skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can actually ask, if they talk about the same thing more than once: Is this something you want me to work on and try to fix, or you just want to talk about?

Agreed!

Asking helps me clarify to myself the possible goals (and make it explicit that "just" listening is a valid goal). Even if you don't ask thinking about the question is a nice way to remind yourself that you don't need to solve it for them.

My experience has been that women appreciate this question - I think that most men tend to jump into problem-solving mode and actually being asked is a nice change (here in the U.S.)

And of course there's this 2 minute video to memorably highlight the idea :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg
>Only later did I realize that I was surrounded by those people because my managers actively selected for those hires and carefully weeded out the people who weren’t interested in anything other than doing the bare minimum to collect a paycheck.

I'm going to counter it, I did always my best. But I got shot. But.......... I'm again back with more power as a front-ens developer. (Not searching for work at the moment.)
Not with dynamic obfuscation.
It's also the meaning that's starting to shift - for many in France "Europe" means the EU, not the continent. Like the Brits who talk about "us and Europe".
Russia is about 40% of Europes land mass.
The X Ray or Photography of the Invisible and Its Value in Surgery (1896) [pdf]
>Then the top 5% is when you start understanding the game at a competitive level. The very start.

On the other hand, your handle is "xbox, no life".

The whole OP premise is:

"Reaching 95%-ile isn't very impressive because it's not that hard to do. I think this is one of my most ridiculable ideas. It doesn't help that, when stated nakedly, that sounds elitist. But I think it's just the opposite: most people can become (relatively) good at most things. Note that when I say 95%-ile, I mean 95%-ile among people who participate, not all people (for many activities, just doing it at all makes you 99%-ile or above across all people). I'm also not referring to 95%-ile among people who practice regularly. The "one weird trick" is that, for a lot of activities, being something like 10%-ile among people who practice can make you something like 90%-ile or 99%-ile among people who participate."

It might not be impressive if you have a monomania on the specific subject, but it is very impressive when you also have a life, and this is just one thing you do...

Even more so if you're 95% on more than one things (imaging meeting someone that's 95% programmer, conversationalist, cook, guitar player, marathon runner, business owner, ... He would automatically be hella more impressive than the huge majority of people you meet)...
Also true (I guess) very difficult to make a good assumption about it.
> but it's layer #1 of a defense in depth strategy

It's literally not: Layer 1 defense for an airborne respiratory virus is the upper respiratory system with nasal/mucosal immunity.

Vaccines delivered by injection to the deltoid muscle provide blood/serum defenses, we could call that "Layer 2", defending against whatever makes it past Layer 1.
Exactly my point.

Unless you experienced some barrier that made you sure that you had a problem, you wouldn't even know that you had a problem (unless we are talking about advanced stage glaucoma or something like that- but these are mostly age-related ailments).

And the more you go back in time, the less the number of people that would find out. Glasses were certainly an upper-class thing, as reading was an upper class thing.

I did not even realize that I had a problem with my eyes until I found out that I could not see the blackboard from a distance that other kids could.

Before that, I just thought that the blackboard couldn't be seen at all from that distance, and I found a nice zone from where I could read everything without risking the chalk-dust.

Until I compared my reading ability at distance with several friends, I did not even know that I had a problem.
> I’d love to see what you come up with.

Nice try, Feds! :P
No because survival is closely tied to evolution. By mere survival an agent creates its own structure and values. It can't evolve if it doesn't risk its skin in the game. The price of our present day intelligence has been very high.

But you can piggyback AI training on human culture and embody the agent in our environment so it can still function like a conscious biological agent. The AI is just passing the buck to humans, without us it wouldn't even have a goal.

On the other hand all living things have goals without human help. Maybe when AIs can self replicate their information into the future like us, without external help, they could be eventually conscious. We don't know yet how to make physical self replicators that evolve. Only nature solved this riddle so far.

BTW, AlphaGo was subjected to evolutionary techniques, and it shows. The agents had to duel with clones and past versions of themselves. Survival was conditioned on win rate. Suddenly AI can surpass humans in this little environment, but that came at the price of discarding so many unfit earlier versions.
EU law prohibits the collection of social media account information

I looked it up, and by my reading it does prohibit collection of social media account information. However, it's not clear to me that these protections apply to non-EU residents? Any actual lawyers able to chime in on this?

I guess at worst, any suspicious US citizens will have their internet details collected? Since we do the same to EU citizens, I guess I can't complain, but this creeping global data collection monster really gets under my skin.
I'd like to see some statistics for that. IIRC most of the big marvel/dc comic movies did significantly better in the US than outside. It sort of makes sense as well, those comic books were not as big for the generation that is 30+ now in those other countries.

The too complex dialogue argument also doesn't really make sense considering that movies get translated in the biggest overseas markets.
Microsoft: Still a National Security Threat
“Newton’s Apple Tree” Falls to Storm Eunice
I am not so sure about Europe and Russia with Belarus belonging to it. They require their own visas anyway. Please don’t mix things up.
Russia roughly takes up the eastern third of Europe. What we call Eastern Europe is roughly the middle third.
@dang Title should have (2020) appended to it
This is neat. 1st letter, 2nd, then 3rd as simple lengths of runs; If you compressed a whole dictionary this way, it's possible you could then compress a document against that dictionary even further.

My only claim in this post is that anything can be pre-sorted if you want to achieve some better DS compression but of course, that means you have to have some map to undo the sorting after you decompress it (and obviously the utility only exceeds the computation time if the documents are longer than the associated dictionaries). The person who wrote the gameboy wordle compression did it by necessity, which is beautiful, and the way people used to do things when you had to fit them into tiny structures like that, so, huzzah! to that person.

But yeah, the observation that you could handle 40% reduction on the first two characters is a good clue.

So much has been missed in lossless image compression, along the same creative lines. We humans can look at an image of a red-black-yellow Cardinal bird sitting on a green-gray stem in the middle of a forest, and basically compress it in our mind in a way you'd have to throw thousands of CPU hours against. If you knew you only had to consider a red bird on a green background, you would have a whole different domain-specific strategy for compression; the amazing thing about our minds is that we can devise that compression strategy from the inputs, remember the strategy for that specific set, and then recall our own compression strategy well enough to decompress the data later.

There was, actually, an attempt in the 90s to do something they labeled "fractal compression" which was more or less an attempt to come up with a lambda function for a particular image; extremely CPU expensive to compress, and might or might not be lossy depending on the goal, but the salient thing was that the compression strategy was unique for each image. That didn't really work out as a commercial concept for a whole host of reasons. But it's one of those corners of extremely clever pre-modern code that might be worth a bundle to revisit now.

So if you wanna code something really, really fun -- consider a fully adaptive compressor that comes up with a specific strategy for each general sub-batch of use cases.

If you want to start a company doing that, let me know because I literally just came up with this idea 12 seconds ago.
The question at the border is "Have you ever visited Iran?", Not "Do you have a stamp for Iran in this passport?".

Since passenger lists on flights around the world are pretty much public information, the US immigration services will know exactly where you have visited in the past, and could totally put you in prison for lying when answering the question.
Experience with Viruses on Unix Systems (1989) [pdf]
Contains source code for a few shell script viruses, including a one-liner.
> If you have an Iranian passport stamp, I would expect very pointed questions at US immigration

Or any number of things. I know of multiple French citizens born in "suspect" for the Americans places like Algiers and Beirut who have had extensive questioning on arrival at the US, including the mindbogglingly stupid " why were you born there?".
Regarding interest rates, they are already up. I got a house 4 months ago at 2.85%, and now they are 4.2%. I can't speak to whether investment in tech will drop. Lately, there is so much spare money floating around investors can't find homes for it. Inflation suggests to me _more_ desperation to have the money invested, not less. And the net cause seems to be a steady stream of wealth consolidation allows a smaller subset of the economy to hold more and more wealth.
Take it up with the Ural Mountains, I guess.

That or use the term 'EU' when you mean 'EU'.
Come on, really? You think there's a significant subset of rationalists who are quasi-Dualists? Not just people who are bog-standard materialists who are just being sloppy with language when talking about emergent conscious systems because they don't care about or actively disdain most philosophy?

On the other hand, Searle confidently states that a perfect quantum mechanical simulation of a human brain would not be conscious. This is because it somehow lacks the intentional states of the brain it's perfectly simulating. He doesn't feel the need to justify that a human mind has these states, because our daily direct experience of consciousness cannot seriously be in question. The daily direct experience of consciousness that a perfect simulation of a human brain would assert that it feels is, somehow, different and we can't trust it.

At every step in his argument there's caveats, misleading allegory, and dismissals that are so much of a stretch it seems pretty obvious he's retroactively arguing from a position that our biological conscious minds are somehow special and mystic.
For Whom The Whistle Blows: On polarization online and elsewhere
I want to second this. All the answers to the OP that pop into my head can be learned from the How to talk so kids will listen series.
Google Tag Manager data can be used to optimize your recommendation engine. It can help with Google Ads as well. It is a 3rd party handling some precious and maybe private data, but it has a low barrier of entry.
I think it was initially Apache licinse but they re-licensed to MIT in order to submit it to CNCF.
Not to current fingerprinting methods, they are not.
If all countries imposed visa reciprocity, Europeans would lose a lot of their visa free privileges too.

The fundamental principle deciding visa restrictions isn't reciprocity, it's power.
In header file's line 12, is there two different semicolons? Is one of them actually semicolon-looking another Unicode character?

(https://github.com/ibara/cpaint/blob/21c70acba373df932920d5f...)
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmavihara

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karu%E1%B9%87%C4%81
Exactly, this is already done for tracking scripts, since it's commong to use proxies to load tracking scripts.
C#/.NET/CLR are competing against Java/JRE/JVM.

So reinventing "everything" in a Windows Server environment is slowly coming to an end, with Windows server becoming a hypervisor for VMs/containers and a runtime for .NET/CLR.

The economics of getting all of the FOSS infrastructure tooling in a "Windows native" form is being beaten by just running them in containers/VMs on whatever hypervisor is available.

In the same way, Linux is becoming a hypervisor for containers and the various container runtimes.
> Maybe using an archive.is-like service that renders the static page (as an image at the extreme), or a Tor-like service and randomizes one's IP address and browser fingerprint.

I'm building a peer-to-peer network of Web Browsers [1] that doesn't trust anything by default, and only allows to render types of content incrementally; while disabling JS completely. Most of the time, you can find out what the content is with heuristics. The crappy occasional web apps that don't work without JS can be rendered temporarily in an isolated sandbox in /tmp anyways.

I think that the only way to get ahead of the adblocking game is to instead of maintaining blocklists, we need to move to a system that has allowlists for content. The user has to be able to decide whether they're expecting a website serving a video, or whether the expectation is to get text content, image content, audio content etc. News websites are the prime example of how "wrong" ads can get. Autoplayed videos, dozens of popups, flashing advertisements and I haven't even had time to read a single paragraph of the article.

And to get ahead of the "if fanboy gets hit by the bus" problem... we need to crowdsource this kind of meta information in a decentralized and distributed manner.

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth
You check the loaded script itself to see if it matches an expected pattern.
Steve Bourne used a set of macros to enable ALGOL-like programming in C and used it to implement his Unix shell - https://research.swtch.com/shmacro
A Vicious Cycle: The Dangerous Dehumanisation of Cyclists
Americans are exceptional. Reciprocity isn’t allowed
We have something similar https://github.com/gocardless/nandi

It does signature checking and some and some other helpful things.
Imagine destroying an industry (travel), peoples livelihoods (tourism), and one of the major hallmarks of human experience (seeing the world) all because you want power over peoples lives.

This benefits NO ONE.

EDIT: And before anyone says it, the American system needs to be removed too!
Could be true. Some of the last star wars feel like the storyline was made by teenagers.
I think I've been where you are. You may also want to check out Fable.

Anyway, I maintain a very complex SPA, where the react+hooks+async approach (and whatever there was before hooks) backfires. Hooks like useEffect itself turn into event handlers (Chains of useEffect clauses triggering each other's dependencies, sometimes across multiple components), and component composition and rendering becomes basically a way to declare async work flows. At some point this is very hard to follow and maintain, and this is where redux and saga come in. Saga allows me to cut down on the boilerplate and define the async logic in an almost synchronous manner, once I got the hang of it. I also don't see how saga is much boilerplate when used right.

Also: Use createSelector and useSelector for almost everything. A selector doesn't just reduce the store's data, it can also perform computations and "elevate" the data from serializable stuff to fancier class instances (using 3rd part libraries). Composing graphs of selectors means extracting much of the display logic and computing out of the components, and it also means faster applications because of memoization.

But the point is you really need to use every part of the stack to find the sweet spot: Typescript (with ActionType etc), Thunks (for simpler async tasks, but optional), createAction (for typing mainly), createSelector, and optionally/ideally Redux Toolkit and RTK Query.
> I think they call it "Schengen-land", named after an obscure town in Luxembourg.

Strictly speaking it's not named after the town, but after the agreements which were signed there, which grant the right of check-free border crossings to citizens of signatory countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement
It is indeed, thank you for the link!
Interesting, though it looks like tp_smapi stops around the T410 or T420 so maybe ~2010 systems? The workarounds for unsupported devices has relevant options for more modern systems.
“Schengen area”, after the treaty to create it, which was signed in the Luxembourg town (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area)
and yet i don't tell my plumbers to give me a standup for the day.

I tell them what i wanted achieved, and i pay. it gets done. If there's a delay, i expect the plumber to tell me promptly, and i re-evaluate the work.

Some programmers do get treated this way - consultants and such. But the majority is not - they are considered a cog in a machine.
Imagine if we could sort Google search results alphabetically. Imagine if we could sort Facebook "News Feeds" by any criteria. How would this affect advertising.

There is a book some folks mention written about alphabetical order. There was also a book written some years prior about the telephone book. Google has obliterated alphabetical business listings.
The shapes often render with extremities occluded, leaving me to random guessing. Maybe render them in a more canonical way so that we can see at least a decent hint at the extent.
Why Tor failed to hide the bomb hoaxer at Harvard (2013)
Jupiter Ascending. Reminiscence. Tenet. I don't think Ad Astra did that well.
5% speed improvement in my tooling would result in about 0.0000001% improvement in my productivity. first of all, so little of what we do is about the tooling. yes, it's very helpful, but no tool, no matter how good, can tell you how to migrate a monolithic service into microseconds microservices with no downtime and no data loss. maybe if we didn't fuck up the original implementation such things wouldn't be needed but there's still trillions of lines of code out there and they aren't going to rewrite themselves. Google and Facebook aren't going to be overthrown by some hot new IDE with autocode built in.

secondly.. 5% is nothing. our tooling is so effing slow it needs a 1000x improvement. not in how fast we can write code, just to compile and test the damn stuff.

speaking of, amazons reasoning tech sounds interesting.

at best this tech will cut out some L3 maybe L4 jobs, but L5+ isn't writing code anymore. which in itself will be interesting because new grads are hired at L3.. how will they ever get hired if those slots are tightened up?
Animal experiments have shown that the eye adapts to focusing distances and specific wavelenghts can induce more myopia than others.

There is also some evidence that UV radiation breaks down growth hormones.

This means computer screens and books don't matter, only time spent outdoors with a bright sun has protective effects. Alternatively you can get one of those ortho K lenses that prevent myopia from getting significantly worse when you are a child, they are very expensive though for something that our body should do for free.
Do you spend a lot of time just deciding what to watch on Netflix? Any hacks?
How do you decide what to watch?
I just can't make up my mind.
> I want them to be able to see what doesn't work in terms of user experience.

That's not what they're doing, at all. They want to be able to see what doesn't work in terms of maximising profits. That may correlate with good user experience sometimes, but more often it results in the opposite.
> The question at the border is "Have you ever visited Iran?"

Is that something only people on ESTA get asked? Never heard of people on visas being asked that.
Yup.

Then it would again boil back down to who forgets to run that to get caught/doxxed.
Nacirema
There are solutions to most of that, e.g. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/consent-o-matic/md...
Not sure where you got that from the article, in-fact I get the inverse.
It’s even worse for some people. They promote that they read it which gives them undue credibility for their unpalatable ways of operating.
>the #1 objection is about the expense to poor people

It amazes me when people who have no interest in the plight of the poor suddenly start spouting this.

Even more so when you consider that the poor aren't creating this problem, their carbon emissions are minimal. In many ways they stand to gain from changes to reduce emissions (improved provision for walking and cycling, better public transport, etc). The poor really don't give a shit if your flight across the Atlantic gets more expensive.
Ask HN: Do you get replies from Pinboard's support?
This is the Politics of Eternity as Timothy Snyder calls it. The idea that we are replaying history, that Russia is in a historical cycle of victimhood, that everything always remains the same, with the same threats lurking. Just like Groundhog Day, any attempt of change is futile and in fact stupid as we supposedly know what is going to happen.

It's obviously absurd - he didn't have to attack Ukraine and ruin relations with the West; but by distracting with cherry-picked historical facts it creates an air of deep knowledge and sophistication. He chose to perpetuate the cycle of confrontation.

It is not a 100% honest belief, as the Kremlin has a long tradition of falsifying history to fit its agenda. And given the importance of "history", controlling the past is an attempt to control the present and future. One classic example of how history is changed to fit narratives is Zhukov's memoirs. You would think they wouldn't change much, but they have 12 editions that contradict each other. Each edition claims that his daughter has found new sheets of paper or that they've simply restored what the previous editors had removed.

It is really frustrating how uncritically these views of history are accepted, critical thinking out of the window. Western historians are more often worse than reading Russian historians as the former stick to extremely biased 'official sources'.

In the Groundhog Day eventually the main character learns something and breaks out the cycle. I wonder how many times it has to repeat for that to happen in our case, but I know for sure no rethinking of the past and future is possible under Putin.
> Social Media accounts - yes, I was surprised to see that on my visa form 2 years ago.

Is that part of the ESTA questions these days? I have heard reports but couldn't find a screenshot or similar.
Now compare that to the early days of printing. That difference is much larger.
Right? Consciousness involves agency, self reflection, motivations, a sense of urgency. And a good deal of "theory of mind" and self denial.

I'll give it to cats and dogs, birds, the apes, and many other critters, but not AI. Those things are separate developmental tracks, and not included in AI research, from what I can see. They aren't going to spontaneously arise, and it seems to me that they all came before we achieved sentience at all.
If you are interested in such things, I suggest Buddhist Logic and Epistemology: Studies in the Buddhist Analysis of Inference and Language, and Epistemology, Logic, and Grammar In Indian Philosophical Analysis, by Bimal Krishna Matilal and Lokayata: A Study in Ancient Indian Materialism and Science and Society in Ancient India by Debiprasad Chattyopadhyay.
Lots of countries take fingerprints when you get a visa - Russia, China, India all come to mind.