skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It used to be social media apps for me like facebook and twitter, but now I find others like YouTube and Reddit as equally or even more toxic. Especially reddit, their discussion sections get toxic quick after a few seconds of scrolling. YouTube hiding the number of dislikes also makes it hard to filter videos, as well as youtube likes to recommend world news even for new google accounts, and with such news the recommendations quickly gets political.

Surprisingly, I find tiktok a breath of fresh air. Its algorithm is good as well as it's also designed in a way that you dont need to look at the discussion/comments section, which I find is the biggest time waster. In comparison, other social media apps and even the youtube app will give you a glimpse of the comments section for each post.
Cornell isn’t a fully private university. I really doubt it can do any more censorship than a fully public university.

> Although it's an Ivy League university, chartered as a private institution, it includes undergraduate colleges and schools that receive some funding from New York State. They are sometimes called state contract colleges. The state subsidy results in lower tuition for students who have New York State residency and are enrolled in these colleges or schools

https://cornelladmissions.happyfox.com/kb/article/217-is-cor...
I would think that if there is an emergency in a very rural area, it happens often that people contact the fire dept. / authorities via their radio frequencies, even if it is strictly speaking not legal. I read something the other day where they were looking for a crashed plane, and somebody radioed them with details.
> I assume the most form of verification is checking the github account/reputation.

Did you mean to write "the most [used] form"? If so, it's unreliable. If you change your Git settings to use Torvals' email address, on GitHub it will show up as if your commits were made by his account[1].

[1]: <https://dev.to/martiliones/how-i-got-linus-torvalds-in-my-co...>
Woodworking does come with a distinct lack of "undo" though... that's the thing that tends to get me :P
No one has complete faith in anything. The institutional system in liberal democracies is such that no single institution has all the power, precisely because we don't completely trust the government.

The answer to dysfunctional governments is not get rid of the government. This is just dumb. We need well-functioning governments to enforce human rights, and law and order.
Better by what metric? Ethereum settlements are nearly instant and global, involve no need for a private third party arbiter, and are built on permissionless and open source protocols. Some of the areas they fall short is often around throughput, energy externalities, and user privacy. As the article points out, there are engineering solutions and new cryptography being applied to all three of those problems.
The difference, I think, is that nobody goes to "Substack", they go to particular people on Substack. The existence of low-quality stuff on Substack doesn't have any impact on me at all, since I never see it and don't have to interact with it.

I suppose there is someone out there who actually browses the Substack front page, but this is very far from being the dominant mode for substack content.
Musk pretty much waived all contingencies, the contract is public and easily viewed, that's why twitter was willing to agree so quickly in the first place.
I’m sure we are both right, on different days :)
What does it practically solve that a normal cryptographic signature does not?

Even distributed trust doesn't need a blockchain; web of trust is an example of that.

This is all fairly irrelevant anyway as people do not do not check things before sharing them anyway, and/or trust authenticated information from untrustworthy sources (if Fox News put their reporting on a blockchain, it doesn't suddenly become truth).
Lost me at 'broke the internet'.
The internet also makes it see like a consensus exists when in reality it is a tiny sample of the world. I am also constantly surprised by how many people give advice on a topic they have never actually partaken in, so this consensus may not even be borne of the real world.
Based on these comments I’m surprised that most of this user base is so crypto illiterate. Algorand or even Dash solves 99% of the problems you claim crypto has. Everyone savvy in the space knows btc and eth were always far from the crypto ideal, but they have large economic moat going for them. Crypto is going to change the world for good in a big way. Most of our modern problems stem from economic and political inefficiencies. Crypto can solve both.
That doesn't contradict my point. If you don't care, just grab some distro that seems reasonably prevalent, like Ubuntu or whatever. They have spins or flavors or whatever they're called, but on the website you don't exactly have to make a choice. There's a big "download" button that gives you the "recommended" choice. Install that.

You'll be able to view your files and folders and click a shortcut to run a program. And that process will be quite stable and smooth, I'd argue even more than on Windows, since you can actually find useful apps on the "store", as opposed to having to hunt on random websites.

If you want consistency, presumably over time, then yeah, you may not get that. But neither will you on Windows, who've changed the explorer in Windows 10 and now again in Windows 11. The explorer-like app that seems to have been the most stable is Finder. But then macOS changed in other ways...

It seems you can't really win at this, regardless of your OS of choice... So it think that's not fair to only throw Linux under the bus for this, while praising the others.
So bitcoin "solves" the problem by being non-compliant with local laws and regulations.
>What motivated them? Likely he will give simpleton answers like "power corrupts" or dictatorships are evil without ever understanding the complexity of the situation.

The motivation is very simple: the Uighurs started a separatist movement, and there's little the Chinese government hates more than separatist movements. Now, many governments in the world don't like separatist movements, but you don't see the Spanish government putting Catalonians in concentration camps and forcibly sterilising them.

It's not brainwashed to believe forcibly sterilising people is unacceptable, it's basic Judeo-Christian/humanist values.
> Someone should make a business out of selling them pre-flashed with valetudo for a less technical audience…

From Why Valetudo[0]:

First of all, please do not try to convince people to use Valetudo.

We all know how terribly it usually turns out when people try to
convince their friends to use linux on their desktop. Using Valetudo
only makes sense if you understand its goals and feel like they are
important to you. Everything else will fail.

It is perfectly fine to continue using the cloud if you don’t really
care about its downsides. Do not flame people for doing that. You
can be a bit snarky about downtimes, lag and other cloud shenanigans
though :)

[0] https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/why-valetudo.html
Congratulations, you just (re-)invented UML. Or perhaps the "no no, its not UML" semantically anemic C4 thing with lots of blue squares.
Playing around with the Fuchsia operating system (2020)
that's the struggle of learning any new skill, though. at first you're going to suck, and you're gonna know you suck, but you have to keep going to stop sucking eventually. same with programming.
> Northern Europe + Switzerland has way higher confidence in government than France:

Indeed, IMHO because France is way too jacobinist (centralization + bureaucracy : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_(politics) ).

In Northern Europe and Switzerland subsidiarity is key.

> "Renewables" sound good. "Nuclear" sounds scary. "Chemotherapy"/"radiation therapy" sound scary while "Energy Crystals" sound good. Most cancer patients will still chose the treatment recomended by doctors, because they trust him/her.

Indeed, however there is no serious scientist (bar Placebo effect) working on 'Energy Crystals', but many do work on renewables.

> At the point of elections, public opinion has already been set. The shaping of public opinion is mostly not done by politicians, though. But politicians is noe group that can affect the institutions that shape public opinion.

Indeed, this is a complex and dynamic system, hosting retro-actions and hidden vectors.

>> There is no sure source clearlyu indicating what is preferrable, or even (esp. outside of pure mathematics) what is really 'true'.

> You realize that the sentence above is logically inconsistent with itself? ;)

Yes, and it seems quite 'consistent' (!) because it asserts that no pure logic can, alone, provide a definitive answer when it comes to policies.

> properly executed science is the best approach we have to determine the level of confidence we can have in certains sets of propositions

Yes, a stable scientific consensus should never be neglected.

> Someone who is reasonably bright and educated in the metods of science

Yes! One can check the ability of science to explain, and therefore to efficiently predict. Teachings may benefit from this.

> Climate science, cosmology and economy

Only teaching stable consensual thesis would be a major progress.

> At doses lower than 100mSv

Details/devil. Internal exposure? Nearby which organ? And so on...

> even at 1000mSv, you'll probably live

Someone eating a 1Sv source or inhaling dust may, a few years later, disagree.

> we know that radiation therapy

They target tumors, and use various ways to protect what has to be protected.

> there is a lot of science that is being taught with reasonable success in schools, especially hard sciences

Yes!

> That includes things like the health risks of radiation

I don't consider it as hard science.
Since when job should be fun? Who cares they are rude? It's not like there is some law you must be nice to employee, especially if they are bothering you.

Lived in China for years and yes, IKEA in Beijing is occupied by families enjoying bedrooms and living rooms, sleeping there, hanging there, but I've never seen it as issue and never seen any conflicts, that's just how it works there and I can understand these people considering temperatures in China and some of them not having AC (or saving money).

By your logic you could complain about Chinese/Asians not giving tips or bringing their own drinks to restaurants. These both may seem outrageous to American SJW, but I find it as European actually very nice and logical behavior. Why should I be giving any tips to someone getting salary, do you give tips to policeman, clerk in supermarket or McD staff? Doesn't business ear enough money from the food I order that they need to rob me on drinks as well? Well, I might as well eat at home, if they like it more, if they have problem with me bringing my own drink.
Lying about the security of elections is a bit beyond "not perfect", no?

It's one thing if their security was bad, but they actively covered it up and lied to the public. That shows malice.
The author reasonably concluded that these solutions are early and effectively “beta software” but I think it would be wrong to say they are completely unproven. L2s are currently securing billions of dollars and the amount of block space they take up is on increasing rapidly.[1][2]

The unproven part is whether users will be satisfied enough with the security and censorship considerations of something like a ZK Rollup for it to scale to facilitate a significant part of the world’s economic activity. This is reasonable to question as we are only about 1 year into a range of this tech being heavily applied on mainnet.

https://l2beat.com/

https://dune.com/funnyking/L2-Gas-Consumption
India was under nuclear sanctions until recently and had to build and design everything from scratch. Every component is made in India for PHWR which adds a lot of cost, due to r&d and economies of scale. Also, India is still not a member of NSG, due to repeatedly being blocked by China.
I guess because it's almost impossible to trust an authority which also allows permissionless building on top such data.

Most corps now have proven that they act for their own shareholders and can't be trusted to look after all users.

Gov agencies while are a potential candidate for establishing trustworthy data owners are too beaurocratic to ever allow for permissionaless building on top.

Blockchains sort of allow both trust yourself (by owning private keys) & build permissionlessly on top .
Like they did with the other Mr. Bowser? ;)
Fossy and SQLite are engineering marvels.
english:
commandline heroes - interesting stiff from people who invented the cardridge to the first ransomware- currently on hiatus - https://feeds.pacific-content.com/commandlineheroes
Compiler - explain some technological terms - every two weeks- https://feeds.pacific-content.com/compiler
german:
Logbuch:netzpolitik - talking about german it-news of the last two weeks - every two weeks - https://logbuch-netzpolitik.de/feed/opus
And I am surprised there are still so many illiterates who believe "blockchain technology" is in any way useful. Or indeed anything new.
Calling beetles "unremarkable, ugly insects"? Ancient Egypt begs to differ.

Also, calling your school band "The Nemesis" sounds unbearably conceited.
>Shed with gaps inbetween the walls large enough you can see in from the outsides?

if it makes you feel any better, there's advantages to that too. If the wind can get through it, it's unlikely that moisture will be trapped inside. as long as the gaps aren't so wide that it's raining into the shed, anyway.
Well, that's what the US is currently weaponizing the USD to do. Like when they froze Russia out of the global financial system, but France and Germany kept paying them for natgas and oil.
Thanks for taking the time to explain that to me.
No.

The solution is to have good technical people lead the company, and to give the programmers a good balance of enough direction to know what's important to work on combined with enough freedom to have autonomy in how they achieve it.

Project managers take a company in the opposite direction (99% of the time). Scrum too.
India. The place where Java 2.0 apps are sent to die over time.
Shouldn't that headline be "Sriracha lovers not burned as maker halts production due to pepper shortage" ? xD
This is really intersting.

> In particular, model parallelism is efficient when the amount of computation per neuron activity is high (because the neuron activity is the unit being communicated), while data parallelism is efficient when the amount of computation per weight is high (because the weight is the unit being communicated).

In this case, for fully connected layers, the amount of computation per neuron is high because it is (fully) connected to and from every other neuron in the pervious and following layer, and therefore we want more GPU's to work on those in parallel, so it isn't a time bottleneck?

What does it mean then for to have a high "computation per weight".

>• Convolutional layers cumulatively contain about 90-95% of the computation, about 5% of the parameters, and have large representations.
• Fully-connected layers contain about 5-10% of the computation, about 95% of the parameters, and have small representations.

Wouldn't fc's require more computation since each parameter has more incoming and outgoing values?

I don't doubt this is all accurate and I'm just missing some obvious intuition, but for the sake of learning feel free to explain it if you wish!
Remove the negation from the else please, otherwise LGTM
There are 18609 .c files in my checked-out copy of the FreeBSD src tree. The median length is 258 lines; 90% are 1373 lines or shorter; 99% are 5241 lines or shorter.

The statistics for the 6071 .c files in the FreeBSD kernel are somewhat higher -- median is 460 lines; 90th percentile is 2070 lines; 99th percentile is 7678 lines -- but your example of a 11133 line file is definitely at the extreme high end.
Fastify v4 Released
Why would they mean "Europe needs something like Schengen" when Europe already has Schengen?
There are plenty of existing laws for dealing with scammers and fraudsters, why not use them? Also, are victims really victims when they knowingly buy into scams "because of greed"? At the very least, they don't seem to be the ones calling for a cryptocurrency ban.

I disagree that there is a monolithic "crypto community" that encourages scams. For example, a great deal of the Bitcoin community is fervently anti altcoin and many even consider Ethereum as a "shitcoin".

Regarding utility, everyone is entitled to their opinion. I disagree. There was a time in my life when I was "unbanked" and Bitcoin was the only way I could transact online. In the end, utility is subjective and it is not the government's job to decide whether something has utility or not.
I was wondering if he made a bet with someone that Twitter had more than 5% bots. Sure, it's a relevant metric for valuation, but if you're serious about buying, do you really want to drag your target through the mud? Seems like due diligence you'd do behind closed doors.
>Most of them have trouble ever making a profit

They just do the accounting in a specific way to reduce taxes. It's on such a scale that it has its own name: Hollywood accounting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
Because we don't want the road owner be able to demand extortionate fees to use their road?
Why does it look like that at first?
>An interview proces exists to fill a position

That's really not how it works in Big Tech. The company is ravenous for anyone and everyone in the world who clears "the bar." Requisitions and headcount quotas are a way of apportioning bar-clearing candidates among teams/EMs, but the company never reaches some state of having filled the open positions and being done with hiring. And as an individual engineer, you're expected to help interview for sister teams (sometimes quite distantly related) so you never do either.

Even when hiring for my own team I have never seen a discussion like "okay we've seen 7 candidates for this role, let's pick the best one." It is always just take it or leave it for each candidate as they come. The goal is to get as many people as possible in the door. Making the interview easier would fit our goals quite well, it's just a social taboo, so instead we do things like cast a wider net and spend more hours interviewing.
These are a bit different. Derivatives is a complex product based on more fundamental products. Synthetic product is what it sounds like, stocks are a great example. You can create a synthetic stock with the same price as the real one and let people trade it.
> Now zero dynamics examples must have no effect on the system. Thus it is not a zero if you continuously chugging ice cream

Thank you for your input! I wonder if you might have misread that example. In this system there's indeed a RHP0 in the transfer function from ice cream consumption happiness. A continuously increasing rate of ice cream intake results in exactly no effect on the output.
Swinging Gait
involuntary swinging of the arms forward and backward while walking.

* Synchronously when in both arms.

<https://github.com/jadsaklawi/the-lowball/issues/1>
You've perfectly described one half of what makes me uneasy about "boots theory" which is the added risk of making fewer, larger purchases. The other half is that I find that often the more expensive choice does not have as much quality as needed. Boots theory depends on finding product choices where quality (ie durability, ie expected lifetime) increases faster than price. But my personal experience is that quality increases slower than price. I worry that most boots that cost say 5x the baseline budget boot might have less than 5x the "quality" and therefore expected lifetime. I'd guess my last boots were 5x price, 3x quality, so buying them cost me 2x the cost of the budget boot in terms of lost lifetime value. Finding that boot that has >5x quality is difficult and requires all sorts of extra work working out what reviews to trust etc, and risky because if you make a mistake you could be out of pocket for many multiples of the budget choice cost.

Boots theory is attractive because it's pretty obvious that more expensive products are nearly always better quality. But what actually matters is whether the increase in quality is greater than the increase in price, which I think is much less obvious.
GAN as a Face Renderer for ‘Traditional’ CGI
Which mostly means the evacuation was far too aggressive, but even if we pretend they were unavoidable that's basically all the nuclear deaths for multiple decades, which is vastly less harm than fossil fuels.
Google actually managed to ship a grammar checker that works entirely locally on its devices. Here's a technical blog on how it's done: https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/10/grammar-correction-as-you-...
How do you defend against a 51% attack in an environment where Bitcoin mining is increasingly uneconomic?
I'd be interested in reading those summaries. Would you care to link?
Swift's use case for backend are those iDevice apps that also need to talk to something, so even if that is the only use case Apple cares about Swift on Linux, it is already a bigger number than many languages can aspire to.
How is the firehouse “all the data”?

It’s just the posts. Probably the most useless part of the data if your goal is bot detection.

But people seem to fall for it.
The technique described in the paper is different than what major stores have been doing for years, making your statement incorrect.
Thank you for reading! I agree the Earth is a much worthier system to be worried about than the economy, for sure.
Why is this major news not on the front page of HN ?
My issue lies with software engineers making associations that society is like software.

The causal factors behind why societies fail and why software projects fail are completely different. Complexity is a description of the system and a very bad measure to draw an equivalence between the two.

The risk with drawing this equivalence is it grants license to software engineers to think that similar enough models apply to "managing software" as
"managing societies". Because when all you have is a hammer... But society is not a nail.
+1 for Kmail. One detail I found is that it's underlying engine, Akonadi, is unstable/prone to unsolvable problems (I tried!). Debian stable's version is however, of course, rock steady.
"Suddenly" is a bit reductive, no?

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/utes3n/comment/...

I find it hard to believe that someone so rich, yet so petty will "save humanity".
And AI can get the senior discount at rite-aid. You don’t have an argument
> Realtors are a state-sanctioned monopoly for real estate transactions

You know you can buy a house without a single realtor involved yeah?
Spicy! But there is a story here. But it's about power, prestige, and how that's not supposed to go to the nerds who know how to fix the AV equipment, it's supposed to go to the jock, the politician, the salesman. It's probably very galling to a certain type of person that someone who cares about stupid shit like entropy, or instruction sets, or packet congestion (to pick a suitably random assortment of things) to be paid well, and worse, to be expected to be paid well. Who do they think they are?!

(Technically speaking, the reason compensation is good is because we are the human components of the incredible shrinking machine that can squeeze a set of HCI into a state so small you can squirt billions of copies around the world effectively for free. And that is a valuable thing to be able to do, it turns out, for all kinds of people for all kinds of reasons.)
This. Thank you for clarifying
MIT/BSD licenses are essentially a copyright waiver.
In crypto, transaction fees don't reflect actual transaction costs, because transaction processors are being paid with newly minted coins in addition to the fees, so it's not really an accurate comparison.