skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The tenants he ushered outside each day into their first moments of homelessness were often inconsolable, or defiant, or suicidal, or mentally ill, or violent and aggressive, but Lennie was calm. “You have to take your own emotions out of it,” he’d told colleagues during one national training. “It’s our job to carry out the court order.”

> Lennie had done more than 300 evictions since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s federal moratorium expired in early August

It's super convenient for our corporate overlords that they can count on such psychopaths to execute orders nazi-style without even a glipse of empathy. The question is how can we as a society find any such situation acceptable? The empty dwellings outnumber homeless people at least two to one (probably more) and yet a State religion/delirium called private property forces people to be homeless.

Think you're squashing bugs hard to make a living when you review your git log? This person squashes about 15 "bugs" (that's us) a day for the profit of housing speculators/mafia. Such efficiency taken in the wrong direction: only police abolition can lead to better justice on this planet.
It's like listening to my kid explain how Transformers work!
Not in Norway, not enough homeless people and far too few discarded bottles and cans.

I pick up the occasional beer can on the beach near where I live but they are almost always Polish and of course have no deposit.
Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit

The worldwide Haskell community met up over beers today to celebrate their unprecedented discovery of an industry programmer who gives a shit about Haskell.

On Wednesday, researchers issued a press release revealing that 27-year-old Seth Briars of North Carolina, a Java programmer at Blackwater accounting firm Ross and Fordham, actually gives a shit about Haskell.

"Mr. Briars has followed every single one of our press releases for years," the press release stated. "Probably even this one."

( continued at http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers-... )
Possession is separate from ownership, those are well-defined concepts with very distinct meaning, and repossession (as the name hints) is explicitly about possession, not ownership. The moment of successful repossession does not change ownership. It may be that the ownership has already changed (and was a reason for repossession), it may be that it's "just" a collateral and the ownership will either never change and the car will be returned when the payments are made, or that the ownership will change some time after repossession after it's settled that the car will not be returned and the repossessed car is sold as collateral when liquidating the debt.
LOL. This will become in less than 1 month a "LGTM" feast. 3rd world countries developers (organizing themselves in groups to pass the intro test from the website) giving green lights to random people around the world for peanuts. This is a clever business model if you ask me.

Let's be clear for a second. Nobody, not event the legendary 10x developers can review properly code without context or everything mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29624787

If we want our code to be approved by random people doing it only for money, this will work for sure, but it's not how it works in the real world.
Zero, despite trying to change it. Reams and reams of code to the point I feel like my eyes have burn in but no books. I'm not sure if this needs to change.
What about coverage?

If you happen to live in a place where cell carriers choose not to cover (E.g. go 200 miles west from the east coast) and you are stuck with a landline you’ll find a scarlet letter that says ‘PROBABLE SPAM CALL’ on the CallerID of anybody you call.

This is unacceptable. The last G is fiber optics and it is about time.
This is a good perspective as the world is slowly transitioning into the metaverse.
If they worked through the material prior to the lecture, perhaps the lectures were spurious for them, and the credit for the high grades goes to the individual work.
Hmm...interesting that you view this is a "rebuttal", as I generally regard it as further bolstering my point. I am certainly aware of it :-)

First, I don't view Architecture Oriented Programming as being primarily about distributed programming, and so far my work at least has not been focused on it at all, though that is starting to change.

Second, "everything would need to be rewritten in a single language" is not where I am going. At all. In fact, not requiring a single language is one of my central tenets, and particularly one of the reasons I reject Smalltalk-80, which very much wants everything to be in a single language in a single image.

Third, "to support remote distribution, every procedure/interface/method would need to have full remote semantics". Nope, not at all. Only if you have a monomorphic view of language. The "Everything-is-a-"-ism. Also, almost all of these techniques went local-first, and then tried to add distribution. Which gives you the problem that remote semantics are not a trivial extension of local semantics. If you read the Note carefully, you will, er, note that it never talks about the reverse case, going from remote to local. For good reason, because the reverse case is fine.

Which is one of the reasons In-Process REST works so well: it takes a distributed architecture and applies it (not 1:1, gotta adapt!) to the local case.

Anyway, once you figure out that you can have polymorphism not just at the data-modelling layer, but also at the language meta-layer, you also start to understand that local/remote all-encompassing/not are false dichotomies. We have commonality and variability analysis, let's use it! These different mechanisms have some things in common, and others where they are different. If we open the language up sufficiently, we can capture both the commonalities and the differences in a way that is convenient and flexible.

So when we get a new interaction mechanism, we write a new connector. Done.

Going back to TFA and the John Hughes paper it quotes, the situation rightly critiqued in the Note is that of having one or maybe two "connectors" canonised into the language, one kind of glue. But as I write, we need lots, not one or two. So adding different kinds of connectors is the defining feature of Architecture Oriented Programming, and the exact opposite of the situation of baking one or maybe two into the language.
> These GPT models aren't sophisticated enough to fully emmulate us, but as a logical mirror and test harness that can reflect pretty much every metaphysical concept we can think up, they may be sufficient.

A mirror is a good metaphor. We don't think that the reality we see in a mirror is animated. So too, for the artificial intelligence.

There may be no difference in appearance, but in reality the difference is vast - so vast as to be beyond compare. There is no meaning in the mirrored-self, the reflection does not thinking or have ideas etc. If you struggle to find which of the 2 (you or the reflection) is the real one, using appearance only you will struggle. But then you can laugh and move on - this is not an issue to concern you, you can dismiss it - you know where the awareness is.
I'm reasonably familiar with this case, and there's a book about it called De Broncode by Eric Smit. I haven't read it as my Dutch is extremely limited.
It's been my understanding that his invention involved analogue processing (think along the lines of an electromagnetic frequency being used to transmit a data point, rather than a single bit). The article suggests it was supposed to be able to generate all possible movies but that looks like a straw man to me. There are a finite number of movies and you could restrict this further to the top (for example) 1000 movies.

There's a patent here: https://patents.google.com/patent/NL1009908C2/en
It's in English but as it's new to me I haven't read it yet either.

Jan Sloot died the day before he was due to release details of his invention to investors. The timing seems suspicious. The obvious conclusions might be either suicide in anticipation of being exposed as a charlatan, or (if you're prone to conspiracy theories) murder by someone acting on behalf of companies who had invested in digital compression, but he died of a heart attack, i.e. natural causes, though no autopsy was performed, despite relatives requesting one. I don't know the known state of his health was at the time he died.
The uncaught error upon loading the side is kind of ironic.
Is it really a horror? I personally don’t care.
It's just a normal bank wire to his most loyal business partner: The US Federal Government.

Uncle Sam would wire him back in FY2022 in the form of subsidies, tax breaks and all sort of artificial economics so that he'd be able to design yet more ugly cars which suddenly accelerate or drive into lorries.
He's referring to the under 40 group which is indeed supported by the paper to say there's double the number of myocarditus events per pop group among those who were double moderna vacc vs sars-cov2 infected.
I see the function of SRE as a place to pass off an app when an app team (DevOps included) need to develop another app.

SRE sets standards so a centralized team can manage the ongoing maintenance and on call break/fix of many apps in an organization while development teams move on to something else.
This SIM swap crap is so stupid. How is SIM second factor authentication if you can reset your password with just your phone number? Why can't phones be yubikeys, or just allow only software OTP?
According to my kindle, ~6 hours/week. http://3e.org/books
> I’m convinced we need to essentially create a simulation where something with agency can develop on its own in order to reach truly interesting AGI.

That is fair, and some people do work in that direction. However, the step from "can develop on its own" to "will develop on its own" is highly non-trivial. And seeing the results from the really smart people that work in this direction, I am very much not inclined to work in that direction. There simply does not seem to be a good way to make progress.

> Intelligence is, in comparison, an incredibly complex phenomenon that seems a lot harder to separate from the inner workings of the biology and evolutionary history.

You might claim that now, as we don't understand intelligence yet. However, in the same way it was claimed in the 19th century that people would never be able to fly. What I meant to say is that things that seem hard in nature, might actually be a lot simpler in technology.

I actually don't believe that intelligence is an incredibly complex phenomenon. On the contrary, I reckon we are really close to cracking it. I put it on the same level as moon-bases and nuclear fusion, all reasonably likely to happen in the next 20 years.
Having a bus factor>1 is still a major prerequisite for doing that. Because if you have a junior developer review the changes of a senior developer, there are so many social engineering tricks to make the backdoor pass the review that it isn't even funny.
Yes, this is so true. B2B and targeted niche product is what I did after successive failures. Yesterday a business bought a premium $50pm plan after a quick discussion with the founder. There is so much money lying around with businesses that they don't mind spending on a tool that solves their problems.
The article isn’t just about playback speed. It’s a well-written piece about the importance of direct experience and not rushing through spoken lectures alone.

It’s extra ironic, then, that much of the comment section here only seems to have absorbed the headline but not the content of the article.

I have noticed that my most voracious podcast and book consuming friends seem to have developed a lot of surface-level knowledge about a lot of subjects, but it’s difficult to discuss even the content of the books they’ve read. Listening on 1.5X or 2X speed is a common boast for them, as is the number of books or podcasts they’ve consume in a year (which is tracked for some reason). It seems the goal has become quantity, or simply filling time and providing background noise instead of studying a subject.
RIPEMD
It wasn't democratically decided. Cookie laws and GDPR originate with the EU, where all laws are created by the civil service.
I've greatly improved as a developer by reviewing code, this improved my project and improved team alignment, that's much more valuable than getting inputs from human linter.
Your notion is so utterly ridiculous I don't know where to begin. How can anyone be so naive? What is quite obvious beyond all doubt is that it is the very same branch and sections operating these swarms right from the very ships that are allegedly being harassed. They've gotten so good at defeating drone swarms that they want the enemy to believe that they are confounded, and in the language of counter-intelligence, they are daring anyone to bring it on. You are sleeping. You do not want to believe. But do not doubt that the US Navy has some serious game, far beyond The Art of War and facile feints within feints.
5G seems to me like planned obsolesence of 4G with only an incremental improvement. 4G was supposed to be "Long-Term Evolution". I had thought that meant forward- and backward-compatibility for decades. Granted, latency is much lower. Did I get taken by marketing?

With 6G deployment already being projected, when I don't even know anybody with a 5G handset, it also seems like a make-work technology.

Deployment of a new wireless technology throughout a national wireless carrier, let alone all carriers in a country the size of the US, or in the world, is such a huge undertaking in terms of environmental resources, that it seems almost irresponsible unless there is a significant improvement.

2G was a quantum leap over 1G analog networks. In 2G networks like GSM, the digital communications stack was so tightly integrated, and as optimized as a 1990s video game, that even everyday layman users knew stories like "I could send an emergency SMS from the middle of nowhere even when there was no signal". It seems like that kind of robustness is missing the more abstract and higher-level these wireless generations go.
Why doesn't the radiomesh.org website have any real details?
There is also a video discussing this [1] I am curious to see if biologists and virologists can work out a plausible theory.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hjFT8XCsH0 [video]
Pleasure is subjective.

I might enjoy what you find distasteful and vice versa.

Personally, I enjoy using Python and C. I am curious about Rust but haven't had an opportunity to use it much.

Your mileage may vary. I recommend trying a few different languages and see what you enjoy.

Edit: I like C because it feels simple and has a "what you see is what you get" property. The amount of "hidden" code feels like zero.

I like Python because the syntax is elegant and it is easy to get a lot done with a few lines of code.
Be careful because R0 and Rt refer to different things: R0 is a property of the pathogen under the assumption of “normal life” and measures how inherently infectious it is.

Rt is a measure of the real-life infectivity of a pathogen at a specific point in time, under no assumption of “normal life”, and possibly within some arbitrary geographical bounds. The purpose of Rt is not to measure the inherent infectivity of a pathogen, but rather its infectivity in a specific environment and set of circumstances: it’s the high-level metric that informs you of the combined impact of public health measures, social behaviour changes, immunity, etc, on the pathogen’s infectivity.

You can see Rt as being equal to R0 times some correction factor that accounts for everything else.
No. That's implying your hardware has knowledge of cultural or human constructs. Your ascribing a set of qualities to a hunk of silicon you darn well have no business doing. Besides which, say googlevideo.cim flubs the Domain renewal and I snap it up and start serving a Slackware mirror for instance. The Stack below the application layer should neither care nor assume anything other than "take this, send here" with maybe some wiggle room where I have the option to tell it "best effort is okay" or "make it reliable".

Anything else is biasing certain uses for certain endpoints, which strikes me as digital fiefdom carving. No thanks. Dumb pipes, generously provisioned, thank you very much.
> How to choose the components

For CPUs, I normally use cpubenchmark.net ratings. For GPUs, I simply look at “single precision TFLops” column on Wikipedia.

> make sure they are compatible

That’s a bit tricky indeed. TL/DR version – pick a CPU first, a compatible motherboard next, the motherboard’s manual will tell you about compatibility with RAM and disks. For RAM, go with maximum supported frequency, and minimum latency you can find (the latency is CL number, lower the better, if you’ll pick an AMD CPU the latency better be an even number). For disks, manufacturers typically specify both sequential (MB/second) and random (IOPS) performance, for both of them higher the better.

Once you picked the rest of the components, use an online calculator to find PSU wattage, leave some reasonable headroom like 20%.

> coding, compiling, somewhat heavy-ish on the browser

You’re lucky you didn’t list gaming, the global GPU shortage is still ongoing. A CPU with integrated graphics should work fine for you. BTW, I’m currently using a PC with Ryzen 7 5700G CPU, can recommend.
"Eating your own dogfood" in this context is clearly referring to employees and friends of employees going through exactly the same processes to get their accounts fixed and restored as unconnected users would.
Wow you've pushed really hard on your own.

Have you tried to collaborate with people with tangential skills, e.g. someone with excellent sales/marketing background or in a niche like real estate or law or whatever that has a ton of insights?

Even for Blanq, maybe you could find someone that has a strong need for link shortening for their business, whatever it is?
> Think about what this place would be if more people would use it like OP does.

I don't really think much would change. Most submissions don't get much attention and I doubt that's going to change. Feel free to not vote for Ask HN submissions like this. I voted for this one because I was curious what the community would come up with and I'm not disappointed.

> Why not help everyone who asks for help?

If that's what you want to do, then do it. Patrol /newest and act quickly because most of the requests for help are going to pop up and scroll away within an hour or so.
30 minutes a day on average for the last few months. It changes depending on what I have to read. Sometimes I won't read any books for half a year, sometimes I'll read a whole book in one weekend. Right now I'm finishing a very long web novel, nothing amazing, but it's pretty good for reading for half an hour before going to bed.

I also listen to podcasts/audiobooks when I'm walking and that's probably more "reading" on average than the real "reading".

When I was +- 13 I'd been reading about a book a day, tried to read literally every book in our village library (and finished more than half of them). I've even tried reading "Selected arts" by Lenin (sorry no idea how to translate that - it was a book that communists bought for every library in Poland and nobody read it ever).

But that was before we had internet so it's not like I had anything better to do. Nowadays I don't have the attention span and there's too many distractions.
wow, what a badly designed site. I can't even look at it because it keeps pestering me with some popup that asks for my ZIP code (which I don't want to provide, as I just want to know what that page is all about)
AIs wouldn't be working on human timescales. The distance between abiogenesis and singularity may be measured in weeks or days, if not hours. So, far in the future isn't really that far, and after singularity they'll have access to all the information their AI ancestors had ever had access to.
If the car was titled to the bank, they would have to be involved and would be listed in the registration process with the state getting plates, etc.

You are the owner, they simply have a lien on the vehicle which is noted on the title. Once you pay off the loan, they send you information to get the lien removed and a clean title.
> biggest vector for malware is not an insecure operating system but user negligency

This is victim blaming. Windows have been teaching users to install from third parties since 90's, added auto-run features to removable media, hid files extensions making it difficult to detect files that could do harm, took a decade to implement processes isolation, never added a good package manager and spent years making fun of FLOSS.

Windows users may have a twisted view about security. I personally heard a few of them saying things like "linux is safe because nobody uses it" or "you MUST use an anti-virus". They may sound naive of negligent but in fact, they were carefully trained for decades to behave that way.
I speed up not to become disengaged out of boredom.

A also listen twice and often slower for important sections, pause to process if something was dense.

Sounds and video are just super restrictive in timing, of course it's too slow for some and too fast for others.

In a similar fashion a good movie has enough depth to keep you attached, even if the story progresses slow. A sitcom is boring at times and lacks it. But a good movie has a depth and realism that let's you get lost in the unsaid backstories, the ambience etc. You don't have that in a lecture.
Not a bad idea, there is a severe shortage of delivery drivers.
The end of commuting and work travel (at my current job) took away one of my largest and favorite times to read. I'm probably at 2-3 hrs/week on books now but trying to step it up.
I read on average about 30min a day after my kid goes to sleep. Sometimes a bit more if I'm engaged in a book. I find that if I force myself to read at least 1 page per day, that is the best way to make progress.

I started a newsletter (https://hundred.substack.com/) with book summaries for my friends to read what I'm reading.
> the factors that lead to different immune system responses are very difficult to figure out despite many decades of research into the mechanisms.

I totally disagree with this. It is not difficult, they are ignoring it.

Zinc deficiency is a well known risk for immunological dysfunction, yet where is all the zinc testing and research during this pandemic?

https://www.nature.com/articles/1601479

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.nutr.2...

And Why is all this not front page news?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221454002...

https://sljch.sljol.info/articles/abstract/10.4038/sljch.v50...

https://wjpr.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/article_issue/800cc...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-n...
Would anyone here be interested in working on a startup that is making alternative front-ends but adding additional features (ability to edit feed algorithm, better DM support, etc.)? Feel free to reach out!
Lately, I have been reading the Wheel of Time series, so it’s probably upwards of 20. I do it as a way to avoid doomscrolling. For a long time, when I thought about reading midddlebrow stuff, I figured it was a waste of time and I should be reading e.g. Middlemarch instead. But today, anything that keeps me off my phone is a treasure.
There's a non-GNU-hosted channel at https://hostux.social/@fsf but I don't know if it gets status notices; none currently, anyhow.
Agree. It's like life's experiences are trying to send a message: if the service can't be relied upon, you should not make it such a critical piece of your lifestyle.

(Sorry to be that cynic.)
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