skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writing is really mostly editing and polishing.

Try to read something out loud and you'll immediately hear if it works in terms of punctuation.

Don't try to be smart and writerly. Find your natural voice. The point is to communicate something, not impressing with your skills.

Listen to the music of your prose. Don't repeat the same length of sentences over and over again.
With my adhd I learn programming drastically better on physical books. Stupid I know, but it helps drastically to see it on paper.

Sadly it’s either crazy expensive, or not even an option to get paper for newer frameworks
My daughter is turning 5 in a few weeks. I realized I only have 3 more of these until she’s (likely) moving out. 4x5=20, and she’ll likely be living her own life by 20. Most of the time you spend with your kids is spent by the time they’re 16.

I moved away from my hometown. I see my immediate relatives twice a year now, once at Christmas and once in the summer. Most of my family is getting old. I probably have 125 or so more visits with my parents, 20-50 with my grandparents, and less than 10 with my great grandpa. I keep these numbers in mind every time I go home.

Life isn’t short. Meaningful moments are. Don’t take them for granted.
That’s federal law which allows the 0.3% THC by weight. Anything under 0.3% usable THC by weight is classified as a Hemp product under the 2018 Hemp Farming Act
That's exactly what I'm talking about and I don't see any point in making any contributions there.
I just feel better maintaining my own private fork.
Critical Program Reading (1975) – 16mm Film
Can you envision a world in which you and I won't have this discussion, but instead limit our conversation to a bot somewhere instead of other humans?
Wow. Sorry man. Head high. You got this!

We need a list of companies who act this way and boycott their products.
I'm all for setting the goalposts in a way that chatbots are capable of "intelligence" but this is maybe moving them too far down. If humans aren't capable of understanding then nothing in our world is. Instead of arbitrarily changing the meaning of the word to no longer have any real meaning, let's adjust our interpretation of it into something that's actually meaningful. Personally, my mental concept of the word "understanding" already is satisfied by actions I and other humans actually are capable of demonstrating.

Being able to consistently mimic actions you've witnessed in a useful way is enough to demonstrate some understanding. Novel creation is not necessary.
I wonder if anyone's recovered any interesting data from these, like a digital palimpsest.

My father has a croquet set that my grandfather made, and the signs on the hoops are made from University of Washington computing punchcards from the 60s or 70s, but the whole set is maybe 128 bytes of data, so I've never decoded them.
I develop on VMs on my server (with ECC and RAIDZ) which i access using SSH or VDI protocols. I would love to have ECC on all my machines but that isn't feasible until the status quo changes, so I stick with the remote approach. To me that's an acceptable tradeoff as the non-ECC desktops/laptops are just used as dumb terminals while the real work happens on the reliable server.

I can't speak for ECC at the moment but ZFS has definitely saved me from data corruption that would have been left to manifset otherwise.
There’s a fundamental question of why we’re trying to produce Artificial Intelligence instead of Augmented (human) Intelligence. Why did the first term stick and not the second from the 50s?

Why do we want to replace humans instead of augment them? To increase shareholder profit? To wage war remotely? To hand governments more power over us? What is the goal?
By writing more.
There's a fundamental model as part of the equation here called the yard-sale model.

This is a great explanation: https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/
Same here but with syncthing, so no "central cloud" storage.

I've used various clients with the keepass db format for years now and have not yet been disappointed. Browser integration, Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android clients, open source, encryption I (naievely) trust... ticks all the boxes for me.
Is this only whilst using Google Chrome? Cause technically most people on Chrome login to it
It's not that difficult to do though? Just implement a mechanism that re-encrypts when the user enters their password.
There's something so heartwarming about 8 bit graphics showing a winter / holiday scene on a real CRT, at least for a certain age of readers. I wonder what youngsters think and feel about these.
Thanks. I've not heard the phrase "censorship laundering" before. What does it mean?
It's the curse of ideological purity you see in a lot of the tevh sevtor. Most of these types are of the sort that either something is unbreakable or it's useless.
In my experience if the company is amazons size yes it is like that. Smaller family run companies treat their employees/prospective employees much better in my experience. It is not always the case but I from my direct experience it has been. I am so sorry this has happened to you.
Sorry, I wasn't saying that Microsoft was claiming not to have access to the information. I was saying that the interaction between two different rules was unclear before this decision:

1. The ePrivacy Directive says that before setting anything in client-side storage you must have the consent of the user unless it is strictly necessary for performing an operation requested by that user.

2. The GDPR requires consent from the user before using their personal data in a bunch of different ways, and provides a lot of details on how that consent may be collected to be considered valid.

My interpretation of Microsoft's behavior here is that they were compliant with (1) and (2) individually, but the problem was the way they were collecting consent for (1) did not follow the requirements of (2).
TFA is about teachers being outgunned by the t-rex game. If they can not even outcompete the t-rex game they should not be teaching.

A generation back this would have been minesweeper and solitaire. These are all boring games.

Further back students would just be doodling in their notebooks. And they still do.

These are not highly entertaining activities with which you can't compete.
I’m very sorry about this. You should look for another job. But make stink about this - write a letter to local congressman, senators and newspapers. It’s ok to hire and fire at will, but it should be not ok for Amazon to do this. A months pay is a spit in the face- they could have let you known upfront; it’s not like recession happened last night. You shouldn’t suffer for their mistake.
I'm surprised Twitter (i.e. Elon) hasn't summarized into a few bullet points that is digestible.
Milo went into exile at Marseille and was famously a friend of Cicero’s (which gives us the Pro Milone). Could be him?
Kickstarter and co will continue to lose trust and their base and be open to disruption by other companies.

However, at least some of this is due to underlying payment providers. Those need to be gutted and replaced. See paypal and their $2,500 fee for saying mean things on the internet.
You would be having discussions with humanity as a whole via the chatbot instead of specific people.
It's probably easier to compile a list of companies who don't act this way at this moment
> This ... seems entirely reasonable, though?

Yeah. It's better to spend more time repeating "read the guidelines" instead of fixing the commit message. And of course it's better to keep critically vulnerable packages (netatalk, potential remote code execution) for months and piss off the maintainer (not me) instead of turning on the autosquash.
Every government agency and every tech company working on behalf of the Democratic Party is 2/10. That’s your value judgement to make I suppose.

Vindication is a powerful feeling which I think is why a lot of people feel strongly about this story.
There is also this alternative solution if you are using react/next

https://static-tweet.vercel.app/
Sadly, it should say that employment is at-will on both sides(employer and employee). Everyone is on eggshells in this job market. Hope you find something else.
> Toyota buys the remnants of Tesla.

I think you have this backwards :-)
I’m pretty sure any info this person has from 7+ years ago can be anecdotal at best; who knows what’s changed, what he’s forgotten, what he’s misunderstood, etc…
One of the main wins I've contributed to company after company is taking monoliths & making multiple instances of them.

Yes it can run one big process of everything, and does when I find it. But some routes or subservices are slow or hog cpu or use way more memory than the other routes. We'll have a handful of infrequently used routes that use >1GB while typically the monolith stays inder 200MB of ram. We'll have some expensive route that hog the even loop for a second. Mixing these routes in with the well behaved normal routes means we have to way over-provision, and means sporadic performance degredation once se lesser behaved routes start firing.

Separating your stuff up is a huge win. Being able to see ingest, egress, and web traffic separately & to manage them separately is a huge win. Im not sure what the win is from a single process. I have a hard time thinking of advantages. There's some small wins to memory, but a well designed forking architecture works around most of these advantages.
Way to blame the victim here.
I haven't signed up.

Not because I'm not interested in the technology.

But because the technology isn't the point.

People use twitter because it's NOT inherently segregated. It is a place to find things organically. Aside from Facebook, which had an initial purpose of networking your friends and family, social networks that do this are largely more successful than the ones which federate themselves because users aren't having to explicitly search for conversations that interest them.

Mastodon is just a modern interpretation of Usenet with more moderation.
Just another +1 to the asdf positivity. I've now used it for years with both Windows (WSL) and on modern OSX.

The key thing is that asdf will keep your ruby + all other languages (node, python, etc.) in sync'd versions.
Gpt3 is going to kill Google.

News outlets have already died. What exists today is not news. Those aren't journalists. The AI can already write better.
What country is this? US? Is it 30 days or 60 days?
I understand your last sentence to agree with the statement that everything could be formalized in ZFC given sufficient effort. (I do not really care by what means we know this can be done.) If so, then I'm not sure why you disagree with what I wrote previously.
Some people were saying similar things during the Hong Kong protests. We know how that turned out.
Fully automatic machine guns are quite banned.

Using a telephoto to peer into someones window is also illegal as they typically have an expectation of privacy.

Photoshopping a movie stars face onto a nude body has been around a long time and much of the fake porn of famous people was done this way, probably mostly by individuals. Please give it a google if you doubt me, at your own risk.
Very sorry to hear. The good news is there’s plenty of options to secure your immigration status while figuring out next steps.

USCIS released (somewhat relaxed) guidance on the current environment for non-citizen workers. You can find a list here https://twitter.com/debarghya_das/status/1605392365325205506...

In summary, all the “gray zone” escape hatches like the 2 month grace period or the B-2 status change are considered “in the clear” per this guidance.
That sounds reasonable, and I do agree that inching forward seems like a more viable approach to contributing in FOSS.

Thanks for the answer.
- Russia will win the war, around the same time, most Americans will stop caring about it (same as happened with Covid this year).

- Stock market goes sideways. Crypto market goes up in latter half of year as recession ramps up.

- Tech recession kills remote work for all public / VC backed companies. Private, profitable companies double down on it, but with lower average wages. This creates a schism and many people complain about it on Twitter. (The non-tech economy is just relieved they don’t have to hear about WFH anymore.)

- Djokovic wins all 4 grand slams.

- I’ll start a new startup.
>What do you mean?

I mean there are people who do not think that increases in technology add any additional value. It’s due to the facts that we are all free to choose our own value functions and what adds value to one person will not necessarily add value to another. Having one camera on my phone adds value to me, having 3 more does not add any utility to me personally. Likewise, video games add value for some people more than others. Your stance seems to have a strange egocentric perspective that there is one objective measure of value. My disagreement is that I think there are as many unique value functions as there are humans. No offense intended, but the other perspective comes across as the socially awkward takes that are all too prevalent on HN.

>Please explain why.

For the same reason it was absurd that the head of the patent office claimed 150 years ago that anything of value had already been invented. We can’t foresee what other people will value. More importantly, art can be an end to itself. The idea that everything has to be a means to some end can devolve into treating all human endeavors as inputs into some global maximization functions, reducing humans to cogs in a machine. That feels a bit philosophically bankrupt (and sad) to me.
I am big fan of Elon Musk. But the way things are going, I predict he will end up in one of the following ways:

- end up in jail, as he has ruffled too many feathers. Someone will throw the book at him

- end up ousted from Tesla, because investors have had enough of his antics. Those have damaged the Tesla brand too much.

- he will keep digging a deeper hole and end up like Howard Hughes.

I wish none of this happens and would rather have him get back to his senses. But he seems be on the rock star track right now.
>We used a chemogenetic approach where we targeted the inhibitory designer receptor hM4Di selectively to SC-projecting RSP neurons by injecting AAVretro-cre in the SC and Cre-dependent hM4Di in the RSP (Fig. 2a and Extended Data Fig. 3)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05553-9

My understanding of this is they used a virus to cause specific neurons to express the inhibitory hM4Di receptor which will modify the behavior of the desired target circuits with exogenous pharmacological manipulation when they introduce the agonist clozapine-N-oxide (CNO)
>>I'd just prefer if platforms stopped trying to make moral judgments.

I feel like we've recently witnessed this idea fail. I think "platform" under the current convention, is at odds with neutrality. You can't have a platform like Kickstarter without opinions about what can and can't be done on their site. They're not going to allow stuff they disagree with, stuff that will get them in trouble, etc.

Neutrality if that kind must be structured in one way or another. Platform plurality, with lots of options. Open protocols, FOSS. Something like ISP neutrality.

Platforms are judgemental by default.
Ask HN: Learning Ruby on Rails in 2022
Any advice on best way to learn RoR in 2022? Books, Courses etc
Yes I would, but only because I don't have responsibilities or loans and I've got savings too.

If I had a family to feed then idk...
An usual top rated movie today costs easily 100 times more than in the 00's. It's no wonder people don't want risks, but the explanation isn't as simple as you are making it.
I have every confidence today, tomorrow 5 or 10 years from now I can do the same thing I've done every time I changed ISP's the past over 20 years and would have zero issues.
> China is building up

Yeah, you have to start building experience from somewhere. The Chinese Navy is both building many ships [0] (of which many would argue are among the most advanced in the world) and building operational experience [1] [2] [3]. While the Chinese Navy lacks actual combat experience, training if done properly can be very effective in its own right. It's only reasonable that the second largest economy in the world could sustain this level of development. China has the means and the will to build a very formidable navy.

Information coming from China can be suspect and I understand why some think their navy is a paper tiger. However, their ships are very real and their training exercises are also real, all sighted and confirmed by other navies. It's probably best to not underestimate their capability.

[0] https://sgp.fas.org/crs/row/RL33153.pdf go to page 12

[1] https://news.usni.org/2022/05/23/chinese-carrier-strike-grou...

[2] https://news.usni.org/2022/12/19/chinese-liaoning-carrier-st...

[3] https://news.usni.org/2022/12/23/russian-chinese-warships-ho...
>Due to Elon's damage to the brand, Hyundai and Ford take the lead from Tesla.

That would imply some kind of manufacturing capacity being magicked from somewhere. Or just a complete bottoming out of Tesla sales, despite them currently being higher than ever. Do you think Musk's being-a-dick quotient can get higher? I'm thinking it tops out about now, barring it becoming some kind of superpower.
The way to test this might be to ask about something that's so bad there are fewer (hence more interesting) ways to make it worse than to make it better?
Yep, you can get it on the higher end trims of the P-series Thinkpads.
100%.

Family companies are the worst in my first- and second-hand experience. Blood runs thicker than water, and outsiders are often reminded of that fact come promotion/major decision time
Tesla takes delivery of army of robots to build Cybertruck
> doing crypto arbitrage.

They were, but arbitrage can only last so long and theirs ran out. They were convinced of their own genius I think which is what got them on the FTX train.
My initial experience of the internet was much more private and ephemeral. Basically an invite only private IRC like terminal where most people knew each other in real life first. The experience was tied to those friendships, many which still exist today, but I don’t know how I could recreate those circumstances again to make new friends, or even if I want to.

I said something wrong once and was mortified by it so I’ve avoided public forums ever since. If I do post it’s anonymously. So I’ve always watched the broader internet culture from an outsiders perspective.

The Eternal September was no surprise, the thing people said was going to happen happened. For me the internet took a noticiable turn for the worse when Facebook opened up and absorbed so many niche communities. These days I lament the intentional manipulation of search, it’s like I’m being algorithmically gaslit.
I'd phrase it this way: at a smaller company, you are much more likely to be treated as a human, by a human, versus being treated as a unit by a system at a bigger company.
I have almost never hear of racism being specific to whiteness. The caste system is not racist because it's perpetrated along caste lines, which exist even within the same ethnic groups. Ethnic hatred between groups, for example, in Africa is still racism. Even though from a Western racial lens they'd all be categorized under the umbrella of "Black", it's racism because the involved parties see each other as a race apart.
Rescinding an offer that's tied to a visa is just extra shitty, sorry this happened to you. Surely they know the consequences that you'll suffer. I wonder if the Amazon leadership chain that collectively decided to do this has any remorse.

Edit: Feels like something that governments should tie to individual company's ability to use the visa program. Rescind a visa-tied offer (for no-fault-of-applicant reason), and we yank your right to use the program.
Ah man. I'm sorry. But, you made it to Amazon, you will be wanted for another opportunity real quick I bet!
Hey, the Russians just want a bit of lebensraum! How could appeasement possibly go wrong?
The secret key bothers me. A lot. Where do you store this mission critical piece of data? This is a value you cannot memorize (unless you are Rain Man) and it can be used to gain access to your account. The whole point of a password manager was to avoid this kind of vulnerability. Gives me the willies. It's basically a return to post-it notes.
I think that the poor excuses are in the other side. Adding DRM to files to actively preventing the user to choose in which devices he/she wants to read the file and for how long the content will be available goes against the whole concept of "buying" a book. When I buy a book I expect to be able to open it in ten years in whatever device I'm using, running any OS that I want. That's why we have standard formats. And I also expect that the quality of a book for which I payed 50-90€ for (because that is normally the price range) to have a good quality and at least a table of contents. A few occasions I had to manually add table of contents for books that otherwise would have been unusable to me.
Nope — research only I’m afraid; and currently just migrating to difference equations in numpy (with a focus on Numba GPU upgrades later).

Currently moving shape types to digital image transforms; next up is Zn.

https://www.zmgsabstract.com/whitepapers/shapes-as-digital-i...

https://www.zmgsabstract.com/whitepapers/shapes-have-operati...
Counter-prediction: Twitter is worth 100B by end of next year and he’s still CEO. No substantive changes at his other companies.
reddit and 4chan were famously very strongly "free speech" before gamergate kicked off our current political climate

People don't realize that you want the filth out in the open, where it can be tracked. Deplatforming doesn't kill anything, it just sends it underground, furthering the cause for the various shadow systems that spring up from it.
Pleasant weather has become a luxury good
I'm already 1/6th accurate!
No. There have been many inaccurate stories going around about us. Here's a recent fact check: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/12/02/fac.... And here is the page we put out ourselves on our news rankings: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/ne.... From that page:

"A search engine’s primary job is to rank results. In other words, search engines try to put results that most quickly and accurately answer the query on top. At DuckDuckGo we produce search results from a variety of sources, and when we apply our own ranking signals we do so in a strictly non-political manner, meaning we don’t evaluate or otherwise take into account any potential political bias or leanings of websites in our search result rankings."