skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IME they're often a captured and streamed broadcast, say a Kansas City Chief's game as shown by 'your local' FOX affiliate in BFE, Oklahoma airing the afternoon game (including ads), rather than a re-share of the official online stream.

I've even seen a few really chintzy ones that were just a webcam pointed at a tv, bootleg film style.
It’s a Weird Time for Driverless Cars
Those IVF technicians seem a bit paranoid. Obviously, forgetting to put an unfertilized egg back in the freezer will hurt trust in your business, but I can't imagine anyone could successfully sue the IVF clinic on the basis that an illegal abortion had occurred.

The issue of fertilized but non-implanted embryos is already well-understood, as that is the entire basis behind opposition to embryonic stem cells and derived products. The interesting part will be to see how various religions will react if you tell them the fertilized egg will grow in an artificial womb.
PHP certainly powers a lot of sites, but there seems to be a lot less code written in it. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places. I see tons of python job listings, very few php ones. PHP powers wordpress, and people use wordpress with a sprinkle of custom php it seems.
To be fair Oracle is a ** company relying on a 50 year old monopoly product. Apple Amazon and Google are a different league.
> So you do realize that cyberstalking is a crime in US code: 47 U.S.C. § 223, right?
It seems pretty clear they're doing that, no?

You claimed people "might" be using the forums to commit crimes, now you're saying "it's pretty clear". Again, what actual evidence do you have to back these claims?

> Seems weird that you can't just google this, I mean it took me 30 seconds to do this.

I aware of this blog post by CloudFlare. However, I am not aware of any actual evidence or examples that substantiate the claims made in it. The operator of Kiwi Farms has publicly stated that he received no notice from either CloudFlare or law enforcement about the alleged threats. CloudFlare has also never provided any specifics publicly. In my opinion, the CEO was overruled and forced to remove KF, and that blog post is a transparent attempt to save face after beating his chest about never backing down.

) However, the rhetoric on the Kiwifarms site and specific, targeted threats have escalated over the last 48 hours to the point that we believe there is an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life unlike we have previously seen from Kiwifarms or any other customer before.
What’s the difference in practice compared to every other OS where app is just a “int main() { … }” function?
> People who openly advocate for mass violence even if vague and theoretical belong in prison.

Okay, so put them in prison!

But if they're not in prison they should have electricity, mail, communications.

Hell, even if they are in prison they get those things.
I dunno, terrorists?
Typically the pirate streams I see and use are either from a local OTA broadcast or the direct cable stream. The direct stream even has placeholders for local ads.
Flicker Noises in Astronomy And Elsewhere (1978) [pdf]
Thrown to the Wolves
Or maybe the batteries are doing a functional job for someone other than me.
"So, to maintain your project, it's not sufficient for me to know language X -- I also have to learn a bunch of functions, and understand the business processes that are used to create the abstractions, and trust code from my coworkers with just unit tests and type checking? No sir."
I Googled it, apparently it comes from this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_soup
Those of us purchasing bandwidth should boycott HE. I know I will be and I'm a potentially significant customer of theirs. They're completely off the list of providers unless they completely change their tune.
Linear Algebra for programmers, part 1
I would argue that Python is the Betamax of computer languages, and C++ is the true VHS.

Fight me.

But seriously, Python is good. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of good, only computer science people can do this.
This is why I hate the focus on psychological resilience in the work place. It puts the onus on the individual to deal with stressful situations rather than asking what can be done to remove unnecessary stress in the first place.
Middle managers whose idea of "performance monitoring" is counting bums on seats need to be able to see the bums in the seats.
If I recall correctly those posts were all from new accounts, and were largely removed by moderators.

I mean, anyone can create a new account on HN and post "I am literally going to kill Joe Biden tonight", and perhaps they actually plan to do that too, and maybe they'll even pull it off, but that doesn't mean HN orchestrated a conspiracy to kill Joe Biden.

The general policy is "look, but don't touch", and while I don't really trust the userbase in general to adhere to that, the people running the site (mostly this Null guy, as near as I can tell) seem fairly dedicated to this.

Personally I think the internet wold be better without the site, but I also think there's a sore lack of nuance here, and people accept certainly dubious claims a little bit too readily (turns out not everything on the internet is the whole story, or even true in the first place).
So, you are saying that there is no plan for it to work outside of Chrom(ium) browsers? It doesn't solve the problem of forcing someone to use a specific browser to use the platform.

It does not inspire confidence in an end product will work everywhere and be of high quality when the product to create it is buggy and limited.
Right. It made no sense for Apple to have complete control over most of their devices, with custom innovations moving between them, and still remain dependent on Intel for one class of devices.

Intel downsides for Apple:

1. No reliable control of schedule, specs, CPU, GPU, DPU core counts, high/low power core ratios, energy envelopes.

2. No ability to embed special Apple designed blocks (Secure Enclave, Video processing, whatever, ...)

3. Intel still hasn't moved to on-chip RAM, shared across all core-types. (As far as I know?)

4. The need to negotiate Intel chip supplies, complicated by Intel's plans for other partner's needs.

5. An inability to differentiate Mac's basic computing capabilities from every other PC that continues to use Intel.

6. Intel requiring Apple to support a second instruction architecture, and a more complex stack of software development tools.

Apple solved 1000 problems when they ditched Intel.
office space offered as cleanfield light industrial suites, does sound like a good idea.
In the (convection) zone: Astronomers eavesdrop on stars’ innate “twinkle”
Demo has OOM error =(
Everything humans do is due to “burdens and risks”, with the explicit goal of changing the human experience.

Without progress, the human experience involves a ton of maternal and infant mortality. And obviously everything has consequences, good and bad. These are not reasons to freeze the process of birthing a child to a specific point in time.
Ha, fair enough. I appreciate your candid response.
It's like trying to find typos in your own writing. It's very difficult to stay focused when reading a long series of nearly identical documents. The people you're talking about are reading a lot of novel documents.
I think people who consider Freedom of Speech, the principle, to be exclusively a government thing, are stupider than people who think the right to Free Speech applies to everything. Wonder why this misaligned perspective seems so popular with pseudo-intellectuals these days.
In order to become a history teacher, I had to get a master’s degree in education. I was required to take a minimum of five graduate-level history classes in the history department as part of it. I was transitioning from being a lawyer. Professors would talk about checking citations (although not systematically) but it was more for the purpose of finding useful material you want to use, not to check how they are being used by authors. Ok, whatever. I was used to reading cited sources for the purpose of evaluating the argument they were purportedly supporting. But every single time I raised in a seminar that some citation did not bear the weight placed on it, or even simply failed to logically support what it purported to support, it was explained to me that I was missing the point.

After the second seminar of this happening, the chairperson of the history department called me into his office. He said he understood that I used to be a lawyer and thus was likely to be more drawn to or interested in arguing about things. He understood I was going to become a teacher, not a professional historian. But my approach to sources and citations was being complained about by history graduate students and the professors agreed. I was told that when reading secondary sources in seminars I should spend more time thinking about what is valuable about them and how they might be used in further research than scrutinizing the evidence and logic underpinning them. Anyway, it was a little insulting for me to think that I could legitimately critique such things in a useful way when I had not spent the years of work in the archives that the authors of those works did. He had called this meeting with me in order to be frank with me about the problems that the history department was having with me and to give me a “second chance” before talking to the education department where my degree would come from.

Suffice to say, I got the message: I obediently complied and shut my mouth in the remaining seminars. I got my degree and was certified and am now a history teacher at an urban public high school. I’m happy with my life. And I’ll never think about professional history/historians with the same fundamental deference to expertise as I did before I got a glimpse of it up close.
I lol'd at this quote from the original McKinsey article:

> For example, one company found that its most talented developers were spending excessive time on noncoding activities such as design sessions or managing interdependencies across teams. In response, the company changed its operating model and clarified roles and responsibilities to enable those highest-value developers to do what they do best: code.

How dare our senior dev leads spend time _designing_, we need hands on keyboards!!!
I've been trying to teach my daughter (11 years old) Python and she gets quite confused by the whitespace-as-indent construct. For example, it's not at all obvious when a block ends and you have to unindent / go back to a lesser level of indentation. Flower brackets (C, Java, etc;) or explicit ENDIF are much better. This course [1] is quite good for kids of that age.

And, oh. Just realized that self.name (object.variable) quietly retrieves the Class.name class variable (class "attribute" for the pedantic) :|

Hate how dynamic languages bend over backwards to not report an error. I would much prefer the "inconvenience" of having to compile my program and then be told what all is wrong at compile time. Sad that this is now popular. The language is very adhoc in general.

1. https://www.udemy.com/course/real-world-programming-for-kids...
Community Companies Can Smash Monopolies
I don't understand how iPhone users put up with such file-hostile behavior. When I want to get a large video file from my phone to my computer I open my phone's file manager, hit copy file, select one of my PC's network shared folders, and it copies over at a good clip, around 70 MB/s.
gruber is underestimating how much iphone nerds have been talking about this change with their friends and family.

there will also be the rebound effect - when the android nerds give the regular iphone users shit for it taking so long for the iphone to get usbc.

that harassment is likely to send the regular iphone users right back into the arms of the iphone nerds.

most people are going to find the color-matched cable fabulous, grumble a bit that they need to pick out some new anker colors, and otherwise not spend much time on this.
How do you reconcile witj people who define Nazi differently?

Is Ron DeSantis a Nazi? Is Matt Walsh a Nazi? etc.
> In my (40 yo+) peer group people have largely settled down somewhere not near a home office during the pandemic. People have the entire cost structure of home ownership, day care, and commuting built around not needing to be in a major metro going into an office.

I find it pretty hard to believe that in a 2 year period during a pandemic families can all move, then are unable to move back again.

Perfectly normal that they prefer a quieter location, but I expect eventually we'll move to a framework where there will be a big pay difference between those in the office vs remote due to supply and demand.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning

We’re keeping it a secret.
It's a cool idea, was just thinking if a program is just a function, can I just replace any function with a malicious code acting as dependency of another function? Or how would I require a specific function through signature? I guess me as a developer working on Fomos, would have to declare fully qualified dependencies in a manifest and then be able to call by function name my dependencies in my code? But then what about versioning? Do I have to bundle in my app all my dependencies? But cool idea
With the exception of properties, of course.
It depends on what the effect is and the hypotheses you are attempting to distinguish between. Sometimes you have to use your brain and think about it; science is not all randomized controlled trials, p values and curve fitting. :)
I agree with you. I even remember it. It was Ruby or Python. Rails or Django. I tried both and liked Ruby and Rails better. Maybe if I knew back then it will be number one language I would go for it for the sake of career. But I still think that Ruby and Rails are better, and are my daily driver.
Really? To turn the question on its head a bit, Amazon has EKS, and they don't seem to be any worse off for having not invented it.
As painful as the Python package system is, C/C++ is so much worse.

I remember trying to compile GTK+ on a solaris system a decade ago, and remembering how terrible it was to even to get it to compile.

You're really deluding yourself if spending your time in compiler dependency hell is so much better than python.
The trope about SAS being required is pretty old... people trotted that out when I last worked in pharma ~15 years ago. The FDA specifically released an article saying that R is perfectly acceptable for submission https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/06/fda-r-ok.html

Please don't spread the SAS FUD. I work in Pharma and talk to the statisticians all the time.
Freedom of speech is a pretty fundamental value. It's not surprising to expect it beyond where it's legally required.
I was thinking The X public Beta or 10.0 might be easier because it's BSD, and you can drop into verbose mode and see what's happening.

I had to do some work to get IIRC 10.2 (or maybe 10.3 or 10.4) to boot on my PowerMac G3, but it was doable booting into single user mode and going from there.
Make two apps A and B with their respective main() functions. Add some function foo() to app A. Now try to call A's foo() from B's main(). How many hoops do you need to jump through in every other OS to do this?
> speech itself == violence

What's the argument against? Folks have been driven to suicide by targeted harassment and doxxing labeled "speech." The whole reason we have laws about public accommodation is because in a society you can drive someone to ruin by everyone collectively refusing to do business with them which was (and still is for the gays) backed by 1A. The threat of violence is violence, speech that is an implicit threat of violence is violence. Speech that makes people feel unsafe due that implicit threat is violence (say a neighborhood where every house had a flag with a black man hung by a noose). Verbal abuse is still abuse. Everyone who's ever been to school knows that bullying doesn't actually require anyone lay a hand on you to make you live in constant fear and that dynamic doesn't just go away when you become an adult.

Sure, we could coin a term like "diet violence" to mean actions that cause in people the behave as if they were under the threat of violence but which doesn't cause bodily harm but what would be the point? Legally it makes sense to do that to discourage escalation but to the victim the only difference is usually but not always the severity.

I'm sympathetic to folks when their messaging or iconography becomes recognized as an implicit threat of violence due to it being co-opted by others when they didn't mean it that way but if a bunch of people started flying communist flags and lynching people I would take mine down even if I was just really pro-workers rights. To me speech is about the content, the ideas, not any particular expression. In opposite world where "we're here we're queer" was a line that caused people to hide in their homes in fear I would be like yeah that's violence if I used that phrase in a speech. I can't separate cause and effect. I can still express my totally fine idea that queer folks do and will always exist, just using different words.
All this may be true (I'm not the strongest C++ developer in the world, relatively limited exposure), however the Rust memory management via the type system feels natural once you wrap your head around it. That idea is really good. I always hated dealing with `delete`, `free` and `malloc`.

Being able to offload all that busy work to the type system is just nice. There are definitely ergonomic improvements that could be made around this.

All the rest? I'll leave that to someone else to talk through, as I'm no expert here.
> However, when it is about finishing a project, beating C++ or Java ecosystems is almost impossible.

Yet, somehow people do this with python, perl, and ruby. Google hires professional python people too.
>The lack of easy access to healthy foods or education on how to buy and prepare them, plus economic pressures all play into this.

This doesn't exist anywhere in the world. You either have easy access to healthy food or no access to food at all.

Healthy food is so much cheaper, more abundant and easier to source in all situations than processed junk.

The idea that people don't know how to eat healthy or can't afford to is a convenient lie.
Any time two phases are being run next to each other, there’s a risk of high voltage. That’s precisely what happened to me (two 277v lighting circuits).
In a very real sense the ghost of Freud haunts us.
I'm surprised by the level of conspiracy-mongering present in the comments here already. Putin's revanchism started this entire military misadventure, there are no if's, and's or but's about it. Sorry to say that sometimes the NYT and the US writ large are correct.
I was curious to see if someone would mention this. I would play that game as a teenager for a day and then ragequit only to come back a week later. I hate-loved that game.
I don't know, do they support Adolf Hitler or his views? If they don't then they're not, right?

Sure people get "labelled" as Nazi's. It happens all the time on the internet. Hence Godwin's first law of flamewars.
> I believe quite firmly that they may respond to the exercise of freedom of speech by exercising their freedom of association and refraining from further commerce with the speaker because of the information the speaker has revealed.

"freedom of association" is what a lot of people who owned diners felt enabled them to deny services to black people. Maybe you still feel that they should have been able to refuse service to anyone for any reason including skin color. We collectively decided that society works a lot better when we infringed on the rights of diner owners in order to protect the rights of everyone who wanted a seat at the lunch counter.

There's an argument to be made that in exchange for the privilege of corporate personhood, any company offering services to the general public should be required to serve any member of that public no matter what their beliefs. I'm not yet convinced that's an ideal situation personally, but situations like this make me more sympathetic to the idea.

I'd rather see our government take steps to make sure that no company is allowed to be in a position to oppress the American people leaving them without recourse. I'd sooner see companies with monopoly power broken up or pathways cleared to bring in meaningful competition. That should help protect the American people from oppression by non-governmental agencies while preserving the rights of companies to discriminate according to ideology (if that's a value we think is worth protecting).
The idea that you can read minds or reconstruct 'thought pictures', as if that's something everybody has, is going to require a lot of evidence.

How about we don't "operationalize psychology". And how about we don't "operationalize psychology" by using an app meant to hook up singles and build chance encounters for love.

The mere knowledge that some of "us" will go to any lengths to manipulate psychology and make hidden adjustments "for our own benefit" smacks of the British Empire we left behind.

Or at least, that's a polite way to hint that "operationalizing psychology" is starting to sound like the 1940s, and the last resort is to link your 'psycho' thinking to the British Empire as a saving grace, as if that dead tree could cast a blanket over this 'lab monkey' nonsense.

Scanning neurons is neuroscience, not psychology. Given that pop psychology is pushing Jung around like he's still a recent discovery, then yeah, it hasn't progressed much.
So you're saying Putin is a US puppet, who's deliberately crippling Russia for US benefit?

Then I guess the Russians had better vote him out!
Thank you for the great explanation and actionable suggestions.

I have to say, some of Meta's past open source and recent open-ish AI model releases have been big wins for the company's image in my mind.
Notably, the infamous picture taken outside of Keffals' alleged residence in Ireland was posted *on 4chan* by someone claiming to be a member of Kiwi Farms.

If they were actually a member of Kiwi Farms, why didn't they post it on the forums? The obvious answer, to me at least, is that they weren't, and they couldn't because KF had closed new user sign ups prior to that.
It's probably a rule written somewhere but here it goes, any part of a process that relies on humans to cooperate is guaranteed trouble.
Nowhere is safe.
Authentication on meet.jit.si
That was then. Python does much much less explicitly anymore these days, either.
This is interesting! Congrats on launching! I would personally love to see just simple csv dump as input :) Would you be able to generate possible questions automatically ?
This is very cool research (solid theory and data paired with "hands-on" activity across teams) and a well-presented finding. I'm hoping there's a chance to find larger samples in the future as well. Even if not, just the weird composition of the spherules is itself a massive find.
Sure, but the nominal value is still 120 V.