skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Primary sources need to be approached with caution
https://clas.uiowa.edu/history/teaching-and-writing-center/g...
The fake news thing is a real problem (and may become worse under GPT3 but certainly exists already). As for the others - to quote Westworld, "if you can't tell the difference, does it really matter?"
well it doesn't make sense... why move away even from server-side java? I mean, you guys can use kotlin which is a combination of all the goodies (functional + ergonomic + type-safer than java/go) that has good java interop... and kotlin's even the official language for android projects...
Biggest Hacks of All Time
>4,000 tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year

Surprisingly, that's... hardly anything, actually. Considering that annual global emissions measure in the billions, even if a significant number of other rocket companies pop up, as the article predicts, that's still an honestly negligible amount. Pointing the finger at Bitcoin is significantly less ridiculous, considering the paper estimates its footprint at over 30 million tons of CO2.

That article is honestly embarrassingly bad, it links to data that was 4 years old at the time of publication, making it apparent they just took the first google result and stuck it in. I'm all for bashing Musk, but this isn't a good reason.

edit: quick back of the napkin math says convincing a single medium-large company of 1000 employees to go all-WFH, eliminating commutes, would have an equal or greater impact than this hypothetical rocket-a-week. There's a lot of lower-hanging fruit to go after before we worry about rockets, and Bitcoin is increasingly one of those
Non-Blocking Parallelism for Services in Go
> I am surprised that otherwise well intentioned people appear to be missing this insight.

Because it's plain false. One of the lessons learned from the Weimarer Republic is that a democracy has to defend itself, that's the reason why modern days Germany has - by request and design from the US - laws to limit freedom of speech.

It is false because certain types of calls for violence and hate speech have the uncanny ability to mobilize people who would otherwise never think of being violent. There are psychological reasons why otherwise normal people can be drawn fairly easily to violence and de-humanizing their opponents. With a few well-designed suggestions at the right time you can easily cause lynchings like in the Reichskristallnacht.

Generally speaking, people in democratic societies far overestimate the force of their society's civility and culture. It takes but a scratch on the surface of society, and a threshold is reached that leads to a reign of terror. A recent example is the war in former Yugoslavia. Seemingly harmless family fathers in an advanced society started to torture opponents to death by raping them with steel pipes until they died of inner bleeding. They were encouraged by politicians.

Things like that can occur in any country within just a few months of conflict and unhindered "free speech." There are large groups in the US who dream of a violent revolution, openly advocate "race wars", and so on. It's very reasonable to take away their megaphones and social network speech amplifiers.
You will not. Welcome to the scary generative future.
Yeah, happens a bit with our Freecycle group. As long as they pick it up promptly I don't mind, I'm using it because I want rid. If they started listing it on e.g. gumtree before they've picked it up or worse, not picking it up if it didn't sell, it would cross the line for me.
Deep fakes still feel quite uncanny valley to me. Even if they move beyond that convincing fake images have existed for a long while.

As for support, I don't really see why it matters if I'm talking to a clever script or an unmotivated human.
Touch ups where done before photoshop but now it’s ALWAYS done. The issues this has created in society might have a bigger emotional impact than we give it credit for.

Regarding photo news there has been quite a lot of scandals to the point that I’d guess the touchups is more or less accepted.
Because that's what brave people do. When you hear about people that made tyrants fall, they didn't do it from the comfort of their home.
Democratic nations usually don't have laws preventing people from leaving, but I also agree that this isn't what makes it a dictatorship.
This scales badly today and will scale even worse in the future. Those without education or time resources will at best manage to read the news. Humanity will need a low effort way to relay reliable information to more of it's members.
Is imaginary friend a thing at all anywhere outside USA?

In Poland it seems to be extremely rare. To the point that parents who easily accept kids naming, talking and ascribing emotions and speech to toys, are concerned about their child mental health if they start talking to something only in their imagination for prolonged period.

Meanwhile in USA over 60% of kids have one?

Is there any international imaginary friends research?

Article on wiki about imaginary friend doesn't seem to have many translations.
> Small clinics are everywhere and they're always filled with anxious patients because they have a benign stomach pain or something

What are you talking about ? They are filled woth old people most of the time because of the large elderly population in Japan. Most salary men are too busy with their jobs to even take a break from office work which is why the OTC market is so large in Japan to treat various ailments without seeing doctors.
> "I am always terrified of losing my job."

I stopped fearing that when I became a freelancer. It's done wonders for my confidence, and I'm much more productive as a result.

It also helps to be married; two jobs give a lot more security than one. Even so, having savings that can last you through a downturn or possibly even fund an early retirement, is definitely a good idea.
Yes. And in his editor README he explains why he has to use Borland C++

>I wrote the editor for 16-bit DOS because I thought there would be significant troubles trying to mix 16-bit interrupt callbacks with 32-bit protected-mode code. Also I don’t think I knew back then, that DJGPP has been as modernized as it indeed has. If it even was. So I used Borland C++ 3.1.

>This compiler by Borland was created before C++ was standardized, and it required me to make many sacrifices about style / sanity in the source code. For example, it did not support namespaces or templates. No STL! As such, the code is not representative of good programming practices for C++ programming, not by a long shot.

https://github.com/bisqwit/that_editor
If you think about it, it won't leave your brain: McDonalds restaurants are basically CPUs, especially now with the pandemic.

Instruction fetch: ordering on the touchscreen.

Instruction decoding: each component of the order gets routed to the functional unit that can handle it.

Separate functional units: fries, burger flipping, burger assembly, fridge, etc.

Superscalar: multiple functional units to do the same operation (flipping, assembly)

Pipelines: different phases (fetch/decoding/execution/store in register) happen in parallel for different instructions.

Speculative execution: the most common sub-orders (e.g. Big Mac, basic cheeseburgers) are executed before they are ordered and wait in the sub-pipeline (rack slide) until completion.

Write to register: take the results from the different funcitonal units and putting them in your bag.
It also helps if you use a large knife with a curved blade, so that you can rock it along its length. This is great for quickly dicing veg into really tiny pieces (grain of rice size).
In Belgium, my general practitioner told me it used to be common practice to simple cross every box on the blood test selection sheet for a client's annual checkup.

Right now there is rightfully pushback against unnecessary testing. Over-medicalization by which people are subjected to treatment without suffering under symptoms is very much a problem. Also the socialized healthcare providers are not happy with this, as you can imagine.
No it should be more like: I guess we should not put peanuts into vaccines without serious consideration.
I think the gp is asking: why not sneak-in, instead of openly coming through the airport?

but then again, maybe Alexey or his supporters didn't expect him to be arrested this fast
Gold rises despite the rise of the dollar
Saying that physics has a “mathematical framework” is a philosophical stance.
for these who don't know what OP is talking about, TIL

https://netzpolitik.org/2015/how-the-german-foreign-intellig...
The reason Sweden doesn't do regular health checks of the population is because there is no good scientific evidence that it has any effect. And that if a person feels healthy, they most likely are.

I think the similar reasoning is used in other countries.

If you can read swedish/use Google translate, this page explains it very clearly:
https://www.1177.se/fragor--svar/nationellt/behandling--hjal...
When there's a talk about Bitcoin, there are always people saying that deflationary money will lead to "no one buying things" and how it will ruin the world. Can't find those opinions about, literally, a "buy nothing" project.
OpenAI turning out to be a total bait and switch. Especially true when your co-founder is actively calling you out on it[1]

Remember kids: if it's not a non-profit organization it is a _for_ profit one! It was silly to expect anything else:

> In 2019, OpenAI transitioned from non-profit to for-profit. The company distributed equity to its employees and partnered with Microsoft Corporation, who announced an investment package of US$1 billion into the company. OpenAI then announced its intention to commercially license its technologies, with Microsoft as its preferred partner [2]

1 - https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/27/tech/elon-musk-tesla-bill...

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
Blue zones are pretty cherry picked to fit the narrative of the authors.
Parler was founded with Rebecca Mercers money and kicked left-leaning posts and posters.
DuckDuckGo surpasses 100M daily search queries for the first time
Not sure if it's possible on Linux, but you should be able to undervolt from within the OS on windows at least. Intel has an extreme tuning utility or you could use throttlestop. Works well on my xps 15.
out of curiosity, did you say the reason why you quit?
> HR is an agent between you and the company. It’s there to run the negotiations between what the company wants and what you want. If you don’t understand that, you won’t be able to use HR to your benefit.

-I like to think of HR as an abstraction layer between management and employees, whose basic function is to shield management from having to interact with the employees.

Also, HR receives its pay from the company, not their coworkers - so HR is very much an agent of the company, not you. (Which is fair - after all, their loyalty is with whoever pays them, which is not unreasonable)

That being said, there is good HR and bad HR out there - just don't think that HR is there for you; they're not.
Session, onion routing no metadata IM
It's a recurring theme in OpenAI research, they become more and more closed.
For instance their latest model called DALL·E hit the headlines before the release of the paper. Needless to say, the model is not available and no online demo has been published so far.
Samsung heir gets prison term for bribery scandal
The concern is not so much AI generated news, but malicious actors misleading, influencing or scamming people online at scale with realistic conversations. Today we already have large scale automated scams via email and robo call. Less scalable scams like Tinder love catfish scams or Russian/China trolls on reddit are now run by real people, imagine it being automated. If human moderators cannot distinguish these bots from real humans, that is a scary thought, imagine not being able to tell if this comment was written by a human or robot.
I'm Irish and never heard of someone getting one unless they were checking for something specific. However, I do know that regular health checks are recommended once you hit 45 or so. Not sure if that includes blood tests.

We're currently ranked 16th in the world for longevity, so I doubt regular blood checks is that important - at least, I remember reading previously that there's no evidence regular blood checks are actually useful unless you have an ongoing condition.
I think context switching is difficult to quantify, and difficult to talk about in a general sense.

* I'm sure some people are better at it than others

* Some work is easier to switch to and from

* Some work demands it—e.g., people in supporting roles that will put up with constant interruptions in order to help others

Throw into the mix that some people are better than others at deluding themselves about their abilities to context switch (or handle distractions in general), or who simply struggle focusing on a single task for hours at a time.

Personally, I don't find meetings and random conversations too bad. But if I have to completely unload a complicated task from memory and replace it with something else, coming back to the original task can often feel like starting from scratch.

Other things to think about:

* Figure 2 here—

http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S...

—from a study showing how "time spent on value-added tasks" drops if working on 3 or more parallel projects

* For other reasons (e.g., for faster feedback cycles, reducing overhead), batching isn't always a good idea. Here's a fun video showing that contrary to intuition, batching isn't always faster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmQORuNFE4c
They weren't considered criminals, they were sent to detention for clearing because otherwise it would've been easy for spies to get into army ranks. Of course, it sounds straight-forward in theory, but during war times the conditions in the detention were awful, and the whole Soviet system of gulags was very demanding of labor, so there weren't many incentives to get cleared.
I am going to disagree here. I think prep times are generally accurate for people with decent skills who are motivated to move quickly (rather than hang out in the kitchen and chat, which is totally fine it just affects your schedule).

How long does it take you to chop an onion? Well, let me put it this way—an instructional video of someone demonstrating how to chop an onion, moving slowly and pausing to explain the technique, will run about 90 seconds, possibly less. If it takes you more than about a minute to cut an onion, you are slow.

Most people have dull knives, hold the knife incorrectly so it is unstable, make the wrong cuts in the onion so it falls apart, hold the onion incorrectly and move slowly because they are worried about cutting their fingers. If you sharpen your knife, hold it correctly, make the correct cuts, and hold the onion correctly, you’ll find that it’s very fast to cut an onion.

Fact is—the difference between someone who is skilled and someone who is unskilled is big enough that they teach entire classes on knife technique. This is not about some esoteric subject like teaching you how to butcher small game in your kitchen—in a knife skills class, they’ll teach you basic stuff like how to cut onions. And I’ll say that being good at cutting onions does require a decent amount of skill—onions are round and slippery, after all.
Wow, that first Adnan Hajj photograph looks absolutely terrible.
Why do blogs that make such bold claims without any sources, with everyone in the comments disagreeing with these random statements, end up so high on the front page?

A few days ago there was also the blog about the UK Covid variant that was just nonsense.
I really hope you have friends outside the company.

Your team is not automatically your friend. They are your coworkers (as is your boss and anyone else in the company). It's possible for friendships to grow there, but it's not common.
Good or bad effect on hormones?
> Does everyone have internal monologue?

No, I think in pictures, smells and shapes.

> my thoughts are extremely dark

If you have harmful thought loops that give you problems in daily life, that's something to seek therapy for.
My first Linux distribution was Slackware 2.0, offered with the Unleashed Linux book, before I had already get to know UNIX via Xenix and DG/UX.

For a couple of years I subscribed to Linux Journal, faithfully reading every issue, became a Stallman missionary, trying to spread the gospel, even though most of our university assignments were to be done from Windows (W95/WFW 3.11 back then).

Eventually I got tired of choosing configurations and taking care OS distribution bonsai trees, and nowadays just use Mac/Windows/Android (where the Linux kernel use is an implementation detail), leaving Linux for the server room.
That is like saying "black powder has existed for centuries, are nuclear weapons really that big a problem?". The difference between an image editor like Photoshop and an automated image generation program is the far greater production capacity, speed, the lower cost and the fact that anyone with the right equipment can use it whereas the end result of of an image editor only is as good as the person using it,
> already struggling to distinguish ... automated customer request replies from genuine replies

I hope it's not only due to a decline in the quality of human support. If we could have really useful automated support agents, I for one would applaud that.
Well, I have been programming for 30 years now. I started with Apple when iPhone SDK was released. Had no problem with Xcode then, have nor problem with it now. How can actually IDE or editor be HARD (memes about quitting vim aside). I've used a bunch of them: HomeSite, SKEdit, Textmate, Sublime Text, PHPStorm/RubyMine/WebStorm, NetBeans, Xcode, AppCode, VSCode, Nova. I liked some more, some less, but neither was HARD.

How is moving cursor not standard? Mac OS has a very consistent way doing that, across the system.
Does the cost of health insurance change in Switzerland with a pre-existing condition?
Could be, but it sounded more like a naturalistic fallacy. Though lately people opposed to plants are upset about phytoestrogens turning them into women, which they don’t do, as far as I know.

Seed oils being bad may be correct, but I haven’t looked up specifically what’s supposedly bad about them.
IMHO Xcode is at most "barely acceptable" when compared to most other IDEs, there's a lot more bad things than good things.

Why is it such a hassle to install a vim extension, requiring code-signing shenanigans? In other IDEs and text editors this is at most a few button clicks to install an extension.

The "Scheme" system to manage per-target options is a joke even when being used to it.

The debugger variable-view-panel is extremely bare-bones.

Xcode used to be slick, but since a few years everything gets bigger, slower and laggier. Starting up, loading projects, starting into the debugger all takes much longer than it should.

It's unclear how the "new" build system is any better than the "old" one. Apart from being slower than the old one I haven't found any differences so far.

The one thing where Xcode shines and was ahead of the competition is the easy integration of C/C++/ObjC validation tools like clang analyzer, ASAN, UBSAN and TSAN.
What is the impact of fasting on hormones?
And the "develop menu" doesn't show either unless you go in advanced settings, and select that it should be visible.

Apple has no issues putting 200 hoops in front of you to get a simple thing done.

This is just another one of those hoops, and another reason developers don't like doing things with Apple-technologies.
The text color in comparison to the background partially fails accessibility due to low contrast.

On the other hand, the titles on the overview page are now giant and unnecessarily spaced out, making threads of interest three times harder to find. I can see hard limiting the width on text for longer text (e.g. comments) but on the front page it's unnecessary and contributes to the problem above.

For such an arrogant title it does not hold up - "does not follow every 2021 trend" =! "bad".
When a million monkeys are typing stories, the odds of two of them being similar enough to be considered the same is _not just_ the odds of the millionth monkey creating a similar story.

Just like the odds of two people in a group having the same birthday is surprisingly low, so are the odds of different cultures coming up with the same story.

If you add a bit of selection bias, where you ignore all cultures that don't have a seven sisters story and ignore all the other myths that are not similar and you could end up with this unsurprising coincidence.
Besides the time scalability aspect highlighted by someone else, I am worried that GPT-3 will have the potential to produce even "fake scientific papers".

Our trust fabric is already quite fragile post-truth. GPT-3 might make it even more fragile.
Do these wealthy investors look at a project and consciously think "This will make a great scam, I'm going to invest!"...
Or they think it's a legitimate project and the scam aspect only appeals to them at a subconscious level?
> find an employer happy to sponsor you

That's common and easy in Sweden, "sponsorship" is cheap and doesn't require a lot from the employers
We never had much money growing up, but in Australia it was never a problem. Sort of the opposite - with tall poppy syndrome, you sort of looked down on those too well off and out of touch or stuck up. Rather, I had 100% confidence I could grow up, get a good job, retire some day. Focusing on the end meant you missed the journey sort of thing. Pretty care free.

But I later spent some time in rich Asian cities and became aware of the high stress highly competitive environment there, all the way from early schooling. Now I am in the Bay Area and see the same sort of thing here, with there being such a huge difference in potential just by getting in the right schools or doing well on the right exams or interviews. Then things like this health care trap in the US is such a big shock. Even schooling, with such a huge difference between good and bad schools, good and bad neighborhoods. I can see why there is such a desire to better, or even maximize, ones situation.
I've not seen this discussed much. "When a leader is experiencing significant emotional upset, when they are stressed or ill, their shadow side can emerge. Hogan called this their 'dark-side’ behaviours, which can cause leadership to derail..."
The loop is scheduled using window.requestAnimationFrame, which follows the browser's refresh rate.
They expect you to have an iPhone; using that for cellular data is literally one click away.
> hunter gatherers often didn't have varied diets

I am by no means an expert (not a great start to a comment I realise), but from what I've read about it (e.g. in Sapiens by Harari) hunter gathers typically did have a diverse diet. In fact it's hard to imagine they wouldn't. For a start, different foods obviously have different availibility with the seasons. And, as the name suggests, there was typically a hunter/gatherer split (along gender lines) and hunting has this very bimodal distribution of getting a big kill that lasts for days or getting nothing at all, so the balance between the two is very variable. As for the content of both what is gathered and what is hunted, that varies a lot due to both natural variation (a natural forest isn't just filled with a single type of tree) and desire for variation. The desire for variation presumably evolved from both the nutritional benefit of having a varied diet and the fragility of relying on a single food source - if you don't learn how to hunt more than one type of animal then you'll end up starving if their numbers dwindle (e.g. because you hunted them too much).

> coevolved with a microbiome that relied on a very homogeneous diet

... so this unlikely to start with.
I hope the legend of how the Pleiades sold Subarus to lesbians also endures for 100,000 years.