skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this page is meant to poke fun at the entire "doomer" debate but more so at the people who have become addicted to/complicit with scrolling through doom and gloom on the "front-page" of their news source day after day.

Given the current state of the world, its become much easier for media outlets to write stories on topics like; how far away a vaccine is, what shape the economic recovery will take or what countries are horribly dropping the ball. I think these stories grab people's attention because people are scared and think learning more will help them feel less scared. Unfortunately, many of these articles are open-ended/non-conclusive and this leaves the reader looking for more. If the reader finds more of these same types of articles, in my mind, they've begun doom-scrolling.

I agree most people are probably not scared enough overall but I also think most people are scared about the wrong things. They're scared about what their media of choice is telling them to be scared about, rather than the issues that'll have the biggest impact on their life/society at large.
Firefox doesn't use WebKit, and no it is not a separate problem because it shows how being FOSS isn't enough.
> If it breaks actual encryption (a la DeCSS) then yes, it oversteps.

I'd counter that if the audio and video get to your eyes and ears, then the content provider has already provided you a decrypted copy of the media and/or the instructions for how to decrypt.

If you had an arms' length valid agreement with the company where you agree not to retain the media, then that's different issue.
ByteDance and iFlytek have stood out to me. I saw iFlytek's universal translator at the airport one time and it was really impressive. There's also a number of examples in Kai-Fu Lee's book "AI Superpowers" - I guess that's the book that put this thought in my head in the first place
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I think he might be referring to companies like SenseTime which were in fields like image/video recognition. I think for fields like this there is a cultural barrier which prevents companies like these from being successful in US.

Say, if FB starts using its AI chops to build smart video analysis tools which can be used by law enforcement, you would probably have employee mutiny at your hands.

I was seeing a Vice video on the surveillance technologies the companies are building in China where the engineer building it was so excited to show the technology he had built not thinking about how invasively it tracks everything, keeps history etc. I would just call it a cultural gap.
Pricing is packaged with existing Cloudflare products; this isn't a standalone offering.

If you're already using existing Cloudflare products, this is a potential upgrade, or you can bundle it with the purchase of other Cloudflare products, but you can't get just the interconnect alone.
Everytime I use a voice interface I regret it. The only time it works is when I ask Google a single short six-grade-level question when nobody else is in the room talking, and I'm not otherwise occupied by anything that would prevent me from just using my phone. I get that there are some people who can't use their thumbs, and I pity those people because voice interfaces are the most frustrating things on this planet.

Why isn't Firefox implementing PWA features like the Share Target API instead of shaving this yak?
Original tweet:

> "Hello everyone, today I woke up to my developer account being suspended without a single letter why which is why the apps are crashing. Please bear with me while I try to get this fixed with Apple. Thank you for understanding."

Not being a Mac developer, the wording about revoking the certificate makes it sound a little more unusual than just their account being banned. Although not nice, I assume that's something that happens a lot.
Marcel has another video with a deterministic and much longer than Mr Bones' Wild Ride duration. Highly recommended! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QotjNlDr0WU
Those 3 mats Rx Ry Rz are just 3 separate examples from Wikipedia of how to construct a rotation matrix where the rotation axis is in the x, y, or z direction. They are separate rotations that don’t have to be combined.
It is certainly possible to achieve these things by the methods you name. I'm sure some good employees do.

But it is also perfectly possible to achieve good perception, strong connections, lots of face time, and ability to handle office issues, while also being really bad at your actual job, and without any of the positives you mention (except for the fairly bland "easy to get along with").

The real problem, of course, is that what office politics optimize for is extraversion over performance, so anyone who's introverted (which a disproportionate number of programmers still are) is going to come in at a disadvantage.

And, um...if you're writing the code that's required of you, by the people who require it, and you're writing it well and in a timely fashion, it doesn't matter if you brag about it to everyone around, it's plenty useful to the company. I don't know where you've worked where the primary work you've done has been code that you've come up with on your own, which you've then had to "sell" to your own bosses and coworkers, but that's definitely not the norm.
> Maybe we are seeing the effect of monopolies stifling innovation.

American's will only wake up when it's too late. Zuck will bribe the government in the meanwhile. Corrupt countries become less competitive over time. America is trending on the path of corruption and it's visible to every outsider now, except for unfortunately American's themselves.
There's a saying in showbiz that applies equally well to job vacancies: "there's an a*s for every seat"
The point is not media format (short video clips) but the "sorting hat". That it breaks the traditional social media model with a news feed, discussions, a social graph of friends.

I think it is completely meaningful to call it next generation (or second generation where the social graph model is the first generation).

Also notice that this model can be applied to other media formats: Text, pictures, audio ...
Genuinely curious, what personal consequences do you see for yourself due to Google acquiring Fitbit that would prompt you to avoid their devices? While I can understand the sentiment, this seems unnecessarily paranoid.
Fantastic read. Time for Ben of Stratechery to pass the baton :p - I'm assuming Eugene is now going to get a gazillion messages of employment or consulting requests at the aforementioned FAANG companies to help steer the direction of their tiktok ambitions.
Well a lot of my CD-Rs were the cheapest ones possible - a lot of them using infamous organic acid based substrate, very popular with fungi ;)
They pretty clearly have a monopoly on iOS app stores.

Now we can skip the part where somebody says that you can't have a monopoly on your own product and then I point out that monopolies always look like that because their product is the only one in the market, and the reason that android app stores and iOS app stores are different markets is that you can't install Android apps on iOS devices or vice versa.
I believe that "the institutions are broken" is similar to "the youth has no discipline, is rude, and our future is doomed": every generation believes it and it turns out we're okay anyhow. I'm not saying that having institutions is a fire-and-forget solution that you never need to worry about once they're established. But generally, we have institutions so you don't have to worry about it constantly. And it works tremendously well in most areas most of the time. Being individually hyper-aware isn't necessary.

It's also an interesting thing to watch from outside the US: there's a lot of arguments that it's the US institutions specifically that are broken beyond repair, willfully being destroyed etc. That may well be true, but it has nothing to do with the news being what they are, we see the same kind of news coverage pretty much everywhere, the actual circumstances don't matter. And we have the same sentiment in Europe, it's always this close to the edge. In my opinion, it's emotional manipulation, but it's really hard to get out of it once it has become a habit.

I'm not sure it's a modern thing either. Here is Thomas Jefferson on the same issue, albeit writing about knowledge of facts, not so much the psychological cost of constant fear: https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_sp...
I read it and all I see is “Cloudflare VPN”. Am I missing something?
If it affects EU users then they have the right to not allow such merger to happen in the first place
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Yes. The official node system can be used to script materials/shaders, image compositing, and there are a few excellent plugins to make it stretch to procedural modelling.
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This is a brilliant work of interactive digital art that perfectly captures the zeitgeist.

The artist, one Benjamin Grosser, describes it as follows:

> "Doomscrolling" refers to the ways in which people find themselves regularly—and in some cases, almost involuntarily—scrolling bad news headlines on their phone, often for hours each night in bed when they had meant to be sleeping. Certainly the realities of the pandemic necessitate a level of vigilance for the purposes of personal safety. But doomscrolling isn’t just a natural reaction to the news of the day—it’s the result of a perfect yet evil marriage between a populace stuck online, social media interfaces designed to game and hold our attention, and the realities of an existential global crisis. Yes, it may be hard to look away from bad news in any format, but it’s nearly impossible to avert our eyes when that news is endlessly presented via designed-to-be-addictive social media interfaces that know just what to show us next in order to keep us “engaged.” As an alternative interface, The Endless Doomscroller acts as a lens on our software-enabled collective descent into despair. By distilling the news and social media sites down to their barest most generalized messages and interface conventions, The Endless Doomscroller shows us the mechanism that’s behind our scroll-induced anxiety: interfaces—and corporations—that always want more. More doom (bad news headlines) compels more engagement (via continued liking/sharing/posting) which produces more personal data, thus making possible ever more profit. By stripping away the specifics wrapped up in each headline and minimizing the mechanics behind most interface patterns, The Endless Doomscroller offers up an opportunity for mindfulness about how we’re spending our time online and about who most benefits from our late night scroll sessions. And, if one scrolls as endlessly as the work makes possible, The Endless Doomscroller might even enable a sort of exposure or substitution therapy, a way to escape or replace what these interfaces want from and do to us. In other words, perhaps the only way out of too much doomscrolling is endless doomscrolling.

Source: https://bengrosser.com/projects/endless-doomscroller/
If news media is for profit, news media will naturally use the most engaging headline to beat out competition. There is no solution to this problem unless news is regulated or not for profit. You won't 'shame' an entire industry into changing something they've been doing for centuries.
I used to believe in these database antipatterns (e.g. avoid EAV, avoid attribute tables, avoid denormalization, avoid overnormalization, avoid inheritance, avoid wide tables, only use synthetic keys, only use natural keys, never use autoincrement, always use autoincrement), but these days I'm almost certain all of them are wrong, because they are independent of business domain needs. Business domains have antipatterns for their data, data in general decidedly does not. For example, storing physical addresses is subject to a number of antipatterns, including stuff like "natural keys are not a good idea for this".

GP cited EAV as an antipattern, yet it is one of the most reasonable approaches to user-defined fields (especially when suitably augmented), which are frequently a business requirement.
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This is a very good point that is often overlooked. Many “irrational” actions may actually be much more rational when interpreted a differently way. For example, loss aversion is totally rational since money has diminishing marginal utility. (And studies have mostly disproven loss aversion with small amounts)

Another issue with experiments is that they are not realistic scenarios. For example, in the Economist experiment no one actually paid any money. Which makes it basically worthless. We’ve often found in economics research that what people say they will do and what they actually do is very different. Moreover, studies only find that some % act irrationally but then it’s reported as if everyone did.

Now obviously humans are not totally rational, but it does us a disservice to act as if we are so terrible at decisions all of the time.
So two examples off the top of my head where it’s the request latency and not python at fault

1. In an incident database, we allow full text search with filtering. Depending on the complexity of the query, and contents of the database this can take 10ms or 10,000ms. This isn’t something easily changed. It’s Lucerne's fault.

2. Querying the physical status of a remote site has variable latency because the sensors are on Wifi and it’s flakey. We can’t easily move the sensors, or make wifi coverage in some warehouse perfect.

Right now, we circuit break and route potentially slow requests to their own cluster via the router, but it’s a poor solution.
The real question is why are people so avoidant of possible genetic causes?
Anything the size of Google is actually a collection of multiple (probably hundreds) of separate legal entities in each country it has significant operations (e.g. a sales office) - all of these will be ultimately owned by whatever the top level listed company (presumably Alphabet). So Google almost certainly has companies in most of the countries of the EU.
I'm not sure exactly what you're saying here, but if you're saying that the proposed algorithm will work for all mazes in RCT2, I think you're wrong: https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2/pull/12546#issuecomment...
Chinese tech firm [Xiao-I] goes ahead with Apple suit
How I successfully pitched my first visual essay
> I only need to displace it among the the existing three axes.

That is exactly what these three matrices do. R_x depends on a single parameter and tells you how much you rotate around the x-axis. R_y tells you how much you rotate around the y-axis and R_z for the z-axis. Any rotation can be written as a product of these three (which then is a single 3x3 matrix depending on three parameters).
Awesome! Great work
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"The News" is mostly gossip and things that are interesting because they almost never happen. As a way of learning how the world works, it's pretty awful.

If you want to be informed, spend the news time reading books/essays about important/interesting topics, and you'll be way more enlightened in a year.

If you go all the way in this, you won't be able to participate in the shared culture of society, so I don't get fanatical with it. I'm human, and some gossip is fun.
We need to do less computing too.

I didn’t even mention the cost of desktop computing running all that shitty JavaScript. Probably at least as much CO2 again from just the ads.
> What if...

What if tomorrow some change of parameters makes my business impossible? I'll go out of business. That's always an option.

Dealing with every possible risk ahead of time generally isn't an option.

> "Jason Camacho, a blind resident of Brooklyn, N.Y., is suing 50 colleges over the accessibility of their websites.

This is referring to public websites, which arguably are covered by the ADA.

I'm looking more of a story like "We wrote all our software without regards to accessibility. Then we got sued. It bankrupted us."

If this was a real problem for software in general, why is there no cottage industry of shady lawyers using people with disabilities to sue software vendors in particular? There's obviously lots of software that is not accessible, or not accessible enough.
Those three matrices describe three different rotations. Rx is a rotation about the x axis, Ry about the y axis, Rz about the z axis. They're parameterized by an angle theta that describes how much to rotate.
In my case, I've spent over five years working on relieving Google of data about me. I'm not about to give them more.

Paranoia claims suggest unfounded concerns but Google's misuse of private information is well known.
> Access, but not constrain or type-check.

You can create CHECK constraints involving JSON operations in postgres, which is the same way you'd enforce any constraint.
I’d be super keen to see your ElasticSearch model implementation if you’re allowed to share it?

For what it’s worth, I dislike the unit of work model that SQLA uses, but the layered architecture is enviable.
Would there not be value in pre-screening patients for SCN9A mutations to predict an increased risk of pain killer addiction? Socioeconomic factors play as role as well, but it doesn't to be so black and white.
No better news than this.

India's own social media platform.
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This is a great clarification. It's a shame that Wikipedia is such a bad reference for learning maths. I think it is a result of most maths articles being edited by people who just learnt something and therefore don't understand it enough to explain it well, and also want to show off their knowledge rather than actually explain things.

Mathworld is much much better in general.

(Somebody's probably going to reply "Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia not a tutorial".)
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Yes, and this is related to the reasons the concept of the nouveaux riches and their crass flaunting is very old.

People with multi-generational wealth figured out a long time ago that flaunting wealth may feel good for minutes, but it brings the wrong kind of attention for decades, and that wrong kind of attention can be the guillotine. Plus, even if you don't flaunt it yourself, someone in your group flaunting it can create problems for you.

So, among the 'real', multi-generational money, any displays are considered very crass.

Everything related to wealth signalling in that set is understated, and there are myriad cues, but they're all subtle.
I was also expecting a doom side scroller. Was hoping it would be similar to the old 2d duke nukem stuff.
R_x, R_y and R_z are the basis to generate all rotations. Think of them as the equivalent of the basis vectors in 3d euclidian space: e_x = (1, 0, 0), e_y=(0, 1, 0) and e_z = (0, 0, 1)
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In fact, that is the whole point of the purchase. Microsoft would replace the entire US operations team with US employees, and vet all the code. There would be zero reasons left to ban Tiktok on the grounds of national security.

For some reason, I'm not seeing many people talking about this at all. Everybody is still talking about justifications about why Tiktok should be banned. I therefore suspect that the issue is more emotional than rational in nature.
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Is there any good data on what impact opening schools[1] actually has on the spread of the virus?

Here in Sweden schools were kept open so that essential workers wouldn't have to stay home from work to take care of their children, and that decision doesn't seem to have impacted us negatively [2]. So it seems to me that, unless a child is in an at-risk group, there shouldn't be a negative impact from sending them to school.

The U.S. and Sweden are of course very different countries, so there might be some other factors at play that I haven't thought of.

[1] by schools I mean for kids up to the age of about 15, not universities and the like

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sweden...
The walled garden sweet spot

Stack overflow and it's cousin sites have many serendipities like this - and I happily conjecture this happens more here than facebook or twitter.

I think the reason is that despite being a walled garden (ie proprietary) it still has a promise to open up the content and makes effort to moderate and grow the community - in other words what they are really selling is not the SEO but the sweet spot between "anyone posts anything" of an "ideal" internet where no rentiers exist but no one can find anyone else, and the much more corporate hand of Facebook.

I am not sure reddit exists in this sweet spot either - mostly because there is just sooo much reddit.
I'm sorry, did you just allude to America being more corrupt than China?

Granted, I'm American, and thus biased. I do see corruption in my government, but from what I can tell it's a small drop in the bucket compared to what goes on in China. Although I guess there could be debate on what defines corruption. But I still hear tales of basically needing to openly bribe officials to get contracts through manufacturing.
Luxury watches - maybe. Although the fact that these rare and unique precision-made craft pieces are incredibly bad at basic timekeeping compared to a $5 Casio, which is in turn pretty average compared to a $50 World Time Wave Ceptor, is both hilarious and sad.

But luxury handbags and other "fashion" items are inexcusable, because they are literally assembled in sweat shops by slave labour and then sold for four/five/six/seven figure price tags to vulgar stupid people.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90279693/did-a-slave-make-your-s...

The point of this kind of luxury isn't utility or quality - it's pure status display, combined with narcissistic indifference to the fate of the unfortunates whose work is being displayed so ostentatiously.
It's pretty common for international companies to need approvals by multiple governments for mergers. For example, when German Bayer bought Monsanto, a US company, the Chinese government had to approve it.
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This is disgusting. It's just a "I went through it, so they should, too." argument.

The completely legitimate concerns of teachers are being waved away as emotions.

> It’s going to be hard; it’s going to be stressful; it’s not going to be perfect.

It's not just going to be "stressful". People are going to die! And she's missing the huge differences between hospitals and schools. Patients don't go back and forth between the hospital and school every day. Students don't have to go to school to avoid death.

Teachers doing their part means refusing to participate in a system that will cause more deaths just so someone else can score political points.