skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is correct, but by any standard or definition, Stossel is a public figure. He's a television host (and was a correspondent and then co-anchor for one of the biggest newsmagazine programs in the US), he's been an author, a syndicated columnist, he’s won 19 Emmys. He’s an incredibly famous libertarian (I would argue he was probably the most prominent libertarian commentator in the media until he left television). He's a public figure. The fact that he’s on this website with a headline that includes his name is proof that he’s a public figure.

But yes, it can be very fact specific.
The data from the graph in the article shows a very obvious downward trend of child poverty from the end of 2020 until now. The line that demarcates the 'monthly cheques' I don't think is remotely remarkable.

That's not to say anything for or against the program, but I think that they are overstating things.

If you want a chart that shows a 'possible driver' of lowered poverty that lines up a little bit more nicely with that graph, try this [1] which is just US BLS unemployment. As millions of people become unemployed ... child poverty rates spike, as they become employed, they go down.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate
Asking the question about HN manipulation, when several other people have been asking, "How is this on HN", is unreasonable?

Is HN somehow immune from the manipulation that much larger, much better funded sites have experienced (where ample evidence exists)?

This was not some criticism of HN, this was a valid question which people should ponder on. Presumably most of us HN readers do not expect the content to be targeted manipulation or disinformation. But we cannot be blind to the possibility... else what is the point of even being here?

When I am hitting HN (tonight at least) about every 15 minutes out of boredom, and I see a story pop up on the front page with rapidly increasing votes - especially a story that is rather controversial and not typically what HN people get uniformly excited about - I wonder if something unusual is going on.

Perhaps it really is a lot of pro-Trump HN readers using their Friday afternoons to upvote this story, but that also seems unlikely.
Food and clothing depend on other things (cost of employees, equipment, materials, etc.) When the costs of those things rise, the cost of food and clothing will have to rise.
The smart toilet era is here. Are you ready to share your analprint w/ big tech?
Sure because some people don’t owe taxes.
> They talk about minorities, victims and races.

When I mentioned diversity, what I actually had in mind was that all tech workers in California have wifi, and probably find this so normal to connect your phone to wifi that they expect any normal user will do this on a daily basis.

I'm not a grandma but I'm a tech worker with a very different life style. Like the person I was replying to's grandma, I have no wifi.
Like her, I have to fake it from time to time so that my Android phone will backup photos, accept to download Google drive documents, etc.

So the diversity I had in mind is rather a diversity in location and lifestyle.
That's great and all, but there are other externalities that GP was referring to. Animal wellbeing doesn't mean a whole lot if all the animals have died out.
This is more of a Windows problem than a Dell problem. Windows seems to be terrible at going to sleep and staying asleep.

My current and previous Windows laptops (neither were from Dell) are/were set to sleep for 15 minutes and then hibernate when I have the lid closed, because otherwise they would randomly wake up, deplete the battery, generate lots of heat, and sometimes wake me up in the middle of the night.

I've also had desktop PCs with Windows that just refused to go to / stay asleep for various reasons including windows updates (that still hadn't completed a week later) and a documentation website that had a small silent video on loop (like an animated gif.)

My 2019 MacBook is better about this; once it goes to sleep, it seems to stay asleep. But it's still not perfect - I hit an issue where the iOS simulator and/or the Android emulator caused it to stay awake with the lid shut and drain my battery. So now I do kill those before closing the lid. But it does feel safe to put in a bag once it's actually asleep.
That is cool! I know what I'm doing this evening!
my colleague in the 90s worked in Huntsville, Alabama, and if the story is true, had duties down deep in a bunker where satellite imagery was stored. People whispered it was "the whole Earth" but now we know that there are clouds :-)

interesting story however
There is no "evolve into a cold" hypothesis. SARS-CoV-2 already is a cold for the vast majority of youths that get infected, just like the other four endemic common cold coronaviruses. The only reason those other viruses don't kill as many people today is that most of us get infected as youths and then the resulting natural immunity gives us some protection later in life.

Symptomatic reinfection is possible but remains rare. The Delta variant is more contagious but there's no reliable evidence that it has a higher fatality rate. Vaccination cuts the fatality rate close to zero.
Yea that CO2 is not as easy to pump as sticking a drill in some oil plump wet dirt and pumping away.
Data Engineering/Platform Influences in Twitter
These people are creating or promoting the engineering practices that we are using now or will use in the future.
May be I am too old but completely fail to see any value in the notion of NFT. I do see value in Bitcoin. Bitcoin has basically thrown a wrench into all government controls on cross border payments. I don't know if Bitcoins will be very successful or not, but I am pretty sure the concept will last very very long.

NFTs on other hand appears to be equivalent of selling Golden gate bridge to tourists.
Not even that. Although that's definitely another option!

I was thinking of two separate transactions with two separate parties: (BTC -> CNY, hidden as gift or loan) then (CNY -> goods, perfectly legal and normal).
are there devices which are allowed to wake your computer?

powercfg -devicequery wake_armed

if anything shows up, disable those devices with this command:

powercfg -devicedisablewake "Device Name"

I quickly googled this but I don't expect a lot of people to know what to search for, so if you've already found this and tried it, then I really am out of ideas this time.

if you haven't tried this, try it, and I really hope it helps.
In the mad max future you describe the only currency will be guns and ammo. Crypto requires a functional power grid and internet.
I would look past the literal question in the parent, and think about the implications: Who provides for children? Why should they suffer poverty, having no power or responsibility for their own condition?
I personally don't like the term ponzi scheme because it describes deliberate fraud. Bitcoin isn't a ponzi scheme or at least it wasn't built for it. I personally like the term MLM (multi level marketing) because you can do MLM with any product, even products that aren't specifically designed for MLM. It's just that cryptocurrencies lend themselves especially well to MLM.
Yes and Macs have worked like that since the PPC days. Display closed + no external display connected = sleep. Removing said display will also make it sleep.

I guess it's a bug or some monitoring service that crashed.
"In other words, to the question of whether a user was defamed through the announcement that content failed a “fact-check,” this Delaware court didn’t see a problem."

John Stossel, defamed? Who is that fool? What a fall from 20/20 TV entertainment days.
> go back (say) only 49 years

The point of my little twist is partly that: that at least the previous "self" has decided to use the machine that way, even if the possibility of doing what you say, in theory, exists.

It could have been simple human error, or the machine might be stuck somehow, but the story works better if it's a purposeful decision. Either the previous self wanted to delete their 2004-onwards memory on purpose, or they needed to restore their body to a pre-2004 state. Both of the alternatives suggest that something very bad has happened, or has been happening from 2004 to 4154.

My favorite one: he's in a bunker during a nuclear winter. There's no food and no water, but the machine has its own energy generator. He has to regenerate every couple days just to stay alive, and has been doing it for 2000 years. Being able to forget his situation is what makes it bearable.
For the past year your train cost you <$1<$4 for every dollar you spent.
After a shooting, notice that you start getting tourists. Most people love murder. It gives them rep.

Nice things, being a parent, are only met with cynicism, even hostile disgust. Build something nice. It will be torn apart today. That's what's honest right? Turning back into an animal. All those things like civility, mutual respect, abstract thought, jurisprudence, that's just phony superstitions, made up by the powerful for oppression. They're too dumb, too white, even though their origins are from Mesopotamia and a Mediterranean antiquity.

George Soros, you are a modern day Don Quixote. You tilt at the windmills of lawless amorality and self-righteous license. Liberty means the powerful acknowledge they really can't force anyone to do anything. Whether to advance or to retreat is always a personal individual decision. How can you transcend conventions when you can't even master the basics of what it means to be human? Here's an idea, if you are going to spend a lot of money and effort only to make things worse, don't do it. Go away. Don't even try to fool yourself. The world is better without you. Life becomes so much nicer and easier once you get far away from all these violent stubborn fools.
Not that I disagree with this advice, but what are you supposed to do if you're the victim of a crime (e.g., like the comment at the top of the thread, another driver crashed into your car)?

Is the answer that the best thing to do is to let it go - and, in turn, to let go of any possible insurance payout that depends on you filing a police report?
Credit Suisse dumped Evergrande exposure last year on risk fears
"In the not-so-distant past, start ups were pretty much the only avenue to secure a multiple-million dollar personal liquidity event"

I'm actually not sure this is true, and wondering if this was reporting bias. When a startup exits for a billion and all the employees get rich, you hear about it on the news, and you can do the equity calculation yourself based on public funding round press releases. When a big company quietly gives a multi-million-$ comp package to a valued employee, they have zero incentive to share that news with the rest of the world.

My wife grew up in Silicon Valley, and somehow all of her friend's parents have large real estate holdings. These were people active in the 70s-90s, big company employees, no exits. But there was one guy who had a beautiful house in the Saratoga foothills with an artificial waterfall between his two swimming pools; "Oh, his dad was a rainmaker at Intel." Or another friend of the family who had made some key inventions at HP, and retired early. Or the innkeeper we met in Alaska who had simply worked big companies in Silicon Valley, no exits, saved his money, but then when he turned 40 he bought a sailboat, sailed around the world with his family, then when he reached Alaska bought 2 old warehouses and converted them into a B&B.
That's an interesting and totally irrelevant statement that ignores the fact that taxation to pay for the army in your own words creates "base demand for dollars." Change in demand on the supply-demand curve means change in value, or perhaps I'm not up to date on your version of economics.
Nope but if it’s been improved, I will take a look. Would be nice to run with remote containers.
https://archive.is/MH2Ze
Just make sure you close Outlook before you close your lid. Not that Outlook is a good choice for mail, but corporations seem to like it, but at least in my experience, it somehow signals Mac OS to drain the battery.
We ban all kinds of tech.
> But this nuance is lost by Facebook slapping a label on his content as "misleading", which for all intents and purposes means "wrong". Sounds like defamation to me.

I can't speak for other countries, but in America reducing nuance is not defamation; provably false statements of fact are defamation.

The 1st Amendment protects your right to oversimplify things.
"By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you."

Mike Godwin, https://twitter.com/sfmnemonic/status/896884949634232320
The beauty of the plants that feed the world
Depends where we source them, for example American-made clothing is already prohibitively expensive to the economic demographic segments that are targeted by UBI experiments.
Keeping money moving is the desired outcome of inflation.

Spending money isn't what keeps people in poverty.
It boggles the mind, but it does at least explain why we got the prison state we have.
The building is positive sum like any other investment. Nothing prevents you from building more. Land is zero sum for obvious reasons.
And they’re really young for mountains (which is why they’re so high!)
Ok, [lies]
Art is (almost) forever.
Same here on an XPS 15, damn thing was so hot I was worried about it catching fire.
Nazis and Soviets had ability to destroy lives of people even without sending them to labor camps. Not sure what you had in mind, but people in British weapon factories also were worked and driven to death.

>Volcanic activity is already accounted for. Human activity vastly exceeds its effects.

Be real. That is neither possible according to modern human technological advances, nor is true.

>What would you consider “not religious”?

Anything that is not based on belief.

>I’m basing 90%-ish on the size of change we are concerned with preventing versus the magnitude of the difference between the earth and the moon

Well, that is interesting and unique take upon the global warming, but somehow without dipping into this deeper I don't think, that this approach is effective to describe global warming or is even taken into account. This only reflects, that you are a human being and have independent thinking, but I would not waste that on something that is waste of time... unless you are serious on making career on this.

>Though frankly, as you’ve already gone for argument by reductio-nazi-absurdum, I’m honestly expecting you to dispute the temperature of the moon at this point.

Are you ok? You decided to be white knight because I responded to someones else comment that he was picking out and declaring, that we knew about global warming forever, which is not so. People in northern hemisphere would specifically ignore memories about gradual warming or warmer periods and remember about cold winters and tell about them for other generations - it is just how it happened, and they would not tell about something good, that gave them slightly better tan, but they would tell about those winters that killed their cattle and how they survived through it.

Dude, just calm down - arguing is one thing, but I do not deserve your personal attack on me - only because I have my own opinion about this scam and also about the people who use it to gain personal benefits out of it.

Of course Sun sunspot maximum is coming closer and there is also link to that people get crazy during that period... anyway - this is way off the topic of Sid Meyers Civilization, when people were not as batshit crazy about nothing as now.
"The trench stalemate is the result of a fairly complicated interaction of weapons which created a novel tactical problem. The key technologies are ... artillery, machine guns, trenches, artillery, barbed wire, artillery, and artillery..."
I don't know, it's really a form of entertainment. The odd chances I do buy a ticket it's to think about what I would do if I won. I'm not expecting to win, I just like the idea.

And both are transient and rather empty - neither provide any real value outside of a brief joy.
Ok, I take your point that you were asking in good faith. The line between question and insinuation can be blurry. The fact is, though, that astroturfer/shill/bot/foreign-agent/paid-troll/infiltrating-spies is the explanation internet users reflexively invoke at the slightest provocation, nearly always with zero evidence. The overwhelming majority of the time, it's nothing but a sinister, sensational fantasy. This poisons discussion and community. Therefore we have a rule asking people not to post such things, but rather to email us at hn@ycombinator.com if they're worried about manipulation. That way we can base the response on something objective (by looking at the data) and the threads won't go haywire down the poisonous path.

I don't think you need to invoke "pro-Trump readers" to explain why a story like this might get upvoted. Not everyone is a passionate partisan.
How to Use React Router DOM as Pro
GPT3 has millions of labels. Every vocabulary term is a label. It’s equivalent to supervised learning in architecture. The “self-supervised” business is mostly spin to make it sound a bit more novel. People have been predicting the next word for ages (Turing did this).

Input: <previous words of article>

Label: <next word>

Your point is well taken that the number of input data points is also important when considering the complexity of the problem. In this case however the number of data points more or less exactly equals the number of labels.

(About Me: the first year+ of my PhD was focused on large scale language modelling, during which transformers came out.)
China’s sea power on Darwin’s doorstep
Microsoft Tag – High Capacity Color Barcode (2009)
Ask HN: Which would you choose? Elixir/Phoenix or Crystal/Lucky?
For a general purpose web application. For something that requires concurrency, Phoenix is probably an obvious choice? But for a general purpose, SaaS web app, which one would you choose?
When the universe was an appreciable fraction younger, all life on Earth was unicellular.
Oh yes, that should absolutely be noted.
Denton leases 31 acres next to its gas-fired energy plant to a crypto miner
A lot of people fresh to the political process may not realize that this is a routine thing that happens on both sides of the aisle. For example, Lieberman in 2009 killed the public option[0] for his own party on Obamacare which would have gone a long ways toward forwarding the left's healthcare vision. Later on in 2017, Susan Collins, a Republican, voted to save Obamacare which very likely could have succeeded had she voted with her party[1]

[0]https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-art...

[1]https://www.healthreformvotes.org/congress/300025
> I'm the author of the Caddy web server.
That's still just anecdote. I have USB-C for one pair of headphones, two pairs of earbuds, a bedside light/charger, and of course my phone. But I don't assume my experience is universal. I look at data, as should you, and it does seem that there are indeed billions of devices out there using USB-C.

https://epsnews.com/2017/12/28/usb-type-c-adoption-keeps-gro...

Looks like phones alone account for ~3B in a single year, so no, it's not just laptops. Even if you exclude those, the "consumer electronics" segment looks like it'll go over 1B/year pretty soon. Get out of your bubble.
I recall reading an article written by a former cop who said 20% of cops are excellent people and 20% are really horrible people. The remaining 60% are doing a job and will be approximately average most of the time but depending on the day or the culture of their department or other circumstances could be a hero or a villain.

I realize its an oversimplification on many levels but I find it useful sometimes in trying to think about cops as people, something which often gets lost.
Ironically John Stossell has actually been caught making false and misleading claims previously. He had to know filing this would bring those episodes back up, so I don't know why he filed.
https://archive.is/oy1dS

Original title, edited for length:

With its new cryptocurrency mining business on city land, Denton is suddenly a crypto player
One of the things that I love about Bazel is it thinks of a binary that obeys a contract as a test. This means you can have things like `sh_test` which just runs a shell script in a sandbox and gives you all of the benefits Bazel has normally for test execution. You get automated caching, parallelization, and remote execution of tests for free.

A great talk about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muvU1DYrY0w

You can often get situations where integration tests (that cover large features) take less than 30 seconds, only ever execute your tests when it is possible for the outcome to change (a dep has changed), and you can run your tests on a fleet of machines rather than one laptop or CI runner.
I really like the form factor, but my Surface Pro 7 has really let me down lately. It’s about a year old now and fully patched, but the battery barely lasts 4 hours, camera is buggy (Windows Hello stops working), and randomly shuts down.
I learned long ago that the most successful tech company I know is probably not the one I work for. Also that layoffs tend to follow drops in the stock price.

I don’t buy shares on margin, so why would I want my nest egg invested in the company I work for? If I get laid off I’m poor twice over.
Why not? If everyone pooped twice a day and kept an eye on stool colour, we’d have more control over our health.
in the current context of this experiment rent dropped by 30% in SF while this was going on. Sure some of that was people fleeing dense urban areas to escape lockdowns, but also some was people decamping because the economic pressure to work in a city was lifted. UBI might be a terrible threat to landlords' incomes as people redistribute.
Best tech blog on the web. She's awesome.
async/await makes things complicated - this is a great illustration of some issues with it. Fibers/green threads/goroutines seem to be generally easier and not viral. C#/dotnet choosing this the async model always bothered me. Otherwise, the platform is solid.

It's interesting, therefore, to try to understand why dotnet went with the async/await model.

A language maintainer C# talks about the issue here and references the rust justification for the same:

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-November/00...

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/11084

They knowingly seem to have chosen a more complicated model for performance. For me, that sounds like a bad trade. Developer time is quite a bit more valuable than compute time. The performance difference just doesn't seem to justify it.
Is there anything more insufferable than the smugness of appeals to rationality? This style of declaring your protagonist 'rational' and 'brilliant' and peppering in emotional-sounding negative reactions from mainstream science (or pop-science) is painful to read.

This guy might've done legitimate self-experimentation, but the writing is entirely unpersuasive. Why are the establishment voices against him (without immediately devolving into whining about 'cancel culture'/'censorship' bullshit)? Why are we to believe his claims? What separates this guy from all the people shilling nonsense COVID cures (who you could easily swap into an identical article)?
I am fairly certain this crow[0] is reasoning about water displacement.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZerUbHmuY04
As I understood it, it's an ACPI configuration, more or less 'forced' by Microsoft, to ensure this cool new S0 is the default. See [0] [1] and [2]. The fix/work-around is to tell the kernel to not do that, and just use traditional S3 sleep.

Adding `mem_sleep_default=deep` to your kernel cmdline should fix it. Been doing this on my XPS13 for 3 years now and it's fine.

[0] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199689

[1] https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/XPS-13-9370-battery-drain...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/8b6eci/xp_13_9370_bat...