skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternative realities may have alternative people living in them - will they observe different laws of physics since their reality is not a sum of all realities, as opposed to ours? Or would they have the same conclusion about sum of realities?

A) these realities can't have people - they're not real enough to be called that

B) physics will be different - that would be a great scientific revelation

C) physics will be the same - making the premise meaningless
I mean, yes at some level I totally agree, universities will not back you up if you complain about misconduct or poor work. Absolutely.

At the same time, we (outsiders) see academics set up massive political and pressure campaigns against the public, politicians and each other - that aren't directly sanctioned by the management - and this seems to happen all the time. Academics are some of the most powerful members of society. They are one of the few groups whose collective beliefs are actively dangerous to criticize in public. So the idea that they're all powerless victims in this regard is just so hard to take seriously. If the academy really wanted to, it could hold its own staff to account just like it does over the ideology of the day.
> Also you just know that schools are going to start serving crap. The infamous American "pizza is a vegetable" debacle.

No, it won’t necessarily. You can involve the healthcare system and have dieticians designing meals, like it happens in many countries in continental Europe.

> Ideally people should be feeding and raising their own kids- not leave it up to the education system.

Teaching kids what is proper food is part of the role of the education and the healthcare system, again, in many places in continental Europe.

Besides, a parent can still feed their children marmite and real ale with gravy or whatever abomination they deem suitable.
Curl 7.88.1 the second final one
Emacs User Survey 2020 Results (2020)
Definitely. Each comment has 4 pieces of data - username, website, email and message body. I would assume the email is the actual username on the network and the website+ the username string are salt and signature that verifies the authenticity of the message.
Short messages are probably links to other vulnerable blogs and the long ones contain actual payload.

I'd guess a network like that is nefarious in nature.
Drug consumption is at least as much a demand side problem as a supply side one.

The chemical precursors for the production of Fentanyl are widely used in the legal pharmaceutical industry. Focusing the entire suppression effort on the supply is akin to blaming global steel producers for local gun deaths. Furthermore, whilst fentanyl abuse is a global problem, it is particularly acute in the US, likely stemming from decades long over prescription of legal opiates, which seeded the addict population so that propagation of addiction of illegal substances would be inevitable.

There are clear examples of states which have stopped epidemic drug abuse - Communist China is in fact one of those examples - but if that is too unpalatable for US policy makers to take lessons from, try Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew for an more acceptable Asian face for the eradication of this societal menace.

Bottom line is that you need centralised state intervention to eliminate dealers and distributors, coupled with renditions to remove the vulnerable from the exposure to opportunity, coupled with pathways out of poverty for those who wish to take a different life.
I feel that most people aren't happy, but being exceptional gives you more rocket fuel to break out if you can.
You assume management is competent. Near 99% of them have no management qualification like MBA. Vast majority got it through "experience". Vast majority don't know how to work with VBA excel to even automate those management spreadsheet. They have never taken any HR degrees modules to even know any theory of human resources.
"Most of these leaked out of the cars without vapourizing and ended up in the Ohio river causing some damage to wildlife."

SOME? I have seen lot of pictures that show a complete anhilation of the local fish population and contamination of the water supplies (strange deposits when boiled).

I think that there is a huge coverup ongoing.
I am partially gussing here, but...

They weren't old enough by 2020/early 2021. Series A was 2012. It's usually 10 years after that you need to IPO.

So the expected IPO would be 2022. Bad timing/luck.

Similar for those option plans. Planned IPO +2 years should OK. Unless it hits you like the last 2 years.
IMO "abundance of low hanging fruit" is the main factor As Physics got more saturated, and matured, these geniuses somehow just stopped.
Question 1: Could you summarize or maybe add a page about it? There's just two lines of text and then a bunch of links. I really can't tell what you're getting at.

The obvious answer to all the questions would be to just create normal software and people can upload/share their files if they want to. That's pretty much how all software works except for SAAS web stuff. I assume you're getting at something different, but it isn't at all clear what it is.

Local/native software has been around for many decades. Long before web software; long before the web itself even existed. What is different about this idea?

Is it some way to make web UIs actually as functional as native applications? Some format to make data from web apps as usable as data from normal applications?
> How does that handle overlapping friend groups? Each person in my friend group has their own friend group, and their friend groups often include people who I am not friends with.

> It would seem that we'd need multiple group chats to make it work reasonably. Is that what you do?

It's not that complicated. If you really need to you create multiple groups. Generall it's not necessary. Groups are usually topic-related, not just based on friendship. Most of my friends come from various interests, so I just participate in the right topic groups and I see them there.

The volume is also not a problem. I quickscroll through it once a day or so and if I miss something important I'll get reminded by someone.

The thing is that social media have really screwed themselves up by screwing with our feeds, adding suggested crap and removing stuff we want to see.
You're claiming that you know my position on the Zoom CEO, which I didn't state AND insinuating that I'm demonizing executives? Are you a troll?
Are there any URL fields in the form, even if the URL doesn't come out onto the page? Could they be sending HTML that your blog is stripping out?
I mean, sure it worked before Facebook, but having grown up using Facebook, it feels much more natural to use social media than a Christmas card, email list, or whatever! Besides, those alternatives still feel intimate - you made an effort to reach out - and now you have to consider whether the other person wants that level of intimacy, will feel obligated to respond, etc.

The value that Facebook brought is now people can _choose_ to respond to you, and you can also silently see what others are up to without needing to explicitly catch up. It’s kind of like bumping into someone you know in public, and the resulting interaction (e.g. comment or DM from seeing the update post) feels much more organic as well.
Parallel programs are often way less efficient. Sure, communication is expensive and parallelism requires communication. On the other hand, they're often 2x less efficient or more. Poor scaling means you go beyond X-number of core/nodes (often a lower number than you'd like) and 90, 95, 99 % of the extra CPU power you throw at the application is burnt up in pure overhead.
> The notorious Utopia boot disc got around the obfuscation problem with a pirated Katana SDK and used the same reset technique, letting pirated software load by simply booting Utopia and switching discs when instructed. The Utopia crew flamed out quickly as they were stupid enough to put their photographs on the disc, leading to a knock on the door from German police

Someone know more to this story? (i.e what was exactly on the disc, and what were the legal basis of said police action)
A wonderful article. Albeit one that makes me sad to think of what could have been.

I hope everyone can think of how to raise their kids more like this.
> In this scheme, devices marked "A" will effectively be restricted to people with the time to manage local infrastructure--recording cameras, for example

I think in terms of waste, the key is that devices are still functioning and valuable, even if they aren't as good to the original buyer as they once were. A different cloud service might pop up to replace the one that the smart doorbell maker canceled. Or the initial buyer can sell the smart doorbell to a customer that does have the patience to deal with local recording.

It'll always be hard to use tech for non-technical people, but at least avoiding the situation where thousands of functioning gadgets are bricked and thrown away should be possible to achive through regulation.
Yeah exactly, like Facebook used to do before this algorithmic feed was a thing.

It was actually quite good back then. Now it's unusable and I left it long ago.
Provide the things to allow them to find the passions that enrich their lives while also give them the tools to manage ‘real’ life.

We sent them to various sports but my youngest found football via watching the World Cup, my eldest found swimming as we went surfing and he wanted to be better.

Their choices. We just facilitate.
I'm sorry. I'll try to bite my tongue more often when I'm in combative mood. Thanks for putting up with me so far.
Possibly unique strings that can later be checked on Google to see whether submitted comments make it into the SERPs. If they do, spammers will come back and fire from all barrels.
Understood. Thank you for the elaboration.
The sneaking into hotel pools page is a great read:

http://www.infiltration.org/hotels-plunge.html
imagine paying zuck to resolve a problem that was created by zuck.

useful maybe if u make money on FB/Insta - but even that is so fickle, they can change their terms at any moment.
Yeah, once AI gets bank accounts (easy, via people), it can directly hire people.

Of course, arguably artificial intelligence is much older than this— and the bylaws of corporations constitute the algorithmic utilization of people.
a jumphost to all the other nodes in your network.
Random logouts is usually a symptom of an application error, rather than a bug on with GoTrue. Are you using the Auth Helpers? (https://supabase.com/docs/guides/auth/auth-helpers)

These establish the best-practice for various frameworks. If you're experiencing logouts using one of these Helpers I'd love to know
It's not a substitute/replacement for IAM, it's for their verified access product - basically IAM for your own applications. Nothing to do with IAM for your AWS account
Hatred of multimillionaires coming from generational wealth and being patterns of social reproduction is a healthy habit to take. They should indeed be bullied into humiliation.

Especially when they go with a fake, pretend-heartfelt apology and saying they're "taking reponsibility" while trying to pull a veil over everyone's eyes. They lost nothing, they took no risk.
(Dupe of these two):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34834322

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34860941
The graph titled "Comparison between Colossal-AI and current major open source projects in the same period" has no label on the Y axis, which shows quantities in thousands. WTH?
The “GPT is going to wash away everything” discourse sounded familiar here on HN and of course, I had read it multiple times on your posts bordering on spam.

I don’t know if your tech is going to wash away anything, and I do wish you good luck, but CNN has been digging their own grave for the best part of a decade and you claiming the credit for taking them down is some of the worst hubris I’ve read on HN.

As for the applications of LLM I’ll take François Chollet’s view that they may be more limited than many people are claiming.
Merkel has stated that the West had no intention of honoring the Minsk agreement. The purpose was to buy time for Ukraine to build up its army. The West negotiated in bad faith.
tbgs is internal code search for Facebook: https://codesearchguide.org/story/facebook
> The bad thing is whoever kicked the podium must feel terrible

When my children were small, they were terrified to break things in supermarkets. I told them that it is always the supermarket fault when something is not fixed properly.

Of course this is for accidental damage.

That whoever should sue the show for anxiousness /s
DSLs rarely strictly need custom syntax. It's for ergonomics.
How do you put on pants in the morning?
Yes, I'm a bit, uh, rusty, in C, but I did a double-take reading this.
> You can self-host the latter and delegate the former to a company specialized in it.

But what would you gain from it ? You gain no privacy, no improvement of service, no added resilience (probably less). All you gain is additional work maintaining your services.

> so you need to setup off-site backups yourself either way

You will always need backups regardless if self hosting or cloud hosting it, but by not opening up your firewall, you will have a much more secure home network, especially if you're not a security expert, which many people are not.

My personal mail backup consists of running a local dovecot instance that is synchronized every x hours using imapsync, and the dovecot mailstore is then backed up by my normal backup jobs every x hours. My provider does support an API for downloading a backup, but it's slower and more error prone than simply just synchronizing the email locally, and if need be, i can access my mailbox locally.

Restoring it in case of data loss or changing provider is also "easy", as i can simply reverse the imapsync.
You wouldn't need to send multiple comments for that.
Isn't it nice that those meme-like anecdotes, or whatever they are exist? Other examples are the Maginot Line in WW2, Amazon was never profitable, ERP systems suck because of their sales reps playing golf with their clients...
Webflow Is Not Scalable
Right, that's interesting! Thanks for the insights :)

> and the normal ongoing monitoring of behavior
Now I get another question: say you have millions of paid, verified users (that's the goal, right?). If you can monitor millions of account successfully, then it's most likely automated, isn't it? And then it should scale to all the users, maybe? In which case again, "verified" feels meaningless (because they just improved the bot situation overall).

> And that makes a lot of bad behavior unprofitable

I wonder if the bad behavior that can be reasonably well detected is the unprofitable one. Say I can leverage the "verified" badge to scam people more efficiently -> probably I can pay 8$ for an account that will scam a few people, right? So really paying 8$ would be a deterrent for bots that purposely do disinformation, but there it's hard to know if it's a bot, isn't it? I mean many people do disinformation just out of a lack of knowledge, and that's not a reason to qualify them as bots, right?
I think you're missing the point GC was trying to make, which is that the kind of child-rearing patterns that make "positive" geniuses might also make negative ones.

i.e. "all positive geniuses were given X, but not all people given X became positive geniuses (some became mass murderers).
Are you thinking of JavaScript? In Java you can’t even write hello world without a class.
This is how American military was defeated with absolute humiliation by Talebans and Vietnamese. The opponents simply overwhelm your expensive toys with cheap counter measures. Even American soldiers like Deltas and Rangers couldnt afford to get slaughtered by untrained enemy combatants in the hundreds of thousands. Imagine China flood American skys with a million balloons with fentanyl powders. How effective is American patriots and THAAD and F35 going to defend against that? No wonder American was defeated in Afghanistan after spending 10T ISD and 20 years there. This obsessions with wonder weapon is one of the reason how Hitler loss to Stalin Russia. Guess Americans have to relearn that lesson.
The problem I have with it is that it's rent-seeking. Since FB and Twitter are as ubiquitous as they are, any company will suffer if someone is impersonating them on there. So companies will now be paying FB and Twitter for this "service" not because it gives them value but as protection. That will apply to a lesser extent to individuals as well.
Reading an 80mb JSON file in Node wouldn't be an issue either, so that's surprising.
Indeed, please learn English. Finding vague references to the use of plurals for individuals does not make this part of the vernacular just like 'pluralis majestatis' [1] does not do so.

Language evolves so paper dictionaries from the beginning of the 21st century will not be entirely accurate but given the way some publishers of online dictionaries have taken to using their products to push language revolution instead of following language evolution those old paper books are more accurate guides to how people use it than their ideologically-driven on-line counterparts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_we
Those kinds of people often have a highly warped idea of what happiness is. Usually imagined, consciously or subconsciously, as a magical oasis where their parents are satisfied with them and they 'make it'. Those who do 'make it' realize thats not how it works and burn out.
…yet
Greatness is indeed reserved for the few.

I guess the masses can muddle through with rust or typescript.
You don't need a crystal ball to see that the number of cases of multiresistant infections is growing so rapidly that at the current pace the antibiotics we have will be all but useless in a couple of decades.
Twenty designs that defined the modern world
Note: Europe, but outside EU/EEA.

Yup. I have a gigabit fibre right up to my home, but the best speed available to me as an individual is 400/40. Gets really annoying from time to time when I need to upload like a couple of gigabytes.

On the bright side it's like €30/month, which also gets me cable and some streaming service subscriptions (HBO Max, Tidal, shit like that), which from what I can tell is a pretty good deal compared to more western countries.
George Washington's library book returned 221 yrs late
Lots of people here seem very upset at the idea that someone could write their memoires at thirty.
While it wouldn't be something for me (either to do or to read), I can think of lots of reasons for doing it which would not have to be indicative of a disordered personality.

Maybe the author is just the kind of person who parses experience through the lens of writing. Writing down notes about what you're doing, what you feel about it, is could be a way of understanding it more richly. And there ARE advantages to records made in the moment. Yes, the author could wait until they're fifty and have achieved 'wisdom' or 'success' whatever the hell either of those things mean, before they look back on their life. But the record they'd come up with would be edited and distorted in so many ways that it would be useless as a description of how this person felt in their twenties.

Sure there's a chance that such a record will be self-indulgent, stupid, vacuous etc. But there's also a chance that writing of this kind will be one of the things which helps the author to grow. And even if doesn't, so what?
I like to build this way when possible. Unfortunately, I find many people - especially tech leads - resistant to this approach. The first and most common reason is, "Why do I need this? What we are doing is fine." Or when the attitude is positive about it, the common issue is, "I think this would be too difficult for our devs to adopt."

I find both of these scenarios disappointing and frustrating, because technology (and software) is usually about improving processes and systems so better results can be made more easily. But at this point it feels like a lost cause, or rather a hill not worth dying on. For my own projects, I go this path; for others, I work dumber and keep the corporate apple cart upright.

Rant aside, there is a video which I really like that demonstrates this functional core/imperative shell approach: Solving Problems the Clojure Way - Rafal Dittwald. It is a Clojure talk, but it gives an imperative to functional refactor demo in JavaScript in the middle of the talk. Even though it is a toy example, it is big enough that the result shows a meaningful difference in approach.

https://youtu.be/vK1DazRK_a0
Facebook want to harvest my data for free and now want me to pay them too? Not going to happen. Every online service is asking for money. I will just switch to alternative freemium if I dont care my privacy. If I care, Facebook is on the lowest pecking lists of all my online services....and that is a very long list.
I've never seen locale-dependent format strings work well. The translators will change the formatting codes, and you can't change the order of the formatted arguments. You are much better off with some other mechanism for this.

(I have no recommendations. When I've seen this stuff done properly, on the occasions I've managed not to avoid doing it, it's always been using some in-house system.)
Pretty sure the whole site is already on archive.org
> if you have an intermittent surplus of renewable power and use it to create green hydrogen it is also "free"

This ignores every competing method of energy storage.
You're right that probably nobody is targeting this... but also i imagine that dreamcast linux probably comes with a copy of perl and other common userland. No need to make platform specific code here. Just use a scripting language.
Why should they take a pay cut?
So much this, I don't understand why cloud providers don't offer an easy way to view this sort of thing as really it should all be in the logging anyway.
That is what you believe. It is an irrational belief with no logical basis.

I believe that Putin has no desire to conquer Ukraine. The days of empire building are a relic from the past. Everybody in Donbas/Crimea speaks Russian anyway.