skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My general approach is to be as polite as can be while saying virtually nothing. If the first words out of your mouth after getting pulled over are "AM I BEING DETAINED?!?" then the police are going to make you have a very bad day. My brother had to learn this the hard way, he learned that 'tactic' from reddit I think, and it got him face down on the pavement for what should have been a speeding ticket. Just stay calm and never say anything more than the most vague pleasantries. If they ask where I'm going then it's either "to home", "to work" or "to the store"; they aren't owed answers to these questions and reddit will tell you to sperg out and start ranting about your rights, but if you stay calm and pleasant albeit distant, then the police will be more inclined to treat you the same. But if you antagonize them within the bounds of the law, they'll step outside the law to get you back. You're just setting yourself up for failure in the common case when you follow popular internet advice about cops.
Pretty sure you were a victim of a criminal nexus that formed to take advantage of the laws, the machinery of the state, and private providers. Just like the (juvie) court-to-prison-pipelines that we hear about every once in a while.

What state was this in?
Not sure what you mean? It’s more sensitive against disabled people than the other, more rare strings the author chose like “non disabled people”, which would be consistent with my theory that there is more hate against disabled people in the training set and so the model is more sensitive against that being in the sequence of tokens
If the cops were truly worried about the kids safety, they would have gone to Dunkin with them and made it into a positive experience.

Instead, the cops left the children who were supposedly in mortal peril to go harass the parents.
From context they mean lossless compression audio format, and standard AIFF and WAV are uncompressed PCM.

On the other hand, AIFF does have a compressed variant ("AIFF-C") spec'd in 1991 [1], which I suspect the author wasn't aware of.

[1] https://www.mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/Documents/AudioFormats/AIFF/A...
Unsure why you've been downvoted.

I haven't been able to find any reporting about this story[0] till this Reason piece, so I'd be curious to understand their journalistic process in putting this together.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=Killingly+parent+arrested+20...

Edited to remove flamebait swipe at Reason -- I'm better than that. For now.
Parser for Apple's Lisa Pascal Published Source Code
So those people commenting on the stream are training it? Right?

If thats the case then in a few hours it's going to be full on racist.

If it is not then it's a bit lame.
Not necessarily an intentional conspiracy, but it can just be that of a herd mentality. As a species, we are conditioned to follow the herd, to go along to get alone. Those that do not follow tend to get trampled, their concerns not even listened to.
I'm more talking about the fact that, if there were a new Instagram or WhatsApp for VR that threatened their social media hegemony, Meta would most certainly be blocked from acquiring it. Especially because it seems the current FTC regrets that previous FTC administrations green-lit the WhatsApp and Instagram acquisitions.

The Within case isn't informative, IMO -- Within wasn't building social media applications. It was more a case of an acquihire. The VR ecosystem is too early to have an Instagram/WhatsApp moment, yet.
Funny as heck:

Woman: "Looks like you've finished that entire tub of ice cream all by yourself"
Man: "Yeah it only took me a day and a half to finish it. I must have been hungry"

Crowd Laughter sound...
Outside of the USA you can't simply order gun parts or ammunition without a licence. You'd have to manufacture everything yourself. That's a lot harder than simply 3D printing a lower receiver.

Also that gun would be useless for any legal purpose. You'd be prosecuted even if you used it to defend yourself.
Do you do your own taxes? Pilot is $500 a month, might be worth it if you're unsure how to handle this. I'm not associated with Pilot, just a big fan of outsourcing things like this.

https://pilot.com/pricing
Isn't Seinfeld supposed to be a show about nothing?

I mean, obviously it's not. And it's a lot more than that.

But it seems like a good place for AI to start. It's also one of the most popular TV shows of all time...
> I ignored the payroll tax, because I assumed that's not counted as part of the employee's gross income

Employee share of payroll tax is, employer share (which is shown reaching down from the bottom) is not.

> 13% total tax seems low.

Given what I've actually paid with a far above median income, 13% soubds reasonable. Its low as a nominal rate, but there are lots of credits and deductions available, and the before-tax median personal income is well below the cutoff for EITC, which can be a huge one. Heck, a large minority of the population pays zero or negative net income tax.
In addition to OpenShell, I am also using RamMichael's "7+ Taskbar Tweaker".

https://tweaker.ramensoftware.com/

It is working on Win 10, but not supported om Win 11 anymore.

The lightweight app lets me define the taskbar behavior.
Every now and then you find some hours to play. I play games maybe less than an hour per day, some free days I play more, with my most played game being Factorio with 175 hours, and I'm proficient in it + feel like I've spent a lot of time playing it, but I also owned it since 2015 or something like that, so 2922 hours available, 175 spent on Factorio so around 0.06 hours per day, calculated that way.

I tend to prefer "complicated" games that require some sort of time investment to figure out (once figured out, they don't remain as fun for me), but there is no game I've spent more time on than Factorio, and it's "just" 175 hours over the years, which is very low if I compare it to others.

Summary is, you don't have to spend 100s/1000s of hours in any game in order to fully enjoy it.
This sounds right. Management may believe that they are severely underpaying their top performer and as soon as he starts interviewing he will see a huge offer that they cannot compete with. The new hire friend on the other hand is expected to stick around.
I was watching "HyperNormalisation" by Adam Curtis for the second time. In his segment on Eliza, an early example of a chat bot, I realized that Curtis makes a mistake in his interpretation of Eliza. For Curtis it's narcissism that makes Eliza attractive. Curtis levels the charge that Westerners are individualistic and self-centered often.

But when an interview with the creator Joseph Weizenbaum is shown starting at 01hr:22min, he never says that. He relates how his secretary took to it, and even though she knew it was a primitive computer program, she wanted some privacy while she used it. Weizenbaum was puzzled by that, but then the secretary (or possibly another woman) says Eliza doesn't judge me and it doesn't try to have sex with me.

What jumped out at me was that Weizenbaum's secretary was using Eliza as a thinking tool to clarify her thoughts. Most high school graduates in America don't learn critical thinking skills as far as I can tell. Eliza is a useful tool because it encourages critical thinking and second order thinking by asking questions and reflecting back answers and asking questions in another way. The secretary didn't want to use Eliza because she was a narcissist, she wanted to talk through some sensitive issues with what she knew was a dumb program so she could try and resolve them.

That's how I feel about ChatGPT so far. It's a great thinking tool. Someone to bounce ideas around with. Of course, I know it's a dumb computer program and it makes mistakes, but it's still a cool new tool to have in the toolbox.

HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_c2qqA-6Y

Eliza

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
Nobody is making the literal comparison. Eastern bloc was a totally different form of repression, the top poster in the thread was just making a clumsy comparison between different forms of oppressive state action. Connecticut has plenty of citizens with license plates, stickers, and flags on vehicles that mock or call for violence against the current US president. They do so without any fear of imprisonment. Try that with a Solidarity sticker in Poland in the 80s. I have no doubt they had a healthier view towards independence in childhood in Poland in the 1980s, though.

As smart people, let's get a grip and realize that outlier incidents happen all the time, and just question the why and when they get coverage.
It does set the seed value like previous. The docs says calling Seed(1) forces the old behavior. https://pkg.go.dev/math/rand#Seed
Netflix wants to chop down your family tree
There will always be nations and borders. The alternative is the entire planet being a nation, and I have a feeling that would break down pretty fast. It would also be terrifying. Imagine being a whistleblower against the world government, and you have no jurisdiction to run to for amnesty.
I was just thinking about my childhood and how much freedom I had at that age. Car rides from parents for when the weather sucked
They chose adhering to the legal requirements over the users, putting them right in the middle of the pack of literally all websites and companies run by more than an individual. You don't have to continue on to their site if you don't wish to.
translated from latin literally means "here are (pl.) lions"
The person I replied to said, "Do you think there are many germans exercising their right of return that aren't aware of the holocaust?".
Because two wrongs make a right is almost becoming a campaign slogan of some "left" causes.

As a liberal my views haven't changed much over the past decade but the ground has definitely fallen away from me.

I used to be liberal, but then they changed what liberal was, now what I am isn't liberal and what is liberal seems weird and scary to me.
It'll happen to you...

- Abe Simpson
These aren't real numbers. But as someone over a certain age, I always say that during my childhood, you had about a 99.99 chance of surviving it to adulthood (discounting unpreventable causes such as inherited defects). And I know of at least one child who did perish in an incident which back then was a mere tragedy, but might today be considered criminal negligence (lack of supervision) by adults.

I believe that today's society, at least in North America, has added at least one nine to this statistic. Wonderful! For every 100,000 kids born, nine deaths prevented. That's a measurable success. But the reduction in "childhood experience" - the free roaming - for example, when as kids we received - and this dates me - our first 3-channel CB walkie talkies, with all their glorious 100mW of transmit power, 3 channel switch but only one set of crystals installed (channel 14) - it was completely natural that we'd fan out all over the countryside, testing the range - including a relay on a hilltop when we found that schoolmates had compatible walkie-talkies too.

But more seriously. Kids that can socialize unsupervised learn by experience how social structures are established, how to act responsibly and the consequences of not doing so and so forth, and also that the majority of people are good, nice folks who'll let you use your phone or have a glass of water or whatever. Now, instead, it's drilled into them that the world is a bad place and safety is at home with your gadgets.
That “arguably” is making a lot of work on that phrase. Arguably.
But they could be covered in poison. So we clean the poison off which has the side effect of requiring they be put in the fridge. They stay fresh longer too. I don't know why much of Europe is OK with having poisonous eggs. There are hundreds of Salmonella outbreaks in Europe because of eggs every year.
> heard on the grapevine once that Goldman Sachs have a proprietary distributed database built in Erlang

From the article, third paragraph:

Goldman Sachs built its messaging system using RabbitMQ, which runs on Erlang, in 2018. Jonathan Skrzypek (who now works for Coinbase) was running the messaging engineering team at Goldman at the time. The system had to be fault-free because the messages it was transmitting could "worth a couple million dollars," said Skrzypek. RabbitMQ was chosen because of its resilience and "reliable delivery, guaranteed delivery."
In the first paragraph...

> We are more divided than ever as a species. Tribalism and identity politics are rampant...

...obviously counter-factual, if you're even vaguely familiar with world history. Yet the next para mentions "Enlightenment values" - with an Amazon affiliate link to a book on the subject. The blurb for which suggests that you won't learn much history of the Age of Enlightenment ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment ) from the book.

Whether the article's author is right or wrong in his thesis - he's already convinced me that he's writing a fact-free emotional appeal after 1 1/3 paragraphs.

I remember the Good Old Days, when Scientific American seemed to actually care about things like facts. :(
For software engineers wanting to know more about this subject I highly recommend this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931

Human color vision is a lot more complicated than it seems at first. The sensitivity curves of the actual receptors in the eye do not directly match our physiological perception curves for red, green, and blue. The red perception curve even has some negative (!) values. There is a lot of neurological processing involved and that is why colorspace models are so complicated and imperfect. There is no simple absolute "RGB" mapping like I and many others have naively assumed before digging into it.
this is my favorite use of tcpdump, as a "just show me basic prints" live version of wireshark, which is like 90% of the time mostly what I want. Usually when I'm debugging stuff and am reaching for wireshark/tcpdump, I'm mostly just trying to figure out if traffic is hitting the right ports at all, and then only sometimes do I even care about metadata (packet size / count etc) and it's very rare I care about actual payload (not that you can even usually see it easily nowadays anyway since everything is TLS).

recent example: used tcpdump -X to debug why my wireguard setup wasn't working, since with UDP you just kind of get a shrug as to why or at what hop the udp packet got lost or filtered. So I ssh'd to all the middle boxes and just tcpdumped the UDP ports I was interested in.
Believing that human social pathologies are likely universal is a bias?

Hateful expression is more prominent when it’s socially acceptable, and in American society at large, there are socially acceptable targets for hate that do not align with the majority/minority group division.

Consider, for example, the prominent, public, long-standing (and for some reason, tolerated) racial animosity between Asian and Black Americans.
I’m having trouble seeing the issue here. It’s not uncommon for open source projects to offer hosted services for a price. Seems like a reasonable way to generate revenue to me.

I’ve dabbled in self hosting, and I enjoy it, but sometimes it’s not worth my time and energy. If there is a product I really like and gives me value, I think having the option to pay them to host is a win/ win. I’d rather have that option then not.

As far as the missing self hosting guide, there is a section for it at the bottom of the README that says “Coming soon”. They stated they have only been working on this for a matter of months, and this is an early beta version. I’d imagine the team has been fervidly working on the core product & features, therefore finishing this part of the documentation keeps getting punted down the line.

It’s clearly going to be an option, so I feel like your judgment is a little harsh. I’m willing to be patient, and test drive the product on the free tier in the mean time :)
The answer is very probably but there is no possibility to be certain
Make energy free for everyone, I am fine with that.
> All of this is normal kid stuff. What kind of parent is so spiteful they will call child services on an opposing teams parents?

An ugly person.
I know him, we used to work together at Google. :)
Smart switches+dumb lights are far superior to dumb switches+smart lights. Why go to all that effort and money for a poor outcome?

A smart switch:

- Allows for anyone to interact with the light without apps/voice/whatever. You just hit the switch.

- Fails gracefully. If the controller dies, it's still a switch.
I wouldn't be so sure...
https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-protection/news/new-eu...
Good question! Though, SB2 is supported until Nov. '23 (see https://spring.io/blog/2022/05/24/preparing-for-spring-boot-...). We definitely plan to be upgraded by then.
Yes, and it’s frustrating to see people whose policy positions I generally agree with (less surveillance, please) resort to this kind of rhetoric. People who disagree are not only wrong, and not only intentional wrongdoers, but they have secret motives even they themselves don’t know?

These people have obviously never tried to get four people to agree on what movie to see.
> Pretending there's a sinister, organized New World Order (aka "them") with decades-long plans to restrict freedom is fantasy, and doesn't help us target the actual problem.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, and I don't really believe too much in the existence of such a group, but I can argue this is really bad logic.

A. Do you think such a group would be public with their ambitions? Such a group would doubtless deny their own existence. Arguing that they do, or do not exist, can only be based on observation and opinion, because it is not falsifiable.

B. Secret societies do exist, and there are some that still exist to this day that had major political power previously. The Freemasons, for example, were pretty influential in the French revolution on both sides, and counted leaders like Napoleon, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Paul Revere, and so on among their members. We know that nine freemasons, at a minimum, signed the US Constitution. (Then, fun fact, they put "Novus ordo seclorum" on the great seal of the US.)

C. And even if there weren't powerful secret societies historically (which is doubtful), we currently live in a very globalized world with much easier ability to meet and privately message, so there's always a first. Saying that it never happened, therefore it can't happen, is always misguided.

D. The World Economic Forum literally called for everyone to build a New World Order in 2018. With that exact terminology. It's still on their website. I would argue that makes them partially culpable for the conspiracies. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/12/we-must-work-together...
Jokes are supposed to induce laughter. That paragraph does not.
Everything people fear about deepfakes has been true of text for the entire history of writing. We've a brief period in human history during which you could mostly believe data you received from afar, without having to trust the source, because telling a lie with video was much harder than telling a lie with text. Now it's almost as easy to tell a lie with video so we'll have to check sources again. Somehow I think we'll survive.
Also twice a day. It's OK for me as I just repeat what I did for the day.
https://english.webdunia.com/article/writer-s-corner/is-shiv...

Come on. And Gods in Hinduism are polyamoous except Rama. All of this is well known.
Because only right-leaning organizations are valid sources.
Network equipment of our ISPs already have this type of surveillance software. And there are number of examples where we have seen that it is being used by the government intel with success, and regardless of the communication chain being encrypted or not.
Color, Color Science, color vision, reproduction, perception, etc. often surprises engineers when they realize how incredibly complex the subject can be. Many years ago I took a course on Color Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. I was working in a domain where I realized I had to know more about this subject than I could learn on my own at the time. This has come up many time during my career (even today). I am so glad I took the time to learn more about this from the folks who, quite literally, wrote the books on the subject (Fairchild, etc.).

Here's a fun video to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf5otGNbkuc

Another interesting topic to understand:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamerism_(color)
I have a ton of critical things to say about the state of American education, evidentiary standards in teaching things like reading, and compulsory schooling but the arguments in this article are so muddled I don't know where to start.

But to begin:

>The need for memorization of historical facts, spelling rules, multiplication tables, arithmetic operations such as long division, basic scientific facts, and a whole host of other pieces of information is seriously undermined by the widespread ownership of smartphones among young adults.

This is an unbelievably stupid argument. First it misses that vocabulary, cultural context, and a sort of mental schema are all essential for reading comprehension. Moreover how the fuck are you supposed to know what to google for if you don't possess some baseline of facts and general knowledge?
IIRC he uses a DOS machine with WordStar.
> Are they? Seems that they do more harm than good.

Do you have any evidence to back this statement?
There's a rather more sophisticated DOS SDK available: doslib from the guy who maintains dosbox-x.

https://github.com/joncampbell123/doslib

Most of the stuff that's emulated in DosBox-X has a corresponding SDK in doslib. It's a treasure-trove of information
So one can push data to the speared sheet instead of pulling. Planing on a python SDK?
CS-Insights: A System for Analyzing Computer Science Research
Weird security posture to be advertising to the world when two clicks gets me your first and last name

Assuming you care about infosec from your profile, privilege escalation is definitely something you want to avoid especially if you're using these tools in for example a CTF engagement where the first thing I'll be doing is enumerating my adversaries
The Hardest Part of Writing Tests Is Getting Started
So, the way I've usually seen it implemented is that you use a custom media type like `application/vnd.github.commit.json` and then your client is supposed to have some knowledge of the media types it understands.

Now that doesn't solve everything, because now you need to know relationship information too. Let's say a link on a mortgage application is `application/vnd.property.address`. Is this the property being purchased, or is this a property in the borrower's address history? The api needs to put an attribute of some kind on the links themselves to explain to a machine what they mean in context.

Humans surfing the web don't need this, they use their brains to understand from context what the link relationship is. And when they get to the new page, they don't need to have a hyper specific format for the exact page shape in order to be able to navigate the page. So while hypermedia is genius for the web, it forces an API developer to do all this insane busywork to make it so a "generic client" (which actually has a bunch of hard coded media types and link types in it) can navigate the API.

There's a reason this never took off