skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
got it, really thank you for feedback!
yea, there are no much algorithms, it's only flattern on start (if it's tree structure data) and then just a regex for search.
But I will check and improve performance later, as it's my first try with web components, so maybe I can skip some re-renders. Thanks again!
e.g. https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/10/moderna-trouble-mrna/
I skimmed through the study [1], and it seems that the methodology is as follows:

They define a metric called "amplification" ratio for a set of tweets. Roughly, for a specific set of the tweets, it is the ratio of their "reach" in the sample of users with the chronological timeline (control, 1% of global users), to the sample of users with the ML timeline (treatment, 4% of global users). For a sample of users, reach of a set of tweets is defined as the share of the sample which encounter at least one of the tweets in the set. (the amplification metric is actually shifted so that 0% means a ratio of 1, i.e. equal reach)

Then, they took a sample of right-wing and left-wing politions and media and calculated these amplification ratios (for individual accounts, and for the left-team and right-team grouped together, etc.). Generally, this "amplification" metric was larger for right-wing accounts (or groups of accounts).

I think the use of that metric for measuring bias is misleading though, in the sense that they do not account for the fact that Twitter users are mostly left-wing [2], and this does significantly effect the metric they have chosen.

Assume that I'm left-winger who does not follow any right-wing politions. Then probably any sensible algorithm which includes tweets in my timeline from accounts that I do not follow will increase the right-wing "amplification" metric, as it is enough for it to show me just one single tweet from a right-winger. If my understanding is correct, their measure for amplification is way too sensitive. (and it is worse when applied to understand the reach of a larger group of the accounts, as an encounter with a single tweet from any of the members of the group is counted as reach)

[1]: https://cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/content/dam/blog-twitter...

[2]: There are many studies on this, e.g. this one by Pew Research Center: https://archive.md/iEJaq
I disagree because I'm firm friends with many ex-co-workers. I don't see it matters where you meet people you like.
It's good to see even if they're not willing to take risks for their users, they're still dedicating some resources to fight unjust laws (in court not in real life, but that's still something).
You got downvoted but this is true.

It's not a deliberate relationship, but housing prices correlate with homelessness. If landlords and property owners see their properties increase in value, that means that people on the margins are becoming homeless.
Integer factorization with rectangles, cubes and cuboids
When analysing fermat's integer factorization method, I found 3 new factorization methods, with rectangles, cubes and cuboids.
Photorealistic Billie Eilish by Blu1304
On macOS, you have those options:

- SIP off (totally, or just driver signature enforcement)

- kernel driver (deprecated, Apple doesn’t issue new certs anymore it seems)

- system extension (user-mode driver, explicitly intended for device compatibility)
Pocket isn't proprietary. The bundled extension is OSS and maintained in-tree. It's also not deeply integrated. You can turn it off or use artifact builds to create a custom Firefox with it completely gone, and nothing will break, because it's just a WebExtension.
An analysis of 7,020,950 NFT transactions on the Ethereum blockchain
>ProtonVPN does not log DNS queries, and by Swiss law cannot be forced to start logging them. We also do not log the IP addresses of our users.

https://protonvpn.com/support/dns-leaks-privacy/
Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal
I'm in a group for long covid sufferers, and there's quite a few who have had neurological damage confirmed by a neurologist. It's not the most common symptom, but it certainly seems to be happening to some people.
>slow as hell
It's surprising how poorly Windows performs. Many people who don't use it may have not noticed how bad it's gotten in the last 5 years.
It is about making sure that the free market is actually working not so much about freedom as in freedom of expression - any course about economics will have section about monopolies and its societal cost - showing charts like this:

https://college.cengage.com/economics/0538797274_mceachern/s...

The cost is real but so is the national security advantage.
Interesting, thank you point that out! I will definitely need to improve accessibility.
Quite a lot of community goodwill, unfairly granted. I've lost count of how many times I've read on this very forum, "calling it Micro$oft is childish, they're a changed company, Nadella is better than Ballmer, etc".

They are as hostile to free software as they ever were. Why wouldn't they be? It's antithetical to their business model. The only thing that's changed is how sneaky they are about their time-honored tactic - embrace, extend, extinguish.
It's honestly weird to see "Telemetry" labeled as "Spyware" by a technical people that, quite frankly, should know better.

Spyware is NOT the same as gathering Telemetry data.

You can also just turn off Telemetry in VSCode in the settings.

I think a vast majority of people on HN gather data on customer usage of the products that they build. Because it ultimately makes us able to tailor the products better for our customers. It's just ignorant to put this in the same category as applications that slurp up as much data as they can for e.g. ad-profiles or to sell that data off to the highest bidder.
I can't bring myself to be sad when the outcome is a more secure os. If anything I want /less/ user power. Imagine a world where you can start a "private" chat and not even need to worry about screenshots. I'd love that personally. And what's the downside? I lose features that only matter to the cyber politicos?
> Google wanted to be able to control and close off independent websites like The Dallas Morning
News just as Google can control and close off its own sites like YouTube.

Worth noting that they have this ability today through HTTPS certificate management. The web increasingly moves to HTTPS (pushed by Google among others) and Google is also operating one of a small number of cert transparency logs - in addition to the Chrome browser.

If they don't like a site, they can blacklist the certificate in Chrome - to cut it off from Chrome users immediately - and block acceptance of new certificates from the CT log, which will cut off the site from other browsers once the current certificate expires.
Leviathan is the third volume of the Illuminatus trilogy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy
Keybr.com is great for this. I've been touch typing all my life, but when I started programming, I noticed that typing brackets, parens and a bunch of other symbols really slowed me down. Great to practice those as well.
OMG I just learned about multi-selection of tabs. This is great. :D
That is the case with companies not started by the CEO. Flexport is a startup (YC, I think).
the short-termist, transactional view of society (you are only a good as your last payment, no long-term relation) is not natural, not required and undermines many other adjacent social contracts

publishers should support a lively rss ecosystem (actually evolve next-gen tech based on its principles) and draw revenue on the basis of visibility (and as you say, esteem and influence) this provides

people have always been paying for content. we have normalized the exception and abberation that is the "pay-with-your-private-data" business model
It started with Vista. Due to DRM you can't play your own videos. Only DRM protected ones.
You can't(as a single company/entity) find a work around something like this. Proton had a court order from the country they operate from. You can fight court orders but you can't usually disclose them(gag orders and all).

The only reasonable way(i can think of) to make it a bit harder for this to happen would be to have a second(and maybe a 3rd)unrelated entity/company in an adversarial country that you can use as a relay. In this case use it as a VPN service to access the e-mail on Proton servers.

Anonimity is inconvenient these days... and next to impossible if any govt agency is out to get you. The only way you can make it hard(er) is to spread over multiple jurisdiction and rotate accounts/discard them after a few uses. A system similar to one time pads of sorts combined with PGP.
Pronostic Courses Hippiques Turf
>never heard of a non-techie complaining about it.

I think most non-techies have no idea what AMP is to begin with.

It's just, once again, "my phone is doing some annoying and unexpected shit I didn't ask for".
On Android, Google Translate in Safari doesn't work on AMP pages which I find somewhat ironic.
All good now. Thanks!
And really we should ban from society any people who have STDs or other blood transmittable diseases. After all they could get a cut accidentally and spread it. Too much risk to take isn't it. Why not just lock them all up for our safety?
Art Blocks: Generative Content on the Ethereum Blockchain
Looking Inside Apple Silicon
I found a digital copy that's probably converted scanned pages, better than nothing.
Completely covering up bookmark bar when clicked inside address bar is nothing? Limiting length of text in address bar is nothing? Removing icons from menus - so everything looks like gray mess is nothing?

Firefox is full of these types of changes.
You could have looked it up yourself. Here are more sources:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7119956

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/research-involving-potential...

Here you can see that there was already controversy around it back in 2014:

https://osp.od.nih.gov/biotechnology/gain-of-function-resear...

The comment seems to have hit a nerve, since you choose to reply with an ugly ad hominem attack straight away.
I used to know a Russian carder, he didn't think he did anything wrong. Their excuse was, "here in Russia we're poor, and Americans are rich! If they lose some money, no one will really be hurt!" Fortunately they were all later caught in a raid by police after one of the foreign victims didn't give up and tipped the local police. That can explain why they think of themselves as the victims here, and why attacking US organizations is OK.
> "which to this day still doesn't provide a proper experience to anyone that cares about graphics programming and usable UI/UX tooling."

Genuinely curious what doesn't work in IE Ubuntu 21.04 for you?

Not one of those raving Linux zealots (don't really care that much about privacy), I've just had positive experiences on Linux -- not using it masochistically for ethical reasons, but because it worked very well for me.

So I would be interested in hearing the other side of the coin, since you've been around the block a time or two.
Could the neurological damage be from COVID instead? Long COVID as I understand it is distinct from having COVID.
Youtube man!

Youtube must be split from Google ASAP!
In my experience you can usually achieve near linear speed up. My machine can run 24 threads.
Umm because your comment is actually just an opinion? And there are people on the other side as well.
In a large teaching hospital where I did some consulting work, a plurality of people at the hospital site were visitors (followed by staff, then patients). It is not surprising that hospitals feel empty when you remove most of the people in them.
Trusting a company with the history of Microsoft (and its size) is at least naive. Not one of the mistakes I did in my life.
Centralization, control and censorship are on the authoritarian–liberal axis of the standard two-dimensional political compass, not on the left–right axis.
Have you ever considered that there's a huge amount of users that don't care about "graphics programming and usable UI/UX tooling"? Maybe Linux on the desktop doesn't suit your individual needs, but you seem awfully combative about it on the basis of your specific niche.
You have to click through a YouTube "innapropriate" content warning to watch it. How's your freedom of speech going, America XD
I strongly doubt that local food production would be less carbon intense. The reason for producing food in far off, but often sunny places is generally about accessing the free solar energy they have as well as higher efficiency because they can supply the whole globe year round, rather than one nation on a weather dependant cycle.

Shipping isn't particularly polluting by it's nature. Currently we allow people to burn some really dirty fuels in ships on the basis that it won't directly affect too many local voters and the fossil fuel industry needs to do something with the stuff they can't burn near people, but it would be relatively easy to regulate and is generally tightening up over time.

Moving to clean ammonia or hydrogen engines is also very doable.

Carbon taxes are often a talking point for politicians that don't actually want to do anything but many of your ideas could be better implemented as carbon fees and/or tariffs so that it will optimize for greenhouse gasses directly, not for what people think is the carbon cost of something.
Sara Blakely gifted all 500 employees two first-class tickets
> I decided a while back that if I ever developed long covid, I'd off myself. This just confirms my priors.

I generally support the right for people to choose euthanasia under appropriate circumstances, but this is a really disappointing and frankly entitled comment.

Countless millions of people are born with or acquire from disease or injury chronic illnesses and conditions that can significantly impact their quality of life. Some of these are treatable but many in parts of the world these treatments are not accessible.

Most of those people don't off themselves. They move forward in life, as difficult as it might be. And some of them not only find ways to survive life, many make incredibly meaningful contributions to their families, communities and the world at large.
The Insidious Big Brother Database
The controversy at the time was that it didn't need to be embedded in the browser and it was a proprietary blob.

It literally took years to get to a point where the bundled parts were released as open source (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1343006 ). Obviously there are legal concerns etc, but many of the critics would have been much happier if the extension were released as open source first rather than adding proprietary code to the browser
You perform an observational study, not adjusted for "baseline health status, underlying conditions, health care utilization, and socioeconomic status". You get a 3.2x difference in mortality. Still, you decide to publish it. Great job!
> Art Blocks Brings Big Money to Artists Who Paint With Code

> The Houston-based website makes use of blockchain technology—and an element of surprise—to attract a sizable new audience for computer-generated works.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/art-blocks-g...
This. Thank you very much for the example!

Additionally, let's break out out of the HN bubble and assume the role of somebody who is not a tech aficionado. E.g. the C-level exec of small and medium sized producing company in Germany (e.g. automotive).
Now they not only face the burden of having to modernize their often dated tech system but also get the handicap of having a whole new sea of GDPR complexity before them which, if something goes wrong, can be business ending. I've seen this being a preoccupying topic for meetings for years for companies which really should not have to care (producers of automobile parts). It's a significant part of the IT budget going down the drain which could've been spend improving existing processes.
Trevor Something - Trevor Something Does Not Exist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYOtZvwNCsc

Hands down my favourite in that genre.
Planes and such are secondary. Main point should be borders themselves. Make entering to quarantine sufficiently efficient process and shoot on sight anyone who tries to pass it after all their goal is massmurder by spreading covid(at least many people think so). It won't be a problem if person catches covid on plane if after landing they spend a few weeks in quarantine.
> But they score well, so here we are debating what is said instead of what is substantive.

Blanket dismissals of everything any commenter mentions without providing any basis or reason or counterpoint besides empty appeals to authority is no way to conduct a discussion. In fact, doesn't your criticism also applies to you and your dismissal of everyone else's comments?

But taking your criticism at face value, the only way that the scenario you've depicted becomes possible is if those in the know do not step in to point out misconceptions and clear up doubts. Nevertheless, even so experience does not grant omniscience or infallibility, not to mention that the expert beginner problem is also a thing. In that case, an inability to refute points or offer counter-evidence, accompanied by this need to fallback to various types of appeals to authority and seniority, might actually indicate a discrepancy between actual and perceived competence and insightfulness.

The point is that if you happen to believe some posts are not right or fail to take into account critical aspects, why not call it out? I mea, you're already taking your time to write relatively lengthy posts complaining and vaguely casting doubts on how fellow posters are contributing. If you have the means and opportunity to right what you believe are wrong, why aren't you doing so and instead opt to waste your time posting messages that aren't constructive or contribute positively to a discussion?
That's what happens when you put your ideology glasses on, you stop seeing reality. People fight for what they value as good even if everything tells them it doesn't work in the real world, as if the idea itself was more valuable than its manifestations.

We're seeing that all over the world, especially in Europe with the remains of the Lumières ideals, ideals which don't scale nor work in our globalized/capitalist world
Yes they were and they are. You can see it regularly on HN, saying that today's Microsoft has nothing to do with the ugly beast from the 90s, the times have changed, they are now a completely different company, they contribute to Open Source and even Linux, and they can now be trusted because they built the best code editor in the world. I don't know if people actually are that naive or if it's a part of Microsoft's intensive efforts to game HN.
Here’s a recreation of part of “Fly For Your Life” I did a couple of years ago just as a sound design challenge. The synth sounds were created in U-he Repro 5, which is the best softsynth available for these kinds of sounds, IMO.

https://soundcloud.com/strange_satellite/fly-for-your-life
> can't usually disclose them(gag orders and all).

Switzerland has no "gag orders", that's a exclusive US-open-democracy-thing ;-)
> They also tried to change regulations to suit them better. But they are allowed.

They might be allowed. But just because it is legal does not mean that it is right, particularly as they themselves are "making their opinion known to the people who make the rules" and can excert economic pressure on lawmakers. And while their products might indeed be inferior – if they place their products as default on their own systems (android), buy themselves default placements on other products (Safari, Firefox…) many customers who do not try out all the options only use google’s products. And I can't blame them for not trying out all alternatives.
For what technical reason would it be a proprietary blob? The Firefox frontend has been html/xul/css/js forever. Pocket would be implemented the same. I can't see why it would need to be a binary.
Forbes article author:

"I'm the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University."

I thought we have been told to listen to scientists in the past 2 years!

Incidentally, Dr. Fauci has used any number of deceptions to make his point. I wouldn't be surprised if the Wuhan virus was engineered.
Maybe it sounds egotistical but for me it is a perfect fit. I know they will support running .NET on Linux because of Azure. I know they will support cross platform development with MAUI because they want developers and market share. It's not like they force me to target Windows Server with only SQL Server available as a data store. I don't plan to give up Visual Studio. So I don't have any reason to abandon .NET and C#.

Also, C#/.NET is kind of jack of all trades, you can do anything but a small subset of development where having a garbage collector stays in your way.

As for alternatives, I dislike Java, Python is less performant and not usable for large projects, Rust, Nim, Haskell, Elixir are not as usable and well polished. Kotlin is nice but it does not have any benefit over C#.

I would love for Rust, Nim, Haskell, Elixir to pick up some steam, become more usable, have larger communities, much more libraries. But until then, C#/.NET is the sweeetspot for me. I still dabble in C/C++ from time to time and that makes me grateful C# exists. I am even inclined to double down on my .NET bet by starting using F# along with C# because it feels like a very nice language. It seems to enable even faster development while being more concise and needing less tests written.
Yeah I am also a big fan of using things as close to the default as possible. Highly customizable tools are great, but often I feel it’s a better time investment to learn how to use the standard configuration well. Then any thine you sit down in an unfamiliar dev environment you will generally be able to get up and running quickly without having to remember all the things you had to do to set up your tools.
Also worth checking:

Timecop1983 - Night Drive (https://songwhip.com/timecop1983/night-drive)

The Midnight - Days of Thunder (https://songwhip.com/the-midnight/daysofthunder)
I can't fathom how many companies filled people's brain with stuff like that. "good practice"
MRI
N= 17 (23 control)

The study is as precise and generalizable as 17 anecdotes...
Clickable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_factorization_metho...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_factorization_metho...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_factorization_metho...

However, it's not enough to just tell us that these are identities, to be useful you need to suggest ways of finding expressions of the form given in the LHS. It's easy with Fermat's method ... take a=ceil(sqrt(N)) and see if a^2-N is a square. If so, you're done. If not, add one to a and try again (there are significant improvements to be had by sieving and modular arguments).

It's trivial to adapt this to the difference of cubes method, but that's much less likely to find a factorisation[0]. But how do I find expressions of the form (a+c)a-(b+c)b=N ?? In particular, how do I step through the pairs (a,c)? Similarly with the cuboids expression.

Perhaps this is promising, but it needs some further insight beyond the expressions.

[0] Citation needed
Hmmm… I‘ve heard conflicting sources on this and that studies show that SF homeless don’t have a higher degree of having moved from elsewhere. The vast majority has been here a considerable amount of time. Maybe I’m misremembering though.
Oof yes I remember the first time I joined a dev team with pedantic tastes in terms of code review. It’s amazing to imagine the amount of collective time which has been wasted on trivialities over the years.
Don't mess with the playback controls people! If you make your own controls I guarantee they will be worse than built in media controls. I'm on mobile and I have no idea if that is 3min or 30 min track (because of no indicator) and I can't seek/skip. Leaving audio element "as is" would make it 100% better. You make it pretty but useless.