skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When i was in the Air Force, people got citizenship for serving... How are they being deported?
Given the example of last two years, what are the chances people see through anything.
This is a fantastic write-up. Worth a read even if you don’t care about CRDTs.
I think their argument is a little more subtle than that -- the issue isn't really that there are no negative results, but rather that the shape of the distribution of results is funny.

They're saying you'd expect the results to follow a normal distribution centered at some value. Instead, we see a large number of studies clustered just above zero and a right tail, but no left tail. I think they're arguing that this is because the left side of the distribution is unpublished, and without knowing what it looks like, you can't come to a conclusion.
>is at variance with reality.

Also, what does this mean? Please explain.
Nah, it's specifically related to government contracts according to the recruitment email footer.
It is a ridiculous breach of trust to abuse an engineering test platform to push advertising software directly onto a users computer without consent.
> It’s not sorcery, it’s “magic” – in the sense of being a parlor trick, something that seems baffling until you learn the underlying method, whereupon it becomes banal.

I think part of the problem is the belief that human or animal intelligence is somehow more mystical.

People who think like this will see an ML implementation solve a problem better and/or faster than a human and counter "well, it's just using statistical inference or pattern recognition" and my response is "so?" Humans use the same processes and parlor tricks to understand and replay things.

Where humans excel is in generalizing knowledge. We can apply bits and pieces of our previous parlor tricks to speed up comprehension in other problem spaces.

But none of it is magic. We're all simple machines.
Yeah I did the same I taught myself Java while I was getting my MFA, it wound up costing me $478,000 to pay off my MFA in a field where the average income is $17,000 a year.
This does seem to be a situation where a one-size solution of reducing excess body weight is recommended. Much better outcomes for those who have more reasonable BMI.
We can't say this because of political correctness, so we focus on less effective mask virtue signalling
while stuffing our pie holes.
It depends. Urine is not pleasant, but is usually safe to work with. I’d rather smell than suffer brain damage. :)
This is absolutely the case. When I was in physics, I was told that the moderation policies had previously been more strict and were only relaxed after one of the quacks was rejected and murdered someone in retaliation. I don't know for certain whether that's true or an urban legend, but it was told to me by a physicist who would never joke or lie about something like that.

There's also viXra [1] which is like arXiv for fringe content that arXiv won't accept. One of the people who publishes there underwent a huge email spoofing campaign where they would send emails from one of my coworkers to others in the field promoting the papers. It was a really difficult situation because the coworker didn't know exactly who they were being sent to unless they replied, so it damaged his reputation without him getting a chance to explain what was happening.

[1] - https://vixra.org
People opt-in to crowdfunding. Generally we have no choice in paying taxes. That said some states like California give taxpayers the option to pay extra taxes for special funds like coastal cleanup or processing the rape kit backlog. These funds are more analogous to crowd funding, but they pale in comparison to total state revenue.
What you’re describing is/was jQuery. Then we learned how to transpile things back to earlier versions of JS and all bets were off.

If you use today’s jQuery to build out some functionality today, it will likely work exactly the same for every browser since IE10.
These are the orthographic rules for where to when to write the tilde, viewed from the other side. This has only a tenuous connection to how the stresses are actually distributed—while placing stress before the last stem consonant is indeed the most common noun stress pattern, e.g. verb inflections are a lot more all over the place; if you pull up a typical conjugation table, some half of the entries need explicit accents because they don't follow these rules.

The choice of which patterns to designate as default and which to write with accents is honestly kind of arbitrary. One can easily imagine an alternate universe where the standard orthography allocates accents by counting vowel letters instead of syllables, or with the slightly more synchronically opaque "last stem consonant" formulation, or one where coda n is formally regarded as a vowel—this doesn't require an AU, actually, just compare orthographies with the other Iberian Romance standards.

(There's this one particularly notable pattern where final syllables with high vowel nuclei are almost always stressed in native vocav, which e.g. occurs reliably in 1st-person preterite conjugations. They're written with the tilde anyway, but it didn't have to be this way; no hispanophone sees "recibi" and entertains the possibility that it might have grave stress, that would sound unnatural even if they can't point out exactly what's wrong with it.)
Probably the claim about "a lot of ADHD" clients. How do you even know? Did you ask?! What percent? Feels real BS to me.
Lobotomies won the Nobel prize in the 40's supported by experts.

Thalidomide was highly used by the medical experts.

The view that slaves and Jews were inferior was backed up by 'experts'.

The Vietnam war was sold by 'experts'.

This new found belief that the experts are infallible gods to be worshipped ...is super creepy, ignorant, and authoritarian.

The experts deserve to have doubt cast on them and need to justify their views and be held accountable.
In an shorthand comment, I’m not sure if we can differentiate if the commenter was saying there is literally no safety net, or if the safety net is insufficient, and arguably unevenly applied based on region and race. One anecdote of someone reviving a medical service is certainly not sufficient for a discussion of the latter.
May I direct you to every single A24 film?
If I look at the code as posted then "it uses strcpy instead of strncpy" is very low on the list of "problems".

"Problems" in quotes because, you know, this is IOCCC entry. You're taking a joke way to serious.
I tried to buy some of those. IMO, it's all DOA because the crypto currency end of it makes it too hard to deal with. I wanted a Handshake domain and a .eth domain. I even set up an account at an exchange to buy crypto which involved giving a TON of personal information / ID to satisfy KYC/AML regulations (in Canada).

I gave up eventually. I realized I couldn't figure out exactly how the ENS domain registration worked, how much it actually costed because of volatility and gas prices, and I didn't know if it would be 1 (ETH purchase), 2 (+ ENS purchase), or 3 (+ ETH sale) taxable events triggered by the transaction(s).

After giving up on the ENS stuff I signed up for a namebase.io account and realized I'd have to give them all the same KYC/AML info I gave the other exchange. Since they're not even regulated by my country's regulator (FINTRAC), there's zero chance I'm giving them all that info. Plus, all the tax stuff related to the .eth domains would apply, so I just gave up.

I wanted domains, not crypto assets :-(
Great read. I feel like task lists are really a coping mechanism we resort to when we are placed in a somewhat natural situation--that is, having an overwhelming load of tasks to complete. Once the tasks are "out of mind" and on the list, then they can be completed sequentially--sort the tasks by priority, and then do them in that order. If to do lists were really about our life goals and dreams, then the Seinfeld method still reigns supreme; that is, do the most important thing you need to do every day, even just a little bit of it, and note how many days in a row you've done it.

https://jamesclear.com/stop-procrastinating-seinfeld-strateg...
> companies are abandoning office spaces in favor of full remote for months now

On the other hand, traffic during rush hour seems to have returned to as bad as it ever was.
isn’t this “the dream”? a free market where the price is dictated by supply and demand?

You see it as a threat? Fine. But if you’re gonna be rational focus on all the things that impact you - don’t just listen to propaganda parroting the same things over and over again.

On a side note: at least for BTC GPUs have not been a viable option is quite a while. also, mining happens in areas with low electricity prices - so not sure either of these arguments have legs.
This would be the best thing for improved mental health in many years.
Huh? Because you installed third-party software that interferes with Google's code.

It's not a Firefox problem, it's extensions you chose to install that neither Firefox nor Google have anything to do with.
Saw BBS toolkit near the top and had to wonder if Maximus BBS was on the list and It was! So many memories setting that up back in the day and using other local BBS based on Maximus.

I’ve done some more recent setup of major BBS to replay some muds and this sure brings back some pleasant memories.

Thanks for the post down nostalgia lane!
I can explain it:

m = n
? /* if (n != 0) */
/* adds index.html if path ends with "/" (means the filename is omitted), otherwise copies zero */
strcpy(b+i-1,b[i-2]-'/'?"":"index.html"),
/* log the requested filename to stdout */
printf("%s\n",b+5),
/* if "/." is in the path or an error occurred while opening the file */
strstr(b,"/.")||!(f=fopen(b+5,"rb"))
? "404 Not Found"
: "200 OK"
: "501 Not Implemented"; /* if (n == 0) */

By filtering filenames with "/." I prevent exploits with ".." and also don't allow to read files starting with a dot, these are hidden files in Unix-like OS.
Good. I hope they all go out of business. Their predatory practices are the reason why social media is so toxic. I'm honestly amazed that companies haven't figured out that advertisements are far less effective than they claim to be and they are probably over spending on them [1].

[1] https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/research/resear...
A minority can retain power by setting marginalized groups against each other. You can see it most clearly by looking at groups that are discriminated against for several reasons at once, like "gay black women". They often find themselves unable to make allies with other groups because even though they share one reason to ally, they'll still be separated by something else.

That allows the dominant group to retain power despite not being a majority. They can form alliances with one group or another, who would rather gain the advantage of being second-class citizens rather than being third or fourth class citizens.

The most visible example right now is "white women", who split 50-50 for Trump in both elections even though he has said quite terrible things about individual women and is certainly not doing anything to benefit them as women. But white men favor him by wide margins, and it's to the advantage of white women to be seen as good allies to white men.

None of this calculus is necessarily conscious, on anybody's part. But if you ask individual white women why they voted for Trump over another white woman in 2016, you will probably find that the answer doesn't really justify it. Nor are individual white men gathering to concoct a dastardly plan to marginalize gay black women worse than gay women and black men. It just happens that history works out that way, and people who benefit from it are reluctant to change things.

That makes it difficult to piece the full story together and figure out how to get around it. That's why "intersectionality" is an academic topic rather than a word that my browser recognizes (it's the only word I've written that's got a wavy red underline). The concept isn't fully understood and the picture is evolving.

But it's a key component to critical race theory, which constructs this picture in terms of race first and other identities second. I'm not entirely sure that's the best way to construct it, but the case for it is much, much stronger than I first realized. There's a lot of history that gets omitted that shows a deliberate, conscious effort to use race as a way of separating people, on top of the gender discrimination that was already baked into European culture.

So there's a ton more to learn about that, but that's a big unpacking of that sentence you quoted.
Sure you can, skills based immigration. Poach from other countries.

In the 1970s the USA had a crippling shortage of nurses and doctors which was filled by relaxing skills based immigration laws and importing trained medical talent from the Phillipines en masse.
not sure if this is coming back anytime soon:

1. games are a much bigger market than movies, which makes hollywood even more risk averse than usual

2. superhero movies make most income, sucking up all the talent

3. huge emphasis on TV series in the last decade, again sucking up all the talent

for these three reasons i’m not sure if i’ll see another sin city/training day/etc in the near future
I have no problems with Firefox (with hunderds of tabs open and best set of extensions), and it didn't lost me.. yet.

The problem is with modern web, sites excepting JavaScript and things like canvas fingerprinting etc. for working.

I have JavaScript disabled, for regular browsing I'm stuck with Firefox version<57 - so, for me, there is no future.
Using Open Source Tools at Your Company
My first thought was that I'm not the target audience of this article. I'm a ML practitioner. This seems more like an overstated opinionated wake up call to mgmt and sales people. Is not it?
I think there is an individual and a meta/society level. I think both me and GP were referring to the individual/micro level.
There are potential moral concerns with e-waste recycling. I won’t say it’s more problematic than mining. But many of the same issues with environmental degradation, dangerous work environments and child labor can apply.

Source: https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewconten...
Latex is my personal example of bad compiler messages, as well. The other day I added a duplicate bibtex entry and/or added two keys for the same entry. The error messages are a dump of the entire bibliography rather than a simple line number.
I’d be interested in seeing a regional breakdown of media consumption trends. Echoing several other comments, my media consumption habits were broken during 2020. People in the Pacific Northwest flooded outdoors and started camping and doing other outdoor activities at a record pace. That alone had to have shifted demand for passive media consumption. Obviously tv shows and movies are different from checking online news nonstop (something that was driven higher during pandemic) so any insights would have to be broken out by medium and type.
There is no employee shortage.

There is a decent pay and conditions shortage.

There are still 3.45 million without work that want it and 1 million short of work. Yet only 0.8 million vacancies.

https://new-wayland.com/blog/uk-employment-stats/
This piece focuses on how organizing tasks doesn't increase much the chance of doing the tasks, and suggests that other techniques than digitalized to-dos yield slightly better returns. One thing I think this is missing is that work is hard and time consuming, and brain juice and time are limited resources.

1) You cant do everything. The more I advance in my career, the more comfortable I become with abandoning things. It is almost the same feeling as deleting dead code. I also realized that there's a better chance that I will do something if I enjoy it (duh) or if it's not menial. Tasks that are completely pointless still have a chance of being done if they are fun to me. Tasks that are neither will likely never be touched unless I might get fired for not doing them.
What's depressing is that it takes some courage to admit defeat and cancel tasks, for some reason. Probably the fomo or something like that. But the psychological overhead of maintaining a pile of stuff is so high.
Look at most backlogs, featuring pages after pages of valueless features that will never be done and bugs that will never get fixed. Yet when you propose a simple rule that we should just delete or close anything that had been lingering for more than 1y, people look at you like you're crazy

2) work is hard, and procrastination is real: we are cabled to minimize our cognitive expenditure. I think I can do a max of 1 to 2h per day of hard work, maybe a bit more if it's something I really enjoy, and there's probably a weekly cap as well. Doing something hard is not something I look forward to (don't put that on your resume). So when I pick the todo list, and have a choice between "add this fun feature to your pet project" or "define goals for next year", guess which will be done, and which will be postponed every single time.. . I think the only way of doing these harder tasks is by making them easier, less ambiguous, time bound, more fun, i.e lower the entry cost of the task. That's where some of the value of GTD and such methods resides - by defining a mechanism that transform "stuff" into actionable items. But even that is hard. I'm almost 20y in, yet I still struggle to abide to a strict process.

Work is hard.
there are lots of a24 studios out there. but they’re tiny, they release few films with modest revenues.
This is, apparently, regional!
Not sure how self-actualizing is contributing to society.
> Sentence number #1 of the Twitter post:

A twitter post which is _not_ specifically abut the Provincetown outbreak, the one that you called "this rather serious disaster". A post from before that outbreak is by definition not spin of that outbreak, and that was your claim.

> Sorry friend, they are 93% effective.

Sorry friend, that varies by vaccine (there are several) and virus variant (there are several). You did notice the "80% efficacy against infection" on the diagram. Quoting a higher number is anyway irrelevant, it does not exactly disprove my point.

> My point is it would be much better if they actually stopped the spread of the virus.

No fooling, but you have to use what you have so there's no point in raising that.

> Says the one who used Twitter as a source?

I think I made it as clear as possible that the Financial Times of London was the ultimate source of that graphic?

Anyway, I don't think that you have much of interest to say, so have a nice day!
As much as we hate plastic waste it made our food distribution safer and cleaner.
if definite integrals can be represented as a sum of a finite series, I can't see why an Indefinite integral isn't the sum of an infinite series.

You can just take any definite integral and replace it's interval with variables. Now it's just algebraic, much like if you replaced numbers in an equation with variables.

> Indefinite integrals are maybe better called antiderivatives

but why? I can't see why definite integrals aren't equally better called antiderivatives over an interval. Concepts wrt calculus, and method of solving them are separate things to me - you can understand how gravity works in general, without the specific means of solving orbital equations.
I was tech and product leader of a company that just IPOed. When I joined the site was so slow and key features were not functional. The site was built by contractors and had a conversion rate of 2.8%. With of a team of 15, we rebuilt the frontend and reduced page rendering time to under 1 second with a SPA and page optimizations. Conversion rate skyrocketed to 7% accelerating annual revenue from $50m to $400m over a few years. The value each engineer contributed was hundreds of millions in value to the company.

I also did the same with another company that had a failing subscription platform built by cheap foreign contractors. Built a talented team and a real platform and that company also successfully exited for 10 figures. You get what you pay for.
The bitcoin consensus mechanism is literally a lottery in which the winner gets to decide what the "consensus" is. I don't know about "revolutionary"...
The lead-crime hypothesis is almost certainly true but the mass media reaction to it just shows how much is wrong with our society.

First of all, the lead-crime hypothesis is good news. It is great to realize that small entirely achievable environmental changes can cause such marked improvement in wellbeing in people's lives.

But for some reason it has not been accepted as good news by the mass media. And then you have papers like the one discussed by the article that try to debunk the theory on absolutely ridiculous grounds. (You see there are no studies disproving this theory therefore there must be studies disproving this theory, therefore this theory is wrong. What a bunch of BS!)

So why is the lead crime hypothesis treated so negatively by our elites? Perhaps to avoid another round of massive litigation. Perhaps to prevent people from finding other ways other pollution can affect people's behavior and thus prevent the banning of other substances and other rounds of massive litigation. Or perhaps to preserve an image key in international culture -- the violent city youth.
Six Rules for Becoming Human
do you get lonely being a digital nomad?
There are three entirely different groups at work here.

The deepmind team etc type of group who actually know what they’re doing and the boundaries of what they are working with

the “AI-washing” startups, corporate groups who know they are faking it and that what they’re doing is extremely limited

the corporate project team types who are just doing random tool play and honestly don’t understand what they are doing or that they are absolutely clueless with no self-awareness at all

I’ve worked with all three and they really are just totally different things that are all being lumped together. They also are listed in terms of increasing proportion. For every self-aware AI-washer team I’ve seen 50 “we are doing AI” Corp team types spinning out one trivial demo after another to execs who know zero.
> The Department is responding to this incident as if the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group responsible for the SolarWinds breach had access to all email communications and attachments found within the compromised O365 accounts. The APT is believed to have access to compromised accounts from approximately May 7 to December 27, 2020. The compromised data included all sent, received, and stored emails and attachments found within those accounts during that time.
Bypassing tab-under ads of a streaming site
> I couldn’t help but think this guy really just wants to feel relevant

Great insight. Now apply it to everyone you know. We ALL want to feel relevant and we all want to feel like what we are doing matters.

Everyone does and this is, in a twisted way, one way we are trying to achieve immortality. You do stuff, you make an impact, you leave your mark.
USA Swimming 404 Page
Clubhouse (product management tool) changes name to Shortcut
Lactose to the rescue!!!
I know half of my advertisement budget is wasted, I just don't know which half.

Plus your source is about TV ads only.
Galvanize winds down data education programs
Microplastics are a good reason to make sure your plastic makes it to a landfill instead of the ocean more than a reason to give up plastic entirely. Of course, not every country has government provided waste disposal so to the extent that our rich world preferences get foisted onto developing countries by default I guess that is a valid reason to want to reduce plastic use.

But on the third hand locking up hydrocarbons in plastics while we're dealing with global warming seems like a positive good.