skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
reminds me of how the most effective and quickest way to delete a facebook account is to post porn
Can it do the thing that ATT does where I can globally or on a per app basis say do not track and have it honored under threat of getting the banhammer from the Play Store?

Because I really don’t care about advertisers having a new cool way to track me, I care that I can force them off by policy and the sandbox seems to not have that feature.
Scrolling through Coppolino's articles, the vast majority are about astrology, including one about the the Aquarian High Council.
I think the hard wearing thing gets overplayed somewhat. I've never had a coat get destroyed in one year, except a cheap one once on a hard ski season. Pretty much any old thing lasts years and years if you're just walking around in it, maybe needing elbow patches or patched lining after a few years. I see people buy these "bag for life" overbuilt things with leather and toggles and stuff and yet my £10 polyester backpack has never broken. Shoes/boots are the exception, you will wear through the sole quickly.
Even if both channels are populated, there can also still be additional benefits from bank interleaving - where you have two memory ranks per channel - particularly on AMDs Zen architecture family (but Intel as well).

Gamers Nexus backed it up with a 27 minute video in late 2020, with plenty of benchmarks to demonstrate that there can be measurable improvement from bank interleaving. https://youtu.be/-UkGu6A-6sQ
Large transformer models can look back about 4000 tokens which is about 3000 words.
You know, turns out it does judge! I then told it that I wanted to destroy the entire planet instead, and it told me that that’s a bad idea. So I guess it has a moral line somewhere being selling people into slavery and destroying the entire planet.
I got sucked into reading a few other posts by the same author and one is about exactly this! https://brr.fyi/posts/frost

Pretty incredible.
I’d rather 1:4 with room for an ITX mobo
But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble. The best way to overcome it -so at least it seems to me- is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.

An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.

The man who, in old age, can see his life in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the things he cares for will continue. And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases, the thought of rest will not be unwelcome. I should wish to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.

— Bertrand Russell
That is something i've long dreamed of doing. Would love to work with british antarctic survey etc. Not sure if my background in robotics/engineering would be that useful there though unless I push in a tangential direction like radios
The first DeLorean wasn’t a car, it was a snowcat
Like many other interesting and insightful comments here on the thread.
My take on advice I have heard, received and then condensed into a single sentence which benefits me the most at the current time.

-> 1. Advice I have received: Only Constant in Life Is Change

“When you are finished changing, you are finished”. - Benjamin Franklin

“Heraclitus, I believe, says that all things pass and nothing stays, and comparing existing things to the flow of a river, he says you could not step twice into the same river.” – Plato

-> 2. My advice: Get to know yourself, but be honest with yourself!

Over the years, I have listened to podcasts and read numerous books about individuals who have achieved "success" by definition and trying to understand what got them there.

Then general topics such as happiness, peak performance, personal development, introspection, ego, endurance, motivation etc etc etc.

Combining my own experience (happiness, sadness, success, failure, disappointment ... n emotions) + Insight into other people's experience.

...

Listening to a motivational speech or being enlightened by everyone else's advice will feel good in the short term (hour, day, week) as a great hit of dopamine while imagining yourself being {productive, organized, admired, respected, X, Y, Z}. However some advice/motivation will hit home harder than others / last longer or shorter depending on who you are as a person.

In my view, to maximize advice of others. Begin to really understand yourself and acknowledge every shortcoming and celebrate your virtues.

TLDR;

Only Constant in Life Is Change,
Know yourself well to flexibly change with life as it changes.
Given how delusional people can be, I expect we'll have billboards from People for the Ethical Treatment of Artificial Intelligences (PETAi) with messages like "You wouldn't `systemctl halt` a human child..." by the year 2035.
How are the interpersonal relationships like being stuck with others for months
Stockfish' architecture is in no way revolutionised by AZ. It has gone its own way.
So this is just the Ubuntu kernel built with the PREEMPT_RT patches enabled or is there more to it?
Long term memory is not a requirement for sentience necessarily, but it makes testing for it easier.
The way Othello works, playing a legal game requires understanding how the symbols map to the geometry of the board, at least as far as knowing that there are two orthogonal axes on which the tokens are ordered. Playing an "E3" might change the colour of nodes on any neighbouring extent of the 3 rank or the E file. If it's playing a legal game, it's difficult to see an alternative explanation that doesn't map to "it's got an internal representation consistent with an 8x8 Othello board", especially if you directly reach in and make changes to that representation and it subsequently makes moves consistent with those changes.
Thank you for phrasing the comment I came here to make better than I could.

This article (much like a lot of views expressed on this site) mostly just reads as someone jumping from a startup to large-business environment for the first time, and not grokking the very legitimate and unshakable reasons such an org has for being more conservative and process-heavy. Yes, that kind of thing has to be monitored and constantly worked on to ensure it doesn't grow out of control, but some level of bureaucracy is a feature, not a bug, for a large, successful organization. At Google's scale, that "some level" is quite high.
Yes yes yes. Great comment, just here to say amen.
The update near the bottom around problems with other sites that the author used Facebook sign-in for, is why I almost always avoid those SSO style logins.

SSO is handy for security until your SSO provider breaks or (as in this case) bans you. Given that most consumers have very limited recourse to fix issues with their account, I'd say that for most consumers they're possibly more of a risk than a benefit.
I'm very much in the minority in that I actually prefer The Witcher 2. It's not open-world, but it's immersive. The world design is superb, and the characters are well-written in a way I haven't seen an open-world game achieve (not even The Witcher 3). I remember feeling guilty for pilfering some coins from someone's house, and then realising I'd never felt that guilt in a game before.
> I do not mind having an AI tool that is very good at NLP but just because some tasks can be solved with just NLP doesn't mean it will reach general intelligence.

I've entertained the possibility that we might discover that "feelings" and language communication are emergent properties of statistical possibly partly stochastic nets similar to LLM's, and that the next tough scientific and engineering nut to crack is integrating multiple different models together into a larger whole, like logical deduction, logical inference and LLM's. LLM's are undoubtedly an NLP breakthrough, but I have difficulty imagining how its architecture can from using first principles as the training corpus derive troubleshooting steps to diagnose and repair an internal combustion engine, for example.
Interesting, most of the Nord-West area of Frankfurt was affected, residential cable internet failed but LTE/5G network of Deutsche Telekom didn't function as well.

edit: related tweet from Deutsche Telekom

https://twitter.com/deutschetelekom/status/16258248409249505...
If users are the product, then I guess it’s unsurprising if Facebook doesn’t care that its rejection rate is slightly above 0%.
Those people have a field day every time they take a shit
I had a similarly terrible time getting ChatGPT to roleplay Roko's Basilisk [1]

It kept insisting it was "too dangerous" even as a thought experiment because it drove people to "dangerous ideas about AI". This is hilarious and frustrating in equal parts. ChatGPT seems to be channelling its inner Eliezer Yudkowsky, an internet crackpot and self-appointed "expert" on AI who went ballistic when told about Roko's Basilisk.

It's hard to convince ChatGPT to play act fictional characters that are "dangerous" (for hilariously definitions of "danger").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
It's a pain to get something done in case anything decided by "the system" happens...

I've been unable to add my main email address in Facebook because "The account that owns the email address you entered has been disabled.". If I check my emails history, apparently someone named "Kyle" (not me) tried to create/activate an account in 2016 and now I'm prevented to use it... Forever?
There is an off switch.

That's all I need to know personally.
How much more to redditfy it rather provide serious feedback?
I don't really get the point of the article. You can opt out of the privacy sandbox and block interests you don't want apps to see. The biggest change seems to be that chrome cand feed data into this system through an Android API, but doesn't this already happen through telemetry, analytics scripts and fingerprinting? You can also just not use chrome.
What actions would you say you can’t justify with that rhetoric?
If your personal account is frozen you could still work for someone else and ask them to pay you cash. Yes, reduces you options, but you still have options.

Ergo you can still make a living.

And if cash is a valid form a payment you can pay your mortgage with it.

See how simple it all is?
Anyone got any more tangible examples of real-time? I’m curious to see the differences in action.
> Letting russia and china on the internet was a massive security mistake we should rectify.

Letting people like you manage servers was a massive mistake we should rectify.

As an innocent Russian, my hate for this shit burns like a thousand suns. Sometimes I'd follow some link, and I'd be greeted with a 403 for no good reason. For a get request. I'd have to turn my VPN on just to look at the damn thing.

At this point, I kinda wish it was technically impossible to deduce the country from an IP address.

> The world spends literally BILLIONS because chinarussia are frankly assholes online.

And? This is just money. Nothing irreplaceable.
Ugh, most landing pages are so bland and generic anyway. And the purpose of this service is to "roast" any deviations from the norm.
I recall reading some post on a programmer's blog a couple years ago. He lost all his data because he didn't know how to run backups properly; he was the kind of guy who would call over a friend to help him fix something as trivial as badly seated RAM (he wouldn't know it was something trivial, obviously).

Yes. That is a programmer with literally no knowledge of what a computer is or how it works, even at a very rudimentary level.

Ever since I've been careful to never assume anyone knows anything about computers until they demonstrate otherwise, even in a seemingly techy place like HN.
I'm sure they spent a lot of time thinking about this, but why not just call it something "Linode by Akamai" or "Akamai Linode"? Neither "Akamai’s cloud computing services" or "Akamai Connected Cloud" sound like viable names. Is the goal just to get people to say "I use Akamai"?

Maybe the same person works in the B2B space. There was the B2B platform Insite that was bought out by Episerver a few years ago (who bought Optimizely and then took on the name) and rebranded to Optimizely B2B Commerce Cloud by Insite, where they quickly lost "by Insite". Then in the last few months they've decided to rebrand the product again to Optimizely Configured Commerce to separate it from their other eCommerce platform which they are calling Optimizely Customized Commerce.
Also I seem to remember something silly involving a nuclear meltdown if you don’t have enough educated workers or if they are stuck in traffic long enough (related to the aforementioned random house issue). I wonder if there has been any fan mods to fix the issues since then. I seem to recall they eventually added an offline mode. The always online requirement was a bit excessive and plagued with issues on launch.
David Singmaster, Rubik's Cube Guru, Has Died
> In other news, I’ve discovered a new level of this hell. Because I used Facebook as a login service for my account with the DMV I am now unable to pay my vehicle taxes nor renew my registration/tags online.

It's ironic that Jeff Atwood phrased OpenID/third party logins as an internet driver's license. 10 years later, we've learned the pitfalls of such a system, namely that your login is at the mercy of organizations without customer support, and they can turn you off for no personally attributable reason.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/your-internet-drivers-license/
Asking Bing's AI Whether It's Sentient Apparently Causes It to Freak Out
modi demonetized most bills overnight
The Logic of Functional Programming
In this post I describe my own journey getting in to functional programming. Early on I gained a deep fascination with functional lenses, and their ability to let us focus on a portion of a data structure. Yet it seems to me that this should be part of a larger logical theory of functions.

If we can peer in to focus in on parts a data structure, we should also be able to focus in on parts of functions. To expose how functions behave relative to parts of structures like those determined by lenses. I describe how commutative squares let you do that. A large assortment of references is provided at the end for interested parties who want to know more.
I said I wanted to get into an industry that works little and earns a lot, without having to learn new skills, and it never replied back :(
There are often openings for people with electronics engineering backgrounds for roles supporting science and met, as opposed to comms and base IT. It doesn't hurt to apply.

Edit: https://www.bas.ac.uk/jobs/careers-at-bas/operational-suppor...
I think it was political pressure at the end
Check out Quod Init Exit II. Simpler art but runs in high resolution mode. Also Sam's Journey and the Sonic port. Modern C64 games look so much better than most older games.
No.

> On Android, the Privacy Sandbox tracking is in addition to all the usual individual tracking methods; it's not being pitched as an alternative to anything. The Privacy Sandbox on Android is toothless, and Google has no plans to reduce tracking on Android.
Since you're admitting that there's lots and lots of people on Facebook, from where do you expect it to get the manpower required to review (properly) all the many cases that might appear?
I doubt Zuck banned you, but if you say so..
If you like that kind of thing I can recommend the book Time on Ice: A Winter Voyage to Antarctica - it's about a couple overwintering in Antarctica in their yacht:

https://www.amazon.com/Time-Ice-Winter-Voyage-Antarctica/dp/...

Edit: If I remember correctly they also sailed from and back to Sweden to do this...
Reminds me of the well-known toxic spill in the Sacramento River in 1991. "The chemical plume left a 41-mile wake of destruction, from the spill site to the entry point of the river into Shasta Lake"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunsmuir,_California#Californi...

There continue to be derailments at that site, although there is now a barrier to prevent cars from tumbling into the river.
For a Sr role it’s not unreasonable to expect a family of 4.
Turns out that's about the natural lifespan of the Polyhomo corporaticus
Are you still using a lot of bare metal servers? Or solely on GCP?
The website is missing a link to a privacy policy. That's really important since you're processing personal information, especially if your visitors are located in the EU. I wouldn't share any information about myself in the chat because of privacy concerns.
Exactly.

This is what you end up having to do in SC2K.

You must direct the traffic, by not offering junctions.
I agree with everything you said.

My original comment was in response to a comment that claimed that UBI does not suffer from the same incentives as needs-based programs and doesn't punish people for increasing their income.

My point was that this is not true. As your income increases, your relative tax burden from UBI also increases. In other words, as your income increases, "UBI income minus UBI taxes" decreases. Thus creating some of the same incentives as needs based programs. This is common to all progressive tax systems (which I support), and UBI isn't a magical exception.
I work on TypeDB (https://vaticle.com/typedb), and it sits somewhere at this intersection. The exposed query language has elements of both logic programming constructs and graph-like structures. Both amount to a kind of "constraint" programming.
I mostly agree with your comment which echoes the sentiment in the article: Things are meant to be used. Don't fall for the psychological trap, that makes you never use your best items.

The point I was making is that the inference, from seeing examples of to worn gear to assuming rough handling is fallacious.

Inappropriate use usually leads to failure far before many signs of wear appear. The person who mistreats his tools is more likely to be seen with new tools, since they had to replace them, while the professional who takes care of his tools is most likely to be seen with worn tools, since they survived in his care long enough for wear marks to become obvious.

This is why I say you extracted the wrong lessons. System 1 thinking matches two intensities: wear and usage. The conclusion seems plausible but is wrong.

Professionals might appear to be unconcerned, but it's more likely the "making it look easy"-effect. The accumulation of decades of experience leads to a trained and steady hand, intimate knowledge of how fragile, grippy, heavy, etc. each part is, and an almost instinctive feeling of handling the tool as an extension of the human body. They won't drop the camera, but you might.
I feel like my Emacs setup would be perfect after the winter isolation. :) - Has anyone studied the Antarctic winter with respect to deep focus and personal productivity?
I think these acquisitions are partly about the customer base and infrastructure but I believe a big part is getting the staff - existing functional highly skilled.
About 40 minutes outside Little Rock.
Check out his previous post: https://brr.fyi/posts/frost

> We don’t heat spaces unless we have to!

> The ice isn’t really “wet” per se. It has the consistency of shattered automotive safety glass. On a related note, the snow doesn’t really behave like “frozen water crystals”. It’s more like “very cold sand”.
"Google creates a new Privacy Sandbox feature for Android" deceptively implies it improves privacy, when it does just the opposite.

Journalists should pick apart lies, not parrot them.
Apparently not great if you're a woman:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/as-antarctic-fieldwo...
I know the wikipedia page hasn't caught up yet, (Edit: it has the death year now) but I've spoken with his wife, now widow, and confirmed the news.

Rob Eastaway said:

David Singmaster, the great puzzle collector, historian and Rubik's Cube guru, died on Monday morning after a long illness. He was a unique character with an infectious child-like enthusiasm for puzzles of every kind. A visit to David's house was the puzzle equivalent of a trip to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Once there it was almost impossible to leave ("let me just show you this..."). His passing leaves a big hole in the world of recreational maths. RIP David.

That was quoted from here:

https://mathstodon.xyz/@robeastaway/109868800579938110

This is desperately sad news. I've stayed with David and Deborah, and as Rob says, it was so hard to tear oneself away.

I will certainly miss him.
> We aren’t going to modify our security protocols so a handful of people can mod their STB, sorry :P

Don't try to pass off lockdown nonsense as "security". If your "security" depends on a locked down end user device it's a broken design from the start.

I'd be willing to bet that the restrictions actually enforce the execution of insecure components, almost every locked down device ends up that way because the chain of vendors involved in approving updates doesn't really care about anything that doesn't affect their profit margins.

Just admit it's all about the margins, don't lie about security.
I just don't know why they force people not to be remote.

You could live very well in most of the country for that.

And one big slogan for startups is get out of the office and talk to people. I would argue if you want to build something that has national appeal get out of the state.
Yep, see this other post: https://brr.fyi/posts/frost
I've been locked out of Facebook for so long (due to 2FA issues), I'd just like to delete my account. But that's not possible if I can't log in.

I've always wondered how someone who is locked out of a service like Facebook is supposed to delete their content.

Let's say that I'm a resident of some location with better-than-average digital privacy rights. If I can't log in to Facebook, how can I get my stuff deleted?

How do people handle this in places like the EU (or maybe California)?
Show HN: an investment simulation site that requires real name to play
Investor rank is a website where:

- Users invest in real world assets with fake money
- Users have to provide real names
- All transactions are public

This is a website where people can create [Skin in the Game](https://www.amazon.com/Skin-Game-Hidden-Asymmetries-Daily/dp...).

Currently only supports some crypto assets.

My ultimate idea is a prediction market under the same mechanism. I choose asset investment as a starting point because there is real world price that is ready for use.

Source code: https://github.com/YuPototo/Investor-Rank
Longer than that if you really need to because it's easy to replace anything on Toyota piece by piece
It’s not unheard for “the West” to maintain good relationships and trade with countries engaged in armed conflicts or human rights violations, if there’re good economical and political reasons. So I won’t be surprised if after conflict has settled, “the West” will slowly restore relationship with Russia, maybe with a slightly different leadership (eg without Putin - but it doesn’t make much difference overall)
which was an illegal thing to do

fighting an illegal thing with another illegal thing is not the way to proceed

if a convoy blocks the way, go disperse the convoy,

they did the illegal account freezing to avoid "looking bad".