skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Andy Ngo made his name with this piece of sensationalist propaganda: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-visit-to-islamic-england-1535...

He's a serial fabulist, raising hundreds of thousands after getting punched in the nose and claiming to have a brain bleed, but jetting cross-country to Boston a day later.

He's also a defendant in civil litigation for his apparent participation in a planned (rather than spontaneous) assault in Portland that led to criminal charges against right-wing agitators up there: https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/116496174509978828...
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A Priest Was Outed by His Phone's Location Data. Anyone Could Be Next
How am I picking sides? Regurgitating NATO's narratives about "authoritarian/totalitarian" (utterly vacuous terms) states means picking sides.

How is Syria any less a democracy than USA?
It takes almost as much time and effort to move K8s as it does to reinvent one cloud implementation as another cloud implementation, and your system engineers still have to learn an entirely new system of IaaS/PaaS. You don't really save anything. The only thing K8s does for you is allow the developers' operation of the system to be the same after it's migrated.
Illusory Intelligence.
Scunthorpe problem [1] is used to describe the false positives for auto filters, which are often results of naive substring matching. In a way, the current problem is similar, but on the semantic level.

However, it doesn't cover other cases for other AI mistakes you mentioned, like self-driving.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
thinks the case of yelling fire in a movie theater jokingly
15 years ago, often you found infected binaries on keygens and cracking tools.

On DeCSS, that made me nostalgic ahout DVDCSS and cracking a DVD movie in "just" 20 minutes with MPlayer. The key was cached, luckily.
Each user gets 10 votes per day, and can only vote up or down on a topic once?
Because programming languages are the most basic piece of infrastructure on software.

And every infrastructure projects suffers from the same issue. It benefits from mass adoption, which basically requires the thing to be free and open source. With that, the value will be captured 0% by the project creators, 10% consultants around the project and 90% cloud providers. The issue is so much more pronounced for programming languages.

Why bother..
People were trying all kinds of things at this time to increase their labido. One such procedure was the implantation of goat testicles into the scrotum. A practice made popular by the fascinating and wrenched John Brinkley.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley
i'm not one of those people that overindexes on this even to me it stood out: why bring up the guy's ethnicity? it never comes up again in the post.
How would two pieces moving to the same square be resolved? Both lost, or ... ? Regardless of the specifics, it would create a very complicated (but potentially interesting) dynamic when moving any valuable piece within a contested region.
This reminds me of a story from a previous era of automated content moderation...

When I was a student at the University of Cincinnati, I was a member of a group called LARC which stood for Laboratory for Recreational Computing. The main purpose of LARC was to get the University of Cincinnati to subsidize our yearly trip to DEFCON, but I digress.

The UC mail servers, or at least the ones where the LARC mailing list was hosted, had some kind of stupid search and replace censorship to replace naughty words with cleaner equivalents. The cleaner equivalents were in ALL CAPS of course.

So a few members of LARC were working on a project to build a classical arcade cocktail table game out of Linux and MAME and some other stuff. I don't remember the details. All I remember is that the mail server transformed this into the "MALE GENITALIAtail table".

This became its official name. I think the MALE GENITALIAtail table was eventually installed in the student union.
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I didn’t know about these accusations against him. Can you provide citations?
It was “anonymized” data legally sold by data brokers that The Pillar acquired and deanonymized.
Artificial Unintelligence? Artificial Stupidity?
Actually, Russia and China have awful PR compared to the West. It's so bad that every time you hear something good about either government, you automatically assume it is fake news propaganda.

Putin does not disappear his opposition. That is an insane allegation. Are you referring to the Navalny circus?
.deb packages are literally just a compressed archive with a folder structure that mostly mimics your folder structure on the hard drive. You've got some pre- and post-hooks where you can write some shellscript to do fancy stuff, and a signing process to ensure authenticity. Autostart is a SysV init script or systemd xml file away. How is that a f* nightmare?
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Thanks. I didn’t even know that leinengen has plugins.

If tools.* is the language maintainers’ preferred method, I think there is value in having a single command to set up a “simple/default Clojure project” in a folder, even if that only cuts the commands down from four to one.

$ mkdir hello-world
$ cp deps.edn hello-world
$ cd hello-world
$ mkdir src

I don’t understand where that deps.edn comes from in a fresh project. It’d be great to have “clj create hello-world” build one for me in ./hello-world, use my running Clojure version as a dependency (if that’s how “clj” works), create the child src/ (and /test if that’s a best practice) folders, etc. The idea being to generate a local library on-demand with sane boilerplate defaults and almost no knowledge. I can learn later what Else I might need if I can get it up and running quickly first.

Leinengen looks easier to me for my admittedly trivial use cases, because I don’t need a library or plugins at all. And again, I might be in the minority. But if folks keep saying “lein handles 90% and is easier,” and if we can make tools.* handle those same 90% cases trivially, it seems worthwhile.
I like the design where you must give reason for downvotes. This seems to discourage mindless downvotes.
Yeah, there's a reason most people don't think it's independent. Still, there are a significant number of things that are independent:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statements_independent...

But (I think) all of them have to do with infinity in some weird way.
Bad word choice on my part. I just meant government-sponsored space programs, in contrast to private attempts.
Why Is Russia Not Using Pegasus Spyware?
Why bother serving pages when the ad money ends?

Facebook runs on one simple principle: "What's Good for Zuck is Good for Zuck." More yacht-feet. More... actually, I've no idea what he actually cares about, beyond more ZuckBucks.

Everything else is secondary to, and subservient to that. Big conspiracy? "We are so, so sorry that you caught us doing that, because if you think we're evil, you might view fewer ads by spending less time engaged in the site. We promise to tell you that we're going to do the work to learn how to get caught less often doing that thing you found us doing."

Facebook isn't your friend. They're not your companion in your quest to... whatever. They are purely interested in how much money you can bring them, either directly through ad spend, or indirectly through being super engaging such that other people spend more time on Facebook viewing ads. Anything else you think of them is simply wrong.
Why not try to be more inclusive and have each piece with its own color?
Could we do some affirmative action and let black go first?
and now two companies read into our emails: Duck and then Gmail/yahoo/microsoft/whoever.

why App-only? why no web link to sign-up for this?

i'm tired of these sunk-cost dark-patterns
Space Shuttle and then Soyuz.
> which means your customers could give it away for free if they so choose

If you’re only guaranteed one sale before your first customer undercuts you, then it is free “in the limit”. That is why Red Hat sells everything ancillary to the software itself (quality assurance, training, documentation, support, etc.)

ChessBase is selling the software, and they aren’t getting undercut because they are not redistributing everything the customer needs to rebuild it from source. It will be interesting to find out what that is (neural net weights, or whatever) and whether the court upholds that this is not copylefted under the GPL.
The concept of "so-so automation" [1] seems relevant: innovation that allows a business or organization to eliminate human employees, but doesn't result in overall productivity gains or cost savings for society that could then be redistributed to the laid-off employees.

I think so-so automation often is used places where there's a lot of zero-sum conflict between workers and management, or where the work itself causes a lot of negative human externalities. (This can be a good thing: it's probably okay to settle for a "worse result" from an automated system if it eliminates a lot of physical or psychological harm to people...some content moderation issues probably fall under this case, but not this one.)

[1] https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/lure-so-so-tec...
We keep logs of course, but we have strict privacy guidelines that prevent me or any employees from looking at random rides of users. We have annual training that reminds us of such (and for good reason--imagine how creepy it would be if Lyft employees could look at the ride histories for any users).

We match drivers with riders based on some algorithms and heuristics that try to optimize for some metrics which I won't go into for obvious reasons. In order to match a driver with a rider, there must be a real ride request from a real user account. It's that simple. What you claim simply does not exist, and would be so blatantly unethical that someone even suggesting such a thing would raise a ton of eyebrows immediately and might get them fired, and persisting to push such an idea would almost certainly get them fired.

You reference an "AI" in your other comments. That's not how AIs work. It is not a Skynet-level artificial intelligence that decides what the policy is, but rather an optimization problem that is solved with certain constraints. There is no system on Earth with anywhere near the level of agency and intelligence that you're implying it would have to have in order to be able to modify the source code of a system to create the concept of fake users and riders.
Yeah I don't understand where all this fictional .deb and APT "complexity" is coming from. Everything uses standard abstractions that are decades old at this point..... oh no, you have to make some directories! You have to put a manifest file in the right place! Oh my god, now you have to run a command!
But that’s the problem with progressives. They trip over themselves trying to be at the front. And yes, I’ve asked people of Latin descent if they use latinx in their speech to which they respond no and that it’s a North American invention and that in Spanish it’s Latino for sing male, Latinos for plural males or combo males and females, and Latina for singular female and latinas for all female but never latinx for any combination of the above.
DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 reveal: Convolutions are out, attention is in
Renting a space at an address and sending your renters to a separate address is a big no-no with Airbnb terms. Easy to detect as Airbnb sends mail to check and confirm where you live.

And Airbnb could not caution that game, they would get sued for falsified contracts.
Oh my. I'm not sure that I'd use Python to make a point about easy interop with distro package managers. It quickly descends into a nightmarish hellscape if you have more than a few dependencies or, different versions of python, or god forbid: C extensions.
The right to repair also means if you break it, you own both halves. It is the right to risk. If I want to run SteamOS on an Xbox, let me try at least. If I succeed, let me resell the modified form. Buyer Beware in the social network age. Don't make that illegal.
I use verbal self defense when attacked. Part of my martial arts training.
It's when you trick a technically-minded person into jumping down a rabbit hole of a technical problem/controversy. Here it's PDF vs. HTML, but other classic nerd snipes are UTF-8 vs. anything else, "fixing" election tech, etc.
The more projects like these I plan and execute, the more I find the need to account for external parties affecting timelines.

In the case of the author's payment system, say they go with a vendor. At that scale, there may be weeks of contract negotiations for fees, rates, minimums, etc. What if some piece of documentation is flawed and you need to have a back-and-forth with their support? What if they need time to onboard you into their systems?

It makes me appreciate Apple's supply chain mastery that allows them to deliver exactly on time because they own their whole process inside and out and demand similar rigor from any vendors that supply them. If we could imitate that in software, we could eliminate a huge source of uncertainty in many projects.
We're so excited to support such amazing companies such as yours!
This looks cool! What's your strategy for building an audience for rocketcrew.space?
It's basically perception and reaction without cognition.

In the natural world we would call that instinct. So maybe 'artificial instinct' if we want to keep 'AI' or 'synthetic instinct' because I think it sounds better.
Unit tests, GraphQL and type systems aren't complicated, or at least don't need to be.
What's the need to say that this person was an Indian? Threw me off the rest of the post tbh.
> I think up and down voting are great

It is great as a poor man's analytics system, providing knowledge that at least someone read your comment, allowing you to evaluate if it is worth posting more or if your efforts are disappearing into the void. However, having both up and down seems redundant. The both provide the exact same information.

> however what is dumb is that neither has a cost.

If there is a cost then there will be reduced incentive to let you know that your comment was read, which reduces future engagement, which is not ideal for the platform.
Ehhh...I mean with the way things are evolving - it is very likely your long term storage, short term storage, and CPU will all be on the same chip/package. Expecting to be able to replace the components individually will largely be a relic of the past. I see it more as the evolution of overall computing. I mean in the early ages of computers you could replace individual transistors...then you could replace individual logic blocks...a new adder! Etc...as the technology shrunk and become more integrated, our concept of a "computer" evolves. Legislating things like "a hard drive and ram must be separately replaceable" will sound as implausible in a few years as "each transistor needs to be individually serviceable" does today.
I like your ideas that voting should have a cost. I think though that your last paragraph (staking much of your karma) would inevitably lead to a karma market and marketers abusing the feature.
I'm the primary author. I don't load everything in a uniform interface, that would be a disaster for accuracy, so each game loads roughly from its raw data formats. That's why different games are at different levels of "completion", some have enemies and animations and lighting, some are very poor with just a "base" level model displayed.
that's awful

and publically the company is super-woke (other than when Chinese/Russian profits are at risk)

I guess it's projection...
Or what actually happened was the radio show asked if white going first was racially based, concluding that it was not. But conservative media spent days getting themselves outraged over it before it even aired.

https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/chess/12427690
I used to play a real-time version of this called Kung-Fu Chess. Each piece takes time to move to its destination, and when it arrives, a timer ticks down before that specific piece can be moved again. Very fun game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung-Fu_Chess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVob7meb83w
I mean i think Google has both money and brains
>For any console that hasn't been tampered with

Why shouldn't I be able to "tamper" with something that I own?

If they weren't so hostile to modification and repair, the failure rate of people trying to do things themselves would go down quite a lot.
and that is not sufficient. we need to give 33% more moves to black to compensate for the all troubles mounted on them in the past.
> EE and FPGA jobs don't pay well.

The problem is that EE/FPGA jobs have to compete with FAANGs.

However, hardware, by and large, isn't VC funded. Hardware also has a fairly objective criterion for success.

So, you're not going to get offered $200K unless you actually know what you're doing and bring direct business value. And, if you don't know what you're doing, that's going to be apparent real quick.

As for the ZipCPU author:

1) I don't have to make interviewees go through projects. A simple state machine is enough to separate the wheat from the chaff in Verilog. Practically every online tutorial gets non-blocking and blocking assignment wrong--so interviewees who get that right have demonstrated that they have been bitten by real experience.

2) Quoting Bible verses is a GIGANTIC red flag for me, personally. All the businesses I have dealt with that have done this have been owned by absolutely terrible people with only a single exception to the contrary.
Next month, Amazon will be selling a new "Amazon Basics" brand video card based on the RTX 3090.
I tried out The Independent with a popular "modern" browser

I found I could browse and read really fast if I just controlled DNS^1

I did not use an ad blocker.

I did not disable Javascript.

What I did was limit the available DNS information to a single domain, www.independent.co.uk

I experienced no significant delays or resource usage.

I was able to read the news no problem, fonts and formatting looked fine

There generally were no ugly image placeholders just white space

I tried blocking the ICO(1), PNG(2) and WOFF2(24) files. The page still looked great

The images are hosted on static.independent.co.uk

The video I suspect is hosted on a third party site, tracked and linked to adtech

I can easily download the images if I am really curious to see them but most images on news pages, unless they are photojournalism, are garbage, IMO

Anyway, I think it is quite easy to avoid all the tracking and ads, even without an ad blocker or disabling JS

The only things that "broke" on this website was the image display, offsite video sourcing and comments. Basically all the cruft :)

1. Truth is I did not even use DNS, the IP address was loaded into the memory of a loopback-bound proxy. No cookies were sent. No user-agent was sent. The only headers sent were Host and Connection
If discussion here is anything to go by, that one comment is what everyone hates. I haven't seen even an allegation that the other comments were offensive in the same way yet. Even the article here makes it the centerpiece of their criticism.

And it's the one comment she says she didn't make.

I wonder if her lawyer has seen this story? Many of the comments here could be helpful in showing damages.
Ok but, "I have a sweeping romantic idea in my head that connects a bunch of human activity into a chain and I have decided that this is the next thing in that chain" isn't that good of an argument IMO.
Fair point with the car example.
I guess Microsoft could just suck it up and refuse to repair consoles under warranty if the user FUBARs them through bad repairs. They wouldn't be happy, but car people seem to be able to live with it.
Everything has a name, Lieutenant Dan.
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You're right, Linux distros are not immune to this, and I've omitted a portion of my journey in my summary.

I've also tried Ubuntu, Debian, and a few others, and had to abandon them for the same reasons.

Eventually, I settled on [redacted], which is pretty raw and immature, but once I get it tweaked out, I can move the config file to another distro and have it work roughly the same.

Basically, I doubled down and committed to cutting out all the software which pulls that kind of shit, which means I no longer use Chromium or Firefox (except for testing), Gnome, etc.

I found a lightweight WM which seems to be relatively stable in "poor emulation of Windows 95 plus a few additions" mode, which is available across several different distros, and I keep a repo with my config for it so that I can readjust it from whatever the distro defaults it to.

It's not a day's worth of work, and not even a year, but now I'm fairly confident that I can sit down at my WORKSTATION and something hasn't randomly changed and I can't get it back to how it was before.

In fact, I've been able to get this experience while not buying or using any new devices, since I only use secondhand hardware for ethical/moral reasons.
I am OP and there are actually 25 solutions, with only one of them having all leading digits as non-zero.

I made a mistake in the article, where I meant to write "there are at least 2 solutions and here is one example". I will fix this. Nice catch.
Virtually every country suffers from online disinformation crises. China is one of a handful that has it mostly under wraps. The GFW has been enormously successful in this regard.

Societies with high amounts of internal distrust will not be able to compete in this century. They will fall apart. That is why the US is taking it so seriously and cracking down on disinformation (see Google this week). The GFW must have been visionary if Western governments are now playing catch-up.
I think the disconnect was not about compensation, but expectations. If you are working for a small business, you have to wear many hats. There are not enough X jobs to fill all your time, so you do X 60% of the time and Y, Z, and Q the other 40%. In a BigCo, there is enough work to go around that 200 people can work full-time just on X. If you get hired for X, you don't have to do anything but X.

The client, if they had to ask an outside consultant to vet a candidate for them, must be a small business. They do not have enough work 5 full-time employees, one of whom works on design. The designer is the verification engineer and the project manager and the customer support person. I don't mean the person works 100 hour weeks. They will work the normal 40, but there won't be enough design work to do 40 hours of it per week.

If the candidate wanted to do one thing and one thing only, they won't find it in any small business. They should focus on applying to large companies. And the client should find someone who is fine with being a "full-stack" hardware engineer, instead of a hyper-focused professional.
Two words: Means Matter https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/
This is from March and was discussed heavily on here at the time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26218476