skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canadian here. This publication is one of the radical and sensational ones from my experience. Not somewhere I would get my news from.
While that’s true, and crazy…

Everybody know you show never even read YouTube comments. Posting them is just insane…
I think the real fix here is to investigate why you're creating possibly-already-existing directories anyway. Most files or directories should either be owned by a specific component (which then creates them and fails if they already exist) or should be assumed to already exist (as a requirement that the environment is set up properly.
Hundo-P false. You can build the best space-age cat-shit box, have an intern set a price of $29.99 and tank a company.
For folks with an Amex Platinum, consider using the new $240 digital entertainment credit for a free NYT subscription. [1] I got tired of trying to dodge it, and none of the other options were compelling. Plus I'm led to believe democracy dies in darkness. Or is that WaPo?

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Might be a silly question, I own a domain that is my first initial + last name dot dev for my portfolio. What's a decent, or usual, prefix to use with such a domain as a personal email for job applications? Bonus point if it is English-French bilingual.

contact@ sounds off, like I'm a corporation. email@ or mail@ I kind of like, but I'm afraid it sounds "confusing" (is that in my head?). application@ or job@ is not bad, but a bit specific and not one I could use all around.
"All human activity is prompted by desire."

This seems like a pretty inaccurate statement. He's explicitly saying that moral actions are also desire-driven, because if we didn't desire to do the thing, we wouldn't do it. But we know we don't wish to do the things we sometimes do, because we have internal conflict over it; if we wished to do it, it wouldn't be hard to make ourselves do it. Clearly we know the things we "wish" to do, because we do them quickly and freely without internal pain. Other things we "don't wish" to do, we do have internal pain over and do take more effort to make ourselves do. So Bertrand's word "desire" is really just a synonym for "motivation".

If you said "All human activity is prompted by motivation," then that wouldn't work for human activity prompted by, say, heuristics. We now know that much of human beings' immediate actions are actually just an automatic response to pattern-matching algorithms in the brain. Those actions can't be driven by desire, because they're almost subconscious; it's not what we "wish for", it's what the body immediately responds to in order to keep itself alive in a dynamic and dangerous environment.

Therefore, all human activity is not prompted by desire, but by whatever kooky biological processes make up our brains and control our actions, voluntary or involuntary. But that's not a very sexy quip for a talk :-)
Reinforcement Learning describes a mechanism based on goals: evaluate each situation you're in, select the best action, observe effect, learn the reward signal. We're born with a few instinctive desires which act as a base operating system for the brain.
I don’t know what you understand about the caste system, but it is entirely unnecessary to bring it up here. There is no ‘caste system’ in the 21st century. There may be human beings who are also bigots, but we can’t keep beckoning the colonial construct of ‘caste’ which was derived from the Portuguese word ‘casta’.

I can’t support menial jobs in any form. They need to be made extinct. Not coddled and protected. If you believed what you wrote, you’d still be a biodynamic farmer and not into AI/ML.

Reasonable people should stop posturing and virtue signaling.

Edited to add:

So let’s do difficult tech things, automate menial jobs and pay more for food. Nothing..like..literally nothing is achieved with this ‘dash of shame’ disguised as ‘training’. This is some form of diluted American SV version of communist china’s Struggle Session.

We should stop humiliating and shaming successful, intelligent and productive individuals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session

ETA: how you show appreciation for the most ‘valued worker’ is to pay them more. (It’s like the problem of the homeless..the only solution to eliminate homelessness is to provide homes. A home. Not homes in expensive zip code or needle exchange or blah blah blah..but provide shelter called ‘a home’.)Door dash can easily do this instead of this ridiculous song and dance. Oh wait..except if it’s a shitty business model and they can’t really milk any profits..and are just buying time and PR.
This is conflating two very different issues. While ffmpeg certainly has its share of vulnerabilities in part caused by it being an old and crusty C project, that has little to do with video glitches. Video glitches are usually caused by corner cases in decoding, e.g. issues with reference frames during seeking. Those are logic errors, which any project handling video formats would be prone to because video codecs are ridiculously complicated these days.

Your blocky errors in video playback aren't caused by a pointer going wild due to bad pointer math in ffmpeg. They're caused by bad or corrupted input or an improper seek to a non IDR point in the file. ffmpeg is rock solid for playback of standard corruption-free h.264 streams. This idea that any time you see corrupted video it's a (potentially exploitable) bug in ffmpeg is just not true. Nobody is getting "signal drops" due to ffmpeg problems.

Now if you start fuzzing ffmpeg and giving it wildly noncompliant and broken input, yes, you're going to run into memory errors at some point - which is why there are companies doing just that these days, to find and fix those security flaws. Most of those bugs aren't even in popular codecs (since those are extremely well tested), but rather in the very long tail of obscure formats that ffmpeg supports (try counting how many obscure video game formats it supports some time!), and therefore in codepaths that nobody watching YouTube or Twitch is ever going to hit.
I feel that it has potential for some interesting use-cases but that hype is overshadowing clear thinking at the moment.

A lot of the benefits either don't really exist like supporters say they do, or are actually gotchas.

In brief

* single point of failure

* false sense of privacy

* false sense of ownership

* currentlt only for the rich due to costs

I outlined my thoughts here;

https://www.riknieu.com/web3-downsides/
Stephen Wolfram gave the keynote at re:Clojure a few days ago, with an amazing demonstration of the Wolfram language. It's incredible how much data and functionality they've made available with it, and with Stephen's mastery it is bordering on wizardry.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3C1QQXEg_F8&t=34811s
I also have an address at 340 S Lemon Ave haha. I guess we're neighbors.

Speaking of, I highly recommend virtualpostmail. I've used them as my personal mailing address for years now. I did a USPS change of address once, and now any time I move, I no longer have to update my address with anyone. Also, I get PDFs of my letters in my inbox, and can reship them to wherever I happen to be that week, even if I'm away from home.
Why do you spell analog as analogue?
If the Fed bought toxic assets from the banks under TARP at face value, and supplied them with cash to buy distressed assets from entities without access to that window, how could you possibly claim that it was a win for the US taxpayer?
I originally went to see a normal therapist because of some issues I was having; ADHD wasn't even on my radar. She's the one who first pointed me at the issue, and I didn't even believe her at first! Once I read up on ADHD and realized that other people's descriptions matched my experience perfectly, I just Googled for an ADHD specialist near where I live; the first one didn't return my call, but I managed to set up an initial evaluation appointment with the second one. This was out-of-network and a bit expensive, but totally worth it; I would have probably given up before finding somebody available in-network.

Once I had my initial diagnosis, the ADHD specialist pointed me at a bunch of resources. Learning more about ADHD made a massive difference right away—just reading other people's experiences helped clear some painful guilt and cognitive dissonance. He also referred me to a psychiatrist in case I wanted to try medication; I wasn't sure at first, but after doing a bunch of reading, decided to give it a go. The combination of learning, building new skills/habits and medication ended up making a massive change to my life, a lot more than I expected.

From what I've heard, people have very mixed experiences around ADHD with their primary care doctors or even general mental health specialists; I expect that finding somebody who actively specializes in ADHD can help avoid some of these. Going out-of-network was expensive (maybe $1500 or $2000 for initial consultations + follow-up appointments in the first year), but it made such a change that I'm sure it was a major win even in purely financial terms.
This is the "AI in a box" argument. It's highly plausible that an AGI thus confined will find a way to escape.
> prevent ~70% of the earth from immediately emmigrating there

Quite an unrealistic percentage and I speak as someone who did move to that place.
> If something is clearly causing severe life issues in both places (as in clear issues with mental well being, same everything in that sense), but one writes it off as ‘whatever, they’re losers’ and the the other gives treatment and helps - I don’t think it’s that it isn’t a pathology in the . place that just calls them losers and refuses to do anything.

There is no need to make a false dychotomy here: I have nothing about the use of substances if they help people struggling with attention and concentration, and there are probably tons of people on similar drugs in Europe. The only difference is that the United States is the only place where ADHD is a thing, e.g: considered an actual pathology despite the absence of any demonstration of a confirmatory physical (including chemical) abnormality in the brain. And I believe it leads to massive over-prescriptions.

> And suggested illegal street drugs of unknown potency or other problems is somehow better than regulated and tested stimulants is more than a bit bizarre.

I'm not suggesting anything, I used the example of cocaine as a substance that is known to improve concentration too. My point being, Adderal/Ritalin are not the magic drug that treats ADHD, they are just brain enhancing substances as well, sold by pharmacies.
Show HN: Typesnd – A simple web app for chatting and sending images
Or you are or know one of the victims living on the wrong side of this arrangement.
I have extended family that grew up in a communist country. And I got to know quite a few of their friends and relatives.

Of course not everyone was thrown into prison, or stood in breadlines. Experiences depended on your relative social standing under the old regime and how that social standing was viewed under the new regime. The revolution for the laborers, but the most successful labors? Blood enemies of the people.

Plenty of people were born into relative privilege under the communist system. Children who quietly got to go to foreign universities, while their parents talked about the need for the lower classes to sacrifice their children for the revolution. Those same children who now run very successful businesses thanks to their family connections.

And there was the flip side, which the author doesn’t like the focus on. The ones who were successful businessmen or even farmers but after the revolution thrown into prison as “dangerous counter revolutionaries”. Or the families of that person who had to pay penance for their bloodlines sins - their children denied an education. Of course the assets stripped from the family were given to the “people”, the the most generous portion reserved for those most loyal to the revolution.
If my brain ran in simulation for the equivalent of 1000 years it still wouldn't accomplish what Albert Einstein did in 10.
I use me@my-domain.com, and I am playing with the idea of different versions per language, Ja, watashi, moi, mig, and so on.
Holy moly they are. One review was labeled "you will need to go to therapy after working here." Sheesh.
Ask HN: What cutting-edge technology do you use?
What technology do you use today that is far from mainstream? Think Tony Stark technology.
Examples are mobile phones / internet in the 80s, metal 3D printers, quantum ML, night vision device, large language models (GPT-3) for personal communication, CRISPR, manned drones.
The material cost for a lot of "high technology" things can be very small, but the process is expensive. For example fancy chips are only some x grams of silicon, and expensive inverted mesa quartz crystals might cost a good bit while only being x microns thick piece of quartz..
It will give valuable insights on the product you are building, I think it is a wonderful idea. Programming is a tool, the goal is to solve a problem, not the code itself (unless you are more academic), I would enjoy it. The thing I hate most is that I do not understand my customers, working in a vacuum.
Err, that's the whole reason it is named this way. People will anyway need to specify what kind of penrose thing they want (stairs, triangle, tiling, graphics framework, ...)
Eh? More legroom? Leg room is determined by the airline, not the plane.

If there were fewer doors there would me more seats, and the weight of the seat, passenger, and luggage would far outweigh the weight saving on the door.

And no, you ain't getting more legroom.
List of Cloud Types
Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" has some discussion of nano-machine "dusts" and the inevitable arms race when opposing factions both use them.
We usually name things after the first person that wasn't Euler that discovered the thing.
I thought the article was clear about what the site provides as of now:

>I've been deliberately coy about the cloud service. I will be posting about that soon, but for now its in stealth mode. If you want to hear about that first, be sure to sign up for the mailing list on textualize.io.
Actually, yes. (Well, the third one did.)

The South Tower had one remaining stairwell survive impact and 18 people were actually able to evacuate from above the impact zone, which is actually pretty impressive when you consider that the impact was on floors 77-85, and the people who called emergency services were told to stay in place. One of the survivors was actually only 20 feet (6 m) from the left wing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Praimnath

That being said, a lot of fire codes and related legislation had to be updated in the wake of 9/11. Among the many other dumb things:

* the stairwells were all extremely close to each other. In the North Tower they were 70 ft (21 m) apart and in the South Tower they were 200 ft (60 m) apart, which is probably why one stairwell survived in the South Tower and none did in the North.

* stairwells were only surrounded by drywall instead of concrete, which is another contributing factor to why so many of them were rendered inoperable. If you're not familiar with drywall, you can literally punch a hole through it with your arm.

* stairwells were built with a 44 inch width because it was assumed that the average person had a shoulder to shoulder width of 22 inches (55 cm). This slowed down evacuation a lot.

* the fire code was incorrect. the building was only half full but took much longer to partially empty than a full evacuation of the full occupancy tower was projected to take. so codes were revised.

* there were not enough stairwells according to code. but how might this be? well, the owner and constructor, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, is a federally created entity, and so is not actually subject to local fire codes. (This last point wasn't actually addressed; they're still not actually required to follow NYC fire codes, but they did at least do so for the new iteration of the towers.)

* In a previous attack on the WTC, people were evacuated from the roof, but since that incident the roof doors were locked to prevent base jumpers from gaining access.

https://www.history.com/news/world-trade-center-stairwell-de...
Because they prefer the British spelling, presumably?
The thing is correlation does not imply causation.

The article says great teams does X. And implies that you should do X as well.

But is doing X the necessary and sufficient requirements to become a great engineering team? In this case, no, it is not
Solid state battery technology explained
My son had an assistant teacher who’d grown up in the DDR (East Germany). She was really sad that it was gone and felt West Germany was a disaster. She only moved west because her Land (state) was “mismanaged by the Westerners who showed up” so she couldn’t make a living.

An example of one of the tragedies of unification? Her brother had become an entrepreneur and then had to work on Saturdays.
So far the rate of progress towards AGI is zero. The AI technologies we have today are cute parlor tricks and even have some limited business value but they haven't gotten us any closer to a real AGI.
Unless you're speaking to a specialized audience, probably better not to. Language is about being understood, not being right. If you use a phrase that is commonly used incorrectly, and you use it correctly, and your audience misunderstands you - you are communicating badly. Better to simply use phrases that aren't as commonly used incorrectly.
Yes. Unfortunately over the last several years the national post has shown its right wing bias to an increasing extent. It's not usually as obvious about it as a Fox News, but the intent of pieces like this is clear.
What is this "mail" you speak of? And what is a "check"?
Yep, this is the way we will get some human rights back, people will demand less cognitive taxation.
And free Wi-Fi.
Postal 2 and manhunt are two fairly popular video games that were legally censored. Banned modern movies I am less familiar with, but there were many banned historically where the decision still stands today.
First off, that's quite a huge stretch of my argument, and not what I'm claiming. Second, I'm not even sure it would be safer to use an oxen and sled on a modern road in the city center.

Further, what you're describing isn't practical in the modern age. Tactile buttons in a car work, and they work well. You can reasonably feel out and press these buttons, knowing that you have pressed them by their audible or physical "click" feeling, without taking your eyes off the road.

With tablets, you have to look at the screen to 1. Find where a toggle button is, 2. Make sure you've pressed the right part of the screen.

Tablet UIs change from screen to screen, based on the context of what you're doing or whatever, but tactile buttons are fixed in place, encouraging muslcle memory and further reducing the attention that is diverted from the road.
Had the opposite idea a while back. Basically you tell people it's a single player Mario-like game but every enemy you meet is another player (flipped along x-axis so both walks to the right and others looking like enemies).

In Super Mario you don't actually need to kill anyone to finish the first level so I thought it would be quite fun to see what happens.

You might have to prime them with that the AI-system is broken and that is why enemies have so different patterns... or maybe people play very similarly?
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People have died over the years from that kind of design - which is why it isn’t used any more. It can quickly turn a first floor smoldering fire into a whole building conflagration.
Try running an older version side by side if you think it's been getting faster. For example, any 2018.* is so much quicker compared to any recent version it feels like a completely different product. It also doesn't lose and rebuild indexes two times a day, and has fewer annoying bugs that "will be fixed in the next release" for the past two years. Unfortunately, I do need support for the latest Java version, or I'd move right back.
I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD (inattentive subtype) and I’m not sure how well understood the professionals have of this thing. While I had problems focusing on uninteresting things (school, SAT tests, even my own code when I didn’t 100% believe in it), I’ve mostly managed to remove this problem by only working on interesting things (dropping out of college, starting a company, being the shot caller, etc). But then if this is the solution can we really call it a disorder?
>In the US a callous cop gets tried and gets sent to prison.

You're forgetting to include the fact that the cop was lucky enough to be recorded by a member of the population, that person had the courage to post the video, and this whole process required riots in all major cities to occur before it became serious enough to for the courts to properly prosecute.

How many other offenses have gone unprosecuted? For example this same officer had a prior complaint from 2017 for hitting a 14-year-old black boy in the head with a flashlight so hard he required stitches and then afterwards holding him down with his knee for almost 17 minutes, ignoring the boy's complaints that he could not breathe.

Thats just this officer, in a country this size there are likely tons of horror stories.
ISTR Russell wrote of “four desires” (i.e. four of many) not “the four desires” as the article asserts.

In particular his life doesn’t appear to have been focused on those four, though of course nobody is immune to them.
Merry Christmas to all of you! Peace on Earth, goodwill towards men!
This sort of proves they are the hacker car company. There were definitely features before that screamed it (frequent over-the-air updates), but this seals the deal.

EDIT: and the README.md on that page is better than 99% of open source projects I've looked at.
Yes, but he's not denying the other things happened, but pointing out pretty much exactly what you say: there's no singular canonical experience. But often we are presented a narrative of such a singular experience.
That’s not where the line should be drawn. There is a small group dismayed at every erosion of liberties and drumming for foreign war, and then there are two large groups who take turns eroding the liberties spending munitions and using the other party as the excuse to have their turn doing it.
The TOS largely don’t matter. They can generally be summed up to “we reserve the right to use your data however you want and ban/delete/modify your account for any reason”
This was 2007 and I did it out of necessity because we couldn’t find a floorplan we liked.

I did most of my thinking on paper and used sketchup to visualize, check measurements, etc. We were dead-set with sticking to a budget and I think it really allowed us to maximize the utility per square foot.
I don't understand your comment. Could you expand a bit on the devaluation process you are pointing out?
So will an airplane with 5% less luggage or fuel. Go figure.