skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How come tankers seem to have loose lips? Haven't heard of similar leaks in World of Warships or DCS. Planes/Ships/Subs have more opsec because more important?
Insisting that the world use specific doublespeak about a sensitive issue is not rape - nor is it really all that humiliating.
At the top the article says

“Written 4 years ago”
> If you think stripping away democracy so that Polish gays can marry is worth it then you're entitled to that view.

Ah, a straw man. Please don’t do that, it’s tiresome.

I’m not a fan of “stripping away democracy” per the words you tried to put into my mouth. I am however rather clear eyed about the drawbacks of democracies in how they tend to treat minorities. If that reads as being anti democracy to you, then there is no point in continuing this conversation.
At the top the article says
“Written 4 years ago”
Ribbonfarm's take on kairos vs chronos: "internal and external clocks [...] individual time and social time, sensed time and read time [...] Bergsonian vs Einsteinian time." And now things that used be synchronized are becoming async, chronological time is bleeding into kairological time.

https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/stream-time
But are "men's" section in clothing stores fine, even though many pieces of garment can plausibly be worn by both genders?
That sums up the mentality of these comments perfectly
It's expensive, so noone should have the option even if they pay for it? (friend paid about 20€)

It can have false negatives, making people needlessly take a vaccine, so everyone should take the vaccine in the name of equality?

Vaccine certificates neither prove you actually got the vaccine (though highly likely), nor do they prove any immunity against disease (though fairly likely).

With this level of arguments, I can argue noone should be permitted to take the vaccine.
I'd say most buyers care about looks and comfort, with reliability and features next. Of those buyers who care about performance, most just want _some_ performance (i.e. having a bit of spice). If you're getting in the real performance space, things like solid corner handling and engine behavior when going all-out, you'll have lost most people.

You can add a lot of spice by propping up the care with some nicely tuned turbo, pedal behavior and cooling that is sufficient for just a few accelerations. Most people will never find out the difference.
Right, but they're not going to be placed randomly. The barbie shelves will still be next to the dollhouse shelves. You see the same thing in supermarkets. The fruit area is next to the vegetables. Under this proposal, there will still be boy's/girl's sections, they'll just be unlabeled.
There are thousands of people in his Discord going through his courses. He’s simply helping people form remote study groups, like students do in school.
"Grow up."

Responses like this violate the rules for the site and undermine HN as a place of discussion. I would love to hear a real argument.

"The cost of the catalytic converter itself, plus the advanced ECU necessary to make it work properly would make gas-powered lawn mowers more expensive than an electric plus a pile of spare batteries."

The ECU is a joke, and not a necessary part of using a catalytic converter. You can run a pi zero or audrino as an ECU.

The catalytic converter would be more expensive than not having one, but not that expensive. You might be assuming they would cost the same as one for a car, but they would be drastically scaled down. You can find new catalytic converters for small cars for under $100.
This is a great feature! I only discovered Hacker News a few years ago so it’s nice to see what it was like when it started and what was being posted at the time (and by who).

I clicked on the link to go forward by a day and the top submission was by Steve Huffman (Hipmunk, Reddit, Udacity course) on Google’s acquisition of YouTube: http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/google_youtube.html

It’s also strange to see so few comments and so few submissions per day. There’s also a curiously large gap of no submissions during the months preceding 19th February 2007 (when there are 50 submissions): https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-19
I love hearing the stories from other comedians about Norm deliberately bombing, then saving, then ending with bombing a show, or variations on that, as a way of showing off to his fellow comedians. Or using uhms and ahs and verbal ticks, breaking up the flow of speaking, making things awkward, then tweaking a bit of a story and bringing it home with a punchline.

One of the strangest and most wonderful things to arise from the explosion of podcasts is the discussion among professionals of respected people in different fields. We all see George Carlin and Dave Chapelle and the major headliners, but that level of fame doesn't always accompany a high level of excellence.

I would never have known to pay attention to Norm as more than another good comedian without hearing his contemporaries and colleagues discuss his mastery and craft. I love that we're given a peek behind the curtains, that comics can point at Norm's genius and say "Look! Pay attention! This is special and beautiful and precious!"

RIP to one of the greats.
It should be easy to find counterexamples, look at experimental physics.

The measure of the Higgs was not a small insignificant result, but it didn't go from unexpected to obvious. It was expected and honestly unknown, until new instruments and fancy statistics could just barely push it over the significance line. It was in a sense a disapointment, but arguably the last big breakthrough for the standard model..

Look at gravitational waves. Suddenly we have a whole new force we can measure the universe with! This one breakthrough opened a whole new field of study. And yet it's at the edge of what we can measure, and even when the data looks consistent with the explanation, it's far from an obvious thing.
Lua is optimised for interpreter size, Python for "language niceness / flexibility", and it shows. Lua has lots of nits, such as the index starts at 1 thing, or the "all numbers are floats" thing. I also find its class mechanism ugly, but the most annoying one for me is it suffers from the totally unnecessary "a variable is global by default" bug.

However, life is full of unexpected surprises. While Lua small engine size was a deliberate strategy to make it cheap to embed, it also meant it's much easier to optimise than something the size of Python. And ... that's what happened, so LuaJit is the fastest interpreted language - even faster than the best javascript engines when I last looked. That despite javascript engines having had man decades of optimisation effort put into them.
> I would argue, that this is actually the goal of todays outrage culture- not to change things for the better within the legal framework of a democracy, but to keep the emotional core of a "movement" going.

I agree about the priority: It's a reactionary, ideological culture/movement; they need to be against something; members need to demonstrate their ideological adherence by being more and more extreme. Passing outrageous laws can be part of that. Passing constructive laws by bringing people to the table, listening to their needs, and creating consensus would indeed undermine the movement, IMHO.
Oh, right. Fully agreed then.
It is great for unit testing.
The+Free+Software+Legal+and+Licensing+Workshop
Because they don’t want to say CHINA
It’s like the FAANG interview process. Everyone knows it’s suboptimal, but nobody knows how to do better at that scale.
Agreed.

Do you know how is decided what courses are uploaded? Some courses like 6.046 only have recordings from 2015, but the field and the teaching probably advanced since then.
Yea, it really frustrates me that some companies can create bot accounts and basically lie to their customers and trick them into paying and it doesn't seem to be fraudulent in a legal sense. But maybe it is. Maybe there's a legal case for fraud against some of these dating sites/apps. Anyone know?
As comments say, OP is mistaken. I think you should delete and move on.
> immediate representation

Should be “intermediate representation”
How is that a meaningful difference? If being "brown" was a choice would that make it reasonable basis to discriminate? How about "acting black"?
>Interests of 1.4B PRC outweighs 24m on TW.

And 4 out of 5 participants enjoy gang rape. It doesn't make it morally right.
Yeah, I also only use one monitor.

I also know about the multi monitor craze that came about in the 2000’s. It’s pretty obvious what they’re getting at.

It’s all good if the one monitor works for them. I just find it a bit weird when folks share their workflow and it comes across like it’s the one and only solution.

Everything in my life has told me that there will never be just one solution and everything is subjective.
It's hard to see how leaking this kind of info matters...

Everyone who actually cares about French tank turret turn rates and might get a very slight advantage from being able to train their tankers on slightly more accurate simulators (e.g. the Russians) already knows jt.
I'm a bit surprised that nobody has mentioned how much we have failed as technologists that a story is being shared by png images of text... brave new world indeed.
There's a not unreasonable position implicit in Python's way that the "most significant" operation should be most visible.

The problem with filter chaining is the final assignment and the actual value are separated by the rest of the chain.

i.e. x = strList.filter(parseInt).sum()
doesn't tell me what type x is till I read the whole line.

Whereas:

x = sum( parseInt(v) for v in strList )
tells me as quickly as possible that I'm dealing with a single value output that will be a sum.
Does it really matter if they get anything right when they committing genocide against the Uighurs, ignoring their treaty obligations, and trying to make the whole world follow their lead in censorship and undermining any aspirations to an impartiality before and equality under the law? It's plain "whataboutism" not any different than folks being impressed with Nazi Germany before WWII. Which isn't to say that the "west" is perfect or good, or not stooping in the same direction as China. Obviously nationalism in the west is a problem, too, but I don't see that as a reason to give one of the most bellicose and thin-skinned nations on earth a pass.
My understanding is that HN-related metacommentary should be sent to the mods via email.

Just flag the posts you think are off-topic and then hide them.
> The shunning and shaming tactics used by online mobs are a very particular form of human aggression.

I just realise how similar the Twitter mob and 4chan harassment mobs are. They are basically 2 sides of the same coin. Even using the similar tactics like digging up dirt and more or less organise the same way, as impromptu mobs that just organically form.

Basically modern lynch mobs who never have to face the consequences of their actions protect by semi-anonymity, their numbers, and often their distance from their victims.
I’ve always wondered about this after seeing him recite his story a couple of times. A talk for Google is on youtube.
I found a youtube channel with a lot of interesting recordings of the old phone system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiQ2MwMdYPk
Where is that quote from? I don't want to ironically get caught by propaganda (or misinformation) myself.
It is against the law to criticize the CCP in China. What mechanism did the pollsters and researchers use to overcome that?

Moreover, as with democracy, it is more than having the right to vote. It is also the right to know what your elected representatives are up to and what the state of the nation is. So if you ask people thoroughly drowning in state enforced propaganda from an early age what they think about something, you'll usually get what the propaganda machine told them to think.
But thats not an example of a Leader.

Thats an example of some one who failed at leadership. gp comment is misleading cuz its talking about people who get away with something for sometime.
Facebook is not the 'only' public square. Please, that's hyperbole, its not even close. Twitter, ticktok, reddit, snap and this very site are all public squares, with tremendous reach. Most of the video content on FB/Instagram come from TikTok, and in case you forgot the previous admin tried to shut them down because users on it organized against them.
Is Ethereum Down?
That doesn't align with rates of anxiety disorders though. If it even exists it blends with background noise.

Really the idea that the people "like you" by some superficial shared variable are actually more like you is fundamentally a lie. More familiar but the individual variation is far more powerful than just "born in Bavaria".
you are severely underpaid for someone with > 2000 karma on hn. Someone here should offer you a better paying job.
> I wonder if Americans/Westerners are capable of acknowledging the things that their countries get wrong

I feel like this is practically a sport in America. We love to criticize the government and everything it does wrong. That's part of democracy: the fact that Trump was voted out was very much a collective "we fucked up/this is wrong" where we decided to go a different path. In China, on the other hand, that is not allowed. We certainly do have issues in the US, but a lack to self-criticism does not count among them
In some coops yes: worker cooperatives. There are many styles—if you're in the US, you may not know that REI, the outdoor store, is also a coop, albeit a retail one.
Thanks for a nice comment!
To set the stage the real list of valid exponents is:

2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 17, 19, 31, 61, 89, 107, 127, 521

And Mersenne's was:

2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 17, 19, 31, 67, 127 and 257

2-19 were proven naively prior to Mersenne with just 128 trial divisions leaving his portion of the list as:

31 (right), (missed), 67 (wrong), (missed), 127 (right) and 257 (wrong)

Knowing it's just 31 and 127 that were really new AND correct does it still seem like Mersenne truly "somehow figured out M(127)"? To me it seem like he either applied an erroneous method or, more likely in my opinion, just had erroneous naive checking of these particular values up until he felt confident enough to list them rather than rigorously prove them and it sticks out to us as M(127) is the highest of these that we retrospectively know to be valid.
> `sort(arr)` returns a sorted copy of the input

> `sort!(arr)` returns the sorted original

Python has a naming convention as well: `sorted(arr)` returns a sorted copy and `arr.sort()` works in-place (and returns None). However, I've always thought it's a bit odd that one is a function and the other is a method.
Sometimes I wonder if human innovation sits on an S-curve and we alive today plus a few generations before us just experienced the steep part. Maybe it will flatten out again. Although who knows, maybe not.
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> JavaScript uses this

Python goes one further and requires you explicitly name your this (commonly self) as a parameter. Which is one thing I particularly like about Python, as it’s clear class instance methods are just sugar over plain functions/routines without any magic.

I find the Java-style name resolution that doesn’t require qualification utterly confusing. It would be especially weird/probably a footgun in a JS-like language where functions are frequently used as values and where their names can be shadowed locally.
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It's pretty shocking that there isn't such a movie - or any movie with the CCP as the baddie - and I haven't heard someone propose it before.
"I want to avoid building a FE, payment integrations and user management so I can focus on data quality and latency."

If you use Divjoy, this would be 1-2 days' effort.

If there's a market for what you're selling, don't be afraid to set up your own site. Even if you also sell on an API marketplace.

Depending on what you're selling, perhaps also consider connecting with Zapier?
>So if you ask people thoroughly drowning in state enforced propaganda from an early age what they think about something, you'll usually get what the propaganda machine told them to think.

You have the option to stick with what the propaganda machine told to you to think.
Lets break up Facebook into Instagram, Tiktok, Twitter, Reddit and HackerNews.

Lets be serious, the youth market is strongly moving towards TikTok, and its feed algorithm already has created a notion of 'the different sides of TikTok', for conservative vs liberal content.
I was working at a SV company and one pf my peers told the PMs that their A/B test design was terrible and no meaningful conclusions could be drawn from it. Naturally he was ignored. And he is a physics PhD who has worked at Los Alamos, so I think he could fairly be called an expert in experiment design.
Ahh thanks! I'll check it out. I think unfortunately the word socialism evokes so many emotions and different interpretations in people that I try to not use it, although I do like the concept of "democracy at work" :-) perhaps I'll change perspective after the video
Cory Doctorow has a good proposal for how to properly regulate social media companies by enforcing interoperability: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/interoperability-and-p....
You’re missing the point. He claimed Oracle refuses to develop these features or will sue you if you do it yourself (they hired the guy who implemented fibers to implement them in the jvm), but they are actively working on it. The point of my comment was that OP’s claim was just patently false. I wasn’t claiming the JVM has feature parity or is better or anything of the sort.
Broadly speaking, it's when a fine is levied, or the cops show up to your door, or property is impounded, etc. Basically, when the government does an action to enforce a law that's an enforcement action.
> To get down to brass tacks: Bagel will be a statically-typed, JavaScript-targeted language. It will keep many of the same syntaxes and semantics as JavaScript/TypeScript, except where there's significant benefit to breaking away from them. It will involve lots of nice little refinements and additions to the JavaScript paradigm, but it's mainly driven by two key ideas, which are really what make the whole project worth doing in my opinion:

> 1. A hard, enforced separation between stateless functional code and stateful procedural code

> 2. Reactivity as a first-class citizen

Hell yes, I'm in. These two features are interesting enough to try by themselves, I don't even care about the details.

The next most important thing is that JS/TS FFI just works, so I really hope it does.
Nobody cares if Facebook harms teens
I think you're absolutely right, and (sometimes) articles like this are just a writer's attempt to make an assignment interesting.

Their outlet tells them to write about Squid Game, and if there isn't much to say (and there really isn't), they'll dig into it as a metaphor. We saw the same kinds of think pieces surrounding Tiger King, which was essentially a reality show where America laughed at meth addicts, cultists, and mental illness to make themselves feel better.
Did they make you fly to Bern?
Taiwan is actually an state, but China don't recognize it the way we didn't recognize the IS. Of course, Taiwan is in much better situation than the IS, but the underlying logic is the same. A state government don't recognize other states just because they are a state.
Equating the democratic free world to the direct victims in Xinjing, Tibet, Hong Kong, and those in the rest of China, is going too far I think.
When DRY becomes an anti-pattern: Code in Code
> since Facebook is the only public square by government fiat

What?
Yes, it matters. Goods and wrongs don't cancel out, but they both matter.

It's funny you mention whataboutism, because that's what I was about to mention too.

This really goes to my main point: it's important to be able to levy criticism and to NOT give anyone a free pass, but many of the comments in here seem to be implicitly (and arguably, erroneously) splitting world actors into "good" and "evil". Hence the "us vs them" mentality and the mounting nationalism.
> I feel like a lot of the comments aren't just criticizing China, they seem to be outright anti-China.

Which ones? I don't see it myself.
.NET 5 finally delivered Linux support but only eleven months ago, so I would test it some before betting the farm.
Looks like I’m wrong about the app. That’s good, sorry about that. You can go to the website before arriving at the airport and print it off according to comments below.

But anecdotal, many people seem to be surprised by the app at the airport.
If you maintained the same social graph on each service, you'd still have all the misinformation being shared amongst the same graph members.

Its one thing if the content being served is what some nefarious actor wants a group to consume, for influence sake. Its another when its the content produces and consumes themselves. The current misinformation discourse on FB is the current culture, especially the culture of a large group of people. It originates both on and off FB. 'Q' didn't originate on FB, it originated on 8chan, let that sink in.
I think my grandparents got electrity in the 60s and running water by 71.

Also my grandfather took a commercial plane in 62 from France to visit a California factory that sold screws already packaged in boxes of 50. Weird, but he smelled a good idea.

Also got paid leave in the 30s. That was huge.
PoW algo could be Hashcash, which has not been "exhausted"? Not sure what "usage varied" means? To further elaborate on the proposal, from the block start time to verification start time x the miner would run say Mersenne solver, then from x to block end the miner would run verification algo, i.e. Hashcash. The Mersenne solver would have to run with less than or equal to the resource usage of the PoW algo, and if unable to equal then the PoW could also for example run in background. The computation is encrypted and the network traffic is encrypted. So, no way to determine that the verification algo time allocation is being "varied". Gas could still be used to prioritize work, but the idea is that most of the time the PoW algo is not running, and some other more economic algo is running. The PoW is being used for Proof of Capacity, unlike the claimed Chia coin PoC that continuously uses the capacity in a PoW manner rather than proving it and then offering or allowing it to be used for some other purpose in an interim. If the issue is the desire for the economic algo to be able to run continuously, then the nodes could be split into 2 or more groups. For two groups, one would run from time 0 to x and the other from 0 to y with x < y with y including the block from the x group in the block y produces. The x group would continue from x+verify duration to x_2+verify duration and including the y block in the x_2 block output, and so forth.
Something about this form factor that makes robotapocalypse seem more impending.
Science is largely directed by people who give grants. It's these guys fault if things don't advance. They have failed spectacularly at cancer and Alzheimers research by only giving to people who follow approved treatment approaches. Now, after many decades we find out that removing Tau proteins does nothing, and big data analytics and gene sequencing has shown us that there is no cancer gene.

There are efforts to break out of the grant writer monopolies and fund, via crowdfunding or just interested groups of philanthropists, different approaches to various long standing problems. For example, MAPS has fought long and hard to get the regulatory approval and raise the money to test psychedelics and MDMA for depression and PTSD respectively.