skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're deliberately mixing "Twitter bans me" with "Government imprisons me" and pretending they are the same thing so you can describe it as "private companies are allowed to limit free speech don't you see!" which is a misleading and incorrect description. You said "When these CEO's enact new policies that censors "Right-Think", it'll be totally okay because it's not the Government limiting Free Speech - private companies are allowed to limit Free Speech, don't you see!" and that is explicitly /not/ what limiting free speech means; a) that's not the Government limiting Free Speech, that's the Government doing something else, and b) a private company limiting your speech isn't a private company limiting Free Speech, it's a private company doing something else.

And Free Speech is too important for that equivocation to pass uncontested.

> "Government cannot limit your Free Speech, for the reason I (and you) pointed out."

I didn't point out a reason the Government cannot limit free speech, I pointed out that Twitter banning you is not anyone limiting Free Speech. The Government absolutely /can/ limit your Free Speech, that's why it's important and scary - of all organizations which exist only the Government can make it illegal for you to publish a book or imprison you for writing a critical newspaper article. Jeff Bezos cannot lock you up for writing a blog post critical of Amazon or making a credible bomb threat, but a government could (potentially) lock you up for writing a blog post critical of the government and can do so for making a credible bomb threat.

Your reason appears to be "the Government doesn't want to limit your Free Speech because it would make them look bad, so they lean on Twitter to ban people instead" - well I would far far prefer that, because having your Twitter account banned is less bad than being imprisoned, and more easily recovered from by posting somewhere else. You trying to claim this is limiting your Free Speech trivialises what it means for people in other countries to be imprisoned for being critical of the party in power (whether you call that a government or not).

> "What more... it's not "The Government" - it's a political party that happens to be in power right now"

That's what a government is.

> "and is seeking to censor the other political party through means of intimidation and coercion of private companies.

Again no; Twitter banning your account is a kind of censorship but not the same kind of censorship, even if they were paid by the President himself. You being arrested for having a Twitter account would be censorship, but it wouldn't be Twitter doing the arresting. The reason it's not (the same kind of / as bad) censorship is that you can make your own Twitter with blackjack and hookers and say "I love $politicalParty" all you like on it, and if everyone does that then Twitter fades into irrelevance. Just because Twitter is large and popular doesn't mean Twitter is obliged to provide service to everyone - subject to discrimination laws. If you phone up your local talk radio and they don't air your phonecall, that's not censorship.
Go tests and benchmarks are so easy to write and run: just add TestFoo and BenchmarkFoo functions to a bar_test.go file, and "go test" does the rest. It's currently doable, but it requires a 3rd party library (go-fuzz) and a bit of fluffing around. This will make fuzz testing an equally first-class citizen with standard Go tooling (just add FuzzFoo), and as such we'll probably see a lot more people testing with fuzzing.

I used go-fuzz in GoAWK and it found several bugs (see https://benhoyt.com/writings/goawk/#fuzz-testing), and almost everyone who's done fuzz testing has similar reports. Certainly go-fuzz has found many, many bugs in Go itself: https://github.com/dvyukov/go-fuzz#trophies

For what it's worth, I wrote an article for LWN about the upcoming support for built-in fuzzing in Go: https://lwn.net/Articles/829242/ (of course, if you want full details, read the full proposal).
I'll admit that I consider myself "generally left-wing...and social liberally", and it was a real cognitive disconnect when my wife didn't want to take my name...It's such an ingrained tradition, so it required serious self-reflection to get to the bottom of my own reaction.
Moreover, buggy parsing code is massive security hole.
IANA neuroscientist but I suspect it's a measurement problem. The structures of the brain are microscopic and enormous in scale, so how do you capture all that data and make sense of it?
I agree it had a part in it, but its not the whole story. Its the citizens being unable to elect people not beholden to political parties, with party obligations. These obligations appear to be more important than their obligations to the people who put them there.

This isn't a Citizen's United issue as much as it is a set of political parties that have evolved to control their captive populations. Some people vote D|R precisely to stick it to the others. They don't care about representation. They care about tribalism. The parties foster and encourage that thinking. The various "news" channels have their own opinions and often align with a particular party. Which means they are in the propaganda and red meat business. Not the news business.

CU is a part of this, in terms of providing fuel for the fire, but its been going on much longer than CU, and will continue regardless of whether or not CU gets struck down going forward.
> This is precisely the wrong way to tackle it though. We cannot ever allow government to control what can or cannot be said

Can you please point me to a proposal for government to control what can or cannot be said?

Not a speculation about what might, in the future, be proposed based on what some people fear based on the questions in these letters, but an actual concrete proposal?

Otherwise, I don't see how “This is precisely the wrong way to tackle it” follows from “We cannot ever allow...” since the only possible thing “this” can refer to doesn't, at all, involve the thing we “cannot ever allow”.
The evidence for ROGD is 1 study. It assumed teenagers tell their parents everything. And selected for parents who refused to accept their children coming out as trans.
I see what you're saying but I don't agree. Repo topology might not be a choice. Almost certainly new features will cut across multiple projects. Why make that hard?

Tools should help you do the right thing. They should not be a painful bludgeon against other devs. Enabling fast and easy end to end testing is only helpful.
Honestly, I'm seeing a lot of these kinds of articles lately. What they have in common is that they're relatively short and expound on some arbitrary point which is highly subjective.

I wonder, are some people writing (and sharing these things on HN), not to share some insight on some subject but to have something to point at during interviews?
Thanks for making all that information available!
Yes, we are aware that big manufacturers are starting to roll out lots of telemetry into their equipment. i've only seen the greasing angle addressed by manufacturers on mobile equipment (bulldozers etc)
The problem with these platforms is that they are designed to encourage lock in. Lets face it, most customers don't buy one type of equipment for their entire plant. With many different brand specific platforms, it may not be palatable for customers.
Our strategy is to be light, retrofittable, simple and easily integrated into customer's larger management systems (like SAP)
Or alimony, depending on how you look at it.
I got 4/4 GPT-2 guesses right. It is impressive but the "tell" I've found so far is just poor structure in the logic of how something is arranged. For example: a bunch of `if` statements in sequence without any `else` clauses with some directly opposing prior clauses. Another example was repeating the same operation a few times in individual lines of code which most human programmers would write in a simpler manner.

It's harder to do with some of the smaller excerpts though, and I'm sure there are probably examples of terrible human programmers who write worse code than GPT-2.
Deep down in in systemd-resolved there's hard coded fallback DNS and NTP addresses. They're build-time options with defaults set to Google and CloudFlare. They only see is in catastrophic misconfigurations. They're also completely under the control of the distro which can set whatever defaults it wants.

The anti-systemd brigade has translated this into "OMG LENNART SPIES ON MY DNS!!1!". There's cogent arguments to be made against systemd but the privacy angle is one of the weakest.
Thank you again for explaining things.

> When we reach the line: [head & tail] = &rem' `rem` is mutated, i.e. split in two, so a copy of it is made.

Huh. That surprises me, that you consider destructuring a form of mutation. But if you do, then I see how this works out because it forces a copy.

However, this raises more doubts. If I write something like

first_two xs -> match xs {
[] -> [],
[head & tail] -> [head & first tail]
}

first xs -> match xs {
[] -> [],
[head & _] -> [head]
}

and call first_two with a CoW reference to a very long list, will it copy the entire list on the first destructuring, even though we really only want to copy two elements? For that matter, will a list search function, that is only supposed to read the list, called with a CoW reference actually copy the list?

If the answer is "well, lists are special", I guess you could consider the same questions on trees. In a functional language, insertion into a binary tree only copies nodes along one path in the tree. Would your language copy the entire tree instead, at potentially exponentially higher cost?

(I'm also slightly confused by your definition of append -- the accumulator seems to be a list, but then the initial call of loop would need to use [value] instead of value, no?)

Regarding "tying references to the stack" I had another question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26228961
Jeff Hawkins has a great series of open workshops on computational cognitive models (with Marcus Lewis and the rest of Numenta team), check out Numenta on Twitter. This open seminar format is kind of unique in the industry.

Recently they talked about grid cells models: https://twitter.com/Numenta/status/1357836938955218945

and reviewing the new 'Tolman-Eichenbaum Machine' memory model by James Whittington' lab: https://twitter.com/Numenta/status/1362187375900651526
Gamestop should use it's new found war chest to purchase Stadia from Google.
The key difference between the parent commenter's proposal and a loan, is that the proposal ties the amount paid back to the income of the graduate.

The thinking is that conditions would be structured to better ensure the college degree provides suitable income (only for certain majors, only if the college provides certain data about grads, etc).
You already could?[0] Or are you asking about something else?

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39913847/is-there-a-way-...
You are correct about lending being the problem. Education is not a free market where capital is allocated in proportion to value that is created, because all of the loans are subsidized. And the government can’t put itself into a position where it subsidized some loans but not others based on the curriculum, because there would be public outrage.

A long time ago I attempted to enroll in a nearby college to take some literature courses and simply pay cash and they were dumbfounded. I had to have career conversations, take a test, take required courses, and other nonsense. It is a deeply flawed system IMHO, designed to stamp out obedient employees and not actually encourage the proliferation of knowledge.
I beg to differ.

Refactoring is not merely rearranging code statements. Refactoring is restructuring of the code starting from the architectural and abstract goal and then looking at how pieces of existing code would fit. Sometimes, that requires writing new code and tests. Refactoring by definition also means not breaking the user space.

I've never heard of any serious writer printing out their prose and cutting it and rearranging it. That just sounds absurdly unnecessary to me.
They don't run an extra cable though, they just buy credits and if you're lucky the profit doesn't go to the parent fossil energy company. It's still better than old energy firms but it's not as if the coal plants run any less hard when you turn on your bitcoin farm with a green contract instead of a fossil one. It's just a matter of where profits flow, and also some public perception. (E.g. Climeworks says that individual customers help show investors that that's a market for it, which helps them do more good than purely the CO2 you pay them to remove.)

Regarding this "fossil parent" thing btw, list of checked companies: https://www.robinwood.de/oekostromreport (I'm with Green City Power because they don't only go the easy hydro route but also build out solar -- iirc, it has been a while). Switching is a matter of signing up with the new provider. Nobody needs to come by, power doesn't go out at all, you just tell them what the meter says on date X and all is good.
How long before we can just write specs instead of code?
> Honestly, for third parties reading, this is just utter nonsense. Just go pull SWITRS data from CA and look at it yourself.

I'm glad you brought this up because according to SWITRS cyclists are involved in ~8 percent of injuries while only making up ~1 percent of commuters.

Almost everything I can find online claims that cycling is more dangerous per mile, per hour, and per trip. Additionally, I am willing to bet that most cycling accidents are not reported to the police.

> Here are some anecdotes from the last couple of months:

While were using anecdotes, here mine - I know many more people who have been hurt cycling than driving. This doesn't even adjust for the much greater miles/hours spend driving vs cycling.

Even besides the statistics, you should be able to use common sense to understand that bicycling is more dangerous than multi-ton steel cages equipped with seat belts and airbags.
I have a 3090 and cheap-ish electricity. Is it actually worth doing GPU mining again? I thought that died out long ago.
So you'd like to make lying illegal...? I have an amendment to show you, it's actually the very first one!
Ok, we've tweaked the wording to address that. Thanks!
1. Before the post-WWII GI bill, which sent an enormous surge of young men to college in the 1950's, the percentage of Americans with a college degree was measured in single digits (Bachelor degrees then were as common as Ph.D.s today). And, yet, we still somehow managed to have a functioning democracy[1].

2. People evaluate degrees based on financial outcome simply because there is no other way to justify spending a quarter million dollars on a degree. That is an order of magnitude more than it costs to deliver a high quality education[2].

If college were truly just about learning, you could start cranking out college-educated citizens for $20k a pop. At price it's an easy decision to make. Instead, colleges have become luxury resorts with a classroom as one of the amenities. They compete on things like best food, recreation and nightlife. It's not (necessarily) a problem to bundle education with fun, but you have to justify the expense to your customers. Colleges have chosen to highlight the differences in earnings between those with degrees and those without.

[1] Even worse: While I agree with premise that we should strive for a better educated electorate, someone arguing the opposite could easily point out that the increasing political discord is correlated with the increasing fraction of degree holders.

[2] The cost of the primary input has decreased: Faculty salaries have been stagnant for 40 years--for a given "level". But faculty salaries have actually decreased when you account for "title deflation". Colleges increasingly rely on "adjunct" faculty and delay the promotion from assistant to full professor. It is now common for PhDs to do two or even three post-docs (which can include teaching duties) before getting a first appointment. Thus, a 40 year-old academic today has a lower title and costs less to employ than a 30 year-old academic from the middle of the 20th century.
> What they're saying is that phones being cheap does not make up for housing being expensive - no matter how useful the phone is, ultimately the end goal is to have shelter, and if you can't afford shelter then it doesn't matter how cheap anything else is.

I can't agree with that either. Housing is not everything. Even if you are homeless with no prospects of getting out of that situation, it still matters a lot how cheap many other things (food, clothes, access to showers, communication with friends and family, even entertainment) are. A phone with internet access is not just important as a tool to get out of homelessness, it also represents a significant improvement in your quality of life.

Admittedly, this may look somewhat different in climates where a lack of shelter can be fatal.
The scientific revolution has indirectly produced a lot of bad things like nuclear wars, climate change, trash islands and more. I just get tired of ideological driven over-positive scientism which made me stop reading
I think the magnitude of the lies on the Fox side is far larger than those on the CNBC side.

Magnitude matters in this case and painting them with "both sides" arguments is a huge disservice.
Are you not able to see the implicit threat in this letter?
This is a silly conclusion.

If a gang member and a methodist get into a bar fight, do you think the fair thing is for the bar to ban both gang members and methodists?

No -- it is entirely reasonable to treat fringe groups that foster fringe ideas differently than large diverse groups.
Clubhouse is siphoning people’s contacts
Given the incredible scarcity of academic jobs and huge surplus of Ph.D. graduates, I'd be surprised if even relatively unknown schools in the middle of nowhere couldn't attract hundreds of highly qualified applicants.

Landing a faculty job at any university - public or private - is an extraordinary achievement.
> None of those deaths were linked back to the Capital building in a meaningful way (including the officer).

That is simply false.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-of...
I mean. It's an open-source software. Those concerned can just use a patched version. Not even patched - this is fixed with a build flag - I'm sure security-oriented distributions have already specified the right one.

As a last resort, you can always block requests to 8.8.8.8 with iptables.
Well, it's the Western diet. The US created and exported so we're ahead by a decade or so. But yes, the USA isn't the only country eating itself to death. Slowly.
That was a sweet self own. I really enjoyed this.
That's why it was called "The Jewel in the Crown".

That's also why Churchill didn't care about the Japanese capturing Australia during WW2, but he couldn't allow the Japanese to take India.
I can't claim to be authoritative on cultural practices in China, so I hedged my language so I wasn't overreaching :) And there's usually some exception to every rule...

That's really interesting! Can you explain it a little more? I can't read Chinese, so it's a bit opaque what's going on...
Ah, 0/5, I give up :)
The tech giants are each their own unique thing and not generally a pattern that anyone else can or should follow.

Most organizations, for example, do not have hyperscale volumes and face no insurmountable barriers in setting up parallel environments for testing.
Thanks Nathanael,
Yes, tech adoption is a risk and something that we are trying very hard to address.
Our strategy is to keep the tool & system as simple as possible. Our head unit has no buttons, only a screen and a charge port and is retrofitted onto existing grease guns.
We want to allow operators to work as they normally would but to have the tool that augments them and makes their job easier.
We know its not going to be an easy task, but simplicity in design is our strategy to overcome this.
Does this mean they were getting push back from law enforcement agencies?
Until we confront this, without fabricating fever swamp fiction to frighten captive tribal masses, we are going to be stuck in this dystopia. Teetering on the edge of {fasc,Democratic|National social}ism who all seek to control the narrative and suppress dissent.
If sent such tainted bitcoins, do the exchanges send them back, or seize them?
Why does USDC and USDT need to exist for this? What’s the benefit of not just having USD in your Coinbase/bitfinex acc if they’re meant to be pegged anyway?
Yep, I trained my own BPE using HuggingFace's tokenizer library. During training I didn't keep the entire dataset in memory because even on an RTX8000 the full dataset + model weights + data used by the optimizer (ADAM) is too big.
Our maybe you reacted to breasts and ignored mental maturity. And yes, I have experience with 12 years old. Their beats size is unrelated to their brain maturity and you absolutely can tell them apart from 19 years old.
The solution is to foster an appreciation of the values of freedom and independence in the population, not only with regards to computing, but about life in general (freedom of speech, freedom of press, economic freedom, etc).

I've always admired how much the general population defends freedom of speech in the US. In the rest of the world, freedom of speech is constantly eroded with laws against "hate speech", because our cultures (latin american here) don't value freedom of spedch. If we could capture the appreciation Americans have for freedom of speech and extrapolate it to all areas of human activity, we would rest assured that our computers would keep being general-purpose.
This isn't terribly surprising given the degree of substitutability between very inexpensive community colleges (or state schools like CSUs here in California) and mid/lower-tier privates.

Pre-pandemic, going to college away from home offered a fun environment with many amenities. During the pandemic, these fun aspects are greatly limited (and parents might not let kids go anyway, due to health risks). When you take away so much of the fun stuff that goes along with college, it doesn't make as much sense to pay $50k/yr in tuition when the experience isn't that much different than your local state school (which costs $10k).

Top colleges, on the other hand, still offer differentiation in terms of degree prestige. Add onto that the promise of not taking standardized tests into account (as the article notes Cornell and other schools are doing this), and it's not surprising that applications are up.
That is actually great feedback. What language is your project and what platform did you try/use?
Ah cycling is dangerous. Cyclists are not dangerous. Okay, not going to argue with that.
> I have a mirror of cheapskatesguide.org on ZeroNet at https://127.0.0.1:43110/1CpqvBQWSzZSmnSZ58eVRA9Gjem6GdQkfw

Am I missing something, or is this guy trying to get people to visit his localhost?
I turn off the audible alert on lock. Flashing the lights is plenty, why be obnoxious and add noise to the soundscape? I can hear the locks click, anyway.
Dynamic Filters with Laravel Eloquent
Cost effective yes, efficient no.
The way Microsoft supports your hardware is with stable driver APIs, but they don't and can't tell you that third parties like Dell will ship timely updates to their defective drivers and firmware. Microsoft did not until very recently (November 2020!) start offering EOL dates for their own Surface products, and they offer 4 years.
This was the first computer I used and learned to program on starting in my third grade enrichment class. Lots of fond memories.
pumps to flow god's nectar through the pipes..
also conveyors and screw pumps to carry raw ingredients (barley, hops etc) from storage locations into the vat.
This type of lack of understanding is rife. Makes me quite bullish on Monero when people realise how little privacy Bitcoin and crappy forks provide. Might see a signal type movement to Monero.