skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect there is a general sense among people that critical events took place behind closed doors during the 20th century, and this historical fiction mini-fad is an attempt to revisit the narratives and retell them with a more modern understanding. Case in point, the HBO series "Lovecraft Country" is not Lovecraft or horror at all, it is on purpose abusing horror to illustrate to the audience the nature of normalized racial abuse.
I've had a good experience with Apple Singapore (Wheelock Place) as well. I was even able to get a loaner iPhone 6 for a week when I gave my OG SE in for repair due to a display issue causing the screen to slightly pop out of its frame. Quite understandably (but somewhat to my dismay), they wouldn't give me a loaner iPhone 8 instead.
That could unblock a blocked light sensor due to shifting of the broken screen.
"Rivals are alien, unlikable, contemptible" could be a description of feelings in Northern Ireland during its worst days, long before the advent of social media. Poisonous rhetoric definitely made things worse, but the real damage was done by things like gerrymandering, unequal access to jobs and housing, and repressive one-sided policing.

From a distance, it looks like some of those same problems are contributing to the USA's polarisation. Fixing them will be much more important, and much harder, than just tuning out obnoxious media.
The various Wars On Drugs do not inspire.

According to me, they have at best been ineffectual, and more commonly made a bad thing worse.

I think/hope we're in a transitional phase of our civilization where we haven't figured out how to handle these new things yet. Over time, institutions will emerge. They always do, right?
What will happen is that big pharma will throw some pills on the market and do heavy marketing claiming that nightowlism is a severe disease that needs to be treated with “changing brain chemistry”, and night owls will be labeled as mentally ill or of weak character by society forever for their evolutionary adaptation. It already happens to an extend, night owls who can’t use their peak productivity hours around 2am because they have to adhere to some artificial schedule (often made by people who don’t have to do a lot of brainy things) are often on smart drugs during the day.
Where's the carousel?
Reading the headline, I got really nervous imagining how many people would assume that a negative on the cough app means they are COVID-free and then go out and infect everyone.

However, reading the article, it seems like the false negative rate is really low. It sounds like this could be an incredibly effective screening tool.
Considering compression to be isentropic is just nailing down what compression means enough for its heating to be actually definable. Otherwise, the argument is just "if there's compression occurring, all the heating must be considered as being due to compression" which is just bullshit.
I can't be the only one not shedding a single tear for the five 65-year-old tech retirees who have the time on their hands to perform manual repairs on their consumer devices.
Thank you for your comment, it was really illuminating. I work for a company that is starting clinical trials for a new type of CF treatment. Let me know if you'd like any info.
A surprising bit twiddling trick[0] uses a De Bruijn sequence to calculate log base 2.

[0] https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#Integer...
More 'ethics-free' guidance, thanks! /s

Yes, we should care about writing good software, what is a good process, how to best satisfy requirements, etc.

But I really would like to see ethical considerations play a role. Sometimes (surprisingly often I think) people should not do the work they are being requested to do. Just because one's boss (and one's paycheck) depends on following a set of instructions, if it goes against one's conscience, what is the point?

I mean, someone wrote these 'track and trace' apps. This is to say, they are explicitly enabling the government to track every single move of its citizens. Is that ok? Not to me. They should have resigned rather than play their part in increasing governmental control.

Unfortunately, technologists are building the dystopia of tomorrow. 'Smart' cities, anything that encourages use of a 'smart' phone, more data in the hands of FAANG, etc, etc.

smart == spy

If you are under the panopticon, you are not you any longer. You respond to please others, not yourself. You are in fact a slave.

Anything that enforces the hierarchical system, making it ever more restrictive, has blood on their hands in my view. We are designing a future that is less free, less accepting, more rigid. No one wants it. But all those doing the work, are selling out their fellows and even their own future rights, for a paycheck today.
This site is censored too, and the news media is becoming increasingly partisan an consolidated as well.
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Maybe they have actually been persecuted because of what their body naturally pefers sleep wise?

I'm not surprised that someone who sounds like they've been bullied over this would have their upset show through when they speak about something that directly related to this.
How did you get your impression of what the US is?
the mayans were off by 8 years.
It does somewhat amuse me to see the degree to which people rationalise Apple's ongoing, consistent control freakery with excuses and justifications. Every time a story like this comes up the amount of people defending what they do really shocks me.

I used to work for Imagination Technologies, whose GPU all Apple mobile devices are based upon. I was at the company when Apple announced that they would no longer require IMG and would be using their own entirely independently developed GPU (knocking 75% off the share value of the company and effectively bankrupting them).

Looking from the inside of the story, the degree to which people both here on HN and in the media at large including, amazingly, the BBC, a state-funded UK news organisation took Apple's side of the issue when they were very clearly talking complete nonsense shocked me.

Apple simply relied on the fact that a. they'd poached a ton of top people at IMG b. IMG could not afford to battle the decision in court (an aside - IMG and Apple have quietly signed a deal for IP again recently - hardly suggesting that Apple have gone entirely independent of IMG). We could get into the fact that the 'independent' GPU was bug-for-bug identical to IMG HW, or documentation for it literally referenced PowerVR enums but I don't want to dwell too much on that.

My point is that Apple have for years taken an approach of trying to vertically integrate EVERYTHING and gain independent control of EVERYTHING. Many suppliers went the way of IMG, and this lack of repairability is in my opinion simply the latest episode of Apple not wanting anybody else whatsoever involved in their products.

The trend continues with Apple moving to all-ARM chips (we'll see what happens with ARM IP, nvidia can fight longer in court so perhaps Apple will leave that alone) and will, in my opinion, continue in all areas for all of their products.

Whether you think it's right or wrong it surprises me that people seem to lose sight of or deny this ongoing trend.
People in social media spend several hours per day following politics but almost nobody of them is engaged in any real political work. They are engaging with politics to satisfy our own emotional needs and intellectual curiosities. That’s political hobbyism/consumerism.

It's not different from being sports fan. Making noise from the couch but not having no effect in the game and annoying people who don't follow.

They have no serious purpose. They are just wasting energy.
> A 2018 study had people who were partisan get exposed to some information on the other side. So if you’re Republican, you get to see what Hillary Clinton is saying, or if you’re a Democrat, you’re exposed to what Donald Trump is saying. And that actually made it worse.

The messenger matters just as much as the message. People on both sides carry strong Bayesian priors associated with Trump and Clinton, as well as with most major news outlets now, so they’re predisposed to assume words coming from messengers of “the other side” are inherently untrustable or malicious.

A more interesting study would be to expose partisans to identical content (an argument for something wonky, like trade policy or entitlement reform) through venues that otherwise look like their ideological stomping grounds, and watch how quickly people from both sides would agree.

Another part of the problem is that many of the current polarizing topics (gun control and abortion come to mind) are rooted in fundamental moral differences that don’t allow for rational discussion of the middle ground. Either the government can take guns away or it can’t. Either people can terminate a pregnancy or they can’t. Slippery slope arguments dominate these conversations and make people afraid to give any ground.

This is actually why I see promise for an AI tool like GPT-3 (or -6 or -7, more like) in politics. Prompt it with content from both sides and see how it answers debate questions. Maybe it would just learn how to give political non-answers. Maybe it would just lead to the politicization of AI, which currently enjoys healthy distrust from both sides. Or maybe people find that they’re more comfortable trusting a machine than a human from the other side.
My experience has been the complete opposite of yours and I’ve discovered cheap Android phones are torture to use. I would prefer to have my testicles removed via Slap Chop than use a 5 year old trash-droid or simply use a five year old iOS device.
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Are people willing to line up, or are they being pressured to line up?

In many cases, a person's principles are clear from what they say and do. That being said, a refusal to align one's self with a movement is often construed as supporting the other side. There are many reasons for refusing to align: a preference for independent thought, a realization that ideological movements change, an understanding that one's own principles shift (while labels often stick), or simply not buying into some fundamental points. None of that seems to matter when issues are polarized.
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I'm not so sure that it's the cringe that is the problem. I think it's the notion that these social media platforms are acting as a lens for how a lot of people see the world.
shurely shome mishtake :(
How do you see HN fitting into this?

I mean, HN is a "single feed" which avoids the belligerent group dynamics... but culture bleeds.

The narrative dichotomies and other elements of this belligerence dynamic (I think it's more belligerence than polarisation, btw) exist here and other social media that isn't explicitly structured for it like twitter, reddit or fb. Is massive, many-2-many communication a lost cause?
In Ontario, over 77% of 'Hydro One' (roughly equivalent entity) earn over $100 000, average pay is well over $100K for 'basically skilled labour'. They are paid nearly double market rates, tons of vacation, grate benefits, 0 layoffs and quite difficult to get fired. The intangible benefits are worth probably 10% extra.

Many of these people live in more rural area where cost of living is 30-40% lower than otherwise.

If that's not enough - they are paid glorious retirement benefits for decades after retirement - it's hard to fathom the 'net present value' of those benefits.

With overtime, semi-skilled line workers can easily earn over $200K.

Counting the cost of education and overhead and retirement package - if you live in a rural area, you're going to make more money doing 'semi skilled line work' for Hyro One than you will as a Doctor or frankly anything else.

Have a look [1]

While I think you are very correct in your concerns - Public Sector Unions have an iron grip over such infrastructure and they will seek as much profit as they can from their monopoly.

They have no incentive to do anything other than the minimum and extract from their guild monopolization of that bit of infrastructure.

There's no way we can make any significant progress with those kinds of institutional barriers so there needs to be progress there as well.

[1] https://www.ontariosunshinelist.com/employers/pnfx
We are an inherently tribal species. It's in our DNA.
I searched the article and was unable to find the phrase "basket of deplorables." That's puzzling, because it's a really stellar instance of the very action the article discusses.

Certainly, you can get a very wound-up contingent of people anywhere who will work themselves into hysterics, call people murderers and Nazis (and then of course jump to how moral it is to punch them), but it's rather different seeing a statesperson succumb to that kind of thing was a little startling. The article missed an opportunity there.
I really hope this generation is never asked for actual sacrifice. People who lost their jobs are the ones who have it really bad right now. For everyone else, it's an inconvenience. Using words like 'evil' and 'joyless prisons' shows a complete lack of perspective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder

If you want redefine language, that is fine, but in real life I will not accept being called a murderer.

1984 was not a manual.
I prefer to use Debian packages because it conforms to conventions that make managing systems easier: predictable naming, integration with service management, logging, docs, manages.

(I use NixOS for personal use.)
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>Well, this is literally true if you consider non-human lives. [...] Stating a legitimate political or moral view alone is not (itself) what induces polarization, as I see it.

Calling the other side "murderers" goes beyond "stating a legitimate political or moral view". You're accusing the other side of being criminals of the worst kind, so of course it's going to be polarizing.
It's not out of the realm of possibility but it seems extremely unlikely. Also, the part of the light sensor is not cracked.
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The guy defined what it meant to be classy, hip, and bad ass all at the same time. Mere mortals can barely do just a single one of those.
Twitter can only make meagre attempts to censor. They can stop something from “trending” or whatever. But if you want to hear from independent journalists and researchers and analysts, Twitter lets you do that, and short of shutting down the entire service, it’s unstoppable.
Relevant paper seems to be: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9208795

Looks incredible. Hopefully the weights and code are released quickly.
Not exactly a useful claim given it can be made by anyone for any portion of their "team" they're embeeassed by.

The core problem is that America uses a two party system and that can only result in heavy partisanship.
We needed more steam!
That’s the easiest thing to mention but it’s far from the only one I’ve encountered from using MySQL since the late 90s. The reason things like this keep getting mentioned is that they keep breaking databases: it’s like trying to excuse all of the salmonella cases at a restaurant which serves undercooked chicken because you can remember to order it fully cooked.

In 1998, MySQL was appealing because it was very fast on simple queries and didn’t cost a further. Until the early 2010s it had a better replication story than Postgres. But by now it’s often slower than Postgres on my apps, feature poor, and you don’t notice how many limitations you’ve internalized until you realize it’s been years since you had to repair or kludge around a MySQL quirk.
It's a 4 years old phone. A non Apple phone that told doesn't even have a supported OS with security updates.

Mass production is cheaper than custom repair labor. You're spending more than $150 on your own time fix it (which is great, you have that skill).
It is virtually impossible on Twitter, I know because I've used every tool possible (tweet deck, lists, occasionally muting people, changing the feed layout) and it just doesn't work because (a) Twitter is designed to bleed content from one tribe to another (b), because people have one feed where they combine work, private life and politics and (c) the metrics Twitter use are based on designs that agitate and divide.
What kind of incompatibility? Base Android would be same. Pure Android you don't even require Google, you can buy Android one mobile.
I wish he hadn't stopped making films at 70, but I can understand that he wanted some peace.
Will watch the hunt for Red October tonight in His memory, it's still time, still October !
I'm not sure which post they were referring to, but here's one that I saw (from HN) recently:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/10/15/differences-...

"6 people" seems to be an exaggeration, but most tweets are generated by a minority of Twitter users. And Twitter users themselves tend to be more political than the general population. So what you see on Twitter is representative of the more hardcore partisans, not the mainstream.

> > > The left (at least, the internet left) do this here in the UK too. Twitter seems to think all Tory voters are rich white men who want the poor to suffer.

On a similar note, most conservatives that I talk to think that everyone on the left is a social justice warrior who wants white men to suffer. I suspect a big part of the problem is that our views of the other side are based on the most extreme people from that side. This is certainly the view that'll be formed if one tries to "get a balance of views from both sides on social media" (you can't get a balanced view if you're only seeing extremists from both sides).
Thankfully, I did not pay the $200. The fee is charged after delivery when the customer accepts the changes made. And there were no changes to accept.
What personal attack? I said your description was "hyperbole". That was a comment on your post, not you personally.

And come on, Mediamatters.org? "Media Matters for America is a politically left-leaning 501, nonprofit organization which acts as media watchdog for scrutinizing right-leaning media outlets." A politically left-leaning organization doesn't like a right-wing organization? Shocking.

Let's look at an example, Tucker says “I don’t see” that “diversity is the strength of our country.” That's white supremacy? Question that diversity is a strength can be twisted to the idea that white people are better than other races? That's just complete unhinged honestly. You'd have to see the "white supremacy" boogieman around every corner to consider that an example.

Let me ask you this - how many people do you know personally, who voted for Trump? I mean, there are 63M of them, so it's not like they are hard to find. I'm going to guess, zero. But let's say you do know some. Can you articulate why they voted for Trump? I'm not asking you to agree with the reason, just can you articulate it without calling them racist?
Why 2$ price rise of Netflix is Slashdot news worthy?
The Netflix premium price rise of 1 and 2$ is in the front page of Slashdot. I could not understand why is this such a huge deal to be news worthy ? Am I missing something ?
While I understand the mathematical phenomenon you're describing, it does not seem realistic to suppose that the Amish will continue their exponential growth to the point where they constitute a majority of the country's population.
They don't even live in the same area.
It sounds like someone with a frequency measurement went to apply it to music without speaking with musicians. As long as they learned something eventually, I guess :)
It was overdramaticized, but yeah - shorter lifespan, lifelong torture of being permanently tired, missing quite a lot of jobs(because they must start at 7am, no exceptions).

Yeah, no parallels at all..
Very interesting article.

However, this is false:

“ that’s why CD music had a sample rate of 22000 Hz. Modern sound cards however tend to use sampling rates twice as high - 44100 Hz or 48000 Hz”

CDs are/were 44100 hz, they were never 22000, because you need two samples per wave and because you need slight over sampling and to make the conversion from 48k in to bad math to discourage DAT machine as a lossless copy format for the masses.
And how will you feel if after legislation phones cost even more TCO than they do now?
Internet == spy

Computer == spy

Chip == spy
In fact, they reinstalled the cracked screen before giving it back to me.
I can’t think a worse name for a programming language that of an actual language.
well I have problems with getting up early myself, I don't need to imagine it, yet I wouldn't compare that to the hardships that homosexuals and women have suffered through history.
> £40/MWh estimate for wind included gas power generation

No, they're totally separate things. It's not "wind and gas" as a single entity, it's "wind farms supply power to the grid at £40/MWh and gas plants also provide power to the grid at £40/MWh". In other words, it just means they cost about the same which is half the cost of nuclear. There is no 30/70 split as you imagined.

Which makes sense. Scotland gets around 90% of it's electricity from renewables, of which around 70% is wind power. It couldn't possibly do that if your figures were correct.
Hope Kelsey will replace Pichai one day;
The author shd state any advantage over tcl more clearly.
https://cmu-313.github.io/lectures/08-Ethics.pdf
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That's why someone invented Youglish [0]. However, I mostly use that site for words I know how to pronounce correctly, but have no idea how people expect them to be pronounced in their language. Did you know you are supposed to explicitly pronounce the "d" of LinkedIn in Spanish?

[0] https://youglish.com/pronounce/de%20%20Bruijn/dutch?
Ask HN: How to get ppl to help you test MVP mobile app
Hi guys,
We just build our new mobile app (iOS and Android) and are looking get as much as possible feedback on its value and usability. I've made short MonkeySurvey form with 10 questions that would give us valuable insights after trying the app. But, how to get ppl to try the app in first place. We already have friends and family giving us their feedback, but would love to get more unbiased input from other ppl.

Any help is welcome.

Thnx :)
I’m not joking. Is it your opinion that there were no
attempts, from within the agencies, to undermine the president (or his campaign) and that there is nothing corrupt about what the Biden family has been up to?
Because your own observations are going to be influenced by your own politics. The media, too, has a political slant, regardless of whether it's mainstream or not. And before anyone chimes in with the meme that the media has a liberal slant: The largest newspaper in the Netherlands is a right wing tabloid -- same as in most if not all European countries.

I'm not sure what a good source would be. Maybe there is none.
Now we just need to install public safety microphones† in every home and public space to prevent the spread of disease.

You are not against public health are you citizen? You aren’t hiding any covid patients are you?

† AKA telescreens
Glad to hear such kind words. :) I haven't personally tested it on Wayland because I'm an Xorg user, but there should be no reason why it wouldn't work. If you find any problem, feel free to open an issue and I will look into it.
Remember Dijkstra also ridiculed Margaret Hamiltons ideas of software development.

Nevertheless Hamiltons software put a man on the the moon.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...