skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i was there.

one night on a dumpster dive i found a minitel terminal [i thought it was "trash" but it was perfectly working.]

it dialed out no problem, there was a queue of phone numbers

I was launched into a world of freenets and BBSs
Ummagumma is a pretty wild ride

I think their early stuff (Piper, Saucer) had a structure of sorts, but it was kinda out there and probably only Syd really understood it

Ummagumma was throwing stuff at the wall to see what stuck, and by Meddle they started actually developing a marketable formula (I'd say Atom Heart Mother is somewhere in the middle)

Then after Dark Side, they started their real structure and had piles of success until Waters was myopic enough to kick out the only person in the band that mattered
Any source I give will be just dismissed as Russian propaganda without evidence; or without consideration of the history, context, how accurate they have been in the past, etc. You only want to read or listen to anyone who screams "Russia bad" or "China bad".

Nevertheless, here is an old article from back in April to get you started - https://www.thepostil.com/the-military-situation-in-the-ukra...
>> Genuinely, why are refugees something to be prioritized over a cultural touchstone institution if the goal is preserving historical character?

I wish I could answer you unfortunately censorship measures currently in place prevent open discussion.
> Could you say that any system of thought, where believe rather than know, is a religion? I think so.

This is a common misconception that conflates world view with religion, when these two concepts are not really that synonymous[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldview
music autoplay ? really ?
There's no need to do that first, no.
1) Do those really have that big difference? Should they? I could see a point if we were discussing first or second generation immigrants. Specially not those from highly educated parents.

Coming from Finland which did rather well with much less hours spend it might as well be systematic issue. Maybe process of the teaching itself has something wrong.
I am very pro DeFi. But I think it’s a delicate thing. This is just my prediction. It won’t be immediate either. I’m sure ETH with chug along for awhile longer.
> This is coming from someone who spends a lot of time in the sun.

Is it coming from someone with a lot of experience evaluating the protocols of epidemiological studies? Sunlight (whether too much or too little) affects us in all sorts of poorly-understood ways; that's why it's useful to do a big correlation study instead of just examining melanomas.
They had tracking ads, everybody blocked them, then they changed it.
That only happens when the prompt is constrained to force an answer even if a nonsense question is being asked. If you allow an out, the model knows to refuse answering when it detects a nonsense question.
> That’s how DuckDuckGo survives.

Interesting example. I found that their service is definitely going downhill.

I’ve been using them almost since they came on the scene. in the past two months I have had to double check search results against Google, where as I expected the results are far superior.

In the previous years I’ve almost never had to double check a result.

So, I don’t know about the future of Apple at all, but I hope the quality stays higher than your example.
I assumed at that time that it first would become actually usable
I never got the “if you don’t pay..” arguments, it seems like you pay and still become a product. What connected devices honestly don’t collect everything possible if you pay for it? I bought a kindle and listen to audible on my phone, now I get recommendations based on my listening on the kindle. Same for a Roku, same for a cable box, same for not trying to buy a smart tv or appliance, same for nearly everything…

Reminds me of a throwaway line on West World season 3, “… before the privacy laws...” like what is it going to take to stop this? Ad industry has been an absolute disaster for the human experience IMO.
The point of automation is to free TfL from drivers' unions. The cost of drivers isn't much compared to the cost of unions.
I think this may partially be a case of mis-diagnosis.

As someone who was raised in Christianity, and who later participated in the US Army and social dance, I think that a big part of ego modulation is:

* Synchronized activities - especially physical movement

* Shared suffering

* Shared effort towards a common goal

It just so happens[1] that most religions use both techniques heavily. Christian services typically involve the congregation speaking and singing in unison for an hour at a time. There is also a notion of universal suffering that is built into Christianity, that is typically emphasized through cultural activities and sermons.

A big thing within Christianity is practical expressions. We used to host a men's shelter, did a variety of charity work, and supported missionaries.

I've also done a buddhist meditation retreat. Everyone sat and meditated for an hour+ at a time, several times per day. I'm on the fence if that meets the criterion of "synchronized activities", since all of the action is entirely mental, but it definitely qualifies as "shared suffering". Same with not being able to speak for a week. And there was pretty strong encouragement to donate at the end, as well as participate in weekly "sits".

Social dance is almost entirely "synchronized activity". And it leads to a very intimate, trusting community. Sort of. Depending on the dance, dancing through the night and being part of the "breakfast club" is also a right of passage for some, which, along with beat up feet, is a sort of "shared suffering".

The military is pretty big on this stuff as well. Everyone thinks of basic training, but the experience is constantly repeated (although to a lesser level of discomfort) through training exercises. And marching is heavily emphasized during basic - not for any combat effectiveness reason - but because of its ability to engender trust and cohesion.

I'm sure there's probably some mystery sauce in religion that I'm missing, but I think a lot of it is down to those 3 factors.

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1. Maybe it's on purpose. Maybe it's convergent evolution. Heck - maybe it's divine will. I don't really care about the cause here.
Damn. Was hoping they, somehow, trained an AI from the inscriptions of the great and mighty that would yield the appropriate dismissive, threatening, ... text.
They sure could rip the whole extension store from default Chrome to make sure you don't get one without going the extra step (which like 90%[0] don't) of getting Firefox.

0: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/world...
If you say so. I don't have any hard numbers (I would love to see them, either way), but I think there was a brief moment around 1990 when BBS usage was more widespread than the Internet. I wouldn't (and didn't) say BBS usage was widespread in absolute terms. Nor did I say anything about the significance of anything.
> What exactly is the difference between religion and science?

I'd say the falsifiability and testability of their beliefs, and how encouraged "believers" are to do so.

Is the belief system's goal to get everyone to believe in the same set of divine truths and live accordingly, or to try and figure out what the truths are in the first place?
I find this is a common and totally unjustified take. The NHS is fairly frequently subject to alteration and reform in various ways, and there is no real truth to the “piles of bureaucracy and waste” stories - it remains broadly pretty efficient as a healthcare system when compared with other developed countries.

You’ve also misrepresented the nature of private healthcare in the UK - this is almost universally not a replacement for NHS services. It will offer you things like faster GP appointments, consultants, and routine operations. It will not replace many of the specialist or emergency services offered by the NHS, leaving you dependent on it anyway.

A bigger “problem with the debate” is that we so frequently find people like yourself who are insistent on having some kind of “debate” without really knowing about what, or why.
I have Nextcloud running on a Raspberry PI along with a dozen other services on yunohost.org. Nextcloud automatically backs up my family's contacts, calendars, notes, tasks, photos, files, passwords, bookmarks, phone locations and more. If you want to backup the APK's check out Seedvault. I am personally fine manually reinstalling APK's if/when needed so have not tried Seedvault yet.
> Good luck proving that Bob ran the company into the ground (and got rich doing so) because he's a crook, rather than just an idiot. You can't.

Insider trading doesn’t make this any easier to prove. Bob can just start drinking or doing drugs before running the company into the ground, now his friends and family have a solid defense against any insider trading claims.

Bobs drug problem isn’t material nonpublic information, but it sure as hell explains why everyone around him started shorting the company.
And every major tech firm buying up healthcare arms.
What's more a "professional" CP distributor would at the least encrypt or compress their photos, and probably not even use Gmail, maybe use a hijacked cracked account.* So that would lower the "true" positive rate even further.

*In fact that seems like it could be an effective form of extortion or swatting. Someone with access to your credentials could (threaten to) send CP over your account and ruin your life. Or destroy a small business.
What is the most simple way to findout what is your IP address. The most simple and fast way to use online free tool from upzilla.co
Musk once argued that once full self-driving works, it would be more profitable for Tesla to use these cars for an own taxi service than it would be to sell them to customers. They plan to raise the price even more the closer they (claim to) get to their goal.
Files are a very bad unit to elevate in importance, and number of files or file size are really bad proxy metrics, especially without considering the statistical distribution of downloads (leave alone the question of what is more "important"!). Eg: Junk that’s less than the size limit is implicitly being valued over good content that happens to be larger in size. Textbooks & reference books will likewise get filtered out with higher likelihood — and that would screw students in countries where they cannot afford them (which might arguable be a more important audience to some, compared to those downloading comics). Etc.

After all this, the most likely human response from people who really depend on this platform would be to slice a big file into volumes under the size limit. Seems to be a horrible UX downgrade in the medium to long term for no other reason than satisfying some arbitrary metric of legibility[1].

Here's a different idea -- might it be worthwhile to convert the larger files to better compressed versions eg. PDF -> DJVU? This would lead to a duplication in the medium term, but if one sees a convincing pattern that users switch to the compressed versions without needing to come back to the larger versions, that would imply that the compressed version works and the larger version could eventually be garbage collected.

Thinking in an even more open-ended manner, if this corpus is not growing at a substantial rate, can we just wait out a decade or so of storage improvements before this becomes a non-issue? How long might it take for storage to become 3x, 10x, 30x cheaper?

[1]: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-call...
Not useful to post ideas where your customers aren’t tbh
I don't think you've deserved the downvotes, and I don't think it's a bad idea either; indeed some coordination as to how to seed the collection is really needed.

For instance phillm.net maintains a dynamically updated list of LibGen and Sci-Hub torrents with less than 3 seeders so that people can pick some at random and start seeding: https://phillm.net/libgen-seeds-needed.php
Related: Spinlaunch: BUSTED | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ziGI0i9VbE
I'd say its a feature of all(?) dvcs, almost all of them or the ones that I know of must use PRs/forks.
Oh man, I remember this attitude from a lot of my classmates back in undergrad. "Why are we using Java like dinosaurs? All jobs are in Ruby/Rails!" (Today it would be Node/Typescript instead of RoR)

It really amazed me how many students didn't see forest for the trees. Sure, the college could teach us RoR, but five years from now it will be something else. And sure enough, five years later it was all about Node. And five years from now it will be something else.

Typescript, Node, RoR, and so on are all just icing over the same underlying core concepts that have stood the test of time. Learn the concepts, and you will be an expert regardless of whichever icing is on trop.

When I took our databases course, our professor gave us problem sets with long lists of ridiculously complicated things that we had to write queries for in relational calculus. The problems all ways seemed so contrived. And why the hell were we writing them in some stupid mathematical notation instead of code?

But when I started my first job, I found that I had a much better understanding of how and when to use joins, derived queries, and subqueries than some of my colleagues, who used "where in" clauses everywhere. And if they got worked into a corner, they queried a huge chunk of data, brought it all in over the wire, then used a soup of procedural loops and ifs to filter out what they wanted. Unsurprisingly, their code wasn't very performant and was filled with bugs.

I ran into a similar thing when I got into an argument with a guy about JS on the server. He said JS was revolutionary because it allowed for async IO. And I said what's new about that? You could do that in Ruby too. The guy refused to believe me. He legitimately thought that because Ruby didn't have an "async" keyword that it couldn't do async IO. He knew the syntax sugar de jour on top of async concepts, but he didn't understand the concepts underneath. If fads move on from JS to a new language that has a different async programming model, what is he going to do?

You can learn SQL or Node from online tutorials or a coding bootcamp. And it will feel more useful than a college course because they give you concrete examples right away. But they will only teach you the surface dressing. They won't push you to understand the tough underlying concepts because that isn't easily done in a single article or a three week crash course.
RPA is a very different concept.

look up companies like uipath
I’ve got a fragment of pottery from an archaeological dig in Israel and a volcanic rock from a beach in Iceland. Just a couple of reminders of really amazing experiences.
>The narrative doesn’t match the numbers.

Yet, just look at Amazon's if you want to see how fast it can grow. Or how the app tracking prompt popup compares for their own (pretty CTA for "Yes personalized ads please!") vs third parties ("Oh no I don't want spyware!").
The problem lies with you.

I've dealt with Japanese people for a long time, and what I'm seeing here is people trying to avoid a person who is being disruptive and rude. And I'd be miffed too, because your writing style comes off as arrogant and entitled.

I don't mean to imply that this is how you are in person, and I'm sorry that this will come off as an attack, but business communication is something that you'll really need to work on if you want to successfully contribute to larger projects (this is nothing to be ashamed of; Linus Torvalds had to take lessons, too). I'd also remove that blog post if I were you.
Some of it was also that she shouldn't expect students to do homework, or she was expected to try and use word problems with narratives.
Venkatesh’s argument is so poor it comes close to “not even wrong” territory.

He doesn’t really cite any specific people or literature to disagree with, and instead makes only vague references to the “non-sense” of others.

The most significant concerns around AI safety are not discussed nor even mentioned leading it to read almost as if he has no expertise whatsoever in this field, and indeed that seems to be the case.

No need for an appeal to authority though - just taking a little time to hear the actual concerns and opinions on topic would be welcome.

Great intro to the subject here, I wonder what his response would be?

https://youtu.be/pYXy-A4siMw
I also grew up in a very strict Muslim household and this is very close to where I see religion’s place in the future of my (potential) family. A couple of questions that have been in my mind, that id like to ask.

How do you choose which parts to share with your kids and which ones to omit?

Have you found a community that your family can use to replace the church? For me I’d think they would be people from my back home, as a visible minority that’s quite easy but I do feel that if you don’t follow the religion entirely, you’d get judged and ostracized.
Ask HN: What Chat Services Don't Require a Smartphone?
In an effort to disconnect myself from the internet more, I'm back to using a simpler dumbphone. WhatsApp and Signal both require me to have a smartphone to link my Mac / iPad apps to. Are there any chat services that do not require this? I am happy to perform manual SMS verification.
First of all, I'm sorry you regret replying to me, that's not something I aim for in HN discussions.

>>You can't tell why a mass deployment of motivated autonomous "NSO-9000s" might be more dangerous than a virus that just changes its signature to fool a executable scanner? I don't believe you.

So I just want to address that - of course I can tell the difference, but I just can't believe we will arrive at that level of crazy intelligence straight away. Like others have said - more like AGI with the capacity to learn like a small child, then years of training later they grow to be something like an adult. More human facsimile less HAL9000.

I only brought up self modifying viruses because that's the example of current tech that's extremely incentivised to multiply and avoid detection, that's its main reason for existence, and it does that very poorly.
Chokepoint Capitalism: A call to rally against the power of Big Tech, Big Media
How does this compare to, say, CockroachDB?
Retired, 53-year-old female got her first job in tech
> They only care about having to build a system, which can distinguish such cases from actually criminal ones

There are only two ways to actually do that:

1) Make Google's policies 100% subservient to the United States legal system, which would look a lot like the "corporate / national lock-step unity" one sees in actual fascism

2) Google build its own court system, independent from the United States court system but with equivalent power

Are either of those scenarios desirable?
The character skinning at 0:45 is horrific.
The other character work is better than that but not by much. it’s odd they focus so much on characters here because they’re quite terrible compared to the rest of the content on show.

The joint placements are wrong , with shoulder joints placed too low and too far out. Weighting is also badly applied with vertices on the opposite side being affected. A little bit of candy wrapping on forearms too.

The rest of the content is at a much higher quality, but they’re doing a disservice to themselves by showing those characters.
Yes, it's a big step for parents to leave the default neighborhood school, look over the various options, even staying in the same city, let alone moving to a different district. I agree with you there.

The admissions people take some time to represent the whole story or big picture to prospective parents, because the school is not for everybody. I don't think it's cherry-picking to encourage parents to find the best school for their children, even if it isn't yours.

The school accepted applications from parents who had had unsatisfactory experiences at former schools, who were willing to go through the extra steps to try to get better outcomes for their students. The school had its share of free-and-reduced-lunch students and students with individual education plans and such.

I heard parents give heartfelt thanks to everyone at the school who had helped their child overcome what other schools termed learning disabilities. Is it the opposite of cherry-picking to accept a student other schools have, in effect, given up on? I believe the small size of the school and individualized attention helped many students in similar situations.
Ask HN: How to fix difficult programming bugs?
I've read two articles on hn that blew my mind.

1. How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339
2. Resolving an unsual WIFI issue - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32524702

In each case, the authors went deep into the system using profilers, process debuggers and a bit of reverse engineering to solve these problem. Thing is, i'm a web developer and don't know how these things work. Is there a book or course where i could learn these skills?

Thank you.
Generally it has nothing to do with money. What you actually need to decide as a nation is how many people will work in the healthcare service, rather than in the private sector producing stuff others consume.

Healthcare is an insurance service itself. It's designed to keep people going so they can continue to contribute to society.

The more productive the producing sector, the more of society you can have working in healthcare.
>length per se is not a major issue

That's kind of the whole deal of the attention mechanism in transformers and also partially why they replaced RNNs. You don't throw away any part of the original input as you construct your output. The downside is that unlike for a RNN, the total sequence length is fixed at training time and complexity grows with the square of it. But apart from computational cost, sequence length is not really an issue anymore for these models.
LOL at this idea of "kids typically love teachers".

Hell no. What made you think that? Kids like teachers that are likeable and hate those that are hateful.
I would disagree with all the "you knew that Apple does this bad X,Y,W and Z before you bought the device". I am not an iOS user and for example I bought an Android Phone for my son and I had the surprise that it did not had Google Play on it and I could not install it (some Google shit was required for school).

The issue is that on the sell page or the produc box there is not a list like

1 this device does not support Google Pay
or for Apple

WARNING , before you biu you MUST acknowledge

1 you can only use Safari with skins

2 you can't use apps we think are too mature, or too siple, or might use compete with us, or apps we just don't like

3 if you are in China we will send your data straight tot eh goverment

4 you will not be able to developer or install any app for your device unless we review and anyone your account.

5 apps that are on our store today might be removed tomorrow , or blocked to send you updates

6 ad blockers are more crippled then on other devices,

7 messaging with your Andoid friends will be crippled

8 we will scan your photos for bad images and report you to the police
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100 ....

So it is FALSE that ALL users know ALL the downsides and ALL future downsides when buying a device.

If I am wrong and you can see this on the online electronic shops or real world shops I would like to see this , I never seen this warnings so far.
I think they're just getting ready to compensate for the new EU law (Digital Markets). Nothing more, nothing less.
> Putting aside the walled garden of iMessage, what’s so special about iPhones that you can’t do with any other expensive smartphone?

Integration with Apple ecosystem, properly designed OS and not mishmash of dozens visual styles.
Yes. https://github.com/marcelklehr/recognize
I run Nextcloud on a Raspberry PI running yunohost.org for all my family.