skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know that “humanities” and “psychology” are not social science, right? Your first two links, and the quote you chose, are not even talking about social science.

Your third link doesn’t actually argue that social science isn’t a science, it’s just a plea to be more careful, which is fine and fair. The title of this piece fits Betteridge’s law of headlines: the question (‘is “social science” an oxymoron?’) can clearly be answered with a “no”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines Also many of the commenters on that piece disagree with the article and have some valid points that this opinion piece is lacking in robustness and factual accuracy.

So it seems like you’ve only linked to 3 opinion pieces by individuals, none of which actually back up your claim that social science is not a science, and for which there is little evidence of any widespread agreement, as opposed to Google’s dictionary definition of social science or the Wikipedia article on social science (that comes with over 3 dozen references) that I linked to. (BTW go ahead and look up any dictionary definition - OED & Merriam Webster both confirm that social science is a science.) I did search ‘why is social science not a science’ (which BTW is a biased priming question that presumes an answer - you can get lots of false information from Google this way), and the front page of results is a mix of opinion pieces, lots of articles that don’t actually challenge whether it’s a science, and pieces that flat-out contradict the question and confirm that social science is a science.

I do think there’s a stronger argument to be made here to maybe kind-of half support your point of view, but you’re not yet convincing me or anyone else here that social science isn’t doing science, you’re only providing repeated evidence that you don’t really know what either science is or what social science is. The reason your comments closer to the top got flagged is because they’re actually false.
Fake news is such a tired term. Show me "true news" first and then we can decide on what is fake news.
Isn't this the normal cycle of money? Continuing the example, the recipient spends some of this dividend money at Starbucks and pays sales tax. Then Starbucks pays income tax on the money and the cycle repeats.
I've always been critical of the US, especially their foreign policy but if I had to make a choice I also would prefer that they be in charge rather than either of the other two.
Or rather that would have been my answer before trump came along and the country entered into a state of hyperpolarization.
How would I now wish for times like the G.W. Bush era where one would rightly get upset about things like the Iraqi war, US policing the world etc. As Europeans we were rarely a target of these things. The stakes were ultimately low for us.
But now it's not clear anymore what will become of that country. And if the US ends up collapsing under its own weight, then I don't think we're headed for a bright future. And the stakes have never been higher.
I don't think it works with images, but I get a lot of use out of this browser extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-with/

Specifically for running MPV with URL-links/video sources/iframe sources as an argument.
> The term "Web3" was coined in 2014 by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood

We’re eagerly waiting!
Wow, that was absolutely harrowing. Easily the most emotionally powerful thing I've read in the NYTimes (or any other major newspaper) in a while. It really puts into perspective just how horrible the conditions are for these people; it's easy to hear about NK in the news, or hear about defectors, and think little of it except for "what a shame", but this really puts into context the sheer inhumanity of the situation, the complacency of the Chinese government, and the depraved acts—like that of the North Korean woman and the police officer—that people can do to other, vulnerable, people.
I see where you are coming from, and I'm not saying that North Korean media or propaganda is reliable or the absolute truth. But does that mean the US "side" is reliable? Is the US really on the "right side" of the history of the world?

For exemple, did you know the US launched 3 bombs for every person in Laos? There are VILLAGES in Laos built with unexploded bomb left overs from the Vietnam War.

Did you know that there are children being born with life threatening health problems in Vietnam due to the amount of orange gas the US dropped there 40 years ago?

And quoting from a recent speech from Trump this year: "How about we are buying oil from Venezuela? When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse, we would have taken it up, would have gotten all that oil, it would have been right next door"

Is this the reliable country we should blindly believe? Are they really insterested in telling us the truth or are they just saying/doing whatever is needed to protect their interests?
Apple masters the art of creating artificial product shortages for marketing purposes. They deny it, they say it's some manufacturing issue, but usually it's just marketing.

Here is news from 12 years ago where they deny iPhone 4 shortages are just marketing.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/10/07/20/apple_denies_crea...
People like Musk who self identify as classical liberals, or whatever the faddish term for that happens to be.

Going by surveys, a lot of black people are against increasing immigration. Openly crossing that line is often justification for dropping the internet hammer. One gets the sense that, at some point, the hammer was used with more restraint.
I think they mean children running around damaging the store and its products.

That being said, it’s not like children aren’t already in Apple stores and they don’t seem to be damaging a substantial amount of phones and whatnot.
I get why refcounting could in theory sometimes have less latency than a highly tuned gc. But I don't see how it could possibly be lower memory. Can you explain?
You can. The Vision Pro supports a primary user that retains settings/user account/AppleID and a secondary user with gets a “guest” account that resets.
Product-damaging children, but I like your read better. Though it raises which product of the looky loos is damaging kids.
Ask HN: How do you manage multiple Gmail accounts on Linux?
I use multiple tabs in the browser for each account's inbox and calendar (4 total), but I'd rather have them all in the same place. I don't trust Thunderbird or similar mail clients worrying it might screw up email formatting for the clients, or increase the chance of email becoming a spam.
> Maybe we need some kind of protocol that can spread the load where popular messages are duplicated across the network instead of being stuck on one node that can get overwhelmed.

You mean like any proper P2P protocol?

Add to this multi-cast on internet level, and everybody could actually operate something like YouTube on their internet router…

But of course economic interests of some (already ultra rich) minority will prevent that forever, even we could have it just right now form the technical standpoint.
I agree with you.

I may be an old man, but what I want is the opposite of immersive technology. Put a computer on my face? Are you kidding? The one in my pocket already feels increasingly parasitic.
The point Isn't that it needs to be new but that the new thing fundamentally is far more demanding. If you have many times more pixels per frame, your GPU has to do more work, your display cable has to have more bandwidth, etc.
> Pena pleaded guilty to unlawfully obtaining confidential phone records. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. A
federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors

He'll probably get 6 months probation
The problem here is conflating "the world" with "the training set". If your data isn't representative of the world, then, yes, that introduces bias.
Not surprising, but good to keep in mind.

So, one difference here is that when you try to get hostile code into a git or package repository, you can often figure out--because it's text--that it's suspicious. Not so clear that this kind of thing is easily detectable.
At least they are buying it, a validation of the freedoms inherent in the US
The entire purpose of the Apple Stores were to be a showcase where Apple controlled the narrative.

It has been one of Apple’s competitive advantages since 2001.

How many people are going to spend $3500 on a device that by definition you have to try on in person to see if you want it?
Taking a 20% pay cut has never been an issue for me and I doubt it’s an issue for most software engineers who are pulling six figures even at 80% their “full” salary. The issue is getting a “manager” to agree to it. I would suppose the crux is that MiddleManager doesn’t give a shit about the company’s payroll expenses and would rather not have to explain to anyone else, higher up or otherwise, why I’m never at work on Fridays. I think people underestimate how shitty others are when they’re jealous and/or perceive someone as working “less” than they are. Coworkers will absolutely ruin an arrangement like you getting a 4-day workweek if they can, even if you’re making proportionally less money.

So unfortunately it seems the buy-in must come from the C-level, where the IQ tends to be the lowest in an organization.
> If we get rid of whitelist/blacklist then we should also make referring to a company being in the black or the red verboten as well.

I seriously 100% agree.
Rio, a new GPU-accelerated terminat that can run natively and in the browser
Yep. I have had myopia since my teens and by the time I decided to consider LASIK at 40 my optician told me it wasn't worth it because my vision will start to adjust toward far sightedness within 10 years.

Fantastic advice! A few years later my prescription started to drop and I wear glasses less and less.

If I had LASIK I'd be looking at glasses or more LASIK already.

I do have low prescription inserts for VR because one eye is slightly weaker and I found that more noticeable than IRL.
Yeah I get it. But if I have a function where the domain is signed 64-bit integers and the specification is some f(x) between zero and a billion and an error otherwise, I don't want to iterate through all the legal inputs and make sure they do the right thing. If I'm using a language that can do that with its type system or other kind of capability, then I'm happy to use that! But I'm also not grumpy about using python or rust or all the other normal languages just because they can't do this. I'm happy to just write a few cases mostly concentrated around zero and a billion.
IIRC each time you raise a round, your chances of success go down by ~10x. Can't find a good cite offhand though.
Show HN: Dinit – specialized init for Docker containers
I made an opinionated init specially for Docker containers. It supports running and managing multiple programs, signals, and their stdout and stderr all in the way more suitable for Docker containers. No more resource exhaustion from zombie processes, data loss by uncleanly terminated containers, stray daemonized processes keep running, or hidden issues because failed processes inside a container gets restarted instead of taking whole container with them.
Exactly. You can't do a simple LLM-diff and figure out what the differences mean.

afaik
Doesn't seem that cheeky from where I'm standing.

You admitted a judicial opinion is different from a personal opinion and you're making fun of my definition of a personal opinion? But you acknowledge a judicial opinion is different than a person opinion?

Why can't you extend that to a corporation? The "opinion" of a corporation or a judge is NOT the same as a personal opinion and there is a distinction that can/should be made. I'm not sure why you can agree with someone else that a judicial opinion is different than a personal opinion but when I say "not people opinions" are different from "people opinions" I'm wrong?
Are you asking for evidence that knowing everyone’s locations and travel itineraries would assist in contact tracing? Because I think that one is obvious.

Otherwise, I’m not particularly interested in having a COVID conversation.
People can be snarky about using 'untrusted code' but in 2023 this is the default for a lot of places and a majority of individual developers when the rubber meets the road. Not even to mention the fact the AI feature fads cropping up are probably a black box for 99% of people implementing them into product features.
> Is that a good idea?

If you love building stuff, yes. Do note that you need to put in quite some time to do it well.

> How much difficult would it be?

Not that difficult, especially if you prepare by looking at some videos on building PCs on Youtube

> Can you share your experiences building one?

I've build three personally, and I had only problem once with a broken USB connector on a motherboard due to poor build quality of the manufacturer. Do make sure that you check everything a few times while building, I had some interns in the past (when I worked in a PC store) who accidentally forgot to connect the CPU fan and almost fried the CPU.

> What suggestions would you give for a complete noob like me?

Depends on what you want. If you want something good for gaming, like me, I would go for a Ryzen 9 7800X3D paired to a Radeon 7900 XTX.

And I also would go to your local PC store and have a friendly conversation, they will be happy to help you out.
"The greatest trick the ultra-rich ever pulled was pitting poor people against each other instead of against them."

https://v.redd.it/6wourzysxuma1/DASH_720.mp4
Social issues and education are not separate. That's the problem. Most of the low-performing kids are from - you might not guess it - households that are in need of social support.

Yes, there are some issues that can be demarcated as not intertwined with education.

But of course homeless people can have kids, and now they are in the foster system, and that's likely worse than fixing the homelessness. And similarly, when poor kids or their parents have medical issues, which they almost surely will have, because they don't have the resources to have a healthy lifestyle, where do you think they will go? If they have to go to work to afford medication they won't continue their studies, or simply won't even apply for higher ed.

The problem that voters should address is high costs, lack of efficiency, run of the mill corruption and so on. (But for this voters would need to accept actual cities with functioning transit system, not endless suburbs and highways around a few corporate skyscrapers. They'd need to face the actual problem of resource deficit that's needed to actually make some progress in closing the education and income gap of the disadvantaged, and so on.)
leaving aside the veracity of the claims made in the article, what we have here is a self appointed verifier criticising the claims another self appointed verifier, surely we can see the problem here
Very well paid? Where the hell is that? I mostly do embedded and IMO the pay just isn't as good as web dev stuff.
The perception isn't there for no reason. There is a lot of fraud, but also a lot of product with no market in the space.
Here's a link I found about Java RTOS in military software: https://www.militaryaerospace.com/computers/article/16708321....

>So you miss generics, even though Go has generics, because it avoids boilerplate, but Java has more boilerplate than Go, so something something enterprise standardization or lack thereof?

Java itself forces a limited amount of boilerplate. J2EE and Spring Boot and Hibernate and Swagger force a lot of boilerplate. Using Go itself means writing a lot of boilerplate, regardless of what libraries are included.
Extralite 2.0 Released
The South Korean constitution treats North Korea as an integral part of its territory, currently occupied by hostile forces. Therefore, anyone from North Korea is automatically, and in fact always has been, a citizen of South Korea. It's not just asylum, nor "de facto" citizenship. It's full citizenship, period.

There's a mandatory program that every refugee must go through, not only to get them accustomed to South Korean culture but also to filter out spies and criminals. You will be under surveillance for a long time afterward. But even if you turn out to be a spy, you are still a citizen of South Korea and will be punished as such. The law simply does not recognize any such thing as "North Korean citizenship".
I'm in the camp that sees ipads and phones as personal, non-shared devices, but you are hitting the nail on the head here.
The Bigscreen beyond requires a face scan and generates a custom interface to fit each persons face perfectly. Everything I've read indicates that this actually improves fit and comfort. It helps that the bigscreen beyond is incredibly light and small, but the face scan doesn't seem to be a gimmick.

The Vision Pro might end up a complete failure, but requiring an appointment and a face scan is not a sign for this.
> the best way to dismiss misinformation is to let it shine under the light of scrutiny

That has been tried many times and it does not work at scale. Generating and distributing information is orders of magnitude easier, faster, and cheaper than generating and distributing refutations of that misinformation.
It helps that neither of those sides were morally repugnant.

When moral repugnance really did have to get addressed between a national divide, the hammer did get dropped down on one side of them (the Civil War).
The 53 Fever
One incident lowers your opinion of a busy international airport?
These horrible processes remind me of applications that include IQ, “personality type” or other phrenological tests. Are those banned in any jurisdictions?
Remember when there were export requlations for the Playstation 3 because the chips were so powerful that North Korea could use them for missile guiding systems? I always thought that was excellent marketing.
What a depressingly nihilistic world view. Certainly if you believe you are beholden to some entity’s rules you must follow then all you can ever learn is what the entity you follow is willing to teach. We took a different path.

We talked to our investors generally four times a year at Board meetings. We had a rule that no sentence we said in those meetings could end with a question mark. We recognized that we were the experts in our business. We used those checkins as opportunities to confirm ourselves that we were making progress. We focused on building great products for our customers and chose the KPIs to report based on measuring that. And we leveraged our success to meet thousands of people we’d never have had access to and try and learn from them all.

One thing that I think is natural if you have professional investors but is important to find way to create even if you’re bootstrapped: the regularly scheduled check-in. The most valuable part of a Board meeting isn’t the meeting itself. It’s the preparation for that meeting which forces you to assess how things are going.

Our trick was to pick 5 KPIs that indicated the true health of the business and track them relentlessly. The first 12 pages of our Board meeting presentation was exactly the same every time other than the numbers being updated. We picked the the metrics. We didn’t ask for our VCs input. But then we relentlessly stuck with them, quarter after quarter. It made preparing for Board meetings easy: just update the stats and prepare to talk about whatever is anomalous (good or bad). And the consistency built confidence from our investors. I remember one saying: “Cloudflare Board meetings are great: I know exactly how things are going by slide 4 of the presentation.”

No VC taught us that. We learned it by being curious, talking to other entrepreneurs, and experimenting ourselves. You can do the same if you’re bootstrapped, you just have to be more self-directed to create some cadence to check in with your business and keep yourself honest.

PS - sadly, there’s no Illuminati running the world either. “Sadly” because it’d certainly be comforting to think someone was in control and it’s scary to meet the people who supposedly are and realize they’re just making it up as they go along too.
How does that work if everyone in your family requires different prescription lenses?
Yes. As I learned as a young kid, you can pop off the individual cubes with a screwdriver and reassemble in a solved state. I consider this method “brute force”.
I hate the moment of having one foot on plane, one on bridge.
Can you please provide detail on how mentioning the existence interests of the source you provided is ad hominem? This is a new definition of ad hominem I don't think I've encountered before.
The joke of it is that Web3 claims to be the answer to decentralization... but in every case of Web3 there is some reliance upon a block chain. If the block chain is limited to only the client and not on any server, therefore unnecessary and worthless, it would then be not centralized.

I get the impression nobody takes the time to actually parse the word decentralization. It only means not centralized, but that applies to absolutely everything in the scheme. Somehow people get this confused and for whatever reason believe if anything is not fully centralized then all of it must be fully decentralized.

In order to achieve actual decentralization with online or web technologies consider this incomplete checklist:

* No DNS

* No identity manager

* No shared server. A server is fine so long as you are the only client that can access it as a server or other clients are currently known and prior authenticated (a peer).

* No root certificate or certificate authority or CRL.

* No blockchain

* No shared database or other shared services

Otherwise claims of decentralization are probably just scams to pilfer your data, steal your money, or mine crypto remotely using your hardware. Decentralization is still possible as I have proven it in a personal application of mine, but its very complicated and extremely different from how the web works.
Ask HN: What successful products were deemed useless, “meh”, etc. at launch?
Firstly, fan of your company.

Isn't what you described as The Slog essentially just SMEs? That's not so bad. Perpetual meteoric growth for everyone is not healthy on a macro level. Couple of friends of mine are in what you describe as the worst outcome, yet they can buy houses and put their kids through schools (outside the US).

There's a middle layer of B2B that props up the economy in a more fragmented manner, and I don't think they should be dunked on.
For inspiration what are some easy problems to solve and then what are some of the more difficult problems to solve on the same path?
How sparse are Apple Stores where you live? I have three within very comfortable driving distance and I live in a mid-sized city's metro.
Soil. It's more of a "how do we get along of people on board to take 5-20 years to rebuild what they have or are near".

Soil scouts, with patches for an acre that sequestors x amount units of carbon, or another that rewards those that have y ppms of living microbes.

If someone could recruit, deploy messaging, and enable long term action, at a minimum it'd be symbolic. In tandem it could be hopeful, and with success could be valuable.

Part biology, part humint.

See: JADAM and Korean natural farming.
However as a novice I found it unintuitive that on an embedded platform without hardware floats x/y will compile but compiles to a polyfill with quite a few instructions.
Author here. The same overall approach should work for Python and most other languages as well!

If you or anyone else is interested in building such a tool, ping me and I'd be happy to help you get started.
And yet many of those companies expect their employees to be excited by that prospect.
Modern smartphones are like the computers end of the 90's.

We've run back than Napster and later eDonkey on those boxes just fine…