skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's always a bit of incredulity on peoples face when I tell them I enjoy reading science fiction books.

I understand why they would react that way.

Studies consistently show that young adult males, typically between the ages of 18 and 34, are the most avid readers of science fiction. Here are some statistics to support this claim:

1. A 2019 survey by the Pew Research Center found that among adults aged 18-29, 47% of men reported reading science fiction, compared to 34% of women in the same age group.

2. A 2015 study by the publishing industry website, Goodreads, analyzed the reading habits of over 40,000 users and found that 62% of male users aged 18-24 listed science fiction as one of their favorite genres, compared to 45% of female users in the same age group.

3. A 2013 survey by the market research firm, Nielsen, reported that 55% of males aged 18-34 read science fiction compared to 41% of females in the same age group.

All this statistics goes to prove why most people are surprised when I tell them I enjoy reading Sci-Fi, this statistics is what also pushed me to create this site, a website where both genders can enjoy reading Sci-Fi tailored to them whether they are twenty something or 60 something.
> "Are you one of them vegans?"

I latched on to your response to this, and pointing out your words are why people think you're "one of them vegans". the key word in that is "them", or as i used it, "those."

The interesting thing, here, is: the only thing you know about me is that i avoid alcohol. and you ascribe a lot of things to me based on the fact that i caught on to your demeanor. Yeah, i was a bit caustic. I don't know that it matters, though, it seems like you're used to it.

And you mentioned storage (in the GP), and how "we shouldn't be eating [meat] daily anyhow" (in this comment), and we should "severely limit fish intake." I'm sure if prodded you can rattle off the 15 plants that give 90% of all the nutritional value humans need (as can i, but that's neither here nor there.) And then taste and nutrition is mentioned in this comment as well. It's not like i can predict the future, i've just heard this all before.

I'm just giving back to you the same judgemental claptrap that i read in your first comment, and now subsequent one as well.

Again, you don't know anything about me or my diet or ideology. But I know yours. It's funny how that works.
>In modern finance the Black-Scholes formula is not used to "price" options in any meaningful sense. The price of options is given by supply and demand.

I'm not sure what your point is. Yes, actual market prices are determined by...the market. The Black-Scholes formula is widely used in modern finance to MODEL the price of an option given different sets of inputs in theoretical situations.
Hard line breaks aren't even technically right, though - they're obviously and completely wrong.

The user's device is responsible for deciding what the width of the content should be - not the content.

As a very trivial example of why - if you hard-wrap your text to 80 characters, and someone has a window that fits 100 characters at their desired text size - you're wasting 20% of their screen space. If they have a narrow viewport that's only 70 (either because it's a physically small device, or because they've vertically split their display/terminal), then you get the extremely terrible experience of having lines that alternate between full and having 10 characters.

There is no excuse for hard-wrapping text.
In the UK a lot of roundabouts have traffic signals for this purpose that only turn on during busy times.
I fail to see how this helps over more traditional designs. Not to mention tight roundabouts always have horrible curbs that trucks have to smash into to try and jump over to make the turns, and they are never gentle bumps, they are always tire and curb damaging trash, especially for heavy loads which are primarily the vehicles that need to jump the curbs.

All the roundabouts around me I wish they would just get rid of, I can navigate them just fine, but they are way too small, over congested, and dangerous because the 5 seconds you have to read the signs as you approach to know whats going on is too much for anyone non-local which makes them unpredictable and nervous drivers.
It's not enough to claim votes are verified. The verification process has to be trustworthy and not some opaque process that needs a lot effort in order to challenge it if people think there was something wrong.

Of course the people who feel represented by the current party in power are likely to trust how the state government handles this process, but I would argue that the process should be something that everyone, even those who don't trust the current party in power, can trust and feel like the process is transparent. Instead challenging the process has been frowned upon as somehow anti-democratic, when that's exactly how you get authoritarianism and corruption.
I use Biogaia Protectis by brand.
> I'm not even sure what the notarization step was accomplishing: the inventory sheets aren't affidavits.

The percentage of people who see the word "notarized" alongside "inventory sheet" and simply give up must be quite high. Notarization accomplishes nothing besides causing a headache. Insurance companies don't make money by paying out claims, you know.
mismatched, whatever it is, that's for sure. It's not quite line noise, so maybe it's just the wrong stop bit?
I would just flag their comments and move on. Their behavior is clearly against the HN guidelines, and until they start getting downvoted, flagged, or have dang show up, I don't think that their attitude will change.
Inbreeding tends to solve itself in cases of problems. If the offspring aren't viable, they'll die.
Why bother with ID when registering to vote, then? Or should we ban voter ID for registration as well?
Also supports Backblaze B2 per the docs.
The Problems with China's Space Program [video]
I love that the graphs are in grayscale.
Literally the second sentence
Adding to the strangeness, as the owner of WordPress.org, is Matt violating the trademark owned by the foundation or is there another undisclosed licensing agreement?
The visual quality of the Apple Vision Pro is extremely far ahead of any other headset. I generally don't like Apple products and I think they made plenty of mistakes with Vision Pro, but the visual quality is exceptional for our time.

I wouldn't advise anyone to buy it, but I would strongly encourage everyone to try it out in an Apple Store.
> You can literally grab a hunk of 80% ground beef, slap it on a hot skillet, smash it, flip it once, and it’s done. Sprinkle a little salt and that’s a very tasty very easy to eat very nutritionally complete food.

This is what I do with several vegetables, and many more after simply cutting off the stalk/hard bits on one side. That takes about two seconds, and takes as much time as forming a patty from ground beef. I'm not overselling it, I'm not selling anything, I'm describing my own experiences. For example I don't turn or otherwise manage my broccoli any more than I would an egg or steak. If anything, I spend more time tending to an egg than I do any of the vegetables I cook along with it.

> It actually requires quite a bit of finesse to end up with broccoli that’s as easy to eat as a burger.

I disagree. Cut once at the base, drop them in an oiled pan, season and cook, shaking the pan every few minutes. Bon appétit, I do this on a weekly basis. I don't even blanch. I do this with most vegetables that I cook as sides.

> And that’s not a complete meal. You could live off plain burger patties but not plain broccoli

That's a straw man. The argument has never been you should only live off of one vegetable, that's preposterous. Eat a variety of greens, and if you're a vegetarian, make sure to eat lots of legumes, hemp, etc. I personally use a mix of pea and hemp protein, both of which are complete proteins and roughly mimic the composition of whey when I mix them. It takes two seconds to dump this protein into a smoothie.

> And I wouldn’t say any of that is hard but I think we need to be honest about the effort involved

Cooking vegetables is incredibly low-effort, it just sounds like you aren't used to it. Many cultures outside the US are, however. You're also downplaying all of the downsides that come from a meat-centric diet. I don't know how we can have an honest conversation about "overselling" things when you're also overselling things in return.
I literally did though. I understand that you were responding to a claim that disembarking procedures changed in response to a specific maritime accident, but you also made the claim directly in your comment that there is an innate chivalrous instinct in men, and your only substantiation (admittedly because you were responding to a claim about the time period) was to cite the writings of men in the 1800s. My point still stands and that’s why I responded to you.
As to Rao-fox-lion quadrantology.. how to classify pear AI problem? (We can say nang et al were barbarians promoted to founders but that is cheap*. Otoh 1 o the more interesting facts from that case is some partners attempting to empirically price their social media marketing thesis)

JPsmith on JCScott Against the Grain has another take on Rao, proweird being the barbarians trading with the State

Tfound the crucial clause on pants from the Psmith-on-Stripe-Clueless that you pointed at

*>derives much of [][] moral and affective sympathies from the claim that [][] is smarter and better and more efficient [s/_/effective] than anybody else

Insert insider,expert,Feynman,YC,lion,officer,peer,etc

& Whatever is the Other’s (prole,designor,founder,funder,clueless,loser,customer,peer)’s fave metric!
I really don’t think it does
Up to 10000% I think

https://xkcd.com/870/
I'm ok with most roundabouts. However, there is one near me that everyone complains about. There are 3 of them right in a row, but even that isn't the main issue. There is one with 5 places to turn out, which is relatively small and confusing. If you get it wrong it dumps you out on the expressway and it's an almost 9 mile trip to get back to where you originally wanted to go with no other option than to drive the 9 miles. I have yet to talk to a single person who hasn't made this mistake at least once. A little "oops" road to connect the expressway on-ramp with the road people intended to take would go along way and save hundreds, if not thousands, of wasted miles each year. Many people avoid the area completely because they don't want to deal with it.
Donald Rubin is kind of a modern day Leibniz...

Rubin Causal Model

Propensity Score Matching

Contributions to

Bayesian Inference

Missing data mechanisms

Survey sampling

Causal inference in observations

Multiple comparisons and hypothesis testing
Im having trouble constructing a charitable mental model of where you are coming from. I think the part I'm missing is WHY you think taking non-commercial work or benefit is good.

To me, it seems like serfdom to extract taxes just because it can be done, or to make people work harder. If someone grows potatoes in their back yard and labor, should they have pay for it just so that they have to work harder? Is the purpose of the state to be a torture machine?
Making USB webcams that fit into the bezel of a laptop screen means they are basically universally terrible. In part this is because there really aren't many "native" USB imagers, almost all of the sensors are natively MIPI CSI devices, with a MIPI-USB interface that performs limited image processing and compression to present the UVC interface. Given the size/power/thermal constraints of a laptop bezel, there's very little you can do. If you compare laptop webcams to phones with similar size constraints on the sensor/optics but much more capable image processing units, phones do a much better job. Even if you have much more processing power available in a laptop CPU/GPU than a phone, once the camera feed has already been processed and heavily compressed there's nothing you can do to get that information back.

Historically, PC processors didn't have a native MIPI interface, and laptop vendors wouldn't have accepted the costs of adding an additional image processor to the motherboard or the effort to standardize a new camera interface. The first PC processors to support MIPI may have been Intel's "Silvermont" mobile/embedded processors in 2013, but didn't come to Intel laptop SoCs until some "Skylake" models with IPU3 then became fully mainstream with IPU6. Now, direct-to-SoC MIPI plus on-SoC image processing unit is widely available. Additionally, in the intervening years MS broke any all-cameras-are-UVC assumptions by using MIPI cameras on Surface devices and thus getting the software interfaces ready.
Similarly Sidebery has been immensely useful for my browsing / work flows.
This is a foolish statement because the richer people get the more they can afford mitigation. That you live such a privileged life in such a privileged time standing on the shoulders of innovators allows you to spout foolish things in a fairly clean environment when you would be otherwise too engaged in something horrifying to develop such foolish opinions at pretty much any other economic output level in history.

I am personally super happy the English polluted so badly a couple hundred years ago that they caused moths to change from light to near black (to match the soot covered trees and avoid predators). Their increase in output allowed further investment in technology and infrastructure to allow my generation to have stuff like scrubbers on fossil fuel plants, switch from coal to natural gas, invest substantially in technology improvement for renewables to make them near competitive, etc. There was no stealing from the future, there was massive improvements gifted to the future to further innovate on.
OTOH if you can't read the sign where to turn right, you can keep turning left, make a full circle, and check the signs again, and again if needed, in under half a minute. All without creating a problem to anyone around you, and being safe yourself.

I'll take it any time over a typical highway exit; if you miss it, or uf you take a wrong one, it's usually dozens of miles before you have a chance to take any corrective action at all.
> Again, you don't know anything about me or my diet or ideology

Nor did I make a claim as to any aspect of your lifestyle.

> you ascribe a lot of things to me based on the fact that i caught on to your demeanor

I'd ask you to point out examples, but you clearly have no interest in a serious discussion. You came here to derail the discussion, apply ad hominem, attempt (and fail) to point out hypocrisy, introduce straw man arguments, generalize against me and vegans, and much more. In short, you're just looking to insult a group of people.

There is no benefit for me to continue engaging with such an obvious, low-effort comment. If you had any intention of having a fruitful discussion, you would have approached this much differently. You should have more respect for this community and the values it wishes to uphold when engaging in online discussion.
I doubt this story very much. It's well documented that McAuliffe rarely used profanity, and it's similarly well documented, including by the US Army official historian, that the official reply was indeed "nuts".

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/40063/what-did-g...
> What

Half of the language in your comment was fact free and incendiary. Delusion, prattle, deep needs of some role. That’s all firmly in the realm of ad hominem, so I was asking if you had anything substantial.

> I'd wager the lack of clear technical understanding of what animal intelligence actually is

I made the same points long time ago so can’t be too critical of that. I’ve changed my mind and here’s why. That’s not any kind of universal limit. It’s a state, and we can change states. We currently don’t understand intelligence but there’s no barrier I’m aware of that prevents progress. In addition, we’ve discovered types of intelligence (LLM’s, AlphaGo Zero etc) that don’t depend on our ability to understand ourselves. So our inability to understand intelligence isn’t a limit that prevents progress. New algorithms and architectures will be tested, in an ongoing fashion, because the perceived advantages and benefits are so great. It’s not like the universe had a map for intelligence before we arrived, it emerged from randomness.

I’m less sure that it’s a good idea, but that’s a different discussion. Put me in the camp of “this is going to be absolutely massive and I wish people took it more seriously.”
Harper: The Grammar Checker for Developers
Your banking app is not going to work on Linux either. If Android is fundamentally broken then fork it. My point is, it seem smarter/easier to take Android and make it more linux-like than to take Linux and make it more Android-like. All the work is already done and paid for. Sailing with the wind vs sailing against the wind.

edit : Unless the goal is also to benefit the linux desktop ecosystem (the whole convergence meme)
That, and it would make it harder to claim mistake/accident if the insurance company tried to
Prosecute for insurance fraud.

The number of cases of people adding random expensive things that would be added to insurance inventories during a claim has to approach 90% if there is no potential for consequences.
This doesn't have anything to do with technical capabilities.

Hard-wrapped text is just completely and obviously incorrect. The 72/80-column "rule" was valid in probably the 90's at the latest, and now is pure downside.

The odds that the user's font choice and physical screen size will exactly line up with whatever width you decided to impose on them is very small. And if they don't align, then you waste space at best (when display lines are longer than hard-wrapped lines), and cause massive reading headaches (because when your hard-wrapped lines are longer than display lines, you alternate between full lines and those with a few extra spillover characters) at worst.

There's also no correct algorithm to reverse hard-wrapping.

And it has the potential to cause accessibility problems.

Putting hard-wrapped content on the web like this is inexcusable. Don't do it. It actively makes the lives of your readers worse.
> constitution also guarantees the right to bear arms, wouldn't requiring ID in that case also suppress certain populations exercise of that right?

One, the meaning of that phrase is much more ambiguous than the right to vote. Two, you can buy a gun without ID at a gun show.
Optimising a Sudoku solver can be seen as a different puzzle entirely and not as a mode of playing Sudoku.
> Nokia had a chance for greatness around 2010 with Maemo and Meego. And either by stupidity or malice they ruined that. It was the right moment to have a chance, the smartphone game was still starting up, Nokia was still very influential in that arena, and the 2 devices it made (the N900 and N9) were great in their own way, for what was around that time.

Meego, Maemo was really early experimentation IMHO. WebOS and Tizen were two worthy contenders, but both of them went to die in enterprise institutions that have no understanding how to create a product. HP absolutely smashed WebOS, and Samsung in its usual ultra hostile fashion destroyed any open source potential Tizen had. HP, Samsung, and Oracle is where Open Source goes to die.
How about (accidentally) still charged high voltage capacitors?
What's the threat vector that they are trying to mitigate against? The attack already happened and the vector that the attack used seems to be applicable to any device with a battery.

Are they worried about pagers that are affected but didn't go off in the original operation?
The picture of the roundabout from above at the beginning of the article is extra confusing because it doesn't have the final lane markings yet and the ones you can see are misleading.

The (presumably) final markings[0] make things less confusing.

[0]: https://www.google.com/maps/place/High+Rock+Rd,+Washington+9...
> who is going to correct or challenge the results after the fact?

The campaigns, usually. More recently, rando non-profits that milk the conspiratorially minded to run bogus audits.
Oh HELL yeah dude, now you’re talking my language. If we’re talking about how much faith we should have in our electoral process, “extremely skeptical at best” is a charitable position. But penny-ante voter fraud is a distraction; incidents are very low and it’s almost always some right wing nut casting a ballot as their dead mom or whatever.

The real disenfranchisement happens before a vote is even cast. Parties gerrymandering their districts to hell and back, big purges of “inactive” voters from rolls, candidates colluding to box out opposition from outsiders, massive dark money PACs essentially bribing politicians in broad daylight or serving as effectively personal slush funds, the first-past-the-post system ensuring effective duopoly of political parties, the entire structure being profoundly anti-democratic (why is there an electoral college and not just popular vote? why should someone from Wyoming’s vote count for 10+x my vote thanks to how senators are apportioned? Etc).

This shit is just red meat for both sides. BUT, that said, it is overall a good thing to not let local municipalities set up their own bullshit rules on top of all this.
Notarization just proves it was you who signed something, it has nothing to do with the contents of the document.

Unfortunately a lot of people think notarization gives some kind of legitimacy to a document, or likely in this case, it's probably not the hassle of getting it notarized, but used as a scare tactic to prevent some people from committing insurance fraud by listing inflated or made-up items (people might conflate it with perjury).
I've had the same question for ages. Shouldn't there be an equation in "Schroedinger form" with some relativistic Hamiltonian?
I have a job that makes me money. I don't find that it requires me to try and chase current events and drama on all platforms.

There is too munch information being created every day to possibly keep up. Pick a couple sources you like and forget about the rest. If something is important enough, and you happen to miss it, someone will tell you about it.
Generic Arity: Definition-Checked Variadics in Carbon [video]
How do these people register to vote, do you not need ID for that or should that be banned as well?
Isn't Dubai a major international stop over for long haul flights?
> Why bother with ID when registering to vote, then?

It’s voter Xanax.

In New York, I had to show ID to register. In Wyoming, the clerk accepted just a bank statement for proof of address—I used my voter registration to get my driver’s license after moving. (They’re supposed to demand ID. But the entire process is done live.)

In my experience, red states’ election officials are less funded and thus more lenient than blue states’. We didn’t have photo ID for most of our republic’s history.
I think the plausibility is granted by the usage of the emotion intelligence model[1].

However, I agree with you that this is very thin ice. Given the selection of books used as decoration in the video, the authors seem to have more of a business background [2] than one of psychology.

I don't like calling someone a liar when no evidence is present (either way). I would rather say: 'Bold claims, can you prove it?'

[1]: https://github.com/StarmoonAI/Starmoon/blob/main/.env.exampl...

[2]: https://youtu.be/59rwFuCMviE?t=69