skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are being insufficiently mediate-literate and skeptical and willing to take screenshots at face-value, given that I just demonstrated that a widely-cited example is in fact maliciously and misleadingly edited to remove the context and lie to the viewer about what happened. Did any of the coverage you read mention that? No, they did not. So why do you trust them on everything else and assume they did a good job researching and factchecking when they were so clearly wrong on that one? Why do you believe the others are not repeat-after-mes? Shouldn't the burden of proof be on anyone who claims a specific tweet can be trusted even if those others are bad?

If I go through 'tay ai' (as I have before), I see much the same thing: I see a lot of clearly edited squirrely images, which remove all of the context, and when they appear to include context, the UI looks wrong (some of these are clearly using the 'Replies' tab on the Tay page, instead of being on the actual convo thread; why? to remove the context with the repeat-after-mes or which would show Tay is just spitting out lots of canned generic responses, of course), and like some tweets are being edited out and the remainder spliced together. Do you really think that a 2016-era mass market chatbot (sub-char-RNN in power, often relying on heavily engineered template/script databases) really knows how to do Trump memes complete with clap emoji? What dataset has those? Of course not. It's just a repeat-after-me where the initial tweets were edited out. (What? Someone edit a screenshot, especially where no one can check the original, to score political points? You really think someone would do that - just go on the Internet and tell lies?)

If we look at ones which seem semi-legitimate, like the genocide one, then all we are seeing is typical chatbot evasiveness and generic Eliza-level responses, cherrypicked out of the 100k or so tweets Tay made before they were all deleted. "Do you support $X?" "I do indeed". Wow! Stunning evidence that 'Microsoft turned an advanced AI loose on the Internet and trolls taught it to be evil', as the narrative goes.

So, like I said. All of the long, coherent, strikingly detailed and most offensive ones appear to be either blatantly or probably repeat-after-mes, while the plausible ones are empty chatbot spacefilling cherrypicked out of countless thousands of tweets and made to look more offensive by implying they are the same as the troll-written repeat-after-mes. Neither one supports the broad narrative Tay is used for by OP. And we can note that, beyond the points I've raised here like "how on earth did it 'learn' so quickly" and "there is no evidence it even had 'learning' turned on", there is generally a striking lack of replications of Tay. Which is exactly what you would expect if all the really offensive ones were due to a single ill-considered repeat-after-me feature left enabled, and the rest are just chatbot phaticisms.
It looks like the node-ipc has become a target for spam issues lately[0]. This reminds me of what happened with Notepad++[1] (except that was nothing compared to what the node-ipc maintainer did.)

EDIT: looks like Notepad++ also made a political statement about the crisis in Ukraine[2].

[0]: https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-ipc/issues?q=is%3Aissu...
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21400526
[2]: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v833-make-apps-not-war/
> Because vehicles bring value

So you must now convince people why crypto does not bring value, which first requires coherently stating the argument for why it does - which most skeptics fail and which you have not attempted.

> I'd be shocked if video games as an industry outranked crypto for energy use

The point is that they use energy, and is that energy worth the benefit? No one brings that up when discussing climate - so an ignorance of the value crypto can bring must be the source rather than genuine bookkeeping on value vs. energy usage. If we are really cutting back than I don't see how most video games have any place in our electric grid.

> Machine Learning is computationally expensive, but unlike crypto, is basically constantly trying to make their systems faster and more efficient all the time.

Unlike crypto? This is why skeptics like you get ridiculed. Spending two days researching crypto will reveal that most of the market which isn't into simply holding Bitcoin and waiting or DeFi schemes is solely focused on making ledgers more efficient.

> scaling current crypto up to that levels would bring its energy use to astronomical levels.

Again raw ignorance of the technology, economics and logistics of it all drives your thinking. Layered, custodial approaches, PoS advancements and why that all works seem to be beyond what you understand about the space despite your persistent pontification about the direction it should be heading.
What is the end-game in Ukraine?
How does it compare to NewPipe, feature-wise? Also, can someone describe "piped" briefly? A DDG search yields too many irrelevant results (e.g. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=piped)
Nothing stops OP to comment it.
Yeah, I've been thinking about how to tackle this and I am convinced any personal note taking app should have an archive all and start over button.

A clean sheet is intimidating when you don't know where to start but is a hard requirement downstream once your chosen abstraction starts to break under the weight.
I mean isn’t this a function of all this stuff being ad supported?

Brands don’t want ads next to porn. That seems like the core of the issue here.
> What’s with the obsession with CP?

It's been the go-to outrage generator for federal law enforcement and spy agencies to use to attack strong device and end-to-end encryption by means of legislation that requires backdoors our outlaws encryption that is too strong.

To see why, scroll down to see the guy advocating for the death penalty for people involved in child porn production.

If only law enforcement showed equal vigor for addressing child abuse in religion, whether it's raping altar boys or using the mouth to clean blood off a baby that has been circumcised (often causing syphilis outbreaks in the process.)

It's almost like it's not actually about fighting child abuse, but about being able to snoop in your devices and communications.
I guess we don't want to wait to find out.
Just try reading IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black or if you can read french "Libres d'obéir: Le management, du nazisme à aujourd'hui" by Johann Chapoutot to start.

From recent web resources I suggest:

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/17/nazis-based-th...

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/23/uks-propaganda...

- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/31/louis-de-berni...

- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/11/trump-...

Just to pick the first I've read recently. The history not cherry-picked say a thing: when nazism and fascism born their idea was common in all western countries from their élites to some not-so-small cohort of their populations. Just like today's populism.

BTW, yes Stalin (one who took money from UK Crown, with the excuse of reliefs for Ukraine famine, via some formal "NGOs" ante-litteram) have signed an agreement with the nazi, but only after he understand that the western countries will never be partners. And future development have proved he have had good points, just read about "Operation Unthinkable" and "Operation Dropshot"...
It can be as much or as little as you want, really. If you are completely new to Emacs and org-mode, you can take just a little time to learn a few shortcut keys and the basic formatting, and you are off. And, yes, then you can spend forever learning more and making it the way you want. But critically, you don't have to and can be up and running as quick as anything else.
Intentional destruction of property is considered unlawful in most societies. I'm not sure why you would even question that?
While Google has in the past been a formidable competitor, I no longer consider them a serious threat to a customer-obsessed tech company such as Shopify, Amazon or even Walmart.

Google can't even compete on search with it's own search engine of 15 years ago in terms of the quality of the product. The entire front page is made of ads for many common searches these days, and for most searches everything above the fold is a first-party or 3rd party ad.

As a long-time Googler and now X-Googler, I've seen the operation from the inside. Google is now a fat and arrogant monopoly that is unwilling to take risks with employees more interested in getting the next promotion than building the next big thing. They still hire amazing talent thanks to their brand and compensation, but the focus of this talent is on getting promoted or playing politics not on building products that people love.

As an example, a few years ago they tried to take on Amazon and Instacart in a similar market - home shopping delivery. After several failed iterations, they abandoned the market, fired everyone on the project and moved on as if nothing happened. I expect a similar outcome in this case.
They sure seem to have a LOT of "oversights" of this kind. AppGet comes to mind when I read this.

Either it's a cultural issue, or that the management are sorry they got caught. I'm thinking this is more of the second option.
The ads and forced Microsoft accounts and forced upgrades have nothing to do with development methodology. All of those features can be implemented either with a meeting-hell broken-waterfall model or with an Agile® model. The problem is that the higher ups at Microsoft want those misfeatures.

If you restricted yourself to only the telemetry thing you'd have a point, since some models are reliant on spying on users to figure out what works and what doesn't, while other models are reliant on good UX thinking hard about the space and doing user testing. Even there thought, I bet the main problem is that user testing is more expensive than spying on users.

A proper critique of the development model would look at the huge and increasing number of broken, half-broken or idiosyncratic features. Pointing to well-implemented but user-hostile features is a broader critique of the direction of the company.
That’s when you know the technical conversation in this thread will go nowhere. That’s the solution? Aircraft carriers? Really? Some tech people do have a strong sense of entitlement about how easy some problems are to solve.
when I went on estrogen I was surprised how much strength I lost, especially grip strength. I couldn't open jars that I'd been previously able to brute-force through. I hadn't been working out either before or during transition. I've heard muscles are "use it or lose it" on hormones - you can retain the increased strength from testosterone - somewhat - through training, but if you don't it's gone for good.
David Allen is a leader of The Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. Between cargo cult and actual cults I have a low opinion of programmers in general. Programmers think everything needs a system or an abstraction. I guess when all you have is a hammer everything is a nail.
Steam isn't ad supported.
> The main issue is that barriers to entry in software are very low

Great point. This is such a double edged sword because it is the reason that I got into software in the first place.
I'd probably drop the fine and call what you call fine art, art. But functionally, would likely agree with the distinctions you make between them.
Anytime a breaking API change happens in the API used by YouTubes frontend apps like piped[0] (the YouTube interface for this project) or NewPipe[1] tend to break too. This is mostly due the majority of these players not employing the Google YouTube API but instead accessing and/ or scraping the publicly available routes exposed for/ by the YouTube fronted. (You may also find most of the streaming aspect is similiar/ the same as youtube-dl)

[0]: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
[1]: https://newpipe.net/
>>> These articles assume that techies have access to secret wisdom about the harmful effects of technology on children. Based on two decades of living among, working with, and researching Silicon Valley technology employees, I can confidently assert that this secret knowledge does not exist.

LOL, this didn't age well. See for example Facebook's attempt to suppress reports on how their technology is harmful to teen girls.
I don't see why it has to become less likely for those who care about performance (which major games usually do). Translating DX12 or DX11 into Vulkan has performance overhead, even if you manage to run the game better than on Windows itself (for example Cyberpunk 2077 performs on Linux better than on Windows now). But native releases can perform even better.

And it's probably not always the case that Windows games perform better on Linux through translation than on Windows.

Besides, Wine has to play constant catch up to all kind of NIH stuff that MS will produce. Direct storage is the new one that doesn't have any translation implementation yet. So value of native releases won't disappear.
>Fascism strikes me as the politics of the brain stem.

not surprisingly that German's back then and the today's Russian fascism (which is closer to German Nazism than to Italian fascism) each appeared after a decade of economic and political disorder and were precipitated by a terroristic acts after which tired and scared people happily clang to the promise of order and stability by a "strong hand".

Germany - military defeat and crash of empire, the decade of disorder, the burn of Reichstag leads to Hitler taking total power, a decade of tightening of all political screws and huge nationalistic "master race" propaganda, directly appealing to the brain stem and thus supported by population, culminate in genocidal (wrt. Jews and Slavic) war.

Russia - military defeat (Cold War and Afghanistan) and crash of empire, the decade of disorder, the multiple apartment building by FSB in September of 1999 leads to Putin taking total power, 2 decades of tightening of all political screws and huge nationalistic "master nation" ("Great Russia chauvinism") propaganda, the same way directly appealing to the brain stem and thus supported by population, culminate in the genocidal war against Ukrainians (UN genocide definition https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml). If history is any guide there is no other end here except like in WWII - the coalition should take over Russia and completely denazify and demilitarize it like it was done to Germany. Such profound war loss and failure of society and the following rework of country and society is what gets to the population's brain stem. Just beating the military like in WWI isn't enough as it only excites that basic instinct of tribal nationalism.
At this point, if you're missing a critical feature or GUI in VS Code its because you're probably missing a config or a plugin.
I'll shill a little and answer this question:

Short-term: The only way out of this is to review + whitelist every package before it hits the NPM registry. This is something my company is building and we did a write up about it (and Node-ipc) here[0].

Longer term answer: Something like Deno needs to take off that adds permissions per dependency. We need to sandbox all untrusted code by default.

0: https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/node-ipc-protestware
In this case it was pretty much addressed: few people have installed the malicious version, due to lockfiles and it being quickly blackholed from the ecosystem, by the major package through which this dependency snuck in (vue-cli, IIRC) quickly pinning its dependency to the unaffected version.
How reliable are those "unmetered old world hostings", because "old world" hostings for me mean they can go down any time and I can call them as much as I want and no one will pick up.

If AWS is down I don't have to call anyone, half of the internet is already twitting/posting it and they will be up quite soon.
Could you provide an example of such a law? To my knowledge the US courts and legal systems have been fairly consistent that sexual content is protected under the First Amendment.

The main culprit appears to be the prudishness and conservatism of large companies, somewhat big tech companies but especially credit card companies and payment processors.
You seem to be veering. I don't even know what TFA is, and I certainly wasn't talking about it - get a grip man. Are you seriously trying to tell me that information about opening moves that don't work isn't going to be useful to new teachers? Get your act together.
Neat - but who’s gaming on a Chromebook?
I do have one, it helps a lot with config files. I also tried versioning some bash scripts there to install stuff, but the latter doesn't feel quite right.
Even this comment contains nipples.

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This submission should have a (2016)/(2017) on it. I looked at the image caption example and immediately went 'wait, that's wrong, current 2020/2021 captioners would get that right', but of course, for 2017 that's plausible.
Ah okay apologies, thought Duchamp made it. But yeah, I'd agree with you, they saw something as art that was not created to be. So they're just wrong.

It's like if someone couldn't find a toilet so they just took a dump on a display toilet at Home Depot. Someone comes along and calls it art. They're wrong. That's just fecal matter.
Can it get sillier than this?
Wow, this actually makes getting a European plan tempting here in the US.

Not sure how feasible it is or what I'd have to work around, but aside from that, it makes more sense than any plan I've used stateside.
> I actually agree this is destroying your credibility as an author and caused me to search all projects author is involved in and blacklist them.

“FOSS developer” is hardly a career. Nobody is losing out on income by you blacklisting their projects.
What is this post about exactly? Reddit has more porn than any one person can possibly see in a lifetime. Twitter too.

Apple and Facebook took a middle of the line approach to avoid offending people.

Also sex is a hard line to walk. There’s just so much shady shit out there that is exploitative and done in bad faith. It’s much easier to set conservative rules and leave other dedicated spaces for more provocative content.
I could see the idea of a written initial interview maybe being okay or useful, but wow, this particular one is awful. I think I'd rather write a bunch about how it's terrible than answer it.

This is a full page of huge open-ended questions. To really answer all of them fully for someone highly qualified could be book-length and take more than a week of full-time work to produce. No way I'm doing that for any company. A good written interview would have to be time and length restricted to like an hour or two and a couple of pages max.

There's a tremendous number of questions about high school life. This is basically absurd - I graduated high school decades ago, nothing that happened there is relevant to my potential work performance. I'm a very different person from who I was then, and I don't much care to dredge up a bunch of irrelevant old memories for a job interview.

The high school and college questions seem to fly in the face of the claimed goal of diversity and elimination of bias too. I think of it like, imagine the schools in Season 4 of The Wire. In a truly bias-free process, someone who went to a school like that and decided to pursue the straight life and get into tech and did pretty well at it could get hired. How do you think whoever is reading this is going to react if your real answer to how you spent high school was "Academic achievement? Lol. Nobody gave a shit about that, we spent our time slinging dope and laughing at the teachers." Or "College, what? I spent 5 years in jail for dealing drugs. I decided the gangster life isn't for me, but computers are cool, so I taught myself coding. Turns out I'm actually pretty good at it, but I don't really have time or money for college." Maybe they're actually okay with that, but the questions they're asking signal that anyone not from a white-bread background with good high school and college experience need not apply.
We have much better storage methods. The most mature is "pumped hydro" to a water reservoir up a hill. (Not the same as a hydroelectric dam, which needs, and damages, a watershed.) We are building liquidified-air storage. (Liquifying air is very mature tech.) We are preparing underground hydrogen repositories, in places where we had been used to banking natural gas. We are building ammonia synthesis factories.

Less mature tech is also ramping up. We are building out factories to build out iron-air batteries. A 20,000 ton weight suspended on cables in a deep mine shaft. Pumped hydro from a deep earth cavity. Pumped hydro out of deep ocean tanks. Methane and kerosene synthesis.

The most remarkable quality of energy storage tech is how its cost is plummeting even faster than solar and wind generation.

The chemical synthesis and liquified-air tech is interesting in that the production apparatus remains useful even after the tanks are full, and building out tanks for more storage is very cheap. They call attention to the separate qualities of storage that will be optimized for each use: (1) How fast can it bank energy, (2) how much power can it release when needed, (3) How quickly can power output be adjusted, (4) how much of the energy you put in do you get back, (5) Is the storage medium or equipment useful for more than storage, (6) Is the stored energy transportable?

Places at high latitudes, and in general places where the mix of renewables and transmission-line power are not stable enough, can still ship in and stockpile chemical storage banked in places with reliable power. Equatorial, coastal desert land will be an excellent place to site solar collection for this purpose: Coastal Peru, Boa Vista in the Cape Verde Islands, coastal Mali or Senegal, numerous sites on and near the Arabian peninsula and the Horn of Africa, northwestern Australia. Other coastal sites with reliable wind, likewise. (Political stability is likely to be more important than convenience, though.)

Perhaps the most surprising thing about storage is that, in common cases, its round-trip efficiency doesn't matter very much. Other things have come to matter more, as raw generating cost continues on down. Hydrogen is a good example: it is so useful, industrially and as a feedstock for other chemical synthesis, that use for storage is just an easy bonus. Ammonia, similarly; demand for fertilizer and ship fuel makes production a major source of revenue when the storage tanks are full.
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What makes you think it’s not geographically even (at least in a country like the US)?
Thanks for the link, this is great. Cheers.
It is not. The closest I have personally encountered was a company(Illumina) that had as part of their screening process an automated video interview where they provide prompts, you have 60 seconds to formulate your answer, and then you are expected to give 2-5 minute answers.

I noped out on question 1, which was the usual fluffy question about "what makes you so excited to work at Illumina?" It's not worth wasting my time if they aren't going to even have a human speak to me.

This is exactly why I tell people the best time to search for a job is when you are gainfully employed. If I was unemployed and running low on funds, I might have followed through with that interview. Because I already had a decent job and was just looking for interesting work in an area I wanted to be in, it was very easy for me to have standards and say no.