skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ultimately the problem is that it isn't that we have illegitimate news flooding the market of information it's that we are finally starting to realize almost all of our information was biased to one degree or another and we are slow to adjust the way we consume information.

Why not both...?

> isn't that we have illegitimate news flooding the market of information

This is absolutely a problem. Old media seems to be pretty content with narrative framing for the most part, this new brand of illegitimate media just makes shit up. They have no intent to engage in the public discourse, their only purpose is to reinforce alternate realities and to shift the Overton window.
>But how? Let's say I have one BTC. You offer me 15k USD to buy it, I say no. You say, ok, what about 18k USDT (that you just printed)? I reconsider and say, yeah, ok. So you inflated the price ok, but then what?

It doesn't really work like that. It's more like: you see BTC being traded at 15k, and you refused to buy because that's ridiculously high. Two days later, the price pumps to 18k (which is, at least partially, caused by Tether printing). Now FOMO kicks in and you saw a tweet by some rando that says that Bitcoin will breach the ATH and get to 25k for sure due to his TA. You decided to buy in at 18k.

Notice that in this entire thought process, there's no difference between USDT price and USD price. They are considered one and the same, at least in the vast majority of traders, holders, miners and crypto media.

Now, you may have access to USD exchanges like Coinbase, but many people don't. For those, their only FOMO option is USDT exchanges like Bitfinex, which means they need to buy USDT first, which means the Tether ecosystme just got some new cash inflow and someone else got to cash out their USDT.
> You are almost certainly using the wrong numbers

Take them with wikipedia, not me. I will note, that Wikipedia talks about both Cutter and Wyeth having problems, so it is possible the numbers are a sum of wyeth+cutter which would be compatible with your numbers being cutter only, but in the context of safety vs. polio wouldn't matter.

> You would also have to include further transmissions caused by wild polio if you would like to make such a comparison.

All wild polio numbers include those numbers by default - there actually is no way to get them otherwise, I guess you are saying "you should probably debase by more than 200,000 because of secondary infections". I don't know how to do that, exactly, but it will likely still be similar.

> Even with your own calculation, which is inflated by also including transmission within the community for the vaccine but not for wild polio, the vaccine was very much comparable to wild polio (0.125% versus approx. 0.1%).

With this calculation, the vaccine was 25% worse than the wild type. No error bars, but, that's easily worse, even much worse.

> So under which assumptions would it not be false?

How kind of you to drop "patently". If you didn't mean "patently" false earlier, why did you use that word? twice?

From[0]: "Patently: in a way that is so obvious that no one could disagree.". It's nice of you to finally bring sources, but even these sources don't make it "patently" false, given that they disagree with the sources I gave (which, I concede, reference more than just the safety of the Cutter incident which I originally mentioned, but which are definitely the subject matter under discussion)

[0] https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/paten...
Started with Ruby in 2004, loved Rails until I switched away in 2015 as the jobs market was plateauing, and has stayed where it was. But it is fantastic and I’m back to tinkering with it using the fabulous new Stimulus Reflex stuff. The market is still rubbish, though, and there’s not enough good people out there.
Why is this on HN front-page? An ad for the marketing tech buzzwords?
Possibly, but isn't the first question to be answered this: is it even possible to make a carbon capture device, period?

Other than flora and fauna, I'm not sure that humankind has actually developed a net negative carbon capture device. Have we?

If we have, I'd be super duper excited to see some links to examples.
That widely misses the mark. There are sixteen times as many Bangladeshis, Sudanese, and Nigerians as there are Australians. And while Australia’s CO2 emissions are declining even as its economy keeps growing, emissions in Bangladesh are growing exponentially. Australia is a mature economy, while Bangladesh’s is currently doubling every decade, and it has many doublings to go before it reaches middle income status. That will come with huge increases in CO2 emissions.

Europe and North America now account for well under 40% of CO2 emissions and their emissions are shrinking: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re.... Emissions in the rest of the world, by contrast, are increasing exponentially. Within a decade or so, India alone will emit more CO2 than the EU.

The current CO2 budget for sticking to 1.5C is about 400 gigatons: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-the-ipcc-1-5c-repor.... North America and Europe could cut their emissions to zero tomorrow, and the rest of the world will easily blow through that within the next 20 years. China by itself will use up that whole budget by 2050 if not earlier.
And would the 2 memory algorithm be equivalent to a gradient descent with momentum?

I used to know what a sub gradient was, but I think there must be something more to the ideas in the paper because I’m struggling to see the analogy between gradient descent where you take steps probabilistically and the algorithm described. Perhaps I need to think about how you could potentially recast the quantile estimation problem as an optimisation problem and then apply what is effectively the machinery developed the train neural nets. Very interesting connection!
At some point story generators are barely games and more like tools or toys. Dwarf fortress doesn't have a ton of replay value as a fortress manager. Maybe five or six attempts to make a stable fortress but i could spend hours just tweaking the world gen parameters and looking through the legends mode.
Idont know, the "independent" benchmark site doesn't really work on mobile, n most links go to some kind of broken login Form

But ime scaleway had slower cpu crunching Power and web requests per second than similar hetzner cloud machines, and online. net(parent company) always had routing problems to me which couldn't be resolved in timely manners (1gbit dedicated server only 100mbit arrived at my place)
The war we forgot in our embrace of streaming
No no no it's all about Svelte now /s
"The American Medical Association is perhaps the strongest trade union in the United States."

--- Milton Friedman

From https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/freedom-daily-cl...
I had something similar happen on a show, I believe this one titled Drive:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770521/

They had a scene that was "outside Gainesville, FL". That's where I went to university and from the highway it's basically flat forests. The scene instead looked semi-arid with mountains in the background...

Ah, looks like my exact story is documented exactly on IMDB!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770521/goofs?item=gf0809526

The show only lasted 6 episodes, so...
Looking at your second example, I think the sky tone changes with mood. I can't read the language of the strip, going off how the characters look to me..

Blue - neutral mood
Yellow - tension
Purple - anger
Any time. One last tiny bit of overview: templates can currently do a bunch of things that Rust generics can’t. Some of these are things that Rust will be adding in the future, some are not, and some are uncertain. So there’s a lot of parallels but some folks who are very invested in templates say they don’t want to move to Rust yet because we’re missing things they desire.
Pretty sure if they have the technological capacity to travel from somewhere to earth and land undetected ... they don't have to care about any human laws.
>A buddy of mine informed they also make deals with ISPs that run those public facing WiFi networks

Is there a source for this? I've seen similar hearsay (eg. smart TVs connecting to open hotspots), I couldn't find a reliable source backing it up. The smart TV claim for instance, was traced back to a post on /r/privacy, for instance.
I have also had this problem. One of the css frameworks that I have enjoyed using is https://semantic-ui.com.
> But use-after-free is worse than just double-frees

From an exploitability point of view they are largely equivalent.

As for the rest of your comment: my point of view is largely "you should catch these with Address Sanitizer in debug", so I don't usually write code like "I should assert if I marked this as freed by NULLing it out". If I actually need to check this for program logic, then of course I'll add something like this.

The macro you suggest would alleviate my concerns, I suppose, and it wouldn't really be fair for me to shoot that solution down solely because I personally don't like these kinds of assertions in production. So it's not a bad option by any means, other than my top-level comment of this requiring extra code. I know some libraries like to take a pointer-to-a-pointer so they can NULL it out for you, so that is an option for your wrapper. And a double-free that doesn't crash can sometimes open up exploitable bugs too since it messes with program invariants that you didn't expect. But these are much rarer than the typical "attacker controlled uninitialized memory ended up where it shouldn't" so it's not a big deal.
That's a tough sub to moderate. It seems like half the users are there because they genuinely like EVs, and half see it as the no man's land cold war between RealTesla and TeslaInvestorsClub, depending on whether they're short or long.

A while back there was somebody that was only posting VW press releases. They were promptly called out by somebody, who themselves turned out to only post pro Tesla articles and a handful of VW FUD.

The comments themselves are generally pretty based, though. Bad actors are quickly downvoted. It's one of the few places on the internet that gets just as excited by the Model Y launch as they do the ID.3. I read it daily, thank you for your work!
Scotland becomes first country to have universal free period products
I like how these cars on the last animation move like a school of fish.
This article is great.

The one thing I would add is that once you pick your base color, the lighter shades are probably going to be low saturation and the darker shades are going to be high saturation.
The following papers make the argument that, at least for systems with a low initial entropy, "within a quantum mechanical framework, all phenomena which leave a trail of information behind (and hence can be studied by physics) are those where entropy necessarily increases or remains constant. All phenomena where the entropy decreases must not leave any information of their having happened. This situation is completely indistinguishable from their not having happened at all."

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Quantum Solution to the Arrow-of-Time Dilemma

Lorenzo Maccone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 080401 – Published 17 August 2009

The arrow-of-time dilemma states that the laws of physics are invariant for time inversion, whereas the familiar phenomena we see everyday are not (i.e., entropy increases). I show that, within a quantum mechanical framework, all phenomena which leave a trail of information behind (and hence can be studied by physics) are those where entropy necessarily increases or remains constant. All phenomena where the entropy decreases must not leave any information of their having happened. This situation is completely indistinguishable from their not having happened at all. In the light of this observation, the second law of thermodynamics is reduced to a mere tautology: physics cannot study those processes where entropy has decreased, even if they were commonplace.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.10...

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[Submitted on 30 Dec 2009]

A quantum solution to the arrow-of-time dilemma: reply

Lorenzo Maccone

I acknowledge a flaw in the paper "A quantum solution to the arrow of time dilemma": as pointed out by Jennings and Rudolph, (classical) mutual information is not an appropriate measure of information. This can be traced back to the quantum description underlying my analysis, where quantum mutual information is the appropriate measure of information. The core argument of my paper (summarized in its abstract) is not affected by this flaw. Nonetheless, I point out that such argument may not be adequate to account for all phenomena: it seems necessary to separately postulate a low entropy initial state.

https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.5394
That is because the system (organization) prefers its nodes to be legible rather than illegible. It might hear that some nodes are "more productive", but that is illegible and unauditable from the system's point of view. In light of this, I see no reason why employees shouldn't conform to the metrics; yes, some "true productivity" is sacrificed, but that is the price of legibility. That has always been the price of legibility, whether you're a state or a company or a community. For large organizations, that is a price they often choose to pay.
Cool, glad this was helpful. If nothing, it gives a different perspective on the Ruby world!
Add Wirecard to the pile too!
Never heard about the method before but I've noticed long time ago this is the way that works for me.

When someone starts with definition I get bored. I want to start from example and use case and then I will built a mental formalization on my own. Starting from formalization I just can't be bothered.

You can see the diff e.g. how Wikipedia and Investopedia articles are written.

Each Investopedia article shows an example and repeats some key things multiple times. Whereas trying to learn any economics or maths stuff from Wikipedia is almost impossible. It can only be a reference if you already know the thing and just need to double-check the formula.
Something like https://teamtrees.org/ or https://trees.org/ seems like a more direct approach to me.
They are a racket -- we would do well to have a rogue upstart competing licensing body.

And programmers think that they are too intelligent and have too much variation in productivity to form any sort of professional organisation, or “union”, you could call it.

Doctors don’t worry about ageism or offshoring or being stabbed in the back by their peers or managers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Ton_beau_de_Marot
That's a Rapoo e9060 combo. I bought it in ~2015, it's impressive that it lasted this long. The mouse is average, but I liked the keyboard so much I bought another one (English-only layout, sadly).

Everyone's talking about mechanical keyboards, but I like the laptop-like keys and the small footprint. There's a newer model with worse keys (mushier, less springy).
I would try crickets just not powdered. I have zero trust for powdered food, even less if it comes from SE Asia and are not subject for EU food standards. If I am to eat them they'd have to look like actual crickets.
Ask HN: Where do you find technical professional mentors outside the workplace?
I love my coworkers and their talented people, but they don’t always have the time to mentor me.

What are some tips regarding finding technical mentors outside the workplace?

Ideally I could go to this person with technical questions, talk about burnout, etc.
> The AMA chooses who can be a doctor, who can train doctors, who can practice any kind of medicine

The majority of doctors are not AMA members. The oft-cited claim that they choose who can be a doctor or how many people get to be doctors is also a myth.

There are a lot of criticisms of the AMA, but these two are not really factual in basis.
Sand cast and polished...
AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow
YouTube's algorithm is steering viewers away from anti-vaccine videos
The problem is that their posts are so inundated with shilling it's not scalable to sift through all the crapcoins out there.
The electricity is used to verify transactions, which has a massive added value many times exceeding the cost of the electricity invested.

Calling this a waste of electricity is the same as calling the hundreds of thousands (if not more than a million) of employess of central banks, regulation authorities, payment processors, etc waste of air. Really really naive and childish.

P.S. Did anyone ever calculate the carbon footprint of all these people whose jobs are going to be taken over and compared it? I haven't done the approximation/calculation, but I am pretty sure that cryptocurrencies are going to be a massive improvement over the current system in that aspect as well.
I remember when I was in school (about 15 years ago) Slackware was one of the few distro's that didn't have PAM and they made a big point of it. So I did a quick Google just now and found that this year (2020) even Slackware got PAM [1]. Had a good chuckle over that.

[1] https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/slackware-introduces-pam-in...
Aye, still busy inventing the modern world. Much to do.
Imagine Amazon keep hiring all the main contributors of the language and mainstream libraries, then decide to fork the language to add their own custom flavor, under their own conditions.

We're still very far from that point, but i've seen worst things happened in the history of big megacorps.
Single payer makes US healthcare a monopsony, a market with only one buyer. All sellers/providers inherently hate that as the single buyer can check each companies margin, and dictate a lower price in the future.
My Hunt for the Original McDonald’s French-Fry Recipe
Yes, it's more than a bit like paying indulgences to the church to absolve yourself of sins. That's how a lot of companies can be "carbon neutral" by purchasing offsets and credits. I believe Tesla makes a significant amount of its money by selling these offsets to other companies.
Unions work, there's no question in my mind about that. Just look at macroeconomic stats from the 40s to 70s. All that inflation took pretty much all the wealth from capital owners and handed it over to workers.

However, most software people are clearly in the capital owners category (despite still having salaries), so maybe it is justified to keep the status quo.
I find it hard to believe that a company like Google couldn't do it.

That's because Google has an incentive not to. What I find more disappointing are the others who aren't Google and have somehow been brainwashed into following it.
What about for profit hospitals?

It’s the marketization of health care that incentivizes suffering and death, not any particular group.
Market prediction with anonymized feature set, sounds like Numerai: https://numer.ai/
"...the largest software engineering organizations in the world are already using Rust ...", and also for a long long time have been using Java, JavaScript, SQL, and much more programming languages. ¿It's only about new (and better) ways to develop software or can also be 'cool' to interfere in the evolution of the programming language that you plan to use for the next years ?
I 'm not against to use Rust or any other programming language, open source project or technology. I mean, the companies love open source projects because they can produce their self flavor as a product (search engine, linux distro, containers and orchestration technologies, etc.) when they wish that, without worries about uncomfortable dependencies.

AWS loves Rust in the same way than Facebook loved PHP.
I swear, front end just invents this stuff to keep us all confused :(
Seems exactly the same to me. You pay some other organization some amount of money, and now you get a free pass to do whatever you want.

I had no idea this was really what everyone was talking about with carbon offsets.
This is a good comment. To put more data here:

1st NeXT Computer 1988:
Motorola 68030/25Mhz w/68882 FPU, 64MB RAM max.
MIPS: 4

Sun Workstation 1988 Sun-4 line:
Spac @ 16-33Mhz, 32-768MB RAM
MIPS: 7-114

Now having used both, the desktop and usability on the NeXT was so much better.
Haha brilliant!
I wonder how it compares to astronomer.io, and Google's managed airflow thing.
Teleport 5.0 Release Notes
I would like to run a dating site just to observe the interactions and statistics. I find it so fascinating.
React Implemented in a Tweet
The issue is that dispatch needs to know what’s running and to allow for the threads to effectively work with the thread schedule to service dispatch in an appropriate way.

On macOS, the implementation is done in kernel, although there is a front end user library that used to interact with it.

This article, although a few years old, talks about the separation of the parts and goes to explain why it’s not a trivial port to other operating systems.

https://gigaom.com/2009/09/14/apple-open-sources-grand-centr...
I'm aware, and I take issue with the "this is bad because I have an uncomfortable relationship with money" approach that the article took.

The point of the author's digital sleuthing was not for inspiration, it was to find fault to reinforce a conclusion they had already made. I doubt there was any transparent and accurate reporting that would have satisfied their idea of acceptable.

The primary difference with the 501(c)3 is that 5% of the assets has to be granted per year. It would for the most part have the exact same flexibility as this organization.
35 here. Same boat.
You are ignoring execution, infrastructure and real-market conditions. The model is just one part of the game.
Really? Even though the lithium for Tesla batteries is incredibly damaging to the environment to mine?

Are we all buying into 21st Century Snake Oil here?
This website's got some great explanations for topics that a lot of people get hung up on. Here's one of their articles on Flux. [1] I was curious how this mental model compares to other ones I had previously encountered and found this article that compares each. [2]

[1] https://betterexplained.com/articles/flux/

[2] https://tomroth.com.au/learning/
IMO there should be a mandatory waiting period of 24-48 hours for any firearm, but you should be able to start the process over the phone/online etc.

Alternatively, require training + passing an exam similar to getting a drivers license for owning anything except a manual long-barrel rifle or shotgun. Semi-auto firearms especially should require licensing/training IMO. Restrictions on magazine size or appearance ("assault rifle" lol) are generally dumb and fail to address real problems. I think it's reasonable to know who probably has a gun (ie. through a license program), but I'm generally against mandatory gun registration (though voluntary registration is fine).
Which is exactly what Gmail is.
(!) I was under the impression that you could not develop a shared library in Rust even if you exposed a C ABI.
Thank you for your fabulous response. I hope my provocative comment wasn't in bad humor, disrespectful or trolling. I too love averages and regressions. Thank you for proudly defending these marvelously simple and powerful tools.