skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Is the word “bot” losing its meaning?
From my understanding, the word "bot" is supposed to mean something that is working as autonomously as believably possible.

Within the past few years, I have read a lot of comments in social media and forums where people respond with accusations of people being a "Russian bot" or "Chinese bot". I can understand what they mean if they use "shill", but using the word "bot" means to me that the original poster is an autonomous web scraper or automatic program to vigorously defend or attack something. But the thing is, even if there is a nation-state-coordinated agenda to subvert online opinion, these things are still being conducted by real people, which I am fairly certain are still just regular humans. You can argue that programs like GPT-3 are generating the posts, but I think it's obvious by the flow and logic/emotional response chain between accusers and accusees that it is between real people because GPT-3 simply cannot handle pulling in knowledge of theory-building in a coherent, substantive way (at least not yet)—GPT-3 can only give the facade of having complex, novel thoughts and responses as is typical of heated discussions, but usually it is quite vapid. GPT-3 also doesn't typically make typos, nonconformist "nicely formatted" writing of humans, or use new information too well.

My conclusion then is that real people are pushing their viewpoints still, not "bots", but I may be misunderstanding the way the term is used. Or, has "bot" changed in meaning/use? Is it just a word used to effortlessly shut down opposing viewpoints? I'm trying to seriously understand how people use this word now.
He'll be one of two presidents that have reduced the US's carbon emissions between first year and last year in office.
> Republicans aren't very big fans of Snowden

Republicans have grown far more circumspect regarding their faith in intelligence services and Federal LEOs. Many see them as just players in and tools of the establishment political/media complex. At this point I don't think pardoning Snowden would hurt Trump with most Republicans. Certainly the 'Never Trumper' wing of Republicans would involuntarily soil themselves, but that's neither unusual nor significant.
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Inherited ACLs are applied at file creation time, they can even get out of sync.
Print the free return shipping label out, stick it on the empty bubble wrap package you received, and pop it in the post.
The VC4 (RPi GPU) drivers were written by an open source contributor (Eric Anholt) who was employed by Broadcom to do that.
There is a recent post about it.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/internet-of-things/mo...
I agree with all these "wake me up when it happens" poster, because I just generally don't like "nothing happened" news.

But seriously, say Trump (or whoever might have been in his place) actually wants to do this as a populistic move: is it hard to do? Does it require any bureaucratic bullshit, arguing with people, forcing stuff, or is it just some paper to sign and it's done? Does it require any effort (and how much) on his side to actually pardon Snowden?
A nice example is uBlock Origin, which was (probably) created as a result of the Snowden leaks.

June 2013 - Snowden leaks NSA documents

September 2013 - the first commit to the Script HQ extension is made (which soon became HTTP Switchboard, which later became uMatrix and uBlock)

https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/commits/master?af...
> The FISC found that the FBI created an “unduly lax” environment in which “maximal use” of these invasive searches was “a routine and encouraged practice.”

.. to the point of unconstituainality, using a database with records of most Americans in it.

That is definition "mass surveillance on Americans".
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Interesting! Could they deliberately mutate the strain in ways that decrease people's pre-existing immunity to it, before engineering it to become an agent to deliver the vaccines?
I can resist everything except temptation.

– Lord Darlington, in Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan.

Some other great lines from the same play:

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

[What it a cynic?] A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
Regarding your philosophical question: a markup language that accepts any byte sequence is clearly useless and a travesty of the concept of markup languages as an authoring format.
World War II in its waning days was like some kind of Cambrian explosion of plane types for the Axis powers.
> When someone else rules over you, you aren't free.

That is the case in today's so called democracies. Just because you pick your ruler doesn't mean you have any say in the fate of society.

check the video for actual democracy:
https://youtu.be/qH43YHaUGyQ
It is giving recorded information on most Americans to the FBI who then used it unconstitutionally against Americans.

It was never the NSA who was going to arrest you; this is what mass surveillance on Americans looks like.
So just a Logitech webcam connected to an Intel Atom PC + one of those smartphone VR googles all nicely packaged in an unnecessarily large helmet.
The "floating" is A/B testing. Chances are, if this passes some formula of (left wing people won over) - (right wing people who hate it) > 0 then he'll do it.
Which industry sectors are use reinforcement learning
> using a database with records of most Americans in it.

How did you make up this "records of most Americans in it" claim? How would communications between targeted non-citizens outside the US with other non-citizens outside the US contain records of most Americans? To understand the article you posted, you have to understand the terms in it first.

Since I'm being rate-limited, some responses to the comment below (if you want me to reply normally, send a few upvotes to reset the rate limiter):

> The NSA believes it only has to be accurate "51%" of the time, with no court oversight that they're hitting that goal.

No, it doesn't. Where does that claim come from?

>The court above had found out that the FBI routinely didn't follow it

Follow what? You're confusing 702 collection, which requires showing that the target is a non-citizen outside the US communicating with the same, with querying of that non-American data for American identifiers, which merely requires sufficient documentation for oversight. You very clearly don't understand the article you posted.
> "They like the taste of the insulation on the cabling, so they start chewing on it, and they keep chewing on it, until [...] and that's a bad day for the squirrel."

From: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/raccoon-blamed-for-seattle-... at 2 min 50 s.
Kamala Harris says credit scores should include rent, cell phones and utilities
>I think nVidia could run into some serious anti-trust issues if they tried to interfere with the ARM ecosystem.

I seriously doubt it, Broadcom - Qualcomm sale was blocked because there were concerns that the former would inhibit the telecom technologies development of the latter, resulting in strategic disadvantage to U.S. But, in the case of supposed Nvidia-ARM sale I see the quite opposite i.e. huge strategic advantage to U.S. and so I feel the anti-trust might not be at least State initiated.

But, would other U.S. Big Tech who have invested heavily in the ARM ecosystem oppose this is what to be seen. But even there, I wonder whether their fear could be substantiated? What if Nvidia just signs a good agreement with them to alleviate their fears? After all Apple and Qualcomm were strangling each other throats, now see where they are now.

In the end, I think the deal would just go through and it's us who are worried about the future our Raspberry Pis among others things who would feel lost(and actually loose).
Doesn't seem to be the case at least in Rockbox, ATRAC is less efficient than Vorbis or MP3: https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CodecPerformanceComparison
I actually had them refuse a return on a blatantly counterfeit set of coffee filters (they were 1/4 size and didn’t even fit the brand they were marked for). Given that it was about $12, I didn’t fight them about it.
Current government only wants more people to have internet, so that they can spread their toxic religious nationalist propoganda. Also spreading more misinformation. Mob lynchings are going to increase with all the WhatsApp news riling up the Go-Rakshaks (cow defenders). And more.

All the misinformation and lies to help the goverment win another term.
On the website? Can browsers natively play them?
> It’d be a pleasure to see a version for 1.3

https://tls13.ulfheim.net/ (linked at the bottom)
> Part of it might be that we are stubborn and counter-cultural

Since you said "we" I'm going to assume you have a SO, which begs the question of how's this setup with sex? If thought of making this transition before, but while this seems nice for sleeping it doesn't seem like it'd be that nice for sexy time.
> Git has a kind of 'unbounded complexity'

It may only seem that way because there are parts of the model you don't understand. There is a finite (relatively small) number of concepts necessary to mastering git.
I think they were referring to the bit where facilities was unable to fix it after the author had removed the original work.
A million Iraqis murdered by the US vs a million Uyghurs in reeducation/work camps by China. Frankly, the second option is more preferable to me and I'm sure the million dead Iraqis would agree.
> if you wanted to get electricity from one state over, you'd need to buy 6 units to get 1 at the point of consumption.

There's a chance you were talking about transmission of household voltage. What Ohm's Law does for long-distance energy transmission is amazing

Found this:

> For example, a 100 mi (160 km) span at 765 kV carrying 1000 MW of power can have losses of 1.1% to 0.5%.

And also

> As of 1980, the longest cost-effective distance for direct-current transmission was determined to be 7,000 kilometres (4,300 miles). For alternating current it was 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Lo...
It's 1:41 am. I'm back at my 20yo sleep schedule. This is the stupidest mid-life crisis ever.

For years and years I got up with my kids at 5am. I was sleep deprived all the time but it was way easier than new-infant world so I felt fortunate-ish.

Eventually I ran out of kids. Things went along for a time, mostly normal hours. Then 2am became my new sleeptime. Which was annoying because my bedtime was much earlier.

I'm not stressed. I lay there thinking of nothing for hours. Eventually the ability to sleep shows up. I've often tried to walk it back or forward or jump over it & I might score a couple of days of difference than back I go. 2 am.

Eh, whatever. It's better than Covid.
.DS_Store is mostly a problem for me if I do my first commit without a .gitignore file, on a machine where I don't have a global .gitignore. In those cases you have to explicitly remove already-committed .DS_Store files from the repo before your new ignore settings will take effect.
They do, they just often can’t make a difference between snake oil salesman from a good scientist.

And that’s exactly the point.
There is one other: he has managed not to start any new wars yet. Which is a pretty big deal, even though I think he is pretty terrible in every other way.
hnreplies.com [0] is a third party tool which quite a few people on HN [1] seem to use for this purpose.

Edit: I just noticed that this tool is made by dang.

[0] http://hnreplies.com/

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Porcelains like magit are really great for discovering git's full capabilities.
> Again, this is a man-made device being affected by gravity, not time.

How about muons? Are muons manmade?

If we observe that muons live longer before decaying if they take one path instead of another, does it make sense to say that time is being dilated?

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

> Time dilation as predicted by special relativity is often verified by means of particle lifetime experiments. According to special relativity, the rate of a clock C traveling between two synchronized laboratory clocks A and B, as seen by a laboratory observer, is slowed relative to the laboratory clock rates. Since any periodic process can be considered a clock, the lifetimes of unstable particles such as muons must also be affected, so that moving muons should have a longer lifetime than resting ones. A variety of experiments confirming this effect have been performed both in the atmosphere and in particle accelerators.
They don't need to do any lock-in when the choice is between plain old C with printf like debugging, and a set of programming languages able to target PTX, with out of the box support for C, C++, Fortran and several managed languages, and nice graphical debugging tools.

C++ support only came to OpenCL after it was clear to Khronos that it was time to move beyond C only vision of the world, yet almost no one bothered to implement OpenCL 2.x, which is why OpenCL 3.0 is basically OpenCL 1.2 to make all those OEM compliant, and SYCL is now moving into an backend agnostic C++ stack.

So the competition did not move a finger to make OpenCL eco-system beat CUDA tooling, Google did not cared one second to make OpenCL available on Android instead pushed for their own Renderscript C99 dialect, but it is easy to blame NVidia when competition isn't up to their stuff.

Just like Apple, after creating OpenCL and offering it to Khronos, moved away from their own creation after disputes on how OpenCL roadmap should be managed. Ironically, just like with CUDA, Metal Compute happens to be multiple language aware and having a modern API.
Great coincidence since I wanted to attract attention of HN crowd earlier today to another BEAM language: Lisp Flavored Erlang (LFE)

"[LFE] is the oldest sibling of the many BEAM languages that have been released since its inception (e.g., Elixir, Joxa, Luerl, Erlog, Haskerl, Clojerl, Hamler, etc.)"

I find this little example really cool:

https://lfe.io/books/tutorial/concurrent/dist.html

I've drank the Lisp kool-aid when I had to learn Clojure, but LFE is so much more powerful for building highly concurrent and distributed systems due to it being based on BEAM and having zero interop overhead with Erlang, while being a feature-complete Lisp.
I think you are kind of rude both in that you suggest you absolutely know better than me, and also in how you present your opinions.

I suggest you take a step back and reconsider both:

- computers as bicycles for the mind. If it can do so much for me, think what you could achieve!

- how you interact with others.

PS: no, "close other tabs" doesn't scare me. If I have to close down something I don't feel I have finished yet I can select that subtree and export it to the clipboard as a nested markdown list which I paste into Joplin where it is searchable.

Also if I accidentally close down something I can just press ctrl - shift - t the required number of times, alternatively ctrl - shift - n if a whole window has been closed.
By their own account, “We also reiterated our desire that MIT identify the individual(s) responsible”

They pushed for aggressive chasing down of an individual for stealing some articles that were largely publicly funded as I recall. This escalated to the FBI and led to a laundry list of charges that scared him into suicide. Not great for some research we should have just had available for free after already paying to fund it once
Create Your Own Virtual Bookshelf
I agree, but you can't really assume good faith from the snarky comment I responded to.
A Piece of Land Breaks Thousands of Relationships
Wouldn't the EU antitrust look into that too or is this going to be out of their jurisdiction after Brexit?
275 miles of wall have been built as of August 10.

https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/along-us-borders/border-...

It is fair to include replacement of vehicle-only barriers and other ineffective junk. That had been effectively nothing, because even the most non-athletic large person could comfortably walk right through.
Broken clock and all that. Trump didn't even issue the pardon yet. He's despised for a reason and a few reasonable things he happened to say or do don't outweight all the horrible things he did.
Man this is genius.
Sadly Walmart is the same. So far Target does not allow third party sellers so they're my go to for anything I need to guarantee is legitimate. That or the manufacturer's website if they happen to sell direct. Amazon's heyday has (IMHO) come and gone as a seller of anything but their own brands.
The team took an incredible amount of time to make each link redirect to the correct rescript-lang.org resource.

When it was done, the bucklescript github organization was renamed to rescript-lang, which caused a new github pages population to the edges that caused 404s in different regions. It takes a little bit of time until resources are forwarded correctly within GH.

For us in Europe and SF, it was actually working after we made the changes.

As soon as some community members had broken links, they assumed that the team intentionally didn't care about backwards compat, so someone recreated the BuckleScript github organization with a dummy bucklescript.github.io that made a single redirect to the rescript-lang.org site.

From there on all the carefully curated link forwardings were lost. Ironically this actually broke our backwards compat.

It took us a lot of investigation, contacting github, understanding the technical issues with GH pages until we found a solution to restore the original (working) behavior. People should have waited 1-2 days and everything would have just worked fine.

Well, that was a learning nonetheless. We invested many extra hours to get everything up and running again, but now everything works and it will hopefully continue on doing so.
What a pointless infographic. A simple X-Y plot of health vs military spending would have been clearer.
I do not do it any more due to change in environment (my abode), but earlier once every few months, I would take a thin comforter below me, one thin comforter above me, and all that on the carpeted floor. Any time I had a back pain, I knew this was the way to fix it.

Also, my mattresses used to be firm. Somehow my last 2 mattresses have become saggy after just over a year. I dumped the first one, but now wondering what to do for the second one and with the covid situation and not everything open, I just have not had the time to chase things, and my mental estimate is that my body requires one hour less sleep (I am not pushing it, that's how it ends up) on a firm mattress.
I didn't see the video, but if it's true it's extremely funny (and wording @ reuters suggests it is exactly true). Nothing happened, then journalists (as usual) created a catchy title and extremely misleading news-story out of it, and here now HN users are all over themselves having a lively discussion and angrily arguing about the topic and hardly anybody even bothered to verify it.
I’m not arguing that he was sentenced criminally or otherwise, and poor negotiating conditions for other workers doesn’t excuse what is by all appearances abhorrent behavior by the provost and others. I hate that any time someone identifies a problem, some people come out of the woodwork to suggest that we shouldn’t do anything about it because someone somewhere has it worse. We can strengthen worker’s rights and abhor this gross abuse of power.
You could recover using your local reflog I think.
How many meters off are you imagining here? What kind of munition is accurate enough for that to matter?
I like the fact that video encoding is specifically mentioned as a use case. In my case using the same laptop for both software compiling and video encoding at the same time can really slow things down to a crawl.

I will be trying this with a spare laptop which has a broken screen, hopefully it can increase productivity for me.
> Some teams are happy to use Elixir to write web applications, to fit it into their pre-existing microservice deployment model. I urge developers to reach for those bigger thoughts that fault tolerant lighweight processes enable. You can consider each process a logical microservice, but you don’t need the friction of deploying it separately, and serializing to/from json, and containers, and orchestration, and distributed logging, et.al. You can deploy an entire system of millions of interacting logical microservices in a single BEAM release.

This resonates with me instinctually, but I’d love to learn more. What disadvantages would there be in jettisoning real microservices in favor of Erlang’s “logical microservices”?
$1MM/day is a bargain compared to what ignoring and neglecting this problem is going to cost Amazon in the long run.

It's inexplicable that search/discovery and commingling of substandard/counterfeit merchandise are not both considered five-alarm fires at Amazon HQ.
We're 3/4 of the way there, infections growing at the fastest rate yet, and no vaccine yet. It looks like 1 million will fall short of actual deaths by the time this is through.
Only within their refund period. I have had so many products break down after their return window. Most recent example: Expensive chargers which stopped work within a few months. The seller’s page was gone. Customer support was of no use.

This seems to be a common pattern. Fly by night sellers whose pages disappear within a few days.
Rust web browser gets axed in an incomplete state, most likely never to be completed.

"I know, I'll start another Rust web browser"
laughing in zsh completions. Not defending the git interface, but it is seriously bliss.

See https://asciinema.org/a/LcarSXE90npusIczkIRdrzJLx
It is the right thing when they have consistent ideas they do - or will implement.

It is the wrong thing when they publicly consider a bunch of things they won't do, or do tiny but loud actions without consistency, that are not aligned with their political agenda but just wish to win votes.

Disclaimer: I'm not American, but that's a pattern we unfortunately see a lot these days
Maybe. Article doesn't state he's accepted any invites.
Well, except the value isn't zero to you, even if you don't use it. It allows a lot of basic government and corporate things to happen (taxes, payroll, sending of legal documents). And it sets a baseline price for mail and package sending services. Imagine being priced out of being able to mail something. I agree junk-mail is a huge pain.

This argument is a lot like not owning a car or bike and claiming that roads have zero value to you. Unless you're off the grid, then maybe this is tenable, but if you're getting mail, you're probably not off the grid.
Snowden asserted clearly, on at least two different occasions, on the record, that the IC would not hesitate to assassinate Bart Gellman, a US journalist, if doing so would have prevented the publication or further distribution of the documents Snowden provided him.

Gellman writes about both of these occasions in his book Dark Mirror, which I recommend you read if you’re interested in becoming less naive about the American spy apparatus.

Additionally, the commander in chief of the entirety of the US military, including all of the IC (CIA et al), has plainly stated that Snowden should be executed. Note that Snowden has not at this time yet been put on trial, and the US constitution establishes the presumption of innocence, so such an event if it were to occur would be accurately described, legally, as an extrajudicial assassination of a US citizen.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/39568370275766272...