skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Australia right now I wouldn't trust AusPost to deliver a Christmas present as I'm struggling to find something for my son and my time is running out (#). They end up with massive pile ups of parcels in their distribution centers; it's all in shambles.

Amazon Prime? I'd feel very confident in their estimates. They are almost always bang on. They're doing an amazing job with their supply chain management.

This actively changes how I will do my shopping; either somewhere online for in-store physical pickup, or Amazon.

#) I've given him meaningful stuff throughout the year, and hate that I have to come up with something for this fixed date as is the tradition
What do you think comes up when Immigration Control reads it into their computer?
sorry I don't care, I read the title and think of Miro immediately, maybe it's just me
How to Cut into a Material More Smoothly
This thread gives me an idea: a browser extension to gray out content using sentiment analysis [1]. I suspect some people may have even seen the video and found some useful stuff to share/comment about it, but it is just annoying/time consuming to find such comments in here in between all the Wolfram hate :-p

What's the state of the art on sentiment analysis? Is it more or less reliable these days? :-)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis#
Don't other similar trackers only work if you're within a few hundred feet?
Few people paid attention to racism until people started tearing down statues and burning Targets. What's the incentive to be nice and polite when being nice and polite gets you ignored?

This is just another call for respectability politics. You're asking people to do something that doesn't work.
I gather you never run a blue-green migration before?

The switch has already started. The PoS validators are already running. The time it is taking is just to make sure that the transition occurs safely and that there are enough diversity of clients and stakers in the network.
Lots of people dropped WhatsApp soon after FB changed their user agreement.
I migrated to telegram. But not sure if its any more secure.
Narconon is a front group for Scientology. It is a running gag that the police department in Bogota, Colombia, Los Angeles, USA or some small town is passing out the ‘Truth About Drugs’ leaflet written by L. Ron Hubbard.

Don’t be a victim.
Hollywod's video game blind spot
He mentioned no "viral infection". He mentioned an immune system response. Feelings of nausea are, exactly, an immune system response.
This is a bug in certain Atom processors, fixed in a microcode update. The errata states:

> Under complex microarchitectural conditions, incorrect instruction
bytes may be used for code with linear addresses bits 5:4 = 10b.

That is, code at addresses ending in hex 2x, 6x, Ax or Ex might randomly get substituted with other code.

Pretty spooky - the bug basically causes the CPU to occasionally go off and execute totally incorrect instructions, often resulting in a crash. The scarier problem is that the bug might not always wind up crashing - maybe it just runs the wrong instruction and produces the wrong result…
Remind me again why people thought the video tag was a good idea? Flash with click-to-start made for a much better browsing experience.
celebrating womanizing men is bad too. so, tear out all the pictures of MLK and tear down the statues.

does this example help you to understand the danger in your particular brand of ignorance?
In some cases, a lifetime.
My main concern is the lack of widely available supply.
Yep, I think he is. He should be.
Freelancer's Dilemma
Here's a better argument: ==this hypothesis is literally like microwaves killing good bacteria or 5g causing coronavirus==
And Mathematica was inspired by REPL-style languages (LISP, APL) that go back to the dawn of computing.
This podcast/series is so intensely good it is hard to describe to people. Partially because it is devoid of any commercial intent, it's simply raw history presented in an extremely accessible digest.
They could...maybe try rubbing two brain cells together in order to come up with a better, higher performing ad product.

Nah, they find sticking to the 90's punch the monkey style ads and blaming FB and Google for "coopting" the market to be a better strategy.
All of them? You don't even agree it was mocking? And I'm pretty sure people know that correlation isn't the same as causation.

I won't argue very hard for 'long'; the gratuitous examples weren't a big deal in isolation.
> The idea of "cancelling" all of history's greatest people is one of the worst suggestions I can imagine, optically, for progressive movements. I would think that educating people about the shades of grey in our cultural icons' history, beliefs and personality is a much better cause.

This is a strawman.

I’m specifically saying we shouldn’t celebrate bigots. We should continue to educate people about the “shades of grey” as it were. We can do that without statues. Monuments are never going to have context.

If you think me unreasonable, I guess I’ll just have to be okay with that.
Also from the same article:

> In city after city, violent crime peaked in the early ’90s and then began a steady and spectacular decline. Washington, DC, didn’t have either Giuliani or Bratton, but its violent crime rate has dropped 58 percent since its peak. Dallas’ has fallen 70 percent. Newark: 74 percent. Los Angeles: 78 percent.
>
> There must be more going on here than just a change in policing tactics in one city. But what?

The point is that correlation is not causation. Assuming that abortion led to a decrease in crime is an assumption. So is assuming that removing lead from the environment led to a decrease in crime. So is assuming that one politician’s methods led to a decrease in crime. In fact, that is probably the least likely, given the fact that it happened everywhere.
"my ignorance is a feature not a bug"
This is true for all countries which import labour. So nearly all, barring a few.
The same decrease in crime that occurred under Giuliani occurred in other cities around the country and the world which had very different policing policies. See, for example,

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/089533004773563485

Or, of course, Kevin Drum's article.

TLDR: People do dispute that Giuliani's policies on crime were extremely effective.
> but nobody disputes that Giuliani's policies on crime were extremely effective.

In fact, they were so effective that they reduced the crime rates in the entire country!

There's plenty of people disputing the efficacy of NY's policies.

https://www.nber.org/digest/jan03/what-reduced-crime-new-yor...
As an Austrian, I've never heard anyone use "gewinkt" in a serious manner.
Ahead of the Curve
LineFS: SmartNIC Offload of a Distributed File System with Pipeline Parallelism
GhOSt: Fast and Flexible User-Space Delegation of Linux Scheduling
Very crudely, on linux you can do that with almost any CLI progam and the "watch" utility.
Sure. You've uncovered their dastardly plans.
What made you choose JAX over Julia? I'm interested in this question, because I have been thinking about transitioning to Julia but have always hesitated to make the move, since overall the Python ecosystem still seems way ahead in terms of visualization and toolchain.

Also, would you expect JAX acceleration to work well with other types of discretization, such as spectral methods?
Dr. Sherif R. Zaki, Acclaimed Disease Detective, Dies at 65
Biochemist: agreed, "we now live long enough to suffer from it" works well to explain the rising prevalence of cancer, but not that of auto-immune diseases.

For auto-immune diseases, the consensus (if we can call it that) mostly revolves around the hygiene hypothesis. Refrigeration is one aspect of this, but other things that fall in this category are the use of soap, rising cleanliness standards, disinfectants, aseptic methods, positive pressure toilets and good sewage systems, vaccines, antibiotics, not breastfeeding as much (not directly a hygiene issue, but breastfeeding transfers passive immunity to a child with a developing immune system, which has an effect not unlike being exposed to a different spectrum of microbes), caesarian births, always eating very fresh meats and vegetables, etc.

There is a grain of truth to "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" (but don't take that idea too far, and please do wash your hands and do get vaccinated, for god's sake), and the essence of the hygiene hypothesis, in comp sci / ML terms, is that it's a training set problem.

Edit: it's unclear to me why people are downvoting this. This is my area of expertise, so I'd be curious to know what people find objectionable in this comment.
VALIS is where PKD gets really trippy. I wonder if his Exegesis will ever be published in full.
Let’s get the crane out. All the statues come down. We can learn about historical figures in our schools, and in our museums, surrounded in both cases by appropriate context.
Yeah, I actually probably lean towards following the nuttier ones for my own entertainment.

Just had a look on r/crytpocurrency and they all seem to realise it's BS and a huge risk to the market.
> advocating heavily for abortions

That seems like a wild claim. Evidence?
> But, the idea of using them to claim "ownership" of a JPEG or something seems ridiculous to me on its face.

IIRC, it's worse than that. You don't "own" a JPEG. A database says that you "own" a URL, but there's nothing about that URL that is owned. You don't have any rights to what's at that URL. Heck, there's no guarantee that the URL even loads now, let alone in six months. And the content can change at any time.

> Either I don't understand how it's supposed to work, or a lot of people have been very publicly taken for a lot of money via NFTs.

It's a reputation/status thing.
The best founder I personally know (5 startups, all positive exits) tried his hand at blockchain for enterprise with his recent startup and had to pivot months into it because there wasn’t a valid use case.

I haven’t explored it myself, but his experience gave me enough reason to pause for B2B applications.
I agree, some liberals seem to belong to different branch of primate taxonomy
I don't care if you're canvassing in a suit and tie or spray painting Marxist slogans on banks - respectability doesn't matter. Results do - and consequentially speaking, destroying things that people consider symbols of pride is not going to win you many friends among moderates. If you want to argue that trying to clandestinely pull down a statue prompts a national conversation about the motives of the vandals, then sure, I can agree with that reasoning. But actually making the argument "no accomplished people should be celebrated at all if they weren't morally squeaky-clean"? That's purity politics, and a continued association between progressivism and puritanism is not going to win any friends or allies.
Canis latrans can mate with canis lupus and they are not considered the same species, just fyi.
Reddit admins will ban and shadowban users for behavior. They will not do so to mods whom have the same behavior.

Here's the moderator report form that Reddit says they read https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form...

Reddit acts as if they care, as if there are rules that are applied equally and as if these are "communities". They are not.
Survivorship bias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
The phishing issue not an argument against HNS domains. Phishing already exists without handshake domains. With ICANN domains you can also be creative and place misleading domains that harm for a while. I would rather say the ICANN system as it is today is not addressing the problem properly and fast enough. There are plenty of ways to make it faster and more secure working with a decentralized system that is not dependent on the reaction time and judgement of one institution.

If you are today not in the Alexa Top 100k you have plenty of room to find a great domain. And there is a lot of opportunity to get better names. ICANN domains are limited, intentionally made scarce and often blocked and not used. And you need to rent them instead of owning them. What is the added value from renting them?
For 1. No, it is a lot more complicated than that. For instance, Dogs, Wolves, and Coyotes can all interbreed with each other. But even if you treat all dogs as one species, they can't actually all interbreed with eachother without human intervention due to size differences. Then there are ring species, which can breed with two separate species that cannot breed with each other. That isn't even getting into species that can asexually reproduce.
I'm assuming that's because as of 24 hours ago, Tether eclipsed unminted deposits/receipts of ~$1,000,000,000.

.. Right?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

> so please keep your NWO conspiracy narratives to yourself.

I welcome them, so please don't selfishly tell people to censor themselves just because you don't like it.

Thanks.
Ransomware payment
Lex, yacc, antlr, parsec, ragel, and the others are all hacks.

Necessary hacks, when the language is inadequate to the job. But C++ is no longer inadequate.

Lex and yacc depend on global variables, so you get one (1) parser per program, unless you further massage their output.
> What if a populous group had the peak of their intellectual curve far down the range?

It takes a long time, an evolutionary timescale for that sort of difference to emerge. There’s an argument that the reason that modern humans are so homogeneous is because we wiped out all competition long before we had recorded history or civilisation.
Access to birth control could be a much larger factor. Catholics are famously anti birth control, and Protestants only began accepting it starting in 1940, so the 1973 roe v wade decision correlated with a generation which had more societal acceptance of birth control. Many Protestant denominations are still divided on the issue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_views_on_contrace...
Even back in the day Descent was more of a niche game. I played a crap ton of it on the Kali ladder as well as modem death match with a buddy, but we were the only ones out of our extended friend group that liked it vs everyone that was into doom, quake, etc. A lot of people got motion sickness issues from it and couldn't really do anything about that.

If you're interested in Myst style games but want to play a modern spiritual successor, check out The Witness. It's an astoundingly well designed game, though some of the last puzzles will take some persistence.
China forced DiDi off a U.S. stock exchange. Who’s next?
The people who consider Confederate statues “symbols of pride” are not moderates, just in case there was confusion there.
This is a well criticized study, but regardless of how dubious it is, the claim was never focused on "minority" communities and as far as I know Planned Parenthood activities are neither quantified nor included in correlations found.
Not entirely, though there's a fair element of that.

With gene sequencing and techniques such as molecular clocks we can determine evolutionary trees and the approximate time between mutations. This gives us a fairly clear understanding of what current species are placed where on the evolutionary tree --- where you draw the boundaries still has some ambiguity, but it's usually possible to at least say which of two specific samples is closer to or further from a third.

We've also realised that genetic inheritance and transfer is not strictly along descendent lineages --- there's swapping of genetic material, espeically between living organisms and viruses, as well as amongst complex organisms and bacteria. Your mitochondria --- common to nearly all eukaruyotes --- is itself an entirely distinct organism which has become entirely symbiotic with you.

So there's nearer and further, and indirect inheritance. But there remains a great deal of cases --- remember, 99.9% of all life forms on Earth have gone extinct --- where we simply do not know. Or where knowledge isn't sufficient to make a clear or unambiguous distinction or classification.

Jainism has the concept of Anekantavada, "many-sidedness", exemplified in the fable of the blind men and the elephant. It's useful to recognise that our perceptions are arbitrary --- they're dependent on both the particular subset of reality we're observing, as well as the limited channels through which we're making that observation, and the conceptual frames by which we organise it. That said, many sidedness is not any sidedness --- all interpretations are not equivalently valid. That's the gist of a utility model of epistemology: usefulness is context-dependent, but also exists on a spectrum, from high usefulness (greater truth value) to low (likewise).

Arbitrary is not indifferent.

Mind as is usually the case I'm speaking of an area in which I have largely lay knowledge, though I think I'm not going too badly astray.
Sorry, I'm not interested in taking part in your weird struggle against Tether.

I am obviously not defending Tether, I do not have a single good thing to say about Tether. But unlike you seem to be, I'm not emotionally invested in what happens to Tether.

I was simply calling out the obvious bad faith argument presented by wmf. Even if Tether isn't violating any laws, the US government is going to go out of their way to get them.

>You seem to believe this is a bug, while every other citizen views this as a feature.

I have said precisely nothing that could be interpreted by a person of ordinary intelligence to suggest such a belief. This is something you have created inside your own head. I wonder why?
The junior staffers should be thankful they are not execs, the way things are lining up for the markets in 2022 the execs will be forced to wear sackcloth and ashes.
lol i love it. all my comments flagged because you guys can't actually discuss it. I guess "cancel culture" and snowflakes got me as well RIP
Again, your entire position is premised on a reliably non-troll abused and reasonably uniform usage of the dislike button, two things we have reason to believe aren't the case.

>people watch the whole video waiting for the thumbnail's promise that never arrives. Partial view stats won't help in that case.

Neither signal is perfect, but it's easy to simply smash the dislike button for any or no reason. OTOH, actually watching the video takes effort and commitment, which is in itself a signal. Many people will give up fairly quickly.

So, the chances that the majority of people are watching entire vids waiting for the thumbnail to happen is IMO substantially less than the chances that people just effortlessly smash dislike.

And, I think people get trained pretty quickly to avoid the "impossible" thumbnail with massive landsharks eating trains or whatever.

>video released only 2 weeks ago might be high quality but low view count

Relative like-to-view ratio is probably a better indicator than factoring in the oft-abused dislike button.

>200 likes" but with possibly higher dislikes hidden from view.

Again, YouTube should offer a flag button for scammy or otherwise disagreeable content, then moderate accordingly. That's far better than a generic dislike button.

But, we're probably going to agree to disagree here.
Gene edited sex selection may spare animal suffering
> How it is a massive leap when you are insinuating that the attestation means Circle is doing something shady?

Because being shady isn't illegal? You're the one suggesting this might amount to something felonious, which is perhaps telling.

> They have a big office in Boston across the street from the Federal Bank of Boston and employ highly paid people who wouldn’t jeopardize their careers.

This is a terrible argument. I have worked with people who were highly paid people working for well connected shops in fancy offices (Enron, Lehman, etc).

> The FUD is just ludicrous.

What FUD? Point to a single thing I've said that isn't purely factual.
250 years hardly sounds outrageous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia has been under construction for nearly 150 years; "construction passed the midpoint in 2010".
Ajit also undid the new tariffs that were about to be implemented for jails and prisons to avoid some inmates paying $50 for a 15 minute call to their family. Fuck Ajit.
I don't know if there is or not, but if I'm ever dying alone in a hospice and therapeutic manual therapy is offered I assure you I'll take it.
It seems like a lot of this is equally explainable as better diagnosis, meaning CD could have been around at similar rates much longer but medical science just didn't diagnose it as such or at the same rates.

It's a question you always have to ask when you see an increase in, well, most things: Is it an actual increase, or are we just better at noticing it now?
So long as all the developers of DoS and assassination extensions "felt the burn" before they could complete their abusive-behavior-enabling technology, I would be fine with that.
This is already proposed in the article. You probably haven't read it or may be I misunderstood what author meant by requiring proof of work to avoid spam.
I think the "logic" behind the advice I received was that there were benefits specified in the contract which I wouldn't be entitled to (such as a notice period? or sick pay?) if I didn't sign it.

Under this theory, I may have been entitled to any benefits that were mentioned during the interview and salary negotiation process, but they might be difficult for me to enforce. For example, if the company had refused to grant those mentioned benefits, as a form of constructive dismissal, I might have had a hard time proving during an employment tribunal which benefits were informally agreed (and were conditions upon which I had accepted their job offer).
I cannot imagine why anyone would want to go round looking at the world through ar. Video games and commercial uses* are the only markets i can really imagine.

*such as pilots who have been using ar goggles for ages
Not tearing statues down and not scouring flawed people from history also didn't help. Cancelling people who do it is also purity politics. They got exhausted trying to be polite and nonviolent while nothing changed or things got worse, tore down a racist statue erected by racists for racist reasons, and now you claim that's why you don't listen to anything they say even though you weren't listening before.
> the idea that crypto is the primary existential threat

The problem is the ratio of entertainment:cost is extremely bad for PoW blockchain art, and the cost is substantial and growing. It doesn't matter at all that it's not the "primary" threat, and you should realize that's a strawman.

Looking at that ratio also explains why it's not hypocritical, or at least it's only slightly hypocritical and still a valid and important criticism of a waste.
I'm guessing quite significantly less than 40%, probably significantly less than the 10% already accounted.
I thought it ironic that at the end of this article, the author lists the institutions that have taken years to consider this topic and claims they have rushed to judgment, assert his authority over theirs nakedly (and unpersuasively).

But the article did remind me how fun the board game Sagrada is.
Spotify pulls content of comedians fighting to get royalties for their work
Paper on the research at [1]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27227-2.pdf
There is no "free speech, but". It's a binary. You either have free speech, or you don't. Limited free speech is, by definition, not free. It's limited.