skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that's not true:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Media

Vice was on YouTube before HBO and I definitely recall that -- not to mention it's own website hosted it's own videos before HBO. You guys are making out like that HBO/Vice are somewhat interchangeable terms like Google/Alphabet and it's not.
Changing continent: The EU's population is declining, new figures reveal
AI Research Highlights in 3 Sentences or Less (April-May 2023)
Desoxyn ® is literally methamphetamine hydrochloride.
Why are humans never satisfied? [video]
Are age coherts like "gen z" relevant outside of a single country? I don't know if generations would line up world wide. Perhaps "baby boomers" would line up Europe wide becuase WWII ended at the same time for all of the continent.
an amazing POV from Agustín Fuentes
> That's my read on it anyway. It's a fascinating social problem wherein the interests of the higher ups and the interests of the company as a whole are at odds.

Well there's plenty of readings like that, but there's very little evidence they're actually _true_. They're just stories told around fires about evil gods depriving poor workers of wfh.

I see plenty other (often misguided) reasons why managers keep pushing for RTO, but "my companys office space, oh egads" is almost never one.
It can work if you make some edits to product.json, I can’t remember exactly what but that should help with Googling I guess
That's really surprising! I never realised those inventions were so close - Babbage's analytical engine came in 1837, the first constant electric light in 1835.
Since you seem quite sure of that, can you name twenty of them?
As a VSCode extension creator - thank you! People may not realize how hard it is to make a great app if you have no idea what your users are doing with it.

On web apps there is all kinds of tracking and it’s heavily used to make the apps better (not just for marketing or annoying you). In a code editor extension there is the same need for that type of information, and telemetry is the only way to get it.
It's interesting to hear how different people like to operate.

In general for me personally I like to ensure all software updates are installed daily (not just my editor/IDE).

When I login in the mornings the first thing that runs is a simple script that checks for and applies all updates for my OS, Apps, homebrew packages, shell packages, several applications extensions / plugins etc... likewise my servers install updates daily. Obviously there are pros and cons of (in)frequently updating software.

For me - with this approach of small, frequent updates I've found that updating software becomes boring - which is a good thing. I honestly can't remember the last time anything broke (that I noticed). I've taken this approach for around 12 years.
This is a great question and I think the answer is it depends on the problem.

For example, multiple people driving a single car often a bad idea.

The more complex the problem, the more difficult it is to coordinate communicating the solution. And no team is sufficiently organized to tackle certain problems given the implications of Conway’s law.

Though, the plasticity of a singular brain may be sufficiently organized to tackle certain levels of complexity.
F1 drivers can instinctively respond to a minor bump on a curve and make a decision in probably ~100 milliseconds, so the lower bound is just 10 computational steps.

A more complex decision such as swerving to avoid a wheel that just came off the car in front, probably takes around ~500 milliseconds, or 50 computational steps.

Considering that modern computers need billions of computational steps to start a calculator app and draw it on the desktop, we have a long way to go.

Though there has been regression on this point, a 1990 NeXTStation Color could do the same with ~50 million cycles on a 1120×832 display. (on 12 MB of RAM and 1.5 MB of VRAM.)
Mankind has transformed deadly predators (wolves) into routine companions (dogs); and over centuries created multiple species specifically for food consumption (many plants, but also modern cows, sheep, etc.). I think hippos would have been possible; albeit probably not desirable.
> Do people still think there will be any humans left alive in a few hundred years?

I will go on the record and predict there will be some human beings alive in a few hundred years.
Are you hiring machinists to build it, or are you hiring some engineers and physicists to design a bomb based on that design. Building according to the plans - we can assume some important details are left out, or sabotaged so that it looks like it will work but it won't. However engineers and physicists can start with those plans and run calculations/simulations/tests to figure out what will go wrong and then figure out something to make it work.
At high speed, yes (somewhere above 30km/h to 50km/h IIRC). At low speed, for ICE cars, it's definitely the engine noise that dominates.
This is a Futurama reference, no?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uFNN5Qf2AR4
To me building the automated smart assistant seems like insanely lucrative place to put in ads.
When you order the assistant to solve a problem or buy some product google can show you something even better or a things that solve the issue.
Wow, net neutrality was killed by a conservative tobacco lobbyist.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Individual_Freedo...

Bad people get away with everything...
It's certainly been considered and looked at. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=ultr...
For better or worse, the tax system is here for everyone. Why should religions be the only institutions immune to it? Everything you said happens in America, just change religion for nationality (sanctions) or race. I don't see why religion should be different. Moreover, religions persecution also happens in the USA, but by other means. Catholics have been persecuted in the past, the same happened against jews during a period, and more recently to islam. The idea of tax exemption only happens to benefit the well entrenched religions: evangelical churches, mormonism in Utah, the Catholic church. It also helps up and coming scams such as scientologists, who take advantage of the provisions of the law.
I wish people would apply critical thinking to whether or not it is appropriate to permanently punish two and all of their progeny for an action they took prior to having knowledge of good and evil. Or why an omniscient, omnipotent, and benevolent being would need to torture a distant descendant of theirs to death before considering forgiveness for that action.
If you have an OpenAI key, and want to share access with someone else, or enjoy having a joint AI role-playing session:

https://havewords.ai/
The groundbreaking plan to map the entire human immune system
Haha, do you remember the time when reviewers were rushing to give glowing reviews about Google products for free, simply because they were good?

Pepperidge farm remembers (me too.. though it was a long time ago)
Not directly related to your comment, but:

I’ve always been weirdly frugal and I think this is the real reason that I don’t admit. Seems unfair to spend a lot of money on anything.

I would say that any kind of expense beyond what you’d pay as a poor college student would fall into this category, though, if you want to be consistent.

I’m not however donating much, though. My plan is to build a pile and donate it when I pass.
I'm sure folks still do this. You say it in sarcasm, I know--I still was curious:

Is it a matter of mastering the `make` prefixes and arguments, and/or `autoconf`, in order to exactly specify the dependencies to use?
But how does one get enough uranium to produce enough enriched uranium to reach critical mass? My guess you have to start with hundreds of kg:s.
Ah, I get what you're saying now. When you said

> "you'd be surprised how many Rust engineers think unsafe somehow 'encapsulates' memory bugs inside the block itself,"

you essentially mean:

> "you'd be surprised how many Rust engineers think that they can use unsafe without regard as to whether they are maintaining Rust's safety invariants by hand in their unsafe blocks."

Yes, I do find that surprising!
It’s not like sitting in one place makes someone a more “senior” dev in anything but tenure. Juniors who stay at one company tend not to be developers with 10 years of experience at the end, but instead developers with 1 year of experience 10 times.
AFAIK the LMs are not continually updated though?
The largest and strongest animals are herbivores and yet people are obsessed with eating flesh because “protein”, lol
The jewish | christian schism is out of hand when the disagreement is over which has the more significant subgroup of sex pests and enablers.
Vice seems to have fallen victim to the increased polarization and agenda-ridden stories that have swept up so many media companies. They used to report on unique angles, find edgy topics to talk about...the last few years they regurgitate the same left-leaning talking points that one can find in any number of other media outlets.

They lost their soul and became what they probably used to hate.
This runs amazingly fast on M1/M2 Macs (MPS device).
> the average needs the tax breaks just to survive.

The question becomes: Are the umbrella organizations paying the ministers just the bare minimum to keep them on? So if the tax breaks are stopped, will the church organization cover the new difference, or lose the ministers?

It might still be a racket where the ministers are also getting screwed. The benefit of the tax breaks may not go to the minister who receives the tax break, but instead benefit the archdiocese/convention/council/conference/synod/assembly/convocation/etc who pays
OK, fair enough - but did you find these people on Twitter itself, or did you find out about them after reading some other mainstream media outlet and then followed your curiosity?

I would guess lots of people get famous on popular outlets _first_ and are then followed on Twitter.
The church defended a scientific assertion based on theology and used their (absolute) political power to curb other worldviews.

Even assuming that Galileo could not prove beyond reasonable doubt heliocentrism as a physical model, and that the Church accepted that the Ptolemaic model wasn't valid - the Church took an active part in asserting that "heliocentrism is heresy". They could have said it's not their own matter to pontificate about and they instead went after Galileo asserting that he overstepped his boundaries.

It's very possible that Galileo (and the stories about him in later epochs) was not 100% in his assertions and his arguments. And it's important to look at the history from an objective point of view. However if you look at it as a battle for freedom to do experiment-based research, yes, the church was evil at that time.
It’s their choice if they want to save their money. There’s no whistle to blow.
no offense, but thinking you're going to be able to plan for this is a fallacy that stereotypical faang types easily fall into. there isn't going to be a grade, there is no application and acceptance process for actual success (admission into incubators is not success), and you're probably going to fail. but more directly to your question, every single person/company you interview with after a failure is going to view it differently. it's completely outside of your control or foresight.

but you should do it anyway because living with no regret is no way to be.
Depends if you are the buyer or the seller
Clicked into this thread to ensure their work was mentioned!

Those stories are fun.
> "I'm really 2,000 years old, but I don't look a day over 1,800!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Year_Old_Man

(Some borscht-belt style humor, for those that appreciate those type of things. Memories...)
Separation of church and state is a restriction on the state from being religious, not the church from being political.

The bill of rights is a list of restrictions on the state by very definition.
If we’re going to anthropomorphize these things until we get AGI we’re going to expect that they have a worldview of some kind.

Some people are more likely to interact with something that feels human vs feels like a robot.

I’m anticipating Siri LLM for example to have a personality and world view that aligns with Apple’s brand’s values. Rather than robotic can only regurgitate pure facts robot personality.

As soon as you adopt a worldview you’re in a subculture.
You are making a dicotomy falacy with more than two options: it's either "quality of life + smog" or "being poor + clean air". There are two more options: "being poor + smog" and "quality of life + clean air".

Some 50 years ago there was no option to coal as the first source of (cheap) energy. Today you can go straight to solar and wind as a cheap energy source, unless you live on a massive oil/gas/coal field, and that's the choice of "quality of life + clean air" you dismissed.
Somehow the most annoying thing to me is this long-standing bug where "Exit" doesn't mean "Exit", but "Exit, unless there's updates, then restart".
Hybrid cars are not the same as ICE. In general, hybrids accelerate at low speed using only the electrical motor, which produce little noise. Only at higher speed (or when the battery is low I guess?) is the ICE started.

Since at higher speed, tire and wind noise drown ICE noise, you don't hear them and they feel nearly as quiet as electric cars.

ICE-only cars are definitely noisy. Though maybe you are used to that noise and it doesn't register (like a lot of people, me included), but they are definitely loud enough that a place without any car feels "quiet" (even if it's otherwise busy).
For the uninitiated:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/30-50-feral-hogs
Both in dutch (van) or french (de, d') in small caps in a name, indicate nobility.
Google right now are Netscape in 1997. They see AI in the rear view mirror. They think it’s going to eat their primary revenue stream. The question is are they going to keep staring in the rear view mirror and go over the cliff or can they reinvent themselves?

Given that Google still gets the vast majority of its revenue from search its hard to see that this doesn’t cause then a huge amount of pain. I suspect they’ve made the mistake of not starting to cannibalize their revenue stream and now it might be too late.

It’s going to be interesting to see how this plays out.
You've got it a bit mixed up Nicotine has not been definitely linked to cancer. Cigarette smoking has, however. But nicotine has been linked to heart disease and related cardiovascular illnesses.
Google are taking the time to make sure that there is not much that comes back. With being the incumbent leader comes the greater risks of regulatory problems an reputational damage. OpenAI get something wrong is annoying Google do it and it damages the business much more significantly. They will attract regulator scrutiny far harder than other operators will.
Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka v0.7 is out with ACLs, Dark theme and RBAC improvs
I never receive intrusive notifications from VSCode. It quickly and silently updates every once in a while when I close the program. I'm not sure what kinds of malicious extensions you must've had installed.
When Vice was just the magazine, it was pretty influential considering it was just, basically, three guys. Gavin McInnes gets a lot of stick these days, but he was pretty instrumental to establishing the baseline "Vice-voice."

It kept its unique voice for a decent amount of time, but it eventually sank into a mode where it was where you went to hear the same things you heard anywhere else, but with a bit more blue language as an affectation of authenticity.

Going from Hipster Mad Magazine to Hipster National Geographic worked for far longer than I would have guessed.
Please, add support for import OPML/xml file.
What's a good source of truth?

Does the topic matter?
Is it binary? Why is it a good or bad source of truth, not some level of trust?

Nitpicks

You talk about circular references, I assume you mean someone cites wikipeida which then cites...something else? Either way Wikipeidia isn't a primary source and if someone uses it as one they are wrong and that's the fault of the person.

How would someone defame someone on Wikipedia without providing false sources or no source at all. If they did it could be discovered and changed. This could happen on social media, news organizations, books, or in person. What source of information is immune to this ? (If none are then I don't believe it's a valid criticism)

You say that people who want to corrupt will be attracted to it. Aren't there protections against that? Does it happen often? Is it so frequent that you have zero trust or you think it's "bad source of truth"
lol ChatGPT is available in Google docs before Bard
Covert public opinion campaigns are incredibly common, especially on Twitter.

Google has billions of dollars it doesn’t know what to do with: they can certainly part with a tiny fraction of it and pay some PR firm to save face after the ChatGPT thing.

What often happens is a few paid employees get the ball rolling and everyone else starts doing the hyping for free.
I have been using LLMs to automatically repair security vulnerabilities. I have a set of tools which build prompts describing the environment and the output of vulnerability scans. The tool then requests a shell script to disable/fix/update the vulnerability. The script is submitted as a PR which has actions that run integration tests. Human intervention is sometimes needed, but the focus is on better engineering of prompts (and by proxy tooling).

Describing the environment relies heavily on a CMDB, so this is not a one-size-fits-all approach and this is functioning entirely in my personal lab of ~100 servers. That said, ChatGPT has given me the best results compared to locally run LLMs
No it always was
Unprincipled hypocrisy seems to be a nearly universal feature of humanity, regardless of one's particular religion.
Remote workers do not push coworkers to work from home but they do push them to spend their workday in video conferencing software.

You many not feel like this is a substantial imposition, but many people feel that it is easier to have discussions in a physical room with things like physical whiteboards and eye contact. Using digital analogues can be nearly as effective, but it requires everyone adopt new processes.
A fine so large that it sharply+persistently reduces dividend payouts and share value sends a strong signal about bad corporate behavior. It could be exampled after the sort of fines that govs like to inflict on the poor.

It's also exactly the sort of fine that gov regulators compulsively seem to avoid.
I think that's one of the easier parts. Even if you have to mine it yourself somewhere in Greenland, Australia, or Northern Sweden (where I presume you are from), it shouldn't be too hard.

(Only the Swedes and the Finns do the ':' thing when they add an inflection to an abbreviation.)
Compared to AWS, no one uses GCP. Compared to IOS App Store, Play Store doesn't sell any paid apps and subscriptions, only adware.
Cursor: The Cloudflare AI Assistant
Why Are Republicans Better at Making Money on the Internet?
> When you say "maths", how many do you mean?

All of them.
Helping Others Recover from a Past Toxic Work Environment
>Removing the seats from his car, hiding it

...several days after the killing (per the testimony of an officer)[0]. reading books about homicide investigation is not illegal, and certainly not suspicious enough to convict beyond a reasonable doubt.

I believe a more charismatic person could have talked his way out of it. At the very least the first impression wouldn't have been "eccentric unsympathetic computer guy, russian mail-order bride, he probably did it".

[0]https://www.wired.com/2007/12/traffic-officer/
What email client are you using?
Yes, it’s true that those are different things. But the remote vs. in-office argument isn’t as simple as “do your own thing.” Sure, it can be made that simple, but it doesn’t represent the situation well.

Some subset of people who want to work in an office want to do so only with people who only work in an office as well. For these people, “everyone do your own thing” is not a satisfying solution. And it doesn’t have to be! Work doesn’t have to satisfy everyone.

If you work with people like this and say, “just do your own thing, it works for me” then you are trying to control other people because it pleases you better.

And again, there is nothing wrong with this. You are looking out for yourself, which is fine. It’s then up to your employer to make a decision on policy and then the employees decide if that’s a policy they want to work under.
A highly-enriched uranium fission bomb is conceptually and practically simple to construct. The hard part is getting enough HEU. That part isn't even hard to achieve (North Korea managed it after all), just moderately expensive and hard to conceal. This process and the bomb design is explained in detail in the nuclear non-proliferation documentary, "Countdown to Zero" (2010): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1572769

The amount of HEU needed for a device of this type with a yield comparable to Little Boy could fit in a shoebox. Seal it in some lead pipe, stick it in a shipping container and no one would know. The above documentary illustrates this powerfully with animations and expert testimony. Strongly recommended, especially as a companion to "Command and Control" (2016): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5598206/
> The problem is that Vice kind of stories are costly to produce.

Perhaps. But now look how costly it is not to produce them. You can "save" by being a commodity, but eventually the (missed) opportunity cost (of doing something unique) will catch up to you.
The main issue with beans from a “prepping” standpoint is the amount of energy (fuel) required to rehydrate and cook very old, very dry beans. Lentils are way better in this regard—they keep just as long but cook much faster.
I think that your problem is that using the word “murder” implies “unjust.”

Funny enough, you actually accept “state-sanctioned murder” right now, like it or not. Any soldier who attempts to invade Ukraine may be shot without a trial or a hearing. If “state-sanctioned murder” is always immoral, Ukraine should let them in peacefully, and appeal to higher authorities to diplomatically come to a solution to the “illegal immigration of young Russian men with guns” problem. I don’t think that’s a good idea and I don’t believe you do either.

That’s fine. Invading a country is enough to be threatened with death. Attacking someone’s daughter for the fourth time isn’t.
Seen a few Youtube videos on Brooklyn Seltzer Boys over the years, found them pretty interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agAkMbk20y4 (for example).
How to give your life direction – Memorized Rules
They are the same attitude, different words
Those thinkers I've read (Locke, Hume, Voltaire, Descartes, Leibniz) also have nothing in mind that resembles a melting pot for the world's cultures and religions. One again the historical context is being tired of endless wars between protestants and Catholics and often being a member of a tiny minority of aetheists and deists.

The brand of humanism you are associating with is a much later development.
Living your entire life in order to optimise your CV is something that you will almost certainly regret.