skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one gives a shit, probably because the state earns money when I do so.

That's a bit shortsighted though. Because if you end up in the hospital or with lung cancer, you will cost the public insurance lots of money.
Single beam of electrons diffracts like single beam of light, but otherwise electrons behave very differently than light: two electron beams interfere with each other, while two light beams do not.
Why? I earn ~8x the salary my Mum ever earned, I earn more than anyone I know that I went to school with. I can support myself and my family. I started paying attention to my spending last year and realise around half of it was on stuff that I not only didnt need, but felt better without (tbh it was mostly takeaway food).

Buying a house was hard despite my "high" salary, thats ridiculous, but I don't think the solution is to earn more. I would like to see more support for my mum who lost her job of 28 years due to COVID, I would like to see less homeless addicts on the street due to lack of support, I would like to see the people around me working as hard as they can barely able to pay rent to have more options.

Seeing what tech has made of the Bay Area and asking for more of that please is misguided imo.
Unless you believe so strongly about FOS that you'd object to it in all counts, eg ISIL recruitment material and propeganda, then your argument is really about whether these Trump accounts have crossed a line of legitimacy, not FOS. If they're involved in pushing for armed, violent insurrection against the US government, then give one credible argument for why you'd defend them, but not ISIL doing the same.
You have to consider the audience.

Because of bloated frameworks and slow convenience libraries the front end is a very low barrier of participation. The problem there is then that peoples’ entire careers and life worth are stacked around these fragile glass houses and the only thing they want is to avoid being exposed as a fraud.

Is writing a killer product without all the bullshit that impossible? No, clearly not, but that completely misses the point.
Without condoning it, that wasn't an all out war. It's a really complicated situation and seems more like a political action. Less people were killed than in the Capitol breach, don't think anyone is referring to that as the second civil war.
Anyone suspect this weeks major disruption to the tor network was related to this? 4 days ago: "All v3 Onion addresses unavailable": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25714424

This article says that police called their operation "Operation DisrupTor" in 2019....

edits: https://matt.traudt.xyz/posts/tracking-tors-network-wide-v3-... suggests that it wasnt an attack although was written before the news.
First, as always, we rely on authority to fill in our knowledge gaps for us. But the authority that we've come to trust has an estranged relationship with the truth.

Second, with widespread instant communication, you can choose to listen to just about anyone to trust as an authority. And with so many voices saying so many things (without vetting their own knowledge), you have your pick of the "facts" that you enjoy most.
Weird hacks, love it!
Start contracting remotely for US based companies.

For them, you’re cheap(-er) labor, for yourself, you’ll make more than what you used to make in Europe.
I'm not sure I'd go that far, but certainly one of the really nice things about Forth is that it's so easy to bootstrap up from just assembler into something usable.
No, this is absurd. So you would let all media companies censor someone "because they don't like him"?

The only reason you trust private media companies is because they are supposed to be as neutral as possible, not political.
If not neutral, then perhaps society should start treating them for what they really are - private political machines.

Furthermore censorship is stupid. You might like it when it's Trump getting censored, but you wont be laughing once the censorship comes back and hits you. Free speech fuck yes.
It can depend on what to compare them to (and for what class, which changes a lot in terms on access to commercial clinics, etc.). What countries are you comparing to?
Not being sarcastic. A single, hi-res, (possibly oled?) screen that needs to be replaced in its entirety vs a bunch of individual components which can be individual replaced. The up-front cost may not be too different (possibly the screen is cheaper?) but how robust, how much flex, how much tolerance to vibration does it need to have over 5-10-15 years? And good luck getting one in 15 years. A knob is still a knob even on a wreck. An intact screen? Rare as hen's teeth I imagine. Increasing obsolescence right there.
Agreed. If anything, it serves the opposite: it creates this false glorification image of war as a noble pursuit.
Well farewell to any hacker news readers in Poland. That is, unless the administrators are willing to restore any comment here at the whim of a foreign court.
This freewill argument, you can make about a lot of things that are ultimately detrimental to society.
Some people are gullible, others ignorant, and others still desperate.
It's just not a good argument. For example, I don't want all grannies in my town to get swindled out of their property by smooth talking scammers. Your freewill argument would allow for that.
I think that is individualism taken to the extreme and is very unnatural and inhuman. As social creatures we care about others, especially because it is detrimental to us if others close to us are hurt.
I guess Poland can start make a progress by no longer requesting content removal from twitter: https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/removal-requests...
They also had 20 servers seized which also gives an indication on size.
If you live in a country with mass migration then both house prices and rental prices increase almost constantly. I lived in London from 1996-2015. I bought a house in 2000, it tripled in value by 2015 and I sold up and moved out of London. Its kind of mad.
Your fetch examples don't reject the promise if the server responds with error status code, like 404, which is probably not what you'd want. You'd need to handle that separately with something like

const resp = await fetch('/my-url')
if (!resp.ok) throw new Error(await resp.text())
const data = await resp.json()

From MDN (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API):

> The Promise returned from fetch() won’t reject on HTTP error status even if the response is an HTTP 404 or 500. Instead, it will resolve normally (with ok status set to false), and it will only reject on network failure or if anything prevented the request from completing.
Not only ironic, also hypocritical: they are proposing to make it illegal to censor views that don't break Polish laws, while replacing a halo with a rainbow in a photo of an icon does break Polish laws, because it "offends religious sentiment", so it could (and probably also should, if you ask them) be censored.
Can someone with more knowledge of Nvidia GPU's please say how much the V100 costs ($5-10K?) compared with the $900 mac mini.
> Censorship of free speech, which is the domain of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, is now returning in the form of a new, commercial mechanism to combat those who think differently.

As terrible as PiS are for other reasons, Morawiecki has a point here, although I don't see he is standing by this point consistently when it comes to, e.g., those who "think differently" about sexuality.
Yes, for America there's the patriot act which removed your freedoms for safety. Even right now with corona, as controversial as it sounds, it is the question of freedom vs security.

Europe's sentiment is they want more security and are happy to give away their freedoms without a thought. Then you realise how important your freedom was to you when it's gone.
As already discussed in many places, it's not possible to reach US/SV levels of salary in Europe due to differences in the model of society, taxation etc.

Note however that US companies in Europe pay definitely above the market. So it's not impossible. Partially they pay more because they have more money, as they have access to VS/are listed on stock exchange (and being US-based is almost a most to have this opportunity, even if there are a few successful EU companies)

IMO the diff is that in US companies, developers are more than code monkeys who execute what they are told by the PM. Developers in US companies have more impact hence higher salary:
This article nicely summarizes this: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/what-silicon-valley-gets-...

Can we reproduce this in EU? EU historically has been more hierarchical when it comes to doing business. Young founders probably are less like that, but we need both different attitude to doing business ("IT brings value", not "IT is cost center") + the capital.
Interesting. In India a comedian was arrested (still is) for making a joke which he didn't crack. Some people wanted to make a joke of the system by a false complaint and guess what, the police is supporting a false claim instead of letting the accused go. So much for free speech. Literally the guy didnt say something and he is being arrested for that
Reminds me of the fact that filenames in OneDrive are even more restrictive because of some legacy SharePoint software that was representing filenames in URLs.

"?" and "#" were not allowed in OneDrive for Business for a long time because they have a special meaning in URLs: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sharepoint-...

The Rclone documentation has a full list of problematic OneDrive characters: https://rclone.org/onedrive/#restricted-filename-characters
There is only so much "richness" you can share. You can't give 400 million american a nice car, a big house with a view on the ocean, 100% organic food and access to top level healthcare and education. Unless you produce those thing at that scale, and some things are by definition not scalable (there is only one "best medical school in the US"). So some people have more power to get access to/acquire those desirable items. And software engineers are often amongst the first in line. If you want other people to have a better access to these, by definition that leads to current "first in line" to loose something.

Giving more money to everyone is easy, everyone was a billionaire in Zimbabwe few years back. That did not make them "rich".
When I'm seeing these I always wonder how to eat them without making a mess? Using knife and fork, or what? A standard McD Cheese/Hamburger seems "just right", can be doubled with whatever, a Quarterpounder is near the limit, a Big Mac won't do anymore.

What does one do with such stacked things? Squeezing them flat and have it oozing out of all sides?
Oh god, that. When my wife gave birth, she received a "care package" that was just a box with few small items (water and some cosmetics testers, IIRC) and half a kilogram of flyers. I honestly was floored, and my deep hatred for the advertising industry had reached a new level. And then I noticed that the child health book they gave us - an official medical document that we'll be carrying for the next two decades - had multiple full-page ads in it. Because of course it did.

Did I said it already that advertising is a cancer on modern society?
Time to go to Neocities? I know they're a company subject to the same laws of the countries in which they operate but it seems like a suggestion to go back to that (which I've seen Linux-y Youtubers suggest) but it's an old method of solution to a different problem Geocities was set up to solve.
But that's reality, which is why it's such a useful signal for employers and social media companies to use.
This comment is beyond ridiculous. Private American corporations are not above law or democratically elected governments. This is not any different than GDPR or other regulations.

I think the difference is that unlike spoiled American "Bernie Sanders voter"-generation, Polish people still remember what it's like to live under a far-left censorship and simply do not want to experience that again.
> I'm very disappointed at how much money Europe sucks out of my work

Are you owner of property like apartment or house there? Just wandering, if that makes a significant personal economic difference for owning it in EU.
Say what you want, but I'm not a fan of what the Polish government is doing overall. Feels like they are moving away from democracy. When will the EU say enough is enough?
Beautiful images of tree-shaped veins in a lake. Nothing to do with a tree of life in the biological sense, though. But I realize I'm biased: Wikipedia [1] shows that the tree of life is a common art depiction.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life
> You can't have low inequality by definition if you decide to start paying one group a ton of money.

The inequality exists between those who need to work for a living and the ownership class that does not.
That is a very american take on things...

I am european and I have the exact opposite view:

Public entities are supposed to be neutral, private ones are not.
Aren't AMD NUCs supposed to be better now with Ryzen 2 and onward?
A restaurant is a private company and if they don't want to serve blacks and jews they can completely do it.

You see now how absurd that argument is?
Airbnb canceling and blocking DC reservations during inauguration week
Yes, but free studies, free healthcare and unemployment benefits.
I have multiple kids like that, and after more than two decades of being a parent I still love every damn day of it.
If I were a US based social media company I would simply deny service to any IP address from that country. Liability averted.
Tracking Tor's network-wide V3 onion service outages
This, not to mention one could get the GPU usage on the V100 way higher by training with larger batch sizes, which would also make training much faster.
Intel's problem isn't really that they're involved in too many businesses that don't make sense or they aren't good at. Their core businesses are still their core competencies. The problem has been a catastrophic set of execution misfires.
I was frequently reminded as a kid how much trouble kids are, so I was totally ready for that when I became a parent. What I was not ready for was how shockingly fun and beautiful the whole process has been.
And yet, jQuery's AJAX related methods are more convenient than the native fetch() API.

And AFAIK not matched by any simple wrapper for the newer APIs (it's fashionable to go to heavier ones like axios).

I still grab jQuery into projects for the sheer convenience.
I've seen a lot of embedded Forth stuff recently but I don't get the appeal. Clearly there is some benefit over writing assembly, but why is it preferred over portable C, or even higher level languages such as Python on more powerful mcus?

FWIW I felt the same way about LISP for a long time until I fell in love with it via Emacs. So please educate me!
If you find that an employer tries to pay you less after moving to Europe then perhaps you can find some good negotiation points/advice in an article I wrote recently:

https://dusted.codes/equal-pay-for-equal-work
Uh, what do you think jQuery is written in?
The Wikipedia page on remote viewing gives the opposite impression. Wikipedia also tells me that "The Stargate Project was terminated and declassified in 1995 after a CIA report concluded that it was never useful in any intelligence operation. Information provided by the program was vague and included irrelevant and erroneous data, and there was reason to suspect that its project managers had changed the reports so they would fit background cues."

I'm not really qualified to read through CIA papers. People who are seem to not agree with you.

If remote viewing works, wouldn't all major companies have departments full of viewers spying on competitors?

I'll note that the James Randi prize has not been won.
It would go against eu-law, but they can still do it, it haven't stopped them before....
There has been no announcement on that yet but I would guess (hope) that there is no kill switch as the time has now password and it still runs. The projects are still available to download too. I believe Adobe are keeping them up for enterprise users for debugging.
I'd just like to say that I agree with you, my comment was poorly made. I am no fan of Trump, but I can totally understand why he was elected.

I think I meant to say that they had already succeeded in upending the system, and now they were trying to lock it in.
I know finding bugs is undeniably a good thing but I can't help but feel someone as obviously bright as this should be making more things

It's like the people who spent a lot of their time finding ever more pedantic inaccuracies and continuity errors in films.

The mute LED on your thinkpad sometimes goes out of sync? fascinating
What does this mean exactly?

EDIT:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25773611 answers this

As far as I'm aware the tool (probably Disk Utility I think?) on macOS that allows you to replace the bootloader etc now supports non-macOS replacements.
As I've said time and time again, people say "free speech" but what they mean is "consequence free speech".
The Polish fought the Nazis and the Soviets for this cake, though.
The recent big tech actions call for regulation.
The main question is, who is responsible for the content published in specific mediums - users or platforms?

If they put themselves in a position of publishers, then they should fall under specific laws accordingly.
How I discovered faas and what it changed for me
Is there a similar article about Trump?
Time isn't the most scarce resource for everyone.

If your passions require more money than you have, it doesn't matter that you have 6-8 weeks off. You still can't do the things you want to do. You can relax, travel (limited due to funds though), which are both nice for a while but eventually become frustrating.

My passions are expensive - too expensive unfortunately. For example I could really do with a house to build things in, but I can't afford to buy a house, so I can't build the sorts of things I'd like to build in one. And you should see the small factory I wish I could afford.

Even small stuff like attending conferences is too expensive if you can't afford the travel and tickets.

As I've gotten older I've come to see there are many situations where, if I'd had more money, things I tried to work on would have turned out very differently. That's the #1 reason I now pay more attention to income than I did for a long time, when I focused on voluntary work for what I thought was worth investing time in, with "SWE side gigs" to pay the bills.

> When exactly are those passions supposed to be pursued? When retiring? I'm pursuing that now. I have had 6-8weeks off in summer the last 10 years. I like to travel, etc.

Depending on what they are, it may have to be evenings, weekends, or when retiring.

That'a definitely a compromise. But if you don't have the money and your passion projects need money, it will probably be never.
> Godbolt doesn't support executing MSVC for some reason.

That's because the MSVC compiler doesn't actually run on the godbolt servers (unlike all the other ones). The compilation is done on Microsoft servers. It's understandable that neither side is looking to have Windows sandboxes to execute arbitrary code in.

(Disclaimer: At least that's how it worked when Matt introduced the MSVC compilers. Not sure if things are substantially different by now.)
I guess there are different ways to define intelligence, and I'm sure it's true that he's not as dim as the popular caricature made him out to be.

But you will need a lot more than a business school anecdote to convince me that the man behind the Iraq War (launched on false pretences, with bad intelligence, and disastrous first- and second-order consequences) is a top-tier analytical intellect.
They can do what they want because that's the law, if the Polish government change the law then they can't. In the US there are also laws regarding discrimination based on race or gender or whatever and private companies must abide by those laws, so it is not that far fetched. The only thing the Polish government add is disallowing discrimination based on opinion and dealing with criminal speech by going to the police, not by being the court and executioner.
This is perhaps an argument to have more veterans in politics.

Former Czechoslovak president Ludvík Svoboda, a general who fought in the WWII and went through some of the bloodiest battles involving Czechoslovak forces [0], was known to be very wary of militaristic ideas later.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Dukla_Pass
> With modern JavaScript you can easily cast a NodeList to an Array, e.g.

Ah, thanks. I got bitten by this recently and didn't know what to do with this "thing that's not an array but seems like it should be, and doesn't always behave like one"
For what it's worth this Gaddafi -> Libya -> bit.ly connection has to be one of the weirdest beliefs you've exhibited over a long period.

At first I thought it was just an extended bit, like the whole Cody Johnston "teleporting boars" thing [0]

But I don't think it can be, I think you're serious and er, that's not great basically. Maybe take a few minutes to think about it more clearly, discuss it with somebody you trust, and see if you can't figure out where you went wrong.

[0] https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1046558632878399489
Natural selection isn't good. In terms of “bad things to do to humans”, it comes in just behind eugenics, and that's only because we haven't worked out how to do that without horrible horrible crimes against humanity (yet). (Yes, natural selection is legitimately bad enough that “make eugenics less genocidey and then do that instead” is actually on the table – I am so glad the problem can probably keep for another century or two, so I won't have to be responsible if we end up with some dystopia or other.)

These aren't good things. I mean, war does accomplish them, but… I'd rather they weren't accomplished.
"No. I havent read Rushdie. It has that whole demon verse thing around him, he isnt liked"

Well, he did made many people aware of the conflict, which created attention, which results in indian police having to give interviews to the intercept for example, which helps in some ways. Things would probably be darker without.

How is your opinion on a political solution?

Do you think independence would work out (if your big neigbhours would let you)?

My understanding is, that the kashmir population in itself is divided?

Anyway, hope you stay safe.
While it's true even today,I think at the time it was heavily related to the fact that most countries usually had to raise money and hire majority of soldiers when facing/declaring war rather then keeping them on payroll permanently. So if an enemy is banging at the gate, it's a bit too late to start sending message around 'we are hiring'.
Aye. Relevant SSC:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/29/the-spirit-of-the-firs...

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-o...
GPT3 is so big it would take 355 years to train on a nvidia V100, so your example is also not really useful for comparison. It would be interesting to see some mid-sized nn benchmarks though.
> Borat - incidentally filmed in Romania

Romania: Gini: 0.36, HDI: 0.828

HDI is close to Kazakhstan, actually
Exporting Messages from Signal for iOS: A Journey
Author devises a cookie-less technique (based on local storage) for getting non-invasive analytics from users.
If you have to trust everyones routing to be correct to have a working internet, it doesen't seem trustless
I'm not so sure that other intelligent life could have evolved without having the same way of reducing complexity as we do.
It is the essence of modelling: when you are interested only in certain aspects of an environment you try to categorise and classify your subject accordingly.