skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that "they" in this case is the new parent company. IIRC, they were a fairly new bank, heavily reliant on technology. They had the tech but not the customers. TSB were the opposite. The parent thought their tech, which up to that point was only dealing with 100,000s of records, could deal with billions with little change. They were spectacularly wrong and it showed in all testing. But their management pushed ahead to go live anyway.

Their actions are not far from criminal negligence IMHO.
Permanent residency is not a visa affixed to your passport, nor does it expire when you leave the country. That’s what makes it permanent residency.

Source: am a US permanent resident.
I’m sure everyone would agree it’s a bit of both? We’re responsible for not intentionally hurting others, and we’re responsible for not being excessively controlling or sensitive about others’ behaviours?
John Cleese on How Wokeness Smothers Creativity
I understand it, even if I think it is a bit silly and probably evidence of a mental sickness. The survival instinct is an important one for getting life to where it is.

Problem I have with immortalists isn't that they have some desire to live forever, it's that they rarely are able to articulate what lives forever. Self is a construct, an narrative abstraction created by our minds that has utility as regards our functioning in the world, but is ultimately not real. I am not the same person I was 5 years ago, nor will the version of me that exists 5 years from now be the same as me. There are probably several people out there who are more like 5-years-ago me than I am currently, but for some reason they aren't considered to be the same person.

What is it that makes me me? It can't be memory, because memories are extremely fallible, and often confabulated. If we are our memories then we have forgotten most of who we are and will continue to forget ourselves as time passes. If you erased my memories somehow, you'd still likely consider me the same person anyway, so clearly memories aren't me.

Of course, even forgotten experiences leave some kind of mark on our being, but just by existing we leave our mark on the people and world around us but we don't consider those things us, do we?

And clearly anyone who imagines a digital-self in their future doesn't consider their physical form to be them either, so what's left? Illusions and abstractions, a heuristic notion of self that has utility but not reality.

Sure, go ahead and solve "immortality", I don't have a philosophical objection to the concept. What I have a problem with is the insistence that death is some kind of fundamental evil we must place a high priority on solving. Some would go so far as to preserve their own lives at the cost of many others, so terrified they are of something that has basically already happened to previous versions of themselves. Its perverse.
> Its fuel and thereby range is not determined by your financial status, only your health.

Big assumption that health is more easily procured than gas or electricity. The quest for good health is expensive in time and money too and for many people is limited by genetics or bad luck. You can't trade labor for health either and health declines with age limiting mobility.
Published today:

https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/175/economic-affa...

Early reitrement making a sizeable reduction in supply that is not being offset by other factors - hence prices up.
Too old, fat, physically disabled people, etc. can have a job and turn that job into petrol to feed their cars. OTOH they can't drive a bicycle. That's not very egalitarian.
There really doesnt seem much point in smearing the Tump administration for their free speech hypocrisy.
Ridiculously US centric article, and this:

> The claim that “accessible public transportation” can produce greater equality ignores the fact that mass transit, whether private or public, has generally been used mainly by an elite.

skips over a public transport history of the US that has seen the elite (eg Koch brothers) work to sink any public transport effort specifically to increase the per capita use of fossil fuels (and their profits), and planners using infrastructure projects to divide vibrant neighbourhoods and push out those determined as poor, unwanted, etc.
Atari 2600 Manual: Basic Programming (1979)
Sorry, but I believe that nobody is actively harmed by using master slave terminology in computer science. If you are, that‘s a „you“ problem.
Recently I had a thought, that if you copied the contents of your brain onto an object that can the simulate it, or even a new brain, then the "new instance" of you will probably just think it's the real you, just that it's on a computer/in a different body now. If New You sees a picture of a partner that left you, or a pet that died when you were a child, it will feel the same sadness you would. And it would just go about the day like you would, with your internal thoughts, because what else would it do?

I think the way I see it now is, your mind is a black box to your current consciousness (with some interfaces to recall things), if you replaced this black box with a perfect simulation, your consciousness might not even notice it. Of course your consciouness has also been programmed since the day you were born, but wouldn't a perfect copy of your mind also copy the current consciouness? Either of you would wake up and think "Ah, I'm brap, and I'm currently in my bed, and yesterday I did x and felt y, and the day before... [iterate until there's nothing else to remember]."

If Original You remains alive, it does get weird, both of you will think "There's someone else with my own exact brain and memory, but I can't feel what s/he's currently feeling!".

There's an Apple movie that explores about what I've written, although I haven't watched it: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/mahersha...
I don't know much about oncology, but it strikes me that they probably don't know with certainty which of the 20% it will be. They have a limited number of interventions that put the patient through hell, and it sometimes works.

There's probably extreme cases with bad metastasis where it's very unlikely that they can be saved, and they can probably tell some of those. But I think not all the time.

Must be a very depressing job to observe this over the years.
Lasting Lessons from the Reddit Trader Roundup
> Is he obsessed with person X all day and writing lies and inviting others to add pressure on that person? No.

Yes.

https://slate.com/business/2018/07/elon-musks-attacks-on-rep...

July 2018. I know it won't change your mind, but read the article. If the Thai submarine didn't already miffed you, it won't do anything, and you will still be able to see Elon as a demigod, don't worry.
Same in the UK, even highly populated areas (e.g. surrounding London). Trains are very expensive compared to cars. There are discount schemes for some groups (e.g. student/pensioner), but it's really for the wealthy only.
Nope, not even close. I’ve written/read lots of Perl.

APL is a completely different paradigm.

Every now and then I get the urge to take a deep dive into APL or J but I really need a use case.

Since they are array languages they seem like they might be good for machine learning?
I was taught to use “he” by default in grammar lessons in ~2005.
He isnt going to buy you a horse
> As far as I know it's not supported yet

Linux can support it, just not every display server/application (yet)...
> Its fuel and thereby range is not determined by your financial status, only your health.

While I generally agree with you, surely this is not an egalitarian property of cycling.
So no mobility for old, frail and sick people? Truly egalitarian in the sense of the new left.
Follow-up on Kittiya Pawlowski's fake snow leopard photographies
As the article is in French, here is the gist of it:

- Alpine Mag had previously published an article accusing Kittiya Pawlowski of having deceived people with fake pictures (https://alpinemag.com/fake-snow-leopard-photomontage-spread-... - article in English). This was discussed and debated on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33788357)

- At the time this claim was mainly based on the landscape/background of the pictures which appeared fake. Alpine mag suspected the snow leopard was fake as well but could not yet prove it.

- This update shows that the snow leopard was indeed taken from another person's photographies (Sylvain Cordier). It also accuses Kittiya Pawlowski of having already used another person's photography to win the Chromatic Award in 2020.
Even smaller; there was an 11" Macbook Air discontinued in 2016. It was too slow for me, but I really like the form factor. Would like to see that return with AS.
> Latest publicly available usage report from twitter

My mum says I am super smart.
Can we call them "rare" or even "clouds" if they were from a rocket launch?
There are electric "micromobility" options including bikes and things more suitable to physically disabled people though.

Micromobility overall is more egalitarian than the car will ever be, and better in lots of other ways too.
Early retirement and ageing population causing labour shortages: Lords report
An ambient music producer's home studio
Listening to Dvorak and Pournelle(RIP) going on about old war stories on TWiT was lots of fun, but on his last few appearances Dvorak was really out of touch with the tech stories they were covering and was just very confidently wrong, making a net negative contribution to the show. I think he's a lot more comfortable covering politics on No Agenda.
Nothing which costs that much and excludes so many people can honestly be called egalitarian – especially since it comes at the cost of removing so much public space from any other use.

The intellectual dishonesty here is especially staggering:

> Horses, intercity trains, streetcars, you name it, were always used mainly by the relatively wealthy and were inaccessible to the poor, especially in cities.

In addition to being flat up wrong about streetcars, note how he mixes things like horses which have always been expensive and intercity trains (which serve a different purpose) without mentioning things like buses or bicycles which poor people heavily depend on.

Later, he puts access to a car as a sign of egalitarianism without asking whether that’s a sign of preference or necessity. Someone who looks at percentage of income paid and the difficulty of maintaining employment without a car would come to very different conclusions. That is, of course, if the goal was to learn rather than to find support for the position they started with.
Ha, sorry mbork_pl :)

I just assumed that you were comparing coding environments, but now I come to think about it, something like view-lossage could be really useful for a WYSIWYG editor.
One small step for person, one giant leap for person-kind.
Also, the bicycle is much less costly for the society, indeed its positive effects on our health actually contribute to less expenses for the NHS, this effects would be huge if adopted massively.

The car instead has a negative effect on our health and the infrastructure is much more costly and require much more maintenance, the pollution it creates has negative effects on our health too.
I believe you can use Spotify API [^1] to get that list and then reformat it in any way you would prefer and save it to a file.

Actually, I have this on my TODO list for a long time, maybe someday I'll finally implement it.

[^1]: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...
The use of "elite" to describe people using public transit is absurd at face value, but makes perfect sense when you understand "elite" as coded language for anyone living in a city, tinged with a connotation of contempt and awash with political undertone.
I don't agree with their logic here:
"the fact that mass transit, whether private or public, has generally been used mainly by an elite. In 2019, the median income of people who commuted by transit to work was significantly higher than the median income of people who commuted by any other method."

The fact is that people in cities are more likely to use public transit, and living near cities correlates strongly with income. But within metropolitan areas, transit is much more egalitarian (by their metric) than private car ownership.
It is certainly USA-centric, and some of its assertions do not hold for some of us in the USA (ex: I contribute a wildly disproportionate amount to road upkeep relative to my usage of same compared to average), but I think you (and others) are missing the article's point regarding "egalitarian", since they're referring to economic opportunities rather than merely transportation.

I can drift back in time just 20 years and point out that an automobile is the only reason I was able to pursue the career opportunities I did at that time. A bicycle is not fast enough to cover the distances. Mass transit didn't exist or was not available in times that matched those opportunities. Walking didn't work. Etc.
But women in Saudi Arabia can cycle on their own
This is beautiful, especially with the colors on the top right - though I have a nitpick that it is missing an entire continent (probably because it doesn't show up in a list of countries): Antarctica

Edit: I now realize it's only supposed to show the graph national borders, though on a political world map, Antarctica is still shown. In a topological fashion, it could be added as a white circle around the entire map.
Mpv's Upscaling Algorithms
This is 100x better than the original!
There's less traffic on the road for those who _need_ to drive. Plus, in places like the Netherlands you see a lot of elderly/disabled people riding around on the bike lanes on mobility scooters [1].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=mobility+scooter
Tencent provides a list of regexps, and anything matching those regexps is passed to them. As far as I can tell, we don't get to know what those regexps are (and presumably they can be changed at Tencent's whim). Can you not see the issue?
"Balls to the wall" has nothing to do with anatomy (nor does balls-out).
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/balls-to-the-wall#English
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/balls-out#English
Ok but many Americans are proud of their country, despite the fact it's failing to fulfill some of the most basic roles almost all other countries do. Nearly half of their voter base votes for people who explicitly support (the other half isn't much better, but at least some people there can blame it on the bipartisan system). That's nuts.
Idk. In the last week, half the infosec blogs i followed stopped posting on twitter (or writing about stuff they saw on twitter) so at least for me, i only went on twitter thrice last week? compared to probably an average of ten times a week in the last two month.

I'm not even actively boycotting (i don't believe in boycott, it's just a nice story to make you believe you have power)
That is total BS because you are not taking into account everyone else driving around..

you can be the safest rider in the world, ride only at the proper speed, only in the proper place, that place is always well maintained and everything else you can thing of.. All it takes is someone else doing something irresponsible and you are screwed..

i.e: a drunk driver loose control of their car, it invade the bike lane at high speed and hit you.. you are in for a bad accident that could be made a little less bad if you were wearing a helmet, even while doing everything you said..

now, if you are riding alone, in the middle of nowhere with zero change of someone else screwing it up.. then sure, you can skip the helmet, but if you are riding on road even if you do everything right you still at risk and helmet will improve your odds of surviving if something bad happen..
In the UK, bicycles are for the next level of wealth up. When you can afford to live cycling distance from your office in the city.
> a stupefying 1.4-second 0-60 run in less-than-ideal conditions.

I don't know why they call the following less than ideal:

> the manufacturer hired a jet truck to dry the back straight at the famed F1 circuit. There, and after doing a burnout to warm up the tires

Perhaps they could have waited for a strong tail wind?!

[EDIT: apparently it could be warmer and the road drier still]

Anyway, seems they have a good shot at taking over the 0-62 mph in 1.461 sec record set by these guys

https://techstory.in/students-of-university-of-stuttgart-mak...

A road-legal version is apparently on the way

https://www.autoblog.com/2022/07/01/mcmurtry-sperling-fan-ca...
That's what they did in Total Recall. It didn't work.
France bans disposable packaging, utensils in fast-food restaurants
To give a bit more of a realistic point of view to this thread: I have around 10 years of working experience as a software engineer working in a few countries in Europe. Just recently I have reached my personal highest salary: 95K EUR/year before taxes, which is around 5K after taxes per month. I know there are fresh graduates in the US that are probably making double of that in their first year at FAANG; but hey that's life, to each their own!
There are also people who can't drive a car for medical reasons, and I guess there are more of those. You'd have to come with actual numbers to convince me.
There's a pretty large group of institutions you'll have to avoid then. Better teach them to think for themselves.
> Too old

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/hycbb0/olivi...

> fat

2. See 1, up to a point. For morbidly obese people, see 1. so you don't become morbidly obese.

> physically disabled people

See 1. For serious disability, most of those people can't drive, either. More than that, cars still have their uses, so I agree. Let's promote cars PRIMARILY for seriously disabled people. Abled bodied people, public transit, bikes, foot/electric scooters.

> OTOH they can't drive a bicycle. That's not very egalitarian.

Entire countries can.

China was initially built on bikes. As was Vietnam. As is the Netherlands.

Countries which are some of the most egalitarian in the world.

Let's not pretend cars are not the middle and upper class comfortable transportation devices. Cars are very, very convenient. Convenience is amazing, but it's also a slow poison.

You can't really be morbidly obese, for example, if you don't have access to a car. I mean, you probably can, but the odds of that happening are so low it's not worth taking about that scenario.
> It's a nigh-on puritanical drive to molly-coddle the overly sensitive and limit debate.

When have you last spent any significant time at a university? Debate and diversity of thought are ever present. I can’t think of a single viewpoint that is missing from my institution.

Sometimes people don’t like what you have to say and cause a stink, but that’s what tenure is for. Unless you’re consuming a steady right wing news diet, I don’t see how you could come to your conclusion.

> You may say that this is optional and just a suggestion

So what do you propose, we ban letting people make lists of words? This is just an exercise in marketing, not the slope to which your speech will be controlled. Feel free to do and say whatever you want, offend whomever you want. No one is obliging you to pay attention to the guidelines Stanford is making for themselves behind their school login; this list is not only optional for you, it’s not even meant to be read by you.
For everyone who wants to see it in action, check out the video of the Goodwood hillclimb where the McMurty set the record. Ideally the full video with the runner ups, otherwise you would think the video is running at 1.5x speed.
> Unintentionally perpetuates that disability is somehow abnormal or negative, furthering an ableist culture.

I have a physical disability and several mental conditions that are considered disabling and I'm here to tell you they're all both abnormal and negative!
Sure it's penalizing India and China. There is no other option if your goal is diversity of country of origin.

And the US immigration system penalizes people all the time. Don't have a formal degree? Sorry, high skilled visa aren't an option. Want to come on an H1-B? Sorry, ran out of visas and now it's a lottery.

Immigration systems need to make choices about who they want to bring in. The outcome of that is some people can't come.
The rise and fall of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1928-1983
At least in my perception, Red Hat, Google and Intel too mostly contribute to open source by having their own engineers work on their own open source projects, keeping full control. Valve, on the other hand, appears to contribute to making existing projects better, respecting their existing ideas, and even funding the existing contributors rather than "wedging their way in" and taking control of the projects themselves. Which makes it a somewhat different approach and therefore newsworthy.
Benchmarking Top Open Source Speech Models
Did you ever used a simulator ?

The results depend on the models you use.
Yeah, I hope I wasn't implying that it's not?
O’Toole as usual has an agenda to find a way to make every positive thing about transit seem bad.

It’s clear here in that he uses average US-wide incomes to segment the population in urban areas. NYC has the highest transit ridership: if you make $65,000 a year, you might not be making rent. If you make $25,000 a year, you’re not able to afford to live anywhere near transit, and would be making less than minimum wage in new york state.

all you need to do is compare the cost to take transit to the cost to drive a car to see the weakness in his argument.
This hits cars harder: both because almost all of us will reach a point where we can’t drive safely and because cars are one of the leading causes of poor health both due to the hundreds of thousands of severe injuries caused annually, significant air pollution, and the negative health impacts of sitting immobile and training their users that any exposure to the weather or walk longer than a driveway is to be avoided.
Yes, with autogenerated passwords you want to be extra-sure the machine has actually remembered them and the process breaks down sometimes. This is a good (if unexpected, should be advertised) feature and I can't see security implications.
> Whom do you think I am speaking for?

I think you're speaking for "adults", given your next sentence.

> "I want everything" is a youthful perspective that adults grow out of...

Also:

> > "I don't think longevity advocates generally want to prevent suicide or force people to live forever if they don't want to."

> I suspect they are against suicide; why would someone who promotes longevity so much also be pro-dying-early?

I was ambiguous, sorry. I know for a fact that a great many of longevity advocates advocate legalized suicide. My "I think" was hedging against the fact that I haven't done a survey and don't have hard data. But I think you - understandably, given this is what you're doing - took it as idle, uninformed speculation.

My advice would be actually to read serious arguments in favor of longevity before forming opinions on them. Maybe start here: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/cryonics
You ask multiple engineers and take the offer from someone who bet a large amount of money with a low estimate of time.