skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's review what happened with Parler.

It started off as a small irrelevant site, as they all do.

Twitter and Facebook then started labeling content on their site with "fact check" labels. This is naturally fraught with scandal because doing this at scale involves a lot of mistake making and then you can find arbitrarily many examples of them authoritatively declaring something as false or "disputed" when it wasn't. There was a strong perception on the right that these tags were being attached to things on a partisan basis.

A number of people didn't like this and started looking to alternatives, so Parler started gaining users.

Then those jackasses stormed the capitol. Note that this was planned, openly, predominantly on Facebook.

The response is Something Must Be Done, so there is a mass banning of accounts, including the then-President of the United States. Doing this was even more controversial, there were questions about whether all of them deserved it, and a lot of people -- the vast majority them people who hadn't been banned -- started moving to Parler in protest. They hit ten million users.

This was now a moral panic because Parler is owned by right-leaning people instead of left-leaning people and the whole deplatforming system is based on the targets not having anywhere to go. So then regardless of who they really are, they now have to be demonized in order to justify their destruction, because they're getting too popular. Note that popularity and extremism are anti-correlated because extremists are by definition at the fringe, so the more people you have, the more diluted the extremists get. The logic was backwards if the real problem was what they claimed.

But people find a list of malicious posts on Parler to paint the entire site as that. These exist everywhere so of course they found them. Made all the easier by the fact that they were undergoing rapid growth and at that specific moment in time their moderation system was overwhelmed. Also, point to moderation features designed to promote stability and exclude extremism by limiting what new users can do and claim that they do the opposite under the unproven assumption that the site is already dominated by extremists and the same features would then be excluding non-extremists.

I'm sure 80% of Parler is crap, because 80% of everything is crap. But then how are we distinguishing it from Twitter? None of the evidence used to "prove" that they weren't moderating when they claimed to be couldn't be used to prove the same thing of their competitors. It's an isolated demand for rigor.
You have excellent friends.

This approach is preferred, but regularly impossible for people with average contacts.
Your BF's doctor is uninformed and offering bad advice.

Fact is, most men over age 70 do have elevated PSA due to small amounts of low grade prostate cancer cells (Gleason score of 3+3). Usually it advances slowly, never growing beyond the bounds of the prostate gland before the patient dies from some other cause.

But an elevated PSA (over 1 and below 10) in someone younger than 70 should not be ignored. Often a second PSA test is done perhaps a month later to confirm the first score and to see if the number is rising quickly. If repeated tests do not show PSA elevation AND the score is low, often the urologist will recommend a "monitor it, and wait and see" strategy.

If the PSA number is high or is rising, the next step is to get a biopsy where 12 to 18 samples of tissue are taken from the prostate to see how much of the gland has cancerous cells (Gleason 3, 4, or 5).

I know something about this topic because a routine PSA test at age 55 showed that I had asymptomatic cancer in 80% of my prostate. Luckily it was removed surgically. But if my doctor was as casually unconcerned as your BF's doctor, my cancer would have metastasized and by now it would be incurable.
Note that AMD has an abandoned K12 plan. They still have an ARM license AFAIU. And like what Fujitsu did to their SPARC to produce A64FX, swapping the frontend may make it possible to support an ARM instruction set without much modifications to the backend. So if they will, AMD would make an ARM chip
Evolution has been a mostly unimportant part of human development since at least 2 centuries ago.
An intelligent species engineers itself, not evolves itself.
That's a very impressive demo! I wish they put it right on the front page.
I agree that you need someone with a strong engineering background somewhere in leadership. Bean counters are useful when you're more interested in efficiencies than innovation. Even when you're interested in innovation, don't discount MBA-types too much. Look at Sun. They had a lot of interesting engineering going on, but they got displaced by commodity hardware and software, never really found their new business, and got gobbled up by Oracle so their bean counters could extract licensing fees.
Could someone put 2016 in the title?

f-strings were released in Python 3.6 in December 2016. This isn't news.
and boy did IBM try to bring in the heavy lawyer guns on that case, didn't they.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man
My Problem with Consultants (2020)
I have only really noticed the incorrect use of the word “exponential” for the past couple years, here’s hoping it’s not too late to reverse course!
Exactly, this shouldn't be a freedom of speech issue -- Twitter's freedom to say whatever it wants on Twitter should trump anybody else's freedom to say whatever they want on Twitter.

But it is a freedom of speech issue because Twitter is a monopoly/gatekeeper. That's what needs fixing.
Your response is basically the first part of another response that was submitted minutes before yours.

See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=25861502
Emacs has something similar, for generating compressed matchers from examples you provide. Though this operates on a closed-world principle: the result will match your examples, but only your examples.

ELISP> (message (regexp-opt '("0x12" "0x13" "0x2f" "0x1d" "0xcc")))

"\\(?:0x\\(?:1[23d]\\|2f\\|cc\\)\\)"
(in *Messages* buffer)
\(?:0x\(?:1[23d]\|2f\|cc\)\)

(Note that Emacs' regex syntax is slightly different than PCRE.)
And I think presuming it's nothing more than a swipe makes no sense, occam's razor style. There's no reason why she would put that much effort (a several minutes long poem, plus the practice of recital).
On the other hand, returning veterans could have a strong demotivational effect on current talent. If the company doesn't believe in me, why should I stay?
Many people only interface with "science" through school classes and popular science magazines / documentaries / IFL science / antitheist memes, arguing against hoaxes, flat Earth, creationism etc.

People dislike your answer because they have no idea how the sausage is made, when actually your description is quite realistic.
New Bat Species with Orangutan Hue Discovered in West Africa
And yet Apple is the world's most valuable company.
On Missing Datasets (2018)
It actually makes your workflow more powerful as you can package it in a container and other devs can start using it in no time.
> suffered an unfortunate accident

scheduled or unscheduled?
It would need larger blocks, but it was the general understanding within the community before the fork that with Moore's Law, hard disk capacity would increase and price would go down in the future, so it really isn't a big deal, and not enough to cause "centralization of nodes" like some people argue.

Also, my understanding is that Lightning Network is semi-custodial, so it's probably more similar to banks than credit cards. I'm unsure why modern bitcoiners are adamant about "not your keys, not your coins", but are ok with semi-custodial solutions.
This is not exactly a joke, but these seem relatively on topic as humor:

Monzy - Kill Dash Nine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4

Googlers - Write in go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJvEIjRBSDA
If he's going to focus on maximizing threads instead of performance per thread, they'll come out on top. The race to make a single instruction thread move ever faster has obviously hit its limits as the main driver of overall compute performance.

If they keep pushing the old model of ever more GHz, they'll fail.
A lot of compilers for functional languages do exactly that. Each intermediate representation of the program is expressed as an algebraic datatype and each phase is a transformation from one (immutable) IR to another. A simple compiler might be 3 to 5 such IRs, but a more complex compiler might be dozens of passes.

The problem is that dozens of passes means dozens of copies. Compilation gets quite slow. It's not clear how to make a really fast compiler that has to do so much copying.

All of the compilers that I have worked on, except the toy compilers in grad school, used complex, mutable, and ultimately graph-based IRs. Controlling exactly the memory representation of the IR is important when a compiler does a lot of inlining and other optimizations, because a design mistake here can mean the IR for a compilation unit gets enormous and compilation time goes superlinear.

I designed the core of V8's optimizing JIT and these issues are really important for an industrial compiler.
The majority of "shared" libraries are used by exactly one application: https://drewdevault.com/dynlib

It makes absolutely no sense to pollute a global namespace with these.
I think this is a California policy. Other states are doing it differently. And even here in California, some counties are doing a better job then others in getting it out. I knew one person who had an appointment to get the vaccine in Los Angeles County, and then showed up to be told the wait time was 8 hours. Orange County seems to be doing a better job at the distribution.
Sure, if it compared to other diseases like influenza it maybe higher but in general both are still low number and then you still have to multiply that probability of getting positive on test with probability of becoming actually stick, which is another low number.
Wikipedia tell that Gelsinger is the cofounder of "Transforming the Bay with Christ" group. So the right person because Intel need a miracle to keepup with competitors
If you can get into an incubator lab space that isn't in a major market like SF or Boston, where the rents are insane, one can expect to set up a reasonable wet lab for most uses given $200k in equipment and reagent costs and a couple of months of time. Then expect $5-10k/month in operating costs outside of salaries.
95% of the reported Bitcoin volume is fake. Here is the real volume
"95% of the reported bitcoin volume is fake. Below is the real volume. It’s smaller, but more orderly and regulated than is widely understood."
I swear Im not trying to be a smart ass as I say this, but we actually make it really easy to forecast how much you will pay us as you build out your own model in Finmark.

With literally two clicks, you can drive any expense cost based on another variable in your business like new hires or revenue growth.
How so? Docker is fundamentally about OS Level namespaces and isolation, not about more abstraction.
Interesting, though it seems like it might take more time to create enough examples for useful results than to just learn regex (eg. complete https://regexone.com/).

> The quality of the solution depends on a number of factors, including size and syntactical properties of the learning information.

> The algorithms embedded in this experimental prototype have always been tested with at least 25 matches over at least 2 examples. It is very unlikely that a smaller number of matches allows obtaining an useful solution.
They actually did attack Oregon with a similar setup (but an I-25 submarine) . They dropped some incendiary bombs on the forests near Bandon, OR hoping to cause massive fires, damage war critical timber production, etc.

I guess they didn't think about how hard it is to start a forest fire on the Oregon Coast in winter though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_submarine_I-25#Fourth...
There are literally millions of species on Earth, and each one has a scientist interested in it.
Making waves = 1 individual rejoining (who may have done so anyway)

Gelsinger not doing the rehiring

Architects = 1 architect

Three ways in which the headline is misleading.

How about 'New CEO helps recruit retired architect'
my 'git status' command takes 6 seconds around 2pm-4pm when internal network traffic is high... go figure.

(i use this cmd a lot!)
Yeah, getting from underwater confinement and blasting into the air should do works on your health
Have McIntosh and HD800S. Still considering AirPods Max as an addition, not a replacement. I have Bose QCII35s and they are nice, but so are my AirPod Pros. Having another headphone that has elements of both sounds interesting.

High end audiophiles are using AND operators, not OR in purchase decisions.
One of the things that came out was that Trump's permaban came about as a result of demands from employees, to which Jack eventually capitulated.
For me, a regex usually has to be wrapped into a function, which I can then throw copious amounts of unit tests at. Regex is, IMHO, a easy-to-write hard-to-read language, so I find it more fruitful to use tests to specify what is the task being accomplished, so that - if it's easier - I can just rewrite the appropriate regex from scratch rather than trying to decipher how the old one is broken.

If the task is complex enough, regex might not even be the right tool for the job, and the function boundary provides a sensible encapsulation boundary.
Its not not an MBA thing either. Sure its fun to dump on MBAs as being ruthless, careless and thinking of resources as replaceable widgets. To some degree you are right in that bad leadership will make these sorts of short sighted decisions, but Ive met enough MBAs to think that that masters degree is a shortcut to being a "good" manager.
The hope is that Darwin will select for the corporations that do this better.
I had a friend that worked for Intel and he had the absolute worst work laptop of anyone I know. I can't recall what it was exactly, but I remember it even had a low tier Intel chip.
> Otherwise Twitter is interfering in foreign diplomacy and governments, be they legal, illegal, authoritarian or democratic.

> Twitter should not be making these calls.

Twitter should totally should be making the calls. If the CCP wants to put a big propaganda poster in my front yard "for diplomatic reasons," I'd tell them to fuck off. Neither I nor Twitter have any obligation to carry the messages of any regime.

If they want to do diplomacy, they can send a representative to the State Department. If their government wants to communicate, let it use mechanisms it actually controls.
MicroPython is also a lot slower than Arduino style C++. Like, a LOT. So much slower that I am sort of amazed that MicroPython has any traction at all.

An 80MHz microcontroller running C can go about as fast as a 800MHz microcontroller running MicroPython, if the benchmarks a friend showed me are accurate.

An 80Mhz microcontroller is a lot cheaper than an 800 MHz microcontroller, though the difference is getting smaller.
This seems like a side effect of having a sizable amount of the population rejecting the notion of a cooperative society.
My patents have already been approved. More info at http://www.DDproFusion.com
I'm starting to wonder whether you could reliably predict management behavior at large corporations by tracking the bestseller biographies that came out. Or being current with HBR.
Yeah true enough. I don't know enough about the intricacies of their structure to have a strong opinion.
If prediction would be possible you could do unethical things, like selling off units bound to fail in near future without disclosing this information.

I wonder if there are any existing examples of such practices. Supermarket chains sell products near their expiration date at steep discounts, of course the difference is you know what you are buying and can still eat a 20 days until expiry 50% price Nutella jar.
Agreed. This article raises more questions than answers. How were the samples obtained? What does "almost 100 percent accuracy" mean? What was the source of non positive samples? How many total samples were there?
> And I think presuming it's nothing more than a swipe makes no sense,

Obviously it's not only that. It's a big moment for her and a great honor.

But also I think there was that flavor to it, and I'd guess her target audience thought it was great of her to put that touch in there.
Danced the Lindy for nearly 20 years. About six months into it, I visited Herräng. Picture the main dance house: a huge spacious hardwood dance floor, cute decorations over the walls, a custom-built DJ booth at the back, and standing at the front was Dawn Hampton.

Dawn was a short woman whose talents spanned dance, music, songwriting, and anything Cabaret. Her favourite song was Count Basie's Splanky.

I had arrived at Herräng during setup week, and got to know some of the crew who run the show, plus a few secrets---password for free Internet, less-frequented shower areas, and to avoid laundry duty at all costs.

Between the DJ booth and Dawn were countless dancers sitting, mostly cross-legged, eating up her every single word.

So on that afternoon while Dawn was holding the crowd's attention, I was up in the DJ booth, gazing over everyone, a clear view of Dawn at the other end. When she asked, "Who wants to do Splanky with me?" nobody budged. It took me a half-second later to shout, "I do!" I launched myself off the platform, leap-frogged over people's heads, and managed to score a dance with Dawn Hampton to her favourite song.

See when Dawn danced with you, she danced _with_ you. She held your gaze, recognized you as a person, played with you, back-led with you, showed you how to embody the music with your movements. She adapted to your level and made you look like a pro. She and Frankie Manning were Lindy Hop.
This is clearly selective prosecution. It's strange to see people at the same time, sometimes in the same comment, celebrate that others won't be able to speak anymore and pretend that this is about the the formal rules of IP allocation.
This makes sense. That being said, convention is very useful until it is broken for further optimization and setting better standards. I'm just not sure that a debate over "when it really started" is useful in that specific applications can define the start and end based upon what is needed rather than what is right, wrong, or accepted by convention. One exception to this is that non-specialists or students may learn something from the debate (provided it is public). A more useful debate would be whether or not we should rid ourselves of daylight savings time!
Thank you for creating this. Due to lack of access to my gym, I am moving exclusively to kettlebell routines at home. It’s new to me and this is very helpful.

Only category missing is yoga.
I wonder if this is more of a case where a NIC will only take action if someone is motivated enough to do this level of research. So maybe less selective enforcement and more selective researcher attention?
“Losing” Keller is a net win.

Hinton, OTOH, is the real deal. I had the privilege of spending some time with him and the gang back in the Nehalem days.

Hinton and Keller don’t belong in the same conversation.
Yes, it should. Doesn't change the fact that he was useful to society beyond that, though, and getting caught up in a dead man's crimes, legal or illegal, is unproductive.
> Well that’s obviously and trivially wrong so... I mean you can’t pretend away one Chile of electricity use to play multiplayer excel.

It's horribly wasteful now. As the block reward decays it may transition to being less wasteful; it depends on how high transaction fees rise. Last time I tried to work it out the total electrical+transaction fee cost of bitcoin compared to spend volume (not including obvious change to self) was at about 1%. Almost comparable to current credit/debit network overhead, probably a lot more expensive than interbank transfer.
Avi Loeb's technical work is commendable but I'm left wondering if some of the reasoning in this article counts for thoughtful contemplation.

>"We may be a phenomenon as uninteresting to them as ants are to us; after all, when we’re walking down the sidewalk we rarely if ever examine every ant along our path."
Is it helpful to ascribe human-like motives to an alien species? Projecting our thought patterns on an alien species will not get us anywhere. There could be numerous reasons or no reason in particular why an alien lifeform might visit us: they are cataloging lifeforms, they are interested in 'ants' like EO Wilson, they might want to harvest resources on our planet, etc.

> "But better yet, we could get in touch with Proxima b and entice the locals to visit and share a water-based drink with us."
There's humor mixed in this statement, so I'm not sure if Avi Loeb is being entirely serious. I take the opposite stand of "don't broadcast our presence to aliens". It's common sense that if you're out in the wild, you don't draw attention to yourself.
> We know that Neanderthals may have had bigger brains, and may have been pushed to extinction by homo sapiens. A bigger brain will require more food and take longer to develop, potentially putting Neanderthals at an evolutionary disadvantage to humans.

Where are you getting this data?

Per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal), Neanderthal brains were similar to those of modern humans:

> The braincases of Neanderthal men and women averaged about 1,600 cm3 (98 cu in) and 1,300 cm3 (79 cu in) respectively, which is within the range of the values for modern humans.
There are numerous other well-known terms other than "dependent typing" that describe those features better, namely flow(-sensitive) typing. I believe the implementation of those type systems is considerably different from one of dependent type systems. I do have heard calling const generics as a "dependent fragment", which is fitting given that it might be the largest feasible fragment of dependent types without actually implementing the full-featured type system. I however object to any mention of dependent typing to describe something less capable than const generics since it's pretty misleading IMO.

You are absolutely correct that soundness is not the highest priority for dependently typed languages, as it had been true for other languages as well. Still I think most languages with a complex type system (subjective) do try to minimize the number of unsound corners as circumstances permit. I'm not an Idris user by myself but for example, the recent Idris 2 0.3.0 announcement [1] clearly considers unsoundness as something undesirable. As a result I have a general expectation for the type safety of those languages; I don't have that for TypeScript however (and I don't view that as a problem, just a difference).

[1] https://www.idris-lang.org/idris-2-version-030-released.html "Removed multiplicity subtyping, as this is unsound and unfortunately causes more problems than it solves."
Not really. Do you really notice whether someone uses "Grinning face with smiling eyes" or just plain "Grinning face"? Or was it "Grinning face with big eyes", or maybe "Beaming face with smiling eyes". Or were they "squinting" eyes? Maybe the face was just "smiling", not "grinning". Sheesh.
I bet a product manager would be more kind
It's how the whole 'cloud' operates; and it only adds up. The cloud is a complete scam in costs, especially if you're using it for very high compute tasks, deep learning, source control management or CI/CD.

Another example of this scam is Firebase (aka Google Cloud). Popular with mobile devs who not only risk getting locked in, but are offered limited functionality (Firestore) that charges for reads which that optimises for a huge bill if one is not careful.

For servers, as soon as you add Kubernetes, just remember to not show the 'operating costs' section of the balance sheet to the investors, unless you have a healthy recurring revenue stream.