skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless this is the bottleneck and Standford isn't harder than NJIT and at Google you work at on some project that gets cancelled and you never actually had to be all that good to stay with the Elite.

Intelligence is speed. Knowledge is distance. If you are very smart and other kids are not as smart, if you give them more time then they can reach the same benchmark as you.

When metrics become targeted, it is a sign that your community has scaled beyond what it can handle, and you have lost personal accountability. When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
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I know, I know. Why aren't you using newer php? Sadly, I can't update the code and I can't migrate to newer software right now.

My hosting provider (Siteground) is dropping 5.6, and my CRM is incompatible with newer php.

Could I get recommendations for hosting providers that still allow 5.6?
You mean elite schools with legacy admissions and affirmative action policies? Yeah, it lead the US to a yawning gap. Make college funding conditional on transparent admission based on standardized testing and things will get better.
I would go so far as to say that some people have learned to think of having their heartstrings tugged as a prelude to attempted exploitation. I know that years in the Bay taught me that.
Not necessarily - theology is just philosophy. Biblical literalism is an almost uniquely American phenomenon, there are plenty of Christians around the world and in the US who don't believe the earth was literally created 6000 years ago.
Maybe from the US (unless you go to Cuba or the Caribbean). In Europe it makes total sense, even from far away Scandinavia. You can easily be in South of France before noon.
It seems inevitable that any Good company with great TOS with promises to never turn can be bought and changed towards evil. We've seen it time and time again. It's inevitable?

How can we structure these organisations from creation so that this cannot happen?

freenode believed the purchaser promises. What should they have done differently?
with every release macos introduces design elements that are inconsistent with apples own design language, and/or simply horrible (like the notifications icon in preferences _with_ a dot).

esp big sur moved in a big way to a more fisher price look.

that it all seems more consistent than all the rest is just a sad statement more about them than apple...
> Of course, that may not be a scalable way to find them.

That's the crux, though - the common theme behind failures of modern education, among other things. It seems to me that becoming a developed country comes with the desperate need to make everything scalable, and losing the ability to do things that do not scale.
This may be a naive question but why would a vpn company buy an irc network? Is there an overlap?
Rehabilitation implies getting help from people who can rehabilitate. While there is charity and volunteering to some extent, the needs of rehabilitation throughout society (not just in prison) is so great that the amount of work people are willing to give for free is not enough.

For the freely given work, it becomes a question of who deserves it. Giving it to a prisoner who is supposed to be punished instead of a law abiding individual stuck at a dead end job appears to be rewarding the individual with bad behavior. The same reasoning also applies when there isn't enough free labor for rehabilitation and money is spent buying more labor.

If at any point the rehabilitation offered within prisons is better than that offered for free outside of prisons then it becomes a reward. Rewards are generally viewed as incompatible with punishment and seen as cancelling out, when they are of similar scales.
> Let uber geniuses run the nation's courts, monetary policy, tax laws, environmental protection programs, and defense planning and acquisition.

You might want to read up on his political views in general and his role in the creation of the atomic bomb in particular. He wanted to drop the bomb on Kyoto (the historical cultural center of Japan) and actively supported a preventive nuclear strike against Russia.

What's the lesson here? High intelligence doesn't correlate with moral and ethical behavior.

EDIT: just noticed your user name...
Ideas have little value.

But they feel good. Braincrack : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8&feature=emb_logo
So every software with a license check is malware? That doesn't necessarily mean it verifies with an external server, it might just locally check a code and use some bits contained therein to print "Registered to XXXX" on the about screen.

What about a one-time screen kindly asking for a donation?
That's a cool idea. I rarely think about these platforms due to my personal distaste for them, but that's actually useful.
Why could people manage to stay slim 20 years ago but not today? It isn't like the poor are more insecure now than back then.
His previous work has been software games, which make up a fair share of his income along with YouTube ads. He quit his real job to be a YouTube personality and sell software on the side.

The design goal of the X16 was to try to make a 8bit computer out of modern stock for close to $100. The concept was to have an easily fixable computer with no bespoke parts.

That goal got blown out of the water due to the realities of custom system design. The costs shot up in order to fulfill other requirements like the graphics and sound. Originally, David didn't want any FPGAs at all, but had to do that to get a viable graphics port.

From what I remember others says, even the 2MB RAM might get knocked down to 1MB or less.

The entire project itself is the nostalgia of a 8bit home computer, but the need to have it connected to modern parts like mice, keyboard, and displays.
Socially dominant cultures' mistreatment of others is always more visible to the others. You're one data point. People on the other side of the divide have many more data points from which to judge.

I worked in an Ivy League university while poor— and continued doing so for quite some time. I assure you that treating people in lower socioeconomic classes either as invisible or a mildly concerning presence, depending on the context, and coming from a wealthy, white background is closely correlated. Many of the wealthier students, faculty, and professional staff treated the cleaners, landscapers, catering staff and cafeteria workers like furniture. Of course, there were exceptions.

I saw a similar juxtaposition in tech, though the ratio of wealthy to non-wealthy wasn't as extreme as it was in an elite university.
The only thing that's hard to reconcile for me is advice to "work on something important". That's like asking someone to just get better from depression. If we can all truly agree on what's important and what's not that's half the problem solved right there.

Other issue is that if a problem is important then a lot of folks are already on it. Is it worth everyone's time for one more person to come and compete for the same goal? This only makes sense if you know that you can bring a new perspective to that topic (which unfortunately every scientist believes they do).
Not all rich people want to go to cookie cutter resorts, seems more like an upper middle class thing. Maybe it's different in the US.
Right, but if they just started at that job, and they previously had worked for much lower pay, they wouldn't be exposed to indoor rock climbing much at all. I don't think the author is saying that they couldn't rock climb if they wanted to, it's just a very different context when people can suddenly have (relatively) expensive hobbies.
You could create a Phoenix project, launch it and use the erlang observer or the Phoenix LiveDashboard to monitor memory consumption and decide if that suits you.
It's not owned by PIA now. PIA and London Trust Media was sold by Lee; who moved most other holdings to "Imperial Family Companies", which is effectively the owner of freenode: https://imperialfamily.com
It is just exporting text based on a learned pattern, so if the training text guffaws, it will chortle in a similar way.
Since Concorde service was discontinued, business or first class passengers are not going to spend less time on board of the airplane than economy passengers.

12+ hours for each way quickly dampens the enthusiasm for the weekend.
Same here, thanks Ned, this really touched me. I was 9 yo on a hot Italian summer day of 1985 when my dad bought his first computer for the bag-handcrafting company he still has with mom. I had my C64 since 1983 and I was also quite fluent in Basic at that point, so I was super curious to see the new IBM XT 8088D in action.

The sales agent from this "big" Italian company arrived, unboxed the PC, and started to explain to my dad the default MS-DOS commands. I was sitting there sneaking the prompt commands he was typing when, while installing the accounting software (which was the selling reason) the installation utility failed with an error twice and the sales guy was in a panic. A new version of the software was shipped early that week, and this was the first live installation of it. He tried some commands, started to screw up turning the PC OFF and ON, and at the end, he was completely clueless.

That's when I've stepped in - I've gently asked him permission to touch the keyboard and once got access, I started to play with MS-DOS and found the batch file that was responsible for the installation. The guy was looking at me with an expression that mixed surprise and hope when I've found out this file was a script that was similar to Basic and I've found a way to edit it. After poking for 1 hour in tests and trials, I've finally fixed a bug on a conditional that was bringing the data loading to a dead disk path.

The guy talked with his department the same day, and a manager from the company called me to understand what I did. They were so thankful! Nobody paid me a cent for this but after that phone call, I realized my passion could also be my future job and life, and 36 years later is still true. Thanks again!
Is Paul Graham running his articles trough AI? They are ALL exactly the same.
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You might want to look into GloriousEggroll, it tends to have better support for media and such.

https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/wiki
Yeah I agree, great overall, verses are the only thing missing.
Intelligence only matters to a certain point for good administrators. Morality, courage, and, above all, self-restraint are just as important. These are the people capable of changing the rules in a way that benefits others even if it means a slight drop in personal wealth, power, or prestige. Often we seem to pick those who are constitutionally incapable of doing that, much to our detriment. (One big reason is that egoists can be wealthy, and wealth can manufacture consent, but that's a discussion for another time.)

George Washington could have been a King, and declined. Whatever other skeletons he had in his closet, that decision puts him very high in my book, and is a fantastic example of our American value of both innovation and civic-minded self-restraint.
Have you noticed any significant changes in quality or transparency since the Kape acquisition? There was a lot of concern around that time. I was a happy customer until then, but I chose not to renew at my next term. I'm curious to hear your experience since.
> don't risk contaminating the inside when taking it off, putting it back on

Unless you’re using a respirator (N95, etc) the point of the mask isn’t to prevent you from contracting covid, but from spreading through exhalation. So the concerns about contaminating the mask aren’t very relevant to covid as, since I’m the potential source, the inside of the mask is already contaminated through my breathing and using my hands to put it on.

Lots of people get confused as to the hygiene procedures needed for using masks. One thing that helps me remember is that I’m trying to put a barrier between me and the world, not between the world and me.

When using PPE to prevent self-infection, the protocol is totally different and requires a clean chain that I think is something like: disinfect hands, goggles/eye shield, open respirator, apply without touching inside. Doffing is the reverse.
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You know, I did very nearly mention this, but decided not to in the end. You are of course entirely right, and this is indeed a major reason why I use GADTs myself.
Who is that? And I guess now that I think about it, who is trying to poach him or her? I have no context for this comment and I'm probably not the only one.
We never had much money, but we ate well. And I ate a lot, but I was also very active. Being active is free.

I know this will upset people, but if poor people are fat, food is not scarce. The quality of food may be low, but low food quality does not make one fat, a surplus of calories does.

To be absolutely clear, I know there is a strong correlation between socioeconomic status and obesity. It's much more complicated than "just eat less", many factors play into this. Including food IQ. It's much more easy to overeat on Cheetos than it is on potatoes and green beans. A persons social environment will have a big influence on how and what they eat, how much they will move, etc.
have you tried "data last" FP like `transformTheData(theChangeToMake, theData): ResultingData` instead? I learned this from Ramda.JS, makes it way easier to leverage currying, ex `change = transformTheData(theChangeToMake); change(theData)`
I don't think that. I think that when someone fucks up so badly it almost ends the company you review all your processes and work to limit the possible damage any one person can do. That would be a matter of putting in lots of additional checks for things to start with, and then removing them as you figure out what things don't need multiple people's oversight.

That sort of bureaucratic process is horrible and annoying, but it's less horrible and annoying than everyone losing their jobs when the company fails.

We're very fortunate in tech that we can automate 99% of this stuff. Stopping someone pushing bad code that fails tests or hasn't been peer reviewed is a straightforward case of adding some deploy rules to a repo. It's much harder to fix processes where things are manual checklists people need to follow.
I personally think its how your family and friends raised you. Some folks think people are object, some acknowledge their humanity.
Will startups move to another network?
I think ideals are important, they just also get us into trouble when we overapply them. We forget that they're ideals, and think of them as reality.

A capitalist or communist ideal(s), for example, can be good. People dealing with each other by beneficial mutual agreement. People cooperating out of social solidarity. Both exist (imperfectly) in the world.

The problems come when we overapply these ideas. Justifying abusive labour practices or banking excesses because Adam Smith's village baker parable must apply to all things always. Building whole worldviews from a core ideal, as if it were F=ma.

Modern prisons evolved entirely out of their ideals. Imprisonment wasn't a common punishment until modern times, and the early logic (eg bentham) was about rehabilitation. Lots of (retrospectively ugly) ideals about morality and character were at play. Lots of horrible things done in their name. The project essentially failed, and rehabilitation aspect of prison devolved into vestigial formalities.

I imagine the rehabilitation ideal seemed enlightened, relative to the punitive ideals of previous eras. The US' 18th century "cruel and unusual punishment" concept related, I imagine, to these new enlightenment era ideals. A few hundred years later, and we can't even imagine a society without prisons. We're not even quite sure what they're for. At least, we don't agree on what they're for.

Sorry for getting so abstract.
I mean, she is right.
Try Hostinger. It's what i'm currently using.
Who are these people who write software locks. Can anyone here justify it for me? It's seems to be just plain evil. But maybe i'm attacking a straw man. I don't know.
> So every software with a license check is malware?

Yes? Obviously?

> What about a one-time screen kindly asking for a donation?

If it doesn’t have a “don’t show this again” checkbox, then I would have to say “yes”.
> would have collapsed without massive and unprecedented government intervention

would have, could have, but didn’t, that goes only to prove op’s point that institutions don’t lose money, especially the big ones.
Fuck Andrew Lee
The only was more a turn of phrase, I’m relieved to see the comments on this have evened out and ones like this one were flagged and removed.
A lot of these things I don't consider signs of being poor but signs that you aren't throwing away your money. Sure you can be poor and frugal but I would bet a lot of those people are racking up tons of credit card debt because they are betting on their stock being worth something eventually.
If you're interested in contactless cards with an option in the future to upgrade to something like Omni ring (https://store.nfcring.com/products/omni) or to use them with your phone, then do this:

1) Buy a contactless card reader from a good source e.g. https://www.javacardsdk.com/product/acr1252u or last two from this table https://webshop.d-logic.net/nfc-rfid-device-comparison, don't buy NFC ones, you need smartcard support specifically.

Also steer clear of cheep ACR122U readers from ebay or ali, for some reason there are a lot of fakes https://www.acs.com.hk/en/press-release/2266/advanced-card-s...

2) Buy a few contactless javacards e.g. https://www.javacardsdk.com/product/j3h145/, don't buy EMV ones unless you're Europay, Mastercard or VISA.

3) Once you get them install opensc, pcsc-lite, ccid and get gp.jar from https://javacard.pro/globalplatform/ and read some pages from https://github.com/philipWendland/IsoApplet/wiki, it will get you started.
I also do not read this article that way. I think she does not complain about them. Most of them are most likely nice people (ignoring the gym paragraph). She reflect that "she realizes" that she is "poor compared to them". She does not imply that they are bad people or that she feels miserable about her "poorness" (she seems to earn much more than before .. and quit ... and probably got something better ... and ... seems to write a successful novelthingy)
>this attempt at 3D teleconferencing

For that matter video teleconferencing period has only just really hit critical mass even though there were videophones at the NY World's Fair in the 1960s and camera systems have been around in conference rooms for a few decades.

What really happened was that it became more or less accessible to anyone with a laptop and an even marginal network connection for basically no cost. And, oif course, the last 18 months really pushed it over the finish line if it wasn't already.
Chia has the nice property that it leverages the existing 1.2 zettabyte per year storage market, though. Meaning that no specialized hardware for mining is needed — existing storage in the world can be used to mine, lessening the environmental impact of buying new drives. And if miners no longer want to use their storage space for Chia they can sell it to anyone who might want the storage space for whatever purpose, not just Chia mining.

It also means that any innovations in storage media that might happen to optimize Chia earnings would also very likely benefit the whole world since it would mean cheaper ways to store lots of data.
> posterity

This is what it has going for it. It is meant to be a drop-in(ish) replacement for freenode. All the same clients, all the same protocols, all the same channels (in theory).
Thanks for the tips.

I tried, and the first two lines helped the speed bump to 2.5MB/s! The third one doesn't seem to have any immediate effect.

Still not OneDrive level, but I'm more than happy.
After going through a few logs, it looks like the crux of the matter is that things went bad when the previous head Chrystel left.

Andrew Lee argues she was effectively pushed out by a gang of other ops, and he’s “taking it back” to “take it forward” with something that smells like cryptopayments or something.

The admins say Lee, when Freenode Limited was created for admin purposes, originally swore precisely not to do what he’s now doing, and that he got lawyers involved to implement a hostile takeover.

Just sad to see this happening, it looks like there is no possibility for mediation anymore. The result will likely be fragmentation, which probably weakens everyone, but in a way it’s all “very FOSS”, we’re just seeing a project fork.
out of curiosity, and if you don't mind sharing that info, how many bitcoins have you mined with 1 card in 6 months?

Did it pay for the electricity and the card itself at the current BTC price?
I got out of surgery last year after a deep cut following a fall. It was indeed painful as hell for some weeks afterwards, but I didn’t particularly ask for anything. I honestly just wanted to get out of the hospital and was annoyed they kept me overnight. But I walked out with a prescription for... guess what.
We got banned from freenode because ircops didn’t like our political speech in our private chat room .. then klined us for pointing out they permit the leftist political chat rooms. I’ve never been so revolted by literal fascists running irc networks. Too bad … the tech communities were decent. Hope they find a new home
As someone who does not live in the US, it is often discussed in my social circles. To us, it appears that this cultural propaganda is a political necessity to stay far from communism. The cultural conception of the extent of the free-will impacts notably justice (individual responsability vs. psy impact of the environment) and wealth redistribution (welfare vs. meritocracy).

The conception that most of the bad things that happen to an individual is because of poor choices makes perpetuating inequalities easier. Notably thoses that stem from free market capitalism.

In France we have a strong cultural awareness of our low/inexsitent free-will. This translates readily into state welfare.
I think I understand. From height 0 figure out what gun angle gives the largest distance and then calculate the area of the circle with that distance as radius.
So there is a finite number of active contributors to Element, and we have to prioritise what to work on. While E2EE is not perfect (the UX needs another major iteration and we are still hunting rare edge cases where messages cannot be decrypted) in practice it's usable day to day.

We consciously chose to prioritise building out Spaces over the last few months over E2EE UX as otherwise there's a risk of Discord becoming the de-facto home for open source projects, much as Slack started to be a few years ago - which would be catastrophic for open standards-based communication like Matrix.

Meanwhile, the cryptography team chose to focus primarily on implementing next-generation encryption (IETF's MLS) on Matrix rather than polishing the current behaviour - given MLS should both radically improve scalability, but also fix the majority of the edge conditions which are problematic for today's E2EE, or at least entirely switch bugs in the existing implementation for entirely different failure modes in the new implementation. We showed off MLS over Matrix last week (https://youtu.be/xn0fzyimycs?t=248), and we're now finishing the decentralisation component of it (https://matrix.uhoreg.ca/mls/ordering.html).

Eitherway, now that the Spaces beta is out the door, we're catching up on other UX issues, including E2EE. We also have more folks being paid fulltime by Element to work on encryption (amongst other stuff) starting in July. Talking of which, if anyone wants to get paid to make this happen sooner, Element is hiring at https://apply.workable.com/elementio.
> Do other people say hi to every single person you see in the building every day?

Yeah, pretty much.
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