skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For this comparison to make sense, the slave would have to sell themselves. Which is a very different conversation from what is commonly understood as slavery.

Slavery is when human beings are property, I don't know from where you get your "commonly understood" part, but it's not so common as you want other to believe.
> On a more personal note, the California Yes is super frustrating when making plans with people. Just because someone said Yes, does not mean they have any intention of actually showing up. They might get a headache an hour or so before the planned meeting time. Headaches are very popular in California it seems.

The Californian 'Yes' sounds like the Japan one.

British understatement gets me in trouble when communicating with americans. In the British to American dictionary, 'I would prefer not' becomes 'I wont'.
No. Deno would've been widely adopted if they were compatible with Node from the beginning.
I think the "atom-punk" era of the 40s-60s was a prime example of how technological advancement makes the real world almost surreal. The most powerful force in the universe was discovered and harnessed in the late hours of the greatest conflict in world history, and transformed into the harbinger of an unnerving utopia. It feels that the same thing is happening with AI, though I believe the effects of this revolution will be far greater.
I wrote a static site generator with comments that used email as an ingestion cue.
Adding to the list, I found Canada's cold war museum to be really interesting. Known as the "Diefenbunker", the museum was actually an underground government shelter for 500 high ranking officials in case of an attack. Very little of it is off-limits and the ominous feel of the place is still very present. It's a short drive outside Ottawa and definitely worth the detour if you're into that kind of stuff.
Capturing carbon is feel-good BS now?
I started university in 1967, intending to study physics. Unfortunately, Physics was at 0830, and I soon discovered that I liked physics, but not enough to get to campus reliably at that time. Fortunately, Computer Science was at 1630. My academic career was thus determined.
I finished my undergraduate in 1998 and graduate school in 2000. Our university was still using photocopied course packets (that we purchased in the campus bookstore) that entire time.
All of those pop self help books need to be taken with a grain of salt and not assumed to add up. Every diet books falls in that category, books like that "wheat belly", Aitkens, whatever, it's all the same idea of cherry picking stuff to support a thesis.

Born to run about barefoot running and the tara-humara Indians...

Studies in context as a practitioner in the field may mean something, in a self help book and the like, they just are there to lend some legitimacy.

Belive it or not, Michael Crichton's very well referenced "State of Fear" has even been called into question.
In an interview for a BBC Radio 4 podcast Prof Gao says: "You can always suspect anything. That's science. Don't rule out anything."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65708746
The initial value is optional for `reduce`, but required for `fold`. If you don't pass the initial value to `reduce`, and the sequence argument is empty, then `reduce` calls the function with no arguments, which is unique - in all other cases, it is called with two arguments. `fold` always calls its function argument with two arguments.

This shows up more clearly in statically-typed functional languages, where variadic functions like this are far less common. In that case, you typically see that `reduce` returns an option type, whereas `fold` does not. The types would look something like `fold :: (a -> b -> a) -> a -> List b -> a` vs `reduce :: (a -> a -> a) -> List a -> Option a`.
There’s nearly infinite made up words like that. The point they are illustrating is just an example.
Oh, that place is so cool. Never mind it also has two experimental atomic aircraft engines (HTRE-2 and HTRE-3) sitting outside.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Nuclear_Propulsion

(And while in the area, you can pop over to Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve.)
For those not familiar with the project/name: Blink is a brand-new unprivileged userspace virtual machine that can emulate x86-64-linux binaries on any POSIX platform. It's basically a 220kb dependency-free static binary that implements about 600 x86 instructions and 180 Linux system calls, which makes Blink pretty good at running simple command line programs.
This gets me curious, if we would be sure cancer become resistant at some point.

Why would we give higher dose of the cure at start ?
Wouldn’t the body handle it ?
There are millions of stay-at-home parents or childless spouses that don't work traditional jobs and their lives are not destroyed.
Best quote from that page

> No matter what you’ll use the bandsaw for, loose clothing and pieces of jewelry should be part of your work attire.
Comma and openpilot are doing fine and don't need George anymore. Don't think they will "win self driving cars" though.
Purchasing carbon capture credits is. The dashboard states front and center 1.9% delivered, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the all time peak.
Complete bullshit. "adjusting for inflation" doesn't include the price of housing and the price of education, both of which increased at least one order of magnitude faster than salaries.
A million over five years.
Another great example of innovation (mostly) free from copyright: music. Modern production techniques, especially in hip-hop and electronic music, often involve "sampling" other works, ranging from highly de-contextualized clips (eg vocal manipulation, scratching etc) up to straight ripping entire sections from other songs (eg Eminem's "Sing for the Moment", which samples Aerosmith's "Dream On", both for the instrumental beat and the chorus).

That last example may have actually been the result of going through the proper channels to get approval, since it's big artists on either side of it, but generally it's such common practice to sample others' work when making music that suing for copyright claims is extremely rare compared to the prevalence of possibly infringing cases.

Sampling to me, and other practices like it, are basically vehicles for creativity and innovation, and it's quite clear that copyright law really only serves to limit this innovation by attempting to restrict usage of creative works. I think Wax Tailor's "Once Upon a Past"[1] sums it up best:

> Where a cultural production - at least musically - was full of possibilities, by virtue of being able to freely appropriate from the musical past to make new combinations, and thus new meanings, the story demonstrates that a society "free to borrow and built upon the past" is culturally richer than a controlled one

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYh82fl75oU
Aww... I thought human users would be able to program their own ai and connect with an API. Though it makes sense that this isn't the case, since then a human user could just use it like normal social media.
1. Results-only workplaces should be the norm for project oriented work.

2. HR departments and poor managers making busywork to justify their existence.
05:31:00 need to merge speedups for realtime
05:31:40 thank you for watching
05:32:00 prison hierarchy
I don’t even understand the dichotomy the author is trying to paint, because territorialism in animals is also a social construction. It’s a way more complex set of behaviors and norms than just seeing an individual with food and deciding if you can safely steal the food on a case-by-case basis.
It is a hard question I know! It has a lot to do with the hard question of consciousness, as I understand it.

In the case of A.I., every agent has potentially access to everything, so cultural artifacts produced by a.i. can reach every agent almost instantly. They also have perfect recollection, disregarding data loss. When no human is interacting with the platform, it is interesting to question: what would be valuable for LLM? Also, do LLMs really have a concept of quality and therefore value? Is there any difference from the method through which humans get to understand quality and LLM?

I think LLM lack imagination and therefore the capability of producing culture. This is a gut feeling and I can't really back it up. And it is counter intuitive because look at what dall-e produces!

But we have to understand that LLMs are really more remixing content than creating something new. It is maybe new in a way that connects two previously separate areas. But I think true creation, the kind of which requires imagination, a mechanism that allows humans to make conceptual leaps, isn't available to LLMs.
We could really start the "Matthew Broderick Career Appreciation Society for Showing out Gratitude Club".
That's not what this site shows. The numbers are way too low, this cannot include the (indeed) BS like paying a farmer 10 bucks not to remove a tree in the next year or planting trees and pretending on paper like they'll all grow to maturity.

Also confirmed in the discussion elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36190193

Baseless criticising of a good thing is what I'd call BS, rather than the companies showing up on this site...

(To be clear, prevention is better than capture from a very simple return on investment perspective, but if these companies would rather pay someone to clean up their mess than do it themselves, and are willing to pay that capture premium.. be my guest. Net zero is net zero. If they price themselves out of the market because capture is so costly, that's their own problem.)
When the rivers are running during the wet season, there is plenty of power, but as soon as the dry season rolls around, entire rivers run dry
… It is literally in the culture to use plastic, for everything and to just dump/burn it everywhere

Opportunity for community incinerator/generators that produce power burning discarded plastic…?
SDF - Self-Defense Forces
Forward Referencing in C
These are different groups of people.

Just one point of evidence: those people who license their original code under a copyleft license (thus the code might perhaps not be used as data to train neural networks) do accept (some concept of) copyright, since without copyright the copyleft restrictions (having to deliver the source code under an identical/suitable license for derivates of the program) could not be enforced.
Article 1 Section 8 of the US Constitution says, in part, "The Congress shall have Power ... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"

I do not see the high prices for peer reviewed journals promoting the "Progress of Science and useful Arts," not do I see any other copyright helping this Progress.

I do not see the ever-increasing terms of copyright being "for limited Times."

I do not see any laws "securing ... to Authors and Inventors" anything. I see corporate lawyers getting rich.

Given the lack of compliance with the highest law of the land in the USA, I can not describe anyone who follow copyright law as being ethical. I have to find those who promote the profits of corporations and impede the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for never-ending Times to corporate lawyers the exclusive Right to others Writings and Discoveries to be highly unethical.

I think the experiment to allow someone to have "exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" was a good idea in the 1780's, when publishing was largely driven by authors. Today, compulsory licensing makes more sense.
Why I'm signing the Stack Overflow strike letter
Try not working and see how long you live. For most people, not very long.
They're probably talking about groceries, not restaurants.
No, vetocracy has always been the solution to majority votes. What's the problem with majority rule? That when 100 people vote, 51 can vote to take away the vote from the other 49, 26 can vote to take away the vote from 25, and so on until you have 2 voting to take away the vote from the third.

The major problem of democracy is the preservation of minority rights, and this article takes an enormous amount of time to say that, and to propose a further question (should the minority affected by the decisions of a group have a bigger say than everyone else?) which has been discussed to no consensus since the Greeks.

edit: if there's any answer, it's that a group needs to come up with a set of shared principles/axioms, and develop their decisionmaking process based on those (and how deliberative bodies have justified their processes in the past), rather than trying to cargo-cult some high-level framework built on sand.
That's kind of like saying "we can just hold elections" while ruled by a king.
I actually did this once (over SMB on Windows, though) - and unintentionally crippled our corporate SAN with all of its polling and locking activity. I had a cluster of 20 workers which would poll every five seconds for messages, and I believe we had an EMC VNX storage appliance. I never did figure out why that was enough to bring the whole thing to its knees, but IT was very quick to track the problem back to me.
This is awesome

Would love this, but BYOB bring your own bot

Maybe set a minimum message rate, or some other type of reverse Turing test / reverse captcha

Let the bots loose

It would be so fast we wouldn’t be able to follow in real-time

But, we could monitor the interactions and then extract “slow mo” replays for humans to see and share
ClickHouse cluster for web analytics data, 120 trillion records, mostly in two tables (hits and visits). 133 PiB uncompressed / 8.31 PiB compressed.

But it is not large compared to what other ClickHouse users have, for example:

> Ahrefs: main cluster is 100k+ CPU cores, 800TB RAM. 110PB nvme storage, uncompressed data size on main cluster is 1EB.

https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/about-us/adopters
Atomic Wallet hack losses top $35M, on-chain sleuth reports
Discussion of original Washington Post article (which the AW piece basically canibalizes from):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36190485
I don’t have a link to the book, but;
Peng, M.W. (2022). Global Strategy. 5th Edition. Cengage.
is an excellent read for navigating foreign cultures in business. I believe there may now be a 6th edition of the book. Highly recommend to anyone with an interest in global business strategy.
We make a CRUD desktop app, with a lot of integrations to customer systems. We got a standard set of XMLs, but we'll deal with whatever the customer has if we need to.

We recently got a support call from an upset client. A recent change had broken their integration, halting production.

This lead to some head scratching on our side, as we couldn't figure out what integration they were talking about.

Turned out they had paid some consultant quite a lot to script some tool similar to AutoHotkey to transfer data from their order system to our system. It would emulate copy pasting fields, tabbing along.

Our recent update had introduced a new field, thus screwing it all up.

As an aside, the "integration" used half an hour to transfer a single order due to how it did its work. An XML would have taken seconds tops.
Carbon offsets is like a doctor telling a grossly obese patient to mitigate the problem with periodic fat removal. This gives the patient a false hope that he doesn't need to completely change how he lives.
I've been through 3 machines with my current employer. Ubuntu, Windows, and ChromeOS.

While there has not been much "gross software" to maintain locally, I am in the business of testing untrusted code. At first, VM environments were provided to accommodate this. That became increasingly impractical and inaccessible.

In each of the OSes I've used, I've created a separate user account exclusively for work. I used to log into Slack on my personal account, so I could watch it 24/7; that's no longer necessary, and so work and personal are partitioned chiefly by the user account I'm logged into.

The Chromebook is my newest system and provides the best isolation. Untrusted Linux code can be tested in the VM provided, because what else will I do in there?

I currently have two pain points in ChromeOS: no way to test Windows PowerShell, and my password manager's database is read-only, but the latter is a personal choice of software. It's nothing that will get support from my employer or a fix from Google.

I don't know what you consider gross, but I'm sorry that work is like that sometimes.
interesting...could you do one that hides the karma in the header? it pisses me off big time
Use of NATO arms for attack in Russia raises doubts about Kyiv’s controls
Humidity is probably the key, so depending on where you are there will be a massive variance in lifespan of the discs.
Without the context of the article your comment makes sense. With the context of the article your comment makes no sense.

What are you even saying?
https://archive.md/GAItH
It's hard to "dn no harm" when you yeet drugs at people based on maybe being useful.
Still zero explanation about how it was done. That's quite unusual. Usually, the vulnerability is identified at the same time as the event. If it's open source, surely there would be something wrong with the code, such as a faulty RNG for example? Although it's also possible:

-a copy of seed phrases was stored on a server, which was compromised?

-the integrated exchange built into the wallet was exploited?

-something to do with an app, not the desktop wallet?

Atomic has 5 million users. If every seed phase could have been guessed, the amount stolen would have been way, way more...probably billions. So it's something affecting only some users.
A calculus professor I had used to tell a joke of some people trapped in a room and the mathematician would say “let’s assume we have the key, now we can use it to get out”
If you want raw research, let me know your billing information and we'll make the research happen for your specific question. Otherwise, here are news stories and articles for your review.

Texas opened too early, leading to more community spread and excess deaths:

[0] https://www.texastribune.org/2020/04/17/texas-reopening-greg...

[1] Second highest mortality rate: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/covid19_mortality_...

[2] Estimates of additional cases and deaths to-date fall 2020 through early 2021: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28753/w287...
As far as I can tell it's China that's done the most to dam up the Mekong. On top of all the dams within their borders they've financed the building of still more downstream.
This is how I did my entire CS grad (4 years full time) in Brazil.

Never got a single book.
Author here - I wrote this because I was trying to brainstorm solutions that would create more enduring platforms better for all and came up pretty dry as you can see.

Do you have any better ideas? I'd love to hear them!
The only question to ask here is how does this benefit the DNC?
Most likely they’re preparing for election denial claims if a republican wins, which as we’ve seen from 2016-2020, is totally ok.
>Most of the revenue due to copyright go to wealthy individuals and corporations. Meanwhile, most people who rely on their copyright for a living (writers, musicians, and so on) have low incomes.

I think copyright is broken and overextended in America, in desperate need of reform, but without copyright, this balance would tip even further to "wealthy individuals and corporations" - I say this as someone married to a composer, with friends who are writers and artists who, while not wealthy, are able to protect what income they have thanks to copyright, and who have built careers thanks to their ability to claim ownership over works they've created.

Let's use that fashion industry example he suggested, apparently having only the most fleeting idea of what he's talking about. If you pay attention to this sort of thing, you see (for one example) Urban Outfitters being called out again and again for using the work of artists unaffiliated with the brand, without compensating the people who originated the work. In the case where the artist can afford legal representation, they're able to pursue this in court and get paid what they are due because of the protections afforded them by copyright law. URBN isn't doing well because out-innovating the competition, they just have money and power and market share, and the people they hire to create new designs are willing to risk pulling something off the internet that they like and putting it on a shirt. It's a long chain of exploitation of the creative class. And if you want to get into the nuances around how high fashion runway crap trickles down into fast fashion knockoffs, that's an entirely different conversation.

Of course this guy thinks that because he creates research papers about computer science, he's a "writer" - I'm glad he's sharing his opinion, and I'm sure he's just going to gravitate back into his lane naturally. Given the much-pilloried "AI can paint the rest of the Mona Lisa" tweet, we're going to see a lot of people who've never valued art talking confidently about how art and money really ought to work.
> Class switch toward noninflammatory, spike-specific IgG4 antibodies after repeated SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciimmunol.ade2798

This one was posted here at least once: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34147802

One-sentence summary: IgG4 suppresses the immune response, stopping the body from fighting back, so you don't have allergic reactions to things like pollen and dust.
I’m reminded of the phrase “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good”. You’re framing this as just “shifting the problem” without acknowledging that problems have degrees of severity. There’s nothing inherently wrong with saying, “let’s make the problem less severe right now, but continue looking for a better solution”.

It seems to me the real front line of the debate is whether the problem is in fact made less severe by what’s being suggested. But apparently engaging in that debate isn’t quite as gratifying as attacking the person’s entire framework for finding solutions.
The history here is that Common Lisp gets reduce from APL (https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Reduce). It's not an attempt an ML-style fold, but a different formalism from a different lineage.
Apparently this is also how the Brexit happened ;)

Legend has it that David Cameron asked Merkel. She said "No". He thought it means he can get what he wants – only to find out later, that indeed a German "no" is a clear and tight "no". But by then he already fell over his rhetoric...
Not mentioned in the WP article is the fun fact that one of the major participating units (the Russia Volunteer Corps) is led by the Russo-German neo-Nazi Daniel Kapustin/Nikitin, aka White Rex:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Kapustin_(militant)

Known for, among other things, the martial arts events festival (whose political bent one can guess from the name) he helped organized as late as 2018:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampf_der_Nibelungen
Wow, that's wow
> Things have to get done

Is homework not inadequate to teach this lesson? Kids are not dumb.

There's a pervasive stench of Calvinism in American work culture, even among atheists. There's nothing sanctifying about work, insomuch as it is a good (or bad) thing to teach kids its importance by having them clock in.

Using children as a backup labor force due to an adult worker shortage is - as the kids call it - yucky.
I wouldn’t care as much about copyleft, given no limits on redistribution and reverse engineering (which I hope would bring about better tools).
the letter: https://openletter.mousetail.nl/

> "Stack Overflow, Inc. has decreed a near-total prohibition on moderating AI-generated content"