skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s not really worth going into the mechanics of what led one of the world’s richest people down the same dumb rabbit hole...

Wow, what journalism. Not worth going into? A journalist uninterested in investigating a bizarre, damaging set of allegations? You have to pay journalists to not do that!

I find it funny that they focus on the pizza place, when the real meat of the conspiracy theory, that the most powerful people in the world frequented a plane called the Lolita express and went to an island owned by a known pedophile and human trafficker known for throwing parties for the sake of trafficking people, that cameras malfunctioned right when he killed himself in a federal prison cell, is much more interesting. I don't think anyone really disputes that powerful people do whatever they want regardless of law or morality, that they use their power to get away with it, or that it's likely that for at least some subset of them, the "whatever they want" involves trafficked children. But sure, let's talk about the pizza place, it's not worth going into.

If you need any more evidence that the media is nothing more than state or special interest propaganda you really need to contemplate all your choices that you've ever made, because your mind was lost to you somewhere in your past. If you don't have the stomach for that, numerous videos exist online for you to find of prominent news anchors talking about having the Epstein story years before his arrest and subsequent death and their higher ups telling them to squash it, that should suffice.
This is not the same at all. What OP does is a *hack* to convert some arbitrary value to a number. This should be very explicit, to avoid having 9999999999999999999999999999999999 and 1 more way to do the same thing.
As a non-American looking at your society from Europe I've often wondered how you think you're perceived abroad? How did you think George Bush's and Tony Blair's war in Iraq was perceived?

It's 2023 and the world is still in a state of constant conflict - Jokes aside American has positioned itself as the world police with the largest military ever conceived.

Funding militant groups when it serves your goals, destabilising nations. Invading nations on the flimsiest of premises. Etc.

Huge portions of popular westeen media portrays the American military action as heroic.

But how do Americans actually feel about it? And how do you think the rest of us feel?
Not all LGBTQ people mind you, just the latest more minority group within (or appended to).

It gets to the point of absurdity when we expect to add more complexity with new workarounds to make things simple again.
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Luckily, this one will have less dire consequences.
The OT references aren't vague, but due to the idea of the new covenant, they likely apply as much as the OT prohibitions against touching pig leather or touching a menstruating woman.

The only treatment of homosexuality in the NT comes from Paul, and the Greek word he uses for the receiving partner is specifically the word for an underage male slave kept for sexual purposes, so it's unclear how applicable it is to modern consenting adults. I'd certainly much prefer Paul was trying to say "Yo, don't be a pedo, and no matter your circumstance as far as you have control don't ever offer sexual favors for advancement/favorable treatment" instead of "Yo, don't be gay."

However, unfortunately we'll never know how Paul would have felt about modern Western conceptions of homosexuality, and my wishes have zero impact on his actual intent. He would have been familiar with Jewish culture in which homosexuality was forbidden, and Hellenistic culture where creepy mentor/mentee homosexual pedophilia was apparently commonplace. He may not have had any concept resembling our modern Western conception of homosexuality, so even in an alternate history where he wrote "Yo, don't be gay" (somehow miraculously in modern English), reasonable people could still disagree over modern applicability.

An in-depth study of Paul's Koine Greek word choices for homosexuality would probably be much more enlightening than an in-depth study of Aramaic words for rope and camel. Rope vs. camel has zero impact on practical application of the teaching.

Also, the main thrust of Jesus's teaching is against the arrogance of religious authorities and against greed/selfishness. Jesus never mentions homosexuality, and the entire NT maybe mentions homosexuality (or maybe lack of consent was the gripe there) once. The preoccupation some churches have with homosexuality is clearly unwarranted. (On a side note, the OT explicitly mentions that arrogance was the sin that doomed Sodom. Food for thought for anyone citing Sodom, new covenant aside.)
I have multi DPI displays (laptop + 2 monitors) work fine on Wayland (fractional scaling).
Imagine working as a remote software dev in prison making more money than the warden.
there is high-tech there too. They have cool postit notes now: super-sticky; super-sticky full stick (entire note is sticky) and now postit extreme notes that you can stick to lumber or man-projects or something.
Bernstein–Vazirani Algorithm
Feels like less work on prompting but yeah, curious to know what are the next steps and how its going to be better than GPT
Github's codesearch leaves something to be desired.
What an insane story. Crazy to think that some of these engineering errors led to such a disastrous outcome...

I do resonate with someone's comments in the above sections reflecting on whether or not such a narrative would be given if it was say, a UI mistake from an enemy country.
Wmonad ;-)
I’m glad they didn’t fire him.

I’m a firm believer that despite all the short comings of US, what makes it great is there are millions of engineers and scientists working to push the frontier of what is possible, and trillions of dollars in economy to fund that into reality.

NASA is truly an inspiration.

And also the private aerospace industry - SpaceX, ULA, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Blue Origin, Planet Labs etc.

No other country has that.
Obviously the person that hides behind the innocent. Are you supposed to not shoot at someone who’s shooting at you? No competent army on earth would make that choice.
Very impactful mistake, but apparently not a mistake worth apologizing for.

From Wikipedia: "the U.S. government did not admit legal liability or formally apologize to Iran"

Pinnacle arrogance/exceptionalism. Disgusting.

Oh, and the US back then supported Iraq in its horrific attack on Iran.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq...
Solution is easy. Greece should block anything the UK wants from the EU.
Edit: saw the edit now, no problem, and thank you very much for engaging in good faith! I will leave the rest of my comment up, but either way, I didn't interpret your comment in a negative way, just trying to get to a common understanding.

If there is no other evidence of the word kamilos, rope, existing, that represents evidence that Cyril made this word up. Then, we know from the two quotes that Cyril believes that the rope interpretation is more favorable to rich people than the camel interpretation.

So we have reason to believe that Cyril invented this word, and we know he thinks that the correct interpretation is softer for rich people, so it seems like a simple assumption that he invented the word to make the interpretation that's better for the rich more plausible.

What other reason would he have to invent a new word that happens to support his preferred interpretation?

> please record a video of yourself passing a rope in a needle's eye, and I will stand corrected.

This is irrelevant. As I showed in the quote, it is indisputable that Cyril thinks that there is some small hope for a rope to pass through the eye of a needle. Why he thinks this is beyond me, but it is clearly what he believes, per his own words.
A CEO at the office and not in the golf course...that gives it away....
> The inertia of the customer base for example. It has to be really bad to not be worth fixing if the alternative is redo from the ground up.

This only matters from the pov of the company. From the pov of society those customers will move faster or slower to better competitors, which is what you want. Though you don't even need to have them have to figure it out from one day to the next, you could for example go to your best competitor ask them for money to buy your customer base, and use that money to pay your creditors, employees etc in the bankrupting process.
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Thoughts on Going Cashless?
Google, Github and a few more, but I don't like to login with them to random sites.
What about toranj? I still have no idea which citrus fruit it is. I know that the traditional pattern in the middle of Persian carpets is called this way, and it has some significance in Sufi symbolism. (plus there's Toranj by one of my favourite modern Iranian musicians -- Mohsen Namjoo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a64OFz4PkkA)
How about this?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...

Of course, this assumption is based on that the "k" sound was preserved here, instead of going through the shift to "h".
`&&` and `||` are very well defined (for the better part, there's languages where `||` does more than just Logical OR.), this double-not hack is just a hack, and can be achieved in many more ways. Stop trying to be obfuscatingly clever, the right time and place for that is outside of professional environments. You don't go around applying tricks from Hacker's Delight without explaining them, do you?
The russian guy comes up with russian names for his sockpuppet chick accounts. Is that to explain away the grammar?
Weird read, not sure what to make of it. Muddled between "everybody is poor in something" and "actually being poor is good". It's like corporate-speak mixed with woke-speak for Christian missionaries who get all their funding from USAID.

Do not like these people.
I haven’t given up on hidden dimensions yet. For the Bee, we know chemical gradients (queen) provide a ‘center’ and likely act as hormones in an unit. I.e. beyond ‘environmental markings’ (sounds, text, images, constructs) are there other possibilities for ‘joining’? Psi stuff is wu but remains a possibility.
Is America's EV Revolution Stalling?
Has it been edited? I don't see "top performer".
Not just widely used in this language but in others, and the meaning of & is clear even in English.
I donated my BBC Model B+ to a computer museum recently, along with a stack of Acorn User magazines (available on the Internet Archive, BTW) and software on cassette. Felt strong pangs of regret driving away. I can still feel the excitement of figuring it all out, a world opening up to me.

Those BBC TV shows had the unusual feature of broadcasting software over the end credits. Just had to tape the screeching and play it back into the computer.
An authoritarian wet-dream.
For 10 year olds maybe not, but I learnt to program with BBC Basic (running on Windows) at the age of about 5 or 6. I used to produce the biggest mess of GOTO statements you’ve ever seen, but it was so much fun!

I think even something like Python might’ve been too subtle for me at the time.
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Good point but since the whole controversy is about what's the correct point of view to be defended, it depends. My guess: the "fairy-tale exception or trick" could be simply divine mercy towards the rich he feels are deserving. The rich can get into heaven not through brute force but through God's will.
I thought it was about Chrome's new sidebar by just reading the title.
Those are completely different.

any - https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#any - Return True if any element of the iterable is true.

Any - A special kind of type is Any. A static type checker will treat every type as being compatible with Any and Any as being compatible with every type.
You need strong toilet paper so it doesn't break in your hand. I'm not sure for which applications strength is not important, perhaps the cardboard that protect electronic equipment inside the boxes(?).
Roundcube open-source webmail software merges with Nextcloud
In my case the increased anxiety was basically rumination--constant, repetitive thinking whether I looked good in the eyes of the people I talked to, etc.
It was basically trying to retroactively control other people's thoughts with the power of my mind.
I still experience it, but it's far less frequent these days. And writing about it helps, just as you wrote, as then I can "escape" the loop in my head.
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What you are experiencing is a great example of confirmation bias.
This is a good idea, especially when tired, end of day, crunch time work is happening !
I thought this was about this story. Probably more interesting.

"The First Bug on Mars: OS Scheduling, Priority Inversion, and the Mars Pathfinder" - https://kwahome.medium.com/the-first-bug-on-mars-os-scheduli...
Needs more ads... jk... it's actually so good that I'm afraid it will be killed.
My Italian mother worked in the coffee industry for years and she taught me just one thing: Filter coffee tastes awful my son. Only Germans, your granny and Americans drink it. An she is right :D
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Apple is reportedly ending its partnership with Goldman Sachs
Oh, not even close. I speak Romanian, English, and French. For all of the others I looked up Google translations of the phrase "I think he joined a cult" - in all of them, the translation replaced "cult" with some equivalent of "sect".

Also, I noticed that for more obscure languages (including Romanian), it didn't, so that confirmed to me it's not some fully hardocded conversion - for languages where it has enough examples it understands the "proper" translation, for those where it doesn't it does the simpler thing.
If you are truly an investor as per your username and the above is your serious reasoning for buying Tesla stock...
Those are completely different.

any - https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#any - Return True if any element of the iterable is true.

Any - A special kind of type is Any. A static type checker will treat every type as being compatible with Any and Any as being compatible with every type.

error: Function "builtins.any" is not valid as a type [valid-type]
note: Perhaps you meant "typing.Any" instead of "any"?
We've really put in the work tweaking the prompts to save you the hassle. It's quick, free, and gets straight to the point.

Right now, it's a basic MVP just to show that the idea works and to start chatting with some initial users. We've got plenty of ideas for making it better and adding new stuff, but we really want to hear from users first before diving into our own idea pool.
People in ancient Rome did that too.

You think you can control private discussions employees have in the office?

I am suresome employees discussed the size of their genitalia during lunch break.

Controlling private discussion is a tyranical fantasy.
So they got what they wanted. A store is inclusive because everyone can enter it. A conference is inclusive only if you drag every type of person in by force, faking it if it didn’t work out. “Otherwise it’s not inclusive and I’m not participating”. Isn’t that pure nonsense.
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine currently suffers from severe undercount.

The RF forces sieged Mariopol like a medieval city at the start of the war, creating large scale suffering. Afaik there was no water or power and people were melting ice for water.

The civilian casualties on the Ukraine war are at least 100,000+ maybe a multiple of that number.
1998 was a great year for gaming... as a N64 and PC gamer (voodoo2 graphics)
Let's not forget ANY as in "from unittest.mock import ANY".
>Arguably the guy did nothing worthy of admiration.

Hm, isn't that a purely subjective thing? And did he really did nothing worthy of admiration? Isn't it admirable to be great at your job? To write books that people read and enjoy, and draw inspiration from?
> I'd be worried that teaching BASIC puts them in a niche - one where they make progress more quickly, but struggle to get out of.

I'd think that learning BASIC then Python (or Ruby, PHP, JS, whatever) would still be a lot easier (at least for a 10 year old kid) than starting with one of the latter languages directly, due to the incidental complexity that all of those have. Most pro developers will be able to work with more than one language anyway.
This is great. The original has become pretty hostile to users over the years, which is especially unacceptable since users have contributed most of the content that defines the site.
That's a good point, why didn't they seek visual confirmation first?
Yep, this kind of meaning seems to have been in use until quite recently at least.

The 1967 Movie "The Viking Queen" is about a fictitious eastern English queen during the time of Roman occuption. She's definitely not Norse, but the intended meaning of "Viking" here is "a raider or plunderer".
Less dire direct consequences then. If we go down this path, I'm sure there must be other UIs that have much higher use that the one in the article that might have even worse impact at scale. Or even niche use (but more users) in critical (medical…) systems.
> the safe default would be to always slave the cursor

I don't think so, I imagine that behavior could be frustrating, e.g. if you're cursoring over many contacts. Admittedly I am not an expert either, but that suggestion smells like a classic case of armchair design that would actually cause more problems, because I imagine that the two modes exist for a reason and the designers intentionally chose which default to use, but they didn't anticipate this user error.

Thus, I'd suggest that the UI should have made it extremely obvious whether the cursor was slaved and when a contact gets hooked/unhooked under the cursor.

If I had to make an analogy, I'd compare it to normal and insert mode in Vi(m). The fact that the default is normal mode actually makes sense even though new users may suggest otherwise, but the real problem is that by default it's hard to tell which mode you are in.
There was a related thread recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38301414 (Show HN: I made a 30-day social anxiety challenge). I can't vouch for the challenge, but many comments there were helpful IMHO.
>> IP logs from a forum for programmers obtained by 404 Media

I am more interested in what forums is turning over their IP logs to the media, what the privacy policy was for that forum, and if other members of that forum know this is happening
Nothing is more unreadable than "readable" names. I absolutely detest working with code that uses for example stuff like ImmutableJS, that turns every property access into `.get('')` instead of a simple `.` operator.

I wouldn't use this for no reason or just to be fancy, but if you're working in a context that legitimately requires integer division all over the place, you should use syntax for it if it's available.

I'd be annoyed if I had to work with something maths-y that has gigantic lines full of Math.trunc() everywhere.
In summary, it reads like "people struggling to get access to clean water are also linguistically-poor, which prevents them from reading scientific papers".
Built-in graphics commands are a massive win, and a big gap in today's standard language offerings for kids. Any old timer will tell you that the ability to trivially get sprites up on the screen, or hell even a coloured circle, is the clue to the young programmer that putting together a simple game is within their immediate grasp, and this is very much the gateway drug to programming in general.
Amazing! My first computer, historically was the BBC Micro and it was so much fun to type and view those programs from the 80s books they released.

One of the things I noticed about the new interpreter's restrictions was that framebuffer pixel accesses have become significantly slow and we're unable to do such things fast because of our dependency on GPU/Host transfers for all new rendering.
I know - the meaning is actually indisputable from all of the context, regardless of the precise phrase.

But, even so, it is also indisputable that many who consider themselves devout Christians, rich and poor alike, reach a very different conclusion about the meaning of this whole exchange. I can only imagine this must be motivated reasoning.

I found a thread showing some such rationalizations:

https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/60225/how-d...

Interestingly, it seems modern day prosperity gospel sorts don't go for a reinterpretation of the camel, but for a reinterpretation of the word "rich".
what?
`any` - the builtin function[0] is part of python since the dawn of time
but from what I know is not usable as a type annotation, and `typing.Any` should be used (and imported explicitly)

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#any
Not defending it as sensible, but that difference in precedence is deliberate...not an oversight or side effect.
The best direction to move from nihilism is absurdism. You can still be correct but now you can enjoy it.
Why keep a complex thing in your garden if you know you'll never use it? All of the infrastructure around it sounds like it needs a lot of maintenance. It's arguably more efficient to remove it rather than risk any of it going wrong.

If OP loved it so much then he should have moved it. Once he's sold the house then it's not his business anymore.
Just hang around all day with no rent learning and coding. Maine prison sounds pretty sweet.

Actually sounds a little like those hackers that live in pod spaces in SF.
It should automatically map all the commits of each file to .old, .older, .old2.old and so on. For the true „version management in a file system“ feeling :-)
Yes, but also you won't want to automate it because it will become a hobby and pleasure to make coffee as much as it will be to drink it :).
With respect, I disagree with almost everything you said.

The idea that somehow “AI isn’t art directable” is one I keep hearing, but I remain unconvinced this is somehow an unsolvable problem.

The idea that AIgen is unusable at the moment for professional work doesn’t hold up to my experience since I now regularly use Photoshop’s gen feature.
Yes of course, it was all the evil corporations, they forced us to buy nice things, eliminate most hard labor and be able to travel orders of magnitude faster than pre-industrial people. Let's dissolve all corporations and problem solved. Thanks!
This is not a personal or a moral problem. It is a political problem and must be solved through legislation.

Now we can always think about the origin of that political problem as cultural. The free markets, trickle down economics, "pull yourself by your own bootstrap", labor union as a greedy mafia etc. All this encouraged the thinking that regulation and worker protection must be eliminated.

Shaming people is not going to work. Informing them and encouraging common political action will.
Much needed, UG has become unusable.

These days I’m a fan of Songsterr. Even handed them my credit card - I love that you can play along with the actual tracks, backing tracks (YouTube) or midi. I find myself learning more songs than the UG way.
Nothing objectively matters. You are free to invent things and ascribe them meaning. Meaninglessness is a discovery, meaning is a creation.
He’s the last person on Earth who would make this mistake again. That hit HAAARD
That's objectively terrible UX.
>"name it Steve" philosophy

I think of these kinds of names as being like primary key fields in a database: Their main purpose is to distinguish the identities of various things, so it's better not to incorporate any functional/behavioural description into them because that way there's never a need to change the name in the future if the behaviour changes.

The downside is that the names become arbitrary lumps of data that you have to become familiar with by rote use.