skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 40% of Millennials are OK with limiting speech offensive to minorities[1]

That poll is from 2015 (and the other from 2019), not necessarily representative of current views. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/upshot/millennials-pollin... millennials are becoming more conservative as they age (and many were radicalised by the covid response).
Indeed. And if all AI tools went down permanently now, we'd actually be a lot better off.
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Not so much that it is 2D, as that there’s a mathematical transformation you can do that lets you calculate its evolution in a 2D space. Which can be useful.

The “is” question is harder to evaluate, but to the degree it’s a meaningful question I’d say “probably not”.
Should be really easy for you to post a link then, if there are so many examples to choose from
Agreed on 61A. I took it when it was still just SICP in scheme. I saw much of the rest of the curriculum as a variation on the themes I learned in 61A.
Ask HN: We had mass layoff but companies are still complaining about shortage
Explain this:
Mass layoffs but still we have labour shortages.
What similar movies to you recommend watching? Part nerdy, part business.
Great question -- it is on my list of ideas for a future article!
> The problem is that...

People only get one choice, so view it as a binary choice on party lines.

Give people a transferrable vote and you'll see parties putting more than one candidate forward with different focuses. Voter's might actually stand a chance of getting what they want rather than voting against something they don't like.
ChatGPT Is Down
https://chat.openai.com/ isn't loading past conversations and won't allow new ones to be created. Anyone else?
Form over function --- the unescapable badge of inexperience.
Webex is definitely a lesson in never accepting that you've won no matter what your marketshare in a space is, especially if the "switch cost" is essentially nil
I’ve been on YouTube daily for ~15 years and my experience is totally different. I found NJB via the YT algorithm and I don’t get any recommendations for AI spam channels. In fact, I get a pretty steady flow of high quality channels. Periodically, I have to hit them 3 dots on the recommended video and click don’t recommend this anymore. This does a pretty good job of filtering out crazy political videos and low quality reactionary content.
Sure, that's entirely fair. I was trying to delineate tool usage from social usage with my first sentence, but maybe I failed to do that. I appreciate the feedback.
RoboTAP: Tracking Arbitrary Points for Few-Shot Visual Imitation
Someone is trying to do that https://www.stopecocide.earth
Hard to argue it was better in every way or even overall, but there were some things I liked more about it including the keyboard, notification light,, etc
It depends which culture you live in. In the American ultra-individualistic culture, you may be right.
They went full circle and now they are back to passive TV zapping , but now it's called doomscrolling on tiktok and watching mr beast

It wasn't good while it lasted, in fact in retrospect we will see it was one of the most insane, narcissistic periods of modernity. good riddance

I really hope people re-re-discover forums
> One typical response is that we should simply subsidize those childcare programs. Fair enough, but the countries that have taken this idea the farthest -- the Nordics -- have still not achieved replacement-level fertility.

Childcare is built around taking care of the kids only when their parents are at work. When they parents comes home from work, they have to find time to take care of the household chores (dinner, cleaning) in addition to taking care of the child's needs. Today's societies put a lot of pressure on parents that were not there before. Nobody want's their child to be a loser, so they have to follow up on homework and after school activities. The pressure is much higher than 20-30 years ago, and many opt out.

Childcare programs in the Nordic are a necessary first step, but they only cover working hours. We either need to reduce social pressures that forces parents to push their children to be "perfect", or just face the fact that we need to pay for organizing the after school activities (no more volunteer work at the soccer clubs or driving kids to swimming practice). This will make sure that the parents can focus on spending quality time with their kids and still have time for a personal life.
There is clearly a difference between a 200k degree in journalism and a 10k boot camp diploma or degree in CS

It seems you could learn more, have a lot more fun, and make many more friends, if you pocketed the 190k and used the money for 4 years of debauchery around the world.
The idea that men and women should operate independently from each other i.e. not be mutually reliant is the root of the market failure.

We should unapologetically be celebrating long term monogamous heterosexual relationships where the duties are shared.

The other stuff (hook ups, childless, LGBT, etc) is all fine and dandy as long as it's consensual, but it's a distraction - and it's taking up far too much of the societal conversation given its' relevance.
Any time the file dialog opens in macos my productivity drops to 0 for a few minutes while I try to do basic things like go up a directory or open my home directory.
Which is why I love credit unions. I roll with multiple checking accounts at no cost. It makes giving out ACH details less iffy ;)
Incorrect. Ireland:
"In the opening four months of the year, electric cars took a 17% share of new car sales, up from 13% the previous year "
It's actually more important on OSX because there is no equivalent of WSL.
From the OpenAI status page:

> Degraded performance on ChatGPT

> Aug 31, 2023 - 07:58 PDT: Update - We are continuing to work on a remediation and recover service.

> Aug 31, 2023 - 06:52 PDT: Identified - Some users are experiencing issues loading conversation history and creating new conversations. We have identified the issue and are working on a remediation.

[1] https://status.openai.com/
The other place where `ANY(array)` is useful is when interfacing with Postgres from code, where you will quickly find that building a `IN (?)` query from an array is disgusting, if not impossible.
I actually think we are on the cusp of the financial equivalent of the 'we no longer support internet explorer' google banner, targeting visa and mastercard. Basically every merchant from panhandlers with square readers to Walmart wants to reduce their interchange fees.

Fednow hasn't exactly caught like wildfire like Pix or the india thing whose name I forgot, but it only has to do it once and it can still happen. I think once Walmart and Kroger start to push harder on it and the Request for Payment feature is avaialble, we will see big adoption.
Overconcentration in Tokyo raising risks from possible quake
If I'm going to die anyway why not be comfortable before I die?

If I change my own behavior but everyone doesn't then my actions are negligible.

Rationally my best course of action is to not change.

Remember it is each individual acting extremely rationally and logically that in the end contributes to global warming in aggregate. That is why it's so hard to reverse this. The tragedy of the commons.
I do. The company I work for is heavily invested in the Microsoft ecosystem, so a lot of our services are .NET. When I came back here after leaving for a bit I told them it was a dealbreaker that I get a Mac or Linux instead of Windows, so I have a Mac now. I use Visual Studio for Mac pretty regularly. Now I will likely be forced to use the absolute disaster of a VM that the company provides us with (Microsoft-supplied, of course).
Digital Abyss vs. Personal Gardens
Asahi Fedora is supposed to come out in the next few days. There’s hope!
Killian, you're killin it!
You are also presented with a choice: you take a test and you die in X% because of the test itself (there are no non-invasive tests, even IV is potentially dangerous), or you may be diagnosed with cancer with Y% chance of right diagnosis and Z% of lethality. Math is getting much more complicated. Now consider that only 2.5% women will die from breast cancer, but 97.5% others will get X-ray exposure once a year (with 100% test coverage of course). X-rays are know to cause mutations and thus cancer. Add to this money spent on tests that can be used to find a cure (we don't have unlimited resources).
Sure but if you are accidentally jailing an innocent person it's quite likely that out of all people you could convict you had the most evidence for convicting that person. I don't think the model that lets more guilty people go free in order to avoid convicting the innocent is somehow able to convict the second or third most likely suspect for this crime when that's the person who's actually guilty.

I don't think it's a false dichotomy. I think roughly speaking you calibrate the standard of evidence for a conviction and a good approximation to how that is calibrated is the ratio of guilty man set free to innocent men jailed. This is calibrating the ratio of false negatives to false positives. To avoid false positives you want fewer convictions which is generally going to result in more false negatives. Yes every time you get a false positive, you also have a guilty person go free, but chances are that person was always going free, since they were never the most likely suspect and were unlikely to ever be tried in court.
And someone annoyed about it.
Repo: https://github.com/ghostfolio/ghostfolio

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY6ObSQVJZk
That's the difference between people working for a paycheck and people working for a passion project. Even if 90% of the people working at a company are doing it for the passion and not the paycheck, they still have to contend with the other 10% who do not have the passion (but may be good at hiding this fact).

With a passion project, you start and stop whenever you want, and if you're not interested, you're not working on it anymore. So only the people who are truly intrinsically motivated will continue.

A paycheck is a form of compulsion. "You could be do anything, but you're doing this for me specifically because I pay you." You might also be very interested, but it's the only thing that specifically binds you to the company vs bound to the work itself.
What are the American analogs of "grammar schools" and "comprehensive schools"? In the U.S. there are academic high schools, which a majority of students attend, and a few vocational high schools. Our academic high schools are similar to UK comprehensives?
GitHub reduces costs with upgraded Codespaces
> We're willing to trade 10% performance for a well-tested framework and library ecosystem which greatly reduces development time. Nobody cares how efficient your application is when it never ships.

I think this is the sticking point. People assert without any real evidence that whatever framework greatly reduces development time, and if that were the tradeoff, it might make sense. e.g. Rails and Laravel bill themselves this way.

Meanwhile, I've found that a more barebones framework in Scala is more productive to develop with, and also gets at least 100x the performance (e.g. a request rate in the 10s of thousands/second is easy to do on laptop hardware), which also makes it operationally easier since now you don't need a giant cluster.
> ISRO announced the rover’s LIBS results definitively confirm the presence of sulfur at the landing site. Additionally, preliminary scans detect traces of aluminum, iron, calcium, chromium, titanium, manganese, silicon, and oxygen in the soil. Further hydrogen detection efforts are underway.

What about hydrogen? No hydrogen means no water where they're currently landed, right?
You're right, and I meant "Docker image", was fortunately able to edit before the window closed! (Edited it for clarification. Sorry, 2-year-old plus no breakfast or coffee, minus sleep = daddy brain...)

A Dockerfile provides no guarantees that it will succeed, is what I was getting at- which is why people download Docker images to begin with, because the build product is guaranteed to work, since it's immutable at that point.
The registry is more similar to https://sum.golang.org/ than the Chrome Web Store. It pretty much just stores a checksum database, a list of links to github (which actually hosts the cross-compiled binaries), a channel [Official, Partner, Community], some ownership metadata, and some static markdown per provider/module version for documentation.

E.g. back-of-envelope for terraform providers this is:

Metadata: 4KB JSON [0] * ~15 OS/arch combinations * ~50 versions * ~3000 providers = ~10GB in total

Docs: ~700Kb [1] * ~50 versions * ~3000 providers = ~100GB in total

In my mind the analagous behaviour would be if the golang checksum database added in license terms that stated "you need to abide by a BSL to use data from this service". What that actually would mean is so nebulous that it feels threatening.

[0] Source: https://registry.terraform.io/v1/providers/airbytehq/airbyte...

[1] Source: https://github.com/airbytehq/terraform-provider-airbyte/tree... gzipped : ~300 resources, ~300 data sources

(NB: in airbyte's case the TF Provider was generated from a ~150Kb OpenAPI spec via https://speakeasyapi.dev: implying docs could be compressed even more)
It accurately reflects my wealth management needs
GoogleFi supports iOS. I'm using it on my device right now.
This is good except for two things: (1) women lose their fertility at "a certain age" and if they put off childbearing for too long they might lose the opportunity and (2) if you have children late your life will overlap less with them. For that matter there is the issue of chasing a toddler around when you are 50 and less energetic than when you are 30.

It's probably not so good to have children when you are very young and not so good to have them when you are old, there is some optimum in between but unfortunately many people who put this off find the choice is made for them.
I used to think Hashicorp was a company I would have liked to work for. I no longer think that.
Why do fewer climate related deaths; down 98% the past century

and a more green planet than a century ago

and far fewer people in poverty

all lead you to believe it's becoming uninhabitable?
The person you're replying to made 2 comments on this post, and only one of them mentioned Mint Mobile. Try Ctrl+F to search for their username.
It's to be expected. I've yet to see a corporate take-over by a strategic player where there wasn't some major downside for those who helped establish the acquired party in the first place. It always feels like being stabbed in the back.
Well you don't have to stop in a matter of one day, because that's impossible and unrealistic anyways, but we could at least finally start with reducing our consumption, with the goal to land as close as possible to 0 as soon as possible.

Then again, we missed the window to stop long ago. So why bother anyways, right?
You'll feel different when you are old.
Can you delete the proprietary software, and if so does the Linux still run?

Can you modify the Linux part, and if so does the proprietary software still run?

If those two criteria are satisfied I think you could probably successfully argue that they are cleanly separable components within a "mere aggregate". If not, they pretty clearly are bound together into a larger combined work.
I was in an AI conference yesterday, and there was a bunch of discussion in the chat about Slack channels, Discord servers, etc. So I was literally just lamenting the state of shared discussion forums, and commented that we all need to go back to Usenet and drop all these lame "walled garden" proprietary forums.

I'd like to tell people "install Thunderbird, sign up for a free Usenet provider, and join comp.ai, comp.misc, etc and have fun." But I'm a bit leery of encouraging people to do that since I'm not sure what the state of spam being sent to the various Usenet groups is, or how providers are handling spam filtering (if at all).

That said, there's definitely a place for NNTP / Usenet. It might take some work to fix up some issues, but it would be great to see vibrant / fruitful discussions via Usenet again.
I'm an odd one out -- I actually don't like Compose and it may partly have to do with my dislike for YAML. I often have a hard time finding or understanding the docker-compose equivalent of a docker CLI command or flag.

I've taken to replacing docker compose files with bash scripts for my personal projects. So far, it's been OK.
The article pointed out that Eternal September offers free subscriptions.

I'm not sure what an "indexer" is, such that you'd need to subscribe to it; is that some kind of online service like Deja News? I used to just download everything that appeared on the handful of groups that interested me, and store it locally. Then I could do local searches.

That "store locally" capability wasn't some bag of bash scripts I cobbled together; I thought all newsreaders could do that natively.
9/11 got us the Patriot Act, the TSA, an invasion of a completely unrelated country that killed around 600,000 people, and a few trillion dollars in unnecessary military spending. Knee-jerk responses generally don't end well, speaking from experience.
There's no such thing as free-speech absolutionist, it's only a matter of finding the right words to trigger someone into a visceral reaction.

The problem is that it's impossible to prove a negative of this nature because you are always met with no-true-scottsman responses.

Reality is, if you press any human hard enough, you will find something, that's just how things are.
My mom listed our family as my dad's name with "Dr." in front, I think in the phone book. My dad was never happy about that. But we're not German.
It's very easy to go against the golden rule. I don't want people to scream obscenities at me so I don't. If I scream obscenities at people and am upset when people respond in kind, it's clear I violated the golden rule
I'm not sure, but I just tested and my kali linux and mac os UTM VMs both started instantly.
TBH i don't get the point of mastodon. Social media is primarily "media", broadcasting, so they must be megaphones, which by necessity includes large scale commercial and entertainment activity. Mastodon's purpose of small cozy chats is better served by ... chat which is more self-selective and fit for the niches or countercultures
My father contracted cryptococcal meningitis seven years ago and, according to his doctors, was days away from dying from it (he has fully recovered since, thankfully)

The problem, though, wasn't treating it. His neurosurgeon told me they treated it with the same medication they give women for yeast infections. The problem was diagnosing it. He's not HIV positive nor has he had a transplant. Apparently, in a small percentage of the population, the fungus makes it way to a non-immunocompromised brain. It's so small that, according to his neurosurgeon, they have to treat patients like him as if they were HIV positive/transplant recipients because they don't have enough data otherwise.

I'm glad to hear about this new therapy but, with my father at least, they weren't able to properly diagnose until they did a biopsy on his brain. So, it seems like improvements in diagnosis may be in order as well.
Right, but if these people are skilled migrants working in in demand areas, that's 2 or 3 orders of magnitude less than an auction would raise.
I don't see any way electricity could fall anywhere near that much in 20 years. For that to happen, we either need a revolutionary decrease in the price of nuclear power, a radical improvement in the price of dependable renewable energy (probably involving a lot of batteries) or some hard AI takeoff that makes EVERYTHING cheaper.

Keep in mind that most countries are trying to electrify most parts of the economy, so we not only need to decarbonize the current electrical supply, but possibly 2-3 times that, if we are to replace NG for heating, steel and chemical industries, fertilizers and so on.

Keep in mind that even if the technology for producing windmills and batteries go down a lot, we still need a lot of new mining capacity to even have enough raw materials to produce those items. That alone could take 10-15 years to build out.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230823004121/https://ghostfol....
It's a good thing that ADHD has nothing to do with "not being able to focus easily" then.

ADHD means "I don't choose what I focus on", which poses some management challenges, but in an environment where there's always a lot of various interesting tasks to choose from and a team of people where others can take care of things you end up neglecting because your focus has changed, one can still thrive sitting behind a desk. In fact, my ADHD barely ever takes me away from my desk (unless making it too cluttered to sit there and moving with a laptop to a couch counts).

Maintaining your health, house and relationships is not as easy though.
At least in my state reckless standards would have to be that the action is more likely than not to cause harm. I could see if the guy was shooting off rounds, or pointing the gun at people. It just seems insane that leaving it in your room would be reckless even though it's not going off by itself. I would roll the dice at trial, even if I would need an appeal. Fucking insanity - there shouldn't even be enough probable cause to support the arrest since a preponderance of the evidence doesn't support it.
There's some push to have gender neutral language in Spanish, but it's pretty controversial.
Hello Jecel, your work was just what I had in mind when writing about this. How are you doing? Any major progress? I'd really love to see you succeed, I think what you were working on is one of the most interesting developments in computing.
I would be interested to see your thoughts from the perspective of a minority, especially one used as a scapegoat.
A corpse is teeming with life

It might not have the consciousness of your loved one, but the whole process from “death” to complete decomposition, is part of life and done by living things (animals, bacteria, plants, funghi, other microorganisms)

Would you say your arm is alive? Is your foot alive? Your nails? And if they are not, then are you alive?

You can’t just put together a bunch of dead things and call it life. Just like splitting loving things won’t make them dead (even if it ends our perception of that thing’s consciousness)

Everything is completely intertwined with its environment
The future looks bleak for humans. It might not be in fact but it looks that way. Climate change and “AI” disruption or worse…it takes a special individual to want to bring a person into these situations.

People do, I did, but it’s not easy.
It's extremely rare that anyone gets "roid rage" or addiction. Rage is induced far more often by people not being able to vape/smoke in airports. Any kind of rage associated with steroids is usually caused by too little estrogen, which only really happens when taking anti-estrogen pills, not generally from the steroids themselves, and when this happens can be rapidly fixed by adjusting hormones with hCG, HMG, or estradiol valerate -- none of which are scheduled, hCG is cheap on the gray market, and estradiol is widely available to trans women.

Addiction is so rare that the American Medical Association, FDA, and even the DEA itself opposed scheduling anabolic steroids, because of the lack of evidence that steroid use resulted in dependence[0]. This is why it simply doesn't belong on the controlled substance schedules.

There's a lot of post-hoc justification and propaganda about it now that it's illegal. But the evidence doesn't support this propaganda. It is fairly effective at convincing a non-trivial amount of the population though.

0: https://healthlaw.org/increasing-access-to-testosterone-to-i....
In other news, the local union of serial killers scrapped their plan to fund an independent homicide unit.