skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All right. Let me respond point by point.

> > It's not just the Trump thing. He loves to butt heads with the social justice types in a way that makes him look awful. Wrote some creepy antifemist blog-posts too.

> https://ew.com/article/2011/03/30/dilbert-scott-adams-femini...

That article, about a blog post of his, is a hit piece which takes the most inflammatory-sounding quote and displays it out of context. I think his explanatory post (https://www.scottadamssays.com/2011/03/27/im-a-what/), which includes the whole original blog post, explains everything quite clearly. Note that even the original blog post text includes a clarification that precisely the quoted inflammatory-sounding text does not mean what one might be tempted to believe if one were to read it out of context.

> > In the wake of a shooting (can't remember which) he tried to push his WhenHub product as a journalism tool.

> https://mobile.twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/11556797972...

It’s a free app, where people can declare that they have been witnesses to a newsworthy event, and journalists can use the app to find said witnesses and even talk to them using the app. What’s not to like? It’s like mentioning your gas-powered generators rental service during a widespread power outage. It might be slightly self-serving, but it’s useful information, and it’s not like he’s price gouging or taking any specific advantage of people’s misfortune. In fact, the very people who were impacted by the shooting can choose to earn money by setting an hourly price for journalists to interview them. Or they can set the price to zero if they just want to get the information out.

> > Like, Ive seen him in political flamewars on Twitter responding to criticism with pictures of his abs.

> https://mobile.twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/75939845922...

That tweet was a response to someone else’s tweet saying “this coming from the guy who thinks pop news nutrition is same thing as science.” – a picture displaying his health status was a perfectly relevant response (a mite adversarial, but this is Twitter) to something which, mind you, was an irrelevant off-topic ad-hominem personal attack. This is what you call “criticism”?

> Also the sockpuppet incident: https://www.salon.com/2011/04/19/scott_adams_sock_puppetry_s...

Yeah, OK, that one was weird.

> There's also the Affirmations thing - the guy believes in his own brand of The Secret, where writing something down over and over again and wanting it bad enough will magic the universe into making it happen.

> http://mindhacks.org/scott-adams-affirmations/135

What? No. Here’s a direct quote from that very link:

“At this point, allow me to correct a mistake I made the first time that I described my experience with affirmations. If you only hear the objective facts, it sounds as if I believe in some sort of voodoo or magic. That’s not the case. While I do think there is something wonderful and inexplicable about affirmations, I have no reason to conclude it is any more than a pleasant hallucination.”
Why do you think US corporations shouldn't be subject to local laws when they do business around the world?

I'm pretty sure Facebook had no problem taking money from advertisers when users in Singapore viewed ads.....
Monkeys and other animals that have strong social structures will do this for similar reasons.
So what you are saying is that all that is needed is for a newcomer to come and do things a little bit better and it will eat everybody's lunch. Just like google did to search engines when they started.

Sounds like a great business opportunity.
in 1992..1996 FidoNet was almost the only means of connecting with the world in Russia. I think I can still determine the baud rate of the connection by how it sounds.
I would love to teach math to elementary students but I make a base-10 order of magnitude more as a software engineer for a FAANG. I'd take a pay cut of a factor of 4 or 5 to do it in a heartbeat... but having to go back to school to get a teacher's certificate (and likely a master's degree) to get paid 1/10th as much is challenging. I may end up doing it in a couple of years when I'm even more solidly financially independent, but we as a society should probably just be paying teachers a lot more across the board.

I guess there's more money in advertising than educating the next generation.
Of course the Nobel prize for economics is a ruse and at least semi-fraudulent. That's the least surprising thing I think I've ever learned.
Well, royalty are special and weird, and a drop in the bucket, and prove little. My point was that it was a widespread pre-islamic custom, not one which arrived with the book; the geographical correlation with islam is because (as cstross says) it was largely stamped out in Europe a thousand years ago.

It's my understanding that cousin-marriage was rare among european Jews, but a bit more common elsewhere. (Not sure if as high as the surrounding peoples, not sure.) There are indeed rare and interesting genetic conditions in some Jewish groups, but that's another story.

(Am surprised by Tamil Nadu's 38%, thanks. But certainly north-indians take dowry pretty seriously, while avoiding cousins.)
The author unfortunately has a misunderstanding of equality.

Quoting him, "The equal sign is another mathematical concept that’s often misunderstood. It means, of course, that whatever is on either side of the equal sign is equivalent." This is actually wrong.

The equals sign (=) is a shorthand for stating not that the two sides are equivalent, but that they are the same (i.e., they are equal).

If they were just equivalent, we would use another sign, like ≡ (unicode U+2261).
This brings back so many good memories. Getting a message from someone on the other side of the world and thinking "are you kidding me?". This was back in '94 and this document about Fidonet's beginnings was written in '85. It just goes to show how far behind my country was.
You have to have 50 or more employees for the business to be required to follow FMLA.
Chapter 2 is also available:

"Optimism as an Operating System"

https://tomcritchlow.com/2019/11/19/optimism-operating-syste...

I'm really looking forward to chapter 4, "Status Switching", as it's a skill I'm very keen to further develop.

I wish I could get an email as soon as it's posted.
I'm not in the industry so please forgive my ignorance, but what is ad tracing? Is it the same as ad tracking, if it is then I really don't understand as there seems to be a huge amount of tracking going on!
This article is about as insufferable as most improv groups.
Your school had a special fake Math degree for aspirant teachers? What was it called, Math for Educators? Was there any indication on the transcript or diploma that it wasn’t a real Math degree?
What mistake is that? The left hand variable equals the right hand value assigned to it.

Foo = bar and 1 = 1 are equivalent in my mind.
> This amounted to 51 studies, 75 independent participant samples, and over 36,500 participant observations. The researchers then tallied the correlations between these measures.

Meta analysis can be interesting if done well, but a lot of the time it simply reinforces the publication bias / bottom drawer effect, and people who create meta studies are unlikely to closely examine the quality of each individual study.

I intuitively agree with the conclusion but the study itself looks like GIGO
(2 + 3) and 5 are not “the same”. If we’re using ordinary English language to discuss this issue I think “equivalent” is a sensible choice.
The entire system of police does not work if you are allowed to just not do what the police tell you to because you think it is stupid. You can do that democratically, but not individually. Just like companies allow you to tell your boss they are being stupid, but not to stand up and say so at the employee meeting. The authority hierarchy is more important than the actual issue.

I should say that purposely getting arrested on video to highlight the stupidity of the sandwich thing is a good tactic for getting it changed. I support the guy's actions if that was his intent.
https://beta.trimread.com/articles/551
Do you have a citation for the formerly same life expectancy in men and women. I cannot find any.
I don’t understand what you’re implying, other than “this thing exists”.

Read those minutes, and you’ll find that every “interesting” section is filled with redacted text. If anything, that should make any outside observer more skeptical.
Well I haven't used the tool but I kinda just assumed they would do a good job at this. If all they do is implement each page independently of each other and there's not vue best practices then it's really useless. But I assume it would handle the complexity of the UI.
Wasn't the premise of the article that the reason U.S. students perform so poorly in math in higher grades is because they are only being taught to memorize arithmetical facts and algorithms without properly learning the reasoning behind them? It seems you're prescribing the cause of the problem.
Virgil Griffith from Ethereum Advises North Korea How to Avoid Sanctions
I have a hunch it might be partially due to vendors being willing to fudge their numbers for the sake of marketing.

Selling into the gaming market, label it 3600 and if it crashes, they'll just tweak the clock and keep going. Selling into the server market, customers have a different expectation.

Also many DDR-3600 modules can only run that way if they're the only DIMM on the bus. Populate two and you're down to 3333 or slower. Nobody runs a server with one DIMM, so again, the faster number simply doesn't apply to the ECC market, even if it's the very same chips.

(Get more than two on the same channel, and you need to add buffers to drive the trace capacitance, which adds latency.)

This suggests, perhaps, that you might be able to get some ECC DIMMs and overclock them all to hell and gone, if you're only running a single one per channel.
Thank you, your blog posts are really informative and clear. I am guessing from the last two you have working SMTP, and that's the step I'm stuck on. Any advice?
https://beta.trimread.com/articles/552
Blocked Periodization: A New Method to Enhance Learning
I think AMD needs to take a page from Nvidia and really get their software together. The CPU and GPU libraries are a mess. There are multiple versions of libraries where in some cases both are maintained and it's not clear which to use, and in others, one is dead but may perform better than the new one. Intel and Nvidia let you download a single package for all scientific computing.
Yes. One could conceivably draw a parallel to the DEA running a fake gang to haul in illegal drug suppliers.
it also makes sense for stdout, e.g. when you're spewing binary data that might corrupt a terminal.
It might look odd but to me it is no difference in saying that charismatic religious leaders are good at convincing people, even if the vast majority that represent non-believers think that the person is nuts.

I am sure that I am not the first person looking at the polarization of US politics and finding similarities to religion, and with religion it makes sense that the more conflict there is between religions, the more set in stone people's beliefs become. It is likely even a effective strategy for religious leaders in position of power to fuel that conflict in order to cement their followers' conviction even further.
I don't think that is true anymore. AMD has a process advantage and measures their heat by the max clock rate, while Intel calls their max clock rate 'core boost' and measures their TDP with lower clocks. You can see benchmarks of the newest CPUs have Intel's high end chip that was just released ending up consuming about 100 more watts under heavy CPU loads.
It's scaremongering, and it's an ingrained dimension in politics - not only in climate matters. He wins who scares uninitiated people the most. We see it on the other side of the political spectrum with the demonizing of people of the Muslim faith and/or African origin too. Maybe soon to come; the Chinese are inherently evil?

I don't even agree that what is at stake is our standard of living. There will be changes yes, but the real issue is, how are we going to handle the migratory pressures brought on by the coming warming (or cooling as it may be, no-one knows the exact outcome of a succession of tipping points). It requires reason and compassion, not panic.
Sometimes even if you drag your brain kicking and screaming through a mathematical topic, it just doesn’t give a shit. I felt the same thing about polynomial long division back in high school — it was just a bunch of gobbledeygook — so I’d forget how to do it, and then divide polynomials by ad-hoc trial multiplication/subtraction, until I figured out the most convenient way to do that was to first cancel away the leading term. And today, I’m uncomfortable with multivariable calculus. I’ve made a few abortive attempts to acclimate to it, and I’m sure I could force myself to get there if I needed to, but right now that’s just not important.
Its weird that education is payed for completely by property taxes in the US.
The benefits of education go to more than just the (parents of) the recipients of that education. You also get weird incentives for people to reduce these taxes if they send their children to private schools.
There is Arca Noae[1], but I don't know how successful their business is.

[1] https://www.arcanoae.com/
Ask HN: Is Anyone Hiring GCP Engineers?
The larger question is if who decides what's fact and fiction. Depending on where you stand on your political leanings, you can choose to select or reject facts
My thread didn't get much momentum:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664582

But the linked article has pre-filled form letters you can use to send complaints to the IRS, and a copy of a letter I sent to the AG in CA and VA, which may provide some inspiration for anyone who wants to write a similar letter.

https://drewdevault.com/2019/11/29/dotorg.html
I'm skeptical about "multi cloud eats cloud". If you're going to be boxed into using a lowest common denominator of services, cloud has less value. You might as well jump straight to hosted bare metal. The skill sets needed aren't much different than multi-cloud, and it's much cheaper.
The press release says "Ethos Capital’s acquisition of Public Interest Registry from the Internet Society". Public Interest Registry says on its website: "Based in Reston, Virginia, Public Interest Registry is a not-for–profit organization created by the Internet Society (ISOC), originally to manage the .ORG domain." and has links to IRS Form 990.

It's possible that Ethos Capital is being imprecise are not technically acquiring PIR, but it certainly reads that way.
I've heard that too. And it seems that something like that took place [0]. Not "a guest", but "close friend" though.

[0]: "American Anthropology, 1888-1920: Papers from the American Anthropologist" ISBN 0803280084 page 479
I believe I tried it a week or so after it launched. Although, I still stand by my point that Firefox Mobile offers the privacy-oriented approach of the DDG app and so much more via addons that it's pretty hard to justify using the DDG app unless the phone is really low-end enough that Firefox chugs on it
So do Pascal and Ada, but using "the = character with a tiny dot next to it" doesn't sound like it will avoid the fundamental issue here. That's just extra syntax to help remind the programmer whether they're assigning or comparing. It still basically looks like "=". That's why it was chosen.

(I wouldn't call J's = "the mathematical sense", either, as I don't know any mathematicians who would say that = is an operator that evaluates to 1 when the two sides are within 2⁻⁴⁴. The mathematical sense is merely a statement of fact, e.g., "x+10=y+10", when x is 5 and y is unknown, should mathematically result in knowing that y is also 5. Wolfram is the only language I know offhand that does anything like this.)

Forth, Lisp, Scheme, APL, R, Logo, Cobol, and assembly all have a variable assignment syntax that doesn't use the "=" character at all. Only 2 of them even use the form "varname SYMBOL expression".

I probably wouldn't recommend assembly language as a teaching language, but you have to admit no assembly programmer ever confused LDA and CMP.
I believe they are called Cuisenaire Rods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods
Yes; that's how it's been solved in the past. In Google Maps, for instance, disputed national borders will show up differently depending on what nation the system determines the request is coming from. And Twitter hides some feeds in countries where advocating for Naziism is illegal (leading to the funny side effect that even though Twitter won't ban the feeds in the US, some quick queries routed through an appropriate VPN can tell a person whether Twitter has flagged an account as a Nazi sympathizer).
> Full text search ... I found the database got a little sluggish, and nearly 1/2 a GB in size when using it so I am leaving it out for now.

That's surprising, I did solve the same problem for my org-mode client (https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash) but using the full text search capabilities of sqlite. I was amazed by its performance, not sluggish at all and could handle anything I'd throw at it, especially with a number of files that doesn't go much above the thousand. Here is what the code look like from a sqlite perspective: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/blob/f5f0f30cea...
Here’s what happened to me recently. I’m cycling home on a dark wet Friday evening. My commute was 18km then and I was halfway home. I’m in a cycle lane doing maybe 20 km/h and traffic is all held up. I was doored before so I’m watching the cars carefully. Suddenly a car about 20 metres up ahead of me veers into the cycle lane and mounts the footpath with his car straddling the cycle lane. I slow down and let the idiot complete his crazy left turn (we drive on the left here in Ireland). As I get to the junction (it’s wide with an island between lanes) there’s a car looking to pull out into the stagnant traffic. I make eye contact and since he has to cross my lane to enter the main road I have right of way so I proceed. He, while staring right at me starts to pull out and I’ve no time to react. I go over his bonnet (hood) and land hard in my back in the middle of the main road. I’m still clipped into my bike and it comes crashing on my face. As I’m lying there in shock another car that was coming the opposite direction to me decides this is his chance and takes the exit and proceeds to drive over my bike with me under it and disappear. Fortunately I want hurt any further.

I’m dressed up in high-viz clothing. I have award winning front and rear lights that is approved by various EU road safely groups yet here we have two motorists that just didn’t bother their holes to look and a third that didn’t care if they murdered me.

I had to pick myself up, fix my bike and limp the rest of the way home. While the driver that pulled out under me was apologetic (his wife less so) nobody else stopped to help. Nobody cared that the third car nearly killed me.
That actually sounds like ads helped them find a market, they didn’t come up with themselves.
That’s actually not completely unreasonable, given that domain registration payouts are essentially perpetuities. If a popular, long-standing domain gets dropped, it’s likely it’ll just get picked up by someone else.
Mapping more of China's tech giants: AI and surveillance
Instead of a warning it could grep the contents of the current directory. I bet that would work if you were imagining a use case of typing your pipeline on the command line.
You make it sound like readers will slavishly accept what the government has decided. That's not realistic. They're not censoring so how is this not just more speech? In that sense is positive. Some people will accept it blindly, but then again people accept the most mindless BS because someone wrote it on FB.

I don't mind that the government gives me their view, since I'm free to disregard it, or use it to take a contrary view.

The fact is that people have to learn how to read and think critically, and for themselves, there is no other way.
The microphone had trouble determining which octave my voice was in, interestingly. It would jump up and down an octave while I was holding a steady pitch.

Whistling it had no trouble and I made it up to a F#7.
Thanks a lot for the suggestion! I will do that, and along the way add locks for all the alive variables for concurrency safety.
We have a tendency to measure intelligence as the ability to communicate well with humans. Our pets are "smart" because they have been practicing for millennia. Our children are smart when they show empathy and strong verbal skills. I'm not sure that we are equipped to measure intelligence in other animals, and I doubt we would even recognize intelligent alien life.
The joint nobel was awarded

> "in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system"

Not cell biology, not lab techniques, but work on specifically the structure of the structure of the nervous system.
> things which where already proven wrong

Proven by whom?
Pedantry taken to its logical limit. Just another day here on HN.

I will counter by saying that, functionally, there is little difference. What is at stake is our means of feeding ourselves. Our means of getting enough drinking water for all of us. For some stability and order and for their not to be anarchy. For having the remotest signs of biodiversity around.

If, a thousand years hence, there are still humans around, who gives a shit. Because what will have been lost is so grave in magnitude, and so unnecessary, that it would be a shame to even call it life.

The reason for this storm in a teacup is that useful posts such as this one get derailed by fruitless discussions about the words themselves or arguing about things that don't matter.

At any rate, my take is that it's an excellent move by the Guardian, and I hope NYT also follows suit and starts calling it climate crisis. Our challenges are SO huge that it's difficult to be hyperbolic enough at all. EVERY single biomarker that you can think of is off the chart perilously.

We are wreaking absolute havoc on every single system critical in supporting life, and it I'm all for terming it in as alarmist a tone as necessary.
Doesn’t even show the original post. Stupid bullshit.
* IIRC it's much less common in Hindu tradition (where the pattern was larger caste groups instead).

In Hindu families too it was not that uncommon at all, though this trend has declined in the current generation marriages.
I can see the need for large projects to add structure between frontend and backend.

But until you hit that point you're better off with RPC. "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" holds here as well. A startup should start with RPC and solve structural problems as they arise. RPC has no lock-in; you can progressively replace RPC endpoints with a REST/GraphQL API.

The nice thing here is that, once you hit structural problems, it will become much clearer what the right solution is. Will it be REST or GraphQL? Or maybe something else entirely such as domain-driven separation of concerns? You will know better than today.

It is virtually impossible to know the needs of an architecture that doesn't exist yet.

Today REST and GraphQL are the default choice. But really, it is RPC that should be the default choice. And that's a widespread mistake in the dev community.

Wouldn't you agree? I'm curious to know what your thoughts are.
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I think you can - there is a link to sign up for the newsletter at the bottom of the page
Yeah, a single iso can be recovered from multiple disks with different damaged sections using software like ddrescue[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ddrescue