skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See also: Wikipedia matters, Hinnosaar et al 2019.
http://www.marit.hinnosaar.net/wikipediamatters.pdf

> randomization of edits to foreign languages’ Wikipedia entries about an obscure Spanish city increases tourism to the city from those foreign countries by 9%
> How to indulge a senior manager who wants to talk about technical stuff that they don’t really understand, without rolling your eyes or making them feel stupid

> How to explain a technical concept behind closed doors to a senior person too embarrassed to openly admit that they don’t understand it

Aren't these a bit condescending? Sure they're directed up, but it sounds "be nice when you're looking down on them".

But worse, what if, as an engineer, you've just got a blindspot? What if the manager (or any person for that matter) has a brilliant idea that _you_ don't understand and therefore think it's stupid?

My experiences with senior engineers is that they often need to learn to keep their biases in check.
JavaScript Tricks You Won’t Find in Most Tutorials
Calling equestrians the upper middle class is not accurate. They were firmly upper class, just the lower portion of the upper class. If the senatorial class was roughly the billionaires, then the equites were the ten and hundred millionaires. Perhaps not as rich as the very top of the upper class, but still a league above the upper middle class.
I believe it'll mainly be about if and when those images were registered with the U.S. Copyright Office.

The slightly mean but correct play in those cases is to:

1. Register your images with the USCO

2. Send them a friendly email that you'd appreciate if they would license your images in general, without explicit examples.

3. Wait for the next update/patch/release that distributes your images.

4. Now you're suing for willful infringement including statutory damages.
Pompey, Crassus, Cicero, Gaius Marius, Mark Anthony even Octavian (before being adopted by Ceasar) were technically all Plebeian. By mid/late Republic the Plebeian/Patrician distinction had lost almost all meaning, as most Patrician families had died out or were surpassed in wealth and political influence by more successful Plebeian families.

The Equites were purely a social/wealth based class, any Roman citizen could become one if he we satisfied the wealth requirements.
Indeed, in fact, I think it might be better to have as large an identity as possible, so that the group you associate with most includes all the people you're talking to. Getting all of nature into your 'in-group' is likely to the best way to hack your visceral ethical system into something approaching an actually ethical one.

Yes, it's hard to challenge things you think are core to your identity, but that doesn't mean it's impossible, and it's easier to do so if you're surrounded by people you know will care about you which ever identity you choose.
Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors
But all we need is relative week numbers. "Friday in week NOW()+0".

Still need to supply that setting about whether weeks start on Sundays or Mondays though.
It is an amusing story from a completely different time and place in IT. Today people would just loudly and publicly complain on Twitter and other social media to embarrass the vendor into sorting it. Sharing a story, not speaking to the nature or the correctness of the solution. I have worked on both sides. Once when I was on the vendor side a very large customer returned a very expensive switch as RMA. A set of 16 ports stopped working. The cause in the end, the customer had gotten an SFP stuck and tried to rip it out, pulling the cage from its solder joints on the board. 3 switches in 2 months. We smiled, swapped all of them and then the sales team had a chat with the customer to help resolve the issue (their 3rd party SFP with a crappy designed latch). Is what it is.
Mostly because capitalism can afford to make mistakes. If the government makes a mistake then everyone will have to live with that mistake. If a company makes a mistake, it has the risk of going bankrupt.

Of course pure capitalism is not realistic nor desirable in practice.
Talking about economists. Personally I can't wrap my head around why the person that provides the food and the basic services I need so I don't starve, or otherwise die of basic needs doesn't deserve at least as much as an economist who's basically the same as a modern day fortune teller or someone who builds the next gen photo/video sharing app.
Problems with SoTA Abstractive Text Summarization
People have been running on “someone else’s server” for decades. So, no, that’s not the alternative.
For me, dark mode makes text less readable. The white letters blur a little bit into the surrounding blackness. If I look carefully, I can see faded copies at offsets around each letter. And this doesn't seem to happen in "light mode".
> I found that "have you considered" is better at communicating a genuine intent.

Be careful about your tone or this will be far worse than "why not simply?" ever could be.
That's why you recoup your money from the flag carrier country.

It would also have the nice side effect of dissuading countries to lend their flag to shady companies all over the world.
From that short description I'm pretty sure it's related to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_livin...

In short, Wikipedia tries to discourage writing about yourself, which also applies to doing so through a representative.
Does that still allow you to press "Enter" in an input field to submit the form, or do you have to build your own kludge to replicate that? If so, that sounds like that would invite only more weird things...
It is crazy to think that we went from UIs with black backgrounds and orange/green/white letters, to white backgrounds with black letters, and now back to black backgrounds with whiteish letters.
When you read what he was saying, he meant "Israelis", not "Jews" in General as there are Jews everywhere in the world, but he was talking about Israel's actions.
> To me, "no politics at work" means "the company does not get involved in political activities or discussions". Individuals are free to discuss what they want, with who they want.

Wouldn't that mean that certain tech companies' bans on politics is a form of involvement in political activities and discussions?

> I am sick of receiving corporate emails inviting me to "x pride/awareness/celebration" activities that have nothing to do with work, and that are not neutral topics.

Interesting, can you give some examples of any such activities that you have been invited to?

Note that the agent compelling you to attend these events is the company you work for - not the "woke crowd". Since if pays you for your time it most certainly has the right to order you to attend to these mildly political events (gay pride, that you have as an example, isn't very controversial).
The Thought Emporium - does next level biology hacking (e.g. cured his own lactose intolerance through genetic engineering) and some physics
Applied Science - Great engineering, he built his own electron microscope for example. His video on the helium-disables-iPhones phenomenon was surprisingly more in-depth than the best writeups I'd read.
...as long as you don't tell them you were delivering food at the time...
Oh no worries I have written enough documentation. And you are right: writing good documentation is never done, because the thing you are documenting is never done and you can always fine tune the texts that you have written.

But more often than not you will find auto generated documentation where you see nothing on the first page, nothing explaining what that library can do, can't do, is intended to be used for, is not intended to be used for, some usage example how to get started etc.

Instead you will find a half page in some obscure class documentation that seems to be addressed to the dev themselves instead of to any outside audience.

What I mentioned above doesn't have to take long. You built the library. If you cannot write a simple example of how to use it within 5 minutes you probably should rewrite that library before publishing it. Integrate that example into your tests and now you even know when it will fail.
We don't write code for computers to run, but for other programmers to read.

Best make it so that they understand it. Who "they" is might be dependent on the situation.
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> Furthermore, I expect approximately zero economists to not "wrap their head around the idea that being a front line worker being exposed directly to sick people during a pandemic seems to be worth more money than when there wasn't a pandemic."

Profit > People
> No one is in a capitalist system.

We are all in a capitalist system. Capitalism doesn't mean free markets, it has a much wider definition than that, and doesn't require free markets.
Apple auto tell you if you delete an app with a subscription that there’s a subscription on this and allows you to end it right there.
> If someone is 'dog person' they have routine where they take dog for walks, with positive effects such as exercise, without having to weigh pros and cons each time it is performed.

That describes a dog owner which is a much more concrete category than "dog person". Not every "dog person" actually has a dog. Even if you want a dog, your apartment might not allow dogs, or you might not have time/money to care for a dog while working.
Yes, perhaps that was worded somewhat poorly. The ACLU certainly does lobby for political change as well! They did not historically, however, take into consideration the degree to which one's political agenda aligned with theirs when deciding whether to render aid in the defense of (legally guaranteed!) civil liberties.

It's also worth noting that the meaning of the word "political" is overloaded here. I did not use it in the same sense that you did - I hope that doesn't escape your notice. (Still though, a potentially ambiguous wording is nonetheless a shortcoming. It's on me to ensure that my communications are as clear as possible.)
I'd say both you and pdamoc are right :)

For us being able to develop and change Ego and Alter, we need to have the mental capability for doing so. Which we obviously have, physically.

Both Ego and Alter can and do change heavily through life, and thus are strongly affected by culture, socialization etc. They can't change unbridled, though: There are multiple facettes of personality that are pretty stable over time (like in the Big Five model), ignoring traumata etc. And there are limits to our mental capabilities, just like there are for reasoning and other aspects of mind.

So, within the pysical borders our bodies give us, Ego and Alter can develop quite freely, heavily mediated by culture.
Simple is the opposite of complex, not the opposite of hard. Saying something is simple has meaning, and it's not insulting.
“Friday” vs “Friday week” is another way to differentiate. Though I don’t often hear the latter form these days.
Social Media Isn’t the Problem We Are
ACLU is just beginning its transformation. If I were asked 10 years ago "would ACLU take a free speech case?" I'd say "duh, it's ACLU, of course they would!". Now it's more like "depends on whose case it is and what Twitter thinks about it". What would happen in 10-15 years, when the old guard has retired? Who knows.

> For a lot of Asian working class people, proliferation of hate-speech is a very real threat today.

Anti-Asian hate speech has the history over a century long, at least, in America - sad, but true. It's not a new thing. And for all those years, Asian community managed to achieve huge success and become very prosperous, in fact so much that now the woke higher education institutions discriminate against this community (as they did against Jewish community years ago) - because they are too successful and make their formalistic "diversity" goals harder to achieve! Clearly, abandoning the ideals of the free speech is not necessary for the community to succeed, even in the presence of haters.

> there is a tension between formal equality in front of the law and genuine equality in the real world

No, there's no tension. Of course, the former does not guarantee the latter - it's only a necessary condition, but never a sufficient one. There's much more that a society needs to achieve equality of opportunity - if it's at all possible, and it will never achieve the equality of outcomes, of course. But the paradoxical conclusion the new left is making from this - completely common in human affairs - difference between the ideal and the worldly practice falling short of it - that the ideal has to be abandoned completely, since our inability to achieve it - even witnessing the huge progress that has been achieved - means it's a false ideal.

Even worse is that to replace this ideal, the old and tired ideas of racial division, segregation, racial hate and unequal treatment depending on skin color and ethnic identity, are unearthed, dusted off, and paraded as some kind of solution for inequality. Not only it could never work - forced inequality can't lead to equality - it is morally repugnant, and will cost us as a society a lot to drive those ghosts of the past back underground where they belong.
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Lobbyists will change it to 3 years.
After 17 years, we finally “cracked” a $100M churn problem at PayPal
This is exactly what the Chinese fishing fleets are counting on.

They won't go away and they WILL take every single living thing from the ocean unless someone steps in.
Yeah, the "weekend-ness" of Friday is interesting. Actually I could extend that to the last couple days, in relative time. For example, if it's Thursday, and I said "last Monday", that would actually be kind of confusing, just as if it were Sunday and I said "last Friday". I'm much more likely to say "On Monday," or "On Friday," if it's within the current week or the current weekend, and use the sentence context to figure out if I meant the previous weekday or the upcoming one.

I'm glad I don't write either dictionaries or voice-based/natural language apps for calendar appointments. ;-)
Why shouldn't inflation be considered a tax? It's a major reason for lack of social mobility, i.e. keeping the poor poor without them even knowing it. The end result is the dollars end up in government pockets, so what's the difference?
Ask HN: How to Run a Meeting?
Any advice or resources on how to run a meeting?

I've rarely seen meetings well managed, but when I did, it really made a difference.
> Firms can’t get workers because they don’t actually have a sustainable job to offer. In a functioning capitalist system encouraging those firms to die would be seen as positive.

Unfortunately - similar as with housing - most people currently don't have a meaningful choice between having a job or not or paying through their nose for rent or not, which is something that way too many employers and landlords exploit as a natural consequence of a captive market.

The obvious solution would be a livable minimum wage and government provided housing or at the very least severe rent control and building out of infrastructure in rural areas, but all of that is often simply decried as communist.
Using cash-value as a proxy for impact gives you many benefits. Here are two particularly good ones that are relevant to planning security work:

1. It clarifies your thinking around impact. The simple exercise of sitting down and trying to put a dollar amount on the reputation damage your organization would suffer if Bad Thing were to happen will help you better understand the likelihood and potential consequences of Bad Thing.

2. It allows for more easy comparison to the costs that will be incurred while mitigating the risk. If you think the impact of Bad Thing will be "significant reputation damage", that's bad, but it doesn't help you decide how much time, effort, and money you ought to dedicate to preventing Bad Thing.

Blindly chasing metrics can lead to pathological behaviour, for sure, so you need to balance that with strong cultural values, but overall I would say the security industry is terribly heavy on cultural values right now and pays little to no attention to measuring what actually matters to organizations.
Reading data via index would lead to scattered memory reads on actual data, which is a dead-end from an optimisation standpoint unfortunately.

Using index would have been much simpler but also slower.
“Just Say No” Is Bad Productivity Advice
I use it in production in PHP. First a pass with Soundex, then Levenshtein.
It's used to cleanup certain errors in CSV files, that would otherwise not group on the same header.
I'm not a lawyer, so understanding the exact implications of licensing is beyond me. My thought process behind this is that there are other (even commercial) services offering web-based video editors that use ffmpeg and are closed source. In any case I completely isolated the renderer into an iframe so in theory I could allow people to upload their own version ffmpeg.wasm if they were so inclined to.
working with web forms https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/web-forms/ (Oh the nightmares!)
And right-clicking without selecting anything not even popping anything up at all. And hovering over a link not turning the pointer into the link icon. And not being able to <Tab> through links.
>I find the new UI to be far worse

Is that about e.g. the tabs looking different, and similar design dislike, or something substantial that affects usability?
>Why are people seemingly so drawn to identifying themselves as anything at all?

IMO, not enough meditation or psychedelic use.

On his podcast sometime this year, Sam Harris said something to the effect of "Why am I so sure that we are capable of moving past these politics of identity? That one does not have to so strongly, or at all, identify with their gender or race or country? Because I know that one does not even have to identify with the face that stares back at them in the mirror."

This is a large part of the benefits of meditation and psychedelic use. The dissolution of the ego, the relinquishment of the seemingly strictly intertwined brain and body, the expansion of the consciousness beyond the self. Whether these experiences are actual reality or simply temporary perceptual illusions is somewhat immaterial to the benefits gained - namely a much more zen and less identity fraught mental modus operandi.
WOW! that looks like an invading army or something. What country's flags are those ships flying? So are those ships like sending off stealth rowboats or something into the dark past mile 201 to hall in seafood from Argentinian waters? This is nuts.
> There are many ML time series prediction techniques.

Yes, and they all give worse results than classic math and statistics approaches.

This, in my opinion, is the worst part of ML of all. Instead of clearly stating the limits and boundary conditions of the algorithms you start hearing responses to the tune of "you're doing it wrong" and "wait until X magic pixie dust makes it usable", like you're being sold snake oil instead of algorithms research.
Pretty rad. What's the etiquette on the drop-in/surf time? And who built it/paid for it? Is it free?

Asking because I used to live near Bend, Oregon, which had a similar lowhead dam problem that they turned into a whitewater park with three separate channels of rapids. Love it when cities fund these sorts of things.

https://www.bendparksandrec.org/facility/bend-whitewater-par...
By one, you mean the website that the script is running on right? What's a possible attack vector there? I didn't understand how an attack might work from the example in the article.

If the domain of the site is checked by the browser extension outside the content process, injection of the password is initiated by the extension button not a button on the page itself so there is no API the content process has access to, and only the correct password for that domain is provided to the content script, what could the page do exactly that would be a security issue? The content process would just be responsible for receiving any password injected into the page and putting it in the righ place.
Lab-grown Diamonds. Yea or nay?
> What's different about religion is that people don't feel they need to have any particular expertise to have opinions about it.

This is largely a consequence of the Protestant ecclesiology that dominates Anglo-Saxon culture, which in turn dominates online discourse.
I still have one of these and it has always been loosing a little bit of data here and there for the last seven or eight years. Maybe even from day one and it just took me some time to notice. You can write a bunch of data to it, check it, and it will be fine, but after a few months there are probably a few hundred or thousand new unreadable sectors. Oddly consistent.
Why is this a problem? If there's a proposition out there the wording is going to be sufficiently dense that it's not super-likely a casual observer will have a good grasp of it's actual effect, whereas if you're gay and the local LGBTQI support organizations are coming out in favor of a proposition, then it's fairly unlikely this is something you want to oppose.

There's a big difference between "this political party supports this legislation" and "this issue-focused group is supporting it".

It's putting blinkers on to pretend that legislation is not frequently titled and described in summary terms, which are quite different to the legal, social or physical specifics of what the individual clauses will do and representative organizations provide a very important function by having the time and people on hand to properly understand issues which affect the groups they represent.
Code in Assembly for Apple Silicon with the AsmAttic App
The University of Minnesota's EECS department would like the challenge of injecting this malicious code into OSS undetected. (I'm being sarcastic.)
Sibling comments have answered this correctly, but I like to imagine it was there as a threat to the Compaq visitors, like one might leave a loaded gun in a visible spot to facilitate negotiation.
Building something like this was kind of the idea of Scholarpedia [1], founded by Eugene M. Izhikevich (theoretical neuroscientist). The articles are reviews written by experts in the field, peer-reviewed, and supposed to be updated over time. Most articles happen to be in neuroscience and related fields, but that was more an accident and not by design.

Unfortunately, the project has never really taken off, and only few new articles have been added over the past few years. And of course, just as I am writing this comment, I realize that [2] now redirects to some domain squatter and is blacklisted by my DNS server...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholarpedia

[2] https://scholarpedia.org/
Unless this is a sight issue, it depends on the quality of the monitor. On Hi-Dpi with good luminance it doesn't blur.
> Your qualifying alecb's response as equivalent as cancellation

I am sorry, what? I never qualified that response as cancellation, you must be confused here. When I talked about cancel culture, I did not mean any of the discussion here - which is completely ok, and even the comments that I completely disagree with, are part of proper and normal discussion that I have no issue about at all. I will of course argue against ones that are wrong - but that's completely not what I meant by cancel culture, and I never said otherwise.
So why did this drive fail?

Has nobody dissected it to figure out exactly which component no longer functioned correctly?
What kind of documentation would you like to see for a service like this?

Genuinely asking because I've always used the query

dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com

to resolve the public IP my ISP has assigned me so I can update my homelab's IP.

I use Route53 and I either completely missed the checkip link or they simply don't mention it
How is that not a criminal offence? This is outright fraud.