skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fox News has moderated a lot over the past few years

They moved slightly back from Trumpism back toward their earlier pre-Trump far-rightism late in the Trump period (not abandoning the former, just not going in whole hog on it), which might be seen as moderation from a tribal/partisan viewpoint (as pre-Trump far-rightism currently lacking a major party home, to the extent many anti-Trump-but-far-right voices advocated voting for Democrats over Republicans despite ideological issues with Democrats in 2020 as essential to the defeat of Trumpism), but is not moderation ideologically.

While the D-R partisan split is not independent of left-right ideology, its not the same thing.
But then you might have to wait a couple weeks to have a non-critical procedure. gasp
Google has gone on record that the best way to hire would be IQ tests but they don't because of the blowback it would generate. Leetcode is just a shitty proxy for IQ testing.
> I think the really sad part here is you think that revisiting an old problem will lead us to the exact same old solution despite decades of advancement.

I mean yeah. Traditional banking is very lucrative, especially at lower reserve requirements and capital investment regulations.
Obviously not, rather because of the significant negative externalities that remain unaddressed after over a decade.
Seconded. I have avoided cable news for a long time now.
It is entirely fair to have to provide KYC documents for a service you need or desire to use but have the digital artifacts usage governed and access limited.

I let my Congressperson know policy is needed about online identity service providers needing better governance over identity data, as businesses aren’t going to do it voluntarily unless the law requires. This should probably be overseen by the CFPB, even though identity is a bit of a walk from finance (while Stripe is still primarily a financial services provider).
What's "low performance"? Humans measure tasks on human timescales. If you ask an embedded computer to do something, and it finishes doing that something in 100ms vs 10ms vs 1us, it literally doesn't matter which one of those timescales it happened on, because those are all below the threshold of human latency-awareness. If it isn't doing the thing a million times in a loop (where we'd start to take notice of the speed at which it's doing it), why would anyone ever optimize anything past that threshold of human awareness?

Also keep in mind that the smaller chips get, the more power-efficient they become; so it can actually cost less in terms of both wall-clock time and watt-hours consumed, to execute a billion instructions on a modern device, than it did to execute a thousand instructions on a 1990s device. No matter how inefficient the software, hardware is just that good.

> These days, the basic Windows Calculator consumes more RAM than Windows 98

The Windows Calculator loads a large framework (UWP) that gets shared by anything else that loads that same framework. That's 99% of its resident size. (One might liken this to DOS applications depending on DOS — you wouldn't consider this to be part of the app's working-set size, would you?)

Also, it supports things Windows 98 didn't (anywhere, not just in its calculator), like runtime-dynamically-switchable numeric-format i18n, theming (dark mode transition!) and DPI (dragging the window from your hi-DPI laptop to a low-DPI external monitor); and extensive accessibility + IME input.
Myths in cycling: wider tires are slower
Having "diverse" characters does not automatically make a movie more interesting. In fact, if you are relying on demographics (religion, race, sexuality) alone to make a character interesting, there is a very good chance the characters are flat, boring, and lazily written.
sure, but when a business is paying for it it becomes"paying extra for a better product that covers something that works OK with what we already have"
Anything about procrastination always makes me think of "structured procrastination" [0], which frequently comes up here [1]

[0] http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=structured+procrastination
What a quality answer! I get very poor quality support from Stripe's live chat, but the professionalism and helpfulness on HN from Stripe people like you and Edwin is beyond reproach, that's for sure.
Oh, absolutely. My point was more that it's not particularly common. Having a relatively low-ish FIRE-worthy NW (e.g., the $900k in my example) is very uncommon for 30-40 year olds.
> Is it the official policy of the home-assistant project that their software should not be packaged by NixOS?

I have the impression that it is the policy of the home-assistant project that their software should not be run in any way not supported by them, and not redistributed by any distribution or other third party. They're somewhat actively hostile against people not following that.
> Biden's not the opposite of Trump either.

Right, which is why this is kind of a pointless thing. What the hell does it mean for one media organization to be the opposite of another anyway?

I agree I did kind of start it with my earlier comment though.
> Businesses that do not have a legitimate reason to view my sensitive document like Passport , should not be allowed to do so.

I get parent comment's totally legitimate security concerns. And businesses that have no business having my identity should surely not be asking for it. But I don't honestly understand how this has anything to do with Stripe. These businesses (which for whatever reason are asking for ID verification before doing business with you) are just using Stripes API to verify identity instead of just taking your info themselves.

Any customer giving their information presumably knows they are giving said business their identity documents, the customers might not even know that the business is using Stripe's API.

Furthermore, Stripe is ostensibly coming in here to streamline the process for business taking identity info from customers. Why - in your opinion - is it worse for consumers when these-type businesses (which ask for identity), use their own-rolled id verification than using Stripe's?
> You are participating in a large OS ecosystem as soon as you become a dependency of another project.

It also seems the author wrote this library specifically to be included in Home assistant (since HA only allows glue code to be included in the core and keep the implementation specific parts in dependencies) and does a lot of HA development. So he knew what he was getting into. It's not like he's library was added by someone else and he will now be overwhelmed by all the additional NixOS users. His requests to not repackage his code because of the support burden seems a little moot to me.
I think that rewrites history a bit. They started with a Free Software browser - WebKit…
How would you figure out the elevation angle of a sniper's shot? It's not like you can do forensics when you are being shot at.
I unsubscribed from that newsletter a few months ago when I realized it was just perpetuating the problem by reporting on "both sides", even in cases where there wasn't much worth talking about on either "side". It's interesting if you would like to understand what propaganda the elites in each political party would like their base to digest, but it's not very interesting if you just want to see what actually happened on a particular day.

Someone on Hacker News a while back recommended the Wikipedia current events portal[0] and I have to say this feels like a more efficient way to consume the news. It feels less tied to trending topics and manufactured drama, and is more centered on what actually happened in the world that was especially notable on a particular day.

I feel like a lot of "news" that's reported in the American political media is just ideological argument, which after you've read the same argument for the nth time doesn't come across as very interesting any more.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
In Centrale o in Bolognina? "Fun" areas...

I grew up in what was then called la Pescarola (Zanardi / Marco Polo / Agucchi).
Michael Malice has some very insightful comments on this very subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9HqHzA3atQ&t=647s
> without anti-Trump snark suddenly appearing in there regardless of the subject matter (seriously, it was like there was a quota to meet),

This sounds like some sort of victimhood complex. I think you should understand that 54% of the country did not like that man, ever, and we gave outsized influence to the 46% that did at the expense of the otherwise silent majority. Joe Biden blew the doors off turnout in history despite never having blockbuster rallies like Donald Trump or his Democratic rivals.

> frame their fears and hopes, needs and concerns, in very patronizing ways

I don't really disagree, which should mean they would do the same for working class black folk in the same cities, yes? But no, they don't.

> If in Ohio—for the past 150 years perhaps the quintessential swing state—and Iowa Trump was 10 points up in the polls, the right conclusion was that the rest of the Midwest was swinging to him too

This is not a good example - when a state stops being within 2-3 points of the national margin (~+0 R in '04, +3 R in '08, +1 R in '12) and starts becoming +10 R and then +12 R in '16 and '20 it does stop being a bellwether.
It's not hard to get the address of data in 32-bit addressing. You just interleave the data inside your assembly, something like the following (pseudo code I haven't done this in a while):

...
call continue
.db "Hello World!\n\0"
continue:
pop eax
...

Since 'call' just turns into a 'push eip; jmp target' (simplified, sorry), the address of the string is now pushed onto the stack. Popping off the top, now eax contains the address of the string "Hello World!\n\0". Since in 32-bit ABI most parameters are passed on the stack, many times you don't even need to 'pop' the address off the stack, it'll just be part of your arguments to the function.

Old school malware used this a lot to 1) run regardless of the memory base address it was loaded at and 2) confuse some disassemblers (you can use silly conditionals that are always true or false to control whether you execute the 'call' instruction or not, forcing the disassembler to try and 'disassemble' the string into valid x86 opcodes)
Ask HN: Things to do/don't in the first week and the first month in a new job?
Looking for answers from the more experienced people here who have changed jobs multiple times in their career and were able to start making impact quickly in a new team, specially SWEs.
> The Santa Claus image was created by commercialism.

We Americans celebrating Christmas are definitely celebrating commercialism, though, so that checks out. :)
I don't think this article is necessarily arguing for centrism. Being able to understand the perspective of all sides of an issue doesn't mean your own views will necessarily fall directly in the "middle" of those perspectives. It probably does mean, however, that you're less likely to demonize those who disagree with you.
It's still there.. https://1password.com/1-for-business/
They allow the previous president airtime!? Quick, someone call the cops.
Isn't the exact same thing true of CNN and MSNBC, but just in the other direction?
> Until you can passionately make arguments for both sides, you don’t understand the issue.

Russ Roberts, host of the podcast Econ Talk, is really good at this. Independent of the guests political background, he does a good job of offering debate using a charitable interpretation of other people's arguments (even ones he doesn't disagree with). He also is pretty good at trying to find common ground with people he disagrees with, and when he realizes he's made a statement that would demonstrate his bias, he's pretty quick to call out his own bias.
I like Haskell as much as anyone, but this is pretty non-responsive. "main is usually a function" is a gcc warning, and the whole joke is that "usually" leaves some pretty broad questions. This post answers some of them.
> Go/Weiqi is also a computation problem given this argument.

I agree with the assessment that it is a computation problem.

As a go player for 25 years, I never thought that I would see a computer consistently beat a strong amateur in my lifetime (with many decades still theoretically left to live). Not only did I see it much sooner than I expected, but AI beats the best pros at an almost 100% win rate.

Within the Go community, there is consternation that a computer can make some moves that humans probably shouldn’t make due to the ability of the computer to follow up properly where humans cannot (yet).

This may change over time, but right now the computation part of the go world is much closer to expressing perfect play in a complete information game than humans are.

> What precludes asymmetric info games like poker from being "computation" problems, if one takes a wide enough view (to include the unknowns as the modeled state)?

Also as an avid poker player, I think many aspects of poker are rapidly leaning this direction, even though poker does not have complete information.

I’m not sure how much you know about the current poker scene, but GTO solvers have opened the poker world’s collective mind about what “good” play looks like, and the players are riding the tails of the computers in terms of strategic and tactical evolution.

In some formats, like heads up limit hold em, the game has been effectively solved.

Bringing it back to the original topic, I would love to see a GTO version of life. Even if it is hard to implement, it could provide a guide that informs decision making.

I personally don’t think I will see it in my lifetime. That said, like Go AI, I hope I’m wrong.
I have not. That's a great cast. I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip.
(2006)

https://web.archive.org/web/20060315081659/http://www.ex-par...
I read both the NYT and the Economist, they are quite different publications so not really comparable in my view.

That said, the editorial stance of the Economist comes through extremely clearly in their writings and they are unabashedly economically liberal.

Your characterization of NYT as being less ideologically diverse really doesn't match my experience.

Your list is incredibly West focused and honestly not that ideologically diverse, with the Guardian I guess supposed to take the "left" position.
Facebook buys Kustomer for $1B to expand into customer service tools
It seems that the change from WWF to WWE was mainly caused by a trademark dispute with the World Wildlife Fund, but they used the opportunity to emphasize their entertainment focus.

>Mrs. McMahon [(CEO of WWE)] said the company began considering dropping the word "Federation" from its name when World Wildlife Fund (a/k/a World Wide Fund for Nature) prevailed in a recent court action in the United Kingdom. The court ruling prevents the World Wrestling Federation from the use of the logo it adopted in 1998 and the letters WWF in specified circumstances. The "Fund" has indicated that although the two organizations are very different, there is the likelihood of confusion in the market place by virtue of the fact that both organizations use the letters WWF. The Fund has indicated that it does not want to have any association with the World Wrestling Federation. "Therefore," said, Mrs.McMahon, "we will utilize this opportunity to position ourselves emphasizing the entertainment aspect of our company, and, at the same time, allay the concerns of the Fund." [0]

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20090119180317/http://corporate....
India’s Gen Z is struggling to work from home, reveals a new survey
I personally think dogecoin is dumb, but I also don't think originalism is very useful to judge most creations. Plenty of creations take on a life that is nothing like the originator intended.
Zermelo's theorem for chess [1] emphasizes how different chess-like-games are from life.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%27s_theorem_(game_theo...
In this case the PPG sensor is pretty peripheral to the value proposition, which is why we can reduce it to just heart rate and still satisfy the needs of our customers (application developers). There are a number of other biometrics used which are more salient for what we're looking at, which is generally related to training people on new skills or relearning existing skills differently than they were originally learned.

Most of the applications so far are non-defense and pretty non controversial.

I'd genuinely be happy to talk about it with you offline but would rather not publically associate the product with that story because the product is pretty cool overall, and I'm a major technology skeptic in general so it takes me a lot to decide something is potentially valuable and not evil.

Also the main misunderstanding there was the point: "No, our API does not expose that raw PPG sensor data so no application developer could make that inference".

In terms of stepping back...I agree. I've done that on previous projects, left companies or forced gross changes in architecture to satisfy my conscience.

It really helps this time that I'm working with a lot of people who aren't afraid to share stories like this one and talk about them candidly, as well as share links on public internal Teams groups about all kinds of privacy concerns over biometrics (theres no fear of creating a paper trail which shows "we knew or should have known"). As we are building the "platform" rather than the applications, everyone genuinely seems to feel it's important to limit the harm that third party developers can cause. And for now at least, the product is actually quite hobbled by erring towards safety.

That said when you ask "what are the useful applications", that's a very difficult question for me to answer right now. Mainly I think the platform has a ton of potential, but each third party application development probably needs a lot more psychology doctoral level research to properly apply the platforms capabilities for each third party applications specific situation. And in lieu of that, developers have to either get lucky or have incredibly good intuition about the domains and people that they're creating applications for.
I watched something similar recently and I don't understand why it's so difficult for atheists to concede this point. I'm happy that Jesus argues for separation of church and state ("Render unto Caesar") and I don't need to find a non-religious inspiration. There are many examples of Christians coming up with good ideas. The fact that they did/do means very little in the debate regarding the existence of God.
Well obviously. I'm a bitcoin advocate.
ripgrep is absolutely fantastic software. If you're not using it yet I guarantee it's worth taking the time to install and learn basic usage.

On macOS: "brew install ripgrep" - then use "rg searchterm" to search all nested files in the current directory that contain searchterm.

You may be using it without realizing already: the code search feature in VS Code uses ripgrep under the hood.
Just bring a gun. People are so ready to allow gov to get wild, but gov will start to hesitate when people begin to express displeasure. For example, your friend gets held in contempt for not providing a password. You stick it to the state by murdering one cop or gov official per day until that person's release.

Of course, that relies on people giving up their lives to for the cause. But that's war.
But this is a bit of a false dichotomy. There is no reason why you would have to limit yourself to North-American sources here. Plenty of news agencies around the world have articles in English without the anglophone bias it may bring.

And even non-local sources may still bring some enlightenment. If you were trying to understand Brazilian politics but couldn't read any Brazilian sources, it would still be much better to read Anglo, European and, say, Middle Eastern reporting and then consider the differences in reporting and how they might be linked to their worldview.

Besides, oftentimes a simplistic and biased understanding whose inaccuracy is not understood is much worse than no understanding at all. At least in the second case you are aware of your ignorance and will probably be more weary of rash action.
How would the law define ‘support ends’?

Also seizing source code at gunpoint seems antithetical to the notion of free software.
> I keep seeing this suggestion, and it seems not to occur to the proponents that it would simply land someone with destruction-of-evidence charges.

Only if someone can prove the data was there in the first place.
I was wondering if https://www.jefit.com/ was going to pop up. Sounds quite similar and has been around for quite some time.

There are probably more similar solutions out there. Fitness apps are definitely an interesting space, where there are tons of them, but they seem to rarely marketing themself. Probably the customer acquisition cost would be higher than the custom lifetime value, i guess...
Open finance already exists. My neighbors and I trade tomatoes for lemons occasionally. Bartering is open finance. Shackling yourself to some meme token does not seem very open to me, compared to exchange of goods which has certainly stood the test of time and the rise and fall of countless societies. Can't really say the same for crypto.
Mathematical derivation and runnable code for a Reed-Solomon error-correcting code decoder: https://www.nayuki.io/page/reed-solomon-error-correcting-cod...
There was a significant period of time (~6 years) where one could upgrade to a free trial and downgrade again to the grandfathered free tier.

That feature was unfortunately removed some time in 2018.
Why not have a berm in the rear area that's designated for sighting in rifles? This is common in today's environment.
My $0.01: don't tell anyone if you find a way to automate something (if it's not in your job description). If you do automate something away (of your job), don't tell anyone you don't trust very much.
There exist many jobs/fields where the pay is below top market but could scratch the person's personal itches. Non-profits, research, etc.

At a former job we could not pay anywhere near top of the market and yet we attracted decent talent as the mission was something that resonated with many people. One category of people we'd attract were those who had already made enough money that they didn't have to focus on that, and now just wanted to do good in the world.
One thing I'd love to see here is better formatting of the instructions. The content is great, but I found it a little jumbled to read. Here's an image of the current format, and an image of a proposed format as an example of what I mean.

https://imgur.com/a/rXPU4nr
From snake oil to snake oil.
Anand isn't a regular-ol GM; Anand is a former world champion. These super-GMs spend thousands and thousands of hours studying the game. Generally super-GMs don't lose to anyone except other GMs in classical time formats.

If a super-GM does lose, then it's probably because they blundered. That's not what happened — Anand played well, but Kamath played basically a perfect game with an accuracy of 99%. There are a handful of people on the planet who can do that consistently in classical, and they are all rated 2700+.
When he does nothing but lie about election fraud on their airwaves? Pretty normal for a news company
Atheists celebrate Christmas. With family, gifts, Christmas songs and atmosphere. Just no God or Jesus.

Christmas is incredibly popular in Japan, which isn't very Christian at all.
Also ground source heat pumps can have COPs in the 4-4.5 range and also keep that performance through a wide temperature range unlike air source heat pumps. Sadly air source heat pumps COP really start to drop around 0F even with the new hyper heat models. Given that I would still probably prefer an air source heat pump over using heating oil or propane.