skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As far as I know this is not a feature Reddit officially provides

No, it's provided by Reddit and is in the docs,

> With a bot ban, some users won't realize they've been banned. [1]

There are several more dystopian features built atop shadow removals [2], each of which multiplies the number of impacted users by 10x or more. Social media sites are constantly building more and more powerful tooling for moderators to more easily remove more content as userbases get more and more riled up. The ability to disagree with words online is being shrouded in darkness, and it won't stop until we start applying transparency that can provide openings to see what's been hidden from us.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoModerator/wiki/library#wiki_use...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/reveddit/comments/sxpk15/fyi_my_tho...
But even they didn't view it as a status symbol. A bunch of weird, ignorant, mostly right-leaning jerks did.
To compare them this way is likely to cause confusion.

A type (of a term) represents the set of all possible values for a particular term. An "object" in OOP, does not have any formal definition, but is typically a first-class module with mutable state. As such, they can be represented by a term and therefore can have a type.
"Lizardman’s Constant Is 4%"

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...

edit: as of right now 105-255 is sitting at 3.6%, which is pretty close to the constant of 4%.
Golden handcuffs in the form of millions in unvested stock.

I knew people at companies that were acquired and joked that they were in "rest and vest mode"

They didn't care what the new company did as long as they got paid and their huge number of shares over the next 3 years vested
To be fair, tolerating transgender people's existence at all used to fall outside the Overton window. Having a small cabal of unimpeachable shadow lords ruling all discourse with an iron fist doesn't seem healthy for society to me.

Particularly when there's some circumstantial evidence that Ghislaine Maxwell used to be one of those mods: https://old.reddit.com/r/TopMindsOfReddit/comments/rrldd9/to... (skeptical link, but even here you can see that it's plausible)
Yes, I know. I read the article. I also think it is sensible to be aware of cheaters and treat them accordingly, though we're not a haplodiploid species. Bear in mind that dealing with cheaters must not be taken as an excuse for violence or robbery.

What is your point regarding my answer to gp post? I didn't even mention the words "bureaucracy" or "government". Rest assured though, that I despise them both.
Don’t know why you got downvoted but here are some relevant links about legal complications [0][1], sexual assaults [2] and alcoholism [3] on Antarctica (data mainly from US-based stations).

[0]https://archive.ph/dgKwt

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Antarctica

[2]https://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=305782&org=OPP

[3]https://www.wired.com/2015/10/scientists-antarctica-drink-lo...
Thank you, this comment is spot on.
It's not massive. NASA did a study to find methane leaks. The top such leaks will be labeled by journalists as massive, but are they really?

The Permian leak is listed at 55 tons per hour; that's less than a half a megaton per year. The EPA says one ton of CH4 is equivalent to about 30 tons of CO2, so the Permian leak is equivalent to 15 megatons CO2 per year. It sounds like a large number, but annually the world emits about 50 billion CO2-equivalent tons. That means the Permian methane leak contributes by 0.03% to the total worldwide greenhouse gas emission.
Thank you for the offer! I'll reach out directly and we can chat more.
That's not a capitalist society. This is the correct definition for Capitalism:

> an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

It doesn't imply voluntary social interactions, it doesn't imply some sort of protection against the "superior force" you mention.

The values you enounce belong to any healthy society as voluntary social interactions happen in socialism too, where the majority (the proletariat) is protected against the use of superior force by the rich.

Now, would you please explain how can social interactions be voluntary in a system where property-less people have no other choice to survive but to accept the least bad offer from those who own the means of production?

Interactions can really be voluntary once neither of the parts depend on the interaction to survive. Once we free exchanges from such power play, then we can talk about will.

This is why the only just and free system can be one where nobody has to struggle for the material needs necessary for their survival.
There is considerable debate[1] about whether or not the US is, in its contemporary form, an oligarchy (including, I suppose, your (parenthetical) refutation of that notion above).

Personally, I'm persuaded by the argument that it is an oligarchy, or at least, it is more one than it is not.

Unlike some (most?) others, where the government is the seat of ultimate power and chooses its accomplices, in the US that arrangement is inverted; the very rich (the few hundred billioniares, and a few thousand of not-quite-that-rich individuals and families) excercise enormous control over the government, without having to directly participate in its execution or hold office themselves.

(And our politicians themselves almost never achieve that level of wealth; many do become rich by ordinary standards, but its clear where the actual power resides.)

So we could quibble about definitions and degrees of words like "oligarch" and "the klept" but in my view the US is clearly more toward the oligarchy end of the spectrum than the other end.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_States#...
Software World Tour
Probably u8 underflow from time travelers and unborn babies visiting the site.
We have teams and companies in many places in the world and our common business language is English. When I'm traveling, we mostly speak in English, but there are moments where it's just the most practical thing to have the local team quickly speak in their native language and then we come back and try to summarize it in English. That seems like a good middle ground to me (as a native English speaker with modest German and long-faded French).

I always imagine how taxing (and frankly, unfair) it would be for me to have to be constantly running a background thread to decode English and periodically another foreground thread to see if I could express my next thought in English well enough, etc. However capable I am, I would appear slightly less capable in some situations because of this mental tax.

As a result, I'm firm that documentation, official communications, etc. do have to be in English, but live conversations among international teams are mostly, but not exclusively, in English.
No, the article specified his religious beliefs were worse than that. I find drowning people with flower petals to be the most objectionable act listed.
yeah that's the weirdest part of it aerosol injection is heavily debated and reasonable people can disagree about it but standard engineering principles can be applied to build new planes and standard global circulation models can be applied to model long range particle transport in the atmosphere -- these are very understood problems by human beings and have been for years -- sure AI can assist with tweaks / optimizations i.e. with airfoils etc. the emphasis that these are problems where AI / ML are ripe to be applied is bizarre and speak to a greater bias in favour of AI / ML development and adoption than a bias in favour of geo-eng solutions to climate change
A book that made the idea of a lack of government believable and appealing to me is David Friedman's Machinery of Freedom. He presents a flushed out vision of a withered state and it is the anarcho-capitalist version of anarchy, the only version which I feel is realizable without force-based coercion.

The idea is to envision a society which is stable, but has no government and yet not perfect people. There can still be theft, violence, laziness, polarizing differences of opinion, etc. but the society thrives despite the absence of a government and nimbly handles these problems. He presents a vision of how it could work. It is not a prescription since it is impossible to prescribe an anarchic society as there is nothing to prescribe to. The criminal justice system becomes a bunch of competing rights organizations, similar to competing insurance companies. It allows for economic evolution of laws as everyone can choose what kind of system they want to be governed by and conflicts of competing legal systems get negotiated and arbitrated. One can choose not to be governed by any laws, but if that individual comes into conflict with others, then there is no one to defend them. They are not automatically cast out for not being part of anything.

Most other anarchic systems seem to assume unity of purpose, a good work ethic, a lack of criminality, and an inability to fundamentally dissent from what the larger group wants. They often get presented as more of a direct democratic government that everyone belongs to while Friedman's approach is literally a lack of any coercive government. There is no governing body that all must yield to, including the collective. The fundamental transactions between people are voluntary and coercion to produce societal needs is both unnecessary and rejected. I find it to be a believable society with the people we have.
I am 30 but still feel 25. My dad is in his 60s but also still feels like he is 25. Lol.
That's indeed a bit of a nitpick. If you're working with maths, going back to your notes and reading them is really important. If your notes look like Sum(k,math.inf, (math.pipow(sqrt(x),k))...)), it's really not great. So, while you're correct that it's just notation, the issue remains that it's much harder to read maths in ascii.
You claimed it's a democracy - obviously that's not the case.

If you think it shouldn't be a democracy, thats fine, but is just an opinion and not a factual claim.

You are, ofcrouse entitled to your opinion. Classically company consists of employees just like your body is made uo of organs. When you damage them by treating them badly, you damage the company.

In neoliberal idea employees are disposable and company is not harmed when you harm them.
Company is a separate entity that lives by itself, like a holy spirit, maybe it posseses the stock market on the 'brand value', i don't know.

The current stunt by Elon musk will show who is right, if Twitter does well when he is done destroying the talent pool, then you are right. If the company combusts, then you are wrong.
> I bet if it were in monospace

It is.

> and you were reading code in context rather than on HN you'd have noticed.

(X) doubt
> Would you share some insight on why Intel failed at making EUV work? Gelsinger said on a podcast (Decoder) recently that in fact they fought it.

A cursory Google search results in multiple search hits from recent news pieces announcing Intel buying their EUV kits from ASML.

If Intel is handing out small fortunes to ASML to deliver a machine that in the past Intel was expected to develop in-house, that does not sound like a success story.

Here's a Reddit thread on the topic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMD_Stock/comments/miar30/why_is_in...
I don't see how domestic policy is relevant to a discussion about perspective of India's foreign policy alignment concerning the west. And don't mistake me for a champion of Indian government either.

I'm not a fan of the Indian government's tendency to behave like a nanny state over the past decade by arbitrary filtering/banning content on the internet. I'm not a fan of a lot of things that the Indian government does or how it goes about doing them.

As far as tiktok, there are plenty of reasons to ban it and there are plenty of reasons not to, though it seemed more reactionary than well thought out.

I don't think nuanced decision making is a strong suite of Indian government when it comes to technology especially censorship(VLC was blocked for god's sake) in direct contrast to how well it seems to be executing the India stack at scale.
>”You can set up, say, /r/scienceforall right now and establish the rules you want.”

In theory this is a viable solution. In all likelihood, this won’t succeed and there are probably a dozen offshoots already that no one knows about. I suspect two things would happen. The most likely thing is the subreddit languishes and never gets any traction. But if it somehow does, it is likely to get targeted as a disinformation subreddit or the admins will install their own powermods - as they typically do once subreddits become big enough.

Given what we know about how Reddit chooses to display content and run its moderation team, I don’t think any alternative science subreddit would be allowed to successfully exist and be of any real competition to r/science.
Some other things I noticed when I read their earnings call transcript from the other day:

"We'll start with a focus on driving $3 billion of cost reduction in 2023, 1/3 in cost of sales and 2/3 in operating expenses."

"best-in-class semiconductor companies have a financial profile that includes gross margins in the 60s" (Intel's is in the mid 40's and fell last quarter)

So they're not only trying to change a gigantic part of their business model, but ALSO drive $3B of cost reduction and try and push gross margins back up to... where they were 5 years or so ago?

They're making it impossible for themselves IMO. Pivot or profit improvements, choose one. Doing both at the same time is surely going to lead to a huge mess.
yah. This is clearly wrong. If you are 105 or more, you should be able to vote as many times you want… you legend!
People can't even be considerate of others who exist, let alone those who are yet to be. Should a 15 year old bear the weight of their future offspring when deciding to sneak out of the house to drink with friends?

It's impossible to know the totality of outcomes associated with an action and the author's examples are pretty simplistic. What if that glass you dropped and shattered becomes a tool of survival for a person lost in the woods?
This approach to typing could have saved the Mars Climate Orbiter, i.e a pounds of force type vs. a newtons type.

> "A NASA review board found that the problem was in the software controlling the orbiter's thrusters. The software calculated the force the thrusters needed to exert in pounds of force. A separate piece of software took in the data assuming it was in the metric unit: newtons.... Propulsion engineers, like those at Lockheed Martin who built the craft, typically express force in pounds, but it was standard practice to convert to newtons for space missions. One pound of force is about 4.45 newtons. Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab assumed the conversion had been made, and didn't check."

https://www.wired.com/2010/11/1110mars-climate-observer-repo...

There could be issues with memory use, but it could also be implemented as an API, i.e. ensuring values exported from one software package to another were of the correct type, but then store them internally as simple types... Switching everything to a unified metric system would make more sense in the long run, however.
Oh yeah I definitely agree that the jokes here are quite tolerable compared to most/all other sites.

It's just that a lot of joke answers early on in the life of a post may make other users who may otherwise seriously respond, look at the responses and go "Aah it's a joke post/it's filled with joke responses, better not waste my time". Consequently the post may not see many upvotes and die out quickly.

In comparison, a post like this has the potential to easily get a few 100 upvotes with good discussions on the (changing/constant etc) demographics. But if a lot of initial responses are jokey in nature we may lose out on that.
They're designed for the heat of an industrial composter.

You get ones specifically designed for home composting, but even without considering these bags there is a bit of an art to home composting and you want to mix things up to get the reaction going smoothly.

From the article:

> But the research shows that, in this case, the better solution is to send compostable plastics to industrial composting facilities, where composting conditions are regulated.

> “We have shown that home composting, being uncontrolled, is largely ineffective and is not a good method of disposal for compostable packaging,” said Purkiss.
I could understand smaller age ranges for younger folks because they’re developing at a more rapid pace.

For example 30-40 age range would group together people with relatively similar life experiences, but a 10-20 age range would not.
> If we can't stop increasing the damage, we don't deserve to continue as a species.

This sounds like back in the 90s, when abstinence only advocates said if you can’t stop having sex then you deserve to die of AIDS, so we should stop wasting money on cures and better treatments.

People deserve a chance to live, no matter what their lifestyle.
The [bugs] tag on the Mathematica stack exchange has 1900+ questions https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bugs

Here are two that I found:

the character table of some finite groups weren't square
https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/q/252775/7936
this one makes me really nervous as this implies there's not unit testing for the most obvious checks (it's a theorem that the character table must be square and the check is trivial to implement)

conjugate transpose didn't do anything to vectors
https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/q/258165/7936

There are plenty more where Mathematica produces the wrong antiderivative or limit.
>crazy, knee-jerk reaction to some news headlines

This has been my perspective. I’m a neutral observer in regards to Musk the person. Obviously some folks have a pretty strong feelings towards him for a lot of reasons, but watching the knee-jerk reactions to every rumor and all the assumption analysis that follows on HN is entertaining.

I am not neutral on Twitter though, I think it’s a bloody cancer. If it implodes or improves under Musk. I am good either way. I can’t see it getting any worse.
I predicted the 2008 crash – these are the global ‘megathreats’ I can see now
I think it is related to how you organize your data structures and business logic - you may have rich typed model that models specific domain, but OOP would typically call to include all the business logic that modifies attributes of class to be part of that class - eg, you do not externally set specific values to class instance, but instead execute some action on the class instance that may change these attributes. If you use type system just to model data structures and have external business logic to use/change it, it would be called anemic model.
> grug very like type systems make programming easier. for grug, type systems most value when grug hit dot on keyboard and list of things grug can do pop up magic. this 90% of value of type system or more to grug

> danger abstraction too high, big brain type system code become astral projection of platonic generic turing model of computation into code base. grug confused and agree some level very elegant but also very hard do anything like record number of club inventory for Grug Inc. task at hand

https://grugbrain.dev/#grug-on-type-systems
If you want to write a compiler it's faster to learn Prolog then write a compiler in Prolog than to write it in some other [imperative] language you already know.

(Prolog is so much more "compiler-shaped" than imperative languages and so simple itself that it's much easier to use it to write compilers. In fact the last chapter of "Art of Prolog" is about writing compilers.)
It's a lot easier to Photoshop a mock-up of some options than to actually implement them. Fine-grained categorization of posts so that the feature could work is a pretty deep rabbit hole, regardless of how it was implemented.

Additionally:

* Filter-it-yourself doesn't do anything to address major societal problems like mass delusions about supposed codes,deceased politicians returning to save the day, etc.

* Filter-it-yourself worked pretty well in the 90s on Usenet, when the signal:noise ratio was high enough to manually maintain a killfile. I don't think it's realistic on an internet with billions of users and bot networks.
>Birdwatch doesn’t work by majority rules. To identify notes that are helpful to a wide range of people, Birdwatch ratings requires agreement between contributors who have sometimes disagreed in their past ratings. This helps prevent one-sided ratings.

This means the political fringes get to decide what is truth. The far-left and far-right disagree on many things but also agree on many things that are bad for the rest of society. Until very recently the anti-EU sentiment in many European countries was high among both the far-left and far-right.
The same applies to most projects.

When I started in IT I would frequently run projects over my head and then have to do a lot of backtracking wasting time.

Now, whenever I need to do something I don't know exactly how to, I first run a bunch of test projects to learn the ropes on small and manageable examples and only then attempt the large project.

I like to think that in almost all cases doing the small example projects and the project take less time than if I started with the large project right away. The only complaint is that managers do not always see it this way and they want to see constant progress.
> isn't it going to be decided with superior force?

Yes. There is always going to be a superior force and it decides who owns what.

Practically, the point of anarchism is that the force should be limited (voluntarily, like how armies in a healthy democracy voluntarily subordinate themselves to the voters) to the absolute minimum role possible. For example, the popular configuration right now is that the group that controls the strongest army (ie, 'the government') is also seen as responsible for providing healthcare and welfare. The anarchists think this is stupid because there is no reason to think that there is an organization that is simultaneously good at so many things at once.

> How is this society mutually beneficial by definition?

Anyone using force to achieve their aims gets removed from society, so all that is left is people transacting mutually beneficially. It isn't so radical, that is close to what we have now. The vision is basically you go to the shops and buy stuff.
Came here to mention unittest.subtest. It's for exactly this case.
Given that it's Twitter, I humbly suggest "bird dogging".
That would be the mother of all jokes: After we clowned the Chemtrail-Simps we actually need Chemtrails to safe the world from chemicals. Humanity is a clown-show
That Pacific Ocean Plastic Island is mostly made of fishing nets.

Fishing nets are also the most likely source of most microplastic in the oceans.

It is a huge problem, but not really connected to food packaging.
Right, but if you told your professor you sometimes represent distance in Volts (to make your calculations simpler) you'd get some funny looks.

You could even double-down on it: "Have there been any studies that prove that using units of measure helps you get the right answer?"
Everyone's converting to Greenland shark years.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37047168
More like an i18n or l10n issue than types.