skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking for some pre 2020 content about Russia and Chernobyl...

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nunn-lugar-russia-pr...

> Documents from the highest levels of the Soviet Union, including notes, protocols and diaries of Politburo sessions in the immediate aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, detail a sequence of cover-up, revelation, shock, mobilization, individual bravery, and bureaucratic turf battles in the Soviet reaction, according to the “Top Secret Chernobyl” e-book published today by the National Security Archive.

> Key sources include protocols of the Politburo Operational Group on Chernobyl that were published in Russian by the journalist and former Supreme Soviet deputy Alla Yaroshinskaya in 1992. The posting today begins with Yaroshinskaya’s essay (written exclusively for this publication) reviewing the Chernobyl story and her own efforts dating back to 1986 to document and expose the lies and the secrecy that surrounded the disaster.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/tv/a27787022/cherno...

> "The fact that an American, not a Russian, TV channel tells us about our own heroes is a source of shame that the pro-Kremlin media apparently cannot live down," Shepelin writes.

How the Soviet Union stayed silent during the Chernobyl disaster - https://wapo.st/3shRS4M

> Information inside Russia was sparse, too. Russian residents and even some officials were left unaware that the accident had occurred. In the news reports that trickled out, Soviet media stated that nuclear accidents like Chernobyl were "virtually impossible."

> ...

> The Soviet Union's refusal to release any information speaks to the mentality of the Kremlin. Perhaps the best explanation of trying to make sense of this mentality came from Ellen Goodman writing in 1988, shortly after the accident:

> Exactly a year ago, in Moscow, I had a conversation with a young journalist who acted as interpreter. After a session with three bureaucrats, which bored him as much me, we went to a local coffee shop and talked about journalism and censorship.

> Andre was among the elite of his Soviet generation. He was informed about America -- down to our frequent-flyer coupons -- and not reflexively defensive about the Soviet system. Yet, at one point, animatedly debating our countries' attitudes toward information, he reached for this analogy, "In the U.S.S.R. we do not tell a patient if he has cancer. Many times we treat people like they are children to be protected."

> And in many ways, those living in the Soviet Union at the time would have agreed.

---

While I can't say for certain, the reporting suggests that there is a deliberate willingness to collectively forget about Chernobyl within Russia.
I don't think it's that hard. You just need to count the tokens in and tokens out. I guess distinguishing between the cost of input versus output is a bit of a wrinkle.

I think to make it convenient then you probably need an SDK that is a proxy for the OpenAI package. Maybe include a way to do streaming (for a better user experience) in Python but still get the normal synchronous flow somehow. That would be a nice feature that could help sell your service.

The issue is that these things need to be integrated into the billing and there is a focus on costs, so it might incline people to think twice about paying for an external service since they are so cost-conscious while looking at that part of their system.

You also have to count tokens in ahead of time anyway and need to avoid duplicating the time of doing that.
> Would a redistribution of that wealth imply better living standards for everyone?

No.

> I mean on one hand you have people who can't afford housing and food, and the other can't meaningfully spend whatever they are bestowed with.

The fabulously wealthy aren't spending their billions on consumption.

You're mistaking wealth and captial for money.
> Prosecutors have to prove you willfully and knowingly told a falsehood.

No, they have to make someone else believe you did. How else would this burden of proof be lifted? some form of brain scan that can just say "yeah, he willfully did it!"? no, they put fourth some motive/set of circumstances, and if a bunch of people believe the spin, its "proved"
(food) By Harold McGee
I really appreciate the web design. That was a style that only existed for about five years, give or take a year or two.

It makes me really nostalgic. But beyond that, that style of web design has completely disappeared. It was expensive to make, not particularly mobile-friendly, and only really favors one screen resolution. But it was beautiful.
Damn, probably deserves a ban.
A friend of mine in college made about $500~1000/mo running some Runescape private servers with subscriptions. He hosted a few different types of servers, but I know his most profitable one allowed players to buy "chests". Basically modern-day loot boxes with random high level gear. He got the idea from Korean MMOs at the time. No idea what he's up to nowadays.
Photo-actuators via epitaxial growth of microcrystal arrays in polymer membranes
> That’s quite an.. extreme example.

At least it is an example.
What would be a positive example?
Your argument is that nothing should be done about the absurd gains of the vertical part of a parieto distribution because differences in the long tail of the horizontal part exist.
Therein lies the problem. "Ask" people force someone to say no and saying no is considered rude. "Guess" people are then forced to be rude when they don't want to be rude, and knowing this, are forced to be polite and give in to your demand. Obviously there is nothing sinister going on here, but unwittingly, "Ask" people are creating a uncomfortable situation for people who consider it rude to decline a request.
Great stuff... Now knowing what you do, could you speculate how would the current powers of the intelligence committee be viewed by the participants in that process?
I stand corrected. Your musings about how to solve housing in the health care CEO compensation thread have convinced me that you are not just posting online to sound smart
You can mute people who slur, you can't "mute" cheaters.
My hot take, that I eventually want to really dig into from a neuroscience perspective: trauma is almost entirely relative. It's phenomenological.

If you're an average American of today, you're living a life of comfort and abundance that could not have been imagined 100 years ago, and yet you'll have about the same trauma as did your equivalent back then, even though they would have dealt with things that would have killed you, figuratively or even literally.

Kind of related to Durkheim's "Society of Saints" idea [1].

This suggests a therapeutic vector: increase the variance in your own life. It probably won't be technically hard, though it would be psychologically very difficult. If the theory is right, many of your minor traumas should quickly dissolve.

It would take some amount of will to pull this off, of course. Though probably less suffering than the aggregated suffering conferred by the traumas.

[1] https://www.tutor2u.net/sociology/reference/durkheim-on-devi...
It wont make you even 1.1x more productive. It will in fact make you less productive. But it looks cool so some people insist on using these clearly inferior setups.
And then others can read your own comment history about the 'minor' traumas and the impacts that has had on relationships in your own life.

At least from your writing I believe you're a very introspective person. The trouble with introspection is that it is an imperfect mirror. We tend to self find solutions for our problems, but we do so at the risk of completely missing the blind spots in our life.

Coming back at the previous person with the term condescending is concerning. At least my observation is you believe you have covered all of your bases, but this gets problematic in cases of omission. Yea, your parents did not hit you, but that does not mean they taught you how to have healthy relationships, for example, something that leads to a lifetime of trauma in some people due omissive ignorance.
Still, cars spend way more time parked than driving.

A Tesla Model 3 (.24 kWh/mile energy usage) would gain up to a mile of range per hour in the sun with this system.

It’s not much but it’s not nothing either.

If you park outside and live in a city with most of your trips handled by transit and walking it means that you could realistically own an electric car and never plug it in, even in non-ideal conditions.

It’s also nice to know that your car isn’t slowly draining like a smartphone when you’re off mains.
Why couldn’t the Rust compiler also assume that dissimilar types don’t alias?
Microsoft keeps maintaining all those libraries, and keeps them in the OS by default. That may not be the case with Linux.
Yes a library author can spend a lot of time refining and optimising their generic data structure, but can never escape that it is generic.

No amount of optimisation will make a hash table designed for items to be removed competitive with one where items do not need to be removed.

>Take C++ for instance, not only is it possible to specialize generic code for particular types, but it's absolutely routine to do so.

So it's not a generic data structure, then. When you specialise a template, you essentially write a concrete data structure for a particular type. Rather than writing a big generic data structure that's inefficient then specialise it to the particular type, it is much easier just to write that specialised data structure in the first place.

>std::unordered_map is a strawman. There are a plethora of generic C++ hash tables which would match, if not soundly outperform, their C counterpart.

How is it a strawman? It's in the standard library.

>Also, even if we blindly accepted your claim, then how do you explain qsort often being beaten by std::sort or printf and its variants being crushed by libfmt?

printf is on the order of 50 years old. libfmt as written about 5 minutes ago. Do you take into account in your comparison the many more years in which printf has been useful? Do you take into account the amount of time it takes printf to compile vs a huge C++ library like libfmt?

Do you take into account all the code that has been slowed down by C++ programmers writing bad code and assuming a sufficiently smart compiler will inline everything for them? Do you take into account all the horrifically slow iostreams code out there?

qsort and std::sort do completely different things. Comparing them is absurd. qsort takes the size and comparison operator at runtime. std::sort requires them to be specified at compile times. I frequently use qsort in a way that you simply could not use std::sort, because those things are runtime-variable.

The proper comparison to std::sort is the implementation of a sorting algorithm written in C, specialised to the code it was written to work with. Then you can debate 'is it worth using this for the minor performance gain' etc. But comparing it to qsort is inane and demonstrates you don't even know what the two functions do.
> OSRS players have not been "stuck with low quality graphics". The appeal of that version of the game is as a whole. It was not just "the version without the one later change that wasn't liked". It was the version before the general change in approach.

Sure, it's important to note that OSRS players are not a monolith, and people differ on which aspects of the more modern game they disliked. As I recall, HD was an optional toggle. So yes, all OSRS players indeed are "stuck" with the older graphics - the presence of HD would not mean players with a nostalgia for the 2007-era graphics would be left out in the cold. Anecdotally everyone I know lauded the HD upgrade at the time, but I get it wasn't perfect.

> Dungeoneering was a (pretty good) minigame forced into the mould of a (pretty bad) skill for essentially no reason. The mining/smithing rework was very recent and not at all good for the game.

Admittedly I've only seen some commentary from OSRS youtubers about the mining update, and I came away from that thinking the changed mechanics sounded desirable. I've no direct experience.
From the GNU Fortran manual:

“9.5 Case Sensitivity There are 66 useful settings that affect case sensitivity, plus 10 settings that are nearly useless, with the remaining 116 settings being either redundant or useless.”

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.6/g77/Case-Sensitivit...
If you're targeted by state, Qubes on a PC isn't secure enough. It sits at a weird place, where it is stronger than your regular Linux, and showcases interesting ideas, but is quite restrictive in what you can do and doesn't provide any real security guarrantees. It's an open-source small shop project. Xen bugs and kernel bugs are too frequent, big boys know them/buy them/make them/exploit them, surely silently for years.

The idea your data on a PC connected to Internet can be really secured from the most powerful actors is very naive.
>How did we get here?

9-11

Between that and 'think of the children' we've given authoritarians all the tools they need to destroy us.
I can attest to that. I got an ADHD diagnosis 8 years ago and it wasn’t until last year that I realized it was cPTSD.

In fact, I was proud of being so “responsible” as a kid, not that I was neglected and parentified.
I recommend you read your own posts sometimes. Your claim of "in Go values must always be useful" was rebutted multiple times. That you're trying to move the goalposts to something neither of us was arguing speaks loudly. You also dance dishonestly around the actual point I made in that last post. Again, I'd recommend following your advice about reading a thread before responding to it.
There is a quantitative lifestyle difference between a millionaire and a billionaire. And between someone who is compelled to work for a living vs. someone who can subsist at the highest lifestyle on passive income alone.
> All of a sudden, Comcast, Centurylink and even the local utility company are out spending money I guess they didn't have to upgrade their networks to support fiber.

It doesn’t sound like Comcast built fiber in your story. 1.2 gig down/40 meg up sounds like cable.

> You know why google fiber wasn't successful? It's because people are lazy

I didn’t say anything about Google Fiber being successful or not. I’m asking why Google wouldn’t agree to these community coverage requirements.
Do you think that private schools create inequity?
Would you send your children to public school?
This was discussed in Gopher paper. The added zero weights don’t integrate well into LLMs during training unfortunately.

They actually found that if you duplicated layers when adding it worked better than zero weights. Which matches some of the commutating layer studies that have been done
Nobody cares if the expert asks to change a minor detail.

But if he asks to change a major plot point because it’s unrealistic, they won’t do it.
Straw and mud is cob. That's how houses were made in the UK (for example) for quite some time. It is a bit more modern than wattle and daub.

An aunt and uncle of mine owned a house in a village in Devon for a decade or so with 1660 scratched rather neatly near the front door. That cottage is quite old but no where near the oldest cob and thatch building hereabouts. Horse piss or any piss (nitrogenous waste) is also used, presumably with another admixture. I'm not a cob expert but I did study Civ Eng and graduated.

You pop a lime wash on it for water proofing, without sealing it completely - it needs to breathe - ie avoid rot and decay. When it eventually breaks down, you cut out the bad bits and replace with more of the same.

Not sure about making bricks of the stuff - that might introduce potential fault lines but that might not be an issue and may even allow the structure to flex more in response to say earthquakes or weather.

(EDIT: hay -> straw)
Even accepting that definition (I don't 100%, but nevermind), a CEO is still making strategic decisions that need to take into account the variety of people that report to them and how they work.

For example, if a CEO in a large org demanded that engineers are all available via phone for level 1 support calls to cut support costs - that would be stupid, because even two short calls a day is going to have a massive impact on those engineers productivity on building the product(s), followed by any of the half decent engineers leaving for other jobs shortly afterwards.
But that's ask culture in the end. Guess people can only guess, whereas ask can always guess, but then fallback to asking.

Guess also assumes a very similar shared context and understanding. This leads to xenophobia, because "those foreigners" seem so rude simply because they "guess" with a different contexts. Again, asking is superior.
> Would be so funny if by the end of all the AI research, we found out the human brain is already the best you can ever get.

Seems rather unlikely. It's just whatever worked so far, evolutionary.

The belief of humans being the pinnacle of possible intelligences seems as naive as the belief that the earth is the center of the universe.
This is a good point. There seems to be a lot of untreated mental illness nowadays. Or maybe we're just encountering it more because everything is filmed and sites like r/PublicFreakout exist. Or maybe the pandemic really screwed some people up. Who knows?

I had an Amazon package mistakenly delivered to my house. I recognized the address of one of my (unknown) neighbors a few doors down, and I had time, so I walked it down to their door.. Maybe I'll finally meet this unknown family. I knocked on their door, holding the package, and let me just explain something that's important: I'm a slightly overweight nerd that spends too much time in his office chair. I'm about as threatening looking as a Best Buy worker in his khakis. Well, through the window next to the front door, I saw one of the home's occupants (a young lady probably early 20s) just standing there looking at me through the window, apparently not knowing what to do. I knocked on the door again and gestured towards the Amazon box in my hand. Well the woman let out a shriek from the bowels of hell and damnation, like terrified. Picture Donald Sutherland in Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. I'm just standing there trying to hand a package to a neighbor and she is screaming over and over and over and looking at me like I'm a serial killer. I put the box down on the front porch and backed away. I heard the screaming long after I got down the driveway to the road.

I don't know what's wrong with people. Maybe this person has some kind of traumatic past and can't bear to even see other people. I don't know. This didn't seem like even remotely a thing 10 or 20 years ago.
Making an TPM genie isn’t that hard, and once we have that the Evil Maid can fairly easily unplug the discrete TPM, plug the Genie, and plug the TPM into the genie. And voilà, you can now sniff TPM signals in transit. Only works with discrete TPMs of course, but Man-in-the-Middle is not out of this world.

https://github.com/nccgroup/TPMGenie
Does nobody care about cheating or griefing or toxicity anymore? That doesn't match my experience.

I don't understand why you bring up profanity. I don't understand what you think is dystopian, or why you think it would stop being dystopian if hate speech was treated slightly less seriously than cheating.
But.....if you have an incredibly expensive or special, unopened bottle of wine sitting off in a corner and your guest asks if he can open it.....that is grounds to be excommunicated off the earth. Don't do that, it's incredibly tacky, reeks of entitlement and puts your host in a awkward position.
Leaving aside the exact numbers, there are also ways in that appreciated assets can be donated, the gains are basically tax shielded, and an annuity based on an actuarial determined portion of the assets can be paid out.

The details are more complicated than that of course.
Reminds me of the YouTube channels that try to play what the animated piano or guitar is playing, and it’s almost always wrong. But sometimes, in surprising situations, it was animated correctly.
The illusion you seem to still be under is that wages have to match productivity. This is not a natural law of the universe.
I personally don't understand guess culture. It seems really broken.

It seems like it should be a communication nightmare. Humans are already predisposed to confuse reality with their own stories about reality, we shouldn't encourage doing that with other people and their thoughts. It's not real. The only way to know is to ask.

And when you get to the very bottom of it, withholding communication from someone because of how you think they might react is just a way of controlling them and their experience of life in a small way.
If they mean the same thing, why was it changed? Hint: they don't mean the same thing. At all.
It it’s so easy to be a healthcare CEO, then go ahead and fill in, you can get some millions.
Metazooa
Oh absolutely, but I'm sort of sampling from the group on this thread. There's a surprising amount of "just mute it" as if the burden of not hearing slurs should fall on the hearer. Purely as a practical matter, a private company competing in many lucrative and sensitive markets isn't going to tolerate diluting its goodwill by becoming known as the place where hate speech is accepted. One user managed to scare TWO advertisers off "X". That's without even reaching the morality issue.

(Lots of folks also equating profanity with hate speech, which is bizarre. If I were in a PUBG lobby and someone called me a mfer, I would laugh. If they called me a <n-word> <f-word> <k-word>, I would leave and never come back.)
Meanwhile they're still selling them at $400 each.

https://mikucare.com/products/miku-pro-smart-baby-monitor
That's deliberate to stop you trying to compose functions that return errors. You should be explicitly handling the errors before you compose.
Man how crazy would it be if the guys who decide CEO compensation were in on it too?
You have the option. Don't play the game if you don't like how people who play the game act.
Or you mute them. But don't ruin it for everyone that likes it.
I still don’t like the stupid Hans plot in Frozen. I cannot make that character make sense no matter how I convolute myself. I just have to ignore it entirely.
If we're being pedantic about the lamba, it's worth noting that a word mark logo is not a font, it's almost always a one-off. It doesn't even have to be readable, it just has to be memorable — and hey, it is!
Cyberattack shutters major NSF-funded telescopes for more than 2 weeks
PBS Frontline episodes are interesting, and available on YouTube.
OK, but they still need to be run by someone, no?
As far as I know, Windows uses a multilevel feedback queue, so O(n²) would be surprising. The one issue that pops up with the Windows scheduler is when you have plenty of processes doing tiny little bits of IO instead of one huge slab of it.

Could you count it as a performance issue in the kernel ? Maybe. But really, you're mostly hitting an issue in what it's built to do. Windows really likes two things:

* don't spawn subprocesses

* please do your I/O in one huge batch and thank you.

The average Windows machine will barely have 100 processes running. I have 184 right now, and I run a lot of crap. This goes directly contrary to the philosophy of many UNIX programs: create a shitload of processes, fork everywhere, and write tiny files all the time.

I wouldn't complain about a hammer not working well if I'm using the handle to nail things. Sure, it would be nice if it also worked there, but it's not exactly made for that either, and for good reason. POSIX fork() being such a can of worms is half the reason that WSL1 was abandoned. Windows does not have the internal machinery to do that, because it wasn't built for that.