skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're using a decent IDE, that bug is just as easy to spot when using a constructor. My IDE adds the var names in front of the values, so when I create a new Cat(1,2,4) it actually looks like this:

new Cat(eyes:1, heads:2, legs:4);
Ironically, the headline is misleading because the article has nothing to say on how to "fight" bad information - it merely provides hints on how to avoid being personally taken in by it.

"Fighting" bad information would imply doing something to stop others being taken in. The essence of the problem is that less sensational correct information doesn't self-propagate to the same extent that more sensational but incorrect information does, and nothing in the article addresses this.

Though the provided heuristics are fine and dandy, accepting them as a "solution" is effectively conceding defeat; the underlying problem won't be solved by an inevitable minority of individuals applying these rules. A deeper and more widespread awareness of the problem of agnotology[1] is required as a minimal starting point.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology
Brian Herberts books, the Game of Thrones final and from what I've heard the last Star Wars movie all have their detractors but personally I'm thankful for at least giving closure to the overall story arc. It might not be good but at least it's over.

I also liked some of Brian Herberts books, particularly the prelude series. Legends was horrible and I think the series could have ended fine without the backstory.
I hope you noticed that IEEE 754 merged DFP support in 2008.... Which means its actually quite good at base 10 if you have a machine/compiler that supports it.
Can you elaborate? I'm genuinely interested. I admit only a shallow investigation into this topic and its certainly not my wheelhouse.
Ask HN: Incorporate with Clerky vs. Atlas vs. Gust in 2020?
Which one is more flexible and easier to work with?
Thanks for this I'm reading about it now.
Your post quotes the cynical piece of Levine’s editorial (literally his next three words are “but let’s not”, referring to “being cynical all day”), but it’s worth reading in full for the more nuanced perspective. I found the last two paragraphs surprisingly enlightening:

> The right model of BlackRock is probably that it is mostly an aggregator of preferences, but it is also, at the margin, a shaper of preferences. It passively reflects what investors want generally, but it has some ability to push those investors to want different things. There are other things that BlackRock does—it votes the shares of stock that it owns on behalf of investors, it meets with managers to talk about their sustainability plans, it writes strongly worded letters to CEOs—but I suspect that they’re mostly less important than the basic core function of taking $7 trillion from investors, channeling it where the investors want it to go, and slowly and subtly diverting those channels so that the money moves more in the direction that BlackRock wants it to go.

> This is an unavoidably uncomfortable role. If you want BlackRock to do more on climate change, you will be annoyed that it mostly offers broad passive products that buy all the stocks, including the ones you don’t like. If you want BlackRock to do less on climate change, you will be annoyed that it is pushing its clients into sustainability-focused funds rather than neutrally giving them all the stocks, including the ones BlackRock doesn’t like. Mostly it is an uncomfortably powerful role: BlackRock really is a general aggregator of preferences, so it speaks with the authority of its $7 trillion and its universal ownership, which means that its ability to shape those preferences matters.
I just read that he was quite critical of Jackson's adaptation. I'm not a huge fan of the franchise (not too critical either since it's not the easiest adaptation to make) and I'd love to read if Christopher made detailed comments on what he felt was wrong. Le Monde (french newspaper) interviewed him but he only said one line "they turned it into an action movie for teenagers".. I'd hope he had more to say elsewhere :)

Or maybe I should just read the silmarillion
How did you conclude that “everyone” is overworked from this article?

The managerial class notion of overwork/busyness is completely voluntary.
We've been trying that for a good chunk of the last decade. That's why interest rates have gone to near zero, and in some places negative. It's not working so well.
"It’s akin to employees accusing an employer of keeping them just below the threshold of full-time work in order to avoid having to give them full-time benefits."

... which is akin to accusing a motorist of remaining just below the speed limit in order to avoid paying fines for speeding.
How is that clear? What principles did you use?
I highly recommend the Atlas of Middle-Earth.
The commercialization screwed it for me too. I remember that at the time the first movie was released, the web was scorched of fan material. Fans where threatened and insane amount of fan arts where removed and replaced by commercialized material, especially cartography.
It seems your are primarily referring to civilizations conceived of and implemented by men. Let's face it - men have a pretty shitty record when it comes to running everything. Empowering more women in society (not kardashians whatever they are) will help curtail the more destructive male instincts. (I am male btw)
Also good to note that Teslarati is an "Elon Musk fan boy" blog. Anything that you read there is usually lacking critical sense. They probably rounded 44% to 50%
Ugh, I only noticed the favicons today. It's such a clear attempt to blur the lines between the regular results (now with favicons) and the ads (now with something that looks very like a favicon, particularly when scrolling).

I've also noticed recently that the first search result page is absolutely filled with nonsense: "People also ask" "Refined by Brand" Map results, Sponsered banner etc. I did a search recently where there were only 3 actual results on the first page, the rest were peripheral items.

It's such a mess. Unfortunately no matter how many times I try to switch to DDG, the results just don't hold up. Particularly for localised results.
i mean there is a reason to believe that if there is other life in universe its going to also be carbon based.

Carbon can form more molecules than all the other elements combined, so it makes sense that complex chemical "elements" are heavily based on it.

In fact if you compare most common elements in universe[1] and most common elements in human body[2] they are mostly the same (different order)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elem...
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_the_human_body
You should read the rest of the thread if this move makes you question Google supporting GCP.

Disc: Googler.
It was a Dadaist film, through and through. Wrong time period, but the influences are striking, down to Strangelove's own physical appearance [1]. Interesting thing to have caught my eye while I was reading about something else entirely.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada , specifically the painting in front of Hanna Höch. It's almost unthinkable that Kubrick or Peter Sellers didn't run across this image at some point.
> I'm no longer a fan of static stretching

A physiotherapist once told me in direct words that (in his opinion) flexibility without strength is useless. He'd treated some people that were into Yoga and similar activities, and their flexibility caused injuries doing normal activities, I assume because things were just moving around too much without proper internal support.

I've personally found muscle exhaustion to be the best cure for my back pain. I don't know why, but I figure a) exhaustion and soreness signals being stronger than the pain, and/or b) pain being caused by muscle tension/grabbing and exhaustion removes strength from this.
TBH, opengl has been improving in that respect. See, e.g., glTextureSubImage2D[1], which takes a pointer to the referred texture, unlike glTexSubImage2D.

1: https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL-Refpages/gl4/html/gl...
Java inertia was also a side effect of its market. It was big corps which were used to slow and bloat. But Oracle seems to have changed to follow the more hectic pace of web 2.11 era.
I'm just saying that the claim made by the parent is overly strong. For most of the integers that we will deal with, they can be converted back and forth to doubles without problems. Even when they can't the double will contain an integer value, it just won't be the correct value. The usual problems people have with doubles are the bits to the right of the decimal point.
I have seen this with Coda/Unit4 plus broken stats in Oracle db that made it unusable.

Their real killer though was posting multi step financial transactions without issuing db transactions, so they should fail and leave you unbalanced!
There is a lot of truth in your approach, imho. By truth I mean these things that we allow ourselves to accept even if we don't understand it fully, and "let the data speak" — experience will be the judge.

I've researched a lot of human-made content for "being better" — from ancient religions and myth to modern self-development passing by classic philosophies and hordes of thinkers, whatever I could put my eyes on.

It's obviously just anecdotal, probably, but there is a lot of truth and a lot of good in very ancient principles and philosophies. Just yesterday I was reading on how "restrictions" in the Jewish tradition are meant to essentially implement what we'd call "self-discipline" today, which is a clear marker of one's ability to succeed in most life's endeavors — conduct projects, maintain relationships, etc. It's basically just the idea that having a ritualistic frame of lifelong habits is an extremely strong basis to implement whatever change you will require in life, and to resist things that tempt you but you shouldn't. It's just training, basically, and all validated by modern neuro-cognitive sciences and psychology.

Hindsight is 20/20 but it gives a sense of "how true" some ancestral, or random, or even anecdotal idea or principle may be, and why it "endures" and resonates for so long across people, centuries.

Buddhism is notorious for how close it is to a lot of what we call cognitive therapy (or training, if you're not 'sick' but after improvement). The Tao Te Ching in particular, very relatably to Stoicism in the Western world, is a treasure of happiness and greatness for countless people across the ages. I'd really not refrain myself from "discovering" the essence of buddhism, it can only be an addition to your own philosophical distinctiveness. ;-)

And your girlfriend probably loves that you discover here through this medium, too.
I guess I was hoping the same end result would have been reached by different means.

I would like to see:

new non canonical java.lang.BaseObject, which implements nothing.

new interfaces for .toString(), .equals( that ), and .hashCode().

Canonical java.lang.Object implement these new interfaces.

Any code wanting struct, data, record style objects would subclass BaseObject.

The JVM would auto generate missing .toString(), .equals( that ), and .hashCode() as needed. Like when you add a data class to a HashMap.

New syntax for properties, to eliminate need for setter/getter boilerplate.

New syntactic sugar for the static initializer constructor trick, to eliminate constructor boilerplate. Basically make new MyDataObject() {{ a = 1; b = "abc" }} look prettier.

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Best as I can tell, only the last two would require language changes.
I also think “Colossus: The Forbin Project” is ridiculously underrated/unknown in this genre, too, if a bit more toward the Blade Runner side of things.

I remain surprised more computer people don’t know about it.
what’s the intended use case?
Yes but the election prior to that argues against you as well. The reason for the most recent shift was because of Hong Kong protests and mainland action there. Prior to that there was a massive shift in favor of stronger relations with Mainland China.
I think you might need to interpret "China" in the grandparent to this post as literally the land and people, instead of the more common meaning of the current government.

Taiwan's official view, as I understand it, is that they are the rightful government of the land and those people, and that the people currently reigning are illegitimate.
its because the people who are making these programs don't actually have an understanding of technology (just like technologists don't, as a general rule, understand education).

These folks so that successful people are using computers and think that using computers is the goal, not just a handy tool for doing stuff that we're slow at really fast.

To quote Dijkstra, "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes"
Australia needs to exit the export coal business. We should go dig some other rocks up out of the ground, we have a lot of them...

We are responsible for 37% of global coal exports. That's massive. If we halt coal exports it would put a squeeze on the coal supply and that raise prices; probably significantly. Coal power plants are already on thin margins. If cost of coal increased for a sustained period (a few years) coal would be considered unviable as a fuel source. We should see a lot of the plants close down.

Australia always talks about its self as being insignificant and anything we could do to help prevent climate change would have no measurable impact. This incorrect relatively and absolutely, we are one of the largest per capita emitters. But we are also the third largest exporter of fossil fuels.

This is Australia's opportunity to actually do something significant to help address climate change.

[1] http://www.worldstopexports.com/coal-exports-country/

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-08-19/australia-co2...
What is the bottleneck
He has said that he doesn't believe in induced demand: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1211076829395738626?s=20
China's central government is pursuing multiple goals at once:

- Cleaner air

- More electricity production

- Developing energy technologies with a substantial export market potential

- Maintaining employment and social stability

The last goal can override the others, depending on current economic conditions and public sentiment. Provincial officials may hew to the last goal even more closely than the central government would like. Provincial government also sometimes faces perverse incentives like getting tax revenue from each ton of coal mined locally but no tax revenue from renewable electricity generated locally.

45 year old Chinese coal miners don't like switching careers and locations much more than 45 year old American coal miners do. China has also faced more and more-recent civil war than America. They will build a bunch of surplus coal plants and keep having coal miners perform make-work to fuel them if that's the price of social stability.
If you can possibly bootstrap without raising capital, do it. The QUT CAUSEE study demonstrated that external capital doesn't improve your chances of succeeding, it just gets you to success or failure faster.

It is much, much easier when you don't have to justify what you are doing in your business to anyone other than yourselves. This is true even if you have the nicest and most understanding investors.
The biggest issue I've had with the Fermi Paradox is why should we expect to have seen evidence of alien life by now? At our current level of technology, we can only say with confidence that there is no alien life of about our complexity in our solar system since the last glacial maximum or so. We can't detect life as close to us as the nearest star, let alone anywhere else in the galaxy.
Also, why was the guy filming the video in contact with an iranian "journalist" in britain? The right with the right tools at the right time with the right connections. Very convenient.

The entire trump-iran situation is very odd. Trump supposedly takes out a very important iranian leader whose only identification is a ring? They respond with attacks that apparently kill nobody. And then this downed plane? It feels like theater, but that's geopolitics I guess.

I didn't think anything could be stranger than the Trump-Kim on-again-off-again romance, but here we are.

Would love to see the behind the scene truth, but all we get are the media lies.
> Legolas shield surfing and flying between elephants

The latter was bad but the former was incredibly out of place. It's the one scene I'd cut.
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Part of the problem with that is that we'd see an uneven amount of expansion. We'd see lots of it along the axis between us and the supermassive blackhole (towards and away from), but roughly perpendicular to it we'd see a ring/plane of matter going roughly the same speed as us towards it. Instead we see an equal expansion in all directions. Now I don't know what kind of scale that might change at though so maybe it's possible still with a seriously large one?
The servers are supposed to send a chain ("SHOULD" is the strongest language an RFC uses about chains) but, in practice, the only way to get where you're going as a client is to treat it as one leaf and then everything else is hints that might help you construct the chain.

The reason is that a server doesn't know which roots you actually trust, so maybe it thinks you trust X and X->A->B->C so it sends X->A, A->B, B->C but actually you trust A so you only needed to receive A->B, and B->C - X->A doesn't help you make a decision so your code needs to disregard it.
Seems like a pretty extreme analogy, but ok. Having someone knock on my door is kind of a pain, since I have to get up and answer it. I'm not sure it is comparable to seeing ads on web sites that I am on by choice.

I guess I have enough concerns in my life that actually have measurable impacts on me that such things seem pretty trivial.
I'm a 'small guy'. Only person working on my game engine. Would love to add vulkan support, except my GPU is fried.
But that's exactly what I meant by mutation does not play well with pattern matching: you need to work, sometimes work hard (in fact you need to somehow hide the mutability) to make it work. I'm not sure what you meant exactly by the fields of ConcurrentHashMap being "in sync" (the contents of the hash map certainly aren't and it does not provide a snapshot view), but their coherence requires hard work. Unless you don't know how the particular synchronization mechanism, if any, works, you cannot provide a view suitable for pattern matching, so it cannot, in general, be automatically generated for mutable objects, at least not in a way that works as well as you'd want it to. For example, a naive extractor to a Pair class with two volatile field could return two values that have never been the values of object's fields at any point in time (i.e. you'd pattern-match `case Pair(x, y)` and get, say, x=2 and y=3 despite the pair never having been (2,3)). That "works" in the sense that you have some result, but it's probably not what you want.
There are any number of ways to correct observations for satellite trails, not the least because their appearance and duration are both transient and 100% predictable in any given field of view, and can be gated out of the exposure series. Cosmic rays don't even give us the latter break. (To be fair, the rabbit hole does go deeper than the usual places where a median filter alone will save you, but the general problem is far from intractable.)

But never mind, we've been told that digital imaging is "functionally identical to film," and we're "losing the discussion."
Except the clock is ticking every 30 minutes in that network. it's too slow for behavior. GRNs are relevant to long-term plasticity which is protein-dependent and has prominent modulators (e.g. CREB)
These days, LotR would be made as a multi-season epic, like GoT.
A botched SAP implementation played a significant role in the $2.1B implosion of Target Canada.[1] Can't belive it isn't mentioned here.

1: https://www.canadianbusiness.com/the-last-days-of-target-can...
In 2018, UC Berkeley’s endowment was valued at $4.3 billion. It’s not too late to learn not to allow others to take advantage of you.
This is a textbook study case for the Dunning Kruger effect
Yes, if you can turn them off completely forever, certainly.
lol...

in other news: Pwning your passwordless web server the easy way
It's good to see anyone working in this space, but I'm skeptical about the trustworthiness of the results one can expect from this sort of approach, with current technology.

From https://www.thefactual.com/static/extfaq.html

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The Factual automatically calculates the credibility of an article based on four factors:

a) The diversity and quality of its sources

b) The factual tone of the article's writing style

c) The expertise of the journalist on the topic based on historical focus

d) The site reputation based on historical scores of every article on the site

Because the calculation is automated, without human involvement, criteria are consistently applied across articles and sources.

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a) Value can be derived this way, but "quality" seems subject to bias, intentional or not

b) I'm curious how this would be accomplished - it's a huge problem, but most human minds do extremely poorly at the task in my experience

c) "Expertise" often has the same issues as "quality"

d) This seems fairly straightforward

That such issues are not noted in "How reliable are the scores on articles?" is also somewhat unsettling.

I might install this and give it a spin, because I would have great fun dissecting articles that get a high score but are guilty of ideological framing/bias and other popular rhetorical techniques.
So basically Lombok's @Data annotation with extra steps.
Second one has a different vibe, but I also enjoyed it. The author has a great way of helping you understand the different senses and intelligence of the different species.
Scala lets you quietly replace a field with an accessor method, but Java does not. You'd have to change all consumer code to add laziness or test mocking/spying.
It makes me proud of the Hacker News community that there have been so many climate change articles posted at an increasing rate. This is a very important issue, more important than technology since technology won't exist when the climate collapses and destroys civilization. We need to make a serious effort educating the public about climate change, so we need to work together to ensure that, at minimum, the top article on Hacker News is always a climate change story. It would be even better if we keep multiple climate change articles on the front page at all times.
Are there more options for a Solitaire game that fit on this list?

My retired father could use something familiar (more like the Windows 95 solitaire, minesweeper, and 'mahjong solitaire' tile matching) games that probably still occupy some floorspace in that grey-matter.

I'd also like some games that might help both younger kids and the elderly by exercising memory matching, pattern deduction, and basic math skills. It wasn't clear how to pick such titles out of the list.
They're actually only sorted in one way, descending or ascending, depending on the column. I aim to fix that soon.
Mojo Vision's AR contact lenses are cool, but many questions remain
I guess the argument becomes this:

Does the proliferation of high speed Internet to every part of the world outweigh the cheapness of current land based astronomy tooling?

If not, maybe spacex can compensate by providing some launch load for space bound telescopes.
I think the advice applies more to chronic pain, not acute pain. Yes, know your body.