skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fascinating study. It would carry more currency with me if the ngrams used were learned through ML and corpus training rather than heuristics.

I would have significantly less confidence. How would you learn such a set? You then would need a set of texts that are clearly labeled from people with cognitive dissonance and without. I don't think such a set exists. Also note that the n grams have been tested previously for individuals (ref 17 in the paper)

Your post points to another interesting line of research (and maybe that is what you meant), can we find correlations between the language used in previous periods of unrest, e.g. in Germany the period of WW2 and other periods.

> It’s also worth considering that technical language (computing, for example) made great leaps around this same time period and bled into common parlance.

The authors specifically mention this, but it should bias the results in the other direction, i.e. technical work has less prevalence of the ngrams according to the authors (I'm unsure if they tested this).

>. Overall it feels like a great area to study, and as good science does, presents more questions than it does answers. There is much more to explore here though before we can conclude the entire world is depressed.

Note that the authors are very cautious about making any such claims and in fact acknowledge the question if applying these markers to societies is valid

> I am not an expert in linguistics, but I do feel as though there is a modern element missing from this research.

I'm not sure I understand. To me it seems like quite solid research (although I admit I don't know much about CDS markers...) without using some hype methods like ML just for the sake of it.
I'm in a similar situation.

I would like a serverless and distributed solution, that supports: username & password, SSO discovery, SAML 2, federated SAML, OIDC, OAuth2, magic links, permissions, rules for assigning users to groups based on attributes, deletion automation, multi-tenancy and - of course - excellent security and monitoring.

We pay a lot of money to Okta at the moment, and have to use another solution "on top" to support federated SAML.

We'd rather all this be in our own AWS account and globally distributed so personal data never leaves the users country of origin.

Not asking for much surely?
The issue is not the precise distance, but that police officers can arrest you for being too close.

Let's say you were 4m away and got arrested anyways. The officer stopped you from filming and it deterred others to start filming too.

Even if the charges get dropped later on (which they might not), the police already succeeded in stopping you from filming.
In an important sense, this particular conflict is (as yet) dramatically better than these -- it hasn't involved thousands of people bickering for many years.
Yes, but you have to email the HN mods, so there's a form of review built into the process. It can't be done unilaterally.
For what it's worth, I ended up putting Marginalia Search behind Cloudflare to deal with what I assume is the same group. At worst I saw 30k queries per hour.
"...with 14 hours of battery life" - yes, maybe, but did you see it comes with a large battery (73Wh instead of the usual ~55Wh)? Thinkpad X1s can do ~10-12 hours on the smaller battery. So this is nothing to brag about really. 12th Gen Intel is still way behind the M1, unfortunately.

I also don't get the FHD (16:9) screen, it seems like the Clevo shell has not been updated from past years... :(
It's untenable with current launch vehicles. Do you think current launch vehicles are the sine qua non of launcher technology, for centuries into the future? We don't have to shoot stuff into space right this moment.
But they would have received training to react correctly in case of fire.
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I'd be curious to know if HN was on ZFS.
Yeah, but this is only half-true. BYD produces as much hybrids as full-EVs, so Tesla is still the biggest maker of full EVs.

What I was saying: If you extrapolate year-over-year sales of full EVs, Volkswagen will likely sell more full EVs than TSLA sometime this year.
You need to force the senior staff to come (because they want to) or else there's nobody for the junior staff to learn from. That's basically the trade-off: senior freedom vs. junior learning
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Given the agreement, it sure seems to me that Twitter's natural value is currently $44 billion dollars.
>> London

Yip, things in London are quite different than the rest of the UK.

While Openreach has to allow access to other providers to its infrastructure, most infrastructure is owned and controlled by BT.

If you want FTTP, the underlying service is still BT Openreach. Openreach is very profitable.

At my previous employer it cost us £30K to have BT put in 3000m of fibre that took them 1 afternoon, then it cost £1K a month for a 30Mbs service.

BT owns provides the vast majority of broadband service in the UK and it is somewhat disingenuous to claim BT is on an equal footing as Hyperoptic, VM, or Community Fibre.

TT and Sky use BT OR infra, and EE, Plusnet, and BT Retail are all owned by the BT Group.

The telecom market in the UK is very consolidated and controlled by BT.
It matters because that will probably be one of the deciding factors should this eventually be assessed in court.
Ask HN: How do you tackle fear of missing out(FOMO) as a nerd with ADHD?
Generally in media, FOMO refers to person missing important information about important incidents, occasions related to friends and relatives(ex: parties, firstborn of your sister). I am okay with that, I do not like Facebook culture much.

But I am interested about scientific, technical, dev related news like new libraries / products / research articles. I have FOMO for those things. I want to stay updated about those things, since those new things(libraries, products) can help me to save time in my work. I mostly use HN, Reddit to get news, updates. But I cannot keep watching those platforms for every day since my ADHD loves stimulating things and I keep running into rabbit holes where I do nothing for the rest of the day. I was thinking about only visiting those platforms once month, but a lot of content have gathered during the month and I may have a lot of missing things too.

I know new libraries / products / research may get outdated, discontinued, invalidated quickly, but there can be things that last a while which I may be interested. Furthermore, I know with information is exploding on the platforms I mentioned and no one will be able to keep update about every thing and most info are of poor quality. What I want is to keep up to date about the domains I am interested on those platforms.

Currently, I use RSS feeds to keep up-to-date with things I am interested, but I have no solution for platform like HN, Reddit (I know there is RSS for those platforms, but they are not smart enough to recommend what I am interested) Is there any solution for this?

Or are there any practical tips to tackle this FOMO issue?

Or should I accept that I will miss things, it is okay, check those platforms when I can?

Any advice highly appreciated!
"Safeguards against the rule of men" were not built into the Declaration of Independence (which I assume you're referring to given your mention of God) or the Constitution until the 13th Amendment of 1865. Congress deleted criticism of the slave trade from the Declaration before final approval (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_men_are_created_equal)
Yes yes! It’ll be a amazing feature that can enable automation and save tons of time. Logto supports these hooks technically, and we can productize it in the near future.

Thank you for the great feedback. Stay tuned. :-P
Yep.

Once you get the processes and pipelines built to manage account lifecycle, they provide a lot of valuable compartmentalization properties.
Because “social sciences” aren’t science. These stories come up on HN and there’s always lots of smart left brain people trying to puzzle through this as if it’s not just based on reading tarot cards.
Well that is getting close to an ongoing trend I see in wider society. I do not need anyone else to approve of my life style. If someone told me a lifestyle choice I made was to them a "failure". I would seek to understand why, evaluate if their logic has any application to my life and if not simply shrug and disgard thier opinion. If I instead it did have value I would see if I wanted to make a change

The fact the people judge other people actions based on their worldview is just a fact of life. Seeking that external validation of ones life choices to me shows insecurities in those choices.

In order have a pluralist society we have to be a to allow people to "think less of us" while still engaging, talking, and transacting with them. If we instead simply reject everyone that does not share our worldview then that is a monoculture, and most likely and dystopian society as well
Yeah the second I heard webassembly was a thing, I knew it was just a matter of time before someone implemented flash in it.

Cool stuff!!
I love this because my favorite font is there. And it’s very liberally licensed.
Depends on your vendor as well.

A long time ago we had a Dell server which was pre setup raid from Dell (don't ask, I didn't order it). Eventually one disk on this server died, what sucked was that the second disk in the raid array also failed only a few minutes later. We had to restore from backup which sucked but to our surprise when we opened the Dell server the two disks had sequential serial numbers. They came from the same batch at the same time. Not a good thing to do when you sell people pre configured raid systems at a mark up...
The Fediverse can be pretty toxic
I was working too much, so glad it's back too. Needed a break asap!
When I first heard this problem I did find the solution. There is a way to reason through it, and it doesn't require inspiration, Now having watching this video all the way through (at 2x speed with sub-titles) I'm disappointed to see that he doesn't explore how to solve this kind of problem, but simply presents the solution without any reasoning about how you can get started. Agreed, he does outline most of the proofs you need, and some of the obvious extensions, but there's no higher-level consideration.

But what I'm really disappointed about is how he off-handedly disses some of the other videos about this, with no acknowledgement that they have different audiences, and are aiming at different levels.
No, it doesn’t. The entire value of Twitter depends on their entire monetization. That comes from revenue per mDAU, not just mDAU.

Why should a disinterested, objective financier care if $1 billion dollars of revenue came with a real figure of 20% spambots rather than the estimated 5%? That just means true revenue per mDAU is something like 18% better than estimated.

If the real number is 50%, then true revenue per user is about double. If the real number is actually 99%, true revenue per user is about 20x. There would also probably be some very quick wins for improving the quality of the service.

There may be an argument for needing accurate mDAU figures - but Musk isn’t making one, the financiers didn’t ask for them, the market has NEVER had accurate figures for social media anyway, and there’s no legal standard for it.
Yes for the past few decades we've been dealing with HTML5 and related technologies. And while great for laying out simple websites, it pales in comparison to things like Flash in terms of building interactive games and animations. It's just not made to do that stuff and attempts to make it do stuff like that anyway tend to involve a lot of hackery, and workarounds for it's many limitations. Sometimes somebody manages something really nice with it but it seems to be non trivial to deliver good results consistently with it.

People frequently call out how wonderful "native" applications are compared to web applications are fundamentally talking about these limitations. Most web applications that also have mobile applications deliver a second rate and more mediocre experience on the web. With Canvas, WebGL, WASM, etc. a lot of that can now be addressed. Hence ruffle being able to deliver the experience we had decades ago when people routinely knocked out all sorts of things in Flash that are near impossible to do with HTML 5/JS without a lot of work.

All IOS and Android do is provide programmers a robust component library and a modern development experience around it; which is something web developers simply don't have and never have had. The built in browser components are pretty poor in comparison and the stuff people hack around that isn't a whole lot better typically. That's why people prefer native: richer components that work smoother and better. It's just nicer. And less work.

After two decades, I don't believe HTML5 + JS/CSS is actually fixable. There's a technical gap with "native" applications in terms of what it can be made to do. Luckily, with WASM, we don't have to. Ruffle is a nice example of that. Applications like Figma show that UIs in a browser can be fast, responsive, and slick. I see it as an early example of a new style application that mostly just opts out of the traditional web stack and its limitations.

WASM is only going to get better. Jetbrains actually silently released a WASM compiler for Kotlin recently that currently requires several experimental flags on Chrome to enable all the new features it needs for e.g. garbage collection and a few other things. Once that stuff stabilizes in browsers, there's going to be an influx of languages that don't do manual memory management and those languages will bring new tools and component frameworks. It will become basically a general purpose architecture you can target with pretty much anything that has a compiler. Doing DOM/CSS based work with that is going to be possible of course. But driving a "native" framework that bypasses that, probably makes more sense for a lot of things.
> Sure, let’s pretend the entire market hasn’t sunk.

Why does that matter? Musk agreed to buy Twitter for $44 billion. If he comes through, that's the value of Twitter. If he doesn't, then the value is something else. The difference between $44 billion and fair market value is just the expectation of investors that Musk really will pay. So yeah the drop really _is_ due to Musk trying to back out of the deal. If Musk weren't backing out of the deal, then then Twitter's value shouldn't drop regardless of the fact that the rest of the market has.
Only if you are used to hiDPI in the first place.
>> career growth

Sorry, I don't buy in the fetishisation of that and being instantly available.

If someone needs to get in touch with me, then they will.
Network transfer is only a small part of the equation.

You can't just rsync files into a fully managed RDS PostgreSQL or Elasticsearch instance. You'll probably need to do a dump and restore, especially if the source machine has bad disks and/or has been running a different version. This will take much longer than simply copying the files.

Of course you could install the database of your choice in an EC2 box and rsync all you want, but that kinda defeats the purpose of using AWS and containerizing in the first place.
Just pray that the cost isn't 10 times normal one and can only be used 9 times.
It wasn’t my intention to claim to be an expert on the situation, as much as it was mostly to share a story and point out that there’s a large grey area here.

The parent definitely was factual and correct, but the tone made it sound a bit as if they thought my reasons for doing so were incorrect. That would be a bit of a stretch, and I think that’s what was bothering @naikrovek
And in fact Data Genetics is s great blog with loads of interesting content on maths, statistics and simulation.

One that I've used as inspiration for a programming class I was teaching is his analysis of Snakes and Ladders: https://datagenetics.com/blog/november12011/index.html
Since a view years United Internet (mail.com, gmx.de, web.de) verifies some big players. So a email from Paypal, eBay or Postbank is visibly different from a standard email. (In the Web and App UI. Of course not if you use IMAP.) IIRC it has a individual icon and a green boarder.

(I don't know whether there is a standard behind it or if it is some kind of manual certificate pinning.)
I'd say, 99.x% of the scam or fishing attempts I receive are easily detectable by the email address. E.g., a fairly accurate rendition of the bank CI, even with an appropriate text, an email clear name in accordance with the bank, but something like "<_petra167fghj@unknownserver.com>" as the email address. The problem being, it's exactly that part, which gives the scam away, that is hidden by the common email client.
> Using one of the correct path separators for the OS isn't necessary?

Using backslash specifically is unnecessary.

There's no point wasting more time here from this point onward. You either refuse to understand, or you understand and refuse to show it. It's not productive to believe that's not going to change.
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Good explanation..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32027646
Can they force all the banks that agreed to loan them money to go through with it?
I would argue that asphalt has a much shorter life span than rail infrastructure.
I know this comment isn't helpful on its own, but yes this exists. I've seen it before. I just have no idea what it was called or how to find it again.

EDIT: Ah no, sorry. Was thinking of the other way around[0].

0: https://www.npmjs.com/package/regex-to-strings
And your computer suddently burst into flame if you aren't using the latest version?
Because interfering with police is already illegal, and the law only deals with RECORDING police officers which is kind of peculiar if the concern for safety was legitimate.
Are you familiar with Numenta and Hawkins? Place and grid cells are very important to their theory.
What stops someone from lying, or having multiple accounts, for example a clean account for things like this?
From a US perspective, I think there are major differences between WWI/WWII and 1968/perhaps recent years.

In the WWs you had a society perhaps more structured and united for a common national and patriotic cause.

In 1968 (since it's mentioned) and perhaps in recent years you have a society that arguably is less structured and people having issues with society itself and the state of the country.

It also seems to me that it was during the 70s that the US started to feel that things and the country were going down.

I suppose there is a parallel in the UK, for instance. Things were hard during WWII but people came together and had a sense of purpose and of fighting for their homes.

But then factories close, you lose your job, inflation picks up, society changes... now you may perhaps really feel depressed.
The weird thing is that is just isn't there in Xcode in any form, yet is the most time-saving feature of the vim keybindings.
I wonder if there's a confounding effect here. The authors basically have a list of N-grams that they have identified as being indicative of cognitive distortions and find that these N-grams have become much more prevalent in the last few decades. But the selection of these N-grams is based on how we, today, would express these cognitive distortions. It doesn't seem that the could rule out the rate of cognitive distortions remaining the same, but the language to express them changing.

To be fair, looking at their table of N-grams, a lot of them seem pretty timeless. For example: everyone, everybody, should, ought, must, worst, best.

But many of the N-grams strike me as being rather modern formulations. For example: a loser, a toxic, OK but, OK yet.

If a team of CBT therapists constructed such a list in 1900 instead of 2020, would we see the prevalence of cognitive distortions decrease as our language changed?

I think they try to control for this by choosing a null set of random N-grams, but the random N-grams were chosen from their entire corpus --- in other words by definition it's representative of the entire time span.

Edit: As an example of this, the authors include in their sample of words indicative of cognitive distortions "everyone" and "everybody." But 200 years ago these formulations were much less popular than "all the world," which is not included in the author's sample. If you just include the modern words, it's no surprise that cognitive distortions are increasing. But if you made the list in 1800 and only included the older formulation, you would conclude that cognitive distortions are decreasing.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=everybody%2Cal...
Neoliberalism isn't actually great for human? Who would have thought...?

Living when 'there is no such thing as society' makes you feel alone? Such surprise!

Isolating people, destroying communities, and pushing everyone to look out for themselves turns out to have negative effects? suprisepikachuface.png

(Having said all of that, there needs to be more than one study.)
Yep. It's basically "why wouldn't you accept half your wages if the company really didn't want to pay you the full amount?" or "if you lend somebody something and they decide to keep it, why would you try to get it back?"
Wide open, they have some flaws, but stopped down a little, the aberrations are generally well-controlled.

Here's the Canon 50mm f/1.8 STM compared with the Sigma 50mm f/1.4, both at f/4:

https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/ISO-12233-Sample...

The Sigma still wins in the corners, but chromatic aberrations are largely absent for both lenses.

With new photographers, I often try to get them to take a 50mm f/1.8 through its paces early in their careers. One of the key milestones in the proposed shot-list is a series of images at f/8. It is eye-opening to see an inexpensive lens deliver top-notch results on even the least-expensive cameras. Beginners are often drawn to the selective depth of field of the wide aperture primes, but to me, the greatest joy of these timeless (and lightweight) double-gauss designs is their ability to render superlative quality at their diffraction-limited apertures.
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Do you include economics in this judgement?
We are talking about the EU here. Sure there will always be corruption, but I'd say it's gonna be better than US & Boeing, albeit probably a bit slower in progress.
My main problem with switching to Linux is that most apps just can't make use of GPU acceleration or HW decoding. This includes browser HW video decoding, HW acceleration in video editors.

There are some CLI hacks you can do to try to fix this but my time is precious and I can't afford to play sysadmin at home.

Meanwhile all HW acceleration use cases have worked flawlessly out of the box on windows every single time, which is why I can't recommend people switch to Linux.

What will they think when they try to watch YouTube or Netflix and the laptop fans ramp up and the battery drains instantly because HW video decode in browser doesn't work out of the box?
First question, assuming that you’re Microsoft and you want to do this:

How much of the Windows 98 code base was licensed from other companies? (i.e. Windows code that MS doesn’t own the copyright to.)

Can you trace all those copyright owners?

What will they ask for in exchange for allowing you to open source the code?
Since when do heap allocation failures on Linux result in an abort? In C, malloc(3) will return NULL on failure and set errno accordingly. Sure, if overcommit is enabled, you might get a fault if you try to access memory that was allegedly allocated, but there is no strict "malloc failure === fatal error" relationship.
I vaguely think my cheap college laptop display around 2006 was 1080 lines tall. How can it possibly be that some manufacturers haven't moved on since then?
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18 per HOUR!? Like… every 3 minutes? [cries in American] I thought Acela’s 20 trains a DAY was a lot.
Wasted Sky is really fun !