skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Operationally, unsure. But if there was an answer, it would be something that multiplied with itself twice would have be the same as 2 multiplied with itself once.

I think it was Gerolamo Cardano who in a book of worked exercises came up with a problem like "obtain two numbers that add to 10 and multiply to 40" and arrived at the solution had to involve square roots of -1. Then he goes "this makes no sense, but let's calculate nevertheless..."
My work desktop is 32GB and it falls over any time I try to create really big R data sets for others. I have to use a cloud machine with 64GB, and I run that out of memory most of the time when trying to optimize the production pipeline. They refuse to give me anything larger, so that's my upper limit. If anyone knows how to create giant .rds files without storing everything in memory first, I'd love to hear it.
I don't understand why you call it `Research` as well.
Agree to disagree. One of the main “enforcement arms” of ethics research is to say the unsaid things out loud. Saying them introduces legal liability onto the company in future lawsuits.

I.e. “Google knew that X would result in Y and they still released X; they should pay for the damages of Y.”

The PR side of ethics research barely matters in comparison.
Right so if you look at LEAP[0] they talk about how "global average consumption of meat and dairy is rising, driven by increasing incomes and population growth ... livestock production can have major environmental impacts ... Livestock production is also a major source of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, increases water scarcity in some regions and can exacerbate soil erosion ... LEAP programme aims to understand the health, environmental, social and economic effects of meat and dairy production and consumption to provide evidence and tools for decision makers to promote healthy and sustainable diets"

They also have a brief explainer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGpjeyypKMU&feature=emb_logo

I'm not going to call this a nefarious conspiracy, but in the same way you might wonder about a study funded by Coca Cola, LEAP doesn't sound like they'd want to fund a study concluding "eating beef is much healthier than soy protein"

If you combine that with the original criticism about the poor study design, you can come to your own conclusions about whether to reduce your meat consumption.

[0] https://www.leap.ox.ac.uk/about
I studied Cantonese for a couple of years, and even used the language in my Hacker News username. What I find disturbing is how quickly a language as large as Cantonese can be eroded away in just a couple of generations.

I suppose this isn't a problem if you don't value language diversity; but it certainly saddens me to be witnessing probably the largest scale mass extinction of one of the defining features of human evolution, as the world trends towards easier communication for the masses. If I remember correctly, we are currently on track to lose the vast majority of the world's 7000 languages in the next 80 years.

At the same time, it brings me great joy that I can be alive at a time where large scale language diversity is still a thing, and I can witness it first-hand. (Sorry to those of you reading 1000 years from now :) )

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Get yourself a rotating 360 stapler. Great for booklets. Cheaper and less clumsy than a saddle stitch or long reach stapler. Good for regular stapling too.
> You are basically paying people to shit on your own products.

I mean, the only way to fix bad stuff is to find it?
Dang, I just moved into a new apartment too
We humans will be able to control everything on earth's climate if we survive even a couple thousand years from now assuming technological advances.
Both hate speech laws and groups like Antifa were present and used against NSDAP in the Weimar Germany. What is clear is that tactics like censoring them do not work. You cannot just beat ideas out of peoples' heads, whether it's nazis, BLM, communists or whoever really. This as well has been tried countless times throughout the history and it never did any good.
Global population and wealth are increasing. Meat is expensive. And price - we subsidise farming - is a direct way of influencing how often people eat something.
Interesting. Life emerged 4 billion years ago and the window of habitability for complex lifeforms will end in one more billion years. So terrestrial natural selection required 80% of the window of opprtunity to produce human intelligence. That's a tighter margin than I would have guessed.
I think the system in the Netherlands uses a lot more secrecy surrounding the courts systems. In those cases, secrecy is default.. SO having a bureaucratic branch dedicated to determining relevant convictions makes sense.

In the USA, came from the UK which was known (in the 1700's) for having secret trials, secret evidence, secret witnesses, and secret punishments. So the founders built this system to be transparent in many ways. And that meant public recording of crimes. Fast forward a few hundred years, and this computing thing takes off, and records everywhere are put in a system and easily searchable.

Having the secret system in place in the Netherlands and the transparent/easily searchable system in the USA don't really mix all to well.

(Admittedly, much of the courts systems are still opaque as mud, but some important parts are constitutional - like seeing/questioning witnesses, jury of your peers, etc)
As with most studies there is some criticism about this and how it "changed" overtime:

https://jacknorrisrd.com/austrian-vegetarian-study-making-wa...
Agreed. At first glance, JavaScript's number implementation seems far from ideal for real computations. I wonder what they have in mind.
> China's policy of transferring hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang to new jobs often far from home is leading to a thinning out of their populations, according to a high-level Chinese study seen by the BBC.

Funny story, this has been going on for decades as a pro-Uighur economic development campaign. Lots of migrant labor in China in general, and it's not always easy to get permission to move to where the jobs are under the hukou system. It's actually a great economic opportunity.

Notice that there's no actual reference to anyone being forced to do anything. They just imply it by working in statements that are against the general concept of forced labor.
Who's going to let random Internet users fly their very expensive drone?
Speaking as an American, I’m proud that Amazon is one of the greatest success stories of the last 25 years, and it’s one of the many tech companies that have emerged only in America. Europe hasn’t produced a single large tech company despite similar population size and an even better educated work force.

Maybe foreign countries should learn why America continues to create superstar firms in every industry.
I'm intrigued, what are you referencing in regards to public pensions in Denmark?
I've never once told a customer at any job that I worked at that I dislike my job because while I didn't like my job, I needed my job and didn't want anything to put that in jeopardy, like my boss finding out I told someone I don't like my job.
Then: all matrices look like the identity matrix if applied to a suitably rescaled eigenvector.
You start by teaching rings, duh.

But seriously, her first objection is

> To define multiplication as repeated addition is to make multiplication a sub-species of addition.

To me, that means the author is wrong from the get-go. Not all cases of multiplication might be easily seen as repeated addition, but to get hung up on a deliberate linguistic misunderstanding? And to add insult to injury, she finishes by proposing to see multiplication as the answer to "how many or how much OF the unit", and shows a diagram with _repeating_ units.

Oh, never mind, the answer is at the end: she's got books to sell, and probably tries to improve her sales by appealing to parents with children that can't multiply 83 by 17 when they're 8.
The solution is to change the rules to optimize for the things that we care about.

I totally agree with everything you've said here, but I always get stuck on this part. What rules should we even change, and how should we change them?
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You'd need to speak to a proper historian, but in my reading of sources about it it seems we already have a much better understanding of what the Chinese are doing than contemporaries of the Terror did.
That would require people to clean up. Sometimes I squint at the installation requirements and then head over to hub.docker.com. I think it will get worse (i.e. more layers on top) before it gets better.
We went a few years ago and loved it. We happened to be there on the day the Memphis Belle exhibit was being opened (rained out the day before), which also meant they were doing flyovers of WWII planes and bussing people out to the runway to do tours in and around the planes.

All that being said, the highlight for us was seeing the WWII planes fly overhead and then seeing one of the VC-25As flying past seconds later. Multiple times. The rumor was they were doing takeoff/landing training.
We can start fighting this by purging the pro-chinese ring here in HN that downvote any comment critical to China.

If beign pro-Hitler isn't allowed, why beign pro-China is?
They publish their own style guide. Kind of tedious to bitch about them staying consistent with it. It's not like English is actually prescriptive.
I agree. Although I do believe that the schema needs to be designed first class for writing / programming, before considering what render model and edit GUI will manipulate the schema. Making the app schema first class for writing, ensures that who ever read / writes the code can predict the app behaviour with ease.

I've seen multiple platforms do this the other way around and before as a result the GUI is in full control of the app schema and you end up with machine generated config which is hard to debug, reuse, review and edit.

While designing the app schema for Lowdefy [1], we are only implementing the app schema by coding it by hand - all the time (at least until all best good practices are established). This ensures that we always implement predictable defaults and that we make sure that developers only write the minimum config to be able to create an app. No unexplainable / magic paramaters in any the schema.

We also implemented a MongoDB like query model in the YAML (Lowdefy operators), and we are often surprised by the level of complex logic that developers construct with ease.

[1] https://lowdefy.com
But it did eventually lead to the break up of the USSR - without WW3 - rather than the Soviets taking over the world.
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There's a fair bit to agree with here, but...

First, one of the arguments being made here is that previous ad revenue subsidised content, but now it subsidises social media, so content must cover its costs directly.

One of the implications of that is that in the "old" system you might get a bundle of content, some of which you liked and some of which you didn't, but the whole thing was subsidised so you didn't mind this, because you weren't really paying for the bits you didn't like or didn't consume. And now in the "new" system you have to pay full freight, so you're reluctant to pay for things you don't even want.

In short, it's about people saying "I don't want to pay for an entire cable package (or NYT subscription), I'd rather pay for the exact content I want because it's cheaper overall, even if it's more expensive per item".

But the example given is this:

> Yes, you get better, more convenient and largely ad-free viewing — but there’s a good chance you’re paying more for it. The same applies to Twitter and Substack, where signing up to just four writers’ output at $5 a month each is already more than the cost of a $17 New York Times subscription, which gives you a greater breadth of coverage.

And that sounds like something quite different. If people are paying $20/month in Substack subscriptions instead of $17/month for a NYT subscription, they're not doing it to save money, but because they think they can get better content that way.

In fact, at the moment I am spending $20/month across Substack and Patreon for writing I care about, while the NYT is running a promotion for an online subscription for $3/month for the first year, then $8/month thereafter, but I'm happy with the value I'm getting from Substack, and I wouldn't dream of paying for the NYT, because in my view it's not even worth $3/month.

This isn't a money story, this is a quality story. And I don't think it has much to do with ad revenue either.

Second:

> Perhaps now we can forge a better understanding of the value of content. It costs money to produce, so it should also cost money to consume.

Again, I'm paying $20/month or so to Substack (mostly) and Patreon, so clearly I agree that paying money for content is (at least sometimes) a good idea. However, I think this is just a ridiculous, meaningless platitude.

Education and health care cost money to product; in most countries at least some of both are provider at no direct cost to consumers. Scarce natural resources (or broadcast spectrum) costs little or nothing to produce, but should certainly cost money to consume. And just because it cost you money to produce doesn't mean anyone will (or should) choose to pay money to consume it.

I once came close to subscribing to Bloomberg, but eventually decided against it, partly because it's pricy ($35/month!), but also in large part because so much of their content is just so poorly written and poorly researched. (Matt Levine is, always, excellent, but he's very much the exception. And, of course, his content is available for free, outside the Bloomberg paywall.)
For those who only read the title and the name of the company, not the actual article:

> for wide variety of applications, including mobility such as trucks, buses, trains and ships, as well as stationary generators

This has not much to do with electric _cars_.
Would you stop 15 minutes and have a cheap charging session, or 5 minutes and have an expensive one ?

Hydrogen is not instant to refuel so the time difference is not too crazy.
Wait until we get images of cliffs of Echus Chasma, the crater of Pavonis Mons or the view over Valles Marineris....

Edit: I know Perseverance isn't going to those places, but something/someone will eventually....
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Imagine if FPV augmented reality gaming became a thing...
How to prevent legacy code from emerging?
Not everyone knows that legacy code begins to appear almost from the first months of a project's life if it has a sufficiently active codebase. Few people think in advance of the full-fledged architecture of the code and the system in general. It is almost impossible to do unless you are developing a typical project.
Complex solutions are often developed with a fully formed idea, or several months after the release, it turns out that something needs to be added. The code is also modified to update the solution, but unfortunately not wholly, but only partially. It is how the legacy code appears. Let's give a definition to this concept and see why it is so scary.
>other brokerages simply put up the money

...assuming they had the money. On the day they suspended trading, they also raised $2B in funding the same night. A few days later they partially unrestricted trading.
Some people seem to be suggesting that when RH got the collateral call for funds they didn't have on hand, they should have instantly gone into receivership and wound the whole operation down, closing all accounts. Or something like that. They probably don't mean that, but it's the logical conclusion of what they're saying. Always have the required collateral or face instant annihilation.
I guess it depends on where you're currently hosting your site and if you're using a CDN already. For smaller/private projects, a potential downtime of Google's CDN and GDPR are probably not too much of a concern.
What would a successful attack even look like?

My understanding was that malicious validator has to publish votes for two different blocks in one round; which then can be used to slash them. Unlike PoW they can't "sit" on their second vote, because voters are known ahead of time, and once vote is done, opportunity is gone.

They also can't choose transactions to go into block unless they're the proposer, so that's only time they can control whether attack will even benefit them.

So they'll have to wait to get randomly assigned as proposer, in a committee where they control enough of the other randomly selected validators, and have pending txns at the ready to double spend (while receiving party has been sitting waiting for funds).

And even then, won't that just create a fork where the minority of the validators recognize the double vote, and slash them anyways? And what users / services will stay w original fork given that proof?
If you're serious about it then assume you can't be sure and plan your purchases around that.
All that matters for a store of value is the long term moving average
> "Instead, Google says its ad-buying tools will use new technologies it has been developing with others in what it calls a “privacy sandbox” to target ads without collecting information about individuals from multiple websites. One such technology analyzes users’ browsing habits on their own devices, and allows advertisers to target aggregated groups of users with similar interests, or “cohorts,” rather than individual users."

I'm having a hard time parsing this out, and seeing what's actually changed. How do they determine an individual's "cohort(s)", without collecting information about that individual across multiple websites?

Is it simply that the data is collected and processed client-side, rather than server-side? Would using a non-Chrome browser effectively opt-out altogether, then? I find this difficult to believe.
> Everything (containers, widgets, etc.) is basically SVG's

Controversial opinion: vector-based UI widgets are the right way to do web apps. Instead of all the existing framework approaches that ultimately produce HTML, both developers and users would be better served by using HTML for the elements on a screen that correspond to documents, but the web app's "chrome" should use SVG. Most of the complications of frameworks come from a blind spot on the part of developers, who continually select a tool with a high impedance mismatch to their goal (producing an app). This blind spot on the part of developers leaves this area under-explored, and in turn there's under-investment in the specs / on the part of browser makers to eliminate pain points in the way that developers are actually using the platform for their work.
Makes me think of http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/england.htm
I would have 100% agreed with you prior to the study involving the sugar industry persuading some research to push the dietary fat, cholesterol link that's being debunked more and more. They claimed simple carbs were better to have and sugar wasn't so bad. When that study was released in the 60s, dietary changes in the US happened. That's also when you see obesity rates rise. Sure, I'm claiming a correlation as causation, but if they can do it, why cant I?
So basically there is only a limited window for life to kickstart from microbes to multi-cellular lifeforms to sapient beings and finally to spacefaring, terraforming civilisations.
Ah, the sweet irony of accusing a free distributor of academic papers of "predatory practices", as opposed to the bloodsucking leeches at Elsevier & co.
We're talking about matrix/matrix multiplication here, not matrix/vector, right?
It's literally enough time to even lift heavier elements from the Sun to extend it's stable life cycle by several billion years.

Another commenter suggested moving the planet and got down voted to oblivion but it's not at all a ridiculous suggestion in these kinds of time scales. You could place giant ion thrusters on the moon and set it in an orbit where tidal effects would nudge the Earth outwards over a few million years. This can be made subtle enough as to not even be noticeable to life on Earth.

Of course a cheaper solution is to just use a solar shade that can incrementally decrease it's opacity to compensate for the brightening sun but this would not be enough when the Sun transitions into it's red giant phase
This never happened to me, and I bought a number of short domains.

That would imply that they only snatch some domains. But in that case, if they had a way to determine which domains are valuable, why would they wait for a search in the first place?

Also, this is the kind of scam that is quick to ruin a company reputation, snatch a few valuable domains, but then lose tens of thousands of registrations because people start avoid you.
So 10 minutes up, then 10 minutes falling?
When am I able to downvote something?
People have been selling 'low-code' for decades now. Whether it's indented outlines, natural language-ish DSLs, drawing flow charts or UML, YOU ARE STILL WRITING CODE. So, the details that you sometimes need to know and/or change are hidden.

The only one that I have used that seemed any good was Labview, and even that is not really 'low code', just 'different code'.
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I am not getting this kind of journalism. Guardianmag magazine article is a direct copy paste from https://phys.org/news/2021-03-simulations-earth-oxygen-rich-.... Yes, they cite that as a source (oddly enough, Guardianmag has not added web site address as a clickable link, why?). They didn't have any incentives to add some more details, anything, just copy paste.

It would be so great to learn some more details about the model, etc.
I dont know why this comment was downvoted I found it both funny and informative
If the thing which would be intuitively obvious to 90% of people in your audience doesn't work, then your framework is wrong, not the people. It shouldn't take a mountain of documentation to clarify a basic feature.
Well, Google says they didn't surpress research, but that the researchers didn't follow process. Now we are all having an argument - we wouldn't have that if the researchers were truly independent.
Or get the SVGs from Github directly: https://github.com/google/material-design-icons
There isnt an alternative to btc either. If you know of it please explain in detail how it works step by step. Eth2.0 aint it.
>despite other companies had followed robinhood lead lifting their bans hours earlier.

maybe because the other companies don't have a high concentration of wsb users?
How many EV charging stations were there in the US five years ago. Ten years ago?

About business plan: start selling to fleets of taxis and short haul trucks. They are sensitive to fuel cost and consumption, but only need one or two stations in the whole metropolitan area. Do that in major cities. After that you only need a few stops between the towns.

Natural gas, as all fossil fuels, are dead within a few years. It’s amazes me that people still haven’t seen that writing on the wall.

Only idiots buy new fossil fuel cars today. They won’t have any resell value in a few years.
Impressive!

Looking forward to PS3 (the Cell CPU was really interesting there) and Xbox 360 (multiple innovations about GPU: GPU being a memory controller, unified shader cores, and eDRAM).
Ah, right, ICANN is run by IP lawyers, the pirate bay is not relevant to DNS, but is relevant to those IP lawyers, that's why they don't like him: https://nitter.dark.fail/i/status/1366522131811627009

Also https://njal.la/blog/we-dont-have-enemies/ - another reason to dislike him.
> assuming technological advances.

Kind of makes it a tautology.