skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The past few years have certainly provided mountains of coal to shovel into my cynicism train's engine, but I am not quite so far gone to believe this entirely.

Your point is true of many people, but I think even more do want good information and there is the possibility to improve journalism going forward. Snopes is a good example that fact checking is useful, desired, and can help drive consensus. I can't count the number of stupid Facebook threads I've seen get resolved by a Snopes link.

Your concern about the first-order effects of this are valid. If we're very lucky, the second-order effects may prevail. Yes, shady news sites won't want to be validated by Credder at all, leaving only better news to be critically examined and thus potentially undermined. But, if the system works, the absence of something like Credder on an article may itself become a signal of disreputability.

The odds of this panning out are slim, but I think it's important to keep trying until something works. Democracy cannot function without citizens having accurate, relevant information in their heads.
On a bad day for nature, it actually does kill off a significant chunk of all life on the planet: https://slate.com/technology/2014/07/the-great-oxygenation-e...
Which makes it then effectivelly infinite?
Thanks. I suspect the downvotes come about due to the rather tongue-in-cheek way I started my comment with, albeit I wanna avoid speculating about reasoning behind downvotes.

Speaking of Monero & paying for services:
GNUnet has the GNU Taler project. While not applicable to the same use cases to which Monero applies, it fits into a related niche very much in need of filling.
Those are generic project names that could appear in any language.

If they were all Compojure, Conjurer, Dunjeon, etc. you'd have a point.
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Rust has no particular built-in model for concurrency, but as soon as you want to do anything important with Rust (given the current ecosystem) you're going to run into Tokio, no? It seems to be the community-agreed-upon way to handle concurrency.

Does Tokio use polling under the hood?
That's a big article and thanks for summarizing it!
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They can't. It's a secret ballot.
I've seen reCAPTCHA on services I pay for.
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Oh, 433.92 is only ISM in EU/Africa.
I can't stand working in an open office with passive hearing protection (working in the shop is different, of course). They filter out all the high-frequency white noise, but I can still hear all the speech, just with a small added bit of straining to make out all the words.

There's a variety of devices that can be worn:

- Over-the-ear passive earmuffs, ex Peltor Optime III: Visible to others, reduce all ambient sounds, some people can wear headphones beneath them. Comfortable, but somewhat heavy.

- In-ear earplugs, ex 3M 90585-00000T: Not very visible to others, reduce all ambient sounds, no headphones. Comfort varies, lightweight.

- Over-ear Active Noise Cancelling [ANC] headphones, ex Bose QuietComfort: Visible, reduce ambient noise but not ambient speech. Comfortable, heaviest option, require batteries. Some new expensive in-ear options available.

- In-ear headphones playing music: Not very visible, reduce ambient sounds by virtue of playing louder sounds over top and drowning out dynamic range of ears. Comfortable, lightweight, requires cables or batteries. May cause hearing damage at volume levels sufficient to drown out ambient speech.

- Over-ear passive earmuffs over headphones: A bit clunky to take off, but have the benefits of both.

My problem -- or rather, my employer's problem -- is that I'm an indiscriminate eavesdropper. If someone's talking near me (or people are talking on the radio or TV), I find it extremely difficult to ignore the conversation. Active or passive noise cancelling does a much better job of canceling out the background than speech, increasing the SNR of the open-office chatter I want to drown out. I wish there was an option for ANC that would actively reduce ambient speech.
This is definitely not true or long form sales pages wouldn’t exist, nor engineers would bother reading details to make sure the product will work for them. It al depends on the audience. My guess is the person who wrote it wanted attention.
From the article, they mentioned that taking tryptophan or eating foods with tryptophan in them, reduces the uptake of tryptophan due to amino acid competition:

> There is competition between the various amino acids for the transport system, so after the ingestion of a meal containing protein, the rise in the plasma level of the other large neutral amino acids will prevent the rise in plasma tryptophan from increasing brain tryptophan

So possible OP took it on an empty stomach which spiked the levels in the body?
Ah, the joys of categorizing people into boxes. The man is an Anarcho-Syndicalist, so ergo, we now can derive all he thinks from this assumption.
have you been there? deep poverty as soon as you jump in a train, massive open defecation, legal system that is tribal and still rely on caste, very low women rights especially for non-educated ones. but yeah they might be doing better than anyone for sure.
So if I don't pay the cable bill and my internet gets shut off, can I reasonably say I am being extorted by the cable company? That's a little hyperbolic. Plus, this isn't even how GH operates anymore, since they now offer free private repos.
You don't know the definition of O&O. Please get a sense of what you are debating about before typing away.

O&O means that the app/site where, in this case, the ad is shown is owned and operated by Google. That is absolutely not true for AdMob.
To be honest, 10-12 just sounds more like a small open office to me rather than a shared team space. When I think of a shared office, I think of maybe 2-4 people in a spacious private office. Even at 5 people you'd start to lose the benefits of the office rapidly.

Even if all 12 folks are on the same team, I'm sure it's possible to split them up into subspecialties or working groups. An unstructured blob of 12 people on a team doesn't sound that ideal either way, regardless of seating arrangements.
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When I'm on windows I'm always puzzled about how Adobe Reader is slow and has tons of features I will never going to use. Just let me get to duplex printing dialog, adobe!!!

I mostly use Okular for navigation and printing, but it also has a great feature of letting you select area of the document and either copy selected text or image into a buffer. This doesn't sound like a lot, but it makes working with pdf documents really comfortable.
Thank you for making this open-source instead of just letting all your hard work over the years go stagnant. I understand this can be a tough decision, but hopefully your efforts will lead to a bright future for Autumn.
Medical care isn't usually that far. You would have to be very much in the middle of nowhere to be very far from a decent hospital with a medivac helipad. Rural water coops are very common and you can always just dig a well.
`realmax` got renamed to `floatmax` in 1.0; similarly, `realmin` got renamed to `floatmin` (they're both very much specific to floating point types).
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I didn't comment on the advice, I commented on the conclusion the author made that learning that people are uninterested in your material leads to empathy.

It'd be great if it did, but that's hardly a given.
I'm fairly sure that boomers were picked on in their formative years.
I’m not talking about suburbs, if you’re able to walk to a neighbours house within a day, it’s too crowded.
Seeing one side of a sheep only reveals half a sheep. There might be nothing on the other side.
I think it means that it's expanding and traveling in the opposite direction of us. If we start at the same spot, then both travel in opposite directions at 1 mile/hour, at the end of an hour we will be 2 miles away from each other.
Thanks to all who replied to a stranger on the internet thinking a crazy idea out loud. I appreciate the links that were shared and will definitely take a deep dive into them. There seem to be a few agencies out there in the temp space helping out those looking to get back into the job market (ex-cons, homeless, etc.) which is great. Temp placement, even at the lower end of the pay scale, takes a rather large amount of capital to cover payroll and what I’m guessing would be very high insurance costs (manual labor, ex-felon, etc.) Also, probably more than 1 or 2 people could handle from an hours in the day standpoint without administrative/recruiting help. I feel like the big firms probably give such marginal amounts that while helpful feels more to me like marketing spin which a few of you felt this post could be construed as. The industry as a whole has such a negative reputation and unfortunately it’s probably well deserved. Maybe some of you are right and I'm barking up the wrong tree but I appreciate your thoughts nonetheless and plan on taking up the offers to chat/correspond by a few of you. If you didn’t have a profile in your email and wanted to touch base I set up charitystaffing@yahoo.com where we can correspond and I can send you my personal email address/details.
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You're of course right, that page is serving HTML/CSS/JS - but that's kinda nitpicking.

It roughly akin to me saying "my Golang on Linux program is 100% C code free - no C is used in the execution of my code!" .. well, clearly that statement would be false.

However, it's perfectly legitimate to say my project is C code free - and that's what this project is saying. It's saying the project is web-tech free. There just happens to be an off-the-shelf execution environment which uses web-tech.
The author says that the right way to proceed is to provide the user value. The problem is something the author implies earlier, that lying works. You don't have to provide value to consumers to have a successful financial relationship with them. You do need to transact some wholesome value if you want to have a mutualistic relationship with people, but in the context this essay operates, it's not required to be a marketing success.

You don't have to exercise empathy in any warm way. The marketer can successfully model people as data points that respond to stimuli. That's a kind of empathy too, a kind of perspective work, it's just not what people want when they say empathy.
I find these step by step tutorial very help in understanding these type of algorithms.

Here's one that uses excel for doing backprop.
https://towardsdatascience.com/demystifying-feed-forward-and...
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Do you not enjoy playing video games? What would you do instead and why? Is there an amount of acceptable time that you are exceeding?

What are your long term goals that suffer from you playing games?
Reduce the population by a factor 1000, then evenly spread out the human population over the habitable areas.

Also, it is a local solution, if SF had 1000 times fewer people current problems wouldn’t exist either.
you are correct. The EVMs have definitely helped in this regard.

That said, threat models keep evolving. As EVMs are now used, one needs to incorporate EVM manipulation in the threat model as well.

The way to stay ahead of these threat models is to have an open, transparent process. A simple way to do that is to publish the design spec of the EVMs, and any source code. Invite audit from the world. Hiding it away is just "security by obscurity", which is well-known in the security community as not being good practice.
> And note for several major publishers their print editions are nowadays typeset from HTML/CSS using Prince.

Interesting, having played around with wkhtmltopdf and Puppeteer, I had no idea any HTML-to-PDF renderers would be a viable option for publishers, but their examples are pretty impressive – definitely more than any e-readers manage!

> as fundamentally they don't believe there's a business case for it

And they’re probably right. I imagine very few people avoid e-books because of their typographical shortcomings. The arguments I hear against them tend to be on a more fundamental level (‘I prefer to be able to feel the paper’), and even people like me who do notice bad typography put up with e-readers. Publishers meanwhile may well care about their readers’ experience, but they can’t afford not to sell digital copies.

So I understand that typography probably doesn’t make much of a difference to the bottom line of e-reader manufacturers, I just wish the bottom line weren’t the only incentive for large companies.
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If you use a static site generator, especially to create a blog, why do you use it? Some reasons I've heard before are:

* Pages load faster
* Hosting costs are low or free
* Can write while offline
* Can publish with a workflow you like (e.g. text editor > commit > push)
* Can keep a history of changes (version control)
* Posts start offline and are saved locally by default

Anything else?
Yes, software engineer.

I have widespread tendon pain caused by a severe reaction to a popular antibiotic. I generally am pretty normal just get pain. Some medical professional label my symptoms as "fibromyalgia", however, this has been causing a lot of problems to finding the actual cause.

Here is a link if you are interested on the subject:
https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/referrals/quino...

Currently, most doctors in the US are not aware of the issue and nobody wants to speak up. It has been an odd experience for me.
Can experienced oil and gas engineers move into tech?
Does the Valley hire experienced engineers from other industries, such as oil and gas/petrochemicals? With basic coding knowledge, is it possible to move into software?

Edit: oil ans gas operations/projects are very large and complex, spreading across almost every discipline from construction, project management, chemistry, engineering, industrial automation, etc. Does the tech world value this experience, and if someone wanted to switch careers into the tech world, what would be the best way to accomplish this?
It depends on where this land is. Many wells in the south never have problems running dry.
I think he experienced a form of "ego death". My understanding is that it works on varying levels for some but not all.

Thanks for sharing and I'm glad to hear it's worked so well for him.
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These distinctions just show we don't have a good model for self or free will, even if you assume both exist.
Issuing invoices and paying directly in the terminal via Bitcoin's Lightning network would be pretty cool add-on.

Machine to Machine payments: Say you deploy a bitcoin miner to stranded gas. It starts to mine coins and can start paying you to back up it's data without ever needing to create a Paypal account.
This author specialises in historical fiction. I remember reading a book of his (Gates of Fire) maybe 15 years ago and in my opinion he sticks to his prescribed advice well. That book had a great tempo, great characters, great story. It respected my time as a reader.

The flip side is that it's not the kind of book that would win awards.
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It's been 10 years since I worked on live streaming for sports. Lets see if it's finally happening. My guess is... meh.
In this case, the carrier name in parenthesis is shorthand for the bands that the phone can operate on. T-Mobile is GSM, Verizon is CDMA. Some models of IPhone have both technologies, these do not have both.
One level deeper into the circles of hell is the Zenefits model, same as open office hot desking, but desks are over subscribed to the tune of 30%.
I really wanted to like that article but it does not exhibit sufficient scientific rigor. It's a little too dumbed down to be of value here, which is a shake since I think the underlying issue is quite real.
> But there is no term like "clickfood"

That's supposed to just be called journalism.
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What is this supposed to be about?
This is a well-known phenomena.

The usual image is to consider ants traveling on an expanding balloon. The speed of light is the limit of how fast the ants can walk. The expansion of the universe is the expansion of the balloon. And now you see how two distant ants can be carried away from each other faster than they can walk towards each other.

If you understand manifolds and general relativity, this analogy is surprisingly exact.
I'm in the middle of reading "The Jungle", by Upton Sinclair. The working conditions described within were pretty cruel and totalitarian. However it's also easy to compare and contrast the corporate greed and suffering within to modern day concepts like minimum wage and see that we've obviously made tons of progress and things continue to get better. Like all extremist positions, though, this will never be enough for Noam Chomsky - from where he sits, reality itself is totalitarian. How dare humans have to work for their food? What a tragedy it is that wolves must run to hunt their prey, and that this prey must die an agonizing death so someone else can live! At some point you have to suffer in life; if you agree with this then "wage-based servitude" doesn't sound so bad, and modern white-collar work is really only "wage-based servitude" by technical definition.
Sure you can have nice things, they're there - just use them to create the 'next big thing' and the nice things will hitch a ride on its fame. Trying to push others to use those nice things does not work as long as those others prefer to use what they consider to be their tried-and-true older but nicer things.
It's not so much a function of character as a function of habit. Change your habit triggers to change your behavior.

I'm currently going cold turkey on certain social media (Facebook, Twitter). It's hard, because they're so compulsive - designed to be compulsive (I call my phone my "digital crack pipe"). So I'm addressing my habits.

When I come home from work in the evening, I have a habit of going to the kitchen, grabbing a junk food snack, plopping down in my favorite chair, and opening my computer. It's destructive to my eating habits, my productivity, and encourages that nasty social media junkie thing. Even if I'm not on Facebook, I'll be checking Google News, weather, ANYTHING to get my fingers on the keyboard and mouse.

So the habit to change? Sitting in my favorite chair when I get home. If I don't sit down in that spot, I don't have a place to eat junk food. I don't have a computer at hand. I have to go do something else.
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Yeah, and also NSA has forever compromised part of their mission; to secure US infrastructure. No American company will trust their "help" any more since they've spent so much time subverting our own security.
was it not clear that I was talking about OP's claim regarding "natural selection outside of the body" when epigenetic is not outside of the body and can result in changes of the offspring, does your response run counter to my observation?

so far all the responses seem to be more about a semantical distinction of the word evolution and natural selection
I partially agree with what you’re saying.

What I agree with: actively overcoming your procrastination has more to do with dealing with the obstacles that cause you to procrastinate in the first place. For example, if you’re procrastinating because of your anxiety, dealing with your anxiety is generally going to be a much more effective approach than trying to increase your self-control.

What I disagree with: self-control is without a doubt one of the psychological mechanisms that play a role in our procrastination. That doesn’t mean that we should focus on it when we’re trying to help people stop procrastinating, but it does mean that it's important to understand the role that it plays.

If you look at the research papers that this article mentions, this is something that the researchers themselves are saying. For instance, in the first paper, Sirois and Pychyl say that: “if we have a great deal of self-discipline and dutifulness, commonly associated with the Big Five trait of Conscientiousness… we may exert the self-control necessary to engage in the task in a timely manner despite the lack of immediate reward or the negative mood that the task elicits.”

As such, while I think it’s reasonable for the article to conclude that when it comes to dealing with procrastination, your focus shouldn’t necessarily be on your self-control, I believe that it’s misleading for the title to claim that procrastination has “nothing to do with self-control”, when self-control clearly does play a role in this process.
It's an interesting connection. Any finite collection of real values (represented in floating-point or otherwise) has a definite correct sum. If you're constrained to the floating-point to represent that value, you should ideally round the true value to the closest float and return that. Computing this true sum of a sequence of floating-point values is surprisingly hard though. The state of the art seems to be Radford Neal's paper on superaccumulators from 2015:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.05571

Fortunately pairwise summation (Julia's default) is fast and fairly hard to trip up, although it certainly is possible to trick it.
> Are there any park-n-rides in the areas that are a long commute from city centers?

There are two train lines, Caltrain and Bart. Both have park and ride in stations outside city limits. For people working in the city, they would park in the nearest suburban train station and take the train.

The problem is on the other side in the city. A lot of offices are not close to any train station. Especially if you're coming from the south bay (using caltrain). Caltrain in the city is in a weird corner. You'll need to take a bus/uber after the train which is slower than walking sometimes.

> Also, is it common enough that if you are using public transportation, where you can VPN in via cellular, and start your day early (and have that "count" as part of you work day)

Yes. But the connectivity sucks enough to not be able to vpn often.

> Or do most employers frown on that?

That's between you and the employer. Typically, you'll see many people stay back longer (free dinners and all that) and that does put some peer pressure.
I imagine it's more practical to try to 'get out the vote' without all the marketing in the middle, than try to bribe a person to vote against their interest.
I've noticed that quite a lot of our behavior boils down to this conflict.
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ASUS is a Taiwanese company. Wouldn't be surprised if China is behind this.
apple's new streaming video and news services and maybe other stuff.
But in spidr's favour I've been able to use it for quite a while whereas credder is still just an idea.
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It was a student account. It was not "paid up to" because it was a student account.
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May not be for long. Microsoft is in the middle of a multi-year plan to renovate their campus to make it more open and collaborative.

https://news.microsoft.com/modern-campus/