skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This "I hate the government, not the people" schtick is a cop out. The Chinese people overwhelmingly support the actions of their government.

Beyond that, the idea that the media can wash their hands of this because people should know they're talking about the Chinese government, not Chinese people, is just incredibly generous to a class of people who absolutely know what they are doing.
I think this is a symptom of the continent of Asia being so extremely large and diverse. To wit, every definition of Asia also includes the Arabian Peninsula, but most people would probably not intuitively classify Arab Americans as Asian Americans. The appropriation of "Asian American" to almost universally mean "East Asian Americans" is probably due to the lack of a specific, pre-existing demonym to describe people from that region. It's like how South Americans can be rightfully irritated that "American" gets used to refer to someone from the US, which is also partly due to the fact that no more precise demonym ever emerged (not in English, anyway).
Yeah in most common forms of English you will likely go your entire life without ever hearing a single person use the long scale forms. Many of the words in other languages that used to translate to the (long) "million", "billion", etc. now actually translate to the esoteric "milliard", "billiard" in English.
>Trump only won 20% of the votes in New York City

That's like 600,000 people...
I think the problem with doing that is that we've only seen the milky way from one angle (earth + rounding error). The smartest algorithms like the ones that make 3D images from pictures need a lot of pictures from different angles to stitch things together. Maybe if we sent out some deep space probes we could do it, but even then the dust in the Milky way makes it a problem.
I've often wondered if observing teens and even say ten-year-olds isn't indeed among the better ways of intuiting what attitudes and sentiments actually inhabit a community. Adults are likely to self-censor far more, whereas a young teen or eleven-year-old may simply echo what they've heard behind closed doors.
PEP 634 – Structural Pattern Matching: Specification – Accepted
I'm watching the websocket data, and even in that … the count is just bouncing around, sometimes going up, sometimes going down.

Seems like an elaborate troll, in that, the sibling comment is right: "look, they don't just let anybody in"
> 99.99% of religious people have never committed a violent crime

At least in the US, the rate of "violent crime" (murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and "gang violence") is 383 per 100,000, or ~0.38% (2017). The numerator isn't people, so this isn't exactly right, but the order of magnitude is larger than 0.01%. Most Americans are religious, and there's no reason to believe religious people commit crimes at different rates from atheists. (In fact, criminals in prison are more religious than non-prisoners[0].)

Something like 99.62% of religious people have not committed a violent crime this year. Lifetime figure ("never") would be lower.

All that said, Dawkins is a miserable asshole.

[0]: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/are-prisoners-less-like....
That is a bit racist. Someone should send out a memo to include you guys in these hate-crimes
If I could downvote you, I would. You are promoting the use of a dangerous, lethal weapon loaded with the most damaging kind of ammunition on other people. How can you be so cruel?

Edit: people seem to be downvoting my comment without context. The original commenter was advocating for the usage of a gun to kill innocent people. It disgusts me that so many people on this website seem to agree/sympathize with them.
https://imgur.com/8MMET5V - now there are companies that can host things FOR my servants!
"In a perfect world, maybe there would be unlimited budgets for small rural water districts to have 24/7 onsite staff and run highly secured networks."

I reject this line of thought.

A small rural water district can run with looser tolerances and looser guarantees - and have done so for decades.

They should spend half the time (and a quarter of the money) setting up systems that fail safely and revert to known states and operate with looser tolerances.

As for telemetry ...

I am not joking at all when I say that a green light on the building that turns red and everyone in the county knows to call either Jed or Billy if that light is red is a completely reasonable system. It's a small rural water district (your words) after all, right ?
Preferably "megabyte" and "short megabyte", because that will annoy HDD manufacturers more.
The native base of our computing systems is base-2. Engineering prefixes for this base should thus also be based on natively divisible break points.

It just so happens that some break points are usefully close (but not quite the same as) base 10 break points.

2^10 = 1024 ~~ (1 KB) ~~ 1000

Naturally given this 2.4% bonus to base 10, and failing upwards in being able to cleanly store the corresponding base 10 datatype, the natural thing to do is to favor the larger and also native unit.

For me, KB will _always_ be 1024 bytes. In the context of computers this is what makes sense.

Similarly I only ever want those to be the binary (base 2, also implied by bytes) base sizes for all other units of storage, data transfer speed, etc. The marketing fixation on providing less value by focusing on the non-native to the system human sizes that are smaller is the error.

Counter-argument to anyone arguing otherwise. What is the size of the smallest addressable unit in any of the block based device storage you care about? Hard disks / flash? (512, 4096, or possibly some very large power of 2 for SMR). CDs/DVDs? (2048 bytes)
Safety Science and Failure as an Opportunity for Growth with Josh Thompson
I'd be interested in hearing the voices of those downvoting this. Is one of the claims in the comment false, or do you disagree with the conclusion "I think this overestimation may influence some behavior at the margin." [note1] (or both)?

Additionally, what if the conclusion is right (hypothetically)? Is it really that improbable? And if the greater acceptance of homosexuality as of recently (compared to, say, the 19th century) does cause some otherwise-straight people to be gay, what exactly is the problem with that? Would that be something we should address?

And more generally, if we did find an environmental factor that was linked to homosexuality, would we want to address that factor?

Note 1: User Bostonian uses the term "at the margin" in their comment, and I don't know what they meant by that. I'm taking it to be the subset of people who are unsure of their sexuality, though perhaps the author was referring to something else.
Why supercomputer? Isn't this kind of classification task embarrassingly parallelizable?
Yup, I don't understand how a lot of traditional financial instruments work but I still use them. At least these are transparent.
This article doesn’t back up its claim. The only evidence for an increase in hate crimes is: “a 1,900 percent increase anti-Asian hate crimes in New York City in the past year — there were 20 incidents in the first half of 2020 alone, compared to one in the whole of 2019.”

1900% sounds huge, but the absolute numbers are not. Show me that it’s not a process with mean of 10 and sd of 9. Better still, give me figures for all of the US and show me there’s been an increase. The absence of this statistic is telling. Overall: fake news until proven otherwise!
It is the essential flaw of the VC growth model based on advertising. Not just for communities like reddit but for all companies. They take on more investors and more control goes to people who really don't care too much about it.

I think we're at the stage now where a solo indie founder (or 2) could start a site like Reddit that could run very cheaply and then get monetized by paid subscribers.

Even just 0.5%-1% paid subscribers could support a site like that with the right infra.

Of course, you'd have to start out in one small niche and then gradually grow outward.
If I wanted to know everything about how these systems worked, where would I begin? Is there anything comprehensive that'd take a while to digest?
Since they make software with Electron it's very strange kind of minimalism. Nevertheless ORCA is incredible.
$100M XPRIZE Gigaton Scale Carbon Removal Challenge funded by Elon Musk
Seems really underpriced to me.
I'm not in this subsection of the industry, so take this with a heaping grain of salt. I'm just using my own biases here.

But I get the sense that this is one of a number of big pieces of the puzzle of how current cutting edge models can be cut down in operational size. I have a feeling that new methods of creating models will stick around, but any deep learning model can be reduced to a less resource intensive approximation through findings such as this. And if (IF!) so a lot of AI hype is going to hit a real post-hype cycle plateau of productivity because all this stuff will become easier and cost effective to deploy to the real world.
Python: Acceptance of Pattern Matching – PEP 634
While not disputing the core point about escalating violence against Asian Americans, this article seems to view any crime or violence as racially motivated. There is a robbery in there, for example, which suggest an alternate motivation. Would be useful to be more clear on what the author considers a hate crime vs crime whose victim is Asian.
Couldn't they expand outside of the anglosphere? Basically 99% of reddit is English, unlike Facebook etc.
Fortunately we can afford scalper prices with our tech salaries.
Parent probably would not have been flagged if they had documented their sweeping claim with evidence, but they didn't. It added little to the discussion.
> But if that were true, it must succeed sometimes. We should see an equally strong correlation with sex of offspring and birth order.

There is a correlation in the opposite direction between sex and birth order, but that could be explained with a slight variation on the upthread hypothesis; instead of trying to bend things toward girls and sometimes failing with an effeminate boy, one could speculate that it is “trying” to bend things toward boys and sometimes succeeds incompletely, resulting in an effeminate boy.

(“Trying" in this case meaning nothing having to do with intentionality, but merely the effect of the process for which it was selected.)
Very true, and the same was true for IT companies in the 90s/early 2000s.

Still, I'd say investing in IT stock is accessible for the layman today. Part of this is just that it's early days and we're right now in the midst of a cambrian explosion.
Kind of misleading, as each transaction doesn't cost much energy. The energy usage is a product of the price of Bitcoin, not the number of transactions.
Yes. Not sure how is it relevant. I don't expect small town judges and cops to be particularly poor, or particularly stupid for that matter. I do expect them to be uneducated and uncaring.
Seems like it would make for a great Facebook acquisition

... he said, horrified
The form derived in Pedro's paper is not a standard kernel machine - the coefficients depend on the example, and even the form of the Kernel machine is obtained rather unnaturally by pushing one kernel term into the coefficient and keeping the other outside of it.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-02-08/attacks-...
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Semi-hidden? Tensions between black & korean-americans was a huge part of the 1992 LA Riots.
Even on HN you can't speak anything good for China so this is no suprise at all unless you think these criminals can tell the difference between a government or a party and a group of people. And how can you ask these criminals for that if many Ivy League graduates fail to recognize it.

The only way for Asian Americans to survive is to protect yourself with whatever you have.

Downvote me white boys.
This is indicative in how user interfaces are made as well. Every generation of Windows for example, falls further into the direction of treating users like a liability rather than a computer's owner.

If you were to throw a relatively cryptic and unabstracted machine in front of a bunch of five year olds, like a Commodore 64, they would probably both eventually figure it out and be better for it.
They could take a cut on account sales in a marketplace, making it safer for buyers and sellers

Instead all these networks choose pretend that accounts aren't sold and pretend that everything is organic

I guess #ad would ruin the illusion
Yes there is when you are hotlinking. Hotlinking in general is considered theft, you are using someone elses bandwidth and could even ddos the host if you are not caching the response.
The Chinese people overwhelmingly support the actions of their government.

How is that relevant? A person who disagrees with me isn't my enemy.

Beyond that, the idea that the media can wash their hands of this because people should know they're talking about the Chinese government, not Chinese people, is just incredibly generous to a class of people who absolutely know what they are doing.

I can't figure out what you're saying here. What do they know they're doing? And do you have any evidence of your claim?
Maybe the prefix and separation: SI M B

(SI for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units The International System of Units (SI, abbreviated from the French Système international (d'unités)))

((International System of Units) Mega) Bytes

-- Edit, addition

Additionally, I'd be willing to prefix my preferred units some variation of:

Base Two M B (BTMB)

Computer Science M B (CSMB)
Would someone apply the same principle on the checkout page of their web shop?
I've definitely seen a shift here over the past year or so.

Now it seems that threads like this have more comments like yours than actual crypto-bashing comments. I think the tide has turned.
I've seen advertisements for term life insurance with the premise that if you outlive the term, you get your premiums refunded. It was significantly more expensive than equivalent conventional term insurance.

I assume that was a high enough price to be basically covering the real wholesale cost of the death benefit, and an investment package to cover the risk of reimbursement.
Apple is using Rust somehow internally, they were advertising for network software developers with Rust experience a while back.
All data is meaningless if interpreted or used incorrectly. Is there any evidence supporting the use of psychometric evaluations in the context of making hiring decisions? Just intuitively, I would think the predictive power would be low.
This grabbed more my attention: Internet Archive for web pages is not discoverable, hard to crawl and download content from.

I noticed that too. I would be happy to find content directly on the archive (which is a complex search problem) and be able to download a snapshot of a website (and all its assets) from a certain point of time. I would even pay for both services.
What makes this headline troubling to me is it allows for a conspiracy of “they are just labeling this non deepfake video supporting my side as an adversarial deepfake so people will ignore it”

In general deepfake technology exacerbates the epistemological crisis we are in, wondering how we can know what the true story is.
Hollow points don't shoot through people, whereas solid slugs do. Hollow points are the most damaging for only the 1 target, because it dissipates all the damage upon impact.
Ain't no one calling Iranians and Israelis asians.

https://www.worldometers.info/geography/how-many-countries-i...
Fn Documentation
This isn't attempting to be a "factual news article" and therefore isn't betraying any "journalistic norms". I think a big part of this country's lack of faith in journalism is due to a basic ignorance of the different forms of journalism and how they each have different norms.
macOS Big Sur Upgrade not not checking for available free space= FV2 data locked
> The trade war with China has spread to demonization of Asians.

Has it really though? I agree with pretty much everything else you said (though I’m unsure if getting a gun is warranted).

I don’t think a trade war with China will spur too much in the way of anti-Asian sentiment. Americans were generally able to differentiate between Russians and their government during the Cold War.

I’m not saying there won’t be notable stories that pop here or there, but I don’t think this country is actually as Nativist as the press makes it out to be.

We’ll see I guess.

Stay safe!
Notes on Adam Marblestone’s Focused Research Organizations
i hate it when vestigial appendices go awry. pretty sure the evidence is mounting, however
Right, you can cache that query. That doesn't mean that you can cache "two bunnies playing in the snow r/aww reddit".
Fantastic. We are planning on doing a POC in our infra projects.
I find that these demos are easily confused.
For example
Initial text: Turkey has been frozen out of the F35 production due to buying the S400 Missile system from Russia.
Auto-complete: The plane is reportedly a US-built military and is reportedly being tested on the Russian S4 fighter jets that they are testing at the Syrian Air Force Base near Homs.

Initial text:
Tesla tiles are potentially good at generating electricity BUT they are very expensive.
Auto-complete: I can only speculate on the quality of the tiles when I read about them. It will certainly be important for me to evaluate how the tiles can be used and the results will vary from product to product. The tile tiles used for the game may be different from the tiles used for the game as well as the tiles used for the game.

Initial text:
The latest MacBook Air is faster then 99% of all laptops.
auto-correction:
But, it's not by a long shot , and it's not a computer for everyone. There's a reason Apple chose it for the base model of the iMac.

initial text:
Robinhood disrupt the stock market broker forms. They were the first firm that allowed for $0 trades.
auto-correct:
Now, however, they‪re selling stocks. They have to change it for good, so the real estate brokers, the brokers and the people of the city, don't do that. ‪
You got to have hotlink protection on when you are hosting memes. I've learned this the hard way, too.
Market cap is not adoption. Look at how many projects that were in the top 20 in 2017 that aren't the anymore. LSK, Neo, EOS, NEM, OMG, DASH, BTG....goes on and on
I think you're misinformed. People use hollow points to reduce over-penetration that occurs with a FMJ bullet
The Founding Fathers sought to “limit and reduce corrupt church hierarchies”?

That’s not blindingly obvious.

I believe a typical Founding Father would shudder at the thought of the government having anything whatsoever to say about the manner in which a church administered itself.
Hardware and business process would also need review. Its no good having perfect code if you can insert the wrong sample. It's also no good having perfect code if a well-timed EMI burst or power level shift games the result.
Netlify seems to lack basic testing of their client. For example, I found that if you have a repo not hosted on GitHub, trying to publish it will cause the client to dump a stack trace and crash. That, the general whizbang design of the UI, and the state of the docs left me with a poor impression about the quality of Netlify's offerings. "Good" for a free service, maybe, but all their attempts at fancy integrations makes the whole thing less attractive, since it actually creates hassle (for a person needing to dodge it all just to make the most basic, vanilla use out of it).
Modern supercomputers are obscenely parallel machines built to chew through embarrassingly parallelizable tasks.
I would have said the same when my kids were young.

When my sister went crazy in exactly the manner described, I learned that I was wrong. Totally wrong.
> There are other factors like development within the mother's body, levels of hormones / chemicals, and so on which could contribute to a different sexuality later on.

Those could still be influences if it was purely genetic. Biological sex is approximately fully genetic (not quite, but very close to it), but womb environment (I remember pH differences specifically being identified as an influence) play a role in which sperm, with which sex chromosomes, are most likely to survive and reach the ova.
Does it make any money though?
I have considered writing a book about this stuff but it's an insanely bad use of my time vs. building tech in this space from a profit perspective. Defi is the highest possible way that a software engineer can earn money in 2021 without being some high-up FAANG architect or hit the startup lotto. Small teams are making millions or tens of millions of dollars, and they are making actual value (not ICO scams like in 2017!) with billions of dollars flowing through it.

If you want to break into this space, start with the bitcoin white paper, read this book[0], then do the Ethereum white / yellow papers, start messing around with smart contracts, then consume every possible piece of knowledge you can, because it's all spread out everywhere without good central repositories of knowledge.

Defi is protocolized finance. It's making building blocks of financial tools that people and projects fit together in new ways to accomplish various things (earn interest, hedge, go leveraged long, buy insurance, etc. etc. etc.). The possibilities are truly endless and the space is open for innovation like never before as there are no rules and regulations, and there never will be any! Good luck!

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Programming-Open-Bl...
Normally I just click on Fortune Cookies, since I think that is the most representative of a typical Web Workload.

And then Click on Filter, Full Stack Framework, And Full ORM only. Again, most people will be using some sort of Web Framework with Full ORM.

I am surprised the top results is from PHP. For many years it has always been Java. And it is from a framework called ubiquity [1] which I have never heard of it before.

There is Crystal and Lucky [2]. Which is exciting because they are getting very close to 1.0

Ruby Rails... is still at the bottom of the pack.

[1] https://github.com/phpMv/ubiquity

[2] https://www.luckyframework.org
Congrats to them big time. It seriously doesn't get the recognition it deserves as the most impactful social media platform.

To me, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, and other social media today is less about connecting people and really about driving targeted and calculated impressions of X to audiences via a user's feed.

This is astro-turfed to feel organic and botted to death by everyone because of how much influence it has to dupe people. Almost unusable.

Even though reddit is extremely guilty of this too (just browse /r/popular not logged in for example), what I find awesome about reddit is its ability to connect people and really have group conversations on almost anything.

On a positive side, it's easily the best platform for mobilizing like-minded individuals and finding historic and well documented people's experiences about literally anything. Most my Google searches on random subjects look like this: "buying a house reddit", "best board games reddit", "high protein vegan foods reddit".
Should the petition use google forms, change.org or in person?

In person, people will think you’re trying to recall Governor Newsom but I’m sure they’ll oblige on this petition too
Sorry, a bit late; the ARM64 "RPI" image should work out of the box and recognize all of your RAM.
Well that would perhaps lead to solving some of the problems, which is not in any politician's interest. Having the problems, and blaming them someone else, is far more useful.
This is true. I started my blog https://codevscolor.com in wordpress. 5 years later, last year, I moved it to markdown + git with gatsby. I am never going back.