skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author's explanation of why people are vulnerable is certainly abstract and post-modernist.

Your explanation of why people get locked into conspiracies, though, is missing desire. People want there to be a masquerade. You've (potentially) explained why some people don't have the skills to avoid tricking themselves.

The question of why we willingly fool ourselves is very deep. I think post-modern theory needlessly multiplies entities but there is something to be examined here.

It's in the same realm as gambling, unfocused fan-fiction, soap operas and Dragonball Z. Some people really like it when something very unlikely happens.

One of the things that motivates them is this feeling that there really must be something "more" than what we see or know and another thing that drives them is the feeling of vindication when they turn out to have been right.

Imagine being so hooked on the feeling of being right whene everybody else is wrong that you will believe a hundred unlikely things for every likely thing you accept. "There's just gotta be something else... something we've got wrong. There just has to be. Look at Galileo! Look at Columbus!" Ridiculous legends of men who were right against all opposition.

Each ridiculous idea they believe is like another bill fed into a penny-slot machine. The more unlikely the idea the better.

This gambling dynamic is why flat-earth has come back. It's the most ridiculous bet on a dark horse that can possibly be imagined.

Literally billions of devices around us operate on the basis of a spherical globe surrounded by satellites. It is one of the most proven and believed models that has ever existed in the human span.

If it were wrong, and a flat-earther were one of the few people who had seen the truth? Winning the actual state lottery couldn't compare to the high such a person would get from that. For the rest of life, any argument would be answered "yeah, maybe, but I knew the earth was flat back when everybody was a round-earther."

But it takes the internet and selection algorithms to produce an alternate universe in which even the most credulous crackpot can defend flat-earthing with a straight face.

So when I look at your solution (teach critical thinking) I mostly agree with it as an immunization against this tendency, but I wonder how well trained people have to be for it to hold against selection. If I were suddenly in a world where Google was actively censoring my feeds, how long would it be before I believed some screwed-up stuff?

I have a friend who is brilliant, trained in law and science and philosophy, who watches Fox news and believe the President is really turning a corner and taking the country in the right direction. Before the election he believed Trump was an unmitigated and incompetent ass... back when that was what Fox was saying.

I'm not sure we can educate people enough to overcome the desire to choose a satisfying falsehood.
I think the confusion is largely between computer science, information systems, system sciences and management. Which are overlapping fields, but not necessarily practiced as such.
I think your understanding of why a minimum wage is important is inappropriately myopic.

All workers benefit from minimum wages, especially those who make more than minimum wage. First because it shifts labor costs up, which is good for those who rely on wages. Second, it narrows the range of expected financial resources, which increases the efficiency of service delivery and allows the creation of "nicer" places (i.e. it's easier to build good transit when everyone makes more). It also generates larger markets, pushes out bad actors and enables greater societal participation on the margins.

The minimum wage is vital to discussions around UBI because, of course, the minimum wage influences what jobs will be interesting under UBI.

In general, I think it's inaccurate to think about the minimum wage only in terms of how it benefits the people who get it. Its role as "pinning" the bottom of the economic curve is overall much more important. Whatever the form of our economy - the debate around what labor we consider exploitative and what kinds of labor we would like to incentivize will continue.
>That web of relationships underscores the unusual nature of McKinsey’s hedge fund, and the potential for undisclosed conflicts of interest between the fund’s investments and the advice the firm sells to clients,”

That's a lot of words to say "sketchy-ass shit."
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Can we even say for certain it's an improvement over say something like TransformerXL? As far as I could see, the changes over GPT were a couple extra and tweak to layer normalizations, a small change to initialization and a change to text pre-processing. Other than for pre-processing, I didn't catch anything on theoretical motivations for these choices nor anything on ablation studies. The only thing that can be said for certain is it used lots of data and a very large number of parameters, trained on powerful hardware and achieved unmatched results in natural language generation.
Does anyone know, how does the strength of these fields compare to the strength of the field in the brain from a wifi router at a reasonable distance? Why doesn’t all the comms gear mess with our thought processes?
Perhaps they kept it closed source because they sold it to one of those companies? Non-profits are allowed to sell things, after all.
> Why? Any set of 4 things also contains 2 things. Where's the nonsense? Within this definition, that's consistent.

That's the problem -- it's only within this definition. In other definitions, notable the nesting example that I gave, that theorem is false. And the theorem makes no sense in and of itself, because we're talking about numbers, so it is unexpected that the membership operator would apply at all.

Whereas I can take two definitions of the natural numbers

PN =
Peano_One: PN
Peano_Succ: PN -> PN

BN =
Binary_One: BN
Binary_2x: BN -> BN
Binary_2xp1: BN -> BN

and I can define a Plus: PN x PN -> PN and a Plus: BN x BN -> BN, and so on, and once I can define Binary_Succ: BN -> BN and Peano_2x and Peano_2xp1 I can prove that these are isometric types, so all theorems derivable from PN apply to BN and vice versa, not just the convenient theorems that don't use any syntax from the meta-language (e.g. set theory).
Not really sure how those ideas are all that similar to the TURN here. Those are long flying and involve tethering, but the flight systems are quite different and they're tethered to the ground.
Do they really know these are actually sitting in inventory and "available for delivery"?

You can't know if the API is actually giving you info on actual cars that were created and are sitting around.
Do you complain similarly when Euclid states that for any two distinct points, there exists an infinitely long straight line which passes through those two points? We cannot point to that line, we can only point to a small portion of it within our field of vision, and have to extrapolate it to infinity.

Either there is an empty set, or there isn't. If there is one, I win. If not, then let S be the set of all empty sets. There are none, so S is the empty set and I win again.
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> On 1) photo manipulation. If "dangerous" means that random, relatively harmless fake facts easily spread, I'm inclined to agree.

No, I think it is even more insidious what they were referring to. I think they meant that Photoshop has enabled and continues to enable unrealistic physical standards of beauty and BMI (mostly for women) that are transmitted in advertisements and news articles.

In other words, Photoshop has enabled an alternative visual reality that is not realistic.
I downvoted it; it's dismissive and obnoxious to just provide a intuitionless one-liner explanation: "what are numbers? they're X", as though there was no complicated ideas involved, or like it should be obvious or trivial. The whole point of an article about this is to acknowledge and grapple with the subtleties.
Cool initiative. IIUC it lowers the cost of asking for and vetting help, which can be substantial. Moving a project to a stewarding entity even more so -- actually I imagine easily matching/getting new maintainers on board could ease eventually moving to a stewarding entity, eg Software Freedom Conservancy (which I volunteer for) requires accepted projects to have multiple maintainers from multiple organizations https://sfconservancy.org/projects/apply/ which is a giant leap for an unmaintained project. I believe other ~foundations also have extensive onboarding procedures/requirements.
Yeah, it's slow enough that we could catch up to it. One of the biggest mysteries about it is why it was moving so slowly. Voyager left the solar system at 17,000 m/s. ‘Oumuamua accelerated to a top speed over 87,000 m/s as it was moving toward the sun, but it's slowing down now, and will eventually slow to 26,000 m/s. It will pass the orbit or Uranus early next year.
I love this comment, because there is this pie in the sky mathematical idea, with direct consequences for practical coding.
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ROSE has been around for a long time, and from what I've heard there's tons of legacy code. I wouldn't be surprised if there's significant technical debt or other structural limitations.

That said, I don't really know anything firsthand about the architecture.
Oumuamua is traveling at 26kps. For comparison the Voyager probes are traveling at around 17kps.

Even if we had a probe ready today it's already too far and moving too fast to overtake. Even if we had a probe ready when we first detected the object it would have been difficult to intercept with today's technology. It would have to be something like a Falcon Heavy already in orbit and ready to burn at a moment's notice with a tiny probe at the top for gathering the data.
Well from the POV of the open source Redis, also before this round, but even more now, Redis Labs is going to continue to sponsor me, Fabio Nicotra, and other folks around the OSS part doing community/patches/...

I think that part of the round will also serve to put more efforts in the Redis extensions provided as modules. Incidentally I need to extend the modules system a lot more, especially with "hooks" so that modules can capture any command execution, because yesterday I wanted to implement the Gopher protocol as a module and I could not do that easily without spawning a thread to listen to some other socket, and remained hardly disappointed.
I did... an hour ago... and they were still dead when I posted that. I figured a bit of manual vouching was in order.
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This is about as well done of a study as we could ask for from a non-academic research level. Basically while the number of sexual comments were relatively low, the amount of questioning/challenging of his abilities went up a lot when he played with a feminine name.

Reminds me of a professor at Stanford who underwent a sex change and experienced very different interactions from his peers: https://www.nature.com/scitable/content/does-gender-matter-b...

We recently did a survey of 240 collegiate esports players and found that women were 9x more likely to be "very concerned" about sexism and 2x as likely to be "very concerned" about bullying in competitive gaming culture.

I think Dan's research can help explain why.

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tl;dr: https://whenufree.io , share availabilities and schedule meetings/events easily for FREE

whenufree is a simple scheduler that allows users to share availabilities with each other all on one calendar to see when to schedule meetings or events. It is completely free, mobile friendly, and you can integrate it with your Google Calendar to see what times you have free.

See the demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6uwXtRCo-I&feature=youtu.be
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Ask HN: How Do Keep Track of the “Difficult Problems You've Solved” at Work?
A common interview question is a variation of

"Tell me about a situation where you had to solve a difficult problem."

Do you all keep track of the difficult problems/projects you've worked on at work? How? Do you write them down? Do you just remember them when necessary?
Lol, I like how you just wildly overgeneralized what I said. Addiction to social media when you are using it to promote your business is a lack of discipline. Also, you sound like a meme machine. Yes we can clearly become addicted to things, but we can exercise control over ourselves. If you want to be successful, I suggest you stop memeing about reward pathways and millions of years of biology and chemistry. Control yourself. Stop swiping the feeds, stop putting that shit into your mouth, etc. Pick up a martial art if you want to learn discipline.
> This is all predicated on 25 km/s being very fast, which in this case it really isn't. Man made objects like the ISS travel at 7 km/s, so these are relatively achievable speeds, even for humanity.

Quite a few spacecraft have reached this speed. Off the top of my head, I think Juno reached something like 70 km/s when approaching Jupiter.
No one has got "null.dev". I'm disappointed.
Really interesting read. I appreciate that it highlights the problems with the data and doesn't reach ridiculous conclusions based on junk data.

Anecdotally I've found a noticeable improvement since Endorsements, which this data missed.

Also the rise of Fortnite and more recently Apex Legends has led to a further decrease in toxicity that I've seen. A lot of toxic kids left for BR pastures.

That's on PC in the EU region on a high-silver current, low-gold peak SR account, casual QP-heavy play but some comp, pure flexing (as I prefer to fill rather than focus on maining one or two characters. Maining is arguably the best way to climb out to Plat).

I'm an almost ridiculously positive player with a gender neutral name and I've found being overtly positive vastly improves the experience.

It does prompt a couple of toxic responses ("kys", "fuck off" etc) but the majority is really positive. (I generally just report any toxicity.)

Playing without voice in Comp is sub-optimal, as winning is much easier with some kind of synergy. Even a basic PharMercy combo, or ultimate combos like a EMP+DVa Bomb can be highly effective.

I normally Solo Q, but playing paired with a friend in QP yesterday I had a surreal experience. One player on the enemy team insulted my friend (sexual but not specifically-gendered insult). She was playing with a non-gendered name, as Moira, and the toxic enemy player complained she was carrying us.

All the players on both teams turned on the toxic player, calling them out and highlighting why they were actually losing. I have not seen anything like it before but it was hilarious.

Stay As A Team is great in theory, but a team of 6 randomised will get rekt by a pre-made 6 stack on Discord with each other, and the matchmaker doesn't seem to take that into account.

I wonder what region author was playing on?
Thank you for the feedback! I could definitely use OpenStreetMap to add more restroom information.

And yes - the code right now is very messy. I'm learning coding as I work on this project. I am planning to rebuild it with React and Express on the backend. Performance definitely worries me considering scalability. I observed that most of the maps out there have a 'redo search in this region' button. I plan to do the same so that I don't have to load all the markers at once but only those that are near the user's location.

Let me know if you have any other suggestions as this is all new to me!
People pay for Redis? /s
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Workers are amazing! Because they have a trivial startup time and cost compared to lambdas, you can do crazy things like proxies with deep rewriting of content, etc. Have a SaaS that you use on a subdomain of your site, and wish you could inject code or a tag manager for analytics? Route the whole subdomain through Cloudflare and rewrite body tags on HTML, or intercept other requests in transit, you can deploy this in minutes. Build custom image proxies and change cache times dynamically. Build your own round robin systems. Possibilities are endless.
Ah, then maybe me doing the same just now pushed the "score" over the threshold.
Also, emailing the mods directly using the Contact link in the footer is the most direct way to get their attention. They don't see all of the comments.
Note that the Voyager probes are only moving that fast because they got orbital assists. It would take a very big rocket already in orbit to attempt an intercept.
Just curious, what would be the best hosting option for beginners to use for their snake API server?
Yeah, and? Most businesses fail. I'm not sure what you're disputing here?
Req'd reading: "OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues" by CMU Professor Zachary Lipton, http://approximatelycorrect.com/2019/02/17/openai-trains-lan...

A salient quote from the article:

> However, what makes OpenAI’s decision puzzling is that it seems to presume that OpenAI is somehow special—that their technology is somehow different than what everyone else in the entire NLP community is doing—otherwise, what is achieved by withholding it? However, from reading the paper, it appears that this work is straight down the middle of the mainstream NLP research. To be clear, it is good work and could likely be published, but it is precisely the sort of science-as-usual step forward that you would expect to see in a month or two, from any of tens of equally strong NLP labs.
We still don't know what Oumuamua is made off of. I think we can agree anyone would rather be hurt by a baseball flying 10km/hour, than being hurt by a knife that travels 1km/h.
Sounds like it might be a giant rock-dust flake. Maybe the whole thing is held together by vacuum welding?
Presume I have a machine that, when you press a button, will either light up the red light bulb or the green light bulb. Usually, the red light bulb lights up, but the green bulb will if and only if one of the following two things are true: #1. The lottery ticket in your pocket is the winner of the big jackpot #2. It's raining.

You press the button. The light bulb turns green. There's no windows to check for rain or internet to check for winning numbers. You have no further information beyond the fact that the light bulb turned green.

Which is more likely to be the case: That you're now a millionaire, or that you should grab an umbrella as you leave?

We know we saw 'Oumuamua (the green light). We now can construct many models for why we might see such results. The probability that we would see the results given the model (lotteries or rain) can be used to infer what the true model most likely is.
What I am saying that there are more interesting activities that would actually improve your skills. Leetscode and drilling interview questions are waste of time even if you are looking for a job. There are places that hire based on take-home interview, onsite pair programming or based on your portfolio/recommendation.
I've been excited about this idea since I saw his blog post about a year ago. If there were a Kickstarter for this, I'd throw money at it, there's no one I'd trust more to get it done right. Though I really wish he hadn't used Facebook for group discussion.
IMDB ratings are easily manipulated. See the recent case of a Brazilian movie that was heavily voted down.

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You should set up an opencollective.com account (like Patreon for FOSS projects) - I would support this project and I am sure there are others that would too.
> All criminal investigations start with group of innocent people. That's the only way to investigate.

Just the opposite. The investigation starts with the crime, not the suspect. Interview the victim and potential witnesses (none of which are required to talk to you), inspect the scene of the crime, collect physical evidence, etc.

You don't have any suspects until the evidence points to someone, and you only get to the point of credit card purchases and location data once you have a specific suspect. Then you should only get that person's credit card purchases or location data, not everybody else's.
If the object is a loose collection of dust it might very well be the result of something that didn't survive whatever event created it.
He had to choose between meeting his sprint "commitments" and keeping the website available. He prioritized just like management told him to.
The idea is to follow plain ASCII given that Redis handles strings as binary blobs. So after round Z we are going to do round [, followed by \ and ].
Ask HN: What Do You Use for PDF Reports These Days?
It's been almost 5 years since this was last asked. How are people generating pdf reports these days?
Oh it would be crazy expensive. But we have the tech. (Wait, do we have tech for in-orbit refueling? Anyway we're developing that for Mars missions already so we'll have it soon.)
I read it. It doesn't make a difference that majority of meteors burn in atmosphere and barely hit Earth surface. Oumuamua may have traveled through earth atmosphere and hit Earth undamaged. The difference is obviously like day and night.
Why does a writer outsource writing?
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Similar for me, but more forgiving. Especially for horror which I enjoy but IMDb raters don't seem to the same. In general, anything below a 6 I'll maybe reconsider, or 5 or so for horror.
In this instance it seems like what's more interesting is what it possibly is rather than what it probably is.
I don't know. I've been in software development professionally for over a decade now, and there are days when the money doesn't seem worth it and I look at construction workers with envy.
.com is a legacy gTLD, which existed long before these restrictions were codified in 2012 for the new gTLD program. .co is a ccTLD (it's for Colombia), and ccTLDs also predate the gTLD program and are not subject to the gTLD program restrictions besides.
That's actually a great idea, thank you! I'll get on that right now.

EDIT: I made one: https://opencollective.com/code-shelter

What do people think the collective should be used for? I haven't used OpenCollective much.
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Ask HN: How Do You Decide Which GitHub Projects to Contribute To?
With so many projects out there, I'm curious how everyone else chooses which projects to contribute to.
plus they have opened source the code, and the training cost of the full model is evaluated at 45k$, which is not much for a state actor or a serious org of any kind
Your intuition of how impacts work falls apart at high speeds.
You have to mute while unplugged, then next time you unplug it will be muted.
> But gender isn't inherently binary, even if many but not all cultures have tended to ascribe gender from a binary pallette.

You say that, but based on what? It's not a construct that makes any sense, except with regard to mental disorders (gender dysphoria). The mental disorder context is particularly relevant when you look at the wildly abnormal rates of suicide attempts among gender dysphoria sufferers.
> Not to mention get married (wedding costs are insane, going through that right now)

Then don't do it that way. You can get married in a back yard, or in a park. For a park, the venue might cost you $100; for a backyard, $0. You don't have to have a reception with a meal (schedule the wedding at 2 PM, with reception immediately after, so nobody expects a full meal). You don't need a stunning dress or a tux.

I've been married over 28 years. The building we got married in has been torn down. I lost my original wedding ring. The developer lost the pictures from our honeymoon. The cake is long gone. But we're still here. It's not about the stuff around the day. Choose some balance between your desires and your desired budget, and call it good enough.