skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Truly misguided article as most of the things by the author, unfortunately.
I was so excited about the book "Data-oriented programming" when it was first being released...it was so heavily publicized as well that it was constantly in my face which likely pushed me over the edge to give it a shot and buy it.

Unfortunately, not all that glitters is gold. It feels extremely beginner oriented, only touched basic concepts taught at uni level and it shows a huge disconnect between the theory and the real world work of a developer leveraging data in any way, shape or form.

Don't buy the book, it's so not worth it.
The sad thing is that there's not even any hope that anyone will ever want to standup for ugly people, bald people (me), short people etc. No one wants to "admit" openly to belonging to these groups or somehow having reasons to defend them even.
Didn't know HN had so many lock experts and lawyers frequenting the site. Dozens of comments have already detected an IP violation, half the thread is recommending ways the lock can be tested or people it needs to be sent to for confirmation of the unpickable claim...

As someone who doesn't know anything about lockpicking, I feel like part of a weird minority here. What do I know but I'd assumed one would take it to a convention or competition where the best lockpickers in the world meet, not a youtuber. Something like this: https://www.wired.com/2014/12/international-competition-mast...
I looked it up and it's in decline but still three-quarters of America. Half of Americans said their religion is very important in their own life.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/358364/religious-americans.aspx
I am a reasonably capable lockpicker and lock collector with hundreds of locks of every mechanism I can get my hands on... and as LPL often demonstrates, the vast majority of them, particularly the move clever seeming designs, are actually easy to pick.

I have one of the Enclave lock prototypes on my desk and can confirm the machining is brilliant and I have no idea how one could approach picking this. No feedback at all for correct vs incorrect.

I plan on taking it to my local SF Toool meetup to see if any of the true experts there can come up with anything.
Why is it “junk”? It’s great and I can think of very little that’s wrong with it.
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Not just strongly influenced. Those early MMOs were often called "graphical MUDs".

Indeed, Dark Age of Camelot was a direct successor to the Darkness Falls MUDs. Its gameplay was essentially the same, it just rendered the world in 3D rather than text.
Watching Netflix, I found that in some countries this is the case: actors are mostly average or bad looking.

Sorry, but I hope the fashion does not catch on :D
It's not the trolley problem. There are plenty of avenues for political activism /outside/ the workplace. Adults should be capable of not conflating the workplace with their entire existence. The only acceptable activism is unionization, understood as narrowly focused on workplace issues.

For a sample size of one, while I am very guilty of having many politically charged conversations with coworkers, I have always kept them physically /outside/ the workplace. At work we confine conversations strictly about business and customers.
I wouldn't call C++ "good" at any of those problems. "Good enough" - maybe.
We won't agree on whether reddit becoming politically more leftist is a good thing or not. But setting aside whether we want it to be, I'm not convinced the evidence is compelling that that's what's happened, or that if it has, that a community which wasn't "woke" wouldn't suffer all the other problems reddit suffers.

Blaming politics you don't like is convenient, but not always helpful or accurate.
Huh. TIL

Actually now that I think harder about this, WTF did I think was really going on here before. If we clone the slice to make an array, where does the array go? We don't know how big that array is, so we can't put it on the stack.

Yeah, that was crazy. Thanks for pointing it out.
My critique of Reddit isn’t so much about moderation per se, as it is about one-sided moderation. The ban of anything that opposes “the message”.

It started around 2015/16 and it was very clearly visible in all subs.
That's valuable context, thanks for taking time to answer. Looking forward to JuliaCon 2022!
> What started as a bastion of independent thought, Reddit has slowly devolved into a den of groupthink, censorship, and corporate greed.

This is revisionist romanticism. Reddit is just a collection of forums like the many hundreds of thousands that came before it, and continue to exist alongside it. Reddit is also so incredibly massive that making sweeping statements about its quality or composition is meaningless, what one consumes on reddit is really more a reflection of the individual rather than the site itself.
It is not more efficient to write endless permutations of the same concepts. It creates a maintenance nightmare.
Just line that clause out.
I'm permabanned from Reddit, as in all my accounts (yes, I let it get so bad I had multiple accounts) and any new accounts (yep... tried making more) are banned based on previous logins and IPs (they're actually pretty thorough with it).

Some mods are power tripping, but also the value of a user is now near-zero. As long as you don't piss off too many, your subreddit will be fine. Especially for popular keywords - it's like owning "startrek.com", people will find it.

Subreddit owners can't actually make money in most traditional ways (so yeah, they may be paid behind the scenes), and there's a strong anti-monetization culture among Redditors, which is hilarious given that it's a for profit company that makes money off everyone's content. They still see it as an underdog online community. Newsflash, Facebook users also think they're enlightened on an exclusive platform/group.

Setting up a forum has never been easier - even security wise. Yet even that is too hard for people, so centralization is what we get. Hell, it's too much of a pain even for companies (for different reasons) - I still can't believe they shut down NotebookReview Forums - I was a long time active contributor. Surely no one in their right mind does that? Surely the decent Google traffic is worth something? Apparently not! Now I look suspiciously at TechPowerUp and Level1techs Forums...

I hope Reddit's asinine Facebook inspired user acquisition strategies will lead to its downfall, but I don't know... too many people have/make accounts. Hell, people make Facebook/Instagram and even Pinterest accounts, so clearly gating works. Maybe once they decide to disallow indexing by search engines? But then again Facebook is doing fine...

Discord is even worse - contributing unique information publicly (apparently that's what users believe, that it's "public"!) on chat platforms? I don't even know why people started doing that.
Reddit is hijacking content by requiring it to be hosted on it's own CDN... It's one of the main reasons why they put up walls. Many reddit users are actively involved in content and credit theft as well, but no one knows about how deep it runs. In a world where creators are going unviewed from IG to TikTok, there is literally an underground repost network that literally steals and reposts content to claim credit and monetize the lifted content on reddit and other sources through various means. This is also why Reddit rarely lets posters link to original content sources like YouTube, IG, and TikTok on major subs any more.

Millions of creators on sites like YouTube and others never get credited or viewed even though their stolen content goes viral on bootleg accounts. It's a huge problem. Even replies and posts from other sites are hijacked for the same purposes now.

It laid the ground work for content theft going on everywhere now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a4geZL2xmM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaEJWlAbXLk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcE8ZVG_tmo
I suspect "he probably hasn't given it much thought" sums up most of Elon Musk's recent decision-making.
would likely depend on whether the filing date was before or after this, but yeah, this would likely invalidate any claims for the most interesting improvements over the SMH designs
Yes we have a special protocol for time-wasters ;)
> I lurk in a few subreddits these days, but I almost never feel the pull to chime in or contribute because it kind of feels like my contribution just goes out into a vast universe, and I just think 'why bother?'

Definitely resonates with me as mostly a life-long lurker. HN is on a very, very short list of online communities I actually post on and engage with. Never got into reddit, left social media long ago.
Do you feel anyone has improved upon what Reddit is doing? Or have you only found satisfaction in specific communities on specific sites?

Are there non traditional communities like Tildetown that you enjoy?
Internet Explorer 6 was dominating the web. Was it best too?
I feel every bank should default to sending you a notification text and/or email on every transaction.

Most banks have the feature but it can be annoying to setup. Another issue I have had is both email and phone providers may start rate limiting or marking as spam if you get too many automated messages.
Carter vs. Reagan, 1980. USA: 23,368 nuclear warheads. USSR: 30,062 nuclear warheads. We are talking about peak Cold War, which will see some detente only after 1985 and Gorbachev reforms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_nuclear_weapons_sto...
You have a spell object
I don't use autoformat, because it gets things wrong constantly. E.g. taking two similar lines and wrapping one but not the other, because of 1 character length difference. Instead I explicitly line my code out by hand to emphasize structure.

I also hate 90% of default linter rules because they are pointless busywork designed to catch noob mistakes.

These tools keep devs stuck in local maxima of mediocrity. It's like writing prose with a thesaurus on, and accepting every single suggestion blindly.

I coded for 20 years without them, why would I need them now? If you can't even fathom coding without these crutches, and think this is somehow equivalent to coding in a bare notepad, you are proving my point.
https://i.reddit.com/ is the good one for mobile.
I guess when GP says "scientific machine learning" he means "research into machine learning algorithms", which is typically done in academic circles, no?

Then when someone's discovered something new and useful, the focus turns towards making fast and readily available implementations in commonly used frameworks. Like Torch, which you can use both from PyTorch and from Julia.
The opposite is true. In absolute terms there is far more quality text discussion on reddit today than at any other time.
Ask HN: How do orgs detect conflicting hashes in sub-second timing?
Today I was considering how organizations such as bitly, imgur, reddit, and even github handle hash collision prevention.

While for GH it (seems) easier as commit hashes are sufficiently long/unique, for others with character hashes that only span ~6 chars or so, there's bound to be instances where hashes conflict from a statistical standpoint. (iirc reading an article on a hash collision in GH a few years ago here on ycomb)

To my mind these orgs have to have a suite tools/algos requesting information from multiple services, checking whether or not a hash has been taken – and those processes have to optimize for time. (e.g. when a user makes a post, what's a reasonable time to do a lookup?)

So, what are the considerations which need to be made algorithmically to check such collisions while keeping runtime to an acceptable minimum?
Yes, I hope they wouldn't exist and that people would setup new companies to replace governmental service (for a voluntary fee).

Read about agorism (konkin) and anarchocapitalism (rothbard, friedman).
That lock pick was enormously popular and hotly anticipated, because it was designed by Lock Picking Lawyer and Bosnian Bill (two popular YouTubers) and mentioned in their videos. In fact most likely the overwhelming majority of visitors to the Sparrows website were there solely to see that lock pick and had never heard of Sparrows before.

That product description is making light of this reality. No matter what they write in the description field, it's all "blah blah blah" that most readers are going to skip over except the two crucial terms "Lock Picking Lawyer" and "Bosnian Bill." Everything else is wasted space. (And then they just threw in a couple of other random phrases for fun and to see if people were paying attention)
I'd be surprised if they were drunk teenagers and more likely they were adults that looked young (this happens a lot with Americans/Europeans mistaking Japanese adults for non-adults).
> Ie, if you send IP addresses today to AWS, you could be deemed to be doing something illegal overnight subject to 4% of global revenue or 20 million euro fines.

If you are breaking the law, if a regulator finds out, you may be deemed to be doing something illegal overnight. Yes, that’s how everything works everywhere. What is worrying you now? The sound of a GDPR breach in a forest where nobody can hear it?

> Under the FDA or any US agency, you have an option to appeal to an independent branch of government whose decisions are binding.

Of course you can file an appeal, just use Google, you’ll find plenty, some successful and some not.

> Here, we see the opposite take place in France. Lawlessness. Monarchy. Being run through the bureaucracy. You can’t even bring yourself to admit that the CNIL arrogantly brushed off effectively the SUPREME COURT OF ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE. You say it’s a “mistake”?? Are you fucking kidding me? Deliberately doing to opposite of what your oversight agency rules is abuse of power.

You are getting fixated on a very minor case of French administrative law, that you didn’t even care to understand. The ICO made a minor mistake in considering all cookie walls illegal. The Council of State said that they can’t make a blanket ban, but that they should evaluate all cookie walls individually. No fine has been annulled and the ICO can still deem your cookie wall illegal. So still no monarchy for you.

> Anyone with half a brain will be aghast at what is happening is the EU

Anyone with a half brain will at least spend some time understanding the issue at hand before getting excessively agitated.
Trainspotting is like birding for trains. You keep track of which engines and rolling stock you’ve seen, go on trips to see new engines etc.

So it’s a different type of train nerd from railroad modelling.
I'd stay away from the latter two, like not even read it. I made a terrible life changing mistake by reading too much of these subreddits.

It's user generated content, mostly by people who hate their lives, hate society and hate others, aided by the traditional media they link to.

By the time I saw that reality is different and so much better than the doom I got on Reddit, it was too late.
>We know that without decent regulation, tax evasion on a massive scale, money laundering, criminal activities, insider trading, bribery, extortion, illegal political influence etc. etc. will seriously degrade civil society.

You don't know that.

When has it ever been tried?

We didn't explore societies where transactions are voluntarily (eg. no taxes) and we don't persecute victimless crimes (eg. drugs)

I argue my interests are aligned with the majority of non political people.

That said I'm not a proponent of crypto, I think private banks without government regulations are a more efficient alternative than a blockchain.
how did it show a disconnect?
>That's the problem with any superintelligence story; they are by definition hard to write without being superintelligent. As Vinge was famously told, "you can't write this story. No one can." If a chimpanzee could write a story about a human expert of any sort, the other chimpanzees wouldn't understand it: it would either be gibberish, or dumbed down to superficial analogies that give an illusion of understanding. ("Then he used his rifle -" "what's a rifle?" "it's a stick which is like throwing a rock. Anyway, he traded some bananas for it with another monkey off the Internet." "What's an Internet?" "uh...")

I'm not entirely sure if that's true. It might be, I honestly don't know, but my personal suspicion is that there's such a thing as what I'll just go ahead and call a threshold intelligence level. In other words, a level of cognitive capacity beyond which a creature that attains said level can functionally conceptualize things far above its actual ability to understand them in detail. This allows discussion and exploration of certain extremely advanced concepts well enough to form a narrative without falling into complete incomprehension.

Chimpanzees might be far enough below this threshold level that even a basic story would cause them difficulty no matter how learned they are educated or bred to be, and a complex story about, say space ships or high performance aircraft would be completely outside their conception. Humans on the other hand might be able to stretch their imagination much further towards the extremes of conceptualization. However, I also think it might have its limits, namely that there are things which if explained to us would leave even the brightest humans as befuddled as a dog being lectured on internal combustion mechanics.
Just binge watched this today after I saw your comment and it is fantastic. Good banter along with a guided sense of direction towards their goal of completing their challenges and reaching their end city.
I thought this is talking about data-oriented design, which focuses on the data layout to make programs more efficient, e.g. structure of array that can be more cache friendly in some cases.

> Principle #2: Representing data with generic data structures.

OK probably this is not what I expected.
If there is one thing about reddit, its that its not politically contiguous - different parts have different cultures.
Although I've seen pretty much all of your videos, I'm ashamed to say I couldn't remember your name, so I googled "Andrew Magill" expecting your face to pop up.
Please send this to https://www.youtube.com/c/lockpickinglawyer

LockPickingLawyer has picked just about any and every single lock there is known to mankind. Would love to see him up against this!

Would make for some great content.
Following atomic habits for habit forming process:
- If you have important stuff to do, put the smartphone away in another room for example. Out of sight, you won't notice anything missing.

To be honest, since introduction of Do not disturb by Apple iPhone, I am very unbothered during working hours.
Many of us in the Julia community (myself included) take it very seriously and spend a substantial amount of our time working to mitigate it.
My question has been the same, ( apology if this was already answered ) why do we accept Dec 19 as the starting date, when we have evidence that partial Wuhan lock down due to "lung disease" started in November when Wuhan blocked International ( but not national ) flight to Wuhan airport.

I am going to ignore the WeChat evidence for discussions on WuHan "lung disease" in October and prior since those could be fake. But surely flight schedule cant be made up?
It's curious that cybercrime in the news is almost always attributed to enemy state actors like Russia, China and North Korea. Don't western countries have hacker groups, other than ideological groups like Anonymous?

Blaming North Korea for cybercrime is a convenient way of 1) shifting focus from uncomfortable facts (e.g. if the hacker group comes from an ally, or is domestic) - 2) justify our inability to do anything about it, and 3) to further western propaganda surrounding North Korea. Continually blaming North Korea for things without proof is one way of justifying the severe economic sanctions/blockades that have been in place for decades.
https://openjdk.org/jeps/360

https://openjdk.org/jeps/394

https://openjdk.org/jeps/406
You just described both sides of the political spectrum for the past four decades, but chose to use a word that frames it as a unique phenomenon that is only applicable to a very specific kind of person.

The "woke" insult has even less substance than what it's desperately trying to criticize.
Thank you for introducing this concept of the "Eternal September" - it has a real archetypal power to it, reminds me of Northrop Frye's genre-seasons: comedy with spring, romance with summer, tragedy with autumn, satire with winter.
UK Mars rover is casualty of war as science severs its links with Russia
It does not matter whether Matthew understands how transformer models work. He does understand that legally this is looking messy – or “foggy”, in his words.

As a person that teaches and conducts research with these models, there is no reason why a tool like Copilot has to be a purely parametric, generative transformer like GPT-3. Where attribution, as you describe it, is nearly impossible.

For example, if the model was to use a retriever component to obtain specific pieces of concrete code from a database (where the licensing for each piece is known) conditioned on the original source code context; then generate its output based on this, the context in your source code, and pre-trained parameters, then it could theoretically at least satisfy Butterick’s request and probably be more akin to how a human programmer operates.

This still does not rule out possible legal issues entirely as the pre-trained parameters are opaque, but it certainly makes it less problematic.

Alternatively, there is active research on attributing a given output to a transformer’s training data. But it is still very early days and frankly it is very “foggy” as to what degree this can be done.

Lastly, I have seen a bunch of comments elsewhere alluding to it being somehow sufficient to reduce the level of verbatim copying. Sadly, it will not, as even if you for example replace the variable names it is still a copyright violation. Just like if you manipulate the RGB space slightly for an image. Determining fair use, etc without a license is something that today can only be done in court, regardless of how we of a heavier technical disposition may feel about it. After all, that is exactly why we have explicit licenses in the first place!
> 4. Give up, and go to old.reddit.com, which is ugly and not designed for mobile, but at least works okay.

I use i.reddit.com for this. (Thank goodness it still works.)
And ownership, types, generics and concurrency... Essentially, we're teaching some aspects of computer science. The more you can express, arguably the more you can learn. I certainly learned a huge amount when learning rust. It would have been valuable to me to know that 15 years ago.
I didn't even realize this still functioned. Thanks.
tiktok provides better “communities” with more organic content. it know it sounds weird but you can get into areas of tiktok very similar to a subreddit. the lack of centralization like public karma, mods, sticky posts, etc actually helps
You're basically just calling people names that have no commonly agreed definition. Something something about glass houses and stones.
If externalities are being priced in, overall costs would go down. They are only cheap now because someone else pays that cost
4 VS Code extensions to share technical knowledge with your team