skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has absolutely become fashionable in the past few years, as evidenced by things the author (or maybe Hunter Thompson) wrote about, like having their own section in Target and ostensibly having support from Lockheed Martin (and every other company that wants to sell more products each June).

The risk of yesterday is greatly diminished; "being LGBT++++" is now mostly a process of buying the right pronoun pins from Amazon or Etsy before swinging by Target for an unironed pride flag before the Bank of America-sponsored "protest" march.

The gay and lesbian community that literally fought for basic rights is now being pushed out by a demographic that thinks anything but their idea of straight, vanilla missionary for the purpose of reproduction deserves a new gender. Gay men are basically straight men these days, especially among white kids who can afford to take university degrees that don't translate to jobs and would never be caught dead in a place resembling a 2005 gay bar. It's borderline cultural appropriation.

Most of the fighting occurred well before most of today's fashionable TIAQW@(#)SDFKLSJDF+ were born:

- DSM removed homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973; WHO in 1990.

- The rainbow flag first flew in 1978.

- The lessons of the hyper-aggressive response to the AIDS epidemic have all but been forgotten among the "blue hair & pronoouns" crowd.

- Netherlands legalized same-sex marriage in 2000.

- Lawrence v. Texas was 2003. Obergefell vs. Hodges was 2015 (nearly a decade ago).

Nah, they're not doing it because the cops shut down the one bar they could hang out at and be themselves, or because the government and half the country is conspiring to keep them and their one true love apart. Everything I've seen points to a combination of attention-seeking and shoehorning their mediocre white suburban existences into the Oppression Pyramid, because that's the only way to signal that they're not Evil Colonizers. It's sad.
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My experience was I coded a simulation in Python and got 50/50.

... this revealed a major flaw in my intuition that helped me to grasp it. I had subconsciously been assuming Monty sometimes opens the door revealing the prize instead of always opening a goat door. When I coded that into the simulation, of course it broke (because the player was now playing foolishly, looking at the prize and intentionally choosing the closed door that definitely still had a goat behind it).
It's hardly going against the grain; ~40% of Americans don't believe in human-caused global warming, I just didn't expect much overlap with hackers who are usually so logical.

For example, 30% of Americans believe in astrology, but I would expect very few hackers on here do.
I use Surfingkeys [1] with Firefox (also for Chrome) for this. Last time I looked it was by far the best solution and superior to vimium.

[1]: https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys
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Very nice idea, I just implemented this!

Feel free to create some GitHub issues at https://aboutideasnow.com/ideas to grow the list :)
People are passionate about DNS.

I run DNS servers for fun. But I also have a 1961 convertible that I drive around with missing floorboards and rusted rockers. I will never restore it.
Afaik he had psychiatric issues that made suicide more likely ... and drug dependence that also made it more likely. He did not even needed to be talented one to rise from the masses, people like him commit suicides more then general population simply out of own suffering. He had bipolar disorder, depression and ADHD.
Not only does the official Mistral post have a whole section on the deal, it links out further to MS's official post on the deal also. It's all the same discussion
Quite right!... "Engrish"? :) like it.. so babel tower was not built in vain.
>Feeling the heat from Framework!

Is it? Isn't it like 1/1000th their sales, one being a global brand and everything, the other a niche product?
Online or offline has nothing to with doing it yourself or not. Social media, websites, etc. makes organizing events, people, projects incredibly easier and more inclusive.

Punk isn't sitting over a xerox machine for a few hours printing flyers. It is actually putting a (music, performance art, benefit, whatever) event together at an all ages venue in a town where live nation owns all the venues and keeps shows 21+ so they can make money on booze. Doing stuff yourself is easier with the Internet.
> AWS account ID is also safe to be public.

Not necessarily. An AWS account ID + the knowledge of a role name that by mistake has the "allow role assumption" allowlist too wide (say "*") is now enough to take over the account.

One might of course say "well then don't do that", but of course the more complex a system like IAM is the easier it is for unexperienced people to open the floodgates.
Yep. I’m the middle-aged guy at the small prog metal shows dressed like a preppie nerd. I fit right in despite having zero outward trappings of the subculture (except nerdiness). Love that everyone there chose to be there. Also think metal concerts are too damn loud these days. :)
[dupe]

More discussion over on the official Mistral post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39511477
Isn't this the same author who wrote that feature a decade ago speculating on the potential for a massive earthquake along the Pacific Northwest? It's too early in the week, but I'm bookmarking this for a weekend read. Incidentally, there's been news about huge solar flares in the last week (e.g., https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/02/22/solar-flar...).
There's the Monty Hall Problem and then there's the Second Order Monty Hall Problem Problem.

That is, did the wording as it was originally printed unambiguously define the problem to be solved, or was it ambiguous enough that some people who got it wrong got it wrong for the right reason?

Like many others, I completely missed that when Monty opens a door to show you a goat, he always shows you a goat. I think under close inspection, the problem doesn't actually allow you to interpret otherwise. But, should a problem like this depend on parsing and identifying the ambiguity, or should the problem be defined with explicit details about the door opening?

Given how many otherwise extremely smart people have misunderstood the problem, I am still unsure whether this was an intentional choice in framing the question. I got it wrong and thought Vos Savant was wrong until I read one of the replies in her follow-up article (yes I read this when it first came out!) said they wrote a computer program and reproduced her results. The program implemention worked because they correctly modelled Monty's behavior. I think when people end up writing the program out the ambiguity becomes more obvious.
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So easy and cheap to prepare for, and the potential destruction is basically infinity, but here we are.
The company behind it has more robust cloud tools too, meant for film studios. If you're serious about building this, please reach out using the email in my profile.
> It’s strange that we even work more or even at the same amount of time as 100 years ago.

why is this strange?

if a candybar maker spends $0.75 to make a candybar and sell it for $1.00 and then they suddenly find they can make 2 for the same price, they're going to continue selling them individually for $1.00.

When you increase productivity like that you now have an effective increase in available resources, why would you assume there's only 1 place those effective resources can go?
> I’m guessing Spain is the same…

Spain has massively expanded a high-speed rail network in recent years, and now has the largest high-speed rail network in Europe, and second longest in the world after China. A lot of that has been built separately to the pre-existing rail network, and so has added a lot of additional capacity.
That's because the drugs and sex are getting replaced across modern culture by p0rn and video games. It's not a sign of spiritual growth, the young people of today's mainstream West are still mired in pointless craving and desire. Conservative religious communities offer a way out of that predicament.

BTW the "conservative" part is not, strictly speaking, required but if you object to that I don't think you would like the "e/acc" variety of spirituality either. This is powerful stuff, and it makes 100% sense to have some "traditional" safeguards within it.
I think an inherent problem is that donors need to be continuously buying the tokens that developers are selling or the project goes to zero. So the the protocol should be built for the donors.

They could say "People can contribute to a project by just staking tokens against a project" but staking tokens isn't a stream of new money. New money needs to be coming from somewhere.

Tokens can be created out of thin air, but money can't be.

It doesn't look good to me through a "game theory lens".
I think it's more complicated than that, at least in America.

IMHO part of the issue is that America isn't a single culture. There's a big difference between the acceptance of LGBTQ culture between rural vs. urban, coastal vs. south, and pop culture vs. work culture.

There's also a major backlash against LGBTQ culture. E.g. I don't think that you can say that it is fully mainstream culture as long as we have the various Don't Say Gay laws and bans on gender affirming care.
Wow, very similar to what I have been doing but sounds like you had way more consistency. My bot does not remind me to write, it's a neat idea.

I was wondering about adding a trivial Langchain+LLaMa thing to it to chat to my old memories, would be cool to explore this indeed
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Private jet users routinely shuttle their planes a few dozen miles to more personally convenient airports in the area. The celebrity plane tracker accounts have put a lot of focus on this sort of usage.
I agree that that comment summarizes what appears to be your argument “you can build infrastructure cheaper even with restrictive environmental protections”.

The response from rayiner explains why this argument misses the point. It’s not about terminal goals being more or less virtuous in the US. It’s about the *process* for building in the US having many points of potential legal interaction that lead to delays and redesign requirements.

And that legal system is quite different from how large projects are able to be executed in the rest of the developed world.

The US used to build large projects this way, but there was a large populist movement that pushed to add more local veto opportunities.

Those vetoes are extremely expensive at the macro level.
I'd have to imagine that now-a-days these transformers are all or mostly fast grounding. If they weren't, I'd expect lightning storms to be a much bigger and more frequent issue.
Yeah, that's what I was riffing off of, being too unoriginal to come up with my own ;)
That's what Russian Government says all the time. According to them, speech is free in Russia, they just have some reasonable limitations.
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>the endowments are getting so big that covering tuition for all of their students

This sound bite always comes up. The simple fact of the matter is that for these institutions, the endowment is essentially composed of gifts, and returns on investment of gifts. Many/most gifts are restricted, meaning that the donors gave them to be used in specific ways - like to fund a specific professorial chair, or for a particular library or whatever - and it's just not an option to use them to fund tuition or for other purposes.

Data point: Harvard's endowment has over 14,000 individual funds and the majority of them are restricted.
None of what you said seems different from how scaling software and data processing. Only the constant factors are different. Communication overhead is a major concern in supercomputing / distributed commuting. 10x-100x scaleups require rearchitecture. Google Talk is not as cannot be same code as "UNIX talk"
Profit is not a dirty word. I don't think that's an argument anyone is making. Profit is not _sufficient_ motivation to make a lot of infrastructure happen, and until that's recognized we'll be building too little, too late. I think most actually would agree with the rest of your points--I certainly do.
I don't really get the dismissal you're showing here. Why is the expectation that they need to be ascetically pursuing education for its own sake?
Neat idea! But where are all these websites coming from? People have personal websites AND they share random ideas?

Btw I don’t have a website but here are some ideas I’d love to work on:

Anything applying LLM to robots

Device that rides on top of roomba and taps its bumper (to turn it) if it sees something bad.

An employment agent for letting people try out new careers.

Cheap simple pickleball out ball detection
In what ways is it superior to Vimium?
AWS doesn't consider them sensitive, but some organizations do. My feeling is that I would rather avoid leaking any info about my AWS environments. Just because AWS doesn't think they can be dangerous doesn't mean someone else won't find a way.
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> All it would take is for one of them to require senior leadership to take a certain number of flights (per year, let's say) on each new model of aircraft they ship. This would be solved immediately.

They've done this in the past after the prior -MAX issues. It's a pretty meaningless gesture and it can be tasteless at times ("my flight went fine unlike those victims!"). It is very rare for these defect(s) to cause malfunctions during any given flight. The likelihood becomes significant when many of these planes are making many flights every day.

Test pilots aren't employees (or at last not exactly) that would have an agenda, nor are they evil (at least on average I suppose), so any program manager with a vested interest in the plane would happily fly on any that leave the flightline. Any manager that would purposefully conceal or downplay a defect obviously believes the plane is "safe enough" to fly.

The issue lies in "safe enough". Any production aircraft is safe enough to fly according to someone. Program managers know the BIG money involved has already been spent ten times over, so they might draw their "safe enough" line with a tiny bit of leeway because hey, what are the odds?
Eh I’d rather have large ivy leagues use their endowments. I like the direction they’re heading in and would want them to continue doing what they do so well.
Considering how low their stated expectations were for Ingenuity, I think it was more than durable enough. It's a huge bummer that it's grounded, but it was also a fantastic resounding success.

Also, 0. was "get it to fly", and that required a pretty wild rotation speed, which probably limited their ability to make it much more durable.
A good landing is one you walk away from. A great one is where you can fly the plane again.
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> Not for electricity production.

A quick Google search suggests ~350g CO2 per KWh in Germany vs. ~400g in the US. Looks plausible to me. Germany uses coal but also has a very substantial share of renewables. Another quick search also shows that 60% of electricity in the US is from fossil fuels. The rest is nuclear and renewables in about equal amounts.
When I'm working with a junior developer I have a rule: never, ever, touch their keyboard or mouse while they are driving.

If I absolutely have to help them make some specific input, I'll spell it out, symbols and all, so that the junior can type it themselves. It takes time, but it's so much easier to remember something when you're the one who typed it out. Besides, even before AI, autocomplete was usually good enough that I rarely had to spell out more than a few letters. :)
If they aren't the legal equivalent of persons, then they can't perform necessary activities like entering into contracts.

Can you find a company that committed capitol murder? Or are they supposed to just execute one to test your theory, even if they're not guilty?
Indeed. There was a strong push for funding for installing and mantaining fast ground fault interrupters after the EMP Commision in congress in 2001 (http://www.empcommission.org/) determined it was the best solution. And then again in 2008. But nothing actually happened besides words.
You can't require that people accept that you're right as a precondition for arguing with them. If you want to argue that porn perverts sexuality, you can't demand that your opponent acknowledge that their sexuality has been perverted by porn. You wouldn't take that structure seriously in any other context.
This sounds like a very smart idea in a climate emergency era.
Well sure, but your account email isn't safe to be public if your password is "password".
Very cool! Is there an equivalent for SOC2, GDPR, etc...?
And much faster. It takes almost a full day to take amtrak from the west coast to denver. Not much has changed since the transcontinental railroad opened I guess.
Super neat tool, but given that I use Caddy, that kinda prevents this issue from happening for me. While a monitoring tool is always a good idea, maybe the best long-term solution would be to encourage certificate auto-renewal tools. OTOH, I have only worked with this on a personal level, so maybe there's problems with auto-renewal that I haven't learned about.
I think Vimium C works better than Vimium. It's been so long since I switched that I can't remember exactly why, though.
I like my windows (contexts really) to have more visual separation so all my Amethyst windows have 5px margins.
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No, this is wrong. The fact that AWS does not consider the ID a secret means that your company never should either. If your company “cares” about its ID being secret, then your company is designing its systems in an insecure way.

The fact that AWS does not treat the ID as secret means you have no guarantees that anyone within AWS cannot see or find your ID. You also have no guarantee that AWS at some point won’t expose your ID to the world and break your entire security model, because AWS doesn’t think it’s secret. If you do, you’re basing your security off of false assumptions.
Oh nice I really like that. Ace definitely will add one to my site!
Nonsense... Complete nonsense!!! Russia would have won anyway, even without allies. The Allies only accelerated the victory!
Goddamn my government is absolutely pathetic.
It's not a question of "if" , but "how many". Abd that's largely what matters, same as in the case of USSR.
The vast majority of indexed websites don't have a date unfortunately :(

What's your website so I can take a look at the parsing?
I'm not sure that we haven't already prepared for this. Lightning is a thing and fast grounding transformers are the solution to that.

As a kid, thunderstorms commonly knocked out the grid. Now as an adult I've rarely seen the power go out (It usually happens due to someone ramming a power line with their car).
"Massachusetts lawmakers want to change that. State legislators are considering a groundbreaking bill that would impose a 2.5 percent annual excise tax on private college and university endowments that are larger than $1 billion. The resulting $2.5 billion raised each year would be more than enough to cover the tuition of every undergraduate student currently attending public colleges and universities in the state."

The chances that they would use that to cover undergraduate education is pretty low. Would 100% go towards other political causes - I have little faith in our political class doing that or using it effectively.
Must be the overclock edition.

An OEM flux capacitor is normally rated for 1.21 Gigawatts (not 121). Plutonium or fission material must be converted to electrical power in a separate unit, but direct atmospheric charging is a viable alternative.
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You've said "this is wrong" and then repeated exactly my point back to me. I suspect some misunderstanding has occurred here. We are agreeing on this--you need to follow AWS's lead and design your cloud deployment such that the account ID doesn't leak anything interesting about your business. That's a direct quote from my original post. I further gave an example--if you're a design firm using a single account for different clients, you're leaking the information that they are your customers. Better split it up into separate accounts to preserve the non-secretness of the account ID--another direct quote from my original post.

Stated another way: you can unintentionally make your account ID sensitive if you're not careful. You have to be careful.
And those organizations are building their security model off of false assumptions, and are wrong.
Why the video is confusing to you?
Statistically Cascadia is long overdue a 9 on the Richter scale. Seeing what Microsoft's business back up plan for that is, would be interesting, especially since Seattle would be the largest affected city.
Is there a rule against perpetuities for gifts like there is for a lot of trusts?

i.e. after N period of time, the restrictions no longer apply?

Could be a major pain in the ass to keep track of though