skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Everyone I know can receive a series of true facts and come out of that believing something false!
Why would the "Paypal Mafia" make you think it is risky to attack successful people and companies?

Ideally it wouldn't be risky at all; in some circumstances it can be risky; but I don't see anything about the "Paypal Mafia" that indicates more risk. If anything most of these people seem like they started off as relative nobodies, and could return to obscurity just as easily.

EDIT: This has ben downvoted :) I guess it's (very slightly) risky to say the Paypal Mafia isn't that scary.
> You seem very certain, but that doesn't seem to be the consensus about how it works.

Just so I am clear, you're saying it's not an accepted fact that people don't lose a language they actively speak?
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Nice trick! Unfortunately at this point the bottleneck really is not on generating candidates but on evaluating them. The existing early-exit code from Sc00bz [1] can generate all the lowercase alpha possibilities up to 13 letters in about half an hour, but it's not feasible to run all ~500 million of those through GPT2. Hoping to have some time to train a much dumber but much faster HMM to do the job.

[1] https://github.com/Sc00bz/copilot-hash-collider
> It's obvious now that "Open" was a hook. It killed off all the competitors like Atom or Brackets and even mostly killed off other editors like Sublime. The only question now is the final goal of their lock-in. The only real observation is that all of "the new MS that loves devs" was just more of the classic Microsoft we've known for decades.

There's never a question of Microsoft's goal. It is always to destroy your choice to use non-Microsoft products. They pour resources into a "free" product that I will admit is good. It has to be, to kill all competing products over many years. Then when there is no reasonable competing product, they switch it to a paid product.

I can remember when Windows 3.1 was released. I did development on it at Ford, to emulate a vector graphics terminal. I remember when Office was bundled with Windows for free; now it is 1/3 of their revenue. I have seen Microsoft repeat this game over and over. History truly does repeat itself.
Actually, it is true: "When Bill Clinton gave the country “safe, legal, and rare” in 1992...They translated into language the inchoate sentiments of millions of Americans so exactly that they had to hear it only once for it to become their firmly held position on abortion....Now, after a quarter century of mighty service...the phrase is being vigorously expunged from the pro-abortion-rights conversation, including from the plank of the Democratic Party (in 2012) and the official position of Planned Parenthood. "

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/the-brilli...
> We only tested pet dogs. 51 dogs (27 female and 24 male) of various breeds and ages (1–15 years) We only tested dogs who had not received special training, as for example police dogs or registered rescue dogs.

I'd call that reasonable enough for a sample.

Some dogs are just stupid, the actions of others are always a mystery to them. Some are brighter than many of the humans they meet. I've been lucky enough to have both at the same time, the rest of the pack helped the slow one and made her life much happier.

I bet most humans, watching the videos of their "oops" trials, would interpret the dog's reactions properly. Mostly "ha ha you dropped it" but a few "do you think i'm falling for that?"

Which leads to the question: is the finding here actually news to anyone who has spent time talking to a dog?
Just realized how no traction can be nicely repackaged as pre-traction. Language matters!
Patent claims are clear as Soviet era Sci-Fi films so that's not worth discussing IMO. What I found interesting is this is a preview of 1st-gen purpose built Kei EV platform and that it has motor compartment directly below the seats.

For your second and third point, this is for small, cost efficient delivery vehicles. Consolidating as much active components into an "engine room" and close to driver's seat is likely given higher priority than pursuing driving dynamics. Like if they could cut the cost for brake lights by replacing them with plastic light guides they absolutely will.
What’s the value of uniform pipelines across thousands of projects? You’ve now got thousands of teams who don’t really understand how their stuff is deployed because someone handed that to them on a platter, and everyone is subjected to the uniform constraints and complexities of the shared solution whether they need to be or not…

What seem like efficiencies can rapidly become barriers.

It’s like any case where two systems share a requirement - you can factor it out into a shared library or you can duplicate the code; in the case where the common requirement is only ‘coincidental’ not ‘instrumental’, you are better off duplicating the code so that the two systems can evolve independently and not take a coupling to a shared dependency.

The same applies to infrastructure. Sure, you’ve got a dozen clusters, and it seems efficient to have one team set up and operate all of them - but are you sure the efficiency of one big team is better than twelve much smaller teams, closer to their dev orgs, who each run one cluster more tightly suited to that org’s needs?

How far down can you push that decentralization?

With smaller and smaller units of cloud compute and storage being available as services, the answer is increasingly ‘all the way to each individual application’.
I genuinely hope that Apple will eventually realize that they have burned decades of goodwill on this evil fascist idiocy..

I’ve been buying Macs exclusively for 15 years, but sadly it’s apparently time to change..

Every single executive at Apple should be figuratively “raked over the coals” by shareholders for pushing this kind of insane totalitarianism under a vague veil of “protecting children”.
There’s a kind of parallel history of why people ended up taking ivermectin, which was The Dark Horse podcast with Brett Weinstein. On the show they talked extensively about their theory that ivermectin was an effective prophylactic against Covid-19, but because the drug was out of patent, pharmaceutical companies had not interest in slowing down the vaccines. (Their words, not mine.)

IIRC some countries actually rolled out ivermectin at scale, but AFAIK, the studies have all been disappointing in terms of its effectiveness.

One problem with everyone calling it horse dewormer and calling people stupid, is there seems to be a lot of people out there who consider themselves independent thinkers, have read a lot about the history of ivermectin, and see this kind of poking-fun as dishonest (and I would think probably hardening their views that there’s a manufacturing of consent happening.)

I’m vaccinated — I just like to listen to lots of podcasts, read different people’s takes. FWIW, it doesn’t seem like ivermectin does what Weinstein suggested — and he made some very bold claims. I also don’t think the shorthand of “horse dewormers” is helping reach anyone who’s uneasy about the vaccines. But, that’s just my lay-person opinion.
Why not:

jsonb_pretty(jsonb) → text

or

jsonb_to_record(jsonb) → record
jsonb_to_recordset(jsonb) → setof record

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-json.html
Yes but pint seems to add numpy and dask from a quick check. How is sympy worse? And maintaining sth yourself for sure adds complexity.
It's especially ironic since "upper class media" are far whiter than many other industries. Yet somehow, they're never expected to undergo the Maoist self-criticism and struggle sessions they demand from others.
There is this in France too. Over a certain size, a company has to have a quota of people with disabilities, or pay a tax.
Yes it was immediately attempted to be challenged but as a result of Trump's supreme Court appointee, the case was not accepted https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/us/supreme-court-texas-ab...
It's a greater shame that we lost the distinction between singular and plural "you" when we gave up on "thou."

In the south they use "y'all" and in the west we're starting to use "you guys" to try to compensate.

If the two types of "they" begin to cause frequent clashes, I imagine we'll see some new term pop up to add some specificity.
That doesn't conflict with what I wrote
No don’t you see, by virtue of the free market, someone will
innovate around the need for water!

Then they will hold a monopoly over necessary resources for a few generations until someone innovates around them.

You have to realize it’s a good thing to see others go without just to make sure I never have to share my excess wealth /s
Because when a specific person asks you to refer to them in a particular way, it’s polite to acquiesce. When you call someone something they don’t like, they will respond by not liking you. If someone asks you to refer to them as “they”, and you tell them to “fuck off”, you’re not going to have a good relationship with that person.
I've heard from more than one transgendered person that passed that they felt that it outs them as transgendered to go around labeling pronouns.

Many people, including those who are not transgendered, are also uncomfortable with being forced to hyper-identify with their gender. For many their gender is just a small aspect of them, and especially in a professional context where their gender has no role being forced to put on a gender-show feels sexually invasive.
… and Multilinguals as well. So Canadians will no doubt benefit from this too?

At some point - once an adult - you have to call bollocks when you see it.

Signed,

A person who can speak five languages.
$139 for Windows Home and $199 for Windows Pro. Where I come from this would not be called giving away.

Official MS pricing: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/b/windows?activetab=pi...
Today morning out of nowhere, this came to mind. Back Orifice. I had a smile when I remembered the first time I read about it. What coincidence its on HN today! Or is it?
The article suggests that the cause is psychological. It isn't suggesting that this is a performance, but something involuntary and not Tourette's.
My point is piracy itself is the biggest innovation of the 21st century. We're actually going backwards because of these copyright holders. Things would be so much better if not for them.

> I agree that for a while it was true in the days of Napster, audio galaxy etc, but it isn’t anymore.

You gotta be kidding me. Pirate sites offer more content at much higher quality. Netflix streams "high definition" shows so thoroughly compressed even black frames have artifacts. My satellite TV streams content with so much compression it gives me motion sickness.

The main difference is piracy doesn't happen out in the open anymore. You need to be invited.
As someone with DID who is a part of that community (founded two subreddits and moderated /r/DID for a time), I look at at the traumagenic vs endogenic debate as a sad case of ironic community amnesia.

One of the core features of the disorder is the dissociative amnesia that protects us from having to deal with the consequences of the trauma we faced at all times. Systems that have lower dissociative barriers who deal with more trauma symptoms can be understandably upset when they see people seemingly functioning fine, claiming the same disorder with few of the same symptoms. I personally believe that endogenics are systems that have successfully repressed their trauma to the point that they really believe they didn't face trauma, or their trauma was more of an emotional or neglectful nature and their parents matured as they developed so it was safe to totally forget. Many endos will get mad in defense if you try to tell them they have trauma (as a mod the fighting can get unexpectedly emotional), because they have to believe they don't have trauma to survive.

For everyone else in the thread talking about it like it's a curiosity or a psych fad please don't, yeah teens are picking it up and faking it, but some are actually coming to terms with it early--those are rare but they happen--most will lose interest in it after some months or years. People who fake this also aren't psychologically normal. People who claim to have created head mates are engaging in tuplamancy, which is NOT Dissociative Identity Disorder, and does not function in the same way in the slightest.
The general insanity and incoherence is why I posted this. In this case the medium is really the message. Note that the author is a PhD employed by a Canadian university that was established in 1910.
This is true I suspect, but as siblings have noted, it doesn't require reifying the "upper class" as some decision making entity that is doing this on purpose. It's just that discrete sectors of the "left" push both social-identity based and class-based critiques of inequality. Both of these get broad pushback from the political right, but identity-based inequality remediation is generally acceptable to business interests, who are far less likely to care and may even largely be socially liberal, cosmopolitan, and urbane. Start trying to remove class distinctions and alleviate economic inequality, on the other hand, and now you're a threat both to the political right and to business interests that otherwise don't give a crap about politics.

Maybe somewhat ironically, though economic leftism or at least Marxism certainly started in academia (Marx himself being a scholar), as far as I know, the recent push for wokeness and the term "woke" itself arose originally from AAVE in the 1930s and became popular more recently thanks to Black Twitter. It did not come from academia, and it doesn't seem like the form it has taken in academia is anywhere near what the original proponents had in mind.

Lead Belly was singing "stay woke" back in 1938 and he was not talking about intersectionality and transgenderism.
It's interesting that your place of work was loose enough about security to let you install stuff off of the internet as it came out, yet paranoid and skillful enough to actually notice and get you in trouble the next day!
https://archive.is/dGwHC
I use jitsi and have minimal complaints.
This seems like a gross representation of pretty much everything.

The concept of "PayPal Mafia" as what they did AFTER PayPal (YouTube, LinkedIn, Yammer, Palantir, Yelp, Affirm, OpenDoor, Tesla, Spacex).

Ebay bought PayPal for $1.5b and spun it out for $40b. Not exactly foolish.
Assuming for the sake of argument that you're right about ivermectin being a poison equivalent to bleach and not an FDA-approved medicine in humans, wouldn't your argument also lead to the conclusion that we shouldn't try to save people who attempt suicide?
Elite schools could be called meme-labs. The modern hypermediated networked society (social media, texting, video, youtube...) could be called the fertile medium.

And those kids are notorious for failing to wash their hands.
From the paper:

> Although some patients indeed suffered in addition from mild Tourette syndrome, for all newly
emerged symptoms, it could be clearly ruled out that they were tics for several reasons:
(i) onset was abrupt instead of slow,
(ii) symptoms constantly deteriorated instead of typical waxing and waning of tics,
(iii) “simple” movements (e.g. eye blinking) and noises (e.g. clearing one’s throat) were clearly in the background or completely absent, although being the
most common and typical symptoms in Tourette syndrome,
(iv) movements were mainly complex and stereotyped and predominantly located at arms and body, instead of at eyes and
face,
(v) overall, the number of different movements, noises, and words was “countless” and
far beyond the typical number of tics in Tourette syndrome, and
(vi) premonitory feelings were reported with atypical location, quality, and duration compared to tics in Tourette syndrome.
Thus, worsening of pre-existing Tourette syndrome, for example due to COVID-19 pandemic
as suggested elsewhere 4,5, can be clearly ruled out in our patients.

I've been diagnosed with Tourette's for 23 years and the above is not what I would describe as "universally mimicking a specific symptom set precisely"

That doesn't mean this kids aren't dealing with something real, but it means it's unlikely to be Tourette's. The lack of low-level background tics (blinks, throat clearing, facial grimaces) is a huge tell.

The worst case scenario here is they get misdiagnosed with Tourette's and start treatment that a) won't help them and b) will give them terrible side effects. I've been through the roulette wheel of powerful brain meds, you do not want to go down that road if you don't have to.
The irony of using an American cultural artifact to speak for you on why you don't think America is number 1 baybee.
Do you think my progressive Maryland school is throwing “skin color is really important in society” while leaving “but all skin colors are equal” out of the discussion?

But we’re dealing with kids who haven’t yet been socialized with the ideal of color blindness, like you and I. At the same time, they don’t take what teachers say at face value.

Teachers say “skin color is really important” and “America is systemically racist against dark skinned people.” Teachers can say “but all skin colors are equal” but that isn’t necessary what kids take away. What do they mean by “equal?” Is it a euphemism, like so many others we use? Is it moral equivalence rather than literal equality? At the same time, teachers are saying people with different skin colors are different—the kids are taught to celebrate their diversity. And why would so many people think people with dark skin are inferior if there wasn’t some truth to that? You can’t tell second graders that skin color is a big deal but also not a big deal.

Also, the premise isn’t true. I grew up in Virginia when it was a red state. I went to college at Georgia Tech, where most of my classmates were from red parts of the south. But I’ve only ever been called a racial slur twice, both times by homeless people who weren’t white.

Telling brown kids that society is systemically racist against them when it isn’t true does harm. It divides them from their white peers and makes them look for racism where it might not exist.

The TV show “White Lotus” actually has a great take on this. Native Hawaiian girl goes to elite school and visits a Hawaiian resort with her friend’s wealthy white parents. She’s learned CRT education at her college and become woke. She convinces a native Hawaiian hotel worker to ignore his moral compass by telling him to steal her friend’s family’s jewelry because after all white people stolen Hawaii from people like him. He gets arrested and it ruins his life. And she strains her relationship with her white friend, who genuinely cared about her as a person. As the parent of a brown girl the show articulated exactly what I’m afraid of with CRT education.
Right, let's get an engineering manager to run an international company. They just have to negotiate deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars, handle all of the licensing issues, manage a charity, manage hiring for areas including PR and translation, and more assorted tasks. And let's offer them well below market rate for such a position, though we'll still publicly disclose their salary so the entire world can criticize them for everything that goes wrong with the company.

I'm sure they're flooded with great applicants for that gig. And again I doubt the CEO salary is still over $2 million. It would have been negotiated in April 2020 right before the layoffs.
Stephane, the main Faust developer, recently announced this list of resources to learn Faust on the mailing list: https://github.com/grame-cncm/faustwebsite/blob/master/mkdoc....
Like so many others here this really helped me gain an interest in computers at a young age. It's sad to think that the shit most of us did as kids for fun and learning would land today's children in hot water. I lucked out in Jr High, after getting suspended for 'hacking the school computers' as the computer lab admin caught wind and really encouraged me to learn and provided me with a lot of hands on experience that I may not have gotten otherwise. Novell, thick net, etc. Good memories for sure.
"man" is a slur?

I guess they don't like UNIX-style documentation.
China's elite scramble for path to Xi's 'common prosperity.' weal (cont)
An Autological Adventure
From what I can tell from the preview, this is right. I don’t have access to gpt-3 to compare, but copilot seems to have the same functionality that gpt-3 advertises when editing a plain text file.
While I agree with your narrative, it also seems like a perfect straw man. It seems like the world has gone crazy, but via the web we're exposed to every crazy thing.

I don't know how to reconcile these two things. There are surely people stuck in environments for whom it completely describes their experience. But like the wokeness narratives themselves, there are also going to be people facing adversity for other reasons who end up misattributing their difficulties to "wokeness".

Perhaps it's just the same social bullying behavior there has always been, but couched in new criteria. Perhaps these new terms are just foreign to us (eg we're used to school bullying in terms of who plays football), and the overall situation is actually getting better. Or perhaps not.

I think in order to discuss it with the weight of a societal problem, there at least needs to be some measurable framework and resulting data showing effects and trends. To do otherwise is just stoking the identity politics dumpster fire.
> It's very telling that it's the "rare" part that the Left takes exception with.

The Left doesn’t. The “rare” was a reference to government providing sex education, contraception availability, and social support to attack the demand side so that even with abortion being ssfe, legal, and readily available at need, it would be rare that it would be sought.

> Now, it's only conservatives who quote Clinton on that.

While the right may quote it, they also oppose each and everything it stood for. In fact, that was the left-wing part of the formulation (and the part Clinton, as a center-right Democrat, was least sincere about, hence his cheerful collaboration with Republicans in destroying the social safety net.).
I'm Fab (he/him/his, or in German er/seiner/ihm/ihn/ sein/seine/seines/seiner/seinem/seinen/seins/sich/ der/dessen/dem/den/ dieser/dieses/diesem/diesen/ jener/jenes/jenem/jenen/derjenige/etc.)
I’m a bit older and when I was about 14 or 15 I got into assembly language DOS virus writing. This was in 1992 and 1993. It’s actually how I learned x86 ASM. I was involved with an old school hacking (sense 2) group called Phalcon/Skism. Did other fun stuff like “wardialing” with a program called ToneLoc.

Anyway I wrote some viruses and dropped them in my high school computer lab. Several ended up getting loose on the local Cincinnati area BBS scene. One ended up in McAfee antivirus pretty quickly so I assume it spread further. There was basically zero security to stop such things back then.

None of my viruses were designed to do real damage. They would print stupid messages or change your color scheme to funky colors, stuff like that.

This was back when hacking (sense 2) and the computer underground was about a mix of pranks and exploration. It’s not like today where it’s all about serious crime and espionage and the penalties are also serious. It’s definitely not fun anymore.
"morally agreeable in the small" is complex phrasing for "aligns with my bias"? Yes?