skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The authors viewpoint would be that the “American Empire” is the large amount of political, military, and economic influence that America wields internationally. You can infer from the article that he believes this empire is what keeps regional powers in check. This is a good thing because a lot of those nations (China, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia just from the article) are much more autocratic and illiberal compared to the USA. Additionally, even if you believe that’s not true of these societies, growing regional ambitions in the absence of the “American Empire” leads to destabilization and more conflict.
I've discovered a term recently that I'm fascinated by: "wicked problem"[1].

Could education be a wicked problem? We know that the students didn't meet the standards. So there is a problem. But are the standards too high? Are the teachers not doing well enough? Are the materials not adequate enough? Etc.

And we can't know what will fix the problem until we attempt the solution. And if the proposed solution doesn't work, we might not even know because the issue could have multiple causes.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem
> There are 150 million Russians and, like anywhere, they're by and large good people with good intentions

I'm not sure I'd let them off the hook so easily. They elected Putin and, if independent polling is to be believed, seem to still support him. This doesn't make them complicit in his ever crime. But it does remove their total independence.
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Shocking! Next they are going to tell me the sky is blue!
The clearer way to describe it is that Fireworks was a reuse of the Macromedia Flash drawing engine. So you had shapes, and these shapes had z-axis positions, a stack of active filters, and a reference to a texture.

A Fireworks PNG document, then, was a pile of shapes (just like a Flash animation frame), with each shape referred to as a "layer"; along with a pile of mutable texture data for the shapes to use, with each texture bound 1:1 to a particular rectangle shape, with the shape and its texture together referred to as a "raster image."

Every time you changed anything, the whole thing just got re-rendered onto a canvas using the Flash rendering logic. When you saved the PNG "document", it kept all the document chunks, but added the baked rendered representation it had been using for previewing as a basic PNG chunk at the end of the document. Thus, it was kind of an actual PNG file. (But the flattened PNG chunk was only "the document" as much as the JPEG cover image inside an .epub is "the book.")
Author here: neural-fortran is a parallel microframework for building and training fully-connected neural nets of arbitrary shape and size. This is the companion code to the Chapter 6 of my book with Manning (https://www.manning.com/books/modern-fortran) in which I explain Fortran derived types and collective subroutines.

neural-fortran may be interesting to Fortran programmers who want to learn how to implement a neural net (I think I did!), or for machine learning practitioners interested in learning more about Fortran.

This is currently a proof-of-concept, but may have potential for use in production. I don't know how fast it is, but it's about 3 times as fast as Michael Nielsen's numpy implementation which I used as reference during development.

Comments and questions are very welcome!
Keep in mind $15k is the top month, not the median or average.

As well, although debatable, there are some that say 50% of Amazon reviews are fake/paid for. So perhaps he hasn't gone this route and therefore doesn't have what is the artificially high level of expected reviews.
They absolutely did. They normalized negligent, opaque and irresponsible recording/manipulation of data under the hand-wavy intent of "oh, we're just making it easier for you to interact with your friends and family." Little regard for any peripheral consequences. There have yet been any real consequences for that. At the scale this whole situation has grown to, they absolutely are getting too easy. On the surface this action by FB is pointed at the right direction, it is not enough.
or you're someone that works out of their car/van, like a tradesperson
Gimme a sketch then.
Just quick off topic: i use draw.io often. It's the best tool for mockups etc that I've come across, all things considered. Thx.
> a problem poor people face at least as much.

I'll see your "terminal cancer" with "any cancer with no ability to pay for treatment or care". Even if it's terminal, the wealthy can afford to die much more comfortably.
I remember that browsers used to actually have an option to not load images. Of course, that was back in the 90s when everyone still used dialup.
Thanks! Hardware startups are seeing the most benefit right now.

We've recently found that we also benefit design teams at larger companies when we design test fixtures, adapter boards, etc.. Removing the distracting work so the layout team can focus on product.
If he had discovered this algo a few years back, he might have won the $1 million netflix prize (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize).
Neither.

He's trolling the people who regret that the result of this research is manipulating people. By pointing out that there is a real potential for applications that they object to less.
If you read the article, you'll note that the dosage and quality of the melatonin matters greatly, and simply saying that it didn't work isn't that meaningful if you don't explain at least what the dosage was.

Very low dosages seem to work best, according to the article... dosages lower than what is commonly sold. My anecdotal experience matches this recommendation.
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What would you recommend, instead?
I have a few ideas.

Contact me HN AT opendomain DOT org
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ive been having some problems with blockstack some services i cant login it just loads forever also verifying things like my hacker news account dose not work some of the guys on the blockstack fourm where unable to help me you think you guys can help me out
This is the troubling quote:

"Tesla acknowledged the practice, and said it has also done this in the past, especially in big production pushes near the ends of quarters."

This is like trying to shoot a winning 3-pointer at the buzzer.

Tesla (and any other company out there) should be pushing their production all quarter long to satisfy customers, not Wall Street. Take care of your customers and Wall Street will respond accordingly.
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It's also possible that the person you're replying to is completely tone deaf to the signals they've been sending out and people are lashing out of them due to an ongoing pattern of behavior.

Usually when someone says "I've been completely normal -- I don't understand why people are so sensitive!" it's a red flag that that sort of thing has been going on.
This is a fantastic hack. Does anyone know what that weird box in his rack is? (The one he packaged back up again at the end). It looks like it's something off-the-shelf to avoid writing code to turn the objects into GCode, but I guess this could have done more easily with a blender-to-gcode converter.
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They may forget the floot mat clips, though.
SEU, the built in editor on the iSeries/IBM i, is however rather shitty. It does actually do some linting, but no syntax highlighting and the 5250 interface never really got improved as much as 3270, so its 24x80 or 27x132. Granted you're supposed to use an eclipse based IDE since SEU is no longer supported, but to just look at stuff really quick. A fast editor is preferred.

But I agree, ISPF editor is rather good.
AI. SpaceFactory's Marsha seems simple yet elegant, not too much of an exotic architectural design but also (IMHO) based on possible 3D printing engineering. I like the idea of having the printing machinery separate from the building and the logic behind going with that shape. Loved it.
pg learned hang gliding to deal with this. The story is at the end of https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/magazine/y-combinator-sil....
No, but I have a show every Tuesday. For the love of God, please come out. Admission is $2.
I can't tell if that's parody or not...
I am not craigsmansion, but I think I know what he or she meant. The lessons in SICP are about fundamental computing concepts and independent of any language. The authors simply chose Scheme because it is easy to learn and let them teach those lessons comfortably.

This means that rewriting it using a different language is mostly a waste of time: it's not a very short book, so rewriting takes a while and what is gained? It seems to me that, at most, you learn that specific language in addition to the fundamental concepts. I personally, would not think that is worth the effort.
Precisely this. He already was awesome by getting a bachelors so soon and going to grad school next year. This result is on top of an awesome beginning of a career, not just a thing a random teenager did.
I think the oft repeated complaint about GIMP UI is largely unfounded. To someone who uses GIMP as their first image editing/creating program its multiple floating windows is a good paradigm, esp if using a large wide aspect monitor. I would feel constrained now in operating in a single window, when compared to that.
> It looks, from their site, like they are getting close.

Does it? It looks to me that the last commit was almost five years ago[1].

[1] http://www.freevms.net/gitweb/?p=FreeVMS.git;a=summary
Conscientiousness is taught and learned. You weren't born with your current conception of what it means to be a conscientious member of society, you learned it explicitly and through osmosis. "Nobody with an ounce of decency" is an unnecessarily loaded way to refer to people who, frankly, are who they are through no real fault of their own.
Most of them get a 5 gallon bucket, put a trash bag in it, and store some extra clean bags in the bottom (under the bag) for replacements.
Keep in mind that this story happened before taobao was launched in 2003, when eBay was the most dominant e-commerce player.
"floot mat clips"

Needs a copywriter...
Because Americans are scared. They had one election with traces of foreign interference (something the US does a lot of, by the way [1]) and a candidate most people didn't vote for won-- because for some reason that's something that can happen in their democracy.

Media outlets noticed there is a lot of spam and misinformation happening on social media, and saw not only great headlines to garner clicks, but also an opportunity to make people distrust smaller sources of information in favor or big, established brands and companies. They drove subscriptions up by creating an aura of mistrust and impending doom [2][3] after historical decline due to the internet.

Did the inflammatory posts actually affect the election? It's unclear, and if so it was likely less so than the coverage of traditional media outlets [4]. That being said, there are inflammatory parties on the internet, and since Americans now seem to think the future of their country depends on removing them, Facebook needs to abide for the sake of PR. Note: this actually costs Facebook time and money (they are hiring a lot of people for this effect [5]) but they've been bashed so much on the media they need all the PR stunts they can get.

It is a slippery slope, I agree. But it's the one people in the US want to follow, again, because they are scared. Fearful people take slippery slopes and focus on apparent short-term solutions instead of long-term objectives (fixing the American political system so the population actually votes for who is president would be a good place to start). There's that quote from the Star Wars trilogy (the best line in the prequels, IMO): "So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause." This comes to mind here. People will willfully act against their interests out of fear.

[1]: https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/americas-long-histor...

[2]: https://money.cnn.com/2016/11/17/media/nytimes-subscription-...

[3]: https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/26/media/washington-post-digit...

[4]: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-much-did-russian-in...

[5]: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/31/facebook-senate-testimony-do...
I have always said, if something burns, it was engineered to do so. I do not believe fire is the problem. I believe houses being above ground and made of wood is the problem. Arson and human error are likely related to these waves of fires. Those things are not going away. I believe we need to engineer the problem away.

Before you reply, consider that underground homes have the benefit of being a constant temperature all year around. This makes it much easier to have a carbon neutral home. My next home will be completely underground. I've seen some beautiful and luxurious homes that are underground and even have some natural sunlight.

Engineered correctly, you can sleep comfortably through a tornado, flood, hurricane, fire storm, fire tornadoes, zombie apocalypse, etc..
…since its 52-week high. The headline makes it sound like this all happened today.
I absolutely despise politicization of music on the grounds of liberty and freedom of thought. It draws a line that if A (trance raver) then B (toe the line to this political cause) else you are castout.

I tangibly witnessed this on an edc vegas page where the admin got drunk with power and just spammed the page with politics.

It became a meme on the page within a week.

PLUR, unless you disagree with us, lol
Thanks for writing this article. I've been reading TLA+ for a while but the examples in Lamport's book all seem so irrelevant to my day to day work that I eventually gave up. I think starting with a motivational example like this is a better approach. I look forward to the book.
Isn't this comment like watching someone hand-build a supercar and saying "gasoline really is an exceptional source of energy"? I mean, sure, but it's not even 1% of the final product.
> You don’t achieve acceptance without a level of respect that comes from being useful

But this is not the case of JS. JS is used because is the only posibility on web. Imagine if cobol was the only posible language to code on any desktop, and any other MUST transpile to it.

Just by force of necessity, Cobol will get nicer. But not because is respected, is because WHAT OTHER OPTION YOU HAVE?

JS eventually migrate to servers and get easier to integrate? Well that is the same with Lua and others that are even nicer.

But anyway. JS win for market brute force.
Deleting older reviews isn't the only mechanism for handling stale reviews. They could add a decay function to the weighting in average review rating and leave the contents of the original review in place, for example. New versions of products could be treated as unique products, and thus reviews could be forked.
Are you adjusting for inflation? Most Americans haven't seen any real wage growth when adjusted for inflation since the 70's. If they have seen real income growth, it has been extremely small. Wages have actually dropped since 1970 for the bottom 40% when adjusted for inflation.

https://www.businessinsider.com/record-median-household-inco...
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i duno, if a site is taking more than a second to load, goodbye! then again surely most of the hn crowd uses something akin to ublock. what of those other poor souls
This will be even more lovely once you have a set of kid-friendly lessons that have the kids type up the code for a circuit for a simple toy, then submit and receive the toy in the mail in a week... inspiring a whole new set of designers.

The lessons could explain to them what components they are describing, why they are describing them and what they do - so as they code out the layout, they learn what/why/how - but then get to actually hold that which they made...

Seems like a logical next step (in addition to just being freaking amazing for all he 'adults')
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>Maybe I'm just easily impressed but the idea of a 17 year old who skipped three grades and is already a third-year university student..

Not saying this applies to Tang. But would you be equally impressed by a 17 year old from an upper middle class family whose parents recognized their gifts and used their influence to assist them in skipping 3 grades and enrolling in college early vs 17 year old from lower income family who is equally bright as the former kid, but graduates at 21 and receives no recognition for it due to an unheard of advisor at a low ranked school? On paper you'd be more amazed by the former, while the latter is equally as bright but is sort of dismissed because of their situation.
>My whole point was this “burning bridges” and general miasma around Trump’s foreign policy is the result of ideology and hysteria instead of hard nosed observation of facts.

Part of the "stature" involves how he publicly treats officials from other countries and how he presents himself to the world.

This is what led Angela Merkel (and other world leaders) to repeatedly denounce Trump. Theresa May almost laughed when Trump suggested that she sue the EU and it's by far not the most stupid thing he's said.

No president does 100% bad things, but the problem is that with every success that he does have, he can't articulate it well because 30% of his vocabulary solely consists of the word 'very'. His reading and speaking level are barely above middle school. The only reason he's resorted to doing unpredictable, mad dog politics is that he isn't capable of doing anything else -- not because it's a good method of politics these days.

Does that get you things like trade deals because no one knows how you'll react? Sure, at the cost of reputation down the line.
> They elected Putin and, if independent polling is to be believed, seem to still support him.

Independent polling showing strong support for the existing leadership in a country that has a long history with (perhaps) brief interruptions of being a heavily monitored authoritarian state with both overt and covert reprisals, not infrequently including fatal ones, against dissidents cannot be trusted for reasons which ought to be obvious.

Which is not to say Putin doesn't have strong support, just that polling can't be relied on to assess that.
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German Universities could no longer accept Elsevier papers for hiring purposes going forward. If they did it with 2 years lead time maybe they can tip the scales without punishing the researchers
Or click the "raw" button on the github source page.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nakkaya/ferret/master/ferr...
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Aren't those time limits on reviews only for reviews of sellers, though? Does Ebay also time-limit products reviews, reviews that are divorced from a seller? Do they even host those kind of reviews?
> For one thing CDs store digital data, zeroes and ones, not analog like a vinyl.

That's not a counterargument. That's literally what "digitized a vinyl record" means.
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I mean the question you need to be asking is if things are getting better or getting worse. A year ago, you would have included "nobody is hiring" in your list of criticisms, but now you are forced to say "employers are hiring, but...."

Clearly improvements in the things you mention can't happen overnight. But improving the availability of jobs and having the stock market going up instead of crashing are objectively better than the opposite.

The article you cite explains that the net loss of YoY wages was entirely due to inflation, and in nominal terms wages actually increased YoY, and it also cherry picks the "production and nonsupervisory" group of workers (inflation adjusted wages for all workers actually increased) -- so its somewhat dishonest to not clarify those aspects. Inflation adjustments are also a notoriously tricky business, and without delving into the details of what inflation metric was used, and if it was applied on a region-by-region basis, hair splitting over the effects of inflation on wages to drive a narrative around wage growth (when the direction is generally "upwards") seems wrong.

You seem to be looking for reasons to explain why the trajectory of the US economy is negative, but I'm afraid that the evidence is mounting that wage growth and job opportunities should be expected to improve over time going forward, absent some new financial crisis.

edit: Also worth mentioning: staring at medians around wages is, imho, missing an critical aspect to understanding the actual experience of participants in the economy: income mobility. There's evidence that upward mobility has been stable despite an increase in point-in-time income inequality [1]. The question we should be asking is if income inequality at a point-in-time is necessarily bad if participants in the economy have ample opportunity to move up to higher levels of income. I don't have the answer to this, but any arguments about wage growth or income inequality need to take into account mobility, and they almost never do.

https://www.npr.org/2014/01/23/265356290/study-upward-mobili...
I had a fear of flying, which I overcame completely by accident: I started playing a realistic flight sim for a while. Because it was realistic, I had to learn the basics of how to actually fly a plane.

It taught me two things: what some of the noises, the vibrations, and the movements were; and how hard it is to actually crash a plane. Once you made it in the air, you'll want to try crashing your plane in the game (explosions! fun!), and it will be undoubtedly harder than you imagine.

I now have zero fear of flying. Before playing the sim, I knew rationally what you're also pointing out - that flying is extremely safe, yet I was still afraid. But after playing the sim, I actually believed it.

It's been probably 10 years since I played the simulator, but the effects last.
Absofuckinglutely. Anytime you end up with a fraudulent counterfeit it's a hugely unhappy situation for a number of reasons. The biggest for me would be: What if I hadn't caught it? Maybe I'm using some inferior counterfeits right now that I don't know about that Amazon ripped me off on, that might fail catastrophically. And also, there's plenty of times where you need a product by a specific time, and not having it at that time because you wasted a whole shipping cycle on a counterfeit is painful.

When you end up with a counterfeit, you are being defrauded. How could anyone be happy in that situation just because your money was refunded? I just wanted what I was trying to buy. I didn't want free junk that wastes my time.
The Chinese stock market drop is due to underlying economic weakness, debts, tariffs, and capital flight. This will run for at least 10 years
Thanks! For anyone interested, I found a paper on the topic (pdf):

"View-dependent geometry" [Paul Rademacher, 1999]

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall00/cs597b/p...
Just can't give the Asian kid his 15 minutes of fame, eh?
I used to see this very commonly on a site with a dropdown rating system. I believe people were selecting 5 stars and then trying to scroll down the page. Since they'd be focused on the dropdown it'd change their rating to 1 star. That was my hypothesis anyway.
I think it does. A big part of leadership is just about having a clear sense of what the hell is going on and what you're going to do about it. So if people come to you to advice, they confer leadership to you and create a dynamic.

I mean, at least in tech, a leader is often someone who knows a thing or two. How should I build my application? I don't know, ask Jack, the senior dev. He knows all about that sort of thing and can tell you what to do.
Which companies had the most fake followers in the Twitter bot purge?
https://www.fakespot.com/product/carbage-can gives it a B, so looks like relatively low fake nonsense going on review wise.