skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, none of that is important.

That list should have one item: relevance.

Most teachers are busyworkers. They teach X or Y for arbitrary reasons, under the false ideology of "all education is good". They stunt the lives of their students, rather than developing them.

Unless what your teaching is narrowly aligned with the life success of your particular students, you're serving only your ego, and you're no assistant of theirs.
> Melzer actually gives us absolutely no reason to think that any evidence were forged, assuming one is not going to just take his word for it.

If Melzer was just "some random opinions" it would be easy to dismiss. But as UN Special Rapporteur on Torture one should probably put some weight on his professional opinion. Or Swedish officials should explain why the allegations are wrong, but they reportedly refuse to do so.

Also if Melzer fabricates the allegations here, that would be a problem for credibility of the position of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and investigated. Another reason for Swedish and UK officials to answer in some form.

The article also contains original copies of the mail exchanges between the Swedish police (at least it says so), but I don't speak Swedish and so cannot read it.
The only reason this happened is because one company refusees to play ball. Everyone else already figured out that it's better for consumers and them.

Apple would sell you a non standard power socket for your house if they could.
You can actually go as far as you want to with the Cayley–Dickson construction [1] of algebras.

1. Complex numbers have associativity and communitivity of multiplication. (That is, (ab)c=a(bc) and ab=ba).

2. Quaternions have associativity but not communitivity.

3. Octonions have neither.

4. Sedenions [2], trigintaduonions, and not associative, commutative, nor even alternative [3]. (Alternative is associative specifically when the middle value is equal to one of the other's; i.e. a(ab)=(aa)b.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayley%E2%80%93Dickson_constru...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedenion

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_algebra
"several court orders from different jurisdictions are required to force us to give up any data"

How can we as users be certain that they wouldn't decrypt our chats anyway, contrary to their stated policy?

As long as they have the technical capacity to decrypt my chats, I wouldn't feel secure on their platform, no matter what they say.
When someone proposes a four plus one housing development around the corner from your house to help address the state's housing shortage, would you oppose it? You can't move if you don't like it, after all, since you'd lose your property tax break.

If you oppose such developments, then the higher value of your home _is your fault_.
This is a good move. Finally my partner and I, with apple and android devices respectively, can share chargers if need be.

it's a pity that Apple didn't play ball voluntarily, and had to be ordered to be nice.
This raises the question ‘harder than what’?

The services provided by the App Store would have to be present for the business exist at all.

So without the 30% Apple charges those businesses would certainly not survive unless they paid someone else for the services.
>Quaternions are an attempt to do that in 3D.

I guess the question is, why does it then stop. Why not a 4D alternative. Or if you look at it going by scalars needed in a single value, it goes from 1 to 2 to 4. Why not 8 or 16 (or some other growth)? Why does it stop there?

Also, is there as easy of a problem to understand introducing the 3D technique (be it quarternions or be it Gemoetric Algebra) that works as well as using sqrt(-1) for imaginary numbers?
Sounds like "Naive Realism" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_realism_(psychology...

"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?" - George Carlin.

Funny... but what's even funnier is that EVERYBODY THINKS THIS.

People dont realize that it's not that there are a group of bad drivers out there, but that everyone drives badly sometimes. It's always different people.

The toxicicity online is similar. There's just a lot more people online a lot more hours per day, and everybody is a jerk sometimes.
What kind of products are you building?
Lauched a tool for creating a 'link-blog'-style newsletter
Listen to the employees. Anything hampering their work needs to be gotten out of their way, even if it's you.

Everything you can do to optimize their job is valuable. Do they have a trash bin nearby? Is there a draft annoying them? Is there noise coming from somewhere, perhaps a door that never gets closed? Is it annoying when you take phone calls? Bad seat? Password policy?

One guy was amazed when, at one time, his two founders came and said they wanted to apologize to him. They had been running past him way too often, and they felt they mist have been annoying him. He hadn't even noticed though...

Listen to silence, try to interpret queues. Ask them to elaborate when going silent, please, speak your mind.

Often employees won't say something verbally, but can be inferred somehow. Goes silent? Gaze drops? Tiny mouth? Learn to interpret body language. They may not be that telling, but indicative that ypu need to dig out something.
Is compatibility and reducing the amount of electric junk that needs to be produced, and that we need to carry around really "__insert_populist_reason__" to you?
I guess? Especially if the state-level actors are torturing people publicly and indiscriminately; and breaking laws and their own guidelines to do so. But doesn't that obligate us to support the mentally unhinged who manage to expose their crimes.

But, again, it doesn't really explain what the motives are, here. Do the people who comprise these state-level actors really want a world where the crimes of their colleagues and bosses go completely unexposed. I can't see how that would lead to good things for themselves and their families.
Maybe the blog poster should try to learn how imaginary numbers work instead of trying to stick with reals, as an EE im probably biased but rotations -> complex numbers, as they make it much easier to work with it
It goes beyond hash criticism into gleeful joy making jokes about kids dying.
>We now have people who 100% believe objectively wrong things and have an obsession to spread their belief as fact.

That's not remotely a new thing. Ever since bits could be sent over the wire we've had Dale Gribbles trying to spread their weirdass conspiracies using the web. Only difference is that back then it existed in the form of homemade webpages with remarkably bad color theory rather than the poorly punctuated social media posts of today.
> And people can detect between wisdom and dumbassery.

Nope
GM reviving Hummer brand with 1k-horsepower electric truck
to some extent, curl and wget are off-the-shelf power user web browsers. And lots of folks script up custom spiders for headless web browsing.
In the early days of std::string multi-threading was much rarer, so reference counting was cheaper. As CPU count grows the relative cost of needing an atomic refcount on every string also grew.

The COW strings also were a constant source of surprising behavior. As with any COW object you have to make sure that the copy happens before and write. Simple enough, but the STL-style interface does not support this well. All you had to do is call operator[] or begin() on a non-const std::string and it would force a copy.

This meant that something that to the programmer clearly looked like a read-only operation like:

if (str[2] == 'x') { ...}

...could end up copying the string. Worse, it also meant that any previously taken references are now invalidated. This lead to horrible bugs where you would hold a pointer at the previous copy of the string (which you no longer own a refcount on) and it would almost always work... but every so often another thread would come by and reuse the memory behind your back.

So COW std::string was a long festering mess in C++. Their removal in C++11 was completely warranted.
Blockchain Will Change the Music Industry
This is like saying "Just ignore the problem until it goes away," which is cute, but very naive. This is a systematic problem with huge economic incentives pushing things to the extreme. There is massive funding from state and political institutions amplifying and promoting extreme political views. This is come a long way from some lonely dweeb in his basement just looking to get a rise out of someone online.
A story about telnet escape...

Back in the early 90s the local university used to have a free dial-up that you'd connect to via modem and then could telnet anywhere. You didn't need to be a student or anything. As a teenager I used this to connect to various shell accounts I had around, and to various MUDs. (This was in the pre-ISP days -- there was nobody in my area offering dial-up Internet at all.)

At some point they pulled this and made it for students only. But they had a dial-up gopher service for campus information and library access that was actually a telnet session to a gopher client on a SunOS machine somewhere.

But they didn't disable the telnet escape character.

So for a few months back then the way I got Internet access was to dial into the gopher client, hit ^], close the session to the gopher client, and open to anywhere else I chose. Eventually they closed this hole, too, but it was glorious for a while.
Anti-vaxxers are only a threat to kids who have another health condition that prevents them from being vaxinated. So, in most cases, it's a threat to somebody else's kids (who isn't even present in the conversation) not a threat to the anti-anti-vaxxer's kids.
does it compare to palantir?
Weirdly, I never found functional programming Python anyhow enjoyable. It just doesn't seem to have enough facilities to support it, feels like a sort of anti-pattern on it.
> ML-ish languages make it extremely natural to think like this

You say that, but actually fmap doesn't exist in OCaml (or I assume any other common MLs). Of course you can embed a language and type system within it that does have it (https://blog.janestreet.com/generic-mapping-and-folding-in-o...) but that's different.
That company not "playing ball" (doing its own thing) is the whole reason the industry exists.

The Little Red Hen obviously isn't taught enough over there.

Parasites and busybodies.
A lot of the "expense" of children is entirely discretionary. Yes, they do cost extra money to raise, but depending on where you live and your lifestyle, it doesn't have to be nearly the financial burden that some create an illusion of being a necessity. As a father of 3, when I look at most of the expenses related to my kids, the biggest ones are absolutely discretionary. Children are not born with expectations of a standard of living; that's something you define for them as your dependents. The idea that people with low-to-no income are unable to start families is provably false with examples all around us.
> whatever was bound to the configured "meta control"

Be careful with your terminology, meta is a key too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_key
You can’t sell part of a house.

Sure you can: https://point.com/how_it_works
Author here, happy to answer any questions about working with Manticore or my experience implementing the WASM spec.
Electronic waste created because you can't use the charger from $vendor_x with a mobile device from $vendor_y -- and subsequently have no use for the charger -- is a Real Problem.

This is a step toward solving that, and thus, they are solving real problems.
As far as I can tell, emacs[0] denoted control as 'C' first. The tmux docs most likely follow that trend. I'm only starting to learn emacs, so haven't yet come across any key combos that require a capital letter 'C' preceded by Ctrl. Will be interesting to see how that's represented.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ke...
Asked nobody,at any time
A lot of times I hear music in my head. Usually it's the last thing I listened to, over and over unless I consciously start another song. Some blessed times it's a totally new thing and I scramble to write it down. I can stop this by actually listening to something (with my ears).

I do have times when I dialog inside my head but I don't think it's my normal mode of operation. Usually internal dialog happens after I've had a discussion that didn't go the way I would have liked, and I replay it over and over fine-tuning my arguments. It's too late but often those arguments come out later.

Instead of a dialo when I need to decide or cogitate on something I often turn on the internal music and the answer comes after awhile. I understand it something the agents in Minsky's society of mind. The agents are scurrying around looking for the answer while the supervisory function listens to a tune. The process doesn't work as well if I try to do it as an internal dialog - the dialog seems to get in the way.
Can AI Optimise Governments?
The square bracket buttons seem like fairly fundamental characters to relegate to very non-clear three-button shortcut that isn't even labeled on a keyboard. I also don't see curly braces? Seems like an impractical keyboard layout, no?
This paper may help give you an overview:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30349811-back-to-the-future-...

Aside from the other points people have made, the main hypothesis is that the 1918 flu was similar to previous pandemics which the older were exposed to when they were young, so they already had some resistance. The 20-40 year olds were unlucky in that this was their first exposure.
There's a 1946 sci-fi story called A Logic Named Joe, which nails this.

AIs are programmed to do what people ask unless it's bad, and one day, that "unless" mechanism fails. Joe starts doing everything people ask of it. Stalking that would make Zuckerberg proud....

http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200506/0743499107___2.htm
Will it “look great” on your resume? Introducing ResumeRank
Guess you should intern them at your I'm Super Smarter Than You reeducation camps then.
Using Druid to fight ad fraud
This argument basically ignores how language works. When people say AI, they generally mean AGI or something resembling an artificial human. If enough people consider AI to have this meaning, then it has that meaning. Language does not care about smart-aleck charts or being correct at all.

And regular people are correct here, because calling things like smart speakers "artificial intelligence" is a bastardization of the term, in my humble opinion. We shouldn't need another term like AGI (which by itself makes no sense, intelligence vs general intelligence? ok...).

> disappointingly hn is not immune from that

What HN lacks is people who understand how linguistics and languages work. You can't point to a chart and go "see? you're saying it wrong", and actually have the language change. It just does not work that way, and I can point to many examples in the English language that are simple mistakes. The initial definition of AI is terrible for the combination of the words "artificial" and "intelligence". You can't blame people for wanting to go with a more intuitive definition that actually matches the words.
OK Google: Bypass the Authentication
Yes... I kind of think of it as maybe an extreme tribal reaction. "Bad man hurt us!" without more thought than that? A lot of these people don't seem to actually care whether what he did was legal or not, nor whether his treatment is legal or even proportionate. They just don't like him so... fair game for any kind of torture.

But, is it that turtle all the way down? I mean, the cops who broke the law to "get their hands on him" - why? The diplomatic backroom dealing - why? The politicians who should know better - what do they gain?
>I've noticed a huge uptick in the toxicity online in the last 5-7 years.

You're crazy my dude(tte). I've been on the interbutts since 1991 and Usenet days, and it's exactly as it always was. The big difference is we have reporter ding dongs on Twitter thinking Twitter, aka the comments section they removed from their web presence, is the real world. Also old people on Facebook who never learned the lessons of being on Usenet in the early 1990s, aka arguing on the internet is a lame and addictive hobby.

There are minor accelerants for this; youtube really did have some kind of pathological radicalization rabbit hole in its recommendation engine for a while (now it's just boring and useless and shows you "more of the same" on "blue checked" accounts). And of course, the other media encourages polarization and demonization of the other for dumb short term. That's a purely American phenomenon, and nothing's going to change it until the people pushing this swill on MSNBC, Fox and CNN decide to change it.
If you think the web used to be "sanitized" before 2010-2012, you're very mistaken. The web arguably got way more "friendly" after the 2008 boom of internet users.Before that it was truly the wild-west (outside of developer spheres that obviously used to be percentage-wise, bigger).

You might not like to hear this, but you need to grow up a thick filter. People like to post mean/offensive stuff precisely because it is not the real world.

This has a purpose in society and it is deeply rooted in western ones.Romans did this during games in amphitheaters, in the latest centuries we had football, and now the medium shifts again where human speech and thought can be less restricted. Humans need such mediums to "vent" themselves,otherwise they do it through action.When they do this,most of the time,pragmatically speaking, it has not ended too well.
Getting out of telnet? Mere bagatelle compared to trying to get out of `ed` for the first time. At least Telnet attempts to tell you what to do.

The defacto ed tutorial exactly predicts/describes my first encounter:

https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/actually-using-ed/
This is a systemic issue to facebook and it starts with decisions made at the top. The best quote I've heard recently is all massacres start with 'a word'. Because Zuckerberg refused to accept responsibility for the power of word, he allowed the genocide of 7,000 Rohingya including children. The UN reported that Facebook was 'instrumental' in disseminating a message by those who spread hate. The solution is moderators, in every language, with impeccable credentials, and if facebook is still refusing to invest even this much then decentralize the whole damn social media space, because Discord self-moderates, Slack self-moderates, Stackoverflow self-moderates. Because no one wants to be stuck in a room with hateful bigots but Zuck has forced it on you.
"I know what is best for you and me, so I'll force you to make the chargers I want"

I don't think Apple are the biggest assholes in this situation.
> A good example of a person who knows exactly how TV audience and social media audience will behave in a predictable way, and took advantage of that, is President Trump.

Trump wasn't the first though, and contrast the coverage: Obama's digital strategy was lauded for its tech-savvy genius by the media, whereas Trump's campaign was linked by the same to white supremacists wrt Pepe the Frog etc.
Just flock off?
Maybe therein lies some of my confusion...

Wait that page says nothing about tmux!
I never remember (old habits) but you can use netcat for testing open ports. (nc -z <host> <port>)

Apple for example doesn't include telnet by default anymore as it's considered insecure so I end up brew install inetutils on my machines.
Is there anyone using MeSince for end-to-end email encryption now?
Shout out to my Ctrl-^ people, or is that ^^? Not today, DNS.
> Even niche sites like HN are not immune.

I've not noticed a difference over the years TBH. HackerNews is substantially worse than most other sites IMO as well. Ironic that I'm disagreeing with you! Ha!

I just mean - maybe you're at the part of your life where those extremes are apparent and that a degree of humility, understanding & conversation goes a lot further than most people think.

> Or is this more of a social problem that code can't solve?

More of a social problem I think.
Or this one that came up recently here: https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim/blob/master/READM...
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You should all downvote harder. It might make you right! :D
I don't think that this sort of effort is the result of legislators not understanding the technology or as a reaction to "a few bad actors". Those things only look true because of the highly disingenuous arguments they're making.

They actively want to prevent effective encryption from being in common use solely because it restricts their ability to spy on you and me, thus limiting their power.
Your statement implies a lot of assumptions about a business’s model. Our company cares about user interactions in our app, software development metrics, quality metrics, sales metrics, etc. GA is just one small piece of the puzzle.

“Data lake” may not be the right answer, but GA certainly isn’t.
Good for them that they have a technologist as the boss. Seems like the ascendancy of RedHat isn’t a great sign. They are still in the audit business rather than the technology business.
A "sufficiently advanced intelligence" would presumably understand the inaccuracy of reducing billion's of peoples' worth of preferences down to a single English sentence, the effects of incomplete information, the effects of uncertainty on decision making, the differences in time preferences and in general the effects of adding "time" into dynamic systems rather than static models, human's inabilities to explain the real reasons why they do things to themselves or anybody else, and so on and so on.

To bring it to a more human scale, an alcoholic can both sincerely desire to stop drinking alcohol and also drink themselves into a stupor every night, and a "sufficiently advanced intelligence" won't sit there spinning trying to figure out exactly which statement "The human loves alcohol" and "The human hates alcohol" is true to the total exclusion of the other. (And I mean this as merely one example dimension, of which the "global warming" problem contains hundreds or thousands of such issues at a minimum.)
> But it gets worse: he continues to describe it as `C` even when he's not actually meaning _control_. No, that's just the _default_. He actually means `C` to mean whatever was bound to the configured "meta control".

That notation comes from Emacs. For example, see

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsNewbieKeyReference

Because of the Emacs focus on modifier keys, there is a joke that it stands for "Escape Meta Alt Control Shift".
There's no accurate alternative. Different people often experience different pain responses to the same condition/procedure.
> I reached out to them in order to better understand these updates, but they said that “those changes are not made as a result of [my] report”.

It seems unlike Google to renege on the terms of their vulnerability reward program. But it looks really, really, conspicuous to NOFIX and then go ahead and make multiple changes to mitigate the problem.
Yes. It’s only a wonder that she left out Watson.
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AMD vs. Intel Contributions to the Linux Kernel over the Past Decade
And one of the sides has to be right. Sometimes the facts are difficult to ascertain, but so many of the lies spread via social media are easily disproved by consulting primary sources.
Epic Settles ICE Lawsuit about Palantir and Profiling
Property owner cabals blocking development like this is cartel capitalism at the local level. What you have here is a cartel restricting supply to profit from scarcity.