skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you follow the thread back you can see exactly what I was initially responding to and you were indeed arguing that gifted people are more important to society than nurses. My claim directly disputed that by pointing out just how dependent that gifted person is on everyone else.

Yes you did say that I don't have sources or metrics. However unlike you I didn't call your question unfair or hypocritical. It's always a fair question and one that anyone can ask out of curiosity so they can learn more if there are indeed sources that the commenter previously learned from and can easily share. In fact I demonstrated how one can respond to such a question with honesty and without getting defensive and making accusations of arguing in bad faith, like you did.

You should review HN guidelines. Twice now you've responded in a way that is not welcome here.

In particular: Be kind.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Based on the kind words of another commenter I can now better see how gifted children could be better served within current budgets. I don't think gifted children are being left behind but they possibly could learn more in an improved system. However that shouldn't be done with the false motivation that was initially claimed: that they are more important to society.

Equally important is more accurate and enough.

However the ideal that I already mentioned - and that you seemingly missed in your enthusiasm for attacking me and my motivations - is that we should simply invest far more in education so everyone gets the best possible education catered to their needs. Do you disagree with that suggestion I made very early on? Would it solve the problem you are complaining about?
Thanks for the feedback! Apologies for the issues you found, but I'll get onto fixing them.

Grammar correction and suggestions are something that are on the top of my feature list; I hope to have them released shortly!
The guy who was smart enough/motivated to do it showed up only a couple of years ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Hello! I'm Callum, a solo developer based in Australia. This is my first project, though I have been lurking around HN for a while now.

A privacy policy is in the works and will be put out for display ASAP.
Google have been quite irresponsible on some of their own devices too. For example the Chromecast With Google TV is actively being sold (and new product revisions released), yet it is still running Android TV 12 despite 13 coming out in December 2022.

Apparently even they are struggling to update the device because of its lacklustre storage (8GB, only 4.4GB usable) which means there simply isn’t enough space for large OTA updates.
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What is the language around the non-disclosure order? There seems to be speculation that a warrant canary would be construed the same as a disclosure, but are you required to not inform the concerned party, or required to not disclose law enforcement contacting you at all?

From a practical perspective I don't imagine that cloudflare removing a canary could give any one organization a signal - I don't know what the bar for a 'disclosure' is but informally I would not consider it a targeted specific warning.

EDIT: the other component I am curious about is duration, there is still utility in the canary even if it comes late, future users will know that there was a compromise and that further ones are likely, right?
Elon is speaking with all the Eliezur-esque "foom" in mind, where in AI will explode and either kill us or help us take over the Universe (and destroy everything in our way).
Thanks for pointing this out! A fix has gone out for this now.
> The UK has, in absolute terms, rather poor accessibility.

It is certainly far better than here in Germany, as is the awareness. I was shocked visiting the UK just how many disabled people were on TV. Presenters of shows, in almost a half of adverts, etc. were in wheelchairs or had severe physical disability. Here in Germany disabled people are still considered to be undesirables and are hidden from public sight. For whatever reason, I do not even see disabled people in public here, whereas in the UK I see a lot of people moving around with mobility issues.

So while it is bad, do not get the impression that it is far better in the European countries that one might expect it to be better in. Certainly the awareness and tolerance is significantly better in the UK.
As a 15 year full time JavaScript developer I think Blow is 100% correct.

Seriously consider what would happen to these jobs if tomorrow things like Vue, React, Angular, Express, Spring (Java), and so on all went away. Most of these people become instantly irrelevant even though demand for products/development in this space will remain constant. Those people are tool users, like screwdriver users who call themselves carpenters. WTF, why and how did we get here?

Programming is programming regardless of whether you are making AAA games, building a web application, or guiding rockets to kill people. Programming is a skill. Employment, however, is not so straight forward. Employment is a game in the same way "musical chairs" is a game and people will chase money irrespective of skills. Games are meant to be won.

The problem is a supply/demand problem. Historically the demand for "web work" (however you want to define that) has been high but the necessary preparation has been astonishingly bad. Most developers are trained by universities to write in something like C++, Java, or Python. Employers solve for this not with training (because that costs money and developers cost money) but with abstractions. The result is a platform that scares the shit out of the people hired to write for it. This is the inefficient that Blow is describing and its very real.

As an example consider the DOM. The DOM is the compile target of the browser. If you are working on the front end that is your foundation and everything layers off of it. Yet, the DOM is a tree model and tree models irrationally scare the shit out of people. The level of hysteria this generates defies the imagination. Most developers would rather be in zombie apocalypse combat than writing to the DOM directly. It's weird.

Another example are JavaScript classes. Why would you ever need classes if JavaScript has native lexical scope, functions as first class citizens, and a scalable object system? Maintainers of the language thought the same thing and were extremely resistant to add classes to the language, but classes were demanded in the ES6 specification almost more than all other features combined. The demand exists because people were/are educated to write code in one way and could not imagine writing code without that one way of doing it.
This stance always rubbed me the wrong way a bit. Effectively, code is one of the tools a researcher uses to do their work. As soon as their work interacts with other people, for example when publishing a purportedly reproducible study or supplying novel algorithms to developers, they have a responsibility to deliver proper work that can be used and understood by other people. This is something we expect of every other profession, yet scientists appear to somehow have no concern for such lowly ambitions.

To be clear, I’m not advocating for data scientists to write production-grade webapps. But I absolutely think they should be bothered to write code that fulfills minimal requirements, is reproducible, documented, and mostly bug-free.
Oh, I hadn't noticed your username! On the topic of maintenance: could you have a look at this pull request I opened three years ago on a repo of yours : https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/1159 ?
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I had picked up SwitchResX a few years back for this same scenario, 4k displays that Apple didn't bless so made things blurry when scaling. Flicking the switch fixes it.

Is this better?
If you are super concerned about startup times, you could run plantuml as web service instead, then your renders are just a single http call away

https://github.com/plantuml/plantuml-server
I actually use mindmap to help me think and organize my thoughts. I don’t want other layers in the middle, which interferes with this process and eventually would block my flow!

Charting is (for me) actually actually very distracting and counter-productive. It helps only when one is in diffuse mode and in need of a new sparkle. But then, it works only with other human-fellows ;)
measurement parts and computation parts can be on the same wafer but they are separate beings. in regular CPU you don't need measurement part, mostly. Transistors work precisely because they are made of semiconductors - due to some quantum mechanisms like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_gap
And transistors is where you loose most of energy. You can make capacitors out of superconducting material, and it could work out somehow for memory elements (at this moment these are made from transistors as well)
It’s trivial to register as a security it’s done countless times a year.

The problem is that securities trading is regulated, and the coin base model of playing multiple roles itself is illegal
He paid probably a not too large sum to obtain it in the early 90s. Then it became ownership of PayPal due to the merger. And he bought it back for undisclosed amount in 2007 from PayPal (now eBay). He may have paid a million or a few, who knows.
A lot of disabilities are a sliding scale with fuzzy grey areas. E.g. visual impairment goes all the way from "struggling to distinguish colors" and "vision is distorted enough that it's impossible to correct to 20-20" to "can't see hand in from of face"
Currently a number of languages are supported, including Italian, German, French, English, Korean and Danish, among many others. Is there a specific language you are looking to learn?
They're probably scared to write this but Apple cripples every mouse other than "Magic Mouse" to make "Magic Mouse" seem good despite being a piece of shit. This uncripples other mice.
Would be nice to try it out without signing up.

I like the landing page style; did you use a theme/template? I feel like I've seen this style on a lot of tech products -- whilst I really like it, I don't think it matches the nature of the site/product in this case.

What advantages do you offer over ChatGPT, other than the text messages?
Peter Adamson has a podcast called History of Philosophy without Any Gaps (HOPWAG). It's the best introductory Philosophy material that I have seen.

Podcast episodes were later turned into books, sans the interviews. You can get started with those. They are really nice.

If you ask me for one recommendation, then that's it.

I also liked Past, Present, Future podcast episodes on Philosophers.

Most people only read Western Philosophy all their lives, but, I suggest that you read Indian, Chinese, and Japanese Philosophy, too.
NVDA has no real competitors in DL space.

The closest is Google with their TPUs.
It also great in cocktails. https://lundsandbyerlys.com/rhubarb-margarita-a-tangy-twist-...
Totally agree; the mobile experience is terrible atm. I'm currently working on fixing it!
If you want to use the runAsUser and runAsGroup options in kubernetes that user needs to exist, hence why creating it is needed.

In our case, we have our own base container images that include this user. The base images are either just plain copies of official ones (such as dotnet or curl) or also includes stuff that almost everyone needs (such as MSSQL ODBC drivers, libxml2, curl etc) in the case of python/R/node.
Okay, yes, there is a bit more information than in a matrix with half the number of entries, namely the position of the zeros. But when it comes to the number of floating point operations, doubling that number seems at least somewhat questionable to me, they are not performing that many multiplications. On the other hand it would probably be hard if not impossible to achieve the same performance if one tried to manually exploit this sparsity and avoid the multiplications, so maybe under that angle it is not too unreasonable.

But this also made me wonder, how does one use this in practice? If the matrices are not tiny, then they will probably have to be incredible sparse in order to always have at least two out of four entries zero. So does this just set some entries to zero if there are not enough of them in each group of four? Does one have to ensure this on its own, reorder rows and columns and introduce zeros where required and acceptable?
They are not advocating for you to listen to them over a disabled person. They are advocating for you to experience it directly, as they did, so you can better understand what it is like.
Same with “vector”.
The problem here is not the cyclist -- though that's for sure a dick move -- but the lack of proper space for cyclists to exist. There'll be seventy-two lanes for cars, and maybe one cycle lane which'll end up occupied by parked cars anyways.
Thanks for the feedback! I agree that the mobile experience is far for acceptable, but this is something I am actively working on at the moment. Also, Japanese is a language that is planned to be supported in the near future!
For filesystem operations like batch renames at least, I am usually happy with `vidir` (part of `moreutils`: https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/).

`vidir [path]` will open an editor with the given directory as buffer contents.
Editing and saving will translate to a sequence of `mv` invocations.
The contracts themselves are not traded directly. If they were they’d obviously be a security.

Large record labels do of course have stock in their companies which is a security and is traded.
I don't even know what languages are supported. All you can do is view a pretty landing page, or sign up. I don't want to sign up unless I know what I'm getting... so it's a pass for now.

Too many sites like this come and go, and just harvest info.
Detective Spooner: "You are a clever imitation of life. Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot take a blank canvas and turn it into a masterpiece?"

Sonny: "Can you?"
Maybe there is a little of that, but I think it was largely the D compiler's weird source-available licensing.

Lots of people were using C++ and were not happy with it.
... and the current generation is just an ensemble of the prev. generation.
I don't think self-driving cars are a major risk for catastrophe.

But I also am not sure we can say, in general, that ML is safe to the point that we can rule out catastrophe. Probably not-- but there's a lot of things we can't exclude. What if it completely poisons our discourse and ability to govern? What if it breaks labor markets and leads to profound unrest? What if it just plain screws up resource allocation and leads to famine? etc.

Ordinary mechanization and industrialization was pretty bad in a whole lot of ways (and the verdict is still out whether we will thread the needle and be OK or whether it will lead to catastrophe). ML and automation could arguably be a fair bit worse.
60% Keyboard and Kensington Expert Mouse trackball solved a lot of tension and pain for me.
I hate crypto bros and crypto land, it's a cesspool of scammers with almost zero value to it.

That said, isn't it a bit concerning that we have an agency that both writes AND enforces the laws? Why is this aspect unlike everywhere else in society?
I’m past the halfway point in my life. A temporary adjustment of just say 30 years is forever for me. A temporary adjustment of 70 years is forever for my kids.
Copying a post I made a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28388844

Since this is HN, you might be interested in language, logic, and similar topics. If this is the case, you will likely enjoy analytic philosophy, especially Quine, Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Popper.

However, if you are coming at philosophy cold, I really don't recommend the academic analytic path. It's too easy to get lost in the weeds and decide that all this stuff is just too obscure and abstruse to be useful.

If that's the case, I suggest a very brief reading list to shake up your default preconceptions of how the world works. The goal here is to make you question your basic assumptions, which is when philosophy is at its best.

- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and On the Shortness of Life by Seneca. Classic Stoic works. Very accessible entry points to classical philosophy and Stoicism.

- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche. If you read this and understand it, your entire conception of ethics, values, and how we use labels like "good" or "evil" will be shaken up.

- Republic by Plato. If you live in a Western country, you probably think that democracy is the highest and best form of government. Plato thinks otherwise and it's worth understanding why.

- A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics by Donald Richie. This is a fairly recent book but it serves as an excellent introduction to East Asian and Japanese thought via art and aesthetics.

- I Ching. The Chinese classic is super easy to read and is diametrically opposite to the static, eternal universal Platonic model much of Western thought it built upon.

- You should also probably read something from India, the Islamic world, and Russia, but I wanted to keep my list fairly short. Some recommendations here are The Bhagavad Gita, Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān, and anything by Dostoyevsky.
For reference: I have a bachelor's in philosophy from a program in the US which is almost exclusively analytic in nature.
For the most part the SEC doesn’t tell you what you can and can’t trade.

It does however have laws around registration of the security, who can and can’t purchase it under a given registration, disclosure rules, conflict of interest rules, and so on.
Because DNS registrars have a binding contract with ICANN regarding things like going out of business.
Sources on official policy and debates whether there should be reimbursements for homeopathy (the prior being: there are):

https://www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/german-expat-news/german-...

https://undark.org/2020/03/16/homeopathy-globuli-germany/

https://www.dw.com/en/german-health-insurers-urged-to-end-ho...
You can buy shares in music royalties.[1] Those are investments registered with the SEC, and the issuer is an SEC-registered broker/dealer with FINRA regulation and SIPC insurance. Your song portfolio may be a dud, but the company behind this has to account for the money they collect, and people will be held responsible if it goes missing.

[1] https://www.songvest.com/how-it-works
It has Zoom and Jitsi integration, which lets you create instant meeting on these platform. Anyways the killer feature of zulip that I find is its usage of threads, much more usable than slack threads which gets super overwhelming for me.
On the topic of Matrix, does anyone know what causes messages to sometimes decrypt the last message until a new last message is sent (and fails to decrypt), or a single message to fail to decrypt while surrounding ones work successfully?
Is LPython comparable to Nuitka ?
I'm not doubting anything you're saying, but are there examples of such problematic behaviors in the public record?
The electronic asset article (part 1 of 2) is at

https://computer.rip/2022-07-21-preventing-loss-dot-jpeg.htm...

(love the title)

The alarm one should be be obviously named.
Hello, I'm Timo and I started the Conduit project a few years ago. Feel free to ask some questions.
> I was shocked visiting the UK just how many disabled people were on TV. Presenters of shows, in almost a half of adverts, etc. were in wheelchairs or had severe physical disability.

In the US, I have NEVER seen such a thing. Except maybe in commercials for medicine. or retirement-related things.

That would be pretty cool to see.
https://archive.is/C4ru0
The vibe is "You can explore further, I will not"
> Our transit authority reminds riders to arrive at the stop 5 minutes early.

For reference, In the Netherlands you only strictly need to be at the stop 30 seconds before departure, as that is when the doors close in preparation for departure.

> Now, other motorists see a train stopped at a station and they think one thing. They see a train stopped and waiting for a red light and they know that it will proceed through on green.

Why in the hell would drivers need to know that? Leave the train with the doors open at the station to allow any late comers to board. When the track clears start the traffic light cycle to stop car traffic, close the train doors and depart. The drivers see a red light and hopefully know to stop, whether or not they can see a train waiting.
Thanks for your feedback. At the time of writing the code I played with an idea of software referring to the user as they both were people. I wonder if dislike towards this is pattern more common, if it does I will consider changing it
No, it's correct as written. "Proportional" is a very strong statement. It means that one variable is a linear function of another, i.e. y = kx. "The power dissipated in a wire is proportional to the current through the wire".

"Correlation" can mean almost any kind of relationship where a change in one variable follows a change in another. "Smoking is correlated with lung cancer".
> that being of a non-dominant race is also a “life affecting disability”.

One thing worth noticing is that a society tends to be designed for the convenience of the dominant ethnicity, people of a different culture are going to have a somewhat harder time.
Well these likely will be entirely different groups of people voicing their opinions at different times. I don't imagine those who were enthusiastic about the project originally have done an about-face and now hate it.
The main thing it fixes for me is that I can now use a regular Logitech mouse and scroll just like on Linux and Windows. Before it scrolled too slow (on pixel level) and even when scrolling fast it went slow (no matter the settings on Mac OS). If I let the Logi MX Anywhere 3 wheel roll freely it scrolled too fast. This tool fixed the annoying scrolling issues I had.

This seems to be the main feature it does.

The other is that you can reprogram what the middle button (the scroll wheel click) does.

Same with botton 4 and 5 (default back and forth between pages).
The logic is actually quite simple. Once 2 cells are connected via a line, their values are kept in-sync. If one cell changes the value, the other cell will be informed of the change, and the module will react accordingly, very much like a reactive spreadsheet.

During the initial connection, we have to “pick a winner” and determine which of the 2 cells’ values to use. The logic is that the empty cell will be overridden. If both cells have values, the direction of how you connect them determines the winner. Dragging A to B will have B’s value overridden by A’s value.

However, the developer of the module, or the creator have the ability to specify the direction flow when necessary. For example, in the Github example, the Github module populates the (issues) cell via fetch call and is expected to be a read-only cell. This means that any connection to the cell will become a directional data flow out.

The simple big picture is that we are drawing lines to tell the system how we want data to flow among the different modules, very much like how we pass variables around in code.
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Those tractor wheelchairs are not a fits-all solution! For one, they're huge and heavy. For another, I would assume they won't work well on irregular stairways or antique stairways.

Honestly, I'll make an insane hot take here: I think historic/antique buildings that can't be made ADA compliant shouldn't be used for anything important. Or rather, that they should be modified to accommodate.

History is important TO A DEGREE. Helping human beings feel more a part of society is more important.