skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what makes anyone in charge think that such a practice could possibly be welcomed by the affected shoppers?
> Facebook needs to be nationalized and regulated as a public utility

It is outrageous that the history and effects of arbitrary nationalisation is so uncommonly understood.
Even Apache Echarts works in the same way. The whole graph is declared in a JSON object.
Are we supposed to have non-movie-like memories about the past? I mean, other than remembering "knowledge" such as sentences or dates or numbers or geography, etc, it seems that all memory about my "actual life" is movie-like.
There's also pmap which is amazing, manifold & it's little deferred/event-ish universe..

Both have their place!
I followed a guide to set a seedbox up as a media server a year or two ago, and as a professional salesperson not developer it took me like an hour.

I've found that seedbox providers tend to have very helpful irc nerds if you run in to trouble.
People spread misinformation on Facebook. Arguably, it's not Facebook's responsibility to fact-check anything.

Facebook is not a publishing house (at least not the Facebook social media platform as such) and mandating that they fact check and curate their ads and content is tricky business. It requires a legal definition of truth, which is a matter complex enough to justify the existence of the whole judiciary system.

Expecting that a condensation of such a system be applied to the publishing of information on any platform is wishful thinking at best.

Edit: Corrected typos
I'd call it a unit of exchange for things which really are scarce. And even if we do do think of it as something which we have artificially imposed scarcity on, this is an exchange process people opt into willingly. You're still free to consider it non-scarce and worthless. Unlike IP, which is for restricting use by people whether they want to opt in or not.
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Is the extruder speeding up and slowing down for each "blob" in the texture? Or is the extruder going constant speed and you're relying on surface tension to make the blobbyness?
"The higher-ups" are screening engravement messages? Call me naive but that sounds like nonsense. At least, it SHOULD be nonsense.

If true they must be terrified of upsetting the CCP.
Mercer/Bannon/Trump and co. are super spreaders of misinformation. They happen to also use facebook, but I dont remember any issues of "fake news" in elections pre-2016/brexit. So no, its not inherent to the platform, only to the bad actors on it.
Here [0] is a study that found that, with the current trend, climate-related deaths per year in 2100 will be near the total infectious-disease related deaths per year today.

Also, Shenzen is only ~20th biggest city in the world [1], and its age is the exception, not the rule. The majority of the world's most populated cities are older than the countries they are located in, many of them being continuously inhabited since prehistoric times. Also, while creating a new city and populating it is possible with somewhat limited human harm (though rural->urban migration has its human impact, to be sure), deopopulating and moving a city of tens of millions (say, New York City, which sits at 10m elevation) is an entirely different scale of human displacement.

[0] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w27599/w275...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities
I'd like to second the thanks; Vega-Lite is awesome.

I've two pieces of feedback.

The first is I started by using Vega-Lite-API thinking it would be easier to understand. As I tried to do what I needed I found most examples in the manual are JSON only, and the JS API docs weren't helpful.

It took a while to work out how to make a log-scale axis, or how to customise the tooltip content (I could see in the JSON how to do it easily) and I gave up trying to work out how to provide a custom colour scale via JS - or to change to another pre-defined one.

The second is around toggling on/off the data in the chart. I had ~20 series on one scatter plot, and being able to highlight other members of a series, or turn series on/off would make it easier to explore the data.

I found a JSON example of doing this; but not one with the JS-API. It was also more complicated than I hoped, wanting to use Vega-Lite as a better Excel to explore this data, and not to write my own chart-app if that makes sense (different purpose).
Is Rust web yet?
Developer of the tool here. With the recent shut down of Quantopian, I thought why not start developing a similar system.

I have already been working on this for a few months and it just went live a few weeks ago - I wanted to make it a paid backtester but with the shutdown, I figured people would want different alternatives, so here it is. Completely free and offers many strategies for testing.

If there is enough demand, we can add a lot more stuff.

Happy to answer any questions.
I think one thing a lot of people learned from this pandemic that misfortunate does "trickle up". As a software-engineer I wasn't really affected by the lock-down but my quality of life definitely dropped just because a lot of people around me are struggling.
So yeah, even if you don't own a house and don't rely on impacted economies -- you'll still be in trouble! Unless you're %1 rich.
I think it's possible. I know for certain there are techniques to identify "click-baity" text snippets. My partner is currently working on a data model now and she has already had some reasonable success. Imagine what a company that hires several 10s or even 100s of data scientists can achieve?

From there on, it's just a matter of highlighting these successful matches constantly in your feeds.

I wouldn't put it past that.
I've run a 3d printer with the extrusion rate way down before (to try and produce very thin surfaces), and the results were far less consistent. I got big holes in my parts and massive dribbles and blobs in other places.

I wonder how these results can be so so so much better in comparison?
The censorship applied by the GAFA and the MSM is frightening, especially when comparing to how the fake dossier of Trump's golden shower was passed around in 2016, while these revelations on Biden's corruptness are censored.

Google was also caught red-handed in 2016, suppressing searches on Hillary's health.

But yes, the problem is that Trump is KGB agent and that Putin hacks Twitter lol
More accurately, algorithm simply responds to initial user engagement on the article. It is not designed to "propagate misinformation".
Authorship can still be protected in two ways without property on ideas

1. Ideas as a secret. You can create scarcity at the initial step of sharing. You can even create monopolies at this step. The framework for this is NDAs. The vital difference here is that once broadcast an idea can no longer be exploited by the author. And once shared with a third party, repeated use can not be controlled.
2. Authorship as attribution. This is done by preventing plagiarism.

Replacing IP law with NDA contract law and attribution protection would still allow selling software but not subscriptions for software you run locally. Also it would allow everone to record radio broadcasts, which is illegal now but was never enforced.

I strongly believe the initial sharing of an idea/software/music/etc. Is the right step to create scarcity.
Once something is provided to the public, the public should be able to use it in any way as long as attribution is preserved.
> People spread misinformation on Facebook.

That is misinformation. Most of it is pushed by Facebook's paying customers, not the users.
> Who we choose to work for [is one of the] primary powers every individual wields.

Unfortunately, that's just not true. The vast mahority of people on lower income cannot aford to be choosy with who they work for. A great many higher earning software developers (HN's usual market) are in the same position.

I agree that encouraging the few people who can afford the luxury of being choosy to vote with their feet is a good thing, but don't assume everyone has that same "primary power".
As coincidences go, just the day before yesterday I looked into pygame and came across this Quora question: https://www.quora.com/Is-Pygame-fast-enough-for-modern-game-...

The sentiment seems to be that it's not suitable for more than small toy games -- which in itself would still be interesting. I mean, it's clear that professional AAA studios are not the core target group.

But has anyone here on HN additional hands-on experience that would support or reject the above assessment?
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I think the criticism of media comes down that they only dig if politically favourable and recent behavior made that more transparent. People will loose their conscience at one point because mistakes are repeated.
That's the money line. Easy to understand, if you understand it.
Again, is that because you literally don't have the physical option of communicating by other ways, or because the people you want to communicate with are too lazy to use another option?

If I ask you to meet me at the bar and you're banned from the bar I've selected, it's not the bar's problem.
They had already cut cost, I would phrase it as this change being now even more necessary.
That is the problem with Taibibi, right? He "fights". He uses "jokes" to imply and push not exactly true statements. Mostly to insult opponents. Not really to engage or argue, just fight.

He has sometimes good arguments. But plenty of times he does not, so he goes for second best thing to fight whoever he sees as opponenent.
That raised my suspicion. In an era of politic-driven pseudo-scientific paper, I was wondering :

1. Why ramadan is not explicitely told in the title.
2. Why using "dawn to sunset" which is not helpful at all to make generalisation (scientists usually have a clock).
3. Why the diet during the night is not explicited (at least in the abstract).
4. Why this would have different results if the diet is during the night or during the day.

All of this makes me suspicious that this is a kind of retro-science propaganda to make Ramadan looks healthy and justify the religion.

I maybe wrong but the abstract raises too many flags to not care about this hypothesis.
> it's not true that it's designed to propagate misinformation

That was hyperbole on OP’s part.

The algorithm is designed to incentivise the creation and dissemination of attention-grabbing content without considering truthfulness. That simply and directly incentivises misinformation propagation. The fact that politically-disinterested troll groups routinely get incentivised to produce misinformation for clicks is Exhibit A to how deeply Facebook promotes these mechanisms.

Facebook and its employees turn a blind eye to these second-order effects because they are massively profitable. That’s as close to “designed to” as one can get without literally coding for it.
Thank you! PDF here https://www.academia.edu/download/44704857/Awakening_from_sl...
Bilinear uses the triangular kernel over the source image (with size corresponding to the input pixel size).

Area interp works very well in practice, it's more sophisticated than just a box filter on the input and sampling. It calculates the exact intersecting footprint sizes and computes a weighted average. Do you have examples where this causes aliasing and can show a better alternative?
Ode Pitch
Happy to be part of the NextStepIndia program pitching to Indias entrepreneurs at TechSparks by YourStoryMedia.
You haven’t actually articulated any harm here - the “dangerous” actions that could potentially happen with the aid of aggregated data, like blackmail or stalking, are already illegal.
Thanks, yeah a couple of people have been saying how they are going to try this with their kids, depending on how that goes I can think about how to take it further in that direction.
> Is it really fasting though?

"In a physiological context, [...] a person is assumed to be fasting once 8–12 hours have elapsed since the last meal. Metabolic changes of the fasting state begin after absorption of a meal (typically 3–5 hours after eating)."[0]

So yes, it really is fasting.

> 36-40 hours, although even that I don't find particularly special

Don't make such claims without sources. And for what it's worth: most people don't fast in hope of others finding it special anyway.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting
> Facebook is not a publishing house

Social media is a sufficiently different form of media that it will require its own form of regulation. Pointing to the publisher-editor delineation is anachronistic. Publishers never had the reach, insidiousness and information velocity that Facebook does.
also kurds vs turks vs armenians. settlers vs natives. to some extent even stuff like car drivers vs bike riders. always two+ groups whose members identify with that group and act and feel like they are fundamentally better or more worthy than another group.

it's taboo to say that - but in fact it's essential to overcome racism which seems to be the psychological root of many social issues at the moment.

Why did these guys cut off those other guys' heads in Paris or in Nice? B/c they feel like they have to protect their group ideals against people deemed unworthy to live or even die in dignity. I wouldn't call this "racism" - but I firmly believe that the psychological thinking pattern is fundamentally related and entangled.

Also interesting unpopular food for thought is that not just Murcans keeping African slaves is very much racist but also the reason for why one African tribe kept slaves from another African tribe and then sold them to American slave traders who shipped them to the new world.
So... I shouldn't talk to family overseas during this time or find another way to do it?

Or everyone not living in the US should not have facebook before an American election?

It would seem to be more prudent to disallow political ads the week before. Or make it a crime to, say, spread wrong information about voting. And so on.
The ThinkPad lineup for some balling entries that match the raw power of a Macbook easily. For less money too.

That said, the Macbook screen is brilliant and others don't always compare.

the real thing that puts me off leaving the Apple world: MacOS. I've tried to go back to WIndows and the experience was dreadful for software engineering.
I didn't know that becoming non-profit meant that money is free :)
I think this is party true due to how well their test setup is. Being able to automated regression test every feature of the game[0]. Having a comprehensive test suite also helps you as a developer to dive into the code and refactor away with confidence that you don't break functionality. Thus allowing for more aggressive and efficient refactoring and experimentation. At the end, it's not the code that is your application, its the features. Code can flow into many different ways from these features.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivLFP2eApto
You are correct that it is usually not worth the effort unless you already have established relationship with that client and you are talking about $100,000 or more per year. We sell B2B SAAS and a few times, I was daring enough to try crazy RFPs only to find out that they anyway went their existing preferred vendor and RFP was just a checklist they had to do for compliance needs. A lot of companies float RFP because they have to in order to select a vendor and in many cases, vendors are already decided internally (usually existing vendor) and is just a formality/paper work/checkbox. Not to mention crazy requirements. One RFP needed everything on paper (yes paper) and we literally printed 100 pages and had to mail it physically. :) Then it was radio silence. I literally got someone in our team to call a point of contact (we were not supposed to) and ask for status after a few weeks and all we got was "we went with existing vendor. sorry". That was the last RFP we did until now.
I had never seen the word "parametdynamicser" before. Googling lead me back here. Although it does ask if I meant "parameter dynamics".

Could you explain what you meant with it?
Also relevant:

Press release - Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system (2014) - https://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-triggers-stem-cell-regene...

Full Paper: https://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909(14)0...
Ads are different to the things people post on social media. Facebook can’t moderate and fact check ads? Why not? Because it would cost them too much of their 17billion dollar revenue? Boohoo
Posed as a more general question: In what ways can a company that handles the information flow of lawmakers (personal info, browsing habits, software updates, etc) can influence their acting by psychological backdoors?
Most people's political beliefs and ideas are simply something they wear, like a piece of clothing. If you asked them to change into different clothes for a specific purpose they will usually gladly do so without a moment's hesitation, if the purpose makes sense to them. The daily context of our lives and what we need to be getting on with is vastly more powerful than anything else.
Frustrating. At the same time, I all too often see claims of "fake news" or "disinformation" that which is simply embarrassing or inconvenient for one party or the other. I'm not sure that there is a way to solve this problem that will not cause worse problems, like censorship of good but unpopular notions, or notions that are true but annoy the powerful
Greenwald didn't have to do any work for the Snowden stories, Snowden approached Greenwald. And from my understanding, Snowden didn't approach Greenwald because he was the "best" journalist to break the story. Snowden had an existing relationship with Barton Gellman of the Washington Post who Snowden also leaked to. But Greenwald was willing to put an encrypted key in the leaks to help Snowden prove he was the leaker to foreign governments while seeking asylum, which Gellman wasn't willing to do.

Then Greenwald parlayed having Snowden approach him into becoming a celebrity journalist. So Greenwald is a guy who takes a lot of credit for being in the right place at the right time and someone else handing him a scoop. Exactly the kind of person I wouldn't trust.
How I Resurrected My Digital Life After an Epic Hacking (2012)
You are assuming that they did it by accident...
Google Kills Keep
The algoritthm is driven by engagement, wich is driven by misinformation, because that’s what people click more. So then a lot of more misinformation is written to feed this need. Clearly a lot of money is involved
They arrived in a truck, one coffin sized crate, one slightly smaller. The contents were bright read, and looked like jet engines.
- la4rt
Most like some postprocessing in the gcode to multiply the extrusion rate by some factor for each blob.
I think I'd rather just be a plumber that be forced to program in PHP
They are probably more interested in cost rather than setup.
Okay, so Google hasn't completely killed it yet - but the App is going to be decommissioned.

I find Keep a really useful way to make notes, regardless of the device or channels I'm using.

It's a real shame this is happening in my opinion.
Until youtube adds a feature that enables creators to choose unskippable sections of the video, and sponsors will require this from youtubers.
Railways and telecoms worked out just fine.
Sure, in many countries, train tickets have been getting overly expensive under government control but high costs are not such a huge concern in the grand scheme of things. On the other hand, the break up of AT&T in the US had huge benefits for consumers in terms of lowering costs.

If Facebook is nationalized, at least they will not manipulate people to serve corporate interests (that is the main threat).

Sure, in the worst case, under government ownership, social media might be used to manipulate elections to give preference to the incumbent party over the other, but that is infinitely better than manipulating elections based on the financial interests of a tiny minority and allow it to drive an increase in surveillance and restrictions of public freedoms. Eventually, even the tiny minority of shareholders (the smaller ones) will end up being harmed at the expense of the bigger shareholders. It's not going to stop at non-shareholders.
Yeah, it was just sensationalistic journalism, or "election misinformation". And Facebook just helped amplify or "spread" it.
People who never experimented themselves with nutrition do not understand the limitations of these studies. They only look for one effect for a relative short period of time. So not only they might miss other side effects but also they conclude based on the shock effect major changes have on your body. But once these changes become normal the body adapts and the effects might go completely away.

From my personal experience: very high protein with calorie deficit can allow you to build muscle while losing fat but also causes impotence, anxiety, poop so hard you scrape your insides till you fill the toilet with blood. Are the studies right? Yes. Do you want to follow their advice? Not really.
Cloud Firestore how does that relate to Datastore? Really wish Google would allow multi-region Cloud SQL like AWS allows with RDS. Datastore is such a pain to use with its index requirements
Ah yeah, I was mostly talking about the database offerings. The cloud functions can scale infinitely.
I tried that (well, xpurnalpp, not xournal) and the stylus/touch story didn't compare to the Debian experience at all... :(
That's really impressive. I'm not into the game industry at all but I get the impression that automated testing isn't so much of a thing with a lot of games, and they depend on manual testing a lot, either with armies of game testers or a community (for early access games), especially for games with a lot of randomness and "emergent" behaviour.

But for an indie game like Factorio with so much development, features, interactions, etc it's almost mandatory.

I'm sure most games have a big automated testing suite though, there's too much in there nowadays to warrant manual testing.
"The people most responsible for destruction of the internet, as well those most blind about the destruction they’re wreaking are the journalists and activists who spent years begging Silicon Valley to regulate discourse."

And the fruits of their labor?

https://twitter.com/palinfoen/status/1321141294807322624
It looked like they were using the Prusa I3 MK3S.
> Data should be legally made in to toxic waste we all know it should be treated as.

The vast majority of people do not care about privacy though, at least not to the extent that “tech” people seem to.
I've done a fair amount with Pygame. It's great for learning the fundamentals of 2D graphics and little toy games, it works well for writing simple programs to do things with image data, and I imagine you could use it to pretty easily get an OpenGL window to draw into.

I would not recommend using Pygame to develop a serious game project. All of Pygame's provided functions use software rendering, so you won't be able to take advantage of the graphics card. More seriously, Pygame includes essentially none of the features that come out of the box in a modern game engine, so you have to do things like write the event loop yourself and find your own solutions to physics and animation and figuring out which UI element is currently under the mouse cursor. Great for learning how that stuff works, not great for getting a high-quality game shippable.
Firestore is the next generation: https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/firestore-or-datasto...
Horse Latitudes
Because of the kind of content that drives engagement, optimizing for engagement is not being a neutral party. And censoring content costs money. So Facebook has at least two financial motives.
While in uni I once ended up having to chase an autonomous boat as it decided to head out too deep waters and do a hoky-poky dance because one guy wrote controls code in NED coordinate convention and another one issued commands in ENU convention.