skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Please avoid being political like that

I don't think you can talk about group behavior without being political. Whether discuss politics is partisan is sort of a different point, which I accept.

> It might be worthwhile to look at ways that some people fit your two criteria might head to contributing (e.g. writing Wikipedia pages or answering questions on the web site of the local national park) rather than tearing down.

I think by definition, that doesn't fit my two criteria. If someone feels they have meaningful ways to contribute to collective enterprises like Wikipedia or their local national park, then they aren't falling prey to my second point.

It's when people have energy but no perceived outlet that trouble brews.

I think the positive way to spin my observation is to say, "OK, there are people that are falling into this trap. How can we help them avoid that?" How can we give people productive avenues to reach meaning and social esteem? But it's very hard to do that because it is often perceived as reducing their agency when you try to help them.
the "gluschdich" got me, usually such words have some resemblance to a word from standard German but in this case it doesn't sound familiar to me but then again the Alemannic German isn't my strong suit. Can anybody shed some light on this?
I believe the ninety-nine before the decimal point counts as two of the nines, but I'm sure different people word that differently.
Web Security Basics (With Htmx)
How many Watch editions sold? They dropped it like a hot potato. Even at launch there was affordable versions of the Apple Watch.
Really? Just busy work? Senior engineers incapable of thinking of good onboarding tasks?
True. I find it interesting how difficult that they find it to put the benefits into words that don't sound like a brochure.

Surely there should be some specifications behind this? Benchmarks?
I’d like to strongly disagree with you. Parts of the health care system are quite nice, but other parts have completely collapsed causing multi year delays for basic healthcare services or even finding a family doctor, which is not quite so nice.
Discover bank also offers something like this for free, but I can't tell if it's as capable as other services. https://www.discover.com/security/online-privacy-protection/
A lot! We’re actively reducing that though by training our own specialized models. We’re seeing equal or better performance with curated datasets at > 10x cost reduction.
Thanks for the reminder. I won't make that mistake again. I'm guessing the spatial affordance, for lack of a better phrase, of "^^this^^" arose with ephemeral comments on irc, but is clearly dependent on the message list being static, which is not true here; hence, the technique is out-of-place here. Good to know. Thanks again.
> Part 1 of Dostoevsky's The Idiot is maybe the best example I know that works from both perspectives. It's full of interesting characters with different motives, and it escalates to a incredible firework involving all these characters and motives all acting at the same time.

Yeah, that's absolutely the goal for most writers, but boy is it hard to craft a set of character psychologies that both feel believable while also leading to a plot that feels inevitable and monumental.
People are saying One Medical isn't great but it's by far the best experience I've had with health care. Good comms, easy to get visits, walk-ins for bloodwork etc etc. It's just super convenient. I'm in NYC and maybe it's different elsewhere but it's totally worth the subscription for me.
My Garmin stays connected to my Samsung smartphone via Bluetooth constantly and will last about 6-8 days on a single charge. I can't imagine charging my watch every night.
> A paid web could eliminate the ad ecosystem and all its toxicity (surveillance technology, etc.)

It could, but we've now seen the absolute vitriol levelled at sites who dare to ask for a bit of money in return for content, and the lengths people will go to to avoid paying then make up some excuse to justify it. It's funny how a common excuse for ad blocking used to be "I'd pay for content if there was an option", yet you don't hear that so often now that many sites do in fact offer that option
Am I the only one who thinks that many of the listed gripes are core features?

> TOO many bots log entire channels out to public html sites.

Fair enough. This would be a likely problem with any non-private chat system.

> It won't preview gifs

Why would I want my client to preload arbitrary third-party supplied fourth-party content? No thank you.

> No syncing without running an eggdrop or some tty somewhere running it 24/7

Screen and tmux have been table stakes for decades. If you can not sustain a 400h idle, you're doing it wrong.

> Everyone is just bluntly anonymous and you have no privacy outside of priv chans where you know literally everyone.

Which one do you want? Anonymity or privacy? I don't see how this is in any way different than our current-day antisocial networks.

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But this, now this is a real problem in all modern communications:

> depraved and creepy stalkery stuff that went on was insane

This has always been a problem. In the 90's, IRC was a relatively low-friction method of getting online and talk to people. At least these days the creeps have largely concentrated on their selected forums, but back in the day having just one in any ISC channel was a real menace.

Disclosure: in IRC since 1992.
> The article doesn't seem to suggest that the mortgage holders are actually straw purchasers, but the facts seem to suggest this is at least sometimes true. How can a hairdresser service several mortgages without "income" from China?

The article explicitly says that the purpose is laundering via professional operators -- see the flowchart diagram toward the bottom of the piece.
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/ is typically a good place to ask.
- "introspective thought loops"

Oh, that's the flavor of anxiety I get too! That's a very precise description.
> I have an automatic WireGuard VPN set up on my devices to VPN into my home network when I'm not connected to my SSID, so my local DNS still works remotely.

Exact same setup for me also.

I also run Tailscale since I have run into some remote networks that blocked wireguard's port.
Thanks! We got a couple different formats available, check out the top stories format which is close to what you suggest. Would love to hear your thoughts on it! We’re considering making that the default.
I wouldn't say that it stifles creativity, but expands LEGO to people who don't want to be creative with it.

You can treat it as a fun 3D Puzzle with step-by-step, or you can do whatever you want with it.

Neither way is particularly "wrong"
I'm not defending the corporations, just bringing up an important borderline case that any regulatory proposal needs an answer for.

On the one hand, the hardware of a PlayStation is pretty close to a general purpose PC and some iterations have been claimed as such by Sony for tax reasons. On the other hand, a great many PlayStation customers would be up in arms if regulators forced the platform open in any way that weakened the security that their competitive multiplayer experiences are built to rely on.
I'm a hobbyist musician with IBS-D, which is often triggered by general anxiety. I've been asked to play with the pros several times, and every time I have to say 'no' several hours beforehand b/c I'm chained to the toilet. Do you think that propranolol would negate those issues? I have also tried CBT with a therapist and it was only marginally helpful
Steve Jobs envisioned the Apple Macintosh as a personal appliance - locked down, no expandability. But with only 128KB or even 512KB, the computer couldn't do a whole lot. Once Jobs left Apple, management expanded the Mac's features.

When Jobs acquired Apple, his vision of computing appliances was restarted - iPod, iPhone, et al. They have a lot more functionality, but the iOS walled garden keeps enough of the users happy - at least in the Silicon Valley/USA.

Look at early 20th-century Sears-Roebuck shopping catalogs online - one of the pages showed a hand-sized motor and the various attachments one could buy to attach to it - want a blender - get the motor and the blender attachment, et al.

An early 20th-century motor-based ecosystem similar to the battery-powered power tools you see today.

Eventually the idea of a generic motor that gets specialized with whatever particular attachment you want was refined to combine a motor and each particular attachment into its own separate integrated device - no swapping of motor and attachment anymore. There are pros and cons to both systems, but the integrated specialized appliance approach won for the most part.
Young people are more optimistic than older people, but they often lose their optimism as they grow up. They face more problems and challenges in the world, and they become more cynical and pessimistic. This is a tragedy, because we need optimistic people to make positive changes in the world. That is why we recommend reading more from very young people who are making a difference in the world. They are the voice of the new generation, and they have a lot to teach us about optimism and hope. If you are curious to learn more,check out this link where we did a visual analyze of some of their inspiring stories.
https://twitter.com/sustaincia/status/1657354485877059584?t=...
Neal Stephenson on Generative AI and "The Diamond Age"
While I have nostalgia and can talk about how I used to make amazing designs with fewer specialized bricks, the truth is modern Legos can do more and cost less (adjusted for inflation). My 12year old has built things that I couldn't do until I was a junior in college. We're just grumpy because we are old.

I don't love how Lego makes all of these specialty sets for grownups, but.. I've bought some and enjoy it. Playing with Lego as an adult was weird in the 80s. Now there's whole clubs for it. I think it's a positive development.

And finally, they are not the Apple. Nothing in Lego is locked down. I can 3d print my own bricks. Small companies make bluetooth motor addons. You can even get a Lego HAT for your Raspberry Pi. It's vastly more open than just about any other system.
Hey, that's my setup, too!

Is there a way to manipulate the windows that I'm missing, or do you physically get up and attach the screens? I can't seem to find a way to adjust the... yaw?... without grabbing the window, walking, and turning.

And along those lines, that's also the only way I've found to have smaller windows far away. Otherwise pushing a window away also blows it up to an unreasonably large size, and I can't make it much smaller by grabbing the corner. In contrast, a window near you can be the size of a large iPad, which you can then get up and walk to the wall, with it maintaining its size.
ChatGPT generated a racist reply and needs explanation
Yeah but you seem to be suggested that without this yellow peril, the tenants would be, for some reason, getting a better deal. As if the problem is actually that Chinese people are better at price finding.
I wonder could GPTs come up with legal loopholes. Like they are expected to come up with security vulnerabilities
Honestly that was pretty much the situation.

In our defence, he offered. It had hit hour 6 of both the primary and the backup aircon being down, on a very hot day - everyone was way beyond blame and the NOC staff were basically up for any creative solution they could find.
This is a hard issue for me to thumb my nose at. Child labor was the historic norm for all pre-industrial societies. And to a degree, child labor is still practiced in Western agriculture - ask anyone who grew up in a farming community.

As far as I understand, the majority of chocolate production in places in Africa is still people hauling sacks of cacao into a market to be hauled away by middlemen. The only real immediate solution is to industrialize the supply chain (corporately managed plantations and processing plants), or stop consuming products from these regions altogether.
The problem with the world improving in an irrefutable way on average is that this can be and is used to defend the status quo in almost any field and can lead to complacency and a false sense of optimism. The world became better due to science, technology, various policies, cultural changes, etc. and will only improve if these are continued. It is not always clear what brought improvement and whether that sort of improvement will keep scaling. This is just my long-winded way of saying that I don't like it when people say the system is great, don't change anything, don't complain, and in a few more generations we'll all be fine.
GPTs only generate specific answers if they are trained using RHLF to prefer certain answers to others. Won't this mean that coming up with a contract that meets a special individual's case will require that much more fine-tuning?

Also how do you reconcile several logical arguments without a solver? Like "If all tweedles must tweed", "If X is a tweedle, therefore it must tweed unless it can meet conditions in para 12". How can it possibly learn to solve many such conjunctions that are staple in legal language?
Palantir stock surge shows investors haven't had enough of A
There’s definitely a need here, love the category specific TLDs.
Yep, when North Korea is selected, both North Korea and South Korea are highlighted and it's not clear which country is requested. Same goes for South Korea.
This is a distraction. If you're in terrible financial shape, the fact that others are in worse financial shape might make you feel better, but it doesn't change the fact that you are in terrible financial shape.

The US owes ~$250K per worker. The the average worker pays something like ~$8K per year in federal taxes. We added another 12.8K per worker in 2023.

Our system in incapable of the kind of action which is required to save of from this death spiral. The political incentive to lie--to tell the people that everything will be okay, and to tear down anyone arguing for drastic and painful solutions--is simply too high. Our elites will lie to us until the final collapse is underway, and the majority will happily follow them into oblivion.
It’s good to be aware of survivor bias but the discussion around it has been overdone and leads to pointless defeatism.

The airplane example is the canonical example but also ironic because it’s an example where there was a ton to learn from survivors. Their first takeaway was logically inconsistent but eventually they realized that places without bullet holes were the most important to armor. Because planes shot in other places survived. If no planes survived they’d learn nothing but instead they learned something useful from the survivors.

It doesn’t change that a WW2 fighter pilot would need some luck to survive but if he took the right lessons from survivors and armored his plane in the correct places he’d improve his probability of surviving.

One of my favorite pieces of business advice is since 90% of businesses fail, start 10 businesses and you’ll probably succeed. Of course that oversimplifies things but so does the original statistic . It’s also useful advice that helps you re-frame “luck” as stochastic risk that you can manage. And learning ways to lower probability of failure is a great way to manage risk even if there’s always some element of randomness at play.
Hopefully not! At this point we'd be better off if they did take it over vs getting out entirely.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39280477
> making ISA video cards instead

Sorry, I'll disappoint you. I've experience with these times PCs, with integrated video and with discrete, and must say, this was killer difference - just same card on ISA bus was magnitudes slower than integrated.

I've remembered benchmark numbers - on ISA VGA usually considered good about 16000 symbols per second, but integrated gives up to 500k. What all these means - on integrated VGA was possible to play software video on 486 PC.

Only after PCI appeared, in very short time appeared affordable PCI SVGA cards with speeds comparable to integrated and started era of computer home video.

And yes, ALL serious PC brands made their own clones of integrated VGA, beginning from 386SX (386 with 286 16-bit bus), but mostly not for speed, but because at that time it was already cheaper than discrete card at scale.
Probably more like Apple before Steve Jobs returned and decluttered their offering.

A few shiny gems of sets amongst a vast sea of overpriced, sometimes poorly designed sets often with color-mismatches, and way too many stickers.
Projected certainty orthogonal to predictive power.

https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
$10/mo + usage fee:

Amsterdam $0.01 / GB
Atlanta $0.01 / GB
Bangalore $0.05 / GB
Chicago $0.01 / GB
Dallas $0.01 / GB
Delhi NCR $0.05 / GB
Frankfurt $0.01 / GB
Honolulu $0.01 / GB
Johannesburg $0.05 / GB
London $0.01 / GB
Los Angeles $0.01 / GB
Madrid $0.01 / GB
Manchester $0.01 / GB
Melbourne $0.05 / GB
Mexico City $0.05 / GB
Miami $0.01 / GB
Mumbai $0.05 / GB
New Jersey $0.01 / GB
Osaka $0.03 / GB
Paris $0.01 / GB
Santiago $0.05 / GB
São Paulo $0.05 / GB
Seattle $0.01 / GB
Seoul $0.05 / GB
Silicon Valley $0.01 / GB
Singapore $0.03 / GB
Stockholm $0.01 / GB
Sydney $0.05 / GB
Tel Aviv $0.05 / GB
Tokyo $0.03 / GB
Toronto $0.01 / GB
Warsaw $0.01 / GB
In the US, different agencies are responsible for different tracts of land. At a federal level, the BLM has understood the value of prescribed burns for many years now, although they're still wrestling with the result of decades of prior fire-suppression policies. Meanwhile, state agencies in fire-prone states are beholden to the voters of fire-prone states who don't want to be told that they can't have their cake (a year-round smoke-free residence in the lovely arboreal countryside) and eat it too (not having their house burn down in an unstoppable manmade maelstrom), so you can imagine how that's going.
Why would they need to reprint money, old monarch's faces are still perfectly valid currency.
imo, the value in that is interop with relational data. If you're primarily working with json, it's probably best to use a document db.
What do you think prison is, exactly, or what it should be?

I'm pro-abduction/kidnapping if the court says so. I'm pro-denial-of-rights if the court says so. That's what the definition of prison is. It's like I'm talking to a child.

Yes, I am for that. And there's nothing wrong with it. What would you do? Send the violent murderers, arsonists, rapists, robbers, mutilators, and assailants home? "Please don't do that again" ? Fuck that.

> I think you’re a horrible person.

Not as horrible as one who would coddle feral savages. Despite you clearly having no idea what most of them are like, I hope you manage to remain ignorant of that your entire life. Some people are too weak psychologically to survive finding out how wrong they've been about reality for decades. The rest of us will do our best to protect you, and govern a world you've never had the misfortune of completely experiencing.
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What if there wasa 'deep-pipe' '||' which would be based on a set env/docker/blah - which would launch an env and execute your '||'d code in it, and output some log/metrics/whatever?
I don't plan on staying long enough so that a deep investment is useful. I'd rather continue my efforts into getting rid of some database stuff. I certainly won't work with databases ever again after this, so every hour I spend with it is wasted. I'll pass on this technology. But I appreciate the effort.
I was thinking of this differently.

Suppose there is a starting point A from which your ship is moving away from. At the same time, a photon is shot out from A. You can take the distance traversed between A and the ship as D1, and the distance traversed by the photon as D2. Then your "percentage of C" is D1/D2.

How can you get the distance D2? I'm not sure. I guess we have to pretend it's also a ship that is traveling at C that can emit information to us (also at C :p )
> The whole point of the article is that it's more expensive in Europe.

So a policy with a $100k coverage limit is cheaper than one which covers up to €7.5m? Not exactly unexpected regardless of country.

Would 7.5 mil insurance in the US be cheaper than the equivalent in in Europe? I doubt that but in any cases the article doesen't say anything about that..
Video Game Genres Are Marketing Terms, and Your Advice Is Bad
Being able to spare a couple of cores as a new partition and moving a partition to it to replace the memory and even the processor of the faulty partition with zero downtime is great.

Consider that partitions are completely isolated from each other. Not some pesky soft isolation either, it's all done in hardware. In practice, every partition in a mainframe is a different logical yet isolated mainframe.

Mainframes are built for different kinds of workloads. They are not cloud machines. They are batch machines with 6 or more nines of uptime.

In my current job, a mainframe would be useless. However, fore mission critical core services which needs predictable latencies (bank transaction engines, central big databases etc.) I'll take a mainframe all day, every day.
We should be careful about the "it's the best we got" phase of the argument. It usually doesn't add information, but pushes the convo as though it does. Presenting numbers is additive, questioning those numbers relevancy can be additive. Of course the "best we got" might not be good enough to make a call.

In this argument, the sides are something like crime is down, crime is up, and don't have enough info. Roughly speaking, you're arguing for the first over the second whereas the responder is arguing for not enough info.

Even in situations where maybe you have to make a decision and don't have great data, if you don't feel great about the best info you have, then it might be better to use something else like the wisdom or gut instinct of the team or what's cheapest or what you're most able to walk back later. Data tends to make us lazy about digging deeper, it's okay when the data is good, but worse no data when it's not so relevant.
The counter-argument to "crime is too high" isn't "that can't be improved", it's "you're looking at the wrong thing, and to target 'crime' in certain ways actually makes the world worse".
i can relate to this. sometimes coming across new philosophies can change your life's priorties and values quite a bit: for instancing learning about taoism.
A physical letter is definitely nice but can be a hassle if you move.
I won't throw a stone at anyone trying to circumvent chinese capital controls. Though Canada isn't the place I would go to escape financial repression.
Well, we arrive at the whole "the optimal amount of fraud is non-zero" train of thought, otherwise there is no money-making opportunity.

They push on the legal aspects of other problems, but I don't see them pushing on the legal aspects of this.

Mozilla receives half a billion dollars per year from Google, making up most of their revenue. Mozilla's CEO is also paid millions of dollars each year. If they can't survive as-is whilst paying out those kinds of salaries with such revenue, that's a management problem.
For themsleves? Some people can, sometimes. For the commons? If humans were so naturally inclined we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Blaming the problem on "people who don't habitually operate based on long term planning" is a likewise a cop-out while also kinda arguing my point.
Lego is not the Apple of toys.

People who have Lego in their homes also have tons of other toys.

People who have Apple computers or mobile devices in their homes do not have tons of other devices.

There are Apple households in the way that there aren't Lego households.

Oh yeah, and there are cheap, Lego-compatible blocks out there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_clone

There used to be Apple clone computers in the 1980s; Apple wiped them out in a way that Lego has not been able to wipe out Lego compatibles.