skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sneer at the emphasis on “1.4 billion records!” in the article as if it’s a lot.

At a recent place of employment I created and was responsible for a database that had about that many records and in actuality was a single 2tb postgres db and completely unremarkable.

I never claimed to have worked with big data.
> It's an attempt by some groups to have others jump through hoops that they define. The end goal is never language, but the ability to control what others do and be the one calling the shots.

Nicely put. Living in a Eastern European country we've just swapped a word "communism/socialism" with "democracy", so in effect very little changed. Ironically, not putting the flag out in towns an villages will now brand you as a anti-Croat and a communist sympathizer which can have very serious consequences if you ever want to get employed by the local government (usually the only source of employment in a lot of places).

Slightly related to the control of languange. One of the first editions of the National Geographic Magazine in Croatia (in Croatian language) featured a big article about a deadly disease spreading mostly in Africa, and how you could be born infected and it was terrible and everything. I've read that article and the disease was called "kopnica". I've never heard about it before, but it sure did seem nasty.

A month later (or could be two, doesn't matter), there was an angry letter to the editor which accused the magazine's proofreader of inventing a new word for AIDS (a word which everyone on the planet knows about). That proofreader in the reply thinly accused the reader of harbouring anti-national thoughts and some other horrible sentiments. I was shocked and wowed never to buy NGM in Croatia ever again.

Similar thing happened in IT magazines over here which started to "translate" English words by means of just inventing Croatian sounding ones. That made no sense to me, but it did make some proofreader's and academia careers.

Once I was on a public consultation "conference" about drone regulation in my country and had
some polite technical questions on the end of one talk. The government official berated me for "using foreign words [english] when we have such nice [newly invented] Croatian words" and then didn't bother to answer any of my questions. Half of the audience laughed how clever the official sounded. Also it was a bit sad that consultation was just a formality, but thats a different story.

So you're completely right. Language can be molded into small hoops for your enemy to jump through first. In general, a set of rules you create, and your enemy has to abide with making the communication asymetrical easing the control one has over the other.
A good lawyer would get enough volunteer/intern new graduate lawyers for different aspects of this case in courts throughout the country that Apple would yield...
The video's are good and the idea is useful as well. All the best.
Looking forward to it...
> How do we go back to debating meaningful problems and solutions and tell these language policing idiots to do something useful?

By refusing to placate emotional cripples and authoritarians. By refusing to accept the false assertion that everyone is innately entitled to respect. Respect is something that is earned. Those who seek to police our language due to imaginary harms that they assert someone may suffer are not entitled to respect - quite the opposite. It is long past time we as a society started actively disrespecting these people. We should heap scorn and ridicule on the people who came up with this ridiculous blacklist of commonly used words and drive them out of decent society. We should actively disrespect the self-appointed hall monitors that claim the power to decide the acceptable parameters of public discourse. The fact that such petty, small-minded people have filled the halls of power in most of most powerful institutions, from academia to government, is a withering indictment on our society.
Assuming all of this doesn't just end with the bodies being dumped at some point, I wonder if future medicine will use the frozen bodies and brains more like a kind of reference to construct an AI from, instead of really trying to revive them.

Sort of how historians can read badly damaged ancient documents, but usually copy over their results to a new medium instead of trying to repair the original document.

A lot of the usual philosophical discussions following whether or not the AI is the same as the real person would probably follow...
Hybrid meetings with some people being remote and others in person needs improved. Currently, I think it's much better just to have the meeting remote or in person, doing both is worse than either.
German nihilists! They don't believe in anything, Lebowski!
Definitely remember it being the exact same as when I viewed it on Windows 2000, 5 computers ago.
Hey that’s impressive that you’re so young and found so many vulns.

If I was in your place I would chart out a path for myself to be CISO or CIO at a large org. Continue with your graduation and attempt to get ethical hacking certifications (CISSP or CompTia junior or senior year). I would also start a technical blog about your research (once those are patched ofcourse) This will be a boost to your credentials when you apply for jobs. All the best!
Sounds like classic A type personalities with zero technical chops deciding how long a technical project should take to further their own agenda:

> The Migration Programme experienced delays from the outset and fell behind the IMP timings. While progress had been made, on 20 September 2017 the firm decided that the Migration Programme would have to be re-planned. However, nine days after it had resolved to re-plan, and before it had concluded its re-planning exercise, TSB publicly announced it would now migrate in Q1 2018.
And include the year as a version number.

Then we can say things like "2022 was (not) a good MacBook-year".
This is the way. We have format-on-save in our editor, works like a charm. Sometimes the CI still catches sometimes, but generally its very low friction.
For the record, awk provides a more direct way to grab the results from the csv:

$ awk -F, '/Bet Pic/{print $21","$22","$23}' hygdata_v3.csv
0.00000061,0.00001886,-0.00001106
> Brute forcing through everything-there-is-to-experience is not an enticing vision for the future at all, it's a grind.

Speak for yourself, but please don't confuse that for a good argument for the death of others with a different perspective. (I don't think longevity advocates generally want to prevent suicide or force people to live forever if they don't want to.)
The sad thing is that no one else seems to be learning anything from this. Plenty of people still seem to think they can have their cake and eat it over the various levels of freedom on social media...
> You should be measuring actual things.

From the article:

> Twitter, which lost $221m in 2021, is now on track to lose $4bn a year, by one estimate.
Has the pendulum swung from capital to labour?
Also wondered the same. Even more useful might be a way to download all tweets from certain lists.
Nobody actually lost any money. The "coins" were still mine (I was affected) and heavy banking regulation in the UK probably reduced the harm to effectively zero for the vast majority of retail customers.

I received compensation for the harm caused and got all of my money back.
Has anyone the time to do a code review on that: I would not be surprised if there's even less entropy in Firefox generated passwords than the bug report might indicate (e.g. just uses time and domain as random seed).

If that's the case it would make a new "named" vulnerability (FOXHOLE, FIREBLEED, whatever).
https://archive.vn/rbvSs
You read the economist piece as a bullying pile on? Maybe you're seeing just unpopularity and don't understand it.
Who do i contact to add a few thousand terms to the list? It's kind of urgent please, starting with the word byzantine

BTW isn't "Elimination" kind of vionent as a term? I wish they used a less upsetting name.

In any case, by upvoting this you are providing visibility to nonsense.
The Sun radiates about 400 trillion trillion Watts in all directions, and only a couple of billionths of it crosses Earth. There's a lot more radiant energy spreading out into the void waiting to be Dyson Swarmed.

There's no way we're going to rocket launch billions to Mars, and there isn't another planet worth living on without unreasonable amounts of energy for Terraforming. But we are capable of rebuilding the atoms of Earth into much larger living environments - there are so many atoms it wouldn't mean destroying the Earth to do it. A Space Elevator doesn't need diamond nanowire, it could be built with enough steel chain. An orbital ring around the Equator would be enormous and would take approximately nothing of the Earth's matter to construct.

Isaac Arthur's YouTube channel is full of speculation and plans for all kinds of possible or nearly-possible futures, as well as more distant dreams. e.g. the playlists:

- "The future of Energy, Industry and Agriculture" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChTJHEdf6yM&list=PLIIOUpOge0...

- "Earth v2.0" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6mRjsxQQJE&list=PLIIOUpOge0...

- "Outward Bound" - near-Earth space exploration and living - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmFOBoy2MZ8&list=PLIIOUpOge0...

- "Visions of Earth" - arcologies, megacities, ecumenopolises, geoengineering, weather control - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqKQ94DtS54&list=PLIIOUpOge0...

And somewhere in there, megastructures such as Dyson Spheres, ringworlds, etc.
The “Wavefunction Collapse” generation algorithm explained clearly (2018)
The best way to fix inequity in homelessness is to get everyone into homes..
This channel is a known shill. See the below video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjHMoNGqQTI
The words “social” and “credit” appear nowhere in the article. I find it hard to believe those words weren’t intentionally used to evoke the sentiments of the PRC’s Social Credit System[1].

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
I can't stand bullies. I'll be on the way everytime the illiterate mob tries to cancel a new victim.
You can checkout Deta (I work for Deta).

Free, the job timeout is 10s but can be extended if needed, and minimum resolution is run every minute.

https://docs.deta.sh/docs/tutorials/cron-guide
https://docs.deta.sh/docs/micros/cron
>This is currently by design

What?
> You can’t be the one deciding if people are hurt or not, it’s their call.

Are you trying to suggest that this is a dichotomy? It seems to me that the common-sense position is (used to be?) that neither the person performing an action nor the person at the receiving end can be considered impartial and trusted to make that call.

Either way, the idea that "being hurt" is a state that the individual has full discretion to declare themselves as being in seems incompatible with our existing widespread moral intuition that A hurting B results in a moral and potentially legal claim to redress from B towards A; otherwise, anyone could trivially claim constantly being hurt by everyone and therefore entitle themselves to an arbitrary amount of restitution. One of the two therefore has to go for society to function: either you don't get to make the call if you are hurt, or it's a priori morally neutral to hurt you.
Retrieve a scheduled report of your Grafana dashboards via mail
Richer companies pay more because they can, not because you need to work more compared to a poor company

And they pay more so they can choose who to hire

Don’t worry, you will be fine

Just keep trying to understand the workflow and their projects

If you want you can talk to your bosses about your concerns (if you feel like they are approachable, else I wouldn’t)
It would be nice of Github if they could publish a transparency repo with all the partners and all the regex along with this initiative. I see a lot of people in this thread worried that "China gets their data" and this transparency repo could alleviate some of that.
People who are good at hurting you with words do not use words like the ones in the list.

Also, the assault example may be valid in your jurisdiction, but in mine it isn't assault but threats of violence. additionally, the threat must be made in a way that is threatening.

Your example, using my local laws, doesn't make sense.
There are some potential very big game changers, I do hope it will pass. Specially because I think a lot of theses measures can only be applied through regulation and will improve consumer experience.

The problem for me with walled garden is 'if they are legal, every company SHOULD enforce them if they can. Not doing so would be plain stupid.'
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

That's not my department,"

~ Wernher von Braun.
They will be 3.5" DD disks but they won't be readable by a standard usb floppy drive.

Using a Greaseweazle[1] you can create an .adf image of the disks then using xdftool[2] or amigaexplorer[3] you'd be able to copy the files out of the disk image.

Images will likely be .IFF files which I think you can still open with irfanview and gimp, the music files will most likely be some tracker format.
There is software to play tracker files but I don't know about that myself.

[1]https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle

[2]https://amitools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools/xdftool.html

[3]https://www.amigaforever.com/ae/
Thank you! I'm actually planning to improve a bit the videos
Even enjoying a Commodore Amiga as a teenager we cannot forget Atari 1040ST competitor which included MIDI and was also innovative. Just read that was popular in some locations for CAD.

It is difficult to talk about failed business, business many many times are successful for reasons beyond the technology involved. Just look nowadays how organizations are using Microsoft Teams, they could be locked, have a high cost for migration, bad management, and the core business working seamlessly beyond this.
I don't feel anything about it. If you choose to operate in a country then you have to follow local law. If you don't want to do that then don't operate in that country. The site may still be accessible there of course, but you have no presence there and don't target that country so can ignore its laws, and if they are not happy they can block you.
This is wishful thinking. The business is fundamentally broken beyond repair at this point.

They lost the majority of their only meaningful income source.

They managed to scare off a large number of their most valuable content creators.

They lost their most important staff.

They have picked up a lot of unwanted attention from regulators across multiple markets.

They have already stopped paying their bills on fundamental things like rent.

It’s over. It’s just a matter of timeline that’s up for debate.
Out of necessity? I know we live in times when elites seem secure. But it wasn't always so and it won't be always so.

It is so right now only because of how good modern common people have. But it's going away now. And if security of elites depend of well being of others it's sort of self-regulating system albeit way too slowly.

There's also pressure from the other side. The longer living elites means it will get crowded at the top, so elites might be open to some means of culling their numbers.
Wonder how long he'll stick to that line. I can almost see that Twitter poll he'd currently use to rationalize the change of mind: "Should I try to not die? [ ] yes [ ] no"

But for the time being, nice to see him stating something I don't disagree with.
PhilosophyTube aka Abigail Thorne has a take on this in her "what's wrong with royalty" video: If people associate prestige with something they can identify with, then the prestige can "rub off" on them in their perception, they can claim to be part of it. E.g. Britishness being tied to the royal family and that being inherently more refined than more base communities.

For Musk, he's a white, rich tech bro who explicitly announces his "alpha" status https://nypost.com/2022/05/23/elon-musk-told-first-wife-at-t... (which I'll let you read between the lines yourself on) - a lot of white wanna be rich tech bros will identify with him.

And that's not even going into the whole "If I lick his boots enough senpai might notice me" dynamic
I just checked and "differently abled" is apparently no-no already.

It's as if a choice of words can change the unfortunate fact that losing a leg sucks.

https://www.betterup.com/blog/differently-abled
This is pure bullshit.

"By one estimate".

I could also claim: Twitter is now on track to become massively profitable, by one estimate.

Can you dispute it? Is it not an absolute fact that by some estimate Twitter will be massively profitable?

Depends on who's estimating doesn't it?

This is why legacy media is not trust worthy.

How can such obvious bullshit fly right over your head?
The book Fall; or, Dodge in Hell dives into a related topic; both frozen bodies, and brain reconstruction, reasoning through its potential consequences, and the experiences of a brain without a physical reference. It's quite long though! Also explores some unrelated concepts like finding truth an an internet world, Paradise Lost, and a fantasy adventure.
With Tesla Musk also made a number of decisions that almost killed the company. The difference is, the mistakes he made were primarily manufacturing mistakes that could be reversed (it was just a matter of not running out of time and money).

With Twitter there is no undo. When 80% of advertisers leave because of erratic governance they're just gone. You can get new advertisers to replace the old customers, but that takes a long time. There is no going back to Twitter before Elon. There is no vertically integrated first principles engineering approach to fixing Twitter, because on a fundamental level the interest of the advertisers, users, regulators and journalists are at odds. You can't make them all happy, and as Elon has just discovered, it is very easy to upset groups that are vital to the health of the platform.
A recent article mentioned how leprosy can regenerate livers or maybe other organs, nerves, vessels etc. It does it so it can infect it again. Pretty close to human regeneration if the kinks are worked out.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63626239
> A cursory glance at some very rational people who are quick to anger and how we cry after losing a loved one should rid you of this notion.

In neither case are the words the cause of distress, but rather some event, belief or threat that's communicated or implied through those words. The way humans communicate, individual words are only loosely correlated with the message they're employed to carry.
"The claim that untyped code has fewer bugs is completely bonkers"

There are plenty of academic sources that will tell you that the number of bugs in a program is directly proportional to the number of lines in the program and static typing has no effect on this.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2898571/basis-for-claim-...

Additionally, statically typed code involves large amounts of boilerplate code in the form of abstract base classes, interfaces, generics, templating, etc. It's a very verbose code style.

It's your turn, find an academic source to backup your claim that static typing reduces the number of bugs. Cause it just isn't true.

Microsoft, google and Facebook have a lot of programmers coming from languages with static typing and want to make Python more familiar.

It's a far distance away from anything resembling good practice.

Actual Python houses typically don't use static typing.
Thanks for sharing this. As a web dev, rather than game dev, I like that what I’ve used in web dev more and more is usable in web dev (es6, imports, rollups) etc.

To me, it has previously felt clunky to use older (and more mature, sure!) toolkits when building a one-day game just for fun.
so what should we use instead of the word "mother nature"? This implies fathers as lesser people, right?
He's obsessively "anti-woke", like a lot of people.
I have a bank account with TSB and got compensation as a result of this mix-up.

Some rather personal experiences of the fiasco:

– Rather pointlessly, the website changed from being mostly static to entirely written in a very JS-heavy, "dynamic" way. I still can't use it in my normal browser (FF) with its extensions because it relies heavily upon CORS requests and referrer information that my somewhat privacy-paranoid extensions block.

– This was introduced at the time of the switchover, and until that point the IT system used looked identical between Lloyds, TSB and Halifax / BOS systems (I have accounts with some of those)

– The online browser-based system was telemetry and JS heavy, replacing a far leaner page

– I was unable to log in during the time of the fiasco, mostly due to 403 errors or timeouts. Often the page would just hang as an async request wasn't answered.

– Once I did manage to log in, I was amazed to see another person's account details (!!!), replete with (their) name and statement.

– I was unable to use online banking to pay bills or check my balance – I could see someone else's account in detail but was too honest to do anything with that knowledge. I can't remember if my card stopped working but I was effectively forced to make other arrangements for quite an extended period of time.
As long as the supposed opposition always falls back to that ridiculous story, nobody can ever take them seriously.

I think it is heavily concerning that authorities made content decisions. This is the main point and should be open to serious discussion. It is also what many expected to happen of course but they were mostly derided as conspiracy theorists. Anyone that hangs himself about some laptop story, that shouldn't even be relevant, is a moron in my opinion.

Perhaps being able to get to the core of a matter is a most relevant mental ability. The opposition to those that were caught in these entanglements just plainly don't have the facilities to even discern the problem.

That is sad because I believe secret state intervention in content should get heavily scrutinized. The silence of large parts of the press is also hypocritical. Why complain then when some Musk bans you from a platform? You are only opposed to that because it hits the wrong people from your perspective.
> However management often confuses precision for accuracy. In fact, not just management - but humans do. A precisely articulated anything, no matter how much it’s caveated, is taken as a fact. It’s precise. You can measure it. To a human that feels accurate. We feel disappointed when it’s not accurate. Even when we were warned.

Most likely, the pseudocertainty effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocertainty_effect
I don’t work at any big studio but as a long time designer I would say that creatives (generalizing here) care deeply about the aesthetics of everything around them. If I was going to build a studio to attract good creatives I would definitely pay for having aesthetic monitors (they would of course also need to function for the purpose).
Performance. The point of line drawing algorithms like Bresenham is to not need to do anything like costly floating-point intersection tests for every pixel. Also aesthetics: a single-pixel width line with occasional doubled pixels just looks uglier than one without them. That said, the algorithm for finding every cell in a grid lattice that intersects a line is occasionally useful for purposes other than line drawing.
> companies definitely use the visa as a way to keep your salary low and work you to the bone.

Isn't this illegal? Aren't H1B required to be paid at least the same as domestic counterparts?