skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the report you linked:

During the entire conflict period, from 14 April 2014 to 31 December 2021, OHCHR recorded a total of 3,106 conflict-related civilian deaths (1,852 men, 1,072 women, 102 boys, 50 girls, and 30 adults whose sex is unknown). Taking into account the 298 deaths on board Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 on 17 July 2014, the total death toll of the conflict on civilians has reached at least 3,404. The number of injured civilians is estimated to exceed 7,000.

These monthly reports by the OHCHR give a breakdown of the specific causes and locations of casualties. From an earlier report:

During the last six months, from 1 October 2019 to 31 March 2020, 84.4 per cent of civilian casualties resulting from shelling and SALW fire were recorded in territory controlled by the self-proclaimed ‘republics’ (27: two killed and 25 injured), and 15.6 percent (five: one killed and four injured) in Government-controlled territory. (https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/conflict-related-civili...)

The bulk of civilian casualties since 2014 has been in the rebel regions and inflicted by Ukrainian government forces.
Someday we will all program in Python (2009)
Do you mean in the social sciences? The natural sciences are physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, and biology. These fields of inquiry lend themselves to empiricism. Mistakes/fraud happen, but it's a lot better than social science where empiricism is routinely rejected (straining the claim to even be science at all.)
US has already had two quarters of negative GDP growth. https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gross-domestic-product

Bloomberg is 100% right.
The main argument of this article seems to fall into the counterfactual fallacy category. Even if MOND has problems and ends up being wrong, that doesn't make dark matter exist.
This failure rate suggests a reason the social sciences don’t “lead anywhere”: If you try to build a theorem off of two earlier results, but these each only have probability p of being right, then the chance your new theorem is correct goes like p^2. For small p this means deductions based on combining results are very small.
In weight of all the US and Soviet nuclear powered vessels that can cross the equilateral waters.... I doubt that is true.
Try new therapists.
The scientists were the ones leading eugenics the last time around. Stop pretending that there's a better class of people that are the only ones trusted with certain knowledge.

I'm not an accredited scientist, and neither are 99% of people in this forum. You think it's best if certain truths about the world are intentionally kept from us by people who chose different career paths?

Information will always be distorted and abused but it's much easier to do that when only certain people are allowed to have access to that information.

Sure, we're all dumb apes, but putting on a lab coat doesn't change that fact.
I understand that some people gain some sort of satisfaction out of this, but it mostly defeats the purpose for the average user.

Imagine you walk into a bar, and it’s clearly filled with neonazis. Someone says to you, “Hey! This is a great bar. You’ll have to curate your friends in here, but once you do you’ll find some great folks.”

It’s just silly to think the average person is even remotely interested in that. I’m a big fan of decentralized and p2p technology, but social networks are very much improved by strong, strict regulation at a central level.

Granted, I’m a dedicated twitter user, and I’m also interested in political topics and discussions, which you mentioned that you weren’t.

Twitter’s flavor isn’t for everybody. I think there should be more flavors in general, but what the fediverse offers is a different dish, different restaurant, different everything. I’m skeptical it will find much success outside of the sorts of people that use it now.
Fair? This is exactly why they are not the same type of telescope only Biggie Sized. Seeing these comparisons is the point. "Here's visible light, and now here's what's hiding behind the visible dust" should be the tag to everyone of these kinds of comparisons
Kroger and Albertsons employees are both represented by the UFCW so it'll probably be pretty union-neutral. The Safeway employees were also UFCW I think before the merger.
This failure rate suggests a reason the social sciences don’t “lead anywhere”: If you try to build a theorem off of two earlier results, but these each only have probability p of being right, then the chance your new theorem is correct goes like p^2. For small p this means the chance that a deduction is correct is very small.
You can already do this anyway…

https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg
Oh nice! Do you have a way of having the user add their own?
I think what the author sneakily avoids is that what is being withheld is socio-behavioral measurements made along with the genetic samples. And the reason is that people who didn't actually gather data themselves are ignorant of the shortcomings of the measurements. This includes both "intelligence" testing and measuring/assigning "race". As the parent of a phenotypically "white" child and "black" child (who share both parents, to be clear) this later point is really relevant. It's possible that people can study these things carefully, but an obvious precursor is understanding that if someone doubts their dataset is appropriate for something, they probably have good reasons. Bias in deep learning models is a classic case of this....
You guys are trying to halt the very thing that will allow us to generate intelligent agents and hugely boost human productivity and I am the idiot.
This is like trying to cancel a homeowner because they spoke rudely to a home invader.

He was out of line, for sure, but he was not wrong, from what I read about the situation.

I’ve seen replit used in classroom settings both before and after that kerfuffle and it’s an extraordinary product., imho. If I were a teacher, I’d probably use it.
The primary advantage is that ammonia is much easier to liquefy than methane.
One thing that’s beautiful about game development is how you can create a fun game from the simplest principal. How complex is the gameplay in a game like a Celeste? Yes, there’s a lot of stylistic polish, but it uses pixel art and doesn’t require pathfinding, save for a few minor sections. And even a game like Celeste is many tiers above what can be enjoyable.
My fun, science fiction theory to solve the gravity problem is that the universe is actually full of intelligent life mostly billions of years old civilizations and all of the extra mass we can’t see is actually the galactic version of cities built from materials that don’t interact with light much. Likewise we haven’t met any other intelligent species because the growth period before reaching this common technology is short from thousands to millions of years so there just aren’t collisions in space or time where two intelligent species would interact.
Can someone explain to me why the stars have varying hue to them; whitish, bluish, orang-ish.

Is this due to the camera itself or the distance the light has to travel ?
A large scale non-linear optimization library
> Do you really think that letting people ignore copyright is always good for technical progress?

Only in very, very, very, very specific circumstances would I say it is not good. And they involve thinking about the counterfactual: "would this thing be created if there wasn't intellectual rights in place"? Code doesn't pass this test because people enjoy writing and sharing code. Pharmaceuticals, maybe.
Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75,000 per year -- Matthew A. Killingsworth -- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2016976118 -- http://www.mattkillingsworth.com/ "reports of experienced well-being from a large US sample show evidence that experienced well-being rises linearly with log income"
I think what you're missing is that XGBoost is worthless without data to use for inference. That data can come from in process, or over the wire. One is fast, one is not.
Who on earth is telling you that you are a slacker for not buying Wifi on your flights?
the china?
Open source actually hurts developers wanting to go "pro" in game dev.

It's like writing, anyone can write. But not everyone can make enough money to live off it

So you have maximize the roi on your time and investment. I highly highly recommend sticking to a commercial engine like unity, unreal, or even phyres.
Agree, recycling aluminum is not a scam. Talk about plastic ehhhh.
Or plastic coated paper.
Or overly soiled paper.
Or rubber tires.
Seems like a good use case (and perhaps the only useful use case) for the Touch Bar, though it has been understandably deprecated now.
I don’t like consolidation like this one bit, but assuming that the deal does fail, doesn’t that leave the PE firms owning an asset with no operating cash, while only having cashed out about 17% of the value?

It seems unlikely that they would engineer this with the exception that it would fail, thus destroying their company.
Ignoring magnification and only considering visible light, Hubble imagery is a colorized version of what you could see if you could stare at an object for hours at a time while accumulating every photon during that time at a 0Hz refresh rate into a single image rather than just seeing new faint photons at a constant refresh rate.
Just wanted to highlight a relevant tool i recently discovered: Sentry.

It's already become invaluable in my .net apps for tracking down tricky errors, especially in the new MAUI apps.

Caught one just yesterday where the app was trying to call an api with decimals serialized with a comma because it was on a dutch user's phone! I imagine it would've been quite the headache catching that without sentry. Integrates with most tech-stacks too, not just .net btw
It's a suite of extensions of the Pharo Smalltalk environment that are tailored for modeling behaviour and data in multiple ways, such that you can build your own toolkit for your own problem domain.
This brings me back to when I was ~5 and my grandpa built together with me kits for a simple light bulb, an electromagnet, and a simple crystal radio. It wasn't enough to get me consistently interested, but it put "dots" into my mind that I could later "connect" when I was older. The experience was invaluable.
can we name one mainstream journalist, or any policy makers that know anything about reproducibility - or, more honestly, the appalling lack thereof - or "p-values are questionable at best"?

There's been books, such as "how to lie with statistics" that should be mandatory reading, at least on entry to adulthood. I am one of maybe 3 people i know personally that knows how to actually parse a scientific paper, so when someone starts throwing a half dozen studies at me to back up their point, i can usually - on the scale of quarter hours - nitpick their understanding of the sources they used.

This doesn't win anyone friends, and something i've said for nearly 3 decades: Religion and science like to point fingers, but religion seems more likely to bend and change than science. Every time i mention this or an analogue i'm shouted at that it's "actually the opposite".

Shut up already, it's science. The science is in. This is science!
P21,p22, semax variants are the only ones I've heard.
The physical dress is blue and black, in spite of all the articles showing how to see it as white and gold, the articles demonstrating how in theory you could have a white and gold dress look like that given the correct lighting, and the articles saying that the distinction isn't real and that all black and blue dresses are equivalent to white and gold dresses.
> Apparently, some Very Important People at NCBI didn't like Google and really didn't like the idea that we'd have a copy of all this data

You've just improved my faith in government institutions.
If the circumference is rational (in "base pi"), then the diameter is also rational, I think.

Suppose the circumference is π, or 10ₚ (base pi). Then the diameter is 1₁₀. What's that in base Pi? Well, how many Pis are in 1? 1/π, or π⁻¹. But in base Pi you write that 0.1ₚ.

Ditto something like π²+π+1 (111ₚ). The diameter is π+1+π⁻¹, or 11.1ₚ.
22/7 has you memorize four digits (including the position of the /) to get pi to four digits (including the position of the .), 355/113 has you memorize seven digits to get pi to eight digits, 355/113-1/3748629 has you memorize 17 digits to get pi to 16 digits. I don’t get it. How is it easier than just memorizing pi? How is it surprising to get out about as many bits as you put in?
Which companies that produce nothing and are deep in debt have shown growth in market cap?

From what I can tell, the biggest gains have been at companies that have very strong profits and prospects due to high barriers of entry to their business, and the companies with steady but small profits do okay, and the companies not earning any profits have shown losses.
I love both Pythonista and play.js on iOS, and it'll be nice to have another option. The former two, though, run the code entirely on-device, but from the looks of it Replit will run code on their servers? While that's not a surprise (given repl.it's model), it's definitely a little less useful for me (personally) since it'll require a persistent internet connection to test anything, and the code won't have access to anything on your device (as far as I can tell?).

I happen to really like the way play.js lets you run a full-blown Node.js server on your iPhone with access to native socket APIs (torrent client! on your non-jailbroken iPhone!), and the way Pythonista lets you access iOS native APIs via ctypes.
Non-paywall link https://web.archive.org/web/20221020023129/https://www.nytim...
The Invention of the SD Card: When Tiny Storage Met Tech Giants
Good post. Too many people act like there is C or C++, then nothing else. As Pascal shows and along with others, there are various options, if one chooses to see them.
There are actually some developing technologies which really do transform some polymers back to plastic precursors which could recreate full quality materials, but these are all at a pilot project stage or earlier.

But really until we get to a renewable majority power production, any garbage with carbon in it should just be burned in power plants designed for that kind of thing.
For what it's worth I highly disagree with a lot of the opinions in here.

Waiting prioritizes clear communication at the expense of some time that is almost always justified. People who wait are typically detail oriented and have the infamously prevailing cooler heads. They're the ones actually getting stuff done while management impatiently glances at their pathetically underspecified checklists.

Interrupting prioritizes a false sense of efficiency and just seems like weak impulse control or a bad short-term memory. Every interrupter I've ever met is disorganized and unreliable.
Court finds Consumer Financial Protection Bureau funding unconstitutional
Why would anyone host files at a provider that charges for egress?

EasyList would need more than the 100mbs Scaleway offers for €2/month but Scaleway has more capable instances.
I've been thinking about how people do retirement and I think the ones that do it well make exercise a goal, and treat it as a job

also good nutrition and have commitments to do things
I think you're right that the same old fundamentals & tools will still dominate, but I think this 'new world' can arrive by just making those old fundamentals more powerful and useful.

Erik's example of Spotify has within it the story of an ever more powerful and reliable internet network making first music streaming possible, then video streaming.

The (mobile and wired) internet network is getting so fast these days that maybe even a cloud-first, cloud-only software engineering process is ready to be enjoyed.
> believe such nonsense,

It's not non-sense. Damage to existing stock and GDP growth are very different things. When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, it devastated the city. The loss to the US was estimated to be above $100 billion. Still, as far as the GDP was concerned, it was not impacted. GDP is by definition "gross domestic product", and I'll emphasize "product" here.

Do the citizens of Ukraine produce more stuff now than they did 6 months ago, or one year ago, or 5 years ago. Well, for one thing, they probably produce more weapons, munitions and military materiel. They are busy fixing stuff destroyed by the invaders. To me it sounds completely plausible that their GDP is increasing, even as their country is being bombed by Russia.
At my employer we use Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint. Our migration was basically:

Personal folders on a network drive -> OneDrive

Shared folders on a network drive -> SharePoint sites

In-person meetings -> Teams video meetings

Desk phone calls -> Teams calls

1 billion one-line emails -> Teams chat

With a few exceptions we don’t much use the “Teams” part of Teams. It was clearly modeled after Facebook-style “wall posts” with comments, and, well, no one uses Facebook anymore either.
Presbyopia Reduction (2008) [pdf]
Uhh is this right? Seems like the vast majority of the main iOS app UI files are all dumped in the same folder along with all the assets. No organization.

https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-ios/tree/trunk/po...
So if someone is visiting a town and desires to take a photo of a landmark, they can't take it unless nobody is visible in the photo? How would anyone ever take photos of the Great Wall or the US Capitol or the like?
> Most egregiously, why have the feedback loops writing code become longer?

The author answered their own question earlier in the article, showing that they have grown from using 2 AWS proprietary services to 350.
Sorry I can understand why they want to stop this. It would likely be used by MAGA and similar organizations to justify a lot of what I see as coming down the road from that particular political faction to justify policies aimed towards minorities and women.
Personally, I'll often interrupt when I know someone is wrong about a topic, in the interest of efficiency.
If you need help googling for more look up where Americans expats go in southeast Asia and south America.
Slides on use of convergence chart in vision therapy for presbyopia, https://raygottlieb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/PRESBYOPI...

As a single page printout, this chart is easy to use for a few minutes of daily "eye exercises". There are also more complex exercises for convergence.
> Now, how do you know this?

What I'm describing is founded on both participants being well-intentioned. If one person interrupts another to ask for a clarification, or to let them know they are already aware of something, and the original speaker is threatened by it, I would say this is an unusual circumstance: someone with a preoccupation about being interrupted may feel that way and may need special treatment, sure. If they are uncomfortable about it, hopefully the well-intentioned interrupter is able to perceive that. If there is a combo of someone with this preoccupation + someone who is bad at reading body language, that would be unfortunate.

As far as that recasting of privilege, it's an insightful metaphor imo, but at the end of the day still just a metaphor: the dynamics of not having your voice heard in society are in practice just a separate matter from this communication style.
There is also the fact that a Rolex lasts for ages so the high price is made up by the fact you aren’t burning the cash, you are just converting it in to an asset you can sell later. The Apple Watch will be worthless ewaste in 10 years so they can never charge luxury watch prices.
To clarify: "no amount of legislation of grocery stores / the grocery industry"
> And then the time towards the brexit disaster was like watching a car crash in slow motion, and behind the wheel there were clowns and people who insisted clowns had to be taken very seriously for a reason they can cannot describe

The movie _Brexit: The Uncivil War_ from 2019 [0] is not only amazingly entertaining, it also details the so-called _car crash in slow motion_ in vivid dramatic details quite easy to comprehend.

Basically, they found (with the help of Cambridge Analytica and FB) a few million Brits that never voted and rarely got polled, then targeted them with nonsensical pro-Brexit rhetoric for years, before making sure they get to vote.

It could be argued that the original movement that paved the way to such a trend was the Islamist wave which led to the attacks of 9/11 (and the following Islamist attacks worldwide), which politically weaponized Islam using lots of money and everything Internet had to offer.

Similar scheme led to the Tea Party, which led to the Trump election in the U.S. [1], which seems to be linked to some ongoing global trends like neo-fascism and identity politics. As a matter of fact, it appears that some clever people found a way to exploit civil society shortcomings using some of the data hoarding tools we call social medias.

The whole climate change drama is caught in the same Web (pun intended) of manipulation, and it might end up aggravating the situation, to the benefit of big oil.

These waves make little sense to most people, excepted that it shows a strong will to create new opportunities while shaking the status quo, and profit from the shakedown. As some do (will) profit from the unrest created.

Maybe it's time to harden our democracies so to make them resistant to such schemes and manipulations, without ending up with an Orwellian nightmare (looking at you, Down Under people).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit:_The_Uncivil_War

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/23/leaked-cambr...
As a sample size of 1, I can say we've not been directed to reduce or halt cloud spending, but maybe we're just good at optimizing and always considering cost before creating new apps/services.
The concept of celestial navigation is actually pretty simple. Actually doing it requires physical skill.

The general idea is this. Take for example the star Altair, at any given instant it is directly above exactly one spot on Earth. If you were at that spot and measured it's elevation above the horizon, it would be 90 degrees. That point is called the "Geographic Position (GP)". So, if you were at some unknown location and measured Altair to be 45 degrees, you would know you were 45 degrees from Altair's GP, and all of the points satisfying that can be plotted as a circle on a map. Repeat that for another star and you end up with two circles that intersects at two points. You could repeat with a third star, but in practice you have a rough idea of where you should be, and you choose stars that produce a large enough circle that you can disregard one of the two points. And taking that "in practice" one step further, the diameters of the circles are so large, you really just need to draw part of the circle as a straight line, and that lets you plot in a small enough area that map distortions are of no significance (unless your very close to the poles). There's a standard form called a "VP-OS" which makes the process a lot easier. A video showing how to do it is [1].

To determine the GP of a star (or planet) you need an ephemeris of some sort, there's software to do it, but a copy of the Nautical Almanac provides enough information to make the process simple enough to do with paper and pencil.

Actually measuring the elevation of a star on a moving, bobbing ship is where the real skill comes in. At the equator, being off by one degree means your result will be off by about 60 miles. Skilled navigators can fix their position within a few hundred feet!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVIPorb_aMM
By the classic definition and trends in our industries like layoffs, I think we all know it's already here regardless of the election related word games.