skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might surprise you (or not), but Swiss have it. Yearly wealth tax, differently calculated in every canton, based on global assets. Doesn't hurt regular Joe, doesn't bleed the ultra rich enough to leave the safe and luxury lifestyle, but balances the scales a bit.

Possibly largely unrelated solely to this, Switzerland is amazing on another thing - very strong middle class that is not dwindling, unlike most of the western world.

Yeah, expats often complain to no end that services and food are expensive compared to where they came from, but thanks to that tons of folks are not desperate, we don't have slums of poor serving the rest, and you know that even person filling the shelves in supermarket is getting decent wage.

Low criminality, high education, generally very smart general population (which allows to have frequent public votes on important things without shooting one's foot like some other places), tons of personal freedom that average US person can only envy, EU is even worse. It all ties together, and middle class is one of the pillars of this.
I’d understand the anger way more if you couldn't just turn the offending feature off.
Cherry-picking (pun intended) a comment elsewhere itt:

> Crafting commits is hard if one wants perfect commits and most of us don't have time to do that.

This is a common sentiment, but I really think that this is a product of the tooling instead of a fundamental difficulty of the task. If it wasn't such a pita to split, join, and shift commits around then people would consider trying to do it more often.

Another comment:

> TIL: Splitting A Commit

> git rebase -i <ref> Mark commit as 'edit' Continue with rebase, it will stop on 'edit' marked commit git reset HEAD git add --patch git commit git rebase --continue

What is the mountain of context that someone needs to know before even that "one simple trick"-style explanation would make any sense at all? How would you describe or recommend that process to someone in a technical non-dev role that has never used source control? You wouldn't. So they'll never split a commit. So now you have an avalanche of users that don't even approach the problem of crafting a PR with the mindset to produce clean commits, so it can never become the norm.

At the least we need a more direct way to accomplish three main things: split a commit, merge adjacent commits into one, reorder commits. If these "basic operations" on commit chains are easy to accomplish we might have a chance at having a clean git clean history.
> I’m not sure what you are getting at?

There is one general characterization of a homeless person who has severe mental illness or is in the throes of addiction. There is another of a person who is simply down on his luck. He sleeps in his car on a side street at night, showers at the local YMCA, and takes the bus to his minimum wage job. If housing was cheaper, or if government assistance better, then he could afford a small apartment.

I agree that the latter exist and I think you would agree that the former exists. The data suggests that the majority of the population falls into the latter camp.

What I'm getting at is -- we should treat the data with more skepticism. It doesn't match what I see with my own eyes. Something is off. Either my eyes are grossly deceiving me or it's just wrong. Yes, I'm more likely to overestimate the number in the former camp than underestimate -- but it's just overwhelming. The ratio seems like it's 100:1 not 7:3 or something. They can't be that good at blending into society.

> Being in a tent doesn’t mean someone is mentally ill or using hard drugs.

My intuition is that there is a very tight correlation between the two. It seems almost tautological to me that someone who chooses* to live in filth in a tent on a median or under an overpass is mentally ill. Maybe I'm wrong.

* "Chooses", not in the sense that they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get a job, but in the sense that -- why don't they put up their tent in a cleaner less densely populated part of town and take a free bus ride into town?
Followup, since I can't edit: if my assumption isn't correct, well then, I stand corrected. I said in past tense, 'I assumed', and then asked for more info. That's not forthcoming, just a bunch of very upset assertions that of course I'm wrong and these things can't be reverse engineered from real porn.

I'm sure not interested in proving they can. Mind furnishing the info about how it's really done, then? Since according to you (for very obvious reasons) you can never compare these images to the source for the hashes, where did you extract the hashes from?

If you can so easily reverse engineer false positives from random data without ever seeing or using genuine porn to produce it, shouldn't you be disseminating this content as widely as you possibly can, rather than warning people about the danger of interacting with these false-positive images?

Still puzzled how and why this is being done. Are you trying to render Apple's system useless, or not?

Summary: I'm saying "there may be a way to take existing images that are illegal even to possess, and process them to obliterate the image while maintaining the hash. Is that what's being done here?" and the response is "AM NOT!!"
A lot of math theorems might have been stolen / 'appropriated' from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_school_of_astronomy_and...
I think the “insulted” part is too much. Yes, the consumers shopping on bookshop.org for a common book aren’t just trying to get books for the lowest price, but maybe 99% of online shoppers are. Maybe I should be insulted that the author thinks being identified as someone wanting the lowest price is insulting.
Surprised, though?
A colleague in an unnamed field, attending an unnamed Polish university mentioned that this kind of thing was rife: publishing Polish papers translated from English texts and occasionally vice versa.
Poland is a country with a strong academic tradition and similar enough institutions to others in the EU so I can only imagine this happens in more ‘peripheral’ countries with even less globalization.
Yep, another day, another random dude who considers himself an expert on what freedom is, what tech platforms are, and the dangers of private businesses refusing to amplify his friends. Even a plumber will refuse to route your sewage back to the public water main...
> You should be selling, but your own brain and the brains of the people around you will make you buy, buy, buy instead.

This is bad advice.

There is always a reasonable chance that the next bear market is more than 4 years away and that equities are still cheaper now than they will be at the bottom of the next crash.

You have also explained quite well that you likely won't be able to hit that bottom of the next crash.

So just don't care about anything and invest every month, even if everything is "overvalued" and a "crash is imminent".
As an old guy who yells at clouds, it's reassuring to see another old guy on here yelling at clouds.
> That covers the whole of NASA's response so far to IEEE Spectrum

IEEE Spectrum was the same paper that got duped into publishing a story about a self driving car that didn't exist. It's a tabloid piggybacking off of the IEEE's brand recognition. The fact that a NASA spokesperson bothered to reply at all surprises me.
I’m not the person you’re asking, but I’ve spent a bunch of time fixing bugs in other people’s lisp libraries and haven’t found this to be true at all. If anything, because Lisp encourages you to adapt the language to the problem domain, others people’s code tends to be easier to understand because the code tends to use names and constructs that makes sense to someone that understands the problem domain.
This is one of my favorite thought experiments, except in my version it is guaranteed that nobody can moderate anything, ever. My best guess is: There is a threshold for how much of a problem something can become before congress makes a law prohibiting "access" to this network or running the client, or any analogue thereof. Then there's another threshold at which the government ratchets up resources for real enforcement.

In short, the conclusion I always come to is that no matter what the math and the game theory say, if the legislative, executive, and judicial all agree that it's a big enough problem, it's dead. There's nothing technologists can do about this. At least, this is the conclusion I always run into whenever I've tried to brainstorm technical solutions over the years.
But that's the problem with these students as well: their intuition tells them that when it's warmer the sun has to be nearer. the fact that the amount of sunlight throughout the day (timespan) causes warmer seasons is an indirection in thinking.

Of course they should know what causes seasons if they had payed attention in class.

I wonder how they reacted if you'd ask them about the hemispherical difference in summer/winter, e.g. how can the southern hemisphere have winter when the whole earth is nearer to the sun...
Thank you. And I found this one too:

https://blog.arxiv.org/2019/08/29/our-moderation-process/
"Auto-corrupt" wow I'm somewhat upset I didn't think of that first.

Unsurprisingly autocorrect tried to autocorrect it to "autocorrect".
It'll immediately fill up with pirated content, porn, porn of dubious legality, spam, and harassment, ensuring that all the normies would stay on Facebook.

It'll be a social network for people who were banned from all the other social networks, which is not a great town to live in.
You’re exactly right.

All comments regarding “how you should use Git” (and many comments in general) could be prefaced with nature of the project. A predominantly markup based project worked on by a whole team of juniors will have different needs to a C codebase worked on by a single senior.

There’s not one correct way, just alternative ways that are optimal in some situations.
this is amazing!

white gets the first tempo on the first move, black gets the first tempo on the second move, and then white gets the first tempo on remaining moves, and black's chances are improved.

I wonder what it would be like to continue the pattern? it would drastically alter the game as there would be many more opportunities to take pieces, but if it could be grokked it might be fun.

all the variants that breath a little new life into the game can be fun for semi serious players, I find.
I know for my part I wouldn't mind a position that is hybrid or requires an office as long as it is local, as I don't like working remotely at least all of the time.

My problem is the companies that are requiring both in-office and proof of vaccination, like I think Google is doing. That, would having me quitting.
An Ounce of Prevention
A friend submitted a paper to a journal in humanities. The reviewer said "his English is informal". In other words, these reviewers are asking for stilted English.
You don't need to switch country to spite Google, only be more clever with your options and vote with your wallets.

I still carry my Windows Phone around.
Good point. Walmart should also be unhappy about this.
That's what Mastodon is. It looks good and is about as easy to sign up for as it gets with a federated network. I don't think there's much demand for it. A lot of people seem to overestimate how relevant decentralization is to the vast majority of users.

The inherent complications or disadvantages of decentralization aren't worth it for most people.
And because it's from Microsoft, you're going to keep paying for it, over and over again!

Windows update? That's gonna cost you an hour. Update got botched? 2 hours, and all of your browser settings. Registry corrupted?!? 3 hours for backup and reinstall! Can't figure out how to change a setting, because the option used to be there, then disappeared in the last update? 1 hour searching SO, 1 hour crying.
And thank god. My theory

China and Russia should form their own platform for future space explorations.

The EU should really have their own thing and collab with both West and East. The US can do whatever.

The China/Russia alliance could probably work with "other" BRICS nations not entirely known for space research.
Yelling at clouds, indeed. The "cloudification" of products is another thing that irritates me greatly these days.
You're assuming I'm not okay with the content moderation of Hacker News. You should never assume.

If anything you should jump with joy at the rights of people who disagree with this article to flag it and at your right to register discontent without any substantive argument as to why you are registering your discontent with but a simple down vote.

That's freedom of speech in action! And while my tone here is sarcastic, I believe sincerely that this moderation system is currently superior to any of the ham fisted bad AI deployed on either of the two leading social media sites.
Chunks of the Los Angeles metropolitan area (that are cities in their own right by any reasonable definition) -- eg. Hollywood -- are walkable.
To me it seems as if this paper's conclusion is hurt by its data selection (of openings). It uses Stockfish and examines openings like the Ruy Lopez and Queen's Gambit to evaluate the game. But using this new gameplay style, presumably new openings would emerge as predominant openings with the current very played (at a high level) openings potentially falling out of favor.

Many of the famous openings that are still used by top players were elaborated and built over centuries. Stockfish is pretty incredible but it can't solve chess (yet). Meaning, that if you only examine the current most popular openings you can only draw a conclusion based on those start points but you have potentially omitted what could be new ones. Potentially, with this move ordering there may be an opening for white or for black that is extremely imbalanced, but the move ordering to get there is currently beyond stockfish's depth from the start position (or any starting positions they tried). Unless I misunderstood their methods.

Still pretty interesting IMO
The content of this short note is just a part of it - more telling is who wrote it.
If you don't need to worry about updates or litigation, just reverse engineer the date check and crack it.
I'm barely familiar with Inductive Logic Programming and never hear anyone talk about it. I came in prepared to dismiss the field's relevance to synthesis, but decided to do a bunch of reading first so that I could do so from an informed perspective. I knew ILP to be "constructing a classifier from a conjunction of literals," which is very much not synthesis. It turns out there's a lot more done under the name of ILP.

I think the real answer is largely that logic programming as a whole fell out of favor in the US sometime in the 90's, whereas the program synthesis renaissance started in the 2000's -- and is still US-dominated. Not to say there still aren't tons of people doing logic programming, but, personal anecdote: I encountered a ton of logic programming papers during the lit review for one of my other project, which has some overlap in the symbolic techniques used, and....they're all from the period 1988-1995.

Mukund's work is the most relevant from a synthesis perspective that I know of, as one of the only people doing synthesis of a logic language (unless you count SQL). (Note: This is distinct from people like William Byrd doing synthesis using a logic programming language.) Have a look at the bottom of page 23 of "Provenance-Guided Synthesis of Datalog Programs" https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3371130 . It does a good job explaining the distinction between the goals of ILP things done under the umbrella of synthesis. But note that this work is still considered niche in the synthesis world.

There's also the question about what techniques belong to what field; I expect that, were I to dig into thy synthesis-relevant parts of ILP further, I'd find a lot of techniques that are familiar and that I learned with no connection to ILP. Paul Graham has said that philosophy is not useful because everything useful it discovers was spun out into a different field. ( http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html ) The philosophy of computer science in that perspective is AI. 40 years ago, garbage collection, term rewriting, logic programming, and programming assistants were all AI. Even just 20 years ago, Tessa Lau's work on inductive synthesis was AI. Today, all of those are things likely to be rejected from a top AI conference, but welcome at a PL conference. Thus, you might find in the synthesis world techniques that would be familiar to an old-school ILP researcher, but without shared context.

(Two recent exceptions are neural synthesis and probabilistic programming, where you do see a lot of crossover between PL and ML. This is very recent. [Insert harsh judgments here about the attempts from 2016 and earlier to learn programs.])
I feel like I must be unaware of how other people use git, if this is remotely relevant.

Everywhere I've worked has used a similar flow. Commits in master correspond 1:1 to PRs. Your personal flow of local commits or branches is irrelevant; your PR is reviewed as a unit, and merged as a squashed commit on top of master. The description of the PR is either exactly identical to the commit message, or only slightly modified.

Clearly lots of people don't work that way, because that doesn't leave any room for a messy git history. I also don't know why I should care about the in-progress commits of my coworkers when I'm reviewing a PR as a unit.
As a casual chess player I'm not sure more drawish chess is something we want? I know there has been some exploration into a chess variation without castling which apparently can lead to more vibrant aggressive chess due to the king being stuck in the center of the board.
Parental upbringing does obviously affect one's personality, and it is fair to say many addicts do come from dysfunctional families - https://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/debunkingaddiction/2020/7... ...
I’m considering leaving my company, but not for the reason you’d expect.

We’ve fully embraced work from home, even though officially there is an expectation that people start coming back to office in the future.

I’m more frustrated because with WFH, a team I’m primarily involved with right now has essentially checked out. The manager doesn’t want to manage, and work that should take hours or a couple days stretches for weeks at a time.

There’s little accountability, and I feel like more senior leadership isn’t doing much about it because it hasn’t really hit the bottom line.

WFH is great I think when you have motivated people. With WFH, it’s an “out of sight, out of mind” situation with people not even coasting so much as they’re checked out. To be clear, I’m not blaming WFH. I do think it’s not helping a deeper problem.
Comparing New York, the midwest, the south, and SV, it's mostly SV that is entitled. NY has this to some extent (finance) too
The TB part is interesting, because the vaccine that's "available" in the US (in quotes because the supply chain probably is not fully functional) hardly works at all. It's a major problem for prisoners, health care workers who currently have to use CBRN respirators, and pretty much everyone who lives in certain highly contaminated cities, mostly on the west coast.
My guess is that they see the world in a black and white where things are either 100% safe or 100% dangerous. Where theories are either 100% proven or 100% disproven.
But that's not the phone's defaults. Anything not approved by the monopoly is unauthorized, making the initial statement correct and the phone a toy from general computing criteria.
I regularly have only one or two at once. When I am done with a tab, I close it - this makes it very simple. Sure I might temporarily open 10 at once when searching, but many will be culled within the first 10-20 seconds of reading the page as either the info I need is not there, or I've found what I need so can close the rest.

Occasionally when cross-referencing stuff I will go up to perhaps 5 or even 10 in extreme circumstances, but then - as before - I close the tab when I am done.

For stuff I want to come back to "later" I just use a bookmark instead of just leaving it open.

At work I tend to leave email chat and calendar open all day, but that is only an extra 3 tabs.

In my experience - both at work and at home - it is better to concentrate on only a small number of things at once and try to work them through to completion (or as far as you can get) so you can just drop it from your head when you are done and not need to dedicate and brain energy on juggling all these differen "in-flight" tasks. I find it easier to concentrate and way more productive to finish a task and then move on, rather than context-switching every 2 minutes and wasting endless time hunting for "that tab with that thing I need" on it.
I’m on a phone and I simply can’t read it.
I think an important factor in irony is that it's an apparent opposition between two aspects of a situation that do not in fact affect each other.

So the diabetic being killed by the insulin truck is ironic, because the contents of the truck no not in fact affect the lethality of being hit by it.

But the death row pardon coming in too late isn't ironic, because the pardon actually could have prevented the death. Whereas your example of 'Speedy' is ironic, because the nickname of the victim has no causal effect on the speed of the pardon.

Examples where the two oposed aspects of the situation actually do affect each other aren't ironic, they're just an ordinary conflict
Ah, the classic "unwanted feature that you have to waste your time trolling the internet in hopes of finding an way to turn it off that wasn't changed in the last forced unwanted update"! I bill at $60 an hour, to whom do I send the invoice?
In general arsetechnica article quality has been way down from a year or so a go. Too political, always on the offensive, comments short from wishing people dead. Or just something that looks like a promotion/advert for someone. Very few articles actually worth reading.
Thanks for the perspectives. One important nitpick:

> Some obviously bad work does immediately fade into obscurity, and better work probably does on average get more attention

You don't know what you haven't seen, which is just a restatement of the core problem. You'd need a study of the entire population to know about the correlation between paper 'quality' and outcomes.