skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please note that exploitation here is a technical term from marxism and should not be confused with how this word is commonly used in english as a synonym for oppression. In my native language of Icelandic there is a much nicer word arðrán which literally means “dividend burglary”, “profit burglary” or “stealing the fruits of your labor”. It doesn’t matter how much you personally makes, if someone else is taking money that someone else worked for, that is exploitation of labor.

I hope that clears things out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploitation_of_labour
And so the big parties have a disproportionate advantage. That's why there's no push from either of them to change the system and why it ends up essentially being a scam for the big parties.
https://archive.vn/uQnh2
playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyu7dstANgo&list=PL520FA4758...

Get in line in that processional,

Step into that small confessional.

There the guy who's got religion'll

Tell you if your sin's original.

If it is, try playin' it safer,

Drink the wine and chew the wafer,

Two, four, six, eight,

Time to transubstantiate!
If the red pixel affected the encoding of nearby pixels in the compressed original, which you've now neglected to redact, then the data very well could persist.
> That's intriguing. I would love some examples of these projects / products.

It's literally the definition of skunkworks projects. Many companies have been saved by a small few ignoring all the "Nos" and just doing what they believe in at personal risk.

I really disagree with the general notion of people saying No. This is actually, imo, the death of big companies and very common. It is not heroic to say no, it is maintaining the status quo. People who talk about such things with glowing eyes probably have spent their careers only at big companies.

Experienced people tend to have narrow vision and will shoot down ideas because they can't think outside of their worldview. That's why new ideas are so rarely born at large orgs. And the most innovation tends to come out of scrappy startups from kids who don't know that what they're doing is impossible.
I did the same for the FDA drug label database and 100% believe that this the future for search. Semantic search layer for context then the large language layer for human answers.

Tip - you don’t actually need GPT-3 level embedding for a decent semantic search. Sentence transformers paired with one of their models is good enough.

I like this: https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/multi-qa-MiniLM... - since it’s very light.

Also, perhaps I am an idiot but I just used Postgres array field to store my embeddings array to keep things simple and free.
Stop eating carbs alltogether. Try carnivore diet for a few weeks and introduce some veggies, buts, berries, cheese after that.

ADHD was non existent 30 years ago. Now suddenly everyone and their kids get diagnosed for it. What has changed is a complete sedentary lifestyle and a ridiculous overdose on carbs.

Do not believe your docs for one second that there is something inherently broken with you that definitely requires medication. Your body and brain are fine. You must tweak your diet.
My prediction is that this poor man is the leading edge of a massive tsunami that is heading towards Canadian shores. Housing/rent prices are beyond insane in Canada, we have 500k+ immigrants per year, and with food prices now on the rise 10% to 20% at least, I can't imagine how many people there are going to be who can't afford a roof over their heads.

And I've seen zero sign that this is even on the radar of government, though perhaps that's what MAID is for. At least it's an option to homelessness.
My first programming language was BASIC in the 1970s.

When I learned C in the 1980s, programming with strings was always a mess and produced a rich bounty of bugs. When initially designing the D programming language, I resolved that D wouldn't be any good until D did strings as easy as BASIC did.

And so strings are easy and bug free in D, and have become a great strength of D. Thanks to BASIC!
I don’t have any worries on LLVM, since it has become probably the biggest compiler backend with so many languages and tools depending on it. The problem lies within the Clang frontend, where people are worried that it might not catch up to the latest C++ standards since Apple and Google are now looking elsewhere to replace C++ (Swift and Carbon, respectively).

Clang not supporting new C++ features actually have some quite far-reaching consequences, since editors nowadays heavily rely on clangd for autocompletion and static analysis, and they too will be stuck past in time.
If we were a lot better about not letting your teens and twenties so heavily define your story arc as a human, maybe. But without some sort of insurance and/or escrow program any implant than gives you any kind of edge will be accepted by people too young to really understand the consequences.

Especially the sorts of people who think they'll dead by 30 so side effects that show up in your 40's are no big deal.
> Why are people forced to live if they don't want to?

As with abortion, why must I cheerfully pay taxes for policy affecting individuals that's morally objectionable?
The "R", "r", and "t" characters are the way you can tell between the two fonts.

I think an example of a bad logo is Arial is this one:

https://www.designworkplan.com/wp-content/font-arial-everywh...

The A has too much space around it and it looks "uneven".

The bottom one of this one is Helvetica.

https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2009/10...

It looks "fuller", "denser" to me. And leaves me with an impression of a "sturdy" company.

Finally, here's Neue Helvetica 75 and Arial Pro Bold pages from Linotype. I just open them up in a new tab each and switch tabs to get a better idea for things.

https://www.linotype.com/1264130/neue-helvetica-75-bold-prod...

https://www.linotype.com/716034/arial-bold-product.html
I think there is an ultimate unproductive productivity local minima there somewhere. I suspect if someone kept a knowledge base of productivity hacks it would tend towards recursive collapse.
Let's also sue those peeping toms operating the dishes, ADSBExchange and we better not forget Inmarsat either (what purpose does the ability to track aircraft serve anyway?!). They're all complicit in stalking poor lil Elon.
In reality we don't really know where center lies in either country given the circumstance.
Yes I agree with you there. But just the act of consuming (which it seems like what the OP was trying to do without actively engaging in writing/creating on a regular basis) wont make you (imo) better unless you go and build something with it. Reading the dragon book (or SO explanations) is fantastic but if you want to be a PL expert building a toy compiler (and a few iterations) can do wonders!
BASIC is a fine language as long as it fits on one screen (24 lines). No abstractions are needed for such short programs.
My game Empire started in BASIC, and was then ported to FORTRAN. You can still see the BASIC legacy in the code in the variable names like "Z6".
I think they pledged to free it when they stop working on it, but that's about it. One of the developers posted a message[1] on their forums when they were asked about it, and their stance was pretty much "we don't see a good enough value in open sourcing our software".
I am unaware of further developments.

[1] https://forum.obsidian.md/t/open-sourcing-of-obsidian/1515/1...
What an utterly strange reply. Did you actually watch the video? He danced around nothing. He simply stepped back one level and addressed the larger source of the angry comment from the audience member. He was very clear - all decisions of this scale will make some people upset. He admitted to what he didn't know, and then directly gave credit to his team and the people working under them for their hard work and long hours. Your entire reply is literally a fabrication.
> But the CAMAP recordings plainly suggest that exactly this is happening, that euthanasia workers know it, and that they are acting with no urgency to stop it.

One example: this is an assertion made from cherrypicked quotes above. Having seen apologists and detractors from other domains sets off a red flag when this happens.

Is it "factual error"? Depends. Do you consider logical fallacies to be factual errors? I encourage a re-read of the article with skepticism.
So the big scandal here isn't that the FBI is implicitly threatening Twitter in a way that raises 1st Amendment concerns, but rather that the FBI is using public funds to help a social media company do its job. This has nothing to do with free speech and there's also no evidence the FBI's actions were motivated by partisan concerns.

To me, it's rather clear that a bunch of people who are not particularly principled or have a strong understanding of the ethics or laws involved, but are prone to thinking that anyone working against their own agenda must be evil or nefarious in some ways, reverse-engineering their way into finding faults with how things more or less have always worked. This also isn't some nefarious hidden secret motivated by partisan concerns. Trump's own Director of FBI, Christopher Wray stated that Russia was attempting to interfere in the presidential election:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-security-idU...

> Russia is determined to interfere in U.S. elections despite sanctions and other efforts to deter such actions before the next presidential election in 2020, FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday.

And he specifically told the public what the FBI is doing about this:

https://time.com/5548544/russian-internet-trolls-strategies-...

> FBI Director Christopher Wray, speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, said social media remains a primary avenue for foreign actors to influence U.S. elections, and the bureau is working with companies on the problem.

> “What has continued virtually unabated and just intensifies during the election cycles is this malign foreign influence campaign, especially using social media,” Wray said. “That continues, and we’re gearing up for it to continue and grow again for 2020.”
MPP was the acronym for the pattern. It let us take a binary executable which would normally just be a single PID on one node and it would distribute the PID and all its resources including files across however many nodes you had configured. The software that managed this was heavily dependent on RISC processor architecture which basically meant only AIX RS6000. Googles solution is designed for commodity processors. The modern equivalents let you do something sort of similar, but you have to design for that and as far as I know you’re not sharing resources like open file handles across the cluster. We took C programs and ran them as is.
dex2jar + JD Decompiler was my go-to as well, but I spent a long time staring at Smali directly.
Either developers are locking their users into Epic/Steam/Apple/PlayStation in exchange for services/users, or they're rolling your own solution with PlayFab/Nakama/Pragma and are stuck footing the bill once their game fades away. Both business models are bad for developers and gamers.

Now for the sameless self plug: we wanted to solve these problems but with a business model that primarily serves developers at Rivet (W23).

Instead, we offer cross-platform console-like services as a REST API for free (friends, parties, leaderboards) and only charge for services that help developers build/grow their games (multiplayer servers, matchmaking, CDN, database). Our #1 priority is providing the best services possible to developers. There's no incentive to rent-seek or lock in your users since we're a services company, not a platform company. Any data your users generate is yours to keep.

Regarding operating legacy multiplayer servers: We plan to let users pay for their own game servers instead of developers fronting the cost. This way, developers can operate legacy games at no cost by letting users "own" their servers and easily enable custom game servers. It's like allowing users to self-host games but without having to open-source your software. Plus, many games can't run as a standalone binary and need the supporting infrastructure.

We're still in closed beta, but there's more info here if you're curious: https://rivet.gg/developer/
NB: If kung pao unavailable a good Madras curry will substitute.
Hal Finney (yes, that Hal) wrote a BASIC interpreter in a 2K EPROM in the 1970s. Quite an achievement!

That left no room for error messages. Hal proudly showed me his solution. It was one error message for all errors:

EH?

consuming only 3 bytes!
Discussed at the time:

Apps for which macOS applies compatibillity fixes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17116106 - May 2018 (125 comments)
This is one point out of many in their post.
Honestly this is comment is the cherry on top
> life well lived is a series of personal obsessions shared without expectation of an audience

I like that. Is that a quote or original?
I'd never buy a medical device like that from Google.
By the way - to see progress in this area, if your AI can analyse my writing along the "tips" detailed in this book (and explaining my writing weaknesses and suggesting how I can improve in those axes) I think it would invaluable!

https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Tools-Essential-Strategies-Wr...
But that’s because people like their representative. It’s everyone else’s representative they don’t like.
That's not the point the other posts are making.

They're saying that before encoding the red dot could have been X pixels wide, and to the naked eye it would seem that after encoding it's still only X pixels wide... but due to compression artifacts it may now actually be affecting an area X+Y pixels wide. So only covering X pixels could leak Y pixels of information.

It honestly sounds a bit paranoid to me, but it's definitely possible.
Well, but I’ve heard that many of the Clang people from Google have switched their gears to work on Carbon, so that might be quite an issue for future Clang development (even if Carbon is in the early stages).

I think the possibility is that the Google engineers will do bugfixes for up to C++17 features but will minimize work on catching up to the latest standards (since it really takes up too much engineering effort, and Google seems to be conservative in using newer C++ features anyway and have opinions that differ from the standards.)
I put to you that it in fact does this terribly, because if the government shits itself midway through term there is no mechanism for removal or new elections, as there are in most other countries. Wait out the 4 year term (or two year cycle) and deal with the tribalism
I'd say any state-facilitated euthanasia needs to be extremely carefully considered in situations where suicide is a recommended and facilitated option to avoid homelessness and related disasters.

Of course, I'm also in favor of just not organizing benefits so that disabled people wind-up facing homelessness and so being willing to choose death.
Well, I think it illustrates that you don't really believe they're making obscene profits. Otherwise you'd swallow your virtue and buy some.
This sounds right. People in desperate situations shouldn't feel forced to make high risk bets that could put them in a worse situation down the road. Especially in the US where financial security and health are so closely tied to each other.
I think I historically suffered from a form of this: I loooooved setting up for a project but didn’t really like doing the project. Whether it was downloading the resources and setting up a workspace for a code project or setting up a physical work area for some electronics work.
> The problem of the Canadian state offering to kill people who've lost their welfare benefits is something I know independently from this article.

Do share your sources, so that we can leave ideologically biased "gotcha" journalists to do their thing while we look at a real issue.

> The larger question should be discussed rather than this particular article's slant speculated on.

Indeed. The veteran with PTSD and suicidal thoughts did the right thing by calling out the person who invited them to MAID, and it was the right thing for the person to be sacked.

> I just down voted you in both place without needing any incentive.

And?
Seems like a stretching propaganda hit piece from the anti-abortion crowd stretching into calling the "current" Canadian Government in power a "regime" that kills poor people by...get this...convincing doctors to convincingly get poor and unhealthy people to go past every fucking alarm bell and human instinct and literally kill themselves with their assistance to somehow be less of a burden on the state? Somehow a small group of people killing themselves will make any difference financially or politically somehow to a country or party? And every comment against it seems downvoted, yeah ok....
The elevator pitch I heard, was that it would be ideal for connecting grandparents who would struggle with existing videoconferencing software. So it would be a supplemental device -- not a replacement -- with ease of use for non-technical people being a main driver of adoption. It would be a wonderful gift to help keep in touch, though pricey.

This was conceived prior to the implosion of the Facebook brand during the Cambridge Analytical revelations. It's hard to say for sure how successful Portal would have been in another universe where that didn't happen.
People who are very nearsighted have those weird sort of lens when viewed from the front it looks like they have a lens within a lens. The edges are very thick and it tapers down at the center.

here is what it looks like

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLloldZWgAAzrWz?format=jpg&name=...
This a very valid concern. Yes, indeed, the compression might leak out certain bits out to the neighboring pixels. Especially in this sequence: raw -> lossy (jpeg) -> redaction -> less lossy or lossess (png).

Whether that's enough to decode the redacted information will depend on how many pixels were redacted and other intricacies of JPEG.

This is not too dissimilar to compression oracle attacks, such as CRIME (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIME), an infamous vulnerability in HTTPS.
It gets worse; some issues relate not just to a specific tempreture range but also to whether that range is approached from above or below .. and at what rate of temp change.
I have bad news for you. You will never gain the ability to pick and choose what your taxes fund, and the other people paying taxes have entirely different sets of important things that they wish to fund, and different sets of things that they are horrified that their taxes are supporting.
There are intrinsics for a wide range of ARM and PowerPC SIMD instructions, a huge range of Intel SIMD instructions and several useful instructions like ByteSwap or FindFirstSetBit on several architectures.

But, there is not an instrinsic for every instruction nor for useful instructions on every architecture. In those cases, you might be lucky to have the compiler recognize very specific patterns in C (compilers are great at recognizing C implementations of byteswap, for example). But, otherwise you’ll have to write inline assembly if you want to utilize those features.
Murder: kill (someone) unlawfully and with premeditation.

As assisted suicide is lawful in Canada, the definition does not apply.

EDIT:

> Edit: He does not know. Oh I weep for this ignorant generation. The reckoning of this will be dear.

It has also been a long time since someone has thought of me as part of a rising generation. Decades, even. While I appreciate the thought that I am youthful and ignorant, I am neither.
I thought it was going to be about Fallout New Vegas.
You probably know this, but Daniel Lemire's blog often has simple examples using avx-512 and/or branchless algorithms:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lemire.me
The design, documentation and especially source code should only be ever made available to entities with the knowledge and skill to maintain these implants safely and purely for the benefit of the users. If any random Joe Garage Hacker can get the source and devise patches for implant devices, the result will be an endless hellish nightmare for whoever has these implants in them. It'd be the IoT mess all over again, but with people's bodies, not just their homes.
This was expected tbh. They do offer A LOT.

Did you know you could use them just for building your email list? They even have an autoresponder and list segmenting with no limits to contacts.
Been using it for a few days now, and my biggest hope is that it gets a dedicated Mac app. I've been a bit disappointed with it so far in Unite. Maybe if I picked up Coherence it would work better?
I'm "reverse engineering" the BASIC source for Super Star Trek right now for a Rust port. Brings back memories, that's for sure.
Seven funny quotes by Wolfgang Pauli, the physicist who gave exclusion principle
My point, which I admit isn't very poignant, is that you can make an FSM that simulates a TM that only uses a finite portion of its tape. Yes, for some machines you will always be able to construct an input that exceeds what a particular FSM can do. When that happens, however, you can make a bigger FSM that simulates a larger (but still finite) tape.

This is analogous to putting more memory in your computer when you have a problem that doesn't fit.
> As Heinlein is purported to have written, "If it's not one thing, it's two things."

By Any Other Name, Spider Robinson:

"
And McLaughlin rescued the moment, in that split second before Higgins’s control would have cracked, doing his prizefighter imitation. “Aw Jeez, Tom, that hard cider. If it ain’t one thing, it’s two things. Go ahead; we’ll keep your shoes warm.”
"

for completeness, it's a play on the more common expression, perhaps best summed up in the modern age by Snoop Dogg in Pump, Pump:

"if it ain't one thing it's a MFing nother"
Give your keys to your lawyer?
The “center” or “left” of what? The US is a country that’s as religious as Iran where a decisive majority disapprove of the Supreme Court’s ban on school prayer: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/06/13/south-carol.... It’s a country where 68% of Americans wouldn’t pay even $10 per month in energy bills to mitigate climate change: https://www.cato.org/blog/68-americans-wouldnt-pay-10-month-...

You might not approve of where the “center” is in the US, but Democrats absolutely represent the center left and republicans represent the center right of the actual American electorate.
> "gay teens were already going to use"

We can't speak for all teens, gay or otherwise. They are not all the same mind. The degree of sexual activity and relationships among teens would range from zero to highly active. They are not all concentrated in the highly active segment.

"Grindr" services are commercial. Inherently promoting, advertising, "luring" target customers with a wide net. That would mean luring all segments of teenagers, if Roth's idea was realized. It's gross.

If some teens already use those services, parents and educators of the teens, and the services should do more to keep them away. Roth's "embrace" idea says more about his personal angle than consideration of teens in general and their families.

I see that Penn State removed access to Roth's paper. Nobody seemed to care. But it should be made available because free speech means we record bad ideas, discuss why they're bad, avoid them in future, or evolve them to better ideas.