skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big picture socially and politically, no. Although you do get a rough sense of the power structure pretty quickly. But in terms of the work you’re doing, the amount of influence you have depends on the quality of the organization. If leadership takes suggestions from golf buddies you have a problem, but all ideas are being considered this is a non-issue. You won’t get invited to the boss’s house parties, but your designs / architecture can get implemented if the org knows what it’s doing.
A $40,000 EV that you only need for 1/2 the year makes terrible financial sense.
A source close to the G7 talks told The Guardian that several other European Union countries wanted financial services to be excluded from the minimum rate.

"The Europeans don't want to pull too many companies into this — they're mostly interested in US tech," the source said.

So basically I want to tax everyone else, that's not me.
> I can walk 5 minutes down the block and buy an eight ball of fentanyl from a guy named TJ

I think TJ might be yanking your chain. "An eight ball" refers explicitly to 1/8 ounce of cocaine.

There would be approximately 35,000 doses of fentanyl in an eighth of the stuff.
Tcl has this interesting property. It's closer to Lisp in spirit and shell in syntax, but it also looks superficially like C, being actually nothing like it. People who try to program in it as if it were C usually fail and start hating it, whereas people who understand its essence start liking it.

Unfortunately, people often encounter Tcl in situations where there's nobody to explain it to them, so they learn it the wrong way.
I'd suspect this has a lot of to with women being in the workforce meaning men are less required to work relentlessly. More recently, it's the aging population. The chart for just prime age males is less dramatic:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LREM25MAUSM156S

Also, a topic that has been surprisingly quiet is that employment-population rate absolutely cratered to a near 50-year low during the pandemic. We had a positive report in the UNRATE last week, but participation is still digging out of an historic hole.
Neck-Zapping Gadget Reduced All-Nighter Fatigue in New Study
The article mentions debugfs which I've never heard about and is pretty cool: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/debugfs.h...
AMD, Intel, Apple, Samsung and all the other mobile chip makers.
learning to be okay

Cannot stress enough how I second that. A nervous person (who you, a reader, completely are, despite thinking you’re normal) is at risk of self-feeding the problem they have with something.

Also as a person who couldn’t find interest in life events anymore in general (not suicidal, just boring to death), CBT theme itself is like a fresh breath. Like as a geek you never knew what a computer is and just found out.
> But any sandbox we design won’t be good enough.

This isn't really true.

To bring back your analogy of searching the space of all programs - suppose we wanted to simulate every turing machine of at most N states for some sufficiently large N. One of these turing machines is going to encode an AGI. Nonetheless, it is still just an encoded turing machine being simulated by a turing machine simulator. No matter what great intelligence is encoded by those states, it's still a state machine following the same rules as every other turing machine in existence. It's a fixed set of states following a fixed set of rules on an unbounded-length tape of memory.

The same is true for an AGI in a computer program in a modern computer. A complex modern neural nets are still just a program that takes a giant array of numbers and feeds it through a network of transformations repeatedly, yielding a new array of numbers. No matter what brilliant information that array of numbers encodes, the array of numbers is still just a bunch of bits somewhere in RAM. It's data, not execution. It can't invoke the IPC stack unless *we* program functionality in that interprets the data and executes functionality based on it.

It's like the brain in a vat[0] thought experiment. A super-intelligent brain in a vat can't escape the lab unless the lab researchers give the brain control over something physical. A super-intelligent brain can't even know that it's a brain in the vat unless it is told. Why then would you expect a digital brain in a simulated environment to even know that it is what it is, much less how to perfectly execute a bug in a simulator (which might provably not exist[1]) to send a copy of its source code to another computer and end up replicating and distributing itself?

The simple answer is: Sandboxing an AI is significantly easier than you seem to think. When an AI takes over the world, it's going to be because someone handed the AI root access to a big tech data center so it can optimize operations; not because the AI discovered the perfect sequence of zero-day bugs to overcome all of humanity's best cybersecurity efforts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_verification
> They forget to check the percentage that is taken from their salary contributions, what makes it for the middle class at the same high levels of insurance as in the US.

The Netherlands spends half what the US does per person on healthcare.

Their taxes seem to be middle of pack for europe.

Please provide some citations for the numbers you have cited since at a first approximation they seem to be grossly off.
I co-founded a startup that was fully remote for 6 years and then hybrid for another few years (our NYC office had at least 1/2 of employees in-person full time).

I did a bunch of interviewing and hiring for remote software engineers during this time (interviewed 100+ people). One of the main things I tried to assess was whether or not the person was a good fit for working remotely (essentially, they needed to be very good at self-motivating their productivity). Some people's personality just doesn't work as well in an isolated, work-from-home environment. In my opinion, this is going to be a new realization many companies (large and small) are going to come to in the next year and will have to deal with accordingly. It's also unfair to people who were potentially thriving at their jobs when in-person full time, but may now be struggling to maintain the same productivity remotely.

I think it's inevitable that things will shift slowly back towards full-time in-person workplaces.
And I will make X profiles from X emails, filling out the questionnaire in several ways to maximize the number of hits I get. The profile will be some good ol PT Barnum style pablum that appeals to just about all of us. I will also add pictures that are either extremely flattering of me, or of someone else. It doesn't really matter.

Then I just agree to every date that gets sent to my email. Ideally this could be automated so that I could run it on a raspberry pi.

But please, go on.
Vitalik worked on a Bitcoin newsletter and coded blockchains and worked on Ethereum for little to no money for years. He didn't care about money and is as much of a pure tech guy as there is.
So, I'm going to choose to be an optimist when it comes to crypto energy consumption.

There has literally never been a more direct reward for efficient energy production.
Code is worthless on it's own.
I'm actually surprised by the number of people I work with that only work off their company-issued laptop (when remote). For myself, I've always had a dedicated office space. But when I went full WFH after a couple weeks my back was hurting bad. I thought my chair was decent but it was a sub $100 chair from Walmart or OfficeMax or similar. Upgraded to a SteelCase chair ($700), and my back has never felt better.
> Perhaps the President should focus on that?

If his actual goal was to improve people's lives, perhaps...
Aviation is all about rules, and sometimes a bit of flying.
Old Myths About the Age of Enlightenment That Die Hard
Wanted to give a shot out to Larry Yeager who wrote software for this all the way back in the mid nineties : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyworld

He was a professor of mine in grad school, he also did visual effects for The Last Starfighter, and the early work on character recognition in the Apple Newton. Cool dude.
Same here, first at last dot country. But I'm unlucky to have a 15 character last name. Luckily in many cases whoever I'm telling my email to has my last name somewhere on their screen :-) if not things typically go wrong...
Good analogy with http. But keep going. After http people realized the importance of https. Sending credit card numbers and passwords in cleartext over the Internet was clearly a bad idea. So what is https in this analogy? Monero, PirateChain, Aeon, Wownero are the major contenders.
"Most people need their data a lot less than they think they do" - great way to put it and a thought provoking article.
> aren't they justified in being angry?

1. It's not a binary thing - indifferent or beside themselves with rage.

2. Not enough to expect the authorities to engage in draconic measures to prevent this from happening.

> And am I not justified in being distressed to find that I am certifying someone as knowledgable (say,as part of an undergraduate program to become a person who designs bridges), when they are not?

"distressed"? Not really justified IMHO. Grading is statistical and partially arbitrary anyway, don't sweat it so much.

Due disclosure: My academic experience is a Ph.D. program, teaching assistantship, and junior academic staff union rep.
Ah. I found Locke's Second Treatise very unconvincing, so we probably disagree both on the soundness of the argument-from-nature and what constitutes a right—is a right "real" when merely conceived of, or must it be exercisable in practice, necessitating either highly effective personal power or highly effective power of a society on your behalf, to be, in any sense, real (moreover, what does it mean for a cave-dwelling loner in the state of nature to have freedom of speech, for example? Not much, I'd say—rights aren't even useful or sensible constructs absent society, from what I can tell, and within society they're basically just freedoms we've decided we like a whole lot and want to provide with a powerful label)
Please, let's not equate the IRA with international islamiste terrorists operating in multiple countries and associated with Al Qaeda.

The argument is that the US changing its mind on terrorists just because they are Uyghurs after bombing them shows that there is foul play involved and that the US government does not act in good faith on the matter, but instead is weaponizing the Xinjiang issue for geopolitical gain and distorting the truth to do so.
I mean this semi-seriously but doesn't the hypothetical example "CPU on fire" vs "CPU in flames" violate We Do Not Break User Space? As someone who got a useful (IMHO) one-line patch with less change dinged for WDNBUS, I would say yes.
Most of the time that building and crafting was actually work. There is always something to do, even between planting and harvesting. Chop wood, split wood, stack wood. Fix things, knit a sweater, expand the farm, make a chair, whatever. It's all work. It's secondary to the primary and mandated work of farming, which is why a nobleman could call in the levies and go to war outside of planting or harvest season - they didn't care as much about the secondary parts - but for the average person that was also work.

Yes, we're not a traditional agrarian society, or a hunter gatherer society - that's why "the last 100,000" years was a surprise. Essentially the op was saying every able bodied person has never been required to work. That ran counter to my understanding of history.
Oh yeah if someone counterfeits crypto in general it all comes crashing down.

One note is double spends are kind of like counterfeiting, and they happen on smaller chains regularly, they haven't happened on any of the dominate ones, or proof of stake protected coins.
Yoshua Bengio Team Designs Consciousness-Inspired Planning Agent
Write the New York Times headline on this whole affair in five years:
Hypocrisy recognizes no national boundaries.
I haven't tried that one, but I recommend GRBL-ESP32. I wonder what the day-to-day functional differences in these two firmwares are.
Interesting that you prefer a small (shared) office to a cubicle -- I never worked in one but I imagine it to be a special kind of Hell.

At least with a cubicle your space, such as it is, is your space -- you don't have to share it with John who smells funny or Larry who talks to himself, and so on.
> We were literally 5 minutes from a guillotine event just 6 months ago.

I don't think that's true, despite how the media may have portrayed it.

> So the culture war is stoked to make sure they never find common ground.

I do agree with this. That's why we have to challenge each other to look past this pettiness and focus on the real issues.
Now what I really want to see is someone who is skilled with it live streaming on twitch.
Then you... what? Don't show up to dates? Do show up but get no contact information anyway because you aren't who you said you were? That's a lot of effort to put in for essentially nothing.
Your Abuela isn't going to be able to take her .05 Btc down to the local Bodega and buy groceries.

El Salvador already uses the US Dollar as its official currency. A migrant worker in the USA is going to face a lot more fees, scams, and difficulty to buy and send BTC than just wiring the same currency he earns to to a relative who can then spend in the same currency.

This Bitcoin thing is a marketing ploy from the corrupt Salvadoran president, and an attempt to get a few crypto whales to move to the country and cash out, and buy real estate.
Good news! GNOME and KDE both have efforts to add more Rust: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Rust https://community.kde.org/Rust
Why not?

Also, sometimes it seems “hacker” in Hacker News has been lost and replaced with corporate group think consensus, here.
Easy work with permission on CouchDB server
So ... generating plausible test data for pattern/deviation detection of surveillance?
<has everyone just gone crazy? >
Absolutely: Ford logged 100k preorders for the F150 Lightning
https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-f150-lightning-electric...

This truck is so software bloated.
OpenCL feels pretty stagnant. Showstopping bugs staying open for years. Card support is incredibly spotty. Feature support isn't even near parity with CUDA.

This despite v3.0 being released just last year... And completely breaking the API.
This human truth is at the heart of many religious practices. Time as we experience it has aspects of repetition and aspects of novelty. Doing something again and again makes it powerful for us.

For the general issue of worries keep me up at night, I have found that after a few years of meditation, this has almost stopped being issue for me. Maybe if there is some big issue I will wake up one morning early and not be able to stop the thoughts from waking me, so then I bring my problem solving techniques to it and resume sleeping well. Granted some types of stress, financial, child well being, relationship, are more destabilizing and force a higher level of practice than others (like a recent car accident where no one was hurt but my pride and my car and maybe my trust of highway 87). But three slow deep breaths, with all my attention I can summon, note the beginning of the pause and plan reflex, and then nicely numbered breaths, connected to many hours of sitting meditation and those basically chill experiences, and I can let sleepiness do its thing without fuss.
Please publish a scientific paper debunking this. In the mean time, I'm more inclined to believe the article I've linked.
Structure Aware Document Similarity
> I'll put my faith in Mother Nature instead.

This isn't so much for you, but for anyone that doesn't know how to respond to this. This is how mother nature works: Human population gets genetic variability in their immune response. New virus hits the scene. Some people's immune system, with its (stability | random changes) offers them better protections. The others die. Those that die do not reproduce (dep. on age). Children of survivors have "better" immune system. Rinse and repeat. So generally speaking, going with mother nature means: People who don't have the right genes for this virus should die.
The global tax essentially functions as a cartel, and there is no reason to believe it will be stable in the long run. It's a classic prisoner's dilemma - the incentive to cut out is just too strong.

Furthermore, by setting such a low anchor price, if the cartel eventually fails, countries would be racing to the bottom from an even lower tax rate.

I'm not super optimistic about this tax, but have been pretty surprised by how quickly it seems to be getting adopted regardless.
> this seems to be a majorly misunderstood concept.

By you as well!

1. Yes, they are transparent, however mixers are a thing.

2. The 2 things confounding mixers are KYC and volume. El Salvador, a country, is in a position to ignore KYC and thereby promote mixing (laundering as one of the benefits) under its jurisdiction. Now they just have to attract the volume. You could never get away with this in the US.

There's more to it than the bitcoin fundamentals. Laws do matter and they come into play by location.
It appears the methodology is extremely blunt - there's no mention of adjustments for square footage, rooms, income, or any other variable, just the median household spend on renting vs house gross costs.

Since most houses are larger than most apartments, the results are going to skew towards apartments being cheaper.

https://www.lendingtree.com/home/mortgage/comparing-rent-vs-...
I wish everyone could try stay at home parenting. It made me hate it.

I like my kid significantly more now that I see him evenings and weekends.
A Teenager Mistakenly Moved into a Senior Living Complex. TikTok Loves It
> So my question is, why are so many people so different from me in this respect?

Ergonomics are important. Working from my couch on a laptop would destroy my hands.

There are other people in my house that need to access the couch and kitchen table. Working from these locations interferes with their lives.

There is no wifi on top of the hill.
It's Not Just Income Taxes. Billionaires Don't Pay Inheritance Taxes Either.
Are your taxes calculated in Swiss Francs or Bitcoin?
> Most people want to contribute, but the economic system fucks them and makes them dependent. Examples include: the intellectual property regime and monopolistic parasitism of the knowledge commons [1], neoliberal philanthrocapitalism [2] and the completely disgusting and neocolonial division of labour under global capitalism [3].

This line of thinking in my opinion is the problem. Before I start, I will admit I have survivorship bias.

The points you mentioned are problems, but in my opinion that's not an excuse. One of your points you mentioned that it's now harder than ever to buy a home because Blackrock is scooping all of them up. While I agree that it certainly makes getting a home harder. I think if anyone truly wants a home and is willing to do whatever they need to in order to get it, they can get it. Same goes for just about everything else, if you want something, and you're willing to do whatever it takes to get it, you can do it.

All the problems you mentioned are roadblocks, not showstoppers. I think these days it's easier to just make the excuse that there are all these things standing in our way thus making it impossible for us to do the things our parents did.
It's a terrible thing to say, but many young women today, if judged by the same standards as men, would be considered losers. They have nothing going on in their own lives, yet have sky-high expectations of what men are supposed to provide them. And for the most part, modern dating culture lets them get away with it.
Inform6 it's one of the best languages to write IF if you hate the "English like" if7 syntax. Also, IF6 works much better in order to translate the IF6 English Library into Spanish.

With if7 you pretty much get Spanglish in my case and it's an abortion, very unpleasant to use.

Also, Inform Beginners' Guide and DM4 can be readily get by anyone so they can write their first IF story.
Maybe inject some buggy DLLs too. Make sure some characters have that bug where only their mouth and eyeballs are showing, not their whole head, and so on.
What's the other explanation for the sequence, including the junk around, to be almost identical in those two species?
Except here's the thing: I do know how GPU drivers work internally so assuming I don't when someone wants to know isn't helpful, and I did end up getting referred to a helpful answer by one of the medical friends who had a connection and could make an introduction. I can't believe this is being dismissed as a moronic approach when it actually worked and I just asked in casual conversation with friends - all of whom were actually intrigued by the question as well and wanted to know the answer when I eventually learnt it.

If most of the whole world came to a screeching halt for the better part of a year and the solution turned out to be GPU drivers, I as a software engineer would become intensely interested in understanding them and would not at all be surprised if my less technical friends asked me for some pointers.

In the end, my point was that people who aren't even software engineers were telling me to stop trying to understand GPU drivers because GPU drivers are a solved problem and I should just trust NVIDIA.
As long as it’s 5-10 years after the date the company last sold the device as new.
> Ruby Bundler was the first language / ecosystem to really get dependencies right. AFAIK, they were the first to have a lockfile locking the version of each dependency and a Gemfile with flexible version specification for dependencies,

So other than having a lockfile and having a flexible version specification (and a sensible way to resolve multiple version requests), Maven did "it" first!

... what was "it" again?
> The Europeans don't want to pull too many companies into this — they're mostly interested in US tech

I mean, they are so blatantly honest here it's hard to even be mad.
The weapons are for using against their own residents.

US residents need to pay taxes in USD. If they don't, weapons will be used to force them to pay (most pay voluntarily, but if they escalate far enough, the weapons will come out).

That means US residents need to acquire USD and are willing to trade valuable assets to do so. That makes USD valuable to US residents.

US residents own many valuable non-fiat assets, so non-US residents know that they will be able to find a US resident who will trade them something valuable in exchange. That makes USD valuable to non-US residents.

The same thing is true of more or less every fiat currency that has a non-negligible value.
Apologies for my tone, I didn't mean to insinuate you weren't experienced. I guess I was wondering what was wrong with copy(), thanks for the link!

IMO, copy() is well-designed and the semantics are sensible. I think the other examples in that article are not clear, and the semantics have me second guessing what they're doing.

> Drawback 1: if s is nil, the result sClone is not nil.

I can see how this particular semantic seems an issue, but I think its sensible. If your copy() returned nil and you wanted to use it, then you'd have to check if sClone is not nil first, so that if statement is unavoidable. Instead, it's often safer in practice to check ahead of time.

Sorry again for my tone, it's easy to appear rude on the internet on a late night.
I agree with this as well. Around 50 people (maybe even 40) companies are required to start operating in a more bureaucratic way, and more often than not this means there's a top-down approach where software developers are just doing what they're told rather than influencing what gets built.
That's why you can define billing actions, arbitrary lambdas executed when you hit the limit you set. It's impossible to have a sensible strategy for everyone.