skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Browse HN with showdead on and check out some of the shadowbanned posters. You can find many with long histories of "dead" comments that keep posting anyway.

My theory is that the bots keep posting because there are enough "legit" bots that pull HN data from the API to put into an assortment of search engines and other statistical tools that ultimately Google and Bing will crawl those links from the secondary sites pulling data from HN. I could be wrong but the only other explanation is that the bots are just incredibly poorly coded. At least I can't think of another reason. I have no idea if the legit bots using HN's API have showdead enabled. If they do that could be part of the problem.

I say this having fought bots in the past on forums and the bot operators would certainly know if their posts were no longer visible to others so they would just keep creating new accounts. I would block IP's, then they would use proxies. I would block proxies, they would use Tor. I would block Tor then they would just create a few accounts a day then let them "warm up" with real content. This led me to putting people into "ranks" and only people that had been interacting with the site could post messages that could be read real time, whereas low rank accounts had to be moderator approved. I had SQL code in a cron job that would delete posts over 30 days old in the newbie rank if I did not get around to deleting them manually.
Everybody got bullish on this when Google first publicly presented their autonomous car and everybody from IT said: 10 years from now.

Except all the automotive people said: Nay, way to complex to solve.

The automotive guys worked since the 1960s/1970s on this. Yes it got boosted by the advances in AI, which where mainly driven by the now available computing power/memory. But AI and its limitation is known since the 1980s/1990s. I learned AI in hte mid 1990s in the university as part of my degree as an electrical engineer.

Now, we are at a point where even the Waymo guys (former Google Car) admit, that the fully self driving car will be years away. It will take much more years then everybody expected. The cars the Waymo runs, are running in very dedicated areas, which are highly mapped. They still have problems with temporay obstacles, like road construction. They still have problems in unexpected weather situations.

So it is, that even all the tech people who believed in the sayings from Elon, now realizes that its just vaporware.
Exactly - and I’ve read enough stories of this sort of thing happening to people living alone, and no one notices until things start to smell - whereas even in a practically empty office worst case you’d be found (hopefully still breathing) by janitorial or security when they make their nightly sweep.
Why do you miss kopia from your benchmark?
If you wanted to embed dark patterns, wouldn't such an opaque system be ideal?

I don't think "the system" such as it is is designed by a secret cabal of sinister tricksters, but they do get a seat at the table, don't they? And they're not exactly going to come out about being in the secret cabal are they? That would be a pretty poor secret cabal.
So, in your view, we should just stop regulating gambling, drinking, drugs and firearms? If the market wants it, who are we to get in its way?
As far as I know, UATX is still an entirely theoretical academic entity.

What, then, does it even mean to resign from its board? Seems akin to leaving a committee tasked with planning another committee.
Because tons of people buy cars without renting them. I can think of maybe one acquaintance that did that. Renting is nearly as superficial as a test drive and pales in comparison to reading reviews from professional reviews and owners.
If the US's debtors wish to have their debts converted into a 2nd rate (i.e. non-reserve) currency, then by all means, let's see it happen. It will be easier to pay off the debt if that happens (just harder to accumulate more).
Scheduling won't ruin an airlines reputation. Crashing the planes is what ruins an airline. Southwest has only ever had two passenger deaths and one of those was an attempted hijacker beaten to death by other passengers.
Scrambled in what way?
Legitimate question.
The last three years have revealed example after example of what could go wrong when credentialed authorities are blindly trusted, but the rot is far older than that.

This is rich, considering the source. A simple Google search for [$author COVID19] will avail.
Probably they do because of false advertising
More FE-relevant, but also relevant: https://placekitten.com/
Modernization of equipment, hiring more pilots and other employees, investing in updating the code base - how can that be done? It's far more important to keep the stock price high by whatever means necessary, such as using government bailouts to buy back shares.

Investment capitalism is really a garbage system when it comes to building and maintaining basic infrasctructure like transportation, electricity grids, roads and so on. China has demonstrated that convincingly over the past two decades, hasn't it?
Nicely condensed, I hope I'll remember for future use. But I'd replace the "in tech circles" with "about technological development", because I don't think that people further away from tech are any less suspect. (but in the other hand they certainly don't indulge in rose-tinted extrapolation as much...)
What do you dislike of Rust's traits?
As a professional designer who's spent more time in my life developing FOSS than designing, I generally see FOSS projects refusing to accept design input, period. I've thought a lot about why and I see two broad problems:

First, developers have a different fundamental perspective on interfaces than most people. They view interfaces as a wrapper that you use to interact with the important part: the application. To regular users, the interface is the application. I can't tell you how many times I've seen things like customizable color themes or ill-conceived typeface changes be the primary product of a developer-initiated "UX review," largely because they didn't know how to identify actual usability problems and wouldn't know how to craft solutions even if they did. If it persists long enough, maintainers don't just see their interfaces and user paths as flawed but good enough: they assume the mitigation techniques they've developed to work around a bad interface are best practices.

Second, art school freshmen subconsciously trying to prove their competence to themselves give the harshest and least useful critique and often take constructive critique as a personal affront. That phenomenon seems generalizable: critique about things we're less confident in makes us feel more insecure than critique of things we're more confident in. If someone proposed replacing a core piece of the architecture with something different, they'd be confident enough to look at it and rationally decide if it's beneficial. Conversely, when developers see redesign proposals about interfaces they were never confident in to begin with, they get defensive, and design proposals get dismissed or bikeshedded to complete buggery.

I think these two things imbue the FOSS development world with indifference to, or even distrust of designers. You only need to briefly look at threads on HN focused on design or interface to see the open disdain many developers have for designers. "Ruined by designers" is a pretty common refrain. Despite our unicorn reputations, I know lots of designers/developers, and every one that I can recall at the moment contribute to FOSS... just never as designers because the process is so irritating. Myself included. It's just not worth the amount of work that goes into a competent design proposal, noting that I would implement it personally, only to have it summarily dismissed by people with false confidence in their analysis.
I use restic on Windows servers but for workstations I use backblaze. They have a backup client. It's just too easy. I don't have to think about it.
Was confused on this a bit, the University of Austin is/was intended to be a wholly separate institution from University of Texas at Austin
Inflation is headed down. It's not a completely clear picture yet, but I think this is the only reasonable conclusion from the current statistics. Things could change, but right now the arrows all point in the right direction.
Which bad decision? I'm very happy to have a kid, and I wish I had one earlier.

Who's going to take care of you when you'll be old, either physically or financially? Someone else's kid. Please let me know how this is wrong.

As for Italy, there's almost no childcare, no financial help for parents, no infrastructure for families. Pediatrics are quite expensive, and here people have children at an older age, or don't. As many interesting shops/workshops/industries are struggling to find competent workers and their owners will retire, we'll see a massive wave of value and cultural destruction there in the coming decades.

And given the wet eyes from the 40-something "childfree" women I see daily when they get a smile from my todler, I'm not sure it's all chill and cool. I see rather pain, suffering and cope.

But yeah, ok, don't try to argue man, just keep your convictions.
The unique ones are more likely to inadvertently imply something you didn't intend ...
> Transporting hydrogen by truck

If you look back a bit, you might see that this whole thread started with me saying that I wasn't that keen on hydrogen. This is one of the reasons that I was suggesting ammonia or swappable batteries instead.

> Trucking fuel around is very expensive.

So is transmission over power lines. Transformers and wires are not free, nor are the rights of way they sit on, nor maintenance of same in remote locations. 5-7% is lost in transmission. Sometimes there are fires. Let's not be too selective about which advantages and disadvantages we focus on for which alternative. That's called cherry picking.

I do think we need to get away from fossil fuels, and that transmission over copper lines should be our first choice in most cases, but I don't make up reasons why "just build out the grid" should be the only option we consider.
> you want to book your table at restaurant so you tell your AI which will inform restaurant's AI to book a table for you. In this whole scenario where is UI?

- "book me a table at Dorsia's tonight around 6"

- "The closest available reservation is at 8:30pm, would you like me to book that?"

- "no that's too late, are any other days open?"

- "The next available 6pm reservation is on Monday next week, would you like me to book that?"

- "no I just mean 8:30 tonight is too late because I have an early thing tomorrow, I'll take any time on another day"

- "Ok, there is a 10pm reservation available tomorrow night, would you like me to book that?"

- "ok I didn't mean literally any time, is the kitchen even still open at 10? can you just show me a calendar with availability and I'll pick a good time"

I can't think of any task that I currently accomplish using an online interface that would be more enjoyably or efficiently accomplished by having a conversation with an AI (or a human). The AI doesn't replace the interface, it replaces the communication protocol, which is obviously a bad idea. Clicking Reserve and sending a TCP request is a lot more predictable, efficient, and repeatable than instructing your AI to chat with their AI.
I had to get a second phone with a new phone number that I only give out to close friends and family.
It's not vaporware, it's just taken significantly longer than expected.

Tesla's solution looks more like vaporware because of how many times Musk has promised fully driverless operation -- sometimes even promising a cross country hands off trip -- within a year or two. Other companies have also had overly optimistic predictions, but generally not "we'll be able to go anywhere in the country with no intervention within the next year" level of extreme.

Waymo's progress has been slow relative to "ten years" predictions, but they've also made steady progress, and it looks like it's continuing.
Geoffrey Hinton has recently been talking about how analog and "imperfect" computing with specialized hardware/circuitry may yield much cheaper neural nets, that could easily be as large as human brains, but would only cost a few dollars and would be extremely cheap to run. Not a new idea, but it is a fairly promising outlook, I think.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/we-will-see-a-completely-new-t...
It all comes back to housing costs. A generation of Americans pushed restrictive zoning policy so they could inflate the price of their biggest asset.

Housing can either be a good investment or affordable, but not both.
It is not unreasonable to demand the censor be 100% correct all the time while also not demanding all silenced opinions be equally valid. The burden when you will not allow others to spread their ideas is sheer perfection.
In corporations, there's plenty of waste that occurs as a result of someone trying to advance one's career (pointless projects that never ship, or worse yet, ship and then demand maintenance etc).
Fair point about those existing DNA databases, however I still think there is a sigbificant difference between “opt-in” databases, like MyHeritage, and the FP/FI databases in scope here (the OP) where its law mandated registration in case of travel (Schengen) or asylum, visa etc. There are a lot of the latter, and its not exactly opt-in or delete on request
> If the US's debtors

I think you mean creditors. Debtors is the opposite.
The odds ew pretty damn good.

1. You’re talking about an editor that has been popular across multiple decades and across many many generations of technologies.

2. The editor they’re already using obviously already does things in ways they like. That’s why they are using it. So the odds that their editor will perform the job well for them is also pretty high.
There is no relationship at all.
Happened to my uncle, he records all calls so he was able to show us. When they let him speak to "his son" he sounded just like him and even used the same greeting his son normally does with him. Was very creepy. And his real son had his phone turned off during that time.

The really weird bit is they didn't ask him to send any money out. They knew his address and some "police" showed up an hour later demanding he write them a check.

This is in Canada. They've apparently found the guy, but there's some difficulties because he's in a different province.
Famously the Sun Microsystems logo had rotational symmetry! (While reading "sun")
To GP's point, that's the problem with Postel's Law. It's possible that was intentionally skipped to save fractional cents, but I think it's also possible they made the device and just never tested with a usb-c to usb-c cable. "It works on my machine (which is too old to have usb-c ports because we don't buy macbooks for hardware designers)!"
What GUI Library does the editor use?
I get what the EU is aiming for by banning lightening connectors, but it would be nice if it was coupled with improvements to USB-C.
The first should be prioritized much more than the second anyways.

There's no reason SS is age based and not means based
The airline business is too competitive for labor slack. People put up with spirit’s bullshit because it’s $5 cheaper. Any airline that incorporates slack will immediately find itself without customers. If they make it to a catastrophe it would work out, but it’s extremely unlikely that they will be on business that long.
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Depends on where you are based. It may not be a gift if you receive something in return. And in Finland, where I live, gifts over a certain value are taxable income
>>Because Twitter's staff numbers are public? What are you talking about

Where? that was true when they were a public company and such things were part of the Investor reports, and SEC filings, but as a private company I dont think that data is public anymore.

>>This is not something that's debatable

Everything is debatable, I will debate if the sky is blue

>Twitter's moderation teams today are smaller than they were before he took over the company.

The question is not raw numbers but the effective nature of the teams. I think there was ALOT of babysitting jobs at pre-elon twitter, people not doing a whole lot of actual work, i.e Wine on Tap, meditation rooms, etc like the "day in the life" videos showed

I am sure they were having alot of meetings about doing work, but very little work being done

>>They did what lawyers are supposed to do, they showed up in court

would it surprise you to learn that a good percentage of lawyers never go to court at all? Specifically corporate lawyers?

>>Twitter's lawyers took on government cases and challenged police orders that other social media companies would have rolled over and accepted

This is false, other companies have taken objections to government over reach as well, I think you have a rose colored view of their legal team. I will fully admit I am biased agaist them because clearly did not like or want to have people like me speaking on the platform. I wonder if you can recognize you bais in favor of them where by you simply forgive, forget or excuse all their bad behavior because they did a a few small good things

to me they were a net negative for free expression, I am sure you disagree simply because the speech you like was not suppressed, and the speech you think should be suppressed on the platform was.

>but he has literally just gutted these teams

That is actually false, there were separate teams dealing with moderation, CSAM was not under the same team, he infact gutted the other teams and expanded the resources for the people working on CSAM.
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The telco's complacency have trained their customers to not answer the phone thereby destroying one of their primary businesses. Gen Z and Y consider it rude to call people.
I would like to note the fact that some numbers of people comply or do not comply in accordance with divine law does not imply a disagreement with the validity of the law. Rather, it may be due to someone’s ignorance, or shortcomings that they make mistakes.

Many orthodox methodologies of deriving legal rulings (fiqh) from Islamic sources already exist. Scholars from all orthodox schools of thought agree on the woman’s hair being part of what must be covered.

One can come up with many interpretations of divine revelation, but unless someone is guided on the right path, they may come up with conclusions that go astray from the correct way. This is the last part of the supplication of Surah Al-Fatihah (opening chapter of the Quran): a request to be guided on the right path and not of those who are displeasing or misguided.

So I think when you say substantial disagreement, this is not correct. Someone may accept that what they are doing is wrong but are too weak to change. Also, if the people who disagree are not educated or well-studied, their opinion holds less weight than an expert in that particular field.

Reason is very important, which is why interpreting revelation without considering the scholarly tradition may lead to unreasonable conclusions.
What happens to people who received cars without radar? Do they get retrofitted, or just keep using "full self driving" and hope for the best?
I will sound cliche too, but still honest:

- start a startup just for the sake of having a cool startup is the worst motivator possible, ive never seen it working as a sole and primary motivation. Although it is often a background or initial ignition for some of entrepreneurs Ive known (both successful and not so much).

- startup is first and foremost a business, at the heart of the business lies businesses model, sales and marketing. Technology is just one of many possible ways to make business model working and/or deliver the value to customers

- summing up the two above - it’s not about how many mvps you have, or how cool you are as a developer, it’s about you finding the real actual problem you care enough and competent enough to see what is exactly wrong with current competitors and validating your solution with real customers
Numbers like that don't mean anything out of context. Military deployments are best estimated in terms of firepower; a cruise missile battery may have a greater strategic impact than 1000 troops. Likewise, the strategic situation in the 1950s, along with its recent past and foreseeable future, was vastly different from that of the present.
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This is an exceptionally uncharitable interpretation of GP's statement.
If you're not gaining market share from competitors in existing markets, or developing new markets from scratch, then you are not 'winning' under western hyper capitalism.
I think it depends on the project. 90% of SWEs are using pre-packaged databases, analytics, logging, APIs and whatnot. There is no 10% or 1% tail bogging them down because they're just configuring tools. But if you're in the business of innovation, it's really hard to know what lies in the darkness ahead, and it it very common to attack the easiest parts first, and what you thought was a 1% that would take up half the time is a 1% that cannot be completed ever.
Stop using so much tech and get outside more. Let go of the FOMO and you'll be much happier. Delete all your social media.

(I should listen to this advice too).
Here's another one with a very small footprint:

https://github.com/DigitalMars/med

It's the one I use every day. The executable on Windows is a little over a meg. It also works on Linux and Mac.
“People didn't complain beefore the recent stock decline”

and

“Musk didn't change his behavior in response to complaints (except, perhaps, to lean into the behavior complained about even harder)”

are fundamentally different claims.
Yes I understand this, but with great power comes great responsibility. They should know this & not abuse it. Somebody that tries to educate the general public should not just shout, but take part in a dialogue.
I’m not so sure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Military_wings_of_c...
I was responding to "now the US government demands not to use modern encryption".
hn has as much of an identity as reddit
Isn´t what they have right now safer than human driving?
Seconded - it handles EPUBs also, which really makes it valuable for me.
> So which is it?

Given any well-defined (Kurzweil/whatever) variant of the test, we can obviously test any entity and see if it passes. However, my assertion is that passing the test is "meaningless" in sense of saying anything profound about the entity that passed.

So, there is no either/or consideration here - we can discuss an entity passing the test (benchmark) regardless of what importance we attach to the result.

My point was simply that fooling people into believing something isn't the same as that something actually being true. Additionally, as far as any "intelligence" (and/or "consciousness") test goes, IMO it's even more meaningless if we attempt to test for these before defining precisely what we mean by these terms, since otherwise passing is a subjective measure ("intelligent in the opinion of the test supervisor").

I'm OK with the notion of using a black box test to gauge intelligence (since I regard it as behavioral quality), but we have to be careful when comparing to a human (as the Turing test does) since we could allow the bar to be arbitrarily low by not demanding the performance of a fully intelligent and unhampered human (can ChatGPT convince someone it's an idiot with OCD stuck in a box looking up answers in a book it doesn't understand ... maybe. can it convince me it's an averagely intelligent student able to perform experiments and report on the outcome - not even remotely close).
What do you do if you receive an emergency phone call, for example from an elderly family member or a child?
"I'll have my gpt mail your gpt"