skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I set my caps lock up to be escape

Which was the only sensible thing to do when Apple dropped the ESC key ;)

I'm so used to caps == ESC now, it takes me a minute to realize what's wrong when I'm on a new system/keyboard.
Oh you are just the most humble aren't you
What split is optimal depends on what effect size you expect. If you expect a very large effect, you get more statistical confidence from allocating more subjects to the treatment group.

On the other hand, if your treatment is very costly, adding subjects to the control group may be an effective way to increase study power without as much increase in study cost.
I believe that is correct, unless it does some crazy monkey patching or something (which would be horrible).

sounds just like some of the original problems with the python event-loop webservers: everything was great until you used something that wasn't great.
Its been an age since I looked into it. But I remember if you disabled uBlock on the page before you hit save, it updated the settings a lot faster then if it was enabled. Same thing for the Ad Choice mass optout tool (Though that would say it failed to opt out for all the companies as it couldn't send the request).
>I mean, question both sides at least??

Since no side disputes the authenticity of what's in the laptop, there's no reason for Greenwald to do so.

The one-sided burrying of the story from tech and media at the time though (and this new BS faux-reporting coming up now), would be hugely problematic if it wasn't standard practice by now...
This Old Tony? Just hands.

AvE? Just hands.

Marco Reps? Just hands... wearing gloves.

LockPickingLawyer? Just hands.

BosnianBill? Just hands.

The Signal Path? Largely just hands, although he has appeared occasionally.

Wendover Productions? Disembodied voice.

CGP Grey? Disembodied voice.

Real Engineering? Disembodied voice.

Not to mention innumerable video game streamers.

Of course, disembodied voices aren't in-and-of-themselves a new cultural phenomenon: Radio has existed for years, as have podcasts. And there are TV formats like nature and history documentaries where the narrator may rarely or never appear on screen.

And even on Youtube, there are a number of female voice-only celebrities - for example "vtubers", where a female voice actor plays games while pretending to be a cute anime girl. Of course, one could say that's an example for the theory people want to see beautiful women, not against
Come get some, Jorge Luis Borges!
I’m very biased here, but I think the law is going to eventually be net positive not because is so good, but because there is another (DMCA in US and E-commerce directive in EU) that allow platforms to use content without compensation.

This is unsubstantiated in increasingly connected world where digital content (and rights) are structural to its operations and business. This law is far from perfect, but it’s seeking to remedy this imbalance. I agree that this could’ve done better, but we live in imperfect world with lobbing being part of the process.

So my hope and believe, one I built my company around, is that this law will allow to create balanced marketplace (similar to VISA) that allows all 3 sides (creators, platforms and rightsholders) to participate in the upside rather than focus on a zero-sum outcomes as it’s today.

I might be naive and completely wrong, but this is what I’m personally working towards.
I'm not really impressed with the NFOs I see these days. As far as I can tell the "scene" (FXP couriers, tiers of groups, topsites, etc.) is pretty dried up and there are just a few "groups" releasing torrents these days, so the diversity of NFO art as well as the competitive aspect seems significantly less fun than it used to.

Or I've gotten older and more out of touch. Hard to tell which sometimes :)
I'm about to wire up some doorbells in our house and my wife can't for the life of her understand why we didn't simply buy, "one of those wireless ones." It's because the wired ones just work and always will just work and never don't work. No batteries. No internet. No computer chips. Etc, etc.
>We don't equip people to do it through our education systems in America.

Does the largely state run education system have an incentive to create critical thinkers?

Institutions trend towards group think. Credentials are granted by authorities. I'm not sure we can get there using the tools at hand.
What is not BS?
Transforming a program with tail calls to one without require to move all mutually recursive tail function to a common trampoline or something similar. Rewriting a single or a few tail functions into a loop/switch is easy, but it "impossible" to do for library API without global transformations.

(I could be wrong, I am not an expert in this, my basis are that an open set of function with a call in tail position can be used to describe arbitrary state machines (with the state being the arguments of the tail call and the rules the code of each function) that is open to new functions being added from anywhere. If you want to transform this in an iterative state machine all your functions need to be "registered" and "called" by the state machine.)
It's almost comical how you go from "it doesn't matter what the scale of the irregularities is, fraud is fraud" to "you have to qualify the scale of the insurrection, only a few were armed" in the same post.

If this is a sarcastic post, well done!
> nobody want’s to see an uncle

I think it depends of your style. Of course I wouldn't want to see an uncle if I were looking for sexy girls being rad, but I would love to see a 50yo uncle tell biking stories, motorcycle repair, or his brand of manly zen.

Definitely no one wants to see an uncle posing as a young girl, and I am also intrigued by why did an uncle wanted that badly to feel admired on Twitter in the first place. Someone younger I would understand.
Also up on https://engineering.backtrace.io/2021-01-11-stuff-your-logs/
non-ants would get outraged on behalf of the ants.
If a majority of people do something because that's what they want to do, doesn't that by definition make it human nature?
> It made zero sense for the business

No, it makes perfect sense when you factor in that FIAT/FCA/Stellantis was and is the receiver of massive subsidies, in various guises, from the Italian state. Losing those would be more harmful to the business than losing any foreign factory (with the exception of US ones, which were also beneficiaries of massive state support). FCA stopped being a "national champion" ages ago, they are just a hardened global business now; they just know which side their bread is buttered.

> They expand to other countries mostly as a cost-saving measure and they have zero loyalty to them

Believe me, they have zero loyalty to "the motherland" too. Many of them have long relocated their HQ too, for fiscal reasons. FCA/Stellantis, for example, is now based in Amsterdam. The chance that they'll ever expand again their manufacturing bases in Italy or France is minimal.

Honestly, the issue is that national champions don't exist anymore. Greed-is-good is all that matters.
And don't forget ATASCII art/animation?
Mux (YC W16) is hiring devs to empower other devs with mobile SDKs
Ah. We took it into account when building async generally, but it hasn't gotten as much actual usage as folks doing networking, so that's probably why it was overlooked. I'll make sure to ping them about it though... I myself am very interested in this case :)
> I haven't heard a good discussion on how to reconcile this contradiction.

Both arguments are pushed by the woke on purpose, to both be able to complain if no minorities are in a story and to complain if there are.

The way to reconcile it is that no one should feel forced to be inclusive (this is how you get forced token characters) and "write what you know" is not a rule set in stone. Plus it's a terrible argument because minorities are not some hivemind. For example, I'm trans and just a trans person wrote a book, stars in a movie, etc, doesn't mean I'll agree with them and how they portray trans people. In fact in the current political climate we are far more likely to disagree (I don't believe in a hundred genders, I believe you need dysphoria to be trans, etc), and I often feel any representation is making a complete mockery of my condition.

And as someone else has already pointed out, both types of books can co-exist. Lets take the extreme case that someone writes a shitty portrayal of some minority, it's bad, filled with cliches (or my reality where I feel these are actually hurtful to how we're represented, etc). So what? I'd rather have the right to critique and ridicule them then not, while also retaining my right to write whatever the hell I want. The other side's argument against my views are after all, very similar, that my view is hurtful. Who's right? Who's to judge? Currently it's only the side complaining the loudest.

And let's go further. I'm not out except to close family. I'm also bi and not out due to the culture where I live. To anyone on the street/internet I look like a "straight white man". Were I to write a book with a character modeled after me probably no one would want to publish it because it's not pc, and if it was published many would try to cancel me. Another example, I might write something historically accurate with a minority character, but history is not pretty, it's racist and cruel, and whatever I wrote would probably have the same problem because context no longer matters. Is this really the world we want to live in?
If you have a "no liberals" filter, you'll get a worse bubble. But if you implement it as a "no politics" filter, you can get all the benefits without directly affecting bubbles.

"No politics" is a tricky problem, though. 'Politics' is less of a category and more of a spectrum. Is COVID politics? Climate change? Minimum wage research? BLM? But at least you could filter out the rhetoric and mindless other side bashing which are hardly politics anyway.
The Lords is an irrelevance which should be abolished, and the BBC has a UK-wide remit. There's already quite a chunk of the BBC in Manchester.
Of the adults on this top 26 list of Youtube accounts, only 1 is a woman, and she has less than a third of Pewdiepie’s subscriber base:

https://www.businessinsider.com/most-popular-youtubers-with-...
If you're curious why asking for subscribers is so prevalent, I recommend taking a look at this Twitter thread (https://twitter.com/stalman/status/1369082704138883073) that describes the before and after effects of asking for subscribers, here's a quote: "Just the subs that came directly from the video page were 5x what they are on similar size videos".

I also recommend this blog post about the best way to ask for subscribers: https://reneritchie.net/how-to-get-subscribers-on-youtube-ev...

I've never done any of these things, and I'm not sure I have the stomach for it, but I consider it required knowledge for anyone with any interest in leveraging online attention.
Why does it matter if propaganda is coming from a foreign state actor or domestic groups, like activist groups that seek to shut down any opposing views?
I believe in some cases a capital was moved to a minor but already-existing city. Amman and Madrid are examples of this, so maybe they don't count as "purpose-built".
Racist Slurs in Place-Names Have to Go, Say Geoscientists
Excerpt from the tweet quoted in the article from Asha Rangappa who is retweeting Patrick Tucker:

>"Derkach, Kilimnick, and their associates sought to use prominent US persons and media conduits to launder their narratives to US officials and audiences..."

Now, I don't know if any of this is true or not...

In fact, I don't know any of these people...

But that's not the point!

You see, as an amateur linguist (I know, "keep the day job!" <g>), I am always on the look out for new buzzwords, new catch phrases, new lingo...

Before this article (or more specifically, the quoted retweet), I had never seen the words "launder" and "narrative" used adjacently (or very close to adjacently), that is, "launder their narratives".

Phrasing those two concepts in language more succinctly, one gets:

"Narrative Laundering"

Which is my (linguistic!) takeaway from this article...

So, that term -- is going into my 2021 lexicon!

"Narrative Laundering"

(It sort of fits alongside such other words/terminology as "Fake News", "Making Mountains Out Of A Molehills", "Memory Hole", "De Minimis", "Much Ado About Nothing", "Revisionism", "Damnatio Memoriae", "Conflation", etc.)
1. `defaults read > file_a`.

2. Change setting via GUI.

3. `defaults read > file_b`.

4. `diff file_a file_b`.

If you already know the domain you want to change (like the bundle ID of a specific app), add it after `read`.
I think I disagree there. Though there are negative effects, one positive effect is that Twitter creates an opportunity for direct public feedback being seen by world leaders vs official channels that insulate from that feedback to a much higher degree. Though I do say "opportunity" because obviously leaders can create organizational insulators to Twitter accounts just as with any other channel.
Needed to create one for a long time ;)
General cpu-bound tasks seem fine in a vm; i/o is definitely slower but much to my surprise linux’s ext4 filesystem is so much more efficient (?) than ntfs for small files that even inside a vm (vbox or wsl) git actions are noticably quicker than on native Windows!
I’d prefer is wsl2 for convenience over vbox if I could but my VPN is indeed the dealbreaker and corp. won’t support any other VPN software
I think the people filling these forms out are generally citizens of Boston, not city employees.
Non-Fungible Thoughts – Thoughts as NFTs
Why do you believe component and product quality and liability doesn’t involve on going manufacturing process best practices and recalls?

IoT and software isn’t special. It’s just getting a free pass because the vendors and solution providers want to dodge the responsibility for as long as they can.

To everyone else’s detriment.
Luck of the Fryish... if that's the one with the Simple Minds song, it definitely affected me!

Don't you forget about me...
Bicycles are vehicles. Vehicles belong on the road. Where else?
> I'm so used to caps == ESC now, it takes me a minute to realize what's wrong when I'm on a new system/keyboard.

Isn't this a bad thing?
Full? Self? Driving? Hmmm
Because if you ever run into a problem where your computer doesn't turn on, the startup sound is your first indicator of whether the screen is faulty, or the board is faulty.
Mozilla leads push for FCC to reinstate net neutrality
The conspiracy is now so wide-spread that almost everybody is part of it. I call it "reality".
Summary - "We are fucked"
It divides by 10 for everybody but the owner.
That’d be an interesting fair-use case: criticism is a very solid exemption (i.e. I’d be very surprised if showing the offending images for review wasn’t upheld by the courts) but even if you look at the whole book the other factors are things like whether your use is educational, non-profit, or impacts commercial prospects for the rights holder. That last point seems especially relevant since they’ve very clearly told the world that they do not intend to sell these books any more.
The feeling of power in initiating FXP transfers as a teenager. I was so proud of my courier title.
One of the things I like about Elixir compared to Erlang is that it has a lot more beginner-friendly stuff as opposed to "oh, that's trivial to code up" that I have occasionally seen in the Erlang world. If it is, do it and make it available so that someone getting their feet wet has it available!
This is really cool, I love these little tech experiments that keep the "hacker" in "hacker news" :)
Muslim countries that can't do without China's FDI. Not really a free vote at the UN when the alternative is removal of FDI and even sanctions.
This is incorrect. It doesn’t detect anything. It just doesn’t send the right number of coins.
Does expertise make consumers emotionally numb?
*Turkey
Sounds like you have a different idea of what "getting along" means?
I think it's less apathy and more that they don't understand the stakes. It's a lot like how laws in the US were written when data collection and processing was a manual task.

Sure, I could tail someone for two weeks, flash their email and SMS data, and flip through publicly available images of them. Or I can get a bunch of digital data points like GPS, wireless APs, and the actual emails and SMS data. Computers and databases make it trivial to sift through this data.

The average person likely doesn't understand how deep digital profiles can go. They think that because they use incognito to look up birthday gifts and porn, everything that's private stays private. What about when screen sharing a work presentation and there's a banner ad for cancer or addiction treatment? What about months of funeral care ads after searching for what to do after a parent or child dies?

People think that advertisers are wasting money since they see ads for the same purchase made a week prior. They'd be devastated if health insurance providers partnered with Visa or a tracking network to extract a "health risk" profile.
That's nice, but just says that it used to mean something else and you are bitter about it.
(tongue firmly in cheek) Not sure how many teenagers you've met... are you sure you want to encourage that? And don't even get me started on adults...

More seriously. Moderation in everything, but we're in a society and there will always be people arguing for one pole or another. Most people recognize a need for balance, but to attain balance they pick the pole they see as insufficiently represented in society... and tend to ignore the other(s)

If we all agree "rest is for the wicked" we end up with suicidal geniuses. If we all agree "chill out, it's cool man" then real progress is impossible. People advocating a reasonable mix can't summarize their position quickly enough to get attention
I'm just sad that once Twitter inevitably disappears in few years, all this cool content like this will be lost. I can still find and read HTML 1.0 pages from 25 years ago, but good luck ever finding this random Twitter thread unless somone specifically puts in the effort of preserving it.
I wonder what the Ethereum equivalent of trimming armour is...
Oh, man... The Draw brings back memories. Thanks for the pointer to PabloDraw.
As someone who has never really done "offline banking", I don't really understand how this works? Do you maintain your own ledger of all your accounts and their balances? Or are you driving over to the bank to check on things once or twice a month? If you have to transfer between accounts, do you go to one bank, get a check, then go to another bank? And this means you're entirely excluded from low-cost banks that don't have branches?

Honestly this is kind of blowing my mind. I've only been to the bank one time in probably a decade, and it was when I needed a $30k check to buy a car. Even my mortgage was done mostly over email (though they did send a guy out to have me sign paperwork.)
maybe he wants to implictly display correlations. if you substract directly you make the implicit assumptions the two even dates are uncorrelated.
*Quit
You're right. I was working on an oAuth flow, and now my customers are connecting directly to the Machine God.
You guys are hilarious. I don’t know why I bother commenting here anymore. It’s basically Reddit now. Facts just countered with incoherent nonsense.

The parent is not right, because by definition it is not a 51% attack. Plain and simple, that’s something entirely different.

The blockchain is a democracy. It’s consensus. If you want to fix something you convince the community it’s worth it. It has nothing to do with wealth insiders etc etc. lol. Even with ETC which was a minority, if it was done for sound reasons it would have succeeded. But it wasn’t, it was just a cash grab using excuses to seem legitimate.
Here’s finally a financial solution where people have open insight and can openly participate... a lot less insider than any other banking system.

Go have fun with your GameStop stock lol... I’ll have fun with being financial successful why you all complain... and keep shorting you with options and making a killing.

It’s called being smart, nothing wealth, conspiracy, insider to it.
Maybe you can explain what you mean by "journalists" (quotes and all)? I like you you take an entire profession and just say they are "not well adjusted individuals" - thats not just a strong argument.

I don't think you have worked with journalists in the sense that I use the word. When I use the term its with trained news gatherers, who go to great lengths to cover a subject, and have an approach to objectivity and fact-checking when they present their work - and follow-up as corrections (inevitable at some point) are required.

When you bring in organizations like the NYT/WaPo/etc to this, you will find layers of process and rigor to ensure any story is held to high standards, facts are verified and substantiated.

Yes, the process can break and is not perfect, but it generally works. Facts often speak for themselves.

As one person once told me (I'm paraphrasing): good journalists don't just write and publish. It's like when a developer writes code directly on production - you don't do that. Instead there are unit tests, code review, editing, testing, and then its deployed. Journalism institutions have their own versions of this.

Look at the story of how Greenwald parted ways with The Intercept. It was because he wouldn't follow that journalistic process. He said he was above being 'edited' and free to make any claim he wanted without substantiating it - those are the people you need to be careful of.

- https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-resigns-...

- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/inside-glenn-greenwa...

- https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-int...
Sure, but you're anticipating CA housing prices keep rising or the very least don't crater and that Texas real estate prices don't continue skyrocketing (in the past 5 years, the average 3bd/2ba home in Dallas has doubled from 200k to 400k. As all major cities in Texas are among the top fastest growing in the US each year, it looks like there's a good 5-10 years of 10%+ property value growth, at minimum). Like almost all arbitrage opportunities, the spread will eventually be narrowed as more and more people take advantage of it.

Furthermore, your 1.24m figure is over-inflated, as CA has high state/local sales/income taxes. And don't forget San Franciso transfer taxes on real estate (around $50k-100k due at close)! Texas has no state or local income taxes, aside from property taxes.

Not to mention that if you have kids, you don't really have the luxury of waiting that long. You can put them into a better school district for cheaper, or you can even send your kid to top-tier well-known private schools for $25k/year rather than $60k/year. Even in-state college tuition at UT, a nationally renowned public university on par with UCLA and UC Berkeley, is only $5k/year, versus near $20k in CA.

I live in Los Angeles now, but I grew up in Dallas. Obviously I'm choosing to stay in California for a reason, but I'm not ignorant as to why someone would move from CA to TX.
The complaining may not be present in this thread, but historically there's at least 5 or so upvoted comments complaining about the format the content is posted in or complaining about the website used to host the content.

I think his tweets are fair given how absolutely toxic some posters on here can be.
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