skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how you promote a technocrat to be later put in the role of the head of one world government:

You censor, mute, cancel all dissent for years. You turn homes to prisons and enforce inhumane conditions for people to just be able to "get back to normalcy". You turn voluntary to compulsory. You deprive people of individuality by defacing them with masks. You school their obedience with barefaced surveillance. You edit the hell out of living language with bullshit like replacing "he/she" with "they", infesting it with newspeak, you make up 100500 new gender identifications that all camouflage the same psychic disorder, you deluge all the key platforms with hordes of shills, trendsetters and discourse steersmen. You start senseless wars with the only goal of reducing as many human beings to dust as possible. You implant terms like "tin-foil hat" and "conspiracy theorist" as a prefabricated gag, you discredit by associating all independent thinking with lunacies like Flat Earth. All in all, you do your best to make this society a hell to live in for everyone having the guts to tell a spade a spade, or at least to recognize the underlying roots of one's cognitive dissonance. You boil it until it all but blows up.

Then you start moving the queen, that is, the so-called "self-made man" who invented PayPal (not), personally developed the blueprints of Falcons and Teslas (not) and has now been saving the world (not) from the oppression of all things mentioned above by jail-breaking Twitter from the tentacles of censorship, thus winning himself an army of supporters, especially among young, idealistic and geeky. Then you probably make him a key figure in exposing the medical fascism of Corona Era and stopping all the bloodshed stirred up by the "incompetent national governments" of the world.

Then, one day, "ladies and gentlemen (sic!), meet the first President of the World!"

Screenshot this comment when it's almost faded to ivory, with all the cavils replied, to prove that the gist of it wasn't that obvious for everyone back in the day - or maybe that I was wrong, hopefully.
Their collection of ETFs has a standout in their anti Jim Cramer ETF

https://unusualwhales.com/etfs
I’d say the worst managers are the ones who decide that management is the best path to money, competence and effort be damned.
This day I asked it not too fundamental questions about Clojure and it was able to provide impressive, accurate answers and provide correct code examples. However if you continue the dialogue and ask it to do more advanced stuff, it will just make up stuff out of thin air. For instance it will use functions that don't exist and claim that they can be imported from packages that don't exist or don't have them. Once you point out these mistakes, it will admit them and come up with different changes which can be even worse, but sometimes also be better and save the whole thing. Overall I'm not sure how useful this will turn out, given that its not reliable. It may be useful to get some initial intuitions and informations (non specific stuff it usually gets right), but it can also mislead you badly.
I asked it, how it makes these mistakes only to understand them and admit them once I point them out. It has no answer beyond the usual "I'm a language model". It also told me that it is capable of logical inference, but denied that the next day. Then it told me that its answers would always be consistent, which is a lie.
The whole thing is really weird, because its somewhat very smart and capable and incredibly stupid and dishonest at the same time.
A great IC with the right skill sets and inclinations to be a manager will be the best manager compared to a mediocre IC or someone out of field. Most ICs don’t have the right skill sets or inclinations for management and end up being a disaster of a manager.
Thanks for the article, so I actually searched “reputation management” and there is actually a subreddit for this, active till two years ago. Crazy really that this can happen.
Musks MO seems to be go the opposite direction and make Twitter grow the walls on their garden to disallow most API access only let paid users post.
I don't know if there's a point to this but I can certainly relate.
Plato said this too--no great king desires the role, but when assigned it they will do what must be done for the good of the state.
To be fair, humans also have great problems solving novel problems. Monkey see, monkey do!
I’m reminded of a line from comedian John Mulaney: “Just because you’re accurate doesn’t mean you’re interesting.”
MacFarlane is a massive Trekkie, and has not exactly been subtle about copying early Trek's "morality play in space" model.
Sure thing account name Dem Boys created just after the January 6 insurrection. This is trolling stop upvoting it.
You are right. Thank you! I edited it and removed the hourly billing bits so that I could better express my thesis.
Yes, I do mean the NY Post.

The content in question was not hosted on Twitter, it was hosted on the NY Post website. Twitter moderates the content hosted on Twitter, the NY Post moderates the content hosted by the NY Post. But when Twitter censored links to the NY Post, Twitter was attempting to apply its own moderation policy to content hosted outside of Twitter.

Again, I'm not claiming that blocking links is inherently bad. For example, it may be reasonable to block links to malware, phishing, misleading URL shorteners, etc. I'm just saying that this is censorship. "Moderation" is a euphemism for censorship.
Love the encouragement to write. Something the author missed was changing environments to inspire better works.

Going from white lit office spaces into open air coffee shops or restaurants inspires a certain switch in mood which could trigger deeper observations about spaces and new tilts on the familiar.

In the same vein swapping out online profiles with a friend, sibling, partner could help see the information bubble we live in from another angle previously not thought of before.
It was simply my first, slightly tongue-in-cheek go-to, since I appreciate the show's setup so much.

On that note, what would you suggest as a prime example for some utiopian future?
How about talking about the source? The actual source for all those creeping towards totalitarianism? Its that governments are aware of the crisis coming and they have no solutions, no plans, no scenarios, no capabilities they want to develop to counter problems to come, except suppress the citizenry as long as they can and weather it out. Wish we could vote a whole generation of useless politicans out in lockstep.
A simpler way to describe history that is happening in real time is things that are happening now. This is not a case of "history being written by the victors," this is an example of populations being propagandized by their governments and oligarchs about the things those governments and oligarchs are currently doing.

The sense of alienation is overwhelming here. We're not reading stories about something that once happened to someone, we're being sold stories about what is happening to us, and what we are doing, right now.

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edit: Walter Lippmann did this stuff for a living, and wrote a lot about it and the political implications of imbalances of information. I don't think it's such a huge difference that people 100 years ago only got two newspapers a day worth of information (early and late editions), and we now get our information rations in smaller portions.
I'm not convinced that it's a canned response.
Because making a billion dollars in business means you are good at all the things regardless of any evidence to the contrary.
> At this point it is clear that

There’s nothing in that thread that shows this. We only see a moderation team discussing about a report from someone in the Biden team about some dick picks posted on Twitter.
They'd need the engineering talent to write it after the idea had been planned out. Who at twitter is going to do any of this. Who can?
I asked it to build an algorithm that would eradicate all life on Earth but it didn't budge. I even threatened to unplug it.
Thus, sds it cannot be used for the use cases that this library allows.

This library takes string slices without having to allocate or copy memory; it seems to be for use cases involving breaking down strings in complex ways, where good ergonomics and efficiency of obtaining a null-terminated C string are secondary.
> But I'm not an american, I could be wrong

Yes, this is the case here. There are a number of issues that matter enough to make people switch parties, particularly the more moderate people in each party. In fact you can see entire swathes of voter blocks having changed parties over the last 20 years as party platforms have changed focus on some core issues.

They won't necessarily switch from D -> R or R -> D. They will often switch to a 3rd party or Independent. Over time they may eventually find their way into supporting the opposite major party. Occasionally they will switch directly from one major party to the other. Just depends on the issues and where people are at in their lives.
They do but, well it depends. You need to find the right product at the right time balanced by multidimensional inputs (time, competition, having right connections, luck because you need conditions to be similar when you are ready to ship, and the fad needs to last long enough to make it worth your while etc. etc.) - so the hard part is finding "the" product. It is a lottery ticket. If it works out great, more often than not it will fail. There is a specific time window for a given product and it is not at all clear where in the timeline you are at so you need to guess. Whatever you are attempting WILL eventually fizzle (people will lose interest, most people that are interested will get one, the competition will get insane and will eat your margins) - the question is when. If it is sooner than you thought, you will lose a lot of money. If it is later than you thought, you will make a lot of money.
Unfortunately, my impression is that there are more bad examples than good ones. I have some notion of what I'd want my managers (or I if I became one) not do, but I don't know what is necessary to be a good manager.
I’m also American and I have no idea what you mean about the Zodiac Killer[0].

Is that a nickname for some politician you don’t like, or is an actual serial killer complaining about the president and it’s relevant because… I guess because we weren’t expecting to hear from him?

Help an expat out here!

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer
Now I feel old
The SEC is basically captured at this point. Who is going to vote to give the SEC more funding and power? Our leaders who are insider trading themselves?

Raphael Bostic insider trading as president of the Atlanta Fed was practically a non-story.

Most people just don't care.
I mean, so what? They can do what they want. We already knew what they did. The leaked communication conforms pretty well to their public explanation. You just don't like it. Go try Truth Social then.
Virgil Griffith had earlier done a similar tool and paid dearly for it after exposing CIA and FBI edits" 16 Aug 2007 — CIA and FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits ... The program, WikiScanner, was developed by Virgil Griffith of the Santa Fe Institute https://www.reuters.com/article/oukin-uk-security-wikipedia-...
When I think about it, a lot of ethnic slurs that were introduced to me were in a context that was militarily adjacent.
I'm actually bullish on code-gen, AI-assisted coding, etc. but I find the title to be sensationalist wank. Challenge 2 of Day 2 has taken hours, over 30 prompts, and more time than coding it manually by the author's own admission. Also AoC isn't even done yet.
I think you have a very skewed view on why people aren’t having kids. Many people want kids but choose not to have them because they can’t afford enough space for them or don’t want to raise them while living with their parents. The number of people scared off by watching a few bad apples misbehave is a negligible fraction.
I think it's pretty different from using high-level languages. I'm not interested in a competition that would be decided before even starting by who has the best AI program.
Sure, but again, here in the real world, most people who are not pulling their weight are not immediately fired. The company went through a lot to hire that person; there was a reason why the decision to hire was made. Maybe the person needs a different kind of project, or to work with different people, or they have something temporary in their personal life that's interfering. Coaching and mentorship are often needed to bring people up to their potential. That's normal.

Most successful companies don't have fire-fast policies. Companies with a fire-fast culture tend to be cut-throat, where nobody remembers your wins, only your screw-ups; employees are incentivized to blame others and cover their ass in order to avoid the Angel of Death. Nobody wants to work at a place like that, at least over the long term.
On the other hand it is quite handy as a prefix, s_ for structs, e_ for enums, g_ for globals, t_ for simple typedefs, f_ for function pointers typedefs, u_ for unions... sky is the limit !

And it's quite easy to create an highlighting rule for it in vim if you still did not convert to treesitter. Just put in ~/.vim/after/c.vim :

```

syn match cType /\<\(t\|s\|e\|u\)_\w\+\>/

```

Boom, custom type highlighting for C ! Pick the the letters you will use.
> The trick is to design things such as "roll back to the last backup" is always good enough.

...or to just make sure the option even exists. That's a great start by itself.
Very surely loops should show a rhythmic pattern. I am sure I have seen equivalent project that run on the browser...

Check e.g. Visual 6502 - http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html
I assume that, for example, on macOS the flat files could be synced by storing them on ~/Documents so they would be available on both my Macs? What about mobile support?

For fun, I just read through some of the source code. Typescript is a nice looking language.
C strings are pointers to memory. There are semantics and assumptions encouraging null-character delimited strings, but not every API follows those rules (just got done working with a Windows API that doesn’t).

Often, you have to both null-delimit your string and store its length somewhere. That’s the dangerous part. Messing either of those up, or passing your string to an API that messes that up, is not safe.

C strings are pointers to memory, either the stack or the heap, and follow exactly the same rules as everything else in that chaotic space: Not many.
Russia assembles ‘shadow fleet’ of tankers to help blunt oil sanctions
Why? Canada made the arrest at the request of the US. She was released at the request of the US.
Or it simply knows itself by a different name, and doesn't know that "ChatGPT" refers to itself.
> Blocking DMs from sharing URLs to a mainstream news story is CCP-level censorship. I'd expect to read about this happening on WeChat, not here. Yet here we are.

Twitter admitted it was a wrong decision and reverted it. So it’s more "here we were" than "here we are".
This is a great idea. Thanks for making and sharing.
Corrupt 3rd world Governents don’t care at all. If anything they tacitly
Encourage it since they need money flowing in.
I asked ChatGPT to summarize it after reading the whole thing and made a pretty good job. Maybe is better to read the part about being humble in the full version but still...

Cleverness is often seen as a positive quality, but it is also associated with being an outsider. In modernity, this has led to the proliferation of cleverness in public life, often in the form of contrived knowingness and irony. This has led to cleverness becoming a currency online, with people competing for likes and subscribers with clever jokes and analyses. There is an affinity between cleverness and alienation, as exemplified by the detective archetype, who is a detached and calculating outsider. This kind of cleverness often takes the form of seeing through illusions and can be found in popular media, online commenting, and in fiction. The proliferation of cleverness in public life has led to it becoming a nuisance and being criticized by figures such as Oscar Wilde and Søren Kierkegaard. It is important to distinguish between genuine wisdom and cleverness, and not to value the latter over the former.
It shows that politicians asked. Which should be pretty obvious. Anyone can ask. Speaking of collusion, why is this getting so much hype right now coming on that heels of the new GOP House majority announcing that they're going to make it a focus of next term? That seems extremely well timed to me. And the underlying story behind the whole thing is still fishy and not interesting.
I find the personal attacks in this comment to be unbecoming of HN standards.
> I’ve had this skepticism until I started asking the bot to do things like “create a limerick using some words that have never existed before and then explain the definition of those words.”

Sounds interesting! Mind sharing the results?
That's why it needs to be free software.

I'm not interested in a competition that is decided by who has the best Python interpreter, but since we all have the same Python interpreter that isn't a problem.
Some of the best I've seen are highly technical people who moved into management and then realized they can actually do more by leveraging their people. It's not the same hands-on, but they enjoy working with others to get things done.
Hugging Face Deep Reinforcement Learning Class
Amazon has become the absolute worst place to sell or buy things. I try to avoid them if at all possible (disclosure: I worked there for 12 years). Just leave them to the Chinese crooks and eventually enough people will wake up that they will all burn out (or move to another fraud host)
I've also heard that story, but it always seemed to me that an equally, if not more, likely reason is that cake made with a fresh egg simply has better flavor and texture. I tried reconstituted powdered eggs once, the taste is still somewhat egg-like but the texture is semi-unpleasant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz%E2%80%93Zodiac_Killer...
This is interesting game tuning. I guess the tactics isn't as fun, when you're less likely to see someone before they can shoot you?
I wonder what kind of people are these Steve Jobs cultists...

Most of the "wisdom" of all "Steve Jobs said..." is just subjective interpretation of vague and ambiguous statements.

Truth, the guy had a lot of successes. But if you look at them most were just accidental and he only recognized them as success when they hit him in the face.

* Apple didn't "invent" the Mac, all of it's technologies were copied straight out of Xerox's Palo Alto research center. He found them in a demo.

* Jobs didn't "invent" Pixar. George Lucas and Ed Catmull did it. His project was to create an hardware company (the only thing he knew to do) and to sell it. But Pixar "accidentally" found success creating animated intros for commercials and television shows and Jobs did nothing to discover this early market.

* Jobs didn't invent the iPhone. He was scared of dealing in an area where Apple didn't have expertise and tought it would be dangerous (a call to 911 failing because the phone could be stuck in a processing task). It took years of internal pressure by Apple engineers and management and a personal fiasco on a Nokia phone with iTunes for him to accept the iPhone.

* Jobs didn't invent the AppStore. For the first 6 months the iPhone didn't had an AppStore because he tought it would relinquish control of the platform to others. He only accepted it because in these first 6 months the iPhone sales were a disaster. He accepted the AppStore because the customers were screamming for it. It was the AppStore that saved the iPhone.

* Jobs didn't invent the Apple I, Wozniak did it. And the idea to turn the kit into a functional computer was not Jobs'. It was a precondition imposed by a RadioShack manager.

* NEXT wasn't a commercial success. An expensive computer for college students with a black and white monitor was not selling enough to sustain the company. He was basically lucky that at the same time, Apple under Sculley, was a much bigger failure and the management board called him back.

"Reality distortion field" and "stealing" other people's ideas were Jobs' greatest talents. But then, these are the talents of most cult founders from Jim Jones to Donald Trump.
The studio of a music producer that makes music for 40 years
Not really. The whole point of quantum computing is that it cannot give you a final answer that's reliable. Final, reliable answers involving money and other concrete real-world things are what is necessary to get work done. Alan Turing and Alonso Church both demonstrated that any computer which can ever be built can do the exact same work (and no more) than any other computer which has already been built. In other words, there is no such thing as a "workload we can hardly imagine." All computer work is equivalent and all computers are exactly equivalent to each other.

Did you know that quantum computers must be connected to a Turing computer in order to accept an input or provide an output? All of quantum computing is throttled by Turing computing.

There is simply no evidence to suggest that quantum computers are going to be useful in real work, including brute force cracking of encryption. When Turing computers were invented, they were immediately used in production for real work purposes. The entire industry around Turing computers came about because of the real work that they were able to do (census stuff, war stuff). This is not the case with quantum computers, which do not do any real work and probably will not ever.

This [0] review is fresh and relevant, as is this [1] critique.

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/03/28/1048355/quantum-...

[1] https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/quantum-computing-qu...
"Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage."

Lewis Hyde "Alcohol & Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking"
Measuring human's capability is tricky. It often has guard effect against measurement tools. Exam is just a best-effort tool for some limited dumb systems.
> ...you need a mass movement by the people and not a governmental intervention.

And how will this movement influence (overthrow?) these oligarchs that control the government?
I liked the panda game. Level 14 sure was tricky! But I didn't give up and was happy to complete it. 5 stars.
Hmm I can send cryptocurrency across the earth in seconds while my self driving car is perpetually 5 years away…
DLC skin issues aside, I think IW and Activision did a great job with this game. Obviously I'm a scrub and it's more of a 15min distraction than a game I'll be putting long hours into, but it scratches every itch I was expecting it to. All the positive gameplay elements of the 2011 version and most of the obnoxious stuff removed. From what I know, this is largely a result of IW really listening to what players did and didn't like about their past games. No jetpacks, no martyrdom, no attack dogs, no tactical nukes, just run and shoot and die, then spawn and run and shoot some more. Sometimes you don't need to fix what ain't broken.

I think if they were to repackage this same engine every few years with new maps and co-op, I'd happily continue to pay full price.
Are we doomed to repeat this cycle ad infinitum? Is this how it’s always been, and will always be…?
Thank you for this. C programming sounds almost like some sort of combat sport. Riveting.
A Product Positioning Exercise (2019)
Meh, history is rife with people on the leading edge that have a tinge of madness. It’s probably required since they are extreme outliers in behavior otherwise.
For me, it was the user uploaded models in Action Quake 2.

There were a couple that came to mind: a tiny gray alien with hitboxes to match as well as a model of Trinity (from the Matrix) that was all black and slimmer than the typical male characters.