skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also one of the answers on that question was deleted by an employee (! — itself an unusual event) for satirically opposing the change. More information here.

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/398507/16587

Overall, the biggest complaint against this is:

1. Not enough people vote on questions or answers.

We know this because of the metrics of people who visit a page vs. those that vote vs. those that comment.

I used to know these metrics since I was a Stack Overflow community elected moderator, but no longer have access to them since I resigned in October of last year: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/390427/16587

Anyway, the goal of this change is to reduce the number of 'thanks' comments left (and to hopefully make people feel like Stack Overflow is more than 'just' a Q&A site, that it has, itself, a personality that is welcoming); but the problem is that it doesn't address -- and indeed may even exacerbate the issue with not enough people voting.

Voting is what helps ensure bad questions are tended to, good questions are rewarded, and good answers are rewarded (and as a positive reinforcement mechanism for people to post more answers).

If people aren't voting, the Q&A model breaks down rather quickly. Which is Bad™.

The hypothesis against is if people have reactions, why would they need to vote?

Naturally, the people in the community who depend on votes to help their work (the curators) are pretty pissed off that at best this will distract from tackling the issue, and at worst will actively disrupt trying to fix the issue.

There has been a tendency over the past year or so especially for Stack Overflow (The company) to not listen to its curators (it's been going on for much longer than that, but came to a head a year ago); and this is another instance in a long series of instances where at best Stack Overflow (the company) is tone deaf to the issues its community faces.
Obviously right?

I mean look at the state of universities today: Around the globe every semester a professor is standing in front of a class, presenting material and they will do this again and again.

Every professor is doing it a little bit different but the main message is the same. In Math its probably even closer between universities while history or social studies might be further appart.

Where is our central / global learning platform? Which tracks all progress? Allows you to chose what professor explains to you certain topics? Tools to support you, nugget of wisdom explaining to you certain small parts of the lecture?

YouTube explained to me a few concepts i just didn't get while listing to the professor.

This is ridiculous!

Try to find lectures for free online which are above 101 curses. The video quality is shit, no exercises nothing.
In theory, this idea is great.

In practice, it's a failure every time.

Not every sin need be taxed.

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/the-evidence-is-...
> ‘You can make any game you want, you can take as long as you want, and money’s not an issue’.

> ‘Just run the studio, we’ll pay the bills and keep you isolated from anything that’s happening up here in Dallas’.

I don't think this can happen today and I also believe this is the reason we don't see anything close to the original Deus Ex.
Reasonable voices would not be so quick to comdemn. Please try to understand that we are just beginning to discover the non-thermal effects of electromagnetic fields, and the science is not looking too good for the wireless industry, which will fight tooth and nail to discredit any findings that would cut into their billions.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323998588_Wi-Fi_is_...

Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305691437_Electroma...

Electromagnetic Fields Act Similarly in Plants as in Animals: Probable Activation of Calcium Channels via Their Voltage Sensor

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283017154_How_to_Ap...

How to Approach the Challenge of Minimizing Non-Thermal Health Effects of Microwave Radiation from Electrical Devices
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Process is everything: Design and Deploy your Processes with Confidence
The crime rate in America is relatively low according to official data:

- https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/09/30/new-fbi-data-v...
- https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/10/17/facts-about...

The latter indicates that, depending on which data you use, the violent crime rate dropped 50–75% between 1993 and 2018 (the larger drop is from BJS, which has some methodology for estimating unreported crimes). The property crime rate dropped at 50–70% over the same time period.

Various actors in society—police gangs (sorry, “unions”), public prosecutors, for-profit prison operators, and straight up fascists—have been stoking fears of Americans for decades such that there are people who genuinely believe that America (as a whole) has more crime even when the numbers completely put a lie to that.

I’m certain that the leaks from this will reinforce what we should already know: America is increasingly a surveillance state of its police against its people, that the police rarely end up doing the jobs that they are nominally hired for (solving crimes), and that there has been an overall reduction in crime but an increase in policing outsized compared to the value police forces provide.

Don’t believe the bollocks.
It does make sense from the point of view of someone embedding HTML as a markup language, for users to edit documents online on a shared domain, and for tooling to be designed alongside these constraints.

As it is, every piece of tooling has to define its own arbitrarily limited subset or an unlimited set of features (and associated attack surface).
I feel like I've missed something. Why are there all these rumours of Apple moving away from Intel anyway? Do they have some sort of issue with Intel?

Otherwise I can't see the benefit in lower power CPUs for macs. If they really cared so much about reducing power usage and heat, then they wouldn't have shoehorned an i9 into their laptops
My (admittedly anecdotal) experience with taxing an addictive/harmful thing "for people's own good" is that it just results in said people cutting their budget to afford the tax, making their life worse overall. This ranges from heroin addicts somehow always finding the daily $$$ to fund their dose, to people mildly grumbling about the price of cigarettes yet buying them anyway.

On the other hand, forbidding a thing altogether seems to have disastrously ineffective results too (see: the prohibition, war on drugs, etc.).

Maybe a better solution is to simply forbid companies from putting addictive things in their products to sell them, but keep the addictive thing legal, e.g. don't put too much sugar in the soda you make (so people won't expect too much sugar as a matter of course) but let people add sugar to the soda if they really want to. In other words, regulate companies' practices but not individuals'.
Try https://app.trember.com
It's free, no registration or installation, super easy to use from any device.
What about taxing high sodium, frozen prepared foods?

edit: I appreciate the downvotes, but I feel they have just as much of an impact on public health as sugary drinks.
Context should be obvious: different people have different preferences, and due to difference in preferences, disagreement emerges.
> really finicky

Is it finicky? The stealth system is very basic and based on line-of-sight and sound (for human enemies). As long as you aren't running, it's actually incredibly trivial to stealth through levels without being seen. Even the bots aren't really a problem, since they have static patrol paths and limited line of sight.
How a faked typhus outbreak spared 8,000 Poles from the Nazis
The split happened prior to the Enron bankruptcy and was the result of a decade of litigation (Andersen consulting partners weren't happy with the profit-splitting with the audit partners).
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Stackoverflow have pretty solid metrics that show large numbers of users find the site unwelcoming. Just because you aren't one of those people doesn't mean that other people can't benefit from changes like this.
I feel like I just took a short trip in a time machine to the year 2001.
time python3 solver.py fred.cnf

Took 9min and 10seconds on RPi 3 running Ubuntu 20.04. Consuming 100% CPU and 1% RAM (1024MB).
How is it different from upvoting an answer? People who want to write will still write thanks, I already found some posts on the home page with thanks comment and the feature.

Also what about the change in reputation when being thanked? It should be there in the blog post.
"a cheap porches is faster than an expensive corvette"

yeah, that's about the point one slowly backs away from the thread and let fanboy do their things
I went back to human revolution a couple months ago. I loved it the first time, but I was really surprised how clunky a game from 2011 felt. I think there were also some scaling issues with my 4k monitor. it's really too bad; mankind divided had a much better "feel" to it, but the story was not as interesting or well developed.
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Don't think Apple will be putting mobile processors into desktops - expect they will be processors designed for desktops with comparable or better performance than the Intel processors they replace.

Not sure what is weird about 64 bit ARM architecture - it certainly doesn't have the legacy (dating back to 8086 in 1978) that x86 carries with it.
Cybersecurity Budgets: Will They Survive Covid-19?
Given the purposes of military submarines, most of the ocean is not useful to visit, and most of that "uninteresting" ocean is too deep for those submarines to care about.
I think it wasn’t until my sixth or seventh play through that I finally felt like I’d found everything in that game. There’s just so much in it, and it’s content to let you miss most of it if you want. IIRC there are a three or so main routes through that first level (in the front, through the tunnel, climb the side), plus a couple optional side-areas.
It has mentioned "live-restore" option, which would let upgrade without restarting existing running containers
The Project Manager’s Role in Software Product Development
Yeah so let’s build an uranium enrichment center just outside Von Braun city on the Moon...
> Not every sin need be taxed.

Absolutely... as long as every individual is willing to pay the full costs of their sins.
That still doesn't mean it was secret knowledge before, the people who have use for this information could readily access it.
Twitter: Streaming logging pipeline of Home timeline prediction system
I understand what you're saying about what was exposed, but do you really believe that intelligence leaks don't cost lives at some point? I find it harder to believe that identities of spies and TTP being publicized just has zero negative effect afterwards. Those people, though leaked, are likely still classified in some manner so there's no reason for the US or any government to admit that they've lost people or the upper hand in clandestine environments.

Police departments, comparatively, are not that classified or secretive. It's definitely much more likely that there's evidence of undercover operations that were leaked by this, probably. Certainly much more likely than something KKK related, what makes you say that? I admittedly haven't looked to see how far back in time these files go, so something these days seems a little outlandish, at least from what I know right now.
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They had metrics for the "thank you" stuff as well.
NERVA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA was way more practical. They actually built these things and experimentally confirmed specific impulse, they just never launched them.

It's so sad to listen to the documentaries and hear how NERVA "is on track to propel mankind to mars by the late 1970s or early 1980s." Ah well. At least we're starting to care about space again!
Not the right analogy, but the article is mostly on point--higher education is in the process of being "unbundled".

> I need no convincing of the value of campus life and in-classroom education. I recognize that online platforms can’t perfectly replace what we deliver on campus. But they can fulfill key pieces of our core mission and reach many more students, of all ages and economic backgrounds, at a far lower cost.

> Our industry has been so stable for so long that we’ve conflated our model with our mission.

The author then rhetorically asks what the mission actually is, and answers with

> As educators, we strive to create opportunities for as many students as possible to discover and develop their talents, and to use those talents to make a difference in the world.

which sounds good and all but seems pretty far removed from the sausage that is actually being made on college campuses. I, for one, am looking forward to see what new models arise over the next couple decades and I hope my child has a wider variety of options than I did.
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> Timothy McVeigh

Who did he work with again?
New Grads: Consider Becoming Project Managers
Yes, the author writing about themselves in the third person is really misleading/annoying.
Fixable and refusing to address? At the end of this I've linked a grant request from the NIH for better models, and this isn't a u ique or one of grant request. Hundreds of researchers and companies are working tirelessly on things like organ on a chip. Every drug required human trials to prove they work and could never get approved on mouse trust alone. Preclinical work will use animals up to monkeys if needed to get the best data. Neuroscience is developing brain organoids we can use that are created from actual human cells so we can move away from mice. This is millions of dollars of research being poured into this space because it turns out the scientific community does not like spending billions of dollars on failed drugs that we might have known about if we had better models. Saying the problem is fixable and that the scientific community just doesnt care is incredibly naive - it's like saying higher energy density batteries are trivially achievable but battery researchers are just too lazy right now. Its difficult, and many mainstream researchers have literally dedicated their lives to it.

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-19-369.html
This is different, in that it uses heat from a nuclear reaction to push out a propellant. No explosion takes place.
I think this is an interesting and important argument, because I always felt many shortcomings of the modern web were actually caused by browser vendors and their reluctance to improve their platforms and the web.

We have so many custom UI Elements, because forms did and still do suck.
RSS always had a back seat, because it always was second class in browsers.
Semantic web died outside of search engines, because browsers did not offer features like "Save event to my calendar".
And boy, have I been promised for a long time I might someday be able to sort HTML tables by click.

Just a non exhaustive list of my pet peeves, but there are many more examples.
No doubt people will arrive shortly to knee-jerk against sugary drink taxes; but would they mind explaining why sugar is made artificially cheap to start with?

Obesity massively increased internationally after the mid-1970s US agriculture policy changes ([0]). Specifically look at corn production after the mid 1970s[1]. One of corn's products is HFCS, the massive influx of this sugar substitute drove international raw sugar prices down until 2007[2].

This had the side effect of sugar being a cheaper food ingredient than most of the alternatives, even in countries that didn't directly import HFCS (since the US was no longer removing as much raw sugar from the market, driving down costs).

A lot of people who bring up HFCS try to paint it as an even less healthy sugar, my point is more nuanced than that: That HFCS is driving down prices and causing more, even raw sugar, to appear in foods as both sugar/HFCS are subsidized by US aggro policy (and tax payer cash) since between mid-1970s and today.

We can pass sugar-drink taxes, but it feels like fixing a leak with duct tape. Instead, we should fix the whole pipe, by changing US aggro policy so that HFCS isn't unnaturally cheap. This will cause both food manufacturers and consumers to consider the healthier and cheaper alternatives.

PS - I'm not against sugar-drink taxes as an interim step.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity#History

[1] https://suyts.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/image20.png

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_raw_sugar_pric...
> In the end, the problem is not the value of the four-year university degree. The problem is its price.

It can be both.
He's still on the job, and the person he wanted in prison is still in prison, so it's more that it doesn't matter he was on video, because not even video evidence is enough to get him fired, let alone arrested.
Popular South Korean actor, Lee Min Ho is 33 today
Because the worflkflow that one country’s screening and tracking system follows is clearly the same as another.
The police are civilians.
Nuclear pulse propulsion (Project Orion) is a different concept to nuclear thermal. Pulse works by using bombs to generate your energetic reaction mass in bursts, whereas thermal uses a more normal fission reactor to superheat some reaction mass that then passes through an ordinary rocket nozzle.

You're right that both are worrying until they're out of atmosphere.
yeah I was surprised by this comment as well. imo, deus ex has one of the better implementations of stealth mechanics (certainly better than recent games like far cry). maybe it was bugged for GP?
I like this, although it is yet another example of a learned language model not capturing underlying meaning.

I started a similar project last year, but using GAN (RecipeGAN). Using a GAN would learn underlying meaning, based on my experience using GANs to synthesize data that maintained univariate statistics and correlation between features of the original data.

The example in the article shows how RNNs can capture structure (I have used LSTM models to synthesize JSON data, and just for fun, to model source code).
Does anyone have a nice list of interesting, compact examples of sites or apps that are written in vanilla javascript?
Zen 2 has 4MiB L3 per core, 16 MiB shared in one 4-core CCX.
That's a folksy legend indeed, where is that from? The 1960s?
I have experience teaching complex software to uninterested field personnel, so allow me.

Draw a state machine, send it a few events, let him follow it with his finger. For a state machine, all he needs to do is to keep the last state in his head.

There is a rare case that this doesn't work. But that is not your fault.
True, but that is something that many miss a lot when discussing Rust virtues.

Yes the type system is a great help when dealing with thread based concurrency/paralellism, but not so much for the scenarios where we are already using type safe managed languages in distributed computing across multiple processes, most likely not even written in the same language.

Which by the way, given the recent security exploits, is much preferable to go back to, instead of relying on threads for parallelism.
I bet that all popular docker images will be available for ARM very soon. It's a matter of recompiling.
So why is it on the NHSx github repo?
If you step back a little what we have today is a combination of a common browser implementations (aka. the DOM tree + render logic) and bunch of standardized parsing and interpretation logic that maps textual versions of CSS and HTML to this.

For better or for worse, this stuff is standardized via WhatWG & W3C as well as the three remaining browser engines (chromium, gecko, and safari) whose intersection of behavior is the de-facto reference and also what is driving standardization forward. Forking those definitely does not make sense unless you are the size of Apple or Google and more than one big company has backed out of pushing their own implementation (e.g. MS).

Most so-called full stack apps bypass the business of parsing of html5 & css in favor of just directly driving the DOM api. This provides greater flexibility and generally sidesteps a lot of complexity, bugs, etc. related to subtle differences between the 3 implementations. A typical index.html contains little more than the bare essentials to load the javascript; which then drives the DOM directly. This annoys some purists/traditionalists on the web definitely not in a position to fork or support their fork of any browser but makes little difference to search engines, users, or browser implementations.

So now having established that this is mostly an academic discussion of forking something that is highly unlikely to be ever actually forked (successfully), we can look at the underlying question.

This would be whether the DOM still an appropriate way to represent highly complex and dynamic applications that are not primarily documents and increasingly cover the whole range of any kind of interactive application possible (terminal UIs, windows based UIs, games, VR/AR, voice driven chat bots, etc.). For better or worse, most web development is about providing an illusion of more interactivity than a typical document would provide. The business of rendering static text to a browser is kind of a solved problem. It's everything else that's kind of hard to deal with via a DOM api. WASM is breaking this discussion wide open as suddenly people are porting decades worth of native code to run in a browser. Just because you can doesn't mean you should of course. But there's a lot of UI that can run in a browser that doesn't need or completely bypasses the DOM these days. Accessibility is a good remaining reason to still use it. But beyond that?
Wait, is HR part of “the originals” now?
I played it so many times around 2000...

Fun fact about stealth mechanic rewards in the original: they don't vanish if you did the offensive approach! You could get the most xp by first killing everyone and then run around through tunnels and obstacles to get the other half of the xp

I remember the escape from his brothers apartment in hells kitchen especially fondly because of that.
First you slaughter everyone so your bro is safe for offensive reward, then you run through the level for the discovery rewards such as enabling the turret which shots the now non-existing enemies (the brother dies if you don't block him by standing in the way so risky to do earlier) and finally escape through the window. 3 routes and you get all the xp :)
Most people don’t go to conferences.
I think that this page gathers all commands in one place as quick reference
If you got yourself a degree from Trump-U, definitely.