skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on a meta-solution: https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmeVYAP75GAvY8Q8iSfMoWMGgT...

The idea is to center everything around a data-interchange format and then build a ton of tools. I'm sorry the presentation is still very disorderly and that paper is obsolete and so is my website rishi.is and the original declaration of intent at datalisp.is

However! things are moving rather fast lately and I have more or less completely figured out some of the things that have been blocking me so far and I hope to have working prototypes of the most basic tools by the end of the year.
But said old code is using an older version of Python, which does not support this. The compiler could issue a warning for newer version until the switchover, and therefore save us from this "special case".
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/disarming...
If you follow the logic of the title of this article the new policy was that there should always be a mother with a baby on the team.
Personally I don't see how the choice between helping people and making money for shareholders could be any simpler.
In some areas it could also be due to policy aimed removing pretextual stops, like rolling through stop signs, not signaling turns, etc.

The rules of the road were put in place as a system to protect people. Things like signaling a turn can be very important to pedestrians crossing a side street. I get that people want to remove pretextual stops to stop bias. But perhaps we should move towards uniform/consistent enforcement rather than simply ignoring the laws.

The use of law enforcement discretion to charge some people but not others leads to the bias. This is on more than just driving laws. Then you end up with a minority population being negatively affected while the majority remain in ignorant bliss. If it affected all equally, then the population would be mobilized to remove bad laws from the books (on the basis that they or someone they know were affected by it).
I generally agree with you, but I also find that the longer forums go, the harder it becomes to find the truly valuable content. You end up with single threads with hundreds of pages. Even when there is some form of moderation, it is usually a point in time effort and the ephemeral nature of some content makes it hard to tell what's still currently relevant.

IMO, the best system is a combination of a reddit-like feed with up/down voting (limited to proven valuable users) and a wiki that is fed by thorough and up to date content moderation.

And yes, it sucks that so many are relying on a for profit corporate entity like reddit. What if there was a non-profit reddit clone where every sub had designated paid moderation. I would donate to pay for high quality moderation of subs that were valuable to me.
the quandary of either hiring employees whose hacking efforts on my company's infrastructure I can defeat / defy and hiring someone who I can't protect myself from is going to come down to some very individual assessments that I don't believe a DBS check can help me with.
If you take this to its logical conclusion then you're essentially describing the paperclip maximizer from Bostrom's book about the dangers of artificially intelligent systems that destroy humanity at the expense of maximizing their own operation. Contemporary corporations are essentially paperclip maximizers.
Dynamic pricing is the only way to allocate a resource of fixed supply but hugely variable demand.

The alternative of building more and more road is untenable.
I disagree. I think learning to learn, and, first, learning to motivate yourself to learn is a huge part of a college education with the goal to prepare you for a life in which boundary conditions change all the time.

What happens to those students who are then in a job, tasked to solve a problem, but now expect their boss to dance around them to make it `interesting'?
Yet another dark side of the “free”, or “user is the product”.

This could be prevented by changing the law so that it treats any large enough social platform as a communication service provider, requiring it to provide open API with complete feature coverage. This would facilitate native feature-complete third-party cross-platform clients that don’t show any ads, and platforms would have to charge users because no one will be stupid enough not to use a client like that.

And once service is no longer free and cross-platform clients exist, the space will finally start resembling an actual free market—honest competitors will stand a chance, and actual end users will be able to vote with their wallet.
Wow this thread was full of questionable comparisons eh...

Compare Hinkley's strike price to £40/MWh and don't mention the storage cost!

Compare Hinkley's strike price to £365/MWh and don't mention that's a spike not a long term average!

Take your pick :-)
Apple's trade-in partner Brightstar a scam?
Apple has a decent trade-in offering through their partner, Brightstar--that is, IF you receive the amount initially quoted or AT ALL.

Any google search of "brightstar" and "scam" will bring up a seemingly unlimited number of results showing customers negative experiences with Brightstar. I've seen everything from Brightstar not responding once their device has been mailed in, receiving $0 instead of their initial quote, not receiving their device back, etc.

For me, the risk is way too high to go through with them. Does anyone have any positive and relatively pain-free experiences selling their laptops in a safe and reliable way?
Why don't you continue to do white hat hacking, and chase for bug bounties? Why would you ever want to be employed by some corporation?
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My father was a neurosurgeon. Sorry to burst your bubble, but when you go to someone like him, it is not called medical science. It is medical practice.

The medical industry does not provide the information required to be confident in your personal outcome. At best they can provide statistics about populations. On an individual basis, it is an absolute crap shoot.
And for that matter, people texting while they're walking across the street with earphones in.

I honestly don't even feel comfortable wearing earphones when I'm walking in the woods much less on a city street.
>Because pedestrians have the intrinsic motivation of not wanting to die.

Do they? Where I live, at night, no one ever wears reflectors, save a few cyclists. It seems like people don’t think about this at all. You’re walking around at night and someone driving a car doesn’t see you until it’s too late. I think there is some merit to asking the question about how pedestrians can be safer. I’m happy to practice what I preach and wear reflectors at night but it seems that pedestrians are ignorant about their visibility. You can only be so safe driving a car, it’s not feasible to drive 5mph everywhere you go.
It's fair to be critical, but calling this flat out awful and unreadable is way overselling it. Whether it helps add up to something less readable than preferable is arguable, but taken on its own this change is minimally invasive and frankly pretty readable.
>It’s about a company with which it and ALL other tech giants contract content moderation work.

Can you please cite a source for this claim? While it's true that Sama has partnerships with companies such as, according to the article and to Sama's website[1], Google, Microsoft and Wal-Mart, it's not entirely clear that they're also doing content moderation for all of them. They seem to offer a wide range of services.

>Formal economy jobs paying $250-$300/mo with a steady employment outlook for entry/low-skill work can be hard to come by in many -if not most- countries of the world, never mind Africa alone

Ah, right, because if you're lucky enough to be making more than your peers, you should shut up and deal with doing so in a horrible environment.

[1]https://www.sama.com/
I'm not sure how you feel that is that the simplest solution. Building an entirely new way of thousands of cars reporting their milage without fraud or privacy concerns. Versus doing nothing different other than using the data which is already gathered for a majority of cars.
My mistake, url was incorrect. Try https://www.theprospects.club/
So, you're saying that if I, as the CEO of a private company choose, for example, to host certainn people or certain products on my platform, it's censorship?

Strongly disagree.

At the government level, I might agree - but not with private companies.
That's much clearer. Thanks
DPI is the wrong measure. What matters is dots per degree. If the device is 2x further way, it can have half the DPI. At typical viewing distances, my phone covers about 1/3rd the fov of my monitor, despite having being a 16x smaller screen. As such, 4k is totally sufficient for pretty much all screen sizes. If the screen gets bigger, you get further away.
A lot of the changes are aimed at making it easier for people to get started with Asp.Net, and most of those aren't breaking changes. Traditionally Asp.Net has had a lot of boilerplate around project setup and configuration, and things like minimal APIs aim to change that. The unfortunate side effect is that it adds more complexity (more ways to do the same thing) to the ecosystem, and the newer minimal approaches probably aren't what you're see used in the typical production project.
I'm not making a claim, I'm asking why I should believe a claim. I see no reason to.
Tesla is trading at a 50x PE (2022 consensus) and plans to grow 50%+ in 2023, 2024.

I don't think that you can expect the stock to be where it is today in 2024 if the PE actually goes down to 12. You'll need to buy it now to lock in that PE of your purchase price.
I get the point you're making. That said there are definitely people in my life that are (very obviously) better and worse at reaching out, and I assume it's similar for most people? I have friends who are phenomenal at reaching out frequently, saying "whatcha up to, shall we get a drink?" I also have friends who (because of family, work, location, whatever) will never do this, but absolutely jump at the chance to meet if you offer them one.

I'm not suggesting those who are good at contacting people use some sort of scheduling tool - it's probably just that their personality type suits doing it and they're usually the middle of a social group. Some people are naturally better at this kind of thing than others, right?

So I absolutely see the advantage of giving yourself a mental nudge to call, message or email people. I don't think it's in the slightest in-organic and I doubt a single person would think "oh, it's 6 months to the day I last spoke to this person" - more so they'd probably just think "oh, it was nice to hear from X". I have an alert to call my mum / dad every week or so. I don't always do it, but I appreciate the reminder and they appreciate the call.

I'll probably give this kind of set up a go at some point.
Just out of curiosity what's "high"'
Yes, good video. Canada and the USA has this demonic granting of speed rights to drivers. They could put in automatic speed traps on all street, with a fine by mail of a small amount, say $10 = a nuisance, but as they pile up the constant nag by mail, with a forced full payment to renew the plate will have a coercive enduring affect. It is important to keep it small - with a caveat. You are allowed to go yo court. If you challenge in court = higher tier of fines + time wasted burden. After a few months most will comply. Now manned speed traps have huge fines, huge police/court $$ burden. Cops tied up at speed traps prevent no crime, just fine a few people/day as the ticketing process at the street level is very slow. Automatic radar speed traps are fast. People hate them because they also have huge fines = lobby politicians a lot. The small nominal fine will get compliance without the same amount of lobbying and other pushback,
Ok. I stand corrected. Doesn't change much of the picture, does it? Do you think it is wise to concentrate so much power into one single corporation? What is Discord going to do in order to make enough profits to beat the return of a 10bi sale?
I haven't talked to anyone outside of my family since the beginning of the pandemic and I assume the fact that no one's contacted me means I shouldn't bother? Not really sure how this kind of thing works.
Didn’t think about this. I was thinking there might be performance/latency limitations. But “internal” tools may be good enough for early MVP prototypes for a SaaS app.
This is not a judgment on you, or what you did, but I don't know if I'd define that as "reading." I did essentially the same thing you did, but I have always called it "skimming." With articles like this, I tend to skim first, to see if it's worth a deeper reading. to answer your parent comment, I could not have deeply read this post in only 3 mins. It likely would have taken 5 or more.
One of my main consulting clients is always looking for people who are interested in or experienced in cybersecurity research.

https://www.riverloopsecurity.com/careers/

I can't guarantee anything, but just from what you've written here, I think they'd be interested in a conversation.
A compromise approach would be to provide numerical solutions so students know they're correct, but will still require them to put effort into working on the problem. This way instructors won't be afraid that students will simply look at the solutions before solving the problem.

I will add though that there are courses that use the same graded assigments year after year (my OS161-based OS course comes to mind, where multiple universities basically teach the same content). As a result full solutions are all over Github, and the honest students who work hard on completing the problems on their own are penalized over those who look over the solutions first before writing any code.
Full brightness white is supposed to be reserved for light sources anyway, definitely not text background !
That's the story for many decades now. It turned out wrong every time.

See for example: https://ritholtz.com/2019/08/death-of-equities-40th-annivers...
Or, according to the article, if you're in a twin engine plane with one engine out.
yes, sorry, made a typo there.
> For a long time basically anything of relevance happened on freenode.

Much did, yes, and when Freenode went belly up for insane reasons, everyone active moved their channels over to "What is it? Not Freenode! What's it like? Freenode!" and life went on as normal, because it doesn't take much to host IRC, and there's not much friction to move over.

But there are also an awful lot of quiet little backwaters IRC servers, with a few dozen users or less, floating around the internet - and that's where some of the most interesting content on the internet lives. You can host them on almost nothing (I ran an IRC network in college on a couple Mac SE/30s - yes, 16MHz CPU, 12-16MB RAM), and if the link to them goes down for a few hours, well, doesn't seem to bother anyone, you just wait for your client to rejoin.

As for why people are hung up over IRC? I can't speak for others, but as a long time IRC user who still uses it:

- Native clients for everything that aren't a hot mess of Electron, because IRC predates that. I don't need a high end modern system to connect to IRC, I can connect from a terminal, from a gutless wonder, from an old [whatever] system, etc. xchat/hexchat/(is mIRC still a thing?) just don't take much memory or CPU.

- It requires almost no bandwidth to connect. If you're on a crappy connection, IRC will work just fine. Not all of us live on high bandwidth gigabit fiber.

- It's not constantly changing. It does what it does, does it well, and pretty much hasn't changed meaningfully in 20+ years. It's stable, and I don't have to worry about some company suddenly deciding they need to growth hack and adding Javascript confetti or whatever to try and excite me into doing some action more.

- Most importantly, it's filled with the sort of people who value these things. It's a good filter for technically minded people who aren't up to their necks in the latest consumer electronics nonsense. I like talking to those people, as I'm one of them.
The licensing terms don't seem compatible with open source. They're just free (gratis) for many uses though.
I've never really seen arg1 depend on arg0 like that in Python.

However this comes up a lot for new engineers during programming interviews. It's very common to see recursive algos use empty lists as default/start-case args:

def traverse(graph, seen_so_far=[]): # Incorrect
....
seen_so_far.append(node)

Subsequent calls to `traverse` will have state accumulated from earlier calls. The right solution is:

def traverse(graph, seen_so_far=None):
if not seen_so_far:
seen_so_far = []
.....

This isn't obvious if you're new to Python. This PEP makes this (arguably) clearer with:

def traverse(graph, seen_so_far=>[]):
If I was in your position I would post your contact information, even a throw away account on this post as you’re on the front page of hn and you might never get to have this great of an opportunity again to find legal employment.
My father and grandfather were both college professors and I didn't learn this until after I graduated.
withhold the tax when you fill up, get a refund at the end of the year.
Sometimes I upvote just so I can read the faded comment. It’s seriously annoying and I think a sentiment gauge based on basic emotions would work much better.
> livable pensions

This is a myth. People struggle on state pensions throughout Europe, but for some reason young Americans idealize everything that comes out of Europe.

In Germany(a country of 80 mil), the average pension is $1000 once you get to 65. In France it's not much more. The social security in the US beats that, plus you can usually afford a private pension, because the government doesn't take 50% of your paychecks.

I personally know someone in Austria that worked all his life for the railroad, then he got sicker and sicker, but the state wouldn't give him a disability pension. He could barely work sitting all day. Then he got disability at around age 60, but he needed money so much that he had to collect scrap metal to make ends meet. Very sick, after 60 years old, collecting metal. This is just an anecdote...I know, but still.
The office hours idea sounds crazy to me, and that is despite the fact that I actually had a professor's attention for an hour for each sheet. (2/3 on 1 tutorials). Some place doing mass lectures is going to inundate the professor's office, surely? Or perhaps in modern unis the students themselves share solutions on an online board?

There's just so much self-learning involved it can be quite hard to narrow down your questions to where it can be discussed in an hour. That's especially if you actually tried to dig deeply into the concepts. You might have gotten stuck for days on a single problem, which is made much worse if there's no hints about how to find the solution.

Another problem seems to be the opposite: you come in for the tutorial, you solve all the problems, and you're no wiser about the issues, despite having learned a mechanism for solving each problem on the sheet.
What about other subjects, physics, literature? Should they be allowed to Google too?
The challenge is to maintain momentum through the whole level. I can get through a lot of Sonic 2 levels without stopping, and for that generation of game to achieve that feeling of speed was very unique.

Also, if anyone out there hasn't played a Sonic game since the original few... check out Sonic Mania. It's largely an homage, but it's very well done.
That bit about SSCLI is only about half true, at best. The original version of .NET was developed on Windows, but they contracted Corel to implement the cross-platform bits they wanted for SSCLI. Those bits only existed in SSCLI; it was never integrated into the actual commercial .NET implementation. SSCLI is not a snapshot of the actual .NET Framework code; not like the later Reference Source is.
This is awful advice and people keep repeating it. Taking on risk over the last few decades has paid off in spades.
> And of course, most people taking Math 202 are not taking it for intellectual broadening, as Rabieh admirably was; they are taking it because somebody told me they had to.

This is an unacceptable response as well. Why would the students get told that they had to if not for the purpose of intellectual broadening?

In my college experience, symbolic logic served this purpose. It was taught by a clearly dismayed senior member of the Philosophy department, who used plenty of class time to berate the general idea of the "gifted computer whiz kid who doesn't do the work" while clearly running the material on autopilot from the publisher provided syllabus. It didn't make me less interested in philosophy, but it made me a lot less interested in formal philosophy as taught at that school.
Reduction in miles doesn't proportionally reduce exposure to pedestrians. The bulk of the mileage reduction has been people's commutes and your average commute is dominated by limited access pedestrian free roads.
I'm like you -- but for people who I was good friends with years ago and lost touch with, I usually find that we immediately hit it off great if we connect somewhere in person. For this reason I'm optimmistic about the possibility of maintaining a wider net.
When you filter on a bell curve because fewer spaces exist next year you see this approach because being helped gives you an advantage over one of the other hundreds the professor cannot help directly.

It's part of the elite status colleges give out with degrees. Only the top 10% make it through is great advertising.
They did build a better alternative - Slack, then Teams came along and tried to rebuild Slack and then Skype and then Bluejeans came along... and then Zoom... and then Discord and the comms environment keeps evolving and the rent keeps going up. This is life. Another product will be along shortly, and another, and another, and another...

Whatever you build on will be ripped out from under you and you'll be forced to evolve, just as we all have had to since the beginning of software engineering.

One thing is true as has been since the beginning - the next generation always knows better than the previous until life bites them in the ass and they learn their lessons the hard way too. As sure as the sun will set tonight and rise again tomorrow. There's little point in complaining about it. What will be, will be.