skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> The thing I don't get still is how QAnon became so big.

Same as any other conspiracy theory really:

> Q, the anonymous internet poster behind the movement, who claims to be a high-ranking U.S. intelligence official, releases cryptic breadcrumbs known as “drops” online that followers then decipher. Drops are said to explain or predict developments in the supposed war between President Trump and the alleged deep-state pedophiles. Participating in what feels like an exclusive intelligence circle can satisfy the human need for uniqueness, psychologists’ research has shown, prompting a desire to continue participating (Lantian, A., et al., Social Psychology, Vol. 48, No. 3, 2017).

> People also turn to conspiracy theories when important psychological needs aren’t being met, says Douglas. Her research shows that such narratives can fulfill our need for certainty and security, for instance, when events seem random, and for social belonging (Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 26, No. 6, 2017).

> Those findings help explain why many Americans, including QAnon supporters, have turned to extreme explanations for the COVID-19 pandemic. Survey data collected by psychologist Daniel Romer, PhD, research director at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center, suggest that nearly a third of U.S. adults think the coronavirus is a bioweapon created by the Chinese government (Romer, D. & Jamieson, K.H., Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 263, 2020).

> “Conspiracy theories make people feel as though they have some sort of control over the world,” Romer says. “They can be psychologically reassuring, especially in uncertain times.”

* https://www.apa.org/news/apa/2020/conspiracy-theories

> The reasons why people endorse or believe in conspiracy theories are diverse. Reported individual effects are mostly small and treated in isolation. Conspiracies appear to appeal to those who feel disconnected from society, who are unhappy or dissatisfied with their circumstances, who possess a subjective worldview that includes unusual beliefs, experiences and thoughts, and do not feel in control of their life (c.f. Rose, 2017). The endorsement of them challenges existing power structures in society (Imhoff and Bruder, 2014). Furthermore, those with higher levels of clinically relevant traits such as paranoid thought and schizotypy endorse them. Conceptually, for a comprehensive understanding of the causes of conspiracy beliefs, interaction of predictors should be investigated. Anomia, for example, combines elements of social-dominance orientation, powerlessness, need for cognitive closure, and distrust (Lamberty et al., 2018), yet variables are often treated independently.

* https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.0020...

There was probably bound to be a "big" one at some point that hooked a lot of people eventually, and it may be just a coïncidence that it was QAnon: nothing particular about it, just 'good timing'.
Until the sea rises, or until it gets too hot, or until the water runs out.

It will happen here too.
It's better for retention.

Better retention means a lower salary bill.

They never offered a pay increase for coming into the office.
I think the 404 mk2 brought quite a few good new features while maintaining the core identity of the SP lineup. You say that there's not been much improvement to the series but I think that's part of the appeal. It remains focused and people are using them like instruments for (mostly) chopping samples and beat making with a great set of effects.

Perhaps it was inevitable that MPCs would evolve to the state they are in now but it isn't really the same workflow and it certainly doesn't feel like an instrument like older MPCs, drum machines, SPs, or plenty of modern grooveboxes do.
Book Review: The Condition of Postmodernity
> It's the USA. It's the culture of America.

For your information, school attacks aren't exclusive to America, and can be quite a regular occurrence elsewhere, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China

> An attacker named Wu Huanming (吴环明), 48, killed seven children and two adults and injured 11 other persons with a cleaver at a kindergarten in Hanzhong, Shaanxi on May 12, 2010;[8] early reports were removed from the internet in China, for fear that mass coverage of such violence could provoke copycat attacks.

That's just an example, there are many more listed.
And the Medical community does not get it! For ex:

1. We are not smart enough to figure what role 'x' play in an organism, so it is not us, and is millions of years of evolution that has gone wrong, and it does not have a role, and removing 'x' should is ok. We have these (grossly powerless )"tests" to show that it is safe.

2. Forceful triggering of body's naturally suppressed behavior, which is also result of millions of years of evolution, should be ok, because we have seen that it is "safe" because we tested thousands of human beings, many weeks, and we could not find any apparent damage (as if we are smart enough to parametrize the a whole human beings, and hence can spot when a parameter is off)!
Flags are awesome.

Dragon flag
https://greatist.com/fitness/dragon-flag

Human flag
https://www.onnit.com/academy/so-you-want-to-do-a-human-flag...

But there are tons of great abdominal exercises, all with different benefits depending on your goals.

The sit up is such a specific motion, that it really has very limited benefits. Stabilization type exercises will benefit more. Some exercises will help with core strength alot, without being directly "ab" exercises. Heavy weighted squats are a great example of this.

If your goals are only to get a 6pack then you don't need ab exercises as much as you need a very disciplined diet supplemented with lots of cardio.
We have a first responsibility to our own people. Furthermore if we don't take care of them everyone else will just export their unsustainable configuration to us and everyone will starve.
I've been in a similar boat. Khan Academy has been helpful, as have some other resources:

* Gelfand (et al.)'s HS math book series: System of Coordinates, Functions And Graphs, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry

* The problem collections Challenging Problems in Geometry and Challenging Problems in Algebra, available from Dover

* The math and logic courses on Brilliant.org

* Smullyan's Introduction to Logic

* Balakrishnan's Introduction to Discrete Mathematics

* For a bracingly irreverent "skip the bullshit" perspective, George Simmons' Precalculus Mathematics In A Nutshell

* The A-Levels A* prep sequence from Imperial College London, available on edX (this is actually roughly equivalent to a first year undergrad curriculum at US unis)

General advice:

* Practice, practice, practice - solve lots of problems & push yourself to repeatedly prove and reprove things. 'Getting it' once is not enough, math is like basketball. Something all the resources above have in common: tons of exercises, with solutions

* Keep mixing up difficulty so that you get some easy wins for confidence and motivation but also challenge yourself and keep yourself humble. Occasionally dip way down to remind yourself how far you've come, and on the other hand sometimes dip into something like Concrete Mathematics to remind yourself how far you still need to climb

* Go over the same material many times from different authors/teachers/sources

* Take your time. As long as you keep challenging yourself, and keep putting in those 10-20 hours a week, every week, you'll get to a good place and then keep going
> Good luck explaining that in a 30 second clip on CNN.

That's pretty much exactly my point, as I mentioned in another comment.

I'm having a difficult time believing that the ingredients or measuring devices are so difficult to replicate at home that it would be impossible to do. I think the more likely explanation is a large portion of the population, put generously, "lacks attention to detail", and so homemade formula would be dangerous for them.

Here's a good analogy. Saline solution (not disinfecting solution, just normal saline) for contact lenses is not complicated. It's salts and water. At one point it was possible to buy salt packets and mix it with water to make contact lense saline solution. However, it was critical the water be purified, distilled water.

Of course, a decent portion of the population thought plain tap water was good enough and ended up going blind, so the FDA banned the salt packets, and you can now only buy premixed saline.

So the FDA went out and said "Mixing your own saline solution can be really dangerous, don't do it." And they're right, mixing your own saline can be really dangerous, if you can't follow directions.
I actually suggest Arch Linux, followed by:
“sudo pacman -s pro-audio”

This will install a zillions packages and occasionally prompt you for a yes, and then you will have a preconfigured Arch Linux audio computer :D

Since it’s Arch, all you have to occasionally do is an “sudo pacman -syYu” and upgrade everything to the latest versions.

Usb audio interfaces work out of the box, generally, but to refresh ALSA after connecting it doesn’t hurt to “alsactl restore” iirc
It’s not an all or nothing problem. It’s perfectly doable to find a balance and we’re already doing it.
The stocks she bet on were valued too high. Betting on growth stocks has some inherent risks, but I agree, there is a way to do it successfully. She also put a lot of money in companies that were just not good companies and that should have been clear to anyone.
It reminds me of the stories about LARPers and edgelords who do something ironically until the meme consumes the host.
If you're just going to use pfBlockerNG for DNS blocking, that's built in to OPNsense without needing any plugins, via Unbound DNSBLs.
What problem is web3 even trying to solve? As it stands today I can conduct commerce over the web, pay for access to content directly, or have free content that is advertising supported. Having to connect with a wallet and spend some specialized cryptocurrency to access a website provides what benefit? It seems like a solution chasing a problem like literally everything else crypto related.
I'm afraid to ask, but why are people anti ubiquity? I freaking love my udm-pro and am waiting for their cams to come back in stock so I can ditch my nests.
I've had at least as many WebApps I've used built with JSP or ASP et al that broke back via unrepeatable POSTs and server side state as I have with SPAs.
It's not hugely different from using i instead of I as the first-person singular pronoun in English which I wouldn't class as 'abhorrent' but rather 'very informal', which is fine so long as the actual language itself is preserved.
> "Does anyone have any recommendations on home automation software for people who write code for a living?"

I develop my own home automation components and use MQTT to interface with HA using its MQTT integration. This gives me the freedom to have fun developing sensors, presence detection, garage door openers, etc, all still with zero reliance on "cloud". And I still benefit from a single UX and integration point on HA, which to me is the biggest value.

I run HA on Docker and it's locked down as much as practical. For example, I use nginx reverse proxy and limit HA itself to 127.0.0.1:8123 -- I don't need/want anything automatically discovered on my network.

I also have no need for addons. That just seems like more headaches when upgrading HA.

Keeping things simple with HA has worked great.
I Use
Toms Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/
Over clockers https://www.overclockers.com/
For Hardware Comparison
https://www.productchart.com/laptops/
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/laptop.html
For GPU comparison
http://gpuboss.com/compare-gpus
https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/

All Benchmarks so you can decide if the extra cost of a CPU and/or GPU is worth the price
+1 for NextDNS, best $20 annually I ever spent. Been using it for close to two years.
Is there significant inflation due to the Ukraine war?

Inflation started to take off about April last year, and was 7.9% at the end of February this year when Russia invaded Ukraine. Since then it rose about a half percent and then started to drop, as sanctions have been implemented.
No need to give in, if they can just tell him his whole Black Sea fleet will be immediately sunk if he tries to stop any ship with grain from Ukrainian ports. Putin only understands such language, nothing else. Let's say Ukraine will get at least 20-50 Harpoons and NSMs with option to resupply. Putin will immediately shut up about the blockade because his ships won't have anywhere to hide. Problem solved.

> Not to mention that sanctions hadn't made any significant dent anyway. Russian economy is booming unfortunately.

This is false. Sanctions are biting Putin clearly strong enough if he is using blackmailing with famine for their lifting. If anything, sanctions have to become stronger. Oil and gas trade with Russia has to be banned, since it's the main source of funding the war for Putin.
Does a glass of water ever go bad?
Beats me. Looking at the article it looks like the whole narrative is basically from "Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek". There's no signs that anyone else agrees with his narrative. Also, searching up his name I found this on the first page:

https://www.crainsnewyork.com/asked-answered/datatrek-resear... (paywalled but the url slug should be enough to infer the content)

Make of that what you will.
Your [1] doesn't seem to have been updated for recent events, so:

- pfSense CE is an EOL product (and its replacement Plus is closed source). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26479725 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27775408

- The Wireguard fiasco. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30719403
I breathe such a sigh of relief when I see a Sheffield stand available when I'm looking to park my bike.

I also love the extreme brutalist look it gives to the buildings its next to. Punk as all hell
It says May 2022 in the slides.
Client Service Agreement
This is a functional and comprehensive client service agreement for anyone including freelancers and business owners who need to create a legal relationship with clients.
Human memories suck. I have family who every time it snows say “i can’t remember the last time it snowed this much!”, then you look up weather records and it snowed more 3 years ago.
I had a professor who would do this. I scored low once because I always did homework last minute. That’s when I learned how got actually works, and how you can edit timestamps on commits. That’s helped a couple times in my work life too.
The things about history:

- It's always being added to (parent comment)
- It's nothing but a fable agreed upon - Napoleon
- It repeats itself
- It's written by the victors - Churchill
- It's only remembered by the vanquished
- We are not makers of history, we are make of history - MLK Jr

And my personal favorite found when researching for this comment:

"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice." - Mark Twain

Reference: https://www.thoughtco.com/famous-history-quotes-2832302
I'd love it to have some kind of LDAP or other directory service thing. I've got a few other things I run for myself and some friends or family members that already can work with that (notably NextCloud) that would be really cool to connect up with HA too.
This is actually not an article about 4chan, it's a pretty straightforward denunciation of Good Smile Company. We can wait and see whether organization behind the attack will surface if it gains momentum.

Of course, getting facts right is not a requirement in that genre (quite the opposite), but it's still fun to read that Yotsuba is famous as “4chan mascot” (like Queen Elisabeth is famous because she was on some British stamps or something), and Miku Hatsune is just a “moderately popular SEGA character”. But the most insane assumptions would be that Japanese figurine companies care about Western market, and that you can make money running an imageboard.
Well, it’s a pretty huge topic. I recommend taking a look at the SIGGRAPH course notes on contact and friction simulation:

https://siggraphcontact.github.io/

Also, look at some recent papers on SIGGRAPH and SCA, such as:

- https://matthias-research.github.io/pages/publications/PBDBo...

- https://mmacklin.com/primaldual.pdf

- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.10022.pdf

Note that these are all cutting-edge stuff, and most physics simulations in production still use more traditional methods (which you can learn from Box2D’s source code and related GDC slides). The links:

- https://github.com/erincatto/box2d

- https://box2d.org/publications/
>I would argue none of these are free, because they use/sell your data

In a technical sense sure, but from the user's perspective it's equivalent to being free since the user doesn't have to do anything different compared to if it was a free service.

>meta burying their own studies on their affect on the mental health of teenage girls just to continue making their profits

Are you referring to the study that said that Instagram on average improved mental health in 12 out of 12 categories for teen boys and in 11 out of the 12 categories they were surveying for teen girls (the exception being that 32.40% of teenage girls with body image issues felt Instagram made it worse)? It was internal research which is why it was initially kept internal.
The slower algo will use more instructions as will have to run for more iterations. The faster algo will use wider ALUs that are more power hungry, so it appears a wash. But because less instructions are in flight, less power need to be spent to keep track of them or renaming registers, caches need to powered for a smaller amount of time and so on.
> This system is unsustainable. Just like an algal bloom eventually starves itself and dies out, squeezing out every limited dollar you can from people ultimately robs them of the purchasing power to become a customer.

Financial leadership and investors have long known this, and actively plan for it[1]:

> Citigroup analysts have also used the word plutonomy to describe economies "where economic growth is powered by and largely consumed by the wealthy few."

Here's a link to the plutonomy paper from Citigroup[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonomy#Origins

[2] https://delong.typepad.com/plutonomy-1.pdf
Unbounded Anti-Aliased Neural Radiance Fields
Yes, it's a scam. I don't see a downturn making people more wise about this though. Crypto shills have a plausible reason for a decline in value, and otherwise it's not like anything is happening to get the scammed (often just the greedy) to increase their sophistication so they can understand it's a scam.

This is one of the rare times I'd say it, but I think legislation is needed. Crypto is a so-far-legal outlet for various financial schemes (ponzi, pump-and-dump, securities fraud, etc) that all are covered under existing laws. We just need to extend the law to these new instruments so people can't legally con others just by saying "blockchain"
Based on your link, a country of a billion people hasn't had one yet this year, and had just one last year.

The USA has had at least 22 this year.

It's not comparable. It's not equivocal. It's not worth even considering if there's similarities.

The USA is broken, it's broken unlike anywhere else, and it's a cultural problem.
That very much depends on access patterns. If you’re performing an operation I’ve ever object with a certain field, struct of array makes sense. If you’re doing an operation which uses many fields on some arbitrary dynamic randomly ordered subset of objects, then array of structs will yield better because at least you recover some memory locality.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is the same bullshit that happened with masks early in the pandemic. Instead of being truthful and saying "It's really important that there be enough masks for hospitals, and we just don't know if masks for the lay populace are helpful because there haven't been enough studies yet," authorities lied and said "masks don't work for the general population". Zeynep Tufekci's article on this topic got it exactly right IMO: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-...
I had tried signing in/out. I hoped iOS 15 would fix it (then each point release). I hoped it would magically stop when I had to replace my iPad.

No dice.

This did it.
> A country of a billion people hasn't had one yet this year, and had just one last year.

Yeah, probably because they've taken sensible steps to control the media coverage around these kinds of crimes to prevent copycats. Also the wide and deep social media monitoring is probably quite helpful in preventing socially destructive communities like 4chan from forming and getting out of control. China has always had really strict gun control. If we really want to put a stop to these kinds of attacks, we really need to go all in to destroy the social contagion that's the root cause.
I recently completed work on a small hobby project to support the small-web revival. It's a webring hosting platform. Unfortunately I haven't really had the time available to promote it. I don't expect it to really gather too much traction, however there's definitely been a bit of a revival of webrings!

https://webri.ng/

Once I'd purchased that domain, I simply had to do something with it!
Moderna started out this way.
There is mimetic desire. It exists. It happens. Where Girard falls down is that this is not the only way we develop desires.

Girard has his system, and wants to make everything fit in it. But his system doesn't actually cover everything, and so he has to amputate everything that doesn't fit. That's... not a good system, and not a good way to do philosophy.
If you're looking for a KVM over IP for a hobby project with a Intel CPU you might want to first check to see if your CPU supports Intel AMT/vPro. If you enable this then you get a built in KVM over IP without any additional hardware/software. Once setup you can connect via a VNC client.
The problem with expansive monetary policy is it trickles down, but not much gets to the bottom. Stock goes up, but workers not invested in the stock market don't like it going up. Everyone who already has stock gets richer, and buys real goods and assets. When those goods are produced overseas or by automation, not much makes it to wage workers.

Eg the last 2 years where people saw their 401k double, and cost of goods and housing went up.
I'll be there with you. It doesn't add value to the world. If you go mine some gold, silver, coal, he'll, even dirt. It all has an intrinsic value for what it can be used for. Even dirt can be used to grow crops or fill in the sea.

Crypto is worthless because it doesn't DO anything.
Until someone comes along and translates 'heap_alloc' as 'asignacion_al_monton' or 'DatabaseDriver' as 'PilotoBaseDeDatos' (I wish I had made up the latter).
Intel sells a compiler. I've only used it briefly a long time ago, but its code generation was well ahead of MSVC at the time even for scalar (non-SIMD) stuff, and I remember GCC was far behind too (it would generate roughly the same performance in microbenchmarks, but far more bloated.)
I have no problem using the desktop display mode on my Oculus Quest 1, it's sharp enough that I can comfortably browse the web or use other apps. It's not as clear as my main physical display so I don't use it exclusively. The displays on the Quest 2 are better and many people use Virtual Desktop with their Quest. I'm expecting Cambria to be yet another notch above that and if it's good enough and if they've really nailed the comfort and weight I'm going to ditch my monitor and switch over to Cambria + Airlink to my desktop. My point is, we're already there and companies like Meta are already targeting these devices as display killers and the next iteration of productivity platforms.
I would love a companion to these pieces that go into details. For instance, how is search different from a database? Why can't search be added to a product?