skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your analysis you are correct to put these ideas forward, it does not mean the paper is incorrect. I personally think we should think of this paper as really useful datapoint rather than a set in stone conclusion either way. For me it's really interesting rather than to be dismissed as being completely not probable. Let's see and wait for other research, but I think it's a great theory that needs a lot for it to be fact (as close as we have to one). What is a fact (again, as close as we can get to one...) is that obese people die a lot more readily from COVID and anyone over say 30 BMI (because of fat) should undoubtedly assess the risk of any vaccine as being massively in their favour!
"In any case, I'm not saying utility can't exist. I'm saying some universal utility can't exist, or if you wish: sorry, guys, you can't determine my utility function for me. I'll do it myself, thank you very much."

The article does not posit a "universal utility function", nor does it require determining anyone's individual utility function. It merely requires that utility functions exist and that a comparison of the resulting utility is meaningful.

"If we could have a "formalized utility function" for "most reasonable cases" we'd hardly have different morals, political parties, and so on..."

Only if you have a universal utility function. Which you are the only one proposing.
If you have to be at the ready to take over from the car trying to kill you at all times, wouldn't you rather just drive?
As a teenager in the UK I bought an issue of a PC magazine that had a cover CD (remember?) with Borland C++ Builder. That's what got me started with programming.

A while later the same mag gave away a copy of Delphi. That really opened things up. I found it was more accessible and was quickly making all kinds of stupid windows forms apps and sharing them with friends.

So, no insight into what went wrong but the name Borland has very positive associations for me, and it's safe to say their products played a role in the course my life took.
Robert Griesemer and Ian Lance Taylor – Generics – GopherCon 2021
Thanks for the feedback newusertoday, it is much appreciated. Good idea about startupschool, I did the session a while back (it was not continuous back then). I should enrol again. I am in the pairing program but so far no good match.

About the infrastructure costs, I am not too worried, the platform is already profitable. By that I mean the costs this year have been covered by the few subscribed customers. I am far from having enough to pay myself and a lot is due to the hyper-optimisation of the infrastructure design, but I am quite proud of that.

I am working on it more than full time, have been for the past 7 years. Losing my job back then was very painful, and I have not been able to bring myself to take another job in that field. My last employment turned out to be a very toxic place, and you won't find it on any of my CV or public profiles. I like better working for myself, even if it does not pay so far. I enjoyed immensely architecting this project. To earn a living, I moved in a remote location as I could not afford rent in the city and I have been taking the odd jobs, from fixing computers and gardening to woodworking and house maintenance.
The Matrix Awakens is a breathtaking demo of what Unreal Engine 5 can do
The article makes it clear they are not sure that this person served in the military or whether they bought/acquired the armor from someone who did after the fact, nonetheless it's a possibility and it's pretty cool.
Forgiveness By, Evon Latrail
Except when you're drained you won't have the creativity to solve another programming task. But you will be able to queue up again. It also gets easier the more you play, because you're relying on the same skills that you build up with every match.
"Useful" in what sense? This is retrocomputing, a hobby. Nothing about it is "useful", it's about playing with old computers and emulators for its own sake.
What is your dictionary definition of computer then? Is a sundial a computer because it tells the time? Is an abacus, or a Genaille–Lucas ruler, a computer?
Have you checkout out the Gnu Name System from GNUNet?
I wanted to edit something in, but it's been too long now.

I think a big issue is that people (including me in my original post) conflate the term fact with the term truth. Many things people say are indeed facts, but that doesn't mean they are true (or provable to the receiver). A fact is merely something that is possible to be proven (or disproven). A truth is something that is true; a verifiably proven fact.

Simply telling someone facts does not make them truths to the receiver. You have not provided them the ability to prove the facts to be true. You've merely asserted them.

So put another way: I may say that it is possible to change people's minds with facts, but you also need to provide the function of turning the fact into a truth. Facts are easy to claim and very abundant. Truths are extremely rare, and for nearly everything we merely work with statistically likely truths.
There are a few actors where I still remember the first time I saw them in a film. I had no idea who they were but they were mesmerising. They all became stars. Being gorgeous helps (and is sometimes enough to succeed) but some people really do have an astonishing talent.
Aren't subscriptions basically just a monthly donation? What do I get for subscribing apart from the icon in front of my name in chat and possibly a shoutout?
Do investment banks have a responsibility towards not burning out their employees?
Even political scientists disagree what makes a "democracy" today.

I am pretty sure China considers itself a "democracy" in the original meaning of the word: "rule of the people" (thus the focus on "People" in "People's Republic of China" and in many other official names). Basically, anyone can rise to power by going through the ranks of the communist party, and people are elected and voted for.

I wouldn't consider it a democracy even in that basic sense because of the disregard for basic human rights and freedoms, and it surely is not one in the modern political sense of multi-party systems.

Similarly, one could argue that the de-facto two-party system in the USA is not very democratic either, as it's not unlike a single-party system in China: you go through the ranks of the *party* to progress. It's the other things that make USA more of a democracy (freedom of speech and protections against unsubstantiated persecution, for example, and sure, ability to start a party too — even if it's inconsequential).
+1 to LMS + material skin! Protip: You can embed the lms webui in the Home assistant frontend, so you have all your home automation in one place!
Right. It annoys you because 'Trump'. Not sure what that has to do with the contents of my comment, but um, okay?

At the end of the day, the comment I made is accurate and it still has not been refuted.
hours of expensive mainframe (PDP-10) time

Equivalent today to milliseconds of processing in an Apple Lightning cable.
I'm protesting Kellogg brands by boycotting them.

My intent here is 100% to harm the company by hurting their bottom line.
What makes you think it's judgmental?

If they had instead wrote the article about a drug dealer making $500k a year, explaining the downsides of that line of work, would you also think the journalist was just jealous?

The point of the article is that this seems like a lifestyle destined to cause issues later in life.
I just read through some comments. His OS doesn't use the GPU because God told him not to because its opaque and everything should be open to the user? Setting aside the speaking with God part, I think that's a pretty interesting opinion. I think I agree with it, but maybe the way it should be accomplished is by having more open GPU drivers?
I hear the repeat of "Oracle is the database without vulnerabilities"
I don't see it
indeed I am, and yes I know.

I'm asserting even if it was implemented fully it won't do shit. I have insurance why would I give a shit about the prices? my employer pays the majority of the costs. its only going to incentives the uninsured to go shopping and they're a very small market.

thats precisely the problem. lack of choices in the insurance market where the incentives are not aligned.
I would be keen to try, but afaik there's no way to do it on Linux which is my main dev/deploy environment.

It feels like Linux debugging is stuck in a viscous cycle, since few people are putting the capital into a decent debugger UI, and thus few people are using debugging UIs (and thus using printf debugging, or gdb CLI). Folk might not realise how much better it could be.
Ooh I love easy questions! The answer to this one is yes!

You can thank the American Medical Association.
Can you name and list those things you'd not want to miss out on, ASAP? The quicker you can do that, the more control you'll have over outcomes.

You can replicate just about any FT experience you want by changing the structure of your freelance work. That's one thing people misunderstand about freelancing. If you're not enthralled by the freedom aspect and taking full advantage, you might quickly find that you hate it. It's not just glorified wfh.

Examples: Take any day off you want. Week off. Month off. Experiment to find the fewest hours you actually need to work each week. Select clients based on how respectful they are to you personally, and your boundaries.

Hire your own consultants who are excited about what you'll become, book attendance for yourself at interesting and relevant corporate retreats. Go out and drop $500 on books that interest you, because you recognize that interests and excitement are the engine for what you make of this opportunity.

Oh, and be so god-damned lazy it's ridiculous, right up until your good old ultradian-measured high-productivity window arrives between 3:30 and 5 pm. Accomplish more in that time slot than your clients are doing in a week with their internal teams, and enjoy the hell out of it.

It's more than just another job, it's your life, and it will probably be closer to owning your full life than many will ever get to experience.

Personally I started casual freelancing at 16 and serious at 21. IT background as well. Good luck with whatever you decide.
Ah, that's interesting! I'm not the person who used "syntactic bureaucracy" but I did interpret it roughly like that, yes. I'm not sure what phrase I would use to describe "more syntactical constructs" as you're saying, but it's interesting how we saw the term differently.

Similarly, even though I'm not a big fan of Rust, I would personally prefer to encounter the Rust snippet. The way I read code, I'm already building up mental models of things in my head, so adding more (e.g. what fold is) isn't that big of a deal to me. I think I'm a person who is able to look at a function call and not have the desire to dig into its source, though, which I don't think is the way everybody (and most certainly not the designers of Go) feels. Plus once I understand the concept, even if it's a lot less universally applicable than fold, I can reuse my understanding of it throughout the system and possibly throughout multiple systems.

Like you said, I think this is largely a subjective thing. I just find it objectionable when people, on either side of the fence, come in and say "abstracting over concepts and possibly making them first class is always better" or "...always worse."
I have a DX7 I might part with...
Btw, for anyone who wants to read this book (its an interesting one) - https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...

Economics 2.0 starts at "Welcome to decade eight, third millennium"

A bit further down:

> Collapse of the trans-Lunar economy: Deep in the hot thinking depths of the solar system, vast new intellects come up with a new theory of wealth that optimizes resource allocation better than the previously pervasive Free Market 1.0. With no local minima to hamper them, and no need to spawn and reap start-ups Darwin-style, the companies, group minds, and organizations that adopt the so-called Accelerated Salesman Infrastructure of Economics 2.0 trade optimally with each other. The phase change accelerates as more and more entities join in, leveraging network externalities to overtake the traditional ecosystem. Amber and Sadeq are late on the train, Sadeq obsessing about how to reconcile ASI with murabaha and mudaraba while the postmodern economy of the mid-twenty-first century disintegrates around them. Being late has punitive consequences – the Ring Imperium has always been a net importer of brainpower and a net exporter of gravitational potential energy. Now it's a tired backwater, the bit rate from the red-shifted relativisitic probe insufficiently delightful to obsess the daemons of industrial routing. In other words, they're poor.
I knew G to PG-13 rated camgirls that were making six figures back in 1997 to 2000. They eventually got disrupted by the adult industry providing more explicit content for much less money upfront. OnlyFans seems to have reinvented this model at scale, but what's the average margin for an OnlyFans provider? $180/month.

https://influencermarketinghub.com/glossary/onlyfans/
admits that FACEBOOK'S fact checks are nothing more than opinion. Facebook isn't an arbiter of that question in the more general sense.
I'm afraid you may have fallen for the deliberately misleading words of the supposed assurances given by the US. Here's what the Guardian[0] says of that particular claim (with my emphasis):

"and could apply, if convicted, to be transferred to a prison in Australia."

My understanding is that his application could be denied, without any recourse, by the DoJ (of whichever administration is in power at the time), and probably by the Australian government too.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/dec/10/julian-assange...
And to think it was once under the command of Captain James Kirk...

The navy should have registered as DDG 1701
Luigi’s Pizzeria hires three teenagers to hand out coupons to passersby. After a few weeks of flyering, one of the three turns out to be a marketing genius. Customers keep showing up with coupons distributed by this particular kid. The other two can’t make any sense of it: how does he do it? When they ask him, he explains: "I stand in the waiting area of the pizzeria."

From https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-h...
Being sarcastic on the internet is generally a bad idea and creates confusion as to whether you truly believe what you’re saying. If you want to make a sarcastic point it’s best to be explicit about it, or else risk being taken seriously.

Nobody here knows what you actually believe. Without the benefit of that shared context, a sly vocal intonation, or a wink of the eye all we can do is take you at face value as someone who actually believes what you’re saying.
Have you played League of Legends or Dota 2 before? It will be hard to convey the mental/emotional exhaustion that most people feel from playing MOBAs at even a semi-competitive level. In my experience it's a lot different than playing FPS or other games.

I have a distinct memory of finishing a game of Dota 2 and realizing that it felt as though I'd just finished a 3 hour exam. I didn't feel happy that we'd won, just relieved. I don't think this will convince you, but perhaps consider being open to the possibility that it genuinely is as difficult as solving most programming problems that we face in our day-to-day work. In my mind, it's at least as difficult as "easy" leetcode problems.
Most statically typed languages have a type safe generic map or it can be easily built.

Just like with monomorphisation, Go just stubbornly rejects all PL research younger than 40.
No reason to think that it is -- it's related to a specific implementation of a java technology, it would require completely a completely hypothetical parallel track.
Is this really the first time you’re hearing this news? It’s been clear and supported by data for months.
Would it? It's a very common logging package, and Java is cross-platform. I also think OSes tend to be updated more often than JDKs (but I'm not sure).
How to bring my blood pressure down. Statins don't seem to be working and the docs can't tell me why.
Human Rights Day: 10-December
In this case the library is using JNDI to go get a class from an LDAP server to execute.
$2.5 million earned at 26 years old. Tiny little violin playing for him. So what if he hates it and stops, he’s already earned more in a few years than most people do in a lifetime.

Not much different than most pop stars or pro athletes.
> It's a moral system just like how Big Judge in Sky is a moral system. You're only determining what's good and bad in accordance with this one moral system. And most of humanity does not.

Well, at the very least "Big Judge in Sky" is not in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, so there's that.

The fact that most of humanity most of the time fails short of our best understanding of morality doesn't mean that that understanding is a relative cultural construct. To make a parallel, even if all of humanity believed that the Sun revolved around the Earth, that still wouldn't matter one bit. The Earth would still do its thing. It's kind of like that with morality too.

It was wrong to have slaves even when having slaves was accepted. It was wrong to rape and pillage even when that was the norm in conquest etc.

> You should address the factuality of the statement instead of bordering on an ad hominem.

It's possible I misunderstood parent's intent. I actually took this part "woe betide those that mess with that institution" to mean smth like "don't you dare mess with the US". That would be an out of place, over the top threat. If I misunderstood the intent I'm sorry.

> Every hegemonic power in history have exhibited the same characteristics: securing its interests.

I don't disagree with you on this one (at least if by "its interests" we understand: "the interests of that nation's ruling elite"). It doesn't however mean that that's morally right. It is entirely possible that all hegemonic powers are acting immorally all the time.
Dutch man, 69, starts legal fight to identify as 20 years younger (2018)
About two years ago, a change in work caused me to become a heavy git user. One of the most important changes I made to my bash setup was to change my prompt to multi line, detect whether I was in a git repo, include the branch in the prompt, and also include a summary of git status.

Very handy! (The check also makes sure I am in the repo part of the repo, and not, say, in its .git folder or other non-working folders.)
Oh yes!

Our cities and mega-structures, including things like roads and fields.

Or more broadly, our terraforming of the planet.

When you look at time lapse videos of human developments it looks pretty similar to watching swarm insects construct big structures over long periods.

We started it a long time ago and it sped up a lot over the last few centuries, and it's still going on.

No need to look at individual pieces opf technology, all you need is to "zoom out" in both space and time to see the human swarm busily at work on a project that not a single individual understands.

If you do want to look at individual smaller pieces, things like the space station or (space/air/road) vehicles in general: We keep tinkering and changing them through space (in parallel across the world) and time (across many generations).
Yeah, I was exaggerating. While my situation sucked, it definitely wasn't as bad is this.
>Streamers like Tyler form the backbone of tech giants’ “creator economy,”

Maybe this is pessimism, but calling streamers "creators" feels like a perverse label.
My Dad also took a lot of naps. I've never been able to fill his shoes figuratively or literally. He was sharp as a pin.
The experiment isn't entirely meaningful, because it is culturally dependent -- not just the star-ness, but the expectations of the performance. You don't have to go back very far in time to watch actors who were highly praised but seem off now. And go 20 years in the future, and a lot of what you see now will seem weird and fake.

It's also really, really hard to tell from a finished product. There is a lot going on in a film between the performance and what you see in a theater: editing, music, lights, sound. A good cinematographer can make anybody, if not a star, at least somewhat charismatic. I wish I knew how they did that -- it's spooky magic, but I've watched it happen.

I know that's not really what you meant. I'm just highlighting the challenge of defining what "it" even is.

I can say that a lot of it isn't really about "better" acting. A lot of people who are only mediocre actors, or worse, are stars. George Clooney is both a genuinely talented actor and also a star -- but the two are almost entirely orthogonal.
I'm not sure how you get to a less superficial understanding than

> Brigadier general Robert Carr, a senior counter-intelligence officer who headed the Information Review Task Force that investigated the impact of WikiLeaks disclosures on behalf of the Defense Department, told a court at Fort Meade, Maryland, that they had uncovered no specific examples of anyone who had lost his or her life in reprisals that followed the publication of the disclosures on the internet.
Some heroin users are also incredibly dedicated to finding their next score. They show intense focus when it comes to seeking out their next hit.

Why do you think demonstrating focus on an addictive video game is the same as solving open-ended computer science problems?
I opened this expecting a completely different xsnow I remember, which simulated video static as a white noise pattern, as if tuned to an empty analog TV channel. Pretty sure it used indexed color palette animation to give it a realistic feel without depending on high pixel update bandwidth.
I believe OP was being hyperbolic.
Does this affect SL4J library as well ?
“ But as a gig worker for a media empire, even a successful streamer like Tyler has a livelihood that’s inherently unstable — without insurance, unions, sick days, retirement funds or hope for a sustainable career.”

That’s funny. He has earned more in a year than many in a decade. Million a year and it’s unstable. What makes you think the job of a software engineer is stable! He is skilled in entertainment. He will find a way.
I was also amazed when I could solve logic puzzles (it was a logic game) after having looked at it[1] for a couple of seconds. I cannot/could not explain how I solved it, I could not tell you in advance that I have to move left, then right to connect this and that and so forth, but after having looked at it for a couple of seconds, I pressed the keys "intuitively" and solved it! I did not believe that it really worked at first, but after I solved many difficult levels this way, I was pleasantly shocked. I remember being somewhat sleep deprived at that time as well.

[1] As in... simply looked. I did not try to solve it consciously.
This guy is fascinating (in a bad way). In what universe can you call your employees: DUMB DOLPHINS (with all caps)?
Who cares just a bit of rust
The website for GNUnet seems to be down/404, but it looks like ownership of names is controlled by a central authority (https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/gnunet/gnunet-namestore...).
My dad worked for startups on-and-off and he definitely was productive for a lot more than 8 hours per day. He does agree that for truly novel work there's a limit, but for every novel problem to solve, there's dozens[1] of reported bugs to investigate, so there's plenty of work to fit between work on new things.

1: That number seems small today, but I got the sense that bug-discovery by customers at least was limited by the low number of customers that a b2b startup had in the 80s.