skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The chase, if you'll forgive the worn metaphor:

> But one can often be in doubt about the effect of a word or a phrase, and one needs rules that one can rely on when instinct fails. I think the following rules will cover most cases:

i. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

ii. Never use a long word where a short one will do.

iii. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

iv. Never use the passive where you can use the active.

v. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

vi. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
> I vaguely remember that the latter half of the careers of many "greats" like Einstein, Fermi, Erdos were riddled with pursuing directions which bore no fruit

And don't forget Newton!
Honestly? When you tell me what to think about and improve, you come across as condescending. Maybe you didn't mean to? Either way, you should try to work on that.
This, its not that the new digital approaches are photos in absolute terms but compared to old media they are substantially better
Well, that's because Americans have an aversion to QALYs. It might be related to the idea that the country is fundamentally Christian in a deep way.

A common accusation of anyone attempting to do a QALY based system would be that they are "sacrificing grandma for the dollar".

The recent COVID crisis is an example where QALY based evaluations (which may well have gone either way) were summarily considered "putting a number on the value of a life".

In that respect, it's not that the institutions are perverted but that the society they are in prefers them this way.
For internet purposes, telling someone that they're "shitting on humanity" counts as a personal attack in my book. But if you don't perceive it that way, that's fine; it will suffice to avoid flamebait and name-calling in the future.
In old days people used #ifdef to compile things out so that the "production code" doesn't have any unnecessary branches. I was shocked when I first saw these living if()s in the server-side C++ code but then realized it was vital for debugging in production.

People also used to prefer table based jump over long if-else-if chain for anecdotal performance reasons. That has gradually changed over the evolution of CPUs with various optimizations like the branch prediction. Now some JIT impls like tracing JIT replace virtual function calls with if-elses.

By the way, I'm glad that the article is so thoughtfully written that it doesn't include any ambiguous "best practices" at the end. It could have created yet another myth. The three top tips in the article is more about stating facts. I admire the author taking that stance.
Orwell's Lie:
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=992
The problem is that success in Silicon Valley means how much money you can make from a product and not about how the product improves the lives of the users in a balanced and morally acceptable way. Is it really successful to disregard user privacy and capitalize on their lack of knowledge, or to build unsustainable tech on top of already unsustainable tech rather then fixing the real issues.
We do run aarch64. We are very interested if M1 is faster than the ARM's we have.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/arms-race-ampere-altra-takes-on-...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/porting-our-software-to-arm64/
Myanmar is an example of a military coup, in a country where the military has significant political status already. Not all coups are military, by any means.
If we do medicare for all or some other kind of universal healthcare in the US we're also going to need to train doctors way more cheaply than we do now. At the least we're going to need to offer free or heavily subsidized education to incentivize more people to go into medicine without graduating with debt higher than many mortgages.
GDPR doesn't actually require cookie banners. If all the tracking and data protection you do is justified, justifiable and obviously necessary for the lowest-common-denominator service you provide, you don't even need to ask for consent (though do let your users know what's up, anyway, with at minimum a Privacy Notice in the footer, because that's just common decency).

If a company asks for GDPR consent, either:

• They have cool, optional features of their site / service / system (though they could just ask at run-time, when you try to use those features, in most cases); or

• They're doing something dodgy and want to wave a magic wand and remove the dodginess by getting you to “consent”.
that's sweet.

I would leave one of these for my wife, but she'd never find it. she will, however, inevitably discover my journal, and hopefully that will be nice for her.
This appears to be inspired by an idea published years ago which suggested building industrial refridgeration in Antarctica to achieve the same goals.

https://judithcurry.com/2012/08/24/a-modest-proposal-for-seq...
The first 2 minutes of that video make it clear that they think it is "real" quantum effects (e.g. at 1:34 entanglement > EPR paradox > Bell's Theorem > local realism). Those are pretty quantum-y imo.
I'd wondered about this. Baseball pitchers don't throw the worst pitch every time; you'd be expecting it. There has to be game theory here, too. Thanks for articulating it.
> You could have a single unified pool of physical registers that can be handed out to any register, but there's only some advantage to do so and a lot of advantages in keeping them separate. Either way, that's a micro-architectural detail that the designers have the freedom to choose (or not choose) to do.

What's the advantage to keeping them separate? If you're implementing vector instructions, then your scalar floating-point units are probably going to be the same as the vector floating-point units, with zero-extension for the unused vector slots. At that point, keeping them separate hardware register slots is detrimental: it's now costing you extra area as well, with concomitant power costs. You also need larger register files to accommodate all of the vector registers and the floating-point registers, when you're only likely to use half of them at any times. If you're pushing the vector units to their throttle, you'll have little scalar code to need all the renaming; if you're pushing the scalar units to their throttle, you'll similarly have little vector code.

From a software viewpoint, eh, there's not really any advantage to keeping them separate. You tend to use scalar xor vector floating point code, not both (this isn't true for integer, though), so there's little impact on actual register pressure. More architectural registers means more state to have to spill on context switches.
> "As time passes we see more and more groups intentionally exploiting this and exploiting it more often, and it feels like it will only get worse, especially since we can see it happening overseas in major political referendums or elections"

Out of curiosity, what election or elections are you speaking of?
I used to work for a PR firm in Chicago that would work with AT&T to do astroturfing. I never knew the details but the gossip about the contract with AT&T was interesting.

Internally, they would never say the word, "AT&T" but had a client code #, like client 750, or something like that. It was always sketchy and everyone in the firm knew it was sketchy but they tried their best to keep the details from the employees.

What they would do is work with "community outreach groups" to create fake outrage about certain "bad" legislation that, people participating in such protests, problem didn't even know who was ultimately behind it.

Overall, pretty disgusting behavior and the fact that we let corps behave like this with no repercussions, speaks a lot to where we're at as a country and why. The US rewards sociopathic behavior.

The PR firm: Jasculca Terman strategic communications. I believe their contract with AT&T was severed many years ago but I don't know the reasons why. So, I doubt that particular firm worked on this astroturfing but it doesn't matter because companies like AT&T have a whole bevy of companies at the ready to do this work for them.
So clearly every token should have its own exchange.
Lawrence was right about the USA.
https://esoteric.codes/ is a great find. Thanks for sharing.
Data Loading Performance of Postgres and TimescaleDB (2019)
Worst case they could block your site, but that's not going to happen.

Note that if it is a personal website you are not subject to GDPR. GDPR only applies to companies and organizations.

Also note that most stuff that a layperson would say is reasonable for a website to function isn't a problem in GDPR.
I have to verify my age for that... Duh!
Market Making and Time Horizons, Clubhouse Struggling, What Did I Get Wrong?
...we conclude by explaining that, based on the record before us, it is clear that repair restrictions have diluted the effectiveness of Section 102(c) and steered consumers into manufacturers’ repair networks or to replace products before the end of their useful lives.

Based on a review of comments submitted and materials presented during the Workshop, there is scant evidence to support manufacturers’ justifications for repair restrictions.18
If someone could show how a cryptocurrency with anonymous features can follow KYC/AML laws, I'm all ears.

Zcash has done a lot of work on this. https://z.cash/compliance/
Attackers Use Compromised Accounts to Create and Distribute Malicious OAuth Apps
> If they stay too exclusive, they wilt.

Wouldn't other super-exclusive networks, like Ferrari owners or the American Express Centurion Card, also wilt for the same reason?
Pareto principle at play
> you can use web monetization outside of coil owned platforms.

Like you can use PayPal to sell (access to) digital assets? Or patron?

I'm not sure which part of the core value proposition of coil has anything to do with blockchain?

And small wonder: crypto/chains allows us to transfer trust (eg, I trust i can buy milk for my dollar, I buy bitcoin for a dollar, I give you bitcoin, if you can sell bitcoin for a dollar, we trust that I have given you the opportunity to buy milk).

This could also go via bank transfer, or hybrid systems like PayPal,stripe or vipps[1].

I see some benefit to "magic crypto cash on the interwebz"- but untraceable tender is generally not what chains facilitate. Quite the opposite.

When you realize crypto currency can go two ways: perfect taxation (billionaires and corporations will fight it, to the death), or: perfect money laundring/tax evasion (government will fight it, to the death) - the crypto future looks quite distant.

[1] a Norwegian bank owned platform for instant digital settlement: https://vipps.no
Infodemic and how disinformation spreads on different social media
Good reason to mention "Disqus, a dark commenting system" again to remind everyone to avoid using it on your blog or website (it comes integrated with a lot of projects, like static site generator themes).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26033052
Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27044044 - May 2021 (274 comments)
There is no way for this to be a productive conversation if ‘real innovation’ can always be a goal post to move. The other side of that is that I don't remember, none of this has been relevant since 2016 which is half a decade ago now. Just trudge bitcointalk for defunct chains and find one that you liked the roadmap of.

There is a more quantifiable trend of market tolerance in this asset class for what founders can earn.

You have an extremely antiquated view of what that can be, the impractical charity developer building a product that the communities adores and spawns into a very active network. That pretty much never happens as the dev needs to use their time to exchange for food and shelter and nobody else picks up the baton.

Following that, devs attempted small dev taxes of 1-2%, the market barely tolerated that for some years, and it also wasn't good enough to fund development

Following that the market tolerated larger preallocations of 30%.

Then it tolerated fund raises where developers kept funds raised and large preallocations, similar to equities.

Then it tolerated even more where low float assets are now commonplace, with developers keeping upwards of 99% of the asset created, keeping the funds collected, and have unlimited issuance capabilities.

But there is no hard line in the sand, and not everyone has an uncomfortable relationship with money such that arbitrary thresholds determine what a founder “deserves”. It is obvious that being able to actually pay a dev team has done much more for the speed of development in this space than harping on about some irrelevant ideology. You might find it surprising (okay now I am being facetious, but it still has to be said to highlight the inanity of your last decade view), but the entire industrial era has the same aspect based on paying workers closer to the value they provide at the time and thats the only model proven to work in an economy.
French speakers often struggle with beach/bitch :)
looks like we've found David Graeber's account... ;P
Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27044044 - May 2021 (274 comments)

Berkshire Hathaway’s Stock Price vs. 32-Bit Integers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27065853 - May 2021 (69 comments)
I agree, the cheatsheets are great. As a Python developer. the python sheet makes me file like I could dive write in and write a gleam program by having python in mind mind and looking up the gleam equivalent for each line of code.

But where it describes the map-dictionary duality, it says: "There is no map literal syntax in Gleam, and you cannot pattern match on a map. Maps are generally not used much in Gleam, custom types are more common."

But it doesn't say why or how this would be done. It seems that, if this point is going to be mentioned, there should be enough context to make it actionable.
you can't just compare a game and a web page. vastly different requirements.
Ask Elon after Saturday Night Live this weekend.
I've heard about 50% stock as collateral when Tesla was 20% of its current value. It does not make sense now - that would mean he took ~90 billion dollars of loans.
You do have another choice: backup your important data, at least daily!
"The wise warrior avoids the battle." - Sun Tzu

Sounds hacker to me.
Cambridge analytica, brexit (economically) hurt a lot of people. Similarly the regime changes in 3rd world countries that these guys engaged in probably physically hurt quite a few people.

I mean there are so many examples it's difficult to believe this is a genuine question. It sort of like asking in 1984 did anyone really get hurt by big brother watching?
What is new here ... I think this has been around a while? I looked at the blog and the last entry was in May ... I must not be seeing it.
I have hired people with non-tech backgrounds before. Usually they come in as an analyst first. This gives them the chance to learn the business side. While they are learning the business, they get a few chances to automate something or create a report using Python or some other language. If they demonstrate they can do the work, we transition them to a junior developer position after a year or two.
Not in Calvinball.
apologies - I mistyped the direction.
A while back I got interested in sailing and paid for lessons on a Benetau 57. I was absolutely blown away by the ease with which one of these boats could be stolen.

Granted anyone that has the time and money to actually learn how to sail the things is likely not in a position where boat heists have a great risk/reward.
You seem like a smart person, why make such obviously fallacious arguments? The HN guidelines ask that you respond to the strongest interpretation of what someone is saying, within reason.
This is impossible. If it can be traded it can be speculated. The value of any tradable asset is determined by how much someone is willing to trade for it and by nothing else. There is no way to make it stable other than to make it impossible to trade.
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Yes, I use Goodnotes 5 for taking notes. Should have made the switch sooner.
Umm... all it did was give "S" pieces... I hate it, so mission accomplished...

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I think they're identical.
No fonts are being downloaded.
I thought the point of those ads wasn't that Brave make money but that you accrue those Brave tokens as a representation of your attention and get to send those tokens to publishers of your choice via the browser?

Also, I turned them off as these ads are quite annoying and have a "cheap feel" to them.
A good point, thank you! We'll have to refine that.
While the majority of motorcycles in the US are recreational, there are many of us who use them as our primary commuter vehicle. Outside of the US, this is much more common, especially in Asia.
I just wish social media platforms had adviasarial integration like telephone companies were forced to do.

Let the platforms compete on UX and data handling policies.

That way, the interesting people on one platform aren't gated away from the interesting people on others.
I’m jaded with the crypto-scammery too, but isn’t lower fees with 24/7 instant transactions the selling point? (For low fees think Binance not Coinbase).
Separation of church and state should be followed by separation of companies and state.
The world record from 2017 is 31.
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AI Winter Is Well on Its Way
great thanks I will test it out
Ad blockers and legislation.
Yes! This is known as "voice onset time" and has a lot of variation between languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_onset_time
I got this from samyk, actually. I wouldn't use iconic lyrics like this and you don't have to use a full line or even a natural ending. You don't even have to use lyrics from a band you particularly enjoy -- just something longer and easier to remember.
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN. If you want to say what you think Lawrence was right about, and why, that might be ok—it depends on how interesting a.k.a. unexpected it turns out to be.

But since flamewars are off topic, you'd want to be careful to avoid nationalistic (in this case) flamebait.
MMS is the only open, federated, chat system that everybody has access to.

Given that Purism wants to provide a fully open source alternative to the Facebook/Whatsapp walled gardens, I'd say that providing the already existing, open, interoperable chat solution that everybody already has is pretty important.

When Matrix comes to my phone, I gain the ability to message with zero of my normal non-tech friends.
When MMS comes to my phone I gain the ability to message with ALL of my normal, non-tech friends -- even those who "don't use" MMS. Why? Because, every phone plane includes MMS.
I was about to say that Grin tried that and nobody has heard of it... then I saw the username.
Merkel breaks with Biden on US plan to waive patent protections for C19 vaccines
LOL there's barely any regulation of motorcycle safety in the US. ABS brakes aren't even mandated here.

Pretty much the only regulation is the laughably bad DOT helmet standard. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BUyp3HX8cY). Every rider I know who wears a helmet, buys an ECE or Snell helmet instead.
> Do you have a position on a better alternative business model

Sure! Thanks for asking. One idea I like is this: you pay a small, fixed subscription on top of your internet bill. This amount is then given proportionally to the services you visit.

This is nice for several reasons: even a small amount (~3-5$) gives a similar or higher revenue for content creators than ads do (a very rough back-of-the-envelope estimate based on youtube CPM). Plus, there's no problem with the friction of paying for things: you pay the same, regardless of watching 1 or 1000 videos (the netflix model, the cable tv model, heck any subscription model). Plus of course: no ads :)
I'm giving up my search for it, but I once read a research paper on categorical perception.

If you compare [ta] and [da], you find that the only difference is the time between when you make the consonant, and when your vocal chords start vibrating (voice onset time). In theory, VOT is a contimum, with any value being possible. However, in English it forms a tri-modal distribution /tʰ/ /t/ and /d/. The experiment artificially edited a sound to vary between /t/ and /d/, including with VOTs between the two that do not occur in English. What they found is that people put all of the sounds in 2 boxes, and were unable to distinguish between sounds in the same box, even if their VOT varied considerably.

However, when test subjects were played the same sounds, but told they were listening to rain drops, this effect disapeared, and they were able to distinguish between sounds in the same box.
When you pop out a headline like "nordics happiest people on earth!" and a million people read it, what matters is _not_ whether your definition of 'happy' was technically correct within the framework of the study you're writing about.

You can try to hold the position that all those readers are wrong, and the article is fine. But more reasonable people will think you're being silly, and that journalists are basically responsible for choosing words that will be interpreted correctly by their readers.

But if your issue was with who I was criticizing, that's fair - the researchers probably weren't intentionally mis-communicating, and my criticism wasn't targeted clearly enough.
If you read my comment that you initially replied to you would see that I was talking about the FLIR1/Nimitz video.

You're the one who brought up Go Fast, I have made no comments about that here.

> The proposed explanation is that the object was a much bigger commercial plane than they thought, much further away.

I don't know which "proposed explanation" you're referring to but in a recent debate between Mick West and Robert Powell of the SCU hosted by John Greenewald of theblackvault.com, Mick said he thinks it was an F-18.

Neither explanation makes sense because the aircraft's radar has far greater range than the ATFLIR camera so if an aircraft showed up on the ATFLIR it also should have been seen on radar. In addition the Princeton's AEGIS radar system was monitoring the airspace within at least a 100 mile radius and would certainly also have detected any ordinary aircraft that could have been seen by the ATFLIR.
Don't scroll down.
> The broadband industry funded the fraudulent creation of about 8.5 million of those, while a 19-year-old college student submitted 7.7 million, and the remainder came from unknown but spurious sources.

The article doesn’t explicitly say that the comments funded by the broadband industry were in favour of rolling back net neutrality, so I had to guess on that one too.

Thinking about it some more makes me question these assumptions. It seems plausible that putting forward straw-man arguments to be robustly demolished could be a useful tactic to those interested in manipulation.