skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s less Chomsky and more Orwell.

As Neil Postman pointed out, it's less Orwell and more Huxley.

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.""
I'm not under an illusion that it does any good, but I swore off all Blizzard products after the Blitzchung incident. It doesn't feel right giving money to a company that would side with the CCP over human rights in Hong Kong. I'd previously played Hearthstone and Overwatch, and I'd been a Blizzard fan since the original Warcraft. That happy company is dead, and something ugly is animating its corpse.

I think company founders are often great, idealistic people. People who genuinely want to make the world better.

When they step aside, however, the people who take over after them tend to be terrifying: zero empathy creatures who favor profit maximization over any and all human cost. Does anyone know why this happens?
> exploiting

Employing

> credit

Credit always goes to the leader. Without Bezos, none of Blue Origin would have happened. Olympic athletes rely on uncredited trainers and usually a dedicated family to financially support them.
It works by fitting curves. Whether you have a (presumably mathematical) "Statistical interpretation" or not is basically irrelevant in terms of what it actually does and what we should be conveying to people who aren't knowledgeable of the field. This is not about an academic argument.

Putting stats right there in the name is vastly, vastly more informative than "Learning" which has the nuance for 99% of people as something requiring intelligence and is misleading. Hence the AI cons all pop up immediately there are some public ML wins called "Learning."

Generalizing from data is actually what statistics does. It's what ML is. People like Hinton, Wasserman, Tibrishani et al seem to agree that ML is statistics but even that isn't what I'm talking about here.
Utopia: Nineteen Eighty-Four with Smartphones, Set in Australia
I think the article is less about “have we reached a ceiling?” than “are costs to raise it increasing exponentially?.
With a story like that they're lucky he doesn't go postal or buy a bulldozer.
>Back in 2018, Jim Morrison, a singer, songwriter, and poet, who served as the lead vocalist of the rock band, once said: “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.”

Jim Morrison Born: December 8, 1943. Died:July 3, 1971.

It is difficult for me to take an article seriously when there are glaringly obvious mistakes.
This just reads like a person that doesn't like Blizzard games...

edit And at the risk of getting flagged for being brief and baity, I'll elaborate.

> WoW - convoluted imbalanced hot mess

The biggest MMO of all time, still even today.

> Diablo - repetitive. Diablo immortal.

It is a game about repetition. To call it repetitive is like saying baseball has too many bases.

> Warcraft III - buggy and laggy steaming pile of undelivered promises

The original W3 was a masterpiece. Their rerelease was a failure.

> Overwatch - imbalanced. Overwatch 2 with weird changes

A massive success. Not sure how you can call an entire game "imbalanced". You're just saying you don't like the way it's balanced.

> StarCraft - thrown in a ditch left to die

Yep

> HoTS - culled the competitive scene and super slow release cycle.

Mobas are a bad market and HoTS was a mediocre implementation of a Moba.

> Hearthstone - pay2win RNG fiesta

All CCGs.
It's not an alternative it's a consequence.
Or perhaps educate people about how to consume information.
Going Against the Grain: FDA Threatens Brewers' Feed for Farmers (2014)
Gash darn it ! :(
> Blizzards reputation has been going downhill since the merge with Activision.

That was in 2008, right? So their reputation has been going downhill for 13 years?
> Your laptop from 2014 was already running at LEAST a 64bit CPU and likely has AES instructions as they were introduced in 2010 [3]

I'm totally sure the RSA operations are using the AES instructions

> Try using your old 2003-era system to generate keys again and tell us how fun it is.

generating (fresh) rsa keys? you don't do that on connection to a SSH server

as for what actually happens on connect, 2004 laptop: 33 signatures/second and 2200 verifications/second (+DH/ECDH)

the RSA operation (verifying the server's host key) took a total of 0.0005s

even my raspberry pi 1 can do 240 4096-bit verifications/s and several thousand ECDH's/second

and I have yet to see a SSH server with 4096-bit host keys

tldr: even old computers are fast (and data > supposition)
Yep. Mostly taking former white roles, and just replacing the actors/characters to be black... There are whole conspiracies about hollywood being against gingers specifically.

Instead of taking a new story, and making a new movie with something we haven't seen before 50 times (and here they can take some story from an actually diverse world), they take an old story (eg snow white), that we've seen many times, in many forms (books, cartoons, movies, comics,...), and replace the actress who should have "skin white as snow" (literal quote from the book) with someone more "diverse".

Africa and asia are huge places, with many different people and cultures and that creates many tales, stories and legends... And hollywood? Let's take a 1960s cartoon (eg 101. dalmatians), make Anita black, and then make a movie out of that.. or (previously mentioned) snow white, make her columbian, and make (another) movie out of that. Are they really so incompetent, that they cannot create anything new? Or are the beancounters stopping any risks, so they feed us 200+ year old fairytales, that we've seen before?
I see these dismissals as "it's just statistics" often, and I don't get where they come from. If anything maybe it's "just" stochastic gradient descent, but there is a distinct "learning" pareto ML that does not obviously follow out of statistics. You could argue it's just addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and root extraction too, but that is a pointless reduction that doesnt help understand what's going on.
I can only speak for myself, but typically I'll make a single post and very rarely maybe a single followup to a later commenter.

If there is an "on topic" discussion, the back-and-forth can actually be very engaging and worthwhile. Some of these exchanges are really golden and is why I keep coming back to HN. However, these high value interactions tend to be rare.

Unfortunately, many discussions here tend to be fairly low value. Especially those topics that are prone to draw emotional responses from people that are arguably no more qualified to comment other than they feel strongly about the topic (and, yes, guilty as charged). In these cases, back and forth between the already committed serves little purpose and just adds stress to life. I think by simply stating your position and maybe why you think it, anyone really interested will know by that single expression that 1) there are contrary points of view, and 2) it might inspire the undecided to look into matters and draw their own conclusions... and do so with better information than is available from comments here.
Maybe some ideas here: https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc
They were sent to Iraq by the US military, presumably protected from Iraqi justice by the presence of the US military, and then they were pardoned for their horrific crimes by the head of the US military.

The 'oh they're private contractors, nothing to do with the US military here!' line doesn't really fit.
> If you ask me, the single best thing we could do to improve productivity would be to make it easier for people to own the products of their creativity.

The problem arises when my creativity arises from finding new uses for your invention. Whose creativity was the end result? It’s clear that the moral rights should be split, but fairly determining that split for legal accounting is near-impossible. As a concrete example, look to the endless lawsuits over unauthorized music sampling against other musicians.
Exactly..

I think I stopped having a daycare by the age of 10 or 11... I grew up as a Latch key kid...

I would see my parents at Dinner Time, then Dusk where my 2 curfews. other than that I was outside 90% of the time. of course this was before Internet, Cell Phones, etc... I did not get dial up internet until I was like 16-17 (which by then i was driving so....) , and broadband when I was 18 or 19... Today i talk to parents where they have 24/7 electronic tracking of their children every movements, kids well in to their teens still having babysitters or not being left lone...

Society has grown extremely risk adverse, likely if parents tried Latch key kid at the age I was Child Protective services would be called... In General the reaction to COVID has highlight just how risk adverse society is over all, there are other warning signs, but it has really been a eye opener for me...
> Giving someone a part because of their skin color or sex or sexual orientation is demeaning.

I really hope you're not suggesting that the reason why nowadays casts aren't solely composed of straight, cis, white people is because all of the unqualified other actors are being given jobs they don't deserve.

Maybe "attempt at representation" can also mean producers, writers, casting directors, etc. just finally realizing that the world is full of more than just white people, and maybe stories should be written that include those people too. It doesn't have to be some awkward forced diversity where it doesn't make sense.

> Diversity has to be genuine for it to be good.

Sure, and yet I just see a lot of hand waving about all this rampant non-genuine diversity without any evidence that this is widespread. Certainly that sort of thing exists: of course we've all cringed at a character or casting decision that was clearly made for the wrong reasons. But I just don't think I see that happening that often these days. Maybe broaden the types of TV shows and movies you watch to stuff that isn't targeted squarely at straight, cis, white people?
Jack Smythe returns to visit his brother in "Utopia" - a future Australia where citizens are under constant government surveillance.

Privileges are awarded and revoked via a social credit system. The only place where people can speak freely is in the bathroom of their homes.

Citizens of Utopia snitch on each other with their smartphones in exchange for a 10% commission on fines imposed by the government.

A timely and chilling warning of the future that could await us. The road to tyranny will be paved by many incremental changes, each barely noticeable on its own, but devastating as a whole.

Starring Will Gabriel as Jack Smythe.

Runtime: 15 minutes
Reminds me of the PLTGames from years ago. It didn't last that long.

https://twitter.com/pltgames
> But does your average person use more than six sources for news?

The average person might rely on 2 or 3 sources of news. But it's a different world when they have to choose those sources from 6 that are running the same line, compared to a world in which hundreds of diverse viewpoints are ready and waiting to shine a light on any issue.
That's interesting - is that from a paper? Would love to read it as it's contradictory to others I've read
Again, we can go deeper. How many single mothers would be forced to remain in otherwise abusive situations but for the fact that she is able to both work and care for her family due to “progress”?
Also sloppy to have written "the band" here when in fact no band has been introduced.
Yeah, milking existing franchises is definitely a sign of deeply rooted dysfunction. I was excited for their Project Titan of whatever but it got axed. That was years ago…
Nextcloud is pretty great. I use it for file storage/sharing, contacts, calendar, and notes. There is a way to run a GDocs clone on it as well but I have no need for an office suite.
Consulting Firms Face a Shortage of Consultants for Work
> It had been flown and landed multiple times

A whole 5 times. The space shuttle flew many times before the Challenger.

> You think Musk wasn't puckered

It's a whole lot different when your own ass is the one that will die.

> Branson is a daredevil

And yet he still didn't dare to take the first manned flight.

> it's also not a special achievement

It's untried and very complex software. We know how that often goes.
I'm not anywhere near a specialist when it comes to car software, CAN, or self-driving, but I'm concerned by some of the code that (appears to) control some of the supported cars: I pulled up a random file[1], and it's littered with undocumented bytestrings that are apparently sent over the CAN bus, as magic constants (with accompanying comments that mention "aggressive" and "laggy" behavior).

I have no insight into any of the proprietary work in this space, so I have no idea whether this is unique or commonplace. But it certainly isn't confidence inspiring, particularly as a cyclist.

[1]: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/de0ce142ae51cf9c85...
Why women in tech are so angry all the time
I'm not sure why you're so offended by remakes of things where the race of a main character has changed (on the grounds that writers should be able to come up with some new stories), but for some reason are ok with remakes where the race of a main character is kept white.

> Or are the beancounters stopping any risks, so they feed us 200+ year old fairytales, that we've seen before?

I mean, yes, I think this should be pretty obviously the case, given all the remakes and reboots we've seen in the past decade or two. This has nothing to do with some diversity conspiracy, though.

To be fair, though, I do think there is at least some creativity in animated movies recently (that don't specifically target a white audience), for example (IMO fantastic) movies like Coco and Soul.
IMO it depends on what part of the ruby feel you most enjoy. Sorbet makes it harder to work with the runtime-magic parts of Ruby (and in some cases we rely on tooling-generated code instead of runtime dynamic stuff), but it doesn’t affect the code you’d write within methods all that much.
Ask HN: Is the modern web anti-user?
Anti-vaccination movement is decades old it has nothing to do with COVID particularity while I do not consider myself "Anti-vaxxer" I think that it is not necessary to take every vaccine that is recommended to you.

I meant to say in my earlier post that people who are fearless approach problems in life with ease and calm but people who fear are bounded by their fear and they start thinking irrational or in another words they are driven by fear not by solidarity or patriotism. That's why I said fearless people do not vaccinate and people in fear vaccinate.

It all comes down to death rate of this pandemic being 0.1% which is not extremely high and if there is a vaccine people with underlying conditions and people with impaired immune system should probably take vaccine and everybody else are free to decide whether or not they are going to take it.
For me, getting older is how I start reading more books again.

It is also how reading fewer books again comes about. Though not at the same time of course.

And from time to time my bookshelf becomes obsolescent. Not only because what I read changes. What I want to keep changes too. Beloved multi reads I know from experience won’t be binding again.

In fairness, a moderate amount of the videos I watch causes me to look for books. They are book adjacent…so maybe that is a strategy to consider.
The usage of `unless` strikes me as unmaintainable and "smart", not in a good way tbh. The types are all other the places, too. What is it even doing exactly? Appending a string to a null value..?
I think it’s the hard times, strong people, good times process with more steps:

Passionate game creators make good games, good games get players and buyers, that creates profitable/well known companies, that can attract the (no offense) non passionate/revenue seeking MBA types, they worsen the games, passionate developers leave…

I HOPE those passionate developers can get together again to make new good games but who knows. I imagine it’s hard to attract capital without promise of simple game loop (read: minimal investment required) and with pay for progression. Those returns (I imagine) are just too damn juicy until people break the cycle
I just want to know when I can go back to a $25,000 job with no insurance or benefits, so that the top 5% that own 85% of the wealth of the richest nation in the world, can make even more billions of dollars. Who wouldn't want that? Why is everyone so lazy, why doesn't everyone go back to making the top 10-20% of the elite more money?

From the 1940's to 1985, the top tax bracket was 70% to 90%. We need to go back to that again.

The wealthiest will stop at nothing to crush the American worker. If you are reading this, are you going to take it?

The wealthiest keep saying that they wish that they could pay more taxes. That's what they say. But when San Francisco passed a ONE PERCENT tax on the wealthiest, to help with the homeless problem, the wealthiest went out of their collective minds. All you read about was how they were going to leave San Francisco and take jobs with them. Well, adios, motherf-ckers, to you and the horse you rode in on, and go move to Switzerland. Adios.

But, back to reality, it's too late. The wealthiest are already bribing all our government "leaders". The only option is not to go back to work.
This is very interesting when looking at prices in terms of gold. During the 19th century, US dollars were backed by somewhere around 1.5g - 1.6g of gold, which is worth around $90 today. So multiply by 90 and you start getting reasonable prices:

1833 - cheap meal for 1 shilling = $10.80
1834 - moderate meal for 15 3/4 cents = $14.18
1838 - beef steak 25 cents = $22.25
1849 - corned beef and cabbage = $112.50

and so on. A very rough rule of thumb is multiply by 100 and that's the rough price in gold today. Things weren't all that cheap and monetary expansion since the devaluation of the dollar makes these prices seem much cheaper than they are.
The decommissioning of a ship got me to thinking of the lifecycle of buildings dedicated to business.

The large buildings dedicated to a single company where tens of thousands of person-years of adult life by good people were spent. Sometimes I think that these buildings deserve a formal decommissioning, maybe even a desacralization. Or perhaps a Bastille-ization in some cases.
Why would someone write a bootstrapping rust compiler in C++ when you can just compile the rust to C using a proper llvm backend?
I posted an image that highlights a growing trend I am seeing on websites.

This is using Firefox, but it replicates on Chrome as well. Huge margins, one centered column in the center of text virtually too small to read without zooming in.

Several years ago the big trend was light gray text on a light background. Thankfully this isn't as bad, but it still requires zooming in on almost every website I come across.

What gives? Who is designing this and thinking it a good idea?
> I think you're just not familiar with psychiatry terminology. Mental illness and mental disorder are largely used interchangeably.

If this was true you’d be able to quote from the DSM where they use the term mental illness.

> I'm also not sure how you can say that it is a disorder and it is mental but somehow it's not a mental disorder? That must require some mental gymnastics to justify.

No, you are just representing what I said dishonestly. If I’m wrong, you will be able to quote where I said it wasn’t a disorder.

> You might want to study a bit more psychiatry before you spew more outdated information on here.

Speak for yourself. There is a reason the DSM doesn’t call ADHD a mental illness, which is that it is not considered one by the psychiatric profession in modern times.
<< the right side of history <<

what does that even mean?

There is a name for government-corporate collaboration.
Even if you think it's going well "for now", it probably
isn't.
Computer Aided Pattern Recognition sounds reasonable in setting public expectations.
I'd love if it this site had full-text search _within_ the archives (ie: text files and strings on executables). I've occasionally stumbled across my old works, but I'd love to search all the ZIP files for stuff I've forgotten that I wrote!
The orders are not filled based on the order.

You can have a single order in 5 different shippments, or 5 orders in a single shipment.

how many shipments is largely governed by

1. What fulfillment center has the products you orders, not every fulfillment center has ever product all the time .

2. Your shipping preference, often times on a single order it will ask you if you want "fastest" shipping which can be shipping products from multiple fulfillment center, or "less trips" which may take longer so inventory can arrive the fulfillment center with the rest of your order

3. If it fulfilled by Amazon or Not... If you order 3 items only 1 of which is "fulfilled by Amazon" then it will come from 3 different places.
like what exactly?
No, the algorithm is exactly the same.

For example, in neural networks the key algorithm is differentiation. That is implemented the same way on both CPUs and GPUs.
> Does anyone know why this happens?

I think it's because of incentives. For-profit companies are incentivised to maximise profits. There might be resistance against doing so in unethical ways at the start but as the company grows it becomes harder to control until eventually it just does whatever is most profitable, limited only by laws (most of the time). Any CSR or ethical decision becomes a PR stunt to distract from the unethical behaviours.

A lot of not-for-profits also fall into this trap unfortunately as they try to maximise revenue or as they become bloated with administrators.

I think at the founder level - trying to start B-corps, keeping them small-mid and embedding ethics deeply into the culture is the way to go but that is quite different from startup culture.
> On the other hand a good marketing person is worth gold.

I don't deny this, but I think you can say this for any position that ultimately can deliver something. A good PM, a good IT manager, or just the accepted good engineer. People that really want to contribute will work on what matters most and set their egos aside. I say this as someone who has been a PM before and realized it was not the most critical function at the time, so I offered to go back to engineering (I've worked full time as both for years). A good employee will contribute the best they can, and a great employee will be able to identify what matters most and works towards helping (even if they can't do it themselves).

I realize my comment is a tangent, I just feel like it's unnecessary siloing that props up some positions as more important than others. It will depend on the situation. Sometimes you need more engineering talent, sometimes you need more salesmanship, sometimes you need more product direction - it's impossible to know without being at the company. And it's very hard to recognize what matters most outside of your area of expertise.
Have you noticed that most critics aren't complaining about all of NASA, but mainly about SLS/Orion?

On reddit, what usually happens is that SLS defenders try to misrepresent attacks on SLS as an attack on all of NASA, parenthood, and apple pie. And so the world turns.