skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the AOL days, I couldn't afford internet as a teenager. Well that problem was easily solved.

There was some software that would use windows API to iterate public chat rooms listbox and collect screen names for later use.

After that list was pretty full and both parents went to work, the magic happened: each dial into AOL allowed 3 attempts at login before it would hang up.

Adding *67 to each AOL dial maybe prevented it from banning the incoming calls?

There were no password rules back then, this software would try the letters and numbers from the screen name along with asdf, love, monkey, etc. If I got lucky, there would be a fresh account or two to use until the owner couldn't login and changed their password.

This worked until I could afford my own connection. It taught me VB6 in the process. Fun times.
It totally irrelevant for the purpose of large-scale climate observations to observe local weather for a single month for a small region of the planet, and personal perception is less than useless.

It is also the case that winter in Argentina was and is expected to be warmer than usual, per https://www.smn.gob.ar/noticias/%C2%BFc%C3%B3mo-ser%C3%A1-el... .
Only an entire chapter? Significant swathes of the book are just characters monologuing about how much they hate the poor, and how great their enlightened selves are for actively shooting themselves in the foot to spite the proletariat.

I say often, and only half-jokingly, that Atlas Shrugged made me a socialist. I grabbed a copy for free that was otherwise being sent to the trash, and by the end, it was clear that I shouldn't have interrupted its journey. It's like if someone took Nietzche, discarded the good bits, replaced the overt misogyny with the more subtle "woman should improve themselves by being more masculine" variety, and then tossed in some kinda-rapey sex scenes to try and keep peoples attention through a 1000-page novel/manifesto.

Read Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread and Stirner's The Unique and It's Property a few months later, never looked back.
Yes, journalists used to speak truth to power.

Now they work on behalf of the power.

And they don't just work on behalf of power, they are power themselves, and it isn't the people's power despite their claim to being "the voice of the people".
Proof of an external world, G.E. Moore, 1939.

https://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil201/Moore1.pdf
My wife has it. You can go on BPD support message boards and read my experience over and over again written by other people. The stories they tell are all nearly identical to one's I've experienced personally. It's shocking how similar the behaviors are between people who have BPD.
Sure.

"You are told what the ethics of your profession are. Indeed, they are part of terms of participating in that profession, more on which below." -- wrong and somewhat patronizing. There exist professions which do have (recognized) ethics, but those ethics are optional, definitely not part of becoming a professional (because the field is informal and without licenses and too young to have that), and participation in profession has nothing to do with moral awareness or stance.

"They are a set of ethics that is universal to a population of professionals. They are not an opinion an individual has, they are facts –" -- this is an extreme position, said with high conviction that it's the only one.

"Professional ethics are codified, and because they are codified, they can be enforced. Indeed, professional ethics are codified so that they can be enforced." - this person likes to put a lof ot tough words in bold. Again, this is so myopic I don't even know what to say. So many of the ethical consideration in some professions goes way beyond enforcable issues, or even hints of admonition. A psychoterapist especially should know better. This is where i detect an ego-driven agenda.

"People who program for a living trend hard to the libertarian and want not to be subject to the government." - that's a strong political bias right there,and definitely on the militaristic end. You will do what (y)our country tells you or else! That's high ego, and arrogance, at once. And in the next sentence...

"People who program for a living trend hard to the libertarian and want not to be subject to the government. That's fine. But then you can't have professional ethics." - oh my lord, will you stop :) How many more times will this person highlight that THEY KNOW BETTER and the reader DOES NOT and SHOULD BETTER START CHANGING THEIR MIND :)
Twitter to limit Direct Messages by non-paying users
The French would claim the enlightenment, the republic, Voltaire, Rousseau, Sartre. Basically how societies around the world are organized and the modern way of giving meaning to life.

You might say those are a different categorie of things, and they would say it is a more important category of things and it therefore demonstrates French exceptionalism. Countries tend to demonstrate their exceptionalism on metrics they are good at.

(btw, the French list of inventions is actually quite long too. Bicycles, cars, airplanes, submarines. In fact, many of the things Americans and English also claim to have invented. Like Americans have the atom bomb, the French have radioactivity. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_inventions_an... )
There is no key in chrome, the signing is done via a 3rd party server.
In addition to the bullwhip effect, and the unwinding of stockpiling, there's probably some real reduction of demand, and that's probably mostly from China's failure to bounce back to pre-covid GDP.
wrt 1., there are an unfortunate number of cranks for every discipline. It would be funny to see journos publish the emails that every faculty member who releases their email in the university phonebook gets as Serious Disagreement* though.
David Attenborough was another skeptic, but he was eventually convinced by the weight of evidence.
Perhaps we should praise them for being willing to change their minds when so few people seem able to.
Then you'll need a bunch of hummingbirds to eat all the spiders.

Then cats to eat the hummingbirds.

Then wolves to eat the cats.
Are you a southerner?

It's England. If you cancel plans because it's raining, you won't do anything.

Plus the weather will have changed next week anyway.
I'm not a fan of the current president either, but that's pretty dark.
At least for llama.cpp users, this recently introduced PR -- https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/1773 -- introducing grammar-based sampling could potentially improve structural reliability of LLaMA output. They provide an example JSON grammar as well.
> I've been working with Linux in one form or another for 30 years now! I almost can't believe it's been that long.

Congrats on that personal milestone! Quite amazing for something community-developed and supported throughout several generations of hardware and changing technologies!

> Though I haven't used Slackware since the late 90's, I might take another look.
I would encourage it! The latest stable 15.0 release has pipewire and many other modern improvements, and I have been using the -current rolling release on my desktop PC without any hiccups since early 2022!
> "Gefährliches Halbwissen"

My English version: Articulate idiots.
Sure, but usually you develop an interface to your service/code, and they shouldn't have to know the internals.

If they have to look at your code to figure out how to use it, you've already lost. Hence the code isn't the product, it's the means.
> This statement and general belief is antithetical to science.

No, it's not. 99% of the population doesn't have the cognitive ability to independently verify whether a scientific publishing has had rigorous checks on its scientific method and methodologies and samples were selected appropriately.

In this scenario, you should trust the science and/or experts, unless other experts have verified that the findings are garbage and/or something was fabricated.

What's really antithetical to science is when people present sources as having equal weights.

Joe Rogan vs Meta-analysis of 30 studies does not have the same weight.
Believe it or not, the book actual got more heavy handed towards the end, presumably as Rand realized her publisher wasn't going to accept another 1000 pages.
Pivoting from virtual reality to credit cards (YC Office Hours)
First episode of a new YC video series shares some of the most interesting startup pivots including the original startup ideas of Brex, GOAT and GoCardless.
Road rage between cyclists definitely still exists, and personally I can recall a few incidents (of my entire life) that might count as road rage between pedestrians. I think this is all proportional to how to can intimidate people with tool you have; motor vehicles are much more powerful so people become much more entitled.
How did she get diagnosed anyway? I thought adherents to this personality deny any weakness.
Forget gTLD, Google has their own TLD (1)

(1) https://blog.google/
Gary Stevenson was surprised no one wanted to publish his article. They already had an economist one said. He argued he could walk into large financial institutions and they would immediately hire him for millions, the staff economy writer wouldn't make it past the reception - but he should be the one to write all of the articles to inform the public?
Us-West-1: The Flagship AWS Region That Isn’t
Well, technically my neighbor who was a CS prof. helped me out and I was 12 years old so I can't really elaborate a lot. He really wanted me to use Linux and gave me that laptop and I started programming in Perl and C - just tiny programs and learned the basics of Linux. I remember him helping me out with the install and it took quite some time but that's all I really can say about it.

Honestly, now that I think about it, it might have been a 386 but I was entirely sure it wasn't. Memories are weird.
Pure BS.

The main problem with making optics for telescopes, and especially for large and/or space telescopes is precision.

It is hard enough to grind something to a precise shape when that shape is a smooth surface. Forget about making precise fresnel lens that has extremely complex shape that relies on very precise smooth surfaces right next to very sharp discontinuities, that is not going to happen.

Another problem is that you don't really ever want lenses for a high power telescope. Lenses cause optical aberration -- and once light rays of different colors go each their own way it is pretty much impossible to put them back precisely enough for the kind of telescope you would want to shoot into space.

The article sounds like a third grader got interested in astronomy and suddenly discovered fresnel. Do you think NASA somehow overlooked an obvious solution to all their problems that has been known for hundreds of years to everybody else?
big oil: yes we love this keep going
I've wondered the same thing. It's really hard to distinguish real grass roots from astroturf.

It doesn't bother me. It's fine if the contrast between these films has just sparked off people's imaginations. But if there is some clever operation 'seeding' the memes and articles, I hope we get to hear about it some day.
Performance and bugs are product features, not code features.

Who cares if it slows down feature development if you never have to change it. If it does impact the product, it then becomes part of the product value you're delivering. This is the time you should be investing in better code.
Supposedly it was the largest size the French contingent to the standards committee would accept. They wanted a very small sample size to reduce the need for echo cancellation in their network.
> a scathing critique of my local town's property tax implementation

Woof. Is it hot in here??
I managed to get in enough trouble with dial-up accounts (sorry, Undernet admins), that I knew not to mess around when I got cable internet. And then when I went away to college, I swore off IRC to stay out of trouble.
Who is Audrey and how did she hurt this person?
> The author explains that professional licensure is for prohibiting negative behavior, not for advocating standards or best-practices.

Or for artificially limiting new entries into the profession through testing quotas, training program costs/length requirements and so on
Superforecasteritis is the new Nobelitis.
You didn't know it because it isn't true:
https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/raw-milk-....
I used minizinc to try and generate levels for my puzzle game by encoding the rules.

It worked quite well for the more trivial rules, but as I added more complex rules, it wouldn't solve within reasonable time.

Unfortunately I didn't really figure out how to direct the solver in way that would speed up things.
Borderline Personality Disorder isn't a "lived experience," it's a diagnosis. People may label you, but you are not your labels.
How can we measure the gravitational field of such a distant object?
Does anyone know Japanese well enough to comment on the output from the Japanese example?
Yup, good code helps to deliver a good product, but you should not focus on the code, rather focus on how the code influences the product.

Better to have hacky code that delivers value than to deliver nothing.
A disadvantage of CO2 as a refrigerant is the operating pressure required, much higher than CFC or HFC type refrigerants. This is probably not a big issue for industrial applications but for home and auto use it will probably affect cost and/or reliability.
The phrase "is not likely" imo should have been substituted for "is not plausible", though I am not sure everyone else interprets the phrase "not plausible" as meaning something like "almost certainly not true"; they could have meant it as, something like, "the least likely of all the possibilities, by a fair margin." Sure, I'd have preferred if they had been explicit, by giving their estimate of the probability of each possibility explicitly.
> Apple is so far ahead, conceptually

I'm curious what you mean by this.
There already are SD plugins for Krita, Photoshop, GIMP and Blender.
Then we can use LLMs benchmarks to benchmark freedom of speech.
Unreal Tournament (99 / GOTY Edition)

I was ~6 years old, when I played the demo version. Earlier, I had played Q2, (maybe Q3 demo?!), Tiberian Sun, Red Alert before and couple of simpler games and demos.

Unreal Tournament demo had like ~4-5 Deathmatch/Team Deathmatch maps, 1 Capture the Flag (infinite gameplay for me at that age on CTF-Face (Facing Worlds) :D ), maybe 1 Assault map, but not sure.

The motor, feeling, control, sounds, music were just pure awesome. Sniper headshots, jumps, tricks, extremely competitive feeling, double kill, triple kill, ultrakill, mo-mo-mo-mo-monsterkill... :D

Then the Game of The Years version was a Christmas present for me, I still remember the smell and the feeling. I could not try it out for a bit, so I was reading the (Hungarian! :D) manual back and forth. The GOTY version had extra weapons, maps, skins, goodies.

Later, internet was slow, but mods and couple servers were just awesome.

I want to go back! :D

Unfortunately it is impossible.
Partially due to the missing scene, partially because I get frustrated, when I realize that my muscle memory (aiming) is totally broken and I cant hit shit, even if I truly see and feel, that I hit. :D

Back then, I did not even see if I hit, I just knew. And I truly hit. Wtf, it's gone. :D

Nowdays the only maps I play are TS/Expo/mobx-keystone. :)
Wouldn't that mean that Galileo and Newton's discoveries would have had little to no impact?

For modern endeavors, it's hard to see how anybody who didn't have a detailed education in the subject could really contribute in a useful way to debunking junk science. I can see this happening for papers that can be dismissed outright because the authors made egregious errors in the study design or data collection (where data scientists/statisticians who don't work in the field can still be very useful), but for most modern physics or medical research, there are literally hundreds of years of well-established theory and practice that you absolutely need to know before dismissing ideas that don't make sense.

This is especially important in areas like infectious disease.
Well, I think "IMAX with Laser" is 4K.

https://www.imax.com/news/imax-laser-here
Audrey II is the carnivorous plant from the musical the article’s title references.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0091419/characters/nm0835925
Strictly speaking you are right, but people commonly use "illegal" as "in violation of international treaties". Since there's no super-national sovereign to enforce those, it's not the same sort of illegal as we usually mean, but it is functionally close.

That said, from what I understand, ccTLDs are owned by countries they are allocated to (maybe with some corner cases, but irrelevant here), so Mali is certainly not doing anything wrong even in the above "legal" sense by asserting their ownership.
Unfortunately, there is no "turned out to be autism", just as there is no "turned out to be BPD".

We don't have affirmative biomedical tests for these conditions. Until we do, they are just constellations - funny imagined shapes - that we're drawing in a galaxy of traits on display in that person's life. Your picture of a "tree" overlaps about 30% with my picture of a "mushroom". But it's not the case that "First it was identified as a tree but later turned out to be a mushroom".

We pretend that these things are distinct biomedical disorders because it makes it easier to talk about them, easier not to literally murder the person displaying them, and (bizarrely) because it's legally required to classify them in order to bill a therapist/psychiatrist for their treatment, but in reality they're parts of a maladaptive personality that just look very roughly similar to other maladaptive personalities we've seen in the past.
Not just being able to change their minds but also to speak about it publicly. I'm sure plenty more have changed their minds but are afraid to speak up because they're afraid it will ding their popularity or cost them votes.
> imagine a system where you could use a private key to sign things

This is how things work now, the issue is that most (if not all) of existing AP software the server is generating and abstracting the keys away from the users. But (in theory) there is nothing stopping a system where the server (e.g, mastodon.example.com) works for clients (actor in AP vocabulary) with a different domain, and requesting the actor to sign the messages before accepting in the inbox.
But it is a jump. And each jump means fewer people working in the industry, and more of the work that exists going to less experienced workers.
Bronze age collapse wasn't exactly great though.
I assume that’s a T1 dig? It worked quite well for the intended purpose - carrying voice traffic.
I have met several paleontologists and no one were able to fossilize properly. There are a lot of fake experts in science, it seems.
Violet ray, a medical device used during the 20th century in electrotherapy
I don't think it's sailed. I think the classes of people that feel like they're falling behind resent success. It doesn't matter where that success comes from. The solution isn't to try to disarm the agitated language. The solution is to help the losers succeed, too.
To anyone who's quit social media: how? I find that whenever I try, I always end up re-downloading Instagram, going back to Reddit, or browsing HN...
Okay, so you're not saying that we're going to lose the ability to use another browser, just that the other browsers might not be good for much.

I think the comment you originally replied to is trying to say "use the other browsers, even if they are not good for much".
Sure it would. Make managers accountable for their employees.

I always took that approach, and worked for a Japanese company, and they ran that way.
Electrolytic capacitors: overview, teardown and experiments [video]
> If you know that code will be extended to accept additional fields

Well, you rarely know, more often "guess".

There's an important distinction between public and private interfaces. With public interfaces, I contend that it does make sense to think about future use cases and put in some flexibility even at the cost of a small overhead.
Can't believe I missed the reference. Thank you.
This is me as well, im excited to know there is a whole solution in one. Ive run them here and there to experiment, but for my needs i still use Debian. I feel Debian gives me some of the BSD vibe, but i still enjoy reading about all the new features the BSDs bring each release. Hope one day they catch up to what my linux box does, so i can enjoy it more.
Not sure about the exact percentage, but are there any other image generators that can be run locally and have no censorship?
I used Juul for a year, then quit for about 5 months before vaping again for a couple months. During that time of relapse, I used disposable* vapes from Elf Bar. FWIW, Juul is so much better in terms of quality versus these imported disposable vapes. Elf Bars were easier to quit because they were so gross and obviously bad for you. Juul seemed to be healthier (as far as salt-nic vapes go in that regard). Feelings about which one of these approaches should prevail are conflicting. One is objectively worse for you and easier to quit, while the other is not as bad but harder to quit.
Remember that database rights are a thing.

One cannot hold copyright facts, but one can "copyright" a collection of facts like a search index or a map.
The only constraints on behavior should be literal harm.

We keep trying the “strive for correct personality”; serf, slave, worker, and just end up with with ossified thinkers and banal brinksmanship; ho shit! he broke character! get ‘im!

Put automation to getting bulk materials to stores and let locals “job” be crafting their personal kit.

We’re just enabling rent seekers allowing the professional packaging industry buy up resources to sell us in cute cardboard boxes for high markup so their kids can play Xbox all day

We tried globalism and all these things to try and open the world and “free minds” and we’ve just created an on rails path to ecological collapse.

Longtermism is just religion trying to sound secular.

Like we all said during Oceangate; there’s no escaping physics. Even if we reverse aging … enjoy cancer from wildfire smoke.

This is just puerile madness at this point; adults pouting their mom and dad lied to them.

We are all feeling guilty for all the literal harm and know the only real outcome is at best a massive die off, if not outright end of species.

We’re well into “War is peace” level of delusion.

The best path is intentionally reverse growing, and see what happens.
Yes - it's mentioned, but doesn't the framing below make it sound like they're still advocating for this paper?

> In essence, it's advisable to take the paper’s reported figures with a grain of salt, particularly as they cannot be precisely reproduced as described. Nonetheless, this approach continues to deliver unexpectedly well.

A "grain of salt" is different from "critical evaluation flaw," and if the reproduction's results are true, then the method doesn't after all "deliver unexpectedly well".
I have often asserted that one of the reasons the lab leak hypothesis has so much backing in the wider press vs. most epidemiologists and virologists I know is that it moves the pandemic back into a realm in which they are experts.

Nate Silver is much more comfortable asserting his opinion about this than I am, because, as an infectious disease epidemiologist who primarily focuses on the stochastics of disease emergence and disease extinction, my expertise is a good two weeks after when either a zoonotic jump or a lab leak would take place. Take that for what you will.