skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would posit that those who feel strongly about this are a miniscule but vocal minority of regular visitors to YouTube and overrepresented at places like HN.

By itself, the like feature has never been a good signal about the quality of content, and is more of an emotional referendum on the level of controversy surrounding the video or creator. It has been a useless feature for a long time, I really can't say I have taken it seriously since I first encountered YouTube around 2006. This is a tiny concern compared to the influence that the recommendation algorithm as whole wields over both consumers and creators on the platform.

Likes have always been some part of that algorithm but the significance of their role in recommendations seems to have waned as time went on. As such, they are largely useless to both users and YouTube, which seems to explain this decision.

If anything it is a testament to how much other information they are now collecting on user engagement that they no longer feel they need this feature.
When should one post? Ought I post it again?
> based on their sexual orientation and your anecdotal experiences.

Jump on grindr and see how long it takes to get a hook up vs tinder.
They'll still be the most popular of both of those things. I think what the parent commenter is getting at is that Microsoft already had a reputation for being greedy and forcing unwanted features onto users. It would be more accurate to say this jeopardizes their ongoing
attempt to rehabilitate their image.
if this is web 3.0, i want usenet groups back
Firefox bookmarks tagging is a killer feature for me. I even bookmark some local files through it. Too bad it doesn't work on mobile.
I was going to say the same thing. Truly bizarre that Oracle did this for so long. There was even a petition about it.

https://www.change.org/p/oracle-corporation-stop-bundling-as...

It seemed such a counterproductive way to popularise a platform, as it immediately shredded their credibility, to seem the same level as that of some random company peddling malware.
> Humans are the weakest link in any realistic security model.

That's the point, a blockchain doesn't solve this.

So what do you think it brings in this case?
People have been saying things like this since the 90's. History has shown that when monopoly is strong enough, long term is long enough.
Hey! Justin (from Transistor.fm) here. This looks really interesting. Two questions:

1. Any plans for an API and bulk pricing?

2. Any plans to add loudness normalization, balancing, etc to the processing?
I'm not following. Virtual servers are just as much pure OPEX as serverless. So from the customer accounting perspective, I don't think serverless adds much.

Instead I think the promise is, "Don't worry your pretty little heads about what code is running where. Trust us to handle that!" Which surely seems seductive until people realized that they still have to think about those things.

I heard about one project where consultants decided to use the sparkletastic magic of AWS Lambda so they didn't have to worry about how to scale up their crawler. But they didn't really think it through, so they just had a zillion invocations sitting around waiting for HTTP responses. First-month bill was $12k when you could have spent ~$100 to get the same results with a low-end virtual server running a basic Scrapy setup. So for Amazon I think it's less about filling in a utilization gap and more about attracting people who don't know how to optimize.
I can't help but wonder how much better our governments would operate if the median age of their workers were somewhat lower (IIRC that's around 45).
Came here to say this. My friend recently took a plane ride and every time he would move his mask slightly to unlock his phone through FaceID, a flight attendant would come to ask him to please put his mask back on or he would get in trouble.
Thank you! It is fun, try it as a package manager, in a VM, or as a distro. Lots to learn I found, which is fun for me.
> it is reasonable to assume the lender has expenses to pay, such as payroll and profit seeking investors, so there must be a cost to using their financing.

>Regardless of what the marketing says, nothing is ever “free”

In a world of low-interest rates, plentiful venture capital, and penetration pricing, things are often better than free.
Now that's technical debt!
I'm not sure how to get an old version of the config from the store. I tried searching for *configuration.scm but nothing showed up
Are these scores age-adjusted? If not this is particularly damning, as Tesla has one of the youngest fleets of cars out there.
Yes; Descript.com does this.
It would and to certain extent it does especially with startups etc. Where they dropped the ball is not being serious about the enterprise support. There are other reasons as well like attaching Google's name to the product there by making it non-serious (as in free/personal vs enterprisey/serious) due to Gmail being associated with personal email. If they are serious they should have gone with a separate brand with competent support.

Despite all the above reasons, the main reason for the current zero competition is because for all enterprises,using azure AD is a natural progression from their much abused on-prem AD which has been linked as the primary mechanism for user auth across all kinds of products (MS and non MS). To be honest, MS doesn't have to do anything now. Just sit back and collect the money (and once in a while acquire things that have potential to become enterprisey like the GitHub).
Gas cars lose energy to heat loss and timing/efficiency of combustion cycle, that due to air drag. So even though you could gain little more mileage driving at 65mph, the relative difference is less compared to electric cars.
It is a GNU project. The maintainers are listed on the website and of course all code, commits, etc. are publicly available.
What got me most about this article is the ridiculous way RR described the power-pack:

"Roll-Royce said it also had the most power-dense propulsion battery pack ever assembled in aerospace with enough power to charge 7,500 phones."

Like that is a useful analogy, RR! Come on, we want minutes in the air with typical reserve!
> I think this is one of the reasons new Linux users have so much trouble dual booting.

There's another problem. Motherboards with non-compliant UEFI specs. Exact details here may be flawed, but one of the most insidious dual boot issues I had, which prevented grub from loading was that it turned out, if you had a folder or file labeled windows or Microsoft in the EFI partition, it would always preferentially boot that one no matter what order you set to actually prefer. To fix it, I had to run the Linux EFI utilities for OS detection to set everything up, then go in and manually change everything with windows to some other name. This included modifying whatever the grub configuration file is that says to never modify manually. The biggest issue I had is that it took a LONG time to figure out that noncompliant UEFI specs on the motherboard was the problem. It was maddening.
Ooh, interesting! Is there a name for this slice of "serverless"? I'm glad to hear there's a pony in here somewhere.
> Opportunities for straight males to date within a straight population depend on the male/female ratio. A necessary condition for every straight male in that population to have a girlfriend in that population is that the male/female ratio be <= 1:1.

> For every gay male in a population to have a boyfriend within that population the only necessary condition is that there be an even number of gay males in the population.

That is...a strange take on the kinetics of dating, if you will.

I'm just going to point out that bi/enby/fluid people are a thing, as are poly groups.

Also, online dating is a thing. Most of my (straight male) partners came from other schools, not because of the Male Ratio at my engineering school, but it was just more efficient to find someone with a matching personality online, and sampling from a larger region.
"What about the rubber hose" is an entirely valid security concern in some contexts and is part of why the principle of least privilege is important.

Whether you think it's fair to call this "censorship" or not, the fact remains that the state can control how its citizens use the blockchain, because it can control its citizens.
The Newest Texans Are Not Who You Think They Are
The numbers are normalised (per 100,000)
The world revolves on the Internet, and all browsers are absolute crap, for one reason or the other. As software engineers, we should be ashamed it's got to this point.

The thing that saddens me the most is what Mozilla has become. Now the choice is who we get spied from, or Safari which is available only if you're willing to be tied to Apple's walled garden.

If only Brave could pull their head out of the crypto ass and release a decent, crypto free and paid version of their browser. But crypto pays more, like spying pays more, so we're left with shitty software running the world.

/rant
I think it is less an issue of STEM vs humanities and more of an issue of empiricism vs idealism/rationalism. Biologists or physicians might disparage the humanities (and often they definitely do), but by training they are wary of any great theory of anything extracted from three anecdotes. Whilst in this circles there are people who don't deal with empirical evidence at all (programmers) or who do so in fields where you can safely generalize from a single piece of properly obtained evidence, like physicists.
Another problem of non-empirical science, or sciences that happen only in the lab, is that nobody prepares you to deal with evidences of uncertain, or definitely poor, quality. A biologist knows that a lot of samples from the field are taken by humans and there is some margin of error. Or maybe they are contaminated. Or maybe conserved poorly. And so on. So they can perfectly understand historians who say how much of our "data" about pre-1900 societies are poorly collected, guesses themselves, or manipulated for political aims, or simply modern inferences based on archeological data but subject to interpretation. Instead a programmer or a physicist looks at a graph with "number of laws, 1000-1900" and "GDP per capita,1000-1900" and think that the quantities represented are actual, objective data and that there are not 18 different and equally sensible estimations that would make the graph look completely different.
Combining these two factors, you get all these posts that supposedly explain the iron laws of every society ever with a bit of deductive logic, some "common sense" arguments the reader can relate to, and three graphs that show correlation and not causation between variables nobody actually measured
I'm basically living this experience right now. My previous job involved building and maintaining web apps using boring dependable frameworks and infrastructure. My current company is all in on serverless and uses it for everything. I now spend much LESS time writing business logic.

Figuring out how to finagle various proprietary services and wrangle them together can take a ton of time and effort.

The crazy thing to me is that this is how things run at par. As the article points out, the downside risk with serverless is massive compared to using more traditional tools. If AWS jacks up its prices, deprecates services we rely on, or has a major issue with my company for any reason -- these could easily become existential events for us.
There's more of us than of you. Fuck off, Achilles.

/s - of course.
You would expect that at least during the covid remote-work thing they would not go after sci-hub, the remote work tool that makes science faster and more productive (TM) .
I don't think it necessary true that NTRs have terrible trust/weight. Depending on what your 'fuel'. You potentially lose ISP of course, but your Thrust would go up.

It also depends on the engine configuration, you could do much better in terms of weight and density.
“A new scientific truth does not generally triumph by persuading its opponents and getting them to admit their errors, but rather by its opponents gradually dying out and giving way to a new generation that is raised on it. […] An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth.”

— Max Planck, 1948
> Considering that trades are now free at major brokerages, this doesn’t seem very interesting?

Free might be too expensive. We don’t need to stop there. They might be making enough money to pay us.

Just like Facebook and google are free, they could pay us to use them with the profit they make from us.

I deal with a credit union and they pay me $5/yr for having an account (well, I did buy a $5 share to become a member).
Best reply here.

Comparing yourself to others is a fool's errand. Never goes well.
USPS inserted this link into their Informed Delivery email to me last week:

https://pugetsoundraffle.com/overview?usps_mid=106545&usps_s...

Absolutely no excuse there for USPS to be sending me spam links when informed delivery was supposed to be a way to get a picture of your coming mail.
I spent 5 days alone in the wilderness in Denali National Park with only bear spray and another week with a partner in Wrangell-St. Elias. Being in the wilderness in Denali was really unlike anything I had ever done before; hard to explain but I had never been that alone before.

Despite having spent lots of time in wild lands in the lower 48, the only time I felt like I wanted a firearm was during my first 24 hours in Denali.

At the time firearms were not allowed in the national parks but I wouldn’t have brought one anyway. It was good to experience that vulnerability and learn how to just get on with it.
I can see the use of this for neurological disease, but far and away the most common reason for a stairlift is frailty (or sarcopenia, to be more precise) along with other musculoskeletal conditions like osteoarthritis. Generally in sarcopenia you lose much more quadriceps strength, such that you find it difficult to stand up out of a chair, which is precisely the motion of how this is propelled. I'd therefore find this difficult to justify.

Secondly, stairlifts work because they are retrofitted into people's homes. This would require quite considerable changes to fit, and possibly loss of an upstairs room to make it work.
You can update packages to newer commits ahead of guix itself updating the package with a simple command[0] as long as dependencies and such haven't changed. So, if guix were behind, you should be able to easily remedy it.

[0] guix install mpv --with-commit=mpv=cc4ada655aae06218b900bb434e3521566394cde
Cancer doesn’t cause smoking.

At the risk of sounding nuts: We don't know that.

There are various infections (often parasites) that mind control their victims and get them to engage in bizarre behavior that serves the goal of the parasite to reproduce.

I think ants infected with a particular fungus or parasite crawl to the top of grass stalks, making it more likely they will get eaten by cows which serves the reproductive needs of the infection.

Rats infected with a particular parasite are more aggressive and less likely to avoid cats. Getting eaten by a cat kills the rat but serves the reproductive needs of the parasite.

If cancer is caused by some infective agent that alters the right things in the body, maybe that makes it more likely that you will smoke, thus promoting the kind of environment that serves the infective agent so it can pass some threshold and become "cancer" when it's not recognized as such below that threshold.
An Approach to Building Self-Healing APIs
Actually agree to some degree. I only use Firefox and the only page I struggle with is the time sheet at work.

With that I have to open developer tools and disable caching.

I'm also happy to say that the brilliant linux-loving techies in our IT department is planning to replace that web application :-)
https://archive.md/BEY4b
I wonder why they call KIA a newcomer to the EV market, given that Kia Soul EV has been around since 2014.
Bipolar going manic, people understands, bipolar going depressive "such a pussy, I solved depression with zumba"

That`s whats get me. Depression is an illness. People wouldn`t accept such take with other illnesses why?

This article, as others, perpetuates the stigma.
What if, long term, the outcome is a slippery slope dystopia where cannibalism is endorsed?
I donated the bootloader code/magic for Wubi, but I was never clear on why it was discontinued. I guess some internal numbers on usage didn’t encourage pursuing that path?
This sounds like a bunch of boring truisms when stated this way, but perhaps a little extra insight can be wrung out by binding this to some more specific claims.

There's a corner of the cognitive science literature about iterated learning in a Bayesian framing. A question it asked was roughly, "If we partition a dataset over a sequence of agents who each see only a slice, and we allow each agent to communicate something to the next agent down the line, what must be true of the communication between those agents for them to learn the same thing as a single agent who saw all of the data?" And roughly, for the sequence to converge to the same posterior as a single agent, each agent had to adopt an unbiased estimate of the previous agent's posterior as their prior. See esp work from Griffiths and colleagues.

In a somewhat looser analogy, there's a family of techniques for distributed convex optimization (like ADMM), where a group of agents are collectively trying to optimize a function over data, and each agent sees only a slice of that data. Note especially that the way the data is partitioned can be entirely arbitrary, including e.g. training an SVM classifier where some agents see only positive data points. And for the group of agents to collectively converge to the global optimum, each local agent basically adds a large term to the function which penalizes disagreement with the other agents.

In slightly hand-wavey terms, in either case, for the agents to reach a "correct" conclusion as a group, each needs to be able to give potentially an arbitrarily high weight to the information distilled from others. In the iterated learning case, the posterior distribution received from a previous agent may have more information than the likelihood distribution of the data that an individual agent sees. In the optimization case, the consensus term may contribute more to the local loss than the data that an individual agent sees.

So in contexts where one is actually trying to solve the _same problem_ as a group, placing very high weight on the honest information received from previous experts can be critical.

But in cases when you're _not_ all working on the same problem, it can be disastrous.
> linux-libre doesn't want you to know if your distro isn't loading updated microcode, because it's "better" (according to them) to run vulnerable non-updated microcode

This is FUD. The reason it's not possible to load microcode or other proprietary blobs from linux-libre is because of a limitation of the deblobbing process. From [0]:

Indeed, I became aware that some users have got the idea that blocking the loading of blobs is a feature. It's not; it's just a bug that's quite difficult to fix. The decision on whether or not to use a piece of software, be it Free or not, should belong to the users, and it's not our intent to make that difficult.

If you can make the deblobbing script leave an escape hatch for users to load their own blobs, at their option, I'm sure the pull request would be well-received.

[0] https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/2013-11-08-linux-lib...
I know the tech nerd meme is “I just want a phone that does the basics”, but even if you can agree on what “basic” means, actual consumers don’t want that.

This is their computer, and YouTube terminal, and video game console, and camera, and texting device, and banking, and…people use the hell out of their phones. And bigger phones mean you get bigger screens, bigger batteries, and bigger camera assemblies.

Even my mom, who up until last year had an iPhone 5-style SE upgraded to the full-size 12 model, because she wanted the battery life, and the bigger screen that she could, in turn, use the screen zoom feature to help with her aging eyesight. Bigger phones solve lots and lots of problems, at the cost of being maybe 2–4cm taller than “compact” phones.
Does gemini support forms or interactive ui?

I wonder if it's possible to make https://oeis.org/ that has a search field, available via gemini?
Surely the pandemic showed the advantage of the centralized nation-state. It could take into account externalities, like vaccination benefiting others, and use its power to keep everyone safer. Decentralized decision-making led to e.g. some states in the US deciding not to lockdown and having higher disease rates, which then put the whole country at risk.
I'd love to have one in my radio
I can picture with hi-fi some CVP in a meeting asking "how do we monetize that? " and a "pm" presenting their fantastic idea
The thing with believing that this time is different is that your worst case is you fail but your best case is you succeed. The thing with believing that every time is the same is that you guarantee mediocrity.

When looking to the probability cone of future outcomes, some of us accept wider cones that encompass positive and negative outcomes. Others accept narrow cones where they constrain outcomes.

I personally fall into the former category and also believe that societies that enable both kinds of people (well, all along the spectrum of cones) will succeed.

I also believe that the biggest factor constraining your cone parameter is how much you have. The more you have, the less willing you are to expand your cone. This is because human beings are highly loss averse. I have seen this in my own life.

The people most able to succeed are those who (intentionally or unintentionally) have a cone with the Markov property. No matter how far along the cone they are, the remainder of the cone looks the same.

But Western society is prosperous and so the natural loss aversion leads to risk aversion. And so the balance shifts towards preservation. This article, then, is a message to that aspect of ours that is listening for the possibility that, perhaps, this time really is different.
WTA: “no amount of money” would stop it pulling events out of China
The history of Berkeley DB
Yes, even a post asking why they're all disappearing, so quickly, disappeared

Which is relevant since the topic has been discussed quite a bit in HN with comments weighting in why he was guilty, which we now know he is not, case closed