skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever I sit in the back of a lecture where students are using laptops to take notes, I notice a significant number of devices being used for extracurricular purposes: messaging apps, web browsing, etc.. The most hilarious (perhaps egregious, if you are instructor) examples were watching Netflix during a lecture, though youtube is also pretty common. The most depressing were gambling sites. Phones are usually set to messaging/youtube/twitter/etc.. Mobile games seemed rare, surprisingly. An interesting bit is that email seems much less popular than messaging apps.

In professional or academic conference sessions, most laptops seem to have an email app open. I expect professionals and researchers rely more on email.

I think someone once suggested that you could automatically monitor and rank conference session engagement by measuring wi-fi usage.

In any case, I can understand why some lecturers might advocate blocking wi-fi and cellular service during lectures. Though I sat in on one course where every student had a web app where they could follow along with the lecture and examples and also provide immediate feedback (e.g. solving short problems or answering questions addressed to the class) to the instructor.
Ok, let me point you in the competing direction:

1. This has nothing to do with cryptocurrency. There is literally nothing about a decentralized trustless architecture that makes this happen. You're falling into the common trap that crypto people fall into where they equate criticisms of the current centralized system with 'possibilities of a decentralized system,' when really what they mean is any hypothetical new system could be better than the current one. All else equal, a centralized system will be faster no matter what (i.e. this is a major reason why servers are centralized) and I agree we should be working on better/faster centralized systems.

2. You definitely need the permission of the miner/validators/whoever to transact [0]. You also need to convince them to put your transactions into the block and there is nothing that compels them to do so other than the same economic incentives that motivate Visa. You are again, criticizing the system now and imagining that a decentralized system is better.

2A. To break down the problem a little more clearly for you - Visa's main service (what it makes money doing) is actually fraud protection, since as you must know bank's can very easily settle between each other over other rails. Visa chooses not to process transactions that are at high risk of fraud/illegal activity, because they have regulatory liability. Miners not having regulatory liability isn't a function of decentralized trustless architecture, it's a function of being new. Either blockchain is similar to a wire transfer (something that porn companies still have full access to) or it's similar to Visa and will face the same problems.

3. I suggest you google the countries where it is illegal to use crypto to buy goods/services (governments plan on keeping currency controls intact after all!). The shear number will astound you!

4. Not sure on the monopolist point there, but again, Visa/Mastercard/Amex compete on swipe fees (look at the Costco example!) so I'm not sure what this decentralized point you're making really is.

[0] https://cryptobriefing.com/solana-blockchain-halted-for-eigh...
Yes you can and you should. You like too many others are happy to sit idly by and watch the decay of society but some people actually have ethics and care more about keeping the community safe over “muh private property”.
suicide.
If you want to see for yourself! https://galactica.org/?prompt=Is+the+meta+company+doomed+bec...
Yep — after trying out Sapling, it aborts many operations due to working copy changes, which I now find to be jarring interruptions to my workflow. Jujutsu (and even git-branchless) have much better support for juggling working copy changes, which is invaluable in a patch-stack workflow.

The Sapling support for remote repositories was a little rough in my opinion. Jujutsu and git-branchless can both co-locate with the Git repository, so you can always drop down to Git commands if there's something you're having trouble doing. (I find the `jj git` commands to also be better at interacting with remotes for now.)
> The internet has, in many ways, supplanted it.

The internet is big and sprawling. It's easy to prune, by accident or malice. Think of how much of the web goes through Cloudflare! Think of how much we rely on the Internet Archive; if that went down, where would we be? Libraries, on the other hand, are decentralised, redundant, curated, indexed, and maintained against both bitrot and link rot.

We could make the internet like this. In fact, there are organisations that do so! But there's a reason so many of those organisations call themselves libraries.
seems stepstone is the only source... perhaps try to compare against "agentur für arbeit", see https://github.com/bundesAPI/jobsuche-api (there are multiple issues with the api - some parts/parameters are broken....)
Yeah, but AP is an outlet that has been subverted from US intelligence agencies and used as their mouthpiece for ages now.

It has been confirmed by the publicized "operation mockingbird" and several high ranking US intelligence officers, as well as officers that were directly involved in planting news stories, that major news outlets and especially the agencies have been "infiltrated" / subverted.

It's not "news", this info has been out there for almost 50 years, so don't say it's a "conspiracy theory", when the CIA has released their docs about it and there was a senate hearing in the 70s into their covert programs. It's a confirmed conspiracy and since these agencies have not been reformed, but continuously been proven liars one can safely assume this program was never scrapped but repackaged, renamed and continued.

The media can't be trusted, especially when there are reports the allegedly come from "senior intelligence officials" or "anonymous sources close to x" and the like.

Scrutiny has to apply here.

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

Check out this snippet from Frank Snepp's interview: https://t.me/NoGoolag/16893

OR from John Stockwell:
https://t.me/NewResistance/6990

https://citizentruth.org/operation-mockingbird-cia-media-man...

https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/operation-mock...

https://archive.org/details/FamilyJewelsFullDOCUMENTSOFOPERA...

Truthstream Media makes fantastic videos about that stuff as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-gX8CGceoE
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSn1F05iE4gZwGhKlarqp...

Corbettreport:
https://www.corbettreport.com/how-the-cia-plants-news-storie...

https://theintercept.com/2015/06/22/controversial-gchq-unit-...
https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

https://themillenniumreport.com/2018/02/how-the-c-i-a-comple...

https://newspunch.com/cia-media-control-program-operation-mo...

Here are some posts and videos about it.
Some might not fit the taste of some people, but that shouldn't take away from what the arguments and proofs are.

https://t.me/TheConspiracyHole/16667

https://t.me/TheConspiracyHole/12672

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sayPyEk51bg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQl9H-gi9NE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogb2dOjJHrI

http://www.whale.to/b/mockingbird.html
As other commenters have noted, the study misses an important fourth: vaporized THC products.

Nicotine is common to e-cigarettes and cigarettes; combustion byproducts are common to cannabis and tabacco smoke. There shouldn't be much overlap between cannabis smoke and e-cigarettes, because the latter isn't meant to be combusted. Likewise, people vaporize THC below its combustion point, so it shouldn't have much overlap with nicotine products. My suspicion (as a casual user of all of the above) is that there isn't one "smoking gun" (pun intended) but putting anything other than clean fresh air into your lungs is probably bad for your heart because blood travels directly from the lungs to the heart before it passes through the liver.
Agreed. It's like saying "All families are fucked up." No, actually, I knew several people who had good families that generally supported each other and had mostly healthy interactions. The kids would sometimes be kids and do something shitty, but the parents handled it in a reasonable way and taught them how to handle their negative emotions. My family was not like that. Everyone wanted all the attention all the time (including my parents). It was fucked up. Some of my friends families were not fucked up. In some cases, even a single member of the family was fucked up, but the rest of the family wasn't. I think it's the same with jobs, personally.
> The point is that the paperback can sit on a shelf for 100 years be readable.

Some can, most can’t. I’ve got a Bantam paperback copy of Moby Dick from 1985. It’s pretty much on its last legs. The pages are disintegrating and turning golden yellow, but the binding is still intact. Not sure if it will last another 63 years or so.
> Ebooks are zip files with HTML pages (that is, text files) and images inside

There is almost no consumer storage medium that will last as long as a printed book. The files that will (probably) be easy to read in 50 years won't be readable on the hard-drive/CD-ROM/etc where they are stored. A printed book likely would be able to still be read
BRK has clobbered the index on a 1 and 2 year basis, and beaten it on a 5 year basis. I'll wager a good sum that as interest rates continue to be nonzero, they will continue to massively outperform.

There is no shame in a market performance when zero interest rates have caused people to chase crypto, GME, and other money-losing businesses. People are in the process of finding out how, say, AMC or TSLA will do when there is a actual cost of money.

(edit: spelling)
> You could just publish local IDE history… Would be equally "good" I think. (My IDE is saving files every few key strokes btw; the resulting history would be a bloody mess).

Google does this, it has saved my butt on more than one occasion.

> Sounds like saying bye-bye to any meaningful history.

I'm so confused, you just amend the most recent commit, or work with changes unstaged and uncommited. Like my normal workflow is basically "change 2-3 files such that things are passing, hg commit, send for review", and then I continue working on the next thing, either back to HEAD if its unrelated, or on top of the just-pushed changes if it depends on them.

It's vastly simpler than having to git add at random times.
Where did you hear that?

According to [1], Pentagon spokesperson Patrick Ryder said "we don't have any information at this time to corroborate those [press] reports"

[1] - https://www.dw.com/en/nato-investigating-reports-of-russian-...
So it's possible to preserve them, it's just difficult. The article should really say "it's easier to maintain written information than digital"
I am currently working with bohdanbohdan93 @ mail . ru who has proven to be the only legit expert available granting me access to a third party device leaving no trace because till now he has not found out am trace those other guyz claiming they hackers with gmail accounts are fraud with no results
I believe the article refers to the conversation program Eliza, but whose classic pattern-response database is replaced with different content. Plus there must be some feedback to close the loop; i.e. Eliza's output must be fed back to it as input.

Eliza is a kind of term rewriting system; it matches sentence patterns, and generates responses, using some of the matched content.

An iterated term-rewriting system can be Turing complete.
go buy a cheesy romance novel from the 70s at any local thrift store, chances are good that the pages have warped, yellowed, and have become brittle. They will generally fall from the binding easily, or break apart in a jig-saw fashion under bending load.

I use 'cheesy romance novel' as the benchmark, as they were notoriously poorly bound with cheap materials to reduce cost per unit to the extreme.

Yes, a human could read the broken pages pretty easily with effort, but one of the niceties about the book format is that it reduces the user burden to such a degree as to allow them to become entrenched in the material rather than the physical good.
>Wouldn't you agree, however, that a car which doesn't drive itself home after you've had a bit too many drinks at the local saloon is a downgrade? A car which doesn't graze its own food is a downgrade? A car which doesn't automatically make more cars is a downgrade? Perhaps if someone had figured out 'faster horses' sooner we wouldn't have literally millions of people dead from car crashes. Perhaps we wouldn't have an atomized society with little social interaction.

You're only saying this because you don't know how much labor it takes to keep a horse in working shape.

Given the choice between a horse and a Model T it's a no brainer.

Oh and plenty of people died or suffered life altering injuries from riding horses or riding in carriages and nobody ever got maimed because they surprised a car.
Solar Firm Collapses, Owing UK Taxpayers £655M
I see that now, you might see my other comment.

One item that's unclear to me is if the employee had put that they were open to other opportunities on their profile at the time of firing. To me that changes the calculus of why he may have been fired.
Alexandria wasn't the only library in its day, obviously.

Sometimes you "only" lose redundancy. But occasionally a lost library (or digital archive) contains unique content, so statistically the survival rate still trends toward zero.

How is knowledge lost? "Slowly at first, then all at once."
Your friend isn't an MBA going in to existing organisations.
In 2022 phrasing, it probably means do not get strung along by consultants leading you on a leash. Be your own domain expert if/when possible.

I've been laughing at Buffetts investing 101 advice too about buying soda and dialysis stocks. Theres an estimate of about 60%-70% overweight/obesity ratios from the american heart association with upwards of 70% of the population on prescription medications in a mayo clinic study. It answered a lot of questions that I will never have. It is money though....

Don't invest in someone elses bad day. The innovation is so much better with quality data :)
In the snippet you quoted, it said his circle of colleagues were bound to that commitment, which is an accurate summary. SBFs connections to the EA community seem to be pretty foundational to his success.

There is no mistake here. You’re seemingly very upset by your own misinterpretation of this section of the article.

Beyond what it says in that snippet, SBF did publicly pledge to give away the vast majority of his wealth. He was outspoken about his belief in Effective Altruism.

You can certainly argue he scamming the others in the EA community with a false pledge and commitment to EA principles? But this aspect of the article was completely accurate.
That's more or less what I would expect from a the best language model: things that look very close to real but fail in some way a smart human can tell.

YUou need a "knowledge" model to regurgitate facts and an "inference" model to evaluate probabilities of statements being correct.
It's a part of the Linux kernel now, so I think it's pretty safe
It's still fucked up if you think about it.
There are literally 0 comments from anyone we know — why comment this kind of stuff?? Not a good look for you
Why would "cyberattack" imply non-physical access? Cybersecurity has always had physical components to it. Would you consider an attack using a rubber ducky a cyberattack?
You've never seen a paperback made in the 1960s-1990s? The paper is brittle and the pages are literally falling apart. You can't read paper where pieces of it have fallen off and disintegrated.
Some people will see the world differently than you do, no matter what you say. You'll learn to live with it.
> Trade paperbacks will wear out in months or years

I'm extremely dubious of this claim. Decades, I could start to believe. *Months*? I've never had a paperback be unusable within a decade. Do you have any citations or data for trade paperbacks wearing out in months?

It's just *so* incongruous with my personal experience of even the cheapest paperback I've ever bought.
I'm probably describing it poorly. A GPU (at least the AMD ones) has N execution units (of a few different types) and M threads (wavefronts) waiting to be scheduled onto them. Each cycle (ish), hardware picks one of the M threads, runs it for an instruction, suspends it again. Memory stalls / waits are handled by not scheduling the corresponding thread until it's ready. The operation might be a CAS over pcie so it's really variable in latency.

Provided you have enough (ideally independent) work item / task / coroutine things available to enqueue, and you're designing for throughput instead of latency, that keeps the execution units or memory bandwidth fully occupied. Thus win.

The x64 style model is deep pipeline + branch predict / speculation and it all goes slow when the guess fails. In contrast the GPU doesn't have to worry about guessing a branch destination incorrectly and unwinding wasted work. It does have to worry about having enough work queued up, and distribution of tasks across the compute unit / symmetric multiprocessor units, and the hardware-picks-the-order leaks into the concurrency model a bit.
Home furnaces burn a lot of natural gas and put the water in the sewer and the CO2 in the air. I wonder how much tweaking the sewer system would need to start acting as a CO2 return system also. If it were a closed loop system you could at least be carbon neutral, and stockpiling methane for the winter is easier than stockpiling electricity.
Untrue. I still have and use the 1$ paperbacks I bought for college 30 years ago, and they're in great shape.

When it comes to reading, non-electronic books are superior in just about every way for me.
"Look man, I just work here."
What are you talking about? They launched dosens (hundreds since Feb 24th) of Kalibr missiles, all the way from Caspian and Black seas.
It varied. I got my first programming job on Upwork (React Native), and it was around $3/hr. At the time, it felt magical earning something from the internet, and I was in college at the time. $3 was the amount I spent a day. It went sideways due to various things. Then I did a couple of tasks for a fixed priced and then went on to a React job for $18/hr. Most of my jobs have been around $20/hr, which is wonderful where I live. I tried raising, but good luck with that when it shows you're not in a developed country. But the major burden was the tracking. After, there were the shifty clients, the client that won't communicate with you, and the ones that consider you as a serf.

Now I've got the work experience and the savings to be really picky about work. So, I can take my sweet time to consider posting, if I ever go back to Upwork.
You still gotta type the message.
Great point about if the internet archive went down.

Every single one of us on this site unless in poverty should consider donating to the IA.

I’ve just changed my monthly donation from Wikipedia to IA.
I understand and accept everything in your two paragraphs. Nowhere have I asserted that knowledge about a company's past performance is an assurance against future loss.

And yes, people with a lot more time, resources and information than I have bake a lot of information into their attempts to establish what an appropriate value is for a share of a publicly traded company. Nowhere in the preceding have I claimed an ability to out-predict wall street.

But the fact that people after examining the data can be left with real uncertainty about the future prospects of a company doesn't mean the data doesn't matter. The equivalent data simply does not exist for BTC.

Roughly, BTC is being used like shares in a company which owns no assets, has no revenue, gives no dividends, and writes no quarterly reports. Based solely on the price history, trading volume, number of shares outstanding (and constraints on shares issued in the future), and the press, people buy and sell it.

To pretend that this in no way limits the ability of people to price BTC in comparison to their ability to do the same for stocks, bonds or other traditional assets seems unhinged.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059183/
> Digital books are a scam. I never bought (and will never buy) one.

It seems like less of a scam and more of a technology constrained by publishers and authors. Lots of people borrow digital books from libraries, for example, without ever buying them.
> Trade paperbacks will wear out in months or years

>> go buy a cheesy romance novel from the 70s at any local thrift store

Okay, but a "cheesy romance novel from the 70s" is 50 years old at this point. That's...a very generous interpretation of "will wear out in months or years". I suppose it's true that "500 months" is technically months, but...that's not how that phrase is typically used.
Actually no that's incorrect, you can not give yourself a pass. You can attempt to cause damage of course, but surely even you can't be surprised with the consequences that might come from that.

And a lot of people think they have the correct ethics and idea of what is needed to keep communities safe, and believe they should be able to take the law into their own hands. I don't know if you'd be very happy with the outcome of everybody actually doing that.
The page says "
ELIZA script, conforming to the specification given by Joseph Weizenbaum in his famous 1966 CACM paper".

https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/about

And https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/eliza-related-res...

says

> Weizenbaum, J. (1966). ELIZA: A computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine. Communications of the ACM, 9, 36-45.

> This paper remains under ACM copyright, and so is inaccessible, except to members or for purchase. However there are numerous versions of the PDF online
Right, Toronto doesn't have car thefts at gunpoint...

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

"where she was approached by 3 males with guns who surrounded her vehicle and forced her out at gunpoint.

We're approaching 5400 car thefts so far this year in Toronto. That's a 50% increase from last year."

Btw, this is in a very nice, wealthy neighborhood.
This would be great. My fear is that the companies will ask for 5-10 years for migrating to this technology.

We will see. I hope I am wrong.
> The argument is simple: when important productivity improvements take place, say the invention of a new way of baking bread, they don't need advertising to gain mass use.

I mean, to look at your example again, in the United States, where technology gets adopted the quickest, 99% of bread sold is utterly disgusting (and expensive) and would be illegal to sell in many countries. A $100-150 automated bread maker fixes this, and yet they do not have mass adoption. Everything is marketing driven.
If "woke" is on your radar you're living the good life. If you want to re-spec, your time might be spent on restoring damaged ecosystems or helping feed homeless.

Unless you just want to blame people who were previously kids, (aka autonomous adults) for shifting global priorities as if they shouldn't be allowed to prioritise that. In which case, lolwat.
What is your point? The NYPD makes a big deal about cracking down on fare evasion [1] but do nothing about defaced license plates and fake placards, in part because they and their friends are offenders.

[1] https://www.curbed.com/2022/04/nypd-fare-evasion-arrest-incr...
I don't get paychecks from work I did 20 years ago. Why should anyone else?

Moreover, the copyright term used to be 20 years way back in the 1700s-1800s. If 20 years was good enough back then (before overnight international shipping was possible), it's good enough now.