skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If some news network moves from Twitter (from being censored, or banned) to a Mastodon, for example, their 'reach' would drop by a factor of millions. Six orders of magnitude. That makes them basically invisible.

Do you really want nose-ring kids in Silicon Valley who're still mad at their parents having the power to shut down Presidents, Heads of State, and Media organizations?

Come on man.
Because the article is an ad for 1password quite literally, hes on board of advisors. Same with nordvpn that he is shilling.
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I question things, the more outlandish the claim the more I question it. Experts are not always right you know. That's especially true on charged topics. I want to follow their line of reasoning and understand the claims more fully. And I was not wrong. If you see the post above going into more detail than the OP, 1 billion is the upper estimate, with 5 million the lower end of the range. That's a pretty wide range.
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So many people complain about the mount of Ads, or the quality of Ads, but don't forget there's YT Premium. There's no free lunch, creators also need to feed their family. (it's your choice to use adblocker anyway)
it's literally in the slides that's it's a registered user. why do people just say random shit like this
Probably the usual complaints about package load and compilation time.

These aren't fundamental issues with the language and will be solved by tiered compilation (there's already an interpreter mode, just have to integrate that with normal use), separate compilation and incremental sysimage creation which works with the package manager.
"We as privacy regulators don't have any authority to levy fines on companies that violate peoples' personal information and that should really change."

The privacy commission has no teeth, so nothing stops future abuse :/
you can pretend you did it for the money... but just beacuse you get paid does not mean you are not terrorizing. What sort of logic are you using??
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Archive can also be gone... we need a decentralized database that is "append only and that is resistant to efforts to delete it by any entity
They specifically exclude those numbers from "people on the Family products".
It took tens to hundreds of millions years for the atmosphere to disappear. If we can make a new one, we ca. Keep it replenished
How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge
Thanks, if your son (or you!) builds anything with it I would love to see it and put it on the gallery on the website :)

Thanks for the offer, I'm dealing with so many moving parts here (pun intended) I hadn't even considered it. I think the most helpful would be translating the documentation, if you'd like to do that. Or posting a video explaining how to build something in the other language you speak would be great too.
Market-based solutions to news and journalism are the problem and always have been.
My take is that the claim that "shoppers were made aware of the activity through decals" fails on multiple levels: whether said decals were actually there, whether they would be capable of capturing nuances of scope if they were (e.g. there's different expectations between a mall entrance, the Shoppers entrance and the LCBO entrance), whether people noticed the alleged decals if they were there, whether they could be reasonably expect to understand it (e.g. non-english speakers), whether people could infer that legalese existed if they did understand it, whether they were capable of understanding the actual terms (e.g. tech illiterates), whether it is reasonable to expect that people would consciously agree to whatever terms are laid out in the legalese, whether all people captured by face recognition necessarily were actually aware of the terms, etc. It just doesn't stick on so many levels.
While I generally believe this to be true, and I want this study to be evidence that it is true, they fall into the same trap as so many other studies: they cannot demonstrate a causal link.

It could just simply be that people with worse memories are more likely to enjoy media multi-tasking than people with better memories.

In short, correlation != causation.
Yes, it's licensed. There's a class and a proficiency demonstration:

https://onlinetexasltc.com/texas-concealed-carry/
Show HN: turn on, tune in, drop out. .mixtape 1.3
Because the adult that person is now often is the source of so much pain and anguish to others?
That's a fair argument and Snowden is the weakest of those examples. But I think the credibility media outlets lent the security apparatchiks in responding to the crisis colored the revelations in a negative way for many Americans.
Thank god for Substack. My trust in incumbent media platforms continues to decrease. They seem to have been hijacked to propagate clickbait personality more effectively than ever.
No, change in temperature. From now to 2050 we're looking at a 0.5 C change in average temperature. You could also say change in sea level will be relatively small as well.

Averages are funny, and that's a global average so it's more pronounced at the higher latitudes. But still it's half of what we've already done since 1900. And as a percentage change in temperature in a given region, it should be fairly small.

Just intuitively it doesn't make sense that relatively small changes suddenly produce such disparate outcomes when they haven't to date.

Looking into the numbers a bit from what was shared above, I'm not wrong. 1 billion is the upper end of an estimate, with 5 million at the lower end. That's a very wide range.
Learn Unix commands and cron. Automate everything. Use virtual desktops as separate work environments conmuting after finishing the first job, not to switch between Windows.
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Do people generally do that? Is this an artifact of people using iovisor/bcc and Python or whatever? We just build .o files with clang and ship 'em.
It's not as simple as that. I'd like to delete my Facebook account but it would be impossible to keep up with all my friends and family who don't use other platforms. Equally, Twitter is the platform for political and academic statements. You can cry "free market" but it's hard to argue there is no monopoly.
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If someone from Quantopian sees this, could you upload your lectures to the Internet Archive? Or put them back up for a day so someone else can?
> Aggregate data is much more relevant than anecdotes.

Extrapolation of historic data trends isn’t always a good way to predict the future either.
I mean, if that's 'Good lord', Greenwald's original letter is 'Jesus H. Fucking Christ On A Stick Rolled In Pigeon Droppings'.
> Mailing lists are resistant to censorship

Are they? Didn't RMS get commissared over a mailing list?
Can't speak for GP, but in my case I had to learn Rails in an environment where the previous devs were no longer available and the whole app was developed on EC2 instances by a different team. Later, the company decided that containerization was the Next Big Thing and we needed to port the app or else we'd have either no platform to run on or no job. I would have loved to do the simple "just run it on Heroku" thing but sometimes that is just not possible due to external pressures. A lot of the success of Rails is due to its "my way or the highway" methodology where you either conform to the vision of DHH or you can get lost, but the downsides of this priciple are obvious when real life won't conform to his vision.
> Perhaps we could pair a carbon tax with an annual distribution of revenue raised to everyone

Pretty much this. Use it to fund UBI maybe. The Canadian province of British Columbia collects a carbon tax and reduces income taxes by a commensurate amount.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_carbon_tax
How come this link with 749+ points and 5hours, is near the bottom of the HN page of lesser rated (and older) articles???
Here we are on an internet discussion board bemoaning people’s decisions to purchase internet-connected electronic devices?
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Yes. It got so bad it drove me to youtube-dl. No irony there.
You would need to understand what the worst case decoding time/operations for a given sized packet, and build your system/code around that.

Real-time does not necessarily mean that all operation X must take exact same time, it just means that you know that all operation X will occur within some span.
Sorry that's just wrong. If Twitter bans you there's no were like Twitter you can go. Twitter has become the communications platform for public persons to reach their audience. It you think it's on par with other platforms you're just uneducated.
Not... really, at least not in the sense that "fleeing oppression" typically conveys. That's fleeing oppression about as much as any other multi-millionaire with holdings in a Swiss bank account is doing.
That's not true either though. Fascism is by definition a right-wing form of authoritarianism, because of how it uses class divides to build its political power.

The corresponding left-wing authoritarianism would be "leftist populism", "Stalinism", or some other term.

What you're describing is called Horseshoe Theory, and it's not well-supported by evidence. Right-wing and left-wing populism have a few things in common (authoritarianism primarily), but have much larger differences than similarities.

I will point out that attacks on a free press ARE a clear sign of authoritarian regimes. I would encourage you to take a look at the history of the German word "Lügenpresse" (literally "lying press"). Especially take note if you see similar things being said about the modern media -- and which groups are saying it.
You could setup your own ISP locally but unless you pay to be connected to the larger web then your reach will be extremely limited. The same can be said for Twitter. How do you connect with a special entity, be it a website or a celebrity, if you can't reach them? Having celebrities exclusively on their platform and engaging with their audience is where twitter's market security comes from.
Absolutely, I was referring to age more as it relates to the shape of the world and technology as they grew up rather than purely a hit against mental capacity (though for some members of Congress it's definitely both).

For example, Orrin Hatch asking Zuck in 2018 how they make money makes you assume that he doesn't use Facebook. Pretty sure anyone born in the last 30 years could immediately tell you that it's through selling ads.

The younger generation has grown up as big tech has and has a better understanding of the control and influence of these companies on their day to day lives that the older generation doesn't always understand.
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Emacs has malyon-mode to play IF games.
North Korea is already under severe economic sanctions for its nuclear weapons program and other geopolitical issues[0]. Russia is also under economic sanctions for invading Ukraine. There's very little the rest of the world can do to hold either of them accountable for sanctioning organized fraud groups in their territories.
I believe a greater percent of retail is online in the US than Europe. Generally it is easier for an e-commerce company to get their money back on an ad than a brick and morter store trying to advertise onlin.e
Who are science’s frequent flyers? Climate researchers
> native multiple database support wasn't released until Rails 6.0

While it wasn't in rails natively, you could do it in rails 5 in ~10 extra lines and before with... considerably more hacking. But there were external projects which gave you the possibility.
I took a rails job by accident- I knew rails was in use but I was interviewed in Go and talked about new things going on in Go micro services. I didn’t expect 40 hours a week of rails / ember JS work and that’s my fault.

I have 12 years with Django and I was shocked there wasn’t the equivalent of the Django tutorial. Everyone says the rails tutorial is good and I’m sure it’s worth the money but no one at work endorsed it (nor provided recommendations for any Ruby / rails tutorials).

Coming from Python, Go, JS/Typescript (react, vue, etc) in my most recent experiences it was really rough. I couldn’t understand some of the rails magic and the docs were horrible compared to Django. Ruby Mine IDE was essential.

I learned how much I love DDL management via code (Django ORM or SQL Alchemy) and how active record did just enough to fool you (which is common in other ORMs).

In the end I left the job for a full time Go position and I’ve missed Rspec every day. The rails (or Ruby in general) toolset really impressed me and I’m using Ginkgo at my current job to get my fix for BDD / specs.
How many people are killed by drunk drivers every year? And how many more are killed by people that fall asleep at the wheel?

Perhaps a better driver monitoring system is needed. But don't you think the FSD beta is a major advance? Often times the most rapid advances come from engineers getting their hands on real-world data. Shouldn't we also look at how many lives can be saved if we get this going faster?
I respect him but my opinion of his credibility dropped quite a bit when The Intercept burned Reality Winner.

He claims it was the fault of a colleague but he's still comfortable calling himself the founder of the org. Take some responsibility for Christ's sake.

In a decent world Joe Biden would pardon her on his first day.
Eh, not always. Older CD drives didn't have the many correction/anti-skip tecniques you had in example in modern discmans.
This actually happened to me when I was an intern (many years ago). My official job offer went to spam and I didn't see it until weeks later. Fortunately I happened to check the spam folder and saw it. I now make it a habit to regularly check the spam folder in Gmail and I often find non-junk mail in there.
Wow, that was quiet a burn there at the end:

"We have no doubt that Glenn will go on to launch a new media venture where he will face no collaboration with editors — such is the era of Substack and Patreon. In that context, it makes good business sense for Glenn to position himself as the last true guardian of investigative journalism and to smear his longtime colleagues and friends as partisan hacks."

Honestly, coming from not known who ether party was in this before this hackernews post. The intercept comes off as in the wrong to me. However, I could be being manipulated.

I am interested. Do you think these emails will come out as faked? I think even if they are real it doesn't change who should be president. But shouldn't we always be watching our elected leaders closely? What is the line between not publishing something because it is wrong and not publishing something because it might be true, but it goes too far against your beliefs.
It's exactly the kind of thing that should be on HN.
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In that case I think we're in agreement. :)
> The Intercept said it had no doubt that Greenwald would "launch a new media venture where he will face no collaboration with editors — such is the era of Substack and Patreon."

Any way you look at it, this is a terrible response. Jealous much? “People are willing to pay with actual money for Greenwald’s writing. Can you imagine?!? How shameful!” Even the post-blog-revolution news media companies don’t get it.

The Intercept did have a record. It was in large part due to Greenwald. He’s leaving, so with him goes a large part of their reputation.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/how-fake-persona-laid-... This is why the Intercept didn't want to run Glenn's story.

FYI this sob story has some precedent:
In 2014:
"I absolutely refuse to be exiled from my own country for the crime of doing journalism and I'm going to force the issue just on principle. And I think going back for a ceremony like the Polk Awards or other forms of journalistic awards would be a really good symbolic test of having to put the government in the position of having to arrest journalists who are coming back to the US to receive awards for the journalism they have done."

He wasn't arrested. He wasn't even menaced by authorities. The dude has a serious persecution complex.
What about bathrooms, changing rooms, hotel rooms, etc? No expectation for privacy since you aren't at home?
About 80% of the US adult population doesn't use Twitter. I agree that there's no direct alternative to Twitter, and that does matter, but the idea that you have no choice but to be on Twitter just seems empirically untrue.
That's a fantastic point you raise. It's dirt cheap to collect (IoT devices, drones, Digital Globe and the like) and very inexpensive to store data in volumes that were once the only viable for governments or well-funded and motivated private entities (e.g. hedge funds). That opens the door to a radically different set of possibilities.
Ya this is what I was thinking this was when I first saw it, until I saw the price.
Honestly looks like he was looking for a reason to leave and created his own excuse.

From his explanation:

> these Intercept editors also demanded that I refrain from exercising a separate contractual right to publish this article with any other publication.

From the emails:

> It would be unfortunate and detrimental to The Intercept for this story to be published elsewhere.

Where's the demand? It sounds like the EIC can't even express her own opinion to Glenn
If X.org has an X86 BIOS emulator for weird systems, an SDL2 SVGALIB trap could do those pretty fast.
> If all the "impossible" technologies necessary to stop climate change existed today then I don't think anyone would say we should go back to the old fossil fuel days.

The argument isn't about whether or not fossil fuels should be used in the presence of hypothetical cheaper energy harvesting devices in the future, but whether or not fossil fuels should be used now, while they are cheap, abundant and available to everyone. I have recommended a book above: The moral case for fossil fuels.

It may not be obvious what I'm talking about if you live in a well developed nation with adequate sunlight and you can easily accumulate some capital and install PV panels on your rooftop (and you're OK ignoring the devastating environmental impact of PV). The moral case for fossil fuels is about the underdeveloped nations whose economies are held back by low carbon agendas.

The most developed nations are doing quite well (perhaps not well enough for some) on clean energy, but poorer nations are nowhere near at the same level. They are decades behind on technology and general standards of living. The argument for fossil fuels is that we should attempt to accelerate these economies as quickly as possible to bring them up to global standards, and one of the primary tools for enabling this is the availability of cheap and abundant energy. Fossil fuels provide this, even if they're not "clean."

Developed nations have cleaner air, cleaner water, much lower birth rates, fewer pollutants and better environmental protection programmes. We can't expect poorer nations to abide by the same standards of the developed world when they do not enjoy the same standards of living. The longer the delay in bringing them up to standard, the more environmental damage will be done in the long term.

I am all for cheap and abundant clean energy and the idea of phasing out fossil fuels, but holding back progress for alarming unrealistic predictions is not the way to go about it. Focus should be on innovation and not subsidy.

But it is still questionable whether or not an increased CO2 atmosphere is an inherently bad thing. In greenhouses, a doubling of CO2 can lead to more than a doubling of plant mass growth. This is an experiment you can reproduce at home, unlike most climate "science". If more focus were placed on greening the earth, reforesting instead of destroying entire ecosystems to grow soy, palm and canola, I might not be so sceptical of the real aims of these climate scientists and their mouthpieces. The aversion to nuclear energy, which is very clean, is the most tell-tale sign that many "environmentalists" are nothing of the kind.
Reducing meat consumption and other similar measures will have vanishingly small effect, especially compared to the amount of CO2 that is going to be released from Siberian permafrost, which is already melting, and has more carbon stored in it than all the carbon we have added and will burn in the near future.
The idea that susceptibility to dumb ideologies is a genetic weakness that “smarter” people are not susceptible to is completely at odds with current anthropological and sociological knowledge - ideology is part of the human condition, and being unable to determine whether or not your ideology is dangerous bullshit is part of the nature of ideology. Teichmuller, Nazi Germany’s greatest mathematician, was also an anti-Semitic loon.

Your comment about “smart people will have lots of kids who will save us” [paraphrasing] is ironically invalidated by Elon Musk himself, whose COVID tweeting and commentary is pure fact-free ideology (most infamously here: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/12407546572631449... but he’s still going: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-and-kids-wont-get-...) It is worth emphasizing that these comments are just straight-up indefensibly dumb.
Subexponential algorithms in general have long had proven running times. Dixon's method [1], in particular, has had a proven running time since 1980. The number field sieve itself has had some recent progress on that front [2].

However, those algorithms are _probabilistic_, not _deterministic_, which is what sets this linked method apart.

This algorithm, much like Pollard-Strassen before it, is pretty much irrelevant to integer factorization in practice. But it is nevertheless remarkable to see some progress on deterministic factorization after such a long time.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-1981-0595059-1

[2] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnt.2017.10.019
Software is “eating the world,” as they say, and selling blue jeans and pick axes to gold miners is a perennially solid way to make money.
The agenda is quite simple: the West should give up, and leave space exploration to China.

Or maybe it's the aliens who noticed Elon Musk and finally started taking the risk of space colonization by humans seriously.
There are many SciFi titles that are extremely expensive in hardcover these days. There is a lot of amazon volatility, so I tend to use price watch sites, but some also consistently stay in the hundreds of dollars (for example, the original printing of Hyperion). I suspect that this is because the genre used to sell badly in hardcover and many SciFi fans have come into money over the last few decades, but I'd be curious to hear from somebody who understands the market better.
So maybe the law should be rewritten to target the entities that are large enough that they don't fear repercussions from their actions even though it could be proved in a court of law that they resulted in harm?
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...and is open source
I am pretty sure a significant amount of those 3billion users would be Indians since pretty much all the Indians in my network use WhatsApp but lof of them dont use Facebook.
It's probably a good idea to cite your sources at least.
Question (perhaps naive):

Given the decimal expansion of 1/89, is there any way to directly retrieve the Fibonacci sequence from it? (that is, not using any knowledge of the sequence itself)

I'm assuming it can't be done because different sets of fractions can sum to 1/89, but maybe I'm missing something.