skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just think what would happen if everyone learned to write.

Would we even have need of the lofty position of "scribe" anymore? How will I feed my family if I'm not the only person in 20 itrw who can put the Pharaoh's holy words into hieroglyphics?
At a company I worked for we had a strong incentive program to submit patent applications for our work, where each listed inventor would receive a monetary payment of ~$2-3k if the patent was deemed worthy and filed by our lawyers, and an additional bonus if it was granted some years later.

The problem is the patent applications would flood in from employees with the hopes that the non-technical lawyers would miss some due diligence like finding prior art. Worst case is you wasted a bit of time on the application, best case is you just made an easy $3k.

Now the company was not a patent troll, so I don't recall hearing about any instances of them actually suing anyone over patents. But it still opened my eyes to how ridiculous the software patent process really is. You don't have to create anything, write any code, or even be the brightest engineer with a unique idea. You just need to get that idea past enough people. The entire industry is a scam for money, no matter which end of it you're on.
We ran some A/B tests where we intentionally slowed our site down (at the webserver page generation level) by set percentages (0%, 10%, 25%, and 33% IIRC). Those would be against a baseline page generation time of around 2000ms, so the slowdowns were not small.

All tests showed a drop in traffic, conversion, and average session value indistinguishable from zero. Our hypothesis is that our site (where a converting visitor is on average designing and ordering a custom product) is one where the difference between 30 minutes and 31 minutes is not meaningful and a lot of the time is spent in the web-based document editor. It would not generalize to a "give me a quick search result", "sell me an item from a warehouse shelf", or "let me argue with someone on a forum".

This was of course disappointing, because we ran this test as a sanity check after having done an extensive project to improve the page speed across the main conversion funnel. The project was technically successful, but a business zero (probably for the same hypothesis as above), so we decided to test in the other direction, because that's easier to implement than to force faster pages.
I think they've just confused 90s with 00s when living standards indeed started improving.
Can I ask you to send me $100 and then criticise you when you don’t? Or is that an unreasonable criticism since why on earth should you send me any money?
> Why waste cpu on tasks your hardware already does?

Because the hardware cannot be trusted to do it correctly. IIRC Bitlocker stopped relying on it for this reason.

https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/you-cant-trust-bitlocker-to-en... (see the updates)
Reminds me of: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/16/areva-...
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I appreciate the clarification but what I didn't get is what "symbolic processing" has to do with "hard real-time" (who cares what the language looks like?) and similarly, how is "single processor" related to "hard real-time"
I've seen more people with wireless than wired headphones for many years now, there's been a couple of instances since I got my fairphone when I miss the headset jack, mostly in cars with old stereo systems. If I had a car like that I'd buy a Bluetooth DAC probably.
IMO the third point is backwards. Because unsigned overflow is defined you cannot detect it with tools nearly as well but it still almost certainly represents a bug in your program. Better to find the bug with ubsan or some static analyzer than silently produce broken behavior.
> it actually makes system more secure than less secure

More secure in the way my home would be more secure if I had a cop permanently stationed in my living room. I'll secure my own machine, thank you very much.
While there isn’t a formal definition of “sounding white” anecdotally I have plenty of friends of color that routinely joke about pulling out their “white voice” in certain settings (professional, addressing “authority”, etc). This YouTube series covers it quite a bit:

https://youtu.be/H1KP4ztKK0A

Myself I have a very vanilla non-regional American accent (think Walter Cronkite) and they often point out just how “white” I sound.

I also have family with more regional American accents (Upper Midwest, Southern) and as a child they’d often make fun of my “accent”. My response was always “turn on your TV, they sound like I do everywhere”:

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/196999/why-do-newsca...

This can be seen in a somewhat-humorous old YouTube clip:

https://youtu.be/g-Neg4NmChk
Always nice to see yet another word lose all meaning on social media..
Here you go: https://www.additudemag.com/current-research-on-adhd-breakdo...
The Dead Internet is a mirage caused by the unreasonable effectiveness of digital marketing. You simply aren't able to find the living internet behind all the nonsense. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You just need to get off social media and google to find it.

Refresh this page as many times as you want, and I'll show you the living Internet: https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random
IME...

> I spend more time tweaking types [to gain confidence that my code is actually doing what it should] than I do writing library code[, which would probably be wrong, and saving time not having to write type-based tests].

I don't know what to say here; I've had types save me from a lot of blunders. If nothing else it moves my debugging/fixing time "left" in the timeline before it hits production. Maybe that prevents me from getting code out as quickly, maybe not since there are then that many tests I don't have to write.

Maybe he's just a way better dev than me too.
So, this was 100% a false flag, there's not even a question. The caller did give the user name of a current moderator. That mod didn't even know what happened until people told them like hours later. Nobody on KF thinks it was them, and it makes zero sense. Despite what most people seem to believe, SWATing is insta-bannable on Kiwi Farms, where almost nothing is considered ban-worthy. A current moderator doing something he bans people for, and for which the admin would ban them for in 2 seconds? Unlikely.

Secondly, I forget where but somewhere in the site rules or in Josh's Plea it explicitly states "DO NOT UPSET THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IN ANY WAY". So again. A current moderator SWATing MTG - WHILE the site is under intense and very possibly existential scrutiny already? Come on.
https://student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs452/S22/
Ha, so my friend recently accepted a "remote" job. Shortly after he started, they nixed that and started requiring everyone to come to the office most of the time.

The best part is that no one from his team is in the office in his city. So now he has to commute 1.5h a day just to work remotely from the "office."
> Why would CloudFlare do anything like that???

Because it's their business, and they have the right to to choose what it is permitted to be used for.

> If what kiwifarms is doing is illegal, then law enforcement should stop them.

Law enforcement deals with crime, not everything illegal is also criminal.

> If it's not illegal, then CloudFlare should continue providing service to them, regardless of how much CloudFlare may dislike what it believes they may be doing.

Cloudflare is not a common carrier or public utility, not is it the kind of natural monopoly that would typically justify it being made such, and has the freedom to decide who to do business with, and what to allow their facilities to be used for, and is not obligated to only refuse unlawful business.
Aren't Tesla and SpaceX both examples?
better "sudo killall -9"
Yeah, at least patent related cases should follow this rule.
But not sure if the US legal systems adapts it any time soon.
You mean?

certbot --nginx
It's really not a great point to use London, by far and wide the only and biggest exception the rest of the market in the UK, to compare salaries for tech workers. You can earn quite a lot more adjusted for conversion and taxes pretty much anywhere in the US if you compare to someone living outside London. And even then, London rents (never mind houses) are ridiculously expensive.
Guys, this is just a big misunderstanding! We're not swatting or doxxing anyone over on kiwifarms, we're just having a laugh! We're just big ol silly guys being silly!
“ The US performs very well in standard of living measures compared to other countries.

According to the OECD’s Better Life Index, the country ranks first in housing, and above the world average in income, health status, education and skills, jobs and earnings, security, and environmental quality. About 70% of people aged 15 to 64 in the United States have a paid job while 91% of all adults have completed their upper secondary education. Overall, Americans are more satisfied with their quality of life than the world on average.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/30-best-places-live-us-082945...

Despite what you read, the US is a big, beautiful country with lots of friendly people. We do argue a lot about important things, and compete like crazy, but we cherish our freedoms to do so. We need more good people to be a part of the experience.
That's pure whataboutism.

Apple is the safest company according to their PR. It has this feature which lets you decide on your security preference. But in fact it doesn't on most important aspects.

And your argument is: that's fine, because others are doing too and more?
Your false equivalence doesn't interest me. This "but the others are just as bad, therefore it's okay" mentality that has almost become an ideological reflex really needs to be added to the things HN considers bad contributions. I could feed an ebooks bot HN comments and get these exact words out.
Old Problem About Algebraic Curves Falls to Young Mathematicians
It also has gotten a lot harder to compile out eBPf features out of Linux as well.

I hope this NOT to be another form of embrace, engulf, and extinguish., and that Linux is kept as portable as possible for embedded platforms.
The other issue is the risk of your employer having Permanence Establishment in a new country which creates corporation tax obligations.
Do they fail frequently?

I'd bet that many (most?) people would plug their headphones into the adapter and leave it until the headphones or adapter failed.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not for Apple or the adapter, but I'm not convinced by the adapter hate either. I do wish I could find Bluetooth devices that didn't suck, though.
>It's always been a troll farm whose purpose is to organize people who can take others down

What? It was originally a forum for users of a wiki about Chris Chan. It's purpose is more about documenting what exists and discussing it. It's never been about trolling others or harassing people.
Depends on your actual setup, but I’ll tell you instead when you cannot change it: When using a configuration profile to add the mail account. (Except of course if it’s in the profile already.)
The "crypto nonsense" is the Basic Attention Token. If you enable ads, you get paid in cryptocurrency for your attention.

Completely optional too. First time I've ever seen an advertiser allow users to simply turn off the ads. Plenty of people use Brave on mobile just for the built-in ad blocker. It's not as good as Firefox + uBlock Origin but it's still a huge improvement over Chrome.
Why would rabbitMQ standalone be any different than running it as part of a cluster? You only ever need 1 instance of it.

If your exchanges, queues, routing keys, etc. are planned out ahead of time it should not be difficult to manage.
How are you going to show this? ProofOfHumanity? Worldcoin?

The fact is, in a decentralized permissionless system, bots can create sleeper accounts.

Are you going to test if they have a phone number? Email? Facebook?

Are you going to require they upload a real photo? They can just generate one with AI.

Are you going to require them to answer some questions on video? What about if they deepfake one?

Your best bet might be this: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/810:_Constructive

But "mission fucking accomplished" is very close with GPT3. The problem is that the "throw text at the wall and see what sticks" can be gamed by seeing how many upvotes you get. You can get machines to receive upvotes not by actual helpfulness, but by fooling people.

By then it's "game fucking over" as more and more capital and social capital online is controlled by bots and people will never even know. The problem is that bot swarms will be able to shift public opinion overnight, as inexplicably a lot of accounts implacably have a point of view and cannot be swayed by any reasoning or logic (because they were given talking points never to be). And in fact "the public" won't matter so much because the bots will matter ... because of their capital and social capital.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61FPP1MElvE
Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32434412 - Aug 2022 (74 comments)
Yesterday, in a slightly obscure subreddit I frequent, every single one of the posts were by bots reposting old content from the subreddit with random letters changed in the title. Upon further examination, most of the comments were from other bots as well.
"Our delivery Yacht had a serious interaction with a large pod of Orcas" - https://youtu.be/iEpvQKxz5JU
Former NASA official on trying to stop SLS
Not being deceptive is also an evolutionary advantage because people can trust you and you earn a position of respect in your group. Evolutionary psychology is popsci trash, you can invent just-so stories for any number of claims using it.
> many groups that used to be called non-white, are now called white.

Like which ones?
How does a real person share information about illegal or overreaching activity from their government in such a system?

Real name policies from Google and Facebook caused real world problems for people in the LGBTQ+ communities for example.
One of my problems as a "digital nomad" is my income is not stable. Does that make me ineligible for such programs?

Also, for digital nomads with families, how do we get local rates for things such as children's medical fees, schools, etc.? If I'm living in a country on a tourist visa, can I even register for these sorts of things?
I don't know the answer, but I suspect that if we can actually "solve" this problem it will happen via relatively dramatic regulatory change. Possible examples:

- Repealing Section 230[1]: so that social media (and others) are treated as publishers and legally liable for user-generated content (including Bot content).

- Banning surveillance capitalism: easier to say than to do, but the basic idea would be to pass right to privacy laws prohibiting tracking, profiling, etc. This would indirectly help against the bot-content tsunami by making it less profitable.

- Banning algorithmic feeds: related to the Section 230 idea, you could have things like an HN feed where everyone sees the same site and content, but not a twitter feed where everyone sees whatever the "recommendation engine" suggests. This would pretty much kill the bot problem but it would take a lot of the internet with it, because it seems hard to draw a legal line between the Facebook recommendation engine and communication apps like iMessage/WhatsApp, or even apps like Uber that show you a "personalized" view of what cars are available to give you a ride.

All of these ideas will be hard in the US where we have a constitutional right to free speech, and limiting what platforms are allowed to do will turn into a free speech battle.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230
My wife is super not a fan of that plan.

The alternative is to do a work visa and then resident visa until we're 65 and then we can "opt" for citizenship which does allow for dual citizenship. It's a much longer route though.

UK is just easier for multiple reasons but comes with it's own bag of worms.
Their robots.txt doesn't indicate that, but the page has a noindex meta tag so yeah.
Great explanation, as someone who is new to C++ and actively learning, these perspectives are invaluable.

I have been using some shared pointers in a personal project because of its ease of use but I aim to review and refactor this code to follow C++ idioms more appropriately. Thank you!
Once the connection is established, the ionized pathway, where the conductor was, should do well enough.
The content of subscriber only posts is, but beyond that it's open to them.
Possibly related in a fun unrealistic way: https://store.steampowered.com/app/762610/Russian_Subway_Dog...
They’re not just not dumb, they are intentionally disempowered, you’re not talking to a person, you’re talking to the willfull ignorance of an MBA intentionally limiting contact to reduce interaction time, drop the 5% or so tail of expensive interactions and save money. It’s not a defect, it’s by design.
What is the thin noSQL brings to the table which a relational system doesn't have? (Except that writing a depth search in a JSON document in SQL is a bit more cumbersome, but if that is a concern that can be wrapped in a data access library to generate the SQL)
The kiwi in kiwi farms has nothing to do with New Zealand. It was derived from how CWCki is pronounced.
Entertainment is one of the most lucrative sectors in the world (look at Hollywood stars, or all those streamers, YouTubers, Instagram "influencers", TikTokers and OnlyFans models). I wonder if they can all be replaced with digitally generated simulations...
I was just playing it safe. Didn't want anybody to think they should be ashamed of themselves for all their previous mistakes.
I've had less of a problem recently with call center accents, and actually a surprising problem with call center employees who stutter. I don't hold stuttering against them, but it has literally taken twice to three times as long to solve the problem that it should have. It's just not a good job fit for their skills.
You might want to look at this :

https://textual-inversion.github.io/

It allows you to find a string that corresponds to some "thing" you have pictures of. Then you can use a text to image model containing a reference to your "thing".

Looks pretty amazing! However it needs 20gb of VRAM so I couldn't try it out.
Off the top of my head:

- Infantry Small Unit Leader or Officer: Involves tons of thinking about small unit tactics and logistics, planning missions, etc. My military experience was quite demanding mentally as well as physically.

- Martial Arts Instructor: I'm currently learning Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and it's both physically and mentally demanding. The strategy aspect can be quite deep. Adding the demands of teaching and instructing others brings in a whole other set of considerations. It takes a few years of training before you can start instructing other people and ~10 years of training before you can become a black belt which would enable you be an instructor in your own right.
x86 is commonly used for emulators which is very useful for compatibility testing.

Although if the goal is to not install the Android SDK for some reason then sure, don't really need to care about x86. Unless you want to run on Chromebooks or Windows 11, though. Then you do again.
Weight Set Decomposition for Weighted Rank Aggregation
Oh, maybe. I don't know. I'm just saying the waterfall is green, so it's waiting on the server most of the time, and I'm not sure why else that would be other than location.

Trying it myself, I can't reproduce that though. The first takes 40ms to connect to the server and 3ms downloading the page. The second take 40ms to connect, 40ms downloading the HTML, and then another 2000–3000ms downloading all the other assets.
BAT is built on top of ETH which is moving to proof of stake.
Thank you, your blog post was a pleasure to read. CoPilot looks great!
And of that 10% the vast majority are unread, untranslated Latin. I believe there are more untranslated medieval texts than all of the Roman literature we’ve recovered.
You said to read the forum, I did. Saw no comments about politics, threads of people laughing at both sides of the political spectrum (with the majority of threads being apolitical). So where's these 'far-right' people hiding?
Their intent is all well and good but, from your description, it seems they are not capable of preventing this tool they've built for their own "fun" from being used from causing harassment and real life consequences for real people.

It sucks for the people using it in the way it was intended but I would hope that they would agree their "fun" stops being fun when it's actively harming people.
The difficulty is , as always, incentives.

Brave is an ad company, in the sense that their only revenue is from ads.

Brave has every motivation to make external tracking as useless as possible, because it increases the relative competitiveness of their own ad platform. Since they own the browser, they can track as much as they want. I'm not saying that they do this today, their implementation might be very privacy focused right now.

I also appreciate that you need money to maintain a browser, even if it's just a layer on top of Chromium.

But we've seen again and again that maximizing revenue always wins out in the long term.

As long as primary revenue for Brave is ads I don't see why I should trust them any more than Google. Less so in fact, because Google doesn't depend on Chrome to generate revenue. For them it's just a helpful sidekick.
"A real-time symbolic processing system on a single processor should have the following four features"

The language they're developing in/for is Lisp, which is used (a lot) for symbolic processing. That's the "symbolic processing" part. "real-time" is the constraint they're trying to achieve and relates to system performance. "single processor" is just another constraint. If you permit multiple processors then some of the problems making Lisp real-time go away or are mitigated as you can do things like shove the GC bit into a second processor and execute it in parallel. Being constrained to a single processor means you can't do this, when the GC is going it's using the full CPU and taking time away from other computations (symbolic processing, in their case).
I think that safeguard has already failed, the terms and conidtions allow manufacturer to introduce this functionality to millions of cars that are already on the road, years afterr they were bought