skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One example, without having read further into that particular study, but knowing what misinformation research tries to do, generally, would be the following:

Identifying the specific mechanisms behind the dark patterns of social engineering.

There is a body of research, for example, that considers the spread of rumors by making use of the same mathematical models that epidemiology uses to model the spread of infectious disease (virality, in particular).

As I recall, that body of research led to the conclusion that the best weapon against misinformation may be the liberal and broad application of truth-telling.
That's a fair comment. I don't think my comment reflects a fully rational decision and I could just use an app and log in. I don't need to have Reddit on my phone, it's entertainment I could take or leave.

However I do have sympathy for people who don't have any interest in becoming engaged users, and just want to see a useful comment thread for some particular info without all the hassle. The web is full of gates, walls and popups, and we don't all want to download the app and create an account for every site.
No. By real money I mean fait currencies
I see this as an incredible opportunity at some unknown date in the future: make a brain / neural implant that will just allow you to consume anything you throw at it. Not Evernote, but Neuralnote. Book mark it and while you sleep over 8 hours it interfaces with your REM sleep to inject it into your brain. Or whatever works.

Ignore the subliminal advertising, btw. It just pays for the bandwidth /s
The entire Android TV experience is one of constant tweaking of F-Droid, Aurora Store, and Bromite System Webview app updates with upstream adblocking, firewalling, and rooting in an attempt to stymie this sort of crap from Google and other big, bad corporations. I ditched all of that and now run Libreelec (Kodi) on a Pi4.
> Surely there's some good economical or political reason it.

Location tracking
Yes, if you do the math, the difference is a whopping 3 people. Basically, well within a statistical margin of error, and this is if we (wrongly) assume that the trend is 100% due to COVID.

Meanwhile, COVID affects other populations at a much greater degree. So, no statistical change in harm to children, and a much greater benefit for adults. That's why the restrictions make sense.
Not very confident in general. But I have written a LOT of raw CUDA code.
It only seems like a problem to me in a monopolistic setting. If it's easy to go from visa to mastercard to your bank's debit card to venmo and easy for newcomers to enter, I don't see the problem. It's a big if :(
It is a shame that we don’t have better tools, and that we are still hand-editing text files in order to write programs.

Imagine having an editor which automatically applied your local preferences around tabs/spaces, code formatting, variables up top vs nearest use, function definitions nested to minimize top-scope surface area vs all functions flat at top scope, etc etc etc

And when you are done editing, all of these local changes are reversed and you submit the minimal possible diff.

(and if we want to really talk pipe dreams, the dev only sees an AST editor and the underlying text is never even exposed in the first place)

Our tools are so far behind mostly because everyone’s thinking is still chained to 1970’s hand editing text files mentality. This is the flying car which isn’t being worked on because everyone is still thinking about making better bicycles.
Vocal Remover
Shannon's original paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" which introduced information theory is so accessible as to be useful as a tutorial itself:

http://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon...
The download links are broken on the berkeley website, so I am not able to proceed with trying the project out. There also are no examples on the github project of using the code or what sort of output could be expected, which would be very helpful I think.
That is certainly a take.

Storing small data, like function-local ints, pointers, etc, on the stack is beneficial due to L1$ prefetching semantics, but storing a 512KB scratchpad on the stack (which is what the article is about) will totally trash your L1$ and you'll have MORE cache misses than you would if that scratchpad was not on the stack.
The way to combat this is not to buy products that have this and then complain about them. The companies that make them do not care, they have already gotten your money.

The way to combat this is to not buy products that have this in the first place.

edit: a lot of comments are saying that the ads were added later, after purchase. This doesn't change my opinion at all, because people still bought products that have the capability for ads to be added retroactively. That is on you.

If you don't like the option of it happening, and as this example illustrates it can clearly happen, then do not buy products that have the capability of having ads added retroactively to the product.
Hospitalization is generally mandated for any expression of an immediate intent to kill one's self, even if there isn't an attempt at all. So there is a line-drawing problem; if someone says they tried to kill themselves even if what they tried obviously wouldn't work (e.g. surface-level cuts away from blood vessels) their attempt could "result in hospitalization" even though hospitalization would have theoretically resulted even if no attempt had been made.
Good idea!

Can't find too many 256gb sized USB 2.0 drives though, on Newegg at least.

A search for "usb 2.0 256" on amazon.ca only shows 3.0 drives!
Twitter thread from a dev: https://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/14085012588523110...
I wonder whether we will sometime see RISC-V as a "replacement" (Either official by Intel/AMD or unofficial because of being better) on desktop PCs.
effing downvoters on blockchain topics. get an effing grip
If you sit someone who doesn't know How Links Work in front of some text with an inline hyperlink in it, then try to get them to copy it over to another place, you end up wanting to get to this default pretty quickly. "Right click copy link address" is real unintuitive. I've never wanted the text formatting itself to come over, bold text and headings and whatnot, but since that lives in about the same conceptual space, it's a casualty of design.
Kodi also works surprisingly well as Android app :) sorrily way snappier than on the RPI (v4, 8gb ram I think) that was explicitly recommended from the kodi website :/
Say you have a source of A, and a way of turning an A into a source of B. An operation that uses these two inputs to produce a source of B is a monad.

Did you mean to write "Say you have a source of A, and a way of turning an A into a B. An operation that uses these two inputs to produce a source of B is a monad"?

What exactly do you consider a "source"? And the way of turning an A into a B I would call a function. And combining the "source of A" with a function that converts A's into B's, a concationation or composition of functions, or a way of currying.

And yes, I am fully aware, that you sometimes need to learn the vocabulary to have a minimum discussion. But considering I have a degree in math and CS, have learned at least 10 programming languages, especially Lisp with all of its contexts, I am highly suspicious about something that cannot expressed in plain language. But thanks, your explanation comes closest I have seen so far.
Honestly I'm pretty glad that Reddit's UI is so terrible. I don't need more places to waste time on the internet.
Is the effort knowing, when to reach out yourself instead of a tool reminding you? Or is the effort about spending time with a person?

I use a running tracker, but I still have to run myself.

And how often do people reach out on their own? Often it’s seeing a post in a feed or some other trigger. Is that more authentic?

The willingness to add a reminder and spend time shows that you care about a person.
Yeah absolutely. My personal measure for a the "cohesion-prowess" of a society is how much they screw around with plain text, opaque binary data, etc. vs take the time to properly create rich data structures for interfaces.

Taking the time and deep breath to write nice interfaces rather than scrambling and putting all the effort into implementations ignoring the larger picture of how human endeavors compose seems very fundamental. It reminds me also of the slogan

> A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.
This isn't good general advice. The vast majority of projects aren't going to need to cherry pick commits to such old branches, and overly limiting style fixes and refactorings is a good way to ossify a code base.
My mistake. I took this statement in isolation: "...consider that machine learning libraries are frequently written by grad students on their path to discovery. It's a domain expert with poor programming skills. Or it might be a case of a good programmer who only barely understands the domain…"
How do you propose people don’t buy products that have ads added to them in the future?
It seems to me that there are two different kinds of "rational" at play here. It might certainly be rational to accept a religious viewpoint and way of life to make use of the positive secondary effects you mention, but this won't make the core belief (here, belief in a god) any more rational, no? I'm interested in your take on this.
Git stores snapshots, not diffs, and therefore could just as well be considered storing ASTs. The trick is writing a useful diff/merge for them. Programmers also don’t think in ASTs, arguably even less so than lines. The problem is not as formal as it looks.
Must not have been above 85C as I can still type without wincing!
As far as I understand the product was bought first and the ads came later with an update.
Like the otter box for example: https://hackaday.com/2021/04/06/you-otter-be-able-to-stream-...
First, you're assuming everyone is out for the same thing. There are and will be centralized blockchains and services that meet specific needs. That's okay.

Second, it is not always a bad thing to have one fewer level of government, which is what centralization brings. A decentralized platform still operating within national regulations is like not having an HOA on your home. Not always a benefit, but usually, and especially over time.
The products didn't have the ads when they bought them.
Right but the bday card from your dentist does not expect a subsequent back and forth.
I'm not immediately convinced that "effectively changing the shape" is a coherent idea. The lift effect either crucially depends on the actual, unchanging shape of the aerofoil or it doesn't. Flying upside-down proves that it doesn't. Maybe all we're disproving is a straw-man of a "Bernoulli-ist" position, but we're disproving it all right.

EDIT: trying to think what you might mean by "effectively changing the shape". Do you just mean that an upside-down aerofoil is a reflection of the aerofoil the right way up? Because that's the entire point of the argument you seem to be trying to rebut.
There are unofficial front-ends available, such as Teddit:

• https://teddit.net/

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25310206
Deleted gene sequences confirm COVID circulated before Wuhan seafood market
I prefer using Adapter-Variants:

SanDisk MobileMate with a fast MicroSD

Noname NVMe Adapter with a used Intel Optane or Samsung 950/960/970 Pro/Evo

For USB Sticks I use SanDisk Ultra Flair.
I’d love to buy a “dumb” tv. How do I do that?
Somewhere along the line, we really lost it in software.

A few decades ago I paid about $1000 for a one MEGABYTE memory upgrade, and even that was needed only because a single graphics application at that time could clearly benefit from the extra RAM to do more things.

Now? I have 32 GIGABYTES of RAM, and we are celebrating that a chat client has now managed to find a way to use a slightly less absurd amount of memory, and has graciously returned some of our massive computing resources to us? This app barely does anything!! The apps that require all that power should at least be more useful...right?

As far as I can tell, every person on the planet is using more battery power and upgrading their machines more often just to make up for the laziness of software companies. In exchange for the ability of software teams to “easily” write one obnoxious cross-platform beast, we all get to burn through our CPUs and memory. These companies have more than enough money to invest in writing software for different platforms using the heavily-optimized system frameworks on those platforms.
That doesn't make sense as this was added additionally, so when people purchased their devices the ads were not present.

To quote one review verbatim:

> I purchased two premium-priced Nvidia Shield TV's and loved them until yesterday. That was the day Google began forcing huge dominating ads on the home screen. These ads are for content in services that I haven't eve subscribed to or installed, they're totally irrelevant and obnoxious, and there is no way to disable them. It's offensive to force ads like this in a premium-priced product well after the return window is over. It's a bait-and-switch and I can only hope they realize this and make it right with the users.
My personal theory is a lot of universities got into “UI design” but basically just had print design teachers teaching the courses. Plus UI design with depth and complex elements requires more talent than flat design. IMO it’s a generation of lowering the bar so people with less technical ability can participate in design
I mostly agree. When I'm focused on something, I tend to isolate myself. I forget to contact people. I care but I'm just distracted.

I would prefer reminders of "You haven't called your Mom in X days". Set configurable threshholds of how often you want to contact different people but still require you to actually do it.
This is absurdly reductionist; they could also not ship a game, and less people wold buy it because it is known to not have shipped therefore not shipping the game is about profit, when it might be because the game itself isn't finished.
In theory you can plug any three-way merge tool into git. I’d love to see merge tools that are syntax aware and can merge asts more than line text.
I hated FireTV exactly because of the ads. Now I am using Roku comes with the TV. Roku has ad too, but not overwhelming.

In the future, maybe the only choice is no-brand Android TV box/ stick which has ads removed.
I can’t think of a technology sector where this logic isn’t true.

I also can’t think of a technology sector where the naive/new/low level/clueless don’t also assume this is not true.

Even manufacturing. ASICs. Software. Everything.
See the thing about COVID is that you can spread it to other people who are much more likely to die.

> Why havn't all restrictions across the land (including masks and endless testing) ceased immediately?

"across the land"? What kind of medieval clown talk is that lol
Well in an ideal world, Liskov’s substitution principle applies and you only ever care about interface changes.
This was better than the tutorial, thank you.
Typing is just another guardrail, it's not a substitute for finding the right abstractions and keeping things simple.
Samsung T7 throttles to never reach temps higher than 45°C (but write speed falls to 50Mb/s)
Sorry what? So you have to go read a news site if it is OK to update your packages? What the hell is the point of having "rolling distro with all the new shit" if you have to be constantly afraid if you can update your packages or not?

>you should upgrade often

But you litereally started by saying that upgrading any given Friday is not quranteed to leave you with working OS
I switched careers at 31. The way I deal with interviews boils down to taking shit from strangers until something good comes along.

If the person interviewing me is in their 20s, I am not getting the job no matter what That's been my experience
I’m this same world, you don’t make breaking changes without a new version of the interface. I like living in fantasy land :)
There is something stopping you from running the proof against your implementation!

Proof-checking happens only at compile time.

The implementation that you want to prove things about is only available at runtime!

Non-availability (incompleteness) of information is what is preventing you…
The Pentagon UFO Report Is Deeply Troubling for US Security Experts
People bought devices that did not show the ads. Now Google has forced those ads onto those devices. So, hindsight being 20/20, this is yet another abuse.
That's a good metaphor for what is going on.
It's very straightforward: do not buy products that have the capability to have ads added to them retroactively.

There is zero way any of the three televisions in my house will have ads added to them unless someone physically comes into my home and replaces the television sets.
Won’t happen under our current socioeconomic regime. If there is profit to be made, fossil fuels will be sold unless there are drastic changes made to the systems which allow it.
No, that’s not illegal for somebody without a clearance.

The crime he’s charged with is that he was willing to (and I think did?) assist in breaking into a computer system to get the docs. I think under the CFAA. They have communication records of this because the person he was talking to was working for the USG.

Had he just been accepting docs as he was initially that would have been fine.

It’s hard to know the truth here though when nation state interests are at play. To what extent were the sex related charges against him political or flared up by nation state meddling?

At some point Russia was also using Wikileaks as a place to target the USG with some plausible deniability and Assange’s personal anti-US politics became a corrupting influence too.

So, who knows?
> "Just stick your hand out the window while driving on the highway and tilt it slightly, you'll see."

this is really all the intuition most people need to understand flight, even if it leads to an incomplete understanding. it's easy to feel the air pushing on the bottom of your hand when you tilt it up (or top, when tilted down). what's not obvious is that there is also lift created on the top side at the same time, but that can subsequently be learned in high school physics (or fluid dynamics in college, which is where it really stuck for me).
I think the part you're missing is that this is supposed to be followed up by actual conversations and interactions.

There are a great many friends where Life Happens™ and although I genuinely care about them, I haven't contacted them in months / years (and vice versa) because I'm not generally the type to initiate small-talk. That doesn't mean I don't enjoy catching up with friends and going over the little things in our lives, it's just not something I naturally do. Having an app that helps you keep in touch with the people you care about (if you don't care why would you bother to set up an app) seems helpful.

And I think stating that this is not introversion but more like psychopathy is a bit beyond the pale. It can be hard for introverts to kickstart conversations with people they haven't talked to in a while for various reasons, none of which are "because they're a sociopath". They might feel like they're intruding or they might have confidence issues which cause them to feel that messaging people out of the blue will make them seem weird, even if neither of those things are actually true from the other person's perspective.
The Dawn of Formalized Mathematics
Just buy a cheap smart one and attach a device that fully controls it via hmdi. My bedroom TV boots to Kodi and the original remote is attached as well as a small keyboard. Basically the best solution I found
My parents have an Android TV and often have to reboot it to for the internet connection to work. Makes all the streaming apps a pain to use.
I'm not sure if this is the right direction, I have some USB 2.0 drives that get hot, too.
I can’t tell if this is meant as a counter or not. Literally the pool of people who really understand capital S Software is tiny.

I’ve worked with thousands who don’t and maybe two dozen who do.
Today, on episode 42 of /Putting Things In-Band Doesn't Make Them Go Away/ ...
There's some interesting classes by Al Bartlett on youtube where he discusses population growth and the exponential function in general, he was a professor at Boulder, CO.

One of his salient points IIRC was when you're living through an exponential curve that's approaching some crisis threshold, be it population growth leading to civilization collapse, or some resource consumption exhausting its supply, it happens very abruptly because you jump from just halfway to the end, which through a linear lens appears very distant, to at the critical end, in just a single doubling period.
What's worse with Secret Santa is they didn't have to take it over in the first place. Community / active users ran it. Which is what (feeling like used to) makes Reddit special. AND they aren't giving the keys to the exchange back to the original creator...

Now starting over in a new user run sub but it is super sh*ty behavior.

They tried the marketplace idea too with reddit gold etc. wasn't that also originally a co-opted user created joke like silver? and they seem to be changing that too? though I can't find the mod post so maybe I'm not remembering correct?
Walmart sells Sceptre brand TVs. They make 4K dumb TVs up to 75".
how else to explain the fact that number of attempts is higher for women yet number of suicides is lower? it means number of attempts can't predict number of suicides, so it is counting something unrelated.
I did this for ages. It sucks. Maintenance, broken things all the time, bugs, ugh.

I just torrent stuff on my Mac now and use a USB stick to ship it to my dumb TV.
I use my app for birthdays like that. There’s a button that opens the conversation in whatever app I use for this person (WhatsApp, Telegram, Email, …).

It’s definitely good to maintain your own contact data somewhere. People delete FB accounts and FB changes all the time. They used to have APIs for birthdays, but they’re gone. So there’s no control unless you own the data.
You just linked to a blog by someone who is not a climatologist. Seek out better resources to understand the timescales and gravity of the situation better. I suggest the carbon brief, realclimate.com, and this super helpful blog on tipping points: https://climatetippingpoints.info/

Not skeptic or denialist sites.
I'm sure, because I took it out of the box and did the first time setup. WiFi is standard WPA2. Printer is a Canon Pixma TR4527.

Here's the process, for those interested. And I did work hard to see if there's any other way.

1. You download the printer "install software" from Canon's website.

2. Run the installer. It makes you read a long legal agreement, including that you won't use the printer for any antisocial purposes.

3. And then asks for your permission to install monitoring software to collect data from your printer. Probably including whatever confidential documents you print? Apparently in China all this stuff gets sent automatically to a "research firm".
Oh yeah, and if you don't agree, it installs the software anyway but they say they won't use it.

4. The printer initially acts as its own WiFi access point. Your PC disconnects from its router and connects to the printer. What if your neighbour has the same printer? Who knows. Maybe you'd connect to that too.

5. The PC then connects back to the router's WiFi network... And the printer does 's too. Somehow. Never gave it the WiFi password. But I'm guessing it just asked my PC very politely.

Scary stuff.
What apps do you need? I use mine for watching video, and the video apps (YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Sling, Prime Video, ESPN, etc.) work well for me.