skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My biggest learning opportunities in science have come from watching two intellectual heavyweights engaged in robust debates. Unfortunately, it seems increasingly common for people to infer mental or emotional states of their fellow debater, which derails good debate.

Reasonable etiquette in science is critiquing the expressed ideas and methods rather than the person (or what has been inferred).
It may seep in in the corporate environment. But I cannot see it in academia.

A relevant presentation will be followed by a critical discussion. If there is no discussion or only positive comments, the presentation was is very likely irrelevant, or shallow at best.

I would consider an academic environment without critical discussion as broken.
Same here. Since the pre-merger days when it was just Audioscrobbler and we all had those cool signature images in the forums. I'm at 283k scrobbles now.
I hope that all of the ways in which you find a product become exposed to whether that product is good or not. This is horrible for online platforms and especially advertising, but it’s good for society.
I'm trying to build a real pdp-11/70. Mentioning the project to people I work recently with I realized that pretty much nobody knows the significance of this machine now. So perhaps worthwhile mentioning that it's the computer that the developers of the later versions of Unix used (by later I mean V6,7). It's also the target machine for Unix prior to the 1980s. Unix on an '11 is basically the ancestor of all the systems we use today. e.g. you could sit down at a terminal and you'd have familiar commands like cd, ls, grep, and you could to a first approximation get work done, write and compile C programs and so on.
Instead of instilling critical thinking skills in people is easier just to label things as dangerous. This is the path to good speak.
I was trying to make something like this post a couple of years back and used custom headers, even made this repo with a few zeroes with no salt on the commit message and no shenanigans in the files: https://gitlab.com/pedroteosousa/teste/-/commit/000000005093...

I have this ugly code that finds the salt given the target hash, and another that actually creates the commit given the salt. Is not very useable, but I'll leave it here for anyone that finds it interesting: https://gitlab.com/pedroteosousa/useless-git-tools/-/tree/ma...
John Mearsheimer on Putin’s Ambitions
Their recommendations that I got then seem leagues better than what the big modern streamers give now.

For all their AI and ginourmous models, they mostly seem to be stuck on "what you listened to yesterday".
What is the "process" for resolving conflicts with Phil?

(the key part of my concern)
I had to go figure out what Proton is:

"Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on the Linux operating system. It uses Wine to facilitate this."

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
> a big chunk of these vulnerabilities would not exist if C and C++ [...] simply didn’t have zero-terminated string, initialized values by default, had a proper pointer+length type thus replacing 90% of pointer arithmetic with easily bounds-checkable code, and had established a culture that discouraged the prevalent ad-hoc style of memory management.

This is Rust's calling-card, so I find this plea for a better lang / eco rather jarring after dismissing Rust for somehow "making the wrong tradeoffs".
Love to see this
I worked for a big fintech.

- Zero email validation at signup measurably reduces friction. [1]

- Require email validation for bank deposits, once your customer is further onboarded and invested in the product.

- Encourage 2FA and other measures as the customer grows.

[1] (Much to the chagrin of all security-adjacent, marketing, account owning, risk, ATO prevention, etc. teams. I was directly in the path of these decisions, and it was interesting to see the various stakeholders argue their points. Growth funnel wears the pants.)
last.fm was the first internet service I've ever paid for. It was good value and incredibly awesome to discover new music. Then in 2010 they removed the full track streaming [0] and that killed the site for me. Scrobbling stats are nice, but for me the discovery mode was the best.

0, https://web.archive.org/web/20150227221251/http://www.last.f...
Notes were a kind of write only memory for me - I rarely referred to them, preferring the textbook or other resources, but I still wrote them because it's supposed to help retention.
just charge for consumption. and if your users wants to pre-pay for fixed amounts of consumption then give them that opportunity.

per user pricing always seems like a heuristic for how much you think a company can pay rather than getting them to pay for what they use. it subsidizes small companies and then ratchets up costs as they grow, which i guess is good for your business but sure feels like a dark pattern to me.
A trivial band-aid, such as only delaying the input if the user has repeatedly pressed the [Enter] button in the last 3 seconds, could thwart naive attempts.

A clever bypass would be to have the [Enter] button be pressed when reacting to something on screen, such as an incoming guitar strum or a dinosaur hopping over a cactus, then throw the OpenFileDialog before the goal/expected [Enter] keypress.
I don't think so because desperation refers to lack of hope (literally; check out the eymology). If you have no hope, why would you embark on a startup. Startups are an expression of hope.
So you should be paying for having the option to wear your car? What?
On the other hand, perhaps we could sit through half a book of refutation of refutation (cf. Conjectures and Refutations, literally the entire second half of the book), sometimes with not quite an impersonal tone.
That’s not how it works. If you pay it off in the month you pay $0. Maybe don’t be so confident.
I'd be curious if anyone had good advice on how to improve your handwriting ability well into adulthood (I'm 35). My penmanship was so bad in grade school that I attended special education classes to improve it, but it still was and remains horrible. This is a source of insecurity for me and since I've always been glued to a keyboard it has been easy to handwave away as "screw this, the world is all typing-based anyhow".

But I have seen evidence before that handwriting notes leads to improved retention, and seeing it here now, I'm wondering if there's a framework or resource that can help me feel a little bit more confident in my ability to, you know...write words with pen and paper. It's embarrassing even talking about it, honestly.
It's a modern author so I'm showing it as written.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Anderson_(poet)
I'm not aware of a centralized exchanges "on web3". Can you point to? Companies like Coinbase, Kraken, Binance are not "on web3", if that's what you mean.

There are few crypto exchanges that are "on web3", like Uniswap, Curve, Balancer, etc. And they don't rely on a centralized database.
Pure Land rejects lots of stuff in the tripitaka. It's clearly BS. Replacing all of Buddhas teaching with "some god will save you if you say these magic words" is very similar to how the Catholic Church rejected the teachings of Jesus with indulgences. "Never mind what Jesus said, pay us some money and you'll go to heaven even if you're a mass murderer". Pure land is basically the same type of crazy.
They wouldn't, but who cares about them? RSS is for people who blog to share their interests freely, and to help their readers get the content more easily.
The Internet and Zoom are good things in general. But there was never any valid need for lockdowns at all, and it should be clear to everyone now that lockdowns caused more problems than they solved. So, I don't understand your point.

https://www.cureus.com/articles/107920-increased-incidence-o...

The real social problem we ought to be solving is stripping bureaucrats and politicians of their ability to impose lockdowns on us at all. And there is no technical solution for that.
Prescriptions free drugs/“supplements” that are just drugs: phenylpiracetam and most other racetams. Huperzine A. Caffeine. Ephedrine.

Supplements: magnesium, B vitamins. Vitamin D (from sunlight)

The right dose of phenylpiracetam, caffeine, and Huperzine can be just as effective as low dose adderall in my experience. Although the side effect profile is completely different: less hyperfocus, little impact on appetite, much more irritability.

However I have to say that lifestyle is BY FAR the most effective treatment (even more than adderall, especially long term) and it always bothers me when people ask for advice for supplements and drugs only.

Sleep 8-10 hours per night, eat a good breakfast, don’t use nicotine, exercise every day or almost every day, get some sun. Not only do these help by themselves but they also make medication like phenylpiracetam and adderall (adderall in particular needs a lot of protein to work best) more effective as well.

Also I highly recommend taking a >1mo total break from cannabis if you are a frequent user. I find that as my usage gradually increases so do my ADHD symptoms, until I quit and suddenly have much more energy and motivation in the next few weeks as my body flushes it all out.
I wrote about why I still do it not so long ago, interesting to see it in the SO blog : https://lengrand.fr/why-i-still-take-notes-on-paper/
The reason so many coders think coding bootcamps are viable and a CS degree is not a good fit or not useful for a dev is because they are all javascript plumbers and haven't seen good code in their life.

If plumbing was done with the same skill level, talent, and rigor as most websites, your average bathroom would look like the pipes screensaver.
> As far as I can tell the facts of the matter are that a federal judge with his own agenda attempted to force the FBI to give over all of Seth Rich's personal data and gave them 14 days to comply.

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is law. The judge was following the law here. 14 days is what the statute provides. Seems unfair to call this a personal agenda by the judge?

> The FBI responded that 14 days was an unreasonable amount of time and asked the judge to either specify exactly what it is they want, or give them time to review the data themselves.

14 days is statutory. The FBI responded with an even less reasonable amount of time (66 years from start to finish). Why is that acceptable but 14 days is not?

> The alt-right media has twisted what the FBI was saying about the time it takes to review documents and trying to paint their rebuttal as 'they want to hide this forever', which is not the case. .. which is why you won't find this "66 years" thing on any reputable website.

The 66 years is how long it will take the FBI to release 396,000 documents at a rate of 500 a month. The individuals involved in this case will likely be deceased by the time they are done, which might as well be forever.

The whole point of FOIA is government transparency. If the public is expected to wait until they are long dead to get access to public records, then that is undermining both the spirit and letter of the law.
“Why has this been allowed?”

Another “journalist” struggling to understand why any thought, topic, or piece of content that they haven’t personally blessed has made its way into the public psyche.
The threat and the ownership of the trademark is the point though.
Writing as a Superpower; Speed with Segment Cofounder Calvin French-Owen
Calvin, Peter, Ilya, and Ian built the prototype that became Segment in Dec 2012, after 24 months of trying different ideas and spending $500k. Eight years later, @Twilio acquired Segment for $3.2B.

Segment now helps 25,000 companies get customer data into >800 different tools to analyze it. They process roughly a trillion API calls per month.

Hear from Calvin about their founding journey, and some of the great stories illustrating how Segment moves fast. Plus, hear how Calvin thinks about levels of insight in searching for new startup ideas.
wlb is not the worse in my book, although I kinda get what you mean.. if it's thrown out like a knee reflex to avoid doing anything. economics/politics is one that gets me a lot, to be doing the normal job they'd ask for more. it's a neverending cycle.

another factor i've seen is fear, people won't change because everyday someone see someone else slacking a bit, so why work if they don't.. causes a race to the bottom. a strange form of distributed equilibrium. and people implicitely know this but nothing changes.

and this accumulates at nation scale where politicians will say that to improve economy or job quality, it would require so much resources, money or else.. when in fact it's mostly a mental switch that has to be flipped.
I understand why cowards will proclaim both the death of twitter and bitcoin and not back it up with their wallet. However, you are neither thanks for the link.
> “Value capture” means rent-seeking.

How is it "rent-seeking" to have an optimal pricing model? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
> People increasingly expect to be able to react completely instinctively to stimuli

I think this is true. If we're doing hypothesis about human behavior, you might be able to argue that our methods of communication, always forever online, have spawned this approach as an adaptation to stress of having to embody more personas for more numerous interaction. ( You can take it a step further and question the origin of 'acting' out a persona but i belief that in itself is extremely valuable )

On a further tangent, i still sometimes think about an Asian person commenting on the traits of US society to be obsessed with behaving as 'your true self' everywhere and all the time, whereas their culture it was noticeably less so.
All these are neither recent (they are updated though) nor AI related. Here you go :

If you are new to dev, I like "think python"

If you are already into programming, I personally find sifting through organized small code snippets helpful for learning a new language :

https://github.com/jackzhenguo/python-small-examples

https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython/blob/master/README...

https://www.30secondsofcode.org/python/p/1

Finally, "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python" is good for everything configuration, and usage.
Adult Performers, Trump Supporters and Parodies: Who Is Paying for Twitter?
Love the service. Been using it for most of its life cycle and pay for the Pro service when I can. I don’t really utilize the features but like to support services I find useful.

It’s no Rdio [RIP :(] but the recommendations from LastFM are probably the best I’ve encountered.
You've got me right backwards. My point was that the firearm made the state's absolute monopoly on violence (which you note) far more feasible, by substantially negating physical strength as a factor in deciding who has the monopoly on violence. That's probably a good thing.
Either it's a philosophical question, or it's some other kind of question. "Philosophical question" implies that we can't answer it at this time. (Or, equivalently, we can build equally convincing but conflicting answers.)

One claim in the article is that we can't answer the (much narrower) question, "Is the cell a machine?"

I don't see that saying "well that's a philosophical question" is so different from saying "as scientists, we don't know."
Proton Next - Candidate build for the next major version release.

Proton Experimental - "Bleeding edge" builds.
So I'm thinking about my approach, which is "use commits as game save points, mostly WIP, then use rebase to tidy things up before publishing".

Wouldn't working on trunk still mean I'm working on a feature branch, but it all ends up squashed into a single commit? Or do I lose my opportunity to polish?
Twitter is poison for academic debate. It is already impossible to discuss a complex matter over email—most nuance gets lost. Twitter is much worse, a) because of the character limit, b) because of the crossfire that is a wild mix of relevant and irrelevant comments, plus pure trolling.
I've been using last.fm every day for a little under 20 years - via scrobbler. I visit the site itself maybe 1-2 times a year.
Xenophon, the author of Anabasis, also wrote a treatise on hunting, which includes suggestions for naming hounds:

> Give the hounds short names, so as to be able to call to them easily. The following are the right sort: Psyche, Thymus, Porpax, Styrax, Lonchê, Lochus, Phrura, Phylax, Taxis, Xiphon, Phonax, Phlegon, Alcê, Teuchon, Hyleus, Medas, Porthon, Sperchon, Orgê, Bremon, Hybris, Thallon, Rhomê, Antheus, Hebe, Getheus, Chara, Leusson, Augo, Polys, Bia, Stichon, Spudê, Bryas, Oenas, Sterrus, Craugê, Caenon, Tyrbas, Sthenon, Aether, Actis, Aechmê, Noes, Gnomê, Stibon, Hormê.

Translations:

> Psyche, Pluck, Buckler, Spigot, Lance, Lurcher, Watch, Keeper, Brigade, Fencer, Butcher, Blazer, Prowess, Craftsman, Forester, Counsellor, Spoiler, Hurry, Fury, Growler, Riot, Bloomer, Rome, Blossom, Hebe, Hilary, Jollity, Gazer, Eyebright, Much, Force, Trooper, Bustle, Bubbler, Rockdove, Stubborn, Yelp, Killer, Pele-mele, Strongboy, Sky, Sunbeam, Bodkin, Wistful, Gnome, Tracks, Dash

Ancient Greek text: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynegeticus#Chapter_7
When I come across mentions of new artists, I use last.fm to quickly find out which is the most popular song by that artist, on the assumption that listening to that song will give me the best indication of whether I might like them.
Shit, I think I mixed up the comment I wanted to reply to. Was thinking of the Burqa mentioned initially.

Still don't think equating the level of freedom in Qatar to the West is a fair comment.
His arguments were not particularly coherent. My point is he insisted that nations have an absolute sovereignty and cannot be bound by other nations' or organisations' will. But then there he goes telling Scotland what rules they are bound by, which they scarcely elected themselves. If Scotland wanted to have a referendum every other month, what's that to him, given his attitude to UK-EU relations?

I think it's a bit nonsensical to have referenda on such important matters, with such poor standards on campaigning, and thresholds being simple majority, in the first place. Having one or two in a short time span is equally silly.
I don't think iCloud uses ZFS, so that's game over anyway :P
As a more vanilla alternative...

Ctrl+win+s screenshots to clipboard in Win10. Ctrl+shift+z screenshots to OneNote (though an update overwrote it at one point, not sure if it's fixed in general).

You can use OneNote settings to determine how that capture is used, eg placing in the current page (I have it set to make a new page, but I almost exclusively capture to clipboard).
I would say he is irrelevant but that doesn’t discount his work. He found a niche in the autonomous driving space that targets a very specific technically-inclined consumer. In the grand scheme of the space it’s no where near adequate for mass market and the average driver. It’s a much bigger problem than Hotz and his work.
Patio11 on Financial Fraud
> most games have anti-cheat

This is false. Most games do not have anti-cheat systems because most games are not multiplayer games.
Those only count the games that have native Linux versions. Most games are also playable through the Proton compatibility layer. You can see which games on ProtonDB. For example, the Witcher 3 is listed as Windows-only on steam, yet has a Platinum rating on ProtonDB, which means it works fine on Linux out of the box. Funny enough, the Witcher 3 is also Steam Deck certified.

https://www.protondb.com/explore

Of course, you'd know all this if you've ever tried to play on Linux yourself. You know what they say about people who live in glass houses.
I found it easier / better to align around a specific problem in the domain, and brand myself around it.
> Authoritarians are never advocates for free speech

Authoritarians are often advocates for freedom (of speech and other things), but conveniently find excuses to exclude the things they oppose from the space of that “freedom”.
While it may feel a bit unfair for those reasons, it's not at all dumb.

Why?

Effective Altruism can't be fully effective if it can't spot scammers.

Yes this is hard, yes extra hard when the first encounter is them parachuting a promise of a billion dollars into your lap… but while I have no solutions and absolutely don't blame anyone who took that money, it's not dumb to criticise.

In fact, I'd say that failures you couldn't spot in advance are the learning opportunities; failures you did spot in advance would make you a co-conspirator in my view, even if not by law.
I agree. I used to feel very jealous whenever hearing superior musicians, but after a while it just becomes exciting, especially when you're often playing with people within the same sphere of talent as you rather than binging YouTube videos of the best of the best.

The author does have deep-seated issues to deal with, but I really don't think the author is uniquely broken. I would bet that at least half of the modern western population struggles with similar feelings.
I tried Amazon's Alexa, the top end model with a display. Often it would taunt you about new/interesting things on the screen, but I could never get them to work. I'd had to memorize things to get even the basics working. Ended up unplugging it.

However Google's Assistant in comparison worked great, no memorization, and very useful. Sure time, weather, set timers, and alarms worked great with a very flexible set of natural language queries. Even more complex things like what will be the temperature tomorrow at 10pm, simple calculations and unit conversions. But also things like IMDB like queries about directors, actors, which movies someone was in, etc generally worked well. It seemed to really understand things, not just "A web search returned ...". Even more complex things like the wheelbase of a 2004 WRX would return an answer, not a search result.

With all that said I'm looking for a non-cloud/on site solution, even if it requires more work, most recently noticed https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy