skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're not entitled to do everything we're capable of doing. I'm capable of cheating and stealing, the protocol of physics allows me to do so. I'm also capable of trespassing, a fence or door lock doesn't really stop me. My fellow citizens have a plethora of other protections like electric barbed wire fence and reinforced titanium locks or armed guards to suit the model of entry that they want.

But the model of entry is not my right to decide. I do not freely infringe on others' rights because my tools allow me to do so. I do not infringe of others' rights because other people have a plethora of alternative rights to choose from.

Content creators and YouTube have agreed to a set of (legal) terms of entry, as is their right: watch ads or pay for Premium. It is not your right to deny them simply because you are capable of it.
> generating a barrage of spam or fake news that uncritical readers can't distinguish from human output.

Which could indirectly bring good things: what if this decreases our tolerance threshold for nonsensical texts?

For instance, people might become more impatient when faced with click-bait articles, because they know they might have been written by an AI in order to waste their time. This would let people skip the articles after the first sentence without feeling any guilt or doubt about it.

At least, I hope it might open the eyes of uncritical readers.
I agree that there is a lot more world building in ME1, but in the last few days I've been playing it again, and I'm finding that it doesn't exactly hold up.

The game just feels like a chore. For one thing, the environments are too big. There's a lot of walking to get from one plot-point/action-sequence to the next. Second, the combat is bad. AI, controls, weapons that don't shoot where you point them until you level up several times to upgrade the skill. The conversation trees often feel like I'm just going through the paces of uncovering Codex entries for XP, and the long, pregnant pauses between dialog portions as the game loads up the animations for your responses is super annoying. It's an exercise in frustration and it really harms the storytelling aspect. I just never feel like I'm in any kind of flow of hearing the story. It feels dragged out (and I even have bug-fixing and fast-elevator mods installed).

I'm a fairly middling FPS player, and by that I mean I usually rank in the middle of online matches against humans, and I can usually finish single-player campaigns on "hard", if I have the patience for it on those days. But ME1 has been so consistently frustrating me that I've about decided to quit.
> It’s a big problem when you take people who shouldn’t be in a position and put them in it. It’s an even bigger problem when you do it in a place with a long history of pedigree.

Apply this principle to elite-university admissions, big-tech hiring, or to developed-country citizenship and see how far you get with it.
The polar bears will keep the lawyers away.
Thing is I don’t want life saving medicine from some guy who just started producing it in his garage last month. Fortunately I can afford the “regulated” dose myself if I had to. Most people can’t though and this is a role of govt, making sure everybody has access to a lifesaving drug _that the govt funded_. The solution isn’t “let poor people use bootleg garage drugs”, it’s the ensure lifesaving medication is priced affordably. This is one of those situations where capitalism by itself isn’t well configured to deal with. This and, say, emergency room visits...
Yeah but it's a critical piece of how Erlang and its BEAM VM are able to deliver on their concurrency and fault-tolerance guarantees. Turns out that allowing variable values to change randomly throughout the system is really bad for building correct concurrent systems.
> People will say, as they do with everything now, "who can make the distinction". Adam Smith could. I think we can.

We already do. Finance is an extremely heavily regulated industry. The regulations make all kinds of distinctions.

The hard part is deciding what the regulations should be. What, specifically, would you change?
> Thiel has made a variety of enemies in the tech world and beyond; for example, he has slammed Google as being too accommodating to China.

You can tell the smart guys from the smart-sounding ones by looking closely at how good of an understanding of the real world they have, measured by how many true non-obvious predictions they make.

Paul Graham, Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Peter Thiel score high. To grow ones understanding of the world one must be open, look closely, read those interviews and books, form your own opinion, without prejudice or partisan filters.
> It suggests to provide a safe space, financed by Europe.

Call it a colony, because that's what it is. The author of this post even defines it in terms of economic fealty.

There's nothing "entitled" about being a refugee. You're telling on yourself.
With the simulation as a separate thread, and presumably with a well defined interface, a less intensive (and lower TPS) simulation could be switched out at lower performance levels.
I've talked to a lot of users of https://histre.com/ and I've asked this question. Here are some reasons they gave:

1. It is great to retain the research path along with the knowledge.

2. When you research something on the web, you narrow down your list and then you act on it. It is very helpful to keep this list and be able to branch off from there.

3. Collaboration becomes much easier
> I wouldn't want to call engineers in at 3am for a problem that can be fixed by following a documented devops process.

Why would there be a process that could be executed that wouldn't already be automated? If the ops guy is dealing with an issue, it's because all the known remediations have failed.

Containers already have auto restart on failed health checks. VMs have vmotion and HA for failed hardware. If the ops guy is up at 3am, dealing with a service you wrote, chances are high that you (or your team) should be involved for the quickest resolution
Agreed, the biographical details are not super relevant would help to have a ToC. I have added one to the intro. Thanks for reading!
I Am a Grooming Gang Survivor: My Story
Safely route stdout/stderr from Unix programs to disk with size check
Safely route stdout/stderr from a program/daemon to disk or partition without any risk of filling up disk in case of:
* rougue modules/sub-systems writing repeatedly to logs to stdout/stderr
* uncontrolled third party errors writing repeatedly to logs to stdout/stderr
* unhandled error/stacktrace messages writing repeatedly to logs to stdout/stderr
* give control to user on maximum file size of log file that ios going to be created by stdout/stderr messages
* give one backup of overwritten messages / per process
* allow multiple user programs using this single safeout program to route safely to multiple disk locations
My favorite example: Dunce.

From Wikipedia: "Duns Scotus wrote treatises on theology, grammar, logic and metaphysics, which were widely influential throughout Western Europe... The followers of Duns Scotus were called the Dunses, Dunsmen, or Scotists. When in the sixteenth century the Scotists argued against Renaissance humanism, the term duns or dunce became, in the mouths of the Protestants, a term of abuse and a synonym for one incapable of scholarship."

This is similar to how people call others "Einstein" when they do something stupid.
We emulate a lot of old hardware today, so the future can hopefully do so too. The future might however be astonished over just how many web-frameworks were “needed”
You can do a rotation, not necessary nor ideal to have everyone on call all the time.
Am I the only one here at least considering the ethical aspect of attaching some device to an insect?

Maybe I'm sentimental and contradictory because when I drive a car over the Autobahn I'm killing hundreds of insects in an hour. At the same time I cannot harm a bug intentionally.
Other places on this thread, there are references to "filling up the IPO book," which is referencing the fact that you can offer 100 shares, but you don't know that all of them will sell, or that all of them will sell for the price you offer them at. That's part of the reason they're often underpriced -- to ensure they all sell.
Maybe the game-play doesn't matter to the story (I'd argue it does because of immersion), but it definitely affects the experience. The experience is a collection of it's parts. You can't look at one in isolation (aka the story) and say that' its inadequate compared to an experience where that is the only part (a novel). Because a game offers more than just the story and if you ignore those other parts then you aren't appreciating a game for what it is. They all work together.
In the future, will it be considered offensive to suggest that someone’s posts look like they were generated by an ML model…?
"But that solution is quite complex hindering its adoption."

Generally inventions solve problems by making them simpler, for this to be a valuable invention it would need to be simpler and less hackable to use than log-in with google/FB/github. I can still recover my google account if I forget my password, and don't have a reset setup. What aspect of distributed identity/ self-sovereing identity do customers care about? how does blockchain simplify this for them?
Thanks. Indeed, this is pretty much my first successful attempt. I'm looking into using an async thread pool next.
This is a bit more than a simple PR move as I initially thought after reading the article submitted in OP. They take steps to ensure redundancy, recoverability, durability, and much more. They work with the experts who know the problem by heart.

Still, the main question remains. Computer programs are extremely volatile by nature, they are written for the constantly changing media, and need huge amounts of context to be useful for future generations. Will a snapshot of the Linux kernel be useful in 100 years? 1000 years? After some global disaster? Even if you don't intend to run it (which requires archiving the current state of the supported platforms and much more), how much additional work will be needed to simply read it for studying?

>After the Challenger disaster, a hunt for the blueprints of the abandoned Saturn V rocket ensued. They were largely recovered, thanks to the work of archivists.

Yet nobody can build another Saturn V today with these blueprints. Any complex product is much more than just a set of blueprints. It's an organized process that depends on a certain team of people, supply chain, existing infrastructure, and much much more. Useful products only exist when they are supported.
Presumably there was some risk assessment done by the NBA and they felt that allowing you to customize your jersey in such a way would risk shareholder value.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8

Richard Feynman explaining magnets is one of the best layman explainers I've seen (in between the ranting). I honestly didn't understand why magnets worked and found this on a late night youtube binge.

(But don't search youtube for anything related to magnets, you end up amongst the perpetual motion nuts)

Edit: Just to be clear with this video (it had been a while since I last watched it), he doesn't 'explain' magnets as much as he hints at the concepts involved. I already knew about the spins being lined up etc but it was the "you can't put your hand through the chair" comment that gave me the eureka moment.
Nobody's particularly interested in you taking a shit or jerking off, either, but I'll bet you close the door when you do.
Excellent work. I'm old enough to remember when putting wireless vision systems on a robot required a kilogram at least :-). Of course this would be made even simpler if you integrated the vision sensor, the BLE radio, and the control system into a single die. Something that would be quite accessible to nation states and sufficiently bored billionaires. Ambient energy harvesting has also made great strides so the days of persistent and difficult detect surveillance are getting closer.
Had exactly this experience. Had some very popular content up on a platform site, ranked very well. Wanted to move to my own domain. Found it nearly impossible to show up in search results at all. Even searching for the exact title wouldn't bring it up despite seemingly being "indexed".
> However, I confess that the success of GPT-3 has demotivated me to continue working on my own GPT-2 projects, especially since they will now be impossible to market competitively (GPT-2 is a number less than GPT-3 after all).

Doesn't the much larger size and therefore much higher expected cost of GPT-3 ensure that demand for GPT-2 will continue?
The reason the rest of the world is rapidly catching up with the developed world (are Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore part of ‘The West’?) is because they are copying as much of it as possible as fast as they can. The cultural and economic template of the developed world is taking over everywhere, it’s spectacularly successful.

Spengler would have hated this because he was afraid the non-white races would adopt our technology and use it’s against us. However since I’m not a racist, with a zero sum fear of the foreign, I think that’s fine. They’re part of our civilisation, or at least are rapidly becoming part of it just like Japan, Korea, Taiwan etc.

The one outlier is China, which against the odds has managed to ditch Communism, adopted radically laissez faire Capitalism, yet retain one party authoritarianism. They seriously worry me, but not for anything to do with Spengler and the inherent instability of civilisations.
In the current climate, that latter scenario doesn't seem that far-fetched.
I agree with the book’s analysis of the problem. Not sure about the solution yet, which I think will need to incorporate and extend marginal utility rather than discard or replace it.
Still it could be used reliably with the help of a load balancer and health checks. I can see Kubernetes spawning pods running this server a lot quicker than it does for Node ones.
> Paul Graham, Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Peter Thiel score high

One of them in this list is not like the others.
If you can't do the job of the people up to about three levels down the org chart at least at a basic level, you probably can't effectively manage the organization they are part of, either.

Now, it's true that there are lots of managers that have that problem even at one level down, but incompetent management is a widespread problem (especially because managers are often chosen by incompetent managers that believe that management is an independent and sufficient skill set without domain knowledge, either because they think you don't ever need domain knowledge because you can get by with generic management skills or because they think domain knowledge is easy to pick up by osmosis. The latter is true for a small minority of people—basically, the same people that, if they started with domain knowledge, management skills would be trivial to pick up—but neither is generally true.)
Often they can survive quite a while without food or water, as long as the temperature and humidity are within some fairly generous extremes, although very dry air poses the risk of dehydration since their respiratory systems and body volume offer little ability to retain a reserve. But they rarely have to go that long without a meal, because if a spider can get in, so can suitably sized prey - and will. Next time you find yourself wondering how a spider thrives in an empty room, take a close look at and under her web. Most likely you'll find cocooned prey in both places - fresher prey items in the web, spent ones underneath it.

Spinning a web is a metabolically very expensive process, requiring as it does a great deal of protein - protein which can only be recovered by either eating the spun silk again, or eating prey trapped by it. Spiders consequently have to be pretty smart about where and how they do it, because the ones who aren't tend not to reproduce. So it's usually a very safe bet that, wherever you see a spider web, it's there because that's where the prey tends to be. It can be interesting to see what sort of prey that is - for example, right now in the basement of my ~130-year-old house there are a couple of very happy cellar spiders enjoying a steady diet of pill bugs, and another by the kitchen radiator who all on her own solved most of an ant problem for me before I ever realized I had it.

They're actually very desirable animals to have around, in my thoroughly considered opinion, despite getting about as bad a name as wasps - and with just as little reason.
It was fairly common. Paypal was around in 1999 (only just). More remarkably it was common to mail a personal check or money order for things on ebay and for the most part, it worked.
From the IPA pronunciation guide of Oliver Heaviside's wikipedia page (mouse over the bit in parenthesis right after his name at the top of the page), "heavy side", with a slight emphasis on the first syllable of "heavy".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside
A basic classifier without the data, thanks for nothing.
Fertility, mortality, migration, and population from 2017 to 2100
If you run git stash with the -u option (`git stash -u`), then it will also stash untracked files. IMO leaving uncommitted/unignored files around is asking for trouble. It's far too easy to accidentally delete or commit them. Why not have a prefix that you use for these files, and use a wildcard gitignore?
Yeah, I thought about this but I honestly don't know enough about how it works e.g. are countries allowed to bar food from coming into a country for not meeting safety standards even though they've set global tariffs to 0?

My gut says "yes" which is why I decided to shy away from that part.
If you can't handle that many responses, then maybe you just shouldn't be sending out so many emails.

No reply emails are a tacit admission that the emails are low-value spam.
I'm curious what Chinese jersey buyers put on the back of their jerseys.
idk about you but if I were a hyper-advanced singularity hive mind entity from the year 12,020, I'd get a huge kick out of scrolling through some archive of those adorable entry-level not-even-sapient programs our ancestors wrote in antiquity.
Currying after Haskell Brooks Curry
Or right to be forgotten?
This looks cool. I’ve long wanted a note app where I can make a web of notes, draw visual links between either entire documents or chunks of text to sort, organise and create connections.

Best I’ve found so far are post-it notes, a big wall and lots of printouts.

Stuff like this look like amazing interesting digital-first alternative.
> As an example, despite the Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith prompt containing text from a single scene, the 0.7 temperature generation imputes characters and lines of dialogue from much further into the movie

This makes me believe it is actually just memorizing the movie script, which is probably in its corpus. As pointed out here, the model has enough parameters to straight-up memorize over 1/3 of its gigantic training set.

https://lambdalabs.com/blog/demystifying-gpt-3/
Regulations are legal vs illegal, they do not attempt to disambiguate wealth creation vs wealth appropriation.

I'd encourage banks to lend into productive industries by taxing land, not labour (and properly tax externalities like pollution) , capturing publicly created location value and allowing wealth creators to retain more (all?) of the value they create.

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Replying to the sibling comment as yet again after typing "rent seeking" => "you're submitting too fast". Surprise!

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I think we should tax things that have an opportunity cost or externality.

If you keep gold in a vault, assuming there is enough for industrial production (if not you have a lot of gold!), then please continue to do so. It doesn't impact me.

If you hold land I and others cannot use it. You did not create it, society should be compensated via a tax, as the land itself has value due to society at large. A square plot in the middle of nowhere is worth considerably less than a square plot in NY.

If you dump sewage into a river or burn lots of coal, you are also damaging the common wealth.
Exporting your Apple Notes to Markdown-style at ease:

https://medium.com/macoclock/exporting-your-apple-notes-to-m...
It’s frowned upon by true intellectuals because people discuss things they are not experts in: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

It’s similar to recommending slate star codex to someone. Unless that person is comfortable with rationally discussing uncomfortable topics, they will think you a nut job who supports everything on the site.
It's not anymore random than people from the US using products made in China.

The distribution of American cultural exports is far reaching.

Gangsta rap came to Greece in 1997... [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_hip_hop
Beware RightTalkism
Apes bury coconuts in arctic ice for 1k years
That was something like 80 years after the invention of the dixie cup though, so I doubt that TV show would have helped anybody in America struggling with explaining the name Llywelyn to other Americans in the late 19th or early 20th centuries.

The assumption that Americans anglicized their names did so by accident because they were illiterate is just silly. I'm sure that happened sometimes, but loads of people anglicized their names deliberately in an attempt to conform with local expectations. One of my great-great-grandfathers, a literate German speaking immigrant to America, changed his name from Müller to Miller. Why? Well I can't ask him, but probably because it was the thing to do. This sort of thing was very common particularly during that time period. The later means the same thing, sounds about the same, but crucially would be more familiar to anglophone Americans. And Müller is comparably easy.

(To be clear, my last name is not Miller; I have an non-anglicized but reasonably common Italian surname.)
It's in the video embedded in the page.
I'm a serious pen and paper person but the only note taking app I've stuck with is Google Keep.

I think the constraints are a virtue. No hierarchy, no structure more complex than a list. It imitates my paper workflow which is a bunch of scattered post its and single sheets on my desk.

I do like Notion for more academic or deep work but it's not something I'd fire up without a second thought.
> vindictive employees, I recommend terminating them all

I think that's not how it'd work. Instead, those vindictive people would be managers, and they'd be the ones that provided you with information, and based on what they said, maybe statistics they show, it'd seem like obviously good ideas to scrap those projects
I bet in 12,020, we'll still be waiting for Ruby 3.
Sergio's doing an AMA in a few days it seems, it should be interesting to see if any other new information comes to light.
And for hash tables with a 128bit hashfunc he doesn't need division nor modulo at all. Only with primed sizes, but with these large sizes primed does not make sense, you always take power of 2 sizes. Then you get the bucket index with a trivial rshift or AND bitmask.

So a lot of work for nothing. At least LLVM did profit.
Usually a constant time step is used, and you throttle the rate at which you run physics ticks to make that match wall clock time. It’s common for game physics engines to also run iterative integrators for a fixed number of steps per tick instead of to convergence, which reduces variation in work per tick. If the system can’t keep up, you start dropping physics frames.

You keep animation smooth by decoupling it from physics; the output of your physics engine will generally include at least linear and angular velocities you can use for interpolation. This kind of thing is necessary anyway if you’re running your physics simulation on a server and have to communicate to the renderer over the network.
The female name is normally spelled "Portia", from the main character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Haven't you ever seen A Fish Called Wanda??