skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The game is Attention. Focus. Discoverability. Relevance. Impact.

All are inherently rivalrous

Even discounting any financial returns, howling into the void / winking in the dark fails to accomplish anything if there is no receiver or audience.

Ms. Typeset might be engaging in a form of personal journaling or meditation, but in a world that has so many competing distractions her curation is never shared, or even where perhaps it is but the potential community of interest, and the discovery tools possibly reaching it, are fractured and distracted to the point of dissolution ... the effort to communicate and gains of doing so are lost.

Mind that large audiences really aren't communities -- I'm talking Facebook or national broadcast scale. As Dave Winer observed, conversation doesn't scale very well. Dialogue between two people is its most intense form, and past a handfull of participants or so, what remains is mostly a set of serial monologues. Above 15 or so, the graph starts trending increasingly to a star, with one broadcaster and numerous recievers, collectively an audience. At sufficient scale, selling that audience to those who'd hope to advert its attention to their own message becomes a principle commercialisation model. The baiting message tends to the minimum viable common basis.

At extreme levels of specialisation, such as, say, aa maths PhD, the relevant community might easily fit in a small classroom. Possibly in a single car. My cursory analysis of Google+ communities by size and activity levels suggests diminishing returns above about 10,000 registered members, of whom perhaps 1--10% were highly active, so 100--1,000 participants, roughly within Dunbar's Number range. Extremely large groups are visible but not especially useful --- most seemed overrun with spam and memes.

Pursuit of that audience tends strongly to sacrifice or ignore nuanced, specialist, or niche interests, to the point of actively trying to steer potential members of such groups to the larger, and more monetisable, vulgar pool.

My own seeking of expressive outlets is an increasingly frustrating trade-off between the expressivity of the tools themselves (mostly formatting and media capabilities), technical hosting issues, audience discovery and cultivation, search, and related concerns. I'm hoping to learn, share, and discover. The sense that this used to be more viable back in the days when I used Usenet and mailing lists may be a Golden Age illusion, but its a damnedably persistent one.
I want to do something similar, and load it in a place like snowflake. I say "like" snowflake because its annoying that they have a $25 a month minimum, otherwise it's already nicely suited to be a personal data warehouse!
I actually don't even get this. Surely this problem is solved with Liquid Stock or a voluntary buyout (if allowed) at the next funding round? Most institutional investors don't want anyone cashing out until a liquidity event like a buyout or an IPO. I would imagine the revenues available for this private transfer market are very small.
I think they’re talking about hereditary peers; a baronet is not a peer.
At least Taiwan isn't a country in any kind of war (cold or hot) with the west. They are, however, in a cold war with China.

The current technical situation does make peaceful cross-strait relations critical to global technology, however. A hot war between China and Taiwan would send the silicon state-of-the-art backwards by quite a bit, as would any trade embargo post-annexation if China somehow accomplished that peacefully.

Taiwan's silicon fab prowess is a pretty potent strategic weapon against a much larger adversary!
I was under the impression that Aliens were partial to probing rather than grabbing.

I must have been misinformed.

I blame the media!
If you have a good type system you don't need to write tests like this. I test my algorithms not my function calls.

Also,
> A lot of work is being done in JavaScript

Is that it? It's one of the best funded languages on Earth, what do you expect - with D for example we can do all the things you mentioned and catch errors like this, and we're basically just some guys working on the language not the combined might of the entire Internet sector.
Responsibility doesn’t sum to 100%. If I fly on a crappy airline and get in a plane crash, it was partly my fault, and also the fault of pilots, maintenance people, regulators, executives, and many more. If someone makes a box with a hole in it labeled “free prize inside” which chops off your fingers, it’s mostly their fault. If everyone knows that opiates are addictive, and a pharmaceutical company says they figured out how to make non-addictive ones, and gets regulator approval, and convinces doctors to prescribe their new drug, and to tell patients it is not addictive, then I think lack of personal responsibility is only one small part of the problem.
many of the examples are based from this site https://www.complexity-explorables.org/
if you're looking for additional examples.
Nationalise them so
It just says 'hereditary titles', and a baronetcy is an hereditary title (which is why it was awarded to her husband, not Thatcher herself.)
The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.
Disabling JS helps.

PDF: https://complexityexplained.github.io/ComplexityExplained.pd...

(Multiple languages available.)
The Director of CDC has to be right for the right reasons, not just by coincidence, and carries the whole weight of the responsibility about his decision, both politically and in drastic cases maybe even legally. That is a completely different business than voicing your opinion, and apparently the blogger you cite completely misses that point.

Organizations like WHO and CDC make their recommendations based on studies which are in turn based on evidence. If you compare that procedure to 2 bloggers who happen to be right about the same topic among 98 other bloggers who happened to be wrong, selection bias alone may make those 2 outliers appear like genuises. That doesn't mean or show anything.
Thanks for that. I'll check it out.
Your assumption sounds like it favors Star Wars over Star Trek (TOS).
Falling life expectancy is a statistical fiction due to changing demographics. And health/medical outcomes are still better, most of the problem is systems that encourage people to die because they can’t afford care.
I started reading, it seems to pass the smell test for now, will continue reading
I have no idea why you would want to declare an x in the loop, and then use it outside the loop. There are better ways of doing things.

The fact that you can do such a thing in JavaScript is exactly why JavaScript is such a mess of a language with its globally-declared and hoisted variables.

That sort of practice has never made sense, and is not a language design that Python should follow.
This almost certainly included information sharing between these countries on U.S. covert communications techniques, said multiple former officials — the makings of a real-life “axis of evil.”

so you spy on sovereign states within their own borders, and somehow they are the axis of evil when they catch your spies. this is narcissitic perversion at the state level
> “It’s something where, in my personal experience, I would never use it. It would be horrifically pretentious to do that.”

I've only ever seen lawyers from bad schools use esquire, to be blunt. If you've gone to HYS, no way you'll use this.
Could you explain it for us then? I'm genuinely curious in what you observed.
So the entire system cannot be trusted and is entirely vulnerable to fraud, but all elections are not fraudulent? So the big bad guys are only being fraudulent once in a while, even though they get away with it every time. I don’t understand these mental gymnastics. Either believe in democracy (with all its flaws) or you don’t. You can’t just sit here and cry about what might have happened because you can’t verify it yourself. Democracy works and is trusted because we can verify with hand recounts what happened. Saying that the results are unverifiable is dishonest. If you want to reinforce democracy, then put effort into fixing it. Your current tone only serves to cast doubt about democracy.
This is partly why I think sacrificing speed and type safety in the name of ease-of-writing is pointless in the long run - any productivity you gain gets lost in the test suite or in heisenbugs hidden down the stack that blow up where you can't easily fix them.
Are there any non-class reasons why lawyers would require a “title-based way to signal what they do”?

Plenty of professions with equivalent training have no honorific (even if they do list various letters after their names).
A New Light of Hope for DeFi: Polkadot
If you did not use map, Promise nor object destructuring you would not have these problems. Code would not look as cool though.
A new lens technology is primed to jumpstart phone cameras
Turn off JS, fixed :)
> Instead of creating a single modality i.e. artificial noses or ears, medicine would benefit from a multimodal sensory system that uses vision, smell, auditory and perhaps even taste, _in conjunction_, as the human body is rich with signals through all these modalities.

Thats a great thought right there. Adding an over-time perspective would make this even more powerful, as a lot of information is encapsulated in change, not just absolute observation.

I wonder how much of the required sensing tech is already available, but most likely not rated for medical usage yet.
> When it came to fact-checking support for the project, the Times’ leadership told us that they had their own internal system in place for stories of this nature.

I found this odd and stupid. Just because NYT says they have a fact checking department doesn’t absolve me of critical thinking, source development, and my own confirmation. It also seems reasonable to validate this claim from NYT to understand how they fact check. It also seems like if there was a third party fact checking me, I’d be aware because they would start with info from me and they would talk with my sources who talked with me.

This makes me think how crazy it would be to not bug test my software because someone told me the company has a testbot. But I don’t see any tests anywhere and don’t see output of tests anywhere. And there’s a syntax error that would be found if anyone even tried to compile or run.
Ah cool. Used Google Docs in the past for that reason.
Putin’s Once-Scorned Vaccine Is Now a Favorite in Pandemic Fight
it was up to $80 today, meaning at worst you would lose 3/4 of whatever you put in. It will go down to 0. GME is worthless in digital age.
- Amazon in the UK
The capitalist colonization of North America, complete with genocide and chattel slavery, deserves at least honorable mention. Also the East India Company, and the Irish famines orchestrated by British landowners, and many more.

Just because the companies doing the murder are more numerous and regularly go out of business, doesn’t mean that capitalism’s hands are free of blood.
I've made something that this reminded me of recently (wip) in GNU Guile: https://notabug.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/fantasy-vacation-planne...

It does not use such a witty approach though. It uses JSON configuration files and I still need to make actions and events mutually arbitrarily nestable in the configuration files, to allow arbitrarily complex plots.

The core is there and people could write their own configuration files to give it an individual spin. All that is needed is sufficient creativity.
The wording 'stop expanding' is confusing. Figure 1 makes it more clear: When two civilizations meet, expansion stops in this direction. In the free directions the civilizations still expand.
Converting vector images to raster images forever fixes the resolution of the images. Also flash can be much higher framerate than a fixed raster video framerate.
ugh, computer people are the worst
Sublime-Debian 1.2.0 – Debian packaging syntax highlighting for Sublime Text
This is a poorly written article coated in the author's hamfisted rant on modern US politics. The Wikipedia page is much more straightforward and in-depth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquire
The parametrized visualizations are fun and useful. They really help with the mental model and intuition.

Also I didn’t know that field existed. Very interesting. One could imagine using visualization and generative testing for software systems to be a subject where this model could be applied.
If there's a mix of byte and unicode strings then 2to3 won't work. Consider:

with open("a", "rb") as f:
with open("b", "w") as g:
g.write(">" + f.read(1))

There are also conversions in Python 2 between byte and string which aren't supported in Python 3:

s = "123".encode("hex")
t = "abcd".decode("hex")
Disruption of Image Processing Systems
Disruption of image processing systems

Surveillance cameras with night vision capability use infrared waves ,Infrared waves are not seen by the human eye,But infrared affects CCTV cameras.This way you can disrupt image processing systems only with the help of an infrared flashlight,This information has been reported to increase system security.

#reported:Amirali Sadeghi
All of those retail brokers used the same clearing brokers.
Blood may not be present in sufficient quantity to be detected visually or not at all so keep looking out for other irregularities (being I'll is irregular). Examples: strange badly smelling diarrhoea (not one you might have after a having eaten something that was a little off) or burning sensation (which might get dismissed as a diverticulitis).
Okay so lets start making daily breathalyzer tests standard for anyone who works in kids. Once in the morning and once after lunch.
Calling war irrational is irrational.
I found a better article with link to other Elon Musk's tweets about Dogecoin.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dogecoin-goes-up-over-40-a...

He raised the value by few tweets and that isn't news. We have seen it with TSLA value, but it's funny how he has this influence on other markets too.
The psychological cost of the lockdowns is starting to be significantly more than restaurants being closed. UK has more or less been locked down since last March (with minor interruptions).
Here you go:

Array.prototype.map = function (func) {
if (func.length !== 3) {
throw new Error(
"bad! this function you've passed must take THREE arguments. Grr!"
);
}
for (let i = 0; i < this.length; i++) {
this[i] = func(this[i], i, this);
}
return this;
};

;)

(making this workable and bug free is left to the reader or multi-billion dollar corporations)

There can be a non-indexed map as well.

I'm most curious as to who uses the last argument in the JS map function!
I had a similar experience starting out with ProseMirror; I wanted to make something similar to the editors in Dropbox Paper and Notion, and found an out-of-the-box rich text editor called tiptap built onto of it.

They already had nodes for images and embeds [1, 2] which made development easy (I would recommend checking out the source code; its about a hundred lines of code for each, and simple). But as I made more custom nodes, I learned pretty well the internals of tiptap and how it used ProseMirror. And over time, I've come to appreciate knowing its api.

So if there's any advice for people trying to get started with ProseMirror, I would say to look at libraries which built upon it as example code such as tiptap or the outline rich-markdown-editor [3].

[1] https://github.com/ueberdosis/tiptap/blob/main/packages/tipt...

[2] https://github.com/ueberdosis/tiptap/blob/main/examples/Comp...

[3] https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor
It's a bit circular because mental illness is societally determined. If enough people deem something to be an illness or no longer one, then so it shall tautologically be.

>But yes, religion seems to be a bit of a get-out-of-jail-free card these days - people and organizations get away with a lot of shady stuff under the disguise of religion and something really needs to be done about it.

Well that was my point: secularist impulses are often rejected, especially in the anglosphere. The people who could do something are often prevented from doing so, while religious orders are free to leave broken lives in their wake.
The article nails it with this quote:

>American lawyers all could call themselves “Esquire,” inasmuch as anyone can, and for lawyers it wouldn’t be misleading. But not many do. “There’s not a huge amount of debate, but when it does come up, there’s a sense that this is a kind of archaic term, it’s somewhat embarrassing,” says Silversmith. “It’s something where, in my personal experience, I would never use it. It would be horrifically pretentious to do that.”

This is correct. Seeing "esq." after a lawyer's name in an e-mail signature definitely tells you something about the person sending the e-mail (and it's not just that they are a lawyer...).
If you have a 64 drive tape robot, you probably have 65 computers: one controlling the load/unload mechanism, servicing 64 servers each dealing with one drive. (Or perhaps 16 servers that each handle 4, or 8x8.) Each of them has its own high speed drive for cache and independent NIC.
How one of the wettest major cities ran out of water
China will do it for you. Lets see how that goes, fair?

Why anyone thinks a state monopoly is some how better is beyond my reasoning.
The hubris is to expect that someone at home can manufacture something worthy of being called a vaccine if they're just smart enough to follow the science.

Theoretically this might be true, but in practice it seems obvious that this will fail. I can think of so many ways in which this could be subtly invalid and I am in no way an expert. I would expect someone with commercial lab experience or vaccine production experience to be able to point out a hundred ways in which this won't work.

Maybe the more obvious problem though is that we can't know if it works either. Without a valid scientific study on the effectiveness it's all just a guess. To call it a vaccine is hubris because it is precisely this study that deems a concoction of ingredients to actually be a vaccine. I'd expect Less Wrong to be the first place to point out all the flaws in the idea of just getting an antibody test to decide if it's working.
Use keepass so you can remember your passwords, dont use the same password everywhere.

>with my email adress on servers administered

>makes me a special snowflake then

No one needs you, it's nice that you live but you are not special like...let's say a snowflake.
Reddit app downloads hit 6M in January thanks to ‘meme stocks’
Well, with the benefit of hindsight you are correct, however in 2005 things may have looked a bit different to them but I think the bigger point here is that having a $900M budget for charging stations today is a much better fit than it was when they got funded.
It's possible to create a trashmail or other addresses...yes that's possible.
GPU prices are really insane. 13 years ago I bought a brand-new Radeon HD3850, which at the time was one of the best GPUs available; the budget version of a line where the HD3870 (and later the HD3870 X2) was the high end.

I paid €128 for it.

That's not going to get you anything today. 3 years ago I paid €350 for a GTX 1050 TI. Now, everything new starts at €500, and everything older is a waste of money, says everybody.
Interestingly the source is pure JavaScript and not TypeScript.

The tooling support that TS enables would be a huge thing for (the users of) a project like this.
> So the entire system cannot be trusted and is entirely vulnerable to fraud, but all elections are not fraudulent?

I’m only aware of allegations of fraud pertaining to 1960, 2000, 2004, and 2020. I’m not really able to sit here and tell you what elections were fraudulent and which ones were not. That’s basically the point. No one knows, and the government never bothers to investigate or update the systems to anything less reliant on the honor system. They buy new equipment all the time, but it never becomes secure. They get allegations of fraud from time to time, but somehow no one ever gets away with it, even though election security experts have long sounded the alarm about election integrity. Imagine that: an adversarial contest with high stakes and poor process controls, but no one ever cheats! The casinos should hire the people in charge of elections.

> So the big bad guys are only being fraudulent once in a while, even though they get away with it every time. I don’t understand these mental gymnastics.

Frankly thats because you’re not trying to understand very hard. I have not spoken on the frequency of fraud nor argued that they do or do not “get away with it.” The gymnastics are all yours.

> Either believe in democracy (with all its flaws) or you don’t.

I’m glad you recognize that its a belief system and not any sort of rational social function.

> Democracy works and is trusted because we can verify with hand recounts what happened.

That doesn’t protect against ballot stuffing, among other things. You still have to trust the people doing the counting. This doesn’t do anything to protect against spoiling ballots for candidates that you don’t want to win.

> Saying that the results are unverifiable is dishonest.

It is dishonest to say that results are verifiable when they are not. It is dishonest to say you can prove the election wasn’t stolen when you cannot prove so. Why are you so threatened by plain statements about the security of elections? What is there to hide?

> If you want to reinforce democracy, then put effort into fixing it. Your current tone only serves to cast doubt about democracy.

I can’t even get you to acknowledge there is anything to fix.
It covers how little it contains with how flashy it is.
If I use the scrollbar or scroll too fast, I don't see any text.
Amongst lawyers it might be seen as ridiculous but I've seen the title used on many a bus stop shelter featuring ads for personal injury attorneys. For some reason it seems to resonate with members of the general public. It was also adopted by Bill ("Bill S. Preston, Esq") of "Bill and Ted" fame. One would have hoped that would have generated some ridicule and killed the title but unfortunately it did not.
>security research for free

He makes no "security research" if he just makes reports on github...he's a troll and nothing else.
I thought it was interesting and it accurately describes the use as kind of embarrassing to other attorneys, in a way the Wikipedia article doesn't. I didn't see anything particularly political about it other than the last line (about memes invading the "halls of American power").
Why don't they start using the requirement of having a Masters of Law degree to practice law, like some European countries do? This solves the "title" problem once and for all as they are then supposed to be qualified by passing a masters exam and infer an official title.
I'm not a developer and I have plenty of reasons to use homebrew.
Nor does this exercise the trimming of the substrings, for example. This is good for testing the happiest path, I agree. I was interested in the tedious testing of all the unhappy paths.
There's a pretty big difference here though. In the case of Unity, most of the very hot code is C++. With a custom Rust engine, most of it is Rust.
Apple Buys Chip Designer (2008)
The problem is that no one's actually having the important debate about values. The emotional "grandma-killer" appeals started last March, and any remaining dissenters are dismissed as "a bunch of covid-deniers agree with you, so your argument is invalid." Nobody really wants to think about the price-tag they put on lives, so all that's left is disputing the evidence. It's like any time a country goes to war, really, except that there aren't any clear criteria for ever declaring it over.