skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The working class doesn't want to eat beans/lentils they want to eat McDonalds and Taco Bell"

Is suppose this is the bit I don't get. In the UK I feel like the working class see McDonalds as a "treat", which they might have once a week and the kids will get a toy or an ice cream.

It's way way cheaper to spend the 10-20 pounds I'd spend for 3 or 4 meals from McDonald's on real food. I could easily make a good roast dinner with dessert or similar meal for the whole family for that kind of money. It just feels like laziness to me, which we're all guilty of and I'd probably be even more guilty of if I had less free time and poorer living conditions.

I'd still argue that working class don't "want" to eat at McDonald's on a regular basis, not in Europe anyway.
What is crazy is, trying to now view this on my mobile device required me to fill out a captcha, which I couldn’t even view because it wasn’t completely viewable on my mobile viewport.

Without venturing a positive or negative opinion either way: I clicked the original article, couldn’t see the content without paying, so I left. Clicked the link to presumably bypass the paywall, and couldn’t pass the bot detection in a few seconds as a human on my preferred reading device, so I left.

Now I don’t want to bother reading the article at all, and took the time to write a comment here instead.
i agree! you are not. and the rest of us are not obligated to spend time and energy on you even though you're actively rude to people because of what you think is a mental illness.
Or, as Dilbert would say "On the plus side, the pellets are excellent"

Ref: https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-01-25
What's the Difference Between val and var in Kotlin?
I really don't want to knock the work y'all have put into this, but it feels like an antipattern to develop this way ("severless" functions in general). But I suppose many people could benifit from this, best if luck!
I notice this a lot, e.g. I have no idea what Internet the people in India are seeing because I barely ever seem to meet them online. But this is an American organisation, you can't tell me The Pirate Bay is something unknown there. The lawsuits against it were equally big news there, from what I gathered. Someone might still have missed it, and I'm sure my mom will have, but then my mom doesn't work for one of the Internet's core infrastructure organisations and doesn't handle applications where you need to check for fraud on the Internet.
Vint Cerf has been working with NASA for over a decade on a design for interplanetary internet. I work at Google and he shared a story about how the earlier rovers had radios that were overheating at higher bandwidth transmissions. A smart engineer noted that they had an X band radio on the rover and still had one in an orbiter around Mars. The rover could transmit at 128mbps over xband to the orbitter, which in turn had large antennas to transmit back to earth at 128mbps. I assume Perseverance supports more bandwidth but it may be limited by whatever equipment we have in orbit around Mars.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/vint-cerfs-plan-for-building-...
"Fairly accomplished" is quite the understatement. I don't know anyone doing better work than Travis and I've not seen anyone saying otherwise either.
Studies like this are published for political reasons, not scientific reasons. I wouldn't be surprised if the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is behind this study.
> What the heck: "You convicted for fraud in the past 10 years?" "Nope." "You liar, you were convicted in 2006!"

Also, they seemed to agree that it wasn't fraud or similar.

Also also, Sunde isn't wanted by Interpol nor was he during the application process. He was wanted in 2012, prior to his prison stint.
Let's follow the logic the other way: does someone with multiple fraud convictions have an inalienable right to a merchant account and a massive line of credit? Perhaps, in the interests of personal liberty, hospitals should be obliged to grant witch doctors and those guilty of gross medical malpractice a salary and the right to use their operating theatre?

Freedom to act and freedom not to contract sometimes conflict, and contrary to some people's beliefs, it is possible to assess things on a case by case basis. In this case, being an ICANN-accredited registrar doesn't seem to obviously be an fundamental right, and convictions for IP-related crimes doesn't seem like particularly unreasonable grounds for not giving someone a rare level of privilege in the IP-registration business.
This seems a bit restricted. How do you go about extending it to real and complex numbers?
It has a similar consistency and it's uses are sometimes similar to butter in that it can be spread on a slice of bread.
Interesting point re: thermodynamics though.

It occurs to me that there's a sort of “learned helplessness” trap you can fall into from the thermodynamic base case: you can fail to separate _anything_ from placebo if your model fails to include enough of the real levers in the modelled system vs the levers it has that don't exist in that system. You can turn any signal into noise if you slice it up too much; that's basically half of the replication crisis. Studies on anti-depressants are an interesting example, for instance.
I don't get the unhealthy obsession with "unelected" in some people.

A proper -mediocracy- meritocracy (i.e. it's actual skills and qualification that counts) is preferable over any kind of popularity contest. That's not to say the WHO in particular works by this standard, I just find it very irritating if people insist on every position or institution - especially very specialised ones - being subject to elections.

That just doesn't make sense and can have horrifying consequences (see [1] for an example). There are positions (in my example: medical examiners), that simply cannot be adequately filled by laypeople and amateurs. That's not how a complex society works. It's not the middle ages anymore and most professions and many official positions require training, experience, and qualifications.

That's why I don't get the obsession with everyone needing to be "elected" (and by that I assume you mean by the general public, because WHO positions in particular are in fact awarded by elections).

[1] https://youtu.be/hnoMsftQPY8?t=277
As a teenager, I remember getting a distinct sense of accomplishment for wiping every trace of Internet Explorer from my computer.
Commenters point is that these are the wrong solutions to the wrong problems, misdirected through naming and PR.
Nepal has much more agriculture than Tibet given that much of their land is much lower (Kathmandu is 1,400 meters, Lhasa is 3,655 meters). So most Nepalese are Hindu and can be vegetarians, while vegetarianism simply can’t exist in traditional Tibet (you won’t survive, so even Buddhist monks eat meat, incidentally the one thing Tibetans most like about being apart of China is easy access to agriculture imports).

South America I wonder if it’s more about converting nutrient poor jungles to grazing land?
The simple fix is easy: FB and Google should be _strongly_ encouraged to offer paid versions of their services that are ad free and tracking free.
Its just not about the diet but also lifestyle matters(exercise ,teetotaler,profession) . I am surprised why these studies do not involve that as an index ?
Nah, Twitter just seems full of leftists to you because you use the "both sides" or "what about" argument, a common conservative talking point. You think arguments like hey, let's use a word like "latinx" to be a far left talking point. It's silly, but the position is nowhere nearly as radical as "let's get rid of all governments, by force if necessary". The extreme left views to you seem to be to get rid of Dr Seuss. You can't even think of even more extreme left views as viable discourse, such as getting rid of all world rulers.

There aren't nearly enough leftist talking points on Twitter as it appears to your rightist brain, and there's plenty of homophobia, "feminism has gone too far", "it's okay to be white", worldwide anti-immigration sentiments, and (still!) Trump supporters. Maybe they're bots or whatever, but the talking points are there.
But talking about category theory makes you sound smarter.
Hah, yeah. I don’t like it cut that close together either.

I don’t know if anyone is using it for this yet but it’s kinda fun to drag in a recording of a zoom call or something, and play it back with silence (mostly) cut out. Not quite real time yet, since it has to load the file first, but this could be done.
My 5-year-old laptop is an i5/8GB with Fedora/GNOME (my primary machine is a desktop) and that is usually ok, but there are certainly things I can't do (like use Google Earth while having slack or a web browser open).
You've hit the nail on the head for our biggest problem - many people don't realise axiom can solve their problem!

We realised, the best way to do this is start producing templates with solutions to common problems. Here's one:

https://web.axiom.ai/recipe/loop-through-pages

As you say, visual guides work well. I think we have a lot to do here.

We're gradually building up a library on the link above. One day, we'd like people to share their solutions openly (like airtable). We'd need to do security checks on our side though.
This is destructuring.
> People shouldn’t be punished for life,

You don't want to allow convicted people operate domain registrars. You don't want to give banking license to a convicted felon.

It's very common practice to deny convicted people access to positions that require some amount of trust for the rest of their life.
You need to stop conflating the tyoe mumbo jumbo with multiplication.

We don't define it based on what machines do with it, we define it based on what WE do with it. In the context of teaching, dimensional analysis comes far later in the process of education.

The pedants answer is that there is more than one multiplication operator taught. It's most basic incarnation is, for all intents and purposes, repeated addition.

It's more advanced forms, which include extra auditing for dimensional analysis isn't merely repeated addition. Though I'd challenge that too.

Dimensional analysis is an extra aspect stapled onto and seperate from the arithmetic operation. Therefore makes up an additional level of auditing seperately as a whole, and therefore inappropriate to define as an inherent property of the operator. You multiply numbers.

People need to stop trying to teach unrelated things bundled by some programmer or language writer to kids/adults. It doesn't make one seem smart. It just confuses people by blurring orthogonal aspects of problem solving, which puts people off of it.
These articles bring back memories of teachers telling me I was wrong, because I didn't use the quadratic formula, but completed the square instead.

You can definitely see multiplication as repeated addition. It's even a useful thing to do, how else would you define multiplication?

This is the whole idea that made mathematics great. You define more complicated operations in terms of familiar operations. Then, if you gained enough intuition you are ready to use these more complicated operations as primitives as well. Then, you can generalize and apply your intuition to more abstract objects.
Melvin capital and several other hedge funds engaged in naked short selling, and many backbone clearing houses enabled it via share counter fitting. (naked short selling is illegal)

The deeper issue is the SEC not cracking down on the fail to delivers and naked short selling.

I think Robinhood and other brokerages are the scape goats here. Their hands where tied when the companies that processed their orders refused to process trades for those stocks.

The whole debacle has exposed a lot of corrupt, fraud and other nasties while showing the SEC is completely unwilling to do their job.
So we don't have rights, but privileges.
> Coincidentally, industrial food producers have discovered that it is cheaper and more profitable to sell ground up peas and plant oil as “meat”, water rinsed through oats as milk, etc.

> The “solutions” of fake substitutes are PR driven narratives.

I think you are looking for a conspiracy where there is none. Those newer alternative meat products are not the basis of a healthy plant-based diet - they are treats that actually are marketed towards meat eaters. Ask any veg/ans you know what they eat as staples; it's not expensive Impossible or Beyond burgers, but tofu, tempeh, beans, legumes, and seitan.

I also doubt that the problems with meat can be fixed at its current scale. A trope in the vegan community is every meat eater has a neighbor raising organic grass-fed cattle on acres of land that he lovingly slaughters.

The reality is, almost all animal agriculture in the US is factory farming style CAFOs.

[0] "Using data from the 2017 USDA Census of Agriculture, which was released this month, it is estimated that 70.4 percent of cows, 98.3 percent of pigs, 99.8 percent of turkeys, 98.2 percent of chickens raised for eggs, and over 99.9 percent of chickens raised for meat are raised in factory farms"

Cattle especially are not grass fed, they are stuffed with corn, soy, and other food grown at a rapid clip with petro fertilizer. There is not enough grazing land in the country to produce meat at the scale it's consumed here.

[0] https://plantbasednews.org/culture/factory-farms-study/

You can dive into the USDA numbers yourself here.

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2017/Full_Re...
If ETH is hybrid now, how much it helped the energy usage? Did it go down significantly compared to a year ago (even if measured in ETH)?

Bitcoin had a halving, which was very sifnificant energy usage decrease measured in BTC (which caused the significant price increase).
Not just ICANN, but like deplatformings for off-platform activities, for example.
True, but it’s a powerful incantation nonetheless.
Never Ever Ever Ever Ever Give Away Your Edge
US law is default but ICANN connection to the UN could allow someone to sue in any UN registered country. Though, I am not an expert on law.
If the "solution" to unequality is to saddle poor people with debt, then the "solution" is nothing more than creating social categories of lenders and debtors. Another caste system.

The real solution to unequality requires much more radical solutions.
The real benefit here is that you can export these as SVG. Please do this instead. Icon fonts are convenient, but they're really bad for web performance. It needs to download the entire font even if there's only a handful of icons on a page.

SVGs have excellent browser support, and decent CMS support. You can enable them in Wordpress for example with a little tinkering. If you want to make your site faster (and I hope you do), then definitely consider SVGs.
Because it's more fun and ownership for the developing team.
Just replying to your last point: sugar and carbohydrates make you fat more than anything else.

To fix that, most successful diets rely on increasing the ratio of protein you eat (wether it's fish, meat or poultry). It gets you to the same satiety but eating less carbs, and you lose weight.

Now enter plant based / animal free diets, how are people gonna get to satiety without all that dense meat / fish / chicken?

If you're some amazing diet expert, I have no doubt you can figure out a way to get to satiety without relying on carbs. But most people, what are they gonna do? Just get two more slices of bread, or 50% more pasta.

If you strictly oppose a meat only diet VS a plant only diet, people will be leaner on the first one.
Yeah but your comment didn't use the concept of a "category" at all, whereas you used "set" three times. Its definitely more natural to say these definitions come from set theory.
It shouldn't be, but it appears to be almost a core value in some cultures.
If it were just the sear, you might expect the same sort of issue with fish consumption, but alas, that's not clearly the case.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15342453/

"Consumption of fresh red meat and processed meat seemed to be associated with an increased risk of rectal cancer. Consumption of chicken and fish did not increase risk."

(admittedly, that conclusion is a stronger statement than it should be. More precise: consumption of chicken and fish was not linked to increased risk, as they merely did not reject the null hypothesis.)

Some potential culprits are listed here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4698595/

Loosely: curing, searing, heme iron (from blood; what gives red meat its color), fat content, and some other things that can't be summed up as nicely.

It's plausible that all of them contribute to some degree, leading to a more potent effect than any of them in isolation.
My issue isn’t the shorts, it’s when the shorts (or others) start messing with the game board. You should be able to short a stock, no doubt about it. But you shouldn’t be able to coordinate “short attacks” or use other tactics.

I wonder if it may be a good idea to remove computers from trading except for execution enacted by humans because of human research. Should Bloomberg terminals be legal? Should everyone effectively have the same hardware? I wonder how someone in Oklahoma can compete with a large bank. Should they be able to?
Oh, really. So applying probabilities to partially observable systems yields bullshit, and estimated probabilities based on observations of the past events does not predict anything for evolving systems?

I got banned here for such assertions lmao.

What else is new?
I like the idea of substack, but realistically the most popular journalists will be the ones with the biggest stunts and clickbait. I just want a plain newspaper that does a lot of good reporting without getting too political, seems too much to ask these days.
Creating automated Python dashboards using Plotly, Datapane, and GitHub Actions
Deflation of a currency only increases the purchasing power of people who already hold that currency. If they start a business, they'll only be able to earn revenue solving the problems of other bitcoin holders.
Fat stored in the body is the cause of heart disease, not fat consumption. Sugar is how you tell your body to store fat.
This leaves me curious to know how they connect the dots to piece together who's behind the attacks. I found this on another post but it doesn't go into much detail: "Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) attributes this campaign with high confidence to HAFNIUM, a group assessed to be state-sponsored and operating out of China, based on observed victimology, tactics and procedures."

It sounds fascinating if anyone has further reading on the subject! (Not just for HAFNIUM but in general how to put together a profile of an attacker.)

https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/03/02/hafnium-t...
I've always like C# for its multi-paradigm nature, good runtime, and excellent collections framework. It's basically what Java could/should have been.

Unfortunately the legacy tooling is infuriating to work with. It's been steadily improving for the past few years with the advent of .NET Core but in practice this doesn't mean much. If you work at a ".NET shop" then odds are that the devs that work there have been firing up Visual Studio and creating solution files for the better part of two decades; good luck getting them to use dotnet or Docker Compose, not to mention the long-lived legacy apps floating around that are still built that way and live on IIS in a corporate datacenter someplace.
If by more you mean one then I agree: proof of work and proof of stake. The other ones are too fringe.
Probably, does it matter? Most people who do that do it because it seems fun, and then move on once they realize working for tips isn't ideal.

But that's besides the point. The point is the populace is on average better educated, leading to, on average, higher salaries.

Poverty in Sweden is ridiculously low, mostly because of this. (The welfare system helps too).

And yes we export a lot of educated people to other countries, real experts who decide to live abroad, and therefore don't pay taxes on Sweden. That's fine too, being educated shouldn't come at the cost of your freedom.
‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture
Oh hey, look who funds Wellcome: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Gran...
>It has a competitor, it's just sadly afraid of being in the US

Protectionism at its finest.
What Is Mathematics?
- Expose yourself to luck/chance/positive black swans by doing some skilled or unskilled stock picking that has potential to put you on another trajectory in life.

If the goals to expose yourself to luck, why not just purchase lottery tickets then?
Issue:
https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/9666
Well, there's at least 2 perspectives here.

If the two people were fired due to race, gender, or even ethical opinion, this reaction is more than appropriate.

If the two people were fired due to breaking established rules and processes, exfiltrating files or similar — this can very well backfire on minorities. It indirectly creates another hurdle to hiring a minority member if the company needs to consider that they can't viably fire them for breaking rules.

I'm unaware of good public information supporting either perspective. And both the ex-employees and Google may be restricted from publishing sensitive information to support their cause. I'm not sure how to form an informed opinion on this, honestly.
FT is a great newspaper.
> You can definitely see multiplication as repeated addition.

Only for rational numbers. Doesn't work for real and complex numbers.

> It's even a useful thing to do, how else would you define multiplication?

Axiomatically, not algorithmically.
Right m, we could just leave the land to nature. But some people like to make some use out of their (or in the case of the west the BLM’s) land.
Devaluation is the deliberate downward adjustment of a currency, that's very different to depreciation.

Fiat currencies cannot be "designed" to lose value at a measured rate. Even bitcoin, which is actually designed with a measured addition of supply up to 21 million, cannot control its value.
No, the bank has hedged everything. As soon as the bank issued your mortgage they sold a few bonds at the current interest rate, they collect your payments and pay off the bonds. The bond holders are betting that stay low, not the bank.

While in theory if rates go up you could find the bond for your house and buy it at a greatly reduced rate, thus paying much less for your house. In practice there is no individual bond for your house so you can't do this.