skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope they are. You would not want a fire brigade that's only theoretical about putting fires out.

It seems that the occurrence of people who bemoan that social scientists are activists, that they are not supposed to actually develop solutions to what they study, has increased in recent years. It's bad logic. A sociologist studying the effects of poverty shouldn't be interested in solving poverty is a mind-boggling idea.

There's something more pressing, now. People can concur here. I've found that this line of thought, that social scientists shouldn't be activists, is an idea that's been drummed about by the so-called 'intellectual dark web'. This rag-time team of pundits propagated a lot of conspiracy theories about the 'cultural marxism', the 'Frankfurt school', etc. It feels like an attempt at policing the content of social research under the cover of conservative/christian propriety.
Thank you for mentioning it! I’m gonna take a look tomorrow!
> I'd expect that migrating between Graviton and Ampere Altra is going to be easier than Intel Skylake -> AMD Zen.

Could you explain what migration problems are between Skylake and Zen, beyond AVX-512 ?
http://zoobab.wikidot.com/elinks-with-bittorrent-support

Boycott Firefox, Switch to Brave, my browser had Bittorrent support 16 years ago

In 2005, Elinks browser had built-in Torrent support.
In 2021, Firefox still does not have built-in Torrent support.
In 2021, Brave has built-in Torrent support.

Why Firefox has not focussed on decentralisation and uncensorability for the last 16 years?

Maybe because they work for their grand masters (Google and other GAFAMs) who want power, and don't want decentralization?
yeah, most people never comment on the article but on the philosophy.

That’s why 4 years ago I wrote this blog

Stories That Should be Banned from Hacker News: Immortality

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/stories-that-should-...

“Death gives life meaning” is first on the list.
It's reserved by POSIX shells as well. So either way you'd have to escape the ampersand.
"law enforcement" was in on it. I'm using the term loosely here, I'm mainly thinking "police"; the FBI seems to have things in order much better at least. The warning signs were there for YEARS, but nobody's dared to stand up to the domestic terrorist organizations - probably because the president was one of them. "Stand back and stand by".

If you picture a Venn diagram, there's a significant overlap in Republicans, the insurrectionists, QAnon / Pizzagate types, Blue Lives Matters, the police, and nazis / white supremacists.
Yeah - the basilisk thing is mostly a joke as far as I can tell and has little to do with the AGI goal alignment friendly AI work or the control problem.

Miri is mostly focused on the AGI control problem and thinks that AGI is closer than others believe. If true, all other problems are pretty irrelevant.

There is real work in ML bias and fairness to be done too, but it seems overrun by toxic personalities and partisan politics.
When I visit this link it downloads a PDF file. Avoid.
much imprisonment is based on just this, even if an action is required to send you on the road to prison your ethics are used as indicator of whether you should actually go there or not.
Whoa there, Roofus; have a Milk-Bone of information:

"In 2017, users on the message-board site 4chan[40][41][42] aimed to convince the media and other people that the OK gesture was being used as a white power symbol. According to The Boston Globe, users on 4chan's /pol/ ("Politically Incorrect") board were instructed in February 2017 to "flood Twitter and other social media websites...claiming that the OK hand sign is a symbol of white supremacy," as part of a campaign dubbed "Operation O-KKK".[37]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_gesture

O-KKK? ... mmmmkay, whatever.

You've been taken for a ride ... a wild-eyed ride with your head sticking out of a rolled-down passenger window.
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I believe, in many parliamentary systems the parliament is dissolved first after which government becomes a caretaker government and cannot enact major new policy changes. After an election is held, new members of parliament are elected and must form a governing coalition that has a majority of the members (sometimes with one party, sometimes with multiple parties) can select a new prime minister and start governing in earnest. Sometimes, they cannot come to an agreement on a governing coalition and they continue without a government for a while until they can. Belgium is infamous for having gone years without a real government that can enact policy due to their failure to establish a majority coalition. This is however very unusual.

Over the past couple years I'm strongly starting to believe that this is a better system of government than the US republican[1] model.

[1] by republican, I mean of a republic, not the GOP
ALL the way down. And up.
August 2022?
Psychedelics Are a Waste of Life
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The (1) case is a bit inaccurate/misleading. From what I can gather from the article:

- Gebru tweeted the name of the employee [1]

- Axios then reached out to Google, who then made the following statement:

> Our security systems automatically lock an employee’s corporate account when they detect that the account is at risk of compromise due to credential problems or when an automated rule involving the handling of sensitive data has been triggered. In this instance, yesterday our systems detected that an account had exfiltrated thousands of files and shared them with multiple external accounts. We explained this to the employee earlier today.

Context matters.

[1] https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1351698317550432256
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Google Play Suspends Wimkin, Citing Posts Calling for Violence
If They Won’t Hear Us, They Will Fear Us: How Capitol Attack Planned On Facebook
What convinced me is graphs' zero origin

When counting apples (i.e. only +) then 1 based. but when (* % ^ √ ÷) then 0 based
Could you elaborate on this a little more? I'm not sure I'm connecting all the dots.
This kind of stuff used to work in Objective-C too, but it was removed step by step for performance reasons. If you allow it, for every call you do to such an object you have to first check if the method exits on it or somewhere up the inheritance chain. You can cache of course, but adding or removing a method to an object invalidates the cache for the object itself and everything that inherits from it's class.
None of these things has anything to do with agile, they are all from scrum. Scrum is not agile as it is the very definition of prioritizing processes and tools over individuals and interactions. If you want to learn about scrum, you have asked the right questions, but if you want to learn about agile development read the agile software manifesto and run away screaming from scrum.

[1] https://agilemanifesto.org/
Thank you! It took me about a couple of months from start to the second revision.

in case you're interested:
https://www.hackster.io/news/see-inside-of-a-cpu-with-the-mk...

https://hackaday.com/2020/12/31/diy-8-bit-computer-knows-all...
Not every leak is a whistleblow. It depends on the content of the files. That verdict still needs to be made (depending on the content of the leaked files).
Better one serious lockdown and then having some peace of mind than an endless series of half-assed lockdowns like in Europe.

I've lost track of what "lockdown" we're in now and the people are getting really tired of the perceived incompetence of the government. We also royally screwed-up the vaccine management and it will take at least until end of summer to vaccinate enough of the population.
Sorry for double response but I took a glance and have some stars in my eyes! I’m not sure this is the language I imagine but it’s awesome awesome that it exists and someone is working on something even a bit like a Clojure with a real static type system I would want to work with.
Since no purely free market system has every existed at the scale of a nation in human history and therefore no coercion free one either at what point does it become acceptable to arrange your society around coercive arrangements.

If you construe some tipping point like for example chance of existential or utilitarian failure that does justify coercion how do you differentiate between a society in which minimizing coercion is the goal and one in which whatever you construe as justifying coercion is actually the guiding principal.
> Advertising free children’s TV (and radio) may have delayed the onset or rampant consumerism fuelled by commercial TV elsewhere.

I find this statement hard to square with the make up of the economy of this country and the rampant consumerism that seems to exist.

We seem to have taken the biggest hit to the economy by covid because our economy depends so much on rampant consumerism (I'm obviously simplifying)

This is not to say that I think ad free TV is bad, quite the opposite.
The first time I exited a car of a friend in the US, I literally jumped because the honking caught me off guard.
No it doesn't. That just gives you the last element, which is not a "based indexing".

JavaScript will allow arr[-1] as an "individual" element, but it's internally an object and so iterating and hoping that -1 comes in order doesn't work.
You can always vote in someone who believes in basic policing
Always keen to see what's going on in the ETH ecosystem, and I do agree with you on it probably being more meaningfully decentralized.

That said, I was more asking what they're doing right now than what they plan to do in the future (I'm fully aware of ETH 2.0 and all).
> Why do you think Google reached out to the press?

Why do you think I think that? I never said anything about who reached out to the press.

> I’d bet the employee leaking documents did

I bet they didn’t, because none of the articles include anything that the employee would have given them, only that they could not immediately be reached for comment. If that employee was the first source of information, then there would actually be some information from their perspective.

> and Google just responded to a request for comment.

The normal response (for a variety of good reasons, including legal and ethical ones) from a company on a matter like this when asked by the press when they haven’t completed an internal investigation would be to decline comment on personnel matters. Google’s behavior is grossly unethical here irrespective of who reached out to the media first.
Makes you wonder who the sign is for. I doubt that anyone considering committing crimes is going to read the sign and think "oh, I guess I better not."
Hi dang. I understand. It wasn't my intention to start a nationalistic flamewar, I'm just hoping to get people to understand China better so that the west and China can come together, which benefits everyone. But looking back at my comment, I can see how some of my pent-up frustration with past comments can come over as gaslighting. I'll be more mindful of this in the future.
The About window has a link which gives a good overview of the libraries used in the project:

https://www.tejotron.com/thirdparty.html

I'm happy to see the chips-headers in there too :)
I'm glad to see kodack black pardoned. He's a super genuine artist. His music changed my life. His crime was lying how many white boys have lied in court and served less than 46months in prison. He truly turned his life around for many years now and it reflects in his music.
The people who produce anti-censorship tools usually philosophically believe that it’s not the job of a communications tool to enforce acceptable speech.

It’s sort of like complaining that making it easier to vote brings the average voter education level down. The people making it easier are certainly aware but don’t think it’s right to make it more difficult to vote.
What Year Is It?
Yeah, his face looks too small in the video, lol.
Iraq seems a little different to an armed invasion of.. the capitol building. No?
Indeed I find it important to remember on this day that pardons (and commutations?) only apply to criminal law, not civil law.

This might come back to haunt quite a few other people, e.g. Steve Bannon embezzling from that wall non-profit where donors can still proceed with civil cases to get money back (and punitive damages.) Also if there was any flat-out corruption in dispensing government contracts by the Trump admin, competing companies could probably bring down a well-funded legal hammer of civil suits...
That violates physics as we know it, but there might be effects we don't know about just yet.

Marginal improvements are boring. And besides, having to carry propellant is a significant limitation to the travel distance and one of the biggest nuisances of spaceflight. If you only needed electricity or other form of energy, but not matter, it would be much, much easier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
That's a fair point.

> it outcompetes is based on the network of linked self serve services in the ecosystem

You have to differentiate between business concerns.

First, the concern of those who are willing to buy an IP license because they think the product is useful to them (akin to buying a Windows license key).

ES doesn't make any revenue here. They don't sell IP licenses. That's a direct consequence of putting an open source license on your product. Anyone can just get a copy of the code and spin up their own instance, no strings attached.

Second, the market of those who are looking towards assistance in using the product (consultancy, support, servicing, hosting,...). You can spin up your own instance and do all the work yourself independently. But for organizations, operating software is an expense: often it's cheaper to outsource those costs towards specialists... such as ES offering consultancy services.

The product license and the type of support you want/need are different business concerns. You can choose to an open source product and host everything yourself, you can choose a closed source product and host it yourself, or you can outsource hosting and support to a partner like ES or AWS.

> We spend a ton of money on Amazon in general, and I would not tout thier consultancy as being anything but ok if not underwhelming.

Don't get me wrong here... But the moment you open up your wallet for AWS, you've already contributed to AWS' market position against ES.

Sure, your experience with AWS might be underwhelming, and that's totally valid. But that doesn't matter if you still go ahead and choose to pay for their services.

A market position isn't tied to the quality of service. It's tied to how much potential customers a business can sweep up and convert into hard revenue. The quality of the service is tangential to that.

You can create an absolutely shoddy user experience, and still dominate a market if you happen to position yourself at the right time, with the right product to the right people.
I mean, that's really the problem right there.
It was clearly a mistake. They don't act in a constructive way.

Let's take Timnit's paper for example. She found out that Google had been using a biased language model in search. The bias was like - 'male' association with 'doctor' as opposed to 'woman' association to 'nurse'. But she didn't show how this is harming anyone in a concrete way. Just theoretical. And then she offered no solution, just blaming the work of others, using her paper as a soap box to raise scandal and make herself holier than thou.
> I would hate to work somewhere that my changes are deployed within days of writing my code.

Did you miss a "not" here? For me an environment where my changes are deployed and used quickly is a lot more fulfilling than one where I work on something that may only see the light of day weeks or months down the line.
Or you can use context instead of absolute judgment. When done under water in a scuba suit, it probably means ok. When done when posing with Steve Bannon it probably means white power sign.
> I'm sorry, in future I will humbly accept the advice of the self righteous with a doff of my cap

They are not the only two options. Parent just suggested sharing your perspective without the aggressive tone and expletives.
True, the situation currently is suboptimal. It feels like X11 was given up on while Wayland and its implementations and ecosystem aren't quite there yet.

I guess for Windows, a dummy driver is the only way to go since the layers above that are off limits for 3rd parties and it would be Microsoft who had to go ahead and do something there. But as you mentioned the wayland community is pretty chaotic with getting basic features implemented, so effectively it might be the same situation as with Windows ;-)

I'd be interested in seeing your finished product and trying out how it will handle different things you throw at it though.
One of the many benefits of living in Beverly Hills, the police actually show up, even for petty crimes.
Not much different from minified Javascript though.

The License page has links to all the used open source projects at least:

https://www.tejotron.com/thirdparty.html
Yes, I think it's a grey area that would be ignored.

She also called herself a digital nomad. And talked about her business in graphic design and her partner talked about not paying local tax and stuff. Google it.

But she was booted because of the attacks from the Twitter cancel squad.

I'm going to 'Just World' she got cancelled by her own subculture. But that I'm not sure about. Maybe she wasn't in the cancel squad, I just assume everyone on Twitter is a bad human being.
In a free market, you can decline to sell to Carol.

In any case, the example is not compelling. It seems that making drugs illegal exacerbates the crime problems associated with drugs. It doesn't fix things. The War on Drugs is a near total failure.
The researcher who's departure sparked a lot of controversy tweeted the name of the employee in question, with some opinion attached. Axios reached out to Google who then made the statement saying security systems detected mass-forwarding of internal documents. They didn't name the employee, but prefaced the explanation with "in this instance".
The most interesting pardons are the no name ones. Pardoned restaurant chain fraud for an italian not even charged in NY. Sounds like mafia related crime to me.

The other no name money laundering criminals are all related to either his gambling businesses or his place of living in Florida.

He's basically pardoning people he's been doing crimes with for a long time and then if course some big names.

I'm happy to see some rappers pardoned though tbh. Their music has influenced my life, they've done great deal of good outside of music and none of them were in the can for things like harming women or animals etc.
TBH indexing became much less important with every language adopting some sort of "for all" and map/filter/reduce constructs. If you don't care about indexes you don't need to think about them (finally!).

The remaining cases are by definition edge cases and warrant enough attention that bugs caused by 1- vs 0-based indexing doesn't seem to be a big problem in practice.

It's like with goto and structured programming - people stopped using goto for loops and ifs, so the remaining cases where goto is used as last resort aren't much of a problem. People think hard before doing this.
Ask HN: I only read tech/business books – recommend me some fiction?
I read exclusively non-fiction (mainly technical and business books). I don't think it's doing my brain any good, particularly my creative thinking and my ability to switch off.

Can anyone recommend some good, contemporary fiction for people that have forgotten how to read fiction?
If the BLM protestors attempted to storm buildings defended by the federal police that were deployed to those protests, they'd have been mowed down with light machine guns. Had the police not rioted themselves, nothing would have happened even if BLM had come to fight because it would have been abundantly clear that escalation would not lead to rising property values in Tokyo.

The Capitol should have been much better fortified by a much larger force given that the FBI, MPD, and Capitol Police knew or should have known about this plan for months. Had the presence of several hundred officers with multiple layers of fencing and visibly-manned M249 positions not been sufficient to convince their vanguard to run away, they would have been able to escalate to spotlights, LRAD, and less-lethal projectiles before needing to go with the real deal. A suitable amount of publicity for these preparations could very well have resulted in the Q Cucks Klan deciding to find an excuse to either make it a legitimate protest or call the whole thing off.

The deaths would have been at most two or three rioters, and possibly a few who get trampled in the panicked retreat. That would have been a light touch; it accomplishes the objective using a minimum of force, and if they saw reason nobody would even have been scratched. A medium touch would just be shooting anyone who tries to breach the perimeter until they stop trying (which would have been totally legal); a heavy touch would have happened to the BLM protestors if they had escalated to violence.

Kneeling in solidarity with protesters is fine because neither the protestors or the officer are breaking the law or indeed doing anything wrong. Letting an enemy force (and that's absolutely what a crowd of people with unlawfully-possessed guns and Army of Northern Virginia battle flags is) past your position is at a minimum conspiracy to enter and remain in a federal building without authorization.
This really undermines trust.
I've been at teams and on projects doing CI and CD for the last... 15 years.

Sure, our deployment process was 10-15 minutes in the best of cases (because of serializing deployments for different branches), but where does the author's impression that the collective "we" are not doing CD come from?
A bad party that is improving is still bad.
With Chromium, Google is defining the web standards like Internet Explorer did, because it's a monopolist.
> You can't sue the government into continuing to do business with you.

You can do that actually.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/22/amazon-files-suit-protesting...

https://www.onmsft.com/news/corrected-evaluation-flaw-may-fa...
According to https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/19/former-google-engineer-ant...

"Instead, Alsup sentenced Lewandowski to 18 months, but delayed his prison time until the pandemic was under control. Levandowski also agreed to pay $756,499.22 in restitution to Waymo and a fine of $95,000."

So he didn't even spend a single minute in prison. Wow
PDF with an image on one page, then the plain text of the page flowed over following pages.
> barbaric rushed executions

Source?
I'm sure removal was still weighed against how much would be lost (financially, functionality lost by people who isn't violating rules) etc.

In the Facebook case, there is some moderation (although it obviously failed), and the fraction of users who aren't doing anything wrong is absolutely staggering. The alternative to FB if banned, for people in that category is hard to find.

On Parler, the moderation was basically non-existent, the amount of well behaved users is small (although still a majority even on Parler obviously) and the available alternatives to those users are readily available, such as Twitter, making the damage to those users smaller.
Are you referring to this one: https://avalon.fun/ ?
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