skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tolkien preferred "ork" in his later writings. There is some discussion of the spelling in his guide to translating names:

> It should be spelt ork (so the Dutch translation) in a Germanic language, but I had used the spelling orc in so many places that I have hesitated to change it in the English text, though the adjective is necessarily spelt orkish.
Metafilter peaked around ~2010 but the quality really went down after the 2016 elections. Months of endless posts about politics and the general change in tone too made me quit, never looked back.
Exactly the same for me, at some point I realized that just copying over some config files from a backup is easier than trying to keep things neat and tidy for years just to be prepared for setting up a new computer every few years.
Good follow-up with Brave take on privacy centric ads: https://brave.com/web3/changes-digital-ad-landscape/
Right now a lot of investors and companies are acting like the recession is already upon us.
just short coinbase, if tether blows up, the whole crypto market will blow up, therefore coinbase will blow up. There's no way coinbases stock price wouldn't go down if tether and bitcoin go to zero
The $4M/day figure was based on the aforementioned $1B/yr in interest payments.
Well, that's confusing--there's another Git follow on project from some OpenBSD developers also called Got: http://gameoftrees.org/

They both seem like very cool projects, so may the best Got win!
So all tiktok videos shot in the "tiktok" format are about provoking a reaction?

You're the one who makes the claim.
Mortgage Calculator: Opportunity cost compared to other investment options
Thanks, now I just need the same but for motherboard connected choosers. Always my fear I'll but a motherboard or PCI card and the WiFi won't working properly.
> You would think such smart people would preserve their eco-system

Maybe they aren’t that smart after all? Being good at computers and getting rich doesn’t mean somebody is a genius.
Did the next generation decide that? Has there ever been an example of such a thing?

Somehow, when you look at those "younguns are bad" rants from 50 or 100 years ago, pretty much every time it's over some issue that can only elicit laughter today. Especially when it comes to predictions.
This is weird, because it's not like commercial real estate prices in SFBA are unknowable except by an elite. You can get a pretty good sense of where they're at just by Googling.
Let's just limit ourselves to servers with the original repos, for simiplicity.
I really hate low quality objects from plastic. Cheap toys for example… They are made in seconds, transported around globe, used for minutes, then break and get disposed. Think about plastic cars with breaking axles or not working water pistols. Even expensive nerf gun from big brand is gone after few months. While some of these are easy to disassemble, other have electronics inside. I agree, that flying and car driving are bad, but that can’t be really avoided. Importing plastic trash like mentioned toys should be forbidden EU wide.

And don’t get me started about food packaging. Every 100 gram of food comes with at least 5 gram of plastic packaging. Sadly I must eat sometimes and can’t do anything about packaging.
The answer is a bit tongue in cheek, but I invite you to try it out and report back with results (haven't tried it myself):

Cambridge University releases a brain-training app that improves concentration akin to Ritalin - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-22/cambridge-uni-develop...
I don't see how audits work well in this situation. I wrote more about what ad fraud can look like in this comment [1] and I don't see how an audit would catch "as a publisher, one of our traffic sources is sending us bots instead of real visitors".

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dFgfQTo4DRZG5t8Ap/can-ads-be...
It's not so much good vs bad as long-tail vs median.

A lot of content that wouldn't have flown in the mainstream during the traditional radio era because it didn't capture the median demographic that the players were competing for can fly online because it captures the long tail and satisfies enough the interests or desires of a single content creator or small team to justify their efforts (where a studio organization can't survive without the kind of advertising revenue you get by being median popular).

A combination of lower costs and wider reach (allowing you to find more of the long tail) changes the mathematics on what is worth someone's time to publish.

And that's without getting off in the US-specific weeds regarding the fact that there was content that categorically could not be on the radio because the otherwise
-assumed First Amendment right to freedom of speech / the press was curtailed in the United States by the FCC acting as arbiter on parceling up a finite national resource (whereas the internet is not considered such a resource and therefore there's no central US governing authority telling you what you can and cannot put online in the same way).
Looks like it's been fixed. Here's the archived page: https://web.archive.org/web/20230107222311/http://cseo-coher...
> In the case of random TikTok creators, it’s clear the level of consent and notice runs the gamut.

I am reading this like this: When Verge is doing this, it is obviously legit and obviously not when it’s Tiktokers. Without backing this with any data.
> It's lefty paradise.

Ok, let's get into some definitions and corrections.

SF isn't a lefty paradise. It's a liberal paradise. "Liberal" has pretty much become synonymous with "neoliberal". And by "liberal" i include the vast majority of Democrat and Republican voters (certainly as neoliberals). Liberalism is really about aesthetics and is performative, like how racism famously ended when we elected a black president or misogyny ended when we appointed a female Supreme Court justice.

The primary differentiating factor between Democrat and Republican voters are social issues but here's why it's aesthetic/performative. Democrats might tend to self-identify as being against racism but, as you see in the Bay Area, will tend to adamanatly oppose any effort to build more or cheaper housing.

The entire political spectrum in US politics still works at the behest of corporate interests, first and foremost.

My point here is that you cannot separate economic from social policy, which is why such labels as "fiscally conservative, socially liberal" are fundamentally flawed.

If SF were truly a "lefty paradise", it would attack the core issue of homelessness and poverty (and the resulting crime), which is housing. But instead, you have superficial/aesthetic policies aimed at reducing the appearance of homelessness (eg clearing out homeless encampments).

There is no meaningful "lefty" or "leftist" movement anywhere in the United States. What many people label as "lefty" or "liberal" anywhere else in the world would be labelled as "center right" politics.
Nix is like sailing from Oakland to San Francisco on an aircraft carrier for your daily commute.

Most stuff I care about factors out into .config which I turn into a git repo, push to GitHub and slap on a CI checks for secrets.

Most engineers don’t need to forge a demonic pact with the Nix gods who demand I upend and replace everything from my operating system to my wife.
When anyone comes up with the idea of lets rewrite X, or refactor Y, that is always one of my first questions.

What value does that bring to us or our customers, versus the money spent on doing that.

Many devs tend to forget that features can be measured in time spent on X multiplied by hourly rate.
That is ok. A proficient code reader will see that you like to commit -m’typo’ and -m’testing CI has to go thru git; try this now’ and understand your life and save the detailed nitpicking for the overall diff, not each commit.

It is super nice to see if it was 20 code commits and then one test commit, or back and forth between tests and code, or a new test and then code commits.
Your comment is so insightful and interesting.

I am not sure whether I'd agree with everything you said, but simply because I only tangentially got exposed to "western" zen and buddhism, through some zen monasteries in California. But you put certain things/concepts in words that I didn't manage to express clearly by myself, so thanks for that.
> need leaders who can make decisive actions on generational time scales

Blake Masters, a Thyle acolyte, is a literal monarchist. That is not generational thinking, it’s looking at Rome and thinking it would be swell to live under Augustus if you’re already at least a bit rich. I have never campaigned in Arizona, and I donated heavily in Maricopa county in the last Senate cycle.
They could if there was a (nation state) enforced price for carbon and hence a market to operate in.
Implementing VisiCalc (2003): Bob Frankston's design notes
... against domestic opponents. What about those based in other countries?
Two questions:

Is this the reason that scrolling left and right in firefox now goes back and forth in history? Or is this something firefox on its own thought would be a great idea?

And why is sway listed in this? Isn't the whole point of using sway to do most, if not everything with the keyboard?
I think the main thing has been to avoid deep inheritance hierarchies. Otherwise the principles are still sound and used where O/O is the right paradigm.
Wonder if there are any cookies that would be able to access..
Honestly, this doesn't really bother me as much as it does for other people. Don't get me wrong, haptic trackpads are nice (I bought the Magic TP2), but a properly-accurate multitouch button-based trackpad can still feel great to use.
I think one needs to take any assertion of Commodore’s marketshare numbers with a grain of salt — Commodore itself didn’t release numbers at the time and the numbers we hear these days all seem to be anecdotal.

That said, I don’t think Macs surpassed Apple II marketshare until circa 1991 or so, so one doesn’t need to look to competitors.
I play PF2e and the entire community seems to have switched from Roll20. At least all of the DMs in the online living world I was part of, my regular games, and all of the PF2e games I see listed on various LFG subreddits.
I think this is the effect that singing hymns is supposed to provide, though doubtlessly the euphoric effect is most pronounced in a grand cathedral with its glorious acoustics.
It's still working for me. Must be a DNS cache thing.
This may be a bad example, because I've literally seen video of people screwing in public at Woodstock.

Cameras weren't ubiquitous then but it was a major enough event that a lot of cameras were there.
I think the Faroes being a country with high levels of evenly-distributed wealth and a profitable but not-very-diverse business sector is why they get the luxury of having a simple tax system with limited pressure to add deductions (that and taxes not actually needing to be high enough to cover government spending). Certainly the wealth is more a cause of the tax simplicity than the other way round.

Back of the math envelope suggests the overheads of running their system aren't that low either (the 70m krone budget serves a population of just 54000 people). The IRS budget is closer to $14bn a year, but it serves around 330m people, and nobody accuses the US of being a model of efficiency.
Dude, I could care less about the newer generations quirks. I'm concerned about aggregate behavior altering sensibilities in society. This stuff is happening at scale and globally. It's not "oh western people do this", it's everyone and it's not even limited to the youth age group. It has permeated into the adult lives of millinials/gen x. They do the same shit, so the age range is literally from 7 years old (when do these little shitheads get phones now days?) all the way to fucking 50+.
> "We never got to see zork..."

Well... There have been so many visualizations of Zork over the decades. I still default to the InvisiClues images from the early 80's, which I think are far better than the first graphical attempts of the white house (Zork Zero).

However, this is extremely cool. It's like real-time Myst (yes, I know that exists, but that's a raytraced version of the original, not this). The meta data optimization was unexpected.

The video ended too soon.
We should try though, for example did you know that 1% of humanities global energy production (that is, our civilisations entire output) is sunken into producing nitrogen based fertilisers,

That’s why my startup is working on catalysis models, so that we can get some catalysts to dramatically decrease the energy requirements of these enormous industrial processes. Also things like green chemistry (another project we are working on) is going to remove the need for a petroleum based chemical and replace it with an organic one that comes out of discarded orange peels.

Yep sure, I’m not going to have a nation-state level of impact, but the discovery of the right catalyst can often change entire industries.

So I’m trying as hard as I can, every day, to push towards a sustainable future, if enough people do it, we might be able to start to move the needle
I totally would. I want the essay somewhere, but maybe on the functions or new files. You can read commits and diffs very fast with a git log -p
And I'm still waiting for Midnight Commander to be fixed so I can upgrade from Fish 3.2.
I took a quick glance at the repo, it wasn't totally clear to me if the client is windows only. Anyone know more?
CEOs being held personally liable might not fix anything - one goes to jail, the board hires the next. And before you say “CEOs just won’t agree to do risky things”, if they won’t, they get fired, and some other CEO will. Same as what happens with programmers that refuse to do unethical work. They’ll just get replaced.

The company goes on as normal. The issue is harder to solve than “just arrest the CEO”. But I’d like to see it solved, too.
I’d doubt MS agrees.
> Who says personalised ads are better performing?

https://twitter.com/garjoh_canuck/status/1318989360407236609 summarizes the studies on this, and this comment [1] gives additional context.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dFgfQTo4DRZG5t8Ap/can-ads-be...
So, monkeys had to type for only a half a million years after all.
Here my 2 cents.

The group we are talking about, mostly kids, is beeing targeted by the industriy to consume. They are targeted by ads and even whole campagnes where a lifestyle is sold.

So with that in mind maybe the kids where never allright and we have to be suspect of some trends today.
Personaly as someone who grew up in the dawn of social media, I am very against this trend of making everything to content.

It cant be good for the brain to be focused that hard on what other people are thinking
I would say that the difference between 1995 and 1970 is significantly greater than between 2020 and 2005.

Then again, I wasn't around in 1970, so I can only judge that difference based on how it was recorded.
The scale of the problem is pretty bad when you have to resort to half truths.

https://sfist.com/2023/01/05/walgreens-ceo-says-maybe-we-cri...
> It's arguable whether that's a bug if it doesn't have any practical effect.

If doesn't have any effect until it does and, out of nowhere, you start getting crashes on some new hardware category that you thought was supported. That's not a great place to be.

Even before the move to x86, Apple was making sure OSX (which was based on NeXTSTEP, which was very portable) would not bake in PPC-isms that would hurt its portability. Apple learned the lesson with the painful port of MacOS classic to PPC and that care with OSX paid handsomely with the moves to x86 and then to ARM.
Maybe, it redirects me to https://redirect.microsoft when I visit the link
At the very least let’s start calling them what they are: oligarchs.

Never understood why we reserve that term for Russians.
I would have asked him to publish it on TikTok. Let's just make this real weird
That reminds me I need to get more interesting hardware in my converted attic.
When I was there, it was a cesspit of open misandry and hatred for poor people while everyone patted themselves on the back for how Woke and inclusive they were.
Friendly Warning / Heads Up: This is an Elon Musk Twitter piece in disguise, his friend David Sacks glossing over and attempting to reframe the hypocrisy and dumpster fire with other distractions.
Something like:

https://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/concurrent/dura...

https://github.com/Bersier/physical

https://github.com/RussP/scalars
Future-proofing, uniform access, and masquerades (2010)
Isn’t Truffle Security opening themselves up to litigation from this? It’s harmless, but is the risk of having Microsoft’s army of lawyers throw CFAA at you really worth this?
Security cameras in public spaces in Germany are mostly combined with sign indicating camera surveillance.

In public spaces it's probably somewhat regulated, but it might be a small sign.

On private property with video surveillance there also always seems to be some signage, clearly visible.

The purpose of that is for sure also to prevent crime from happening in the first place.

Example sign:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41WuyzXzgPL._AC_SY580_Dp...
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Is that a response to the content of the video, or the result of an internet search for "Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski" ?
Content Defined Chunking is one of my favorite algorithms because it has some "magic" similar to HyperLogLogs, Bloom filters, etc... This algorithm is good to explain to people, to get them inspired by computer science. I usually explain the simplest variant with rolling hashes.

It is interesting what the result will be (average saving on deduplication) if it is applied globally to a large-scale blob storage, such as Amazon S3 or Google Drive (we need metadata storage about chunks, and the chunks can be deduplicated).

PS. I don't use this algorithm in ClickHouse, but it always remains tempting.
I haven't seen a video from the Verge where they walk up to random people randomly, stick a mic in their face, and ask them random questions
> It will cause more damage to their brand than $8.5M

You say that, but a non-negligble number of comments here are outright defending Apple saying "just a wrong default setting", "nothingburger", etc.
Lemmings!
I think what you're proposing is:

1. Collect data for DOS-prevention purposes.

2. Analyze it afterwards in aggregate for advertising purposes.

Except you can't do #2 without turning #1 into "collect data for DOS-prevention and advertising purposes", which goes beyond your legitimate interest in collecting the data.

I agree that #2 should be allowed if you'd do #1 anyway, but this isn't how the GDPR works.
Fair enough, though I feel you are a bit too eager to push back against ideas that go counter to your initial thoughts. Of course, because I hold differing opinions, you could reasonably object that it is just what I would say!

I have a different idea of what AGI means: in my view, it is a retronym created in the 1980s in order to refer to AI of the sort Turing envisioned (which was more or less "what humans do") and differentiate it from things that were then being called AI, such as IBM's Deep Blue, which were mostly brute force applied to conceptually narrow problems.

You mentioned Roitblat's framework, and I would draw your attention to one aspect of it: it is not just a list of things that humans do, but those things which humans do considerably better than other animals, yet for all of them, there are other species that do them to some extent. As an evolutionist, I suppose there was a relatively recent time in the past when some of our ancestors or sibling species (all now extinct) had some or all of these skills to some intermediate level. In this view, intelligence is not an all-or-nothing concept, and achieving some of it is still progress.

Here's a view which you may not have seen: the pace of progress in AGI has not been constrained by an inability to define what we want, but by the pace at which we see ways to make what we see we need. For example, it is clear that current LLMs have a problem with truth, but it is not clear from what has been made public so far that anyone has a solution. Some people think that what's being done now with LLMs, but more of it, will be enough to get us to what will be generally accepted as AGI; I am skeptical, but I am willing to be persuaded otherwise if the evidence warrants it.
I cancelled prime a while ago, but I still occasionally buy from Amazon. I think I’ve accidentally started a free trial of prime 3 times now. It’s always avoidable if you’re paying attention, but sometimes there’s multiple prompts with a big easy “I want Prime” button you have to get through to checkout. It’s so frustrating.
Lemmings! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game)
Heh, no, the $1B is for SF: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-has-an-unpre...
this is the new crypto. I mean crypto was already the new climate.
can you guys remember how it was in the 90s in western countries with the "ozone hole" or the "ozone depletion" and how it evolved to the new "global warming".

of course tech funding would grow as climate is something even more intagible than crypto or the economy. no one knows what will happen. al gore predicted we'd be already dead and it made him a millionnaire.

n,b: im obviously not saying it is an hoax but that as it is intangible it is easy very to market the fear it creates and make a lot of money out of it. as capitalism taught us: why solve something that makes you richer
Does he have a specific framework in mind?

Because most of the problems he lists do not exist in Symfony AFAIK, for example.
Did France surprise Germany by pledging tanks for Ukraine?
pragmatism a la William James

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Will_to_Believe
I̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶k̶ ̶r̶s̶y̶n̶c̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶s̶ ̶f̶i̶x̶e̶d̶ ̶s̶i̶z̶e̶d̶ ̶c̶h̶u̶n̶k̶s̶.̶ The algorithm is described here; it's a rolling hash.

https://rsync.samba.org/tech_report/node3.html

Your description of content defined chunking is exactly right though. There are a number of techniques for doing it. FastCDC is one of them, although not the one used in rsync.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_hash

EDIT: Corrected in the comments below. Fixed sized chunks searched for at any offset with a rolling hash. The rsync algorithm description is here.

https://rsync.samba.org/tech_report/node2.html
Sweden: Turkey wants what we cannot give for NATO membership
>We need leaders who can make decisive actions on generational time scales.

Which works right until their actions are to ensure their future generations have the most power and money while yours have the least power and money.