skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two issues that compete:

1. Police secretly arrest people and toss them in jail never to be heard of again

2. People are erroneously arrested, there name is publicly attached to a crime through a bunch of reporting, then they're released before trial or found not guilty

The first is fairly clear, the 2nd is a problem because being released is generally not news, so google search or whatever forever links the persons name to a crime they didn't do. Then you have a bunch of humanisms: the person the lawyered there way out of the crime, or "they must have been involved otherwise why would they be arrested", etc. So there is a permanent cost to being publicly arrested for something you didn't do even if justice happens and you don't ever see court. That's why you some times see people in the judicial system releasing "this person is absolutely innocent" type press releases.
Yes, statistics can be misleading and/or biased. Yes, multiple anecdotes become data when combined (which is even more susceptible to being misleading and/or biased). Do you think either of these things are happening in this instance? If so, make that argument. I don't think there is much value in arguing that anecdotes are generally more valuable than statistics because that obviously isn't true overall.
For some reason watching him do that makes me nervous. I'm not cut out for delicately removing/repairing stuff.
The energy used to power your phone is completely trivial. Just one trip in your car would use more than your lifetime phone usage.
> If I use Python for my Pulumi, how could I reuse the work of a peer who uses JS for Pulumi?

Standardize on the language(s). It's important. Pick 1 for Pulumi and standardize on it. Even better pick 1 or 2 for the whole company and standardize on it. In a large company...

> Or do we need multiple language runtimes in our deployment runner in CI?

Already does happen.

But back to the origin question: you can create Pulumi packages that can generate usage in different languages as required.
Oh good, I’m glad I’m not the only one then.

I Have a feeling pooping on recommendations systems is en vogue right now. Social commentators love to point out how “evil” ML algorithms are while conversely complaining how X product is terrible at recommendations.
Most people don't have, or want to maintain, a NAS + print server, having the print server software built into the printer is perfectly reasonable for a consumer product!
Never mind the morality issues (which you don't seem to care about, or are happy to relativize with some form of "everything is messed up in the USA anyway, so it doesn't matter" argument). The bottom line is that in all probability (at least it is so in every such contract I've ever seen), it's very clearly against the language your Employment Agreement to have undeclared, outside engagements with other employers. There's also almost certainly language in there about "devoting one's full attention and focus" to the role, as well as a certain number of hours per week.

If the C-Suite can be overemployed then why not you?

Because (as with everything else about them) their contracts are different. Even so, they are absolutely required to declare these affiliations. Just as you are.

To whom? Your employer?

Also to your co-workers and future employers.

And to anyone close to you in your life - who you'd be pretty much forcing to keep up your little wall of secrecy.

"So where does s/he work?" "Umm..."
Do either handle the modifier bits when you remap? So that they are not set unless you want to?
Aren't those state funds and not federal funds? It's a false equivalence regardless since college newspapers have a single campus audience while NPR is mainstream press. I don't believe the authors at college newspapers are typically paid either
Wrists, ankles, neck. They're easier to count than toes unless you have unusually good control of your individual toes.
What are the unsafe neighborhoods in SF?
"You seem to be assuming bad faith. And then seize on anything you object to as a gotcha to disregard everything else."

How can you take me to assume bad faith, when I quite clearly assume you in good faith meant exactly what you wrote? What about my post indicates I think you are in bad faith? This is literally the exact opposite of what bad faith means.

>In 2020, a whole infrastructure was created across multiple organizations to fight misinformation. Their method was to pick topics, create fact checks, and then proactively hunt down and block misinformation and those who posted it. The existence of this infrastructure and its intended goals can be confirmed from a variety of sources, across the political spectrum.

Weird, I don't see the words "censorship" or "right wing" here... yet it's how you describe it later. This part I agree with, I don't agree with the rest of your characterization and I think it legitimizes what is an otherwise completely made-up grievance phenomenon of not liking it when people disagree with you. The irony of course being, this is exactly what you accused me of doing.

You don't seem to get the point that I'm making, which is that we don't make policy around boogymen. So you can describe the boogeyman phenomena any way you want. It fundamentally does not change the fact that its a boogeyman and we shouldn't be shaping society around feelings of boogeymen. But of course you didn't just disagree with that, you were rude and presumptive and pejorative to me.
In my experience it is even harder in a typed one because now you have to deal with the type system nightmare they built. So the compiler fight your refactoring.
Not super relevant but I’ve noticed recently that when I ask someone a question, they start their answer with the word “absolutely” even though the question was not a yes or no question.

Is this a time-filler like “that’s a great question” for extreme people pleasers? Or just an agreeability signal? To me it makes the answerer seem overeager to share. It could just be regional culture.
On AutoGPT
What‘s missing from all these figure is the resulting latency. It‘s often the case that vendors show impressive throughput numbers, but then the latency is terrible at that throughput.

Do you have those numbers as well?
Because it's not both. Some people have resigned to doing the electrical companies' job in CA at least, others don't care.
Modeling news recommender systems’ conditional effects on selective exposure
"Yes, long term storage has to be "perfect" in the sense that nothing leaks forever. That's a tall order."

Why "forever"? You are aware of the concept, called half life? It means at some point, the waste will be not dangerous anymore. But yes, that will take some time. But if something happens, like an earthquake that makes a previously safe spot unsafe, you can still move it. (And otherwise you could recycle it to reburn it.)

But of course, you can argue the moving of the waste, is so expensive, because of activists. So then activists can better argue, that nuclear is so expensive. Hurey.

"You are still repeating the lie that fossil fuels are the alternative. "

What exactly is the lie here? I am using electricity right now, that is generated largely by fossil fuels. That is not good in the long term, no - but it is working right now. I think framing things as lying when it is just something you disagree with, is not the best discussion style, but rather sharing agendas.

But asking again directly: what is your proposed idea for riskfree implementation of renewables in germany?

"It also has to be acceptable to the population"

Because this is also a great issue here. Wind turbines face heavy resistance for example. And monocultures of corn are not great either. Offshore wind parks bring their own set of problems (mostly environmental, but also corrosive costs), and sun on its own would require massive storage and massive deployment of panels, which also have to be manufactured, which takes energy.

It is just not so easy.

I am very pro renewables. But I rather have nuclear plants for the transition and as backup, than continue burning coal. But I am open for working alternatives.
Not everyone thinks abstracting away all that stuff was a good idea.
My mailman quit because he was robbed at gunpoint two blocks from my house, in broad daylight, in one of the neighborhoods you mention.
https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/mail-carrier-robbed-...

I don't understand why it has to be "SF is perfectly safe" or "SF is a dystopian hellhole". Why not pick a middle ground?
FYI, and very late to the game so the short version: the thing to use `let` for that'll make it click is doing things like setting up all the fixtures for "correct" / "normal" execution, and then piecemeal overriding them in nested describe/context blocks to show what should happen in abnormal situations. Basically, "here's what normal looks like, and then here's a deviation from that".

Ofc, you'll shoot yourself in the foot doing that if you let individual test files get to big, but that's a bad idea anyway sooo.
> I assume most cultures would still enforce those ideas based on sex.

Hijra is a third gender used by people in India that was first documented several thousand years ago [0]. There are similar third genders in other Southeast Asian countries.

Galli: a priest/priestess in Hellenistic Greece and Rome that wasn't considered to be man or woman [1].

Muxe: third gender of Mexico that may have pre-dated Spanish colonization [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_(South_Asia)#History

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galli

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muxe
I can't tell what point you are trying to make. Are you suggesting that while crime overall is down, this new situation is actually worse because the victims are now likely to have more money than past victims?
It used to be you could make a movie about this because it would involve spies and treason or somesuch. Today's national security risk is some guy wanting recognition from his couple online friends.
To stretch/extend/mangle your swimming metaphor - the AI tools now let people swim in the deep end before they've taken their water wings off. There's lessons that others would probably learn along the way by having to do a lot of searching and parsing of the basics that can be skipped over now.
YACCintosh – prototype Mac intended to do colour in 1986 [pdf]
It's been 25.84 years since Apple introduced a printer. Their institutional knowledge is likely long gone.
Thanks! And the HN post in case anyone else is curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35544722
You need ID going from NI to Britain so he may have used his passport for that.
> There are certainly some bullshit jobs, especially in the public sector and non-profit space.

I don't think you understand the definition of a "public service"
It is quite possible to get tinnitus with low frequency exposure. I got mine from exposure to loud music while using earplugs that basically had no attenuation on low freq.

Leaving the club the silence outside sounded like my head was inside a slowly cooking porridge kettle. This disappeared in a couple of hours. Low frequency tinnitus appeared years later. I thougt first that my neighbourg must have installed a new air condition unit.
Old people have more wisdom than young people. And for those Americans complaining about be victims of tyrannical old people, why do y’all keep voting for Pelosi,, Hillary, Trump, Biden, Feinstein, McConnell, and the other dinosaurs that didn’t make it through the first cut when casting Cocoon?
There is a sub-field in ML about exactly that.
would definitely agree. i find tmux + vim does almost everything i need. granted i don't try to script anything myself. generally there are command line tools or vim plugins that do most i want. adding to much gravy to vim also just slows vim down which can be incredibly frustrating when one is used to typing very fast.

i would say just a couple of years of vim isn't enough to really become one with the software. think it took me around 5 years to really understand why vim is amazing. took me at least one year just to get the hang of it properly and be highly productive. i can't even type in a normal editor anymore as my brain is wired to vim commands. and i still to this day learn new commands which make my life easier.

that being said i totally understand why people love emacs. but i get a decent amount of the window management stuff just using the tmux.

and vi is installed almost everywhere as an editor which makes editing in 90% of environments a breeze. even when in windows gvim does pretty good.
> If one could imagine that those eukaryote's that died out then could ponder the future, no doubt plenty would have sought to be comforted by some kind of pause in their development for some kind of eukaryote safety net to avoid such far future couplings in the form of humans.

That's the kind of short term thinking that gets eukaryotes in trouble. The heat death of the universe in 1.7e106 years means none of that ultimately matters, right?
Eh, you can run Emacs as a daemon and starting a client is pretty fast.
I got less enamoured of GNU when I started reading glibc. It works and it's solving for a complex set of build constraints and so on, but wow, it is not what I'd type.
I'm from the same cohort as you and can corroborate this. I definitely remember how strange it felt to me when social media became a thing and the taboo of attaching personally identifiable info to your web presence suddenly disappeared.
I think this is an area where you have to be careful of people-like-me bias. (Apologies :) Most people in the world didn’t have most of those things, but they now largely all have cellphones. Any child with access to the internet can access any piece of information on all of the items you mentioned. And now/soon any of those kids can speak with an electronic friend who can explain it to them in their own language.

In short, a huge percentage of the world didn’t benefit and didn’t participate or compete or come up with ideas. I think it’s safe to say that generates more change, faster, for all of us.
Yes I believe all these things, but that would be true in any other big city in the US. Try living in the bad areas of Saint Louis, Baltimore, New Orleans, Detroit, or Cleaveland. When San Francisco has article after article saying crime is "out of control" yet no one is writing articles about Alabama or Louisiana which objectively have higher murder rates, I would say, yes it is "overblown".
Ah, I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought you were suggesting that the counterparties were passing money between each other. Instead, this _is_ a traditional short position. The counterparty is setting aside the cash, with LedgerX, who is actually a registered CFTC clearinghouse so does have oversight and is (theoretically) watching their operations and they are therefore using properly applied risk management for "other peoples money". But the counterparty risk remains with LedgerX. It hasn't gone anywhere and is still something that would need to be managed.

Its been a few years since I did risk management for a CFTC derivative exposed firm but at the time clearing house default procedures were very much up in the air. Dodd-Frank allowed for clearing houses to be declared as systematically important but only CME, ICE and OCC were designated as such. Has that changed?

Other than that, I'll be honest I don't remember what the debt claims were with regard to clearing houses. Is there some special provision of the bankruptcy law that makes "LedgerX doesn't own those Bitcoin or the customer deposits and never did." true? Because typically this would be up to a bankruptcy judge to decide (as opposed to say custodial assets at a brokerage or deposits at a bank which have senior claims by law). That doesn't look to be what has happened in this case by the way. In this case it looks like a bankruptcy judge looked at the books and said "yep these assets/liabilities balance appropriately so its an easy win to just sell the clearing house to someone else". Which is precisely what 'JumpCrisscross said.

So, I'm not put off by this, because its a message board. But maybe you should look at some of your statements to see if they meet your own standards. You've made a few claims that set my alarm bells ringing as someone who has actively worked in this space.

A few examples "actually get a payout in the worst-case scenario, and have effectively no counterparty risk" which is not true. "LedgerX doesn't own those Bitcoin or the customer deposits and never did" which is up to a fairly complicated legal disposition to figure out. "customer assets are held separately from their own assets and would be available for withdrawal" which is an article of faith.

Generally speaking, "no counterparty risk" is impossible in finance. With traditional finance there is a lot of law, regulation and precedence to help mitigate it but even then actors in the space manage counterparty risk as a matter of course, including by managing their clearing risk. When crypto is involved I think it would be charitable to be even more patient with people who are incredulous about that statement, even in cases like this where it is falling back on normal finance.
First-of-its-kind open source project brings your animated drawings to life
That's what these applications are already doing. The only difference is their cloud back-end is openai's API instead of something they control themselves.
This one is a piece of cheap PR, but Africa had a lot of sites with open source SW since at least 25 years ago.

I accessed .co.za ftp sites back in the day.
Is there SLIME/SLY/NREPL etc. for Janet?
Western Digital has likely been compromised for years. I would be real concerned about their windows drivers and device firmware.
I've nuked all my socials but this and linkedin and my life's much better.

But IG reels and Tik Tok are insanely addictive to many of my peers.
This reminds me of Web hosting and the review industry around it 20 years back and I worked for a large web hosting provider.

The founder was really open about it. And back then hosting had ~$100 CPA and we had instances where we wouldn't turn a profit on a customer who purchased a shared hosting account UNLESS they renewed after 2 years given the cost to acquire.

To this day, when I see lists reviewing services providers, I'm always skeptical of them and steer away from letting them influence my decision on a service provider.
I was a heavy usenet user in the 1996-2000 era and this wasn't true for me or most of the groups i hung out on (and even less so for IRC chans).

Earlier (pre-eternal september) usenet was definitely different though and I think much more like you say - sadly that was before I was old enough to get on-line, so I never saw it.
Original Macs didn’t have a control key.
KotlinConf’23 – Keynote
I don’t think you were looking for a serious answer, but I’ve thought this over and there’s a broader point to be made here.

What I think you’re suggesting is that my trouble is with the machine—some version of frustrated human fighting with inanimate objects. In general this is a framing I oppose; automated machines are created by people, and people carry the responsibility for their creations. “The computer did it” is never an excuse.

So in a way, yes; I tend to view “error messages” as you put it as an extension of their creators, who very well may be worthy of indignation.
Montana close to becoming first state to completely ban TikTok
The guy is on video shooting his own high caliber weapons , yelling racist tirades, and if he doesn't resist, about to be in prison for a long time. Feel free to go arrest him yourself with a taser and handcuffs.
If you have 10 nodes, you should already be automating with ansible/chef/puppet/whatever, at which point adding another link config is easy.
My local university had a free dialup number that you could use to telnet into anything on that supported telnet. There were a few BBSes on the internet, but I didn't know how to do anything with it. 29 years and 6 months ago I actually went to university for the first time and my dorm had terminals, plus some of my homework actually required that I do things that were on the internet.

The first wifi connected laptops were also coming out at about that time. Nobody thought of phones as for more than voice yet (cell phones did exist, but the cost per minute was very high, and they only supported voice. They also didn't fit in a pocket).

Like I said the ideas were all in place close enough that someone from 30 years ago would recognize everything as the future they imagined - but the details are very different between what they imagined and what the reality turned out to be.
> We should expect the same percentage of people to not report crime when there are 1,000 car break-ins per month as when there are 100

This ignores changes in police enforcement and prosecution of crimes. If there is very little overall crime and the police have the time to find the perpetrator, and the prosecutor agrees to bring charges, you're more likely to report the crime. If there is high crime, police are too swamped to deal with yet another break-in, and the DA is too busy dropping felonies to misdemeanors or not bringing charges at all, then people aren't going to bother reporting crime as much anymore.
Chess, unlike war, is a game of perfect information
Fair point, though I will say unless I look at the circuit myself and confirm the hardware mute switch is cutting an actual signal to/from the microphone, I won't fully trust it. Whether that matters is up for debate - I carry around a Google Pixel phone all day, and while I don't use any of the voice assistants, I also don't audit everything closely enough to guarantee nothing is spying on me randomly.

As for my joke in general - I guess my point, if I have to make one beyond making a joke, is that I don't really trust any company to do what they claim in all circumstances. Even if they have every intention of doing so, some bug or bad actor could compromise the intent - not saying it's identical, but look at the recent issue with Tesla camera pictures being shared. So if you're working on some mission critical or top secret code, I wouldn't trust _anything_ to be running or looking at it - not Copilot, CodeWhisperer, etc. etc.
Trust me. It's me. Trust me anyway.
The issue here is that if a watchdog so much as looks at a provider wrong, under this ruling, they have to obey instantly even if the watchdog's claim is wrong and fraudulent.

To repeat, this would mean the innocent have to go through the trouble to prove their innocence in the face of bullies who are given maximum leeway instead of the watchdogs having to thoroughly substantiate their claim to demand removal in unclear cases.

It makes the watchdogs de facto sovereign censors of the Internet, and turns any idea of due process into a pleasant fiction for most people.

It's also worth noting that ISPs are pretty low on the internet services stack, and as such should be much closer to a water or electricity company than to a newspaper.
Oh no, I think you made a good point. I was definitely thinking about game code per se, rather than engines. The extra rigour around an engine (any library code, really) is definitely a good thing
I liked and feel _somewhat_ similarly to the quote about “living with dogs is great but can be considered morally wrong at a certain point” or something to that extent.
But you kind of have to draw the line somewhere - I personally feel it’s way more important to stop eating meat than to worry about the “morality” of having a pet.
But yeah indoor cats and breeding mills are “bad”.

Support your local animal shelter as much as possible and don’t worry about it too much seems pragmatic to me.

Edit: two words
Yes, this is bad. Yes, it was also inevitable. Hopefully we will get lots of practice watching AI try to destroy humanity and build systems around that.