skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be interesting to know if there is an effect where users are more likely to dislike a video with a bad ratio. If the public perception of a like ratio influenced the viewer's opinion.
Founder here. No idea why it didn't reach homepage although it wasn't a big focus for us :)

First line of code was November 2019! So ~14 months or so.
Downvotes increase engagement. Otherwise they wouldn't have been put there in the first place.

No, the real issue here is too many of the "right" things are getting downvoted. So when The White House, Disney or the Academy disable downvotes on part or all of their videos but other wide swaths of videos don't need to disable downvotes, the contrast causes them to stick out like a sore thumb.

It calls attention (also known as engagement) - but not the kind of attention those who run social media companies want. Attention that is counter to the desired narratives is unacceptable. So here we go with the lame excuses that are all the sudden relevant when they weren't when the like/dislike stuff was instated decades ago?

Give me a break.
Freudian slip maybe.
The Emo subculture in the West is a good example of hating people just because you can. Lots of people jumped on board with no real reasons.

It's what being Woke also does, but being Woke is a bit more clever it finds somewhat arbitrary reasons to hate. Evolution (due to the internet) perhaps.

I would be cautious believing the Iraq story in full, it seems to simplistic and cliched Western misinformation.

Before 90 killings there would be a lot of bashings, the subculture would pull back.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2012/3/20/killing-emos-an...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-17450437
Thanks for putting these links!
They were selling cheats, which can(I don't know if it did here) involve selling software ilegally. So no different than busting someone selling illegal copies of windows in the old days.
9front offers the "scram" command to immediately power off the machine, likely making your filesystem grumpy.
More importantly the team.
Products can pivot
Founders are crucial
Well let's get it into troops' hands and give it a go and find out!
I think most under 40 don't know that Google Chrome and Google Search are two separate things let alone VPNs and containers.

When these people say "surveillance" they mean they think that Facebook magically hears it when they say something out loud and they start seeing ads for it. We engineers overestimate the awareness average user has about technology.
No, the difference is we can understand and apply knowledge in different contexts. I'm not saying machines will never mimic that (GPT3 is getting kinda close at times), but as my good friend Dewayne Perry (co-author of the most cited paper in SW engineering and Motorola Regent Chair at UTexas) says, "Artificial intelligence has a long way to go just to catch up to natural stupidity!" Try getting Alexa (famously trained daily by millions) to do anything in anything other than the predefined prescribed way. I'd wait, but I've got a life to live...
This isn't entirely in jest but here in Europe that would be a series 'A', sadly. Valuations here are on an entirely different scale than in the US.
Newpipe -> disable comments, disable recommendations. I only see what I search for and I don't have to see the opinions of morons in the comments.
Tbh yeah that makes sense. But only state actors are going to have first control of a quantum computer... Aka one of the US or China. Neither have a ton of incentive to mess up the chain. Plenty of Chinese have btc and plenty of americans have btc. Idk what do you think?
I think that's missing the point. The idea isn't to find physical applications of math for each math topic learned, but to rather to teach math ideas as applications of physics.

Take, for example Gauss' law about the integral of flux over the surface area being equal to the volume integral of divergence. That wasn't some formula that dropped on Gauss' head. He was working with a physical problem, viewing the flux and divergence as measure of real things, say fluids, passing through a point or emerging out of points, and when viewed in this way, Gauss's theorem is as obvious as the conservation of mass. The total amount of stuff passing across a boundary is the total amount of stuff being generated within the region.

But from that, you can ask what is the one dimensional analogue of this conservation of mass principle and you get .. the fundamental theorem of calculus! And then lots of results about topology start becoming clear. All because these results are viewed as applications of simple physical ideas and then mathematically (e.g. formally, logically) the implications of these ideas are deeply examined. That is a much better approach than the Bourbaki style pedagogy where there is an emphasis on formal deduction that strips away, or hides, the underlying physical intuition behind these results. Why would anyone want to hide clear and pedagogically useful explanations of mathematical techniques? Why would we want to treat the Pontryagin principle as some kind of magic formula rather than a fairly straightforward approach in minimizing the action? And why would we view simple variational approaches as something exotic rather than as a generalization of Snell's law?

I was privileged enough to take a class with Arnol'd when he was visiting the US, and listening to his lectures was like being transported back into the 19th Century. Deep, modern results were explained in simple terms of balls rolling down incline planes or tangent functions evolving along plane curves. It was an amazing course, and I have to say that one reason why Russian mathematics has been so influential relative to their population size or GDP per capita is because there is still a rich tradition of motivating ideas based on physical or geometric intuition rather than the more western focus that is much more abstract.
I don't think you're supposed to understand that quote. While the quote was attributed by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont to a feminist writer, nobody seems to be able to find an actual appearance of the quote before Sokal and Bricmont's usage, so it seems most likely that the quote was fabricated by one of those authors (perhaps as a placeholder that they forgot to replace with an actual quote — who knows?).
Also confused here. Slide 7 [0] says seed funding of $1.8M, but Airbyte is also calling the most recent round a $5M seed. Implies they will call the first round Pre-Seed retroactively, rather than calling the second round Seed+. It's all grey at this stage either way!

[0]: https://airbyte.io/articles/our-story/the-deck-we-used-to-ra...
most bacteria have an outer lipid layer that is clung to by the hydrophobic end of soaps and pulled apart by the hydrophilic forces clinging to water on the other end.
From the article:

> The gang designed and sold cheats to popular video games, including Overwatch and Call of Duty Mobile.
Thank you for sharing this. I think many people may not know/understand this aspect /feature of our existing banking system and the role of government.

Or they deliberately try to ignore the entire safety mechanism because it goes against their narrative that government control is bad, it collides with this libertarian spiel. All to keep the grift going.

When not understanding or misunderstanding things makes you more money (let’s you recruit new ‘suckers’) a honest discussion will start to become impossible.
Right... but that puts the lie to "1px in CSS is logical unit that is equal to 1/96 of inch. On any platform"

It's rarely equal to 1/96 of an inch, in reality. It bounces all around.
one man's useless is another man's gold.

i love my bt keyboard and the freedom it gives me in the flat.
YT should work on preventing targeted dislikes rather than taking away the likes counter - which is so, so useful.
They are removing dislikes because dislikes bring negativity to the YouTube space. Imagine what getting dislikes feels like when you have put your heart into a video. People expressing their disapproval without a qualifying comment is not constructive.
Baltimore plant ruins 15M Johnson and Johnson coronavirus vaccines
Aa I recall, people didn't say it was an unnecessary burden, they said it breaks home labs.
A registry object in Lua is an integer in C, and you can pass it around as much as you want. However, you have to be careful, because it can be eliminated by the GC, in much the same way as a PyObject pointer.

The registry object really is just an address. It's the equivalent of: lua_State->top+LUA_REGISTRYINDEX[reference] in C.

There's no functional difference to a PyObject pointer.
In a small sampling of places I've been in the MD metro DC area it's not uncommon they have a dispenser at the door, prominently placed to indicate suggested use. A few places have personnel dispensing it, some in a manner that does not suggest it being optional.
I think it's really less about the total dollar amount than the timing.

That is, obviously bootstrapped founders need to put in some money (i.e. they'll probably need to pay something to a cloud or infrastructure provider, etc.) but the point is that once they have those initial, relatively low costs, they don't increase their spend until they have the revenue to cover it. That was not the case here, where the founder was enabling more growth and expansion by plowing more of his money in month after month.
Rotten Tomatoes is already highly manipulated and editorialized. For example, the interpretation of whether a review was "fresh" or "rotten" is completely subjective and made by editors.

You can see the agenda pushing and manipulation on such films as Ghostbusters (2016).
Don't believe message is more important than ads? Even though everyone is locked down sheltering in place due to COVID pro sports and Hollywood award show ratings are abysmal. If they were all about chasing the almighty dollar there would have been messaging changes well before now.

BTW - there is no better driver of traffic (engagement) to something than a good like/dislike war. This has zero to do with money or they wouldn't be touching it.
In the 2012 version of iTunes for iOS a user can flip the iPod Touch/iPhone horizontally to view cover flow. So I would I consider that a user choice. For everyone else, where album art did not matter, one could keep the device in vertical orientation.
Not sure if that was hyperbole, but since you ask, yeah I think it could actually bring about the downfall of humanity. For example, what if climate science videos were being significantly brigaded by bots controlled by oil companies? Might not be that far-fetched. If we fail to communicate effectively about issues like that, we could very well see the downfall of humanity. Even "organic" brigading by the anti-vaxx crowd on related videos seems like an existential threat.
Yep. I think this is the sort of thing that could potentially backfire on them, though. Engagement through addiction sadly seems to be a bottomless goldmine, but engagement through deception can leave people dissatisfied and ripe for poaching by a competitor. If hiding downvotes does cause people to watch more bad and misleadingly-titled content, that could be profitable in the short term but dangerous in the medium-long term.
I find `fzf --bind "change:reload:some-shell-command {}" --disabled` a better alternative.
I'm guessing they found that employees aren't as productive when they not obliged to show up to the office every day. Not to mention when they're not provided with a steady stream of free food and coffee.

Fourteen days a year seems pretty limited--weren't Googler's working from home more often than that before the pandemic?
I’m only surprised that Amazon is waiting so long to try to pull its employees back into the office. Its likely just because they have to based on state mandates. Looks like compensation is still gonna be the only good thing about working at Amazon.
This is the aseptic brand new world that is pushed by too powerful companies

No more critic, no more negativity, just kool aid and fake positivity as this is good for business when every one pretend to live in a fairy world...
From the article

> With players able to win millions in gaming tournaments around the world, a crackdown on cheating has intensified in recent years.

Apparently cheats were used to win tournament prize money.
> how would you know that?

Common sense? Even the author who's passionate about album art has to admit it's a dead art and people don't care.

Most people care about the music nowadays, not how it's packaged. I think that's a good thing.
Google maps will show you the greenest route
> In that basis let's get rid of nuclear power because Iran use that.

That’s exactly what they did.
God no.. remote wirk advocates needed Google
Amiga boot image was stored as 412 bytes of vector instructions
That's interesting, since my assumption is that Google would be fairly data driven. I'd be curious if Googlers feel like this is because they are really seeing reduced productivity, or if there's a different motivation.
If the virus has a viable non-human reservoir then eradication becomes very difficult and in some cases impossible. We likely cannot get rid of Influenza because viruses from that family thrive in a huge number of other mammals. So you'd be chasing it down in pigs, and in chickens, and it becomes an insurmountable challenge.

But although this virus presumably originated in another mammal species (it is assumed to have once been a bat virus) it's not clear to me whether there's a real reservoir in other species today, the vast bulk of the world's infected seem to be humans.

In a virus that lacks a viable animal reservoir you can achieve eradication by "just" eliminating the virus in humans in each place and ensuring infected humans don't spread it into places where it was eliminated, a strategy that costs money but is final. That's where the previous SARS virus went - we eliminated it and it didn't come back, and of course it's why Smallpox is gone.

And eliminating SARS-CoV-2 is possible, because New Zealand did it. They had outbreaks in elderly care a year ago, and they locked down, tracked down every case, isolated every infected person, and eliminated the virus. All subsequent outbreaks have been connected to their border, if everybody had done likewise the virus would be gone. Of course that wasn't entirely realistic (other large islands like Great Britain could definitely have at least attempted this but they did not, but it's difficult to imagine North America or Russia achieving elimination without a vaccine) but with better tools now I think it could be attempted if the political existed, which I argue it does not.

The trickiest part about this virus for elimination from 2022 onward is maybe it's viable as a virus that doesn't cause much disease, especially in a vaccinated population. If it's infecting otherwise healthy adults and just causing sniffles for a week, once the pandemic headlines stop nobody will isolate and prevent onward spread. In much of the world (including the US) they'll even keep going to work and give it to colleagues as well as those they live with. Lots of coronaviruses thrive this way in humans.
This was my first thought as well. There have been several occasions (News content and Youtube Rewinds comes to mind) where youtube actively suppresses or promotes content in-line with it or its advertiser's interests, and hides anything with a countervailing sentiments. The like ratio in conjunction with the view count has always been a good signalling mechanism for the purposes of identifying these instances.
It's supposedly about "creator well-being", which I basically read as creators get downvote brigaded and get upset. Which is simultaneously silly, and also will still happen because they're still going to show the dislike count to the creator. ???
Well you can search for her on Google and find her photo and tons of personal details. So I consider that unlikely.
Ah, if we only were allowed to - gasp - have fun on the internet.
I think this covers 99% of all practical cases. I'd go further, and say that all three sizes and all three fonts should be purely under the control of the client, not the web designer.
Heh, figures that the only person with actual experience systematically teaching the language, is downvoted here.
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Whether it is the Blockchain, Tor or other privacy guards that wane us in anonimity - we, especially us techies, often underestimate typical chokeholds which a government can easily control (eg your ISP, your cell phone tower, your cell phone maker, payment provider, ...), because it usually does and government agents usually don't make a fuzz about it because it's a valuable trap.

Without the fuzz over enough time passed we, even NSA experts, seem to forget about those traps.

The moral of the story for us techies: Don't wane people in anonimity if they use X or do Y. There will be a percentage of people who do things, they wouldn't have done without that info, and some of said percentage will be blackmailable (think miners having "inciminating pictures" on their machines because they were stored on the blockchain once).

Worse than a privacy infringing government are blackmailable citizens (One could argue the former causes the latter, I argue the latter steers the former into worse).
Event Loops for Engineering Managers
I found his personal views on some of his live streams to be odious and problematic, specifically those relating to women and bullying others.

That said, his actions around right to repair have been consistent and productive. I see them as a overall positive thing for society.

Like most people things are seldom simple, and neither is he in my opinion. However I still choose to support his work on right to repair.
I literally just saw Uber say they are picking the greener route over the fastest route if both routes have similar times. IMO, go electric or go home. This is a publicity stunt, not a real way to impact climate change or sustainability.
Aren't they considered "essential patents" that must be made available at a reasonable price?
Oh I know, I am pretty cynical and not exactly outraged here. But although they don't care about what's good for us, they do care about what will keep us on the platform. And if it gets harder to find good stuff and filter out the dross, that could conceivably have negative consequences for YouTube in the long run.
> Google would be fairly data driven

That was Google. No longer.

Xoogler (2012-2019)
Lol what are you talking about
To me this sounds like,

Right: Cancel culture is bad!

Youtube: You're right, so we are removing downvotes!

Right: NOOOOO!!! I want to downvote Biden videos and cancel him!

It is a little silly. YouTube was removing the downvotes manually as "spam" anyway. Removing the button is just easier for them. The view count is much more telling. It seems like they'd have to pay out more ad money to artificially pump those numbers, so they don't do that.

>Content creators of all stripes are absolutely desperate for an alternative platform.

I'm working on something like this. If you have features you think are must have, please list them.
> Cover art is no longer useful for music discovery or intriguing fans when an album "drops". Those were UX/UI things last ... century. Now they aren't. They're vestigial embellishments at best.

Unless you have proof this is moot.
That acronym of SCRAM also appears to be a myth.

https://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2016/02/18/refresh-putti...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram#Etymology
I wonder why almost the same website didn't go viral at such scale. Even though it was published earlier.
You Can’t Trust Amazon When It Feels Threatened
These types of threat models require a bit of creative flair:

0315 am, a drone flies over your house and hovers just long enough to upload firmware to your WiFi-enabled printer. Having not memorized your printers serial number, and certainly not checking it every day, you don’t notice the new firmware or orientation of dots.

Your printer, along with an identical model bought later and cloned to yours, are now forensically indistinguishable. Your printer driver phones TonerCo for a refill. It arrives with the fanfare of fast shipping.

11 months later, your address and credit card purchase are enough to convince the right judge to grant a no-knock warrant. Your printer has embroiled you, or someone just as innocent as you, in a very bad time.
1 in 4 of adult sea lions that where necropsied after dying (by disease or accident). The title leads to conclude that the 25% of the population has the disease, but this wouldn't be supported by the data, because is not a random sample.

This is a sample rich in the "ill seals" subconjunct, and therefore not necessarily representative of the whole population. Is a common problem when we study stranded cetaceans or seals.

Linking herpesvirus with the cancer is the more interesting part.
At least it's making it (along with more libraries) available out of the box and in Jupyter notebooks. How do you get the first lisp-stat? https://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~luke/xls/xlsinfo/node1.htm... I laugh in despair.

And the website \o/
And have thin skin and zero tolerance for dissenting opinions. Hence the blanket removal of the disagree :p
I dislike this joke.
Backed by taxes. You’ll always need to pay taxes.
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Machine Learning Faces a Reckoning in Health Research
Hopefully they fix the Bluetooth issue with YouTube and Chromecast. It is such a odd issue for me. Chromecast will pause the video because YouTube demands to have the Bluetooth audio back to the app instead of the TV (I have specialized Bluetooth audio transceiver hook up to my TV because of my disability). YT keep forcing the bluetooth audio back to my phone instead of the TV after few second of casting on my TV. This cause the cast to pause the video because my phone detected that audio switched to different source (YouTube). The only way to stop that from happening is to swipe away the YouTube casting notification after casting the video in my phone, then YouTube will stop doing that.

Honestly, I think the issue is the bluetooth itself, it an amazing but extremely fragile technology. My Win 10 laptop crap the bed with the internal bluetooth. And it crap the bed with the USB bluetooth transceiver as well. Microsoft been having issue with bluetooth. The same for OSX, Apple have their issues with it. They recently released a update to fix the bluetooth issue in Big Sur M1 and that didn't fix the issue.
Interesting to read this as from my British point of view, I thought the opposite was true: songwriters took the lion's share while musicians got relatively little.

Thinking about The Beatles, for example, Paul McCartney is way richer than Ringo Starr. The common wisdom is it's because he wrote the songs and Ringo was just the drummer.

Also there's the example of the song "Bitter Sweet Symphony" where members of the Rolling Stones claimed songwriting credits and took all the song's royalties [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Sweet_Symphony
I respect your opinion and sadly I think you misunderstood mine, but we definitely disagree on "hard thing" and "greater good" but you're right it's a much much longer conversation to go into those through comments.
You’re right. I thought that little tidbit of a fact would place Paul Erdős among the mathematical giants where he belongs. It was my error driven by my extreme admiration for this nomadic genius.