skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, it doesn't seem like it should be that hard to find employment records and get back pay into the hands of the raters. But, according to several friends of mine who have done charity work in various African nations, the hardest part is that poverty is so stark and corruption is so entrenched that you can't outsource benevolence. If you want to get money into the hands of a specific individual, you need to go there yourself, do the legwork, and pay them directly. If you pay somebody else to do it, the money evaporates.

North American companies don't like to do that legwork. They like to outsource every little thing, because that's how you minimize costs. You don't send your employees to Africa, that's risky. You don't pay North Americans $12/hr, either, because you don't want the hassle of directly employing people. Workers have rights here and if they get paid $1/hr they get uppity.
I know someone whose mom died in a horse cart accident.
no, if your SATA/SAS stalls for 20s you get 20s
[retracted comment about assuming positive intent and comment proposal being a reasonable course of action, my apologies for interpreting sarcasm where it did not exist]
Solution: make cars even smaller by removing back seats.
"Winners don't do drugs".

LOL OK. But actually most of them do.
> Here's another idea: lifestyle subscriptions, you pay your entire salary for a packaged life

I find that idea genuinely horrifying.
And don't forget Amazon. They aren't venture backed but they have access to capital at cheaper rates than most countries due to their position as a stock market darling. They use ultra-cheap money and a willingness to run negative margins which they refer to "reinvesting in the business" to bleed competitors dry. Few other companies on the planet have the ability to run negative or break-even margins the way Amazon does.

Diapers.com example: "When Bezos’s lieutenants learned of Wal-Mart’s counterbid, they ratcheted up the pressure, telling the Quidsi founders that [Bezos] was such a furious competitor that he would drive diaper prices to zero if they sold to Bentonville. The Quidsi board convened to discuss the possibility of letting the Amazon deal expire and then resuming negotiations with Wal-Mart. But by then, Bezos’s Khrushchev-like willingness to use the thermonuclear option had had its intended effect. The Quidsi executives stuck with Amazon, largely out of fear. The deal was announced Nov. 8, 2010."

https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/amazon-book-how-jeff-be...
I like this and really like the motivation and framing of security. It can be really hard to get people into security stuff.

One small thing in the nav I'm seeing "I'm under attack now" maybe that would read better as "I'm under attack, now what?" or something like that.
The comments in both here and especially on The Verge is extremely hilarious. This only shows that even under Biden, TikTok was getting banned regardless of Trump being in office and that did not change the outcome of the ban.

Something better than a ban is to fine TikTok in the billions of dollars each time it repeats these privacy violations and pay all its users back the data it has collected, just like Facebook has done when the FTC fined them in the billions.

That seems to be fair for everyone instead of this wanton reactionary cope with little action other than screaming in the comments section.
> This makes no sense to me. What about C makes it hard to use a good library?

It doesn't have templates/generics.
Using artificial intelligence to trade stocks and other financial instruments
Add me to the list I suppose. I used Ubuntu as a desktop for basically all of the 2010's and so it seemed pretty natural to use it as a server too. Now I like Pop!_OS for desktop and plain Debian for server.
> There were major concerns about maintaining a viable industrial base

Or everyone took the money and ignored what Present Eisenhower had to say.
I think the technology is there, but maddeningly the system is going the opposite direction in terms of utilizing the technology for human good, or even basic human needs - the system path utilization and distribution is not sustainable. AI will make it worse.

In contrast, in the early 19th century, when the western system was disrupted by labor unrest, it was 60+ hr work weeks were common and 40 hour weeks with weekends off was unthinkable. There were literal bloody fights to shift the system - and I hope we have progressed enough to not require that this time around, but it seems within the realm of possibilities in our modern day.
Making ML models differentially private: Best practices and open challenges
Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning: A Survey
The PLA has published brilliant books on how to beat America in a non-kinetic war but Americans in general don't like to read.

As someone who thinks Unrestricted Warfare is one of the most brilliant books I have ever read, the idea most have not read this book in the US military is quite laughable.

Imagine people having no issue with the Soviet Union delivering a free daily newspaper to US teenagers in 1960. The level Americans have their head up their own ass is unbelievable.
LTO basically just calls back into the compiler and is multi-threaded on lld and mold at least, and probably anything else that supports LTO. And make sure you're using ThinLTO, it's still expensive but much faster than full LTO.
Exploring a novel way to convert heat to electricity
We're building the Arc Windows app with Swift
Almond farmers. Am I right?

/s
I feel as though I am being personally attacked because your description resonates with aspects of my self-image with which I am uncomfortable.

However, I understand that you do not know me and that you are describing a hypothetical person who writes carefully about bland subjects.

Overall, I am sure that you are correct and that this is one metric used for identifying AI-generated content.

***

Seriously, though, I feel like the words "however" and "overall" will be tainted for years.
It really depends on the building. I've seen some older office buildings with 2-4 toilets per floor. Not sure how those can be retrofitted for more capacity...
This is exactly why I left Twitter and deleted my account. I didn't want whoever owned Twitter, Dorsey or shareholders, to make money from the valuable Intellectual Property contained in my tweets
Debian LTS is also 5 years https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/

> Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years

But to be honest I find the LTS schedule a bit confusing when comparing to Ubuntu, because it's separate from the initial stable period, e.g Debian 11 Bullseye (the current stable release) transitioned into stable in 2021, and on above page it's LTS support date is in set between 2024 and 2026. I wonder if this difference in presentation has previously put people off.

You can also pay for extended support for a further 5 years from a 3rd party for a total of 10 years: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Extended
People who don't compute much data don't need computer science.
The worst part is that horns and sirens often little practical use. Even in an emergency situation like a heart attack, an extra minute or two rarely improves patient outcomes. Essentially, these noises are put on for show.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/us/sirens-noise-ambulance...
Push for transit, walkable communities growing across US
Pause AI?
>To prevent long-term harms, build systems that address current issues of justice and fairness.
For years I've been dreaming of a driving/pedestrian sandbox game that used Google Maps data to let me drive recklessly around my home town with accurate models of the buildings and roads.

This demo reminds me of that dream.
Uber attempting to reduce office space in SF / 31% of office leases open
Why are there so many Mini SMP (?) connectors on the board? (video time 1:21)
Note that the title is misleading.

The issue is lack of seatbelt pre-tensioning, not the size of car.

I am surprised manufacturers are not required to have pretensioners.
The problem is that horns and sirens typically provide little practical benefit. Even in an emergency situation like a heart attack, arriving an extra minute or two faster rarely improves patient outcomes. Essentially, these noises are put on for show.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/us/sirens-noise-ambulance...
> I would not argue at all that is what they did. There are remarkably few statutes about fair use specifically and as a doctrine it is a loose patchwork of precedence and principles.

Its worth noting that the reason the fair use statutory language is the way it is is that it was largely a codification of the thn-existing case law on Fair Use as a Constitutional (stemming from the First Amendment) limit on the copyright power.

> If legislatures were to pass actual legislation for them to interpret that would be a different thing.

Congress isn’t really interested in expanding Fair Use beyond the Constitutional minimum, though.
I was wondering more about support of drivers and codecs etc. Is Debian after adding the non-free drivers exactly the same as Ubuntu or are there some things that are only specially available in Ubuntu? Especially also regarding things like audio/video codecs, hdmi etc.
What is the music in that video? My Find Sound app is failing.
The Apollo system landed our grandparents on the moon for 2.5% of US annual GDP for 10 years. An incredible achievement at spectacular cost. Then stopped going as the cost/benefit was perceived unfavorable.

That last part needs fixed.
The problem is that they aren’t tabular and the examples they give which make them look simple are incomplete. For example, they rarely show examples that specify the language or data type. A truly tabular format is hextuples. https://github.com/ontola/hextuples
I mean ChatGPT is not a creation of Apple so it would be better if you report an example, also a GPU is not that expensive and you can run on it LLM like StarCoder or more general ones like Vicuna for a small team of people with ease.
Mostly agree: the biggest factor in determining "readability" is simply familiarity of the reader with the particular syntax or style of programming. Learning many different languages allowed me to experience the evolution of code from "how do I even read this" to "well, it's clear and obvious what's going on" - without it changing one bit in the meantime. There's nothing you couldn't learn with enough effort, and the differences between learning time needed to get to mastery are in my experience small, save for a few outliers (IME: J, Forth)

At the same time I believe that there are a few objective metrics that seem to correlate with long term maintainability of a codebase. For example, the more contextual, relevant, and correct(!) information it contains, the easier it is to work with the code, especially once the original authors depart (and they will, sooner or later). Capturing that information and putting it in the code - in whatever way, including comments, diagrams (ascii art and graphical), particular tests and doctests, explicit pre and postconditions, other assertions, log calls - lowers the effort needed to maintain said code.

If the additional information threatens to obscure the the view on what's actually happening, you can refactor it the same way you'd refactor code. If you can introduce helper functions to kick details out of the way, you can also add footnotes and links to files with additional docs to get the level of detail manageable in the most often read code, while still providing enough information about that code.

What do you think? I came to this conclusion based on my experience with learning a very diverse set of programming styles and languages, experience with maintaining long-lived projects at work, and the "Programmer's Brain" book. The book has its moments, though for the most part it's just boring, but it did provide me with a few puzzle pieces I needed to make some sense out of the whole thing.
I abhor flat UIs. Our brain has all of these wonderful ways of inferring depth from a flat image, and modern UI design seems to be to avoid using those affordances at all costs. I find it particularly ironic that the flat UIs seemed to be taking over at about the same time that stereoscopy was at a peak in its hype...
In my experience time to boot everything else on server far exceeds any OS shenaningans.

I had servers that took up to 5 minutes from start/reboot to GRUB prompt. And they were not some 60 drive monsters but typical dual CPU 1U servers...
Isn't that basically like robots.txt? But robots.txt is often ignored.
Omg!!! I even “double checked”, like I could have sworn I saw a death date on his Wikipedia. Thanks, yeah, that solved everything lol. Cheers
It's FreeBSD. The source for base comes with the operating system, in this particular case in /usr/src/sys/kern/init_main.c .
excited at the prospect of there possibly being a viable way out of corporate-hosted 2FA solutions, I clicked into the repository and checked out the linked "About Me", and was met with:

Your connection is not private

Attackers might be trying to steal your information from mattrubin.me (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards). Learn more

NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID

we can't win :,(
Demo video: https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1659424744490377217
> As much as people complain about activist judges on the bench, SCOTUS does a pretty good job, most of the time,

I pretty much agree with you, even though I think several of the justices are partisan hacks/stooges. The fortunate thing is that, they're mostly one or two-issue hacks, who seem to believe in their hearts that they are and should be competent professionals in all other matters, and who are keenly aware that they shouldn't just blow things up.* This is bad for those affected by those certain issues (we all know which ones), but thankfully this branch of government isn't populated entirely with careless, clueless people like the ones who are slowly taking over the other branches.

* This makes me wonder if it's almost 100% due to the lack of the need to pander to the extremists who got them in. I suspect that if they ever needed to stand for re-election, the radicalness of SCOTUS decisions would get ever wilder.
Yeah we tell our kids about edible plants like dandelions, but caution them to basically never actually eat any they find.

Really, just saying "they're poisonous" would be quicker and the outcome wouldn't be all that different. They do have to be treated as poisonous, kinda, in urban and suburban settings.
Unfortunately, suggesting that people eat less and exercise more doesn’t seem to actually work that well. We’ve been trying that for decades and the obesity epidemic just keeps getting worse.
Everything is just slow, slow, slow. Gotta hunt around for the window border instead of seeing it. Gotta hut for the edges between buttons. Gotta hunt for where the title bar becomes the window content. Gotta try to scroll every list because you can't immediately see which ones continue beyond the visible area.
Thanks for providing those links. It’s interesting to back in time to previous discussions (three years already seems like a life-time ago).

I guess it’s a form of selection bias: I don’t recall the flagging of those articles/discussions because I never read them in the first place. I usually check https://hckrnews.com/ once a day or so (depending on available time) and scan the “top 50%” for topics that might interest me – or have a lot of upvotes and/or comments.
I recently got some Matter-capable IoT lightbulbs to try, and I am not impressed. They seem to have all the same problems I've experienced with previous IoT products (connectivity issues, state de-sync between device and "edge router", firmware updates take ~10 minutes per device).

Then there are problems specific to Apple's IoT stack - like how it's impossible to set an RGB capable light to a ~specific~ white color temperature. Instead you get a shade picker and you have to guess what the color temperature is.

The best IoT experience I've had is with OpenGarage[1] using regular old WiFi, but overall I'd still never rely on IoT products for anything critical.

[1] https://opengarage.io
If they wouldn't, the Netherlands would literally not exist. Not only are large parts of the country below sea level, there is also the constant threat of flooding via Maas (Meuse) and Rhine. Raising levees is not enough, water management in the Netherlands must always look at the whole country.
As to the tax documents, you can always call the IRS. Being unable to get documents is a fairly common issue.
I think better verbiage might be "99% of the time you probably don't want to write one of these from scratch...at least not for production".
> If I'm wrong, prove it: point me to the prison website where they offer convicts for sale.

But they do - in the modern version. Just like we have - here in my native Germany in a very big way over the last two decades - made actually employing people, as too inflexible and too expensive, a thing of the past for hundreds of thousands, and instead lend them out to companies, you don't need to deal with the hassle of actually owning someone. After all, what does any slave owner actually want? Not the slave, that's just "costs" and a lot of effort (infrastructure, overseers, security etc.). No, all they want is their labor. And that is exactly what those prisons sell, no? All the benefits without the disadvantages in one convenient cheap package.

I have no idea why you focus on the unimportant part of slavery, the one that was always inconvenient for the slave owners, the one that only contributed to the "cost" side of their business.

I would also like to take the liberty of pointing to this page about "Disputing Definitions" when trying to dissect some non-existent god-given very exact and always valid no matter the changing context meaning of some word: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7X2j8HAkWdmMoS8PE/disputing-...
i'd recommend experimenting a bit, what works best for you. eg. for me lying flat on my back watching a monitor above me works for maybe 20min, then my eyes get dry, very uncomfortable. also check out http://www.earth360.com/ergonomic.html
> There were major concerns about maintaining a viable industrial base.

Maybe from the military industrial complex that was pulling in billions annually. Everyone else hoped that we would scale back after the insane global c*%k measuring contest that was the Cold War.
Why do anything, we're all going to die!!

Super fast boots of containers is a good effort, would be cool to be as fast as spawning a process or a thread!
Are you imagining that anyone involved in ride-sharing is going to retrofit different seatbelt tech to existing cars?

I’d imagine that better safety ratings would sway some new car buyers with kids to buy cars equipped with better tech for them. I doubt ride-sharing will motivate anything on the new car side and am even more sure nothing will change in the existing fleet.
This is fair; my only evidence is my personal experience, most of which has consisted of trying models on Huggingface or similar, which isn't persuasive.

I will say based on my cursory glance that a lot of the tasks here seem odd for a chat AI, though there are certainly applications that might use them. E.g. asking if someone insulted another person given some transcript of their conversation seems like a somewhat tough sell to me. Nevertheless, ChatGPT performed better. Was that because ChatGPT has a better training set, a better architecture or more examples in it training set related to the questions? Is that even knowable?

Anyway, cool notebook.
The Afsluitdijk just got heightened and reinforced. As someone who's biked across it, I'm psyched because now you can bike on the North Sea side - previously, there was only 1 bike path on the Zuiderzee side.

https://theafsluitdijk.com/projects/dike-reinforcement/how/
> I am really concerned this is going to lead to a bigger health crises than the one it purported to solve.

A lot of diabetics taking it to regulate blood sugar (particular the feedback loop with insulin and hunger) have said it's changed their life... but for people who are merely overweight I think the benefits may not always be worth the side effects. IMO the correlation between weight and health is not as strong as people often assume.

Anecdotal, but if you looked at me and my partner, you'd probably assume I was the "healthier" one based on our respective body types. But they're strong, fit, and rarely get sick (knock on wood); meanwhile I'm a lifelong wimp with a host of autoimmune issues. I outsource all of the heavy lifting to them, literally—if the trash is too heavy for me to take to the dumpster, they get to do it instead :P

So to your point about health crises, yeah. It seems foolish to put my partner on a weight loss drug just so they could "look" healthier while nursing a bunch of unpleasant side effects that would make them far sicker than they were before.
I already pay taxes homie, I don't owe anything to violent and self destructive strangers on the subway.
This really depends on how many degrees of freedom the media has. For music the copyright laws are way too strict, for books and software it seems fine.
This does not seem like a confident filing. It seems very roundabout, subjective and not substantive. Most of the points are either recounting the complainers' emotional states or trying to psychoanalyze Musk and his team. A lot of time is spent accusing Musk of breaking other laws unrelated to this case. Very few of the points show that Musk was obligated to do something, or that Musk didn't do that thing.

This complaint was written for the media, not the court.
Better title for this would be "Where have all the language nerds gone from my personal circle of friends?"

There are lots of hackers out there, but we're not all obsessed with creating new languages needlessly. I mean sure, I have my own pet language I hack on, but the author would probably call me a "non-hacker" because I prioritized readability over fancy language features like a novel garbage collectors. Gosh.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/opinion/intel-data-broker...
See Congress polarize over the past 60 years, in one beautiful chart (2015)
The strange thing in this is that I was always in the back seat of Ubers to be safer.

Now it looks like I should pick front seat when airbags are available.
I can't find it, unfortunately, despite checking my purchase history and googling for relevant terms. I can't remember if it was even an official app - it might have just been a proof-of-concept with testflight. It was part of a blog post from a security researcher who was describing the situation, and it was prior to the "selected photos" permission, so I doubt it would work now anyway.

EDIT: Found it: https://krausefx.com/blog/ios-privacy-detectlocation-an-easy...

Also worth checking out the author's other projects: https://krausefx.com/projects
No, that's not really accurate. Crime and punishment are part of an important narrative in American conservatism. Making prisoners suffer, especially black prisoners, is viewed as a plus, and that creates a climate where overt cruelty is condoned and even encouraged.

The article talks about Jim Crow juries, unconstitutional jury rulings where the defendant gets convicted even when the jury is split. These were created to try and stifle the voice of black jurors, and they did, right up until just a couple years ago. Sheriffs like Joe Arpaio stay in office by marketing themselves to voters as being as cruel to prisoners as possible; it's just another facet of the enduring Southern Strategy. The system is working as intended.
Why did they do that? I'm sure there's a good reason but it sounds interesting!
4.5ms on what hardware, in what scenario? Would I like to save 5ms off the startup time of my VMs? You betcha. Does that 5ms turn into 200ms on a low power device? Probably
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