skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I've grown more cynical as I've gotten older. I think I still assume competence and good intention usually, although not universally. However, I no longer assume good intention eventually prevails, or that the good intention isn't perverted by other motivations or problems. Even when you have a set of people individually following what seems like good intentions, sometimes collectively what they're doing leads to problems, and people can lack insight into the second-order effects of what they're doing.

I've just been hurt too badly by being naive, and seen the rampant destruction that problematic behavior has caused. All it takes is one or two people in the right (or wrong) places to cause an avalanche of problems. Often, in fact, assuming nothing wrong makes it worse ("why would A be misrepresenting things?")

My experience with problems, whether it be malicious or unintentional, is that the worst problems aren't with what they're doing at work, in the sense of the work tasks. It's in communicating with others, with managing, with fixing problems, mediating between individuals who disagree, effecting organizational change, and so forth. So for example, the coding is fine — there might be something I disagree with, or something dated, or something imperfect — but most of the time it's not a problem. Where the problem comes in is in discussing project goals, reconciling differences of opinion, how to inspire someone, how to address morale problems, water cooler manipulation, and so forth. That's where I get cynical or skeptical now. I still think most people are fine most of the time, but that remainder of people-time causes a world of problems.

On the flip side of it I think people who are really good at management can address these issues and keep things in check, move people in a different direction that's more constructive. Everyone has down phases in their life, organizations have obstacles, and the right person or persons can really lead to good change. It's sometimes that person who takes an opportunity to do really simple things that could improve morale, mediate conflicts, and so forth, and does the opposite, that's the most disturbing to me.

As for me, having said all that, I think I've only grown convinced the best thing is to be pretty open-minded and to try to consider all options. Sometimes I've thought people were being unfriendly or thought poorly of me, and if I had just reached out a bit, we would have both been happier. I guess that works both ways: I've tended to assume less in general, positive and negative, about coworkers.
Funny thing that ocean acidification is mostly about carbon dioxide too. The choice of title is basically as bad as that phrase.
Christ what an embarassing message. Here’s a quote from Galeotti about modern Russia to help get you out of the dark place you’re in:

“According to some more hostile foreign commentators, Russia is near enough an earthly Mordor, North Korea with balalaikas. However, walk the streets of Moscow, and you’d find yourself in a modern, dynamic and frankly fun European city. Even out in the provinces, where money is tighter and the new middle class are rather thinner on the ground, there is ample evidence of change. By this I don’t just mean coffee houses, Wi-Fi and branches of Marks & Spencer (thirty-six in Russia so far), but also real debate, investigative journalism and even civil society.”

They’re normal people, just like you.
A Twitter search for "Webb starting"?
All major repositories editorialize to some extent, they would be awful if they did not.

For instance, PyPI will take down your software if we determine it to be malicious in some way, which is extending editorial control over what's on PyPI.

Generally speaking, though, PyPI does not concern itself with the contents of the packages shipped through it as long as they are reasonable packages. If a project wants to break compatibility, then that's on them. We strive to let projects manage themselves, in whatever way they think makes the most sense.
Thanks, I was wondering what they meant in the announcement by:

> warrant canaries for NSL/FISA orders are no longer considered best practice

I think “thinks that removing a warrant canary may be illegal” is a bigger story than the “removes warrant canary” part.

Is that a hypothetical, or does that imply that the government is compelling some people to retain false canaries?
When the oceans finally boil away, we can firmly lay the blame on scientists for being a few percentage points off of their predictions.
So far you've proven that FBI and DEA offers of murder for hire do not fit in line with 'Libertarian' utopia. I don't think anyone is contesting that.

Ulbricht wasn't living in a utopia, nor are many people going to argue his acts perfectly reflect some vague notion of any utopia.
As a counterpoint to the idea that "alarmism" is counterproductive:

There are many of us who believe, by looking at the trends of arctic methane release, that runaway warming is now inescapable. (As a sidenote, arctic methane was for a long time were not even considered in IPCC reports, and many deposits are still not being considered today).

20 years ago there was a vocal minority that was saying "we must have drastic change NOW. If we de not act now we will be doomed." The IPCC and many departments thought that such drastic, alarmist language, would be counterproductive.

And nothing really changed and we are now, perhaps, doomed. Perhaps those alarmists were right.

It is of course impossible to prove the counterfactual of "what would have happened if we had been more alarmists 20 years ago?". But what we do know is that the tempered course of action we did take was almost certainly not enough.

* It goes without saying, but 20 years ago was 2002. Post google, post ipod. Basically the current age, not like, the 1970s or something, even though it may feel that way.
To be fair, equities.fyi seems to label every company as down roughly 80% from highs -- I typed in 10 random private companies I know of, none of them were fintech, and it modeled them all as having similar valuation drops. It's possible that they all are but I wonder if equities.fyi's model is just saying "drop valuation by 80% unless there is a reason to do otherwise." (I do work at Plaid but I am responding mostly in a personal capacity of being someone who's curious about where these numbers come from.)
Thanks for sharing your perspective. I find it rare for parents to share the non-glowing reviews, and it's refreshing to hear.
Completely.

So much of this framing however is being pushed/forced/rulings or judgement driven decisions.

You get the sense that TikTok is like "cool, yeah, we'll add that to our roadmap"
dang, I think you moved the comments to the wrong thread, I can see them in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26

See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=32062463 for example
With the belief that everyone is well intentioned and wants whats best for everyone, I think the thing that freaks me out about this whole thing is that through some process a developer has had their work declared 'critical'. If PyPI said this was a new requirement for everyone, then it would be make more sense, but the sudden declaration just seems problematic. I get there is a resource issue, but no one likes getting an e-mail that they're now subject to new rules not applied to others.

So you maintain a package 'X', that has been determined to be 'critical'. It just seems like some user of package 'X' needs to perform some action to insure the group safety. It just seems like the one party that benefits the most isn't doing anything to help the situation. Thinking about it, what if the three users of your package are the credit agencies? The whole criteria seems a bit arbitrary.

But there’s a reason why the slippery slope is a fallacy

Yeah, if anything, its a certainty not a fallacy.
Once you understand that walking gets you from where you are to where you want to be, you start to define the characteristics of motion. Then, seeing other forms of conveyance that are faster underpin the concept of efficiency.

Walking and flying may not have a lot in common to you and I, but to a thing learning to crawl, there is a lot to be understood.
I think what a lot of us are missing is human interaction, especially with strangers. No one is going to reminisce about that time the Netflix algorithm recommended a movie to them. Interactions with others, the stories and sense of community that can come out of it, not to mention building social skills, is being lost.

We're making a better world for consumers, but sometimes I wonder if it's a better world for people.
Keep an eye out for Stormgate: https://youtu.be/0UqxgaWuYss

A handful of the original devs for Starcraft 2 got together and created Frost Giant Studios. I'm hoping it jumpstarts the RTS genre again
Since 2009 actually.

Most contributors eventually moved into OpenJDK after it became available.

GCC folks left it around for a couple of years, because GCJ unit tests exercised parts of the compiler no one else did.

Eventually they decided it wasn't worth that maintenance cost to keep it around only for that purpose.
> Also, the idea that there's no problem, because OS maintainers can just remove their package from pypi, totally ignores the point that that would be a really bad outcome for everyone that uses that package. I this that's actually a pretty big problem.

Is definitely not as big a problem as someone taking over their account and publishing malware under their name is.
The US has done virtually everything it can for nearly two generations to preserve the dominance of the USD as the global reserve currency - going as far as launching coups and troops-on-the-ground campaigns.

I think that’s what I find most alarming about this Ukraine thing (discounting nuclear escalation, of course). Weaponizing the reserve currency against Russia was obviously going to have this effect, so why in the world did they score such an obvious own-goal against one of the key pillars of American Empire which has been maintained at nearly all costs since WWII?

Incompetence is the obvious answer but is a bit too pithy for my liking. Maintaining the reserve currency has been an undisputed priority across party lines for my entire life and publicly weaponizing it against Russia for little gain (even in the best case scenario) simply doesn’t make sense to me.
Most of them are German. Automotive is a huge global driver and Germany has 3 of the top 10 companies; it's just a fact.
This is the perspective of a developer. I am trying to explain the perspective of an open source desktop user who's ran into the backwards incompatibility in 4 out of 5 rust tools I've attempted to compile for use.

The Rust language is fine. Great, even. Most Rust devs are bleeding edge types that always use the latest features. Hopefully this changes as Rust matures.
Let's put it this way. If you're not advancing your manager's career, you'll be let go.
Official Source:

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public

Running late currently
What's the website equivalent of Dave? Surely it has to exist somewhere? Maybe it's not personalized for you but it's close enough for a lot of people?

I've visited a TON of taste-making sites and some used to be OK at suggesting what to watch, but it's been tough to find good ones lately, and I'd pay good money for somebody to sort through all of the cruft for me.

You've got your "decider" and other sites, but something more personal, or at least human curated in terms of "here is the canon of this genre" or "if you liked this you'll 1000% like this other thing"
Love this point. So true, and so accurate.

That being said they are also highly disparate with a variety of motivations and are incredibly hard to whip (using this the way its used in congress) into directions that are nuanced. Things like "we wanna make more money" "regulations/unions are bad" ofc oligarchs in the US manage to see eye to eye on, but anything further nuanced - that class discipline - is harder to achieve in the US than China
Good diets do not restrict food choices. They usually limit overall intake. You can eat whatever you want. You only have a certain number of calories you can eat per day without gaining some weight. [...] And that all revolves around changing your normal diet, or what you eat normally. All of that also means I know I can eat anything, but only so much.

There is another way to think about it that has helped me. It's not necessarily a good way, but.. I got to thinking, what can you do if you struggle to adjust the diet domain? Adjust the time domain!

So eat the same food, but just space it out more. I've found this a great way to start and while I am more gradually improving the food, it has been less psychologically jarring to adjust the timing of my existing food as a way to get going.
It is at the level NeXT was forced to contribute back to upstream.
Lottery on Your Block
The trouble with the climate change lobby (aside from the paid /lobbyists/ and entrenched profit motives) is that you can only cry wolf so many times and make so many wildly hyperbolic and/or hypocritical claims before well-intentioned people start to question the whole narrative.

Don't get me wrong - I'd prefer not to find out what sort of negative impact climate change may have. I just think the current messaging isn't doing them any favors.
Or just imagine that you don't own the game in the first place, imagine that you're buying an opportunity to experience something for a while. Better laws could help of course, but I'm not holding my breath.

Situations like this will educate nobody about anything though. Many irate forum posts will be written, and the course of the world, and these people's lives will change about 0 percent. If gamers, as a group, would be able to learn anything, there wouldn't be hype for early access titles, or they wouldn't pre-order, but I'm not seeing either.

The actual best thing to happen to these franchises, in my view, is pirates freeing them from their corporate shackles that is DRM. This helps them to be actually relevant and to give people good experiences consistently - although, you could argue that this also helps them not sink into their well deserved irrelevance, so in the end piracy is helping to sell the original like in the case of Windows or Photoshop, or how people knowing the music drives the sale of concert tickets. Still, at least pirated copies can be used by the people who are genuinely missing the experience after the DRM servers inevitable shut down.
In Japan, anything but political dynasties would be seen as „not normal“ by the voters. Politician is a family business like an Udon restaurant - the eldest son of a politician is expected to become a politician, too.
And many of these dynasties go back to feudal times or earlier. In Japan, I heard more that once about some scandal-addled politician that „he comes from a samurai family“. That means he’s above law in the Western sense. What ever bad thing such a person does - a showy apology and a deep bow will heal all wounds with the majority of voters.
First, the neural network is taking the history of observations into account. We don't know what the NN has learned, but the NN is probably making some inference on likelihood of opponent piece locations. They haven't explicitly coded it to do that but it is difficult to imagine a human-level AI not doing this.

Second, what you are suggesting is probably best done as a secondary process outside of learning the Nash equilibrium. If you knew an opponent's policy, you would need to recalculate your optimal counterplay for that specific policy. This is completely orthogonal to the goal of this paper which is to learn the Nash equilibrium through self-play alone.
NASA timescales are in the billions of years.
I live a few blocks from that place. It's kind of weird all the attention it gets.
Elon Musk Damaged Twitter and Left It Worse Off
Don't know if it's been mentioned or not, but what killed the video store for me was the late fees. Hollywood Video had a parking lot drop box that was good up until midnight. I worked the overnight shift so I would drop the seen vids at 9:15pm and then drive off to work. Almost every time they would charge me a late fee! When I would call them on the fee, they always dropped it, making me wonder about the other people who wouldn't protest.

Also, many times I witnessed exasperated parents and grandparents paying a huge late fee because their kids forgot to drop them off.
We need an automated solution so a bot can Tweet that. Otherwise some noble soul has to wait and watch to tell everyone else, who will then have to contribute to their patreon/soundcloud.
The White House stream is 1080p vs 720p for the NASA stream.

The pictures will show up here though: https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages
Europe needs to embrace operator angel investors
It is starting now!
There are so many better options for space music, this is nearly 30 years old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6rtzPp0_ew
I have read several of those studies with an automated workflow to find suitable pumped hydro/wind/solar and they consistently miss local awareness. They often use deeply inaccurate land cover classification when the simple usage of open street map could have helped, and for hydro they underestimate the recent local opposition to destroy a village to build a dam.
The "critical" designation is not arbitrary. It's based on download statistics. From https://pypi.org/security-key-giveaway/:

> What determines if a project is a critical project?

> PyPI determines eligibility based on download counts derived from PyPI's public dataset of download statistics. Any project in the top 1% of downloads over the prior 6 months is designated as critical.
This was the exact intent of SCOTUS' ruling.
pH will drop to pH7.95 by 2045, and most marine life in our oceans dissolve.

Coral dissolving I can understand. But the article seems to be saying “most marine life” which gives me images of sharks and tuna dissolving.

I see three options:

1. The article misspoke

2. The article is wrong

3. The article is using some statistic I’m unaware of to be technically correct

Any help to assist me in understanding what he meant appreciated!
Actually it was the other way around, CUDA was fixed to follow C++11 memory model.

There are a couple of CppCon talks on the subject.
NYC Nuclear Preparedness PSA
In Japan, feudalism never really ended, at least not in the hearts and minds of people. They love their „upper caste“ regardless how much it hurts their lives.
Yah, never said they were and I understand the history just fine. The question was how many want the bases there.
Most people wanting to move to Switzerland due lower taxes and such tend to ignore the way hogher living costs there, in end what you save in taxes is spent on rent and groceries. Best thing is to work in Switzerland but life across the border in France. Even better, replace Switzerland with Luxembourg and benefit from evil-EU enforced retirement benefits. Added bonus, FANG is offering jobs on Luxbourg, if you want to stay in "tech".
> Really? I did.

I was talking about video quality, not that other stuff.

> - if you shared a household there was always the risk that someone would tape over your favourite recording

This is actually significantly worse now, since most households lack the ability to "tape" anything.
"You said they would boil in 2040... it's 2039 now! I thought we had more time! You tricked us all. YOU DOOMED US ALL!"
My son is in treatment for Leukemia, and most patients lose large amounts of weight.

He's also autistic and has food texture issues.

Somehow he's good with potatoes (generally baked "fries") and milk with some infant formula mixed in. He's the only young (<5 YO) patient they've personally had that has gained weight during treatment, and the attribute it to his "milk and potato" diet. To be clear, he's continued growing, if not normally, something approximating normal, during his chemo. That's highly unusual.

Anecdotal, but it's my experience.
Am I the only one that (wrongly) assumed this was in reference to application logs and not... literal logs? xD
I've used the ATM at that Costco and nobody followed me or nagged me. But that location is right by a bunch of good places to get food so I've never tried to push my luck.
Hence the existence of standard certification for compilers as business.
I'd be remiss not to link to https://www.beyondallreason.info/

A community made spiritual successor to the total annihilation/supreme commander series. It's notionally in alpha, but it works perfectly, and I have to say it's pretty amazing (hesitate to call it prefect). Yes, it's complicated, but the balance, options, automation and strategies available are almost perfect, as is the presence of strategic zoom so you don't feel like you're viewing the Mona Lisa through a toilet roll and forcing you to battle more with the interface than the game itself (I'm looking at you starcraft).

on the article front, I didn't see references to Sacrifice: a bizarre hybrid mix between third-person action and RTS. It didn't leave a legacy (as far as I can tell), but by God (pun intended) it was a weird and wonderful game.
What does business have to do with PyPI? They are themselves a free project, for everyone using them.
OPs comment makes little to no sense. Testosterone is the highest in puberty, late teens and early twenties. It thickens skin and has many other protective benefits.

Testosterone declines with age past 30 significantly and correlates with decreased bone mass thus meaning increased bone remodelling around the face making your face to literally change shape and structure.

If decreased testosterone is making us look young we would look young into our 60s.
We're actively discussing this at the moment, and the only solution we have is judicious bugging of a real 'adult' phone for the kid. If they're old enough to know Santa Claus doesn't exist, they'll also be old enough to know the phone company wasn't reporting on their naughtiness to their parents, it was just the phone that was rigged by their parents before they ever got a hold of it all along
> If advertisers thought they were buying 1M real person impressions and it turned out to be half bits, next time they pay you money they would only want to pay half as much.

That’s if you assume that advertisers have no idea what the result of ad impressions are. (Which is an argument I’m sympathetic to, but isn’t flattering to the ad industry.) If they do have an idea of the results of ad impressions, it would mean that their ads are actually proportionally more effective than they thought, since their revenue brought in by ads has stayed the same but with fewer impressions.
It's never that simple (see state tax law). Also, laws regarding out-of-state abortion won't be about the actual out-of-state procedure but rather the travel/facilitation to get out of state to begin with.
You plan ahead of time. Of course, no plan survives contact with the opponent and then you improvise. There is, as you correctly observed, no time for conscious thinking then. It's all 'muscle memory' so to speak. Hence you won't be competitive until you have played thousands of games.

The match-making algorithm ensures that you win ~50% of the times, unless you're at either extreme of the skill level. Every so often (or quite often) you're matched with a vastly superior opponent and blasted to pieces, but it's already much better than SC1 w/o such match-making, where beginners never saw the light. Also Blizzard has a good handle on cheating in SC2 (unlike SC1).
What’s Russia going to do with that gold? Put it on a train a quarter of the way around the world to Beijing?

It is far from trivial to move that kind of stock.
A proposal for science funding reform