skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ai is a Skinner box right now. It’s designed to capture attention. It does that by measuring how intensely something makes you feel. Dopamine high = content dependence and an attention reward.
If you see people fighting your brain looks. If you see something normal who cares? You’re not forming relationships with people. You’re trying to get likes and shares. Why the hell would you do something boring like find a middle ground?
It’s fun because this article from another thread might help people think of ideas on how to fix this. Algorithms are the attention filter right now. They obviously suck and don’t respect autonomy. Personally I liked the days of “content like this” navigation. I used to spend hours just walking around the network of Spotify songs to find new content. Now you can’t do that. The algo suggests stuff and you’re not really free to explore the graph.
https://lithub.com/how-we-pay-attention-changes-the-very-sha...
Cool concept. But the screen was freezing a bit for me.

And I had to go really far to the right before the first message.

Also I think the the time to get to the water should be cut in half, by making the board a bit smaller.
Odin can achieve the same feature of checking memory leaks with it's custom allocator system. You can very easily have a custom allocator track the allocations of everything, including its source location. This is because Odin was heavily designed around custom allocators as a core feature.

And coupled with the implicit `context` system, it can very easily profile third party Odin code's allocations too!
Do you want the ambulance/police car dispatched for you as soon as the operator determines there is a problem, or wait for them to receive your location by you telling them? What about all the people that can't for some reason?

It's the only reason in my mind the government should have access to that info, and it's a damn good one
I thought it was fair to wait for 2022.04 when Wireguard is only about to be included in mainline and few years in the kernel will certainly make it feel stable for the next LTS inclusion, so I was kind of surprised they went for it now as a backport.

Perhaps the code is good enough there aren't many weird bug reports to make it feel unstable.
Neat, really liked the idea of lil snitch.

Is the UI a python web app or a Qt desktop app? There's references to both in the readme
It's neither new nor fixable. It's why we have elections. Now that unlimited amounts of untraceable cash can easily subdue any and all resistance, well. We're F*cked. There is nothing any of us can do about it but hope we die painlessly before global warming really kicks in.
so did Raccoon City, even the lab logos match :)
It may be a valid conclusion that the climate activist values their behavior more than what they think are their goals.

I support the idea of being physically fit. My behavior belies that.
I once tried to imagine a metric time system, with a deciday of 14.4 minutes. I realized that it would never catch on, because a half-hour TV show would have to be cut to 28.8 minutes losing at least 2 commercials.
Percentages Are Reversible
Again, take any random six letter amino acid sequence and chances are high that it matches to some HIV protein.

I just did the experiment with my first name that is coincidentally 6 letters long, and lo and behold: a match to HIV env protein!

Has my first name now been designed by a bioweapons facility?
Selling tanks is covered under ITAR.
If there are Federal/State/County/Province/City regulations that cover (or mandate) providing metadata to all levels of government without a warrant, I'd like to see them (assuming they aren't classified).
Yes, Synapse is resource hungry - but it also does a lot more than a typical XMPP server. Meanwhile, we're finally making progress with small footprint homeservers for Matrix. shrug
I would even pay for a LittleSnitch clone for Linux if it worked nearly as good as LittleSnitch does.
All that's missing is a gvfs module to mount your IMAP directories...
I don't have data as to precisely how strong the correlation is

I'm actually pretty curious now, and might be go looking for data. It's surely not precisely 1, but I bet it's not all that far off. Especially if you limit the sample to residences.

Your list of outliers is a good one (I particularly like the natural resources one), but I think they're probably mostly exceptions to the rule.

In the end though sure, property taxes aren't precisely consumption taxes. But they clearly aren't wealth taxes either. They're something in between and, I think, much closer to consumption that wealth.

I've really enjoyed thinking about the points you brought up. Thank you for doing that.
Wikileaks asked the DoD to help redact the documents. DoD refused and later put out a statement claiming that Assange lied about asking for help. This statement was shown to be false.

Due to the limited time window for release, the choice was either to release as-is or to never release at all.

Calling Wikileaks lazy is myopic. They didn't have the resources to redact the documents in the time window they had to work with, and they asked for help. The US govt knew exactly what would happen if they refused to help. It was a calculated move to maximise collateral damage and help drive the narrative that you now subscribe to. They didn't give a single fuck about the collateral damage, their response was focused on discrediting and prosecuting the source of the leak to send a message to anyone else considering exposing their wrongdoings.

The US govt acted like a bunch of insidious cartoon villains, and gaslighting its citizens about how this situation played out.
> We need to put people in a context where politics is irrelevant and a shared interest has the opportunity to bond people who would otherwise not meet.

We had that thing. It was called organized religion. Then liberals systematically destroyed it. In typical fashion, they never thought about what would replace what they were tearing down.
Amazon to rollout 10k electric rickshaws in India
Sexual abuse is terrible but I am so tired of it being used as the handle of the billyclub used to beat technology down
Yes, for better or worse.
I will be willing to say the opposite as well. Exchanging records is terrible. If you get records from say, Epic, you might get 300 pages.

Which doctor is going to read 300 pages of documentation for one if his 16 30-minute appointments a day?
Seems way more like regulation solved this problem, so yeah.
Unfortunately not all Telnet servers support that.

Being the least interesting programmer on Hacker News, I don't always write code to handle Telnet-compatible ASCII input, but when I do, I always support ^D.
Competitive analysis is one thing, point for point copying of another company's user interface is unethical. Apple put in the R&D to make the iPhone interface more intuitive and easy to use compared to other phones at the time. Samsung copied Apple's homework.
The Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that obtaining phone location data requires a warrant. [1] So no, neither one is okay.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States
> Do you know _why_ this uptick has happened? Does anyone?

Controversy drives engagement, engagement drives profits.
How often does a "should" translate into reality?
I really appreciate this sincere long form response. You make a great point about intentions. They are very hard to sometimes be put into text.
Yes it is but at least you don't have to pretend like one does in a corporate environment.
The Courtesy of the Chinese Will Save Us from the Coronavirus
Wow, this compiled (1993) crock.c
Agreed. I'm not going to say whether Ruby syntax is nice or not, but its use of parser generators is not a model of simplicity:

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/master/parse.y

https://whitequark.org/blog/2013/04/01/ruby-hacking-guide-ch...

It also changes syntax in patch level versions: https://github.com/whitequark/parser.
The left ones.

Sorry, I'll show myself out.
List of famines and pestilences in England up to 1894 (2006)
The first example doesn't bother me and I think it's a weak argument. TypeScript allows literals[1] as types[0] so it is trying to use the object as a type.

The correct use of:

printDog({
breed: "Airedale",
age: 3
})

is to explicitly cast it:

printDog({
breed: "Airedale",
age: 3
} as Dog)

[0] https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/index.html?ssl=1&ssc=1&p...

[1] https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types....
You are referring to the E911 location data that is provided in real-time to emergency responders. AFAIK everyone is okay with that. I was referring to archival records of all telephone use (calls, text, web).
Probably your use of the word "commoner".
There's also a great book "A History of Vector Analysis: The Evolution of the Idea of a Vectorial System" by Crowe which covers vectors from Complex numbers to Gibbs vectors and includes Hamilton and the competitor at the time Grassman Algebra, both the basis for geometric algebra.

Its one of the only maths history books I couldn't put down.
How to Drive Traffic with an Opt in Form – Adlibweb
Sortition has lots of upsides. Given the US doesn't really have an obvious source for a Monarch (which is the definitively best way option), using Sortition to fill the Figurehead role would be a good solution.

The other half of the job currently named "President of the United States of America", heading the Executive function, would naturally make more sense as a route for either state leaders (e.g. Governor -> President) or the legislature (House and Senate leaders -> President)

It should definitely be prohibited for one person to have both jobs as is done today. Donald Trump would make a perfectly good figurehead. The world would say yup, that's what we thought, a fat idiot who flashes his money and talks crap, America. Meanwhile the executive leader would negotiate say, tweaks to agricultural tariffs and that'd go largely unnoticed because e.g. now the buffoon is pretending "everybody" thinks Belgium is in Africa because he refuses to own up to mistakes and that's way funnier than China reducing some agricultural tariffs.

The US would need to do a LOT of paperwork to make this happen though and a remarkable, disappointing fraction of Americans believe that their existing paperwork is sort of holy and mustn't be changed even though it was written in an era which is unrecognisable socially and technologically. So you're probably screwed.
Exactly. The thought though was that if you created systems for processing locusts into flour around the area then that might incentivize people to catch and bring them locusts. If that became a regular thing it would keep populations down so that even in ideal swarm conditions the growth would not be as severe.

And it could provide an indigenous economic stream, always a good thing in Africa.
I’m not. Used to. Could talk shit about Amazon for days, but that’s not the point of what I said.

Thanks for being super creepy, and digging through my profile. Unfortunately you couldn’t even get that right. And by the way, even if I still worked there I can’t see how that discredits my opinion.

But since you seem to going down that route, I can say confidently that I don’t like Amazon as an employer and many times I don’t like it when I interact with it as a customer. Mind blowing, right? Someone who can be critical and still tries to seek objective opinions.
I think it's a python Qt app.

There is also an open issue for tracking a replacement UI in Go
Easy: crontabs are in /var/spool/cron/..., not /home, and user editable. If the user's homedir isn't mounted because they logged off and cleared their security tokens, any crontab they write that uses their homedir will break.
Interesting to see this pop up now, I recently finished building an open source command line typing tutor myself! The idea of mine is you pass it an existing text file (plain text, markdown, source code, etc) and it tests your ability to re-create that file. This way you can practice typing in any syntax. https://github.com/wtfaremyinitials/monktype
> But that doesn't really matter, you can adopt concepts and designs from 3rd parties (including competitors) so long as the same is not protected.

Maybe it's legal but I don't think it's ethical. And while implementing someone else's concept in your own way is one thing, point for point copying of a user interface that someone else designed is entirely another.

> What is unfortunate and "twisted" is claiming a research university is a patent troll.

I never claimed this.
It is wildly disingenuous to try and pass off being deplatformed as an on/off switch.

There are many degrees to which one could be deplatformed, and sadly a segment of the sclerotic left have decided to use it as a political tool to squash dissent.

To try and suggest that deplatforming doesn't happen or isn't an issue because there isn't a magic button that can be pressed to instantly remove somebody from the public sphere is grossly manipulative and dishonest.
On macOS:

% clang -g -o crock -DCURSES -DHASSLEEP -DHASTIME -DHASEXIT crock.c

Compiled and ran with just a few warnings. (from a tweet by @larsbrinkhoff)

https://twitter.com/salgernon/status/1223384128952758273
It supports them because the inflation adjusted difference in monthly payments correlates very well with the 30 year mortgage rate. As interest rates fall, home values appreciate based on how much of a monthly payment someone can afford, less the effect of recessions and including other things like prop 13.

Take Q1 of 1995 for instance. The inflation adjusted home value at that time was ~340, and the interest rate was 9%. In that case, a $340k home would have a $2.7k monthly payment. A $680k home today with interest rates at 3.75% today would have a $3.1k monthly payment, and I believe that most of it's appreciation is because of low interest rates.

If housing prices were driven by prop 13, then when interest rates go up, housing prices should stay the same. If housing prices depend on mortgage rates, then they should decrease over time as interest rates increase.
So this Supreme Court ruling has eliminated all use of Stingray-like equipment by all law enforcement agencies unless they have a warrant? Wow! Looks like Harris will be going of business soon, and no more DRT boxes flying over cities?
Updated. There is discussion of this paper, such as it is, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22205705 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22204866.
I used this tool to learn Dvorak a few years ago... worked pretty well for me :)
Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Anecdotally, my laptop is being used by two users. It irks very much that neither Ubuntu nor Fedora can easily support a common directory for data to be shared between users. I ve created custom bash commands to fix group file ownership and similar issues arising from sharing a directory between two home users.
Yes, obvious now.
(a / 100) * b == a * (b / 100)
XMPP uses XML. IRC is simpler and can be used without any specialized software, and was designed like that, so that you can use without specialized software (I have used IRC on computers before installing a IRC client)
This is point blank the example of 'effete good intentions -> really bad legislation'.

It's really quite bad.

One of the primary motivations cited relates to waste and recycling - however chargers represent an utterly minuscule component of individual waste.

A much better approach from a waste management perspective would be to require that all electronics gear be 'processed' (like batteries). The price of the product 'pre includes' the cost of post-processing, so when it's picked up in its special recycling category, the bit of labour is taken care of.

In fact - this could be applied to a wide variety of products.

As for 'charging standard' - this can only work if it's led by a really smart body, nimble enough to enable innovation and adaptatio, and it's most certainly not the legislative body. The EU could 'empower' such a working group, but should not be getting into the details.

Of course - this legislation will be hacked immediately - everyone will not sell funky multi-adapter chargers with proprietary bits connected to the standard bits. I don't doubt for one second Apple's ability to 'sell you more crap'.

Finally - Apple uses mostly fairly standard stuff. I have a Samsung that uses a far-flung USB kind of standard I've never seen elsewhere. Apple has actually been focusing on USB-C pretty well on their own.

In summary: these kinds of rulings fundamentally do not belong at the level of the legal draft - they belong in standards bodies. They will not solve the problems they are intended to solve, and will simply accrue more overhead for everyone in the EU. Solving issues of sustainability and recycling etc. should be one elsewhere and likely requires some bigger picture thinking.
I don’t have a problem with this. I am seeing systemd as a system management layer and as such it makes sense that it should manage as much of the moment-to-moment operation of the system as possible. It seems like a lot of people are upset because it’s a new thing to learn that’s being forced on them by their distro.

I used to feel the same way. I’m only a casual linux user and I didn’t want to climb this particular mountain but having learned just a little about it, created some of my own units and played with the tools the sense of alienation dissipated and I was fairly happy with it.
I don't disagree. However, I think the primary complaint is against people abdicating their constitutional responsibility and not the makeup of the Constitution itself.
You don't provide any context as to what form your struggle takes with each new project. So it is hard to give general advice. However ...

In doing the many random things, have you noticed any that you enjoy far more than others? If so, then it might give you an ideas as to what area to focus your learning and development upon.
Although it's not perfect (you're not totally immune), it's still effective at significantly bringing down hospital visits & mortality rates.

This is especially true for those with weak immune systems. As for a source, see the "Effectiveness" section https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/Influenza/Pages/you...

Quote "One European study in 2008 found a 66% vaccine efficacy (VE) against confirmed influenza for children aged 9 months to 3 years, while a Japanese study of children aged 6 months to 6 years found VE against influenza A ranged from 42% to 69% depending on the vaccine match"

Another source with an effectiveness section has similar numbers: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/misconceptions.htm

That's very far away from your "flu vaccine is terrible ineffective" statement.
I used GNU typist when I taught myself touch typing with a Das Keyboard back in the day.

One thing I found annoying was that it insisted on two spaces after a period. I found that annoying so I replaces ". " with ". " in all tutorial files.
I don't see anything wrong with "truth in comedy".

A part of me believes that's how comedy works: if it wasn't true you wouldn't be laughing, and another part of me is laughing because the same truth is sad.
MacBook Pro 16 Has a Fan Problem
>If the only think causing someone to behave morally is the idea that they are being watched by other people who know who they are, then their parents/religion/society has failed them.

what do you think the function of parents, religion and society is if not to observe people and watch them? That's what socialization is. Stake in a community and incentive to adjust to social norms, because the consequence of anti-social behaviour is loss of status or punishment.

It's completely rational for individuals to behave selfishly under conditions of anonymity because they face no social consequences. The way humans are conditioned to behave what we perceive to be reasonable is through social interaction and peers, that is to say, to be watched.

The model many people seem to have is that 95% of people under conditions of internet anonymity are good citizens and that the trolls are the aberration. But actually the trolls are just the example of what essentially happens to everyone if they're taken out of what is the natural human condition, which is social interaction including persistent identity and stakeholdership in some community.
Improve the economy.

Humans confronted with scarcity (real or imagined) react with rational self-interest. They react more easily and strongly to perceived threats, become selfish for themselves and their in-group, and over-demonstrate their allegiance to that in-group.

Make people feel (economically) safe, that they have opportunities to accumulate wealth, and can generally do what they want. They'll be less fearful, and less afraid to see Others getting ahead as well.
The commutative property in multiplication, generally.

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

https://www.basic-mathematics.com/commutative-property.html
This is an absolute win for democracy in the UK. There are some who don't like democracy and have continuously obstructed it in order to achieve a 'second referendum' even when they haven't implemented the first.

But then again, this is what happens when you respect democracy and it should prevail.
I’m think they might be aiming at HIV because China has also been in the news for genetically modifying two babies to prevent HIV. Disinformation designed to send people down a hole, linking stuff together to make it seem more plausible.
oh well, it happened
I answered this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22206176
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So, officially the Brexit has happened.

But in practice, not much will change until the transition period ends in December.

And now I wonder who's negotiation position will benefit from this: The UK's or the EU's?

And how likely are we to see repeated extensions of the transition period?
Pretty fun game. I'm always inspired by stuff like this; tired of writing CRUD apps.
Because it's a clear delineation point. Physical harm is much easier to observe. Emotional harm is a definition that would lead to too many false positives.
Not everyone's choice in music can be heard 48 consecutive times in 20 time periods on the radio, or on the radio at all, so ya gotta go look for it. Hard target searches, rabbit holes on Google etc...for me, I love heeeavy music, black metal, deathcore, slamming death metal are my go to favorite genres. Radio doesn't play that type stuff so, I've found myself literally picking a band out of the air, do a Google search on them, find their albums, pick a few songs, listen to them on youtube if I like them enough chances are I'll buy the album.

Sure I've wasted cash on what I thought was a solid album from a new band I just found but it's the name of the game imo. Music is incredibly important to me so losing a few bucks on a shit album isn't that bad, I mean it sucks ass but it is what it is. I've found bands that I absolutely fell in love with and have been a huge fan since the day I found them, it's a risk I'm willing to take. Its paid off waayyy more times then not.
I'm pretty sure you're mistaken... I ran the following locally and on the remote system and not seeing anything on port 3000

sudo lsof -i -P -n | egrep -i '\b3000\b.+LISTEN'

https://i.imgur.com/wcCTdLQ.jpg

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...
You’re very welcome! Have a great weekend. :)
If it's as bad as it sounds, would this be a neophyte mistake or deliberate conspiracy mongering?