skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully this is deep enough in a thread not to be in the way, but I noticed in some other threads that you were getting pushback on your username. Could you possibly clarify, and perhaps add something to your profile, whether that is "My name is really Jeff Davis" or "I'm a proud Southerner" or whatever the reason might actually be?
This process is documented at length in the book 1984, including a special appendix dedicated specifically to what the author termed "Newspeak"
and "doublethink", or "doublespeak".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
Although it made me scratch my head a bit. I was mostly wondering how they avoid diseases associated with eating brains. Mad cow disease spreads from animal to human mostly by eating brains.
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Mandates are mandates. You can only say and do what you are authorized to say and do. Overstepping other agencies' jurisdictions is a guaranteed way to garner negative attention.

Eg: In Canada people are trying to push the Prime Minister into releasing Meng back to China. But the government is strictly separate from the legal/court system to avoid the type of corruption one sees the US Dept of Justice accused of right now. So yes, he very well might be able to push the matter through loopholes or influence, but the very same people pushing him to do it would also decry corruption and call him a dictator if he did so. So he won't overstep that boundary.

Additionally, I used to provide technical expert witness services in certain types of court cases. I had to state only things that I can back up as part of my expertise. I had to use the word 'apparent' and 'presumed' a lot, even when file names were so extremely obvious. I couldn't refer to a hacker as a hacker in certain contexts - they're simply "suspects" etc. As a technical expert, I spoke to the technology and not the person or any literal content.

It's exactly the same reason you see the word "alleged" used in the news even when it is super obvious the "alleged" facts are obviously true -- Jurisdiction and authority to state specifics as fact.
He usually explains the details right after stating it. For example, you can follow along in his lecture notes: https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html .

"Statistics but with the 2 norm" is really just a succinct way of stating the postulates of quantum mechanics, and obviously all effects of quantum mechanics are determined by the postulates. So you shouldn't really see this as a statement that's controversial at all.
Because research prioritization and funding is comically, hilariously, pathetically, tragically broken? The research proposals which get funded are never the best ones given our current knowledge, much less the right ones for advancing our current knowledge.

(Source: see username. I've seen inside a few of the US academic funding sausage factories, and it's not pretty.)
This is a known issue with iOS[0]. Basically, to keep you from having to zoom in when mobile browsing first took off, Mobile Safari would make the text bigger.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3226001/some-font-sizes-...
>but it's also a methodology that should be likely to give a high side estimate

It's the same methodology they use for all diseases. If it's too high an estimate, they'd pretty quickly find it since it would overcount enough reasons fro death that totals would not match measured death totals.

In my original post I linked evidence and the expert reasons why counting is likely low.

>Outside of New York/New Jersey and Massachusetts, I don't find a high disparity in the excess death ratio that supports the idea that there is significant under reporting of deaths.

The CDC link had many states with many thousands of excess deaths. And remember CDC death count lags actual death counts by a few weeks, so the 118k-154k (95%-ile) they list is to be compared to COVID as of a few weeks ago, which was under 110K two weeks ago. So taking the median gives around 136K actual deaths (prob not all COVID, but majority so) vs 110K reported - approx 20% undercounted.

>So are more people having heart attacks? Is Covid causing heart attacks?

Both of those are likely true [1]. Research since then is looking like COVID is killing asymptomatic people via attacking the heart.

>I don't feel comfortable pushing the idea that we are under-reporting deaths or over-reporting deaths because I think that we don't actually know

I've found significant decent groups and projects claiming undercounting, many with decent empirical evidence. I've not found the opposite, despite looking. I posted a few to get you started - discount as you wish.

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200327113743.h...
People buy horrible prescription opiates generally with no recourse to the legal system, and that's legal.
Analog displays have no pixels but dots.
I think perhaps libvim is like that? https://github.com/onivim/libvim
I believe Onivim is in this camp. I don't know how well that's working out for them, or whether there are any others.
Aww, this is really disappointing to hear but an excellent read nonetheless. I always had Xi in the corner of my eye as a very interesting way to make a text editor that had a lot of good things going for it: modularity, native UI, speed…I think if it worked out it would have been really great. It's really sad to hear that it didn't. Thank you, Raph and the rest of the Xi contributors, for working on it for all these years; even if it didn't upend the text editor market I am appreciative of the effort and the lessons you've learned along the way.

Some other side conversations I've had about this that might be interesting and relevant:

* Native UI is not always the right choice. That might seem surprising coming from someone who pushes native UI extremely strongly in general, and I don't want to be misunderstood as recommending you choose something else for your next project (if you have to ask: don't). But in some very specific contexts, such as performant text editing/rendering, it can be problematic to use a high-level control. In fact, many of the text views I use in are not using the standard platform controls but a custom view doing its own drawing: Terminal.app does its own thing (it doesn't even use NSScrollView!), Xcode has the Pegasus editor written in Swift, iTerm draws text using Metal, and Sublime Text is Skia. Platform controls are meant for 99% of apps that don't need absolute control over performance or text rendering, and sometimes you can push them quite far. But in some cases it's appropriate to abandon them. (I will note that all of the examples handle actual text editing very, very well. If you don't know what the standard shortcuts for editing text are for my platform, you're not going to do it right.)

* I love that LSP exists and that it makes my "dumb" editor "smart". But having worked with it a bit, I think it might suffer from some of the same problems: it uses a client-server architecture and JSON to communicate, which means it is not all that performant and needs to keep track of asynchronous state in a coherent way. And not just the state of one document, but the states of many documents, all in different contexts and workspaces, all with their own compiler flags and completion contexts and cursor locations–it is really hard to do this correctly and quickly, although many language servers do an admirably good job. Perhaps it's just "good enough" that it's here to stay, or maybe it has enough support that it can have some of its issues wrinkled out with time.
> this is why if you write to a binary in-place with cp instead of unlinking first (like install), currently executing copies are changed, and usually crash

This is not true, or no longer true: opening a running program's backing file with O_RDWR or O_WRONLY is prevented via the "writecount" mechanism (and vice versa: files being written cannot be executed).
https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html
My knowledge in font copyrights is limited, but what if one just removed the embedded hinting programs? Sure, it’d look bad, but would that fix the copyright issue?
Considering the state of things in SA, I would hardly call that Bain's fault. Well, of course it's their fault, but there's a massive amount of systemic risk that is common to all companies in SA.
Divisibility.

Using base-ten units, you can divide precisely by only 2 and 5. Not only are 1/3 and 2/3 not integer subdivisions of ten, they're not even precise decimals, but asre repeating.

Under base 12, there are precise subdivisions of 2, 3, 4, and 6 units. Under base 30 you can evenly divide by these as well as 10 and 15.

Under base 60 (a commonly used measurement base, a usage example will come to you in time), subdivisions are the above, plus 12, 20, and 30.

For practical use and arrangement, these can be highly useful capabilities.

In angular measure (base 360, 60*4), there are divisions which relate to trigonometric functions but not decimal scales. And to truly transcent the rational there are radian measures based on pi.

Under metric, you can still come up with precise divisibility, but only by disposing of the base-ten rationality. E.g., using 60cm or 60kg as a division basis.

Ultimately, base ten is an arbitrary anatomical accident.
Without statistical expertise, how would you know the model produces good results?

(If you say something like, “just look at the business outcome of the model” you are proving my point about the danger, because that would be a catastrophically bad way to judge the performance of a model. What accuracy metric did you use? Why? Did you understand training / serving skew? Did you look at a confusion matrix or study class imbalance? What about missing data? What statistical test did you use? Did you adjust for multiple-testing? Was there peek-ahead bias? Did you test for discontinuities and non-linearities that can render p-values inapplicable for tests of linear models? What was your training convergence like? What simple baselines did you compare to?)
> as a side note, i think more and more people are starting to realize that the async paradigm is not a panacea.

This is why libvim (from the oni2 project) is based on vim rather than neovim. Even aside from performance, it is a huge simplification if you can interact with an editor engine in the same process, synchronously. At some point we replaced simple function calls with baroque APIs accessed over localhost...
Seems to be crashing on my end.
"Celebrities" are misdirection. They generally he tmoney for value. Money siphoned by bankers and defense contractors and predatory advertisers are the real waste.
From quite a while ago. (The last failure I can think of related to units was over 20 years ago which means the design mistake was probably more like 25 years ago.)
Wow great post thanks for that!

I actually did a semester on introductory chemistry but was completely over my head and kind of scraped by and forgot most of it, didn't help that I hadn't done secondary/high school chemistry. I guess what has really sparked my interest is that I've gotten into brewing beer and the chemistry/biology side of things has made me interested again. The impact of different minerals present in the water to the biochemistry side of brewing so would just like to understand better the chemistry behind it. pH plays an important role in beer making so was already planning to get a pH meter anyway but could use it for other experiments as you've mentioned
It's not adulterated drugs. There have been no allegations that the opiates were not the chemicals they were advertised as being.
"Reddit alternative"
"open source federated"

What is the difference between this and usenet
I don't think the people who think gay marriage isn't a defensible position are particularly fond of Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. At least they shouldn't be, for the reasons you cited and a myriad of others.
> human life > profits

We shouldn't have cars then, or motorcycles. We definitely shouldn't have horse riding schools - horse riding is 20x more dangerous than riding a motorcycle, and the only reason you start a business offering it is to profit, thus you're profiting off human death.

Right?
New Reddit doesn't need sleep/delays, it's already slow as molasses heh.

If not for old.reddit.com, my time on Reddit would've gone way down :/
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> What this article is focussed upon is the idea that behind every good interface, regardless of the type, is a good conversation

Maybe some UX is better done conversationally for some people (my personal preference is 'none' but there should be space for diversity). But all?

I don't want my computer to be 'a friend', I want it to be a tool that enables me to talk to my friends with the minimal fuss. The more it draws attention to itself, and away from the task I'm trying to achieve, the less it fulfills its job as a tool. And, like a hand-tool, implicating unnecessary language and getting in the way of muscle memory could well disrupt the efficiency and thought flow.
Congratulations! Just discovering Lemmy! Federated software is excellent - I’ll have to write a home-hosting tutorial for this!
> "Minorities took their advice - it’s time for the third box."

One minority has. Don't presume that the rest of the minorities are with them; progressives have made it clear that they are no friends of theirs. Some recent examples are https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23407254 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23652659 .
Thank you, that was a fascinating explanation.
All AMD64 anyway.
On a more tactical level here's what I do: every week I write what I've done in the past week, and what I plan to do next week. I do not stick too closely to my plan for next week, but do try to do whatever I planned, and more, with the goal of maintaining high usable throughput rather than adhering to the plan per se. I do not use any management tools, and I do not "track progress" in any way. Work is broken down in chunks that take at most a day.

I do this both for my own work, and when consulting for clients (separate lists). For clients the retrospective part is very easy to do, since I track my time there.

This has two major effects:

1. You sort of already know what to do when otherwise there'd be an urge to procractinate because you "don't know what to do".

2. You see your actual productivity, which, if you actually sit down and work, tends to be substantial, but doesn't _feel_ substantial. To me it always feels like I haven't done much, until I write down what I have actually done.
Sorry, don't like the name. Also, when you say a reddit alternative, to me it gives the impression that the redditor culture will remain so why would I sacrifice the content rich reddit for a new platform? Federation doesn't mean much to me as a user that justs wants [social]entertainment and news (and commentary on them).

There's only one thing that can change my mind a little: if you guarantee email is not and will never be required to sign up or use a feature. Edit: if you think this is irrelevant, consider how both reddit (until recently) and HN didn't require email for signup, also the majority lurker population and importance of lurker-> user conversion. If email is your hill to die on, it will also be mine and I hope a majority of lurkers' hill to die on against you.

As a techie I support federated and decentralized systems but as a user, how the platorm is architected is irrelevant, my experience is all I care about. Also,how will it monetize? Ads? If so I will stay with reddit. Non-crypto payment? Yeah, crappy reddit is better.
Or this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
I have the current model (9300 ~2020) running Ubuntu 20.04. I do not have coil whine, and I couldn't find anyone else reporting coil whine when I bought it 2 months ago (I bought the Windows version and installed Ubuntu myself).
> These interactions were the binding connection points in the society.

They were also terribly inefficient.

If you had apples, I wanted apples and had chickens but you didn't need chickens, but would love some potatoes, we'd now have to go and find somebody that would complete the chain at the right time, for the right amount. That quickly gets annoying, so we might say "ah, whatever, you're going to need chickens some day in the future, how about I just give you a paper that guarantees to you that I will give you three chickens when you bring back that paper to me?" and that's just fine.

Now, next week you want some honey, and the bee keeper will trade for chickens, but you really don't want to keep running back and forth and transport the chickens around town, so you just give him the note and he will come to me and get the chickens. We've now created a currency, albeit a simple one, backed by chickens. Money is such a currency, it just makes trading more efficient.

I'm all with you that local economies and intricate webs of relationships are important, but I disagree that they're so important that it makes sense to run after a shirt for days. Yes, sure, you'll meet plenty of interesting people, talk to old friends etc etc, but at some point you have to raise your chickens and fix your roof, you can't spend all of your time doing side quests for barter items.
There's also the Astravets plant in Belarus, of which the first reactor is due to come online later this year. The initial batch of fuel was received last month.

The plant has sparked some tensions in the area, especially with Lithuanian, as it's being constructed on the border, 28 miles from the Lithuanian capital.
I'd say social democracy has done more.

It's easy to tally up the greatness of the free market when you redefinento boundaries of society to exclude the huge negative costs imposed on slaves and laborers.
It may not be their "bread and butter", but that doesn't mean they don't do it. Every time I see somebody talking about Google spying on users but 'X' company doesn't do it, I start to think there just a fanboy to Apple or whatever the company in question is. You should just assume EVERYBODY is spying. Just because it isn't their primary source of revenue, doesn't mean it isn't a source of revenue at all or isn't of value to them.
I think the parent was asking for sources.
When there's more capital available (and there's been an abundance of it in the last decade plus), the time it takes to make a new market/industry competitive enough to shred margins goes down a by lot. In recent history, this has happened before such companies can float shares in the public equities market. Great examples are ridesharing, online food delivery, and meal kits.

In an environment flush with capital chasing returns, any company without a true monopolistic moat will ultimately be forced to operate at or below cost, yielding no meaningful profit. Many of these tech unicorns thought they would be monopolistic but ended up looking more like airlines.
> It only seems that way to you because you haven't lived very long yet

Neither of us have. But nonetheless, humanity continues to get better, and I'm familiar with a great deal of research on the nature of novelty, creativity, and fun, in the face of not only endless life but increasing intelligence. It's one of many, many problems that have solutions.

(And as an aside, anyone who truly decides that life is not worth living can always decide they don't want more of it, but that would be short-sighted and pessimistic.)

> Just as a purely practical matter, humans are not going to survive beyond the heat death of the universe. They are extremely unlikely to survive when the sun becomes a red giant.

We have billions of years to solve both problems. People two hundred years ago could not envision the society of today. It seems the height of both pessimism and hubris to believe that you can accurately predict the limitations of humans billions of years from now. The latter problem we understand now.

And more generally, there are many people working on existential risks to humanity, though more would always be welcome.

> And a good thing too, because you really don't want to live forever.

Do not presume to tell me what I want by projecting your own desire to die someday.

> You can watch every movie, play every game, write every program

And more will be created, because again, humans are a source of boundless novelty and creativity. And new forms of collaborative entertainment and edification and fulfillment will arise, many that we cannot yet envision. New forms of envisioning will arise.

> as a practical matter human civilization is unlikely to last this millennium, maybe not even this century

By all means, please work on solving that problem, rather than spending energy telling other people not to solve other problems in parallel.

> If you really want to make a dent in the world, that is the problem you need to be looking at

A massive number of people are already looking at that problem. And without going into a massive tangent, that problem hardly needs more technical solutions even if I were a climate expert; that problem needs political experts, among other things.
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Agreed. In fact, it annoyed me so much I've written two comments.

UX (and HCI before the rebrand) is of vital importance. It's a critical bridge between rigid software models and humans, and for addressing the diversity in accessibility needs. Articles like this are frustrating because they seem so divorced from the real important questions of UX.
This is extremely context dependent. With just a few services, you can generate and statically place a few random strings to use as bearer tokens. In a more complex microservices environment, you want some way for the scheduler to participate in identity issuance, for example SPIFFE. Also consider whether the applications can actively participate in the scheme, or if it needs to be abstracted through sidecar proxies. Also consider whether you are doing TLS. Bearer tokens on plaintext connections are weak; maybe you need HMACs. Or to sort out TLS first. Then consider whether you need tokens at all, or can just use client certificates. Etc.
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on this model. I have not had any problems with WiFi.
Bullet box === tear shit up and get noticed.

Yes I realize that Clinton and Biden were the architects of the “War on Crime” in the 90s - AKA “The War on Black Folks” along with profiling during stop and frisk.
Anything exposed publicly should have been done so intentionally through an ingress.
I wish that was the only problem with the new Reddit ... it frequently crashes my browser. No other website does this.
They were falsely advertised as non-addictive, and they were prescribed by bribed doctors violating their fiduciary duty to their patients.
I feel like in Linux distributions, there's some default, and when questioning this default, the answer is "well your use-case is different".

After like 15 years with Linux, my personal conclusion is that the default very often makes no sense for any use case.

Would it make sense to split configuration from the software package itself and provide profile packages with sane defaults for servers, desktop and laptops?
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It's saying one thing that you're asking for it when the article explicitly says he believes this was a mistake from the beginning.