skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I understand, the actual "punishment" is government agencies keep track of how badly particular contractors underbid and will simply add that amount to their bids when considering, so they're going for "lowest bid," but the bid they're considering isn't necessarily the bid the contractor puts forward. So theoretically, that provides an incentive to be more accurate, but it only works if there is sufficient competition in the first place and at least some of the competitors are even capable of being accurate.
Didn't the BLM rioters also come close to Trump? Why was that different?
For me it's the hostility towards developers and users. I can't even lower the dang contrast on my iOS or MacOS devices to make them a little less dopamine inducing. Sure you can switch to B&W but then I lose usability (Is that link clicked?). The massive cut they take from creators is another pain point. These are just off the top of my head, I'm sure others can chime in.
I like it so far, other than

4) You recognize that any request for support for the Program will be discarded with extreme prejudice.

I think that should be a "may" rather than a "will." If I find out someone is using my obscure academic code, and they ask for help, I'd be pretty pumped to help them (on easy requests at least).
Hobby: Rhobby
as of Jan 12th, official deaths from COVID in the below 64 range: 213337

Same date, deaths in above 64 and older range: 621617

(EDIT: numbers are for the USA, but the general proportions seem to apply worldwide)

So

> it's necessary so they don't kill anyone with Covid, and grows up into a disturbed adult, or that an elderly person with several chronic health issues dies a year or so earlier than "expected"?

is pushing the bounds of reality a little when 1/3 of the deaths are in a demographic that is hardly described by what you've written above.

Consequently, I think a closer summary of your position would be that the psychic/emotional harm to people caused by our attempts to stop COVID from overwhelming the health care system outweighs the deaths of at least 200k people who were far from the end of life.

I don't consider that an indefensible position, but it needs to be stated clearly, with numbers so that people can see the numerical weight behind your moral take on this.
> I should have the right to free speech

That's a legitimate opinion.

I am of the view that rights are things that are granted by some authority, not something you acquire by simply existing. I envy the USA their constitutional protections on speech. But unless Google has made a grant of free speech rights on their platform, no such rights exist.
> this is like some random bully stopping cars on the highway and issuing speeding tickets

LOL, I've paid that exact "fine", the "bullies" were official, uniformed Mexican police. They were literally just flagging everyone on vacation at a specific resort, along the only road from that resort into town (with a big chain across the road to collect everyone) and taking $200 to be allowed to continue on. Nice work if you can get it I guess.

I've also paid bribes to bullies in Yugoslavia ("people with machine guns standing in the road") in order to pass by. I don't think they were official though.
>I think it is probable she would have been killed.

What leads you to call that probable?

I don't think it's impossible, after all it's only been a few years since that Bernie supporter shot at all those Republican congressmen, and Scalise almost did die. But that guy was actually armed and went with that purpose, these goofs appear to have been unarmed protesters who turned into a mob.

I know you don't need a gun to kill someone, I just find your assessment that it was probable she would be killed a stretch.
Unless Google deletes the articles about the incident from its index (and hey, it's possible), then the internet doesn't forget. Instead it just slowly builds personal and political opposition against them.

Or are you saying we just should be quite and let them do what they want?
In my experience, the published paper is super vague on the approach, and implementing it without further references is really hard. I'm not necessarily arguing that papers should get longer and more detailed to counter this; expressing the details that matter in code seems like a more natural way to communicate anyway.

Why trust results if you can't see the methodology in detail and apply the approach to your own data? I once knew somebody who built a fuzz tester for a compilers project, got ahold of a previous project's compiler code that won best paper awards, and discovered a bunch of implementation bugs that completely invalidated the results.

Why is the peer review process limited to a handful of people who probably don't have access to the code and data? If your work is on Github, anybody can come along and peer review it, probably in much more detail. And as a researcher, you don't get just one chance to respond to their feedback -- you can actually start a dialogue, which other people are free to join in.

As long as a project's README makes any sort of quality / maintenance expectations clear upfront, why not publish your code?
Synenergy is there. If you could push referrals from your media to your own store. As a whole it makes lot of sense. Not that I think it got implemented.
I find this prospect terrifying.
People want to run x86 code.
I didn't say that at all. However, taking control of the government is exactly how coups are executed, please look into it if you haven't.
What do you think would have happened if things went a little differently and the mob got to Nancy Pelosi? They were very close to doing so.
The wonders of Capitalism.
As far as I am aware there is no signed international agreement that NATO would not extend into Eastern European countries like Ukraine. This is wishful thinking on behalf of Putin and an attempt to put themselves into a victim role.

If Russia wants less NATO troops close to their borders then they should consider not invading their neighbours.
True, if I have to pay in a foreign currency I let Paypal charge my cc in that currency, so that the cc company converts my currency instead of Paypal.

I don't recall the difference, but I believe the cc company gave me more than an order of magninude tighter spread on the conversion, perhaps even two.
Publishing the code is great, as some of the questions a reader of your paper may have can only answered by looking into the source code, as no paper has enough space to talk about all implementation details in a real-life complex system.

There is value in scrutinizing the code - not w.r.t. coding styles or standards but to discover bugs in the implementation, which are very common. Scientists are only human, and scientific software is less often checked by a second pair of eyes. There is also value in trying to replicate a study from scratch with a fresh implementation only from the details in the paper. Many conferences, for instance the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Europe's largest scientific search technology conference, has a replication track only for replication papers, and these are often the most interesting/insightful papers. It occasionally happens that a result is not caused by what the authors think, but is merely an artifact of the implementation code. A very famous MIT researcher (not naming him or her here on purpose) fell into this trap in their Ph.D. thesis, but it can happen to anyone, really. Scientific results become objective knowledge as others solidify the body of knowledge by carrying out replications and arriving at the same results.

Whatever your decision about past code, going forward, if you plan to release all future research code, you will likely write better code in the first place, as you will constantly be aware that people will be looking at it, and that can only be a good thing.
> This kind of pressure on companies to censor seems like an end around on the first amendment. It technically is not the government censoring or mandating censorship, but it uses the threat of government power and the power to irritate and harass for companies that don't toe the line.

Absolutely. These tech companies know they face the threat of regulation, whether on anti trust grounds or labor issues or whatever. When Twitter banned Trump, they wrote a blog post (https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...) that offered no good reason and pointed at things like his refusal to attend Biden’s inauguration. AOC also demanded that tech companies censor Parler (https://imgur.com/jJo0lEx), and Apple/Google/Amazon all complied. The timing of this sudden and willing compliance from all these companies who historically would resist, was not coincidental. It happened because there was a coming change of administrations, and this compliance bought them favor.

Glenn Greenwald has written many great articles on this topic, but here’s a particularly relevant one:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-sho...
The syllable-eating, "Slavic-ish" sound of PT-PT is why I chose to learn it over Brazilian. I love it.

I have trouble with Brazilian accents, on the other hand, because I mainly listen to PT-PT.
For point 2, you're right. I missed the intro since the linked video started 15 seconds in.

Also, with the appearance of the colored and numbered tiles, I realized that this reminds me of the Dirty Dancing video game, though your game is much more advanced (excuse the angry reviewer):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92BXrRaPSWU&t=533s
> Why would I want to try to articulate something that could be found in a simple tree? Just give me direct access.

Sometimes I feel that way about databases and dynamic websites. I suspect the reasons behind those may be similar: web UIs add branding, maybe make usage a bit more convenient to an average user, and so on. Animations are popular too, probably they are supposed to make the websites to look more fun and modern. I guess that people planning chat bots similarly view them as looking more futuristic and convenient, more advanced than boring old documentation.
I think that this study is really important to public health throughout the world. I hope that other scientists will do studies seeking to confirm or not confirm these findings.
Face masks make people look more attractive
The very language states they are looking for non-public moderation policies, so by very definition, your stated vocality does not apply.

There is no way the full scope, procedures, code, algos, and more are public for all moderation methods and channels.

I suspect people are hoping trade secret law will protect, but I think the House wants to see regardless!

To be frank, no matter what side of the political spectrum, we're in very, very deep trouble here.

Our very democracies are at risk, and the manipulation by media, and enemies of our democracies will only get worse and worse.

Hell, even manipulation by members of our democracies, from special interest groups, political parties, to even just nutbars, what we've seen so far, has shown us that people will buy into anything, if it's all they hear.

Our civilization, our world, will live or die by how we all get a handle on misinformation.

And while I embrace democracy, and capitalism, I couldn't care one bit of the required fix tanks Google, Facebook, Twitter and more.

Quite literally, everything is at stake here.
A rundown of what it's like from the inside in Big Tech
I built out my first ISP in 2001, worked in FAANG by 2006, haven't the slightest comprehension of what this is for. Is it some kind of certified partner directory?
It sounds like a genius solution to shut up people who loudly refuse to use “they” for “oh, purely grammatical reasons, of course”
"If the other party wins, it's not democracy."
In that case, I am still not convinced, because how many people have ever heard of the Oath Keepers?

To me, from what I can tell, this means that there was a bunch of people protesting there, as was their legal right. A very small group had plans to break in, and unexpectedly succeeded in doing so. Everyone else then followed even though this hadn't been pre-planned.

So, from Facebook's perspective, you would have to censor at the level of squashing ants to have prevented this. Again, this is just from what I can see though and could be proven wrong.
Source Code or it Didn't Happen.

Science that is not reproducible is not science.

If you can, publish something high-level. Matlab or Python or Julia is fine. C or Java, not so much, because the build environment will not be available any longer after a few years. Actually, if you can, publish several translations.

And don't forget to publish your data sets as well. And your data augmentation or whatever. Everything you need to reproduce your results.

And for the love of Knuth, DO NOT OPTIMIZE YOUR CODE. Dumb code is good code in science. You would not believe what kinds of havoc some algorithms wreaked on my systems in the name of optimization. Optimizations that made a ten-year-old algorithm run in two nanoseconds instead of four (vastly exaggerated). Optimizations that obfuscated otherwise perfectly reasonable algorithms.

The goal is reproducibility.
The collapse of the USSR in 1991 came as quite the shock to everyone, including both the Soviets themselves, nevermind the Americans. Yes, the West have been spelling "doom and gloom" for the USSR since November of 1917 and yet it never came to pass... until one day, it suddenly did. And BTW, spelling the imminent doom of the Russian Empire too has been quite in vogue in Europe during the XIX century, and still it came in as quite a surprise to everyone in 1917.
I sense there are two processes at work here. One is simply an algorithm that recommends more of the same. If I watch a Jordan Peterson video, I start seeing recommendations for his other lectures and podcasts. I doubt YouTube's algorithm is specifically trying to change my views politically. Likewise, if I end up seeing a lefty BreadTuber's video, I start to see more socialist videos.

The other thing is that we really don't have shared definition or word-feel for "extremism". The people who are the most vocal about curbing extremist content also happen to be wildly partisan. I don't think that is a coincidence. I sense the false-positive rate is extremely high in this regard.
The book "Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail" by Ray Dalio compares the rise (and decline) of the American "world empire" to prior world empires. The two most recent are the U.K. and the Netherlands.

The same things that are happening now have happened before -- just not in our lifetimes. The history and his analysis is quite instructive.

The book was refreshing in its objectivity, lack of political bias, and clarity of writing. I've given copies to several friends.

It's pretty clear from his analysis and the data that the U.S. is in a decline of global influence.

https://www.amazon.com/Changing-World-Order-Nations-Succeed/...
there's an important element of this that rarely gets mentioned - demand growth in India. At the moment, the per capita electrical energy consumption of India is between 20% - 25% that of China. What this means is that if India is to continue to grow, this energy must come from somewhere. Bear in mind, this is 4x - 5x as much energy as is delivered today to get to where China is today. While more renewable energy is a good thing, the fact is that no gigawatt scale power grid anywhere has managed to do this i.e. meet demand growth solely through renewable energy.

You mention strengthening the power grid - this is one of India's biggest choke points to domestic energy generation. their transmission grid is truly world-class but their distribution grid is regularly on the verge of collapse and power cuts are frequent. Before someone chimes in with "batteries" those are expensive and the Indian government already subsidises fuel - something that already works well. Batteries are not a solution to rickety distribution infrastructure in the developing world.
Is UN supposed to enforce treaties? I suppose treaties aren't really legal contracts but some type of metal legal contract where nations themselves are legal persons? Is there a list of treaty breach being enforced in some way? I suppose sanctions are how they generally do it, right?
"Previously having covid" (which happens more than you'd think, and will undoubtedly continue to happen as time passes) counts as a comorbidity.
The process appears to more like a hazing ritual. A form of tribalism.
They’re trying to find out if Facebook intentionally bypassed their own policies and allowed election propaganda to run wild because it was to their benefit. (E.g., a trump coup would have been good for Facebook.) Basically are they stupid or evil. And if they’re evil, is there a larger conspiracy involving other people of interest?
Bewildering Stories
I still have my Samsung NC10, had it running an IRC bot until recently in power save mode with no fans. Opening a modern version of a browser is pretty revealing about how heavier the web has become though.
I remember discovering Kei cars in Gran Turismo, and then really wishing I could get a Suzuki Cappuccino [0] in the USA. It wasn't a very fast car by any means, but it was incredibly light weight and nimble, being smaller than even a Mazda Miata.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_Cappuccino
> If you want to (physically) own a movie or TV show

I find this phrasing quite fascinating. What does it even mean to "own" a movie? If you torrent or rip it, you now simply possess a copy and with the ability to watch it without any artificial restrictions, but I'd hardly say that you "own" it at that point.

I find it so depressing that our legal system does not even have the concept of an individual having access to a movie such that they can play it for themselves conveniently without restrictions. Even when you physically own a DVD there is no "sanctioned" way to watch it without being forced to watch the commercials and legal disclaimers at the beginning.

Which reminds me of the irony always repeated in these threads, that the folks who rip or torrent the film never see these legal disclaimers and only the folks who obey all the "rules" and don't need to see the disclaimer are constantly exposed to it.

Why can't we have nice things? This world is so distopian.
Disable the SocksPort, then set two options to really convince tor that you know what you're doing, then configure your onion service as usual.

SocksPort 0
HiddenServiceSingleHopMode 1
HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode 1
HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/ssh_service
HiddenServicePort 22
HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/http_service
HiddenServicePort 80
There’s actually video of capitol police waving them in.
Sorry, I should have checked (I'm the submitter), but I thought the article is so fresh there is no chance someone already submitted it.
Like another comment I can think of examples without a liquid following. "Latin" is one. (I have a distant memory of being called strange for saying that as [t])

I think I sometimes only do it if I'm talking fast. Pronouncing it as [t] isn't often outside the acceptable range, or something that makes you sound too foreign.
Is there no other source for information on her financial activities?
Ian Petrow defines the Subconvexity Problem as "Prove non-trivial upper bounds for L-functions on the critical line" [1]

Given that, it seems fair-ish to say that Nelson solved the Subconvexity Problem. You just have to understand that the problem is really a family of problems of increasing hardness (e.g. prove tighter and tighter bounds), and solutions more powerful than Nelson's may come later.

[1] https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucahpet/SubconvexityIntro.pdf
> Wind produces noise

Wind will always produce noise. The rustling of trees, the whispering of grass, or he howling though narrow streets. Might as well capture the energy from the wind.

If the wind "turbine" produces noise, this should be solveable by noise insulation. (which likely isn't done because it's not a large enough issue.)
I'm still a little bit confident in the system, though.

Because in 2026, Dem will win back both congress and senate, it's just a normal pattern. Voters never liked any party owns it all.

Two parties keep playing this along the way, except each game are so close these days, it's tiring and boring and hard to advance any agenda when either one is in control.

The system is getting close to deadlock when both sides no longer honor the game rule: "debate before the election, work together after it and just wait for your next turn". Instead it's now about fighting every day, it does not matter who won the election anymore. The end result?

"Nothing Got Done(tm)"

In that sense, it's not because China is doing better, it's because US's internal problem stops itself, and may bring it down.
Of the let's be generous and say 2% of userbase uses Linux. How many of the users don't dual-boot or run Wine/Proton? And what is the realistic workload to keep releasing versions on different platforms? And fixing issues specific to those.

Some devs have even said that it's not worth it to release game on EGS and GOG due to overhead for keeping it up to date there...
Why modern cars feel so lifeless to drive
Sorry-not-sorry: the science behind a non-apology
According to https://web.archive.org/web/changes/https://news.ycombinator... the last change was on the 5th of January, but since they are doing maintenance on the archive I can't see the changes at the moment.
Microsoft Forces Files-on-Demand for macOS OneDrive
You didn't mention it specifically, but I LOVE developing with Phoenix LiveView. I find that I'm as productive as rails (with rails views), but can get frontend interactivity, easy web socket and Pub Sub setup, and its all built on a much more performant language/framework.
> Remind me what the Secret Service exists for again,

Protecting the president. The secret service does not protect senators

> and who got the lawmakers out of there before the rioters came.

Capitol Hill police I believe.

> Maybe Democracy would have been closer to dying

I’m pretty sure I explicitly said that wasn’t on the table.

My point was that the rioters got very close. That is, one door away, then lured to other areas by a clever guard. I think it is fully plausible that they would have assassinated democratic political leaders if given the chance. Not ALL of the rioters, but certainly some.
"...a country that is too picky has no chance to stay relevant, especially if that means that it filters out some of the best athletes."

No Australia didn't filter Djokovic out, he filtered himself out because of his actions (see my earlier post listing seven points). Had he been a little more prudent and less cocky, then there would have been no drama whatsoever.
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