skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very competitive. I don't feel bad about myself if I'm 2nd best, but I know it means I'm not finished.

I also used to wonder how to shut it off, and I managed to. And it was...fine. But I turned the competitive drive back on, on purpose.

For me, and maybe for you, competition is what makes life fun.

I would contend that this might be your superpower. If you think it suits you, lean into it.
The thing is, the way I’ve always learned things is by doing. See a problem, and learn different angles to see that problem, different methods to approach it, play around with it some more, and keep probing it until it makes sense through intuition.

The mathematical approach with many introductory texts to this stuff do things completely backwards, from my perspective. They don’t present scenarios, problems, or anything really. They start with definitions, lemmas, theorems. If you’re lucky, they’ll give you proofs. To me, that’s like learning C by reading the standard, and only writing a Hello World program afterwards. Sure, you can get some good understanding that way, but it’s an entirely impractical learning method unless you’re already seasoned in the concepts.

To paint a more complete picture, I came across the concept of polynomial invariants in knot theory, and I managed to get my teeth into that because you can start coming up with problems, solving them, and getting some intuition. That also lead to TL diagrams, winding in (2+1)D, and I could get that down into code pretty easily and again start playing around with it. These are concrete things, and involved memorising nothing other than a handful of relationships.

I tried reading “Category Theory for the Practicing Physicist”, and it was great to begin with - but pretty quickly started just giving names for things. Names for types of categories. Names for types of relationships. Definition definition definition definition. This is through no fault of the author, it’s just how the topic is, and it’s how people who can digest that stuff understand things.

This is thing A. This is thing B. They are related through thing AB. Thing B is related to thing C through thing BC. Thing A is related to C through BCAB. Here’s a diagram. This is a theorem. Ok now on to the definition of thing D.

OK GREAT BUT WHAT DO I DO WITH IT? It’s one hell of an uphill effort for learning nothing in particular - except for words for things. That‘s why I paraphrased Fermi - “if I could remember all the names of these particles I’d have become a botanist”.
If the nazis take power, and you happen to be one of their targets, having cash won't help much when your photo is being displayed everywhere with wording saying there's a bounty on your head as a dangerous terrorist.
> at high risk.

Before an event? I’m not sure what insurance would cover this. I don’t really want open heart surgery before I need it.
You don't know if the money was used for trafficking. Are you reading what you are writing?
I always wonder how infinite money would upend my system of values.
We are using both openAI and Google's Bard.
There are some aspects to each of them - but it's still mostly 'WIP'. The main challenge is how to 'tune' these LLMs with our own data as another layer that can improve the overall performance (=quality of answers).
The rest of us plebs that are forced back to the office do not get a spot on the helicopter?
China Rebuffs Pentagon Chief, Blunting Push for Rapprochement
I find these arguments going back in circles and concluding nothing.

All teams are different, and a good rule of thumb is to write code the least skilled or experienced person can understand on its own without guidance. Since teams vary so do these limits change. I had teams where it would've been odd to even try use any abstraction, let alone algebraic data types, and teams practicing lots of abstraction and architectural patterns all on top of functional effects. The teams widely different in proficiency of the best and weakest members and so did the codebase patterns.

It's like in sports, different teams demand different approaches because the qualities and proficiencies differ, there are no universal truths but solutions that fit better different teams.
Generally CPR is performed when there is no pulse or breathing as a last ditch effort to keep a brain viable until a full medical team can do their work.

In other words CPR is performed on people who show no signs of life/are already dead.

The survival rate for the control group is 0, so it is kind of a miracle that anyone survives.
C++, OOP, and whatever crazy async shit is going on in JS ruined the conceptual model of “code” for going on 2 generations of programmers.

We do students a disservice teaching them how to “code” first. And not instead how to solve problems with code
I could imagine an LLM that brainstorms all the edge cases, data modelling, algorithm, etc... The final decision will still have to be done by a human, but having a companion LLM that gives you ideas, plays devils advocate and looks for problems would definitely speed up the decision process.
yeah verified only means you either gave your credit card name/number to them or someone gave them a stolen one. It's basically useless. However in this case I'm more apt to believe the government is manipulating photos than randos on twitter given the recent drive towards religious and ethnic minority discrimination by the Indian government.
Ideally, your logo in your website should also be a SVG or at least a transparent PNG. I definitely pick it up from Wikipedia when I go do a presentation if it's not there.
If you replace JavaScript with CSS you aren't saving bandwidth; you're trading it.

In many scenarios I'd argue CSS would require more bandwidth. It can get quite verbose.
If they knew the payment was for a contract killing, they should be picking up the phone and calling law enforcement.

This isn’t even about individual transactions. The situation here is more like them saying, “your business has characteristics in common with the kind of a business that might facilitate a contract killing and we’re lazy so we just aren’t going to do any business with you at all”.
NZ came pretty close to changing to an original flag but ended up sticking with that “we’re not Australia, really” flag: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015–2016_New_Zealand_flag_r...
Asus Concept Graphics Card Without Power-Connectors, Uses Proprietary Slot
is this an issue only for magnet/DHT transfers? or does it apply to torrents that have an associated tracker too? i would have expected in the latter case that two NAT’d clients could connect to the tracker, and then the tracker could help them hole-punch a direct peer-to-peer connection.
Yes, that's correct, and yes, that's the reason. :)
Yes, this is a philosophical issue that lies within our attempts to model reality in our systems. What defines identity? A dog named Brian is not the same as a man named Brian.

For value objects, surely Leibniz's philosophy applies: if a theory describes two situations as being distinct, and yet also implies that there is no conceivable way, empirically, to tell them apart, then that theory contains some superfluous and arbitrary elements that ought to be removed.

For entities, it's much more complex.

I still feel some kind of way when seeing classes (with methods!) being used for IDs, though.
TOS only get used if you're a fly in the ointment in most cases.
But guess what makes it easier to identify and target individuals? Being able to do something like SELECT * FROM transactions WHERE recipient like ‘synagogue’
One is free and the other costs a few dollars. Most people will choose free.
It seems like being able to do this sort of thing. And being able to make government payments to people that must be spent (use it or lose it) and only on approved things are the big motives. Control.
We don't need difficult to fix, hard to clean chargers in every curb. We need maintainable chargers which are gauranteed to work in some convenient location. Ideally 11kW to 22kW chargers at work and shopping places and proper fast chargers at every highway stop. This will cover most drivers needs, as daily charging is not needed. What is important is to have every location always have free charging spots, since arriving to find a single charger occupied or broken is one of the most common frustrations of finding charging spots.

Source: I drive an EV all the time.
I really need to get around to looking into D.
None of these options lift the `;` into something I have to parse as code, not documentation, so you’re all good!

:)
Transmission has supported UPnP and NAT-PMP for many years. Although it doesn't always work as reliably as having a client with directly routable address(es), it does exist and works okay.
As did Engelbart's NLS, as seen in ‘the mother of all demos’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

What little actual research exists suggests dark on light is more readable for people with normal vision. People with cataracts benefit from light on dark, and people with astigmatism benefit from dark on light.
I married into a very high achieving Asian family and I understand what these attitudes do to a person.

I am a regular dude who figured out a different strategy.

You will observe that there are plenty of successful people who aren’t as smart as you. They just worked hard. Therefore, I reasoned that by just working hard and with a little bit of common sense, I could get better than 80% of most people without being particularly smart.

I am a good programmer, but not the best. I’m a pretty decent business person, but not the best. I am a pretty good writer and public speaker, but not the best. Combining these things help me create what by most standards would be a very successful career, despite being kicked out of high school and not finishing college.
The thing is, even if its spaghetti, I can follow the individual noodles. I can carefully pull them out of the pile and lay them out all neat and separated.

With "cleverely abstracted" code, I cannot do that. Because there are no noodles any more. There are small pieces of noodles, all in different sizes, spread out over 200 plates, that reside on 140 tables in 40 different rooms, some of which are in another building. And there are now 20 types of sauce, and 14 types of parmesan, but those are not neatly separated, but spread evenly all over everything, and so it all tastes awful. And each individual plate still manages to be spaghetti.

Okay, yes, I may have strechted out the food-analogy a bit.

But that's pretty much how I feel when digging through over-engineered codebases.
a lot of it is hubris as well, they just assume that others will be able to understand it because it's easy and intuitive to them, and if others cannot understand it they must not be good developers
> Without bitcoin, you collect the ransom in gold with a dead drop.

Where the perpetrator needs to:

1. Be in the general area.

2. Only ask for enough currency that's easy to physically move (an actual real limitation in many countries)

3. Be sure the bills aren't marked (practically impossible). Because of this:

3(1). Be sure to not deposit the currency, ever.

3(2). Be sure not to use the currency with anyone who knows you who will every deposit the currency ever.

3(3). Allow the victim only enough time to procure a large amount of currency (likely days), but not enough time to procure a large amount of marked currency (this is an inherent conflict).

Obviously kidnapping is possibly via use of physical currency, but the practical limitations of cash over anonymous digital currency with regards to kidnapping are massive.

Your concerns with hyperinflation are alleviated by investing in any commodity, and trading on a black market. The fact that the commodity is a blockchain asset is effectively moot. The days of states not forcing individuals to be up front with capital gains on blockchain assets are over.
I've once read that almost every electro-magnetic interaction involving a photon also involves a Z boson, but given that it's massive, it decays very quickly. Is this true?
Unless it leads you astray and that costs more time than coming up with the code on your own in the first place.
I sometimes use the following prevent screen clearing when exiting vi:

:set t_te=

Useful because vi makes it more convenient to select the chunk of file I want to view after exiting. More convenient than cat/head/tail at least. Competitive with more. :)
Til. Cool
Yeah, that async stuff is brutal.
> It's hard to imagine the flag flown at the UN being done as a rush job from a Wikipedia article.

Maybe the UN has their buttons on, but at the Olympics, displaying the wrong flag, an incorrect flag or the right flag upside-down happens now and then.
I asked a specific question and you refuse to answer it because your entire premise is based on not being able to know if someone is engaging in unethical behavior. That's premise is seriously flawed.

The problem you're trying solve is caused by lack of competition and near monopoly players. The fix isn't to force those businesses to ignore ethics. The fix is hugely increasing the competition.
Popups and ads are not even a problem nowadays. They are easily blocked.

Those EU cookie shenanigans instead are pretty hard to remove. I have 3 extensions and they don't catch nowhere nearly to all of them.

Feels like internet before adblocker.
In your opinion...

I think AI manipulation of public opinion is a great topic for HN, IMNSHO
I think MAL is rather demanding. Each step wants you to write specific functionalities which may not be absolutely crucial. Sometimes it's hard to assemble pieces in coherent enough MAL-satisfying whole. I guess MAL wants to be able to test automatically everything, but it still feels more problematic than it should.
Thanks for the feedback about the accent. I understand that it can add an unnecessary layer of complexity to content consumption. I will pay special attention to improving it in upcoming classes, but there are some limits to what I can do. In the future, with community and commercial support, we can afford professional domain experts who speak with a good accent.

At this point, we are instead trying to fill the vacuum by providing something, maybe not the most enjoyable, but a basic introduction to the topic to buy some time for domain experts instead of answering basic questions.
Generally not facing upwards.
Look what happened to Wikileaks and Assange. I think that was the test that began the slippery slope.

edit:

Wikileaks to sue Visa, Mastercard over "financial blockade"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikileaks-to-sue-visa-mastercar...
I've just gone several months without access to any electronic money (e.g. debit cards, credit cards, phone etc) and it has been complicated. I've been thrown out of several stores at the checkout because they couldn't or wouldn't take cash.

You also lose the ability to take advantage of many special offers that are available only through retailers apps, e.g. McDonald's. You can get the discounts, free items, nor can you accrue any credit (e.g. Walgreen's Cash) or points towards future discounts.

I also couldn't ride any of the scooters or bicycles in my city that are available everywhere, because it is incredibly difficult or impossible to use cash to access these forms of transport. You can't even use your cash to buy a prepaid debit card as they won't accept prepaid debit cards to rent the items.
Trying to remove control codes reminds me of this answer: https://superuser.com/a/1388860

and then I shudder and walk away.. the variety in the answers is alone a thing to wonder
If that works you can probably encode the ics as a data url and link that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme
What's stopping someone to doing exactly that in the current system?
They also have a really wrong shade of saffron for the Indian flag, even though the Wiki article on the flag correctly specifies the colors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_India#Colours

Can't really blame them though, since the Indian government does the same. https://www.india.gov.in/india-glance/national-symbols
If they work with developers of a similar intelligence its not a problem, and even has massive returns
Are you reading what you are writing? People can (and do) know things without having enough evidence to stand up in court. It’s how 99% of everything works, frankly.

Banks right now are denying transactions because they ‘know’ it’s fraud, based on ML models and probability and no other evidence.

If you require someone to not ‘know’ something until they have enough evidence they could prove it in court, they won’t be able to function. Even investigators don’t have to meet that bar.
Erdogan’s Russian Victory
"Although Erdogan’s turn toward Putin has developed incrementally, its origins can be traced to the 2016 failed coup attempt in Turkey."

Sounds like the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

"CIA National Intelligence Council former vice chairman Graham E. Fuller, former CIA official George Fidas and former US Ambassador to Turkey Morton Abramowitz wrote endorsement letters for Gülen's green card application in 2008"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fethullah_G%C3%BClen
I’m just a guy, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

This problem is broadly solved by a combination of domain-driven design (DDD) and functional programming (FP).

Yes, I know you’re tired of hearing about FP and you think FP engineers are all white bearded monad salespeople. I don’t care.

Odds are, if you’re an engineer, you’re not doing purely abstract work: your code has some correspondence to “stuff in the real world”. FP is unencumbered by the class/object model and you can abstract over anything trivially using plain old functions: don’t “choose” your abstractions, use these, and your domain models, to figure out what the correct/real(est) abstractions are. It’s not so much about too much or too little abstractions, it’s about how suitable the abstractions are.
It's even cheaper to get a monkey to type that code for you. Will probably cost a banana. Chances it will type the code you expect? Similar to GPT-4 for anything remotely non-trivial.
Ask HN: Is Google repeating its mistakes with messenger apps, now with AI?
I'm confused about the plethora of AI models Google has produced. It seems like if you want to test the waters, they offer Bard, if you want to use the API, they offer PaLM API (and now PaLM 2), and finally, they have a Gemini model in training which will supposedly compete with GPT-5. They also had a LaMDA model which drove Bard for a while and made Google look like an idiot, Meena (an LLM introduced in 2020), Minerva (2022), and several other non-LLM AI models produced over the years.

- Bard

- Meena

- Minerva

- PaLM

- PaLM 2

- Gemini

- LaMDA

- ...

I'm afraid Google is repeating the mistake they had with messenger apps.
Correct.
Sublime started the trend of very lean IDEs with great UX. VSCode perfected it with an open-source offering.
" Only Muslims are permitted to work in Halal abatoirs. "

Wow, that is really discriminatory! Kosher just needs a Rabbi to certify it.
It seems a bit high level for a syscall. Perhaps you're looking for a library, like terminfo? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42734416/how-to-set-colo...
Knight Capital [0] should serve as a warning to devs and ops alike. They lost about $450 million in about 30 mins due to some poor coding, a botched deployment, and botched rollbacks.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group
>interesting depiction of future Prague

one major success of the franchise is its depiction of a future that feels genuinely forward oriented. I think they dubbed their art direction 'cyber renaissance' (HR in the remaster comes with a great developer narration) and it genuinely manages to seem novel.

There's also a lot of very smart world-building and writing in the ebooks scattered around the game. From tensions in Australia caused by wildfires and draughts to the antagonists backstory in MD featuring Ukrainian separatism in Belgorod it seemed eerily relevant at times having replayed it last summer.
Thanks, will fix both.
Perhaps with today's technology, but not with the technology of the future (tm).
Again, since the system is based on trust, the vast majority of stolen credit cards results in no serious loss of value to the individual.
I personally feel if the business is legal, then CC issuers should have to process it. If they want to be the top 3 or 4 gate keepers, they absolutely need to be completely neutral as long as the payment is legal.
Great for solving the typical problems encountered in a web browser.

But a real fucked up mental model to bake into an entire industry’s worth of developers
With interest like this I almost feel vehicles are a burden, albeit a necessary one. Interesting that rate and price both hike.
I am experimenting with building software using the ReAct tool prompting pattern, using Llama derivative models like Manticore13B, Airoborous, etc. I script it all together using Microsoft Guidance with Llama.cpp and AutoGPTQ. Works pretty well for simple tasks and I know the costs are roughly fixed. Obviously their capabilities are far less than OpenAI's products but when you have tens of thousands of conversations to have the costs of ChatGPT become a distraction. Haven't tried finetuning yet.
Ha, yes I came to this thread expecting to be the first to recommend Finite & Infinite Games. Another one that might be of interest to the OP is Mindset by Carol Dweck.
can you elaborate? how could someone outside Mullvad claim that Mullvad is passing illegal traffic, but Mullvad itself can’t figure out who in their network is passing that traffic?
I think the experiences of people operating open relays suggest that would be a foolish assumption.

If you tell a police search team you have plausible deniability they will seize all your tech and investigate you. If you're actually guilty there's a decent chance there will be other incriminating evidence. If you're innocent this will be unpleasant, expensive, and they might end up finding what they think is evidence against you anyway
I don't exactly see what banning ICE/promoting EV has to do with controlling curbside parking. It just has to be banned. Then the issue of compatibility between EV charging and mechanical parking[0] can be addressed.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6blks7vfZog
> You could likely predict AWS meteoric rise as a sysadmin in 2010

this and Intel you mentioned are pretty unique and rare insights, maybe like a one-off windfall, not a consistent way to make money. I've been in tech for decades now and I'm still having a hard time reliably telling who will flop and who won't. Only in a very few cases it's so convincing to me that I would be willing to bet money on it.
One of the preconditions for CPR treatment is that the patient has no heartbeat. The patient is dead, or going to be dead (depending on how you define dead) very shortly without CPR.

So, while the side effects of CPR can be pretty bad, not receiving CPR means guaranteed death.

That's what people mean when they say it won't make things worse.
> if the payment processor knew the transaction was for a contract killing but processed it anyway

If the payment processor knows what your contract is for, it should have an obligation to report it to you. If the payment processor knew the transaction was for contract killing then it should have an obligation to report it to the authorities.

> are you suggesting something more broad: that in the chain of cause and effect that eventually effects a crime, only the “last” party should ever be held responsible?

No, I think that some parties between the "first" and "last" should be indemnifiable because they provide neutral services that everyone relies on for legal purposes. Without proof that a contract between two parties is illegal, it should be permitted.

Do you have any idea how many employers have unenforceable clauses in their contracts? If you think that payment processors should be held liable for criminal contracts then perhaps we should hold payment processors and banks liable for criminal contracts of all employers.