skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of human behavior is rounding things off to the nearest whole value. Something is either good or bad. Either wrong or right. While recognizing the utility of that approach and conceding it's often a good strategy, rationalists look for ways where resisting that very human tendency can help us out. I think this is most true when talking about an issue of policy that will affect millions/billions of people, like whether crypto should be encouraged or discouraged. That's the origin of the extra phraseology you're noticing in my opinion: to distinguish between supporting something, kind of supporting it, being bullish on it, being certain of it, being skeptical, being mildly skeptical, etc.

To my ear, saying "I'm still bullish" rather than "I'm less than infinitely certain about X" is the weird sounding one, like someone's trying really hard to signal to me they know and care about stocks and investments and stuff. To be honest I don't and still get confused on which is which between "bearish" and "bullish".
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> Budget analysis for a lot of suburbs show very troubling trends

Do you have real examples of this? The past few suburbs I've lived in have been very prosperous, as a counter-example anecdote. I don't doubt some towns/suburbs are having financial troubles... but so are mega-cities too. Recall all the city bailout money that got spread around during the pandemic? How much of it went to small suburbs vs. mega-cities?

> The dirtiness is externalized to the environment by means of CO2 and other emissions due to personal transport.

I disagree here. A lot of hand-waving has been done about commuter cars - but somehow we ignore the miles of idling cars stuck in traffic every day for hours in these mega-cities. Fewer individuals may own vehicles in a mega-city, but the pollution is still there.

> Quiet is also externalized - cars are extremely noisy

On a freeway maybe. Inside a neighborhood? You can't hear any traffic noises.

There's been this movement to villainize suburbs and push everyone into mega-cities. It's rather misguided at best.
I just use an extension wrapper around boost::property_tree for my json (and xml) needs. Way faster than the built in json support and does automagic type conversion so I don’t have to worry about it.

Now, I’m not running at Web Scale™ but pure python was slow enough to be annoying.
Out of curiosity, could you give a few examples of the difficulties you experienced?
If he were able to ignore various regulatory compliance issues that Google insisted he follow, Google would have likely faced some pretty serious fines.

If Waze had stayed independent and done so, it would likely be destined for a consent decree with the FTC.

Either way his life would have gotten a lot worse--he just experienced the pain via corporate insistent, rather than direct governmental influence.
Our users are all internal, so I expect it'd last a long while given no inbound requests.

The data sources we use do change format from time to time, so I assume one of those would break eventually.
The underground movement trying to topple the North Korean regime
I messed with my Switch's netwotk settings based on a random Tweet some years ago for Smash, maybe something about packet size. So did a lot of other people. I wonder if I aught to clear that. Doesn't seem to hurt though.
Perhaps the way forward for Codon in terms of wider adoption would be maintaining a list of libraries that are fully Codon compatible, thereby encouraging devs to aim for cross-compatibility (which would likely naturally exclude usage of a lot of the slower Python features in turn making the libraries faster for both Codon and regular Python users)
Bi phenol's aka plasticizers within plastics.

Endocrine disruptors in plastics are a civilization sized problem.

Every year the plastic micro debris gets smaller and the problems grow larger.
Or the door
>Me: Yesterday I walked on four, today I walk on two, tomorrow I walk on

>chatGPT: three.

Why is this impressive? It looks to me like just looking up something in a database. We know it ingested this exact riddle, so it doesn't imply any thought at all.
There is nothing to say that additional stakeholders cannot be added in by law, though. Companies would dump mercury into the rivers to make a buck if the law didn't prohibit it.
I lurk, mainly because I have little to add and when I try it's usually downvoted or I'm shadow banned to begin with.
There's a Die Hard 2 movie tie-in game: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Die_Hard_2_-_Die_Harder_19...
> Is it likely that NG / USAF would be actively avoiding the potential for satellite imagery?

Yes, we still haven't seen the back of the B-21 (those at the unveiling could only view it from the front). There was also an incident when the B-2 was unveiled and a photographer flew over and got pictures of it.
It's the IBM way.

Everything be in 4-digit or 5-digit error code.

Need to RTFM for such codes. Or worse, StackOverflow them.
I searched the article and comments for all three of those phrases, and the only time it pops up is in the title or in reference to it, so I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about.

My impression of the title is that the essay is a response to the largely maximally hostile stance many take towards cryptocurrency projects, and his attempt at moderation of that stance.
Obviously the wondrous collection of vapours as you smoke them is not implicated.

You grab a fag and stuff it in your gob. Fire it up. Two inches or so soon disappears. The last inch lingers a bit until you get that slightly rubbery taste that indicates its over. You might continue anyway for a while - suck/savour (hot n nasty)/blow.

Been there. For 30 years. Five years ex-smoker but some damage done and not too sure how much.

Worrying about the effect of stubbing out on your own health is nonsense and ridiculous - who cares whether asbestos fibres are whole or dust after stuffing the bloody things in your gob? At that point you are endangering everyone in breathing range.

Anyone who finds breathing normally a bit of a challenge sometimes or always will soon disabuse you of one or two ideas.
I didn't know that - thank you. I'm exclusive to LH, NH & UA - which shows my bias, maybe.
This is all irrelevant. A language model should not run code itself, instead it should have a code execution environment, where it can read the error messages and iterate. It's terribly inefficient and error prone to run code directly.

People also code on computers, not on paper.
It's not about being "smart". It's a completely unnecessary complication in this case.
Livebook and Liveview seem basically like magic to me.
I think what you're suggesting is that because we know the angle between a pair of stars, we can use that to infer the angle to the horizon by measuring the distance between each in pixels.

I don't think it's a safe assumption that there is a linear relationship between the angles. Like, two pairs of objects in the image, in which the angles subtended by each pair relative to the viewer are the same in real life, may not be separated by the same number of pixels in image space depending on the lens used.

Furthermore, this could be thrown off by even a small hill or mountain obscuring the astronomical horizon.
I got "Who put the bomp in the bompadomp?" from ChatGPT for the first prompt.
A lot of people are holding off until some months after their last covid infection on the advice of medical professionals. Classic case of data being easy to misread even with the best intentions.
OK, I'll bite: Which part of this thread is "Anything that good hackers would find interesting"?

The fact that DOSBox is at least 17 years old?

The fact that the "just run Linux, it'll work there if you figure out the right command line syntax that I'm not going to tell you" pattern is that old? (Richard Bonner, 4th comment from the end)

XP unified the Win9x and Windows NT codebases, and both had to compromise a bit. The VxD driver model officially went away; more bits were added to the WDM model to enable better multimedia support than W2K and previous had.

This whole thread is an instance of the XKCD Workflow: https://xkcd.com/1172/

Making graphical DOS apps windowed never worked in NT (the very first post admits that this caused the graphics to freeze) but this user decided to push on stretching the bug to capture screenshots for reports (something that was never an option in DOS either) and was surprised when this edge case that very clearly was never supported stopped working between major versions.
I don't understand how a black hat, even with access to your account, could spy on your traffic? They're entirely different concepts. Just having access to the account doesn't mean you can see all data going through the network for people using that account.

And even if they could, any sensitive page should be using HTTPS, so the data will be encrypted. A VPN still wouldn't make a difference.
> you can't ignore 90% of the game and expect to have fun.

I think maybe what you meant to say was "... and expect to _win_"

Plenty of people have fun turtling (:

This is one thing I liked about Total Annihilation — defense tech was relatively strong, so some amount of turtling and racing to get high tech artillery (eg) was a viable approach.
> I bet not a single software engineer at this company got asked to do a simple organic synthesis or even a redox problem during their interview process.

Well they should have! One of the most important traits for a good software engineer is to be able to pick up a working understanding of the domain they're programming in. If they can't do that, they're more likely to make negative contributions than any positive ones.
That's the same feeling I get after learning (a rather rudimentary but practical level of) category theory. How you end up looking at anything from a single function up to high level architecture and the same patterns emerge - that it's all about the maps between things, not really the specifics of the things themselves.
Failsafe?

I'm still experiencing file corruption regularly with journald on various distros.

Cannot recall corruption nor unreadability with syslog.
way of life + "wow I'm so smart" + "wow so deep"
I LOVE that disclaimer thumbnail.
> Me: A cat's lives times the number of days of the week is
>
> chatGPT: seven.

Well... it's not wrong about that; it's just not playing with the metaphor you'd like it to use!
This guy was a UK spy cop. These men broke the law and infiltrated orgs for a living.
Makes sort of sense, but "less than infinitely" doesn't really mean anything. You could be extremely opposed to crypto for all practical purposes and still be "less than infinitely" hostile.

The other phrases are also vague enough that they are not really helpful. If you're "mildly opinionated" enough about something to write a blog post about it, I'm starting to how much degree is actually meant with "mild". If to people are mildly opinionated about somthing, who does have the stronger opinion?

I agree that things are often complex and not clear-cut, but I don't see how trying to mush everything into featureless grey would help here to gain insight.
It's the curse of influencers and it's not specific to crypto. Influencers identify a vibe that works with their followers and lean into it, exploiting it for views and shares. Most of the time the vibe is only tangentially related to a much more complicated reality. But complicated reality is boring and vibes are fun, so influencers convince their followers that the vibe is true and the followers become galvanized along the vibe.

I've seen so many people quote a Youtuber as their source for a belief that it's crazy. Even when the primary sources are available. But that's the age we live in.
Presumably because the author feels that simply characterizing the anti-crypto position as bearish doesn't do justice to the animosity many people hold towards crypto. He's also not saying he is bullish on crypto currency, just that he doesn't think the frothing at the mouth hatred of it is justified.
Sure, here are some sources.

Cases of myocarditis after vaccination: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2788346

Cases of myocarditis after COVID infection:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e5.htm

And also, please forgive me for not taking a guy on Rumble seriously. If you have a study, I'm more than happy to engage.
The rust community can tend towards smugness. And the evangelism on social media can be a bit much.

But I am indebted to quite a few people on the rust discord (or one of the rust discords), who have been kind enough to share their knowledge with me. Nothing but nice things to say about them.

I guess at this point if you dont like one rust community, find another. Theres enough of them now.
Well, consider the distribution of global btc hashrate by country over time: https://ccaf.io/cbeci/mining_map

Editorialized: https://cointelegraph.com/news/china-returns-as-2nd-top-bitc...

Even a fairly authoritarian society with strong incentives to crush cryptocurrencies (https://www.marketplace.org/2021/05/20/chinas-crackdown-on-c...) wasn't able to get hashrate, much less usage, to anywhere close to zero.

I guess I'm curious: what levers do you figure Western societies could deploy that'd be more effective than the Chinese approach? From my perspective, this state of affairs is a decent existence proof that fully eliminating cryptocurrency use is difficult even with access to authoritarian methods.

nb: above links don't include 2022 data and I couldn't quickly find that, so if that data affects the quality of the above argument I'd appreciate the correction
Soon... Waze to be renamed as Google Maps. Old Google Maps will continue to be available for Google Enterprise customers and will continue to be called Google Maps. /s
Self-hosting a F-Droid repo means users can easily get automatic updates, which is important for security.
> I tried many base64 strings and they all decoded correctly until:

You're holding it wrong. Let's not kill flies with cannons. How many million times less efficient is to do that than run the code on CPU? And still makes errors, as you said. Because it's a probabilistic model, not a deterministic computer. It's like a car bad at flying.
I once read a sci fi story about how humans evolved to absorb energy via the skin due to some spliced in photosynthesis genes. Pretty cool I thought.
1. Yes it is cheating. That is the downside of this approach. Contributors to Zig and users of Zig don't care about such cheating, but distribution maintainers such as Debian Developers do (rightly) care. This decision is a tradeoff that favors contributors and users at the expense of system package maintainers. I am counting on a third party implementation of Zig to arise someday and solve the bootstrapping problem for system package maintainers. But in the short term, it's more important to prioritize the needs of users and contributors.

2. Whenever this happens, the contributor runs `zig build update-zig1` and commits the updated wasm kernel to the repository.
It builds on top of Nx, Numerical Elixir, which allows for models to be compiled for cpu or gpu. Done this way, the model does not have to run by executing BEAM bytecode. Additionally, Liveview and Livebook enables the equivalent of Jupyter notebooks. All of this has been happening for the past couple years.

The advantage here is data being fed into the model can use frameworks like Broadway (streaming ingestion) or Membrane (realtime media streaming), or Nerves (BEAM at edge / IoT), or as a controller for unreliable agents.
I wasn't super involved, but they (the office in Ukraine) liked getting USD and people who visited would often carry an envelope with cash in it when traveling for business trips from the US to there.

There was some other thing with using US based debit cards over there, apparently it was an easier flow to fill up the US accounts and have them use it over there than to do a bank to bank transfer.
Yes he did. Do you people read the article before arguing about what’s in it? “and so I said, OK, I’ll take whatever the first thing you offered was.”

Just because it’s his story doesn’t mean he can’t be immature and wrong in it.
I detect a bit of defensiveness in the comments. I also detect a certain egalitarian undertow almost tending toward "everyone should move around" or "no one should move around". There is a third option: some people benefit from moving around. And we may also speak of the social consequences of migration, both for the origin and target societies.

I would say this:

- Moving around isn't for everyone.

- There is a tinge of oikophobia that's common in much of the West today that makes the thought of caring for and willing the genuine good of your own people frightening to many, inconvenient, and for some reason synonymous with chauvinism or some weird exclusivity that construes benevolence as "either/or" instead of in subsidiarian terms. Soon, the mere general prioritization of the good of one's own family members (a duty) will come off as "not inclusive" and "inequitable".

- Statistically, there is a certain healthy amount of average migration of certain kinds (the specifics will vary). Some spice enhances the flavor of a soup, but too little leaves it bland, and too much overpowers it.

- Travel and living elsewhere can help deprovincialize the mind, but do not guarantee it.

- Social networks and social order are important. Note the principle of subsidiary. A human being typically grows up in a family that is itself nwsted within an extended family and a community and so on, like layers of an onion. People typically become alienated when removed from them.

- As people get older, it becomes more common to settle down and commit oneself to the good of some particular community (original or adopted) instead of spending one's life drifting anonymously.

- One of the big incentives behind traveling or living in different places is to learn about other cultures. But if everyone were moving around, no local culture would ever have the chance to develop because locality requires continuity and a stable, sustaining local population, i.e., a true society. Places with very high rates of inward and outward migration tend to be less distinctive and tend to resemble other hubs of the same kind with which they likely swap inhabitants. If that's what attracts you, then your travelling or moving around isn't motived by a desire to learn about other cultures so much as a desire for a change of scenery while maintaining a more or less consistent, homogenous cultural "experience" globally. It's like being an American who goes on vacation and never talks to the locals, only other Americans in the hotel, or one who wants the "locals" to be like Americans.

- There is, of course, a difference between frequent moving and living more than 10 miles away from where you grew up.

I attach moral judgement to neither "remaining in the area" nor "living far away" nor even "moving frequently". These are quite personal matters per se.
A stronger version of the opposing argument:

Cash and banks are easier for the government to control than crypto

That is all that there is to the argument!

Maybe the difference won't be significant, but I see no reason to think (nor to think the opposite) as of now. Do you have one?
PL arguments are like:

"I like icecream."

"You idiot! I hate icecream and think everyone who likes icecream is a raging moron who deserves having their teeth rot out of their head! I wish their teeth would rot out tomorrow because I am so sick of waiting for it!"
My comment was not specific to covid vaccines.

Vaccines, like other preventative measures, have externalities. Public health debates are often about whether those externalities are significant enough that individuals should be asked / pressured / forced to take actions that may be harmful to them. If you only talk about the effects of a vaccine on the vaccinated individual, you are not really participating in the debate.
How much pressure can activist investors really exert over a company the size and influence of Google?

If I was Google I would tell them to take a walk if they want to.
ah, sorry. I've read "mildly opinionated" way back in another post - and LessWrong is the name of one of their main communities and websites.
This is already an issue, the fancy chemicals in modern sunscreens contribute to the destruction of coral reefs. When anywhere near these places, you are supposed to wear reef-safe sunscreens that are much simpler, basically zinc oxide or titanium dioxide (white pigments).
> I really don't think you should be turning your init system into a general programming environment that can do that.

We have :)
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.soc...

No need for multiple anything, the units can be parameterized -- user@my.service, for example
I tried running iTerm for a while and found its quirks more annoying than its perks are worth. I don’t live in the terminal though… it gets frequent use but it’s not the primary tool that it is for some.
> So here’s a wacky idea: What about a national electrical utility? Many utilities are already government-sanctioned monopolies at the city level, so the principle of natural monopolies in the energy space is well-established. And the intermittency of wind and solar means it might make sense to run new long-distance power lines between cities. So why not turn this task over to a national-level government-sanctioned utility monopoly, that would own the long-distance transmission lines and would also be allowed to invest in local generation capacity?

Because that wouldn't solve anything.

The problems with running long-distance power lines are all to do with negotiating with the property owners along the power line's route, and different states having different processes and criteria.

What is needed, if you want to install long distance power transmission quickly, is summary powers of installation that shorten the approvals process (omitting environmental impact assessments, for instance) and that forbid lawsuits or objections or other obstructions of any kind to installation. Property owners get told, "we're installing a power line through your property. Here is independently assessed fair compensation."
I'm not personally concerned about it, it's just easy to see how someone could convince themselves it's a worry, especially when they want it to be for racist reasons.
> Why not just say "why I'm still bullish on crypto even though everyone says the opposite"?

The author's view is tangential to bull/bear in the financial sense. From the article:

> This post is emphatically not intended as a claim that crypto will go up more, or that it won’t go down a lot, or that there won’t be any more disasters or scams7. It’s a claim that aside from its going-up ability, crypto is still a set of interesting technological solutions to regulatory problems.
> FANUC, a Japanese robotics company, has been operating as a lights-out factory since 2001. Robots are building other robots at a rate of about 50 per 24-hour shift and can run unsupervised for as long as 30 days at a time. "Not only is it lights-out," says Fanuc vice president Gary Zywiol, "we turn off the air conditioning and heat too."

Enslave them, treat them badly and leave them alone for weeks at a time with the express intent of increasing their own numbers. What could possibly go wrong.
The pandemic was amazing for traffic. Flying up the 101 to SF at 95mph.

(Source: from LA)
Not only that, the author has to deal with angry e-mails from people who are unhappy with their Toyota Corolla: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/14/i-have-toyota-corola/