skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Purely from the surrounding noise, it sounds like it's all coming from people brand new to critiquing history books or social theory....

The criticism came from the historical profession. The NY Times tasked someone who is not a historian to lead their flagship project on American history (and if you follow her on Twitter, it quickly becomes clear that she's not even a well read amateur historian, and she doesn't appear to have even a better than average grasp of history at all). She made some really explosive - and straight-up incorrect - claims about American history. For example, a central part of her thesis is that the Americans rebelled against Britain because Britain was about to abolish slavery. That's utter nonsense, and the historian the NY Times hired to check the piece for accuracy told them as much. They ignored that historian and printed the claim anyways.

Some of the most famous historians of the American Revolution and the Civil War saw the newspaper of record making these kinds of absurd claims in print, and flipped out. These are liberal historians who read and respect the NY Times, so they were upset that it was making an utter mess of their field. They wrote a letter to the Times explaining their objections. The Times responded by basically saying, "We know better," and that they weren't going to correct anything. On Twitter, the 1619 Project lead dismissed those historians as "white men." Finally, the historian the Times originally asked to fact check their piece, who is a black woman, wrote an article explaining that she had told the Times they were wrong before publication, but that they had ignored her. The Times then went and did a minimal "clarification," which watered down one of their original, incorrect claims just enough so that it is now unfalsifiable.

This wasn't just some squabble between historians. It was a fight between historians and a newspaper (and a project lead who doesn't know anything about history) that wanted to sell a narrative that is simply incorrect.

Why did the Times do this? Because it fit in perfectly with the angle they had decided they wanted to pursue. The NY Times had an all-hands meeting around the time of the 1619 Project in which Dean Baquet told the staff that the paper was going to try to connect every story to race. That was going to be the Times' signature feature going forward. They did that with their big, feature historical piece, completely messed it up, and then responded arrogantly to the historical profession.

People who say that WikiLeaks isn't a journalistic organization because it has an agenda are incredibly naive about how journalistic organizations actually behave. This line of attack is being used to artificially separate WikiLeaks from journalism and justify the government's campaign against it and Assange. If we accept this line of argument, then in the future, the government can go after any organization that publishes news, but which the government claims has an agenda.
The author stated that he has not subscribed to the cloud service though.
It lets you run untrusted code. Great for exposing a plugin API.
Agreed. One can be adversarial and professional at the same time.
Yeah, I guess this comes down to how your brain works best, because it's the complete opposite for me -- just listening would result in almost no understanding or retention.

But, if I just took even crappy notes, I would remember and understand MUCH better. I rarely looked at the notes afterwards, just the act of writing it down was critical for me.

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Edit: sometimes, the topic wasn't a great fit for notes, so I would doodle instead. Same benefits. The brain is weird.
There are other clients, like gotosocial written in Go, so a comparison is possible, but not sure if someone has already done that.
Running WASM outside of a web browser? Obligatory Gary Bernhardt, “The Birth and Death of JavaScript”: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
I swear I call my name by everything other than her official name.
A few things I have found work well for maintaining energy levels and maximizing productivity levels throughout the day.

1. Only eat foods high in carbohydrates around the time you exercise. (Reduce carbohydrates on days that you don't exercise)

2. Workout in the morning or afternoon (ideally afternoon). (Working out at night will disrupt sleep and I have found that working out in the morning slightly decreases energy levels in the afternoon compared to working out in the afternoon.)

3. Avoid eating 6+ hours before going to bed.

4. Try to do some light exercise (walking/stretching) after you eat.

5. Make sure you're consistently drinking water throughout the day (a little bit less around the times you eat).

6. Only go to bed when you're like 8+/10 tired (time asleep doesn't matter much if the quality is slow)

7. Avoid screen time at least 1 hour before bed (this is basically a must to achieving 6...)

8. Wake up (get up) when you wake up relatively alert or when you have to get up. If you always stay in bed until you have to get up then you're probably not aligning your waking time with your sleep cycle which means you'll be more tired throughout the rest of the day

There are actually a lot of other things that I think help as well (diet, meditation, etc...) but I didn't want to make this post any longer than it is.

Lastly, I just wanted to say that having sleep aligned is SO important because it improves our energy/emotional state which ultimately assists us with other productive activities. (it's really a productivity multiplier)
“When you delete an e-mail, it immediately gives you an option to undo that action. How humane! ” - except that option disappears after a while, so if I hit delete, switch windows and then think “oh shit I need that email back” then the undo option is gone and I’m screwed anyway.

I’m also unsure about an article that claims “to one of the most basic and important mantras of interface design: Never use a warning when you mean undo.” When in the first examples it ignores one of the most basic and important mantras of interface design: use full sentences in your action buttons, not just “Okay”.
"dumb clients" don't exist anymore. Why run things on the server and have to deal with scaling issues, if I can just distribute super complex applications easily and as reliably as publishing a web page?
>modern state management library

with as much time, effort, use, and praise that these get, I would expect every state change / collection to have a corresponding input and action buffer, effectively making all user actions CTRL+Z-able.
I'm not sure it is a proxy war, as the Ukrainian government is not being instigated by the US. Granted I'm not v. familiar w/ Ukrainian politics but if the Ukrainian leadership is democratically elected, and the population is generally against Russian leaders taking over the country (this part seems likely), it is much closer to an alliance no? In the same way the US supplied Russia with materials in WWII -- while clearly of a much different scale and impact -- it would seem awkward and inaccurate to claim the Nazi's were fighting the US when they were invading Russia.
Or a changes history at least
Perhaps an even bigger caveat is that you have prescribed this to note taking from a live discussion.

That isn't what you've said, but you imply that repeatedly.

And by the distinct set of circumstances (recording verbatim) in which writing is vastly inferior to typing, your position is noteworthy. I would argue that a microphone is even still vastly superior & can provide text output. However, whether or not you retain (this is about memory) all that information is another question all together.

If you take your typed notes and then read through them while writing out key elements, you're retention and memory will likely be greatly improved.

Aside, based on your complaints and the fact you said pencil, I'm guessing that your skill with a pen is poor. Writing in general takes practice to master, it is not simply literacy.

Edit:
>Although typing notes can be useful and even faster for some note-takers, ultimately it does not have the cognitive, tactile, memory, or visual cognitive effects that people can get when they write by hand. Typing notes can be good, but it won’t make it easier to remember what was said later on.

Directly from the text.
Twitter engineer explains how it will break in the coming weeks
My personal fav (while not a scope) is the Flir hacking years ago (Not sure if they have locked them down since). Things like converting a Flir E4 to an E8 via software alone (and vastly improving the resolution) https://www.eevblog.com/forum/thermal-imaging/flir-e4-therma...
I don’t know if it actually is cheaper, but it certainly could be cheaper if the SaaS is running hardware/software optimized for FFMpeg and your Rails app/db server that is hosting a Mastodon instance is not.
US min wage is 7.50. Does that adjust your view?
What you described is outside the scope of the problem being solved in radiological classification. That problem- like protein structure predction- is an intentionally simplified process used to make it possible to fairly compare humans vs ML.

What you're describing is the general problem of informed diagnosis, which is also classification, but typically takes into account a great deal of qualitative information. Few if any ML people are working in this area because there is no golden data and it's nearly impossible to evaluate in a quantitative way.
Yes but we mustn't accept that. Watch the zealots invade this thread with their delusional reasoning for why we must re-do it. It's hilarious
Great work Wasmer team :)
> 24V fans in general are poorly stocked.

I'm guessing the same holds for 48V fans?
[2007] but also timeless advice, at least while our UIs still follow the same general paradigms.

It's important to note that Aza Raskin is the son of Jef Raskin, who wrote a lot about interfaces (including a book called The Humane Interface), and worked on the original Macintosh at Apple, on the interface.

Aza Raskin has continued that work at Mozilla and elsewhere and I'm glad he has. Though I miss the original Songza interface https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1117-fresh-ui-ideas-from-song...
49 days ago, 111 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33096580
Yup. The way to attend a lecture is to leave your laptop behind. Take a cheap spiral notebook and a couple colored pens.

Take notes.

Once the notebook is filled (or the semester is over) scan the pages, toss the notebook, and buy a fresh one for the next semester.

It works, from much personal experience You're welcome!

1. yes, sometimes I fall behind the lecturer taking notes, which can be a bit frustrating

2. while the notes may not be complete, they trigger the context of the lecture which works

3. reading my notes from 40 years ago - they don't make much sense, as the context is forgotten

4. I wish I had made audio recordings of the lectures. But that was impractical, as I could not afford the cassette tapes required
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It's predicated on the assumption that a random discovery from a zero-comprehension state is more likely to get you to a goal than an evolution from a state that has at least some correctness.

More generally, it disingenuously disregards the fact that the definition of the problem brings with it an enormous set of preconceptions. Reductio ad absurdum, you should just start training a model on completely random data in search of some unexpected but useful outcome.

Obviously we don't do this; by setting a goal and a context we have already applied constraints, and so this really just devolves into a quantitative argument about the set of initial conditions.

(This is the entire point of the Minsky / Sussman koan.)
I think it would be useful to show the networks that the username cannot be found on.
In my limited experience, Kirkus Review fails the most simple of tests for whether I think I should care about their reviews: how willing are they to say a book sucks? I don't think I have ever seen a scathing Kirkus Review, while I've seen some legendary ones in other pubs. Not hatchet jobs; methodical take downs of a book, even if it is 'hyped'. Kirkus' schtick is a review as a marketing tool. They specialize in milquetoast praise fit for breathless quotes on book covers.
I don't know! I think you might be right, but my intuition tells me it's a little more than that. Other ideas:

* Is it a mind-body connection thing? Writing seems to involve a lot more fine motor control and muscle engagement than typing.

* Like other people my age, I didn't grow up typing; I started learning when I was around 10 years old. I learned to write much earlier than that. Could it be that neural connections tied to writing are somehow more effectively hooked up to learning new things?

* Is it a hand dominance thing? I write with one hand, but type with both.

* Is it that writing engages a different kind of language processing than typing? To me, the "voice" I use typing feels very similar to how I speak. Whereas when I'm physically writing, the "voice" I use feels very different. It's as if there's a different language center being worked.
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Adding to your point, Western Governors Univ. by far granted the largest number of B.S. degrees of any institution in the U.S.
Perfect. And standard practice would be...

Do you want to quit?
> No. I'm still working!
> Yes. I'm done for now.

...until some twunt reverses the order of the answers.
And others (about 35%) follow that, as a standard practise.
> A large coalition of political/social activist groups agreed not to try to kill Twitter by starving us of advertising revenue if I agreed to this condition. They broke the deal.

As with the Russian claims about a deal for NATO to permanently not expand in Eastern Europe, this is easy to show is unlikely to be true:

(1) In either case, these are things that would be recognized of utmost significance by all sides.

(2) In either case, the allegedly aggrieved parties (or their relevant predecessors in interests) were sophisticated actors, long used to working in an environment where durable binding agreements, particularly ones of great significance, were memorialized in writing affirmed by all parties, with copies retained by all parties, to assure that the terms are clear, fixed, and that evidence can be produced of them in the event of any public or private dispute.

(3) In neither case can the allegedly aggrieved party produce the writing memorializing the agreement, or any explanation as to why they (or their predecessor in interest) would not, as a condition for what they were giving up in the agreement, insist upon the common step of memorializing the agreement in writing,

(4) Therefore, it is highly improbable that the narrative of the aggrieved party is accurate.
The market for something you pay for is small. The market for free things is seemingly never ending.
The problem is downstream effects. If tons of employers pause hiring because they're hoping to get FAANG alumni for cheap, maybe because they read articles like this one, that will cause disruptions in the market. It may eventually work out but eventually can be a long time to people who really need a job.
Why would that be? Marketing did a great job, engineers okayish (no one knew where their latency came from). I'm not sure for the compliance department, but the web devs building the homepage and trading page probably will be doing fine because they can show something.
So your analogy is simple. Leaked data are 100% true because government take action against publishing. There is no chance whats so ever that some of data could be falsified/manipulated, ie to deceive foreign intelligence. Correct?
I did notice back in the Ubuntu Intrepid days how much clearer the labels were for the applications vs. Windows XP's three options.
Politicians and economists talk about growth yet few discuss doubling time
I saw examples of people using it to generate scientific-sounding fake studies like: the benefits of eating glass, or promoting antisemitism.

That being said, I am very partial to the AI researchers here who feel like their cool demo has to be taken down because some people were misusing it. It's an unfair high standard they're holding AI demos to, compared with other technologies. It's analogous to asking Alexander Graham Bell to shut down an early telephone prototype because some jerks were using it to discuss antisemitic conspiracies.
Its obviously retarded, but I'm not so worried, most cars are gargantuan 10M+balls of decades old C that no one understands, and no one has ever audited or gone through to fix warnings. Almost everything is communicated along joint databuses typically can, which sends everything everywhere by default. They are so ridiculously easy to hack you can do it over wifi or bluetooth it should not have in the first place, but the sound system is no doubt connected to the airbag. However, if you have physical access to the system the opportunities are endless, and for every engineer that tries to fix security issues, you have three like the guy who tried to argue that his fantastic innovation of partial self implemented 16 bit encryption would make the can secure. For these reasons I dont expect a single one of the old car companies to achieve secure code in our lifetime, meaning sure, it will be a little inconvenient, but when was the last time you used a browser without an adblocker.
It was easy enough to set it up on DigitalOcean. My primary objective was my own identity. Turns out the basic $7/mo can’t keep up with the load at all. I’d need to at least double the instance size to be able to serve the single user (me). Mastodon is quite resource intensive to host. I decided to instead donate that to fosstodon and move there.

I have used rails in production for a company with decent traffic. It’s doable but it requires a lot of optimizations and the minimum starting requirement is high.

I think a Masto.host like model (the one Fosstodon uses) but with proper multi-tenant support and custom domain support is required for self-hosted mastodon to become a viable option.

(I have a desktop lying around unused. I’ll give another try with that but I’d probably have to measure the electricity usage and add an UPS)
> and maybe your crappy motherboard vendor shouldn't be writing a ton of code running in kernel space - with all the potential stability and security issues that might entail

This wasn't the suggestion I was making. I was suggesting that the motherboard, itself, should be controlling the fan RPMs (or should at least provide such a mode). I don't feel like taking a temperature input, and mapping that to an RPM output should take much circuitry at all, but it that (somehow) required a full-blown CPU, I was thinking a (very small) auxiliary chip, dedicated to the task.

But yes, if you're going to do it on the main CPU, then in userspace. But now you incur all the problems I mentioned in the original comment, some of which can exhibit death spirals: CPU has to throttle due to heat, meaning less CPU time, meaning it will take longer to get to the code responsible for alleviating the problem of heat by notching the RPM up!

In the worse case, you hit the CPU's critical trip point before the problem can be brought under control.
That makes sense only when multiple inheritance is supported though.
You could have just read this instead and saved yourself from wasting money on powdered alcohol:

https://www.wired.com/2015/05/powdered-alcohol-experiment/
Thats a good thought. I was considering it but was worried about "cluttering" the site
Two weeks since this piece was posted. I wonder if the anonymous engineer quoted is still at the company.
It's the first bottleneck. Generally, if you can't pass the first bottleneck, all the remaining bottlenecks don't matter.
I don't follow. UTC with no more leap second updates isn't a new version. It's the same timebase, just without any future updates to the leap second table. If the folk that maintain UTC decide to stop adding or subtracting leap seconds, it's not a fork in the timebase.

That fork already happened with TAI. TAI was the same as universal time in 1958, and has progressed without any leap seconds. The current offset between TAI and UTC is 37 seconds. We could all agree to switch unix time to TAI, but there would be a 37 second discontinuity.

I currently work on autonomous aircraft, and we use GPS time internally for avionics. The monotonicity is very nice for correctness when developing real time code. Outside of avionics, it's very confusing for people that tend to work in UTC. I've written table based timebase converters a few times now.
well, given that any random person can't just adopt the language today, the platform support available today doesn't really matter, does it?

Jon is writing it for his needs, and this thread is full of people saying "it doesn't meet my needs!" So what? it's not for you!
It occasionally crosses my mind while I'm having the time of my life flying my FPV drone.
Is your name based off your hat material?
If we assume the names were pronounced with Middle English, they would sound quite a bit different compared to Modern English. You can hear a few words here.

https://forvo.com/languages-pronunciations/enm/

I was looking for a Middle English text to speech tool to try out some of the names, but no luck finding one.
Mozilla's new privacy subscription combines VPN and email relay into one package
Right at some point. But at the current point my tablet is too heavy to hold in hand for more than 20 secs perhaps. Phone is ok. Tablet is not (for me). I only use tablet by placing it on table or a stand. Then actually using a laptop is much better than a table.

The killer-tech will be when we have a tablet that is as light as phone.
This used to be my go-to Flexbox reference, but Josh' guide supplanted it.
Antibodies
Why not? Given Rust's semantics it's really no different than how Go's Context seems to be used, just more efficient.
I couldn't help but think about how this is similar to the type of pruning/bending you apply in conjunction with trellis netting when growing cannabis if you want to maximize your top colas in a confined space.
>Time is a flat circle, eh?

I prefer Mark Twain's “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.”

It's pretty obvious that we have come to a stagnant period of online content and there's a desire to move past the glamour of the Instagram and political fights on Twitter and optimised for ad revenue videos on Youtube but I don't think that the personal websites are coming back.

Those were cool because only specific type of people were able to build websites, then the code free services for sharing content came along and everybody got online presence but because the medium is the message we are kind of getting tired of the message. There seems to be a search for a new medium. The time for the next verse feels around the corner but I don't think we have found it just yet!
There are a lot of negotiation/tactical games (Game of Thrones board game comes to mind), but they all can be equally long and none have the simplicity of Diplomacy.

IMHO, the fun of Diplomacy is sneaking in little side conversations and hiding in a corner to tell a secret. In person, it's very fun. A better approximation online would be to play asynchronously (like a turn a day) via a website.