skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you prefer the sob story of the time I had a partner go literally nuts (though she managed to dodged the psych eval for nearly 5 months until THAT got proven) due to COVID related stress and her own negligent actions and their consequences, and then file a series of crazy (and later proved perjury) accusations that locked me out of most of my finances, my home, and all but the property I was able to put on my back with roughly an hours notice - while I ended up single parenting two kids - all for no apparent reason?

Shit sucks sometimes. It's often hard or nearly impossible to cope. Sometimes the terribleness comes from those you loved the most, or least expected it from. Sometimes it comes from a literal random stranger. Life isn't fair, and there is no guarantee - and fundamentally cannot be - that things work out for anyone, no matter how right or wrong their actions.

Sometimes this kills someone directly. Sometimes it just wears them down, sometimes someone can take a direct hit to the face that would kill most others and just smile.

Often the bigger part of the damage or ongoing problems stem from our own inability to face reality, what is going on, and make use of the tools we do have and what we have around us to actually make things better - but that is a problem no one can fix but us. Ultimately, we end up with the consequences of this, deserved or not. There is no magic bullet to solve this either, just hard and uncomfortable work.

There are tools however, and our current society provides a LOT of them. I fully recognize how hard it is to use them during hard times. Probably more than 99% of the posters here. But pretending they don't exist or aren't available is BS as well. Pretending that they don't exist and that is why society is unfair and fucked up because of this is also just wrong and corrosive to society - and people even actually using these tools.

How many people read these posts and actually think there IS no other option and they're permanently fucked, and so never actually take the actions they can to make it better - or even take drastically worse actions that just compound the problem?

A lot more than anyone wants to think about, I can assure you.

Bankruptcy exists. I've seen many people use it (including one close friend) and everyone came out fine at the end. Was it embarrassing for them? Yes. Was it fun? No.

I've always worked my ass off and saved money to avoid the risk, and still barely survived, as I saw how unfun it was as a child and felt many of the effects first hand. But it worked for them to do it, and I knew I had the option if it went even further south.

The whole point of bankruptcy is to get the creditors off your back so you can actually get your life back on track again - like learn a useful skill, or get a new job despite the market being screwed, or not go homeless, or build back a functional life after crippling medical issues and/or debt.

Is it guaranteed that said person will do so? No - there is no way to even attempt to give such a guarantee.

Is it a useful tool someone can use to do so? Yes, you bet.

And if you think I'm 20, lol.
I believe part of the problem is that it is hard enough to build a game in the first place, and networking is a deep skill within itself.

I've been doing large scale distributed systems for a decade, and I still feel like I'm learning especially as I retool for games.

The way that I'm trying to make this simple is by inventing a new platform for "serverless game hosting" using my programming language (Adama : http://www.adama-lang.org/ ).

My focus on board game is the ultimate in server's role on authority since board games are more transactional between players and staggered (I play this card, that card enables another play to react, that reaction enables another play to augment, etc).

I'm looking into what it could mean to escape the board-game pit, and one thing that I'm thinking about is latency. The question that I'm looking at is whether or not I can have a programming model be differentiated such that the client prediction code can be generated.

A trivial way to exploit my language is to bring edge computing into the mix such that the edge compute runs a copy of the entire game, and then ships deltas quickly which will be overwritten from the authoritative server. This will work on updates to existing data (i.e. moving position), but it will fail at creating new items unless I move unique id generate to clients (which, is less than happy for me).
"Deamidated" exists...

Otherwise, it's fascinating!
>Also just in terms of baseline beliefs based on the physical world, I would assume that the vast majority of the time an infection would be more protective than a vaccine.

It is also orders of magnitude more deadly. Vaccines are proven to be much safer than getting Covid.

This is one preprint study comparing natural immunity to the Pfizer vaccine. It is interesting and may hold up after peer review. However, we have to be careful drawing broad conclusions and over interpreting these results.

The danger is that we are already seeing many groups pointing to this study and trying to read this as meaning we should not be getting vaccinated, because obviously getting covid is better. We should not forget that in 2020 and into 2021, despite significant lock downs and enforced/encouraged masking, and without widely and globally available vaccinations we lost about 5 million people to Covid. Skipping vaccines in favor of "natural" immunity is a path to continued carnage.
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Yes, they often read like words from an alternate reality where the chaos of language use & neologisms went just a little bit differently.
I wonder how long until an AI can do well on the logical reasoning section of the LSAT. My guess is not anytime soon.
Dude--your putting shade on my shine. My peeps get my drift.
OAS might be a problem with much more divergent future variants. Today's variant are still very close to the original, so OAS is not a factor yet.
I understand them as "golden tests": https://ro-che.info/articles/2017-12-04-golden-tests
It does seem to owe something to The Meaning of Liff.
Building a recommendation engine inside Postgres with Python and Pandas (2020)
I wonder how much of that is due to the task GPT-3 was trained for? Perhaps the "what to say" part is working perfectly, but what it wants to say is as generic a text stream as possible. It already seems like GPT-3 has more "knowledge" than is obvious at first glance, but you need to prompt it correctly.
The second paragraph says:

> Besides the built-in RAM, Allwinner D1s comes with many of the same features as D1 RISC-V SoC, but loses HDMI output and the HiFi 4 audio DSP, and Allwinner made some tweaks to the IOs with one less I2S audio interface, and general-purpose ADC.
You mean Internet Explorer isn't for exploring the internet!
Highly doubt it. It's the nature of monopolies that do not have an army (real guns and blood).

There are employees that will create pressure out of nothing and will ruin the cushy possibilities just out of their own boredom and misery due to not being able to progress the hierarchy of the monopoly (most old monopolies don't really give big raises and it's very hard to reward employees because most don't really have any impact). (managers that start micromanaging employees that somehow do something productive, regular workers that overdo it at the task managing platforms and then stress over the backlog, etc.) But it's not the monopoly that's taking the cushy from them.
I'm sold. What's your migration story from decades old MySQL Database over to CockroachDB?

I'm only half joking there.
They’re partially sterilising, with studies showing up to six times lower infection rates amongst the vaccinated than the unvaccinated.

That’s a huge difference, and not just reducing the likelihood of hospitalisation.
And yet the proportion going after a business or finance degree is less than 100%.
Of course, but from the user’s perspective this is all transparent. Parent comment is talking from the UX perspective.
I'd argue that the only person stealing purchasing power from you is yourself. Read some books, get an education, have ambition, work hard, take care of yourself. If you did that, instead of blaming others for your failures, your purchasing power would be fine.
I cite my comment from Reddit I posted some time ago explaining what happened to SU:

> Stumbleupon had a declining user base because more and more spam flooded the site. Moderation couldn’t just keep up to it. As a result, advertisements were increased to keep up the profits from the remaining users. As you might imagine, this pushed those remaining users off the site even more. At some point, the management decided to put effort into a new platform: Mix.com. The CEO also spent a lot of his time building Uber (yes, the taxi company).
If they haven't trained off SCP Foundation material, they should.

(Or someone with a bit of spare time should. Then again, maybe they have, and this is the 7th time I've made that suggestion).
That's the Police I would fully trust, support, and definitely would want to have around when I need them.
I was reading your blog post with interest until a banner to sign up for a newsletter showed up and there was now way to close it.
From the article, it sounds like the patent was expired when the current owner purchased it. How does a suit like that even make it to court? Would the owner be able to sue for violations from before it expired?
Has the PlayStation market share grown in the last couple years? Also, Linux is probably going to grow when the Steam Deck is released.

Even if the PlayStation is growing, I am not aware of BSD growing in desktop, server, embedded devices, etc.
The caveat being that what catches our eye when flipping through GPT-3 output is more often comically absurd [0] instead of meaningful or 'intelligent.'

0. dishwitter
dish·wit·ter
a person who eats hot wax or other food
"she was a dishwitter"
Well, consider, about 50 years ago almost every child was raised by married parents, today about half are.

Having so many people with no lived experience means lower cultural forces behind asking them to participate in an expensive party, even though marriage is so good for raising children (which used to be the purpose of marriage).
> My belief is that Apple will eventually try to lock down macOS entirely or move to something similar to iOS sandboxing. This would more or less solve your problem and not hurt the majority of people’s experience.

Strict file-level-granularity sandboxing breaks all kinds of multi-file formats [1], because users will want to simply open the respective main file just as usual (especially if launching the file from the desktop or a file explorer window) and then expect that the program of course should be able to access not just that particular file itself, but any associated files, too.

The OS however cannot be expected to know the peculiarities of each and every file format, so how is this supposed to work without either degrading the user experience or else weakening the sandbox up to a point where it is possibly almost pointless?

Plus it also makes editing file paths in programs more annoying, because you can no longer directly edit a path (or paste it in from elsewhere) if it's displayed in a text input and instead always have to spend a few additional clicks because you must go through the OS file picker. (Though admittedly this latter issue might be more of a power user problem)

[1] Multi-part archives, multi-part video files, playlists, videos with separate subtitle files, HTML documents containing links to other local HTML documents or referencing various sub-resources (images/videos/audio/style sheets/scripts/...), Audacity projects, images with metadata in external sidecar files, ditto for georeferenced images, QGIS projects, ...
I believe FB ads allow you to target based on pregnancy status, but you're probably looking at $0.25+/click to drive traffic.

SEO will be hard, since the incumbents likely already have strong backlink profiles. There is lots of volume, so maybe make sure you have onpage done well, then maybe see about widget backlink building or something similar to try and grow your domain authority. Maybe create content using the SSA's annual name reports while adding something novel so as to help incentivize people to link to the content hosted on your domain.

Display ads may yield $1-3 CPM, so if you're wanting to monetize, your largest assets will be your remarketing lists (for showing related display ads) and your email list (sends are super cheap). You can show display ads on the site, then maybe look about affiliate offers where you can try to send relevant offers.
Hi everyone, I'm Co-Founder and CEO of Vantage

We've heard consistently from existing users that they want visibility of AWS costs directly where their teams do work: which tends to be in Slack for the most part. This integration represents us dipping our toes into an integration with Slack. Currently you can get either daily, weekly or monthly cost reports posted to Slack with a breakdown of each individual AWS service.

In the future, we're looking to integrate Slack slash commands in for querying information about your AWS account as well as comparing information found on http://ec2instances.info/ which we acquired earlier this year. We've also got some things cooking around automated alerts and cost anomaly detections.

This is a pretty straight-forward launch but happy to answer any questions :)
That said, if I go through this for 5 minutes and pick the 10 best words they will be much better than the 10 best words I could make up in 5 minutes by myself.
So we do something similar, using HSTORE to diff the old and new records, which then allows us to easily tell what was changed in the case of an update. Useful for many kinds of things, but especially forensics.
I doubt it. They have been found to be in violation of the GPL for years, ranging from media codecs to bootloaders. Their response, even after joining the Linux foundation, was to obfuscate the code to make GPL violations hard to find.
I see these comments in virtually every web app thread that there is, and it's immediately clear that the people making them have never worked somewhere with a vaguely incompetent IT department (most companies). There are companies where adding a new application to the image/getting IT to install it requires forms, waiting, and sacrificing a small animal. Those people are also not paying for it and thus don't care at all how much it costs.
The canyon road snaking up through the mountains was odorless, only the roads immediately through the fields were noxious... but it wasn't a windy day.
It is easy to prevent wall hacks and speed hacks. Prediction input resolution, server keeping an authoritative representation on the server, and limiting the synced objects to the current view of the player are all easy when done individually. Thinking about all these concepts at the same time can be confusing for people new to the topic, but each subject is relatively easy to understand and implement.

I’d say that this article handles the speed hack issue because of authoritative server state, but doesn’t go far into limiting what is sent to the player or not. The issue arises when you didn’t make your game multiplayer from the start and adding prediction and sync visibility isn’t an option, that’s where you get player authoritative states that share their states with the other players. Client authoritative is easy to implement, impossible to prevent cheating.
> but have only "DML" enabled, because of the potential performance overhead

Surely the amount of DDL statements would be trivial compared to the DML ones?
That fact that humans can be creative does not mean that all humans are. Nor does it mean its actually all that common. True creativity is very rare. Even people we normally describe as "creatives" are mostly working off of convention and are influenced by others.

I've come to accept that 99% of what humanity does is derivative and mediocre. That's ok.
Mutation rate of SARS-CoV-2 and emergence of mutators during experimental evolut
Well sure, but that's just one example of how corporate interests tend to push tradition into being as expensive as possible (holidays face a similar fate). They're creating social pressure to solidify their revenue.

A wedding can be whatever you want. It's not "unobtainable" unless you're treating it like a class-based measuring stick.
You should read this: https://technology.riotgames.com/news/demolishing-wallhacks-...

In anycase it does not work like it should in Valorant.
> Is there any reason to be afraid of getting vaccinated?

There's plenty of reasons, do you mean to also ask how likely other people on the internet believe each one to be?

For example, if you ask me, this is my personal assessment:

Reason 1 - Vaccines could also contain microchips or other device for tracking, brainwashing and remote manipulating my body and mind by whoever mastermind is in charge of what goes in them.

I think that's very unlikely, I'd give it a 0.00000001% probability. I just dont know of any possibility for such advanced technology. And I can think of many different means that you can be more cost effectively tracked, manipulated or brain washed. I can also think of other ways they could have injected you with such things.

Reason 2 - The vaccines will result in worst long terms negative effects on your health than getting Covid.

I think this is a little more likely, but given all prior vaccines have shown to be quite safe, and even if they could be responsible for some long term effects, even some we haven't linked back to them yet, seeing as life expectancy and quality of life has grown year over year since the introduction of vaccines, it seems the equation would still play in their favor.

There are also more and more literature linking prior viruses as a possible cause of long term negative effects like dimentia, various auto-immune diseases, etc. So it would seem Covid is more likely to introduce long term negative effects.

So I'd give it a 1% chance.

Reason 3 - The vaccines will result in worst short term effects on your health then getting Covid.

I think this one has been shown that most of the time, Covid is more likely to kill you or make you really sick as compared to vaccines.

I'd give this one a 0.0001% chance.

Reason 4 - Vaccines can stop your pregnancy or your period and make you stink

I have seen zero cases of this, and everyone who's had a vaccine to my nose do not smell, and still have period and can get pregnant.

I'd give this one a 0.000000000000000001% chance.

There might be more reasons, but those are the ones I've heard most often, and this is only my personal risk assessment.
Hell, I can forgive it in games -- it seems pretty easy to forget a detail that can accidentally give too much authority to a user in that space, especially when you're trying to crunch your frame time.

What really surprises me is how how often I see this mistake in web development. "No, Bob, you should not increase the user's bank account based on that number passed in from the frontend React app."
Fond memories - things like geocities, IRC, forums, and yes even web rings were a great way to move around the internet.

I feel like web rings or something like that could be a nice thing to have again. I am not sure what format it would take these days, but I like the idea of sets of curated sites that are "opted in" to being part of a collection.

Apart from that though, I personally find that Hacker News itself is a great source - either from the stories themselves, or usually the individual comments have some great links.
> In January 2021, we completed an assessment of the useful lives of our servers and network equipment and
adjusted the estimated useful life of our servers from three years to four years

Does anyone know what the observation was here that made this possible? Have Google's internal workloads not grown in size as quickly as they thought, or is this a "Moore's law is slowing down" thing?
>I find it very doubtful that a community that's mostly bots would "seem to be a healthy source of expertise" from the outside. If you're only looking at the materials that the community itself publishes (i.e. group description etc) - then sure, but that's not doing one's due diligence.

What about one human and 100 bot slaves that help his content gain the appearance of social agreement and importance? I also think the bar for the appearance of expertise is basically nothing if you're new to the area.

I'm a fan of removing anonymity from sufficiently large platforms personally.
Funnily the stated definition seems to fall for its own trap. Perception, here named as a particularly hard thing is something AI is starting to get pretty good at. Mobility lags behind a little, but we've seen some incredible demonstrations there too.

Perhaps it's always the things that are on our awareness horizon which seem hard but end up solvable. What's next? Perhaps long term planning, interference and on the fly learning? And then what are the difficult things beyond that horizon, the challenges we can't even see yet?
"Better red than expert" is not a prerequisite for socialist thought. For what it's worth, putting totally unqualified ideologues in positions of real temporal power over the economy and health of the nation and watching them fuck everything up is something we do in modern capitalism, too. Our tools are different; political power grows not out of the barrel of a gun but a barrel full of money with a dollar sign on it.

I find it bafflingly common to encounter the conflation of authoritarianism with collectivism.
>People have been predicting "climate disaster" for 40 years now

Indeed. Notably, 40 years ago an Exxon internal report predicted a 1 degree rise in global temperature due to fossil fuel use by 2020 - and here we are, 1 degree warmer. [0]

Do you appreciate how huge 1 degree is, in 40 years? The last time the Earth was this warm was 127,000 years ago. It's enough to wreck ecosystems, and has. And it's just getting started.

>pretend that there is some sort of existential crisis.

You're speaking as if the climate isn't visibly, dramatically changing; as if huge numbers of bottom-of-the-food-chain organisms like insects and phytoplankton are not declining precipitously; indeed, as if we were not in the middle of one of the largest mass extinctions in the history of the planet - on par with the times when it got hit by huge asteroids. The scientific consensus on the severity of what is happening is unanimous. Nobody knows exactly what will happen - it's too dramatic and unprecedented - but if you're not worried, you're simply in denial.

>I'm not onboard with this extremism, and neither is the majority of the population

Certainly not true in America: "A majority of Americans continue to say they see the effects of climate change in their own communities and believe that the federal government falls short in its efforts to reduce the impacts of climate change." [1]

[0] https://xkcd.com/2500/
[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/06/23/two-thirds-of...
I created my own web app for it - https://easylists.app

My biggest issue with other apps is that I would create an industry of creating plans or todos. I would have massive backlogs and then never look at any of the tasks for months or even years. I spent more time planning than doing.

Using EasyLists, I create lists like 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Shopping tomorrow' or 'Now' and use them in a short time frame and _delete_ the list completely.. the same as I would if I was using a pen and paper.

Other points to note if anyone wants to use it:

* No signup or accounts

* It saves locally against your local storage

* It has no tracking or analytics

* It currently has one known bug that I will get around to fixing eventually - it doesn't affect functionality.

* It is _not_ mobile friendly (yet)