skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A death every 33 seconds
> camel's nose in the tent

a.k.a. the Slippery Slope.

https://www.logical-fallacy.com/articles/slippery-slope/
Mods: orig title starts with the word "Why"
Very well executed ad though.
If they don't learn their lesson from using the old computers, then this can be a last resort.
> The fact that they kept going after this (and didn't investigate further) is when you start having serious issues

Honestly, the biggest error they mentioned in the correction in my opinion was with the photos. Turns out they ended up reverse image searching some of the photos he had posted, and many of them were stolen from other sources. That right there would've been another huge red flag.
This is not a quality post, it's literally a screenshot of a banner for YouTube TV's DVR offering.
Leveraging the type system with a good focus on generics as a means to achieve an ergonomic API may not be unique but well executed.
For all the heat those pubs get, my personal experience with them is that they're pretty meticulous with their reporting. (Which of course doesn't mean they don't sometimes miss the bigger picture even if their facts as reported are correct.)

I had a total nothingburger quote in the WSJ a bit back and the whole process took 2 phone discussions, some back and forth messaging, and a fact check on email (presumably to put on record). For something that was completely banal.
The cost of entry is pretty high.

The web corpus is huge, which leads to follow on problems: it's expensive to fetch it, and to proccess it, and to host the resulting indexes. Fetching is tricky also because you're likely to get blocked from sites it you're too aggressive.

To justify all that expense, you need a lot of users, but it will be hard to get those users because there is 20 years of 'search = google' to compete with. Yahoo search user testing from 10+ years ago found that users would prefer search results displayed with Google branding over search results with Yahoo branding, regardless of the search results. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if it's Google vs a new hip name, but you have to somehow cultivate that hipness. Bing doesn't have it, Amazon tried doing websearch and quit pretty quick (but maybe it's used for Alexa?).

You'd realistically need to build out an advertising platform too. Using Google's ad platform while trying to compete with their core market seems like a bad idea. Using Microsoft's ad platform is probably not going to a good experience, but maybe you can start with it.
The Psion Organiser II: laying the groundwork of our smartphone world
Creator here! Wasn't expecting this to happen :) The site is definitely still in Beta so I appreciate any and all feedback. I just launched it a few days ago. It's been my COVID project and I finally got to the point where I felt comfortable having others use it.

The biggest hurdle was the speed of the graph creation. Basically taking a 250,000,000 paper/2,500,000 citaiton db and creating graphs that could be up to 200k papers and 3-4mm citations. For that I ended up learning/using Rust (which was a great experience).

The plan is to keep it totally free and hopefully get some institutional support once I get a better handle on demand and costs.

Ask me anything!

EDIT:
As you are going through the site, be sure to use the purple "+" buttons to create your own graphs centered on the topic of your choice. That combined with the in-graph keyword filters are probably the most powerful ways to quickly zero in on the most relevant literature.
982 MHz. 928 MHz is in the unlicensed band and would probably be Lorawan or something.
I can't thank you enough for how much this helps me. I've become very guarded when it comes to strangers. You lay out a good strategy on how to deal with people. This would help one get acquaintances, friends, and weed out the bad ones.
Two Minute Papers: Can an AI Design Our Tax Policy? [video]
What do you think of Unity's ECS approach, and how are you approaching it differently with Bevy?
Were one combining browser history, visa transactions, GPS location data from your car/phone, and who you interacted with via social networking/phone/email, one could probably create a very powerful personal profile. Be nice to keep the commercial entities from having that much end to end data for as long as we can.
Great Britain is an island...
Indeed, only the state can succeed at decentralization. That's why we need some amount of centralized, democratic decision-making as well. But redistributing wealth as UBI is a good way to redistribute power across society (an unalloyed good -- power should be broadly distributed) while avoiding most of the worst parts of central planning.
The game had several release dates _this year_ that were before the current round of consoles were out. Considering those were the only consoles it was going to be on at release if it hit one of it's many slated release dates this year it's totally inexcusable that this is the state the game is on on that hardware.
The Raspberry Pi 400 doesn’t have one. I believe it throttles back when too hot.
The idea of Foxconn manufacturing anything in Wisconsin, let alone something so specific, never made much sense to me. Do touchscreens sound fancy and exciting to voters?
>> You do know that the US taxes its citizens living abroad, right?

Federal tax. US citizens living abroad can still vote in federal elections. People who haven't lived in California for ten years can not vote in California elections.

This would be taxation without representation. If you're an American, you probably were educated on the proper procedure for dealing with that.
I don't know the circumstances obviously, but consider reaching out to that formerly close friend (assuming they are alive / reachable)
The .system() method converts the function pointer to an actual System trait implementation.

This is accomplished by implementing traits for functions that match a specific signature. Ex: Fn(SystemParam), Fn(SystemParam, SystemParam), etc.

The .system() method uses the SystemParam type information to determine what resources are being accessed, which gets converted to logic that can pass the resource data in. It also uses the extracted type information to inform the system executor how to safely run each system in parallel.
Lake Agassiz in present day Manitoba was larger then all the great lakes combined, after the last glacial period. Most of it is now livable land. Water moves around, it would be very presumptuous to think you know what the shorelines and lakes were like in the last 12000 years.
Enums are awesome. What if we made a PL where everything was an enum?
(Unofficial) Half-Life Physics Reference
The database is about a month out of date right now. I am going to be updating it soon. You should be able to either put in the url or do arxiv:XXXX.XXXXX
You're right. But all of those things are things you can do something about, because you've heard of them.

Just saying there's a lot of things in the math world that if you didn't put down a stake early on, you won't know that you don't know them.
the system() method is part of the IntoSystem trait that converts the function into a System object:

https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/master/crates/bevy_e...

There are macros below that implement that for Func types.
You don't need to re-match or re-index on the full set of results to display just the first page.

I fully understand the scale of the problem. I also think this is a very approachable problem for a thousand Google engineers who have done a lot harder things.
So Australia (Melbourne at the time) and the UK had basically the same case reports per day in July. One place crushed it, the other didn’t.

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/drericlevi/status/132282229786701...

[1] https://twitter.com/drdeannechiu/status/1322834922269073408?...
>completeness issues? How can the game be acceptable or fun when cars run on tracks and NPC’s don’t have a problem being attacked?

I don't know what to tell you except that in my 10 or so hours of play I have had plenty of fun. The highlights of the game for me so far are the story missions themselves and the world -- the environment itself. Seems like a finished product to me, albeit a buggy one with a diminished scope from what people seemed to be expecting. Don't forget that they intend on releasing what was it 3 expansions of content similar to witcher 3? I'm interested to see how they use the world they created for that purpose.
You nailed it, I think that’s what they meant.
Why do Facebook ads appear in the newspapers and not on Facebook then?
"hat" is the term for boards that go on top of a Raspberry Pi. (similar to Arduino had "shields")
>They have no authority over such matters. It's just research.

You are right. They do not, directly. But, never underestimate bureaucrats hunger for control. This "just research", if it can be used as a cudgel, it will. The IMF dictates many many things through its financial tentacles that impacts individuals to the extreme. Just look talk to some who are from countries where IMF came and helped out.
The takeaway is the model has bias. It’s up to humans to decide what to do with that information.

Depending on the input “homemaker” may be a technically reasonable output.

Should we use such a model to suggest career paths to high school students? Or should we reevaluate the methodology?
That's how the gaming industry works, and has at least since the 90s.

The PlayStaion 2's CPU was called the "Emotion Engine" supposedly because it had the power to emulate the human mind.

Don't listen to any direct marketing, and certainly not from the games industry.
The "algorithm" was most likely a simple optimization model run on a spreadsheet.

Nobody's blaming software programmers (or "engineers")
the dollop did one on scott walker that i listened to a little bit ago where they touch on how bad this deal was and also how much of a weirdo he is... https://allthingscomedy.com/podcasts/456---scott-walker---re...
In tropical places they create monuments or statues and sink them to make it more interesting to go dive on. I'm not sure if its been done on the great lakes too.

I know Tobermory in Ontario is a famous dive spot for a near surface tanker ship that sank there. Its something I miss about Europe. So many interesting artifacts to look at.
Creator here. It's similar in that it uses citations to make paper recommendations. But different in that I give you access to the entire paper graph rather try to distill it down to just a few. You can even write your own queries by clicking on the "SQL" button at the bottom of each table. I kind of view it as a Connected Papers for power users.
Anecdotally I know a family where every member tested positive for COVID in the spring with severe symptoms at the time. They recovered, then over thanksgiving they started experiencing very mild symptoms (some none at all, others loss of taste and smell to more typical cold like symptoms), and all tested positive once again.

It might be that after you contracted COVID once, or a particular strain of COVID once, that you have a heightened immune response and less severe symptoms when you do catch the disease again. It is hard to say for sure what is going on from an isolated case, but this certainly doesn't bode well.
Thanks, I'm glad of that.
Projects promoted as for citizen science and education but "closed source, don't reverse engineer!" :/

https://shop.raspberryshake.org/license/
Biden wants to change how credit scores work in America
Treasure Hunter Notches 5th Year in Prison for Refusing to Forfeit His Loot
Crime rates on bike paths tend to match the neighborhood they are in. If they go through bad neighborhoods, there is crime. If they are going through low-crime suburbia and rural areas, not so much. For a trail like this that does go through the middle of some cities, we can guess there will be a few spots to watch out for, but the vast majority of the trail should be fine.
I figured that your use case was sufficiently different that it wouldn't be your choice, but I thought it worth mentioning to give you something against which to compare other options.

Good luck with the search - do blog about the search and your chosen solution, then submit that here.
SpaceX launched a classified sat, NROL-108, on a Falcon 9 Block 5, lands booster
Wow. Here in deepest Republican middle America mask wearing by _staff_ in supermarkets is universal. Customers around 90% if you count "nose-slingers" as non compliant. Pretty much nobody just swanning around with no mask these days. Costco has heavy mask enforcement -- they will hunt down and eject anyone with their nose out.

Where masks are not worn here is in smaller family owned businesses. Some have notices requiring masks on the door, some (many) do not, even though it's a state mandate.

Since this is the US, we have no public transport so I can't comment on that.
I know I'm deliberately misinterpreting you, but

> a new language like C

is a funny thought ^_^
> Facebook isn't successful because of content.

Of course Facebook is successful because of content. Do you think people keep going back not to view photos or posts of others?
It's also pretty ideal feature to keep around even if it is mostly unused.

1) It isn't very complicated -- it doesn't require a lot of code that is going to rot.

2) When it is used, it's cheaper rather than more expensive.

3) It only "clutters" a UI that isn't actually seen that often nowadays -- you have to actually go to google.com, rather than just typing in the browser bar -- and isn't particularly cluttered.
This is like a short version of The Big Short.
Distribution of Covid-19 deaths in the USA as of October 14, 2020, by race
Follow the drugs.
Personally I subscribe to the NYT and I only heard about this story because of the retraction and investigation that they published in the newspaper. So at least from my perspective as a NYT customer, they have done enough to let me know they messed up here. They've also reassigned the journalist to another beat, which isn't loss of a job, but fact-checking is a team effort and I don't think it's fair for a journalist to bear the entire brunt of the fallout.
Much appreciated! I'll update it. I really hadn't anticipated much traffic. I was planning on doing an open beta but things have kind of taken on a life of their own (in a good way).
The spike isn't just in London, but across the south east.

https://twitter.com/Davewwest/status/1339918672811462657?s=2...

https://twitter.com/avds/status/1340355825471287299?s=20

https://twitter.com/VictimOfMaths/status/1340010730687492096...

This one shows high rates for Medway: https://twitter.com/RP131/status/1338158031067033601?s=20
Right, but then someone sees that, and goes "Ah-hah. This is saving Candidates. Over here I'm also saving Foos. I'll refactor this so I have a generic 'Save' method/function, and then both Candidate and Foo can call it. DRY!

And that works, because initially saving is just taking a serializable object and dumping it to JSON. But then things get moved to going to a DB or something, and now it has different expectations, and, oh, crap, we have to do some special logic in the transaction because it turns out saving a foo requires us holding a lock on the bar table as well, but not for candidates, and etc etc etc, and saving was -really just two lines of code in the first place-, and the correct solution is isolating it entirely (with maybe a Saver interface to say 'yeah, this thing knows how to save itself'. Though that likely breaks SRP since now Foos know how to be Foos, and how to save Foos, which involves knowledge of the DB, which seems suboptimal, but which is still cleaner than what you had before)

Etc. My only point is that if the area you're tempted to repeat is not provably the same, contextually, keep 'em separate until it is (even if it's like...they implement the same interface). The pain of getting that wrong is almost always less than combining them, building more assumptions on top of that, and then finding out they should have been separate.
Jupiter and Saturn Great Conjunction Viewing Guide
He notes that there has been more investigation done on a similar site in Lake Huron, here's a research article on that:

https://www.pnas.org/content/111/19/6911
Key West is 130 crow fly miles from Miami. 160 by car.
I haven't paid much attention to the solar winds catalog, but last I looked I did everything they offered on Linux with open source free tools.
In popular media "algorithm" has taken on a new meaning, probably because the word itself sounds mysterious.

I can't fully define the new meaning, but it's like the YouTube video recommendation algorithm which is more like a whole system than a single algorithm in the original sense, the Facebook algorithm for ranking items on your feed. These big data, machine learning, opaque models.
I'm Italian so I read it in the original, but I'm glad to know the English translation does it justice :)
During Melbourne’s winter, Melbourne was reporting the same number of cases a day as the UK in summer.

[0] https://twitter.com/drdeannechiu/status/1322834922269073408?...

[1] https://twitter.com/drericlevi/status/1322822297867018240?s=...

yes I know I posted essentially the same information to two comments, I apologise for the spam
> when someone mistakes courtesy for weakness

Can you give a concrete example you specifically encountered? I lived in New York for half of my adult life before moving west. I can’t remember ever having to be too worried about that. Is it possible you just have trouble expressing yourself outwardly?
When faced with a choice between:

- causality is less widely applicable than we like to think

- our behavior is more complex than we like to think

I'm more inclined to doubt causality. Not that it's not a useful framework in general, but that is less useful when applied by humans to humans regarding human constructs like kindness.
One cannot possibly design proper controls with human behavior.

Even in pharmaceutics, confounding variables are already common place that led to a considerable replication crisis, with human behavior it would be even more impossible to control for every variable, and measure only what one wants to measure.

A very simple problem with such a design which would perhaps indicate that human beings that are not allowed to be kind would be less happy is simply that human beings become unhappy when they are told what to do, not necessarily anything related to kindness; it's certainly not implausible.

And the fundamental problem remains that a man cannot be compelled to participate in any study, and that alone is a selection bias that cannot be overcome — studies thus select upon the kind of person who have the time and willingness to participate in them.
Where do you live?

Could you please list where you've seen each or experienced each of these events?

I'm surprised to hear of a murder on a bike path.
Are there alternative 'internets' that are better than AMPRnet? Is TOR/I2P/freenet the only way to not have a toxic (if smooth) user experience at the expense of themselves?
Even in cases where it’s not an outright scam, there are huge issues with Shopify drop-shipping businesses because they are touted by entrepreneurial ‘coaches’ as pop-up passive income.
Just out of curiosity, how this compares to Amethyst?
Gravestones will probably be our main lasting record
I joined a set-top box startup in 2002 based in Palo Alto (Digeo) that ran out of the former Altavista offices - same building as PAIX.

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/02/11/paix...

I ran a build cluster in the server room in the basement where Altavista used to be located. The server room was actually pretty small - just a few rows of racks. We still had a sign in our office that said "Altavista Operations". It's pretty mindblowing just thinking how small internet-scale things were back then compared to now.
Thanks for the feedback. #1 might be some sort of bug. #2 Good call!
Facebook, Netflix, Youtube/Google would be in similar positions even without Apple. They are not "app developers", they are software developers. Snapchat and Tiktok are good examples, but, what are their market caps? Add them all together and I think they won't be $930 bln (whereas e.g. if you add together all companies that depend on Amazon, the valuation would most likely be much higher than Amazon's; that should be the normal, for a platform).

Apple absolutely attempted to commoditize apps/ establish 1-to-5$ as the "normal" prices.
"Australia" has a low population density because most of it has close to no population; it's easy to be mislead by this if you're not aware of how the population is distributed within a huge area, but the areas where most people live do not have low population density. It's heavily urbanised (more so than the UK), with the vast majority of the population living in reasonably dense metropolitan areas.

It's the willingness and ability to take effective measures, not the geography, that matters.
Saying I agree with the topmost comment, is not accurate.

What I said, and with the context and nuance indicated in this thread, is different than what the top most comment's author said, and its replies.
Joplin Gets Spellchecking (FOSS Notes App)
Glad to see someone else had the same experience. When someone recommended Google to me, I tried it and immediately went back to AltaVista. The only distinctive characteristic I remember noticing was the immense whitespace on the Google home page. That sort of simplicity in page design was different from other search and portal websites at the time.

Using AltaVista for me meant digging through page after page of results. Comprehensiveness was the main concern. It was up to the user to evaluate the relevance of the results.

Early Google made similar claims about comprehensively searching millions of pages, but as we know today, they are intent on inferring meaning and purpose. They actively discourage and prevent users from combing through page after page of results. User evaluation (i.e., intelligence) is not expected. Google attempts to evaluate results for the user based on popularity, originally estimated primarily by counting backlinks. Popularity as a filter is useful sometimes but deeply flawed at others. It's arguable Google has dulled, atrophied or stunted development of web users' analytical skills. When it first appeared on the web, Google had no paid placements and no advertising. What was not to like? They later abandoned their original mission to avoid the influence of paid placement. They became beholden to advertising.

It was not difficult to see when and where the influence of advertising came into AltaVista. However when this started to happen at Google, Google tried to hide the ads by making them text-only. As if the influence was not there.

We need another AltaVista, where user evaluation of results is allowed and encouraged, with a mission statement like the
original Page and Brin paper announcing Google: no influence by advertising. Ultimately PageRank was dependent on human discretion: the decision whether or not to link to another page. We soon learned that this discretion, this choice to link or not to link, easily becomes driven by money when people know it effects PageRank. Google quickly got gamed and it has been trying to pretend it can manage this ever since.

We need non-commercial search.
I definitely think Europeans and others from homogeneous or smaller countries struggle to understand the variety and diversity of culture of the United States.
Mdt hashes and signing could have avoided this. Open source stuff always verifies, vote closed source doesn't have that habit.