skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Among my TV jobs, I was a science reporter in a highly rated news show in Israel. Younger, more educated audience, relatively long attention spans and all.

Because the EP trusted my judgement, Science items on that show had 4 minutes max, which was very generous, considering that news items can be given 1:40-2:00 on 8pm news and 2:30 for late-night.

During those 4 minutes, every box of daily journalism still had to be checked:

• Is it clear?

• Does it explain why it's news?

• Is it informing people of an ongoing event they're familiar with?

• If it's entirely new, are they given enough context to make independent judgement?

Unfortunately, scientific content rarely checks these boxes. If you want to explain the LIGO gravitational waves discovery or the Higgs Boson discovery, you can't give enough background for the user to feel informed other than "scientists believe this is significant" - so it's only fit for print. If you want to explain a new discovery in 4 minutes, it better come with a demo, that demo better be rendered/filmed like a product video, or people lose interest.

So the science you end up covering is either from highly funded labs (think labs in Harvard and MIT that have DOD/industry sponsorship), or venture-funded companies with whitepapers and cool demos.

If you're lucky, you have a relationship with the labs, and you get to serve as their informal media adviser. I often met with professors for coffee to teach them to make press kits for their papers.

As a researcher, if you do market your paper, you run the risk of the press distorting it, as OP said.

tl;dr: science is slow and rigorous. News defers rigor to the extent permitted by law. Incentives follow.
This research gives evidence that outgroup aggression feels good/rewarding. I’d tend to think this is hard-wired biologically. You’re right that it could conceivably be trained, but that’s not what it felt like for me as a young male in college.

While many people (myself included) could anecdotally say that aggression to an outgroup can feel good, it’s the job of science to look for the hard evidence in the brain. This quote from the researchers seemed key:

> “This finding helps to balance the narrative about the psychological processes that underlie aggression against outgroup members, which typically emphasizes negative emotional states such as anger and fear,” Chester said.
Perhaps, and studies such as these should have to withstand such questioning. But.....

The problem as I see it isn't expiremntal design. The problem is larger scientific "design." To learn something useful with a sufficiently nuances understanding would take a lot of studies. Replication, redesign, boundary testing of the hypothesis, re-theorizing, etc. Science is supposed to be a process.

With this, it may be possible to arrive at usable knowledge about human psychology and why/how we behave badly. This smattering of disparate studies, even if they were well designed and executed.... It just doesn't lead anywhere.

If expiremnts and studies were pieces in a larger scientific endeavour, I think both quality issues resilience to quality issues would improve naturally.
How do the laws play out in practice? If bunny.net started storing user agent and IP address information indefinitely, and someone complained, how likely is it enforcement action is actually enacted on them? It seems such a low-impact privacy violation would be a waste of time for a GDPR/etc agency to focus on compared to things like ad companies selling location data.
That's incorrect. Decoupling money from the government is a goal that predates crypto by quite a bit[0][1].

For most people in the first world, cryptocurrency is not an app that will instantly make your life better like Airbnb or Uber. It's a lot more deep and abstract than that. The idea is to separate money from the government. If you don't value financial privacy or don't think the government's ability to arbitrarily inflate the money supply is problematic, it's going to be hard to convince you. How would you respond to someone in China asking: "How does free speech make my life better?" or "How does democracy make my life better?". It's not really a question that can be easily answered with an elevator pitch.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Federal_Reser...

[1] https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
It’s easier to talk about feeding children to ignore stuff like out of control military acquisition or allowing oil companies to pillage public lands for peanuts.
I have mixed feelings about both Thiel and his “Zero to One” coauthor Blake Masters who is running for Senator in my state of Arizona. I really don’t like either of their politics, but I enjoyed reading their book twice and agree with them on a a few philosophical things.
Sugar metabolism is very interesting.

Sucrose is metabolized in a different pathway than fructose. Fructose is directly metabolized by the liver, which is why things like High Fructose Corn Syrup is devastating for your body. HFCS directly causes fatty liver disease because as the fructose is metabolized by the liver, that’s where the fat accumulated. Fatty liver disease causes things like cirrhosis of the liver which could cause cancer.

I used to drink 6 Cokes a day and my liver blood tests were so high (ALT and AST) that my GP was worried I had liver cancer. I got an ultrasound and I only had fatty liver disease but it was pretty severe. I was overweight but not obese as per BMI. That “scared me straight” and once I started to lose weight my ALT and AST responded instantly.

I have a CGM and when I have cheat days and have Cheetos and a Coke, my blood sugar levels still spike to almost 300 which is diabetic levels but drop back to normal pretty quickly. Food like Cheetos are very quickly turned into blood sugar unnaturally quickly which is why processed carbs are extremely terrible for you and a major cause of pre diabetes.
Poor reporting, back stories from each one could have been much interesting.
Stops the biggest advertiser from profiling you on every site, obviously.
>It'd make the RISC-V ESP32 look wimpy.

I fear you vastly underestimate how fast even the simpler RISC-V microarchitectures are, and probably also overestimate the Pentium.
I remember how mad I was at PCs when the BIOS slowed down text output because CGAs couldn’t keep the video signed up while the computer was writing to video memory.

My Apple II could write text faster than a PC.

> It was like it just output the last page only.

There are times you want the scrolling so you have an idea of how much went by the terminal.
Thanks so much.

Yep a few different sources including HN if the article has enough points. Also a bunch of industry niche blogs.

There’s also a little machine learning in there that aims to identify high quality relevant stories. I use this mainly with the Google news stories as they can sometime be a bit irrelevant.
I really love that the AMDGPU modules are Open Source and well integrated into the kernel. With my 6600XT flickerfree boot works thanks to KMS, Wayland just works (sway), gaming works great, accelerated video decoding and encoding works, smooth video player with hardware accelerated frame interpolation works, PCIe Reset for Hardware Accelerated Windows VM supposidely works (untested for me) and all essentially out of the box (baring setup and installation of the individual components/libs).

When it comes to linux GPUs, AMDs Open Source Driver strategy paid off, because I bought mine explicitly because of their great linux support.
Why we're rethinking the images we use for our climate journalism (2019)
It ought to be possible to guide a diffusion-based model to make several panels about a single, consistent, AI-invented character.

It can already generate several independent images containing known characters that are in the training data (Obama, Pikachu, etc.)
You counted them?
Developer's time is much more expensive than CPU's. So much more CPU's time is spent ("wasted") to save some amount of developer's time. This includes developer's s study time, that is, hiring less educated and experienced developers.

In 1990s we had a similar effect: the CPU performance and RAM sizes grew so rapidly that "poorly written" and "bloated" software became "butter-smooth" and "lightweight" in a couple of years. Now we have the cloud instead, when spinning a dozen more instances or upgrading to a slightly more expensive plan gives the performance boost that solves many bottlenecks (much) cheaper than paying a team of 3 developers to spend 6 extra months to do things right.

The endless CPU growth gravy train stopped in mid-2000s. I wonder when the endless cloud scaling train will slow down materially.
as a trained artist - I find this cancerous. Is it not obvious that some extreme computer users are explicitly going into the most sensitive and therefore fragile aspects of human life.. like a thrill seeker addict going for more and more intensity.. major no
The first rule of the utopia is not questioning the utopia ;)
My house in Seattle has such a twin, two miles south. The only difference is the directional suffix: their street is South, while ours - unlike most Seattle streets - does not have a directional. Of course this has led to constant delivery mix-ups, when Google or some other service helpfully "corrects" our address to the other. My own sister once mistakenly followed her GPS to the wrong house!
Whatever, I'm not going to argue on HN.

"passing laws to arm teachers" is hyperbolic and meant to rile up emotions and this effect couldn't be more obvious on GP.
That's definitely an optimistic spin on Nietzschean resentment morality.
I propose:

The quick brown bunny jumps over the lazy dog, here, fixed.
"This app would like to use location services"

'Allow'

Or

'Uninstall'
Where I live it is only mandatory to use the bike line if there is a sign mandating it (blue circle with a bike drawn in it), but otherwise bikes are free to take the road if they prefer (because many of bike lines are in bad shape, too narrow, or shared with the pedestrian)

And the road designer know that because the road marking near traffic lights still have spacial mark for the cyclist, despite the bike line next to it.
Precisely.

Google has standing for workplace sexual abuse. If I am a member of a religious / national / ethnic / etc. group with a track record of sexual abuse, I cannot be fired for that. That's discrimination.

There are many minefields here.

- I've seen many community members where I live boycott (unrelated) Russian businesses since Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

- I saw Muslims in the US persecuted after 9/11.

- I live in a Protestant/Atheist community which seems to hate Catholics.

- Etc.

Every large group has a bad component. There was sexual abuse in the Catholic church, 9/11 happened, the US did kill around a million Muslims in recent decades, and Russia shouldn't have invaded Ukraine. Laws are designed to protect individuals from generalization or stereotypes about from the group they're from, whether true or not.

Nepotism, for the most part, is legal in the US; it's just bad business beyond some scale. For a startup, the right strategy is often to hire people you know to be good personally. That's often friends and family. For a family business, the goals aren't purely economic, and again, it's fine practice. For large businesses, it tends to be bad business, but that doesn't make it illegal. Ditto for self-dealing.

There are restrictions for non-profits, public employees, etc. but those aren't general to private businesses like Google.
Last summer I completed a cross-USA ride from Oregon to Virginia, over 3000 miles. It was the most fulfilling amazing experience of my life. My family is tired of hearing me start sentences with 'when I was on my ride'. That said it was scary at times. In the US some places are outright hostile to cyclists. I was flipped off, coated in exhaust by big diesel burning trucks (on purpose), and run off the road multiple times (not sure if intentionally). It truly is an amazing experience but the lack of bike infra in this country is so sad. My next ride is going to be an off-road one where I don't have to worry about cars.
What you folks think about text to speech services? I tend to actually enjoy following a highlighted text while listening.
For both bunny.net and Google Fonts, using a CDN is useless with the advent of timing attacks related to the browser cache https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24894135. Storing fonts on the same domain avoids a DNS lookup and extra TCP connection.
Surely you realize that if a modern sophisticated government wants to see your data, they are going to be able to access it, even if it’s stored in the Netherlands? What threat are you protecting yourself against?
Am I reading it right that this was a 20k bounty only?
I probably sleep the laptop several times a day. This could explain the issue, because when I’ve run Disk Inventory X it shows lots of large files that I can’t figure out.

I have my Mac set to never pre-download software updates though.

If writing RAM to disk is the issue, what’s the solution?
It's just that science is easy to verify for the people that know how. If you are actual expect of any other topics (thus can verify if their news is any good), you'll find the news for those topics is at best as bad as for science, if not much worse. News cannot be 100% faithful to the material it covers, and the more you understand about the topics, the more discrepancy you can see.
I remember KMS becoming a thing and wondering why anyone needed or wanted this. I still don't exactly know, since it seemed natural to me that the kernel shouldn't be doing any graphics things until I actually wanted a graphical console. I suppose this is more of a microkernel view of things, since similarly you could argue that the kernel doesn't need to know about disks and filesystems, only programs that need to access pesky files need to do that.
I wonder if this research gives hints as to why rivalries are “fun”? Even when you know the in/out group distinction is silly, little aggressions like “boooo Cocks!” can tickle reward areas in the brain. Akin to how scary movies are fun even when you know you’re not in danger.
I thought Democrats also cared about keeping the church out of the state? Which is also a restriction on the freedom of the teachers to get preachy, and I can easily imagine someone upset and demanding "I want the right to pray before each class"… not that I would sympathise with them: my memories of school include being annoyed by the mandatory religion, as my parents sent me to a Catholic school (in the UK, though IIRC in the UK even non-religious schools are currently required to have regular Christian-themed assemblies).
Ummm... looks as bad as you'd expect? What is there to talk about?
Naturally the first comments here are criticisms that the characters change from frame to frame, but I think that's worth putting aside, since any rational person will understand that systems like DALL-E will have the ability to maintain a level of continuity between images in the near future (if it's not already there and just not exposed).

Besides that, this is pretty good - certainly a few things that don't seem quite ideal (the fifth frame doesn't seem to capture the meaning of the text especially well), but enough to make you think that in not too long, it is fully plausible that DALL-E will be fully able to act as an illustrator for this use case. On the one hand, pretty exciting. On the other, certainly harrowing for children's book illustrators.

I wonder how long it will be before I can use this for my marketing emails. I sell dog treats, and I have a fairly simple template with an image at the top. That's almost always a photo of my products and/or my dogs. How long before I can just ask for an image from DALL-E for something like "Dog sitting next to grill in back yard with American flags and other patriotic decorations" for the top of my Fourth of July email? How long before I can feed it a picture of my products and have it generate photorealistic images of dogs eating them, thus replacing the photographer I use for product shoots? It's an exciting prospect for me as a small business owner - lots of time and money saved in an area where I'm not an expert - but definitely pretty scary for people who create visual imagery of any kind.
Could be a comment to an alien report on why humanity didn't pass the great filter...
Should be taught in schools.

Sadly many children (and adults) are killed riding bicycles across crosswalks.

Then there's all the (mostly) women killed by trucks turning right.
Most relationships in capitalism are symbiotic, yes, but just like the natural world, predatory and even parasitic relationships abound as well.
> Teachers are now on YouTube reviewing the latest bullet proof backpacks for kids.

Reading this, my first thought was 'This must be a joke, surely'. But, sadly, it isn't.
> shall ride as near to the right side of the right through lane as is safe

...so basically what the grandparent is saying?
An Interview with Sebastián Ramírez, Founder of FastAPI
Why is that all the taxi app should do?

Getting a message "heavy traffic, your car has been delayed" is what everyone else seeming rational really wants. Messaging and awareness of the current state of the transaction they are in.
Everything is about clicks.
The majority are women. Perhaps they won't work and their families will accept a lower cost of living. Perhaps into service jobs. A decent chunk are close to retirement age anyway.
Adjustable font sizes is already a huge thing for me personally.
When I graduated in 2008 teachers were doing this. Most I knew had second jobs in the summer. Never really heard of teachers using the summer as a vacation unless they had a spouse who made more money.
As somebody who grew up a very fast reader, for me "improving my reading speed" has meant slowing down. Because my goal isn't finishing a book faster, but having deeper understanding.

Things I've used there: notetaking, underlining, pausing and/or putting the book down at the end of chapters, talking with people about the book I'm reading, and actively subvocalizing.

That last one requires a little explanation. For me as a kid, reading was a visual process. I did not hear words in my head. This let me go way faster, but I missed out on things. Puns, for example. It's also not good for appreciating poetry and the like; at 11 or so I remember reading the Lord of the Rings and being just irritated by the blocks of poems or song lyrics. I didn't really appreciate poetry until I started listening to poets recite their own works.

Eventually I realized that a lot of prose was better appreciated at a slower speed, either because of the rhythms of the writing or because if I was going too fast I wasn't thinking about the content enough.

There's plenty of stuff I'll still read very quickly, though, up to the edge of skimming and beyond. But it's sort of like driving past a neighborhood on a busy street versus taking my time walk through it. The faster I go, the more I miss, especially of the subtle stuff.
I commuted everyday using my bicycle and did a few tours in my 20s here in Europe. Those were the best travel experiences I had in my life, especially when my partner joined me on one of my tours. But few months into my 30s I hurt my back (two herniated discs) and although I'm mostly fine now I can't ride a bicycle for longer periods. This depresses me quite a bit. I miss the freedom, views and the community.

I started to think about buying a recumbent bike for touring but there's no one around me who owns or sells one to try it.
Yes, when bicycling in my town in Southern California, I often avoid the marked bicycle routes in favor of less busy streets with no marked bicycle route.
$20k seems a bit low for a chain of 5 exploits that defeat the entire security model on their flagship product, but what do I know.

Interesting to see that one of the most impactful exploits is in an open source library.
Yes, and the way I did was just by reading more, but reading speed is quickly capped by reading comprehension. Be skeptical of anyone who claims very high words-per-minute (WPM), for they do not comprehend what they read, but fool themselves into believing they do.

Similarly, not everything can be understood at the same speed - certain things demand slower reading. And this is where you have to ask yourself: "What am I reading this for? What do I hope to get out of this? How well do I need to understand this?". The answer to these questions will inform your reading speed.
Thank you.
Happy Father's day.
It's an important job.
Trying to make the world a better place, through our progeny.
What's popular is truth for most people, since humans are herd animals, and being a contrarian can mean being marginalized.

In the antebellum South slavery was morally right, and it required to be a true outlier to speak out against it. People didn't independently discover this morality, they just copied what's popular.
Oh no... Is this another "Harvard men do a study of Harvard men to find out about Harvard men" study?

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=04152016
Since this is pretty new, some background:

WARC is a file format written and read by a rather small but specialized set of web crawler tools, most notably the internet archive's tooling. For example, its java-based crawler heretrix produces warc files.

There are a couple of other very cool tools, such as warcprox, which can create web archives from web browser activity by acting as a proxy, pywb which play back the same to make archived versions browsable, and related libraries [1](shoutout to Noah Levitt, Ilya Kreymer and collaborators for building all this).

The file format itself is an iso standard, and it's very simple: Capture all http headers sent and received, and all http bodies sent and received, and do simple de-duplication based on digests of the body.

There is a companion format, CDX, which builds indexes from warc files (which in turn are just concatenated records, so rather robust).

Although all of this is great, I worry a bit about where we're heading with QUIC / udp-based protocols, websockets and other very involved protocols which ultimately make archival much harder.

If there's anything you can do to help these (or other) tools to keep our web's archival records alive and flowing, please do so.

[1] https://github.com/internetarchive/warcprox
Because git is a version control system that is so in love with its data structure, it can't find time to make the rest of the system coherent or useful.
Of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I think the Buzludzha Monument in Bulgaria should be included in the list. They should offer it to Elon Musk for the global headquarters of his empire.

https://www.nomadasaurus.com/exploring-bulgarias-ufo-the-buz...
this will never happen.

outside of the imperial centers, "big tech" have already reached into governments.

for example, latin america governments make it very difficult to schedule a dmv visit without a cellphone number AND a meta/facebook's whatsApp account. While all public universities accepted a free google meet account for covid time remote classes, and now got a surprise multimillion bill to access material uploaded to the system after the original offer period.

things are already way past the point of no return.

while rich engineers are busy fiddling with websites to solver their own problems (could your immediate family have hailed that ride when in a similar situation?) companies have already encroached themselves in the very foundation of the institutions that could solve this via public policy.
Yes, but without WSL you had to install SUA (Subsystem for Unix Applications) which gave you a shell and all the Unix things you like, so it's really not different (even if the POSIX it gave you was really old and crusty).

I actually liked SUA more than WSL, which I like more than WSL2, since it seems like they keep moving farther and farther away from making Windows actually POSIX compliant and instead just offering a container for your pesky POSIX needs.