skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this will be downvoted, but I think it's worth noting a few points:

- All "reactions" were weighted higher than "likes", and the headline seems to mislead readers into thinking that only the angry-reaction was given extra weight, which is not true

- The data is from Facebook's own study, indicating they want to understand (and perhaps improve) user experience

- The study was from 2019, Facebook might have changed since then (my own newsfeed is overwhelmingly positive and not sensational so it could be)
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The idea is once a company has some power over its users, that power will be used by some government somewhere as well. The latest example: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/world/europe/russia-naval...
Nah the USB drive is on the other end. To read his floppies.
Seriously, TransNote? I'm now kinda envious :)
Do you use it with windows 2000 or XP, and how does the notepad works with your setup?
How to deploy machine learning with differential privacy?
> The Yale administrators did not believe I had been racist by using the phrase “trap house.”

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> an email was sent to Yale Law’s entire second-year class “condemn[ing] in the strongest possible terms” the “pejorative and racist language” in the invitation.

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Yale Law administration was happy to lie to their entire second-year class.

If true, then the administration was more interested about protecting their brand, than caring about the health and wellbeing of any of their students
> And once closed as stale, they are never getting triaged.

That really depends on the community. I always search both closed and open and comment on closed issues if I find there is more to say.
Do you think you would have had a harder time getting that college SWE job if you weren't an active CS student?
There are 2 different "first" games of Dune, that one is Dune 2, there's also Dune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3NcFEvc4yk

It even has clips from David Lynch's movie.

Sigh, I remember getting the CD-ROM version with my first multimedia PC and playing this game...
And how much do they change while flying from LA to NYC? Or on medium distance trips? Or out over one of the owns.

Having to recalibrate continuously during a flight seems very counterproductive. Especially if you drift off course and so can't recalibrate accurately.
China ahead of US in non-conventional military power [video]
The problem with this oft trotted out theory is that:

• Extraverts don't need college to network - the skill is to innate they never need an expensive excuse

• Introverts won't learn to network even if put into an ideal environment for doing it - most people who claim university didn't enable networking are usually introverts

• This leaves people are in the middle of being extroverted or introverts who need just a nudge. That's less than 5% of the population - so the claim of "networking" is mostly only helping a tiny minority and doesn't benefit the majority.

I'm one of those middle people in the last group and quite honestly I didn't even benefit - I wasn't "ready" for the opportunity. Once I had a job in my industry, that's when it "all made sense" and tapped into my extrovert side to enormous advantage.

My current job primarily involves tapping into that post-university network for sales leads, collaboration partners, vendor opportunities, etc. I only recently got in touch with my university friends and most "weren't useful" to what I do today. One switched from EE to Gerontology. Another is still mentally in university (don't ask). Most aren't in fields I interact much with despite nominally being EE grads.
Because he thought that a bunch of rednecks could get it done, and if they didn't, well he had (and has) plausible deniability. He will not make that mistake again if he wins the election in 2024. I think he believed 100% that he could get the Republicans to throw out the electoral college vote and get enough states to declare their elections were fraudulent and get enough electoral votes to win. People can down vote me if they like, but the truth will come out with the Congressional Committee. I don't think it will happen soon enough to keep him off the ballot though.
Light is radiation. There is no reason to be scared without understanding
The total asset size doesn't matter much (see Google Earth which is probably backed by terabytes of data), but how much new data the game needs to present to the player per second (which means the games needs to be designed for a minspec bandwidth just like it needs to be designed for a minspec CPU and GPU).
> I think there should always be physical off-switches for microphones

There is one smartphone with those: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5. The alternative one, Pinephone, has quite inconvenient kill switches.
> having your freezer contents spoiled a couple of times per year gets old really quickly

This is now becoming a reality for more and more people in the Bay Area due to a combination of corruption and failing infrastructure.
> What they taught me in comp sci classes was horribly outdated or not representative of the jobs available.

Lessons about automata and computability aren't exactly 'outdated' but their application to typical software work seems very indirect/abstract. In any case, that was my experience from a CS degree ~20 years ago, probably similar now if the curriculum is similar.

Dijkstra: "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
> The movie is longer than the original and only part of the story is included

The original is a dense 200,000 word novel, not the 1984 movie you seem to be referencing, which itself a cut a lot.
In our current descent into technofascism, I think every industry is going to be gamed.
Bad analogy. Facebook has an algorithm which promotes posts that drive engagement, which is often extremist stuff. Just regulating that (as Haugen suggests) would improve things.
"We’ve sold 221 units over the entire time we carried the pcDuino. You want to sue us for $500 worth of made-up royalties to use your bogus patent? Sure. Come get it."

I think it's not the 500 USD they are looking for, but rather to win a court case against someone who has not the ressources to defend himself, so they can reuse this case as an example in a more lucrative litigation.
I see two actions being talked about more and more (including by Al Franken on TV this morning).

1. Anti-trust action. Split off Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and other companies that they acquired.

2. Section 230 modifications making them culpable for decisions made by their algorithm.
Threats from the administration, specifically threats they would report him to the bar C&F committee.
Amazon is building a Clubhouse competitor that turns hosts into DJs
Facebook should focus on giving tools to individuals and communities to communicate with each other and speak freely with one another. Communities and individuals should determine their rules, not Facebook.

Platform wide content moderation is inevitable (illegal content exists), but mass censorship is bad. It will come for you, if it hasn't already.
> If the person is a mature, informed, and energetic business go-getter, and they actually manage to start new ideas while they attend school, and then establish vital bonds with other go-getters they meet, they can potentially gain a lot from a college experience.

A lot of that depends on the college you go to. Doesn't matter how much a "go getter" you are if you don't make connections with someone that can ultimately fund/execute your ideas. Even if they themselves are "go getters".

Further, hard to really judge if you are a "go getter" or a "So, it's like facebook, but for cats!" person.

And here's the real rub, likely the person seeking the party experience with rich parents IS the person that can fund/execute ideas. They don't need to be go getters, they just have to have deep pockets.

Of course, this is all talking about someone going to college primarily for entrepreneurial ideas.

This is the real and true value of ivy league/prestigious schools. It isn't the quality of the knowledge, it's the old deep pockets that also go there.
I think Augmented Reality could be a big one, but it's being wasted on nonsense and filling in short term engagement targets.
Sounds like a compiler bug to me. Can you file a bug to clang with a reduced standalone test (or I can do it for you if you share the standalone test).
I can assure you that reliability factors in heavily in Grid tied home solar.
Using a wide variety of "traditional" techniques that range from dead reckoning (or "pilotage" which is dead reckoning corrected by landmarks) to politely asking a controller if they have you on radar. Airplanes operated under challenging conditions without falling out of the sky for a long time before GPS became a ubiquitous flight instrument (pretty recently, really).
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Besides being more expensive, Windows 3 apps were (in my memory, at least) every bit as unreliable under OS/2 as they were on Windows (because the compatibility was an almost full Windows runtime), further negating any advantage OS/2 could have.

As you point out, even the version of OS/2 that didn't have the Windows compatibility malware was more expensive than Windows.

It's really hard to believe IBM would be so short sighted, but Microsoft is incredibly lucky in that regard - every company that tried to compete head-on with them, with the possible exception of Apple, made similar boneheaded moves.
The Wall Street Journal has published several articles about the current economic reforms in China.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/xi-jinping-aims-to-rein-in-...

https://archive.vn/DRIDr

> Xi Jinping’s campaign against private enterprise, it is increasingly clear, is far more ambitious than meets the eye.

> The Chinese President is not just trying to rein in a few big tech and other companies and show who is boss in China.

> He is trying to roll back China’s decadeslong evolution toward Western-style capitalism and put the country on a different path entirely, a close examination of Mr. Xi’s writings and his discussions with party officials, and interviews with people involved in policy making, show.

> For most of the 40 years after Deng Xiaoping first unleashed economic reforms in China, Communist Party leaders gave market forces wider room to flourish. That opening helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and created trillions of dollars in wealth, but also led to rampant corruption and eroded the ideological basis for continued Communist rule.

> In Mr. Xi’s opinion, private capital now has been allowed to run amok, menacing the party’s legitimacy, officials familiar with his priorities say. The Wall Street Journal examination shows he is trying forcefully to get China back to the vision of Mao Zedong, who saw capitalism as a transitory phase on the road to socialism.

> Mr. Xi isn’t planning to eradicate market forces, the Journal examination indicates. But he appears to want a state in which the party does more to steer flows of money, sets tighter parameters for entrepreneurs and investors and their ability to make profits, and exercises even more control over the economy than now. In essence, this suggests that he aims to rewrite the rules of business in what could someday be the world’s biggest economy.
How would the problem of huge (dozens of GB) graphics assets be solved? Is there a current/planned way to have the large WASM binaries and assets stored on the computer?
And ESP's rust support provides threads and async supprot nonetheless.

With a zero-cost async implementation you may not require multiple cores, for some hard realtime stuff maybe, but even that can be handled by the work scheduler.
Yes, I absolutely think that finding that balance is usually a case of finding the unhappy minimum and not about finding a spot where everyone is happy.

> Do you think there might be cases, in the fullness of the human experience, where one set of extremists on an issue are right, their opposite numbers are wrong, and any balance between them also wrong?

Yes, I think there probably are cases where something like this happens but I would assume those cases would be a little less debatable. But yes, what you say makes a lot of sense and is probably a large part of the reason the current political climate is so tribal.

> Perhaps we should stop, take a step back, and examine our biases?

If you are talking about the current case though, what is the false premise or what are the biases?

There are indeed monsters out there that hurt women and children and use technology to accomplish those crimes. They are not made up bogey men. They flock to technology that provides them cover and punishments for crimes deter criminals from attempting those crimes. If criminals did not have to fear punishments, more crimes would happen. I certainly would speed more if I didn't have to worry about speeding tickets.
Market value is market value. Any competent real estate agent can give you a decent estimate.
"Illegal" is the standard for justifying government use of force, but not for business or private citizen actions, or even for non compulsory government pressure. The government is empowered to "promote the general welfare" per the Constitution.
Also, the government holds me accountable for my income via taxes, despite by income being legal.

Everyone who proposes a change is an "activist" but some are activists for money and not other principles.
If you are referring to US markets, I would be interested to see what max optimism looks like if max pessimism is new record highs everyday.
If you look at the set of VPs, Governors, notable Senators, and people who've previously run for president, you get a pretty good list of candidates. Sure, you'll miss odd-balls like Obama, but he was still a Senator; he just got lucky with timing and probably expected his bid for presidency to occur in like 2020-2024.

Future presidents might be someone like, Paul Ryan, AOC, Gretchen Whitmer, Chris Christie, Antony Blinken.
Is there any evidence that companies like Uber and Amazon would be able to grow "ethically" to the extent they have if they just had more time?
There's a saying that for every trend there's an anti-trend. I do wonder when we'll reach a critical mass of subscription services such that a preference against subscriptions in general becomes a trend.
And on top of that there is the difference between studied subjects and experienced subjects. There is no golden 'do this, get everything' path. Going to college or university doesn't mean there is nothing you need to learn in a work context. Same goes the other way: only learning things at work means you probably get a lot less abstract underpinnings and overarching context (or you might get none at all) which reduces understanding of your surroundings significantly.

The first iterations of school (in the first one or or two decades of life) are mostly "learning how to deal with people", "learning how to learn", "learning within a context" and after all that you get to "learn how to make use of what you have learned" in the real world. The earlier you stop, the fewer tools you'll have for the rest of your life.

There would be two avenues that are somewhat distinctive: academia which blends school-type context into work-type context at some point, and there is vocational training which reduces school-type context earlier and eliminates it before you're even "out of school". Neither are 'bad' or 'good', just different paths.
In practice you want memory reordering to be a thing because that's what allows you to reorder instructions that touch memory (both at compile time, and also at runtime by the processor), which is what enables a large part of the latency hiding that's going on.
Okay, so the first study is 5-50 millimolar. And these dyes weigh about 500 grams per mol, so those are about 2.5 to 5 grams per liter. That seems like a very large amount and I'm not sure how relevant this is to normal food use.

The second one talks about allergens, noted though not particularly relevant, and does this have amounts anywhere?

And the third one seems to be mentioning other mechanisms to get the same effects, but is not classifying the actual danger levels based on dose? Interesting but it's not helping me figure out if the additives are safe in small amounts.
Who sells new hardware with FreeDOS support? That's cool.
> with some great research and motions he spent Christmas writing.

It helps that Amit doesn't celebrate Christmas and needs holidays.
That's not an option for most games. That means I now either need to be online-only with a good enough internet connection and latency to stream this game (a la Stadia but worse since it's not just video) or I need to download it into an offline cache which now brings us back to the same spot.
Thanks, will give it a read.
I've been using Macs since about 2000 and that was my reaction too; I remember being very glad I waited a bit after one release that deleted some user's entire iTunes libraries.
Might have something to do with Amazon sponsoring it and wanting to take control of it. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3633002/the-future-of-rust...
Digging up and using some old piece of technology instead of using an existing, multi-purpose computing device is the definition of "[building] his life around it", as it requires adapting your workflows to the technology instead of adapting the technology to your workflows.
It does seem overpriced but wages are pretty high these days for grads and there is considerable aid. The biggest cost is if you don't finish.
I'm building something with that functionality currently at https://www.reciped.io/, I've turned the search off until it's actually ready to go, but you can see what a recipe would look like here: https://www.reciped.io/recipes/mushroom-and-onion-pizza/

Doesn't use recipe-lang though, just uses markdown.
Not usually; unless you’re dealing with an administration with not enough vertebrae to add up to one spine between them.
A lot of people say the same things about Rails. It makes you productive, it's incredibly easy to do things, things just work, etc.

I have used Rails for most of my career and for a number of side ventures. I have to say I have had a love-hate relationship with it.

I love everything people love about Rails (mentioned above). What I hate is how the speed and productivity comes back to bite you later.

The code eventually turns into a ball of mud and becomes near impossible to update. You have N-dependencies that depend on Y-dependencies of their own. Different Rails versions or module versions, and you can't update one without breaking something else.

You eventually live with it, and nothing gets updated but then you want security updates, and sometimes something terrible happens (like the mimemagic catastrophe) that forces you to ham fist updates together and live with some rails engines not working completely. But that's ok, because productivity right?
Giving up on expecting copyleft licenses to be enforceable seems reasonable.

Open source wins by overwhelming closed-source advocates with quality code that moves too fast for them to keep up by maintaining their own private codebases or private forks, giving practical incentives to participate in the broader ecosystem.
A Patent Troll Backs Off
What... did that run per kid, roughly, if you don't mind my asking? Was this remote? Where did you find tutors? How much parental oversight is needed? How much time in management of tutors is required—are they consistently reliable, how much time looking for replacements when they change jobs or whatever, that kind of thing?

We've gone with a private school because we've got a couple elementary-aged kids who are far enough ahead that public schools were plainly holding them back and we were already starting to get early signs of "gifted kid who isn't challenged then crashes and burns later" syndrome, but if tutors are at least as effective, and cheaper, that'd be awesome.
He’s certainly free to do that and that seems to be what ultimately happened. That being said, he’s free to experience the social consequences of showing himself to be unable or unwilling to read a room.
What does this solve? Makes switching between apps on my phone easier?
They have done it before - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/tor-attacks-ns...
I don't think so. My first job hired me because I had done some java programing in high school and they needed updates to an existing java tool. I did that work and they offered me PHP work (which I had taught myself in high school, I even wrote a few programs for the school) and I've been doing a mix of web dev (front and back) and mobile work ever since. In college they only taught C and Perl and I've never used either since then. I asked the owner of the second company I worked for (the place I was working when I dropped out) if getting a degree would change anything and he told me he paid me based on what I could do, not some piece of paper. That discussion, plus a full-time week of work that I enjoyed, and my dislike of my college classes pushed me to drop out.
The thinking is that it's not an isolated incident and lots of PD's & hospitals did this. It's hard to prove because no one will admit to it, and the people being sent aren't always the most reliable witnesses.
High-performance processors are data flow processors, which infer the data flow graph from the instruction stream using Tomasulo's algorithm.
Well it dramatically decreases the efficiency of the monetary system (requiring 60 days of electricity and 1 iPad of e-waste to scribble a few bytes into the ledger every 10 minutes), and only one of the other assets you pointed out create value, the others are unproductive.

Real estate is not a monetary asset, it's a productive asset - because people need a place to live and you can either live in a house yourself or you can rent it to others. This demand doesn't go away through the introduction of Bitcoin.

Gold is a commodity, not a monetary asset. While a large amount of its value is attributable to speculation it has myriad industrial uses, and jewelry use. Some of this demand may go away as there's a large overlap between goldbuggery and bitcoin maxis.

Dollars have no intrinsic value, but instead their value is derived from demand which is created for them when they enter circulation. They're created via fractional reserve lending meaning that when a loan is issued, new dollars are created but also a debt is recorded - creating demand for those same dollars. That means dollars are 100% backed by demand for those dollars. This demand doesn't go away through the introduction of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is nothing. It has no intrinsic value, it has no demand, it's simply a speculative number-go-up machine. It's not money, that's for sure. You could try and use it as money but that would be an utter disaster from a macroeconomic perspective.

So yeah, parent is right, its roughly a pyramid shaped MLM with a negative-sum component - the $60,000,000 per day you have to pay to miners to keep the music playing.

[edit] Also note that gold and real estate are not classically defined as "monetary assets" - those are for instance cash, bank deposits, investments in debt capital markets and lease investments. Monetary assets need to have a prescribed value in exact dollar terms.
When moving to Canada I didn't know much about the country so I rented a car in Toronto and drove out West all the way to Vancouver and back stopping along the road every hour or so to see what it was like there. St. Josephs Island really stood out from that trip so that's where I ended up.

I got blackballed for life at Avis for that stunt, they had an 'unlimited mileage' two week offer for very little money, they gave me a brand new car, I averaged 1000 per day or so :)