skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at one company where (at least within our team of about 40) our process was legitimately good. There was a genuine back and forth discussion and good ideas tended to float to the top. Then we got acquired and things steadily changed. Slowly more and more decisions were made because some high level engineer or manager just wanted it that way. Of course, terrible ideas floated to the top and it lead to disastrous decisions.

It is possible for the system to work, but it’s a fragile equilibrium and easily destroyed.
Not just England.

We just went to see them at our nearest beach in Tallinn.
You're lucky. If you want to feel comfortable on a plane, don't work on avionics systems written in the 1970s-1980s (and probably a lot from the 1990s). Some horrifically bad code running some planes.
A lot of religious texts, beliefs, and/or sermons are hate speech.
We (professional developers using lisp-like languages daily) don't have the reaction of "ewww" as soon as we see something foreign, but instead we think "hmm, that looks different, I wonder why it looks different?" and then we start to try to understand it. Then you give a lisp-like language a try (Clojure in my case) and suddenly it's really hard to program in any other language, because they're not as good as a lisp language.

If you have a knee-jerk reaction to everything that looks different, you'll lose out on lots of fun stuff. You should give lisp a try, I'm sure you won't regret it.
True, just saying mean things isn't savage justice. Savage justice is when the lynch mob successfully bullies your employer into firing you.
“ In trying to tidy up my finances I had to rebalance my portfolio, but even though I had all of my trades loaded into a spreadsheet, I found it difficult to aggregate them by ticker / account / category and calculate the actionable bit — the stocks and quantities I needed to buy/sell to meet a desired allocation.”

Is this not what a pivot table does?
Near 50 and the exact opposite. Mentally I'm sharper than ever (low bar) but physically starting to feel old. I still have some fairly aggressive physical ambitions but wondering if I've got what it takes to accomplish them.

30's through mid 40's was the best physical segment of my life.
Pizza without tomato is a treat! It’s typical in Naples and Campania in general: makes good olive oil and mozzarella shine.
"One of the peculiar phenomena of our time is the renegade Liberal. Over and above the familiar Marxist claim that ‘bourgeois liberty’ is an illusion, there is now a widespread tendency to argue that one can only defend democracy by totalitarian methods. If one loves democracy, the argument runs, one must crush its enemies by no matter what means. And who are its enemies? It always appears that they are not only those who attack it openly and consciously, but those who ‘objectively’ endanger it by spreading mistaken doctrines. In other words, defending democracy involves destroying all independence of thought."

- George Orwell, "The Freedom of the Press" (1945)
What it means is that we lack the ability to prove either of those theories, not necessarily that either theory is bad.
>How does one definite hate speech? Who gets to decide?

Parliaments and courts.

See the battle-tested European hate speech laws I mentioned, e.g. section 130 of the criminal code of Germany:

"Whoever, in a manner suited to causing a disturbance of the public peace,

1. incites hatred against a national, racial, religious group or a group defined by their ethnic origin, against sections of the population or individuals on account of their belonging to one of the aforementioned groups or sections of the population, or calls for violent or arbitrary measures against them or

2. violates the human dignity of others by insulting, maliciously maligning or defaming one of the aforementioned groups, sections of the population or individuals on account of their belonging to one of the aforementioned groups or sections of the population"

Note especially how the first sentence is a pretty tight restriction. Private speech cannot be affected. Academic texts are pretty safe. Anything arguing for moderation and careful consideration of facts is easily defensible.
If they adjust their speech and their behavior, it doesn't matter anymore what they actually think but dare tell no one.
This same guy provided nothing to Magic Leap...one of reasons it failed
I am in my late 30s. I feel like after the pandemic I started visually aging. Part of the problem was that I lost a lot of weight at the same time, so I do actually look a bit different. People tell me I am crazy. I feel like my hair is receding though nobody notices it and in photos it really looks the same for the past 10 years. I feel like there is me at my age, there is some illusion of me at my age, and me at the age I feel.

I feel young. On average, I feel about 25 mentally and maybe 30 physically, but sometimes I feel like I am stuck as a precocious 15 year old. I have a silly sense of humor. I feel like as my numerical age increases, the more I am expected to be boring and not be myself anymore. Quite frankly, it's led me into a depression.
Actually turning 80 caused a mental shift. I'd be doing something and think, wait, should an 80-year-old be doing this? Something about the number made my mental age repeatedly try to re-align with the physical. The effect lasted a few days then faded.
I've never added API keys and it mostly works fine, need to retry a link sometimes (youtube a/b testing things I guess?) and I imagine it can't play age-gated videos.
Is there more to the story?
Yeah, but ChatGPT is not worse at causal reasoning than at any other reasoning tasks. Its intelligence is limited, and smarter systems, such as Bing Chat, consistently do better at arbitrary reasoning tasks.

To be sure, I also think that pure LLMs have some fundamental reasoning limits, but I'm not too sure.
Ah, but the "Zoomer mind rot clip art YOLO YEET SOY LATTE" is what I can use to get all pissy and stuff, so it must be what the Unicode people focus on!

/s
There were: Rowley did Modula2, there was a GCC port, there was an Ada port, and various others, commercial and open source. But the Transputer architecture, which was stack-based, didn't lend itself to easy ports of most existing compilers, and they were slow to arrive and slow when they did.

The article also discusses the reasons for the lack of follow-on investment.
does doing awareness entail something non-mechanical?
I see your pandas (even the arrow based pandas 2.0) and raise you polars. ;)
Good question! Perhaps 'Deep Trump'? Certainly even the 3 letter agencies are not immune to what at best we might call the reactionary right, at worst proto-fascism.
I'm in agreement but, after all, no one pays a ransom if you tell them you are going to release mildly incriminating information. When you've elected to pursue ransom as a career path, you've already either decided or have been forced to live a despicable life.
"C happened before A and B" can also work in this if we assume it means the joint of A and B. Such that it is not the same statement that C happened before both A and B, individually.

Granted, language is ambiguous. But I don't think it gets points for assuming a mistake on input.
Venture capital dries up for Pittsburgh driverless car startups
Sure, it's a good letter, and indeed it's about this problem where people use a go-to or jump control flow with no structure whereas by the time he wrote that letter there were well understood structures (like: functions) to prefer.

However, while I sympathise with a C programmer who feels goto is necessary in their language, I think that speaks to a problem in the language rather than the programmer. If you have better structural support in your language you can express the things the author (of the link, not Dijkstra) wants to express without needing this unstructured go-to.

For example Rust's break 'label value; allows us to mark any compound expression with the 'label, and then say from anywhere inside that expression but nowhere else that we've decided the value of the expression overall and here's what it is.

This doesn't feel that different from what is being done here with goto, except for two crucial things as a result of being structured:

1. Rust will type check this, if this region of the program picks a Dog, our break needs to provide a Dog, it can't just shrug and expect the program to continue without one. This means maintenance programmers don't need non-local reasoning, this region of the program does, in fact, always pick a Dog, albeit the break 'label value is something to look closely at if you're reading that region itself.

2. We cannot do this, even by mistake (e.g. as a result of copy-paste) across scopes. If you try to break 'label result from the cat care loop into the dog loop earlier in the same function, that just doesn't compile, whereas the C goto has no problem attempting that (a good C compiler should notice if you try to do something really egregious, but good luck).
Did you notice the bit where it's a cDNA clone of an RNA virus and do you understand the implications of that?

This is an engineering product.

As for politics, sure there is a lot of that going around but you can verify this finding yourself with freely available software using the published sequences.
That's kinda funny
That interpretation of rights is not universal and in my experience seems to be a philosophy mainly coming from the US (presumably reinforced by the language in the American bill of rights). I view rights as describing the actual (implicit or explicit) contract between a people and their government, not as an absolute metaphysical or moral concept. In my view, a person in a developed nation has a stronger right to clean water than a person in an impoverished nation as statement of fact observable from the effort their government goes to to ensure they have clean water. I prefer this view of rights divorced from morals because it lets a population pressure their government for rights based on what they want rather than getting bogged down on whether it is morally right to e.g. have access to guns or silence in criminal proceedings.
The polars syntax is hella nice. It’s also much faster to boot.
On a Mission to Electrify the Nation
I read the first link and I don't agree with your gloss on it at all. It sounds to me like people interpret causality in a more nuanced and practical way than researchers expected.
> then why even propose any theory ? why not let it remain a mystery.

Reductio ad absurdum won't work here. There are ways to test a "low confidence" theory, and re-evaluate its confidence level. This is called science.
There is no reason for programming pedagogy to begin with low-level languages. Python was also designed to be a teaching language, and has been unreasonably effective for that purpose. The majority of all practicing software developers won't need to get closer to the metal than Python does; that wasn't the case in the 1980s and 1990s, when hardware performance was so poor that languages like Python usually weren't viable, but it is now.

Rust seems like a distinctively bad teaching language. It's a fine language! But I'd probably teach assembly before I taught Rust --- and both after establishing Python fluency.
You can unintentionally harm someone and still be liable for that harm.
> The leading theory should be the thing that has never happened before (lab leak causes epidemic or pandemic)

It happens pretty often, we just don't hear about most of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...
Airtable does this, no? There’s just no SQL part. But they got the UI part down.
> how were the people pushing wet market theory not "crazies" also then.

Because they had evidence that made the wet market theory the one most likely to be true, and a lack of stronger evidence for the lab leak theory. Investigating and supporting the theory that is best supported by the evidence you have isn't crazy, it's science.

When you look at all the facts you have, and then ignore that because it doesn't support what you want to be true, and then you act on what you wish was true instead, that's crazy. That's exactly what Trump and many of his supporters were doing.

We have new evidence now that suggests the lab leak theory is more likely than the wet market one, so once it is released non-crazy people will support the lab leak theory when they could not (and should not) have before.
I'm not talking about free speech absolutism. What I'm describing here is a specific US-centered cultural phenomenon - thin-skinned, hypocritical tribalism that has turned people against each other, where every conversation that strays outside of narrow doctrinaire bounds, however innocuous or well-intentioned, might be reported on by a remorseless army of cruel snitches ever hungry to find some way to elevate themselves by destroying others. It's the very opposite of being kind or considerate, and, having seen its effects on colleagues, I can't imagine anything more damaging to "team morale". Freddie De Boer has a pungent phrase for this - "planet of cops" - and his essay is worth reading:

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/planet-of-cops

I feel focus on the first amendment gives people of this bent cover: it lets them exert incredible power over speech in every practical way, while claiming that free speech is intact because there's no violation of the constitution. The fact that we need to clearly rebut people like this is exactly one of the reasons why I feel over-indexing on the constitution is unhelpful.
I’m thinking more along the lines of irreversibility. Reminded me of this recent post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34753240
> You may be mistaking reasoning ability with sheer volume of more patterns to match on.

It's not my work.

And no, they probed this theory. The OCWCourses benchmark was new questions they generated from MIT Open Courseware that didn't exist prior to this benchmark.

> You can only reason when you have awareness within which to reason, which these systems do not.

I don't understand this objection at all.

Reasoning seems roughly the same as logical inference, and logical inference is a computational process.
To be clear, the confidence is “low,” and many other US agencies disagree.
At least excel.office.com is on the official office.com domain, easy to verify.

Using X.new seems like a bad idea, there is no way for me to understand if it's actually a official project by the companies themselves or just a random developer who has set that up. Maybe one day it'll ask someone for auth, they don't notice it's at microsoftweb.com instead of microsoftonline.com and get phished.

Really hard to trust random domains when a simple excel.office.com/new would do just as fine.
When you optimize around something that's more of an interest than a need, you get results that don't make a lot of sense, like a stick-shift electric car. The Indian market has a legitimate reason for repairable phones, so they have a solution that makes sense in terms of cost and usability.
LOL where are the old people?
It looks like yet-another-MIPS-clone, so the performance and other characteristics are not too surprising, except for the truly undefined register values; I suspect those might be artifacts of internal bus layout and pipelining.

Also worth noting that x86 has 64-bit vector registers too --- the original MMX registers, which are likewise aliased to its x87 FP registers.
> Unicode really should have had a similar “no original designs” rule.

I think it does, doesn't it?

Here is some info on unicode rules for new characters, although there doesn't seem to be a single succinct statement, and there are slightly different standards for different categories ("letters" vs symbols vs emojis). But I am pretty sure you can't just make up a character and succesfully submit it to unicode on the argument that it would be useful, this thing you just made up; it has to have already established use to get into unicode, generally.

http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html

Which characters are you annoyed by specifically?

It's true there are separate rules for emoji's, which are... weird. I seem to recall unicode initially tried to resist emoji's at least to some extent, before just giving in.

But emoji's are actually pretty clear, to me, as a success of unicode. People want them, they have achieved pretty widespread use globally, and if that's going to be so, we benefit from them being encoded in a standard vendor-neutral way. We're far better off with emoji's in unicode than, say, every vendor using their own non-standard use of private codepoints. (Unless you argue that if they weren't in unicode they wouldn't have caught on; I am sympathetic to the argument that we'd better off without emoji's, but I'm pretty sure if they weren't in unicode we'd still have them, just non-standardly).

Here are some of the guidelines for which emoji's will be encoded in unicode:

https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#selection_factors

It's a bit fuzzy, but you generally can't simply get a new thing you just invented encoded in unicode on the argument that it's cool.
What about: yelling "fire" in a crowded room, deliberately lying on the internet in a way that leads to deaths (ex. 4chan's "how to grow crystals" post), targeting kids or at risk groups with ads or content for things like gambling, alcohol, etc., calling for someone's death, posting instructions for making a bomb?
>> Absolutely. I am saying you are picking and choosing as per your convenience. People get arrested all the time, just because it was a minister it made headlines. I only wish people rotting in jail (in all countires) with no charges against them had a voice, just like AAP government

Thats why I am here trying to be the voice for someone that got arrested.

>> I wanted to know from you what country is a good example of a functioning democracy. Not what is your idea of a functioning democracy.

Honestly, I don't know which country is perfect. But I think United states is bit better as we discussed in other comments.

>> CBI did. They are a law enforcing authority in India and they decided that arrest is the correct course of action in this case.

CBI is directly controlled by BJP Centre Government. Anyone who thinks CBI is independent must be living under a rock. Here is an old statement from Modi about it when he was not a PM: [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/349075193714577408
We can imagine a child being born paralyzed. Couldn't it grow up to become just as smart as us?
In general I am of the opinion that all species have a place in nature, but when it comes to bats, I tend to think that their especially high viral load and elevated metabolism makes them a breeding ground for pandemics and I wouldn't mind if they were eradicated. Other species can fulfill their niches in the ecosystem.
Age doesn't use AES.
There is an asymmetry here, because, for the most part, you can’t know what it feels like to be an age until you’ve been it. So it will be more common to feel your age or younger because that's what you've experienced.

If you feel worn out when you are 25, you just think that’s what being 25 feels like.
Remember when the lab leak theory was a far right extremist conspiracy?
"humans have inordinately strong control systems to maintain some state"

If energy intake matches energy needs then body fat percentage stays the same.

If energy intake exceeds energy needs then body fat percentage increases as the body stored the excess as fat.

If energy needs exceed energy intake then body fat percentage decreases as fat is used as fuel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate
Surely a verbal threat of violence is better than just violence?

Like, if I want to kill you, surely it’s better that I tell you, than if I just do it without warning? The expected value of the former is strictly better.
Unauthenticated path traversal file reading on qBittorrent for Windows via WebUi
There are ways to accomplish device level fingerprinting (cross-browser), though I don't know if it's offered by Fingerprint.com.
No business CEO is trying to make less money.
The Power of Sociology (2016)
What made the process work so well? What about the culture made it so there was that back and forth? I'm wanting to build this into my teams and keen to hear what's worked for others
Did you overlook my last paragraph? See also my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=brazzy#34950806

No, it is really not at all a slippery slope.

Even if you just look at the term, it's pretty damn obvious that it has nothing yo do with "Speech that you don’t like? That offends you?"
So are you saying we should outlaw letting people gather and say disagreeable/racist things privately among each other? Boy that escalated pretty quickly. What's next? Should we outlaw people thinking racist and hateful things as well?
I've always assumed that the Northern Lights were quite a common site in Tallinn?

I just looked it up and the latitude of the place I'm from in Canada is about in the middle between Tallinn and London. We usually see the Northern Lights here several times year, With exceptionally prominent displays occurring at least at least once every 2-3 years.

I did not expect how often Americans would ask me about the Northern Lights when I visited there for a few months many years ago. They were often so fascinated and slightly envious/baffled by how blasé I felt about something so incredible because it was so common to me.
This is what we see: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tarsius/paren-face/master/...

Don't look at the parens and don't stop at the superficial look :]
Would these rules allow an object (boat) to float on the liquid?
Software was incredibly expensive before the subscription era.
Merino Wool: The Good, the Bad, and the Not-So-Stylish
Same, visible last night in the northern part of the Netherlands as well.
"After careful application of my Logic, I have decided that I support precisely these two restrictive policies that also, separately and completely coincidentally of course, harm some of the most marginalized and vulnerable members of society."

Like, this is just not credible sorry. There is a neofascist moral panic being used to justify crackdowns and violence against this group right now. That's where we are and that's where your justification of support needs to start from.
But to be clear, it's very dangerous to sleep with a baby especially if they are preterm / high risk.
Being an “Insider-Outsider” and Its Impact on Innovation and Creativity (2016)
Hmmmph. I love UNIX but to me symbols are supposed to feel invisible, not be obsessed over. These are like parentheses in LISP. LISP users start seeing trees rather than parenthesis.
Most people are not free speech absolutists. They may support free speech if they believe it will make the society better. It's means to an end, not the end itself. For them, the extent speech should be free is an empirical question and not a matter of principles.

From this perspective, the worst kind of speech is not hate speech or calls for violence. It's the speech that deepens political divisions and lowers trust in the society. When people see how free speech is making the society worse – when they start seeing their political opponents as their enemies – they want to police speech to make the society better. Especially the speech their enemies.

If you engage in speech like that, or if you support people who do it, you are undermining freedom of speech. You may believe you support freedom of speech, but in practice you may be opposing it.
This is absolutely false. The human body must always consume a minimum amount of energy for basic maintenance. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate. While it does vary it also has a hard lower limit.

The basic metabolic rate varies between individuals. One study of 150 adults representative of the population in Scotland reported basal metabolic rates from as low as 1,027 kilocalories (4,300 kJ) per day to as high as 2,499 kilocalories (10,460 kJ); with a mean BMR of 1,500 kilocalories (6,300 kJ) per day.