skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's rather silly. He says:

"For example, we should care less if a proposed mobile chip or compiler optimization slows down SPEC, and care more if it speeds up Python or JavaScript!"

But anything that impacts SPEC benchmarks (and the others we use for C code) is also going to impact Python performance. If you could find a new instruction that offers a boost to the Python interpreter performance that'd be nice, but it's not going to change the bigger picture of where the language fit in.
For OSX users, this seems to run best in Safari Technology Preview.
> I see, you're making this a partisan thing

The person gave examples of partisan things, that could happen, as an example of how arguments in favor of censorship could be abused.

That the point. You seem like you want to ban "lies and conspiracies", and I will point out that this same justification could be used to do horrible things, such as ban discussion of russian conspiracies.

That is why the person you are responding to said that "they're inherently highly subjective".

Also, I would like to point out that you seemed like you were dog whistling towards certain partisan ideas. Because although you spoke in generalities, you were clearing hinting at generalities that are often used to accuse certain political groups.
Volunteer for vote counting/processing. It's super important. The more people handling the votes, the shorter the queues, the less people don't bother to vote because they don't have time to stand in line all day.
Not sure if this particular incident is true but Facebook and Snopes have been on the attack on The Babylon Bee in the past.

Does the same happen to The Onion?

It's why fact checking just can't work. There's too much bias in people.
How is this different from this project from 2011? https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/what-bugs-mosquitoes
Yeah it always struck me as bizarre - here is a technological marvel, beautifully crafted, polished and shiny, slim and elegant.

But you have to put it in an ugly protective case or it'll be borked inside a year.
VPN to production and same hostname for dev and prod?
Kind of, but that's a roundabout way of saying "opportunity cost".
They killed native Linux support. It runs perfectly with Proton. Actually, better than it did natively for me.
"Szabolcs Marka, an associate professor of physics, is developing a novel way to protect people from the vectors: a virtual mosquito net with infrared light vibrating at wavelengths that irritate the insects’ nervous systems."
Sizes are comparable to M3 and MY.

Performance and range favor Tesla.

Build quality favors VW.
Alas I see nothing at all when I visit them page in Chrome or Firefox on my Galaxy S9 (running Android 10)
There is no certified MySQL STIG yet. There is one for Postgres though.

STIGs are hardening guidelines used the US Department of Defense.
ArsDigita: From Startup to Bust-Up (2001)
Ethereum based marketplace Zora raises $2M in seed round
It's not as simple as that.

Early on, people with low blood oxygen were put on ventilators quickly, which both took a great toll on the system, and didn't help (or even made things worse).

If you look at the graphs now (I looked at 30 countries just an hour ago), you'll see that many countries in Europe have a very visible "second wave", including Denmark, Austria, the UK, France, Spain and even Sweden - but almost no deaths; and unlike the first wave, despite more people diagnosed with SARS-COV-2, much less people need treatment, and there is no lack of beds anywhere (although there is a lot of fatigue, which is a more complicated discussion).

Given you know what to do, such as prawning, vitamin D, and more (and more importantly - what not to do - no early ventilation, for example) - then, we no longer have hospital ICUs stuffed full of people with COVID19 either.

A lot has changed since April, but when I look at arguments, some sides still hold the data from early April (assuming up to 5% IFR, and the Ferguson predictions), while some do not acknowledge that April happened and only look at the stats in Aug-Sep. Not surprisingly, such arguments aren't really converging and each side tends to assume the other side is an idiot or insane.
Amazing! Something I have learned from similar experiments in the past - instead of drawing a circle each frame, try drawing a (rounded) line between the current frame's cursor location and the previous frame's cursor location. Cursor movement looks much smoother that way.
> The core issue is the underlying system that values engagement over all things ... the advertising system.

I don't think you're digging deep enough here. It's not the business model. It's the technology.

We've invented technology that can, to a significant degree, control people. It is as addictive as hard drugs and people will just keep coming back to their dealer for more and more digital crack.

But it's worse than simply heroin or crack cocaine. It gives the dealers not just the power to keep people coming back for more, but also gives them far, far more control over not just what those people do, but what those people think.

The large companies (Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc) aren't in the business of search or social media. Nor are they in the business of advertisement. Their business model is selling complete control over people at the population level. At some point it will stop being a business model and start being a self sustaining model of raw power that strips us of our humanity.

We need to take a hard stance to all attempts at psychological manipulation via technology. A/B testing to see how changes affect behaviour should be seen as morally repugnant as selling crack cocaine to children.
Mozilla doesn't owe you anything. You think you can do better? Go build a better browser that's free yourself.

Oh, not so though now, are you?

The moment every complexity imaginable were shoved into the web "because user experience", it became impossible to develop and maintain a competitive browser project by a non-profit company. More and more websites simply do not work correctly with FF, because companies don't give a shit anymore. "Just use Chrome". And if you install any anti-tracking software, they just break and you can't get any stuff done.

So now bend over and get used to Googlenet, where in just couple of years you're only going to be allowed to visit content "fact-checked" by Google's Ministry of Truth, and you need to sign an EULA that require you to wear an anal probe at all times when browsing the web, and half the screen is always an ad.

Good job everyone! You destroyed the WWW, and turned it into oppression tool, because what we needed was SPAs, dynamic content, 4 versions of CSS, 4 versions of HTML, and so on. Google & other corps embraced, extended and extinguished web and we were cheering.
It does. That's what the circular strip is for, like you said.
Did you read his California study? He sampled blood, and came up with a number. You are inferring a whole lot from that.
> Instead I propose this solution; marketplace of ideas now has to incorporate the marketplace for AIs that curate those ideas to be complete.

I don't know about this. Interesting proposal. I don't normally take a cynical view, but humans are emotional creatures, otherwise these dishonest mechanisms of generating engagement wouldn't work. In such a system it is likely that the most emotionally motivating algorithms would win.

Beyond that, why does one company need to make multiple algorithms? Why do we need a law to enforce this? Why don't we just have any company able to make any product they like and let people decide?

We have that now of course. And the problem I laid out with this is plainly obvious on the internet today. People are picking the algorithm that generates in them the most emotional reaction. But I suggest that these algorithms fail in the marketplace by a different mechanism: they inevitably lead to the state we are in now, where people become disillusioned with the control of information flow (and other problems associated with the curation algorithms), and people move to other websites with other algorithms.

In the past couple of years we have seen an explosion of alternatives, some echo chambers, some failed but genuine attempts, some sizeable competitors, some in the pipe. There is a large and fast growing diaspora from the big websites. Essentially what I'm saying is, what you want is happening now without any intervention, and everything is as it should be.
My OnePlus 7 Pro came with a "recommended" "buffer" in the box. It needs it.
> Pretty much every other language has regular spelling

That may be true for Chinese or Japanese phonetic alphabets (e.g. pinyin, bopomofo, hiragana, katakana, etc.) but literacy demands mastery of characters as well.

Although many characters have phonetic elements, it is essentially impossible to know how to write a word correctly in hanzi/kanji without knowing the component characters.

Among European languages, French seems to have challenging spelling, and there appear to be spelling bees for foreign learners at least. Dutch also seems to have had a spelling/dictation contest until recently.
LOL, I forgot how few safety measure startups have in place.
That is a simple but clever technique. These sorts of approaches feel like they will be part of a more formalized software engineering profession.
> I urge everyone to think three times before you pile on to a Twitter mob or urge suicide on the target of a mob attack (thanks @ilyasu and @matrixpartners).

JFC, the guy who told him to commit suicide tries to act like he's the victim and defends himself by claiming he was just part of the mob, and didn't know who he was telling to kill themself. Nice to know he thinks it's fine to urge strangers to commit suicide.
Consider releasing it under the GPLv3 and I'll definitely check it out!
sigh

Must you really draw conclusions about the suitability of PostgreSQL or MySQL for all users based on your limited perspective/niche needs?

> If you're a developer, a database is just a database.

[screams internally]
I had an iPhone 6 or 6S Plus for a couple years a while back, and since then I haven’t ever needed to use a case. I just got so used to using my phone with both hands, and two phones later I’ve never needed a repair.

Of course, as soon as I post this, I’m probably going to break it. But the caseless life does exist!
Does the database name value allow specifying a host as part of it?
That's ironic coming from the nyt, with their heavily biased front page. Even people who agree 100% with the nyt's point of view should be offended by it. I'm more interested in facts than confirmation bias of what I believe. I don't consider them a reliable source of news.

Note that an article can be disinformation even if all the information in the article is correct - by simply cherry-picking which facts to present. An example from several years ago: "Half of All Corporations Paid No Income Tax" which was factually correct. Another fact omitted from the many articles on this was "half of all corporations lost money". Income tax is not owed when losing money.
Typing this on my encased S20 Ultra, which makes the iPhones look heavily bezeled: I don't think so.
The story the GP linked begins with Fox News confirming another party on the email chain corroborates at least that set of emails.

> One of the people on an explosive email thread allegedly involving Hunter Biden has corroborated the veracity of the messages, which appear to outline a payout for former Vice President Joe Biden as part of a deal with a Chinese energy firm.
Are Elections Random?
You really don't. I haven't used a case on for more than a total of a month in the last ten years. Even with dropping my phone fairly frequently, and sometimes onto concrete from head height, I've only had one phone receive more than minor cosmetic scratches.
Ask HN: Why London Software Engineer Pay is so much lower than in US?
I have been a quant developer in London for the past 5 years. When I look my salary and bounus it is about 50% compared to new grads in US. Why US has such a high pay and do you think it is worth the move? I am a British Citizen, does that mean I have to have a h1b visa as well?
How was the build quality at pickup? Any major defects?
When groups of people develop software, you get software that represents the group and it's dynamics (Conway's law). I think it's mostly because of the people who wrote the software, and what priorities they had when working on it.
Prescient reminder of someone being murdered because of their application of free speech from today: https://www.ft.com/content/51fdc6f1-15ef-4dfb-949c-1b1d18601...

https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2020/10/17/attentat-d...

> "In the name of Allah, the most merciful, the most merciful, (...) to Macron, the leader of the infidels, I ' executed one of your hellhounds who dared to belittle Muhammad, calm his fellow human beings before a harsh punishment is inflicted on you.
Do you have details? A quick glance here shows low positive test rates in the countries that seem to be doing the best. Low positive test rates seem like adequate testing.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing
> Companies that make their money selling ads

Which includes...the New York Times. And all other media companies.

> This business model should be illegal. It's already trivially unethical.

By this criterion, pretty much all newspapers that have ever existed should be illegal. Also pretty much all TV channels. If this is a problem, it's been a problem since long before Facebook and Twitter.
A shocking amount, but in a many cases its also what doesn't exist, or isn't optimized. C is designed to be a lowest common denominator language.

So, the whole flat memory model, large register machines, single stack registers. When you look at all the things people think are "crufty" about x86, its usually through the lenses of "modern" computing. Things like BCD, fixed point, capabilities, segmentation, call gates, all the odd 68000 addressing modes, etc. Many of those things that were well supported in other environments but ended up hindering or being unused by C compilers.

On the other side you have things like inc/dec two instructions which influence the idea of the unary ++ and -- rather than the longer more generic forms. So while the latency of inc is possibly the same as add, it still has a single byte encoding.
the business owner from the article talks about how she likes influencers as customers. That's what i based it on. Maybe im wrong. it doesnt really matter who asks who.

As for why the 150 euro pp place in amsterdam gets targeted, it is extraordinarily expensive for the area (most places there are like 30 pp). The influencers likely want in on this exclusivity. maybe the margins are potentially wide enough to afford a few freebies, as well.
Keep finding it funny we keep repeating making all the Flash related demos with the non-Flash frameworks :)
Don't compare the whole world to private property. When someone comes along and complains "Hey you censored my post" their response amounts to "We control over what is acceptable on our site". At that point haven't they just taken responsibility for all the content on their site? I suppose they could claim they're going to censor certain things on certain high profile accounts as a policy for [reasons]. Maybe?
Maybe the way we calculate "real cost" is wrong?
It's probable that Esperanto speakers speak more clearly because:
a) that's the purpose of speaking the language, and,
b) there are few conversations between two fully fluent speakers; even if you are fluent, you can't expect your conversation partner to be.

Spanish does have phonetic spelling, but is also likely to have more elision in every-day speech.

Native speakers know and use what is understood without needing to be said, from non-verbal cues.
A great article from a friend of mine that brought up thoughts on responsible use of statistics and public perception of statistical models vs qualitative analysis.

I've really appreciated the wording in fivethirtyeight's election forecasting, with an emphasis on the frequentist interpretation of "Biden has an x/100 shot of winning", since I think it's the easiest to formalize in a way that the average US citizen without a mathematical background would understand.
> There is still no reason in principle why English couldn't have chosen a more regular system of spelling, especially at a time where literacy was low anyway.

I mentioned that farther downthread. The original Webster's dictionary served exactly this purpose - in the early 1800s, his stated goal (IIRC) was to give the new USA a standardized language to help differentiate it from the country they'd split off from. Also mentioned downthread, he based his standardization on the languages the words were loaned from.
> r/TeslaMotors has plenty of real criticism of the car

Autopilot-barrier-lust posts are quietly removed, for example, My X Tried to Kill Me Today! A reminder for all you auto pilot drivers ... [1]

That issue was introduced in April 2018,

> Well, even AP2 didn't do this until a few weeks ago when they completely changed the algorithm. So what even counts as "AP1" or "AP2" if they can change everything on you overnight? [2]

Then there is "Phantom braking" which began happening in October 2016. A week ago Elon said it is "fixed" and when a user says it isn't, a mod jumps in to say,

> Sometimes I don’t think he really knows what is getting pushed to the fleet at that moment. [3]

The biggest forum for discussing something should not be moderated as if it were a fan club.

[1] https://new.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/hslr3z/my_x_tr...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/8a0jfh/autopil...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/j7jvms/elon_mu...
The correct answer here is accelerationism. Let the web get bad. Let everyone hate FAANG. Good. That makes things ripe for disruption. We need a technology that replaces web browsers, period; they're terrible, slow, inefficient, bloated, and it's not because of the browser, it's because of what it's trying to do.

A new open remote application system is what is called for here. Something that truly learns from what the Web lacked and builds these things in as part of the platform from day 1.

- Form, table widgets that don't suck
- Sane layout engine
- Fast, optionall-type-safe language that doesn't need a million build tools that always break
- Easy ways to host your own content without any central authority beyond the DNS

I sincerely believe this can and will be done at some point and a decent group of people will get back an Internet experience that died in the early 00s - and I don't mean from a UX standpoint, I mean from a personal standpoint. We need to be able to create and host our own content without middlemen but without a barrier to entry that causes people to need to be a programmer to use it.
> And yet what?

And yet everyone speaks in their own dialects, pronunciation, many places have their own twists on grammar etc (RP is an accent, so grammar isn't relevant when discussing RP). Let me quote myself from my original answer:

--- start quote ---

"Standardising a language" never works. Prescriptivism rarely does because languages are living things and evolve no matter how many rules you throw at them.

--- end quote ---

So, Britain has standardised English. Did it work? Well, not really, almost everyone keeps speaking in their own way. As for government speeches... Here's SNP's Ian Blackford in the House of Commons (not government, but still, a high-ranking politician) [1]. And I believe Americans, Australians and New Zealanders have no problem understanding their politicians despite English not being standardised.

As for TV. Have you ever watched British TV outside BBC News programs (which traditionally, but not necessarily use a "BBC accent" which also changes with time)? Just a few samples: Big Narstie Show [2], Eastenders [3], and, yes, BBC News (around 10:02 mark, 16:30) [4] Or even something like this [5], but this is an extreme example.

All that despite English having been standardised for more than a century.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiE9f8jM4SE

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDmGAlRMIS0

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR2BEQKMyJ4

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcBt_klPbAw

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le_uNGdpa4c
Though it makes sense for phones to have a cheap shell that you can swap instead of the $1000 device itself taking damage. The alternative is to build insulation and bumpers into the case that you can't swap. I don't think that's better.

I tried to go caseless back when I was 22 and thought anyone would care how pretty my phone was, but it was slippery and accumulated damage for no reason. My next phone, I kept a case on it and when I sold it after a few years, it looked good as new.

I suppose something that's going to live in a case has no real need to be so beautiful. But it's also a luxury consumer good, so "we cut some corners, so it's ugly, but it's in a case anyways amiright?" isn't really the best marketing message. Also, clear cases seem quite popular for those who do want to show it off.
He embarrassed himself with Nate Silver, Stephen Pinker, and most other disputes I've ever seem him wage. Not to mention being notoriously moody on twitter, and cozying up to alt-right trolls. If you are just relying on the supposed credibility of Taleb, you are relying on nothing.
We promise, we're only going to ban """"hate speech""""!

Oh wait, who decides what "hate speech" is?
What are you saying? If they make thicker phone then case is not needed?
It has a bit of delay. And that's why I prefer native vs web applications when performance and end user experience is paramount. This effect is implemented in ZBrush for decades now, on lesser hardware with no delay between mouse movements. Currently web applications just reinvent the wheel from old desktop ones.
So your argument for censorship is that the story how they got the data is made up and therefore the data should be hidden from the public?
You know there are thousands of reasons why such a story was made up. Maybe to cover up that they where illegally obtained or whatever. These stories are the default other than a simple "anonymous source".
Anyway the media and the people do not need to care how the data was obtained. We are not using them as evidence in court or anything the like. It only matter if its true and in no way can censorship help figuring that out.
Also the evidence that the data is legit is overwhelming.