skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The twitter thread you posted does have the evidence in the update https://twitter.com/KralcTrebor/status/1355172567242469377

And it's an open secret that Wall Street institutions colluding / bending ethics and the law is basically business as usual. (In this particular case I talked to a couple people I know who work in market makers and hedge funds and they took it as given that the requirements would have been put in place to protect short selling institutions)
> This approach probably works well because I know how things work at a high level; I think it would be disastrous to do this without any real understanding.

I actually interview for this skill specifically. I stress to candidates that they can and should search the web in whatever way they would when tasked with code in real life.

The speed at which someone can process search results and stackoverflow responses to filter out crap and find the solution is the best proxy I've found for developer productivity.

Some people don't search for anything, even after prodding them 3 times that it's 100% fine to search and they definitely won't lose points. They still won't do it, because it's just not how they reason about problems.

Other candidates will immediately identify the problem, search with good queries, quickly navigate through a bunch of sites, find the relevant info, copy/paste, and solve the challenge.
I've used this site in the past: https://www.doradolist.com/universities.html

I think it only covers STEM subjects, which is unfortunate in your case. Still, maybe others on HN will find it useful.
It's part of the MBAization of universities combined with typical company politics (the more people under you => the more important you are => the more you get paid). It's a recipe for a lavishly paid executive class running universities who try to run them like a business.
The real problem is that the stock market has historically delivered 7-9% on average, and consensus is it will likely be considerably lower in the future. Making significant money from an ownership share like that takes decades of disciplined saving and investing. The narrative of WSB that "the rich won't let poor people invest in the stock market like they do" is ridiculous; most of the rich would be very happy with 8% per year on average.

There might be something to the idea that an internet forum will have a harder time getting away with the sort of market manipulation that the most unscrupulous hedge funds do all the time, but that's a different discussion entirely.

There's of course a related discussion of how much some people can afford to invest in the stock market each year, but it's really only partially related. I do understand where the anger is coming from, as should everyone who has been following American politics since 2015 at the latest.
Still there are a lot of variables to consider: production, distribution, shares, access, storage, etc...

In comparison to USA states, the European countries are a real mess: lots of small autonomous areas, language barriers everywhere (with some places only speaking particular dialects), hospital networks and management with wild variations (with a crude mix of private / public / semi-private-public / church / volunteer), population distribution with radical variations between country (hey Spain, how are things?), train network that still doesn't quite commute between countries because someone 2 centuries ago said that there might be a war coming anytime soon, etc...

To top all that, countries are much faster in claiming their autonomy than states (they are countries after all). This single fact has big implications in coordinated efforts.
France and Germany wanted both to head the European Central Bank and the European Commission, with both favoring the ECB. France got the ECB position in the end, most likely as part of a deal.
In the UK many of the equivalent to community colleges and technical schools (polytechnics) have been reclassified as universities to attract more funding and prestige
Now I have one reason more to continue to develop a matrix client for Plasma Mobile.
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Moxie is not friendly towards such third party clients that connect to the main network. Also, I only used it as an example. There might be other reasons for a ban. The point is that you don't depend on them.
I agree there ought to be publicly-owned infrastructure.

But the infrastructure we have is privately-owned, so yeah, the owners can do what they like.

We'll never get rid of greedy quasi-monopolies unless we let them do a crap job so that people demand alternatives.

This is how market capitalism is supposed to work. (And similarly, we get rid of market capitalism by letting it demonstrate that it just doesn't work very well.)
This pattern of phrase is so condescending, and insulting to those who genuinely choose to enter a profession.
Aren't some Matrix servers, which Element can connect to, considered "free speech zones" where hate speech and misinformation propagates? If so, expect F-Droid to do the needful to Element like they have before[1].

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html
This is so-so but there are a few gems in there. I like:

"We don't do whys here

We only do hows"

Funnily this could be right out of the mouth of a motivational speaker (whom geohot would naturally despise).

Another goody:

"'
working hard is not important'

that's a lie

working hard for other people - that is not important

you gotta work hard on things you care about"
Reposted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25967789 with a clicky URL
Perhaps a little cynical but what would stop Google from classifying praising other search engines as "hate speech" and deleting any comments in this direction from their platforms? And when "hate speech" is just a little too absurd then they just classify it as "security risk" and ban it as well.
Pinephone for a cheaper, less performant alternative: https://pine64.com/product-category/pinephone/?v=0446c16e2e6...
"Actually Ubuntu is not less usable than Windows 10."

For you and me maybe. But don't expect other people to have your standard of software choices etc.
Google may be able to control the Element app on the play store, but at least for the server side there's no way to do that with synapse (the official matrix protocol server side implementation), which is fully open source and distributed directly from the developers.
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Or, in any(?) browser of choice you can use ctrl-f, <search term>, enter, enter, ... (etc forward until target, reverse = shift+enter), esc, shift+arrow_right to highlight and ctrl-c to copy the selection.

BTW, the title is incorrectly editorialized: this is not about pasting at all.
Saying germany did not aim for continental domination once the Nazis took over is just wrong. Hitler wanted, and alsways has, Lebensraum in the East. The attack on the USSR was his plan all along. As was a revanche in the West. As was an invasion of Britain once the war has started.
I rarely do google at all - DuckDuckGo is usually more than enough.
Seriously, web search is usually the most efficient way to find documentation. This also works for finding math definitions / formulae (usually on Wikipedia) instead of skimming through books. In all, consulting literature sounds legit, and web search is usually the fastest way.
Good luck! I hope you get this resolved soon.

In the meantime, what is the explanation for the F-Droid version lagging behind?
Forgot to switch accounts?
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Oh thanks for the update! I'd dug into this a fair bit, but not for a few years, that's fantastic news!
They knew well in advance what the risks and issues were. Previous year they had the exact same issue just on a smaller scale. They just chose to do nothing about it.
Well, the underlying problem is high tuition and high faculty salaries. Faculty used to be like a monastery, where scholars could live a simple life to nerd in their topic of nerdhood.

Now, my alma mater pays high-tooting faculty nearly a megabuck, pays typical faculty $180k, has $200 million building projects, yachts, and what-not. Tuition went up multifold too.

I'm more than happy to pay a bunch of nerds $60k per year to have lifetime jobs to sit around and nerd, but if my taxpayer dollars are paying for that monstrosity, it better darned well deliver economic value too.
Keeping your wrists at a natural angle is very helpful for avoiding RSI and carpal tunnel injuries. I've been typing for 60 years and have never had these problems.

A while ago I posted some bad ASCII art of what we're talking about here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20663540

The parent thread also has some good tips.

I do use the standard touch typing finger/key assignments, I just don't bend my wrists doing it.
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Whatever, sow your disinformation. Countries are free to impose border controls and impose any restrictions they wish. The same was the case five years ago during the migrant crisis. My country (Denmark) closed its borders both times, with no objections from the EU - probably because setting up temporary border controls is explicitly allowed in the Schengen Treaty. Maybe your country is laissez-faire about it, but in that case all the blame is on your shitty government, not some phantom EU shadow government.
Yes, this legal void needs to end. If you have a majority of some market, there need to be additional legal responsibilities.
Perhaps you can change the color of the blocks, red when the nonce is wrong and green when the nonce is right.

While mining blocks, it would be nice to put a hourglass/spinning-circle in the mouse. Also update the nonce from time to time, and add a stop button.
No it is not. Have you actually read either Pfizer’s report or this paper? Looked at their data?

The graphs, both in Pfizer’s original report and in this paper, show that past about two weeks, there is almost no change. Please look at the Pfizer graphs and tell me where the great advance is from 50% to 90%

Also, if yo actually read the Pfizer report, you’ll notice the 95% is for mild disease - a totally uninteresting result. For severe disease, it is 75% with a CI spanning the whole 0-100% range.
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weird enough: the term "lunatic" comes from "luna" (which is the Latin for "moon").

In Italian, been a "lunatico" (lunatic) is less bad then "crazy", meaning somebody who changes his characters depending on moon's phases.

Btw: Pirandello wrote a very good novel called "Mal di luna" ("Moonsickness"), it is included in a good movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaos_(film)
Assumption is "more vaccinated -- better outcome" which is not proven yet.

In Israel (I'm israeli) almost two millions got two shots of Pfizer vaccine (starting from older population at risk and gradually including younger age groups). Amount of patients in serious or critical condition is growing. Amount of infected grows. This number is manipulated by changing the amount of tests and selection process. Those vaccinated are deliberately not tested so no information on infections after immunity is supposed to kick in.
I wonder what stuff like this does for the French government who rely on Matrix (and presumably element?). Sure they have their own servers and maybe another client.
> Take A.I., for instance: completely dominated by the U.S. and China. Europe?

DeepMind?
It’s really not obvious what I’m supposed to do about vague government alerts; watch out for black car of this model with suspicious male... okay...

And to imagine that the extreme supermajority of amber alerts are regional or statewide.
On the flip side of this, I type at 130-140WPM and never learned to type “properly”. I use my index fingers.
As a Belgian, this is what we've heard and read:

- Pfizer stated on 15 Jan 2021 that they would produce 40% less (60.000 instead of 100.000 doses)

- This delay in production would we compensated in the weeks that follow. In February the production should be compensated.

- This was a temporary measure to scale up production after an extra order was made by the EU

The working group concerning the vaccine and it's distribution was to quote "not amused" by this news and wrote a sternly worded letter.

Source:https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2021/01/16/versnelde-inenting-z... Text in Dutch.
or maybe he was born in 1988. Although his comment history is, I am not sure how to say it in PC way, unpleasant.
See my other reply to the other copy of your comment.

Please prove that you actually read the Pfizer report and not just repeating headlines before calling me a lier.

I might have misread some data, but I see no indication that you are in a position to judge that.
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But you inject the vaccine into your body.

Remember the melamine in baby formula scandal? To this day, many Chinese parents are still buying formula from abroad.
The watermark is really obnoxious. Did they really have to plaster it all over the image?

It's cool how "intel" (bottom right) and "FF" [1] (top right) is signed using the same process as the rest of the chip :D

[1] initials of Federico Faggin
Angry at what?
This seems to have parallels with the laws of thermodynamics.
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> Regardless of the fact that, this contract does not, to my reading (IANAL), support their position that they have a claim over the UK-produced vaccines: pursuing a legal resolution seems silly because getting a judgement in your favour will take weeks or months. That is far too long for the timelines the EU wants.

The EU probably isn't going to finish vaccination this year.
Please look at the graphs and data, not the headlines.

Nothing magical happens past day 12 from the first vaccine in the Pfizer paper, or day 18 in this paper. Seriously. Look at it.

Yes, ynetnews is ynet/yediot. Their reporting of covid is exactly parroting the government with no criticism whatsoever so far.

I’m not antivax, I’m provad. 50% is pretty damn good for a first attempt. But everything has become so political, I go read primary data - and it is NOT remotely close to what the headlines say.
Let each user pick among any of the multiple clients available. Don't design your system / process to only support one client.
> Could the writer not have asked about this before hitting the Publish button?

The news cycle is fast as it is and especially this situation is developing rapidly, so you lose a lot the longer you wait. There's a good chance they even asked before publishing and only got a response later.
That related technique, the Gish gallop (also mentioned in the article), is seen very frequently: your opponent makes numerous wild claims, often very different in truth and applicability, but hoping that some will stick and cast doubt on your position, or the listener thinks “it’s too complicated, I give up”.

The latter, that people give up and conclude that there is no truth or “all politicians lie”, is sometimes the main goal. It removes accountability.

Often seen with creationists, covidiots, Qanon, and political propaganda.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
Block reddit in your router. Time sink and opportunity cost
Easier to get the toothpaste out of the tube than to get it back in...
I'd say it is easy enough, just paste some random scary command from a quick Google search into the shell. Or maybe my expectations are too low. It is not like I could have known how to disable the insanely stupid ApplePressAndHold thing on macOS without searching online...
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There is a famous quote assigned to Goethe in German, which roughly says »A fool can ask more questions then 7 wise men can answer«. The internet just increased the visibility of fools. Let's ensure wise men don't stop to share their wisedom, because that's what participative education is all about.
I think this law is BS... /s
They are also working on a Go version called Dendrite - https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite

The Matrix team is doing a LOT of cool stuff. :)
All of the class definition has to be in a single cell. You can’t have notes within it only normal comments
No simple way because Apple is sitting on its ass.
> Google is LEGALLY required to provide a justification for removal 30 days before application removal.

You mean this?

2. Where a provider of online intermediation services decides to terminate the provision of the whole of its online intermediation services to a given business user, it shall provide the business user concerned, at least 30 days prior to the termination taking effect, with a statement of reasons for that decision on a durable medium.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

Firstly, I'm not sure whether they really terminated "the provision of the whole of its online intermediation services" or just suspended the one app store listing.

Secondly, there are exceptions:

4. The notice period in paragraph 2 shall not apply where a provider of online intermediation services:

(a) is subject to a legal or regulatory obligation which requires it to terminate the provision of the whole of its online intermediation services to a given business user in a manner which does not allow it to respect that notice period; or

(b) exercises a right of termination under an imperative reason pursuant to national law which is in compliance with Union law;

(c) can demonstrate that the business user concerned has repeatedly infringed the applicable terms and conditions, resulting in the termination of the provision of the whole of the online intermediation services in question.

In cases where the notice period in paragraph 2 does not apply, the provider of online intermediation services shall provide the business user concerned, without undue delay, with a statement of reasons for that decision on a durable medium.

So it all comes down to what their reasons for the suspension were.

EDIT: Just saw this update: https://mobile.twitter.com/element_hq/status/135546565011484... So they revealed their reasons within 12 hours, which I'm going to file under "without undue delay". (But did they use a "durable medium"?)
These are still four more steps then what it takes to directly install from the Play Store. Most people would view any of these four steps as hurdle.

> And you won't need to go to the settings the next time, it'll just work.

You will still have to find the apk when there is an update, download it and confirm install. There are still three steps to update the apk compared to Play Store's one tap (or even zero clicks if automatic updates are on). Only "Allow installing from this source" step is removed when updating the app.
I really dislike centered websites. That means that if I change the width of the browser window, the position of the website elements changes. So when I make the window bigger for ONE annoying tab that requires more width, it changes ALL other tabs. This is horrible for my muscle memory.

Also, I arrange my windows such that overlapping windows don't hide important stuff underneath them. So I can see essential elements of a site even with chat windows on top. But if the website position changes on browser window width change, this invalidates ALL my other windows. It's simply awful.

I want degrees of freedom to be independent, otherwise they are far less useful.

People want centered websites because they are using browser windows that are far too wide, usually full screen. Just use a narrow browser window and left-aligned websites will look just fine. You'd think that with everyone having a narrow smartphone, websites would work well with narrow browser windows, but no, usually they use a different (bad!) layout on desktop browsers. I really hate this.
There's a lot of those:

https://ioo.coop/directory/clouds/
https://dna.crisp.se/docs/index.html
https://autonomic.zone/
https://vebit.xyz/
https://komun.org/?l=en

The deal with a lot of them is that they want to stay small, and others want to be local.

I'm involved in the early stage of a new remote-only co-op. If anyone in this thread is interested, my email is on my profile.
Wow. The previous release was in 2016, so I was sure that XQuartz was dead for good. Nice to be pleasantly surprised!

I occasionally use XQuartz to run graphical programs over SSH using X forwarding, although I’ve mostly moved on to other approaches due to a combination of:

1. Bad support for HiDPI displays (theoretically fixable in XQuartz - curious if they will tackle it now).

2. Annoyingly high input and redisplay latency (probably not fixable, just an inherent property of the very chatty X protocol).

Still nice to have the option.
Sure, but do you think "the community at large" really makes such decisions in any meaningful way? Overwhelmingly, "the community" blindly follows a few leaders who happen to have a high profile or make the most noise in the right forums.

Which means that in practice, these "immutable" blockchains and their "code-is-law" contracts are immutable for the masses, but can be modified (in effect, by forking) when it's in the interest of a few powerful individuals/entities to do so.

So what have we gained, really?
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You’ve generally described the colonization of Australia by the British.

https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/Convicts_and_the_Colonisat...
At least for the last few decades the limiting factor for money creation was interest rate, not the fractional reserve requirement.

Since there's a very active overnight market for lending excess reserves banks just borrow reserves if they need more to meet the requirements. This is the rate that central banks influence.

In the UK the fractional reserve requirement is 0% for example.

Lending is entirely risk-weighted ROI limited.
I thought of a change to gradient accumulation, which I call Adam accumulation:

https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1355343951033602057

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25964420

Unfortunately, no one seems to understand it, which isn't a great sign. I'm either not explaining it very well, or the idea doesn't make sense.

In short:

for example in batch:
accum += adam(gradients(example))

param += accum
accum = 0

That way, adam statistics are updated for every training example.

Traditional gradient accumulation looks like this:

for example in batch:
accum += gradients(example)

param += adam(accum)
accum = 0

... which only updates Adam once.

(It's equivalent to a bigger batch size.)

Probably best to just implement Adam accumulation and see if it works, I suppose.

(Sorry for rambling about this here. I was just hoping to find some prior work along these lines, if anyone knew of something.)
Yep, abusive content.

> Morning all. We've had contact from Google confirming that the suspension is due to abusive content somewhere on Matrix; we're working with them to explain how Element works and get the situation resolved.

https://twitter.com/element_hq/status/1355465650114846720
Well I think it’s not! Buuuut the margins of hn are too narrow to provide a proof.
I think of myself as "mechanically challenged". No matter how much I train, I cannot break 100WPM while typing effortlessly. And this goes to other activities that require hands to be agile and precise like playing instruments, which I never was able to do well regardless of how much effort I put into it.

So I understand that there is a lot of people who are much more naturally agile with their hands.

But I still think learning to type properly has huge advantages. Even if you dismiss every other advantage (say you decide you don't need to type fast), I think it just feels extremely satisfying to be able to focus on anything you want while your hands just produce constant stream of characters on the screen in a flowing, effortless motion.