skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are internal corporate studies out there that try to determine which manager or technology brought productivity gains.

The math is so complex they could not draw any conclusions.

Understand; we listened to lesser educated men of the previous generation about building business and economy. Men who missed out on our early education in science, and who were often far more religious. Men who had much different political narratives to satisfy; IBM was gifted government research. How many of our startups are?

Brookings conveniently avoids discussing the weakening political power of the US over the decades; easy to grow when the world needs you to manufacture for it after WW2.

It’s not hard for me to believe much of our economic theory is bullshit, and output is driven by political arrangements. Humans will generate economic activity naturally to survive. One can only induce so much superfluous activity beyond that.

Humans have a history of ignorantly extrapolating the wrong conclusions from reality.
If you’re gathering information faster than your BS filter can process it, then you’ve also exceeded your capacity to process the information your receiving. Assuming BS filter means some extension of comprehension
I've lived in many countries and while I own a home in my original country to retire to (should that happen), I need places to rent when I don't want to be there. And my home is rented at those times, sometimes for years.
> Movies, series, music,.. are usually in file formats not really suitable to carry malware

A few audio file formats are (practically) Turing-complete, and there have before been bugs in the VMs that allow privilege escalation.
There should be some mention of their fight against the EFF.

https://www.eff.org/cases/blizzard-v-bnetd
The Brother software I have on Windows 10 opens an application window (as seen on the taskbar as a running app, not the system tray) that is trying to ask me to update, but there is no visible application window. I have to right click the icon and choose Exit to get rid of it.
> or lock them out of their own computer for a ransom.

True enough; Windows has never asked me for a ransom – though it has shown me the dreaded Bitlocker Blue Screen because my "hardware configuration changed" after a software update.
I'd like to note because you're mentioning them and assumptions could be made about my position by my earlier comment, IMO:

- trying a minor as an adult is ridiculous
- isolation is torture
- the death penalty is unethical and ineffective
This data structure you used is covered by the native postgres data type "ltree" right?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ltree.html

"This module implements a data type ltree for representing labels of data stored in a hierarchical tree-like structure. Extensive facilities for searching through label trees are provided."
Ocean Spray.

Wikipedia describes it as

> Ocean Spray is an American agricultural cooperative of growers of cranberries and grapefruit headquartered in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. It currently has over 700 member growers (in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, Florida, British Columbia and other parts of Canada, as well as Chile). The cooperative employs about 2,000 people, with sales of $1.2 billion in fiscal year 2013 and accounts for 70% of North American cranberry production.
> You don’t need sensors, you just need a virtual room.

While technically true, I actually think this is way more difficult than it sounds, bordering on practical impossibility.

I think the other commenter was making a really important point. The simulated environment would need to be incredibly rich, to a point as to almost defy imagination.

Consider what happens to a human mind when confined in a box (prison) with limited opportunities for stimulation. There’s a room, a gym, other people with which to socialize, food, walls, an outdoors enclosure... And yet someone who spends their entire life in this type of environment will certainly be facing serious neurodevelopmental issues.

For human/mammal order of AI, I would even argue that simulating adequate inputs might actually be a more difficult problem than building the AI that responds to them!
Could it be for accurate reporting on USA president?

Joe Biden 'has to be taken out of circulation' after 'rambling about men on the moon' and aliens

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/joe-biden-has-to-be-tak...

Second video
>Sydney and other parts of NSW have been in lockdown since 23/06 and the case numbers have been either steady or increasing. Today over 230 cases.. A few days ago it was around 170. Isn't it reasonable then to question the lockdown?

Won't the numbers be way worse without the lockdown?
Erwin?
It’s actually part of “air”:

> By volume, dry air contains 78.08% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.04% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other gases

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth
If you can, sure. This is a war that can only be won at the voting booth. Willpower is a finite resource. It should be spent efficiently.
I feel you. I was recently hired to help with svn to git migration and Java upgrades from 5-7 to 8 (due to my previous experience with such migrations). When I joined they already had a plan. They told me no one will be using command line. They are currently discussing which GUI to use and everyone will have this GUI installed by default, git command will be discouraged as non-standard approach, windows users will not have git-bash installed. I was asked for recommendation of GUI tooling for git and I had absolutely nothing to say, the only I ever used was Kraken and that was in 2014?. When I offered to train and assist everyone with git command training to make everyone more efficient in industry standardised tooling, they told me that's not in the plan. My job was done there without me having to do doing anything, I was free to leave that job!
Sounds fairly normal over the course of a lifetime.

One is "the day job", used to pay bills.

The other is "what I feel good about as a human being". It's great when both align, but that's not the standard thing that seems to happen.

Take it as a useful data point, not something to get bent out of shape over. :)
My theory is this: founders want to build something. They are creators. Their motivation is building something new / cool / useful. The second generation of leadership is motivated by power / money. They don’t create. They climb ladders built by creators. The difference in motivation is not subtle. The outcomes are generally positive in the first case and sociopathic in the second.
Dead code elimination is only straightforward if your language has sane naming semantics (lexical scope, static name resolution, etc). If your language does crazy stuff like allowing function lookup by the string representation of its name in the source code (e.g. JavaScript) it becomes much harder.
> It seems like a lot of people have gone to a lot of effort to keep Ian Manuel in prison

What makes you say that? I find that in cases like this, people are generally incentivized to do the least possible, out of a combination of laziness and fear of liability. I haven't read the book, but from the article, I don't think anyone had an agenda to keep him locked up. It's just that nobody in the system cared to get him out.
This license is not written by a legal expert, I suspect.

For example this clause, phrased like an order, does not make sense:

"Don’t make any legal claim against anyone accusing this software, with or without changes, alone or with other technology, of infringing any patent."

You can't give orders to people in a license or other contracts. You can only describe conditions.
> When it works, the collaborative editing features are nice.

It rarely works – but it's miles better than “this file has been locked for editing by somebody else”, so I'd still call it an improvement over 2010. (Just not an improvement over its competitors.)
A combination of git diff, git checkout --ours/theirs . && git add and git mergetool works well in my experience
Deplatforming can work. r/fatpeoplehate and other right wing hate subreddits pretty much fizzled out after they went to Voat and couldn't be on the front page of Reddit anymore.
I run goaccess once a day to analyze log files. There's an option to store the result in goaccess database. So nothing is never lost and I accumulate stats for as long as I want.

I detailed that in a (lengthy) blog post if you're interested: https://arnaudr.io/2020/08/10/goaccess-14-a-detailed-tutoria...
> Entrepreneurs will exist to service corporations with new tech and ideas but with little chance of forming mega-corporations themselves

Sir, I've been alive for lesser years than your experience but this is already happening. Vast majority of new products and services each day are just tools which function inside mega-corporation's products.

An entrepreneur without good network, funds are delegated to using API of a Big Tech product to build a product to solve some minor problem and eventually that feature would be rolled out natively crushing the product of that entrepreneur; Occasionally if there's good connections they'll get acquired.

You've professed that you're Apple fanboy, I appreciate your honesty but Apple hasn't hidden the fact that they are trying to crush Spotify at every chance they get in favor of Apple Music. If a startup like Spotify which has all the support it can get from being cash rich has to put up with this, What chance does someone from a village have to compete with valley?

It's not just new-age entrepreneurs, Look at News Media many who have survived for over hundred years even under colonizing forces are now at the mercy of Facebook, Google, Apple and many of them have already perished.
You buy an 11 year old car without keys and ask the manufacturer to give you some new ones. They say no. I would think that is a closer analogy.

Anyone who writes software knows that supporting older systems starts becoming more and more expensive. For many companies, one-off licensing is simply not viable in the long term, at some point, if they are not actively updating the software, they lose developer expertise and end up with a system only supported by older and retired engineers since the youngster only learn ruby/python/c# or whatever.

It is annoying sometimes but it shouldn't be surprising.
Just like oat milk and kombucha: Inside the race to sell cannabis beverages
we use it because it's blazing fast, stable and extremely versatile
Neuralink Elon Musk’s brain computer startup raises $205M
I recommend unionizing (a federally protected activity) to enable negotiating for benefits (including remote work) collectively. This presidential administration is already gunning for Big Tech, strike while the iron is hot (for more robust worker rights).

You can be well compensated and still demand a seat at the corporate table as a stakeholder in a business.
> Their website [0] says: "Complaints can be anonymous", "You can provide information anonymously"

They say this, but the actual anonymity is based on them actually knowing who you are (after some back and forth)... then not disclosing it.

That's not really being anonymous, just a make believe fantasy version.

Good luck with that!
I am not an expert in this area and have never used virtual currency. That said, I vaguely recall governments already making it hard for some currencies to be converted to regular fiat currency. I don't know the implementation details, but I assume that if you can block conversion or transfer, then the money can only be used within the virtual currencies own network. If enough governments or central banks from enough countries align with this, they can make the currency harder to use internationally or at least limit its functionality. I don't have any references for this, just passing vague memories of news reports being submitted here.
Racist crap.
In the UK, I'm pretty sure it's legal to crack the software full stop; if you're authorised to use it, you're authorised to use it. (Distributing the cracks, or really conveying any information you've learnt from disassembly, is still very illegal, though.)
> Netflix has finalized a deal to buy Hollywood’s historic Egyptian Theatre for an undisclosed price, closing a transaction that had been in the works for more than a year.

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/netflix-hollywood-egyptia...

Not quite what you meant, but still.
> please volunteer your their time to an active subreddit of your choice, preferably one with an active political aspect.

Why reddit? That site is a soup of immaturity, did you expect otherwise? On reddit you have people with 5 accounts creating conversations to control narratives and make it look like you have a larger group than you do supporting your case. This is more difficult to do on FB because they do a bit of account validation and other measures.

And your example of a political forum on reddit is a great example of why we don’t want censorship. On reddit admins ban for simply not speaking to the narrative or saying something that is not misinformation yet the admins don’t like. This is literally the same problem we have with FB now. The moral of the story is, stop censoring. It’s ok someone doesn’t say what you think is the truth, I promise the world will keep spinning.
I'd rather say that above a certain level it doesn't matter and all these countries are above it.

So it is not about gun ownership but about gun culture abd culture generally.
The issue is that 'Krav Maga' or 'dirty techniques' are not immediately, 100% effective. This is fallacious/magical thinking. So is 'learning how to deal with attackers with knives, guns'. Just because a Krav Maga instructor told that you these things work, doesn't mean that they actually do. If you are unarmed, there are literally no techniques that are effective against a knife- I feel like I shouldn't have to even mention guns.

The earliest MMA events were vale tudo/'anything goes' matches in Brazil where there were no illegal strikes, and yet solid MMA technique prevailed. Guys could attack the eyes, kick the groin, etc., yet the BJJ guys won! No one won because they were solely a Krav Maga eye gouger or something
The lockdowns have been the least locked down lockdowns I've heard of, and they are weeks too late. Queensland has had 6 cases and entered a 3 day hard lockdown with no messing around, and I wouldn't be surprised if it is extended. Lockdowns do work. They stop people mingling and spreading the virus though the community. The videos that Sky News put out are dangerous to the larger community and cause issues like the completely over the top protests that have been happening, and result is further transmission of the disease.
He was "scratching his own itch" (see http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-baza...).

Git was written to meet the version control requirements of the Linux kernel. It works well for that project's needs which are an outlier for most development needs unless you are working at FAANG scale.
Future of Artificial Intelligence
A botanist is introduced to escapees from the atomic bomb in Hiroshima
> I would think that is a closer analogy.

How? The software was bought 11 years ago, and the license keys are in the possession of the licensee.
You said it like that advice is useful when shopping online, buyer to download and read a whole manual to make the decision?
Hubble spots squabbling galactic siblings
You are never too old to get back into music you enjoyed when you were younger, if it was any good to begin with.

The only stuff I've found I can't go back to in the long run is the dreck-- the low quality, overly derivative or ethically questionable non-art. Everything else can fly again after you get over being burnt out on it. [That is, unless you grew up in the age of radio dominance, in which case there are probably several good songs that've been killed for you forever through overplaying.]
This is really well put.

The term "machine learning" fits the field, but the venn diagram of "what those two words could mean in english" versus "what the term means in the field" is a huge circle enclosing a tiny subset.

It's way too broad, and a term that naturally lent itself to a far more narrow interpretation by people first finding it wouldn't have this problem.

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It's fascinating to me, as someone that works with (rudimentary, non-ML) game AI, that - until recently, nobody really even tried doing game AIs that even "trained their heuristics". Like, I get how AIs couldn't form a general plan or any of that, but I was shocked, as an adult, to learn that i.e. FPS AIs were too dumb to even take "guesstimate" values like how much they needed to lead a shot (i.e. honing ballistics calculations), and at least train the aiming value for that based on inputs and success/failure criterion. As a kid, the obviousness of the idea, and triviality of how much effort it ought to take (surely a couple of hours, tops?) had me convinced that of course everybody was doing that.

Once I became an adult, I learned the bitter truth that even banally simple ideas are shockingly difficult to put into practice. The devil's in the details.
To be clear, Styropyro is an expert in lasers and knows what he's doing. He's not just hacking things together for fun like an idiot.
Proper consumer rights perhaps? I wouldn't be surprised if non-EMEA consumers are abused by MS
I think there’s tons of developers who feel this way. Some of the brightest minds and smartest people go to work for tech companies simply working on figuring out how to keep an ad in front of your eyes for a few extra milliseconds.
I highly suggest delta[1] for viewing diffs on the command line. It pretty much replicates GitHub's diff rendering, and is quite configurable.

[1]: https://github.com/dandavison/delta
TikTok is different from other social media. People seems to be nicer on there. Others have echoed this sentiment. The platform favors talent, it is a great way to learn how to film. You get feedback in terms of views in a very short time.

I see the format as a new way to teach and educate. I coin the phrase “micro lesson” to describe the idea.
Public safety. Commission of violent crimes is a strong signal of underlying violent tendencies. These are largely congenital, and there is no known social intervention to fix them. The rest of us benefit when such individuals are warehoused, preferably for the rest of their lives. Their moral claim to a second chance counts little against my right to not be brutally victimized.
I'm of the same opinion; Warcraft 3 didn't feel like a Blizzard game, and nothing has since.
Do Crows Hold Funerals for Their Dead? (2015)
You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance
I prefer to rent, and am not rich. I live in a large metro area in the US where rent is not insanely high, though. As someone who is single, it comes with a lot more freedom and less to worry about. Probably not the best long-term, but it's less stress in my life in my opinion, so the trade off is currently worth it.
How are version control systems meant to be used, if not as a history of the work? If not as a remote backup of work in progress?

I get the whole “we should have a neat history of feature commits” argument, but that’s really only one facet of a good source control system.

The fact that these goals appear to conflict shows me there’s some sort of lack in git. For all its (many, many) problems, uber-complex source control system ClearCase at least allowed you to specify a view, so you could see both types of information depending on your use-case.
But in this case A is exported. No one is going to tree shake methods of a class.
Do you have an example of how it would be solved in other languages?

In python I would create different requirements files together with freeze versions of those. One could contain the standard "numpy" and another would be "numpy @ my-custom-built-numpy-url". I haven't tried it and don't know how it would work in practice.
The FBI is corrupt and that will never change until we get rid of the FBI, which will never happen because the mainstream news media portrays them quite ironically as the saviors of our democracy.
Similar experience. I created a little project and it has become very popular. It's also completed so there is no need to develop anything apart from updating any security issues.
When I feel down I always think of that little project.
Hoping to make another one by accident one day.
It's like a finger pointing at the moon
Nobody is asking for support, but for right to use the piece of software they own 100%
I exclusively use git via the cli because guis are too confusing for me to keep track of what is going on, I also like to use tig to browse the commit history like above.
Some niche-topic forums do it. And regardless if Facebook is a good forum or not, the same logic applies: real-name policy doesn't do much to help against problems and tells you little. It's also an excellent tool to exclude people and provide extra avenues for abuse.

In forums without such policies, people are still able to identify themselves if they want after all, and those that don't can still demonstrate that they know their stuff.
> Isn't that the better option anyway, if you don't trust the government?

/me reviews history of Fauci speaking…

Nope.

When approval gets completed and the left quits trying to force the vaccine on people and implying they are too stupid to understand why they need it, when they quit trying to censor information they don't like (what do you think the #1 cause of gov mistrust is these days? how do I know the paper you posted isn't gov propaganda? you see how deep and dangerous censorship is?) maybe you’ll get more traction.

Further what you’re implying with these types of statements is that science never makes a mistake. We both know that’s not true don’t we? So while in aggregate the risk to an individual is limited, individually it’s their life and the only one they get. Let them make their own decisions. With delta now we can’t get herd immunity anyways.

And while we’re here, how many people do you know that have had COVID? Also stop telling people they need an expert to explain it to them.
They built billion dollar campuses that sit almost empty and the attitude now is by God we are going to fill them even if it means all our employees have to die from Corona. It all started with open offices to create less privacy and more surveillance under the guise of collaboration. Then they hired as many H1B's as they possibly could so they can work them like slaves while paying them less because fuck Americans, they don't have the skills. I hope this war burns them down. Fuck them and their bullshit "we need you here so you can collaborate", I'm not a fucking retard and can collaborate just fine from home.

Any in office work should be 100% optional and up to the employee.
The irony with git is that the underlying data model is far simpler than the user interface implies. People assume git is complicated because the user interface is complicated, but it really is very simple under the hood.

So much so that you can write your own basic version of git in a couple of hours: https://wyag.thb.lt/
and the ultimate option for git lg is --reflog. Seeing all branches, even the old ones that do not exist anymore is a eye opening event in discovering the true nature of git: it never changes a commit, ever.
Rent-seeking behaviour isn't always about manipulating public policy. If public policy allows you to commit rent-seeking behaviour, you can still choose not to carry it out. (Of course, you could make a lot more money by rent-seeking from those who have no other options…)

But yes, your main point is valid: it is entirely possible to (e.g.) be a landlord without being abusive. Heck, you can even give your tenants a better deal than they could've got otherwise, if the circumstances are right. The issue is that this behaviour (in many places) is actively disincentivised, so unethical people can push out the ethical ones.