skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a brilliant post, thank you for your contribution.

I just wonder what kind of alternatives we have that could be effective. Something government sponsored but administered by a third party with a strict constitution regarding moderating only the extremest content? A system of self-moderation in place that isn't destructive, but rather hides content to prevent congestion? I feel like voluntary identification is also a must.

I don't know, it's hard to say.
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When Then Zen
Not with the current release... XXDP has a total memory footprint of 1.5k 16-bit words and allows programs to overwrite the low .5k (which it restores on image exit like a skink regrowing its tail). But its diagnostics can rattle every micro state of every peripheral attached to a machine.
This would be news to me, but it would explain a lot. It always seemed unlikely that Sci-Hub’s archive was entirely contributed by concerned citizens.

Phishing, though, crosses the line. Once you start tricking people and removing their agency, you’re the bad guy.
Naive College Student Has a Question
Hi all,

Hope you all are doing well.

I am currently a junior in college working on an early-stage startup.

I was wondering if anyone here would be able to share the top thing that schools don’t teach that every founder should know.

Thanks,
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I can think of one specific reason why some people might prefer R. This is my understanding anyway... I'm not an R specialist, so sanity check what I'm about to say as you see fit:

AIUI, most professional statistics researchers use R, and as a result, the newest, latest & greatest statistical techniques and algorithms pretty much always get implemented in R before any other environment. So IF your use case involves needing to be very close to the bleeding edge of modern statistics research, then R could have a compelling advantage.

Otherwise, I guess it's down to personal preference. I dabble in both R and python, and neither strikes me as perfect. I go back and forth depending on what I'm doing.
Charter
https://goplay.tools/snippet/am2vcq5JYFr

This is an example I made. Can you show how that would change to cause the problem you're describing?
No not with Knuth's original ideas for literate programming and cweb. There's an explicit abstraction between the location of prose and the final source code output and they can be woven in any way the author desires. You can even insert intermediate steps, like pseudocode that show building up the architecture in small incomplete steps, and all of that is removed entirely from the final source code result. It is actually quite complex and why more modern literate programming systems ditch it and basically turn into fancier comments.
it comes with the username :)
I knew the former but not the latter. Got it now.
Xfce4-terminal prompts for confirmation when there's newline in the pasted contents.
Don't feel bad. I wasted my time with Soviet Studies. Oops.
On Time Zones and Software
Everyone most certainly does not do this.

Source: I’ve seen a lot of demos that would have benefited from this and am responsible for a group who is not yet doing this, but needs to begin doing so. (I agree it’s elementary tech sales, but it might 201 level as a lot of places succeed without it; we’ve been selling to semi-captive internal customers so long that we didn’t prioritize this. Other companies clearly get by without this as well, even to fully arms-length customers.)
Show HN: Codenames with matchmaking and timer
Bond. Simply for the hygiene.
I think the trick would be to realize that the texture on the mirror or portal represents the same screen height and position, just at the virtual screen location of the mirror/portal player behind it. So you render the screen space column as the flipped/mirror column but move the camera, avoiding overdraw, and use the fact that back faces on the wall/mirror texture are invisible from out-of-bounds. Something like that.

If you can lie to the engine and say that the flipped/portal camera is still inside the sector that the player is in (even if that's clearly wrong by the camera coords) then maybe your engine culls walls/floors/sprites not visible and you don't need to reserve an empty void for the mirror/portal camera to render from, so that level geometry can occupy the back side and make the illusion convincing.
I really like the idea of CodeTour, but unfortunately I'm the only person at the office that uses VS Code.

I'm hoping that some day it'll be possible for my coworkers to follow a CodeTour without installing VS Code.

Either when GitHub Codespaces reaches general availability or if I ever find the time and motivation to learn enough about github1s [1] and CodeTour to integrate the two.

1: https://github.com/conwnet/github1s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation#Infinitesimal_a...
I was always got a kick of out of the swimming sections simply being teleporters. Step on top of the water a get teleported to a room filled with water and then swim to the top of the room to get teleported back to the area around the pool.
James Bond can't afford to worry about physics when he's skiing off the edge of a mountain onto the top of a plane.
Apples to Oranges.

Shopify allows non devs to easily set up an ecommerce store, that is their biggest value add. Things like inventory management, shipping, site hosting etc.
Python is a great language for other reasons. Forcing you to indent isn't one of those reasons.
Timing attacks are easier with a JIT e.g. I have seen eBPF referred to as a spectre-accelerator
Is this subscription api suitable for digital only businesses that have say a membership system?.

Last time I checked most of the shopify apps out there are not suited to this.
Thomann are a brilliant company, old school customer service, competitive prices, great selection. I hate that Brexit has made buying from them not worth it.
Probably, but that's not the point. Sci-hub contains the official science views, i.e. published and peer-reviewed journal articles. They just don't have the copyright.

This isn't about enforcing scientific orthodoxy. It's about making sure that the journals get their inch of green for accessing that orthodoxy.

Non-official science views are everywhere. These are the gatekeepers of official science views, maintained by copyright. The people who can't get past those gatekeepers are usually desperate to get them into your hands.
No need for chroot, I just say in when I'm on the LAN, remount / and /boot r/w, run the updates and reboot (boots any new kernel and switches back to r/o).
I think student loans should be 0% interest forever.
Have you all been following the green screened Biden interview? Watch the light grey mic - Biden's hand can't decide if it wants to be in front or behind the mic. Something weird is going on:

https://twitter.com/i/events/1372500525346820099

An army of "fact checkers" has been dispatched for damage control.
Is encountering function notation and the symbol for the set of real numbers all that different from encountering unfamiliar vocabulary? It is slightly harder to Google for notation, but otherwise I do not see a major difference.

In the Wikipedia page you linked, I immediately encounter several terms that I do not know the meaning of. I must either click through or search separately to fill in my own gaps.

Your criticism is not totally disagreeable, but we have to wonder where to draw the line. Is a "Hacker's Guide to Numerical Analysis" obligated to hold your hand all the way through basic notation? The notation that you mention in your comment are the "Hello world" of mathematics.
It's been a thing in the so-called first world for a while to make loans on cars that can be remotely disabled for non-payment.
Years? I did it in a week. Shopify is a platform of value add services. I can see mom and pops using it but not devs.
LOL, I half-expected commenters to rail on how unfair student debt is, and how debt forgiveness would solve problems like this (which it would, but create new ones for generations to come), but I was surprised and pleased that there are others like me who are taking what I think is a more common sense approach.

Parents and educators should be teaching young people fiscal responsibility from a young age, so among other things, they don't get caught in debt traps, and they understand the evil of "minimum payments".

Fortunately, the author is only 38, and has the opportunity to change her financial situation. Not an easy task, not without a lot of sacrifices and discipline, but hey, that's what I'd call real adulting.
Other than games others recommend, maybe check out the mod community of those games you love. There are TONS of mods, and I mean top quality mods of classic FPS, enough to spend a whole year or more to play all of those through.

I saved a few Youtube channel for these kinds of things:

pagb666: (DOOM mods and wads)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgYF9U_IDn77we6eSs-QYDw

Sinatar: (General classic game channel)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3_uzHYOPYZOyIYd6nGN3VA

dumptruck_ds: (Quake mapping)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF502yOYr_olPaw6xgnYmaQ

tatsurdcacocaco: (DOOM wads and mods)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBhdYANRJZiG6JmnqR7h3yw
Very good post. Another factor to consider is that a technology can be powerful when everyone does know a bit about it, but the perceptions of around it can be manipulated.

To stick with your 'Bill Clinton murdered someone in 1990' example, if you are Alex Jones and you say that then I will be skeptical gien Alex Jones' serial unreliability. But if you deepfake yourself to resemble a (hypothetical) real person called Albert Johannsen who died in 1995, and manipulate the video to look like old VHS, then the authentic-seeming testimonial can be 'discovered' by someone clearing out an attic or storage unit, and then merely publicized by you-as-Alex Jones, who merely reports the claim of the discover (actually a collaborator of course).

There is an endless variety of of applications, eg you have really committed a crime and video exists, but you produce a deepfake of yourself committing the same crime multiple different ways or the like, such that everyone thinks You Did It but nobody can agree about exactly how or to what extent and you escape justice due to the ambiguity (albeit with diminished future prospects).
Speaking of the Ottoman empire, when I watched a Turkish show recently I was surprised to hear a number of words I had no idea were Turkish origin. (Well, could be the other way around too I guess. But they sounded Turkish.) Sanduk, čizma, budala, paramparčad, kapija, sandžak, inat, kutija, ajde just off the top of my head.

The German connection is definitely there. There was even a transliterated word used for people working abroad: "gastarbajter," from German Gastarbeiter. And it was used for anyone working abroad, no matter where :-)

Edit: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Serbo-C... . I can't believe "boja" is borrowed.
I feel like it's more likely someone got caught by their org noticing their credentials being used to dl ridiculous amounts of papers, and fell back on the "wow, that's so weird; I must have been hacked" excuse.
It wouldn’t and cannot, because there’s only one operation in that calculation, so there’s nothing to rearrange.

That example only shows that relative errors can explode even when doing simple calculations.

Another thing is that, in computers, calculations often are imprecise.

Because of catastrophic cancellation and similar issues, that means that the computer result of a calculation can be quite different from the mathematical result.

To make matters worse, in real life, we often don’t know the exact values of things we measure, so even if our calculations are mathematically perfect, the outcome of a calculation by computer can be quite different from the real result.

So, if you do a computer calculation, say to compute how strong a bridge has to be, you really, really need to know now close the computed value, at worst, is to the mathematically exact result.

That’s what numerical analysis is about. For a given calculation, it might say such things as

“if the input is between 100 and 200, to get a result with n decimal digits of precision, you’ll have to compute all intermediate results with 4 × n digits.”

or

”but if you rearrange the computation like this, you only need to use 2 × n digits for n digits of precision in your result”
Typically "funding" in my experience.
> But that would simply mean that the lawyer is culpable for the criminal charges since it's their responsibility to know the law and ensure that their recommendations comply with the law.

It would if giving inaccurate was a criminal offense, but it isn't.
This might misunderstand how science authorship works.

I was once congratulated for publishing a paper I had no idea existed, after I gave someone permission to use my research work in exchange for credit.

It took me some effort to view a copy of what I had "written".
ELI5 anyone? Is this an artificial retina that so many people would benefit from? If so, does it connect to an optical nerve?
System Shock 2 was the first game to scare me.
Actually, this depends on the terms defined by each particular journal or conference to which the work is submitted. While things have gotten better in recent years, traditionally even distribution on personal websites is technically not allowed, just selectively enforced, again depending on the venue and even the exposure of the particular work or lab group.

When enforcement is more strict, researchers sometimes resort to hosting a draft of their manuscript, and not the final camera ready version.

Unfortunately, in many fields open access or even just personal hosting and is still uncommon, and the vast majority of papers remain behind paywalls.
Merchants are forced to sign a contract with their card processor agreeing not to charge a 'convienience fee' for payments by card.

Such agreements that effectively increase prices for cash payments ought to be found anti-competitive.
ScummVM: Download Freeware Games
If taxes don't fund the government, why do we need taxes?
> For that matter, should the department that manages them even exist?

Yeah, nothing better then complete reorganization by someone who has no idea about the work being done, needs and pressures.

What will happen here is that they will quickly realize you dont know what you are doing but are threat, so whoever will have option will easily stall you.
So by your definition, White people can write books about the Black experience because they contributed to it.
Cloud CPU Benchmarking Report [pdf]
They have a GitHub Action to monitor this: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/codetour-watch
There is a possibility that software engineers 50 years from now will continue to appreciate "shrinkwrapped" products from the late 20th century. There are less hacks and tricks these days because codebases are perpetually changing.

If a company releases a tomorrow, and one week later a player discovers an exploit, it will likely get patched, repaired, and redeployed. So which version is "gold": the day 1 sale, or patch 1.01a? Obviously, it's a classic thought experiment, but games are a form of art where such revisionism is so prevalent.
This is a really cool approach - I covered it yesterday and here's the EPFL news post as well.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/18/quest-for-prosthetic-retin...

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/retinal-implants-can-give-artifici...

Still lots and lots of work to do but it obviates the issues with previous retinal implants that you basically needed to run a cable into the eye. In retrospect photovoltaics are obvious because that's more or less how the eye works in the first place.
"The developed world uses aid/loans"/coups/assassinations/currency-debasement-attacks
> The fact that it gets slipped in and not commented on is part of what makes some things wildly popular.

A dogwhistle, basically? "Dog whistles use language which appears normal to the majority, but which communicate specific things to intended audiences."

Dogwhistles are most often associated with politics, but the idea goes beyond that (unless you classify all asymmetric/broadcasted communication as political, which is not without merit.)
Paul Graham wrote a lot of these down: http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html

One could do a lot worse than reading one of those essays a day.
http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html, http://www.paulgraham.com/college.html, and http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html are good places to start.
Yeah, this reminds me way too much of the infamous Californian prop 65 warning labels.

If people see a "WARNING: This product may contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm" label on every other product they buy, they tend to completely ignore that label. And the reasoning behind it is very simple too, because if almost everything causes cancer, then what is there to do about it and why even worry.
Sadly, it's not a great BBQ town. A buncha years ago the Washington Post ran a contest for a local food, and they best they could come up with was the half-smoke. Though I suppose you could put some mumbo sauce on it.
The BBC is notorious for its poor reporting of tech matters and yet again they've failed to write a balanced, informed article. Is there even any substance to these allegations of phishing and risk to data?
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It’s a good question. Perhaps the same is true now with virtualisation.
This is amazing! I have not finished reading it, but I wonder whether they are already thinking about human augmentation. I have average vision, but would love to be able to see infrared and UV thanks to an implant.
Agree. Started off using it because everyone is and it's quick to get going and setup a store, but as soon as you do any custom stuff it's a nightmare. We eventually ran in to a problem where any site updates wouldn't save, and there's no way to debug anything. We'd started to move to bigcommerce so that just accelerated it. Bigcommerce is more flexible but settings all over the place.
I took advantage of that to defeat a hacker in an online game once.

the hacker had changed his infantry so they were very cheap, and fired different weapons. he planned to win by building a barracks and spamming out his super soldiers. but there's one thing he hadn't counted on: dogs.

not only did they have the dog projectile behaviour, but infantry also had a behaviour where they had a few seconds when emerging from a barracks where they had a running animation, we're targets, but couldn't fire.

by spamming dogs, and sitting one directly outside each barracks he built, I effectively plugged each inflow of super soldier, as the dog would turn into a projectile and instantly kill all emerging infantry.

good times. and that was a particularly satisfying rage quit...
SilverFish Group Threat Actor Report [pdf]
I have found undefined notation to be the bane of my existence when trying to teach myself a field of math. How do you Google mathematical notation? It can be a giant and opaque barrier to deepening one's knowledge when studying the subject on one's own.
This article has been extensively discussed here and on reddit, the authors faced a problem, did not seek help, and solved on his own it in a pretty convoluted way involving compile-time metaprogramming with macros. As pointed elsewhere, his problem is usually addressed using the type system (enums or traits). You can write a non-standard over-engineered solution to a problem with any programming language, that doesn't mean the language is complex. Zig being especially designed around compile-time meta-programming, it's not a surprise that the resulting code looks much more straightforward.

And that being said, the author mainly complains about features that also exist in C (macros and ifdef, and Rust's version are easier than the C one), would you call C a too complex language because it has macros and ifdef? (I actually think that C is one of the most complex programming language ever written because you need to store too much invariants in your head otherwise it's UB, but ifdef and macros aren't at stake )
Quite the FUD parade about Sci-Hub. But if you can’t get access to it, there are other ways to get your hands on research papers:

https://lee-phillips.org/articleAccess/
Sure. But also, lets admit that software developers are not qualified to redesign processes of institutions they dont understand, so fighting them is pretty often rational from institutional point of view.
In the US, merchants can and do charge a surcharge for using a credit card. The court case allowing this is referenced below.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-1391_g31i.pdf
So what’s different about TD that they can offer it for free while others charge for it ?

Is the actual cost a drop in the bucket so they just eat the cost or?
Among the many differences, if the screen is faulty, one can plug in an external monitor, and: get files off, perform a backup, use the computer, and so on and so forth.
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The COVID-19 death spike in Sweden was about as deadly as the 2009 Swine Flu outbreak:

https://swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sweden-monthly-...

And that's only after a very weak 2018/2019 flu seasons - with one of the lowest death spikes on record.

Sweden and many other Western countries also have many more elderly people in 2020 than in 2009:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/sweden/2020/

With there being about 20% more 80-84 year old men (prime death age and gender) in 2020 than in 2009.

Scientific research comparing Norway and Sweden concludes that basically COVID deaths in Sweden are mortality displacement from 2018/2019 and 2021: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.11.20229708v...

What's most interesting is why this pandemic has been so heavily politicised and publicised, almost precisely at the timing of the 2020 American election, as the American economy was booming, and with a major aftermath being that many of the world's wealthiest people are now even wealthier due to rampant money printing.

Back to Brazil specifically, the major factor here is obesity, which has increased to 19.5% of the population from just 13.7% a decade ago: https://www.statista.com/statistics/781305/share-adult-peopl...

The correct response to COVID should have been to limit sugar (for obesity), and coal and oil burning (for air pollution).

COVID is basically a once-a-decade flu variant, but our population is now much fatter, sicker, and older this decade.
It beggers the question of 'what is art'?

What actually MADE that urinal art was that it was made by a member of the artistic ingroup.

If I go hang a urinal in a museum as a web developer I will get arrested and it will be thrown out.
Wether it's imprecise measurements or imprecise calculations, there are still things you can do if you're aware of the problem. When measurement is imprecise, it might be possible to improve accuracy by using a different measurement.

For geology, it's often easier to put things in the right order due to rock layers rather than to figure how long ago they were from present.

In this case, obviously, the Earth is older than the oceans, even if the estimated ages were even rougher and the error bars implied they could be in the opposite order.

For history, you may be able to figure out the relative order of events without knowing what year they were on our calendar.
But that whole argument comes from the a priori idea that you can't build a singular model of the world from discrete inputs. There's no evidence or even logical chain for that conclusion.

And even the quantum world is discrete. That's why it's called a 'quantum'. There are fixed size quantities moving through the field.
It looks like it's referring to when you start a new job, but that doesn't really seem helpful.
this is not really a "little town", it is well inside paris metro, the largest urban area in continental europe, home to 10 million people, and a major technology hub. You'll have your internet here.