skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh great. More security theater.

This should be a per repository setting. Not system wide! If someone has a "threat model" where "passwords are bad" then fine. Force users interacting with that particular repository to deal with this security theater of making tokens which have the same power as the account that authorized them. I guess they have better granularity, but in practice anything more complicated that Unix permissions is a total disaster and just leads to people not understanding what the different levels actually mean.

It shouldn't be imposed top-down on every user.
Another way to frame the dichotomy for the CS-inclined is greedy versus backtracking solutions. A penny-pincher is taking the best locally optimal choice at each step, just like a greedy matcher. A "backtracker", while not always able to exhaustively explore, approximates it by testing alternatives when given multiple runs.

In the realm of direct interpersonal credit, greedy solving often seems like "the answer:" you study for the test if you want to pass it, follow the polite mannerisms of your society, and take logical steps presented to you by your environment(like following signs and signals to navigate traffic). Situationally, it can work. And top performers in competitive fields are extreme examples of the greedy solution working: monastically training to be the best at what you do with regular drills, harsh lifestyle modifications and risky medicine does get results.

But everyone who's lived long enough without losing their head knows that the greedy path falls off a cliff eventually. You can't "just" follow the advice of professionals and scholars to be healthy, wealthy and wise. And neither does getting the gold medal give you the happy end. But as the article points out, there isn't an easy story to apply to a complex framing of life.
Not sure about the large stores, but i've had luck getting my balls at the local mom and pop tennis supply stores.
Sure, it's where you write the high-level orchestration code for things that haven't been made sufficiently repeatable yet. :)

Personally I tend to use it for light one-off database metaprogramming. Get a lit of objects that need to be maintenanced, generate the appropriate commands with a column of identical formulas, and then paste that back into the sql utility. (For more complex or long-lived things I'll use a more traditional language of course.)

(Why yes, I am going to pretend I didn't accidentally a word.)
Suppose that's the only person who knows how to grow and harvest coconuts, and those coconuts are the seeds for next year. That's what real economies look like, not the simplistic naivety of so many Marxists who think that everyone is equally good at managing resources, and spreading out resources equally is just as good as investing them strategically. There are no simple answers to questions like this.
The point of accessibility is not minorities, but taking all users in various circumstances into account. Sometimes you may yourself be on a device where images do not show and you need alt text, or where you need to resize fonts to be able to read text.
There's more than one type or way to describe immunity, as this discussion[1] by experts on the virus shows.

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/25/four-scenarios-on-how-we...
Practice cognitive behavioral therapy and specifically their cognitive distortions, eg fill in a “daily mood log” form (look it up). Reading about distortions propositionally is not going to get you better, you have to train yourself finding them in the context of your life. Turns out most of the time we are bummed there is a high chance of these biases being in play.
Heh. You mean sort of understandable for part of the first sentence, ending with '35 examples of patterns." After that, no.
As you say, kids will instinctively do this, she pretend played that a car is herself and another is you. They don't need adults to prescribe what they should pretend play. They'll play with rocks and twigs and anything else and have fun.

These toys-that-make-feelgood-news are not about kids but adults playing politics (that they are compassionate unlike the other tribe).
Why the Medallion Fund Is the Greatest Money-Making Machine of All Time
I guess the counter to that is fat people are less likely to make to it the level where being fat becomes advantageous
Yeah, I would like to see that behavior as an option, or even better allow to select the whole UI as a block of text (to feel natural and be searchable on the web). I belive any UI (incl. native) should not prevent you from copying any text.
As an old person who actually remembers when George Bush (the dad) coined the term “voodoo economics” during the 1980 primary against Reagan, I’ll explain the central thesis to what backers call “supply side” economics.

It’s basically the same logic as selling merchandise at low cost. How does the government make money? Volume!

Seriously. The argument is that cutting taxes will spur economic growth that will grow the economy so much, that the loss in revenues will be made up by economic growth. i.e Tax cuts pay for themselves.

There is actually ample evidence that this doesn’t actually work, or at least hasn’t worked in 40 years. (Diminishing returns and whatnot.) I’d go so far as to argue that some supporters of this policy even know this because it gave cover for their real goal of simply cutting social programs under the guise of “we can’t afford it”.
This tax should be retroactive, and it should be a wealth tax, not an income tax, as the ultra-wealthy often make very little income compared to their vast wealth.
This information should be more readily apparent from your landing page.
I am not a fan of the site but this specific article seemed substantiated to me.

That being said I decided to remove it because it was linked in the linked post tree by beerandt.
That's one of the intents behind Logo, see the book Mindstorms by Papert.

Programming wasn't an end unto itself, but a means of exploring complex topics. Notebook-style programming is a great modern iteration of this, especially with the ability to produce interesting and complex visualizations of the underlying data and structures.
but they apparently still have built a useful organisation. So why take away their power over their organisation if the share price increases?
Probably because people view billionaires as mustache-twirling villains and have absolutely no idea what they do with their time or money.
> What if the propagandists are portraying it that way, in order to create that skepticism/concern.

I'm sure some are, but in many cases they aren't. First of all, it's obvious to anyone observing from the outside, even absent propaganda. But it doesn't suffice to trust our intuition, so we can look to organizations like Heterodox Academy whose members are ideologically diverse academics that support their positions with empirical research. Beyond that, we can do our own homework--look at the ideological composition of the media, academy, etc. If they're growing more ideologically homogeneous over time (they are) it supports the idea that these institutions really are becoming more partisan rather than "it's just Fox News making you believe they are more partisan" (as though moderate liberals put much stock in Fox News).

> But most straight news from major sources is impressively straight, IME.

Perhaps insofar as "most straight news" isn't political, but IME most political coverage is highly partisan (I don't know how anyone can argue the contrary with a straight face following last year's BLM coverage). To be clear, I'm a moderate liberal and I find the media coverage to be very biased as do many other liberals that I know, and of course the conservatives--really the only people who think the media is on the right course are the left-most ~10% IME. Note also that a supermajority of national journalists live in the left-most of left-wing strongholds, so I really don't think it's a case of "90% are wrong about media bias".
For emojis WIN+. is my go to.
My own personal take on this is that I don't care whether it's tabs vs spaces as long as it's consistent. But if you mix both (especially in Python code), then you should be dead by now.

By the way, one of the popular Python packages pyaml uses tabs (consistently though). Not a good example, but still.
Bingo. These (the authors) are people with no ideas of their own, but they still need funding. So they "classify" other people's ideas and make some nice graphics.

Read "Thinking Fast and Slow" (which, to their credit, they do list as a resource) and skip the rest of their grant seeking.
I am the author of the original post. I have subsequently put more than 20,000 law students, lawyers, paralegals, etc. through assessments and trainings via Procertas.

The empirical evidence is undeniable: basic competence with core tools remains poor.

This is a solvable problem. We have all manner of opportunities to integrate foundational tech training into our educational curriculum.

I'd be happy to answer any questions anyone might have.
Does anyone seriously believe that if the US gov levied this tax that it would actually use the revenue in an efficient way? Remember when they "lost" 2.3 trillion dollars? $2,300,000,000,000. Whoops!

As an aside, this [1] was extremely depressing to read. I was aware of the 2.3 trillion around 9/11 (what a coincidence!), but had no idea about the more recent discrepancies.

[1]: https://www.city-journal.org/html/americas-missing-money-157...

edit: i forgot some zeroes!
Imho is Apple not so much privacy focused.

From my network logs, my iPhone is always connected to Apple servers.

Moving the locked iPhone a little bit on the table, very often it establishes a connection to Apple. Why?

If I block all Apple servers, my iPhone tries continously connect to Apple servers - which seems to drain the battery very fast.

Some years ago, I asked Apple wheter it is possilbe to switch of these 'connections'. Answer: No, I have to trust Apple.

WH
The measure "100%" OK does not exist in legitimate finance.
Sony WH-1000XM2, M3 and (I assume) M4 are some of the best and most comfortable headphones I've ever owned. My current M3s are going on 3 years old and plan on getting M4s when it kicks the bucket.

The only pair I've loved more were Sony MDR-XB500. I would kill for them to come back and especially in wireless.

I am not an audio snob but these sound great and most importantly, are extremely comfortable for long periods.
A free market is not a market free of regulation. Adam Smith was pretty explicit that markets can't exist without regulation as without uniform rules of engagement and the trust that creates in the system, there is no free market.
Yes!

The group I'm in is hiring for C/C++ systems. Experience with safety is a huge plus. If you give an email address I can send you some job listings. If you're interested we can go from there. I'm just an engineer so I can't bring you straight to an interview but I know we're having trouble hiring systems engineers; I could at least pass your resume on directly.
I’m a little uncomfortable about my iCloud photos being scanned but ok with Apple doing it because I will give them benefit of the doubt they can make it work and if not, reverse it. If google were to do that, that’s a hard no
Love the startup experience! I think we have a position that would fit your skills well: https://l.linklyhq.com/l/ZvwZ

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C-Span makes my brain cry.

In the words of Obama (paraphrased from Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee), when asked about how smart people in Congress are: 'You've got good people on both sides. You've got a lot of foolish people, but you've got some smart folks too.'

... Unfortunately, everyone gets equal time to speak.
Curating startup resources to build a profitable side-project
Because of battery energy density, EVs still only work within a certain size&weight range.

ICE work in a much broader range of applications and at wider temperature extremes. They aren't going away.
According to the SPLC, their addition was a mistake, and the retraction seems honest and reasonable. [0]

Now, me, I like my organizations to never admit-- uh, I mean make mistakes.

[0] https://www.splcenter.org/splc-statement-video
Hackers detail vulnerabilities at agtech giants John Deere, Case New Holland
Ancestral Dravidian Languages in Indus Civilization
I think its important to understand that there are very few 'climate deniers' alot of opposition comes from people who refuse to give a blanc cheque to take extreme measures to stop any form of enviromental damage or Co2 emission. From an economic standpoint we've benefitted so much on these early versions of power harvesting that taking drastic measures would destroy economies, The people who would be hurt most by a economic downturn are people who do not have enough resources to support their daily needs. That's why politicians want a clear, concise solution that still allows the economy to grow. William D. Nordhaus won the nobel price for analysing different scenario's to see what the optimal balance is between the economy and policy change. You can't throw money at the problem if there is none.

every person I've met has been of outstanding moral character and somewhat decent understanding of the problem, therefore I think the reluctance of extreme measures can be seen as the wisdom of a crowd. No one wants to step too hard on eachother's toes for a good reason.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2018/nor...
This is quite standard desktop gui behaviour.
NASA has developed into a bureaucratic machine with risk averse incentives.

The power of the state when it throws its weight behind something is awe-inspiring but the power of decentralized innovation leads to tinkering and unexpected breakthroughs that a government run project wouldn’t permit (due to the number of unnecessary bureaucracy and box checking)
"It does not help much to take wealth in terms of equity paper money away from people who know how to invest it efficiently and distribute it."

This assumes what needs to be proven. Namely, the degree to which the wealth of billionaries under the status quo regulatory, financial, and tax regime reflects their outsized contributions to welfare.

If we make a number of assumptions (e.g. perfect information, perfect competition, equal initial endowments, etc.) it's tautologically true that great wealth would reflect outsized contribution to preference satisfaction. But these assumptions are wildly unrealistic, and conflict with both everyday experience and historical reflection.

More to the point, we all want our economic system to do more than merely satisfy preferences. Opioid manufacturers cultivated and satisfied preferences to the tune of billions of dollars. The impacts on well-being of users and their communities were, to put it lightly, mixed.
The idea that a singular man can output a horsepower (~700W) for enough time to toast bread is still very impressive to me!

Clearly an Olympic-level athlete. That being said, I can't help but imagine that with some optimization, it could make the electricity generation a bit easier (maybe more RPM but less torque needed?). Clearly, the video shows him straining and pushing.

Power == RPM * Torque, converting to less torque but more RPM with gears probably would be easier.
Yep, I meant mobile phone network infra, all 3 companies are in that business afaik. And the article talks about some general police IT infra project.
This is so bad. Words are losing their common meaning due to journalists freewheeling attitude towards clickbaiting.

At least with "Bat-boy" stories of yore, you _knew_ it was made up entertainment and "serious" journalists would not touch such with a ten foot pole, if they could avoid it.
Very cool!

I worked on an app-based CBT startup for a number of years. The core business problem is that adherence to self-guided CBT of any sort (workbooks, apps, etc) is super low compared to in-person therapy.

We solved this by having a live non-therapist "coach" to call you periodically and encourage clients to continue through the program. That set a lower bound on how much we could charge users, and made our product too expensive for consumers. We were eventually forced to switch to the employer market, with mild success before we ran out of money and soft-landed.

It's promising to hear that you've landed on the employer market earlier than we did, but honestly you might have luck in the consumer space. Since your cost per user is pretty low, you could potentially get the app subscription down to something workable for the average person without dealing with insurance.

I think you're probably still going to run into the core problem, though: engaging people. I think you're making the right call to stick with predictable chatbots, but I suspect you'll lose some of the engagement you'd get with a more advanced bot. I always wondered how Woebot got around that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Another thing to watch out for: you'll have constant pressure to drift away from the science – to build something that consumers like, but is not well-supported and/or hurts efficacy. Fight it! Keep evidence-based medicine in your core values. Lean on your clinical director for content review. It's too easy to build a feel-good, do-nothing app, I hope you can stick to your evidence-based convictions long-term. :)

Anyway, best of luck! Software-delivered CBT is a super promising field and I wish you the best. :)
How does the NFT component add value?
There’s a tofu factory in my neighborhood, so no shortage here.
I'm a former recreational tennis player and I previously thought that pickleball was lame. Now I only play pickleball (mostly singles) and sold off my tennis racquets. After two years of playing, I still can't figure out why 4.0-level pickleball is way more fun than 4.0-level tennis. If you play singles pickleball and live in the northwest Chicago suburbs, hit me up!
Paying for journalism is a good thing. I too have subscriptions that I don’t strictly need.
Yeah, they were talking about wanting pinephone since it doesn't use android at all. That's why I was wondering what the benefit would be.
What do you think the errors are? The first one says "definition of 'convicted terrorist' is fuzzy, here are the specific convictions, which are different from what was claimed, which were dropped charges" which seems accurate for a "mixed" review - if the words you use are literally incorrect, how can you expect to have them reviewed as "true" even if you think it's a technicality. If they have a "mostly true" then there's a good argument that they should've used it; I don't know if they have that or not.

But the second one looks just plain correct. Here we are 5 months later and no Biden-mandated federal vaccine passports, after all.
Check out this one on a large screen: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Cognitiv...

While still bamboozling, it brings some order and visual overview (in a beatiful way IMO), plus links for further study.

All credit for posting it belongs to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28168269
This doesn't show the governments faith in the vaccine as an effective measure all it does is show those who oppose it as it being yet another big government bully tactic to exclude people from society.

A better measure would be to do allow vaccination status to avoid the testing requirements on entry to the country. It would be a bold world wide statement that we have faith in the vaccine. It would be in line with WHOs guidance and it would go a long way toward taking us out of this global recession that was started.
While likely legal since the US Constitution only prohibits ex post facto criminal statutes, retroactive wealth confiscation is probably not a good precedent to set. A universal wealth tax would be much more palatable than a tax on wealth gained by certain people during a certain period of time.
Part of that was prompted by certain segments sharing Babylon Bee's posts unironically.
That's not only in Europe. I live in Mexico, but in a huge city of millions of people. Guess what, most of the fruits and vegetables are terrible, even from the street markets.

Turns out if it's a city of millions you need an industrial scale agriculture and logistics. So yes, the fruits/vegetables are picked green and are tasteless.

To get something more tasteful I have to escape to a much smaller place.
At what range would the gravity differential kill you? Would you be able to see it before it kills you? If it was close to the sun we should be seeing some kind of halo around it due to gravitational lensing right?

edit: ok maybe we'd need it to be between us and the sun for that to work, the lensing would be that of other stars I guess. I suppose the important question is, since it's relatively close to us, would it deform space hard enough for the gravitational lensing to be noticeable at such close proximity.

edit2: more train of thought, just because it's fun, I suppose since it's so small and the gravity relatively weak (i.e. not as strong as some huge stars or galaxies) any halo or distortion would not extend more than a couple meter, which wouldn't be noticeable from our distance, right?
Numbers in python also allocate memory. Integers are arbitrary precision, so the difference between + and += might also be very relevant for them. And of course there's numpy and matrices which also behave like numbers, or at least like mathematical objects.
By splicing together I mean a piecewise function which is `exp(x) - 1` on the left and `1 - exp(-x)` on the right. Which should be similar enough to tanh for most purposes.
I almost died from the shot and barely any doctor will entertain the notion.
Money makes things easier, and Musk isn’t originally an American. Even $1 million would’ve made me moving to Berlin completely trivial, $100 million means you can offer to bring your friends with you without any trouble, $musk-as-cash is “buy the entire sovereign nation of Cyprus and have $70 bn afterwards” levels of money.

(But, as I said on another comment, his theoretical net worth isn’t real money, it’s how much other people reckon they could extract from the companies he controls).
Observe the Bias
Didn't know the labs recorded if a person was wearing masks ..
If they didn't the second is more reliable :)

Basic science if you dont measure something (e.g. how many people wear masks) you don't know anything. Fairly simple isn't it?

lol ... scientists are all wrong, because my gut tells me I'm right. That's not how it works. If you have studies that masks don't work (or are harmful) similar to the 3 linked on top ..
There's also the lancet study and another nature study showing that masks reduce infection risks. Then please show me ... Yet don't come with anecdotes ( I know what happened in Texas ..
Lol I know what happens in Hong Kong and Taiwan ..
People just laugh about the US here :))
Nothing about what I said was tax policy, I am simply trying to counter a common misconception.
We should've invested in a strategic tennis ball reserve at the bare minimum.
In the "Fundamentals"[1] course they use a table format for the design recipe that makes the correspondence between data and functions more obvious, and perhaps the JSP inspiration more evident.

[1] https://course.ccs.neu.edu/cs2500f17/design_recipe.html
He hasn’t had to dissemble in front of a crowd in quite a while. That’s a skill that takes constant practice to maintain.