skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think they are conscious, i.e. self-aware, at even a minimal level; it's a human conceit to imagine that such awareness is other than orthogonal to intelligence. And even as intelligence goes, I should have to think theirs, whatever there is of it, is akin to that of an ant colony, rather than anything more like we'd recognize as resembling our own selves - and even that is really something of a philosophical point.

In any case, I'm less interested in parsing details of precisely which speculative definitions of artificial intelligence Facebook taken as a whole might satisfy, than taking the view (if perhaps only for the sake of this argument) that it does certainly satisfy at least some definitions of life based on its behavior, in particular its evident tropisms toward growth and self-preservation, for which no particular intelligence is even necessary - kudzu need not be intelligent to be a pestilential and highly effective thief of the resources required for a proper ecology to thrive.
I know exactly which screensaver you're talking about. (I think I still have it, too.) It was an old Windows 3.1 screensaver that came with a CD of various Canon utilities, like a demo of Crayola Art and this cross-stitching program.
Not just sleep temp (wife is also of the less covers camp), but mattress firmness. My wife likes ultra firm by European standards. So she has the Chinese sea horse brand mattress. I'm a bag of bones, so the mattress literally pushes my spine to pinch nerves. Our solution is a king size mattress with twin covers, and one side has a twin memory foam. We sleep happy and together.

Cultural aside: mattress firmness. It will blow your mind how firm some seahorse mattresses get. One Caucasian friend commented after one night that they would have probably been better off probably on our broadloom carpet floor.
I'm going to throw a wrench into the gears by sharing the following: I had high blood pressure- not medication-triggering, just high-eyebrow stuff when I was younger (30s-early 40s). As a teenager I learned of the dangers of salt and weaned it out of my diet.

I got married and am the cook of the family, so after much complaining I started to add salt to my dishes when I cooked.

My blood pressure when down. Not by a little, but to the "wow your blood pressure is amazing" category (105 or 110). So, yeah, I don't think we know how salt works.

NB my exercise/habits stayed pretty much the same in this period.
You're working for a bad manager. I appreciate the management at my company. They keep the lights on and take care of all the stuff I would never want to do and I can concentrate on development.
What point would serve other than increasing latency, and vastly increasing storage and network requirements?
You mean Krasner, who has long history of supporting organizations like BLM who are responsible for cop killings.

Latest election of DA in Philadelphia was race to bottom, who would let repeat criminals out on the street without any consequences. And he won because he is the worst of worst.

George Soros funded his campaign and gave him more than 2.4 million dollars. George Soros is wanted in multiple countries for his crimes. In Russia, Hungary and multiple other countries.

In recent shooting in Philadelphia, the perp has 200 offenses against him and he is running free. And yes he is black.

Blacks are a 13% population in US. Black males are 6.5% of population in US but they commit more than 50% of violent crime. Look up statistics on FBI.

So if more blacks are in prison, is that racial bias? Or just some race committing out of proportion crimes?

Based on your comment it will be difficult for you the agree with the facts and numbers. But I decided to write this for those who would like to know the facts.
Today I got a post in my feed from Facebook saying "Explore Montreal"
How does Facebook know I'm about to take a flight there?
Sadly, you are right-the-fuck on with this comment.
The real effectiveness comes from having it here on HN (or other popular techie websites). There are enough employees lurking that someone will notice.

Works for most large companies, not just Microsoft.
>Please don’t @ me about free speech or censorship; not only is it irrelevant to startups because they are businesses & not the government, but moderation & boundaries are what make communities endure.

"don't @ me" about completely relevant challenges to your opinion that are based on axiomatic political principles is cowardly and foolish. free speech and avoiding censorship are not just legal rights, they are principles that ought to be defended. those who would argue for a world where the de facto standard is censorship because they are capable of a narrow legalistic interpretation of freedoms are hideously short-sighted. if you endorse the erosion of these principles in the venues where you are strong, your enemies will use your exact arguments to erode them where you are weak.

>(& of course, it also had disparate impact on women and people of color)

is there a term for this akin to 'draping oneself in the flag'?
I am going to have to agree with you. Whoever wrote this post.. I mean, c'mon. Sounds like pure jealousy.

Building an empire and becoming a billionaire is not an easy accomplishment. At the time when he built it, I'm sure his goals were small. He wanted to make it easier for communication between him and his buddies at Harvard. Then it expanded.

To say that he wouldn't volunteer any of his billions... it's not his place to fix society, but to influence it for the better. Sure, Zuckerberg has some dreams of changing the world beyond Facebook, and he's trying, but it isn't always cut and dry.

Sure, most people do let fame and fortune go to their head. Zuckerberg does what he can to protect himself and his family. I'm pretty sure he didn't grow up less fortunate than many people, but it seems he was a decently raised kid. Him recalling his time in a dorm room is the same as the time I dreamed about building a website that would later become semi-popular. I ended up building a website called http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com

Is it the next Facebook? Absolutely not. Do I need to build the next Facebook? Does anyone? Not really. The fact is... Zuckerberg capitalized in on something that the world had never really seen and made it free. Before this, we had pretty much had AOL and instant messaging.

Reflecting on things you did in the past... that got you to where you are today? Don't we all do that? I mean.. a decade ago, I wouldn't have dreamed of being a web developer or even owning my house. Amazing at the things I've done to get where I am today.

Sounds like the writer of this article is a jealous douche. I'd love to make something that would make me a billionaire, but I didn't think of Facebook. I don't even think of creating the next Facebook. But what Facebook has inspired me to do: create small useful apps that the world can use. Start small. Dream big.

Thanks Insanity.. for saying what needed to be said.
Not bad advice, if is good enough for HN...
What? Why is this here. I come to HN to specifically avoid obscene mindnumbing drivel such as this. Please delete.
Maybe, but I suspect the effects of stupidity would be so strong that you'd never be able to detect the effects of a hostile nation.
Huh, that's cool! That would be pretty useful in the US, too, for businesses on corners. Which is common.
Ah, bummer :-(
I'm working simultaneously in two "full-time" contracts (both contractors know about each other). As I need just half of the earning of one contract to live well, I'm saving 3x what I would normally. It is not the first time it happened to me but it is the first time I'm saving and planning ahead my financial independence.

Another important point is that one year ago I had US50k (but in brazilian reais) in debt because of a failed startup and a lot of difficult getting back to the work force. It was really hard to bootstrap myself out of that situation.
Yes - when I was learning Spanish I was told that the exceptions to the la -a rule (i.e. words that end with "a" usually are feminine) are from Greek. For example, "el problema", "el sistema"
Yes, Amazon now adds DRM to all their ebooks and often you don't even get the actual book file but just access to a cloud version.
They are puzzled, eh? They ought to be studying politics and not the economy in order to understand "why".
The big difference is that WSL is a product that targets developers. These usually have decent reporting channels - for open source stuff, it's just GitHub as usual, and for others there's normally Connect and UserVoice. You can expect actual devs and PMs from the respective product team to keep an eye on those channels.

For consumer products, though, there's no such easy gateways. And you can kinda sorta understand why - the reason why there are all those phone support people who keep suggesting File|New etc is because that's actually what the answer is for most reports.

Perhaps Excel guys should just open a GitHub project and get "advanced" feedback there, on the notion that if you can register an account there without getting intimidated, you probably know what you're talking about.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14423210
Right. There are three kinds of people - the ones that can count and the ones that can't...

Also, there is a difference between rocket science and computer science, in that the former is all about hardware while the latter is all about software (in the most general sense).
I think you're thinking of llgo, not go-llvm.
You'll notice the same behavior from long distance runners, cyclists, hikers, etc. At some point you start feeling dehydration because you're missing electrolytes. If your water intake isn't salted or packed with minerals in some other way, it just makes you thirstier and thirstier.

Especially when it's hot out.
That's an especially interesting possibility since LLVM now has IR support for C++ coroutines.
That's one way to immortalize yourself. Wonder if 'MZ' is the most common electronic initials in the world. Can't think of any other initials or acronym repeated more frequently than # of Windows Systems x # of Exe files per system.
Is there a video we can see this in action? I wouldnt ever use a tool like this because my work doesn't require it, but this stuff still fascinates me and I'd like to watch someone use it.
The Assault on College Funding
When medical staff puts "their foot down and refuses to work" patients will suffer. Most feel bound by the Hippocratic Oath[1], in some countries violation of it can be reason for stripping you of your medical license (e.g. in Germany, even though I'm not aware of any case that was handled based on the Oath - you probably violate much more concrete laws if you break the Oath).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
The blogging aspect of this site is meant to be satire/realist in the sense that most of the IT world has lost any semblance of normalcy. Zuckerberg didn't discover quantum theory or anything which saves lives or even changes our lives for the better. He built a massive social network with plenty of skill but also a ton of luck around who you know and where you came from. He also wasn't the first to come up with this idea. In addition, some actually claim he stole the idea from the Winklevoss twins at Harvard. This is disputed, but they we're convincing enough to walk away with hundreds of millions in a settlement.

I think many are tired of hearing how great of a guy Mark Zuckerberg is, because if you peel back the layers, he's just another billionaire hypocrite.

In my book, I'd put many of the founding fathers of computer science over Zuckerberg anyway. He had a wildly successful business but so have millions of other people. Facebook has been relevant for a little over 10 years and none of the cool kids are using it anymore.
Not all hosts are US-based, though; some hosts in other countries prefer to get a court order in their own jurisdiction before taking action against a customer.
This is all great advice.

Well mostly. My wife and I took the children to the park and walked and played Pokemon. So some technology there. And we had them do yard-work and we played outside a couple of times.
You have 1 karma point, I see you're active on HackerNews. I'm sorry it's not the typical circle jerk discussion you're used to reading.
I do find it curious the fact that "computer" even as a concept (e.g. the Turing Machine) occupies a very small place in the minds of computer scientists today. (This is similar to how little the modern Number Theory is concerned with, well, numbers.)
I'm not sure who or what you're responding to, but it's clearly not what I posted...
Joe Biden blasted online echo chambers in a speech at Cornell University
He really needs to plot more than hours. Restless sleep is just has harmful. My Xiaomi Mi Band can track deep sleep. I'm sure a fitbit can.
> and they itself could be max 64 kb

Minus 256 bytes at the beginning for the Program Segment Prefix (hence why every .com assembly listing usually starts with ORG 100h).
It isn't super complicated data to capture, I think a single person could fill in a small to medium sized town in an easy weekend.

There's an issue where intersections aren't really mapped in OSM (at least in terms of priority, turn restrictions are increasingly captured), the pieces are all well modeled but there isn't much information about how they fit together.
I've never used math beyond basic arithmetic in nearly 30 years as a programmer. Went through three semesters of calculus, also linear algebra and statistics in college but have never used any of it professionally. Honestly at this point I could not do any of it without spending some substantial time on review.
Yes, that was my idea as well. They must have some sort of cache system for serving basic user meta-data at scale when a page is loaded, and they could add a time-expiring list post ids of the posts viewed by a user to do detection on a per user basis on the backend.

I think they want to break it into different services for (whatever) reasons.

Running a counter across a sharded in memory cache implementation (like Redis) for something like post views should be ok, but they might have some weird rule-sets for spam detection that are slow.
So what is the solution keep criminals in society?
No, I'm not arguing for "safe spaces" here at all. Nor am I suggesting students shouldn't "have to hear viewpoints they disagree with."

I am arguing that, along with legal duties, Universities have an interest and an incentive to prevent their students from being harassed. To be clear, being harassed is not being disagreed with.

I don't see the relevance of this anecdata & punditry to the issue, nor do I know what "coddled" really means or why such a generalization would apply to every University. Regardless, pattern recognition over decades of experience tells me that people who are new to the workforce inevitably behave as if they are new to the workforce. And also, that with each new generation, pundits offer some variation of "kids these days." On the plus side, if we've moved on to "coddled", maybe people will stop complaining about those damned millennials!

Anyway, even if we disagree, I am glad that you do think that sometimes the University should get involved & that mental health services are useful.
I live in the city where YikYak was used to harass an activist at Mary Washington University in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She was later savagely murdered.
> As they are now, reddit and HN are require you to be there when something is "current", and that's ultimately not that much better than TV.

One thing I don't think people have addressed is that that's the goal for them; it's not necessarily to be "useful" to the end user. If they can make users feel like they have to be on reddit 24/7 to stay "current" and not miss anything, then they will. Facebook does the same thing.
In my personal experience, writing complex software with complex infrastructure requirements, I have never had an advantage in not allowing other, more specialised people, to handle concerns outside my core competency (which is software developnent). Other people may be smarter or more efficient than I, or have more time available, or have simpler requirements.
I live in the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia. There was a savage murder a few years ago where the girl who got murdered was being harassed on YikYak. I wouldn't go as far as to blame this app for her death but she did receive threats through it, which later turned out to be her roommate who murdered her.
No, I can't.

What is your point?
Highly recommend watching this to get answers from the man himself: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM
Leveling up with Git
Jumping Over Guardrails
I wish HN would ban comments like the parent. It's such an old tactic for spreading hate, I don't need to describe it. It adds nothing to HN - the pseudo-rational is just old propaganda - and is in fact a great detriment. I can speak only for myself, but please take your hate elsewhere.
Why can't they just associate a list of viewed posts with each user, or list of users that viewed a post with each post, and check that? I don't get why this needs any consideration.
This is why everyone needs a liquid emergency fund (or at least a credit card), so you don't have to settle for a public defender.
Ask HN: Who here makes a living by selling what they make?
What is the license of this program? I couldn't find it on the website.
Thanks. We added 2008 above.
Discussed (a bit) at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=108559.
Thats right. We're each of us experts in our own systems.
"We want to better communicate the scale of Reddit to our users."

If that's true why did they hide vote numbers on comments and posts? It used to say "xxx upvotes xxx downvotes" now it just gives a number and hides that.
Using light to fingerprint paper
Seriously. Geese are evil.
I'll add that in a few hours I got 6 (or maybe more) down-votes on otherwise uncontroversial comments that didn't agree with the seeming Indian nationalist party line - often the comments didn't directly disagree, they just didn't advocate or drink the Kool-Aid.

Not a complaint, but it looks like the symptoms of what I asked about.
Was true when I worked there, of course changed since then.
Kids fun activity
You are correct, and this is unfortunate. "Any fool can write a loop," but sometimes it takes some basic math knowledge to realize that you don't need a loop. Or, for example, that you can iterate through a sequence of squares simply by growing the sum of the odd numbers (which, I think, could be a sensible interview question).
"Once anything that can be copied is brought into contact with internet, it will be copied, and those copies never leave."

Not really true at all. So many times I've found a dead link, archive.org doesn't have a copy, it's gone. Entire domains loaded with content have disappeared. In general, people don't copy and save other people's material, except temporarily for viewing.
If you can't tell the difference, is there any difference?
It's to deter bots. The numbers weren't previously accurate, they were fuzzed (also to deter bots).

https://www.reddit.com/wiki/faq#wiki_how_is_a_submission.27s...
Than you. I currently work in python, so your answer is relateable. What do you think is the best resource to start learning Nim?

Edit: I just found from your profile, you are tha author of vim in action! I suppose that is where I start!
I wish this both-lazy-and-condescending missing-the-point hand-wavy-analogy argument style would die already.

The earlier poster in this thread implied that number of contributors and recency of commits in one of two competing github projects was evidence that it was better.

My point is that these are inadequate (often totally misleading) heuristics unless both projects are otherwise extremely similar, which they usually are not, and even then are usually not very useful heuristics compared to other ways of comparing the projects.

Unless you know who the authors are, what the project management/organization style is, how the project is funded / what level of commitment the authors have, what the project release cycle is like, etc., or unless you directly examine the code yourself, the only thing that looking at the most recent git commit tells you is how recently someone published public code changes. Which is not something that anyone evaluating two projects cares about directly, but only as some heuristic signal of other features that might be more costly to examine.

But note that commit recency doesn’t give a remotely useful sense of how extensible the project is, how readable or efficient the code is, how well designed the API is, how good the documentation is, how friendly the community is, how competent the project management is, .....

If we want to make a car analogy, it’s like choosing which car to buy based on how frequently the company introduces new models, or how many engineers they employ, rather than based on customer reviews, reliability estimates, accessibility of mechanics, gas mileage, top speed, or storage capacity.

Your argument is basically analogous to: “because the average car with frequent updates is better than the average car with infrequent model updates, criticizing that as a primary criterion for choosing a car is an invalid argument”. Notice that you haven’t even bothered to examine whether your premise about the relation between updates and quality is true, or whether that average relationship makes update frequency a practically useful heuristic or not.
Princeton COS448: CTO Reading List
You Are Not So Smart: A Celebration of Self Delusion
But you're multiplying it by some number for every single comment/reply. Spammers work through large numbers... make each one a little bit harder, and it adds up.
Also SQL is in clear text, which invites small manual changes outside of version control.
Alternative equally speculative conclusion from the same data: the very-in-flux code is so shoddy that there are constant security bugs needing weekly fixes, whereas the stable and relatively inactive code is so rock solid that nobody ever needs to touch it for it to keep working.

For example, how often does DJB publish new code changes to his various projects?
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> The format of a COM file is... um, none. There is no format.

This makes any small file a valid COM file as far as Windows is concerned. NTVDM doesn't care, it will happily execute your holiday snaps if given the chance. It's not difficult to craft a valid GIF, PNG, etc that does something useful when executed from byte 0.

Such an image will pass most mime-sniffing protections. For example, given such an image and a "foo.png.exe" Content-Disposition header, Internet Explorer used to skip all security warnings. Combined with "Hide extensions for known file types" it would ask you where you'd like to save "foo.png", preserving the executable extension behind your back.

Upon double-click the loader notices the MZ signature is missing, fires up NTVDM, and starts executing the image from byte 0. If running under NTVDM is too restrictive, it can always break out with BOP instructions.

The lack of structure also makes COM files a simple vector for exploiting hash collisions. Any two prefix blocks with matching hash that can survive execution can be used to create two variants of an program with matching hashes. Bit differences in the two blocks can be used as switches to control program behaviour.
Merkel WAS a genuine innovation, and it DOES collapse into plain blockchain if all 'nodes' on a given tree have one child, because in this case the directed graph (tree) is a linked list. If the key innovation in both structures were not the same then your snarkyness would have been appropriate.