skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there not? I think a big part of the difference might be how defensive one is against a hostile audience. For example, let’s consider that we’re writing about something like the Monty Hall problem. A piece of writing that explains and informs the reader about the Monty Hall problem will describe and work through all of the counter-intuitive logic involved, but it will do so from a position of (a) absolute certainty about the conclusion and (b) a good-faith assumption that disagreeing with that conclusion is due to an innocent mistake in reasoning, which the writer will want to anticipate and patiently address. And this is probably the right approach for the Monty Hall problem, but most of the time you’re writing persuasively, projecting absolute certainty that you are right and anyone who disagrees with you is confused or mistaken isn’t always the best decision, especially when it’s a disagreement over subjective preferences and value judgments. If I was writing an endorsement of a political candidate, I would approach that much differently than I would approach an explanation of the Monty Hall problem. In both cases you do similar things (in terms of presenting clear and explicit reasoning) but there are more differences than similarities.
I want so much more than a four paragraph blurb on this decision. Everyone else has, rightfully, jumped ship. Why is Shopify joining now?
Criminal defendants, not civil.
In a way, this new design does combine the approaches, since it combines a laser that hits the fuel directly with an extreme magnetic field.
I think the idea there is that there would be lazy-loaded content from another site that would only load when someone scrolled far enough to see the highlighted word, which will automatically happen with this feature.

The title of the Forbes article is too hyperbolic for my tastes and while this could be a security concern in very specific situations it's being overblown.
My experience:

1) I've been a seller on Amazon. 5 figure SKU counts, branded products. I was constantly being asked to provide invoices to prove that I had the right to procure and resell the products I was listing. I was also beholden to their metric standards and got delisted from the Buy Box regularly, until I could improve my numbers (operational bumps while we refined our processes... the standards were high enough if we fumbled a little bit, circumstances required a bit of time and attention to restore SOPs to required levels).

Not sure what these other entities are doing, but within the bounds of what I interacted with, and the age of my account, I wouldn't have been able to stay on the platform and keep selling if my fulfillment, returns and customer service metrics didn't stay within the acceptable thresholds.

2) I buy from Amazon regularly... household items, books, etc. So far, never had an issue with fakes. Always Prime, usually Fulfilled By Amazon.
Doesn't it mean that by watching DNS requests for resources, one can also derive which path on a web server I am visiting? For instance when fetching over TLS, such attacker should be able to tell whether I requested https://example.com/dank-memes.html or https://example.com/just-text.html, right? If that's the case, then this feature (ScrollToTextFragment) will not make privacy worse that it is already and the worries are just contemporary security theatre.
You're absolutely right. I wanted to justify my exploration by way of comparison between ReasonML and Ocaml.

The title ("Programming A Space Invader In OCaml and OpenGL: Lessons Learned") still fits with the content, don't you think?
Would like to see actual verifiable evidence of 'bot' activity, not the vague assertions in this article, regardless of the emotive topic being discussed.
I understand your point and the importance of the issues you're raising, but ultimately I still think it's important for leaders to be able to have confidential discussions. While transparency is important, I think that if people know that their meetings will be public then the real decisions will be made in private, and the meetings will just be an opportunity for political messaging. You don't get the same outcome plus transparency, you probably get a worse outcome and fake transparency.

EG, imagine a hypothetical scenario where Greece gets into debt trouble again, but now the other finance ministers don't trust that their meetings will be kept private. The German and French finance ministers meet privately, and decide to screw over Greece and come up with a cover story about how they can't do anything else. A better outcome would be if they had private meetings with Greece and at least had the opportunity to reach a compromise. The best possible outcome might be having the same meeting with full transparency so that the public is fully informed, but that's not what would happen.
Zero to One was very contrarian at the time it was published. The majority of the start-up world was obsessed with lean and thought ideas were so cheap that you should try giving them away.
> It seems like we have lost all rational and respect for skepticism and correlating verification in science.

I think many non-scientific people are weighing in on "science" like they have any understanding on the subject.

The fact that almost every climate scientist agrees with each other about climate change is pretty telling.

Most of the "skeptics" are uneducated people who do not understand basics of science, even less complex climate systems. Others are malicious actors who are on the pay of corporate interests, as this article points out. I have yet to see a truly skeptical point come from an actual scientist (that isn't on a corporate payroll).
If CO2 had a color or a smell it would be settled.

Conspiracy theories tend to play upon things that people can't easily directly observe.
Well, yes, for device manufacturers. But what if users could choose their own? Or what if multiple were permitted?
I Quit My CTO Job to Work on My Own Projects
> Mirzakhani described herself as a "slow" mathematician, saying that "you have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math." To solve problems, Mirzakhani would draw doodles on sheets of paper and write mathematical formulas around the drawings. Her daughter described her mother's work as "painting".

> She declared: "I don't have any particular recipe [for developing new proofs] ... It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out."
This kind of language usage isn't limited to fitting in socially in the business world.

People use overly-elaborate language to appear intelligent or innovative, too. I once spent some time learning a martial art whose founder had replaced all of the standard names for movement and techniques with novel, quasi-technical-sounding ones.

"Multiple attackers" became "plural assailants", "breathing technique" became "respiratory enhancement". "Sparring" became "fisticuffs". Etc.

It was maddening, because he would correct students who slipped up and failed to use his terminology.

https://www.usadojo.com/ross-performance-enhancement-system/
I think Strang's videos should also be used as examples of all around great pedagogy, independent of the Linear Algebra content.

He does more with some chalk and a big black board than any modern courses using fancy presentation technology.
>It is a pet peeve of mine when I hear a scientist parrot this trope

I don't think scientists are the ones saying that. At the very least you're right that they shouldn't be. It's unscientific.

Laymen tend to underestimate the complexity and chaotic nature of climate and climate models. And the very limited time window with which we are analyzing a phenomenon which occurs on hundred thousand to million+ year scales. And the number of tweakable parameters in climate models which give you the freedom to [accidentally] get just about any results you want while simultaneously backfitting data...

It's actually a little more complicated than CO2->warming->catastrophe. In the same vein, anyone who says petroleum companies knew about climate change in the 80s is being foolish. No one "knew" about climate change in the 80s. It took 30 years of science to get from that conjecture to the point where we're anywhere near certain of what's going on.

And even now the science is clearly biased - what does the field do, for example, when there is consistent evidence that it's predictions are far too warm? They go digging for explanations like oceanic absorption, rather than adjust their models.

Geoscience, by it's nature as a non experimental soft science which can only extrapolate from sparse historic data, is messy. Industry geoscience is one of the highest paid and cushiest industries, far more funding and maturity of theory and tooling than that of climate science - yet we regularly drill $100MM-$200MM dry holes across industry. Climate science is in an even worse state - you have no dry holes to tell you you're wrong. To say this is settled science is foolish.
And brave, and vivaldi
Okay, fine... what do you want to be different about the situation, then?

Do you not want any non-technical summary articles like this to be written? So that only those with the training to understand a Cell journal article would be able to learn anything about the result?

Or do you prefer that no journal articles be published that rely on 2020-era NN models, because older articles based on less state-of-the-art NNs have been published already?
While web programming in Prolog has been insightful, I think there are more expedient areas of application for the language.

Prolog is especially underutilized in databases.
Any chance you're running out of memory? Sometimes C/C++ code fails to properly handle failed memory allocations in those situations, leading to a misguided attempt to dereference a null pointer.
Seems like a great excuse to create click-bait headlines – not much else.
Is fusion capable of replacing all our energy systems?

If it works, is it the energy miracle humanity needs?
Anyone have an outlined version of the article?

Private browsing isn't cutting it for some reason.
Is Paul unfamiliar with what makes good academic writing? He starts by digging into academic writing, but I am not sure he knows how it functions and what it functions to do. Good and great academic writing pushes the envelope on theories and frameworks and tends to be the repository for new ideas that people like Paul use to make sense of the world. A case in point is Clayton Christensen. It's in the forges of his profession and writing practice that his Innovator's Dilemma was born. Academic writing may not be accessible and easy to read for outsiders, and tends towards a high degree of density. But that's the task of journalists, business people, educators, and essayists etc. to translate and apply it to the real world.
It is common for them to respond to their requests.

I suspect Google thinks it is more than that.

Maybe outside the lawsuit they're encountering telling someone asking for something and they say "No you can't have that." and the next day they get a copy and paste of the same request via this other investigation?

Granted that's speculation but I suspect there is a fine line between a legit investigation and someone driving the government wheel who is simply a competitor.
Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory is back on track following environmental challenge
CRUD typically implies using a relational model. Job listings tend to be unstandardized. A document model is probably more suited. This means search rather than query with the significant advantage of less data wrangling. Good luck.
U.S. lawmakers to introduce bill that threatens encryption on tech platforms
Both of those broke in a way that couldn't be repaired in a year. So instead of buying a $600 umbrella that unfixably breaks every year, I buy a couple $50 ones. The $50 ones are actually more repairable since they're wood instead of metal.
Some do, some don't. Depends on the brand.
You personally can install F-Driod.

I'm not sure that third party app stores would really address much at all as far as the nature of Google's competitiveness.
> People in private converse completely differently (more freely) than in public.

They are deciding about life and death of people of a country (or many). They're not discussing about what's your favourite food and which sex position you like the most.

Those conversation MUST be open and public, so people can judge the work of their delegates and decide to vote them again or not.

If you don't want to be heard, don't present yourself as a candidate. There are plenty of roles in companies that are private enough to speak privately.

Eurogroup, Ecofin, European Commission, European Central Bank, ESM are secrets just to subtract power from citizens, so to reduce democracy.
I’m curious if this behavior defined by something in hardware, microcode, boot-time BIOS flags, or higher level kernel/hypervisor/application code.
The start of open-source MongoDB Kubernetes Operator
An interesting moral question. Someone who kills a pedestrian while drunk is deemed guilty not because he willfully killed the pedestrian, but because he willingly consumed alcohol and drove, which he should have known could result in devastating consequences.

On the other hand, someone taking LSD could reasonably be expected not to know that it could make him murderous. On the other other hand, one could argue that one is responsible for whatever results from doing something illegal.
tl; dr:

1. Sets the topic of "What is a good essay?"

2. Asserts that correctness is necessary, but not sufficient condition for a good essay.

3. Illustrates 2 by pointing out that by increasing vagueness, complete correctness is always possible. Characterizes correctness/precision as opposing forces.

4. Adds two more criteria for a good essay - telling people something important, and that they don't know

5. Adds the essential caveat that things we know subconsciously may be worth restating [crucially, as points 1-5 we all certainly subconsciously knew]

6. Adds a fourth dimension to a good essay: "as unequivocal as possible" [aka strength]

7. Highlights the inherent tradeoffs in satisfying these conditions. Increasing one dimension may reduce audience size.

8. Details an simple algorithm for only writing important/true things -- reviewing/revising one's own ideas heavily before publishing (up to 100 times)

9. Proposes a technique to find important topics: by examining the pool topics one cares about

10. Proposes a technique to find novel topics: By examining topics that you've thought about a lot [and surprised yourself with when you found a connection]

11. Suggests "strength" [6] comes from thinking well and skillful use of qualifiers.

12. Adds another quality to what makes a good essay -- simplicity

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13. Proposes that good essays (by this formula) are particularly likely to make people mad

14. Identifies one cause of anger is that some widely-held incorrect beliefs an essay calls out are likely to be cherished beliefs

15. Mentions the strength component of very precise writing (as well as brevity) can come across as incredibly confident, and exacerbate the ruffling of feathers

16. Proposes that being misrepresented is particularly likely with this essay style, and isn't avoidable generally, but doesn't think one should worry too much about disingenuous misinterpretation.

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17. Advises aspiring essayists to relax the constraint of breadth-of-audience/topics. Suggests publication isn't a necessity.

18. Provides some hopeful thoughts on the future of essays
Big for a city like Kansas City I guess. But not really, no. If you’re here and want to work in startups you can find one, probably. Pay’s usually bad even by local standards, but it’s also all over the place so some do pay (local) market.
> It's not a case of a lawyer working on something that happened to be in a business that Google competes in.

In the Forbes link Google talks about competitors. The legal folks from News Corp would be in a different category to that.

I appreciate the desire and arguably the need to have different people at the news organizations and people pushing for causes (e.g., going after Google for potential abuses or issues). I do with new organizations were more interested in reporting the news and not making the news, if that makes sense.
My previous role was scraping and automating the removal of offending items from auction sites. eBay sort of cared, the rest didn't give a shit. Amazon especially.
Confused. As I understand it, anything after the # in a uri isn't sent over the wire.

So the only way someone could see that you're navigating to a specific fragment is some sort of deep chrome logging, or chrome plugin, etc. And if that's the case, cat's already out of the bag for everything you do already.
I think that would need to be a designed attack, not something that would apply to 99% of websites. The only legitimate resource (that could be used as a canary) being loaded far down a page would be an image (and that kind of requires it to be lazy loading as well).
> There is not really a separate price for fossil fuel electricity. And renewable energy has preference: if renewable energy is available, it will be used with preference.

Sure, sure, the issue is that you can use electricity or fossil fuels for heating. If the prices are massively different, people cannot afford to go green.

Having super high prices for consumers while essentially subsidizing industry seems like a problematic approach, and one that primarily hits the lower classes, as a higher electricity bill will very much directly affect their bottom line. Combining this with a subsidy policy framework for renewables that also primarily the upper middle & upper class profit from, this looks more like redistribution via market.
Outside the reparations question, Germany forced Greece to provide loans during the '40s occupation.

Those loans are not reparations, were never cancelled and, due to continuity of government, are still owed by Germany to Greece.

Debts must be paid after all.
Not to be rude, but apart from Clojure, other Lisps are non-existent in production compared to the software world at large.

One could even consider Scheme as more widely used than CL.

The biggest production use case for Lisp today is to learn Lisp.

The biggest use case for Scheme, CL, or Racket is to use to learn Lisp. Racket that way was quite successful.

With all this going on now. Scheme is the only serious Lisp for learning purposes. What new in sights will Rhombus provide here? The biggest use case for trying out scheme was while working through books like SICP.
This is a topic which will become more-and-more relevant as human-computer interfaces get better. The SEP article is also a good read:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/embodied-cognition/
Users can install app stores as well. See fdroid and the Amazon App Store.
> brehmsstrahlung

Bremsstrahlung

FTFY
Users can choose their own app stores.
There are people that love this stuff. Mind boggling to me how people can write pages and listen to hours on end. Some jobs require you to make speeches and write pages and pages of this lawsuit unfriendly botton line oriented language. Insane.
If you liked OkTrends, one of the founders of OkCupid, Christian Rudder, wrote an entire book full of fascinating social phenomena using data from social media and dating sites. It's called Dataclysm and it's great.
So Is It Okay to Eat More Red and Processed Meat?
> It should be reasonable for me to assume buying something there is safe.

The only thing we should ever assume is that a company has policies and will honor those policies as required by law.

Here's Amazon's policy on guarantee. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
There is no mention of safety.

Here's Amazon's policy on safety.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
There is no guarantee associated with it.

They are a trillion-dollar company, but what we're observing is that the market isn't hyper-thirsty for safety guarantees and is willing to accept their current climate for service convenience. Other stores will let you make a different safety-convenience tradeoff.
I see similar behavior with a 105W 3950X when running prime95. I haven't experienced instability otherwise over the 2 months I've had this build running.

Google's stressapptest runs fine for long durations, building a kernel with make -j32 succeeds (and can boot it), every parallelized archiver like 7z,pbzip2,pigz,xz is ok, and even gaming on a Windows VM using 8c/16t + GPU passthrough works well.

This is my first Ryzen system so I chalked it up to a possible carry over of DDR4 issues from earlier generations. I didn't investigate further since the 3950x had just been released and I couldn't find any other reports of prime95-only instability until now. And just to reiterate, it is perfectly stable otherwise.

Heavy AVX2 workload breaking things fits better so will have to try to collect more data.
The comments aren't just by the WSJ. It's many other new publications and many intelligent people who aren't afraid to speak out. The number of voices speaking out is increasing.
No, that's Hanlon's Razor. Either the population was ignorant of living beyond their means and adopting bad economic policies -- or they are deadbeats who willfully took out credit they had no intention of repaying.
It took me a while, but a new article in the series is finally here :)
Observational Constraints on the Great Filter
I've had a peripheral interest in virtual sets and real-time compositing by way of a colleague from grad school.

A quick visual summary of this tech: http://www.lightcrafttech.com/portfolio/beauty-beast/

This video was from a pilot several years ago, and it didn't make it to air, but it was visually wonderful.
Crabs was probably the first graphical prank program—most assuredly the first well-documented one: there are a lot of scattered anecdotes about it around. Here's an amazing talk by Rob Pike where it's casually mentioned, for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs

It's not something you see very often anymore, partially because modern windowing systems (and systems in general, really) were built with different security models in mind (you can probably remember a few similar programs released into the wild for real mode operating systems, they were especially common then), but also because windowing systems have moved away from how simple UNIX's windowing system was at the time.

It's actually kind of relevant to something that was on the front-page recently: the displays they were using (JERQ/Blit bitmap displays) depended on a routine that Larry Tesler co-invented (the bit blit, hence the name "Blit").

http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/blit/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_blit

If you want to give it a try, I think 9front ships with a Blit emulator these days; load up v8 and you should have a nice few hours poking around.

http://9front.org/
> How can you ensure that the things you say are true and novel and important? Believe it or not, there is a trick for doing this ... ... trick is not to say anything unless he's sure it's worth hearing. This makes it hard to get opinions out of him, but when you do, they're usually right.

I wish I could do this.

I have to vocalize bad ideas at times & almost with surety to draw out all of the opposition so as to whittle the idea down to sharp and solid -- and to make it robust against the array of slings it could possibly face.

I do not know how people can go through a dialectic process like this in their own silent mind. Or if anyone truly does. Or if they do, if this process trends toward "safe-ish" ideas only.
> He begins sentences with the preposition, "But".

But “but”, in the use in question, is a conjunction. With which one should be less concerned about starting a sentence than one would be about a preposition.