skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never find my TikTok stream to be negative or divisive. I only find my FB feed to be negative and divisive. That’s the difference in my mind.
Hands on with SolidJS
Google has been on this crusade against piracy for awhile now. I first noticed when I tried to do this query a few months, years(?) ago:

site:[famous non western tracker].com [insert music here]

zero results.

Same query, on duckduckgo: Everything there.

Another query:

[famous ebook sharing sites] on google.

Non-related results

Same query on duckduckgo: First hit is the correct website.
The nice thing about Brave Search is that they're trying to create an index completely independent from Bing/Google, and they seem to be trying to innovate on ways to get there as well with their Web Discovery Project[0], unlike DuckDuckGo. They've announced Brave Search will get ads soon, with a premium version without ads, which I think is acceptable given the costs of running an independent index sustainably.

[0]: https://brave.com/privacy/browser/#web-discovery-project
I feel like we are at the low point or even losing the battle between search engines and SEO spam. Maybe it is time for the Yahoo-style curated directory to return? We seem to be getting a microcosm of this with the awsome-* GitHub lists and Gemini with its near-nonexistent search.
New SiFive RISC-V core P650 with 40% IPC increase
The market cap of BTC and ETH is so high because there are so many more USDT issued than Tether has dollars.

You can't reason about Tether's relative value/ratio to BTC/ETH in a world where BTC and ETH are traded against USDT.
it's base64-encoded "hunter2"
Few years back, India theaters started adding subtitles in Hollywood/English movies. It increased viewership dramatically.
Naw, these are facts and what I've observed. My position was implicit from the first and if you didn't observe it I guess I understand not observing what has happened in the real world as opposed to what was predicted to happen in 1991.

There is a lot hype and propaganda but hey, you have me neatly categorized as a denier, now you can safely ignore facts that don't square with your chosen ideology and go on about your week.

If you are really 50+ and have been paying attention the whole time I have no clue how you could not have some cognitive dissonance. The models weren't accurate. The extreme predictions didn't come to pass.

Catastrophe is not imminent and both of us will die with the earth pretty much as it is now to the naked eye climatewise.
I graduated from a public high school and a public university, so I'm going to point out a seeming inconsistency with what you wrote and the web page that was linked to.

After checking out the Wikipedia page on Berkson's Paradox, I'm not as sure as I was about my original reasons for disagreeing with you and Graham, but I found a thread I want to pull on.

On the Wikipedia page, in discussing a hypothetical situation where the quality of burgers and fries may be positively correlated, but may also be observed to be negatively correlated due to the paradox, it says:
"...because they would likely not eat anywhere where both were bad, they fail to allow for the large number of restaurants in this category which would weaken or even flip the correlation"

I want to call your attention to the phrase "which would weaken or even flip the correlation". This appears to logically imply that the positive correlation might not be eliminated or flipped, depending on specific circumstances.

Therefore your comments such as "[academic performance and private schooling] will be negatively correlated within each student body" (emphasis mine), seem overstated or overconfident.

My gut reaction at first was simply that there is an implicit ceteris paribus that's taking too much load here; people aren't assigned to public and private schools at random, and I think that's essentially the same thing as abernard1 was expressing.

However, I can't say I completely intuitively understand the paradox, so apart from that, I question whether you are really stating the same principle as is generally accepted.

You wrote "you don't need data" and then asked for contrary evidence. If in fact, data is not required, then how can there be contrary evidence?
A dark pattern is trying to trick the user, with hard to find close, boxes, pre-checked subscriptions, or other misleading user interface patterns. Looking through your linked comment, I don't see any examples of these? Details:

The first point there is changing the API for their add-ons, which they did for performance, maintainability, and security reasons. No dark pattern there.

On Firefox Suggest (points 2 and 3), are you saying it is a dark pattern because their messaging when you enable the feature is not clear about what's happening? What's wrong with the messaging and how would you like it to be better?

With ads on the new tab page, I don't see what is a dark pattern about it? Or are you just saying that you don't like ads and wish Firefox would find another source of revenue?

With the Mr. Robot extension (points 5 and 6), I think it was a dumb choice, but again I don't see how it's a dark pattern?
I'm sure it's in direct response to the popups you get from Google telling you the site works best with chrome when you visit any of their properties with edge or Firefox.
Seems more useful than Chromes search bar which has tab-to-go-to-google-search-and-generate-ad-revenue. At least Firefox has down-to-find-what-I-actually-want-from-my-bookmarks-and-history.
For more on the song: http://www.trialanderrorcollective.com/collective-collab-blo...
Fair point, I'm fine with either. One of the great things about adaptations and remakes -- as long as they don't do it too often -- is that we get to see different interpretations of the source material.
HN is wild: 30m after something is mentiond, the CEO chimes in.
Asm 56 GB/s (you are reading Sanskrit)
C 41 GB/s (you are reading US Tax Code)
Rust 30 GB/s (you are reading English)
Python (why bother) (you are speed reading )
So many tools, so many languages, life is great.
I've got 3, left is 90, center is 0 and right is -90. It's Tall,Wide,Tall layout. Works a treat.
Big Stick, Common market removes China from it's customs registry list??
I don't think the argument is that transferrable. As a developer you don't really live within the legacy systems. At most you're a politician negotiating between the different component parts. Society is different.

I don't like DeFi, but I get what they're feeling. It feels like society has left us behind. Like anything we could ever hope to try is already accounted for and defeated before the effort even begins. You can get into politics, but the forces that broke the current set of politicians will break you as well. You can try and win from within the system, but that entails doing exactly what you're against.

I want to write software, man. I like making the computer do stuff, and I also like it when that stuff is socially meaningful, but it's impossible. The set of incentives and rules we have set up means that I don't get to do that. I don't enjoy knowing that the people i rely on are treated like fungible garbage. In that light I understand how it can seem appealing to change the world by writing software. I just don't think it's going to happen.
Veronica

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_(search_engine)
This essay seems deep and profoundly insightful but I don't think it actually is. Its ultimate call for "better designed regulation" is the no-true-scotsman fallacy in sheep's clothing. How do you know if your regulations are "properly designed?" If they produce good outcomes. But the problem is that there is no consensus about what a good outcome is. Some people are not happy, for example, unless women are quite literally forced to bear children under threat of fine or imprisonment [1]. Of course, these people would not put it that way. They would say that they are not happy unless the systematic slaughter of innocent babies is stopped. That is the problem.

And this problem runs very, very deep. A significant contingent -- significant enough to swing elections -- of one of the two major political parties in the most powerful nation on earth would prefer to literally deny the laws of physics than admit that anything said by a "liberal" might actually be true. They would prefer to literally have children shot in school on a regular basis than "give up their guns". Of course, they wouldn't put it that way, but that is the trade-off in point of actual fact.

In an atmosphere like that it is not possible to produce "properly designed regulation." In today's political environment, the instant you even utter that phrase, you lose.

---

[1] And BTW, the person making that argument before the Supreme Court yesterday was a woman, and one of the justices who is going to vote to eviscerate Roe is a woman, so this is not just the patriarchy at work.
I'd argue that HotBot is a lot more catchy since 1) it rhymes, 2) it's shorter in length.

AskJeeves would also be abbreviated in conversation to just "Jeeves", which is definitely as the original creators intended. "DuckDuckGo" doesn't have these features going for it.
It’s not the usefulness of having Excel tutorials I am questioning, but their form.

Is there really an appeal to having your tutorial (or at least its ad) being someone dancing and lip-syncing over totally unrelated music with the tips being overlaid as text boxes? Is this the “final form” of the tutorial format? I personally don’t find this “accessible” at all, it’s un-engaging/distracting at best and cringe inducing at worst; and I am baffled as to how someone would find this better than a well written book/guide or even a well made screencast type tutorial.
I've never seen anyone else define conservative vs liberals like that. Conservatives aren't against rules, they are against changing rules.

Why are conservatives against abortion, gay marriage and drug legalisation if they don't want to be told what they can do on their "own 200 acre farm". All those issues are about enforcing a worldview on others.
Edge isn't a bad browser now, but that's a testament to the underlying Chromium.

It still crashes way too much for me to use as my primary browser, and I only keep it because it is a better PDF reader than Chrome and I've not had time to find a replacement.
They've become the defacto document signing platform with wide acceptance across industries and are treated as legally binding in many jurisdictions. They've essentially become the Google of document signing.
We currently emphasize freedom or people making choices. The fact that greed and indifference often carry the day is an indictment of people and their choices, not "the system".

It has often been remarked that socialism and Christianity are similar. They both preach the gospel of love. The difference is that the Christians, whatever their faults, understand that good and evil is a question of something inside every person. Socialists, on the other hand, tend to have this legalistic idea that we can regulate away sin. It doesn't work. Regulatory bodies, like all institutions, are composed of people and so they cannot transcend the frailities of those people.

The defi people have this idea that we can regulate with clever algorithms. I don't think they will be any more successful than the socialists. If they succeed, they'll create a system without humans at its center which we will find even more intolerable than capitalism or socialism. If you want a preview of this system, consider the phenomenon of people begging on twitter for Google to unban their account.

When we complain about greed, we're talking about one of the oldest questions: how to make people good. We should pay much more attention to what religions have to say on that question than the world socialists or technocrats imagine they can create with the right regulations.
There are two reasons: 1) The println! macro will lock and unlock the stdout every time it's called. 2) Rust's stdout is line-buffered by default.

In my machine the naive C implementation achieves 81.7 MiB/s, whereas a naive Rust implementation with println achieves 7.58 MiB/s.

When I acquired the stdout's lock once and use writeln!(&mut stdout, ...) instead of println, I got 8.15 MiB/s.

When I wrapped stdout with BufWriter, I got 299 MiB/s.

use std::io::{BufWriter, Write};

fn main() {
let stdout = std::io::stdout();
let stdout = stdout.lock();
let mut stdout = BufWriter::with_capacity(32 * 1024, stdout);

for i in 1..1_000_000_000 {
let _ = match (i % 3 == 0, i % 5 == 0) {
(true, true) => writeln!(&mut stdout, "FizzBuzz"),
(true, false) => writeln!(&mut stdout, "Fizz"),
(false, true) => writeln!(&mut stdout, "Buzz"),
(false, false) => writeln!(&mut stdout, "{}", i),
};
}
}
NN-512 (https://NN-512.com) is an example of using intrinsics instead of inline assembly for a performance-critical application, and getting very, very good code generation results from GCC.
But there's no reason consumer protections, user friendly addressing, and other features can't be built on layers above the base crypto protocols. For the monetary system to be optimally flexible the base layer should be fully neutral and permissionless. Then there's nothing stopping people from building crypto banks on top of those base protocols, which could add in consumer protections like refunds. Think about the internet, it's powerful because the base layers are neutral, allowing for the free flow of information.
I guess it depends on what you are looking for on the Internet I guess.

Right now the biggest problem with Marginalia is that it has a fairly uneven quality level. For some queries it's absolutely incredible. For others, it doesn't really provide much useful results at all. I do think it's possible to even that out a considerable bit, to make it more viable for general queries. It's never going to be able to answer every query, but it probably could answer a lot more than it does.
Back when Edgeium was new and just Chrome but with a lot of Google cruft removed, I actually used Edge instead of Chrome when I was on Windows. It was the same browser with some additional tweaks that I quite liked.

Then Microsoft started this aggressive, disruptive push to bring it to iOS Safari's level as the only browser people should use.

I don't know any good operating systems for normal people anymore. Windows 10 and 11 are hostile, macOS only runs on very expensive hardware and doesn't run most programs people need (because the business world is still Windows oriented) and Linux has been making progress but still isn't a good alternative for the common user unless they have an expert to rely upon when something breaks down. ChromeOS doesn't run on most devices (it can, but the images aren't available) and I wouldn't recommend a Google-oriented OS to most people anyway, if they can avoid it; Android is bad enough already.

I miss the Windows 7 days. The Win10/11 kernel may have seen loads of improvements, the UI and basic behaviour has only been regressing for many years now. The Windows 11 window snapping is nice but it doesn't excuse the aggressive spyware that comes with the OS, and neither does it excuse this antitrust lawsuit in waiting.
His not saying his Yoga/Pilates/Stretching is universally bad. He is staying that some of the things that yoga and pilates recommend can actually make your problems worse.

Take, for example, the forward fold which I've seen recommend in a lot of places for desk workers that experience lower back pain. So you sit all day at your desk with your lumbar spine (lowest part of the spine) in flexion all day. After some years your back back starts to get a bit achy. Maybe a little disc bulge because your vertebrates are asymmetrically pressing on your disks for 10 hours a day. Doing a forward fold will only further aggregate any issues you might have. Because you have already spent 10 hours a day for years with your back in flexion. Flexion is your problem, not the solution. It is like have a sore thumb and then start hitting it with a hammer to try and fix it.

If you have backpain from sitting too much. Blindly starting to bend and twist your lumbar spine is not going to solve anything. In the worst case it will only make things worse. Instead do lots of core work with neutral spine and work on some hip mobility and try to rediscover those glutes you forgot you had.
If you use inline asm for performance, you should probably also write portable code as a baseline, and use conditional compilation to select between hand-optimized inline asm, or portable code. Maybe add in some unit tests too.

It's possible that in the future, with better compilers, the portable code will be actually faster. Even if not, having portable code is a huge plus.
You can create an operating system that just displays a static image within milliseconds yourself (shouldn't take you more than a few weeks), it would work even when compiled at -O0.
> people don't like these new things

I personally don't like the lack of old things. Namely being able to drag to the taskbar. That's baked into a lot of my workflows, and I can't believe they removed such a useful feature.
TheoretiCS
This thread looks like it's being astro-turfed by supporters of Vinay Prasad and the nonsense he keeps peddling. There are plenty of studies showing that masks work and that they reduce transmission and spread and there are even studies that show that mask mandates have a drastic positive effect in limiting community transmission and spread.
What is your email domain?
> we can't have everyone be artists so there has to be some way

Why not? The online attention economy is apparently worth trillions , why shouldn't creators be rewarded? Attracting the attention of other people is work even though it is all captured by BigTech Inc. We have automated so much of the workforce that it makes a lot of sense that being an 'artist' should be a job that more and more people will do.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2 (They even base64ed it)
Result Builders in Swift
one of the largest threats from GPS getting taken out is that banks, stock exchanges[0], and even ATMs rely on GPS for timing signals. If GPS is taken out, these could stop working dealing immediate damage to the economy.

[0]https://qz.com/1106064/the-entire-global-financial-system-de...
Regardless of how you word it, it amounts to the same thing: the protocol and signed, validated history say this happened, now we act like they did not, which is a violation of blockchain integrity.
And this is why I no longer ever want to be in photos. Not everything needs to be published to the world.
Yes, vaccines mitigate the impact of the virus on individual health outcomes.

They likely also have some marginal impact on transmissibility.

But the data shows pretty clearly that the effect on reduction in transmissibility is quite low, or else there would be an obvious relationship in the data in infection rate vs vaccine uptake... Which clearly there isn't. If you believe otherwise, please share data proving some macro effect of reduced case counts correlated with vaccine uptake.

There's nothing political about what I'm saying. I am arguing against policies that are not backed by the data or science.

People proposing policies that are not evidence based are the political ones.
Why should I have to do all that work? I want the machine to do it for me.

I can only think of examples where I want personalization. What's an example query where it interferes?
> it's basically Windows 10.

It's crippled compared to Win10.
As someone living in the city with a lot of neighbors, I mostly have the problem with high dynamic range. I hate it so much and you cannot deactivate it in most streaming media. I get that it is effect-full, but either I need subtitles or I blast my neighbors to insanity. Ever watched a Youtube video and then switched to Netflix and you couldn't hear anything? That is because the amplitude is set to very low for them to have a buffer with which they suddenly blast you out of the window in case anything happens.

That sound guys aren't even allowed to utter criticism of director or risk career speaks volumes about the industry.
The thing is WTA is claiming to speak at the behest of someone with whom they don't have direct contact. In certain aspects what WTA is doing is crossing boundaries of fair behaviour. Imagine if it was a similar allegation made by an American player, would the WTA would go guns blazing if they didn't have direct communication with the individual.

Where there is a need for circumspection, and for nuance , WTA has jumped into the fray speaking of absolutes.

Has WTA made good faith attempts like despatching its delegates to China and understand first hand the situation?

Frankly if you examine the available details, WTA only has a flimsy argument.

And also imagine what could happen next. It could be very much possible for the Chinese to organise a video call for example with Boris Johnson, in which Peng will castigate WTA for invading her privacy, and not respecting her need to stay away from public gaze, etc..

If so then what will WTA do?
"it was aslo universally shunned by the community as extremely unprofessional."

It certainly wasn't shunned by mainstream media.
Here is the issue about the Microsoft store version: https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/issues/1319
I studied physics and the agreement I think we need is that we are literally a super-organism about to ensure its own destruction. I hate to use the term mass consciousness or whatever but it's really irresponsible to me how people are still arguing between flavors of ideologies that push us towards being more individualistic.
It's certainly not as safe. And one hack doesn't constitute "proof" that the entire space is a total fail at beating traditional finance, which should be obvious. Instead we have people like OP making sensational claims about "shills", providing nothing of value to any conversation about the topic.
yes, large proxy networks are potential solutions. but they cost money, and you are playing a cat and mouse game with turing tests, and some sites require a login. furthermore, people have tried to use these to spider linkedin (sometimes creating fake accounts to login) only to be sued by microsoft who swings the CFAA at them. so you start off with an intellectual desire to make a nice search engine and end up getting sidetracked into this pit of muck and having microsoft try to put you in jail. and, no, i'm not the one microsoft was suing.