skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The intent does not even matter long term.

The danger is an oportunist individual or group taking advantage of the thing.

Let us play fantasyland and we assume there is one day a pill that feeds you for a day, tastes better than any food, makes you full and beats obesity.

Do you think the ownership of that would not be fiercly fought about and the development should be kept secret?

If it is not secret, anyone could just steal that revolutionary idea.
Roughly true, if you also avoid using the vast majority of smartphone apps. But for me, going that route is an even greater inconvenience than just not having a smartphone. It requires greater vigilance and caution.

The path of least resistance for me is to avoid smartphones and use a real pocket computer instead.
In case the author is here: did you consider Tcl? Or QuickJS?

I’ve written maybe 20k lines of Lua (and embedded it twice), but… I just don’t want to deal with its idiosyncrasies (especially one-based indexing and loops) anymore.

If I had to embed a language today, I’d probably try QuickJS first. Tcl also sounds similar to what you described (although I’ll admit I’ve only written trivial amounts of Tcl).

Edit: I ask because I’m also interested in a simple runtime I can maintain myself (if needed).
I have always wondered if it would be possible to build a generic reader for magnetic tapes that essentially just scans whatever tape you throw at it and then it is up to some software to decode the content. I know close to nothing about the details of magnetic recording on tape, so maybe this is just not possible with reasonable effort, i.e. you could but you would need SQUIDs to make it work or something like that.
Biomolecular analyses enable new insights into ancient Egyptian embalming
It was like that for me, until it wasn't. I am still weight lifting but my sleep is much worse if I push too much. Sleep issues are simple only until you have them.
> There is no diversity in ownership nor opinion now. There is the one party...

Is this referring to the "Republicans and Democrats are the same party" trope, or is there a different intended meaning here?

You're comment indicates you think there are multiple parties. I'd assume you mean the Republicans and Democrats, but both of those parties are supported by various news outlets. So yeah, I don't think I understand what is trying to be conveyed here.
A huge concern that no one seems to be mentioning is that pretty much all academic data sets that used the Twitter API were required by the TOS to only be released publicly with the tweet ids, not the content of the tweet. Some of these have hundreds of thousands of tweets, and the only way to check the work of the researchers, or to build on it, is to use the api to reseed everything yourself.

With this new policy that practically becomes impossible (the costs would be outrageous for a researcher, much less an individual).

This will have the effect of essentially destroying 15 years worth of social science work that was based on Twitter data, it's all gone.

If you're a researcher who has published a data set with only IDs but have a private version with all tweet data I highly encourage you to publish that internal dataset. I'm putting together some hosting for anyone that needs it, feel free to get in touch and we can take it from there.
Because many politicians see individual enrichment as a goal over law making. Corporations pay to prevent consumer protections that would limit their revenue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying
Thank you for this! I love elixir and Erlang but I hate elixir’s syntax, so Gleam looks really cool!

Are you aware of other beam-targeting languages?
I believe this, but there was also a time when it was considered a virtue to be more open-minded--calling someone "a literal Nazi" over some minor ideological disagreement (and then calling for them to be fired, attacked, etc) would have been roundly and correctly criticized. Now it seems like it's considered virtuous to exaggerate differences, police ideas, etc.
"coding", sure -- I say that all the time too. But "coding language" is something I have never heard.
I check karma mainly as an indication that my comments / submissions have been read by somebody. Sometimes I put lots of work into writing a thoughtful / helpful comment, and if it stays at 1 karma, I feel a bit disappointed that maybe it wasn't read by anybody. But I don't care about the karma total.
My sister had the police called when her school age kids were playing/riding scooters in her front yard and driveway. In that case though, the police were just as confused as she was.
No one said safety should be the only metric. The other commenters are questioning the fact that safety was raised as a metric at all, despite the fact that the behavior of the officers runs counter to the metric they cite.
As a boy in the early 80s age 10 in an American suburb, I rode my bike to school one mile and back. It was fairly safe.

I also walked half a mile to a school bus stop when I was 12 and waited there (on a pretty busy street - not sure if that makes it safer or more dangerous but I would guess actually safer.)

I don't think the risks were high then, nor are they now. But the culture of what is considered acceptable for your kids to do by themselves outside the home is definitely way different.

If I had to pick one factor that is different and driving the difference, I think it's that the society now keeps (public) databases of where sexual offenders live so the awareness of the threat is much more concrete, even if it is not particularly elevated. We are over-managing/weighting what we can measure.

But also feeding the changing dynamic is bureaucracy and funding and legislation reflecting both the wealth and fears of our society -- today I learned) Child Protective Services wasn't really created until certain 1974 federal funding was given to the states, and other legislation around this didn't come till the 1988 Child Abuse Prevention, Adoption, and Family Services Act.
I like when my Karma is a number divisible by 10 and dislike it when I get upvoted/downvoted that breaks that.
Wait till you learn their salaries.
> To me the semantics of what one wants to call free will really don't matter and aren't worth much discussion, yet they seem to be primarily what gets discussed.

It matters quite a bit I think, because otherwise it's an impediment to communication. Just look around at all the pushback from unnecessary changes to language due to so-called "wokeness". If a term has a coherent conception and is mostly well understood and commonly utilized by people, I don't see the value in trying to change that language.

In this context, Harris is just one in a long line of people leveling this accusation that Compatibilism is changing the definition of free will, where it seems instead that it empirically matches how people actually use this term.

This is not to say that you specifically were making this argument, but it's been implicit (and sometimes explicit) undercurrent in this whole thread.
It sucks that their tax burden is going to be higher on account of making all this money in a single year, putting almost all of it in the highest brackets. Unless they did some clever accounting tricks throughout the 20 years to prepare for this situation, which I highly doubt they did.

I don't know where he lives, but in California it could easily add up to close to 50% since he's "rich".
If you really, really need to work, you need help from a grandmother or maybe even hire a full time nanny. Otherwise you will be quite busy for a few months- but try to enjoy since every month is so different from the other one.

(Also just order food/whatever for a few months too.)
You're going to be very confused when liberals become anti-trans, and pretend like trans rights were actually only being pushed by a minority of liberal extremists, e.g. defund and police abolition, M4A etc.. With that you will have joined the extreme left, which due to the horseshoe principle (all anti-establishment narratives are equally unhinged), will put you on the extreme right, all without ever having changed your opinion.

Or you'll change your opinion. Either way. Situational morality is actually a sign of progress.
Why did you restrict yourself to cable news? Do you think your selection could have any biases?
"because I'm in teaching mode most of the time instead of building stuff."

Based on the structure you detailed, it sounds like that's by design. I guess embrace being a teacher, or leave?
> At what point people realise we need to shed the old system and its top crème de la crème in favour of a new one?

Excluding migration to new land, what is a good historical precedent?

Sounds a bit like "Rewrite It In Rust!"

Reboot is good for those who have extracted and sequestered value out of the old system.

Less good for those whose assets were extracted and still have legal claims within the old system.
> Google peaked at Google Search and Google Ads. Everything else is subpar or average

So should they have laid off more people and just kept coasting on search ads?
I should have specified perf / watt. Pentium M's came and cleaned up compared to P4s, there was a fair bit of time there when, excluding massive power hungry desktop monsters, a beefy laptop with a Pentium M could easily beat an average desktop with a P4.

And IIRC pipeline stalls on the P4 hurt, badly.

Oh and RAMBUS, I had forgotten about RAMBUS. That also hindered the platform.
What's weird about the narrative conservatives put out is.. that the mainstream media is pro democrat, and pro establishment - but if you listen to NPR, or any of the big three, or read NYT, WaPo, or any other large newspaper, the criticism of whatever administration happens to be in power is often blistering.

The absolutely breathless coverage about classified documents found in Biden's home, about whatever immigration problem happens to be going on (which often implies on both ideological sides of it that the immigration problem is the presidents fault), the economy, etc - the coverage is all about the same, critical, often overly so.

The only real difference is, there isnt some violation of norms or scandal every three weeks with Biden. One of the nice things I can say about Trump, is he had so many scandals, we stopped using the -gate suffix to them.
Except it's not very deep. Did I get downvoted for being too inflammatory, or of being rude, or for making my point poorly, or because there's a logical fault in my argument, or because my point goes against accepted knowledge, or because someone misclicked the upvote button? I can guess, but it would be nicer to know why.
I don't think so. I think this might be just another signal to other profitable companies that tightening your belt (even though you are making absurd money) is rewarded. Tight focus by Meta and better than expected performance of increased ad load has paid off.
This! As data horder I see even more value in preserving pre-AI content, art, source code. That genuine stuff will be priceless.
I'm not sure if it is still (or ever was) true, but I heard it uses a text file for the database. Arc lisp for the programming language. And vi (not vim) for the text editor.
If this was the point you were trying to make, then I would agree. And frankly, I truly believe the vast majority of HN users are not hateful despite that it is clear there is an increasing perception that it is. Usually when I flag obvious transphobia and hatred, it is already downvoted to the minimum score. I would hope anyone here would view suicide of any kind as a preventable tragedy. We've seen it happen here before plenty of times to people I'd like to think were highly respected by HN.

Personally I would not take the karma hit too seriously. Like any community with voting, the votes are ascribed more meaning than deserved. People vote mostly out of irrational emotion.

I will close with this: if this was the point you were making I hope you can understand why I didn't get it. The first post seems like you wanted this removed, which is a reasonable perspective, but the best way to get an article removed is probably to flag and email staff. If you don't think this should be removed, or at least are neutral about it, I think the best we can do is at least flag the off-topic comments that made Foone hate this place in the first place. I really hate this conundrum, because Foone makes amazingly good content, and I genuinely, truly believe that it finds it's way here out of virtue that it's just that good, not out of malice.

Unfortunately, as it always is, a minority of terrible people are always out to ruin nice things.

Oh well. I should leave this thread too, at this point.
It appears to be down. (Maybe it’s just me though.)
The difference is that instead of clicking on 3 or 4 pages to get your low quality content, you'll get it with a prompt.
Not really. It’s just a number
320x240 mode was the coolest thing back in the days - https://github.com/Scalibq/DOS_SDK/blob/main/C/VGA.c#L38
> Tesla's aren't THE most accessible (by cost) EV out there, but SpaceX def is.

SpaceX is... an accessible EV? What?
Cuz UE is so big on privacy don't you know. GDPR for the plebs and total surveillance for the state, got it.
people need privacy not because their acts are unworthy

people need privacy because others' intentions and judgment are unworthy

if you've ever known anyone who was gay, who got divorced, who secretly had a deprecated ethnic background, who left their faith, who didn't want their ex-boyfriend to know where they lived, who revealed government corruption, who struggled for political change, or who could be raped or robbed by a stranger, you've known someone who needed privacy

even though they had nothing to be ashamed of

you might argue that if nobody had privacy, nobody would be able to get away with rape, or with lynching people they discovered had a drop of black blood, or with lynching apostates, or with gay-bashing, so these things wouldn't happen in a world without privacy

that would be a stupid argument because people did those things openly all the time, and they usually got away with it, and some of them still do; humans have a social
pecking order, and it is defined by aggression with impunity

also people murder their ex-partners all the time even when they won't get away with it
> it's a huge waste of researchers time to obsess about political correctness when we could be <100 years off from AGI.

This really irritates me. The wokism/political correctness is pretty much in every part of our lifes and everyone seems to be terrorized by it. Can we just agree that we're all thinking adults and we understand that this is an algorithm, it does not mean to offend anyone... There are much more interesting problems to solve than tip-toeing around all the snowflakes.
I do not see how imagining a bunch of people is going to make anyone feel less lonely.
Stopped using Ubuntu after this snapd malarky. Glad I did.
Since that account only goes back to 2017 it would have to be, yes.
RHEL and derivatives have long been the standard in the Ops world for their stability. Rocky Linux and Alma linux are the main two community editions, they are both supported by pretty good communities, so it's hard to pick one.

Seems Ubuntu was largely popular with devs and the masses due to it's ease of use back in the day. Never understood why more didn't just go with Fedora back then.
And why will not some system arise where quality is valued. At my university, I hear a lot of colleges talk about how ChatGPT improves the quality of their work because they can find things they wouldn’t otherwise and because the writers block is partially solved.
From the C standard §3.4.3:

undefined behavior

behavior, upon use of a nonportable or erroneous program construct or of erroneous data,
for which this International Standard imposes no requirements
NOTE Possible undefined behavior ranges from ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable
results, to behaving during translation or program execution in a documented manner characteristic of the
environment (with or without the issuance of a diagnostic message), to terminating a translation or
execution (with the issuance of a diagnostic message).
EXAMPLE An example of undefined behavior is the behavior on integer overflow

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf

The important wording here is "this International Standard imposes no requirements"

i.e. an implementation is allowed to do literally anything in the case of undefined behaviour. It's not quite that the compiler writers are saying "this can never happen", it's more along the lines of "if this does happen, we can do anything at all, including acting as if the conditions were such that UB could not have happened."

So if you multiply two signed ints that the compiler knows are positive, the compiler can assume that the result can't overflow. Because, if it does overflow, the compiler can emit code that does absolutely anything in that case - including acting as if it didn't overflow. Therefore, it can elide checks for a negative result, because either there was no overflow in which case the check is redundant, or there was but the code is allowed to do anything at all - including not performing the check for a negative result.
Never played CS in my life, tried this and managed two kills with a MacBook Pro M1 trackpad.
British gas meters are inside the house?
I don't understand why you have to abhor its existence. I play d&d. I had 2 of my players come over last night so that I could help them generate their character photos. It took 4 hours to make both their characters. It only took 4 hours because I can prompt engineer, tweak in photoshop, understand img2img blending/inpainting methods. Someday I wont have to speak to the AI in specific ways to get what I want, but until then, prompt engineering is the winning strategy. You can be a prompt engineer and understand how the model works and what it is trained on. Most people dont want to do that. Most people don't know how microwave works, but they know how to use it to get quick fast food.
I don't care about my karma, and I have no problem in expressing controversial opinions. However I also tend to provide information, and that means that even controversial opinions do well in the karma lottery.

The last thing that got downvoted very much was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33285050. People don't like criticisms of Asimov apparently.

But https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33110738 is an example of something I would have expected to be controversial, which was instead well-received.
PopOS is in a similar space, if a bit further from Ubuntu than Mint is (still uses apt!), and I've had no issues with Steam there either.
A) The arrest should have never, ever happened. There needs to be a line where police know they are not allowed to cross. This I'm immune from everything because I'm an agent of the government needs to go now.

B) The arrest record needs to go away forever

C) Arrest records should never be used by government to deny rights or services, only conviction records.
> Has the fear of losing your HN karma ever stopped you from expressing yourself?

"Fear" is an unnecessarily adversarial way to view it. (After all, what bad thing happens if you lose all your HN karma? Do you lose your lunch?)

My take is, "Is this going to make some people sufficiently angry that they will downvote me?" Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes I don't care. Sometimes I do, because:

(1) Maybe the issue was debated to death and I'm adding no value. Why bother?

(2) Maybe I can rephrase it to make it less aggressive. Hopefully that will also make my argument more persuasive.

(3) I can see exactly what kind of people will be upset by my comment and I just don't see us ever agreeing. I have better things to waste my time on.
I am reminded of an article some years ago about a group that claimed to detect/track the F-35 via this sort of passive radar technique. https://archive.is/1t5eT and/or https://www.c4isrnet.com/intel-geoint/sensors/2019/09/30/ste...
Islam: famous left-wing religion.

Christianity: notoriously tolerant of minorities, supportive of the equality of women, and gay friendly.
Well that is a thesis. I disagree with most of your thesis, though world gdp at $200T i do agree with.

But I appreciate you trying to lay it out, i'd say metaverse spending will be less than 2% at that time. Most of the world wont' even be near the meta verse in 10 years.
Hollywood is the culprit for all this militarized police in the USA and the arms industry.
Basically, "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" but in Linux flavor.

The best part of Linux is this is totally avoidable (less so if you're in a strict corporate environment where Ubuntu is the only option from IT)
I guess this needed an example for people. That comment was an addendum, not a lone statement. It's read like this:

> That was partly the reason that C++ and Objective C emerged. Also Java and Python.
It is too bad esdf lost to wasd as the convention for FPS controls. Then we could have the unimportant qwazx keys on the left, instead of all these special keys like control and alt.
I asked in a previous thread about the relative strength of the device in Goiânia and the recent device in Australia. cosama replied:

> The wikipedia article you linked mentioned that the Goiânia source was 50.9 TBq (1,380 Ci) when lost, the source in question here [in Australia] is probably 1-10 mCi, so about a million times weaker. See this other thread about the incidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34549126 .
ChatGPT's breakout moment and the race to put AI to work
"Do these teams not have managers? Most of those responsibilities seem like the job of a manager."

I wish! I do not work at FAANG, but I don't think I've had any managers that were that involved in our work. It's mostly a push-it-down-to-the-dev so everything is on the dev's plate at the end of the day. Which is funny, because I always thought the point if the manager was to remove overhead and coordinate the work so the devs can get more done.
I have a couple cop friends and they make about as much as me. And that's ignoring benefits. How much do we need to pay them? $300k? $500k?
> Do you care about your HN karma?

I take screenshots of the funny numbers

> Has the fear of losing your HN karma ever stopped you from expressing yourself?

I have plenty of karma. The most I can lose from any one comment is 5. There’s not much downside to posting things here, which can be a good or a bad thing. Personally I rarely actually get to -4. If you’re articulate and not a jerk to people it’s rare that you’ll be significantly downvoted. Bonus points if you’re also correct.
To me it’s not so much about greed than it is about waste.
The Copyright Law is already so convoluted, I'm curious how they are gonna apply it on AI Models in the coming decades.

For established libraries (photos/books...) controlled by corporations, it would be possible to licence in bulk for inclusion in models. But I don’t see how you can get royalties per generated item (like streaming)

How about Public Funds? Too “socialist” ? well brace yourself for revolution : The OSS trained on everything under the sun are coming (soon.) What are you gonna do about it?
I would hope that in some cases, if their friends and loved ones start explicitly signaling their distrust of NewsMax or whatever, then their likelihood of seeing content from shitty sources would decrease, slowly extracting them from the hate bubble. Of course these systems could also cause people to isolate further, and get lost in these bubbles of negativity. These systems would help to identify people on the path to getting lost, opening the path for some IRL intervention, and should the person chose to leave the bubble, they should have an easier path towards recovery.

Either way, a lot of those networks depend heavily on inauthentic rage porn, which should have a hard time propagating in a network built on accountability.
I saw a video depiction of the incident that wasn't listed in the wikipedia. Does anyone recall?