skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Allow me to articulate.

There certainly is evidence active participants tend to skew a certain way on e.g. Twitter and Reddit. These participants are predominantly left-wing. "Do you have any data" you can Google it, it is well known.

The majority itself is passive. The majority of active participants are left wing and skew young, which by extension are generally pro-inclusion. Anti-diversity standpoints are a minority except for specific cases.

And really, it would be strange if it wasn't, considering the encouragement of anything unfavorable towards a minority is grounds for getting yourself on the fast track to the banlist.
> A bored developer is an unhappy developer

A boring codebase doesn't make a bored developer, on the contrary it frees developers up to think about important stuff and deliver value to the business. Just as I want my language to be boring so I can focus on interesting stuff, I also want my tech stack to be boring - the interesting bits should be in the value added, not the stuff under that.

> Your good developers are often the ones who like to tinker with frameworks, patterns and complexity.

In my experience, good developers recognise that complexity is always the enemy of good code, complexity is a necessary evil. Developers enamoured of complexity or novelty are not good developers but usually beginners who think that new x must be better than older y.

> Boring code can be a hindrance to onboarding new features.

Not sure what you meant here, but IME boring code makes it significantly easier to onboard new developers and to develop new features - boring code meaning code that is easy to understand, does what it purports to, and has minimal layers of complexity and minimal architectural busywork.

There is certainly a place for novelty, particularly in a green-field development, but the tech stack is a tool in service of the developer/business, and should never be seen as the end goal or product.
I also noticed that even though Firefox would start redirecting to www, I could then delete the www and force it to try to go to https://paypal.com anyway, at which time I would receive the revocation error.

Edit: Figured it out more reproducibly. https://paypal.com gives the revocation error. https://paypal.com/ redirects to www, although clicking on these links acts the same and tries to use the revoked cert
Awesome breakdown - as someone who is fairly familiar with TCP theoretically but not with the details of the TCP implementation in the Linux kernel, this was just the right balance of detail. Great technical writing IMO!
I was just pointing out that, and it seems many people misunderstand that petro producers are still the value ceiling. Polymers, fuel, and probably lots of other chemical engineering adventures depend on a massive trillion dollar company in southwest Asia and Tesla has been pricing their complete replacement, which... well is unrealistic over the next 12 months.
And there we go, Godwin's Law.
I love this book but its focus is primarily on practical applications and not as much on mathematical foundations, which was the question, if I read it right.
As reported in [0], the UK Government survey asked consumers: “If you had a choice, would you want to purchase items: i) in imperial units ii) in imperial units alongside a metric equivalent.”

There was no option iii) for using metric only (except a freeform entry field). Talk about biased.

I suppose we should be thankful that the recent self-inflicted destruction of the UK Govt's credibility has at least probably saved us from having to learn fortnights, furlongs and firkins again. Silver linings etc etc.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/18/metric-syst...
FSD is definitely not crashing left and right. How many crashes total do you think there have been on FSD?
I’m American and feel like I live in the “in-between” too. I measure people in ft and lbs. I measure wood in ft and inches. I design 3D objects in cm and mm unless I’m building in wood, in which case I’m back to feet and inches. I measure speed in miles per hour. I use tools mostly in metric but sometimes in SAE (depending on where it’s made and what it is).
It’s paid. Like ~$10–30k plus a bonus if successful. The cancellations are not differences of opinion. They are paid operations.
> They have no power outside that which is given to them is the point.

That's true for literally every human with power.

If everyone* just stopped listening to the government, all government officials would immediately lose all of their power.

Don't get me wrong, it's not simple to organize that. This would be a coordination problem that would be extremely difficult to pull off. But that doesn't change the fact that the power over other humans is still given by other humans.

*everyone includes the military
> 120hz feels so choppy when you're used to 240hz.

Every time I read comments like this I feel really good for being able to be perfectly happy with my crappy 24'1080p60 monitor. I swear, every time I see a 4k display or, god forbid, (120|240)Hz display in the wild I just close my eyes immediatly and dread that I could no longer be happy with my lesser experience.

This is one expensive treadmill to walk, moreso with gpu manufactors gutting consumers for the last few years.
If by "online algorithm" you mean incremental learning, the problem is that they still don't work well due to catastrophic forgetting...
Is this a complicated way of saying “it’s because markets are regulated”?
Unfortunately that would have required a nuanced political discussion, something that traditionally has been lacking in the UK Brexit wars.
For the same reason they doubled down on trickle-down economics: only dim bulbs in Westminster.

Maybe Kwarteng and Rees-Mogg had a private wager to see who would be the first to be relieved of their post?
No, this is equaly efficient as spending time on spam mail. Delete, filter, ignore.

> costs money to store and takes time to deal with

Are you storing requests long term? With sampling and a rolling window of history it shouldn't really affect you. I would spend my time optimizing that part than dealing with abuse forms.
UK is a confused place.

I still don't know whats the "official" temperature scale - F or C.

In the same paper, I would see the weather map with C, but the title with F (heatwave of xx F). Or the reverse, or both.

Or in the same shop you can buy milk in liters, or in pints.
Cool Tricks in K
The phrase du jour is, "freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences," but this merely begs the question. The whole point is which consequences for which actions and who gets to decide? (Who in their right mind thinks, "a literal mob" is the right answer to that last question?) And it's a very weird status quo where something you said in private or in a forum or at a party 10 years ago -- let's even assume it was something genuinely offensive -- can be used as evidence that you shouldn't be allowed to have a career in the present day.

Another phrase lefties love is, "I don't know how to convince you you're supposed to care about other people." Whenever I see some regular Joe fired from his forklift job because he isn't totally up-to-date with elite social norms around discussing race or gender -- or how about people literally calling CPS on "bean dad?" -- I just think, yeah, I don't know how to tell you that you shouldn't take pleasure in that outcome. Apparently people genuinely do get off on getting guys like that fired and, again, I don't know what to say that would make them just a little less bloodthirsty, because it's in fact very easy for me to empathize with that guy.
Study shows bias in academia: 20% of schools produce 80% of tenure-track profs
> What is the cost of overhauling our grid to dynamically distribute it in a way that avoids rolling blackouts?

The upper bound is the cost of a global power grid or a lot of storage, either of which would cost roughly half as much as the current annual spend on just unrefined crude oil.

> We're talking about reinventing our society to revolve around several transient energy sources.

No, that's just your failure of imagination.

> the input cost is so insignificant that even if the cost of uranium increased 5x, it would barely change the cost of energy for consumers.

The the reason for that is also why nuclear is the most expensive major power source right now: all the other things in nuclear power are much more expensive than the fuel.
Unless your software's value is actually a matter of CS research, it has to serve the bottom line of the business functions its built to facilitate. Sometimes thinga like hyperscale or super intense data redundancy or functional complete provability is a consequence of these needs, but they are not the prime directive. Almost all bad choices seem to stem from that misalignment.
I didn't claim it never happened. I would claim that it's not the reaction of the vast majority of people.
Here is a video from Linus that poses that question. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX31kZbAXsA
Heh. I'm curious how a link to a wikipedia entry made it to the front page, or why it was even submitted at all! Is it Poisson's birthday or something?
The best plan is not to plan and just do it and ship to production.
It’s also worth noting that Clojure has libpython-clj (https://github.com/clj-python/libpython-clj) which offers an interface with Python from another lisp. Here are some advanced ML and dataviz examples using that lib: https://github.com/gigasquid/libpython-clj-examples.
Php 5 would not be boring and safe. You'd have some interesting challenges writing in an unsupported language version
That mostly empowers the unions, as they'll then be the judge of who gets to stay and who gets fired. I'm not sure that's a big improvement.
They certainly weren't using Go, or as stated, any framework. Also no mention of any type of web server; not sure what magical code was creating dynamic HTML from the database. Where was the business logic? Stored Procedures? No mention of more dynamic functions... No integrations... Sure sounds like a desktop browser-only app while the majority of the world today wants some mobile functions from almost every system.

There is a lot information, which is understandable but also conveniently supports a very unflattering narrative while simultaneously promoting the OP's awesomeness.
Which seems to now be available under a Creative Commons license, archive.org link:
https://archive.org/details/exploringinterne00carl/
Well you can definitely stop cutting deeper if you know something is up!
If someone tries to cancel you, escalate and push back. Push back with 10x the force. Push back to a degree beyond what is reasonable. Push back so that it forms a deterrence to future bad behavior.

Not scalable, often infeasible. Is it effective? Who knows?
Reading on dead flat ex-trees and writing
The usual problem with free tiers is that you get low qualify leads through it.

Requiring a credit card increases the threshold and you get more qualified user into the funnel. Also makes it a bit harder for people to always sign up with new accounts to get the credits without converting.
Facebook was when that started to gain traction, but I think Myspace was the beginning. You had a strong incentive to put your real name and location because you would find people you knew around you automatically.
Awful idea, all you've done is give the wealthy free reign to post as much as they want whilst locking out the poor from using your service. The poor weren't the problem with Twitter!
>Nowadays, lineage isn’t something that matters much.

they call it "caste" in indian subcontinent and unlike what the indian hindu ideology is around their caste system, everyone assumes that islamic lineage taking is same as hindu caste division which is not it.
Wouldn't the alternative be putting everything behind an airgap and foregoing creature comforts to create parallel infrastructure at great cost? Threat actors don't care about your privacy concerns either.
Name Constraints allow for this.
I lived in London and Castletown (IoM) for years and only ever felt like C was used. I remember distinctly because of how often I had to force myself to make the the calculation for conversion between the two whenever any topic of temperature came up early in my time there.
5/10 I guess. It's a great hobby, and teaches a lot about CAD. But if I want to fix some broken plastic part quickly I still prefer superglue+soda trick cause it's stronger and takes 15 minutes instead of 3 hours of modeling and 6 hours of printing :)
Somehow, I suspect a mud resort is behind this.
Cancellation doesn't just apply to 'famous' people though. It will apply to everyone.

I can't tell if your post is sarcasm or not.
>... what truly hurt me was that the words of this person were enough to turn an entire group of colleagues—and even some people who were becoming something closer to friends—against me. It hurt me professionally and it hurt me personally. Almost none of these people bothered to ask me if any of this was true or discuss it with me—they just ostracized me immediately.

If they ostracized you right from the get-go without even listening to your side of the story, then they obviously weren't friend material to start with.

>The few people who did not behave that way—I’ll be grateful to forever. They had integrity and honor. And at the very least, curiosity.

This could be considered a good result of such cancellation attempt: You got rid of heavy luggage you didn't know you were carrying, and ended up with a lighter and healthier weight.
Anyone that isn’t ancient uses Celsius.
There are no challenges. The code I wrote in 2000 still works in 2020 and will work in 2030. That’s why it’s boring tech - it just works without thinking or deleting node_modules directory every day.
Well, why not then create bigger cars, or smaller buses? Between 5 people in a car or a 100 people in a bus, an optimal solution should be able to converge slowly, to 20 people in a vehicle. It would be different for every city, or region or country.

Most cars spend most of their time, being stationary in a parking lot or a garage, 93 percent of the time to be more specific, or 23 hours/day. Buses spend a lot less time being stationary. The trade off here is the speed of driving. Cars offer an unlimited amount of speed, while buses do not. An optimal economic solution should exist in which the economic actors, i.e. people will figure it out after a lot of trial n error.

A crucial factor in self driving cars no one mentioned, is the data the machine uses to drive should be incorruptible. A blockchain which supports billions of tps, offer a solution to that.

Additionally road variables change over time, and data should change as well. Economic actors, not just people should feed the machines with updated data every day. That means that a marketplace of information is required, in which the most efficient economic actors with the best accuracy and the best reputation are rewarded, and the worst economic actors, who's data aggregation cause a lot of crashes, fall off the market.

A marketplace of information, doesn't exist for the time being, so there is no chance for self driving cars to be safe and effective.
Just a comment on your obfuscating language: lethal injection is also a medical procedure.

Abortion is a complex issue that should be discussed honestly, not obfuscated.
You really don’t know much about them, do you? No they examined the entire history of it starting with the first cancelation (The Chicks) to really deeply understand where the concept comes from and why it’s a thing. That’s kind of what investigative journalists do. They investigate.

Also honestly it’s a huge story if you can find systematic firings of people based on Twitter bullying. You should absolutely put that together and sell it as a freelance article to the NYT or similar. I hear they pay well for this kind of research.
It is arguably as much a work on Stalinism as it is about the Nazis.
or:

"An argument for Gemini."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)#Design
And the car was "nothing new" because horses have been pulling carriages for ages.

The innovation of their technology is in how they solve the problem. Watch the video.
I’m still waiting for my ray gun. Unless the aliens are made of paper, and move really slow, and are in the same room as me, I’ve got nothing. The space princess is going to do more damage throwing her high heels at them.
> Now people are celebrating his death.

People grumbling about the views of a dead person is pretty damned harmless, isn't it? JK Rowling is "canceled" but she's still getting book and movie deals. Like Dave Chapelle, "cancelled" is a highly profitable status.
> You're saying that modern solar panels produce the same output on cloudy days that they do on sunny ones?

Who said that?

> At what cost per MWh, including government subsidies?

No government subsidies.

Westinghouse Electric declared bankruptcy over the Vogtle nuclear plant in discussion. The U.S. government has given $8.3 billion of loan guarantees to help finance construction of the Vogtle reactor.

So yeah, at what cost per MWh is a great question. Someone should do the math. And the math should include the loan guarantees and the bankruptcy costs.
> Some kind of screen resize check bug perhaps?

Same here on Desktop Safari, not sure if that's part of the joke or a bug though.
If you don't care about older software, in particular older Macs, yes, you can proceed as follows:

1. Make CA #1
2. Make CA #2, have CA #1 sign (a certificate for) this CA with a constraint saying it is valid only for DNS names in example.com and nothing else
3. Destroy CA #1 irrevocably
4. Trust CA #1 in your browser or other relying party software
5. You can now use CA #2 to issue with your constraint.

If you care only about specific web browsers, you can modify the browser software (this is practical for Firefox and to some extent Chromium) to alter its built-in trust semantics to give you chosen CA different constraints. Firefox ships with constraints for a handful of CAs which, in Mozilla's opinion, can be afforded such limited trust so you can model your changes on how that works. https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Additional_Trust_Changes
Yeah that's basically the situation here, too.

Basically it all comes back to the construction trades. If you own a home, and tools to work on it... you're stuck with imperial.
This is probably only viable when your entire category of business is forbidden by the two big app stores. That is to say, it's possible to survive as "the big porn service", but not as "the mainstream social network that doesn't ban porn" (unless you're Twitter/Reddit and you're too big to ban).
> I still don't get how we ended up from there to so many people linking their real life name, location, sex and even workplace to anything they post publicly

It's in the interest of the large internet companies to encourage this culture shift. It makes it easier to target advertising.
It's not sophistry, it was a preemptive question anticipating your response, which in fact showed up: you asked what consciousness _is_. This is the sort of question Babbage would have replied to with his famous remark. "What is" is a philosophical, in fact metaphysical, question. You know what consciousness is. Just pinch yourself.

To ask what something _is_ implies reduction. You want a description of experience in terms of something else. So you are begging the question, having already concluded that it's not fundamental. In idealism experience is the reduction basis, so the question makes no sense. On the contrary, one should try to explain everything else in terms of experience (and if you don't accept a reduction basis, then you won't be able to explain anything, even with materialism).

Now, the explanations need to be consistent with empirical evidence and they need to have explanatory power. I submit to you that AI succeeds, and the empirical adequacy of those claims is abundantly linked in the description of the material you are downloading.

Science and scientific theories are concerned with the behaviour of nature, not its essence. They tell us how it behaves, not what it is. We build models out of observations and given the chance, we should stand by a model with the most explanatory power.
Does everyone agree that there are issues with accountability in online discourse?
That his book Consciousness Explained did not explain how there could be consciousness, but instead explained what we are conscious of. It's not that what the book does is not explaining consciousness, but it's only explaining it at a specific level, presupposing its existence and understandibility. Dennett was conceding that the explaining "the hard problem" was a real goal, and that his book did not tackle it.
Clubs are members of their local association, which is a member of and regulated by FIFA.
And human weight in stones. Been living here for more than 10 years and still can't remember how much is a stone.
Indeed, I would happily pay the same, even more, for a shorter book, if it was clear that it was shorter for good reason.
Perspective: Capsaicin Is a Psychoactive Substance
PV is cheap enough that over-provisioning by a factor of a few-fold is basically a no brainer. Not sure where the crossover point is for long term (not just nighttime) storage or global grid, but a factor of x2 is cheap enough to just do first and ask questions later.
how on earth would it manage to apply to everyone?
The Cold Shoulder: Genetic Links to Frozen Shoulder
That dude has steel lips. I am a professional bassoon player, and playing anything for 9 hours straight would make my lips bleed.

Edit: I apparently skimmed the article too skimmily.
"if we don't someone less ethical will."

But they still will, why wouldn't they if supposed ethical researchers do as well. I've heard this sort of argument before, and I understand the reasoning behind it.
Everybody's shitting on Imperial, U.S. customary, or whatever you want to call them units...

Allow me to give a slightly different perspective: as a scientist, if I'm doing chemistry then metric is the way to go. Conversions are easier, centigrade and Kelvin just make a lot more sense...

But for many day-to-day things I think the Imperial units are better. Temperature? Fahrenheit is a 0-100 scale, where 0 is pretty much as cold as it gets in temperate climates, and 100 is pretty much as hot as it gets. A mile is 5280 feet? Wtf? Well, it's 1000 paces (each pace bringing you back to the same state, so two steps = 5.28 feet).

I don't know if any good work has been done on it, but my guess is people who were raised with inches are better and quicker at estimating length than people who were raised with metric. Millimeters are too small, cm are also too small (and nobody uses them really). Inches are a good, intuitive unit for measuring human-scale stuff given our cognitive constraints, I'd guess.

Does anyone know of work looking at this?
Shower thought: why isn't the insurance industry offering policies to cover such situations? If someone cancels me I get a payout which I can use to support my family or even sue the individual who deliberately set out to destroy my livelihood.
I used to get most of my news every week in the US from Time Magazine when it was still a pretty decent weekly. I'm not sure that knowing what's going on by the minute is clearly an improvement. (I do read The Economist now.)
The entire organization spent each working day sending tweets and nothing else?

How long do you think a tweet takes to write?

What are they supposed to do about roe v wade? Are you passing the blame for that being overturned to them instead of Trump and republicans who are responsible?

Is this a way to help republicans win in the midterms, deflect the blame for roe v wade to some unrelated organization?
Sell recordings and title it “with an open mind.”
Perhaps. Sort of makes you want to go out and dig a hole.
Could you quote specific passages of the Guardian article that support the idea that they were interviewed under false pretenses? I just skimmed it a second time and nothing is jumping out to me as support for that idea.