skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Undoubtedly there is bias in the design of any software. But, you'd hope that software designers would try to keep their own biases out of it!

This is not what DDG are doing though. They are explicitly inserting their bias - no doubt this is in good cause - but I don't want any overt bias at all! I want to see the data as is. As a grown-up, I'll mediate my own searches - thanks! I don't need a parental filter!

That they were even able to implement some sort explicit bias functionality so quickly is also a concern to me. They must have had a means to manually add certain keywords etc to some sort of banned or weighted listing.

So there is some reason to think their censorship was by design.... why? Perhaps this is on request of a three letter agency, via some secret court judgement? Are there other explicit biases that they are not telling us about? How can we know?

We can't know, but do know that they are not operating in good faith - that they are editing results.
Japan has been printing money hand over fist for decades - more than tripling the money supply since 1990 - but their CPI has been dead-ass flat. [1] Money supply matters, but more money doesn't immediately mean higher prices. More money doesn't necessarily mean each unit is worth less than before because it doesn't exist in isolation. What you do with that money matters.

[edit] Concrete example: if I print money to build a new port, and that new port leads to a decrease in shipping costs? Then prices go down, meaning each dollar is worth more than before I increased the supply. New money is an investment. It's the liability side of the books. The asset side of the books (what we got for it) matters too!

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JPNCPIALLMINMEI
If it efficiently ingests data with a non-trivial signal-to-noise ratio and returns actions/reactions that contain more signal and less noise.
Yep, oil is a textbook fungible resource and even if you only import <1%, any increases in global price are going to affect the remaining 99% of your costs.

It will be interesting to see how energy companies respond to this though. Will they play chicken with Russia to see how long it will hold on the price increase? Or will they start dropping the capex to tap the more expensive resources that the higher price point has unlocked?
The more realistic tin foil hat is the Chinese version of the vaccine is less effective than they admit and the extra measures are needed to control it. In fact they are far more likely to be covering up incompetence than they are to be covering up the hypercompetence needed to make a top-secret-mild-brain-damage-virus.
tbf, I do agree with you. For sake of argument, "big housing project", is just another name for "big apartment building". And I agree that many places do "big apartment building" quite well.

But "big apartment building" only works well in a big thriving city, within its existing fabric. Not as in, let's raze the city, and put a big building in this new empty space. And I think Le Corbusier was explicitly about the latter.
The Labor shortages aren't perfectly distributed.
Yes, but this is an extremely important dimension to split on. The practical implications are so big that the game changes completely.

* HN and classic Reddit sort their items on a single dimension ("hotness"), calculated using a few input variables and producing a single output variable. This is about as cheap to calculate as recommendation systems get. The XKCD comment recommender is a bit more complex, but still in the same complexity class. Since the whole point of an algorithm like this is to be timely, the naive approach is to compute it on-the-fly, which it's perfectly simple enough to manage.

* At a somewhat more complex level, you get stuff like a basic, uncustomized Similar Items list. If YouTube has no data on you, this is what you get from their sidebar recommender (and their front page would be analogous to Reddit and HN, but sharded by region and language). It's also pretty close to what AdWords used to be, before they started doing user profiling. The thing with this method is, even though it involves some level of AI, it's presenting the same thing to everyone and it's expensive, so the natural solution is to precompute it.

* Personalized recommenders are the worst of both worlds. You can't naively compute it on-the-fly, because it's too slow, but you also can't naively precompute it, because there's a combinatorial explosion of users and items. You actually have to be clever about it.
> In addition: long before AWS you could easily rent virtualized or dedicated servers.

I disagree with this statement. Yes, you could rent, but not by the hour and based on compute power, and couldn't rent extra storage again by the hour and by the GB. Plus, you couldn't interact with these "virtual servers" through APIs.

I was at AWS 2008-2014 (early days!), and I think you should consider the impact of the "on-demand", API-by-default, nature of the AWS offering. Oh, and don't forget that with a valid credit card you could be up and running in literally minutes, not weeks.

Back then AWS had decent performance, but it was pretty bad when compared to more traditional Colo offerings; but in regards to the above aspects it dominated the scene, undisputed. IMHO, that's what gave AWS most of the initial traction.
At this point I assume anyone that wants my SSN, etc. has easy access to it. I did some work for a govt. agency and they ended up having a breach that included all my personal details including fingerprints. I use a credit monitoring service (paid for by them) and keep an eye on it.
And you're welcome to think so, but if you intend to make a case for removing Docker as optimization, you still have yet to start.
Government regulations can affect the cost and supply of just about anything, especially housing and energy. Tariffs on foreign goods can be a major factor as well. Beyond that it is a question of government borrowing and central bank money supply.

Government borrowing will be inflationary if it is financed by the central bank and it doesn't look like there is any credible plan for paying it off. That sort of thing is indistinguishable from printing currency to pay your bills, which doesn't work out very well after a while. Germany in the 1920s and Zimbabwe more recently are good examples of that.
I'm running a NixOS VM. I've tried to dockerize it before but inevitably something always failed - with the VM approach it is always much more stable.

I just run it right in VMware Fusion / Workstation, and it works great. Extremely reliable, very low overhead still. It just takes a lot of storage is all :) But everything is always reproducible given the nature of the VM, without needing to pass around snapshots or clones.
Would Amazon even be able to afford its AWS bills then?
I had all of my personal information leaked, and this is all I did. The responsible party offered credit monitoring for a time, but that still doesn't really prevent any damage being done.

Locking your accounts at the credit bureau level prevents many credit accounts from being opened in your name, which is big issue with having your info out there.
Nice, definitely solves some problems I had in the past. I'll keep your product in mind, I like it very much.
Tbh, I think the main reason you never see Mullvad on those lists is that they're targetted at people who want to watch region-restricted TV series.
Loko: Tiny long-range LoRa GPS tracker
What's this useful for anyway, just curious? I don't see usernames but I do so that some people had some entries redacted somehow
You’re also likely solving very tangible point problems. Dreamy
> The new study, from Clayton Curtis and Yuna Kwak, New York University, New York, builds upon a known fundamental aspect of working memory. Many years ago, it was determined that the human brain tends to recode visual information. For instance, if passed a 10-digit phone number on a card, the visual information gets recoded and stored in the brain as the sounds of the numbers being read aloud.

I'd be cautious over-generalizing that result, because I think it's also been found that different people do this in different ways, and it may be one of the things that distinguishes speed-readers from other readers.

I know when I read text, my brain sounds it out. It's gotten very fast at it, so I can read pretty quickly, but that sounding-out engages auditory parts of my brain that make it hard to read and listen to someone at the same time. Other people I've met simply do not have that limitation, and their description of the qualia of how they read doesn't mention a sounding-out step at all.
This is what happens when global shipping supply routes break down.
Zulu and UTC: the story behind aviation's time zone
Is there something equivalent to it nowadays?
Then how do you explain that there are systematic differences for certain film genres? The article has a graphic on it. The differences are by no means uniform. Crowds love Action and Thriller, critiques History and Documentary. D'oh.

That is not to say there is no selection bias. But the population of critiques and film-going crowds are almost certainly different in education, lifestyle etc. That has certainly an effect on the observed discrepancies.
Is that coming back with a HTTP 200 response though and the made up HTML page? That doesn't seem right... at least, I dunno if google and such would actually index your page at the new URL vs. just thinking "huh weird looks like blog.eowyn.net is now called '301 Moved Permanently', better trash that down in the rankings".
At least in the bay, it kind of has if you include housing... 2000 was a low point and we're at a high point now.
Tangential, but I recently discovered Mullvad. For years, I've used whichever mainstream VPN provider had a good deal on come renewal time, and cycled through a few of the usual suspects. Recently, I was with Surfshark, and was really struggling to get download rates above a few hundred K/sec - and sometimes even worse. I didn't even suspect the VPN at first, but ultimately tried a different provider as a diagnostic step.

I randomly came across a recommendation for Mullvad from reddit, and signed up for a month. Hot damn if my download rate didn't shoot up to 15-20 MB/sec (that's megabytes, not bits) - essentially close to maxxing out my fibre.

Turns out you really do get what you pay for - and I doubt I'll be leaving Mullvad any time soon.

(no affiliation - just a happy and surprised customer!)
> Sending probes is dangerous. You never know who is going to capture it and figure out where it was sent from.

I'm not sure capture would necessarily be all that likely. Assuming a flyby and not a crash, capturing a probe would require the captor to accelerate to the probe's relative velocity first. If you wanted to bring it back, too, you'd then have to decelerate back into a non-escape velocity with the captive in tow.

Alternatively, you'd need some way of slowing the probe down without touching it, e.g. with light, but doing that would take a rather long time, especially if it wasn't designed as a light sail intended to be slowed down and you don't want to destroy the probe in the process.

Both sound quite nontrivial especially if the probe is travelling at a speed that would be useful for interstellar travel, and if you don't detect the probe a lot in advance, which also sounds nontrivial. If the target world had reached such an advanced technology level that the probe could be detected and deemed interesting early on and captured, all bets would be off anyway.

> Use the energy from the destruction to send a message back on a wide cone that can be intercepted.

Energy from destruction tends not to be very organized. How would you use that energy for sending a coherent directed message that isn't even known in advance (assuming it would actually transmit some of the newly collected data and not just "bye bye")?
> If I were independent I would recommend people buy and build on-prem clusters and shuffle data out of fast scratch into Glacier,

Pretty much 100% agree with this statement. Only exception is maybe at the beginning of a long series of computation, you might want to start on-demand to fully understand and size your exact needs, and then provision off-prem.
School run by members of the public rather than by the state. So instead of public/private, state/public.
> Inflation is hurting Americans

This is a nuanced thing tbh.

Anyone with a lot of debt (eg lots of student loan debt) actually benefits from inflation.

Inflation is hurting _fixed income and currency holders_
American laws around unions are very weak compared to other countries.

Sympathy / Support strikes by neighboring unions are not legal for example. This was what allowed unions to prevail at McDonalds in Denmark.

Yes, flipping burgers at McD is a union job Denmark. The BigMac index of Denmark is 4.4, compared to 5.67 in America.
This thought experiment ends with Diogenes running into the Academy and tossing a Guinness in my face. ;)
What about the month of March? Symptom-free too?

Not to take away from your great efforts to solve this problem but you controlled for a few key variables in your experiment but not for the placebo effect which is one of the most important factors to rule out in such experiments.
Dr. Attia is very much within the medical mainstream. The CDC resources you linked are, frankly, for persuading ignorant people, and not really appropriate to a site devoted to satisfying intellectual curiosity. I'm also uncertain what exactly you're trying to convey by admitting total ignorance and blind faith in a US government agency. Is that supposed to convince curious people you have something interesting to say?
No I did not come up with it myself. It's a common pitfall in statistics known as selection bias [1].

My problem is that if I ask a researcher about selection bias, they have no problem defining it for me and even giving me a textbook example of it. But when I present to a researcher a real life scenario that is highly susceptible to selection bias, they will almost all fail to identify it. It's a problem where many people are able to compartmentalize knowledge but fail to actually make use of that knowledge in practice.

As a run a quant firm I see this among so many researchers across many disciplines. They fully understand a concept when you ask them directly, but they fail to put those concepts to use outside of a very direct and artificial setting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias
For me, the biggest downsides were text readability and UX for scrolling through notifications (center button then lower button, unintuitively). Triggering the backlight was also surprisingly tricky. I did like the look though!
There’s was a lot of manipulation of unions in the 20th century that I imagine contributed to things like this. I’m no expert but I know a huge change was the Taft-Hartley Act. This made a lot of significant changes, but one that I can think of is that it outlawed wildcat strikes, which are union strikes without the authorization of union leadership. This change would have the effect of centralizing union power, increasing bureaucracy and weakening the very idea of a union.

So yes historically unions have been a mixed bag, but it is worth considering how much of the negative aspects of unions were created through changes to laws that ultimately destroyed unions (in the USA).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act
Change in filters seems to push the URL change to your browser's history (at least on Firefox), which is annoying. 10 mins of playing with the app made it impossible to hit back to get to this HN page.
"The score, made up of audience ratings on a scale of 100, is calculated by taking the percentage of people who rated it at least 60 out of 100 (or 6 out 10) and multiplying it by 100%."

The critics score is calculated with a different formula. Do you discuss this with candidates?

Maybe research your interview questions a bit more before using them.
you mean the guy who had his personal signature added to the free printed money sent to every single US citizen around the world (yes, even expats got the free printed money, nothing inflationary here...)
My recommendation also factors in usability over 3 years.

From my experience, Android devices degrade faster in terms of how slow they become; the UX and UI are less responsive and they can't keep up with newer applications.

While I agree that there is an "Apple Tax", the retained performance of iPhones is really surprising, and that's why I feel they make a good value.

Some of my folks have (as some of yours might as well) iPhones 6s and 7 which have been running with absolutely zero issues. Given that the 6s is 6 years old now, I find that very impressive.
They can't stop coronavirus from reappearing in their population. For such methods to work, they would have to shut down all immigration and literally kill all animals that can carry coronavirus. So all their lockdown attempts are destroying their economy, while only reducing the spread of the virus.

Shanghai GDP is 4% of the country's GDP and 20% of the export goes through it. Shutting it down is quite insane.
Inflation at the moment is a global phenomenon. It’s hard to see how any US policy can be responsible for that, except at the margins.
Netlify FTW — For the rewrite rules alone.
fair enough! there are times when it probably is the best option
That's more or less how it is. Nearly all big cities have rules in place making it difficult to simply carry a gun around legally.

I don't know exactly how it is in New York, but in the Bay Area you simply can't get a concealed carry permit. Legally such a thing exists but the sheriff's office just doesn't issue any. (corruption scandal excluded)
Well, I'm for utopias, which is better, so does that mean my argument is superior? I'm also for letting people eat as much as they want and not exercise and be in perfect health.

Perhaps having a feasible path to the desired outcome actually matters, rather than just assuming those are unimportant details... otherwise we'd already have off-world colonies and faster than light travel.
I was wondering if a possible explanation is that, due to the gravity attraction of the earth, the hot, heavy, inner part of the moon, which is richer in heavy elements, I guess, like iron is closer to the near-side surface. Since in the far-side the hot, heavy part is too far from the surface the eruption activity is small or non-existing.

Because the moon is tidally locked to the earth the pull always act in the same direction.

I was imagining the moon as a drop of liquid in the vacuum space with a denser core at the center. The heavier core would be at the center because of the moon's own gravity. In the presence of the earth's gravity the denser part of the "liquid drop" will be centered more closely to one side and so the volcanic activity would be strongly biased.
ISS Astronauts on Busting Barriers and Space Smelling Like Burnt Metal Toast
I'm in the same boat. Very disappointed they felt the need to filter specific search results based on their political ideology.
Manufacturing is in an interesting space right now. There's a lot of hype around Industrial IoT (IIoT) and IoT 4.0. A lot of companies are using that hype to ask for budget to migrate their systems to open source and systems which are more open.

That being said, companies like GE, Siemens, and PTC are trying desperately to capture that space as well with their Saas/PaaS.. I won't say they are crap, but it's just more lock-in under the guide of "open." One of them has already gone the way of Watson.

YMML will vary in manufacturing. If you can jump to one of these companies that is on their journey from legacy systems to more open ones, you can definitely land in a good spot. Just ask the right questions when you interview there.
Neurodiversity Wiki
Absolutely. Generative methods are all the rage now. Those methods work on learning information-rich representation spaces. You could argue it's still "interpolation" but instead of interpolating in data-space per se you are interpolating in representation-space.
How many requests can thttpd handle simultaneously, compared to, say nginx ? It's a moo point being small if you then have to instantiate multiple containers behind a load balancer to handle simultaneous requests.
I am arguing against Docker for maintainability reasons, not CPU cycles.

Relying on hidden complexity makes for a hard path ahead. You become bound by Docker's decisions to change in the future.

For example, SSLPing's reliance on a lot of complex software (among which NodeJS and Docker) got it to close, and it got on the front page of HN recently.

https://sslping.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30985514

Keeping dependencies to a minimum will extend the useful lifespan of your software.
I like to think of this in terms of vectors.

Think of your work output as a vector. It has a magnitude - how much work you can get done in say a quarter. It also has a direction - what is the project you're working on, and does that line up in an economically productive way?

The reason we have corporations and management is to get all those vectors to line up in a certain direction. They're like magnets, aligning the productivity vectors of each IC so they don't compete with each other and instead contribute to a common goal. Almost every IC is less productive in terms of magnitude when working in a big corporation, but because there are thousands of them, the overall product becomes very hard to compete with.

WFH effectively reduces the magnetic force on each employee. Their productivity magnitude increases - they get more individual work done per unit time. But their alignment suffers. It's harder to identify when two IC's work is not going to line up perfectly, and harder to catch problems and complications early, and harder to set a direction in the first place.

And that's where WFH is going to suffer. As long as people can basically continue on the same direction they were going pre-pandemic, it's an improvement. But as soon as a direction shift becomes needed, corporations that have gone all-WFH are going to quickly find that the reason they're a corporation has gone away. They won't be able to adapt and chart a new course, and their employees will all quit and join new startups that are already pointed in the right direction.
> It mostly isn't coming from supply chain bottlenecks and shipping container shortages.

Inventory is still bumping along record lows. Housing starts were up in the new year, but it will take time for new units to come online after being side lined with labor and material shortages. ~5% mortgage rates are also likely to begin to slow things down.
It's weird that you're getting so much pushback against the highly reasonable idea of waiting a bit to see how things shake out. This feels like a high school boyfriend trying to push you into doing more than you're comfortable doing.

It's fun for us to look down from our ivory towers and be pleased that unions are cruising along but it's less fun when you're in a factory that gets shut down because Amazon doesn't want to deal with unions. That's to say nothing of the myriad of other problems pro-union advocates like to pretend don't exist.
OnlineHost: CATWATCH has entered the room.

Fun memories. I still have copies of a lot of those .bas files with the original pinter/punter code. Did anyone ever actually get a rainman account?
Muzak. see Norman Spinrad's "Little Heroes"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/719900.Little_Heroes

Once (and still, probably, in some small places) radio DJ's were valued as editors of playlists. Could it be we jsut need a way to recognize and encourage curators now? Make their job public instead of some "black box algorithm" or more likely middle management committee subject to bribes as is currently done with mass market radio.