skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a foresight practitioner (otherwise known as a 'futurist') in the policy making space. I am a member of two organizations that focus on applying foresight in policy making space, one with a focus on intergenerational fairness and another on participatory futures (civic engagement & foresight).

Clients include the full run of international organizations, e.g. UNICEF, UNDP, and so on, and international foundations.

We're not in the business of predictions or focus on techno-solutionisms, rather we help policymakers and organizations understand different ways social change can unfold and impact them and help them build strategies that navigate around these changes.

I like what I do and feels it has high social impact. I just wish it paid better and wouldn't mind working with a long-term fund or VC as an additional side gig to make that happen.
What prevents malicious person to craft their code until it evades your analysis? It's the same with antiviruses. They're not that useful because adversaries adapt their viruses to pass antivirus heuristics. And, as viruses show, you can make your heuristics whatever complex, someone smart will find a way around. Especially in that wild JavaScript environment.
File management is another one I'd like to add to the list of macOS screwups. How can viewing lists of files and moving them over from one place to another be so complicated?
thanks man! This goes straight to my heart (yeah, I'm chris, I amended the message on sslping.com to show my HN profile).
I surely didn't expect SSLPing to END its life on the first page of HN. I'm sad today, really sad :( but my users were the best!
Agreed. The distinction between applications and windows that macOS/Mac OS has always made was jarring at first, but definitely one of those things that after the initial adjustment simply feel different rather than objectively better or worse.
> I've never heard an anti-car person call for public transit in the sticks.

I don't think anti-car people call for rural public transit as much as they ignore rural, suburban, and exurban areas altogether. They call for "banning cars" (or drastically reducing them) without articulating how this would actually work outside of dense cities.

> While "make everything dense again" is kind of the end-goal, the way we get there isn't so much by "forcing" people to move into dense urban areas. At least, not unless you consider markets to be a form of coercion, in which case everything is "forced" all of the time and I have no argument for you. What happens is that we stop overplanning zoning codes, let commercial and residential zones mix, and allow the market to do it's job rather than just lining the pockets of whoever bought into the neighborhood 30 years ago.

I'm kind of fine with this (I like walkable neighborhoods!). I would like more mixing of residential and commercial (more, smaller shops), but I think it's a foregone conclusion that this would result in the kind of dramatically increased density that makes European-style public transit ubiquitous (a lot of people like space, and there's a lot of it in the US). I certainly don't think that's going to happen on a time scale that allows us to skip EVs while meeting climate targets like the OP suggests.

> As to your point about urban chauvinism, I do want to point out that while New Urbanism (the thing you're talking about) is really prevalent in urban spaces, so are NIMBYs. It's not so much "everyone should live like us"; it's an argument between people who want city centers to actually be cities and people who still think mixed-use land is the path to crack-era Manhattan.

I'm not sure what New Urbanism is, but I would be fine with urban people quibbling about how urban spaces should look (I live in a major US city); however, this debate isn't scoped exclusively to cities.

> Dense urban spaces are already so desirable now that pretty much every formerly-cheap neighborhood has been gentrified to the hilt. If more people want to live in a dense urban area, then why shouldn't the housing market be allowed to cater to that desire and expand the urban core outwards or upwards?

I don't think this is true except perhaps in NYC or the Bay Area. But in general I don't think anyone has a problem with the concept of expanding urban density (although there's surely some NIMBYism from people who don't want their suburb to be the target of urban expansion).
I teach high school English. I appreciate that I am able to wake up every day and live my values, but I believe my time in the classroom is coming to an end.

I’m quietly connecting with friends and acquaintances that work in tech to explore what new door to open (UX/UXR, B2B Sales, Account Management, Project Management), but I won’t actively begin pursuing a new position until July 1.

That said, if anyone is willing to discuss pathways - email is in my profile.
I grew up in rural Vermont in the 90s. We lived on a dirt road. We were homeschooled, had spotty cell service at best, and when we did have a computer my parents limited it to 30 minutes of use at a time.

I spent a lot of time doing nothing growing up. We had a big yard so I spent a lot of time outside. Mostly doing nothing. Sometimes having bonfires where we sat, talked, and did nothing. Somedays I read.

But mostly I did a lot of nothing. I was bored sometimes but honestly I miss those days. I miss waking up and thinking that I had nothing to do and letting the day drag on and on.
> 4. Someone refutes your myth from (1)

I wouldn't say flat earthers refute any myth, yet they disagree with people and it enrages some of those people.

You really think people have an identity of being a round earther?
I definitely did checkout Glicol, sorry I didn't call it out along with the others but I wanted to focus one the "uses existing old-school C/C++ audio engine compiled to wasm as a server" question. I understand you wrote your own custom engine in Rust. I saw your post in the comment section related to Overtone and was actually going to reply saying to you that I appreciated your work. I think I watched all of your Youtube video demos, even the ones on QuaverSeries.

The other small project that was interesting to me (that seems to have partially disappeared) was Sporth. The webpage for that has an unfortunate message saying the project was taken down to respect csound community.
President Biden may not, but Fed certainly is. Remember with the eurodollar system, Fed's role at this point is pretty much a liquidity provider for anyone and everyone which they did with unconditional access to swap lines etc. since April 2020 injecting trillions of dollars of liquidity into the system. The inflation we are seeing right now is largely a by-product of that. Fed with its utterly irresponsible course of acts over the past two years is directly responsible for this crisis. Their choice at this point is doomed to crash the US economy with recession if they want to do anything measurable to fight inflation. Which if they end up doing, will largely invalidate their mandate of full employment and thus the validity of their existence.

With regards to President Biden, he will have to be held responsible for applying all out sanctions which have not been able to achieve their objectives. If the goal of the sanctions was to stop the war, that has not happened in last 45 days. We don't know how difficult life has been for the average Joe in Russia from those sanction bites due to the censorship in media in both west and Russia. It certainly has however affected the life of the average Joe here and not for good. But, we are told this is at the expense of our moral victory.
The other problem right now is shipped natural gas. Sure, gas is better than carbon if its local. But if you extract gas in Qatar, compress it then ship it to Europe, it uses way more carbon than Russian gas, so you might as well burn coal.
I can't imagine what would cause a person to act like that, and on his last day/week of work! Some kind of psycopathy?
Yeah this is one of the reasons for these new features. So you don't have to send things like cursor positions, currently online, typing, etc through your database.
> and that vision/hearing are actually integral parts of language acquisition

Deaf-blind authors would beg to differ.

But yes, a human brain is exposed to lots of other sensory input, and we know from other research that multi-modal models can learn shared representations that benefit from the knowledge of each domain.

In Transformer's favor, at least, they are far closer to tabula rasa than the human brain is and likely have to dedicate a lot of their training time to things that are otherwise "baked" into human brains. For example, humans come pre-packaged with V1 and V2 as part of their visual system, but CNNs and ViTs have to learn those filter packages from scratch.

I agree with you though. Human brains are able to take single instances of experiences and build a wealth of understanding from them in ways that even modern Transformer architectures are not yet able.
Like many NFT/crypto posts, I have absolutely no idea whether this is serious or a parody.
I reinstalled rust per your line 2 but the build still failed. Oh well.
It it is a good analogy. For most lay people, science is a religion. They lack the expertise to understand the theory, but they unquestioningly accept the explanations and interpretations of the so-called experts.

Most people don't understand astronomy and physics well enough to prove to themselves that the earth orbits the sun and not vice-versa. Yet they believe it does, with certainty, because they have been taught that it is true.
Do you think the Ukrainians were in the wrong when they killed Russians during their withdrawal? Or are rules different for the underdog?
Imagine locking down for covid in 2022; jesus these people are weird
>But then we’ve given up on matching human intelligence which is all about working efficiently with small training data, and certainly training a human does not need anywhere near as much data as GPT-3.

I don't think we should really take so much inspiration from the brain. We didn't make airplanes work by building bird machines so why should we do that here.

>GPT-3 was interesting as a proof-of-concept of what happens when you use a gigantic amount of training data. We don’t need a bigger one until we can figure out how to make a smaller one that is just as effective.

This feels like a non sequitor. We can certainly keep making larger models and we will, because we can continue to make performance gains doing so.

>If scaling laws are telling us to keep putting even more training data into the thing, then the conclusion should be that the architecture is just not working out.

I don't think anyone in the field would agree to this point. Researchers see an easy avenue to gain better performance so they take it. Deepmind's model shows you can get similar results with more refined architecture, but this was released well after GPT-3. When teams significantly advance the state of the art with a much smaller model I think we should take notice but that hasn't happened yet.
Don't have a way to verify this, since you know, but I don't believe we had this plugin installed/enabled, but are still caught in the blast.
Honest question though, when is it ever appropriate to yell? Have you seen people ever do it? I think the all caps could be a useful tool for emphasis. Would I do it though? No.
> and the downside is that when they do it might affect all clients, not just one.

This is also potentially an upside. For example when us-east-1 went down recently, customers were somewhat understanding because it was "amazon's fault" and everyone was down - it was in the news, etc. If we ran our own data center and that went down, our customers would've just said "why did you morons roll your own data center instead of just using aws?"
That's in general. Price controls are an agricultural policy too. Do you have something that shows which general policies apply to which specific ones?
How exactly is “populism” to blame?
The window management grips are fair, although I don't find Cmd + ` to be particularly burdensome - it's right above tab on the keyboard, and my KDE Plasma desktop behaves the exact same way.
> As someone who purchases insurance from the NY marketplace, that just isn't true.

So have I, and I stopped purchasing insurance because I cannot find the coverage I want. I need a specific variant of a certain operation which is only performed by a few surgeons in the country, and the one surgeon in New York who offers it only takes Aetna for that operation. Aetna reentered marketplaces starting 2022, but I'm moving and the operation has a year-plus waitlist, so I'm SOL. It has made a ton of sense for me to have no insurance because I'm fairly young and in fantastic health, making it cheaper to just pay out-of-pocket for primary care once or twice a year. Please don't call people liars.
Yes, I understand that. I'm not sure which is the "partial solution" in this scenario, EVs?
Too bad nobody respects teachers in the United States.

There's a reason the conventionalists don't want real education for their children and zero involvement of society in their nuclear family: control. They then frame it as some libertarian ideal.

Until a public school teacher can say no to a student, and their parents, nobody will learn the foundations of complex thought in the classroom. That is by design.
Copy project files locally and upload on save?

This is just so simple and performing, not sure why anyone is struggling with other worse solutions. The only better method would be vscode remote editing plugin.
It already is extensively involved (FDA, etc.)

Health insurance is one of the least concerning things for the government to get involved in with healthcare, really. Worst thing that happens is they don't insure you or the procedure, and you have to pay for it yourself somehow.

I would question the viability of government for handling many things, but collecting taxes and distributing funds is one of the things they usually are pretty good at. Some of the leanest health insurers in the US in terms of overhead are public enterprises, e.g. the VA and various state assistance programs.
There's always a (short-term) financial incentive not to strike.
SSLPing creator here.

There are backups, the db is safe. But you can't easily fix a Docker Swarm cluster when Docker refuses to run, systemd tries to replace upstart, etc. The message I wrote tells the whole story, and backups were not the problem (I even had a redundant 3 way database cluster which most commercial companies don't have).
SecurityManager was a bad idea. It might be useful to prevent accidental bound trespassing. But it turned out too flaky to serve as a security foundation. Basically nobody uses it for security.
Window management is still my number one complaint with macOS. Windows has only gotten better with it since Windows 7 introduced Aero Snap, and on Linux I can do whatever my heart desires, including using a proper tiling environment.
This is possible because in free fall on earth, there are directionality signals when blinded - for example, air resistance.
> Apple decided to grace the 2021 Macbook Pro with ports that any PC laptop user has had for years (HDMI?! SD card reader?! gasp!).

To be fair, MBPs also had those for years, until Apple in its wisdom decided to ditch them in 2016, along with making other questionable interface decisions that they've been gradually reverting since then. I still use a 2015 MBP partially for that reason. Now it's probably become a time to upgrade to a M1 model.
> I think many people, especially those newer to the working world, underestimate just how ruthless and sociopathic our late-stage Capitalist working conditions really are.

That is really the issue in a nutshell.
There's no maths in your article. I don't get how you can write an article about the impact of climate change policy without maths.

> Suppose all of the world’s cement plant operators agreed to offset their emissions this way. Suppose that this succeeds so well that 100% of the world’s remaining rainforests are protected forever. We’re still nowhere near net zero!

We're not? How far would we be? Would all the cement operators offset equal or exceed the amount of offsets needed to protect the entire Amazon? What percentage of carbon offsets is the entire Amazon?

Your entire argument hinges on these questions. Ask yourself, what happens when all of the Amazon offsets have been sold and I still want to emit CO2?
Try and search for SDKs of some large software. Usually those would be programs for creating content - audio, 3d modelling, 2d drawing, etc. Every major vendor has a plugin architecture that quite obviously leaks implementation details. So stuff like Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk 3dsMax, FL Studio. All these have public SDKs that you can download, explore and write plugins for. You can probably think of some more programs that support third party plugins.
The original complaint was "demanding and petty users flood you and take up your time, through the same channels your good users do", and your solution seems to be "just go ahead and let them take up your time"? What, is Heinlein's Ghost going to pat me on the back if I do? The reality is there is no real "solution" to this problem; there is no solution to "people are annoying." The very premise is completely ill-formed and only possible in a framework that views all human interaction and behavior as completely mechanical.

It's not all bad, though, working on free/libre software, and I'd be remiss to not mention that. Maybe I'm letting it hit too close to home and you're just saying it in jest. But anyone here pretending that you can "solve" these kinds of issues so easily are deluding themselves and telling on themselves at the same time, in my opinion.
In other words, taking a board seat would have limited him to holding no more than 14.9% of Twitter shares. Now he can take control if he wants.
I think we've done a pretty good job on the scoring side with a fast and simple to use API that runs in-process: https://improve.ai
The many variations of the return statement in Kotlin
DC Attorney General sues Google for deceiving users and invading their privacy
But that's assuming one-at-a-time connections, no? A true BBS would allow multiple connections. Plus, OP's timeframe was 1980, yours is 1985. A couple years back then meant major differences in capabilities, costs, offerings. Not like now, where your iPhone from 2016 is only a little less capable than now.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30896124
> - They don't have time to argue

> - They're tired and don't want to feel like it

Why do these two make them angry?
I totally understandthat. But at the same time, a multi-week outage is really a sign of an org that simply does not have their shit together at all.

But the lack of transparency is the worst. Another post speculated that Atlassian has lost data, doesn't even have backups, and is re-creating it by munging their emails and diffing them to re-create history. I can't really imagine that's tue - but what if it is, and Atlassian is concealing things?
Bosses absolutely do not love healthcare costs if that's what you're suggesting. But even legal mandates for larger firms aside, if you're trying to hire white collar workers while not having a decent healthcare plan, you're going to find it's a challenge.
> not wanting to break the way the language works

This is the reason. "help" and "exit" (as well as "quit") are perfectly cromulent variable names in Python. So the REPL does the best possible thing, i.e., try and evaluate the expression and shoot a message if it fails. Case in point:

>>> help = "hi"
>>> help
"hi"
>>> del help
>>> help
Type help() for interactive help, or help(object) for help about object.
Functionally it feels very different. Doing something that doesnt feel like much of anything is still different from doing nothing. You could argue that the tweets linked included tidying up and making tools as doing nothing but those seemed more like something you could do while lounging around.

Interacting with social media feel very different from sitting on a porch and whittling. One feels like I'm doing something in my brain. One feels like nothing.
What is the legal/regulatory difference between the aerospace industry regulating itself vs the auto industry regulating itself in regards to self driving? Besides the obvious that the aerospace industry has a head start.
A lawsuit does not indicate a breach of law or anything really.
Thanks.

For the first query I only found this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/logistics/comments/6mvptr/why_are_s...

For the second query I only found this, which discusses something that to my understanding isn't happening yet?

https://fiata.org/news/press-releases/2021/8-july-2021-2.htm...

Gotta say, I expected to find a lot more, compared to industries I know are shady (compare to googling "vpn shady"). I don't think I have a specific model of what shady practice are common in the logistics industry.
The doom source code was released. If you would like a guided tour, maybe look at https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/

Unreal is source available too, if game engines are of interest to you
So ʻOumuamua was actually the sail, the real probe arriving in 2014? #joke
Because I am an irrational little ape whose fight, flight, freeze, or fawn response is all fight, all the time.

I'm just a very angry person.

It's not a good thing, but that's why.

The anger itself generally revolves around how these people get other people to do more work in order to coddle their obliviousness. Think people in supermarkets who are so oblivious they make everybody else walk around them/go around the aisle, etc. It's the assumption that everybody else has to adapt to them, and that drives me bonkers because it's an implicit assumption of superiority. ("My needs are the only ones that matter.") I'm VERY sensitive to people thinking they're better than me. (Or myself thinking they do).

Not the best part of myself, but one that's worth being aware of so I can do things like curb any authoritarian tendencies that try to use my anger to worm their way into my brain.
Odd comment coming the day after far right and far left candidates won more than half the votes in the French presidential election, with the center left and right collapsing and centrist Macron getting under 30% (despite having moved significantly to the right on cultural issues).
I invite you to cite one postmodern philosopher who has used the phrase "branching factor". I am a systems theorist by training.
How is that any different than some fiefdom ruled over by some noble? The whole point of democracy and elective government is that you can't rely on a system like that to be consistently good, whether it's the Duke's son squandering all the wealth and not listening to the people or a shift in management at the company. Just because sometimes there were benevolent companies that decided to contribute to their communities doesn't mean relying on that is a stable or desired outcome.

Require employees be paid and treated fairly. Require companies pay their taxes. Tax employees on those fair wages. Use those taxes to pay for community needs. That's the goal. That's our responsibility as citizens of a democracy. Relinquishing these responsibilities to others because it seems easier is how we got where we are. Benevolent companies are just a precursor to abusive ones, so take away their ability to be abusive.

If you relinquish your power to another, you should expect to be unhappy when their goals conflict with your own. Don't relinquish your power.