skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My friends and I would build CounterStrike maps that were the layout of our highschool and would then run around and shoot each other. This was very taboo at the time.

I had a friend that was the victim of a local news "expose" on this. Just a harmless high school geek who thought it would be fun to combine the School blueprints with his CAD course to build a "fun" way of digitizing the blueprints.

The main lesson we learned from this exercise is that the Duke Nukem 3D pistol is totally OP when used in realistically proportioned hallways. Auto-aim and all.

The other lesson we learned is that local news investigative reporters care more about a compelling story than to represent the mundane truth.
haha! wow memories.
What a strong executive team that they can get peer pressured to doing layoffs. What are we paying them for again? Hm.
> I don't know how much do you know about UNIX history...

Perhaps more than you. I started a decade before you, so I was there for more of it than you were. (Not at the beginning, I admit.)

> but you are willfully misquoting me.

Not willfully - that takes intent. What, specifically, did I say you said that isn't what you said, or that was out of context? Having read your reply here, I still don't see what I'm misquoting.
For starters, have you reviewed this Wikipedia page:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy

As for my specific response, the existence of a non-global power example to me is irrelevant, since it’s unlikely to change the course of humanity. If you have an example, specific counter point, request for clarification, etc — happy to attempt to respond.

This comment by me within this thread might also expand on the topic you’re asking about:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34629443
As a friendly heads up to anyone exploring this space — temperature control is a complex dynamic between many components, chiefly the mixing valve, any local thermostatic dampers in the valve (rarer, but definitely a feature of high end mixers), and the source of hot water itself.

Mixer taps are not simply mixing hot water at temperature H and cold water at temperature C. The temperature H which your hot water source is capable of reaching is highly variable and certainly not constant. Higher flow for example reduces temperature as more cold water cools the heater. Heaters also cut out and oscillate as they overload.

Throughout the year the C temperature may also fluctuate by several degrees in a way that can trigger non linear effects in the hot water generator. (This is all assuming you have a just-in-time hot water source of course — more common in Europe than, say, NYC apartment blocks.)

Study the whole system and be prepared for unexpected non linearity everywhere. Heat loss per foot of pipe is a real thing, as is thermal damping of uninsulated tubing,
to give two more examples.

If you can model the system then next up, you might try your hand at predicting the weather.
The race of the AI labs heats up
Brazil has only 3 nuclear power plants. The accident occurred when the second one was being built.
I'm doing this with https://text-generator.io OpenAI is fairly pricy and has heaps of gaps, some of which text-generator.io also solves like image and link analysis. Also does speech to text
It’s a crime to threaten to hurt someone with a weapon, I don’t see how this is any different. The culture of zero accountability for law enforcement is a symptom of a government that is systemically corrupt and has thrown out even the pretense of consent of the governed.
Any FANNG company has the talent to match ChatGPT several times over.

The idea that maybe Microsoft or Apple or Google or FB doesn't have enough good engineers to code a best-in-class language model is absurd.

They all have orders of magnitude more data than OpenAI to build a better model, though.
I heard a friend who had a brilliant theory. The rise of ad profiling from Facebook and Google etc, has bleed into the public consciousness at large and now it's considered normal to categorize people by race, gender, politics, and income etc.

First the companies did, and now we all do.

But of course, a person is more than their race, or gender, or income, etc. Most of the time they have very little in common with those groups aside from color of skin, reproductive organs, or money in the bank.

It's just how the advertisers see us.
The play counter? Lots of patents in the 1980s. 3M, IBM, CBS, Polaroid. Dead end commercially.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US4586101A/en
I have to believe Itano Circus was inspired by Saturn rocket fireworks, at least that what I though as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS_7nY19kXw
Citizenship takes time and effort, but nothing prevents you both from moving to Germany to work, or Spain to retire. Next week, if you want to.

I live in Denmark, and here, upon arrival your wife would fill in a 2-ish-page online form [1] and present a job contract (or bank statement with a decent balance, university letter for studies etc -- the standard moving-in-the-EU rules which Britain never bothered to enforce).

You would show her job contract, plus your marriage certificate, and have fingerprints taken.

The process would be similar in other EU countries, but may well involve fewer online forms and more bits of paper.

[1] Which I linked previously
You don't like some park regulation vote for someone who will change it. If no one running is willing to do that then you can run for office. If no one votes for you that sucks.

Democracy isn't about getting what you want. This reminds me of people who say "not my president " or "I didn't vote for that"
It's a recession and still happening. I think expecting things to improve in Q2 is too optimistic. It will probably take at least 9 months before a bottom. And probably a couple of years before a blooming job market again. (Obviously this is just my personal opinion)
Exactly. Take the "Democrat Party" versus the "Democratic Party". They both look neutral, but a language model will code the former as more of an insult. This is because it correlates with insults because it resembles language more often used by conservative who are more likely to insult Democrats than liberals are.

Liberals will put in more effort to avoid language that looks like hate speech because they are more concerned about being politically correct. Therefore language and topics that are more frequently discussed by conservatives will be more likely to resemble language that is used in hate speech because there is less effort put in to avoid that.
I was indoctrinated at Very Big Corporation back in the 80's that given a white and a black job applicant, the company's policy was to prefer the black one as long as they meet the minimal requirements for the job. This was presented in annual mandatory Affirmative Action training as offical company policy, and was supposedly a requirement for government contracts.

Never mind that it was a blatant violation not only of the Constitution, but of the letter of the very government policy that initiated Affirmative Action to begin with.
In my last corporate job we didn't have a manager. Tech lead was filling that role.
I wonder if the china fisco during peak holiday season was a wake up call for higher ups, and if well see pressure from investor for diversifying supply chains
They have done a movie about it, and I remember it wasn't bad at all: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259956/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Other terrible accidents (not related to the nature of Goiana):

* Hisashi Ouchi: Fatal dose beyond imagination. Accident during manually mixing a bucket of radioactive material (yes, you read that right) in a room. They did this in order to bypass the regular procedure to finish the job earlier as they were already delayed. Doctors (if I recall correctly) kept him alive for 2 months while the poor guy was begging to let him go.

* Anatoli Bugorski: Literally put his head in a particle accelerator. Happened because a light indication was off when it should have been on. He described seeing the light of a billion suns (or something like that). Survived but with serious consequences.
Reminds me of the "Internet Argument" demotivational poster, which depicts a child and a mule shouting at each other.

Really, the core problem is centralization. If your website were a pub, you'd tell people to take it outside or 86 them.

Things can't work like that when most people will only patronize a small handful of enormous pubs.
OpenVPN 2.6
(Disclosure, I work for FusionAuth.)

You can self host FusionAuth, and it's free if you don't need advanced features or support.

Download it here: https://fusionauth.io/download and give it a try.

I wrote about some other options here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34633592
You can open a short position on e.g. Kraken, for as long as you can keep paying the yield to the stakers.
Why would you not normalize by population to quote per Capita numbers?
I wanted to make a map of my high school for CSS but I thought it would be too taboo in the post columbine world, so instead I made a version of my parents house with some added ladders. Honestly it was great fun playing with my friends who had been over and knew the real life layout. Hiding in the closet or peeking out the back window into the yard for flankers was great!

I miss map making. The hammer editor wasn't the best but it was simple enough to figure out, and I actually had some old blueprints of the house layout that made it easier to get things to scale. I don't think many newer games like Call of Duty have the same community spirit of community servers, community maps, etc.
“ Trade private equity in technology companies. Former aerospace investment banker and before that, algorithmic equity derivatives trader. FinTech + Space + Materials seed investor."

Your bio makes this legitimately so much funnier.
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Wow, there are a lot of bad explanations in that thread. A lot of it seems to stem from people not making the distinction between SCSI commands and lower-level transports, many of which also have SCSI in their names. But that seems to be pretty common in storage, where the separation of layers isn't as clear as on the Internet.
>Worst case we're talking about an additional input latency due to vsync of maybe 1/60s? 16ms?

its generally closer to 2 frames with V-Sync [1][2]

> I don't believe 16ms is significant for non pro level eSports players and even skeptical it's a big factor at that level.

It actually is fairly significant. LTT did a series of tests with pro players in CS:GO focused on monitor refresh rate, but one test they did was 60hz/60fps vs 60hz/300fps and found that reducing the render latency drastically improved performance despite the display still being locked to 60hz.

https://youtu.be/OX31kZbAXsA?t=1911

[1] https://displaylag.com/reduce-input-lag-in-pc-games-the-defi...

[2] https://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/cse567-15/ftp/vsync/index.ht...
Absolutely this.

Indeed I think it's fair to say that it'd take a lot of artificial calibration and data curation for a model trained on a range of media including statements about and by Mitch McConnell and Trump respectively not to conclude that the latter was the one much more associated with "hate" and "danger" and "violence" and whatever other parameters a LLM ends up associating with inappropriateness.

A biased liberal human moderator, on the other hand, is going to see the real world political relationships rather than the raw text and see Mitch as a very problematic figure in very much the same bracket as Trump. They're certainly not going to rate him as a less problematic figure than Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi!

Same when I'm getting identically structured caveats about considering good points in the context of the bad things he did for Bill Clinton and Stalin because all the machine knows is that equivocating is favoured and both have lots of "bad things" written about them (it disallowed considering the good points of Hitler, presumably because even an LLM can deduce Godwin's law!). I'm not sure this is quite how a human moderator, irrespective of bias, would handle it
It was 5000 btc per pizza, back in 2010 or so.

https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/bitcoin-pizza-day-lasz...
Whites are 60% of the population though, so they're being arrested in proportion with their representation. They also do not separate white-latino and white-non-latino, so the colloquial "white" is being lumped in with another ethnicity. Also, in 2019, blacks were just under 13% of the population, yet they are represented 2x-4x over in virtually ever crime category in that table.

So it is true and you're distorting the table.
This coupled with a weird fixation on achieving a sufficiently "high" level of mathematics, typically without a strong justification for any non-grad-school-bound students. Reeks of gate-keeping. I've known multiple people who've failed to finish a degree solely because of math classes covering material that they'd almost certainly never have seen again their entire lives, even if they achieved a middling-successful career in their desired field.

If "thinking mathematically" is the actual, vital part of that education, for most students, I have some doubts that a classics-based approach is any worse than the modern kind. Maybe better, except for a small slice of students who will continue to engage with advanced mathematics after they finish undergrad and do need the modern version.
I try to think of it in the most charitable way possible: "in what ways can we accommodate this person's needs". Sometimes the ideal candidate can be unique in ways you'd not considered at first. It shows care to pay attention to those details and make them feel welcomed.
> Then mom, dad, and the kids faced a barrage of questions

In America, you should essentially never speak to the police w/o a lawyer[1]

> They told us that it wasn't safe for kids to walk down the street

Isn't that stark admittance that the police themselves are the ones failing in this scenario?

PS: highly recommend reaons's reporting, I find them quite interesting not just covering the same run of the mill topics.

PPS: I'm sure they should arrest all of Japan for being complicit in the making of this show (jk) https://www.netflix.com/title/81506279

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO7z4cHrcuY
I have to say, Elon musk does not seem like a very good businessman.
Wouldn't it come down to proof of intent to exploit? Surely an actor who happens to look like Brad Pitt can't be prevented from working in the film industry on that basis alone? I agree that calling themselves Britt Pad or whatever might be crossing the line!
What percentage of their services revenue comes from selling casino games to kids? I'm assuming you can answer that if you're making that accusation.
That won't stop them trying to lobby their way into banning third parties from the web if they could.

Apple, Google, and Facebook are the 5th, 6th, and 7th largest lobbyists in the EU.

https://www.lobbyfacts.eu/?sort=lob&order=desc
Seriously. There's no greenbubbles left to lord it over anymore.
i'm kind of surprised this isn't considered cheating. It's effectively zooming in.
Flash was a plugin, not a "native API built into browsers".
Who could have known. Other than folks who read the CFTC settlement [1] and the NYAG settlement [2].

And their org chart.

1. Tether and Bitfinex CEO J. L. van der Velve used to sell a product he claimed could transform the nicotine in cigarettes into vitamins - and suggested it allowed you to smoke 300 per day.

2. Their chief council, Stuart Hoegner, once held all of the Tether backing reserves in his personal Bank of Montreal account co-mingled with his lunch money, one assumes. He was also director of compliance at Excapsa, parent company of Ultimate Bet, where they had a backdoor interface allowing their friends to see their opponents cards. [3]

3. Giancarlo Devasini, their CFO, is a former plastic surgeon (for about a week) who had to pay a $65,000 fine for pirating Microsoft software in 1996 and was then sued by Toshiba for infringing some of their DVD patents. [4]

[edit] Tether was co-founded by former Mighty Ducks cast member Brock Pierce, the guy who fled to Spain with Mark Collins-Rector while he was an indicted fugitive on child sex trafficking charges. They were then both arrested in a villa full of child pornography. [3]

[edit2] Also note that none of the leadership team wanted to admit they were involved in Tether until it came out in the paradise papers because they used Appleby. Because of course they used Appleby. [5]

[edit3] Almost forgot, the guy who runs their banking partner, Deltec (and Moonstone!), was the creator of Inspector Gadget - Jean Chalopin. [6]

[1] https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8450-21

[2] https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-...

[3] https://bennettftomlin.com/2021/03/27/before-bitfinex-and-te...

[4] https://www.ft.com/content/4da3060c-8e1a-439f-a1d7-a6a4688ad...

[5] https://news.bitcoin.com/paradise-papers-reveal-bitfinexs-de...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Chalopin
Exactly. I think that for some folks out there who are struggling, they're not necessarily hesitating to get help they need out of shame or wounded sense of pride. But because they've correctly assessed the risks of it being weaponized against them.

I can imagine a world where culture gets better in 20, 30 years and we look back at the 2020s and say "yikes, good thing it's not like that anymore."
That's what I thought too. Why not take the first step to reduce the temperature setting on the water heater?
That's my point; it's not clear there's any political bias taking place here.

What are you talking about?? Reread the article:

OpenAI content moderation system is more permissive of hateful comments being made about conservatives than the same comments being made about liberals.
Yes, agree, given it’s roughly 50/50, it actually might in fact be random.
Putting people in prison for drug use is also a very common way to seriously and irreparably destroy their lives, including cases where their drug use was not, by itself, harming them.
What are some examples of R&D expenses that couldn't easily be categorized as regular expenses?

If I run a software business that brings in 100k but spends 90k on developers, then thats money going for salaries or contracting, both of which are fully deductible.
"Companies that increased ad spend saw success in the long run. Sixty percent of brands that increased their media investment during the last recession saw ROI improvements. Brands that increased paid advertising also saw a 17% rise in incremental sales. By contrast, marketers who cut ad spending risk losing 15% of their revenue during a recession."

It's not unusual for businesses to lay off people and divert the capital towards go-to-market during a recession.

https://info.analyticpartners.com/roi-genome/the-rules-of-re...
Could you briefly take this typing test: https://livetyper.com/
And post the WPM you achieved?
Ask HN: Aren’t high Egress fees clearly anti competitive?
I think we are all used to the various cloud providers having very high egress fees. The reason for that being that it leads to a very strong lock in to the cloud providers services. Want to use some processing using your own servers on data in GCS or S3 ? Good luck. Isn’t that clearly anti competitive and should be regulated ?
Seems like someone has a lot of bigotry towards plumbers and their training. 9000 hours of on the job training, coursework, tests, certification/licensing to become a journeyman.

How about "Engineers/programmers/teachers receive less training than plumbers"?
I misread gross profit. My bad.
Shouldn't Mastadon be on there from day 1 then?
The Goiânia accident was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on September 13, 1987, in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, after a forgotten radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital site in the city.

I wish we would put more emphasis on supporting the body as a means to improve health instead of assaulting the body in the name of assaulting the illness.
To create an image, you have to use something. You can't just say 'dead thing bounce'. Maybe it's unfair to cats since I would agree that not all choices for 'thing' are equally acceptable. No 'dead baby bounce'. But still it must be something actual and not purely abstract, else it's not an image and does not do the job an image does.
Google Cloud turning into a machine.
App store revenue is mostly games, but there's also Apple Music, AppleTV+, Apple News+, iClouds storage plans (almost necessary to use iCloud photos), Apple Fitness+, Apple Arcade, and probably others I'm forgetting.
> With strict bin packing, we end up with Katamari Damacy scheduling, where a couple overworked servers in our fleet suck up all the random jobs they come into contact with.
This is really bad and I'm generally a pretty politically minded person, but is there a policy for what is and isn't discussed on hacker news? This one seems completely unrelated to technology.

I don't mind talking about politics in circles such as this but it seems a bit arbitrary that this particular news story blew up on HN. Does anybody know / could speculate why?
30% Revenue decline on Mac YoY

What a drop! M1 success and exodus out of butterfly keyboard probably pumped those numbers last year, but I guess we know the trend of growth there is on shaky ground.

Also, i wonder how much of that are companies not needing to buy new hires new laptops
Perhaps it is a bad way to learn 'applied math'? Bertrand Russel might disagree...
Looks amazing. Thanks for puting this accross. If you can add no code version.
Reminds me of the time I went to England, ended up in a cheaper hotel with a wash basin that had two taps on each side, hot and cold.

Although it was a real pain, what really shocked me was the carpet floor in the shower room...
But that is the same problem. There aren't any human reviewing the requests as they come in. That human guided moderation gets converted into some type of model that isn't any smarter than ChatGPT. That model is just as susceptible to this issue.
Hmm? No equating happening in my comment. The point was that just because statement is about a political group doesn't mean it's a only an opinion. Mentioning Nazi Germany is just using an extreme example to make clear that statements about political groups aren't inherently mere opinions.
Technology needs creative minds to make it work meaningfully, they have an excellent track record here and deserve this. I wouldn't want to be Tom Cruise right now ...
I love being able to hit one button at night and have every light turn off and set the alarm.
Past results isn’t what you use to decide how to position for the future. It is about expected future(s) and how to set yourself up for longer term success.
I'm actually kind of curious about this. I will be keeping a smartphone or tablet out of my kid's hands for as long as possible. Most games on the App Store seem designed to sell microtransactions and not just, be a fun game.

I'd feel much better giving her a Switch and some Mario games.
So we need like a capacitor for hot water at the shower head.
Someone looked into this, and found most ways of doing so had large counterparty risk, among other issues.

https://fakemoneynews.substack.com/p/shorting-tether-for-fun...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34299618
How do authoritarian states feel more free?

They have rules as well. Your list of grievances has some small issuss. Why do you think an authoritarian state would better. For example in Sir Lanka chewing gum is banned.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewing_gum_sales_ban_in_Sin...

That's a easy one because it's mentioned often but
I guess my question is how do you know the US is less free than other countries? What if you are being manipulated to feel anger at the government?
Not only did he survive, but he’s still alive.
Problem is if you win the bet you can also expect the exchange to go bust. They’re all part of the Tether system

The lack of a good way to short Tether with a reliable counterparty is a major reason why Tether has lasted as long as it has