skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It must surely be some Internet Law that people who spend most of their time in bubbles where they converse with the worst of their opponents make the worst arguments to people outside the bubble.

So, if you take an otherwise decent smart person and place her in a spot where all her enemies are vitriolic morons, she will start to apply vitriolic rhetoric. Bring this person out of that universe and into the normal world and she will continue to act as if she is speaking to that subset. However, the normal world now sees only her polemic, not what she is reacting to.

You can use this technique very effectively to turn normal people into weird people. Surround them temporarily with enemies who are violent-sounding morons and then return them to the general world. It's the equivalent of everyone in a parking lot parking over the lines and then forcing the last guy into a space where he has to park over the lines. Then you leave, and everyone else coming in thinks this one guy is the asshole.

Of course, reading the article he is actually absolutely correct about these Hall Monitor scarlet letter "label the witch" people.
From the article, the process involves 1mm thick pieces of wood. But it's reasonable to assume that a thicker plywood could then be made out of those 1mm thick pieces and would maintain a lot of the translucency.
Reverse engineering viltrox em2 ii Firmware
longtime wacom user here. ipad pro is far better.
Reread the comment being responded to? It started with that, suggested an alternative. Anything helpful to add?
No rain drop thinks it's responsible for the flood.
I would guess the best strategy for this is to simply make an educated guess, soon.

There likely will be way more competitors (at least a hundred thousand, I would guess) than possible halfway decent guesses (maybe a few thousand?), and it’s first past the post, so having the correct answer isn’t enough; you have to beat the other correct answers.
> [Cops] don't want to be bothering normal people, they want to be taking real dangerous and irresponsible drivers off the road.

That's the nice theory we all wish we lived in, but the reality all over the world is that police will extremely often do things for their own petty reasons, often systematically. Police departments often have quotas for tickets, they can often extract a bribe by threatening someone with a DUI, they can simply want to scare 'undesirables' out of a 'nice neighborhood'.

In general, there are good reasons to be extremely weary of the police and their motives.
Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, sending its price soaring
He isn't writing this to win people over. We're years past that point.
The specific reason he contends it may be an alien artifact is that he believes its characteristics match the profile of a light sail:

1) its shape may actually be more like a pancake than a cigar, a crumpled light sail would match this
2) it showed unexpected acceleration away from the Sun without outgassing.
3) its velocity is very close to the mean motion of our local stellar neighborhood, if you needed to drop a solar sail after deceleration so that it would be hard to work out what system you came from then this would be the velocity to do it at.
Clojure Cameo in Super Bowl Ad
Yes there is a need for controls and independent certification.
Yeah, any technical expert in a trial concerns me. I was an alternate juror (meaning I had to sit through the trial but was not allowed to take part in any deliberations) in a trial that involved the testimony of a computer "expert". The expert's testimony was 100% true and appeared to definitely prove X to someone who knew nothing about the subject matter. It was things analogous to saying the system was secure because it had a security chip.

There were 1,000,000 questions I wished had been asked.
https://blog.aawadia.dev/2021/02/08/where-is-this-blog-hoste...

Lmk if you need any extra details
Shoots, not chutes. Otherwise the joke makes no sense. (Pandas eat shoots and leaves).
I've attempted to make the title more factual and neutral, in keeping with the HN guidelines.
You're confusing two different things. What was initially claimed:

> gold hoarding caused the economy to collapse in 1929

This makes it sound like gold caused the economy to collapse.

But your quote is referring to the Great Depression spreading world wide, so it's quite different. Don't think there is any definite and agree-upon source of what caused the Great Depression, many things interacting together for sure. You can't say that gold hoarding caused the economy to collapse though.
I feel like I've seen versions of this news article for years now? Is this an actual breakthrough or will I see one again on a couple of months
> ...from official narrative lines

I always laugh at this. Which "official narrative lines?"

During the Trump administration, many people complained that all journalism was too anti-Trump, and anti-Trump voters (who voted in the majority in 2016). So was this "prosecution" of the views of the party in power by journalists enforcing the "official narrative," or against it? Was it defending the minority's interests or the majority's?

Somehow, everyone has it in their minds that "PC culture" is the real official line, no matter who is in power. This is how, when all the social media apps were censoring Trump, everyone just accepted the perception that it was big-government censoring the little people, even though it was literally censoring the people in power.
This is just epoxy with wood around it.
> Gradient Descent Models Are Kernel Machines

... that also happen to actually work.
Not everyone works for Ford.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Labor_Standards_Act_of_19... is what extended something similar (a 40 hour work week) nationwide.
Can you please elaborate on bad actors absuing the appeals process? Is your point about how everyone will automatically appeal, making it difficult for genuine queries to receive the human attention they need? Or is there another vector of abuse you were thinking of?
What is your takeaway? Scott at the end says he doesn't believe is psi despite the results because Coyne says psi is crap. That doesn't sound like checking your priors at the door.

At any rate contra your original claim it appears a psi effect has been extensively scientifically documented.
>there was an idea of journalism as telling stories in the principled defence of minority interests and as a public check on institutional power

To “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable”, as it were.
And ironically, Greenwald stoops low on their level to fight in the mud with pigs instead of focusing on more relevant things.

The internet and Twitter have amplification feedback loops which means that the best way to handle this stuff is to not interact and promote it by giving it more eyes.

Ever since a feminist gamer started pointing out sexist oddities from video games and my fellow video game enthusiasts got their panties in a bunch and started a hate machine against her, I've seen this pattern repeat itself again and again.

Stop giving them the notoriety and eyes and they would have disappeared 5 years ago.
Corbind v1.5.0 – Kotlin Coroutine Binding APIs for Android UI Widgets
> There are no "black box processes". The very word "forensic" is based on presenting in full view, front of the fact finders (jury & judges usually).

You're wrong.

When the defendant can't afford an expert witness then the defendant is literally shut out from being able to understand the technology involved.

Good luck proving to a jury made up of non-technical people how thread timing problems cause math problems in DNA analysis without an expert witness.

Good luck getting an expert witness to testify to that when the source code is hidden behind a black box "company trade secret".
I would argue that the examples of "journalism" critiqued in that article are more in line with what an enemy would act like. Pretending otherwise feels like blaming Snowden for exposing certain unlawful things that NSA has been doing.

Except with Snowden, there is at least a non-zero-value argument against him when it comes to exposing secrets related to national security (even though I, along with many other people, don't see him as the real bad guy in that whole story). While those "journalists", like Taylor Lorenz, don't have even that excuse on their side.
I took it as "pick the right thing to do" as in what you personally feel is normally right. As in "do the right thing".
Thank you! Number 2 was exactly what I was looking for and I just couldn't find the link.
There's probably some portion of a reasonable point buried somewhere in here, but boy is he going out of his way to make the reader distrust him!
I actually follow this sentiment with my resume andyhablewitz.com
Implementing a generic REDUCE aggregate function with SQL
At least we can rely on fake news, spam and noise for one thing: getting the answer wrong.
Like I said, I'm skeptical too. There is a lot of growth though - cash app and coinbase make it easy to buy, bitpay makes it easy to spend. So when I say it's early days, I mean that if crypto takes off I think it has room to be significantly bigger than today.
Great! Good luck. You can email me when you need to get started with this. I'd love to help you out however I can! adar@jiga3d.com
You're incorrect. Gmail, Sheets, Docs and Slides all have free plans as well as paid (Google Suite) plans. Google Drive also has a free plan as well as paid upgrades.

This is also precisely the point - in Google's case, they find a way to monetize their free users in addition to selling paid plans. The author totally fails to consider that possibility along with any others that might make free plans viable.
If you're surprised by this result because you've used kernel machines and didn't find them very good at generalization, keep in mind that this assumes a kernel function that accurately reflects similarity of input samples. Most work with kernel machines just uses Euclidean distance. For instance, in an image recognition model it would have to identify 2 images with dogs as more similar than an image with a dog and an image with a cat.

With a sufficiently magical kernel function, indeed you can get great results with a kernel machine. But it's not so easy to write a kernel function for a domain like image processing, where shifts, scales, and small rotations shouldn't affect similarity much. Let alone for text processing, where it should recognize 2 sentences with similar meaning as similar.
Ask HN: How do you manage hardware in a remote company?
I can only think of two options -
send it directly to the new employee from apple or amazon. or send it to a central location like the main IT employee who then loads some stuff on it and then re-ships it. are there any third party services that handle all this? any other options im missing? and lastly whats the best option in your opinion?
They should stop caring about bullshit and start refunding cancelled flights.
There is no single reason for why this is happening but I do have a few suspicions on what is contributing to it.

1) The internet is directly and indirectly incentivizing this kind of attention seeking behavior. It's rewarding to be noticed, upvoted, and retweeted. Pleasant, well reasoned, and evenhanded discussion rarely gets as much attention as sassy clapbacks.

2) Younger generations have been raised to believe that activism is a virtue and that injecting politics into everything is the way to affect progress (intersectionality).

3) Young people tend to be more vocal and more prolific. This is probably because they have more energy and free time than older folks. Additionally, young people tend to be more abrasive/obnoxious, as they don't have as much life experience to tone themselves down and learn how to behave.
You sound like someone who has never been a manager or has no idea what a manager does.

Yes, you're right that defects are made by developers. But you'd be hard pressed to find an example of a software defect that destroyed a company. Even if you as a DevOps engineer cause your company to be down for a day, it probably would have little effect on your company's bottom line.

I was in charge of Reliability for Netflix. Our whole site was down for Christmas Day one year. No one was fired, and it barely affected anything. That was a pretty major defect.

However, the way that management handled that outage had a huge effect on the company surviving that incident. Making sure we focused on the right problems to solve to prevent it from happening again. Creating entire new groups of engineers and then hiring them to solve specific problems of moving traffic between regions.

So yeah, management is really important, and a good manager is definitely more effective than a single engineer. And management decisions can destroy a company, but I doubt you can find even one example of a single engineer's decision that took down a company.
I think this is a balancing act of risks, and I wanted to bring up what I believe to be a success story when it comes to handling suspensions: Microsoft.

One thing I believe Microsoft gets right is that suspensions are isolated to the service whose TOS was violated. I.e. violating the hotmail TOS doesn't suspend you from their other services. I think this makes the impact of a false positive less catastrophic, while still removing actual problematic users from the service. This may be an artifact of how teams work together at Microsoft.
> if their motive was to sow discord and distrust in our most historically credible institutions.

Those very institutions are doing exactly that to themselves. It's easy to ignore if they mostly comport with your own worldview. But to anyone who goes against the grain at all, it's starkly obvious that these institutions have become little more than propaganda machines for the dominant narrative.
>I used to be a free speech absolutist myself back in Snowden times

FWIW, there is no reason you shouldn't still be a Free Speech absolutist (I still am) so long as you don't fall for the disinformation that Free Speech means freedom from social consequences. When individuals or other fully private entities decide they don't like someone's speech and choose to not associate or support that person/entity any longer, that's not censorship, that's Free Speech too! Freedom of association, the freedom not just to say things but not to say things is integral to the entire concept. The whole point of Free Speech is to allow arguments/counter arguments and social repercussions and so forth to go round and round to try to inch towards truth without the boot of physical force freezing it all. That doesn't mean anyone is owed others private property.

Greenwald in this piece is, plain and simple, actively opposed to Free Speech. He's dishonestly equating social criticism and Freedom of Association with censorship, which is unsurprisingly a frequent logical fallacy (false equivalency) employed by actual authoritarian regimes. "Sure Russia/China/whever may actively poison, shoot, beat, imprison, and otherwise suppress dissidents, but meanwhile in America Twitter bans people or the NY Times refuses to publish literally anything anyone sends so they're censoring too!"
I thought Tesla was a “green” company. Elon, this sucks
There's a difference between making a mistake and not having journalistic integrity
You have really bad data. Euphoria the series references the wrong series (some old unrelated series, or likely wrong data). Euphoria is a series that started in 2019.

https://next-season-of.com/euphoria/
Greenwalds tactics aside, do we really consider someone saying the word "retard" in a private discussion newsworthy? More importantly it wasnt even reported correctly and appears to be the result of Taylor Lorenz having an axe to grind with Marc Andreessen.
Parts of it have been repealed, sure, but what Republicans were calling for were a full scrapping of Obamacare (and replacement) including the parts that people liked, like the ban on denying coverage pre-existing conditions or charging those people more.

They backtracked on this after Democrats wielded this as a cudgel in the 2018 blue wave.
I think it’s a combination of anonymity, the power of the internet to increase your reach, regular greed, and human tribalism. IRL you have to be polite to people because you need to interact with people and politeness helps with that. But when you’re anonymous you don’t care as much- it can’t come back to you IRL and you don’t know the other person, so you don’t feel bad about hurting their feelings. And then there’s the sample size- if there is an opinion so extreme that only 0.1% of people agree, you could make a forum with
100k members just from the USA’s active internet users. You could go even bigger with a global audience.

A lot of people want to make money, and if you cater to someone’s opinion then you might want to give them money (a prerequisite to getting money is telling people what they like to hear). So we have a lot of super specific communities popping up, because people see it as an easy way to make money. This is fine so far. But then a fairly large group of people (by IRL standards) gather and see that everyone is like them. The idea that everyone is like them doesn’t hold true in the rest of their lives, so people start to appreciate this new home they’ve found. And then some other people from the outside come along and the “protect my tribe” instinct kicks in. Because of the anonymity people get rude over silly stuff, because they don’t like to entertain the idea that someone disagrees with them in “their” piece of the internet.

This is inevitable in nearly any internet based community. Strong moderation helps, and so does raising the cost of entry a few bucks, but neither is a perfect solution. See Stack Overflow for moderation or Metafilter for a place that costs a few dollars to join. It keeps the trolls away but something about them feels different, and I don’t know if I’d point to either option as being a best solution.
Here's the fine print. One account per participant.

> NO PURCH. NEC. Begins when Sponsor Tweets this commercial on Sponsor’s timeline at https://Twitter.com/MountainDew (no earlier than 2/7/21) and ends when a verifiable entrant Tweets the correct number of Mtn Dew Major Melon bottles, regular or Zero Sugar, (including 3D, drawn, neon, metallic & any color) that appear in this commercial or 3/31/21, whichever comes first. Limit one Twitter account allowed per participant. Winner must be verified. Subject to complete Official Rules, at lifechangingDEW.com. Open to legal res of 50 US/DC, 18+ (19+ in NE&AL). Potential winner subject to background check per Official Rules. Void where prohibited. To Enter, visit Twitter.com/MountainDew. Sponsor: Pepsi-Cola Company, 1111 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, New York, NY 10604. The NFL Entities have not offered or sponsored this promotion in any way.
> Signal and Telegram are already compromised.

By whom? What topics are unable to be freely discussed on these applications?
The unhygeinic part isn't as important as the fact that CL's macros (and other macro systems) are not simple pattern matching and substitution. But the lack of hygiene completes the circle for the concept that the program is simply a data structure, and macros are just imperative functions from syntax to syntax, and they can do anything that a normal function can do, like make HTTP requests.

The destruction of the distinction between your code and the compiler, and the recursive relationship between the reader (and CL has reader macros, another dimension), macroexpander, and evaluator, is what is so mind-opening about lisp to me, and CL embodies that trifecta with the most ideological purity (imo).
There was a company on here the other day talking about their product, built on top of Docker. I wish I'd bookmarked it.

Their secret sauce is, effectively, partial evaluation in Docker images. They run the code to detect if any of the changes in a layer have side effects that require that layer to be rebuilt (which invariably causes every layer after to be rebuilt)

I mention this because if I'm editing a single page, I would like to be able to test that edit in log(n) time worst case. I can justify that desire. If I'm editing a cross-cutting concern, I'm altering the very fabric of the site and now nlogn seems unavoidable. Also less problematic because hopefully I've learned what works and what doesn't before the cost of failure gets too large. It would be good if these publishing tools had a cause-and-effect map of my code that can avoid boiling the ocean every time.
You don't have look far to see how popular anger porn is today. I guess he knows his market.
That is a link to a PDF of this paper:

FORBES, G., MASSIE, S. and CRAW, S. 2020. Wifi-based human activity recognition using Raspberry Pi. In Alamaniotis, M. and Pan, S. (eds.) Proceedings of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 32nd Tools with artificial intelligence international conference 2020 (ICTAI 2020), 9-11 Nov 2020, [virtual conference]. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 722-730. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTAI50040.2020.00115
I think I agree with almost all of what you said! I don't view ICs as below or above management, but as complementary to each other.

I don't actually know what her role was, but I'm not sure it matters too much. Typically, I've seen directors in two kinds of capacity: people management or strategic/technical vision. For both of them, there's a ladder. For example your career progression might look like:

- Manager, Senior Manager, Director
- Product Designer, Product Design Lead, Director

In both cases, "Director" isn't an entry-level role. You don't get hired into it fresh out of school, for example, and your scope of influence is expected to be much larger (regardless of whether you're influencing people or vision) than someone at the "bottom".

By contrast, her new role (Associate Developer) _is_ an entry-level role.

That's where I think the "demotion" terminology makes sense. I also agree with other commenters who note that it's most likely meant in a tongue-in-cheek way to drive clicks. But for me, there's a bit more to it than just the cheeky clickbait headline. Have you ever wanted to change things up at your company, but felt constrained, knowing that others would perceive you based on your previous performance in a previous role? I definitely have. The allure of a demotion seems pretty real to me.
i'd like to think even a middling engineer would be able to recognize an intractable infrastructure problem that is entirely out of their hands. stadia can have perfect tech and the best customer service in the world and it simply will not matter until you effectively create your own nationwide isp as well. space age technology does not mean shit if your customers are still in the age of horse and buggy.

terraria also highlights the utter absurdity of game streaming. it can and has been ported to practically every relevant device and costs less than a big mac. google invented a billion dollar laser to cook microwave popcorn.
Compared to winning the jackpot in a standard state's lottery, how unlikely is it that Earth is the only planet containing life?
This is right, but shadowing symbols in the CL namespace like this is usually not allowed: the compiler is free to optimize a lot of these things by inlining definitions and such, so this may not do what you think (unless you shadow CL:NOT)
God I love the "R" word. It has just the right amount of edge that people's ears perk up just a little bit when you say it and then they start paying attention.
That project does look really fun!

I can't tell if that is pulling V8 in as the WASM interpreter or not. Obviously, I would prefer that they leave others in the dust without having to pull in a huge C++ codebase, but it still sounds promising either way!
Dailymail coverage: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9237235/Man-35-char...