skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the system is not working well enough on scale. People manipulate it for various reasons and use it the wrong way. At the end, there is more damage than benefit. The same happens at other platforms too, and they all are experimenting with alternative solutions for this problem. But so far nobody seems to have found a good solution for this. I would even say, it's unsolvable, because humans.
What fact is under contention? That SA has deferred vaccine deliveries? That fact is in the excerpt I posted.
> Milliarde -> billion

Yeah, and you also see e.g. news anchors making mistakes in translation saying things like (Dutch) "Ze investeerden een biljoen". Turning a billion into a trillion.

And I also heard that Biden wants to pump a "triljoen" in the economy (quintillion)
The hyperreality of Youtube Unboxing Porn.
Better than the real thing.

Pure fetish.

Baudrillard would have been thrilled, they buy the simulacrum because it gives them more pleasure. [0]

Makes sense, they are themselves just simulacra in the interior design they call their consciousness. [1]

Cheese analogue to some, vegan cheese to others.
Just depends on the box your're opening.

So, what does it mean, when people start to have more fun with the package than the content, like little children ? [2]

Some sort of profitable, market induced mild form of Immature Personality Disorder ? [3]

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

[1] Thomas Metzinger, The Ego Tunnel - The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self, Basic Books 2009

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5895503-the-ego-tunnel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di9SPPx8Jic

[2] https://theconversation.com/heres-why-young-children-often-p...

[3] https://icd.codes/icd10cm/F6089
Nice!

I've seen lowercase pi used to represent a permutation, also seen it used to represent a price in mechanism design.
I was removing unused functionality, work became held up as the code complexity was too high (never mind I'd just reduced it). I don't know what tool they were using, and they didn't share the output. I asked them to document what they found, got a mouthful on this not being their responsibility.
This reminds me of the sort of light poking of common "correlation is not the same as causation" and "beware of confounding factors" statistical failures behind the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster "clearly reduction in pirates has caused global warming!" [0]. But it's a major in modern public discourse, and one for once that I'm quite willing to lay heavily at the feet of the public education system. Easily one of the most valuable classes I took in my entire time K-12 was AP Probability & Stats as a sophomore, but that was an entirely optional class with restricted openings anyway (a single teacher in a school of 1200+) which the vast majority never took even where it was offered. Yet interpreting the deluge of data in the modern world requires some level of being able to reason about things probabilisticly and have a sense of what actually goes into a measure of "significance", null hypothesis and the danger of result-driven analysis finding links that don't exist and/or cannot possibly be causitive, how sampling a population works and what the error bars look like at different sizes, random vs biased distributions, the underlying distributions, confounding factors etc. I really wish in general kids got started on some light probability thinking as early as possible, in elementary school even, without any real math (let alone calc and such) yet, but just some initial stuff to start to illustrate the mindset. Lots of very fun games and hands-on exercises with dice and so on use or could be made to use important aspects of probability and its misuse.

At any rate, I'm certainly not an expert. But there seems to be some missing BS filter where people can recognize something as silly if the example is silly enough but not in the exact same logic fail for something that seems "more reasonable somehow".

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0: https://www.spaghettimonster.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/...
The effect that viruses mutate to become less deadly over time only counts for a specific subset of viruses.

The evolutionary goal for a virus is to have more copies of itself. Killing a patient 3 days after infecting them is a poor strategy for this, so the only option for these kinds of super deadly viruses is either kill a population outright and die out with the population (dead people don't spread viruses), OR if the virus is lucky it will mutate into a less deadly variant to be able to spread to more people.

The specific subset of viruses that will evolve to become less deadly have two properties:

1) They kill quickly

2) They kill most people

The problem with Covid is that it doesn't have these properties. It's only deadly for approximately 1% of the population, so it will continue spreading even if it ends up killing the host, because for every 100 people only 1 has stopped spreading.

The other problem is that Covid doesn't kill quickly, if I recall correctly, most people die after week 2-3. Covid will spread even before the host is symptomatic, so again there is no evolutionary advantage to mutate away this trait.
If you are trying to make the point that Github.com is the only "non-pet-rock" web-based project managament and bug tracking system available (for selfhosting or not), well, that is just false. The alternatives have at least as many features, if not more. Some of them even predating Github.com by decades.

If you are again trying to make the point that they have a bazillion times the load, I will say again that it is self-inflicted, and thus part of the problem, and not a valid excuse nor justification. Other providers do not seem to have these problems anyway.
Black Webbrowser
black webbrowser is a fast search engine
With the ability to change ip ⬛
When I was a kid we had German as mandatory language to learn. I remember that when learning numbers we thought that the teacher is making it up and is incompetent. It took a lot of explaining that it is actually for real. Anyway, due to these things I never got to learn this language, my brain just refused to memorise these rules :/
> many people make their self worth based on Instagram or whatever

That’s unhealthy; why should promoting unhealthy social media adoption be our policy priority?

> Real life people are impacted, up to and including death (radicalisation and joining a terrorist group,

This occurred before the Internet, too. The answer is more speech, education, and enabling people — not censorship.

> or driven to suicide through harassmwnt, to name two "fun" ones)

Then we need to focus on individual resiliency - not building a hug-box.
Often, you can discover such things by reading the article.
What’s the story with the spikes for folly and your code in memcpy plots? They get chopped off and it’s not clear what number they hit. (Nice work, btw)
I agree that this is the preferred way of dealing with it. Unfortunately, it's not always possible. Some cases that come to mind:

- Importing event/action data that contains date/time values with a timezone but insufficient information on the place where the event occurred. Converting to UTC and throwing away the timezone means you're losing information. You can no longer recover the local time of the event. You can no longer answer questions like, did this happen in broad daylight or in the dark?

- Importing local date/time data without a timezone or place (I've seen lots of financial records like this). In this case, you simply don't know where on the timeline the event actually took place. The best you can do is store the local date/time info as is. You can't even sort it with date/time data from other sources. It's bad data but throwing it away or incorrectly converting it to UTC may be worse.

- Calendar/reminder/alarm clock kind of apps. You don't want to set your alarm to 7 am, travel to another timezone and have the alarm blare at you at 4 am. Sometimes you really do want local time.

- There are other cases where local times are not strictly necessary but so much more convenient. Think shop opening hours in a mapping app for instance. You don't want to update all opening hours every time something timezone related happens, such as the beginning or end of daylight saving time.
It may have to do with the fact that, in German, by default the first syllable of a word is stressed, and in two-digit numbers the least significant digit is actually the more distinctive one in ordinary usage (in terms of wanting to express an exact number). Note how in English, the stress is usually on the least significant digit as well ("twenty-three").
Merck pill has already failed at 35%. This table seems be otherwise valid: https://c19early.com/
PoW generates heat, which is not waste, if it is utilized. The endgame of Bitcoin mining is that every bit of heat is utilized, because that's the only way mining will be profitable. Running these miners is profitable even without block rewards (heat alone is sold at a profit).

You didn't take into account, that:

- Bitcoin price growth won't continue forever; it'll find a stable price
- Mining rewards halve every 4 years

Therefore, it seems that the heat demand of humans can run the Bitcoin network securely, even without block rewards. It won't "eat the world", but find a beautiful balance.
I had the exact same motivation as you! I've since moved onto other, much less passive, activities but for a brief moment in time my little tool gave me a lot of peace of mind while fully tabbed out of EVE. Optimizing my game experience for minimal effort/attention and maximum profit has historically taken the enjoyment out of games for me, so I'm glad to have moved on.
You've misunderstood my point: I'm not talking about reducing the difficulty, I'm talking about (sub-linearly) increasing the mining reward as the difficulty grow.

Also the difficulty scaling is important even if you don't take security into account: if you don't raise it, then the block mining frequency rise progressively, and then you end up with more and more orphaned blocks, until you end up with parallel chains that don't really converge to a single coherent one.
Dislikes still exist for me even without the extension. Did Youtube chicken out on their decision or is it just me who sees them.
tldr, blood pressure
> So, that part has to be preserved.

Even if everything else you'd said was true - your conclusion does not follow. A system in which the state enforces prevention of copying is an anathema and must be dismantled. The access of authors to copy-rent incoming does not justify its existence.

> The copyright is the only source of income to authors outside of the academic world.

That's not true, in two aspects. First, there are multiple other potential sources of income for authors of popular works. Second, most authors of most works don't make money off of the copyright anyway, as not very many people/organizations pay for copies.

> And generally, authors should have a say about the use of their work.

I disagree. Just like poets don't have a say about the use of their poems, so should the case be about articles, books, software, composed music etc.

> as long as it serves the author, not to be stolen by the publisher

IIANM, most copy-rent money goes to publishers, not authors.
I think few in Australia would disagree that Scott Morrison is a liar. That was the first thing I really noticed about him even before he was PM, it's nice that the French contract is finally bringing it to the fore.

It's insane. The Crikey guys came to the same conclusion I had - he doesn't just use big, strategic lies for political advantage - he lies about the small things when it's not even necessary, and they come back to bite him.

I actually, seriously and honestly think he might have an actual personality disorder (like NPD or something). It's not normal, even for a politician...
In Hawaii, there was a direct correlation to covid cases and travel bans i.e. allowing only covid -ve tested travelers.

State has also seen no increase in covid cases once they allowed fully vaccinated travelers. So yeah lockdown works. And so would masks at some level.
Yep. That's totally fair and you're right. Would be interesting for him to compare / analogize that with the lock companies' approach.
Often, but not in this case, hence my comment.
Most people can't describe someone that well. Forensic artists ask lots of questions. They can change things until it looks right to the witness. And the successes get more attention than the failures.
If we valued people’s net worth like we value companies listed on the nasdaq, with P/E ratios of 40, median us worker with earnings of 60k, is at $2.4 million before 30.

Note, the median salary of nasdaq listed company employees is probably not much higher than 60k without whom the companies wouldn’t sustain their own valuations.
> … there seems to be some missing BS filter where people can recognize something as silly if the example is silly enough but not in the exact same logic fail for something that seems "more reasonable somehow".

Maybe combined with motivated reasoning.
What is the narrative? Getting vaccinated reduces the probability of transmission?
I hate CNN myself but lets try to be fair.
I would expect that SSDs do normally clone data internally when copying. Often when given a write operation by the OS the SSD would not be aware of where it already stores that data. Drive read and write performance is commonly benchmarked - I don't recall seeing copy performance tested as a different category which would have much different results if they automatically 'deduplicated' files.
I believe SSDs are COW in the respect that they cannot make partial changes to a page so need to write a whole new page at a time, but not that the drives can arrange multiple file handles to point to the same data. That should be a responsibility of the filesystem.
Not sure if it's personality. Though I do enjoy a few retro unboxing episodes of LGR. My guess is it's mostly nostalgia and a bit of wonder and discovery. Ultimately I'd probably be just as satisfied without the box part.
Yet, Commutative Algebra is a German invention.
PoS does produce a reliable monotonic sequence, it's just that it doesn't go back to genesis. Every few months you need a checkpoint hash. The idea here is that this is rare enough so it's easy to find the accepted checkpoint out of band, like we pretty much do for client software already.
To add to the list, Arabic also counts the same way.

مائة وخمسة وسبعون (One hundred and five and seventy)
No, the exceptions are for fair dealing which is limited in scope.
But they may buy them from an individual, not a fund, in which case there would be a net flow to funds.

Not sure how significant these flows are.
You can convert the canvas to a Blob with HTMLCanvasElement.toBlob(), then create a blob URL from that with URL.createObjectURL(). You can then replace the canvas with an <img src="blob://...">, which can be long press saved; add a download button linking to that blob URL; or whatever. Works on all non-ancient mobile browsers I've tested.

Do note that Firefox’s privacy.resistFingerprinting can block you from reading canvas image data, giving you garbage instead, and the permission prompt is basically unnoticeable if the user isn’t actively looking for it.
This sort of thing is why "do your own research" is simply not plausible advice for 99% of people, even highly educated intelligent people with time on their hands.

Most of the high level problems in our civilization require years of study to even be capable of formulating a valid opinion.

The thing people have to do is to instead focus on evaluating people and deciding who probably knows who they are talking about. This is the same thing successful leaders and managers have to do when they hire. Unfortunately there is no foolproof method. Going with the consensus in a field is going to yield better than average results, but it's not a perfect rule by any means.
I've never proposed using LOC as a measure of productivity. I won't entertain your dishonesty any further.
Sounds like 13% of all silly correlations cause 50% of the fallacy.
Here are the results of the benchmark that I did: https://imgur.com/a/2lCktTO

It didn't look quite right to me so I didn't post it.

Here's another benchmark that I did where you can clearly see that something has gone wrong: https://imgur.com/a/s2rA8qE
Super nice! Save doesn't work on Safari MacOS?
Did you read the whole article? At the end it reveals the entire point - that failing to take into consideration the age of study participants in things like Covid death rates render false conclusions from studies.
Indeed; I tried to compose yet another list of factors contributing to (or approaches to estimating) software project complexity in the past, with code complexity being just one out of 18, and not seeing it as particularly outstanding. Perhaps just a bad title.
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Oh you deviant, you! I'm inspired. Keep it up.
It was pretty clear to me when I read the article. Is English a second language for you? If so, then it is not surprising that you may have missed some of the meaning; as we all learned in <native language literature> class, there is a lot more to the written word than a literal word-by-word interpretation.
No, policy changes makes for a new blockchain. That's what usually referred to as a "hard fork", as opposed to a "soft fork" where consensus rules are only allowed to get stricter, exactly beacuse ownership of a coin should be guaranteed forever.

You could follow the consensus rules set out from the beginning and you would still end up on today's majority chain.

I believe there were a couple of early bug fixes along the way, which makes this not strictly true. As in the original first release of the software not actually capable of downloading all of the chain, which some people love to point to as a proof of it being a fallible system. This is probably true but doesn't really detract from the original point of guaranteed ownership by never relaxing the consensus rules.
If you self-host you are in full control on when to do changes that has potential to mess up and can do them on a convenient time.
Not sure about Arabic, but in Hebrew numbers are written from left to right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

Or we could just have a surplus of green energy for everything else we need. And how can we even have a surplus of green energy when we're probably at a 90% of world energy production deficit?
I disagree.

As someone on the autism spectrum and who read A LOT about high-functioning autism (including recent research papers, books, commentaries, discussions in autism communities), I still found a lot of helpful material in this article. Moreover, thanks to that, it helped me a lot with one of my relationships (with a geeky but non-autistic person).

> clearly not written with any level of empathy for autistic people

I find this statement bizarre. And yes, there are tons of materials without empathy towards autistic people. This one isn't.
Older people die more often than younger people. More older people are vaccinated than younger people.

The study at the bottom shows that vaccinated people are dying at a higher rate than unvaccinated people. The joke is on the person who concludes that the increase in death rate is because of the vaccine and not the age difference.
Four score and seven-ten years ago :)
Only Epic App Store, the bastard cries about Apple and Google while wanting a monopoly on all games.
If you can make the response fast enough that the speed of light delay dominates you can measure the latency and have an upper bound on how far away the key can be.
I explain it a few comments up.
It's incredible how people who read a few articles think they have found the smoking gun, against a technology on which a lot of crypto researchers devote years of their time to make and analyze. They must think themselves are geniuses, and researchers are fools. Oh well, nothing new under the sun.
Does it need to handle similar load though? It doesn't have to host all the world's open-source projects, it just needs to host the owner's ones.
Software Freedom Conservancy donors challenged with largest match yet
People didn’t care because no one had to prove their "Flu Immunity" to eat at a restaurant or board a flight. If the current vaccines don’t actually provide immunity then the premise behind all these restrictions is dishonest and not really protecting people.
Danish is in fact slightly more complicated. They have a vigesimal system with a base of 20, with halvfjerds, or halffourth, meaning 3½ times 20. So rather hundred five and three-and-a-half score.
I bought the PCB(Signum 3) and soldered on 42 keys and the controller board. It's got no case but with rubber pads on the bottom it's pretty quiet and thin.

I'm planning to build a custom 3d printed one with a comparable layout but fewer keys. Mostly to try some ideas and features.
> I can't accept that...

For your own sanity I suggest you stop taking the process of getting rich so seriously. It doesn't make sense, nor is the fact that it doesn't make sense a singularity in the grand scheme of time, it has been known since ancient days (I'm not religious, this is just evidence of it's timelessness): "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all"
> Of course, they have a choice

lol, no they don't.

a certain hash wins, every ~10 minutes. that hash is calculated from sha(block, nonce), where nonce is the randomized part that miner mutates to get different hashes. once a hash that satisfies the protocol is found - that's it, you can't choose a different block to append to the chain.

it is just laughable that i have to explain this level of basics.
> (ok, the 0-20 range has exceptions in many languages, so it's fine)

(ok, the 0-99 has exceptions in many languages, so it's fine)
You would think then that large bitcoin miners would already be doing this. Maybe installing their miners in large office buildings in cold climates. In theory they could eliminate their cost of electricity and outcompete other miners. Why isn't this happening?
I see. Perhaps you consider "forcing senior health officials to defer some planned deliveries" and "South Africa Asks J&J, Pfizer to Stop Sending Vaccines" are both accurately describing the same fact.

I suppose we should also excuse the prominent biased subtitle, because technically they are just quoting political figures from SA, not making the charge themselves.
Unfortunately, no. There seems to be some issue with saving canvas elements as PNG on mobile browsers. Since the generated images are landscape aspect anyway, I didn't spend a lot of time figuring out exactly what's causing this.
The Amish vote on how their community moves. People regularly leave. It's the same thing.
To know the magnitude of the most significant digit, you have to scan the whole number anyways. Looking for this info at the end of the number would be just as natural if you were used to it.
Here's a video of the Forever Lock being defeated with a custom-made bump key: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H4f1H6mYHOI
I really like the analogue with aluminium smelting. This is what bitcoin mining is nowadays, plus the increasing difficulty.

Prof of stake is analogous to Wall Street institutions and probably modelled after them.
I have to disagree with your hypothesis. Hand written assembly will I doubt never match the speed of compiler optimized code for anything non-trivial, unless you are an expert and have spent many years developing in assembly. There are just too many tricks that compilers can do these days including out of order execution, branch pipelining optimization and so on. Compiler writers know these tricks and use them.

Besides which have you ever tried to do anything non-trivial like reading or writing database records, complex file structures in assembly? It's slow to do, tedious and very error-prone.