skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems weird but plausible. I mean, there has been lots of NSFW writing that involve nonconsensual relations; this is part of the AI Dungeon training data, probably intentionally, because sex sells; but I believe that there are almost no stories about sexual assult starting that don't eventually result in a description of sexual assault or at least descriptions of sex as such. If the vast majority of stories about such topic contain descriptions of "ways out" failing instead of succeeding, then prompting the system with a way out would result in a response of how that attempt failed, ergo the "no way out" issue because of path dependence after early random choices.

Like, imagine that you've stumbled on a weird internet story where in the first page someone is approached with magic "love potion" berries but refuses to eat them. That is a solid indicator of what genre the story is. If you had to bet lots of money, what's the probability that the second page will contain something horrific versus the probability that the "seduction" just fizzles out and becomes irrelevant? If you see a movie where the first scene involves a creepy character making a pass, wouldn't you be fairly certain that an escalation of that will follow later? It's like Chekov's gun, once it's there, it almost certainly means that the story is about that - perhaps it could be turned into a "just revenge" story by inserting descriptions of some heroic rescuer or references to how the protagonist expected this to happen in order to punish the assaulter, because stories like that have been written, but a "mediocre" outcome where eventually nothing dramatic happens and the protagonist just gets out won't be generated, because that doesn't get written about, the training data says that such a result is very unlikely. It's obviously a problem, but since it's a "honest probability" based on tropes we see in actual literature, it's going to be hard to fix; the system expects escalation and drama (because all the training stories had that), so you can choose the direction of that escalation, but it won't allow you to have a "non-story" where the suggested drama results in nothing dramatic.
I highly doubt if they have an order of magnitude more than China "budget" for CIA type activities. Probably more but not 10X, maybe 2X
> People seem to like BSD for certain networking stuff due to differences in the respective networking stacks.

Is that why *BSD has lower market share for servers and other networking equipment than it did 15 years ago?
yes but what happens now is "guilty with no chance of being proven innocent", which is much worse. This will have a massive impact on the accused persons life. Keep in mind, it might not be true and it's only one side of the story.

we shouldn't be cancelling people on one sided stories when people reflect back on life and wish they made different choices.
I was looking to buy a m1 Mac mini but went with Intel only because I need 32gb ram and apple for some reason only offers up to 16gb on Mac mini.
I bought the Intel one with 8gb and manually upgraded it to 32gb. The m1 can’t be upgraded manually which is a bummer (but makes sense as that’s what makes it even faster).

I wish running multiple iOS and Android simulators didn’t need so much memory.
That's also how Romania is (or at least was) one of countries with fast and cheap internet.

It started with the government telco not being interested in Internet. So people started running Ethernet cables, first to neighbors, then to other buildings. It started as having local networks to share files. Eventually those network got connected to Internet. If the price or quality of service provided is not satisfactory they can switch to another ISP. The bad part as you said is the huge number of ugly looking wires[1]

[1] https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-many-internet-cables-on-la...
I live in one of the "cities that burned" that right-wing media (and you) are always raving about.

The city didn't burn. There was some property damage. Nothing major or life-disrupting.
>The best solution is for states to ban local municipalities from enacting monopolies of any kind. Municipal ISPs are fine as long as private ISPs are allowed to compete.

An even better solution is for municipalities to own the last mile, then sell access to that last mile to private ISPs.

This lowers barriers to entry, enables additional competition on price, bandwidth, service, etc. and provides a revenue stream to maintain, manage and upgrade the last mile infrastructure.
Thanks for the course link. Does the course assume any prerequisites?
Factfulness, this book changed how I see the world.
> Algorithms have great potential for good. They can also be misused.

Algorithms have been used by humans for millennia. The sheer ignorance of this quote from a US senator is terrifying.
I like this. I imagine it’s roughly similar eg using heroku?
That was part of it.

The other part was "Do what we tell you, or you'll be Joe Nacchioed"

In a 2013 interview, Marissa Meyer made it abundantly clear this is why Yahoo "voluntarily" joined PRISM. One can assume the rest were similarly influenced.
Don't forget Cuomo making the rounds in April telling people to ignore Trump's scare mongering, that it was perfectly safe to take the subways and catch a show on broadway.
Yeah, we are using rails devise gem to handle our login.
See the "Labor of Division" blog posts by the author of libdivide:

https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/labor-of-division-epis...

https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/labor-of-division-epis...
I have multiple accounts that you (or somebody) hell-banned, with real genuine content, and the described process was not followed.

Thank you for, once again, proving that you’re a low integrity individual.
In mice. Still, it's nice that it's working (in mice).
essentially yes, and even then with the current level of thickness, they coudlnt fit the power supply (or an ethernet port) inside the imac itself.
Stealing two Supreme Court seats and meddling with the census were essentially a coup. GOP will remain the minority that runs the country for the foreseeable future.
W3C Monitoring: What It Is and Why It Matters
M1 is meaningless. To 99% of their market it is just a new vague number to justify an upgrade (like ram sizes, 3/4/5G, etc).

What is masterful is how they redirected the desirable-number-du-jour to be something that is both 1) proprietary and 2) not cutting into their service revenue (e.g. larger storage = less people shelling out for cloud storage)
That's kind of nuts. If you want to compare it to the USA you would have to have some reasonable date like starting in 1900, the modern era of history. Things are so very different now than the 1800s but not terribly different than 1900s (as far as interaction and possibility of interaction between countries)
The republican point of view is that if something is government-supported, it's unfair to compete against, as the government option will offer better quality service at lower cost than is economical for a private company, since the government has no profit motive.

(This somehow leads to the conclusion that government services are bad.)
I had the same experience. I went into it and really wanted to buy into Apple Music but after a couple of painful months I went back to Spotify.
The BSDs were an option they are becoming more moribund and less used every year.
You mention "poorly industrialised country" and then go on to list at least hundreds of dollars worth of equipment and supplies and access to a 200A 220V electrical service. A poor household in India has easy access to none of these resources.
They are repeating RIM's mistakes. It fascinates me they haven't actually jumped on the services train, they just started charging a monthly fee for the walled garden while still focusing on selling product and called it a services play.
Agree. One only has to look at the success of WeChat in China to see how this would play out.
From the article: "Check back next week for the second part, where Linus explores the lessons and insights gained from three decades at the helm of the Linux kernel."
It would have been instantly leaked by employees, might as well get ahead of things.
Same question can be asked about the undercounts in Florida?

[1] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/florida-covid-19-dea...
Mean or median? Those are two very different things and I suspect you mean mean.
Creator of Mugshot Bot here! Did you see the GitHub renderer [1]? It fetches the repo via the API then renders a HTML styled with Tailwind CSS. To render the image, the content is passed along to browserless [2].

[1] https://mugshotbot.com/github

[2] https://www.browserless.io
Would love a dive (hopefully deep) into IAM, the innards of that must be some impressive wizardry. Surprising there isn't more around about the amazing technical workings of these foundational AWS products.
hmm, buy an iphone!
Of course there's tradeoffs here if it requires custom external hardware (dongle proliferation etc.)

In general I think this is less of an issue today, since usb-C is both generally great and very small, so you can just use it. But, if thinness came at the sacrifice of common connectors like USB-A (or like HDMI), the opportunity cost of standard connectors might be lost.

I'm ignoring that like many of apple's ports are just better than USB-A to focus only on the waste argument here though.
Would you have a source for this? Really curious what might cause that.
Almost nothing after WW2 was a reasonable war to be in. Not vietnam, probably not Korea, not Afghans, not Iraq, although I think the limited war in Gulf War 1 was fairly well reasoned.
My position on web development for even consulting projects is just to not use build processes as much as possible. I still end up using them for things like JSX, but I don’t bundle anymore, nor do any web projects I build require installation out of the box.

I’ve found that by doing so, I can just basically ignore, for years on end, all of the peddlers pushing how their projects make development easier or faster or some nonsense.

You know what’s easiest and fastest? Flat files in a good directory structure with some getting started template.

That’s it. The fastest build times are the ones that don’t exist. Period.

Web development is as complicated as you choose to make it. Very few fields work like this.
I've gotten into way too many fights over this, and my bitter sarcasm is leaking here. I actually like numbers in code. But I've literally been told that

distance = ((x1-x0)**2 + (y1-y0)**2)**.5

has "magic numbers" and that's a "code smell"
They said the median, which is the middle number. But I suspect they meant mean.
He spoke about this in the documentary film, In the Shadow of the Moon [0], "Certainly I didn't feel it as fear, I felt it as awareness, almost a feeling of exultation. I liked it! It was a good feeling." He mentioned the same thing in his book, Carrying the Fire (I saw that NPR is calling it "the best of the astronaut autobiographies", and having read it, I concur.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMx2MA5bEtk
He also did a full video series. "Chemical History of a Candle" was originally a series of lectures given by Faraday; he recreated the lectures and the demonstrations. Definitely worth a watch, especially if you don't have a conceptual understanding of fire
Ask HN: Ideas for scaling and monetizing a web game with chaotic usage?
Several months ago I developed a web game for a Twitch streamers to play with their viewers. It was developed for a specific livestream that averages several thousand concurrent viewers. I knew when the stream was going to start so I was able to preemptively scale up the backend.

Since then the game averages a few hundred hits a day with unpredictable massive spikes in traffic when other big streamers play it.

Currently it takes several minutes for the backend to automatically scale up from the typically tiny load. The scaling up process also makes the website really slow/glitchy and it kind of ruins the user experience.

I think this is an ideal use case for serverless tech but the game uses a database and websockets which seems like it will make the serverless path quite complex and costly.

Which brings me to my next problem... How should I monetize this thing? Currently I solicit donations but those only cover a fraction of the cost. I think it would be best to ask the streamers to pay to play but I don't want to discourage them from playing while the game is still growing. Maybe I should just eat the cost while things are scaling up?
Why is this impossible today?

Isn't this exactly what Intel's "Management Engine" and AMD's "Platform Security" is?

Bonus question, does apples new MX chips have an equivalent backdoor?
Thanks for info here. Definitely will look into them. I'll also have to look into if MG has some webhook for complaints, as we're also now suddenly super paranoid about that metric.
You can convert between the two with an acceleration rate.
Yup.

My grandfather, along with many of the other patients, died in one of these places from COVID in Massachusetts last May.

He was in a physical rehab following heart surgery to fix damage from a botched pacemaker installation. The family spent most of January -> March getting the equipment and reworking his house so he could be cared for at home, but he caught COVID before it was ready. He was in critical condition for 2 months until he finally passed. The real kick in the gut that he was considered "COVID free" for the last two weeks but the damage to his lungs was too great.

My grandmother was able to be with him when he died, holding his hand in a hazmat suit...
I could be wrong but my understanding is that grand jury is sort of like a trial jury (trail as in demo/mock, not a court trial) to show the evidence and case from the prosecutor side only in order to get an indictment. You can perform a grand jury multiple times in order to get the outcome indictment you need to finally charge someone. If you can’t convince a grand jury to get an indictment, then you will have an even harder time when the case goes to actual court with the defence being present with their own side of story.
So I guess there’s pros and cons to this. Ultimately the actual court trial is what matters but of course an indictment is mostly enough to destroy someone’s reputation even if they get acquitted later on (I think government has a 95%+ success rate or something).
> They don't need bulk oxygen generated ad-hoc. They need medical grade oxygen delivered in standard medical equipment that they can use in a controlled manner right away.

Right now, I believe from reports on the ground, that they need just any oxygen to hold on for 2-3 more weeks.

First hand report I got is that LO2 tankers been all around on TV, but despite that all hospitals in the area been empty of oxygen for 3-4 weeks without any resupply coming in sight, and this is in one of richest cities in India.

> Chemistry experiments won't solve this.

Tell this to people about to die. You are so cynical. 1.5-2 kg of oxygen per hour should be enough to support 2 people. 20 at least 10.

The mess, depravity, and despair I heard is such that people have already tried just anything.

Zeolite has been sold out across India for a few weeks.

Hydrogen peroxide sold out.

Any chemical which can be used to produce oxygen chemically is out of stock.

People are already blowing themselves up, and causing blackouts by following Youtube voodoo science trying to make completely unsound electrolyzer designs.

You are not getting any "proper" oxygen concentrators coming any time soon with all of above.

This design is at least less of a voodoo science than ones telling people to breath brown gas.
You're focused on the horrendous MacBookPro Keyboard, and forgetting the trashcan MacPro. That thing was so bad, they had to make a Pro version of the iMac!
Implementation Challenge: Lossless, compact parse tree with iterative traversal
I wish Apple opted for an Apple key that does window management (similar to Windows), so that those shortcuts are separated from application shortcuts, but I love at least how configurable they are.
> much the mass of a tree comes from the air

A fun pastime of mine is asking people where they think the mass of a tree comes from and trying to guide them to the right answer (CO2) via the socratic method (i.e. trying to only ask questions)
I did 10 8's (mythic!) at the beggining of the hash (2^4)^10 = 2^40.

I didnt account they could start at any position, so the actual number is probably

(64-10)/2^40 ≈ 1 / 2^35

We should also subtract strings longer than 10 that were double counted. However i think the probability of such things is negligible relative to 2^35.

If instead we were doing 4 8's i think it would be:
(64-4)/((2^4)^4) = 60/2^16 ≈ 2^10

I've always been bad at calc probabilities so i may have messed this up.

> Odds of 4 hex 8's in a row given a 5 digit string is number of ways to arrange 8s in the first 4 digits (1) times 16 possible 5th digits plus number of ways to arrange 8s in the last 4 digits (1) times 16 possible 1st digits, all divided by the number of possible arrangements (16^5)

You're double counting "88888". But then again so am i.
Go to a praxair in the states and ask what the difference is: tested to 5x9's and loaded into a vacuum pulled bottle. ANY O2 at pressure is suitable to for human consumption at the surface because ANY impurities that are actually harmful would explode at 200 bar. Anything else (say from a PSA nitrox generator) would only be things like Argon.

Ad hoc O2 is better than no O2.
Because the benchmark isn't doing what GP days it does.
Sounds like he's using it in an entirely different way from what used to be Facebook's focus. It's not keeping in touch with other people any more, but rather a collection of small local-centric services. (Take away restaurants, parents group, tradesmen, library, etc.).
I have good/bad news: the command key thing, and most related macOS shortcuts, are so good that once you get used to them you'll be really annoyed when you use anything else, and left wondering how it's been this long and no-one's copied their exact physical keyboard arrangement, en-us keyboard layout, and shortcuts.

Windows and Linux (desktop and server) user for ~15 years before getting my first Mac (at work) around 2011 (DOS user even earlier). Other keyboard+OS combos are so frustrating now. Not in the "this is unfamiliar" way macOS was initially, but in a "I know this and the Apple way now, and this is worse, why the hell do you keep doing this, and not either just copy Apple or come up with something even better?" way.

Point is: you'll get used to it, and probably like it. But you might permanently be slightly irritated when using anything else, afterward.

(Try Spectacle, or something similar, if you want somewhat better window layout management from the keyboard. It's in Homebrew. It's pretty much the only OS-behavior-modifying thing I install on Mac—my other tweaks are just in the settings GUI, mostly just making CAPS lock an extra ctrl. The default spectacle shortcuts are a bit wild, but 95% of what I use is just split-half-screen left, split-half-screen right, and fullscreen, and it'd be worth using if you never used any others)
There is a lot of criticism of the government on social media right now. I'm not saying this government isn't trying to control criticism on social media, but these are small drops in an ocean of tweets and fb posts on this.

ResignModi has been trending on Twitter for days now. My FB feed is full of people angry at the government.

There is no 'censorship' of 99% of such posts. You can't really censor stuff in India, its way too big to control narrative that way.
> Less than one order of magnitude these days.

> only a 10-fold difference.

A ten fold difference is literally one order of magnitude. Which is what the post you're replying to factually stated.
I think apple watch was post jobs. Additionally, while this is more abstract, I think Apple has continued to revolutionize consumer's privacy.
Poor mans option: press ctrl+A to highlight everything on the page.
> A counter point would be to look at the Python ecosystem. They have many fewer libraries but the ones they have are very well maintained and widely adopted.

So what? It is what it is - the python ecosystem faces completely different challenges than the JS ecosystem, if the browsers exclusively ran Python instead of JS it would be the exact same situation for Python.

> JS/Node is full of unmaintained projects that people inevitably need to migrate away from

This isn't true. jQuery, Angular.js, Angular, React, Vue etc are all still maintained (check their githubs if you are in doubt) and all still work just fine, so if you want to use the same tooling you did a decade ago that's totally possible.

> it’s always going to be harder to build on top of old rather than to write something new

So what? If you want to contribute to old projects instead of writing something new you're free to do that, and if you don't like new stuff you don't have to use it, complaining about this stuff is just pointless contrarianism, but of course, you're free to do that too.
> Do you actually need 900 down? I used to have 1000/1000 from hyperoptic in London but switched down to 150/150 as virtually nothing on the internet supports or needs higher speeds once you get bored of running speedtests for the fun of it.

I'd argue that symmetric links at 1000/1000 are actually incredibly important.

The lack of decent upload speeds has created the enormous centralization of services that we see today.

If most folks had gigabit (or more) upload capacity, decentralization would become a viable solution to the enormous centralization of content, data and services.

There are a variety of tools that allow folks to self-host their content and many more would appear if there was widespread implementation of symmetric (multi-)gigabit ISP connections.

If there were the ability to stream your puppy videos from your home internet connection to dozens of friends/family, what do you need Facebook, Instagram, etc. for?

That's why high-speed symmetric connections are important.
It's pretty easy to spot Russian/Chinese trolls on facebook. I've seen tons of it on conservative news feeds. Just find a ridiculous statement and trace back to the source. Usually they have public facing feeds to maximize propaganda and it's so blatantly obvious it usually makes me giggle.
Why do tech companies keep beating earnings expectations?
Why doesn't wall street just set higher expectations?
The democrats tried to stop critical raw materials for vaccine production in India. These are raw materials that the US itself did not need for its vaccine production.

They only relented after it was pointed out India was supplying critical raw materials for Pfizer.

India has been supplying vaccines to the wider world and prioritizing those in a crisis. Indian exports made up 80% of UN vaccine program for poorer countries.

It was only natural that we would expect the world to offer a hand when we are in a crisis.

Perhaps for once you can focus on exporting what we need instead of exporting your leftist hypocracy and hollow ideology.

For all the aloofness the US and EU have showed themselves to be the pettiest global players, not to mention Xitler the creator of the coronavirus.
Dr. Marty Makary: ‘More People Have Tuberculosis Than Covid in the US
I'm not sure you are calculating setup and maintenance of the service for your employee base. How much does that cost?
It’s more of a hello import the world.