skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fun post, but I can't bring myself to believe...

> Not one teacher could differentiate type written papers, from dot matrix.

It just strains credulity. Daisy wheel, sure, but not in the history of dot matrix printers, from start to finish, were they comparable to typewritten output.
There's the fundamental difference! I love finding the "fundamental difference". The crux, the place where philosophies diverge, where the understandings break down.

I fundamentally disagree with the premise that "keeping harmful, intentional disinformation away from people" is worse than "letting people unknowingly subscribe to disinformation".

I would argue, perhaps, that there should be open policies on what topics are off-limits. That Facebook, et. al. should have to document to the public what "viewpoints" and disinformation they limit - and furthermore, that more of these content-display algorithms should be auditable, competitive secrecy be damned.

I wouldn't call hundreds or thousands of people dying due to disinformation-backed vaccine skepticism "banal", either.
All the Reddit alternatives are each an example of why the early community matters so much. Being a piracy haven is probably the "best" outcome in terms of community-building compared to all the other common fates of low-moderation websites in growth mode.
Tell HN: A Manifesto for These Times
1. Feelings matter, but facts and reality matter more.

Take education, for example. The students' self image matters, even for education purposes. Students who think they can do it learn more than students who think they can't. But actually learning matters more than self-image does. There's a real world outside of school that we're trying to raise children to be able to live in, and the real world will destroy their self-esteem if they can't actually do what the real world needs them to do.

Or take politics. How the voters feel about your policies matters. You can't get them to follow policies that they feel are wrong. But in the end, it matters more whether the policies work than it does how the public feels.

2. In the long run, you won't win zero-sum games enough to make them worth playing.

Again, this applies to politics. In fact, it's what's wrong with Congress. They're so busy playing zero-sum games that they can't govern.

It also applies to the culture wars. Both sides are so busy trying to gain another foot of ground that they miss that they're destroying the culture.

Maybe two points isn't enough for a manifesto. What else should be in here?
Timber Sycamore (CIA Program)
doesn't sound like much of a problem to me.

i don't think i've ever really had a bad manager who wasn't also an asshole.

but if i was in that position, i might ping him/her on the low in private, just casually, not necessarily in the scrum/in front of the whole group.

"Hi Bob/bi, on that new feature, did you want me to get an estimate of how long it might take to do before we promise that it will be delivered tomorrow? I'd be happy to do that now, and then going forward for any other big features related to my area of expertise."

just a bad example.
Which was broken on macOS until 3.8 and is fragile in the face of threading and freezing.
Yes, look at https://www.deepdyve.com/browse/

As an example of a topical search with no login:

https://www.deepdyve.com/search?query=COVID-19

Another search:

https://www.deepdyve.com/search?author=Doyle%2C+W.+T.

And a page from that search:

https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-association-of-physics-...

You get only one page when not logged in, but Deepdyve has all of American Journal of Physics, which is really nice.

Deepdyve has been submitted several times to HN over the past decade, but it never generates any interest. That's surprising, considering the interest in SciHub.

You can't read the full text w/o signing up for the free trial. Without registering, you can't bookmark articles or add them to folders, either.
> Unfortunately the websockets implementation only allows IPv6

Huh? Pretty sure that's not true.
> words cause pain

more often than not it's the pain of hearing a different opinion. The "hate speech" label turned into "speech I hate" long time ago.
There is a Banana Pi variant with five network interfaces:
https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Getting_Started_with_R1
Also, when Travis Oliphant was writing numpy he liked the Fortran implementations of a lot of mathematical functions, so it was an "easy" borrow from there instead of reimplementing.
> every highschooler in the US to be able to read a book and interpret its meaning I think we can figure out what anti-vaccine content looks like

Good. Supposing you are graduated from hight scholl and read a book. I beleive that covid vaccines are good and everybody in their right mind and without medical conditions should vaccinate. I also beleive that everybody has a right to decide by themself to take vaccine or to pass any time. Am I pro-vaccine or am I anti-vaxxer?
What they are proposing is how our nation is supposed to work. Everybody is responsible for assessing the risks for their self. If everybody does this then it is an effective way to handle an outbreak.
There is often a good increase in performance of a consumer grade router once one of the wrt flavours is installed, so in my mind it would be simpler to just flash it rather than set up a Pi4 like this. Anyways, as was said earlier, if you have a Pi4 in a drawer and you have a need and a managed switch, this is a good use.
I prefer if we prevent harm by addressing the underlying conditions, rather than trying to control the spread of ideas.

As long as we’re in a mindset of having to destroy all contagions (whether they’re proteins or thoughts), we’re going to create more problems.
I hope you realize that you're projecting, because what you're saying applies perfectly to you.
> If you're claiming something that hasn't been demonstrated through peer-reviewed scientific research, then you're offering your opinion. If you present that opinion as a fact, then that's misinformation.

Unironically, I would consider your opinion here, to be dangerous mis-information. Yes really.

We do not have to throw out the entire body of past medical work, for every single "new" question that comes up.

So there are absolutely some, scientifically supported, conclusions, that we can come to, about diseases, using this past body of medical work.

If we listened to you it would result in people refusing to do basic things, like wash our hands and socially distance, because we haven't yet completed a full study, for a specific new disease that is going around.
Define 'works'. This subject is an easy one in which to conflate goals. The goals of the platform are different than the goals of the public, lawmakers, etc. which is what the article is about.

The goal of the platform is to pull in more users. Having less abusive language and users is a means to that end, as is appeasing general public outcries for more moderation.

The goal of the public and lawmakers is, hopefully, more effective and meaningful discourse.

The paper you link measure for the prior outcome, not the latter.

Edit: Just to comment on the outcome you are referring to though, I don't believe the bans actually lead to more meaningful and effective discourse on Reddit. I don't even thing it lead to more civil discourse. You can click on literally any politically sensitive topic on the front page and you'll find that almost all the top comments both lean in a specific direction (diversity of discourse is terrible) and the deride anyone who disagrees. Maybe they use the 'F' word less, and no one is using the 'N' word anymore, but it is very obvious that it has become a strongly homogenized platform that doesn't welcome nuanced opinions.
As someone who rides a bike in a state where Pot is legal, there are a fair number of people who are smoking and driving, many more than before legalization. And the homeless population seems to have embraced pot as well.

The sky hasn't fallen, but when riding I give a wide berth.

There is a lot of inconsistency, but the lines between "drug" and "Recreational substance" are certainly blurred, be it for Opiates or Pot. On one hand our food and drug administration couldn't figure out why in some places they're distributing more opioids than there are people, and voters went from "pot is a medicine" to "pot is recreational". Regulation of anything was a total failure so maybe another plan.. So legalize and pay for treatment.
Thought experiment: how would you feel if YouTube banned all pro-trans content? ...or pro-choice, or anti-Isreal/Jewish material?

It doesn't matter to me if you're against companies censoring any of these things. Be aware that it means you're fine with authoritarianism, so long as it aligns with your politics...
I know there is “fake it till you make it” but usually these companies have some idea how to get success. But as far as I understand Theranos never had any technology or approach that promised to lead to their goals. They just tried various stuff that never worked and lied about it.

It was more like me starting a company that wants to create a battery with ten times the capacity of current batteries but having no idea how to achieve this so I take in a lot of money and desperately try to figure something out while having no promising insight .
What happens when the company owns the whole town and you're not allowed to have your own lawn to speak on?
> what is the correct aim and motivation for science

I think you misunderstood, I am not saying that they try to discover facts to support them using science. I am saying that they want the credibility of a scientist. You know how people start to listen a lot to the views of a Nobel Laureate regardless if it is their field of expertise or not? That sort of authority is very attractive to a lot of people and they will work really hard to get it, I am saying lots of people go into science since they want that authority, they don't have any care at all about doing science.
I'm pretty delighted by a lot of the concurrency stuff that's popping up.

At this very moment I'm wrestling with a UI where the left side is a list of cartographic datasets, and the right side is a rich OpenLayers preview renderer.

I want the right side to be "low priority" where it tries to render a preview, but is happy to abort or not get done in-time if the user selects a different dataset. At the moment, the processing acquiring and rendering the preview makes the rest of the UI a bit laggy.

I suspect a good bit of my custom code can be replaced with some of this transition stuff.
>Recently Taleb has brilliantly discussed in his successful books [15], [16] how chance and black swans rule our life, but also economy and financial market behavior beyond our personal and rational expectations or control. Actually, randomness enters in our everyday life although we hardly recognize it. Therefore, even without being skeptic as much as Taleb, one could easily claim that we often misunderstand phenomena around us and are fooled by apparent connections which are only due to fortuity. Economic systems are unavoidably affected by expectations, both present and past, since agents’ beliefs strongly influence their future dynamics. If today a very good expectation emerged about the performance of any security, everyone would try to buy it and this occurrence would imply an increase in its price. Then, tomorrow, this security would be priced higher than today, and this fact would just be the consequence of the market expectation itself. This deep dependence on expectations made financial economists try to build mechanisms to predict future assets prices. The aim of this study is precisely to check whether these mechanisms, which will be described in detail in the next sections, are more effective in predicting the market dynamics compared to a completely random strategy.

I think pundits, academics, experts etc. overestimate the randomness or unpredictability of markets and crowds. Consider this obvious thought experiment: given a choice between having to choose between a $10 bill or a $20 bill on the sidewalk, all else being equal, everyone will choose the $20.That is sorta how investing is. Quality beats crud. There is nothing mystical or unpredictable about it. Determining quality is subjective, but the FAANG index in which each company is worth at least $100 billion has pretty much beaten everything else since 2009.

Also a distinction should be made between fundamental analysis, quantitative analysis, and technical analysis (volume and chart patterns and readings). I think the the first is useful, as the out-performance of FAANG stocks shows. Quant strategies can also be very profitable. The alleged predictive power of technical analysis has long been debunked.
Populating AES structures requires passing pointers to strings and various unions and packed structures INTIN/ADDRIN, etc. I remember this being not so simple with the GFA I had. Maybe later versions improved interacting with that kind of thing.

Ah yes, sounds like 3.0 added all the proper AES structures and a bunch of other goodies https://www.atarimagazines.com/startv3n6/gfa_basic3.html
I wonder if the thing that should be uninvented is the profit motive for political speech. Why do people have to be paid to share their political opinions? We could still have Youtube and people saying whatever they like, but in a way that neither Youtube nor the creator is financially rewarded for popularity. Somehow. Of course that applies to traditional media too which is divisive because its profitable.
I live in Missouri and witnessed an elderly woman withdraw cash from one at the mall some time ago. Was really floored by that one!
Someone already pointed to Rich Harris' article on dev.to, but there are other things:

- form participation without javascript hacks (they are called "an API", but it's a hack) https://web.dev/more-capable-form-controls/

- SSR

- splitting SVGs into components https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1354165883648827401?s...

- not breaking accessibility by default https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1198069119897047041?s=20

and a million other things, big and small
The risk of Myocarditis from COVID-19 itself seems to be greater than the risk of getting it from a vaccine. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e5.htm

>At this point even if the shot cured cancer I wouldn't take it because of how it's pushed.

I don't think I'll ever be able to understand vaccine skeptics.
The main benefit of vr seems to have many "screens" for free, but the more years I've worked the more I've reduced the number/size of screens I use. I find it more ergonomic to not be looking around so much.
If Google had existed in 1847, and the web for that matter, he would have been able to create and post as many videos espousing his theories on the web. Either through alternative sites, either by setting up 20 sites of his own for pretty much free, or by emailing, messaging or by buying a $50 laser printer and printing 5,000 pamphlets to hand out, and Google would have had zero power to stop him.
Rich component libraries like antd and material.

https://ant.design/components/overview/

https://material-ui.com
S-1: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001866692/000119312...

Analysis by Jimmy Zhou @ Public Comps: https://blog.publiccomps.com/amplitude-s-1-teardown/

Ticker: AMPL | https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMPL
Why is that? The central point of my argument is that the death rate in the US is the highest it's been since the middle of WWII. Everyone keeps saying it's not a deadly disease, not many people are actually dying, that it is being inflated because it's being listed as the cause of death. The vaccines don't work, yet you're 11 times more likely to die if you have not been vaccinated. The fact of the matter is, this data is undeniable, there is no question on the number of dead people (not from COVID, just dead).

Keep sticking you head in the sand.
Someone is missing a sense of humor.
The images in the article are not optimized, so the comparisons are not meaningful.

For example, my-dog-dithered.png which uses only black and white is stored as 4x8 bpp instead of 1bpp. Running it through optipng halves the size.
yes -- at smaller places, the goal is usually fixing something urgently broken and the economics are harder to justify

which is really frustrating and leads old hands at small places to become obsessed with conservative build/buy decisions and low TCO tech

nice to be reminded that it's not like that everywhere, there are places where debugging labor pays consistent dividends
Malthusians hardest hit.
I was being facetious ;) Google definitely has the tech. It's in Google Translate already. It will fill in the drop-down for what language to translate to/from when you start typing.
The less popular Magnavox Odyssey2 had something similar called Computer Intro!.

https://gamicus.fandom.com/wiki/Computer_Intro!
Non-profits take in money too (just like for profit companies). The only big difference is they do not profit (money over and above expenses). Employees at non-profits are still paid, receive benefits, etc.
I didn't take any particular position, I pointed out the incongruence in the one they espoused.

I'm admittedly mixed on common carrier laws, I think that they are "impure" in a sense, but I also think the benefits are greater than the costs, even taking into account the potential theoretical erosion of our rights.

I absolutely agree that there are major counterexamples, and I'm overall fine with that, but I'll also freely admit that I'm not a free speech absolutist of any form.
> A certain fringe of the population will eat any propaganda unthinkingly, domestic or foreign. But if a majority was so uncritical, democracies would have collapsed a long time ago.

Like the millions of people who unironically watch CNN, FOX, ESPN, MTV and whatever else TeeVee networks are carrying?
<researches the legality of forged NFTs, quickly pivots to legitimate NFTs for forged works>
Yeah, but your db is still the bottleneck of your web application ducks
Ideally, a debate would be best. The challenge is that it's very easy to make false statements. It takes very little effort. You can "Gish gallop" your way through a discussion and the other side is forced to refute every single false statement. A lot of conspiracy theories spread and are believed because their narratives are so simple and easy to understand. Showing that they're wrong takes a lot of explaining, which often strengthens the conspiracy. I can't say I have a solution to it, but it's worth recognizing that discussion doesn't, unfortunately, always work to educate the masses.
Can you please make your substantive points thoughtfully? The site guidelines include "Don't be snarky."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is particularly important when threads are fresh, because they're so sensitive to initial conditions.
Anyone have experience scaling with more than 256 devices?

I use MQTTS at work and for my own projects. It is a very thin protocol (low code footprint), especially combined with Wi-Fi where those stacks typically eat up most of your MCU's flash if you're using a single-chip solution with TLS. I've used it on a max of 256 devices on a single BSSID, but I would be curious to know how it scales.

EDIT: Specifically, when all devices are subbed to a noisy channel. In some cases we had to stagger pub with random jitter to prevent both Wi-Fi and edge processing issues.
Great points.

- (A) is tractable, and will be placed on our queue.

- RE (B): Simula has developed a special text filter to help improve its text quality. See https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula#text-quality for a demonstration. As you point out though, there are even deeper things that can be done. We have considered making a vector-based based terminal before (in which text is rendered on a vector basis).

- (D) is a point brought up by Forrest Reiling in his master's thesis on window managers (which influenced Simula's early founding). See [Toward General Purpose 3D User Interfaces: Extending Windowing Systems to Three Dimensions](https://github.com/evil0sheep/MastersThesis/blob/master/thes...).
Or a coup does not succeed and the powers that be start looking for ways how to actually strengthen the trust in democracy.

For example, Swiss constitution of 1848 was a result of a civil war. Its provisions made the division of powers between the federation and the cantons clear and Switzerland has never had a violent crisis again.
> Uber was impossible, because it was illegal.

Radio/Computer dispatch predates Uber. Where Uber got innovative, legally speaking, was making a Black Car service (can't be hailed from the street) just work with scheduling in minutes instead of calling ahead a few hours beforehand.

> Amazon was impossible, as you couldn't pack and ship stuff that cheaply.

Sears did it a hundred year prior here in America.
This reminds me a bit of a classic paper called "1/N". It compared a portfolio of putting equal money into each security, vs a bunch of fancier approaches. The 1/N almost always won.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=911512
Hypothetically, what do you do when there isn’t enough quality information to gauge “disinformation” from “information?”
Most these threats weren’t serious, just some problematic teen looking for attention. Showing them that some strangers don’t give a shit about them or their antics could be a real eye opener.
You say you're arguing in good faith, but your argument relies on profound ignorance.

Read some Snowden, Chomsky, Assange; as well as past and recent history concerning US actions in South America, Africa, Europe and Asia.

This starting point might be one of the longest Wikis I've ever seen, but it's honestly just the tip of the iceberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

I think the major turning point for global opinion was the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions. It was very clear to anyone with the capability of independent thought that it would be a quagmire (Rumsfeld said it himself a few years earlier ffs), and that we went in for oil, resources, and contractor profits. It could hardly have been more obvious.

And then all that shit about black sites and torture started coming out. With photo evidence. And zero consequences.

And then Obama ran on a platform of closing Abu Ghraib and reigning in the banks who committed acts of global economic war, only to promote the individuals responsible. Himself and Biden then expanded the war to other countries, while increasing bombing and drone campaigns.

I don't remember photos coming out of Russians in hoods sodomizing prisoners held without trial, or the Chinese.

I don't recall China being responsible for 60 million+ refugees and millions of civilian deaths in the last two decades.

I don't remember any other country in the history of the world spending trillions and trillions of taxpayer dollars only to feed global terrorism and disastrously destablize regions.

Your ignorance of these basic, basic facts is not shared by the rest of the world, and that is why those polls have the results they do time and time again.
A. It looks like Safari didn't support webP at the time? https://caniuse.com/webp Either way, they explicitly mention it anyway.

B. If the comparisons keep the pixel size constant, they're not relying on the cool thing about dithering, which is that you can dither down to a small color count and quite small pixel size then display larger with image-rendering: crisp-edges; and it'll still look #aesthetic. From my experiments with the tool you linked, the scaled-up equivalently-sized webPs look potato. This is most relevant for big hero images.
How does this track important conversations vs. ones you can ignore to focus on work?
Just strike it out and get it removed.