skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Problem was, there was only one person in the entire school they felt was capable of such nonsense

I found myself sitting in the vice principals office, as a kid, all alone with his password under his keyboard. I thought long and hard about going to the local library, dialing up to the school network (modem days) and changing a bunch of grades of students to improve my GPA. That reason you called out is the only reason I did not. All eyes would be on me.

So I resorted to just mild pranks

- took a virus from my library and submitted it with homework

- found someone trying to install sub seven on my girlfriends computer. I reverse subseven’d him and socially engineered him to give me his address. Used mapquest and showed up at his house

- made a fake virus that pretended to run format c: on my moms computer. My mom had the principals office call me out of class in 6th grade. I remember laughing my ass off that I got called out of class for that prank

- in college I wrote a program that would split up audio files into variable lengths up to 1 second and send them to a list of servers (sun ultra 60s) then run auplay to play the audio of the files out of the speaker. The controller would keep track of which system had which part and would plAy the audio in sequence across the various systems. The sun servers were lab computers with users on the console. Imagine their surprise when Mega TeamFortress sounds start playing in surround sound out of all of the systems around them.

- scotch tape over the very end of Ethernet cables on desktops (fun!)

- vb or c# program that “jiggles” the mouse pointer. I made a coworker throw out three mice because of it

- redirecting a coworkers network drop to a spare Linux computer in my office running tc introducing random latency

- control-alt-down on windows computers

- random times in cronjobs that runs shutdown or randomly kill shell process on unix boxes/accounts that were left unlocked

There’s probably more, but whew I haven’t pulled a prank in over a decade!
Brain like computing architecture where computation happens uniquely in-memory
Nim seems like it would do well, since you can just compile to C code.
Think of the scale of those emissions and you realize they are insignificant.
> #1 we are doing gargantuan "stimulus" transfers of money. This money will serve 1 thing only: The US will become a net exporter (and to some degree, it always was) of inflation.

This is incorrect, for two reasons.

Firstly, because there are two ways that new money is created (which is what causes inflation).

Those ways are fractional reserve banks issuing loans, and the printing presses at the Fed.

In normal situations, the printing presses aren't running, and most new money is created through the fractional reserve banking system. In a recession, like the one we are in, fractional reserve banks stop lending, and thereby creating money - and the printing presses at the Fed fulfil that function, instead.

We didn't go from 'no money being printed' to 'a lot of money being printed'. We went from 'a lot of money being printed by banks' to 'a lot of money being printed by the Fed.' The difference between those two things is not very large.

Secondly, stimulus money isn't magical printed money that was just parachuted onto the economy, with no strings attached. It's money that the government borrowed - and will have to be paid back by taxpayers - like any other loan.
Yeah, someone with a sense of humor sees a bad/lame joke as something to riff on.

That's how dad jokes became a thing.
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> Clean nuclear energy is and will always be a fairy tale!

What type of energy is "clean"?
There's plenty of examples of driverless trains throughout the world.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_train_system...
Hey that's a good point - I have much less data on epilepsy (although we were interested in it)

For me fMRI falls into the cool-but-has-some-issues (mainly around consistency and processing) side of tech.

And yes, thanks for the discussion.
The proliferation of nuclear technology is a good thing.
Breeder reactors can produce less waste. You can cask it and store it on site if nothing else. It's not a major issue.
That laptop sounded like a dream came true...
Onyx if you are listening please make it happen.
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For your backups - but once you use iCloud to sync devices in real time, they just use their service keys, and your iCloud credentials are enough to read your iMessage history.
Wrong - please do your research and fight ignorance.
All the more reason to make sure you're getting enough Vitamins D and K2.

Here's an interesting explanation of how Vitamin D helps the immune system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT1CaTv5-e4

Vitamin D improves your uptake of calcium. Vitamin K2 makes sure calcium goes where it's supposed to go. You want your BONES calcified, not your arteries.
Nuclear should absolutely replace fossil fuel baseload. There is an increasing difference between non solar generation during the day, and in the evening where there is no solar but demand is highest. Currently the difference is made up with natural gas peaker plants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
That's done in Gource. Very awesome and easy-to-use tool - takes any VCS as input. https://gource.io/
*runs over grandma who us trying to ilegally and suddenly cross the street right in front of the car
Indeed that is the strangest thing. By _any_ metric coal is far worse. Even the metric "amount of radioactive material that ended up in the atmosphere per watt of energy." (Coal contains trace amounts of radioactive material, that gets spread when burned).

The fact of the matter is, that we can dump all our waste on a couple of football fields worth of space. Or even better: store it in a cave somewhere deep and dark and away from rivers.
At least it does go to eleven. Most amps only go to ten.

I hope that if you're being serious about 11 being the max, that it was a deliberate reference.
Both of which still have lockdowns. So no, they couldn't manage it either.
> The only way to pay off the debt would be to change the mechanism via which money enters the economy so that it is no longer tied to a debt as it does so.

Yes, all money is created in the form of debt, which implies that it has to be paid back with interest. There is no way for everyone to pay off all outstanding debt.

However, you are forgetting that not all debt is paid off. Some of it defaults, which destroys money.
i find it funny that India's EOI for Chinese language is in traditional Chinese.

https://www.meity.gov.in/writereaddata/files/EoI_Semiconduct...
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I take those pills for an autoimmune disease. Not much fun.

Mosquito angle isn’t one I’ve heard before.
The moon is much, much closer than 8 light minutes away. Are you thinking of the sun? It's already doing a good job at sending energy to us from nuclear reactions.
The main difference is islands are smaller. New Zealand has about 1% of the population of the US
This is hilarious. I have another somewhat related story.

Back in 7th grade I stumbled upon the "net send" command. So, bored in the back of class one day, I sent a few messages and saw them pop up simultaneously on all the computers. I thought it was pretty funny. I didn't sent anything vulgar. Just something like, "yo", and "it's Evan" (yes, I put my name).

Well, turns out I sent those messages to every computer in the district. Three elementary schools, one middle school, one high school, and the administration building.

Maybe 10m later someone from the IT team came and asked who had computer #XX. Obviously was me. Principal claimed I hacked into all the computers and said he'd call me back in for an appropriate punishment.

Nothing ever amounted to it. Never got called back in so I had no repercussions.
The DC metro was once automated? Interesting
I really hate the wave of language "competition" and contention. Go is a language that allows lots of developers to get great work done. So is Node.js, so is Haskell, so is Rust, so is Java. The list goes on.

If you find a thing you like, you should use it! If you find a thing you don't like, just don't use it! Find the language that lets you express your intention as easily and correctly as possible and run with it. For some people that is Go, for some people that is Erlang.

I'm certain this thread will devolve into "Go isn't a great programming language because..." type posts, but I really think those posts are kind of ill-intended. The author of this post likes Go, which they're allowed to do, and they should continue using and enjoying it.
Sometimes, scientific studies disagree with other scientific studies. Does that mean scientific study authors are science deniers by definition?

It does not.
There are a few I'm aware of:

- Fear of nuclear accidents, 'not in my backyard' reactions from communities
- Dealing with radioactive waste safely
- Cost/time overruns building nuclear plants

Although I think all of these could be resolved, and I've heard some interesting things about thorium reactors which could be even better. I do wonder whether nuclear power is a good answer to climate change in particular though (beyond keeping the current ones functioning until end of life), nuclear power station design/building often takes decades and it seems like we have a shorter amount of time than that to make a significant difference.
Relativity is lower than evolution? I would put relativity at 9.5 because it can be verified with actual experiments today.

Regardless I’ll say the same thing I tell my kid which is the same as what you said. Everything that isn’t a fact is a theory with various levels of evidence. The stronger the evidence, the more likely the theory is correct. But a theory will weak evidence could suddenly improve if a new piece of strong evidence comes to light. And a strong theory could become weak if a piece of evidence disproves the entire thing. So keep an open mind and don’t mistake theories for facts.
> An object's internal state is "none of your business."

An object's state is my business, as immutable objects can be used in ways that mutable ones cannot. They can be passed to arbitrary functions with no need for defensive copying. They can also be useful in concurrent programming. None of that means breaching the separation of interface and implementation.

> Strings in Java are technically a class, but they're really treated like primitives (evidenced by the fact that literals are magically made into String objects).

Immutable objects can generally be treated as values, that's their charm. There's a good talk on this topic, The Value of Values. [0]

> immutable class instances aren't really "objects" anymore- they're just (possibly opaque) data types

They're certainly still objects. The essence of object-orientation is in dynamic dispatch, not in stateful programming.

[0] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values/ (Perhaps skip to 22:00 to get a sense of the general point.)
This is a highly under rated take. The reason they didn't do so was industry pressure/competition.

The counter point could be that the technology is there, but the regulation is not.

Why must everything be retrofitted versus a complete system overhaul? The initial costs may be immense but the return on investment will be far greater.

Just my two cents.
That’s the joke. The Sun is safe, cheap fusion at a distance. Enough sunlight hits the Earth in 30 minutes (I’ve seen figures as low as 2 minutes from the UAE, but am conservative for argument’s sake) to power humanity for a year.
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If the math doesn't work out in such a way that POC are disproportionately benefited by helping poor people...then that would mean that POC weren't overrepresented amongst the poor.
No. Riduculously expensive idea, dangerous and unnecessary.
Fair enough. Thanks for correcting me.

But i stand corrected. Guided tracks is hardly a good comparison for this.
If you try to force 60 minutes of paperwork into 30 minutes corners get cut. Because that's highly unusual he ended up in some broken state where the dealer, dmv, and insurance are all in a weird state with no clear resolution.

Guess blame is a strong word, but not too surprised. Sure time/hassle is worth money. Generally similar is best achieved with an email or fax. "I'm willing to buy exactly car foo with options bar for MSRP, please contact me when the paperwork is ready for sign. I won't sign if any attempted upselling happens when I arrive."
I specifically mean controversial issues being tacked onto the bill that are at best tangentially related.

The Green New Deal literally has a stipulation within that guarantees "economic security to those unable or unwilling to work." If you thought climate change was an emergency, would you slip in a stipulation like this?

In regards to carbon taxes, there are many Republicans who are fully on board with this. Mitigating negative third party externalities is a role for the state, even within libertarian think tanks.
In this article, or in general? For this article, because it's just not going to arrive in time to solve the main issue. I'm extremely optimistic about ITER, but the current timetable on ITER/DEMO doesn't have an operating poc plant until the 2050s.

If you mean in general, it's not even remotely ignored. There are massive projects underway (see the previously mentioned ITER) as well as smaller, more experimental projects. It's a very exciting field to follow. It just doesn't move fast enough to solve problems that we needed to solve a decade ago.

We're in damage control mode when it comes to climate change, deaths from emissions, etc. We can't afford to wait for a perfect solution when we're bleeding out in the field.
You may also enjoy this whole subreddit dedicated to such shenanigans:

https://www.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/top/?t=all
If they double the money supply by putting the new money in the hands of regular citizens, the resulting inflation will be much, much worse than just halving of buying power.

Because given extremely high inequality, 100% of the total money supply might very well represent 1000 times the money supply which is actually in the hands of average citizens. Most of the current fiat is concentrated in very few hands and it's not being spent on consumables - That's the only reason why we don't already have massive hyperinflation in consumables.
Widespread crop failures due to extreme conditions during growing seasons and collapse of pollinator populations
Collapse of fisheries globally due to ocean-acidification. Some 1 billion people currently rely on seafood as primary protein
Frequent extreme weather events cause frequent large scale property destruction
Higher sea level + extreme weather ravages coastal cities, which will also disrupt global supply chains
*Heatwaves will push into lethal territory in parts of the world

All of these things put together will put severe strains on unstable parts of the world first, but if the trends are not abated and we end up in 'Hothouse Earth' territory, modern civilization will not be sustainable.

The worst stuff comes when we're talking 3, 4, 5 degrees C of average warming. But the tricky thing is that we don't have a full understanding of all the planetary feedback loops and tipping points.
Do they still sell these?
HPy is (sort of) a replacement for CPython's normal API for C Extensions. It has nothing to do with "efficiency" or the performance of python itself.
I think the takeaway here is that you can choose to go away if you have the option and the privilege to do so. No one will hold it against you and those who do will be gone around the same time you will, give or take a few years. But you don't leave things in more capable hands. The people you idolize exist and are doing what they're doing irrespective of you. Their motivations are their own, however. There's no guarantee that they are willing to or interested in solving the problems you want to solve or see solved. There's no guarantee they even view them as problems. On this ship I think we can do with all hands on deck, but that is me being optimistic and looking for reasons to hold on just as much as you.
I now personally know over a dozen people (ranging from mid-20s up through upper 40s) who have had Covid-19. All had minor illness and are now fine.

Which is not to say that others do not have lingering symptoms -- but if we're going to emphasize scary anecdotes, it seems like we should spend proportional time reporting the vastly larger number of anecdotes that are not scary, as well?
Why is the LENR ignored then?
The bureaucratic thicket of financialization helps fuzz out the underlying reality that there are significant costs to participating in society today (access to housing, energy, transport, internet/communications, education... most of which require taking on loans). The propensity for debt masks the severe lack of equity (literal financial equity, not just a lack of fairness) in access to resources. The credit system is then perfectly set up to enable cabals controlling access to extract rents while appearing polite. Sophisticated arm-breakers indeed.

Quite besides the abstract economic concerns which can be ameliorated by moving around numbers in ledgers, the true cost of a zombie economy is the tragedy of billions of human lives wasted away because of the (engineered) difficulty in integrating with society in a smooth manner. Makes one wonder whether there are good reasons why several cultures/religions forbade usury.
Literally any operational (and unattended) machine in a modern factory
> Lambda School co-founder Austen Allred envisions students coming back to his coding school every eight years or so to learn new skills.

Oof, this didn't age well.
Like the other comment said, the brand doesn't matter. It's just a mobo with a 4 port nic and a decent CPU. It might as well be an e-machine.

And they won't be "pwned", unless you're running closed source non-updatable software on them.
Another option is that the law isn't valid.
When you find out the real impact even a day of your life has on the planet you are gonna flip out. The mining required to keep you alive is going to drive you nuts.
*runs into a stationary median which is literally bolted into the road, in broad daylight
I heard a podcast interview with Bill Gates recently on this subject, in which he identifies cement and steel as largely unsolved in terms of carbon impact. solar and electric cars is probably good enough for residential and transport. (Kara Swisher’s Sway on 15Feb)
What's the difference between a dag and a multitree? The wikipedia article was confusing - it seems that it prevents diamond shapes? Like where 1 leads to both 2 and 3, and where 2 and 3 both lead to 4?
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This is my favorite SimCity 2000 disaster type.
A personal example of this: while going through my divorce, I witnessed several ads targeted towards me for storage units.

Thanks for looking out for me, Google.
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Seeking guidance from his cousin Charles Darwin, who had just returned from his voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle, Galton was advised to “read Mathematics like a house on fire.”

These are neat:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_machine
"Believe the science" seems to be the rationale for many other things we are told to do, so why not this?
You can, today, go to Pheonix Arizona, download the Waymo One app, and summon a full self driving vehicle. This happened silently at the end of 2020, and was overshadowed by the ongoing pandemic doom and gloom.
https://blog.waymo.com/2020/10/waymo-is-opening-its-fully-dr...

On the subject of danger. Literally everything we do is dangerous to some degree. Everything. Self-driving does not need to be perfect, but only better than human drivers. We're likely already at that point with Waymo vehicles.

On the subject of automation. Humanity is on track to have the computational power to perform whole brain emulation decades before 2100. Even if we don't solve the general AI problem through other pathways, we will solve it through this path. Ethical problems aside, once this is achieved, everything will be automatable at a human level of competence.
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https://youtu.be/_ErL39wqO-c

An in-depth review of this unit
> sub-$500 laptops..Poor battery life, low-resolution screen, HDD instead of SSD, etc.

Things have changed since 2005.

This is a Walmart one for 360$, and Costco has similar ones. You can get even better specs and price if you're willing to roll the dice with Alibaba/Aliexpress vendors.

14" FHD (1080p), AMD Ryzen 3 with Radeon Vega 3 Graphics, THX Spatial Audio, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD, HDMI, Front 720P HD IR Camera.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0hMdQAjy43A
There won’t be a next one. Not for us at least. We’re destroying our habitat to the point that we won’t be able to survive. Something better suited to the environment we’re creating will take our place.
> Point to specific laws that are systemically racist and we can say yes, the system is racist.

This is an incomplete view of “the system.” You’re leaving out biases in enforcement of the laws and prosecution and conviction rates, and other practices that are not prohibited by law but effectively reinforce racism.

Redlining is an example of what I mean by the last one. There are laws against it now that were put into place because it was a social problem, not a legal one.
"Anti-nuclear people are the utility version of antivaxxers" has not just nice ring to it but quite a bite. I like it.
Disagree on the economics. Pilots cost significant money and since the airline industry runs on low margins this can be a huge plus.

But the main reason we won't see planes without pilots is political and related to trust. I think for the same reasons we are less likely to see truly driverless cars.
They periodically reimport it.

If I had to guess, I would guess that COVID can be transmitted by fomites, especially if kept cold, but that it’s extremely rare. In a place like the US or Europe, this is insignificant: your chance of getting seriously sick due to touching something is negligible, and the rate of additional cases due to this effect is inconsequential for public health. But in AU or NZ, where the background rate is essentially zero, a single reintroduction is a big deal.
Haha, this sounds almost exactly like my Delphi story - just I didn't target the mouse.

Instead, I did target each keyboard's keys which - when being pressed - would play a sound using internal speakers. Deployed it on all devices in the room and once class started, we had a lovely concert going on.

Got kicked out of the room immediately.

Ah, and netsend was fun also :D
No point in comparing planes to cars.
It bothers me when people treat it as obvious that exceptions are bad for programming languages. Go programmers love to do that.