skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:
"One way to restore trust is to give power back to the people, enabling them to choose what stories matter most to them. By doing this, we can revolutionise the current state of the news media — from an entity that dictates information to an industry that only reports legitimate information that has been requested by the population."

That's the only solution that's offered, and a bad one at that. Letting "the people decide", e.g. democratizing the news, is a bad idea. How would we know what to choose? How would we know that there's an important issue out there that needs to be reported on, beforehand? Normal people aren't investigative reporters.

I don't have a solution either, but I know what it is we need. We need good journalists to do good journalism and be able to choose freely what they research and report on. The current for-profit corporate structure of the news media is incompatible with that.

That's why you get more truth nowadays from independent journalists, researchers and content creators than from the corporate media, which will almost exclusively lie to you to further an agenda. It's very hard to separate the weed from the chaff though, and it requires a lot of critical thinking and observation of the reader.
What's your baseline for setting said wages? San Francisco, with its famously unreasonable rent to income ratio? Or should we set it to a global average?

"Remote work" is available to a vanishingly thin section of population, even those working in programming/software development/whatever.
I've seen a shop owner in Gokarna cleaning very carefully the shop and then getting an icecream and throwing the paper right at his own doorstep.
I've seen a lady in a second class train in Mumbai throwing plastic out of the window.
And many other similar things.
It's a cultural thing.
Rome is dirty, milan is less and Munich is clean.
It's cultural. Period.
Needs to be a SPA with autoplaying video, nagging popups and 100MB+ of JS dependencies. Oh, and it needs to show a blank page to anyone who dares have JS disabled.
I agree.

If the belief is that the press (news) should be free and unencumbered to report the truth, and accepting all solutions are imperfect, then I think its a case of removing the worst influences in alignment with that goal.

Media conglomerates and billionaires usually have competing interests due to their diverse interests and influence. So my suggestion is not to remove them or exclude them from news but to limit the number of levers they can pull within news.

I accept that my thoughts are imperfect and flawed also, so offer them for discussion and nothing else.
> In the meantime, non-technical people only give you weird disbelieving looks when you mention this to them, and then continue ignoring it.

It’s psychological. People can’t believe things which would make it too hard for them to stay the person they currently are. It’s almost impossible for anyone to do anything but ignore and repress such information. If you ask them later about it, they probably would deny even hearing it or having the conversation, because they wouldn’t actually remember it.

Ask anyone who tried to convince a sweeping societal change based on logical arguments. See what happened to Ignaz Semmelweis. You simply can’t convince people of hard things with logic.
identify potential biases in a source and then filter the information of that source through a bias lense, then use another source and do the same thing to triangulate "the truth"

giving up on consuming news because everything might be biased is simply lazy
Are you actually a customer of theirs?
Tried the man who folded himsel, the time machine and some others but got no hits. I hope my taste is not too bad or that I'm blind...
First, start by seriously broadening the range of sources you get your news from. Specifically, choose to put in some "contrary" sources to those you are used to.
Second, analyse and average out the stances & reporting angle from the articles that are put out about any subject. Finally, be mindful to always look at things critically and don't take things at face value. These are businesses and therefore have agendas. Besides Google News there's nothing out there that is able to cluster news articles from multiple sources into a single topic, so here's my shameless plug: https://thoro.news
I used to be a total Gitlab fanboy. I was going to Sid's meetups back in Utrecht 6 years ago, and he's a model of mine to this time.

I would have done anything to stay on the platform, for at home and the office and setup gitlab instances in two different offices.

Since somewhere last year, I moved back to Github primarily, and I'm sad to hear that my company is likely to make the same choice soon.The only reason is stability, and that's a little sad to me. I really want to love the product, but I need something that just works; not bells and whistles
*How Y combinator started according to pg at that time thinking about writing a blog post to people that will be read even in a few years.

meaning:

This is not really the truth, about how y combinator started in case you want to clone "their secret formula" based upon this blog post.
I don't know what you're talking about. I've used Debian, then Ubuntu for decades. I'm lucky I don't need the few commercial apps that hold people back, so I get the advantages of everything just working, with a good package system that whole time. These days so much is available in the browser or distributed systems, it's even easier.

As for 1.77% (excluding ChromeOS and Android based desktop apps, of course), I'm going to guess those people are more significant in terms of software development and user advocacy, on their own and in networks, than the bulk of users. Certainly constantly compromising and taking the enclosed garden path has its drawbacks for the larger community.
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I think yours is an extremely idiosyncratic special case, and there are always going to be one-off special cases. You can't reasonably expect policy for the other 330 million users to grind to a halt to solve something that you could solve yourself by logging in once every six months.
Why doesn't everything charge via USB?
there have been numerous examples of fabricated information or outright propaganda in mainstream media in the past. Most recently the fake news stories regarding ISIS from ABC.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dan-gainor-fake-news-abc-fal...
The numerator integral must decline rapidly as a function of TH unless the radiative efficiency is a strong function of time, which seems unlikely. Most of the actual warming effect of a methane release would occur in the first three decades, after which there would be a long tail of slight warming. Methane is not irrelevant, but "global warming potential" seems to obscure the actual time varying nature of the relative impacts. Methane is actually a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide in the short run and less strong in the long run that global warming potential would indicate.
News shouldn't have a political agenda it should have a factual agenda. It's raining in Florida would be a fact. Trump is campaigning in Florida is a fact (I dont know if he is, just an example). Trump is winning over the Floridan people with his exciting rallie displays a political agenda.
Molten salt towers don't heat above 800 iirc. If they were designed for storing more energy it would come from more mass. It goes without saying that the benefit of salt is reduced once it becomes gasified.
The only assertion I made is that the earth has been much warmer pre-historically, which is a well-known fact and can easily be verified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record
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Its 15 quid or so and if you wear glasses a lot having the anti reflection etc does make sense - if your just using occasionally not so much.
Typed properties are well overdue! PHP is almost sexy again...
The link doesn't work, but I'm keen to check this out as the handle I want is taken!
Here I must praise KiCad. It is one of the best pieces of FOSS software out there. It beats almost all other (commercial or non-commercial) software in PCB design, hands down.
GitLab has virtual machine image, so it's really unobtrusive for your system.
I've been waiting so long for this day. Finally arrow functions in PHP! Until now it was extremely cumbersome to use higher-order functions such as array_map() or usort() . This is especially true if you're a full stack developer who frequently switches between PHP and JavaScript which has had support for arrow functions for a long time. The hitherto existing anonymous functions are so verbose and it's a real pain to bind all closure variables manually.
The real question is why are people following the news anyway? It's pure entertainment at that point. "Hey Karen have you seen that a girl was raped and murdered 1000 miles away from you ? Have you heard what _unknown politician of a third world country you couldn't even place on a map_ said ! that's outrageous. A cop killed an innocent man today #thoughtsAndPrayers".

The world would be a much better place if everybody only checked what's happening around them instead of the other side of the country / world. 99% of the "news" have 0 impact on you and you have 0 power (direct and indirect) on 99% of what's happening, why even bother ?
The venture studio is the model we need
> In any case, the socialized health care probably doesn't cover the drugs that get to exported to foreigners like you?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but large markets (socialised healthcare systems) can negotiate a fair market price for medications. This is something that the US system prevents.

Have a look at mebendazole. It's on the WHO list of essential medication. It's old so available as generic.

In the UK this costs a few pounds per tablet. https://bnf.nice.org.uk/medicinal-forms/mebendazole.html

In the US it currently costs $440 (about £340) per tablet.

There are many similar examples: Americans pay huge amounts for medications that should be cheap.
Idk... To me, terms like "exploitation of resources" tend to be overloaded with connotations to "think past" concretely.

People have a big impact on our environment, and the definition of "environment" keeps ratcheting up with the scale of humanity... As the number of people, the scale of our impact, and our knowledge of this impact our definition of "our environment" expands.

That's not likely to change. We're not going back to our environmental niches and we're not going to be a impact-neutral observer of "the natural environment" either. We're going to maintain our place between gods and beasts, so to speak.

That doesn't mean we don't/won't evolve. There is definitely no sense and future in bluntly walking in to environmental hard-limits like climate change, biodiversity crisis or any other pressing catastrophe.

But.. perfecting ourselves to the point where we've "moved beyond" resource use shaped by our wants and needs, exploitation...

In any case, I think the environmental ethos of the future can be left to future people. It will inevitably be shaped our ours' mistakes, and their consequences.
I believe they're hosting in-cloud, which means it's probably not a device and can be automated. Obviously, public IP addresses will be specific to environments, but that's what PRs should double check.
So, if I understand this correctly...

Gaussian Processes are a way of trying every possible function to fit a set of data points, being constrained a bit more with each new data point.

All neural networks in the list, given sufficient size, are essentially Gaussian in their behavior, and thus share the same features and limitations.

Right?
That which we call an identity
I think a lot of those concerns disappear once you leave Earth. What makes our planet precious is how uncommon it is. The universe is incredibly vast, yet we have not observed life on any planet but our own. So to me whatever the cost is to a planet like Mars of putting life on its surface, that cost is well worth it (the planet certainly doesn’t mind). The only ones who might be offended by this idea are us Terrans.
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Good results often seem "obvious" in ex post. So take this as a compliment.

Intuitively (I have never read a paper in this field), since you are talking about wide networks, I also expected that a CLT would be used. For "dense" layers it is pretty obvious that one should be able to characterize each layer aggregation based on a CLT, and so forth. Some sort of mild independence assumption, mixing or martingales, on the sampling should be sufficient.
I think therefore the goal of a paper for any architecture would be to figure out a way to generalize this for different layers.

However, one thing I notice is that you seem to assume that weights (or whatever is initialized) are initialized with a Gaussian distribution?

That seems a bit restricted. The appeal of this approach with wide networks, I think, is that any independent initialization of weights would lead to transformations of GP.

Perhaps I am misunderstanding also the implications. Could you generally trace a dependence onto the distribution of the last layer weights, even if they are not normal? Or do you need the GP for your conditioning?

On the one hand, Gaussian initialization is I think not really encompassing "all architectures" as practically used, but more specifically, it seems that the end goal of this research program would be to generalize beyond this (much like in regression, one uses CLTs exactly to get away from parametric assumptions). Or is that where you plan to go?
Earth has not been considerably warmer prehistorically (a term that, technically speaking, refers to the period between the appearance of tool-using hominins and the invention of written history). If you mean paleontological periods before the appearance of genus Homo, yes, but that's not very relevant given how the GP talked about the human civilization (which, incidentally, did not exist in the prehistoric era either!)

As far as we know, the loss of arable land caused by the climate change (and other anthropogenic environmental changes) far outweighs possible gains elsewhere, and even if it didn't, agricultural land area is not exactly fungible.
That's less true now than it used to be, but it's worth remembering that the AMA killed universal healthcare in the US... in the 1950s! They were specifically worried about doctor's wages and fees going down.
And if you're eligible to vote in the UK, vote Labour in the December 12th general election: https://labour.org.uk/manifesto/a-green-industrial-revolutio...

Likewise support Green New Deal politicians in the US and elsewhere.
Great idea. Subscription does not work for me at the moment but I really like it.

Only thing I would suggest is showing some categories with several (3-4) books in each.
This post from yesterday claims that they have actually started shipping them now:

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-birch-shipping-announcement/
I can find [1] on the subject which is quite interesting.

[1]: https://www.element14.com/community/people/PeteL/blog/2012/0...
Tracking by whom?

If you're worried about advertisers - you have two choices. On any phone you can root, replace the HOSTS file using https://adaway.org/

On phones you cannot root, use https://blokada.org/index.html to create a tracker blocking VPN.

Run Firefox as your main browser. Use sandboxed apps for Facebook, Twitter, etc.
This is the answer. That mode puts the second harmonic going out of the HDMI cable smack in the 2.4GHz WiFi band (the fundamental would be at 1/2 the bit rate).

Now the question is who screwed up. Is it a leaky cable? Is it bad PCB design? Is it a problem internal to the SoC? Is it a power delivery issue? Knowing the RPi foundation and Broadcom, I bet one of them screwed this up for all RPis and it isn't just a bad cable.
Important point missed by this article is that if Netflix really wants to compete with anime they need to massively improve their subtitles. Every subtitled show I've seen on Netflix has been awful to watch because of basic errors.

I feel like fans will really be put off by this unless they up their game considerably.
That's an unachievable ideal, particularly and especially for complex stories (e.g. just about any political story) where there are too many facts to report, to much backstory to fill in, and an editor has to make a decision about what to leave in and what to omit.
If we talk about a simple phone just an old Nokia 3310 would do it.

In terms of smartphones the Blackberry KEYone claims to be the most secure Android Smartphone.

(disclaimer: I have not used this smartphone and I am not a security specialist.)
Firstly, disabling JavaScript is your choice, you shouldn't expect the web to cater to you.

SPAs can be server-side rendered (See: Gatsby) and work without JavaScript enabled however.
I would imagine that it’s not the suns location that is the primary concern, but where you are directing the light.

The light is being reflected and focused by mirrors. That light is being directly onto some volume of material. So, in this case, they want to get the material above some critical temperature (e.g. so it melts). I imagine that uniformly heating the whole volume may not be the best approach, or that you may be able to work with smaller volumes depending on your expected solar input etc.

So I can see a little more justification here than the case where solar cells are just being pointed at the sun.
You just did learn more about human nature ;-)
There’s a difference between bias and just making shit up. I think people are capable of dealing with biased reporting of actual events. Up until recently, most reporting in the us was done by Americans working for American companies who generally were trying to tell the truth the way they saw it even if the way they saw it was biased.

What changed in the 2016 election is the torrent of foreign governments who were spreading outright lies in the interest of harming the country, and Americans who gleefully cooperated with them.
> I'm not very familiar with low level work and exploits, but aren't syscalls the API for the kernel itself?

No. The kernel doesn't call syscalls itself. It provides them for applications.

Just to clarify a potential misunderstanding. The kernel and userspace run at different "hardware" privilege levels (ring0<=>ring3). Userspace applications cannot simply call the kernel API directly, they must "trap" into the kernel to perform some pre-defined service request, aka. System calls.

There are usually a few hundred or more of these, like e.g. read(2)/write(2). They are also generally exposed via libc wrappers (but not always) or via the indirect syscall(3) function. But it is also technically possible to directly encode the trap instruction, for example on x86 "int $0x80" or amd64 "syscall" with the desired syscall index. This is the part OpenBSD is proposing to lock down. The low-level syscall ABI has always been unstable, meaning it can be changed incompatibility, and libc is the more-stable interface applications should be using.

With that out of the way..

> Is it possible to authorize arbitrary code, or is access to msyscall (via libc or otherwise) restricted outside of boot?

msyscall(2) can only be called /once/ per-process, e.g. by the ld.so dynamic linker. This is used to indicate where libc is mapped (libraries are mapped randomly) to the kernel so it can permit that area to make syscalls.
I dont think ownership is the main problem.

The larger problem seems to be global.

The ability to be expressive comes with it certain biological traits and dispositions. These traits may determine your viewpoints on matters.

So, if I hire journalists purely based on their writing ability, I may find most of them have very similar political views. If I create an industry of the best actors/musicians, again I may find them to have similar traits and views.

So, you can have a situation where some view has 50% support in the larger population, but almost no support in the press, academia, entertainment industry etc.

In a society based on free speech and no violence, the views supported by expressive people have an overwhelming advantage. The problem is just because you are very good at communication, doesnt mean your viewpoint is always correct. That is the reason some brilliant professors dont make it in the private sector, while someone who cant string a sentence together becomes a billionaire.

But when people see, supposedly neutral organizations have an overwhelming slant to one side of a viewpoint, the organization loses credibility. They are in a bubble.

When you no longer have institutions of fairness everyone can agree upon, you create the problem of fake news.
And then it breaks down to CO2. That is a basic and well understood part of climate science, that’s how the calculations are made which show an 80 fold higher impact for Methane per unit mass than for CO2 over a 20 year period, and 20 fold higher impact over a 100 year period.

As the climate scientist says in the article, this doesn’t disprove mainstream climate science, and the calculations are correct but banal, and just presented in a way to give a misleading impression of a smaller impact. The author is quite open about preparing the paper specifically to give ammunition to efforts to roll back Oil and Gas regulations.
And he only collaborated with the gov in the early 90s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Happer#Career
This has to be looked with global economic context, f.e. how many people join middle class by consumer standards per year. I feel like this "shaming" has different target audience - people who have been in this category for some time and not so hungry for new things/more things anymore.
Casey is also quite active on Twitter, been following him for a while. Well worth a follow: https://twitter.com/CJHandmer
By reading different news sources and forming your own opinion. The truth is out there
Cool idea! Getting: "Request failed with status 500" when trying to subscribe to "Walking"
In a similar vein, I wouldn't be where I am today without classical music - playing in an orchestra and chamber music as a young person opened my world up beyond what I could otherwise find in my immediate surroundings. Alongside, growing up reading the English classics now seems part of that, along with radio access to "high brow" programs.
Buckminster Fuller would be so disappointed.
Ok, I used the wrong word. I was also referring to OP's point that "nature was just fine" - the earth has been up to 12degC warmer than present, before humans could make any impact. My point is that, taken in isolation, a warmer earth is not fundamentally bad, nor new.

As for his point about humans preferring warmer temperatures - hopefully that is self-evident.

>As far as we know, the loss of arable land caused by the climate change (and other anthropogenic environmental changes) far outweighs possible gains elsewhere

Would like to see an analysis of arable land gained vs. lost. This is all purely hypothetical, of course - such a change would be drastic, and as you point out, arable land isn't exactly fungible.
That's right along the line of what if I had entered the right lottery numbers or bought Apple when it was low. You can regret any decision you make in life with hindsight.