skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Call toll free: 1-555-GEN-ESIS

Jesus He Knows Me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35K6vQRt67g
Technically easy, operationally virtually impossible - everyone will slip up eventually.

Also, the need for recognition often drives any human endeavour - and that leads hackers, criminals, etc to boast of their exploits to at least someone … who might be under observation, or under pressure to give up information to escape severe punishment for their own activities.
The most common academic titles are:

Bachelors - Masters - Licentiat - Doctor

A Lic. is not use din the US, but very common in Europe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licentiate_(degree)

And is basically what you can take out after half a Ph.D. program. In many technical schools in Sweden you are expected to do Lic. on the way to Ph.D. or if you burn out you at least have a Lic.
“They” is a perfectly acceptable pronoun when you don’t know somebody’s gender, or preferences.
I feel the 19th century societal norms (as documented by Austen and Tolstoy etc) are often derided and laughed at for their formalism and rigidness, but while recognizing the many problems there I do also see lot of upsides too. I wonder if we could apply something from that without having those downsides.
I honestly really dislike the reasoning they gave. As a customer I don't care if Amazon's impact is spread too thin; in fact, I'm happy with that. I don't trust them to choose their own impact. I, as the customer, want to choose the impact, an AmazonSmile empowered me to do that.
Less code is better than more code. No code is even better.
A medical marijuana card is a much stronger indicator of "I am currently a user of marijuana" than even current possession, let alone some past purchase. The whole point of such a card is to be prescribed marijuana, and the whole point of a prescription is for you to follow it.
You aren't responding to your parent's actual point, you've reworded it slightly and proceeded to disagree with the strawman version you created.

Their point was that news and politics were introduced to forums which were not about those things, and proceeded to turn those forums into shitfests, which is completely accurate.

For some reason you avoided the word politics in your reply and carefully recast the subject as "news and information and learning and debate." But politics is really what the argument hinges on. People didn't sign up for Facebook to fight over divisive political issues, but Facebook promoted those conversations for the sake of short-term profit.

It's completely 100% fine for us to say fuck that, get your politics out of here and it should have happened a long time ago. One reason HN is good is because it holds its nose when it comes to politics - sometimes it gets through, yes, but the worst stuff is usually downranked one way or another (flagging, algorithmic sorting, manual modding, etc. etc.).

There are plenty of places on the Internet for debating politics. We don't need to search out forums that aren't about politics, and then convert them into political debates.
> And when the US pays interest on that debt, it just pays it to the federal reserve which then sends it back to the US.

Uhh yeah, about those remittances[1]...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RESPPLLOPNWW
Tangential but why do people always cite the DJ when it only has a dozen handpicked companies? Doesn’t sound like a great metric
It's a bit random, but when I went though this, it made me feel better to realise that it's a fairly common human experience.

In particular, finding that people whose work I admired admitted having similar issues, Douglas Adams for example:

> I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Is a line from a book, but he in reality had his agent confine him to a room in order to get books done. Many other artists and authors talk about the systems they use, like the Seinfeld calendar or writing X words every morning.

I like the metaphor of the elephant and the rider. You need to keep both parts of your brain happy for them to work together:

https://abrilliantmind.blog/why-do-we-procrastinate-the-elep...
Personally, I am no longer in the mood to party.

As I approach 60, living a single life, battling lung cancer, with friends and family around me ill and dying or already dead, it feels like there isn't much left to celebrate.

There probably won't even be any sort of party when I'm six feet under. No celebration of a life endured. The world moves on as we all suffer eternal oblivion.
Metalens Images the Moon
> Camera pass through isn't AR, the same way a security camera isn't AR just because you could potentially view it on a VR HMD.

I would suggest that this is a very modern interpretation. Pokemon go is an "AR" game, even though its camera-mediated. Wayfair has an "AR" furniture viewer, apple has "AR" feature to view the new mac mini: https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/ (search for AR)

as I said, its hazy, and its only now that laser/waveguide see through displays are possible that we can have real-world overlays.
Call it Facility Manager, and suddenly, you'll have enough applicants, given that you don't scrooge too much on the compensation part.
How long before Gemini does the same? As far as I'm aware, they funneled all of their customers' funds directly to Genesis.
PhD is a contribution to science, not a work certificate.
> ...care little about age in the party scene is Madrid. Plenty of nights you're just as likely to be partying with 60 year olds as 25 year olds.

Same in Ireland. Funnily enough the party scene there also includes many Spaniards of all ages, as well as an overrepresentation of Greeks and Italians.

Wherever I go in Europe, if I go to a party I know it's likely I'll meet someone from one of those four countries there.
I remember reading this book pointing out that the big hedge funds that would repeatedly beating markets in the past ended up failing hard in recent years. That really nothing beats index funds.
Sounds like a lot of tech and business blog posts when you put it like that.
> It’s a game that involves shuffling money between players, without actually creating new wealth.

You can replace "shuffling money" with "shuffling commodities" and you have equally valid statement.

Commodities trades are just middleman between middleman, they dont do anything but inflate prices of goods.

Historically futures were good idea and were exchanged between producer and manufactures as a bet for more stable future (for both parties), not anymore.
Similar to how the churches became less relevant over time, wothout disappearing. Of course, many still have religious sentiment, but it's not comparable to the complete dominance religion used to have in all aspects of life.
Written by GPT or Human?
Is there a way to findout if a text is written by GPT or a human?
If one were to build this tech, what could be a possible approach ?
I agree with you, but probably in the 90s would have been a bit darker/greener :D But nice website brought me back in time ^^
Except I've seen too many spaghetti code craps in production to actually recommend this. There is a plethora of reasons why colleagues (or even you) will end up not waiting until code is production ready (e.g.: A new nice task comes in which you'd rather work on, you get reassigned, you get sick and someone else has to finish, you get a great opportunity to show off and say "hey I'm already done no problem", a tester sees and tests the features and misinforms the customer, etc. etc.) I am not saying your code needs to be perfect and then you only notice the one great flaw which requires re-engineering after weeks of hard work. I am saying find a good (backed by TDD) middle ground of fast work and fitting into existing / designing a decent architecture.

My 2 cents only, and if you can make it work that's great. But I will never go ahead and recommend this to juniors or even younger seniors.
> Someone who the US deems a danger but isn't in the US would fit this criteria.

If the bad person isn't in the US there's no need for US airlines to maintain a list of them which prevents them from getting on a plane, but then just sends them on their way to arrange other travel plans. What we want for really bad people outside of the US who should be arrested on sight at airports are warrants. Signed by judges. Not secret lists with no oversight or transparency, and not sending dangerous people back out into the American population.
Colossus: The Forbin Project had videophones everywhere, but they were shaped like tiny terminals, placed on desktops, and there is at least one scene where a someone wants to use the device and moves it to face them, so the devices are not fastened.
So a loooong time ago the lab next door to the one I worked in at USC was the optics lab where Dr. Tim Strand was looking at making lens systems as holograms. Basically using a hologram lens to focus light like a "real" lens would. It was kind of far out but it did offer the promise of "flat" lenses.

This is another approach (meta materials) which modify the light after it arrives. A really cool result!
All of the above. There were always more parties 10 years ago.
That's a joke BTW. It's the song "Jesus He Knows Me" by Genesis, about amassing large amounts of money by misleading honest people. At 2:59 in the official video is the quote "You can call my toll free number, 1-555-GEN-ESIS" which I find, as the overall lyrics, great.

Well, what has Hacker News become that one has to explain even the jokes..
There were so many bad outcomes of this Act. It led to the corporate dominance that exists over US media today, and that translated to greater censorship, greater homogenization, less local control, and a simplification of American perspectives in general.

Clear Channel could not exist without this Act - that should be enough on its own to condemn it.

The media is trash today because of this law. But the media is owned by those who benefited from it, so you'll never hear about this.
I can not give you legal advice but only tell you my personal understanding for entertainment purposes. And my personal understanding is that the same prohibition applies even for possessing it, not just when you acquire it. My non-lawyer mind it's pretty clear under 18 USC 922.

At the end of the day the feds got a warrant to drag me to the hospital and internally search my body for drugs because third party hearsay that an anonymous cop said an anonymous dog supposedly said I had drugs (there were none and their search was fruitless). If third party hearsay is good enough for a warrant why wouldn't video evidence or ID scan of you at the gun store and the pot shop? Sure you can claim "well the test at the hospital shows metabolites and the video shows buying weed and guns but hey you can't prove I actually used weed" but good luck with that.
I think the problem here is that they submitted a fabrication. If someone is prepared to do that, I don't think how they drafted the document is really the issue.
You're wrong on many levels.

The basic reason for binary is because it's generally faster, especially as you scale to smaller transistors with more noise.
unable to signup, sadly.

> Currently there are issues sending mail to hotmail, gmail and yahoo (they use outdated nospam-block lists). Please use a different provider.

protonmail address doesnt seem to work either.
*Komparable
Its not about efficiency, it is an exam situation.
Why? I've read a number of accounts of people who got the card just to buy/grow for their cancer stricken grandma or whatever. Sure maybe it's a lie but then again it's pretty believable and reasonable.
$LASTERRORCODE is not the same as $?

It works only on native executable errors. Some executables like git also write logs on error stream (this is a problem on linux too).
This happened to me last year as a postdoc, but unfortunately here in Germany I cannot find any therapy. I am on a waiting list but have been for almost a year
These experts in education unfortunately take one thing for granted, that PhDs need to be trained. I really don't think that's true and that there is any need for PhD training. At least, there shouldn't be any need.

Here is the thing: The purpose of a PhD is to demonstrate the ability to conduct scientific research independently. When a student enters a PhD program, they should have all the prerequisites to do that. If not, the university has failed and the study program needs to be reformed. A PhD student needs to have the ability to conduct research and write a thesis, and they get more time for that than they will ever have again as a postdoc.

In my opinion it's really that simple: Do the research and write your PhD thesis, and finish it in time. This "training" idea comes from the US, and the only effect of this in Europe I've seen so far is that unnecessary and off-topic PhD courses with point systems have been invented. At least in my area, these are completely useless and merely delay work on the PhD thesis.

What they should do, however, is to stop the grade inflation and stop handing out a PhD to everyone, no matter how bad the thesis. That's the real problem, I've seen plenty of lazy, extremely low-effort theses, and every time the lazy PhD student passes the defense and gets the PhD. That devalues the PhD and the work of those who take it seriously. Please start to let at least the worst PhD students fail.
To be fair, this is really field dependent. In the sciences this is (mostly) true, but in the humanities your output for your PhD is sometimes just your thesis. The problem is fundamentally that the PhD traject is geared towards an academic career, but there are not enough academic positions for all those PhD students, so they end up in industry. And there their skills don't really translate that well, as OP also says.
Heh, I met a chap doing a PhD in maths at a decent university in Northern England (no names), he was in his 8th year: He was funded for the first 3 years, managed to get another year of funding when that ended and subsequently lived off his parents. By year 6 they were a bit sick of this and stopped, so he had no money for rent so started to live in the department, working until late in the evening and then sleeping in a cupboard. He'd been doing that for 2 years when I met him. Perhaps he's still there ...
I faced the same issue and decided to solve it by making an app. The issue mainly boils down to not knowing who is free when and when they want to party. So I made an app where people can input when they are free during the week, and it auto suggests plans.

You can check it out at : https://www.bl1p.app
Software is hard...
More commonly than men being afraid of false accusations?
There are no antics. It's just to manage shifting the date without having a period with 15 months between bonuses. This is total non-news.
Violence was widespread in early farming society, says new study
I’m not sure there’s any public write-up on this, sorry
I think, the problem here stems from making vomit draft a social technique instead of keeping it at a personal level. It is potentially harmful if other people can read it. OP describes it as a personal method and it may work by breaking some psychological issues, like a fear of under-perform or something like. But to do this one need to overcome all fears, to get rid of anxiety, and it needs a safe environment where you can write anything. Literally anything, to try it and to show to your mind that it is harmless thing, nothing bad happens, it is ok to write not good enough, because you can dump it later.
Sweet summer child I know people who procrastinated working on their thesis for almost twenty years.
I think you missed the bit where 77% of farmland is used for feed export. Your beef might be produced locally, but the feed for that beef, was produced on deforrested land.
On the other side, I've seen plenty of people embark on something that amounts to "given a solution to the generalized halting problem, I could build a system to do X, therefore I have a path to do X" and then proceed to do years of hack after hack to bandage over one corner case at a time, building the computer equivalent of a spaghetti bridge.

I'm not saying everyone needs a PhD in computer science to program, but there's a lot of pain incurred by people who could avoid it with a basic understanding of the fundamentals of CS.
“Monorail ” How Conan O’Brien Came Up with an Iconic ‘Simpsons’ Episode
Readwise Reader: All your web highlights in one place
I am amazed by how Readwise improves my workflow thus far. But "Readwise Reader" seems to be their latest announcement that combines Instapaper, RSS, web highlights, tweets, YouTube videos, images, books, email, PDF, and more into one.

The best part, all highlights/notes are automatically synced into Obsidian or any note app of choice.
What did you find difficult in removing distractions on Android?

I got a Pixel 5 few years ago (seemingly the smallest form factor Android device), didn't install any apps, removed a bunch of stock apps I didn't need, and turned off notifications for everything beside incoming calls/messages. After that, I just trained myself to avoid using search/the browser unless necessary and to do something else when the itch arises to check the phone for something.
There's a description for spending years in a tertiary degree: not needing a full time income, or having it come from somewhere else
While I completely understand the sentiment and would also personally like that, the fact remains that to live for years untrammeled by the need for an economic relationship is something that is paid for by somebody.

Should society be saddled with excessive taxes for academic welfare?

Society pays for a lot of waste, so maybe it's unfair to single out academia. But it's a symptom of some kind of imbalance.
One thing that most people don't realize (or willingly try not to think about) is that every "higher education" level, all the way from the BSc to the last day of your PhD, is actually, first and foremost, a selection process. I have felt this ever since I got my first foot in my first BSc lecture, and the feeling has never left me. And I'm doing the exact same thing right now as an Associate Professor, both as a lecturer and as a supervisor. Most the talk and ideas we hear all the time about pedagogical skills, teaching methods, better techniques for supervision, etc. will fall to earth when push comes to shove: the truth is that the vast majority of higher education staff has no idea what they are doing when it comes to actually educating students. We do our best, we present our knowledge in the best way we can think of, and we are genuinely interested in students learning them, but the truth is that the knowledge of exactly what kind of education techniques work better or worse, is non-existent (for all practical matters). So, what happens is that, some students learn, others don't. Would they still have learned if we were using completely different teaching methods? Probably. Would they have learned even if we were not there? Maybe, but probably not. Because our real task (we as in, the staff), when you really get down to the basic core of what is happening in higher education, is to be there and give them a goal: if you want to have this certificate, if you want to be like me, and reach this milestone, you have to endure this, and pass these tests. I'll show you some things here and there in an arrangement that is probably as close to random as it is to not random, and well, you deal with it and find a way to pass the test. It doesn't really matter how you do it, how you find your motivation to keep on keeping on, what matters is that you survive this process and reach the end. And so is the selection process implemented.
Motivation is an individual thing. There are no doubt at least two intersecting dimensions, i.e that of technical interest and alignment with the organization's purpose. For some people working on CRUD apps might be Ok because they are deeply aligned with the purpose.

Most people need to earn an income to support themselves. Thus you probably need to consider part-time contributors. Which in turn might require considerable project management skills to ensure that substantial units of work can be accomplished by teams of people.

Not all FOSS projects are purely by volunteers. Many contributors are actually employed to work on those projects part-time or even full-time.
So much of enterprise level 'cybersecurity' is a box ticking exercise on one side and snake oil selling on the other. I have seen so many 'security products' presentations where you basically just tag resources versions and scan the tags, it's such an obvious scam. But the GUI looks awesome and they use 'AI'! sight

It's all just a big compliance and cost x benefit balance act. We won't get any real security at scale until damages actually hurt insurers enough that they actually invest in understanding and mitigating the problems.
Using DNS over https in Firefox should typically avoid any domain name blocking
.... which is actually not of "almost no value." The value of smaller models is different. For example, I have anonymized data, with fields removed. The smaller models do fine for filling those fields in with plausible values.

The smaller models do okay for zero-shot clustering of data in many cases (e.g. liberal versus conservative text), and if not, with minimal training. For generating statistics or probabilistic information about large numbers of text, they're great.

GPT-3, they're not, but I use them in my day-to-day work quite a bit more than I thought I would. I bought a GPU for one purpose, and I find I spin it up a lot these days.

I /really/ want to be able to use a large-scale language model locally, though. For the types of things I'd like it for, such as helping me draft emails, I don't trust OpenAI with my data.
Plenty of poor towns here in America. I encourage you to watch the Frontline special growing up poor in America

https://www.pbs.org/video/growing-up-poor-in-america-z4g8k5/
The thing doesn’t even have to be particularly common to actually drive people away. They just have to think it’s common enough.

You’re absolutely right though that that’s a blind in the assessment. My wife went to exactly one college party then never again after a guy literally tried to jump out at her from the bushes.
If you could only buy a Raspberry Pi these days... rpilocator.com exists, but RPi4's and/or Model B's barely (if ever) show up.
I did this with basically every project that took longer than a couple of days in university. Somehow I never had the courage to finish stuff, even though the constant feeling of guilt was making me miserable. Every second you don't shut up your brain with a constant stream of information, you begin to think about the stuff you need to do but don't. It's always in the back of your mind. Not a single moment to relax.
Amazon and Meta I can understand why. But why Microsoft and now Google? What positions were affected in Google? Just developers?
(Question): Are all major tech companies doing this when everyone else is so that they face less backlash for it ? Also what about the news of companies having record profits during pandemi. Were they false/fake too ?
tsdownsample: Timeseries downsampling with 200-300x better performance vs. NumPy
Grizzly bears were mysteriously missing toes. These scientists cracked the case
Is it truly not possible, despite the original owners changing hands, to locate the original source for the control system and modify it?

Furthermore, they said that they attempted a patch. Would this be feasible in more adept hands, with someone experienced at reverse engineering?
I directed a short film on scientific models while procrastinating writing my masters thesis.

https://youtu.be/dkTncoPqo5Y

I coauthored a series of papers on a rock mechanics experiment while avoiding working on my PhD (which was in computational social science).

Procrastination seems to have only demonstrated to me in my life that nothing actually matters all that much and you can do whatever you want. And most certainly you will do the things you want to do while you procrastinate assuming you avoid Reddit and video games.