skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. There is a spectrum and some people are much more evil (in the sense; more harmful to society) than others and the concentration of evil is higher near the centers of power.

I suspect that many of the attempts at social cleansing are natural (though not necessarily just) reactions to other less visible evils carried out over longer periods of time by those in power. Clearly the Bolsheviks in Russia were not happy people... There was a process that had been occurring for centuries prior which made them unhappy enough to carry out a revolution. It is known that Russia's feudal system had been particularly harsh on peasants for centuries.

The French royals were so detached from the misery which they caused that it seems somewhat unsurprising that they couldn't even keep their heads physically attached to their bodies in the end. Their metaphorical heads were already quite detached from reality before the guillotine made the separation literal.
When I got my last Pixel Google were giving 3 years of security updates. I bought it one year after release. For an average consumer doing the same thing they would have had an unsecure doorstop with very low resale value after two years. Should be criminal.

I installed some ROM and kept it alive (not by far as secure as using an iPhone, of course).
I’m still waiting for Threads to be launched in Europe.
Well over a million ordinary people protested against the Second Gulf War and it may zero difference.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/feb/15/politics.politica...
The purpose of wei is they want one of the handful of closed source OS to be a requirement to use any commercial website.

Terry Davis wasn't far off when he said "they" want a world where you don't have access to a compiler.

With wei "they" can sidestep open source entirely.

"Why would I want open source encryption? I don't have anything to hide."

"Why don't you have a normal phone?"

"Why come you don't have a tattoo?!"

Idiocracy is playing out in front of us. Anyone who accepts wei is a lower tier of human than those who reject it.
> make your bullshit presentable in public

Triple integrals and sigmas over sets, instead of clearly stated limits, and that are not analytically solvable, is not "presentable". Scientists do this stuff on purpose to make their papers harder to read.

> expected to be gatekeepers for a minimum standard of supposed reproducibility

They don't enforce this at all. Otherwise they would demand code and training data be released for ML papers.
Even with multithreading Python will still be slow. It's not like singlethreaded Python can keep up with singlethreaded C or even JS.

This will just allow people to waste even more compute resources to get somewhat quick results from Python instead of doing the right thing.

From an ecological viewpoint this PEP will be disastrous and keep entire power plants online.
Their point is that social media is an abstract concept that correlates with it's use; not the platform it's used on. What Kim Kardashian (as an extreme example) posts on Instagram/Twitter/etc is social media, because it's media broadcast out to be shared and commented on.

Having an Instagram account and messaging your friends is not social media, it's a social network using the same aforementioned platform.

In other words, a public Telegram channel can be as much social media as Instagram can be, and Instagram can be as much a social network as Telegram is. And exclusively inverse, as well.
I mean going from text to unicode did pose a huge problem for python specifically.
This was extremely common especially once cable boxes started to get more advanced guides and built in dvr. The TV guide just became a catalog of what you wanted to watch. All watching you'd do completely inside recordings. It was nice when they added their own episode catalog (on-demand I believe it was called, before we started calling it streaming) and would skip the dvr recording of an episode and go straight to their on-demand one. Or when you started watching something mis-show and the cable box would offer to restart from beginning from their on-demand offering.
> I think it can only have occurred from a very thoughtful approach to moderation

I agree. I don't think I've ever seen a reply from dang that I didn't agree with. I agreed with him even in the times he replied to me. I'm not sure if I succeeded in taking the advice to heart but I did listen and try.

Thanks dang.
That was one way, but it definitely was not the only way. A lot was people writing letters to one another and sharing papers by word of mouth. There will always be elitist groups, yeah, but we shouldn't support them. It's about doing good work, not gatekeeping. Reviewing is supposed to be critical, but that's not the same as adversarial. Science is about progressing human knowledge and we need to ask if this system is accomplishing that or if we're just caught it Goodhart's nightmare.
That's the perfect situation many parallelization packages in python ecosystem take for granted. In my case, I had big datasets that wouldn't fit into memory (or I didn't want to demand this peak RAM usage on a server), and I had to write a parallelizer that read data in chunks and fed it to workers -- something very simple but unavailable in Pandas ecosystem (most packages assume you have swallowed the entire dataset, which isn't that large, and it's easy to throw the data to process-based workers)
DNS-noob here:
For what use case is it useful to debug DNS like described in this article?
I'm a programmer since 2001 and I never ever had to investigate what is going on behind name resolution, I never encountered any kind of DNS-related issue.
It’s all just another circus to keep the masses occupied, this one also acts as a deterrent. Too many people are comfortable with the death penalty, and too many see vigilantes favourably.
Simply use an ad blocker?
I think it is a good question. You can share media like pictures and videos over email.

You offer a bit of insight about using something as a content repository. That's an interesting take.

I appreciate the question and the thought process it invites. I'm also glad you added your insight in response.
I know it's a complete impossibility, but some kind of "bad faith filter" would go a long way to making the comments much more pleasant.

I'm not sure what I should expect from a community that prides itself on its rationalist roots, but discussions are often disappointing nonetheless.
Genuinely, I am not terrified. I just do not care all that much about other people's kids. In interactions I had or seen with parents or kids, literally never did any parent yelled at me or anyone else for saying "excuse me" or "that is mine".

But fundamentally, keeping control Iverson a kid is on parent and I don't think about bumping kids enough to form a sentence. I just expect parents to tell them cause it is their job and in this story, the parent in fact intervened.
Brexit for most people was about almost nothing at all. It was an empty shell of an idea that people poured their vision of a better country into. That's why the UK is being 'punished' - because nobody had a single actual decent idea of what they wanted.
Incredibly well stated. This was the comment that convinced me to check out the link and, man, what a blast from the past. So many of those commercials I literally haven’t thought about in decades and couldn’t have told you a thing about them beforehand, but sure enough, many of them tickled a little spot in my brain and I knew I had seen them before.

That early ‘90s commercial aesthetic is something else.
Apple uses mobbing strategy to force teenagers to use iPhones:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-...

Anyone who don't use iPhone will be bullied (in USA). But yeah, let's pretend that Apple have some moral values when exactly the opposite is true.
A company has no morals… Its policies depend on the people within it, who do have all sorts of moral principles that are always more or less at odds with each other. Trying to go beyond that is a fool’s errand: a company is not a person. Everything makes sense once you’ve understood that.

When it happens, a company acting purely on someone’s moral code (usually a dictator CEO, though) sounds fine and reassuring. But on the contrary, this is unstable as you never know when that person will be sidelined, forced out, or realign their principles. At this point the company you trust can very well become an enemy. Just look at Twitter or Reddit.

On the long term, you need the company’s financial interests to be aligned with your (various) interests. This is the only thing that remains stable. Well, as long as nobody comes and make it private; then anything goes. It sucks, but that’s capitalism for you.

For the moment, Apple is mostly safe because basic privacy is their brand, and dropping it would be costly. This gives them leverage against some governments, but not so much against others. You can also count yourself lucky not to be born in China, but then there’s nothing Apple can do about that.
Schrodinger’s toilet flush
> I don’t see trains having a huge advantage over a clean grid and EV fleet. And the latter is much easier and faster to build.

The latter requires building millions of individual cars, each with large expensive lithium batteries, plus the road network and upkeep of that. Then building green energy, solar, wind, nuclear, hydro, plus storage!

The other includes building some train tracks and trains.

The planning system must be utterly dysfunctional, and the government incompetent when it comes to large projects, or tender for them, for the first to be anywhere near easier than the latter.
thanks. really appreciated
Mastodon users praise it for somehow being “better” than other social media yet the whole “pick your subculture’s instance” thing really closes you into an echo chamber way easier. At that point one might as well just use Reddit, from a non-tech user standpoint it’s the same with the subreddits except it’s way easier to actually find your interests/people on there.
Being loud and obnoxious is at best orthogonal to being correct. I'm not on either side on the LK99 question)
In what ways? I’m curious. Been a Spotify user from day 1 and it’s hard to imagine YouTube music is better, but I’m open to trying something new.
Well, the terms are used based on the side effects. Leechers take something: download bandwidth/slots, processing power, etc. Lurkers are passive.

The former has negative connotations, the latter is neutral.
St Francis of Assisi
I hate our government but the media has a massive part to play in propping them up.

All the tech companies should stand together and be ready to block access to their services. Imagine if the UK was left without access to just WhatsApp, let alone iMessage etc. It's not irresponsible or unsafe, there's always SMS for which the govenment has full control over.

Also I don't think any of these companies should fear an competitors. Why? These services are so ingrained a few weeks if not months of protest will not change anything. When the govnement finally succumbs restoration will be easy and the numbers will go back to normal quickly.
I am pretty sure the effort characteristic of endurance running and endurance cycling are very different. You use your legs for both, but the muscle groups are different and they way the muscles are used is different.

Also, to present a possible answer to your rhetorical question: cycling is a sport for rich people. A good bicycle, that a kid that wants to pursue the sport must get early in their life, is very expensive.
I don't think anyone is proposing building high-speed rail in empty places like Wyoming.

Most Americans don't live in those vast empty areas. There are large parts of the US that are as densely populated as Western Europe. HSR would make sense on the Eastern Seaboard, in the Midwest, California, the Texas triangle, and the Pacific Northwest. There are plenty of city pairs in the US with a few million people, separated by a few hundred miles, which is ideal for HSR.
Julia, I agree with your take here, thank you for bringing this thought process into the mainstream. There are many other concepts this happens with and in other ways: people sing praises of the pedagogic excellence in Skiena’s & Sedgewick’s algorithm textbooks (and the awful EPI book by Aziz et al) but I hate reading them, they’re actually written horribly to explain things, IMO. I think this form of difficult writing on top of already difficult concepts is a weird type of gate keeping (perhaps sometimes unintentional?) and it should be tackled all over Computer Science by better writers who have an explanation style like yours.
I don't believe one can make any decisive decision about bias in business funded journalism other than self interest.
That's not far from how it actually works. 90% of what I read is from arxiv, and before it has been accepted into a journal or conference. Most of the time that I'm visiting a conference website is to submit a paper or get the proper citation for the paper I'm writing.

Like I'm not sure what you expect, just dumb people to read arxiv? If that were the case then no one would be submitting works to arxiv. The reason works go there is because researchers are reading them. They then talk about the works to their peers, post on twitter, blog, or whatever. And guess what, that's also exactly how works that are published in journals and conferences get passed around because there's a million of them too and no way for people to sort them. No one is sitting around ranking papers. That process happens by citations.

Who do you think the end user is? Laymen?
Remy Martin are, per decree from 1936, the only distillery making Cognac in the Champagne. Good aroma but way to sharp for 40% alcohol for my taste. Zero Competition.
Ask HN: Secure messaging to solve phishing scams
Let’s use banks as an example, but it applies to other services too. Why do banks rely on emails and sms to communicate login alerts, password changes, transaction confirmations and even promotional alerts?

It is sooo prone for phishing attacks! HTTPS helped us confirm the website we visit is legit along with being confident the data transmission is encrypted. Everyone managed to fall in line adopting this standard and relying on a certificate authority sitting in the middle.

Taking this one step further, why have banks not tried to create a secure messaging service where there is a certificate issued and associated with your website to validate authenticity.

Furthermore, the messaging service could be opt-in only, more accurate labelling of incoming messages, etc.

So my question is why does such a messaging standard/service not exist, has anyone tried but failed?
their own definition, on the top of the page:

> an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons

the term "broken arrow" refers to the launchable weapon itself. there were literally no "arrows" involved in this event.
The text editors people use to write said code will keep even more power plants online.
They can still open a case against you and put out a warrant for your arrest, in the UK. Then you need to ensure that you never have a flight routed through there. Though I doubt that they would go to all this trouble for a small fry.
It looks like a misplaced reply, to be fair.
Most people believe it’s incompetence
Back-of-the-Envelope Calculator for Systems Design
Doubt all people are that bored - most of them were prob too susceptible to marketing these two films had.

It's probably mostly an industry test to see how many people will decide to leave comfy environment of their houses and multiple streaming options and head back to movie theaters. If this will show good in numbers then no doubts we'll see similar titled bundling schemes in months, years to come.

Personally, neither title interests me.
Putting aside the obvious about death threats: you seem to think that being thoughtful and well-intentioned is disjoint from making the world a worse place. There are plenty of very passionate, smart people working in CSAM detection who propose variations of banning E2E every year. We don’t do that because the harm it causes would be incredibly high, even though CSAM is horrible and we should continue to work to stop it from being a thing.

Fraud is very similar. I’ve interacted with another of the proposal’s authors and they came off as smart and reasonable too. The problem, of course, is that if you focus in one area it is easy to become blind to what the other effects of your work can be, and weigh them appropriately. There are lots of things introduced with good intentions that end up going sour because they either don’t work or people with bad intentions abuse it. Or, even more often, people with neutral intentions but misaligned incentives end up making things that suck. Google has done this often in the past and they will continue to do that in the future because they’re a big company with various goals that do not always align with what’s good for society.
ChatGPT already understands it, so it's ahead of most new languages: https://chat.openai.com/share/42a216cf-2694-464a-b0d4-9e147c...
Node.js vs. Rust APIs
New York City has the best public transit in the US… and the longest commute times. Average commute time in Tokyo (58 minutes) is twice as long as Seattle (27.5 minutes). It’s not the same problem as induced demand, but the net effect is similar.

Ultra dense, transit rich cities are more expensive and have longer commute times. There’s no free lunch.
We are working with a huge Go and Python codebase and Python is just a pain in terms of using all system resources. We moved many parts to C++ which are called and handled by goroutines. The outcome was a big success.
This proposal/change is a big step forward, especially for the deep learning community.
Another benefit that comes to mind is the cost saving of not having to send SMS’es. In some regions SMS’es go up to $0.25/SMS via services like Twilio/local variations.
Python is also getting a JIT, they’re pursuing performance on all axis.
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> Scientists do this stuff on purpose to make their papers harder to read.

Not just that, but if your paper has math that the reviewer doesn't understand they're more likely to think the work is good and rigorous. It's not like they read it anyways.

> and training data be released for ML papers.

Other than checkpoints and hyper-parameters, what do you want? The wandb logs? I do try to encourage people to save all relevant training parameters in checkpoints (I personally do). This even includes seeds.
Why?
On AWS you can rent a 24 TB, 500 core machine. Almost all problems are smaller than that so don’t need to scale to more than one machine.

Building applications that run on multiple machines is at least one order of magnitude more complex and thus slower (in development velocity), so needlessly building an application to work distributedly is just bad engineering.
I don't think browser extensions are good to monetize.
Personally I would never pay to any of it.
I donated to two open source projects that are browser extensions but I don't think that's the target of you.

If you can't control the site I wouldn't pay for an extension that could easily break.
Is it success though?
There are a lot of performance sensitive codebases where something like this would destroy performance, it works well for shared nothing parallelism, but the moment you have shared state it kinda falls over.
It's not a meme in poorer countries. At least not in those that I am familiar with. Quite a few iPhone users I know use it as a status symbol, many have bought it in credit and paid out over the next several years with a significant chunk of their modest incomes (because they couldn't have acquired one any other way). Just in time to get the next model. Eh, whatever, at least it's more useful than expensive clothing.
Do you have to have had a Facebook account? I'm asking because they keep profiles on people even if they're not Facebook users.
Looks very interesting indeed.

Two questions come to my mind:

- presumably, since it is compiled, it does static checks on the code? How many statically-detectable bugs that are now purely triggered at runtime can be eliminated with LPython?

- does it deal with the unholy amounts of dynamism of Python? Can you call getattr, setattr on random objects? Does eval work? Etc. Quite a few Python packages use these at least once somewhere...
> I might be getting desensitized, but (being pretty socially progressive, myself) the comment threads painful to me seem much less frequent today than a few years ago.

I think so as well. But I also think I’ve become better at spotting the emergence of sterile discussions where people just want to push each other’s buttons. I see them coming before they completely devolve, at which point a tap on the [-] button makes reading HN much less draining emotionally. I had to be at peace with the knowledge that I would not read any good post there, though, as I have a kind of completionist mindset and it is unnatural not to read everything.
Is this somehow related to the Four color problem? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem
You realize cycling is one of the sports that is most under scrutiny when it comes to doping, right? Unless the advancements in doping have produced a method that is undetectable chemically or through a rider's bio-passport, doping is much less of an issue now than it was any time in the past 5 decades.
Stupid question maybe, but could certificate signing keys already be in government hands via backdoor (physical) handshakes/greased palms?

If this is the case, then you have to ask, why is this bill even needed?
I think Bayesian Data Analysis is the natural progression step.

Not sure if there is a more recent book that's updated to use modern Stan examples, but the Stan user guide itself has developed into a very useful resource on its own. It contains a large number of example models and builds up concepts incrementally. The writing style is also generally easy to follow.
> I'm guessing you weren't accessing things like a banking app with highly sensitive financial data

For anyone who has done any serious threat modeling exercises would never ever do that from a 2023 phone (I'm fully aware many people do it regardless).w
The effects of Covid-19 on cognitive performance in a community-based cohort
I don’t think you realize what’s happening. In it’s 1+ year existence, it has already seeped into media production, art, design, architecture, engineering, pharma, agriculture, education and basically every field dealing with digital information. We don’t hear it but there is massive change happening underneath our feet.
Do you think Meta (Instagram) are pushing GIL removal and Cinder for no reason? They clearly have that scale and still benefit from faster single machine performance
It is achievable, but not always desirable. See, for example the ABC report of an ongoing firefight in Syria that turned out to be a gun range in Kentucky.

Random footage of some explosion is not useful news without accurate explanations of what you are seeing. It often takes time to sort out the facts of a story. Moving breathlessly ahead without facts is usually called gossip.
That route at the top would make any high speed rail pointless. You would never get up to a speed to make it worth while. All to stop at places like Castle Rock population 2500. Going down to Eugene and Salem would make sense, but with the intent that they places would aim to grow in size considerably.

Places like Gresham to Forest grove are better for the Portland tram network, they are just part of the one metro area, they are not different metro areas like Seattle and Portland.
Forking had a ton of its own downsides, it’s not a free lunch either, from poor ergonomics to communications overhead it works well for somethings and very poorly for others.
High speed transportation tends to grow the low density areas.
So glad we threw that tea into Boston harbor