skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two of the most popular and active bloggers in HEP are totally crazy and politically extreme

May I ask who the other crazy person is?
They Worked on Conflicts Overseas. Now These Americans See ‘Red Flags’ at Home
I would agree with you re pot and shrooms.

Coke, meth, opiates, and “synthetics”? Nah fuck that garbage. That is what ruins peoples lives - as opposed to just making you lazy (pot).
Lee Smolin, who's a well-respected physicist, says similar things. He's especially critical of string theory, which lacks support from experimental evidence.

There is experimental progress in physics, but it seems to be at the low energy end. Down near absolute zero, where quantum mechanics dominates.
Many of the stranger predictions of quantum mechanics have been confirmed experimentally. Useful applications, such as quantum cryptography, are emerging.
That's where the action is.
I think YT is great for 'hobby rabbit holes' as I call them... Starting at a certain topic and exploring all the weird and wonderful content about it. My knowledge has certainly expanded all the more from YT than without... Much better than mind numbing TV on the couch.
thx for the comment. yep, it's exactly about worrying about how to capture the value later. but through equality of opportunity, more often than not it will make its way to you (this captured value)

as I mentioned in the article, it might be hard to grasp for someone who didn't experience it
the response citing research supporting an unpopular opinion gets voted down while the post expressing the popular opinion that doesn't cite evidence gets voted up.

hn voting isn't working.
pretty typical
I still don't see what the problem is with leaving them both available by default. You're not harmed by having a second clipboard available if you never use it.

As to setting them to the same content by default: I actually tried that once, because in some ways it would be nice to only have one clipboard to think about, but the problem is that as long as you have the feature enabled that automatically copies anything you select, it's incredibly annoying to work with. And I wouldn't want to disable that feature, because it's most of the convenience that makes the select buffer worth having.
This is cliche, but your musings remind me of the scene in 2001: Space Oddyssey where Dave Bowman "kills" HAL. The computer tries to dissuade Bowman by saying things like "I'm afraid, Dave." "I can feel it." Does HAL really feel it, or did HAL calculate that those sentences had maximum probability of dissuading Dave, based on a careful analysis of Dave's psychology etc.?
Normally I wouldn't want to burst your bubble, but one-upsmanship is a pet peeve of mine. The Valencia orange was developed in California; Floridian Valencia oranges are just as valid.
Those sample sizes and selection are not very good. 22 volunteers in one, and 30 people in a narrow age range in the other.
What distro do you use?
YouTube optimizes for things you might watch, not things you might like.
You can't complain about adoption while taking a holier-than-thou stance towards users.

Since when has FOSS meant that I _can't_ work with proprietary bits? As a user, this is my choice. If software is going to dictate where I spend my money, then I'm less inclined to adopt it. That's not freedom.
It's temporary since 3 years, that's why ;)
Debian's stretch-backports had a slightly awkward transition phase where "openjdk-11" started as Java 9, then 10, and then 11... took about a month for it to get "caught up". They did it because the JDK can be bootstrapped by version N-1, so building Java 11 required Java 10, which required Java 9 to build, which in turn required Java 8, which is the version in stretch anyway.

Though I doubt and hope Ubuntu didn't base their stuff on the backports branch...
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<a href="javaScript:alert(1)">test me</a>

Using NoScript? Don't click on links w/ scroll wheel to open them in a new tab, it's dangerous!
DVC – Open Source Machine Learning Version Control System
that doesn't answer whether he'd be able to work the same role at a different company, regardless of name.
you mentioning Cloudflare out of all the given examples is the proof that they're giving out a lot — hence why I said I love them despite never using their service

"You will get happy customers who will be happy to recommend you, and happy to pay for your service." — and some of them will become friends. we're talking long-lasting friendships because you helped them get off the ground

thx for the comment!
I like Algebra by Mac Lane and Birkhoff, if by beginner you mean undergraduate.
As mentioned by phit_:
https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/master/components/b...
If, as a consumer of software and hardware, you presume that it's incumbent upon people expending their own energy for free to cater to your personal situation and/or purchasing habits, you'll keep taking whatever you're given and I don't feel bad when creators ignore you. "Market adoption" is not a driving force here.
Battle over possibility of taller buildings near San Jose International Airport
What is an affordance?
Not exactly the same, though I get where you were going with the example.

history/

“Pemberton’s French Wine Coca Nerve Tonic,” the precursor to Coca-Cola was a patent medicine and was proported to cure morphine addiction (of which Pemberton suffered from after the U.S. Civil War).

The addictive affects of the coca leaf weren’t widely accepted at the time due to the limited concentration of active cocaine in the “wines” it was typically included with. That it had addictive qualities was a side-effect, not a conscious decision to aid with repeat business.

/history
Brave has two versions, Muon (legacy) running mostly JS code, and the Chromium-based (current), running mostly C++.

The whitelist is in both versions
There are an awful lot of comments on here that are trying to protect Nvidia's anti-Linux position.

Nvidia's position, literally, is their GPUs are not Linux compatible. The Linux ecosystem relies on the Mesa stack (Mesa, DRI, DRM, GBM, KMS, etc), and DRM is part of the upstream kernel itself... Nvidia has openly not used any of these APIs.

This is exactly equivalent to Nvidia not using WDDM and DXGI. If Nvidia chose to do that, Microsoft would outright ban them from driver certification (thus the platform entirely), so why is it wrong for Linux and Wayland to do the same?

The Linux community reached out to Nvidia and help them along with Nouveau, and at one point even threatened to sue them. Linus Torvalds has told them that he doesn't care about them if they won't actually participate in Linux, and will continue to break their drivers because they just don't listen.
I agree. I've come to the same realization recently when I started following the work of some CS researchers. I was (and still am) amazed to see how active they are on the internet (here, twitter, medium, youtube, github, blogs, etc.)

In the far more conservative physics community, there are (essentially) only two ways of communicating that are acceptable: writing academic papers, or delivering academic talks. Online presence is seen with suspicion.

I am not sure if this is a good or a bad thing.

>People who do a lot of personal PR are more likely to be narcissists—and this is a more negative indication in disciplines where self-promotion is an anomaly.

Spot on.
The problem is the sugar load. No amount of nutritional value can justify it. You can get those nutrients elsewhere without the insulin response.
For those wondering why, like I did, here's why: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5280203/what-does-this-m...
The 300-pound electric tricycle that could be the future of urban deliveries
In general, users of $foo have no problem researching their hardware purchases to make sure that they are compatible with $foo. ...unless foo=FOSS. When buying a printer, many users have no problem researching the printer to make sure it works with their specific model of iPad, then turn around and say that it's their GNU/Linux distro's fault that it doesn't work with that printer.
I grew up on a small orange farm in SoCal and have never heard of a Californian saying Florida oranges were better. We could get almost year round oranges locally so I’m not really sure why the author would inject that Californians would say Florida is better. We also grew navels and valencias. The navels were amazing for fresh juice if you drink it right away.

If you really want to treat yourself, go find some Ojai pixies. So delish.
Sure, if it actually works
He is (so much was plain). If those sub-optimal patches are accepted against expectations, a follow up patch with improvements can, in due time, be submitted.
> Do you think the death toll from opioids would be higher, lower, or the same than it is now? It would (obviously) be even higher.

My understanding is a great deal of od'ing comes from people not knowing what or how much of what they are putting in their bodies. If your point stands, why did the clamp down on opiod prescriptions correlate with a massive increase in overdoses and fatalities?
There are at least a some people that are so amazingly good at e.g. optimizing assembly routines that they have a very high ceiling on their comp even if all they ever do is that and maybe an occasional talk or blog post. But as you go further and further out on the definition of "very high" it gets rarer and rarer.

The bigger issue, in my opinion, isn't the ceiling on comp. It's the job security as you get older. A lot of the people in their early 30s thinking "the senior engineer role rocks, and $250k total comp is more than enough" aren't thinking through their plans are for their 40s and 50s. Some are, a fair number with that mindset I've meet are into the early retirement / financial independence thing, but many aren't.
I presume what you're saying is that there is a whole set of missing verification additions, but if not, what are you referring to for textbook RSA being insecure?
I am also experiencing this and thus am starting to look elsewhere (and others at my co. feel the same), I imagine it’s an industry thing but have been trying to figure out what the root cause is.
Then link to the new repo and provide context. Just highlighting a line with absolutely no context is sensationalist. I'm sure there have been public discussions about this.
Do we even have a word which is the opposite of educating?

Most normally agrees that wide spread, accessible, quality education is a key part of having a democratic, free and wealthy society.

We've started to see some online platforms doing a sort of reverse education. What is that?

It seems the idea itself of education comes from the philosophy of enlightenment.

I guess education is always the promotion of ideas and instructions. So in this case, we are seeing that the ideas and instructions that lead to democracy are not being educated properly, and other ideas are being promoted more heavily.

So the question is, what ideas and instructions should we educate people on? Should the algorithms be biased on purpose towards those? Should it be ideas of enlightenment emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition?

In this way, should education be regulated? Like should society protect itself against improper education? Who defines improper?

YouTube is proving itself to be a great educator. Very effective at it, but it seems its teachings have been controversial. They're not the teachings that lead to our free democracy in the first place.

Personally, I think we need to protect what we achieved, and we have a duty to control education so that it reflects the ideas and instructions that worked well in the past to get us where we are in terms of democracy, freedom, wealth, human rights, etc. But I also recognise that whoever you give this power too could abuse it. Not an easy problem we're facing.
Can you expand on why staying in physics longer would have been detrimental?
That seems odd to me - why could one not install (or build) package N-1 in order to build package N ? i.e. why does it all need to be the same package name?
Didn’t someone died drinking odwalla because of exactly this?
Because after you use linux for a couple of years you become dangerously knowledgeable and apply workarounds to make things more convenient, such as allowing no password with sudo. Surprised I had to explain this, though.
I love it, it's so much more selfless than the titles suggests... and everyone wins.

In retrospect it seems obvious, I suppose good ideas do.
Tuning a Runtime for Both Productivity and Performance (FOSDEM 2019)
>Nvidia's position, literally, is their GPUs are not Linux compatible.

Nvidia's linux drivers work fine for me, although granted they are hard to install (hard compared to apt install).
Same here. If Skype and Chrome screen sharing worked in wayland I am switching to wayland right away, as it seems everything else works well.
back when I last looked, xnest[1] was the go-to for that sort of thing. It's been the best part of a decade though, so YMMV.

[1] https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/man/man1/Xnest.1.xhtm...
There are two major problems with electronic voting. (a) It's often not implemented very well (either due to malice or incompetence; probably a bit of both in some cases). (b) When something goes wrong, and it will, there's often no reliable way to figure out what or to fix it.

With sufficient effort, a 100% reliable paper count can be produced. Of course in many cases it may not get that effort, but it's possible, and this attribute is particularly important in an audit.
I hear that a lot in the US (never elsewhere), but the only people in bad shape are those who abuse fat food and sodas. I’ve never seen anyone obese from drinking too much fruit juice alone.
Should principal engineers necessarily be managers? My company has non-manager principals, manager seniors, manager principals etc... Manager is just an extra title added to someone to give them extra responsibilities, regardless of their engineering experience. Is my company different than "usual"?

I don't know how they decide who is senior who is principal, but principal engineers are absolute rock stars. They know anything and everything related to company's engineering from hardware to embedded to massively parallel to machine learning...; and it feels like they memorized every line of code of company's codebase. My manager is a principal engineer, I am very junior junior (not even 1 year into industry yet), and sometimes it really intimates me how competent he is in terms of both breadth and depth.

I sometimes wonder if making such a competent engineer a manager is waste of company resources; not that being an engineer is useless but it seems like you don't need CS geniuses to be managers.
FYI, any attempt to steal an election is both (a) fraud and (b) treason, and I don't even understand why you're trying to rules-lawyer a distinction here.
I just think you're over fitting to that sample size of one. It's like saying you're never going to talk to another human because two people once plotted a crime by talking to each other. You're conflating the ends with the means.
In this case it doesn't seem like it was as simple as "time maximization", of course everyone tries to do that.

The problem was that pathological/excessive users were overly skewing the recommendations algorithms. These users tend to watch things that might be unhealthy in various ways, which then tend to get over-promoted, and lead to the creation of more content in that vein. Not a good cycle to encourage.

Netflix may have this problem, but FB, YT and other (relatively) open access platforms definitely suffer from it to varying degrees.

Like the author, I do find it refreshing that at least some steps are being taken to identify and remediate. A lot more can be done.
funny, I was recently looking at a very smart algebra (Guibas and Stolfi) that was making really easy to express transformations I absolutely did not care about, but not that easy for what I wanted.
Paper ballots with a public count work quite well. A number of countries have discontinues use of electronic voting in the last decade or so due to issues like this, and/or the fear of such issues.
Yes. Even if the analysis is exactly correct, this is not an acceptable way to think about or communicate the results. It leads thought in anti-user directions and shuts down communication.

Compare to something like this:

"We need to provide potential users of Wayland with better information, both to better calibrate their expectations and ensure that anger is properly directed and to help them make more informed buying decisions in the future."

Of fucking course you have a communication problem when your relationship with your userbase is founded on logic like "doing anything other than calling them idiots and ignoring them is useless and we shouldn't surrender to idiocy".
Seems like the beginning of the AI overlord trope. Where what the AI chooses to do to satisfy the goal you gave it backfires. Like enslaving us for our own good.
Yes, cranking a lot of quality code still gets rewarded in most companies. Just don't expect to reach the highest levels of seniority with regular promotions, or say, a fat bonus/RSUs, since your impact is smaller than the type of engineers the article mentions.
Being a east central Florida native, I grew up picking Valencia's off neighborhood trees, before the terrible canker in the 90's forced the state agriculture office to basically bulldoze and burn every non-commercial orange tree in the state.

IMO, the real treat is fresh squeezed grapefruit juice, not orange. Fresh grapefruit juice tastes nothing whatsoever like the stuff they sell in markets, and has a sublime flavor that's both refreshing and delicious.
This is an interesting gap that these resellers are filling. What Target, Walmart and other chains should do is ship their clearance to Amazon themselves to avoid the middleman, but I guess that isn’t possible given they compete in other areas?
I want to agree with you - if for no other reason than the current research path seems impossibly complicated. Needing to cool things down to milikelvin or building megastructures is restrictive.
That is extremely rare in most places, however.
Decent intro to CubeSat hardware. If you want to know about CubeSat software, let me know. The company I work for, Kubos, builds an open source OS for small satellites: https://www.kubos.com/kubos/

(I work on our web-based ground control software, Major Tom.)
A souped up work 15" MBP 2018, although I would prefer a Thinkpad. The keyboard on MBP still feels very fragile and does not inspire much confidence.

It is for these reasons, I find it hard to discard some of the trusted old kit. So, I either try to reappropriate it or find a utility; otherwise, it a goes to a new home.

For example, I have managed to turn a Thinkpad T420s into a Hackintosh, recovered 17" FHD panel from a Sony Vaio and connected it to a Raspberry Pi via LVDS interface, a 1st gen Lenovo X1 which dual boots Ubuntu & W10, runs VM's and does so much more despite it's meagre specs. It is my Tamagotchi and a device I will miss when it dies, probably due to battery degradation or some kind of fan error.

https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285678-lenovo-thinkp...
Show HN: Google Analytics for your personal location
Been working on this for about a year. Basically my first real 'startup' since I launched Tinychat nearly a decade ago.
Essentially, this is google analytics for where you have been. It makes use of a local database on the phone itself so you have control over your data. The only external calls it makes are anonymous ones to either google or foursquare to get names of places if you stay there for more than 15 minutes.

This app was created to answer questions that are not possible to easily answer now, like "What are my top 10 restaurants in miami" or "when was the last time I was at the dentist". While perhaps the audience for such data isnt as large as social platforms, I believe that there is enough utility in this for it to succeed.

The app itself is built in react (so android version coming in next few weeks) and makes use of custom geofence zones to accurately (in testing, more accurate than any other app in the ios app store) get your location and track your path with minimal battery drain of about 3-5% per day. All this done in the background.

Right now, the analytics options are just getting started but we are building out a full suite of detailed 'drill downs' for people to explore their data, even with the ability for you to write your own queries if you choose.

Id appreciate any comments or criticisms, be as harsh as you want- This app was a huge undertaking and if there are shortcomings I want to hear them.
People walk across street at crosswalk
>does HN have any sort of algorithm designed to maximize my time on it?

HN, like reddit, optimizes for engagement using the post ranking algorithm.
That would destroy the secret ballot, so isn't appropriate for a democratic country.

Many developed democracies either never stopped using a pure paper ballot, or have gone back to it over the last decade or so. For all its flaws, it's easier to make safer than electronic voting.
of course sites have their own policies. not sure i agree that "there are plenty of spaces to discuss such things". don't see many examples in this thread; only "gab" is mentioned as being tolerant of controversial/illegal subjects, and man, is it getting blasted for it. wikipedia describes it as a "haven for neo-nazis". yikes!

isn't there room for something simpler?

for example here on HN, was a discussion about staying motivated to work on challenging stuff. a comment about cocaine was deleted. well, the truth is, plenty of lawyers straight-up depend on that stuff, the way programmers depend on JAVA. why is this comment deleted? because it's bad? illegal? might tempt some kids to try it and ruin their life? whatever the reason for the censorship, the truth is being hidden aka “showdead".

so there are a couple of inter-related things going on here that i'd love to see addressed by a community, if not this community:

1. transparency. lobsters does this well. if there is going to be moderation and censorship, be transparent about it, and about why its happening. every change a mod makes on lobsters includes a "commit message" explaining the action. conversely users on hn get banned and may not even know..

2. free speech is about more than providing a space for neo-nazis and trolls and otherwise people who belong in jail or segregated from society. i think the analog is the academic vs the corporate world. we have scientists using up public money to think about stuff that may never have any actual value to society. but we enshrine their ability to do that work because its necessary in order to make discoveries. similarly, actual thought, genuine knowledge, which should be the end-goal of any discussion that is not merely rhetoric, ought to be concerned with arriving at some kind of truth or truthful conclusion. we can't do that if we are too broad with our censorship, as evidenced with the cocaine comment. pretending cocaine doesn't exist doesn't make you right when everything you've read says that tea is the most powerful stimulant.

3. to krapps point about petty dictators -- yes, indeed, and that's important so that communities can have identities and topics and focus and not just decay into noise. but it seems that providers -- you mention google, hosting companies, ISPs, etc -- all play it safe, and are absolutely not interested in participating in the free speech debate at all. thus they are very much gatekeepers. no, you cannot get popular online while being blacklisted on google, or kicked around from one host to another (at least it must be an order of magnitude more difficult, esp for niche communities). even self-hosting is not really a viable option. academic institutions are an option here, but i do worry about it changing in the future.