skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! I'm the organizer and we will get the auto-invite domain back online at some point. Life has gotten in the way... Thank you for sharing the link in the meantime. You can also email me and I'll send an invite.

It's a friendly group of nerds and entrepreneurs. We'll do another in-person event as soon as we can! You can sign up on doorkeeper if you want an announcement email when it goes live: https://manage.doorkeeper.jp/groups/hntokyo
Anamorphosis, thanks, and same time frame: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphosis#Renaissance
Sure, but the New York Subway is the most interlined metro system in the world. You have to essentially change everything at once, or at least go trunk line by trunk line, or run two separate systems concurrently. None of which are easy options.
Of course not.

The links just don't back up their position. I don't care about banning TikTok, it's more the unevenness because "China evil". As for admitting it, Facebook has required whistleblowers to expose the terrible things they have done.

TikTok has not done anywhere near as much damage to the US as meth and guns individually, but you just don't see the same effort put into solving either of those two problems.
From the exact same comment, emphasized, add 'traces of sesame' as an ingredient.
Now there’s two of you! Only one more and we’re to lots\many
`clip-path: path(...)` not having relative units makes it basically useless for non-fixed size elements. And embedding an SVG into your html with a `<clipPath>` declaration is fragile and hackish.
Shhh

Actually that's quite interesting; I had never bothered to fact church t this joke.
I know safe areas are not great for subtitles. My point is that when you’re checking content the controls overlay on the video so when trying to view the safe area is annoying because the controls impede the ability to check the video.

Subtitles over the video is annoying to me now. I would prefer a black bar on the bottom and not lose any picture.
> I think managers should be serving their subordinates

This is totally what I think about managers of technical staff (and not "in some respects"). It's the subordinates that are doing the production; managers are lubricant, whose task is to ensure the production staff are maximally effective. Without effective management, production staff operate at reduced efficiency. But without production staff, managers are completely useless, and might as well be re-tasked to work as coffee boys.

I'm referring to line-managers, not the executives who make business decisions. I know nothing of executive work, and I suspect there's not a lot of continuity between line management and executive work. And yet some line-managers carry on as if they're already three-star generals.
> Google stops dedicating spam protection to un-synced accounts

The spam filter just broke at some time in the last year. I get 1-2 obvious trash spam in my inbox every day. Literally things with a subject like "You _WON_ !! ** our give_away!"
How do you do hourly backups?
> This version implements a different algorithm to translate time into colors, covering the whole visible light spectrum in 24 hours. At night colors get darker [peaking at 0AM] while during the day colors are lighter [peaking at 12AM].

http://whatcolorisit.sumbioun.com/about.html

In case anyone is curious what they are looking at.
Is there a customer service at Google? Had no luck with them... once I got an email after they charged me twice for Play Music, but this was canned response. It took them almost 7 months to figure this out and pay my money back.
Everyone should have equal access. And if I’m subjected to ads why can’t deaf people also get ads.
This is an unfortunate situation, but calling it a "dumpster fire of rotting clinical waste" is frankly absurd. Google in particular has done more than anyone to acclimate consumers to the usage-patterns of better auth (two-factor in particular). Is everything perfect? Of course not, but things are a lot better than they could be.
Of course. scrollbar-gutter: stable.
Fire Linus?
I noticed your trees are 60% Robusta and wanted to address the suggestions about targeting boutique coffee houses and higher-end customers: I doubt very much Robusta will be sought after.

My understanding is that market for Robusta may be only for instant coffee production or to adulterate Arabica to make cheaper. I've only rarely seen Robusta sold green and there's good reason for that: it's distinctly unpleasant by itself.
They might not explicitly, but you have the right to take any data you have or they might have on you of any service, no matter if you have an account or not: aka right of access. I don’t know if it has been used this way, but it might be a possibility.
the only other goal a manager should care about is if the programmer feels fulfilled

i bet a lot managers know that devs don’t care about business goals
> Heat pumps can have back up electric heating elements to provide the heating in the extremes. You get a more resilient system than gas.

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding, but wouldn't the backup electric heating elements require, well, electricity to function?

I'm no fan of gas, but the idea of losing heating, phone service (the old copper wire systems could function even in a blackout), the ability to cook (since gas stoves are being phased out), and the ability to travel (EVs and some trains) because a transformer exploded is kinda scary. Like, we're putting all our faith in a system that is routinely knocked out by errant tree branches.

Maybe we could do buried lines, but given infra costs in the US that sounds... expensive. Someone in another thread mentioned heat reservoirs of some kind, but I have no idea how realistic that is. Even if it buys a few extra hours, that'd improve things dramatically.

From the sound of it, you're far more familiar with specific legislation than I, so maybe I'm totally off and all this has been taken into account. But having experienced an extended blackout and my family realizing we couldn't even boil water, I'm apprehensive to say the least. IMO it'd be nice to move away from fossil fuels without betting lives on ConEd doing repairs in a timely fashion.
My manager has no technical background either, and for our team he's great. However, I think they key is he understands enough technical stuff and listens to reason. If we present good technical arguments, he will listen and take that into account. He won't try to force something through just because.
They are, but that's a potentially misleading statistic, on two counts:

First, it doesn't give any indication of the percentage of children with food allergies. Is it also about 20% (which would mean sesame allergies affect approximately 4% of children)? Or is it more like 4% (which would mean sesame allergies affect approximately 0.8% of children)?

Second, it doesn't say anything about the severity of the allergy. My brother-in-law has a severe, anaphylactic allergy to peanuts. Traces of peanut in anything he eats could kill him. On the other hand, I have a close friend with an allergy to tree nuts...that makes his throat kinda itchy for a while if he eats too many.

Yes, we need to be mindful of food allergies, and properly label foods for them. But that doesn't mean we should be using incomplete or misleading statistics to inform our decisions about how prevalent serious problems with certain foods could be.
We discovered our kid's sesame allergy when I fed some hummus on a pita at age 18 months resulting in a serious reaction that almost had me calling 911. It wasn't lack of early exposure.
One of my scrum teams is all very senior developers working in a new area with lots of unknowns and technical challenges. I purposely "leave them alone" not because I'm a clueless manager, but because this type of work is always messy and will have false starts. The phrase "reasonable trust" screams "FAKE!" to me. You trust until it's broken, or you don't trust. I think what you might mean is trust but verify?
This is just crass. There's plenty of very good software with shitty T&C, this isn't anything new.
A part of this story is how during Andy Byford's tenure, one of the biggest thrusts to his work was to fix this problem. He aggressively started studying and revising the timers to speed trains up, and it seemed to have worked. Of course, he was pushed out by Cuomo and then the pandemic happened so much of those gains seem to be short-lived.
This HN post goes into the best of 2022.
Try to also find what specific varieties of Arabica, if you can. That matters a lot for specialty coffee.

There is not a lot of Robusta specialty, and for a reason: it isn't known for being great tasting coffee.
As the world gets more and more digital, there really needs to be such regulation. Certain accounts are too deeply ingrained in your digital identity, that they should be able to be taken away from you. At least not without a way to start a proper legal recourse, where real person need to solve your case and at least send you your data. EU do something!
> Sure, Oppenheimer was a great physicist. But was he as good as, e.g. Teller, Fermi, Feynman, Szilard, Von Neumann, etc? No, he was not.

In the documentary The Day After Trinity there’s an interview with physicist Hans Albrecht Bethe who worked on the Manhattan project and later won a Nobel prize. Oppenheimer’s cognitive abilities are briefly discussed, and Bethe says something like “It quickly became obvious that he was intellectually superior to us.”

It’s also noteworthy that Oppenheimer learnt Sanskrit, just so that he could read Bhagavad Gita in the original language.

So I think he could hold his own, even against those other geniuses.
Assuming it's not a joke site, I could kinda agree with some of the "values" but not with the "pointless tests".

I mean, I agree that some tests are, indeed, pointless, but I wouldn't trust someone who "just wants to program" to decide which tests are useful and which are pointless.
It’s not really politics per se that are no go zones, but the insipid and asinine partisan stuff.

The easiest thing to do is to check out the NY Post, and don’t talk about anything they are upset about. Of course, if Uncle MAGA is looking for a fight, the only way to win is not to play.
Taiwan says hi too!
Anyone keen in Taipei or northern Taiwan in general, happy to meet, on Monday, Tuesday (still sorta technically Xmas) or any time next week! gergely@imreh.net
Nano-scale images made with electrons
Literally the bill being discussed which gives the irs funding back
Randomly found Advisory Circles on twitter. Really cool stuff. You're really making OSINT much more accessible to common people.
https://privacy.apple.com/
But then, there has to be some sesame. Otherwise the ingredients list is not truthful, which comes with its own set of penalties and headaches.
Robusta seems to be favoured for making espresso. I think robusta is not as "unpleasant" as it used to be, say 20 years ago.
Well there’s my unexpected Christmas gift for the year. Thanks!
You mayn’t claim that the thing contains sesame unless it does. The only option is to really add the real seed, and proclaim it.
Male and female stem cells created from single person for the first time
What we call English was imported piecemeal into England, so it sounds like it's not the indigenous language of anywhere by your measure? It's native to Ireland, surely; in which case it seems fine.
<option> element doesn't allow styled HTML content as a dropdown option. This has led into hundreds of non native / js based Select Dropdown implementations to overcome this. Not a bad thing but at the same time native controls are always better and gurranteed to work everywhere especially on mobile.
I'd second it, should we get started? :)

(Used to run various geek events in Taipei, it has been a while since doing it though, so timely to get back into it!)
I don’t generally like talking about “politics” even with people who agree with my positions. I love talking about “political science” in the vein of “Five Thirty Eight”.

I did something that would usually be taboo recently. I talked about “politics” in a business setting with a customer at dinner. Neither one of us talked about our personal belief system. We talked about the politicians we admired as far as their ability to get things done and navigate the system.

We talked about our admiration for politicians on every part of the spectrum from the disciplined campaign that Republican Brian Kemp ran while being constantly attacked by Trump, how Pelosi was better able to keep her side disciplined when in power, etc.
AI and the Future of Voice Acting [video]
Dwarfs is the correct “english” but Tolkien felt the plural should be dwarves - he’d have preferred dwarrows but felt he couldn’t get away with it. https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Dwarves

He did slip it in with Dwarrowdelf as the name for Moria.

The goblins in the Hobbit are clearly the smaller orcs “in a kids story” where the evil isn’t clearly described. The Lord of the Rings makes this pretty clear that they are “Mirkwood/Moria orcs”.

One thing that’s common is dwarves now apparently are all Scottish in movies and that didn’t come from Tolkien (if anything his dwarves would be Norse).
Hilbert, for one, was on Einstein's heels:

https://jorgenveisdal.medium.com/einstein-and-hilberts-race-...
> So many competing things

certainly, I just wonder about IQ. Of course IQ is itself an inexact proxy for things such as processing speed but the correlation does exist so something is going on there. Whether it's causation or not, who can tell.

I just think the idea is interesting. People often think of the body's ability to maintain itself as sort of set in stone based upon DNA, and of course there's truth to that. But we also know the body can learn, that's literally what vaccines do. So the question becomes, if the unconscious mind can strategize it implies better or worse outcomes based upon "decisions" and learning. Peanut Allergies are less likely to exist in populations that are around peanuts than those without. We know this, but I'm not sure I've seen anyone explain the mechanism that causes this to be true.

I'm also not a biologist so it's probably completely ignorant, but that doesn't stop it from being fun to think about.
White box crypto is kind of like obfuscation, but tries to make it impossible to extract the information.
That’s in line with my point: if, say, a program could only use 64 libraries, then people would find ways to remove the ones they don’t need. But there’s no pressure to reduce, so transitive dependencies balloon.
One of the original startup influencers of his time.
Is there enough of a scientific consensus on how to prevent food allergies to drive policy, or are you just talking about research at this point?

I've heard things like early exposure, breast feeding, and mother's nutrition can help, but always got the impression that allergies are pretty random.
Does that mean denying bail for everyone, or only for the people who are pariahs in the media (basically the "Have a bail/trial by public opinion" from my previous comment)?
Is there any example of a long-lived successful open source project from a non-technical manager that leads a team of people on board with his or her vision?
Imagine you could figure out the rules of the base amino acids, nucleotides and RNA that were around 4.5b years ago on this rock - you could probably get to a decent simulation of understanding how multicellular life came to be.

Beyond that almost everything is a system with rules - bacteria, traffic, people, etc.

By putting in rules only, you can understand emergent behaviours in any system.
AlternativeTo can almost do that with OS + use-case tags https://alternativeto.net/software/lastpass/
I’m not sure that follows. “This law makes ‘no sesame’ products a lot more expensive. We are <shocked pikachu.png> that producers stopped making as many ‘no sesame’ products in response to reduced consumer demand for those now more expensive products.”

The spirit of the law could be deduced as “if your product claims to contain no sesame, this law ensures that is true, even in trace amounts”. That spirit is being upheld.
Huh, apparently Canada isn't allowed to access this.
It doesn't anymore the trick with buying from the store also doesn't work anymore you get in the same q as everyone else after the hardware and one teams told you they can't help.
You can use one of the several password managers of the keepass family. They are local, you can share the encrypted password database with your other devices and maybe it has more features that one's own password manager. But by going DIY you probably learned more about passwords management than the average person.
"Connection denied by IP2Location Country Blocker"

Is this the anti-commercial metaverse?
You forget that we ourselves are a large language model based on a large corpus. I suspect if you look closely at human intelligence you might come to the same conclusion.

You’re right we are prone to attributing intelligence to things that aren’t. But what actually is intelligence and is there anyplace you are sure it exists rather than a clever and thorough simulation?
Stay in this industry long enough and you will have a collection of things that had already been done ... one or even several decades too early.

Eg I first encountered "blockchain" ca. 1995, but that took a while to become popular.
Also usually something with dynamic programming, something with primes, and something that you should/can solve with circular/doubly linked lists.

It is basically a CS class.

But the nice thing is that most puzzles have multiple solutions, it's always educational to read how other people did things!
Wow thanks for mentioning that. I was hugely in to RuneScape back in the early 2000s, but stopped around RS2. I still run a classic server from time to time so I can relive that. Kings Crooks looks really cool will definitely check that out.
Yea, the perverse incentives* of this culture can utterly destroy a company long-term.

(*) The better you do your job the lower your chances of promotion. Hard work and dedication becomes a road to serfdom.
If I want a sexist poem that degrades men, I can write one myself. How is the world made worse by the fact that I can get a chatbot to write one for me instead?

A bot can write bad poetry faster than I can, so if there were some purpose for which Bad People can use huge volumes of sexist poetry then I guess this would be helpful for them. But what would that purpose be?

I guess someone might want to send a huge quantity of sexist-poetry spam, and having it custom-generated by a LLM might make it better able to get past spam filters than e.g. sending the exact same sexist poetry to thousands or millions of people. But so far as I know spammers aren't particularly interested in spamming sexist poetry; there's not much money in that. Do we need to make our language models incapable of writing advertising copy? (I mean, maybe. Advertising is pretty terrible. But advertising copy is sufficiently similar to other forms of writing that seems probably very impossible.)

In general, I don't really see why it's bad (other than purely reputationally) for language models to be able to generate obnoxious, offensive, inaccurate text. The people who might ask them to do it are exactly the same people who can generate such text themselves, and it's not clear that they benefit much or harm everyone else much by being able to do it 100x faster than before.

Now, if the models were able to generate super-persuasive obnoxious text -- "Write something that will convince 50% of American voters to vote for a Nazi", "Write something that will persuade everyone who reads it to buy our ineffective and dangerous penis-enlargement pills", etc. -- that would be a problem. But then it wouldn't be a problem only for particular categories of offensive text. "Write something that will convince everyone who reads it to vote for the Democratic Party" is, I guess, less awful (if it were possible) than the same thing with "Nazi" replacing "Democratic", but either would be a disaster. The potentially dangerous thing (if it turns out to be possible) is superhumanly-persuasive AI, not offensive AI.
In reality a lot of new houses are built to maximize interior space / number of rooms, and minimize lot size hence outside space.
Same. I got so tired of the Red Cross phone calls that I changed the phone number in my profile to their customer service line.
One could argue that it's "cosmically inherent" that something you earn through your own labor (of the body that you control/own?) should be yours do with as you please, so long as it doesn't hurt others. If you can't accept that fundamental property, we are quite frankly serfs, which is a few steps away from slaves. Slaves not only didn't own their own body, but they also didn't own the fruits of their labor.
You're not an Indie Entrepreneur, that is complete nonsense. Indie just means independent, and given that all entrepreneurs are by definition independent, you're kind of giving me insight into why you failed. Indie only applies to 2 industries, game development and music, both of these industries are mainly dominated by major studios which people work for even if they are well known publicly.

Don't get me wrong, starting a business is extremely hard work, and I'm sure you did everything you could, but when every 5th word you say or write is essentially a buzz word, people don't respond to that. Also, if all of your advertising was digital, then you need a minimum startup capital that can pay influences to make people aware of you and your product. It sucks, but unless you have a sizable following or are yourself a really good salesman, you're more likely to fail.

This is something I've studied extensively, and it's painful every time I have to tell a friend they would suck at running their own business.
It’s also very interesting how everyone apparently agrees one side is perfectly correct and never wrong and the other side is always wrong and abject evil.

Perhaps politics changes us more than we want to admit?
I'm not sure you understand. The required energy is around 4X the baseline. Most smaller homes could heat on a 220V 20A circuit until it get's very cold (-5f or more), at this point you're up to almost 80A @ 220VAC additional resistive heating load per home.
This is not about hiring, it is about what you are allowed to call yourself, i.e. what you are allowed to write into your CV on your buisness card, on your Web site or use for self advertisment. Don't expect to get away with calling yourself an "Engineer" if you are not an "Ingenieur". Judges do not like to be fooled.

Job adverisments in German almost exclusively use the term "Software-Entwickler" ("software developer"), indicating that an IT degree is not necessarily required for the job.
I don’t know, virtually every one of the items on that list would quickly devolve into explicit political discussions.
Ah, always interesting to see a subject discussion based on centuries old metadata constructs (higher order formal logic & mechanical/electrical/abstract autonoma), ignore centuries old metadata constructs.
I believe the major problem is having your email attached to a big tech general account. If your son decides to download a pirated game to your iphone, out whatever other unrelated minor offense, and Apple determine it's worth nuking your entire account, your email is gone. Granted, Google is worse at this matters, and when you own the domain at least you can point it to somewhere else, but it's still a hassle.
How long until you end up with Proposition 65-style warnings that products may contain trace amounts of every food product?

Today, if I’m severely allergic, I might assume product X has a trace amount of my allergen. Tomorrow, I might assume the same thing, only now I can read it on a label.