skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voting parties in many European countries are also highly polarised, but party affiliation and membership are very distinct in terms of commitment.

Party meetings in European political parties often involve checking you off against a membership register that in many cases is secret (not shared with the government in any way), and often e.g. requires you to be up to date with membership dues to have access to the meetings. Membership subjects you to rules, including behavioural, and commitment to a shared aim, restrictions on support for other parties, and the like. You can be subject to disciplinary hearings, and can be expelled. For many parties e.g. publicly expressing support for another party can be an expulsion ground. Some parties will do things like check your social media in advance of granting membership. Many have rules that requires a waiting time from you have been a member of another party before you can be admitted, etc.

You would not get more than a tiny fraction of the people who are registered Republicans or Democrats to subject themselves to that.

At the same time many of these parties certainly reach far outside their membership for donations, and none but the very smallest rely only on their members for votes.
Isn't the sentiment really about how end-user unfriendly a lot of open source is. It is generously shared but sometimes only within the community that already understands the conventions and has the technical/historic knowledge to make sense of it.

Generosity shouldn't be sneered on, I agree, but we also have to recognize that the audience for our code is significantly broader than it was in the days of the Free Software movement. It all stated as a movement to empower end-users but it seems that end-users sometimes don't always feel empowered by it.
I would add to this that it seems like I can find the software I need in the Debian repositories 99% of the time. If I can't, it's usually because I want to do something niche. In those cases, it's on me to figure out what to do next.
> That's essentially their only application.

What about when it doesn't make semantic sense to have negative values? Eg for counting things, indexing into a vector, size of things. If negative doesn't make sense, I use unsigned types. Its not about the memory-size in that case.
If I were to invest $100 in some allocation of Coinbase stock and Bitcoin - what should the ratio be?
The problem with experts has come from the divide of physical competence from decision making and power. An expert now is someone whose skills are for navigating bureaucracy and politics, and they hire talent to provide any facts they might need. These experts are politicians, and not practitioners.

The author says, "The cure for these transgressions, however, is not to replace expertise with ignorance: It is to replace it with better expertise. If complaints about experts were meant to restore a balance between experts and laypeople, experts would be the first to support it. But this requires voters to be at least modestly informed, not simply convinced they are automatically right. And as it stands now, attacks on expertise often amount to a demand from ordinary citizens—sometimes encouraged by politicians and hucksters—that their views, no matter how contradictory or hazardous, be considered equal to those of the most experienced expert."

No. The answer is to a) demand a demonstrable bar of current physical domain competence on anyone professing expertise, and b) reduce the role of deference to so-called experts by promoting and rewarding the values of personal accountability and agency, and c) hold experts accountable for lying or being wrong. What we have suppressed and consequently, lack, are the costly honest signals of expertise.

Education credentials do not suffice today either, because if you want to know what a 30yr old with a master's degree and an unsecured 150% debt to income ratio working as a jr. analyst in a consulting firm will tell you about the problem you need solved, I'll save you the retainer, the answer is: anything you want.

The reaction against incompetent intellectuals is that their interests can compromise their apprehension of facts so much so that in any serious situation, a reasonable person cannot trust a modern professed expert to put the truth ahead of their self-interest. When you trade on physical skill like coding or engineering, you have a stake in being wrong, because your reputation and survival depends on being right. When you trade on a position or credentials, the consequences for stepping out of line are greater than those of lying, and the incentives are clear.

Many experts can't even tell themselves, because they were educated by constructivists. The way to use experts is not a matter of whether they are lying or not, but assess whether they even know if they are lying, and what the consequences of being misled by them might be.

Listening to experts doesn't mitigate consequences, especially in examples of things in recent memory like asbestos, thalidomide, attacking middle eastern countries, collateralized debt obligations (squared), lockdowns, and what we are about to see with monetization and electronic identity papers. My advice would be to always consult experts, but rarely believe them.
I recommend nursing half a glass of wine to get just a wee bit lightheaded, putting on some ethereal music like Dead Can Dance, and reading on Wikipedia through the history of continent movements and formation and breakup of supercontinents. After a while such reading evokes rather curious feelings, and six million years won't seem so long when continents are swimming this and that way.

(‘A Passage In Time’ is a great compilation from DCD. E.g.: https://youtu.be/ajfVT_uk6j4)
As the article states, when your experts are wrong (many times I would add, to err is human after all) you look for better experts.
Of course it makes a difference whether you observe someone acting or you are the actor yourself, but why could not you learn from someone else acting and observing the results?
> LOLSOB, I really hope this poor person isn't in the US. Or the cellphone overage charges...

I am in the US, and have unlimited 4G LTE data w/AT&T prepaid for just $65/mo. There wouldn't be any risk of overage charges in this plan, at worst it would be throttled if the network is congested.

You could totally host a small site over such a link, it would just require something like a dirt cheap VPS for the public IP address. Behind the 4G connection your server would maintain tunnels with the VPS for serving the actual content via a reverse proxy or some other circuit. Wouldn't hurt to do some caching at the VPS as well, for static content.
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I couldn't agree more with the notion of "the programmer's spreadsheet"; I've often wondered what it would take to get something like R/Python notebooks up and running with some more spreadsheet features.
From "What is Authority?" by Mikhail Bakunin: https://atlasofplaces.com/essays/what-is-authority/
> If stock markets weren't horribly over-regulated, would the VC industry even need to exist?

It's not just the stock market, its almost everything about corporate finance. The straitjacket bank regulators have placed around the ability of banks to go outside of the government defined process of evaluating credit-worthiness is a big factor. These rules (mainly FDIC insurance requirements) make it near-impossible for many companies to get loans. This problem incentivizes companies to play financial games (e.g., Adjusted EBITDA) to get around the crazy restrictions.

This is why there is an emerging trend of non-traditional lenders (e.g. some VCs and PE firms). I’m sure the government will find a way to regulate them eventually.
I had this casino-going coworker. She and her husband used to go to Atlantic City quite often. Now she's messing around with options trading on Robinhood.

I can't help but think a lot of volume is from casino enthusiasts stuck at home.
And that anti-whistleblower culture enables fraud like theranos to be undiscovered for years
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You could argue that reinforcement learning policies are already causal models insofar as they relate state-action pairs to the rewards and penalties that they lead to. The trial and error that RL performs in a simulation is an exploration of counterfactuals to establish cause.

But the policies lack introspection. One of the most powerful things we could do is somehow extract causal models from those policies, to see what they learned that lead them to behave more intelligently. That would increase both our knowledge as well as our trust in applying RL.
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> Can you avoid a hellfire missile if you know it’s coming?

Not really, but if the aircraft launching that Hellfire announces itself like that prior to firing, just to check who you are, it may give you just enough information to fire at it preemptively, or at least know (or let others know) where to look for it.

It's not a problem if the US is fighting a technologically inferior opponent, but apparently (from what I've read on HN the other day), the US military is retooling itself towards competition with China, so they have to consider their technological trickery being used against them.
Have any studies shown that vaccinations are helping stymie the spread of the virus?

Last I heard, the current vaccines do not prevent infection nor do they prevent shedding the virus and exposing others. They just prevent illness in those inoculated (in most cases), and prevent hospitalization. These are still great reasons to vaccinate, but I havent seen anything showing vaccines are actually slowing the spread of the virus.
I'd have more sympathy for that if the legislature hadn't been designed to not legislate.

Passing legislation requires the approval of three bodies: the Senate, the House, and the President. That's before you add in the filibuster in the Senate, which sets a very high bar on its approval. For the Supreme Court to add a fourth check-and-balance means that legislation is practically impossible.

There is an enormous pressure to not do anything. That feature is well-intended, to ensure the legislation is passed with due deliberation and protect minority interests. But it means that any sizeable minority can throw a wrench into it. Legislation simply does not get passed.

It would almost certainly be possible to construct a rewrite of the robocall rules that would be broadly agreed on and suit the Supreme Court's concerns. But it will also be in somebody's interest to see that not happen, and they'll have allies who want to leverage that interest: "I'll vote to suppress this law if you'll vote for my thing."

I'm not calling on the Supreme Court to legislate from the bench, but rather to point out that the widely-praised system of checks and balances is far from perfect. It gets in its own way a lot, and it's very easy for everybody to point fingers at everybody else and claim it's their fault. It practically begs people to do that.

Increased partisanship has certainly made that worse. And I'm not so much interested in pointing fingers here, either, but rather to note that it's the system of checks and balances that encourages that partisanship. It sets such a high bar on passing laws that only dedicated allies are capable of passing anything -- and to ensure that dedicated allies can stop anything. With a huge thumb on the scale towards the latter, so that no amount of "surely we can all agree to be agreeable..." can compensate.
Update: By specifying only .a libs I've eliminated all undefined symbols. The last linker issue: 'ERR_load_strings' is duplicated between Oracle libs and libpq's dependent libs. This symbol cannot be stripped (it's in a relocation) nor can the one of the libs it appears in be removed without leading to undefined symbols.
How many lines of code is Candy Japan? (2016)
Brew you can, distill you cannot.
> It used to be that you could trust the nightly news. Your parents vouched for the anchor. They were right 99% of the time, and if they were wrong, they published a correction, so they also independently earned your trust over time. These days, though, anyone can tweet. Anyone can get a blue check. Anyone can have a news blog. Anyone can appear on your screen. It doesn't mean anything without a strong track record. You can't trust a Twitch star like you can trust Walter Cronkite. Cronkite earned our trust over years, if not decades.

Walter Cronkite lived in an era when there was little way to know any better if Walter Cronkite was lying to you.
Usually something like 48 hour read-only, and restricted to some BS viewer that doesn't allow printing.

Fairly trivial to bypass usually, worst case is just printscreening it.

Edit: Ah -

View the article PDF and any associated supplements and figures for a period of 48 hours.
Article can be synced in the ReadCube Cloud.
Article can be viewed offline in ReadCube's desktop and mobile apps.
Article can not be printed.
Article can not be viewed or saved outside of ReadCube.
Effective? You meant efficacy?
Single use small bottles are still a scam. large carboys, either glass or plastic, are fine for flint. Single use bottles are expensive and wasteful.
I’m not aware of any desktop CPUs (now or before) that had hardware MP3 decoding. Do you mind enlightening me?
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They announced the release of v2 (might not be available yet though) the first one was a disaster.

Was excited to see how the pants and shirts fit (on the site it looked awesome, but then the actual user reviews on some were so bad lol)

Also, the founder is the Japanese guy going to the moon.
Alright, fine, then an FGM-148.

If a polar bear is charging me, I want his ancestors to feel what I'm going to do to him.
I’ve never heard anything like this. Sorry to hear about it.

Curious though, u you obviously drove it home the night you purchased it. What changed later?
That's fairly unique to England, though, whose military power relied on longbows in a way not matched by rivals.
Enjoy life?
You are correct. I was confusing human history with recorded history. Wikipedia tells me that human history starts with the agricultural revolution, around 10,000 BC. Recorded history starts, as you say, in the 4th millennium BC.
I mean, this is the only reason Bitcoin has made it mainstream, no? The hype has onboarded tens of millions of layperson speculators who are now financially invested in the MLM-Ponzi scheme - and they're all hoping, the army of HODLers, to get the rest of society to adopt - so it's the latest adopters left holding the bag - meanwhile then in the structure, the agreement that wealth is unnecessarily, unreasonably, transferred to the earlier adopters (via the "current price" being higher than their buy price).
Yeah, Judea Pearl's book is the definitive work. His formalism also has an aspect that you could say is similar to imagining an intervention in a counterfactual way, and computing its likelihood given the data. His paper "Why I'm only half Bayesian" lays out how he sees the epistemology of this.
Thank you for the input but alas I don't think this would take one far. SOCI like ODBC has its advantages to be sure. But ultimately you still have to link in libpq, it's deps, and Oracle libs hence same challenge.
Highly recommend starting with "The Pragmatic Programmer". I found "Clean Code" to be much more narrow in its applicability (and I did not enjoy Martin's writing, but that's highly subjective).

The Pragmatic Programmer serves as inspiration for me every time I read it. I know everything in it, but somehow I always come away with at least one "I could totally be solving my current problem with this!" insight from a re-reading.
This is true in many cases. But in many others, it is the OSS maintainers who are expending the effort responding to the needs of free-software users. Many would argue that companies and adopters of OSS are creating negative externalities for those maintainers, who presumable accept that cost for the sake of their ideals or reputation.
Options trading is literally gambling, so this would be unsurprising. Robinhood made it much easier for people to get into.
Reminds me of when my university changed from “CCnet”, running all courseware/grading on custom code written by an engineering professor running on a tower under his desk to WebCT/blackboard.

The former worked fast and without any issues, but the latter just groaned and groaned and crashed.

During the transition, a prof asked the class which one to use and all 250 people said in unison “CCnet”.

“ Its main virtues were the stark, no-nonsense interface and the incredibly efficient (although complex) database system that made CCNet ideal for running large numbers of courses with very little by way of server computing resources.”

https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/technology/what-learning-manage...
It's akin to sorting an incoming set of something like Lego, where you never know what's coming next.

Do you need a bin for "red"? Or a bin for "2x4"? Or will there be enough for "2x4 red"?
Should this new "red hat" become it's own bin, and if so is it "hats", "red figure decorations" or "misc"?

You don't really know until a bunch of the same things come in (or don't), and guaranteed you'll get a bunch wrong along the way.
Using Cosmopolitan Libc with Nim
CVE-2020-2509 and CVE-2021-36195 in QNAP Nas Devices
A Nim Raspberry Pi Pico Project Template
I was wondering when they meme stock / "stimmies" traders would get around to penny stocks.

The whole pink sheet / OTC market was always looking for the next GameStop or "ICO". It was a pump-and-dump playground.

It was a similar environment, as you could gamble with stocks that cost cents per share. Except now, with fractionals, everything can be a "penny stock". The difference is in the volume required to make big price moves.
This was a surprisingly well-informed article. It covers the i.i.d. assumption, in-sample vs out-of-sample data, and causal modeling. And it avoids "AI" hyperbole.
> data classes, and type-inferencing Kotlin gives you,

You mean records and local variable type inference that are apart of Java?

record SomeThing(int i, String s) { }

var some = new SomeThing(2, "blah");
Nothing Breaks Like A.I. Heart: An essay written with the help of GPT-3
I would take issue with "far more often." I guess that's true if you're searching out software on Github or the equivalent. If you're installing packages from your distribution's repository, there are tens of thousands of finished free software products (inasmuch as any software, open or proprietary, is ever finished).
Crypto is the gold rush. Coinbase is selling shovels. If you believe in crypto, they're both solid bets. I'd just diversify and go 50/50.

This is not financial advice.
It's the now-routine elitism of the center-left liberal elites. I know it comes off as left regulatory demands, but it's a sort of call for the Clever to protect the Little People from themselves.
> If so, what's the benefit of this over cython?

It's not a "benefit over" thing, they're tools operating at completely different levels and thus not necessarily exclusive.

cython binds to the C API of CPython, meaning you've got the same problem loading a cython-compiled extension into alternative implementations as you have with other CPython extensions.

If HPy succeeds, cpython can (hopefully) have an HPy backend and generate HPy bindings, somewhat transparently.
Yes yes the boring and repeated argument of "why improve anything when things will fail on their own"

Please try something new, I'm so curious as to why this logical fallacy gets repeated ad nauseam
$100 BTC : $0 CB.
Link to the study: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n693

From the study:

> At baseline, individuals with covid-19 had a mean age of 64.5 (standard deviation 19.2) and 54.9% were men. Compared with the general population, individuals in hospital with covid-19 were more likely to be: male, aged 50 or more, living in a deprived area, a former smoker, and overweight or obese (table 1). Individuals with covid-19 were also more likely to be comorbid than the general population, with a higher prevalence of previous admission to hospital and of all measured pre-existing conditions (most notably hypertension, major adverse cardiovascular event, respiratory disease, and diabetes).

> Individuals discharged from hospital after acute covid-19 had increased rates of multiorgan dysfunction (particularly respiratory and cardiometabolic) compared with a matched control group from the general population

> The rate ratio of multiorgan dysfunction (comparing individuals with covid-19 and matched controls) after discharge was greater in those aged less than 70 than in those aged 70 or more, and in ethnic minority groups than in the white population

> Our findings suggest that the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of post-covid syndrome requires integrated rather than organ or disease specific approaches
I find it extremely enjoyable. I look forward to the part where the dealer tries to sell you their own items. It’s fun to just say “no thank you” over and over.
This sounds like a copout. Lack of data doesn't imply equal plausibility. It means that you need to use other methods of reasoning. And people do this all the time - it's not like every time you're faced with a new situation you go "Oh I don't have any data here, all of my options are equally good". No, what you do instead is use common sense, draw on experience, best judgment, mental heuristics etc. Those aren't as good as evidence based decision making but they surely beat throwing your hands in the air and saying that all of your options are the same.
The idea that we can know with any degree of certainty that an event tens of millions of years ago was the single cause of dinosaur extinction is absurd. It’s bad science.

Case in point, a pandemic could have wiped out all the dinosaurs 1 million years before the asteroid hit and we would have no fossil evidence of that.

The asteroid theory is still just a theory and for anyone to be arrogant enough to say that it is fact doesn’t deserve to teach science in any capacity.
We subjects are so grateful our rulers have discovered something else we should fear, and have deigned to tell us how they'll be protecting us even before we are subjected to that protection.
For a relatively quick read with an alternative perspective, check out The Bitcoin Standard https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Altern...

There is a logical explanation as to why bitcoin could be very valuable in our current world. It is because it cannot be inflated beyond the 21 million cap. If you have an open mind, give it a read!
> Options trading is literally gambling

better than the casinos getting the money imho.
From Zero To BPF Hero – Learn how to run BPF programs with libbpf
A video feed has areas of lighter stuff along with areas of darker stuff. (Most) AR systems work by projecting lasers on to a glass plane in front of you, adding light to your FOV. How do you project darkness on a transparent background? The video feed won't look that great in AR.
"Undefined behavior" really means that the standard doesn't define what should happen and that the compiler is therefore free to do whatever it pleases, under the assumption that such code will never occur.

Reminds me of the examples where the code gets compiled in a way where a branch that returns from the function is unintuitively always taken because the compiler was able to detect that there is undefined behavior later in the function and since undefined behavior isn't legal, it assumed that it therefore can never reach there, so the branch must always get taken and the actual condition check got optimised away (IIRC).

So yeah, undefined behavior isn't "implementation defined" nor "unportable" but rather "illegal not allowed wrong code".