skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the reason people need to make new accounts when they post anti-censorship thoughts, is that censorship has reached into our industry and a sort of neo-McCarthy blacklisting can occur if you don't espouse neo-liberal talking points. If your pseudonym can be traced to your identity, you risk your career when you fight for individual liberty.
In Belgium, calculation of the pensions was done in a mix of BS2000 assembly language and COBOL until at least 2007, when
they entered a race to switch to Java before the last of the original developers retired.
It's ok, if they will be educated they will care. Just like they care now about not using single use plastics, buying the biggest and most gas guzzling SUV or flying on holidays across the globe.

They won't care even when they'll know. And they might not ever know.
It's a 20ft shipping container. High cube so it's 11ft tall.
Nuclear arsenal maintenance drove this effort.
The cognitive dissonance is the perfectionist idealism of veganism, and the assumed "ethical superiority" that constantly gets thrown around while taking zero constructive criticism that the people promoting it are in fact, living at complete odds with it.

It's like beating your children to try and instill core values that abuse is bad. "Don't hit, Timmy. Hitting is bad! I'm going to spank you to get my point across."

OP made a good point about the imperfections of idealistic veganism and it was dismissed with a, "Nope. This isn't a thing. Our ideals are perfectly defined. You are the problem", which goes directly against the belief that one's ideals are perfectly defined if someone is questioning holes in the definition - i.e, cognitive dissonance...
glad you enjoy it. what should we build next?
Maybe the title for articles like this should be "farmland ownership conforms to power law as expected, exponent = K"

Then the discussion can focus on whether is K is surprisingly high or low compared to similar statistics (general land ownership, farm revenue, etc), not endless confused comments that seem to be coming to terms with something being a power law distribution at all.
>But "guaranteed" and "performance" going together? What's the deal here, even?!

After interviewing with a bunch of similar finance shops over the past year, I think whoever reported that info omitted one important thing: the "guaranteed" part of "guaranteed performance bonus" applies to the first year of employment only (and it isn't a secret, every single recruiter and hiring manager made that very explicit and clear).

With this context in mind, it makes perfect sense, because you don't know how things work at the new company, you will have lots of learning to do, you are not sure of how performance bonus is structured or what goes into it, you don't know the details of how to affect it in your favor, etc. With that in mind, it makes sense for those companies to reassure candidates that you have a nice headstart by guaranteeing your performance bonus for the first year, to allow you to focus on learning all of the things relevant to your position without having to stress much about the performance bonus.
it has 3 e-stops
"I would posit that Apple is always going to keep macOS working on some workstation-class hardware, just because that kind of machine is what Apple's software engineers will be using internally, and they need to write macOS software using macOS."

I have always hoped that we could rely on that heuristic - that internal Apple usage of their own products would guarantee that certain workflows would be unbroken.

In practice, this has never held up.

Over the past 10-12 years it has been reinforced over and over and over: Apple engineers use single monitor systems with scattered, overlapping windows which they interact with using mousey-mousey-everything and never keyboard shortcuts.

They perform backups of critical files - and manage financial identities - using their mp3 player.

The fact that multiple monitors - and monitor handoff - is broken in fascinating new ways with every version of OSX tells you how Apple folks are (and are not) using their own products.
Sure, it's much easier to read, especially when it comes to finding and understanding a two-character diff in a 50-char regex.

Sure, I get the benefits of type safety.

Sure, it'll save me time debugging when I accidentally create an invalid regex.

But what am I meant to do with all that time saved? Read a book? Write more code? I don't get it. Let me waste the time on a ludicrously arcane syntax where I spend half the time looking at every bracket trying to understand if it's a control character in that particular context, because the ego trip I get from mastering this ridiculousness is HUGE!

(Yes, I understand regex syntax. I've been able to explain the phrase "zero-width negative lookbehind assertion" for the past twenty years. I inhaled the Friedl book and got utterly high on the idea that the awesome power of regular expressions - which are genuinely great in how they ease flexibility in accepting input - is entwined with their completely inhuman syntax. But I was wrong.)
The Neuroscience of Peripersonal Space
Yesterday I heard a report from the BBC talking (in very oblique terms, of course) about the possibility Germany will replace the U.S. as the main military opponent to Russia. The German people's opposition to the vastly increased defense budgets this would require was described a quixotic insistence on "moral purity."
This looks awesome! But do you plan to add support for code blocks (not inline)?
That may explain the way the media is framing the trip withdrawals from Afghanistan but not asking why we still have trips stationed there after nearly 20 years.
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I hope not, because a single docker-compose file is much more readable and fun to work with than the multiple files required for a kubernetes setup with volumes.
A JavaScript Challenge with Prizes
Well, the other party had four years in power (and previously many years as the opposition) to propose a viable alternative plan; however, that proposal is nowhere to be found.

There were some small things like price transparency and attempts at regulating drug pricing, but nothing on the scale of a large-enough transformation that is necessary.
I believe GPT has been demonstrated to be usable for machine translation of long passages without "losing the thread." As long as the input has structure, and GPT just has to "follow along" the structure of the input when generating the output, then it the output is structured intelligibly.

Also, I've seen GPT used in recursive fill-in-the-blanks approaches, where it does equally well, since the "skeleton" of its answer is already there.

I imagine the task of "translating" between natural language, and a set of expert-system assertion predicates (or vice-versa) would work very well for GPT, and be "scalable."

I'd love someone to go ahead and try this experiment, actually. It could potentially be meta-learnable in just a few prompts.
Wouldn't the power at the source of such a signal be so great as to cause harm to nearby life? If the "wow" signal actually originated from 2MASS 19281982-2640123, whatever life that may have been there is now probably gone.
TBD! as long as it's fun
A Hyperparameter Tuner for Keras
Destructors/RAII and finally statements work just as well when returning error codes as they do with exceptions.
it's a 20ft shipping container high cube, which is 11ft tall
Akka – building highly concurrent, distributed and resilient message-driven apps
And just three years ago somebody said with the same amount of confidence that it was a comet:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-wow-mystery-space.html

I think that if a person goes looking hard enough for the answer they want, they'll find it.
Yeah, it's Norway.

https://github.com/Skatteetaten/trekktabell
> they have no freedom of anything over there

That depends on what you mean by "freedom of anything". Are people allowed to do everything they want to? No. Are they doing it anyway? Yes.

More concretely with regards to freedom of speech: Are independent media allowed? No. Do they exist anyway? Yes.

> Their government is attempting to govern their lives with a mandatory government issued social media account.

What? That part makes me wonder whether all my knowledge is outdated because I haven't been to China this year and nobody told me about this or whether it's you who's been away for too long.
Seems like a giant processor architecture change with changes to driver models, app runtimes, and requiring translation to run any legacy software would have been a great time to do that if they ever planned to.
Incidents are rare .. but on the other hand, police shootings have sparked riots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadwater_Farm_riot / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Mark_Duggan

And of course https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jean_Charles_de_Me...
Yeah. It is a problem of allocating scarce resources: which exoplanets to study first? How could one answer, except using any probabilistic evidence here is. Anything resistant to explanation by 'mundane' phenomena but might be explained by an phenomenon Caballero is trying to find, is a good probabilistic evidence that could be used to narrow searching space.
This is seems extra relevant given the discussion in the Apache Open Meetings thread about OSS and UI/UX.
The majority of tax payers actually don’t have very complex taxes, if you only have w-2 income and don’t itemize deductions, you just need the single page 1040. Even small businesses aren’t complicated if they have proper bookkeeping, or if you’re just deducting mortgage interest. The piles of tax regulations really are for wealthy people and corporations with complicated accounting.
It's not though, we're talking about chickens that are for the most part destined to live in a cage and end up on someone's plate.
Court Strikes Down Restrictions on “Offensive” CA Vanity Plates
That day was a nightmare for a lot of people - it wasn't just S3 that went down, it was like all of US-EAST.

Luckily my company decided against multi-az for the cost savings so I spent all day firefighting.
Looks a bit abandoned though, doesn't it. Otherwise I'd love it for the safety and readability (while I'd still need to re-learn all what got forgotten in the last half a year before I used regex last time)
we don't keep the addresses
Deep Work: The Complete Guide
VC pitch: We'll make money on the supplements our customers have to take.
Well of course. A man who lives in a literal gold covered Condo, with a history of not paying his subcontractors, vendors and who hired undocumented workers, was certainly going to stick up for the working man.

He said the needed lines, gave them a villain in immigrants (stealing yur jerbs) and then did nothing of the sort for WORKERS. He certainly did go all in on cracking down on immigration, of non-white people, as that matched the narratives of Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller.

Meanwhile, Oligarchs here are richer than ever, and workers are holding on for dear life. And 72 million plus, voted to keep him in office.
nah, not the toner. it's because the ramp gets wet.

and when it's not wet it oxidizes from the heat. we're trying a few different coatings.
I think if a bit a bulwark were added around gpt-3 it might be a good philosopher's assistant. A wall to throw questions against and steer around your own mind.

It could also be a diversion from a book report -- IE - have n argument with gpt-3 about Moby Dick.
Speaking of Douglas Hofstadter, has he said anything about GPT-3?
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DHH did an entire marketing campaign for Hey.com around Apple being bad. Then he turns around and buys a Mac...
> I used to think they we should sensor bad information (E.g. 5G causes COVID)

Can you describe these sensors?
Ask HN: What is your biggest problem regarding PQLs?
Reporting a user to WhatsApp forwards a copy of recent messages from that chat
Stockfish doesn't play like humans. That's how sites like Lichess detect cheating; you can tell Stockfish moves apart from human moves. AlphaZero/Leela Zero, on the other hand, plays like humans.
> Far from the days of just informing and listing main arguments...

There really hasn't ever been that, in the US at least.

Yellow Journalism [0] has been around for ~120 years now. The 1800 US Presidential campaign was very slanderous and personal [1]. His Girl Friday (1940)[2] starring Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant is a great comedy about journalism and the all the shady things that go on. Reading through all those events, the tricks are the same ones that we humans fall for time and again. Sure, FAANG and the like have made it faster, more up-tempo. But the lies have always gotten half-way around the globe before the truth put it's pants on.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1800_United_States_presidentia...

[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032599/ (No really, it's great! Go watch it!)
Sorry you feel that way.

I really enjoy teaching, to do that well - which requires full time focus - I would need some income atheist a percent of my salary (which was way in top bracket where I live).
I do have a free blog, where I share my learnings.

A course requirs much more time than that but is much more effective in building habits, expressing ideas in visual formats. More effective in my view.

If you are still not convinced do check out patio11 s talk from micro conf on productive consulting
correction: the greatest footballer of all time.
that's all Adam Stoddard
That's literally the title of the video... Many places will remove your submission if you change it.
> Maybe the standard should be changed to distrust lack of SPF/DKIM by default?

I don't know what standard might be relevant, but the lack of SPF will kill your inbound reputation for gmail. You'll be lucky to even get beyond MAIL.
I was thinking the same thing, then I saw the next story on the home page:

https://opensourcedesign.net
There are many servers still not using DKIM, as it requires a server/software update. But SPF is super easy, requiring only DNS changes. Could probably do as you suggest looking at only SPF.
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If I'm using a managed service, it's more that I am expecting to get better reliability and less work on our part than it is expecting perfect reliability and no work on our part, both of which are a pipe dream no matter which route you go.
No, those are vessals who may or may not have those measurements. If it is supposed to be 5ml of liquid or 15 gr of something then, in my humble opinion, it should be stated in those terms.
It's the same instinct at play, in my opinion.
If people paying had no legal incentive to keep their bribe private after the fact, then accepting a bribe would be much riskier than it currently is in the US.

Once it became common knowledge that some officials were extracting bribes, it would be simple to jail them.

After all, if I paid a bribe, and it was legal to pay it, but illegal to receive it, I’d certainly document the payment as well as I could.

After the house was built, you can bet I’d try to recoup my funds, and also figuratively burn the county office to the ground by pursuing every option I could in the press and in court.

I don’t think I’m naive as you think. The officials in this area behave exactly as you describe. The difference in my situation is that, if there was concrete evidence of bribery at the planning office, it would be prosecuted and it would make headlines (just as the bribery case in the article did.)

Local governments that withhold building permits and corruption at PG&E have become so politically contentious that the state government has had to repeatedly intervene.
> It's not just you. As you say this can only truly be used by people you understand regular expressions; and they would most likely prefer not to use this stuff.

There's a niche where this might be useful, but by definition it's small. I understand regexes a moderate amount, and can construct arbitrarily complex ones when necessary. But I do it just infrequently enough that it can be painful and halting above a certain level of complexity, with lots of testing and reference-checking. It'd be nice to use something sane like this, and I think I fall squarely into the category of "people who understand regexes but would prefer to use stuff like this". Though as I said, this niche is almost by definition small, and on top of that I can't remember the last time I used Java.

Completely independently, in any non-trivial engineering system, readability is important, and this helps a lot there.
It's a political piece about regime change ops that highlights phrases like "... U.S. backed authoritarian capitalist regime ..." and "... Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program ...".

This isn't a critique piece against today's MSM. It's a piece that makes the point that the US is the evil force in the world today. You can feel that way and have arguments about that. That's fine and fair. But it's certainly not an example for critique against the MSM in the context of today and this discussion.
Nice car, but how do you charge that thing?  Let us count the ways
What are "neo-liberal" talking points?
Scotland to make period products freely available to all
Putin and his policy of destabilization of the West, from financing Brexit supporters, to poisoning his political opponents.
Are you saying Justice Holmes was right to view opposition to the draft as unprotected by the Constitution?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
'It's working ' Deer, bears and other critters like Utah's first wildlife bridge
It's pretty common for hardware to support both. On the Zen1 Epyc's for instance some software preferred a consistent latency from stripped memory over the NUMA aware latency with separate channels where the closer dimms have lower latency and the further dimms had higher.

I've seen similar on Intel servers, but not recently. This isn't however typically something you can do at runtime, just boottime, at least as far as I've seen.
we'll run it as long as it's fun!
I'm referring to the world-class AI researchers working at OpenAI itself and their own claims. Including those from Ilya Sutskever and others being paid prime salary to participate in OpenAI.
Please see my response here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25211102

My username was a handle like most others (almost nobody comes in under their real name). It never occurred to me, for instance, to go to gpm.com— likewise, almost nobody made the connection on the site.

There was one time that somebody was asking about a gpa calculator or something so I threw one together on my web page. I don't recall telling them that it was available because the conversation would have been over. I made my calculator so that you could triage your studying- so given some guesses about how much you thought you could increase your grades in your classes, it would tell you where to spend your time. I can't recall if I was banned around this or not, but that was as close as I came to being "spammy."

As I said in the sibling comment, I thought I at least deserved a conversation.
Doctors and Nurses Are Running on Empty
Yes - in English, the verbs "swim" and "think" both imply that the action is being performed by a lifeform. "Fly," for some reason, does not.

I wonder if this holds up in other languages as well.
This project would be better if it wasn't exactly a 1-to-1 mapping from words/methods to regular expressions. For example, the regex "\d+" maps to the code "digits().oneOrMore()". That doesn't read well in English because it's odd to have an adjective after the noun (i.e. we say "red bird" not "bird red").

Also, a serious weakness in regex is they are "write only", or hard to read. That's because they are compact and don't have discernible sections that are then assembled together.

You can do that yourself in Java by assigning chunks of regex to variables and then concatenating them together, but the regex engine doesn't let you do that itself. You can't name sections of the regex or insert comments into it.

The example

^(?:http)(?:s)?(?:\:\/\/)(?:www\.)?(?:[^\ ]*)$

could be better if it could be broken down into named pieces or commented like this:

^
(?:http)(?:s)? # http or https
(?:\:\/\/) # ://
(?:www\.)? # optional www.
(?:[^\ ]*) # rest of URL (no spaces)
$
I agree, but I also believe (not deeply held! totally speculative!) that the human mind is basically nothing more than exactly this, plus memory, internal emotional states reflective of its own operation, and the ability to observe these. That is, that consciousness and intelligence is a simple emergent phenomenon of the above capabilities, and the hard part is processing those recurrent inputs in a way to synthesize coherent/logical communication. This part seems to be more or less exactly what GPT-3 does.

(Of course the other major part of the human mind is the ability to train its own linguistic synthesis network. The above proposed model lacks this, but that is a process which only occurs on a long time scale for humans anyway, so I believe does not partake in the appearance of consciousness.)

A part of me would really love to wire up GPT-3 to those other constituents of consciousness (memory, self-awareness, basic emotional states) and see if what comes out resembles consciousness. The other part of me is scared of the ethical implications of doing so on the off-chance that it works :/
I would like to read some of your personal favorites.
It's fun to write regex but it is absolutely miserable to read it. This looks like an improvement.
Humanity is not a Zero-Sum Game
it's the best service we found to have control over the feed
Diego Maradona dies at age 60
How would you improve critical thinking at scale?
you try. others have
Your solution would work well if everyone (or nearly all people) agreed to migrate to it.

It may need to be in a few steps. The first step might be, for a 5 year period, mail clients display a warning saying the sending domain doesn't have the correct SPF records. Then after that, those mail clients dropped those emails.

Overall, the cleverness of the OP solution is that it uses to current system to make the next iterative step in solving the problem in a backwards compatible way.

If we could break backwards compatibility, I think we can solve a large number of issues with email wholesale.
A very interesting approach to the "understanding and appreciating government" problem. The usual approach is to simply make a year of public service mandatory.
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