skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not caching the questions and answers makes sense to me, as I imagine the hit rate wouldn't be terribly good. I would guess, though, that they somehow cache things like the sidebar list of blog articles, featured items, "Hot Network Questions", etc.
In the diagram [1], I can see why you might design it that way if starting from scratch but it works as is so why change it.

Is there a particular reason to suggest a change to the architecture?

[1] https://twitter.com/sahnlam/status/1629713954225405952/photo...
No, I'm not. Most people don't understand the details of either corporate or national accounting, and the very important difference between an annual production measure like GDP vs a total market value measure like market cap will be lost on them, especially in passing.
Sorry you're right, I missed that (I spent all of 5 mins typing up my comment). I wasn't considering all those cases like threats, inciting riots, etc. Those are already crimes and I agree with that. What I meant was regular speech.
Real people remember it. There is a chilling-effect coming from a few institution-level controlling pillars of our society.
> upfront payment, + ongoing subscription for maintenance patches),

That's how B2B software was priced for decades. It's also how things like PlayStation+online work.
> you do you

What? Such an asinine statement.

Clearly anything that involves shaping the physical world will have the hard sciences as its foundation. There is a sort of reverse snobbery going on here - 'too cool for school', it is unfortunate to see.
Yeah, I'm 80 and feel about 40. I'm a little slower, that's all.

Sometimes, I'll be walking past a shop window and say, "Who's that old dude?"
Actually there are a lot of black supremacists etc, people who absolutely hate me and want my whole race to die and I'll still listen to their podcasts and stuff just because it's something interesting. People who aren't scared to be labelled extreme are usually saying the interesting stuff that needs to be said. You should stop taking everything so serious and just go with the flow
I used the mnemonic "FuCK Gates, William...".
UPD: Site is back to work.
> Subscriptions align developer and user interests and produce better products and less wasted money in the long run.

In theory, maybe. In reality, I doubt it. Personally, I don't feel my interests are very much aligned with, or even cared about by, subscription software developers.

> I would much rather have 20 apps that I pay $10/mo/ea for than to buy one new $600 app a quarter and hope the developers I bought from years ago still care about me even though they will never make another dime.

Here's the thing, though: in that latter case, even if the devs no longer care about you, you still have the software, and it still works. Conversely, subscription devs may "care" about you until they get bored, or get acquihired, or run out of money, etc. and then suddenly you no longer have the software. Or they'll start making some silly or abusive changes, and then you'll be wishing the devs no longer cared.

This is to say: there's a risk attached to subscriptions (or, put another way, extra value in one-time purchase model).

Also, too little is being said about the other cost of subscriptions, which does not show up on the sticker price: each subscription is a business relationship. A relationship I need to keep track of, and which regularly reminds itself on my existence (unless the vendor is making money on forgotten subscriptions - then it stays perfectly quiet) - costing me time, effort, and occupying my memory. Importantly, it's also a relationship I don't want to have in the first place.

When I go to a grocery store to buy some bread, I want to... buy some bread. I don't want to enter into a relationship with the bakery, or their supplier. Today, I get the bread, they get the cash, and that's the end of it. Tomorrow, I may come back to the same place, or go somewhere else. It's the same with software: I may pay once, or top it up repeatedly, but all I care about is software - I don't give two damns about the company making it, or other products they have. I never, ever want to think about them. Subscriptions force me into such relationships. I have a limited capacity for them - my phone operator, utility companies, HOA, etc. are already enough.

Going back to the bakery example, theoretically I do enter a relationship with a seller every time I buy something from a physical or on-line store - a relationship I can use to e.g. get my goods fixed or my money back if something is wrong with the purchase. However, this is fully covered by consumer protection regulations, which means I can safely ignore those relationships - they literally reduce to "keep a proof of purchase, read up on relevant procedure when the vendor fucks up". Subscriptions would be nicer if they worked this way too.
On the other hand, humans evolved with this so there's probably some mechanisms that protect us from the potential damage. Or so I'd hope.
The other side of that coin (which is far more prevalent historically) is that speech restrictions are used to stifle dissent and repress minority groups. I.e. illegalizing anti-war or minority rights speech.

You make the mistake of assuming that those in power will only be preventing speech you agree with rather than muzzling you.
It is now ‘tonight’ in England. Are they visible?
>I offered people working in a call centre environment to learn crm administration: gradually, with all the support they may need, etc. We would have transitioned them into new roles once they gained some knowledge. The pay in new roles would have been higher than they'd ever get in the call centre environment.

one thing to consider is that they may have been bitten by this kind of talk before, possibly at the jobcentre. "go on this training course, you'll get a new role with higher pay" -> then it just never materializes. or they get more responsibilities piled on, but the higher pay mysteriously never arrives. so apathy sets in.
I saw the Aurora in Oslo, Norway about a month ago. It's the first time in my life I saw it that far south. I grew up in Tromsø, where it was pretty common, but man... You never get "used" to really good Aurora. It's always amazing.
If a practicing engineer is ultimatrly responsible for a catastrophic outcome of a design they signed off on, I can see a case for shoddy virologists with bad lab practices being held ultimately responsible for what they ultimately leak.

When what you make has the potential to impact billions; no offense, but I expect you to be a bit more hardcore about your adherence to safe practices of your trade.

If this means the only people who end up becoming virologists and doing work that conceivably leads to the creation of pandemic pathogens are the most hardcore mf'ers with a boner for safety, perfectionism , and preserving their own skin; ...I'm actually okay with that.

I'll even sweeten the pot. Lets extend that to Software Engineers and get a PE program for that sorted.

Consistency after all.

Long story short:
"Oopsie" as an excuse stops applying when your body count becomes non-zero.
Another example - the CDC expanded itself to health in general and involves itself with gun violence: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/firearms/fastfact.htm...
Love can cause psychological and financial damage. That’s part of the deal.
> All ml/dl systems have no awareness - they just output based on input training

Between the input and the output there is a function approximator. How can you be so sure what is and isn't going on in there?

> So what it means to model in awareness is what you are doing right now in reading this sentence.

I don't have any idea a priori of what is going on in my mind as I am reading a sentence. There are serious theories of neuroscience where the function of the brain is prediction. That would suggest that what I'm doing when I'm reading is trying to predict the next timeslice of my experience, quite similar to deep ML systems.
When I was young we had a family friend who regularly flew to Hong Kong for work. Whenever we wanted software that was expensive he would kindly pick it up for us there on one of his business trips. He must have known all the right places to look, because he never let us down! I still have a pirated copy of Macromedia Studio MX in a cupboard somewhere. The idea of installing pirate software you bought at an open market in Hong Kong seems absolutely insane in today's world, but 2002 was a very different time! For anyone wondering, we had dial-up internet back then, so even if I'd known the right places to look for pirated software, there was no way we could reasonably download it! I was using Getright download manager to download things over the course of weeks!
Fine-grained statistical profiling for CPython
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"You compared me to a 9/11 truther."

Just because you honestly reminded me of their need for overly complicated explanations of well understood things.
> the decision to do so or not is part of their freedom of speech

Well, you're not entirely wrong, but I feel perhaps like you're missing some nuance. I'm not a First Amendment attorney, but I don't think hosting is necessarily speech; and if Facebook ever claimed that their hosted content was a matter of their own speech, that could undermine their claim of immunity under Section 230. There's also the concept of private property becoming a public forum, which is well-supported by case law, but whose application is unclear in the virtual world.

Anyway, apart from all that, free speech as a value is much broader than the legal requirements of the First Amendment. I'm reminded of Alan Berg, hosting and debating bigots on his radio show, because limiting expression always ends up hurting minorities, and because suppression of such thoughts just drives it underground; sunlight is the best disinfectant.
I never said "leader of opposition", I said "opposition leader".

Manish Sisodia is Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, part of AAP, which is a national party of India. AAP's candidate got highest number of votes agains Modi in Varanasi election, so I think "opposition leader" term can definitely be used for Manish Sisodia.

And I don't think they have arrested him for alleged Liquor scam. If they start arresting people for alleged scams then Adani and several others are much ahead in line.
This can happen at a train station with multiple tracks or stationary car in a lot or multilane roadway. You're in the stationary one and the other train or cars move and if you're not thinking it can feel like you're going backwards.
A quarter mile in seconds? That’s brisk!

More likely, I guess, that the distance was up to a quarter mile and the time was as low as seconds, but for different observers at different distances.
The problem is that these hate movements aren't necessarily linearly correlated to the level of free speech. If there is less free speech, then indirect speech, euphemisms, and dog whistles are used. It doesn't stop it. Once any rule is made, it can be worked around. Even worse, the additional rules often anger and energize these people due to a perceived feeling of persecution. And lastly, the rules always get misinterpreted and abused to shut down significant amounts of speech that should not have been censored.

Unless you can prove with certainty that free speech causes an increase in violence and death, then it's better to default to openness.

The KKK and white supremacists marched in their clown parades regularly for decades and we laughed at them. Is it a coincidence that their movements grew significantly with the amplification of messages against them and social media censorship against them. Various right wing figures used this as leverage to increase their virulence.
As a Swede who emigrated to the US, my hunch is that we're open minded about different things.

Or in other words, we have different "taboo areas" our minds won't stray from.

I don't have examples. It's mostly a hunch.
Where’s your comment from two years ago belittling the wet market theory as shitty?

This whole saga is a damning indictment of: science journalism, government agencies’ public engagement, scientists’ public engagement, and the critical reasoning skills of middlebrow audiences.
It reasons, just not always right. Give it time and these systems will become the oracles of humankind. A utility we need to use as an extension of our lives to succeed in the society we live in.
>Such perverse outcomes have not yet arisen under the controversial Australian laws which generated similar comments from Signal [1] and HN users [2] in 2018.

How could you possibly know this?

Everything is secret under risk of jail for disclosure.
The only counterpoints are a) China is highly insular and rarely plays ball on even basic stuff and b) the whole Chinese idea of "saving face" where even when a person in power obviously messes up you still don't take the Western "brutally honest" approach, you do the opposite and pretend everything is still normal out of 'respect' (and in protection) of the person's social standing. The consequences happen quietly behind doors.

China not playing ball is like saying "I won't even give such a suggestion my time, how dare you ask me that".

That said - I fully agree it would have done leagues to help the narratives if they did play ball. Hell, the suggestion is that it was an accident in the first place. That should say enough on it's own if it's true.
A Little WSPR Beacon
Despicable but that's one way to draw attention to cybersecurity for sure
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It is ironic that many questions on Stack Overflow are about various cloud services, hyped-up technologies, and problems caused by over-engineering.
Verbal violence shuts down conversation, allowing the aggressor to dominate the conversation.
Gotcha. I was looking at the wrong little bit of code and was distracted by all the mentions of AES128.
> ...did not have a full debate over the origins of the virus...

We did not have a good debate over the origins of the virus because there was not enough evidence for one. And frankly that was the domain of the intelligence and biology communities, not Twitter users

The morale of this story is not about government censorship. Its not about false racism accusations or actual racism. Its about journalists and politicians running their mouths about things they don't know about, and dont have evidence for/against, and people listening because social media algorithms grab onto it.
"we don't have a clue" is not a theory about the origin. It's a theory about your knowledge of the origin. It's not in the pool of competing theories you're considering in this context.
That's the answer I expected.

May be it's some implementation nuances which forces ChatGPT to always assume the question having a correct answer. But second question does have a correct answer yet ChatGPT does not answer it.
> What about: yelling "fire" in a crowded room

Yep, that’s pretty dangerous, and people could get hurt. That shouldn’t be protected by the First Amendment.

Oh yeah, and protesting the draft. That’s pretty dangerous too. Government military recruitment is a necessity when we’re at war, and advocating against it is tantamount to sedition and espionage. It’s basically the same situation as shouting “fire” in a crowded room, and should not be protected by the First Amendment.

Now, I don’t actually believe this—I’m merely sharing how the US Supreme Court used exactly the same analogy you did, in 1919. Schenck v. United States is the most important use of the “‘fire’ in a crowded theater” analogy in history, because it shows how, in practice, such common‐sense ideas actually get used by the powerful.
I hope this goes to show how dangerous social media censorship is. Social media has completely ruined all their credit as arbiters of truth. I never trusted the group think in the first place and feel fortunate they all so completely and quickly fell on their face. I pray no one trusts their judgment ever again.
Lab leak and bio weapon are two completely different theories, and conflating them means you don't actually bother to learn the argument of the opposing side(s), before dismissing them as "crazies". I think if you attempt to have serious discussion the minimum you should do is to learn what the disagreement is about. If you don't bother to do even that, then what's the point in it? Just booing the outgroup one more time?

> is that one group accepted the possibility and investigated that

I'm not sure what group you mean here, but that was certainly not mainstream media, "The Experts (TM)" and the medical-political establishment. Those spent 100% of the effort on suppressing any possibility of the lab leak theory being seriously considered and investigated and declaring anybody who disagreed "crazies", and 0% of the effort investigating anything. To the honor of the actual scientific community, they managed to fight back and re-legitimize the leak theory, but it took significant time and effort, and significant struggle. And the PR damage (and career damage, etc.) to the people who dared to dissent was already done.

> and beating up random Asian people in the streets

I think mentioning people who considered lab leak theory a viable possibility together with people who beat up Asian people on the street, or even suggesting that there's a connection between the two, they have a common cause, and the former bear any responsibility on the latter - is an extremely dishonest move and you should apologize for making such connection.

> "Crazies" went all in regardless of evidence or reason, and for that the pejorative is well earned.

The "bat soup" propagandists went all in much further than the "crazies" - while the crazies only talked about the possibility of the lab leak (or bioweapon lab, ok) - the non-crazies banned, fired, ruined careers, declared opponents racist, and all that with even less evidence - at least for the lab leak theory there's a lab to leak from. By the time the "bat soup" theory was declared the only truth possible there was nothing to support it evidentially, let alone on the level of the only viable possibility. So "the crazies" earned their name, then "bat soup" propagandists must be named "super crazies on crazy juice while taking crazy pills and bathing in the crazy ocean". Or we can go back to actually discussing the evidence, if anybody is interested in that, of course.
At that point, why bother to allow gambling or alcohol a place in society. If people truly have no self determination, why not let a state or federal agency dictate all of their rights and wrongs. Eat only what's good for you because if it isn't healthy and slimming, you can't say anything about it because obese people are an "at risk" population. No more addictive medications of any kind. Doctors aren't agents of the state and couldn't possibly be as educated as a government representative, like your congressman. And intimating that your government officials lied to the public at large would be strictly verboten, I'm sure.
> I never said "leader of opposition", I said "opposition leader".

He is in the government, not in opposition. Correct the title
For everything up to ~XP era MS software, the private key was cracked years ago. Beginning around Vista they started using a longer key, which AFAIK hasn't been (publicly) cracked yet.

Search for "MSKey README" if you want to read more... but as one interesting datapoint, the computational complexity of finding the private key was 2^31.
Indeed, but I believe that if one develop a commercial application that uses Wolfram language then they would think it is worth to pay for it.
I had a debate at work about whether guards are considered spaghetti code. The same person also thought that you should never use GOTO's. He learned these rules in his comp-sci classes and never questioned them; even after years in the real world.

Personally, I use guards heavily to reduce nesting and if the language supports goto's, I'll use them if it make sense to improve code flow. However, its been a very long time since I've needed to use goto :)
The author of that piece is not an economist, he's a journalist with an undergrad business degree focused on real estate.

Influence is difficult to quantify, but Walmart certainly wields a lot of it. Just ask any of their suppliers.
"The aurora borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?"

https://youtu.be/JJl-mlUYNZE?t=2m7s
I think a lot of it has to do with the quite heavy expectations that historically came with age and the demand to conform in a certain way.

For example you see a lot of people today who grew up on the internet and are now into their 40s say "I'm too old for this, I shouldn't enjoy this as much" etc. The expectation to behave a certain way and what people really want creates a sort of mismatch.

And really it's kind of silly because when someone is 50 and says they feel like they're 35 that's probably because there's really not that much of a difference. Their brain just works all the same. The reverse is true as well I think. A lot of kids 'feel older' in their head than they are and that's probably just because they're not as different as we treat them. That we treat older and younger people like different species sometimes has always been weird to me.
> Nice reasoning but the truth is probably simply that subscriptions generate way more money.

It seems that they do, but even if they didn't, I think it's enough that they derisk things for the vendor - subscriptions give you a steady stream of money, one that changes continuously and can be scaled up gradually. Nice and predictable. In contract, one-time purchase model means the vendor has to first spend a lot of money developing the product, and then hope it'll be popular enough to at least cover those costs.

I understand the appeal for the vendor, but as a user, I hate it with passion.
I think marginalia is an awesome name!
yup thats what i said
I don’t think this is considering the full picture. It would be great if we could magically eliminate nazi ideology, but is the best way to do that really to hand the government extra censorship powers? Do you think the government is going to use that power to benefit the minority groups that need defending, or to advance their own agenda? Even if you have the right elected officials in place to censor things the way you want, what if the next round of elections gives that power to the other team?

Dan Carlin had a great example of this when there was lots of strife between MAGA and antifa groups. Lots of antifa people were calling for censorship of nazi speech while carrying communist flags. Carlin pointed out that if you give the government the power to eliminate that far-right speech, your far-left speech is next to the chopping block.