skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think without actual access to the material it's pretty hard to say. For example, the report highlights that someone commented with nothing but a series of Palestinian flags to someone's post, and their comment was flagged and removed. However, they don't share what the original post was; responding with a series of Palestinian flags to an Israeli hostage relative's post about their kidnapped sibling, for example, would be clear harassment and abuse. (And these kinds of abusive comments are extremely common.)

The report also has some pretty strange language, like mentioning that a post which was flagged for nudity contained a picture of a dead woman, and a fully-clothed man holding her body. But... There are so, so many pictures of fully-clothed, male members of Hamas holding nude or partially-nude dead women they abducted and/or raped before murdering. Why does the report only say that the man was fully clothed? Maybe it's just a grammatical error, but they're really light on the details, and releasing the underlying data would answer a lot of questions.

Personally I am suspicious of HRW's report, since they've been caught releasing misleading reports in the past, and the director of HRW's Israel/Palestine division is a BDS activist [1]. Obviously your viewpoint may be different, but without access to the underlying information it's pretty hard to make a compelling case to either side... Which to me points to the report being more worthy of suspicion, since if it was clear-cut, they'd easily convince more people of their correctness by releasing the data.

1: https://www.ngo-monitor.org/fact-sheet-on-omar-shakirs-bds-c...
The ones on hills.
What the Prisoner's Dilemma Reveals About Life, the Universe, and Everything [video]
It also shows they don't understand IP issues.

Okay, I will throw it together. Since I'm unpaid, and have no share in the business venture, I will be the sole copyright holder. To test the business idea, I will allow it to be run over 60 day free trial. Then we can talk about what happens next.
Reminds me of that Whartonite Seeks Code Monkey blog of similar stories: https://whartoniteseekscodemonkey-blog.tumblr.com/
Any idiot can have an idea.

Hell, back in 1997, I wrote a list of 10 ideas I thought would make good online businesses when the technology was right.

Of those, from what I remember, I predicted Amazon, Youtube/Netflix, Facebook, Discord, Twitch, Paypal, and Reddit.

I had no part in any of them because I didn't have the knowhow, the money, the connections, or the time.

I've been approached since then when people have "ideas." I explain to them that ideas are worthless and that if they want me to work with them, I want an 80% stake that we will renegotiate in time as they prove they can sell the product. This normally shuts them up in short order.
A piece I read at least twice a year to understand how creative work is done - "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled"
What's the difference? OP could have said "create new concepts, questions and ideas" and it would be exactly the same
The nature is far better though.
I think this really only matters for clustered indexes.
It's not necessarily a problem with the governor, but there's definitely a problem somewhere in the system.

In a functioning government (especially one dominated by a single party like NY is), the legislature and governor collaborate closely as the bills are being developed. The legislature knows in advance what the governor will veto and is typically acting in good faith and won't waste everyone's time by send huge numbers of bills that are doomed.

What's happening here indicates a serious breakdown in communication and trust between branches of government, branches which, again, are ostensibly run by the same party. That's not normal.
Love this book!
Emacs calls the concept "fill", and has had it as a basic built-in feature for decades.

This documentation page "https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fi..." doesn't do it justice, because Emacs will often do smart language- and context-appropriate things in different buffer modes.

For example, I use this feature heavily to help make my Markdown files appear semi-wysiwyg to anyone viewing them in plain text (e.g., different levels of bulleted/numbered lists are formatted).

It also keeps my code comments tidy, and encourages me to keep them up to date, because I don't have to mess with formatting.

There's also a command to temporarily set a "fill prefix" based on the point in the current line, such as if you want to fill something differently than how Emacs would do it by default.
There is a short window of human fertility. Let's assume you are "smart" and wait until you are out of college. You might start at 22 and have a little over 13 years until it's its considered a geriatric pregnancy.

If the economic or social constraints are such that individuals are unwilling to bear children then that is it, you do not get to try again.

Today we straddle those in the fertile window with student debt, high rent or an impossible housing market, thus less chose to have children.

This is not to say that it's a cataclysm, but it's certainly unsustainable from a societal standpoint.
I use mixed level models for longitudinal analysis pretty regularly. There the point has been to account for correlated dependent observations (e.g. repeated variables within a participant.

However it seems that you are suggesting another use. If I have 10 cognitive measures each measured once in my subjectd, the default has been to do a multiple comparison correction, either FDR or FWER on 10 tests. We know that the 10 tests are not truly independent, so Bonferroni is probably too conservative.

It seems here you suggest running this with test being a random effect. I've seen this approach with item level data in a task, but I didn't really think to do it when the tests are not from the same battery, construct. And more to the point, this fixed effect model would be of no particular interest, while random effect CIs are difficult to estimate. So I am left a bit confused.
Are they time travelers from the late 20th century?

This attitude was very prevalent in the 1990's. There's no excuse for being ignorant about software in 2023 though.
And considering California pumps out the most profitable businesses, then clearly non competes are probably not good for the overall business environment (even if they might need good for incumbents).
This is brilliant! I would be interested in reading an analysis of IP performance in this kind of pasta-net versus using homing pigeons (RFC 1149/2549).
Maybe that discarding process and the time it takes to learn it from a combination of so many different senses is the key to developing a human mind to the level of intelligence that it is/has.
This to me gets to the fundamental nature of testing. If errors are part of your test suite then they're happy path too. It's just as much a part of your API surface as any other return value.

But if you don't have (or want) callers that depend on your specific behavior in error situations then I wouldn't bother testing them. It's my contract that I can and will change the behavior arbitrarily and you can't be mad at me for it.
I don’t even know what bias you’re referring to. It’s called the Venezuelan refugee crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis

Like I’m not even sure what language you’re supposed to use.
Can some explain me, since I don’t know, but I have this idea that ideally quantum computer is like artificial neural network hardware which can change its connections in realtime.

I just cannot help seeing how cubits are very much like probabilities comes out from ML, something between 0..1.

I’m I completely lost here? I’m curious to understand better:)

PS. Is it possible that brain is organic quantum computer?

Also. Do you see it possible that our senses and awareness are “prompting” the models we have built during life and thoughts are what comes back from the prompts?
These descriptions are making Amazon’s route to simplified checkout look over complicated and not even close to the best route to tackle the problem.
In “the hidden life of trees” the author talks about forests being stronger than individual trees. Which I believe agrees with your conclusion.

As a tree you don’t want to get dwarfed, starved and die. But you also don’t want to kill your neighbors either since they could be providing a wind break and helping you survive. Essentially their evolution has taught them that sharing, within reason, is an optimal strategy than pure greed.

The book goes into much more detail. I’m paraphrasing.
ssh -D “*:8080” host

This fires up a SOCKS proxy on port 8080. I use it all the time within Firefox. Legendary OG VPN.

It’s handy for nefarious use cases, but I also use it to access rmq dashboards on non-public networks in AWS.
In math, proof is not generally so expensive, so perhaps Ramanujan was not the best example.
Who or what entity is the trillionaire investor you are referring to?
No offense, but as someone who lived in SF as a kid, it blows my mind that (I assume) techie white families are raising their kids in Mission, Potrero, etc.

We lived in those neighborhoods cuz they were cheap and there were community services to fall back on. Once our parents could afford it, they would move out as soon as they could.

Gorehs/Gweilo are weird.
OneNote, Confluence etc. solve this problem as much as they are hated. Or mediawiki etc.
At this rate, SF will be cheaper than Toronto.
I haven't, thank you for sharing.
The first and fourth were my favorites in that series.

I like robot and monk too. Her short “To teach, if fortunate” is also good. So much talent.
You mentioned some good and bad things acquired from flight sims. Overall would say you net negative or net positive?
The universe is infinite, so there are no limits.
I looked at the same article and this jumped out at me:

> The World3 model is based on five variables: "population, food production, industrialization, pollution, and consumption of nonrenewable natural resources. At the time of the study, all these variables were increasing and were assumed to continue to grow exponentially, while the ability of technology to increase resources grew only linearly

As we all know, almost all continents have a negative birth rate with the exception of Africa [1]

Large populations such as China with their one child policy, have curtailed their population growth.

We've lost a significant amount of people in Russia/Ukraine, and now Gaza.

In some areas we have limited availability of surface water, and deep aquifers are being tapped in unsustainable manners.

Post-Covid mortality is trending down in many western countries too.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate
If you are the first. Yes dor a time. Make sure you duplicate your work among 500 other jobs and become a millionaire. Because it will last not so long when everyone finds out
Automatically filling them in would go a long way! Maybe better AI to know what should go in what field. This is probably UA side though, so on MAG to implement. (Mozilla Apple and Google!)
What a good idea to have the UI of that blog written by an AdCode Monkey.
Basicenum
Yes, and allegedly the issue was root caused and fixed. The cost to investigate and recall has been sunk.
I've been struggling with this for a long time. Maybe it's also because when I talk about and try to encourage the conversation, I oversimplify the programming part. I always try to encourage others not to think of it as sorcery, even though sometimes it is. But all of this is just to give non-experts the idea that it's simple to understand broadly. Of course, I spare them the time and technical details that require deep knowledge, just to keep them afloat.

This ends up being what @OP has described.
I've tried helping these sorts of people (when i was younger).

"it's super simple to throw together" turns into "no no you're doing it all wrong. what i'm looking for is a way to make like, microsoft word, you know how it automatically formats for you? yeah i want that on the blog comment field, and then you press the print button and it prints out the office printer"

there's a never-ending list of fairly impossible requirements; "can't you just make it work like my computer at home" for people who have no real experience in software OR business.
>There's some grumbling here and there but legislation like the one proposed in NYC would have needlessly broken a system that works pretty well.

The system needs to be broken. What works well is paying and treating employees well enough so that they do not want to leave and go to a competitor, like businesses in California have to do.
There is some about that in point 8, starting with

> This all seems harsh and negative but it can be a fantastic ride (even if it’s taxing).
> why not live in a suburb anywhere else, at 1/8th of the cost?

Where is this suburb that's an 8th the cost? 8 hours of travel away?
dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38742559
Eh... the API is a little nicer but if it's weaker overall I think we might as well keep using the XHR wrappers over bloating the standard API. I end up wrapping fetch with with more niceities anyway.
It's code here to have ventilation and usually make up air for gas ranges, so maybe your area just sucks when it comes to building codes?

It's kind of amusing citing dozens of homes blowing up from gas when NFPA has just a bit under 50,000 electrical fires in homes in the USA due to electrical failure/malfunction each year with ~400 deaths and ~1400 injuries with ~1.5 billion in damages each year. If you add in electrical failure of lighting and distribution equipment in the home you slightly more than double the deaths, and 1.8X the other numbers each year....

Again, it's not inferior to induction cooking, it's better in many ways, but it's really personal preference and people should be allowed to make those choices themselves (as I said, I personally choose induction but I get why people like gas and recognize the ways in which it is superior, as well as the drawbacks).
I mean nothing that is able to be benchmarked and validated by third parties is GPT-4 quality. I know there are upcoming releases that are hyped as being equal to GPT-4, e.g. Gemini Ultra, which I am very excited to get my hands on — but regardless, Ultra is not small enough to run on phones, even using the sparse ReLU flash memory optimization. And we'll see how it benchmarks once it's released; according to some benchmarks Gemini Pro has somewhat underperformed GPT-3.5-Turbo [1], despite Google's initial claims. (Although there are criticisms of that benchmarking, and it does beat the current 1106 version of GPT-3.5-Turbo on the Chatbot Arena leaderboard [2], although it slightly underperforms the previous 0613 version.)

1: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.11444.pdf

2: https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...
That's what I miss these days. The barrier was low, you had access to it immediately and when using a computer from that era you were going to be exposed to that stuff. Now everyone has a smartphone but you cannot easily program with it and moreover the chances you will encounter a programming language using it is 0 unless you look hard for it. A lot of young people are missing opportunities of discovering cool stuff and having fun. Which maybe hurts the entire profession. Using BASIC and assembler was a ton of fun back then.
I thought that at first but the comments don't really have that AI stink to it or the 3rd world scammer reply chain aka (person 1: does anyone know anyone who can help with. my crypto purchase? person 2: hello sir, mrs heather, i have purchased her services on whatsapp and i could not be happier. i made my money back and then some).

Maybe the people replying are quote unquote normies? aka not the younger generation or terminally online twitter users?

edit: i noticed alot of the usernames have 4 numbers at the end. could be bots. or is this just how youtube recommends usernames to people now?
Unified Go package for password hashing and swapping
I've gotten in arguments with so many people over this. Everyone has "ideas". Everyone has "good ideas". Most people occasionally have a "great idea". Ideas are free and require very little effort.

Ideas really aren't worth anything. Ideas aren't what run the world, implementations of those ideas do. I suspect that if I went to a venture capitalist with just an idea like "Uber but for X", they would laugh me out of the building (or more likely ask how the hell I got in there in the first place).

I've told this story before on HN, but I remember back in 2013, I needed a job, and responded to a posting on Craigslist for a software engineer. I met up with a nice lady who had an idea for a specific kind of travel website. She wanted me to make the entire website myself, and she was generously offering me 3% equity for doing it.

I had no idea how to negotiate this, and I was slightly less confrontational at the time, so I politely declined, in no small part because I didn't want to work with someone that thought that an idea was worth 97% of a company while doing, as far as I could tell, between 0-5% of the actual work.
That's a silly quote. Everybody knows it's only a vector since a tall 80x84 or whatever is always useful for keeping more of the file on the screen.

Also, for reference, a table of font sizes and number of terminals beside each other that fit on a given size screen:

1t 2t 3t 4t 5t 6t
6px 480 960 1440 1920 2400 2880
7px 560 1120 1680 2240 2800 3360
8px 640 1280 1920 2560 3200 3840
9px 720 1440 2160 2880 3600 4320
10px 800 1600 2400 3200 4000 4800
12px 960 1920 2880 3840 4800 5760
14px 1120 2240 3360 4480 5600 6720
16px 1280 2560 3840 5120 6400 7680

On a screen with the traditional ~100 DPI, a 6px wide font is quite readable so on 1920x1080 you get exactly 4 columns of terminals (just beware window decorations trying to steal extra pixels). If the height is 13px (so it's about a 9.5pt font IF point size is measured honestly) you get about 75 lines depending on taskbar and window headers.
It's called Excelsior.

It's historically been a working class Pinoy, Latino, Canto, and Black neighborhood.

It used to be very rough in the gangbanger kinda way.

It's kind of like how East San Jose is fairly clean, but it's good to be careful where you are depending on the time of night.

Sunnyvale and RWC used to be similar in that sense as well 15-20 years ago too.
Sims can be good for some things, especially learning avionics systems. But you can't replicate bouncing around in a single piston engine plane with the noise and sensations. If you haven't ever done it before you're not going to competently instantly fly the aircraft.
The idea guy in this scenario doesn't even understand the basic idea that you have to provide "consideration" for the assignment of rights/copyright. If he does find a person to build his software as a favor, he's got potential issues like an unjust enrichment claim or worse if he does find a way to monetize it.

If I somehow suffer the misfortune of interacting with someone like this I often stop the conversation and tell them to visit Fiverr. A half-baked idea coming from unseasoned people is not even going to make for a good consulting client. I tell them to hire a graphic artist to mock it up before they start with a programmer.
I'm confused. Did the people who put this together not know about Solaris? If I ran a company offering dance lessons, and called it Mustango, I'd expect to hear from Ford. I presume that Oracle has lawyers...
Google voice allows sms even on ios, so it’s not as simple as that. Why is what beeper is providing around sms different from google voice? Both cloud hosted etc - this is fine.

Also, google voice still doesnt have rcs by the way, and it’s safe to assume that they will finally sunset the service rather than follow through on “principled stand” around rcs lol. Much like the epic games case… there was never anything more than a ploy to look good to regulators/lawyers. People are tragically unable to identify even very blatant cases of special pleading, especially when they align with the anti-apple zeitgeist among large parts of the tech crowd.
Three of those are religions and one of those is an ethnicity as well. One of those also has seen almost constant persecution during history. It's concerning that this needs to be pointed out
That would require the landlord to report the rent as being higher than it actually is, which is fraud.
Having more implementations doesn’t really help you avoid bugs in the one you’re using.
I have high hopes for Mazda to produce lightweight EVs that actually feel good to drive, but right now they just have (had) the MX-30, and that was by all accounts the worst EV on the market. They have a lot of work to do.
The environmental benefit of practicing in a virtual environment rather than burning actual fuel is also a nice side-effect of having access to quality flight simulation software.

I wonder what other industries could benefit from digitisation this way.
> Gross. Python is a million times better than ruby to read and write

why do you think that?
I was about to write, I have seen this on occasion since I started my career (it's probably older, but that's when i became cognizant of it). I've had my first job as a programmer in 2001.
And those people can go here: https://www.nospec.com/

I think I first saw this page back in maybe 2006 when I was much more interested in graphic arts.
I think if I got that email I would advise them to use ChatGPT. If it really is just throwing "a website with a database" together then I think ChatGPT would be sufficient to guide them through setting up a basic WordPress install and some plugins.
My own investigation, from 20+ years ago:

http://michaeldnahas.com/xmassong/index.html
To me the existence of this post is particularly relevant given the contemporary context: https://twitter.com/StefanFSchubert/status/17383270562391696...
What you’re saying seems incompatible to me. Either they’re rented out at market rate, or their prices are strictly controlled.

How did you end up paying more than comp with a rent controlled unit? That doesn’t make much sense.
Saying "hey, you're a developer, build this site for me" is the same as saying "hey, you're an architect and a supply chain expert and a manufacturing guru and an accountant, build this manufacturing plant and distribution center for me." Just because there aren't any bricks or steel doesn't mean there isn't any labor or expertise.
We're already past "a short time" given that we're several years in.

Businesses have left the city, removing a reason to pay higher rent to live there.
> default should be to permit voluntary agreements between parties.

Government protections for wages, liability, and safety don't need additional argument. No need to construct a logical through-line against someone presenting a specious "trickle down economics" assertion. The imbalance in power is already recognized. I don't know who would believe that this decision was anything but corrupt.
I've added the idea with the ad insertion to my Moleskin, as they said in Russia 15 years ago.
New tenants have to pay market rate to begin renting. Rent control kicks in after that and prevents the rent from increasing much.

If the other renters had been there for many years, they'd still be paying market rate (plus a bit) from years earlier. That could be a lot less than market rate now.

That's why renters in rent-controlled units tend not to move as much - as market rates go up, your rent gets relatively cheaper over time and that's an incentive to stay put.
I thought about this, trying to find exceptions, and you're completely right. Good list to put on my wall.
Of course the interesting science would be - nature or nurture?

Eg in a “village” would the kids of quiet parents be exposed all day to all these other talkative people, and therefore the effect disappears? Or is it genetic?
> What neighborhoods are immune to this?

The elite ones who don't let random people in.