skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoyed the first half but then it became a bit of a rant. It also went from praising creativity to vilifying developers who make you "require an internet connection". Everything is connected nowadays, especially now that we are forced to offer websites as "apps". And just as websites constantly change, so do apps require regular updates. For basic reasons such as compatibility, UX, etc
It's not all black and white.
But I agree, we will win. And I suspect the big players already know this, that might help explain their obsession to squeeze every cent from their market dominance
They refuse to accept any payment method until I deliver a passport photo to them.

That seems like something worth supporting with screenshots and posting as its own thread. I've never heard of anyone needing a passport photo for a credit card transaction, at least not in the US.
What have you bought from podcast ads? I’ve never heard an interesting one. Possibly ever.
Are you implying the heavily marketed alternative works better?

Haha I missed more streets with their map program, their music store is more complicated, and their podcast app is more buggy.

It's marketing.
That's not possible. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem)
> Edit: Within the law. To be honest, there is very little I see that should be censored beyond CP.

Self harm, terrorism, revenge porn, fabricated news. Just to name a few.

Internet is very different from what we experienced in the 90s. The ingress barrier guaranteed good content (or at least entertaining content). Now the barrier to content submission has been lowered so much that really anything makes on the Web and this is not good. There are reasons, after all, for having locks on entrance doors, right?

I am quite happy that Google "got the message" from regulators that misinformation is a real danger and we should apply zero tolerance to web polluters.
I think the difference is the all-or-nothing mentality. Nothing is 100% trustworthy.

Even if you write "unsafe"-free Rust that only relies on the Rust standard library, you need to trust:

- The Rust compiler and everything it uses to be correct (not just memory safe), e.g. LLVM.

- The Rust standard library, and everything it calls in to, e.g. system libraries, the kernel, the CPU.

That's a ton of code. By calling into an additional library that uses the "unsafe" keyword, you're just adding that library to your set of things you need to trust.

Naturally, you probably have higher trust in the Rust compiler and OS kernel then you do in some Rust library on GitHub, but nothing is 100%.

And the GitHub Rust library probably only uses a few small blocks of "unsafe" code. That makes it easier to audit and increase your confidence than if it were written in C.

Plus, the Rust safety guarantees don't cover everything. You're still trusting that the library doesn't have a bug that accidentally writes to the wrong file, or sends the wrong value over the network.

C++ defines a memory model, allowing programmers to "rely" on certain guarantees from the compiler and runtime library. But you're still trusting the C++ compiler, the runtime library, the OS kernel, and the CPU to work the way they're supposed to. That doesn't mean the C++ memory model is useless.
So one set of anthropologists didn’t know something, which means that all of them don’t? Is that your assertion?

Seems kinda weird to go from “an anthropologist learned something” to “anthropologists are finally studying a thing”.
Did you notice, that pretty much every single major language today offers static compile? C, Go, Rust, D, Nim. Why does Red think its special to not offer a static compile?
That is a bit more complex issue.

Well if the guy was a commander he should be smart enough not to share/discuss such things in gamer forums.

While yes technology on its own could be mostly understood by people you still expect commander even if not officer to keep his mouth shut.

Person did harm to himself while maybe not to the army. Just for being silly and not careful while you are being in the army there should be prosecution.

Now compare it with how much work goes into telling people that they should not click links in suspicious emails...

People still click those links, companies get ransomed.

At some point it is not "ALL FUN AND GAMES" but "WE ARE RESPONSIBLE ADULTS" - well no one died but I would not like to work with that guy on serious things.

Commanding a tank is a serious thing not "well no harm done, corporate bs".
On my radar for ages as well, but it's never quite ready. Very ambitious.

If they ever get it working as intended, it will be a game changer to be able to write small executables with a GUI, DSLs...etc while staying so lightweight. Good luck to the team. It's been a little weird that I haven't seen a new blog post in so long (almost a year), when updates used to happen fairly often.
The fundamental issue is companies dealing with out data when they should just be making hardware or software.

In the old days, computer companies made the hardware and government institutions used that to run the internet. This is how it should be. Companies should not be touching our data directly. They simply cannot handle the responsibility.
I don't know if Apple know best or not - I didn't say I thought that anywhere and I'm not sure who you're quoting - the point is the opposite - I don't care. As long as the system is usable, get on and use it and actually focus on your work rather than tinkering for the sake of tinkering.

The only war I'm fighting against is wasting my time with system setup.
That's what happens when policymakers don't consider the effect on people's livelihoods.

The moral of the story: if you add a carbon tax, don't let it push large numbers of the population downward on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Nobody who loses their job due to climate change policy will give a shit about the planet, unless/until they get another job.
Any of those are fine - with disclosure. It seems pretty clear that in this case, they were less than transparent.

> “If you watch the film, other than that line you mentioned, you probably don’t know what the other lines are that were spoken by the A.I., and you’re not going to know,” Neville told the reviewer, Helen Rosner. “We can have a documentary-ethics panel about it later.”

...or we can have it sooner, on Twitter, and you'll get excoriated, and rightly so. I don't care if they train an AI to imitate Bourdain rapping the third verse from Modern Major General, it's a free country, but you have to be honest about it. You can't call yourself a documentarian and get cutesy about the authenticity of the material.
> like most addictions, you have a tenuous association with enjoyment and the behaviour but mostly it leaves you very dissatisfied

There's a whole bunch of research and writing lately about "wanting versus liking", describing these two emotions related to experiences and behaviors as distinct.

When people encounter that distinction, most of us can think of things that we like much more than we want, or that we want much more than we like.
Quit or just admit you'd rather get paid. I have no problem ignoring calls from recruiters.
Right and that's one of the ways that we can recognize it's an interesting area. Once it's understood, the problems well-bounded, the window has generally closed. Of course there is also risk, sometimes we've wandered too far afield and we're just out in the weeds.
As long as you have paid for your annual "software development licence" from the government, and they haven't revoked it after finding you breaking "best practices" like producing or using encryption software without a government backdoor.
Looks like we have the first recorded instance of a metafake here.
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Yes, but it depends on their age. Everyone tends to forget services typically have age limits of 13, for example.
Pay no attention to the man behind the never ending quarantine curtain!
Perhaps these are the "best thinkers that the world has ever seen" because they said stuff that was beneficial for (some) powers that be. E.g. Plato-Aristotle-line/myth is directly linked to Alexander the Great.

Worth noting that there were very influential thinkers and entire schools of thought that looked beyond their noses. A good example are cynics/Diogenes the Dog, who may well have been more influential than the Platonic line. E.g. (as per anecdotes we have left) Alexander the Great had great respect to Diogenes, who totally ridiculed Alexander's (and Plato's) position.

Also stoics (e.g. Marcus Aurelius) are quite direct descendants of cynics and not ashamed of this at all.

More I look into classical philosophy, or the "myth" of academia, more it seems that it's mostly a fabrication of perhaps scholastics.
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I'd say that this decision by Google stems from regulators and public opnion bashing against misinformation.

Private companies follow the wind of the policies that are there to coerce them. In this case, the policy that is being put in place is that misinformation is dangerous and should be countered.

In 5 years, misinformation could be relegated to Tor networks, where it belongs.
Is this different than getting a voice actor?
> unless there's something like rent control introduced.

s/rent control/more housing/ and then yes.

Or perhaps do both, even better use housing vouchers instead. But you'll never rent control your way to a functional, affordable city. It can be a better bandaid than doing nothing at all but it's too untargeted and has too many downsides. And it very much falls into that same trap of thinking that young people aren't real residents who also need housing.
Thanks for explaining how you arrived at your numbers.

> I have feeling I'll still get down votes and "hand wavy" explanations

Let me turn this around: you are getting downvotes (not from me) because your 1 billion population carrying estimate in a post-fossil age is implausible and borderline disingenuous:

1) It assumes that pre-industrial agricultural output is the maximum that our planet can sustain. Which is completely off for a multitude of reasons:

- Genetic improvements to cultivars still fully apply

- Pesticides won't cease to exist

- Automation in harvesting/monitoring also won't go away

2) There is no reason to assume that we're anywhere close to peak sustainable agricultural output, neither in pre-industrial times NOR now.

3) Furthermore, it implies that land utilization, cultivar choice and consumer behavior in general would stay similar/comparable regardless of cataclysmic change in supply/demand (pricing).
Which is obviously wrong: If avocado price went up to 50$/kg then people would just put potatoes on their toast instead, and total agricultural output (in calories) would "inexplicably" increase.

Regarding power:

Renewables (solar/wind) are a perfectly fine source of primary energy. Storage/grid stability does not depend on "technology we do not currently have"--Batteries and inverters are perfectly usable, mature technologies--but right now slapping down natural gas plants is simply cheaper. This is exclusively a matter of price/ROI, and installation could be jumpstarted immediately if there was the political will to pay for it (and thats not blaming politicians exclusively to be clear--average citizen is simply unwilling to pay 1$/kWh right now for residential electricity).

> Renewable energy in transportation

Friedman selfdescribes as "energy sceptic" which is already...unfavorable... to me and after stumbling over "running out of fossils is gonna solve climate change better than anything else" (transcribed), I gave up on the author completely;

Viable pathways are:

- Batteries

- Biofuel

- Fuel cells

- Hydrogen in combustion engines

We literally built all of those already, but same story here: It's less cost efficient than burning diesel right now, so why would anyone do it.
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Cool, I didn't know about this. Will download on Google Play!
> So the vast,vast majority of AK patterns you see on the news are actually AKM derivatives since very few countries ( Finland, Israel, Yugoslavia ) could justify using the original 47 design.

Israel's derivatives (the Galil family) diverge enough from the AK-47 that it is difficult to completely exclude the AKM as a source of inspiration. Although the design was derived from the Finish RK62 (itself derived from the Polish version of the AK-47), The first Galil prototypes actually used stamped parts like the AKM before (mostly) switching to milled parts.

OTOH, the very earliest models of AK-47 also had stamped receivers, so there's that.
I get why this is newsworthy, but I don't get why it's an ethical problem. How is it any different from hiring a really good Bourdain impersonator to read the email? Lots of celebrities have pitch-perfect impersonators; is this a thing we worried about when it wasn't AI doing the impersonation?
In Rust, the only way to trigger undefined behavior is the presence of unsafe code. So everything outside of manipulating COUNTER in your code block cannot trigger undefined behavior. In C, there aren't any of those guarantees, so any line in the code could potentially trigger undefined behavior. Since we know that only the block manipulating COUNTER can cause undefined behavior to occur, ensuring that the block manipulating COUNTER can not cause undefined behavior to occur is the only place where heavy scrutiny is needed...as opposed to C, where every function call and line of code would need to be scrutinized.

Sure you could throw unsafe everywhere and not check anything, but that misses a major reason to use rust--safe abstractions over unsafe behavior. Once a safe abstraction exists for unsafe behavior, all the heavy lifting of guaranteeing code will not result in undefined behavior is offloaded to the compiler, instead of the programmer having to keep track of it all.
I don't know what your point is here. You are citing particular laws in which a party is likely to be offended like public sex, defamation, and desecration of a flag. But the crime isn't that offense was caused. That offense is the byproduct of the actual crime.

Plus many of those are illegal in other countries too. You can't have public sex or defame people in the US either, but no one would say it is illegal to offend people.
The program that destroyed dot matrix printer ribbons.

You could hear it a mile away in our first year computer lab as a poor Epson FX-80 screamed it's "head" off.

We always had a stack of confiscated floppies of pirated versions.
The question isn't whether you need to be a big company or not, it's where you're gonna get the money.

What you'd need to host/deliver something like Docs/Sheets is: a product team (2 QE, 8 SWEng, 3 SRE, 1 product owner), the product, some cloud infrastructure, and the capital to pay for it. You could go larger than that to build it, but that is plenty of people to run/maintain/support it. Assuming "large scale" is between 1M and 100M users, figure between $750K and $3M for infra. Combine that with median salaries for employees, and you're lookin' at between $1.75M and $4M (before taxes/business fees).

If you use the cheapest infrastructure and labor, you could do it for $500K. (it is mind-blowing how cheap offshore labor is. Google engineers get paid almost 8 times what some of our contractors get paid, for about the same work)

VCs throw that much cash around for a weekend trip to French vineyards. If you can actually get paying customers, even better.
Just more censorship and gaslighting.
Part of the source of the discrepancy is the planned mission is basically just what they get initial funding for not everything they would like to do and the entire mission length they'd like to use. Because launch costs are such a big part of the costs of ever replacing a Hubble or a Curiosity it makes sense for them to last longer than they're funded for because most likely they'll continue to get some funding a long as there's good science and the equipment is still usable. Also the cost of failure is pretty high, if you have something break early there's not another rover/satellite program there to replace it the science just doesn't get done until the next program in 10 years gets sent unless someone else was sending a similar device to that destination.
There's a major research paper coming up next month on the effect of solar storms on the Internet and well, the impacts can potentially be enormous:

https://twitter.com/sangeetha_a_j/status/1389303295055831042
You get your e-harassment non-anonymously too.

If people believe that it’s wrong for you to be subjected to that, those who do this to you will pay for it.

Anonymity does have uses but it’s powerful and open to misuse. What we see today on the internet is it’s misuse, mostly.
You know that most people are not immortal, but if you had no prior about the mortality of mankind it would be reasonable to expect you're immortal.

Few people expect to die at any specific day, they just know they will die at some point because mortality is a given.
I run into this all the time. but medicine doesn't get called "bicycle for the mind".

The question of market share is uninteresting to me, now. We have zero idea what the market is. The ecosystem is unhealthy, rotting, consumer dissent is skyrocketing (see the Freedom Phone yesterday as a rife example). Fixing this situation is not doable in 18 months though. We don't fix the war on general purpose computing with a product launch (although pinephone aloneight singlehandedly jump start the sea change). This market based mentality though I find so reductionist & off base, besides the point. We have so much pioneering to do in computing. so much freeing people to enable them to begin to think.
I quit because, among other reasons, cannabis causes me to experience major anxiety (AKA “paranoia”). I’m surprised more people don’t complain of this side effect.

I also suffer from Bipolar II, and cannabis was a contributing factor to an episode of hypomania with extremely life-damaging effects.
Use the principle of charity - if you were a doctor who believed the data supporting ivermectin use against covid, as both treatment and preventive measure, and believed that the data suggested covid could be eradicated if the whole world went on it for 30 days, would you not also be yelling "hey, everybody, I think there's something important here!?"
Don’t know. The point of bringing that up is that his life got ruined or close to it. Not the examples being brought up where “cancelling” was a minor life event.
Honest question. What would a well-meaning, well-informed anti-gentrification activist find here to argue with?

I assume these people exist. And anecdotally, I'm 100% sure that the anti-gentrification protesters in my neighborhood include a lot of the young people you posit are the target of the anti-gentrification protests.

So, honestly asking:

- are we all just disagreeing on the basic economics that supply drives down prices at the neighborhood level?

- are young professional people in older rental apartments arguing that gentrification is _caused_ by the building of "high-end" units, which in turn price even _them_ out?

- something else entirely?

What would an intellectually honest, no-skin-in-the-game argument be?
I dont understand why politicians allow those active messages sent - most people probably dont want them.
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He could certainly get a pyramid built. And that is the best you can do.
Hm.. Interestingly enough we haven't tried linkedIn outreach to the employers'.
We did LinkedIn ads though - with pretty much zero result.
Yes, the laws in Turkey, Switzerland, and Germany are not going to be identical. And as I said elsewhere in this thread:

"My original comment was about laws against misinformation in Germany. That doesn't mean I endorse or need to defend all free speech laws in all of Europe."
This work was based on a computational breakthrough of light propagation previously thought to be unsolvable.
This is all I could find... https://www.facebook.com/eThekwiniM/posts/4359537737429640

I don't know what the referenced video is, or if it is a deepfake though.
I definitely remember! He later worked for BorisFX doing video plug-ins, which is how I met him. Interesting guy!
I don't really understand why tech companies, like Google, go so far out of the way to maintain the image of being neutral. I agree they have a right to censor content they choose for whatever reason but what I don't understand is why they try appear to be neutral about their decisions. It feels like everyone is aware of what is going on, even other commenters who support Google censorship admit they approve of the bias.

So why do tech companies cling to this line of being neutral when no one really seems to accept it and they themselves have no intention of being neutral? I feel like there wouldn't be any conflict about policies or complaints they have to deal with if they were more honest. Maybe it has to do with section 230. I don't know but I feel like we would be better off if consumers had more information.
There is a wee bit of a difference between a corporation making more money, and a human being being able to afford rent and food. That’s why I point out how fucked up it is that we are harsh towards people and treat corporations with kid gloves.

That’s why they’re not equivalent; if the store can’t charge more money (up until a point) it cuts into their profits. If a human can’t make enough money with their labor, they starve. Hopefully you can understand why these are morally dissimilar.
The difference is in the quantity of code you have to audit. In a given Rust project perhaps 0.1% of the lines of code may be unsafe, which while technically non-zero is widly less effort to audit than the entire codebase in the case of something like C
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Some In this thread do, you surely aren't alone with that.

I know only very few people who had this, and I only ever experienced it myself when I got to strong or not washed (fertilizer) cannabis. I wonder if it has to do more with the strains than THC itself.

But then again afaik bipolar are within those having the biggest risk for mental issues from THC.