skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you want to show me "we're hiring" horsepoo, well you can go away. opt out. same for "please donate, I'm not rich enough yet" messages.

Neither of those require network requests, so it seems to me that they're a completely different sort of thing than this effort intends to address?
Maltese Falcon by Hammett
Describing the covid pandemic as simply a small decrease in life expectancy is a little on the nose.

Also, as a vaccinated New Zealander who after spending 5 months at home is now traveling again, I can assure you people there are happy and mostly oblivious to what has gone on overseas.

The travel restrictions whilst draconian, aren’t absolute and are being eased when needed. The travel bubble with Australia being a good example of this.
As much as I don't want to defend the role of the government in this mess, twitter has done a terrible job in the optics dept. They have chosen to ignore steps like appointing people for certain mandatory roles, blocking the handle of the minister responsible for the new law and so on.

It is almost like they wanted this to be a public fight. Is that a good strategy? Fighting the govt is rarely productive, but they probably know something to do this crazy in-your-face stuff.
Allow user choice. We all define "bias" differently.
Oh boy, that was a fun thread to read! Thanks for a laugh at GP expense
It would be interesting to see how Amazon would deal with an EU employee who invokes their GDPR art. 22. rights.
Agreed, works on Android, but it's clumsy.
Can you recommend a total world fund?
There's a distinct difference; software with telemetry gathers how you use that particular application, spyware gathers everything you do with your computer. Which is why Windows' telemetry is so controversial.

I'm OK with telemetry as long as it's not a communications platform and doesn't forward any work (e.g. code, audio files) I do with it. Telemitry like what buttons or keyboard shortcuts I use, summarized into statistics are fine.

I'm not OK with spyware.
This problem isn't particularly unique to AI research. In any optimization problem, if you do not encode all constraints or if your cost function does not always reflect the real world cost, then you will get incorrect or even nonsensical results. Describing this as an AI problem is just clickbait.
>Given the product is mostly for kids

Someone should tell Nintendo's marketing department.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mHq6Y7JSmg
Well I can identify with that AI wolf. He recognises his own incompetence and chooses suicide over eternally failing.
Isn't this overblown? They're (reasonably, in my opinion) looking for telemetry in order to improve the program. It's very hard to design in a vacuum, and some sort of (respectful) telemetry would be fine with me.

We can't both want OSS to improve and resist giving feedback. I think the possible UX improvements are worth giving them some data, as long as the scope remains limited (which it should, since it's OSS and we can see what gets sent).
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Here's a link for those who don't want to grant the Sun the dignity of your click: https://archive.is/VxEJN

Guess this means that they can blame faulty AI when civilians inevitably get taken down by their systems.
We're just optimizing (generally quite well, I might add) for genetic survival.
Not to mention the elephant in the room that an over-optimized environment is not suitable for human life.
In the UK it doesn't matter. Even dividends paid inside an accumulating fund or ETF are still considered income and, if held outside of a tax sheltered account, you're supposed to (somehow) figure out how much income tax to pay and declare it.

Most people get away with doing this because they use tax sheltered accounts, or the amount would be below their tax-free allowance.

Ref: "Accumulation units – the income tax loophole that never was" - https://monevator.com/income-tax-on-accumulation-unit/
Did the IT Rules 2021 go through the Parliament. I don't think so.
Frontfix: Do frontend fixes
The nearest ER was still much, much farther away than the urgent care facility. I would have undoubtedly put myself at more risk by trying to drive a vehicle down a highway for an hour.

Thankfully the bill I did receive was somewhat reasonable, and I was able to pay it without much issue.
This is what I'm really talking about: this kind of craziness requires a lot of scaffolding and mental gymnastics to explain.

While you live in the states, you're surrounded by it. It's aggressively pushed from everywhere. You can't resist, because disobedience will likely cause harm to you (e.g. losing a job and failure to pay the mortgage).

So you naturally start to believe that it's all true and justified and the only way. I get it.

But if you're outside of your society, outside of the pressure of making everyone accept this, it looks weird, even deranged in many cases. I'm pretty sure it causes and will cause loss of sales outside of the US. It would be carefully hidden and hard to prove, but I don't have to prove it. E.g. I just know that nobody from my friends and family would like to watch such a movie. Yeah, we discuss it and the opinion is pretty much universal among my family, my friends, my coworkers.

It's even hard to understand it because we were not involved in the slave trade. And we really can't understand what problems experienced and continue to experience black people in the USA. This is true, but while it is hard to understand, it's much more easier to understand that making them play main roles in historical movies doesn't repair any injustices made to them.
>It’s hard to believe that hardware built on top of the original nVidia Shield is still being sold in 2021 at a full price.

It's not really that hard to believe if you look at a) how long console lifespans are b) what kind of hardware Nintendo usually puts in their home consoles.
It was when he was enrolled in it (1980) and when he graduated from it (1987).

That's how education worked back then. If you wanna study cryptography, you go The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School, now known as Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science (FSB still runs it).

One could say it's even comparable to National Intelligence University: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_Universi...

> In June 2021, the University officially transferred from the Defense Department to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to better serve the diverse and varied needs of its students and the United States intelligence enterprise.
I think the point of the OP is that these factors don't matter. Performance is the only goal. In general I think this is fine, but it's clear that the algorithm is not yet sound. Maybe we'll get there one day.
Ironically UNIX was indeed written in Assembly, and C only came into the picture with V4.

Also BCPL, the basis for B intepreter, was originally designed to Bootstrap CPL, not really as a daily use language.
Comedies - Spontaneous, Popstar, Everybody Wants Some

Deconstruction/Meta/Anti-trope -Jump Street movies (count for both this and comedy as do some of the others), The Lego Movie, Cabin in the Woods, Better Watch Out, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

'Film' instead of movie - Another Round, Thorougbreads, The Lighthouse, Ex Machina
If it is worth the full price is a matter of debate for existing switch owners, though.
2U and EdX Analysis: Win for 2U, Risk for EdX, Opportunity for Coursera
leela (lc0) chess also has this problem. People sometimes thinks it wins too slowly (prefers some surefire way to win by 50 moves instead of slightly more risky by 5 moves), or that it plays without tact when in a losing position (it's hard for it to rank moves when all of them lead to a loss, it doesn't have the sense that humans do of still preserving the beauty of the game).

AIs need to learn to feel awkward and avoid it, just like we humans do (even if it feels very irrational at times).
That is true. Also? The Star Wars universe at the time felt open & surprising, like anything could happen. By the end of the newest prequels, it felt like the movies were highly constrained by everyone’s expectations. They were Marvel-ified by Abrams, and then they handed over the franchise to a more controversial film maker who couldn’t quite pull it off either, and then you had an impossible situation that Abrams made the best he could of, but was ultimately a mess.

Whatever. Nowadays, I will watch scifi movies simply for the visual aspect, and there were some nice scenes in the new trilogy. But the surprise and novelty of the original trilogy could never really be satisfied, in part because I’m not 12. :)
Yea this feels super iterative. It's the new 'New 3DS' all over again.

Actually, not even. Pretty sure the new New 3DS had a beefier processor and added the 2nd joystick.
I think it's actually pretty debatable, depending on what you count "longest running" to mean. Curb Your Enthusiasm has been on since 2000 but has taken years-long breaks. Is that longest running?

FWIW It's Always Sunny is, I believe, considered the longest running live action sitcom. Longest running sitcom overall is The Simpsons.
Setting up a passive income by regularly selling stocks clearly qualifies. Unrealized gains are more questionable, but you don’t have to realize gains from other forms of passive income like rental income either.
From what I know, bug bounties already have a spam problem. I definitely saw some devs in my circles complaining about people repeatedly sending garbage submissions in hopes of getting a payout.

What bug bounties also have is a big barrier to entry. You generally need to be at least marginally competent in software development, and do plenty of leg work, to make money with them. Turning regular crash reports into bug bounties removes that barrier, amplifying the spam problem.
khtml was and is still LGPLv2.1, webkit still is, and contains major work from Apple that obviously could and has been reused...
> The root cause of this is basically Hollywood

this is what i've started calling the "it takes one to tango" fallacy, where an issue has two responsible parties but only one gets blame. hollywood's not forcing people to spend their money on mass-produced uninspired movies - worse! thats what people pay to go see!
Why, what’s so special about the “old” switch?
Africa's first 3D-printed affordable home
You could argue that lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty will make things worse. They will all want air-conditioning.
It's a little more complicated than that.

When you live on islands thousands of miles away from anywhere with a fairly homogenous population and diversified economy, it's easier both physically and politically to take isolation action against a pandemic.
That’s the traditional console business model. The original NES used a CPU design from 1975 and was still sold in 1995.
Such algorithms usually emphasize biases instead of dissipating them.

Sometimes I think though, maybe we should admit in the longer run that some of these biases are actually the truth and all talk of "fair" and "unbiased" is some kind of wishful thinking against all the facts that belongs to the land of teletubbies.
Ooh true, that could generate some interesting scenarios. "No, it's the GPS satellite clocks that are wrong, I must destroy them before they corrupt the world and cause another rocket to land at the wrong time!"
Better than both GitLab and BitBucket.
A lot of -isms are "hidden" -- for example, a manager might be saying to everyone that they do not discriminate, but in practice, they'll never choose people of certain race for promotions.

For human managers, this can be hard to prove, especially if they do not promote people very often. But for algorithms, it is much easier -- multiple people can inspect the source code for suspicious logic. And even if this is some sort of impenetrable AI model, you can still run it with different inputs, and check if the output changes if you change the input race.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, I do indeed have United Healthcare.
Are children free to play team sports?

The lack of that really hurt here.
So, how do you explain Ricky Gervais' ongoing presence in TV, standup & social media where he routinely says objectively worse stuff than ever appeared in the Office with no real damage done to his career?

His recent standup work has far more objectionable content in it than the Office ever did
Slim models usually cost less, not more than the original.
The biggest thing that made the pandemic so bad outside of china was large fractions of the population not taking it seriously. That said this pandemic was objectively not that bad by historical standards.
Comedies have most certainly not died. They've just changed in tone.

A few highlights from the last decade — Booksmart is a very different take on the teenage buddy comedy. Jojo Rabbit and The Death of Stalin are some of the darkest black comedies I've ever watched, which would never have gotten made in the 90s. Birdman is completely surreal. The Grand Budapest Hotel is one of most joyous films to watch I know of, and The Artist is a comedic love letter to the silent era.
Those prefixes are bad because they break the 10^(3n) pattern. centi and hecto are also bad for the same reason. Most calculators have an "engineering" mode which only uses the good prefixes, because it's easier to think about prefixes when the ratios between them are consistent.
Yep. Feels a bit like blaming a failed shuttle launch on calculus.
Cone is one of the ideas where you think "How did I not think of that?" Awesome, congratulations!
Twitter probably can't appoint people to mandatory roles in every country of the world if the country demands it.

It is different though, when they have a physical presence in India.
Until as recently as 2019, Nintendo’s lineup included a handheld with 128MB RAM (2DS). Their selling point is not the hardware.
GitHub is cheapest.
The slimmer Vita, which is arguably the better Vita, didn't have an OLED display.
Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder? (July 2021)
Building on the "Who is Hiring?" threads, here comes a monthly thread for folks who are in search of a co-founder. Let people know what you are building and what you are looking for in a co-founder.

Please state the location and include REMOTE if you are open to building a company remotely. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.

Please only post if you personally are the founder (or one of the co-founders) of the startup. No recruiting firms, venture builders, or job boards. Only one post per company (how many co-founders can one look for anyway). Please explain on a high level what your company does.

Commenters: please don't reply to these posts telling people why their idea won't work. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in committing yourself to a co-founder role. No "CTO for hire" companies!
Types that can be defined by users are, necessarily, part of a language syntax, so that they are aligned with the syntax is just a tautology. Equating user defined types with formal verification is just nonsense. C has types. Python has types. Rust has types. That the program does what you think it should do does not logically follow the mere existence of types. I have no idea what "in the large" is supposed to mean. I feel like GPT-3 is arguing with me.
From the pull requests submitted so far, I'd say this is dead in the water unless Debian or Redhat or someone with more clout start using it.

https://consoledonottrack.com/#prs-and-status

Perhaps a more pragmatic solution would be a notrack package (probably just a shell script) that could be executed from your .profile and sets the app specific variables?
>> So, nothing changes compared to using existing high level language compilers, then?

On the contrary, it acts as an additional layer of complexity.

Looking at the example generated code snippet from the article:

void listcopy(void \*r) {
void *x2 = *r;
if (x2 == NULL) {
return;
} else {
int vx22 = *(int *)x2;
void *nxtx22 = *((void \*)x2+1);
*r = nxtx22;
listcopy(r);
void *y12 = *(void \*)r;
void *y2 = (void *) malloc(2 * sizeof(void *));
*r = y2;
*((int *)y2) = vx22;
*((void \*)y2+1) = y12;
return;
}
}

If you don't have the specification for listcopy or the code generation tools, but only the code shown and you need to make changes then you have a more difficult situation than normal, human-written code.
What's wrong with the feedback they get through traditional channels, though? There's already a GitHub issues page and the forums. There's no need to exfiltrate user data to figure out something they're already telling you.
Always a good time to post Jipi and the Paranoid Chip: https://vanemden.com/books/neals/jipi.html

Which pretty much tackles these issues head on.
The secret sauce here is the opportunity cost of running one's own storage at that scale.

At that scale its less about sourcing the hardrives (yes its a problem, but now youre a big customer so you can ask for specialised things, and a 50% discount)

The big problem is the hosting, finding and building a number of datacentres local to where your customers are. Powering them, and connecting in a reliable way.

But even more, you need to make a storage interface that doesn't suck. I am currently working with a homegrown S3 "like" interface. It is a massive pain in the arse as it doesn't scale[1], has an entirely new set of words to describe standard things (trying to overwrite a file? it doesn't tell you that, it just says "predicate failed")

[1] large files transfer very fast, faster than s3. However all the tools are written single threaded. Add to this that each operation takes at least .7-1.5 seconds, shit gets slow very quickly. There is little to no documentation, the API is odd.

in short, much as it annoys me to say this: for general purpose storage, buy over build.
This would be possible with symmetric key encryption, but with asymmetric key (aka public key) encryption, it's impossible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography
A show so brilliant that I used to skip school in order to watch it when it aired on Friday mornings in New Zealand.

My favorite episode is the one on VCR machines - probably the most mechanically complex device to have been mass marketed.
It doubled the RAM, too.
I think I've probably watched 1000+ movies. I've tapered off as I got older (I'm in my 40s now) but at least one movie every 5 days seems like a low bar I would regularly hit.

What the author says is true, I tend to see common patterns and can often predict who's a secret villain by the first act or have a general idea of how the movie will end. At the same time, these clues are what make a movie compelling and provide subtle clues where the movie is going, so shouldn't be discounted as "tropes" or cheap. George RR Martin talks about ignoring fans who have correctly predicted what will later be revealed at the end, saying that instead of retconning or changing course, it's best to keep on and not be influenced by the (correct) predictions. The groundwork is laid and the foreshadowing gives active readers an excuse to engage with the material.

I can also say that many movies overuse tropes (time travel in sci-fi for example) but often, even with movies that are mediocre or bad, there's a gem of an idea. Sometimes it's a premise, sometimes is a character interaction, what have you, but that's what, in my opinion, people who get into this state should be looking for. It's a version of "strongmaning" an argument, but instead applying it to the movie you're watching.

Also, sometimes the pleasure is in seeing how the movie plays out, even if you know the ending beforehand. I've seen quite a few movies multiple times and often enjoy them more on subsequent viewings.

I'm pretty skeptical of the author touching on "Godfather", "Eyes Wide Shut" and "The Hangover" as it sounds like their taste is pretty immature. They touch on this with the mention of "Lost in Translation" being unrelatable but delving deeper, it might be that they like those movies for other more superficial reasons that might not be so predominant later on in their life. I'm also pretty critical of "not being surprised anymore". This means that they're either so cynical and jaded or they're not looking hard enough for movies. It's rare but surprises do happen and the lack of surprise on the author's part points, in my opinion, to an unjustified superiority complex.

A final point: The author touches on it but then abandons it. TV is the new media. TV has the ability to delve much deeper into plot arcs and character development. We're living in a golden age of television where there are some shows that rival and surpass the best movies out there in terms breadth, scope and depth. There will always be a place for movies but I think at this point it's the difference between a short story and a novel. There's only so much you can pack in a two hour limit (or 6 hours if you're part of a trilogy) whereas the 12-24+ hour limit for TV allows you the space to explore in more depth.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKnXmNHubfs
Lisbon is right at the Atlantic coast. Do the summers get that hot there? Inland places get more extreme weather, both cold and hot.

Fun fact, according to Windy[0], Lisbon has 21°C right now, while eg Murmansk has 29°C.

[0]: https://www.windy.com/-Temperature-temp
The best part of that discussion is how one Homebrew maintainer says "I'd like to see package managers implement this first", and when someone from Arch goes "we don't track at all" the big chief comes in and says "Run your package manager how you want/need and we'll do the same.".

The guy also seems quite rude for someone with "Rude people blocker" in his bio.
Abbas Kiarostami - Where Is the Friend's Home?
SoC has a bootloader exploit which makes it great for homebrew.
This question came up in a guitar discussion group I'm part of. Someone who was really good at the drills wasn't happy, because they could kind of only do the drills. You have to perform eventually, which for painting is finishing paintings, musicians performing entire pieces, etc. And I think that's a beginning towards an answer to your question: find something in your hobby (or job!) you love and do that as a performance. Drills are there to serve the eventual performance, they're not an end in themselves.