skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One more step towards reddit becoming unusable. This whole thing started with the redesign (yes, I know old.reddit.com is still accessible).
The hypothetical company holding the patent will argue that they are suffering financial damage, so they are losing something.

I think the dogs are a bit of a red herring here, drug patents are generally accepted by most of society, and it's patenting a natural process that happens when you throw the correct chemicals together under the correct circumstances. The "it's just chemicals reacting, nobody loses anything, nobody is hurt" argument will not get you anywhere.
I would hardly call that a rant. And I would hardly call a deeply buried source reference the kind of collegial social acknowledgement he was hoping for. So perhaps, as somebody very concerned about inaccuracy, you could correct your errors here?
I guess they are. It would just be nice if they paused and check they made that judgement based on what they actually read, instead of the initial emotion they felt while reading.
> A social platform that makes information more accessible to people is a threat to democracy?

The problem is that the platform does not make all information available equally. Instead, it uses algorithms to prioritize displaying certain information over the other (sometimes in direct contradiction with the user's wishes, where their friend's posts are ranked lower in the feed in favour of some unrelated bullshit).

Ultimately the problem is not just Facebook but the whole business model of advertising and engagement. Now this normally wouldn't be that big of a deal if people were aware of it and alternatives existed, but people seem to be oblivious to it (and the mismatch between their interests and Facebook's) and network effects make starting an alternative impossible (plus Facebook would abuse copyright laws to shut down any alternative services that would interoperate with them).
Consider this draconian set of micromanagement rules, combined with GitLab’s deeply unfair way of recalibrating salary based on where you live (even if you already work there, creating value for the company in a way that reflects your current salary, it will still get adjusted if you relocate, regardless of whether the value you add stays the same).

GitLab sounds like a truly awful place to work.
Or, no divers inspecting the pillars and foundations against erosion. It was easy to get complacent in the old days, after the Engineer died, and just assume the old monuments were eternal.
Yeah, well, fuck the whole thing.

So this guy fired a college buddy who chose to work for him instead of a better-paying job. "I believed in you". And the story just moves on, like it's a colour detail to the whole thing?

Does this person get a royal severance package? Does the struggling CEO help them land on their feet? That's the kind of stuff I want to know.

With those little details left out, it's just another powerful individual complaining about how hard it is to be powerful and wealthy.

I'm trying to think of ways to make this comment more even-keeled and less likely to be downvoted, but I honestly can't. This kind of stuff bothers me to my bones, and while I definitely support this guy being honest, so much, because I do care about mental health, I can't get past the "here's my hero story, forget about the consequences for the small guys" aspect of it.
No kidding. I imagined Google or DDG would turn "multiple messages in a single TCP package" into something useful, since it's basically the description of the algorithm. But no luck. The best I got was somebody with an IO buffering problem in Stack Overflow that commented that he turned the algorithm off.
I did provide some examples at the end of the post. He could honor people doing racial justice work, rather than attacking them. He could stop stoking fear of immigrants and tell the truth about them, which is that they tend to be more educated and more determined than average. He could insist on full investigations of police violence toward black people, rather than equivocating. But he doesn't actually do substantive work on race.

So yeah, I call it lip service.
Same here! I am forwarding this article to all my coworkers!

I am currently using the Allwinner V3s, and the review is covering this part accurately.
The argument is more nuanced than that. It's not about "making information more accessible".

The problem is that the social media architecture as it is, is optimizing for engagement by any means necessary. That's how their incentives are aligned. They need eyeballs to sell to advertisers, so all A/B tests and all algorithms are constantly being changed to increase the amount of time people spend on the platform, join the platform or engage with others on the platform.

This pressure, as has been extensively studied, has lead to the system promoting content that it predicts will lead to many likes/retweets/engagement. But, there's no pressure or incentive on the algorithms to promote health or true engagement.

What happens? People get infected with false worldviews, get shown things that will have them engage with the platform, but which are not true. They are shown things that piss them off to drive engagement.

This is not "information sharing" this is a machine that is optimized to have people spend time on its pages, no matter what it has to show on that page to get people to do that.
"So much of todays social web is built on men spending a lot of time and resources on women, what happens when that stops?"

More people wind up with lovers that are their friends and/or equals instead of an object to be doted on.

But in all reality, people aren't going to simply stop pursuing people and you assume that a pill is going to reverse attraction instead of enhancing it. Bi- and pan-sexual are actual things. I know this from personal experience, and I didn't need a pill to figure this out. By your logic, though, I guess I'd be attracted to... no one?
> An engineer saw there was some useful code.

This is full clone of the original project, not "some code".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%A9delon_Castle

Wow. That's a cool project to show how the alien's were not necessarily needed. I've seen attempts at this for the construction of pyramids, but those only really show how moving large stones with human motors were possible.
The code may not be based on their code, but I don't see how you can have an emulation of X that isn't based on X. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but there's nothing stopping them from including some of the other forms. Plus a little gratitude, maybe.
Do you have a citation for Cruise being at Level 4? I’m very skeptical of that. Friends of mine at Cruise have privately told me they’re still working towards Level 4.

I think the NHTSA documentation is also insufficiently precise.
WiGLE: Wireless Network Mapping
seriously good marketing, actually.

Here we are deep into a comment thread about a completely different company and you are spreading elon's message about the price chance of his product for free.

thats a genius move by musk.
m lowercase also means meters, but in the context of a discussion of dollars I figured it’s obvious what m would mean, lower or upper case.
I would like to add that additive manufacturing is still in its infancy, and that there are structures that pay large strength dividends which are impossible to manufacture any other way, such as 3-dimensional honeycombs, which haven't made their way into standard engineering practice yet. But there may come a point where the available design space is so much better that it's worth sacrificing some strength in the material itself.
Are we to believe that it takes 5kWh to transfer 1GB of data? My media server runs under 500W, so could operate for over 10 hours before hitting this and download terabytes of data. Even other machines needed to facilitate the connection can't explain a 1000x discrepancy.

My guess is that the author confused kWh with Wh at some point.
PolyForm Shield License – Protect against AWS hosting your software
> Unfortunately, because Mozilla is too busy improving the world instead of their browser and WebMIDI is not supported on Firefox you have to use Chrome

Attention Mozilla
Suppose humans are biologically disadvantaged in an arena of information abundance. Suppose it turns out we are hopelessly vulnerable. Suppose it turns out desires and our biases our meta-cognitive processes leaving us wide open to being exploited by ruthless actors driven by hidden agendas.

What now?
In the end, I think the main issue here is that algorithms are designed to show you what you're likely to engage with. FB actually does have pretty good tools to limit what you see in your feed. Making use of the "Hide this Post" (or whatever it's called) on my own FB feed has all but eliminated all political ads or any of the stuff in my feed that I'm not interested, i.e. anything that's not about my friends' lives. That functionality needs to be MUCH more prominent, IMHO. The ease of sharing and retweeting also means that little or no effort is required to propagate whatever you come across.

Even without the algorithms, people will essentially do that work themselves. There's a reason Fox News, Breitbart, and these types of "news" sources are popular. People are comfortable when their beliefs are reinforced and not challenged. I don't think this is a conscious action, but it happens nevertheless.

My anecdote here is my father-in-law. He's glued to Fox News, right wing podcasters, and the like. He's as up to date on every bit of news propagated by those sites as anyone I know that's regularly on Facebook.
I'm confused with your first point?

> No concept of source packages. There is only a binary cache (hydra) and the derivations in nixpkgs.

NixOS _Only_ has a concept of source packages. The cache is a (sound) optimisation om top of it. just disable the binary cache and you can build all packages from source.
Regrettably it's not working on Firefox[1], but hey at least I can report wrongthink YouTube videos.

[1] https://pianojacq.com/firefox.html
This will not teach you to play piano. It will teach you how to play beginner piano badly, and then will create intense confusion if you try to learn harder pieces because you will not have learned basic finger techniques - which include counter-intuitive finger-over/under moves and unexpected hand position changes that anticipate what you need to play next.

Piano sheet music includes these finger position hints. Unfortunately they're not optional.

It's hard to include correct fingering in the model without some kind of camera and image recognition system, or special keys and finger sensors, or something equally obscure.

There's nothing wrong with the idea of gameifying piano, but it's a really hard problem to solve well. The usual result with piano teaching apps of all kinds - as someone else commented below - is kids get up to Grade 1 (maybe 2) and then hit a brick wall.

The reality is that playing any instrument with non-trivial competence is really fucking hard. It takes everyone a ridiculous amount of time and effort to get good at it - even those with talent.

So there's a trade off between trying to offer easy but limited success with some entertainment value, and going the whole way and doing it properly - which all but the most musical kids get very bored by, because it's such hard work.
What got me thinking of this prediction was actually Graeber, and Tyler Cowen. Both noted some evident facts about productivity that I hadn't heard mentioned often.

Stuff that was simply "out of theory" and irrelevant to it despite seeming logically contradictory to theory. The observations about efficiency in administration in the digital age is particularly striking.

I do think Graeber tended to overstate conclusions. I actually think we understand inflation wrong, and that this becomes relevant over long time scales. Some productivity trends just overestimate reality. We haven't really become as wealthy and efficient as the measures suggest.

Another problem is non fungibility. Not owning a smartphone in 1970 is different from not owning one in 2020 in ways that we can't be quantified in dollars. You can't buy a 1960 education or 1990 healthcare. It isn't sold, and it wouldn't have the same value even if sold. It's way too complicated to dismiss with a "our expectations have gone up."
I wonder about different methods of cooking like pressure cooking vs fry or bake.
another day, another outage
> Unfortunately, because Mozilla is too busy improving the world instead of their browser and WebMIDI is not supported on Firefox you have to use Chrome
Imho Patreon is not suitable for your case.

Both Patreon and Kickstarter is oriented towards consumer goods but Sciter is a B2B product. Software-wise people use Kickstarter and Patreon for consumer goods like games where you need literally thousands of fans to be profitable.

Sciter is a really good quality software and I believe it can overtake QT in future, but I got a feeling you might want to go with VC funding and possibly change the business model.
If you paid with your credit card on your VPS you still might be in hot water.
What in my comment makes you say that?
Nim is indeed a great answer for this.

Should you want to give that script a nice, traditional CLI then you can do so with very low effort using https://github.com/c-blake/cligen

Should you want "script like" edit-test development cycle ergonomics you can use the TinyCC/tcc backend for compiles in ~200..300 milliseconds. Once it's how you like it you can compile with gcc & -d:danger for max performance in deployment.
My Experience with BlueHost
In 2016 there were an audio recording of a private conversation that happened after an interview has concluded which the recording studio later used without the permission of the recorded person.

If I remember right the basis for why that was legal was that there existed an public interests to release the recording of a private conversation to the public, and that the recording equipment were legal property of the recording studio.

Four years later and the lawyers of NBC seem to have been right on that.
Is anyone aware of a source available license that can be used/modified by others? Redis Labs won’t let others use their license.
The story of going against the spirit of a command is universal.

When I was learning Japanese, I was told this story:

Hashi : chopsticks, edge, bridge

A young monk was studying at a temple, inside the temple ground there was a garden with a bridge to an island. The senior monk told the student that he was to not cross the bridge"Hashi wa dame". Every day the young monk studies and meditated but he was not reaching enlightenment. One day, he crossed the bridge and meditated and had a vision on the island. He then share his vision with the other monks and the senior monk said to him "I told you not to cross the bridge" and the young monk replied "Master, I thought you were telling me not to walk on the edge, I went down the middle."

Both stories are very anti-establishment in nature and teach us that in order to get what we desire we may have to look for loopholes.
We currently have merge using rebase, with optional "query fixup" to reconcile changes. We are currently experimenting with various automatic fixup strategies for different use cases. We also intend to have a full git-like merge in the near future. Yes, very practical to ship with local software - it is designed for that and I think it would be possible to run with just web tech.
How do you solve the problem of displaying information equally? There is already so much noise out there anyway; Facebook recognized the need for a filter like a newsfeed. Facebook is incentivized to keep people on their platform and, therefore, the filter is not designed for the end-user. But that is still Facebook playing by the rules.

If enough people are not happy with that, then they should switch to another platform with a better filter.
You can always be eccentric, go off script and life hack Keynes' predictions into existence. However, people mostly don't and economics is about what people do.
No, the TCP_NODELAY setsockopt is not exposed by the browser.

If you only control the client then you could make your http/fetch requests as big as possible, i.e. do the Nagle algorithm yourself but at a higher level to avoid the delays, but I don't think there's not much else you can do.

Then again, if you control the server you could just run HTTP/3 to be on QUIC and then you're not on TCP any more, you would also save alot of connection handshake latency and benefit from advances in bufferbloat-sensitive congestion control algorithms much quicker.

To be fair, I would be more concerned about bufferbloat delays on small shared networks than delays due to Nagle's algorithm. Bufferbloat delays can be up to tens of seconds, and you can trigger them disturbingly easily, just have someone else in the office upload a large attachment to an email in Gmail's web client to saturate the router's send buffer, while you watch your ping times.
> A social platform that makes information more accessible to people is a threat to democracy?

That's not what Facebook does. Their algorithms don't just make information more accessible. They make you want to keep using Facebook, and the psychological levers they pull to accomplish that have side-effects on society at large.
New research could help millions who suffer from ‘ringing in the ears’
Moms Are Mad at Kraft for Sexualizing Mac and Cheese, and QAnon Is Also Involved
The lime helps the corn loosen its 'husk' as well... Nixtamalization also involves washing and husking the corn before grinding. The husk is the part that isn't digestible.
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization
I’m talking about common parlance, that would make sense to people across all disciplines, finance, software, or otherwise. If you wrote $10B, people will know it’s billion just because you’re talking about currency. If you write $10G, people will not since very few people will connect G to billion.

I also meant q for quadrillions, not a.
I think you have to put more responsibility on Facebook here. It's very much a centralized network. It's just that the people behind the network don't want the duty of being good stewards of it. Based on their actions and inaction, their values don't seem to go much further than "ad money printer goes brrrr."

They want the money and influence that comes with scale but none of the responsibility for it.
Really hard to discuss the integrity of our elected officials given the current President's penchant to lie like a marketer.
Incorrect. Amazon included the legally-required NOTICES, which isn't what he was asking for. And similarly the author did not admit any such mistake as no such mistake was made.
Two answers.

One utilitarian-- it's a smaller market.

E.g., there was story on the intercept sourcing leaked FBI documents that showed the FBI's awareness and concerns about white supremacist infiltration of local law enforcement[1]. This was to the point that the FBI was cautious about sharing access to its surveillance tools for fear that they could be used by some local LE to target and harass minorities. (Not sure if that's in the same article or a different Intercept article.)

Racist rabbitholes can draw on a pre-existing audience of racists, which make them more widespread and effective, and that attracts more ad dollars.

Two-- emphasis on "rabid." There are racist groups where the membership is people from various ethnic backgrounds spouting the stereotypical white-supremacist rhetoric. The draw is apparently aggression and violence.

If someone on the left wants to "counter" that, the video content is going to need to be equally irrational and aggressive to sufficiently capture the audience's attention. Again, you've got a smaller audience here. But the smaller audience you gain is going to be equally irrational to the far right group.

So you've got a system that optimizes for irrational, rabbit-hole ideologies (hell, it could be bigfoot or flat earth for all they care), that tends to filter out more reasoned, thoughtful content. Hell, I can't even listen to a movement of a Brahms symphony without commercials interrupting a section. Even television isn't that fucking allergic to reasoned reflection.

Talking about free speech inside such an unhealthy, anti-democratic system is about as coherent as adopting one of that system's rabid, rabbit-hole ideologies.

1: https://theintercept.com/2020/09/29/police-white-supremacist...
The null hypothesis is of course the most probable and bio is insanely hard.

But it’s not clear to me that the WHO has any credibility left.

Edit:

This is not a coded American Politics statement. Here are examples of where the WHO provided directly counterproductive recommendations:

1. Don’t wear masks (https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/03/30/worl...)

2. Don’t close borders (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says...)

3. COVID is not airborne (https://m.facebook.com/WHO/posts/3019704278074935) (pedantic takes aside you should obviously treat it is if it were)
There are strong theoretical grounds for lattice assisted fusion. The metal lattice acts to screen the deuterium atoms, and the lattice increases the overall cross section.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01685...

Unfortunately no practical mechanism for creating a self sustaining reaction has been proposed. Although the theoretical benefit has been demonstrated by heating the fuel via hot neutron bombardment.

https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.101.0...
"at least cache the latest successful build from a package version"

Tools like guix and nix aim to describe packages in such a way that for the same input (package dependencies) you get the same output.

If the output is a function of the input, and you know a cached build of a package was built with the same input, then using the cached build of a package would be the same as if you'd built it yourself.

It does depend on whether the packages are written in a "pure" way. (Or "impure", such that building with the same inputs might result in different outputs).
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2270
There are other security problems with BA going on. I would not be supprised if you soon see more headlines about them.
> Stuff like this just proves that a large part of this job is just remembering a bunch of weird data points and knowing when to match this story to that problem.

Sounds a like interns doing rounds with the chief resident.
Poor Comms …
Fascinating, downvoted for an observation on how I and a lot of people see food.
Wim Hof "Iceman" definitely gives me "cult leader" vibes but cool to see this research get published in a very reputable scientific journal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaMjhwFE1Zw
I still think it is not Facebook's responsibility to decide the best way to filter information for people because their incentive is to keep people on their platform. Those incentives do not necessarily align with providing unbiased opinions and views.

Therefore, there should be rules dictating what is allowed and what is not. Facebook or a commercial entity should not decide these rules.
Anders is a friend. We got to try this in his yard and wanted to build one too. Followed these instructions, and just got a 125 ft one installed. Our three-year-old girl squeals with delight when she zips down it.