skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The book is from 1999, but I kinda feel like we're already there - turns out that mere decades are quite sufficient.

"Pham Nuwen spent years learning to program/explore. Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father’s castle. Where the creek had worn that away, ten meters down, there were the crumpled hulks of machines—flying machines, the peasants said — from the great days of Canberra’s original colonial era. But the castle midden was clean and fresh compared to what lay within the Reprise’s local net. There were programs here that had been written five thousand years ago, before Humankind ever left Earth. The wonder of it — the horror of it, Sura said — was that unlike the useless wrecks of Canberra’s past, these programs still worked! And via a million million circuitous threads of inheritance, many of the oldest programs still ran in the bowels of the Qeng Ho system.

Take the Traders’ method of timekeeping. The frame corrections were incredibly complex — and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth’s moon. But if you looked at it still more closely… the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind’s first computer operating systems.

So behind all the top-level interfaces was layer under layer of support. Some of that software had been designed for wildly different situations. Every so often, the inconsistencies caused fatal accidents. Despite the romance of spaceflight, the most common accidents were simply caused by ancient, misused programs finally getting their revenge.

“We should rewrite it all,” said Pham.

“It’s been done,” said Sura, not looking up. She was preparing to go off-Watch, and had spent the last four days trying to root a problem out of the coldsleep automation.

“It’s been tried,” corrected Bret, just back from the freezers. “But even the top levels of fleet system code are enormous. You and a thousand of your friends would have to work for a century or so to reproduce it.” Trinli grinned evilly. “And guess what — even if you did, by the time you finished, you’d have your own set of inconsistencies. And you still wouldn’t be consistent with all the applications that might be needed now and then.”

Sura gave up on her debugging for the moment. “The word for all this is ‘mature programming environment.’ Basically, when hardware performance has been pushed to its final limit, and programmmers have had several centuries to code, you reach a point where there is far more significant code than can be rationalized. The best you can do is understand the overall layering, and know how to search for the oddball tool that may come in handy ...”"
That may be true in rain forests. It's not true in the forests here in California, which dries out almost entirely over the course of the long, hot summer (it often doesn't rain from April to November).
I wonder how many black americans want body cameras to be mandatory and investigated if they are turned off.
> I think negative, external reinforcement has a much stronger real-world case.

Actually, occasional and positive reinforcement has been shown to be the best way to change behavior. Slot machines (and the most successful games) are based on this principle.[0]

> One only needs to look at the behaviour in countries like China or Japan, where guilt and social punishment has been used as a tool for probably thousands of years, with actual results. Singapore's a place that is well known for getting people to do the right thing, I'm not sure they managed to do it with pats on the back.

Have you lived within any of these cultures enough to understand what motivates those within them? How do you know how much pride is a factor for them?

I can imagine authoritarian rule, and brutal punishment, or a history of either, may change the behaviour of people. But that is very different to the passive mechanism of guilt.

[0] Different reinforcement schedules and their efficacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement#Simple_schedules
I definitely think there is a grain of truth to everything you've said, but I do have to comment that the diction used is a bit dramatic.

For instance, I 100% agree that the posted document is how the PI views himself, without question. I also agree that this probably doesn't perfectly reflect reality.

But, at the same time, I think this is more just a human problem, not a PI specific problem. Moreover, I think a lot can still be gained from such a document, especially when the document is made public. It lets you point out inconsistencies and in the worst case share a negative experience with evidence to back it up.
As a 23 year veteran, I can tell you that statement is missing a ton of context, and almost certainly is very inaccurate.

Most people in the military rarely if ever touch a firearm for their entire time in the military after they qualify with it in bootcamp - some don't even do that. De-escalation training? That's diametrically opposite of how an infantryman is trained, and totally irrelevant to anyone outside those combat arms fields. Most people in the military would never receive a single moment of training relevant to police work in their entire time in the military.

What you might be seeing is that most veterans tend to be a bit older, a bit more mature, and perhaps tend to view a badge less as a power trip and more of a responsibility due to the experiences they've had. I can't say that for sure, but it makes a bit more sense than saying military are better trained than police, when the vast majority of military members get absolutely no relevant training in anything related to police work.
They may sell later, but not at the time of IPO itself. Often, there's a lock-up period, where current stockholders are not allowed to sell to the public until a certain amount of time has passed.
Don't you know anything about "justice"? Whatever that means any more. It's time to dust off an old phrase: "no taxation without representation."
There's even worse legal precedent than not being responsible for de-escalation: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/us/parkland-shooting-laws...
I think there are plants like Cryptoleptis and Sida Acuta that can be used as tonics or to treat Malaria. They are effective against it's lesser known and less virulent cousin Babesia (common in the US via biting insects or blood donations). Test reliability could be improved significantly, including T-cell responses (sound familiar?;-). I think due to the unsustainable cost model of western patented pharmaceuticals and their lack of adaptability and/or side effects, many are also looking into herbal approaches and studies on efficacy & safety.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2956309/
> Then when he's relating the story about getting a tip, he effectively admits that he's pursuing this because he wants to make tech companies look bad.

Just because he's a gadfly doesn't automatically make him wrong.

However, I just don't understand how these images are so common. If I ever stumbled on an image like that I would assume that it was obviously a honeypot.
"10% chance by 2045, 50% chance by 2050"

I'm really pessimistic about the next 30 years, but really optimistic about the next 5 after that.
No, they don't produce any UV light.

Even if the filament somehow does (I doubt it), it won't make it through the glass of the bulb.
Intro to ONNX by Chinmay Jog – Venice Computer Vision Meetup 07/20/2020
This is a horribly spun headline. The question was not whether to "retain presence", it was "Would you rather the police spend more time, the same amount of time or less time as they currently spend in your area?".

And unsurprisingly the answers split with roughly half the respondents saying "same" and the remainder split between "more" and "less". Which is about what you get with any status-quo question like this.

The headline, being phrased along the lines of a protest demand, makes this sound like a majority disagreeing with the premise of the BLM movement, when that's not the question at all.

(It is worth noting, though, that the answers anticorrelate with the amount of actual police work! The more people see the police, the LESS they want them around.)
Irrelevant misrepresentation of what “defund the police” is asking for
I walk with the dog and sometimes the kids every day, so I see police patrolling around. Had an interesting conversation the other day with the police officer:

- So officer, how have things changed since covid?
- Sir, you won't believe the stuff I get called for. Getting teenagers off their cell phones, wife angry that husband didn't do his share of the chores
- What about what people associate with "crime"?
- Down.

As crime declines overall (it has been for many years now), I believe we really need to rethink the jobs we ask police officers to do. They are hammers and they go into situations that don't require hammering and bad things happen.
You should look at how much of the budget the police dept takes of an average town. In my med-small town they're 50% of the city budget. Police depts are shockingly well funded compared to the problems they actually end up solving.
You're basically arguing that when you get into any situation with a police officer you are absolved of all personal responsibility.

Do you actually consider it prudent to ignore situations of danger and not respond to them with the proper context?
How could these Africans ever comprehend the pure dread of being forced to develop for IE6? /s

So what if he did "terrible" stuff 25+ years ago? I am sure no-one in this thread would give 90%+ of their personal wealth to humanitarian work such as these. People just like to complain.
Type inference isn't all-or-nothing. If you can infer even one type in one block of code, you can generate more efficient code.
"Our business benefits from powerful network effects. The Data Cloud will continue to grow as organizations move their siloed data from cloud-based repositories and on-premises data centers to the Data Cloud. The more customers adopt our platform, the more data can be exchanged with other Snowflake customers, partners, and data providers, enhancing the value of our platform for all users. We believe this network effect will help us drive our vision of the Data Cloud."

I fail to understand this network effect. Is there any conflation here ? How does data sharing equate to network effect. Something is fundamentally not adding up here. If I share my data with 10 other customers, it should inherently enhance my experience. How does this happen with Snowflake ?
Rakuten CEO urges review of Japan's Covid-19 entry curbs on foreigners
It always annoys me when some random unelected, unselected person or people purport to speak on behalf of a community. Half the time the self appointed spokesperson isn’t even in the relevant community.
The power cost of transistorized agi will never compete with meat neurons , ever. It's still off by like 9 orders of magnitude and worsening
From the post:
"I also noticed that my 2015 prediction placed 10% to 50% in a 5 year range, and 50% to 90% in a 20 year range. AGI is a long-tailed event, and there’s a real possibility it’s never viable, but a 5-20 split is absurdly skewed. I’m adjusting accordingly."
> Three branches—Militia, Police, and Military—deal in the world of force and are supposed to keep each other in check

That's not actually the underlying model of the 2nd Amendment.

The underlying model of the second amendment is that professional standing armed forces are a threat to liberty (even when nominally dedicated to external security, because they are inevitably applied internally; permanent paramilitart police were not a thing at the time of the 2nd.) Because of this, it is essentially to have effective citizen militia that can be called up for internal and external security needs, so that governments aren't tempted to create permanent forces for this purposes beyond cadres to support the mobilization of the militia. The 2A isn't about having a balanced triangle (“police” didn't really exist for several decades after the 2A), it's about having one of those three obviate the need for the others.

There is probably a good debate to be had about whether that model was durably workable at the time, whether it is workable in the modern world, and whether it would in particular be reachable from where the US is now. But we've lost that in our 2A debates.
It's not about shortage of tools so much as such a big market that there's always room for more. I'm not really sure where the line is these days of useful new vs developer toy but that's often the case. I think this is a good thing.

I would like to make a plug for Statamic who I have no affiliation with other than being a happy customer that added a bit of customization years ago: https://www.pixlee.com/blog/how-we-allow-anyone-to-make-and-...
https://mises.org/power-market/police-have-no-duty-protect-y...
A Simple Program to Get Thousands of Stocks’ Data
So, you think the median estimate (50% estimate) is in 25 Billion years?
Yeah I'm wondering what the usage is here beyond self driving vehicles as well.

Feels like there are a lot of sky high prices lidar companies and yet the failing of self driving cars so far isn't lidar....
> I’m now reading a book on the impact of trauma on psychology

It would be wonderful if you are able to share the name of the book. I am interested in giving it a read.
That paragraph was really something to parse. At first, I tried to read it. Then I realized it was probably some GPT-3 output. Then I realized it was probably some boilerplate lorem ipsum text. And then, I could read it.
I don't think that is an important distinction to make. Google isn't alone in wanting this, with a simple search you can see by now there are multiple webpack plugins that produce zip files: https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=webpack+zip

If someone really wanted to sabotage the URL right now, they would have already been doing it by hacking these to randomize the filenames, which is the same thing you would have to do to deliver that type of obfuscation in a web bundle anyway.
I love a good PB&B, but I'm with the other commenters who just smash the banana onto one of the slices of bread.

Lately my go-to PB&* sandwich has been peanut butter and kale. Yes, PB&K. Toast the bread, spread peanut butter on each slice, pile up some baby kale in the middle and smash it together.

No machine learning needed. Sometimes brute force algorithms are best!

To make a really great PB&K or just about any sandwich, if you're in the Palo Alto area visit the downtown Palo Alto farmers' market on a Saturday morning and get either of:

1. The big fat sourdough English muffins from the bakers across Gilman from the produce vendors, or

2. Any loaf from the bakers on the Gilman sidewalk next to the produce vendors, or

Better yet, just get both!

Now a pro tip on peanut butter. We usually get the salted crunchy from Trader Joe's, but it is a pain to stir it up when you open it. The "microwave for 30-60 seconds before stirring" trick helps, but I found something even better.

This was in one of those "71 weird tricks" listicles, but you won't believe what happened next: it turned out to actually work!

Store the peanut butter jar upside down. Then for a few days before opening it, shake it up a few times each day and keep it upside down. After a few days of that, it will be easy to stir.
The longer I use new firefox the more hatred I harbour for it.

Opening new tab before:
Tap tabs icon on top. Tap open new tab icon that appears in the same place(essentially slow doubletap)

Now:tap tabs icon on top.
Tap new tab thats on the other side of display (I tried getting used to having navigation bar down, but the pageload progress bar should have stayed top. When arriving to page and looking at the top its completely out of my peripheral vision)

Opening certain links in app.
Not only was outrageous that mozzila said "nah" to ability to always open certain links in app (in the name of seamless web experience), so when opening a reddit link on slow and highly datalimited connection I had to wait until page starts loading, then stop load to not consume data (but not too soon, or open in app icon doesnt show), and then click the icon to open link in app.
Now I have to tap the menu first to get access to open in app icon. Forcing me to add another tap (or three if I want to stop the pageload too) everytime I want to do something that should be user settable in the first place.

Also, can anyone explain me why closing the tab view now requires two swipes down instead of one? (Or one rly long one, granted, but still...)
And the fact that the thubnail (main visual cue as to what tab it is) is now smaller is also getting on my nerves

Some pages are super jitery when I try to zoom them as a main big image loads (and few seconds after). Wasnt issue before.

There are more things that annoy me, but cant remember them in the heat of the moment, might edit this later.

And ofcourse, cant use old version because they know best whats good for me.

Im about to start looking for another browser soon, would welcome suggestions! (Ability to run ublock is neccesity)
Drones?
There are old games that don't need emulation to run fine on modern OSes. Age of Wonders (1999) would be one example.

For old software that's not games, it's actually more common than not, because the OS really didn't break the userland contract all that much - what it broke is various undocumented assumptions that software was relying on. Games tended to be the kind of software that did it the most, usually in the name of performance (and sometimes also DRM).

Although if you unwind to before Windows XP, you also have to consider the Win9x/NT divide. Most games of that era were written for Win9x, and often relied on the liberties offered by the very lax process and memory management model. The transition from 9x to NT - which for most consumers happened via XP - was definitely a big userland breaking change for anything that didn't care about NT compatibility before.

(That's why the sweet spot for back-compat is circa 2005 - XP was already well-established, so all new software was written with it in mind - but technologies used were still of the older variety that doesn't drastically change every two years.)
Having experience in both roles (and some more, all on the technical end), I don't think so. Of course, it's not a simple harder/easier question and it doesn't apply to everyone but if you are good at supporting customers you naturally care about stuff and the customer's issues. You file an internal ticket, have to keep watching it but in many cases there's just no progress or even a response.
Ultimately when there's a real bug you are just being an (internal) customer requiring support. The support quality of a company is not only determined by the right customer support employees or vendors but how good the internal support and escalation paths are.

As an internal engineer, when an internal ticket comes in I'm going to track down the issue, may realize it's a known thing that requires a lot of planning to resolve, loop in my manager, etc. but ultimately it usually ends with "we don't have time to address this right now and it doesn't affect enough users". If you're lucky there's a workaround that can be shared.

Now, I don't like that. I'd rather fix the issue for the user but I already have committed deadlines and team goals and it's rather easy to just go with a "sorry, we may revisit in Q1 or Q2 next year".

The support agent still has to a) deal with the customer's anger and b) cannot be honest with them, i.e. needs to wrap the situation in a blanket of corporate speak so as not to shed a bad light on internal teams / the company. At the end of the day they are just powerless and have to take on the responsibility in front of the user, whereas the engineer may feel unsatisfied not being allowed to spend time on it, but ultimately is far enough removed from the user to be actually affected by the situation. Granted, personally I always try my best to get a fix out but a lot of engineers would rather work on their projects and the managers want that too.

FWIW, when I did customer support I always reminded myself that nothing is personal. When I'm at the opposite end (a customer) I also don't get mad at the individual I'm dealing with unless they are not trying to understand or help at all.
Sounds like a bit of an exaggeration. Nobody's trying to erase anyone's culture. If a few Californians move to your rural town to get away from the Bay Area, how does that affect you? Besides them spending their money locally in your town and local businesses, that is. I'm currently in the Bay Area but will one day be a rural non-Californian. I don't want to erase your culture--I just want to afford a decent sized parcel of land without wildfires. What are some tips that would stop me from inadvertently erasing someone's culture?
Yes and I’ve also read other articles. From the conservative Cato institute

https://www.cato.org/blog/do-police-treat-all-races-equally

Roughly seven-in-ten white Americans (72%) say police officers treat racial and ethnic groups equally at least some of the time. By way of comparison, half of Hispanics and just 33% of black adults say the same
While training is important, the deeper problem is that of incentives. Our usual catchall way of discouraging uncivilized behavior is with the justice system - follow these laws or else. But when a perp can put on a uniform, commit violent crimes with impunity, and then not even be charged, the justice system has been coopted into something else.

(Or coming at it from the other direction, when a person can be destroyed by that "justice system" for simply smoking a plant. The war on drug users is also a large part of how the rule of law has been undermined)
Palantir takes swings at Silicon Valley on its way to Wall Street
I like "We couldn't find an account matching that email and password." as a default response for any authentication error for this reason. It's less helpful than it could be, but it prevents any kind of enumeration.
Upper middle class morons who’ve never faced hardships or seen true evil, just lived in their bubble want to feel important and hyper tribalism reinforced via social media anger bubbles makes it a waste of time to have any nuance or discussions. These mobs are ruining primarily low income and minority lives while blue check marks rile them up and media gaslights and fans the flames. Every single city which has had these riots has seen a dramatic upshot in violent crime and economy ravaged. None have recovered since Ferguson
Lack of 16-bit DOS support in Win64 is a choice itself. It's not technically impossible, and there are third-party implementations of a 64-bit NTVDM (e.g. http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/ntvdmx64.html).
If AMP2.0 emerges with ads and tracking embedded in bundles, we will not lose money from those ads. Our performance and battery+dataplan savings will be gone, but we will be no worse than Chrome for such content.

Because Apple and likely other browsers will not adopt SXG etc, such AMP2 content will have to include a fallback link (as AMP does today). We may in such a scenario automatically prefer the non-AMP2 content.

In any case, your argument fails because we are no worse off in the worst case, and in better cases we still block many requests for greater user wins.
Malaria is nature too.
Ya, that's what anyone intelligent says any time "defund the police" is mentioned (and I completely agree with it, btw). But they should probably choose another slogan if that's what they actually mean. "Defund" in the context of government policy generally means to eliminate via the funding mechanism.
SPACs are kinda strange.. it is a way for a company to go public without directly selling any shares in an IPO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-purpose_acquisition_co...

Matt Levine has written a lot about them, and why we are seeing quite a few right now