skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an antifascist, I'd like to list some things [0] which I haven't done and which I do not imagine are parts of healthy antifascism, but which I can understand that Twitter might ban folks for encouraging or doing:

* Doxxing

* Brandishing weapons in a family restaurant [1]

* Targeting journalists for violence

* Targeting public figures who have been accused of crimes for violence [2]

* Targeting politicians for violence

* Bombing churches (and yes, Satanic temples are just as bad to bomb as Christian churches)

* Invading foreign soil

Could you help flesh out the equivalence here? It seems like quite the false equivalence to me. Antifascist violence is a last resort, not a central desire of the ideology; we've seen police, military police, and now secret police in a continuing escalation of violence by the state; meanwhile, Q's followers seem quite happy to endorse violence as the primary means by which political and social change are achieved, by which detective work is done and facts are learned, and by which discussions are had and consensus is reached.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon#Incidents

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Cali
A loose organization with regional groups, ranging from random protesters by proximity to political activists to violent criminals and terrorists, with various claims from generally left/socialist ideologies to outright radical extremism.
How did you implement the scrolling such that it feels smooth/fast/native, but scrolls in one row/column steps (so you never see half a row)?

CSS Scroll Snap?

Nicely done.
That's a strong assertion. You're implying that difficulties with the subject itself rarely have anything to do with difficulty communicating through some notation.

I'm not disagreeing, but I'm curious how you would back up that assertion.
Thank you for sharing this. I'm in a similar situation and asking myself "what's the best that could happen" makes me feel surprisingly uncomfortable.
This is terrible to read. It's really frustrating that this sort of corruption isn't interesting enough for news orgs to cover in a meaningful & consistent way.
I weirdly love staying in console in framebuffer. So much more pure and direct than running X and then running a terminal app inside X. I always found the framebuffer resolution pleasing to my eyes.

There's apparently an old version of firefox that was able to run in framebuffer at one point.

The links browser with graphics option apparently is a more current and robust option of getting a browser in framebuffer.

Super interested in hearing more about what you're using for a framebuffer browser!
because you're only considering short term monetary cost at the cost of long term benefit
It looks really great and the one million cells demo is impressive, but that price is way out of reach.
I suppose it did, although “only pro-fascist and extreme right-wing views should be allowed” was a bit more mask-off than I expected to see on HN.

Hell of a site you’re running here, dang.
Village Capital has been testing out the model of having peer-selected investment for ten years now-- https://vilcap.com/entrepreneurs/peer-selected-investment
Video: Chicago Police Officers Injured in Organised Attack
Does your platform accept early employees as well? The first 10 employees are essentially founders and while they typically do not receive as much of the upside as a founder, they do bear the same risk. Allowing an early employee to diversify that risk would be a huge value add to a much wider potential network.
Many technicals answers here so I won't get into details. But I'll suggest what worked ok for me once: take a walk. Take a long walk, and think about what you really want in life. Accept when you walk out the door that the outcome may not be what you expect.

In my case I realized I actually want to do what I'm doing, and the current procrastination crisis went away. But you may also realize you want to change some goals.
I am curious what you mean by matchmaking is only individual, it is common to party up and queue as a 5 stack, both in csgo and valorant. now when you have a bunch of solo qs playing against a 5 stack, the actual team is going to win 9/10 times...

I do miss the old days of CS with "clans" where it wasnt so hard to join up and have a lose group of people you played with regularly and got to know ~20-30 people and whoever was on would join up to play together (maybe this still exists, but I havent found it..)
The purpose of ranking systems is to try to create fair matches.

I think ideally you wouldn't show the ranking to the player, just use it to create the match.

With a large population, everyone should end up winning about half their games. That would be the sign of a successful ranking system.
I think the post would be more interesting if it came with examples of existing notations that do particularly well and particularly bad on the listed criteria.
Links is relatively small and does not change that often. I just save patches I make for different versions.

I am not really keen on software that is 1. large and 2. changing frequently. For example, there are no "updates" when using links. I read the links changelog and do a diff before I decide to upgrade to the latest version. Sometimes I will continue to use older versions. Depends on the changes.

In general, if the software is relatively small and more or less "finished", then, for me, it is more amenable to making changes. When I look at the software I use, it appears I consciously try to choose software that meet those criteria; the most favoured programs all fit that description.
Great way to test Android apps[HMS and GMS], A/B Testing
> Here's a question for you, do you think Tao's primary mission is to be a "professional mathematician" or is he just enjoying the math, enjoying teaching, enjoying notation...?

I definitely think that he's earned the right to contribute to the mathematical community in whatever way he sees fit, and, especially if it benefits other people, which it clearly does, then my opinion of it shouldn't and doesn't matter a hill of beans. I just usually feel that he combines those missions—not that he has to, but that he does—and felt that he didn't here; but, again, that is, if at all, very much my problem and not at all his.
Incorrect, please do some research and see that it is not like this. For example, here is the article from Business Insider:

"[the law] required the post office to calculate all of its retiree pension and healthcare costs for the next 75 years, including for people it hadn't even hired yet, and put away enough over the next 10 years to cover them. To put this in perspective, that'd be like you only working from age 18 to 28 and then expecting to live on that income until you were 103 years old."
What you said makes me wonder about a totally different way of using a metric of how likely the person is to win a given match.

That is, perhaps the system could be engineered to maintain a more even win/loss ratio so that people don't go on super-long win (or loss) streaks in general by adjusting who they get matched with.

It probably wouldn't work that well towards the edges, but around the middle it might work well enough.
Could be, to be honest I don't even know what it's about. But if "QAnon" came from 4chan than the "[whatever] didn't come from 'QAnon' because it actually came from 4chan" doesn't make much sense to me.
How about coop games — what would you use to rate players where the goal is to win together?
Ford takes cues from Tesla’s playbook with 1,400 HP electric Mustang Mach-E
Ok, disabled it and I still get a big blank blob where the grid should be... looks like the js load keeps failing. oh well.
Great topic to focus on. It's often said that Kirkland vodka is Grey Goose, didn't know that about other products.

Costco seems to have a unique position among modern big box chains for having a good reputation on ethical issues like worker's compensation (at least pre-pandemic), and this seemingly agreeable business relationship with brands is another example.
Like all great philosophers Wittgenstein had a knack for pointing out the nuances in the things we take for granted--I think this is what he's driving at with his emphasis on analysis over proof, and indeed, he was brave enough to claim there are certain things in life we can't say--things we can't master, things that may never be captured by our epistemological games--unknowables.

If nothing else, reading Wittgenstein always induces thinking, which is something I think it's easy to take for granted. Reading other philosophers or intellectuals, I think it's easy to agree or disagree with their propositions, Wittgenstein, at least for me, mastered the peculiar art of pushing his reader beyond agreement or disagreement into the realm of active thought--whenever I read his aphorisms, I don't find myself going "yes!" or "no!" as I do with some other writers, but rather being gently pushed into a reflective mode, into an active consideration.

Thank you for sharing!
She stepped right up and took the opportunity to fly a confederate flag THREE times - all to curry favor from the Democrats. Even worse, especially in the light of current events, is that she attempted prosecution of the black activists that kept taking the flags down!

https://lawandcrime.com/politics/feinstein-once-pushed-for-t...
‘Fed Accounts’ for all:automatic+recurring payment triggered by economic crises
But Math is taught gradually, introducing concepts in child-friendly ways, and moving up towards "adult" notation.

Note that if you programmed in FP languages, you'd have to unlearn the "descriptive variable names" thing you were taught. Once you deal with abstractions, names cease to be meaningful. If the most you can say about a parameter to a higher order function is that it is "a function", then "f" is the best name for it. Some very good programmers argue that long/descriptive names often obscure the shape of an abstraction.
We already have this situation going on in the health care industry. Companies will raise prices as long as profits can be increased. A large amount of the US population can't afford to have access to health care anymore.
I filter based on experience. Previous jobs, roles, projects. Degree is a weak predictor and I consider it mostly for candidates with less than 3 years of experience.
do you have any guide on how to setup,TS, linters etc with Parcel?
> As a result, the only remaining factor in the statistical equation is you weighed up against the enemy support player. If you can provide even a slight statistical advantage towards winning vs them then you will climb the Elo ladder.

An alternative explanation is that the skill ceiling is lower for support players.
One of the oldest businesses on the internet just got sold for $9B
This is a binary with ~1800 LoC including comments and generous whitespace. Probably 16-1700 Executable SLoC. Mostly some API handling, file reading, and user input requests. I'm running the following go version:

go version go1.14.4 darwin/amd64

Looks like the Linux and Darwin versions of the binaries are only a few hundred kb different.
> Ok, but even if I was to agree with you about wealthy people supporting structural racism, how do you connect that back to wanting to privatize the Postal Service?

Poor people (including, disproportionately, minorities) are more likely to depend on public services! They're also more likely to be hired by public agencies and receive good salaries and job protections[1]. They're less likely to live in areas that private companies are financially incentivized to service regularly; they're more likely to not be at home for deliveries or not have a workplace that allows them to accept deliveries. A public system doesn't plug all of these holes, but it goes a long way.

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/05/14/the-state-o...
Funny how VCs can diversify risks, but founders can't. Perhaps you can concentrate your bets a bet more and believe in them harder?
Twitter announces broad crackdown on QAnon accounts and content
> Marketing mail volume for 2019 was 75 Billion

https://facts.usps.com/table-facts/

At a subsidy of 10 cents per envelope shipped, the US government is funding a $7.5 Billion / year worth of marketing operations for private companies and scammers of all sorts.

Also, according to those stats less than 10% of the mail throughput is used for the benefit of the citizens. Where you informed on this before engaging?
> I think this #1 item should really be termed Consistency, because above all, notation must not contradict itself.

This is a good goal, but I'm not sure it's the primary goal; the phrase 'abuse of notation' exists precisely to describe its breakage, with even the best mathematicians and expositors engaging in it, and I think insisting on no abuse of notation leads us rapidly to the style of impenetrable Principia-style logic, or of modern formal proofs—both of which have their place (at least the latter …), but neither of which should govern all mathematical discourse.

As with all writing, I think that part of being a good mathematical writer is knowing the rules so that you can figure out when to break them unintentionally, rather than stumbling into it accidentally.
>I'm honestly not sure where all the USPS hate comes from:

I don't hate the USPS. I think it's mistake.

>You mention education, and the issues there mainly boil down to lack of funding.

Please spare me. The US spends an average of $15,400 per year per kid, which is an enormous cost. In NYC, it's even higher than this, yet their test scores and grades are worse than say Utah where the the cost is $5k per year per kid. Funding has, past an extremely basic level, no bearing on child academic performance whatsoever.

>Not sure I understand what you mean. In a civil trial, you still have the same lawyers represent you, and you get the same public-servant judges, etc. The state's word is final when a judgment is rendered.

In a criminal trial, only one party can file charges to begin with. The state. In a civil trial, anyone can file charges. Even after trial the inequality persists, which is why Roger Stone won't have to serve his full prison sentence. In a civil trial, the president/governor/mayor cannot pardon because he is not a party to the trial.

>In a civil matter, the state is a mostly-disinterested party

It is not a party, full stop. This is the advantage to the tort system.

>No, that's because criminal proceedings have a much higher evidentiary standard.

It's because the state simply chooses not to charge. Which is why the Director of National Intelligence did not get tried for committing perjury, and why Donald Trump hasn't been indicted with treason, and why it took Minneapolis to burn before Chauvin got charged with anything. The state has total control over criminal proceedings which is an enormous source of inequality.
Hey, this is really cool, for sure! Any chance we could also be able to see Case counts per pop plotted like this? I would love that.

Thanks
You're missing my point completely. And I already covered the reasons you just stated, in my comment above yours. That's what the second to last paragraph was about :/

> Considering this is also a "news" site, I would guess a lot of people (I know I do) simply browse it quickly to keep an eye on the technical landscape as well as for ideas for future technical exploration.

Hacker News was not supposed, originally, to host the same content as Bloomberg or The Wall Street Times, or The New York Post, and yet it often does, and those are the articles people engage with the most.

Not only are those usually articles where the the commenters have zero new insight on the things in question -- i.e. where they are utterly uneducated, and bringing up problems as if they are new, when they are covered in a 101 undergraduate class on the subject(!) -- but it is articles where it's 'acceptable' for people to be uneducated, and still have an opinion, even if they (as is often the case with high-paid WEIRD[0] tech workers) live an extremely sheltered life and have no life experience with the realities of the situation and the people involved (As is usually the case with 'free speech' articles, etc.). It's almost guaranteed I can click on a political article about something like race, gender, or class, and have people who have never picked up literally any type of writing about racism in their lives, denying that it exists because they live in an all-white suburban area and have never had to deal with the realities of the world in which they live. The realities that other people face every single day.

I'm not asking for this place to be purely technical manuals, I'm asking for this place to be what it was originally supposed to be, and what it used to be, which incidentally, is not replicating the content of major news outlets, but bringing interesting articles about science and technology to the front page. Interestingly enough lobste.rs is much better both because I see marginalised people posting there more often, and getting upvoted, and also because the content feed is more technically-focused.

I don't agree with why PG ditched this place, but I do agree with the act. These days there's generally less than or equal to a single item on the front page that I could not have found by just opening any other major news outlet dedicated to tech, like Wired, or Techcruch. Or just some shitty subreddit reposting from those sites.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology#WEIRD_bias
Anatomy of Language Models in NLP
He’s a career criminal, he hasn’t lived a life outside of a jail cell by saying everything he’s thinking.
In my previous experience of "Svelte with Typescript", it merely remove the typings, no type checking at all.

Try in below example, it print out '12' without type related error message.

<script lang="ts">
let a: number = '1';
let b: number = 2;
</script>

<p>
c = {a + b}
</p>
My hunch is every single qanon story is just that, a story. I would imagine groups of students have competitions to come up with the most absurdly plausible story, with the winner able to perceive the odd conspiratorial mindset that so many in the USA seem to have. When a story goes viral they are laughing in some private chat room.

Watching the movie Slackers (2002) recently was eye opening. You'd think this weird conspiracy thing was recent, but Slackers shows it predated the mass adoption of the internet.

I find it hard to imagine where this ends.
That's very perceptive. Thanks for bringing that up. If that truly is part of the case, it's even more dastardly than I thought.
Before Series B, I don't think people really know what's going to hit. And even then it's iffy. Beyond Meat was not a foregone conclusion when I got shares. And the way I got shares was actually through a pool that produced one acquihire, two zombies and this one IPO. We all shared an interest in each other (although different structure than this company).

So, to go back in time, if instead of having half the company or whatever, I could have 47% and trade that 3% away for 0.1% stakes in 30 other companies (also knowing I had 30 people with an equity interest in my success), I would do that in a heart beat as long as those companies had been filtered at all.
https://facts.usps.com/table-facts/
"The point is that deposit is a technical term with a specific meaning. Namely, it is the agreement between the depositor and the bank that the bank now owes the depositor an amount of money which happens to be equal to the amount of principal deposited plus any accrued interest."

I think my point and that of other commenters is that this is self-evident to almost everyone. It is not a confusion, because people's mental model of a bank (I give them money to hold on my behalf, and I can get that money back from them later, and depending on the situation, maybe a little more called interest) actually does represent this reality. Of course it doesn't represent it using the same terms because the terms are technical terms, but it's not clear how the lay person's mental model is wrong.
Using GPT-3 for Accounting
It’s a slur, a belief that these people are extreme card-carrying Marxists educated at Karl Marx University and completely conversant with Das Kapital in the original german.

But I’ve never met someone complaining about them who could name one of them. It’s like some Boys of Brazil meets George Soros thing with them.
By market forces. Competition, when permitted to exist, produces net benefits.
States are there to implement federal guidelines as well as their own. Nothing stops the US federal government from passing a constitutional amendment or a law that forces this type of setup. Aside from the corruption you mentioned lol
Another direction of using typescript based DSL languages that compiles to svelte code seems more maintainable. Checkout https://github.com/mistlog/svelte-draft
They are though. Please don’t deny that.

The two are comparable.
Don't know what QAnon was, apparently it's not just one person but 7K accounts so a group? I took one visit to the website not long ago and wrote it off as garbage. Obviously there is true stuff mixed in but I'd say the fake news level at least slightly higher then CNN so I can see why twitter would flag it as such. Should they be banned though? Honestly, I'm more for leaving the nonsense like flat earth stuff up so you know who is crazy, but twitter will do twitter things.
> There's no better choice of symbols or names that will help you understand Galois theory. You simply need to understand high-school algebra, then group theory, then Galois theory.

This probably isn't completely true—as will be clear to anyone, even a subject expert, who tries to go back and read the original papers. At least part of this is due to fads in notation—in my field, I can easily read the papers of people who do similar work to mine, and struggle with the papers of those who don't, even when they're talking about exactly the same thing—but some of it must be due to genuine improvement.
Shnap – Is there space for industry specific visual search aggregators
It's a cute quote, but there's a reason modern economists don't conflate labour inputs and value or monetary expansion and price inflation. It's actually much more useful not to use the same words for phenomena when you're studying the degree to which they're related. And more useful to play semantic games when the data unambiguously refutes the argument that fixing one value necessarily holds the other constant, of course...
(Getting the term 'inflation' associated primarily with price rises was the one battle Quantity Theorists won.)

You are welcome to prefer to use 'inflation' as it was used 100 years ago instead of as it is used now, but 'awful' and 'silly' were compliments once....

> Your 60% drop claim is rather vapid considering I could pull any other arbitrary time horizon and give you a massive increase in purchasing power.

No, what is vapid is the pretence that an asset has the advantage of 'zero unexpected inflation' when it's lost purchasing power at a rate which would be termed hyperinflation were it a national currency. It's a bit like defending the validity of immortality elixirs by arguing that over other time frames, the patient survived.
Ahhh and of course it says exactly that in the caption I did not read!
Hasn't this been worked around, though? I can take a letter or other paper documents to FedEx, and they will ship it. It will be more expensive than USPS, though.
https://facts.usps.com/table-facts/

From those figures it looks like > 90% of the USPS throughput benefits the marketing operations of private companies and scammers.