skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A while ago, I did a piece of armchair research on Spanish flu in Austria-Hungary [1]. TL;DR: the dates it occurred throughout the empire differ insignificantly.
The linked blog post shows also a table with the week of highest mortality in North America, Great Britain, continental Europe, and India, copied from an old book.

[1] https://marcinciura.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/tracking-spanis...
When you stop responding, AKA reacting, you are not solving the problem, you are making it worse.

In fact I would say that "don't feed the troll" is the root cause of the huge spike in trolling that we have now.

Do not feed the troll meant, from what I understood back then, kill it, not let it grow somewhere else where it's protected.
Yep, I agree that any or all of those would apply (note that regarding F/RAND, a holder can refuse, and then the standard must exclude their IP) but at the same time we have seen over and over that corporations (and the nation-states that back them up) can get in really aggressive patent wars if they see fit, even over the concept of black, glossy rectangular cuboids...
Agreed! Such a succinct way of putting it. That has been my problem with the simulation hypothesis too. It seems like such a failure of imagination. What if the beings who "run" us live in a universe that intersects with 143 spatial dimensions and 23 time dimensions, and their "computer" is actually a by-product of some other process, and they aren't even really aware of it or us, and are not even really sentient in a way that we would understand. Can it really be said to be a "simulation" at that point? How strange would it have to get for the word "simulation" to be meaningless? I have a feeling that whatever is going on is far more bizarre than anything we can possibly imagine.
> Any given pandemic is unlikely to be on the scale of 1918.

We just need a long incubation period / low initial symptoms deadly virus and we're fucked with today's level of globalisation.
Regex are quite simple and useful but my only issue is with those recursive things. Like how do you match balanced brackets? I have a regex (pcre) copy-pasted for it but for the life of me I don't get it or maybe nod my head but instantly ununderstand it. I wish there was a simple to understand doc that teaches to me how I can match something like:

"(this is inside a bracket (and this is nested or (double nested)))

P.S. I know token parsing is better for these things but still I just want to learn the other thing too.
Thanks for the question. Beam has a more complex execution model and AFAIK also needs some executor environment like Spark to really parallelize workloads. Given a mongodb that all producers and consumers can attach to, minibatch runs anywhere.
Probably fixing the root cause of political divisions would have the biggest effect.

Stuff like ranked choice voting and open/no primaries that would result in more moderate politicians winning and less need for political parties.

Also a UBI might help diminish an “us vs them” mentality. The more good policies we have, the more we ALL benefit.
I know my models; I was staring at the massive IBM logo when I wrote that.

I swap between models throughout the day, and at the time I was on my X31, which was the last X series to be made by IBM and has the best keyboard of them all. I'm currently on an X61, and will move over to my 3rd gen X1 Carbon in a bit to get to work.

As I said, I'm a fan boy; I have another 20-something X series' stored away for parts and as backups, many of them X61s I thought I would update to X62/63s and resell, but never got around to it and now it may be too late.

I'm not saying Lenovo hasn't done an amazing job, I keep buying these things over anything else. But if I'm honest, those new Pinebooks are looking like my new daily drivers, I always wanted Open Hardware to be a thing, so I think I might join in.
Do you have anything that you don't want a state level actor to know about?

If not, it's fine.

If you do, why are you using these sorts of technologies in the first place?
You'd probably like ML (especially Ocaml) then. It can do all the crazy FP drugs (including lazy evaluation), but it's also painless to write normal imperative code in.

Syntax is a hair grotty though.
Furthermore, it is rationalism which exists as the first non religious justification of hierarchy. Read Plato.
That's probably true of a certain sort of startup - writing a bushel of code for a web thingy for instance.

But I've worked at many startups and ok 50 hours would be common. As they say, one pregnancy takes one person 9 months. You can't do it in 4.5 with two people (or by working harder).
Thanks for the thoughtful reply, this is helpful. The RFP is from a municipal event center and is for ticketing services. We're a team of four and up against some big players. Our website is https://sellout.io if you're interested in checking us out.

The RFP process is definitely sucking the life out of us, but we're so close and likely have a good shot getting at least an interview.
Tell that to Kaepernick and Nike.
There's no straightforward fix because this behavior is something that emerges from mass psychology, like war. In a sense this is war, with new platforms to amplify and direct weaponized ideas.

If war is politics by other means (Clausewitz), we can turn that around and say that politics is war by other means. See: the Russian concept of hybrid warfare.

What ends war is when enough people in a society are convinced it's not worth it. And that happens when enough people are exposed to the horrors of war, when they see what it does to their own lives and to the lives of people they care about.

Now we're in a period when most people haven't been exposed to that level, so this is unfortunately an upswing.

The way through is for some number of us to keep our humanity toward others (in the positive sense), to act accordingly, to carry that through until conflict blows over, and to rebuild society afterwards.
ratio between rents and property values varies wildly

Does it vary all that much within a specific property tax jurisdiction?
Here you go :
http://www.av8n.com/physics/clifford-intro.htm
Lightmeter will soon help you tune up your email server
It's just semantics: what you call the generalized cross product, I call the cross product.

We used to think as negative numbers being a generalization of the integers, so that's some food for thought. I'm sure once quantum mechanics dominates solving eigenvalue problems will be a high-school level problem, so we'll end up having complex numbers losing their complexity. We don't call them "real" numbers outside of math circles anymore.

To say that the cross product itself is a hack is a bit of a stretch though, it can easily be generalized and I think it's quite natural.
It's worth reposting the related thought piece from last week https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/
Arborio is a kind, just like Granny Smith, bing, or Key. I wonder if it'd be easier just to have a dictionary of kinds of ingredient and anything else is a preparation.
had a typo. My intended title was 0! = 1
On Drafting an Engineering Strategy
How the Government Came to Decide the Color of Your Food
It's you against a whole bunch of bright, motivated, and very smart people trying to keep you commenting, clicking, and getting involved. It's not that easy.
Linking directly to https://htdp.org is probably better. In this case, clicking through from there gets you to the more recent https://htdp.org/2019-02-24 .
Honestly don't let this get you down, here's a learning plan (use regex101 to learn)

1) Learn PCRE regex.
2) Try regex golf or cross words to learn PCRE regex.
3) Take the quiz on regex101.

Once you're done with all 3:

Learn the minor/major differences in the other languages. There aren't many. For example this named capture group:

(?<somename>someregex)

Would look like this in a different language:

(?P<somename>someregex)

There's some differences about what language can and cannot do like recursion because someone thought it was a great idea to make javascript awful at regex, but that's besides the point. Regex is totally worth learning.
Yeah, I am just trying to make it work :P I would strongly advise against using my implementation.
If you're netting at best a few grand a year and need to survive on savings anyway, why not just drop the business pretense and work for free on stuff you actually find interesting? A popular open-source project could yield more long-term value for one's career than an unprofitable or barely profitable "lifestyle business".
I'm curious how you think I found the 20,000 figure buried in a table ~20 pages in without reading it :)

I'm sure there is room for improvement in the methodology. There almost always is. You can contact the first author here [1] and I am sure, as a scientist, she would appreciate your correspondence.

[1]: https://www.dtu.dk/english/service/phonebook/person?id=80447
Interesting read. Not sure why the author was surprised that no business owner wanted to trade in their product for a saas.

No one really wants to deal with a saas when a one time purchase is available. Things like free tiers, lockins prevent us from moving until something happens (something always happens from big price increases to service changes or shutdowns changes to terms, etc).

Biggest problems are cost and uncertainity and losing a sense of control.

A saas to a customer is run like a fly by store selling stolen goods out of the back of a truck. Even though this person has been selling at this same spot every friday you know this can't go on forever so when he doesn't show up you are not surprised. When a saas closes down / changes terms / increases prices suddenly you are not surprised.

It works with some industries that have a high rate of change but if you plan on having a stable business you want to avoid saases
You really can't.

The only fix is aggressive moderation, and even that isn't great, because you'll be shaped by the ideas of the moderators.

The internet is a wonderful tool. It magnifies reach of all thoughts and facts and opinions. Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes it's a bad thing, and what each person considers good or bad is different.

We've always had "crazies" with strange ideas. Back in the day they just stood on street corners shouting. Then they passed out leaflets. Then they got on public access cable.

And now they have the internet, where they can reach the whole globe at once.

The one thing I can tell you that won't work is pure democracy. Something I learned at reddit early on is that pure democracy just doesn't work, because the trolls have far more time and patience than everyone else, and they will manipulate the system.

Also, a lot of people just don't want to think for themselves. They will just follow the loudest voice assuming it is correct. This also makes democracy not work well.

But democracy is still the best system we've got.
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It’s the same reason there are $100 million paintings but not $100 million photographs.

Painting is not copying. Painting is seeing and then making marks on the page that will make others see.

It is editorial in a way photography isn’t.
Berkeley apologizes for listing xenophobia under coronavirus ‘common reactions’
> it's that I can't identify _problems_.

Why don't you start from your own problems?
I bet you have some of them and you are not alone definitely.
It’s the same old same old. People used to heckle in theatres, because the audience lent them anonymity. Mobs are mobs because in a mob you are the mob. Lift the social contract by granting anonymity and we fairly instantaneously resort to slinging faeces at one another.

I think the GP has nailed it, however - we are reporting theatre hecklers as news, and instead of watching the play, everyone is now watching the punch-up in the aisles, and placing wagers.

The problem is that the theatre is on fire, but that hasn’t quite yet eclipsed the spectacle of a good old fashioned confrontation.
On every Danish PC keyboard I've seen (and the one I own), the AltGr+… combination keys are printed on the keys.

From image searches, it looks like Apple only print @.

Typical Apple form-over-function.
> I've been on the interbutts since 1991 and Usenet days, and it's exactly as it always was.

Quality-wise maybe but nowhere near the same in numbers. Back in 1990-2005 it took expertise to reach the Usenet. Facebook, Reddit et al. changed the game by essentially giving every village idiot without technical knowledge the "freedom" to troll on FB, Youtube, whatever. Conspiracy theories had their own niche usenet spaces, today there are FB groups for all kinds of utter bollocks with hundreds of thousands of members and absolutely no quality or sanity control.

Additionally, for newsgroups you needed some kind of client, most people could only access them after work, further reducing the user base, and there was nothing remotely similar to "likes" - today, people do everything for likes, with instantaneous feedback and no limits (practically everyone has a smartphone with FB and notifications), driving an ever faster and faster "news" cycle.

> And of course, the other media encourages polarization and demonization of the other for dumb short term. That's a purely American phenomenon, and nothing's going to change it until the people pushing this swill on MSNBC, Fox and CNN decide to change it

No, this is not US-only. It may be most expressed in the US (and amplified by its two-party system), but us Europeans see the same issue. Brexit is the most obvious, but France, Poland, Hungary, Austria and Germany also have problems with polarization and (mostly) the far right using outright lies to further it, with Russian financing / backing suspected and proven everywhere.

The thing that must change is to get rid of Russian money in politics, and to enforce neutrality and fact based reporting in media.
Remember back when we used to have concepts like "flamebait" and "flamewars"? When we would openly talk about conversations to not get involved in? Right in direct proximity to those conversations themselves? We'd acknowledge that no-one was above getting hot under the collar, and that while we'd try to avoid it we might have to go bicker at eachother in the corner for a while?

What changed? My rough list is:

1. News bloggers got online and turned flamebait into their business model.

2. Normies got iPhones and started posting online. They never read an netiquette guide. If they had heard of the concept at all they dismissed it as computer nerd nonsense. They don't think about online communication systematically and expect every interaction online to be like talking to customer service: they get to say whatever they want, and only hear a very constrained window of things back. This backfires in all the obvious ways.

3. "Platforms" with KPIs based on engagement are incentivized to enable the largest flamewars possible and put it in as many people's faces right up to the point they start causing bad PR.

4. People with basically zero forethought thought they could fix society by being paternalistic to strangers.
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That's my point, you need to remember "ijk" in order (i.e. i=jk or ij=k) in a purely algebraic definition instead of a meaningless and complicated "handedness" rule involving rotations.
Friends don't let friends use Telegram

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1129026681291911168.html
Security people are always like that (I love that about them). They freak out if a hash function will now take 50 million years to find a collision on a supercomputer, rather than 345 billion. It's worked flawlessly for me and many others the past year in our production environment.

The fact that Ubuntu is including it, means that it's probably passed a critical mass of early adopters and then is probably seeping into the startup mainstream (as opposed to enterprise that wants 20 valid bells and whistles like authentication, auditing, etc).
Although the fact that GPUs are not ready for GA .. forcing a model that cannot fit onto hardware is quite a massive naive mistake.
Huh? Can you explain?

My understanding is that the core value / principle of libertarianism is individual liberty.

How do you derive compelling others from that?
I am not a believer in things being better back in the day. I think that is nostalgia. Flame wars have existed since the beginning of the internet.

What we can to do make it better is to invest in teaching critical thinking, media literacy, and actual argumentation.

And it is important to know when to walk away. There are a lot of times when I see someone respond to a comment in a way that is shitty or just plain wrong and I would love to try to correct them. However, I try to resist. If it is reddit or something I will look at their post history. If they mostly post on certain subreddits I know that there is no point in my continuing the conversation. Nothing I can write is going to change this person's mind so I stop engaging with that person. I'm not always successful in resisting the urge to tell them how wrong they are but I try.
That can't be the (only) explanation, since according to Emojipedia the play/pause button was introduced in Emoji 1.0.
Boring is good. Makes it a lot less likely that you’ll have competition. ;)
I wasn't talking about waiting to see the proc first, but if you have a passive bash and "prime" it by hitting a creep and it doesn't proc, then the subsequent attack would apparently have a higher chance of hitting due to this mechanic, and not the actual % given. You could prime a crit or a bash before fighting a hero, first hit bash can make a big difference. But as stated by someone else this in practice is not easy to incorporate into a game and you are probably just as often wasting time.
Is there a feature where you can search for a playlist containing more than one song?
I rarely see threats, I do see that dialogue is rarely actually happening, its usually just shit flinging with buzzwords like cuck, biggot, xenophobe, leftist, commie, nazi etc. Rarely do I see people make arguments, and even rarer do I see people actually arguing as in exchanging ideas and answering each others questions.

The more mainstream a site gets, the worse it seems to be. Especially where voting is involved (reddit, facebook etc).

Add to this "grassroots" efforts to "takeover" public internet forums, which has been going on for decades by both far left and right wingers. Applying for moderator roles, not because they want to moderate discussion, but have complete control of it..
The mails discuss how some unclear problem (apparently related to completeness) should be handled, and arrives at saying that the unnamed police should make a new document, paste "the text" into it, and then sign. The Named superior will then write a PM about the fact that there are now two "interviews" when only one was formally held by the unnamed officer.
Rightly according to your subjective experience.
@mtlynch I've directly recognized the coder theme you use for the blog. I like it pretty much. How do you host it? Do you use github pages?
Microsoft's plan to store data for 10k years
I believe it’s too late. In my opinion the current political climate has fueled outrage culture and from my perspective things have gone from bad to worse.
regex101 does a good job at showing you what the selected variant can do.
I don't support the behavior alleged in this article, but I do genuinely believe Wikileaks was acting very unethically. It's one thing to release classified documents describing corruption or illegal/immoral behavior by the government, it's another to blindly release any classified documents you can get your hands on without any concern for others. In one dump of classified documents on the War in Afghanistan, it included the identities of many civilians assisting the US military. Those named have since been targeted by the Taliban. And this is a consistent pattern. Their leaks routinely include social security numbers, credit card numbers, private medical information, the list goes on. That information is not in the public interest and has caused great harm to innocent people. And I'm hardly alone in saying this. Edward Snowden, the Sunlight Foundation, and Amnesty International have criticized this practice.

EDIT: Quoting from Assange's indictment:

"After agreeing to receive classified documents from Manning and aiding, abetting, and causing Manning to provide classified documents, the superseding indictment charges that Assange then published on WikiLeaks classified documents that contained the unredacted names of human sources who provided information to United States forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to U.S. State Department diplomats around the world. These human sources included local Afghans and Iraqis, journalists, religious leaders, human rights advocates, and political dissidents from repressive regimes. According to the superseding indictment, Assange’s actions risked serious harm to United States national security to the benefit of our adversaries and put the unredacted named human sources at a grave and imminent risk of serious physical harm and/or arbitrary detention."
Well, that's OK, provided we're honest about what it is, e.g. we don't use media to create the illusion of a majority consensus where none exists.
Maxwell's equations : much more consistent without the god damned pseudo-vectors that are vectors except when they aren't !
http://www.av8n.com/physics/maxwell-ga.htm
This is not a good analysis imo. You don't necessarily gain any new awareness by paying attention to something or someone, you gain information. Whether or not you were aware of that information beforehand, or if it is new information has little to do with paying attention except for the fact that you might become bored or uninterested if it's not new information.

And, like another poster pointed out, this information is not gained with money, the "paying" is a metaphor and the currency is your attention itself. You give your attention away for the value of receiving the information.

On top of that there isn't just 1 metaphor in English (and I suspect other languages as well) for even the word "attention". You can fix your attention to something, or direct your attention, we speak of attention spans, etc.
>I am in no doubt that nation states have a cache of exploits for signal, telgram, facebook messenger and whatsapp.

That's what gets me, why are people thinking that they can thwart state level actors with any of this stuff? It's just incredibly naive.

If you want to cheat on your wife, you're good. (Provided your mistress is not an idiot).

But if you're trying to hide something from your government just do yourself a favor and never let that information touch the net in the first place.