skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, the author must be a bit depressed or something. I don't even know where to start.

> If I’m going to cease to exist, it doesn’t matter what would be in a world without me.

Oh yeah, egoism at its best lol. If I die, why shouldn't everyone else?

> children make a human a slave of circumstances for at least 15 years. For what? For nothing, just because.

Okay... He is also realizing that children are not his "helper bots". I am assuming he is a he, because a women would never say these things... I don't know in what world you live in to think of children this way. Have you ever played with a child or seen it grow up? This is atrocious. Seriously man, get help or something, this almost borders on psychopath level of apathy.

> (Children, again) It’s like a new branch in a version control system, if you know what I mean.

Okay I am out. You really should get help. Definitely.

> So no, children are not our immortality. They are the best way to kill time (and eventually yourself).

Yep... Totally get it. Obviously children are not our immortality. Are they the best way to kill time? I mean if you are a robot, that's probably true.

> We’ve already superseded the evolution, so we don’t actually need it any more.

We are far away from that. Right now our gene pool is actively deteriorating because we managed to eliminate natural selection. And yet, we still can't live forever and we can't fix the common cold. Good luck to our species.

> The nature isn’t our friend. It’s our enemy.

Okay :D. Just dig yourself a concrete hole and live in there from bottles of Soylent and see what happens. There are tons of studies who show you how important a connection to nature is for the human body and mind, but well...

> The meaning of life is to keep on living.

Yeah, that's maybe the only thing I can agree with in this "text" or whatever it is. But it definitely doesn't follow from the brainfarts that came before.

I am now actually pitying the coworkers of this person and actually anybody he interacts with, if any.

Look, there is only one thing that differentiates humans from robots. It is that humans are nothing like you want to make them in your article. If humans were like you, I would wish this race would get replaced by actual robots asap, because at least then, there is an excuse for behaving the way you do.
Making a file manager sounds interesting. A customer service platform not so much because I've done it before. A payroll system could be interesting.

Typing a letter and having it show up interests me.

What interests you?
Here, they said that the development was slowed down because of disagreements, and a sizable part of the development team announced their fork:

https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/25134-fork-ad/
Sure, sure, $9,000/MWhr is a sweet reward that was being offered way back on Wednesday. Do you know what the clearing price is right now? -$31.65 Yes, they are CHARGING power plant operators who rushed to bring capacity online:
http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/20210220_real_time_spp

Maybe markets are not the best solution for every situation.
As opposed to "you need a special piece of hardware" it's "you need a readily available piece of hardware with the right affordances".

Doesn't sound particularly bad, especially when compared to the situation in other industries (e.g. cars and all the special proprietary OBD stuff they do).
I think that’s the disagreement.

Dean said in his letter that the paper didn’t address relevant literature related to the subject that the authors weren’t aware of. To me it doesn’t seem that the reason is that it besmirched Google, but that it wasn’t complete.

Also the article wasn’t an ethics breach type of article and internal so I’m not sure what the legal protection would be. I think if the employees had some evidence of illegal activity then they would be protected.

If this paper would be considered an ethics breach then I don’t think there should ever be relevant protections.
>One thing we can do better now? Bring back and/or increase focus on civics, history, and social studies. This for obvious reasons, like the right-wing/populist political debacle, but also as a way to develop an inherent ambition as a result of a better understanding of our society and how it can be changed.

Extremism and populism aren't caused by children. In fact it's the opposite. It's the children that are fighting for rational causes. Why do we have "a" Greta Thunberg? Because adults failed.
The Rising Dev #2: Domain Knowledge and Differentiating
We can't go back to C people.
Its like scam/phishing e-mails with typos in them. Most widescale hacking is lowest effort looking for lowest hanging fruit. If you hack enough servers for your purposes without worrying about checksum randomization then worrying about it is just wasted effort. And you want targets with excessively shitty security postures or else you might actually get tracked down and busted.
If you never ran software update and bought it the first day it was available then they are correct. If you ever updated the OS - even just once - then you had the patch for the recovery mode that had the bug.

But even with the bugged first version of macOS, the laptops are still recoverable - you just need another Mac with Apple Configurator 2 to get around the bug. Something you would think the Geek Squad should be able to handle (yes, that was sarcasm).

All you really needed to do was boot into recovery mode, launch disk utility then nuke the disk. If they want to re-install the OS, let them. I ended up taking my Air back to Apple because it turned out I really do need more than 16GB for RAM for a few things (shoot!) and I just nuked the drive. They didn't even bat an eye.
"According to a post here on HN a couple of days ago, ERCOT has more stringent regulations on winterization than the Federal regulatory body requires, so basically everything you just said is bullshit"

Do you have a link to this claim? If this is true what does enforcement of those regulations look like in Texas?

For comparison, THC is still schedule 1 drug according to federal regulations but weed is also a multi-billion dollar industry in states that ignore those regulations. Whats on the books often matters less than what is actually enforced.
Nope, they didn’t print the pipes, wires, and doors as loosely alluded to here:

“Andersen said the actual printing time for the walls took about 48 hours, part of an overall eight-day process to build the entire home.”

It strikes me that the part of the house building this aims to improve is one of the cheaper parts of house building. I suppose it ultimately saves on time, although with enough carpenters, they could get something done in far less than 8 days.
I've been wrangling software bytes for a while and I am pragmatic about the business.

Software engineering is extremely difficult. High performance engineers are rare and valuable. Some times, they become jaded and burn out.

This is my career and my craft, so I'm inclined to ride the waves and trends in software engineering. Negotiate for above average salary while maintaining my tech stack and producing at above average output.

Most people don't understand what it takes to develop and deploy software solutions. They only see the unicorns like Google, Facebook, and think software engineers are common. They don't see the vast swaths of land of failed software startups and dreams and incompetence in software engineering.

Most people in software engineering doesn't know or comprehend basic data structures and algorithms, which form basis for all software solutions at scale. Yet, they are filled into dev position slots by HR/management and asked to develop complex systems.

To have long term career in software engineering is like any other trade. Observe how the game is played, learn to play the game and play the game right.

A software engineer with basic skill stack and right long term view can ride the software wave for decades, just by understanding basic CS principles and utilizing them to develop solutions. Switch jobs regularly and negotiate hard for salary and levels.
Bookmarked! This is a great idea. I also really love the name—I had considered using it as a name for one of my projects once and was disappointed to feel like it didn't fit. It definitely fits this project though!
How does it handle scripts? E.g. my virus is a python script bundled with the known and clean python executable
Only when they make use of IPC APIs that allows for that.

And even then good luck getting everything to work without issues.

Ah the wonders of having a language server microservice running across the network, or a image conversion plugin or audio DAW.
> There's room for discussion, certainly. If I hired an accountant to keep me on the straight and narrow and I expensed a dinner I'm not supposed to, I wouldn't want him to go running to Twitter

Or emailing your expense report to who knows whom.
>companies pay dividend

Not all companies do that though. $GOOG has no voting rights nor dividends yet is worth more than $2100. It does literally nothing as far as I can tell, making it useless compared to even something like bitcoin. Despite this, you could have made a lot of money by just buying the stock years ago and selling it now.

>You can hold it and still make a real profit

That would take 33 years to happen with the stock that currently has the highest yield assuming that yield is constant over those 33 years which is probably a bad assumption. Who wants to get a profit 33 years in the future? If I could not resell it, it would be worthless to me.

With cryptocurrency you can also yield farm to make some money while you are just holding by essentially loaning them and having interest paid to you.
The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence
Obviously not. And it was corrected within two weeks with a software update long ago released.

Talk about making mountains out of molehills...
I'd love a device like this, but I don't think a raspi zero has enough processing power. My raspi 4 has a very hard time decoding P25 as it is, and that's with active cooling. Probably the best solution would be to offload the decoding to an FPGA, but that kind of blows up the whole "software defined" part.
Because many AV systems assume that any unknown file (unknown to their cloud service) is probably doing this, and thus probably malware.
How do we know that mammalian visual systems aren’t fundamentally different from AI? What you predict is nothing but an assumption.
What is bullying in this article?

As @animats points out, the research is not using accepted Olweus’s definition of bullying.

Instead they use aggression and bind it to bullying.

This very much scares me, specially how Kinney's aggression includes verbal and indirect aggression.

There are clear cases where most can agree something is verbal aggression. My fear is in defining the edges of these verbal exchanges.

Who decides the words said were aggressive?

In essence, the research reads like a further lowering tolerance bar for others' verbal expression.

In a dystopian world, the solution would be where all communications is passed through a system, and pre-approved prior to transmitting it to the other party.

Sort of like some system, say a social (media) service where we only display pleasing and pleasant images and text with appropriate tiny pictures representing positive feelings, while the service provider shelters us from aggressive thoughts.

personal anecdote: I was in the grocery store waiting for sliced cheese. The customer that was at the counter, asked for something and got into a conversation with the clerk while he was slicing, but I could not make out most of it. I heard "blah blah, and you can make blah blah great again!" The man behind me start yelling, how the customer at the counter was a (insert curse words, lots of WWII references), and cheese customer should die right there, we should all lynch cheese customer, and on and on...

The cheese customer's words were verbal aggression to the yelling man. Turns out cheese customer was talking about some engine oil for the clerk's high mileage car.

Was the cheese customer a bully? Was the yelling man behind me a victim of aggression? Was the yelling man bullied by the cheese customer? What if the discussion was between the cheese customer and yelling victim?

I am not trying to be flippant as these incidents no longer are theoretical, "oh this will never happen" scenario. I have seen other similar violent reactions from people just when the "wrong words" or words deemed by the hearer aggressive were uttered.
Clearly overlaid with the wrong music.

It should have been a string quartet of very very tiny violins playing a sad song.
Makes me think of those old ‘magic eye’ stereogram images that used to be so popular.
Here is a way to learn to describe processes and quantify the gains you created: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/8d-how-to-build-a-great-...

(Belongs to this https://www.ycombinator.com/library/20-deck )

Especially this exercise is extremely helpful: "Explain how the world currently works. Aim to show, not tell"
http://archive.is/0FgHs
Congrats on a new release! I think it's a good project, and I too thought it was dead.

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Personal experience:
A few-ish months ago, I tried to get into 0AD (more than an exploratory 1-2 matches vs an AI). I like to watch videos of folks playing Age Of Empires 2, and I looked for a similar experience on youtube, to better understand the game, the meta, and standard tactics.

But the videos just don't look nice. The units are hard to distinguish. The graphics are serviceable. It looks nice when you actually play, but personally it is not enjoyable to watch a video of it in the same way that AOE2 is.
then how about this one from the surface of a comet https://imgur.com/fWvd3wS
It is likely that a significant part of your hardware firmware, your operating system, the programming languages that you use, the applications you use are implemented in C.

Simply put, if you work with computers for a living, C helps feed your family.
Why does Elon Musk keep pushing garbage investments? What is the deal
WHy does Elon Musk keep pushing garbage investments? What is the deal

What is his motive. It is not like he needs the money

Gamestop, AMC, and Dogecoin

what is his motive. The first two have crashed since the hype in January, presumably costing people who heeded the hype a lot of money. Dogecoin will easily fall below a penny if BTC falls. Doge is vastly more volatile than Bitcoin. it seems extremely irresponsible of him to do this.
Is Little embeddable? This seems like a perfect scripting language for embedding into a larger C application.
The most important piece of that quote:

>We are not funded by the EU

But they still styled their website to be very similar to the official EU website look. Presumably to make you think they had some kind of official status.
It was a problem with the initial release of macOS shipped on the machines and was fixed within a couple of weeks. It's LONG past old news.

Need I point out Best Buy was the start of this kerfuffle?
In my setup I have everything on a (large) server in a colo, with and exact copy on a second server, with the databases in master/slave. Every two years I buy a new server and swap the oldest one out.

When the master server fails, I can run script to cut over with very minimal manual interaction. I have not had to use the script in 10 years, and only experienced one outage when the datacenter had a blip.

But... it's really hard to not worry about it occasionally, even after 10 years.
Apparently violence is the only language they have ever known. The commentators, that is.
I really like the Fuller/Dymaxion map for this. It limits the distortion and you can "rebuild" the earth by folding the map back into an Icosahedron. (It is displayed in the article)
> blood-bath that will ensue if rates were increased to a reasonable level.

Any reason to think that'll happen?

Won't assets inflation just stay and maybe level off.. my point is: nobody is going to pull money out of stocks to buy bread and milk.

Isn't stonks the best thing to hold, if we have inflation.
Some people just have great interest in a narrow area.

I agree that most of those types of applications have a very low interest-to-drudgery ratio just in general, and I personally don't find them interesting at all. But let's not forget that some people just have interest in the details of things that most other people don't really care about. Some of that work might not even be objectively that technically demanding, yet it somehow catches the attention of some people.
I know it's the biggest cliche in the world, but the grass isn't always greener on the other side. Lots of musicians wish they had a skill that let them sit at a desk all day and get a stable paycheck.

Not saying you have to keep working in tech forever, but I don't think it's objectively stopped being fun and interesting.
I'm still not clear what the huge injustice at the core of this is meant to be. There is a lot of innuendo, then it just links to another fact free article or a tweet saying someone was fired.

Full disclosure: I am pretty STEM-centric so the whole idea of being an ethics researcher seems questionable to me...

Edit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timnit_Gebru

The intro and Leaving Google sections don't show any actual basis controversy. It seems to come down to her work being questioned, her threatening to resign and Google "accepting".
To go a bit further, I feel like "reduce" just isn't really in the vocabulary of living organisms. Once any particular cat is out of its bag, it's not going back in (though I'd love to hear some examples to the contrary). It seems like our best bet really is an ever more Rube Goldberg-ian stack of attempted fixes for the problems we create.
You also need to make it fireproof or use an outer layer of fireproof material.
While the rest of the body can be protected with bodily hair, animal pelts, grasses, tree leaves, dirt (or something like ochre mentioned in the article), etc. the eyes is the only body part that couldn't be protected from UV back then. When compared to Cro-Magnon, Neanderthals had bigger (and most probably light colored) eyes adapted to the lower light of their more Northern areas. So quick rise in UV (especially if it was not accompanied by the similar scale rise in the total amount of visible light to trigger eyes f-stop equivalent) would have made for noticeable chronic damage to retina and other parts of the eye (googling UV eye damage brings a lot of possibilities), etc. which would be one more factor against them in competition with the Cro-Magnon whose eyes had evolved in the higher UV environment of Africa.
I think they misunderstand the purpose of the version signal across the protocol: if signals if a boundary point for api action can't do (only) what it used to do, it signals what might happen next.

If v1.0 is deployed, does it subsume v0.9 (augment) or does it invalidate? At least two different outcomes. Now, analyse by actor: what could an initiator do, what could a responder do? Probably two or three choices. It's heading to a potential combinatorial explosion of pairs of behaviour across the sender/respondent barrier, both independent actors.. So, define each side, and limit this space but keep the version signalling to drive the decision logic.

I think the original author gets this but proposes a rigid outcome. Well, sorry, but there are choices.

Look at how zfs signals extensions and their effect on mutable state in the FS. Or, NFS
Certainly, but that’s monetary damages.

I don’t think this matters from a PR perspective and millions later vs whatever now is hard arithmetic.
For Turbo Pascal 5.5, the Web IDE looks pretty much like Turbo Pascal 3.0.

Oh well, cool achievement anyway. Playing with it right now.
>I suspect you’d be much more effective

Effective at what, exactly?

I expressed my thoughts WRT the comment to which I replied. I just re-read my comment and I said exactly what I wanted to say.

As far as I'm concerned, that's the "effectiveness" I was going for, and have achieved same.

Thanks for your advice, I'll give it the weight and influence to which it's due.
I dunno if it addresses your concerns in particular, but there is a JS-free version with normal pagination:

https://ddg.gg/html
https://html.duckduckgo.com
Makes sense. I was coming at it from a taxation perspective rather than the "we're shutting you down" angle. We tax plenty of things that have societal harm - cigarettes, alcohol, etc. Speech is definitely too slippery a concept though.

But what about reach? Could we theoretically tax businesses based on the volume of people their content reaches, thus bringing in public revenue and/or disincentivizing:

- virality for the sake of ad impressions

- too-large (social) media networks

I'm sure it'd be phenomenally difficult to measure, but easier to pin down than arbitrary speech.
Every faithful watcher of the Six Million Dollar Man series in 1977 and 1978 had at least some awareness of the Soviet Venus probe program. A two-part episode in 1977, and another two-parter in 1978 featured the so-called "Death Probe", a Soviet-made Venus probe which was (accidentally in 1977, and intentionally in 1978) unleashed on Earth instead, autonomously fulfilling its mission to "explore" its environs through various acts of violence and destruction supposedly suited for the hostile terrain of Venus. Because the probe was designed to operate on the surface of Venus, it was nearly indestructible.

It's kind of a silly premise, but this was the single most memorable antagonist for Steve Austin from my childhood viewing of the show. And...I don't remember how I knew this, or how much it was discussed in connection with the show, but I knew that there really were Soviet Venus surface probes that this story was (very loosely) based on.
Yes. Even fossil fuels contain far more nuclear energy than chemical energy so the engines we use are ~0% efficient if you actually count that as part of the input, even though we could, in principle, build an engine which does use it. How then do you compare two different nuclear fuels for efficiency?
Is he not allowed to tweet investment opinions like the rest of us? (Beyond whatever SEC regulations apply to him as an officer of Tesla).
krebsonsecurity, notdan, donk_enby are all good cybsec follows. you can probably find others from people that they follow/rt
Why am I missing? That’s only like -2C which practically t-shirt weather isn’t it?
Stocks are held up because they do have a grounding in the value of the corporations in the broader economy. For their value to go to zero everyone would have to pull out of the broad economy, stop buying manufactured goods and go back to farming their land.

There are a huge number of incentives that make it extraordinarily difficult for people to just wake up one day and pull out of the economy, stocks and USD.

There's literally no such incentives for crypto. Nobody has to buy into crypto or they can't buy food or cars or homes or pay their taxes or anything else. Opting out of crypto is very easy, opting out of the US economy is very hard.
You can quickly wipe the machine - it just works in a different way.

Stating that the machine is practically unusable is indeed hyperbole since that statement is patently false.
But it doesn't seem that way. I'm not unhappy, or suicidal, or gloomy about the future. I just don't find that anything really feels "new" and therefore nothing really seems exciting. It's like if I got that cliche question "what are you passionate about" in an interview, my answer would be "nothing."
I would give so much to live in a society where people like Aubrey de Gray are heroes like Elon Musk is in ours. The fact that people die does not have to be immutable fate. We look back at people seeking the fountain of youth or the philosophers stone with sneering contempt but at least they had the right goal. Our acquiescence of death is the greatest tragedy ever and collectively we ought to be ashamed of ourselves.