skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gamegate is pretty much what you get when you have corrupt game review sites. When people do backroom deals to buy good reviews with money there is always plausible deniability so the powder keg was already there, it was just waiting for the fuse to trigger.

The fuse was triggered by a random computer novel getting a 10/10 review because the reviewer had a relationship with the developer of the novel. "Gamers" don't go to game review sites to see the reviewer's girlfriend's computer novels. Corruption became extremely obvious now and was given a visible face called Zoe Quinn and therefore everyone started directing their hate against media to that visible face. Of course the media then tried to spin it as an anti women thing even though it was an anti media thing. Obviously media reporting won't be reporting negatively about itself. Nobody is going to release articles about how many bribes they have taken to promote certain games.
Actually here in the UK the government did briefly consider banning all knives with points. I know right? Welcome to the nanny state.

(from 2005 but it was brought up again last year...)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4581871.stm#:~:text=%22Off...
>If there were no restrictions then the numbers would be much higher.

There are a lot of claims like this which are very difficult to prove or disprove. Sweden was one of the few places that went very light on it's measures and never got overwhelmed and generally coped with the virus OK so far. (They admit they messed up with care homes, but that is the same as with many other countries who took far harsher measures).
In the US, it really depends on the surgery and the center. I know from chatting to some doctors that eye surgery for example, isn't exclusively cataract surgery, but it's like 60% of their surgeries and typically done by a handful of doctors. Back of the eye surgery is done at the same center, but by another set of doctors.

So while it's true it's not common to find the type of single surgery centers like they have in India, there are lots of surgeons who do the same surgery weekly or several times per week.

But yeah, if you're seeing an ENT at a smaller center, they might be doing 100 procedures a year and no more than 10 of any given type.
Thanks for the anecdote.
I am not sure if it is sensible to convert all floating point numbers before doing the operation.

I understand (but may be wrong) that if we follow Wikipedia [0] and represent them with the same exponent:

0.1 + 0.2 = (1 * 10^⁻1) + (2 * 10^-1)

then (1 + 2) * 10^⁻1 = 3 * 10^-1

It is not symbolic reasoning, it is just that calculations on the fraction and exponent are done separately.
Addition of the two fraction parts are addition of integers.
0001 + 0010 gives 0011 (3) in binary.

It does not matter that 3 * 10^-1 = 0.29999999999999998889776975

The comparison result gives TRUE, not FALSE

There are indeed limitations, but for the example given it works. I think that a long time ago (in the 70') I was taught that having the same exponent was mandatory for floating point arithmetic, or maybe I read it in a Byte/drDobbs article.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic#Addi...
Belgium leads on a per capita basis which would seem more relevant.
The link is: https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Ethics-Ow...
Peugeot has some nice special colours. They had some nice red a couple of years ago. They had a red/black paint scheme for their GTi models. And a special blue (or was it a goldish yellow?) for their 208 EV. Not that a lot of people buy them, so... Which is a shame if you ask me. Heck, even Jaguar got rid of British Racing Green from their standard catalogue last time I checked...
Firearms make it easy/way easier to kill/seriously injure

* a large number of people

* from a distance

* with basically no effort

With knives on the other hand it's hard (especially for untrained attackers) killing/injuring

* even a low number of people (IF even more than one)

* from arm's reach

* with large physical effort.

Following that firearm restriction to those who may actually need them (law enforcement etc.) is then quite obvious.
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Yes RN is certainly the worst for that for me. I can't count how many hours I've had to put in to wrangle the RN packager in to a monorepo with TypeScript and code-sharing across packages, and it's still unbelievably fragile and I can't actually share components between them. At this point I've made so many little alterations to the config from GitHub issues and StackOverflow answers that I literally have no idea how it works or how to replicate it to a new project. It's an absolute nightmare.
This is because it doesn't do anything yet. I look forward to the day it's usable in production, but today is not the day.

And don't forget Parcel which also have the simplest possible UI.
Maybe because video is 2D, so it doesn’t seem real anyway, but audio is very close to real-life experience, so it is easier to notice the difference.
It's fascinating that the upper bound of the speed of sound is analogous to the speed of light in a vacuum, but it's highest when propagating through the thing that's the complete opposite of a vacuum.

Now I wonder what the speed of sound in, say, neutron-degenerate matter, would be.
Is lying and deceiving people fine, according to the 1st amendment?

For example foreign states that pays armies of internet trolls to in effect choose president in the US -- is that what the 1st amendment wants to happen

I think "information" can kill more people than cocaine, is more dangerous
Lots of whataboutism here. In that vein let’s re-introduce asbestos because smoking kills much more people and doesn’t even insulate anything.

Anyway, the big issue is that it could have been(and still can be) much worse. it’s a scalable disaster with consequences outlasting human generations. If you need heroic efforts and enormous resources to contain something and there’s a possibility of that not succeed then you don’t want it happen and it’s a big deal.
I think it’s still an open question if it is metastable (like diamond>graphite), but it definitely wouldn’t be stable.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/308290/are-there...
Clearly written by someone without any real world experience. Daily checks and plots, and daily phone calls and meetings.....

But how we start by explaining this. Does the author expect us to believe they were using Excel 2003?

"I’m not going to complain about Public Health England (PHE) using excel to merge the test results from each test centre"

What actually happened, then perhaps we move onto solutions.

(The solution most likely being some sort of Hamming code/check sum, the number of cases is also included with the data for instance)
It always struck me as odd how papers like this make it all make sense, and then you go and run one of these things, and realize that an available system doesn't mean a system that runs well. It just means a system which is capable of running well.

The bugs in all this complex software are out of scope of the conversation. It's a theoretical system, after all. The fact that the more complex and distributed a consensus-based system is, the more likely failure of the system is, isn't mentioned. Presumably either because it's implied that you should only ever use this when you have to, or because it's actually elementary.

The most stable highly available consensus-based systems are dependent on highly available hardware and networks. As soon as either become flaky, bugs start coming out of the woodwork like a log on a roaring fire (and this explains why Jepsen is so effective at finding bugs). Othe other hand, HA systems that don't depend on consensus can be smaller, and their software is typically easier to reason about, leading to fewer classes of bugs as well as a potentially smaller codebase which leads to less bugs.
Hard truth..I should know better.. Thanks
That is awesome!

Thanks!
Ow... That's disappointing.
Agree. The only flaw of Parcel is that its tree shaking support sucks.
Desire to publish helps to overcome 80% remaining work. Even then 9 out of 10 remains in the shelf, it is too hard.

Again and again I am finding myself after a day with something that is not ready. All I can do is scrap it for now and turn to something small. Like 674 bytes small [1] but I think it is beautiful.

[1] http://sergeykish.com/find-in-head-script-style-test
Writing puts thoughts to paper. Muffled thoughts don't make good sentences. A collection of sentences makes a paragraph. Therefore, muffled thoughts can't make a paragraph.

Where am I going with the above: By writing, we find out if our thoughts are muffled or not. This means that writing is like a mirror to our thoughts.

Now there is a difference between writing for personal use and writing for the public. I think everyone should write for personal use. Examples of writing for personal use are

1. Journalling.

2. Self Reflection.

3. Project analysis.

When it comes to writing for public consumption, it's a different thing all together. You would want to have a topic or interest area you want to write about. It also takes much more time than you can imagine.

I started writing recently for the public and the process has been rewarding. I have learnt alot about myself.
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I remember chatting with some of the top US specialists in a specific field and they all freely admitted that after seeing a patient with a less common condition that they need to go back a give themselves a refresher. Unless it's something you see every day, it's almost impossible to keep all that information in your head.
i'm loving it so far. beautiful and has a nice balance between simplicity and flexibility. good job.

extra bonus of using Flutter :) more confidence for my early phase of learning it
This is cool, I always find postmortems interesting. The list has been around for a while, here are two other HN discussions:

August 2015 (17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10028353

January 2019 (1 comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18875834

And the announcement blogpost: http://danluu.com/postmortem-lessons/
What? It absolutely did!
For me what fixed it was a left-handed mouse.

before that I overused my right hand - both for the mouse and things like the arrow keys, enter and backspace.
Kitchen knives and communication are completely different things. Bad actors spreading subversive ideas that could shake the fabric of society and undermine the national security of countries is not the same as being able to carry a knife around in your house. Bad state actors can and do exploit this anonymity.
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The countless and famous youtube purges of creators and "hateful", "inappropriate", "non pc"... content "unsuitable for advertisers" was a clear sign that youtube got out of touch with its origins and will slowly die whilst becoming an online version of mainstream news media, whose channels are always at the top of most search results and recommendations.

I have observed this a long time ago but mostly since last year when I realized that I am not getting that much content from the hundreds of channels I am subscribed to, compared to the past. My subscriptions are all over the place, from movie/cinema/games related channels, through programming, traveling, cars, repairs,...to mgtow or alternative-news channels. So it is not just one topic that is behaving like this.

Very recently I have noticed that I am getting a ton of really old videos in my recommendations. Spanning from just a few years ago back to even 10 or more years. This tells me that the algorithm simply has no new content it can recommend with the way it is configured.

And I am not alone. I have seen tens or hundreds of comments on these videos by people that experience the same thing.

Which brings me to my question - do you think this is the breaking ponit for youtube that solidifies its irrelevance, for example like myspace once was? Personally I think that yes, it does. I saw it coming for years now and I think this is finally it. But it will take few more years until we will see a new platform #1 for online video. I would love for it to be bitchute but they just don't have the money to do it(video is the most expensive thing you can run on the internet). So I expect facebook, amazon or netflix to take a shot at this in no longer than 5 years from now. Though, they have the same thinking as google/youtube so I don't think it would work out.

What do you think?
Yeah but on the other hand, try to find a plain carpet that is truly grey. It's pretty difficult! Everything is some shade of brown or grey-brown.
Why is that a thing that would be happening in Cameroon, again?
Solved by pop3 protocol.
Convolution is linear, tube amps have many levels of nonlinear behavior.
I feel like degrading is not the right word here. I understand your point, and I think the sentence is offensive, but it’s more nuanced than you’re making it out to be.

I think those kinds of sentences are just intrinsically kind of insulting. It can just as easily be taken to be insulting to D&D players as well.

It just seems like a lazy method of writing and a description that contains an irrelevant kinda-maybe-true generalization.
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it is really frustrating to read infinite variations of the comment "javascript development is too complicated", "it is much simpler in other languages" etc.

yes, it is complicated. the problem is, there are certain constraints that we just cannot ignore: we want to write code in a "normal", efficient way (code organized in namespaced modules, perphaps static typing etc.), but we need it to be executed by the web-browser, maybe an old version of a web-browser. so we need solutions that work with these constraints.

if you know about simpler solutions, i'm very interested hearing about them. but please note, it has to work with those constraints, so ideas like "just write a native application" does not help.
Huge swathes of post-war German police, judiciary, political personnel were Nazi Party members[0], but we don't attribute crimes carried out in the Third Reich to West (or East) Germany or its institutions.

If you want to pretend the KGB, or the regime it operated under[1], was just the same as the NKVD under Stalin, then please provide examples of the same crimes (mass killings) occurring from 1954-1991.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braunbuch

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Stalinization
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> column in Nature suggests studies giving positive results to checklists don't replicate

"In a review of nearly 7,000 surgical procedures performed at 5 NHS hospitals, they found that the checklist was used in 97% of cases, but was completed only 62% of the time8. When the researchers watched a smaller number of procedures in person, they found that practitioners often failed to give the checks their full attention, and read only two-thirds of the items out loud9. In slightly more than 40% of cases, at least one team member was absent during the checks; 10% of the time, the lead surgeon was missing."
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Thinking about deepwater horizon, Teflon Tony and their safety culture?
I've found two successful strategies:

1) Index funds.

2) Buy/sell where you have unique expertise. If you work in the toilet hardware industry, buy/sell stocks related to that industry.

I do #1, since consulting generates higher returns than any micromanagement of my portfolio. Perhaps that will change in a few years, as I have more savings.

I'm not sure why anything public ought to generate alpha for me over people who do this full-time. The only place where I have a unique advantage are my areas of professional expertise. I can evaluate the quality and market impact of a development in my industries more accurately than people who do finance full-time, so there's some alpha there. It's not huge, since most companies do things outside of my area of expertise too. But it's better than zero.

It's worth noting that diversity is important. One can actively trade a small chunk of one's portfolio in one's own industry. I wouldn't allocate more than perhaps 25% of my holdings into areas where I am an expert.

And of course, standard disclaimers on insider trading apply. A safe approach is to trade in companies in one's own industry, but not in ones where one is employed or has any contracts / NDAs / relationships / internal information.
Car designs are also increasingly limited by aerodynamics, manufacturability and regulations.
I wonder if there is a way to salvage the microphones from the isight as well. Author hasn't lost a word about it so I guess it has been discarded.

I still have a knock-off iSight from eBay which was quite similar but of course had worse image and production quality. One advantage is that it features a thread on the bottom so it can be mounted to a small tripod which still looks quite nice. I use it for a time-lapse project that records the growth of a plant by taking a photograph every 15 minutes. The image resolution is a lot better than the video resolution on these things but still years behind the pi camera I guess.
Forgive my ignorance, but what applications would this be used in where just maintaining copies of the initial parameters to f() wouldn’t work?
Depends. If you remove the container quickly, then it explodes. Dong it slowly, some of the material evaporates and thus cools the rest, so that you can end up with piece of ultracold solid. But it will most likely not have same properties as the original material.
I once, just for the fun of the exercise, tried to set up an unused netbook and be as safe as possible.

It was incredibly difficult to not mess up, knowing what I know. In practice, I'd say it was usually convenience or rote behavior that caused me to 'compromise' the laptop.

It was a humbling experience, and while I had no aspirations to become a spy, it showed me how bad I'd probably be at it.
I think it is more along the lines of "atman is brahman", when considering hindu things.
> I would have claimed basically any sincere strategy in good faith would be a winner right now

Options have more degrees of freedom than stocks. Since they're derivatives, those degrees must ultimately collapse to the delta, i.e. to the stock's price movement, as the sole non-zero sum source of profit. As a result, there are more ways for professionals to monetize their edge.
Ciphey – Automatically decrypt encryptions without knowing the key or cipher
> Current approaches to improving digital well-being also promote tech solutionism, or the presumption that technology can fix social, cultural, and structural problems.

Like this: http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/organization
dont't try - its going to burn the sensor, as it will overrun it's thermal capacity. this is why there is the 30 mins limit in the first place; you'll see a marked raise in noise after 10 mins or so any way
I’ve been thinking about going this route but wouldn’t want to give up writing software. How did you make the transition?
I'm afraid that what has happened is something unfortunately quite normal in UK and it's a part of the general work culture. That is, everyone is just doing part of their job and following the protocol, but nothing more. Something is outside of the protocol or task description? Not my problem. Shall I double check the number of rows in the excel with Covid data that I am supposed to send to my supervisor? Oh, come on, who cares.
No. Confirmation bias means that people who make good/lucky bets might look like sages, however even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally.
"Trials varied slightly in length due to the cat’s motivation to participate in the interaction but were 2 min maximum or ended when the cat walked away." which pretty much sums up every interaction we have with our feline masters.
It's the same in France. For 20 years, buyers have almost always been given the choice between a grey (now black or white) car that is in stock and can be delivered right away, or a coloured one in many weeks.

Now buying a new car is something that is though about for a long time before performing the act (often along many months), is a commitment for a long time after the buying act, and in a majority of cases happens without any emergency while they already own a well functioning vehicle (or several), so why people cannot integrate this waiting period in their process? I don't think it is reasonable, but we can only observe as a fact that once they have made their final decision, they don't want to wait any more.
When I was last in a dealership parking lot, it was a hot day and they had three of the same model in black, silver and white, all baking out in summer sun. The roof of the white car was noticeably cooler to the touch than the silver or black cars. It was actually quite remarkable to me how similar the silver and black felt.
Thanks for your reply ! Well, I found your comment extremely relevant, and delivered in a very succint (albeit tongue in cheek ) way.

A greater share of the HN readership was already having a quarantine friendly work/lifestyle, than the general population. Due to underlying macro-trends (technology, mobile consumer internet, entrepreneurship...).

And one of these macro-trends, the fragility of our hyper-reactive interconnected world, was illuminated by the covid crisis.
I will try to reach you on twitter, to not pollute this thread further.
This would work if people are roughly equally good above that low bar. But there are vast differences. The current metrics aren't perfect but they do correlate with ability. And as I said, you can't randomize everything, like talk invitations or "followers", collaboration offers, research stay offers at prestigious places, media exposure etc.
The practical reason is that it is camouflage to hide dirt and stains.
The point is they’re not buying from an exchange. It’s all being middled for margin and harvested for data to cover the execution cost.
As the article notes, the pine needles on the floor make forest fires burn hot in the Himalayas. In the USA it is global warming that does that. Collecting kindling in California won't help as you're addressing the wrong problem.
For anyone that actually has to maintain servers, this is terrifying.
Cars like Mazda or Dodge come to mind. They tend to have bad depreciation, but are much more likely to offer orange/copper, deep reds and blues, etc. Like those found in the Neon/Dart and Mazda 3. They are "fun" cars so color is part of the package, and they appeal to individuality rather than fitting in.

I look around and I see white SUVs filling up entire parking lots. This is like the "ideal vision" people want to step into... the family person with the versatile car.
> Dissenters are almost always people who haven't spent enough time in the JS ecosystem to understand why we need the tools

No. Dissenters are almost always people who clearly understand how overly complex and at the same time extremely brittle frontend toolchains are. Understanding why you need these tools doesn't change the reality of what these tools are and how they work.
What CS university programs make you write essays?
How does the GC in SBCL impact FPS?
Same in Australia—no latch.
They are a R type species
> (and since they more or less have the same shape nowadays...)

Aerodynamics and safety legislation about things like gaps between engine and bonnet (hood) are harsh mistresses.

Leaves a lot less room from creativity especially combined with platforms/drive-train re-use setting basic floorplan sizes.

Honestly doesn't bother me, a car is a box with four wheels to go from A to B but I'm not a car guy, I like motorcycles and there at least there is still a lot of room for aesthetics.