skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Politically Incorrect was canned when, in disagreement on teh show, he said the terrorists weren't cowards, that bombing a country (Iraq) including innocents from offshore was cowardice. Referring of course to physical / mortal cowardice, not moral cowardice, in which case he's right.
Since in "communist" countries, the party heads are rich and likewise in other dictatorships, I think we can just settle on the rich always control the media.
What is “wholesome” food? Sounds like a vague term to describe “things I like”.
Useful tool, but it has some bugs related to consecutive build failures. Restarting Air is required to fix it. I still use it, just wish I didn't have to restart it frequently.
This kind of talk can be steelmanned, but even that version doesn't have reassuring answers to the likes of

> Okay, you’ve all told us that progress won’t be all that fast. But let’s be more concrete and specific. I’d like to know what’s the least impressive accomplishment that you are very confident cannot be done in the next two years.

(from https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/)

Just today I was rather astonished by https://moultano.wordpress.com/2021/07/20/tour-of-the-sacred... -- try digging up something comparable from mid-2019.
They try out new ways of designing and building on every major program. Sometimes the new ways work, sometimes they don't.
He's an actual Liberal, based on what he purports, unlike many so-called progressives.
WSJ is fox.

Edit: As in owned by Rupert Murdoch who also owns Fox. "is" for the purposes of number of corps who control media. Murdoch is the poster child for influencing media he owns to get deals out of politicians generating outsized returns. For masthead newspapers they don't even need to make a profit. I believe the Australian newspaper never has in decades of history while Murdoch made a ton of money in Australia. It seems Bezos watched, learned and bought the wapo.
This reminds of the Feynman quote about outsiders to a field making obvious statements a about an intellectual idea and thinking they had a clever insight.
Well there is the prospect of mining, refining, and construction in space and on the moon. While all that presents a whole slew of new challenges, it also has many huge benefits.

Rockets use like 90% of their fuel just getting their payload into off of Earth, refining fuels on the moon would make going any place else in the solar system super cheap. Building ships already in space would allow much lighter designs and less constricted spaces as it doesn't have to survive an external atmosphere and intense winds. It also makes asteroid capturing and mining feasible, currently we would need an almost perfectly ideal asteroid to capture because we can't get that much fuel up into space to push an asteroid around much at all. We open up tons of potential candidates if we can make even small amounts of fuel off of Earth.

Capture even a small platinum asteroid and nudge it into a collision course with Antarctica and you just made platinum stupid cheap which has a bazillion amazing uses but currently costs ridiculous amounts of money. It would be worth more than the entirety of all space programs on Earth combined, just to do it once.
Eventually, once technology has sufficiently advanced, some people are going to make a lot of money mining landfill for raw materials.
I believe that such a long history of experience is seen with awe and respected much much more and compensate much better in traditional engineering fields (chemical etc.) rather than in tech. I could be wrong though.
As someone that writes a lot in Rust, I have a longstanding dream to make a compiler for a subset of the language, since I don’t use all features of Rust and my hope is that this way I could have fast debug builds (in terms of compilation time) while I develop, with simplified borrow checker and so on. So then I can iterate faster. That’s one of my dreams. But I have not had time to even look at it yet, as the other code I work on takes precedence at the moment.
There was huge inflation during WWI, as the government sold war bonds.

"The World War I era and its aftermath, 1917–1920, then produced sustained inflation unmatched in the nation anytime since. Prices rose at an 18.5-percent annualized rate from December 1916 to June 1920, increasing more than 80 percent during that period."

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2014/article/one-hundred-years-....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Viacom...
Oh that’s cool!! Did you use json-ot for that? I haven’t touched that code in years and it’s delightful people are actively maintaining it and using it to make cool stuff.
if you turn on strict mode it blocks just about everything as well as brave does.
Comma is far and away the best version of "automatic cruise control" that exists in any consumer car. If you think Comma is hacky then wait until you see Tesla's version, which costs $10k and only works on one brand of car!

The stock "automatic cruise control" is most cars is far worse and far more dangerous than Comma, and those companies aren't getting taken down by lawsuits. At the end of the day, the driver is responsible for the operation of the vehicle. Comma is a tool the driver can use, and one that undoubtedly makes driving safer for themselves and other vehicles on the road.
Another lifetime YNABer here. Great tip.
Just signed up after seeing your service mentioned in the article. Looks great so far!

Time blocking is difficult to stick to and having automation could be the solution. Sorted for iOS does automation as well, but lacks a weekly agenda view.

I’m also trying out Akiflow and have been impressed so far, but their decision to launch without syncing across devices makes me question their long term product vision.
I'm aware of no such law in the US, are you in the EU?
False results, yes, but it doesn't have to be due to mistakes but can also be due to innocent unlucky sampling.

If the effect is so strong that hardly ever happens, then it should also be so strong that there aren't many papers showing only a weak effect, but there's a huge amount of them. Maybe they're all botched but got published because their results agreed with the accepted idea whereas a contrarian botched paper would get more scrutiny and be rejected?
Does this apply to humans? Should the policy be to euthanize all humans who experience suffering?
It could also be returned to the taxpayers. Instead of inventing new ways to spend money, the government could just stop taking so much from the people who earned it.
Not OP, but likely yes. The DC metro is chock full of advertising targeted at the pentagon. It’s kind of surreal.
Whenever I see these I’m baffed we could ever run a full GUI on these things, when the machines of today often have issues running one.
Why don't you give your buddy the government money they are wasting on your salary?
funny this article says six companies, but lists cbs and viacom separately. they merged, the title should say five
"Today, 6 media giants control a whopping 90% of what we read, watch, or listen to."

Where's the evidence for the 90% number here?

Every media mentioned is legacy media. People now spend more time consuming digital media than legacy media.[0] So I don't see how this claim can be true.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/565628/time-spent-digita...
Probably because Node (and V8) don't try to optimize for size but for speed of execution.
I believe we do understand, broadly speaking, thinking and consciousness. There remains a lot more to learn, as in anything in science...

IMO the main difficulty is that humans have terrible self-awareness or self-insight. We want to believe we're special, we want to believe we're intelligent, we want to believe we're different than machines. We're in denial about that.

Our brains aren't any more special than computers, other than that it's really quite formidable that we evolved them by chance in this universe of chemical soup we find ourselves in. At the end of the day, however, a computer is a computer, and "thinking" and "consciousness" simply do emerge from low-level computations given some special structures.
The tweet author, who is currently writing a book on pandemic hysteria, quotes death statistics from a study (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261159v...) which is not designed to measure prevention of deaths, only severe disease. Basically, nobody died of COVID during this trial, which is probably due to selection bias in deciding to participate in a clinical trial in the first place. I would consider that a misleading tweet.
People won't vote for Green New Deal. They'll vote for Military. Democracy in action.
Multicontainer add on is invaluable if you like siloing off google/facebook/etc into their own little cookie and context world. Also extremely handy for logging into sites where you have multiple accounts and in general web testing. It's definitely a poweruser must have. Most people can get away without it though or wonder why it would be useful :)
> Population growth is another. The Bay-area population went up by ~2 million people between 1990 and 2020. Even if the income distribution remains the same, the number of potential diners who can afford an expensive meal goes up.

And with that, the housing situation in the Bay Area has seen rents skyrocket disproportionately high compared with the rest of the country. At least some of the cost of the meal goes to the restaurant baking in their increased overhead, which again, is higher than it would be in the rest of the country.

(and if Chez Panisse owns its space, you can exchange "rent" with "property tax")
Similar to a kickstarter for a useful hoverboard.
The best marketing a company will do is to itself.
Humans surviving long term off of Earth, I think, is still just a pipe dream and pure sci-fi. I agree with the idea, I think it is something humanity should attempt, but it is atleast 100 years too soon to even attempt.

It is like trying to build a space station in the 18th or 19th century.
Haven’t looked at the rust compiler code base, but often with languages you can hack together subsets via deletions and comments and flags of existing compilers.
I'm actually pretty terrible at learning new things, but one thing I think has been effective is to immerse oneself into the community of practitioners. Be social about the thing you're trying to learn, you at least get a pretty good understanding of the current "meta", if nothing else.
Yes, but also build tools and package management.

I'm not blaming the authors. It's not any one language's responsibility to make tooling stacks modular and interoperable.
I would posit that vivaldi is better if you must use a chrome-a-like browser. Brave is fine but vivaldi has a lot more power user features.
Stunning fall. For a while Blizzard could do no wrong. I feel that Bobby, the CEO, is very focused on results and only understands gamers third hand at this point.

That works for a while when the employees still care but once they stop caring there is no one to steer the faltering ship.
1.54 landed just the other day, and I didn’t see any mention of noalias in the release notes. I’m curious to see if some of my microbenchmarks improve. And idea what’s going on with it? 1.55 maybe?

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/07/29/Rust-1.54.0.html
I guess this article doesn't take into account the fact that CBS and Viacom have since merged. They're history looks a bit like an Alabama family tree with multiple splits and mergers.

This is how I felt weeding through all of it: https://thumbs.gfycat.com/MealyDishonestBadger-small.gif
But took 25 years to make ES6 ;)
Um... Have you driven a Mach E yet? No interest in its upcoming FSD, but the adaptive cruise control and lane assistance is wonderfully conservative and useful.
"McDonald's" is a bit of a mixed bag, like most of the Fast Food Places. McDonald's owned stores are paying a minimum of $13 with the plan to go to $15 in the next few years, this was announced awhile back

The problem is McDonald's Corporate only owns 5% of McDonald's locations, the rest are franchise locations, thus a "McDonald's" crew member at a non-company store is not working for McDonald's but the Franchisee.. This is where you get the lower wages..

This allows McDonald's to get headlines about offering a "$15 min wage" while 95% of wearing an McDonald's uniform do not work for McDonald's thus do not get this wage
Ask HN: Ideal PRD (Product Requirements Document) format for a dev team?
I do! But I'm surrounded by people who don't, and who won't follow minimal health and safety standards, so that it just keeps dragging on.
It has preemptive multitasking for compute-only tasks (the MultiProcessing library. See http://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com/tec...)

I also think the OS, technically, was preemptive multitasking, but ran all ‘normal’ code in a single preemptive task (https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.mac.programmer.help/c/f...)

I also vaguely remember the kernel had some memory protection enabled.

Of course, almost none of that mattered for typical user-space programs.
You can still get inflation if demand broadly outpaces supply, the money supply is only one factor
Lots of resources are also used when mining trashed electronics for gold.

Which "lots" is worse? I don't know, and neither do you.
Nobody, including me, thinks lockdowns are good, but the effects of removing them too early (as my residence in the US did) seem to me to be even worse.
NASA is one of the biggest bangs (literally) for the taxpayer buck in the entire US federal budget. There are countless other agencies I'd be scrapping long before even thinking about scrapping NASA.
> Even Bill Maher agrees

Even famously pro-woke virtue signaling TV personality Bill Maher agrees!
Installation is not consumer friendly (though I'm sure any auto shop would happily install it), but functionality certainly is. My wife who is not particularly tech savvy has no problem using Comma.

I have a car that isn't even the best for Comma because of steering limits (Honda CRV), and on road trips I've been able to not touch the steering wheel or accelerator/brake for 30+ minutes on open stretches of the 101. You'd think it doesn't matter all that much, but it saves so much energy. A 4 hour drive feels like a 1 hour drive. Monitoring that the car is driving sensibly uses far less energy than actually driving.

And as you say, in bumper to bumper traffic it is just amazing. I was in a 2.5 (!) hour backup between LA and San Diego a few weeks ago and Comma did 99% of the driving. And the only times I had to take over were when other frustrated drivers were doing insane things out of boredom or anger that endangered me. Computers don't get frustrated or angry! The aggravation saved on that one trip paid for the cost.
> How much would you personally be willing to pay to limit the warming of the Earth to 1.5C?

Nearly all of my money, if I thought it would actually work, but that's not even half a million canadian. If Jeff Bezos felt the same as me, he could effect significantly more change than I could. Money doesn't represent what "people" value, it represents what the very richest people value.
Ugh you just described my life for the past month. 95% there. Keep procrastinating on the ship button press (literally CodePipeline approval).
Reminds me of antondd's comment on some old thread

> This brings back memories from the days of my early career (an ex-PM survivor here). I would be curious to see some data, even anecdotal, on the success of this approach. Here's some interesting statistics from the industry (not specific to software, but you can extrapolate): http://apepm.co.uk/project-management-statistics/

> In my view, traditional software project management is ineffective. I would put it somewhere between the Myers-Briggs personality test and modern day astrology.

Commendable amount of spaghetti's mentioned though.
i read this a month or so ago or whenever it came out -- was not convinced.

mainly because, tho i see how drinking and partying with others, even 'enemies', can be good, i see it as more bad, with astronomical costs that we'll prob never count properly.

happy to be proven wrong, tho.
DevOps Handbook and Google SRE book. I’d say the majority of companies still have a ways to go to reach maturity according to either of these.
You don’t have to be an expert in a field to recognize that the current popular approaches to something aren’t even close to getting there.
What kind of language ideas do you folks have? What would your fizzbuzz look like?

I'm not sure I've ever seen a more readable compact fizzbuzz than this version in coffeescript

['fizz' unless i%3] + ['buzz' unless i%5] or i for i in [1..100]
Right, like the BE-4 engine.
Alex Berenson is mostly a krank who has been consistently wrong in his predictions.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-...
Up until the last sentence you had me. Thanks for the laugh CCP.
Blizzards reputation has been going downhill since the merge with Activision. Some of my veteran WoW friends returned with the release of classic and TBC classic, but no one stayed for long. Blizzard has been destroying all of their franchises

WoW - convoluted imbalanced hot mess

Diablo - repetitive. Diablo immortal.

Warcraft III - buggy and laggy steaming pile of undelivered promises

Overwatch - imbalanced. Overwatch 2 with weird changes

StarCraft - thrown in a ditch left to die

HoTS - culled the competitive scene and super slow release cycle.

Hearthstone - pay2win RNG fiesta

On top of that all the scandals and drama around the company…
Is hackernews owned by any one these?
What is the benefit of living on Mars, rather than a space based habitat that can attach to and mine asteroids or small moons for extra resources? Living in a "large" gravity well seems like all negatives to me in terms of expansion and resource extraction.
"AI" as a term deserves this rep, because it was effectively marketing as far back as the 70s. But you're way off on "Machine Learning".

There's been plenty of progress in the last 15 years re-interpreting many ML methods as regression (any optimization is a regression if you set up the right likelihood function).
But many important results and techniques -- including today's ubiquitous deep nets -- originated and had successful applications way before they had statistical interpretations. They came from fields like compression theory, database design, or even biological interpretations.

The term Machine Learning was introduced to re-focus the field on a measurable objective: algorithms that improve with more data. The "Learning" part was not an abstract term to tug on your imagination, but included formal definitions of how algorithms improve that involved slightly fewer assumptions than statistical learning (which is a subfield).

This lineage isn't that important today, but that focus on how learning is measured is still the most important guidepost both for ML research and for sorting out marketing BS from realistic claims. Certainly, state of the art work using deep nets for tasks like NLP, image and video recognition aren't designed by reasoning about the statistical interpretation, or tested by applying typical statistical tests. Popularizing this work as Statistical Inference or Regression wouldn't give any added intuition and wouldn't really describe the way ML research proceeds, or how ML systems succeed or fail.
Poisoning with lead has been linked with sudden rage attacks and homicides. Lead affects the nervous system.
Where do you think netflix gets most of it's content?
Nuzzel reincarnated?. I was a heavy user of it and really miss it.
I've found it simple enough to start a goroutine to watch argv[0] and exec it if it's newer than the startup time of the process.

Unlike other languages with insane build and link times, I've never needed this for Go. Builds are nearly instantaneous.
Both LCS designs are primarily displacement hulls. They can get onto a partial plane at speed but are too large to get up on a full plane.

No modern warship carries much armor. It's too heavy. And a sloped side will do precisely nothing to deflect incoming missiles.
According to Wikipedia, the first known use of the term "syphilis" is from 1530. In this respect the story is off by four centuries. The origin of the disease, however, is still debated. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_syphilis
I've only driven my car, but Consumer Reports tested a bunch of cars and rated Comma the best [1]. Maybe another car since then is better, but of course Comma is always getting updated and you just download the new version to your device when it comes out.

1: https://data.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/...
The subtitle states that it is a shortcoming and of Biden and hypocritical of the US foreign policy for not stopping a coup in Tunisia? I don’t remember Tunisia being a vassal state of the US. I’m sure Tunisia is a lovely country with lovely people who are worthy of self-determination, but I don’t think the US can really do much for them. Iraq and Afghanistan have been hard lessons in the failures of state building in non-western countries. The US people are grieving the losses of our men and women who gave their lives in that effort. Tunisia is for the Tunisians.
Being skilled in certain trades is also an investment that can fair well in certain financial / societal collapse scenarios. And not just farming or construction, programming may be useful depending on your favorite doomsday scenario.
Exactly. I think if you cited source it may have avoided u getting downvoted. Alex is a major vaccine skeptic who has been consistently wrong in his prognostications on Fox News
For 2018, 20% of people regularly got their news from social media.[0] That number has increased.

Maybe the claim was true in like the 90s... but it's certainly not true anymore and the article is irresponsible for repeating out of date information.

0. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/12/10/social-medi...
They went nuts over esports and it affected the games and everything else followed.
I am fairly certain that some jurisdictions do.
> They are not a cost-free public health tool, and it is unknown whether they have caused more harm than good.

That is a good point, but it's not that we're weighing which of two decisions is good, only which is less bad. Certainly the laissez faire attitudes many places in the US, including my residence, have taken to dealing with the problem have also been not cost-free, and to say that it is unknown whether they have caused more harm than good seems to me to be a dramatic understatement.
> Do you seriously not remember the 80s and 90s?

The average American is something like 39 years old atm. That means the average birth date is 1982 so most people probably do not remember the 80s and only barely remember the 90s. If you were alive when your parents bought a house in the 70s then you have lived a life that most Americans don’t have a connection to. You were in the golden years and wonder why people don’t have the same view you do?
You mean a remake or a new release of that same movie series/tv show, you've watched when you were a kid?

Basically playing for nostalgia points, but making it shittier.
I know it could be tongue in cheek, but if you did the analysis because you hated them you may have been biased in your results.

I have no idea about marketing, but as a consumer I know that I am influenced both positively and negatively at times with regards to products based on my experience with their marketing. I also have a feeling that marketing is more than just correlation between campaign and sales. I.e. what was the competition doing at the same time. Marketing I assume is also about avoiding churn, or making the overall market bigger (e.g. PS5 ads may also help Xbox sales, game sales etc..)

In general it feels a bit creepy to me when someone suggests that people losing their jobs is a happy ending. Therefore I accept I am also replying with bias…