skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 Also, with new evidence from space-based telescopes, instead of there being potentially tens of thousands of life friendly planets in the Universe (a Nature article from several years ago), I saw recently an estimation that there might be trillions of planets that are life friendly. If we mess up our planet, I believe that the Universe is teaming with life. When I was a kid, I thought that life like we have on the earth was unique, a view I no longer hold.
This whole things sounds like a young, interesting, smart, and PR-hyped CEO, chosen by a group of activist investors and run by an activist board. This one is just a big one. There are tons of little ones, with talented but naive young people ostensibly leading them, but actually beholden to the board even for mundane facets of operating the business. There's immense pressure to show progress, and sometimes the implication is do or die. Not surprised at all that a research-based project doesn't progress as quickly as the investors want, so the "management" fudges things.
I'd agree that it's a totally valid sentiment in our industry. In the specific context of an essay on pg's site though -- look at those graphics! :D This seems to me like a dude who is okay with wooden tables.
I came to this thread to write about prolog too. it wasn't the first program I wrote, but after a good introduction, then I started thinking the way prolog makes you think, I was blown away. I loved it and I hope I get to use it again!
Your first sentence is exactly why everything I talked about is so important!

A lot of “default” portion sizes are too large.

A lot of companies heavily imply unhealthy products are healthy or beneficial.

A lot of high-calorie items are marketed as something that is okay to eat regularly and not just as an occasional treat.

That’s why in my mind advertising and packaging regulations are being underutilized.

Think of how cigarettes warn you about their unhealthy properties, and aren’t allowed to be advertised on TV. A lot of food products should really have similar restrictions.

E.g.:

“Caution: a full portion of this product provides an elevated level of sodium, increasing risk of heart attack and stroke.”

“This menu item exceeds recommended calorie levels for a single meal, and may cause weight gain and obesity with regular consumption.”

“This item is a high sugar item, increasing the risk of diabetes. Complications of diabetes can include nerve damage and glaucoma.”
It's more commonly used in rummage languages, illiteracy is not really used (in the same way that analfabetismo is not used in English)(my swipe keyboard even used the Portuguese version!).
> Of course, nowadays, everything in your kitchen can be “smart,”and I highly recommend replacing all your old, non-communicative appliances with ones you can control from anywhere in the world

Yeah I'm not so enthusiastic. I honestly just want stuff that doesn't break. "Smart" stuff seems to not work more often.

My Nest thermostat didn't keep the temperature controlled correctly and I had to revert. My smart outlets routinely lose connectivity to wifi. My Ring doorbell goes works most of the time but is unreachable at others, same with my sprinkler system. The time spent troubleshooting negates any time saved with "smart" functionality.

When I was recently getting a new fridge? Opted for the "dumb" Bosch. Same went for the oven and dishwasher.
Pocuter – A coin-sized micro computer with WiFi and BLE
I have a guy working for me who strongly believes that open source is less secure because "hackers" have access to source code for finding weeknesses. He is wrong, but that attitude is not rare in some policy circles. At first glance someone with little understanding of technology (politicians) can be easily convinced of this idea.
maybe I was not making myself clear: "practice something that is more difficult" is a less ambiguous formulation.
The 'wadokei': the old way of measuring time in Japan
"The reason the banks, and through the banks OnlyFans, attack sex is because they are accountable"

I think it is about charge backs. Visa and mastercard hate charge backs. Porn has a very high charge back rate and these cost card companies so much they will often just cancel the merchant agreement. With a charge back there is human customer service involved, customer denials, fraud and complicated dispute resolution. This is why the processors that specialize in porn (ccbill) charge up to %15 per transaction. I don't think the processors wanted to go after onlyfans - they just would rather not deal with the drama. However, like onlyfans discovered, if you offer to pay a %15 per transaction fee - processors will work with you. Processors do not have morals - they are just trying to make money. They don't mind handling transactions for gun sales, tobacco, strip clubs or pyramid schemes.
If you think bigger temperature implies more life, why don't you set fire to your own home to make it more livable?
I'm not very familiar with the Tu-160, so I'm curious to hear your opinion. It seems like it was a Soviet success at building something like North American attempted (unsuccessfully) with the XB-70. I'm not suggesting it was a copy, just that it seems like the same class of aircraft?
It doesn't really matter how they had acquired it, they could draw on resources and manpower - Indian regiments, Malayan rubber, Indonesian oil (via the Dutch government in exile)...

I'm convinced by reading "Britain's War Machine" by David Edgerton that Britain's darkest hour was not Dunkirk but Japan's entry into the war and its lightning capture of most of SE Asia.
Sounds like band-aids don't work on skyscrapers? lol.
Admirably succinct indeed!

Sounds like the basis for an "app store" of recommender algorithms, "personal AI programming schedule assistants".

Things from science fiction stories, "Jarvis," the trope of the perfect imaginary friend that's selling "voice apps" today.

If our attention is so valuable, how is the market so constrained still? The gatekeepers were not the only forces imposing friction. Theres other sources of perturbation that are non-obvious and nonlinear.
If you are calling a method on a delegated object then you know it's one of the delegated objects rather than a method on the base class. It makes it really easy to see which bits vary by between the delegated/sub objects and which bits are the same for all of them. With inheritance you have to check through every single sub-class to see if they've overridden a method.

Code paths where an overridden method in a subclass calls back into a method on the base class are much clearer too, as they have to be explicitly passed in as parameters, the sub-class doesn't have access to any of the parent class's state or methods by default.
Securing supply chain is an important effort even outside of regulation. Here is a podcast about some recent open source efforts:

Kubernetes Podcast 155: Software Supply Chain Security, with Priya Wadhwa

https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/155-software-supply-ch...
Could've been phrased better but there's so much truth in this. Murder solving rate is actually more like 6%. And indeed sentences are normally reduced to 1/6, but not because of good behavior, but "regime progression" which technically allows you to work outside prison during the day but there's not ever enough room in prison for spending the night so you just become free.

Take a relatively harsh 12-year sentence for murder. Multiply by 6% for the chance you get caught and divide by 6 for regime progression. You spend 43.8 days in prison in average. The 6% figure includes people who murder in public and don't even try to run away. Be a little smarter about it and your sentence is effectively zero.

It's pure impunity for criminals. And a harsh life for honest people. Not hard to predict the outcome.
Yeah, the actual driving part is just part of the job. You would need personnel at every stop along the route to handle refueling or changing trailers. As well security concerns to an unmanned vehicle laden with goods. I mean an automated cruise control would allow night driving and such some savings there.
No system is perfect, of course, but I do think the people need a stronger democratic voice. A few big consolidated megacorporations make countless non-democratic decisions that affect huge amounts of people. Companies having are too much power in our society, considering that their motives mainly with the shareholders, not the population as a whole. I think we could at least do a bit better on it, even if its through slow reforms. Politics is probably complicated enough subject that I doubt we'll ever be perfect at it, but at least we could do a better job in mitigating their worst behaviours through legislation? I mean, the ultra-rich don't even pay any taxes, how fair is that?
I've known a great many programmers over many years and I've observed some patterns I'll note below. I'm not hypothesizing on why any of this is and it could be for any number of reasons. However, neither arrogance nor a desire to maximize pretentiousness has struck me as one of them, except for a handful of the most immature persons who quickly grew out of it.

Every single programmer interested in any language in the ML family or Haskell has considerably above average[1] intellectual horsepower. The syntax and type system can both fairly be called "weird."

The Lisp programmers I've encountered are along a wider range. They've ranged from average to ML tier, the latter being the ones that, as PG observes, are more interested in "weird" features like macros, call/cc, and so on.

And then you have extremely popular languages like C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, and so on. Virtually every programmer has used one or more of them to a significant degree, so the mean programmer using one of those languages is virtually the same as the mean programmer in the general population. This is expected since in cases like this the mean of a subset approaches the mean of its superset as the size of the latter approaches that of the former. Programmers who master C++'s template system are an exception to the above. They're also well above average.

[1] In this comment everywhere I say average or mean I'm referring to programmers and not the general population. Average isn't bad, the average person here is quite bright for example.
https://editorjs.io/
The banks are all regulated "in lockstep" by the same same regulator (FDIC), which can and does tell banks which industries to not serve.

Anyone discussing this needs to be aware of "Operation Chokepoint".
Taking the time to develop an application that is usable with a kbd/mouse is a tough sell, even when not dealing with mobile apps. Some people want to do it, but does it bring more money? No... so we, don't do it unless someone does it on their own time.
Well, suppose climate change wasn't thought to be anthropogenic, but it was happening the same way, i.e., warming up from being about the coldest it ever gets. So, it's not humans' fault, but it's inconvenient for humans. Would you still want to try to stop it? If so, would it be fair to call your stance nature obstructionism or something like that?
> it's consuming 200 W to provide its transistors with about 1 to 2 volts, which means the chip is drawing 100 to 200 amperes of current from the voltage regulators that supply it. Your typical refrigerator draws only 6 A. High-end mobile phones can draw a tenth as much power as data-center SoCs, but even so that's still about 10–20 A of current. That's up to three refrigerators, in your pocket!

This feels out of place coming from IEEE.
>The SLC cache was increased nearly three fold

How can they do that without reducing the overall capacity? My understanding is that part of the MLC storage in SSDs is used as an SLC cache so that it's faster, but can store only half, one third or one fourth of the data it otherwise would.
More peculiar devices to run Doom: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qkjv9x/a-catalogue-of-all-th...

I think there should be a github repo or a wikipedia page, to add those as they come :)
One friend in particular eats met every day and doesn’t want to pay more for it.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C. S. Lewis
I actually have a random string of characters at the end of my LinkedIn profile to find those good recruiters. It states very clearly that I will not respond to any recruiter unless that string is in either their LinkedIn or email outreach. I get about 6 recruiters a year that actually read my profile to the end and follow the instruction. For those recruiters I always engage with a thankful response of their due diligence regardless of whether or not I'm interested. I've made a few great acquaintances over the years of great recruiters this way.
We’re Burying Our Kids in Debt (Just Not the Way You Think)
I've told recruiters to straight up lick my butt before
I think we should have some sort of internet money that can be used to transact without any central authority.
The author has a reputation for being an asshole among the Emacs community; notably he is banned from #emacs on Libera, formerly Freenode.

He isn't always wrong, but his personality is a little harsh, as you put it, and it's worth keeping in mind when you read his commentary.
> ...homeless people are not "trash", but there is a similarity in your thinking...

Nope. No similiarity here. We can only solve the problem when we treat people with dignity.

We shouldn't alienate them. They are people just like you and me. The idea is to lower the cost while improving living standard for them.

> Why should countries like Indonesia, which has a per capita GDP of under $5,000 USD and no shortage of its own problems...

GDP is irrelevant here. Indonesia, Thailand, etc have many cities popular with backpackers and westerners living a nomadic lifestyle. Fresh fruits and fish. Great outdoor. Nice beach. Cheap motorbike. Great landscape and nature. Low-stress.

It can be a joint social venture set up by NGOs. We will need really smart founders to structure things in a way that will benefit the local economy there, while giving a decent life to those who were originally living on the street. A life with diginity e.g. where they do volunteer work in rehab (eg cooking), or as a craftman, an English teacher, a botanist, an entheogenesis research assistant, etc.
I don’t know her, but if the allegations are true, she may very well have done near anything to avoid abuse… including lying and falsifying documents. So long as it meant another day of peace from the abuser.
It is the dataset used for training that is often at fault, not the source code of the model.

I don't know if the EU regulations require access to the data too, but that could be problematic in a practical sense ( e.g. do they deliver terabytes of raw data to the regulators?) and there may be privacy issues with companies sharing their data with regulators
So a bunch of people posting random theories on twitter will lead us to the truth? I don't think so. Look at pizzagate and all that crap. Nonsense.
No better defense for a girl in 2021 to say she was somehow "victim" of some men.
> Why Is This Solution Better?

It is not.

This kind of refactoring reminds me of a developer we used to have who would do this sort of thing to the entire codebase. Every slightly-overweight method that took care of an entire concern scattered to the seven winds of "best practices" philosophy. Rinse and repeat enough times and you find yourself taping source code printouts to the wall and tying strings between them like its a CSI episode.
Room emotes? Custom emoticons? WTF, what client are you running? That sounds great.
Oh heck, found the answer, apparently so? Cool.
https://github.com/puddly/android-otp-extractor
Julia is a Dylan is a Lisp.
It's deliberately so and used as an in group marker.

There are also complex unwritten rules governing dress, speech and general manors that serve the same purpose.

There are some job interviews you better not turn up to wearing the wrong colour shoes or shirt.

Personally, I blame the Normans.
I know Fortran well and Python and R somewhat. Some "weird" languages I have thought about learning are APL and similar languages (J, K, kdb, Q) and Haskell. What else? Matlabe/Octave is widely-used but is not "weird" compared to what I know.
Not owning a car seems hard for anyone with a life more complicated than single office drone. I often need to stash kids equipment in the car for later pickup; we keep medicine and books in the car used often, strollers, umbrellas, not to mention car seats. That’s a lot of stuff to lug between Uber to Uber. People who play sports after work, sales folks traveling with merchandise, etc. cars are a home away from home in our lifestyles.
Have you read any of the legal briefs? I read several of the prominent ones, and they all followed the same pattern of leading in with a bunch of easy facts but then jumping to completely unsupported conclusions (that were then used as political sound bites). The cases were summarily dismissed because they had no logical merit.
AWS disables ISIS propaganda website it had hosted since April
thanks for comment, i cannot spend that much
I don't know. I bet half of IEEE only worries about data/signal processing in their dayjobs and never thinks about power distribution. Such a comparison immediately makes clear what the problem is.
> economical incentive gradient looks

... you're forgetting the biggest economical incentive gradient - people who are actually throwing money at Only Fans, and will immediately throw their money at a competitor if one should open.

It's almost like you've forgotten that people already pay money for porn online everyday.
And the original version was banged out in a very short time period to create a feature. Then everyone else just piled onto it w/o consideration for the consequences.
IAAL and yep :)
Element doesn't have inline video embedding for any link, the emoticon support sucks, and the voice chat leaves a lot to be desired.

I like Matrix and I like Element, but let's not pretend something missing features that forums have had since 2007 is going to have a user overlap with Discord. It's much more cumbersome to use in comparison, and much more work to set up.
I've been using emacs for 35+ years. It does everything I need to do. If it doesn't, it has lisp. And then it does.

I only use fundamental-mode.

Emacs, like lisp, is "clay for the mind". You can adapt it to any task easily.
You can simply offer a product that operates under the necessary constraints. There is no need to offer conventional payment processing if the conveniences it offers are so unsustainable as you say.
French philosopher Bernard Stiegler "an important thinker on the effects of digital technology" became a philosopher while studying in prison (for robbery):

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

He wrote a book about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting_Out_(book)
Yes, of course we'd still want to stop it. It would be much riskier though, as the consequences would be harder to know - messing with the environment is always risky. This is also why geo-engineering solutions to climate change are suspect - stopping CO2 production is just going back to a state of the world that we know worked. Seeding the ocean with iron or changing the color of the sky are radically different from any previous state of the Earth, so their impact is unknown.
Well, the current mode is to select by availability of cheap resumes (majority) or fashion (minority, hip places).

Whik I'm not sure I'd always agree with PG, a recent anecdata I heard was a company selecting for Lisp because picking Python meant wading through mountains of fresh bootcamp grads with (quote) "overblown sense of their own capability" (unquote) - same applied to JS, less so to C#/Java.

(Un)fortunately, the company noticed they didn't have resources to filter that, and decided that by going for "weird but capable" combined with global remote organisation they could filter for people experienced, or willing to experiment with weirder languages. Apparently ithe cost of having to sometimes implement things from scratch was lower than expected.
I so miss the straightforward, personality/attitude-free style of presentation and demonstration. Hopefully that style will have some kind of comeback. Simplicity and sincerity are best. A great piece of history.
Wut? Phoenix metro area is not the bay or Seattle or NY. Everyone out there has cars. It’s hot as hell and things are spread out. Spend any time there: there are only cars. Anyone on a bus is down on their luck. Same with bicyclists, either that or they are bike maniacs biking for political or health reasons. tldr anyone not using a car is already not in Waymos target audience because they can’t afford a taxi or are just really determined to ride a bike.

Downtown Phoenix, or ASU (students), or downtown Scottsdale (drunk night life) would have been the better test locations.

Chandler? Wow
Or just normal languages, used oddly: http://www.ioccc.org/
Cartels pay their bills, and have very effective ways to collect from people who want to skip paying theirs.

If you had billions to invest and transact with, you'd have banks bending over backwards for your business too.
It's like saying, "I guess my base beliefs (or whatever bullshit you said) makes me believe that you are cunt. I don't know how else to say it."

Yeah what a shit argument and a failure to society you are
That just means that chargebacks cannot be offered as part of payment processing.
That's because GNU ReadLine uses Emacs key-bindings. It's not the other way around.
> The issue is that the banks all move in lock step, undermining the basic principle of the free market.

The banks all doing the same thing is exactly what you would expect in a free market.

They are all in the same market (credit card processing) and all have the same information on the risks and costs and revenue in that market for handling various types of transactions. All of them that make rational decisions supported by the data they have should come to the same conclusions and take the same actions.

What you'd expect in a free market is for specialized banks to appear that would deal with porn and other high risk customers that the more general purpose banks all conclude that they don't want to deal with.

That's what has happened, as has been mentioned in other comments.
"The reason the banks, and through the banks OnlyFans, attack sex is because they are accountable, and don't wish to take risks"

Where exactly are the banks at risk or accountable?

Are we talking about fraud, or potential criminal investigation because of underaged girls forced to do onlyfans by mafia (I can imagine that) and money transfer via their bank?
The Millenium Tower needs to be scrapped. It's a failed project. It will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to "fix", and no fix will work in the long term, because the problems are structural.

Cut yout losses. Demolish the whole thing.
> C. S. Lewis

Figures. Back then, corporations weren't such a huge thing. Now we've got growthism. No matter how much money a megacorp makes, it's always gotta make more for its shareholders. If the CEO and board are not going along with that, they will be replaced. Corporations are stuck on a hedonistic treadmill divorced from the finite capacity of a human stomach to be sated. Conscience? Since when did a corporation ever have need of a conscience?

In short, Lewis lacked imagination.
Hmm, the weight loss definitely happens, but I wouldn't call it easy. Non-stop headache, complete inability to focus, and terrible crankiness. At some point one starts to wonder if it's better to just be chubby :)