skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clap for Carers during Covid was a national psychological experiment to measure conformity. Brexit was the closest you could get to resurrecting the Nazi party in the UK 60 years later as another conformity experiment.

How do you measure conformity across a country?

TV Set top boxes being paused at 8pm on Thursday, wifi connected devices seeing a weakening signal, social media posts.

The internet is a security services and big businesses surveillance tool wet dream.

Whats been interesting since is how various websites and their algorithms are being used to challenge your view point. What Eli Pariser highlighted in his Ted talk 12 years ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s) has grown to all the major US tech companies because if everyone has their nose in a device connected to some website, the state can control people in deniable spooky hacker ways.

Remember intelligence is a cheaper and easier form of nipping problems in the bud before you have to puts boots on the ground, beit military boots or police boots, and at least here in the UK every element of the state is involved in surveillance, including the NHS and the educational system.
Isnt this just a reason to stick with FOSS?

This sounds like you have all the disadvantages of linux and all the disadvantages of vendor lock in.

Maybe I've been burned by iTunes DRM and short lived WYSIWYG editors, but since then, my tech stack and software needs to be flexible. Better to use a slightly less user friendly experience than to be locked in as the quality deteriorates.
Where else would I keep my apples?
I could not view this but I found an image [1] that has a chart with numbers and multiple cities.

[1] - https://apolloacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/042423-...
The question wasn't about relevance, though; it was about technical capability. Whether or not anyone actually uses one, will the technology to make one exist? Regardless of whether they're in use in 1000 years, will one ever have existed?
The form of safety we are talking about here is not like rust's "safety", it does not color functions, and is strictly scoped to the compiled unit (in this case, function)

https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#setRuntimeSafety
>produce pieces of paper with text on them?

This is a good point — No. LLMs are meant to produce text on a screen, not paper, so I guess it’s more like

Seeing the “it is now safe to shut off your PC” text on a screen for the first time: “I am become Death, destroyer of worlds”
Triangulation from guesses #3 and #4 gave me the general area, but then picture #5 shows what feature to look for on the map. Got 0.5 miles.
Oh boy. You could write a book on mineral rights in Texas. Just kidding - it could fill a library.

If you’re interested in knowing more about what your family might own and how this works, happy to take some educated guesses. Just let me know if you’re interested, and I can pose a few general follow up questions to narrow it down. Smart of your great-grandparents though - my west Texan forebearers never retained any mineral rights lmfao.

By the way, for what it’s worth, Texas’s public university systems are in large part funded by state-owned mineral rights in West Texas which includes a little oil field called the Permian Basin. As a result, UT’s endowment is either comparable in size, or perhaps now larger than, Harvard’s famously large endowment (that’s what she said?). Obviously smaller on a per capita basis, but definitely the mineral resources of Texas do fund some public goods.

Final comment - I can still hear a quote from some game on unlocking part of the tech tree (Civ VI? Alpha Centauri?): “The meek shall inherit the earth - but not its mineral rights.”
Wow!

THANK YOU!!

That's a really good summary of what I'm referring to.
You missed the "personal" part of "personal finance." If you live in Seattle and started working in, say 2012, that "smart" decision would be costing you a ton of money today (certainly more than a few mil all said and done) should you be in need of a home.
We did have XML but, y'know, Microsoft.
> x86 doesn't have remainder

The code in the comment you replied to is 64-bit ARM assembly.
FoundationDB is absolutely incredible and I've been wondering why it doesn't get more popular over time. I suspect it's too complex to use directly in most applications, with people used to SQL-based solutions or simple KV stores.

I always wanted my app to use a fully distributed database (for redundancy). I've been using RethinkDB in production for over 8 years now. I'm slowly rebuilding my app to use FoundationDB.

What I discovered when I started using FDB surprised me a bit. To make really good use of the database you can't really use a "database layer" and fully abstract it away from your app. Your code should be fully aware of transaction boundaries, for example. To make good use of versionstamps (an incredible feature) your code needs to be somewhat aware of them.

I think FDB is a great candidate for implementing a "user-friendly" database on top of it, and in fact several databases are doing exactly that (using FDB as a "lower layer"). But that abstracts away too much, at least for me.

The superficial take on FDB is "waah, where are my features? it doesn't do indexing? waaah, just use Postgres!".

But when you actually start mapping your app's data structures onto FDB optimally, you discover a whole new world. For example, I ended up writing my indexing code myself, in my language (Clojure). FDB gives you all the tools, and a strict serializable data model to work with — your language brings your data structures and your indexing functions. The combination is incredible. Once you define your index functions in your language, you will never want to look at SQL again. Plus, you get incredible features like versionstamps — I use them to replace RethinkDB changefeeds and implement super quick polling for recent changes.

Oh, and did I mention that it is a fully distributed database that correctly implements the strict serializable consistency model? There are very few dbs that can claim that. If you understand what that means, you probably know how incredible this is and I don't have to convince you. If you think you understand, I suggest you go and explore https://jepsen.io/consistency — carefully reading and learning about the differences in various consistency models.

I really worry that FoundationDB will not become popular because of its inherent complexity, while worse solutions (ahem, MongoDB) will be more fashionable.

I would encourage everyone to at least take a look at FDB. It really is something quite different.
What was the language which used backticks to transform any function into an infix binary operator? Ruby? Perl?

Something like this could actually fulfill Andrews goal of not having any hidden control flow, as the function would be plainly visible.

The other thing of course would be, what then the valid function names would be? Definitely not `*` but probably `×` or whatever.
> Nobody wants a watered down faith that doesn't judge. Why be Christian at all?

When you actually read the Gospel, you will realize that Jesus was actually the guy who was the least judging. He ended up being called "a friend of tax collectors and sinners". And somehow the Church became something else, with several attempts over centuries to go back to the source. Sometimes they would split like Luther, sometimes they would try to do their thing inside like Francis d'Assisi, but each time it started with a negation of the status quo.
Aside from the main article, I find it very convincing marketing strategy to announce a continuation of the subject in next chapter that will be paid. I could already see the quality of the authors and I feel like I want to pay now to read more. I'm all in for this kind of marketing.
I've been working on SUSE Manager and we offer support with RHEL clients and all the clones like CENTOS and others. We actually are cheaper for rhel licenses. (you don't' get the same support ilke redhat but if you just wanted updates we can do it. )
Thanks for sharing your experience. I have heard very similar stories from many people and it is certainly a pretty good sell for trying TRT.

Your initial experience is weirdly similar to mine. My doctor has given me a few different antidepressants over the past 2 and a bit years (Escitalopram, Amitriptyline, Sertraline to name three) but they just made me worse in that I put on weight (which now will not fucking leave!), awful sleep, my penis became useless, and I was just angry 95% of the time. I was a truly awful person to be around and I felt so sorry for my wife and son having to put up with me. So I told him they're not working and we need to look at other ways of treating this depression and anxiety.

He sent me for a testosterone check I think as a bit of a way to just shut me up as I kept asking him what else can we do. He was surprised when it came back at 257ng/dL but as it was above the 249 bottom end he was like "it's a bit low but in the normal range". Thankfully I have a friend that is a doctor and they put me in touch with an Endocrinologist who agreed under 300 at least deserves some further blood work and check I don't have a pituitary gland issue which can cause a lot of my symptoms.

My symptoms are:

* extreme fatigue (to the point of falling asleep in my office chair)

* easily exhausted when exercising

* much longer recovery times from exercising, when I used to have maybe a day or two of muscle aches from pushing myself a bit more to build muscle it would now take me 3 to 4 weeks to recover.

* My concentration is garbage

* Cannot lose the weight around my abdomen. I managed to lose around 13KG back in 2020 yet put it back on thanks to the SSRIs mentioned above and doing the same things I did the first time just does not shift the weight

* Depression but it feels different to my previous experiences with depression not to mention it seems treatment resistant this time whereas before I found Sertraline was at least somewhat effective.

* Heart palpitations that are extremely uncomfortable

* Terrible sleep. It often takes me 2 hours to finally get to sleep and my sleep quality as measured by my FitBit is awful compared to a few years ago (first time the sleep tracking came in helpful)

* Very irritable and easily frustrated

I don't know how that compares to your list of symptoms but they have absolutely wrecked me the past few years. I am just hoping to god there is something of value found in my blood results so I can start working on improving things.

As I said I don't know if I will jump on TRT as it does worry me a little bit. There is no such thing as side effect free HRT after all but my wife has said I should keep an open mind and listen to my Endocrinologist who has said she would recommend it if my blood work comes back with levels in line with ~250ng/dL. I will see what the results are though, if I'm under 250 I think I will have to seriously considering just trying it for a few months. If I am around 300 I think I would rather try some natural ways and retest in 2-3 months and see if it has helped at all. If not then I will give TRT a try.
Do you have any pointers to that story? (I'm French with interest in history and have not heard of it before son I'd like to know more about it!)
yes, no more handbrake drifting

though with electric brakes there's no longer a long wire cable that can break (happens in the rust belt)

Also, pulling the electronic-brake in an emergency won't lock the back wheels like a handbrake can. The car will come to a controlled stop
> Yes? Obviously?

I mean, I agree, obviously.

My point is that most people don't. And I think for two reasons.

The first and more important reason is that most people aren't involved in The Discourse and don't want to be involved in The Discourse. That's probably 99.9% of the Silent Majority -- they simply don't want to talk about anything on HN or Twitter. They view it as a waste of time or worse. and they aren't wrong. I don't think I am changing any minds here and meanwhile the personal insults kind of suck my energy a bit. So it's mostly a waste of time.

The second reason is that some don't even want to even pseudo-anonymously say something that might get them into deep water at work.

I'm obviously not describing myself, of course. I am here, aren't I :) But I am describing the vast majority of scientists. Keep in mind that most people don't dream of being on the proverbial TED stage and that those who do disproportionately end up on the stage and therefore determine what The Discourse will be.

Big Egos == "my work is existentially important" == all the yelling about x-risk. It's mostly ego.
Conversions from IEEE-32 to BF16 don't round?
You are WAY off. An efficient top freezer will still use about a kilowatt hour per day. A typical phone will use 1/100th of that.

https://ecocostsavings.com/freezer-wattage-energy-efficient/
I own a business that provides managed web services to other small businesses.

Our clients get these kinds of letters all the time, and we’ve had several instances of being asked after-the-fact whether they’re legitimate. Often this happens when these kinds of letters go to accounting and are paid automatically to prevent whatever deleterious effects are described by the letter.

The letters my clients have gotten sometimes make it sound to the uninformed like they’re ambiguously tied to domain availability or registration.

We have to educate and restate our guidance on this several times a year.

I should start sending out proactive reminders that it’s a waste of money.

Edit for typos.
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William Gibson described 'capitalist dystopia'. The UK has a very strong, active and centralised state - indeed much more so than the USA. It presumes that healthcare is free, that everyone has access to education, that everyone is entitled to a social security safety net, and a whole bunch more besides.
Yup. I feel that the idea of smart interconnected devices talking to each other to decide "okay, now is when it will be most efficient to run" is a really awesome thing, but it's been ruined by capitalism. Just a race to the bottom to sell shit products and sell customer data to maximize CEOs' paychecks.

As it is, if you have the knowhow you could do it yourself. But that's a lot to ask the tech illiterati, and even I find myself just falling back to manual methods since they Just Work with no fiddling about with wires.
Not impossible but needs really heavy duty sliding drawer thingies. Usually anything I’d take out of the freezer would be taken out much in advance of meal prep to thaw (ideally in a fridge the day before).

But yeah, for a fridge, that’s not as easy.
IANAL, but it seems pretty clear to me that if I say "If you exercise your rights in this license then we will do X, where X is impactful to your business", then that is clearly a modification of the license.

This bit seems pretty clear cut:

>6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this License.

I can only assume that RedHat is saying "This part of the system we wrote entirely ourselves, and so while you are bound by the GPL we are not"?
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It wasnt this https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/...
You can look on levels.fyi for current comp, but it's a bit harder to find what someone's comp is like if they started ten years ago. Perhaps you could look at H1B data and extrapolate at a 3-5% raise p.a. with larger bumps every now and then. Even at just today's numbers though, MSFT lags behind comparable employers.
It’s no longer a stock car. The record breaking on the Nordschleife applies to a stock car on road tires.
Yep. I was distracted by the pretty colors I guess, because I made exactly the same error. Got a little frustrated and couldn't see the attraction of the game until I saw in the comments that all the pictures are in the same location.
Let me rephrase the question, as folks who are answering in the negative are mostly avoiding the main point.

At any time between now and 1000 years from now, will we have the capability to build a fully self-driving car, assuming that there are no cataclysmic, apocalyptical, or other type of events that render any question of technology irrelevant?
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The entire point of the essay is to debate this assertion, and it provides a great many very basic reasons to think is wrong.
How about someone actually articulate the details of how this supposed super intelligence will be built, what about it’s architecture means that it has no guardrails, how it will bypass numerous real world frictions to achieve its nefarious goals?

Arguments that presuppose a god-like super intelligence are not useful. Sure, if we create a system that is all powerful I’d agree that it can destroy humanity. But specifically how are we going to build this?
Yeah, but based on his musk comment I'm going to assume anything we say isn't relevant.

He's accusing people of lying because they hate musk, when they're saying content is not accessible on a site that is currently documented to be suffering basic response problems. It's the kind of reactive BS you get from idiots who aren't interested in facts or reality so shrug.
Nah, you can see it on subreddits as people discuss the game. Complaining about a few enemies, copypaste world, etc... Its not a 10/10, but it will still be reviewed like this.

Imagine you got rid of the Zelda skins and Zelda name, released it on Xbox. What would it get then?

Don't get me wrong, I religiously play all the zelda's and find ways to enjoy them. I am under Nintendo's spell, but I also know these are the corporate mascots I grew up with. Nintendo markets to children, we basically need therapy if we want to be free from their grip.
It's an interesting site, but why do so many of these guessing games have single page applications without state in the URL?

https://guessthe.game/ functions the same way - please include the day in the URL so that if I want to go back through your backlog (or show someone something from your backlog) it's easy.

If I snoop the traffic and watch the redirects I sometimes can:

https://guessthe.game/?fpg=110

But this site makes it even more obnoxious:

https://pudding.cool/games/where/?uuid=i135v&rs=x0hdn&upc=9a...

Really? UUID? (side note: that's not a UUID)
I agree generally, I'm sure an actual solution is more nuanced but coming from the angle of no M&A seems like a good ideal. My personal issues with business after having worked in it for awhile as an employee and not a capitalist:

1) building a business with a goal of being acquired often builds lazy unsustainable businesses built only to be cashed out, often at the expense of employees.

2) buying good businesses seems frequently to do what you said: they get absorbed and lost and the social cost is a lost source of jobs, innovation, and competition.

I know the companies I worked for acquired wonderful smaller companies doing decent things, made happy speeches about their future, then they were gradually pushed out and shut down. Would they have failed anyway? Maybe, but I'd like to see more businesses rise and fall rather than cannibalize each other.

I'm not a smart man, so I don't know what to do specifically, but I definitely see the problem this solution is getting at - I hope some day society has figured out a good answer.
I went back a couple days to #74, and laughed out loud at the second photo.

Not sure if this link will work, but it should take you to #74:
https://pudding.cool/games/where/?uuid=6aa7v&rs=q0hdp&upc=tu...
D uses byte, short, int, long for i8, i16, i32, i64, and ubyte, ushort, uint, and ulong for the unsigned versions. After 5 minutes with the language there is no longer any point to emphasizing the number of bits. Besides, they're just easier to touch type.
Whenever you register a domain you should be asked what you would sell it for. That would increase the amount of domains available for sale and lower prices. It would also be a good business for domain registrars.
(2) can be very relevant to material science and chemistry. Those things have huge ranges of important practical applications.

For example, people currently struggle to do accurate calculations of the band structures of materials and it doesn't look like there will be much progress there using only classical computers (using more computing power or better approximation tricks). Big enough quantum computers could do this. Band structure calculations are very interesting for pretty much all semiconductor development.
Yes, a private company can pay dividends. Or you could loan it the money to buy out your shares and collect interest as it pays back the loan. Or a mixture of the two, with a thousand little variations on terms. I believe I ran into an employee-owned company once that had gone through some version of the loan scenario.
Ah TIL, that would make sense.
> People underestimate the difference investing in good hardware makes.

Yes, but ...

> Getting mad at a "broken" computer is easier than admitting you messed up and made a terrible investment.

Mid take. Windows still sucks on $1200 hardware, just faster. You still get the same crappy UI that shuffles around every couple of updates just because, dangerous legacy stuff like ActiveX, SMB1, and IE lurking just beneath the surface, ads in the Start Menu, random updates, forced reboots, etc.
If you have a PHD, you scouted the battlefield.
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