skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people who are mentally challenged (easily conned)...

I think the biggest predictor for being conned is not low IQ but high greed.
"Nature does not use wheels. So why do people?"

Regardless of how interesting a concept or development may be, check the logic of what you're writing before you hit publish.
Which phone if you don't mind? I've spent the effort to replace screens & batteries when they go bad or are broken, but frankly when the replacement screen is 50% of the original phone price it just doesn't seem worth it... Although I still want to from an e-waste perspective
I'd say "understanding" is less one thing and more of a collection of capabilities which work together to allow understanding to "emerge".

One of those capabilities would be the ability to contextual an object/statement within multiple frames of reference while also being able to compare and contrast the different instances of those contextualized objects/statements.

This is what allows a child to identify a bird as any number of physical specimens of different species (chicken, goose, eagle, sparrow), while also identifying cartoon depictions that talk and simple drawings (Twitter icon) as birds as well... while also "understanding" that while the Twitter icon can be called a bird, it is not actually a real bird ("Ceci n'est pas une pipe") and it would not be expected to sing or fly like a backyard sparrow (unless it was animated, which would make still make sense to a child).

I think this also what rise to our ability to "understand" jokes, puns, and other turns of phrase - "I just flew in from Boston, and boy are my arms tired!" - this dumb joke requires a number of concepts that need to be contextualized before you can "get" the absurdity of stating that a human might tire out their arms while flying... like you might think a bird would.
Anyone who has kids and teaches them things will know AI learns and ‘understands’ very differently.

I can say something like ‘a tiger is just a lion with stripes’ to a 3 year old and they now ‘understand’ what a tiger is almost as well as if they saw a picture of one. They could definitely identify one from a picture now.

This kind of understanding won’t work with an AI because we don’t understand what characteristics it has latched into when identifying a lion. For all we know it’s that the background of each lion image its been trained on has a blue sky. Or the tigers are all looking at the camera.

I think the ability to pick apart what you know and learn new things by reasoning about that knowledge is the key to if understanding is taking place.
Or: How building and maintaining large production apps in <X> isn’t fun, but building small prototypes in 2 days in <Y> is amazing
I guess that's from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble ?

That's reported as a drop from the peak. But it doesn't necessarily reflect the real losses, in terms of initial investment. It's a number larger than the total amount of "real" M0 money in 2000, for example! Feels more like "an unrealized gain that never materialized" than "loss".

I remember that time, it was just after I graduated. There was a lot of business craziness on a scale that defi is yet to reach, although it's already hit some of my peak markers like "rename a stadium".
2-3 days labour to buy an outdated device that will stop receiving updates most likely in 2022.

Sounds alot like Captain Vimes' boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness. Some people are just too poor to be able to buy a pair of good boots.
Lissajous Curves
The fact that the media has to try so hard could be a good indicator that they don't, in fairness. Noone I know cares about Russia outside of the Ukrainian invasions, at least.
Yes good point! I guess I am thinking of non-data science type work, are people using LP outside of notebooks?
Which is what the article concludes with
To answer your questions: 1. The allocator. 2. The caller. 3. The caller, typically via list operations. 4. Synchronization 5. Have only one owner or reference counting. 6. Never had to do it outside studying for an interview. 7. mark and sweep.

You could make the same exact argument about arrays or any kind of structure with reference semantics.

I guess you could say that computers in general are hard. Doing real systems programming, where you can't do garbage collection, is hard.

But then again Rust isn't especially good for systems programming with the lack of a stable ABI, lack of a memory model, and so on. So it's really the worst of both worlds: a horribly constrained language that attempts to solve a subset of trivial memory errors in a way that is painful for the programmer, and it's effectively worthless for systems programming (even for the three targets it supports).
Newfoundland Patients SIN stolen in October cyberattack
Sure, but that cost pales in comparison to healthcare and housing costs.
Cognitive tax sure, but in the end it's up to you whether you are going to browse all day.

The big one is that your boss can easily throw around your zero-hours "contract" when everyone has a leash. Before mobile phones that wasn't quite so easy. If you were out with your family you couldn't get called and threatened into taking another shift.
On the topic of render there was a really nice podcast on Software Engineering Daily from the founder talking about their product.

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2021/12/07/render-with-...
It's called counterpoint. It was actually found interesting by several people, but you can have your opinion that you don't find it intersting. It actually did add to the conversation as there were multiply replies to it. Your comment about it is the thing that doesnt really add to anything.
Someone will correct me if I am wrong, but Wolfram products are proprietary (read - you need to buy the license or subscribe to it), just like MATLAB.
Counterpoint: flagella are powered by rotary motors in some organisms, and they're astonishingly effective.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellum
I still don't think you understand.

If your passion is painting, and its something you would do for free, then fulfilling your artistic potential is still work. It still requires hours upon hours of deliberate practice. The great masters would spend years working on a single painting. You don't think there would be times when they just didn't feel like making progress? Where they wanted to just take the day off and hang out at a bar with their friends?

Part of the human condition is struggle, imo. That's what I think the OP is getting at when he says that human beings need work. Maybe not a 9-5, but we all need something worth staving off instant gratification for.
The fact that putting these strings in the name of an iPhone or a Tesla was vulnerable suggests to me that there are plenty of vulnerable systems out there.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/13/22832552/iphone-tesla-sm...
> my homework never ran to 81 pages, but I suspect it's just scale

Schools assign homework problems that (a) have known answers, and (b) are scoped so students can be expected to finish within a week.

There are undergraduate math theses where the novel technical part runs into the tens of pages even though the key insight is one simple idea.
Also fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issus_(planthopper)#Gear_mecha...
Yeah, but that’s still the case with modern computers.

Marketing: “With this app, you can now buy pizza on your phone!”

Snark: *slaps a yellow pages on the desk along with a rotary dial landline*
I'd have no issue with it at all if they simply followed basic industry standard regulation. Employees of investment companies usually need to adhere to something like this:

- Need pre-clearance to trade in a share or ETF, sometimes mutual funds

- Once pre-clearance granted, need to trade within a short window of time (say 24hrs)

- Minimum holding time of 30 days

- Ban on trading any assets/industries that you have close connection to

- Regular disclosures of investment portfolio

Sure you may find a market for internal tip-offs, but (1) that's already a bit harder, (2) there's a clear record of not only trading, but also intentions, and (3) the minimum holding period makes insider trading less attractive. So a fellow senator gives you a tip that a company might go up 5%. OK, but that's a short-term thing, usually, what's going to happen over 30 days is less clear.

Plus covering everyone in the same household.
NeoPixel Christmas Tree Lights Controlled by a Raspberry Pi
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Agreed, but in some ways it made sense. I remember watching the "making of" special feature on his first film (Bad Taste), which talks about his $20 homemade Steadicam, among other really creative approaches. With a director like that, you have to figure he'll actually use the massive budget in interesting ways, instead of squandering it!
It does though: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellum
in Mumbai there’s also Altamount Road

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamount_Road
I've been using Visual Studio 2022 recently which has AI driven code prediction built into it. Sometimes it predicts what the next thing I will type will be and I merely have to hit tab once or twice to accept it. At no point am I tempted to think Visual Studio understands my code, because it's just code itself.

The first time I played a chess game was back in the early 1980's. While it beat me I felt an eerie "presence" in the machine that was sentient. I didn't know then about chess code so it was easier for me to anthropomorphize the machine (but it was the main reason I became interested in computers.)

A computer "understanding" the difference between "how do I melt a block of ice" and "how do I melt my lover's icy heart" would be looking at the context and the relation of the words to each other. The computer might also predict I was sad if I asked the latter question. If I were a non-technical user I might think the computer felt empathy and be amazed by it.

If I came upon a computer that "understands" I would want to determine if it understands like Richard Feynman or if it understands like my dog. My dog operates on a limited set of patterns, so that seems doable, but on the other hand, I've seen videos and heard stories of dogs exhibiting inventive and creative behavior that is unexpected. One such case is dogs that get lost and manage to find their way home thousands of miles away.

tldr; I'm jaded. I know it's buggy code all the way down with computers.
Their 2022 revenue growth is flat based on tikr.com, due to that change in govt situation, hence "hope for growth".
And thanks! Will check out the link.
But only if it is readable without payment, of course.
An under-appreciated aspect of molecular biological systems and structures is that they are dominated by local interactions that have no knowledge of the global state but direct self-assembly. They are unplanned both in terms of structure and function. They persist because they provide a selective advantage to the system and their instructions are encoded in the reproductive information store of their parent system.
I'm a little surprised that Amazon hasn't created ClickHouse as a Service. They've done it for Elasticsearch, Presto (Athena), Hadoop, Kafka, MySQL, PostgreSQL. ClickHouse seems like it would fit with their strategy of offing a datastore as a service. While AWS does have things like Redshift and Timestream, it seems like ClickHouse offers a lot of potential untapped value that Amazon could capture.
What does it mean for humans to understand? There are many times in the past where i thought i understood something and then i grow older and i see the holes.
Your plane will likely crash if you don't toe the line.

edit: Tow => toe
Rural India wasn't affected at all by covid, and main period was April-May 2021.
About five years ago, I was assigned the task of writing a script that would automagically pull data out of Salesforce once a week and create mailing labels for catalogs. Seems simple enough.

Except that the catalogs were in a warehouse a few miles away from the company office. Inside the warehouse were ten label printers, each hooked up to a different computer.

My script had to organize the mailing label data into ten groups, based on USPS bulk mailing criteria, then dial each computer in the warehouse and send the right labels to the right computer, as each computer was assigned a different bulk mailing region, again based on USPS rules.

The people in the warehouse would pull each label off of the printer, slap it on a catalog, and drop the catalog into one of the bins below the corresponding printer so they could be taken to the regional bulk mailing facility all pre-sorted.

The warehouse computers couldn't be hooked up to the internet because the cable company wouldn't wire that side of the street. It did the other side because it was on a block with homes, but didn't see the cost benefit of doing the side with a single warehouse. A one-off line from the cableco was cost-prohibitive. I was told that before I joined the company, they tried DSL, but it was unreliable.

It's surprising how a technology we considered so fragile back in the 70's and 80's is sometimes the only thing that works today.
For sure. The longer somebody has been coding, the more examples they can list where the worse technology won out.

Exhibit A here is the JS language itself. It became popular not because it was the best language, just the most ubiquitous one. You could read the 25 years since as trying to turn it into a solid language.

Or look at the rise of PHP. It started out as a tool for making a Personal Home Page, which is a fine use case and was certainly a popular one in the mid/late 1990s. It eventually turned into the foundation for one of the world's largest companies. But nobody can argue it was a particularly good language. E.g. https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

Same thing with Java, really. Bunch of interesting ideas, some of which worked out and some didn't. Even at launch a lot of the things that have turned out to be problems were criticized. They say that Java is the new COBOL, and that seems pretty fair to me.

I could go on all day. The most popular technologies are not always the best. That applies to movies and music and pretty much everything. And personally, I've accepted it. It's part of how the world works. The trick for those of us who like "better" things is to figure out how to get them to become mainstream.
I've used DeFi and haven't been scammed. Fees being what they are now aside, I liked the experience.

As not being scammed goes, I just avoided everything that was super new (like a project 3 days old that already has $3b in TVL), avoided things that sounded super scammy (Most recent one coming to mind being SQUID token. I mean, come on), avoided things that had no real reason to be, avoided things that I didn't really understand despite research.

My most successful investments are those made in crypto winters, during "see? crypto's over".
I was going to say this. We have this weird habit in the West of trivializing raising one's own children, as if that's not "real work". A lot folks would rather raise their children instead of outsourcing it to strangers just to work a job they hate.
I thought AMD is bigger than 5%.
> They are a problem of escaping in the application constructing the query

This is a form of sanitization.
Hey, so is stealing from the elderly alzheimer's patients right? They're not going to remember anyway! Dick.
>`And what if rumors are true and Ukraine secretly hid enough nukes to wipe out over 20 Russian cities by truck bombs`

I don't think it is possible to keep such secret from Russia for 30 years. Ukrainian president deflected to Russia in 2014, and that means that any secret that he might've known is available to Russia.
A modern SoC can make your threat hunting smarter
yes, Lemmings was from DMA Design, which later became Rockstar North.
I stumbled across this while looking for cute pictures of Kanna. Turns out google images can lead to some pretty great stuff sometimes!
Explaining Spyware, and How Governments Can Use It for Intimidation
We've seen oppressive regimes shut down cryptocurrencies when threatened by them. The remaining argument in favor of crypto boils down to "the problem with traditional currencies is that people who aren't me have too much of them"
I bounced from Rails to Phoenix and couldn't be happier. I've done lots of functional programming before my Ruby days but never saw it coordinated in such a way that made sense to me. And since I only do web dev it was a perfect fit.

That said, I'm _really_ excited to get into all the goodness that Rails 7 has to offer. I really thought they lost their way with the whole webpacker debacle. I recently installed a fresh Rails 7 app and the word webpack doesn't even exist anymore! It's like a breath of fresh air to be done with that. Those were some dark days. (I'm exaggerating only a little)
For Heroku - Expedited WAF does filter (inbound) for log4j - but I'm not sure there's a good way to outbound, even with Private Spaces. You can start a dyno that only has access to the other apps in the space, but if log4j was on one of the connected web app servers you'd still be in trouble.

https://expeditedsecurity.com/heroku/how-to-block-log4j-vuln...
Verizon customer here: I’ve been able to tether using my iPhone for no extra cost for years.
I could, but I wouldn't. It used to be you could feed real currency into a machine to pay for parking. Requiring a specific device for payment is putting undue burden on the consumer.

I can pay cash for a car quite easily. That may be harder for a plane ticket, but not out of the question. My point is there isn't even an option in the parking lot.
Well, in Germany perhaps soon some banks will hold cryptos for their clients [0]. I would imagine these banks would offer some kind of fraud protection for the crypto assets they will hold, likely at some cost.

I believe in the USA there was already some legislation passed some time ago that would allow banks to be custodians of crypto-currencies?

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[0]: https://bitcoinethereumnews.com/crypto/two-german-banks-comm...
At my first job we were migrating from Coldfusion to Java. This Middle Aged Sri Lankan guy refused and only worked on ASP.NET. Much respect to him! He knew what he was comfortable with - and most likely looked at Java in disgust the same way Java folk would look at ASP.NET :P
> as well as the purpose of life in general.

That's unnecessarily condescending.

> Work is good for the worker.

That's some hardcore boomer logic right there..

> Because humans need a purpose in life.

Work is work and jobs are jobs. You can work without a job and you can have a purpose in life without a 9 to 5. Homemakers don't work or have no purpose in life? You're talking about a different thing here.. I was referring to what people are required to do in order to survive, eat and have shelter in modern society, not have purpose and fulfillment. Does caring for sick relatives with no pay constitute work in your view? Or is that person a slacker and a burden on society? If your purpose in life is your shitty 9 to 5 job then you kinda failed at life. I'm pretty sure the person blowing the leaves of the sidewalk doesn't stay awake at night with an existential life crisis thinking that he missed a spot.

It's the exact same narrative I always have to defend against when talking about financial independence. This is not to say people will be idle and just sit around doing nothing. People still do 'things' whether or not the things they do make money or not.

> left with a bunch of morally bankrupt people

There's that disgusting protestant work ethic again. It's really baked into the fabric of our society.. It's not your fault. Read a book or two, open your mind, I guarantee you'll recover.
On the sell side, you and your spouse are heavily regulated so that neither can hold individual stocks, can’t touch anything where you may possibly have material non public info, have mandatory holding periods, and any mutual funds or ETFs must be sufficiently diversified. And that’s only part of the trading regulations and requirements. I can’t even buy a Dow Jones tracking ETF. The fact that Pelosi and the rest of congress can trade ahead of their own decisions is laughably corrupt. Make them have the same kinds of trading requirements a 1st year banker has.
I don't quite understand your comment.

You seem upset at the sight of the unwashed masses hollering against the haughty elites, but at the same time you sound gleeful over the prospect of Reddit being punished for insufficiently protecting the feelings of said elite.

Is that a correct reading?
Is there a list I can sign up to stay on the old code search forever? I'm really sad about the loss of old repos - I found that invaluable for finding interesting projects to learn from.
Members of Congress tend to wind up having to run two households, though, and I'm sure there's a variety of other sorts of expenses that are fairly unusual. Salaries haven't gone up in over a decade, either.

Limiting Congress to people who can independently afford the income/expense hit might not be optimal.
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Overclocking – Boost Up to 1.2GHz, or Even 1.4GHz
Correct. Gopass has very early age support. It fully works but the UX is not great (yet).
Analyzing the public hostnames of Tailscale users
"Americans relocated less during the coronavirus outbreak, moving from one residence to another in 2020 at the lowest rate since the government began reporting data more than 70 years ago."

Very different from WFM mobility narratives that have been prevalent online since COVID. Goes to show ability to move and WFM only really applies to sliver of general public.
Most of our politicians should be shot.
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Thats interesting, thanks for pointing it out
Not having health care, savings and social blanket, education, being able to buy stuff, choice, gets pretty lame pretty quickly.
Not sure why Viber is on your list of fallen messaging apps. In the past few years I've seen more and more "X has joined Viber. Say hi!" notifications about my contacts (based in the US, which if anything makes me think it's growing).
> This is not a defense, it's a dismissal.

You really hit the nail on the head here. Members of Congress (and their staff) should either simply be held to the already existing rules on insider trading. They should not be able to act upon material non public information. They should be subject to trading windows and restrictions. They should not be able to vote on any legislation affecting held securities. Don't want to be subject to the rules? Set up a blind trust like the rest of us would have to.

If Congress is going to be held to a different standard than the rest of us, it should be a higher standard, not a more lax one.
A very serious Log4j vulnerability was disclosed: https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/security.html
I currently have a CAT S52.

Some downsides is that it's pretty heavy and comes with bundle-ware from John Deere (easy enough to uninstall). It's not a fast or pretty phone by any standard, but my phone use is very basic so for me it matters more that it lasts than bells and whistles.
Its loved because it means your technical costs are always guaranteed to be a % of your total computing needs, and your computing needs should (theoretically) always be proportional to your total company revenue.

From a business standpoint, that's a pretty great pitch.

Is it actually the most cost effective solution? No more so than any other tool. It depends on exactly what you're building, how, and how you measure the cost. AWS can be extremely costly, or cheap, depending on your engineering needs, constraints, and practices.
You don't need a modest proposal for human population reduction. As soon as having a lot of children stop being a necessity for survival in old age, population naturally seems to stop at an average of two children simply because for most it's not enjoyable to have more.