skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with none of that. You’re flat out wrong about schools. People from Russia for example who transfer often make note of how amazingly viscous American high schools are. There is a massive difference. Massive.
The weird thing, if you study history and step outside the culture you were raised in, is to realize that Huxley and Orwell were both describing the world they were writing in, not some hypothetical future. 1984 is based on Orwell's experiences writing propaganda for the BBC during WW2; 1984 was intentionally chosen by switching the last two digits of the year it was written, 1948. Brave New World is a Depression-era reaction to the excesses of and hangover from the 1920s. The World State of Brave New World is based on Fordism, the logical result of taking Henry Ford's assembly-line mentality and applying it to a whole society. In many ways the creative class (which didn't really exist in the 1931 of Huxley's day) enjoys significantly more liberties than the populace of Brave New World.

It's also interesting to note that Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia are also literary reactions to that time period. Note that Saruman turns Isengard evil with "The fires of industry"; orcs cut down the trees and defile large areas of the countryside, while the Nine Rings corrupt men in the name of greed and power. Tolkien's answer to industrialization was to return to small pastoralist villages; Lewis's was to accept the redemption of Christ, in the form of the lion Aslan.
How will you verify if this story or experience isn't just like spam?
I see the site has serious issues being brought up, but I just wouldn't know how you would confirm.
have you ever seen an early write up of the technology that powered that demo. I know it was all written in python but I was curious how they were doing it early on.
I agree with almost all of your comment. I think as a matter of policy, handguns should be banned or heavily restricted, and if I were in charge of rewriting the US Constitution (which I think is quite shit and a terrible basis for running a modern country), I’d definitely get rid of the second amendment.

You seem to be arguing against what you think a typical American believes, rather than against my actual position.

I’m not arguing that policy shouldn’t be changed. I’m arguing that it’s so difficult or impossible to change, for relatively little benefit compared to other possible reforms, that focusing on it isn’t worth the cost.

The salient difference between the US and other developed democracies is the US’s uniquely broken political structure. What most people don’t understand when comparing the US to Canada or Australia is that the US can’t “just” pass a law making serious and major reforms. It’s simply not possible. In almost every country, when most people agree a law should change, the Parliament just passes it, the head of state agrees to it if necessary, and then that’s it. Not so in the US.

In our naturally gridlocked and fundamentally broken political system, there are only three ways a law can change in a major way at the federal level:

(1) It is obscure enough that nobody cares about it,

(2) It is so widely supported that it can actually get through the deadlock, or,

(3) It doesn’t go through the legislative process at all, but arises from the Supreme Court changing its interpretation of the constitution.

For example: the vast majority of Americans have believed since the 1970s (as far back as my data goes) that abortion should be legal in at least some circumstances. A majority have believed since the early 2010s that gay marriage should be legal. And a solid majority have believed since 2000 (as far back as my data goes, and to be fair it dipped to around half during the Obamacare debates) that the healthcare of all Americans should be the responsibility of the government.

But because of the brokenness of our system, the first two reforms could only be made by the Supreme Court, and we’re still waiting on the third.

We can’t even agree to switch to the metric system, despite practically every educated person agreeing it’s superior.

Given these facts, if you’re going to spend the huge amount of political capital, years of debates to the exclusion of everything else, waiting for once-in-a-generation supermajorities, etc. that were necessary for even a relatively minor reform like Obamacare, you’re better off focusing on something more impactful, like improving transit infrastructure, mitigating climate change, subsidizing poor people’s access to healthy food, or any number of things that will save more lives overall than making mass shootings less likely.
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It's funny, because I'm finding myself using Google far more after switching to DDG years ago. At this point, more often than not the results I get in DDG make me go "oh ffs, !g", and I really wish that wasn't the case, but here we are. It used to be pretty great, now it's just... not?
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Did he miss the mark? Ask the average person on the street why congress are having impeachment proceedings against the president. most will either regurgitate some fox news conspiracy theory or say something about Russia. while the actual reason is he attempted to extort a personal quid pro quo from the Ukrainian government in exchange for releasing foreign aid funds they were due. Sounds to me like he predicted people not reading and getting nothing but propaganda misinformation and empty mindless entertainment from tv just right.
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I mean, my first thought was this (NSFW I guess): https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/330/469/769...

Brings me back.

Maybe the ML algos are evolving.
On the other hand, many people assumed we'd have flying cars and colonies on Venus.

Oh, and fusion reactors.

Edit:

Now that I think of it, there was a lot of variation in predictions of computing. But I would say that it's been pretty common for science fiction to describe technology 30 years out somewhat accurately, probably because it has inspired the actual tech in a self-fulfilling way.

So, in the 40s, a spaceship was envisioned able to carry only calculators and slide rules, with a radio link to a big central computer. That wasn't far off of how things developed in the 60s and 70s. But I think by the 60s and 70s, people were imagining pocket computers and tablets and such and that had a huge effect on people actually designing them when it was possible.
Exactly - neither positive nor negative.
It’s not painless. E.g. dividing $100.00 by 12 month in integer cents requires 11 $8.33 and one $8.37 (or better 4x(2x8.33+8.34), depending on definition of ‘better’). You can forget this $0.04, but it will jump around in reports until you get rid of it – it requires someone’s attention anyway, no matter how small it is. Otoh, in unrounded floating point that will lead to a mismatch between (integer) payments and calculations. In rounded fp it’s the same problem, except when you’re trying very hard for error bits to accumulate (like cross-multiplying dataset sums with no intermediate rounding, which is nonsense in financial calc and where regular fixpoint integers will overflow anyway).

What I’m trying to show here is that both integers and floating point are not suitable for doing ‘simple’ financial math. But we get used to this Bresenhamming in integers and do not perceive it as solving an error correction problem.
I don't send random things, I either look up curl if I need to script something or I just use postman.

EDIT: Depends, most of the time I use standard JSON Rest apis, there is not really that much to misassume I think.
This. "Simple" so often turns into complex when the system is too brittle to fit your desired use case
Is there a public database of images of people with names? Police don’t even have that.
Kiwibot, Berkeley’s pioneering robot delivery startup, is ending service
> If I’m going technical I’ll use the bang feature (! g) and I’m all set. I’m not going back to ggle

So you are going to not go back to google by using google?
I never played
Yeah, but what kind of optimization problem where an exact solution is intractable also doesn't have approximate algorithms that are good enough?
This seems exactly what remacs is doing with emacs.
How can you spend your way to a solution if you can't even build a homeless shelter in neighborhoods already filled with homeless people?

People vote for the bond, politicians say OK now lets build what the bond funding described, people say hell no not in my back yard, nothing gets done, then people turn on the bond, the politicians, the whole idea of the project, future bonds, and future projects. A generational wave of political apathy and distrust fueled by bizarre takes on reality, actively ignoring data, and devaluing expert opinion.

It happens everywhere, but is particularly a hamstringing issue in CA due to how much outsized influence local council members (in LA at least) have on what is ultimately civic planning decisions that should be driven solely by empirical data and academic theory.

Guess who actually shows up for these local elections and council meetings and maintains a firm grip on the councilmans ear? Not renters, not homeless, not millenials, predominately home owners over 50 who want to close their eyes, jam their fingers in their ears, and pretend like its '63 again, property tax rate and all.
While it post-dates BNW my friends and I often joked that Rollerball was the first (film) reference to MDMA. Mind you the party scene wasn't a rave but the dancing and the touch sure make a good case for ecstasy.
I wonder if the car's computer logs changes to lock state and if that would be sufficient evidence. Seems like that could be an easy solution.
Yup. There's a certain irony how, a century and a half after Britain and the U.S. managed to reduce the greatest civilization on earth to a bunch of drug addicts and trigger a civil war and the fall of the empire, the rump state of that civilization is now reducing the new greatest civilization on earth to a bunch of drug addicts, triggering the fall of its empire and a potential civil war.
I was using a "Duck" device today for the first time, and I wanted to look up some information about it online. I typed the first words that came to mind ("duck rope pro") on Google.com, and the #1 hit is an Amazon.com page that lets me buy it. Now I know the manufacturer and full name and basics specs, and it's now easy to find the manufacturer's webpage and user manual.

I typed the same terms on DDG, and clicked "more results" and scrolled down. The first relevant hit is #84, which is a link to a generic product listing page on an Australian online store. So DDG found 83 incorrect interpretations of "duck" before the rope fall protection one that I intended. The one it did find is pretty obscure. It's located neither in the country I live in, nor the country the device is made in.

Curiously, hit #80 is for google.com itself, so it seems even DDG gave up and pointed me to Google before finding a directly useful answer.

I like DDG's principles, but as a search engine, it's just not practical for me.
Switching energy generation to move away from a dwindling, polluting, non-renewable, toxic resource ... and ending the incredible, increasingly expensive, polluting waste of unchecked, ad-driven consumerism ... will not look silly in the future.

The physics of the 'greenhouse effect' are very easy to demonstrate, and simple enough for middle-school children to grasp. Even if it befuddles our non-technical leadership.
If you extend ASCII to CP1252, which is the most common encoding besides/before UTF-8 became common, then you do get those accented characters (and that's likely responsible for the popularity of '1252.)

In fact, the first 256 characters of Unicode are almost identical to CP1252. I'm pretty sure that's not a coincidence.
Forgive me for chuckling at law enforcement in by far the world's largest exporter of consumer malware for treating a single comedy deepfakes app with so much paranoia and suspicion. How did that common saying go that was bandied around in our teenage years? Something like the person in a relationship who fears cheating the most is the one most likely to cheat
Where can I download the database to see if any of my own information has been pwnd?
> Also a fair number of BBW women who are both sexy and hilarious.

Were you convinced that "BBW" women couldn't be either before browsing TikTok?
Yes all countries do it, but US intelligence doesn't just take into account the action, they take the actor as well. Australia is a friendly nation to the US and shares intelligence data with US intelligence agencies. What we see, they see and what they see, we see. Russia is not a friendly nation to the US and does not share intelligence with US intelligence agencies.

The FBI isn't saying "normal people are at risk from FaceApp" but "US intelligence is at risk from the use of FaceApp". In the (very short) linked letter, it specifically calls out "elected officials, candidates, political campaigns, [and] political parties".

Considering all US intelligence agencies unanimously agree that Russia already attacked US candidates and political parties in the past, saying "yeah but everyone does it" is about as off-topic of a remark as you can get. To my knowledge the FBI has never publicly disclosed Australia's efforts to meddle in US elections.
What's the difference? Security breaches are security breaches, no matter what.
Meanwhile every time I put a new kind of bread / bagel / muffin in my toaster, it comes out unsatisfyingly burnt or underdone as is the particular setting of the day. See, the objects I insert into the toaster almost _never_ resemble the model bread that the EE designed for.

If the toaster had a shade selector, a built in camera and was factory color calibrated, then no matter what I stuck in the toaster it would come out that color (or hit some global MAX_TOASTING_TIME) .

Good software engineers design robustly without increasing the problem domain (much).
Not if you use the packages for OpenVPN or Wireguard from your package repo. Then you only have to trust Wireguard/OpenVPN and your distro to not MITM you. Your VPN cannot do any MITM attacks other than those your ISP can as long as you do not install their client.
My ideas are very fuzzy, but when people say that you can't run quantum computations at high temperature because of noise, it reminds me of something I read not too long ago about how scientists are starting to have insight into how biological systems operate in the presence of large amounts of noise from heat. So I wonder if there's a trick to it that nature already has found.
I've had the thought that programmers should note assumptions in flagged comments, and those comments should be automatically collected, and then reviewed occasionally. Assumptions might be sustainable, so to speak, but they can also create one kind of technical debt.
I will probably go against the grain here but my inner tinfoil hat is telling me that the recent marijuana legalization is actually secretly run by the military industrial complex in order to silence dissent. Kind of the 'lithium in the water supply' thing.
This will open all of the files with TODO in them in vim:

alias todogrep="vim $(grep TODO . -rl)"

You can modify this easily, such as by using ripgrep, adding excludes, or doing regex to find TODO and FIXME together, but this is a quick one-liner to add to your `.bashrc`.
Interesting statement. Other than maybe han unification, what would you do differently?
As someone who has had to deal with restrictions on other drugs I need to function, I’m always a bit reticent to go full in on “this drug is evil” narratives.

Is Oxycotin particularly addictive in itself in ways it could otherwise not be? Or is this about general painkiller addiction plus the pharmaceutical company taking advantage of this to push it out too much?

In other words, is there a way to tackle this problem that doesn’t cut access for people who actually need this stuff?
Yes. That's why people are still super nervous whenever Microsoft dares to embrace something new. Past experience.

I'm not saying they're like that today, but that's why some people get all on-edge when Microsoft does things like this.
I see it like harm reduction of street drugs with something like methadone. Except the marginal cost is zero, of course.
> Sure, the world has a lot of people. But a civilization that by default, does not want to produce children? (As Huxley envisioned, and as I think will be the case in the coming decades) is headed for sure collapse.

Contraception and abortifacients have existed for millennia.

People in the developed world are choosing not have children because of costs. Having children in the developing world is an investment that is paid back in the form of free labor, dowries and someone to care for you when you're elderly.
You're simulating a quantum computer with a classical computer. So if you can break crypto with a classical computer, then yes.
> No, where Unicode is complicated is where the Unicode people decided to make it complicated to bolster their egos, to the detriment of everyone downstream of them.

Where?
I'm not sure the premise is sound -- that there is a set of rules that if you abide by them, you won't have a car burglarized. Well, besides one that includes "don't have a car," at least. What says that there must be such a set? It seems essentially unavoidable, in San Francisco.
My problem is that everytime I try to make the switch I just end up !g'ing everything which defeats the purpose.
It is apparently cheaper because in France, as in many countries, the nuke was and remains heavily subsided, decommission costs under evaluated, mishaps hidden...

The French public financial auditing institution (la Cour des Comptes) published in 2012 that public nuke investments are opaque, and that it costed around 228 10e9 euros, plus nowadays 3.4 10e9 euros per year for the sole maintenance.
Nuke risk is what it is, and even financially it is not sound.
Read there, starting folio 269: https://www.ccomptes.fr/sites/default/files/EzPublish/Rappor...

It is so expensive it cannot be hidden anymore. Electricity in France is absolutely not cheap, its price there is average in Europe. Source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

Germany now pays in order to solve the problem.

France isn't completely dumb and a state law (2015-992, from 2015, the "loi relative à la transition énergétique pour la croissance verte") states that the part of nuke-produced electricity must fall to less than 50% in 2025, from 72% then, and that renewables must replace it.

However those are only words, until now.

Meanwhile... Germany solves its problem.

Comparing France and Germany when it comes to industrial and technical problems is not fair, as Germany is so far ahead we don't see them anymore (and yep, I'm French, but facts are facts).
Is this a mains frequency thing?

I saw the GaN stuff on US Amazon but cost and specs seemed worse than the uk ones.

eg the uk Anker 60W ones cost less look about the same size can do 30W PD and has another 5 ports too

I just don’t see the value proposition of these GaN ones
Yes, that is the worst case. Almost. But object effected can be something more disconcerting:

https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/pa5mng/a-16-year-old-has-...

One time it happened in Australia, who investigated the cause thoroughly:

> We know absolutely that the charger itself failed, and that it arced between the 240 volt input and the five volt output. So that's definitive," said Lynelle Collins of NSW Fair Trading. "We've got photos, we've got proof that's been dismantled, so we know that the charger failed.
I have seen countries around the world have such a response. Russia freaked out that the latest Windows phones home, USA freaked out about Kaspersky, and so on. Russia has set in motion projects to build homegrown Linux based operating systems etc. I consider all this a good thing.

Why don’t we have the ability to restrict at the OS level which domains an app can send information to? Then we can finally host backend software locally on servers of OUR choice.

I would love to see more OPEN SOURCE apps running on servers of our choice, and communication over mesh networks. In fact I’d love for most functionality to be client-side and an option for ALL data sent to servers to be end-to-end encrypted at the OS level. I dont want to have to trust the APP manufacturer to pinky swear it’s all end to end encrypted. The OS should have a little badge saying none of the data sent by the app is being sent in a way the server can decrypt because the OS intercepts and encrypts it with keys the app can’t get. That may still leave side channels such as timing based information to tunnel through. But if we restrict what domains the app can talk to, we can close that loophole too.

That’s what I would love to see ... finally put an end to server side landlords owning your data just cuz they own the infrastructure!
> The FBI considers any mobile application or similar product developed in Russia, such as FaceApp, to be a potential counterintelligence threat

Seems like the word "potential" is conspicuously missing from the title of the submission
I am not a spy, but I imagine they have some sort of internal guidelines around uploading face pics and PII to random apps/websites
They used rsync afaik.
Also a law that the author is thinking of one and only one programming language.

> String length is typically determined by counting codepoints.

That depends entirely on what "strings" you are talking about.

In C/Go/Rust/Ruby, char*/string/std::string::String/String is bytes.

In Java/JavaScript, java.lang.String/String is UTF-16 code units.

In Python 3, str is code points.

In Swift, String is extended grapheme clusters.

In Haskell, there are various different "string" types in common use.

And in C++, std::basic_string is a generic container for whatever element type you want. (std::string specialization being for bytes.)

EDIT: Clarified that I don't disagree with parent comment; merely pointing out additional less-than-precise language.
Yeah, and most companies only let you accrue a certain number of hours of time off, typically somewhere between 100-200 hours from what I've seen. Once you hit that limit you simply don't get any more time off. Your boss won't let you take a vacation until next month? Too bad, sucks to be you.

Thankfully the way my current company handles this is about as good as you can get - they cash out balances that are too high a couple times a year at prespecified dates.
"Contraception and abortifacients have existed for millennia."

Yes, but not reliably (for contraception) or safely (for abortifacients), and by their nature, 80% reliable contraception is of dubious utility.
It's not the action itself just the impreciseness of the label that I'm objecting to as I do think there is a difference between a video dating app that re-uses their underlying technology to become a general video hosting service (a refinement) vs say a Magic the Gathering collectors site that becomes a cryptocurrency exchange or a product company that just cancels their product and rebrands as a consultancy.