skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's to stop the people who flee from pushing the failed policies that caused San Fran to become like this in the jurisdiction they flee to?
It's natural in the sense that you have it if you are the only person on an island somewhere, assuming there's no aircraft or satellites going overhead. In that situation you could literally say anything you wanted, as long as you can collect food and water and not die of some other cause before you finish saying it. Kind of goes for other things to a lesser extent, for example you have total privacy and there's no one there to take away any guns you have, but you do have to think about other people more in those cases, as the island thing is just a thought exercise.
Why Starbucks makes burnt coffee
In college I got by with a 75 MHz Pentium with full disk encryption. I didn't notice any performance penalty.
Middle-aged men choose to transition to become transwomen, and they all went through puberty. Some even fathered kids.

So there's no reason for trans-identifying teenagers to have their own puberties blocked, before they can even make properly informed decisions about choosing lifelong sterility and lack of sexual function.

Like the older trans, they can wait a few years to adulthood or even later, and then decide what they want to do. This is the safer and more sensible option, and the one most compatible with "do no harm".
So we should allow perjury?
That's a rose-colored reimaging of the past, including for your own example. I imagine most problems you'd point to were solved via criticism, protests, violence, and more.

To look at your example in a US-centric light, being homosexual was literally lethal for some and cost thousands others their jobs. LGBTQ+ people are still losing their jobs for being homosexual. People are still saying things about the LGBTQ+ community that are statistically and provably untrue.

I personally don't understand why we would hold those perpetuating such things above criticism or force association.
What makes people see non-Lisp-like languages and think to themselves "yep, this is how I want my code to look like" is beyond me
China's property crash is prompting banks to offer mortgages to 70-year-olds
What social stuff are you referring to?
Good point, for normal executives (whatever that means). In my little bubble most executives I have to deal with believe themselves to be on par with solution/enterprise architects and they like to show this by saying stuff like: "Let's use microservices and kubernetes for better scalability, everybody's doing it..."
GPT summary: The College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) program, which has been in place for decades and is worth nearly half a billion dollars in revenue, is being questioned by critics who claim that it is not fulfilling its original academic freedom ideal. Annie Abrams, author of the book Shortchanged: How Advanced Placement Cheats Students, argues that the program's focus on standardized testing means it is not able to offer a true college education to high school students. Although the attention on the AP African American studies curriculum is positive, Abrams suggests that all AP courses should be subject to scrutiny about how they are taught and tested, and whether the College Board is the best body to make decisions about them. Critics argue that the College Board has failed in its objective to offer academic freedom and power to secondary school students.
For one thing, Rasmussen is noted for being a right-wing pollster. For another thing, that's one of the dumbest poll questions I've ever heard. "Is it OK to be white?" Last I heard, we don't have much choice about our skin color. Speech and behavior, sure, but they didn't ask about that.
Well true, but I think we know some things it shouldn't be used for at least!
Not in the Dijkstra "Go to statement considered harmful" sense. Nor are the goto keywords found in most modern languages. These retain structure and thus are not considered harmful.

But there is a good case to be made that exception handlers are gotos in the Dijkstra sense, at least when used for anything other than exceptions, like passing errors around.
k-nearest neighbors? Sort of, but I'd rather describe it as a geospatial map in many dimensions.
Sampling Bias in Household Counting
Either way, FP is slowly eating the web. "View as function of state" has thoroughly won the argument. What that will ultimately look like is unclear, but ignore it at your own peril.
And it is very woke of them, as in being awaken to the opportunity to teach and prevent harm
The solution is to respond to bad information with correct information and to bad arguments with good arguments. As I said, if someone makes a bad argument, then explain how it is bad. Tossing a label like "whataboutism" explains nothing, isn't an argument, and doesn't make any distinction between bad/irrelevant points and good/relevant ones.

Btw, internet users are orders-of-magnitude too quick to jump to the conclusion that they're dealing with "disinformation campaigns" and that sort of thing. As far as I can tell, most of the time they're just encountering other, equally disgruntled internet users who happen to have the opposing view of a topic and feel just as strongly about it. But even if it's a sinister campaigner masquerading as a disgruntled internet user, the solution is still what I described in the previous paragraph. That's the only thing that can work in the long run.

There's another, highly underrated and effective way to respond, though, and that is to simply ignore it and walk away. Responding to these things feeds them. If people would simply starve bad information/arguments of attention, they would fizzle out.
merino wool is by far the best material for travel out there next to synthetics. it's almost all I use when I travel. Being able to use the same undies and socks for a week straight with, like, two shirts, a pair of jeans and shorts/joggers for working out is a godsend.
The loop you posted is a do-while loop; the while loop has a somewhat less intuitive translation to GOTO:

loop_test: IF (NOT loop_condition) GOTO after_loop
loop_body
GOTO loop_test
after_loop: etc...
It's clear in West London, but nothing visible at the moment, even on a 60 second camera exposure. Not a great surprise - we're a long way south, a lot of light polution, and the moon is still up - but worth a try.

Edit: 02:30 UTC - moon has set now, but still nothing on a long camera exposure.
Eventually someone will block enough big domains and render the search unusable and they may forget they actually did that. And there goes a user
Although I agree with overturning Citizens United, but where do you draw the line? I assume you mean "an employer can't fire someone for what they say in their free time" but what about non-employees? Will they be required to keep contractors? Vendors? Spoke persons? Customers?
Well, well, seems like.. all those crazy "conspiracy theorists" were right.
Thanks for the comment. Scanning laser path is something like LaserCube is offering, right? I talked to them and they warned that it's a class 4 laser and shouldn't be used anywhere accesible to people for safety.

So yes, basically what I'm looking at the moment is a way to verify the intuition about if that's even possible. Or what minimum size/power is needed to do that ring. And it's either a lot of DIY that are beyound my skills and time at the moment, or some good simulation software. I'm playing with Blender + LuxRender, but it's still too slow on my M1 and it's basically bruteforcing ideas instead of proper design.
I saw a lot of folks saying that the theories all kinda stank at the time, and to wait and see. Interestingly, a lot of folks also kept quiet and didn't champion any theories. Maybe I can link you to a lack of comment two years ago to back up my bona fides?
As others have said, first make sure your posture is correct, keyboard height is correct, you are looking straight out or just slightly down at your monitor, etc. What I did is put my laptop on the desk, blanked the laptop screen, and put an external monitor on a tall clear box that was designed for displaying dolls (I had to order it). Some monitors now have height adjustments.

Next, make sure you are using good, relaxed keyboard technique. I play the piano and the same concepts apply to that. The first rule is, do not stretch your fingers to reach keys. For example, many people hit Backspace with their right pinky and leave their other fingers on JKL. This will cause tension in your fingers, hand, wrist, and forearm. Instead, rotate your wrist to the right and use your ring finger for Backspace. When you do this, your index finger should land lightly on the 0 key. Why not use pinky for Backspace? Because for me at least, that would require moving my entire arm, even involving my shoulder, whereas I can easily reach it with my ring finger just by moving my wrist.

Same principle applies for typing numbers: do not stretch individual fingers up to the number keys and try to keep the rest on the home keys. Instead, move the correct finger to the key you want to hit and let the other fingers follow along in a relaxed way. For example, when I type 8 with my right "tall" finger, my index finger lands between Y and U. If you try doing the same thing while holding fingers on JL; you will feel a lot of tension.

As an easy demonstration, hold your hands flat in front of you, parallel to the ground and relaxed. Wiggle your fingers fast and see how comfortable and easy that is. Now stretch your fingers out as forcefully as you can and try to wiggle them. Big difference!

Second rule is, make sure you wrists are not bent. Bent wrists make the carpel tunnel, the thing tendons and nerves run through in your wrist, smaller. This makes it more likely to cause friction and inflammation in your wrist as you move fingers.

Lastly, if you start to feel tightness, tension, fatigue, tingling, etc, STOP AND REST. Maybe run some cool water over your hands and wrists. Don't keep working or you will only hurt yourself.
Pascal and Delphi are languages that I have a lot of respect for.

Borland produced excellent development tooling in its time. Turbo Pascal was a classic.
And pubnix: Public Access Unix Systems

Public Access Unix Systems are shared computers that people share and log on to.
I self host freshrss right now, i was just curious since usenet might provide an interesting g vector for more complex filtering
1. Free speech generally implies speech in the public discourse, not in private.
2. Giving an order to or threatening someone is not “speech” in the sense that you are disseminating a questionable opinion: it is an action. You are quite literally _doing_ something, not just communicating e.g. don corleone’s offer one can’t refuse.
The year is 2025. You wake up after what feels like a long nap and you haven't touched pandas since you wrote this comment. In front of you is a pen and piece of paper with instructions to hand-write some pandas code to transform a collection of XLSX files of census data and municipal data into a choropleth representing deltas between the datasets. The pandas documentation is printed in-full on a bookshelf to your left. You have 20 minutes.
Yeah they're probably in a HSM at the very least.
US thing I suppose? Even wording is weird to me 'Gen Z accounts for 34 percent of iPhone users and just 10 percent of Samsung users, according to data reported by Financial Times.'
Does that really mean 34% Iphone and 66% Android?
This feels like a capability that will have giant impact across geopolitics which is not immediately clear.

They mentioned backhaul, I wonder what is the upper bound of scale, will it be big enough to complement/replace submarine cables at some point.
The magnetic north pole is wandering pretty fast.
Currently magnetic north pole is at coordinates 86.146, 146.826 [1] - right in the arctic ocean. It is not in Canada for quite some years.

[1] https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/GeomagneticPoles.shtml
Well you didn’t just out and expect the US gov officials to say “lol yeah it was us, we were messing around with stuff we shouldn’t have been and is actively outlawed in US territories”, did you?

The connections to eco health alliance were all laid out a long time ago
Well, that's stupid.....
The issue involves misplaced incentives. Scientists have an incentive to apply for certain grants, and the National Science Foundation and NIH have an incentive to spend their federal funding. Scientists are thus incentivized to draw attention to "black swan" events and ask for funding to prevent these events. And they are incentivized to conduct riskier and riskier research until, let's say, a "human error event" occurs, and here we are.*

*Assuming the lab leak was accidental, rather than intentional
To form a counter example, could you make a marginally more difficult version of SAT? Or would it always be reducible to SAT?
Probably too much light pollution :(
That sounds right. I feel similarly for different reasons (have to be vigilant and police my own behavior because of health issues).
I agree but as with basically all things... it's messy. North Korea believes deeply in education. I fear that only once one political party's view of heresy has been solidly ingrained in the education system, will we then see education getting any funding again. It seems that since tribalism and fear of enemies is the most powerful political motivator, we can only invest in systems that reinforce a tribalism-based tool of manipulation.

Because of such crystallization, in America, critical thinking has become fairly close to heresy, and any tid bit of questioning of your own group's inflexible logic must be couched in "please don't hate me, I'm on your side" first. Those of us that enjoy being contrarian to our friends are getting less and less boost in social media, and most political messaging now contains a bite of "the other side, your fellow Americans, are corrupt/evil/incompetent." I just don't know how we can shake this situation but I think free speech isn't the problem at all, it's the incentives around our speech.
I just rented an apartment in a building that uses RealPage. Somehow a 3 bedroom in the building was priced less than a 1 bedroom. When I asked why, the leasing agent said they had no idea and also no control over prices.
I hope Rust takes off for embedded programming. I've been working with ESP32 and C is really the only choice if you are doing anything remotely fancy or resource constrained
Also to give people time to develop the vaccine for the virus. Lockdown until the vaccine is administered to the community is a sound policy.
Training takes about 6 months. The more training the better. Publicize it. It's an additional motivation for Russia to negotiate an end to the war before actual jets start arriving 6 months from now. It costs almost nothing, does little political harm, and the jets don't actually have to ever arrive.
Oh absolutely. While I every now and then feel a bit restricted by it, overall it's just such a mental relief not to have to think about those things because the compiler will catch me if I mess up.

For example, when we upgrade a dependency and suddenly we get 30 compiler errors because the signature of a call-back function in the new version of the dependency differs. Without strong typing and strict checking that could be 30 support cases (or more) as we don't have full integration test suites for all the various customer integrations for various reasons.

Strong typing helps a lot with readability, as it can make the code a lot more self-documenting. Very often I don't need any separate documentation. Just by looking at a function signature I can see what types it expect, I can thus find code for those types to see what they look like and that way gain a good understanding of what I need to do to call that function and, just as importantly, what I get back.

Strict checking means I don't have to worry about silly bugs all over. Want to assign a string to an integer variable? Well then you better say so.

In fact the areas that annoy me the most is those where the strict checking fails. For example the TDateTime type, which holds a time and a date unsurprisingly, is defined as a type alias for a double-precision float. Thus "myDateTime := Pi;" compiles just fine.

This is mainly for historical reasons, as records (structs) were more limited and clunky back in the days, however the type is so ingrained in library code all over it's hard to avoid.
> I always thought the password was for the network shares only.

Correct. It was only for networking.
Re the medium post. ChatGPT (based on GPT-3.5) makes mistakes, but it does already fewer than its predecessor. For example, GPT-3 couldn't do the theory of mind stuff mentioned in the article. Similarly, successors of ChatGPT will do better than it. For example, I tested Bing Chat, and it immediately solved the Donut hole question correctly. I didn't try the logic examples, since I couldn't easily copy and paste them, but I expect Bing Chat would do at least better. Despite being only released a few months after ChatGPT. How can the author believe that his examples won't be solved in the near future?

Regarding AI conferences. Researchers often continue to ride dead horses if they find them interesting. As far as I know, symbolic approaches have never lead to any major success in AI. All the big AI achievements in recent years are based on machine learning, on deep neural networks specifically.
In what way is gain of function not bio-engineering? You're modifying a virus and subjecting it to human-like tissue to observe the results. Lab leak and gain of function are inexplicably tied.

I don't know what point the quote is getting to. I already said it wasn't a bioweapon.
Asking respondents to be tolerant is limiting their freedom of speech in the name of civility. I find that troubling, especially given that most folks on the receiving end of a "social media mob" is because they said something others perceived to be intolerant.
I respect what you're saying here about a "C abstract machine" that's disjoint from any particular real hardware, and that it introduces its own troubles through the abstraction, and I think with agree with all that.

But I'm not sure how to draw that out of your original comment, or even how to interpret the original comment while "ignoring the Rust stuff entirely". That comment seems to be suggesting that Rust exposes its users to the bare metal just as much as C does, so if you take that comparison out, it doesn't seem like it's saying anything at all. C is flawed, and is not even ideal as a window into bare metal (because of its own abstract machine), but Beej noted that it's more connected than any "present-day" language, and that claim does seem to hold.
The issue is that laws and regulation are exactly what is being peddled in our legislative and judicial systems, eg https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/gonzalez-v-googl...
> HN of all places to find luddites is weird.

HN isn't an enthusiasts' site, though it sometimes feels like one. That latest framework rarely gets much love when the incumbent has all the features (and fewer bugs).
Right, ring is the right word :) (well, in the more perfect setup, I'd love to have more complex but based on the ring shapes, but ring would be a good a start).

LED+collimated lens and a mask sounds OK, but two questions: a) probably also need mirror, right? the device should be small and placed on the floor itself (you can't leave it or mount). b) mask is for, well, masking out the light from the center of the circle? Part of the challenge here is to make the ring as bright as possible (could be used in pretty bright environments), so ideally no light coming out from the optic system should be wasted (masked). Again, not sure it's even possible.
I wrote about this the other day, in case anyone is interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34929565.

Btw HN has a single organizing value: intellectual curiosity (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), so the question of how to relate to "free speech" or any similar concept reduces to: how does it relate to optimizing an internet forum for intellectual curiosity? It's not hard to derive some interesting consequences once you reframe the question that way.
Eye reed all the tyme about how those skools are eleetist and racist and all that, butt what is never said is that those skools are "smart-ist."

Eye'm not vary smart, butts why knot me admitted to Harvard? Eye only gots a C- avrage in hi skool, butts if we going to bee equal, then us knot smart peeple must bee admitted at them universities, two.

Eye hate the discrimination against us. Maybee they need to take the same ratio of GPAs - only 5% A students, 25% B students and 60% C students and 10% hi skool dropouts so that Harvard and all of thems eleet skools "look like America."
> wool will not survive even the most brief encounter with [velcro]

Perhaps that's a particular knit, rather than wool-ness? I just now mashed three merino T's (a 100%, a blend, a wrapped nylon core) with velcro, and aside from a slight tackiness, I only got grab on seam stitching.
> The difference is simply the reach we are giving charlatans.

This is the key thing people miss in the free speech debates. The reach is because it is profitable to give people that reach and host them, even if they are spreading misinformation and lies. Ban them from social media/youtube/whereever and they still have freedom of speech.

In the past, their audience would always be limited to a local network, only people they could interact with in person. It didn't make money to spread their nonsense, but now it does, and tech companies have no incentive to ban or remove profitable users.
You are too kind to this guy.

> So I always viewed my writings as a gift to humanity and the future generations, to introduce some new perspectives into the world.

https://stephan-shahinian.medium.com/why-i-stopped-writing-4...
Agreed, but would most engineers understand that they can keep the simplicity of the solution if the underlying infrastructure is based in the cloud/serverless/etc?

Fro my limited experience many engineers fall in the trap of adding accidental complexity to an otherwise simple architecture just by trying to use the latest/coolest cloud architecture trend.

Monolith in the cloud on kubernetes? Speak no such abomination.
Of course we have to do microservices, the more the better. How can we scale otherwise?

SQL DB? What is this, 2010? Of course we're going to use Cosmos DB, how else could we get "single-digit millisecond response times, automatic and instant scalability, along with guarantee speed at any scale".

Of course I'm exaggerating for dramatic effect but I rarely see teams disciplined enough to keep cloud architectures simple and clean.
What sort of things do you fear being bullied for saying? I can honestly say I'm not afraid of being "cancelled" for going against some sort of group think. So I'm curious what kinds of things that people that hold your opinion are afraid of being punished for saying, could you give some examples?
Perhaps, but that would cover a small portion of people who are "canceled" by a "social media mob".
wow this whole thread -- so many dinosaurs.
The rationale for free speech is easy to articulate - “if you restrict speech you open the door for your opponents to do the same”.

Everybody wants to restrict speech they dont like, but with that comes the ability for others to restrict speech you do like.

Hence, the optimal outcome is no or minimal restriction.
The point is that the headline is clickbait. As you have said, you have to read the article to determine the radically different meaning of the headline. That's how clickbait works.
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