skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anti-wokeness is very popular. Not trusting the presidential elections is very popular. Not trusting big pharma is very popular.

All of these are algorithmically suppressed.

If the definition of popular is what you see on twitter, etc, then nothing popular is being censored by definition.
One thing about the original c&c. Even the installer was interesting. Pity they stripped that out when they ported it to windows and used installshield later. You were having fun the second you started that game.
I thought it could be interpreted that way but I wanted to point out that I didn't expect a CS:S server to be a safe place (I wasn't really sure if my experience fitted the safe place definition.). Chalk it up the barrier language ^^.
Yes, this one. It explains perfectly why feel-good reforms aren't necessarily all good, and why even countries with strong social/workers protection like France have literally no working regulation in prisons. Around here you're "happy" if you can make 1€/h in prison (where everything is more expensive than one the outside), and any work-related accident will not be covered as "accident du travail" because human rights don't apply in prisons.
In my experience northern California is fruitier. Paso is jammier, though I've not had that many. Santa Barbara area is starting to do some cabs just to north (Happy Canyon) in the hot area. They have less fruity wine the colder you get to the west.
LEEP (https://leadelimination.org) is a very promising early stage non-profit working on this problem.

They’re currently working in Malawi, Pakistan, Liberia + I think a couple of other countries, and expanding this year.

If they're successful then their work will be more impactful (per dollar spent) than even the top GiveWell recommended charities.
Hey, I know this writer! Her blog is awesome and she's super friendly and gives great advice on Obsidian and on productivity/PKM in general. This was a nice surprise!
I'm too dumb to understand that. For people like me, after some Googling, I got:

hepatocellular carcinoma is a rare form of liver cancer (affecting less than 200k people in the US per year).

CDK20 is strongly associated with that cancer / disease.

This molecule inhibits CDK20 - so it might help people with hepatocellular carcinoma.

But I'm dumb and know nothing, so that someone correct me if I'm completely wrong.

I tried my best ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
why should i, as a user be okay with tech like this?

"For sites that it hasn’t categorized before, a lightweight machine learning algorithm in the browser will take over and provide an estimated topic based on the name of the domain."

yeah right
>I truly wish this was just built into bundler.

Interesting. Has anyone ever purposed this?
"doubled" the lower bound on what was surely an extremely conservative estimate meant to avoid a perception of failure if things didn't go perfectly. The Opportunity rover had a "90-day" expected lifetime and lived until 15 years old. It's great that Ariane performed superbly but this "doubling" calculation is pretty silly.
Small correction: adrafinil is a prodrug to modafinil and is less potent, it turns into modafinil after liver action. It also makes your pee smell more, if anything.

I expect you're thinking of armodafinil, the isolated r-isomer. I've taken it a few times, it's more potent by weight than modafinil but I'm unconvinced the chiral group is anywhere near so decisive as it is with amphetamine, where the laevo-rotary molecule is useless unless you have a head cold.
Asking as a layman: What's the current understanding as to why modafinil and stimulants affect different people so differently?
So much brain power only to be used to de-blur japanese p0rn
Do you perhaps have a link about the story of amazon removing the 1984 book on all kindles? It sounds very interesting, partly because it seems so absurd.
I’ve tripped over the exact scenario you mention in that post more than once. Usually, it’s not that I end up including an entire function that shouldn’t be there, though. I find it tends to be more like “Oh, here’s an extraneous bit of code that just showed up in the middle of this method. Hmmm....” Or, alternatively, I end up removing too much code, rather than too little.
They also stopped using global foundries and now use TSMC. Global foundries, like pretty much everyone other than TSMC, fell behind in process shrinks. Their primary business is fabricating secondary chips.
Ask HN: What US-hosted, non-Google email service do you use?
I'd like to de-Google but do want the data hosted in the US, so no Protonmail or Fastmail. Also not interested in rolling my own mail server.
The actual goal is ‘save money on hiring human moderators, while still maintaining the pretence of caring’.
It constitutes as devs not interested in crypto for game development. Personal interest for gambling was not gauged. Crypto is trying to find a reason to exist. NFT was supposed to be that, but it fizzled out. The metaverse could be it, but it will probably fizzle out.

Ultimately at the end something actually tangable must be put on the table. Hype can't last forever, even if the potential bagholders depend on it or else nobody will pay good old USD for their tulips.
This is well known but does not show manually modified preferences rather ANY modified preferences as the name implies. Even out of the box on a fresh install this results in pages of "modified preferences" that didn't even have a user initiated trigger.
Flexibility usually has a cost. It's not better or worse.
The Webb telescope didn't go several times over budget from growing several times heavier. Novel telescope are expensive because they must address unique engineering challenges with unforeseen costs. You can't just grab a sunshade off the shelf – everything's built bespoke.

Of course, the flip side here is that it would be cheaper to build a second Webb telescope. Maybe we could mass produce a hundred more for a tenth the cost, but it's not clear that would be a hundred times better for astronomy.
The regulators should never approve such a takeover or should state that this takeover will inevitably result in a forcaful split of NVIDIA. There will be a conflicf of interest between Nvidia a consumer of ARM and Nvidia provider of IP to competitors (Samsung, Qualcom, Apple, AMD).

Nvidia should play ball (or somehow the regulators should nudge them to play ball ) and invite all big ARM customers to form a co-op.
Think about what "good-faith effort" means.

This is another thing the Fence metaphor helps us understand when we think about it a little bit more.
In 2001 I flew across the world to see this painting. Got lost in the museum trying to find it and came in through a side door. Upon seeing it, I needed a seat, there conveniently was one.

The in person experience was so different than seeing this online because of the scale and detail.
Nvidia would be amongst the worst possible custodians of ARM. Their business models are quite strongly opposing:

ARM's is to create a fair, competitive playing field between CPU producing companies and reap licensing fees for the pleasure, Nvidia's is to nakedly leverage all of its technologies for Nvidia's products' benefit and Nvidia's products' benefit only.
There can also be overlapping causes.

Sold winter Jackes correlates with sold winter hats. The cause could be that it is cold outside, but some might like to add some accessories to their new jackets.

Or the cause can be self-reinforcing like runaway climate change that accelerates itself because it frees additional greenhouse gases.
This is one, among others, right after it was announced. Maybe you don’t follow space news as closely as you think you do?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/all-hail-the-ariane-...
> I'm guaranteed to not be flooded with ads

That seems more like an artifact of it not being popular than a feature of the protocol. If companies wanted to, they could just run native advertisement on Gemini just like they do elsewhere, just disguise the ad as regular news article and call it a day. Nothing stops them from putting banners on top of every page either or how about showing you an ad text before you are allowed to visit the actual content? You could even have a server-side wait time before you are allowed to move on from the ad.

Gemini just feels like rolling back the Web to an earlier stage without actually adding anything meaningful. If it ever got popular, it would devolve just the same as the Web already did, as it's nothing more than the same thing with a different paint job.

My personal take on this is that the core of everything wrong with the Web is the request–response nature of the protocol, as that allows to do a lot of crooked stuff on the server side, either intentionally (e.g. monitoring user activity, showing different content to different people) or unintentionally (e.g. causing broken links by servers going down). If the client gets plain-text or HTML really doesn't make a difference.

Another big issue is that publishing on the Web is far too complicated and expensive, which is why nobody is doing it anymore and instead relies on Facebook, Youtube and Co.

Something like IPFS feels like a much more valuable attempt as fixing the Web, as IPFS gets away from the request-response and turns the Web into a persistent data structure, that can't just be meddled with at the server side. It also makes publish substantially easier, as hosting is no longer tied to any single company, multiple people can host the same content and you don't have to pay and maintain a DNS record.

The part that is still missing with IPFS is a better replacement HTML. Stuff like pagination, image galleries, shopping carts, comments, etc. really need to become part of HTML, instead of stuff people hack together with Javascript or server side scripts. And how come we don't have an <advertising> tag yet?

Efforts in simplification should really happen on the users side, not in the protocol.
Somewhat.

The TRO filed by ThedaCare also included a clause that required Ascension to "make available" two of the seven at any time to ThedaCare, to continue providing care at ThedaCare, "until ThedaCare had replaced them", which I feel is going to be a long, slow process, given how thoroughly and comprehensively ThedaCare has trashed its already poor reputation in the nursing community.

That's literally indentured servitude. Those employees were being told not only that they couldn't work at an employer of their choosing, but that their resignation was moot - that a lawsuit, that to be clear, named them in no way, shape or form, was able to have as an outcome, be it a TRO, or final order, determining what employer they would work for.
Chinese price dumping from state-sponsored companies also largely wiped out the German solar PV industry[1,2]. Germany was an early innovator in solar, especially in regards to inventing the concept of a feed in tariff when solar PV was still hideously expensive, thereby driving wider adoption. Planet Money did a nice podcast on the history of it [3].

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/chinese-exports-crushing-german-solar-...

[2] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/last-major-german-solar...

[3] https://www.npr.org/2020/01/17/797322305/episode-965-das-gre...
This shows also shows preferences modified in indirect ways such as about:preferences, devtools, etc. Helpful to filter a list of potentially manually toggled prefs, but not a 1:1 filter.
> Do the moderators engage when someone says "Dude, that was fucking sick!"?

Hard to tell because of the different language. They wouldn't engage someone saying something close to that but people wouldn't express their admiration or congratulations with swear words anyway (because it's not the style of the house ?). Of course they'd be using the community's lingo though to express sick moves but these aren't insulting/taunting/agressive to begin with.

> I'm not sure the individual word choices are the determining factor compared to having someone paying attention and removing people with undesired behavior.

I think too. For the comparison I should try a CS:GO or valorant or pubg or fortnite next week-end to see the difference.
The article references the famous face-depixellating PULSE GAN.

Let's remember that PULSE also gave us Barry O'Bama.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...
We need a "De-Googling Guide" here on HN... just like the thread of a "De-Microsoftian Windows install" which I am about to endevour on.

A Privacy online guide curated by tech-savvy HNers would be a welcome birth to the world.

We NEED digital privacy. Full Stop.
> Let's imagine a scenario: as in the example above, an English person says "can I burn a fag" and an American person believes they are casually thinking about hurting a gay man. The English person meant no harm; but, the American person is not at fault for not understanding this.

If you call someone out for "offensive speech" and your offense rests on your own misunderstanding, it is absolutely your fault.
Very cool, and an idea for someday:

1. Keep improving this!

2. Add a more general alert, for paid subscribers. I'd easily pay $5 or $10/month for something to just tell me what I need that day (and maybe when generally I'll need it)

All the weather apps (that I know of, I haven't researched this) show me the weather and then want ME to figure it out. I don't want to figure it out. If I can trust you, I'd rather lean on you.
There are quite a few miles too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile_(disambiguation)
It's definitely going to vary according to your familiarity with other languages in the family.

I came into a C# shop late last year from never touching C# before and was writing more or less idiomatic C# very quickly, but I've worked with lots of semi-colon languages so this is mostly familiar territory.

On the other hand if you've never seen a Lisp before, ten years of C++ and VisualBasic won't prepare you to get anything much done in Scheme. Your reflexes are all wrong, and that's going to take some unwinding before you're productive.

Also, people will hate it if you oblige them to use language A they don't know and which is poorly suited to the problem when they know language B that's well suited. Even if you've got a sane business rationale (e.g. bus factor, they're the only person who knows B in your organisation) they're going to spend a lot of time moaning about how terrible it is at this job they could do better.

I do not like C++ but I'm immediately dubious about whether I'd rather try to control a robot arm from Javascript. Is there an option where I just have my foot surgically removed by people who know what they're doing? I guess maybe if the robot manages most of this itself and I'm really only overseeing it the Javascript is less awful, but if there's an actual real time control loop I feel like I'm very much between a rock and a hard place.
But it's pretty hard to know what devices even contain that IP... Does that Amazon Basics optical gaming mouse contain an ARM CPU? It would probably take weeks of decapping the chip and reverse engineering the CPU to be sure, and even then, figuring out if that CPU is licensed or not is non-trivial. Is customs really going to do that for every item that comes through the border?
You say "practical values of n", but the answer to n = 27 is already known and I would be very surprised if the final result had any practical application. The point of these problems is rarely the numerical answer, but the development of new techniques: The problem of determining the asymptotic growth of this number is studied because it is a good playground for sharpening mathematical tools and methods.
In this sense, the asymptotic problem is an interesting one, and it was solved. Now that the main term is characterized, people can investigate sharper estimates.

The problem of determining an efficient algorithm for every n, on the other hand, is just hopeless, which means that it is not interesting for the purpose I described above. Studying "small" n (up to 40, say) is not useless, though, if it leads to algorithmic breakthroughs (in SAT solving, for example). It is, however, an "orthogonal" problem, in the sense that it requires a completely different set of techniques.

To illustrate my point: If the answer for n = 50 appeared out of nowhere, would people care about the number itself? I bet people would be much more interested in how it was done.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/519855/amazon_kindle_1984_la...

That story is about a lawsuit from one of the people they took it from.

Amazon sold 1984 on the Kindle store without permission, and when they realized their error they deleted it from everyone's kindle and refunded their money.
> it would still amount to an interesting case study in how the law intersects with technology

Yes, it would. Because "is code law" has applications way beyond "smart contracts" (which are neither smart nor contracts).

However, LexDAO is definitely ain't it. Because you either have an interesting discussion, or you cater to crypto chads. You can't have it both ways.

The article you linked does give a high level overview of some interesting points, though, so there's that :)
Plantuner: Planner Hints for PostgreSQL
I find it gives me more hardship than worth it. Notably, GitLab fails to load the login page with it on.
Not necessarily. Larger payloads (and maybe some trajectories) forego the reusability of the rocket (even Falcon Heavy)
Flameshot v11.0.0
ThedaCare's TRO stated that "Ascension make 2 of the employees available to ThedaCare, until their replacements had been found". In other words, they wanted a court order that said that these people be required to work for an employer from whom they had resigned their employment.
(2) is untrue. Most players use ARM core designs, not just the instruction set.

Qualcomm used to make their own (back in 2014 or so) but hasn't since. Samsung tried after and quit in 2019. The cloud cores are all standard ARM designs (neoverse).
As pointed out by sibling-comments, this seems to be in the context of making sandbox escapes harder.
I wonder if Doctorow is aware that Medium hides this post behind the paywall for registered users?
> This isn't a stretch, because this is literally the philosophical point of the argument.

This is reductio ad absurdium. There is a whole lot of contexts and dimensions where the concept of Chesterton's Fence can be applied before trying to dismiss it.

If you want a better example, you could ask "why so many religions teach to not eat pork?"[0]. Then we could look at historical contexts (i.e, understanding why it was put up in the first place), realize that most of those don't really apply to the modern world and "tear it down" if you want to enjoy delicious pulled pork sandwich.

> What if sailing across the uncharted sea makes God angry?

That is not a satisfactory answer to "why can't we explore the seas?", and any rational person would/should continue to investigate.

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[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sew4rctKghY
I have seen enough stories of supply-line sabotage to think that if you are going to build your infrastructure with Chinese hardware, air-gapping it is a necessity.

Probably a good idea to air-gap your pick and place machine even if it is not Chinese.
Those size comparisons are super misleading. I've seen the shuttle and it's not that big. A 737 is pretty small. The shuttle can ride piggy-back on a 747--in fact it was designed to:

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-01...

Also, the comparison with the Statue of Liberty is also misleading. The Statue of Liberty is on a huge pedestal that makes it stand much, much higher; the orbiter and boosters wouldn't reach the top of the SoL.
This kinda reminds me of Steve Yegge's writings about different kinds of programmers.

His main taxonomy is that there are programmers who prefer mistakes are caught as soon as possible, vs programmers who don't mind fixing things as mistakes are found.

Similarly, he says one extreme style is "I have full understanding of the domain and my code, I want as much code on the screen at once" ("expert") as opposite to "I want as much context/documentation, to make the code on screen as understandable as possible" ("newbie").

There's an ambiguity in the standard of "how rapidly can the code be understood?". By who? With what familiarity with the codebase, and with the domain?
Check out my game Eternal Starlight - https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/1918967004876383/ (also on Steam) It's not Star Control 2, but SC2 was one of my favorite games as a kid and it definitely inspired it.
I think the point of the fence is to move the impulse from yourself (If I can't see the reason there must not be one) to the greater context (Someone had a reason for this at some point, let me see if I can try to understand).

Related to Chesterton's fence is Levi's Onion:

https://www.joeydevilla.com/2001/12/03/4419/

Which is sort of a Chesterton's fence situation where someone took those required steps.
Exactly. Decentralised trustless systems requiring 'trust' means it's Decentralised somehow. The greatest example? The failure of 'The DAO'.

More decentra-lies and Ethereum pumping each other's, VCs and investors bags.
I wonder if (small?) Discords were/are an answer to this scale/anonymity.
> Keyword arguments - where there is no way around, you have to change them, upgrade gems...

How does the keyword arguments change break old gems? I understood the new syntax to be optional in the case of not needing to repeat keys and values.
Dolphins can and do ram sharks to death. "Bump into" might be a euphemism here.
The T4 isn't the same- you'd never do training on it. It's a cute little inference chip.
I would take issue with the zig vs go: go tries to make everything simple. Zig tries to make the simple things simple, but very much exposes the systems complexity.

I would say zig is uncomplicated, but can embrace complexity.
Removing can't always be done later, because that requires rewriting the repository's history.

Logical commits serve a real purpose: they make change review easier and can help bisect bugs later.

That's orders of magnitude more useful than someone else's development thought process, which may or may not even make sense to anybody else.

If thought process is important, it should be captured in a structured way like a thoughtful commit message or README addition. Not some cobbled together mess of whatever commits someone made haphazardly.
Wow very cool! What is the current state of it?
Do you still have contacts at Wired to get umbrellatoday.app published there?
There is no built in tracking of manual modifications and non-default values is a very different filter in this case.

The notes idea would be interesting though ideally the names of the key and values would be descriptive enough the reasoning for the change is obvious in 95%+ of cases (the other 5% being noting a bug workaround). As is the key names are usually pretty good but some of the opaque enum values could definitely use a note (or text based values instead) e.g. things like TRR mode being set to 2 vs 3 is always a google search.
Here's a writeup [1]. A third party started selling kindle editions of 1984 and Animal Farm through Amazon despite not having any rights to do so. When they found out (presumably the rights holders complained), Amazon deleted the unauthorized editions.

[1] https://gizmodo.com/amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from-the-ki...