skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely agree that looks play a role in how our lives can play out, our (and more broadly between men and women) disagreement is to what extent they play a role and consequently to what extent someone should care about their own looks.

I also agree that certain occupations will no doubt place additional biases concerning one's looks. Anyone in the service industry will likely find themselves performing better if they satisfy a certain standard of appearance, in addition to things like mannerism and personality.

But we are talking within the context of the tech industry, the jobs of which often find us staring at monitors and screens and clacking away on keyboards more than we do staring at each other. What we can achieve with our craft plays a bigger role than what we look like, here. One's looks has no bearing upon the quality of the code we write, after all, for example.

>I note that this thread started out with a comparison of astrology to racism, and everybody seemed to buy into that.

I actually disagree with that comparison because I want to believe words still hold meaning.

Racism is discrimination, and astrology used as a way to judge someone is also discrimination. Discrimination is never okay. But to call astrology racism only demonstrates one's lack of linguistic understanding.

We would also ignore how astrology by itself is just another fun pastime. Making fun of someone who's engaging in astrology is bad because you're making fun of someone who's just enjoying their time. Both men and women would naturally lean towards not mingling with people who don't respect their time and passions.
That's a few minutes I'll never get back.

I assumed there was a bug in the spec or something, but no.
lol like it never ceases to amaze me how differently we are all wired up inside from each other. His perspective feels depressing and counter intuitive to my own yet I don’t doubt that inside of his head for him it feels so clearly right and true.

Their POV is sadly a common one, though to be fair existence can be scary plus psychedelics do have their own pants-shittingly frightening dangers, but what sucks is how this line of thought continues to prohibition and punishment of so called users to try and make sure that no one gets to have any cool psychedelic experiences.
The Day Oppenheimer Feared He Might Blow Up the World
I think Elon is a bit misguided, especially in his business ventures in the UK. For instance, it seems egregious to most people that Elon expects people to pay £100 a year for a social media site in the midst of a Cost of Living crisis.

Personally, I don't see what the hype is around Elon. I think he's done good things, but in other ways he's not a very good businessman.
Have you considered that some people may be unable to do so without losing their job?
Eg. by changing PT_INTERP to something else than usual (or dispensing with it, so the binary becomes a static one, still displaying DT_NEEDED), or exploiting bugs in ld.so, so the values shown by readelf become meaningless.

I'm also not entirely sure that readelf/binutils was reviewed from sec-perspective, it might not be out of the question that readelf might show things which are then interpreted differently by either kernel (loading a basic static bin or ld.so/interpreter) or by ld.so itself.
Reminds me of Yahoo! circa 2013, with the CEO deciding that of all the problems, the logo was the one to fix. Competition held, CEO's design won.
> Also Asia always was and to my knowledge still is using a lot of IE - not sure about the reason why.

ActiveX saw much heavier use in those markets than the US & Europe. Other parts to the east too. Partly this is because of language issues (terrible non-latin writing support and such in browser-native options), partly because of requirements set down in local government and/or bank policies (South Korea being the most significant example here, but not the only one) because of security concerns.

Early on trying to enforce the security requirements those governments/banks needed required running native code (remember that there was a US export ban on encryption supporting keys longer than 40 bits so relying on browser-only code communicating over HTTPS transport was dubious) and the options where ActiveX or Java. Largely because ActiveX was built-in to a browser, and partly because Java has a reputation for being heavier in terms of client system requirements, ActiveX often won over Java.

While most of those forces have ceased to be, or are at least greatly reduced, for a long time they created significant friction for moving away from IE in those areas. Once an option is as entrenched as IE became in some of those locations, it takes a long time for other options to be considered at all viable – there is a lot of momentum that they have to try arrest.
Yes because on a Twitter style platform it is those core influencers that are important to the growth and health of the overall network. It is not the random guy with 100 followers, no qualifications, life experience or expertise.

And the point of the original verification system was to make sure you can trust what that person is saying especially in volatile situations e.g. during a crisis where Twitter's role was so influential and important.
Because like it or not (good idea or not) people have come to rely on it for important things, news and journalism particularly
Someone dies, someone gets a fine, all good now, let the free market train continue.
They said 70 million Americans check their horoscope

I’d like to see that broken down by age group, but if 20% of your population is doing something, that’s not the same as saying "I saw two people tweet about it" or whatever.
Brand value doesn't exist. Services and products do.
I assume you need to use 1Password 8 in order for this to work? I "downgraded" (it felt much more like an upgrade) back to 1Password 7 and at the moment, I feel like I'd rather switch apps than go back to 1P8.
"yet you participate in society. curious!"

I wouldn't trust claims about ending world hunger from VC/cryptobros/AI hype expertes/etc.
Beautiful resources. Thank you!
>Competition held, CEO's design won.

why even put up the facade at that point?
Ah gotcha, that's fair.
whats with the crazy links? why not link to the product page directly?

I only get a blank window after clicking on any suggested product, the address bar of which tells me I just a bunch of data to you.
At least religions bother making their false predictions untestable. How do you fall for something that proves itself wrong every day?
The whole point of sarcasm is to say something you don't mean, and people who know you or other facts well enough, can get a dopamine hit for being able to infer that. It's just an ingroup/bonding thing and carries no information or value outside of that. At any rate, adding a /s is like saying "just being sarcastic", might as well not be sarcastic in the first place.
So, like any and all of the top websites?
I did this too in response to the doge, but now i want the twitter logo. I very nearly copy+pasted the svg but I ended up hard-refreshing twitter and losing it :(
US milk producers also refused to pasteurize for decades after some European countries started, only because it would slightly decrease their profits. So they put formaldehyde and other stuff in it instead.
Unquestionable economic success. It was extremely profitable because it caused someone to buy the company for $44 billion.
I went through some notes and will just dumb more links here.

- https://www.eff.org/

- https://ssd.eff.org/

- https://www.wilderssecurity.com/

- https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Security

- https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Category:Security
A lot of anti vaxxers seem to advertise themselves as Christian. I think the actual problem (when it comes to anti vaxx, incels, and similar cults) is the internet unfortunately.
> people turned wearing masks into a ridiculous political issue.

In my country, “wear masks because we say so, else you are an idiot” came just after “people who buy masks are selfish baboons because masks are not useful at all.”

When you treat citizens like idiots, or threaten them, it usually becomes a “political” issue at some point.

It would be better to have a more coherent communication strategy ready for the next time. It would also be great to have literate leaders in charge, something we sorely lacked over here.
Belief in astrology looks a lot like the personifying animals or anthropomorphizing of inert items. Maybe the toaster hates you, or maybe it's just faulty and confirmation bias is strong.

Belief in astrology puts words to the chaos and randomness of life. There's something very human about how we try to add life and agency to everything: mother earth, ghosts, forests, grumpy co-workers, broken toasters, and the actions of those around us that don't make sense. We try to breathe life and meaning into everything. That's why I don't get too keyed up about it. I think plenty of people "believe" in astrology about as much as they believe the toaster hates them, which is probably quite a bit.

We have to remember, as STEM people we have to see the world exactly as it is, without any superstition or mystery. But the average person has the ability to live in a world filled with mystery and magic that is backed by a lifetime of confirmation bias.
A GPT-4 capability forecasting challenge
The UI is garbage. It's like GIMP. I'm more than happy to pay for software especially when it has a well designed (user first) UI. It is not only the UI, it is the UX generally. It's weird and nerdy and thinks it must be "better" somehow.
This is the mechanical progression for risc-v: legacy support.

The real future is riscv64 assembly written software with a very conservative usage of a preprocessor (or we will end up with c++ syntax grade preprocessing), and software written with very high level languages which interpreters are written in riscv64 assembly with a very conservative usage of a preprocessor (python? javascript? etc). That because risc-v is meant to be the CPU ISA standard.

I really hope risc-v will be a success.
If you are going to post comments like that you need to post evidence, otherwise its just a cheap attempt to poison the waters.
If an HN comment is how a female software dev learned that hot people are treated better, then this is the easiest way to learn that lesson and they should say thank you. But this “think of the women!” hall monitoring has to be worse than whatever violation against women you thought you read in this thread. Are you sure this imaginary audience of female software devs isn’t made uncomfortable by your sort of comment about how we can’t even talk casually about human experience lest they feel uncomfy on HN?
Apology Simulator
I'm sharing this because (a) I'm toasted, and (b) Matt's my first best friend forever since 1st grade, and (c) this has incredibly never shown up here on HN, and it's both disturbing and illuminating; it's a rough diamond and a masterful display of how a video game can and should be a work of art that makes you think. In short, brilliant.

If you think this is neat and you haven't played "Eliza", you should.
This is an interesting case of ignoring Twitter's second biggest market - Twitter Japan can't be called X Japan because that's already the name of the most famous rock band in the country.
> Struggling to figure out what "cloud native" actually means.

Same as "web scale" and "big data".
What's with the BBC's childish description of Elon Musk as "The billionaire"?
I think he is trying out the corporate version of Tr*mpism.

So-called "Informed" people will yell and frown, but are those the important ones And how serious is the yelling?

And is the attention he accumulates really what counts?
the weirdest thing about x logo is that it barely has any "volume" of sorts. It's just three very thin lines (and two very tiny ones which I disregard) stylized as letter x.

I use twitter every day but don't really care about this rebranding. I see arguments why it's bad and those are really valid arguments but personally it doesn't concern me at all
> why on earth were you trying to sign up with an email containing a plus?

Because it's a perfectly valid character in the local part[0] of the email address?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Local-part
Sorry, but I don’t see where it says he has to respond to a woman’s nonsense flirtatious mysticism by lowering his own standard for discourse down to her level. He does not have to tolerate her magical thinking.

I think he drew an interesting correlation between racism and her astrological beliefs that she likely has never heard before, and perhaps will give her some much needed introspection. That is a far more meaningful outcome than whatever else their conversation about astrological signs could have had.
What is the context of the last paragraph by Carl Szabo from NetChoice

He said that if the bill is enacted all reporting by social media sites “would be subjected to Fourth Amendment processes, and it will actually become harder for law enforcement to identify these threats."

We had the same debate when they were thinking about pulling down backpages in that if it is out in the open it is easy for LEOs to find and bring justice to bear unlike something not happening out in the open.

Would that mean there would have to be a process of SM account take downs that goes through the courts via 4th Amendment?
I had a good friend in college who started doing psychedelics. He talked extensively about the positive effects of them and how much better he felt. At around the same time, he dropped out of school and cut family ties. He talked about connecting with God and having the sort of religious awakening thing other people talk about

My experience was pretty different: I didn't have any sort of "connection with God" moment, but I did get a better idea of what my own purpose was in life and switched majors because of it

At the end of it I realized that doing them is fundamentally a selfish act because there's always a risk involved. Especially if you're an adult with responsibilities and dependents. Consistency isn't a bad thing, especially when people are depending on you
Meh, that would be more with XXX imo. Just X doesn't make me think of porn personally
I'm getting strong Putin Z vibes.
I don’t see anywhere that lists them as a Catholic organization. They seem to sponsor papers that are at the “intersection of science and religion” which is a fairly broad category. The founder himself was a Presbyterian, so I don’t know why his foundation would be Catholic. They also seem to have sponsored Buddhists, Hindus, and many other religious groups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Templeton_Foundation
How does this work in winter though, wouldn't the same effect make it harder to heat the space?
> "how should we call tweets and retweets now"

Equis and Dos Equis, maybe?
No true draftsman
There could be a whole course on the fall of Twitter. Musk has also wiped out 50%+ of the company value, which for a company of that size is wild. There's also the psychological side to study. Like/dislike Musk, he's done great with Tesla. Whatever skill(s) he has there has not transferred to Twitter.
It's just Elon Musk being Elon Musk with all his usual shenanigans.

I think it's just a game for him.
What does “X” have to do with Twitter? X.com was supposed to be his “everything app”. Maybe Twitter will redirect to X.com down the line?
I don't have any problem with having amendments protecting our rights, though I my opinion they are meant to be moral declarations rather than defining the limit of our rights.

It's similar for limiting government. Our original designin the US was that the government only has the powers expli itly given to it by the people. We can have laws limiting the government, but again those are really just moral stances because the government should default to having no power.

We lost this somewhere along the way, slipping to a point where it's commonplace for the government to claim to have authority we never gave it while we look for laws that grant us our freedoms rather than fight against laws that limit them.
Maybe some packages may need special attention, like various language runtimes and browsers that normally do JIT compilation to the target architecture. I guess some of these might work in interpreted mode, but not as efficiently.
Beautiful and fascinating, and many other projects on her retrocomputing page. And the UI uses Tk (via Tkinter): heart_emoji.
> It's just one childish rich dude with no adults in the room, case closed.

He didn’t do it all with his own money, he took equity investments and debt. A bunch of people had to sign off on this trainwreck, including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays, a16z, and Sequoia.
As a Capricorn, I definitely would!
The other day I went with my family to an old pyrite mine which is now a tourist spot.

We were greeted by a stand with crystals with supposedly miraculous properties.

What was the only miraculous thing to me was the type of poker face the seller had when explaining the details of his products' properties.

I can't hope to ever reach this level of, ahem, professionalism.
Usually when people feel like this, it is because the text has been generated by a LLM.
There are companies that weaponize the use of tracking to the point that just a visit from your IP address can result in leadgen.

For instance Lead Forensics, but there are others in this space as well.
Car manufacturers can't make enough EVs to keep up with demand, so you might not be talking to the right people.
Ask HN: What's the ELI5 Reddit equivalent of Hacker News?
ELI5 is Explain like I'm Five - one of the most popular subreddits. Is there something like this on HN, too?
One of my favourite books is Huysman’s Against Nature, where the anti-hero protagonist has a fascination with these paintings. Oscar Wilde used that book as the inspiration for the book that corrupts Dorian in The Picture of Dorian Grey. Against Nature is a short, but fascinating read. Would recommend!
Was your point that you agree with me? If not, I don't get it.
Surely just taking that not-a-real-job did that?
There comes times that you need to put your own principles aside for the good of yourself and for the other person, and forget trying to be "correct" all the time. Life gets a lot better when you realize that you probably can't, and shouldn't, try to change people's minds.
That depends more on the producer than the store. Try buying Assassin’s Creed II or any later AC games without DRM.
Example? Who are these people forced to use Twitter?
Nope. It's not really vague at all, and is quite clear in the law in several places.

You can keep data in your servers without consent if that data is there to serve the interests of user. In this case, the interest of the user is getting access to the games they purchased and paid for (!!!). This is called "legitimate interest".

A company can keep the address and phone of their customers if they're providing services that require address and phone. Package delivers don't even have to ask for consent to deliver a package to someone, for example. If you need email to guarantee that the user can access the games, it's fine to keep it. The law is not as stupid as Silicon Valley tries to paint it.

I'm pretty certain that Ubisoft is breaking GDPR and other similar laws in several places, but "keeping data to provide a service" is the one place they're not.
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As a former DBLabs employee, laughing at this was a positive.
Apple has a somewhat proven track record on privacy (if only because it's one of their biggest selling points)

Sam Altman has a track record of saying we should protect hate speech otherwise the Bay Area is worse than China.
Or as LaTeX calls it, \mathbb{X}
> Virtual Machine Manager

Do you mean Red Hat's Virtual Machine Manager, AKA virt-manager (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virt-manager), or Microsoft's Virtual Machine Manager (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/vmm/?view=sc...), or Synology's Virtual Machine Manager (https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/virtual_machi...)? I'm guessing the first one?

I use VirtualBox for trying things out or sandboxing, mainly because of the friendly GUI, but wouldn't mind switching to something as friendly that's not Oracle's.
"There is little scientific evidence..."

Yep. I'd be surprised if there's any!

Still a fun icebreaker.
How comprehensive was your search?

https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1683289016723202050
Maxwell Silver Hammer is irredeemable, he's right.
> it doesn't know if it's supposed to guess a probable word from a Wikipedia article, an Onion article, a Project Gutenberg manuscript, or an Archive Of Our Own fanfic. So you get a bit of all that.

This is true of base LLM models that are just trained on missing-word prediction on the training corpus, but one of the main points of RLHF[1] is to tune this model to make these kind of inferences the way a human would expect. For example if you asked an untuned model to write a poem in the style of ... etc., a valid internet response might be "hmm no thanks, you go first", you need to steer the model away from replying like this.

I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's wrong to say e.g. GPT-4 has had no information about the difference between a good and bad response and is just generating internet-like text at random, the big players have made progress on this already.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning_from_hu...
Thanks for the note! This is helpful to know.
That's a very large gamble for something that the twitter bird already accomplished. At least Meta kept the name Facebook as a brand and used a different sites entirely when it wanted to experiment with a new formet.

But him having that idea for so long explains a lot. He is very clearly stuck in the 90's/00's "extreme/radical" days if he is that beholden to having the name "X" somewhere in his portfolio. way before you consider factors like search ability and SEO and general professional communication on the internet. But I'm not surprised he didn't keep up with the times.
Is it not rational to partake in activities which make one feel good?
> ...near-libelous portrayal of him

Is it libelous or true? Are you assuming?

You have to realize this is a person who was mythologized. A person who millions believe is the best fighter ever despite never having been put to the test. A great person who accomplished a lot, but reality never quite matches up with perception of the masses.
I mean, we probably could extract industrially useful chlorine and sodium from it, if sodium batteries ever actually take off as a lithium replacement that could be extremely viable.
Interesting that he seems so set on X then. I don't think they'll be able to pull this off - it could work but X is too overloaded for it to be associated mainly with Twitter. I don't think they have the reach to make this work
> because then you can keep your interests separate from your job

Interesting! I never made that connection but now that you mention it it is obvious. Thanks.
You're just a victim of the sunk-cost fallacy.
Do you have good examples of where this knowledge is on yt?

When I want to learn something like a woodworking technique video does help immensely to see someone do the physical thing they describe with the materials to get a level of understanding. Like oh that's how you position the wood on a jig to use your table saw like a jointer (an expensive tool I don't have). Rarely do I need to see the person/tools in play for anything software related.

Text is king for me when learning things regarding computers. Granted I learned CS the old fashioned way, in a lecture hall before google existed. I imagine for beginners maybe getting down early concepts is easier with video?
Well, what do you make with people who go to church every week? That's a hell lot of people. And you certainly have your own set of beliefs that are also well beyond rationality. You would be better inspired to let them have their fun with what they want to believe.