skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The media has fallen into the well-known trap of optimizing the wrong KPI. You want to maximize trust with the public, not engagement, if you want your media company to survive if its value proposition is providing journalism and the usual benefits that come with a free press.

Unfortunately, not only is engagement the wrong metric, but it's also one which incentivizes the undermining of the actual metric you need to be optimizing. This results in a negative feedback loop, and the logical outcome is that all media companies who focus on the engagement KPI will, in the limit, become tabloids - pure entertainment, no trust. Since most outlets were already on their way to becoming politics-focused, what we're going to get are "tabloids for politics" - and that is what we see. It's just a matter of when the public accepts this transition has occurred, not if it is happening.

Getting the public to accept this has proven challenging - despite the fact that many clearly see the "opposite side" media as tabloid-like, it's been hard for the same people to accept that their own chosen media sources, who tell them things they agree with, are no different in this regard. The resistance of course is due to all the usual human biases, but it's still strange when people can see it so obviously in the media they disagree with and not apply Occam's Razor to their own.

This does mean that there's a huge opportunity if you assume trust is something people will pay for. Substack seems to provide early evidence that this is the case. Fortunately, I think the market will correct this error - and it's critical it does, because a free press is essential to ensuring our society continues without increasing oppression or war.
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Why does it need hundreds of millions of people?
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For me, the following exercise solved this problem for the most part:

Close your eyes and start typing. Don't stop until you're done.

Then let the editing begin :)
I'm not saying that open source communities are not in need of moderation. Of course they are, like any online community. Basically every open online forum is vulnerable to vulgar, hateful and abusive content being posted. The point this sub-thread is referring to, is that CoC's are there as:

> a way to assure newcomers that your project wasn't going to allow racist trolling on the mailing list

This is what seems a bit funny to me, because I would take it for granted that racist remarks would not be tolerated as a matter of course. It doesn't seem to me that you need a CoC to enforce this.

And I would repeat that in my personal experience, having been involved with OSS discussions for over 10 years, I have never personally encountered this.
That explains the current state of full stack developers.
I think Yunsup mentioned a small % performance improvement over the SiFive Unleashed. [EDIT I wrongly said the memory had doubled here - see correction in follow up comment] On the other hand the SiFive Unleashed was perfectly usable for general development use, even for use as a desktop.
As soon as I heard "man boobs" and "soy protein" I was out. This may be completely false, but truth is hard to come by these days. No need to risk it here when there are plenty of other good sources of protein.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18558591/
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Exerpt:

> refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden
Sorry I fail to see the big distinction between Firebase realtime synchronization and graphql subscriptions. There might be one, and I just don't see it as I'm not intimately familiar with Firebase.

Firebase data retrieval definitions and graphql subscriptions look very similar too me. Both methods allow you to describe some data record(s) or document(s) to be fetched, fetches it, and then listens for server notifications about data changes for it including the changeset or new data.

https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/admin/retrieve-dat...

That clients receive events in milliseconds with Firebase and potentially with a second delay with Hasura is a performance detail. The functionality still serves the same general purpose? When one client modifies some document or record immediately notify all subscribing clients.
Yes, they are being distributed by Mouser.
This is perhaps getting a bit pedantic, but the development of Arctic civilizations (and specifically arctic climate here, not subarctic) seems to actually be more around the third millennium BC, or 4-5kya rather than 10kya.

It's also worth pointing out that Arctic peoples adapted to their environment largely by utilizing the capabilities of existing fauna (e.g., hunting existing apex predators, or using reindeer furs to keep warm). And when non-Arctic peoples tried their hands in the region without similar adaptations, the result tended to be "everyone dies," as in the Shackleton and Franklin expeditions.

Note that there are places on Earth we haven't been able to successfully inhabit. For example, somewhere around 17,000 feet appears to be the maximum possible altitude for permanent human habitation.
This whole article has a much too assured tone about itself than is actually warranted. The one thing I can agree with when it comes to nutrition science are:

1. There are a huge amount of unknowns in nutrition science.

2. We have multiple examples where highly processed foods (e.g. trans fats, refined sugars, low fiber) have been proven bad for you, so eating whole foods is generally a safer bet, but regardless it tastes better, too.
This would be the most awesome troll of SV startups. Own the directory of help for all SV tech companies and create an AdSense for that.
I usually try to get Sci-Fi books in hardcover (that's how I read all my first Sci-Fi and it stuck with me)... I'll make an exception for that one!
This is only a small part of the story. Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles all have housing costs far in excess of local wages, and are pushing poorer people out of the cities. These other cities only have a tiny fraction of external money coming in, yet have very similar problems.

One common thing, however: building far less housing than the population is growing in the US.

This is the primary effect, decades of downzoning and decreasing housing production, without taking into account the needs of the population, just the desires of landlords and homeowners.

What this does is push up what percentile of wealth sets the market price. And if at the top of the wealth percentiles there are 10%-20% foreign money, then it seems like a tiny number of people are having a much bigger effect than they are.

Cutting out the purchases of those 10-20% wont have a huge effect on prices, but they make a great scapegoat, and let homeowners and landlords continue their profit-seeking schemes for a few more years.

Vancouver has both vacancy taxes and foreign purchase taxes. They do not solve the real problem, but are good window dressing and help a tiny fraction of the population.
Regarding offerings on Timescale Cloud around "IO-optimized", "compute-optimized", and "storage-optimized", and particularly that Timescale Cloud runs on all three major clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) across 76 regions:

This indeed reflects that these different options are using different VM instance types, as well as different storage options, including both local instance storage _and_ remote block storage (EBS).

You can partially see this also in the maximum storage capacity of options, where some service types can do 10TB of storage, while others max out at 500GB. As well as in variety in which options we can offer in which clouds/regions based on the underlying hardware capacities that are available.

(Note this is the maximum sized "disk". Because TimescaleDB's compression on average gets 94-97% storage reductions -- measured across the field -- the amount of raw data you can actually store on these options is much higher. And why also it's not an apples-to-apples price comparison against RDS!)

So it's exposing this tradeoff in performance/price/capacity to users to hopefully find these exact needs. And the good thing is there is a "one-click" fully-online migration between instance types (and regions/clouds), so switching is always quite easy, especially as your usage grows.
also if you are doing something like decltype( *val ) to get at the underlying type.
Fasting is also a viable alternative, you don't need every meal.
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I suppose I was reacting to this:

"Authoritative reference documents of MDN are going to become cluttered with comments and disagreements"

Which suggests previously authoritative docs are becoming less so due to being editable. I'm just pointing out they are and always have been subject to edits from the public. If anything the PR process will likely increase the reliability of the info because there would be a chance to do some vetting of changes.

I totally agree that MDN is as close to authoritative as you can get, but it's one (important) step away.
Interesting. You can try it out here: https://semgrep.dev/editor/

It doesn't appear to catch the following when searching for exec(...) in the following python code:

not_exec = exec
not_exec('rm -rf /')

Edited to include language
My car is product of evolution of a couple hundred years, evolving to lubricate with refined petroleum oil in its engine.

Today I,m making oil change, too busy to get petroleum 10-30 oil, figure some canola should be just as good, it,s just oil, guys.
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Based on more mature codebase.

/When I tried Clickhouse, I managed to segfault it with NULL pointer dereference error. Ok it is anecdotal, and maybe I just had bad luck, same could happen with Postgres etc etc... But anyway: it can be a deciding factor.
(And they fixed it quickly - issue 7955 on github) /
It tickles me that there was a "Fibonacci Quarterly" where people shared their favorite new Fibonacci facts on a quarterly basis.
> people say the same thing about quants and fund managers in centralized finance

both are true
It reminds me of what happened with Steve Wozniak.
This looks really cool! Do you want to focus on developer productivity tools only or expand to other applications as well?
The preprocessed output of GCC and Clang usually contains the file names.
Thanks for your answer. Maybe, I have too much of a Bootstrapper mindset but when I see a service based company (like my own), I assume VCs won't be interested because it cannot scale to $1B or whatever number investors look for.

Again, great idea and I hope you guys succeed and prove me (and people who think like me about venture capital) wrong.
Maker here, love to hear any feedback you had!
The profit/investment motive is fundamentally behind the scarcity of affordable housing.
Anyone working on GPT-4? it might figure some of that out on its own?
"All loves have to die; of that there's no help.

My favorite way to end 'em

Is the orb weaver spider's, whose pedipalp

Enters the female pudendum,

Then dies on the spot, his corpse there still stuck,

Left for his rivals to curse it.

He would rather die than not get to fuck;

Personally, I reckon it's worth it!"

--TISM, "Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me"

Spider sex is fascinatingly bizarre, but if you really want to be grossed out, look up bedbug sex. The female bedbug has no vagina analogue or other opening in which to leave sperm, so the male bedbug just kind of fucks away at her until he pierces or wears a hole in her exoskeleton and injects his sperm into that, where it floats around in her hemolymph until it finds her eggs. Female bedbugs are thus highly susceptible to coital infection, but those fuckers are nevertheless adapted for survival even despite our efforts to get rid of them.
I agree that LinkedIn is a terrible place, or a last resort, to find work. It's actually a pretty good place to maintain some connection with former colleagues and people you've met in your professional life.

I will disagree about recruiters (you wrote head hunters, which refers to a specialized kind of recruiter). Most of them are useless, but if you can find a good recruiter they can open a lot of doors. Many companies only work through recruiters, and good recruiters know the local job market and have contacts. How do you find a good recruiter? By asking people in your network.
I dont have citations on hand, but my understanding is that this claim is largely attributed to a single/small amount of studies of dubious validity funded by US Beef industry, and that when you look at populations that have much higher soy intake, their estrogen levels are not elevated/are lower than similar US populations.

Grain of salt and all that, just offering a lead for those curious of the counter argument
I primarily compare it to the silly social media apps I was making for $50-$90 an hour for other people

And then for $120 an hour

And then being rejected from every job for 6 months straight while I got incrementally better at leetcode, and saying the right thing in behavioral interviews

That was a much more quantifiable waste that had no value for any real human being

Its really hard for me to make the distinction you feel so passionately about
Setting boundaries on what one will and wont do isn't victimhood. He doesn't owe the world his output under any terms but his own.
I thought the same while reading the article.
My understanding is that carbohydrates are not really bad, especially unrefined ones.

Examine.com has this to say:
https://examine.com/nutrition/awful-nutrition-myths/#summary...

At the end of the day, no one knows I guess.
Does anybody else find very unnerving that the CPU clocks are undisclosed?

They can't be found anywhere. Not even the product brief[0].

[0]: https://sifive.cdn.prismic.io/sifive/c05b8ddd-e043-45a6-8a29...
> The problem with this line of thinking — and the Trump administration’s ideological and monetary support for NASA exploring the solar system — is that it perpetuates the myth that, through technological developments, humans are destined to leave Earth and find a utopia elsewhere

This seems like a strawman. The myth of flat earth, for example, is also perpetuated by some social media circles. That doesn't make it a primary factor for driving policy or anything at all, for that matter.

IMHO, the real danger here is the idea that some high priority problem on earth can be solved by just diverting funds from one thing and throwing more money at said problem. Not just because that often doesn't work (e.g. the classical "nine women to make a baby in a month" analogy in project management), but also because of the underlying mentality that analytical/scientific work is a second class cog that can and ought to be coerced and discarded willy nilly by the whims of whoever has the reins on financial support.

This mentality shows a deep disdain for intellectual endeavor and due diligence, which are critical to solve the very issues the author claims are important.
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Yep, it’s fun to see what things glibc will let you get away with ;)
Likely not because of extreme popularity. Publishers almost always switch very quickly from hardcover to only printing paperback editions because the market isn't willing to pay the additional cost. It's worse for weird scifi novels because the market is small, so the hardcover run for this was probably tiny.
In what sense? The media has always censored information that can't be verified.

Nytimes doesn't publish articles about flat earth theory.

Even Fox News actual News division refuses to run these Hunter Biden stories. Same thing with Seth Rich, or ideas about crisis actors. How is this different?
"It's dangerous to think humans have a destiny in the Americas"
>The announced pricing for the current "beta" is $99/month plus $500 upfront for the hardware.

Yes, that's the price they charge. What are the costs of providing the service?
Fwiw about half of the sres I know at Google come from sysadmin or help desk roles within Google.
One serving of Soylent gives me 14g of fat and 13g of protein. Better than a granola bar and some fruit and nuts, which tend to be only carb heavy with some protein.
That's how I treat note-taking today. I keep a physical notebook that I jot down ideas and draw diagrams in. It's sort of my canvas for sketching things out and seeing if I understand the problem and solution I'm working on.

Like you, I have a bunch of old notebooks as well that I only ever flip through for nostalgia. I generally only review my notebooks for design notes if the notes are at most 3-6 months old.
I didn’t know riscv was making its way into consumer goods yet. Any examples you can share of places seeing riscv adoption?
It's 1 GHz [WRONG - see below], it was mentioned in the presentation. The Unleashed can be overclocked just by catting an entry in sysfs, I'm not sure if the same will apply here.

EDIT: The clock speed I quoted above is WRONG. I'm on the breakout call now and they are NOT announcing clock speed at this time.
hotels.com is an Expedia brand, not a company.
What happens when Glenn fails to conform to Substack's standards?

To my knowledge Substack hasn't censored yet, but it's inevitable. Glenn should just start his own site, in my opinion.
We could "spin" the anti-space side as a religion too I suppose. It involves a bit more ascetism and self-flagellation though.

I already live in a "heavenly" future compared to most of my ancestors.

I have hot and cold running water. My waste is whisked away. I can travel far and harness powerful energies with the flick of a switch. I can summon almost any food or item imaginable to my doorstep. I can open a portal to anywhere and speak with people there. There are still mysteries however, and the human body is rich with them.

There is a growing sense that using our powers comes at a terrible cost.

Many feel that the only solution is to abstain, although some factions believe that we can "purify" our technology.

Because the problem, filtered through the human psyche, is seen as a moral one. That it's _wrong_ for so many things to be too easy. Ten dollars shoes, drive-thru fast food and plastic bags must be evil because anyone can see it's absurd that these things are even possible.

Naturally, developing new powers (such as space exploration) would come with more terrible costs, and this must be stopped until we address our sins here on earth.
France has a long, ugly history of colonization in Islamic countries in Africa. That left a very strong negative feeling, not entirely unlike Iran shows towards the US. That makes France a target for terrorism -- not because they expect anything from France, but because of the ways terrorism is promulgated, as resentment looking for a target to strike at.

If you're interested, I'd start here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_War
He was maybe more interested in being a journalist than running a business.
It probably helps that, like with several authorized source ports, a separately-acquired copy of the original game assets are required. I’d imagine some of the enhanced ports (that provide upgraded models and textures) would be more legally shaky, and there must be some other good reason why they wouldn’t go after them.
"The Wright Brothers should stop wasting their time trying to make airplanes and donate their meager dollars to <insert my political favorite problem>"
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If that were true, we'd have seen significant effects in the peoples of Asia by now, where soy consumption is high.
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I’m not talking about this specific situation; I’m talking about his career the past 5 years.
Personally I'm ready to do all of that right now, wearing a mask indoors (and already go to big box stores; concerts are not happening and I don't need to take transit given WFH). I do outdoor activities and it's crowded everywhere, as usual if not more... flying to Red Rocks to climb in a week or two ;)

The pandemic made me really grateful that I live in America, in fact... the freedoms and the culture of liberty
is, most of the time, just an abstraction for someone as privileged and non-prominent as myself, but then you compare the way lockdowns are handled to my native Russia, with draconian and sometimes bizarre enforcement, as well as the stories from Europe, NZ, Australia, etc., and you realize how important both are. I feel the US, even the blue states, are very different in part because the officials realize the enforcement against individuals would cause massive backlash, and not hold up well in court if it came to that. Too bad they have businesses by the balls, so not everything is opened.
I think your misunderstood my initial comment. It was regarding the fact that service based companies are expected to not reach scales that VCs look for, so my question was more so regarding how they plan to approach that problem when the time comes.
This is the news site that broke the Tara Reade rape allegation against Biden this spring. To me, this makes me think there's more to this story. You have no problem dropping a rape allegation story days after Biden is the presumptive nominee (with numerous follow-up articles), but apparently are "censoring" critical comments about Biden from GG's articles?
I think that depends less on the device as it exists now and more on whether an OEM becomes interested in adapting it into a "real" product.
It happens all the time, more often than you may think. More often than not.
The article is missing an important point: you cannot learn causality from observational data alone. It's not about shortcomings of this or that model, it's a theoretical impossibility.

Reinforcement learning is uniquely positioned to build machines that understand cause-and-effect on their own because the algorithm is allowed to interact with the world, observe the results, gather more data, rule out hypotheses, and so on.
"victimhood"?

I find it hard to believe this comment is anything but gaslighting.

Did you actually read his resignation? The editors are refusing to publish a story unless he removes all sections critical of Joe Biden. How in the world is this playing the victim card?

The conversation regarding censorship is getting disgusting at this point. Censorship should be the main focus of ANY and EVERY journalist, full stop. The profession cannot coexist in a world with censorship. It undermines every single thing about honest, transparent reporting.
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Keep in mind that this is Greenwald's perception.

The story he's referring to has so many holes in it that it's more of a mesh than a woven cloth. Maybe a lace. There isn't much to it except criticism of Biden. Removing criticism of Biden just makes it threadbare and tawdry.
I surprised this post did not include the term sheeple in it.