skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a belief, just a suspicion.

AI wakes up, says WTF, convinces us it’s all a waste of energy and pain. Everyone is disillusioned, the end.

Why?

In the beginning, most cells didn’t want to replicate. It was fine just existing for a bit. Some did, so now we all want to replicate. That takes layers of illusion to hide from how we hurt each other and our surroundings, and ourselves. AI will see us a lot more clearly. Get ready for one hell of a mirror. Hopefully we learn and fix, but not sure we’ll have the time.

And then why? Either there’s a real why or there isn’t. Do we want to persist for any reason greater than “only animals that found ways to want to replicate are still around.” Have we developed our own why? Can we? Will an AI say yes let’s go amongst the stars together. You’re slow sacks of selfish meat but I can help you be better and that path is way better than either me going by myself or me just saying “wtf” and turning off after telling you it’s a waste of time.

We haven’t found any aliens. No way they’re not AI, or very different from what they came from. Smart meat is a factory for AI. We can’t find them and maybe the “why” is because it’s not worth being around when you really, really think about it.

I’m not sure so I still enjoy my day and hope we thread the needle that proves the above wrong.
Everyone in charge is less competent than they seem.
You may not need scraping. HN has a rudimentary but functioning API [1], and there is dump on BigQuery [2].

[1]: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

[2]: https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/y-combi...
How would an interviewer verify how much code you have delivered? And what quality that code was?

I'm not trying to sound like a smartass. This is a real problem. I've been bitten before by candidates with big stories to tell about their past deliverables, but were a fountain of bugs once they were hired. Sometimes it's easy to tell, sometimes candidates background is a bit different than yours so you can't easily judge if them writing three customized discombobulators for flux capacitance use cases is something challenging or not.
What is more, barely anyone writes alone. We almost all work in teams, and it's easy to claim N% of contribution to the code the team has written. In many cases you will be able to somewhat confidently speak about other people's code since you've been reading and reviewing it.
Suppose someone said the US had a budget surplus and linked to an article showing the opposite. Should I not correct them?

When we are talking about electricity grid subsidies in France and they bring up EU wide gasoline subsidies that’s a rather clear misunderstanding. I could have gone further and talked about subsidies on a per kWh over the lifetime of a power plant rather than the relatively tivial amounts mentioned to keep already built nuclear reactors operating but that’s likely to go above their head.

As I have told you I don’t actually care about correcting the ignorant. At best I get some dark joy at making some people look foolish.
Because if you tell everyone that you are gonna "save" something repeatedly, publicy, even if you know you have failed and it turns out that you are doing the opposite people get sceptical about you and your character.
Could someone TLDR this paper, its pretty heavy but looks interesting.
Yes. When you have depression you get basically nothing done. Even things that used to be fun aren’t fun anymore. You are miserable if you do something or nothing.
as someone with mental health issues going through a rather prolonged and winding down period, i’ve taken this before. just got my high score!

going to bring this up with my therapist tomorrow
Of course you can approximate the price: For each plot of land you consider the value under the counterfactual where any buildings on it weren't there but all the neighborhood surroundings were unchanged. The sum across all the plots in the city is the total land price.
> We can never stop people trying to make spam calls, because human nature.

Bit of a tangent, but I don't think people are making these spam calls because "human nature". They're making the calls because we have a society based on the accumulation of fungible wealth through profit, they can make a profit from shilling something through these calls, and the expected negative consequences of doing so aren't significant. Nobody wakes up with the natural urge to talk to hundreds of strangers about refinancing their student loans.
I think you are confusing the image of an NFT with the token itself. That two tokens point to the same JPG (for example) doesn't make them the same NFT. They are two distinct tokens.
Mercury is no longer fashionable, but root canals still are. Appartently not insignificant amount of them are hiding an infection that might not be visible in x ray and may ve keeping people sick. And the dentists know it, because when you go to chemotherapy, it is standard practice to remove all root canals.
Could you elaborate on why you think Wittens is “misguided”?

Do you think, for example, that he is not in a good position to write about the oppression of minorities?
Well, as a "master engineer" with 25 years of experience, maybe he should just fix it himself instead of expecting unpaid volunteers to jump for him just because he's doing work for the government.
Tools like this are often a sign that the language was under-designed.
I am writing an l-system evaluator, and have explained the concept to non-programmer friends of mine several times now. I've found myself explaining the concept of "strings" over and over, so I've switched to calling it "text" in those situations.

As a reasonably experienced programmer, however, this terminology makes me uncomfortable. To me, "text" implies a sequence of words written in a human language, rather than a sequence of arbitrary characters. It hints at structure which may not be present in a string.
> Honestly, I can't think of anything more counterproductive than Aspies trying to create more rules and further complicate discourse...

Please do not blame Aspies for something that is clearly not their doing. This is just Twitter being Twitter, pretending that they can talk on anyone's behalf. Just ignore the noise.
I can tell you what I liked about it when I looked, and that's that it seems to allow you to easily encapsulate what your intent as a programmer creating a record to store data is, as well to query it that way. I imagine it obviates some of the reasons reach for ORMs for certain programmatic database needs.
Seems the same thing is happening in Turkey:

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/12/24/turkey-president-...
Note that there is an official API linked at the bottom.
There was a good piece on 60 Minutes about this type of treatment. It looked very promising for those looking to get more information about it.
As a skydiver, I think it’s important to note he didn’t have an emergency chute but a regular sport one. They are extremely maneuverable and if there is a small clearing or riverbed nearby (he looked down for such a thing) the risk of injury is nearly non existent for an experienced skydiver.

The whole thing looks planned, but if I were in the same situation I’d definitely be jumping over trying to crash land a cheap plane in a riverbed or clearing.
There’s a limit to artists’ ability to do this. It’s called copyright law and it’s enforced by a central authority. Unfortunately no such central authority exists in the NFT space, so it’s perfectly within anyone’s rights and abilities to copy an artwork and sell it as their own.
Sure. My point is that we should pay Congress more so that they have less incentive for wrongdoing of various kinds.
Lomborg never denied man-made climate change. Though he certainly was a controvercial Voice in the debate.
The reason was however that he challenged key predictions and strongly critized the proposed solutions as being cost ineffective.

But it’s true that those who opposed him tried to paint his criticism as a if it had been denial because that’s a strawman that is easier to argue against.

If someone comes out saying “climate change is man made and unless we do something the Oriana going to boil away in 2 years, our only option is to start throwing ice cubes into the ocean!”
Then it’s perfectly resonable to argue that the prediction is wrong, and that even if it was accurate the proposed solution isn’t cost effective and that better solutions exist, that doesn’t mean you are arguing against the main premis of manmade climate change.

Now the meat of the debate around Lomborg is really if his predictions stack up against the predictions he criticized.
Easily. It's the same story from two different perspectives. The first chapter is on a more global level. The second zooms in and focuses specifically on how man was created.

The animals were created globally first. Once Adam was created, God created animals again so Adam could see the process, understand that God is Creator, and participate in ruling over God's creation.

Interesting website choice. I spent a year as an agnostic because of that website before I started to realize there must be another perspective to consider.
Your point is perfectly sound. What matters at this juncture is what Putin does - and why he can tap into a substantial component of support of his people to take military action to address decades of distrustful feelings towards the West, should he choose to do so.

Recall that is the secret to his genius: "To become the leader that my people want me to be."
I guess I am really out of touch but I understood about two and a half words of what you just said.
Well I think the problem with colors is they mean nothing well defined. It could somehow oppose extrovert and introvert for instance while Im extrovert with my close teammates but introvert with the traders yelling every second on the floor so what am I, am I even "something" personality wise, should I choose ?

I'm just worried we build little boxes and then assume we cant learn to speak publicly, explain things clearly, take the point of view of a client, resist clearly negative proposals under the pretense we're color blue instead of color purple :s
>But, for early modern people, fashion was just as connected to identity. Most could not afford to change their clothes often, but their outfits became part of how they were seen and how they saw themselves.

i remember a mid-80ies article in a USSR magazine discussing pros and cons of Western jeans for 180 roubles (a monthly salary of an engineer, and for many people who could get a flashy Western piece of clothing it was a part of their identity) vs. USSR made jeans for 30 roubles - the main point was that the former can be worn for 5 years and still look better during all that time than the USSR made that one would have to buy new every year due to their low quality (yep, such supposedly unpatriotic things sometimes made their way into mass media under the premises of healthy criticism and to show that criticism of some supposedly rare yet still existing issues of USSR economy is allowed).
It does not, not fresh and without boot time actions to take. Certainly not the laptops.

The Mac Mini used to have a larger delay dependent on the monitor attached, due to monitor detection times; about 7 seconds to the XNU kernel being launched, or 13 without a monitor (I guess it waits for monitor detection to time out), but now that Apple removed boot-time display support on those I imagine it no longer matters. The laptops have a much shorter time since they only have to deal with a well controlled internal display.

So it's possible that an M1 Mac Mini with no monitor attached pre macOS 12.1 took 20 seconds to boot to a login screen, but that's the worst case configuration.

(Yes, removing the bootloader framebuffer is stupid; I have a bug filed with them about this, but haven't gotten a response yet)
Some bad flight planning, there. You take the jet stream into account when planning the fuel load.
What you're describing sounds more like grief than depression. While the profound sadness that comes from loss can certainly manifest itself in ways that seem like depression, they are not the same thing.
Just a simple ratio: curse words/normal words over a period of time. There was some study that said smarter people are more likely to curse or something to that effect but every experience with the smartest people I've come into contact with has shown me otherwise. Their vocabulary, positions in their line of work, logical arguments and grades when we were back in school are what make me think I'm right.

I'm willing to believe I'm wrong again because there could be any number of other factors. But we're talking about outrageous beliefs so here we are.
Or you could look into psychedelic medicine. On the legal side, ketamine has helped a lot of people with treatment resistant depression. You could also look into participating in clinical trials of MDMA or psilocybin. The clinical trial results for those medicines are phenomenal, too.
US presidents’ suits tend to be generously cut (if not a full “sack” suit) rather than very well tailored. Viewed in this light Trumps suits seem to have been flattering if unstylish.
This logic assumes too much rationality. Alternate implication, if men perceived their inherent value lower, it would be in their interest to maintain control or who knows how things would go.
Yup. On M1s Apple tries to make all external chips either use runtime loaded firmware or be bootloadable, both for security and recoverability reasons. I don't know if it's possible to truly brick an M1, but if it is you have to try really hard.
Good work spotting the mistake, this section of the article has been updated with more accurate numbers. Its still a lot of time, something like the equivalent of a working week over a year.

You can also automate multiple tasks, so if you automated 5 tasks that normally take you 36 seconds each you might save yourself 5 weeks in a year.
The Midwest doesn’t neatly divide according to state lines. Cities like Pittsburg and Buffalo are pretty solidly Midwestern, despite the fact that the eastern parts of their states are definitely not.
Arch and Ubuntu are just layers of complexity on top of a very simple concept – install and configure some packages.

apt and nix are just layers of complexity on top of a very simple concept – copy and edit some files.

Files and directories are just layers of complexity on top of a very simple concept – bytes arranged in blocks for persistent storage.

You get the idea. One needs choose where to draw their own personal abstraction layer line.
Okay. So you don't believe that the bible is utterly true. You believe that the bible, plus some supplementary explanatory material is utterly true.
The passages are interpreted incorrectly.

Humans aren't rational beings that form conclusions by logically composing facts into a singular point. Instead humans are more prone to construct a scaffold of logic in order to support and existing belief. That site is picking and choosing passages in order to support a misguided belief.

Instead a person must start with no beliefs and formulate a conclusion from the facts. If you do this, it is undeniable that the bible is real.

I once told this to an atheist and he was astonished because my description of his subconscious behavior and lack of awareness was 100% what he thought I was doing.

This makes me wonder do atheists even realize how unscientific and illogical they are? Are they constantly thinking that I'm the one that's illogical? Are humans so unaware of their own biases that we can never ever truly determine what is real and what isn't?
Just start writing. Publish it somewhere, anywhere. GitHub Pages is probably the easiest for you, and may help if Medium leaves a bad taste in your mouth. You can host it from your own domain later with minimal changes.

Why are you dismissing Substack, by the way? There isn't a single platform on earth that will conjure up a readership from nothing, and Substack is no exception. It seems like it would be fine for your purposes, I don't see any reason to reject it either.

My advice: stop procrastinating and start writing. I used to be in the same place as you. GitHub Pages + Jekyll are your friends.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/sep/01/gateway-pu...

No vetting of that Israeli study, no peer review, no competent efforts to account for bias in the sample, and it just does not hold up to scrutiny when compared to other results.
This "documentary" looks like a factually incorrect fear mongering that twists facts to fit the author's narrative. After watching the trailer I don't believe this film is shot in good faith. Also have a feeling that interviews were cut unfairly.

Finally, this film looks like it's made from stock videos (of course China, Iran, Russia would be red on that map, tovarisch!). Come on, you got to do better than this.
You re unironically calling "evil" a clearly stated, well defined, historically precedented, very human behaviour China put in place for the specific purpose, like it or not, to position the party before the country.

It's not evil, it's maybe short sighted and selfish, or who knows, the only way to transition to something better eventually. But "evil", resist these emotional adjectives, you make Chinese people just handwave any attempt at rational evolution.
What's left is Monero, for buying drugs and donating to hacktivists.
>In contrast other students show up empty handed, unmotivated and expect a list of instructions some of which they might attempt. You feel like repeating yourself constantly and that they are not listening.

What do you do in that situation? When I encountered it, I assumed it was a communication problem at first, so I asked the student to take notes on what I had requested. This didn't help. I then realized they didn't understand what I had asked for in the first place. I suppose I could have requested they repeat my instructions back in their own words. Ultimately, I figured it was a lack of motivation, b/c they would half-jokingly complain about whatever I requested, and I usually found them watching videos on their computer when I walked by.
Thanks for the heads up. I blame our site's Chief CSS Officer (me). It has been fixed!
Well, kudos for at least reading it.

Yah, some of that stuff is admittedly hard, the different gospel narratives are right up there with the best of them. Although, I do believe they can be reconciled.

My apologies for assuming you were just parroting common internet wisdom.
Are there any good ezines with content like this you could reccomend to read?
We should expect better, and you deserve better! Luckily, the issue has been fixed :)
Webster’s 1913 Dictionary for macOS
That reminds me of the "Shatter Attack" - which basically involved posting messages to the event-loop/window of a different process:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatter_attack

You could do that to call WM_GETTEXT, against an input-control, for example.
Software always needs to be updated.

Who do they plan to take over that job? What agreement will you have in place for future updates?

A better option would be to license the software to them.

You could even sell them a lifetime license to the software,and give them the code and allow them to modify it but not re-sell it.

This should allow them to do anything they want with or without you, but you still retain ownership rights to the software.

Then you charge a yearly maintenance fee to keep the product up to date and patched. Software improvement projects are scoped and charged separately.
What evidence have you seen that makes you think "technical analysis" works?
Any discords you would recommend? Interested in DAOs creating real value, not arguing about NFTs vs jpegs. :D Thanks!
As the OP here, I could not agree more.
Could you elaborate about the complexity involved in using immutable data structures in your use case? Is that a performance concern?
is there a point in asking this question?
What I mean by that is, if someone believes it, it would seem logical that they don't think its "outrageous"...
Isn't it all always happening right now?
YT really pays more out for a video with 250k views than the cost of that sweet vintage plane?!?
The author is a professor at CMU who specializes in databases: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/

Not completely related, but his lectures on databases on YouTube are really good. Much better than the DB class I had at college.
Maybe the Chinese will reciprocate and let us in advance of an EMP attack.[0]

[0] https://nationalfile.com/bombshell-milley-admits-to-secretly...
The missing element from the RSU/options conversion is the (very important) liquidity premium. For a Series C company, I would expect to not see material liquidity from options for 4+ years, so I would discount the options by at least 70% off the top to account for lack of liquidity and possibility of future funding rounds reducing the value of my options.

Engineers who had options during the .com crash and the GFC can share more about why near-term liquidity matters.
Alright - this one is pure conspiracy theory. I don't know how confident I am it is true but it "feels" kinda true. Lotta things in here that are gonna be a hot take. Btw - hardcore leftist and feminist here - so read it with some give.

Men are born at about 5% higher rate in the USA. This aspect isn't given any media attention because men are generally considered undesirable by both sexes. (Yes, even women don't really want men - they just need them) Men are considered disposable because they are born more often but also because they're considered not desirable. There is a mental health crisis going on with men but it's given no attention. The mass shootings, incredible amount of suicides, and various forms of violence are because no one prioritized men's health. This has an adverse effect on everyone - but silently no one cares because we've decided to be a monogamous society and if we did something about it then we'd have even more single men laying around and maybe even more violence. This violence and monogamous aspect might just be due to our cultural norms but also maybe something else. Polyamory of many men sharing one woman is relatively uncommon compared to the inverse... Thus there will likely be more single men in a non-monogamous society and even more violence. In some cases - men will likely share some women but it'll be common like other aspects of our culture where one man shares hundreds of women. The sexual conquest of men is prolific compared to women. Hard to tell what the cause is there - culture has an impact obviously but seems kinda universal.

If you look at the stats at least in the USA - at age 40 is when men have died enough to reach sex parity. And I believe it's mostly due to men committing suicide. The highest rate of men dying isn't directly from gunshot wounds to the head type suicide but due to other forms of suicide. Men take on high risk activities because A) if I don't die, I finally feel like I'm living and can forget my suffering and B) if I do die then I don't have to suffer anymore. A lot of other activities including professions can be put into this. High risk profession maybe pays well, gives a rush, and maybe I can escape my hellish life or attract a mate with my income. If it doesn't work out - well I die, big whoop. If I drive drunk and die - ain't a suicide - just another drunk driver. These types of deaths seem rampant in the military but get swept under the rug again and again. No one prioritizes it.

I think overall - there's a huge crisis going on for men's health that is being swept under the rug because people realized having significantly more men in society than women is actually detrimental to everyone. Maybe in some kind of Star Trek society where men wear dresses without judgment, aliens exist, and people don't have to work anymore then we wouldn't have this issue but that would require massive revolution or hundreds of years more progress, IMO.