skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry but you're just completely wrong. The police kill far more unarmed whites than blacks each year. And all of these incidents, whether the victims are black or white, are one off events and mistakes and trying to tie them together is an extremely weak and unsupported conspiracy theory.

Blacks kill far more whites per capita than whites killing blacks. Yet I don't jump to some resist racist conspiracy theory as a result.
I once took a class from Huffman (one of the inventors of compression) and the very first class he talked about error correcting codes, and I remember him saying (25 years ago!) "Sphere packing is hard... except in 8 dimensions!" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissing_number)

I failed the class, but learned so many useful things.
When you go into preferences > Mission Control, is 'Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use' checked? I used to hate spaces until I turned that off.
That's a feature ( or at least was)

https://osxdaily.com/2011/11/12/stop-spaces-rearranging-mac-...
Hacker News Karma Tracking with MondayMetrics
Not necessarily promoting things, but I'm 100% sure there are bots crawling the comments for keywords (product/project mentions) so that the creators/employees of said product/project can show up in the comments to answer questions if need be.

Also, from time to time I see accusations that anti-CCP comments/articles are flagged to death by bots, but I've never witnessed this first-hand.
Agree. You apparently don't know the difference between a blame-shifting President, far-right propaganda, and the truth. No institution is perfect, but the WHO was OUR institution, created largely by the US, to control global pandemics. Since we've apparently decided to ignore their advice as well as the advice of our own scientists and the NIH, we are conveniently blaming the WHO.
I don’t see anything in the example to indicate that the closure pattern for Swift Lambda handlers actually allows true async.

func lambdaHandler(event: Event, context: Context) {
// your lambda handler logic...
}

What’s wrong with this approach, which is how lambda handlers are written in every other language with the exception of JavaScript - let’s not pretend that JavaScript is a good language design reference.

Look at this Go example In comparison... simple, readable, intuitive:

package main

import (
"fmt"
"context"
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda"
)

type MyEvent struct {
Name string `json:"name"`
}

func HandleRequest(ctx context.Context, name MyEvent) (string, error) {
return fmt.Sprintf("Hello %s!", name.Name ), nil
}

func main() {
lambda.Start(HandleRequest)
}
Standardization of deployment logic, configuration management, networking, rbac policies, ACL rules, etc etc. across on-prem or any cloud provider.

I can leave my current job, jump into a new one and start providing value within less than couple of days. Compared that to spending weeks if not months trying to understand their special snowflake of an infrastructure solving the same problems already solved a million times before.
He never said to buy better hardware. He said the code should no longer be formatted based upon what he believes to be a niche situation. People in this situation can, in fact, still edit code. You will get line wrapping. It's not optimal, but neither is editing 80 lines when you have 100 available.
http://consumerist.com/362926/do-coat-hangers-sound-as-good-...
Is there any way I could get one too? Email lobsters@lhackworth.com
The target audience is different, but this made me think of the book:

Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook

It was discussed a little here over year ago at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19431005

It can be purchased in book form, or the individual chapters can be downloaded as PDFs at:

https://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/
Adding an option to verify accounts by linking them to social security numbers or corporate registrations and marking them accordingly (without necessarily making the details visible publicly) could at least direct trust to accounts that can be traced to real entities.
How to create a webworkers driven multithreading App – Part 1
I dislike reading a book in my browser. Here's the Project Gutenberg page with all file types for offline viewing.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30688
PepsiCo cuts out grocery stores and sells directly to consumers
How many real people is it OK to squash when squashing bots? How confident can you be when banning accounts?

It’s a lot harder problem then it might sound on the surface. And realize if you find bots 100%, they will change for round 2 and the game starts over.
I think this is a toxic rule to have. Baseless claims don't help anything, but telling people not to talk about something because it might make the site look bad is gross.

It would be much better to show useful statistics to convince people that bots are kept to a minimum.
This feels like a weird place to draw the line on a site intentionally and pedantically named with a not-most-popular definition of “hacker”.
A patronizing talking device would just make me swear at it every time I see it.

But give me charts and graphs, and show me "You spent this much money for water/heating this week", and people will probably also be incentivized to save.
That's what I wanted to mean, sorry. OFC an interpreter itself can't be pledged.
Your statement contradicted itself in several places: a "gain of function" virus would contain random differences, and would look indistinguishable from something "created by nature." Effectively that's how nature makes more virulent viruses; the more virulent examples reproduce more effectively. Just like that's how nature/bakeries makes yeast that works better on flour. No genetic engineering involved.

I don't think there is any evidence of this, despite the usual suspects (neocon types on our side, and militarists on the Chinese side) ginning up the case for an "escape from lab" casus belli, but let's get the facts straight.
Wouldn't they if the existence of them is defined by the curvature of spacetime itself (if energy densities in various configurations is composed of spacetime that is curved to various degrees [maybe like how another commentator here, id call this "knottedness"], how the energy densities evolve in a given spacetime configuration is also curved?)?
Show HN: Write five minute journals within your terminal
Why would the use of bots to push a narrative be restricted to “the right”? Isn’t it more likely that 50% of all posts on divisive topics are made by bots? The talking points for both sides seem imminently scriptable.

Perhaps we should all step back and evaluate whether our internal thought processes are being shaped by bad actors via an appeal to our innate tribalism? Notice how easily you fall into the script: 1) it’s the other team only 2) my team should do something to fight back 3) maybe it’s sponsored by a foreign state.
These articles are as misinformation themselves as the tweets they're talking about
> "Good programmers gravitate towards shorter lines of code by nature. If your average line of code is wider than 80 characters, it's likely you have some other, bigger coding style problems which need to be addressed."

I can't agree with that. When you've got class names like AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean and similar naming conventions for variables, 80 characters just isn't adequate a lot of the time.
It's part of the Russian/Putin playbook. Their mission isn't to promote any particular interests within America or other countries, as much as to maximize divisiveness and weaken democracy as much as possible so that Russia is stronger and less threatened in comparison.
In my opinion, I am concerned that HN is rampant with bots.
I’m not sure why Twitter bots matter, and I assume the only point is to discredit the argument of people against lockdowns.

Real people have also been out protesting the lockdowns, in the real world, not on Twitter. People were legitimately upset, rightfully so, when protestors were showing up with guns in Michigan.
^ more evidence I'm doing it right
Saying something is pledged has a very specific meaning. And in this context, has no relevance to the discussion as none of the perl components in base make use of these bindings.
BigBasket vs. JioMart – A Review and Comparison
Yes. If you take an electron beam, put it through an [electron] beam splitter, put half through a magnetic field that would spin the electron around once, and recombine the beams you will see interference effects.
But the GP clearly knew they had multiple outstanding parking tickets. It's not like they causally didn't know.

edit/ I've been there personally and I was simply unable to afford them, it had nothing to do with forgetting. Thankfully I never had my car towed as a result.
Does PHP have anything approaching CPAN? That is one of the key reasons I still dust off Perl for quick and dirty things from time to time, as well as the compact and accessible regex syntax.
That just provides a massive amount of data that can be compromised in a data breach while making hacking real people's accounts much more worthwhile.
Fun fact: in Chinese the movie “The Matrix” is known as 黑客帝国 or “Hacker Empire”.
Agreed; same exp (w many years of web perf optimization as ui arch and/or perf strategy consulting gigs. Even after all these years, simply using WebPageTest to capture test runs and share the results is often a transformational experience.
Interesting, wonder if he's looked at the data from levels.fyi. Although it's surely not representative.
The threat of potential death within 2 weeks probably contributed to this. And after a few weeks people were getting antsy and screaming the need to go back to normal they assumed they'd get after 2-3 weeks of lockdown...
As long as the long term effects aren't even well understood because a) there has not even been a long term of a post-pandemic world yet, there's not even been a mid-term and b) research is in full swing, there will be any number of medical results and outcomes that may or may not happen to a particular group of subjects. Unless you're OK with being conciously part of a given subject group and/or want to be the first that gets it in this grand experiment, taking less risk still means taking less risk and/or delaying disease and possibly changing negative outcomes into positive ones.
I've seen you post this before and you seem enthusiastic about it. Do you have a good summary of why you feel this paper so important?
I prefer 132 characters, preferably with an alternating green bar background.

To each, their own.
Since I'm not getting paid for writing software, at first glance someone would say I do it so that I get a job in software at some company. But now that I think of it, I don't start software projects with getting hired in mind. I do them because I enjoy the satisfaction of putting together a complex system and turning on the big red switch and seeing it all work together. Why do I enjoy that? Now I can only guess at such a deep question but maybe it's to do with my need for order. I get enough chaotic things happening in my life and personality that I feel programming balances it out. Also, since I'm still pretty new to this, software feels like a new frontier with loads of possibilities. I get this feeling of there being gold at the end of every tunnel of knowledge.
Agreed. I really want a language that makes it easy to run subprocesses and do other Unix/shell magic, while being more straightforward and modern than Perl.

I think a good way of doing this would be to make a shell that has more expressive power and a clearer syntax.
I have quite a “purple feed” on FB. I have to say that I see a lot of utterly ridiculous content created ostensibly supporting both blue and red causes/topics.

If you primarily think one side is crafting ridiculously bad content and it’s therefore a misinformation campaign from a foreign state, I think it’s wise to consider how much of that is personal bias and if you’re perhaps “giving a pass” to stupid content that at least aligns with your views.

“Well, they meant well, so it’s probably just a right-minded American who made a simple off-by-factor-of-a-million arithmetic error and no one spent 50ms doing a basic sanity check. No one’s perfect.”

Or “Look, maybe I think Obama did an Ok job, but I saw all that content about he wasn’t born here, and there has to be something to it if so many people are talking about it. The government hides things; the truth is out there, ya know? Oh, and Epstein didn’t kill himself.”
The voting and posting activity on threads heavily critical of the chinese government have seemed very suspect to me as well. Many of the names defending the government having post histories of only government defense and "what about other country" while votes end up going through cycles of rising gradually and being downvoted all at once.
I'm sorry if this sounds like I'm making fun of your Emacs install (I don't mean to) but how does this happen? Like, what is that when does it load all of that and how much memory/time does it take? I'm genuinely curious.
East Australian Humpback whale bounces back from near extinction
Which is a pity, Firefox has already landed on "nice to have" on our browser matrix, and these kind of decisions don't help.
”But the practical impact of speech controls is always to advance the interests of the ruling class.”

That pretty much sums it up. Google, Facebook, etc. were once the underdogs, fighting against the established media companies of the world (all of whom absolutely censored their own content.) They’ve mostly succeeded and now are in the driver’s seat, so they are acting in a predictable fashion.

It’s just the cycle of life: open-minded underdog replaces monolithic incumbent, until it becomes the monolith and gets replaced by someone else. The YouTube of 2030 is shaping up to be decidedly neutered and boring, and I’m sure someone else will be ready to eat their lunch.
One thing I've discovered when hiring people is if I'm not using things like kubernetes, I don't get (as many) candidates apply. I also don't get as good quality candidates, either.
It's twitter, not people's healthcare.

Just put in a super basic unlock process that is costly to game for "non-real" people
recently talked to a non-SV software developer friend: yeah, I killed two days making a window show up on top of all others on ubuntu with QT (under KDE, so, a supported business-configuration...). After telling him that this is a standard-feature of most X windows managers and asking, whether he used Wayland (didn't know), we went into functionality. "Yeah, you can enter a command and execute it on a remote machine" - "isn't that what ssh is for and you can do with a 20 line shell-script"" - "Yeah maybe, but some management type developed it, while he was still a grunt so we have to keep it...". I bet, said management type is still bragging about how he introduced convenient remote command execution by writing a QT app and his own server (or maybe he's using telnet...).
Counter point (that I'm not sure I believe in): if your behavior is so similar to that of a bot, maybe Twitter would prefer you not on their platform.

(Assuming Twitter was actually incentivized to be anti-bot/bot-like behavior.)
Don't know about OP, but this[1] is very apparent on Reddit and other social media.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics#Con...
Tcl is not less secure than Perl.
Sacrificing a few genuine accounts to save the sanity of millions and protect democracy is not much of an issue. The question is how does one revive such accounts without too much hassle while not reviving bots.
Yeah- I remember being in high school biology class and we had a poster of AIDS symptoms from HIV infection (KS, along with others). Would have been mid-to-late 1980s. Fast forward to grad school- 1995-2001 and I'm working with protein structures like HIV protease and reverse transcriptase to find drugs that interfere with them. Only around 2001 did drugs start to be approved that were really effective.

I still remember that poster with KS and other symptoms on it, some 35 years later. Folks outside of biology have no idea how slow the time frames of some disease treatments can be.
But this is also true in the brain. A child's brain isn't limited by what it already knows.

Their brains are more flexible and don't have a "fixed [mental] structure", and this is why I think it's very important to promote and encourage creativity and passions from a young age.

There's a lot we can learn from kids, even if we need to filter some things through the wisdom that comes with age. Sometimes they have a tendency to have a machine-learning-esque approach to trying new things, which is fascinating to watch, and then how they take instructional guidance to alter their approach.

This might be an easy article to critique, but there's some good points to be gleamed.
This is an awful idea considering data breaches happen. Unless they figure out a way to store the SSN hashed so it cannot be reused, but SSN seems so fundamental that I’m not sure I’d trust any hashing algorithm for it. Especially considering the inputs are so limited.
Maybe they don't need to ban accounts, but instead put up a "bot check", sort of like their new editorial process? Something along the lines of "This account has been identified as likely being a bot. Read more." To remedy a false positive, the human could provide Twitter with a an official ID to remove the warning.
sounds like a good medium post. i’m sure you’ll get lots of claps :-P
I'm hoping the volatile, constantly side-switching nature of censorship will ultimately drive people to more decentralised news and web sources like mastodon and ipfs
> 1. It could easily come across as "my time is more important than yours".

Well yes, if someone comes to me to ask for help, that means they weren't able to solve it by themselves, but expect me to have the skills, knowledge or experience to help them solve it.
So my time working on this problem is obviously more valuable than theirs, because I'm expected to fix something they weren't able to.

So I think it's fair to ask them invest the time to provide a proper description of the problem, before I invest time to help them.
Though the “separate for equal” doctrine rationalized the protection of black civil rights. We have a long history of putting a fig leaf over racial power dynamics.
There have been a lot of articles posted recently about the 'old' web, and while I like the concept I still have a hard time finding quality information in many of the directories and webrings posted. The level of research and density of information in this blog is very good.
Anyone have any idea for a fix for this? Is the only solution to either upgrade the OS or recompile OpenSSL and anything that depends on it (e.g. interpreted languages)? Or is there a simpler fix I'm not seeing?
People might be interested in this which describes attempts to allow some prisoners in the UK to vote: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
The problem is that the US has no proper/well working ID systems. A large amount of social security numbers had been compromised through leakage and are hardly reliably usable for identification anymore.

Through there are many countries in which this can be indeed done reliably sand effectively.

Through the main problem is still this networks are global, so bots will just register with origins where IDs can be easily faked/stolen etc.

But it might still help a lot for local discussions if you would make it clearly visible if a person had a no or a non local real person identification.

If such a system is done cleverly it could also help law enforcement while it still upholds privacy. Through it's will always be someway prone to abuse by police and similar if not done perfectly transparent but you can be sure that certain lobbies will invest insane amounts of money into making it non transparent over time. Which makes such systems potential dangerous to have.
Like others have said that is incredibly interesting and the first I have also heard about it.

I happen to rest my tongue on the roof of my mouth all the time but I’ve also been vegetarian my entire life. So no hard meats for me.
I think we have to except that there are bots everywhere, here, Wikipedia, read it, Twitter, etc. It doesn’t appear to be slowing down but instead increasing in growing in magnitude, if this article is to be believed it doesn’t appear to be slowing down but instead increasing and growing in magnitude, if this article is to be believed.
I only use AWS when consulting customers prefer it.

I get a lot of mileage serving a lot of content for several domains on a free Google Cloud Platform f1 micro instance. I also prefer GCP when I need a lot of compute for a short time.

Hetzner has always been my choice when I need more compute for a month or two. For saving money for VPSs OVH and DO have also been useful but I don’t use them very often.
Bash may be installed in /usr/bin (Arch Linux + symlink in /bin), /usr/local/bin (OpenBSD) or not at all, though.

"#!/usr/bin/env bash" or "#!/usr/bin/env python" are the recommended ways to run both, AFAIK.
> “GPT-3″ is just a bigger GPT-2. In other words, it’s a straightforward generalization of the “just make the transformers bigger” approach

Yes it’s true. But there is a difference between what’s interesting and what works. deep learning (RNNs, transformers, etc.) is usually old ideas applied at large scale with slight modifications. Proving a model works well at large scale (175B parameters) is a great contribution and measures our progress towards AI.
Yes: https://packagist.org/
It more than "looks bad", it actively stifles conversation and keeps it at probably around the "ad hominem" tier of disagreement (http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html).

I think even if you were to present statistics of some kind, some people might not consider it enough and ask for some different contrived set, on and on, forever.

If you think something's really wrong, you email the mods about it. Otherwise you get in this exact meta-discussion land about what is astroturfing, what are accusations, and so on. And then you get threads that distract from meaningful conversations, on and on, forever.

Maybe we could all just try to discuss the article and related comments by refuting/agreeing with their central points. It would be less boring than seeing the same metadiscussion and flailing forever.

(In that vein, I won't be replying to this comment further)

edit: for those left wanting, take a look at the words of 'dang: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:dang%20astroturfing&sort=by...
I don’t think they’re promoting things, but it’s possible that nefarious actors could write a script to create accounts to upvote things.
No one really wants lockdown, at most people would be supporting "as long as it helps"
HN's moderation team has earned that trust.
> Just put in a super basic arbitration process that is costly to game for "non-real" people

I think your "just" is hand-waving away a lot of complexity. A person deployed these bots, and if a bot account gets put into an arbitration process, that person can go through the process themselves to pass the arbitration, then set the bot running again.
One of the things appealing about the readme.md they have in the manifesto is a list of "doing it without frameworks" articles/talks.

This is very appealing to me. I've done a lot of different kinda of programming over the years (embedded C, FORTRAN engineering simulations, years of modeling and ux/tool with Smalltalk, Linux processing and tooling with python, mobile apps in objc, kotlin, and swift, and lately flutter), but I've largely remained aloof of the web. I can skim JavaScript, I get sockets and http (done quite a few protocols over time). Despite all of that, I found web programming very daunting/overwhelming. Every time I dabble, the upside learning curve/awareness just overwhelms me. Maybe because I'm a "dive deep figure out how it works" guy. But this is appealing to me.