skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On their platform, YouTube does.

I agree that they'd be the ones to make that call on their platform in general, but I don't think they do or even want to. They rely on society to tell them what is and isn't acceptable.

I always have problems when somebody reaches for terms like Nazis and terrorists in an effort to censor/deplatform people, because I feel like it's a trap. On the one hand: who is against literal Nazis? On the other hand: I've been called a Nazi before, and I'm pretty sure I'm not a Nazi, so now I don't know if I'll be included in the proposed banning, or if it's just about literal Nazis. That's why I tend to ask for a definition.

Sure, there's always a grey area between OK and not OK, but I think for things like violence, abuse etc that area is quite small. For things like "Nazi" it is when you're taking it literally, but it's very much not when you're looking at modern circumstances, where some people declare everyone a Nazi that is to the right of them. That might work if they were very far right and saying "there's no acceptable position to my right", but they are usually pretty far left, and I don't agree that there's no position to their right that is acceptable.
If you take as granted that "this doesn't" exist, of course there's nothing the parent can say.

But if you consider that "it might or might not exist, it could be vapor, or merely under wraps, we don't know yet" -- which is reasonable, then the comparison to Pony is clear:

Pony (a language with tons of similar great features and no big corporate funding behind it) does exist, and THUS it's not impossible for another language like that to be made.

In this day an age, we constantly see quite good languages coming from apparently nowhere. I'd add Nim, Zig, Crystal, and others to the list.

So, parent's point is: V might not exist at all, but that's not because it's too farfetched to exist.
:p

(I don’t work on that stuff personally, to be clear.)
My view is that "echo chamber" is a meaningless phrase meant to malign people who you disagree with, but who generally agree with each other.

I don't know what the majority opinion is. I figure it's different for different people, which is why I asked the one who posted this question to gives a more meaningful description.

What is your definition of an echo chamber? It obviously includes "a place where people don't threaten each other with physical violence."

BTW, you wrote "HN are better educated (and therefore more liberal)"

That is a conjecture. Engineers and tend to be more conservative than even the nation as a whole, and HN has many engineers. (See for example https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineers_and_woo .)
That is really cool.. had not seen this before.. I do think the intention is api access to this data not browser.
Change of address within Illinois is required within ten days after moving. I remember in Montana it was required on the day you started a job and in that case people were getting tickets
25M Brits would struggle in a cashless society
Anytime I did any text work with it it was awful (including JSON etc).
I agree with you in principle, but I think the Nest actually only includes a hidden microphone, not a hidden camera.
You are correct, let me list the Google services I’ve experienced deception from Google on:

YouTube, GMail, Google search, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google ads (both selling and buying), and GCP.

To me, that seems like every core product they offer, and so a little hyperbole is appropriate when calling out the misconduct of a gigacrime[0] syndicate.

It is, however, very HN to say I was too hyperbolic and mean to the gigacrime supyndicate.

[0] I mean this in the technical sense — I believe YouTube has committed over 1 billion acts of copyright infringement for profit, given that Google’s editorializing removes their safe harbor coverage. I believe other parts of Alphabet have similarly engaged in “scaled petty crime”.

Edit to footnote: I do want to say, I don’t think Google is unique in this category — and it should be taken partly as a criticism of corporate governance (particularly American), rather than Google in particular, that any business is allowed to operate that way.
Thanks for the feedback :) I'll definitely check out Datalog - I didn't realize they had logic programming integrated with SQLAlchemy, so it definitely sounds interesting!
I guess you're being humorous, but it was a completed and widely used system. IIRC it was default for Slackware (which I guess was quite niche).
As long as "It's better to apologize later than to ask permission" is free or cheaper than doing the right thing, this is what we get.
This is very cool. Doing this all on your own, especially since you're not a computer engineering professional, is astonishing.

The one thing that irks me about the console design is the amount of RAM it needs. In the age where 8-bit consoles were actually being built, RAM was the most expensive part of the devices by a far margin. It is no accident that the Atari 2600, for example, only had 256 bytes of main memory, and even the very popular NES/Famicom ran on only 2kB of main memory. This "retro" design, by contrast, employs a lot of RAM chips in a variety of places, even where they are not actually needed: the CPU and PPU can be connected with different technologies (as the article hints at), and double buffering via a second VRAM chip is the kind of feature that classical home consoles would never do due to cost reasons.

Don't get me wrong though, it's still an amazing project!
After this started on reddit it spawned its own subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/top/
Google is Skynet
A sample size of 1 is not overwhelming evidence, it is true, but the page being high profile is a point in favour not against the argument. But if polerization did reduce quality, I'd expect to see evidence of it on Trump's wiki page. That doesn't seem to be the case.

Wiki pages for less-known figures being to a lower standard is consistent with the idea that popular interest + little consensus => high quality, rather than an alternative such as general consensus on topic => high quality.
Facebook’s algorithm change has spurred an angry, Fox News-dominated News Feed
How is giving examples of misbehavior 'cherry-picking'?
A troll is not specifically the monster under the bridge, no. The troll under the bridge is from one fairy tale about trolls, and I find that the closest use of troll to what Internet Trolls do.

But no, trolls in general do not live under bridges. Agreed.
Robo-journalism gains traction in shifting media landscape
I put Linux on my computers in ~2011 using live disks from LinuxFormat magazine I think. It made the install and transition so easy and it was helpful when I started using Linux professionally (spend several hours a week in a terminal).

They still sell LinuxFormat at my local bookstore and it still comes with live disks. So it is only now becoming less relevant now that CD/DVD drives are becoming less of a thing.
wait, that's even in question?
The US has 338M people and they are claiming $763B PER YEAR for art. That's $2257 PER YEAR for every man, woman, and newborn infant in America. Total BS. Even if you include music and movies and TV, this is still way too high.

It's also dishonest, since this is a politically motivated attempt to counter cuts in NEA funding, yet very little of TV, movies, or music is sponsored by the NEA, which just goes to show how unimportant it is except to pseudo-elites who think that a urinal in a museum is art as long as the rabble don't approve of it.
If the university’s and students’ interests are aligned there’s no need to mandate what admissions are based on, universities will admit those they can help (most). An income share agreement á la Lambda School is clearly superior here to loans. The university is far better able to shoulder risk than an ignorant student. The university can diversify its risk across the entire student body. Individual students can’t.
Why would people spend money on something like this “for funsies”? You don’t even take your own idea seriously or provide a credible reason other than “why not”. Intuit and H&R Block have a specific goal and target it with specific dollars each year. Over time that builds influence and control.

Grover Norquist absolutely has an interest in keeping taxes complex, it’s his entire basis for influence and power. His fight is about lowering taxes anyways, not complexity.

Here’s the flip side to your stance. If lobbying has no influence, why do privately held businesses spend so much on it each year? Wouldn’t these rational actors stop wasting money if there was no ROI?
Like many google products, there's one or two basic features that I'd love to (re)enable to make the thing infinitely more usable for me, but which they simply refuse to.

With google maps it's the ability to enable scale all the time, not just showing scale briefly during zoom in/out changes.
> If so the established term is “unlocked” (which is the default), making you free to use whatever SIM/provider you choose.

"SIM-free" means "bought without a contract". In my country, even devices with contracts come unlocked, making this term useless.
There is butterfly species crisis, many are endangered and will go extinct soon.

At the same time there's no butterfly quantity crisis.

I wonder about journalists writing news titles, are they stupid, or do they pretend they are?
For some phenomena, that might turn out to be true. However, counterexamples are fairly prominent and obvious, e.g. there is a very large subset of humans (~all) for which antibiotics work well for almost all bacterial diseases.
Meanwhile my destiny 2 spawn rates make it feel like bungie has tuned the game for maximum "you won't ever get to experience the cool thing that all the streamers say you need" ;)
I don't think I have heard anything about Knoppix in the last 10 years or so, and it's such a pity. This was the first Linux I used at home, back in 2003. I had to use both a CD and a floppy to boot it, IIRC (apparently certain older BIOS didn't allow booting from CD at the time, but I might be wrong).

Like some commenters say, it was both a "safe" gateway to Linux, and a lifesaver when hard disks refused to work properly.
Honestly, I kind of agree. If he feels so bad about it, donate the money somewhere. Right now, he is having his cake and eating it too.
That sounds too much like the code base I inherited, it gradually wears on you.
> Anyone who used this to argue that a degree wasn’t a strong useful signal

Reread the title of the article.

The question is whether an individual would benefit from college even if everyone's college was enrollment/graduation status was kept secret from everyone, even classmates.
talking about forth, jvtoups elisp forth is a nice one

https://github.com/VincentToups/emacs-utils/blob/master/with...

another blog entry discusses it (scroll down): https://github.com/VincentToups/emacs-utils/blob/master/mona...
There's the mathematical competition to define the largest precisely defined number, i.e. "largest number defined by humans so far, plus one" is not ok, but "largest finite number of cells visited by Turing machines of 7 states on an initially zeroed tape" is ok. It's obviously about finding new tricks rather than rehashing the existing ones.

It seems like the tricks from this competition would be reusable for the slowest algorithm competition.
It’s also possible that unions have other areas that are more important to them as a group (worker rights, fighting right-to-work, healthcare, etc). In fact, I’m not sure any group has as much interest in this as tax preparers, hence their annual lobbying.
You mean send back a rejection email? Where are you gonna send it? We just established that the sender domain was being impersonated or was not setup properly.

That's opened up to infinite loop of rejection emails.
I have, but it was in Montana and many years ago.

Turns out if you want to appeal your cook county tax, you need a current drivers license
It is a company which is still in Argentina and they ship. Let me find out the nme and will send it to you. Do you have an email address?
The thing is, "functionality to replace the firmware" is not an unambiguous positive. A firmware that can be replaced is also a firmware that can be bricked, made less useful by a future update, or even subverted entirely by an intruder. So, RMS would like whoever is placing that firmware in there to tell the user the information they need in order to replace it without bricking the device.
Augmented Reality for the Web
College doesn't teach those soft skills. Jobs and skill training teach those skills

You don't need college to write years of bad code. Internships or hobby projects do fine.
Why Elites Dislike Standardised Testing

> It is absolutely true that the SAT is the reason this scandal occurred. But for standardized testing requirements, the millionaires and celebrities charged in this scheme would not have needed to search for “side doors” to get their children into elite colleges; they could have walked right in through the front.

...

> SAT scores correlate strongly enough with IQ that the SAT is interchangeable with IQ as a test of general cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is highly heritable; the single strongest predictor of a child’s IQ is the IQ of the child’s parents. There is also a correlation between income and IQ. That means smarter than average parents are likely to have smarter than average kids and higher than average incomes.

> The educational attainment of an SAT taker’s parents is about as strongly correlated with higher scores as high income is; the median student whose parents hold graduate degrees scores a 560 on critical reading and a 576 on math, only slightly lower than the richest students in the dataset by income, and a full standard deviation higher than students whose parents hold only high school diplomas.

https://quillette.com/2019/03/13/standardized-testing-and-me...
My first thought was about NetHack. That game is ruthless, and has no qualms about letting the RNG screw you over. If you make 3 attempts at something with a 1 in 3 probability of success, you'd better be prepared for that 29.6% chance of failure.

And don't even talk to me about breaking mirrors...
You've just listed a bunch of services, in no way have you described how they use deceptive strategies in them.
Honestly I think this line is total bunk. I'm quite sure hiring managers believe it to be true - many jobs that don't actually need you to have completed any degree to do the work still require one to get hired - but in my experience, people who haven't completed college are more likely to be willing to put in long hours, while those who have tend to expect/demand more time off. [Not that wanting time off is a bad thing, I just don't think it should be doled out based on whether your parents could afford to put you through school.]
If the products aren't interchangeable, then they are separate markets. Someone in the market for a part that fits a Ford can't solve their problem by buying the similar part that only fits a Chevy. Likewise, he can't but a new tire to replace a carburator. The tire and carburator are also in separate markets.

However, he can buy an aftermarket part. It's a different product but the same market. So they don't have a monopoly.

I don't know much about antitrust law so I can't comment on that But I do understand basic economics. And from an economic perspective, Apple most definitely created a monopoly which they most definitely use for rent seeking.
Well that just isn't true at all. Educational games span as wide a gamut in quality as any genre. You just need to know where to look. Sites like https://explorabl.es/ provide rich educational material in interactive form.

Is there a particular case you find lacking? What are you trying to learn?
The answer depends on your political position, goal, and capital in the organization.

Bonuses are done. They generally don’t come out again. I would focus on understanding why and getting better positioned for next year.
RMS thinks that free hardware is a different matter than free software, on the basis that software is easily copyable but hardware is not.

If a piece of hardware contains unmodifiable software, RMS considers it an "integral part of the hardware". It is no different to him than a cog or any other physical piece in that thing.

In contrast, if said software (firmware) is replaceable, it means that it can be copied at no cost, modified, used on other hardware, etc.. It is a fine line, but I can see some difference.
What games have you played that don't feature randomness, exactly? Can you name a single one?
It's my #1 favorite book.

I don't think you need to read the entire book. Watching David Allen's talks (Google, TED) and reading the GTD cliff's notes should give you a good idea of what the methodology is all about.

I only mastered the first step of the methodology, that is to capture everything that comes to your mind. I think it's the most important one.
The upper class view education as necessary for signaling, the middle class view it as necessary to build skills, and the lower class view it as useless.
What's this? More debate and argumentation that the Feds didn't wait excessively long before grounding the 737 Max 8? There is no way to prove such a thing. May as well play the lottery and hope not to win the jackpot, though some of the balls are weighted...
They could have done what every console maker has been doing since the 80s. List the expansion port, say it’s for future use, and leave its use optional.
Actually the event loop in nodejs uses several threads. There is parallelism. It's the granularity of the atomic operations that causes certain types of data race bugs.

In node, var x = 5; is atomic.
In golang var x: Int = 5 is not atomic.
As a game designer I have to disagree, but you do kinda have to massage the randomness to the player's benefit sometimes, especially since players will see things that didn't happen sometimes ("the computer player got all the good cards and I got only bad cards!" ...you got the same cards, just in a random order, that's literally not possible).

Randomness can make a game endlessly replayable (or at least until you get bored of the game), but there is something to be said for constructed levels as well, as they can keep the game interesting and not make it seem like it's just more of the same. If both are feasible I try to include both when I can (like random maps and designed maps).

If we're talking tabletop games, though, there are some people that just hate randomness for some reason, to the point where even a random but full information setup will anger them. And yet they don't want to play combinatorial abstract games, which are better suited for that. I don't get it (I do love abstract games myself, but I'm also fine with randomness)
Yes it's a big advantage specially on fast corners (where you don't lift or hit the brakes to take it). You can maintain or increase your speed if you have more downforce than your competitor.
It's a point that causes a lot of confusion.

As soon as a piece of software is replaceable, the one who provides you with the software can use its distribution to make you promise to ignore the four software freedoms.

If a piece of software is not replaceable, that point is moot, since the one who provided you with the software has no sway over you regardless. They have no control over you or the device.
This article is just a companion piece for the author's book, The Case Against Education [1]. I'm reading this book for philosophy class and one of my top questions going in was "what about the engineers?" Well, Caplan heads that off at the pass: his father was an engineer and he says repeatedly that vocational degrees like engineering and medicine are about more than signalling. His earnings data prove that point, too, because it shows that the arts degrees people people poke fun at the most, earn the least.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36319077-the-case-agains...
In honour of a famous game review system, I propose an objective, measurable way of rating ray-tracing demos: the 'time-to-sphere': how long is it before a shiny sphere appears in the visuals? It signifies the point at which the creator ran out of ideas and gave up on doing anything original.

Unfortunately, this Wolfenstein demo score 0 seconds. As another reviewer once wrote: It's observably, undeniably bad. It's as if the designer arrived at work on day one, sat down at his desk, sharpened a pencil, threw up his hands and said "well, I can't think of anything."

:) (But on a serious note, what use is ray-tracing if no-one can come up with anything original to show with it?)
He/she seems focused on following the law and you seem focused on skirting the law. I don’t think “people in wheelchairs can do it so why can’t I?” is a good look.
Why not take a pendulum, point a camera at it, and have a Deep Learning network determine the swing count?
In the 90s you could say rasterization is done via software that (typically) doesn't require any specific hardware. It may be faster on specific hardware, but it's feasible in most CPUs. The whole 3DFX thing is marketing.

More seriously, RTX adds custom acceleration hardware (fixed function hardware ray box and ray triangle intersection). Whether or not this hardware is required (or enough) for feasible mainstream adoption of real-time raytracing in commercial games is up in the air, but at the very least it turns making a performant, GPU accelerated, real-time raytracer from very hard and only usable in toy applications to relatively straightforward and almost usable in real applications. The RTX name is marketing but the hardware does add some value. As with anything once (if?) raytracer hardware is cheaper, more powerful and more ubiquitous it could have major effects on real-time rendering.
Let's be more specific. The concept in both games is securing equipment which can aid you. Randomness only applies to your drop line and loot dispersal.

After you get your gear, randomness is no longer in play other than the circles of death. A shot to a player's head should always connect. There's no element of randomness when engaging with another player.

If there was a noticeable random element of accuracy in your weapons, the community would drop PUBG in a hot second. Fortnite's scene isn't nearly as competitive so it's possible there is more leeway for random combat, but in PUBG dependable combat is a MUST.
Heck, I still have a bunch of systems that use reiserfs -- it's rock solid, I very rarely have issues with it. It's a real shame the name was tied to the original / primary author, as the other developers are doubtless exceedingly competent & capable. Had Hans given the file system a more generic name I suspect it (the fs) would have thrived despite his personal activities.
I don't understand the goals of this project. What are these "tidy settings" they are talking about? And is having to install plugins in Emacs really such an obstacle? It would be great if the authors could elaborate a bit more about their motivation and vision.
> For me "freedom of choice" argument always seemed completely philosophical with no practical implications.

The "free will" debated in philosophy is not the same as the "free will" physicists talk about. The former is about moral responsibility, the latter is about being able to set experimental parameters independently of the system you're measuring.
Seriously, why is this upvoted so much? There are dozens, if not hundreds, of color palette sites out there.
You don't. Your hands never come into contact with your anus or fecal matter.

I've had friends react negatively to my bidet. I ask them, "If you needed to clean dog poop off pavement, would you rather grab paper towels or a power washer?"
So then what point are you even trying to make? If the lowest common denominator here is still a hacker, trying to make the argument that they aren't technically "hackers" doesn't make sense.
A product manager has to bring clarity to their team