skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I discussed this with my friend - with every release Python becomes more like C++ in that there's a million ways to do the same thing and you're struggling to choose the "correct" one.
It actually is a pretty decent website. If you look at the main page [1] instead, it's a gallery to navigate to the subpages. Conceptually not too different than browsing a traditional 2d webpage.

1. https://www.anumberfromtheghost.com
See, the problem is, you get people who have studied for a lot more than three years, and then you get the replication crisis. Do you think that could be avoided by requiring more education? And I see people correctly calling out problems with papers that have done a lot less than three years of effort: sometimes the issues are a lot more basic than that. As usual, verification is cheaper than computation; studying gives you (hopefully!) a better chance to get things right but it doesn't immunize you from getting things wrong. And peer review didn't stop blatant photoshopping [1]; though the person who found them is a scientist, one cannot imagine that her coursework included "spotting rotated or mirrored pictures in a paper".

So no, it doesn't even take an undergraduate level of understanding to contribute, and you don't need a degree to beat the experts (sometimes). I think you're envisioning a world where science is "mostly okay" and at any rate mostly inexploitable: chess computers may make mistakes, but you certainly can't catch them in one. Whereas I think people have been espousing this view of science for so long, and marginalizing citizen science for so long, that there are now many opportunities for personally invested individuals to spot things that people with degrees missed.

So sure, some people will fall for conspiracy theories. Some people will fall for fraud. Some people will simply believe wrong things. But "science" as an institution (ie. excepting the sense that any such study is science) does not deserve any sort of monopoly on finding out true things, and claiming otherwise does both the scientific community and the populace at large a disservice.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/scien...
Has this person ever lived in the US? I had to take a pretty demanding law test with a 90% passing grade, a parking test and a street driving test when I got my US driving license.
I would be curious though if the more expensive and involved driving license in many European countries results in better outcomes though. Wouldn't be surprised if the main factor is practice over everything else.
Ask HN: Is AMPhtml Dead or Dying?
hi, i just looked at the amphtml github repo commit stats page

https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/graphs/contributors?from=2015-08-30&to=2023-02-21&type=c

and since mit 2022 there is nearly no activity?
Does anybody know, is the AMPhtml team even still at Google?
In Germany it's called "Informatics" (Informatik in german). I would have loved a name without computer in it, to set it more apart from things like computer/software engineering.
> however in contexts where there are objective criteria of quality elitism is just being a professional good at his job.

Imagine I look at the Linux kernel source code and I feel it's lacking in automated integration tests, and that C is a poor choice of language for security-critical code.

Am I a competent professional, applying objective quality criteria?

Or am I an arrogant dilettante, to imagine I know better than some of the most influential living programmers?
clickable link: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/graphs/contributors?fr...
Coming soon: British remote driving centers connected to the internet via Tor.
There was no hurdle other than not killing people in an overt way. It was grandfathered in.
> Google gets credit

Except many don’t know Google owned it
Messing with a few screws and latches is not exactly "building". "The best bed" depends on who's asking, and it would have to be built for you.

Similarly, you could hire someone to build a laptop for you if you categorically object.

Rather than a bed, a better analogy is a home - even the best ready plan can be improved for a particular family. Apple just doesn't allow that.
>"anti green", if employer demands work at office

Tough to argue an environmental stance when it’s heating/lighting/carbon emissions for deliveries and couriers to 50 buildings vs 1.
I went to do this sort of thing the other day.

First thing I did was try and find a Pi Zero 2 W. Discovered most models of Raspberry Pi are completely unavailable. And so, another side project was canned.
There are actually modern examples of judges doing something kind of like this. The convicted were required to walk around town wearing a sign that described their crime. I’m OK with it.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/03/31/public-shaming...
I get where the author is coming from, but at the same time, having spent most of my career to date as a front-end developer, I can tell you many stories of how hilariously off the rails this approach can go.

With a decade under my belt I'm feeling that I recently finally started learning and the conclusion so far is that half of the effectiveness of software engineering comes from obeying ultimately simple and common sense rules that anyone can follow, like "use idiomatic expressions", "read the documentation", "prefer pure functions and immutable data structures".

I'm an average(and kind of lazy) developer, but I found early on that I have an edge over more talented and hard-working people - I gather knowledge instead of compensating for the lack of it with hard work.

Can you frame it as elitism? I hope not, because I deeply believe the worst and laziest developers can use some of those rules so that they're both effective and still bad and lazy.
By whatever metrics you want, you can choose which panel to install.
Ask HN: Is Russian internet still being censored from the truth?
With the recent speech Putin gave to the Russian General Assembly (2/21/2023), it makes me wonder how many people in Russia actually believe Putin's lies. This looks like an information war. Do Russian citizens have access to the truth?
Old MacBooks used to be more upgradable. I did upgrade my old MacBook and did prolong it's life. Current MacBooks have 0 upgradability. Once the specs are too low, that's that.

Also, current MacBooks used in corporate environments do not reach the second hand market because the SSD is no longer an independent component. They get shredded. Perfectly good barely old computers get shredded because one component is no longer separate.
No, they said it as if GP had no idea what they were talking about.
The EPR experiment uses indirect measurement, it's definitely possible. Also an obvious loophole in the logic, too obvious.
> there are women neckbeards too, …

Colloquially known as legbeards …

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=legbeard
BTRFS is far better designed than other recent linux filesystems. It's just that linux always was and always will be very very buggy. If you want less bugs, use the oldest possible FS that is still usable. That's probably ext2.

Most problems with btrfs is that it fails to mount in many situations and there's no automated fsck to fix it, requiring manual intervention; in fact running fsck on btrfs is considered a very bad thing.
This makes it OK for desktop, but not at all suitable for headless servers and other unsupervised machines.

Speaking of bad design, F2FS for example, a filesystem designed for flash drives, keeps both primary and backup superblocks in the same flash erase block. If that block gets corrupted the entire fs is lost.
Bending physics: inside Rimac's plan to make the fastest EV on the planet
When people defend chemicals saying what's the evidence, they're only doing harm to themselves and everyone.

We did not evolve to tolerate quite literally hundreds of thousands of chemicals in regular commercial use. The incidence of several different disease types is increasing at far higher rates than "increased diagnosis". The number of people with GI symptoms related to food is something absurd like 1 in 3 now.

If you did not EVOLVE to tolerate a chemical, you're gambling with how it will be interpreted by the body's biology. Even with medicine we cause issues ALL the time when we're TRYING not to make drugs that actively harm you. The majority of these chemicals are NOT subject to that kind of scrutiny, even though many of them STILL get into people's systems. Yes, the dose makes the poison, but we DON'T EVEN KNOW the dose-response curve for the vast majority of commercially used chemicals, nor do we know their interactions. The likelihood of some of them causing physiologic or epigenetic harm in humans is basically 100%.

We do need WAY more scrutiny than we have and to withdraw way more things from commercial use BY force if we want to turn things around.

If you say "where's the evidence they cause damage" you're an armchair devil's advocate redditor moron. The onus should be on them to rigorously show they DO NOT cause harm before they're ever introduced into use that could lead to exopsure.
Binky!
If you’re in your thirties and don’t have a child, you should probably have a child instead of founding a startup. The startup can wait, your likelihood of having a child (and a fulfilling relationship with one) won’t.
> relatively calm (if somewhat pedestrian hostile) style of driving in the UK

The UK is pedestrian hostile? In comparison to where? It's always seemed to me one of the most pro-pedestrian countries, eg there is no such thing as "jaywalking": you can cross anywhere and cars are obliged to stop once you're "established in the road" - plus they are obliged to stop at all times on zebras.
No True Scotsman? Or are you saying that in most cases it's just superficial?

I certainly have met Buddhism pratictioners in the West that were deep into the way of life and culture.
Or simply have decent ventilation systems like most modern places have in Sweden
That's the point, you are not supposed to start anything on "hope" - you have to actually believe and perceive a value in the market.

In some cases people are wrong or even crazy, but fundamentally I don't meet many 20 somethings with both the conviction that they are right, the organization skills to do the logistics, and the wisdom to not jump at pointless things.

I certainly didn't do it right when I tried to start a company at 19.
Yes? You don't need to move from the keyboard at all, you get physical buttons too. Your wrist is never misinterpreted as a mouse movement either.

It's just better unless your workflow heavily involves the use of 3+ finger gestures. Which I don't personally care about but seems like a necessity to not go insane on macOS.
> Then the lightbulb went off for Kidwell. “The only thing it could have been was cows,”

It seems the authors still have to learn the correlation vs causation thing. Concluding it must be cows because you cannot think of another alternative is a really bad way of doing science.
Atari too; and god they were unreliable. But cheap!
I think he had a panic attack
> I spent my last day in Los Angeles riding on a Segway, buying legal marijuana and staring at some turtles in an on-campus pond at UCLA.

Yeah, I'm sure that has nothing to do with psychotic breakdowns.
Benchmark Between Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, OVH and UpCloud
Maybe I missed it - but what is the approximate size of the dataset in GB?

Would be interesting to see rclone.org (and maybe s4cmd) (should be faster access to s3?) - and also mercurial and bitkeeper.org - both should behave a little better than git on large files?
You're describing a psychosis.
That was good article :D

Definitely going to look into Haiku more myself :)
Early morning classes were helpful for me. I had 8am classes 3 times a week. After I’d get breakfast and study for 2 hours after since I was on campus and there was nothing going on at that hour to distract. I got a lot done in those morning hours.

You have a fair amount of flexibility as a student. I had a roommate who napped from 4-4:30 every day.
In an ideal market, you could buy a T480 with an M2 CPU. Which would be a much better laptop, for a much better price. It's only due to market distortions due to big players trying to be anticompetitive that we're stuck with this choice.
It depends massively on the state no?

CA was pretty tough, they even fail you for driving too slow.
Incidentally, yes, but CS topics can be applied to any kind of “process”, not just computerized ones.

Anything that absolutely requires a computer is necessarily a practically-oriented activity, and is therefore computer engineering.
It's interesting that the article doesn't seem to mention anything about evening activities. They're solely focused on when they went to sleep and woke up, yet seem to completely ignore why they went to bed at a specific time.

I had a before school class in high school and 8-9am classes in college. It was never an issue for me. Anecdotally the people who had trouble at these times and even later where the ones who stayed up late playing videogame and drinking (caffinated soda or alcohol), partying, or working as a bartender (sounds like the study controlled for this last one with shift work exculsionl).
I wonder if this will lead to in-class tests being weighted much more heavily than homework style work.
How would they do it better? The randomness of real roads is something drivers have to deal with, and the test routes are supposed to be 45 minutes covering a variety of road conditions, so it's near impossible to pass if you haven't got the hang of basics like picking a suitable lane and merging at roundabouts and checking stuff in mirrors which is what it's testing for, regardless of traffic levels and roadworks and some cities having different layouts to others. There isn't an expectation that new drivers will never be flummoxed by encountering weird behaviour from other drivers or an oddly laid out junction, and you can rebook another test asap if you're confident the only things you were failed on were hesitancy or overcorrection in response to chance events.

As with most learning processes which finish with an exam, the need to undergo a general learning process to get to the stage where it's likely that you will actually pass is more important than the exact equivalence of the tests.
Is it not misogynistic to assume only women are capable of looking after children?
Well.

https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/study-links-mindfulness-medit...
Here is the tool from the article: https://github.com/BohdanPetryshyn/basti
That's a definition of solipsism, not reality.
ah yes, yet another article from the prominent journal Nature Obvious Results
My experience with dual boot 25 years ago is that it is so inconvenient to reboot that you literally end up using only one OS, the one you prefer the most.

Just forget about dual booting nobody really does that.
why not? eat before 7pm?
In recent years, popularity of the Go programming language has increased rapidly. Originally developed by Google, Go has quickly become one of the most popular languages for backend development, particularly in the development of distributed systems and microservices. In this article, We will discuss the reasons why Go is the future of backend development.
I also expected sth. about diabetes.
There Are More Hedge Funds Than Burger Kings
Even angels could be tempted when 7 ton of Au is staring them in the face, mere mortals wouldn't have any hope of resisting temptation.

7 ton = 224,000 ounces

Current Au price: ~$1843/oz USD

Total value: ~$412,832,000 USD.

;-)
Negotiation Is Listening
If those mid-rise buildings have their own parking and residents there are not able to get resident street parking permits, I’d be quite prone to support it.

If the first of those is falsified, the mid-rise has a negative effect on the nearby properties. If the second is falsified, that negative effect is significantly amplified. Our part of the city of Cambridge has slightly less street sparking space than cars for the houses here. That’s made up for by about 2/3 of the houses having private driveways (which take one street spot for the curb cut, but often add 2-4 parking spots). Place even a 6-story mid-rise with no parking and 40 cars for its 8 cars worth of frontage and it creates chaos in a way that a triplex or SFR doesn’t.
Had anybody else noticed that for many Stoicism has replaced Buddhism as the “cool” and “intellectual” spirituality amongst those in the liberal tech world?
That was approximately my cost (in London). £22 per hour, 40 lessons, then an additional £100 for the instructor to take me to the test, wait, and drop me home. Add in the cost of the theory/practical test, and the inflation of the last 6 years, and you arrive at your figure.
I think I only saw one or two zebra crossings in London, Oxford, and Cambridge. The vast majority of crossings are only marked on the ground with a ridged plate.

I would agree with the grandparent poster that the UK is pedestrian hostile. The sidewalks are too narrow and the roads too wide. Having double decker buses drive by (only feet away) is an unpleasant experience.
> Wouldn't be surprised if the main factor is practice over everything else.

European driving licenses are expensive because they require more practice. You pay for the practice hours. The tests themselves are much cheaper.
> "I once spilled an entire can of beer onto a Thinkpad X220. The fix involved a screwdriver, a sponge, a $50 replacement keyboard"

I once spilled half a glass of red wine all over my M1 MacBook Air keyboard. The fix involved quickly turning it upside down, sponging it off, and letting it dry out. OK, some of the affected keys were rather sticky afterwards and required popping off the keycaps and cleaning underneath. Some of them are still not perfect and I need to have another go with some isopropyl alcohol. But it certainly didn't require buying a replacement keyboard!
I am describing my experience. If you make the choice to medicalize my words, that is your own interpretation. But you were not there, you do not know.
> Maybe it was just a fluke or something and this is totally anecdotal but what I think happened is for about 3-4 months I was doing a physical activity in the morning that I _really wanted_ to do - some martial arts classes.

I suspect this is at the root of a lot of “night owl” personalities: Night time is equated with freedom, whereas mornings are equated with having to do something they don’t like (work, school).

Finding something semi-enjoyable to do in the morning is key to not hating mornings. If someone’s mornings are just a painful slog to a job you dislike and a detour until you can get to the evening where you can maybe enjoy something, of course they’re going to be a night owl.
> forswearing material possessions and comforts.

You're describing a sanyasin.

A typical Brahmin, like anyone else is recommended to go through the usual stages of life including that of a Grihastha. And as a Grihastha, one is expected to pursue wealth and material wellbeing.

I'm all for telling off casteist scum but it probably helps to be accurate.
Excellent video about this from Johnny Harris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u550Si9rNv4
i failed a 7:30am calc class in my freshman year of engineering school that was a 1 mile hike uphill in the middle of winter...NOPE!
I think CSS and the domain of laying out things in 2d (and responding to state changes) with code is actually inherently complex, so which ever layout system you use is going to have a steep learning curve.

Many of the newer CSS features prevent you using JavaScript to achieve the same thing, which is better as it results in better performance and easier to understand code.

I would rather have newer standardised selectors than see the same pattern re-implemented with JS differently in every codebase.
Yes, the author should totally study Kundalini. Krishna's story is scary.

It's even mentioned in Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha and The Mind Illuminated. Some traditions make it a central component (tantric & yogic), while some ignore it (Zen), but it's there in all of them. The core of religions flowed out of these experiences IMO.

There should absolutely be greater awareness that this is where meditation can lead if practiced with sufficient intensity. It's hard to say what the frequency is, but the centrality of these experiences and extrasensory stories (e.g. the Buddha seeing spirits), suggests it's a widely experienced phenomenon along the path. I mean, if the aim of meditation is to awaken to the greater consciousness, then one day you're going to have to experience it to progress.

This is where the West has lost its way. The culture has swung so far in favour of materialism it rejects the idea of universal consciousness, so sells mindfulness as simply brain exercises. That means if someone experiences the bigger reality they have no frame of reference and little support like they would if they followed a tradition where these experiences are more widely experienced.
It depends on you and the context, are you actually working on Linux kernel and have worked on a lot of similar type projects?

Objectivity does not imply that it's easy to discern adequate criteria or that they are easy to know or that there is a consensus about them, just that it isn't purely subjective, and code isn't.
The guide is a bit lacking - I made such a foil based smart mirror and the mirror you get from just a foil is not good. I would more call it a reflective grey surface than a true mirror.

So I would suggest getting a proper partially silvered glass sheet and getting the money for that by not using a currently overpriced and hard to get raspberry pi.
Mastodon: A move to publicly owned scholarly knowledge
You just need to care about Macbook. It's a luxury item after all. I made the same mistake treating my first Macbook as ordinary laptop. Of course it broke very quickly. Bad USB port, GPU issues, keyboard issues, broken SSD, broken audio port and so on.

I bought my second Macbook and I'm using mostly wireless accessoires to prevent port damage. I don't use its built-in keyboard and touchpad to prevent them from breaking. I don't disconnect it from power to prevent battery damage. I bought huge SSD (2TB) and don't fill it with data to prolong its life.

And you know what? It works wonders. This macbook works without hiccups for almost a year! Sure, I'll need to replace my Apple Keyboard soon, but that's just $250, not $5200.
I agree; used a 2015 Macbook Pro until last year when I purchased the M1. 7 years of life for a laptop is exceptional and I expect to get similar out of my current one. You'd be hard pressed to find laptops with that level of longevity.
Hm, I wonder.. are they also linked to a lifetime of bad dreams about sleeping in and missing classes and being unprepared for tests.
I highly recommend it! Even if you haven't had the experience or attachment to BeOS it's a refreshing and fun take on a desktop system. It just "clicks" with me in a way that Linux/Windows/Mac never did. It's truly impressive that they've been going for over 20 years now (I still remember the first screenshot of app_server drawing a window in the early 2000s) and have accomplished so much from scratch. Can't wait to see where the project will go next!
Good luck to them. I'm sure they can do it but I wouldn't want to be working on that project.
I was surprised coming to Finland from the UK. It seems much more pedestrian hostile here (in Finland) in my opinion. It seems pretty rare for people to stop at a zebra crossing here unless you're actually already in front of them (in Finland).

Also in the UK traffic lights 'protect' the crossing - i.e. you will never get a green light to turn across a crossing that has a 'green man'. This means here that drivers want to get closer to the pedestrians that are crossing and 'squeeze through' as soon as they can, to avoid holding up people behind during their 'turn' of the green light.

Edited to clarify that I think it is more pedestrian hostile in Finland than the UK.
You seem to have suffered a psychosis, actually