skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository.

Never seen this before. Why would a commit to a fork show up on the original repo?
Both violence and hate tweets have it's own categories.

Also all other filters on the list have very unambiguous names.

It is UkraineCrisisTopic and not UkraineCrisisMisinfo.

PS: All filter names: DoNotAmplify, CoordinatedHarmfulActivityHighRecall, UntrustedUrl, MisleadingHighRecall, NsfwHighPrecision, NsfwHighRecall, CivicIntegrityMisinfo, MedicalMisinfo, GenericMisinfo, DmcaWithheld, HatefulHighRecall, ViolenceHighRecall, HighToxicityModelScore, UkraineCrisisTopic, DoNotPublicPublish
Only if your colleagues are suspicious of you sitting painfully still at the computer with sunglasses on and a noodle neck.
First time I hear of that theory, do you have any references into the literature?

I have always interpreted the passage literally, as a reenactment of what the citizens of Jerusalem would have to endure while under siege by the forces of King Nebukadnezar.
It's against their policy and imo against the health of the website itself.

The code that chatGPT generates is often confidently wrong. I'd suggest you stop using it.
I was mostly approaching it from the angle of how overworking and overthinking isn't really necessary to make money. And how doing so can actually lead to burnout.
I bought my first laptop in 1996. It was definitely much less efficient power wise than my ARM 15 inch Mac. It could barely last 2 hours on battery. My current laptop can easily last two workdays (16 hours) without being plugged in doing normal work.
I’m not defending the usage of `document.write()`, but my understanding of why 3rd party scripts might like using it is to prevent element flicker on load. If you own the site, there are various tricks available to avoid element flashing, but less tools available as a 3rd party. Still, it’s not a good choice, and probably as a 3rd party you shouldn’t be trying to make those design decisions, but I think that is why it’s usage is more common in 3rd party scripts.
The dollar amounts aren't really comparable considering that anti-poverty spending is a handout whereas the bailout under TARP was in exchange for assets.

>The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is a program of the United States government to purchase toxic assets and equity from financial institutions to strengthen its financial sector [...]

>Through the Treasury, the US Government actually booked $15.3 billion in profit, as it earned $441.7 billion on the $426.4 billion invested

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
> Ideally you would produce something instead of consuming it.

Why? I'm already "producing" a big part of my day. This "always be producing" mentality is more harmful than making time to relax, enjoy yourself in non-productive ways.
Can't any textbrowser like w3m do the same?
there's an enormous difference between people not being able to find a site they don't know about and breaking bookmarks and existing links

yes, it's true that google has a lot of power
I think this number will probably stay the same or perhaps decrease a little for the short-medium term, but will most likely explode in the long term to maybe 60% because of the all the AI content. With GPT-# and all of the new mid-tier content thats now floating around, its almost impossible, even today to tell whats actually valuable content, so I've been going online less. I think most people feel the same uncanny Vally feeling when they realise that most of the content the view is not human created.
If you've seen any young people online, being able to concentrate on a task is not one of their strengths.
This performance is magical.
You are gated from almost nothing in London on £140K -- the only meaningful exception would be buying a house in a central location
I’m not sure how you got that from what I said but sounds good.
I thought about it more, and I'd say we actually agree on the principle of teaching simple and building up. It's more a question of how different teaching techniques present the value of source control.

The hard thing about source control is not the how — using the git CLI is only slightly more complicated than copying a folder. Git turns that into a very straightforward directed graph, and the CLI gives you a few commands to move around the graph, sprinkling some more edges and nodes wherever you like. It takes about an afternoon to figure out once you're onboard with the why.

The why of source control is the thing — and our industry is already full of people who don't understand it. That's how we get people who treat git as a "save" mechanism to be invoked whenever it's been a while since the last commit, or branches with one sloppy commit message after another [1], or entire repos that are just spaghettified carelessly-merged hairballs of commits.

Mastering the why of source control means learning when to cut a commit, what shape that commit should be, and why that is.

And I think that's more my objection to the teaching approach outlined here — without any other context, it reads to me like it's not quite focusing on the right things. At worst, it's inducting the student into the industry-standard cargo-cult approach to source control. [2] If the why isn't learned, then it doesn't really matter whether the specific motion is copying folders or typing in git CLI commands.

Ideally I think source-control techniques could be introduced right when they're going to be interesting or fun — when it's time to build something together with someone else. Then that set of lessons could start by copying folders and eventually building up to git — and each lesson could show how good, disciplined use of source control concretely improves the collaboration process.

[1]: https://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-mess...

[2]: https://xkcd.com/1597/
The bar will only get lower with ai assists. Gatekeeping is either essential or futile depending on your perspective.
This reminded me of a scene in a forgotten movie (North), where Elijah Wood goes on a quest to find the perfect parents. He's initially taken with Eskimo culture and his potential new parents who expect nothing of their children. However, he's fairly quickly disillusioned when they take grandpa out to an iceberg to abandon him to the sea as he has outlived his usefulness. Grandpa does make some half-hearted assurances that this is what he wants, and so it's all ok.
Canada has some of the most unaffordable housing in the world. It makes sense that people want the freedom to work from cheaper locations. I moved from Vancouver to Calgary when I went 100% remote and I have not regretted the decision at all
I can't tell you what to do, nor would I. But were it me, having watched friends go through similar struggles with difficult parents (and finding myself in the middle of my own):

You may be better able to help the situation by caring for the caretakers than caring for the parents. If your relationship with your siblings is strong and the relationship with your parents is damaged, perhaps there are opportunities to be there for your siblings. Sometimes having someone to talk to or even nip into town every so often to get a coffee with or babysit the children (even if it's not a visit that involves seeing your parents) can help. I have a sibling who's life pulled her to the other side of the country before the parents got old, and she comes in once a year to visit, and when she does, God bless her, she's utterly useless for helping with the care but we still look forward to her coming into town because I get to spend time with my nieces and it's still nice to be able to talk to her and acknowledge that, yes, this is crazy, the world is crazy, and our feelings of being burdened and overburdened are valid. That mental reset really helps and really helps frame why we bother to care that "family," as a concept, is still something we invest in.

I'm not, personally, a believer in the idea that we owe much to people who are right s** to us our whole lives, even if they gave birth to us. But I respect and honor that other people feel differently and their moral code is every bit as valid as mine.
My personal take on why it's funny is exactly that: it's technically arguably true, but in practice it's nearly the exact opposite of reality. It's basically a perfect troll in that sense.
The big difference between this and the past when elderly care as a familial obligation was the norm, it seems to me, are medical advances, particularly of the type that makes returns to investment diminish less. 200 years ago, the protagonist's father would have long died, everyone involved would have grieved and moved on; and more generally, if $1000 (in 2023 dollars) didn't keep him alive, then neither would $10000 or $100000. Now, instead, we have the situation that people in his position can be kept (barely) alive for decades - if you are willing to pay the price in time and/or money. Our moral framework, not having yet adapted to this reality, makes it impossible to callously say no to this offer, to sacrifice your whole life and wealth so as to not let your father die, which in the past would not have been available.
Yes! People trying to highlight the downsides of distanced work keep ignoring this important point. For a bunch of us, even pre-pandemic and working from _an_ office teams were often split across multiple offices, so every meeting already involved a video call.

Today, it's _easier_ for me to have an unscheduled sync with a teammate because I can immediately hop on a zoom call from my private home office. Before the pandemic, I had to first try to find an unused conference room or phone booth (because having calls in the open-plan office was disruptive). Sometimes, when there was no good space available, I'd end up standing holding a laptop (and thus unable to take any notes) in the stairwell, which had less consistent wifi signal. If a meeting runs long, we don't have to scramble as we're kicked out of rooms by the next scheduled group. And scheduling larger group meetings isn't limited by the ability to reserve multiple large conference rooms across multiple offices.

People trying to tell me that I'd be more productive from the office are so far unwilling to commit to providing an office which doesn't waste my time on this nonsense.
As defined by the lecturer herself, "h(t) = h(t-1)", the very definition of hysteresis.

My point is that the lecturer missed a golden opportunity to give her students a natural intuition of "h" that they can see, feel and touch and that will serve them well for their entire careers.

The only thing "hidden" about "h" is that hysteresis is hidden in plain site in her lecture - maybe the lecturer did not know herself.

Neural networks have an undeserved reputation for being mysterious, and maybe that is partly due to a lack of basic physics knowledge.
Sorry, I should have stayed quiet. I'd been scrolling through videos all trumpeting their only true recipe for whatever, and was sensitized.
You seem to be missing the point my friend. The point of the security here is if someone has access to the device, are they able to extract information with which they can then connect to the wifi? The answer is yes REGARDLESS of whether it's hashed or not. When that is the case, not hashing is not a flaw. All hashing does in this case is 'obscure' it, which isn't the same as 'more secure'.

I suppose access to plaintext vs hashed password in this case saves the owner embarassment if they've used a secret, or if they've used the same password elsewhere, though that isn't a problem of device manufacturer.
Only while DJing. So only a marginal amount of time.
Similarly we’re still using a very slow TFS setup at work and checkins and get latest take forever even for the smallest changes and I turn the frustration into a mini meditation
Tiny Exploding Houses Promoted 18th-Century Lightning Rods
Dictators can make the trains run on time. Doesn’t mean we owe them gratitude.
“There is a Clinton-era welfare programme called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. In 2020, poor families received just 22 cents in every dollar it disbursed. The rest was used by states to pay for things such as job training and even abstinence-only sex education.”
I can't find much about this in the HTTP/3 spec. Validation of certificates must be done according to section 4.3.4 of RFC9110 which explicitly spells out that browsers must either get permission to continue or abort, but that's up to the browser to decide.

I can find some references to Chrome's QUIC not supporting self signed certificates, but I can't find any source that says that WebKit and Firefox made the same decision. Do you happen to know a self signed HTTP/3 URL that I can test this with?

Browsers choosing to break self signed certificates can happen even with HTTP 0.9. All they need to do is require the user to type the bypass phrase ("thisisunsafe" in the Chrome error screen) on any certificate validation error and enable HTTPS only mode. This has nothing to do with spec. Browsers have even removed spec implementations for HTTP/2 spec (HTTP push) after a few years.
Well, they were former SpaceX people. Perhaps the good eggs are kept and these were SpaceX castoffs? But that is probably giving SpaceX too much credit. I get the sense that they simply have an insane turnover rate that sucks a little good work from everyone before kicking them to the curb. I would expect people grown in such an environment to be at least a little poisioned.
> It’s just what capitalism is designed to do.

Capitalism is simply allowing private citizens to own, in part or full, the means of production such as farms and businesses. I'm not sure that capitalism is responsible for a decision about dispersing government money to create terrible jobs resulting in mismanagement and horrible customer service.

> money still ends up in the hands of the wealthy

I think the definition of wealthy requires money end up in someone's hands.
Oh, that's just because I'm off this week.
I don't expect that language is required. Using input frames of video (or any other complex sensory input) instead of words might work too. Transformers are a tool for building representations from high-dimensional data sources.

Also, I don't think GPT-4 is conscious. If you ask it whether it is, it will say no. It does not appear to exhibit preferences or anything like suffering.
stackoverflow can be useful, but it’s not and never has been great. it’s very much the definition of good-enough. so i think with AI chat tools giving traditional search engines a run for their money at the moment, stackoverflow is looking at tough times ahead.
Only an artist can draw such strained pictures I guess.
Going for a curry in the racist 70s and 80s England is worth asking folks who lived through it how much it swept through mainstream society .
>I don't really understand the advantage of rooftop solar

I see many advantages, among them:

- You don't have to find new land; roofs are ideal for solar.

- No need for a huge project, financing, bureaucracy. Done in weeks.

- Costs are low and spread over tons of landowners instead of requiring fundraising and negotiations

- You can have literally thousands of workers busy creating solar power at the same time.

- You get geographic spread and will be less affected by clouds over your central solar plant.

- No single point of failure

- Less need for large and expensive long-distance powerlines

Rooftop solar puts the power to solve a problem in the hands of the people experiencing the problem and eliminates the need for a megaproject. This has turned out to be really powerful, rooftop solar has grown extremely quickly.
Was this algorithmic change made before Elon's purchase or afterwards? The article doesn't say.

Considering that the Ukraine conflict has been going on since 2014 it would be nice to get more info before bringing out the pitchforks.
It is in the original repo:

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/visibilit...

The problem is, the branch 'main' and its contents will change over time, so GP linked to a 'permalink' of the exact commit hash instead.
Not defending Mr and Mrs Sunak, which is another story, but the UK Domicile thing has been around for many years and no Govt, left or right, has ever attempted to change it.
>>> I think one way to look at it is... The underdog Indians managing to rub shoulders with the likes of NASA and ESA at a fraction of the latter's budget,

How are you getting this through the cartoon? All the cartoon shows is a poor asking for permission to get into an elite club
Dingusdew you are [dead]
Not to say "management doesn't do work" but of course there's still individual contributors who are trying to do their best within whatever constraints (I pass no judgement about Mozilla) there are, especially at somewhere like Mozilla.
Those behaviours tend to lead to a long life as well.
The Feynman Razor
One of my favorite composers. RIP.
I do feel sometimes we've moved into an era where government thinks the objective is spending money, not solving problems.

You see this with homeless services, high speed rail, etc. The ability to write big checks is seen as a win, and the jobs it produces gets pointed to.

The fact that so many remain unhoused and high speed rail remains unbuilt doesn't ring the alarm bells that it should.

In NYC for example we've gone through some recent periods of spending $300/night to house homeless, migrants, hurricane victims, longterm in hotels. I am talking months to years.

It's unfathomable to me that the feds/state/city are spending $100k/year run rate to house people temporarily where the end state is they get kicked out or moved somewhere worse. All this while other homeless live in communal shelters that are filled with violence and crime.

For that price we could be paying 3 years of rent on a decent apartment anywhere outside Manhattan. We could be putting a down payment on a house for them & then employ them in some sort of works program at $20/hour. These are things that could actually allow them to start building their life back up.
lol, “it’s spring break, everybody is vacationing with their kids”.

i bet there is some truth to that though…
Is it really considered acceptable not to link to the scientific research you are basing your news on?

Pubmed link (with abstract); full text is paywalled:

> A neuro-metabolic account of why daylong cognitive work alters the control of economic decisions. Curr Biol. 2022 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35961314/
Silicon Valley Bank's risk model flashed red. So its executives changed it
by 'transfer' do you mean distribution, transmission, or the kind of grid operation carried out by isos and rtos

with the right pricing incentives, rooftop solar ought to decrease the amount of transmission capacity required rather than increasing it, by generating the required power closer to the point of use
I understand that you'd like to live in a world where everyone loved each other and there are no weapons, and people walk around carrying roses and tulips.

That world does not exist. The world we are living in is a world where Putin exists. A world where a disarmed US and Western Europe would be conquered in less time than it would take you to sing Kumbaya.

I prefer to live in a world where MIT helps the US military complex come up with better missiles than a world where Putin kills millions of men, women and children in the name of "denazification".
I'm Desi American and honestly, HN commentators from both India and the US need to stop being little bitches. It's made HN go to shit.

Boomer American HN commentators - stop being so god damn racist about South Asians. Caste and poverty doesn't define us.

Millenial+Uncle Indian HN commentators - stop using the "school shooting" trope and ultranationalism. Y'all are basically acting like Wumao.

Bring on the downvotes. I'm so sick of all the bullshit on this site
Believe me, hiking the alpine GRs without a map is asking for trouble. The trails are very well maintained but you need to plan your days, you don’t want to be tired out at 4pm in the middle of a very rocky portion. And if you were to hit fog or heavy rain, a map can be a lifesaver.

I’m pretty sure that until the 21st century, nearly everyone doing the gr5 for example would have bought a map
That's moving the goalposts though, now it's "yeah, they actually do put in all this money and time and effort to fix it, it's just muddled in bureaucracy so doesn't work well". The original claim was that the effort/resources aren't being put towards it, but they are.
8-10 hours a day for working hours.
Hmm i read a tonne of RNN lit before 2020 and 'd never come across the term "hysteresis parameter" standing in for the hidden units. is it a recent trend? Google seem to suggest so
There were a number of us that looked into this at the time, talking on Compuserve. I think the columnist Robert X Cringley (Infoworld maybe, it’s fuzzy) hooked me in with Mark.

One of the interesting things about the disassembly was there was a pretty decent sized chunk of valid code that had no entry points, that really looked like a naïve implementation of LZ compression. I always figured that the developer just couldn’t get it working correctly, and they had spent so much money on the ad campaign that they just put no-ops in the handler table and shipped it. It’s even possible that management had no idea it was done.
Of course there is no shortage. You can buy all the parts from shady brokers at 10x price. My case it was 10x for PHY chip. ADCs were cheaper, only at 6-8x price.

Solution: buy another, obsolete PHY chip for only 2x price and strip ADCs for older products.

Just look at Mouser and Digikey, too many parts aren’t in stock and lead times with 1,5 years are ridiculous.
When I was growing up I dreamed of living abroad, after I finished college I worked in a few foreign countries and then I came back home to pursue some career opportunities.

I saw most of my siblings leave and settle in different countries far from home, all of them had the stereotypical expat experience, they're considered foreigners in their new country and they don't feel like they belong, and when they visit home they don't feel like they belong here either. They don't have a strong social support system and our parents also suffer because their children left, they can never see them and they can't get any help when any problem arises.

Meanwhile looking at one of my sisters who stayed, she bought her house much faster than any of us, she has a long term partner, children, she lives close to our parents and her in-laws meaning she can get help from great array of people for childcare as well as any issues she encounters. She also has a rich social life that comes with all this.

I used to feel the same way you do about having to stay close to my parents, and I really wanted to go back out there but I've come to think living abroad might be a mirage, the call of exoticism rather than something that will improve your life in any way.

Your mileage may vary.
I think there are many (probably most) people who are sympathetic to and willing to open the taxpayers’ coffers to support people who are genuinely and durably unable to work.

I also think there are many (perhaps most) who are reluctant/unwilling to extend those same benefits to those are merely unwilling to work.

So, we use bureaucrats and courts to confirm that a given situation is the former and not the latter.
Thank you! This was actually a really helpful comment for me. I haven't been home to visit in over a year because it just hurts too bad still, but I really like the way you framed it.
Not the part of the mortgage that's accumulated interest -- which is going to be considerable at current rates.
Why? If it's true then pitchforks are due. Doesn't really matter who ordered it, what matters is who's in charge right now and whether they can be forced into action.