skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, its unique to Ireland (exceptions that prove the rule are some Irish expat communities have established teams in their new home countries)
FYI, the generic title doesn't even begin to hint at how badly this interview went off the rails.

https://twitter.com/verge/status/1646588861529706497
This is just the lawsuit of the building owner suing twitter for not paying rent. Is there something else?
A simple answer is that people are fascinated by the grotesque whereas wholesome stuff is just blah. 50 Shades of Grey is an perfectly mediocre novel, but will sell many tens of multiples of critically acclaimed books.
Exactly why we refuse to use Sidekiq. “Hey, you have to pay to guarantee your jobs won’t just vanish”.

No thanks.
Again, while I agree with this sentiment, I think self-determination should still win the day. It is far too easy to be labeled as mentally ill and be committed to unwanted treatment. That has been tried in the past, and it never ends well. If someone is mentally ill and refuses treatment, that needs to be respected, up to the point that their beliefs begin to cause harm to others.

Of course, that conclusion begs further questions. Should unwelcome proselytizing be considered an attempt to do harm? Should it be permissible to indoctrinate children into religion? These are not easy questions to answer without grossly infringing some individuals' rights to free speech and religion.
The fact that all these people in the article were happily eating hamburger buns in the past suggests that the cleaning methods in place were practically adequate. But the law imposes asymmetric penalties, and nobody getting sick isn't a liability shield from somebody who sticks a bun in a mass spectrometer with the intention of suing you for finding 1 ppb sesame.
> In a twist few would have expected, however, many food companies have chosen to add small amounts of sesame flour to products that were previously sesame-free, instead of conducting the careful cleaning required for foods without sesame.

I beg to differ -- this is exactly what should have been expected if this is the cheapest path forward.

The FDA doesn't allow precautionary labeling (e.g., "may contain traces of..." or "manufactured in a facility that also...") in place of "proper cleaning procedures". This impacts sesame because a ton of industrial-scale bakers produce both sesame and non-sesame items on the same lines, and these could in theory be cleaned and verified, and precautionary labeling isn't a substitute for that.

So, forced to either (a) overhaul likely-daily cleaning procedures to ensure and then later verify that not even trace amounts of sesame protein are present in products on the line, or (b) sprinkle some literal 
fairy
 sesame dust into these items and list it in the ingredients, manufacturers understandably chose the latter.

Perhaps future facilities will be built to segregate sesame from non-sesame production lines, but current ones don't -- and a retrofit probably costs far more than whatever reduction in sales they may face from including sesame.
Correct. It's not rehabilitation or job training, it's legal slave labor to do one of the most dangerous jobs we have, as explicitly allowed for by the 13th Amendment of the Constitution.

The United States still has legal slavery, just with extra steps.
And from a different point of view, real programming languages have built-in vectorization and 1-based arrays ;)
Thanks for keeping the internet alive.
5G Campus Networks: A First Measurement Study
The measurement data traces publicly available as the IEEE DataPort 5G Campus Networks: Measurement Traces dataset (DOI 10.21227/xe3c-e968)

https://ieee-dataport.org/open-access/5g-campus-networks-mea...
It's the same thing as the Loebner Prize 'victory'. You take a highly subpar AI output, and spin it as some sort of deliberately degraded output (such as a ESL child supposedly taking the Turing Test); humans charitably overlook the flaws and assume it's the style or medium; then you ding them on supposedly not noticing the flaws.
tamperproof circuitry can eliminate this possibility for all but state level actors
There were a ton of companies selling refurbished or knockoff toner cartridges for those things too. As good as the LJ was, the fact that they had easy access to cheaper supplies just accelerated the process of selection.
I'm perfectly calm, you're the one firing employees because you don't like their "Christmas Wish List".

Let's say that you didn't like that person's 75k ask (again it was a wish list). Until the slowdown, it was not uncommon for experienced tech talent to get 5 figure start up packages on top of signing bonuses and moving allowances. My wife's last offer included 500k in housing assistance. In that light, a 75k startup package does not, on the surface, seem unreasonable.

Since tech workers as so gossipy, I imagine the entire company knows you fired that guy for a bad list. What do you think that does for moral? Honestly, it is no wonder your perspective is that tech employees have no loyalty and leave as soon as they can find something else.
Did she have a power outlet there?
Eurotripr.com - a constant work in progress. The goal is as if NomadList and Indiehackers had a baby and that baby wanted to help others travel affordably around Europe.
El Chapo’s Sons Face Sweeping New Charges in Fentanyl Indictments
> The A..B concurrency printing

Are those some sort of standard teaching exercise? Because before this article I only saw them in the description of the “concurrency geek” archetype on OSDev Wiki: https://wiki.osdev.org/Eleanore_Semaphore.
my battery is in fairly good shape. when my nc was sitting for long periods (months), the old battery eventually gave out. I had to have it jumped once, then bought a li-on battery to jump it with just in case.

the real key to long storage (beyond a trickle charger) is clean gas.

right now, though, it only has to handle 2 weeks of sitting at most (in an attached garage).
'Harry Potter' books will be adapted into a decade-long TV series
Apple Makes Headway on New Mac Laptops as It Grapples with Slump
I can't bring myself to fully believe that you're being sarcastic. It's just too real.
Is this better or worse than people cheering on contact sports like football or MMA where people get paid to suffer repeated traumatic brain injuries?
You've invested a lot of time on this! I doing something similar (completely automated) for another niche, let me know if you wanna exchange ideas (twitter in bio).
No way it was close! I just did this on for a 6AH Makita. First of all, taking apart the pack... for science, the batteries were name brand but not the best and were under-rated capacity.

Second, I shopped around and found LG MH1 INR 18650 3200mAh HD 10A for under $5 per cell. So my 5S2P (18v 6AH+) battery with BMS and new case was less than $70 shipped with damn fine cells.

The cheapest knockoff amazon battery that works with Makita is about $50, but those are seriously sus in both cell type and BMS. Homedepot has the OG Makita 6ah at $200+.

The only thing you need contemplate for DIY is the quality of the BMS. Don't charge batteries when you are not paying some attention.
Pew found that, as of 2020, 84% of Japanese respondents and 83% of South Korean respondents have "no confidence in Xi to do the right thing regarding world affairs," compared to 77% of US respondents.[1]

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/10/06/unfavorable-vi...
> Take note, doing unwarranted nmap scans is considered network abuse.

By whom? I disagree; using nmap is more akin to, say, standing outside a building (on public property) and taking (or painting) a picture of the building. Yes, some people have gotten in trouble for that. Should they, though?
"Max's commitment to preserving the integrity of my books is important to me, and I'm looking forward to being part of this new adaptation which will allow for a degree of depth and detail only afforded by a long form television series," Rowling said in the press release announcing the show.
> Just tried CodeWhisperer out. The line by line output is driving me crazy.

It's not necessarily the case, it can generate whole functions and even multiple functions.

Today I made a class called "DynamoUtils" and it suggested 2 full methods.
The most important philosophical lesson I've learned in life, is that it is important to take a step back once in a while (regularly!) and assess whether what you are doing in life genuinely appears to be good or bad at a very surface, kindergarten level, as a reality check.

There are just too many times you read through people doing horrific things throughout history, and if you read enough you can understand the viewpoints and the cultures that drove those people do to those things, but at the end of the day, I can't help but feel like: "why can't people just, from time to time, take a step back and think: really though, do I think this is right?" and then truly be willing to make the changes necessary to their life's choices if the answer is: "No".

It doesn't matter if it is something as obvious as being a member of the einsatzgruppen, or just realizing that you're spending too much time at work when you need to be home with your family (or vice versa).

People don't seem to do this nearly enough, and I've found that generally, its a more important moral signifier than the deep and complicated ideologies we mentally build for ourselves that gets us into these situations.

So no. Even if the moral ideology of these monks is crystal clear, perfectly logical, and rationally perfect, at the end of the day, they've chosen suicide over finding a way to enjoy life. They've failed the kindergarten morality test.
Oh, yeah, I forgot my pitch. The link is https://emailengine.app - EmailEngine acts as a mail client, basically the same way Thunderbird runs on desktop, or the iPhone Mail on the phone, but instead of a GUI it has REST API and instead of desktop notifications it sends JSON webhooks. And instead of a single email account, it can manage thousands of accounts.
Also zmap.

Does anyone know how masscan/zmap compare?
The point is more that the local police said it was likely a robbery gone wrong when there's no evidence for that and every media outlet repeats it as fact and "nothing to see here". The would-be robbers didn't wind up taking anything from him and it's not a neighborhood known for a high crime rate. There's also tons of other "but but but" coverage, including extensively in the Wikipedia article on the topic, that completely misses the point.

The person who published the DNC leaks said it was an inside source and that it wasn't a foreign government. No one seems to believe this despite no evidence to the contrary (and other groups having access to the same information is not evidence, since it was proven that multiple groups did)

Anyway it's too much to cover here and is off topic and I'm not going to change any minds, so i'll leave it there
“It’s just jiggling a door handle. Why would they make a door accessible to me if they don’t want me jiggling the handle?”
The cutoff is "they are getting abuse reports about the IP the machine you rent uses". Most providers (at least looking at my fail2ban lists...) don't give a shit about anything less
A friend once told me that I'd get a lot more out of journalling if I first write what I did that day/week/month. Once that's done, to write about feelings and angst and joy.

I think that it honestly is great advice. When i look back on my journal, it's good to know where my headspace was, but I also feel tgat knowing where and with who i was is super informative.

But as others have said this article is little more than an ad with little info.
Universal Install Script (2016)
There do appear to be unintended consequences, but it's not clear whether things are "worse" now than before. It's worse if you have a sesame allergy and want to be able to eat as many products as before. Now there are fewer products that are safe for you to eat.

At the same time, it is now easier for you to tell what products are unsafe for you to eat. Before, you could only tell if there were sesame seeds on the outside, or if they were listed in the ingredients. But sometimes a food item (in a restaurant, for example) might have sesame seeds on the inside, or ground up in a sauce, and you'd never know it was there. I once ordered a vegetarian dish at a Singaporean restaurant and was surprised to find that it had a sauce with ground up shrimp in it. I'm not vegetarian, but I don't like seafood and didn't expect to find any in a vegetarian dish.
Fair enough.

As a black person living in America, let me offer my interpretation of GP's statement, then. You can't walk away from racism, because it's always there. It will follow you whether you want it to or not. It's pervasive to the point that even if it's not immediately visible, you can rely on it to surface sooner or later.

Your options are either to exit society altogether or learn to live with it. It doesn't require being beaten with a baseball bat for racism to have a significant impact on your life.
Props to you guys for putting a complete tutorial on that and not keeping it for you. Cheers!
Ah yes, that too. I forgot to point it out. Thanks!
Why even compare them when one is free and the other is not?
> You can't build a functioning society or legal code based on "good and evil don't exist, we're all just animals"

Of course you can. As long as the animals we are have the ability to understand the consequences of their actions, to themselves and others, and make rational choices about that.

I wouldn't put in prison or on death row a person who killed even a hundred people but functionally has an IQ of 45. That person likely couldn't make rational choices and couldn't understand what they were doing, why they were doing it, or what would happen next.

Whereas I would incarcerate a person with a 100 IQ who drove drunk in a well populated city, whether or not they hit someone.

Good and evil don't have much to do with either case.
I keep having to stop myself from implementing an incomplete, bug ridden reimplementation if half of Erlang on top of NodeJS so I see the attraction there.

Worker threads have a garbage API and I keep finding myself wanting to have n processes sharing m workers and there’s just no easy way.
Use an EU-based host, it should be better.

You might even have to host different versions in different regions if you want to be fully compliant in all countries with their versions of GDPR.
Legality will not be a very easily enforced facade if those who don't have "legal rights" have the means of getting to that parcel, taking it and keeping it. Not gonna be that much different than the Age of Discovery. Except, you know, no Natives to enslave/kill/influence/exploit/befriend/ally with.
Arbitrary societal consensus is how.

It doesn't seem too wild to use irrational belief in something (faith) to make oneself happier through tough times.

It does seem wild to spend your final days in a pit alone until you starve/dehydrate to death painfully.
Yep. I think it’s insane but he’s a grown adult

He’s after reducing eco footprint not health benefits though. Not that it matter for safety
> rules #1 (be attractive) and #2 (don't be ugly).

Those are imaginary rules. Physical attractiveness isn't as important as many people think. Charm and confidence are much more important.

> even a coffee invite will get you fired with a sexual harassment suit following you around for the rest of your life.

No, it won't, unless you're actually engaging in sexual harassment.
As an earlyish (1995) Linux adopter I'd heard some of these tales, like the fact that it started as a simple task scheduler that wrote a's and b's to the screen. But it's cool to hear it from someone who was actually there to witness those early events as they unfolded.
A young relative has a sesame allergy with a pretty bad reaction. Trip to the ER type deal. We were super pumped that the new labeling standards were coming out - way easier than reading all of the ingredients. Woohoo, right?!

Now there is exactly one brand of bread at the store without sesame. Kings Hawaiian, if you're curious. Every. Other. Brand. now includes sesame.

It's like that with so many things now. Hot dog buns. Cereal. Super frustrating if the store is out of the one brand without sesame. Guess nobody makes sammiches this week.

I totally get the companies trying to find the cheapest way to comply. But for people trying to feed allergic folks it really sucks. Hopefully enough people buy the sesame-free products to make it worth the effort for the companies actually doing the work on this one.
I learned APL on an IBM 2741 terminal[1], a terminal kind of like a teletype but with a Selectric typewriter attached to it for the keyboard and typing mechanism. This APL360 system had APL particular and idiosyncratic symbols on each of the keys (in addition to the regular QWERTY keys). The shift key selected which symbol would be produced. This made learning APL a lot easier.

The Selectric type ball was special and had the APL characters on it. Interestingly, the same kind of a system was available for ALGOL68 programming and provided symbols useful for that language.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741
> How? By searching over the space of explanatory models to find the model that helps to predict P(A|B) in the right cases and not in the wrong cases.

But the machine doesn't know which are the right cases. We aren't presuming there's a column, Z = 1 for B -> A, and Z = 0 otherwise -- right?

The machine has no mechanism to distinguish these cases.

> testing whether each pair is useful in determining the next token

This isnt causation.

> every sentence that doesn't have outside in proximity to raining downranks the generation

So long as the sequential structure of sentences corresponds to the causal structure of the world: but that's kinda insane right?

We haven't rigged human language so that the distribution of tokens is the causal structure of the world. The reason text generated by LLMs appears meaningful is because we understand it. The actual structure of text generated isnt "via" a model of the world.

(Consider, for example, training an LLM on a dead untranslated language -- it's output is incomprehensible, and its weights are abitarily correlated with anything we care to choose.)

Nevertheless, given our choice of token, you do have a model which says:

P(ShoesWet|~Rain) < P(ShoesWet | Rain) < P(ShoesWet|Rain & Outside)

That's true. But we're choosing these additional conjunctions because we already know the causal model; these conjunctions are how we're eliminating confounders to get an approximation close to the actual.

(Which you'll never get, the actual value is `1`. Iff A -> B, then P(A|B->A) = 1 -- this is a deductive inference necessary for ordinary science to take place).

In any case, P(A | B -> A) means without any confounders. To actually find the LLM's approximation of this we'd need to compute:

P(A|B & C1 & C2 & C3 ...) forall C_i..inf

And then find P(A|B & C') st. C' made P(A|B) maximally likely.

If you find a set of {C} st. P(A|B) has a high probability, you won't find causal conditions.

All that statistical association models here is, at best, salience -- not causal relevance.
Elon Musk plans AI startup to rival OpenAI – FT
I think you might be better off putting the actual adventure in a gist.
I studied biology and it wasn't in the curriculum I learned. If you have an ecosystem that can support 100 coyotes, how does shooting 10 make the ecosystem magically able to support 200?

There are some population management strategies where harvesting large mature animals allow an ecosystem to support a greater number of younger and smaller animals, but that is a very different phenomenon than what you described.
Don’t know the type but agreed can’t be particularly safe
It's not a photography in a strict sense (although I'm surprised as well why it carries a "photography" denomination; see other entries here: https://www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards/win....

I presume this entry is not a photo at all: https://www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards/win....
Does that make him objectively evil?
Google search for "majority":

noun
1. the greater number.
"in the majority of cases all will go smoothly"

Also, from your link:

> use of this term is inconsistent as it sometimes refers to a mere plurality (as opposed to an absolute majority)
I wish I had not clicked this link
Salton Sea is a lake.
"Law of unintended consequences", more like "being a spiteful a-hole is (slightly) cheaper"

I can understand a fast food place, where sesame products are in circulation doing that, you'd get a non trivial amount of sesame even on the air around those places.

But a lot of places seem to do it just out of spite. Seems to be part of the 'American Dream' like kids selling cookies to pay for medical treatments or something.

"And industry giant McDonald’s said it will not add sesame to foods that did not previously contain it. America’s largest restaurant chain has worked with its suppliers to follow the new law’s cleaning protocols and does not plan to add sesame flour to any buns, a McDonald’s spokesman said. "

Well looks like some companies did manage to do the right thing
Love it. That's great. Been looking for something like this. If you don't mind me asking -- did you do the landing page yourself? It looks really, really good.
> All the other alternatives lack some of the more obscure artists I listen to regularly.

Even YouTube?
MesoSim: https://portal.deltaray.io

Options Backtesting Service focusing on income and hedging trading strategies.
Still under heavy development but have a handful of users who find it useful.
What do you see as your best routes to monetization on the Apple v. Android and how FTP differs on each platform?
Also, what routes of promotion have you been taking to build a customer base?

Sorry to ask so many questions, but as a maker of personal projects which are games, I'm curious about the promotion and monetization of mobile games =)
Well I did get an email from Discord about how a group I had joined had been shut down because it was considered a "hate group". On the other hand, my evil twin was investigated by the F.B.I. over things that went down over Freenode and when an attempt to entrap him failed ("... I understand that this is a major priority for the FBI in my country so I can't help you") they still managed to kick him out of the group.
I'm talking how we learned 40 years ago in Spain, don't know if it has changed. Antarctica wasn't even included then.
Here's the free product being advertised:

https://jumblejournal.org/

To be fair, it is a free tool, looking for donations

> Jumble is free. Secure daily journaling will always be free. In the future we hope to introduce some premium features on top of the free tier. We could not continue to build and improve this product were it not for the generous donations from our users (donation link at the bottom of page).
I do two things as a matter of character.

1. I don’t make fun of immutable characteristics.

2. I don’t raise a fuss about typos, or spelling especially one letter ones in an age of smartphones.

But you do you.
But if you actually desire a small response, then only apply a small stimulus.
That won’t happen, largely because continents are BS scientifically but useful colloquially and in geography. Politics also uses them too, but the usefulness of that I’ll leave as an exercise for others.

If you want science, you want plate tectonics and geography focused around the boundaries of plates and volcanic science. If you want to know what a continent is, whatever model you were taught in school is good enough for government work. The important thing is to know what that land over yonder is if you’re on a boat.
The article says revenues are down 43% from a year ago.