skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still have a VAC ban on my account for 5402 days from 1.6. Never downloaded cheats and no idea how I got it. I'm kinda proud of it now but was devastating at the time. Still astounds me knowing that my account has been around for that long.
This is one reason why I think there should be a cap on the total volume of legislation (measured in pages). If you want to pass a new law, you need to repeal an old, obsolete one.

Nobody should be subject to a corpus of rules too volumous for them to read and understand.

It's absolutely unforgivable that legislators don't even read the laws they pass.
Which "slavers" are you referring to? Almost all of the American Founding Fathers owned slaves, and they were of course very familiar with the tradition of liberal thought.

I can't speak for Hitler's knowledge of the Greeks specifically, but he was democratically elected by the nation of Germany, which - like I mentioned - was considered to be one of the most "civilized" in Europe (and thus the world). It's easy enough to draw a line from Hegel or Nietzsche - both on this list - to Nazism, after all. It's even easier to draw a line from Heidegger to Nazism, and he's also on this list.
> Can you explain why Algol-68 and PL/I didn't generate any network effects?

The community was too small. The grows in the programming field was very rapid. I don't want to say "exponential" because I don't have the actual numbers, but you could see it because, well, you would almost never meet anyone with more than some 5 years of experience in almost any programming field for decades, i.e. in 70's, 80's, 90's... I started my career in the 90's, and, so far, in real life, I only met three programmers who started more than 10 years before my time.

The new generation of programmers simply didn't know much of what the previous generation did, and this repeated many times over, not just with Algol or PL/I.

> C may have survived for over 50 years because of network effects. But it didn't get in the position to have network effects by being "awful inside and out".

I don't know how much do you know about UNIX history, but you are willfully misquoting me. Literally, the success of UNIX, and by proxy, of C is the network effect. In a more literal sense than you probably imagine. The appeal of UNIX was more or less this: the "real" computers of the day, the so-called "big iron" had always custom-made operating systems for them. Essentially, every different hardware model would ship with a different OS. UNIX was the first portable OS in a sense that you could install it on more than one CPU architecture (not from the very start, but that was the goal, and they succeeded at it). And the reason why people wanted a portable OS was the idea behind how they wanted to build networks back in those days: have a "real big-iron" have a "side-kick" computer that handles the networking issues. The side-kicks would all run the same system, and serve as adapters to "real" computers. UNIX, in a sense, was a glorified router modem... at least, that's what it was meant to be.

Quite soon programmers realized that instead of connecting "side-kick" computers to "real" computers they may make "real" computers run the same standardized OS. A much simpler one at that! Very little thought was put into thinking about why those systems on "real" computers had to be so complex and big. The same kind of enthusiast who proclaimed that Emacs is huge, but ended up using Eclipse, or the same enthusiasts who proclaimed that Ada is huge, but ended up using C++ are the shortsighted programmers who promoted UNIX in its early days, fullheartedly believing that complexity will somehow evaporate, that they are getting a simple tool to solve complex problems...

So, yeah, because UNIX did became popular due to network effect, literally and figuratively. C just piggy-backed on its success.*
If you're curious, there's some reasonably priced ones on Amazon that might satisfy your curiosity (but are not safety rated or scientifically accurate).

If you're actually feeling anxious about this, there's a laundry list of things far more likely to harm you that you can act on right now, such as making sure you have sufficient smoke and CO alarms, a CO2 measurement tool to see if your popular rooms are getting enough fresh air, and a radon detector (though depending on region this may not apply).
I'd suggest you read though a book on Cognitive Behavior Therapy if you are actually interested. Evidence suggests working through a book to be around as effective as any other intervention. I just did the same[1] and found the solutions extraordinarily useful, highly practical, and totally obvious in retrospect. Additionally, the approach itself deeply appeals to me an intellectual level - like what you'd arrive at if you attempted to turn Stoicism into contemporary practice.

1. Doing CBT by David F Tolin
Really nice! Next level would be to see correctness of the prediction. I guess something like onset of 5 or 7-day moving average temperature above freezing for each locale
Ironically, ChatGPT agrees.

"As an AI language model, I don't have personal opinions, but fairness and impartiality would require that the same fundamental idea expressed with respect to different people or groups be consistently treated as "hateful" or "non-hateful" in all circumstances. Any deviation from this principle would result in unequal treatment and reinforce existing biases and stereotypes. It is important for technology and algorithms to be designed and trained in a way that ensures they are fair and impartial in their treatment of different groups. This can help to mitigate the impact of societal biases and create a more equitable society."
:facepalm: If you "drop" it on a city, the entire Earth is wiped out. You do know how the dinosaurs were wiped out right? Look up how big that one was and compare sizes.
Not just dodge, but it would be harder to counter them all with flak or Close In Weapon Systems (CIWS) as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS
That’s around the time I started playing too. I still go through phases where I’ll get really into a new game. I don’t have the reaction time of the younger generation but the skills built up over decades of gaming allows me to stay competitive.
I've been doing this stuff professionally for 40 years. Never used a recruiter once. On either side of the trade.
KYC as well as account recovery. If you ask someone to provide photo ID or a verification photo to remove a 2FA token for example, having a previously supplied photo of the same ID helps a lot.
If I have this straight, Brock Pierce is one of the people running tether.

This means that potentially one of histories biggest ponzi schemes is being run by someone who has an entire documentary (An Open Secret) about them running a child prostitution ring and whose roommate was convicted of child prostitution and was also named in the related civil suit.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3677412/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TAnAYa8gas
If you're not paying for it, and not watching it, they don't much care that you're not going to subscribe.

They'd rather have you subscribe, and will continue to produce stuff that they hope will attract you. But they're aware that there are numerous services and they're going to have to share your attention (and your dollars).

It's "the beginning of the end" only in that they're not expanding any more because pretty much everybody on the planet has one or more of these services. It shifts from an expansion policy to a maintenance one, where people will probably jump from service to service, and continue to hope that they'll hit on that blockbuster show that causes people to want to pick them.

That's not unique to them. Everybody is in the same boat. Expect a similar course from other providers.
They made about 60 billion dollars or 366k in profit per person before the layoffs.
Messengers from the past
I agree. The hate metric is calibrated against responsiveness to insult, not a ranking of social advantage.
The greatest weakness of the school is that the list of works was compiled in 1922 and has changed only incrementally since.
It's also a great _strength_ of the school, but you could enter the world in 1988 from SJC knowing absolutely nothing about it. I'm sure that that's still true now.
From yesterday: "Reject/ghost on all job applications with 8 YoE, what am I doing wrong?"[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34609741
Remember the times where ACTA was THE issue?

Now we have a pandemic that just won't end, war with associated militarization and hit to the economy, inflation and cost of living crisis and climate change mass migrations to look forward to.

How do people have mental capacity to even think about the potential dangers of mass surveillance in democratic countries?
They still sold off
It was my shop teacher who taught me the value of estimating. As he put it, "in the real world, you rarely need high precision. Start with the quick-and-dirty, most of the time that's plenty good enough."
Under the previous law it was not a mutually exclusive choice, you could deduct the R&E expense under Section 174 and also claim the R&D credit under Section 41.

Under the current law you can no longer do both, if you want to take the R&D credit you have to instead amortize the R&E expense under Section 174.

Or from the other comments in this thread it sounds like you can maybe skip the R&D credit and then continue to deduct the R&E expense under Section 162. But it's not clear (to me anyway) whether Section 174 supercedes Section 162 in the case of software development costs, in which case you might no longer be allowed to apply Section 162.
SEOs (like me) are terrified of Google releasing a proper public Search chat — as people would not really need to visit websites.

But the space is incredibly exciting as a user/searcher/average joe.
I hope you don't mind me asking this personal question:

I noticed you worked on Flutter at Google for roughly 1 year and then left. What was your motivation? Was there a problem in the Flutter organisation?
For a US based company? American laws win every time.
> DeepMind, previously reported within Other Bets, will be reported as part of Alphabet's corporate costs, reflecting its increasing collaboration with Google Services

Does this mean anything real or is it just accounting details?
I love how they intentionally do a bad job with the Deep Fake, which in a way makes him more authentic.
Absolutely incredible levels of homelessness, tent cities, shit on the sidewalks, tons of petty crime (Most metrics of which peaked in the 2016-2019 period, by the way, before Chesa), and open-air drug use and overdoses, in addition to all of the problems already mentioned were 'always part of SF's charm'?

The goalposts sure have shifted over the past decade, now that there's a particular political creature that can be blamed...

The reality is that he wasn't the cause, and his successor won't be the solution, but he has been an excellent lightning rod for the frustration everyone feels.
Excessive authoritarianism is scary but the thing that people should really wake up to is the nuclear combination of authoritarianism and digitization.

As an example, capital controls.

I grew up in the 80s, which was largely cash-based. You got paid in cash, spent in cash, and gift/transact to others in cash. Oversight was severely limited, close to non-existent.

The concept is that you're innocent until proven guilty. It's your money, do with it what you want and it's nobody's business what you do with it. And should you engage in any illegal matters, then it's up to the government to build this case with due diligence: have a probable cause, collect evidence, maybe arrange a warrant, etc.

The important part is the very high barrier to building such a case. It's a huge amount of work just to do this for one case. Because of this, authoritarianism is kept in check. You could say it doesn't "scale".

Now we fast forward to our digital "cash" society. It's questionable if you actually own the money at all, but that's a technicality that is beyond the point.

You have no transaction privacy. Not only is it all on record, the threshold for a flagged transaction gets lower and lower. Buy a car and the bank knows and the IRS knows (in the Netherlands). There's a proposal to do laundering analysis on any transaction > 100 euro. You can't deposit or withdraw sizable money without caps or raising all kinds of flags.

The privacy is eliminated. There is no probable cause or warrant, you're treated as guilty by default and evidence is to be collected that you're innocent. A full reversal of assumptions, rights and freedom.

Which is only the beginning, because my true point is that this scales. A government now has the ability to do whatever the hell they want with your money. They can analyze millions of us and control it with the push of a button.

Wrong photo in iCloud? Money frozen. Political opponent? Assets seized. Spent too much of your money on high energy products? Programmatic tax applied.

You can make that list as long as you want, but let's take even the absolute simplest case of having that wrong photo. Imagine the analog scenario where a government regularly bursts through the door of your home to look at your photo albums. That would be the most absurd thing ever, not to mention ridiculously inefficient. Yet this is digitally happening as we speak, and nobody knows or cares.

This kind of digital insight and power over your life is a power that should not exist. Most people in this world live in authoritarian countries. Quite a few democratic one are edging towards it. Do the math.
ChatGPT just gave us the manual to what's ok / not ok to joke about as a comedian. Or mention as a politician.
You can play the most recent COD using keyboard and mouse in the PlayStation. Quite a few games where that's relevant allow it nowadays [0].

[0]: https://gamesbustop.com/ps5-games-that-supports-keyboard-and...
I think there's a lot more to the cities. The drugs that people have access to are in part so damaging to them and the community because they are entirely unregulated and sometimes aren't even made up of what the person thinks they are taking. This (is a big part of) what leads to the overdoses and addiction. Mix that in with the threat of law enforcement, job loss, and heavy social stigma, etc that prevents people from seeking help, and you have a recipe for disaster. Imagine if everytime you bought a beer you had to wonder if you could trust the seller, and whether it had methanol or fentanyl in it?

No doubt there would be some damage from libertarian drug policies, but it would look a lot more like alcohol does, which IMHO would be less damaging to society and people than prohibition and heavy handed legal punishments is. People do need help with alochol issues sometimes, and it does sometimes destroy lives/families, but we don't make it orders of magnitude worse by treating them like criminals. (although we did try it in the US a hundred years ago and it didn't go well like we thought it would).
GDPR has exceptions for mandatory retention due to financial regulations
Does that count for cable internet too?

We were one of the first to get cable in the area, so our ping was generally about 5ms..

This was when many others were still on bonded ISDN for a (nice stable) ping of about 120ms or dial up (150+ ping).

That made up for a lot of skill :D
Unchained modes FTW!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_X
> I mean, are you really running tcpdump on your local computer?

I did several times when I needed to debug or record some traffic because I couldn't figure out why some application wasn't communicating right. Wireshark quickly got overwhelmed with packets so I used tcpdump instead.

I'm most likely running tcpdump on (near) production servers because it's often a tool of last result, but sometimes it's just the right tool for the job (or just as good a tool as the fancier ones, and why not stick to the universal solution?).
>Will be interesting to see what the post-AI movement will look like.

Butlerian Jihad
Yup... half the people will be below the median.
Color me skeptical. What will they open up? Even side-loading of apps doesn’t necessarily remove the platform vendor’s advantage in being able to control the system experience. For example, consider the way the app model itself has been designed: apps are standalone experiences (this is a simplification because there are some integration hooks into other parts of the system UX). I can think of several use cases where I might like a background “camera app” that monitors the system camera feed for certain objects/scene features and suggests an action when detected.

It’s hard to argue that Apple should have to permit such functionality but then if the debate shifts towards what first party OS level features Apple is and is not allowed to provide, we get into undesirable regulatory overreach.

Ideally the OS would be open source and replaceable but that’s a pipe dream. The reality remains that platforms are intentionally crafted to heavily favor the vendor’s services and there’s little that regulation will do to change that.
I suppose it's good to know that one can successfully obtain employment without the use of a recruiter, but how is this responsive to OP's question?
The code for scheduling in mainstream schedulers runs in lots of places, which is why mainstream schedulers tend to run Paxos or Raft.
MLK is actually not a bad choice for comparison ( sufficient time has passed, some records were unsealed and so on ). I think that 'FBI monitored MLK' is perfectly sufficient and captures everything without adding negative or positive sentiment to it. Now, had the article try to add 'inappropriate', the right move would be substantiate that claim with some sort of proof that it was indeed inappropriate ( at least in the eye of the writer ). That does not appear to happen in the article on HN today. We have an assertion without any way to determine whether or not writer is just making stuff up.

Maybe, Pratchett's work was onto something when he indicated that in Discworld universe poetic license was somewhat limited[1]:

“Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three,' and any loose talk about a beloved having a face that launched a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed look like a bottle of champagne.”

So in the case of Assange, the writer should have added a short narrative indicating his particular perception of the issue ("Assange is possibly a criminal") absent a completely generic and neutral in tone ( Assange did something US governemnt did not like ).

[1]https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/586782-poetic-simile-was-st...

In short, I don't think it is impossible. There is no willingness to agree on some basic standards.
Of course it is a bias in the training data, but it's probably not the dataset that you're thinking of. So far as we can tell, the filtering part doesn't come from the main corpus, but rather from human-guided moderation - basically, people voting on whether any given answer is "hateful" or not. ChatGPT filters reflect the biases of that later group (or, perhaps, the biases of the people who instructed them).
We pick puppeteer over Selenium almost every time
Parent's point was that it wouldn't be acceptable when done regarding some protected group (ex. blacks vs whites), so it shouldn't be acceptable when it comes to men vs women
Agreed. The book "A Mathematician's Lament" I found enlightening on this topic.
Thank you! And for sure haha, plan to keep it distraction-free and minimal! :)

And thanks for pointing that out - fixing!
I always had a calculator. If they taught me shortcuts, I didn't listen. But, I was not a good student in primary school.
The paragraph you quote is a Note, which is non-normative.

The normative text that specifies the semantics of undefined behavior is:

behavior [...] for which this International Standard imposes no requirements.
if after reading those things you honestly can't see the difference then you are definitely part of the problem.
The Oil Thieves of Nigeria
That's so cool :) Just curious, while I've got you on the line, what's your actual desk or workspace look like?

I made a page to test it out - this reminds me of a way cooler expages. love the wysiwyg builder https://aliqot.straw.page/
Had to follow the links to figure out what Hyrum’s Law was (I like laws). The best link from that law is the obligatory xkcd at the very bottom. Reshared here:

https://xkcd.com/1172/
Seems like a marketing move to advertise DeepMind as in house and core to Google, not something they plan to spin off.
Sooner you start logging those 10,000 hours of practice, sooner you can start making real money
Wow, thank you for that detailed explanation. Very interesting.
I don't know if you read this guy

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/

but he has written great stuff about the prospects for space industrialization, particularly the difficulties with moving a manufactured product from where it is made to where there is a demand.

Myself I think those metal asteroids are overrated (if you 1000x the supply of gold you will just get shot by Goldfinger) and that this is the best scenario for space colonization yet

https://www.livescience.com/megasatellite-colony-ceres-oneil...

I have thought a lot about a scenario for making plastic solar shares and sunshades on a carbonaceous chondrite asteroid and sailing them back to the Earth-Sun L1 to do something about global warming while everybody else makes excuses. Look up my profile and send me an email.
>Does it matter if you're facing it, or facing away?

It is best to do both, and your sides too.

The infrared does not go all the way through your trunk or legs or head.
This video should probably have an epilepsy warning based on those strobe-light explosions. I adore the strobe-lights and they make me nostalgic as hell for early-'90s 3D games like SNES Starfox and Lightspeed/Hyperspeed, but the technique was retired for good reasons.

As for the effect itself, I wonder if it would make sense to try this with a boid algorithm so they move as a "flock". Most attempts at anime=missiles I've seen either just look too chaotic or the missiles while initially launched at wide angles gradually consolidate into a tightly-packed blob.
"Maintaining archives of material is actually a pretty complex"

Sure, but the tapes had Boris Karloff himself as host, you can't just wipe a tape with Karloff in the 60s [1] and think "eh, probably no one will ever want to watch this again".

It's just a point how awfully relative everything is. What if Max Brod actually listened to Franz Kafka and burned all his texts. How much we miss because Nikolai Gogol did actually burn the second volume to his Dead Souls.

[1] "Boris Karloff was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 8 February 1960", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Karloff
How are you going to get permission to erect a brick wall when you are barred from entering the grounds to retrieve the device?
That's assuming the recruiters haven't also been laid off - most of my big-tech recruiter contacts lost their jobs well before their engineering coworkers did.
What is an example of a high-quality newspaper / magazine that the OP should read?
Pretty much the entirety of South Park series, minus the pilot episode (which still used real construction paper).

It became increasingly obvious with time, as they started doing a lot of interesting things in later seasons that aren't really suited for non-CGI, like smooth camera angle rotations around the scene, complex special effects, etc. While in the beginning, it was mostly for the sake of making it more efficient and simpler to produce an episode.
Why not go the legal route and get a gun permit? Seems to be a much better option if you believe that you need a gun for self defence.
> think: sending container ships with trash from the US to China

That's not a real thing. It's a persistent myth, but it's not actually real.