jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I wrote a summary of Cialdini's legendary book "Influence" if any of you are interested in reading more about this topic: https://medium.com/@johanaardal/a-summary-of-influence-d443a...

I feel that a lot of these effects are more effects of nudging a customer to take action rather than making a customer buy something they normally wouldn't. Increasing conversion rates from a typical 2% to 2.2% isn't that huge.

I'm more interested in the outliers, in what cases do you get a 200% effect?
And in what cases can these tricks influence important decisions? What house you buy? What medical insurance to get? Thoughts?
I've wiped my hands on my suit before because

a) it's just water, and very little of it at that since you do the directed shake into the sink first

b) the thought of what I'm wearing never enters my mind when I wipe my hands on my pants

I don't think anyone really does it purposely, you just blank for a second and the action is done and now you have a wet spot on your pants
One example of things the UK have been exporting is audits, to large companies in the EU. UK auditors are no longer accredited to perform audits of EU countries. Now the have to retake an exam, and then work for 3 years as a apprentice of someone who is already accredited. Since there is no one in the UK that is accredited you pretty much have to move to the EU for 3 years to do that. You can imagine that for a lot of people with families that are 40+, that pretty much ends their careers. Apparently the same goes for many other finance and legal professions.
Wealth is not a zero-sum game. The whole premise that the rich make money by taking it from poor people is flawed.

This premise has been the basis for many political uprisings (e.g. Venezuela) where wealth has been destroyed instead of created.
Yeah, and the point is that in theory 1V of voltage can be enough to power a city (if some voltage multiplier circuit is used).

(Consider a thought experiment: short-circuit that 1V electricity source: the amperage will be very high for a short amount of time, but then voltage will drop quickly.)

The issue is that how much power that electricity source can produce, and that amount is not linked to voltage.
The Sun is really going the way of CNN and the NYT.

Matchmakers Dating's cheapest package is $1,650USD for 9 months, it's not Tinder.

It includes ongoing advice, which they gave her. If she didn't want advice she should have just used Tinder. Are they supposed to ignore the fact she is in a wheelchair? Then it would be Matchmaker didn't account for my disability. Feels like it's a setup to me.

As a journalist why tweet this rather than creating a story and giving the right to reply? Interview them. Because outrage is cheaper.

Reporters are just awful human beings. I guess people are awful but reporters have weaponized it.
Taking off the safety while you're pointing the gun at your own head is not the best idea ever.

Tax evasion/avoidance was indeed one of the primary motivations for Brexit. But that only works when you have a stable financial system - and haven't just destroyed a significant part of your balance of payments by crippling both exporters and service providers.

And then the governor of the BoE tells everyone to consider negative interest rates - which is a superb way to persuade speculators to sell the pound and make imports even more expensive.

It'a almost as if they're deliberately trying to crash the currency.
"Hands-on Rust" - learn Rust by coding a roguelike RPG game: https://pragprog.com/titles/hwrust/hands-on-rust/
Eh, that's a lot of extra steps and complexity for no apparent reason. Virtual desktops, supported by many linux UXs for a long time, provide essentially all of the same functionality without the extra mental overhead of having to deal with 'mission control' and thinking about monitor vs space vs window, or thinking about 'which state is my window in?'.

> You can't drag a fullscreen window from one monitor to another, because there's no window for you to drag.

But you do get the window bar on hover, which is the same 'control' you use for dragging non-fullscreen windows... the fullscreen window is still a window, except it's controls have been restricted and behaviour modified to prevent it from acting as a window for no apparent reason. The way this concept is implemented in macOS is just ugly imo.
I could practically set my clock by this...when I would get an announcement email from someone asking me to join LinkedIn and connect with them, I would know they (1) just got a new phone and (2) fell for the grey pattern during sign up/new login to share all of their contacts.
Argentina was added. I hope you enjoy it.
Great joke to not showing any content if you dont allow Javascript. Is this the first Fuzztest itself? ;)
A fair question would be: are other countries seriously considering erasing our historical heroes using judgments arrived at by modern day critical race/social justice theories, or just America?

And why should USA be held to a different, more extreme standard than, say, India, China, Russia, Italy, Peru, Ecuador, Belize, etc?
Mostly only out of American big cities (at least in the developed world), the point is to fix that. A lot of big cities in Europe and East Asia do fine without being car-centric.
We should call them "Smell blockers" or maybe "Scent blinder"
There is the scifi stackexchange (https://scifi.stackexchange.com/). Otherwise, subreddits for the particular genre/author/book exist for fairly popular books nowadays.
... I just checked your link and wouldn't say that any of these languages have SIMD more than C++ has it currently:

- Java: incubation stage (how is that different from https://github.com/VcDevel/std-simd). Also Java is only getting it soonish for... amd64 and aarch64 ??

- Rust: those seem to be just the normal intrinsics which are available in every C++ compiler ?

- Dart: seems to not go beyond SSE2 atm ? But it looks like the most "officially supported" of the bunch

- Javascript: seems to be some intel-specific stuff which isn't available here on any of my JS environments ?

* Standardized memory model

- Literally false for Rust : https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/memory-model.html

- The C11 one directly comes from C++: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8877562/1495627

- The Go one does not seem to support acquire-release semantics, which makes it quite removed from e.g. ARM and NVidia hardware from what I can read here ? https://golang.org/pkg/sync/atomic/
The only reason they’re finally banning him is because his worth runs out in 12 days.

Dumping him now allows Twitter to virtue signal and avoid looking like an enabler of literal violence, all while giving up virtually nothing in return.

Kind of like how his cabinet members are now resigning. No big loss for them, as they’ll be out of a job shortly anyway. Might as well “stand up to him” while they still have the opportunity to reap political kudos.
Twitter, please, devour my soul
It only required over 300,000 Americans to die
You miss the irony. "Fuck your feelings" is a common right/Trump refrain to the left. Arguing that the left should continue "bridging the divide" when the right largely has precisely zero interest in doing so is an unreasonable burden.

"You want to make this marriage work? You, wife, have to work harder at it, keep trying. I know he says he's not interested and keeps mocking you when you do, but that's not the point. What this marriage needs is you continuing to try and try harder."
They could have done this at any point but it's the day after Trump concedes and now they decide its the safe play.
Additionally I believe wholesale banning the leader of a country from a platform like twitter is not black or white. Their persona is different and requires different treatment than any other given account.

I suspect two factors went into the calculus this time: he has proved himself desperately dangerous AND he's got less than 2 weeks left in his term.
Meanwhile Twitter lets neocon and natsec goons advocate for all kinds of policies that would kill 100,000x as many people as died on Wednesday with no consequences whatsoever ....
I'm concerned about major platforms gaining in power as gatekeepers of everyday communication, but-- I don't believe any party should be compelled to repeat your speech. It wasn't that way in 1791 and it shouldn't be that way now.

I do think that Twitter and Facebook need to be exceptionally careful and use their powers more sparingly, but there's absolutely no reason that they should have to repeat people literally coordinating and normalizing shooting elected officials, like many threads on Parler are at the moment--- speech that almost everyone agrees is not protected by the First Amendment anyways.
Relevant Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception
The fact that SWAT is so easily manipulated seems to me like a symptom of their being out of control in general. A little eager to get in there and beat down people's doors without proper evidence, aren't they?
No fun for the hired help who need to buy the groceries or gas perhaps. I doubt a billionaire would notice or care if their neighbours don't like them.
He's a billionaire. I don't think he'll have a hard time finding someone so sell him food.
Read Steve Yegge's: how to get that job at Google
and try to do a lot of practice before you go for interviews.

Good luck.
Social justice like this is great. But If you have a 35 million dollar estate - the likelihood that he buys groceries or gas himself is slim to none.
> Nim libraries are statically compiled into our binary as well.

Does that mean one can not use GPL libraries in non-GPL programs? With other languages you can get around that by linking dinamically.
That's one of the dangers of high economic inequality. There is now a class of people who are essentially insulated from the social consequences of their actions.
Maybe they could provide those result for logged in users and leave out pinterest for everyone else.
That plan included 100 texts per month (last paragraph of the article).
Machines killing Machines is BETTER than Humans killing Humans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ve_Never_Met_a_Nice_South_A...
I'm not aware of any such case going to court anywhere, although it probably has by now.

In Sweden a couple of years ago, the largest mobile operator Telia injected some toolbar with ads on top of all mobile web content. Within a working day literally all of the swedish media sites had collectively blocked all access to their web sites from Telia mobile IP ranges. The next day the ad toolbar was gone.
>Their "business model" is extremely restricted. 99.99 of their victims cannot handle the Bitcoin thingy.

Its actually pretty interesting how this developed. Some of guys running variants of cryptolocker realized how much money they were missing out on and established customer support channels to help their victims figure out how to pay.
I wondered why the deauth in step 1 works, it sure looks like that's one of the shortcomings in WPA and there is just no workaround - except going with WPA2.

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/20219/preventing...
Explain what you are doing and why; if they don't want to let you try it, then you aren't interested in buying it. It's understandable that, out of ignorance, they aren't comfortable letting you do that... it's equally understandable that you wouldn't pay thousands of dollars for something you can't even play with for a few minutes in the store first.
This gets back to the "gambling vs investing" debate we had on the front page yesterday. What is the fair value of bitcoin? It will never provide dividends or other types of future cashflows, so that aspect of its fair value is zero. The remaining part is purely speculative in that it is based on what other people will pay for it. It is not at all clear to me that having more (relatively uninformed) speculators will lead to less volatility for such an instrument.
Are there any decent cases for the CM4 with the I/O board? Last time I checked there weren't any.
> It is simply not true that all armies would primary defend. You make the "state run army therefore good" implication, not me.

Maybe the armies I've seen are only were defending and wasn't causing any harm, and my view is distorted on that one. I can accept that. OTOH, the core of my comment is "Accepting a hard duty and dedicating yourself to it at the level of deforming yourself is worthy of respect".

This is not a weapon/army thing. Healthcare workers are doing this for more than a year now and most people respond with "So, what?". This is just ridiculous.

> What you are doing is trying to divorce consequences of joining those organizations and paint their members in unfairly good lights.

That's a brave accusation considering the information I've disclosed in the comment you're replying to.

> Sacrifice is also subjective. Some of those people like the organizations they are in.

Liking an organization doesn't exclude sacrifices. A lot of people are sacrificing their personal and family lives because they like the corporations they work in.

The aforementioned healthcare workers also fit into this definition. This is not a job which you can do without liking/loving. It also needs some sacrifices. Both personal and interpersonal.
I would say the risk of theft is far lower out in the country side.
Thank you for the reactionary downvotes, but how about making an actual argument?

(self-reply because I can no longer edit the comment)
Because I make clusters: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/af3dccb802848a5f72d41c962...

My most recent one will have 6x raspberries with really nice heatsinks for the 4: http://move.rupy.se/file/pi_4.jpg

The cost of the CM and the ergonomics of the design makes this more expensive than going full Intel Atom!

And the Gflops/watt is exactly the same.
If you want to go to the Amazon jungle, you will still need to pass through a (centralized) airport.
Which asks the question: if no one else can tell the difference, are experts just able to detect what expensive wine tastes like, as opposed to what nice-tasting wine tastes like?
I suppose I'm idealistic to think that paying people more (what I think of as) fairly will better motivate them retain them and lead to better productivity. And also we'll be able to attract better people everywhere to produce better product. I could be wrong. Sad if so, but it's worth a try
Take this advise for what it's worth. Your manager is human and they have their own growth or exit plans.

Identify what makes them tick, and serve as an ally for helping them realize that.

Over time, you would have earned goodwill, sympathy and the requisite social capital to negotiate, request and demand rewards.
Don’t you see the problem here? Racism is bad and people are right to be frustrated about it, but an increasing number of people have abused this frustration in order to prevent critical analysis of their views. You say nobody will ostracize me for interesting views on local government, but in some circles claims like “Lincoln High is a good school name” or “we should have test-based admissions” are considered racist.

If the zeitgeist has advanced so far that even an abstract defense of free thought is racist, as you seem to be claiming, that’s a pretty big reason for concern.
As a Bangladeshi, I can tell you that the workers in my country don't have proper unions. They can't negotiate. Salary is the last thing on their minds, they can't even negotiate safe working conditions. They are uneducated, so they don't know what they deserve. See here -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Dhaka_garment_factory_fir...

So, the cheap stuff that you're getting is because someone is getting a super bad deal, by exploiting the heck out of workers. Same in China.

The garments factory owners are walking away with tonnes of money, leaving the workers high and dry.

The more _subtle_ point that the author is making, is that, "wait, if people realize that they can get awesome developers in developing nations for a lower price, I'm not going to get hired any more in my over-priced city".

Good, move to a place where your salary is worth more, and work to enrich that community. Why should SF and NY get all the benefits of economic growth?
Game designer checking in.
Unit tests are very rarely used in games. This is partially because they are so interactive, and partially because it would take a lot of time away from something else. The video game industry has always been under severe crunch. Why would you waste time writing something to check for a bug rather than fixing a different bug or adding a cool new feature? It’s not the healthiest approach but it was inevitable now that we can patch games at any moment.

Here is an example of a game called Factorio running its own unit tests. It’s a lot easier for this game as its deterministic and doesn’t need player interaction to function. https://youtu.be/LXnyTZBmfXM

There have also been attempts to use machine learning agents that act as human players. It’s going to be a while but the idea is that it would automate playtests which are used to hunt down the same bugs. https://youtu.be/ZZsSx6kAi6Y
While I don't experience synesthesia, colors and places resonate emotion, both good and bad, to the point where I don't go certain places. I cannot stand being in large conurbations or in heavy traffic. It's emotionally draining. Moreover, I cannot deal with hot, sunny days. I find them somewhat disturbing, and always get excited when there is overcast and/or rain for days on end. Trying to get my partner to see the benefits of the PNW over Texas is not working very well.

Editing to say that people who prefer overcast/rain are pluviophiles. Nothing better to me than a misty day. I find this delightful to relax or nap with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gCiCxLkXOk
Which platforms does Red Hat support Linux containers on that Rust doesn't support? Which platforms is anyone else frequently using Linux containers on that Rust doesn't support? I'm pretty sure the venn diagram here would be a single circle. Rust supports the major architectures.

Portability seems like an unlikely reason here, but I would pick memory safety over portability every single day of the week. Rust is far from the only language that offers memory safety, but it is certainly one of the most compelling ones for projects that would otherwise be written in C.

"runc" is battle tested, written almost entirely in Go, which offers memory safety, and the performance delta under discussion is only about 2x for a part of the system that seemingly only has a measurable performance impact if you're starting containers as quickly as possible.

This just isn't a very compelling use case for C.
I think of a string as an immutable byte slice. This is a little confusing since the language supports utf-8 literals only and it also lets you iterate over individual runes with for loops, but those are just conveniences over the fact that these are really just immutable byte slices. You could probably make your own “UTF8” type with the invariants you want (or at least someone would have to drop down into unsafe to violate the invariants) but in general Go programs don’t typically go that far, presumably because it doesn’t add much value in practice, which would suggest that your “somewhat unusable” claim (even with its caveat) is too strong. That said, I think it would be nice if Go made it a little easier/clearer to model a type that can only be created by a particular constructor or some such.
This was a specific reference to the comment above about the cost in India. Yes in general would say more reliable than India.
Would you please not cross into personal attack? It's not allowed here, and it's particularly destructive in highly emotional areas like parenting. Please make your substantive points without that and without name-calling.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I am also living in an area with high periodic air pollution from wildfires.
I have now removed all my stand-alone air purifiers and replaced them with a positive pressure system that works so much better. I wrote about the benefits of that system on our blog: https://www.airgradient.com/blog/2020/01/08/positive-pressur...
> Otherwise they'd be unable to tell how many $ you paid to acquire the Bitcoin you just spent.

This is a massive reconciliation and record keeping overhead problem if you live in a jurisdiction that taxes crypto transactions for capital gains/losses. Michael Saylor said just recently in his interview with What Bitcoin Did that MicroStrategy plans to only use bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset and not as a transactional currency precisely because of the record keeping overhead.
Well said. I believe this is why the US and many others abandoned the gold standard.
Isn't the difference between "fraud" and "incorrectly filling out documents" basically intent? And intent is hard to prove or disprove.
> because he was persecuted by the corporate-government complex.

This isn't quite right either. They write them because he was awesome.

Aaron helped in the development of RSS and Creative Commons. He was everywhere you looked, and all around incredibly insightful (his book reviews and blog are still amazing). He was also well connected: Tim Berners-Lee, Lawrence Lessig, John Gruber, Paul Graham, ...

He was one of the brightest beacons for open source, open knowledge, the web, and open culture. He was incredibly well known and liked before the MIT / JSTOR witch hunt killed him.

We lost a luminary. Our world would have been brighter if he were still around.
The TSA website states what exactly? If you enter the screening area you HAVE to comply and be screened based on what the TSA demands, with the only allowance being you can opt-out of metal detectors/back-scatter and be hand-searched.

If you don't comply you can be fined, see section C of:

http://www.tsa.gov/assets/pdf/Sanction_Guidance_for_Individu...

(refusing to be searched violates a number of those provisions which adds up to $10k)

And you're not allowed to record in TSA sterile areas, there are signs at airports that say so.

I'm not saying I agree with the law (note I wrote 'good' case above), but your point that the TSA website says otherwise isn't true, and it's a shame I've been downvoted for it. Perhaps you'd like to edit your comment with the url on tsa.gov you are referring to?

The whole point of what I was saying, which you missed, is that if the TSA wants to make this case into an example case to set a hard line against those who don't want to do back-scatter, those videos are going to be damaging to him.
That's really funny on multiple levels.

First, the virus should have been less interesting.

Second, the true goal of the virus might not be the actual attack but rather, like the scenes from the Bourne movies spying on Pamela Landy from the rooftop across the street, the realization that someone knows exactly what you're doing and they're more sophisticated than you. Further, it indicates there's a hole in your organization from which information is leaking or might be leaking (even worse if you can't find something that doesn't exist). I've followed enough of the Wikileaks controversy regarding their internal disputes to conclude the weakest link in many organizations is their structure and individual members. The true goal might be psychological.
YCombinator [admissions are] a lot closer to [Harvard admissions] than the New York Marathon.

Was that intended to be a compliment? :)
And honestly, bringing up the nuclear connection each time new information emerges is seriously privileging the hypothesis.
> a web-based GUI wrapper

...why would you want to do that for a C debugger?