skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit surprised nobody has mentioned this yet, but glad that I for once have some additional context to offer.

These jingles are composed by Minoru Mukaiya. He's mostly famous for being the main keyboardist in Casiopea, a very famous Japanese fusion jazz band. He was the keyboardist until the band went on hiatus in 2006, 29 years in all. His style can clearly be heard in these jingles and he apparently has always had a thing for trains anyways as he went on later to start up a train simulator game company.
Yes Media Minister
Parker Spiral
This is how Python 2 did it, only with the difference that you didn't need the b prefix for ascii/byte strings.

The problem was that this made a muddle of all the string handling functions, which needed to be prepared to handle both types. Including ones you write yourself. And, Python being a dynamic language, getting this right was fiddly and error prone. "Forbid mixing the two" was a workable, if ergonomically annoying, in statically typed languages that predated and then subsequently had to adopt Unicode. For Python, though, it was an enormous minefield of runtime errors.
If you really believe abortion is murder, you must believe that spontaneous miscarriage is the leading cause of death in the US, beating heart disease in #2 by a factor of 5. Where is the investment from religious fundamentalists in preventing spontaneous miscarriage?
EFF is actually one of the orgs doing some work in this space. Another great reason to be a donor!
https://www.eff.org/pages/defend-innovation
Liquibase: https://www.liquibase.org/
> The current inflation episode is just the kind of event that the fiscal theory of the price level can easily describe. It’s simple. The US government printed up about $3 trillion of money and sent people checks. It borrowed an additional $2 trillion of money and sent people more checks.

Great. What was the faceless government's motivation?

Because clearly it wasn't the government that profited. But the people who did profit seem to own them some government.

Let's blame the government instead! That's worked since Reagan, right?
Whose 401K was plundered to fund these bad investments?
That seems to be exactly what the article is arguing:

> The narrative of democracy triumphing over high-tech dictatorship obscures America’s real goal, which is to prevent Beijing from displacing Washington as the leader in global surveillance and the owner of much of the world’s internet infrastructure.
Based on my limited knowledge of the history of societies, an external threat, perceived by ordinary people to acutely and in actuality threaten their livelihoods, is historically a common driver of major change in societal power dynamics.

The rise (those damn Christians!) and fall (those damn Goths and Huns!) of Rome, the fall of Napoleon’s rule (those damn Russians!), the rise of Hitler (those damn Jews!), USA after Pearl Harbor (those damn Japanese!), downfall of Germany in 1945 (this damn war!), end of the Japanese imperial era (those damn bombs!) and the subsequent Americanization of Japan, fall of Great Britain’s monarchy after the war (those damn royalty!), the late 60’s major loss of civil liberties in the US (those damn blacks!), the entire Gaddafi affair (those damn clan monarchs / those damn Yankees!), USA becoming a surveillance state after 9/11 (those damn terrorists!), rise of the Taliban (those damn Yankees again!) …
Try using a paper map, no GPS. It forces you to pay attention to the surroundings, and to turn that into spatial awareness.

If your problem is only that your spatial awareness was never exercised enough, you should quickly get better.

You'll quickly get tired of checking your map for the route every 10 steps, which will force you to choose easier routes, and to memorize them better, improving your navigation too.
at least in Julia you have `@code_warntype`, JET.jl, `@benchmark`, and the language being dynamic also helps a lot.
Electric Mercedes-Benz drove 747 miles without recharging, 2x Tesla's Model S
If you have different workers to generate ids, give all of them their own ranges in advance. Once a worker used up their range, they can request a new range for their next N (e.g. 100k) ids.
Someone is going to probably ban me for saying this out loud, but when artificial duck lips started appearing on living human women was about when I knew this had all gone too far. Like, who's going to love you after you surgically alter yourself to look like your Instagram profile?
Even as someone with a decent job, I'm starting to doubt I can have an early partial retirement at 60. I think the majority of people aren't going to be able to retire at all, at least not above the poverty level.
unfortunately malicious lkms and userland rootkits can hide processes/connections from lsof/netstat

https://github.com/gianlucaborello/libprocesshider
Tactile feedback (like something that actually locks into a park position when it’s in park) is genuinely useful.

Tesla uses a little lever with four possible momentary positions. There is no way to feel whether you have actually selected the correct mode. You’re choices are to either look at the instrument cluster and read the gear status or to actually try driving the car.

This is made worse by the fact that, on level ground with creep off, park and drive behave identically unless someone presses the accelerator or tries pushing the car.

On the flip side, I’ve driven a BMW with a really amazing 2D joystick with software controlled detents corresponding to buttons on the infotainment screen. I’m not convinced it’s a good idea, but the engineering is awesome.
That is the world we live in.

Every movement or protest has people who resort to violence. Whether actual protesters, or whether infiltrated by someone looking to discredit the movement.

Law enforcement is famous for it, and there are quite a few vidoes of them trying to 'start shit' so they can escalate.

I don't know whether guns were used at Capitol Hill, I don't really care. It was an attempted violent coup. By the protesters, not infiltrators.

I think the world has lost its marbles.
It is very sad that a lot of older automatics needed actual mechanical linkages instead of entirely digital signals. It would've allowed some pretty custom gear selectors that would've enabled even more mods by freeing up space in the car interior.
What a fun paper computer! I wonder if those cards still exist somewhere.
Most German banks do it now, I'd say. It's a fantastic feature.
> can be routed in strange ways due to the speed of light making some routes

Correct, although the speed of light doesn't have anything to do with it (and the speed of the signal never reaches the theoretical speed of light, it's more like the speed of signals through a combination of copper, fiber, whatever else). It'd be the same if we were performing IP over Avian Carriers. The routing is at the mercy of all the IPS hardware and IXes between source and destination, which make their decisions of where to route your packets based on several factors (including possibly NSA/Chinese/whatever intervention)

> after examining it and seeing it is from Github, a place it is common to stand up a website then add a custom domain name, is reasonably secure

I mentioned this in a different reply, but I don't think this is the case. The government of China is just as capable of creating a GitHub Pages as anyone else.
Tone policing is arbitrary and without its own oversight. Defund tone police!
More so than search engines?
Even if they do, why would the best way to allow efficient international transfers be to invent a whole new financial system? If the money is coming from traditional money (as the workers are basically always paid in traditional money) and will be exchanged into traditional money (as the recipients of the remittances will exchange to to be able to use it) why would we want to add an intermediate crypto step (which is also quite volatile)?
That’s not just a GitHub issue, that would require serious UX work on the authoring side to make such “commits” that are actually commits in multiple repos at the same time. Effectively this is recreating a monorepo (maybe with something like for submodules?)
It’s because it does so much compared to say a Fitbit. Put it on airplane mode and it’s much, much better.
Amen. I mean, is it really so hard to view the existence of a global pandemic and related supply shock, historically large stimulus and relief packages enacted everywhere, and a subsequent petroleum supply crisis due to a (deeply weird) war entered by a major producer as...

...a big, whopping outlier in the data set?

I mean, really? Who anywhere genuinely believes that the economic events of 2020-22 could be reliably predicted from first principles?
Isn't that what they ended up doing in Python3?

$ python2
>>> "abc" + b"123"
'abc123'
>>> "abc" + u"123"
u'abc123'

$ python3
>>> "abc" + b"123"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "bytes") to str
>>> "abc" + u"123"
'abc123'
>>> type(u"123")
<class 'str'>

P.S. Your use of the word "simply" there is a reminder of how easy it is to underestimate the complexity of handling encoding properly, since it took years (a decade?) to port libraries from Py2 to Py3, since it doesn't just affect string literals, but general IO when reading from files and sockets.
First, this is an incorrect comparison: chickens eating corn VS humans eating wheat bread. Humans can very much eat corn as well.

Second, you have to consider the conversion rate for each nutrients including calories and proteins and chickens are much less efficient than that.

Also, the environmental impact needs to account for water usage, pollution from the plant and animal farming and energy usage.

Please provide evidence sources if you want to claim otherwise.
I'm not sure I understand. I think I'm missing some context.
There's no good way to validate that a model aligns with human values. The closest thing we have now would be extensive behavioral tests; e.g. does the chatbot say things that a majority of cultural members strongly agree with in the vast majority of cases, including in large numbers of nuanced situations where the context matters and differentiates a Western vs. non-Western response.

No one knows how to make those kinds of behavioral tests comprehensive, either.
I'm not sure that's really true for something like this, I've been working on something similar myself in these past few months, it got to about 5kb min+gzipped with all things included, and there's _a lot_ included, but if you only include the functions provided by this tiny library I wouldn't expect it to be much much larger than it, maybe a 2x or something? That's still small, fixes and performance optimizations tend to cost something, but you will never have to pay 10kb to use those 6 functions basically, the rest will be tree-shaken off.
crazy to learn that 2 years after it's happened. There was absolutely 0 media coverage on the subject. Searching for it on google only returns the articles publishes when it opened, both in french and english...
Thanks, I'll stick with my battle hardened manual gearbox, until I ride this car into the ground. Maybe I'm turning into a grumpy old man, but I want nothing to do with the lack of physical buttons, giant touchscreens, and fly by wire EVERYTHING in these cars.
Divide et impera!
This has been a blind spot for me, thanks for reiterating the feedback. I'll add a pre-filled email on the next iteration.
> What was the faceless government's motivation?

Keeping people from starving and employers from closing during a global pandemic where most of them couldn't work.
On the one hand, hooray for half a million dollars for the hardworking folks "down in the trenches" who seldom receive the appreciation or remuneration they so richly deserve. Hoorah!

On the other hand, this does nothing for me as a Free software fanatic to make Github and Microsoft any more palatable. I still can't believe that a closed, proprietary centralized webapp has so completely co-opted both the git DCVS and FOSS itself. (I've heard people unironically call Github the "flagship of the FOSS movement".)

The image I get is of the boss riding by in a gilded carriage casting handfuls of gold coins to the serfs.

Some of the comments here are of the "shut up and be grateful" ilk, and some even try to shame people for not being sufficiently grateful and/or uncritical. I call BS on that.

If Github/MS find themselves in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation in re: supporting FOSS maintainers it's only because of their own actions and history.

If they really wanted to thank FOSS folks they could open source Github, eh? Or Windows.
This is cool! I’m currently trying to update the CAN (early Ibus) setup I have connected to E36’s CD changer port.

I’m able to receive messages just fine on an Arduino via MCP2025 using ian332isport’s IBus library but I can’t send messages. Just tried using the apparently better Melexis TH3122.4 instead of the MCP but other than sending Vreg power it doesn’t seem to work (and instantly heats up to dangerous temperatures).

If anyone happens to be working on something similar hit me up!
I read this article when it came out and indeed it’s worth reading. I’m glad to see the team’s hard work paying off.
Scaling up DAOs for better coordination
He sounds mentally ill. I actually would have not been surprised if he shot himself or slit his wrists, but picking an unpleasant way to die doesn't seem like something he'd do.

I wouldn't assume he'd never commit suicide because he got a tattoo saying he'd never commit suicide -- people say lots of things.

But if you look at his life and work, you see someone suffering from depression and substance abuse -- someone in pain.

People in pain usually kill themselves in ways aimed at not existing anymore, not prolonging it.

(I did a minor in psychology in both undergrad and my aborted PhD, and have struggled with depression myself, so I can put myself in his shoes. Existing is exhausting.)
Yes, but this was not asked for, isnt it. (especially since china was mentioned)
the first few years I used the app
Yes, it was a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/death-star-trek-actor...
Having way too many ideas and not enough time to work on all of them. You have to say "no" a lot to not let it drag you down.
How Asia Works was reviewed on SSC as part of an ongoing review contest: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-how-asia-w...
They aren’t called market makers for no reason, but it’s also not as simple as you make it out to be.

They can have impact on the trend however the market can only be controlled to an extent.

When the shit hits the fan everyone loses money the problem is that the bailout tends to be rather selective.

And there is no easy way out of this cycle either. It’s easy to say just don’t bail them out but you are also bailing millions of people who stand to completely lose their life savings, pensions and jobs and so the cycle repeats.

If we want to dissuade unadulterated greed we first need to find a solution of how to effectively finance those who are no longer economically productive.
Someone should publish frequently updated, high-quality satellite imagery in the public domain.
More likely, politicians will pass laws that will protect them, specifically, but not anyone else. Like how laws were passed to prevent protests in front of supreme court justices homes, but protesting in front of abortion doctors houses was found to be 'protected speech'.
This opinion gets at the heart of the reason to use type languages or not. After all, what is a dict but an untyped struct?

Untyped languages are excellent for smaller code bases because they are more comfortable to program in and faster and more general. Types of polymorphism possible in these languages are simply not possible or much harder in typed languages. Also, as others have said, the problem domain may not be as explored yet.

Typed languages really start to shine as a code base gets huge. In these instances well maintained untyped language code bases start collapsing under the weight of their own unit tests, while moderately well or poorly well maintained instances of untyped language code bases become a mess. Mostly this is due to difficulties in communication when the code base gets worked on by so many people that it's hard for them all to communicate with each other. In these cases a typed language keeps everyone on the same page to some extent.

Both camps will hate me for saying this I think, but it's what I've observed over the years.

It also may sound like I prefer typed languages, but in fact my favorite languages to work in are Clojure and Python. My code bases as a DevOps engineer rarely pass the 10,000 line mark and never pass 100,000 line mark. It's much more comfortable for me in these untyped languages.

Untyped languages also really shine in microservices for the same reason.
"Certain oppressive systems - capitalism, racism, the patriarchy, ecocide"

Feels like category error to start with, at least to me. Putting racism and capitalism together is pretty strong and not as self evident as claimed. I always struggle with articles - whether thousand years old Plato or modern blogs - with sentences that start "we can all agree that..." on something I at least need a WHOLE lot of proof before I grant the premise.

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In all the critiques of managerialism though, I wonder how manager is defined. Seemingly inherently evil. So what's the alternative? The purest abstract form of anarcho communism with no process, no hierarchy, no rules, and no leadership? It feels... Academically naive. An interesting thought experiment of the "imagine perfect mass-less sphere in perfect vacuum alone in universe" sort. It's fun to ponder, but completely impractical.

If I go to Escape room with 8 of my friends, as I did last night, relationships and processes will develop before 60minutes expire. Is that managerialism and inherently evil? If not where's that massive red line that makes all managers everywhere evil?
No worries, gotta do something while a big software update installs and my laptop charges

(other than talk the barista's ear off, hehe)
Yemenite vs. Samaritan vs. Modern Hebrew:Can they understand each other? [video]
Ah sorry, don't remember who was the original tweeter before the quote tweet.
I don’t like a lot of the UI/UX decisions in modern cars.

Every manual transmission I’ve ever driven has given an incredible amount of tactile feedback when you get it wrong.

You know you’re parked because you’ve pulled a (relatively) big lever.

A little knob or momentary buttons make me uncomfortable. I’d be waiting for feedback but never receiving it.

Another example of waiting for something to happen, then nothing happens is start/stop engines. My foot goes down, nothing happens, I give more fuel, still nothing, engine starts and we’re really going. I’m sure I’d get used to it, but I don’t like it. Just do what you’re told, car.
But how many people even do the faith part before dying? Billions miss out.
> claim their retail arm is not and will never be profitable

If this is true, then isn't the retail side effectively removing all the oxygen from the ecosystem? This sounds massively stagnating, the combination of not-profitable and extremely efficient.
This is quite problematic area indeed.
If developers are happy for receiving 500$ for decades of their work, what justifies paying more in the future?
I guess everything is good and there is no need to change anything.
I get it, that it is the idea of open source, but the demands are increasing towards authors while they just use their spare time in most of the cases.
More of their work is used to generate money, but authors are receiving barely anything.
Appears to be mostly honest, for example does not count as "teens" those over 17, but it doesn't capture the by far highest fraction of defense gun uses, those in which the weapon is never fired (over 85%, maybe over 90%; as they say, they don't re). On the other hand:

"While CDC utilizes death certificates for gun deaths, they, and the FBI rely on a sampling of sources and extrapolate those numbers to provide aggregate totals that reflect the calculations within their methodologies."

Is I believe flatly false for the CDC, they tally what the death certificates say and report numbers down to single digit precision, which I wouldn't expect from extrapolations. While the CDC for example does make estimates for flu morbidity and mortality, this posture by the site allows them to avoid reporting the remarkable figures on steadily decreasing fatal gun accidents, now down to 486 as of 2019, from 1955 in 1980.

That's during a period when the total population of the US increased by about half, gun ownership became much more widespread due to the nationwide sweep of concealed carry laws to 43 states and 74% of the population, which includes the number of guns owner by the population over doubling. US gun culture is deadly serious, shall I say, about safety.
I am a Fortune 500 recruiter; I'd exercise caution if you intend to put unaccredited companies (as opposed to schools) on your resume. You might as well leetcode, it will save you some money and you will get better results.
I feel like if OP had actually made an effort to hide this information from search engines and GPT-3 remained the last place from which it was available, this point would be a lot more compelling. Right now it's a "everybody has my name and that's fine, but that includes GPT-3 and that makes GPT-3 bad".

I would expect that it would take considerable effort to get this information removed from Google (you would have to write to them with a request under GDPR or similar and have them add a content filter) and I don't see why the same effort wouldn't allow you to get removed from GPT-3 (which is only accessible via a web API, so a similar filter could be added).
TLDR is start with strong authoritarian state capacity and violently bring order to social fabric and build industrial/extractive base while ingratiating powerful hegemons / neighbours, or certainly not piss them off. Ultimately, those with wealth and power get to pick winners and losers. Nascent democracies tend to be developmental death sentences - can't coordinate. It will likely involve extreme state violence.

Less viable Asian Tiger export driven route:

-Be authoritarian.

-Establish domestic serenity via state violence.

-Have maritime access.

-Be geopolitically strategic to US interests at heigh of hegemony.

-Align as satraps and be subsidized by US.

-Create export driven industrial policy to climb up value chain.

-Educate population

Still viable extractive state route.

-Be authoritarian.

-Establish domestic serenity via state violence.

-Have maritime access.

-Have resources.

-Don't be sanctioned by US.

To get to upper income fast:

-Helps to have small population.

-Have access to cheap migrant labour.

Historically, start with:

-Be authoritarian.

-Establish domestic serenity via state violence.

-Have access to cheap slave labour.
I am sorry to hear that! I was lucky enough to have loving parents with whom I get along very well, I met the love of my life when I was 18 and we have been together ever since (I’m 37yo) and have plenty of friends with whom I spend a lot of quality time!
Interesting how everyone says „But I can google you“ instead of thinking about the issue.

Companies are building and selling GPT-3 with 6 billion parameters and one of those „parameters“ seems to be OP‘s username and his „strange“ two word last name.

If models grow bigger, they will potentially contain personal information about everyone of us.

If you can get yourself removed from search indices, shouldn’t there be a way for AI models, too?

Another thought: do we need new licenses (GPL, MIT, etc.) which disallow the use for (for-profit) AI training?
Has there ever been an example of a country becoming rich that didn't involve some sort of systemic oppression and exploitation of some group of people (whether within their own country or in another)?