skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the article lazily conflates the usual alt-right attention seeker and 5G conspiracy types with some academics who have raised genuinely-held concerns about the costs vs benefits of the current approach.

It’s difficult to take these sort of articles seriously because “you are spreading disinformation” is a lot easier than a dispassionate analysis of the issue at hand.
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> For the first time we have knowledge available to all, for (almost) free

That’s fantastic unless that ‘knowledge’ is wrong. We can get that kind of knowledge on Facebook.
the link to the project is in the article
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I got three slides in and the "Swooshing!" was driving me nuts. I'm sure the content is fine, and the presentation is simply gorgeous.

For me ... unusable.

Edit: In the end, at the end, I found the PDF. It seems a little light on content, but I guess I'm not the audience. Not sure who the audience would be, though.
> I'd be interested to see what a sufficiently strong QuickCheck specification of this problem would look like.

I would write something like this in haskell:

spec :: [Integer] -> Property
spec xs =
length xs <= 2 ==> fun (intercalate "," (map show xs)) == sum xs

This captures the three requirements, but not the implicit fourth requirement that the function throws an exception for other inputs.
Ask HN: are Facebook and Twitter still private companies?
A commonly held opinion among the reactions to the social media censorship, is the following "Facebook and Twitter are private companies, they do want they want."

An interesting question to ask is whether Facebook, Twitter (and consorts) are really private companies.

In many areas, they have grown into branches of government. They are being used to do the 'dirty work'. They enforce hate speech legislation, made by government organisations. They sell information to intelligence services. They communicate together about 'streamlined approaches'.

A private company is led by profit motives. Is that really the case nowadays with Facebook and Twitter? If profit was the most important thing, would they ban all those people?

What do you think?
For my experience, noticed rich red blood at first collected in the bowl of the toilet, then started noticing streaks of blood on the stool, consistently there every time. I did put it of for 3 months, and I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, that had spread from my colon to the liver through my lymph nodes.
I understand the point, and also wish typescript were a bit stricter about this, but the main reason I still do this sometimes is for the filter function when the function I pass in is a type guard - wrapping it in an anonymous function requires also duplicating the type guard logic, which is enough repetition for me to sidestep it. That said it’s easy enough to just disable the ESLint rule that enforced this limitation for those lines.
I wouldn't say so. Rust borrow checker is really only an issue for novices. Whereas Javas NullPointerException is the bane of even the most experienced dev.
Like a fellow poster said, that's easily manipulated, especially if the marketing of a VC-funded startup jumps on the train.
My concern with this would be that you've arguably turned a nice free (as in freedom!), open-source-tool into a vehicle to push more or less proprietary and user-tracking code onto naive, unknowing users (though I guess that is not too uncommon in the anaconda-ecosystem you target - spack user and guix/nix-sympathiser here). Why make it a nagscreen (not sure about the extent of that), if you could just make it an option or a status message.

For me you're now just competing with every proprietary python IDE, which basically drops you of my list of tools to use or recommend (one can also use free PyCharm or VSCode or RStudio then, where you know, what you get...)
further proof that the US is decades behind other foreign powers
Its surprising to me oil companies are getting into charging, rather then materials processing. The is a gigantic market emerging for battery materials. All of these high grade materials need processing.

Given oil companies should be expert at dealing with extraction and processing, I would expect them to get into that supply chain.

There is tons of places where a large investment could lead to huge returns.

- Lithium

- Nickel

- Graphite

- Cobolt

All of these need significant amount of processing before they go into batteries.

I understand oil pumping and refining is different then a nickel mine and refining, but it doesn't seem to be a crazy transition to make. Had they started this a couple years ago they would be in a great position.

Promising projects were incredibly cheap to buy up a couple years ago.
I understand his frustration. But calling it a fraud is a little bit too much.
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I had a brief battle with cancer last year; surgery and radiation therapy for a pT3N0 tumour on my jaw/neck. It wasn’t a walk in the park and there’s some potential long term side effects (osteoradionecrosis and radiation induced fibrosis) but happy to have avoided chemotherapy. Good luck to all living with cancer.
...and google. Many arrest records seem to be published online in the US.
> but I still got folks on Twitter telling me to "just use TypeScript",

This type of behavior is exactly the reason why I think the existence of Typescript adds downsides to being a JS dev.

Saying "just use TS" is of equal value as saying: "just use Assembly" or "just use Dart". It has no value.

First an foremost this type of logical behavior is a problem that needs to be adressed in JavaScript. The dynamically typped language that is embedded into every major browser. A heuristic will have to be discovered by JS devs. Or TC39 will have to extend the standard.

Ultimately, it then comes down to a contexual personal choice of using TS over JS.

When it comes to separation of concerns, I can recommend reading this essay by Dijkstra: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/E...
You also can't begin to assess the financial and psychological damage of health care workers in constant burn out and businesses being forced to work on half- or quarter-measures because staff are off sick.

Or the damage to people who get Long Covid and have permanent health consequences.

Pleading for empathy might be more convincing with a more inclusive view of what's happening, and less heavy-handedly selective emotional rhetoric.
sounds like a paid scam :Ð

You don't even know what you could expect behind ...

it's like being a women going to a car garage :Ð
Seems fairly easy to turn a gas station store into a store and coffee shop.
If your code has tests, an API change like the one described in the article would get caught immediately.

And it only works because `Array.prototype.map` callback has one required arguments and two optional ones. What language with optional function arguments protects you from this sort of behavior? Do people in that language not test this sort of behavior? Or at least run through the app?

More than that, the whole hurrdurr-javascript-bad thing is so tired. Lots of work is being done in JavaScript. Sure, it has its quirks, but those quirks come with expressiveness. You can use functional or imperative style, throw lambdas around, and it runs on pretty much all the phones and computers in the world.
Having had almost the same everything, and now almost 2 years cancer free, the neuropathy did take some time to disappear. Don't know if it disappeared or my body got used to it, but do not notice it anymore. Best of fortune in the future.
> they make the 'http://' not visible in the bar. What confusing signaling!

In recent versions of Chrome, you can right-click the bar and choose "Always show full URLs" to fix that particular stupidity.
Why do you post a YouTube video of someone browsing the page instead of hosting the page to let us browse it ourselves?

Is it because it's not ready yet? Then it is maybe a good idea to have a page that communicates the idea while announcing the service to be "coming soon".

Either way: A YouTube video of someone browsing a web page is not an ideal medium of communicating your idea.
The manifesto seems to agree with that:

> Utopia is not a destination we should ever expect to reach—it is a point on a compass.
Perhaps calling them psychopaths is too severe.

Although given recent events, perhaps it isn't.
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The people left of the Green party, or left of Corbyn.

The communist party, Socialist Labour Party (borderline), Respect. The people advocating a ban on eating meat, private cars etc.
Great article! Unusual to read something balanced in this day and age.

Free speech ftw!
It's not so much that they continued operating. Everybody was still using their products after all and there was no alternative anyway. It's not even that they passively sat on it. It's that, in the same vein as the tobacco companies, they merchants of doubted us over the following decades, spending considerable amounts of money in questioning climate science and hindering action.
I still pronounce it as "Verloren" as that was my initial impression as well lol
Exactly this. I envy the legalization happening in NA. Here in europe things are stilly hopelessly shady. Quality is all over the place and dealers are dusting the buds with synthetic cannibinoids. The black market of cannabis also funds a wide selection of other criminal activity for gangs. It's ridiculous.
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Indeed, there exists a reasonable set of values under which the cost of lockdowns exceeds the benefit. The question of how to value death relative to happiness, freedom, and community is a worthy topic for debate.

But trying to win a debate about values by lying about the facts is not OK.
Your comment is approached pretty badly.
I, for one, would love to see Mr Torvalds's reaction to this breathtakingly arrogant usurpation of prerogative.
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It's great to see I am not the only one interested in this way of coding. I will have a look at all the alternatives your posted about, let's get hot code reloading in Python awesome!

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They want a diversity of ages and races in vaccine trials. There's a lot more competition in some categories than others.
Brexit and Trump-won were both driven by engines of disinformation. And there are plenty of other examples, from climate denial to examples that seem even more ridiculous today - like the smoking industry's campaign to pretend that smoking is safe and doesn't kill people.

If you trace the links you'll see the same names, the same organisations, and the same funding sources appearing again and again.

When someone lies consistently, it's irrational to conclude on the basis of no evidence at all that they've suddenly gone white hat and are now acting entirely in a public-spirited and wholly reputable way.
Very interesting! I have hade some vague ideas very much in the same space but for the publish side lately.
What you're saying is complete nonsense.

For one, you don't seem to have any concept of our evolutionary biology. Humans have evolved to be goal-oriented, and we receive happiness for participating in activities that are beneficial to our long-term survival.

Second, you don't seem to understand the predatory nature of our economic system and social media. Modern "comforts" (consumerism) and tech are hijacking those endorphin pathways to make us "happy" while we rot. At the back of our minds we know this, and we try to stop it, but few are meaningfully able to and most spiral into depression and anxiety.

That sounds like something good to you? Naive visions of heaven where you spend eternity doing nothing are actually closer to hell than anything else - even a sloth would go insane after a few months. I can understand our ancestors trying to come up with an end-game that they knew would be unattainable, but you think they actually properly thought it through?

I don't think you've properly thought it through. Navel-gazing is a game for prisoners, not people living their lives.
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That's not the only reason why short and strict seems more reasonable to me than years of different levels of half-measures
1. Not every function invocation is a callback.
2. A JS library that changes function arity as if it doesn't break API isn't being responsible.
3. This sort of paranoia defensiveness in API usage is a direct result of language (not developer) shortcomings.
Going off on a tangent, the kind of people who don’t like the government mandating masks are also the kind of people most against men wearing skirts and people wearing nothing at all?
Spotify does, however, sometimes lose their license to songs on the service. Maybe not often, but it's happened to me enough that I only rely on Spotify for discovery now -- when I know I like something enough to keep listening to it, I buy it.
And still, parts larger than 7nm are currently in shortage. 7nm is obviously extreme due to large competition around limited fab capacity, but not the only area with problems.
Or if someone kills his wife in a passion crime, along that logic, what is the point of jailing him then? He doesn’t have another wife to kill and so there is no further harm to society expected. So he should walk free if the only objective is no further harm to society.

Punishment achieves fairness and deterrence.
That's not really true. Moore's 1965 paper was the first reference to periodic doubling in ICs but nobody called it "Moore's Law" then. Moore put out a few other papers then at the conference where Dennard gave his famous presentation on scaling laws someone coined the phrase "Moore's Law" in an interview and in that interview and in usage since then it was always ambiguous exactly which doubling it referred to because until the breakdown of Dennard scaling all good things doubled together.
I want an 5900x, but I will end up buying another Intel CPU if AMD can’t get their act together and provide stock that I can buy without jumping through hoops or encouraging scalping.
How about www (invented at CERN)?
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Well, typescript doesn't solve this because "passing callback function that doesn't use all provided parameters" is so common in JS world that it would cause much hurdle when migrating JS project or when writing idiomatic JS code.

But I definitely can image typescript could provide another "strict" (or even something outside of "strict" group, like recent "pedantic" option for index access [1]) option that would check against that potential errors.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/pull/39560
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I would put Flash less Reliable than HDD.

Basically storing Digital Data Securely, Safely and reliably for consumer is just a bag of hurt right now. Companies want to push you all to the Cloud. And I wasn't happy when that direction started, and being increasingly unhappy with it now given how the companies have acted.
This is a good development!

I also want to enable something similar in my local market (Switzerland) with my startup. Here, we have various regulatory advantages, for example, there is no 2000-shareholder rule. [1] This enables us to explore stock markets for small and medium sized businesses much more freely. Just like Carta, the first thing we did is creating a market for our own shares, [2] making use of a new law that came into force on Monday and that enables the creation of digital shares without financial intermediaries.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/1/2000-investor-limit.asp....

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You are absolutely right, there are legitimate viewpoints about whether these lockdowns are worth it or not.

The question is if the people/organizations mentioned in the article just disagree, or if it is disinformation.

Do you have any reason to believe that it isn't disinformation?
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We're talking about a state without big cities, a comparatively tiny population, generally not a lot of crime, and a mostly white population. The only thing we'd be able to learn is whether drug usage in that state is affected at all by not changing a thing (it's illegal now). This would indeed be surprising as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is a sign of insanity (to paraphrase Einstein). Also, it would be a good way to characterize decades of drug policy making in the US.
What's interesting so far this year is that deaths with covid on the death certificate in january (say w/e 22 jan - 9,000) is below the 4,655 excess deaths.

Back in April it was the other way round. I wonder how many non-covid deaths lockdown is saving (because things like the normal winter flu aren't spreading)
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That’s why MySpace is still so huge.
The sites where the body evolves adaptive immune responses like antibodies and killer T cells aren't actually in the blood so that wouldn't produce any result. Rats don't have good ACE2 receptors for getting sick with Covid-19 but ferrets do so you could try testing this on them.
If the people originating and propagating this stuff know it to be false, or don’t care, or recklessly avoid checking it so they can deny culpability then yes, it very much is disinformation. They are responsible for what they are doing.

Yes a lot of people are suffering under the lockdown, but hundreds of thousands, millions, are dead or dying and health care workers are being driven to exhaustion and even suicide by the stress and emotional costs. These lies are stabbing them right in the back.
Those legitimate views are in no way an excuse for the disinformation campaigns this article is about. The two cannot be compared just because they're directed at the same thing. One is honest debate, the other is vile society-undermining disinformation.
Hmmm, I've thought about that as well since writing my above comment. You are correct in that the scenario has many similar elements to a pump and dump, in the sense that you also had to play it smart and set your expectations realistically if you didn't want to end up losing money.

Just like in a pump-and-dump, some people were always going to be bag holders with GME, namely those that misunderstood what 'short interest over 100%' meant and thought they could set their price at $42069.

But I still think there was an important difference: The point at which the best move switches from cooperate to defect comes sooner in a regular PnD, because there is no 'outside money' to be gained when cooperating for long enough. So, in a PnD, you should probably sell as soon as the momentum has really picked up, whereas in this case, the momentum actually increased the chance of cooperating being a successful strategy -- up to a point that would have had to be determined.
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You use is (current tense) and cite a section that was removed over 150 years ago. It IS not in the US legislation anymore. US has a racist history, but cite any laws today that are in fact racist. Most recently, California Democracts tried to put in a clearly racist law (Prop 16), but voters thankfully rejected it.
Maybe they simply have an opinion, like everyone else does. Do you really not understand why people think this:?

"“Again, with my tinfoil conspiracy hat on, these things all distance us and isolate us from each other and make us easier to control I think.”"

Just look at the common ideas about the increased security after 9/11. It was similar "conspiracy theories" about the government using terrorism as an excuse to spy on people until Snowden showed they actually were. It used to be popular to use the quote "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.". Surely you can understand why some people feel that way?

It's OK to not be a conformist and it's good that we have people brave enough to do so openly.
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Correct. Hence why misinformation is so insidious. It's throwing some 70% facts with some 20% distorted or misrepresented facts and some 10% bald-faced lies

Whoever thinks the "number of hospitalizations" is normal should be mandated to visit a Covid ward (no masks, of course). Put your money where your nose is.
Only in the wildest dreams of Salvini or Le Pen would the current politics of the Tories be imaginable. They are, by all means and as matter of fact, a hard right party ruling one of the biggest countries in Europe.
Farage is just a bit more theatrical, but they're basically the same.
But if you do the latter, company success should follow ideally as corollary, shouldn’t it?
Thankfully that's a rare side effect and one that the nurses giving the injection can recognize and deal with. No fun for the recipient but nobody has died or suffered lasting injury. This is, however, why we don't conscript people to give vaccine injections.
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albertzeyer's example with Notch explains the issue pretty well:

When working on a video game, restarting the game every time you are tweaking the behaviour of an entity takes a lot of time. Hot code reloading while keeping the state of the game makes development much easier.

On the other hand, when the entire state is stored outside of the Python app (eg: a web app using a database), restarting the entire process and reloading the page is fast enough and more reliable.
Please read up on the crack epidemic in America in the 1980s and 1990s. You probably didn't live through it so see what widespread drug use does to society and especially cities.