skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is watching every video or stream from a content creator and posting in a forum mocking them "stalking"? Is digging through someone's old Twitter posts stalking? Is noticing that a person used the same username on multiple websites (some potentially embarrassing) stalking?

You cannot be seriously asking this.

From https://www.merriam-webster.com/legal/stalking:

> broadly : a crime of engaging in a course of conduct directed at a person that serves no legitimate purpose and seriously alarms, annoys, or intimidates that person

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalking:

> Stalking is unwanted and/or repeated surveillance by an individual or group toward another person.[1] Stalking behaviors are interrelated to harassment and intimidation and may include following the victim in person or monitoring them.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberstalking:

> Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet or other electronic means to stalk or harass an individual, group, or organization.[1][2] It may include false accusations, defamation, slander and libel. It may also include monitoring, identity theft, threats, vandalism, solicitation for sex, doxing, or blackmail.

> there's a large chasm between what people think Kiwi Farms is and what it actually is.

There's a large chasm between what you think the word stalking means and what it actually means.
future headlines:

Scratch for Cancer Diagnosis.

NASA adopts no-code GenAI interface for critical navigation and telemetry on first human flight to Mars.
> Go was the first language I used that broke an explicit check for nil/null/None. I had to cast my nil to a different kind of nil in order for the program to run correctly. C/Python/Java/C++ didn't have this issue. Null was always null in each of these languages.

I think it makes sense - a `nonexistent<ThisType>` is different from a `nonexistent<ThatType>`.

In C, Java, C#, C++ and other languages, null/nil is a value. In Go null/nil has a type. Now that I've used Go a little, I actually miss having error messages for certain things, and comparing a `nonexistent<ThatType>` to a `nonexistent<ThisType>` is actually a logic error in my code that I want to be warned about.
If you like Ruby I think you might enjoy Crystal as well.
Yes, Java has very good IDE integration, but for other languages, being easy to write without an IDE was important back then. A lot of people were using text editors.

The situation has changed now that having at least somewhat reasonable IDE integration is common. AI tools can also give you pretty good autocomplete.
I don't think that is a very fair assessment. There are some legitimate concerns about vulnerability to earthquakes and the discharge of warm water into the ocean. I think keeping Diablo Canyon running is the better option for the environment, but there are knowledgeable people on the other side of this issue who are also concerned about the earth and would rather move quickly to wind and solar. That doesn't make them "implacable enemies of the Earth."
There’s no cross talk because you can’t peek / poke arbitrary pointers in javascript. But you can in Rust.

And even then, I think modern browsers still isolate each tab in a separate process just to be safe. I don’t think they share memory.
More nativity from the EFF, I dont think they live in the real world. It’s never worked that at and never will. Why? Because the systems become unusable for everyone.

A simple and very very old example is email. Even back in the 1990s days of the Internet, we had spam on email and if your reputable isp caught you spamming you’d be in trouble. Same with shitposting on usenet.

Sure there are nuances to consider as to what providers should do and what they should not, but like a lot of things this is a hard problem. The ‘simple’ solutions presented here and in other places will not solve it.
Let's put the government in charge!
Anything packaged for Debian. apt install whatever.
Between this and previous lawsuit against SpaceX, it seems the nation state is coming after him because he might have gone “over the top” too many times. I mean sure these things might be legit at their face value but the selective enforcement and timing of these do seem sus.
Each Tesla is connected to an account and therefore a person. Just like they can push OTA and enable in-car purchases, they can enable certain modes for certain people.

I don’t think that there’s a hidden command to do so from the dashboard, but surely they can do it remotely. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a “if user === elon” condition just like on Twitter
Neurosurgeon removes live worm from woman's brain [video]
> it was more approachable than Perl i.e more succinct.

My dim memory of that time is that Python code was often longer than Perl, but that was OK because its selling-point was that it didn't have so many syntax edge-cases and it was easier to read. More things were actual words-for-humans as opposed to special symbols one had to memorize and apply according to special rules.
> You've at least stopped speaking for everyone else in the thread ...

I never spoke for anyone else in this thread. In your dichotomy of "us vs them", I am neither. You need a finer brush.

> but you've simply arrived at ... where you stop addressing arguments and fall back to simply impugning other's intelligence ...

I made no comments about yours or anyone's intelligence. Again, you need a finer brush to paint other people's opinions. If I felt you weren't intelligent enough, I wouldn't have attempted to talk to you. But your responses to me are giving me reasons to rethink the (f)utility of this attempt.

> ... and motives.

Nor did I make any comments about your motives; only your conduct. I have neither condoned nor denounced your motives. I only pointed out that you attacked your parent. You justified the attack by claiming that you had many people on your side.

This is HN, not a schoolyard. Having many people on your side does not give you the right to attack participants in this forum.

If you still do not understand this, know this: it only makes your point harder to agree with. The harder you are to talk to, the harder you will find people to talk with. I'd hoped you were intelligent enough to see your conduct was not helping you argue your case. I have no such hopes now. Goodbye.
I would hope all science is always taken with a grain of salt, that’s the hallmark of science.
Often, but not every day.
It's a detailed video essay that presents a cohesive argument, drawing on a wide variety of sources including Loeb's autobiography.

Form your opinion however you please, but this is an excellent source. It's unfair to tarnish it as merely dogma, or to insult the other commenter as merely a mouthpiece for the scientific establishment for linking to a strong source.

Furthermore, there is such a thing as expertise. Information exists within a context, and it is necessary to understand that context to avoid misinterpreting it. Understanding that context is the nature of expertise. That doesn't mean you accept what they say uncritically, but seeing what experts have to say is in fact an important step when researching an unfamiliar topic.
The guy believes he has been spoken to by aliens in his dreams. Unfortunately this means pretty much anything he authors can be safely disregarded as the ramblings of someone in need of psychiatric care.

These nodules are the result of terrestrial geology.
Dealing with PCI means you basically have to rely on the payment processor to store the card and customer data. Intermediaries like Square and Stripe require this and make it easy. It's been a long time since I built anything that spoke directly to a card gateway (i.e. merchant bank) but I'd be pretty shocked if any didn't force you to use their iframe/storage/token solution at this point. Back in the late 90s, e-commerce sites used to just take the customer card numbers in plaintext and pass them to the VeriSign gateway and basically roll their own APIs.
This held up much better in the earlier days of Python.

Sooner or later every sufficiently popular programming language is confronted with the dilemma of either breaking backwards compatibility and/or adding "alternative ways to do things"

Pathlib is an interesting one. It even has a correspondence table [1]. The introduction of pathlib made sense because it is just much nicer to use. But you couldn't drop the equivalent functionality in the "os" module for backwards compatibility. It's just far too widely used.

The is no magic bullet for this one. Either you accept introducing duplication in your language or you go through a hard change (f.ex. the Python 2 to 3 change).

The softest way to migrate might be to flag functionality as deprecated and give users a fairly long time (talking years) before dropping it. But no matter how much time you give the users there will be users who won't change until it's too late.

So there really isn't a winning path for this one.

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html#correspondenc...
These particular chips. They seem more targeted at HPC work (and price point).

This sort of architecture. I wouldn't be surprised if current GPU were doing something similar.

If you think about executing a shader program. You typically are running that same code over a bunch of data. You can map that to multiple threads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_block_(CUDA_programming...

https://yosefk.com/blog/simd-simt-smt-parallelism-in-nvidia-...
For anyone who's unfamiliar, here's the station in question: https://imgur.com/a/rDfK680 (my photos, from the Point Buchon Trail)
> Requiring a login puts them at a level of "why not just use Google Meet?" to me [...]

Because... it's not Google? For some people that may be a plus.
It doesn't work well enough. For example, CTRL-Click a link ignores it and opens a tab. Menu -> Settings also ignores it and opens a tab.
The point of Kubernetes was to make "run this software on a cloud" trivially compatible across clouds. No specialized code that is needed for load balancers, storage, networking... you should be able to take your containerized application and the set of YAML files that describes what you want to do, and they work on "any" cloud.

As long as you don't rely on implementation details like a specific Ingress Controller that needs special annotations, this is exactly what Kubernetes does, and the reason why you have Helm Charts that don't need to take into consideration which the underlying cloud is.

Going back to what we had before, you had to be very aware of exactly which cloud provider you'd use. And since AWS had about 80+% of the market then, that meant that instructions for how to run things on Google's cloud were not very good, if they existed at all.
This reminds me of the Halo game series where the AI cortana tells the protagonist "master chief john", that she chose him because he was lucky.

However if you know the story of how the super solider Spartans are created. They are high scoring children kidnapped from their families, forced to participate in combat testing. If they live they are medically experimented on, cybernically augmented and put through a painful gene editing process that kills the majority of them. If they survive all that they get to spend the remainder of their life in brutal combat.

I always though it was funny because who's definition of lucky are they using here? Same with Amazon. Are the lucky ones the discarded resumes or the saved ones?
> Nintendo advertizing this as a Wii accessory, when it was actually a new console, really hurt this thing.

True. I don't get how people don't know they bought this, and thought it was an accessory, what would a black rectangular box and GamePad do for the Wii?
After I've read about the stance of the Green Party of Germany, I've kinda started to agree with their strategy of closing nuclear plants and going coal, so that everyone is pushed to fund renewables, nuclear is a temporary solution that slows everything else, but once you're on coal, then you need to move fast to renewables

And since this particular plant has been given billions to stay open, nuclear also sucks investments that in case you're currently on coal, you can fully give to renewables
This reply gives me a bit of anxiety. Solving this should have been one of the most important things regarding something like this
Hm. What SRE gets out of bed for $X,000 batch compute?
The irony of the piece is that psychology's greatest contribution to science over the last several decades is probably meta-science, or empirical introspection about the scientific process itself.

Modern meta-analysis has its roots in clinical and educational psychology, and now there's the lens focused on replicability and preregistration. If history is any guide, about 20 years from now the methods that come out of this will start to be applied widely and routinely in biomedical research and then elsewhere.

The useless fat in science isn't limited to psychology: there have been controversial articles all over the place about decreasing scientific returns for investments, and drowning out of innovation by incentivized noise. Sure, maybe there's less fat in some fields than others, but there's plenty of fat to go around.

What's maybe unique about psychology is how much outrage and exposure there is about it. Other fields might be in denial but the time will come.

Also, part of the reason we don't mourn the loss of fabricated or unreplicable studies is because the people who hung their hat on it continue to do so, burying their head in the sand. Everyone else probably was silently waiting for more evidence to come, and came it did, and then it was swept under the rug of self-correcting science.

Modern academics is sort of a marvel in how much bullshit it can absorb without consequence. It's like the The Blob of modern institutions.
Is this Rama library for which this is a demo going to be Open Source? What license?
How do you figure it'll give that much? Near as I can see large scale solar is a bit over $1/W so $1.1B would give you less than half as much power in the middle of the day, less spread out over time.
Neither of these are "picking the next president of Ukraine", what you're seeing is how the sausage is made - every country has their interests.
He’s a hype-monger who is high on his own bullshit. That’s his reputation. He was a reasonable scientist but realised that being a mystic was more profitable.
You're describing a victimless situation which is substantially different from the matter at hand.
> Plenty of NATO interventions, where not a single NATO member was attacked.

But that’s not the context that Ukraine wants to join NATO in, Ukraine wants to join NATO to permanently kick the Russian imperialistic invaders out of their country and making sure they never come back.

Effectively just holding Russia to the multiple agreements they signed where they promised to respect and not threaten Ukraines borders or sovereignty.
For completeness I've seen a fair share of Infotainment units with development/test modes in production.

The main difference is as far as I know those have a fairly segregate gap between cockpit infotainment and safety critical vehicle functions, including separate CAN buses and CAN gateways.

With Tesla I am not sure as they seem to have thrown away every lesson in Automotive design and started from scratch.
If only congress doesn't already have plenty of people who are actually making careers out of shaping their own image to be grotesque sensationalist monsters... (Depending on which side you view them from)
China’s corruption crackdown rips through Healthcare Sector
https://archive.is/zKMFK
> You're young enough to have never dealt with write-only Perl code ...

How young does one have to be for that to be true?

As recently as 2017 I was employed at a place where there was a significant amount of perl code, as part of the build system (ugh) for the C code, and generating html (for some other system).
Did you read beyond the first sentence of my comment? I feel like I provided enough context for what I was getting at.

I just meant that Nazi Germany, in comparison to any other authortarian regime, weren't anything special when it came to censorship, other than the racial focus making them easy to hate.

If we are trying to justify censorship as an effort to "protect" Freedom of Speech, then logically we would need to censor the more popular anti free speech political ideologies as well, and with higher priority even! But that wouldn't be free speech anymore would it?

The reality of it is that Nazis only get censored because they are unpopular, a dead political ideology. There is no nation that supports it, and none that can defend it, it's an easy target. People who want to censor Nazis aren't doing it to protect Free Speech, they are doing it because they don't like them, the argument is fundumentally dishonest.

If you just want to censor people you don't like, then you don't support Freedom of Speech. Just like every other autoritarian regime that banned whatever they disliked. The line is very clear here.
Your post is total speculation. I agree with the parent comment, it's disappointing that whatever it happening here is not making it past the NHTSA into the public.
It win over all the worlds 50 clojure devs for sure ;)
In tons of enterprise and just general office settings, you'll be given a CSV file, rather than a database dump. Heck, even scientific lab equipment will output CSV for you. It's basically the lowest common denominator for all kinds of tabular data.

So anything that makes using CSV files easier with your product is likely going to be a welcome change for a lot of people.

Realistically, your database engine can probably ingest the CSV file in a simple import statement, so you're likely 98% done already with this. :)
At least we have a point of agreement, that being that: "Either you're trolling or your comprehension is just totally off"

To return to the beginning you arrived here with the statement that

"[Two times] Nobel prize winner and superior[(?)] neurosurgeon criticized as quacks by two internet users"

I pointed out bad paraphrasing, both parties had recognised core skills, both famously championed beliefs that had little to no evidence or support.

Point being neither of "the two internet users" above accused the subjects of being quacks per se .. just that both had definitely publicly veered into quackery.

That's the relevant observation here, a thread about a much lauded elder astrophysicist veering into matters outside off his computational chops, into questions of metallurgy, and not receiving any support from his peers.

TBH I'm a fan of the bulk of Paulings work, quantum chemistry, molecular biology, and his promotion (and Russell's) of nuclear disarmament. I attribute his embrace of megavitamin therapy more to his age and aversion to death.

Carson seems like a talented enough knife man albeit dimmer than many others I know.

You did explicitly state that they both could "stretch their domain expertise 'so far'" which leaves a lot of ambiguity wrt just how far you intended, especially with Pauling who literally had bona fide cross domain credientials (or over lapping credentials in related science fields plus a public voice that lead to his Nobel Peace Prize.)

Minchin, FWiW, is a keenly intelligent comedian and lyricist and frequently mixes in in some on point observations from scientific rationalism, philosophy, logic, et al.

Additionally, I bear you no ill will (I've exercised no votes here) this may all be a case of two people reading past each other.
From $Erverless to Elixir
Wait, isn't jitsi open source? If so anyone can host their own server and disable the auth right? If so, why the anger?
Even though I feel somewhat familiar with most Internet culture, I've never come across the Bad Apple meme, and I've just spent a good hour down the YouTube rabbit hole watching variations of Bad Apple. Fantastic stuff
1% is the number I seem to remember from watching an interview of a CEO of a DNA company.
No evidence grammar schools are best for the brightest, study reveals
I don't know why people think Python is the only productive language.
Still, it's extremely hard to point to anyone who's been directly harmed by those two plants (other than the soldiers messing around there, of course).

Should countries build new nuclear plants? Maybe not, especially if the money would generate more watts using renewables. Shutting down extant nuclear plants while a country still has open coal and gas plants? That shows that they are not at all serious about the whole climate change thing at all.
To say “child sexual abuse material” is a euphemism for “child porn” is to misunderstand the meaning of the word “euphemism”.

Which is more mild? “Sexual abuse material”, or “pornography”?

Anyway, the point of bringing up CSAM or child pornography is to point out that you don’t think it’s bad idea to allow “the New Zealand police ordering websites to remove content they dislike and hand over user information about anyone who so much as discussed it” in every context. In some cases you (or if not you, then at least the vast majority of society) thinks it’s appropriate.

So, now we know that there is line, and it’s a matter of discussing as a society where that line should be. I happen to agree that we should keep the government very far away from regulating speech, as much as possible, but I don’t view your argument as the best way of getting there.
> Do you think these people just turned their careers and image to shambles because they just wanted some sensationalism or do you give people any benefit of the doubt?

They can also very earnestly believe what they do and simply be wrong.

You're setting up a false dichotomy where someone must either be a deceptive charlatan or else be correct.

Third possibility is deeply held and incorrect belief.

Stockton Rush believed very earnestly in his submersible, he wasn't a simple charlatan, he really had earnest beliefs about it and he literally bet his life on it. He is also dead now because physics decided to show him that he was just wrong.

There's no reason to doubt that Lee Sukbae and Kim Ji-Hoon thought they really had a room temperature superconductor, but they were wrong.
That logic can be used to suppress most other political/religious ideologies and speech. If all it takes to justify censorship is a slippery slope argument that "when XYZ ideology gains enough real following the resulting implementation attempts probabilistically/historically lead to a suppressed society with hateful class division and mass death" -- then everything from Marxist writing to religious proselytizing qualifies for banning too.
The content on the kiwifarms site includes private people's home addresses and highly personal intimidating details that have no reason to be posted except for intimidation. The content violates existing criminal and civil laws and has nothing to do with "reasonable disagreements". It's an utter failure that the police don't do anything about online harassment. Even the EFF article admits this stuff is illegal.
I'd imagine that's because it's the weekend and most queries are related to work.
> Python is very difficult to maintain when you program goes over 100k lines of code, while the static type system of c++ is good for millions

I see this argument a lot, but people often forget that Python is very concise (yet readable) compared to other languages.

100k LOC in Python typically contains way more business logic than C++, so it is only natural to be harder to maintain.
Aside from all the points mentioned by the other comments, there's also the factor that Zuck probably finds this kind of research cool, and considering he owns the majority of the votes, he can do almost whatever he wants with Meta.
What you want to use or avoid, is not necessarily what others want or avoid, and we should respect each others different preferences.
Iirc nab has an API