skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of those points of controversy that foreigners in Japan bring up. But for me the idea of making friends at work seemed unusual and I felt that the Japanese way of doing things was correct, and it come to me that the Japanese expat community is highly US-centric.

In Japan it is however common for people from university to graduate together enter their workplace together at the same job, and then get promoted together and change department together etc..
I believe in an above average amount. Honestly, they used to all be pretty detrimental, but now that half the country has has lost trust in the ruling class, it’s become easier for me.

I’d like to mention I do not believe in obvious psyops like flat Earth or birds not being real or Q anon.
I wouldn't look at this as "serious" but more as a light accountability structure. You can only hold yourself accountable for so much, having a team that has your back and a way to vent or rubber duck against can help your project progress. And no one is going to demote you or shame you. If they do, just leave the group!
Similar to making all your computations in the expressions for default arguments in python (and/or C++) and leaving the function bodies empty. Fancy, but not that mindboggling. What may surprise people is how and when these expressions are evaluated since they differ between languages.
Bugs in writing by Lyn Dupré
Exactly. That is why no politician is pushing for it.

Until climate change stings enough that people would bear the cost.

Or society collapse (but I doubt it at this point).
Am I understanding this comment correctly that you were administering tests and rigging them to cause people to fail and then charging people money to get the rigged answers for the tests so they could pass?

If so, this is some real unethical and criminal behavior.

But I'm inclined to think it's all made up considering the first part of the comment seems to imply that you were doing well on tests simply by guessing the answers based an A,B,C,D distribution. Which is silly as the best you are going to do with that strategy is maybe get a slight hint for a few of the more difficult questions.
>Electric motor controls have been around a very long time.

Not in a format that is useful for EVs, there hasn't. Only recent developments in semiconductors have made it viable to design a motor controller that is very efficient across a broad range of torques and speeds, and is also lightweight and cheap enough for use in a small passengar vehicle.

>example hybrid electric trains, elevators, water pumps.

Those examples of controllers have almost nothing in common with modern EV controllers.

> Not sure what metrics you are looking at but EVs cost less per mile to operate, accelerate faster, are quieter, and have lower maintenance.

Let's have a look at those.

I am not convinced that the "cost per mile to operate" has been fully worked out over the full lifetime and ownership of an EV - we have yet to see how the overall economics of EV ownership will work out as they filter down the 2nd hand market chain.

We will also see how the cost of maintentance works out - EVs are not currently known for being reliable.

https://www.forbes.com/wheels/news/ev-reliability-varied-as-...

Accelerating quicker - well, that's fine, if you want to burn through battery, and mess around at the lights. It's also not too hard to find or modify a car to make it have more acceleration.

That just leaves quieter - which is an undeniable benefit, if only it were safe for multi-ton hunks of mobile metal to be silent. As it is, all the EVs I've seen have speaker-generated tones at low speeds.
Critical thinking is what got me into this situation. :P
You know, those reddit things..
I made the transition from fintech to climate (solar) about 5 years ago and am incredibly happy with the decision.

The primary challenge for me was finding a company which was mission-driven, had interesting engineering problems, and had a strong engineering culture. At the time, that combination felt very rare.

Ultimately, software necessarily sits a few steps removed from the tactical changes in climate (energy transition, policy, etc.). That said, I do feel like I'm making a tangible impact on moving the US toward solar and away from carbon-intensive energy.

P.S. I lead the engineering team at Wunder Capital [1]. I'd be happy to chat with anyone interested in moving into climate and/or our open engineering roles.

[1] https://www.wundercapital.com/about
Oh yeah, because batteries and solar panels contain the long term pollution they create in their price right? All of these prices have a lot of factors involved and none of them are actually related to their pollution aspect. In fact pricing things ONLY in carbon emissions as people would like to do nowadays is maliciously deceiving.
It would be interesting to see how Covid impacted this.
Oh cool. I only knew of 2 or 3 similar projects before starting this project, but since then I've come across dozens of other ones. I'll add to my list. Some day I'll add a webring of similar projects on my site

Mine is currently lacking in Condorcet methods. The original prototype of it had a few more condorcet methods in it, but the core reason I wanted to rebuild it was to make heavy use of cacheing. E.g. no reason why both STAR and Borda should have to make the same calculation twice. Or why all these head to head methods need to produce the same exact matrix. So I have this "SuperElection" class that tries to break things down as much as possible

I think this did in fact help my performance but it's also made everything so... interconnected. Definitely been a good learning journey. But I might just re-implement kemeny-young and some others in a less efficient way and worry about optimizing them later
>Yes, the original 'conspiracy theory' was religion.

Not really.

The religious experience tends to operate differently than conspiracy in terms of the psychology and neuroscience at work.

As the article describes, conspiracy is mostly a defense mechanism for the ego. It gives people agency in a chaotic world. It rationalizes the chaos into a simple narrative. These serve to reinforce the current executive self as it currently is.

In contrast, the religious experience tends towards being a conduit for change in self. In general, religion serves to present potential ideal future self to model ones behavior on. Be like jesus/budda/serapis etc.

I don't doubt that religion and conspiracy share some mechanisms, and that one creeps into the other depending on where you look. However, my intuition is that religion at it's core is rooted in change of self to fit a cultural/moral ideal, while conspiracy is rooted in paranoia of harm to self or others.
Also via email still.

source: I get them
FTA:

> […] He did stress, however, that the new paper has not yet undergone peer review.
Probably there isn't anyone who wasn't an author who can vouch for it yet, but this is a different situation. These guys have been working toward this problem for a long time in much closer touch with the mathematical community, with partial results that people can vouch for. This contrasts with the situation with the abc conjecture, which was done in almost complete isolation from the mathematical community with as far as I know no intermediate results.
> Whoever gets the job will be asked to “drive the design of the most privacy-forward, sophisticated demand side platform possible,” per the post.

Why would someone who can do that go to apple, instead of launching her own company? Has it become impossible to build new things on the internet independently now?
I do not grok a giraffe in the same way I do the things I work on.
Woops, it's French, should have known.
Usually, yes. I'll also upvote the submission, to help it get visibility so more will see it and maybe encourage more comments (since submissions with more than 40 comments have a penalty, more upvotes counter that).
PHYS 540 General Relativity

Homework problem of the week: Prove that slowly rotating Kerr black holes are stable.

Deadline: Two weeks.

Final grade weight: 5%
I want to do backend development next, I find it much more interesting (and more rewarding to work on based on the things I've done).
We certainly have corded electric mowers. I cut about half an acre with one and it's great. I find it performs better than a gas mower in higher grass (I generally cut once every two weeks).
Excellent. This focuses on word recognition, which is a large part of vocabulary, omitting the need for meaning. I suppose it also provides chances for people who don't know words to work out new words based on phonetic patterns and which letters remain.

Great stuff!
Do you have a link to the comment?
It's either that or more TV commercials
It might not be mind-boggling, but it is highly unusual to people who "think in C". This is not C! This kind of stuff is why purists stick to C89.

I'm uneasy about variable-length arrays at the best of times. It hadn't even occurred to me that you might have a variable-length array as a function argument.
If you think Apple cares about privacy after the CSAM thing, I really don't understand why, yes they are a bit better than other big tech companies, but they are in no way "Privacy-respecting".

This video might help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r38Epj6ldKU
The way everything else is paid for. The national debt will pay for it.
Yes, and DALLE clearly knows what a giraffe is, maybe not in the same way as we do, but it has placed the giraffe in some latent space close to other animals like it but far away from say, cars. But yes, there is plenty it doesn't know about giraffes because it's only been fed images and captions, while we can watch documentaries about giraffes and apply knowledge we've acquired about other animals and the world through our senses.
Where i live you can get your laptop stolen while typing on it if you sit outside :(

( oak cliff in Dallas )
Its largely Tesla that is using the cylinder shape batteries. It seems to me most of the other manufacturers are using prismatic cells.
We do, and one of the methods is externalising to space. But yes, we have to stabilise it. Both can be done at the same time, they are not mutually exclusive and neither is to the detriment of the other.
Where can you buy one of these toaster ovens?
This is a common talking point specially in America. On the other side in India, the people tend to believe that USA has done some of the worst damage to the planet to actually become 'developed' and USA is still one of the worst polluters and carbon emitters. People in India/China also tend to believe that USA/UK tend to outsource a lot of industrial manufacturing to India and China and this adds to the carbon emissions of these countries. There is also another aspect which is these two countries are the some of the most densely populated areas and the per capita emissions for countries like America are far egregious. There is also data that shows American oil and gas companies (combined) have historically added more CO2 than other country.

So yeah, there are arguments to be made from all sides. I am not in anyway trying to say that India/China should not do their part but American argument for not doing their part is mostly a political talking point.

Some more context and analysis here - https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/cop26-tackling-c...
I don't know why anyone would believe any of these crazy conspiracy theories... it's not as if the government, the media and the big corporations all work together or say the same things...not at all....
It's actually correct - leaf blowers are one of the first things that the electrics caught up on, because all you need to do is spin a fan really, really fast.

The problem with electric tools has always been the run-time, they've been functional but without recent battery technology, changing batteries every 10-15m was simply impractical.
This is very consistent with my own theory about why people like conspiracy theories. A lot of people feel like they've been insufficiently recognized or rewarded for their intellect. They want to find some idea that allows them to be not only right but right before anyone else is. They want to be that theory's representative, to be associated with the theory in peers' minds when the theory itself is recognized as insightful. They want to feel (or at least seem) a little bit prescient.

There's no reward for being right when everyone else is too. There's little penalty for being wrong a few times either, so they'll latch onto a bunch of wild theories in hopes that just one will get them the validation they seek. Note that their own belief is hardly necessary. Often it's actually quite weak. If an idea is fully discredited it's swiftly disavowed, and hopefully forgotten.

It's easy to spot this behavior online, of course. Reddit is full of it, and this site isn't exactly immune either. Strident, even aggressive, evangelism about a "contrarian" theory is usually the big tell. Accusing others of being "sheep" is solid confirmation. People who are pursuing an unconventional theory for its own sake, out of pure intellectual curiosity, tend to be quieter about it. The loud ones are just playing Russian Roulette with their reputations and sometimes their friendships. It's the same impulse that has led more than a few Nobel prize winners to start issuing grand pronouncements in unrelated fields where they're still rank amateurs, just like sports or entertainers trying to get into the spotlight one more time and usually embarrassing themselves. Or Rudy Giuliani, but the less said about him the better.

A few quirky ideas might make you an oddball, but a hundred, month after month and year after year, makes you a laughingstock and/or a pain in the ass. My father-in-law alienated most people around him by going this route. So did another of my own friends. I feel the temptation myself, and have to consciously reject that path. Some might say I've failed, and this theory itself is evidence of that failure. :shrug: In any case, there it is FWIW.
Should we be concerned about cooling down the earth's core over the long term? I'd rather if we focus our efforts on renewables (basically anything that gets energy from sunlight - solar, wind, biomass)
The A/C Only Goes on at Night
Seven stories of those with the least dealing with the heatwave.
> Conspiracy theories can help people defend a fragile ego by exaggerating the importance of themselves and their groups;

So can identifying with the mainstream story: I'm not a crazy conspiracy theorist, I'm a serious person.

> Conspiracy theories can make people feel like legitimate actors by rationalizing their beliefs and behaviors;

So can identifying with the mainstream story: I'm listening to the experts, everyone is doing it.

> Believing in conspiracy theories entertains people by making them active participants in an exciting tale.

Most conspiracies are non-participatory. The federal reserve was created by a conspiracy[1]. I have no control over that or any ability to change the situation. It's simply depressing.

[1] - https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/jekyll-island-c... "A secret gathering at a secluded island off the coast of Georgia in 1910 laid the foundations for the Federal Reserve System."
Because for an attacker to show up in person comes with a risk of getting caught. Also, it becomes much harder to attack multiple accounts.
I sometimes want to upvote a reply, but i forget to. I wonder if there is a UI trick that would facilitate giving that feedback.
I actually seen sports bars with esports program on. If you go to staples center before you start approaching the convention center they have league of legends on. but tbh its just a bunch of old dudes in there late 20's 30's no ones watching it.
That was me, too...

> We're discussing Robotech on HN? Cool... oh.... nevermind /sadface

(Not that this isn't interesting, it just wasn't what I was expecting when I saw the name)
Those other things have a mainly personal cost, lawns have large negative externalities. Especially the people who regularly have their lawn sprayed with pesticide/herbicide. Never fun getting caught in a downwind cloud of that stuff on a walk through the neighborhood.
As a Machine Learning Engineer what tools do you use on a regular basis?
I think with such projects it is more important for the leaders to focus on the the higher level architecture, the data structure and algorithms and their proper documentation rather than the coding finished product.

Of course they can code when these details are fleshed out, but these traits in a project are what make it easier for more people to join and contribute.

My view is that there are more than enough people to make open source projects succeed, but trying to unravel and understand other peoples poorly documented architectural decisions and code is what make things difficult.
I despaired until I saw that it actually confirms something is right and locked in. Nice!
VMware Urges Users to Patch Critical Authentication Bypass Bug
> I'm here making a claim that you make disingenuous arguments

disingenuous arguments, eh?

> Oh that's right that thing you say you couldn't find and I must have made up, is in fact in the same sentence that you pointed me to.

As I've pointed out already, it's a different sentence. Which means one of:

- you didn't read what I wrote properly (twice now)

- you're lying

- you don't understand your own mistake

> I'm not here to be charitable to you

You should be charitable to yourself and everyone here by leaving such arguments on Twitter where that kind of low quality nonsense is the norm, at least in part because people don't read what the other person has written properly.
I agree. Using electricity for the things you mentioned would provide more benefits to society measured in material goods.

The "problem" is, that obviously society apparently has measures of benefit that are more important than material goods: money.

You're not going to teach businesses (that were given profit as their top priority .. by society!) to suddenly deviate from their given priorities and instead maximize material good xyz just because it's less controversial than money.
I feel the Apple I used to like would say "Why would we bother making an ad platform? It's a boring problem and ads only make the experience worse"
The Animatrix
Hacktivists Deface Chinese Government Website to Welcome Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan
Key thing we look for in a candidate is the ability to solve real world problem. We are an early stage startup, so most of the people we hire has to a broad spectrum of knowledge which I think is hard to capture with leetcode. Ideally we would like to capture their networking skills, programming skills, operational skill, understanding computer science basics etc. I think we would definitely pay subscription for a service like this as lot of grunt work is currently is done by us.
While the Roswell stuff is a dumb conspiracy, life has taught me that when money is available, and there is a goal of any kind among a group of people, that a conspiracy often follows.
Hahaha....burn!
But how does the palindrome rule work with “password must start with ‘cat’” and “password must end with ‘dog’”? It seems impossible to satisfy these three.

Having the conditions contradict each other serves as a proof that it’s impossible to create a password; I thought this information shouldn’t be revealed to the user.

Looks like there is already an issue about it: https://github.com/troyhunt/password-purgatory-api/issues/45
Glad the transition was smooth (for the most part)! Thank you for trying out a new version of Tower.

That's definitely a nice suggestion — I will pass it on to the team.
The problem with the concept of "conspiracy theories" is that it's essentially a label entirely controlled by the media. There are beliefs that (by any reasonable definition) should fit the label, and yet they are never referenced that way. There are other beliefs that have far more factual support and they immediately get slapped with the label. It's an inherently manipulative concept and I think any research that doesn't explicitly address is bogus.
> My god it's all the things I do every day, and I didn't even realize it. And I bet I'm just awful at it without even knowing it! Great list.

Thanks. I really love the prompt / question. I jokingly call the above "superpowers," but I'll be blunt: By paying attention to the above you'll be a little bit better than those that don't. And with such a low bar, you'll be a force multiplier for good. Even a little bit is better than doing nothing (a waste), or causing drama (actively bad). When combined with an understanding of systems and engineering practice, it's a really, really good combination.
An invitation to a secret society gathering that somebody seemingly should have picked up decades earlier. The book was a dead drop and apparently nobody had picked up that book in a long, long time.
> Make it more aerodynamic. EU trucks today have flat fronts and flat back. They're super aero-inefficient

Since you obviously haven't driven on the roads these trucks need to navigate, I'll just say it: they're flat because they have to navigate lots of tight roads and turns...

Edit - obviously missed part of the comment but still, long-distance trucking is less significant in the EU. Rail networks take goods much closer to the final destination than in the US... That's why it actually makes sense, now.
FKeyboard – Customized Android Application for Typing
Sometimes you want to upgrade your phone and sometimes you want just to type, to make it look newer, better but not to actually buy a new device.

FKeyboard (also EffectedKeyboard, 2nd name), will do just that. It allows you typing with movies like animation: remember all those movie that emphasize effects of people think and do stuff beyond everyone’s level? This is exactly the sort of feeling that you’ll have when using FKeyboard.

FKeyboard has two dark themes and one white-blue theme. It has effects of key press and the most significant effect that you’ll notice if you purchase the premium feature which turns around 3US dollars or even less at the time of writing this publication — an effect of popping out letters off the keyboard INTO the message screen. I bet you haven’t seen any of this.

The developer is nice and responding kindly to any of your request, there’re plenty of features that’s been added with the requests of the community.

The keyboard doesn’t ask for Internet and/or file access permission, so that it cannot collect any of your data.

And most importantly you will receive a personal attention for every request, question and message that you’ll write to the developer, and there’s a special text box for that with the dev’s email address in the application.

FKeyboard has appeared in the news recently and is actively asking for opportunities to exposure.

We’d like to thank Hackernews user vitalipom for writing this article.

Many thanks yours,
vitalipom
EffectedKeyboard and FKeyboard

Links:

Article at NextPit.com
https://www.nextpit.com/apps-of-the-week-30-2022

The Google Play Store page
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vitali.pom.effectedkeyboard2&hl=en&gl=US

YouTube Promo Video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xSnEpBd3YLk
That's an interesting way of looking at it. The theory you highlight was not of course the 'original' theory which may have been something more like.

> Why did something bad happen? I must have done something wrong.

> Why did something good happen? I must have done something right.

> There sure is a lot of cool stuff around. Someone must have made it.

Perhaps the original conspiracy theory is free-will, the idea that we have some control over anything that happens to us. No evidence, no proofs, just a hopeful thought that we can do something to make things better.
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Wow, this is almost precisely the process for creating a new Air Canada account.
I once implemented FizzBuzz using this trick https://www.reddit.com/r/C_Programming/comments/qqazh8/fizzb...
When Bloom filters don't bloom (2020)