skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don’t underestimate what doubling your salary can do for you. Unless you already have all the financial resources you will ever need, earning that extra money, especially while you are younger can change the course of how quickly you reach financial independence. Once your financial house is strong, you can make decisions for the rest of your life that optimize for things other than money.

I chose to optimize for higher salary. I plan to get back into the nonprofit and social good world later in my career.
I need to bookmark this for future discussions.
you just described why I started to apply to different companies back in September. Not thinking about the product but about the underlying technology.
We haven't gone as far as a Faraday Cage inside an anechoic chamber because we think the risks of these attacks is (luckily) not big enough (yet) for now to justify these. Eventually though? Maybe.

There's also projects to guess keystrokes based on sound which don't even require you to be on the host device https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29266783
Those aren't separate goals; the thing you call a REPL for Literature that happens to be in English is exactly for learning to read (the Read part of REPL) and write (the Print part) English accurately.

There are different components (the REPL part is called “Literature" when separated out, and other major, though conceptually lower-level, parts are called “Composition” and “Grammar”, and there are probably more; equal with Literature, and also a kind of REPL, are “Conversation” or “Speech”, where the P and, in the former case, the R of the REPL are oral rather than written.)

Foreign languages are often taught similarly, including the REPL parts.
A few questions:

How well did British colonisation work out for Native Americans? That would be a more fitting comparison to make. Look at life in the reservations.

Did the Romans meddle in British affairs after they were booted from the isles? How was life in the British isles in the aftermath (let's be generous and give them 100 years) of Roman colonisation for the common people?

Singapore is an interesting, and exceptional case. But also worth noting that even here, the economically and politically dominant Chinese Singaporeans supplanted indigenous Malays. The Chinese mostly arrived during the British colonial period.

People who espouse this sort of thinking also say similar things about South Africa. "Apartheid ended almost 30 years ago. You should be over it." Or that Black Americans - people who were only accorded full civil rights in the 60s - should get over centuries of domination since it's "already" been a couple of generations since they could vote and sit at the front on a bus. I could keep going.
I'd say a big factor is the lack of ability to just socialise. Forums, even those built around some specific topic, normally had a busy "offtopic" section for general chatter. Here, everything has to be at least vaguely about the subject of the thing being linked to, with no space to talk about how your day was or whether you liked <movie> or what have you.
Absolutely agreed! You can feel that R was made for its specific use case. Exploration, visualization, experimentation and modeling just __click__ for me in R in a way Python can never inspire.

In the Python ML world only the matrix libraries - numpy and similar APIs like torch.tensor and jax feel natural and click in my brain. The rest - data frame, visualization, scientific libraries; I'm not very sure how to explain it, but it always feels like some context switch is needed between using Python the language, and calling out to these libraries.
To what extent are those positive freedoms associated with the government vs the free market?
Well, it's been years (like 15 or so) since I gave it a go, really, so maybe I should try again. But, yes, holding Ctrl and then pressing X and then S seemed too cumbersome for an ordinary operation like saving your buffer (or frame?).

Back then I was also using vim in mswin mode where Ctrl-S would save the file, just like in Windows.

Interestingly, though, I still find :w<Enter> easier. Maybe it's muscle memory now, maybe because I don't need to hold a second key for two key strokes, maybe colon is easier for me, maybe...

I guess I need to check my habits more closely :)
For what it's worth the two top GDPR consent Wordpress plugins can be configured like that (it's actually their default if memory serves well).

It's entirely up to the people authoring the website.
If I was using that application, I'd type a long message, then cut and paste a bunch of times really fast to mess with the recipient
This take makes it sound like people who tweet or have a blog are narcissistic or something. IMO it can be the other way around.

If I post something to a forum, there's an implicit assertion that this thing I'm posting should be interesting to that community. Otherwise I'm wasting people's time with noise. Something feels egotistical about assuming that people in some community want to hear my hot takes.

On the other hand, if I tweet or post on my own personal blog, then I'm not making any assertions that my writing is valuable. It's entirely up to other people to choose whether to follow me or unfollow me depending on whether they get any value out of it. This makes me feel much more comfortable posting random thoughts.
wait, there are custom embroidered naruto vest stores? link?
"At either end of the social spectrum, there lies a leisure class.”

—Yosemite golden-age climber Eric Jay Beck

There are many ways to happiness, sometimes you can just go for it directly, sometimes you build some security on your way there.
"World domination through genocide is good, actually."
I remember a Physics PhD who thought that 'waveform collapse' was not a transition from 'waveform' to measurement. Instead, he felt that 'measurement' was just becoming entangled with the wider world, which causes the waveform to converge to a dirac-delta distribution.

Are there reasons to assume that 'random' entanglements cause the waveform to 'concentrate'? it would need to be that the probability of concentration at a given 'point' is proportional to the square magnitude of the waveform? Has this been studied?
It's maybe notable that a lot of games are related to combat in some form.

I also notice how toxic some regular airsoft/paintball players can be, especially young men/teens.
That’s on them and their reputation. Why would an artist intentionally damage their community and legitimacy.
Again? Must be time to renegotiate their MS Office contract.
It's a misunderstanding of the paper I think. The blog post author and SO post both make the mistake of altering the Paxos Made Simple algorithm to allow sending phase 2 messages to any majority set of acceptors. But that doesn't work unless you also alter the P2b wording so that an acceptor also treats prior accepts as promises. I can see there is a slight ambiguity in the reading of the PMS paper itself that would make you think this is okay, but saying it is a bug in the paper is a bit of stretch.
Reality Will Become a Status Symbol
Looks great! exactly what I need
Repairability, yes. Reliability, no.
>This is not what a free market looks like

What do you mean by this? Companies choosing the best option rather than the cheapest option is perfectly compatible with a free market. MS Office has been designed for decades to be easy to manage and support and has plenty of training resources available. LibreOffice still has plenty of rough edges in those areas. As an individual user, maybe those are worth overlooking for you. At the scale of a company where time is money, it's much more important to get something reliable.

Also, an unregulated free market always turns into a monopoly (or at best an oligopoly) eventually. It's been shown time and time again.
Bitcoin is a real, hard money that you will clearly see take over as a reserve over the next decade, and it's secure. It solved problems. Everything else, especially including Ethereum are nothing more than psuedo-intellectual scams. Ethereum has already changed their monetary consensus six times within five years. Play fiat games, and win fiat prizes.

You know you're only commenting this to get a rise, though.
On Linux you can use a number of thick or web clients for any sort of groupware - Exchange, Office 365, OnlyOffice, Nextcloud, Collabora, Zoho something?
Two of my favourites:
- Why do we have guarantee and warrantee that mean essentially the same thing? (Because one word was imported into English from French at two different periods in history)
- Why do we have child -> children, brother -> bretheren (obv archaic but still would be understood by most people) but no other plurals that work that way? You can't say one sister many sistren for example. Even though that word existed in Old English it didn't survive into modern English.
> by pumping up the value of debt relative to labor, i.e. making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

In other words, interest based debt is bad because it is exploitative. Something we've known for a long time now. Interest based lending is prohibited in Islam for that reason (as well as in Judaism and Christianity).
> Either this is revolutionary or it’s a niche thing, but it can’t be both.

My reading of this is that it's describing something at a single point of time. So to use your example, the Tesla S was niche, _then_ the 3 evolved the idea to become revolutionary.

Some niches eventually become revolutionary, but they're not both niche and revolutionary at the same time.
Optical scan is not hard, and is provable in election terms.

As long as the record of voter intent is NOT electronic, the election can be hailed into court and sorted out worst case.
I hate this. We are trying to look at the worst of someone that did so much for the world.

People on HN are trying to cancel Feynman as well. I have nothing but feelings of disdain for you.

Even if they did something wrong, I’d rather focus on their positive sides. Please stop this onslaught of taking down the history for some axe to grind.
I really want this to succeed, but I think it's the wrong approach in the grand scheme. OOXML is the de-facto "document" standard, and I think it's reasonable to say that it is deliberately too complex, giving too much advantage to the company who created, implemented and pushed for it's adoption.

There's also a lot of research applied in not how to make the proprietary user interfaces better, but how to make it hard to move away from. Couple with how bad WYSIWYG actually is for any serious task (it saves you 30~300 minutes of learning in exchange for a life of pain), and it's hell unleashed on the poor souls who are forced to sidegrade like this. We can do better.

Existing free plaintext tools like tex, org, ledger, groff, beamer et al are the best solution IMO. Anyone can learn them, and they surely should when it makes their work better. We're giving people too little credit when we act like they need WYSIWYG and too much pain when we realize we screwed up.
It's also worth looking at the 75-year Grant Study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Study

From Wikipedia:

Main results

George Vaillant, who directed the study for more than three decades, has published[8] a summation of the key insights the study has yielded:

Alcoholism is a disorder of great destructive power.
Alcoholism was the main cause of divorce between the Grant Study men and their wives.
Strongly correlates with neurosis and depression, which tended to follow alcohol abuse, rather than precede it.
Together with associated cigarette smoking, was the single greatest contributor to their early morbidity and death.
Financial success depends on warmth of relationships and, above a certain level, not on intelligence.
Those who scored highest on measurements of "warm relationships" earned an average of $141,000 a year more at their peak salaries (usually between ages 55 and 60).
No significant difference in maximum income earned by men with IQs in the 110–115 range and men with IQs higher than 150.
Political mindedness correlates with intimacy: Aging liberals have more sex.
The most-conservative men ceased sexual relations at an average age of 68.
The most-liberal men had active sex lives into their 80s.
The warmth of childhood relationship with mothers matters long into adulthood:
Men who had "warm" childhood relationships with their mothers earned an average of $87,000 more a year than men whose mothers were uncaring.
Men who had poor childhood relationships with their mothers were much more likely to develop dementia when old.
Late in their professional lives, the men's boyhood relationships with their mothers—but not with their fathers—were associated with effectiveness at work.
The warmth of childhood relationships with mothers had no significant bearing on "life satisfaction" at 75.
The warmth of childhood relationship with fathers correlated with:
Lower rates of adult anxiety.
Greater enjoyment of vacations.
Increased "life satisfaction" at age 75.

George Vaillant's main conclusion is that "warmth of relationships throughout life has the greatest positive impact on 'life satisfaction'". Put differently, Vaillant says the study shows: "Happiness is love. Full stop."[9] In response to accusations that the statement was sentimental or overly general, Vaillant revisited his findings and concluded: "The short answer is L-O-V-E."[10] The CBC reported that the "[Grant] study proves Beatles right: All You Need is Love."[10]
Thanks for the explanation. As I wrote in another reply, maybe I should try again :)
Midwest US, so I guess that's some sort of continental temperate? I'm admittedly not the most diligent gardener, I just bought it to cook with and it came with the dirt attached to plant it.
> There's a lack of coherent understanding

This, plus the lack of simple explanations of the various parts of the ecosystem(s), is one of my main gripes (the environmental costs being the other). Hopefully it will change in the near future, but if it takes 1000 words (and potentially as many moon/rocket emoji) to explain the what/why/how of NFTs/cryptocurrencies, that doesn't seem like a sign of success to me.
I’m curious what metric you’re using to determine that a majority of the web is running on PHP.
This works fine for verifying your own vote. It doesn't protect against ballot stuffing. If you can't map votes to people, you can't (definitively) say all the votes were cast by eligible voters. There is no tech solution to this.

EDIT: Actually, reading more carefully it doesn't even do that. It's not super useful to verify simply that you voted--you want to make sure your vote was counted correctly.

But even if we know that, you can't verify the final count (which is the ultimate point). To illustrate, this is the information you have:

camgunz: voted for Ross Perot
Totals: Perot: 1,894 | Bush: 49,762 | Clinton: 70,888

Nothing ensures that the totals reflect your actual vote.
While I am not in the "forums are dead camp" per se, I just yesterday searched for forums on vintage/retro computers and found some that didn't look very active. Granted, they had far to many subfora, so maybe I just missed the active corners, but there was very much a "last post 3 months ago" vibe, including threads about the question if the scene was dying.

Though really, the main problem with good forums is actually finding them in the first place. If no one points you at one, google might just be no help at all. Of course, discourse invitations seem even more obscure these days, so its probably just the way things are now?
What is open about OpenStore?
As I read through these comments (and discover some interesting tools!) I want to give a word of caution for anyone using this thread to make a tooling choice. The "best" documentation system for you is heavily dependent on your product [1], your contributors [2], and your ability to maintain/customize the underlying tooling. Just because you're seeing Tool X 10 times in this comment doesn't necessarily mean it's best for you!

[1] E.g. documenting an API is very different from documenting a GUI product

[2] E.g. on https://web.dev we had a large pool of authors. They were all fairly technical but even so we often ran into questions about build errors, etc.
It feels like an impossible goal.
Would Jim Crow have been avoided by Black folks tolerating white folks more?

Was the Trail of Tears due to insufficient tolerance by the Cherokee and Seminole?

Or should the intolerance of those who denied their humanity have been resisted and not tolerated?

There is no "both sides" here. At no time have white folks in the US been into camps or slaughtered with sanction of the state by people of color.
These modules seem to be the primary influence on sci-fi movie computer design, starting with HAL in "2001".

When sci-fi writers need to create some plot tension around getting a computer either up and running or down and disarmed, the characters will inevitably be plugging/unplugging colorful modules at some point.
> In a world where fractional reserve banking still exists, but is backed by bitcoin, you’d have lots of “bitcoin notes” being created, NOT bitcoin. No one would be creating new bitcoin apart from miners.

No, this is a misunderstanding of how fractional reserve banking works. Bank deposits are money, despite the fact that they might be only partially backed with reserves. Bank deposits are not IOUs. And the same is true of bitcoin deposits held by the public at crypto-exchanges. Theses bitcoin balances are bitcoins, despite the fact that they might be only partially backed with reserves. These are not a "bitcoin notes", but actual bitcoins. And therefore more bitcoins can be created by exchanges simply by lowering their reserve ratio.
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations.

They are a commonly used form of governance for many established defi protocols and networks.
would either produce a universe that would collapse on itself within a blink of an eye or expand so fast that gravity would never be strong enough to cause even the most basic structures to form

It could do so in other chunks of space or time. If “time” and “expansion” have no final end, and these constants can fluctuate for some reason, eventually there would appear a universe like ours. There is no one who could count all the “failed” attempts. And maybe ours is also a failure in a sense, compared to a hypothetical much “better” universe.
It's a lunatic position. Consider the die-hard environmental activist who decides the best way to save the planet is to create a collection of deadly infectious pathogens, distribute them to every major city on the planet, and so reduce the human population by 75%, creating a glorious utopia for everyone to enjoy.

Several books and movies have employed this plot, 'Cobra Event' comes to mind.

Consider the psychology of the megalomaniacal individual who knows what's best for everyone based on their own personal views and experiences, who takes no input from anyone else, because everyone else in the room is an idiot who doesn't understand the genius of their position...

This might lead to arguments like "who's more of a lunatic, the woman who releases the virus that ends the insane human population explosion on Planet Earth, or the woman who doesn't? I'd argue the latter."

To quote William Gibson, roughly: "It's like they're all running around with luminous messages scrawled on the inside of their foreheads."
That you for being right!

So many people misunderstand the ZIL SLOG, including the guy you are responding to.

I think most posts on the internet about the ZIL SLOG do not explain it correctly and thus a large number of people misunderstand it.
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Is there any evidence of "dark matter" or "dark energy" actually existing?

I find it more likely that we just don't understand the real mechanisms behind galaxy rotation and universe expansion and so we just made up unfalsifiable stopgaps to make the numbers work out.
I think it was meant to be a reply for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29265760
You are exceptionally polite speaking with lunatics like me (I've seen that multiple times from you). I'm [[grateful]] for your candid responses. In case it may be useful, I will continue thinking about it here: https://philosopher.life/#2021.11.17%20-%20HN%20Log%3A%20Ara.... You already know, but it is my duty to acknowledge that you work on behalf of Humanity and quite a bit may ride on your success. You have a difficult ship to steer without enough resources, and I wish you had military-level funding for what is ideally a military-grade project. If you ever directly need something from me, please let me know. Thank you again for your time and willingness to listen to me, sir.
Biotin Lessons
I think their comment was meant for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29265760
And should nuclear war ever occur? ~70 years is a relatively short time frame. Check back with me in another 200 and let me know if your comment still holds.
Except that mechanical contacts are the bane of all things electrical. Vacuum tubes are lightyears ahead of relays in this regard.
and it happened in...3 days?!
Every situation is unique but often it’s best not to “say” anything. It’s best to just listen. Like really listen. And offer to continue listening.

Encourage others to do the same.

Most importantly, Resist the temptation to give advice (unless it’s solicited).

Don’t ask “have you tried X?”… instead ask “what can I do to help you get through this”.
there's a lot of bullshit in AI, and blockchain is almost 100% bullshit. Much of the engineer-porn industry is just marketing hype, so if you set out to get a job based on marketing hype I'm afraid you might be disappointed.

You could try to find a product that interests you intrinsically rather than based on marketing? If you have passions, it's rarely a bad idea to pursue them unless the industry exploits said passion (ie, games industry). Failing that, money's always nice.
Moderation or AGI?
Chrisco255 - This is precisely the rub of the scam. You bought it, hook, line, and sinker. But this is 100% incorrect. An NFT owner does not own the artwork. You are just scammed into thinking you bought a free and downloadable to all JPEG image.
Hightouch (YC S19) raises $40M at a $450M valuation to democratize reverse ETL
The problem is that today's economy is also based on debt (a very bad idea), many if not most people cannot simply save to buy assets like the old days because, due to inflation and interest, prices keep going up. Some of us refuse to engage in interest based finance as it is against our religion (and for good reason).