skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing on the level of inconvenience that man experiences, but the other day I went to the Argos to buy some stuff and they have a new system where they ask you to input your first name as an identifier for your order.

So I entered mine, which is "stassa", and ... I got an error message saying my "memorable word is invalid". I got a screenshot and all:

https://imgur.com/a/En4dBQO

The error message says "Sorry, your memorable word is invalid; please enter a different word".

So I entered "alice" and that was accepted. I guess, they originally had a message prompting the user for a "memorable word" not to enter their "first name". I didn't try it because I was in a hurry but I bet their system is setup to accept only dictionary words, but then they realised that most people will just enter whatever comes to their mind and often fail to match the dictionary that (I assume) the Argos developers have chosen as "standard".

So now they're asking people to enter their names... and that also fails because people often have names that are not in the dictionary. Like mine that just happens to be foreign (for the UK; it's a Greek name).

I just imagine the looks of confusion on people called Sandeep (not a British English dictionary word) or LaRonda (not one either) or Marek (also not) etc. "But, it says my name is invalid. What do I do?".

Automation, eh?

Edit: I wasn't buying what's partly showing on the left of the image, btw :)
What's the best way to watch for updates on your next Rust stack?
> left wingers are more shocked and appalled that someone would lie on the internet.

You have to be kidding
> One way to identify hoax articles included examining the article structure and content, its mentions in other articles on Wikipedia (i.e., embeddedness), and features of the editor who created the page. Specifically, hoax articles are likely to be longer than a legitimate article, less likely to have links to other Wikipedia articles, references, images, or other "wiki-like" markup, less likely to be mentioned in other Wikipedia articles before its creation, and more likely to be created by a new account with few to no other edits.

Wikipedia benefits from this kind of metadata. Earlier ages didn't.

The large number of articles, some of them evading detection for many years, makes you wonder about the hoaxes that may have been perpetrated in earlier times, but are now accepted as fact.
He made his own font, and distributed it on floppy disks to members of the press, along with complete step-by-step instruction for how to refer to the artist by name in print, and how install the font on Mac and PC!

https://milk.com/wall-o-shame/bruce_font.html

>[P] Background: On June 7, 1993, mega-star Prince surprised fans and the entertainment industry when he announced that he was separating from his band New Power Generation and changing his name. At the time, the performer legally changed his name top the symbol [P], which has no verbal pronunciation or spelling. He did not reveal his reason for the change.
26.2 miles can be laid out anywhere in a rural or suburban area. Those of us that run on country roads know that space is never a problem. There is no need for it to be run in the heart of a city other than vanity and trying to leech money from the attendees.
I think it's very simple, when like counts are hidden to yourself and others, the impact of your individual like is reduced, and so it's less rewarding to do.
I've never seen the Wright brothers beaten up like this. One brother died trying to improve their invention, and the other died in extreme poverty in a small apartment after suffering from a car accident for years. He had received tons of awards from the industry, but those were meaningless to him. He was more interested in documenting the history of his brother's contributions. The general vibe of this thread is incredible to me.
I realize and appreciate your point, but are you willing to consider the possibility that there's something important going on here that you may be overlooking? "Stop writing irrelevant stuff, just stop it" suggests not, but I try to not make assumptions.

> If I say something like, "veganism is unhealthy" (because of lack of B12... yes I'm aware there are nuances), some vegans interpret that as a statement of opinion, rather than a statement of fact, or even as an attack on their lifestyle choices, because they are so involved with their egos.

tomp wisely acknowledges, within brackets, that there are nuances, but statements like "veganism is unhealthy" are incredibly vague, and the very real nuances will be automatically constructed and appended to the message (and attributed to the speaker) by the listener's brain, typically without their conscious knowledge, and often in a manner not to your liking. Should people be like this? Who knows. Are they like this? Of course, and we all know it when the topic of conversation is psychology, but how easy it is to forget this when the topic is something else.

"they are so involved with their egos" seems to me of key importance, but it's so easy to forget that we are all involved with our egos. I listen to a fair amount of lectures by experienced Buddhists, people who devote their lives to observing their own minds, and a recurring theme that arises is that even with the substantial discipline and skills they've acquired in that field, they are still regularly fooled by their egos.

> but for the time being I've started to moderate my stated opinions to spare other people's feelings (though I still think it would be better if they grew more emotionally mature, but I realize that's unlikely to happen)

"feelings" is a tricky term in this context. What does it mean, really? Sometimes, it accurately refers to simplistic, emotional, low-information emotional reactions, as opposed to logical thinking. But is this always the case? Might there be times that it is perceived that this is what's happening in someone else, but in reality there is an unseen, complex multi-dimensional (nuanced) analysis taking place that happens to come to a different (and not incorrect) conclusion than the one (also not incorrect, considering the implicitly assumed nuances) that you or I might have formed?

Getting along can be amazingly difficult even in the simplest of situations (say, a family or team consisting of only 4 or 5 people, who mostly have aligned interests). But look at how the complexity, interconnectedness, and technical capabilities of the world has exploded in the last 50, 20, or even 10 years. And we're managing all of this complexity with largely the same political and psychological tools that we used when half of us were farming the land, with the addition of some "weaponized" psychological capabilities and techniques (mass media, internet, machine learning) thrown into the mix to make things even more interesting.

Considering all this, how reasonable does this common "just look at the facts and agree with me already" attitude seem?
By symmetry, there are two similar layouts that order cylinders from inside to outside, but I have not seen these used.

That's because the fastest transfer speeds occur at the outside, and drives are filled starting from the first logical block (often the first set of files to appear on a drive is the OS), so it makes sense to.

Interestingly, optical media (DVDs, CDs, BDs, LDs) start at the innermost radius so the fastest transfer speeds are at the end. On the other hand, bare optical media is handled physically and the outer edges are more likely to be damaged, so it makes sense to start on the inside (and the initial sectors contain critical information about the media, which if damaged would render it completely unreadable) --- I don't know if this is the official reason for the layout, but it's plausible. Here's an informative graphic comparison:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_disk_storage.s...
The Us military, algorithmic warfare, and big tech
Well, then maybe people ought to disregard it when someone is wearing a MAGA hat, or bringing politics up in any other way. Because not doing so will only lead some people to do it more often just to spite them.

If it has no effect, people stop doing it (same applies for overt racism, actually). If you want politics out of IT, then just ignore it. That's what they should've done, instead of calling it into everyone's attention like they did.
My brother built a wedding photography business in ~2008. He filled out the entire first summer of bookings with $50 of highly targeted facebook ads (female, engaged, 200mi radius).

The same ads today would be much more competitive, but there's a huge amount of leverage here.
It might be somewhat collectively balanced, but I certainly wouldn't call it symmetric.

People don't realize that the Obama campaign and Cambridge Analytica were essentially doing the exact same thing. CA just didn't have explicit permission.

The bigger problem is that Facebook denied everyone else the same inside access that it proactively offered to the Obama campaign. Which is the only reason CA was doing it in the first place.
Good analysis - you should check out credder.com - you might like it because you clearly have some skill with breaking down articles

... see what I just did there...
The article serves as a prompt for top-level comments. Back in the forum days it really depended on if someone had a question, etc. When I was single digits age my first social internet experiences were on a near-death/paranormal forum. After a couple of years every topic had been exhausted and questions and conversations reoccurred more and more. It got boring.
I'm not trying to pull a "gotcha!" or oversimplify your position or anything else devious. I am honestly curious about your answer to this question, given your position above:

What do you think about cases where the accused is found not guilty after some long period of time (longer than your five years, or any other threshold we might negotiate)? There are certainly cases where accused have been released after such time spans. There are also cases of accused being pardoned or having their sentences commuted after this period of time. These people would be denied that chance if they were killed instead.
It's generational. I grew up with Clarence Birdseye commercials so I immediately knew who they were talking about from the article title. Who says you can't learn anything from TV?

https://youtu.be/HM65j-w0uYw
Yes, I was thinking the same thing, about how laws against murdering disproportionately affect men. Surely there is reasonable doubt that the law is just our matriarchal society doing testes-policing.
What I'm saying has nothing to do with whether something is factual or not.

We say congratulations to people when they get engaged because it is nice to do so.
That's not evidence, that's a motive. On the other hand it's a fact that tobacco companies have spent money on campaigns against various e-cigarette bans[1] and publicly argued against them as well[2].

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/news/issues/e-cigarettes
[2] https://prospect.org/health/big-tobacco-lobbied-to-save-vapi...
When I first got on the Internet it was great for me since I was ultra shy. I felt like I could reveal my true self.

But now 25 years later I see the Internet as a tool to allow people to be downright evil. I can't believe people are or would act this way in real life.
It's never just one road... they're long distance marathons not foot races.
Thanks for the suggestion. I think mostly people who want to use LuaJIT as a backend for another language, not primarily Lua programmers, might be interested in my work. Here is an article describing the project: https://medium.com/@rochus.keller/implementing-call-by-refer...
That doesn’t feel like the right question to me. I’d say you’re your “true self”, given your environment, in each situation.
> I'm saying that balance isn't important.

Ok, now I finally understand your disagreement with Hossenfelder. BTW, I neither agree nor disagree with her. I'm not a physicist, I just don't think her argument, if her description of the facts is reasonable, is so obviously silly, so I'm interested to know what those of her fellow physicists who disagree with her argue.

So if I understand you correctly, you agree with her premise that the gap between hypothesis and experiment is widening, but you think it's OK. She says that this view is overly optimistic, and clearly you disagree with that conclusion. I'm curious to know how you justify this optimism. Is it just because you think there is no other way or do you see some more concrete reasons for optimism?

> What is glossed over is that the confirmation of the Standard Model required particle accelerators

I don't think it's glossed over at all. I think her point is that the rising cost of experimentation should have an impact on theory as well.

> We theorized, we imagined, and then we experimented and confirmed.

Right, and I think she would say that a great percentage of the work being done now has no feasible plan for experimentation within a century, so instead of spending that time on speculation, why not let the feasibility of experimentation at least educate the theoretical focus?

> To zoom out, Sabine has been slowly building up a campaign of doubting gravitational-wave observation technology. I feel like her position is that any big-science expenditure is a poor use of public funds, and that she is willing to work backwards from those conclusions.

You may well be right about this. Not being a physicist, and not knowing her record aside from that one article, which I found to be very well-argued, I have no additional knowledge on the matter.
In the 1930s, to be clear. Technology has advanced considerably.
I could be interested in writing one, having just written a semi complex wishlist management app with some overlap in user management features. Would nodejs suit a project like this do you think?
So much that! Also under appreciated: plots and OLS.

Start plotting before firing up the GPUs, then compare to standard OLS - like in this article!

Suggested reading if you don't know OLS: ML from scratch.
Vitamin D is pretty well studied as an immunomodulator, and there is a connection between inflammation and autoimmune disease.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166406/
> And ~50% of the American voting public chose him over Hillary, because it was a shit sandwich vs giant douche race, you can't reasonably suggest banning all those people from Linux conferences.

That is a very different situation to choosing to wear a MAGA hat. Choosing to wear a MAGA hat at a large event is a conscious decision to broadcast your endorsement of Trump's policies, ideology, and everything else. It means you want people to know you agree with Trump's stance on immigrants, women, and all the other shit.

Maybe such people still shouldn't be banned from a Linux conference, but they absolutely should be considered as racists and misogynists.
Tooling is not the issue here, nor is autoloading.

ISO C and C++ doesn't provide tooling, nor should any language. Tooling is better handled by third parties and implementers. Language should be focused on application and execution of the language. Unfortunately for PHP the language and implementation are tightly coupled as is Java and Swift.

A well constructed modern PHP project using composer has the tooling needed to statically validate. Personally I use PHPStorm but I also use IntelliJ for Java and Android. There are others out there as well.

Autoloading used correctly is no more than Java using a package line or namespace.

I find no problem with TypeScript and others. I however have a 10+ million line code base of PHP that predates TypeScript and others and needs to get a viable transition path. This gets things closer with real type errors at runtime. That is way better than my mainframe COBOL counterparts who have no path forward at the level of modern code.
The lack of political will and the form of legislation are the questions.

If the rule is that telcos must eat the cost of a scam, they will drag it out in court and the consumer must still prove it.

If the rule is that each robocall that makes it through must be paid by the telcos (take the consumer out of this), then telcos will battle each other to try and insist that the other party is responsible.

At some point they may even come to a consensus and protocol that protects the customer.

I prefer this option.

There may be other options. Just don’t put the burden on the individual customer.

Edit: Even better, allow bounties so that lawyers can start hunting for robocalls that went through.
Well they don’t have to make the standards themselves. They would delegate that to an organization like NIST.

The constitution does give Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce and weights & measures.
The user still gets a notification that I liked it, though. That's the only impact I care about in regards to my own like.
This is a message to ianwalter: your arguments are sound, both in form and substance, and are made in good faith. It pains me to see you waste your energy on educating a group a people who are so willfully ignorant that they would rather attack you with bad faith arguments and downvotes than listen.

It pains me even more to see bend over backwards to justify yourself to people such as Throwawayaerlei. To them, this is just perverse entertainment. They are not actually interested in what you have to say. You don't owe these people, or any of the other bad-faith participants in this thread, a response. If I were you, I would leave them in their morally backwards bubble, and move on.
But “veganism is unhealthy” is an opinion. Your parenthetical about the lack of B12 indicates that you know this, and that the topic is more nuanced. If you don’t normally qualify that statement, why did you choose to do so here?

Frankly, I don’t believe that you don’t mean it as an attack on the lifestyle choices of others, and I’m not surprised that people get defensive.
I doubt it will surprise you, but many disagrees with you. Using Haskell isn't a burden - on the contrary, it's far easier to get stuff working correctly. The type checker looks over your shoulder and stays out of the way until you make a blunder. It's not uncommon for things to work as soon as they pass the compiler. I work in C every day and this is not the typical experience there.

I'm hugely interested in Rust, but I'm disappointed that they felt the need to rename all concepts and adopt an ugly syntax. I assume it was done to attract the C++ crowd.
My VOIP vendor provides a spam-scoring system for inbound calls from an outfit called TreCNAM. Needs more participation to be highly effective, but it's an idea!

The VOIP vendor also enables call treatments that can require a caller to press a specific number after the call is connected, before it actually rings, and to whitelist specific legitimate callers. Together, those phone screening tool reduced rings from robocallers on my VOIP phone to a very rare event.
If you need a continuously updated Debian then Kali may fit the bill - it’s not just for security work.
> At first, mrkwords.sh will pick a random line from the model and pick the first word of the pair as the first word of our output message.

In my opinion, this is not the best way to do it. This will generate sentences that start with words that can never start sentences.

The best thing to do is to define a "sentinel" to go at the start and end of a sentence. For example, a "$" sign, or a NUL byte. Then to generate a sentence you set the initial state to your sentinel value, and generate forwards from there until you have reached another sentinel, at which point the sentence ends. When building your dictionary, you prepend (and append) a sentinel value to each sentence you add.

It might not sound like it, but this is a big improvement in the quality of sentence generation. For example, it will work out on its own that sentences start with capital letters and end with full stops, and it also tends to reduce the amount of obvious "fragment" sentences that get generated. An example of a "fragment" sentence would be, e.g. "own that sentences start with capital letters and" - all of the state transitions are valid, but the start and end of the sentence are not actually start and end states.

(I acknowledge that the linked project actually does end sentences at valid end states, but failing to do so is another common mistake of the same type).
Oh how I wish that was actually true.
This is it, I think.

There's a huge difference between propaganda that strengthens filter bubbles and ads for selling stuff to people.

But as other note, this is not just about one political group. For example, Obama bragged about his social media campaign, and Trump bragged about his.
Two Brothers Started a $3.5K/Month Side Hustle Sells Custom Maps
Even if you were owed money? I could see if you tried to get money but this is money already owed to you.

Collection agencies (or whatever they are called in the US) hound people for money they owe to third parties. They often call your workplace or relatives as a way to get you pay.
This resonates. As a nerdy adolescent in BC, I couldn't understand why I sometimes felt gaslit and confused after seemingly polite exchanges. Moving to east coast USA fixed it--I'll take candor and tough love over passive aggression any day. I recognize it's not for everyone, but this worked for me.
From 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8084880

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1479870
Guardian are UK based. The far left in the UK barely exist, or at least are spread so thin they barely matter. There's dozens (hundreds?) of fringe groups still, and sub-groups within Labour.

The right seem to have had their Internet act rather more together - whether the ERG wing of the Tories, UKIP, or the outright fascist Britain First. Or at least slightly less inclined to split into the People's Front of Judea, Judean People's Front, Popular Judean People's Front - membership of one, etc.

Maybe a better question is why the far left haven't been able to replicate what might seem pretty obvious for a fringe group? I suspect in other parts of Europe they are doing much better at it...
>Do any relational databases have them? I’ve never understood why not

For one, because they need a fixed binary representation for the type, to persist it on disk. In a programming language yoi do things in memory, so you don't have that issue...

Still, you could have had union types, or even coerce everything as string, as SQLite does, but it would be bad for performance as they'd need an alternate representation.
Indeed. That would be a good argument that social media, circa 2008, was biased towards the left, not against it.
> It can (and does) take days for critical security updates to migrate from unstable to testing after stable has access to patched version.

Now you are making way to many assumptions with this phrase.

Do you really think that make sense to have critical security updates for stable having to pass through the normal release cycle? :)
A good explanation for prophet that made it click for me was its recreation with python in pymc

https://www.ritchievink.com/blog/2018/10/09/build-facebooks-...
We repeatedly celebrate employees prioritizing their families over their work, and we make every effort to avoid taking on projects or commitments like 24/7 support that might threaten that. In short, we plan the company around our lives, not the other way around.

Of course, the counterpoint here is that people still need to add value and get things done. So we also very much celebrate shipping and moving the ball forward each week.
Please define what you mean by "heavily processed foods". People use those terms for anything they think is bad without any consistency.
Facebook ads were so underpriced for a while, you could get 10x ROI. Nowadays you get what you pay for.
Yes I do agree. But not on the scale it is collected right now.

Please also note that I basically repeated what Snowden said in the video.