels need to be fixed to the axel for breaks to function, so you can’t just stick a bearing in the wheel and call it a day.
The video in the article explains - if not tunnels, then you would need to either take away the green areas, or areas for pedestrian traffic.

Also, this is meant for transport to/from the inner city, so nobody to negotiate rights of way with - unless you mean demolishing buildings.
The number of a layers matters.

There's apparently some physical limits on how much energy one layer can absorb, so stacking multiple layers appears to be the way to go, but it can lead to confusion if you compare different numbers of layers.

This record appears to be for 1 layer of silicon and 1 of perovskite. I think a single layer Perovskite peaks about 25% currently, similar to silicon alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-junction_solar_cell
Note that Walmart.com does list 3rd party sellers.
Pensions funds are already underfunded and subject to corruption such as understatement of liabilities and investments in politically connected ventures.

The only result is future taxpayers get to pay higher taxes.
Twitter cash on hand for the quarter ending March 31, 2022 was $6B

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TWTR/twitter/cash-...
I have heard it call that before by teammates but thought it was just a guess. Seems it’s official

Thanks for sharing :)
My guess is at a minimum maintaining the bearings would be more difficult.

A solid axel allows placing an external bearings between the truck and the axel.

Hub bearings are internal and service would require dealing with the nontrivial weight of a loose wheel.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_railroad_truck_parts
The problem with that is the only people you have to talk to is hams.

(Ex ham)
There's a principle in aviation of staggering engine maintenance on multiple-engined airplanes to avoid maintenance-induced errors leading to complete power loss.

e.g. Simultaneous Engine Maintenance Increases Operating Risks, Aviation Mechanics Bulletin, September–October 1999
https://flightsafety.org/amb/amb_sept_oct99.pdf