skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today's internet is largely dominated by topics and people who maximize for marginal superficial engagement. You probably won't ever have the experience of a MajorBBS sysop breaking into your session when you're in the middle of mass downloading their mounted CD content (because the disc in the drive 2 feet away from them hasn't stopped spinning for hours), trying to exploit a bug in a door game, or bruteforcing their membership payment system. That's the meaningfully deep intimacy that's missing today.
I don't know anything about the history of that law but it passed the house almost unanimously and the Senate wasn't split along slave/free lines. It didn't have the effect of hurting slavery and it's conceivable the slave-state legislators thought it would boost local production (of slaves)
I'd be interested in seeing if there were any "attributes" that they could not easily explain.

I suppose that a well trained model shouldn't have too many of these, but it would be good for things like detecting intentional manipulation of training data.

This also makes it way easier to fool classifiers by exploiting known high-impact attributes.
I think

dothat(dothis(object))

is more like

< object dothis | dothat

or

dothis object | dothat

while the full composition

object | dothis | dothat

is more like

dothis(dothat(object(stdin_and_everything_else)))
I greatly enjoyed reading the screenplay. Thanks for linking it.
Americans have managed to drag vaccines into their culture wars.

It's one thing to say that vaccines cause autism, or make your sperm into zombie sperm. Stupid, but fundamentally something I can understand.

"Wolk [sic] folk" I cannot.
> Unlike most other jobs, your labor continues to provide the company profits even after you leave.

Maybe in terms of pure job function, but anyone who's ever solved a problem at their job in a way that is still used when they leave has continued to provide the company profits.
I will pay money to anyone who resists censorship. I don’t give a fuck if it’s “misinformation“ as those who classify what is right and wrong are a big part of the problem.

I worked at a media company and we had a substantial reach and liberal bias. We were a propaganda machine.
Just because there are a lot of possible values doesn't matter. There are also a lot of possible pieces of data that could be fed into the hash function. In fact, an infinite number. Which is larger than 2^128. Unimaginably larger. Collisions will happen. Sure, intentional collisions might be next to impossible, but collisions will happen.

Consider a piece of data that is 128 bits long. There are 2^128 possible values. A 128 bit hash function will either yield a unique value for each possible data value (which will exhaust the entire range of unique hash values), or you'll have a collision. Now, lets add in pieces of data that are 129 bits (or any other length) as well - you'll have a collision immediately.
> How do you rehab someone who does not have stable shelter?

Put them in a drug rehab facility.

It's still not an economic problem, it's a drug addiction problem.
> So if I understand you correctly, a guy with a weekly newsletter covering the local political beat who charges a $10/month subscription fee and uses it entirely to pay his own salary is doing so for the purpose of delivering value to the capitalist class.

No, I said that the primary purpose of the industry was one thing, not the primary purpose of a particular one man operation that is inherently made marginal by the structure of the economy, and is not the typical of the industry as a whole.
I think its less effective, since those who want to consume it will still press through, and their 'giant megaphone' has broad reach. Though perhaps some will actually read it
None of that is evidence of houses going down in price.
140% of the poverty line doesn't even reach $20,000.
Were the reviewers paid?
I think this is a fair point. Also a live in maid is not comparable because it probably includes full room/board.
Legally speaking I had someone take out a fraudulent PACE loan which the administrative agency then used to put a lien on my property taxes and I’m still fighting to get that money back.

Not necessarily a common problem, but this kind of stuff can pop up in surprising ways where the victim is left cleaning up the mess of the financial institutions involved.
The path has changed (link rot) but the article is still searchable and viewable: https://holly.witteman.ca/getting-access-to-paywalled-papers...
I think when mathematicians call an operation denoted by juxtaposition a "product", that's usually because it's denoted by juxtaposition for some independent reason and they're drawing the syntactic analogy with the numerical product, and there isn't any deeper connection with multiplication than that. Independent reasons for using juxtaposition might include:

1. juxtaposition is shorter than any alternative and hence a natural choice for the most common / only operation on the set in question

2. the operation is roughly analogous to function composition, and when you apply two composed functions it looks like f(g(x)) with f and g juxtaposed (if the functions are among those that have the longest history of being written as prefix operators, e.g. sin, cos, log, you don't even need the paren between the f and the g)

3. juxtaposition is a natural way to express an operation which is just "putting stuff together", such as string concatenation

So while it makes sense to denote string concatenation by juxtaposition in mathematics, I think it's a bit of a leap to go from there to say that A * B is the right notation for a programming language. (Actually using juxtaposition would be fine, but a general-purpose programming language is likely to want to reserve juxtaposition for something else.)

Also if you run with the idea that string concatenation = putting two strings together, well, addition is sort of like putting two numbers together. Rephrasing that in mathematical language: natural numbers can be encoded as elements of the free monoid on one generator, in which case the monoid operation turns out to be addition. I think that might be why the A + B notation is preferred over A * B when we have to choose one or the other.
But spotify does censor, they removed a bunch of JRE's podcasts, they removed a bunch of maga/sexual/gore songs. Who knows what other censorship they do, this is just ones I've seen in the news.
I wonder how much she paid for an RTX 3090.

I find it funny how people compare an RTX 3090 to a top of the line gpu from 10 years ago and act as if they should be the same price just because they're both the best. You just can't compare prices between decades when the things being compared improved many folds.
I don't think life length is an issue, the pig doesn't know how long it will live so there doesn't seem much scope for suffering.

It comes back to the question if never being born at all is better than some (domesticated) life at all.
You might have misunderstood tablespoon's remark:

"if the police know where the matched photo is from"

The "matched photo" is the right argument in the function

match(photo_scraped_by_clearview, photo_of_interest)

The matched photo is some piece of evidence the police already have from some investigation, e.g. surveillance camera or whatever. They know exactly where they got it. This is matched against the Clearview AI database. So then that match attaches information to the Clearview AI photo. They may be able to figure out where that was taken, since it is narrowed down.
Is there a better device for GPG signatures then?
Chinese stock markets also use the color convention that green means down and red means up. Example pictures (notice the negative signs): https://www.china-briefing.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2014/... ; https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode... ; https://imagecloud.thepaper.cn/thepaper/image/154/50/3.jpg

I'm not sure which country/culture first adopted this convention - China, Japan, etc.
I'm not talking about power or social standing. I'm talking about standard of living.
Excuse my"rough language" but I find PETA people stupid, aburd and straight up dangerous. Those bastards want to leave a human being to die because they care about an animal. Fuck you.

Look. I am a Muslim. That means, by religious scriptures, we are programmed to avoid pork. why? Simply because "god told us to avoid pork". No other thing. Abstain from eating pork and people follow that.

Now, when it comes to saving a life, those religious considerations do not stand because a life is at stake. Same for " consuming wine is prohibited" but if alcohol is necessary as a medicine, its allowed because the intention is not to get drunk but to get treated. That is important.

Now, when it comes to using a pig heart as a replacement, I am pretty sure no resonable person, from any religion would have problems with because the end goal is to save a human life.

These PETA people are keeping themselves relevant by being the dissenting voice that nobody has to listen. Yeah, if PETA or their supporters are reading this, again, fuck you. Let us save lives and your organization can watch us do it.
>Is it too much friction to click to install a third-party messaging client?

Yes. This is why defaults matter. In this case, it generated a network effect.
I was super surprised the first time I emailed a researcher and asked them a question about their work while mentioning I didn't have access to their paper. A week later an envelope arrived at my office with the paper in it. This was last millennium.
Who's not surprised that the vaccine loses a substantial amount of its efficacy after 3 or months even against the alpha strain it was originally designed for? (High antibody titers do not equal strong immunity especially as they wane in your bloodstream)

Who's surprised COVID most likely came from a lab leak with a 12-sequence cleavage site that is a telltale fingerprint that it was engineered, not evolved in the wild? If we're going to put COVID up there as one of the worst things to happen in almost a century (the Holocaust, the Spanish Flu, etc.), let's hold those accountable instead of giving them tenure as our national health advisors with a kick-ass pension (looking at you Fauci and Collins)!

Who's surprised that getting booster after booster may actually weaken the immune system? [1]

Pumping up antibodies for a few months, and then boosting to trigger the body to do it again and again in a short period of time doesn't sound like a sustainable strategy unless you're the one making $40bn USD each time. Reminds me of chasing the next high...another jab please!
Recovering from COVID leaves long-term B and T-cell memory for your immunity. The CDC's latest study shows natural immunity is more effective than the vaccine with only a very slight increase in immunity if you get a jab after you recover from COVID (no thanks, for me; I had my COVID, and I will enjoy the benefits of a stronger and longer immunity). People who recovered from SARS-COV1 are still showing an immune response 18 years and going. Let's see a COVID vaccine that is truly 95% effective for at least 5 years without a booster.

On another note, let's ignore personal health, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, etc. Addressing those couldn't possibly help along with a better diet, exercise, and sufficient rest and sleep ;)

No, wait, if we could only quarantine everyone, make them wear masks (especially the kids), mandate vaccines and carry a vaccine passport, for at least 5 more years, we could beat this thing!

I think the same people would be surprised that criticized the film, Songbird [2], when it came out at the time for hyperbole and fear mongering because it had COVID going into a fourth year in 2023 and a police state (Here comes the real COVID-23...). Never mind that the film is not strong in the usual plot, character, and cinematography departments, no, not that. Well, well, who would have thunk it was almost prophetic (Australia used it for civic planning you would think).

Sorry for the rant. I'll blame it on COVID fatigue to avoid the lashing.

[1] https://newsrescue.com/covid-boosters-could-weaken-immune-sy...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_(2020_film)
Infix operator in R:

> '%mult%' <- function(a,b) a*b
> 3 %mult% 5
[1] 15

Using infix operators as functions:

> '*'(3,5)
[1] 15
Seems almost like you didn't make any effort to understand what I wrote. Sigh.

My interpretation is not uncharitable, it's precisely the same argument you are making, and, to me, it makes no sense - as shown by my examples. Clearly, you have no problem with fines for thieves and prison for kidnappers, and why should you - so you agree with me.

I think the resolution to the problem of 'punishment' is exactly the one you point out at the end: we hand over the monopoly of violence to the democratic state.

Thus the point you're making is wrong: the problem is not at all whether we punish by exactly the same measure that we're punishing for. The simple truth is that the death penalty is a qualitative very different kind of punishment (which I find barbaric, just for the record).

Edit: I don't really see where I react strongly or emphatically. I'm just pointing out that your logic does not hold up.
So you're ok paying to platform a Nazi group, personally? I know everyone hates the comparison, but they do still exist, and spew filth, though their 1st amendment right to. What about rumor of the pedophile ring out of the pizza joint in Washington? Is it really worth giving large voice to just any old trash, just for 'the cause'?

And its not censorship. Its their soapbox, they can do what they want. You can always start your own soap box. Per my example above, you shouldn't have to pay money to support voices that you fundamentally disagree with, nor work for.
> 140% of the poverty line doesn't even reach $20,000.

Median household size is around 2.5. Poverty line for household size 2 is $17,420, for 3 is $21,960.
Well, to nitpick, that aspect of the primer was to demonstrate that there are some things, specifically human voices, that were hard to automate. The "tutor" made absolutely no teaching decisions whatsoever was instructed what to say. They only provided a voice. This was a crucial point in the story. So I'd say the educational aspect was entirely automated. Most of the value was provided by the primer itself. If a machine could've provided the voice, all aspects of the relationship with the book would have been directly with it.
(I should clarify I'm in favor of cutting down hours or starting your own thing.)
I just want to say huge respect for Dr Mohammad who despite his faith decided to do what is right. It might not be well known but most muslims are raised with strong beliefs, even in educated countries (eg 85% in Pakistan support sharia).

God bless Dr mohammad
> There used to be a whole stereotype around "lazy Southerners" that turned out to be a massive hookworm infestation!

It's worth noting that this is one of the great public health interventions of American history, and that the intervention consisted entirely of getting people to wear shoes.
So... how do you know what those people want? How do you know what you're building in 3 weeks isn't something totally different from what the users now want?

The answer is that you, alone, don't. By spending more than a small amount of time building out the simplest possible version of what the customer wants, you get their feedback along the way.

It's generally not true that you need many weeks, or even a full week, to build something you can show a user. Usually you're not being creative enough to figure out what to show your customer if you can't think of a way to provide value in a few days.

There are rare exceptions, but in the vast majority of cases you can build something for the user quickly, even when you initially think you can't.

This isn't even my opinion, it's the observed practice of a whole generation of developers. Read "The Art of Agile Development" if you want to know more, it's extremely helpful if you're trying to understand how to achieve the delivery I'm talking about.
Put in anti-vacancy laws with a sufficiently punitive penalty. Then all that property goes on the market regardless of who snapped it up.
Those events usually aren't the ones where most of the attendees are presenting, though sometimes things like Bar Camps can get the venue etc. sponsored. Finding sponsors to foot the bill can be harder for conferences for academics who aren't interested in leaving their tenure-track position to configure Kubernetes at a hot new Uber for Guinea Pigs startup.

Still, church picnics, potluck dinners, and wedding parties usually don't cost US$600 a person. Do we really need the Anaheim Convention Center or the Four Seasons Hotel to hang out and chat about capability-secure hardware architecture or isopiestic measurements of deliquescence points? Or could we maybe pitch some circus tents in a field somewhere and rent some folding chairs and tables? Instead of whiteboards we can use 4'x8' melamine sheets.
The middle class is just very wide. Essentially anybody who doesn't starve when they're out of work for a couple of months is middle class. Upper class is distinguished from middle class whether you have to work at all. Very few people have enough passive income to afford a ~median lifestyle. Agatha Christie might not fit into middle class, but today a lot of people do.
In a well-functioning market, the price of goods should eventually shrink to their cost of production. If they do not, that's a monopoly.
With cloud gaming looming large would Apple really be intending to build a home console? Perhaps they're being hired to build out their server infrastructure.
>of course they probably all come with some sort of advertising that you can't turn off, but still...

refuses to connect to wifi

problem solved.
I’m writing this comment from my SE 2016. Since 2016 I had to replace the battery (~30€) and the screen (my fault, ~40€) once each. I don’t plan to replace it before a while!
This is part of why I've loved running my .com webserver from my home desktop for the last 20+ years. I can see the blinking (and hear, and feel the vibration of) what's going on and insert in custom messages to the directory listing or other pages to talk to visitors. They can talk back by appending "/@say/Their message here." to any URL.

I do miss the old days when you could run an open netcat on a popular port and every now and then get actual messages from people exploring the internet (burried under automated scanner attempts to collect banner version strings of course).
I did exactly this minus the backup key. Problem is that the backup is nearly meaningless since it is just a second totally different key. For most services that is fine as they allow to setup multiple keys (GitHub, Gitlab, etc). But some services don’t. My first Yubikey is partially broken. I only wait for the day the usb connector breaks out. I already have new yubikeys and it would be awesome to just put the same key on them to have no fuss.

I’m at the moment between keys. I tried to use the new SSH keys which resides on the FIDO key. Problem is that most services I wanted it to use for don’t understand them. Most prominently Ubuntu LTS18.4 because of no official support for OpenSSH 8.2. So I use my old key with an ssh key derived from gnupg and a new one with resident ssh key.
For big evidence, look at the hundreds of thousands of people tramping thousands of miles just for a shot at getting into America.
> China's pandemic is not over. They are still having outbreaks. Many of my family members spent the past several weeks and months in quarantine prisons, by force.

I understand that, and their strategy is no longer tenable with Omicron.

However, I think it's also proof that lockdowns and masks could have ended the pandemic before Omicron or Delta variants developed, if they had been implemented rigorously and early enough. So it's only correct to claim that "half-ass mask mandates and lockdowns failed to end the pandemic."

One of the irritating things is that a lot of people who now claim mask mandates and lockdowns don't work were also the people who were sabotaging them, and they failed in large part because of that sabotage.
I pretty sure he said he asked for a month of leave without pay. Not sure where you read 1 day.
Sorry, are you saying that criminal impersonation should be legal, because making it illegal excludes people and may be a net loss to the nation? If they want to be included, surely they can just be honest about who they are.
That still doesn't seem like an "easy" comparison.

Rents tend to be tied to the infrastructure/facilities and earnings potential within a given radius of the property.

1919 London was dirty with terrible air quality (far worse than Beijing or Mumbai today, literally choked my great grandmother to death on a bad day) and with nowhere near the infrastructure or work opportunities it has today.

A fairer comparison to 1919 London would be a hypothetical working class town where the primary employers are steel mills and environmental standards are simply unenforced.
Godwin
The game is originally from 1991, and the PC port in 1992 targeted graphics adapters introduced in 1984 and later. So it's reasonable to assume that the statement about CPU performance isn't about the original 1981 PC but about what was more typical of PCs in the late 80s, well into the Turbo button era.
This confused me when I first came to Taiwan. I noticed in a TV drama that the candlestick colors were “wrong” and chuckled at the clueless writers of a low budget drama, and forgot about it. Then one day I opened the Stocks app on my iPhone and was very confused to see all my gains in red. It’s because I had changed the region in iOS.
What kind of source is this random tweet?
I think of fear as a direction to grow and empower yourself, that way you accept that you'll always feel it and you can break the habit of running from the feeling.

There's an author that wrote, facing your fear is a lot worse than living with the underlying feeling of helplessness that comes from doing things to avoid it.

Of course it's not that simple and more context dependant, somethings like fear of a predator or fear of starving are valid and should be addressed.

I suppose if you're a zookeeper or fasting than those are ok too..

But I think of you can reconcile what you're fearing rationally then all that's left is the emotion and you just have to go towards it.

All that being said... damn it's the best and worst emotion by far. Really I just commented so that I'll see what HN has to say for it
I actually wonder what it could actually break.

argv[0] always exists in normal means, it is either physical path of the executable or soft link position. Without accidents like run a program from code and forget about passing argv. That couldn't happen at all. And in fact, most cross platform program or shell even just assume argv[0] is the same as executable path (and don't give you a option to change it, because it is not possible on all platforms).
Yeah as an example of the maga censorship they removed songs by Bryson Gray for anti-lgbtq themes

I don’t care for his music myself but personally I don’t agree with censorship
I've always wondered why that was added. It feels to me against the idiom (argot?) of any lisp. It's not composable either.

(0 . < . x . < . 12)
read-syntax: illegal use of `.`

Typing those extra '.'s gets annoying very quickly too.