skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nowhere did I claim that there were equally slanted liberal compared to conservative changes. Are we going to play the "reality has a well known liberal bias" game? Am I supposed to find articles on wikipedia that claim Biden lost the election or that no one should get a vaccine? I mean, this is a political statement: "Now that we have tons of vaccines, every death due to covid is a travesty." You know at least in the USA it's hard to find mainstream media that is conservative because those views have become so asinine. Is that my problem? Is that Wikipedia's problem?

What next? Are you going to complain that 98% of college professors are liberal? Okay, go change it. Enjoy trying to get people who enjoy liberal endeavors to promote conservative views. Am I shocked that the people who want to freely edit and debate articles on a website for no profit happen to slant liberal? Not really.

> (I don't think this is possible, therefore I think you are wrong)

What part exactly was I wrong about? I suggested you look at articles from 30-50 years ago and point out the liberal slant. Instead you invented a claim that I did not make so that I would be incorrect. Strawman.

If we cared enough about this, we'd all be reading conservapedia.com.
Safety critical systems are not a good fit for a blockchain-based resolution to the Byzantine General problem. Safety critical systems need extremely low latency to resolve the conflict fast. So blockchain is not going to be an appropriate choice for all critical applications when there are multiple low-latency solutions for BFT at a very low ms latency and IIRC, microseconds for avionics systems.
Sahara desert = Desert desert. Does not make sense. I learned that here on HN
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not when they get slammed with your "abuse of a corpse" lawsuit
Why did USSR pursue Venus? Surely a far harder target for success than Mars. (At least given the nasty planetary conditions). Imagine how cool it would be to have worked on something that landed on Venus. Whew.
One big problem that the report doesn't (I think) cover is that the current social media venues encourage competition - it's not a discussion and understanding amongst friends or family (or god forbid strangers), it's a competition for likes, follows, and reposts.

Even HN suffers from this - but far less than other places. Poor replies to popular comments will receive more views, there are few detailed conversations, just people sharing their view and leaving, opinions from often very knowledgeable people can get lost in hundreds/thousands of other comments.
Think of transportation as trading off against housing. If housing were cheaper and more abundant, transportation would be truly discretionary. As it is, cheaper house in the US usually means car+long commute, with associated depreciation and fuel costs.
It's broken from the point of view of the article writers. It's working just fine from the point of view of the companies operating it.
PowerTOP 2.14 on Arch Linux suggests med_power_with_dipm for me!
> No one wants to pay directly for social media unlike in person experiences though so we have what we have.

For the longest time I paid for MeWe, hoping they'd introduce pseudonyms and become a non Google Google+.

I would actually have paid for Google+ too if they had kept it around.
AWS: This is my architecture
Although brief and US-specific, this books gives a good overview: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36055478-payments-system...

As a spoiler, most of these institutions communicate by exchanging text files over SFTP or similar.

As for Blockchain, I'd start with Satoshi's Bitcoin paper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Disclaimer: I work at Stripe.
LMAO. But reading code is ,hard, especially when you want to contribute to FUD.
And it would be promptly irrelevant because someone would just make "free twitter" and dominate the market again.
The reflexive satire and irony is one of the problems of social-media age.

Satire and irony used to be effective. In last 20-years cynical distance and ironic posturing have become so prevalent that it is no no longer considered subversive. Citizens can consume outrage passively through various satirical media products, displacing outrage and abstaining from more active forms of resistance.

People consume satirical content, and think they are above it all, while just participating in cynical ha-ha.
We have learned so much over the decades of using C. Lowest-visibility-by-default is just one of the many good choices of Rust and other C successors. The example here is for codegen benefits but reducing visibility benefits encapsulation too.
Shadowing Methods for Forward and Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis of Chaotic System
Sublime Merge?
It is becoming harder and harder to install software on systems without internet connectivity. More and more things assume they can hit maven or npm or random other places at deploy time; even expensive well regarded third party software. At least Golang deploys are ok. (Source: running prod systems with a mandate of no internet connectivity).
I agree completely. It would be great to see content licenses that were “viral” towards ML the way GPL is within code, plus restrictions on fair use for this kind of thing. Then if you want to use everyone’s collective labor, you have to give back as well.

Instead, we just see everyone using the “all rights reserved” license, and the commercializer saying who cares it’s fair use.
Way back in the stumbleupon days I stumbled onto the flat earth society message boards. It was clear to me that everyone involved knew it was satire; just a tongue-in-cheek dig at the way any conspiracy theory, no matter how outrageous, could be made plausible if you throw enough crazy at it.

Fast forward 10+ years and people actually believe it. Someone recently launched themselves in a homemade rocket to prove with their own eyes the flatness of the earth (and died for their efforts).

I love birdsarentreal, but part of me isn't looking forward to finding out what happens to it as more people come across it.
Ummm

Social media behavior and design is driven by the users in no small fashion.

The big companies merely amplify the dominant behaviors.

Remember the Instagram, Facebook and Twitter linear timelines???

Yeah. I thought you did.

The companies merely made it more attractive by amping up what’s most popular or what we like.

Social media cannot be fixed by big tech.

It takes users to fix it.

It’s just a mirror for our basest instincts.
Completely agree.

Whenever html attributes start containing logic is when the templating engine has just implemented its own programming language - poorly.
vi inspired the concept of the GUI.

Then Electron sent many of us back to vi in search of lost CPU cycles.

-- A JavaScript Dev
The abstract on that paper makes it seem like the study pertains to medical equipment, not telecommunications.
Humans are perfectly capable of performing horrific acts at a massive scale without religion.
You’d be surprised how easy it is to detect lies. Ask most people (and no doubt the authors of this are included) and they’ll tell you “they’re told by my political opponents and those who disagree with me”.
I think it’s important to acknowledge that a) you’re absolutely right and government contracts are a brilliant extreme example of this but also b) regulations are precisely the things that allow markets to exist at scale.

We often talk about regulations in terms of volume, but the actual details matter.
If you have a legal argument, please make it. If you're going to make random, incorrect, unsubstantiated statements, this might not be the best forum for it.

I'm not going to engage in a flame war here. I clearly laid out references to relevant parts of the law: (1) What a license is and is not needed for under US copyright law (2) purpose of the GPL, and (3) distinction between copyright and data rights.

If you have any sort of citation for this nonsense, please post it. Otherwise, I'm checking out here.
I haven’t compared power consumption for a full cycle of active use at 400MHz flat and 1.2GHz flat. I should try it. But as to whether it’s worth reducing the idle frequency, I doubt it: I observe no measurable difference between the two frequencies at idle—though it’s made harder by the fact that the /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/power_now figure seems to take some time, even minutes, to reach a steady point, e.g. slowly drifting down from 7W to 6.6W. And the lowest it’ll reach seems to vary a lot, e.g. sometimes it won’t drop below 6.6W, and other times it’ll settle to 6.1W, about the lowest I’ve measured. But at 400MHz flat it can’t quite get it to 9W with a dozen or so `while True: pass` busy loops in Python, while at 5W (1.2GHz) I can get it up to almost 11.5W. (And then I throw it into boost mode and watch it climb rapidly to 64W while remaining dead silent, and wonder why the fan isn’t roaring away as it’s supposed to in boost mode and what of my fiddling just now prevented it from doing its job.) Even these comparisons aren’t great because of the lack of GPU load. Wonder if I can throttle that at all?
Well not many are after actually fixing it. If anyone clams to be worried about climate change and doesn't support nuclear power I stop listening.
One of the biggest problems I have with professional software (eg. Bitwig, Ableton Live, Sony Vegas) is that I lose interest in learning how they work after the initial learning curve. All of those programs have a featureset that can be fully explored and understood in a few weeks, or perhaps months for the more complicated stuff.

I have been using Blender for 6 years, and still have seen less than half of the features. It's not for lack of searching, but Blender's density is hugely under-appreciated in the industry. If you're a creative or artist in any capacity, Blender has features that you can take advantage of right away.

Familiar with NLEs? Hop into the video splicer and play around!

Comfortable mesh editing? Stay in the modelling view!

Wanna get your hands dirty? Sculpting is just a tab away!

Perhaps the most impressive part of Blender is that it's provided for free, in a tiny download, with a deeply caring userbase that maintains it. Here's to another decade of Blender releases!
Lots of non-technical fud.

It's actually really funny because you get to see how poor everyone's technical literacy is. They pretend to be ,very, smart. But then claim a bash script part of the build is selling your soul to Russia or something.
Climate change is what right wing pundits started saying in the 90s instead of saying global warming. It was an attempt to obfuscate things. Words and phrasing of things change over time. It’s not the words used that matter; it’s the data. The trend line is clear. The increase in co2 is undeniable. The melting of ice is undeniable.
I don't think it's accurate that "lay-users" prefer the new UI. Perhaps the metrics have improved, but in my experience I have heard nothing but frustration from my non-technical peers when it comes to the new dark patterns which Reddit has been implementing.
When your graphics model is Display PostScript (and then PDF)....
You've identified a number of real things here, but you've also swallowed a few whoppers. "CRT" was originally something that a few scholars discussed in university settings. Now it is mostly a non-existent right-wing bogeyman that YouTube weirdos hype for clicks. No one is going to teach your little daughters and sons that they are inherently evil. (Although, isn't that the Christian doctrine of Original Sin?) However, some of their better teachers might teach some history that you didn't learn in school.
History trivia: the "essential Liberty" Franklin was talking about was not any personal or individual liberty. It was the liberty of the government to tax property. The "purchase" he was talking about was literally buying things with money.

The Pennsylvania Assembly wanted to raise money to defend the frontier during the French and Indian war by taxing land. The Governor kept vetoing this at the behest of the Penn family, which owned a lot of land that would be hit by any such tax, each time finding some objection that Franklin and the Assembly found made little sense.

Franklin wrote to the governor arguing that the Assembly should not have to give up its liberty to exercise taxing power over the Penn family lands in order to raise money for defense.
At least in some European countries fiber goes to a GPON terminal in the apartment and then proceeds via Ethernet cable to the home router.

I'd guess the co-ax cable is probably a US-only practice.
Algorithms are not subject to copyright. Writing and copying an inverse square root is fine, doesn't matter if it's human, computer or alien.

The trouble is verbatim copy of original copyrightable code, with an attached license that doesn't allow it. Github is most likely in violation because it's doing just that.

However that specific square root square example may or may not be a violation. There's a difficult question of what constitutes original copyrightable work, a trivial well defined algorithm isn't, a larger code with comments could be.
Lignin can be broken down in aerobic conditions by peroxidase and a series of other fungal enzymes, it only forms those energy dense forms under anaerobic conditions and probably requires high pressures. The reason it is so difficult and only breaks down through oxidation is because it is quite complex, unlike the homogenous polymer chains of plastic that have many repeating monomers.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Chemical-structure-of-li...
In cases where the living person exists they can chime up (at least in the typical cases) that someone is stealing there identity. In the dead person case, the dead person cant testify on their own behalf.
The speculative stuff around this is super fun. Proceed at your own risk.

How does an animal stumble on the existence of geometry? Impaired sensory input creates feedback loops that yield periodic patterns. How does it begin apprehend the scope of something greater than its senses? Impairing those senses and seeing the edges. How do ancient people hear supposedly divine messages? Inhaling smoke from burning plants that contain substances that cause said impairment, like if a common regional bush that contained these substances caught fire, on a mountain somewhere, just randomly. If the knowledge from this tree that contained this chemical were forbidden, how would you preserve it? Rituals, symbols, allegories, etc. Who would forbid it and why?

Bonkers fun! I should pitch the Ancient Aliens people on a hallucinogens spinoff. If only there were someone with the right hair.

While I'm partially joking, there is a deep internet rabbit hole on that stuff, and given we've evolved video games where you discover random things within the system to level up - and if we were in one (as some prominent tech figures suspect), we could probably find similar hints encoded in what we percieve as the biology of this one. It would be part of the design. To close the loop on the analogy, the logical substrate of a video game is in effect its own "biology," so to Super Mario, those mushrooms were as real as he was.

When you look at how as biological entities, we have evolved our own artificial game systems where we practice "leveling up" using found artifacts within the games, and it seems reasonable that this is self-similar to the rules and our experience of the world.

In that worldview, these plants, while of our same logical substrate, alter our perception of our physics and biology, and create a different experience of it where we percieve it without the same rules, and these are the clues within our logical layer that there is an encompassing set of rules to be discovered. Literally everything is a clue.

The shamanistic rituals aren't there to make us believe in spirits, they are wisely and sufficiently ridiculous to make the leveled up experience seem somehow sufficiently un-real and dismissable so that we can take from it and re-engage constructively on this level after acquiring knowledge of what's beyond.

Who wants to be on the show? :)
This comment must be bait.
If there were any expressions that took the address of the variable, then even both `static const` qualifiers wouldn't work for a sufficiently paranoid compiler.
The term "unit test" can mean a lot of things (which is very unfortunate).

Does it mean:

- A test of some of the requirements that can be done very fast. (That's my preferred form when involves a large part of the code)

- A test of a small piece of code that makes a lot of assumptions about other code by mocking it. (Not a good idea, but it might work in your organization)

P.S. I did not read your post, while I was writing mine.
Ask HN: How do you share knowledge in your company?
Sharing knowledge has always been a difficult task in the companies that I worked for. Surprisingly, it's something that everybody wants and still very hard to achieve. I see companies paying for courses and books, but people sharing what they´ve learned is difficult to see (at least in my experience).

Some ways of sharing the knowledge I tried is:
- Start study groups, where at each meeting someone is accountable for the topic;
- Some kind of "programming/technology drops", where people post on Slack what they've learned;
- Open tech talks schedule where everyone can show something.

I would like to hear from you what strategy do you or your company use to spread knowledge of general technologies or stuff that only applies to the context of the team. Also, how to find ways of engaging people in doing so. Thanks!
Because he has reached a conclusion. Anything further can be safely ignored if it doesn't fit that conclusion.

Never let someone tell you what unit tests are.
I'm surprised the none of the things I want are mentioned. here's (some) of my ideas:

1. know who you talk to
if you want to stay anonymous, use an anonymous platform. HOWEVER, that guy you entered a twitter shitstorm with? might as well be some 12 year old, broken english, russian troll. that chick who messaged you? 56 year old chinese gypsy.

2. mark content type
sarcasm is (imo) very important. but in the wrong context, lack of context, it can be horribly confused.

3. exact timestamp
I don't want to see a post is from "few months ago" (hidden, in a small text similar to the background color). I want posts to be color coded by age & type.

4. exact definitions
my language isn't the same as your language. even if we both speak English, there are different meanings to different cultures, regions, etc. if something is ambiguous or unknown, I'd like to get a dictionary definition as reference.

5. I don't care about likes. or views. I want to see views/likes ratio. if a post has 1000 likes is it good? maybe, unless it has 1m impressions. or it's exceptional if it has 2000 impressions. that's a far better measure for quality

and there's more if I just keep thinking about it. probably a lot more
What does the energy of the Earth’s core have to do with climate? Outside of the effects of volcanoes I can’t think of anything.
It feels like you think you’re disagreeing with me but I agree with everything you wrote.
1. FUD
2. FUD
3. FUD

Seriously you add crash reporting to your app and all the idiots who can't read swarm like flies. Reddit and HN actually sell your info, and they're using this for crash reporting.

My head hurts so badly.
4°C being the "optimal" change and his damage function ignoring pretty much how balanced system works is not soft denial then.

Soft denial is saying "climate change does exist, but its impact on the population will be lower than mesures destined to curb it". I hope his grandchildren and great-grandchildren will hear this speculation.
I only go to Twitter through links from here or reddit and I still get error pages pretty often.
People definitely used to pay for online socialization they’d just prefer free with advertisements.
Can anyone share evidence that it's organized?
A stock market for content creators
The context is a paragraph describing a mathematical concept, not specifying the protocol. Any standardese imperative (SHOULD/MUST/...) is out of place here. It should read "The result is the same."
I agree. Static alone was the incorrect choice. If the global were being modified elsewhere in the file then this optimization would also not be possible.

The core optimization is modulus % constant (and a power-of-2 as well). The static just enabled the optimizer to do better heavy lifting to get there. A const would've made the intent clear to the human reader and the compiler.

static const would've been best.
> 1) You don't need a license to look at things.

While correct, using protected works in an AI model requires some form of reproduction. In Canada, even the loading of information into RAM is considered a reproduction (although such reproductions may be excluded from infringement under s. 30.71 of the Copyright Act, RSC 1985, c C-42).

> 2) And data can't be copyrighted.

True, but data is often an abstraction of other expressions that are protected by copyright. Additionally, compilations of data and database structures attract different protections in various jurisdictions. E.g. sui generis database rights in the EU.
On the other hand, some companies are so skittish they won't let you download GPL software.

By using GPL where you shouldn't you're putting your whole company at risk.

It's only a matter of time before lawyers come along smelling blood.
I’m glad you posted the follow up comment because I missed your point at first. But I can actually see your point, that maybe he’s making a political statement to avoid the more ugly truth.

It does sound like a hassle to be famous enough to get cancelled. I like the idea of niche fame, where you’re some huge fish in a tiny pond - just enough to make a living but not enough to get cancelled by the horde
You could but it would indeed be arbitrary.
The first 10 or so sounds extremely dangerous!
That's because monetisation via serving food/alcohol sales (in moderation) can enhance the socialisation experience, so its a win-win.

Because big media got hooked on advertising revenue and news became subsidised and we got news/information cheaply, we'd been collectively taught that fact generation and dispersion costs were neglible (although they're not, work and energy is required and this was offset by the ad. revenue).

Move this to the digital space where information flows at close to light speed and you can accurately measure all sorts of marketing stuff - it just goes faster to the point of absurdity. Whatever value we can create via connectivity gets trashed by being subverted or obverted by corporate interests.

I'm now pissed off because I pay youtube $x per month not to be interrupted by ads, and now the content creators have their own ads in their content.

When you scale out, it becomes a sad picture of humanity that is excitedly self-reinforcing monetisation of things via interruption of engagement/continuity.

Actual value is evapourating.

No wonder we're all getting ADHD.

The spaces that are mostly simple and left alone are where interesting things can still continually occur. That's precisely why HN is actually still going strong.
There is no lack of competition, but due to the network effect (and probably other things), the largest social networks aren't going anywhere.
I have a friend that spends 500$ / month on water alone. This person thinks they might have a pool leak, but hasn't looked into in the past 2 years.

My parents use 900kwh of electricity / month and complain that PG&E are ripping them off when their bill is 400$ / month. Have they bothered to do anything to bring down their consumption? Nope.

I have a T2 diabetic friend that complains about the cost of insulin, yet refuses to exercise and loose weight.

People have not been suckered into anything. Most people lack the agency to change their circumstances.