skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is just because most people leave when they don't like something. In a bad environment you would expect the majority of those who stay to still find the environment good and themselves rational, with only a few outspoken against it. It is a relatively basic concept in markets, sociology, biology, information systems and reasoning.

The person you and the comment next to me are talking about is not here to defend themselves. They are specifically not here to defend themselves because they aren't allowed to. The justification for them not being allowed to is because they talked badly about someone else. Yet, it is apparently accepted to talk badly about them.

Your are even saying that we shouldn't trust this person because they in your opnion engaged in ad hominem attacks. But by doing so you are arguably performing an ad hominem attack yourself. And while you can certainly make a meta argument against that it would be close enough for many not to touch it.

This is why many people leave. Not because it's the Internet. Most of us have been around that. But because it is bad version of it.

You might think this doesn't have real consequences so I will give you an example. Because of the environment on Hacker News there is a lack of successful Europeans. This in turn results in there being an overwhelming consensus that is less likely you make good amounts of money in Europe. But this often isn't the case if you know what to do. It is just that those who do either leave or stop talking about it. Which continues the existing narrative as the participants reality continues to match their opinions. While in reality their opinion may not really be supported.

An environment with one sided environment isn't harmless. It might actually give you a worse life. But the same argument as before also applies here. Those who appreciate this are the first to leave. Leaving those who stay blind to what is happening.
They didn't check mine.
I got interested in bioinformatics in the early 2000's. The sequencing of the human genome, and of course that of many other organisms, was a huge enabler of "systems thinking" as applied to biology.

It isn't really fair to blame bio teachers for not teaching this in the 80's or even early 90's. Prior to that, it was mostly memorization. Some biologists and chemists were putting together the basic facts that came together and gave us an "aha!" moment. They won Nobel Prizes for a lot of that. Without Kary Mullis and PCR in the 80's, we wouldn't know 0.01% of what we know now.
Agree, HN’s search returned nothing, possibly because the terms are not English, but no idea.

Try Google too next time if HN’s search doesn’t find what you’re looking for:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+Il...
Anyone know of a good touchscreen monitor/display for events? I am using the lenovo m14t connected to a mac but looking for better options..?
> Or did you mean the 1800s?

Yes, silly me. He was talking about the times he saw around him (late
1800s) rather than prophesising. In Beyond Good and Evil he poses the
open question "what sacred games shall we have to invent?". It was
Freud and Jung who were possessed with visions of awful wars to fill
the vacuum.
The link I posted said the latter, people didn't understand that 4 payments of $25 costs the same as $100.
> Why do you want italics in a monospace font? I can't imagine ever wanting that.

For the same reasons you'd want to use italics in a proportional font - for emphasis or contrast.

1. Syntax highlighting which uses both color and font style, e.g. class name are italicised by default in my editor (Sublime Text).

2. Editing markdown/HTML files with italics tags/markup.

3. Also, italics also work on the console, and some console/TUI apps may use it.
Actually 5:4, I loved that format and wish it came in 2000x1600 or so.
Thanks for this test case. When I drop that image I see that the individual words are recognized correctly, but starting from about mid-way though are not displayed in the correct order in the text box at the bottom. If the image is rotated so that the text baselines are horizontal (about a ~1.5 degree rotation), the words are displayed in the correct order. So it looks like smarter methods or defaults are needed for the layout analysis.

I think with modern methods it ought to be relatively easy to teach a system to predict the amount of rotation needed to straighten the image, or make the layout analysis tolerate minor rotations of the input better. Needs someone to actually implement it though!
I don't think anyone would care if they used "Reagonmics" instead, or something like Obamacare, those are more usefully descriptive than partisan.

Regardless using a term that purposefully misrepresents the economics behind it is not a good way to start any online discussion or make a critique. And if it's not purposeful then is just demonstrates a poor grasp of the concept.

Why else would people take issue with it so often? I've seen that term discredited on HN many times, I'm not the first.
I just bought one of these (and love it! I write a lot) It has the same PPI as the 32" 4k Dell I run at work.
> The issue is that open source distributions don't have access to the level of testing and quality control that the proprietary desktop duopoly do.

In the case of Windows, there's a lot of onus on the OEM. Of course, most OEMs will not test Linux at all, so either you find a vendor that supports Linux or you YOLO it. Of course, if you YOLO, you're so helping ensure the market continues to make _more_ Windows-only hardware, so you can look forward to even more YOLO.

> I wish there were more competition in the commercial space,

Unlike in previous decades*, you actually can buy laptops with Linux pre-installed, from vendors that actually support it. This is huge.

If you want Linux that Just Works, for the love of God, stop buying Windows hardware. Sometimes I think the smartest thing Apple ever did was require Apple hardware to run OSX.

*Ask this greybeard how he knows.
Farming existed before people.

Humanity has gotten very good at it and weedkilling is a big part of it. But, wild plants propagate quite well on their own, spending seeds of things you want more of results in more of that species. Preparing the environment and selecting seeds ca push that much further but the absolute minimum threshold is very low. Toss eaten apples into your yard, and eventually you get apple trees.
Show HN: Zip files 4 times faster than 7-Zip with a demo written in JavaScript
Link to the demo: https://gildas-lormeau.github.io/zip.js/demos/demo-create-file.html

To take advantage of this performance gain, you need to add at least 4 files to the zip file and use a Chromium-based browser as the library uses the recent CompressionStream API [1] which allows native file compression.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CompressionStream
Having tried both setups I found 8k 55" to be problematic. At 200% scaling it's like 4 4k 27.5" displays which are already a bit under scales individually (160 dpi equivalent being displayed as normal) but much worse because you need to fit 4 within your vision on a flat plane. At 250% things are better but now you're effectively just got an extremely large 5k display with all of the troubles/inneficiencies of fractional scaling.

I found stacking 27"-32" sized displays in a 3x1 or 3x2 to be much more effective. This allows you to adjust the angles horizontally and vertically to where you sit so it's less of a flat plane and allows you to pick 1440p or 2160p panels for each (depending on size you went with and money you want to spend) giving you the option to build to the size and resolution you want instead of the size and resolution you can fit using a single tv. For less than $2k you can get 6x 1440p@165hz displays and 3 dual height monitor stands so it also gives more bang for the buck. Well getting the same peak HDR brightness might cost you more, especially if you want that on all displays.

Not to mention 8k TVs try to do everything I their power to make the experience of just turning on and displaying the content directly and correctly impossible to do fully.
Not just that, but curved monitors are useless for any design work, like CAD, or even good old graphical design, and I suspect this monitor will be popular with those people.
Dynamic systems theory is very powerful organizing principle / concept that makes biology make a lot more sense. It also helps to constantly remind yourself that academic science divisions - in particular physics, chemistry, and biology - are fairly arbitrary and nature doesn't care much about them, and this becomes very clear from a system-based view.

Without a grasp of basic physical concepts like conservation of mass and energy and the direction of entropy, life is an impenetrable mystery. For example, imagine a river flowing downstream with eddies on the sides - those eddies have an upstream flow component, driven by the overall downstream energy flow. Living cells do the same thing: they capture physical and chemical energy from their surroundings and use their networks of nucleic acids and proteins, and their encapsulation structures, to reverse the normal downstream flow of entropy.

Everything else follows pretty logically from there. How do cells communicate with their surroundings? They take up materials, excrete wastes, collect sensory data, engage in chemical messaging, and so on. How do cells maintain their nucleic acid and protein networks? By constantly repairing and rebuilding and replicating them using inputs of energy and materials. What is reproduction? A systems-level cellular reboot that also introduces novelty in the form of mutations and rearrangements (which may be useful, or not).

For a good intro to systems-based thinking in biology:

(2020) Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction, Eberhard O. Voit

https://www.veryshortintroductions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/...

If you want a deep dive into the modern view of the dynamic, 3D genome, this is a great source (which also explains why just knowing the primary sequence of a genome doesn't necessarily lead to an understanding of disease states, failure modes, etc.):

(2015) The Deeper Genome: Why There Is More to the Human Genome Than Meets the Eye, John Parrington

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25660581-the-deeper-geno...
Why are we moving away from nuclear?
That's not what the article says: "On aerial trackways during high wind events – which the engineers knew were not uncommon in places such as Contra Costa County -- the light BART cars could potentially tip over, the engineers hypothesized."
It's equivalent to putting two 16:9 displays on top of each other, but in the same device.
Probably helpful if you say more about your required size, resolution, brightness, durability, portability, price, etc.
True, but in a fast-changing world, someone with slow data integrations might be leaving money on the table.
Hot water is a known carcinogenic.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2...

It's there, in the statistics. The thing is, the risks of eating meat or drinking hot espressos are like national lottery kind of probabilities. Not like asbestos or carbon particles, wich have more like rock paper scissor kind of probabilities.
Advancing Humanity with Limitless Access to the RF Spectrum
While Monsanto was guilty, many companies and people settle for large amounts of money even when not guilty. Settling is often about cost not guilt. A company settles to reduce future risks and to stop unbounded lawsuit costs.
> There’s been a conscious choice to produce alcohol and put it in your drink.

Fruits etc can easily ferment without you realizing it. So people aren't necessarily aware they are adding alcohol not are you nessiarily aware you are drinking it.

> As if you don’t have any.

The material world explanation has zero edge cases it's completely self consistent.
Can you explain more on the "culture shock"?. I'm not American, just curious...
That’d be a nice infusion of capital for Twitter. And maybe that’s the best case scenario outcome that they’re actually hoping for.
And now every other fucking comment I see does this. So why not have them back?
The further you let them grow the more differentiated they become. So time could be leaned on as a predictor. But even at the very young cotlydon phase you can differentiate between certain species, even at the level of seeds. It depends how closely related things are of course but with time every plant identifies itself pretty much.
That doesn’t follow at all. The law recognizes numerous degrees of culpability even for intentional killing of another human (e.g. premeditated versus not). In Texas, second degree murder carries a penalty of 2 to 20 years.
Steam looks promising too: https://www.weedtechnics.com/does-steam-weed-control-actuall...
It is OK to compliment people for their good work, you don't have to work for free to receive praise.
I don't think you can objectively test. When you do test you're making a singular data point that doesn't reflect ability, necessarily, but instead a coincidence of factors at a given point in time. The data point is arbitrary, even if the test is scored against the distribution.

Take, for instance, a FT-working non-trad that scores above the mean. The mean who predominately consists of students who are FT-students. Should some respect not be paid to the considerable handicaps suffered by the non-trad? How do you even begin weight that?

Of course this is multiplied a million times over in several dimensions.
Not technologically easier to come up with, but easier to transact with. Buying gold from someone halfway around the world would take weeks for it to get to me. With Bitcoin I can do it in a fraction of a second.
Kids that age shouldn't be on YouTube at all. And there are parental controls.
Is this due to the weird sleep states in newer Intel CPUs? I read that these are troublesome even on windows.
How to build and scale a Staff+ engineering community
Dont talk to me about hurting people. You literally support chopping children up in the womb - people who suffer and die alone, for the sake of convenience.

Utterly despicable
> faster

"Stores today are catering to shoppers who perceive self-checkout to be faster than traditional cashiers, even though there's little evidence to support that. But, because customers are doing the work, rather than waiting in line, the experience can feel like it's moving more quickly."
But why would the analysis care about bots that are viewing? They aren't creating disinformation by viewing (maybe by "liking" though). Bots-as-followers are benign. The "bot problem" is bots being used to post disinfo at scale to cram the entire space with propaganda, that is: to quote Steve Banon "flood the zone with shit". Which is what bots and troll farms have done successfully over the past 7 years.
Man accused of selling fake, broken Cisco devices to hospitals schools military
No, I don't think that simplification would apply here.

The number of bots on Twitter has always seemed like a boon of an issue to me. Twitter wants to keep it's user/engagement numbers up and bots do help them. I can 100% understand why they've taken a soft approach to it, even if I find it ethically questionable.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that anyone who's engaged with Twitter, or knows a reasonable amount about it has known about this problem for many years. I find it hard to believe that Elon wouldn't have been well aware of this upfront.

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The part of your simplification that I take issue with is, "[...] that the seller had hidden." IMO - everyone in town knows that house has building code issues, but, no one really knows the exact extent. Unfortunately, these same building code issues are likely keeping the building standing.

The seller has a gray-area "issue" that is on the fence between "feature" and "bug," and the buyer is using it as leverage to pull out of a deal they're on the hook for.
> https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/researchers-fin...

This doesn't say anything about the concentration or percentage of bots on Twitter.

> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

Neither does this.

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Xl0TrA8oXXo

Nor this.
Nobody said bots aren't on twitter. What's under discussion is whether or not the bots make up a large percentage of users on twitter.

> Honestly this is such a common thing in PR it's silly posting more examples
That's kind of hand-wavey. I'd appreciate more examples.
Glyphosate is sprayed on some grain crops prior to harvest to force a whole field into senescence at the same time.
I think this section addresses that sort of bias (a limitation of the used data):

>The availability of large-scale historical records of published languages going back centuries may provide a unique opportunity for the quantitative investigation of important cultural and linguistic dynamics (“culturomics”) (21), while acknowledging limitations with respect to verifying hypotheses and testing the causal mechanisms that underlie any observations from these data.

I enjoyed that overall the article does not try to sell the idea that there is/was an actual change in the society, but rather showing how this analysis may be an indicator of that and inciting future work on the topic.
> They have a reading mode

How does it work?
> ow the sun or other stars work, but we can’t even begin to dream about creating one

Wolfram didn't answer "how much would a solar mass of hydrogen cost" for me, but it did tell me that the solar mass is 1.988435×10^33 grams, and another search found hydrogen prices [1] in the range of US$ 250 to 1350 per MT ... So just the financing on building another sun is going to be tricky.

[1] I know it's not all hydrogen but we'll burn those bridges when we get to them.
>Obamacare, those are more usefully descriptive than partisan

Obamacare is pretty partisan, but at the very least meant as a derogatory name. It’s definitely not primarily descriptive. It’s also a callback to “Hillarycare.”
I really wish we wouldn't give this chap a platform. He really is terrible.
No, its not socially responsible, its reprehensible.

I hope Klarna & Co drive themselves to bankruptcy tbh.
My cervical vertebrae are cowering in fear. I'd rather twist left to right and put the burden on muscles, than over-articulate my neck.
Elon only got stuck with it because he explicitly waived the right to due diligence which would have protected him from all this.

He tried to act badass but came out looking like a dumbass.

Everything since is his effort to get out of this (which he will…one of the nice things about having a lot of money is that it’s very hard to lose, no matter how illegal whatever you’re doing is), but is also trying to pretend he didn’t do something really really dumb.

I see absolutely no reason to help Elon rewrite history especially when he could very well paid the penalty and walked away like he contractually agreed to, which would have ended the matter right there.
That’s AWS’s pricing model. And SalesForce, Azure, and many of enterprise SaaS offerings.
Because there isn’t a lot of good options for a high return investment so the inflation is lowering the value of your money quickly and using it to reduce interest payments makes a certain amount of sense.
As someone who there's a lot of programming with C# and loves it, are there any good alternatives?

This plus the stuff they're doing with Minecraft recently has me very much wanting to get away from them. They've made it clear that they will abuse any power they have.

However, none of the alternatives seem that good. Python is slow, dynamic, and a pain to write large projects in, JavaScript is reliant on typescript and TypeScript is Microsoft.

Go is Google. Enough said.

Rust seems cool, but I'm not really on the system's side of programming so it's not super suited to the sort of things I want to do.

Is the only alternative Microsoft doesn't have their fingers in right now Kotlin? It's going to be expensive, but jet brains even provides the IDE so I can get away from VS code.
this is outdated thinking. LD50 is a measure of poison in testing, but since then it is acknowledged that there are cumulative over a lifetime effects, there are endocrine disrupting effects, and there may be effects from small doses that tip balancing systems in the body significantly.. those are from memory, not a specialist here.
Issues in Replacing OpenSSL
I see, you're a literal troll, and your name references your subterranean habitat. In short, yes, I don't want my kid to "grow up" to be like you because it's clear that you're either an early teen or your development is severely stunted.
Run Linux everyday. I am a heavy tech user. Multi polyglot developer.. what are you doing that turns admin into a full time job..

Even my stupid obtuse use case is not that heavy.
Isn't Poettering already doing his own EEE in the linux ecosystem? FOSS is becoming harder and harder to port to other systems due huge amount of linux-specific code creeping into everything.
Again, it depends on what you're leasing from other carriers. Yes, if you're purchasing an L2 path from a carrier you're relying on their switches and routers to pass traffic correctly, but you bypass their routers and switches by purchasing an L1 wavelength circuit between 2 points. That's one of the main reasons that wavelength circuits are used (in addition to the guaranteed capacity).

Third party carriers using fibre local loops from another carrier would not have gone down like TPIA users did on Rogers' network yesterday. I strongly believe that access to fibre local loops is needed in Canada. Leased copper local loops enabled plenty of competition between small local ISPs in the 1990s and early 2000s while they could still deliver speeds that were sufficient for internet users of the time. Having a tariff for local fibre circuits similar to the old LDDS tariff would bring back that vibrant competition we once had. Bonus: it's a lot harder for incumbents to put together bogus cost studies as compared to the failed disaggregated regime the CRTC has wasted nearly a decade on now.
Show HN: Auto translate po, CSV files with Google translate
If providing health care to women is despicable, I don’t want to be anything but despicable.

You have been lied to your entire life and have some broken ideas about how health care and medical treatments work.

How about we leave it to the Drs and not make it difficult for things that are none of your damn business?
It does say later that it was also a consideration for running BART on the lower deck of the golden gate bridge.
I'd like to see a game or VR environment where the effect of extra long eyelashes affects the image. Or cataracts. Or dirty specs. That's your organic life right there.
How is that different from any other part of a function signature? It’s part of the type system, of course changes have to be accounted for at use sites. But not doing so would be just incorrect.
> But why would the analysis care about bots that are viewing?

Because the business issue is about advertising reach. Bots aren't real advertising targets.
I used to run a 16:9 vertically for writing so I got one of these and love it.

The only issue is that I needed to install BetterDisplay (former BetterDummy) to get retina scaling from my macbook pro M1 . Dunno why macOS doesn't support it natively since it has the same PPI as a 32" 4k screen.
Literally the first time I installed Ubuntu in 2009, I booted into it, it asked me to install a bunch of updates, and when I did the required reboot, it dropped me into the boot terminal with a bunch of vague errors.

Linux is not infallible.
It a place for politics now. Many "guidelines" are written in a sufficiently vague way that they can be interested widely and contradict other guidelines if you apply a healthy amount of pedantry.