skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> BUT - the human brain sees "enough" activity in the forum/web page to trigger an internal "critical mass" threshold, this creates "social proof" and the belief gets solidified.

I think you're pointing out some important but extremely easy to overlook things here. How many newspaper articles, blog posts, and twitter/forum discussions have we had in the last two years about fake news and conspiracy theories, typically written in confident but grave tones? But of the people writing these things, how many of them really know what they're talking about? What is the source of their knowledge? What is the underlying source of the claims Jacques is making in the article we're discussing? How many of the people opining on such subjects actually spend any serious time within the communities they're reporting on?

If the topic/culture was something other than the behaviour of conspiracy theorists (say, African Americans), do you think it would have any effect on how the information would be received by readers? In that case, I suspect a lot of people might fairly quickly wonder if the author actually happens to know as much as they claim, and I think it would be fairly easy to find plenty of anecdotal conversations on the internet to substantiate that prediction.

The human brain "sees" all sorts of things. It can produce an instantaneous answer to most any question you ask it, whether or not it actually has much actual concrete data to work with. There are a variety of ways to control this default functionality, the major progress we've made with decreasing racial stereotyping in the last several decades is a good example. But that took a lot of coordinated messaging, education, and peer pressure, for a very long time. Despite that, we're still rather far from declaring mission accomplished. And that is just one topic - how many others do we have in this same category?

I doubt we'll make much progress on these issues, especially now with the brutal efficiency of mass communication we've released into society (with hardly a second thought), until we can finally realize what the root of the problem is: the human mind. And it's not just "those other people" whose minds are flawed, the problem is with the base hardware and software itself - it's just easier to notice in some people than others, especially when it's constantly in the news.
No they pay less but slightly (20% or less) higher base with 20-40% bonus opportunity.
"Over selectivity" is considered a handicap (to the point of disability) by some musicians; when they play two different tone sets and say "thats the same note"... if you can't hear it that way but hear 440hz and 850hz or whatever, it is difficult to communicate.
So maybe it's only in Europe.

Could there be some influence in Europe which is not observable in the US, not even in the densely populated areas?
You can do this with enforced_for properties

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/o...
I don't have a Facebook account to delete. This does not protect me from Facebook being used to mobilize the information deficient to vote to destroy the society I live in, or, in the worst case, protect me from Facebook being used to mobilize a lynch mob to kill me as a target-of-the-day. Individual actions, like not having a Facebook account, are not solutions to collective problems.

There is no inherent right to incite the destruction of society. That precedent was set when when the people behind Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines were sent to the Hague for crimes against humanity.
Localities -- and borders in general -- are less and less relevant as the internet (and technology generally) makes the world smaller.

Strict federalist separation made sense in a world where it took days to travel across state lines, but the modern world requires that nations have a strong central government. Some things can only be done at the federal level (issuing currency, foreign relations, military/defense actions, etc.) and some laws (such as civil rights) should be universal and not subject to local interference.

It's true that we as a nation focus far too much on national politics, to the detriment of local issues which impact us personally much more. I'd argue that's not a problem with which governments hold the power, it's a problem with how the populace participates in politics.

Not only that, but quite frankly the manner in which we currently elect state governments is a mess. I live in North Carolina, the most gerrymandered state in the Union. In 2018 we literally voted using a map that was declared unconstitutional because there wasn't enough time to redraw it before the election. [0] Until this issue is overcome, it's tough for me to get excited about giving the states more power, and it took a panel of federal judges to declare the state's map illegal.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/us/court-north-carolina-g...
The tube is vacuum, you'd need an airlock not just a simple hatch, no? How do passengers get from car to airlock without a suit?
So you need to hold at 60 degrees for an hour. Even assuming the dishwasher isn’t lying about it’s temperature, it’s unlikely to do that.

Edit: looks like some dishwashers have modes that do this, though they take a very long time.
As someone losing my hearing a bit with age I'll soon be getting hearing aids. But my word recognition score is kind of low so I need to practice listening more. Apparently if you brain doesn't get a lot of audio stimulus you slowly lose you hearing comprehension. So having some audio with transcripts to confirm my understanding is wonderful. I was looking for audio books with captions and they are hard to find. This looks like exactly what I needed!
heh ... way ... way before digital computers were invented, analog computers, mechanical, and electromechanical, were implemented. A great example is the comparison circuit that keeps your house at nearly constant temperatures. It started out as a bimetallic stripe and a mercury switch to turn a furnace on or off. Electronic circuits, doing similar but more complex things came later.

If you think about it, the fastest sorting algorithm is O(n) via a mechanical device. Parallel versions of these sorting mechanisms are used to bin fruits and vegetables for packing and shipping. They are all analog computers.
This looks absolutely incredible! Bravo on the nice README page too. I will be trying this on some files and a database tomorrow. Great work. And thank you for adding to the Go data engineering ecosystem.
Birthright Citizenship in the United States
I’m coming from a place of seeking to understand objective truth. My arguments are pretty straightforward and literal, there really isn’t much to understand beyond what’s written
Agree

I am critical of some fb practices, but if it was a choice between having a job and not having one, the decision is not hard

It's a big company, with multiple areas. Find a less contentious area and go for that
Why hire in eastern europe only? Mozilla hires the best from around the world.
Indeed. But we can't all resell uppers and market self-help books/speaking engagements. So it's off to find our own niches or miners in need of shovels!
Realm: Integrating Retrieval into Language Representation Models
Yes, if you are a country that only wants to protect their homeland, cutting your ground forces as a result of nuclear bombs and ICBMs is perfectly rational.

Say that you are a citizen of a country endlessly threatened by invasion from a foreign power. Is it more important for you that your country has the nuclear bomb, which means your likelihood of being turned into glass falls from 50% to 0.1%, or that your country has greater control of agricultural production, meaning that in case of disaster you won't have to pay fortunes for imported food and cut your consumption? I'd say in this case the nuclear bomb is more important.

Also, we didn't see End of the World level nuclear destruction of any country because all the great world power developed the Nuke. The US Army very seriously considered using nukes in the Korean War as well as had plans for the invasion of the USSR (See : Operation Unthinkable and Operation Dropshot). The only reason these plans weren't carried out is because the USSR and China sacrificed very heavily in order to develop their technology and achieve technological parity with the West.
Tangentially, there's a similar post from the devtools team at https://twitter.com/FirefoxDevTools/status/12936787391175761...

"Hi friends, Firefox Developer Tools will not be going away. We will be a smaller team and will share more details later when we have them."
Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is.

True, but emphasis on the speed hack. It shouldn't stop you from thinking about performance in your design. If it means doing less, do less now. If it means adding a speed hack (usually some sort of cache), don't do it until you are sure that you need it.

Rule 2. Measure. Don't tune for speed until you've measured, and even then don't unless one part of the code overwhelms the rest.

I agree completely. But you have to realize that measuring is as much of an art form as optimization is. Especially on today's ridiculously complex systems, the bottleneck may not be obvious. For example a function may take a long time to run, but the real cause may be another function flushing the cache.

Rule 3. Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small. Fancy algorithms have big constants. Until you know that n is frequently going to be big, don't get fancy. (Even if n does get big, use Rule 2 first.)

Disagree, unless you can prove that n will stay small. You don't know how your users will abuse your program. For example, you may have designed your program to handle shopping lists of a few dozens of items, and then someone decides to import the entire McMaster-Carr catalogue, which has more than half a million items. It may be a great use case you didn't thought of, and that fancy algorithm permits it by scaling well. There are also vulnerabilities that exploit high algorithmic complexity and worst cases. Don't overdo it, but N^2 is rarely a good idea if you can avoid it.

Rule 4. Fancy algorithms are buggier than simple ones, and they're much harder to implement. Use simple algorithms as well as simple data structures.

True, but with the caveats of Rule 3

Rule 5. Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

Agree, for me there is a hierarchy in code. From most important to least important: data (structures), code (algorithms), comments.

The order comes from the fact that if you change your data, you need to change your code too, and if you change your code, you also need to change your comments. Going the other way, you can freely change comments, and changing your code will not require you to change your data. Data is the cornerstone.
Heh, yeah. If you have a less buzzwordy way to phrase that I'd be curious to hear it ;-), I think that the description is accurate although upon reflection I'm with you that it feels pulled out of corporate hell.
There are plenty of plausible explanations for those statistics where the comparison isn't a good one. The 479K figure given appears to be an average over the entire population of vehicles and drivers.

But what is the performance like for other drivers of expensive cars? Teslas aren't cheap, so it's a reasonable hypothesis that their drivers might be more likely to take care of them than the owners of a 20-year-old hand-me-down that is nearing the end of its useful lifetime anyway.

What is the performance like for drivers in other cars that have relatively good driver aid technologies? This might be correlated with more expensive cars, but more basic models typically gain a lot of the safety tech as well after a while.

What is the performance like for other drivers of the same ages and experience levels as Tesla drivers? Given the cost of the vehicle, Tesla drivers might tend to be older and more experienced than average, and both of those factors are known to be strongly correlated with safer driving.

Or maybe Tesla's own statistics are based on such a small population that they might not be representative anyway?

Or maybe Tesla's "registration" of accidents is flawed, and lots of minor incidents go unreported in Tesla's stats but some of them would be counted by NHTSA?

Or maybe Tesla's touchscreen controls are simply so complicated or annoying that many drivers avoid using them as much as possible?

As I said, there are many plausible explanations that would make that "amazing real world safety data" look a lot less impressive. It's impossible to evaluate that record intelligently based on just the data you quoted.
You can't manipulate populous forever. At some point they rise and protest. Look at Belarus right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnWeIdPhgRs
If I was asked to explain it, I would start by researching whether people who own Teslas might be safer drivers than average when they weren't in Teslas. Or whether, by virtue of other characteristics of the car, like handling, acceleration, and breaking, Teslas may be safer in general, regardless of their dashboards. I'd also question the source of the data and the methodology by which it was collected, just to be diligent. I wouldn't just start by assuming that having a touch screen made cars safer, though.
That's a broad claim - please substantiate.

No.
Myth or reality? The world vs sf and the valley?

I'll go with the world.
This impresses me just like a donation jar at a major bank begging customers to donate money to some noble cause.

WTF? You really don't have enough money to support the cause?

Someone need to write Chrome extension to hide this.
Self-publishing and the 2nd edition of Ansible for DevOps
Everything after # is a tracking code.

Power and offshore accounts are cooler than articles and lists.
Elevated train platforms may have escape ladders, but I thought the Hyperloop tube was depressurized and the car within it needs to be pressurized. This poses a problem for the escaping passengers before they reach the ladder.
Beautiful product! Set it up on my side project (journaltogether.com), and it worked like a breeze!

Can’t wait to see all the cool tail plugins that get built
If the title is bad, you can use the subtitle. and if that fails, a sentence of the article without cherry picking too much (it's a fuzzy rule). (And sometimes the mods revert the changes anyway.) I like:

> eBPF is a revolutionary technology that can run sandboxed programs in the Linux kernel without changing kernel source code or loading kernel modules.

but it is too long, a shortened version to 80 characters is

eBPF: run sandboxed programs in the Linux kernel without changing kernel source
I have a different perspective.

I see work as the way we contribute to society, how we help others with things that are important for them. In return, other people work on things that benefit me.

This is how we can live in wealth and peace unimaginable to most of history. This is a fantastic historic achievement, and I want to keep it going.

I do agree that we are much more than just workers, of course. But that feels like a strawman argument. Does anyone actually argue that?

And likewise, we are more than just self pleasers. If all you do is trying to entertain yourself every moment, I think a big part of life is missing.
The price difference in my area between a townhome and an equivalent sized sfh is a good 20%.

Land had value. You can tear down. SFH and build anything allowed by city code. Want a bigger garage? No problem. New fruit tree out back? Can do.

That flexibility is priced in.
Because another partner would pay to be the default search engine of a browser with declining market share. Would you want to count on donations to fund a company the size of Mozilla?

Google pays Apple a reported $8 billion a year to be the default search engine for iOS. It pays Mozilla less than $600 million (https://www.cnet.com/news/google-firefox-search-deal-gives-m...).

Doesn’t that tell you how little Firefox traffic is worth?
How long will it receive updates? How fast will those updates be pushed out?
AB5 is a colossal failure and it was done for taxes, not worker protection.

Full-time driving jobs already exist. Shuttles, buses, taxis, limos, etc. Uber Black is mostly private transport employees. It was a choice for drivers to willingly work for Uber instead. The lawsuit was backed by a handful of people who went against the 99.9% of drivers who wanted freedom and flexibility to work above all.

It's a tyranny of using a tiny minority to unlock massive tax potential. If protecting workers was really the goal then they should've created a 3rd option instead of shoving everyone into the W2 extreme, and it's affecting all kinds of freelance workers.
The problem with criticizing hyperloop on technical grounds is that there often isn't even enough substance to really criticize. There are several designs, which only really have "you put it a vehicle in a vacuum tube and go zoom!" in common--and even then, there's contention about vacuum.

So the only way you can really criticize it is on gadgetbahn grounds: it's shiny new technology [1], that's safer, cheaper, faster, better, stronger, etc. than the stodgy old infrastructure plans. It'll come in sooner and cheaper than them, we just need a few years [2] to finish designing them, and a couple million dollars [3] as well.

And if you've read all of my footnotes, you'll realize why this pitch is too good to be true. I'm personally not bothered by that so much as I'm bothered by the argument to stop investing in infrastructure because gadgetbahn is the future.

[1] Except "put trains in a vacuum tube" is a really old concept. But hyperloop is something "new," and the differences from vactrains is, uh, see above about the difficulty of pinning down any technical details.

[2] Looking to be 2 decades from "initial" concept to first implementation at this point.

[3] If you tot up all the grants so far, we're past $1 billion at this point to just study how to build this thing.
The Generator for The Code of the Geeks v3.1 (1995)
The driver controls "what you use" based on the route and time taken to get you to the destination.

Upfront pricing is still calculated based on usage, but it sets a fair amount without giving up control and the potential for overages.
Thanks for linking to Doc Ok's youtube channel!

https://www.youtube.com/c/okreylos/videos

5 years ago he was active in the Vive VR world

http://doc-ok.org/
Well, maybe another way to put it is that it's a business where the costs and value are absolutely clear. And it's a pure physics/technology catchup business. So margins get competed very thin.

Versus what you call "scammy" industries, where people attach emotional value, social value, network effects, irrational likes/dislikes -- there's a lot of margin that can be milked out of stuff like that.
The problem is really about a group within all populations that is never satisfied with what power they have. You decentralize they centralize. Goes round and round.

They are useful in certain situations and useless in others. With time society understands those differences and gets better at deploying its different resources.
It's nice to know there are plenty of connections that employees at this high profile tech company can use to get a job at other tech companies.

Are there other sites springing up to help the other 10 million unemployed and recently laid off people in the US who didn't work at high profile tech firms?
Uber currently has millions of part time employees in California. This ruling is a reclassification - Uber doesn't have to change a single thing about how the app works, and all the drivers are employees.
I lived in a co-op in PA during college, we had a "dish sanitizer" instead of a dish washer. It was basically just blasting the shit out of the dishes with crazy hot water. We were supposed to wash them before we put them in there but nobody ever did.
I don't understand. Tdd gets you to working code (if on a subset of all your data) extremely fast. There are both bottom-up and top-down styles, neither of which is particularly wrong.
The entire Mozilla MDN team is laid off
Yup essentially getting all of that directly from Alon's various posts on Caltrain's incompetence.
Since people are discussing conspiracies, I present to you the Batman argument to inoculate your near and dear ones.

1) All conspiracy theories require the evil organization to achieve several super human/ super organizational feats such as:
* Perfect coordination - across timezones, personalities, objectives
* Great wealth
* excellent control of public figures
* Advanced technology
* Great secrecy
Etc.

These are all impossible asks, which any normal person knows if they have worked in any team of people.

Many conspiracies die because of how hard it is to keep everyone aligned, and if people were that efficient in secrecy, imagine how efficient they would be without that burden.

Therefore,

Implication 1) If you believe in the conspiracy, we must also live in a world where such levels of efficiency are possible.

which means that

2) It is also possible for an organization or individuals to exist, who take advantage of these efficiencies and advantages to do "good".

Now if it was possible to stay in the dark, while having advanced tech and great wealth - well you've just described Batman.

So the question you can train all your loved ones to ask, anytime they encounter a great claim, is whether this claim means that we live in a world where batman can exist.

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While this is a childish way to encode a defense, its meant to be easy to consume, and to protect people who regularly wont have time to spend the effort to verify information or toxic content when they encounter it.

So while it is outlandish, that is partly the point - to diminish the earnestness and terror that conspiracy theories exude, without your active intervention being required.

edit: This can apply to any superhero/or superfriends. I just chose Batman.
> MDN as a website isn't going anywhere right now. The team is s̶m̶a̶l̶l̶e̶r̶gone, but the site exists and isn't going away. We will be working with partners and community members to find the right ways to move it forward given our new structure at Mozilla.

Fixed it.

Edit: Dug up the tweet, the author of it posted an update, doesn't acknowledge the statement about the team being "smaller". I suspect it's not exactly a team anymore. https://twitter.com/jasnell/status/1293524408628203523
> Do you donate to Wikipedia?

Content, occasionally.

Money? Not yet.

> Is their donation request motivating?

Well, obviously not sufficiently to cause me to give them money.
Sorry, the real problem is figuring out which 10 stories are actually worth reading, per Sturgeon's Law.
Playing catch-up is a lot easier than innovation. I'm not sure I buy the claim that another company couldn't catch up. The reason being because if you took all the employees from TSMC and put them in another company (and you weren't worried about IP claims) what would be different? We've seen several companies make up a lot of ground in a short period of time (AMD as an example). But also, 10 years isn't that long.
I wonder whether Mozilla also encountered similar lawsuit.
What if Facebook goes down?Ethical&legal considerations for demise of big tech
Yeah me too. I think visualizations are cool and can be useful in terms of monitoring the progress of analysis runs. But I can't see my self using a GUI for setting up pipelines when I can do it more explicitly through scripting or some kind of a command line based pipeline framework.

However, maybe the use case here is for team collaboration where the pipelines are easier conveyed through visualizations.