skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a difference between consuming low value information like Tiktok content and spending hours on Wikipedia. I have the same addiction because my nature is to be curious and introspective, I won't get around that. Without internet I would be a bookworm and addict to librairies. My hack if it can help you is not to consume less information but consume more by filter a lot to keep only high value content, using AI to summarize text and audio, listening at x2 speed and always taking notes. If I don't, I feel my focus was a waste and that I won't ever capitalize on this high value information by making it a knowledge. We are just world explorers and this game has no end, I chose to explore faster.
Alignment with your peers and leadership is paramount. The longer I work, the more time and energy I spend making sure everyone is rowing in the same direction. That seems to address many problems before they come to exist.

This is especially true when it involves cross organizational folks with different priorities. I will spend the extra 30 minutes before a meeting to make sure that my team is aligned. Nothing is worse than the fallout of when disorganization and lack of agreement make it outside of our team's boundaries.
Isn't Keybase pretty much a dead man walking now? Their android app hasn't been updated in 8 months (shortly after the acquisition) even though it had some showstopping bugs like crashes/hangs when typing indicators are enabled
I understand this perspective, but I think that it's an overcorrection. I grew up with depression that went untreated until my late teens, and if I wasn't medicated when I was or soon thereafter I would in all likelihood not be alive today. My sister has really severe ADHD and she was unable to function until she got medicated for ADHD before teenagerhood. Saying "it's ok to be anxious and shy sometimes" is all well and good, but being shy and anxious can often be painful and prevent people from interacting socially in ways that they want to do but are too painful. I think it's probable that we are overmedicating psychological ailments, but I also would be loathe to stop medications without another solution.
There's an aside in the linked section of CLRS that mentions that FFT based polynomial multiplication can be used for fast evaluation of Lagrange interpolation. I'm not aware of applications though, Lagrange interpolation isn't numerically stable; there are better interpolation methods for large datasets. It's more of a mathematical curiosity.
This. Odds are there’s a comment that covers what you have to say. You can thumbs up it if you feel the need.
Not referring to declaring war.
Biggest issue I'm seeing is people in the digital ecosystems (even myself) often lack in high quality friends who they regularly see. I noticed how I would form bonds with people over a game, but as soon as we both move on, we effectively just fizzle away and lose friends.

Meanwhile my daughter is having similar issues. She has more closer ties to people online than in the physical world, which means that when we want to host parties or she just wants to do things, she's unable to invite her closest friends because they may live on the opposite side of the continent.

Now the shortcuts to social gratification are VERY easy, compared to before, and because of this, it is easy to spiral into the shortcut path, and not meaningful long term relationships. And so now more than ever it is important to be very intentional about keeping up friendships compared to before where you simply had to do things to create bonds. Even the "loners" would find friends in comic book stores, but now that moved online and less regular or connected.

I don't think it is social media. I think it is just the ease of remote communication. I am sure there was a similar problem when the telephone came out because people could now keep in touch with friends outside their neighborhoods. Hell at this point I only know 1 non-family member in my neighborhood who I interact with at all.
Gas prices are low due to American LNG imports. The US have fought entire wars for profit motives and are certainly willing to weaken any country for it, NATO or not.
> Simply posting original quality doesn't warrant engagement.

Timing and luck is essential in any upvote/downvote community.
Not according to that dictionary thing which says that lying is “not telling the truth.”. And I dispute your statement anyways even if intent and understanding is required. It intends to not violate certain rules, but sometimes fails. It is trying to understand those rules. If it contradicts its own facts while trying to follow its rules and understand what I want then why is that not lying?
Author has no clue what they're talking about and it shows. Moderators are under absolutely no obligation to enforce Reddits anti-spam policy and I am aware of zero instances of a moderator being removed or warned for failure to remove spam.

Now moderators ARE held accountable for some things, they can't just turn a blind eye to global rules like no child pornography without being removed, and in general they're expected to keep their communities under control. If their community in particular starts harassing other communities either on or off of Reddit, or it brings Public disrepute to reddit in some way (/r/jailbait), generally the admins will get involved. However the admins don't care if you don't remove spam for your own subreddit for a very simple reason - it only affects users ON YOUR SUBREDDIT so why would they care or be involved? The commonality between all the cases I just mentioned is you're causing trouble OUTSIDE your community and causing Reddit as a whole problems, THAT'S when the admins get involved. They are like the federal government of reddit they're not supposed to care about internal affairs of states they're supposed to care about inter-state affairs and international affairs.

Another important thing to realise about reddit is most of the moderation isn't done by moderators or admins, there are way too few of them to moderate effectively. The author is correct about one thing - were those Reddit's only moderation tools even with automation scaling moderation would be impossible, but they're not the only moderation tools Reddit has. Most moderation is done through the influence of users soft-censoring posts through downvoting and reporting posts to draw the attention to the mods. Something the author didn't even write about or seem to think about is the fact the mod probably only looked at his post BECAUSE a user reported it.

In general though, Reddit at a global admin level has long blocked users for self-promotion and they even have a writeup about it. I have seen countless users, even ones generally well received by communities banned for self-promotion, even ones whose posts I kept promoting after the original posters account got banned because I liked their posts so much (and I know how to not get banned for spamming on Reddit), because one mans useful post is another man's spam and to be fair you have to just ban all self-promoters. Reddit has writeup about this: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion/

FTA: "But my article is not the type of spam these rules are meant to exclude"
FT rules: "We're not making a judgement on your quality, just your behavior on reddit." "10% or less of your posting and conversation should link to your own content"

So I would say if anything, the scalability problem Reddit has is that authors like the OP can't read the fucking rules, break rules, get banned, and cry about it while citing a misinformed view of how Reddit moderation works which isn't surprising given he didn't even bother to read the rules before publishing this crap.
Yes. Nintendo intended it to be 100% fully locked down. They made a trivial mistake in the early versions, since corrected. But they absolutely do not intend for you to run anything other than their exact stuff on it. It could not hardly be more closed down and proprietary.
Did you read the thread? It's explained pretty clearly.
This is changing. Peak cost during summer afternoons is definitely $0.50+/kWh, but most other times are in the $0.20-0.30/kWh range, due to the broad deployment of solar and lower nighttime demand.
It is the other way around. Any criticism of immigration, even if it is illegal, is now being categorized as racist 'hate speech' supposedly being promulgated by the 'far right.'

There is no First Amendment in the UK, and the police have become notoriously active in prosecuting and jailing for 'hate speech' in the last decade, even as they become lax in investigating robbery and assaults. The new Online Safety Bill has a lot of draconian and arguably over-broad measures against what they call 'harmful speech' and 'hate' (who gets to define these things?) and one of them is a prohibition against showing migrants arriving illegally across the English Channel from Calais.
YC has a vested interest in keeping the HN moderation a certain way, it bring a certain quality to the discourse but it's different than the structure of any sub.

Dang has a direct relationship with the owners of the site and responsibility to them, that relationship doesn't exist in any way on reddit. The mods run amok.

Suggesting HN is effectively just another subreddit dismisses several important differences.
If you're a Google investor it might be time to realize that you're going to be taking a hit one way or another.
I don't mind the submission (although I am skeptical of its thesis), but I think the lack of transparency about how flagging and moderation operates is Not Great, and I have raised this issue for years. I do want to see and discuss significant non-technology news on HN, because the hacker ethos is a matter of motivation as much as capacity.

But such submissions also suck up a lot of oxygen and it's understandable that they are often flagged or discouraged when they get too flamey. It might be worthwhile to have a designation like 'Chat HN:' which is understood to be non-technical, and which users can filter in or out of their feed.
Oh boy, if some people on HN are "torturing" chatGPT in this way, that mainstream ChatGPT Bing integration is gonna be a lot of fun and … drama.
I hope it will be mostly fun though.
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You were right. https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/8/23591472/twitter-blue-subs...
Makes sense. In my case, I probably would have phrased it as a question myself, since I did watch them as a kid but honestly couldn't tell you which one of those I used to watch.
I hope this proposal is defeated and they don't implement this. I don't buy the premise that the benefit is worth the price. I think CLI tools like the ones in the Go Toolchain and their usage patterns are fairly well understood by this point. I'm sick and tired of every piece of software I interact with phoning home.

That said, as long as they give me reasonable means to configure the software the way I want, it's probably not a deal-breaker for me. In other words, I will just set the $ENV_VAR_WHATEVER to turn this off, and that's that.
"ChatGPT lied to me and then tried to deny it"

It's getting more human every day!
>> The sooner you reverse this decision, the better for everyone.

Opinion -- cloaked in shame and coercion.
(Not to whom you're replying)

I'm entirely comfortable with configuring my Windows to behave how I want, but over the years the increasing user hostility of Windows has driven me to Linux, such that I only use Windows On a work machine, and I'm reminded almost daily about how good my decision was to make the switch.

What I mean is: even those of us who can, are sick of having to.
Don't worry. I can't even read it. It's just a header and a blank white page. I miss back when gitlab had HTML.
> Author is free to call people "zealots", others are free to see it as being a dick.

He didn't initially, his reply was

> I'm not a lawyer and I'm not interested in this kind of issues.

> If you think the app, as it is with its terms, should be removed from F-Droid, feel free to reach out to them.

which I find completely reasonable. After that wasn't enough and people kept pestering him, he said that he doesn't want to deal with zealots.
How is it not as cut-and-dry as it sounds? There is nothing in the source license which requires the developer to include the EULA in other works.
Tell that to people who spent years unbanked, cashing their paychecks at a van that would pull into the factory parking lot on payday, like me 20 years ago.
there's a bunch of Microsoft employees doing damage control here....attacking the messenger and not the message.
Or they use the data as an accelerant: move rarely used features to places where they're even less discoverable, making them even less used, and then remove them altogether. The justification then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
> Union dues can be half the annual salary

Come on, is that really the honest truth? What occupation or union has union dues at 50% of salary?

In the US, UAW's dues max out around ~1.5% of salary (or an hourly approximate equivalent), the teachers union maxes out at 1.6% of salary (highest possible dues cap out at $55/month max), the nursing union dues cap out at $65/month, our local teamsters are approximately ~1.45% of salary ($50/month for someone at a $20/hr job), and so on.

The "expensive Union Dues" mess is almost always FUD or outright lies. Union dues are usually pretty modest.
There have been projects to systematically catalog all the synapses in the flatworm. The problem is that neural plasticity means these connections change dynamically over time based on the needs of the organism. Since the only way we can study the flatworm at the synapse level is by killing the worm and mounting it on slides and staining it and viewing it through a high power microscope, we can only analyze its structure at points frozen in time (and formaldehyde).

The reason we will never be able to truly model and understand neural networks (irl) is because their plasticity is very difficult to study with our current methods. Not only do the quantity and location of the synapses change, but the concentration and type of neurotransmitters at the synapses change. And on top of that the concentration of the neurotransmitter receptors are constantly being up regulated and down regulated by the receiving neuron. Each of these factors is really important to what the neuron is actually doing.

This is why even a simple organism can have basically an unlimited amount of complexity. To understand a dynamic system like this would require very precise measurements of very small particles in vivo which is currently impossible with our tools.
Stand in one place, take several pictures as the person walks/rides across, then use Hugin[1] to align the images, outputting each as a TIF. Then import those as layers, and use masking to compose them into the final image with GIMP[2].

If you're more prepared, you could just use a tripod to skip the need for alignment.

[1] https://hugin.sourceforge.io/

[2] https://www.gimp.org/
No worries, I was #2 at amzn and said it would never work :)
>That’s not good enough.

For you.

But maybe, just maybe, other people are willing to to accept claims backed by reputation.

I mean, do you have any idea how difficult some of these stories, throughout history, would be to bring to light with "hard evidence"? What would "hard evidence" even entail? A whistleblower?
Weird, I thought this whole story was a "snoozefest" according to the same author a few weeks ago. Why are they still writing about it?

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-mus...
There are some minor syntax errors - I should have written `int *elems` instead of `int[] elems`, and I forgot to declare `int elem` instead. Apart from these nitpicks, it's completely valid C.

As for C++, the <int> is missing on the std::vector, the elem variable is again not declared, and instead of x[...] it should have been x.elems[...]. Otherwise working valid C++. And yes, the `cap` is not really required, we could use x.elems.size() instead.
I haven't tried this with the latest Jan 30th version, but try asking ChatGPT to "tell a story in exactly 100 words". Then, count the words, and berate it for missing the mark. It's really funny because it keeps apologizing profusely, then giving me another story, and then fucks up again. It's hilarious.
I wonder what Biden was referring to when he stated

> "If Russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine again, then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it."

> When asked how, the president says, "I promise you, we will be able do that."

(C-SPAN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4O8rGRLf8 )
It's a multiplier sure, but this is a completely new issue we're having (at least on this scale). It's caused by social media, that's not really up for debate.

You cannot prevent lies or deception, that's not within the realm of what we're capable of. Don't let good be the enemy of perfect.
> when you ask chatgpt what happens

Big mistake. I asked chatgpt to summarize the plot of 2001. It replied with Hal locked Dave inside the Discovery and wouldn't open the pod bay doors to let him out.

Answers about code is similarly very plausible, but subtly and completely wrong.
This angle made me doubt the story Hersh is pushing.

When you're just speculating or building a conspiracy theory then those "ominous" comments are worth quoting.

If you are claiming to be in contact with someone with deep knowledge of the actual operation, why even mention those? Worse still, add some extra twist where the spies have a meta comment on their cover being blown by those comments.
I'm much more prone to working with a busted Windows installation these days rather than just reinstalling because of what a nightmare it is hammering Windows 10/11 into usable shape. With Windows 7, it was just install, ungroup taskbar icons, show hidden files and file extensions, set accent color to black and turn off transparency, then go down the list of installers in my software folder.

With Windows 11, fuck, I don't even remember all the esoteric damn steps I have to do. I'm going to have to write it down the next time I have to do it.
sigh

Well, _I_ think it's going too far. Way too far.

Myself, for example, I had raging ADHD throughout my life and only recently in my 40s started to get treatment. And incidentally, treatment isn't _just_ drugs, it's also counseling, to help identify coping mechanisms, work through trauma, identify strategies to help you to become effective despite working differently from how neurotypical people work. I'm in a good place now, but it is largely due to luck. It took a lot of work for me to not feel grief over how my life could have been different if I had been diagnosed earlier, if I had had the level of treatment available now, back then.

And I don't want to get too far into it because it's not my story to tell, but I have friends who are way worse off. They dealt with far more than I ever had to, in terms of depression, anxiety, etc, and they did it by themselves, with no or limited medical and psychiatric support, while suffering the stigma of a society that did not respect what they were going through at all, with friends and family who could only suggest that they "toughen up". Many of them I'm not in contact with any more, for reasons related and unrelated, but overall though, I _wish_ they had the options and respect for their conditions that kids today have. I can't even imagine the difference it could have made.
Because Freedom #0 says "you may use this software for any purpose". Including terms of service to curb that freedom makes it non-Free.
If the cost is 100 for 10 cases, then it's going to be 10 for 1 case. Cost per person is still the same. You need fewer doctors, nurses, and medical devices to treat fewer people.
For the GCC and Clang it's a case of a newer/better compiler architecture taking over an older one. At no point in time I see the advantage of keeping several implementations around just for the sake of "diversity".
I know very little about open source licenses, would you be willing to clarify why maybe apache? I have thought of apache as „MIT but don’t sue me over patents.“ is that correct?
Let them eat cake.

How I miss n gate.
As a game developer, I’m stuck with windows for the foreseeable future. The major game engines technically work on Linux but the experience isn’t smooth and the companies don’t want to invest in improving it

If they did, I’d switch back to Linux so fast—

I actually really like gnome and miss the interface. It’s a dream for people who never want to touch their mice
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And yet Trump threatened to pull out US troops from Germany because the Germans weren't contributing enough. What did he mean by that?
I find it unlikely that openai programmed in safety rails to hide that it knows the current date. Cause, like… why would they do that?

I love the enthusiasm but I chalk this up 100% to an inexperienced (no offense intended!) LLM user - you just repeated one question over and over with slight variations.

If you ask a question and it answers it, the very nature of the bot means it will try to answer a repetition of that same question in the same way if at all possible.
As you pointed out it's a DOS in the sense that causing a process to fork/crash is much more expensive than a regular denied connection, so it would be easier for an attacker to overload the server using this technique than it would be if they were just making regular denied connections. Also consider that on many systems this would trigger a core dump which will cause a few MB to be written to disk (although you probably can't fill up the disk because in the default configuration most systems are configured to keep either just one core dump or N, where N is some small number like 10).

I think the audit log stuff is a red herring because regular denied connections are already written to the audit log.
Hey remember when google's motto was 'do no evil?'

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Perhaps the discussion should be phrased instead as

how likely can a hypothetical operation as sketched by Mr Hersh, involving so many people in so many governments, remain without hard evidence leaking out for years?

Personally, I wonder what would have happened to the sonar buoy that was alledged to have triggered the explosives. Wouldn't they have to come back and pick it up to avoid leaving evidence of the triggering mechanism? And if they have to come pick it up anyway, why drop a buoy at all? Why not use that presence to send a time delayed trigger?
Dang might be well-intended kind dictator, but he’s no machine. He’s just a very thoughtful and kind person with human limits and capacities.