skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
War and Peace is only as long as Lord of the Rings, after all. It's odd to me that people will read something like ASOIF and then punt on that.

> It just so exhausting to work with people that see leadership as some ego trip.

I think that my biggest surprised on reading a book by a Russian count was that he was a strong opponent of the Great Man theory of history.
> Giving up when things get tough is a pretty problematic approach if you want to grow.

I think this and the rest of our disagreements is how we view the original comment, and the kind of motivations we ascribe to the original comment.

I'm biased, perhaps unfairly, in that the people I've met who talk about books this way do so with the goal of being able to say that they've read X, that they can show themselves as the kind of person who has reads books like X.

Again perhaps unfair to the original comment given that I don't know where they're coming from.

Because we are the rest we are mostly in agreement about. I am the last person to argue that one should give up when and things get difficult.

But not all roads to the acquisition of knowledge lead to this book, or any one specific book.
A little one at Digital Ocean.
So many times visiting the video store as a kid, we'd get up to the counter and before the info was scanned or logged to the computer, the guy would say to my mum about her choice:

"You borrowed this a couple of months ago."
"Oh yeah. Whoops. I remember now."

Meanwhile a priority row on streaming sites is WATCH IT AGAIN. And I do because the selection is so poor that I'd rather re-watch bits of favourite films over and over.
I wonder how many conversations there were in the 80s or 90s about how video on demand would never become mainstream because of the bandwidth requirements.

I think that physically going to _any_ special destination such as for tourism may be on a steep decline in the next few decades. VR glasses and goggles will be coming out that are very lightweight, comfortable, and convincing. We will also have eye tracking and eye contact in VR. There will be more advanced, faster more realistic 3d scanning of locations. There will also be the ability to "live scan", transmit and faithfully reproduce people moving around in an area. This will take advantage of advancements in graphics and AI.

Haptic glove technology will improve.

The conversation will be something like "remember when you had to actually _travel_ 5000 miles to see the Sistine Chapel or the last Blockbuster?"
> Public Law 115-232 defines OSS defines OSS as “software for which the human-readable source code is available for use, study, re-use, modification, enhancement, and re-distribution by the users of such software

> The following organizations examine licenses; licenses should pass at least the first two industry review processes, and preferably all of them, else they have a greatly heightened risk of not being an open source software license

The first two are OSI and FSF.

Some other questions also allude to not including more restrictive "source available" licenses, presumably including commons clause, as open source.
> It's basically saying "other people seem to think this college is good, so we'll nudge them up a few points"

So does page rank or citation index - popularity begets visibility, begets popularity.
A few days ago I saw a tweet (because Twitter shows me "Popular" crap all the time) from some "science influencer" that said something like "The new pictures from the Webb telescope are bringing scientists to tears!".

I get that's how they earn their bread but from my point of view it comes off as awkward and dishonest, it does the complete opposite of getting me excited about the release.
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> Two problems with writing: first, it looks easy because it uses the same symbols of speech; second, everyone who was taught the alphabet and basic sentence structures can produce something similar to writing when it’s not. Writers, however, know it’s painfully hard to produce one readable, unambiguous paragraph. On the other hand, casual text producers (read: the majority) think it takes nothing special to write. This amateur attitude makes writing the most misunderstood activity.

There's some irony in this first paragraph being not-so-well written, right?

> first, it looks easy because it uses the same symbols of speech

Same symbols as... speaking? as other writing? There's a comparison made here that isn't completed.

> second, everyone who was taught the alphabet and basic sentence structures can produce something similar to writing when it’s not.

Same problem; "when some writing is not actually similar to other writing" I assume was the intent, but this is a stilted way of making that point. A better (though longer) way of saying this might be, "Anyone taught the alphabet and English sentence structure can produce 'writing', but what those people produce bears little resemblance to what 'good' writing actually looks like."

I don't really want to go through and pick this whole article apart, I just thought it was interesting the author "chose" to start their article on "good writing is hard" by writing a poor opening paragraph!
Thank you for this. It really is heartening to see amazing science done for its sake. Something not horrible for a change.
Troubleshooting Linux Sound (2013)
SF considers expanding police access to live networked camera feeds
What will we glean from your Neptune array that would justify the massive cost? Won’t it just look like this but sharper images of galaxies and earlier and earlier in time? What are we trying to discover then? Surely almost everything about the universe that we can know from our location will be known then. Your Neptune array sounds like one of those bird watchers with the huge telephoto lens just hoping to capture a great shot of yet another bird the world has seen millions of times.

“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”
No I haven't. This maintainer got told that he needed to use 2FA for PyPI, instead of doing that most basic of actions he had a tantrum and removed his project:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026624

So that he could continue to use PyPI's infrastructure to publish his work for free.
In terms of revolution I keep hoping for more developments with RTS+FPS merging.

Like Natural Selection. A great blend of tech tree research and FPS fighting. The RTS bit was a little limited. I hoped for bigger maps, more RTS depth, better bots. But the Natural Selection team never quite got there.

The Battlefield series doesn't do a great job but does it - kinda limited though.
pH could drop to 7.95 by mid-century, according to the latest projections: https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/17/3439/2020/.

The second part of the sentence seems fictional. I don't think there is any support of that from a basic understanding of carbonate chemistry.
It would be sucking in a metaphorical vacuum.

Ugh. Apologies :)
Oh for crying out loud

Thanks for the evening chuckle brudgers
> he fallacy that all immigrants are hard working, clean living people slowly moving up the economic and societal ladder is popular with

Have you any actual evidence?

My experience is the opposite, for poor immigrants. Rich ones, on the other hand....

My prejudice is showing, is yours?
It happened to me. The Uber app assured me that a driver was on the way, then it was late, then it canceled, and not a single driver was available within the area.

This was at 6a to catch an 8a flight in a Bay Area town that’s 35 min from SFO.

Uber and Lyft are now exactly like cab companies, the only difference being that their “credit card machine works”

Private car services work remarkably well if you’re done with Uber, Lyft, or taxis not showing up.
I’m a multiple times immigrant and I’m yet to see those lazy immigrants.

I’ve been illegal in Turkey and legal in UK and Germany as a EU citizen and worked as a waiter for months until get my first white collar job. No, I’m not speaking as a liberal who doesn’t have idea about the actual immigrants or the working class. I’ve been all of those.
They seem to be really dancing around the fact of whether or not this is greater angular resolution than the Hubble ultra-deep field with qualifiers like "greater than Hubble in infrared" or talking about how fast it was. Does this image resolve smaller details than the ultra deep field or not?
> but otherwise intelligent and reasonable people seem to give zero care when group X is cops

You might want to wonder then if those intelligent and reasonable people might have knowledge or experiences they're basing these things off of that you don't have direct access to.

It's not prejudice if it's not pre. For me I didn't come to truly hate all police until I had accumulated years of experience of their violence and dishonesty across so many different jurisdictions and even countries that I realized it really is a problem with the system itself rather than any specific individual within it.

ACAB doesn't mean only bad people become police, it means you must become bad to remain police. Well-meaning people join all the time and they either leave, are forced out, or get in line and start covering for the really heinous shit.
I dunno, patching up every little creek and flow of water we can find sounds to me like hydro just can't generate enough energy.
No, you deeply misunderstand what a monad is. Monad doesn't mean you can write the bind and lift operations, a monad contains the bind and lift operation. The bind and lift operation is a component of the monad. You could probably shoehorn some kind of bind and lift into any conceivable generic type.
I like how officially military documents are now delegating to the GNU project’s documents for definitions.
Better link
Europe’s most fortified border is in Africa

sub saharan illegal immigrants into europe
https://youtu.be/LY_Yiu2U2Ts
To an extent, yes, which is why DSF images tend to be aimed at "empty" sections of sky.

There are a few factors involved AFAIU:

- You don't want to be shooting through the Milky Way's own primary mass as nearby dust and gas will obstruct more distant objects.

- "Nearby" objects --- stars within the Milky Way, reasonably nearby galaxies --- might also tend to blow out the image. Though for the most part these end up being point sources. It's artefacts such as spikes which give the most obstruction.

In the case of the JWST, the fact that it's looking into the infrared means that it can see object which are literally invisible to Hubble regardless of how long the exposure.

The question of why space is black (or alternatively: why it's not uniformly light) is known as Olber's Paradox or "the dark-sky paradox", and dates back to the time of Keppler. Effectively: the universe has a finite age, and there is not an infinite number of stars (or other light sources) as one goes back in time.

https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/que...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox

There is a uniform illumination of the Universe that can be detected, as microwave radiation, known as the cosmic backgroud radiation. That occurs well below JWST's sensor range (0.6–28.3 μm), however, with a peak wavelength of about 1 mm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_background_radiation
I wonder if you could make a good RTS with a "command limit", or a delay between issuing a command and the army moving. This could be simulated by a horseback messenger, or the delay of lightspeed communications across large stellar distances. There's probably a reason nobody's made a game like that before though...
> ut that is because they are illegal thus they get basically no benefits

Evidence?
How did you find an editor? Do you pay them or do they work pro bono?
While it eventually became feasible to ship pet food at not too much of an economic disadvantage... it's only possible to do so for the largest players and they're still not really making money on the transaction.

If we ever get serious about taxing carbon it'll become pretty seriously uneconomic again.
Hard to read this with the level of snob-factor immediately present in the first couple paragraphs. Right away, it put me off on wanting to find common ground with the author to agree with or internalize their points.

It seems that half the purpose of this is to convince the reader that the author is a great writer, speaking from a position of authority, followed by rather generic advice they generously take time from their busy day to offer: write more so you, too, can get better at writing.

Or perhaps it was all tongue-in-cheek, and I just didn't pick it up.
Does this count as "Writing"? I write comments on HN, am I doing the "good" kind of writing?

* Nobody (and I mean nobody) is asking me to write comments,

* I'm not documenting anything (perhaps my opinion on something), and

* I am vastly under-qualified to write about the topics I "write" about.

Does tweeting count? Does commenting on Reddit/Facebook/LinkedIn/MySpace/etc. count?

If so, I think maybe it's time we give those platforms (and indeed this one) more respect; they're places that encourage people who wouldn't ever write for its own sake a way to express themselves through the written word.
> Agree with most of this. Although to be fair the social safety net is not as weak in the US as most people think, either.

No way. It's almost impossible to become homeless in Sweden while you have the entire homeless villages everywhere. People with disability get paid a living income and are allowed to save money, which they aren't in the US. Then we have tons of other services like child care, health care and universally just way better everything regarding infrastructure and social service. I've lived half my life in each place and honestly the difference is Grand Canyon sized. Even Portugal, one of the poorest still has great free healthcare and all kinds of social safety net sand services.
Let me address the researcher bias issue. "pro-education researchers have incentives to find schooling is essential" why? Researches may work for a private company or a college. Are all the researchers elementary school teachers? Either way, a possible motive isn't sufficient evidence of bias. Of the studies that countered him he only says he's confused by one but doesn't go in detail. Instead making it seem like the study is fluff by providing an inner monolog showing how confused he was.

Similar example. I'm reviewing a complex hand tool and say about its use-

"you turn it right to tighten but left to tighten, i dunno maybe I don't get it, let's move on"

To some people reading the implication is that the hand tool doesn't work,is wrong, or confusing to use.

If he has mistrust why not attempt to prove one or more of the studies were fake, used inaccurate data, or came to the wrong conclusions based on the data?

Because by simply mentioning the mistrust and bias, AT BEFORE he even discusses the counter arguments, WHILE ONLY providing potential motive as evidence, he manipulates the reader by leaving a bad taste.

Why even mention your mistrust at all? How is that useful in this scholarly article when you don't offer proof? In my opinion manipulation

The more I think about this article the more it just feels like someone so determined to prove his theory instead of using the proper scientific method and being open minded.
Ask HN: What is the future of the economy and government in Sri Lanka?
It looks like things have seriously gone into an economic freefall, with total lack of funds to pay for fuel imports and other essentials at the same time as a massive rise in global commodity prices. What does the future hold?
Here is the thing…WFH became the new normal. I did WFH for 3 years in 2008-2011, went back to office in 2012 until Covid. I hated it…at first, then settled in to the new normal…commute, shitty chair, noise, bad coffee, no afternoon power nap, the whole banana. In time the pain and complaints fade.

Companies may hybrid for a while while WFH jobs are plentiful. Sooner of later, the WFH opportunities will dry or fill up and back to office will be the new normal. Then hybrid will slowly diminish to nothing and in office will be the new normal.
What makes you think that if the immigrants were legal they would not work as hard and leech the social system unlike the natives?
It's interesting that there really wasn't much of a "game video" option for early PCs. CGA was a disaster, and the PC platform never really got sprites or smooth scrolling until it wasn't relevant anymore. The PCjr/Tandy graphics system offered a few more colour options, but that's about it.

Obviously, you couldn't buy a hundred thousand GTIA or VIC-II chips and solder them into ISA cards, but there were some non-exclusive options-- the graphics chips used on MSX hardware, for example.

There were definitely low-end PCs that would have been able to tread into the "home computer" space occupied by the C64 and Atari 800, by price and design (there were a few 8088-class "PC in the keyboard" designs-- some Tandy 1000s, and a Vtech/Laser one come to mind), but they were hardly the ones kids were gonna beg their parents for with those mediocre graphics.
More than one cuisine can successfully use spices at a time. “Indian food is good” is not the same as “food other than Indian food is bad.”
Faroe Islands sets quota of 500 dolphins to be killed in controversial hunt
there were plenty of side effects for me, but YMMV
From researching a couple of earlier comments here: a chief reason the Hubble DSF was composed of multiple images was to eliminate individual cosmic ray events which otherwise fog / degrade such images.

If you're interested in distant constant objects, then near-transient signals can be safely ignored and removed.
If you're placing a strong importance on ecosystem, and after something that can be used in a less-OOP / more functional style, it's hard to go past TypeScript (whatever distaste you may have for the dark corners of JavaScript).

A less vibrant ecosystem, but far stronger on the functional and string typing, take a look at OCaml (others have suggested good alternatives like F# or Scala if you want to leverage the existing VM-based ecosystems).
And what do you propose as an alternative?

We've known about climate change for over thirty years and there's been no real substantive action nor any decline in atmospheric CO2 levels.
https://archive.ph/xZPG5
> People who are surprised by this tend to be single. Most companies usually pay close to 100% of the employee premium. But they are far less generous on the family member premiums.

I can see this happening. However, in my ~3 different employer experiences, the employee and children are very well subsidized, and the spouse is the only one the employer usually does not cover to incentivize the spouse to use their own employer’s subsidies.

> There's a lot of insurance company weasel wording in that phrase. Plenty has been written on how when you go to an in-network hospital, turns out that every doctor who shows up while you're unconscious (some of whom you'll never even knew saw you until the bills arrive a few months later) is actually an out-of-network contractor.

This is true, and I had not experienced it. Good news is that is illegal now:

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/requirements-relate...

The last couple years have had quite a few good rules come into place, including another one that obligated your doctor/hospital to give you a good faith estimate for which you are only responsible for the estimate + $400.

It is still extremely risky and costly in the US, even if you have nice employer subsidies because the second you lose the ability to work, you are on the hook for many, many thousands of dollars of expenses at the same time you no longer have income. And then if you want government help before age 65, you basically have to liquidate all your assets and become poor forever. Dual income families are almost a requirement just for that reason.

Age 50 to 65 is extremely risky in the US. A few wrong steps and you are deciding between sacrificing your kids’ future to save yours.
Where "piston effect" is the passage of trains through the tunnels forcing out air (ahead) and drawing it in (behind), correct?

AFAIU that's a major component of any subway's ventillation.
Yes, it was a good idea to do that. I didn't realize that addresses were essentially a hash of the public key, but it makes sense.
> "But are people going to die? Not likely"

Public Health England say:

> The most recent data on fuel poverty in England indicates that there were 2.28 million
fuel-poor households in 2012. 5. Cold homes can affect or exacerbate a range of health problems including respiratory problems, circulatory problems and increased risk of poor mental health. Estimates suggest that some 10% of excess winter deaths are directly attributable to fuel poverty and a fifth of excess winter deaths are attributable to the coldest quarter of homes. 6. Cold homes can also affect wider determinants of health, such as educational performance among children and young people, as well as work absences

in the summary at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Excell winter deaths (excluding COVID19) were in the ~29,000 region in 2019, which makes for ~2,900 deaths even though blankets and coats exist.
Does caring about the quality actually mean the quality is good? Maybe it doesn’t even matter. If the team cares and they are satisfied with what the quality of what they are building, maybe that’s enough?
The basic (in photography) is that you can counter balance exposure time with the opening of the lens; the less light gets in, the longer it gets to take a well exposed picture (basically).
But since it’s all digital you can also counterbalance higher and lower exposure zones to grab the details that would have been over or under exposed (hdr)… unsure of how these basic photography rules would work out in this case… could anyone elaborate ?
Well, life also sucked plenty for our ancestors (including the dinosaurs being hit by an asteroid and whatnot), so from a big-picture perspective that isn’t a very convincing objection. I guess you could construct scenarios where we fuck it up in a way that causes more suckage for sentient beings in the future then there was ever in the past, but that’d be moving goalposts.
> I have to wonder how the UK social construct can survive with the huge numbers of people entering

Wow like, are you concerned about Replacement maybe? Seems a little racist to me but I'm not that Great at european geopolitics I guess.
At a certain size it becomes possible to directly image exoplanets in enough detail to tell us what the weather looks like, atmospheric composition, perhaps even images of extraterrestrial cities.
Would this be similar to HDR?
My pet peeve is when AI researchers coin new terms for objects that can be described by well-established mathematical terms. For example, saying a neural network layer has "256 units" instead of "output dimensionality of 256".

But at some point you need to name things for brevity. I understand why people say "activation function" instead of "elementwise monotonic nonlinear function".

Misuse is also rampant, like using "inference" to describe evaluating a neural network on an input, even when the NN isn't part of a probabilistic model.
I think it also costs Netflix more to offer high quality films to stream so there is a disincentive to quality and you have to really search sometimes. Blockbuster was more random than efficient/algorithmic like you would find a classic next to a complete dud which was kind of fun.
No family members on the force. I’m sorry you took it that way. I’m not trying to address police brutality (which absolutely exists at a gross level), just what a police force is _supposed_ to be in the ideal sense.
Gotta have more of that cowbell!
It's not always easier to quit a job. A lot of times at least you have another client at the same time. Although it can be hard to juggle more than one client.

But still it's a less exclusive situation and maybe not worth it if you really are attached to a single client.