skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you probably should, to some degree. It's obvious that the media of both sides of the spectrum have lost most of their ability to be nuanced and see the valid points of the other side, just as a lot of the people most active politically have.

The more you believe the other side is comprised of evil racist fascists, or evil pedophile fascists, the harder it is to give any of they opinions due consideration. It's probably not random that fascist shows up as an accusation by both sides.

The only thing that I think has worked to give me a somewhat fair accounting of an event over the last 6-12 months is to use Google news, and specifically seek out how both sides of the spectrum represent an event (that means seeking out the foxnews.com article most the time, but sometimes foxnews is the main one and I seek out how it's represented elsewhere). Often it's like reading high-school essays about that are about the same book but focused on entirely different themes of the plot. I generally have to synthesize my own accounting from them while weighting accordingly based on the news and the source.
I generally agree in the sense that "null results" should not be published as "results." But, especially in the experimental sciences, I think it would be an incredible (and very useful) feat of work to have well-documented experiments that turned out to be ultimately null or failed, to prevent others from doing the same. (Or, on the other hand, to have people improve on the given methods in order to get a positive/negative result in some specific sense. For example, photonics returning to lithium niobate platforms, which were essentially abandoned in the 80s, but has had incredible successes lately. I'm sure there's been a lot of replicated work here.)

Of course, the problem with all of this is that there really aren't very good incentives to accurately and carefully report null experimental results (except as a kind of "folk knowledge" within a given lab) which would limit its general usefulness. But the "platonic ideal," so to speak, of a null result journal I think would be relatively useful.
the article doesn't make sense to me

when making decisions:

"we should be asking which option will give us good-enough results under the widest range of future states of the world"

doesn't that lead you right back to the struggle for the most efficient way to determine the optimal "good-enough" answer?

Also, the article talks about efficiency but efficiency of what exactly? What if you're very efficient at a maintaining a relaxed and happy lifestyle?
Yes, you need keyword.enabled set to false otherwise Firefox will still search even though you have a different search box :(.

In Firefox, it is also possible to set keyword.enabled to false and still search explicitly in the url bar via the keyword search mechanism (they overloaded the terminology a bit :/, the one if you right click on a search box and select "add a keyword for this search"). I've been thinking of trying to just use DDG style ! keywords via the url bar (and s for a default search to make it easier to type, maybe single letters would be easiest in general) rather than a search box. OTOH, the keyword search (the second type :/) seems neglected and I wouldn't be surprised to see it disappear at some point.
I'd also add that it might be better to PM someone if you want to be sure they got a specific message.
You'd be more persuasive if you toned the language down. FWIW, I'm not up nor downvoting you, just sharing perspective as a mod with political sympathies.
I'm far from being Telegram fan considering their custom crypto, lack of E2E by default, etc. Yet NEXTa channel here actually have 2 million of subscribers while Belarus population is less than 10 millions. Yeah of course there some % of people from abroad who follow the situation, but it's still a lot.

Also Telegram was more-or-less resistant to at least not leak any personal information of their users in ex-USSR. So it's works well enough for protesters threat model.
>There are too many unexplained steps, and the benefits are unclear.

You are 100% correct with this. But not only that is the problem. There are too many sites that don't offer obvious RSS feeds. Like YouTube. I don't have a google account, but I still want to follow some channels. What would be the best way? Right RSS, but YouTube doesn't offer that really obviously. So here is how you follow a youtube channel with RSS:

1) Klick on a YouTube Video from a channel you want to follow

2) From there click on the youtube channel (Doesn't work if you directly click on the channel from the serach)

3) Then you have the url https://www.youtube.com/channel/<channel-ID-here> (for example colinfurze's channel ID would be UCp68_FLety0O-n9QU6phsgw

4) Now the last thing left is combine that channel ID with the following: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<channel... and add it to your RSS feed! (For example the full colinfurze url would be: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCp68_FL... ) Easy, isn't it? :)
Or a CEO who is keenly aware of the benefit of what they do. It would be difficult, for example, to convince a solar manufacturer that panel costs should decrease slowly when they know how many fossil fuel plants will be built because of that.
For years I had a LambdaMOO or related client open and chatted and did side stuff while I was working, while waiting for compiles, etc. I didn't have any productivity issues as a result. In fact it kept my brain sharp amid the mindnumbingly boring boilerplate JavaBeans transformation code or whatever I had to write.

I have a coworker who has his screen split with twitch running on one side all day. He's one of the most productive and smart people I know.

So I dunno, was it necessary to be 'formal warning' him?
I think the slides for "Error Handling Isn't All About Errors", by Jane Lusby (https://yaah.dev/rustconf), are substantive and on-point.

A case of the exception proving the rule, here?

That said, conference session videos are typically much less informative than the papers. Certainly the content per unit time required is lower in video.
There's a large Cajun influence in both places. You're of course correct that I didn't cover the creole part. I was mainly using the term "Cajun" in a general sense which although not super correct is how people generally use it.
If you are evil and proud it makes sense to name yourself after evil. It is a waste of everyone's time to try to recruit non-evil people. Given that this headline is the only example of evil failing that I have seen in recent times, they should probably assume the problem is salary, intelligent evil people are clearly the most occupied and must be very expensive. Taking short cuts with either stupid or ethical people is never going to work for them.
I would definitely encourage all of my competitors to use GraphQL. Nothing like getting a free six-month lead.

That's two months they spend learning GraphQL, two months introducing a mystery-meat binding layer and learning that, and two months debugging it all and pulling their hair out.

And no, using a giant third-party lock-in toolkit like Hasura or Apollo is not a response.
Maybe the problem is that efficiency and robustness are orthogonal?
They're made out of meat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ

By the way, I agree with you, it is unsettling to hear human beings reduced to such terms.
Was it the reason for the outage? Some details from google response after that post:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-fixes-major-gmail-bug-s...
Ah yes, I think that makes it more clear.

In this case, efficiency might be automating bill payments, but then you don't catch price changes, and depending on your other systems in place, you might miss overdrawing your account.
The difference here is that there is virtually no way for there to be a bug, virus, malware, keylogger, etc that might break the true randomness of the dice roll where all those are a possibility for the computer generated version.
The Science of How Covid Testing Works
The drivers are franchisees so they have huge interest in keeping the company going, otherwise they wouldn't get any trips. It was their problem. They just didn't want to change.
I believe the Telegram app has a peer-to-peer feature that allows communication to be routed through other devices rather than requiring communication with the Telegram servers
The fundamental problem is the inverted-U shape of payoffs to “optimizing” any one factor (or a small subset of key focus areas). Beyond a point, you’re just “overfitting” to the incorrect metric and underperforming in the truer sense. Yeah, you might not have a metric for the “deeper value”... c’est la vie! Any decision making approach that tries to ignore that problem/limitation is simply stupid.

The other problem with prizing efficiency is that we often optimize for efficiency under an incorrect model of the situation (model-reality-mismatch) — underweighting the likelihood of upsetting possibilities. That’s essentially what the idea of “black swan”/“fat tails” is about. It’s not really about statistics, unless you’re using a flawed and over-simplified statistical model to ground your metric of efficiency.

IMHO the same problem underlies the approach/framework of behavioral economics. In many situations, observed human behavior might be “irrational” only because your model of reality is naively simplistic. It shouldn’t be surprising that a satisficing approach works better in reality than an optimizing approach; if it does sound surprising, consider that your intuitions might be biased by an incorrect model of reality!
Ah I see, so there's no extrapolation involved, only the raw numbers.
agreed. the two objectives of efficiency and robustness are not necessarily in conflict in all situations, but if you start trying to optimise a given system focusing on only one objective, the other one may degrade arbitrarily. better to define what tradeoff would be a good deal: how much efficiency would you be willing to lose to gain 1 unit of robustness, etc. then optimise both objectives taking into account your preferred exchange rate.

there's plenty examples of this kind of thing in engineering design situations. it's cheaper (i.e. more efficient usage of capital, at least in the short run) to not allocate resources for backups or allocate extra capacity in systems that isn't used 95% of the time. it's much more expensive to dig two spatially separated trenches to lay independent paths of fibre optic cable to a given building, but if you cough up the money for that inefficient redundant connection, your internet will have decreased risk of interruption by rogue backhoes. it's cheaper to not hire enough staff and get individuals in a team to over-specialise in their own areas of knowledge rather than having enough spare capacity and knowledge-sharing to be able to cover if people get sick, go on holiday or quit.

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-objective_optimization
Bullshit. You might not know me but I've seen your face 100 times my friend. I recognized you the moment you left your comment. You are every English teacher I've ever had and their knee-hugging clingy mouth breathing teacher's pets. Those lick spittle hanger's on that can't who can't be bothered to reach out a helping hand because they are choking on their own schadenfreude after watching the stupid kid crash and burn in verbal drive by that left them brain dead and panting on the floor. I know a sideways remark when I see one.

I am aware that '"Autodidactic" is the adjective, "autodidact" the corresponding noun.' What you seem to be unaware of is how dyslexia effects reading. Everyone has a blind spot, an optical illusion generated by your brain by filling in information that's not there. When I'm reading something that I've written, words get swapped in from what I expect to be there versus what I've actually written. This also happens when I am constructing a sentence. As I am typing I am simultaneously constructing and deconstructing sentences in my head. Sometimes I will start with one sentence and while thinking of the next sentence drop writing the existing one and start with the new one instead. When I read that back to myself my brain, like a blindspot, fills in my mind with my expectation of what I think I should see instead of the information that what I wrote is actually nonsense.

Every English teacher I've had would just dunk my head under the water instead of recognizing that I was struggling to breath and everyone in the class would laugh, all except the other people that got wet. I know you, you've been dry all your life. Never got dunked, never had your water drenched eyes deceive you. So you can parrot back your bullshit you learned in school, I don't fucking care. All I did was see a red squiggly under my words and select the first auto correct option, I left it as it was because I couldn't see that I selected the wrong one. It took me years to learn how to work around my disability, I don't need an asshole like you to point it out to me and then give me a sideways quote calling me a fool.
I’m running from the app in OSX. The browser version is somehow even worse.
Reminds me of this piece from Seth Godin on the importance of building slack into our lives: https://seths.blog/2019/06/investing-in-slack/

(Not the chat app)
I actually felt like I learned a lot. Not so much technical stuff, but more about how intentional the community is designed.

It made me feel proud to be part of a group that is all about empowering the people that need it most. People that are typically marginalized.

How values aren’t an option; how deciding not to have values is itself a value choice.

The whole event made me even more excited about Rust, and building in an ecosystem that is very explicitly inclusive.
I don't understand how they will get the chats except from individual phones. The convo is encrypted between telegram app and their servers and the servers aren't available to Bealrus' government officials, so how are they going to get the messages? Obviously they can if they're monitoring public group chats because all they have to do is join, but person to person or private groups, how are they going to get to those? Confiscate everyone's phones?
Well you don’t have to trust the website, you could fairly easily copy the dice’s contents to your password generating app yourself.
Because if you don't take trips then you don't make any money. They felt entitled and refused to adapt when the market demanded it. That's irrational.
The main issue is that any form of anonymous communication gets instantly abused for things that very few people are OK with. It's a classic Catch-22 and a very well-known at that.
PHP has sort of done serverless in 2000, so evolutionary dead end is a a bit harsh :)
Imagine complaining about accessible technology. Corporations can't find the bottom of their misanthropy.
> Python where keyword arguments need to be declared as such.

In Python you don't need to explicitly declare keyword arguments either (though it is possible). This is perfectly valid and working:

def foo(a: str, b: int, c: bool=None, d: float=None):
pass

foo(b=5, a='something', d=3.0)
# is equivalent to
foo('something', 5, None, 3.0)
It's an entirely reasonable question! The answer is, because I started this numbering scheme with the diary I began back at the start of 2018, and I'm more pleased that that's just about to reach page 1000 than I would be if it were about to reach page 100 of volume 5. Since I was already in the habit, it made sense to employ the same system in my work notebooks when I likewise standardized those.

In both cases, it also makes for a more compact scheme of reference, since I only need to write "pp. 380-382", rather than "vol. 3 pp 20-22" or "pp. 3/20-22" or some other such notation that requires an explicit volume number - not that that's not a somewhat post hoc reason, but I have found it to be convenient, and there's nothing wrong in any case with deriving some enjoyment from the fact that the very page numbers themselves reflect the extent to which I've developed journaling and notetaking into deliberate and durable practices in their own right. (Especially when I number the pages of a fresh volume, as part of the process of preparing it when I approach the end of the one I've been filling. Numbering from 1 to 180 over and over again seems like it'd get dull! Numbering from 999 to eleven hundred and whatever, as I did yesterday, is much more enjoyable.)

All that aside, I definitely don't have any argument for why the scheme I use is the scheme everyone should use. It's just what works best for me, and in the context of any running document someone maintains for their own use, what works best for them is what matters.
Just checked the extension from the OP. It resovles to the same URL and works fine too. Nice thing.
We all know absolutely there are limits - quick tell me the first words ever uttered by any human being! We can't for it has been lost to entropy, whole converted into the same end state regardless of possible outcomes. It isn't even "find what word was written on this paper before it was immersed in ink and smoother" but "find out what word was written on the paper after it was burnt and the carbon used through a cycle of bacteria, plant, animal, and minerals for a few millenia.

The rhetoric is particularly galling because it is self-reinforcing willful ignorance - refusing to learn and then saying "We cannot possibly know!" instead of trying to stretch our limits.
https://t.me/terroristybelarusi
MS Teams has the ability to mark something as important and it isn't such a great feature IMO.

Instead, create groups for whatever purpose and use it (eg, an @<team>_devs to avoid blowing up everyone else in the channel). @mentions stand out when you're scrolling through a feed.
Thanks, I do appreciate you linking to other reviews (Bill Gates’, the book authors’, etc.) — I found those very useful to map out a more holistic picture. Might be better if you post this message (with links) at the very top of the article.
>But it can be a crucial tool that changes everything.

this is the exact same narrative that took place when the Arab Spring happened. What determines the success of revolutions isn't what makes the news media, it's what happens on day 1 after the revolution is over and the cameras are turned off
Do you mean cgi-bin? If that is the case, Perl and C had it beat. ;)
Somewhat related, one of the developers discussed some of the issues he faced when working with the re-mastered "Age of Empires: Definitive Edition".
https://richg42.blogspot.com/2018/02/some-lessons-learned-wh...
Ok, so this should be working now, for all types of requests. Let us know if it's not.

If you're testing with the same endpoints, you may need to give the cache a few minutes to evict the old values missing the header.
Twitter: If you are CEO of a VC startup, where'd you move your co out of CA?
> If France is so bad, move out

Be careful what you wish for, because "they" are indeed moving out. Human capital flight is a very real problem in France.
I agree that we should be tracking more of everything, including people who died because of the lockdown measures. However, your statement that the death rates aren't that different from the flu are demonstrably wrong. One, the data does not show that. Two, your confidence in such a statement is not warranted, given that we do not have very good data for what is still an active Wave 1 of a pandemic. Third, we have no idea what the longterm effects will look like across a population - just because people don't die from it right now does not mean there aren't risks of shortened lifespan and lowered quality of life.

I respect your right to have a differing opinion, but as far as they go, yours is a very strong opinion that you are too confident in without sufficient evidence.
In the scifi short story "a pail of air", the Earth is yanked away from the Sun by a dark star passing through the solar system. The Earth cools until all of the atmospheric gasses turn into solids and fall to the ground as layers of ultra-cold snow.

It's one of the pieces of fiction that left a deep impression on me. Harsh winter days still remind me of it.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51461
> Manipulating complex data structures that are large

I do assume it's not the case, but one of the footguns with PHP is that assigning around large variables/arrays and triggering the copy-on-write can end building up the amount of duplicates of that data being kept alive. Pass by reference, unsets, generators and the like aren't used super often due to a lot of runs being small stateless requests, but sometimes they may be needed.
I indeed got it incorrect but a cons cell is still not a tree node (it can be one though). It is rather just a pair, like (x, y) in haskell or std::pair in C++.
Apparently also the reason why plants forgo green light (i.e. the most abundant part of the solar spectrum): https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-plants-green-to-reduc...
For those involved in QA, the benefits of boring work are unsurprising.
You really don't need to read assembly for any but the most rare cases. What you need is a profiler to give you the hotspots and you need to stop prematurely optimizing on a line-by-line basis. Just stop it. Optimize O(n) performance (but also don't go wild, unless there is a business reason), keep your fingers off micro-optimizations, unless so indicated by the profiler and only if there is a business reason as well...
People use the eggplant emoji on Slack at your work? It’s usually a phallic symbol.
This is true. A Bridge Too Far both includes incidents that actually happened but were deemed unrealistic by critics, as well as omits certain details specifically because they would be assumed to be unrealistic.

The one movie I would love to see is one about the battle for Castle Itter toward the end of the war, where Americans, German soldiers who had defected to the resistance, a deserting SS officer, and a group of prisoners including two former French prime ministers, two French generals, Charles de Gaulle’s sister, and a pre-war French tennis champion all teamed up against an SS force attempting to recapture the castle and the VIP prisoners within. Which sounds like a completely absurd movie but it actually happened.
> It’s like writing your master password on a sticky note and putting it in a drawer.

People should do this, and people should stop telling other people it's bad security to do this. And then people should stop using password managers.

The idea that the sticky note is bad is hilariously old school, and the result has been everyone putting their passwords in cloud-stored apps instead, which is 10,000% worse than a sticky note.

Remember: If it's on the Internet, your potential attacker is "every human on earth". If it's on a sticky note, your potential attacker is "everyone who can get access to the physical place you keep it". The former will always be an increasing number of billions of Internet users. The latter can be reduced to one or two if you store your sticky note somewhere very secure, like a safe or security deposit box.

Also, for added security... just lie on your sticky note. It doesn't have to be a high entropy lie to befuddle people.
English Settlement is a really interesting eclectic mix of XTC’s various sounds.
Clicky: https://altumcode.com/blog/avoid-getting-scammed-when-purcha...

It's weird that the scammer account has "100.0% positive feedback". How many reviews did he had, 1? https://xkcd.com/1098/
What’s the deal with message passing, anyway
a) getting people to their jobs was likely deemed more important than the paltry amount of metal it could have provided

b) I'm pretty sure that's not the original structure
"efficiency erodes resilience" is a good line, at a loss of symmetry. resilience also erodes efficiency.