skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was always taught in political science courses that the think tanks did research favoring the right or the left. This was instilled in me long ago - That experts will be used by politicians to do research (on what is a choice) that has findings (again - another choice being made) - which the politicians can use (whether they do and how are choices).

Choices abound in a scenario like this, each one are the typically hidden sources of bias.

I just don’t understand why the fact check thing is seen as credible, to me it’s just a new age version of the think tank dynamic but for a different time.

Note that I’m not saying it shouldn’t be used, as I still will rely on think tank research here and there. But knowing the source of their incentives is important.

“Follow the money”
> This is the biggest flaw in the design

No, it's solid design. It's a very simple safe primitive. You can build endless infrastructure on top of it. Similar to subkeys.

For example a lot of businesses use Smart-ID on top of that. You need to tie the smartid stuff to your PKI identity. But after that you can just use that as identity.

https://www.smart-id.com/
Well, a credit "would be appreciated", so they're - maybe - paying in that most valued of currencies, the "exposure buck".
Have you tried using voice control?
The guy you linked to died in 2015. I guess you could be holding onto his ashes that long...but HA
Upvoting for the use of kabuki in explaining the melodramatic pantomime of crypto hype, if only we were all more artisanal in building out this nascent blockchain tech. Imagine if tcp/ip were invented today with all this pre-marketing by VCs
If JMeter or other off the shelf tools don't do what you need, writing your own load generator is the only other option. Fortunately, putting together a simple one is not that complicated.
Did the transcription work well? I always found myself taking more time editing the text later than the time I saved with dictation.
The author became a professor unlike the 90% of the other PhD graduates, so you need to take all the lessons with a heavy dose of selective bias. Most of the things the article talks about is the effective processes the author has learned during PhD. This is definitely useful in any work where agency is involved. However, these effective routines can be learned from a decent job in a good organization and does not need a PhD. There is nothing in the article that suggests a unique learning that can be achieved only through pouring years into an endless pursuit like PhD.

In my opinion, there is nothing unique that can be learned only through a PhD for a successful career (except maybe for a tiny slice of outlier of CS researchers). Most people will be well better served to take a job that provides some agency, or better try to start a company and fail. They can learn a lot more this way without jeopardizing their financial future.
This is a great opportunity to support your favorite content creators in tech, if there is a blog or YouTube channel that you find yourself turning to regularly, see if they sell any information products, premium subscriptions, or training.

As you're already familiar with the person's content and style, you're more likely to actually use what you bought. Plus, many creators offer team licenses on their premium materials so that you can share them with your team.
And my original post wrote that bitcoin works in trusted environments, and maybe they didn't know that meant small networks of humans trusting each other with private keys off of the blockchain even though that was the only context possible, now they know so we’re just intentionally talking past each other at this point
Thank you. It almost makes me cry that someone is pursuing something sane these days.
I'm a new manager. Thanks so much for posting this .. it might be obvious but hits on issues I have faced with my team. I do have a question about the "writing down part". In my org, we do perf evals every 6 months. I do weekly 1-1s with my team members. When I course correct or communicate an expectation during a 1-1, what is an appropriate mechanism to document? Email is a bit byzantine .. most of our comms are on slack.
How about making different specs for different features instead of lumping everything under "HDMI 2.1a"

It smells like another episode of USB C 3.2 and their handling of video capabilities

Re: a shitshow
I can only speak back to the early-90s, which would have been post-repeal, so defer to your earlier memories.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine#Coroll...

Both of the post-fairness rules above that survived for a while seem reasonable to reimplement. Roughly, if either a person is attacked or a political candidate endorsed, the person or the unendorsed candidate must be afforded airtime to respond.

Those 2 rules alone would drastically alter the business of the major 24/7 news channels.

And I think realistically what we're talking about are "major media outlets." Which I'd define either by total viewer/listener count or local market share.

If you want to go off on your blog about someone, free speech seems to hold. But if the main radio station in your area decides to relentlessly beat the drum for a candidate / issue... well, that's probably a problem for democracy.
> I remember Ada having two different operators REM and MOD which I think is the best language choice.

According to Boute 1992,

> The Ada Reference Manual complements integer division (/) with two functions mod and rem. The first of these violates the division rule

so it doesn't so much have two different operators as one operator and one broken mess, and its one operator is the truncating division (C-style).

Also a quick check of the Hyperspec (or, again, Boute 1992) shows there are not two but 4 definitions based on rounding quotients, I think none of which "always returns a positive number" (which Python also does not do, incidentally).

There is a 5th definition, which Boute 1992 champions, for which the property asserted in the title holds.
Ada mod takes the sign of the second operand.

I wouldn't even bother with this, I'd just use a modular type (i.e. unsigned).

with Ada.Text_IO;

procedure Main is
-- Modular type (unsigned) which can take values of [0, 15].
type Nibble is mod 16;
Value : Nibble := 0;
begin
-- Prints 0 3 6 9 12 15 2 5 8 11 14 1 4 7 10 13 ...
for I in 0 .. 63 loop
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Value'Image);
Value := Value + 3;
end loop;
end Main;

Then make that type the index into my circular buffer and then I never need to worry about it.

type Circular_Buffer is array (Nibble) of Integer;
Buffer : Circular_Buffer;
All of this.

My dad had a PPL (uk single engine pilots license). The checklist was on the dash, it was easy to understand.

Even though I haven't flown with him since I was ten, I still vaguely remember what things you should generally do:

1) adjust trim for best glide

2) attempt restarts

3) find the best landing site, go to 2
By public services, I meant the public services provided by the state. For instance, health insurance, family doctor application, taxes, etc.

Banks require your ID whether it's smart or not. But it's not for payment purposes but for authentication. And they are not state bodies, but private commercial entities. They are not part of the PKI ecosystem of the state.
I was wondering this too. Presumably the giant wheel offers a smoother ride since it can roll over larger potholes without bouncing into them? Still seems like it needs a good road though, hard to see how it would be stable or maneuverable enough for off-road.
All in one direction, too. Curious.
When we're talking about well-executed studies with N=350,000 I think the practical conclusion is pretty obvious. This is not an underpowered study. The effect size was tiny.
The Swedish title he earned, Förvillare, isn't technically fraudster but more "confuser" (of others, leading them astray) of the year
How has nobody mentioned Ajit Pai overturning net neutrality which to me is exactly when the robo calls stopped flossing in. With Net Neutrality in place callers had to get your permission to call. And shocker, you remove oversight and allow free acces to run scams how is anyone surprised robocalls have become a huge issue.
Nice.

By the way, I've heard from a friend who tried to re-implement Simulink (only the diagram designer part) that proper line placing is NP-hard.
Recording the whole thing for other friends of the deceased, skydiving rig because it's what he's used to or had on hand. (Hypothetically of course)
When thinking about web3 I try to maintain a mental distinction between the enthusiasm for new ways of building applications, and the technical capabilities available to do so now.

To the extent there is something “there” in web3, I think it is mostly the former—the enthusiasm.

I saw someone write that there is a whole generation that grew up in a web dominated by Facebook, YouTube, etc. and they are hungry for a new way of doing things that feels free. I grew up with the original implementation of the WWW so I feel a lot of empathy for this point of view. It felt incredibly exciting and free.

That said, the “web3” technology so far seems to be a dumpster fire. NFTs are packed with wash-sale scammers, and smart contracts are super inefficient, or break in expensive ways, or both. Although to be fair the early Web 1.0 was largely a dumpster fire too. :-)

I think there is a big risk that the enthusiasm gets coopted by “solutions” that are in fact still centralized and just the old rulers in new clothes. I have to say that seeing so much boosting from rich established VCs does not seem like a good signal in that regard.

When I see someone whose job it is to centralize huge control and rewards on behalf of their investors shouting that web3 is freedom from control and centralization… I start to feel dubious.
In fact to expand the tax dependency of a kidnapping - you should be allowed to write off whatever moneys are spent on trying to get the kid back - although for all I know that is already deductible in some systems.
I use Emacs because it's the superior tool for editing ~/.emacs.d/init.el[1].

For me, it's just fun. I like writing lisp. I like how Emacs by default presents you with a *scratch* buffer meant to be used for trying out customizations and extensions to the editor. I like how I can modify almost any behavior of the editor to suit my own idiosyncrasies. I like the extremely high quality of the community[2][3][4]. I like how the LSP protocol means that I can benefit from considerably more advanced IDE style functionality than I could even a few years ago. I even like the archaic Emacs style key-binds. However, I do at a bare minimum remap capslock to control and I've been exploring other options like configuring space to input space on a tap and control when held down.

[1] Haha, only serious.

[2] https://protesilaos.com/emacs/dotemacs#h:7b39c38c-ae23-4385-... has a nice list.

[3] https://github.com/rougier#emacs-hacking

[4] And there are so many more. https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/ is a good community too, despite its parent site's reputation.
Great product - I love that you can actually use it immediately. Will give it a try. Some comments below though.

There's a whole ecosystem of tools now being built around explainability, bias-awareness, and more given that your models can only be as good as your datasets. I'd go as far as arguing that building models isn't the hard part, it's instead building really good datasets. I come from a computer-vision background but I think this definitely applies to all types of tabular / numerical data as well. How do you see a tool like yours playing into that realization?
How to Split Quoted Strings in Bash
Perl can do both ways:

$ perl -E 'say(4 % -3)'
-2

$ perl -E 'use integer;say(4 % -3)'
1
It's the same in other countries too. My electricity is based on the Nord Pool prices, and a few days this month it has gone above 40c/kWh [0]. This time last year it was around 5c/kWh. (The amount I pay is higher as I need to pay another ~10c/kWh for network fees)

We'd really like you to bring Nord Stream 2 online sometime soon kkthxbye.

[0]https://www.nordpoolgroup.com/Market-data1/#/nordic/table
The people who destroyed the WTC on 9/11 died in the act. There was no trial that would convict them posthumously of terrorism, given that we do not judge the dead (well, not anymore: it used to be a thing, see [1]). So, their criminal records are clear of terrorism convictions.

Does that mean that I will be labeled as a spreader of fake news if I call Mohamed Atta [2] a terrorist?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Atta
The difference between flooring and euclidean modulo is quite irrelevant in practice for the most part. Either way resolve the main issue with truncating modulo that is the issue outlined in the tweet.
Can This UT Professor Clean Up Outer Space?
> they can't actually sell their product because they focused too much on the building and not enough on getting people to know about it

Or more likely, there was no demand for their product to begin with.
[1] - Those books shouldn't have been destroyed and this was widely decried. Quote at the bottom of your article from one of the authors of a destroyed book was interesting though.

>André Noël, a Quebec journalist, noted on Twitter that his book, Trafic chez les Hurons, published in 2000, was among those removed from shelves. In a Twitter thread, Noël wrote in French that the removal of his book “surprises me and seems excessive.”

“But I fear that this controversy will distract us from the real scandal, which we have not yet fully measured: the destruction of Indigenous lands and the oppression of Indigenous peoples by Europeans and their descendants, including in Canada and in Quebec,” he wrote.

[2] - Private company can sell what they want.

[3] - Private company can create whatever products they want.

[4] - The argument in the article is that there are marginalized students who want to read these books.
Screenshot the usage of the software.

Get a wiki tool to let you paste the output in.

Write such connecting verbiage as is needful for the new user.
This isn't any different than an artist offering a limited run of physical prints and then going back on their word. There's generally some level of trust between the buyer and the artist and if they break that trust then they hurt demand for their work. I've been following the NFT space for years and I haven't seen this issue crop up much at all.
What do you think would be a fair way for the media to handle the "acid wash" claims?

He doesn't seem to have been talking about BleachBit, because he said in his ABC interview on 2016-09-05

> I mean, she had her emails — 33,000 emails — acid washed. The most sophisticated person never heard about acid washing. Acid washing is a very expensive process and that’s to really get rid of them.

and at a couple campaign events the next day

> But why do you acid wash, or bleach, the emails? Nobody even heard of it before. Very expensive

and

> How about the 33,000 missing e-mails that were acid washed — acid washed. And Rudy was telling me, nobody does it because it’s such an expensive process.

BeachBit is free software. There is nothing "expensive" about obtaining it, installing it, or using it. So what the heck was he trying to get at?
> If you frequently vote against the prevailing opinion, then your votes get disabled and/or inverted.

Um, what? I don't believe that for a second - that sounds crazy. Is there evidence for this? I'm willing to be educated. Er, fact-check please. (And the strange phrasing "I have spoken with Dang about this multiple times to confirm" sounds like Dang didn't 'confirm' it.)
> You and a couple other commenters mention this and not trying to land. Do we know how long it was before he gave up?

It's true that there might be video cuts, but just visually guesstimating, there's very little altitude difference between when the propeller stops and when he jumps.

> Is this because he is already a skydiver and/or was going paragliding (is this the same rig? Another thing I don't know). Would it make sense that this is just "what he has," as opposed to owning both a bail out and a sky diving kit?

Paragliding gear is even more bulkier than a skydiving rig, there's various types depending on the flying you want to do, but here's a typical example: https://qefimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/303/2018/0...

Even if he is a skydiver and pilot, you want to use the right tool for the job

- skydiving rig: larger, main handle is out of sight, has more snag points, built to stop you from terminal velocity (~120mph/200km) so the opening distance is higher

- emergency parachute: small, usually just one handle which you can see and very hard to snag on anything, meant to be opened in under 3s after jumping, definitely not for terminal velocity kind of speeds

> Wasn't it mounted on the plane dash, and he took it with him when he bailed?

I re-watched the video now and you're right, it's a selfie stick in his hand, as he moves the camera from one hand to the other. Another "unlikely things a pilot does in an emergency" from my side then.

> What is the norm for this? My thinking was this was to distance himself from the plane, which he later mentioned "came back around him" after he pulled.

This ties in to the parachute type mostly, for rescue situations with emergency parachutes you want to pull ASAP, as the plane will usually fly away anyway (excepting maybe spins, but then it's pretty hard to exit anyway)
There are the basic math precedences which language designers then extend with various others.

To paraphrase Guy Steele[0] - with the exception of what you learnt in high school, precedence should be eliminated from languages.

[0] any of his talks/papers on meta notation - sorry I don't have a link handy
The approach to validate ideas with conversation with your target market when you are unsure if anyone will buy.

But in this case you need to validate it by building it and proving it can be done. The market is already prepped.
Thank you, I was just thinking today that I needed a tool exactly like this.

My go-to brain dumping tool is simple note but it's too much separation between an ephemeral thought and the process of recording it.

Especially clever because I think all the tools to do this have existed for basically as long as Android has existed, but this is a very good application of those tools.
> With Net Neutrality in place callers had to get your permission to call

That's not at all what Net Neutrality is, and its removal as policy wouldn't directly enable more of these spam calls from happening
Ukraine–NATO Relations
In Rust, the integer types [even the unsigned ones where it makes no difference] provide rem_euclid() that gives you a non-negative answer, whereas % is defined to have the same sign as your dividend if it isn't zero.

Having this for unsigned types allows you to write rem_euclid() if that's definitely what you meant even when you aren't sure if the type you'll be using here will be signed (and thus it matters) or not.

Unfortunately Rust's std::ops::Rem trait (the trait which provides the overloadable % operator) does not offer this alternative, so if all you know about a type is that you can apply the modulus operator to it, you only get that operator and there's no uniform way to get a Euclidean remainder instead.
If anyone is curious of a workflow that might work on ios: Settings > Accessibility > Back Tap. You can then assign a Shortcut to run when you tap the back of your phone.

The taps are finicky for me, maybe because of my phone case. I might try them out again and see if it's worth ditching my case.
By your definition, no successful suicide bomber would ever be a terrorist, because the dead do not go to trials.
And yet none of those corporations has displaced email, despite the fact that it has become a universal cyberattack channel, with a stagnant UX that doesn't address most real-world use cases for email!

I saw a need for a safer, better, decentralized protocol for email, so I drafted one (TMTP) and implemented client & server. More at:

https://mnmnotmail.org/ & https://twitter.com/mnmnotmail

Related protocol projects in development include:

https://mathmesh.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Mail_Alliance
"People above you in that chain will accept limited feedback on methods to attain their chosen goals and will greatly resent questions about whether their selected goals are worthwhile/realistic/rational, or whether their gestalt vision of the field's conventional wisdom is correct."

Corporate management has the exact same situation.
> It's a very simple safe primitive. You can build endless infrastructure on top of it.

It has nothing to do with the primitive. Someone will find a flaw in the implementation, or human flaws in the bureaucracy that administers it.

And building infrastructure on top of it is the flaw. These things should all be independent of one another.
Singer Nick Cave on Wain and his involvement in the film

https://www.theredhandfiles.com/i-just-saw-the-electrical-li...
Maybe it's not common wisdom in general, but it is a pretty common viewpoint in the startup world. Building products is expensive, and startups can't afford to build something no one wants. It's pretty much universal advise that finding an initial market fit should be the first priority of any new startup.

Literally making a sale before the product exists is the extreme end of that philosophy. Whether or not this is good advise, or even possible, probably depends a lot on the domain. For most domains though, there is some degree of market research that can and should be done before investing in product development.
Winnie the Pooh is an interesting example, because while the first book will be in the public domain, the second book and the Disney films will still be under copyright. So you'd be free to make a story or merchandise based on the original book Pooh, but you can't use the way he looks in the movie, nor can you use Tigger (who doesn't show up until the second book).

A similar thing happened with Sherlock Holmes, where there was a window where you could use Sherlock and his early cases, but you couldn't use details like Watson getting married because the later books were still protected (we might still be in that window, I don't know the publication dates off the top of my head).
> It wasn't necessarily just IBM's fault either

My understanding is that it wasn't IBM's fault at all. They delivered exactly what was aggreed upon. What the government asked made no sense.

That's why they couldn't and didn't sue, and if you read about it in the media, there's no direct blame on IBM (a lot of it is implied; being to direct could be construed as defamation).
They are also overworked and have to triage cases by their initial assessment of risk.
Seems like a problem that could be solved with cameras today.
So far about 1/3 of candidates aren’t interested in any on-site, while 2/3 are saying either that’s fine or that’s a positive. Of the 2/3 who are interested, the ones who really pursued the job and we ended up hiring all we’re excited about us prioritizing in-person work. Small sample size though, so I don’t think our experience is enough to extrapolate to the preference ratio among all workers.
I thought this was required by the FAA advisory circular governing parachute operations (https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/... - PDF), but after just looking, I now think it was part of the supplemental type certificate (https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/design_approvals/stc/) or 337 approval for the door modifications on the planes at the drop zone where I used to work.

Thus, it probably depends on the aircraft, and possibly the process by which the owner got FAA approval to modify the door.