skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some scientific research into this subject, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetition_priming

(do note that this research suffers a bit from p-hacking).

There is a good chance that you were already targeted before, since online manipulation is used by the big militaries. Think back about 2 years, reading about SJW, politics, neo-nazis, antifa, BLM, manspreading, immigrants, the deep state, etc. Good chance at least some of your perception about these subjects was molded by just a few individuals. For instance, remember that Russian girl throwing bleach on "manspreaders" in the metro? You may have had a strong reaction to that, and it would be the desired effect of Russian troll-factory.

Specifically, on the effect of manipulating the Facebook feed to control behavior, Facebook did some controversial research themselves, where they used sentiment analysis to make a feed more or less positive. People who were fed negative feeds, started using negative words in their own status update: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/06/28/facebo...

> The marketing study suggested companies should "[c]oncentrate media during prime vulnerability moments, aligning with content involving tips and tricks, instant beauty rescues, dressing for the success, getting organized for the week and empowering stories... Concentrate media during her most beautiful moments, aligning with content involving weekend guides, weekend style, beauty tips for social activities and positive stories." The Facebook study, combined with last year's marketing study suggests that marketers may not need to wait until Mondays or Thursdays to have an emotional impact, instead social media companies may be able to manipulate timelines and news feeds to create emotionally fueled marketing opportunities.
Social sciences programs require students to take statistics courses. That's no guarantee that statistics will be correctly applied.
> Would a Republican vote for a womanizing Russia-serving friend of Epstien?

If the alternative is a Democrat? You bet.
Modern GPU's support power saving. In linux you can see it with PowerTop and you can toggle it on / off.
I'm not clear here: are you using this as an argument in favor of spinner and their service or as an argument against targeted ads because they're basically just this spinner on a larger scale?

If the latter, I'm with you.
At risk of embarrassing my self statistically, what exactly happens when you do this?

I.e., if you're controlling for country, that means you're bucketing by country, and looking at each subset, right? So if country is represented by a non-discrete value... what exactly happens?
The author digresses in to casual misandry for no apparent reason fairly early in the piece.

It’s a distraction from an otherwise interesting piece.
Yeah. I've worked for many thousand person employers down to those with less than 10. I haven't had physical payroll checks to deposit since at least the mid-eighties. (Probably longer but I just don't remember.) Probably took longer for all expense etc. checks to go direct though as they're often through a different system.
This just seems to reinforce the argument that executives just take credit for the work of others when it is good and don’t take credit when the work is bad. What makes these people so special that only they can ratify good decisions. This just seems like a really hedged defense of bullshit hierarchies. Workplace democracy should be the direction we go.
Is Berlin (as opposed to other areas of Germany) culturally ok with drinking tap water?
Yes, this experience of knowing before verbalising confirms it for me. I find it happens most when I'm solving a problem and I know there is a line of thinking I could go down but have not yet gone down, an intuition for some nuance of the problem, a cross contextual connection. If I follow the feeling it materialises into words that reference the problem I am solving but until I do it remains an abstract notion. Sometimes it feels like memories of similar problems and sometimes it feels entirely abstract. Once you look at it though it disappears as it is verbalised so it can only be seen in the corner of your mind's eye.
Svelte is great. It's a shame we need a framework to do that and that the standard HTML/CSS/JS platform can't do that natively.
Partisanship has dramatically increased in our lifetimes. BusinessInsider released a nice little video of an graph overtime of who voted with who in the U.S. House of Representatives. There used to be lots of people who voted together despite being in different parties. That's basically stopped:

https://www.businessinsider.com/animation-rise-partisanship-...
krunker io
Is good example of one man building mmo game
Yoga, as its practiced in the West, is mostly a fitness program. Yoga teachers in the West, however, mix pseudo-scientific or New Age BS into their practice ("unite the chakras", "harness your inner goddess", "elevate your spirit") to make themselves be seen as being more than fitness instructors.

I think the point to author is trying to make is that companies often add BS to their mission statements to 'elevate' themselves from a regular company into a lifestyle.

references: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yoga-babble
https://omyogadiva.com/2016/03/25/yoga-babble-muddies-up-the...
Richard Stallman’s Disgrace
Yep, that's fair. In my mind, the differentiation here is that Fargate (which with my Rust team hat on, I'm a fan of; it uses Rust!) picks and chooses where it thinks the best place for your code to run is, and you don't really have control over that, in my understanding. Workers runs on every single POP without you needing to do or choose anything.

But regardless, different tools are good in different circumstances. Nobody is always the best thing all the time.
Or maybe engineers are more likely to see the body as a machine, and thus have more of an interest in things that can affect or change the functioning of that machine.

Personally, I think treating engineers as a homogeneous population is just fatally flawed.
Complex and systematic price discrimination is probably most easily seen in the models used to price airline tickets, which involves interesting decisions like how many seats to initially reserve for business class, then how long you wait to open them up with non-business class pricing (upgrade your seat now for only $75!).
For rent/mortgage checks, it would take 10 minutes to write 12 post-dated checks, put them each in a (pre-stamped) envelope and file them in a locked drawer. Comes that time each month, walk to Drawer, pick up envelope and drop at Location.
There were even news sites that published articles about the original article AFTER the retraction was announced! The state of science reporting is very sad.
I got the sense it was the nylon bagged tea that had the issue, and they are comparatively rare in the UK. Yet many paper tea bags have tiny amounts of plastic based glue. No idea if that's enough to be feeding us microplastics, or relative quantity to plastic ones.

It's one of those things that having found surprising amounts somewhere, we're going to spend the coming years finding surprising amounts everywhere.

Bit like the chap who ended up finding lead from petrol everywhere on every researcher and clean surface in his lab, invented the clean room, and started finding it up mountains etc.
Do you enjoy russian roulette? It has a lot of great experiences with the occasional awful experience.
> We're operating in this "once it's online, it's out of your control" but that's a new kind of thing, and it's shitty.

It's new? I think it's always been like that since the dawn of the internet (and before if you substitute "online" for "published"). The idea that you should have a right to force other entities to forget public information that they saw is what seems to be new.

> You accidentally have the wrong sharing settings, which you notice too late. Should there be no ability to change your mind?

Well, it's like accidentally telling someone a secret and then wishing there was legislature to force them to forget what you told them (assuming we have a technology for human memory deletion).
Lincoln Laboratory's new AI supercomputer is the most powerful
Using math to blend musical notes seamlessly: portamento by algorithm
OK, thank you :)

I was confused throughout, doubting my own sense of humour rather than think that someone writing for Ars could swing and miss so much!
These guys may be not the most attractive but 1) they may be all that is out there, 2) ladies are willing to give them the benefit of the doubt ("maybe he just has bad pictures?"), and 3) maybe that's all they think they can get. Nothing crazy or irrational about it.

When it's 2am and the bar is closing you hit on who you think you can go home with, not the absolute hottest person in the bar.
I constantly tag primitives in scala. It is boilerplatey even with shapeless, but worth it. Tagging classes might be a bit too much though
Another, more consequential paper that popped up on HN recently has been retracted as well. The one about ocean warming. The retraction notice is a masterclass on weasel language, worth reading in its own right.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1585-5
See this[0] Tcl jumping-off point (stub??) for another implementation (est. 1999) of same principle.

[0] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Stubs
Awesome work, I really think Streams is the killer feature of DynamoDB. Are there any plans on the roadmap to allow for filtered/faceted streams or Streams of a single GSI? How about consolidation between DDB streams and Kinesis? It would be great if the "DynamoDB Streams Kinesis Adapter" program didn't need to exist :)

My main pain point has been around how many times a lambda is invoked to consume a stream on a busy table but I really appreciate the record batching aspect of them.
Culture Fit Interview Questions
Or that the material will be taught effectively. Or that the students are contextually prepared to understand the material at that point. Or any of a number of other things that go wrong when people suggest that education is the solution/root to a very hard problem :)
Yeah, I heard that's with the water bill they charge extra to use a card... I still am at home, but things like that sound annoying when I get my own place... However since doing programming can be remotely, my dream is to be a nomad or full time RVer instead. I think the idea of staying in one place all your life is boring and can follow the weather too.

However I know some phone and satellite tv companies give you a tiny discount if you pay online. Also another thing that annoys me, with satellite radio in the car apparently you can't cancel online. You have to call and be put on hold and then they try to retain you. Seems so unfriendly, I know they don't want people to quit but people sell cars, etc... and knowing that it makes me kinda not want to signup in the first place on a new car, but it is a nice service at least using it.
"Computers handling it all". Not quite. You would be surprised how big of an effort it is to reconcile cash in the bank compared to what you charged on a credit card. This is before even accounting for chargebacks and fees.
My town is the same way. They use some outside service that charges for paying online. Checks are free--stamp aside. In practice, I mostly pay online through my bank which cuts them a check--which is mostly the same thing for me and is free.

I assume the deal is that an outside service sets up these things for municipalities for "free" but they take a cut so the person paying the bill pays for the free service.
> MDMA is a stimulant so it's more likely to promote dancing around than sitting around.

In my case it promotes lying in a bed, having sex and confiding everything to the one I actually trust and love. I would never like go outside. The only part of me saying I should try it on a rave once is purely intellectual curiosity, I don't actually want to. I'm 99% sure the only thing I'm going to want once it hits is to be left alone with my wife in a comfortable place where no one can disturb us.

> A good rule of thumb would be to not do it more than every two weeks.

Two weeks still seems a way too short interval though, I strongly recommend to rest at least 2 months, the more - the better.
That's great and I agree anyone who is not pro-pedophilia should surely be heartened by Stallman's change of view here, however, I will point out that this entry is from 2019 September 14.

That means these personal conversations and change of heart have come after the recent MIT mailing list posting and subsequent fallout.
If you want to go direct to the publication:

"Conceptual Design of a Universal Donor Screening Approach for Vaginal Microbiota Transplant",

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2019.0030...
Out of scope, alas. One of the real challenges of the book was deciding which language features to include and which to omit. It's on track to an enormous book — it's over 200k words already. So I had to cut what I could. The language in the book doesn't even have arrays.

But it does have lexical scope, closures, objects, inheritance, a full operator precedence table, and a bunch of other fun stuff.
I built a wind map with WebGL (2017)
Ask HN: Favorite Books of the Year?
I'd like to know what books HN loved this year. I'm about to hop on a 13 hour flight, and desperately need some good reads.
> It's pretty basic economics that "scalping" increases consumer welfare, despite your cursory claim to the contrary.

Citations needed.

Here's some reading info and links for you to illustrate that you're comments are ignorant of several dimensions of the discussion: https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/6576/is-scalpi...
Sure... but practically, how often does this happen?
What's wrong with hammers?
Just because they technically "can" doesn't mean they actually can.

Universal healthcare requires high buy-in and very different systems from what we have now.

Drinking age is tied to necessary federal highway funding, so states aren't going to lower the age.
Web components are a great idea, but the current implementation sucks and is a pain to use though. Web components should look like what Svelte did!
> On the other hand, the reality will be one or two mega-currencies, FB, Amazon, Google etc.

When you stick with the government this statement indeed could become a reality. And that's why non-regulated payment systems are preferred. In the hands of banks, corporations, etc.. cryptocurrencies lose their ideal because these parties will always build their regulating mechanisms in the algorithm, without it they are not interested.
Probably more harmful to the active software session than the hardware. A lot of programs (OS's included) have subtle memory leaks and other obscure bugs than can take multiple days to manifest.
With regards to compression chips; If someone can substantiate this vague recollection I have it would be great.

I seem to recall Nintendo charged a per-unit royalty based off of the ROM size of the cartridge, which would make including a dedicated decompression chip reasonable, particularly since they are likely fairly simple to design anyways.

[edit] In addition, the two games listed as using the S-DD1 were 32M,it and 48M,it roms (there were very few 48 Mbit roms and 32Mbit was considered "large"), so these were already fairly expensive cartidges.

Found a pic of the Star Ocean PCB; note that the S-DD1 takes up less PCB space then even 1 of the two ROM chips:

https://snescentral.com/pcbboards.php?chip=SHVC-LN3B-01

[edit2] The SF Alpha PCB was much simpler by comparison:

https://snescentral.com/pcbboards.php?chip=SHVC-1N0N-01
Reminder that all HN submissions are archived at archive.is, just prepend archive.is/ to the url
I am not getting this the V sign is normally given with the back of the hand facing forward ie "F&^K you"
I'm sorry, but:

"I hosted rms many years ago in the 90’s, what was supposed to be hosting your hero for a ~3 day thing became a ~2 month nightmare."

Did Miguel ask him to leave? Or did he just sit around passive-aggressively for 3 whole months? Also, rms called Miguel "a traitor to the Free Software community" at some point, and now with the whole MIT business, he gets in with the twitter defamation league spouting off his grievances. That's pretty much beyond cowardly and into despicable territory.

Jillian's story is pretty much the entire problem in a nutshell:

"an older female colleague recommended at a whisper that I lock myself in my office."

"She later told me it was because he gets touchy"

"Over the years, I heard all sorts of things of this nature, and warned women who might not be in the know"

Maybe this older female colleague was told the same things at some point? Why is every single allegation hearsay from twitter?

"instructing them on how to properly make tea"

Yes, rms can be very particular about minor things. If you did not know even this, why are you writing about "things about rms others should know"?

Also, again EFF connections. Do they even want to pretend to be useful anymore, outside of cluelessly abusing people on twitter for kicks?
Would you be willing to share it? As a latin american this really interests me.
Is Political Philosophy Dying?
They are indeed annoying. Fortunately they are normally disclosed (in tiny print) on the hotel website so at least now I can expect them.

Same goes for mandatory valet parking…
Not only should you let it 'idle', you should start hosting servers from home and always leave it on. It's the only form of "distributed" that really works and it gives you complete control over everything.
'yogababble' as a portmanteau for the pseudo-enlightened, spiritual market talk and brand that companies like wework or peloton have been using
In short, ANOVA is usually what you want to do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_analysis_of_variance

In practice, if you have n countries, you'll add n-1 binary variables to your regression equation. The first country is the reference level (all zeros), for the second country set the first new variable to one, the rest to zero, etc.
On the History of the Artificial Womb
So, what should we drink?
That seems a little post hoc and doesn't mention teaching creationism in public schools. I get there are things in there that people disagree with but I was looking for the point made previously. Simply citing a large document and not having read it isn't arguing in good faith.
Mailpile (it's open source) - https://www.mailpile.is/
It does not. I agonized over whether to include them because the language is really limited without them. I even had an implementation. But it wasn't very conceptually interesting, so ultimately I decided it could be cut.

There is an exercise in one of the chapters to add them, and you can see my answer to that here:

https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/mast...
Yeh I got that but was hoping for something more interesting
shameless plug for king gizz.

https://genius.com/King-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard-plasti...
I played LOTR Online when it first came out! I think the only MMO I've paid for. Sadly, I don't think I was as much as fan of it as you were, I bounced off it by lv25. Probably much has been added in the last 10+ years though!
It addresses exactly the cases you care about, whereas trying to bake it into designs or type system usually adds heavy restrictions that don’t necessarily have anything to do with your exact use cases.

Basically from a You Aren’t Gonna Need It point of view, doing it in tests lets you minimally address the real use case with much less risk of premature or incorrect abstraction.

In my experience, premature abstraction is one of the worst problems in business software. To contrast two far ends of the spectrum, minimalistic patchworks of gross hacking are asymmetrically way better than overhead of premature or incorrect abstractions.
Running a scraping platform at Google Cloud for as little as US$ 0.05/month
Phthalates are the new smoking
Fascinating! Did any later gen systems besides the Nintendo 64 use these chips? Would it be possible to use a similar configuration in Switch cartridges?
They do, actually. Scheme supports `(set! some-var)` to reassign values to variables, which means you can tell if a closure captures a value or variable.
Wouldn't you taste that?
Yeah, this feels like a bad comparison.

One is a major international company with close to a million employees, hundreds of billions in revenue and operations in a 100+ countries.

The other is a small media firm based in one country with a thousand employees and a few hundred million in revenue.

To make matters worse, Amazon has a reasonable mission statement - to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online, whereas WaPo's mission statement is "Democracy Dies in Darkness". Yogababble score - 10/10
Why? If you can reliably determine that a fingerprint actually belongs to a person... it's not as if I can make my fingerprint mimic yours if I happen to come across a photo of your fingerprint... Of course, simple sensors such as phone fingerprint readers can easily be tricked, but that's an issue with that specific implementation (similarly to how you can sometimes see greasy traces of unlock pattern on phone screens), not of the general idea...
Spain security firm probed 'for spying on Assange for CIA'
It'd be interesting to do DL/NLP sentiment analysis of S-1s and quarterly reports and correlate that with market returns to see if someone can come up with a model to predict IPO, and stock, success/failure.

Though I'm sure some people are already looking into that.
I was under the impression Gerolsteiner and San Pellegrino were from deep under ground springs where it took the water decades or more to filter down into the source where the bottler draws it from. Are the plastics somehow in the source or are they being introduced in another way, perhaps when the bottles are washed, handled, etc before filling?
Check if your credit union has online bill pay. Mine does. I used to have a landlord who was the same way about checks. I could set it up so that the bank mailed them a check every month for no extra charge. It was like paying online, and they handled all details.
I have been inside a large anechoic chamber and it was very weird experience and it was only a partial anechoic chamber and had a normal floor.
Demonstrating ZFS Self-Healing (2005)
While attending college, I worked as a mainframe operator in the evenings at a data center for a bank. There are parts of the financial system which are most definitely not digital and not 'online' at all. For instance, each night I would have to dial in to a national server to download the transactions from ATM cards, then load those into the banks system. I don't know if that has changed, but that introduced a great deal of lag. The bank only operated on weekdays. And not on holidays. So anything done on those days didn't update the account information until the night after the next bank day. So if you went and withdrew money via ATM after 5PM or so (this is assuming the national system WAS online and realtime... I don't actually know that for a fact) on a Friday and there was a bank holiday on the following Monday, your account at the bank would not reflect that until Tuesday evening (I worked in the evening, and it was my responsibility to do that).

This was awhile ago, up until 2001, so things may have changed but I strongly doubt they have changed very significantly given that even then they were using an NCR mainframe which was literally the very last operational one of its kind (the owner of the 2nd to last one gave us theirs for free when they replaced it with a PC, so we got a DR site!). Their policy was to never change anything that cost a penny if it still functioned. When I left, the bank had been acquired by a larger bank and the plan was to move the smaller banks processing into the larger ones data center. I ran into one of my coworkers 5 or so years later and none of that had happened. Everything was still as it was.