skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why would you actively choose a position that would be considered anti-social instead of a position that would be considered pro-social if they have the same objective grounding?

Because one positions imposes significant costs and restrictions, leaving your life significantly worse off.

Paying taxes to support the welfare of others is pro-social, but it means that I am laboring twice as much, instead of relaxing with my friends an family. It means that I am paying for the children of others using resources I would rather devote to my children. Why should I sacrifice my wellbeing for someone I don't know, and might not even like if I met them.

Many behaviors that fall under the Pro-social labor hurt the individual and benefit others.

If they are actually beneficial to the individual, they wouldn't need to be compulsory or the pro-social rhetoric.
During a gold rush, sell shovels.

When was the last time you spoke to a chatbot?
> Send Newsletters

> Keep your readers engaged with our newsletter feature.

Can you elaborate on the newsletter feature? Can I e.g. prepare custom content and send any number of emails at any time? Or is this more like an automatic notification after a new post is published?
Man people here are really entitled and mean. I am interested since I am considering rolling my own but this cheap price could be worth it for me.

Just a few questions that the website really doesn't answer:

1. How do I write posts? Is it in markdown?

2. Can I export my data if I want to move to another platform in the future?

3. Where is it hosted?
I'm not a physicist, but in terms of capturing the magic of science for the general public, I would nominate Neil deGrasse Tyson. He (and Carl Sagan before him) tremendously furthered understanding of the scientific method and its results.
I don't know about "per-capita harm" but based on some loose research and opinions of doctors, alcohol is overwhelmingly more harmful overall (to self and to society) than anything else. The next drug on the list is heroin but it's not even close, followed closely by crack, and then crystal meth is an extremely distant fourth place followed by cocaine. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/206300#2
Who exactly do you trust. Seems like none of the big tech companies provide much customer service
Well the old famous pizza places are not accessible in the slightest. Basically anything super freaking old is a lost cause unless you magically have room to make the bathrooms bigger or put an extension on the storefront, etc. I'm from the South, and it also shocked me how cars in Chicago would basically inch directly up to where you're walking, like they're just gonna run over you if you stopped, even if pedestrians technically have the green to cross. And they could see we were going slower because we're pushing a wheelchair! People talk crap on the South and how we drive, but at least we usually slow down when someone is crossing. (I can't vouch for Florida, but most of Florida doesn't count as Southern anyway.)

It's easy to take the braille in elevators or lights on fire alarms for granted, but thanks for pointing out how good it is that we have them.
@AlexBlechman on TwiX had this tweet some years ago:

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
> We are not competing with sites such as gist, or sites such as rosettacode.org, esolangs.org, or helloworldcollection.de, where code snippets are collected either to share them quickly with others or around a specific theme in different programming languages.

https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:What_Wikifu...
I hate this comment because it describes my workplace to a T. It's scary how accurate it is.

So many fragile egos in high authority positions who can't admit they made a terrible decision 3 years ago and are still in denial and doubling down on it.

shudders
Work on my MVP and travel to extend burn rate. My employer will be myself.

Another reason I don’t want to be in management. Email and Slack ruin your life.
We should ask, when will AI make a discovery on its own? For instance, computers should be able to understand numbers, and run analysis on numbers. Computers have complete access to every fact that humans know about numbers. So numbers should be the first place that we should expect to see genuine innovation from AI. This is a simple test for the moment that AI is able to make original contributions to our society: when can AI come up with a new thesis about numbers, and then build an original proof, something that can be published in the major, peer-reviewed math journals.

Until AI can do that, we have to admit that it's not really aware or sentient or any of the other more ambitious things that have recently been claimed for it.

Can AI teach us anything new about the pattern of prime numbers?

Can AI develop an original proof for the shape of shadows in high dimensional spaces?

Can AI creatively prove a new limit to mathematics?

There are 2 researchers in AI who deserve more attention: Kenneth O. Stanley and Joel Lehman. They wrote a great book: Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned. They look at the limits of utility functions and explain the importance of novelty. As an antidote to some of the hype around AI, I strongly recommend this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Greatness-Cannot-Planned-Objectiv...
EDIT: They seem to be in a raising fund / debt stage. Great initiative
This is back from Mountain Lion, so Not sure if this is still the case, but you can set it to only appear after say 1000 seconds...

defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 1000 && killall Dock

to reset

defaults delete com.apple.Dock autohide-delay && killall Dock

https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/09/how-to-disable-the-doc...
I'm curious, what do you use to navigate between applications if you hide the dock?
The Gorilla web toolkit project has a new group of Core Maintainers
If you live some place with a winter, you will have a barren patch of dirt then. If you live somewhere with a long, cold, wet fall or early spring, then you hill have a tiny field of mud for the local animals to wallow in.

If you live within throwing distance of a neighbor who does not wish to have a lawn of dandelions, you will be a target of ill feelings for your invasive weed colony.

Lawn grasses have been selected to keep the ground covered and tolerate being walked on and played on. If you don't want to walk on or play on your yard, then there is a wide choice of ground cover that keeps the ground covered all year long and isn't a wildly airborne spreading invasive weed.
You really have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to call it a great success. I'd say it's actually a curious example of democracy failing miserably, and worth studying how to avoid that.
Enjoyed that excerpt. It is a pretty profound thing to think about, I can’t imagine actually experiencing that realization
If you liked war and peace, you should check out grossman’s life and fate, it’s WWII’s version, fantastic. And blacklisted by the soviet government because critical of it.
Each route is given an estimated time to complete. The postal worker is paid based on that time, not the actual time worked. If they take less time they go home early for the same pay, if they take longer...
There are plenty of managed Wordpress hosts that cost less than $29/yr, often including email too.
If you think thousands of people voluntarily getting iris scans that aren't stored anywhere is an insane dystopian nightmare, wait until you hear about the 1.3 billion people who were compelled to surrender their biometrics to the centralized, government-operated Aadhaar system.
Not to mention, San Francisco is not known for having cheap real estate, nor is it known for having cheap electricity. My last (residential) bill to PGE, I paid $0.50938/KWh at peak.
I did read it. To spell it out for you: Looking at the official records (which the NYT did - I did read the thing you cited) will severely underreport bike-pedestrian collisions and the resulting injuries because almost all of them are not handled through official accident reporting channels, so they don't get counted.

Like I said again, I have yet to see a credible study counting non-fatal injuries from bikes in the city. Someone could do this, for example, by randomly sampling ER patients to see how many were involved in bicycle-pedestrian crashes, but nobody has.

Also, that NYT article is almost a pro-bike op-ed in its tone, and I would suggest finding sources that at least sound a little more neutral on your issues of choice.
That would be my advice too. What was the point of “You don’t pay for what you don’t use” if nobody’s going to use it?
Somehow C++ (and now C) standardization very often ends up with constructs that require a lot of ugly hacks in the code that uses them.
hi, you seem keen to share something neat you took less than 10 minutes to implement, I'd love to see that?
> Most persons with disabilities the author pretended to have would have been able to navigate the situations the author encountered.

Care to elaborate? This very thread contains countless anecdotes affirming author's findings.
Putting greg rutkowski in a prompt produces compositions that have a fantasy/sci fi edge, more muted earth tones, areas of both clean and rough brush strokes and areas of large contrast with a tendency towards a central focus. It also makes for better dragons/castles/etc. Nothing magic.
Software issues. So, transitional in deployment at scale.

Golf Coast city council built an underground vacuum rubbish bin system and waited (I believe) 18 months or more for an engineer qualified to sign off on it and turn it on.

This is a glitch not a show stopper.
> You can be a baker and make the best cakes in the world, but if your shop is located in the wrong place (like a dark alley with no foot traffic) where no one knows it exists, your business can fail

Who's responsible for deciding where it's located? Maybe that person didn't work hard enough at thinking through the ramifications of their location. You can come up with a 1000 excuses but I guarantee the person more likely to succeed has answers for every one of them.

Not to say that luck doesn't come into play, but it's not the dominant factor and in a lot of cases can be worked around with hard work or extreme talent.
>This brush is just too darn broad.If you're gunnuh judge by flame wars, everyone is gunnuh come out smelling like poo.

I did warn beforhand. I agree judging an entire political paradigm based on its worst actors is pretty much the worst way to approach said paradigms. But at the same time that is unfortunately becoming more and more commonplace.

I'd need much more than 2 paragraphs if we want to fully dive into the psychology of the internet, anonymity, negativity bias, and modern discourse. Everyone does indeed smell like poo here, but the kinds of comments that lead to flame wars are rarely the perfectly civil technical answers.

>I also see this in lots of conversations that aren't political, so I think it's more of an online discourse thing. People get nasty to each other online.

It can certainly happen in places like media, yes. But oftentimes it comes from applying some political topic to what seems tame on the outside. That's how we got here, since talking about Walkability lead to talking about environmentalism. And next thing we know we have a person talking about slashing tires because a single commenter mentioned how they would have preferred using a car to carry groceries after their walk.
As I've said in a different reply, the KYS guy was definitely on drugs - his demeanor was abnormal even before he opened his mouth. And every city will have characters of that type. But the other people were just average run-of-the-mill folks from afar who decided to make her day worse.
I want a body cam that I wear and it transcribes into something searchable from things I did...

Basically like a gopro on steroids with searchable context - or even the ability for me to say outloud "KEEP A NOTE OF THIS" and it will keep a segment tagged and can give me summaries of moments I wanted particularly logged...

I applied to YC with an idea 'sorta' like this almost a decade ago.

The idea was to have a timeline of communications between all my contacts such that I could side-scroll a timeline with dots of actions such a "sent email" "made call" "sent text" received txt" and I could see all these in filters by contacts/day whatever...

This was pre-snowden, so I didnt have confirmation that there were already people doing this for me, just not letting me browse my own data ;-)
@tags are just one of many features, and the lack of a matching user on the import side isn't a critical issue: a link back to the original post instead suffices.

And regardless, Twitter-alikes aren't the only thing worth considering. Exporting all of one's video data from YouTube, or all of one's comments from Reddit, or all of one's search history (and Google Voice texts, and Docs documents, and etc.) from Google are all usecases that fall under these data moats that are useful to be able to take with you and move to another service. There's probably more usecases I'm not even thinking of, but the point is that by exposing all the data by mandate, we don't have to be limited by the imagination of today, we have the data, we can build whatever future frontends and replacement services and etc. we want.
Yeah, it's a nostalgia thing now. Don't believe me? Search youtube for "midwest emo".
I let the sky fall, but the counter did not increment when I came back
For me it says "There are 0 other users online. The sky has fallen 0 times." which is less believable right after I refresh the page
i tried Doom Emacs and the first thing that turned me down was the VI bindings, which i disabled right after install. But yeah it does the whole configuration nightmare more easy to maintain.
Yep :).

They’ve definitely put a lot of thought into the CLI.

For instance, you can stand up a new Ghost blog completely unattended and I figured out how to set a reasonably long admin password using curl rather than leave the admin setup page at domain.com/ghost exposed on the Internet where anyone can easily takeover the blog if they land on that page before you. The risk of it happening is quite low, but it’s still a risk I’m not comfortable with.

Also, the export-import flow using the CLI works pretty well but there are some manual steps involved which I’m working to automate when migrating between hosts.

I’m willing to bet they already have tools for doing what I plan to do with ghost.sh in-house.

Too bad Ghost’s focus is on driving people to sign up for their DFY (Done For You) paid service that is Ghost(Pro).
From sentence one of the post, it clearly states that they are VC funders who are doing this for a round of startups they just funded, and they're looking for others to be a part of it.
> I’m especially grateful that our cofounders understand why we should actually be at the office, and that any expectation of “being more productive” is nothing more but a polite fiction.

They sound like great leaders. I also work for a great company which is very pro-remote work.

I have been working from home for several years before pandemic. I lived near office, so every once in awhile I would go in to take a break from programming and socialize. It is great for those purposes especially once you are out of college, it is really hard to make new friends. And this is the one aspect about office work that I miss. But it is not a company's job to provide friends.

Also I realized people who lacked real skills but were good at socializing were the ones who went to office often and they were the ones who were climbing corporate ladders faster.

And I have tried hard to understand why return to office is good for business but don’t see any point. Only explanation that makes sense to me is that people who are good at politics are having hard time playing politics in remote world. They have no other skills, technical or business. But they have already climbed corporate ladder and feeling powerless. Now they need people in offices for their personal benefits, not for company’s.
I wonder how this compares historically for new process nodes, and vs. mature process nodes?
>I was asking about your experience since you indicated it happened to you. If you don't want to share thats fine

>>I just have written two paragraphs on my personal experience

I see. So you haven't directly experienced being yelled at or having your picture scrutinized, you just observed it happening to other people?

>seem to think that verifying your membership by asking for your card is "being treated like a criminal."

>>not at all what I said, but I think you knew that

I think its disingenuous to cherry pick parts of quotes. I'll list it out again so you see that it wasn't directed at you specifically.

"as quite a few commenters on the thread seem to think that verifying your membership by asking for your card is "being treated like a criminal."

I'll leave it to you to scroll through the thread if you want to see what I was speaking too.

>This will be the scenario you run into when your membership expires

>>Again, gift cards are highly regulated in my state. They don't suddenly lose all value contingent on the buyers standing at the store. You're making that up for some reason.

I think if you read the reviews from the link I referenced[1] there was no mention of loosing the cards value. I said Costco only let them use it once as a non-member. There are a number of different scenarios listed in the reviews that people ran into. If you don't want to read the reviews thats fine, but there is nothing being made up instead you are creating a scenario which wasn't stated. It makes no sense why I would do that and then provide you the link to the source of the information.

> Do you work for Costco?

I pointed you to the Costco site which is where I would go to find out about their policies and because of that I must "work" for Costco now? I was simply pointing out other peoples experiences as "non_members" which you alluded to as your future plan here with the cards.

Here are the reviews incase you missed the link previously, look through the (1) star reviews to see what I was talking about.

[1] https://www.costco.com/costco-shop-card.product.10024438.htm...

>Great, then apply your personal knowledge to where you live

>>That's... what I've been doing this whole time, thanks

Yes and where you live is known to you, not everyone in the thread. We were only granted the illuminating information of cards being "highly regulated in your state" later on in your response post. No one would have known this information prior to that.
Didn't like it back then. Still think it's cringey
Prevention ain't some binary absolute. It's a matter of reducing viral load, which in turn reduces both severity of symptoms (often to the point of nonexistence) and the likelihood of retransmission. Would you say that life vests are "ineffective at preventing drowning" just because some people drown despite wearing life vests?
> while salt can't pass

But will not the separated salt clog the membrane? Separated salt is an issue, e.g. in distillation - you have to remove it to remain decently efficient.

And speaking of efficiency: do energy costs make mass desalinization with this technology feasible?
Trapping Carbon in Soils
Their announcement says "We can probably get a good deal from a bank [...]", so maybe they don't just have 20M USD sitting around.
The domain of philosophy on the other hand has all sorts of valuable low hanging fruit remaining to be picked. Perhaps someday someone will notice.
I just quoted an obvious reasoning error from the paper man.
You're right. That's clearer in the high-rez version.
It's a wind turbine in the fully feathered shutdown condition, with the thin edge of the blades facing forward. So the blade looks thin.
As a member of the WG14 I can tell you that _Generic does cause a fair bit of issues and complications in the language, and as a user of C i think _Generic is bad, because it mostly useful for confusing users about what code does so, Yes C would be better off without _Generic. Please don't use it.
That’s a good suggestion—I decided not to use MPW because the CodeWarrior compilers are better, the CodeWarrior UX is better, etc. For now, I’d rather drop 128K support and keep using CodeWarrior. The binaries work just fine on Macs with the 128K ROM (like the Mac Plus), and there are a number of additional difficulties you face when developing for 64K ROMs.

Some of the other difficulties—no MaxApplZone, the segment manager behaves differently, and if you really want Mac 128K support, you have to copy to an MFS formatted disk. Some versions of the OS ship with broken MFS implementations, presumably because nobody cared whether it worked. I suspect that the segment manager behavior is a particularly thorny issue because it affects the location of code segments in memory, and you have to be careful when you only have 128K.
If this person was genuine, they would have asked permission first. It wasn't like they had to ask a lot of people who are hard to contact. Just 1 person.

I'd have had more respect for this person if they'd just said "Sorry not sorry." instead.
This is an article with a good point: what happens to library selections over time as business needs / logistical hassles make it necessary to make cuts? I liked the parallel of the DD system to the KNN algo.

But that is unfortunately overshadowed by the out-of-left-field dismissive and insulting comment about literature in a different field, and about business majors. Frankly, those few sentences overshadow the point that he tried to make: that preservation of knowledge is important. Overshadowed because he made it obvious that this principle applies only to material the author personally considers worthy of preserving.

Taking the author at his word, I have to ask: if representation of Topic X is excessive in a business school's library, why should any space at all be dedicated at all to your pet interests over the needs of paying students?
There are typically time limits in structured debate. Spewing an avalanche of nonsense so that your opponent doesn’t have time to refute it all is not a polite or respectable way to “win” anything.

If your thinking is sound, your arguments should be sound and they should be able to stand on their own.
Oh no, definitely not. We just got a loan.

Neither Alex or I are currently VCs, and this has no affiliation with any venture fund.

We want to be a customer of the sf compute group too!
Yes, me too. You should not assume someone who seems able to stand and walk unaided is not in need of assistance for longer periods. It can be a matter of scale, and there can be sudden tipping points.

The person I know is perfectly able to stand for a short while, or walk around a shop or food court for a couple of minutes carrying items with really no obvious problems. But navigating an airport all the way through, quickly making it to a connecting flight on the other side of a large terminal, or standing for minutes in a check-in line is basically impossible without days of pain afterwards.
Something I've noticed playing around with Llama 7b/13b on my Macbook is that it clearly points out just how little RAM 16GB really is these days. I've had a lot of trouble running both inference and a web UI together locally when browser tabs take up 5GB alone. Hopefully we will see a resurgence of lightweight native UIs for these things that don't hog resources from the model.
Why 'Oppenheimer' Is a Bad Film