skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The United States has a history going back a full century of directly and indirectly forcing extremely violent changes in government when foreign governments are insufficiently deferential to American political/economic interests. Kissinger's state department alone aided and abetted multiple genocides and the deaths of over a million civilians.

Not only has the PRC never done this, they take the public stance that they have absolutely no interest in this, and publicly espouse the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries. The only obvious Chinese global objective is a world where they exist as a non-ideological economic partner willing to profit from trade without strings attached, like America's enforced austerity and privatization "reforms".
Does Bayesian have a concept for absence of belief? I don't feel like believing anything is equally likely is equivalent to absence of belief. But maybe it is?
Not cheating, but there isn't a good argument from the given criteria:

1. Quality of work.

2. How much better he was than his contemporaries.

3. How much he stayed the very best in subsequent centuries.

4. Quantity of work.

5. Peaks.

6. Consistency of work and achievement.

7. How many other problems he had to solve to succeed with his achievement.

8. Ending up so great that he could learn only from himself.

9. Never experiencing true defeat or setback.

There's a reasonable case to be made that Yeshua bin Yusuf was one of the more successful apocalyptic prophets in that time and place considering how much of his teaching comes down to us. I'd say there's a good case for checking off 1 and 2, but that's about it.
Punish the company?

Fire the board and the C-suite, wipe out all the shareholders and run an IPO, take the proceeds as a fine or restitution for those affected.

Or if you’re feeling particularly mean just deny the corporate entity’s rights (and parents) to do business at all, force the owners to run a fire sale for any value they can grab.

You penalize corporations with fines proportional to their total value, removing permissions to operate in certain ways, break them apart, or just legally dissolve them entirely.

The problem is all too often fines are like 30 seconds of revenue. Make it 50% of market cap forcing them to raise cash or pay the fine in stock.
The argument is indeed so bad, all it proves is that the church was so powerfull at the time that they could spout any ludicrous nonsense and still have people bow in obedience.
Believe the kids just shortened that to "electron transport chain is fire" nowadays.
It wasn't popularized until the last few years.
How the weak win wars: A theory of asymmetric conflict [pdf] (2001)
He's surrounded by VCs with confirmation bias.
And largely still is. There was mass resistance to leaving windows 7 which was the last release they basically worked like people had learned to use it.

Getting stuff like user mode drivers and bitlocker and all the is nice but almost nothing had been added to the core product that users themselves much cared about.

3d object collections pinned to opening labels and the only way to get rid of it is registry hacks. Who was that "feature" ever even for?
Trespassing is really the only one I struggle with.

It is without a doubt true that land is a natural commons. Yet in order to make the most efficient use of it it has to be managed privately. When I walk across a field, I am not an aggressor, it is the man who erected the fence around it that is the aggressor. Yet without that fence nobody has any incentive to do anything useful with it. I suppose this emerges from the fact that might makes right and anyone with the capability of taking land without consequence will do so. But we are here to determine what is right, not what is simply true. This one is a difficult problem indeed.

As far as intellectual property, I don't think you can own information. Nobody truly does, we create this abstract framework to try to make it so but it is fundamentally impossible to simultaneously own information and make it useful in the world and ultimately everyone knows this. To truly own information you have to keep it to yourself, but keeping it to yourself is mostly useless. A machine necessarily contains the information on its design in it's entirety, to put the machine into the world is to tell the world how to build it.
Later countering the propaganda they uncritically (some might argue, intentionally) spread in the first place does not argue in their favor.
Nah for venture-backed it’s to deliver results for investors.
> we couldn’t magic enough battery capacity into existence

"My Little Investment: The Invisible Hand Of The Free Market Is Magic"

UK has mostly shut down coal. Has one single plant hanging around just in case. In 2020, Britain went 5,202 hours free from coal electricity generation, up from 3,665 hours in 2019 and 1,856 in 2018.

And that's without significant quantities of batteries, because there's more than one way to store energy and more than one way to fuel backup generators if those storage systems aren't sufficient.

If the UK can do it, basically everyone can.
Meta's new Threads, a rival for X, is now Apple's most downloaded app
It’s better for your mouth/teeth to change the brush, it’s not really visible but there’s a difference in how effective an old brush is at plaque removal compared to a new one.
Corvids optimize working memory by categorizing continuous stimuli
That's why I'm not that upset that no one wants to work with an old guy (that's me), and I was forced to retire.

I still get to play with software, but on my own time, and on my own schedule.

The difference is amazing.
Correction:

s/CDp8iULPuCinsert(11)/CDp8iULPuCinsert(2)/
No, but he sure stinky feeted quite a few.
> why can't they focus on core windows making it stable, fast and everything else optional

Could it be that Linux makes competing on core stability a losing game?
I've seen reports of hate speech in Hebrew getting a pass while Arabic users are having rules enforced in an overly broad way. Regardless of your views on the conflict, it is a bit chilling that a massive corporation is now the arbiter of speech for much of the internet now.
I dont think there is a single answer like "facilitate conflict resolution", it's more of a matter of generally fitting in the corporate world, being able to build relations in that world, and not give the interviewer confirmation about its bias against "huge nerds that ace every technical challenge but then don't shower and can't talk to people without snarky remarks". yes, the bias is alive and well, and in general programming is a communications job (we communicate with stakeholders and then communicate with machines, but instead of studying marketing we study programming languages)

but let's not derail, "no i dont want to go to company parties" = "doesnt want to socialize" - "doesnt want to submit to the company" - "will probably be a hassle to work with" - "can't communicate" - and so on.

again, think hard about a different career angle in tech if you dislike these things, you might enjoy it more
Do you have a source? I.e. one that shows the Wikipedia quote is incorrect?
"During a quench, which is not common, a large amount of helium evaporates and is vented outside the building through a venting system," the recall explains. "If an unknown blockage is present in the venting system and the pressure exceeds design limits, the structural integrity of the system could be compromised."
Each man is the architect of his own destiny.

If someone is afraid of MRI machines exploding (I've never met anyone like that), they will need to live with the consequences of that decision.
I couldn't make the date picker work at all - the scroller kept snapping back to a previous position.
Agreed.

If we're serious about this, mandatory bi-yearly pickup of hazardous material (batteries, paint, solvents, etc), with awareness campaigns seems reasonable.

Push it down as a requirement on garbage companies and then monitor it through them.
I'm thinking of putting this for software documentation. The idea is that content is all markdown in Astro or Seveltkit with SSG (static site generation) and then Index it all at build time and then search it all via Meliesearch.
Even if that's true (and I have my doubts), it doesn't make those non-Rust languages safe.
Should you have any beliefs in the absence of data? And if you have some prior data but no additional data now why carve out past as separate thing and call it prior? Why not just call everything you have - data?
Good call. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
> Lazarus just a retro thing or do they have practical utility in 2023 also ?

Surely it's not a retro thing. As for being useful in 2023 for landing a job, well, most head hunters won't even know what you mean if you mention it in your resume, however if you're lucky enough to find a place where they don't dictate what you're forced to use but rather ask "we have a problem, can you solve it? You have carte blanche wrt tools", chances are that by using Lazarus you can be extremely productive in short time.
It tells you if they lied hard on their resume, which is often sufficient.
Animals have stood trial for their actions since the time of the Greeks, and have undergone shifts of being intentional criminals, to automatons of Nature who can't be judged, to self-aware beings with rich inner lives who should stand trial for their actions, but Animal Trials were out of vogue by then.
When I started seeing sports scores on the Windows start menu was my last straw.

Haven’t looked back since.
It's weird how plural form is seen as polite.

Maybe it was because if you were meeting unknown person you might verbally assume they are a part of some group. Either to put them at ease so they know they are not perceived as lonely prey or to safeguard yourself by communicating that you are aware and prepared that more of them might be hiding in the bushes.
But my point was they could make more money if they had algos that worked on more people.
Where would i go to learn the fine details of how things like risk assessment and traceability work in practice?
There's something even more broken about it than that, though; I couldn't get the date to go any earlier than 1991, because the scroller would keep resetting itself back to 1993. Don't understand it.
I apologize if that came off rude - I did not mean it that way. I honestly was not sure if Wiki sources were still "forbidden" in school, that was a while ago for me.
With ccache that would be a cache miss by default. However, that could be made a cache hit by configuring the CCACHE_BASEDIR option. There doesn't seem to be an exact equivalent in sccache. https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/issues/35
For the same reason we still do: it’s incredibly profitable for the people who make weapons.
Whatever his issues, I think it's clear that humanity absolutely cannot afford people like him to control the emergence of AGI.
almost everyone i know in work law agrees the only chance Twitter had was to move this under tx. despite the contraction and most time of work and place of verbal promises being all in CA.

being denied the forum change argument or the dismissal under tx is pretty much a defeat as it will go
But you don't need two, one in git (which stores the full copy) and another one in flat files when you can have only one in the database and then store just the diffs (and have an easier way to discard history when needed vs git, which would be especially painful with many clients)

Git uses heuristics to identify renames, and not a great one (and also limited in number of files), which is a known limitation of this "great" tracking

And data structure means renaming/moving your flat assets, even if git catches them, your note app will not. Or breaking cross-references due to that. Ability to regenerate broken wouldn't help you here

What "broader tooling" do you mean for notes when you don't even have a real system, just something all you could imagine as the best?

Also wild to ignore smartphones as yet another non-issue
> I'd like to know which HN post you're talking about, so I can say exactly what happened.

> I wonder if you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38036236? You'd need to turn showdead on in your profile to see that one.

So, what happened?

Edit: I can't even click the link on the post you mentioned. Is that normal? That seems especially suspect and somewhat closer to censoring opposing views than I've come to expect from you and HN, Dan.

I have showdead enabled.

The link in question:

https://twailr.com/public-statement-scholars-warn-of-potenti...
> For Thomas, now—for the first time in his life—a freelance cartographer, who tours the world exhibiting the North America map, geography is a bit of a homecoming

Seems like the surrounding context answers your question. This freelance cartographer is someone who supports himself by talking about a cool map he drew.
> has indeed stood for being a rebel with none of the modern racist associations attaced [sic] to it

I grew up partly in the South of the civil rights era and went to one de-facto segregated school. (Dad was military, stationed in various places.) I was a kid, but I paid attention to the news, and my impression was that racism was the clear, undeniable subtext to the "being a rebel" part: Many Southerners — notably, most of those who held political- and economic power — resented federal "interference" with "Southern ways," namely the violent oppression of blacks to keep them as an impoverished, powerless, underclass workforce.

(In 2020 I read a tweet thread from an anonymous Army officer, recapping the history of post-Civil War Reconstruction and the Union's de facto surrender in 1877; the quote that stuck with me was, "Sherman should've mowed the deep south like a lawn, making multiple passes")

https://twitter.com/pptsapper/status/1313470161974947843
Can you name one non-democracy that isn’t doing exactly those same things?
The goal is to guard against wrongthink and ensure that people act and think like their politicians want them to act and think.

On the other hand, give them a framework to think for themselves, expose them to inconvenient perspectives, and this will endanger livelihood of so many powerful opportunistic people.
XP SP2 was a huge hit. And it had a long run after it dropped until 7 was released (many people skipped vista)
Mickey mouse as a concept will enter public domain. Although with a trademark, it will be hard to do a Mickey mouse animation.
See Sherlock Holmes. Some, but not all of Sherlock Holmes is on public domain.
Also note that trademarks expire, they have to be renewed. In addition, you can lose a trademark. See Kleenex, escalator, zipper, bandaid, etc.
best buy has a very liberal electronics recycling program. do you live near one?
> In early October, OpenAI’s chief scientist approached some fellow board members to recommend Altman be fired, citing roughly 20 examples of when he believed Altman misled OpenAI executives over the years.

I also thought this was interesting, not sure if this detail had been reported before this article, but seems like there were maybe more incidents than initially thought.
New music generation open models: Dub, DnB, BoomBap
The article mentions not wanting to put a bell in their terminal prompt because it would cause too many notifications, but I found it difficult to remember to put `;tput bel` on every command that would be slow, so I compromised by configuring my shell to notify only on commands that took longer than 10 seconds. I also use a popup instead of a straight bell so I'll see a reminder of what it was that was happening (this is for MacOS, on Linux it would use `notify-send` instead):

function preexec() {
lrn_timer=${timer:-$SECONDS}
lrn_command="$1"
}
lrn_timer=0
function precmd() {
[[ -v lrn_timer ]] || return # preexec() doesn't set timer if no command run (e.g. from ^C before running)
timer_show=$(($SECONDS - $lrn_timer))
unset lrn_timer
# 10 is the notification threshold in seconds
if (( ${timer_show} > 10 )); then
terminal-notifier -sound default -message "Exit $? in ${timer_show}s: $lrn_command"
fi
}

(Based on https://gist.github.com/petethepig/2d29e8b7e2ebc808bfe760b63...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing
Java certainly is; you might have to encode it as having your callback be an object with a (polymorphic) method, but for a long time that was something you had to do to express any callback in Java, so it's well-supported.
I will work with my son to build the new lego set he'll be getting tomorrow.
It has very little to do with the violations of the law. There is no law that states mri machines must have <X% chance of exploding.

The way these things work is that the firm has decided based on their data and reports to issue a recall and notify the FDA. The manufacturer recommends hospitals not use the device, however there is the possibility that they continue to do so (the probably won't for liability reasons).
How do you plan what features should be added while the app is free, and then which features in the future will go into a paid tier?

Last year I worked on a pet project iOS app (which I never released unfortunately) and one of my struggles was figuring out how I'd portion out the features from free to not-free after release. I was thinking at the time of doing what you've done, basically releasing as free for a while and then adding a paid set of features. It's just difficult to plan what should fit there.
Sufficient anorebic decomposition, mixed with hot and dry climates like LA's and a buildup of flammable gases, can cause spontaneous combustion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_fire?wprov=sfla1
correct.
my list isn't a piece of advice, it's just a list of my personal experiences, that the reader can interpret with their own judgment
alchol and eating fried food ( what is on my mind) give me intense heartburn.

Another perk of getting old ;)
One would hope for most entrepreneurs to have better judgement and be less desperate.
Legal process, discovery, and corporate records.
It's almost as if tiktok isn't a news site (at least not primarily).
I'd say this is #1 error that I see around
« Say my name »
That used to be true in 2017-2020 for certain sectors of company and funding source; where did they raise funding from? And is that funding source no longer investing?

> and make it quite far

Is that measured by funding rounds and valuation, or by paid users/revenue?
Of course. But that doesn't mean it isn't worthwhile to be clear on what the factual risks are.
Nice, thank you for this. I was able to replicate your example: https://chat.openai.com/share/6d7e4c6c-a753-4ffb-a021-6d1f66...

If GPT-4 has access to Bing, it has no issue, but if you ask it to answer without using Bing, then it will say it doesn't know.
> Most mathematics isn't written for computers

I beg to differ. A lot of mathematics is written in LaTeX which is written for computers to render into traditional notation. No one uses LaTeX directly because it has a horrific syntax, but it doesn't have to be that way. There is no reason why one could not invent a notation that didn't require complex rendering. Programming languages are an existence proof.
Getting to know your coworkers in more social environments eases interactions with them in the workplace. As a senior/staff level engineer working with and coordinating across teams, socializing to build repertoire and ease these interactions pays dividends quickly. HR asking if you'll go to company parties is their indirect way of probing to see if you could handle this aspect to fit a senior role, but it's not imo the best way to find out if someone can handle this. As someone who doesn't drink alcohol, I totally understand where you're coming from not wanting to go to parties or bars after work. I try to socialize before and after meetings with coworkers, during lunch breaks, etc. outside of party/drinking scenarios.
One of the most invasive species is the domestic house cat. It has exterminated many species of animals and kills untold billions of animals each year.

It was domesticated in the Near East, so technically from Asia, I guess?

You mentioned Burmese pythons, which are invasive in the Everglades and Florida in general. Do you know about the Australian plant species Melaleuca quinquenervia? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melaleuca_quinquenervia :

> Its unchecked expansion in South Florida is one of the most serious threats to the integrity of the native ecosystem.[25] This tree takes over sawgrass marshes in the Everglades turning the area into a swamp.[26] Melaleuca causes severe ecological impacts, including displacing native species, modification of hydrology, alteration of soil resources, reducing native habitat value and changing the fire regime.[27]

Quite a few invasive species, like the Australian pines, were deliberately introduced to South Florida to try and tame the Everglades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_invasive_species_in_th...
The fact that they are using Instagram as a control in the study is hilarious. The standards in these universities are laughable.
I think it helps to think how the balance sheet changes. If you deposit money, the bank has higher liabilities, they owe you that money, and higher assets as they actually have the money. So they might buy all sorts of assets with that money. However, it's not that they need that money to make a loan. That was my main point.

> The sum of deposits the bank holds are not available for withdrawl all at once. So where is it?

This only depends on the central bank being able to produce enough cash for all the people. Technically, the commercial bank will ask the central bank to swap their assets for some cash to hand it to the customers. So practically, they might not be able to give cash to everyone, just because the central banks cannot product it that quickly. But other than that there's no problem that many people can withdraw money. If customers come bank with the cash, the commercial bank will take it, give it back to the central bank, and receive their previous assets back.
The article isn't very critical of Windows 11. It simply points out that many consumers didn't feel like it was a compelling upgrade if it meant upgrading their computer as well. Then you have the usual inertia with Windows. This isn't the first time Microsoft has put out a less than compelling upgrade.
The parent commenter isn't just talking about this recall, but what appears to be a developing pattern: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/health/cpap-defect-recall... (https://archive.is/gvqmN)

> The lawsuits have claimed that flaking foam and gasses emitted from the machines were linked to health issues including respiratory illnesses, lung cancer and death. The foam was used in the machines to reduce noise and vibration.

> In June 2021, the Food and Drug Administration announced a recall of Philips machines that also included BiPAP devices and ventilators made since 2009, warning that foam deterioration in the products could cause “serious injury” to users. Philips initially released a memo to doctors saying the foam breakdown posed risks of “toxic carcinogenic effects,” but the company has since released updates reporting a far lower level of concern.
Because he isn't in Europe.
Cries in family support… malware is coming.
Slogans sound fun, but realistically TikTok is just very good at giving you content you're interested in.

If they don't care for this kind of content, they simply won't see it. It's the same the other way around.
That is not what I mean by "for humans". Also, LaTeX != mathematical notation.
there is no shortage of landfill space. some how corporate america (waste management) got you to shill for them. this is why I don't recycle, if they want the stuff they can dig it out. brainwashing kids to recycle only bolsters their own profits, while taking away a revenue stream that poor/homeless used to enjoy.
How many software developers work in non-tech companies?