skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right up until your last sentence, which is totally wrong and illustrates another important thing people misunderstand - there is a difference between a pedophile and child molester.

The age of consent is about consenting to sexual activity. A pedophile is someone who feels attraction. If you're a pedophile, that is, you feel attraction to young children, but you seek out treatment and never act on it, then you're not a child molester and haven't broken the age of consent.

It's an important difference, because pedophilia is a mental illness, but because people think of pedophiles and actual child molesters as one in the same, pedophiles are often discouraged from seeking out treatment. We should acknowledge that feelings of attraction to children are beyond one's control, like the urges of an alcoholic to drink.

Given that, we should celebrate alcoholics who recognize that they have a problem, seek out treatment, and stop drinking. They are fighting a difficult battle against a condition they did not ask for. The same with pedophiles - those who seek out treatment and do not harm children should be applauded, not shunned.

Important and relevant: https://www.vice.com/en/article/j5y8zy/the-men-who-call-them...
I'm not sure how it's possible to "never touch" a gravitational field given that they extend throughout the universe and are impossible to be shielded.
Understand "relevant".
I work in Big Tech. What it's like from the inside
I disagree. Streaming killed the disc. High speed internet facilitating digital downloads, alongside a desire to make laptops smaller and lighter, killed the disc drive.

I own a 3D Blu-ray player. I haven’t used it in about two years, since the nearest Redbox went away. I only used Redbox because it was cheap and more convenient than waiting for streaming releases. Now that many movies are released in theaters and on streaming at the same time, I don’t know if I’ll ever use it again.

Physical media is on the way out. Records continue to be manufactured for nostalgia (and better audio quality, for those that care), but that’s about it.
Hi there, curious about the subject however I am not willing to download a pdf, as per recent revelations that adobe pdf has become a hacking vector. Any ability to add a url for web based content?
Yes if we expect them to accurately map between user input and underlying data/business logic. ELIZA has no underlying.
The payment volume over Zelle, which is instantaneous, free, bank-to-bank transfers, was about $307 billion in 2020. For ACH transactions, it was about $62 trillion (not a typo). Wire transfers are also a thing. So are, for that matter, checks, which by ancient custom are free for all parties but the banks (at least for retail users).

That the payment industry exists when all of the above is true is a fascinating topic. I should probably cover it in a newsletter sometime.
I lol'd at this oil analysis. The author had no idea what technological developments would be widely deployed in just the next couple years after they wrote this
Christianity teaches that God respects human free will. It's partly why so much evil is in the world. If Mary had refused (which she could have), he would have respected that decision and we might be living in year 1970 right now.
> When you choose to remove harmless "balls" but not to remove actively harmful "balls

Yet somehow there is less of what you call harmful balls. What happened to them if they weren't removed? Are you always in disagreement with reality or is this an exception? This is even weirder than the person that claimed a decrease is an increase because it wasn't big enough.
I'm not a native speaker, but AFAIK if you use "they" to avoid specifying a gender, it's "singular they" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they), so using the first person plural still doesn't really make sense...
In this situation they cannot do that for reasons that to acquiesce or do nothing would be seen by the Australian public, many of whom have been already shabbily treated by COVID restrictions, as favoritism towards Djokovic. I'd be political suicide (see point 7 in my earlier post).
There’s a special little place in hell for whoever decided the whole world needed chat bots for every crappy website.

Why would I want to try to articulate something that could be found in a simple tree? Just give me direct access.

I don’t know where to find it: search!
The issue is not covered in the standard workflow? Get me a real person!

Did anyone implementing ever end-to-end test this for speed and user friendliness? Did they just misinterpret wanting to talk to someone? I want to talk to someone because the process doesn’t cover my case, not because I actually want to have a conversation with the broken process.
Is it not unfair to expect GPT-3 to perfectly tackle this issue when it has been trained as a general purpose model? For customer support or other more specific chatbot applications there are better machine learning models.
F*ck the Haters
As I said below, a cursory look at Christianity teaches the God respects human free will. It's partly why so much evil is in the world. If Mary had refused (which she could have), he would have respected that decision. The Jewish people would have needed to wait longer for their messiah, and it might not be the year 2022 right now.

Also, God is not a human, and is not subject to the human weakness that a position in power has for underlings.
They also exempted private jets:

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/co...

Yachts and private jets belong to the rich class and these exemptions are in line with most hypocritical legislation around the world.

Links to the sources:

https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/climate-impact...

https://www.transportenvironment.org/wp-content/uploads/2022...
Have you considered why those places become grim places? Does free speech lead to those ideas? That would be quite a out-there conclusion. Rather, those people can only express themselves on forums like that, they are banned on all the other mediums. If free speech was set as a standard on all mediums, those people would express themselves evenly on facebook, youtube and the chans, rather than being penned into fringe spaces like the chans. I think that society should be more clear about the stance on this, either their speech is banned throughout society, and free speech isn't quite what it used to be, or their speech is tolerated throughout society, and free speech remains.
As a further addendum, there are different "aspects" in which you could want the bound to be subconvex. As a result, even for a given family of L-functions) there is more than one "subconvexity problem." In this case, Nelson's bound is not subconvex in the non-Archimedean aspect. This is another reason why it doesn't seem quite right to me to say without qualification that "the subconvexity problem has been solved."
I'm not feeling "attacked". I'm trying to help you understand that the argument "feature X might be used in a way that could lead to a incorrect behavior" on its own isn't enough to warrant exclusion of that feature, because that same argument can be used against basically all features of a language.
Yeah, I think you want a dedicated RSS client.
unless they edited things, their question is a simple and reasonable one.
Anecdotally most of the research papers I see and have worked on publish their code but don't really clean it up. Even papers by big companies like Microsoft Research. Still significantly better than not publishing the code at all.
I remember Meteor as a framework first. Deta is a platform and allows devs to build apps using their favorite frameworks (mostly) and then deploy & monetize them without any ops.

I trust you heard "no ops" before but Deta uses a new approach that allows us to scale millions of apps to billions of users efficiently. Take a look at our pilot here: https://deta.space/
Ask HN: Would this old idea be interesting today?
Hi everyone! (last post I missed the "Ask HN" tag)

When I first thought about the question I'm asking all of you, I felt a little bit disappointed with myself. But after around a week of deep thinking, I just realized that it would be simpler and funnier If I ask you for advice directly.

CONTEXT
Not too much, that would be boring. I co found a little company around mid 2014 when I was 16 with my amazing partner Luke, where our main focus was to build musical software. Mainly this was MIDI processing tools, speech and audio processing (synthesizers among others artifacts) but eventually we decided to turn an internal tool into a video game.

This tool was built to serve as an abstracted digital keyboard while giving us insights about the MIDI of a particular song. Highly inspired in the launchpad key and other classical tools.
Not gonna lie, the game was fun to play, but back there my knowledge was tremendously limited compared to now and I was facing huge personal issues.
Eventually the company died in response to my own fault.

Before concluding and launching you with the answer of rebuilding and making this and all its internal structure open source, I will let you check a post that I made around 5 years ago asking a similar question but in an indie gaming subReddit.

I APOLOGIZE if you felt bored and disappointed about the post, but I thought we could have fun together just discussing the idea.

I will also include several links showing some internal parts that you may be interested in.

RESOURCES

Alpha gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALEPLulOdR8&t=15s

Basic method of MIDI processing in max for live:
https://i.imgur.com/9a0vagn.jpg?1

Generated output file after simple MIDI processing of the the song "We Don't Talk Anymore (Charlie Puth instrumental only)
https://i.imgur.com/u27hUMF.png

Original subReddit post : https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieGaming/comments/5j36hx/should_i_keep_developing_this_game_idea/
I assume computer science results without published artifacts to be fake. When it's so easy to publish and run code, if the researcher can't even do that then I assume the code does not work and thus the results must be fabricated. If your work has trade secrets or something, research publication with peer review is the wrong way to distribute your results.

Computer engineering on novel systems is a bit harder, but a /complete/ spec of the system (enough for someone to precisely rebuild it) should be published in that case. Remote access on request to the prototype would be better.
I thought audiophiles were all buying vinyl and pretending they can “hear” the digitization of non-analog formats.
Yeah we can handle the part where it knows how to express itself in a specific language, it can take in some facts, compare them to its internal database and spit out something sensible as a statistically probable good reply. But there's no sense of self involved there.

I remember reading an interesting article a while ago about at least in the human case the basic principle of emerging consciousness happens when the prediction system in our brain designed for figuring out what other entities around us do is used on itself, trying to explain what the subconscious is doing. As such the consciousness we experience is a bit of a bug in that system that turned out to be beneficial to some extent. All just a theory of course given how much we actually know about the brain so far, but it's always made the most sense to me.

I'm not sure how that would translate into the current ML environment though.
Depending on your age, you may qualify for the Working Holiday visa: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-li...

They tend to have fairly quick approval timelines and don't cost very much. This visa would allow you to try out Australia, build some connections there, and see whether it's a good long-term fit for you.
This is really surprising, Portuguese is pretty close to Spanish (it is derived directly from Spanish) so other than the nasal vowels it tracks pretty close to it, it also has a considerable vocabulary of words that sound pretty close to their Italian counterparts.

I've never heard an Italian or Spanish person say they can't understand anything in a spoken Portuguese conversation.
A Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya Review – Life of John von Neumann
agree with the overall conclusion, have to ask for some reason in the expression of it. That is, there are legitimate reasons to Know Your Customer, yet, those the least in control are unendingly required to jump through ever more hoops. It is easier to exert control on the defenseless, and they do it. Meanwhile, professional money handlers are seriously considering negative interest rates, since there is just that much money being moved around. A requirement for cell phone numbers closes the connection graph, and a reporting requirement of "every transaction USD$600 or greater" (less than one month rent in most places), to my mind, is the straw that breaks the camels back.
Xenology: The Study of Extraterrestrial Life, Intelligence, and Civilization
"Uber’s new management ultimately discovered the truth about the breach and disclosed the breach publicly, and to the FTC, in November 2017."

This is so weird. Did the "old management" aka TK and Thuan Pham know about this and instruct that guy to pay $$$ and keep quiet? Sounds like it? Or did he pay the ransom secretly out of his own pocket?

So maybe it's someone else that should be held accountable and the "new management" is just throwing the CSO under the bus?
The main downside to this is that performance will generally be quite bad. Tor trades performance for anonymity. Unless you specifically need anonymity — which is highly unlikely when you are just trying to reach back to a host of your own behind a NAT — there probably isn't any benefit in using Tor.
> But people are not all "equal", they have different abilities.

'Equal' in that context is used to mean 'equal in moral worth'. No one, obviously, is saying that all human beings in the world are identical in every respect.

This discussion comes about because there are implicit moral principles we hold: (i) that people should not be punished without fault, and (ii) that people are not at fault for things over which they have no control. Our economic system self-evidently does punish people for things over which they have no control: their intelligence, their talents, their work ethic, and so forth.

I don't personally feel that that's problematic – I think its faults are outweighed by its benefits – but I understand why some people do. And it's certainly not as simple as the absurd caricature that they believe all human beings are exactly the same as one another.
They should change their brand to 'umble. That should at least evoke the proper image of a greedy character claiming to be “very 'umble”.
After years of unsuccessfully trying to get people to use modern GUI based software, I had a minor yolo moment and replaced an entire factory worth of employee facing software with a text-mode curses interface. No mouse support, company banner using ASCII art, interface in multiple languages that you toggle with a control key etc. All instances are concurrent user sessions on a linux VM in the cloud, it runs faster than anything we've paid for and no one will entertain the idea of going back. Not saying this is a typical situation and we're only talking a couple hundred daily users, but still, food for thought.
> Yes, economists can't predict recessions in advance

Aren't they actually pretty good at predicting recessions? Thought the joke is that they predicted 12 of the last 7.
If everyone thought like you then there would be no future as humanity would go extinct. It only takes one generation of everyone subscribing to your philosophy to kill us all versus the uncertain future of climate change, where there is no scientific evidence that we will all die. Unfortunately, too many people in the West think like you, which is why overpopulation isn't a problem in the West; in fact, the reverse is and governments are covering it up by increasing immigration. If you're concerned about overpopulation on a global scale, you better be prepared to address it (possibly violently) in Asia and Africa.

Unless you are an Einstein-level genius (who by the way, had kids), the best contribution you can make to society is to have kids. Kids are multipliers as their achievements can not exist if they are not born. There is no "experience" that is worth dooming humanity to extinction, and I also doubt you can name any experience that a parent has not had at some point in their life.
Good that they are cracking down on ransomware gangs; bad that they are looming over an invasion of ukraine.
> So, that rules out using format strings read from configuration text files

Rust already used curlies to indicate places where values would be inserted in format! (including print!/println!) strings, so you couldn't use them from config files with unescaped curlies already, AFAIK.
Because a friend of mine is into Chuck Norris facts, I tried to train GPT3 to give them. Some of the more novel (as far as I can determine) facts it gave:

* A duck's quack does not echo. Chuck Norris is solely responsible for this phenomenon.

* When you open an umbrella in the rain, do not be alarmed if Chuck Norris falls out of the sky and lands on you. The rain drops are simply being pushed away by his roundhouse kick.

* In an emergency, you can use a bucket of water to put the fire out. However, if Chuck Norris is directly responsible for the emergency, use a flamethrower.

* In an airport, there is no "B" gate. There is only "C" gate. The "B" stands for the bus you will take from the plane after Chuck Norris lands on it.

* There are no weapons of mass destruction, Chuck Norris lives inside every element on the periodic table. It's why you see him in your sodium chloride.

I'll let you be the judge as to whether these are funny.
Rust 2030 Christmas list: Inout methods
Publish it on GitHub (or GitLab or your code hosting service of choice).

Then answer any criticism about it by asking for a PR.

To preempt code style complaints find a code formatter for your language and run everything through that first.

Refer to the repository in your paper, but don't put a link. Create a little bit of friction to get to the repo to discourage the casual readers who don't really need the code from popping over too easily.
because cultural imperialism irritates people
The link below is the pull request for the feature. The RFC dates to 2019, and the tracking issue is slightly more than two years old. I'm guessing we only started hearing about it when it became close to stabilization (around November last year?).

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/90473/
I've been using LanguageTool over Grammarly for the past few years, and love it. Granted, I just use it occasionally, and it's possible that Grammarly is a tad better - but it's more than enough for my needs.
Paypal will issue physical checks if you want to withdraw funds. They charge $1.50 for this service, but I use it since I refuse to link any of my bank accounts directly. I have a credit card linked, but that's a safer (in my mind) way to deal with any PayPal shenanigans.
Rus: "We'll support you with your interests if you at the very least turn a blind eye to ours"

That's my naive read, anyway.
Title shortened from: "Xenology: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Extraterrestrial Life, Intelligence, and Civilization, First Edition"
> the physicist kept a record of his abuse in his diaries, even justifying his actions by claiming he had a right to the girls due to his genius.

Well, never meet your heroes. Its sad to see this a recurring theme in among elites, they think they're special and therefore the rules don't apply to them.

Would be interesting to read the primary source if someone can find it.
pretty sure the parent is doing the exact opposite. other forms of inquiry aren't valueless because they aren't falsifiable.
I'm not sure why we feel a need to look at history through this particular lens. I think that Schrodinger's work, or Poe's writing, should be appreciated for the great achievements they are, and we don't need to consider the person from whose minds they sprang.

Does creating a list of past greats who did naughty things accomplish anything except maybe to broaden the Overton window for those naughty things? (Hey, if this person's so great and they did it, why shouldn't I?)
If you are for Open science(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science_data), go ahead and publish it. Would you ever publish the code on some GIT platform? If you would, this would be the equivalent. A lot of researches don't want to give their data to the public, but if locking their data they are just making harder for others to confirm or improve their findings. I guess sometimes there are legal issues behind that, and sometimes it is pure ego.
It seems like the angel tells her in Luke 1:31 that it's happening whether she wants it to or not

> "You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus"

It's nice that she accepts it afterwards, but that's definitely not how consent works, and it doesn't seem like she was given any other option

Edit: I saw your other comment saying "there's other evidence of god respecting free will and he probably would have been fine with it if she didn't want to". The bible is full of contradictions so there may be evidence of a respect for free will somewhere else, but this specific story seems to contradict that
I'm happy that this is happening. Small buisness owners, Twitch streamers etc. can get their PayPal account locked pretty easily for "suspicious" activity (i.e chargebacks or a few thousand dollars). Then PayPal locks their account for 180 days with little to no recourse. The big Twitch streamers register an LLC which PayPals gives more leniency to AFAIU.
>Unless you do get a job in your field, with enough income that you're supposed to pay it back, but can't. This probably will be less common with the current rates, but as recently as 2012 the interest rates were at 6.8% .

There's also the fact that now (even for someone who took out loans before 2012) you'll never pay more than 10% of your disposable income, for more than 20 years. Up to a max of about $500 a month (which is the 20 year payoff rate for a $60k loan at 6.8%).

There are ways you could end up paying more. Say if you spent 10 years unemployed running up interest and suddenly got a job paying $100k, but even then you're talking $700 a month for 10 years before it gets cancelled.
While adults abusing underage children is deeply disturbing to us, morality is a shifting metric that can change very fast, while biology doesn't moves much slower.

Whatever reason some people are attracted to children, is hard wired into them. It shouldn't be a surprise anymore that some percent of people are like this. That's why I would never allow my daughter to be in the room alone with another adult man. You just can't trust people.
This certainly fit into certain type of perspective that is common on the internet and HN. Absolute performance regardless of energy usage.

Another problem is people blindly trusted Apple's number on GPU. And while Apple's benchmarks in terms of CPU and Battery life tends to be fairly accurate if not often under stating it. Their GPU numbers and graphs are a marketing spin to say the least.
We pronounce 'r' in Portuguese as 'h' in english words.
For example: the word 'mice' in Portuguese is 'rato' which we pronounce as if it was 'hato'. Similar to 'hat', 'hate' or 'hit'.

But never as the english word 'rat'. For us it sounds like 'rrrrrrrat', because the 'r' is too long in the pronunciation.

Summarizing: Portuguese don't use long 'r' phonemes when the word starts with 'r'. We usually pronounce as if the word starts with 'h' in english.

The long 'r' is used when 'r' or 'rr' appears in the middle of the words.
It’s much more damaging to the mind and ability to have a functional life.

My sister was a functional alcoholic for 25 years. When she started heroine, everything changed, and she overdosed within 2.