skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's worth reconsidering why you wish to read this book if you do not enjoy it.

The classics are not a homework assignment to be suffered through.
>The SEC does not license crypto exchanges, and the DOJ cannot “order” anything on its own.

I'm not a lawyer so you explain me if you know it. But SEC is already investigating Binance over their token[0].

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-06/us-probes...
This submission was actually earlier as it comes from the second chance pool but the one you linked to made it to the frontpage in the meantime.
> Democrats hadn’t denounced any part of religious fundamentalism

This is a baffling assertion that takes about ten seconds to debunk. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/at-prayer-breakfast-obama-conde...
That could be, or we're just more aware than ever of exactly how incapable/irresponsible/irrational the average person is (regardless of where they land on the political spectrum).
Custom ID apps can be insecure as well. There are a lot of moving pieces there, from the app's source code itself to the security protocols and processes when someone has an issue with their app login or loses their phone.

Billions of euros were spent to make basic apps for tracking CoV-2 vaccine status and they all failed miserably. If governments couldn't get a basic QR app to be secure when they effectively wrote themselves a blank check, I wouldn't be so sure that the app used to authenticate all of your private government accounts is better implemented.
>Investigative journalism is at an all time low at the moment: it's simply too expensive.

I would just say it's not as profitable. Many independent journalists seem to do investigative journalism on the cheap. Wikileaks comes to mind. Saying it' too expensive, to me, denotes that they are unable to do it and be a sustainable enterprise, which is probably not accurate.
Those sound cheap today but were very expensive in those 35 year old 1980's dollars. Businesses and the more well-to-do could afford them but the majority couldn't. This is the reason Jack Tramiel's Commodore 64 and Atari ST were targeted at, "the masses, not the classes".
Pretty sure it was this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carruthers

(I mixed up the details in my hazy memory - I think my interview was in 2001, so over 20 years ago).

The Wikipedia page links to a different UK betting company / exec who was also arrested in the same manner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Dicks

Edit: And same company, different executive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kaplan Company looks super-shady in hindsight, I'm glad I didn't take that job :)
What would be a suitable algorithm?
I am curious if your perspective comes from someone that is swedish or not. The general consensus locally is the opposite sentiment ime and ofc you can easily rent cars for the day or a small trailer for very cheap. That coupled with the fact to for example Kungens Kurva it is somewhere you can get to within an hour from within even the city center is quite nice and the bus stop is literally next to the IKEA (ofc you go to Barkarby if more north and again the station for the bus is right next to center). The delivery is interesting that you note considering we have always been able to get things delivered to our apartment though maybe it depends where you live...
Colors is where X > Y > Z doesn’t mean X > Z.
OneNote's recognition of my handwriting--once described by a tutor as 'dogs dribble'--is nothing short of miraculous.

OneNote only does recognition for search and by text-block, you can't select as in the OP; would love that feature.
Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programs!
Yeah, because there's nothing else and everything supports LDAP. Even if you're using some SaaS offering when it comes time to integrate it with off-the-shelf on-prem software the path of least resistance is pretty much always LDAP.

And since you have to have AD/Azure AD for Windows logins if you want single-password (not necessarily SSO) your source of truth is now an LDAP server.
Good idea but why is this first-party add-on not compatible with the android Firefox app? That's a bit disingenuous.
> That data is stored in a similar order on disk (is this still true?).

There should be no requirement for this. Columns in relations are not conceptually ordered, so it shouldn't matter for the things you're doing with the data anyway, and the database should be able to reorder the data in whatever way it likes, since desire to isolate the user from physical data structures was one of the main reasons for the rise of RDBMS.
> How can you perceive the supernatural? If you perceive it, then it’s sense data. So photons and sound waves.

You can perceive something, but what you perceive is not necessarily a comprehensive and accurate representation of what may be there.

> Not having a good explanation for how you know something does not imply fairies did it.

True, and the fact that this is true has little bearing on whether the underlying proposition is objectively true (but perhaps beyond humanity's current ability to "know").

inb4 solipsism.
It's code language for "the company will subsidize my life choices." Why single out mothers? Why not fathers, as well? I say this as I have essentially given up my career to homeschool my two kids and make sure they get an actual education (unlike that provided by horrible public schooling). Sure, it would be nice for an employer to be forced to pay for that, but I don't expect it.

We can't get everything we want in life.
Show HN: Modify search engine ranking using subreddits
As a note this is a draft informational RFC from one member, albeit a cool one :). It is not an overall stance, consensus, or best practices of the IETF. From RFC 2026:

> An "Informational" specification is published for the general information of the Internet community, and does not represent an Internet community consensus or recommendation.

A lot of people associate "RFC" with standards track RFCs so I felt this could cause some confusion.
I think he’s really dedicated to making a specific thing and gets frustrated when users ask for “Swiss Army knife” features. I have empathy for that situation.

That said, being unkind to otherwise civil users is never OK.
Its extensible, standartised and available as backend in many products.
Scientists in China claim AI can check loyalty of_ Communist Party members
There's plenty of data showing that time spent in school does not strongly correlate with learning, and that kids that start school much later than their peers very quickly catch up to those peers [1,2]. School is mainly subsidized daycare, but it's daycare that's important especially for poor kids.

[1] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/kids-can-recover-from-...

[2] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-co...
Idk about the person OP is talking about, but it's definitely happened:

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/technology/18gamble.html
A lot of SaaS services just auth against other SaaS accounts, like Google/Azure/Github/AWS.

I don't love this state of affairs as I'd rather just use my password manager for everything (and it's particularly bad when you have a mix of on-prem stuff that does AD and then other cloud stuff that doesn't), but I suppose it probably works well for shops that use exclusively cloud services.
The hex codes cannot be selected/copied out which was disappointing, but perhaps worse is that the hex codes slowly fade away completely!

I only noticed the first time because there was a gorgeous gold/purple combination that I wanted to save, which makes me think there might be another layer of combination that can be saved which is worst/best combinations of colour.
SolidJS's truly reactive state management, in React
But that's extreme. We don't go back to living in a cave and bashing each other's skulls in with rocks, just because that's where evolution took us. Our minds are above and beyond some aminoacids (or whatever) now.
If its a simple free market thing, then you won't use your car battery to supply the grid, because the economics wouldn't work out. So the issue remains.
Not sure when you last used it. But it is a lot faster now. Still slow compared to local tools of course.
Everything you said about Wegmans is true of Costco. Kirkland brand is usually the best option if they make it and Costco is known for their high starting wages, benefits, and treating their employees well. Their hot dog (1/4 lb all-beef) + drink deal has stayed at $1.50 for decades and is legitimately a solid lunch. Their beer selection is good (at least in NY) although I would recommend just going to a local brewery to buy beer in pretty much any state.
You send the battery truck out. It looks kinda like a tow truck towing a huge battery. It can charge 8 cars at a time. It takes 30 minutes to get 8 cars up to 3kWh. So a 30 vehicle stack up would take 2 hours to clear with just one battery truck. After being stranded for 24 hours, a 2 hour charge delay doesn't seem like a big deal.
> I deeply hate writing like that because I can never properly explain my tangled thoughts.

I brought a friend of mine to give a couple lectures at our company for this exact reason. He's a professor of non-fiction. There's a couple techniques we learned you can use:

- "madman architect carpenter judge"

- shitty first draft

- The most dangerous writing app, https://www.squibler.io/dangerous-writing-prompt-app

They're all fundamentally the same concept: write first, edit second.
I think Sinofsky is the best thing I've read on the "office" subject:

https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/creating-the-future-of...

This really resonated with me:

"It will be tempting for some to continue to believe we will return to the old normal and operate as we once did.

It will be tempting for others to search for a few changes and make those permanent and hope the rest will go back to normal.

Still others will firmly believe that some approach that picks the best changes and just adds them to what was going on will be the path to the future.

If these patterns sound familiar it is because they are the patterns of a failed response to a disruptive change. The idea that everything stays the same except for a few changes around the edges caused every incumbent to lose in the face of step-function change."
> graph with stronger learning quality shows Japan number 1

that's highly dubious. Who made this graph? Ah, McKinsey. Explains everything.
Yeah, and the thing that got Huawei in trouble was using a secret subsidiary to smuggle US-produced tech from US companies into Iran in violation of sanctions, not simply doing business with Iran themselves.
Maglev has some advantages for high speed operation: less rolling resistance at speed (but worse in slow sections - while not rolling resistance, at low speed they are not as efficient), and less track maintenance. Problem is until you get to high speed those advantages are not worth it, and when you do air resistance is very expensive and so you need a lot more riders or a high ticket price.

In the end maglev isn't worth it. It is only marginally faster than regular rail, and a lot slower than flying. You can bring a few cities just outside of regular rail range into train range, but if you just let those people fly you overall have a cheaper system.

Sticking to standard rail means that you can share track with other service. While this isn't easy (you need a lot of people in the office ensuring the schedule works) the options make it well worth it. Even if you only share rail overnight when you are running less service, 24 hour service is something all cities should have on all lines.
This is clearly a case where it was redacted due to pressure. This is the classical and most relevant threat to science.
Not any time recently. Nearly all US policy for the last 50 years or so has been to increase benefits and lower liabilities for older people, while doing the opposite for younger people. Just look at the share of wealth and wealth per capita for boomers vs millenials and gen z.
Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety Bill
I felt my vote was very influenced by how many times I had already seen that hue. I probably would have voted more often for certain shades of green if I hadn't seen a slight variation of them three times already, for instance.
Musk makes meme on Twitter legal threat after scrapping $44B deal
I’m a web developer so don’t use an IDE, though many do. Notepad3 and Notepad++ are my staple. I typically tile the text editor and the browser side by side and use LiveReload to see any changes I’ve made.
Yes that was the company. I wasn't interviewed by him, in fact I don't know if he would have been working there at that time. Looks like his plane wasn't diverted, but he made the mistake of stopping over on a flight from the UK to Costa Rica.
Why would anyone boycott Anna Karenina or any of the Russian classics?

How can you even be "torn" about it? There's only one right answer.
The thing is, the call isn't for flexibility, which I think very few people would have issues with. The call is for everyone to return to work.

One side of the argument allows for the possibility of people working in an office if that works better for them, the other side of the argument insists that everyone does the same thing regardless of suitability.
my terminal font is OCR-A gotta have that retro-tech style.
Yeah I have that impression also of EU grants. There seems to be no touch point "on the ground" to see if people actually need what's being subsidized.

Where I lived in Ireland there was a "park" with some huge signs about how the EU was so generous to fund it.. But they failed to make an opening in the perimeter fence for people to actually enter. The paths just ended at a fence.

It was also totally useless as a park because it was a thin strip right next to a busy 4-lane road. You could hop the fence but it's useless trying to relax right beside a main road. Total cash grab from some real estate developer clearly.
Interesting, but I see two big issues that render the data nearly meaningless:

1) does CO2 correlate well to spit droplets? they mention this (alleging that places with more talking have more spit droplets than ones without) but present no data. Also, does CO2 on public transport involve any exhaust from the vehicle? Are people in gyms breathing a lot with their mouth closed, producing more CO2 but not talking (or otherwise producing spit droplets) nearly as much. Lots of ways this could be not very correlated.

2) does quantity of spit droplets really correlate to likelihood of getting infected? Viruses are replicators. It is not at all obvious to me that 1/2 the number of viruses means 1/2 the risk of getting infected. It might not even result in a significant drop at all. Theoretically one droplet containing the virus is enough to infect you, and if infected it replicates. The operative factor is how well your immune system recognizes the threat and produces antibodies, not how many virus copies were there originally. One drop was enough to infect just over half of a young, healthy experimental subject group: https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-deliberat...
They're just saving up for next year's big surprise.
> Ah, McKinsey. Explains everything.

Can you elaborate? At least a couple hints to point in the right direction.
I don't understand why this isn't bigger news. This is as much theft as if they broke into your house and stole your DVDs.
LDAP really needs more love. Almost everything can be integrated with LDAP in some form, yet managing the server and configuration is always a bit tricky.

Currently I'm trying to learn to be more productive with LDIF honestly is much simpler than I thought. It's a great way to do bulk changes and handy in scripts, but it's not a sensible way to do everyday interactions. Right now there aren't many good tools, Apache Directory Studio is rather nice, but feels old fashion and not the kind of tool you'd want people to interact with on a daily basis... Unless they understand a bit about how LDAP works.

It really nice to see a new LDAP project, especially one that more focus on making the protocol more accessible.

For those who need something simple there's also the OpenBSD LDAP daemon, which also works pretty well.
TPU-KNN: K Nearest Neighbor Search at Peak Flop/S
> In STEM fields, 10% of PhD students

No. The link is a study of PhD recipients not PhD students. This is a crucial distinction, because my main claim was about the effects of attending graduate school on non-recipients. It's quite likely that PhD recipients are better funded than non-recipients, which funding helps them to complete their PhDs. In my academic department, there were many more students than there were sources of funding such as teaching assistantships, research assistantships, lectureships, and fellowships.

> In non-STEM

It's not clear to me that the study was comprehensive. It says STEM and SBE (social, behavioral, and economic), but does SBE mean non-STEM? Why didn't they just say non-STEM? Does SBE include Art, English, History, and Music, for example?

> Given that the majority of PhDs in the US are in STEM

~65% of PhDs awarded are in STEM, but only ~25% of Masters degrees are in STEM. This may say a lot about the PhD completion rate. At my school, a Masters was often rewarded on the way to a PhD, so it was kind of a (mostly worthless) consolation prize for those who didn't finish their PhD.

Anyway, the study is primarily about the "primary source" of funding, which is not quite the same as full funding.

The linked study was heavy with survivorship bias. Sadly, grad school dropouts are mostly forgotten and ignored by society.
I would love to know as well. I have always been interested in Neuroscience from the outside but have had no idea where to start.
Original title: 'Scientists in China claim AI can check loyalty of Chinese Communist Party members'

> Scientists at China’s Comprehensive National Science Center in Hefei claim to have developed [... an] AI software [that] can measure reactions of party members to “thought and political education” by analysing their facial expressions and brain waves [and] and skin conductivity [in order to] “ascertain the levels of concentration, recognition and mastery of ideological and political education so as to better understand its effectiveness”. // In a now-deleted video, the institute claimed the “mind-reading” software could be used on party members to “further solidify their determination to be grateful to the party, listen to the party and follow the party”

> However, the post was taken down following outcry from citizens on the internet

Also mentioned, apart from a "curious" mention of a device that can detect the brainwave pattern of lewdness to aid www censorship - and test our threshold between "intellectual curiosity" and "I really do not wish to investigate that" -, is a system to detect emotion from facial video data in areas of high density of dissidence.
I don't see how this comment does anything other than explain the reason why we're having this discussion in the first place, unfortunately.
My votes are based on which colours burn my retinas the least.
In what world is this even true in the age of Facebook and Google?

TikTok might get engagement and device data but that's about it.

I assume this is the classic case of "China Bad" "USA Good" (or less bad because it's not China)
Steam also gave you a clear notice that there was additional third party DRM on the product before you licensed it. They are also not the ones who are shutting it down.
The perovskite materials contain some metal ions. In some varieties, it's lead ions (others use cesium or tin ions.)
> Developing for macOS / iOS without a free Apple ID doesn't make much sense though as you need it to sign the software and deploy it to test devices anyway.

I'm a node / javascript developer. I make web applications. I remember having to install XCode for some dependencies. I don't make native Mac / iOS software, so it's a faulty assumption to assume that devs using Macs will be doing native dev. Even if I did, when working for a large-ish organization individual devs are not going to be the ones signing or publishing releases.
This comment is from the perspective of a Calibre power-user, and someone who has been involved with the software for years now.

I must admit, I'm slightly shocked at some of the comments here. Kovid puts in an extraordinary amount of work (nearly 80 hours a week) into Calibre - of which most is for free, in the name of open source software. Anyone who has spent a decent amount of time on the mobileread forums will also know him as a remarkably intelligent, dedicated, and all-round fantastic guy. He's very patient and kind with beginners, responsive to feedback, and rarely loses his cool with anyone. His only 'crime' was being blunt with a bug report around eleven years ago, and I'm struggling to see why people are so myopic as to turn that into their entire perception of him. Add to the fact that he eventually fixed every bug in that thread as well as second-language difficulties that he likely experiences, and the vitriol that people have for him is undeserved.

The proof of the pudding is Calibre itself, which is a joy to use. It is hands down one of the most useful programs on my computer. It's rarely buggy, fast, logical to use, very feature-rich, and rather customisable. I'm perplexed as to whether some of the people in this thread and I are using the same software. It's very easy to set up, as all you do is either point to a pre-existing library of files or create a new one. Adding books is trivial, as is editing metadata, and the reader itself is splendid. That's really what most people need out of e-book software, but Calibre really does go above and beyond any e-book software on the market right now. The only close competitor is Foliate, which is not cross-platform like Calibre, and even then it simply lacks many useful features that I rely on with Calibre, despite having a much cleaner UI.
Simplicity is something that got completely lost in all modern computing.
The whole boycott at the consumer level is stupid in my opinion. Shops have already paid for their inventory so your impact is literally zero.
What social policy would you suggest a study like this could influence?
https://xuanji.appspot.com/isicp/
Slight tweak to my original statement:

Just keep writing, and get feedback on each piece of writing. It gets better.
Not so sure about the development/testing split of the waterfall, but two months up front just to design and gather requirements... feel like that might be a net benefit!

Waterfall up front, party in the back?
I think nearly 17 million colours is too many! Maybe grouping close colours could be better.

The “best” colours also seem really bad, I wonder if what they appear next to gives false results. Still, interesting idea!
> Anthropomorphize computer programs and invent a BS way of injecting a real human into a computer and Tron is what you get. It's complete nonsense!

It’s true but some tech innovations now do stuff we thought dumb and/or impossible like in Blade Runner and the “enhanced” tech meme. Fast track to today, it’s not the full thing but we thought that even being able to “enhance” a picture even once was stupid. Now you have ML model doing just that and some companies selling this tools to photographs and stuff. It’s crazy