skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't need to be registered, that's the point. Legally, yes, practically not.

Because you know, they are coming from somewhere, another EU country, where they have a permanent address, a bank account, a job even (they are just working remotely), a mobile which works for the first few months via free roaming, a car which they take back to their home country for the yearly checks, health insurance which is technically only valid for emergencies in another EU country (but if you are seriously ill you'll probably want to go home anyway)...

It may or may not work in all cases (for example, in Italy they like to confiscate cars with foreign license plates that are illegally staying there - don't ask me how they know).

But if you imagine an average 20 something, still living with their parents, but wanting to travel across Europe while working remotely, then today this is very easy and straightforward to do. Without telling anyone. Except their parents, of course :)
I'm confused as to whose "inability" you are referring to. Yours or those who are coming to you with the problems.

Ok, so you quickly solved the problem. Just ask "Is there anything else I can help you with?", if there is then fix that too. Otherwise just move on.

I get the impression from your description that it is you "giving your 2 cents worth" that triggers the competitive behaviors. Would it be possible for you to just say "Glad I could help." and leave it at that? Perhaps some of the people you are helping with their problems are less competent than they claim to be and that is why they try to befuddle you by trying to appear smart.

Truly smart people don't act in a condescending manner. Only those who have something to hide put on "the act". That's my 2 cents worth :-)
>but a signed grub can run anything. Also grub and it's configuration must be on an unencrypted partition. You can easily tamper with its config to load whatever you want.

No, it implements the verifier API which needs to be disabled for this to be true. This should not be the case for distributions utilizing the shim+grub setup (Ubuntu/SUSE/Fedora/Debian/etc)
It depends on the type of question that is being asked. Asking "how can I replace a tyre" can produce a politically-neutral answer. On the other hand, asking "how can I succeed in life" is an intrinsically-political and philosophical question.
Not too cool in reality, but glad you caught that subtlety. Im not a chemist, I just play one for my employer
IMO it's a weird claim to make that invalid JavaScript is much closer to native JavaScript than actual valid JavaScript.

They're just stylistic preferences, both have valid JavaScript expressions inside their component event handlers, the difference is syntactical, React went with JSX whilst Vue/Angular/Alpine.js/Aurelia adopted a HTML (valid) centric syntax.
Import maps strike me as a huge win for making prototypes, or things where you control what exactly you're importing (eg from a private registry instead of NPM), but throwing out the bundler and more importantly the tree-shaking and minification steps of bundling, will result in a massive about of unused code being delivered to the user. You'll be relying on maintainers putting minified, unbloated assets in their packages and ... well ... NPM is gonna NPM.
"Perfect is the enemy of good."

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

The answer.

Seth Godin: "Just ship it."
(A step forward in) understanding "Fragile X syndrome" which is a type of autism. But I'm not sure how many of people with an autism diagnosis has FXS
But its not nano
Neutrality would be when the AI states the facts and let humans do the judgements.
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I don't understand why Mozilla artificially limits what addons can be used on android.

I've been using Tampermonkey on android for years, and it worked fine, just like other addons that don't happen to have yet been blessed so that users are granted the privilege of being able to choose to install them.

For reference, to work around mozilla's artificial restrictions, you have to use nightly. Once you activate the debug menu (about firefox > tap logo 5 times) there's the option to set a "custom add-on collection". You can make a custom collection on addons.mozilla.org using a firefox account. The two fields are the last two parts of the URL on your custom collection.

Not only is this very cumbersome (especially if you want to add another addon to your collection and have that propagate to your phone), but it's only available on nightly. And nightly has a nasty habit of breaking. It's not much fun when an update causes it to crash immediately on visiting certain websites; even worse when restarting causes it to try to load the tab that just caused it to crash.

So, it ends up in a dilemma: you can either have a browser that doesn't catastrophically break every few updates; or you can have the freedom to install whatever addons you like. But not both.

And that dilemma is entirely artificial and unnecessary. Mozilla could have a process of verifying that addons work correctly on android and warn if you try to install one that isn't so verified (like how Valve has "Deck Verified" but doesn't stop you installing anything you like). But that's not what they've done, and they don't show any sign of changing their minds.
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My old mobo would refuse to accept NVRAM changes, overwrite them at boot or something, then hardcoded try to launch the windows bootloader from the ESP. I had to trick it by naming my bootloader the same thing as the Windows bootloader. Signing new things for secure boot didn't work at all but luckily it could be disabled.

This was an MSI motherboard in case anyone's wondering.
One of the reasons why those numbers seem to sharply change is that the environment became less hostile to these people. It's hardly surprising countries like Iran have seemingly low rates of homosexuality when openly gay men are being executed by the state.

It's absolutely possible there are other factors, but considering last year even Fox News produced a short positive report about a trans teenager in a conservative family[0] it's clear society has changed a bit.

[0] https://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-regulars-far-freak-140451237...
Not quite as cool.
Series of articles about ecommerce MACH architecture
Yeah it definitely can be operated that way.

Unfortunately it wasn't set up like that when Paul was alive (more like a personal collection). And after his death, the chance it became like that is even slimmer.
... no it doesn't
I recommend watching the YouTube channel Asianometry. He's covering this topic and more.
Is there anyone who truly believes that, or is it just something the WEF tries to convince people to believe? Not knowing if the landlord is going to "alter the deal" on a month-to-month basis is stress-inducing, not happiness-generating.
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You're mixing wildly different things. Regardless of where you come from, if you live in France you pay taxes in France on revenues obtained (even if they didn't originate from France). If you're a French citizen living in Canada, the French tax authority doesn't care about you.

There are a few extremely rare exceptions to that, most notably the US, which wants to tax US citizens on any income generated, regardless of where they live and where the income is from. So a US citizen living in France getting paid from a French company has to pay taxes to France (due to living there) and the US (due to being a US citizen). There are tax treaties so the taxes paid to France would be deducted from what is owed to the US.
Somehow I find geologists unconvincing ever since they drove poor Wegener to suicide.
Going down the path to eventually having no users is an interesting way to accomplish that.

But really, no, they don't. Put up enough disclaimers (this is the secret to compromising with security teams on usability) and let me do what I want at my own risk.
> I would say the author of this article is dodgy and unreliable.

I mean I personally agree with this in general but Scott Alexander has many fans...
There's also the Micro Museum in Ramsgate (https://www.themicromuseum.org/).
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A history of PRNGs without mentioning George Marsaglia is heresy.

Also, PCG didn't stop the development.
Nowadays, modern PRNGs explore the usage of chaotic PRNGs (without a fixed period), which are often faster than non-chaotic ones. Notable examples are the Romu family [0] of PRNGs and sfc [1], and tylov's sfc derivative [2].

Another thing that would be nice to mention is that we went full circle, the good old middle square method already used by von Neumann, has been found to work very well if you scale it up and add a weyl sequence. [3]

Edit: And how could I forget, there has also been a lot of effort in using SIMD, e.g. by SHISHUA. [4]

Another thing to consider is how to efficiently distribute the generated numbers in a given distribution. I'm not aware of any recent improvements in that regard, other then some approximations that have probably been reinvented a bunch of times.

[0] https://www.romu-random.org/

[1] https://numpy.org/devdocs/reference/random/bit_generators/sf...

[2] https://github.com/tylov/STC/blob/master/docs/crandom_api.md

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00358

[4] https://espadrine.github.io/blog/posts/shishua-the-fastest-p...

Edit: I had a few names mixed up
I don't need to read the article to know the bot is left leaning. There is just more left-leaning material online than other.

As one grows older, one learns to view things from different perspectives but it could be "dangerous" for young people to rely entirely on what they read online. This is where upbringing has its most impactful role: Family & friends. Online is not family, online is not friends.
Also, this statement assumes that providing accurate and factual information is compatible with political neutrality.
https://streamable.com/etkpd0

we're not far :D
Thanks for the clarification.

If the chat is published on the net, and becomes part of ChatGPT's future training data, I wonder whether ChatGPT could somehow become "aware" of it in a way that would change its subsequent behaviour?
Just last week a British trans woman was stabbed to death in the middle of the day in a public park after years of bullying.

It is accepted by many but there's a lot of potential for improvement.
Neat, is this a public project. You make me curious what it is that you are hacking away at!
> There's probably almost nothing to do if you aren't fluent in Japanese.
> I find geologists unconvincing ever since they drove poor Wegener to suicide

You’re rejecting an empirical and tested field of science because of a single incident?
i don't understand this comment.

by any measure (for example wealth, health, social security, safety, housing, jobs) Singapore is outranking most of Europe, including Portugal.
First they need to show proof that you are staying there for longer than allowed. How do they do that?

(Assuming of course that you are staying in hotels and airbnbs, or even at relatives / friends - of course, if you rent and register officially then it is obvious.)
Fairly picking a line out of a text file isn't constant time. It depends on the length of the file.

You can pick a random byte offset and find the next line but this prefers longer lines.

Preprocessing to basically make a table of line offsets allows constant time access.

Probably mattered more when storage was slower.
Nice work, and nice writing too!
How do you figure there is more left leaning material, is anyone keeping statistics. What exactly is left leaning?
You are optimizing for entirely different use cases.

There are a whole bunch of devs who work alone or in (very) small teams. For this type of work it’s really more of a hindrance to have an imposed structure and tooling.

We want to get to your goals as efficiently as possible. Minimal abstractions, guidelines, tooling, indirection, magic, surprises and general overhead are in order. We don’t want to struggle with questions like “how to do this in X”. We already know how to do it, so we just do it.

As time goes on and LOC get merged we find ways to add sensible structure and compress our code.
Another take on this is that rightwing has an outsized influence on society, and so-called left leaning is actually how most people orient themselves.
> it takes no energy to mine, refine and transport gasoline

The fact that these systems often burn their own fuel as power while exporting a premium should show that yes, extracting and producing oil and gas is net energy contributing in a way green hydrogen is not.
No.

stocks have fundamental value that is tied to a public company's performance. There is no fundamental or intrinsic value in crypto.
Vulnerable observations from my entrepreneurial journey. A personal mash-up of The map is not the territory x The pathless path x self-observation, feat. The Graduate and Oscar Wilde
Why's he going on about slide-rules?
SEF has spent a significant amount of time, energy, and money dealing with the Withdrawal Agreement situation for post-Brexit British immigrants. An entire program was set up to convert EU-standard residency paperwork into a customised biometric residency card for around 46,000 people.

That process will be over soon, and SEF may find it has time to spend on other issues.
A whole lot of evidence=a lot of hysterisis. That evidence may have been misinterpreted to support a wrong theory.

While coal might actually come from organic matter from the Carboniferous era as you suggested, I think oil and gas may not. Hydrocarbons are the most abundant things in the solar system (the Oort Cloud might outweigh the entire solar system) and the outer planets are mostly hydrocarbons… and yet all the hydrocarbons on earth come from fossil plants?

Thomas Gold wrote a book about it. It’s fascinating reading. Here is a review.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1701266114
> there is no mind there

Yesterday I read Wolfram's piece and he wrote:

> I think, is that language is at a fundamental level somehow simpler than it seems.

If Wolfram is true we could argument that GPT-3 was successful in capturing an at least an important aspect of language. And if we also presume that language is part of the mind, then we should refute the statement that there is [absolutely] no mind in GPT-3.

However, GPT-3's mind, if at all, is not human. And this is difficult for us to keep in mind. After all we anthropomorphize everything and their grandsomething.

Even I catch myself having the urge to be polite to ChatGPT and saying thank you. Or, the last time I even told ChatGPT not to worry about something. I know exactly that this is just weird and incongruous, but it did make me feel better, so I just did that. YOLO.
Maybe you are right, and modules (even this fancy new module syntax) are not worth to fight against anymore.

I don't really trust polyfill tho.
That’s kind of funny, I just spent a week meeting a Hungarian co-worker who, from the sound of things, refuses to return home until Orbán is out. She claimed that there were state-sponsored billboards that read things like (this is her words) “IMMIGRANTS RAPE WOMEN.”

If there’s any truth to that, then I’d say their rental market is pretty well-protected from foreign workers, to say the least…
Not to disagree about the beauty in Portugal, but I visited Singapore as a young child, and it's so much nicer now because of the greenery they're adding within the city.

Also, at Singapore population density (I have different numbers from the other commenter), even if the entire EU moved there it would still be 42% untouched (and the rest of the EU would be empty).
Moreover GPT is trained on material in multiple languages, so having ChatGPT have a neutral bias in the context of American politics would be very strange. Achieving that would probably put it pretty far right on a global scale.
I guess it depends on local law, but I guess that trespassing is trespassing, and the thief can sue, and it probably already happened.

It is a little different but on one occasion, in France, some guy sold a computer online, sent it, and never got paid. Pissed off, he broke in the crook house and took back his computer (plus a few other things, not smart...), they both sued each other, the crook ended up in prison for 2 months, and the one who broke into his house had 4 months suspended sentence. But even if he just took back his computer, he would still be guilty, but the judge would most likely have handed out a lighter sentence.
I was unable to access my addon collection when using underscores in the collection name, hth.
> If only Brendan Eich could have stayed at Mozilla instead of getting excommunicated

Mozilla actually encouraged him to stay by giving him the role of CEO. He decided to step out.

> First, though, there's a matter that we should all be clear about: Brendan Eich was not fired. After his appointment, there was backlash from the Mozilla Community. He came under pressure to resign and he did. The Mozilla Board that appointed him knew about his donation; they did not "remove him because of his views." If that alone was the issue, they simply wouldn't have given him the job in the first place

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/04/11/did-mozilla-ce...

I guess we could point out that the Mozilla Board should have seen this coming and not encouraged him to be the CEO, but they could also have been criticized for this.

> then we'd have the best of Brave and Firefox

I don't think so. Mozilla is tied to its agreement with Google and I believe they are limited in what they can do privacy wise. Unfortunately.

The Brave browser is mostly a fancy Chromium and you can achieve similar results by taking an ungoogled chromium and adding uBlock Origin to it. But you are better off installing uBlock Origin on Firefox [1]

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
It would be good if they explained this in their documentation. But I think you summed it up in your own message:

> […] you can either have a browser that doesn't catastrophically break every few updates; or you can have the freedom to install whatever addons you like […]

I think they don't want malicious and abandoned extensions to taint the Firefox experience. Users will only see "Firefox is broken" and not realize that it's caused by the extensions they installed.
Epictetus is very good in general.

If you find a good modern translation (Robin Hard is good), I emphatically recommend reading the discourses. Don't cheap out and suffer through some stuffy 19th century translation.
Asking boomers if they're gay/trans isn't a reliable way of getting that data. Just look at all the conservative Christian politicians who self-identify as straight, but then are caught in gay sex scandals.
We are building, but building takes time, and all the houses and apartments are bought by 'investors' that then use them for airbnb... This is even more true in places like portugal (and many others), where realestate prices are so high compared to normal peoples income (due to speculative and airbnb investments), that normal people cannot afford them anymore, and only people with a lot of money or other realestate (for mortgages) can buy them, and the best way to earn back investments is again, airbnb.

So, you need to both build new stuff and ban airbnb for any chance that normal people with normal incomes will ever be able to afford to buy anything decent to live in. Also somehow stop buying realestate for investments. Also fix zoning laws in many places. Also...
> Achieving that would probably put it pretty far right on a global scale.

Would it? Compared to Europe, sure. But I always had the impression that most of Asia skewed rather further right?
Or you could have just said "SQLite is very useful but doesn't work well for all apps" and left it at that objective truth.
As an example, I have seen videos of "house sitters" in Portugal that effectively "work" by staying at other people's houses while the other people travel, usually for longer periods, eg. weeks or even months. They water the plants, feed and walk the dog, make sure the property is lived in. They are not officially living there, but practically, they are. I was surprised that it is possible to make a living of this, but apparently it is!
The problem is that the "life originated somewhere" concept is already a rather narrow (opinionated) view about these early processes and pathways that we don't know much about.

There is on the one hand the (still very poorly understood) "pre-life" domain which is presumably a condition that may exist in various diverse zones in many planetary systems.

On the other hand there is the (fairly well understood) science of stellar evolution, nucleosynthesis etc. that creates the conditions for "pre-life" and for possible "pollination".

Panspermia is not so much a concrete idea of "fully formed" life going from A to B but rather exploring what kind of exchanges of "life-forming" catalysts may have happened over the first billions of years.
> light-hearted fun is not necessary

It might not be necessary, but I think it’s sorely needed

Being serious all the time is unhealthy
Humans haven't been undergoing natural selection for thousands of years, only artificial selection.
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Next time there is a HN thread about monorepos I think I'll just posts link to this comment.
I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that the same positions would count as "center" in Europe while "left" in the US? And what would be an example of a "large hierarchical structure" without a clear "outside"?
If it were that easy and simple, it'd have been done.

The places where AirBNB and their like are causing problems are not in the places where there's abundant land going, it's in the areas where there's significant tourist demand. This is in the cultural hubs.

People with capital are able to buy up the limited stock of housing and make a lot more money through short-stay, rather than long-term tenants.

This causes major flow-on effects.

Businesses which cater to long-term residents find their customers disappearing, and leave in favour of those catering to tourists/visitors.

The nature of the people in the area change: people in short-term stays are less likely to respect the local cultural-norms like not partying until 3am, or other behaviours.

The people who work in the local businesses, find it harder to do so - instead having to commute from longer distances because they now can't afford the rents/property prices locally.

Knocking down a few apartment blocks and putting in more high-density accommodation won't solve it.
Bit late, but I probably should have given virtual particles as a better example. Those are theorized to appear and disappear at random out of the void. Per the theory, there is no cause to this appearance (apart from it being permitted by the laws of physics).

Of course, this is ultimately a model and can be wrong. But my point is that we can definitely conceive of models of the world in which causality is not a strict requirement - and not just fantasy ones, but very concrete models with workable predictions.
I tried this in firefox for android and it did not work. What gets opened instead is a google search for "javascript:(function()...".

Firefox used so be super useful on Android, but since its redesign almost all its customizability has been gone. So sad.
It's the right-wing capitalists that promote left-wing narratives for the masses. It's called woke capitalism for a reason.
They don't just destroy the local economy. They also destroy trust in politics - always fragile at best - and hugely increase the odds of a racist/fascist government.

We've already seen this in the UK, where a drum beat of race hate aimed at immigrants and refugees has been used to misdirect the population away from neoliberal austerity and "low tax, small government" (big profit) policies.

Which - not coincidentally - include a huge amount of literal rent seeking and property profiteering.