skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm reading the article correctly, the pics are taken around 1950, probably around april 1953. None of them after 1954, when the author was kicked from the USSR. And you compared USSR post-collapse (a minimum of 35 years after the pictures) with USSR still run by Stalin, or at least not still de-stalinized by Krushev.

I'm from Spain, and nobody here would say that Spain society in the 50's is remotely comparable with Spain in the 80's. Lifestyle turned upside down in the late 70's just swapping peacefully from a dictatorship to a democracy and opening to outside information. Our borders were never too tight: we were 100% free to change residence and to go abroad, and we receive a lot of tourism from Europe and the world. I can't start to imagine the change of an USSR that suddenly opened to a world that most of the people never saw.

The most simple search would give you info about the USSR inner passport (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_system_in_the_Soviet_...). You can read that from 1933 to 1991 "According to the 1926 Soviet Census 82% of the population in the Soviet Union lived in rural areas. Kolkhozniks and individual peasants did not have passports and could not move into towns without permission". Also "On 21 October 1953 [...] rural residents could not leave their place of residence for more than thirty days, and even for this leave a permit from a selsoviet (rural council or soviet) was require". You can read also about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propiska_in_the_Soviet_Union, "Propiska was both a residency permit and a migration-recording tool, used [...] in the Soviet Union from the 1930s. [...] A propiska was certified via local police (Militsiya) registers and stamped in this internal passports. Undocumented residence anywhere for longer than a few weeks was prohibited." The current inner passports used in Russia are inherited from those years.
When Red Hat executives need to present to the board, what software are they using for presentations? Have they capitulated to Office 365?
Yeah the 4-player realtime auction really made the game. The two best Atari games I remember playing are Archon and M.U.L.E.
Not necessarily, incredibly large amounts of money pharmaceutical companies spend is actually spent on advertising their products to maintain their cash flow. Examples can be found online but this source [1], which is obviously biased, shows the statistics for the biggest companies in a nice list.

The (hundreds of) millions spent on bonuses are nothing compared to the billions spent on making sure your doctor recommends UmbrellaCorp PainAWay™ over a generic brand that will cost you a tenth of the price [2]. That includes not just TV ads, but also buying conference tickets and free lunches for doctors; anything to make sure they get the upper hand.

[1]: https://www.csrxp.org/icymi-new-study-finds-big-pharma-spent...

[2]: It should be noted that some generics can work less effectively or cause additional side effects in some people, but for many types of medication the difference is minimal and sometimes the big-brand products even come with more side effects than their competitors' product
Not until FedNow in July, at least.
Stories like these are what I would call "humility porn." So Huang succeeded partly because he worked as a waiter and taking "pancake orders" taught him how to deal with strangers? Do the authors realize how ridiculous this sounds?

That's great if Huang found a way to draw on his life experience. But he also just happened to have a master's degree from Stanford University and lived in Silicon Valley. Those are the sorts of characteristics that narrow down the possibilities quite a bit. Maybe he really did have a humble background. I don't know. But can we quit implying that's really what matters?
Maybe they should have avoided making Halo's rampant AI the primary product in their software?

Also who the fuck talks to their PC, phones I can understand, but PCs?
The major mail vendors came up with MTA-STS specifically to avoid having to roll out DNSSEC.
Another problem with state secrets is that the class of people with access to secrets is usually biased toward specific groups, races, or creeds, and said secrets are used to keep the group in a position of power.
It’s not about the chip. It’s an ecosystem play with the chip + CUDA.

I’m not saying that makes Nvidia worth 1T with it’s expected profit.
As a way to learn writing smart contracts on the TON blockchain, I came with this idea of writing one that simulates some functionalities of a bank. Take a look, you might learn something
That's not quite what I meant.

Basically a dev would sell a Reddit client for a fixed amount and when the user would fire it up to view Reddit, then that would trigger a native Reddit's API subscription, paid by the user directly to Reddit.

This can be streamlined to be nearly zero-friction IF it's supported on the Reddit end.
Reading the quotes from the companies that they donate to each side, what a stupid waste of money. Companies could donate that money to charities, give workers a raise, give us cheaper goods. Political donations should be banned for economic reasons.
A scientist who publishes a paper every 2 days shows the darker side… (spanish)
I think we've beaten this horse to death now.
That just not true, there are a lot of places which value European individualism in the US or outside of it where drugs problems are on the same level as in Asian countries.
Your proof that utility-scale batteries don't work is that some random e-bike battery pack has design flaws?

Utility-scale battery packs are climate-managed and are in real actual use right now. O'ahu has sunsetted its coal power generation and added utility-scale batteries: https://insideevs.com/news/614726/tesla-megapacks-hawaii-arr...
Dude I was a double conc jumping master. Then they destroyed conc jumping and other fun stuff :(
Also it is absolutely ridiculous to compare alchemy with Vedanta. Vedanta is Philosophy that deals with metaphysics. It has nothing to do with Chemistry, let alone Alchemy. So try harder.
You're saying word games but you're arguing something that the poster I replied to wasn't saying.
No one is legally responsible for giving bad medical advice unless they are a licensed clinician. If I as a random person tell you to cure your headache by drilling a hole in your skull, and you're stupid enough do it, then that's on you. There is no need for additional laws in this area.
You say that like nobody here has made any implications
I was just thinking that Junkrat's bomb reminded me of stuff I used to do in TFC.
I really don't know what to think of HN these days. You're absolutely right, and yet this post is at the bottom being downvoted.

If the pilots knew, then a large number of support crew also would have known. But the only "testimony" we have is from captured PoWs, after how many decades of opportunities for deathbed confessions? Give me a break.
I just realised, you're Ron Garret, I had no idea!

In that case, if we extend the definition of magic to include the SICP definition, I would say your work at JPL counts :D
Twenty years ago, sure. Yet I every time I have the urge to use telnet on a modern system, I have to install it. You may as well install netcat if it is available (and if it is suitable to the task).
Modern ICBMs use GNSS.

Do they? The US hasn't deployed a new generation of ICBMs since the GPS constellation became operational. I would also expect that plans for nuclear war wouldn't rely on vulnerable satellites remaining operational.

I thought that US weapons used GPS guidance as a low-cost alternative to other guidance methods in forgiving environments that don't have electronic warfare countermeasures (e.g. fighting the Taliban or armed forces equipped with old gear).
> The amount of time we spent waiting for him to figure out why the server was misbehaving each week easily cost several times more than any hypothetical savings.

I’m not going to argue with your points, but we’ve spent maybe a months worth of man hours figuring out why some SaaS service wasn’t working this year. Only for it to be because some Azure or Office365 or Sharepoint online service wasn’t healthy, and, to be fair, because some of our systems aren’t build very maintainable so that it takes a ridiculous amount of time to figure out what is wrong. Still, it would’ve probably cost us maybe a work-weeks worth of time if we were more competent, which sort of goes against the SaaS idea when the licensing is also approaching the cost of self-hosting and hiring a Sharepoint person. Well, if a Sharepoint person existed of course, but I bet you get my point.
> These are all true

That was the point.

Whether or not there is copyright infringement going on (or whether copyright law is an appropriate regulatory framework for ML models), I frequently see claims like "ML training is no different from what humans do" repeated, in spite of its incorrectness.
I was hoping for a thread with a UX deep dive on the pros/cons of a simple UI vs other equivalents (Reddit, Reddit Enhancement Suite, social networks, RSS readers).

There's no way to say this is a perfect UI. We don't know if people churn because of the experience, or drop off because it's tedious. Maybe the lack of notifications is a problem? Maybe the archaic search is? Maybe the way the top items are rendered skews towards a certain type of interaction and reduces overall interactions?

It's super arbitrary to say it's perfect, or that it meets the best goals it could achieve.
Are you by chance asking this so you have some places to escape to when the looming eternal September event ( triggered by the change in reddit's API policies July 1st) suddenly drives a bunch of, well, reddit-level traffic from there to here?
The tank controls in Tomb Raider were more acceptable then in Resident Evil, since the camera was generally behind Lara. So turning to the right on the screen meant pressing right, since this would turn Lara to the right both from her perspective (tank controls) and from the camera perspective (because it was behind her). Of course she still "stears" like a car.
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

(yes, it works with netcatting to port 23, as no Telnet IAC codes are being used, but for me it will forever be a telnet show).
I can’t find the text you quoted. The article starts off:

> A hash function is any function that can be used to map data of arbitrary size to fixed-size values

And the first sentence in the section you link says

> A good hash function should map the expected inputs as evenly as possible over its output range.

It doesn’t have to be “good” to be a hash function.
Well, app wrappers make this even simpler: just poke inside with a file browser.
You mean at the right time and in the right place?
I think most users don’t care, but people contributing to the ecosystem in code and content without ownership do care, for exactly the reason we are talking about these reddit changes.
Directus

https://directus.io/
Even so, that 25% represents a lot of cases that could've easily been prevented. It's extremely low-hanging fruit that would quickly be acted upon in just about any other situation.
> When you accept Paypal payments, you are accepting credit card payments.

When you accept Paypal payments, you get no access to the customer's credit card information or identification. This is either a legal interpretation that allows Paypal to push all of its risk down to its customers and make money for nothing, or the actual law is explicitly allowing Paypal to push all of its risk down to its customers and make money for nothing, but either way it's corrupt.
> In other words, 8 justices, including 2 nominally liberals, are content to continue ruling based on their "vibes" alone.

Yeah, that's what "textualism" and "originalism" actually amount to, ones own prejudice reflected by the imaginary ghosts of the founding fathers.
even scientists got to get their bag
I lived in an older city for a while and met an antiques dealer who turned me on to old maps. "Honey pits", as they called them, were not just informal garbage dumps, but the local latrines!

Today, we separate them, but in the not so distant past (our family's house in West Virginia, not excepted, didn't get telephone or electricity until the 1970s), you just dug a new outhouse when it got full.

When I asked if that meant the rare bottles he dealt in had been fished out of former toilets, the antique dealer just gave me an amused smile.
This is the CDC report that the article is summarizing: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/ss/ss7206a1.htm

(It's linked in the first sentence of the article, but thought I'd drop a direct link here.)
This reads like it was written by ChatGPT and provides no specific insight into Golang or Python from a devops perspective. It doesn't talk about which one is easier to use to actually automate your ops (definitely Python) or which one is easier to deploy (definitely Golang.) Flagged, waste of time.

I hope we quickly arrive at a social standard where posting AI-written content is viewed as extremely disrespectful to your audience.

EDIT: based on previous submissions it looks like aoms is the author of this post. Aoms, am I misunderstanding something here? Why are you doing this?
I guess every ship is shipping electrons right? I don't think you can call storing chemical potential energy 'electrons'.

This is an interesting concept - I guess if electric cars make sense then this also makes sense for transporting energy?
As if there's no way to codify that a device determining a spacetime location from GPS signals is a taxed good.

To give another example, you used not to have to pay public broadcasting tax in Germany if you didn't have a TV or radio in your household. I would be highly amused to see you try to argue "it's just an electromagnetic radiation plotter, what do you mean tele, eh, vision?" to an unamused government official.
It's not impossible but extremely difficult to make an office suite, it's also probably one of the most boring things to do. Libre office is one massive incomprehensible pile of ancient rotting c++ and java code dragged along over 38 years (staroffice). You can imagine how nobody with any sense of UI/UX or people who write for a living would ever touch it let alone dedicate their free time working on this mess. The self selected people left to work on it are very apparent in it's esthetics and everything, or lack thereof. What's left are FLOSS enthusiast's, but that doesn't make a competitive office suite.

Blender on the other hand has a massive community and dedicated leadership who pour every last bit of love and soul crafting this software, that gets significantly and noticeably better every few months.
I'm very interested in some sort of daemon that regularly scans for vulnerable binaries/libraries and produces desktop notifications about this and/or hosts a web interface to review issues. I do use clamav for malicious files, but bug advisories/vulnerabilities are another area I wish I could make convenient to monitor for personal computing. I've seen things like Splunk reports in enterprise settings, but not for personal 'digital hygiene'

Anybody have a list of open source solutions here?
I get to say I’m not coming in tomorrow. I do not get to start a risky data migration and then abandon it; that’s unprofessional.
> Nothing obvious or even true about it. Using the word obvious just hides the fact it isn’t.

If you don't believe in the existence of incentives then unfortunately there's not enough shared reality for us to have a discussion.
As a graphic designer myself I tend to be attracted to some products because of its visual design or user interface. Case in point - I couldn't wrap my head about Reddit only until they launched their infamous redesign. It seems many people like interfaces with a huge information density, but for me it was too overwhelming - the redesign has many negative aspects but its readability/scanneability is definitely a positive one.

But that "attraction" doesn't guarantee one would keep using something, so in the end it's just a small ingredient.
Apart from whether this messenger specialises in "inflammatory political posts" the fact remains that this specific message potentially "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity", especially given the way potential side effects of SARS2 vaccination have been made close to impossible to discuss without being labelled and pushed to the sideline. Assuming that the "European Heart Journal" is immune to being labelled as "anti-vaxx" and other similar epithets their decision to publish this article should give pause to those who attempt to silence any discussion on this subject.
Perhaps I was over-stating. But it is true, that tech people retiring at 50 and living comfortably is a real small minority, not some common occurrence like everyone in tech is swimming in gold. Living on street was hyperbole, but I do see a lot of tech people working long hours, on -call 24-7, dealing with bad bosses, all because of the 'fear' of living on the street. So maybe they aren't close to the street. And if over 50, that fear drives the 'do-whatever-it-takes-even-if-pulling-another-weekend'. It isn't some golden retirement, that is so bogus. Its like there is some assumption that everyone in tech got stock options at google.
> But the approach to dealing with that subset of people should be different than the approach for the subset who were once employed and renting in San Francisco and then ended up homeless through a health emergency, job loss, or eviction. The latter group has shown the ability to sustain themselves in SF in the past, while the former hasn't. And, morally, the place of original residence is responsible for them, not the taxpayers of San Francisco.

This is how the system already works. The Homeward Bound program provides free bus tickets to people who have a support system elsewhere. That still leaves a substantial population of people who do not have any other support system, or whose support system is in San Francisco.

> If nothing else, people with longstanding ties to the community and economy should get preference for services compared those who didn't.

This is how the provision of services currently works. The problem is not prioritization, the problem is a lack of available housing for even your narrowly-defined “deserving” unhoused people. And arguing about a few percent being moved into a different category of eligibility does nothing to fix the underlying problem.
As did many others, to say sex doesn't sell in the age of the internet and OF is complete blasphemy.
Belgium 2023: A Sneak Peek at the Latest News Trailers
Hypocrisy at its finest
> But the approach to dealing with that subset of people should be different than the approach for the subset who were once employed and renting in San Francisco and then ended up homeless through a health emergency, job loss, or eviction.

How do you even begin to discriminate on that? The USA lacks a residency system like other countries.

I agree with your point, but it’s not possible to implement here, which is why the non profits continue the conflation.
Big Tech's latest AI doomsday warning might be more of the same hype
Not OP. Tried having kids for seven years. Got one at 40.

Thank the Almighty I get to work from home. Quit my amazing job just to stay home and work 100%

Trying to foster or adopt now.

I'm up at 430. Bed at 10.

The first six months are rough. After that it's just managing food, fun, naps.
Not to get far off topic, but functional doesn't have to mean Haskell etc. The more I more imperative code I write, the more and more it looks functional because it makes it easier to think about at any level without looking at everything. In fact, I believe that if software building was taught functionally (without the super abstract stuff), more people could understand programming better. The main benefit of functional style is it takes the step-by-step time element of code execution out of the equation. You basically get to treat everything like a black-box. Some things you can't, so you take note of those rather than worry about it all the time.
The interesting thing to me is determining when something that is acceptable for humans to do at human scale is also acceptable for machines to do at industrial scale.

There are many examples. One is face recognition - clearly it is acceptable for individual humans to do this at small scale, but systematic identification of everyone on a street or in a stadium has different implications for society.

(In this case it almost doesn't matter whether the surveillance is performed by humans or machines - it's the scale and systematic nature that changes the equation.)
For every email, I would send an abuse complaint to the registrar on their whois lookup, which right now is Markmonitor [0]. I have done this to get one spammy website's emails shut off before, when they weren't including unsubscribe links. Of course they were back on their same bullshit weeks later, but I was able to unsubscribe successfully.

IDK, maybe PayPal is too powerful or whatever they're doing here is technically legal, but it is worth a shot.

[0] https://www.markmonitor.com/legal/abuse-policy
I’m not sure higher pay would fix the problem. Money rarely fixes any social problem.

I hear about workers not showing up for work from a cousin who manages a restaurant. They’ll hire someone, tell them they start Monday, and then Monday comes and the person doesn’t show up.

Or a chef who has a drug/drinking problem (extremely common in the industry) calling in “sick” last minute.

Obviously there are exceptions but I’m not convinced that lower pay = less reliable employee. Very possible it’s a correlation rather than causation.
https://github.com/vishpat/oxidize-ebpf

Some more examples of Rust and eBPF
Wouldn't rubber dry out over time? If you pay for a good set of speakers you probably want them to last for decades.
Do they? Most content is reposts, news, or content from other sites.

I would suspect Reddit has done the maths. And saw that most content generators use their app or the website to post.
Google Flood Hub
"Self governance" at the scale being discussed here is a myth.
I think Musk bought Twitter to control the media, Murdoch style.

It makes a lot of sense, it makes even more sense to have 90% of the public believe you're an idiot who spent 50 billion dollars on a lark because you're childish, which mean's they're less untrusting of your media ambition.
> And I also figured the crypto boom was a temporary unsustainable surge in the market for discrete gpus.

It's kind of amazing how perfect the timing was for LLM popularity (right around the time Ethereum moved to PoS, and the crypto market cooled down).
E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops[0] is probably the most prescient and early tale I've seen foretelling the outcome of Verilio's Pure War and Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. It's worth a read.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
So far the history of automation technologies is that they both augment the capabilities and replace them. Automated looms replaced manual weavers, but the result was much cheaper better quality cloth which massively increased demand for cloth. Information technology is the same, it does what human mathematicians used to do, but has massively increase demand for information processing services.

So I don’t think AI technologies we have now, or plausibly have in the next few decades minimum, look like they will have materially novel effects.
"Possible" in this context is tricky. Scientifically possible, maybe so. But the effort and time required to build the facilities including treatment of "partially spent fuel" makes it realistically very hard.

If memory serves, Germany just powered down a significant portion of their nuclear power plants, and those already had the sunken cost put into them, they were built and operating.

We might eventually see a widespread use of nuclear power but climate change will have to kick our ass a little first.
Agency of Chaos, Unmoved (Realised)
Couldn't you just replace it? We also pay for good cars, but we still change their tires every so often...