skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they all do it
Don't feel bad :-) My 11 year-old son (a native English speaker) said the same thing to me just yesterday.

"Hey, bud. Why don't you pick up those two plastic containers and follow me."

"OK, but dad, it really confuses me when you say that. Can't you just say 'please pick up those containers'? It sounds like you're giving me an option but you're really not."

Until he said that, I had never given it a thought. But he takes things very literally, so I can see how it's confusing even though he knows what I mean.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
Cache invalidation issue. Classic
Maybe, but if they were going to do that, why bother telling us they were going to continue supporting blocking webRequest at all? They'd be in perfectly good company if they maintained the exact same API as all the other browser vendors and deprecated and turned off webRequest along with them. If they did this because they think they maintain a genuine business advantage from it, why would they change their mind and throw that away at some later date?
It seems HN has been downtrending ( no pun intended ) this way.

This pattern is evident in posts criticizing the social justice climate dominating tech. Meanwhile, ad hominem attacks against Donald Trump are tolerated and even encouraged ( my very post here suggesting that ad hominem attacks are a logical fallacy would likely be downvoted without refutation, only further proving the point )
I assume the article gets more attention if it uses the word paradox.
Eh, it'll be fine. We'll get around to it eventually.
Don’t complain about vigilantism. Worry about a crooked justice system. Vigilantism is coming, there is no stopping it. Terrify yourself, or agitate for the proper punishment of criminals.
It reminds me of this [0] post from a few months back which implements something more or less similar using js arrays as a kind of sexp.

I’m working with a system that relies extensively on logic implemented as json structures. We’re not using this lib, I found it to be difficult to follow and more difficult to debug. Ymmv, but I’d definitely think hard before leaning on something like this.

[0] https://stopa.io/post/265
The Second-Mover Advantage (2013)
I didn't make any argument against exports. Obviously international trade is generally good.

The arguments is exporting our own resources in order to drive up the price of those resource domestically. Remember, they didn't make a profit exporting the timber, they exported it at a loss. With the sole purpose of driving up domestic prices.
I constantly assume that parts of my own job are easier than they turn out to be.

'That should only take 30 minutes' - winds up taking 2 calendar weeks.
To me, in general, compiling seems to imply native output where optimizations are done while transpiling seems to target another high-level language where semantics are kept as close to the original as possible.
> silent, unswerving, leak-proof compliance of a vast network of scientists, civilians, and government officials for over a year

I was watching translated videos early last year made by chinese scientists trying to get the word out, at the risk of their lives. Compliance is simple: you talk, you "disappear".

The Great Firewall blocks in both directions, and is very good. Additionally, the West had already decided that it was politically expedient to ignore lab leak possibility. That meant the primary avenue for such leaks were more underground sources, like 4chan.
The new guy that stores user information in the servlet. I have seen this before.
To a large extent, they can communicate: the compile time environment when compiling one form depends on the runtime environment modifications made by evaluating the previous form. This is what makes cross compiling lisp hard.
You're a lifesaver, thank you! That was exactly what I've been looking for.

I've played around with `ui.key.menuAccessKey` before, but I needed to turn off native menu (`widget.macos.native-context-menus`) to display the access keys.
Most people I met who do double checks would simply return "not loggen in" and issue a WARN deep within the other 200 WARNs-per-second. That is IMHO a very bad usage of double checks. It gives a false sense of security and masks the deeper problem until it's too late.

However, if you make the assertion fail loud, then it provides an additional security layer and should be used as often as makes sense.
I have a hard time falling asleep if I exercise in the evening.

Does anybody know how to overcome this?
Bitcoin rival Chia 'destroyed' hard disc supply chains, says its boss
We had SARS-1 crop up in Guangdong in 2003 when the nearest known related virus has been found in Yunnan some ~700 miles away.

There just wasn't a lab there to leak from.

This time it popped up about ~700 miles away again, but where there was a lab.

The actual chances of that happening are probably about 1-in-10 / 1-in-20 if we understood the movement of people and animals within China that produced both outbreaks. That isn't actually that crazy of a coincidence.
> The number of humans will reduce rather drastically in the next fifty years.

It doesn't look like it. The UN predicts the population will be ~10.5 billion in 2070. Of course, there is a large range of uncertainty. [1]

Given sustainability limits, the cost to the environment (and to humans) of going from 10 to 11 billion is a lot worse than the cost of going from 5 to 6 billion, say. (For example, there's only so many fish in the sea.)

[1] https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/9...
all public schools need to offer more transparency in their admissions.
Alcoholic and abusive father, enabling and abusive mother. Lived adjacent to the 'ghetto' neighborhoods in a city with a high violent crime rate. Things got a little better financially in my mid teens, but the damage had been done on a mental level.

I didn't go to college until I was 26, mostly because it never seemed like an option. Now that I've been through it and have a job and career and have been able to work through the mental damage from my childhood, I feel a huge amount of empathy for kids who are coming from similar situations.

Anyway, didn't mean to be judgmental, so apologies for that. I just feel strongly about the topic.
Some physicists have proposed death as an experiment – the quantum suicide thought experiment – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortalit...

Actually, quantum immortality theory is interesting as a non-religious afterlife claim. And Hugh Everett, the originator of the many worlds interpretation, apparently privately believed (had faith?) in quantum immortality, and privately discussed quantum suicide, although he never published on either of those topics.
Isn't launching 20 applications at once the realm where flash competes the best?
I guess on a super literal level, predicting future cash flows based on past cash flows is "speculation", but certainly not in the same way that derivatives are.
They’re cheap because the secret ingredient is slavery and Uighur blood.
> HCA Inc. (formerly known as Columbia/HCA and HCA - The Healthcare Company) has agreed to pay the United States $631 million in civil penalties and damages arising from false claims the government alleged it submitted to Medicare and other federal health programs, the Justice Department announced today.

https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2003/June/03_civ_386....
Wow, even without the strong tone of "hustle" and move fast and break things, there is just so much potential for abuse and/or horrible mistakes.

And that's without even accounting for the fundamentally fear-based business model.
Olympian Lee Evans Dies at 74
These days? Well, the last 40 years... CNN started in 1980.
HTTPS Everywhere can be used for redirection. It's from EFF, so trustworthy.
I cant help but imagine what it would like like in EDN:

{...
parsingMatrix
(if (or (=== (var "credentialData.rapidSarsCov2PCRTest.testresult")
"negative")
(=== (var "credentialData.covid19Vaccination.hasVaccination")
true))
"valid"
"invalid")}
I just asked Kristy if she might "pop" by.

https://twitter.com/vassudanagunta/status/139801778104036148...
It's better for people to worry if their daughter is going to get raped than for them to question the growing wealth disparity.
There would be way more species going extinct if this was a true mass extinction, compare to the end-Permian
But having auto-parallel parking on a rainy night with tight spacing is awesome. (even though I think it exclusively uses sonar)
Yeah, as a cosmologist my reading of the DES results is exactly the opposite than what the article mentions - new DES results seem to show that one mystery (low values of S_8 in the low redshift measurements) was actually resolved..

See the bottom of their Fig 14 in https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/...

The problem was that the green (CMB/Planck) and gray (weak lensing) curves in the past were not overlapping as well as they are now. To me the tension seems to mostly go away now.
Can no longer edit, but might be a fake parody interview from the Paris Review. Sorry.

https://twitter.com/buckwilson/status/1397930890446229504

https://twitter.com/AviTheNaftali/status/1397928222809939968
So we should hide information because it might cause people to have a negative view towards the country of China? How about this - let all information, whether it goes with your far left anti-racist view or not, be put freely out to the public and let the public decide how they want to react. Of course some people will take it to the extreme, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t entitled to this info. Anyone who lost a loved one, had their livelihoods reduced, or fell ill absolutely deserve to know what was done and what steps we are going to take to never allow it to happen again.

I never need censorship of any information by anyone, no matter how noble or misguided their deed.
Colorado Becomes First State to Ban Legacy College Admissions
so they still continue their "fact checking", even though now it's clear all the fact checkers were wrong on this one. just call it what it is then, censoring.
>DNR as currently implemented by Chrome does not yet meet the needs of extension developers.

"Yet"?
Seems like an unfortunate case of nominative determinism.
In 2012, I was working on a migration from EC2 to on-prem & was working on infrastructure building for zCloud. The cost factor was huge, the switch out of EC2 literally paid for itself in a lot of ways.

The work was very interesting, because a lot of it was actually building a private cloud for internal customers & the work primarily centered around a virtualized data-center aimed at boom-bust cycles of games (15+ million users for 6 weeks, drop to 2 million for a month and down to a million in another week).

The issue is that the infrastructure cost is somewhat constant when dealing with that sort of fluctuations in revenues, so the cost to revenue ratio was unpredictable (while the cost was).

So what happened in the end looked a lot like a fire-sale of hardware when the cost was unbearable, while if it was an end-user cloud, that low-demand phase would be able to cut losses as a spot instance or something.

Anyway, a few years after I left, back to EC2 it is[1].

[1] - https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/zynga/
Beads is like VB6, and Oracle Delphi, an all-in-one language that shields you from the complexities of learning all these external tools and having to learn so many languages. To someone whom i guess a long-time developer, you might dismiss it as too simplistic for your purposes.

For example you can skip using Unix Bash and use Beads like Python as a scripting language. You can build a very nice client/server product like the "Robin Hoody" app, using the publish/subscribe functions built into the language without ever learning how to encode/decode a packet, as the runtime makes it easy to do this. So in that sense the language does offer a virtual transport layer.

Sure, you may need to drop down and encode/decode a websocket message buffer, but the point of Beads is to permit writing in a single language, without having to learn CSS and the whole pile of complexity that accompanies modern development. You can't make an easier stock quoting system (one of the examples), because it has been reduced to the absolute minimum number of lines.

The protected arithmetic of Excel is of proven utility, and i am merely imitating it. I replace #UNDEF with U, and #ERROR with ERR to make it less verbose, but protections abound in Beads both at compile time, and at runtime. In a graph database universe, you don't need scalars, tuples, lists, dictionaries, queues, hashmaps, etc., because a single more general data structure accomplishes that you need.

Graph databases are quite hot; Neo4J has grown leaps and bounds, and Oracle was forced to come out with one. I am sure that most existing systems continue to use older tech, because that is always how it goes in computers. People are still running COBOL in some places, because it is so damn fast and works perfectly at what it was built to do. I have no doubt that we will see existing tech which works fine continue to be used for another 50 years.

It makes sense to make an easier environment that is still capable, but much simpler to learn and use, and that is the goal of Beads.

As for the skepticism of crowds, my product is out there, and has no major bugs in it, and hopefully will find an audience that likes this approach.
Because there's not a daily sh*tshow occurring in the White House any more so the media need something that bleeds to lead. There's no losing in covering the issue regardless of outcome/findings, and in the mean time ratings will benefit from the eyeballs.
The current situation was justified with examples like yours.

A year ago, most people in favor of banning misinformation would have classed the lab leak hypothesis in the same obviously-false bucket with your examples.
Dark matter is not a theory, it's a name for an unexplained phenomena.
Full Truck Alliance IPO Prospectus
Will you support PyTorch models? Will they run on a GPU? How many concurrent requests will you support?
This has been widely known for many years. The crossover point happens much sooner than I think people intuit but most companies never really measure or model it. My experience at a few different companies is that DIY infrastructure pencils out at 30-40% of the cost of the cloud.

There is a learned helplessness when it comes to companies running their own data centers that has become widespread over the last decade. What used to be a fairly mechanical process has almost been mythologized as some kind of arcane art beyond the technical ability of any company that isn't Google or Amazon. Designing data center builds isn't difficult, it is a pretty straightforward albeit detail-oriented blue-collar engineering skill, but it seems few people learn it anymore.
Configurable widgets to add graphs to Notion and Miro
They did get the "sciency" bits right, though. They just refer to the IPCC. Your guy's arguments are "here's a bit of data they haven't bothered to fit." I can't even make out if the presented data has any basis in fact.

And England was pretty fucking cold in the 17th century. And after a particularly grim winter in 1709, the thaw "brought widespread flooding. This was a major catastrophe for a largely agricultural economy. The crops were ruined, grain prices soared sixfold and many communities were faced with starvation. Per capita gross domestic product dropped by 23%, and did not fully recover for another 10 years, all from a single terrible winter." (quote from the Guardian).
Well it looks like this one got flagged. But why?
I read the "Why This Matters" section twice, but I still don't get why the etymology of the word "program" rather than the history of the concept of a "program" is of any importance. Does somebody think they understood the argument, and can explain it in a less convoluted manner?
It is indeed amusing to see people accused of being the very opposite of what they are. The Kochs, if anything, are against limitations on free trade.
We talk a lot about mobs here. It seems someone has monetized the mob. Not only am I disappointed in the proponents of mobs and call out culture, but I am doubly disappointed in the people who profit from them. Social media, Citizen/Vigilante, to the mainstream news.

We are so lost.
In what way is Rust declarative? When I think of a declarative language, I think of Prolog or SQL. Rust to me would seem to be explicitly imperative.
Have you tried this for a couple of weeks or was it something you noticed if you tried it once?
I want to try my hand at the n-gate.com summary for this one:

"Some webshits finish The Wire and answer the question we've all been wondering since the finale aired: why didn't the Baltimore Police simply write an app to crowdsource 'juking the stats'? Citizen (Uber for Reddit's Boston Bomber Fiasco) is born, but Apple doesn't have time to review it as they are busy finishing their own dystopian surveillance nightmare-- Airtag (Uber for Stalking). Luckily, an American HN arrives to remind everyone that actual crime has been falling since the 90s. Given the low probability of anything bad ever happening in the U.S. due widespread misperception of the truth, HN moves on to a story about adtech delivery speedups on client machines."
Off-topic: it's truly amazing that there's a history feature built into StreetView. First time I've seen this!
How about openly white supremacist Winston Churchill laughing about deliberately killing 3 million Indians. Maybe that’s why he is considered a hero in the white world. The genocidal murderer of millions of non-whites is lionized in Hollywood.

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3005838/churc...

https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/what-was-racist-winston-chu...

https://www.news18.com/news/india/winston-churchills-policie...

https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/fpj-fast-facts-why-win...
Ah, browser extensions, the new "Download a random executable that can access your data (because your data is now all online), with auto-update and antiviruses don't care about them. But don't worry, Google vets them!".

When will Norton (snort) make "Norton Anti Malware" to "protect" your browser against bad extensions?

I think it's just a matter of time until an extension steals a lot of people's data or money...
There's a milestone and date here https://github.com/neovim/neovim/milestone/19 But the meme probably is just as accurate
This is also one of the main scenes of the Tom Hanks 2017 flop of a movie "The Circle".
This looks amazing, thank you.
I don't remember which study it was, but a quick search will find quite a few, e.g. https://www.inverse.com/science/how-do-i-know-if-my-cat-love...
> I know much of HN lives in SF

SF has more options for different types of prenatal/delivery medical experiences than most regions of the US, and has been ahead of the trend for years. My 2 kids were delivered by midwives in a hospital focused on respecting parents’ choices to the extent possible.
I/Execs don't care

My publicist definitely doesn't care

You/Commenters care and that's whats funny

Publicist gets results and I decide to pay their monthly retainer again or not

I occasionally look at what they're doing and sometimes it demystifies what other trends I see on social media like LinkedIn, a perpetual crowdsources A/B test that they keep falling for. I don't think it is human nature, as different humans are inspired by people that look like them and would not be aware if it was not mentioned, and different humans have no clue why it is mentioned and a subset of those different humans a triggered by that and think it is their mission to reveal to everyone that mentioning it is the problem.

Bread and circuses
U.S. Senate panel advances EV tax credit of up to $12,500
You’re not powerless. Shut off the anxiety generators, and be the change you want in the world. I dumped Facebook & Twitter, and am reducing HN & other social media. Get news from proper objective sources, choose the category of media you consume (TownsendsPlus.com provides great reality checks), and otherwise choose the life you want to live - and live it.
> treasure hunting in the Gulf of Mexico

> army vet / surfer

raised leg of nam
If it needs to be said, this is more or less exactly the thesis behind Oxide[0], and matches what we are seeing in the market. It's certainly validating to see a VC firm echo our pitch deck back to us, even if one that (in)famously doesn't believe in hardware! ;)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27294471
Seems like weird malware. It’s not exactly subtle if the first time I Google something after installing it, I get redirected to not-Google.

I could see this working on Karen who downloaded a coupon extension. But surely the type of person who installs an extension to force old.reddit.com will realize what’s happening almost immediately.

What is the point of malware if it can be caught so easily? This makes me wonder if maybe the dev didn’t do it on purpose. Maybe they sold it to an unscrupulous (and dumb) company, or maybe their build process is somehow infected.
As long as you’re amused by being a putrid waste of humanity, I guess, you do you. Gotta get them lulz for this week’s Bitcoin newsletter so you can forget how crushingly empty your soul is while grifting those who believe fintech to be an actual thing and behind your genz wisdom lies their yacht.

ABH, hype is value, I get you, don’t worry. You’ll be admired for it in the end, I’m sure. Those who substantively contribute to society are just inches away from understanding you.
And that’s how you spot a made up story.

Plus that Georgia as a country didn’t exist back in the time of this dirty, and its „communist leader“ was just a minor Soviet apparatchik, who couldn’t make such decision on his own.
I use Twitter and Instagram, and occasionally comment on Reddit. I don't bother to check the like/follow numbers on any of them.
I believe that image in the news article is cropped from this: https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/...

I found that image on this page, which seems to the be web page created by this research group about this project: https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/des-year-3-cosmology-result...

From what I can tell, it's a projection of a view from the night sky from one particular telescope on Earth. They sampled a bunch of galaxies in an area about one eighth of the night sky.
This is incredibly ignorant and pretty arrogant to actually think that you know better than thousands of researchers who presumably know far more about this than you. There are numerous independent and unrelated pieces of evidence that point to the existence of dark matter. You honestly think they're all the result of mathematical errors that just so happen to all point to the same conclusion? That would be quite a coincidence.
> they do have a pretty successful mixture of socialism and capitalism

Used to, they’re broke now.
I think this is an important point. In many cases the benefit of cloud and SaaS is working around your IT department. It's a technical way of going around human management problems.
Even "Ether" has come back around a bit in certain circles. It's not called that anymore, I think it's called the "Grid" or something similar. Milo Wolff discusses some of this in his WSM theories, IIRC.
That is, to an extent, a US problem. At least at the very extremes US media shows. Stuff like Citizens is even more extreme, using these mechanisms for even clearer, and more direct, monetary gain. Just how something like that can be legal is beyond me. Even US police saw it as potential risk, that alone tells everything.
There were even videos of chinese scientists trying to get the word out about the virus and the lab leak liklihood. There was plenty of evidence, if you knew where to look.

'Evidence' is tangential to the decision making behind misinformation tags.