skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course that optimizes toward a particular bubble, so you end up not seeing content you may have also enjoyed, because the app has pigeon holed you into a particular type of content.

After a certain amount of time I find most algorithm driven feeds stop being able to deliver an interesting experience, and I stop using them.

I wonder how your feed will evolve once Warzone isn't the top dog anymore, maybe it considers cohorts and enough people in your cohort will actively search for the next popular game that it will spill into your feed?
The main problem GDPR solves is companies, not state actors (which are likely to ignore laws anyway).
it’s almost zero. i am forced to replace a credit card due to theft about every 3 years. it’s not a hassle at all.

in fact you are forced to replace your card just due to expiry every 1-4 years depending on issuer.
In other words, so many outages are happening that we're only going to write about it once a month.
I would agree, except that Twitter pushes so much content from people you don't follow while attempting to keep you engaged. I'm talking about the likes, retweets, comments, etc. If twitter did only display content from people you followed, it would actually be quite pleasant to read.

I created a Chrome extension to do this, but the recent redesign broke it and I haven't figured out how to get it to work again. The new css/class system is rather opaque.
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I am not familiar with analog audio encryption and am not sure if it's even possible to achieve strong security with that.

What you can do though is essentially create a modem that would encode digital data into an audio stream, and through that send encrypted audio packets. If we assume perfect audio quality, a software implementation of a 56k modem would give you roughly 50kbps to play with, over which you can send the encrypted audio from a low-bandwidth audio codec like those used by VoIP.

I am not aware of any out-of-the-box solutions for this, so you'll have to build most of it manually. To be honest, getting the audio in and out is the easy part; doing the encryption and modulation/demodulation is the hard part.
Well, in the winter France needs all that --- mostly carbon neutral --- energy for their eletrical heating systems in homes, and in warm summers of this century the river become so warm, that often nuclear power plants have to be throttled down. Luckily, we have alot of wind in the winter and alot of sun in the summer.
I’m so sorry to hear that. Keep fighting the good fight. Don’t give up. You survived for a reason. You have a purpose. Only you can figure out what that purpose is.
I read this too, and perhaps this isn’t a popular opinion given how people revere this book, but I found it to be 5x longer than it needed to be for the average reader not immersed in NYC from that period. The number of meetings and characters introduced felt unnecessary. I get that he is a historian trying to recreate the record of what happened and did so masterfully, but for the vast majority of readers I think it would be improved to have a “digest” version.
If slack were built in Qt it wouldn’t ever have hit the market or adapt to changes. It would be an order of magnitude more expensive too.

Do you feel that you somehow know something that nobody else knows ? It’s all about trade offs . Being able to move quicker seems more important to businesses than writing more performant software .
>Worst-case

Then implement it very well, you know like you should do it with the base when you build a House.
Not from the US, I think mail in voting can be secure, but I would not recommend starting this election for the reasons you mentioned and people need to believe voting isn't manipulated.

I know the US elections are pretty people centric, even though you are not allowed to vote the president directly. But if anyone could come up with an honest assessment of the problems the US is facing and offer some solutions or strategies, I think the chances to win are very high. You would have to beat building a wall towards Mexico.

Trumpers need to make peace with lefties and vice versa. Nobody will win otherwise anyway. I believe Biden will win the presidential election though. Not by merit perhaps, but because of demographic and inclination of voters.

If I recall the work of Democrats the last election cycle I see questionable FISA abuse and lying about Russia as the primary "achievements". I think there is room to do better.

What do I see when I look at Trump? I don't think he takes his presidency that seriously. He didn't kill minorities as some said he would.
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New startups form in private conversations: here are some ways to make it easy for potential cofounders to find you based on the problem you are working on or customer need you plan to address. Some number of these random conversations will propel your startup forward.

Write about what you are working on, exposing your thinking and the problem you are trying to solve. You don’t have to share your “secret sauce.” Your goal is to attract co-conspirators who are also interested in working on the same problem or meeting the needs of a specific kind of customer.

Writing includes blogging, tweeting, and posts on LinkedIn or other social media.

Talk about what you are working on. This can be “lightning talks” or impromptu talks at unconferences, this can be 20 seconds of your introduction when you meet someone new or are asked to introduce yourself in a new setting.

Post your presentation or a transcript so that other entrepreneurs working on a similar challenge can find you when rummaging through Mr. Google’s basement.

Ask folks you meet if they know of others working on the same need or problem. If they say they do, then ask for an introduction.

Join groups that are focused on the same challenge or issue that your startup addresses.

If the chat is open on an online meeting or webinar, post one short note with a link to more information that highlights your focus.
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I don't disagree that China engages in global disinformation. I wouldn't have any problem with your comment if you had originally listed any of the sources above instead of the Wikipedia entry for the 50 cent army. My issue is that people on Hackernews and Reddit claim that anyone who says something that can remotely be interpreted as defending China must be a 50-cent shill. These supposed fighters of disinformation don't even bother to check whether is any evidence that the CCP is paying people to comment on English websites.
> Seems likely Elon's followers have the highest rate of people who understand crypto

Even worse, I'd say his followers probably have enough understanding of crypto to be able to send him money, but not enough understanding or skepticism to realize it's a scam.
How can you compare unreal engine with electron ?! That makes no sense at all.
This is one journalist using 1996 is example of biased reporting https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/12808621032978759...
The first thing that caught my attention;

Tom Doron is a member of the Swift Core Team and the Swift Server Work Group. He manages a team working on server-side Swift libraries at Apple.

Server Side Swift ? At Apple?

I thought IBM gave up on working Server Side Swift and that was it.
>Most people keep this sort of thing quiet, and I think silence is part of the problem.

For the sake of this, I post about it online on occasion when the topic comes up -- an SNRI, Effexor XR, was life-changing for me, too. I suffered from crippling anxiety; my therapist diagnosed me with generalised anxiety, social anxiety, and major depressive disorders. Cognitive-behavioural therapy helped me live me life instead of letting it be controlled by these issues, but the issues were still there, and quite intense. There were some nights it just totally overwhelmed me. On Effexor XR, that never happens. Anxiety and depression are not only no longer constantly looming over me, but they are completely gone.

However, the first thing I tried was citalopram, an SSRI. It mostly got rid of them too, but I never felt quite like 'myself'. I felt like a zombie and like a bit of my soul had been taken out. Plus it wasn't entirely effective like Effexor.

(For what it's worth -- diet, exercise, and so on were tried too. No benefit to my mental health. I've also given more time than they're worth to various supplements that people report as helping their own issues.)
I’m glad you got help. Sometimes the only thing keeping me going is that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem, and there is something else to try. Medication also helped to prevent me from going too low
Not following is not sufficient; all of the people you follow must also avoid verified accounts or at least not like or retweet them.
I tend to agree. Just a nit, though: the EU is not a country and does not have intelligence agencies. Member states are and do.
I am not a fan of it either, but it's a scenario that you will eventually run into the longer you are at it. At some point you have to cut your losses. Part of that is deciding what the personal investment has cost you over time versus moving on to the next thing and striving to learn when there is no sane way forward.

The danger is that you may start to look for a point of no return when there are still paths forward. It's easy to develop bad habits that make this a more common scenario than it really should be. I don't know the answer to this, other than to make sure you aren't the problem. It requires constant, honest assesment from yourself, and (perhaps just as important) from others.
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This site also includes things of general interest; as far as it goes here; remove that and everyone would just harp about the "why we sleep" book or some common trope that's so stereotypical without the rest of this stuff.

It would be all about that book, and a few other stereotypes, or cliches, if it weren't for certain of this other things.

So this is stimulating. That story is 'current,' by the way, whichever way we swing it. So whatever; enjoy the show.
You still require centralization of some form to ensure enforment of property via violence, as economic injustices only get worse. Allowing each to enforce property according to their means is feudalism. Why not just trust democratic solutions instead of constantly working to build wealth hierarchies?
> I'm not sure I understand this. Does it not produce a run time error? Why not?

It’s not supposed to. Type casting with ‘as’ is supposed to be lightweight and always succeed; there is no room in the type system to return an error. In case lossless casting is not possible, some value still has to be returned. Until now, this was outright UB — meaning the compiler is not even obligated to keep it consistent from one build to another. Saturating, while still not optimal, is at least deterministic.

> This looks very dangerous, because it essentially does the "nearest to right" thing.

That’s why the intention is to introduce more robust approximate conversion functions and eventually probably deprecate ‘as’ casts altogether. There has been a number of discussions about this; current disagreements seem to be about how to handle the various possible rounding modes.
>A recent Washington Post analysis analyzed three states with all-mail elections — Colorado, Oregon and Washington — and found just 372 potential irregularities among 14.6 million votes, or 0.0025%.[0]

They seem insecure, but they are not insecure. That is the problem. The perception that public elections are vulnerable to massive voter fraud is what drives these conspiracy theories, not the reality.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/minuscule-number-of-...
Ah yeah that makes sense. I was thinking the `i` check already accounted for the zero indexing.
I am guessing Paris 8 :

https://twitter.com/p4bl0/status/1283723397478973440?s=20
"People in distress" is even more useless. "in distress" could mean anything from having fallen down the stairs, to running out of gas on the highway.

I don't mind changing language, as long as we're become more precise, not less.

If "chemical imbalance" is bad, suggest something better.

I think a bigger problem is that people are fixated on word definitions and offending others instead of solving problems.
> As you say, it would probably not work on foreign governments, but would be very effective on the general population

I can't think of any serious risk posed by 'the general population'. Maybe particular stocks would dip a bit?
Very gruesome and sad. There was more shock and sadness in the other thread yesterday.
Trying to repair bad syntax by editing the tokens stream is decades obsolete. It was an important technique when compiling had long turnaround times which included having to stand in line to submit a deck of punched cards to a clerk in a job submission window. Naturally, programmers wanted to catch as many errors as possible in a single round trip.

That said, it could be useful again, for an IDE to get the most amount of information (for completion and whatnot) even in the face of a bit of bad syntax.

The technique opens up possibilities for the compiler to get into a bit of a loop generating a large quantity of error messages, most of which result from its repair attempts. If any of the recovery strategies insert tokens, there is a potential getting into an infinite loop, if the code isn't careful.

In the 1970's, Creative Computing magazine held a contest for producing the longest ream of error messages from a single error in a program, or something like that. That would have been fueled by error recovery.
That is true, i was asked to implement k8s in 6 month, they said so i have plenty of time to find all problem (i try'd really hard not to start laughing)
Of course, if politics is actually relevant to the topic, it is fine to talk about the politics involved.

But taking something like handshakes and using that as an opportunity to talk about trump and/or inject your politics into an article is excessive.
Interesting, I'll have to take a look.

I use to take a large dose of Magnesium Glycinate, which did improve my anxiety. And sleep.

And I've taken epsom salt baths as well. Which helped me relax and sleep better as well.

But none of those have approached the even keeled feeling that the mg l-threonate provides. Maybe it's because l-threonate crosses the blood-brain barrier? Placebo affect? Unsure.
Yeah no. Its a new system of course, not the same as the one we are in. To work indefinitely, and not just through a tax or currency scheme, the results of automation would have to be reconsidered. Now if somebody builds a factory, the factory belongs to them but also the output of the factory forever belongs to them. This creates a huge imbalance, with some folks 'earning' hundreds of millions a year forever, for no real effort beyond the initial investment.

If something like VAT were used, it would change things. Without dis-incentivizing real work. This system is already in use around the world, just not in America at the moment.
Makes sense. My brains clearly not woken up yet because I thought the `i` check accounted for the zero indexing.
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The costs involved have to do with labor needed to string cables. You need a crew of humans in bucket trucks moving from one set of poles to the next. Whereas this robot clamps to the conductor which acts as a rail and the little robot can string the fiber on its own for the length of the cable.
It's hard to take those cries of "Russian hackers" seriously. It feels like a joke.
> introduce huge complexity into simple, well-designed projects

why does cmake come to my mind?
Two books about economic development that I love:

Why Nations Fail by Acemoglu and Robinson

Poor Economics by Banerjee and Duflo

The first deals with why nations stay poor, the second covers how the poor in the third world live and how to actually help them
If it makes you feel any better, Juicero's mistake was way more juicy. 3k is nothing in comparison.
Or Finance... ;)
I can see how this would work for tabular and text data, where the labeling functions are well-defined. I don't understand, at all, how this would work with computer vision tasks where heuristics are pretty much impossible to define.

That said, I don't see anything here that would prevent you from using a pre-trained conv net as a labeling function, but I expect that multiple conv nets trained on a small corpus of data would be biased and make correlated errors, which violate their assumptions.

This looks super powerful in some cases, but I'm just not seeing how it can possibly generalize to every ML problem.
clunky and annoying compared to what? they are the best i’ve seen and quite good. if there’s something better please share. i would love to know about it.

comments in spreadsheets stink but everything else is pretty great. ok one more flaw. you can’t unassigned a task from yourself. you can only reassign to someone else or mark it done (which clears the comment thread).
> How else is it supposed to be manifest? Is there supposed to be drastic change in psychology without change in the brain?

There is an implication inherent to "chemical imbalance" that assumes a normative range. Modern medicine is universally based on normative ranges. If you are outside this range, it is considered a problem. Chemical imbalance is a generic and apt descriptor.
Reproducibility and peace of mind! There's nothing worse that getting woken up at 3:30 AM and realizing that it'll probably take a few hours to rebuild a server because it's dead and not coming back.

When infrastructure is code, you just spin up a new machine...no thinking involved. Also, since you're used to deploying this way, the process is smooth and as quick possible.

When you build the server by hand...you're often searching around for old ssl certificates, installing packages you forgot were dependencies, etc. Takes a long time to get it right.

If you're skeptical of the cost/benefit of the approach, you realize really quick that it's worthwhile when stuff starts to fail. Especially if it happens more than once.
Fortran predictably overflows the result, in contrast to fptoui which gives a poison value. I agree that even a predictable overflow can bite you on the behind. But it's better than undefined behavior. I'm not a fan of saturated cast, but having a defined behavior is for sure a great improvement.
Really? Probably not, if you're talking about her actual offenses and not simply "assault" and "theft" in the abstract. Her age, coupled with the relatively minor nature of her specific offenses (taking a phone from a fellow student's locker, but ultimately returning it; taking a school iPad home without permission; pulling her mother's hair and biting a finger - i.e. not a premeditated attack using lethal force) point to the type of situation she was already in - probation. Plenty of kids have done much worse and never even enter the "system."

Unfortunately (or fortunately, I guess, if you're a sadist), an artifact of the American criminal justice system is the potential for probation violations to result in punishment which exceeds that of the original offense.
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How do they pass the more complex transitions between line sections? I vaguely recall that being a significant limitation of existing line-crawling robots.
Night by Eli Wiesel and Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl.

Stories of how and why some people survived Auschwitz and found meaning despite their context, from two very different perspectives (a child and a psychologist).
Spying is fair game. So is using obvious spying as a PR or political weapon. Dragnet surveillance is something else, though.
Plus one here and a few more in my company. I already run official Google Chrome everywhere and I don't give a hoot about running closed-source software, such as the official VS Code binaries.

I'm on Linux because it's the most practical choice for me, not because I'm a FOSS warrior. I want Edge because it's going to be a well-maintained option to get away from Chrome if I they start doing things I don't like, such as limiting ad-blocking with Manifest v3.
I agree that there is no fundamental difference between you doing it and your illness causing it. A person can identify with the results of a machine or a complex system.

My issue with the word machine is that in most people's minds that brings up ideas of cross sections, gears, cogs, repairs and so on. People aught to be thinking of a complex system instead like perhaps the ecosystem in the Amazon rainforest.
Ahh cool - was just looking for something high level really
There isn't a killer argument, the project is in its infancy and i created it for experimentation, there are many directions that could be taken, if i were to go with a scripting language for something like a game engine or a similar C or C++ project that needs scripting i'd definitely go with Lua because of how popular and mature it is.

in terms of benchmarks alone languages with JIT compilers will definitely beat this, that's one possible direction to go with (there are great projects out there that make adding this capability potentially easier, MIR for example), another feature would be a C FFI rather than just a C API.
I've noticed that using youtube-dl seems to prevent my recommendations from changing much. Are there other tricks that one can use to avoid getting bubbled?
Sadly there is a completely lack of appreciation of TikTok here on HN.

TikTok is really the next generation of social media. The way the algorithm adapts to the user is unlike anything out there plus the integrated videographic tools are incredible. Plus it is cheerful and playful, and not full of conflict or self promotion.

However the only thing we can focus on is that it is Chinese.
your definition of good software here reminds me of the critic in Ratatouille who loves food so much he doesn't eat any of it. must be terrible living in a world where everything sucks as badly as you perceive it.
I think if you care for your project and take pride for the result it is going to be difficult to separate both (not impossible, just extremely difficult).

I personally find it very difficult to accept outside direction to meddle in the project if I see it is clearly unwarranted, meddlesome and damaging to the project.

If I feel responsibility for the wellbeing of the project I also feel responsibility to act on such damaging attempts and it is difficult to act with conviction if you feel dispassionate.
Amen! It's really touching when someone finds a bit of code that you thought would never be interesting and uses it! I've actually started a few friendships by asking questions, reporting bugs, writing random thank you notes on little code things. It's special to be reminded that you're part of the general network of humanity doing neat things, even if many things go unnoticed. :)

Also very impressive code OP!
I have taken l-theanine as well and did like its calming abilities.

But it felt like I became acclimated to it quickly - did you experience this?

Same for CBD - I felt very calm, like my normal self, but also became acclimated after a while.