skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone I know was a student athlete, near valedictorian in high school and a fairly talented musician. He went off to college on the West coast nearly twenty years ago. He tried some LSD, which may have either activated and/or exacerbated schizophrenia in his brain. He never made it through college, is unable to hold a stable job, and still lives in his parents' basement. Granted nobody knows for certain whether LSD did this to my friend, but every story I read about psychedelics suggest that their use should be guided and supervised.
If I suggest an idea from a coworker in a meeting as if it was mine, that move would be seen, at the very least, as somewhat rude. If I got that idea from examining the competition, that would be seen as a smart move.

Sure, if attribution is a requirement then the natural thing to do is to turn it into a legal requirement. But I don't think that is the discussion here.

It comes down to how we want to treat open source. In order to encourage open source, I believe giving credit, even if not required, is courteous. Corporations are not monolithic entities that are perfectly defined. People work on these corporations.
Group working behind the scenes to change the stories you see on TV
Social scientists emphasize culture over nature so, to each their own reality. There's always a bigger fish ;-)
> 2) the NYT articles about Trump's tax returns that were obviously obtained illegally weren't given the same treatment.

This, the unbelievably biased treatment of this throughout the media and social media and good old qui bono tells me all I need to know.

Everything else is just technical details.
Scuba tanks operate at wildly higher pressures than your average air compressor. Scuba tanks are at anywhere from 160 bar to 240 bar. The usual sort of compressor you'd use for running your tools tops out at 8 bar.

Make no mistake, 8 bar escaping from a compressor is no joke. It's the equivalent of two elephants worth of air suddenly entering the room. It'll rupture eardrums and shatter windows but the building will still be standing. I wouldn't be so sure about that when a scuba tank decides to explode though.
yes I agree, the article basically discusses 95% of hacker news commenters :)
"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you."

The idea of "God" and religion seem to arise more readily from experiences at the extremes of human consciousness. Whether it be trying to make sense of the chaos and death on one end or the unimaginable beauty and interconnectedness on the other.

Rigorous religious rituals and benevolent paternal overwatch can help bring comforting structure and an answer to "why?" to those living through hardship just as the idea of an omniscient watchmaker can help make sense of overwhelming, awe-inspiring realizations about the complexities of reality from a peak psychedelic experience.
It's funny - you're both right.

Peasants (over 90% of the society) were usually working less hours but much harder than we do. And they were living in much worse conditions of course.

Farming (especially without modern technology) is very cyclical, most of the time you have too much labour and too little land/food. Then for a few months you have too few people to do everything that needs to be done.

And there was no easy way for vast majority of people to store surplus for more than a few years. And there was a real possibility of starvation if a few factors independent of you happen at the same time.

So the whole society and economy was structured around these constraints - that's why it doesn't follow our intuitions. It made no sense to increase gains by 10% if you had to increase risk by 1% to do that. It made no sense to work harder if you have enough and it's gonna spoil anyway. You're just risking injury to throw it all away later.

There was a great series of articles about it: https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they...
Very flawed comparison. The government lying to you is one thing. The government has literal life and death control over you and others. There is only one government and we can't easily choose another.

These things are not true about Twitter. You can go post on your own Mastodon instance or the Daily Stormer or the Fox News comment section if Twitter is too restrictive for your liking.

Also, do you recognize the irony/insanity of complaining about this on Hacker News, a strongly-moderated platform? HN's centralized moderation is far more stringent.
Golden cape made with silk from a million spiders
I didn't mean to offend. My point was that these cliche comments rarely (if ever) contribute anything to the actual topic being discussed.
Vinge presents some interesting ways to measure progress toward the singularity in this talk I found very interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_luhhBkmVQs&feature=emb_logo
World Age in Julia: Optimizing Method Dispatch in the Presence of Eval
It’s called a brain. You pay attention and read the speed signs as you enter an area. You use your peripheral vision to watch for pedestrians and traffic. And what would a report on common accidents be for, aside from some interesting statistical anomalies? You should still pay attention and drive safely, regardless of whether or not the area had 4 red light speeding tickets given last month or 8.

You’re basically suggesting using a smartphone camera to walk around town, when you could just, y’know, use your eyes.
I don't want to make presumptions about your experience so I'll try to speak broadly, and if this contradicts your experience I'd be happy to have you expand my view.

I think there's two categories of drugs and it's harmful to ignore the distinction. I don't know enough about the specifics of all drugs to nail down the definitions precisely but a description will suffice. One category is "psychedelic", the other is opiate. Marijuana is a federal schedule 1 drug in the US, right next to heroin. If we don't train society to differentiate between these two then unsuspecting young people who experiment with marijuana illicitly will say "all those warnings were over something harmless. I'll try heroin next." The war on drugs is perpetuating weed as a gateway to more dangerous drugs. The THC and psilocybin family has its risks in the same way that alcohol and nicotine have their risks; the opiate and methamphetamine family should not be confused or taken lightly by anybody.
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I am willing to bet that the nimble AutoPilot selling <$1000 hardware and $25/month subscriptions will outlive the billion dollar giants like Cruise. CommaAI is small but it is a profitable company that controls its destiny.

Waymo and Tesla have some hope. Cruise and Zoox are burning VC money like crazy with little to show.
Seed traces in seedless grapes are almost always unviable.

Us grape growers propagate these vines from clones. Breeders who work with seedless grapes have some horomonal techniques that can get a vine to produce some % of potentially viable seeds. Or one parent in the cross is a seeded variety and the seedless grape is just the pollen source.
This needs it's own separate scientific investigation.
There won't be any viable dormant hardwood with buds on a cluster like this in the grocery store. You'd need to do tissue culture. Which involves labratory equipment, a pile of chemicals, and a totally sterile environment.
If you choose a license which explicitly lets them, and they do, then appealing to community is simply silly. If community and reciprocity is important to you, you simply must choose a GPL-like license that requires it.

If you don't want it, simply say so! But if you say you don't care... don't complain when people do.
Hi there. I’ve been promoted at a rate in the fastest 2% of engineers at my company. WFH is okay for me but I hugely prefer in person.
Anyone else getting strong "I, Robot" (the movie) vibes from this line of research?

I can see this happening as an opening shot to an action movie.

Some reporter finds out that $government is doing $bad_thing. They pack up the evidence, rush out the door to talk to their editor. A slick, self-driving car pulls up as they exit the building, they enter and pull away.

It is a rainy night, and the car zips along the city roads along thousands of others; just another regular evening. Cars passing each other at break-neck speeds with safety margins that are only really safe with positronic brains at the wheel.

We see the street, as seen by the computer. Bounding boxes and labels hovering over multiple viewpoint video feeds, all drawn in slick black & blue cyber aesthetic. Suddenly something changes at the left of the image, alerts go off.

Cut to the exterior, super slow motion shot of the care from back right angle, with a big billboard visible on the left side of the road. It shows cryptic patterns that seem to depict running children, but never the whole child, just portions of them, in changing shapes and positions, with neural network adversarial noise covering the rest of the image.

Cut back to the board computer's view, still slow motion. Red bounding boxes surrounding the billboard, and then a big red warning flashes in the center of the screen:

COLLISION IMMINENT.

All kinds of meters at the bottom of the dashboard start going wild as the car tries to find a safe exit state, and with the slow-motion slowly approaching realtime again. It swerves to the right. The image gets rocked as it gets hit by another passing car. Another hit. The world on screen turns as the car goes flying.

Static noise fills the screen.

Next scene:

A news broadcast announces that there was a high casualty in accident on Suchandsuch Road last night. Investigators find that it was most probably caused by a repair shop installing a faulty aftermarket AI module into a car.
You make good points. But the fact remains that Twitter is a viable product only because it is granted special immunity from legal consequences for publishing, immunity that you or I would not enjoy if we were to publish the very same content on a personal website, or hand out pamphlets on the street.

In this context it is not at all that “government should be in charge of these decisions”, it is entirely that Twitter’s privileged status should be questioned, given the amount of control they are exercising over the amount of content they distribute.

Put another way: AT&T should not be liable for what I publish on my personal website, but if they were dropping packets from my server because of a “content policy” then I would think differently!
> Companies do C/C++ linking to Electron itself in a web app? I'm sorry, but I've never heard of such a thing.

Yes. Specifically to bridge into native functionality.

> Do they also do C/C++ linking to the browser for the web app version fo the app? Web development must really have changed in recent years.

There might not be a webapp (if the core functionality requires native code). Or it may exist but have a different tech stack involved where the native code can't be used.
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They’re rather rude and the “that’s why Dad loves me more” attitude. Just my opinion.
${}: "parameter expansion"
Can anyone explain iPads and RAM?
But there’s the problem right there. Your analogy is incongruent with the Assange case. Assange is not a whistleblower. Again, if Assange merely published information that he was given (unsolicited), then he should be protected by the first amendment and is not guilty of a crime. However, if he sought out classified information and instructed someone on how to exfiltrate that information, then he clearly broke US espionage laws.
It's relevant for the same reason that it's relevant who pays a hospital bill. The person actually making the payment will be sensitive in ways that a pure beneficiary will not be.
In your example sending the file body will fill the remainder of the packet containing the headers and trigger a packet send. The client waiting for your response isn't going to lose out. In fact, they'll benefit from having file body data in that first packet.

Your example is when you want Nagles algorithm to apply. This exact use case is mentioned on tcp(7) under the TCP_CORK option, which is like a more explicit, application controlled, version of Nagle.

Nagles algorithm sucks for HTTP clients who happen to send big HTTP requests. If the HTTP headers being sent are >1400 bytes or so, then the tail end of the request will wait 1 RTT for the ACK of the first part. This will be particularly bad if the HTTP server has delayed-ACKs enabled (TCP_QUICKACK is not on). The server TCP stack has no idea that the HTTP server application hasn't yet got a full request and can't yet respond, so will delay the ACK of the first 1400 request bytes in the hope that it will.

The delayed ACK delay is probably small compared to the RTT, so Nagle still dominates
OSM has a lot of metadata about the paths that could be used to indicate which ones are best.
Ask HN: What If We Had Local-First Software? (Focus on CPU and RAM)
Power users (like most HN readers) have computers (and even phones) with a very fast multi-core CPU and gigabytes of RAM.
But with the trend toward building all software in the cloud, these ressources are sometimes sitting there unused.

Most of the time, we want software as light as possible, so that we can keep our CPU/RAM for actual work, but what if we also "power apps" that are designed to take advantage of all your CPU/RAM (when needed) to give you some unique features that are not currently available.

Practical example: What if the YouTube app stored the metadata on all the videos that you have watched and all the videos of all the channels that you subscribe to locally? Then, they could offer a very powerful facetted search UI for filtering these videos and finding exactly what you want.

That way, if I haven't been on YouTube for the past week and don't have time to sift through hundreds of recent videos, I can find the "videos published in the past week ordered by ViewCount DESC" and start there. Or I could be curious about "videos I watched where RatingAverage < 2 AND ViewCount > 1000000"... YouTube could offer such features without having to worry about the strain it would put on their datacenters.

Do you have other examples that you would love to see?

By the way, I know there are plenty of complains about Electron-style apps hogging your CPU/RAM. This question is about software that use these ressources to give you features that you care about.

I thought about this question after reading a [similar one yesterday that was focused on enabling offline usage][1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24790170
What do you think of these cotton candy grapes?

Do you grow any weird grapes?

What’s cool in grape growing world these days?
Ubisoft, Crytek data posted on ransomware gang's site
They can firewall or encrypt the bus, but if security fails, that can kill you as well by erroneously refusing to work.
If a review is found to state injurious lies or false statements about a business, that'd constitute removable libel or fraud. YouTube should similarly remove review videos from people whom they have string reason to believe never used a product or service.
A large part of the news/money problem is the practical, space-and-time-saving desire to reduce an almost hopelessly complex, point-in-time decision to a single, overarching, global statement, such as "It really comes down to a detached CEO, and incompetent leadership." And when you boil this desire down to Twitter's level of brevity, it gets completely untenable.

Someone else in this thread argues that Twitter may be the most-important news service going now, and I agree. The fact that the platform itself is specifically engineered to be so antithetical to honest fact and debate really demonstrates our societal values about money versus truth or social cohesion.
> for instance the Linux kernel would have to come with documentation that mentions the tens of thousands of authors

It wouldn't be too hard to maintain though. Could probably mostly pull it out of git even.
Data watchdog issues biggest ever fine over airline cyberattack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPQHv3z3MWY

Guess I'm old... cuz that was painful to watch. Reminded me of the juvenile videos that Digg founders released back in their heyday. Sometimes you don't want/need to see behind the curtain!
I find that suspect. 1 because I doubt statistics for the poor were as accurate, and 2 because people alive today aren't dead yet so we don't know their life expectancy, which has been steadily trending upward for a century even for middle aged people.

https://www.infoplease.com/us/health-statistics/life-expecta...
Are people really expecting the devs at AWS to give a "thank you" to every third party developer out there who's code they use? This is just ridiculous. When does this become an obligation? Is there an unwritten rule of how large/successful a team has to be before they need to give thank's like this?
Where are you getting these prefixes? It’s M, not m. 3M = 3,000,000. 3MM means the same thing, but it’s usually only seen in finance, and it’s not an SI prefix. 4MMM is meaningless.

m (lowercase) means “milli-,” which certainly isn’t what you want.
Peace from violence between sons sent off to die for no reason. Sure.

Peace from violent thoughts leading to depression and anxiety which are at all time highs, no.
> social capital is simply more reliable than material capital.

See also Amartya Sen's eye-opening Nobel-winning work on famines in the modern era; he explains these mostly in terms of social capital. They don't tend to happen in situations where the country as a whole is short of food, but in situations where a particular sector of the society is unable to make a claim (economic/political) on it.
At that time clocks did not have minute hands so they would not have been able to measure time that precisely.
Charles Gleyre was the teacher of Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Whistler and many others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gleyre
Card details for 3M Dickey's customers posted on carding forum
> It's not like going to an actual office where your co-workers are

Exactly. That's what I miss and there'll be folk at Dropbox who miss it too. For folk who live in cities and/or don't mind commutes they might give serious consideration to moving to a company with a traditional office.

I know personally that if post covid my organisation scraped the office or if enough folk WFH permanently that it was dead, I'd start looking for a new job
The most interesting thing about looking back at Kurzweil's writing is the tech optimism we were all smoking back then.
> like to work on something that improves society.

like to have other people work on something that improves society.
Demand Forecasting with AutoML
As a curiosity note, when I asked my friend's dad how did he managed to get 3 degrees and 2 PhDs, his answer was: "Bear in mind amphetamines were sold over the counter back then."
Broadvoice Leak Exposes 350M Records, Personal Voicemail Transcripts
https://archive.vn/myiP5
They will marvel at the transistor.
Look at the big picture, which is that everything changes people. Drugs are simple to pinpoint, because they act fast and big. (Plus it's not like alcohol is illegal, yet it kills a lot of people, and the prohibition failed.)

Reading books changes people, just look at how many people credit "Atlas Shrugged" as the book that started their journey to become libertarian. Similarly, we see each and every day how effective is propaganda.

We see how hard it is to kill xenophobia, bigotry and other biases. But we also know how these develop, how people get radicalized by terrorist organizations. Yet the same thing happens albeit with a lower intensity and without a focused purpose when people watch/read/consume whatever the community/culture they are embedded in throws at them.

4chan changes people. QAnon changes people. The antivax hysteria changes people.

Psychedelic drugs change people, yet the opioid and crack epidemics were not about LSD, they are about an alcohol++. They are about legal painkillers, yet no one is really advocating banning painkillers.
"thank you" is a pretty low price for software.
I had this feeling recently reading Voltaire quotes >200 years old, but could have been written today :) https://www.azquotes.com/author/15138-Voltaire
Situations like this make me wonder why no one has created an open source license with a clause excluding multi billion dollar companies. If your company makes more than, say, $50 billion in revenue per year or something crazy like that, then you need to pay for a license. Everyone else can use the free license.

Amazon in particular is well known to be aggressively anti-competitive, as we saw with the Diapers.com fiasco. So logically, if you allow them to use your open source project for free, you run the risk of supporting the company that is going to run you out of business if they ever decide to compete with you. Might as well grab a piece of the pie on your way out!
He presumably lets them drive cars, and probably doesn't implore them to cut sugars out of their diet. So yes.
There are a lot of gotchas with the new GC that make me nervous about this release:

> As far as we know, ARC works with the complete standard library except for the current implementation of async...

That's not a great endorsement...

> If your code uses cyclic data structures, or if you’re not sure if your code produces cycles, you need to use --gc:orc and not --gc:arc.

Seems like this is a big onus to put on the user -- it's tough to prove a negative like this.
So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause.
Completely disagree. He fails to answer basic questions about why he chose to also communicate directly with a presidential advisor instead of just talking to the authorities, he changes his story throughout the interview, and he fails to confirm critically important details about the device, who gave it to him, and how it wound up in the hands of the authorities and a presidential campaign advisor.

Being nervous in an interview is one thing, trying and failing to wing it through basic questions is entirely different. His comment about the lifeboat particularly stood out to me because he very obviously didn't want to explicitly talk about Giuliani, but he was comfortable speaking in hyperbole about it. If you're so uncomfortable to answer a question, how would you then be comfortable enough to "say it" without saying it? If I was concerned that a question could threaten my safety or legal standing, I'd stay as far away from it as possible. This guy clearly wanted the reporters to know that he had been talking to Giuliani, and once that's out there, the context of the entire story changes.

If it's a legit scandal, there's no reason that a whistleblower should reach out to a political operative in addition to the authorities. The very fact that he did this says so much about his state of mind, that he was acting in support of a candidate.
Really enjoying streamlit and the community that is forming around it is super welcoming and helpful.

Randy Zwitch MVP.
No it really was down it turns out: https://status.twitterstat.us/pages/history/564314ae3309c22c...
This puts the ipad pro 11" in a weird spot.
Right, but I'm getting the sense that people may have done it for years, but all that did was engender a desire to never have to worry about compatibility again
Behind Cambridge Analytica lay a bigger threat to our democracy: Facebook
So a non-conservative, not having these fears, would willingly take the serial killer pill discussed above.
What specifically about it?