skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a good place to point out that during the pandemic John Linnel of They Might Be Giants recorded an EP called Roman Songs entirely in Latin. It's available on Spotify (you'll have to check other streaming services yourself).
This is a symptom of the reductionist trend in much of modern medicine which focuses primarily on treating specific conditions with individual small-molecule drugs. That's not a bad approach necessarily; it makes the experiments easy and has produced excellent results in many areas. But it seems to be running out of steam with most of the low-hanging fruit already picked. Return on drug development costs is trending lower.

In order to make major new advances we'll need to go back and develop a better theoretical understanding of how all the moving pieces fit together through basic research.
Some of them are traditional inactivated virus vaccines. If that's your only point of concern, you should simply be advocating for J&J.

All of them still work by teaching your own immune system.
Depends on the time, CPAN was far better than setuptools. It was even better than dealing with RPM, early on.

RubyGems was the package manager that was really amazing and changed everything IMO. pip didn’t even exist until almost a decade later after that.
Elizabeth Warren wants the Fed to break up Wells Fargo
I'm guessing that Loom (lightweight threads) is not in this yet. It looked like a nicer way to handle "async" code, but I wonder about the implementation difficulty.
Tangent: SWAT 4 still has an active community including actively developed mods. It's arguably the peak of the tactical shooter genre (at the very least for indoor urban combat). It's also still for sale on GOG.com.
This is not possible. You cannot fund your account with more than $30 per day unless you are have the highest verification and right now, the limit at those levels is just $60.

It will take you years to move $100k at $60 per day.
Speaking of what's possible in matplotlib, I am very much looking forward to reading this book: https://github.com/rougier/scientific-visualization-book
I wonder what an article about Ubuntu's firewall is doing on a site about BSD. Seems a little out of place, no?
I just wonder how does presence of a niche codec in the kernel affect the kernel size and performance.

I would be glad if everybody would use it so it would be mainstream but the reality is H.264 and H.265.
I don't think the Allwinner codecs need binary blobs.
Choosing to risk catching a disease with a 1-2% case fatality rate, while refusing an overwhelmingly safe and effective vaccine is the definition of idiocy.
There is so much wrong with the api design of sklearn (how can one think "predict_proba" is a good function name?). I can understand this, since most of it was probably written by PhD students without the time and expertise to come up with a proper api; many of them without a CS background.[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/7brsuu/machine_lea...
> The places with the highest gun crimes are also the places with the toughest gun laws.

Big claims require some big evidence. In the UK there are strict controls on gun ownership and we have virtually no crimes carried out with legal guns, and more but still very few with illegal ones. Can you give some counter examples?
If only I had started my math career with a binder of notebooks or at least 3-hole-punched notes.

- [ ] Create a git repo with an environment.yml that contains e.g. `mamba install -y jupyter-book jupytext jupyter_contrib_extensions jupyterlab-git nbdime jupyter_console pandas matplotlib sympy altair requests-html`, build a container from said repo with repo2docker, and git commit and push changes made from within the JupyterLab instance that repo2docker layers on top of your reproducible software dependency requirement specification ("REES"). {bash/zsh, git, docker, repo2docker, jupyter, [MyST] markdown and $$ mathTeX $$; Google Colab, Kaggle Kernels, ml-workspace, JupyterLite}

"How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19448678

Here's something like MyST Markdown or Rmarkdown for Jupyter-Book and/or jupytext:

## Log functions

Log functions in the {PyData} community

### LaTeX

#### sympy2latex

What e.g. sympy2latex parses that LaTeX into, in terms of symbolic objects in an expression tree:

### numpy

see above

### scipy

### sympy

see above

### sagemath

### statsmodels

### TensorFlow

### PyTorch

## Logarithmic and exponential computational complexity

- Docs: https://www.bigocheatsheet.com/

- [ ] DOC: Rank these with O(1) first: O(n log n), O(log n), O(1), O(n), O(n*2) +growthcurve +exponential

## Combinatorics, log, exp, and Shannon classical entropy and classical Boolean bits

https://www.google.com/search?q=formula+for+entropy :

S=k_{b}\ln\Omega

Entropy > Statistical mechanics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy#Statistical_mechanics

SI unit for [ ] entropy: joules per kelvin (J*K*-1)

*****

In terms of specifying tasks for myself in order to learn {Logarithms,} I could use e.g. todo.txt markup to specify tasks with [project and concept] labels and contexts; but todo.txt doesn't support nested lists like markdown checkboxes with todo.txt markup and/or codelabels (if it's software math)

- [ ] Read the Logarithms wikipedia page <url> and take +notes +math +logarithms @workstation
- [o] Read
- [x] BLD: mathrepo: generate from cookiecutter or nbdev
- [ ] DOC: mathrepo: logarithm notes
- [ ] DOC,ART: mathrepo: create exponential and logarithmic charts +logarithms @workstation
- [ ] ENH,TST,DOC: mathrepo: logarithms with stdlib math, numpy, sympy (and *pytest* or at least `assert` assertion expressions)
- [ ] ENH,TST,DOC: mathrepo: logarithms and exponents with NN libraries (and *pytest*)

Math (and logic; ultimately thermodynamics) transcend disciplines. To bikeshed - to worry about a name that can be sed-replaced later - but choose a good variable name now,
Is 'mathrepo' the best scope for this project? Smaller dependency sets (i.e. simpler environment.yml) seem to result in less version conflicts. `conda env export --from-history; mamba env export --from-history; pip freeze; pipenv -h; poetry -h`
> 0: Sources told the Journal that the reason for the company’s decision was the violation of company policies against encouraging violence.

Seems like a valid reason to ban someone from a platform. Reading further, Stripe was being used to collect money to make hundreds of frivolous lawsuits. (Legal definition thereof)

> 1: The latest payment platform to refuse to accept payments made to Loomer is Stripe.

Looks like Stripe is far the first company to do this. Reading between the lines, this person is specifically trying to get banned to prove a point. At some point, their history of doing so becomes the reason for kicking them off, rather than their political views.
that is not the point I was making, the point is that it's stating an opinion that a regulation is wrong versus an argument that the regulation is being infringed.
Pain and suffering are not synonymous. I don’t know if I have the clearest definition, but suffering may have a rumination aspect to it. Plants respond to stimuli, but I’m not convinced they suffer.

E.g., a hard workout can cause “pain”, but many people come to like, or even look forward to, that feeling. It still hurts, but the way they are mentally reflecting on that pain distinguishes it from “suffering”. Meanwhile, someone else who hates exercise may feel the exact same pain and be miserable. So it’s not the pain, but the way the pain is framed which leads to suffering.
Dupe "Researchers successfully potty-train cows": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28514695
thanks for the discovery
You’re probably confused because you’re speaking quite generally, while most of us here are commenting after reading the article:

> “They came to the conclusion that some of the problems were specific to Instagram, and not social media more broadly. That is especially true concerning so-called social comparison, which is when people assess their own value in relation to the attractiveness, wealth and success of others."
"'Social comparison is worse on Instagram,' states Facebook's deep dive into teen girl body-image issues in 2020, noting that TikTok, a short-video app, is grounded in performance, while users on Snapchat, a rival photo and video-sharing app, are sheltered by jokey filters that 'keep the focus on the face.' In contrast, Instagram focuses heavily on the body and lifestyle."
Oooo. Wow. This is a great answer, thanks for explaining it that way.
I'm very opposed to Facebook and social media in general. I think social media is bad for almost everybody. (and certainly bad on the whole for any large cohort.) Even if teenage girls were not predisposed to this sort of behavior, Facebook would still be bad for them. It would simply be bad for them in the ways which it is bad for everyone else. Instead, it's bad for them in all the other ways it's bad for people, and additionally bad for them when it comes to these particular social behaviors.
Ubisoft has been really, really bad about game preservation. They're up there with Activision/Blizzard with complete indifference to their core audience. The 'right' thing to do would be to open-source this game like iD did with the Quake series: nobody is actually buying this game anymore, and if you really wanted to be a frugal bastard you could make the asset/map files proprietary while releasing the engine to the community. The current state is that nobody can really play this though, so nobody wins.

Side note: is it possible to fix this by routing through a custom DNS and spoofing the ad server? This seems like a pretty rudimentary issue, and could probably be solved with the technological equivalent of Krazy Glue and duct tape.
From https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Croatian_Wikipedia_Disinform...

"A group of Croatian language Wikipedia (Hr.WP) admins held undue de-facto control over the project at least from 2011 to 2020. During that time, the group intentionally distorted the content presented in Croatian language Wikipedia articles in a way that matched the narratives of political organisations and groups that can broadly be defined as the Croatian radical right. The group systematically produced and edited articles containing unencyclopaedic content and overt historical revisionism. The content became so pervasive and remained online for so long that it created a web of deception to influence the reader's moral or value judgement in a way that corresponded to the group’s ideological views. More recently, after 2020, the local community has made tangible improvements to some of the most sensitive and most disputed articles. However, it is too early to say if this will be enough to put the project firmly back into alignment with the five pillars."

Apparently, an encylopaedia anyone can edit anonymously is susceptible to disinformation authored by ideologically driven editors. Who would have thought? :) It's stunning that the Wikipedia administrators still treat uncovered infiltrations as "isolated incidents" despite all evidence to the contrary.
>only a few stimulus checks

The article is about the UK, there have been no stimulus cheques.
Now, repeat the exercise with a 3-5/8 tile.

Not as easy.
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Not sure how /uk works, but /Canada is basically made up of people whose own metro/regional/provincial subreddits don’t have a critical mass, which basically makes it representative of low-population density areas in low-population density provinces.
> Kids are dying

No.

Check the CDC numbers by searching "burden of pneumonia influenza".

Minors 0-14 (not just kids) died twice less of covid than kids 0-5 are dying every year of classical pneumonias alone (influenza, strepto, etc). If you look through the numbers in more detail, all the minors 0-15 which died had severe comorbidities to begin with.

To add to that, no kids died of pneumonias since Covid began, strangely enough (it seems keeping kids at home did that). Classical pneumonias on the other hand left 60'000 kids 0-5 each year with various lifelong lung problems, in the US alone.

>FDA should provide an EUA [...] monoclonal antibodies

Already done, there's just not enough manufacturing capacity, only approx. 1 factory per northern continent makes it (1 USA, 1 Switzerland).
Yeah, it's a political struggle. It's also the only solution. NIMBY landowners cannot be allowed to override human well-being and political will and economic growth indefinitely.
But that's just it: when writing code the right way, there are no important parts of the code's behavior that are not visible from it's text.

For example, this code:

void foo() {
var res = acquireResource();
useResource(res);
releaseResource(res);
}

is wrong even if no errors can be thrown. By contrast, this code is correct, regardless of whether any of these functions can throw:

void foo() {
try {
var res = acquireResource();
useResource(res);
} finally {
releaseResource(res);
}
}

Similarly, in Go this function is wrong:

func foo() error {
res, err := acquireResource()
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("error acquiring resources while foo-ing: %w", err)
}
err = useResource(res)
if err != nil {
err = fmt.Errorf("error using resource while foo-ing: %w", err)
}
releaseErr := releaseResource(res)
if releaseErr != nil {
err = fmt.Errorf("%w; failed to releasing resource while foo-ing: %w", err, errW)
}
return err
}

even though I don't have any exceptions.

The correct way to do this in Go would be:

func foo() error {
res, err := acquireResource()
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("error acquiring resources while foo-ing: %w", err)
}
defer func() {
err := releaseResource(res)
if releaseErr != nil {
logInSomeWay(fmt.Errorf("failed to releasing resource while foo-ing: %w", err))
}
}()
err = useResource(res)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("error using resource while foo-ing: %w", err)
}
}

So overall, whether a function finishes early SHOULD be irrelevant.
Every "space company" has to have a celebrity name attached to it, right? Even if they're not really a celebrity and no one remembers why they were famous.

I'm cynical about the actual need for the proposed service, but I wouldn't begrudge Woz the opportunity to rent his name out for joy or cash.
it's been two whole days since my booster and no covid yet :)
> and nothing will actually change

If nothing changes, people will move away from Stripe on to something else. I'd say stuff like this is exactly how a business that wants to stay alive needs to react to swiftly and figure out the root cause for.

The communication from the founder or representative needs to reflect the commitment to change and show the plan they intend to execute. The GP didn't do so well on the second point (vague plan, at best).

If we see stuff like this still happening in 3-6 months, I think it's time to bring out the pitchforks.
Unfortunately, this shit is addictive and implying that the solution is _just_ for people to delete their account is effectively blaming the victim.

Some people never start smoking and never have a nicotine addiction problem. Some people smoke a few times or even occasionally but don't pick up a habit. Some people get addicted but manage to quit easily, some manage to quit after many attempts. Some can't quit ever, but we don't tell them that they just need to try harder or they shouldn't have started smoking in the first place.

Try quitting smoking or drinking in a place where it's socially expected to do one of these, and you'll be quite close to how difficult it's for someone to quit social media in a society where using social media is the social norm.
Mean Girls wasn't a documentary, and as a former teen girl, I'd argue that girls aren't actually uniquely awful: what they are is especially sensitive to social cues and influences. You may note that the article here isn't really about bullying, it's more about girls making themselves miserable by comparing their lives and their bodies to what they see online. I do actually think there may be an evolutionary element to the fact that females are (on average) more oriented to language and interpersonal skills, more attuned to social feedback, and on the flipside, more prone to anxiety as a result, but I think it's a mistake to view that through too simplistic a lens.
Security researchers at Wiz discover another major Azure vulnerability
This is a hardware driver that conforms to a standard interface, it doesn't implement a VP9 codec in software in the kernel.
illegal alien is the neutral and legal term. it's been politicized like most words that side disagrees with. it all turns into a semantics and racial game to distract from the actual issues.
The "targeted" content diversifies based on what FB thinks would interest you. FB is better at predicting your interests and hobbies than you do, which eventually leads to doomscrolling.
Spot on, nothing to add to this.

"Make something people want" is the #1 fundraising hack. If you do it well enough, fundraising isn't an issue.
Huh. Brilliant.

I would think that the main selling point, besides clean-up issues, is to break some kind of parasite cycle.
As long as they don't impose to me (40 y.o.) to catch a plane... fine with me

I am getting very wary of the whole situation.

"As soon as we get a vaccine we are good". Now we have the bloody thing, I got injected with it hoping to get back to normal: "We need a booster shot"

I was always pretty rational about it, but this is becoming a farce
Now that I think about it a little more, it's probably more applicable to be mean to anyone in an outgroup.

And now that I think about it even more, I really have no idea of what I'm talking about. Most of the time that I've been mean to people, when I was younger, it was basically because I was an immature and confused jackass. And, as far as relationships go, who hasn't made a complete ass of theselves at one point or another?
Tension over boosters rises FDA regulators quit and publicly blast Bidens plan
And the countryside on the other side of the Earth as well
I don't know if the article title is too long or has changed but its:

MIT: Measuring Media Bias in Major News Outlets With Machine Learning

which is rather more useful than the existing one - I thought it was about bias in some way displayed via machine learning as in previous problematic cases.
Seems that NumPy was written in Python b/c the ML community was using Python, not the other way around.
Celsius Needs a Redesign (2019)
Yes, in fact, if NSA, China's MSS, Mossad and other nation states are betting on these kind of exploits to exist in order to do their really dirty work (even if they contract it out to NSO Group), the "benefits" would be detrimental to them.
It is a bit more complicated because if the wages of fruit picker decreases, the farmers may sell their fruits for a lower price. So everyone else's wage actually increases. Not the amount of £ you get at the end of the month but what you can afford with these £ (more fruits).
Unless you vapourise the debris, you just turned it into chunks of smaller debris, travelling at the same velocity.
My old boss used to say he would just hold up a picture of his paycheck on Tinder if his wife ever dumped him. Unfortunately it would also show the child support deduction.
While the term "vegan" has seen a rise in popularity, "meat" and even "steak" have seen a more significant rise in the last 10 years: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=v...

I also don't have data on this, but I think there has been a much bigger rise in performative veganism than actual veganism. For example many popular twitch streamers say they are vegan, and then the next week viewers point out they are eating a cheeseburger on stream and they'll say "well I'm not today obviously".
I meant criminals in this context as anyone who commits a crime using a gun. If you shoot someone you're a criminal regardless of whether you used an illegally acquired gun like a "career criminal" certainly would or if you had the gun legally and then decided to commit a crime.

And I can't really agree with your assertion either. See stats in [0] and a gun law map in [1]. At best it's a correlation without causation, but the correlation certainly isn't the inverse as you suggest.

I also don't see how it's not a relevant example - it's Thing A making Thing B worse, but Thing B would still happen without Thing A and so Thing A can't be blamed for Thing B. Regardless of whether the underlying assertion is correct (less gun control leading to more gun crime), the logic is valid.

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-death...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation
South Korea fines Google $177M for abusing market dominance
What is 'Web3'? Actually, not the marketing hype.

Web 2.0 was ajax and shinny plasticky buttons when you got down to it.
Effectively yes, but the "1.x" format is deprecated since Java 9 and not used anymore, whereas versions 5 through 8 used both notations.

See https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/223#Dropping-the-initial-1-ele...
Part of the reason I dislike many evo-psych explanations as an archaeologist is that they end up reflecting a lot of the author's assumptions about the nature of human societies and not the diversity of forms we actually observe. You can support virtually any argument by just narrowing or widening this scope appropriately. One example here is that young women are free to actually decide which "suitors" to accept. In some gerontocracies, young women generally don't have that choice, socially at least.
I love reading about the industrial revolution and the social and economic change from the mid 19th to early 20th century, because you can draw so many parallels to the modern information revolution. The details of the story are different, but the outline is the same:

We've got massive progress and insane improvements to efficiency. The world as it exists now couldn't have been dreamed up half a century ago. On the other hand, there's also serious regressions caused by the efficiency, with novel problems that our society is ill-equipped to solve. All the while, we have a wild west business environment and the founders, executives, and capitalists leading the way are getting unfathomably rich as they make a land grab for ownership over the infrastructure and technology that enables our modern efficiency.
Amazon One’s palm-scanning tech makes first move into entertainment venues
Ask HN: How do you think about promotion?
I currently manage a team of product managers at a major tech company. I have been working on trying to get promoted to director (which is the next title up) and a lot of it seems to be networking with various VPs to get them to vouch for me. My manager seems a bit passive in getting me promoted - he has given me scope and it’s now up to me to set up the right conversations to make the case easy for him. I am not sure if this is the way things are supposed to be - part of me thinks he should be taking a more active role in setting up the right conversations to get me promoted.

However, as I reflect on this promotion process, I find two things:

- I am mostly motivated to get promoted because it is the next step. I look at my manager’s life and I don’t envy him. He works crazy hours and it’s taking its toll on him.

- I am mostly trying to get promoted to not stagnate. But honestly, if it were culturally acceptable and I didn’t feel the need to keep up with the Joneses, I would be happy in my role for the next 20 years.

So my question is to this group - how have you thought of being promoted? Is it worth it to not stagnate? Is the self-promotion to VPs with your boss waiting for it to happen the norm if you do want to get promoted?
lol humans can keep forests at bay! why do we need mammoths for that?