skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's also very cool, despite being superseded. Amazing the things a primitive machine could do.

Yeah - the Sharp's (optional) built-in thermal printer was much higher resolution (with a 24-dot print head, resulting in around 200dpi IIRC) than most dot-matrix impact printers of that era (8- or 9-pin print heads, 70dpi or so), but the thermal ribbons it used to print on plain paper were hard to come by. You could also use it with thermal paper, but the resulting printouts tended to fade quite quickly (somewhat depending on the environment).

We were thrilled when we managed to get hold of 24-pin impact printers that produced more permanent output, and where we could re-ink the ribbons. Produced camera-ready copy to publish books with those for several years, designing "oversized" fonts that were printed using multiple passes, and then photo-reducing the printed output to boost the effective resolution.
While not a firefighter, I've some experience with dealing with this as I'm SAR crew on a lifeboat in an area where unfortunately vehicles enter the water regularly. During recovery, it would be _very_ useful to know some of this information (particularly where the curtain airbags, hydraulic dampers, and batteries are). We generally aren't going to be able to get any documentation from the vehicle, but now I know these exist, just being able to Google for them will be very helpful.
Here are a bunch of threads I found:

https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...

https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/gmwheu/introducing_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/hkl914/welcome_to_t...

https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/giqxug/whats_happen...

https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/hkle3d/forced_pin_b...

https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/ghsj5b/pin_cloud_st...

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/hm2fwx/why_i_think...

Signal then announced that because of all the hate they'll make the feature optional, but opting out would just set a pin for you and upload your data anyway. This also caused a bunch of confusion.

https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/hnok10/moxie_on_twi...

https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/hrlmoe/pins_now_opt...

https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/hoh7e9/moxie_marlin...

/u/PriorProject has a comment far down which sums up my view pretty well in this one:

https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/htmzrr/psa_disablin...

It's worth pointing out that they're collecting the type of data they still brag about not being able to turn over because they "don't keep user data".

https://signal.org/bigbrother/eastern-virginia-grand-jury/

In fact, this was posted just one month before all this went down:
https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-as-the-world-moves-forw...

Between that and not updating their privacy policy it's a pretty massive red flag, but so many people don't even know about the data collection. Look at the answers this guy gets:

https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/q5tlg1/what_info_do...

same with the top comment here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/qpb8eh/mlat_order_...

It's insane, and I hope every user who has to learn what signal is really collecting from some random internet comment thinks long and hard about what that says about how transparent and trustworthy signal is.
That's so sad ... I used to follow the channel from its beginnings, especially when they used to cover exclusively Korea and Japan (with Kei), but since then I dropped off.

I'm very saddened to see it has reached this state.
> the weekly meetings often featured "search quality" measurements that were rigorous in their objectivity (I thought).

I wish this part got discussed, but every time I've attempted it, the discussion has been shut down by "lol they're experts at search and you're not and you don't know what they know."

I wouldn't put it past Google to be blindsided thinking their own metrics are objective (perhaps they are objective measurements of something but not of what they actually want to measure). If anything, the battle with SEO just shows how hard it is to do something right and avoid getting gamed. If they can't rank SEO spam off the front page, why would I believe their measurements are any better than the rankings?

There's also always a small possibility that metrics are worse than wrong; they could actually say everything is fine, keep serving these long form SEO spam articles that people click and read for far too long before realizing it doesn't have have the answers they seek.
Brain Efficiency: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
The cultural revolution was pretty close to purging as any culture gets. It was not a natural ebb and flow.
Anecdotally, I have seen a significant uptick in cookie banners that are significantly more compliant. Sadly most companies still ask for things they do not need, but at least they aren't on by default anymore and the dark patterns are declining.
Exactly. The fact that Jetbrains challenged and survived many excellent free IDEs proves that they offer real value that many people are willing to pay for. I generally love and prefer free and open source software, but I pay for my own IntelliJ license.
Are you seriously saying that you would be ok with using the army to violently murder civilians because they use some computers that you think use too much energy and don't provide enough value?
It would be well worth reading regular reports that come out of central banks, which do address what the article mentions. Some can be a bit estoric and there only if you really know what you're looking for stuff.

I'll take the UK for example, as I'm most familiar with that:

The Bank of England publish their Inflation Report [1] every quarter. There's quite a lot of interesting information in there. Credit conditions are mentioned in the linked article, which there's a specific report for, called Credit Conditions Survey [2]

Lots of people know what money is. Sort of. The article also mentions volumes of lending. This comes in monetary statistics too, but you have to dig for it. [3], from the URL the phrase 'need to know what you're looking for' - this is what the author may be looking for in terms of interest rates and volumes of lending.

Money, as an economic concept, has been out of fashion for several decades, ever since velocity of M0 started doing funky things that should have been well understood and anticipated and never used as a monetary target under those conditions. It remain no less relevant however. To make sense of it does takes some analysis.

[1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/inflation-report/inflation-r...

[2] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/credit-conditions-survey/201...

[3] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/database/FromShowCol...

Other central banks do have, and most provide, similar data. The format's a bit different. ECB and Eurostat for the Euro area, various FEDs for the US, etc.

I suppose

> Modern economists and financial analysts

may find the above useful if they with to become less 'average' as the article mentions. I assumed the average economist would be aware of these. Disclaimer: I am not an economist, just someone that takes an interest.
It's not just about money for the journalists themselves. Visit a journalism school and you'll find very few students there looking to maximize their earnings.

It's a lot like other fields such as science or arts. People entering these careers knowlingly accept low pay and/or difficult working conditions in exchange for other kinds of satisfaction. For some it's intellectual curiosity; for others its artistic ambition or applause.

For journalists, it's the psychological satisfication of using political influence to spread their beliefs to others.

The actions of journalists cannot be understood according to a simple profit model. (The actions of their bosses can - they hire journos who will accept low pay, with the implicit exchange that those journos can use the position to satisfy their activist impulses. Fanatics work for cheap.)
Eventually they'll figure out at what street corner to stand to find people with the leanings they want to film, if they're intent on coloring the reporting. At some point you'll also have to let go and trust the reporter or the outlet they work for, which admittedly is an increasingly challenging decision, these days.
Outside of Britain proper, but in what was then a British dependency, you had the United Irishmen revolt at the end of the eighteenth century, in which (as the name might suggest) Protestants and Catholics made common cause. That must have caused some alarm in London.

It did inspire similar movements in Britain itself -- United Englishmen, United Scotsmen, United Britons -- but they don't seem to have amounted to much.
>Well, things like the normalization of everyday life (nothing like under Maoism where everybody was paranoid and millions died, people live regular lives, even with the authoritative rule of the party), opening up to businesses, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty, big health and education access, huge infrastructure updates and development, great technical and scientific progress, becoming the world's number two economy up from being outside even the top 10 30 years ago, and so on.

This is more-or-less how Germany looked like in the 1930s. Really scary that some people don't realise the parallels.
While Google results may well be deteriorating, this example strikes me as a poor one. Unless you're trying to demonstrate poor results, why wouldn't you put quotation marks around "series b"? There's no point in making the algorithm guess what you mean when you can be explicit.
...and also Chinese Wall and Kung-fu...

CCP did everything it could to wipe out old traditions, and replace them with communism and cult of leaders. Latter they realized it is not enough to keep coherent national identity, and started promoting a few symbols they liked from past. The "big red door decorations" is not Chinese culture, it is a small fragment of it.

> It is simply absurd to claim Chinese culture only survived in "a few small places" in the mainland.

I do not claim that. It did not survived at all on mainland. "A few small places" are outside of mainland: Taiwan, Honk Kong, Macau and perhaps Singapore.
While on the topic of names, could we discuss the difference between
given name(s) and middle names and the implications this has on
anglocentric software/database design?

While middle names might be common in the anglosphere, in other
countries (e.g. Germany) it is common to have multiple given names,
which is not the same as having a single given (first) name followed by
zero or more middle names.

Here is a simplified version of how it works in Germany:

Informally, people usually go by exactly one of the given names, but
notably, this can be any one of the multiple given names, since these have
equal status by law (this is different from going by your middle name,
which have other legal implications, depending on the jurisdiction).

Using all given names is usually only required for official purposes
(e.g. on a passport). Note that using a combination of more than one
(but not all) of the given names or changing the order (without doing an
official name change) is not allowed. A person can, of course, choose to
use all given names in day to day life too.

This means that a person with the given names Foo Bar and the family
name FizzBuzz may use any of the following names:

- Foo FizzBuzz

- Bar FizzBuzz

- Foo Bar FizzBuzz

Note that it is perfectly legal for this person to go by Bar FizzBuzz
even though "Bar" is not their first name (of the given names).

Also note that changing your given names (other than their order) is not
easily possible for most people (according to current law), so if you
require someone to give you their full name (here Foo Bar FizzBuzz) for
legal reasons, please also give the user the option to at least state a
simplified version of their legal name for display purposes (such as any
single one of their given names which may not be the first).

TL;DR

Do:

- Allow people to enter multiple given names, even if you also ask for
middle names separately

- Consider that the same person may use a different single given name
for different purposes (e.g. basic account details vs. name details in
the shipping address)

Don't:

- Prompt for the full name (including all given/middle name, or the
family name) unless you have to for legal reasons; if you do have to,
at least let the user pick another name for display purposes, which
may be derived from their full legal name in unexpected ways

- Omit any of the multiple given names because "middle names are
optional" or "not part of the legal name"

- Forcibly abbreviate the remaining given names after the first given
name

- Drop any part of a given or family name if the name consists of
multiple components separated by a dash
Doesn't Wikipedia have articles about Covid?
Of course you can buy the phone from Apple and put in a SIM card in the US. I’ve done it many times. You shouldn’t take fake internet outrage so seriously.
Not just ALUs, but full blown processors with things like branch prediction. The last that got a good deal of attention was Sammyuri's "Chungus 2", from December last year.

It runs at 1 Hz though, about 1000 times slower than an Atari 2600.
Or harmful ads for scam or viruses. Let's face it, Facebook did never actually care
It's a long and fascinating story that involves China firing missiles to affect the outcome of Taiwan's first democratic election, as well as the largest American military action in Asia since the Vietnam War.

In summary, the KMT upholds a "One-China Policy", which makes them a natural ally of the CCP against any Taiwan independence movements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis
Then couldn’t apple add some metadata on the user’s behalf that this traffic is a video stream? Of course it can be spoofed by the user, but if the hard-to-change default is well-defined by apple, then networks can depend and use that info.
Just for context, GP’s original comment suggested that people who say they want to be rational or neutral about China are only interested in the bad facts about China, an attitude that leads to more misunderstanding. Sibling comments here have taken a generous attempt at assuming good faith and listing some good facts.
> I do not claim that. It did not survived at all on mainland.

So your claim is even more absurd. I guess that language they're speaking on the mainland must be French then?
My teacher explained it as such: imagine you look at a correlation between the position of the gas pedal and the car speed while driving normally (so - at the speed limit) on a hilly road. You'd conclude gas pedal and car speed are completely independent.
also, MobileCoin is a permissioned blockchain with four nodes. It's the embodiment of "it's just a slow database."
IIRC, the Protectorate Parliament offered him the Crown, but factions of the Army made it clear he would not survive should he accept.
Bullies don't stop when a few people ignore them. That just creates an echo chamber, and they get more bold.

Bullies stop when you punch them in the nose.

Offering people "content filtering controls" might work in a small population where bullies could get ignored completely after a short time, but IME it doesn't even work then. What does work is when the community stops them cold by banning them.

But not everyone is a bully, so the system needs to be more nuanced than that, with warnings and lesser punishments before the final ban.

Personal filters are a good thing because it allows people to go beyond the rules and filter out things that bother them personally, and even to stop the bullying personally while the community works out that the bully will not stop. But it's the first step, not the last.
Hi, thanks!

Not sure what to think about your comment about too much SEO. We need to get customers, we need to pay the bills. We literally took the idea from Zapier and other websites (YC company, that's one of their hero story how they grew). If you google for I want to move from X to Y, well then you have a dedicated landing page. What's so wrong about it? Some people move from Yandex to Amazon, some other would prefer to have a page of how to move to Tidal.

Yes, it's automated because we are team of 3 developers for now and we are automating whatever we can.

I do not like this part of website too much, but I do not like dark SEO even more, so hiding this links for people and making it visible to Google is worse.

What would you prefer we do in this case to make it better?
This is a community primarily for founders though.

I'm not sure how to phrase it properly, but there is a strong selection for people with lax morals here for the simple reason that it's a competitive advantage. A founder with lax morals will generally outcompete someone with stronger morals, as such few people at the top of organizations of any size have strong morals
Makes you understand the strange verbiage politicians communicate with a little, doesn't it?
You're hitting the nail on the head. It's circular arguments all the way down.

How do we know how many criminals there are without making everyone a full-time suspect and surveil them 24/7?

in dubio pro reo is out of the window. Now we all have to prove that we're not part of <insert-criminal-activity>.
And yet despite all of those people, the quality is bad and seems to get worse. A startup seems to be outcompeting them.

Sometimes industries or teams have effectively negative value, or their preconceived notions about how something works based on teachings from their field is wrong. This is the case for chiropractors (the whole field is useless / a net negative), vs back doctors.

We see this happening today with Google moving away from traditional and high quality techniques like direct keyword ranking, bm25, and pagerank and move towards lower quality methods based on hype such as BERT/other "semantic search" based on LMs, query rewriting, and using these dense vectors directly in pagerank (and this degrading it).

The amazing power of language models in certain domains (text generation) has unfortunately caused a proliferation of them in a place where they are still pretty bad (information retrieval and search).

Google is full of search chiropractors when they need search back doctors.
I was just saying, how does it really help the Dutch airline to have all these slots in the Netherlands if they can't use them to fly to, say, hm, Canada?
How would you do graphics in Java in a truly portable way? There's Swing but it's terrible and isn't available in every JVM implementation (Android and J2ME don't have it). Then anything that uses hardware-accelerated rendering (OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal) would require native libraries thus nullifying any remaining portability.
Try "what countries are using ivermectin" in google.com and then try Yandex.com. For me, the third site on Google (the kitchen sisters) appears broken and the rest are all some variation of "why ivermectin is bad" articles. Yandex actually answers the question.
Hi, was interested to see this, but the video is just of you buying them? And the methodology link is to https://www.armbrustusa.com/pages/ which doesn't seem right, and 404s anyway.

From the comments here it seems others have got to the right content, so I'm not saying 'avoid this spam nothing here' or whatever, just not sure what's going on. Accessing from Europe (UK) if that's something to do with it.
The GDPR does not apply to law enforcement
This article seems to miss both the actual point Friedman made and what modern economists and central bankers actually believe.

Modern economists talking about "interest rates" are talking about the base interest rate which is the cost of bank borrowing which creates new money. Friedman was also interested in regulating the supply of new money but wanted to try to fix the quantity of a monetary aggregate, which could be achieved by.... tweaking base interest rates. The modern central banking approach is to fix the base interest rate (essentially the price of creating money) for a fixed period and be more cautious about adjusting it rather than try to directly fix the quantity of money. Central bankers tried Friedman's approach of fixing the quantity of [a particular aggregate of] money in the early 1980s, it was extremely unstable with wild interest rate lurches needed to fix the quantity of the monetary base (and the monetary aggregates the bank wasn't targeting still wildly fluctuated in volume) and even Friedman conceded that with hindsight he might have made different recommendations. So they switched to fixing the price of credit rather than the quantity instead

The modern policy is consistent with what both Friedman and central bankers wanted to achieve (a relatively low and predictable rate of inflation). They raise base rates because the economy is growing and the level of borrowing with it. But they're not interested in raising interest rates so rapidly that firms end up with the same low level of borrowing as before, merely in stopping credit expansions from growing too fast and creating price inflation (and conversely, making it cheaper and easier to borrow when lending drops) so the interest rate rises tend to track rather than halt the natural rise in lending.
Yep

Like articles with embedded twitter/reddit posts in them. Sure it gives a primary source for whatever topic/view you want to support - but aside from "one person might think this" is pretty irrelevant.
The article is accusing Asian Boss of something different - planting a YouTuber for the appearance of an impromptu interview about Taiwan.
Wasn't just a random million. Iraq lost 5% of its population to America's war of aggression.
Blocking users is useless, they will make new account.

Blocking words is useless, they will use fake words.

Block on hash is useless, they will distort the video to generate new hash.
Man gets genetically-modified pig heart in world-first transplant
Zoltan: A Minimalist Lua Binding
How do you think a life of a pig would end if it wasn't being slaughtered? Most likely it would be half-eaten alive by a predator and the rest left to rot or be taken by scavengers. The same thing will happen now (the expired pieces of meat will mostly become food for insect larvae) except it's a human doing the slaughtering and the animal is killed before being eaten.
> family members who lived in Britain for years back in the day. They all describe the treatment of children in ways what would horrify Norwegians

In which case, you *must* read Roald Dahl's autobiography 'Boy' (and the follow up, 'Going Solo'). He moved from Norway as a child into the English public school system, and a treatment that horrified his parents.

Incidentally, the biographies are aimed at children but very cleverly written to appeal to adults. For example, he describes a school teacher (in the 1920's) who would occasionally jump and twitch in class, making startled noises. The children found out he had something called "shell shock" and decided that this meant a shell must have exploded so close to him that he jumped so high he hadn't stopped jumping........ Interesting and funny to read as a child, but this works on another level when you read it as an adult.
It is a plain fact that they will have that ability.
I don't think you remember how the internet was 20 years ago very well to make a statement like that.
All of those things and more are described in ancient texts that we consider mythology. The only thing we can be sure of is that our stuff will leave little more than a trace given enough time. What silly stories they would make [say] after the next ice age?

If only we could see, just once more, those 5000 kg African elephants run though the desert pulling a multi ton brick (or the vimanas if that is what they used)... see, once more, how those ships are loaded and how they are build.

But just their spreadsheets isn't so bad. The logistics alone is enough to impress us.
It's easy to tell if it's a natural language question or keywordese. They can classify that.