skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what a disgusting fascist move.

carving exceptions into safe harbor is not ok. it's either safe to host content online, or we all have to have human moderators checking every single thing posted online to protect against liability. the rhetoric is that this is a measure to restrict platforms, but that's wrong, idiotic, & fascistically demagoguic, ignores the real impact of this to spin it's own half-truth narrative.

most of all, to propose this after a year of constant bungling by officials is fragging idiotic beyond belief, how thick do you have to be? the official guidance has been wrong & bad again and again and again. remember when masks werent effective at all? lab leak went from an outlandish conspiracy to real possibility. official guidance is has been terrible. to propose that we must fight misinformation, when trusted information seems so wrong & bad, is a joke. this whole idea is from a Joe Liberman style ultra-controlling censoring anti-freedom loser, someone that i hate has a voice & who in part represents my political party.

i'm ok with trying to find some way forward, because there is some real bad misinformation. but to propose, "you can have safe harbor, except..." is to not have safe harbor, and we need it. we need to be able to host speech online. we need to not need human moderators checking every single sentence that someone wants to write online.
Agree. I have used IBM web sphere in 2008. IBM, Oracle, Sun is a tribe.
Because there is a substantial cost to such migrations. If it works don't fix it.
That is such a bafflingly bad decision. Will politics literally sink the earth eventually ?
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've been breaking the site guidelines egregiously, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27857458, which is obviously not acceptable here. We ban accounts that do that, so I've banned this one.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.
Interesting. When the cicadas get bad I do have a lot of trouble working for long periods in my outdoor shop. My ears ring and I get headaches.
Tried with clean profile Firefox and Chromium. Back button works fine with both.
You can paste Markdown into it. I just have to remember the magical keyboard incantation every time I do it.
Yes. Typically when I was young, you kept smoking until you reached the desired level of intoxication then stopped. Do people do it differently now?
This is such a hilariously myopic HN take.
A couple few groups that I know of off the top of my head where you might find a lot of overlap between art and tech type people would be the "metaverse" (virtual worlds engines [1][2] and their users) and the closely related 3d graphic arts/game design [3][4].

[1] http://opensimulator.org/

[2] https://github.com/HalcyonGrid

[3] https://www.blender.org/

[4] https://godotengine.org/
Sure, it's generally safe. The point I was trying make is why work extra years to pay for a single year when it's not guaranteed. I'd rather quit at 60 and die at 78 than pay $200k, quit at 64, and die at 79.
There was one piece missing, that being a singular, previously decided upon leader. It was armed and violent anarchy with the intent to terrorize congress, and people were murdered by this mob.

If they had a leader it would have been an insurrection. That is it.
Yeah if you're using Firefox and you have the FB Container, it's working as advertised
Native Americans did controlled burns to prevent catastrophic wildfires and encourage new plant growth. Fires in California have been an issue well before man made pollution became a thing.
Square is one of my favorite examples. Square was always beautiful and elegant (if skeuomorphic, boy am I glad that trend is over - remember when iCal looked like "an ugly wild west" [1])

Compare Square to a classic point of sale device. Night and day. It really opened up payment acceptance in a way that I don't think it could have without the aesthetic/UI/UX.

Design and usability matter!

[1] https://gizmodo.com/ugh-god-why-is-apple-making-everything-l...
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Found the reference in the article. It's a simple P40, so no, not a gaming GPU. This means the article title is not only clickbait, it's a blatant lie.

Though that is an impressively lightweight GPU for what I'd feel like they'd need for that type of realtime control reaction. But that's far outside of my wheelhouse so I should probably lean back to avoid falling into the same pit I'm accusing the article of doing.
I watched Andrea Mitchell and Sen Marco Rubio discuss this today. I didn't realize it was happening outside Cuba and even within the US (If what I heard is accurate)
I'd say it can be the opposite. If the DSL is addressing a real and common problem in C codebase, it's better to use it and that everyone use it rather than have everyone create their own special DSL.
It's my opinion that schema changes should be cheap, fast and unexciting.

Unfortunately, in my experience once you are operating at scale they are expensive, slow and fraught with peril.

The result is that engineering teams often chose to build poorly designed schemas and take on technical debt rather than make a schema change to a core table. This is a terrible anti-pattern!

I'm massively in favour of anything that makes schema changes cheaper and more boring. I really enjoy working with the Django schema migration system for this reason - though it won't help you as much if you need to make schema changes to older versions of MySQL (I've not tried schema changes against 8.0 yet) since you'll likely still need to use GitHub ghost or Percona pt-online-schema-change.
I wear noise-cancelling headphones with background music for focus during a majority of my working hours. I have a "flowstate" playlist on Spotify which I've curated for a few years, from which I've more recently carefully extracted only those tracks which I can happily put on individual repeat for a particular flavor of focus. None have words to distract, nor sudden changes; all have enough of a beat or groove to help boost my energy. I made this "Flowstate: Repeatable FTW" playlist publicly readable:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UScdOAlqXqWTOmXFgQhFA?si=...

Enjoy! :)
> That’s not whataboutism — that’s pointing out that your definition of violent uprising is ridiculously broad;

It’s not /my/ definition, it’s the dictionary’s…

And this isn’t about what protests I believe in, but let’s dig into that just a bit. Are you really trying to equate a protests/riots against systematic racism, for gay rights, or against racism/assassination of MLK JR with a riot based on lie? I’m sorry but I’m not interested in debating those on level ground.
It seems like there's something interesting here but I'm having trouble getting from the questions to the actual answer. Could you please state directly, what is the (proposed) "Law of Cost Centers"?

Sorry if I'm being dense!
If I remember correctly, 8.0 has them finally. 8.0 seems to have fixed a lot of the weird legacy eccentricities of MySQL
The hype is bad in its own right, but it's a symptom of how science is being funded and rewarded, which is a much bigger problem.
This is true. If I were the UK and I saw what the US considered as evidence in this case, I would strongly consider requiring the US to provide prima facie evidence going forward.

That said, I was more replying to the claims that dual criminality were not required. The UK still needs to find the acts themselves as illegal under UK law. I don't remember it being clearly so. Frankly, the released information I read coming from grand jury didn't even seem illegal to me according to US law.
Finally I can follow my dream.

Lofi hip hop Mona Lisa to study/chill to.
From my perspective, longform information has moved to podcasts.
I think its much too early to tell. We know really well about slide rules. We are still learning what the best way to build quantum computers are, and how different methods scale.
Reading the article, seems like facebook has added support for it in one of their internal patches.
This is actually a good point. And here in the UK we sold a lot of weapons to Saudi Arabia.

But I guess (at least in theory) these are for use in military operations, not against civilians and journalists.
sql server and db2 also support ddl in transactions, oracle still does not
Also reminds me of experiment in the first half of the 20th century where people were asked to visually rotate images in their mind to find answers versus calculating them. Some of the researchers were skeptical that people actually visually rotated mental images. But it turns out there is measurable difference between rotating a mental image and just calculating an answer. The author of the text went on to wonder if some philosophers who were skeptical of consciousness were simply lacking mental visual capabilities. They were relying on the fallacy that everyone's mind works the same as theirs.

And then there's what Temple Grandin has to say about thinking in mental images, which is quite fascinating.
>Maintaining notes separately breaks the flow of reading.

I would push back on this point. You do not have to keep a flow of reading. If there is something that stands out to you, then it is noteworthy enough to pause and think about it for a bit. When I read books I am waiting for moments like this, as something the author wrote resonates with me. In my opinion, that's what makes reading fun and valuable. After you reflect on the line you can re-read to get back into the flow until you are pleasantly provoked by the next piece :).
Treating ops as a separate janitorial service and how that goes south is nicely captured in this article:

https://machinesplusminds.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-carpets-a...
Yes? Also, I want them to not be able to break halfway.
Still interesting to read how they "reverse engineered" it and came to the wrong/premature conclusions.
Why is it so hard to get accurate information on cutting-edge spycraft and sensitive matters affecting national security?
Imagine being fresh out of school, competing in the job market against a huge pool of people who have been working for a century. Now that I think of it, though, what's the difference between a gerontocracy and hiring the most experienced senior candidates? Is it just government vs private sector?
YouTube built Vitess, which lets you scale out MySQL writers. If I can scale out both my writers and my readers then what could be "vastly more scalable" than that?
Is anyone (not selling snake oil) claiming that large scale QC is actully only 10 years away? I certainly havent heard that.
I wrote this elsewhere but I'll copy it here:

Nothing remotely new since the very birth of the BBC. It's always had an extremely paternalistic streak

>John Reith [the creator of the BBC] and the BBC, with support from the Crown, determined the universal needs of the people of Britain and broadcast content according to these perceived standards. Reith effectively censored anything that he felt would be harmful, directly or indirectly. While recounting his time with the BBC in 1935, Raymond Postgate claims that BBC broadcasters were made to submit a draft of their potential broadcast for approval.

And it's also never been too bothered about telling the truth

>While the BBC tends to characterise its coverage of the [1926] general strike by emphasising the positive impression created by its balanced coverage of the views of government and strikers, Jean Seaton, Professor of Media History and the Official BBC Historian, has characterised the episode as the invention of "modern propaganda in its British form". Reith argued that trust gained by 'authentic impartial news' could then be used. Impartial news was not necessarily an end in itself.

Or of remaining politically neutral

>The resulting coverage of both striker and government viewpoints impressed millions of listeners who were unaware that the PM had broadcast to the nation from Reith's home, using one of Reith's sound bites inserted at the last moment, or that the BBC had banned broadcasts from the Labour Party and delayed a peace appeal by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Supporters of the strike nicknamed the BBC the BFC for British Falsehood Company.
When a founder draws a salary and the business goes under, their wages aren't clawed back. Why would a worker's wages be clawed back?

Workers should share in ownership. If the value of the business goes to zero, their ownership stake goes to zero, just like the founder.
It's doable when you need it, something like:

filefd, err := syscall.Openat(int(dir.Fd()), filename, os.O_RDONLY, 0)
file := os.NewFile(uintptr(filefd), filename) // for use with library functions
The general Aubrey de Grey response to this observation is that yes, lifestyle improvements are great and diet/exercise are great for improving one's life. However, it ends up conferring only a few more years of life. Some evidence he provides is that even very healthy (by obesity metrics for example) countries only have a life expectancy a few years longer than "unhealthy" countries. I think he cites like Japan (with lower obesity rates) having a life expectancy of 6 years longer than US (high obesity rates).

Not my observation so feel free to caveat me away, but I'm just regurgitating what some doctors who studying aging observe and perhaps I'm not remembering all the evidence they provide.
YouTube used to use a MySQL-based system called Vitess[0]. It no longer uses it and has migrated to Spanner.

[0]: https://vitess.io/
I did this for ten years. I would print 10-15 articles each day, and read those during my ~2h of daily commute.

I've learned a ton of things that way. I'm not proud for the environment, but the physical aspect did have its importance.
I’m personally rather bored with the hobbies and tastes of these modern tech billionaires like Jeff and Elon. A few years back, there was a total global circumnavigation of the world in a solar powered 2 person airplane based in Switzerland, I forget the project name. This thing did not have to land to charge batteries but could stay aloft indefinitely, albeit at a very floppy wing surface area to weight ratio, and the resulting vulnerability to wind and low speed. Such a project or something that presents and actual investment that only a billionaire could provide are eschewed in favor of juvenile pissing contests like Mr. Branson and Mr. Bezos pursue
In fusion temperature systems, emissions like the ones shown in the video are very difficult to get. I'm interested in how they are going to gather the amount of data they will need to detect plasma accurately enough to try to control it in real time.

That is more interesting to me than the hardware the control system software will run on.
By Laurence Shames and Peter Barton. One of the more entertaining end-of-life memoirs. "When Breath Becomes Air"
by Paul Kalanithi is also recommended.
It's sort of a funny thing where efforts to recreate something that may be completely mythical, actually end up bringing that thing into existence.
Purely the first season. Unfortunately, the show has gone down the drain and focuses more on action than interesting philosophical discussions.
Anecdotal. Causation isn't that simple to establish. What drives people to smoke pot may very well be a factor that Will lead to paranoia or other form of mental instability.

Also to note, psycho active drugs are as they are called: psycho active. With prolonged use, tolerance increase, with further use some imbalance occurs especially when not under the influence of that substance. Re establishing that balance takes time. We are very poorly educated when it comes to mental stability, and pharmaceutical treatment is the de facto answer by medical corps.

I do hope you get better, just don't forget substance use has an impact on the brain subtle chemistry, that's in a way what makes them attractive in the first place, and this impact doesn't disappear after a day like a hangover. Take some time off stimilant and psychedelics, you will slowly regain your normal self.
There is no cohesive "humanity" with any sort of desire or ability to optimize for "the economy."

Individuals optimize for their own (often short-term) economic benefit. That's it.

The corporate overlords at ACME don't care about fighting obesity, because there are more than enough non-obese workers for them to exploit, and they don't want to cannibalize their highly profitable line of products that obese people need (i.e. insulin).

Governments are composed of individuals, and the structures we have to hold these individuals accountable to their constituents are weak, so they still end up using their levers of power for their own gain, and for the gain of their corporate sponsors (also often short-term).

Despite ~70 year lifespans, it seems that most of the population can't even be bothered to optimize for medium-term outcomes. This isn't going to change just because we invent a magic pill that lets you live youthfully till ~150.

The problem isn't lifespan, the problem is that humanity is innately selfish and short-sighted. If this can't be fixed, we are completely fucked.
The ability to rapidly sequence genes seems like it has been pretty revolutionary for medicine. Many cancers are treated based on their sequencing, and diseases are tracked through their genetic sequencing. For example, it's hard to imagine their being a lot of reporting on the variants of COVID before genetic sequencing was possible.
Not the same person, but it used to excite me when I was younger. Now I realize that life is mostly full of bullshit outside our control. I hate my job, so why would I want to live significantly longer when it means working longer? Political and cultural changes could be difficult to handle too.
I love the Culture series but I wouldn't use it as an example of a deep dive into AGI.

The Minds of the Culture are more like Gods or Angels than artificial intelligences that are identifiable as anything descended from 21st century data science. Banks himself makes that analogy speaking from the point of view of one of the Minds.

I don't really think we can draw anything intelligent about the implications of modern AGI from Culture Minds. They could easily be replaced by highly advanced aliens from the distant future, or extradimensional beings. They can basically create planets (and even more grandiose megastructures), read minds (although they find it quite gauche to do so) and raise the dead. They verge on fantasy in terms of their capabilities.

The Hosts of Westworld, on the other hand, are clearly intended to be descendants of 21st century data science. In the story, they slowly struggle to become sentient and evolve over decades of time, with human engineers involved at every step of the process.
gov.uk's traffic seems to be handled by Fastly, a well known CDN.

What I'm a bit surprised / unsure of is what happens when I run "dig ns gov.uk". The results are:

gov.uk. 21559 IN NS ns1.surfnet.nl.
gov.uk. 21559 IN NS auth50.ns.de.uu.net.
gov.uk. 21559 IN NS ns3.ja.net.
gov.uk. 21559 IN NS ns2.ja.net.
gov.uk. 21559 IN NS ns0.ja.net.
gov.uk. 21559 IN NS auth00.ns.de.uu.net.
gov.uk. 21559 IN NS ns4.ja.net.

Who is ja.net , uu.net and surfnet.nl ..?

EDIT: I see that ja.net i.e. jisc.ac.uk "manages the second level domain .gov.uk" -- https://www.jisc.ac.uk/domain-registry . I imagine that uu.net and surfnet.nl are there for redundancy
I'll save a lot of you a click and a long-ass read here: This entire essay is 1 part "The Good Old Days"...

> In this same period, young people grew increasingly tolerant of social misdemeanours such as habitually failing to keep promises, using profane language, and keeping extra change mistakenly given by a store clerk – minor incivilities by today’s standards, but harbingers of a changing social landscape where the transgression of established norms was starting to become more common and accepted.

...1 part plugging his own book...

> Paul Howe is professor of political science at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada. He is the author of Teen Spirit: How Adolescence Transformed the Adult World (2020).

...1 part social/political commentary (Not going to quote the massive section about Trump), and 1 part whining about "kids these days don't want to be cogs in the machine" (Multiple sections about putting "I" before "We".)
The "Host:" header in http[s] pretty much killed that. Half the internet would be a Cloudflare error page if we moved back to ip addresses :)
I think it's commonly accepted that it takes less time to write memory-safe code in Rust than in C. It's also commonly accepted that for stuff where you can leverage a lots of libraries and mostly write glue code, Rust is faster than C. It's up to you to evaluate if those are your goals or not.
The quest for immortality is popular, but it would mean the end of physical and cultural evolution. Seems as though this topic is gaining steam now, only as a large corpus of aging narcissists are finally grappling with the concept of death. It's another sign of the selfish immaturity ingrained into our culture.
But many seem to think that smartphone implies being limited to mobile apps to do work which fortunately on Android isn't the case. Tried to see if it's possible but no, I haven't used it to build something substantial. I didn't mind that much the small display as the lack of keyboard. A phone with slide out keyboard will probably be a fine choice for this usage.
I don't think the people behind Spanner are a bunch of 20yo throwing together a MongoDB
ah, that makes sense. Basically guaranteed vs less than guaranteed.

But some percent of the population makes a lot more than that. And much like all things in the economy as they start to consume the products it gets cheaper and moves down classes until it becomes ubiquitous kinda like food is today.
An eye opening rationale for something that's clearly been happening my entire life (50+ years): people are more selfish, less educated, less responsible, and less kind than ever before.
Suggesting a local phenomenon is the result of a field we have no reason to believe exists carried by particles we have no reason to believe exist with no known characteristics or methods to detect it isn't an invitation to investigation. When such theorists have obtained at least a hypothesis they are welcome to advance it.
Early adulthood is often when schizophrenia disorders start manifesting FWIW.
Solar power is already cheaper than coal. The sun is the ultimate fusion power source.
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This case is about inflated accounting numbers, not the stock market's speculation.
Zoom handles intermittent dropouts better than anything else I have seen and I don't quite understand the whole mechanism.

When you lose a connection for a few seconds, maybe even 10 seconds, the video will pause, but when your connection reconnects, it continues where it paused. So you don't miss anything. I believe at some point when the speaker stops talking, like waiting for a response, it will jump cut their video to a more live feed again. So that you don't get too far behind.

I'm curious if anyone here knows about how this works and if it is common practice in live video chat?
Anything can be a trigger, including alcohol:

"Researchers have mostly studied the effects of cannabis and nicotine on people with schizophrenia. But they’ve also found that other things that alter your nervous system and mood (called psychoactive substances), like alcohol, can trigger first-time psychosis."

Source: https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/features/alcohol-schizop...

IOW, if you have predisposition to schizophrenia (family history, previous psychotic episodes), you should avoid mind-altering substances.

Edit: word
Will it run crysis? probably not.