skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything is a Super Spreader of Election Misinformation.

I remember when Trump won in 2016, CNN immediately turned it's theme black and ran gloomy headlines that continue until this very day.

Likewise, other news sources went into spin mode, seemingly faster than they did pre-Trump. Actors and athletes became media stars not for their area of expertise but for their political opinions (which should be worth exactly the same as the bartender's but the bartender doesn't make the news for some reason.)

I agree that Facebook is a huge platform for politics. The difference is that you can post your own views and you can indicate if you like or dislike someone else's opinions.

I think it's actually progress.
Was all this TCP? You might try UDP as well, in case you're hitting a bottleneck in the tcp stack.
What's your solution?

Like it or not, websites cost money to run. The more popular they are, the more money it takes.

So... what? Spend your own money? Ads? Paywalls? Sell t-shirts? Try Patreon and hope enough people throw a dollar or two into your hat?
I think I've found the bottleneck now that I have the setup up and running again today—ksoftirqd quickly hits 100% CPU and stays that way until the benchmark run completes.

See: https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices/iss...
I'm in the process process of advocating gRPC to my company that is starting to lay down the foundations to scale up. This presentation comes in handy.
The side effects have also been known for a long time, which is why dosage is carefully monitored in Lupus patients and blindness is an anticipated side effect.

My understanding is that another side effect of HCQ is that it extends the QT cycle, and given the duress COVID-19 puts on the heart, there is not an insignificant risk of cardiak arrest. There may not be as much data to show this as conclusively or prevalently as some might like, but the underlying mechanisms are well enough understood that it would be reckless to continue prescribing HCQ until it had been sufficiently demonstrated that the benefits outweighed this risk.

There really wasn't sufficient reason to think that HCQ would work in the first place, based on any understanding of how the drugs works. It was just the original, now discredited paper from China that opened up the floodgates in the first place. The antiviral properties are far too weak and would require far too high (dangerous) concentrations in vivo, far in excess of what's commonly prescribed for other purposes, to match the earlier in vitro results. If there's any benefit to HCQ, it would be from immunosupression. But dexamethasone serves that purpose much more effectively, and has shown much better results so it doesn't make much sense to continue exploring HCQ.
Totally agreed -- starting a company probably isn't the right choice for the majority of people. Our Future Founder curriculum actually includes a couple of Paul Graham's old essays that explore that topic (http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html and http://www.paulgraham.com/before.html).

Hopefully, this course will help potential founders make a more informed decision about whether starting a company is the right decision for them or not.
This situation looks exactly like the people in charge doing whatever they want IMO.
I came across the concept of teal [1] companies a few years ago, perhaps that may be relevant / of interest.

The article talks about the various ways of structuring organisations, giving each a colour. The author sees teal companies as the latest evolution.

[1]: https://www.strategy-business.com/article/00344?gko=30876
> Let individuals look at the content and context and decide on their own if it is true

That is literally what they are doing. They are literally linking to context and other articles.

People can make up their own minds about Wayback Machine's content. They added even more information to help make up your mind on content that expresses a contentious opinion. That super helpful since I want to see as many sides as possible! Why would you want to censor that context unless you want to manipulate people into believe blatantly false misinformation?
one hydrogen atom doesn't have enough mass to produce a graviton.
You need to ask yourself a question: how much sleep do you really need :)
Timothy Young Becomes President of Dropbox
Sorry to nitpick, but if someone chooses to not eat animal products for a reason other than animal welfare, they are not vegan, but rather "eating plant based" or whatever they want to call it. Being vegan is more than about what you eat, it's trying to live in a way that reduces as much as possible the cruelty to other animals from one's own lifestyle. e.g. don't eat animal products, don't wear animal products, don't use products tested on animals.
Here you seem to understand the basis for inference:

> the insurance company strictly insists that employees not be told that there is insurance.

The stated inference:

>> Each individual company might try to motivate slightly better behavior in their own clients but overall they want their administrative percentage of a growth industry so they drive up absurd costs like the US health care industry

The background concept that applies irregardless of whether a parasite is "criminal" or standard practice (of course every parasite can claim something symbiotic, maybe kidnapping is just freelance private security testing with post pricing):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite_load

The insurance parasite/symbiote load as percentage of GDP, compare the 1980s to now:

https://data.oecd.org/insurance/insurance-spending.htm

The percentage of GDP lost in ransom? 0%? Terrorist ransom was also popular in the 1980s but government interfered directly, preventing most private payments and that response was primarily with force.

So, would a government demanding €10k for every kidnap of your employees they hear of fix a problem?

No, it would make kidnapping more attractive. It would threaten to involve a larger parasite (clearly this is too late in the case of kidnapping in this century!) And you would have a permanent problem with a powerful parasitic market deriving more profit than the primary market of criminals.

Luckily, for food conglomerates their stock price is uninsurable.

Unluckily for humans, government hasn't stepped in to prevent a market and much more profitable secondary markets for kidnapping in this decade.

Unluckily for private data most governments haven't come down on the use of laundered stolen private data (i.e. outlawing the sloppy US credit market, any unique pricing of insurance to a group, etc.) Luckily, they have not gone so incompetent as to add an incentive that makes all private data valuable.
I don't think AI is needed here -- I wrote an Outlook plugin about 15 years ago that used fuzzy diff between messages in the thread that extracted only the new information added by each person and presented it as a message digest or as a labeled people digraph with msg-bubbles. For the life of me I don't understand why this isn't built in to all email clients -- the way gmail especially quotes replied emails, I need to spend time hunting up and down the message trying to recreate the timeline -- even getting the most recent bit seems harder than it should be.

Do you use Outlook? -- If there is interest, I can try and resurrect it. Although it's not as necessary as it once was -- not as many "Re: re: FW: re: fw: hello!" messages now that people use Slack and Teams, etc.
Grading peoples or organizations apologies and credibility from a distance is largely fruitless and mostly consists of you layering your own experience on someone elses words.
AFAICT, according to the apology he had been accused but not convicted of the violation.
The impromptu 1:1 Zoom meeting is tech’s rediscovery of the telephone call. Those were a staple of office work for good reason. The alternative is typically a scheduled meeting, which feels much heavier. Phone calls also end when they’re done as opposed to filling an arbitrary block of time.
> You--a human driver--have no idea what the other cars will do either. Some people run yellows, some people don't.

But one of them may be more likely, and therefore result in more collisions if you assume it isn't.

In addition to that, many yellow lights are timed too short. That makes it possible to be far enough from the light that you won't make it through the intersection before it turns red, but still close enough that stopping before the intersection would require braking rapidly enough to yield a significant probability of being rear-ended. The problem there is the light timing, but the car can't fix that and still has to make a choice.
Yes, it's true. EWD published almost nothing.

http://www.netlib.org/bibnet/authors/d/dijkstra-edsger-w.htm...

(The ones marked "circulated privately" are the EWD series.)
I'll take pretty decent, then :)

I mean, before this the most I had tested successfully was a little over 2 Gbps with three NICs on a Pi 4 B.
I think it is misleading on purpose. Some kind of SEO probably. The real title is "Television: It’s Called a Medium Because It’s Never Well Done".

1. "Television" has been removed.

2. "a Medium" became "Medium"

3. all uppercases have been removed except the one for "Medium" which makes it a proper name.
Husband of Africa’s richest woman dies in Dubai accident
> gRPC wont be a magic bullet, just like CORBA wasn't, or XML-RPC, or SOAP. History does like to repeat itself...

I will commend gRPC for being brave enough to attach "RPC" to its name in 2020. Can't say the same for that quisling GraphQL, which is neither what I would call a query language nor has anything to do with graphs. A- for marketing effort, I suppose.

> it enforces no discipline where it counts, state management

A tale as old as time. If your redux app is a bloated confusing mess, then try scaling down your department from 100 devs to the 10 that it actually needs. Most devs are bad at organization. Most devs are just bad in general. Ever see a bad developer grapple with TypeScript? I wager most codebases fall apart from disarray long before they reap any of the presumed benefits of most "best" practices. You can't fix social problems with technology. And code hygiene and state hygiene are fundamentally social issues. People think tools like Prettier can come around and clean their house for them. Like some Roomba for code. Even the best Roomba will smear dog shit all over the place.
I don't really disagree with any of that, but it's also exactly what I'm talking about above. Given that you posted both the original reply and this one, I think you're kind of guilty of the old Motte & Bailey [1].

Just for the record: I'm privileged (and generally pretty polite/non-offensive I hope), I've rarely needed to deal with any of the issues addressed by CoCs, and I've also never really dealt with any of the issues others claim are caused by CoCs. I don't personally have a strong opinion on them, and lean towards trusting activists when they say things need to change. I'm just commenting on why discussions about them are so frequently unproductive: there's both misunderstanding and deliberate misrepresentation, because it's not codes of conduct in general that people - possibly wrong people! - don't like.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-bri...
Great practical note by Josh Berkus on why Uber left Posgresql. Basically: runaway table bloat because Uber had a usecase that postgres doesn't address as well as InnoDB.

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5797D5A1.5030009%40agl...
That is certainly a valid point and there should be something on it. Though at the same time a lot of the stages and efforts you need to go through in the beginning (validation, sales, marketing, etc) are very similar.

I never have aspiration that whatever I create will make enough money for me to leave my day job. Give that, I still need to go through all the steps though to get there.
I'd like to register for the course, but it asks me to complete information about my company. Surely, if I was only thinking of starting a startup and had not already started one I wouldn't have that information to provide. So, I'm not entirely sure how to complete the registration other than just making stuff up.
Well, when a LAN is 1Gb/s they are actually not talking about real bits. It actually is 100MB/s max, not 125MB/s as one might expect. Back in the old days they used to call it baud.
Similar, Robert J Sawyer's Neanderthal Parallax trilogy.
All concurrency-safe languages.
Eg pony, concurrent pascal, the parrot vm, ...
async/await are not primitives. Mutexes, semaphores, atomic counts etc... those are true primitives in multithreading and they have been around forever (since the 70s at least).

I feel the Swift lang. design is like amateur hour at its best, trying to reinvent the wheel, but still end up where it started, but at worse overrall usability. Just re-arranging chairs. 8 years later, and still Objective-c + GCD combo is better at multithreading.

In comparison: Java had decent multithreading support since version 1.1,(one year later after its release) and it had NIO by JDK 1.4 and full modern multithreading by JDK 1.5.

Swift is a couple of years behind because it is trying too hard to be cool and different.
Something interesting that Snowden says is that he is not asking for a pardon, his condition for going back to the US is to drop the strict-liability qualification of his crime.

It wouldn't be something easy on him, but a judicial precedent could be even better than a pardon.
I am aware we have these civil rights laws. I am asking if you can find a scenario where someone was forced to engage in creative work for someone under these laws.

For example, someone forced to be a wedding photographer of an interracial wedding when they didn't want to.
Raptor-inspired drone with morphing wing and tail
Biden campaign says its ‘unable to trust’ Facebook
FYI, Thomas (aka tptacek) would be an excellent resource in your area, in case you don't already know that. (He consistently tops the leader board of HN karma points.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
I went to Cambridge University, UK from a working class background. Unwritten dress codes were one of the many things used to "other" anyone from the wrong background. These things aren't obvious.
Yes, I think you're right. He refers to "the two reporters" (and previously mentions that there were two complaints).
Silicon Valley is spending millions more for Joe Biden than it did for Clinton
I read it quite differently. It sounds to me that he is still accused but they have not confirmed the violation yet. The committee has recused themselves from that decision.
Dog training methods help JHU teach robots to learn new tricks – Hub
Those numbers look way off, maybe they mixed up the units? Should be a few GBps at least.
denisovans and neanderthals probably interacted
I love Awk. The idea of a programming language that effectively facilitates first-class state machines over text streams fits so well with the Unix pipeline model.
Waymo cars could be following the law and still be extremely difficult for other drivers to deal with.

E.g. I don't know how much they've improved since but a few years back I was in a short merge for my daily commute and there was a Waymo car in the lane I was trying to merge into which just drove parallel to me without speeding up or slowing down as most human drivers do to make way. This was the most difficult merge I had experienced on that spot in years of driving that same commute.
Except, even if you do own the assets in your bank account (I've seen a lot of sources claiming that, at least in the US, you don't but I have no idea how accurate that is) you still signed a contract with regard to that account, agreeing to abide by certain terms including rates and fees.

And on every social media platform with which you have an account, you agreed to terms of service which very likely grant the platform a "worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such content in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed." (copied from Twitter's TOS, but every other platform is basically the same.)

data and infrastructure are not separate matters. Just as, with a bank, your account is a liability unless it makes them money, with a social media platform your data is a liability unless it makes them money. And in exchange for a free platform (or free checking and a pen) you gave certain rights of ownership away. If you want to "recognize the property interest of users" you have to recognize it in that context.
AI to help world’s first removal of space debris
It makes sense considering the other guy is an existential threat for humanity.
Databases shouldn't be exciting. They should just work.

The main reason webcrap works is because the databases underneath work. If the Javascript crowd had to manage data storage, nothing persistent would work reliably.
I see the same thing in CS:GO. Then people wonder why no women stick with it long enough to go pro.
In 1937, a trucker got frustrated waiting for his cargo to be unloaded
Man, I forgot I owned that and both of the Aces Over games. I miss things that came with spiral-bound manuals.

No idea why though.
Abomination with 500000 open job offerts and ppl wanting their page to load 2 minutes, because we can do that “async” and download half of internet to display a table.
and today the package has been found and Tucker is on air saying, "you know what? maybe we should lay off Hunter. After all, he's a troubled man."

What's more likely: that Tucker is full of shit and never had the kind of story he claims he did, or that a network of win-at-any-cost leftists have infiltrated the UPS and were lying in wait to kill this story and any others like in before the election?

The lengths people will go to find a conspiracy when there's a simpler explanation will always baffle me
I think I see where you're coming from, in that you're allowed to have knowledge of other people, and most of the time it's perfectly innocuous. But I don't think that's a very fair comparison. There's a pretty big difference between just happening upon some information (that you would likely immediately forget because it's not important), and actively seeking out and extracting information, often combining it with more information from different sources, saving it to a "profile" associated with you, and often sharing it with third parties, all without your knowledge or consent.

You seem to be implying that there's no difference between having a single piece of harmless information about someone, and having lots of personal and/or intimate knowledge of them, especially if they aren't the ones having given it to you, and even more so if you're strangers.
The site seems mysterious... Almost like an invitation to step in just to find out what it's about :))
That is correct, but in this case what is the competitor being impacted?
Take a look at Frama-C or Ada Spark sometime; they apply the predicate transformer semantics style to code and do pretty well. But yeah, incomplete specifications are always fun.
Inevitably, one of the autonomous vehicle companies, eventually, will.

Therefore letting the aggressive, reckless drivers build up a sense of immunity and excitement seems like a Sun Tsu move to me.

When the camera-covered car has its first day in court, it may be that all the cases are filed at once (by that company, and Waymo may not be the first to pull the trigger on the lawsuits).

Statute of limitations in California is a bit tricky, but just as a baseline, assume this Sun Tsu-esque company collects evidence for 5 years. Judges may actually look favorably on the company waiting to make sure their cases can be decided en masse. Of course, the media will be all over it.
Why the Soylent founder is voting for Kanye West
Innumeracy strikes again. It's actually 4-5 Gbytes/s [1] plus whatever bandwidth the video scanout is stealing (~400 Mbytes/s?). That's only ~40% efficient which is simultaneously terrible and pretty much what you'd expect from Broadcom. However 4 Gbytes/s is 32 Gbits/s which leaves plenty of headroom to do 5 Gbits/s of network I/O.

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=271121
Fritz the Cat
Fritz has a new home. I hope he likes it.
As best I can tell, nothing really changed... this type of situation can happen again at numfocus.

Implicit to having a code of conduct, is what you do to enforce it. That's the hard part. The problem stems from organizations that setup these types of disciplinary structures/groups without understanding even the basics of due process.

Note, I'm just reading about this now and have no knowledge of this organization prior, but that CoC group at numfocus reads more like a star chamber than anything.
They might have built their own pico-8 runtime/emulator. Alternatively, porting the game to use another Lua runtime (like LÖVE) would probably not be that hard. Ex, here's a pico-8 runtime in LÖVE:

https://github.com/picolove/picolove
"Online" used to mean "not batch-processed".

Computer scientists still refer to "online algorithms" as meaning "algorithms which process each input as it comes in". The obvious algorithm for "find the minimum element" is online for example, since you can stop at any point and say what the smallest you've seen so far is; however finding the median takes more work (you need to maintain two heaps, vs. simply collecting all the data and sorting it at the end).
I agree that discussions on this topic are generally toxic, but nothing in the GP directly assigned blame.

It's more or less widely accepted in broader society that European colonialism laid the foundation for much of the modern world and many historians agree it was in turn partially justified by the "subeuropean-ness" of colonized peoples. I can easily show you papers published in the last decade continuing to justify historic colonialism as bringing civilization. There's an excellent (though dated) book on this called "Machines as the Measure of Men", which I often recommend to other people in tech.
I'm not sure I agree. The CoC was written down, which means we can critique it and change it, and hold them accountable to following it (which they failed to do.) And as you see, they are responding to feedback about their handling of it, although I'd guess we'd agree that their response thus far is pretty inadequate. But I'd be inclined to continue to pressure them to step up.

If you advocate for getting rid of CoCs, IMO, you have to have an answer for how actual harassment should be dealt with. Many people I've spoken to did not feel safe at tech events of the past because of rampant harassment that would be swept under the rug. The tech industry of 2020 is not prepared to return to that world.

It seems like step one of dealing with harassment is to define it, which is the problem CoCs should solve. If you think they are failing, what is your alternative, if it's not to improve them?
Yes.

You will also note that the word "sorry" is entirely missing. And the list of things that they failed to "acknowledge" includes their not telling him what rule he was accused of violating, what action of his violated the rule, having literally laughed at him, and having violated their own code of conduct.

They also offer nothing in the way of amends. Or do anything to suggest that there will be consequences to the people who screwed up.

Given that, their assurance that they will use this "to improve our policies going forward" sounds like the meaningless hollow BS that it is.
It looks like the problem is `ksoftirqd` gets pegged at 100% and the system just queues up packets, slowing everything down. See: https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices/iss...