skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good question and it's not clear. As someone mentioned, here "chance" includes both uncertainty (facts that we don't know), and randomness of nature (things that will happen in the future that cannot be deterministically deduced from the state of the world today). Depending on your philosophy these may overlap. Next, someone mentioned Bayesian vs frequentist.

The frequentist interpretation is roughly that if I go around making my best possible predictions, and we lump together all the things that I predict at 10%, about 1 in 10 of those things happen and the rest don't. But I wouldn't be able to be more specific about which ones in that group are more likely than others.

The Bayesian interpretation is that I can really view the world as flipping coins -- I don't care whether it's due to my lack of knowledge or "true" randomness -- and as far as I can tell, the coin flip involved here is 1 in 10.

We can also use a gambling interpretation. Here's one based on security of python's random module. Imagine the following three lotteries I offer you. In lottery A, you get $100 if Trump is elected. In lottery B, you get $100 if the following python code returns true on my laptop:

random.random() <= 0.09999

In lottery C, you get $100 if this code returns true:

random.random() <= 0.10001

If you would rather have lottery A than B, and you'd rather have C than A, then in some sense that you believe Trump has a 1 in 10 chance.

Now there's an interesting extra layer to all of this because it's a model predicting, not a person. In a short space, I would basically say that we've trained models to predict in ways that are not inconsistent with any of the interpretations above, when put into situations where that is testable. Then we use them in situations where it might not be, like this.
This should be an Among Us crewmate task.
Hype ware. I still use and prefer c++ for numerous reasons
If JavaScript numbers work up to 2^52 that could precisely represent $45 trillion in cents.

IMHO if they had a choice between dropping Javascript support in preference of languages with BigInt support, or dropping support for payments larger than $45 trillion, they probably made the right decision.
If this were legal, any communications program that was used for a disputable action once (so each browser), could be closed off from the public as well.

No, because that's not the test under 1201. The test is whether the tool is designed and/or offered for the purpose of circumventing copyright. If it's designed for other purposes but can incidentally circumvent copyright, that's fine. (For example: calibre is designed to organize ebook libraries, and offers itself for that purpose. They make no mention of the separate plugins that can be used to crack Amazon DRM.)
Concise and Consistent Naming (2006, pdf)
> First off, he recanted on that, in particular after actually seeing or meeting people to whom it happened.

Yes, I pointed out his backtracking on that.

> After all, if they're going to be your enemy, you might as well know them for what they really are that you don't underestimate them.

I don't think of Stallman as an enemy, just a very creepy guy who happened to make some important contributions. Regardless of his backpedaling, I would have extreme reservations about leaving him unsupervised around children. That doesn't mean his ideas were all bad, just that he shouldn't be put on a pedestal. Lots of great ideas came from very flawed people.

- Fritz Haber is responsible for the Haber process that unlocked atmospheric nitrogen for use in fertilizer, and saved multitudes from starvation. He was also responsible for horrific suffering thanks to his other project, chemical weapons.

- Hans Reiser was a brilliant engineer who created a widely used linux filesystem. He's also a convicted murderer.

- Wernher von Braun was a brilliant rocket maker who was responsible in large part for putting Americans on the moon. He was also a Nazi who made weapons that killed many innocent civilians.
Is it really that hard to believe that iOS users do more searches than Android users?
> And that’s the sort of thing that most news organizations would gate reporting on.

I don't think that's true. The Steele Dossier ("Trump pays Russian Hookers in Moscow to pee on him") wasn't treated special in any way, and it was much more questionable at the time than this story (where the unclear part is what they got for their bribes, not whether they payed his son for access to the VP). Of course, one argument might be "we've learned from our mistakes", but I believe that's a bit too obvious.

> I dunno; there’s an interesting discussion here if you can tone down the fire in your belly about conspiracies.

I don't think it needs a conspiracy theory, the coordination was very public. That there's political corruption in the US is also not news, it's the reason why children of politicians are making giant sums of money, politicians being paid tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars to give a speech etc. That's normal, there's not much to be found, I believe.

Discussion of the suppression is not encouraged here: even a story about the suppression of the story was pretty much immediately suppressed on HN.
It is very fault tolerant over evolutionary and geologic time scales. The question is what the very short term effects might be and how it may impact us.

As George Carlin said, we need to stop framing these issues as “saving the Earth.” The Earth will be fine. This is about saving ourselves.

Same goes for climate change. The Earth has been very warm in the past, even ice free. The Earth will be fine. The question is whether the >10 billion humans that may be on it as climate change starts to really manifest will be fine.
Despite a foray into chemistry in my past I find this article prohibitively difficult to fully internalize beyond a superficial understanding and I would really appreciate it if someone in the field could explain what the study shows.
I'm in strong agreement with this summary.

Although I don't write Go so much anymore, I had the benefit of working in Go for a few years on a team that developed a strongly shared style. A few years later, one of those team members sent me a package they had been working on, and it was an absolute breeze to understand in comparison to the Rust and TypeScript I had been working on. This is not to knock on Rust or TypeScript, as there are absolutely solutions that are better expressed in those languages, but if I'm honest, the vast majority of software is "plumbing" - get data, manipulate data, put data - and Go is an extremely pragmatic choice for this in my opinion.

A few other thoughts...

I really don't take issue with `if err != nil` and though I like Monadic types, I'll take errors as values over exceptions 100% of the time.

I've also written a lot of CLIs and Go's build process here is superb.

I think the Go community has a strong testing culture, and although I like BDD, the work put into the std test tooling has really helped form that.
Individuals can make the problem get worse more slowly, which can buy time for public policy to come into effect.
I'm using a tiling window manager on Mac
Pure propaganda. Shame on the self described journalist for partaking in this propaganda.
What if I want a minimalist phone that isn't cheap? So far my options are Light Phone and Punkt. MP-02. Not everyone is so tethered to consumption that they want all that stuff on their person at all times, but quality is still worth pursuing. I use calls, SMS, MMS, and data tethering. Sometimes an alarm clock. I don't want any of that other stuff, and I'd pay a lot for a good, high quality phone that focuses on the baseline and doesn't require me to offload everything to some megacorporation.
Running Node.js on iOS and iPadOS via iSH
Apple already has patents to block recording of concerts iirc
If those env vars weren't set screen-sharing with xdpw would be broken as a whole because pipewire wouldn't invoke it, which wasn't the case. Other applications like that one python gstreamer script could access xdpw just fine, and Firefox and Chromium could screen-share in other websites (like Mozilla's gUM test page) just fine; the only one broken was Teams.
No, it's our old friend Weißbach:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605...

The PV EROI numbers could use an update pretty much everywhere. I have some ballpark-corrected numbers that I keep in my head but the academic literature badly lags industry. You can read a "new" solar EROI paper in 2020 and after dereferencing all its citation pointers find it's still using key numbers from 2008. Thinner cells, lower kerf loss, polysilicon reactor optimization, crystal growing optimization, higher cell efficiency (PERC), bifaciality, and the increasing prevalence of single axis trackers mean that a state of the art solar farm in 2020 has significantly better EROI than the same capacity farm in the same place in 2010. But industry cares about costs, not EROI, and academics who write about EROI seem to lack the will to gather numbers from current industrial practice.

I also occasionally suspect that good solar EROI analysis doesn't happen because people are anchored to previous conclusions. Whether that's nuclear promoters or deep green/"degrowth" types. Both would like to say "there is no alternative" to their visions of the future and a high solar EROI would demonstrate an inconvenient alternative. Or just inattentive grad students and advisors who assume current EROI numbers should be in line with older ones.
The dmca.mp4 file is a video of performance art in which about eight women in fancy dresses chant while vigorously mimicking male masturbation. I didn't watch to the end, but the activity appears to go on for a full ten minutes, and I bet there's a suitable finale.

Presumably this is a "fuck you" to the DMCA law.

EDIT: there is unfortunately no "suitable finale."
> Nothing has really replaced it, and Apples most popular current platform now would forbid anything with equivalent functionality.

I think a lot of us will agree that it's a shame Apple allowed Hypercard to wither and die. What you might not know -- and what I only learned about a year ago -- is that there was an effort within Apple's Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) to make more of the whole system (and programming generally) "Hypercard-like" called SK8 [1]. It seems like it was received with confused stares from the more traditional developers in the company. And, as with much of the really interesting ATG work, it was tossed out eventually.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK8
This takedown notice is clearly wrongful. The copyrighted works are music videos that are not copied in the repository's code, and links are non-infringing (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_10,_Inc._v._Amazon.com.... )

DMCA simply does not entitle rightsholders to demand third-party removal of a computer program that contains links to copyrighted content. The proper remedy is to sue the youtube-dl team and get injunctive relief.
> restoring the natural order

that sounds weird, of course human influence massively things, but you can't just decide on how to restore the "natural" state like this, it may be even worse by trying to do something brutally.

The good honeybees vs the bad hornets or wasps. It's much more complex. There are articles about how wild bees do a better job at pollination https://www.google.com/search?q=wild+bees+vs+honey+bees+poll..., wasps similarly play a huge role, for example with fruit trees (figs is the best example)
Papers like this remind me how insanely complicated biological systems are; it's amazing how much work has to go into identifying something like this.

Hope this and other research yield some effective methods for treating the virus.
Most important comment in the thread IMO.
Re. Go 2. The Go Team people have repeatedly said that they
want to avoid the Python 3 situation, so even if there will
be a real, compatibility breaking Go 2, it won't be anywhere
near that level of incompatibility. They'll probably just
fix a few nits like string(int).

Re. C. You really should use at least one static analyser
when programming in C. Clang-tidy has been my go-to tool
for that, and it's been working pretty good.
> And if there's a security problem with something isn't hacking around with it because people need it a really strong indication that the idea is broken and probably making the situation worse?

If there’s a security problem and people are hacking around it, that’s an indication that the either those people have bad needs, or that the security model is flawed — but it’s not an indication that it’s wrong to attempt to secure that resource in the first place.

If a janitor needs the nuclear-missile launch codes to clean the missile silo, you’ve probably fucked something up — but that “something” isn’t the fact that the missile silo doors are code-locked. (Instead, it’s probably 1. the fact that you’re using the same credentials for physical missile access as you are for missile launch, and 2. the fact that your regular janitor is expected to clean the missile silo.)

In this case, the security model of Wayland is the same kind that Windows and Android already have: preventing “low-integrity” apps from screen-scraping “high-integrity” apps. In other words, preventing a random webpage running in Chrome from stealing your credit card details sitting visibly in a sibling text-editor window.

(Or, of course, preventing you from Twitch-streaming your playback of DRMed Netflix video. That’s a use-case that “needs supporting” too, given that the alternative is that type of video not playing back on the platform at all.)
I'm going to come out and risk getting downvoted but I strongly dislike it. I haven't used it in a few years so maybe some of these things have been fixed.

- Type system sucks

- No decent package management system or dependency system

- No generics

- error handling is horrible.

... My fav lang right now is Typescript... You can do frontend stuff, backend stuff (with node). Great tool support, etc.
Why can't "oh, you're wearing a mask, to protect me!" be a "positive daily human interaction"? Perhaps we're just mis-framing things?
> We're always going to be subject to the influences of what environment we live inside of.

Houses, heating, cooling make us resilient to outside temperature and weather changes, advanced construction makes us resilient to earthquakes, etc. etc.

There are people working on plans to colonise Mars - while that might not be viable in the short term - we are talking about making an environment without an atmosphere suitable for life - and there's no reason why this shouldn't be achievable. Reducing reliance on systems such as plants requiring bees for pollination should be trivial in comparison.
A book on Java was written to teach you Java, so it would be foolish to claim any copyright on your program.
I had the exact same experience. Got my shares and bailed.
yes. For example, my wife hosts a weekly videochat with our friends.
maybe he should
Thanks. LMK know if you can't for some reason, I'd like to fix that if that is the case
The Fortran people that I know, including me, have since switched to Julia. There's the same MPI, code optimization, AD, etc. tools but just in an easier higher level JIT compiled package. There's also some more things to play around with in the compiler since in theory JIT compilation can be used to give additional accelerations that cannot be done without run time information.

That doesn't mean everyone switched, but it seems to be a good chunk of PDE codes, climate models, astrophysical models, etc. But Fortran is by no means a bad language: I think it's quite a great language if you don't need interactivity.
The NYT constantly embellishes like this, it's a really shitty part of its style. If you want to add information, don't infix it within a description of the Justice Department's argument. At least put the editorial in a different paragraph, if not the editorial section.
Mental health issues don't allow for rational thinking. Victims of mental illness may also feel emotional pain in ways that non-sufferers cannot comprehend. I have always had a "tough guy" mentality toward my feelings. I suppress them. I think when others know who I am or how I think it's a weakness in business. Some leaders think its helpful. Either way, I don't feel emotional pain the same way others feel it.

How do I know this? I've been around someone close to me who suffers from mental illness for most of my life. This is someone who can feel words in ways that most people feel getting shot. That person has been bed ridden for months because of something that was said to them years ago.

They didn't choose to feel that way. They have tried therapy and drugs but to no avail so far.

They wish they didn't feel that way but they do.

Criticizing this persons work, car, reactions, clothes, etc... will cause a massive disruption in their life.

If their information was leaked I can tell you they would seriously contemplate suicide over the public awareness.

I hope the people who released this rot in hell for what they did. They took some of the most vulnerable people and quite likely will cause them to snap causing that mental pain to release into others lives. Innocent people will suffer because of this data breach.
Goal shift much? My point here has been to point out that gnome is the benchmark that matters most. That one side seems bent on ignoring that is baffling to me.

Sadly, for the most part I have been discouraged from Linux desktop usage in recent years. Shame, as I have been on Linux for a couple of decades now. That said, I confess this is opening my interest. Would love to get myself and my children contributing, and I will start looking for ways to make that possible.
Entirely agreed. I'm relatively new to Go, but it strikes me as very much like a modern C.

But, personally, C can get really tedious.
Physicist Edward Witten, on the trail of universal truth Interview with Genius
Links to copyrighted content is non-infringing. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_10,_Inc._v._Amazon.com....
No, most people who post good videos don't respond to e-mail.

Probably just due to the different industries, but every time I've asked a presenter at a legal conference for a video they have been overjoyed that someone would want a copy. 100% yes rate, except for the presenter at a CLE conference (and in that case, the video was available through the conference organizer).

I can't be bothered to deal with e-mailing National Geographic and Coyote Peterson and Smarter Everyday and their ilk and pray that they'll send me a high-res video file. They probably won't.

And yet that is what copyright law generally requires. "Convenience" isn't a valid justification for fair use.

My use of youtube-dl is legit as far as the copyright claims of video creators go. I'm not reusing or redistributing their content without permission.

No, actually you mentioned a number of infringing uses that wouldn't be protected as fair use except for the training bits.

But the issue for youtube-dl is different: as a tool, the question is whether it is designed to infringe copyright, and the answer thus far appears to be that it is, especially given that they explicitly design for and test this ability.

What it may come down to (if this gets to court) may be the percentage of the user base that uses it for legitimate purposes and the percentage that doesn't. If they can't show that a substantial portion of the userbase uses it for downloading stuff other than RIAA licensed videos, youtubedl is DOA.
In Finland, burnout is not considered a valid reason for sick leave. Depression is, so people are only given sick leave if they accept that diagnosis and medication.
Can't say for the rest, but Symfony 2 was a resounding success. Current Symfony 5 is very similar to Symfony 2, with just a ton of refinements and facelifts.
What is this strawman that you are attacking even proposing? Since you’re not replying to anyone or even quoting it seems like a vague bogeyman that hates nature?
I’m downloading it right now, I’ll try to come back and let you know what it looks like.

Also the dmca.mp4 is a video of like 5 or 10 people singing into microphones while pretending to jack off
You are conflating market share with internet usage share.
I wonder what Evan You's position on this is today. I use and have been productive with a couple smaller libs (Preact, Mithril, Hyperapp) and never felt I was making major tradeoffs. I suppose everyone can have very different use-cases of course.
> I think once you do the math

> Literally forgetting to turn the light off in your bathroom twice a month

8h * 5W * 2 = 80Wh per month

(Unless you're talking about using incandescent light bulbs, which would be like using a 4mpg vehicle in a discussion about average vehicle efficiency. Personally I think a 3W LED is better than a 5W, but I know most people disagree.)

Our main bathroom light draws, I'd guess, 0.1W. It shows up as 0.0 with a kill-a-watt so I don't really know. And it's only used for about half an hour a day at most.

> a super-committed, hour-every-day stationary-bike-using person

60W * 1 * 30 = 1800Wh per month

So no, forgetting to turn a light bulb off for an entire night, twice a month, does not waste more electricity than that gained by a cyclist who is capturing their electricity.

I think it's a great hack to turn this machine into an electrical generator.
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Is there a push to label more people as mentally ill? From what I’ve seen, the push to destigmatize mental health is done to avoid labeling and treat mental health the way we treat general health. For example, treat stress and anxiety as health concerns whereby you can/should take time off if you need to recover from stress as you would a cold. Or, if having difficulty reducing your stress, to see a therapist without any social stigma.
This is a good point. Circumvention is defined in a different chapter[0] than copyright infringement, and there is no language to imply that circumvention is copyright infringement.

Besides that, there are requirements in 1201 that YouTube and youtube-dl might not meet.

* The technological measure being circumvented must be "effective". There is a possibility that YouTube's poorly encrypted URLs might not meet that bar. E.g. they evidently don't work that well, and only the URL is encrypted, not the copyrighted work.

* Since you can freely receive a copy of the work by ordinarily visiting YouTube, it's pretty questionable that the measures control access at all. E.g. Region restricted videos are blocked based on IP, not using this measure, and so youtube-dl can't download them.

* "use" isn't a right restricted by copyright. There generally isn't a distinction between a copyrighted work that your computer transiently stores or saves (e.g. streaming vs. download). The violation would be in a license that you agreed to that specified additional restrictions beyond those offered by copyright (e.g. TOS violations).

* youtube-dl has to be primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumvention. That seems a little far-fetched since I think it might predate YouTube's technological measures.

0: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
My bad, it isn't.

It is however privacy and non-distraction/advertising focused. Makes sense it costs money (it is free, but the killer feature Tree Tile costs money).
It pretty much means nothing. These sort of models produced wrong result again and again. For me the biggest question mark if that if we know that recent (last 5) elections were very close how can you predict somebody winning with 93% chance? Maybe I do not understand something here.
The syntax is complicated and the debugging is messy.

Said another way: writing is ugly, and reading is inscrutable.

I'm not sure there's strong evidence (certainly none presented) about performance, etc