skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> eg. I have no doubt that "the 2020 election was stolen" narratives are largely based on disinformation, but it seems to me that the "Trump was a Russian asset" narratives are largely based on disinformation as well. Yet the former are subjected to widespread moderation actions and the latter are not. Maybe the latter narrative is slightly less fantastical, but that doesn't seem obviously true and it's very easy for me to see why ideological bias could explain this outcome.

You are being a little dishonest on this comparison. There is ZERO evidence that the 2020 election was stolen. 50 states certified their elections, including a number of critical states where nearly the entire election process was under the control of the Republicans (Georgia and Arizona are two that come to mind). Excluding Republicans committing minor election fraud (Voting for dead relatives and such), there was statically very very low levels of election fraud.
However, with "Trump IS a Russian asset" narrative, there is a lot of circumstantial evidence that Trump really is a Russian asset. Yes, we don't have a recording of Putin giving Trump his orders but there is enough odd behavior from Trump to point to Trump being under the influence or control of Russia at some level. It is pretty damn clear that the Russians have something on Trump at the very least.
I tried this on a fragment of https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 's Artikel des Tages (article of the day) box for today (February 7, 2021).

Input: "Das Frauen­stimm­recht in der Schweiz (Stimm- und Wahl­recht) wurde durch eine eidge­nössi­sche Volksabstim­mung am 7. Februar 1971 einge­führt. Formell wurde das Frauen­stimm­recht am 16. März 1971 wirk­sam."

Result: "Women's right to vote in Switzerland (voice and election rights) was governed by a federal referendum on 7 October. In the case of the United Kingdom, the Commission has not been able to take the necessary measures to ensure that the aid is granted. In the case of women's rights, the March 1971."

The translation of the first sentence conveys the meaning but changes the date from February 7 to October 7 and drops the year. The next part triggers... something in the translation engine, in any case the original has nothing to do with the UK or the (EU) Commission.

I suspect this is due to German date notation, where "7th" is written "7.", and the period confuses the translator, making it think a sentence ends there. Without periods:

Input: "Das Frauen­stimm­recht in der Schweiz (Stimm- und Wahl­recht) wurde durch eine eidge­nössi­sche Volksabstim­mung am 7 Februar 1971 einge­führt. Formell wurde das Frauen­stimm­recht am 16 März 1971 wirk­sam."

Result: "Women's right to vote in Switzerland (voice and election rights) was introduced by a federal referendum on 7 February 1971. In addition, the Council adopted a resolution on the establishment of a European Community strategy for the development of the European Union."

The first sentence is fine now. The second is nonsense, the original sentence refers to Switzerland and means "Women's right to vote formally came into force on March 16, 1971". Still nothing to do with the EU. This broken translation remains the same when looking at just this sentence in isolation.

So: Thanks for this, I'm very happy to see this project. But it needs some more work to iron out the kinks. Good luck!
Source? The nutritional labels of plant-based meats have many more essential micronutrients.
As well as the success rate!
I have wondered for a while if there is a market for a no-frills vehicle.

A modern engine and chassis, etc. but with minimal, tactile, and easily serviceable controls.
Different SAR regions have different policies regarding recoveries. I can’t speak for Switzerland but know that in Canada, it would be pretty rare for a SAR team to accept more than the average risk of being outside to recover a body. Missing people are different but dead bodies are rarely recovered until conditions improve.

I choose not to ski backcountry but have nothing against people who do. They’re athletes doing their thing. But I met a couple of backcountry snowmobilers my last time at the ACC hostel in Canmore and I have never heard such stupidity in my life. I was just about as angry as you are in these comments! :)
Three reasons:

First: we found that it creates a spider web of dependencies if we din't have this rule. Instead, if you return control to the controller after performing a discrete action, it makes sure that business logic stays out of services and keeps service functions short and directed.

Second: it makes it easy to keep the entire design in your head.

Third: It promotes composition. This leads to easier testability with mocks rather than having to resort to full blown integration tests for even the smallest things. (We still do integration tests, but mock tests can be churned out in volume and are less fragile).
My guess is that the hardware engineer that originally designed the board picked a reasonable part for a traditional auto OEM. Then at some point software engineering decided to log all the things. Nobody actually looked back at what the storage system longevity would be with this new lifecycle.

It's a dumb mistake, but not exactly an uncommon one. I made the same mistake early on and I have contract engineers that propose inappropriate storage solutions to me still on projects. Some very insistently. I think a whole lot of people that work on the embedded side of engineering treat storage as a magic perfect box.
It is normal for cars to outlast many of their parts, which are replaced through periodic service (every x years or x,000 miles.)

Sophisticated, user-facing computing is one of the newer parts of cars and so we don’t really know what to expect yet as far as longevity relative to the car itself. However, we should not necessarily see the need to replace computing devices, or parts of them, as prescribing the life of the entire vehicle.
I don't understand the point of prison. Vengeance only makes sense if you have committed a crime so great that you could never undo it and the only way to balance the situation is to take an equal amount of damage as the victim.

That's an even stronger argument in favor of prison time for white collar crime because you cannot rehabilitate the perpetrator, you can only punish him.

Meanwhile for someone who is prone to violent behavior it is the opposite. That person still has the potential to do less damage in the future.
Fix that then. Replacing garbage meat with garbage ersatz meat isn’t a win.
It really is annoying that Tesla requires you to make these compromises.

Before I believed all model 3 cars should have at least the option of a dashboard to show status in the direction you are looking.

I thought the Model S/X would be higher cost so they wouldn't try to cost-reduce everything like the model 3.
> I really think that in general calling plant-based things "meat" [is] a terrible idea

Nutmeats will now be known as nutguts.
With 100m you just change identities and shut up
It looks like the results are in question, which is expected, but also the much less interesting explanation compared to microbial life.

"In the second paper, the authors use a system that models what absorption spectra will look like given different atmospheric concentrations of sulfur dioxide and phosphine. They also find that having sulfur dioxide in the mesosphere produces a signal that's indistinguishable from the one the original research assigns to phosphine. And the conditions in the mesosphere would also suppress the other signals of sulfur dioxide that the first report had used to argue it wasn't present."

"Phosphine in the mesosphere could produce a similar signal, but the researchers calculate that the different environment there means that a typical phosphine molecule would have a half-life of one second. To produce enough phosphine to keep the mesosphere supplied, it would have to be made at a rate higher than the production of oxygen by all the photosynthetic organisms on Earth. Given that's just a tiny bit unlikely, the authors suggest we're just looking at sulfur dioxide."
> I think the parent comment was referring to weird additives and oils

Weird, how?

Weird, because they have funny names that are hard to pronounce, and are therefore magically "unnatural" and bad for you?

Or weird, because their effects on nutrition, digestion, and human health hasn't been widely studied yet?
I mostly stopped minifying my assets; as these benchmarks show, by far the biggest size reduction is in the gzip compression; for example lodash goes from 543k to 97k by just gzipping it, which can be reduced further to ~25k but that's actually quite a small saving compared to just the compression alone. And even on very slow connections 50k doesn't take too long to load.

The reason I don't really like doing it is that it obfuscates the code. Happened to discover a bug in production (which may not be easy to repro)? A lot easier to examine that if your files aren't minified. It also allows users to examine the scripts if they encounter bugs, which I've done on a number of occasions. It also simplifies the entire build process.

I know about source maps, but many people don't ship them and it all seems quite complicated for very little savings.

When I do minify, I usually just have a little script to remove the comments, which is often the biggest win with the smallest obfuscation.

I suppose that if you have a lot of JavaScript (>1M) it has more value, but in a lot of cases I see people minifying 100k scripts for little benefit "because that's just what you do".

My application ships a small 3K script people can add to their website which isn't minified on purpose (imagine being able to inspect what 3rd-party scripts do exactly!); IIRC minifying it would save 500 bytes or something, but I've had quite literally dozens of people ask me "why isn't it minified?!"
Huh, capacitance-based touch. So resistive wasn't the only option even way back then, although apparently it wasn't wireless yet. Now I'm curious how touch input got to where it is today.
Reeder on Mac, Feedly on Android. Works for me.
How far exactly do you think normal electromagnetic radiation could be detected from? What percent of the galaxy do you think we could detect an expanse like civilization from?
Apparently the same lab has done related work into the THz range:

"In March 2020, the laboratory announced that its scientists analysed the Rydberg sensor's sensitivity to oscillating electric fields over an enormous range of frequencies—from 0 to 10^12 Hertz"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rydberg_atom
Tesla is also arguing that the eMMC flash is a "wear part". A wear part that they literally soldered on, making the replacement the whole $2500 "MCU".
The TL;DR crowd won’t read a half page “wall of text” on a topic, but seems happy to watch 30 minute videos on how to find a loot chest.

The TL;DW crowd would rather take 30 seconds to read the half page it might take to explain that.

So both TL;DR and TL;DW are useful.
Amazing article and crazy story. Arthur was one of the most entertaining speakers in cryptocurrency; not an easy feat in a gallery of magicians, rogues, and exotic financiers. I have to wonder what the court case will ultimately shake out to be about. The most interesting part of this case is how the indictment differs from BTC-E and other organizations labeled as antithetical to the free world.

I think there's two reads to it: either the fraud at BitMEX was so rampant and pervasive that taking the time to indict a particular instance of villainy was not in the interest of justice, or this was something else entirely more complicated. In either case the whole thing is fascinating.

I, for one, cannot wait to see the court documents as they come out. I can only imagine that there will be a great many fireworks.
20GB of Intel source code and proprietary data dumped online. ME, FSP (Aug 2020)
Yesterday, my Chrome crashed my machine. After rebooting, Little Snitch warned me that Chrome's signature has changed and blocked all outbound network activity. Shortly after, the whole Chrome browser got deleted. Meanwhile, Chrome asked me to access the keychain. Did Google rushed to release an unsigned binary?
Once you have performed the sampling, or even before that technically, information theory provides the connection between the analogue and the digital.

> That said most signal processing scopes at high frequencies are analogue

I think the state of the art is DC to a few (10s?) GHz with direct sampling, impressive stuff.
I think this is only true if you modify the initial condition to be "...an irreparably terrible relationship". Without that, there is a third point which may be true:

- Fixing a marriage which is turning into a terrible relationship is a better outcome than divorce. In this way, divorce is a bad outcome, the same way as coming in second in Jeopardy and winning $2000 is a bad outcome compared to coming in first and winning (say) $10 000.
That isn't the issue, the issue is the limited life cycles of flash memory, 3000 to 5000 cycles.

The article says that in paragraph four:

The government agency identified the source of the problem as the touchscreen's NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor and its integrated 8GB eMMC flash memory chip. When the chip reaches "lifetime wear," it can no longer maintain file-system integrity, causing failure of touchscreen functions, according to the NHTSA
> Their whole goal is to enmesh it at a cultural level so that they can increase sales, not really concerned about the real problem which is cruelty, indifference to the treatment of animals by the bovine industrial complex.

The product solves animal cruelty and lots of the customers buy it for that reason, so why should I care very much that the company itself is amoral?

> It's even more dangerous now because of the misinformation and groupthink by self appointed morality police.

I'm sorry, did you just swerve immediately from complaining about people's morals into calling other people the morality police?

And you're arguing that the people that are indifferent to animal suffering are being groupthinked into not causing that suffering, and that this is a bad thing?
>having kids and the threat of potentially having kids
undermines female income on a regular basis

The only reason you see it this way is because of your previous point regarding women and children being a "package deal". There are societal expectations of men who have children.

>women tend to support their husband's career at the expense of their own career development

This is like saying "men tend to support their wives children at the expense of their own children". It's specialization and symbiosis. Women can benefit from "supporting" their husband's career. Ideally people support EACHOTHER in a relationship, and that includes tradeoffs in many areas of life, financial/career/societal/emotional/children.

>cis women can potentially get pregnant and cis men cannot

What a revelation. You're right, if only men could wrap their mind around this one then they might be able to fix all the issues that they maliciously create. /sarcasm
Yes. So something like a "DatabaseService" might have a database connection, which is code we don't own. But the code we do own stops at that layer. This prevents a spider web of dependencies opening up.
Who cares if he is a lecturing windbag. Does he make an effective leader who holds the interest of the country as his top priority?

And to your second point, 40% of the country watched Trump profiteer from the presidency and do what he could to get away with serious crimes and said “he is doing great, I’ll vote for that again!” That level of misinformation was so massive that he almost won again. Sure it’s not quite lizard aliens, but Trump being good for anyone but Trump is almost in the same category.
There's a lot of demand, but the people most likely to satisfy that demand for free are Chinese fan translators, and they're more likely to upload their work to Chinese sites where Western dataset collectors are unlikely to find them...
Most of the time consumer dont interact with the companies that are doing the "Real" production. Mostly stores, distributor, wholesaler, or White Label companies. Normally these entities are created only for marketing and sales. So most of the time they dont give a damn.

Real Product companies tends to take these things seriously. Or at least try to explain these sort of things.

But that is only limited to small -medium , family ran or private companies. Once you get into large public companies there are things that can not be said without first clearing with legal.
The game of 2021. Trust me
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The derivative contract that drove the success of Bitmex, called a Perpetual Future, was quite the innovation. It behaved like a futures contract that never expired. It then led to copycat products across their major competitors.

Is there any product like this in traditional financial markets?

Regarding the authorities' pursuit of Hayes, it does strike me as odd that they're not going after their major competitors (mostly China-based) who also don't have KYC and are therefore serving US customers through VPN too.
Appreciate the thoughts.
I did find studies, doctors had no interest in reading them.
I'm not sure what "any and all" means, but it certainly protects you physically and that implies that you get protection from criminal violence and harassment, and certainly should. No?

It's so vague, these one-liners, that we're talking past one another. Surely you don't think you should be able to doxx or punch someone in the face that has extremist views?
luckily, through yosys, conversion to Verilog is trivial. and yes, when we get to 22nm (etc) we'll need to license commercial tools from Cadence, Synopsis etc. we're setting up a commercial operation to do that.

right now we're in like "R&D mode", thankfully paid-for by NLnet.

i go into some detail about why we chose nmigen, and what can be done with it. it was not a "light decision", it was several months comprehensive review.

here's the point in the FOSDEM talk i just did: https://youtu.be/7rCeNzrCB_g?t=1939
20 years is getting out there but it's not uncommon. A car can certainly be maintained and kept in use much longer than that. The only thing really terminal in the northern climes is rust, once that gets a foothold it's hard to stop. Everything else can be maintained and/or repaired.

My newest car is a 2009, purchased in 2018 for $4,000. Everything works except the tire pressure sensors (the batteries in the wheel sensors have died; I'll replace them at next tire change).

My oldest car is a 1969 but that's a toy, so I don't really count it. My oldest car that I use for transportation is a 1983. The air conditioning has failed on that one, but I live without it.
My standard argument regarding the criticality of documentation: no amount of code can ever explain what isn't there.

What optimizations have you tried that failed? What 3rd party tool used to be integrated but now isn’t because the maintenance burden was too high? Why is it safe to ignore this exception?
Thanks for the suggestion! That's a cool idea - will consider putting it on the roadmap :)
There absolutely is. Here is what I want:

An EV with great range (e.g. 300mi), good performance (doesn’t have to be a sports car), and classic controls.

You could go real minimal on computers. You’d just need a microcontroller to monitor speed, temp, charge, battery health, etc. Basic cruise control of the 1990s type would be nice but not essential. A radio with a USB plug for a phone to play music and good speakers is all you need for an entertainment system.

Basically I’m describing an electric 90s Civic with mid range options.

Oh and no cellular modem or spyware.

Put all the money into drive train, battery, and reliability. Design it to have easily swappable and upgradable batteries and to last for 25-35 years.

You’d have one customer at least.

You could probably make a pickup version with killer torque and be like Tesla for red states. Rednecks will be sold on the electric thing once they see what instant full torque means.
Why is that an unreasonable expectation? There are far fewer mechanical parts to fail. Moreover, Elon Musk has announced their batteries can last a million miles. What's the point of the battery lasting a million miles if the car can't? Sure, I may have to replace the motors but I wouldn't have to expect to do that until at least 250,000 miles and it would be a lot cheaper than buying a whole new car and would be worth it if I knew I could expect to get 250,000 miles out of it.

We're flying airplanes that are 30-40 years old. 18 wheel trucks are routinely driven a million miles. I think we need to adjust our expectations that cars need to be replaced every 5-10 years because they're no longer reliable. That's not a wise management of natural resources.
Loom is awesome! Thank you for providing such a great service! :)
I don’t think that’s a given as a difference between the degrees.
I have nothing worth to add, just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to write and share about your story.
Years ago, I was in Germany with a Serbian, Japanese, and someone from Turkey. We each took turns trying to get the German navigation system of our rental to understand us, and then we finally pulled over to operate the very painful non-touchscreen navigation system.
I used to say this. My experience of substitute meat was basically "What the, why does this cafeteria burger taste like garbage? Dammit, I grabbed the fake tofu one by accident.". The key recent difference, for me, is that this experience doesn't happen with the new veggie burgers (like the beyond burger). They just taste like a decent burger. You can prepare them in the same way as a meat burger. You can store them in the same was as a meat burger. They are a decent burger substitute.
Thanks for the explanation and I’m sorry about the issues you are facing. We are expecting a child soon so I’m trying to soak in as much information as possible.
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Yeah it's almost perfect, the only inaccuracy is that the district is just "Gudang" and "tang" is part of the road name (i.e. "Tangmiao Road").

If you check the location on Google Maps you can see it's Tangmiao Road and Gudang District (the "District" part is not present in the address): https://www.google.com/maps/place/Huaxing+Modern+Industrial+...

Without context it's a good attempt, only with deeper cultural knowledge would someone be able to guess that "Miao" on its own is too short for a street name and it's likely "Tangmiao" together, though without knowing the place I think it would also be reasonable to guess that the whole thing is the road name like "Gudangtangmiao Road".

I guess using Google Maps to validate Google Translate is kinda questionable so here's the same location on Bing Maps: https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=d3dfc1f0-f8ed-48cd-898d-0a765...
> My question is this: What would you do to find clients that have "dusty decks," where a dusty deck is a program that someone wrote years ago, probably in some language that is out of favor, and that yet still serves an important function?

The legal industry has a lot of dusty decks but they're all for Windows; my firm has one Word macro package that is at least 25 years old.

Small firms will have few (if any) in-house software developers because of budget constraints; large firms will have more developers and dusty decks to work on. The primary focus will be line-of-business applications probably written in C# or maybe VB.NET. Complex spreadsheets and Access databases with VBA macros are also common.

> If you wanted to find clients with dusty deck headaches, where would you begin to look?

I would start with your network - are you 1 or 2 hops from someone who works at a law firm? Aside from that you would find a job in legal by looking for AmLaw 500 firms with an office in your area or that offer remote positions.