skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sure living in USSR wasn't great, but if you think that's equivalent to being forced into slavery, you have left the plane of reasonable discourse. "

A house slave in the US was way better of, than a field slave, who were also way better off, than a slave in the mines. Their conditions were not equivalent, but slavery anyway.

"a choice of career"

Only as long as you strictly stayed in political line and had not the bad luck of someone denouncing you falsely. Or the bad luck of being born into the wrong family, etc.

The slaves in the gulag surely had it worse, than the better off ones in Moscow. So yes, the average peasant might have their living standard and freedom raised, but everyone else (except party members) had theirs lowered. Equivalisation of misery, hurey.

But we can probably end it here, because yes, generally not being allowed to leave the country, along with the daily terror of political totalitarian secret police qualifies clearly as a condition of slavery by my definition, to which you disagree in a discourse ending manner "you have left the plane of reasonable discourse."
I think that can surely be the case, but just like any AI there may need to be manual review to asses what is the most optimal way to go about task X, and retrain.

I can see this go both ways:

boilerplate code being a great generic solution to a set of problems, but a more seasoned programmer may say “that works, but for our use case the trade offs don’t make sense”

Or alternatively, “this code wasn’t something I knew I could do in language X, and it’s far more efficient”
While 55% is technically "most", there are hundreds of millions of people in that minority block. Definitely not a number to just dismiss from a function as important as mapping. As a member of that minority, I'm very grateful for non-hardware-locked mapping apps.
I like this idea. I never use rendered docs, I always see them from the source code. And HTML markup adds too much noise. Markdown should be good replacement.
I think parent meant that mobile phone creation should be discouraged. Mobile phone consumption is no issue.
I'm sorry you're so upset :( Must be a lot going on in your life :\
What’s wrong with working on a porn site? I’d feel better about working on a porn site than at least one of FAANGs.
> Because usize has a platform-dependent size and generally the logic of the program should be platform-agnostic.

Fair point, but it really only matters if the overflow is handled gracefully. If it's handled as an unrecoverable error condition, it often 1. doesn't happen during normal operation and 2. can be invoked by a determined attacker, regardless of the exact size. Sure, the exact characteristics might be different, but in the end it doesn't make much of a difference.

Petgraph has a great API, and in general using newtypes over integers for collection indices is a great way to avoid another logic bug: mixing up indices for different collections.
You can hide them though.
I would do things to get a break from it, but the reality is you can't really escape when you work remotely. You are tied to that digital life as a basis for the travel itself, as well as the employment that affords you the opportunity to do so. I am not one of those people that's constantly on my phone, but for most of my travel I was in operational roles where I was on-call 24/7, and using my phone or similar devices for basic services while traveling like translation, maps, cars, train tickets, plane tickets, hotels, payments, etc.
Picking Rikers as an example is low-hanging fruit. Even by the (very-low) American jail standards it's one of the worst.

> Violence and drug use among the inmate population has been a problem at Rikers for decades

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-rikers-vio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikers_Island#Abuse_and_neglec...
IIRC the source code for League's engine is originally licensed and derived from a shovelware racing game. Presumably it was rebuilt from scratch, but who knows.
Probably not a lot. Babies when they're born have billions of neurons but believe me, there isn't much going on yet :)
Link on iPlayer (UK only, I believe): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dk9z6x/episodes/player

I wouldn't have been too interested in it before, but I sure am going to watch it now.
Maybe the attackers can make TFT scale correctly on the ipad.
I find it hard to believe that corporations with this volume of (short term!) device turnover don't have basic device management in place, and the staff to operate it. Managed Apple devices are enrolled during prestage, which means the administrating account is able to unlock them independent of the employee Apple ID.

You would need a combination of very high cashflow and lax/incompetent device management, plus a direct contact that grabs large amounts of these "used" computers without applying the most basic of processes for making sure the devices being repurposed can be, well, repurposed.

I want to have good faith, but this sounds a lot like "thousands of quasi-new, pricey laptops are sold to us with a 'former corporate owner' that mysteriously doesn't answer phone or email, and we would like to act like they're ours now."

It seems like this is an issue only if your business plan is to squint very hard every time you look at the source for the "used" laptops you're buying.
It's madness. Even old.reddit.com is littered with "load more comments" links that you have to keep clicking through to read. A comments section with 2000 comments should be easy to serve in a single static page. It's just text!
If you're not in the bio field, you may not be aware just how routine genetic modification has become. For the larger companies, projects can involve thousands of different iterations on DNA sequences, all of which are created, put in a cell, grown, sequenced, and analyzed. It's absolutely routine at this point - it's not a science or even engineering challenge project it's an operations project.

The one that really freaked me out, though, was learning about organoids - lab-grown clusters of organ cells used to research the effects of genetic disorders. Liver, kidney, and heart organoids are fine, but these are also used to study brain disorders, in which brain organoids - clusters of neurons - are grown from the stem cells of affected individuals. These clusters of neurons have been known to start firing and even display synchronized patterns...
Any Macs made in the past 5 years require exactly one step: clicking "Erase All Content and Settings", which is exactly the button anyone would push when trying to wipe a machine before giving it to someone else.

Things may have been more complicated before that, but Apple has made it as easy as it possibly can be now without telling thieves to just start grabbing every Mac they see.
> But it has been there for a good decade for iPhones.

And iPhones still get stolen. As much as people may not like theft, it is less of a social ill than waste is.

If you want to deter theft, work towards a society that doesn't drive people to thievery, rather than trying to solve it with weak technical solutions that do nothing to address the underlying problem. Apple could be more effective at preventing theft by donating a billion dollars a year to fight poverty, although that would risk doing some good for the world.
> "So here you imply that most college students don't count as intelligent yet?"

A couple of things:

1) College students are in the act of learning, so what they are attempting to do is ideally just at their limit.

2) College students aren't intelligences focused on a single kind of output.
This was announced at WWDC in 2022 but payment gateways are still adding support for it. Should be more visible in 2023.
Do you really believe most apps rely on local storage? What if I remove the app from my phone and reinstall it later? All my data is gone?

I am pretty sure most apps use AT LEAST iCloud to store data
AFAIK, the most accepted theory is that the Universe will allow for useful computation forever. Always get slower, but adding up to an unbounded amount of it.
> But I get shouted down if I say my experience with Elon's buggy Twitter 2.0

What visible changes have been done since Elon took over Twitter + are buggy changes? I hardly notice anything different to be honest. There is a view counter and more people have the blue checkmark, otherwise things mostly seems to be the same. The ads panel (for publishing ads) is as broken as it has always been, so seems it has neither improved nor declined.
More waste is awesome to you? Apple making it impossible to recycle their products (genrating more profit for themselves, which is not casual) is awesome?

From TFA, which you clearly did not read:

> Often the previous owners are corporations or schools who buy and sell the machines in bulk and aren't interested in helping recyclers or refurbishers unlock them. "Previous owners do not return phone calls, and large corporations that dump 3000 machines assume they have been destroyed, so it is critical we have a solution that does not depend on the previous owner approving,” Bumstead said. “And after all, we have property rights, so the original owner is not the current owner and does not technically have a right to condemn to death what is no longer their property."

Do you think this is accidental? Think again.
I think you just got what you paid for.
Knowledge Through Geometry: Ramon Llull’s Figures in 1305 Ars Magna (2021)
I think we as engineers are trained (or should be!) to think about failure cases. This is just one more to have on the list. But yes, other professions could often use some of our anti-rose-colored glasses too.
The GDP-enhancing privatization and financialization must continue, all externalities be damned
Filling out a form has no bearing on your credit score. This mechanism is leveraged to monetize someone's information independent of that person's credit score or the accuracy of the information.
I was yesterday reading about Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. The effect sizes this method is achieving for relieving a bunch of mental illnesses are extraordinary. This is going to revolutionize psychiatry in the near future.
It depends on what you are presenting. I found [mdp](https://github.com/visit1985/mdp) to be very useful when presenting a tech talk. It is easy to copy and paste from the source material, it can be done all via the terminal, and it views well as a README on github.

Here is an example of a presentation I gave:

https://github.com/veganjay/prefectdemo/blob/main/presentati...
I'm not sure the technology itself is evil, it is the business model that is the problem. Which is to say that you don't need to be a software developer to be morally compromised, you could be a secretary/recruiter/etc and still feel compromised by this employer's practices.

The only reason they aren't just trying to charge for physical mail letter reviews is that that is too transparent, the public understands exactly how immoral that is. Once you add technology a lot of people's brains shut off because of the "complexity" they assume exists, particularly once the vendor starts with the buzzword vomit (e.g. "High Security cloud service utilizes the latest deep learning technology to detect abuse and illegal subjects, then we have a team of experienced experts for secondary review").

So tech is the smoke-screen here, but it is immoral no matter how you slice it.
Replit (YC W18) is hiring a first developer advocate
Oh this is completely and exactly what I was thinking of, thank you! :)
I was thinking the other day about how jails are powerful in all the wrong ways. Inmates harm each other and their crimes are not always prosecuted. Guards beat someone to death and no charges are ever filed. Prisons have the power to hide crimes when convenient, but don't have the power to stop gang activity and drugs inside the prison. This is what corrupted power looks like.

Police departments are often the same.
The funny thing is old.reddit is reddit. It’s the actual content I want to see. The new design is just a layer of cruft on top that I don’t want.
More info: https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/improving-pagerdutys-operatio...
I love Keanu, but he’s sort of “easy mode” for a deep fake, isn’t he?
It should also be noted that ChatGPT is pretty good with mermaid diagrams. It can convert a description of relationships into mermaid, and given a mermaid diagram can convert that into prose. I’ve briefly described a database application and asked it to generate an ERD in Mermaid. I’ve also taken a Mermaid ERD and asked it to generate documentation for that. Try these things, you might be amazed!
See Emily Oster's thing, to begin with, but there's more after that:

https://www.parentdata.org/p/gas-stoves-and-asthma

Also this thread:

https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1613336168061632512?s=20&t=...

If there's an effect, it doesn't seem to be a significant one.

At any rate, my objection is to your use of the words "proven scientifically". No, and that's for the most part not how science works anyways.
Yep: NSK, NTN.
> you can simply declare that a number is in your set if and only if there does not exist a finite description in your system of choice.

The problem I see is that we do not have such a rigurous system and instead can introduce new notation, and how we decide on the notation may change the contents of the set of undescribable numbers. If there is no ambiguity, because we are using a very limited description language that can not be extended, we may be too restrictive in the language so the set becomes meaningless, e.g., because we could describe a number within it outside of the system which represents a trivial choice function.
If you are a business that buys used electronics, it's a business imperative for you to ensure that the sellers unlock things before they're sold to you. If you don't take this on, this is kind of a self-own. There's really only two ways to look at this if you end up with a bunch of locked devices:

1. You buy and traffic in stolen goods, you're a fence. Good thing you got fucked.

2. You don't do a good job of operationalizing your core business, and ensuring that sellers unlock devices before handing them over. Good, you suck at business and those that don't should rise to the top.

I don't see how any of this is a negative, except the environmental impact at the end, which considering most of this is aluminum and recyclable, is minimized and an acceptable trade-offs for the massive anti-theft and data protection benefits.
You just made the argument you are arguing against. A full reset process is provided by the system software that takes care of the issue.
It is, although I guess that's common in the modern world where mass value is created in an assembly line workplace
BLOOM isn’t as good as GPT-3 because it doesn’t use as much training data. LLM quality is still data bound [0]. Further limiting data by requiring annotation is not going to work, at least with the current LLM modeling approach.

0: https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/6Fpvch8RR29qLEWNH/chinc...
Imagine being deprived of your freedom and not being able to have letters you can read anytime, only when you’re permitted to use a computer. Seems even more unfair than it already is.
> so I can't build truly incredible feats of engineering like 3d rendering engines or voice recognition systems.

I wouldn't worry too much about that, there's plenty of great existing libraries you can learn to get the same results as if you had built it yourself anyway.
great, thanks!

also for your PS, can you give a little more detail? What's your end result, what have you done so far etc
Time to look for all the FIXME comments in the Viego and Mordekaiser code.
Understanding the opaque Russian or Chinese military budget is not straight forward. One cannot simply compare headline numbers. Countries put money into military endeavors differently. Some examples:

(1) The US nuclear programs are under the DoE, which are included in the projections. Not so with other countries.

(2) Russian and Chinese have internal military police and national/coast guard, which are budgeted separately.

(3) Russia has significant corruption. The headline numbers are significantly reduced as they move through the system.

Another thing to consider is that dollar figures do not map onto capability. The US spends more on personnel by comparison. Purchasing parity is obviously different between the countries.

To learn more, here are two places to start

- https://news.usni.org/2021/10/26/mystery-shrouds-chinese-def...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH5TlcMo_m4
That's net income, not revenue. All other costs are substracted.
This doesn't feel like it's a great idea but considering the implication of your webapp forgetting stuff, I'm not sure of a better option.
I emailed them once asking to change that and kind of got a shrug in response. Maybe more emails will convince them?
ah yes, let me find the reciept from years ago that I didnt know I would need
The establishment left i.e. "The Democratic party" is on many issues left in name only, and actually comprised of pro-war, pro-censorship, anti-labor, right-wing corporatists. This is much more of a problem with the party in DC than the People. The focus is exclusively on social issues as a diversion from the corrupt theft of our tax dollars for their executive buddies.
Trying out self-hosting is almost as addictive as trying out note managers :-)

Anyway, here's my current setup:

- Hetzner Cloud VPS -- https://www.hetzner.com/cloud -- I use it for a public website - https://vlad.studio/ - otherwise I'd get the cheapest option); 4€/mo

- 1Tb Hetzner Storage -- https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box -- mounted as an external drive to the server above; € 3.81

- Filerun -- https://www.filerun.com/ -- used as web interface and file manager, instead of NextCloud. I wanted to like NextCloud, but couldn't. Filerun looks nice. It is not as complex .

- Various mobile Nextcloud-compatible apps connect to my Filerun instance. I'm not happy with this part of setup yet.
> As others will be quick to point out, HN does have ads in the form of job postings for YCombinator startups that are delivered inline with the links on the front page.

The way all ads should be? :)

Succinct, relevant and unobtrusive
Yeah, but have they hacked a journalist to pieces lately. No, but seriously, they have become more open in recent years, the most visible change of which is that women can drive.
They do, at least 86box
I think emissions are a different issue.

Which is more _wasteful_? I would argue Bitcoin, and dangerously so, because its upper bound of potential energy usage is infinite.

Coal, on the other hand, is not wasted (burning coal without using the heat would be stupidity).

Even when coal is phased out, Bitcoin may still be there, causing unnecessary strain on the infrastructure.
Bitcoin will find the cheapest energy and set it on fire, if the price is right. And the heat produced by the equipment also wasted as byproduct due to convenience/commercial factors.
I can imagine it already contributes to energy poverty, alongside other issues, in developing nations.
Print shipping labels without needing an address
3D Printer Nozzle Camera
Oh wow, thanks for shedding some light. Do you mind sharing references to what you said? Will be useful to counter the "US so bad, look at Canada bwahaha" smug narratives.
His Twitter's pretty quiet compared to his Mastodon at this point...
Apple couldn't do that because they'd potentially be making money off reselling stolen goods. If you can contact the original owner, then you can ask them to unlock it. If you can't, then how can you know that the device wasn't stolen?
But at the same time, there have been several cases where Mozilla and Apple have been on the same page in terms of feelings on a particular feature/change. In one of those cases Google bulldozed through and did their own thing anyway (see WebUSB).
> Many of them have committed crimes against society […] all are deserving of human dignity and love

If someone deprived another of dignity via a crime (say, via sexual assault or murder), why should that person be deserving of any dignity themselves?
And Blade Runner 2049.

And Star Trek TNG, with the holodeck (LOL, friggin' Riker)

A bunch of other stuff if ones with robotic bodies count. Star Trek: TOS has some. Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) features a robot re-creation of a character's dead lover. Though that's a bit different than one simulated without a reference.
The profitable upper middle class segment is absolutely dominated by Apple.
That's definitely a nice looking deal. Hetzner's come up a lot here, I'll be giving them a good look for sure.
though moving away from pg rating to statistical r, might result in some twisted python stuff. especially if ast taken to the limitless turing resources extreme.
Yes, I took all of them out, played the music discs (some are now in my car), and consolidated the data discs a year or two ago. But it wasn't because the data discs were bad, simply that CDR doesn't have the capacity for today.

One of my old photo/video backups is on 100GB Verbatim Bluray. Don't know about these in the future so I did a parity scan on each of them so errors can be fixed if need be. Also on external HD. Let's check in, in twenty years.

https://imgur.com/a/I7fokrx
I wouldn’t hold my breath. The scope of Git is quite large and Git-Oxide is just getting started. What I’d like to see is the Git core team adopt Rust gradually for certain subprograms.
> MS creates their papers in Word

I used to collaborate with MSR and never saw anything but LaTeX being used. If you look at the level of sophistication in many of their papers it’s not something Word can even begin to achieve.
Is this because both are actors and therefore there is lots of available training data? Or something even more specific to these two people?
I'm on metformin for diabetes as well, and diarrhea issues are the biggest concern my doctor has. I can't tolerate too high of doses (when we tried I ended up laying in bed for an entire weekend because I felt so terrible), so I'm hopefully going to Ozempic or similar soon, but stomach upset and associated issues are the biggest reason to move onto another medication (or a lower dose of metformin combined with something like glyburide).
The content is questionable, but I'm a firm believer in testable hypothesis, and this collection connects together very nicely different fields (ASD, IQ, theory of the mind, computational cost) of interesting testable hypothesis for models that could be tested with a different population.

It made me think about how IQ may just be an estimation of the Kolmogorov complexity threshold of problems a human brain can compute.

It's certainly influenced by the environment and many other things: for a computer equivalent, the CPU is not all that matters: you need RAM (working memory, IIRC the human brain "stack" is on average 6 elements), SSD (memory of experiences) but it was thought provoking and I'm genuinely grateful to the shadowbanned poster for having exposed me to such interesting ideas!
You already have this choice, and it is not incompatible with finding a way to use the machine without its contents (a recycler in this case might be forced to wipe it - win/win). But Apple is just too greedy, and successfully already sold you this as a feature, not a limitation of their own system.
"Erase All Contents and Settings" is the only button you need to push on a T2 (or later) Mac, and it is the factory reset button.

It will unlock the device.
One thing I really like about having my resume in LaTeX is I can have a ton of bullet points always in the file commented out, and just uncomment the most fitting ones for each specific job application.
Man, this is one of the more soulless comments ive read on HN. Imagine the father who's been locked up on trumped up drug charges, now unable to get a letter from his kid.

You could only arrive at your opinion if you think that the US Justice system is fair, and that inmates aren't people. I strongly suggest you rethink this.
Is everything produced in the UK automatically in the public domain?