skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or some company would give him their $10,000 top end computer system and he'd state that the fact it was given to him didn't affect his opinions about the system, because he really used the system and that it was he, a power user, who was doing the company a favor by shaking the bugs out of their systems. I didn't buy it for a second.

Pournelle was never reluctant to criticize. He discussed the Epson QX-10 because he really wanted to like the bundled Valdocs software, but repeatedly excoriated over several versions its horrible performance. Pournelle was always scathing about copy protection, even if he otherwise liked the software. When discussing CP/M transportables, Pournelle preferred the super-expensive Otrona but rightly said that the Osborne and Kaypro were the Volkswagen better suited for most people in terms of price/performance. Etc., etc.
The one time I met Jerry Pournelle was when we peed together.

I was in the men's room at the West Coast Computer Faire, and Jerry walked up to the urinal next to me. We made some small talk (not Smalltalk!) while we did our business, and I quickly realized he was drunk as a skunk.

There was a moment of panic when I thought to myself, "Please, let his aim hold true!"

It did, and we both left unscathed and unsplashed.
Linux 6.1.4 kernel running in pure Scratch code
I did wonder about that when I read it. The idea of changesets and versions sounds an awful lot like branches and commits.
I'm not sure why it'd collapse when the UN predicts it'll stabilize around 5 billion, as when we were previously at 5 billion, our society didn't collapse.
Interesting. This might not be a bug in Google's dialer (or the OS, or hardware). Based on my past experience building B2B SIP clients, I remember that there are ways to intercept many of the Android system broadcasts. I'd bet on that being the root cause. Intercepting would look like the app is crashing, when instead it would be attempting to re-route requests to a different app; someone else mentioned they detected Microsoft Teams doing that. I remember Skype also had this feature, so it sounds plausible.

In the B2B world, we often had weird requests e.g. to take over the whole phone experience and do something different – this was made possible by the same core Android SDKs that they ship both to business devices and personal devices.

For example, we were required to move each 911 call to our app first, then check if we can route it quicker through the internal PBXs, and if not – send it back to the native/built-in dialer. This was possible a couple of years ago, we built it. I assume it's still possible because it's really rare that you need this kind of functionality... releasing such an app also requires a special review from Google. Maybe Google sees it as a low risk to the user experience and allows some apps to still do it, at least until something like this issue happes.
Human population will also change a lot. Subpopulations with very high fertility (like fundamentalist Christians or hassidic Jews or the population of Chad) will be a much larger proportion of the population while groups like the South Koreans decline.

I expect this to have pretty large effects,though predicting what those will be seems difficult.
Yes, The language itself went through many iterations. You can look at these 3 iterations here: https://ibb.co/8j8yM1f

First was break a giant collection json and save it as individual files, second attempt was to convert into a dsl (was a bit like xml), the third attempt that is used today to make it even simpler.

The key driving force behind the language design was to make sure that it was simple and readable enough to be able to do a PR review flow in git.

Also, simple enough so that you can open the collection folder in a editor (like vscode) and still be able to make changes

Json didn't support multiline strings. Yaml was indentation hell. I wanted something neat, no need for quotes around strings. And lot of nuances, like how do you store a query param as disabled.

you can read more about the lang design at: https://docs.usebruno.com/bru-language-design.html
Because the ecosystem value cuts both ways. The thriving ecosystem is what causes people to buy so many apple products in the first place, and keep coming back to them. Apple's sales benefit hugely from the app market. App makers aren't simply leaches, which is basically what your (and many others') argument amounts to.
> So yes, the harm here is clearly > 0. You’re welcome to argue that the benefit outweighs the harm of course.

I like this reasoning. Since the questions of “Should we censor knowledge?” and “Who should be in charge of censoring knowledge?” have been decided with an empathic “Yes!” and “Whoever is willing and capable of doing it”, we must move on to the important task of attacking and defending the theoretical harms and benefits of chat bots.
Yeah that is fair, but it's mind bogglingly lazy/brazen. How much more effort is it have taken to just take an average of a few RAND calls to get a normal distribution instead of a uniform one? Did they not know the central limit theorem??
Are you french and is envisage an English word?
That's not evidence of wrong doing itself and won't be used as such. It however can be used as evidence of intent. If you leave the house every day unarmed but the day of an alleged crime you're seen leaving the house armed that fact can be used to show intent to commit a crime with that weapon.

Likewise you leave the house every day with your phone but leave without it the day of the crime, that's going to be used to prove intent.

If you're charged with a crime requiring intent/mens rea/malice of forethought then anything hinting at your state of mind will be entered into evidence. Leaving your phone at home isn't evidence itself of anything and isn't a thing a prosecutor can randomly charge you with.
I've wondered about this and whether it might someday be testable. One thing I keep coming back to is the brain's apparent search power: you see a 5s video clip and can recall the show. This means your brain can trawl all your memories of all the movies and shows that you've ever seen, without generating a fraction of the heat energy of search done in a computer. It's pretty weird to think our brains can actually do this without help...
The original sin of farming, or hierarchy, or city dwelling. Problem is that the dividing line between our hunter-gatherer ancestors and civilization are murky and spread out over millennia, and across the planet in varying degrees.
> So for example, you can read a book about riding a bike, maybe the book is very detailed and tells you everything there is to “know” about riding a bike, but unless you actually ride a bike, you can never “truly know” (experience) what riding a bike is

This is often asserted, but I don't see any reason to believe it is true. Just like we can picture creatures that have never existed, and even draw elaborate images of them, with enough detail and introspection we can picture an experience.

And even if we really couldn't, this would at best be a limitation of our wiring, there would be no reason to think it's a limitation of any conscious being. After all, a computer is perfectly able to simulate itself and to simulate any input it could receive, so it can clearly simulate any possible experience it could have given enough details. By the same token, the fact that we can't control our optic nerves (nor other senses) as precisely is an accident of our genetic makeup, not some fundamental property.
Presumably after the collapse of the USSR Russia stopped using psychiatric hospitals as alternatives to gulags/prisons?
It’s a free-rider problem. How can you compete with me when only you bear training costs while only I benefit from the worker’s skill?

A key question is whether the training is actually worth what’s being charged for it.
Why make pets when you are already set up for cattle
Also the dude (remember he had quite a hairdo) who built his own hardware - soldering and board level type of stuff.
I needed this last night when I was trying to edit some text in a PDF and I ended up having to use iText Rups to browse the tree.

Is there a way to view the stream content in ASCII/Unicode instead of Base64/Hex?
I cured my aphantasia another way. I stopped believing in it. I was asked to visualize something and I could only do it vaguely when I described it. He told me I had weak visualization which showed me it didn't exist. Everyone who claims to have it just has WEAK visualization and trying harder to visualize will give you the same results. It'll take a while, think of it as a muscle. Use it or lose it.
As a 20+ years as a more or less casual LaTeX user, I feel your pain. However, some points your mention have workarounds.

My first advice would be to invest in getting The LaTeX Companion (https://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Companion-Techniques-Computer-T...). Really, it is the "common things people want or need to do documents" as you said.

The third edition is just out of the presses. I have the 2nd one, and one of the appendixes is an explanation of LaTeX and TeX infamously cryptic error messages, and it is really useful.

As for using PDF features, try PDFLaTeX or even better, XeLaTeX or luatex. The latter use utf-8 and advanced PDF kerning techniques, among other useful stuff.
You knew it was defective and sold it to someone else? Not sure about the ethics on that one
Dell tries to trademark 'cloud computing' (2008)
Wasmnizer-Ts: Compile TypeScript to WasmGC
I'm not a philosopher. I did study physics in college.

I do not see it necessary for consciousness to be as fundamental as electroweak interactions and so on. In my mind, it's perfectly possible for consciousness to be an emergent property of a complex system that itself is not conscious in any meaningful way.

Look at other examples of this; i.e. tensegrity.

To conclude that consciousness is as fundamental as bosons or gravity needs a lot of evidence.

Since you said so definitively that you believe that conclusion is true, I was hoping you had specific evidence on hand.
Dissecting Delta’s Botched Status Overhaul and Why It Backfired
Really?!?!

I think anyone who wants to clone themselves is too full of shit to allowed to be cloned.
It's not just (and IMO, probably not primarily) a question of personal values and desires, but structural issues too. Raising kids is expensive as hell in many societies.

Look at Japan, one of the most staunchly traditionalist societies that can't breed because everyone is too busy working and being depressed.

The US too, most people who have kids are bringing them into a society of wage slavery and extremely limited social mobility, in an increasingly unstable world. Even if you liked kids, why would you subject them to such a poor start?
What about codeine with ultra-rapid metabolizers (e.g. the significant population in Saudi Arabia), it might not be a 10x difference but normal dosages can result in overdose or death in people that are ultra-rapid metabolizers or even in their babies if they are nursing mothers.
I read it as they’re stopped stationary at lights, balancing on the board (so both feet off the ground), and at some point the One Wheel just decides to turn the motor off.

If I had to guess, it sounds like the motor hits some thermal limit and cuts out. Which would explain why it happens at red lights often, lots of high torque motor excursion performing small moves to maintain balance, but little to no airflow because the motor isn’t moving fast enough to pump air through itself.
I once asked why there was a POA in the Ferrari brochure (not that I could afford one ever).
Its just trying to emotionally get you to click the link.

There is plenty of information about how to commit genocide out there, as long as you are willing to read books.
I loved Byte. I was a subscriber to the bitter end. I learned C from Byte, which lead me to developing a C compiler (also from a Byte article series) in 6502. Along with a number of data structures and algorithms. If Byte were around today, I would happily buy it. Though I could do without the ad-fest it became in later years.
My part list is still on and the display is in my part bin so far. Hope this one may fair better. Realky want one.
Silent album done already:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepify
Europol sought unlimited data access in online child sexual abuse regulation
He was in a Russian psychiatric hospital.

Psychiatric hospitals in many countries are an extension of the prison system.
I have watched and read his opinions and yes, he has, in my opinion, veered into pseudoscience. It's not exactly without precedence for an established and respected scientist to go all philosophical with age.

I would put his current position somewhere like "I really want free will to be true therefore..." rather than an observational approach.
ableton note phone app might be in the ballpark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smJZcWwJsOw&pp=ygUMYWJsZXRvb...
> All of our infrastructure was build in constant growth. That mean that we cannot pay to maintain it

Not really. For example both the US and California run on insanely large yearly budgets and base economies. What neither have are priorities that would consider infrastructure to be critical. Not for maintenance and sure as hell not for investment. Both have plenty of legacy money sinks, and hangups, and hobby projects (some mindblowingly large), and bad habits (like road resurfacing that comes riddled with defects and needs redoing on a yearly basis - in the most boring weather). There is a lot of money. There seems to be no incentives for spending on boring solid infrastructure.
Replace body fat with muscle mass and you'll have found the sweet spot. Muscles need to protect and hold everything together to protect them from shock. They also provide more of a barrier.

Body fat is just extra weight, it's not going to hold up anything.

I'm convinced that Fat is just a tax on the body.
I enjoyed the magazine from its initial issues until the mid 80s when I pretty much stopped reading it. I must say that it did have some of the most interesting and attractive cover art of and technical magazines.
HN seems to like Nim and more exotic (though not esoteric) languages.
The start of the Rohingya genocide precedes the civil war. The military controlled troops and the civil government controlled police in genocidal operations. A lack of rule of law, but not in the sense that some benevolent government just lacked power to act.
The Past is a Future Country: The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution explores the possible consequences in great detail. It's happened many times before, though never on this scale.
Just needs good IDE support. That's always the issue. Do not like VSCode or the slowness of the Nim plugin. I think every "goto definition" scans the whole code base instead of using an index, so it's slow. I'm faster working in Java, verbosity be damned.
I personally know someone who was literally convicted of murder on his search history because he'd been looking up poisons. I can't remember his explanation for it. He ended up running his wife over though in the end, so he probably didn't find what he needed from Google. This chatbot might have helped him out? o_O
NASA Publishes Beta Flagship, Science Websites as Improvements Continue
They spent half the article describing what this is replacing and every picture of it in any realistic situation has mat on top of it.
When I was 13, I got a modem, and I would frequently call MeritNet lines to see how far I could get on the locked-down Lynx browser without a login, not having access to type in any addresses myself.

If I managed to get on an interesting page before I was eventually booted off, I won.

Tided me over until I actually got to use an ISP.
My guess is as good as yours, but it could be a moderator action. Sometimes submissions are manually upgraded/downgraded by moderators here (that would be dang).

Related: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
It’s an article about programming on a website frequently visited by programmers that was posted in the middle of a Saturday afternoon (America time) when a lot of people have read the front page already and might be looking at /new? Doesn’t seem so crazy to me.
I heard a story of Sun Microsystems clones but because of manufacturing issues they basically had kernal patches for each individual silicone chip.
It is, in fact
> Who is at their laptops thinking, “damn I wish I could ethnically cleanse people but gosh darn I just don’t know where to begin”?

I certainly have things I'm morbidly curious about that I don't want in Google's logs, but wouldn't bat an eye to ask a local LLM. While my motivation is innocuous, I'm far from the only one - you can find the many cases were the accused people had (recently) searched the internet on how to commit a crime there were charged with (with corroborating evidence).

Regardless on where you stand on the free speech continuum, this model will lower the bar on finding "taboo" information like making improvised explosive devices or toxins, and make it harder to trace those who sought that information during investigations.
Is everyone here this credulous? The website even claims it increases your IQ, which is extremely dubious, to say the least.

Rubbing your eyes doesnt make you not aphantasic, any more than looking at a bright lightbulb for a few seconds or unblinkingly staring at a single image on a bright tv for a few minutes (which is actually more effective if you want to clearly see colorful and bright shapes with closed eyes -- doesnt change your minds eye, which is different), and whats worse is that it will damage your eye!
New things, that don’t have historic/cultural armor, can’t survive. For example, there were 450 bicycle deaths in 2020, unrelated to traffic.
Yes MIT license is a great plan b. But forking is hard and painful. Elastic/MongoDB/HashiCorp and many more OSS keep moving towards Business Source License to protect themselves from bigtech monetizing the original creators hard work.

What we need is a better approach. One that doesn't involve VC funding. One that keeps the all the incentives of the community, contributors and the creators aligned.

Will share a draft of this approach soon (likely tomorrow) and open it up for community discussion. I want Bruno to be there for the long term.
Wait, those questions have not been answered like that except by politicians and some panicky people, certainly haven't heard of it being the considered opinion of the majority.
If an author is unable to produce readable commits on the branch of a PR the author is likely not able to produce readable change-sets either.

To review I like branches. Bad commits are not pleasant to look at, but they carry information, too, e.g., revealing the need for discussion. It's a bit like asynchronous pairing.

I don't think looking at the code on a website is sufficient as review in many cases, so I typically have a copy of the branch anyway. If any feature is needed, it is the possibiliy to comment on unchanged lines.

It probably depends on the scope. If the reviewer works on a more abstract level and can rely on authors to get the details right, maybe github is not ideal. Where the reviewer is almost as deeply involved as the author, a branch works nicely.
Right. At least for some time...
What are you compiling, if you don’t mind me asking?
A mental hospital probably isn't a good place to pick up a language, especially if everyone is convinced you can't speak sensibly and your teeth are gone. [Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/19/1]
Sorry, but that's crap.

Your first article is not so much a "literature review" like you claim as an article claiming that the following theories imply the following conclusion without any data of their own supporting that conclusion. The strongest result was that cultures which normalize violence against women also normalize sexual violence against women. Yes, we can change how people behave towards their objects of sexual interest. We don't change who they are interested in when we do.

Your second article is an example of what I discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37718038. It proves a correlation between being interested in both porn and sexual activity. It does not show causation. The result is exactly what we should expect if people come wired with certain interests, and therefore does not qualify as evidence for or against those theories.

On "people are born gay" being quack science, we literally are discovering the genetic linkages to being gay. https://theconversation.com/stop-calling-it-a-choice-biologi...

We're also finding factors that set sexual orientation in the womb, independent of culture. https://www.thehastingscenter.org/womb-gay/

Since porn went mainstream, and acceptance of homosexuality went up, we've seen more openness to teenage experimentation. But do you know what we haven't seen? We haven't seen a significant shift in adults that claim that they are gay in polls. Research on pedophilia is harder to do, but I doubt that has changed either.

In short the thing that, based on available evidence, actually is quack science is your claim that, "Anyway, just like you can entice people to smoke by showing Marylin Monroe smoking on the screen, you can entice people to develop an taste for pedophilia by showing them enticing CSAM."

We have zero data supporting such a conclusion.
What happened to the notion that the internet should be free and open?
Yes, Europe is very diverse. (in the original sense of the meaning) However, this is almost a shared European value which OP describes, except maybe in parts of the UK. The whole hyper-individualistic identity-based thinking (luckily, I'd say) didn't really get a hold in Europe, the whole "you can search for a recipe for meth, this is horrible and should be censored" line of thought is just outside the Overton window of most Europeans.

So yes, while you can't really generalise Europeans in the same way, this is almost a perfect counterexample to that.
Optical switching is about training at scale and replaces classical physical networking systems (people will say things like "electrical", "copper", etc.). Running models at edge devices is almost by definition without networking.
And you'll notice that he successfully plants his left foot, but momentum just carries him ahead and into the fall and roll. And this is a best case scenario.

"The deaths came as a result of head trauma, with at least three of the accidents happening with the rider in a helmet."
I think I have very good visualization skills. To the point where I can solve three dimensional geometry problems in my head with nothing external. However, I never "see" anything with my two eyes in the way I can see an afterglow of a candle or a window, as described in the video.

I see with a "third-eye" or a "minds-eye." Never with me real two eyes. This means I can visualize at any point, eyes closed or open. I can transpose an additional image on the scenery around me, and in fact I did that very often in school, playing games on walls in my head. Anything to avoid the lesson.

But, is that seeing images in your head, or isn't it? Must you see the image as you would see the afterglow of a window? I've never been able to tease out what people really mean when they say they can visualize.
fwiw according to Russian news[0] workers knew he was Hungarian, and reached out to Hungarian officials to claim him, but didn't hear back. According to article at the time when Hungary was prepping to join EU, ex nazi PoW was not a priority.

He only was "rediscovered", when Russian hospital personnel got him speaking Hungarian on camera for Russian news, and eventually news segment was picked up in Hungary and 80 Hungarian families came forward to claim him as a missing relative.

[0] https://ren.tv/news/lifestyle/887400-poslednii-plennyi-vtoro...
US and California have run on immigration since their respective beginnings. Budgets don’t matter if there’s no one who can do the actual work.
One thing I've noticed is that the low bitrate sports content looks way better on my old Plasma than a new Oled.