skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are good reasons to not have a backlog in a chat system.

For one it stops you from being lazy and not maintaining FAQs and documentation.

It also forces you to stop treating the chat as something you need to keep up to date with. At work I see people commonly scrolling back for pages and pages to find the last read marker and continue reading from there. This seems unhealthy to me.

I use a bouncer but I very rarely use the logs. For all the purposes for which I would use logs, there are normally bots in the channel which can compensate.
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I think it's generally accepted in business that the people who complain the most are those that pay the least.

We've had a few low cost carriers go out of business in the UK with a significant number of comments remarking on how these airlines were 'ripping people off' despite the obvious evidence that they were not charging enough.
It doesn't particularly matter if it is reproducible, as long as they have 1 working superconductor that they can hold in their hand (Room temperature/pressure), its a nobel prize. Other people can figure out how to reproduce it since it is clearly possible.

The challenge is proving they have even that 1 sample.
Another day passes, another day nowhere near enough is being done to get on top of this situation.

If the US government had any brains, they'd be setting up a WW2 style mobilization against climate change and moving towards almost immediate decarbonization. This is an international effort working with NATO allies. It would only benefit everyone. New industry, safer economic outcomes long term, nicer world to live in. Lastly, it would be a sign that America are capable of leading the world into the future. IMO the longer the US drops the ball on this, the less competent it's starting to look. If China didn't follow suit, it would look equally weak, especially to it's own people so it would also need to respond.

I'm picking on the US here because they're happy to be leaders in war, arms, tech and economics, but in this case, we're hardly anywhere to be seen and showing pretty much zero meaningful leadership.

If we don't, who will?

Looking what is going on around the world, I really can't even imagine a functioning economy in 20 years. Looking at how many heat records have fallen this year, it's really hard to even imagine what the world will look like in 2043.

Look at parts of Europe, they seem pretty much uninhabitable during summer now. Phoenix, AZ... yes it's a hot place to being with but I mean, will people just be living there in the 130s?
part _8_ .. oh that doesn't start well
There definitely is. Turn on showdead in your settings if you want to see all the comments from shadowbanned people
Antidepressants work for 60% of people who take them, but no one knows why.
Thank you sir for your very generous donation of your time!
Why is it unlikely in your opinion?
That’s a great article, giving background you don’t usually get. Thanks for posting!
There are a lot of faulty heuristics indeed, reductionism is only one. Sometimes human behaviour can be explained better, that is more reliably and with less "over-fitting", by a simple model with the right perspective and vocabulary, than a really complicated explanation that is missing a key insight.
I don't understand the Matrix hate. Matrix is the defacto successor to IRC and it is getting feature parity with Discord. IRC refuses to evolve and it will become irrelevant.
Cell towers operate from within the country though and are subject to their laws. That we can bypass things as foreigners is only at the government prerogative.
I fly Wizzair at least a couple of times every year, and while both it and Ryanair are categorized as budget airlines, there are clearly two levels of budget airlines: WizzAir’s management has never pursued cutting every possible cost as singlemindedly as Mr. O’Leary famously has, and there is more flexibility possible, albeit at slightly higher fares.
You claim that posting personal information on a public site is the same as a bona fide class action settlement site? Please explain how it’s similar.
The general rule is only fly Ryanair if you have no other choice. They are decidedly low rent.

Recently a friend tried to drop her bags at a Ryanair counter with an incredibly long line, 3 hours before the flight. As she got to the front the staff member closed the counter, saying she had to get on a flight, because she was the flight attendant.
This perspective is internally consistent but reveals why IRC struggles without better logging support - the sort of person who is connected and savvy enough to keep logs does fine. Doesn't need them. The people who use IRC are comfortable with that lack.

But the people who use logs won't use IRC, and the people who often miss out on important conversations because they are only casual users will not have logs. Casual users outnumber dedicated users - the lack of good logging is a real problem for them.
Look how quick the transition libera.chat was.

If Discord went away no one can just spin up a discord server.
I believe we are flaming PHP users because people remember the state of PHP from 2001. It was a great language for generating HTML to put around a MySQL query. And has advanced from that. But people still remember it for what it lacks: Websocket support, sub-1-secod timers, namespace management, consistent class method call semantics, etc.
Rule 23 is the general procedure:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_23

IANAL.
A lot of countries tend to have some sort of due process, as opposed to a chat server's "AI".
Recent history has taught us that the upside to popular gun ownerships are vanishingly thin compared to the thick wedge of accidental deaths and mass shootings.

The ability to ruin someone's life should be restricted behind more than a point and click interface.
I don't know if you ever used IRC to get help on technical issues, but I've done that a lot, and going back to figure out what the solution was to a particularly thorny technical problem that someone told me about years ago has been something I've done multiple times.
Quite right. I argue this point frequently in connection with AI. Undoubtedly artificial, no intelligence!
One to go then.
I get what you're saying, I like Discord, but I wish there was an ecosystem of custom (less bloaty) apps to connect to Discord with, like IRC had.
It sucks to be treated poorly, and to get nickel and dimed on every little thing until you just end up paying more than flying a less shitty carrier. Framing it as the petit bourgeois are mad that the proles can afford to fly ignores who loses in a the race to the bottom, and the misery it begets.
‘average border processing time 150 mins but some travellers say wait is longer
Why can't we "solve" instant messaging like we have solved email?
The entire rating system is stuck in the dark ages, needs to bring in everything learned in the last 8 years.
This has got me wondering: what if all publicly listed companies are required to have an ethics officer whose job is to point out ethical concerns regarding management decisions (whereas management is usually only concerned about legal compliance, no more, no less)? The recommendations of the ethics officer are non-binding -- i.e. management is free to ignore them, but they do so at their peril: if an issue arises and management is found to have ignored the recommendations, then they are accountable. If the ethics officer fails to raise the concern, then they are accountable. What form that accountability takes, is something I haven't thought about.
Did you RTFA? The cited UW report is entirely about commuters.

If you want to visit granny in Portland, take a car no problem. If a Seattle exec needs to meet with his dev team in Olympia once a week, make it a zoom.
For 50 bucks Mastercard will probably tell me all that about you too. :P
Worst part is that chatbots are usually sold with intention to replace humans, so there's not much hope for getting help from a real person, especially if business is at the state where owner kicked all developers and support out to cut costs, i.e. increase profit.
It's one field, which can be split into E and B components if you like.
Yeah, it looks like it's pro-rated:

> The Settlement Administrator will assign each Authorized Claimant one point for each month in which the Authorized Claimant had an activated Facebook account during the Class Period.

(#8 on https://www.facebookuserprivacysettlement.com/#faqs )
The writer & comedian Richard Herring devised a fairly complete set of rules for this, calling it Consecutive Number Plate Spotting (CNPS). It's amusing, https://www.richardherring.com/cnps
And then you present commercial VPNs to people who might have never heard of it.

Now you need to block VPNs, and the cat-and-mouse game gets in full action!

Also, at this point you've basically implemented the roots of a British version of The Great Firewall.
> I thought Single threaded execution without overhead for concurrency primitives is the best way to high performance computing

You can have shared-memory parallelism with near-zero synchronization overhead. Rust's rayon is an example. Take a big vector, chunk it into a few blocks, distribute the blocks across threads, let them work on it and then merge the results. Since the chunks are independent you don't need to lock accesses. The only cost you're paying is sending tasks across work queues. But that's still much cheaper than spawning a new process.
> I haven't spoken to a single technical person in Europe who doesn't despise the GDPR

Then I suspect you haven't spoken to anyone technical. Every single person in my company on the dev team (myself included) is extremely pro GDPR, not the least because it provides us safety from leeches that would try to impose some horrid user-violating tracking in the app we make.

The greedy suit wants us to track every millimeter of the user's mouse on the page? Nope, thanks, better luck next time!

> As a guy with a startup...

If your startup can't exist without hoovering infinite user data in perpetuity, then your startup shouldn't exist.
>Go ahead and create 1 account per 1 server, nothing prevents you.

Doesn't having to give up a phone number for each account (and you can't use the same number on different accounts) make it difficult? (unless you haven't had to, maybe my browser is suspicious, but it's just regular old Chromium). Would like to do this so that I can separate IRL/weak pseudonym (from random people in servers, obviously you can't be truly anonymous on Discord)
> I think people without young kids fail to understand just how difficult it is to fit multiple carseats into a sedan

You're right, I have no idea. But a lot of people in Europe have three young kids as well and seem to get by perfectly fine without SUVs.

> no individual parent is going to solve that problem

This is how social change dies. "I can't do change things on my own, so why inconvenience myself?" Having an SUV increases your chances of KILLING PEOPLE. How does not having one not change anything?? And cars are big, high-margin purchases, of course you putting +1 in the minivan instead of SUV purchases column at your local dealer is going to have some impact on what they stock and a push more of. And your neighbours will see how convenient your non-insane car is and that will slightly away them towards buying that instead.
I have so many discord accounts because they won't let you change your avatar based on the server.

Yeah there is a way to register accounts without phone number verification. I did it four times. The trick is that they block you if you do anything suspicious and any account created under this 'suspicious' state demands phone verification. I don't know how they identify you, but you must succeed with your first try. So your best bet is to find an email provider that is trusted by discord that does not need a phone number.
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Burning Ship Off Dutch Coast Carries 498 Electric Vehicles
HFTs provide a lot of value to everyone by providing a lot of liquidity and reducing bid/ask spread giving a fairer price to everyone.

> If a company is valuable now, it'll be valuable in 5 minutes.

That’s not necessarily true.
This is not the point. The point is _legal insecurity_ due to vague regulation texts that small business owners can't cope with while big businesses can which puts the initial goal when creating those laws upside down.
As much as I like being an "edge case", "contingency", "fraction", etc., I can't agree.

Do you have a good reason to believe that we can consider negligible the proportion of people who are entitled to participate in this class action but are not aware of its existence and their rights and responsibilities? Can you show that it's probable that they're not in the majority?

The problem may be thorny, but you haven't made a convincing argument that this solution is decent. The law (in some countries more than others) is full of unsatisfying compromise, and not for lack of good ideas.

Fwiw, class actions of this type have been popular mostly in one country and only since the sixties. I agree that it's the status quo and people aren't rioting over it, but that's hardly the consensus of hundreds of years of jurisprudence.
Chat without history is such a waste. I used IRC recreationally back in the day, then at work for 10 years. What a total garbage communication format IRC is. People changing nicks to indicate being away was my biggest complaint.
Someone needs to have averages explained to them.

> One woman wrote at 10.15am: “We arrived at 7:30am and are still waiting!”

I make that 165 minutes.
wow, cc0. that would be very useful
That's what called innovation I guess. Innovation introduced by public institutions is rather an exception than a rule - e.g. development of the internet infrastructure was funded publicly at first. What happens normally is that public institutions do fundamental research and businesses innovate. In case of AI businesses seem to be ahead even in fundamental research presently.
What is your point, exactly? I assume it goes beyond "this sort of language is too colourful".

What this person is saying makes perfect sense to me.
> Unless you're going to ban congresspersons to hae wealth

BASED

If you care more about personal wealth than the American people you shouldn't be running for public office.
As GP pointed out:

> such regional restrictions are easily bypassed and WhatsApp is popular enough to make people try it. So that would then normalise the practices such as side loading / jail breaking and avoiding regional restrictions.

If people would be doing this (using a VPN, for instance), they would know how to bypass those restrictions.

Breaking encryption is not good for anyone and won't solve absolutely any problems, except the "problem" of right to privacy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_privacy
However, jokes on us as they saved much more replacing the comfortable breathable cloth upholstery with the plastic non porous, sweaty but much easier to wipe seats.
That ship has sailed. IRC lost to Discord years ago. Don't care about it being closed source. IRC also lost to the Matrix protocol as not only that is much better, it is also just as competitive with Element and they are making money, meaning that they can afford to add more features.

IRC is prehistoric ancient history. It's time to evolve and leave that protocol in the dust and go with modern alternatives like Matrix.
Due to the properties of F# as a functional language, using a pure representation of functions and a strong type system - in this case, this is a formalization of RISC-V ISA (instruction set). Since we don't have side effects for pure functions.
As it has a State machine, one fun opportunity is to execute elf-bin files for it for RISC-V architecture.

I'm not sure what do you mean "compile programs", because it's not the compiler.
How do you deal with the terrible element client?
I use matrix, but I don't bridge my accounts because I can't trust element.
I don't think thats true, what jokes are you talking about specifically?

I always used Ryan Air a while back when I didn't have much money and needed to get somewhere. I dislike them now because of the removal of hand luggage by default. Additionally I find they're not even that much cheaper than alternatives nowadays which makes it harder to put up with their smaller seats and in general worse service.
Funny story. I have an email that keeps being flagged as "booked through an agent" even though I book directly through ryanair official app.

3 last bookings were flagged.

Only found out after numerous online chats and a call after 40 minute hold.

Ryanair has some of the best direct routes in Europe and often you get a bargain price. You get what you pay for.
Wilczek points out that field theories are aether theories — as is relativity.

“Aether just means this one particular historical model!” is branding more than reality; and hides the fact that modern theories also describe an everywhere substrate of which particles are localized excitations and gravity is localized warping.
Good luck with positional languages :)
Trust only answers from domain experts.

And how does one discern who the domain experts are?
IRC is an information black hole where data that crosses the event horizon (scrolls off screen) will never return.

Sure, you can write your own logs, but does your business want you creating even more information to have to submit as evidence if you’re sued? What a nightmare.
> Tell me what happened your freenode?

It shat the bed, just like Twitter and Reddit did recently.

The huge difference is that with IRC we were able to painlessly hop over to libera.chat pretty much the same day while a lot of people are still struggling to leave the other two behind. I have learned my lesson, it's open services for anything important.
It would also be nice to add some comparison with pythran, which seems to occupy a similar niche (although it can actually compile numpy code to optimized c++ code which I don't think python can do?)
Yeah, I think there's just a disconnect in culture. Making IRC more viable towards those who like Discord etc. would fundamentally change and ruin it for many who like IRC. And vice versa. So IRC will never resurrect and be used by the masses again.
I think Goodreads might be improved if it had more community areas that got people within small active groups to foster community and HQ interaction... maybe a reimagining of book clubs for the online world. And maybe capping groups at ~50 or smaller dunbar numbers and trying to piggyback off real-world groups.

I also like Story Graph doing buddy reads. I think that is a cool concept, but not sure how successful it is.

I created Shepherd.com, but I am focused purely on book discovery and exploration, so everything I am doing is around how to find books you will love.

I am trying to develop book recommendation channels so that readers can subscribe to different people they find interesting and keep that type of concept going forward (while helping authors). The subscriptions will be email-based, and the first step toward that goal is launching next month.

For now I ask authors to share 5 books they love around a topic, theme, and mood. Then I connect books in cool ways.

For example, here is our hard sci fi shelf:
https://shepherd.com/bookshelf/hard-science-fiction

Genres are hard, as getting data on books is a mess. The industry standards are shit and don't do a good job. So you have to crowdsource data or something.
Yeah, let’s just spend 30 minutes grepping the IRC logs!
they won't, they support it too. the tories are evil but unfortunately that doesn't make labour good.
Counter-proposal: special truck and huge car lanes where these dangerous vehicles can't harm others, driving more reasonable cars (that absolutely do belong on the road because they're way more space and energy efficient).
It is the iron law of oligarchy.
I would put logging as a bottom tier feature for most chats. The characteristic of chats is in the moment and not some archival function. I am a heavy discord and telegram user but overall I would value the benefit of everything getting deleted after 72hours higher than the few times I actually search for something older than that.
Which is why you can pay more to be treated better. But some are upset that paying more isn't the only option.
I worked in a global team. When I got booted off VPN I would have my irc connection drop and I would miss critical conversations. IRC sucks for collaboration.
Yep, there is no money in books.

It is super super hard to make this work financially, where as for Amazon the 370 people they have at Goodreads are a rounding error.

If you want to support what I am doing at Shepherd I'd love some new Founding Members, that is helping me a lot but we are still not break even on monthly costs: https://forauthors.shepherd.com/membership
I am still perplexed that people accept the UX of Discord. It is just so horrible that I can not get myself to use it even if I am looking for a place to engage with communities. There are way too many channels which you cannot opt out of.
> Don't many of the big rust libraries still depend on nightly, too?

No, none of them do, or at least none that I’ve ever seen in 4 years of doing rust full-time.
I use Discord for my CTF team going back four years. Our lead will sometimes say “to prepare for the next one, search Discord…” which kind of works. There are some software that uses Discord for tech support. Since Discord isn’t indexable by Google, all of that information is then locked up in Discord’s “knowledge base” forever.

This is more against the migration of these “knowledge base” services to Discord chat than a knock against Discord itself.
My company uses chats as information stores. Not saying it’s the best idea, but you are an outlier with your preference.
I don't believe there is anything we can do about the impending climate changes.

In my opinion all we can do is learn, prepare, and adapt.
I'd love to get your thoughts on this btw: https://shepherd.com/bookshelf/hard-science-fiction

Off the mark or what?

I am pulling in BISAC data which is the industry marketing for hard science fiction. Its messy, but curious what you think.
I have a hard time seeing the equivalence here. In C the interaction with non thread safe functions is much more direct. Most people are also more cautious when writing in C.

In Python you have whole C modules with global state. Load 10 of them, add the interpreter complexity and soon enough no one knows what is going on any more.

As it is, most developers (including core devs!) don't even bother to check for memory leaks. I don't think they'll run tsan, and if they do, it will be on a small test suite that only covers 10% of the code.

Given the software development practices in Python and especially in the AI space, I'm very pessimistic about this feature.
Forty Years of ‘Risky Business’
I've been on IRC since the 90's and was an Op for Undernet #Linux & #Japan for many years, used to run an IRC server for a small IRC network back in my London days, and also ran a server for the same little network in my Japan days...

The article was excellent, however, it made no mention of Matrix.

Matrix, like IRC, is decentralised.

You can run your own homeserver - just like running an ircd.

Connecting to a Matrix homeserver with a suitable client - I use Element - you get all the equivalent benefits of IRC (chat) but with the additional Discord-like benefits of being able to post images in-chat, text formatting.

Another benefit is chat history (if configured for a room). Also, fully encrypted rooms. You can have voice and video rooms too.

What I'm trying to say, I suppose, is that I'm a full convert now to Matrix. It's better than Discord in that Discord is a walled garden, whereas Matrix - like IRC - is completely decentralised, and I highly recommend using Matrix over IRC these days.