skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm saying we did it to their people first, and then they responded tit-for-tat.

If you're selectively outraged at their response, ignoring what we did to provoke it... that starts sounding awfully motivated.

And, yes, arresting non-citizens for insufficient loyalty to our state is immoral unless there's a war on, in which case you can shoot them. They never pledged loyalty and are not breaking any faith.
Accessing the walkway to the front door and knocking on the front door is not trespassing, even if there is signs posted. Wandering off the path, going around the back, looking in windows is trespassing - but accessing the front door to deliver, ask for directions, or invite someone to tea is not. You can be asked to leave which then could be turned into trespassing. Decent write up about it - https://www.radford.edu/content/cj-bulletin/home/june--2017-...
That isn't how labor law works. Employees in his state are most likely at-will and can be fired without notice.
I want the opposite of this, a gmail filter to hide every email about someone updating their privacy policy or terms. Almost none of them have unsubscribe buttons.
Bots are better at beating CAPTCHAs than humans are
This superstitious "prune old content" bs is commonly repeated by seo know nothing's.
It is a wild coincidence to read this today. This past week, I got my OG 1.6 modded Xbox out, my friend sent me a rip of a "Ultimate Halo" disk I made in high school, and I read a deep dive on the evolution of Xbox soft mods.

Fascinating read, thank you so much for doing it, documenting it and sharing it!
I'm strongly of the opinion these days that channel scrollback history is an anti-feature. Anything that depends on Slack Search to be found, is in formation that should be captured in "hard documentation" - markdown docs in a git repo, Notion,even Google Docs or whatever.

Roles do "somewhat" exist in IRC, in the sense that you can have ops and admins, but I suppose it's not quite as fully-fledged as something like Discord's roles.

Reacts and editing indeed don't exist. Reacts are something I've pondered what an IRCv3 extension for might look like - maybe I should poke at that some day in prototype form.

Message edits, well. Sure, you don't have them. You can send a follow up "s/foo/bar" kind of text, and some clients will even understand that as an edit of your last message, but of course it's not perfect.

Anyway. I'd be fully happy if Slack disappeared tomorrow and we all went back to IRC, but I realize that I'm both technical, and someone who grew up on IRC. It wouldn't be perfect for everyone. But damn do I wish that reality could exist.
Neat, now I have a name for these. A lot of what is considered "bad writing" seems to consist of these "garden-path sentences", written unintentionally. Finding one of these in a text is a good indication that the author either didn't re-read what they wrote, or re-read it and couldn't step out of their own head to notice how confusing it is.
More like: "You shouldn't be surprised that changing X doesn't come up so often, given that a majority of discussions involve timelines where X cannot be implemented or groups that simply don't have authority to change X."
To share briefly our journey, we started by launching this simple website: https://lonelyworld.info as a mini MVP.

Then we got a tremendous response from various forums including Hacker News and Reddit, that we decided to pursue this idea further and develop into an app.

Our team is me, my wife, and a friend from South Africa that I met on the LonelyWorld website! I realize that had I never launched that mini MVP, I wouldn't have met my friend to work on my mission together! The mantra is right: one should always build in public :)
Affinity does 80% of what I need, though its interface for some things is very ...unique. But when I need that 80%... or even just the 1% of Illustrator that is "text on paths, done right", there I am, paying the rent to the feudal lords.
Absolutely true but it sounds like people think there's only one wrong here.
This is exactly when I tried pgsql for the first time and never looked back.
> Neither she nor the nation of China are party to sanctions on Iran.

She's subject to US law, and the consequences thereof.

> that's not great moral ground

It's a question of law, not morality. The rule of law is applied pretty fairly in the US and backstopped by the democratic process, whereas it's applied arbitrarily by Chinese dictatorial leadership when it suits them. That's where the moral ground lies.

What you're talking about is a false equivalence.
Not being a Mullvad user myself, I wasn't sure if people tend to use a Mullvad client or a generic VPN stack built into their OS, but the Mullvad client could simply display news like this to the former set of users leaving only the latter set to configure a separate RSS client or whatever.
It also doubles as a (very silly) rice cooker! Add a program to bring the pan to 230 F on slow intensity followed by a 2 minute timer. This will slowly simmer the water then stop cooking right after the water is all evaporated, which is exactly the process of dedicated rice cookers.
A friend used to say “take your estimate, double it, and add 50%.” It’s almost weird that “3x” seems to just be the universal rule.
> I'm saying we did it to their people first, and then they responded tit-for-tat.

This is being reductive and making a false equivalence. These scenarios are not comparable:

1. Arresting an executive of a company that intentionally evaded sanctions and provided supplies to a country that is hostile to the US.

2. Arresting two random Canadian citizens, who are of no importance, and holding them as political prisoners until another nation capitulated to your demands.

> If you're selectively outraged at their response, ignoring what we did to provoke it... that starts sounding awfully motivated.

See above. Are you willing to acknowledge that there is a difference?
You may be interested in Terry Tao’s polymath collaborations.

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2018/01/24/polymath-proposal-...

> As for upper bounds, de Bruijn showed back in 1950 that {\Lambda \leq 1/2}. The only progress since then has been the work of Ki, Kim and Lee in 2009, who improved this slightly to {\Lambda < 1/2}. The primary proposed aim of this Polymath project is to obtain further explicit improvements to the upper bound of {\Lambda}. Of course, if we could lower the upper bound all the way to zero, this would solve the Riemann hypothesis, but I do not view this as a realistic outcome of this project

To your point, there was some excitement and progress in the beginning, but it remains an unusual approach to mathematics.
I didn't say I want to limit access to education because of dating. I said that it's one possible consideration.

> If university was for dating, I probably wouldn't have picked computer science and electrical engineering.

I also never suggested people choose a major in order to date (that would seem extreme — though I definitely knew people who signed up for specific classes for this purpose!).

And I also didn't suggest that I would send my daughters to university to get engaged — that's a straw man. Instead, I pointed out that my daughters themselves probably wouldn't want to go to a school where the dating prospects are dismal. My guess is that most people would feel the same way!

Most importantly, I was not in any way indicating that this should be required (which would "limit access to education," as you refer to it). I'm just pointing out that schools could have rational reasons for not admitting students on a sex-blind basis, and that perhaps it shouldn't be knee-jerkingly rejected.

> In the 21st century where you can meet people from thousands of miles away within minutes?

This is not how college students want to date, FYI. I say this as someone who has been in multiple long-distance relationships, and eventually a long-distance marriage (but met these girlfriends locally, like most people do).
You sure you don't want to get lost into MS Teams? Where you lose chats all the time and can hardly paste codes and links without it all going wonky?

Joking aside, I am will you on the 100% remote + slack fondness. I'll also regularly mute all if I'm trying to do a deep work session for a couple of hours.
No no no. First we start with trusted brands you know and love. We use the trust you have in them to slowly build a market around them. With our ad strategy, you’ll start seeing our product as related to Trusted Brand A. You will start seeing comments and reviews for our Brand in the same browsing contexts more and more until our Brand is now correlated enough to Trusted Brand A to remove purchase inhibitions.

After that, we just wait. We know we have you. It’s just a matter of time till you need a product like ours (you’re already our target demo), or an impulse buy occurs.

Without evening knowing it. You’ve been manipulated into trusting our brand, and you’ll think it was all an organic choice.

Nothing malicious or dangerous here.. move along.
> given that Russians are regularly arrested by the US

I'm fairly sure why Russians are arrested in the USA is fairly unrelated to them being Russian. Russians also get arrested in China, it usually involves some alcohol at some nightclub and maybe concerns girls. The Chocolate Bar behind Ritan park in Beijing's Russian district was a pretty intense place.

> So what, don't go to the US or countries that extradite there? I don't think so either.

In general, prefer rule of law countries and avoid rule by law countries if you are worried about fair treatment. Even if they aren't perfect, you have a much better chance of being treated fairly in a rule of law country (China explicitly rejects rule of law as a governing principle, which is why their constitution can guarantee freedom of speech, the press, and religion, without it coming off as inconsistent).
Historically, labor organizing and honestly communists were behind any kind of labor law like this. Good luck.
I have worked for exactly one company in my entire decade-ish long career that mandated how I connect to email / disabled IMAP, and have exceedingly little patience for places that would disable IMAP without strong reason (for example a law firm or health care company, I could understand, but for the vast majority of companies? A policy mandating that laptops and phones must be encrypted at rest and locked with secure passphrases is going to do more than mandating that I connect to the Gmail web interface rather than the Gmail IMAP interface from the same exact machine on the same exact network - especially if "app passwords" to bypass 2FA have to expire periodically, which I'd also find reasonable)
I see the value of 285 K a bunch in here. Not bad. I wonder what happened to further research?
I definitely get the sense it’s not running its actual AI against what you type, but rather just counting the number of characters and comparing it to the chart below, which is of debatable accuracy.
In Australia, you need to make sure you have all your documentation lined up and iron-clad before you let someone go. Most companies I know of avoid firing, preferring to "encourage individuals to explore other opportunities" as this bypasses all of the complexities of unfair dismissal [1].

[1] https://www.fwc.gov.au/job-loss-or-dismissal/unfair-dismissa...
Do you realize what you're saying? Gig company A only dribbles out 8 hours of work a week so your Dad is forced to also work for gig company B, but needs flexible hours to do so.

You are completely failing to see my point--if gig company A had to employ your Dad as a part time or full time employee with guaranteed minimum wage or work hours and other benefits he wouldn't have to tetris together an insane set of gig work jobs to keep from being evicted or starved.

Your dad is forced to be an indentured servant for these companies that can't make money without exploiting people like him. And somehow you are immediately going to bat for these employers... pretty sick IMHO.
Postgres became over-the-top cool for me the moment I started to realize what pg-cli could do.
Predestination in the hands of the Calvinists became one of the worst Christian doctrines I've seen, especially in conjunction with the perseverance of the the saints.

A system of thought that made it easy dismiss people who disagree with you as going straight to hell and unworthy of consideration, and turned rather nasty in South Africa.
As a user this seems like a nice way of connecting with people online.

As an engineer I wonder if/how you would open this up to a wider audience (behind “lonely” users). Moderation is the first issue that comes to mind, but I’m guessing that’s already a concern with the current audience.
Labor organizing and honestly communists are seeing a bit of an upswing recently.
Nothing about what the parent commentator said is fallacious and leaning on pattern identification -> fallacy doesn’t really work because we are not making formal logic arguments.
Catharism, a.k.a the bulgarian heresy, denied the flesh so much, now bulgarian (bugger) means a homosexual in english.

Funny this thing, the language.
Fireworks was the shit!
Taken to the extreme, a hostile takeover looks like the crypto defi hacks - depress the share price, buy it with borrowed assets, then liquidate. To me that sounds like stealing.

I'm having trouble imagining the reverse, where there's a perfectly legitimate offer that the board wants to block.
> if campus can not provide a somewhat normal social life academic performance will suffer.

Or students simply will choose to go to a different school, where dating prospects are better.
Isn't that just more about the abundance of hardware we have these days? While on the MySQL side you had to delve into tweaking the different cache sizes and picking MyISAM or InnoDB depending on the use case, on Postgres you had to deal with stuff like manually running VACUUM at the right time or later when that arrived tweaking the autovacuum params.

These days even on my "underpowered" NAS I can just run a default docker image of my database and not worry about tweaking anything.
This is not correct. The costs of employing drivers would increase. The driver supply would go down and the price of an Uber ride would therefore increase. This is basic econ.
A large part of what matters is voters and I personally would absolutely vote to expand social safety net but would vote against any effort to move to a European style of employment law (ie. no at-will).
Let's flip it and see how different they are. China sanctions France. Would you be supporting their right to detain arbitrary American businessmen for doing business with France? The same exact way you're supporting our detention of their nationals over Iran?
Talking about picking the lesser of two evils if I've ever heard of an example. It's like watching ManU and Everton play against each other. You just want both teams to lose.
Ah yes, an anecdote by a reporter about a tech company
Still not true in my experience. Uber prices are high in SF but still very low in places like Boston
Traditionally you would go into perfomance review, where you would be checked up on regularly to see how your work is going and what roadblocks you are encountering.

No logging necessary, just some face to face time (which you could also do over zoom, btw).

If the employees performance stays bad despite roadblocks being handled, then it isn't really important whether or not it's bad because they aren't typing enough.

Of course this requires management to actually do their job, and unlike the other employees their metrics don't seem to include them actually doing any work.
The matter of "fairness and/or arbitrariness" is entirely subjectivist.

Visiting a foreign culture is always a dance across a minefield if you are careless and don't bother researching how to be a proper guest.

For example, experienced tourists from my country visiting the US recommend thoroughly researching the rules and protocol of interacting with the police, including properly managing your body language and being VERY conscious about not making unconscious moves you might be used to (moving your hands, reaching for pockets or gloves compartment) - all that just so that you don't get accidentally shot and killed (completely legally!)

Is it a fascist police state, or just a different set of expected behavior patterns?
I believe to get the M1 efficiency for LLMs they use the Metal API which I don't think will work on Linux. You may have to dual boot to use it for ML.
What browser do these links actually work in? Every time I load one it is an SSL error with no option to continue.
I will forever be confounded by people that get free stuff and then try to find ways for it to cost them something. If you are literally handed stuff free of charge, like... keep it or sell it? This isn't finding a lost item, this is an item being sent to your address explicitly! No law or moral violation in that. Even if I was filthy rich I would try to profit from this. Even if it was an accident, packages get lost or damaged all the time, what is your compensation for the time you spend fighting to send them back their stuff?
I would like to know what dollar amount Google makes on people typing things like “Amazon” into google search and then clicking the first paid result to Amazon.
If China said: all businesses in China must not do business in France, and then some business person working in China for an American company decided the company would send Chinese components to France anyways, they would be thrown in jail fairly quickly.

This is actually a pretty common restriction for companies operating in China. There are lots of rules they have to follow, that they wouldn't need to follow if they weren't operating in China.
Biden bans range of US high tech investments in China
thank you very much

these had crucial information for me
Why is she subject to US export law? Chinese citizen on Canadian soil who was not personally exporting anything at that moment.

Do you consider yourself subject to Chinese export law?

I know, empire, we can do what we want, but like I said. Shaky moral ground.
Do you have a custom instruction by chance? Maybe one that makes it go crazy after saying some certain word?
In the 1930s the Postmaster General made a famous quip about the “47 states and the Soviet of Washington.” It still leans very far left, more than California in my opinion.
They tried to smuggle Chinese sourced drugs to Australia - but that's not the issue.

They were charged, went to trial, sentenced to 15 years and appealed.

When the appeal failed the original court upped the sentence to a death sentence.

This appeared be a violation of a Chinese "no additional sentence for appeal" rule and a petty example of hostage diplomacy wrt the Canadian Government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schellenberg_smuggling_inciden...
I am someone with actual bipolar disorder. What you are saying is not true. Both mania and depression can involve psychosis and hallucination, but neither necessarily does. Bipolar II does not involve full-blown mania at all, merely hypomania. Hypomania can be easy to miss. People often find it benign or helpful, just a bit of extra energy and motivation.

I would never try to diagnose someone I've never met and disapprove of doing so.
Or butter
Fair enough, that said I think Uber should not be allowed to use their app to send me push notifications on how to vote and I suspect that shifted the vote somewhat.
Cues robots finding religion in BSG. This has all happened before and will all happen again
This sounds like Eventual Consistency as applied to life.
I suppose the difference is that someone debugging at that level will be offered some sort of "dump" command or similar, whereas someone debugging in a browser is offered a "View Source" command. It's just a matter of convention and expectation.

If we wanted browsers to be fed code that for performance reasons isn't human-readable, web servers ought to serve something that's processed way more than just gzipped minification. It could be more like bytecode.
Indeed. It's hard to take someone seriously when they call a language proprietary when it's been open source since inception and then claim it's 4 - 5 times slower in compilation speed and then provide no metrics to back up their point.
> how so? what's inconceivable about it?

Authors make money through sales of their work. This tool was a writing aid that analyzed text and included some copyrighted works in its dataset. There was no way of retrieving these books in full, and the excerpts that were allegedly shown to the users were used in an analytical context, unlike the original works. So, this website couldn't replace ownership of the actual book for readers, and had no capacity to hurt their sales. Basically, the way the service used this data should be transformative enough as to not have any impact on the authors.

> how are the authors "fearing without reason" or "illogically fearing" ?

I called it "fear" because there was no strong argument on the authors' side as to why this tool is bad. I called it "illogical" because I think that it's no coincidence that this controversy only came up now, in 2023. Back in 2017 and onward, the existence of this tool didn't appear to generate pushback. My pet theory is that in 2023, now that we have good generative AI, the advancements have spawned an entire subset of people that view anything "AI" as inherently tainted and immoral. The original complaints seem to lack understanding of this tool and multiple people have conflated it with generative AI, despite it having nothing to do with that.
I can't tell if you're joking or not, so on the chance you are not...No.
the Catholic Church had the monopoly on the smartest people in Europe for a thousand years. I would have been a priest (or monk) too. Read the name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.
Yeah...

I am a MIT/Apache person, but GPL is a good license for a Chrome extension.
Golang now has PGO, so you can capture traces to make programs faster next build
TBF, parent poster might instead be referring to how then-President Trump made his White House staff ask Twitter to censor a tweet calling him a "p*ssy a** b**ch".

With respect to media-releases, I think this excerpt sums it up:

> In fact, what the “Twitter Files” reveal is what we already knew [...] Social media corporations spend a large amount of time and resources discussing how to bend the rules so that politicians and celebrity influencers don’t get suspended. To pretend that the “Twitter Files” illustrates internal political bias on behalf of the old regime is to ignore the reality that Musk’s new regime is much more politically motivated.

(Source: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/12/15/twitter-fi...)
Two years after the 'Century Of Self', Adam released 'The Power Of Nightmares' (2004): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK3wz-OyR1U

It explores the power fear has to shape behavior.
Recently I lowered my blood pressure to acceptable levels with a combination of

- lower stress
- DASH diet with low carbs in evenings
- 1,5 grams Omega3 from seaweed oil per day
- lower salt intake even more

Haven’t tried isometric exercises yet, but do exercise more (intense) than you seem to do. Drink low amounts (15grams beans) of top quality coffee, haven’t tried ditching it as suggested elsewhere in this thread. As I’m low on animal proteins, getting 25grams of a good combination of proteins per meal can be difficult, especially as I consider a good meal part of the pleasures of social life.