skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why you pick specific stats that support your point, while pretending the others don't exist. Any time you see an oddly specific stat, you should question it a little.

For example: https://twitter.com/dceiver/status/1493643563892150278

"Shooting incidents are up 500% in an East Harlem precinct compared with last year" winds up describing going from one to six.
Stupid. A complete waste of cement. Would be better to just repurpose all the old railroad lines no one uses and use the gravity lift that way. Iron > cement
The attitude of silicon valley is, ultimately, shaped by the cultural and religious values and background if its worker base. Such attitudes are often expressed in this forum as well.

> When female nipples are censored but male nipples are not, we know that we must police our own bodies to ensure we do not arouse men

It is probably true that digital media is more lenient to gay male sexuality than to female sexuality probably because the former is still media taboo. There is a sense that they go out of the way to protect women from themselves which is an attitude that should be thoroughly condemned.
I actually agree this is destroying your credibility as an author and caused me to search all projects author is involved in and blacklist them.

* Despite the motive for the act there is actual malicious code injected in a library without notifying or disclosing any information.

* The whole act was not well thought out. The check is rudimentary to put it gently, or plain naive to say it straight. Not only Russians are targeted but also anyone having vpns or other legitimate reasons to run under Russian IPs. Finally the check is crude and might as well fail at some point, with devastating effect.

* Author seems to be removing github issues, hiding conversations and doing damage control now that this backfires.
Russia Remains Connected to the Internet
CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)
Child abuse is a real problem and should have considerable resources dedicated to combating it, but focussing on banning images depicting child abuse does nothing to prevent a child from being abused. We're close to a situation where it's safer to abuse children than to try and find images depicting child abuse. I'm pretty sure that focussing on preventing abuse and supporting children to report abuse will do a lot more than sweeping the evidence it ever happened under the rug. Of course that would also require you to go after some pretty high ranking people, so it's not very good for one's career.
You haven’t really tackled the strongest interpretation of my question head on.

If two different models/theories are observationally equivalent; if two (or more) different curves can be fitted to the same dataset which model is “more true”?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observational_equivalence

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-underdetermina...

And how do you go from “F=ma for the usual symbols…” to solving the symbol-grounding problem? Symbols are epistemic entities, not ontological entities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_grounding_problem

The model works. That is all there is to be said about it.

If you begin asking questions such as “is the model true or not? Do the terms in the equation correspond to real world entities?” you are no longer doing science, you are doing philosophy.
OK, so if I am understanding your point correctly, education does and doesn't scale, and big universities with huge endowments have done enough because they put classes online and subsidizes tuition for a small number of lucky people. So, it's OK for them to hold onto $42B endowment fund, for... something?
Just shows how well the trust system works. There is no foundation, unless some certified org wants to take it upon them to verify OSS. And that costs money.

That people call SWAT teams on the maintainer, I hadn't heard, but that's so much worse. The effect is also rather different. I don't have much OSS, and certainly nothing of any importance, but I'm going to keep the project I'm working on private. Too bad if someone else might have been interested.
I've dreamed of a vim-like workflow for music making for a while now. I still think it would be neat, but this itch has been scratched to a large extent by the dirtywave M8 (https://dirtywave.com). It's a handheld hardware tracker that has a workflow roughly based on the LSDJ gameboy tracker, but 100x more capable. Like vim, it takes a while to get the hang of it, but once you build muscle memory it's really streamlined, and now I can't imagine using anything else!
Sing with me: these are the people of your neighborhood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2bbnlZwlGQ
i recommend opengl for this instead of trying whit GUIs, you could make easy small simulations and shot in your foot whit rendering pipelines fast and easy, opengl resource are all over the place, good luck.
I'm not a developer, but a PM. I wonder if in the age of GitHub, if this node to root process still exists the same fragmented state.

Any devs with insight?

Doesn't, the modern git approach make it MUCH easier for developers to get more immediate changes to the codebase?
It is not that lawmakers censor nipples. it is google that is demonetizing them, even though it has the power (by virtue of controlling both sides of the ad market) to change those attitudes. Yet they have only been becoming more restrictive , not less
"And why we have not valued our unpaid labor. I mean, women are doing 2½ jobs right now. And we always want to forget or pretend that they’re not doing that other job. We have a very gendered view on who should be doing that unpaid labor, who should be doing the housework."

How did they get 2.5? Also, when do I get my check for all the housework and childcare I do, not to mention mechanic, handyman, accountant, etc work?

Putting things in these terms is not productive. Balance of labor needs to be worked out for each unique couple/situation. I don't see a good economic case for introducing payments that would disincentivise labor participation in today's environment.
Or too many folks still hung up about how they ranked and what they were able to "accomplish" in those years.

A competent HR department exists, in fact, precisely for the purpose of preventing the adoption of inane practices like these.
When you read a study saying “grass is green” do you try to put aside your preconceived “worldview” and be prepared to “reconcile your stance with new data?”

Also, I’m using the terminology correctly. The point is that gender roles are shaped by real sex differences in physical strength.
Plain text can be super versatile (task-tracking and note-taking are great examples), but equally important are the guarantees that your content is truly yours (no lock-in).

With all these plain text posts surfacing regularly, I'd love for the lesser-known org markup (https://orgmode.org) to gain more adoption. It's a real power-house. Its Emacs origin may put some off, but it's plain text, so your content can be ingested/consumed by either regular text editors or any app focusing on specific user-journeys.

I built two org-powered apps for iOS myself:

https://plainorg.com

https://flathabits.com

There are other great ones out there:

https://beorg.app

https://braintool.org

https://easyorgmode.com

https://logseq.com

https://organice.200ok.ch

https://orgro.org

http://orgzly.com

Thanks to Karl Voit for driving org markup awareness outside of Emacs via Orgdown https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown. He's also got a great post showcasing org strengths at https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only
I’ll notify the kernel team of this development.
AMD internally refers to the finished product as the SoC, and the chipset (no longer a northbridge, the NB is on die) as a socket extender (a term also used by most SoC vendors) in internal documentation.

Also, arguably, the IO Die is the SoC, the chiplets are external to the SoC even though they all live on the same interposer.
What are you talking about, more than half of the internet bandwidth being used in the world as I type this is transmitting pictures of nipples.
> I'm fine with child (prepubescent) rapists whom are adults to be sentenced to death. If you were an accomplice to that, as a videographer or similar, I'm also OK with death.

The reliability of the criminal justice system, particularly in the US, is
abhorrent. There's a long history of false convictions, particularly affecting people in minority outgroups and mentally disabled; we've executed adults who were so mentally incapacitated they were below a 10 year old in terms of mental capacity. The death penalty is highly immoral.

There are tens of thousands of black men still in jail because they were basically the most convenient way for a police department to "solve" the murder or rape of a white woman and help their case clearance rates. Police, prosecutors, and forensic "experts" were complicit. "Hair analysis" is just one example of the pseudo-science nonsense.

In Boston, a forensic chemist falsified thousands of test results and somehow this escaped notice despite her having a productivity level that was far and above virtually any other forensic chemist.

Or, if you're not exceedingly gullible: her supervisors obviously knew what she was doing and didn't care, because she made their lab look great and prosecutors got lots of open-and-shut cases.
Many of us have wasted a few years working on what could/should have been a good project but was hobbled by poor leadership, and aren’t eager to do more of that.

To me, this lead doesn’t know how and/or care enough to identify and focus on key issues and definitely doesn’t mind wasting people’s time with a flood of busywork in lieu of paring this down to some thoughtful incisive questions.

I would expect this to weed out a significant fraction of the good candidates.
Some people that were interested in their productivity that I read seemed to have systems that regularly cleaned their todo lists for old tasks. Stephen King [1] advises aspiring writers not to note their writing prompts, as the best ideas should pop into your head regularly, or nullprogram.com [2] programming in /tmp/.

So maybe the way to go is to have a logrotate-like on your input file.

[1] On writing -- Stephen King, although I read it a very long time ago and would not be able to point to a specific page.
[2] I searched the web but can't find the exact citation, and there is no search feature on the website.
> You might be Italian, yet you fail to mention any notable Italian family name

The first name is Agnelli, the ones who say being fascist in Rome and socialist in Turin, Pirelli, FIMM (Magneti Marelli), Piaggio just to name few that still exists today.

> If you are really Italian, you probably voted for the five star movement

I'm Italian, and no I do not voted M5S because coming from a Partisans family I was trained to recognize fascism. The original PNF and it's successors (I might know "Partito dell'Uomo Qualunque" for instance) have started as the 5S, apparently a left-ish, young and innovating party, but in reality a PR engine to elicit consent. If you know Italian history a bit you might know that Giorgio Bocca (one of the famous Partisans commander) when young was one who took PNF card with just two digit number, he learn after. The same have happened in Germany, original nazism appear as a kind of "moderated socialism".

Actually in Italy there is exactly ZERO party I can vote, and exactly no left parties. The most left-ish read that three time are Fratelli d'Italia (YES, I'm not joking) and Lega, of course not because their are really left-ish, they are actually fascist, but they present themselves to the masses with left-wing ideas speech and that's why they grab consensus from "poor" working classes replacing historical PC-derived parties like PD witch it's correct name should be Partito Democristiano not Partito Democratico.

I suggest a relatively modern song from what it left from the real political left: https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?lang=it&id=61641 perhaps together with https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?lang=it&id=219 and a small history of how songs from Resistenza have been pushed into oblivion substituting them with Bella Ciao almost no one have chanted except perhaps some small white militia in Tuscany or why in France famous song like "Le déserteur" changing the last part from

Prévenez vos gendarmes
Que j'emporte des armes
Et que je sais tirer

to

Que je n'aurai pas d'armes
Et qu'ils pourront tirer

just to give few examples of the slow push toward a new dictatorial society.
way ahead of you buddy
Yuri Gagarin, first person in space, has had his name removed from fundraiser
>many Han were subject to these camps.

Any source you can provide for this claim?

I've only seen evidence of these programs in certain Western parts of the country, mainly Xinjiang.
> This isn't true. Insurance companies make money from float too which allows them to run on a loss when only comparing premiums to claims.

You know what we call a business that makes enough money on float to cover its operating costs? A bank.

If the float was so lucrative they wouldn't need to charge "high enough to matter" premiums.

Insurance companies don't have magical investments they can make that other businesses can't. They're not going to be making $0.50 on the dollar you give them. They're going to be making pennies, just like literally everyone else. This will mostly go toward subsidizing operating costs. In no universe do insurance companies make enough profit from their money pile to even come close to offsetting payouts.

The fact of the matter is that theft affects the entire area so it WILL be reflected in premiums, the same way things like the climate and adverse weather are reflected in premiums.

>It should be obvious that insurance serves as financial benefit for the insured or else the insurance industry would have collapsed a long time ago.

Using insurance to cover routine expenses never makes financial sense. There's a reason businesses self-insure as much as they can.

Just because a financial product can be a net win doesn't mean that it will still be a net win if you use it exactly the wrong way. Speaking of things that should be obvious...
It's a really good series, and the accompanying book is also recommended (I read the book first, not aware that it was a book-of-a-TV-series). Christopher Alexander is in Episode 1 from about 20'50". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maTkAcDbrEY
Temperature records are inferred from climate proxies. Ice cores are the primary proxy used. Scientists manually count the number of air bubbles in a sample of ice to estimate the level of CO2. The amount of oxygen isotopes present is used to estimate temperature. The accuracy of these methods cannot be validated using current ice cores because of the time it takes for the layers to form. In other words, data used in climate science is extrapolated and estimated. As you can imagine, this introduces a great degree of uncertainty to the data. Nevertheless, this data is used as input to climate models.

Climate models are pieces of software written in Fortran that contain 500,000 lines of code. Models are run backwards to measure how closely they match the "observation" above. Stock market algorithms use a similar method of backtesting data. The problem with stock market models is they are only accurate with the historic data they are based on. Future price movement can simply not be predicted by using a few of the millions of variables that exist in the market.
The job listing lists "Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field." as a requirement.
This works fine for research universities, but in teaching universities (couldn't find the statistics, but there are a lot of them out there) someone has to subsidize the new STEM programs until the alumni start giving grants. In my experience, a lot more STEM alumni give large donations than humanities and social sciences. But that does mean a bigger initial outlay by someone.
We are freezing our dependencies and aiming at almost never upgrading or updating things when possible. We rarely need the new things these modules come with in newer versions especially because some enhancements are security concern disguised as features.

It seems that in the past 2 years people became more pissed about the current state of things than normal. Since fakerjs incident I no longer trust maintainers by default.

You know how some people get very funny in the head discussing politics? This seems to be entering the field of programming bit by bit after programmers slowly realized they are the ones who shape the world. Some people don't know how to handle that level of responsibility so they see 'contributing' as a means to having a lot of power so that when something pokes them wrong they can unleash all their anger and it's not on a 140-character tweet that does nothing and instead it is on all the companies they managed to hold ransom over the free work he was going over the time people were treating him right.
> the stated purpose is to eliminate social/in-person biases.

Except it doesn't eliminate bias at all! In fact, it has the potential to further increase bias.

For example, the question "what university did you choose and why" assumes the candidate even had a choice (or went to university at all), and you can't consider a question about extra-curricular activities without also considering the candidate's situation (because candidates from under-privileged backgrounds are afforded fewer extra-curricular opportunities).
It's an ad supported video platform that will give data to google, advertise your competitors to your customers, distract your customers from your product by being an entertainment social network site, have relatively poor analytics, etc. It's a non-starter for many businesses.

But of course not using it only makes sense if you can monetize your videos yourself by selling it or another product.

When you upload on YT you are the product, YT sells you and your data and they profit. What vimeo is selling is hosting, saas, and bandwidth. They dont' profit at all except for what you pay them. vimeo comparatively to CDNs and SaaS hosting providers have a decent price. If you don't think so then hire someone to set up cloudflare stream and your own website.
I'd just stick to gaming on regular Linux.

But I suppose it can be useful for arguing that Linux gaming market is expanding, so developers who like to excuse lack of Linux releases with market size will have less excuses now.
Oh boy, the next step is "standardised personality and aptitude assessment"! If you make it that far, don't forget to Strongly Agree with the things that would make your boss happy and Strongly Disagree with the things that actually describe you!

I fucked off an interview with Amazon when the recruiter tried to make me do code exercises on a piece of paper and read them back over the phone.
Performance per watt is very important for devices that need to run on battery and for cloud compute where you're running thousands of them and saving on electricity/cooling would be significant.

But it's almost completely unimportant for always-plugged-in-to-wall-socket desktop chips. Because even the power consumption of stuff like the 3090 is still pretty insignificant on your power bill compared to up front cost, and relative to the power consumption of all the other stuff in your house.

Remember even the 3090 consumes very little power when idle - it's only pulling the rated ~300w when you're maxing it out playing heavy games or rendering or whatever.
> The critique is: there's a difference between taking decades to colonize it (hence "decisive") and centuries to colonize it.

Cool. Now tell me what the difference is.

This argument just seems silly to me. Is the argument really that it could have gone the other way?

Is there a reasonable counterfactual where the Aztec civilization successfully repelled European colonization efforts and eventually attacked and held European home countries?

Like from a vantage point of the mid 1400s when none of this had happened yet was that an equally likely outcome?

I mean that’s superficially plausible to me. Maybe it was just historical luck of the draw. If that’s what critics think then the critique should say that without hedging.

If not, the next question has to be why.
The labor market - especially the low paid labor market - is a lot less liquid than it needs to be for pure supply/demand to work in the US (that's also taking human suffering caused by poverty out of the equation, which is pretty callous).

Laissez-faire markets are also bad at taking negative externalities into account. Food being too expensive to afford in the stores while it's also rotting in the fields (which has happened in my state multiple times on the last few decades) is really bad. Children not being being effectively taught because teachers are quitting due to burnout and terrible wages is really bad. I don't think it's sufficient to shrug out hands and say "it'll work itself out" when we can actively see very these kinds of detrimental problems
I like the basic concept that trees [and other plants] can form networks and pass along, via their intertwined root systems, chemical signals in response to changes in their environment etc. But I found the book anthropomorphised to a degree that bordered on ridiculous. Talking of trees feeling "sad" when one of their "friends" died or was cut down was just a bit too cutesy for my liking.
Not sure about this: everyone else screwed seems kind of a far reach. If you consider screwed “unable to buy luxuries” then maybe, but I consider screwed “unable to buy food” and Macro farms stand to make food substantially cheaper.

How will the four people get richer if the food they create is priced so high that no one can buy it?

I get this is deeply economic and philosophical, but it’s an interesting thought experiment.
Between males and females most female muscles are about 90% as strong as males, except for wrist/hand strength which is about 60% as strong. It's hard to come up with an evolutionary advantage for this anomalous result.
I've noticed social media using more aggressive censorship (not exactly censorship; more like requiring you to be logged in) on war gore than sexually explicit images.
It's also about threat models, who you're trying to realistically protect yourself from. Some solo idiot with a political cause, not particularly targetting you? Waiting a week before using a new version is probably good enough. A government specifically targetting you? Likely nowhere near good enough. There's a lot in between of course.
> scientists cutting into corpses to find out how the human body works. This never happened outside Europe until centuries later

Egypt had been cutting corpses and doing sophisticated surgery 2000 years before that
It's one of the 3 things that Obama did (or didn't do) that disappointed me the most.
> On a self-hosted instance, how do you prove to people [...]

Generally the ActivityPub protocol disseminates a user's actions to a number of other users. On Mastodon specifically all users mentioned in a post will receive copies. Activities generated by users on other servers can be double checked against their own servers for validity, I think there's very few things that you can game when you're running your own instance without people being able to verify based on what these other instances have received.