skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from his website it seems like his protest might have caused him to lose his grip on reality... https://bobsgame.com/ or perhaps a mental illness was what caused him to lock himself in his room for a 100 days in the first place
Here's the link to part 1.

https://www.americaspace.com/2013/04/27/the-crew-that-never-...
Set and maintain strong, healthy adult boundaries. If somebody blames you for something that you don't control then call them out on it. You don't even have to be mean, just point it out. There's a lot of legal precedence for "But (s)he allowed me to abuse him(her)!" as an excuse for abuse.

Honestly that's the best thing you can do for on-the-job sanity. I understand that people feel they have a right to abuse others, but at some point you really don't have to take it.
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License: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5I6YHGXoAYcat0?format=jpg&name=...
Humans are just sets of atoms, so protecting them is disconnected from reality?

These reductionist arguments lead nowhere. Fortunately, IP lawyers -- including Microsoft's who are fiercely pro IP when it suits them -- think in a more humanistic way and consider the years of work of the IP creator.

Food recipes are irrelevant; the often go back centuries and it's rather hard to identify individual creators. Not so in software.
I am mainly concerned your letting past achievements limit future growth. One thing about technology, you leave and come back often times things get better. Besides you already got there once...
Here's the science behind this claim:
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/19/eaaw1838

> While some heat-humidity impacts can be avoided through acclimation and behavioral adaptation (12), there exists an upper limit for survivability under sustained exposure, even with idealized conditions of perfect health, total inactivity, full shade, absence of clothing, and unlimited drinking water (9, 10). A normal internal human body temperature of 36.8° ± 0.5°C requires skin temperatures of around 35°C to maintain a gradient directing heat outward from the core (10, 13). Once the air (dry-bulb) temperature (T) rises above this threshold, metabolic heat can only be shed via sweat-based latent cooling, and at TW exceeding about 35°C, this cooling mechanism loses its effectiveness altogether. Because the ideal physiological and behavioral assumptions are almost never met, severe mortality and morbidity impacts typically occur at much lower values—for example, regions affected by the deadly 2003 European and 2010 Russian heat waves experienced TW values no greater than 28°C (fig. S1). In the literature to date, there have been no observational reports of TW exceeding 35°C and few reports exceeding 33°C (9, 11, 14, 15). The awareness of a physiological limit has prompted modeling studies to ask how soon it may be crossed. Results suggest that, under the business-as-usual RCP8.5 emissions scenario, TW could regularly exceed 35°C in parts of South Asia and the Middle East by the third quarter of the 21st century (14–16).
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FFP2 masks have been mandated for the public to use in Germany for the past half year. I wonder if it would have made a sizeable difference using FFP3 masks instead.
Yes, people give away their private data for small conveniences, much like how pets give away their natural lives in wilderness for a guaranteed meal and a warm house.

We are being domesticated by big companies!
> Code has structural and algorithmic details that just have no comparable concept in recipes.

Why do you think that? A compiler uses human readable code to create machine code, with arbitrary optimizations and choices.
I don't understand why being seen as arrogant or stupid by a faceless HR robot in a company you don't work for should matter to a person. It feels like a confidence issue that somebody should look into resolving so that they can live a more fulfilling life.
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I bet John Carmack hasn't even solved most Leetcode mediums.
If it is a great post, why does it matter when it was written?

How to win friends and influence people was written close to 100 years ago, but it is still recommended in plenty of places.

The dragon book is older than me, but it is still one of the recommended books to write a compiler in.

Why does a blog post have to have a date displayed on it? If it is about a specific version of some software, I can understand, and agree with you, why it should be mentioned in the post.
They probably need to "fortify" the election more better.
How to Breathe
Links are the backbone of the internet. Archive.org is a huge asset, but it relies on individuals being prescient enough to archive pages that might be lost to time. That's not scalable. Plenty of people will visit Wayback Machine to pull up an old page that's gone to the big 404 in the sky, but they won't actively submit links to archive themselves.

The bad design and low quality content is a symptom of the Internet's broken underlying economics. That's a human problem, not a tech problem.
What a fine cut of beef this was! The very last sentence is what really gets me:

> It requires buy in and input from the entire business stack.

In my experience, this makes or breaks everything. Unless you have external buy-in and external understanding of all the points steverb enumerated:

- Inaccurate estimates don't matter: there is so much wack-a-mole going on that by the time you're done it just doesn't matter as everyone is 3+ focus hijacks removed from when you started.

- Accurate estimates cause heartburn: they wanted it weeks ago and now you're showing up with a number far larger than anyone wants to hear, but they can't tell you where to cut scope.

Additionally, the point of estimates is planning, and planning really only matters when it aligns priorities for multiple teams... the more alignment needed the more important this becomes.

Everyone has to do the dance or it's just no fun.
All principles on the website are currently in this repository: https://github.com/PrinciplesDotDev/principles In fact, this is the database for the website.

So you can download them from there and put it in an ereader or import it into an application that supports .md format.
The core problem which would allow laundering (that there isn't a good way to draw a straight, attributive line between generated code and training examples) to me also presents a potential eventual threat to the viability of co-pilot/codex. It seems like the same thing would prevent it from knowing which published code was written by humans vs which was at least in part an output from the system. Training on an undifferentiated mix of your model's outputs and human-authored code seems like it could eventually lead the model into self-reinforcing over-confidence.

"But snippet proposals call out to GH, so they can know which bits of code they generated!".
Sometimes; but after Bob does a co-pilot assisted session, and Alice refactors to change a snippet's location and rename some variables and some other minor changes and then commits, can you still tell if it's 95% codex-generated?
In fairness it was air conditioning that turned Florida into useless swamp to tourist paradise/trap.

I really hate it because I know it will only make things worse long term but my North European country is rapidly installing AC everywhere now thanks to increasing heatwaves.
It wasn't- this appears to have been mistranslated into English. Measurements started in 1936.

https://twitter.com/EKMeteo/status/1406612294075830286
It strikes me that there is some kind of market effect to embellishing the requirements. If a company is honest about requirements in an environment where everybody else exaggerates, applicants who don't meet your more honest but lower requirements will think they're embellished, because everybody does that, and apply.
Commercial aircraft are the safest mode of transportation. Small aircraft, on the other hand, are deathtraps.
You signed a copy of The Cuckoo's Egg for me, oh, maybe 30 years ago, which I still own. I just wanted to say thank you for being a positive inspiration in my life.

Hot ziggitty!

https://ibb.co/8jy12Z8

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I agree that this is different from humans learning to code from examples and reproducing some individual snippets. However, I disagree with the author’s argument that it's because of humans’ ability to abstract. We actually know nothing about the AI’s ability to abstract.

The real difference is that if one human can learn to code from public sources, then so can anyone else. Nobody is explicitly barred from accessing the same material. The AI, however, is kept proprietary. Nobody else can recreate it because people are explicitly barred from doing so. People cannot access the source code of the training algorithm; people cannot access enough hardware to perform the training; and most people cannot even access the training data. It may consist of repos that are technically all publicly available, but try downloading all of GitHub and see if they let you do that quickly, and/or whether you have enough disk space.

This puts the owners of the AI at a significant advantage over everyone else. I think this is the core of the concern.
It's not weird (other than the fact that the current temps are a record). Wild temp swings over short periods and a huge diff between winter and summer is par for the course in continental interiors where you're var away from the temperature stabilizer that is the ocean.

It's just that nearly everyone on HN is from the coastal plain(s) of North America or Europe so this isn't something people think about unless they need to make a "it gets cold in the desert at night" quip for easy points.
I've had trouble with the sort of example listed. I might imagine pork shoulder on my childhood doorstep, or a pig drinking to beer in a tortilla dress, but I still tend to forget to think about the memory palace in the first place on my way back from work. How do you get better at remembering to remember the right things at the right time?
I was very disappointed with this book. To be fair, I haven't even finish it.

I was expecting something philosophical, this is, something that actually connect the philosophy and software design disciplines. Outside of the title however, there is no philosophy in this book. Just general typical practical "good practice" tips of the kind you find in blog posts, without much empirical nor philosophical discussion for them.
Yes. There's also permafrost methane release [0]. Both involve positive feedback loops, and despite that terminology sounding like a good thing to the public, engineers know that positive feedback loops often mean something very, very bad has happened.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_emissions
> Food recipes are irrelevant; the often go back centuries and it's rather hard to identify individual creators.

That's not correct. Food recipes are created all the time and are attributed. From edible water bottles to impossible burgers, et al.
Do we have precedent for this? Can you truly not sue if you enter an agreement with someone to provide them with data that restricts their rights to use it, but the data is actually in the public domain? What about implicit agreements like TOS on a website?

These are pertinent concerns for which I have never found a definitive answer.
Maybe the reason it feels impossible to stem the tide of link rot is that it's takes tremendous energy to constantly increase the entropy of a system. And that energy has opportunity cost that no one really wants to talk about.

The article has the unstated assumption that eternal preservation of all writing ever is a net benefit. I think it's worth having a discussion on that point.
I've got some hope - REBCO is so much cheaper than any other superconducting material, and China really needs even more trains to offset from air traffic.
So there is an industry standard somewhere for how to translate YOE -> actual acquired knowledge? And everyone adheres to that?
> Take the 2003 protests against the Iraq war for example - 3 million protested in Rome, 1.5 million in Madrid, 1 million in London, and millions more across the west. What happened? They went to war based on lies anyway. It's always the same.

The flaw is applying a binary metric: It's not that protestors don't have either absolute power or no power. Protests have influence. Those protests limited the scope of the war and their governments' involvement. Imagine the world if nobody protested, the free hand governments would have had if nobody cared. I can tell you that in my community, the George Floyd protests put political leaders in a position to respond immediately or be swept away by the next vote.

The Iraq War was conducted while constantly pushing back against world opinion. The cost in political capital was high; those protests imposed real costs and real limitations on the leaders. That's how democracy works (though not only through protest).

Whenever you think protests are futile, imagine the world without them. Then get out there and contribute - the world doesn't need people sitting on the sidelines, criticizing. Each person who shows up demonstrates to many others - people who see them, people who know them - that they too have the power, can act, and have a responsibility to do it.
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Leaked print spooler exploit lets Windows users remotely execute code as system
>Then why bother saying it?

Because there's no indication from your post to suggest that you know more evidence that supports my position. Your post sounds like far more of a leap than it does if you've seen the other stuff.
I’m not familiar with that definition

The newest definition I’m aware of is “the original 51% attack”
This sounds like an amazing hiring process. Hopefully it becomes more common.
> Infuriating is a bit much

Ok maybe I was exaggerating :) but it really annoys me.
It's true - I did not see this submission until I searched for it, after learning about the event from nim blog.
> You're starting from an opinion that you haven't presented any evidence for, and then asking for evidence when someone disagrees with you? Let's be clear here: we're both presenting opinions without scientific studies behind them.

Correct. Like most of my life, I have things that are opinions but I'm more than willing to change my mind if evidence comes along.

And to be clear, I did not make any assertions with my initial post about health and wellbeing from contactless ordering. It was you that came here to tell me:

> Your belief that it's good to cut out a human interaction is one you should reconsider.

The quote you quoted said nothing to that effect.

Personally, I don't believe it has an effect one way or the other. My opinion is this would probably only really matter for someone who's only social interactions came from talking to the waitstaff. That'd be a pretty rare individual.

> I think most people have life experience that shows them that in-person human interaction is a necessary component to human happiness

Correct, I don't disagree with this

> Maybe somehow you've never experienced or heard other people's experiences of that

Incorrect. What I've not experienced is any positive impact from talking to waitstaff, store clerks, bar tenders, valets, etc. I, like I'd assume most other people, do not get my human interaction from people I purchase services from. I get it from my family, friends, and coworkers.

Perhaps if I were proposing we move to a world where everyone lives in a box never interacting with another individual, you'd have more of a point. That said, my week is no better or worse as a result of moving to online banking or when I have groceries delivered.

I could concede that if the only form of human interaction someone experiences is from a restaurant wait staff then there'd be a net negative for that individual. However, getting food delivered or preparing food at home hardly seems like the problem you are painting. Nor does it seem like me being "out of touch with reality".

Perhaps another concession I'd give is that I could see how limiting human interaction would minimize opportunities for empathy. Certainly, I think more people would be empathetic to field hands were they to directly interact with them.

But, again, I don't see how that really translates when talking about food prep at a restaurant.
I'm sorry Cliff: the system sucks because there's a lot of edge case handling when they're dealing with millions of vendors selling literal hundreds of millions of SKUs.

Many of them autogenerated programmatically like "I love X" shirts, and X = some dictionary list; or bots built to crosslist Target/Walmart product over to Amazon etc. for arbitrage etc.

I hope someone from Amazon has reached out to you Cliff - my wife gifted my FIL one of your klein bottles and it's been an absolute delight going through the purchasing experience with you. Thank you for the joy you bring to us!
Or: they used the entire open source corpus because they thought it was free for the taking, and when people point out that it is not (that there are licenses) they spin that (claim that only 0.1% of output is directly copied, but that would mean 100 lines in 100k program) and pass any risk onto the user (saying it is their responsibility to vet any code they produce). So they aren't saying that users are in the clear, just that it isn't their problem.
Wait, you think Yale is underfunded...?
To the person who is about to say that blockchain e-voting could have avoided this, just remember that it takes a competent elections administration system (people, technology, processes, laws, culture) to run any election, and this one just proved itself incompetent. And it won't be the last one either.
I use third party Reddit apps that largely resemble RSS feeds, and pull directly from the API. So you don't see any of the new social media features. You don't even see ads!

The same is true for desktop, with with the Reddit Enhancement Suite browser extension. My Reddit has looked largely the same for nearly 10 years!
These posters capture the imagination that goes with pulp science fiction of the 40s and 50s. It’s nostalgic and whimsical, not meant to actually portray visiting barren planets.

When pulp sci fi was being written, no one really knew what might be in our own solar system. Some assumed Venus could be a jungle teaming with life, Mars full of caverns with civilization. Obviously now we know that’s not the case.

So the idea that there’s some appeal for people to walk around nothingness in a space suite is off the mark. The reason we want to send people to Mars is not to enjoy the barrens of Mars, but to further our capabilities. (Although there is an undeniable beauty ti geology as well, the beauty of the Grand Canyon for instance)

The barrens are a stepping stone.

If there are planets with alien snakes and bugs, whole ecosystems with intelligent beings, the only way to get there is baby steps in our own barren solar system.

So that’s the appeal. The challenge of exploration to see what’s over that next hill.

Edit: Your points of not appreciating what’s on Earth are right on point. You’ll note one of the posters is an Earth poster. In many ways demonstrating how barren and inhospitable most of the universe is, helps people realize what they have here and how precious it is. So in other words, your exact point of view is what many hope everyone can understand.
Ask HN: Should reporting on social media and other websites be incentiviced?
If not, why?

If so, what would be a suitable reward, that would encourage users to report content?

Also another question: do you find social media "what-is-and-what-isn't-allowed" guidelines clear, and easy to report exactly what the infringement is?
Well to be the best in a very large group of people, you need to max out all of the main factors: luck, talent, hard work. That's just statistics.

I agree with you though. I find it annoying when people play down the role of luck in their success, it's kind of narcissistic. Unconsciously, they like the feeling that they are better than others, and by achieving success, they prove it to themselves. Giving luck too much credit would break this line of reasoning.

Also, one very important but overlooked factor of hard work is that it's highly correlated to the expected reward. It's much easier to work hard at a quickly-growing startup that you co-own, compared to working hard at a regular job that you don't find meaningful. The hard-workers in the former example then think they "deserve" the success because they've been working harder than others, when in fact, they were just lucky.
Drama classes should be free.

The odds of anyone breaking into that hollywood club is like winning the lottery.

I have respect for anyone who sticks with acting though.
Some subreddits are decent. Use old reddit and go straight to your subreddits so you never see the home page.
> How to win friends and influence people was written close to 100 years ago, but it is still recommended in plenty of places.

Because human nature hasn't changed. Front end stuff changes every day.
You can see the old link on Google still https://www.google.com/search?q=Klein+Bottle+amazon
90s I got suspended for “hacking” when all I did was create a windows file share. Had me and my friends split the typing assignments and combine them on the share so we could browse the internet during typing class.
> 92% are even willing to switch industries to find the right position

I'm increasingly convinced people not switching industries is a huge barrier towards equity in the job market. If another industry/location treats workers much better, but the cost of switching is too high, then the industries/locations aren't really competing for your labor. Competitive labor markets seem to be table stakes for fair work.

COVID just lowered the cost of switching, so I'm hoping the built up differences can finally equalize.
Whether or not that is strictly true, there's an enormous gulf between the renown and respect for Lowe versus that for Weinstein.
a fantastic and inspirational read. also great cookie recipe! made them many times
OP here.

I wrote up some additional details on how this was created on my blog: https://jpalmer.dev/2021/05/interactive-git-history/.

If anyone has ideas about milestones that I could add to that would make the timeline more interesting/informative, or any other feedback, please let me know.

Happy to answer any questions here.
Probably thr HR representative wanted to hire their friend or family. Lots of companies dont screen for hiring family members that and dont have any policy against it.
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He easily makes way more than that. E5s can hit 500k with refreshers and stock appreciation. I would be shocked if he's making less than 2 million. Not that he even needs it.
I was somewhat worried about that until I saw this: https://twitter.com/nickjshearer/status/1409902649625956361?...

I think programming is one of the many domains (including driving) that will never be totally solved by AI unless/until it's full AGI. The long tail of contextual understanding and messy edge-cases is intractable otherwise.

Will that happen one day? Maybe. Will some kinds of labor get fully automated before then? Probably. But I think the overall time-scale is longer than it seems.
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You don't need to have a winnable case, just enough of a case for a large company (hello Oracle) to sue a small one. Is any version of Oracle-owned Java in the corpus? Or any of the DBs they bought (MySQL)?
Guessing that if all you have to do is keep your metrics green, they are not selecting for the skills they are educating for.
Yes, and those people are violating the licenses of the code when they do that. It's not unreasonable to expect a massive company like microsoft to not do this on a massive scale.