skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel you're missing the point. This person is saying that one should communicate first. If you perceive communication exclusively as "activism" or "apology" seeking (or cancellation?), then I understand why you might not choose that path.

But others often choose open comms before heavy action, and many contributors would support that.

And yes, "forking" is subjectively a heavier action to some ppl. It's subjective, for sure. To each their own, I guess :)

Respectfully, I'm not one who would take or support your advice to act earlier (and such is my right)
Let's say you have a big nose and you're out on the town attending a comedy club.

A comedian gets up during his stand up routine and comments on your big nose, which you're sensitive about and wish no one would comment on, since you've always wanted a small, delicate nose, and in fact you've scheduled surgery to 'fix' it.

After they comment on your nose you loudly protest and ask the comedian to cease, since you really don't think the nose represents the true 'you.'

Is it 'hate' for the comedian, against your wishes to continue to make jokes that night, and in fact, he finds the whole exchange (and you) so funny that he incorporates the exchange into all his routines going forward?

I'd argue that it is maybe a bit rude, but it is exactly why we have people like comedians- they are the court jesters for our society, they point out when our good intentions turn into pathologies and give us room to reflect on progressive and regressive overreach.

Taking that out of the public sphere removes a good chunk of society's ability to make course corrections.
I picked up both games recently and they're sucking up waaayy too much of my time :)
Anecdotally, I find the discussions here to be far less aggressively stress inducing and rude than the rest of the web
I've run into the same thing a bunch! I wish I could remember the companies to "name and shame". Some of the variations on password complexity I've seen have been:

1. Allows any input length for password, but has a limit of X characters. Annoying because it makes it a guessing game, like you were talking about.

2. Stops accepting input for password after it hits X character limit. Annoying because you can go for months thinking you're using a 30 character password, and come to find out it's actually 8. Hard to catch if you aren't paying attention to how long your obscured password is.

3. 1 or 2, but they have a rule against all special characters. I think this is supposed to be some weird attempt at preventing SQL injection?

4. 1 or 2, but they have a rule against all special characters and numbers. I've only seen this once, but I remember dropping the service after I realized what the problem was. It was years ago, during the era when something like "banana" or "pencil" was considered a strong password.

5. 1 or 2, but they have a rule against some special characters. Usually ! @ and #, or ! # % will be permitted, but other special characters will not be permitted. I suspect this is because customers "keyboard walk" with shift+123. I.e. asdf123ASDF!@# or QWER!#%qwer135 Basically, the company allows for more predictable passwords in order to prevent extra tickets being filed.

Generally, when I run into login problems, I drop my password down to 12, since that's a pretty common length; I believe it meets a minimum length for a DOD standard? If that doesn't work, I drop it down to 8. If it's still not working, then I start removing special characters and capitalization.

It's really gross that I can't expect to use a 30 - 60 character password in a predictable manner across the entire internet. In a way, I almost prefer things to be the way they are though, so I can have a better idea of which companies are strong on security, and which are either uninformed, or justify misconfigurations as "improving customer satisfaction" over minimum security policies.
Stanford grad courses are excellent. Just following the exercises will get you very far:

* AI Foundations: https://stanford-cs221.github.io/autumn2022/

* Meta Learning: https://cs330.stanford.edu/

* Theoretical ML: https://cs229.stanford.edu/

* NLP: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/

* Computer vision: http://cs231n.stanford.edu/

* Reinforcement Learning: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs234/

Read Blogs:

* DeepMind: https://www.deepmind.com/blog

* Google Research: https://ai.googleblog.com/

Replicate papers that you are interested in with a twist specific to your use cases

* RL Spinning UP:https://spinningup.openai.com/en/latest/
> "Some political organizations should be prohibited."

And who gets to decide which ones are prohibited and the standards used? Because some people think Antifa should be prohibited while others think it's a necessary organization that is fighting the good fight. Some people think Christian organizations that reject homosexuality and gay marriage should be banned while others think they are doing God's work.

Thats why it's necessary to protect all viewpoints when talking about speech. Because your opinion is not the only valid one.
Eh, I don't like neo-liberal either, but its usage here made me chuckle. I'm probably a "neo-liberal" since I generally believe in human rights (including free speech) and also that capitalism (for all its faults) has a dramatically better track record than socialism or communism.
Not using a vanity name of a celebrity is not exactly the same as deadnaming. If Ye would have chosen John as his first name I could see it being similar, he obviously had a reason to change it, maybe he hates Kanye, but he choose Ye, because it sounds cool. People should still respect his decision, but it's still not the same.
Is there a precedent for it not happening, i.e. a company being court-ordered to pay a fine and just deciding not to pay it without consequences?
Wiby.me: curated search engine for content-first suckless sites
Hey, it's a private company. They can do whatever they want and you don't get a reason to complain. That's how this works, right?
I agree that this is unlikely.

I have a new model car with all the lane-assist and following whizz-bangs. I'll never use them. When the lane markers get challenging and difficult to understand is when the assistance turns off and reverts to the human. Typically about 1 second before disaster were to strike. If it were even 10 seconds beforehand, then I'd maybe try using it again. But the 1 second window is too short for my personal limits. The assistance is completely backwards to me. I don't need it when lane markings are clear and easy to understand, I need it when they are unclear. Like, I don't need a translator to Swahili for most of the day in Mombasa, but I do need one when going over legal documents.
> Such trans fats cannot be consumed by our bodies: their chains are too short to be correctly processed and are too big to pass the mitochondrial membranes.

Oxidizing lipids doesn't introduce chain rotation about their double bonds (which is the difference between cis and trans fats). This change in structure is why trans fats are solid at higher temperature (for the same types of lipids - think the difference between margarine and vegetable oil). The reason trans fats are bad is we can't process them as easily and they seems to accumulate faster than even saturated fats in our blood vessels, mostly because they are synthetic in nature and we don't have specific enzymes optimized to process them.
Good product design is not based on personal preferences, it's data/usage-driven. Having an unused feature is bloat that takes away important dev/QA resources.
> ... they don't want you plugging much of anything into these ...

Apple have always sold docking dongles to support arbitrary things, generally video out and audio out (or combo e.g. HDMI), and a charger in. When not Apple, their accessory proxy, Belkin, has you covered generally at or before launch.

Of course they also support both memory card dongle and most importantly (contrary to your assertion) they sell a first party generic USB-A dongle, and the iPad does good things (same things as a Mac) when you plug a camera or external storage in so accessories are supported by code path too.

> Forcing the connection through wifi means they have much, much more control ...

In fact, you can even plug in a generic TP-Link USB-C Ethernet and that works, taking priority over WiFi, and running at gigabit Ethernet speeds.

Btw, highly recommend using these wired Ethernet connections when migrating from old iPad to new using iPad-to-iPad transfer (fastest, gets you done, so you don't rely on WiFi to bring everything down). You can do this with iPhones too. If you need to sync mass amounts of iCloud files or Photos, a wired Ethernet dongle also makes a huge difference due less to bandwidth and more to reduced latency on the sync chatter.
I agree with your first sentence but completely disagree with the second one
you can't just call everything a figure of speech and use that as license to say what you want. words have meaning.
I think the problem is the conflict between the two isn't symmetrical. Those who are trying to convince you to eat Coke and McDonalds aren't playing fair or accurately portraying what they're selling. and will promote research that indicates that lack of exercise[1] or fat[2], and will specifically advertise to children.

Comparing it to tobacco or alcohol for example, I don't think it's wrong to let people chose to consume them, but I don't think it's a bad idea to restrict them being sold to young people or restrict their ability to advertise. Imagine for example a cigarette ad for children. The tactics used are fairly similar.[3]

[1]https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/how-coca-cola-disguised-its...

[2]https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...

[3]https://sugarscience.ucsf.edu/soft-drink-companies-copy-toba...
Nah, you simply must have missed one of its addictive hooks at some point. Maybe it was a bad map, or some other lucky/unlucky coincidence.

I have friends who are engineers who tired of it quickly, and friends who aren't who quickly got drawn in.
Probably the biggest reason none of the alternative Python implementations have taken off is a lack of compatibility with native libraries. Pypy is arguably faster and easier to operate than Jython, but it's unpopular for essentially the same reason: compatibility.

I have a hard time accepting that py3k is what suffocated Jython. Pypy, pyston, and most other modern alternative interpreters all have some amount of py3k compatibility. The fact that there hasn't been investment in Jython to bring the same improvements suggests other causes for Jython's demise.
yes you are supposed to want that. because there are plenty of cases where truthful and legitimate points have been classified as lies or hate.

ofc defamation law exists. the difference is that is decided in court not by some eurocrat apparatchik. and there has to be some harm demonstrated. and there are special protections for e.g. journalists (see times v. sullivan) that make it even harder in those cases.

how is brussels going to "ban those websites out of europe lol"? license the great firewall from china? hmm yes definitely sounds like a free and open society to me.

> what "we" defend there is called "human rights"

ok cool y'all think that. we think that y'all's vision of "free" speech is authoritarian and necessarily prevents civil disagreement on some important issues, it's already obvious we don't agree on that. but that's not the problem, it's how to reconcile 2 different legal concepts on the same platform. tbh there's no reason why an American would care. if anything it's the euros expecting the rest of the world to police their speech to euro standards that think they're the center of the universe.
Many of the biggest advertisers aim to create positive brand associations with their campaigns.

Having your brand name / logo displayed next to content that arouses negative emotions - i.e. anger, fear, contempt, etc - does the opposite of that. Why would I as an advertiser pay money for something that is the opposite of what I want?
This is not true either. The "Presumption in favor of privacy" section, especially the "Privacy of names" part might interest you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_livin...
Sounds like you are describing the typical HN reader
Alternatively, we try again and again because there's a lot of promise if we get it right, but so far the technology just isn't there for anything sustainable beyond the novelty factor.

This round we got far enough that there are some industry use cases for AR, which shares 99% of its tech with VR. Maybe that will funnel enough money into development to break out of the hype cycle into something sustainable.
Cold spares can sometimes disappoint. Lots of techs preferred hot spares not just for immediate availability for the rebuild, but just because the spin-up was just as likely to kill the drive as other failure options. With hot-spares, you could rotate the drives by migrating data around like the old farmers partitioning their fields to let sections rest.
> stating facts

And exactly what facts are you stating?

Usually when people complain that they're not allowed to just "state facts", it's statistics being used to justify racism. And of course, most of the time, those statistics are highly misleading.
I use Youtube as more of a delivery channel than a platform, kind of like podcasts. I listen to a fair number of podcasts and to be honest I have no idea where I found most of them, I guess word of mouth? Or maybe linked from some article I read a long time ago? It definitely wasn't from any recommendations engine, although my podcast app does have a "Browse" section that I've never used.

I don't think it's necessarily bad to use the automated recommendations but there are certainly other ways to discover new content.
Thanks for the reply! For some reason I don't see rectanglemac as being suspended, but if it really is, then that would be great. Good to know that you've seen success going the registrar route. From what I've read online, NameCheap (the fraudulent site's registrar) appears to have a reputation for a lot of criminals using their service, so I've been skeptical that I'll get results from that route.
> Instead, the TCP 3-way handshake won't complete (the syn-ack is dropped).

Sounds like my internet connection in grad student housing about 10% of the time, except the initial SYN is dropped. Pings and everything else are fine.
Talk about "feeding the outrage machine". The irony is thick in this thread wirh people who are outraged by "outrage culture", without being specific (trademarks and website, and the broken promise on community ownership of these assets). Even the current top comment complains in the abstract - people have become what they hate as they fight the culture wars.
SOMEBODY pls write a firefox extension that allows you to simulate high engagement for any feature you pick.
that way we could ascertain only the stuff we like about websites get's to stay and everything else goes by the wayside...
Don't forget dismissing the ads, and then the login nag, and then ad to subscribe, so the video is actually visible.

...all of which serve to remind me what a pit of suck the service is, and ensure I never subscribe.

And the cycle of life is complete.
Relevant philosophical discussion: Koestler (1967)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_in_the_Machine

This work has informed quite a bit of art and literature ever since, from the manga/anime series Ghost in the Shell to a fair bit of William Gibson's work (see 'semiotic ghosts' of futures that might-have-been in The Gernsback Continuum).

As far as religious belief in modern civilization, Frank Herbert in Dune (Appendix II) describes what I imagine is the common modern view among the 'power elite':

The agnostic ruling class (including the Guild) for whom religion was a kind of puppet show to amuse the populace and keep it docile, and who believed essentially that all phenomena - even religious phenomena - could be reduced to mechanical explanations.

With respect to as belief, I think anyone who says 'I believe in <insert whatever here>' is actually expressing doubt in their own world view. I'm more impressed by the so-called religious fanatics who instead say, 'I know of <insert whatever here>'. Consider the person who hears the voice of 'invisble sky friends' in their heads and writes it down in an (eventually holy) text - who is to say with certainty whether that's the result of schizophrenia and auditory hallucinations, or an actual interdimensional communication from the architect of this virtual reality simulation we're all (okay, perhaps) living in?

As far as haunted old tech:

"We build our computers the way we build our cities - over time, without a plan, on top of ruins." - Ellen Ullman, Life in Code
Section 230 is still the law of the land, so the answer is an absolute no.
Markdown is popular because it implements just enough features to be useful while not presenting a high threshold for "just writing things down". It exists because traditionally, people who design markup languages have not done a particularly good job in designing something that is suitable for adding a just enough structure to text to make it useful both as text and as rendered document.

(If you want to look at a particularly egregious example of hubris, arrogance and total lack of empathy for users and implementors alike, look at ISO 8879:1986. The cheapest way is probably to get hold of an annotated standard is probably by buying Goldfarb's SGML Handbook. Please burn after reading though - to keep it out of the hands of impressionable kids)

I had a long discussion about using HTML+CSS with one of the designers of CSS many moons ago, and sure, in theory we could have used that. But you need only do a "view source" on any web page you regularly visit to realize that it is anything but low threshold.
The evidence is plain. Observe who gets unbanned. Observe who gets to operate again. I guarantee you it won't include all ideas. Want to be a radical terror org on Twitter? Or a doxxer? Or revenge porn poster? Or a spammer? Or the klan? Skinhead neonazi group posting racist memes? Etc etc.

I'm willing to bet these things stay banned. Because despite self describing as a free speech absolutist, he's really not comfortable being absolute about this belief.
I did look into that but the cost and time to do it myself seemed like more than I wanted to pay or do.
I never said I demand that twitter allows anything and if not its shit.

I dont care if they ban jokes if they openly say so. Their platform their rules.

It's the completely arbitrary (or biased) interpretation and enforcement of rules that is the problem.

NH is not a place to make jokes (some still do it) but twitter was a place for jokes since day one. And like I said, even if the joke went over someones head the statement was factual correct and not inciting violence or anything like that.

"It was a joke" was not a defense but rather the reasoning why I would even make a so obviously factual statement.
There has never been a point on twitter where you couldn't repeatedly accuse a person of sucking Putin's cock after every single tweet they made, and no point when you had to attempt at all to conceal your association with organized, named groups who coordinate this outside of twitter.

That being said, Musk relies on government contracts and subsidy for almost every aspect of his empire, so I don't see any changes coming.
> I also have seen incredibly too much "It's just a joke bro" "defenses" for saying certain things that I have little sympathy for it.

People often seem to fail to understand that humor is inherently a complex system of shared values, consent, trust, and context. The personal jabs my gym bros and I make at each other would be near fighting words of said by a stranger. The sometimes off-color jokes made by my girlfriend and I to each other are understood to be parody, based on years of trust and context around who the other person is, while an outsider would have no way of distinguishing them from the real thing. A person going to a comedy show may well hear jokes they'd never tolerate in a work context. But a certain subset of the population seems to not understand this and think they can just shout out whatever terrible thing they want and everything it should be fine because it's a "joke".

Either that our they are just pretending not to understand to cover their own bad behavior.
I've tried something like that once (not that exact link) and it came off as hostile. Maybe there's an appropriate time to send it to others, but I believe it's the kind of article you need to find under your own motivation.

The best method I've found (though there's probably a better one) is to just suggest one or two of those checklist items during that conversation.

It's Friday morning and this is HN, not slack/email so my comment had a little extra snark. But in reality my full message would probably be like

"Why are you referring to yourself as 'the worker' instead of your real name? And why are you having a bad time?

Just joking of course ;) but can you please include some details about which worker you mean? Is something not happening that should be happening? Or is something happening too frequently? Is this in production or on your local machine?"

> my other main pet peeve was screenshotting error messages and stacktraces.

The absolute worst I've ever gotten was a screenshot of a database tool with a long-ass query and the output table where the only identifying columns are 24 character long objectIDs which are truncated because the columns are too narrow. With the message "the data for these locations is incorrect".

That was when I was at a travel-focused company and was the main maintainer of our locations data service.

About once a month I would get "the customer says we're showing London Airport in the wrong country and they want it fixed NOW." To which I'd respond "There is no airport named London Airport, can you please include the IATA Code? Are they referring to LHR London Heathrow Airport which our system has in London, Greater London, England. Or are they referring to YXU London International Airport, which is located in London, Ontario, Canada? Or ELS East London Airport which is in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa?"
I never recall 1:1 pricing here in europe... everything was much more expensive. Whenever I could, I would ask relatives/friends from the US bring in things that I wanted.
Where in the terms does it say you can't make this joke? The enforcement of these things have been completely arbitrary.
Pretty nasty failure case. My dedicated server can easily hit 3GB used RAM (Switch useable RAM) with a decent sized factory.
Also, we all could help plant more trees:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33186529#33190054
>or 50TB hard drives becomes available for a bargain.

Maybe my old age is showing, but this just frightens me to no end. 1 50TB failure, and you've lost 50TB. Build an array of smaller drives to get to 50TB, and much less catastrophe if 1 drive dies.
I guess that goes to show that no matter the warnings and training, if something can be put in reverse, it eventually will be. Reminds me a bit of Proton crash where accelerometer (which even had arrow marking "up") was mounted in reverse and the rocket wanted to accelerate in direction of the ground.

I bet designers of software were like "there is no need to check whether moving it in direction actually moves it in that direction, we have thousand procedures to make sure hardware is done right". Defense in depth really is the best approach, not just strictly for security