skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to view 1–10 ratings differently than 1–5. 1–5 is more like (American) letter grades where 3 stars equals a C and is average. On a 1–10 rating, it’s more like percentages so 9–10 is an A, 8–9 a B, 7–8 a C, 6–7 a D and less than 6 an F. I’ve seen elsewhere that at least one aggregator does similar to convert between 1–10 scales and 5-star scales so I think that this is a common unspoken assumption of the relation between the two scales.
IMDB is just as verifiable as Wikipedia.

It cites its sources. In fact, all it is a list of citations.
This apparently is not a fab. It is packaging/assembly. Can’t figure out why it’s this expensive, unless it’s absolutely huge. Can’t figure out why Italy for something done usually in Penang, Costa Rica, etc.

Please enlighten me.
Mine too. It seems like every old father has fallen into the right wing conspiracy cesspool that has warped their mind. An entire generation lost. I really wonder what makes them so susceptible to that content. Internet illiteracy? Old age? It's just who they are? In other words, they want the conspiracies to be true, they want a reason to hate Fauci, Greta Thunberg etc.?

And even more, I wonder if it can be cured. I think it ties into how socially isolated men are, especially old men. Once you retire and your work social network is gone, their only social ties are online. They need to identify with a community, and I guess there is something appealing to being in a conspiracy in-group. It's just impossible to pull them out, because you have to replace that group with something else. And there's just nothing there for them.
There were complaints about them here, so they were regulated to have a max speed of 25km/h. You can ride faster, of course, but it will be on human power.

To deal with the existing bikes, the bike repair shops have to install the latest firmware, with the required limits built in.
>Do you believe violent crimes require a violent penalty?

In many cases, yes.
You are making the assumption that there is a need for a physical cover. Apple’s solution is a camera with an inline indicator light that is not under app or OS control.
> ML (AI) is, at least right now, fancy pattern matching. Nothing more.

I mean, every problem can be boiled down to some sort of 'fancy pattern matching', the question is really how fancy/sophisticated the solver and how large the problem space the problem. I'm not sure why AI couldn't be helpful here even if the convergence of the solver/problem space are still many years off.
Programming Tricks Close to the Metal seems more appropriate.
Yes. I burn quite easily and I'm in Australia, the UV index gets to 11+ during the summer.

Also recently I had a small basal cell carcinoma growth removed, which wasn't the most fun.
Prolog is still the best query language out there. If it had as much attention as other languages like python or javascript, we'd have some real space-age programming systems.
Good luck with the site, production value is great and looks amazing! Finding the difficulty balance will be tough to satisfy both repeat and new visitors, but worthwhile!
Trump took Putin's word that Russia did not meddle in the US election.
I did look into it, although I'm not a lawyer. My understanding is that privacy notice compliance is a function of how personal information is being collected and used. I chose to collect no personal information whatsoever. I think of this as being respectful of you as the user and to the spirit of these types of regulations, rather than being "maliciously compliant" (like the ubiquitous strong default action of "accept all cookies").

Here's a quote from https://gdpr.eu/privacy-notice/ (emphasis mine)

> If an organization is collecting information from an individual directly, it must include the following information in its privacy notice:
Can someone elaborate or attach relevant links? I'm extremely interested.
Why is part 1 of this article paywalled and not this?
It is. My point was that “compulsory schooling versus a bit more compulsory schooling” is what they are measuring and not “less educated vs more educated”.

I too would expect a difference in outcomes between more and less compulsory schooling. But I would expect it from the non-education related impacts of it (I.e. de-facto childcare and keeping the kids/teens from engaging in as much long-term harmful activities)
The Ukraine's actually doing the shelling, LOL.
It was the same in the previous generation. Not reading school assigned books isn't new to gen Z. People were considered way more odd if they did read the books. Even more so if they said they enjoyed it.
> I think it's about keeping the masses consuming rather than creating.

Not really sure I see this. Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, etc. base their entire business model on the masses creating content. Sure there's a Pareto distribution when it comes to creators vs consumers, but the platforms certainly make money from (and encourage) both.
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Nice, I cannot wait until I get my 2.15 USD check :)
A Framework laptop. The replaceable extension ports were a godsend at first but since my current configuration was found most effective (2 USB-C ports, 1 USB-A port, 1 HDMI port), that's been static. It's a nice feature to have for the future. Everything else is plugged into the dock which handles charging and keyboard/mouse charging; they both can work on Bluetooth otherwise. HDMI via dock is a bit of an issue. Until that's solved, I'm delegating a whole extension port for it.

It was to replace both my ThinkPad T400 (RIP in peace, ol' rusty trusty) and some other old hand-me-down ThinkCentre from over a decade ago. I probably beefed it up too much with 1TiB disk space and 32GiB of RAM but considering I was literally crashing from out-of-memory errors before from a prior bring-your-own-device job, this is a lifesaver just in case I have to do that again. Hopefully not and I can use that for testing in virtual machines instead.

If it wasn't my main machine to use on a 4K display, I wouldn't be using GNOME on it. That's just a few cents for your thoughts.
Is this particularly meaningful? It seems to me that a critical assumption underpinning this study having any meaning is that someone’s ability to answer consensus questions correctly is correlated to their ability to answer non-consensus questions correctly. This does not necessarily follow - a large number of the ideas which are now “objective truths” were at one point non-consensus fringe views (e.g. germ theory, non-heliocentrism, lead paint being bad, climate change, etc.), suggesting that link doesn’t exist all that strongly, in my opinion.
Awesome idea! Only half-joking: something like the HN ranking algorithm could be great for that, maybe you can reach out to them if they can help (you might even try applying for YC).

Some feedback: I think the division by disciplines needs to be stronger than tags - researchers are so specialized that most research even within the same discipline is often unintelligible for those specialized in a different sub-area. They need to know roughly what to expect when they go to the platform, you don't want to show physics papers to sociologists. Think of the preprint servers, they're also constrained to some disciplines (arXiv for mathematical disciplines, bioRxiv and medRxiv, SSRN for economics/social sciences...).

In the bigger picture, I think moving towards such a model would be a good thing also for scientific debate in the public eyes. Going from the binary 'It's published' to 'It seems most experts in this area tend to agree with this paper's conclusions, with some important caveats' would give a much better picture of the state of our knowledge at the cutting edge, and perhaps also address the bias against negative results better than journals who pledged to do so can.
Probably not. Knowing more stuff doesn't make you "smarter". Nor would mastering kinds of math that many people find challenging prove you are more intelligent. Clearly many intelligent people are not great at math or don't know algebra.

But exercising your curiosity and practicing the art of learning will always increase your mental fitness and the ability to apply your intelligence better. It's always good to keep in shape - mentally too.

I don't think it matters much what the subject is. It doesn't have to be algebra, as long as it captures your interest. Algebra is very challenging because it requires thinking in abstract concepts, so it's a great subject. It will indirectly lead to deeper understanding in many other fields too, including computer science.

Intelligent people are often curious and desire to learn new things, so No I don't think learning algebra makes you smarter - but I think the desire to is a possible symptom of this kind of curiousity.
You have three major choices: The 'real' Silicon Valley, centered around Sunnyvale/Mountain View/Palo Alto, the southern extremity of it, centered around San Jose, and San Francisco, which was not considered 'Silicon Valley' per se, but over the past decade has come to be home to some of the largest companies that came out of the Bay Area. Each has its good/bad points.

If you want to raise a family and have schoolgoing children, then I'd suggest the original Silicon Valley, as it is pretty much suburbia with a lot of things geared toward children. If you have no children and never plan on having them, then San Francisco and environs are better suited to you (SF is one of the most childless big cities in the USA). If you do not mind a commute on public transport then you can live across the bay in Berkeley and surrounding areas also. Finally, San Jose and surrounding areas are also home to a large and varied array of tech companies but there is less of an environment for getting together with other tech people and such, which happens more often in the other two major areas I have mentioned. However, San Jose is surrounded by lovely towns such as Saratoga and Los Gatos, and is also reachable from Santa Cruz (the commute is dangerous and can wear you out), which is great if you like beaches and surfing.

Pricewise, San Francisco is very expensive, then Palo Alto, Mountain View, Berkeley, Sunnyvale, and San Jose areas. San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley have much higher levels of property crime than the other areas, and also have a much bigger homeless problem. These can affect your quality of living, so choose wisely.
Thanks for pointing that out. I do it from time to time and always try to catch myself but didnt this time.
I thought about and perhaps should have mentioned USB-C.

Overall, yeah, where USB-C can be applied, I like it, and it definitely helps turn the charger into a bit more of a commodity, and for whatever reason, USB-C chargers seem to not suffer the design flaw I mentioned above as much: the cables tend to detach at the converter. The two big issues I have is that a. chargers are terrible at listing the max wattage they can supply (and laptops their draw), so it's hard to impossible to know if a given charger will be able to supply enough power. My work desk had built in power & USB-C charging, for example, and I now comically charge my USB-C work laptop off the desk's AC plug (a MBP¹, so that's thankfully USB-C). USB-C never really charger, and eventually we figured out that the desk (and this was hard to find) was a USB PD of like 15 W. And MBPs need 87 W or so.

And b., my current laptop alleges to have a max draw of 135 W, which is above the max for USB-C. (Which is why I suspect it has a custom adapter… but who knows.)

¹I am glad Apple switched to USB-C, and they allievated the design flaw I mention in their chargers when they did so, for which they should be praised. But there is so much else wrong — completely unservicable design, the butterfly keyboard problems, cable-gate, battery recalls, ergo fails, heat dissipation issues, macOS, crap warranty — with their laptops that it isn't sufficient to tip the scales to me buying.
There are more. It's not a complete list. Heck, one Zendesk alternative was created because of a comment here on HN.

https://freshdesk.com/general/the-freshdesk-story-blog/
*1979... from a punk band, lest we not forget _QUEEN_ Brian May*

[.] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_May

Would love a podcast with Lex Fridman, Brian May and DeGrasse Tyson. (Michio can sit this one out, as he as transparent. I see plans within plans. I see yc, venture backing behind it.)

I did not post this. I was not online.
I would argue that there is a 100:1 ratio of people who know know what the reference means vs. having actually played the game. Maybe even closer to 1,000:1. Kinda like how lots of people know the “World Series” is a baseball tournament, but most people have never watched it.
Agree completely. My primary OS is NixOS, and i use it on my Mac laptop as well. I love Nix, but i absolutely hate Nix Lang's "typeless" user experience. Ie i can't look at some config, in my editor, and have any clue what it does. It's seemingly purposefully obtuse.

I use it, but i hate it, but i'll never leave it. I really hope for advancements in either the LSP or a sane type system (Nickel? Perhaps) to replace NixLang.

I think modern Nix (Flakes, modern CLI, etc) would be nearly flawless if i could get good inline information on each field, types, etc. When Nix Lang has as many language features as Rust, ie docstrings, types, etc - i think i'll love it. Until then it's an abusive relationship for me hah.
Now imagine where he could get to if he had a high-vis vest and a clipboard
The amount of time spent reading and understanding something should be proportional to how controversial it seems at face value. Half the comments here clearly did not spend more than 30 seconds reading or understanding the changelog.

I hope GH fixes the notification link to PR updates. Right now it brings you to the latest commit, and if you comment on that page, it creates a commit comment instead of a PR review.
I've seen it at most places I've worked. A lot of people still use just VIM and the command line only.
I bought a Quest 2 in hopes of replacing my external monitor with it, but unfortunately the resolution simply isn’t adequate (in my opinion) for traditional, text-heavy desktop computing tasks like writing code. I think the concept has potential, but personally wouldn’t recommend it right now. It is something I do want to try again if/when higher resolution VR headsets come to market.
Guess thats the Mandela Effect in action :). It was a lot better for a time until maybe 2010 and went downhill.
I spent 10 years in Parkside (20th & Vicente). The weather is generally depressing af.
Right, it seems much more likely that if it isn’t your primary business model, it’s just not worth the hassle?
I certainly wasn't trying to, just giving you my impression of your intentions. Are you trying to impune and argue, or is that just me? What ideas are you suggesting besides the $100?
Or could it simply be “the book is better.”

In my experience of the dozens of books I’ve read which have had movies made of them there are only two in which the book is good and the movie is better or even as good as the book - “The Shining” and “The Godfather”. I find it’s a very rare and hard thing to do.
Are you serious? It seems astoundingly faithful and definitely very much in keeping with the tone of the source material.

Of course, this is HN, where there's always SOMEONE who needs to be contrarian, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
US and non-US date styles are equally wrong. It’s just personal preference or what you are used to. The only “correct” option would be Year Month Day, and the only argument that needs to be made for is look at how your clock arranges time, or how you write it down.
This is a headline, not British English ;)
No, but the only strong case for imprisonment as a punishment is to separate violent people from the rest of society.
If image encode/decode speed is the only concern, libjpegturbo is going to be orders of magnitude faster than any of these lossless schemes. With jpeg, you could encode 1080p bitmaps in <10 milliseconds (per thread) on any consumer PC made in the last decade.

The frequency domain is a really powerful place to operate in when you are dealing with this amount of data.
That’s ridiculous. A crime is a crime, and stealing money - be it physically or on paper - has real repercussions to real people. It deserves more than a financial penalty.
Yes their ratings used to be quite useful but it’s the clear that people have been gaming the system for quite some time now.

I’m amazed to have just found out that they’re owned by Amazon (from other comments here). I can’t believe I never realised that.

I guess that the increasingly meaningless ratings and reviews should have been a massive clue…
One thing to keep in mind is sunglasses for eye protection.

Any sunglasses will dilate pupils of eyes since they are dark. But the cheap sunglasses may not block all or any UV or allow it in from the sides. So you end up with dilated pupils allowing UV in when you were trying to prevent that.
I feel like I'm on online alot, but didn't really relate to alot of those questions.
ISTR SkipLists being used by the NCBI toolkit for DNA/AA sequence data way back in the day. Of course now I can't find any reference to it, but did find this paper on SkipLists in multiple alignments from 2003:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC521198/
> I think it's about keeping the masses consuming rather than creating.

No, it’s about moderation cost and preventing discussions that can hurt their brand or partners or customers. Also SEO spam whackamole.
The One Best Programming Language
Why even bother with getting an acting gig where they'll figure out you can't even act? Just fake the fame (is it fake if Google says it's real?), and get free meals, etc (hah, I guess Instagram was the platform for this a while ago).

There are people like the fake heiress Anna Sorokin who faked being wealthy, who's even getting movie deals after being caught, but never admitting to being wrong (this statement not checked for accuracy, I just noticed an interview where she seems to be claiming it's all been a misunderstanding). The world's a funny place.

A Formula 1 racer got his career started when he got himself a lift with 2 bosses of 2 different teams - each of them thought he was friends with the other guy. He talked his way into a driving job, but of course, once there, he had to show he could race.
I'm so used to be left out of television show discussions that I couldn't imagine pretending. I'm ok not getting invited for brunch if that means I don't have to meet people that have expectations about the books I read. Creepy to think that people feel pressured into that.

Edit: Not disagreeing with what you say. It explains the situation of the author rather well. I live in blissful ignorance.
Yes absolutely sunscreen whenever I am spending an extended period in the sun. I am also a cyclist, and skin caner is the number one threat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8nIJThyv_c

I just tried a bunch of sunscreens and use what I like. The fact that you apply it is more important than which brand you get. The only strategy is that there is something better than sunscreen, and that's covering up with a physical barrier. For example nowadays I keep my shirt on at the beach except for the time when I'm actually in the water. I also cover my bald head with a hat.

If you care, dermatologists suggest applying sunscreen every single day. Even if sun exposure will be minimal. This will keep your skin looking younger longer. There is still skin damage from UV even if it's not cancer.
Then the objection I'm replying to is also irrelevant.
I already have the first. Are there any significant differences between the two?
This secondary-source article is good but isn't quite on the exact point:
https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/sunscreen-sun-...

I think another (earlier?) article in the same magazine might be better. I really need to get my computer setup working again; between Windows hiccups, a failing oldie-but-goodie big box PC and a recent malware scare and spring cleaning, I'm struggline to get reorganized (and my saved, tagged medical article links exceed 50,000.)
What about commiting those comments directly into source files as comments with some tag? Like `// REVIEW looks like a bug`?

Actually I think that lots of things that's currently located outside of the repo should be in the repo. Like issues: just put them into some `issues` directory with some standard format and build UI around it.
Huge fan of the comics since they were released and have bought both seasons of the audio dramas and my only complaint is the apparent older age and no-fun-ness of Death in the trailers.

I thought the original author's intention was to have a young and indefatigable character play the embodiment of the end of all things as a light irony and existential cotton candy balance to the grim reality of the job.

But I'll hold my real opinion until I see the whole show.

If I don't hear a bubbly "Peachy-keen!" I'll probably just sigh and roll my eyes. It's only TV. If I want the old thing I'll just reread the comics again.
Thanks for that example. I had no idea that SICP was now available for free on the web! Do you remember where you heard the story about convincing MIT Press and the outcome? I took a look but couldn't find it.

That might come in handy if this winds up going somewhere.
I don't think that effects of sun exposure significantly changed since long-long-long time ago as neighboring comment suggests. What certainly changed however is human life longevity. Your tanning strategy should work against burns, and likely has other benefits (e.g. vitamin D). But I suppose your skin still gets damaged, and it makes it age faster. Outdoor workers seem to look more wrinkled after 40 compared to office dwellers. Not sure how the sum of all factors plays here though. Does it worth to look older, but have more natural D (and possibly higher testosterone levels)? Dunno
The resilience myth: fatal flaws in the push to secure chip supply chains
Thanks! I've used Akro-Mills drawers before and really like them. These look nice.
I would never tell people to forget ZFS, it’s understanding that ZFS alone just doesn’t reduce all bitrot risk. Groeten!

In the end people worry too much, all consumer NAS gear doesn’t have any bitrot protection… (to put things in perspective).
Isn’t that still circular though? Knowledge of the mainstream research isn’t the same as “knowledge of what’s correct”; the person who holds the non-consensus view may have equal or higher levels of knowledge about the path that got them to non-consensus.

At some level you might reasonably expect what you described to be tautological: the person holding the mainstream view knows more about they things surrounding that view. But do they know the alternatives?

It’d be interest to compare the knowledge level the person holding the consensus view has about the non-consensus view to vice versa.
The problem is that pathological cases are things like a repeating pattern (or repeating byte). Another issue is deliberate attacks: if a Dolt user can craft datasets for which single row changes translate to a duplication of the entire tree (and dataset), this becomes an obvious DOS vector for hosted Dolt platforms.