skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh I think he does get it. Facebook is a tool uniquely designed to influence behavior. Before you had to advertise to a generic stereotype of a person whereas now -- thanks to facebook's treasure trove of user data -- you can target just the perfect audience to get your ideas spreading organically.

Facebook sells the ability to do this to anybody who will pay. This is the core of how they make money. After a period of pretending to search for a solution, Zuckerberg has finally ducked behind the notion of 'free speech' as his excuse for doing nothing. He knows that the only way to stop it would be to stop selling this ability to influence. And he's actually right that it shouldn't be him deciding what are the good and bad uses of this powerful tool.

The blind faith that increased connectivity is a net benefit is what got us here. Seeing how social media is actually increasing depression makes me think the opposite. The sad truth is that most people are too vulnerable to misinformation and the older centralized distribution of information is probably the best for stability.
Using a Raspberry Pi and LED to send morse code to a smartphone
We need to target the executives of Facebook directly. Run false political ads targeting their family and friends. I imagine they won't like it when it's done against them directly.
More scrutiny doesn't help the fact that it's a shitty iteration on a decades out-of-date design, though. A modern airplane that's received less scrutiny is nevertheless still likely to be safer.
That's how the American court system works. Someone can present information against you and, if you're not around to refute it, the judge is allowed to enter a default verdict.
A VW up! is spacious enough that 1.9+ m tall people don't have any problems, unless they are Americans, in which case everything smaller than a HD pick-up truck causes back pain.
Factcheck.net.fact.org/really-real is not that. I don't get why people can just take their own responsibility for themselves? Give users the tools to filter out the nonsense that floods most of the internet. There's no need for moral arbiters to decide for us what's "true" and "false". We've existed long enough without them, I think we can make it a little longer still.
This is an excellent set of sheets which will cover nearly all of the concepts you would in an undergraduate curriculum (well, besides all of the homework in 4-part writing and roman numeral analysis...)

If you are studying theory, or composing, then you may find my excellent set of notebooks to be useful! They have perforated pages, college ruled lines on one side, and staves on the other, for note-taking. https://www.themusiciansnotebook.com
Maybe post this on Reddit in /r/legaladvice - maybe there's a better subreddit - re: all of this? I have seen some seemingly helpful advice or links to resources that can help.
Sorry, but this is bullshit. When the government c disowns the basis for its legitimacy and starts teaming up with profiteers to imprison and kill people, the answer to fight back against violence with violence.
there's gotta be some name for this fallacy of "they didn't actually get hurt by the bad thing they got hurt by the good thing that props up the bad thing". maybe it should be called the banality of evil fallacy. I see it deployed on hn all the time and its tone is always patronizing - as if to say "if you would've followed the rules this wouldn't have happened". newsflash there are myriad tools healthcare institutions can deploy against you and jailing for missing a court date is just one - if you avoid that one they'll just do other things to extract from you. it's like no one has ever read kafka geeze.
Why does healthcare have to be a federal issue?
The article doesn't read like that at all. There's no lament of new technology, it's a pretty neutral take-away on the development of it, viewed under the spotlight of McLuhan's theories and without much judgement.
Previous submissions may be of interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=observablehq.com
The language is irrelevant; this is the maximum value of a 32-bit signed integer. Specifically, 2,147,483,647.

Java (and other languages) have other ways of representing numbers which allow larger values, but once you've encoded values into wire protocols and persistent data structures, they tend to be hard to change.
The problem with discussions like this is that they never provide systematic examples of how a portfolio of metrics or qualitative checking can be integrated into a modeling problem. There’s a lot of finger pointing at metrics and complacency about problems, but the solutions are super vague, like the sanctimonious passage in this article about hiring from under-indexed groups in tech companies and just listening to first-person accounts (which is probably a bad idea if you actually want to help).

Ultimately I agree with the underlying idea, but I think to be helpful you have to present case studies of reproducing research but with metric optimization swapped out for a holistic variety of metrics plus qualitative checking.

I recommend the books Bayesian Data Analysis by Gelman et al and Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models by Gelman and Hill if you want to read good accounts of doing this in practice with real data sets.

There’s definitely room for a book like this that focuses on more domain specific models in NLP, computer vision and deep neural networks.
Fishermen are allowed to kill the best genetically gifted specimens just before they are about to reproduce; thus talking about low genetic diversity is just an excuse.

If you really want to increase genetic diversity there is a really cheap and simple solution. Reduce recreational fishing.
I don't totally disagree regarding "be sure you know what you get into", but I believe the dislike is mostly that one share, one vote is considered to be "fair" as in general elections one citizen, one vote. Anything that skews that is eyed suspiciously. They have more say than skin in the game.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. The 737 MAX was yanked by aviation authorities worldwide, not just in the US. The US didn't even do it first.

Are you saying you want to go back to 1940s-era standards of aviation safety, where planes regularly crash out of the sky killing all aboard, and we should just accept it even though we know we can do much better?
I agree with you but this isn't a local issue. famously healthcare is under the umbrella of the interstate commerce clause.
Are young Brits falling out of love with the cuppa?
The funniest thing is, no one talks about this, but if the "goal" was to sew discord... My goodness someone "in the Kremlin" should be getting a promotion for their exceptionally well done job. I mean how many YEARS and millions of dollars has the US wasted chasing after this ghost of Russian interference? If you want to calculate the ROI from a few thousand dollars to how much hysteria followed suit, it's insane. The only question I have is, can anyone seriously take credit for it in Russia with a straight face. "No comrade, I only made meme of Hillary... The whole Mueller thing was the US all on its own."
KDE is certainly a step up from Windows, but it is not where the Mac is. This is a fact. It takes more than a HN comment to explain that fact. If you can't discern that yet, lurk more in the Mac-based scene.

Besides, I didn't call KDE shitty but the UI of a Linux laptop in general. Here's the thing, the commenter I responded to did express ethical considerations as the driving motivation for a switch to Linux/GNU from BSD/Mac. Not technical ones.

I can relate to that. I myself would rather switch to an open OS, but the truth is nothing compares to the comfort of the Mac. Currently at least.
> discriminate against whites and Asians in favor of dumber middle-class blacks and hispanics

I think there's ample evidence to indicate that it's not just intelligence at play but the opportunities available to individual students that makes their relative academic success possible. It's a naive argument that the under-representation of particular classes in higher education is because they're 'dumb'
I'm ok with a git hosting platform that has absolutely zero social media elements to it.
> There's been no proof whatsoever that Russia had any impact via FB on the 2016 election.

This is false. Facebook themselves announced that Russia spent $100,000 on ads aimed at U.S. voters. Posts from six Russian propaganda accounts were shared hundreds of millions of times. [1]

Effort doesn't equal impact, I suppose, but there's no way of proving the latter and the former is still extremely disturbing.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-...
That is a naively optimistic statement. If marketing didn’t work then billions wouldn’t be spent on it.
Moderation comments teach the intended use of the site.
They won’t be able to verify it for fresh high school grads, granted, but for people in their mid twenties and older, their conscientiousness and conformity will be apparent in their employment history.

My friend runs a retail business, and he keeps repeating that in his experience, for the relatively simple jobs he has, best predictor of employee quality is whether they had and kept a single job for past 2 years. If they cannot keep a single job for any significant amount of time, it’s bad sign.
Court is just a building in town. If you are healthy, you can just walk there.

The bigger problem in this case is that the people being sent to court probably cannot easily walk there, because they are unhealthy.

It’s effectively criminalizing illness.
Money quote: "Project Trident will rebasing with Void Linux."

Which is... fascinating. Switching out upstreams is one thing, but they're switching kernels in the process!

EDIT: more comments from finishing reading:

Looks like they do broadly intend to work with the Void upstream, so I'm quite pleased (as a Void user) that there will hopefully be more people contributing, especially on the musl branch.

> We will not be creating a migration path from the FreeBSD-based Project Trident to the new Void-based version. Please be prepared to copy your user data (/home/*) to a temporary location like a removable drive before installing the new version and copying the data back.

That's quite unfortunate. In particular, if they do integrate ZFS into Void including boot environments, there shouldn't be any reason they can't do it in place; just install into new filesystems and mount the old `tank/usr/home` as though nothing had happened. Unfortunately you would still lose direct binary compatibility, since Linux doesn't have a FreeBSD personality to use, but I don't see why you should need a new pool or home.
As I was doing research in response (thank you for the citation), I realized I stated an incorrect fact that the gyres are very concentrated, but still stand by the statement that they would be excellent “mines” for plastic.
Part of what makes the volume so hard to determine is the current which carries all the garbage in a circle.
At a certain stage it would be worthwhile to simply “park” something in the current and have the plastic come to you. Be it a boat or something like an oil rig, there’s very little “sweeping” required in order to collect the plastic.
Zuckerberg has successfully shifted the discourse to a discussion about free speech, but I don't think that free speech is under attack here.

I don't care if Trump and pro-Trump supporters or organizations want to post lies on their own feed. But if Facebook is getting PAID for political ADVERTISING, that gives them a moral responsibility to regulate that content. If they want to abdicate that responsibility, then I think the government has an interest in preventing the corruption or the appearance of corruption in our elections, so reasonable restrictions/regulations on political advertising on social networks should be considered.
Obviously it goes without saying, shop around. Fly to another country if you have to. Canadian/Mexican doctors are more than happy to take cash and will often charge less than half what they charge here. Obviously there's medical problems you can't travel for but more often than not you can.

Also note that hospitals is one of the very few businesses that you have to get permission from other hospitals to open. It's a cartel.
One of the things that these explainers often miss is the context around music theory, and what it means to be consonant or dissonant. As some comments below complain about, this seems woefully incomplete and extremely restrictive. And it is.

These are the rules of taste and style about what was considered correct in a specific style and location in the 18th century. The way this is taught in basic forms like this isn't much different from Rameau's treatise in 1822. The names of things have changed a little, but the basic concept is that.

For people who say, "Wait! This doesn't account for all the stuff that sounds sooooo good in Jazz, atonal music, or even later classical music! This is bullshit!" You're kind of right, but mostly missing the point.

The fact that Finnegan's Wake was written and works and is a work of art, doesn't change the definition of what a Sonnet is. A Sonnet isn't the only form of poetry out there. But it's a useful thing to study if you study poetry because it's a massively influential form on lots of stuff that developed after it.

The music theory fundamentals from the 18th century are roughly analogous to that. Massively influential on everything that happened later, and therefore a good place to start. But they shouldn't be read as a complete or correct statement of "how music works." Just a snapshot of time, taste, and technology that serves as a convenient starting point for exploring what happened before and after.

The other thing that's often missed here is the role of music theory in the history of music. Theorists have operated across a spectrum of prescriptivism and descriptivism for thousands of years. At some points in time, theorists are laying down the rules about what music should be and claiming artistic/philosophical authority. But at other times in history, they are much more interested in simply describing how composers achieve certain musical effects. This fluctuates every couple of hundred years since the time of Plato or Aristoxenus.

You see the same kinds of divides and fluctuations with linguists and dictionary editors. Some are very focused on capturing the language as it is currently used, where others are very insistent on laying down the rules of correct usage. Music theory, broadly speaking, should be understood in the same way.
Hmm, so am I. Does your IDE come with a special language, DSL or something to control the transformations you mention on your home page? Or are you using an existing language? I'm using Scheme, but I have a kind of 'declarative DSL' for defining patterns, transformations etc.
Concerning YouTube, he does have a point though. In terms of raw mass, the amount of "audio"-videos outweighs actual videos, i.e. videos intended to be consumed because of their audio content, e.g. vloggers who just look at the camera and talk about stuff.

But it does feel like it's missing a summary - it's kinda cool, you might say.

Here's one: Mainstream application of headphones has made people think "hotter" more often (and that is the revolution).
Indentation breaks HN. Blockquote should not inherit from Codeblock.

Please remove it and use > for quotes.

> The `Car extends Vehicle` or `Duck extends Bird` type of tutorial
obscures more than it illuminates. In good OO programming, we don’t
make class hierarchies in order to satisfy our inner Linnaeus. We make
class hierarchies in order to simplify the code by allowing different
parts of it to be changed independently of each other, and to
eliminate duplication (which comes to the same thing). Without any
context as to what the code needs to accomplish, you can’t make a
judgment about whether a design decision is good or bad.
How hard did they push you? If they shoved you with only a micronewton if force and you fell, it's probably the fault of your overreaction.
If one wanted to make a news company that owned and ran both FOX News and MSNBC, it’d be Facebook.
Do You Believe in Rectangles?
Yet it was Clinton who spent far more than anyone on marketing and Russia spent pretty much nothing. Only here we are talking about the impact "Russia" had and ignoring that the tens of millions Clinton spent didn't accomplish her goal.
No offence but how many people can read Norway language? US media are read world wide that's why I say it represents the west. Also don't people find it weird at all that there are no discussions of this event on all major Youtube channels feom US/UK?
This also affects self hosted instances in a company where you want to find other packages though. It's not a "social network" feature.
Take your savings and move out of the country.
Most people who talk about music theory are artists, not scientists. Scientific rigour isn't normally needed or even expected by people who create music.
The Art of Mixing [music] (1990)
That's my current approach to teaching people programming concepts. I try to provide an example of not using that concept, point out the quickly growing complexity of the code, and then show how that complexity can be reduced with the new concept I'm introducing.

(And yes, as a kid, I was hurt by all those "Cat : public Animal" examples too. It took me many years before I figured out why they didn't work in practice for me.)
The snarky response is bureaucracy, though honestly the real answer might be bureaucracy and institutional inertia.
> a human would know, for instance, that (s)he wants to multiply 50 times

A human would turn the for loop that counts up into a do-while loop that counts down? That's doable on the C level, and in that case GCC also generates less ceremony:

dot_product_2:
.LFB1:
.cfi_startproc
pxor %xmm0, %xmm0
movslq %edx, %rdx
.p2align 4,,10
.p2align 3
.L8:
movss (%rdi,%rdx,4), %xmm1
mulss (%rsi,%rdx,4), %xmm1
subq $1, %rdx
leal 1(%rdx), %eax
testl %eax, %eax
addss %xmm1, %xmm0
jg .L8
rep ret

But of course if you do this you have changed the implied original spec, and you have reassociated a floating-point computation, computing different results. At that point you might as well pass -ffast-math to GCC, and it will beat your code by 8x due to vectorization.

> But I'll leave it in there because this handily beats the compiler in both size and speed

Not on my machine. On arrays of 1048576 (2 ^ 20) elements I didn't measure any difference between my first variant, the do-while variant and yours. On arrays of 1024 elements I still didn't measure a difference between the two compiled versions, but yours is about 1-2% slower. On 128 elements do-while looks a bit slower than for, and your variant is more than 20% slower.

Here are some numbers for n = 128, calling each function 10000000 times. dot_product is the original, dot_product_2 uses do-while, dot_product_3 is your code (with an extra move of edx to rax at the start of the function, of course).

dot_product: 1.036514 sec
dot_product_2: 1.097186 sec
dot_product_3: 1.290411 sec

(Edit: This seems to be due to your use of subss instead of pxor to zero xmm0 at the beginning. Removing that gets your code back up to only 1-2% slower than the for loop version.)

> even with the compiler often trying to cheat with nopw instructions to warm up the data cache

What?

> Now compare that with the garbage GCC generated. At -O3 no less! What a bunch of garbage!

You still haven't pointed out what exactly you think is garbage. Which line? Which instruction? Or don't you like that it generates some metadata?

> you forced me to write code for a processor architecture I do not even know

I didn't force you to do anything, I specifically asked you to provide an example of your choice. You could have chosen a piece of code where you knew in advance GCC would do badly. You could have chosen an architecture that you know well and/or one where you know that GCC's backend hasn't had as much work as x86-64. You chose not to do this. I didn't force you to do anything.

> And you doubted me

Based on the data it looks like I was right to doubt you.
Correct, this never had anything to do with Russia and it has everything to do with Trump. The political and media establishment couldn't handle an outsider winning the presidency so it was they that have gone full blast on propaganda for the past 3 years.
Government funded healthcare on some level would help to alleviate a modicum of this catastrophe. I doubt it would be a magic bullet but medical debt damages society by incentivizing disaster health care instead of preventive care.
Which economy is that? I didn't think there was an economy on earth near 100% labor force participation rate.
I lived abroad in the past. Had a much better life and healthcare. But now that savings is so small and my health so limited I cannot just "move". I wouldn't be able to sustain myself financially. There are immigration requirements I cannot meet. I would love nothing more to leave. But even then things are so bad with pain and health I would never have a good life, maybe just a survivable one in a more comfortable environment for me. But again, the consequences of what was done to me here has taken away the ability to immigrate as per usual. An amazing member of this site once offered to help me with his company abroad and I fought to make that happen but more and more health and financial issues kept hitting me and I couldn't make it happen. When even such an accommodative thing won't work out it robs you of all hope. Occasional rants, when energy and pain allows (the real killer), seem my only attribute at this point. The dying gasps of an angry man.
I wouldn't. That's because I DO have an engineering mindset. A bad platform with tons of hacks to make it work and a severe bug/wrong design hack that has been 'fixed' doesn't imply there isn't more of those we're just not aware of.
AMD Zen 2 Improvements for LLVM Have Been Held Up for Months by Code Review
Nothing precent us to build hybrid electric ships, solar powered in part. Anything that would reduce the combustible bills would be more than welcomed.
This explanation seems somehow off... Wouldn't a 1-2 years degree still show conformity and conscientiousness and delayed gratification? 1-2 years is no small thing.

Don't normal employees also get bored and leave for a different job?

I know for one I would hire kids out of high-school at my company if I had the need for extra work. If they pass the same tests as a college student does, I don't see why not?

Not to mention that from past experience college students learn their 'trade' at the 1st job. There is really not a lot of value add in many college degrees.
It's also a silly quote because people workaround broken software all the time.
I think that is why making the contract visible in the docs/intellisense or similar is valuable: You will understand more about the expectations of the code. Even if are incomplete or partial...
"No measurable effect" is a weak argument - especially considering we're talking about it, and it massively influenced the narrative - amplified by the mainstream media, just like Trump used effectively.

"They vote for who they want to vote for" - you understand manipulation is a thing, right? And that people will believe lies, and that people are often irrational - and therefore when they "decide" who to vote for it might not be logical and based on whatever manipulative messaging, propaganda, they've heard over and over again?
Ah yes, those are clearly harder to game than independently administered tests, and totally won’t advantage those families with resources to buy projects and essays, can afford extra curricular activities, and are able to freely choose school with lenient grading policy.