skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen it (and, ahem, have written it...), but it's a rare sort of antipattern that I think mostly happens with inexperienced developers. I haven't had to do such a thing in several years except when there was some weird framework/library limitation where I was semi-forced to write a little test-specific code. Test-specific production code usually is a crutch to work within weird situations ultimately caused by dogmatic adherence to object oriented principles where there's the potential for inaccessible state all over the place; if something is getting in the way of tests that you only have coarse-grain control over then having `if (env == "test")` acting as a glorified `jmp` instruction might result in either making something testable or at least faster to test. Experienced developers that are at least halfway decent, rather than use such a crutch, instinctively consider whether the situation they are in is caused by stupid design and correct for the issue at a higher level; if they've always managed to think this way (i.e. like an engineer) then it may never occur to them why anyone would write test-specific code other than perhaps feature flags.
If I were to run a bridge is there absolutely no way I’d get into trouble if someone using Tor was looking at child porn or hacking someone?
This doesn't work as a reasonable objective measure of population mental health disorders for several reasons.

1) The oversampling of the training set makes it uncalibrated when applied to the general population (to recalibrate you need an estimate of the prevalence to begin with, which sort of defeats the purpose).

2) Online posts are not a random sample of the population. (Perhaps this is solveable with some poststratification of the estimates, although requires demographic data on the poster.) If you take self reports that the researchers used to define disorders at face value, those would make more sense than using this model.

These text based models are so superficial, when applied to mass datasets with low prevalence of the underlying condition, they will ultimately result in very low positive predictive values (e.g. flag 100 people, if the model is good will only get 5/100 as actual mental health problems).

As version_five asks, it is hard to imagine any reasonable use of the model given such low positive predictive values (which imply incredibly high false positive rates).
On top of that, the study is ~8y old and tells us nothing of the state of things today.

Dr Owen's presentation of the study: http://piped2bbch4xslbl2ckr6k62q56kon56ffowxaqzy42ai22a4sash...

Dingledine's follow-up: http://pzhdfe7jraknpj2qgu5cz2u3i4deuyfwmonvzu5i3nyw4t4bmg7o5...
I can confirm it does happen, usually older folks and housewives, but still it is real.
I think there is much more the U.S. people can do but most are just taking a one sided approach. But the people in the U.S. are not in charge anymore, democracy is dead and people are tired.

Peace takes time and understanding and doing whatever it takes, even submission, to end hostilities. I can understand why Putin invaded Ukraine, just like I understand why the U.S. is invading Yemen. It doe snot mean either are right, but by being honest about it we can change our behavior and stop voting for and supporting all these war mongers that are more interested in Oil and selling weapons than they are about the common human.
Was this GPT-2 trying to write a HN comment?
I think companies will certainly find a use for it to monitor internal chats on teams or wherever, code review comments, web searches, and any other text input they can see.

Hopefully you won't pop up on an AI definition of a mental disorder.
Whatever Trump was doing to handle Putin certainly seemed to prevent Putin from doing any Ukrainian invading. I think Zelensky and the entire world would prefer more Trump phone calls and less Putin aggression right about now.
It’s pretty audacious to post an article as a source that actually debunks your misinformation at the bottom:

> Missing context. The 6% figure used by users online to calculate COVID-19-only deaths originates from a 2020 database and represents the percentage of death certificates with COVID-19 listed as the only cause mentioned. This extrapolation is misleading, however, and doesn’t take into account that conditions listed in a death certificate may be caused by the virus itself. While a comorbidity may cause someone to be at higher risk of COVID-19, the comorbidity is not necessarily the cause of death.
This was what stood out to me about the article as well. I could see something like this being a useful tool for therapists or self-help to be able to map the overall emotional tone of one's content over time.
I believe that to Putin “Nazi” ins interchangeable with “evil invaders”. And he sees that western leaning elements of Ukraine as Sauron like figures tempting Ukrainians from their rightful place as part of the Russian empire.

Not saying I agree, but that is the only coherent worldview I can from his speeches.
100% Accurate!

No chance of abuse or misuse!

/s
Then I'm nobody and I'm good with that.
You should be angry at yourselves. He’s just shown you what was possible.
When my kids want to watch something on a topic, I use yt-dlp to download a bunch of videos.

I have that older synced with my Synology, and my kids have that folder syncing with Synology on their iPad.

I've found this to be a good balance for managing it easily for me, giving them what they want to see without giving youtube access.
Yes, but when people like Meirschiemer predicted this a decade ago, and blame the US and Ukraine for it because this is the obvious response to Ukraine trying to leave the Russian sphere of influence and other people who blame Putin also predicted it a decade ago for basically the same reasons, and also correctly predicted it last month when the "don't blame Putin" side was wrong, it seems theres a general consensus on what's happening even if who to 'blame' is apparently up for debate.
> believing that everything was better in the past.

is that what he is really saying? i didn't get that impression at all but maybe i missed something...
I know close to nothing about tractors - but I see posts about John Deere on here quite frequently.

Are there competing tractor companies? Or is the issue that people have already purchased tractors and can't repair those, and given the opportunity they'd swap out their existing John Deere for some other brand
Liberal states (and countries) were absolutely brutal with their Covid response.

It took the brave governors of Texas and Florida to open up during a time of mass sensationalism and demonization to show that it wasn't as bad as the liberal states were predicting.

With the Liberals taking both branches of federal congress and the presidency it doesn't take a rocket scientist to put two and two together.

They tried to put through a federal vaccine mandate which was struck down by the courts on grounds of....federal overreach.

And now thanks to conservative governors and states rights we can all live our normal lives again because everyone is falling in line with those conservative states who were brave enough to stand up against the crazy liberal policies.

This applies to defunding the police as well. Many of the liberal states that implemented defunding the police are changing that as well.

Sensational policy making appears to be a pattern with liberal states which is why states rights are beautiful. It highlights poor policy making.

It is a double edged sword though because liberal states have many good policies.

The point is having a variety in policies leads to richer, better governing.
Maybe it's just me, but when I read "I've a friend that..." on the internet, it doesn't much sway my opinion. Besides, there's nothing wrong with questioning the claim, is there? I truly am skeptical that "significant" portions of the Russian population believes the Ukrainians are killing themselves. That doesn't mean it's not true.
It's not like this is something new. Majority Chinese people are supportive of CCP no matter what it does. Even if there's opposition among mass people, there's no way to know.
I can't see the original comment but your premises are wrong.

Just because someone is a certain gender doesn't mean their opinion is invalid on what should happen in the society s/he's a part of.

Most women abort due to convenience, not wanting to hop on the teenage mom life. There's a minority who risk losing their life because of their pregnancy and I agree that's a valid reason to kill someone, in the same way as eating someone on a boat in the middle of the ocean is not a crime.

Life is obviously created at conception when an egg is fecundated - hence why it's called conception.

What we're debating on is whether it should be legal to terminate that life or not.

I'll start by saying it would be very convenient for me to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. I had a scare when I was a teen and definitely thought we'd abort if it turned out we were expecting.

That said, I was and I am aware it would be killing a human life. Even if it's legal, it's definitely immoral - but something I would do, because I think that my convenience trumps someone else life (I know, unpopular opinion, call me callous and heartless).

One of the roles the government is to protect the life of its citizens; according to this definition, abortion shouldn't be legal, if we care about consistency.

I personally believe if there's a government it should protect everyone's lives, including a fetus - but I would prefer a government-less society where people are protected by private companies and abortion (and anything else) is unregulated. A fetus won't be able to afford protection so his parents would be deciding for him until he's big enough to support himself.

This is not because I think killing a fetus is moral, but because I think that can be prevented only through a centralised violent entity that control everyone and need to sustain itself through theft - and I think abortion is a tolerable price to pay for not infringing on anyone's freedom.

Hopefully in a freer and richer society abortion would become rarer and rarer.
Git is insanely useful regardless of whether you're in a team or not. Having a history of your changes, being able to define an atomic change, branches, etc are all very useful even when working solo.
Europe will not reduce sanctions until Putin is in the Hague on trial and Russian forces have left Ukraine.

And even then Europe will spend and spend on miltary until we can take the nukes away from Russia by force. We won't be save until that day. So that's the end goal.
This ethanol is produced via fermentation, though. Just not fermentation of plant matter. The OP uses the word "fermentation" several times.

We don't normally think of the containers where wine or sour mash are fermented as bioreactors, but they are.
> Right click > Inspect

When you do this you are opening dev tools, that's what I was saying. On firefox you can just hit F12 to open it and then go to storage.
I disagree. I happily include my personal site with quite some controversial articles (being my opinion at that time) on it in my resume. It works as a great filter for companies I wouldn't want to work for.
These are complexed nuanced ideas, and not really able to be confirmed objectively one way or another.. so for that reason I appreciate your detailed thoughts but I won't be replying in detail.

One thing I did want to reply to is the idea that house rents will not cover carrying costs of mortgages.

I think this is a telling point and focus on it because I think it's very telling regarding the mindset of crypto investors vs housing or traditional value investors.

The key difference is housing is a get rich SLOWLY system, not a get rich QUICKLY system. But crypto has been a flame for the moths of get rich quickly schemes. Previously this was the domain of ponzis, MLM schemes, various fake investments, tulips etc. While some people in Crypto may not all be of this ilk, the majority mindsets of it seem to be. I don't see many talking about HODLing for a lifetime, but only until they strike it rich somehow, generally with a minimum of work and minimum of value provided back to society in exchange for somehow getting rich, quickly.

With this in mind you say house rent does not cover holding costs such as mortgage payments (and repairs, government costs, management fees, insurances etc etc). That statement is only true when looking with a short term perspective. Which is the perspective of most people attracted to get rick quick schemes. However the statement on housing income vs costs is actually incorrect, is wrong, when looked at in with a long term mindset. This is because over time inflation increases rent while shrinking the mortgage which gets eventually paid down (in the average mode of housing investment outcomes). So when you see the fullness of time, housing investments can more than pay for their costs, while also providing capital gain. This is actually by design, it's structured, to share value between the investors for good management over the long term, and between society which gets the provision of housing provided, and managed, for the long term. This is an outcome of government policy, by design.

With that in mind, it may be that the fact that you've considered the short term perspective, may be an important insight into your thinking, may be an opportunity for you to expand the range of your thinking, should that provide you value in the fullness of your life! Anyway, just some thoughts to share!
Hacktivists, cybercriminals switch to Telegram after Russian invasion
I think you're forgetting our history with the first part -- especially within our Isles. This is my issue when we try to be too clever about this.

get around a table and talk it out rather than put Ukrainians and Russians in the firing line in an irreversible way -- while we pontificate from relative comfort in the Europe/US -- no one wins from this fighting

FYI: It was criminal as a Brit to fight against IS (the goal of UK) as a civilian
The problem is that often what is best for employee's quality of life and mental health is not aligned with the best for the company. If there is 1% better output from a worker if they're at the office, but they suffer 50% less mental health, compared to WFH, then guess what the company is going to chose.
Raspberry Pi – the tiny British computer turns 10 [video]
Imagination Tech Publishes Open-Source PowerVR Vulkan Driver for Mesa
Absolutely correct. Thank you for typing it out in such an eloquent, yet curmudgeonly, fashion. It saved me from having to do it!
Crypto Masterclass [video]
I saw that as well and it was interesting, but unfortunately that style of video (man on the street aka vox populi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_populi) is notorious for "seeming" like its an accurate and balanced survey / measure of public sentiment to a viewer while its still just as editable/influenced by the journalists subconscious or conscious editorial bias as any other form of journalism or propaganda.
I think you'll find that it's available at most large-ish tech companies but how common it is varies a lot. At some, it will be quite normal. At others, it will be the rare person with some specific background or skills.
And what of Russia's promise to not invade Ukraine? You know, the one that is recorded in a treaty and ratified by the leaders of each country. Unlike the promise you refer to.
>A significant proportion of Americans believe the 2020 election was fraudulently stolen.

Are you actually claiming that the scale of absurdity between believing election fraud (something members of both parties claim, every losing election, going back decades[1]) and that Ukrainians are killing themselves, en masse, are remotely the same?

1. Here's Hilary Clinton continuing to make claims about 2016 in mainstream media:
https://news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-maintains-2016-electi...
There Is Ample Evidence That Agroecology Can Transform the Food System
What are the examples of "Wikipedia [...] getting worse with time, with regards to neutrality and editorialisation"?
This is such a silly thing to say. Freedom usually means the ability to do something without negative consequence.

Its sort of like how you were free to do anything you wanted in the soviet union, you just had to accept the consequences that if you do something the state doesn't like you will end up in the gulag.
I think Putin has some elaborate misinformation most of the country believes, like how we had lied about WMDs.
I read his column, and I get the reference, but your characterization is incorrect. The stock going up/down needs to be caused by the company and/or its executives. For instance, "global warming causing the company to perform poorly" alone isn't securities fraud, but "global warming causing the company to perform poorly, and a few years before executives told shareholders global warming isn't real" is securities fraud.
Boulder aerospace, venture pioneer R.C. 'Merc' Mercure dead at 90
That footnote is clearly talking about Old English.
C syntax is already too rich and complex. Then c++...
If that were the case, then blockchains would be implemented akin to GPG's web of trust. You could choose who to trust, and based on a level of trust, whether you would trust their trusted contacts.

Public-key cryptography is about being able to choose who to trust. Blockchain is about never trusting anybody.
It reminded me of 2010 (the sequel to 2001), though actually it turns out that was an aerocapture to slow down, not a slingshot or Oberth manoeuvre to speed up.

Funnily enough, there's a (very) detailed write up at the same site as this article [1].

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/07/31/the-peoples-space...
It's a merely symbolic move. Cyber forces don't need a NATO badge to operate, or to cooperate with NATO.
How does this inconvenience Putin exactly? From his perspective, it's already a given NATO is working with Ukraine very closely.
Google – more than one answer is a bug (2013)
Not arguing against sanctions in general, but for South Africa, the collapse of the soviet union, which had been propping up the south african economy, played a more important role.

https://reason.com/2013/12/06/did-economic-sanctions-help-en...
Recent Podcast by with Wolfram, maybe the quote is apocryphal or it was by another mathematician, anyway the point was that there is this "toxic" culture of always focusing on formal correct systems while not appreciating the creativity required todo these things. I remembers at some point in the proof of the Poincare conjecture Perelman uses big O notation to argue that one concept is related to another, using a concept from analysis that everyone know in a novel way to proof something new.
Putin has mentioned nothing about returning to Soviet times. But has explicitly invoked the memory of the Russian Imperium though.
DDR5-6000 memory performance on Linux has significant improvement on AI workload
>stressed me most was the unexpected extent of polarized alarmism all over Reddit

Reddit is a website mostly consumed and curated by people who have anxiety disorders, it seems. There's just nothing healthy on any of the major subreddits, it's nonstop fear porn and alarmism. It doesn't in any way reflect reality and the viewpoint of the average human being. That's why the advertisements on it are a total disaster, because the advertisers know there's no real value to be extracted from those eyeballs.
I would assume that someone will come up with a phone app to fix text so it triggers no filters.

SaneSpeak fixes your communications to analyze as sane, honest, and confident. Simple sliders allow you to project the personality you want your audience's AI to pick up. Chose proven presets and watch those sales and promotions roll in.
Basically because since 1979 the dividers keep failing to use lint.

"Although the first edition of K&R described most of the rules that brought C's type structure to its present form, many programs written in the older, more relaxed style persisted, and so did compilers that tolerated it. To encourage people to pay more attention to the official language rules, to detect legal but suspicious constructions, and to help find interface mismatches undetectable with simple mechanisms for separate compilation, Steve Johnson adapted his pcc compiler to produce lint [Johnson 79b], which scanned a set of files and remarked on dubious constructions. "

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html
That was clearly a reply to "Russia is shelling civilians at random as these comments are being written.", it shows that said argument makes no sense as people have been posting stuff while their governments has been bombing civilians in other countries for ages. Considering that I will not agree that it is whataboutism.
My transcript:

"When you use google, do you get more than one answer?

Of course you do. Well, that's a bug.

We have more bugs per second in the world - we should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant, you should look for information, we should give it exactly right and we should give it to you in your language and we should never be wrong."

I don't know about everyone else, but I don't know that there is 'one answer'. That google or anyone, has 'the truth'. And even if they did, I wouldn't trust an external party to provide it - there are too many reasons not to.

But - you have it from the horse's mouth - this is their ambition. Just getting rid of the bugs...
I think it depends on where you draw the line. In C# it's very common to use interfaces even though you only ever expect to have a single class of the given type, just so you can stub it out in tests.

It's unfortunate, but some languages require you to do at least some re-architecting so it's easy to test your code.
"The Sinclair ZX81 only had 1 kB RAM with option to upgrade to 16 kB."

If you're wondering "what can you do in 1kb of RAM?", how about a complete computer game of chess? The YouTube channel Nostalgia Nerd compares the 1981 '1K ZX Chess' program with a more modern chess engine. How do they stack up?

A game of Chess: 1981 1KB Computer vs. Modern PC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3By_rdwxSg
“If it can’t be 100% perfect then what’s the point” is one of my least favorite arguments.

A single or even multiple breaches doesn’t suddenly remove all value from all other code signing models.
Doom on Emacs culture, the Emacs wiki and making Emacs shut up
Although, Timex (technically) was the manufacturer. The ZX Spectrum, at least, was built in the Timex factory in Dundee [0]

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29122873
Only if the entire tor network was criminalized. Generally bridges don't see what traffic goes over them (its encrypted) and the exit node is not able to link which bridge the request came from. So specific activity should not be linkable to your bridge.

That said IANAL this is not legal advice, yadda yadda.
Seems like two words for the same thing
> The benefit of signed code is it grants hardware vendors a perpetual control, gatekeeping, and rent seeking role. It was never your hardware.

but in this case it's literally not caused by hardware vendors ? They're not even a party to this arrangement. The requirement is being enforced by windows, and the certificates are issued by various CAs. If you don't want that just use linux or something, or disable signature enforcement within windows.
Does this book give ways to deal with the following: a mobile app that works offline (local replica), and then when it's online, syncs (through a server) with other devices' local replicas? I don't even know what to call this situation. I'm sure CRDTs could help with this.
I needed more explanation to decide whether it was smart to install and understand it more. I found this explanation:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/tor-snowflake-turns-your-brows...
I'm not sure what got downvoted, but your attitude in this comment makes me skeptical that you are approaching this with an open mind. Sharing a viewpoint is great. Ignoring people responding to it thoughtfully, not so much.