skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of missing the point. They're people.

If your kid shoplift should he/she be removed from you as a parent?

If you speed are you unfit as a parent? should you be deported. People break the law all the time.

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

The total economic cost of crashes was estimated at $230.6 billion in 2000. Motor vehicle crashes cost society an estimated $7,300 per second. In 2000, the cost of speeding-related crashes was estimated to be $40.4 billion — $76,865 per minute or $1,281 per second.

Also, You might want to add back in all the sales/gas/payroll taxes they pay.

Oh and next time you eat you might want ask yourself what poor person sat in the sun all day for pennies picking stuff in the "muck"(which it's literally called) so you can stuff a few extra coins in your pocket at the burger joint.

you want to chase law breakers chase insider traders or most lobbiest or other of privilege that abuse the system.

Not some poor person that just wants to avoid getting killed by the drug cartels because they couldn't pay loan.
They seized a bunch of money, but the bankruptcy trustee settled with them to receive about half back. It's about the only thing of value the trustee has done for the MtGox creditors in the past 4 years.
Which is funny because they were actually dabbling in some AI/ML.
Well not really as row polymorphism is a form of structural typing.
Disambiguating the first computer
Hmm, is that really true? Or is it a matter of those particular makes moving upmarket? As you say, if we take into account the shift to SUVs (arguably a reaction to their effective exemption from CAFE standards in the US) cars have gotten heavier — but is the same size of car really heavier now than 40 years ago? You've got me doubting, but I don't know where to get good data on dimensions of different car models over the years.

I'd think that the modern equivalent to a 1974 Volkswagen wouldn't be a 2018 Volkswagen, though, but something like a Chery or Daewoo.
California Privacy Bill would reign in Silicon Valley information brokers power
I find his discourse on fax machines interesting. I just rewatched Johnny Mnemonic, and a fax machine plays a significant plot role in that film. At the end, J-Bone says "Get your VCRs ready". This despite the writing being quite on the wall for both fax machines and VCRs even in 1995.

Cyberpunk is a bit misnamed, I think, because as expressed by Gibson and his copycats, it's distinctly hipsterish. There's a fondness for the old, a desire to flash-freeze the zeitgeist (usually of the Beat era) so that it could live, in some sense, forever. In Max Headroom, every time we see a computer it has an old manual typewriter (much like the one Gibson used to write Neuromancer on, because to him computers were and still somewhat are alien invaders) for a keyboard.

Strangely, Johnny Mnemonic goes overboard with the technology in other ways: in 2015, let alone 2025, Johnny could have fenced 320 GiB of data at considerably less personal risk by swallowing a toy balloon with Micro SD cards in it.
From an administrative perspective in the US an immigrant is someone who moves to the US with the intent of staying. Work and other temporary visas are called non-immigrant visas, and for example when I applied for my E-2 visa I had to clearly state that I had no intent to immigrate in the US (though I was applying to work in the US, I'm not an investor despite what the visa is called). As I fully intend to leave, I didn't have to lie about it.

Even in a more casual context, I know a lot of Japanese expats in US, and have never heard of any of them being called an immigrant: most come from one of the big Japanese banks (Mitsui Sumitomo, UFJ, etc.) and stay in NYC for two to five years, before heading back either to Japan. Cultural quirk: Japanese people are usually sent abroad right after purchasing a house in Japan, the management line of thought being that with the associated mortgage they won't quit even if they don't want to go abroad.
Availability of credit over 7 years is generally much less valuable than $200k.
I'm not sure if you're trying to argue whether or not many Malagasy people live in poverty, but assuming you are: have you been to Madagascar?

Much of the island's vanilla is grown in the northeast region of the country, called the SAVA region, named after the towns of Sambava, Andapa, Vohemar, and Anthala. The sole overland connection to the rest of the island is a dirt road that goes through desert and is nearly impassable during the rainy season; during the dry season, it can take 6-8 hours to traverse. Other options are either lengthy boat trips or flights. Many of the Malagasy people live in huts that are either bamboo or corrugated metal, with little or no indoor plumbing and small solar panels for electricity. Over 100 people died last year from an out break of the bubonic plague due to very poor healthcare. If that is not poverty, what is?

That said, many of the Malagasy people do seem quite happy despite the living conditions.
The optimal tub volume to wash a load is significantly less than the minimum volume to properly dry the same load with blown-air tumble drying. It's possible that without a leap to a different drying technology the dual-purpose laundry appliances will never work well.
She didn't cross a river, or a mountain, or a wall, or a fence. The line is definitely imaginary. It is also real.
I'm guessing Nvidia hardware lockin
In Boston, everything is expensive so only the rich can afford them. Boston resident preferences might be explained by culture more than looking up through the glass ceiling of home prices.

I think we might also be reaching a tipping point where school districts may not even hold people back. If you can afford a house anywhere, you probably also can afford to send your kids to private school.
James Gips, Who Extended Computer Use to the Disabled, Dies at 72
Simple - I had this built for myself. When I reached out to random people discussing the platform before I had it built, they loved the concept behind leaving a legacy. Pay attention to how many times professional athletes, movie stars, business people and the average person mention the word "legacy", wanting their life to have meaning and to leave a legacy after they're gone.

None of the other major platforms inspire to leave a legacy. Your point is valid, it's a platform where users can upload videos, photos, text etc like the rest of them. But each platform has a different circumstance, vibe or idea - linkedin is for business, employment ; snapchat is quick and easy highlight of what you're doing; facebook is the Swiss army knife based around your friends; instagram is simply photos and videos; but none effectively tell a story of one's life and inspire what you want your legacy to be, what you are about etc. They are all quick, one off posts that don't effectively tell a story of your life, which is what I think people are really doing when they are uploading content --> uploading a piece of their life's story bit by bit
In violent agreement with you and I love your comparison! This is precisely the trap the Chinese are falling into as they reverse their democratization and remove the guardrails put in place after Mao. People are attracted by the "glamour" of a strong authoritarian and the exercise of power to quickly get things done. But the moment that power falls into the hand of the corrupt, it's hell for everyone. We see this over and over in Chinese history: this is the heart of the dynastic cycle. China has tried to remedy this by trying to pound education into the heads of their rulers and have good advisers/ruling elite around the rulers. However, you can only go so far with that. The repeated rise and fall of Chinese dynasty is a manifestation of these failures.
You should try irccloud. Or one of the many clients that do this.
Can you give an example of these "few levers" that they obsess over?
> you cannot use subtype polymorphism to have a heterogeneous list of objects

You can by using an existential type parameter, which 'forgets' the types in much the same way as an upcast.

[exists p. {x:int; p}]
Actually, I think you should give Work at a Startup a try now. We have a category for ops already, as it was close to enough software engineering that we thought we'd get some amount of overlap in interest. It doesn't have quite as much activity as the core software engineering roles, but still some. Feel free to email me (in my profile) and let me know how it goes if you try it.
I agree that there were a number of earlier novels and stories that were cyberpunk in their sensibilities: John Brunner's "Shockwave Rider" and "Stand on Zanzibar", Vinge's "True Names", Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" are some of the most obvious. I think Neuromancer helped establish cyberpunk because of it's popularity and it's vivid conceptualization of "cyberspace" as a separate parallel realm, similar to the Celtic Otherworlds, that is visited in more of a lucid dream state--to pass the final barrier Case has to flatline and cross over into what is essentially a land of the dead.

I think Shockwave Rider captured the sense of accelerating change and what Toffler called "future shock" (modeled on "culture shock" it's the discomfort from finding yourself embedded in the foreign culture of the future). Vinge anticipated privacy issues (and may other important considerations in his other works like "Rainbows End") and Dick is exploring the nature of what it means to be human.

Gibson's Neuromancer shows a world where extensive body modifications are commonplace, but it does not seem to affect anyone's self-image or concerns about identity. So at some level "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" is more philosophically and psychologically profound.
I'm trying to say that checks&balances are great, at least as long as there's no bottleneck in the whole process because that usually leads to overspill of some kind. For example, judges feeling pressured into rubberstamping due to the heavy workload.

I don't really see any real solution to this that doesn't involve either law enforcement toning down the number of requests for warrants or jurisdiction needing to expand its capacities, to allow judges more care in checking individual warrant requests.
Yes, that's pretty much in agreement with how I imagined it would be. I'm not personally trying to model it, though it might be a fun project one-day when I'm not feeling so against fighting a steaming pile of professor-written simulation code. Most of my job was doing just that years ago and I'm glad to be away from it now! But my point is that almost nobody has done climate models! Probably 100% of people on the internet saying "It's definitely caused by people and it's definitely going to destroy civilization unless we all take action now and buy electric cars" are basing it all on trust in authorities and political rhetoric. They didn't even work out the economics of what harmful effects that would have. (eg. we need oil for food, poor people need it to earn money). This isn't like being an anti-flat-earther where you probably can actually look up some data and do some hand calculations and prove it wrong. This is just blind trust in the conclusions.
I prefer to think the secret military ops (capabilities) were the gasoline; Snowden lit a match to illuminate the tank.
Other early works that I associate with cyberpunk are:

Vernor Vinge, True Names

Thomas P Ryan, The Adolescence of P1

Algis Budrys, Michaelmas

Robert Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

David Gerrold, When Harlie Was One

Obviously, SF involving computers is pretty extensive, and there is a fuzzy line between "cyberpunk" and "this story involves computers at some level." My criteria are: Are computers major characters in the story, and secondarily, are they helping other characters break lots of rules? :-)
I'd like to respectfully make you aware of some imprecisions in your statements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromuscular-blocking_drug

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anesthesia_awareness

Specifically, neuromuscular blockers is what you seem to be referring to. Those paralyze only muscle, not other organs, and therefore have little influence on intestines. They are of multiple uses to both the anesthesiologist (intubation) and surgeons (easier to reach places normally crammed up by active muscle).
There are ways to reduce intestinal activity specifically, but those are not very efficient (glucagon).

As for awareness situations, you are right in that they are more likely with neuromuscular blockers on board. However, research shows that the surgical context is of great importance, and situations where:

- the patient is perceived as most fragile (cardiac surgery)
- or where things go too fast (emergency C-section)

are most at risk, due respectively to fear of overdose in fragile patients and immediate threat to life to the unborn child.

Detection of true awareness is difficult, since many people will tell you they woke up during surgery while it was in fact the end of surgery (from personal experience). It is not known how frequent true awareness really is, but it is commonly accepted to be quite rare, and this goes along with my personal experience.

If you are reasonably healthy, the chance of true awareness during surgery is IMO vanishingly small.

Civil war soldiers did indeed not have neuromuscular blockers, but since efficient sleep medication did not exist, true awareness was far more frequent (probably the norm, in fact).
That was a stock image...
In that case you're already running code from them so what's the difference if the "exploit" is in the script or the app.
What graphs do you mean?
In the context of evolution there is no right and wrong mutations - just ones that persist or not. Nature is the judge.
Just because the government deems something "highly sensitive classified info" doesn't mean it should be, especially not with the US's history. Not that there are better countries, but considering what the US has done in the recent past, it shouldn't be trusted.
Possibly so. But I learned this when we were counting a bookshelf full of DVDs (ah, the early aughts...), so no triangulations there.
Embrace Extend Extinguish, the root of Electronic Evils. Hopefully it doesn't happen with IRC as it has with other lovely parts of electronic history. Microsoft was the origin of the term with their browser and OS products of old, yet it has been unfortunately more and more relevant with Google, particularly email and android openness (gmail only features and Google play services, respectively).
A question to those who have the full dataset: How many unique records are there? In other words, how many bits of information is in each individual record? ("Record" being the set of data submitted by a single machine.)
Not enough people will ever do that to make IRC popular again.
Where's the original tweet?
Can you provide a little more info? I'm find it difficult to come up with sufficient search terms to look that up myself
So... you want to rebuild Slack? Why not just use Slack. I don't imagine the vast majority of people still using IRC want or need any of the things you listed as "common needs of today." I've been using IRC almost daily for a couple decades now and can't think of a single instance of someone saying "you know what we need? persistent logging and profile pictures and a graphical picture of poop!" Don't do this. You're making a mistake. IRC isn't a product for a market. It's a standard protocol that is so simple that it can be used via telnet. Don't ruin that.
> first class support for emoji

If you look at Twitch, as an example, I say that emoji support is absolutely fine. Though, I guess you somehow excluded that when you said: "[...]in its current form"? Nevertheless, it does show that implementing such a thing is not that much of a problem.
I would think since the Principal is a government official and the recording took place in a government owned building that the 13-year old in question would be covered under the first amendment concerning freedom of the press. Why does it matter whether the conversation was taken note of in a journal or a tape recorder? The kid wasn't eavesdropping, he was part of the conversation. I would really like to see the supreme court rule on a case like this.
Movies and TV shows have begun telling us to make peace with the apocalypse
Huh, what are these graphs taken from?

The single stat metrics look a lot like grafana single stat panels with sparklines and a light theme. The bar charts and the geographical view look a lot like kibana 5/6 though.

Either of these could point to an elasticsearch based storage? That would make sense, because linux installations with all of their annotated metrics are pretty event-based.
Indeed, Madagascar is larger than many nations. It's not surprising that a single nation should dominate trade in a particular good. About 60% of the world's cork comes from the Spain and Portugal which together have about the same landmass as Madagascar.
It is easy to "physically break" a thermal printer. Simply stop the servo motor while continuing to provide the power to the printer element heater. Your printer will soon catch fire. I've done it a few times myself while writing printer drivers.
There’s a fun story out there about software physically breaking a hard drive. At the time, this was actually quite difficult for drivers to avoid doing. So, when a certain manufacturer came out with a drive it finally considered safe against driver errors, it proclaimed a bounty for anyone who could prove them wrong.

The winner put the drive on a table, connected with a cable, but not attached to a case. Then he wrote a routine that slammed the read head to one side, then slowly moved it back. Each time the routine looped, the drive would scoot across the table until it finally fell off the edge.
> Now if only somebody would do a TV adaptation of the original!

I sadly don't trust anyone including Gibson to do this in a way that doesn't ruin it for me, unfortunately. So much of it is about interiority. On the other hand it's ideal anime source material, where it could sit happily next to GITS.

The only approaches that might be viable would be to draw heavily on Mr Robot and Sherlock's overlay techniques. Let cyberspace bleed visibly into the real.

(The version I'd make would be the zero-budget BBC version, filmed deliberately on scratchy VHS with badly hand-matted effects, in the corner of a disused post-industrial warehouse with props from a bankrupt Maplins. It would be extremely punk and virtually unwatchable.)
Something I think that is underrated in the criticisms of Neuromancer is how great the non-human characters are. I'm thinking here of Wintermute (of course), who is as cold and alien as a Lovecraftian horror. And the spider-like patience of Wintermute spending years working on manipulating 3Jane to madness and murder... it's terrifying and brilliant.

And the Dixie Flatline! The idea of a personality captured as a software construct, to get all the little tics that make the personality so good at what they do. "Case. Joeboy. Quick study." You get that sense that this is a machine that sounds like a person, because it was a person. And toward the end, when the Dixie Flatline asks Case to erase him when it's over? Can a machine have existential horror to the point of longing for its own death? Loved that.

And Armitage! Technically, not a machine... just a hollowed-out shell of a man, filled with the sort of temporary personality Wintermute could craft, when Wintermute's ability to comprehend humans was limited, and Corto's madness lay trapped just below the surface, with Wintermute knowing it would crack at the worst possible time. Another truly great science fiction alien.
Not sure about Atlanta but Boston suburban lots tend to be about half an acre, the ones outside of the 495, closer to an acre. Inside the 128 they do get smallish though. So given those sizes, I’m not surprised people are okay with “more density”.
And they would have been a bit player in the OS marketplace compared to Windows NT.

Assuming that in this alternate timeline, the Apple-NeXT merger still happens, the dominant Unix flavor would likely be macOS. As it is, it's still alive and kicking and enjoying a comfortable number two spot (number one if you're talking desktop installs).
Or we can just have common sense about a jogger accidentally crossing? Why do you jump to stateless/borderless? Let me tell you, that's absurd.
> They could do even better by requiring everyone to register.

Many channels have this. For example, a lot of the GNU and FSF channels do this so we can keep them relatively spam and troll free.
Speaking of brilliance, Ardent (the company this happened at) was a failure. The Titan had a _great_ keyboard though, one of my all time favorites for feel. Not so fond of the computer it attached to...
Now teach the other hundreds of thousands of ex-IRC users how to set up their own bouncer servers and get them to actually stick with it for any amount of time.
But you still could use an external display, which could conceivably require fractional scaling.
My approach to education requires the students understand the subject and build their own representations. Nudging in the large is not acceptable to me, but it the small perhaps to gain the tools for understanding. Tricking someone into understanding a thing for themselves seems ok.
Those coins are his. Without him there would be no bitcoin.
Frey is too much like Fray imo, which is a bad thing to happen to clothes.
Good points. The crux of the problem is really in this distinction between plot and story.

A great plot-driven writer who manages a superb synthesis of both is Iain M. Banks. One of his less well-known books, Feersum Endjinn, is a favourite of mine. Its journey is very linear, but it's a journey, a story that happens to a character. The skeleton of the plot is under a thick skin of emotional resonance. It's a good story.

You could say that Gibson is a writer who is uninterested in plots (to the extent that he's not able to come up with an original one) but who, paradoxically, still manages to write extremely plot-driven books.
The border is marked in various ways.
And it never was an IRC client, there was just a somewhat limited bridge you could use to connect your IRC client into Slack network, but never vice-versa.
Yet, the SE Asian workers in the Gulf aren't given that title. If you are an American, European, or Australian you are an expat. If you are Indian you are just a migrant worker.
More like "hundreds of thousands of free choking hazards".
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That's not because they don't know it's their tail, it's because they're incredibly bored. Dogs only do that if you don't take them for enough walks