skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The truth is much simpler: engineers have responded to being bullied out of the debate by simply ignoring it, and implementing AI without concern for the results of that debate. Engineers have that power -- they can unilaterally change society by implementing a new kind of mind without approval or buy-in from other parties.

Truth is never simple. Engineers have been "bullied" out of the debate (this is not really how I see it but ok) because they often hold beliefs that renders the debate impossible. The narrative of "engineer is a pure discipline" or that "tools have no political color" are still strong despite countless counter-evidence. In the case of software-engineers that are left alone in the hands of managers and their interests, the social devastation that follows is very evident just by looking at the news.

> So I think my position is the reverse of yours: if business leaders, activists, etc want to meaningfully impact the AI debate, they should engage with the engineers actually building it -- rather than having a debate among themselves.

This is a real and pressing concern for many of them but it's not easy. I'm an engineer and I'm trying to do just that, or at least bring the existing discourse to the engineers if I can't bring the engineers to the discourse. But believe me, the cultural and personal resistance is extremely strong, first of all because it forces them to re-evaluate the belief system and take responsability for what they are doing and what they did in the past. Staying in an ethical comfort zone where you can ignore the consequences of your action is much easier.
I think this is a good answer, but depression is a complicated beast.

It would be difficult to give a comprehensive comment in depression, so I think you did fine, but I want to point out that it is difficult and complex, and as much as we understand about it, there is so much that is not understood.

This [1] is a video of a Robert Sapolsky lecture on depression that gives a high level but comprehensive overview of the current (as of 2009) state of understanding depression, kinds of depression, the role of some neurotransmitters.

This is a compassionate, technical, and broad overview.

1. https://youtu.be/NOAgplgTxfc
I've been very happy with Google's registrar service... the only down side is you cannot bulk edit contacts. The couple times I've needed support they've been available within a couple minutes (once by phone, twice in browser chat). Not like any other Google support issue. Some prices are a little more than GoDaddy, others a little less, that part was pretty much a wash.

The biggest advantage over Google's registrar service, is there's no upsell, at least not that I noticed. They do offer some integrated service options. The included google dns hosting and mail forwarding services are great imho. It could use some slight improvements in UI/UX, but still better than any other registrar I've tried by a large margin.

Mileage may vary, of course, but I really do like the service overall. I'm not affiliated with Google, don't always like everything they do, and do have some reservations about them as a company. That said, imho the best registrar option available.
Support in what way? Are you implying UNICEF is a front for Putin?
If all you're doing is calling external processes, well, it's hard to beat the shell piping syntax.

The problem is of course that as the complexity of the script grows, the absolute dreadfulness of actual programming in the shell rears its ugly head. I haven't really found a good compromise here myself.
Here was me thinking that they were about to launch the first satellite with quantum processors onboard.
The first thought I had when reading this was that this can apply to some online dating apps.
I disagree about burnout. Taking time off could possibly be the worst thing.

In my experience personally and observing others, burnout is most often caused when you have a disconnect between expected reward (monetary, status, or emotional) for labor and actual reward for labor, effectively negatively reinforcing labor. It's especially bad when the miss is uncorrelated to performance, e.g. political or business decisions derail your e.g. promotion or payoff.

Taking a break to mitigate burnout can thus make the next cycle worse. A better choice is to take structured vacations at set points in the future, and when you feel like a missed expectation is likely or has happened, reinforce the work-reward relationship by doing little work things that create pops of success. The counterintuitive thing is that a strategy to counter burnout is more work (but carefully curated to nearly guarantee success)

For programming, I find going into an intense refactoring or debugging cycle is helpful (making green dots out of red ones is immensely satisfying)... When I was a biologist, I found doing routine "never fail" procedures like molecular biology to be helpful after an experimental failure or catastrophe, like staying up on an all nighter and coming back the next day to find a procedural error had ruined the whole thing
it's a different programming experience; e.g. as a matter of taste i prefer lisp-1 to lisp-2, and then clojure has added some nice stuff around collections and immutability and some pleasant syntax. it would be nice for people who like all that to also take advantage of common lisp's excellent backends.
Interesting. I just use a thumb drive in my car with a ton of MP3s on it (which would achieve what the Zen Stone did), but cars didn't have USB inputs in 2007 so I see how the Stone could be useful.

For standard music listening though, I have not been able to find anything that beats the iPod's touch wheel. Load rockbox onto an iPod classic (swap out the HDD with an SD card), and it is hard to beat IMO. You can store FLAC/Vorbis/MP3/WAV whatever it is you have, and you then have a device that is just for music with none of the distractions that smart phones bring. It has really transformed how I listen to music, because I am connected to a device that is designed for just playing music with no bells or whistles.

The book "The Inner History of Devices" (https://sherryturkle.com/books-research/inner-history-device...) talks about the anthropology of how we connect to our devices, and how this connection is of course associated with everything that we do with our phones. Music blends into web browsing that becomes numbing, which blends into phone calls, which blends into messaging, etc ...

I can now leave my phone at home, and just carry my iPod with me, and the fact that the device I have on me is for music, and nothing else, changes how I experience it. It is super easy to navigate throughout your music collection with the touch wheel, whereas most other MP3 players have a mediocre touch screen that is laggy/unresponsive (https://www.sony.com/electronics/walkman/nw-a30-series/buy/n...) or buttons that are just as cumbersome to use.

Pretty sad that Apple discontinued their iPod line and how most enjoyable music solutions require a device with an IP stack. The "essence" of the devices that play music seem to distance us from the music, because our music falls into the category of all of the other apps, like Netflix, our internet browsers, or social media if you use it ...
Same as now but with fewer "normies" (for lack of a better word), and corporations had no interest in investing a lot of money.
Here's a NASA technical note specifically about Apollo mission radiation, in Table 1 you can find the radiation measured for each mission. Then again, no major solar flares happened during the missions. In table 2, the rules that were prepared on how to react to these events can be found: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/tnD7080RadProtect.pdf
I've put a couple domains on there expressly for that purpose... they also support dyndns options which makes it nice for home server networks.

I do wish that Let's Encrypt would work with them to whitelist all the domains on freedns.
You sure about that? I am fairly certain I've read of cases where it made more sense to pay the uninsured rate (because uninsured rate is even less than the deductible).

Eg, the chargemaster rate could be $10k and you have a $2k deductible but the uninsured rate is $1k:

> "Because of the way insurance contracts are typically structured between providers and insurers, the provider is required to charge the full “negotiated” rate they and the insurer have agreed to, even though the patient is paying the entire bill themselves. This creates the odd situation where someone who is uninsured will get a better price than someone with insurance, even if both of them are paying the whole bill themselves."

http://selfpaypatient.com/2014/01/03/insured-patients-can-sa...
Oh BTW there's already something for Swift inspired by python's Requests lib: https://github.com/JustHTTP/Just/blob/master/README.md
I guess you are! ;-)
Oversec transparently encrypts and decrypts any text in any app
And there was plain old searching. the idea that you could expect someone to hand you whatever you asked for had not been formed yet. So if you were interested, then you looked, reading everything gathered clues, scribbled down paths to check later.

No current results page with 73,345,507 entries will come close to finding a directory with bitmaps of planets/moons there for the asking deep in jpl or some place.
Every dollar paid in rent increases the value of property in support of those who already own it. It's a double whammy.

I myself benefit from this situation, but see it's vicious cycle.

As long as people keep paying rent, rents will rise and property values will rise as well. It's not sustainable indefinitely, and I see problems on the horizon as people change their priorities.
This really captures many of the differences. I'll just add that though we have more content creators today the motivation is what's really changed so much.

Back then it was harder to share your own content, either by learning HTML or hosting your own server and no real monetary rewards for doing so, and no social status indicators except for maybe 'hit counters'. Because of this it was passion for the topic that motivated people to share with far less focus on how it looked or the way it was presented.

Now with advertising, upvoting and platform biases people are more judgemental while reading others work. The motivation to create traffic and increase social outreach changed the nature of sharing itself.
We had both aspects. Even on Usenet, some groups were so active and internet-connected that you would see the threaded discussion exploding around you in the minutes it took to write a reply. Others were more like putting a message in a bottle and checking back each day to see if a reply was floating back.

In university, I also remember we had informal protocols for upgrading a conversation from email or newsgroup to more real time via shared systems on campus. We would use "talk" and "ytalk" to have something more instant than instant messaging... you would see each letter as the other party typed, rather than only seeing one chunk of text per enter key. One student group also used the MOTD on a shared system as a communal bulletin board, hosting elaborate chats a bit like graffiti tags answering each other.
I feel the list misses a lot of the literature in "software studies" eg.

http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=74

https://monoskop.org/images/a/a1/Fuller_Matthew_ed_Software_...
Hmm I feel like Jetsons might have had a video telemarketer but most incarnations of the metaverse talk about commercial enterprise and it's ramifications.
That's quite a lot of words for saying: "don't trust user input".
Well, but tools do have no political color. That's why The Open Source Definition has "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor", period.
It's not really an issue with documentation within our team. It's an issue of having hundreds of REST endpoints (all which need to be learned by new devs), multiple local dev servers running on your machine to mimic those endpoints, and an excess of work done on the front end to merge data from across those REST endpoints once it all arrives on the client. Additionally we would get requests from other teams wanting to access data, so instead of them just writing a query to the same GQL endpoint we all share, we have to write a new endpoint for them, manage access control on that endpoint, etc. These are the issues GQL solves.
No, I mean RDF in general. As you can read in the article I linked to above, programming with Linked Data does not necessarily require RDF.
Rovelli himself wrote this more popular account and didn't manage to state a clear physical reason for the bounce, so the title is overstating the result.

I take this to be an interesting technical advance for a theory whose relevance in general is still an open question.
For the plumbing, maybe a library (of operator overloads) is all that's needed. For calling out to executables like a script (i.e. just put the exe name inline as if it were another symbol), you'd need first-class language support.
If white holes exist that are the inverse of black holes. The universe could exist forever. Black holes would suck matter in and white wholes on the other side would create new matter on the other side.

Black wholes and white holes would then be gateways to other universes.

Multi verse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/100409-blac...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole
This is an issue with many, especially mobile, carriers... the key is to use HTTPS everywhere, and send issues/requests to sites not HTTPS to switch. Let's Encrypt removes the last reason why a site shouldn't be all HTTPS.

Note: fixing redirect rules for logins on some sites is a significant PITA, but should be adjusted accordingly by now anyway.
I first "logged on" as a teenager in the late 90s. My access was exclusively at my friend's house, whose dad needed a separate phone line for work-related internet tasks.

I would say nothing has changed and everything has changed. Community-wise, you could find a niche and talk about hobbies and interests (Compuserve chat rooms!) and all that, but all the world's information wasn't indexed yet, so anyone speaking authoritatively would be infallible since no was able to prove them wrong or right unless they cracked open an Encyclopedia Britannica. Or maybe had a CD-ROM and Encarta.

Now, literally everyone is "online" in some form. Instead of turning to one of the 3 or 5 trusted news sources that report across their home country, they are now just gathering their info from other users like themselves.

If anything the "corporations" have put us more in touch with each other, and people tend to trust an individual more than a corporation, which leads to individuals and corporations attempting to game the system.

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I gotta say, I like it all better now. I do miss how quaint it all used to feel. The concept of using the internet was special in itself.

But it was super hard to find communities that weren't centered around sci-fi or people trying to cyber or people who were obsessed with "computing" in general. I'm a programmer now but my heart has always been in the arts and music, and those art-nerd types didn't start "logging on" until the late 00s imo. Perhaps that's partially due to bandwidth constraints.
Ask HN: How to avoid losing control in series B
My friend has this problem...

Weird founder, very techy area, got an MVP, lots of progress with just FFF funding (F^4 ?!).

Anyway, somehow he is close a series A-ish offer with equal control rights. Mostly by dragging it out, showing progress and keeping it default-live.

However, the (friendly, honest) VC has made it very clear that he will put the screws-on in series B. Its a software-only area, but will still much more capital.

Any ideas on how to strategize for this?

BTW, no one is opposed to an outside CEO if and when the time is right. The uul
You make a good point wrt complexity. A project to convert shell scripts into (even naïve) Swift code (form compiling) might be useful.
It does. But linkeddata.org is not an authoritative source, and even though that statement is partially correct, that doesn't mean that JavaScript developers will need to be exposed to RDF. Just like JavaScript developers aren't exposed to assembly, even though V8 generates it.
I have a totally awesome .bash_aliases file! I've taken all the best things I've seen from all the best .bash_aliases files around the web. I bet it's like 1000 lines long.

I can remember about 10 of the things I have in there.
Then the player to watch for would be Disney. Huge, long history in the area, Mickey Mouse knows everyone in the entertainment business.

Even though Apple has a gigantic pile of cash there's a real question as to whether they can actually make money this way. One could question whether you can just hire a bunch of famous movie people and then have a movie empire.

I'm looking forward to the fight though. There's a good case that we're currently in one of the most productive eras in storytelling, mainly thanks to these titans clashing.
The constant criticism lazy people often face can easily lead to depression.
A summary of notable news about AI from 2018
I do think it's a bit misleading for you to say "all in the south" when that map stretches all the way to the Canadian border, but I digress...

One anecdote, not that it paints much of a picture, is that I have a much younger cousin in Catholic school right now (in one of the states on that map) and, from what I hear, it sounds like corporal punishment is completely off the table.
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Good luck to this guy, but it seems every solution to a blockchain scaling problem is ultimately the creation of a blockchain decentralization problem, and vice versa.
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If you want streaming inserts to BQ, that becomes the biggest cost. Dataflow could be used to turn inserts into batch and gather interesting metrics that you don't want to hit BQ for, but I don't think anyone's open sourced anything in this space. I've implemented streaming inserts to BQ for logs "at scale" and it was at least an order of magnitude cheaper than splunk still. Happy to talk via email.
Adam talked about server-side rendering in the video. You won't see the graphql queries in network activities.
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There's a meta-insight there: what if the lucky ones do write the rules?

If that's the case, an optimal strategy might be to take as many convex bets as possible, keep secret all the ones that fail, and then once a low-probability bet succeeds, milk it for all it's worth and convince everyone you're a genius. You can then leverage that for significant financial gain from organizations who seek genius-level insights in the future. Eventually regression-to-the-mean makes you lose your credibility, but in the meantime you can pocket significant amounts of cash and invest them in much more stable revenue-generating assets.

A glance at who's been successful since the 3rd millenia started shows that this might not actually be a bad career strategy.
I used to think graphics mattered, and then I played BotW and Mario Odyssey on the Switch and I realized just how unimportant they are. (To be fair, the artwork is superb)
Does anyone need advice getting to 10k followers for their startup on Instagram?
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> Also, why has no product unified monitoring and logging?

In my experience SumoLogic is excellent for this.
> [Open Source] was created so those who didn't like GPLed and similarly licensed software could easily talk about lightly licensed software (eg: BSD).

I'm afraid that's incorrect.

The moniker "open source" was coined in working group leading up to the formation of the Open Source Initiative, as a rebranding of Free Software to industry, around the time of Netscape's software release. OSI published an "Open Source Definition" based directly on Debian's Free Software Guidelines, which explicitly set out to describe both permissive terms like BSD and copyleft terms like GPLv2. The OSD doesn't have an "Example Licenses" section, but DFSG still does:

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2017/11/12/DFSG-versus-OSD.ht...

Folks do commonly distinguish BSD- and GPL-style licenses, as you imply. The most popular lingo says "permissive" contra "copyleft". Lawrence Rosen's book popularized "academic" versus "reciprocal". We could also say "BSD school" and "FSF school".
The benefit about being more honest about their role in society: they get to exploit it more thoroughly.