skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's really hard for me to believe that gut feeling is better than data.

This is exactly the problem. People assume that data means something by virtue of it being data.

Having a judge make a decision based on gut feelings might not be any more accurate, but at least people wouldn't assume that it was accurate. People would look at it and realize that it was arbitrary. If the data isn't giving good results, then at least we should use a system that makes that fact obvious.

> A recent very critical report of such systems said that the margin of error for individuals could be as great as between 5% and 95%

At a certain point, it would be just as accurate, and far more honest, for us to just flip a few coins. Get it out in the open what we're doing. Get rid of the built-in assumptions people have that the system is fair or predictive just because it's based on data. Make observers live with the fact that it's arbitrary.
You aren't absorbing 10g, 10mg or 1mg of plastic in your lungs every year. Most of it is falling on the ground and being turned into dirt.

It's gross and people should do something about it, but it is a neurotic worry rather than a real problem. Most accounts (including this one) even have the temerity to try to link plastic bottles to it (which, also gross, are not a problem as far as plastic fibers in the environment goes) because it freaks people out; so they buy a metal drinking container they shove in their plastic hoodies, which will eventually become a few pounds of environmental plastic fiber pollution.
A wise manager would know that investing in better product development is an inglorious losing battle that is of little interest to people other than themselves (on an academic level) and to junior developers who simply don't know any better, yet. Your thought is adorable though.
It got shut down. It sounds bad but you have to remember how violent some of the areas get on the West and South side (Garflied Park W+E, and Engelwood are all within the top 5)
How about a learned behavior? Windows update has burned with enough times with unusable system that I am now trained to not trust it. "up"date isn't the word I'd use for it. And before you say that doesn't happen anymore, Microsoft has been saying this and repeating it for 2+ decades.

Its not the users that are bad at updating. It is Microsoft.
Would you agree at some point this country was systemically racist?

Surely you would agree during slavery it was?

I'm going to assume you agree, so then can you explain when systemic racism ended? And what caused it to end? Can you also help me understand how you are so sure that the negative impact to Black people while this country was systematically racist does not still hurt people today?
I am a paying Dropbox user.

When I click the Dropbox icon in my system tray, 43% of the space is used on two ad units: trying to "introduce Gmail integration" and "Recent shows the latest activity." Here you go - https://imgur.com/a/51MiWOb

You silently enabled some new syncing mechanism that doesn't actually download files to my computer. This was absolutely nuts and is a far more serious violation of why I used Dropbox, and it almost made me churn. I was so angry that I had to change some kind of setting on the web to sync with selective sync and have real bonafide files in my Dropbox folder again.

The ultimate nagware: Open folders in: Dropbox desktop app by default is garbage. Obviously people want to open Finder / Explorer, that is the whole value proposition of Dropbox. I don't care about your product manager's monetization schemes or introducing Paper or whatever, please just never mess with defaults because I'm not comfortable suggesting this app to my parents if it litters them with new paradigms and garbage. How do your PMs not understand how important those referrals are? How integral simplicity is to those referrals? Just because you guys don't measure them, just because there isn't a chart going up and to the right, doesn't mean it's not real.

The backups nagware. Nobody wants that. People get they have to store stuff in the dropbox folder. I do not want to confuse my parents, "Sometimes Documents is backed up, sometimes not." It's unambiguous. Again, messing with the simplicity.

The photos nagware. Nobody wants to do that. People use Photos on their iPhone, it's fine. Don't eat up storage on something they use iCloud for.

The Accessibility prompt. You don't need it. Why are you asking for Accessibility?

Permissions to access Documents, Desktop, Downloads without backup. Again you don't need that.

Nagware, adware, product managerware. I hope this is sufficient.

The lack of care here is mindboggling for a product so simple. Everyone should embrace the idea that they're much more likely to make it worse rather than better. Drew Houston should be putting that on a huge billboard behind him on his Zoom calls to 22 year olds fresh out of school, it should be your motto, it should be the first sentence out of everyone's mouth, regardless of what the numbers or metrics or surveys say.
Facebook is incredibly invasive. I don't want an account.
Relative safety and a lack of better options (perceived or real).
What pages break in Firefox? I have NEVER encountered this.
What would the difficulty level be of incorporating GNSS into SpaceX’s StarLink satellites?
LIGO has detected at least one neutron star merger.
If you're like me and prefer Chrome over Firefox, I would invite you to check out Brave. Switched over a few weeks ago and couldn't be happier.
Maybe. If not, space them close apart and use with LCC!
Scrapbox – A knowledge base built for infinite ideas
I was on Twitter for the BLM protests too. Traditional media - even most new media - cannot keep up when events are happening that quickly.
We spent over $1M pitching a videogame we never made
It's just so easy for a naive and trusting person to be pulled into an information bubble. Like a few off topics and then get all the confirmation-bias support you would ever need with no "need" to go search out countering information.
Haha, that one hits close to home. Iirc Pandas was the author's first big project, and memory use is one of the key things he wants to improve if he gives it another go. It's still an impressive piece of software.
> Everything else (the uncertainty principle, measurement mattering, no cloning, Bell inequalities, etc, etc, etc) follows.

Did Aaronson provide a source for that?
In the US, I believe the majority of states license law enforcement personnel so they couldn't easily move to another department.
The Baby Barista is like a Nespresso machine for baby formula
Curios how would they define "hate speech". From the way Facebook works, wouldn't anyone be worried it would be exploited the moment the new policies are out and become a spamming ground?
Covid 19 – What the Data Tells Us – AnalyticaPerspectiva
Oil has horrible consequences, but your rational for it being evil by being out of "reach" isn't very enlightening. By your logic we should not tap aquifers for drinking water, but mass desalination is fine. Instead, oil is bad because. It's not renewable, it's refinement/combustion is readily linked to cancer and other deadly/health issues, extraction/transport routinely kills ecosystems/creates toxic waste sites.
a federal judge in liberal Los Angeles ?
No question that will be appealed all the way to the Supreme court . . . .
While I run Firefox, spoofing your user agent is enough to get developers to treat other browsers more seriously.
So moderated facebook content has led to 9,000 people testing positive for corona in Florida today alone. Unfortunately people are too stupid to be trusted to decide what is real, and I can't allow them to ruin my life/the world.
Twitter is now flagging the use of 'oxygen' and 'frequency' in the same tweet
What is "post-money safe" for a priced round like this?
Agreed; I main Arch and I very rarely install packages from AUR. Rare enough that I've never felt the need to install a helper, it would just be unnecessary clutter.

I suspect many users will need to dip into AUR once or twice for unsual packages, but I'm mildly skeptical that most users need to dip into AUR often enough that compile times would be a serious argument against static linking.
You actually don't need a domain, but you will at least have to obtain an ip address.
Entanglement is a separate thing though I think.
> So are the chemicals we place on fields of food. Everything we're doing is toxic. We think the earth can support 7 or 8 billion people but in the current ways of doing things, it can probably only do so for another 100 years maximum.

I gave it more like 300 years back in 2008, whereas Hawking gave it closer to 100 by which time he said if we're not multi-planetary we'll will have destroyed the Earth sue to our collective myopic behaviour; the time frame may differ but sentiment is the ultimately same: Humanity needed this reality check we've had with COVID, what we do from here on out may determine the fate of our entire Species' fate.

And we should act accordingly.
> I'm looking at you, SF hacker nerds.

I just wear what they hand out.
NY police were working in Germany......... or

low cost computation made entertainment extremely affordable and time consuming
One of the features I loved facebook for was meme groups. There are some really good ones, and many more quite awful ones. And once you join one shitposting group, facebook thinks you need to join all the shitpost groups -- and vice verse; non-private groups attract members from all tarnation. And that's how I came to meet neo-fascists on facebook, despite having about a dozen carefully selected, non-fascist, IRL-first friends. And then I quit the site after it started pushing far-right content on me after consistently negative reactions to the same.
Do you mean steam or do you mean pneumatic? I’ve never heard of steam delivered mail but pneumatic was really popular.

https://chicagology.com/chicagopostoffice/pneumatictubesyste...
Many people dislike construction.
Praying for cotton and wool to become stylish. And I hope we get creative with natural fibers like linen, beech fiber, spider silk, et.
Oil was bubbling to the surface of the Earth before we harvested the stuff that was easy to get at.

Not that microplastics are okay -- they're my biggest environmental concern -- but oil itself is "natural".
Firefox sucks and Mozilla is corrupt.
Surely you could simulate a theater with N speakers, then convert that to binaural. It would be nice if Blu-ray had spatial audio, but it has channels, so I work with what I got.
It didn't work when I tweeted "frequency oxygen" and waited a few minutes. I suspect it needs a few extra words to trigger the alarm.
> It's gross and people should do something about it, but it is a neurotic worry rather than a real problem.

I wonder if it is going to be more like lead where at the time it was thought to be benignish and as the evidence mounted it was clear just how destructive it was.
It's going to be funny when the neural network is clever enough to hallucinate sequels.
Obviously the context of the discussion is regarding the monopoly of political information by the FAANG. Why would software engineers at banks have any relevance here?
I would predict that ammo is sold out all over the suburbs in that city :)
So here's a fun little hack you can do at home. If you have a signal (up to ~20 khz) and you feed it into an LED and look at the light through your camera phone, you can see the signal as bright and dark rows in the image. The bars are always in the same orientation (dependent on how your camera reads the data) and the spacing depends only on the frequency. One idea I've been toying with is using these properties to quickly isolate the parts of an image that are near to a transmitting LED in order to rig a camera into a 3d input device with very minimal image processing.
Brave is the same engine as chrome and has some different privacy concerns. Firefox is the independent choice, Brave is sort of mis-named.
I've been using Debian GNU/Linux with KDE as my main Desktop from 1999 (21 years now): in home and work. As a "family administrator" my father use Linux in the Desktop too from about the same time. My 2 sisters and my brother also use it all the time. If they have any problems, they call me and I'll take care of it. I got married in 2004, and since then my wife and in-laws have also used Linux on the desktop as their only operating system.

My oldest daughter is 16 years old and has always used Linux at home, and she had no problem when Windows was found in some classes in the High School. I think it is possible, as long as you have someone to turn to if there are problems (I am that someone in my family).
Works for me.

Every time I hear some Hollywood talking head going on about the urgency of climage change, I just ask myself: Why should I lower my family's standard of living, when this actor is basking in adulation while burning 25 times the carbon we do?

Incredibly selfish, I know. On both our parts.

Honestly, I do make an effort to limit my impact on the planet. But I do what my conscience tells me to do. Celebrity endorsements don't move the needle at all for me, at least not in the right direction.
Mass desalination via solar energy seems like it would be a huge win for the environment. Plus you could sell the salt.

I wonder if it's feasible.
> But doesn't the dynamic linker still have to do extra work to resolve the relocations in the executable, even when the dependency libraries are already loaded?

For dynamic linking there's usually only a single reference that needs to be fixed up in the PLT or GOT for each referenced symbol and the fix-ups are all localized, so that part is typically a very small cost. But this means every call to a dynamically linked library goes through an extra stub function, which adds I$ and BTB pressure compared to static linking.

(If you do things manually with dlsym there's also an extra indirection but it's a little different mechanically since you do an indirect call of a function pointer rather than doing a direct call to a forwarding stub. The advantage of the forwarding stub is that even if there's a BTB miss for either of the two direct calls, you don't suffer a branch mispredict but just a few front-end cycles waiting for the instruction decode, which VTune labels as a "branch resteer". The direct call option also leads to smaller code size for each call site which helps with I$ pressure. Basically it's the difference between CALL rel32 and MOV tmp, [RIP + disp32]; CALL [tmp].)
How long did it take for you to build it?

And did you already know the backend tech in order to speed up development?
I have two thoughts:

1. Facebook uses real names and people still say the nastiest things, sometimes to their own family.

2. Maybe you have forgotten that the political debate in the 90s was not healthy. That was the era of the Clinton impeachment, and Newt Gingrich brought us to a whole new low in dirty politics.
Examining ARM vs. x86 Memory Models with Rust
When the currency of your third world country is worth less than 1/5 of the US dollar and a single game amount to a quarter of many people’s incomes, piracy don’t register as something even remotely wrong.
Target C++ and Go with PureScript
When your package absolutely positively has to be there, US Air Force.
Edge Chromium is pretty good too, since Firefox Quantum they are already using Chromium backend.
This increasingly happens to me. It won’t make me switch to Chrome but it’s an extremely worrying sign. I remember the New Yorker subscription page was totally broken in Firefox, and have had issues with login for my credit card
And MY point is that you are applying the wrong standard. Law enforcement policy needs to be aimed at optimizing the net good to society and not making individual police officers feel safer. Because the standard you want leads to horrifying rates of false positives where people end up dying needlessly.
Loom should solve all that.
6 hours -- I had the idea this morning and started at around 2PM (first commit on GitHub). Finished at around 8PM. The app is all client-side, so I didn't have any backend need.

The app renders using a UI rendering library I wrote (https://github.com/thesephist/torus), so I knew the tools I was using inside out, which helped with speed.
>But I don’t at all follow the author’s argument against encapsulation.

The authors argument is very simple. Encapsulation means everything contained inside an object CAN only be manipulated by THAT objects public methods.

He is saying the concept of encapsulation breaks down when you pass by reference. If the "A" object holds an internal reference to an external "B" object and you manipulate that "B" object externally without going through the api methods of the "A" object you just broke encapsulation by changing the behavior of A by manipulating B externally.

It's not even really an argument whether or not this actually occurs. It does occur as shown below. The only argument that can be made in favor of OOP in this case is whether it occurs often enough to be bad or whether breaking encapsulation occasionally is that bad in the first place. But make no mistake... encapsulation breaks in OOP period. IT IS a fallen pillar.

class B:
def B():
this.X = "Hello"

def mutate(x: str)
this.X = "I've been changed by {x}!"

class A:
def A(x: B)
this.B = x

def mutate()
this.B.mutate("A")

def displayB()
print(this.B.X)

b = B()
a = A(b) // b is passed by reference.
a.mutate()
b.mutate("B") // <---- encapsulation broken, b which is referenced inside of 'a' but is mutated outside of 'a'.
a.displayB() // <----- should display "I've been changed by A!" if b is encapsulated by a.
//However because encapsulation is broken will display "I've been changed by B!"

Generally this problem represents a class of errors that don't exist when all values are immutable (AKA functional programming). It is also fixed in a unique way by the borrow checker in rust.

Simply put it doesn't matter how good someone is as a developer. This is a case where the language paradigm simply prevents a certain error from happening. A bad developer has a 100% chance to avoid this error in a functional language while even the best developer always has a chance of this error occurring in a non-functional language. Language categorically influences quality of code and probability of spaghetti code occurring.

Also, since all objects are generally passed by reference and Since object composition is a pattern common to OOP, the following is a generally true statement:

Encapsulation is frequently broken in OOP.

Understand? If you don't understand I can explain to you the fundamentals of OOP and FP and how they are different context of programming in general.
Plug a friends books here, all vegan from Byron Bay in New South Whales:

http://organicpassioncatering.com/

Anyway, I find, as I rapidly approach the big four-oh, I don’t need recipes much anyways, so I have a sleeve-book with some recipes, some pages are just dish names, and others are flavours or ingredients that go together.
If you include attackers who control an organizational MITM CA in your threat model, then this could be a big deal. If I were, say, a bank, I would like WebAuthn to protect me against compromise of an organization’s MITM box. Token binding can do this to some extent.
A related video from Matt Parker, aka Stand-up Maths, on this phenomenon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP1elMR5qjc
One thought I've been having recently is that WebKit/Blink is almost like the new Linux. If we take the premise that the Operating System moved up the stack to the browser, then browsers like Chrome and Edge are "distros" of Chromium. Firefox is like the BSDs.
I received my first online death threat in 1990. Had I realized then it was only going to get worse...
In many cases, I don't think you can separate "people" from "the system" because the system is a human construct in which human discretion is called upon repeatedly. For example, studies which show that young white children react more negatively to black faces compared to white faces - is this "the system"? Is is it "discretion"? I'm not sure you can differentiate the two.

It's also important to note that just because you fixed a racist practice, that doesn't immediately endow an underprivileged group with the full fruits of equality. For example, redlining may now be illegal in the United States, but middle class white Americans have been benefiting from nearly a hundred years' worth of wealth accumulation through housing that black Americans were locked out of. This is a good example of how the "system" produces racially-biased outcomes without any racist human input in the present day.
Thanks for the pointer. I'll try out using channeled audio in resonance. I don't expect magic, but it will be interesting to see.
Why is this linked?

This guy is the science equivalent of a Holocaust denier.

https://skepticalscience.com/Anthony_Watts_blog.htm

It's a favorite source of alt-right morons who can't be bothered to read a wikipedia blurb, much less a scientific paper.
> the officer involved (who actually knew George Floyd prior to killing him) is being brought up on charges, which is the exact opposite of what happens in a system that has systemic racism.

How do you infer this? It could also be the result of the mass country-wide protests which are absolutely not the norm. It's not like the system automatically corrected for this issue.
It is a paywall. I pay with my data.
Is it still possible to withdraw the money from Payoneer via wire transfer?
This is superb, a very cool idea! Congrats.
Desal plants cause localised brine concentration and screw ecology. If you built them at Salinas (salt pans) maybe that would be ok, and we'd get more flamingoes once the brine shrimp population rose. So you need strong solar and large flat expanses. North Africa? There was a serious proposal to sell solar power to Europe from north Africa. Maybe this is the triple play?
"For those who don't know (or belong to a newer generation), Microsoft's IE (Internet Explorer) was one browser that had almost monopolized itself globally for many years mostly during the early nineties decade."

Internet Explorer didn't exist in the early 90s. It was released in 1995.
Thanks! Always fun when a showerthought turns out to be something interesting for more than just me.
Sounds like Minority Report and 1984 had a nightmare baby. Will definitely check that out.
I don't think MS is hugely concerned about piracy that doesn't affect sales.

In fact, if they're smart, they'll be fine with it, because it's a form of 'perfect price discrimination'.

That said, the question is to what extent piracy from other areas bleeds into the higher value markets. Which I believe does happens, ergo 'a crack is a crack is a crack' probably.

It's funny because if the cost of getting a 'hack' of a game literally entails buying a 'CD-ROM' and going through the pain of copying it like in the 'old days', which is a small pain but more than many want to bear, it puts a natural bound on the copying/hacking: it will happen a lot in poor countries, less so in rich countries.

But if a hack is 'discovered once', wherever, and then easily exploited everywhere ... not so good.
It seem to work with those two words only

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1276546801898668033?s=20
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the person you're responding to is in opposition to you.
Very nice summary!
ebay just stopped paying for people who search for "ebay" and related. (these are called "brand" keywords).
that's a completely different statement than saying advertising is a fad. depending on the business it may be but ebay definitely spends a ton on keywords with buying intent.
FB is in a very different market from both brand keywords and non-brand high intent keywords.