skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But yeah, how they missed that is hard to comprehend.

Look at the German DAX and what is in there. That is explanation enough. Heavy industry, consumer goods, banks, insurances. The only IT company other than Wirecard is SAP and it is not exactly known for innovation.

Everyone, especially politics, wanted Wirecard to succeed: the only actually somewhat innovative IT company in the DAX. It's the same pattern with the car industry scandals (not just Dieselgate but also the Porsche attempted takeover) or with Bayer/Monsanto.

Germany doesn't have many "unicorns" so politics will protect them until way too late, for the companies, for the share/stakeholders and the planet.
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But he isn't a source - he's the subject of the story. Finding out the identity of a pseudonymous public figure used to be considered good old-fashioned journalistic sleuthing rather than "doxxing".
Yes. Gell-Mann Amnesia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speeches_by_Michael_Crichton#G...
Hey, thanks for your feedback! :) We're internally using hspec for testing our code. We're going to add some more documentation on using hspec with IHP soon.
I think it’s plausible that if I became a national news figure under my real name, my patients – who run the gamut from far-left anarchists to far-right gun nuts – wouldn’t be able to engage with me in a normal therapeutic way. I also worry that my clinic would decide I am more of a liability than an asset and let me go, which would leave hundreds of patients in a dangerous situation as we tried to transition their care.

I'm pretty sure that is exactly the "possibly detrimental for those he treats" I was referring to. I'm not sure why you sat he didn't state that, unless you're referring to how you dropped the "possibly" from my statement, but that would make your reply a non-sequitur, so I don't think that makes sense either.

> If there was a serious medical ethical concern here about just his full name he would never have used his real first names to begin with - no medical professional would take such a risk.

Not everyone publishes their middle name. Without that middle name being fairly public and a little foreknowledge about that being likely what was done, there's little chance of finding the correct person.

Hell, my first name is a very rare spelling, and middle name is common, probably about as common as his. You won't find a single thing about me searching for that combo, because I've never included my middle name in anything that would be published online.

There's also the possibility he doesn't go by his first name. He could go my his middle name (Alex) and we that would also confound most searching. He didn't even specifically say whether the first and middle name were in the correct order, so you can't really assume anything from that, since they are both very common first names and he was trying to maintain some anonymity.

As a simple example, his full name could be Scott Alexander Papageorgio, and I doubt you would get very far finding what you thought were useful results from any variations of Scott and Alexander.
Please stop acting as if you know what literally all people are not saying.
I didn't, however you can read my writeup and investigation attempts here:

- https://github.com/mratsim/weave/issues/56

And the fix was directly using Linux futexes:

- https://github.com/mratsim/weave/pull/58/files
I agree that the language used to diminish the event matches the inaccuracies of the article.

However, no one is communicating well here, and you're not a moderator on this thread.
Super exciting! For reference, current Large Hadron Collider is 17 miles (27 km).
> Germany doesn't have many "unicorns" so politics will protect them until way too late, for the companies, for the share/stakeholders and the planet.

Interesting. Is there a strong feeling of innovation/unicorn envy among the wider business culture in Germany? Is it a fear of being stale, comparisons to Silicon Valley & Asian tech scene, or something else? I'm curious if you have more insight on this?
I often wonder if the news/media has been purposefully weakened as an institution over time, so as to keep the populace more ignorant and controllable by people in power.

I guess it goes in cycles though. Apparently in the 1890s it was _actually worse_!?
Incorrect or unfair generalization from previous experience is prejudice.

Pre-judging a novel scenario from biased information or processes is a functional definition of prejudice.
It's a very simple, 500 line JSON DB, with extremely simple indexes. It's meant to be very lightweight people can just set it up and modify it easily.

Somehow just the idea of using the filesystem tree for record lookup was cool. And I liked the idea that each record is a separate file so if you want, your can edit and view by hand or using tools. also want to add git repo to db to do versioned backups and change log etc.

IPFS BTFS issues are just considering a way to use a directory that's mounted into some p2p network. just for curiosity I suppose. it could be cool for applications of that
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Unfortunate, for sure. The NYT has no real reason to post his name (as far as I'm aware--the tone of the article could affect that conclusion), so I'm not really sure why they'd dig their heels in here.

Though, he really does post a lot of personal and identifying information on his blog--literally any motivated party could find his name very easily. I thought "maybe he doesn't want his real name to link to his blog if a patient googles it"--but, it already does that. In fact, it's a suggested search in google!

Ultimately though, in some respect, I do think Scott's trying to have his cake and eat it too a bit here. I think when he starts trying to influence certain events in the real world; eg. like his Signal Boosting for Hsu to give an example within the last week, where he takes umbrage against the Grad student organization at MSU to drum up support in defense of Prof. Hsu--whether or not you agree with Hsu or you agree with the graduate students at MSU, Scott is decidedly an outsider attempting to exert his influence. People have mentioned that these sorts of actions legitimize the "fair play" of the NYT revealing his real identity, and I'm having a hard time finding umbrage with that statement.

I don't think the NYT should post his full name but I also do think Scott has been playing fast and loose; both with revelatory facts about his identity and by putting himself in situations where there are legitimate reasons for blog-outsiders to inquire about his real identity. Hopefully there will be an amicable end to this conflict.
I dunno. I'm not a physicist, but Time as a fourth dimension seems sensible. Since what you consider 'here' (your office, maybe) isn't the same as my 'here' (my living room, atm), why should your 'now' (2020-06-23) be the same as Ben Franklin's 'now' (eg: 1790-01-01)? Must any one 'now' be more significant than any other? A person has to be somewhere in time and space.
I wanted to say decade but I know someone would say "you don't need to do 10 years, you are only in school 6 in my country".

So, I said 'more than half-a-decade' because that is essentially the absolute minimum that nobody can be pedantic about.
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Futhark: High-performance purely functional data-parallel programming on the GPU
ProPublica. I have to admit I don't read enough of what they write, but I became a monthly supporter after their reporting on Intuit/TurboTax lobbying: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
Good feedbacks. those all sound like changes I'm happy to make. If you want to contrib I'm happy but don't expect that from you at all obviously.
> Pollution and alien relations are not something you can control in the game.

You can (besides using the map creation settings). I've build a big factory without suffering attacks. You can control pollution by using solar (exclusively), efficiency modules and strategic building (build near forest, don't destoy them, they absorb pollution). I did give myself a headstart with a big starting area and lots of forest. And since the requirement to farm aliens for resources has been removed a while ago, there is no reason to attack and agitate them, reducing their agressiveness and expansion.

It does make the game harder and more fun in a way.
But even if we dont take them literally: the united states is on the brink of civil war. We're more divided than ever, at the same time that individuals are spending record screen time engaged with facebook. Complete and utter failure to bring people together. The shareholders ought to have zuckerberg pilloried.
I wonder just how deep this rabbit hole goes? And how much of our lives is directed by misunderstandings, misinterpretations, bad translations, outright deception, etc.

As a programmer I know that my the screen I'm looking at is the visual output of a house of cards. It's amazing the whole thing works. I suppose you might say the same about society in general.

This makes me think of that Steve Jobs quote where he talks about poking things. I guess one reason why you can change things is because there's a low bar for improvement. ;)

Relevant Steve Jobs quote.

> The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That’s maybe the most important thing. It’s to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

I think that’s very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you’ll want to change life and make it better, cause it’s kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”
> It takes me about 8 hours to produce 15 minutes of truly information-packed video content.

i would consider that short!

the benchmark i have is 1 minute of video is 1 hour of production time.
The issue is that those two people are one and the same.

Many of Scott's patients would find his writings to be very relevant information.
It’s almost like the amount of money a company has doesn’t correlate with its ability to make a great product :)
IHP includes a GUI to build postgres schema - this is really cool and much appreciated. Databases have been existing for ages now and so are the GUI tools to manage them. However, it's unfortunate that most web frameworks fail to provide functionalities like this.

Working in similar space[1], I have been talking to many early customers. Right from somebody who knows enough programming to product managers to CTOs, the idea of having a GUI within web framework and to have CRUD APIs ready with just few clicks gives them an amazing head start in building web apps. Getting past this redundant phase of creating basic CRUD with no hassle means - they can devote their energies on the business side of things. It will not be wrong to imagine in few years this workflow will become a norm.

[1] : https://github.com/xgenecloud/xgenecloud
Valid points. Land and expand is a great moat to have. Couple of other interesting points

Their contracts are non-cancellable 3 to 5 year contracts. So retention is almost guaranteed and in banks, beyond 5 years no one bothers to change the status quo. So this is a significant factor when it comes to predicting future revenue potential and profit potential.

On the costs front, hey have to pay a part of the subscription revenue to Salesforce. However, this cost grows linearly in proportion to revenue. The ratio has remained same throughout 3:1 (almost)
> How come it does not get as much attention as Rust when it comes to safety?

Community building.

That said, Nim is very much inspired by Ada for the future safety features, in particular Z3 integration to enable Spark-like use-cases

- https://nim-lang.org/docs/drnim.html

AFAIK Ada was also inspired by Rust for memory-related safety. I find the cross-pollination between languages fascinating.

WHat's the multithreading story of Ada like? I didn't find that much code or article or papers when I was searching for multithreading runtime in other languages.
Given Britain can't go bust as a matter of accounting given it has its own currency I expected to find an article explaining why the characters suggesting this are lying.

No such luck.

The Bank of England will alway fund the UK government because the UK government owns the Bank of England. If Bailey had refused he would have been sacked.

HM Treasury has those powers under section 19(1) of the Bank of England Act 1998.
If you swap out "overall" with "in isolation".. I sincerely and hopefully doubt that most Canadians would ruin a lot of the world, for a bit more arable land.
> Interestingly, this indicates that the streaming market is saturated, and Mixer simply had no room to grow.

Facebook Gaming had the room. So did Discord, and with the Corona-Lockdowns also Zoom and other private Video-Conferencing-Services (though they are not exactly focused on public streaming). Mixer just never found their niche and strength, they sucked and failed because they tried to be another Twitch, instead of aiming to be their own.
Journalists can do great work, provided the incentives are lined up right. One of the only French newspaper that is consistently in the black is an investigative weekly paper called "le canard enchainé". It is read by pretty much anyone, young, old, poor, rich. It is owned by its journalists, accepts no advertising, has a paper subscription model, and nothing they print is put online.

Thing is, they make ministers and sometimes entire French governments fall when they uncover corruption scandals, they have an impeccable reputation for protecting their sources, and they publish scoop after scoop after scoop. The value they offer is unique, you won't be able to read the information they publish anywhere else, and I believe this is how they maintain their integrity and value to the public.
Every time I get an update (iTunes, iMovie, and now macOS and Finder) they make the minimum size of icons / thumbnails / UI elements larger, making it impossible to see as many on the screen at a time. Would you accept your code editor doubling the font size, making it possible to see only half as many lines of code?

Being able to see content is a feature.

Every new update brings more uniform, less visually distinctive buttons. When we went from black and white silhouettes of the original Macintosh System to colourful, pictographic icons of the Mac OS 9 era it was obviously an improvement in usability. Now we're back to monochrome silhouettes again.

Being able to find UI elements quickly is a feature.
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How do you ask for the in-browser link? I managed to join a few times via the browser but as of late, i always get redirected to the app and never see the 'in browser' option anymore.
It's our shared now dude. We're in the here and now. Ben Franklin is dead as a motherfucker.
The problem isn't bias/partisanship. You can't have any one source be truly unbiased and if you're aware of the politics behind any given source you can neutralise it and temper it with multiple sources from opposite camps.

The problem is that we're not being delivered news-as-information, we're sold news-as-entertainment.
African Americans are killed by police at the same or lesser rates than other races. However, they are killed at much higher absolute rates because they commit a significantly greater amount of crime. It doesn't take a PHD in mathematics to figure this out.

Here is just one data source from NYC: http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_plan...

Subjects firing on Police: 79% Black

Subjects killed by Police gunfire: 69% Black

If you want to tackle Black crime, start with decriminalising drugs, and then getting Black fathers back into marriage and raising their children.

Destroy the idea that being law-abiding, studying hard, and being regularly employed is 'acting white'. Scale back welfare to make all these things more attractive, and restrict immigration to direct more job opportunities to African Americans instead of Latin American and Indian migrants.
What? Did you forget about the dress? Blue or gold? That totally has happened with seeing.
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I would definitely recommend it. It's hard, it hurts, and it's probably hot outside but it's a good way to spend a day. Might take some time to build up the skills to go to the park but your driveway is good enough until then. Also youtube is an amazing resource for skating skills.
Hyper threading is indeed meant for languages like Python or Javascript that use pointers everywhere. Once you have an optimized workload with little pointer chasing the only other meaningful benefit of SMT come from the fact that you can run floating point workloads alongside integer workloads. That's a pretty rare situation but it does happen sometimes.
Isn't "digging" exactly what a good journalist is supposed to do?
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Well there is no real secret to learning stuff. Other than a few very extraordinary disciplines, anything can be learned if you put in the time and keep at it regularly. Of course, this statement is only valid if you apply the proper learning techniques, but also these can be learned.

It is hard to give you general advice since everybody is at a different mindset and has different learning techniques. What helped me was realizing that whenever I hit a wall, I would stop trying because it felt annoying, difficult, or I didn't really know what to do.

The secret for me was to do everything I can, meticulously and methodically, to break through the perceived barrier in my understanding of something in very small steps. And keep going until I felt the curtain was lifting.

Now, it is just a matter of how long it will take.
What? That's a real thing? Bypassing the feeling of "how can that even be legal?", how can people join a company that puts these kind of restrictions on it's employees? Kind of feels like that Amazon employees put themselves in this situation, so hard to feel bad for them.

If any company tries to limit what I do in my free time, it's a quick and hard "no" on working for them.
As you increase clock speed, temperatures approach the surface of the sun.

Besides being hard to cool, it causes chemical, delamination and other changes to the chip, eroding it.

"In 2001, Pat Gelsinger—then Intel‘s CTO—predicted that within a decade the energy density of chips would be equivalent to the surface the sun if nothing was done."

https://semiengineering.com/thermal-damage-to-chips-widens/
As a journalist who's a CS dropout, then later a BoA, and who works as a web dev on the side: I agree.
BUT:

1) The journalist's work is sometime a soul-crushing effort to turn complex things that can't really be made simple into a readable summary. I cover Quantum tech as someone who has at least a grasp of physics: it's insanely difficult.

2) Journalists that behave like the ones you describe, are bad for the whole profession. What you describe is a systemic problem in journalism, which I think it's especially bad in the big newsrooms of big newspapers that are struggling to survive or have still to figure out a proper business model for their future.

That said, I think there are a lot journalist who, like yours truly, tend to stick to what they've studied and know. I would never write about medicine, but I know I'm able to write about tech avoiding the complete lack of knowledge some colleagues show.
The real problem: this works for me as a freelancer. Staff writers are considered fungible, and they have to adapt to whatever needs to be written.

Sorry for the sparse thoughts, I have to much in my mind about this, but not enough time to put it down properly right now. I still wanted to chime in, though. :)

P.s. Journalism schools are also part of the problem. They form a cohort of people who think they can do exactly that: write about anything. It's bullshit, and it does not work well for the category. The best colleagues I know all come from very different study fields, and they sort of fell into journalism by chance.
You are wasting your time preaching to those who've an agenda, presumably the author gets paid for writing JS so even if he/she actually recognizes the advantages then he/she isn't likely to follow up.

It's occurred to me from reading these posts that we need a few good coders to develop some logically equivalent test sites one using JS and the other without then advertise the fact on HN so as everyone can see and compare.
> The aim is to start construction of the new tunnel by 2038

Not in my lifetime, I guess.
> People have mentioned that these sorts of actions legitimize the "fair play" of the NYT revealing his real identity, and I'm having a hard time finding umbrage with that statement.

I don't see how these things legitimize each other at all, unless you're advocating or favoring personal harassment as a legitimate political strategy.
Well, he's dead to people in 2020, not to his contemporaries over in the 18th Century, if you catch my drift. And we're dead, to people in (most of) the possible 3020AD futures that branch out from 2020.

The hedge is in case there are some where medicine advances to the point where we live 1000 years :)
yeah, interesting. I haven't looked at the mods much (still haven't got the perfect factory setup on vanilla yet!).
Here is a post summarizing the paper:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200622152542.h...
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Very cool, I was just reading about constraint solvers and position-, velocity- / impulse-, forced-based dynamics etc the last few days and wondered how hard it would be to do a physics engine from scratch.

As far as I can tell, this is single threaded CPU only, right? I wonder if it wouldn't be more appealing to do it parallel on the GPU instead when starting a new physics engine today, especially given how hard it is to change that later on.
>I thought "maybe he doesn't want his real name to link to his blog if a patient googles it"--but, it already does that. In fact, it's a suggested search in google!

That's not true. I just searched his real name and I get results about him but none of them are SSC-related at least on the first pages. Maybe your customized results lead to that or maybe you are including Scott Alexander or SSC in the search - either way most patients googling him wouldn't see SSC at all.
The BBC didn't even mention it, at least not initially.

The Guardian article mentioned Russia 5 or 6 times (why?), the rest of the article didn't have any useful info.

The NYT article mentioned Russia 4 times IIRC, and had two half sentances of useful info.

Reuters only mentioned Russia once (hooray!), and actually had a reasonable amount good detail in there.

It pays well to do a 'deep dive' on something like the Syrian conflict, to better understand how the media /really/ works, then the lessons learned can be re-applied going forward. I spent some time studying the initial OPCW report, and independently came to the same conclusion that the OPCW leaks did. A few independent journalists, including Robert Fisk, shed light on some of the other aspects.

A more recent matter is the initial denials of the efficacy of face masks in helping reduce the spread of coronavirus. This was done largely for political reasons IMHO, and became part of advice that was muddled, illogical, and inconsistent.

The best source of advice was highly ranked medical experts in countries that had successfully dealt with SARS, their advice was clear, logical and consistent, right from the beginning back in late Jan. Of course for some reason they're almost never featured in western media, who prefer some celebrity GP or health adviser who's only real interest seems to be their appearence fee!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/5188155...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcbJdRb6mds