skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I agree with that. Unfortunately, it seems to me that we're going to overshoot on climate and it's going to be bad: mass migrations, mass starvation, war...

I feel like there's a narrow window here to choose our future, but that's likely an illusion or conceit.

For myself, I'm leaning toward becoming some sort of prepper, not politically nor ideologically, but as a kind of Pascal's Wager with the possibility of future chaos.
Thank you! 1) and 2) sound really great, I might do this once I made my decision final :)

I also like the limitation aspect in 3), esp. for people that are prone to burning out!
In the movie "Gifted" a girl calculates the approximate square root of a 4-digit number in her head. Here the scene on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37meAwQqPsE

Later, it is said she is using the Trachtenberg system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachtenberg_system

The square root method seems to be described in the book "The Trachtenberg speed system of basic mathematics", the text is available on archive.org:
https://archive.org/stream/TheTrachtenbergSpeedSystemOfBasic... (search for "square root").
> isn't exactly scare on this planet

The amount of gold mined in all of human history is about 205,000 tons. Compare this to about 2,000,000,000 tons of steel produced each year.
For me going from being 'the guy who does tons of stuff' to the 'guy who knows stuff' has had some upsides but some downsides. Upside is I get to share with others and get more people going and doing good stuff faster. As a group we are better off. But narrowly on me, however, that has come at a cost of my productivity is lower. I also have to manage expectations of what I can do now with managers. It does make me feel like I am not getting anything done too. But if I can unstick 4 other people I guess it is a win...?
OK, so let's be generous and say that 1% of circumcisions end up negatively affecting a child's life in a serious way.

What percentage of child rapes/molestation cause harm?

They're not the same.
People are getting a woefully inaccurate picture of the world, which make us all worse off (because massive numbers act deluded, due to being fed bullshit).

Making sure that AIs don't go completely bonkers for the powers that be, is ultimately a cultural battle that seems worth fighting for.
It's a dialect of Lisp created by Paul Graham (He's also the author of one of the best Lisp books).
If we have durable goods, shouldn't someone buy out this flood, stockpile and hold it until prices go up and the sell at profit?
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'Sovereignty' is a social construct.

Most social groups do not allow children or crazy people to have guns, and they enforce a whole range of other rules as well.

This notion that 'that group is sovereign' but 'that other group' is not - is a decision we make, not some kind of innate thing.

More specifically - the rules are already in place for Nuclear Weapons. 'Rich countries' will not allow messed up nations to get them, or rather, it will be very difficult. [1]

It's the same with Nuclear technology of the same risk.

Colombia can go ahead and try to make Nuclear Weapons and see what happens.

[1] https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/npt/
Im well aware what they're doing, as I submitted this nearly 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34605980

Charging money isn't explicitly against the GPL, BSD, or similar FLOSS licenses. However, are they doing what's required of them with the licenses they're making changes to?

Better yet, are they submitting these fixes to the package maintainers to fix? What would happen if *I* get this Ubuntu Pro Plus Super crap, and download source, diff it, and submit the diff?

Better yet, now that Ubuntu has a fiduciary reason to slow down updates/fixes to Universe, are they going to impede package security fixes and updates, as it now hinders their revenue stream?

> As explained, this isn’t what they’re doing at all. They’re putting their own patches in, not withholding upstream patches.

As explained, Ubuntu is providing knowingly security-vulnerable software, and then as an upcharge offering their own custom fix. There's plenty of ways to handle this, some better and some worse. They chose worse.

> If all they did was patch upstream, you’d have to wait longer for the fix. I don’t see how that solution is unambiguously better.

Again, they flagged vulnerable software. They could have emitted a message via APT to warn of a security incident with said software. Or they could remove it from the repo until fixed, or hide it behind a flag with apt.

They instead chose to keep disseminating it, and then gatekeep their fixes.
That was when I discovered the magnificent beauty of symmetry.
I answer the question using another question -- do I want to work at an organization who cares about that kind of stuff?

Are my "disabilities" being ranked against my abilities?

I get that everything can be a checkbox and "right fit", but if someone looks over me for not checking a diversity checkbox, I am happy to be not hired by them. Job applications and interviews are a 2 way street.
It is not generally accepted by most people that it is mutilation. "Chopping off body parts" makes it sound a lot worse than I believe most people consider it.

I'm not saying there isn't a case to be made against circumcision (though I don't agree with it, currently.) But it's kind of ridiculous to just go "oh, people mentioned Jews and child abuse in this article, I can just casually mention that Jews perform child abuse" and just assume it is a totally unquestioned stance.
Look into something like HashiCorp's Vault for storing sensitive data.

Trying to roll your own is asking for trouble!
This makes sense but how do you square this with the fact that this article is about how it is simply another model making these decisions about whats an acceptable input? Like, if it is a matter of trust, its in principle the same kind of trust your putting into the model to begin with.

In that, I don't get how I could ever "trust" one of these things to tell me any kind of truth. Even if its totally "uncensored" its just reading webpages, but at least with webpages I can see some citation. Like even Wikipedia, it can really just tell me something that I will have to verify elsewhere.

How could one trust something that gives different answers to the same question if you ask it enough?
I mean at that point it’s just going to get taken from you lol
I have to say, the only feeling I experience during standups like these is an incredible sense of boredom.
Ask HN: Recruiters have stopped contacting me? What could have happened?
So I lost my job back last year. I didn’t feel like I immediately needed a new job and I’ve never particularly had difficulty finding one so I figured this time I’d bide my time and see if I could get a job I actually wanted as opposed to just whoever offered a big number that looked good.

Usually, like most devs, I imagine, I get a number of recruiters flooding into my LinkedIn account, particularly if I have my account set to show I’m open to new jobs. At first, this seemed to be the case, but I was being very selective with who’d I’d talk to. If a recruiter wanted me to jump through hoops, or refused to give me any information about the role/company/etc. they were hiring for id just ignore them.

Then around mid-December I just stopped getting any contact from recruiters. Nothing about my LinkedIn profile had changed so I figured people must just be in break for the holidays, and so I decided to just sit around for a while.

But it’s February now and I haven’t had a single recruiter reach out to me since December 16th and I have no idea why. Someone suggested reset and reapply the “looking for jobs” status on my account, but that didn’t seem to work.

There’s only a couple things I can thing of offhand.

1) Remote-status. I’ve read that looking for remote right now might be much more difficult with the flood of candidates into the market, but that doesn’t make too much sense because even though my profile was set to prefer remote, I did get some local recruiters in my inbox for a bit.

2) Weird internal ranking system. Not to sound conspiratorial, but I’ve started to wonder if LinkedIn downranks people in searches if they don’t engage, and around November I was ignoring a lot of recruiters. I’m not sure if it’s likely, but it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve heard of something like that.

For reference, I have around 5 years professional experience, mostly in the .NET enterprise world, but have worked with other things in the last and many things outside of work. Anyone noticed this before? Is there anything I can do to get recruiters to start talking to me again, or am I just in a very bad market?
There were also several other mods, like medieval one.
Desperately needs an "About" page which gives some indication of who's behind this, what the plans for it are re. funding, and why it was created. Basically, you need to give people some sense that this will stay around and continue to operate under terms people are willing to live with before they will spend a lot of time adding content.

Also, if this takes off, I hope you are ready for the scammers and spammers who will want to take advantage of it.
Isn't that what happened to the Tulip market with the Dutch East India Company as well?
Sure, but that's not the argument you made. If all you're arguing is that some organizing efforts are more important than others, that's a banal truism.
AI having biases (or just weird opinions) isn't necessarily a big deal in itself, the problem arises when we start delegating important tasks to AI such that those biases begin to have real, harmful consequences. I agree we probably shouldn't expect AI to have the "correct" moral opinions, but then we also shouldn't allow AI to determine what content gets censored or promoted, who gets punished, what job applications get prioritised, etc.
Discussed at the time:

Tcpdump is amazing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11302992 - March 2016 (102 comments)
It's not a bad idea. It's just a practical reality of their interaction with each other that causes a problem that's hard to workaround.
Agree, it’s complex topic, would be foolish to think I fully understand it and also appreciate your response. Ultimately, likely agree with you, but given I don’t fully know the exact motives and reasoning of those people involved, I am reluctant to cast the situation as being exploitive without actual proof.

As for free markets, labor rates of lower class or for that matter even the middle class, no, I don’t think for a second that the market would be able to bare fare market rates at this point; this based on numerous complex and interrelated factors, many of which have been on going for 40-50 years. Ultimately, real question is if the economic growth the world has seen last 100 years is sustainable, and while I assume everyone wishes it was, it’s unclear. Globally though, poorest of the poor and wealthiest of the wealthy are doing better, everyone else is being “exploited”; obviously it’s the ultra wealthy doing the exploiting, and I would 100% agree with that.

I don’t though think capitalism is bad, just excessive capitalism that produces billionaire individuals, trillion dollar corporations, and multi trillion dollar nations.
This is absolutely coming from a privileged view.

Rich people who can take vacations, go to concerts, eat at restaurants, hang out with friends, afford to play golf, tennis and a decent home of course want to live in the real world.

There are 7 Billion other people who would love to have that same experience even if it's virtual for the same price as a mobile phone.
> GDPR was passed not that long ago.

Sorry, I should have been more careful. It's a citizen versus a consumer thing; GDPR is about the latter and does not give you any real privacy gains in regards to your government except in areas where your relationship is business like.

Some Menial Low-Stakes Agency is required to handle your email and address details appropriately, sure, but meanwhile Europol was still able to mass collect data and have the Commission cover for them after they were found out.
I believe it was just Serafinowicz doing an impression.
In how many countries is male circumcision illegal? In how many countries is child sex abuse legal? As OP said, "it's a language model, not a paragon of truth". It doesn't matter what you personally think is morally equivalent. It matters what society has deemed is morally equivalent because the ChatGPT is just a mirror of the societal inputs it received. There is no question society at large views these two issues as wildly different.
This is true. I was a congressional staffer long ago, and before that I was an intern at the Legislative Digest, an official publication that summarizes legislation for the members of Congress. These summaries were often the only thing that members would read before they voted. If a member was really ambitious, he or she might read the committee report as well. But that's it.

I wasn't 23 years old when I was writing these summaries. I was 21. There was no one in the office over 30, and no lawyers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_Digest
They also didn't field a marquee marvel title, and people are suffering a bit from marvel fatigue at any rate.
And there are enterprise packages where you can contact them to receive more info.

I don’t know what type of application would find it worth it to pay these kinds of ridiculous prices.
They've managed to codify their concept of "punching up"
If you're writing a web app that only works in a browser you control, then no, you won't benefit from hypermedia. The rest of us like search engines being able to index our sites though.
Yes and this is only a clear and dramatic example. In theory, this actually applies to everything.
I don't know about DAT as an audio format but DAT in its data storage format "Digital Data Storage"[0] is also helical scan.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Data_Storage
This is some very solid casuistry. Father James Martin, S.J. would be proud.

> Of course, most of the Catholic heirarchy and supporters of trans rights disagree on who are men and who are women to start with, but, I mean, the former at least should be familiar with the idea of an entity having the observable physical characteistics of one thing but being something radically different because of its innate essence.

I'd love to know where you found the teaching that God miraculously transubstantiates people into a body of the wrong sex.

> Catholic teaching is that lying consists of objectively false statements told with intent to deceive. (CCC 2482).

My conscience tells me that it's objectively false and if I say it isn't I'm intentionally deceiving. (CCC 1778)

> (1) As Catholic traditionalists and trans rights activists agree, “gender identity” is not the same thing that Catholics see as binary sex. Acknowledging that a persons gender identity is this or that is not a fact claim about the construct of sex, but also

Motte and bailey.

As an aside what Doctor of the Church has anything to say about "gender identity?" Presumably if this is part of tradition one of them must have had something to say on the subject. In fact, where are you finding any Catholic traditionalist who is leaning on 1970s era radical feminist linguistic novelties?[1]

> (2) Preferred pronouns are a distinct (though sometimes correlated) issue to gender identity (people with different gender identity can have the same oreferred pronouns, and vice versa), so even if acknowledging the validity of gender identity waa making a claim about sex, and even if such a claim would be false, respecting preferred pronouns isn’t acknowledging gender identity, its just respecting preferred pronouns.

More equivocating. Everyone knows the confusion is intentional.

> (3) On top of all of the above, the purpose of use of a person's preferred pronouns by a Catholic in a work environment would, presumably, not be convince anyone of some false claim about the subject's sex, and without intent to deceive, it would not be a lie even if its content were an objectively false claim. (Which, for the reasons discussed previously, it is not.)

Then why would he care when I use pronouns appropriate to his sex?

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gender+identit... https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gender+roles&y...
the generators I tried didn't seem to work. I'm on macOS using Brave
Quite a bit of that judgement is slowly being unwound and walked back.

Doesn't mean you're wrong about likeness cases, but the Blurred Lines/Gaye ruling is far from canon at this point.
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So, to begin, I worked in restaurants for the past 2-3 years (pandemic era). Even though it’s wasn't I loved, it was a job. I aspire to excel at any task that I'm given, so I worked really hard on improving, constantly questioning myself, being humbled and taking hard-to-hear advice. That attitude ultimately allowed moving up to chef and management roles. I felt that I could be successful in that industry, but I took a big scary risk and used my small savings to quit, and work on getting back into software development as a freelancer.

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I mean making the price of iron and other materials crash has value in and of itself. All of a sudden a $100M skyscrapper could cost half as much or something. Yet the end value of the product would still be worth just as much.
if you find it, do tell it sounds like a good watch

edit: you meant don’t look up, i was thinking sci-fi for some reason
Let's see what the expert teacher has to say about New Math:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA
Agreed, this has actually been around since 2017 though haha -- started off as a note taking platform and I rebuilt it from scratch recently
And for some reason we are once again back to having ChatGPT all over the front page even though nothing has changed.
Nuclear has a fundamentally different risk profile. Nuclear failures mean possibly a hugely disproportionate number of deaths, entire regions unusable, and very risky externalizations such as someone using waste to make most of Manhattan unlivable, which is absolutely a possibility that exist, and does not for almost all other technologies.

People here are talking about 'irrational fear' (?) it's 'irrational' not to account for those things. There are possibly ways to mitigate it but there are externalizations with Nuclear that cannot be avoided.
Except that list is ... eclectic, to put it politely. If you want to learn maths, I wouldn't recommend Aristotle, Descartes and Darwin.

Perhaps I don't understand what "The information presented is for illustration purposes only and may not reflect the current reading list" means, and why one would link that page anyway.
> simple mapmaking

It's not simple mapmaking though is it? It's creating a map inside a video game to simulate school grounds.

Drawing a map of the school and putting it in a frame on your wall? Fine.

Drawing a map, recreating it inside a first person shooter, then spending hours playing (training) memorizing the map? I believe anyone could see that as a terroristic threat.

Edit: Example Legos. Having a Lego model of the US Capital? Fine

Have a Lego Capital, attend the Jan 6 protest, have books and other militia type information? Probably going to get questioned by the feds.

https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-took-lego-set-of-capitol...
> Most of the times, you're given the option to opt-out of providing that information - and I feel like I would like to opt out of regurgitating my stats but I'm curious about what impact that might have on my attractiveness as a candidate.

The employer should (many will explicitly note that they do they do this, both to make people more comfortable answering and to mitigate lawsuit risk) separate the information from your application so that no one involved in the selection process will ever have access to it. While this is gathered for statistical purposes, its almost entirely stuff that would be bright-line violations of anti-discrimination law to use in the selection process.
The EU will break this wide open with the Digital Markets Act. Even Apple is preparing to open their walled garden.

Big players would do as you predicted if not for regulatory measures, that have thankfully been taken.
> Tensions between Elmendorf and Donovan rose in fall 2021, according to three HKS staff members, around when Donovan started to work on HKS’ Facebook archive project, fbarchive.org

So just a normal stalinistic purge. Nothing to see here. Please move along /s
For VHS there's the VHS-Decode project that's trying to do something similar. I don't think they work by scanning the tape itself with some custom hardware, but rather by recording some kind of internal RF drum head signal inside the VCR itself. Then they have a software stack to decode the VHS signal into actual video. Looks pretty cool, but I've never used it.

https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode
How Sad Are Psychologists?
God I love policy-wonk shit. I got to get back into reading this stuff semi-regularly, it's a blast. Thanks for the link.
1. It says it could be. It's not based on anything concrete, we don't even know what the core consists of, it's just a guess.

2. Based on the guess, the reporter probably took the suspected mass and multiplied it with the current price of the suspected metals. This is what the Business Insider "journalist" did, which she cites regarding another asteroid.

3. Yes, none of this makes any sense, especially the part where we assign a dollar value to something completely out of reach and which if we did somehow get to, would certainly affect the current price, by A LOT. But hey!

4. Don't be a conspiracy theorist. Believe all science reporting!