skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Because we're the good guys" is not a good argument.

It’s less of an argument and more of an observation. The people of the US simply aren’t the kind of people to do what the OP suggests.

> But even if you go that route, would you say the same of a US under Trump?

Considering nothing really changed under Trump besides the 24/7 news cycle going into hyperdrive and him continually saying dumb and annoying things, yes. There was no real difference under Trump than Obama (my favorite president so far during my voting life, for example.

The other problem here is you’re just taking arbitrary snapshots in time. Are the British good people? How about the French? They created Napoleon after all. Norwegians? Hundreds of years of raising and enslaving people. Russians? They’re only just now removed from the worst of the worst human atrocities under Stalin. The Dutch? Hello it’s The Congo. Japan? China? Brasil?

So you can be honest and look from a historical perspective, or I’m just going to say everyone is pretty bad and we are no better or worse than anyone else.
How do I get i3 working on my arch wsl2?
Just played it for my wife but didn’t tell her it was AI. Watching her facial expressions it looked like at points she was skeptical of the cadence, but she came away with it being Seinfeld, but described it as “definitely not one of his better jokes” and “something about it is really off.”
Sure, I was merely commenting on the cost to physically secure the asset. Necessary (to prevent theft) but not sufficient.
Are there really businesses that use ngrok for commercial purposes? Ive always thought about it as a way skirt around something without have to futz with my network
If your boss is gonna take as much labor out of you as possible, no matter how productive you are, and no matter what advances in production methods you have achieved, productivity doesn't matter so much.
[user@user ~]$ i3
i3: Cannot open display

This is the output I'm getting when I try to start i3

Edit : I'm using VcXsrv. I've tried MobaXterm too
The patent thing is just another of the shenanigans of IBM, the company pays you a premium if you get a patent approved and people just patent away whatever shitty thing they invent to get that incentive.
It is just a numbers game that they use to have some nice KPI to say at their earnings call, but investors are not taking that anymore. Just look at IBM market cap evolution and you'll see how little value those patents bring to the company.
I think that's because a new cat food commercial a week isn't really a thing. I didn't really laugh; I do laugh at actual Seinfeld probably around 40% of the time, less with his more recent content and more with his older content.
Right that makes sense.
It's a more inclusive version of the company store where one does work for tokens while it's near impractical to be self sufficient & difficult/dangerous to be physically soverign. Even if one lives off the land, the corporations & government groups have polluted & own most of it. One would have to go fully indigenous to move away from the system, but even then there is much violence against the indigenous peoples.

Some solutions include gaining leverage over existing systems of control (e.g. management), cooperation with like minded people to form a group for protection (like a prison gang), carving out domains of autonomy from systems of control, or just stop feeding the more oppressive patterns in all aspects of life
> Watch children playing, and play with them if you can

Puppies, kittens, and baby goats work too; and are less likely to spark misunderstandings that can lead to legal difficulties.
Has it occurred to you that the lack of people willing to pay for what you're trying to offer may be indicative that it's not quite as valuable as you perceive it to be?

I don't think it's work specifically that's tied to morality, but production. If someone is obviously consuming more than they're producing, then they're going to get negative attention. In 2022 it's not always clear exactly how much someone is producing, so it's generally assumed that someone with a full time job produces enough to cover their needs while the unemployed surviving off of welfare do not.

We even make allowances for people trying to reach net positive production. Students, for example, aren't typically looked down upon. It's only people who are actually lazy and not doing anything useful with their lives that are looked down upon, and rightfully so.
>no company hires you for 10 or 20% in software engineering, while still paying enough that you could sustain yourself.

I agree that most employers wont offer 10% positions, but my feeling is that someone can work 10-20% for 10% pay by gigging pretty easily.

Whether 10% pay is sustainable is a different question, but I was under the impression that you thought it was.

If you are looking for 10% work and 50% pay, I agree that is much less attainable.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31786562.
I pay for a physical copy of the Japan Times and New York Times. They come bundled, but I barely ever read the New York Times.

I doubt it is relevant for you, but I’ve been happy with the Japan Times.
This is the right link, thanks! Not sure what went wrong, and now it's too late to change or even delete it. Hopefully mods/dang can correct it!
Worst case you just add more layers, like we do with sound absorbers now.

If some kind of moth wing inspired metamaterial can shrink the width of broadband sound absorbing panels by 10x that would be quite useful still.
This is the cornerstone of union protections under the NLRA. The act defines a union as two or more workers who undertake action together in order to improve their working conditions. In theory, this protects them from retaliation.

In practice, labor law violations occur all the time and there is very little recourse. The NLRB awards can take a long time to act and has no power to levy punitive damages, so there's a very small penalty for criminal behavior on the company's part, compared to the cost savings of union busting.
Yes. This is why they no longer operate on a gold standard, which de facto contracts the money supply (people want to hold "safe" gold rather than circulate money) in the middle of a recession
Getting your economics from Von Mises is like getting your science from Aristotle.
I live in the USA and I don't know WTF he's talking about.
If you’re using distributed locks/leases you probably messed up somewhere. I think there’s no way you write correct code using this.
If I had to play a videogame with buttons like this, I would grow tired of it after 50 clicks. It's too much.
Do people instinctively anthropomorphize? I bet the existence of that instinct has far less empirical support than the pain consciousness of newborn babies. Be that as it may, these comparisons to parents' "anthropomorphising" of their kids are not apples-to-apples.

Chatbots and machines programmed to show feeling responses are mimicry. People can be tricked. If you want to fool ships with a fake iceberg, you won't bother with more than the tip. But if you're a glaciologist, examples of sailors getting spooked by fake plastic iceberg tips would not lead you to question whether natural icy marine bodies (especially ones that usually develop into icebergs!) have any mass below sea-level. Or if you're studying carcinization, the fact that robot crab decoys can pass for real tells you exactly nothing about why unrelated phylogenetic lines independently develop crab-like features.

And the "people" in "dead people" refers to real people, who die. A corpse is a "dead person" like a puddle of water is "melted ice". Mourning, including respectful treatment of remains, is symbolic. None of that is anthropomorphism.

It is established that human babies develop into human adults. Their pain and other distinctly human responses resemble the adult forms profoundly. Are babies "a system [that] responds to painful stimulus" but feels no pain? Occam's Razor says no. I see zero downside to reckoning that possibility out of the moral calculus.
Why do you want to inflict an annoyance and deliberately waste 0.1 seconds (or whatever amount you deem appropriate) of everybody's time? Slowness should be a deliberate, individual choice. I'd be happy if there was a global cfg variable in the OS or browser, where you indicate the amount of pointless, "feel-good" slowness you wish to have in your interactions with any UI element, then you can have your way while I have mine too. I want things as quick as possible so I can race to idle sooner!
If you see startup founders as "managers" with investors being their bosses then the parent comment applies too.

A lot of startup founders' goals is to raise more investment and live off that - this gives them the "startup founder" lifestyle & influence without actually having to take on any of the risk & uncertainty of running a self-sustaining business.
You're going to have to put in the effort. No one said OP has to make it easy and cross-index everything for you. That's why we have computers to do the work.
My understanding is different:
We are all slave to system, so why should I pay for the criminals?
Let say there is 2m inmates, that means that if we take that it takes $10000 a year that is 20 bn. So we still pay at least 10bn to keep them alive and well, and probably price is much higher.

So, there is no slavery they just paying for what they eat and spend in terms of clothing, heating, food ...

And by this I am not even calculating in the damage they have done by committing the crime in the first place.
Not to be confused with VAL ("Variable Assembly Language), VAL II and VAL 3, programming languages for industrial robots.
VAL was developed at Standford in 1973. The others are referred to as being "second gen" and "third gen" robotics languages.
They are still in use at various companies.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_Assembly_Language>

<https://blog.robotiq.com/the-history-of-robot-programming-la...>
If they could produce an AGI as smart as, let's say a mouse, that would be good evidence that they're on the right track. So far nothing is even close to that level. Depending on how you measure, they're not even really at the flatworm level yet. All the AI technology produced so far has been domain specific and doesn't represent meaningful progress towards true generalized intelligence.
Has that even happened yet? PS5 and Xbox Series are the first consoles to use SSDs instead of HDDs and they're only beginning to gain serious steam. PS4 games are still being released and they have to cater to that stock 5400 RPM HDD.
> Fortunately, about 10-12 years of stock market investing showed me a lot of patterns.

Fortunately in what sense? You're talking as if BTC was worth nothing. 19K is still a really good price if you zoom out.

I understand young people whose first investment was BTC 1 year ago and bought at 60k and are -70%. But if you have been investing for 10+ years as you mention then there's nothing fortunate about not having bought BTC.
this is massive speculation without much evidence backing it

How about some evidence showing why it can't happen without severe repercussions?

Trust ... but verify. As the crypto market currently stands, it's pure trust. Verification is not possible.
Shopping around for informed opinions is normal and should be expected. That said, I’ve been a legal commentator and the pressure to be aggressively sound-bitey is real. However, it’s often self-imposed by the expert and not always the reporter’s doing. I remember chatting with a Reuters reporter about the Uber/Lewandowski case and it was pretty clear that if I didn’t say something sexier, the article wouldn’t run. Yes, she was presumably under some pressure to find some sizzle, but I was also asking myself how badly I wanted to be quoted.
Using the rdisk over the disk device for this sort of dd bulk copy has been recommended practice on MacOS X forever.
I spent a long time trying to build a privacy-preserving database. The challenge is that a persistent attacker (a honest, but curious server hosting your data) can defeat the encryption by observing the access pattern. This happens because issuing the same query twice will access the same encrypted data, and the same amount of encrypted data. Naively one would think that this is of no use, and such patterns can be trivially obfuscated, but any statistical correlation can be fatal, and ensuing that they do not occur is costly.

If you would download the entire database for each query that would be private, but also have a linear communication overhead. You could rewrite data to a new location after you read it, which is what ORAM does, and it has at least a logarithmic communication overhead. This is where the buck stops, logarithmic is a theoretical minimum cost even for the weakest computational access pattern privacy guarantees. With differential privacy guarantees a double logarithmic overhead is possible, but it is not clear when such guarantees are useful. Fully homomorphic encryption would only allow to push the overhead from communication to computation.

On the practical side there are symmetric searchable encryption schemes with forward and backward privacy. They are reasonably functional, with reasonable leakage, without any guarantees. They tend to be vulnerable to sophisticated adversaries with knowledge about the queries or the documents. These schemes often have to deal with more than just access pattern privacy, because they not all passive (where the server is only a storage device, the client selects the documents to access). They have to worry about the search tokens presented to the server, which is now running code. Some of these schemes have to deal with a malicious server breaking protocol.
A Degrowth Response to an Ecomodernist Manifesto
I used to subscribe to the Guardian, and then I read one article whcih was so blatantly false and politically motivated that it made me question why I have ever decided to subscribe in the first place.

I really, really respect that they make their articles available for free though, so I still feel compelled to pay them, it’s just that I don’t want to read their articles any more.
If you know nothing about the subject, why would you think this law professor is lying?
It was never practical to be self sufficient. Hunter gatherers living off the land worked together in tribes. People alone in the wilderness mostly die.
Fido/u2f can be used without passwords
Make it a GAN with AI hecklers
Do we know for sure that the behavior that SpaceX says those employees did actually happened? All we have is a few quotes from SpaceX, not actual evidence but I could be wrong.
Have you considered that people might actually like that syntax style? Also there's a massive benefit to familiarity, you can easily read code in most languages without knowing them because they look similar. There's a reason most people don't like to write (((((((((lisp)))))))). There's nothing wrong with exploring new things but right now all you do is ranting about the syntax without giving any examples of things that are "bad" and honestly it makes you sound a bit like one of those designers redesigning everything just for the sake of redesigning.

> And even ; to end the line.

Why do people even hate ; ? It gives you better error messages and it's no different from using . to end a sentence in spoken languages.

> Use Whitespace

When you make whitespace important the only thing you gain is that it forces people to format their code (see Python) but it also often leads to idiotic decisions (e.g. Nim not allowing tabs which are simply superior to spaces, there is literally not one reason to ever indent with spaces). C++ and co have the right idea, the only thing whitespace should do is separate tokens then people can format the code as they see fit.

> Try unicode glyphs for different syntactic functions

Now sure Unicode stuff can make things more readable in some cases but the big problem of Unicode is how you input those things. Your keyboard is basically ASCII, that leaves you with some workarounds like ALT codes or Julia's LaTeX conversion stuff. And those things are not supported on every platform/editor. Not to mention that for some things you need to install a new font or whatever.

> try to approximate natural language

What would you like to see? I don't see what you'd gain from that except mostly making things more verbose. Spoken languages are quite different from programming languages. As soon as you have a large block of instructions (aka a program) you naturally resort to some kind of structuring (e.g. making a list that someone else has to check from the top) and that will pretty much look like pseudo code already. Sure you'd do something like `list.add(foo)` instead of "Add foo to the list" but that's just because the former is much easier to parse and encode into rules for the computer.
If you try to keep inflation flat (what the central bank is supposed to do). You can maximize score regularly in the 440k - 450k scores. I had constant very low unemployment and wages were very high.

In reality, I agree though. Just putting to 0% and letting it ride required far less prediction ability and it worked out fine.
There is of course news that matters to bitcoin and impacts the price. When China banned bitcoin, one would expect price to go down. When Tesla bought bitcoin, price should go up. By your argument all commodities would also fall into the same camp.
Even if true, that's overly dismissive and unactionable, especially when several programming languages bake the same reference counting into their most basic reference semantics, as a poor man's half baked non-sweeping garbage collector. Further - find me a programmer who always designs code properly, and you will have found me a liar.

One actionable alternative is explicit owner/borrowing smart pointers, which assert if an owner is destroyed while borrowers are pending - which while not eliminating bugs, at least makes them much shallower to debug. I don't have hands on experience with that style - I inherit codebases and their existing coping patterns too often - but I hear good things from those who do. Another actionable alternative is resorting to a proper garbage collector. Or using a proper COM pointer type. Or RIIR. I resort to Rc/Arc in Rust much less than I resort to shared_ptr in C++ (although it still has its niches.)

Then again, I used Arc twice just yesterday:

https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/rust_http_chat_server/blob/...

`Common` (shared between request-handling worker threads) could be made static instead of Arc (although this would eliminate having separate isolated state for, say, different hosts?) Or I could use a scoped thread API that ensures the worker threads are cleaned up before the main thread does, and leave it on the stack instead. The standard library's scoped threads are nightly-only, but there are third party crates - or I could roll my own with `unsafe { ... }`.

`Arc<String>` messages (shared between chat history broadcasting threads until every recipient has sent out a reply) could be simply deep copied. Given the small typical message sizes, that might even be cheaper (although with the heap allocs I wouldn't bet on it.) Or a proper thread safe mpmc FIFO container could be used, although none is in the standard library.

A 200 LOC monolithic main.rs isn't exactly well designed, but it didn't need to be. That's a cop-out, but I suspect your pull requests won't be forthcoming either ;).
That's EU's AVMSD for you (and if you're not inside the EU Google is definitely erring to caution here to not upset more governments).
Joe Swanson (from Family Guy), is that you?
While I’m not a fan of cryptocurrency… cash is just colored paper, why don’t you give it all to me :)
Except there are companies whose main business is to certify Ada, C and C++ compilers do behave against that prose specification.
You can always find a lawyer who will lie for you.
Can we talk about bs computing jobs? Some people have the great job of constantly rewriting their sites in the lastest "design language" or even framework. Can we call it bs job?
How the children inherited the swallowed organism?
Spielman was my favorite CS professor as an undergrad! Glad to see his work getting some recognition.

Funny anecdote — Spielman was awful at spelling. Every time he went to the board it was 50/50 on whether he’d spell all the terms right. He told us the first day of class that in middle school, he had tested in the bottom 9th percentile of all students in Pennsylvania in spelling. Apparently his brain was just wired differently.
I'm not speaking of power in space, but power produced in space. It can be transmitted to Earth.

Also, you speak about vertical solar panels, do you know that then you get a worse efficiency than with slightly reclined panels, which would neither accumulate much dust, especially if they can also occasionally rotate on their supporting pole?

As for aneutronic fusion, it is still much more limited than space solar, because it relies on supplies of boron. Of course not on a short time scale, but my allusion to the Dyson Sphere was a long term speculation, not a short term one.
I don't see it as clearcut as this, I agree with your second point. But I think the press - that of course is not a single entity - can be unfair when they dislike someone and show a heavy publishing bias. This is not a conspiracy theory, this is simply a description of the current state of affairs.
This is Nick Lane's argument - that complex cell happend only once on Earth (no convergent evolution) via this symbiotic accident and hence it's highly improbable if not almost impossible.

As usual, people always seem to foreget that in this universe, what happened once, happens all the time and we are not special.
IANAL but I know enough about the labor process to know the expert is probably correct.
> Minimal effort has three parts.

> 1. It’s a practice of only doing those things that are necessary or enjoyable.

> 2. Do fewer things and do them slowly.

> 3. Sadly, we’ve forgotten what number three is, but we know it’s important. Please contact us if you remember

1 seems related to Hommo Ludens [1]

[0]: https://www.slowdownnow.org/minimal-effort/

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Ludens
The notion of pasting vast swaths of data into an online format converter gives me the most powerful kind of creeps.
This can be a useful service, but it needs durability to avoid race conditions.

If the service goes down and restarts, it will it lose all locks currently held. At this point, a new client could obtain the lock, while an older client that is still blissfuly unaware of the service going down may proceed assuming that its lease is still valid.

If it is implemented as a single server, then it must persist the lock info to disk before granting a lock. Or one can get durability using replication. In which case I would just as soon use zookeeper.
Its like the joke of the businessman who sees a fisherman doing nothing on the beach.
Why dont you go fish some more?
Why would i?
Then you can make more money, buy another boat and make even more money.
But why?
Then you can build a fleet and with even more money you can control the factories where your fish is processed.
And then?
Well then with your empire you can spend two weeks of the year on the beach, like me.

/short version.
doubling down I see
Nice setup and thanks for the info. I’ve been looking at doing a similar setup myself. I have an outdoor network switch in the same place under my deck. I bet I could stick a Pi close by and power it with PoE.
I hate that we have brought back the serial novel in 38 parts for the sake of "engagement". Write the article or don't but I've seen too many of these things get abandoned before enough useful info gets published.

Pass.
I'll be the annoying guy for this one:

How do we know GPT-3 really wrote this?