skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Al Gore was directionally correct, which is better than the climate change deniers on the right that point in the opposite direction to reality. Moreover, Al Gore was a political actor, not a climatologist.

Let's face it, both the left and the right politicize science. The left sometimes does it when it comes to biological sex (conflating gender and sex), intelligence testing (saying they're next to useless), genetic determinism (saying all outcomes are environmental), GMOs, nuclear energy safety, sociology (denying impact of culture on outcomes). The right can do it when it comes to gender identity, GMOs, climate change, stem cells, intelligence testing (race realism), sociology (thinking it's all culture and not racism), creationism, anti-vax and public health.

Nobody has a monopoly on politicization of science. The problem is that the right's politicization is, in the current moment, more dangerous. Covid denial and social acceptance of vaccine hesitancy has killed hundreds of thousands. Climate change denial threatens the entire world.
> No one has ever claimed that climate change would not benefit some areas.

False. Some people are saying the world will end and humanity will be wiped away.
Especially given the number of limbs --- and other appendages --- that sometimes appears!
I liked my Nokia phones - they were ergonomic but not innovative; they were great "just a phone"-type phones. My wife even purchased a re-make of one of their classic phones recently.

But I loved my BlackBerries - they were the perfect tool for email/chat/calling and nothing else, the perfect complement to a laptop, whereas iPads partially overlap with both mobile phones AND laptops in terms of functionality, which is why at airports you now see so many people carrying three devices instead of one.

So while I have fond memories of Nokia, I don't miss their devices, but I'd give my metaphorical leg for getting my BB back.
> We too, are standing on a “burning platform,” and we must decide how we are going to change our behaviour.

Aaaand that's where I would have decided to get a new job. I've survived two different "roll up your sleeves, plebs, the management set our house on fire" scenarios. Never again.
Next Greece will demand reparations.
For those who don't know, it should be mentioned that Amazon owns IMDb.

That said, removing 1-star reviews is not uncommon for shows that may get review-bombed. Metacritic and Rottentomatoes have both had to deal with it for movies/shows with... "zealous"... fans.
Geology is 100% political when it is talking about climate change.

Imagine how political geology was when it was the major proof against the world being created in 4004 BC.
> I'll counter with the Nokia N900.

I've never understood this about N900 fans.

My experience with the N9 was great, and never left me wishing I could go back to something more like a Sharp Zaurus with modern cell connectivity.

What is it that makes the N900 appealing? Is it strictly the physical keyboard? So the N950 would have been the N900 killer? Or was there something else about it?
I think its somewhere more in the middle - software bloat is getting to legendary proportions (why do I need 16+ gigs of RAM and a modern cpu+gpu to run a calculator that I could buy for 50 cents 20 years ago?), and the software bloat drives the hardware bloat.

The truth is we don't need fab engineers because the applications we need to build require already "solved" hardware problems which are mostly supplied en-masse by a the few, large companies.

But, the deeper truth is that we don't need any of it... I have been recently and somewhat pleasantly surprised by how little I truly need. E.g., a 200$ chrome-book satisfies most of my needs. I have much, much beefier computers, hundreds of gigs of ram and multi-core processor, etc...all a waste. (I work as a software engineer and regularly find myself maxing my cores for things I don't really need).

If I could build my own hardware and have it actually do things, man, that would _useful_. Unlike this giant rickety tower of babel we have built...
So the should have choosen... both, 50/50 bet.
Peter Eckersley just passed away
The kind of "security" that you get by using a safer language like Rust (instead of C), can't be achieved by using anything that can be described as a "module" in an unsafe language.
loved the idea. One suggestion around pricing, Please make it usage based pricing. IMO, Seat based pricing does not justify value of a product.
You would need to model what kind of users you have on your website, And how they differ from one another.

Do they even that that feature even exist?
I'd say a lot of users ignore most of the (social) features of GitHub beside "a public remote git repo I can download"
Hackers Create Traffic Jam in Moscow by Ordering Dozens of Taxis Through App
Why do Americans think of a naked woman as “porn”?
https://pde.is/about/

Peter has also cofounded or [co]-created many impactful privacy and cybersecurity projects, including Let's Encrypt, Certbot, Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere, Panopticlick; during the COVID-19 pandemic he convened the the stop-covid.tech group, advising many groups working on privacy-preserving digital contact tracing and exposure notification, assisting with several strategy plans for COVID mitigation.
Does anyone? Has Cambridge Analytica not shown us anything?
This is bad logic. Almost everyone goes to the doctor in a year. And again, what is the importance of a doctor’s office. I once used a security tool that looked at the world in a very narrow sense. Despite being a general purpose tool, it would often flag really bad false-positives like “this security group allows all ingress!”, while applied to zero resources, while completely missing other, real, consequential issues. My point is, you have to pull your head up, look at the real world and the context of your decision, and use your judgement. These aren’t philosophical mind teasers.
Scientist here. A scientist who fails to have a positive impact on society is a failure. There are lots of failures in science.
I just now am understanding this. I usually do a leetcode per week. But now I'm straight up booking interviews. They created the game, I'm just playing it.
It's not well understood/accessible. Yes.

But it's still far far more accessible with way less effort & burden than what came before. Functionality comes easier, cheaper, with less weight & more functionality. It is a new domain of knoweldge & understanding than the old ways buts it's better, easier, lower cost & more accessible.

The obviousness speaks for itself & re-defines the antiquated literacy of before.

Eventually the adapters ought go away. Beacuse every peripheral ought, if they give any cares, have a usb-c port. You can do whatever else might help. But do the good thing: have a usb-c lort that works on you device. You should. You should free us from legacy adapters.
See the part of my comment about the Fed and other entities regulating that the bank has claims on assets of sufficient quality. So the banks can’t just totally create loans willy nilly. They liabilities must be matched by assets of sufficient quality.

This does not preclude, however, asset bubbles as we saw in Japan in 1991 and globally in 2008. The banks create loans which drives up the price of assets. Those assets, now appearing to be worth more, enable the banks to create bigger loans, because hey, the asset is worth more! This is a positive feedback loop and a major failure mode of this system. Regulation tries to tamp it down but does not always succeed.
You're assuming the amount of waste heat is greater than the heat required in the house, which could very well be true.

I was assuming the heat required was far more than the waste heat output of the device.
Over years on the platform I've built up a number of lists of people who I think have very interesting things to say on a number of topics. Where, outside of Twitter or a close replacement, could I find something like a thread delving into why Hollywood "antiwar" movies are actually usually a whitewash? https://twitter.com/mmabeuf/status/1324573014407729153

Maybe this isn't the way most people are using Twitter though, I would agree that being off the platform entirely would be better than just letting their algos serve up content to you and becoming addicted to the dopamine rush of likes and retweets.
Their relative benefit from the new rules is greater?
It might happen that some automation problem might come under undecidablity , aka halting problem ,or some problems are so difficult that it requires immense computation ,for eg many simulations in fluid dynamics and cosmos .
Not yet... but I spent 5 years making gears on 1950's vintage machines. I'll be doing a lot of involute curve interpolation. 8)
> especially ones that are JavaScript instead of PHP
why?
Boringly dystopian is casually accepting 40k auto deaths a year. Driving should be as solemn, restricted, and monitored as flying a plane. Driving is not a human right, and being a menace to other road users is not a private matter. I look forward to driving safety systems pushing drivers who are not suited to the responsibility of piloting 2-ton deadly weapons around pedestrians out to more appropriate, fun, and relaxed forms of transportation. The driver’s seat is treated way too casually.
Ha! I'm still playing wipeout (on retro arch though). I only bought a PS1 around 2010 as I'd been an N64 fanboy. I really had missed out.

I heard the Saturn was originally designed as a 2d machine, sega saw what the PS1 was going to be capable of and bolted on 3d. Hence it was a mess. Is it true it could only use quads not triangles for polygons?
FWIW, I think your initial idea is the better one. Like you said, people will just want to hit Generate to see what happens. Modals in the way will just annoy. Maybe just randomizing the start tags, for variety in the stream?
These numbers seem suspiciously high. In the paper (from 2011), it estimated that laptops contain 871 grams of steel and 244 grams of epoxy, among other things (the total weight is 2kg more than a modern dell xps). The steel figure is from a teardown so that's believable to me, but definitely out of date. The epoxy is an estimate but seems incredulous to me, even for 2011. Does it really take 30-60 MJ to make a handful of glue?
> communicate to the public as a single body, not as individual scientists

That's a laudable goal. You will never, never get any body of scientists, or any other class of people, to agree on their overall goals for society, so if science IS indeed political, you've lost already.

On the other hand, if they only have to agree on what the data and logic tell us, that's still hard, but it's much closer to being achievable. It requires everyone to take a deep breath and say "I might be wrong but this is what I think, and here's why." And then listen.
...along with a hand which probably belongs to that head, next to her right leg.

Almost looks like what happens in 3D games when collision detection doesn't work.
>I've been aware of Mastodon pretty much since its inception

You must be part of an exceptionally small minority then. I, too, have known about Mastodon since it's inception, and this was not news to me. As another commenter said, a debate during that time was that users were beaten over the head with too much discussion of federation and instances.

This is always how it's worked, and it's nearly impossible to join any instance without following & interacting with people from other instances on a daily basis. It's like the one thing about Mastodon you can't escape knowing about even if you actively try.
A Chinese game company has appointed the world’s first humanoid robot as its CEO
It's very refreshing to hear others complain about the interview culture at these companies. In the last year I've interviewed at Apple, Amazon, Meta, IBM and a couple others and failed every interview.

I've only recently finished my undergrad in CS and am still working on my CS masters but despite doing well in school I felt like an absolute failure after every interview.

It's somewhat comforting to hear this is a common occurrence.
When you hear the terms 100% effective and the president says if you get vaccinated you won’t get covid , you can see where the confusion comes from.

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-07-21/ap-...

And then you get Whitty and his infamous 4000 deaths per day graph.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8908503/Was-lockdow...
<< I don't understand your objection.

Tesla exists. Cars are an existing and crowded market. And yet, despite that, Tesla managed to not only enter, but survive. If that is possible, parent's claim that:

"The only way to get ahead these days is to either 1) flout the laws or 2) have enough capital and political influence to force your way to success, such as with regulatory capture."

is simply not accurate.

<< It's either an accurate way of looking at things or not.

Based on example of Tesla, it is not accurate.
You still need training material.
Yes, but if you didn’t go to the handful of acceptable schools, it doesn’t matter much how smart you are.
Sadly, these days one can only hope that we do.
Germany does not play around with fare evaders. The checkers will enter the train and check your validated ticket. If you do not pay they will fine you on the spot

Houston, Texas is like that. I got checked four times in three days.

I saw non-paying people get fined on the spot. From what I could hear, it was $75.
It's not bad logic, it's an imperfect analogy which you are taking at face value instead of understanding the point that something can be useful even if infrequently used.

Wether or not it applies at this case is not determined, but it does underline the fact using only visit metrics for this particular page does not give the whole story.

Which is congruent with the reaction the announcement got.
Exactly. The twisting of the truth by polluting bodies of research is extremely dangerous. The consequences of falsifying scientific data, either for money or ideological reasons should be harsh. As a child I thought that no scientist would ever do that because it would ruin their reputation and they'd never work in their field again. Instead industries are happy to keep scientists in their back pockets and nobody seems to have problems with 'science by press conference' or with taking industry funding for research knowing the results will never see the light of day if they are unfavorable to that industries profits.

Science has the ability to self-correct and get to the truth, but that takes time and money and the ones with the most money are more interested in pushing whatever lies are needed to preserve their power.
Hey, these semicolons are my light inside the dark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M94ii6MVilw

This very large e-commerce and cloud services company did the same to me in 2007, except it was C syntax.
Its only a trap if you walk in unaware. If you acknowledge part of your pay is being excited by your work, then it's a choice. We don't expect game development to pay the same as writing payment portals for a faang, even if it's harder, because we understand the task itself is part of the exchange. Jobs people enjoy will always pay less than those they enjoy less, given they both have the same qualifications.
A large portion of philosophers are “actual communists”, since they actually read Marx

EDIT replying to sub comment (I am once again rate limited)

Indeed he literally wrote an essay called “On the ruthless criticism of everything existing” which argued against the French socialists who came up with prescriptions rather than solid critiques. Marxism isn’t about communism, it’s about criticising capitalism. That’s why he spent so little time talking about communism. That would be like a slave or a serf wondering what might come next. A strong scientific (in the German sense) critique was his project
I found that missive (regarding politics and it's influence on the scientific community as a whole) conspicuously.. missing.. from this article. It's not so much about how politics affects the outcomes of science, imo, but how politics shapes what science is capable of in the first place.

I'm immediately reminded of how deeply skewed towards treatment (rather than curing) pharmaceutical research is, because of our economic structure.
Pornpen is not porn, it merely generates nudity. Only prudes would call that porn.
the prompt would be informative
I had a bunch of onsites and Google was the one only one which caused me angst. The fastest that the recruiter ever responded to me was in two days and the scheduler was based in India which meant 1+ day response time.

So during my onsite, one of my interviewers turned up around 5+ minutes late and I realized a) I had no idea what to do about this as recruiter is not responsive b). There is nothing stopping the interviewer from just saying "the candidate is a no show. Rejected!"
Tldr: whilst this incident is absolutely inappropriate; the big business behaviour will not change until users, too, recognise their accountability and responsibility. You purchased that product, accepted it’s usage terms, and supported this behaviour. Accept “some” responsibility in this outcome.

—

In regards to this security incident; users accepted the terms and conditions, which includes (usually in detail, or lack there of) their handling of the outcome, and impact to you.

It’s a horrible situation. Im not saying it’s acceptable. however; I demonstrate so by not supporting (advocating, purchasing, etc) and accepting these outrageous terms.

This is not isolated to Samsung…

Our home is (wherever possible) a “Samsung” free zone, primarily inspired by their handling of the health incidents in their South Korean factories. Workers sick and dying, directly linked to the workplace.

After years of persistent pressure from the families of these workers, the outcome was a payout and a typical “sorry we got caught” announcement.

There has also been ongoing large-scale corruption in the head/leaders of the organisation, tied closely to South Korea in it’s entirety. It seems the outcome here is; “you’re really bad, but also really good… we’ll meet somewhere in the middle..”.

Ps; am aware that Samsung parts are often included with other brand solutions. Hence “mostly” above. I proactively investigate, and avoid at all costs.
>overlying data on a map in 3d using glasses

Yes. The opportunity to increase our functional representations of 2D knowledge bases is going to be a game changer that will compliment the Cambrian Explosion currently underway with the PKM/TfT use of symantec Graph connections & AI LLMs. Some efforts ongoing towards this [1] already and imho there is so much you can do to interact with data once you open up the presentation model to spatial computing inside a 3D embodied user interface like VR today, Passthrough AR tomorrow, and full AR a little down the line.

[1] https://substack.soft.space/p/softspacear-prototype04
Foucault is prominent for me as a physicist
Sure, you shut it down for awhile and then just let it start back up again and after the next death shut it back down and rinse-repeat. If it was the 1930s you wouldn't have to bother taking the break in between deaths but the rinse-repeat means we have a non-zero tolerance for death.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/us/nyc-construction-death...
Unions are better than trillion dollar corporations by default, full stop.

The worker gets more benefit of the doubt than the owner, full stop.

Show me the malfeasance of the particular union organizing activity, or else I believe the workers by default.
It becomes worth it if you want someone to tell you things you don't know. For example, auditing your retirement contributions, cash flow, planning for future cash flow, etc. It can be really comforting to have someone that knows the landscape give you advice or confirmation.

For actual investments, I am basically bought into the "bogleheads" methodology. So, I don't think it's worth it to pay for an advisor.

BTW, Wealthfront minimum fee is 0.25% annually. I only say this because if you have more than 500$ in WF then your fee should be higher than $.11
Yes the canonical examples are called parallel corpuses. Sentence pairs of (english_sentence, french_sentence).

Because we don’t know what dolphins are saying in the first place, there’s no way to generate a parallel corpus.
You need to break out some social engineering on these companies. Tell every single one of them that you're interviewing with a bunch of other companies and that you may be approaching a offer soon. On the first call, be straight forward with your expectation in pay, benefits, other compensation and where you expect to do the majority of your work (home / office / farm / park / bathroom). Tell them you do not wish to waste their time or yours, they will often appreciate it.

In the mean time since you are out of work, start volunteering, participating in the community and even create some youtube / twitch content.
The Last Days of Sigmund Freud
It's possible, you just have to accept that people will come and complain. It's not a big deal.
Try switching off the internet of your phone and report how many apps are still working after that, there's actually very few of them.
>But from here on out, the piece gets real confused by its idea that this is the only way to use Mastodon and thus that you should have one account per instance – this is not how most people use Mastodon.

Yeah, this is like the most fundamental thing about Mastodon. You can access numerous instances from a single account. You don't need one account on every instance.

>This... is what I do. This is how I use Mastodon. This exists???

I share your sense of incredulity here. That's.... what Mastodon does! How could you write a piece about what Mastodon is or isn't good for and... guh. It's like suggesting that cars are good but wouldn't it be better if there was a highway system so people could drive their cars and meet each other.
I do find it a little odd all the comments in this thread are focusing on it as though it was a straight telemetry/metric decision.

From the update, this feels more like it was problem area for maintenance purposes, then had its telemetry assessed for decision.

"The data pipeline that powers the page has historically proven problematic to maintain and so given the low usage, we decided to switch off the Trending page."

The maintainers likely considered the resources and effort in maintaining it were too high. When they looked at the telemetry and saw it wasn't utilized considerably, they assessed it was better to cut it, than keep it or create an alternative.

If it didn't have a cost associated with it, it would likely have never become a target.
How would it limit launches?
Urchins of New York and Elsewhere
You lost me when you bring up burdensome and household income. Who gets to decide what burdensome is?
An owner occupied home should be protected - regardless of how long they have been there or how much money they earn. I do not believe in penalizing this group.

The other groups are all doing business and making money off others and I find that to be more justified for being taxed at market.
To be clear, I don’t know what telemetry they are using, I only used percentage of users who visited as an example. It does sound like, of the small group of folks who use it, they do enjoy it.

Sounds like GitHub has to find a way to either expand that pool, or decrease the maintenance cost of the feature, or it’s possibly not worth it.
This is sort of offtopic, but I wonder how the term CSAM appeared. It used to be just "child porn", and then fairly recently all of a sudden, over the course of at most a few months, everybody started to call it "CSAM" instead. Funny how this sort of thing happens, it makes me suspect some sort of agenda that isn't really stated out loud.
:-| didn’t know Biden said all that. I’ve kinda stepped back from reading American politics for the last couple of years cos it’s so depressing.
Quite a useless tangent. I don't see how the bad comparison of power between union and Amazon compares with constitutional philosophy.