skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mandatory explanatory link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis

And reminder to everybody that „The Three-Body Problem“ is coming to Netflix in March.
For some reason the topic of language brings up a lot of folk theories, half truths, and downright errors. This is not a bad thing, I think a lot of people are fascinated by language and want to understand it on a deeper level. There are many excellent books on the topic.if you’re on Audible, I strongly suggest Mc Whorter’s Language Families course: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/language-families-of.... He’s an expert on African languages and his coverage of those are excellent from an introductory pov.

“My language-teaching polyglot friend Benny Lewis said that if you’ve never really spoken another language, then the best strategy is to start with the easiest possible language to learn, which is Esperanto”

The advice here is very context dependent. Esperanto was based on European languages, so would be easy for a person already speaking one; if not than not. Also, the concept of “easiest possible language” of course is ill-defined and learner dependent. If you’re interested in artificial languages one interesting book is Eco’s The Search for the Perfect Language.

If I were pressed to pick an easy to learn language I’d say learn a creole language, which are relatively simplified. This is where Sivers was going with the Swahili idea, I think: although Swahili is not a creole language (https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/4lq80i/why_isn...) contact by different populations tend to simplify complex language features. Same can be said about English, perhaps, it’s grammar and gender system is ssiplified but of course there’s the notorious spelling problem.
Myspace and LiveJournal died when Facebook killed them.
Facebook died when our boomer parents joined and killed all the fun.
So we went to Instagram. Which died after everyone started caring about curating an image of themselves and stopped posting authentically. Now it's all influencers and suggested content.
Tumblr died when they nuked the racy content.
Reddit is the eternal September on steroids at best and manipulated narratives and bots at worst.
I don't watch YouTube but from the comments that's what it appears like to me as an outsider.
Google search has clearly lost the war against spam so badly that lay people are talking about it. Sadbeans all around.

Edit: and I know tiktok jumped the shark when it went from an app my gen-x colleagues complained about their tweens spending too much time on, to my older SIL, a teacher, sending me recipe recommendations she saw on there.
Any details on how that went? It’s certainly that secondary education is very competitive these days.
Give a video and a prompt and get full Article in a CMS using GPT-4 (OS)
I built a chaining tool in the CMS Drupal where you can chain different AI services together, by using rules.

One of these rules can take an uploaded video file and a generation prompt and generate HTML, including cutting and croping images from the video.

Its using GPT-4, FFMpeg and Whisper to read the video.
Man, imagine how this person is going to feel in a couple of years when all of social media is just LLM bots talking at each other trying to build up enough karma to be used as scam accounts.

I think the web has been crappy for a long time because even when it was difficult to scam people online, there were still millions of people poor enough that they'd engage in what seem like prohibitively high effort/low reward scams like creating a fake Facebook account, spending months getting thousands of followers and likes, then selling it to someone for five bucks so they could use it to spam people.

With LLMs, the level of effort is rapidly approaching zero, which results in a huge increase in volume, which results in a huge reduction in returns which necessitates a huge increase in volume, etc. We're heading for a scam singularity. Scamularity, I guess.
This is not science, and as an opinion piece it's going to dissuade people from seeking mental healthcare.

There is not one bit of data in both the piece and the book. Without actual science you cannot improve the methods, or even know if the thesis is actually correct.

It's most likely false, because mental healthcare is both expensive and scarcely available. So it cannot be responsible by sheer numbers.
I wish we live to see an electromagnetic catapult at Kilimanjaro
Even ignoring mutexes and OS scheduling, plain spinlocks add contention that would not otherwise exist in a SPSC ringbuffer. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39551575
The Go crypto implementation uses some unsafe/asm part but it does not rely on external C/C++ lib. Very different.
Why not just ask LLM whether it thinks the snippet is kooky, before adding it into LLM training set?

You don't need tools in the age of AI, just ass an AI pipeline step.
This is pretty great advice for any legacy code project. Even outside of C++ there is a huge amount of code bases out there that do not compile/run on a dev machine without tons of work. I once worked on a Java project that due to some weird dependencies, the dev mode was to run a junit test which started spring and went into an infinite loop. Getting a standard run to work helped a ton.
> Honestly Reddit and Twitter feel like the only “real” places left online

Barely use reddit since the API shenanigans, and I guess I never curated my Twitter feed because every time I go in I just see people getting angry and enjoying it.
Start grinding leetcode and find another gig?
I wouldn't be surprised if this is a guy that spends to much time online and get sucked into stupid things like this. Id be curious what his screen time metrics are and time spent on youtube everyday. This guy found a "woe is me" subreddit like millennials to spend time on. Glance at the front page and it's not a healthy place to visit.

I don't think this is the normal youtube experience.
Or you could just use memory-safe OpenSSL.

https://github.com/pizlonator/deluded-openssl-3.2.0

It's based on Fil-C https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/blob/delug...

There's no unsafe code in it. The whole thing is recompiled with Fil-C. Works well enough that I can run a memory-safe curl and a memory-safe ssh.
The Rustls TLS implementation and certificate verification are all safe Rust.

The underlying cryptography is still a mix of C and asm, that's the best option we have now particularly if we want support for things that make it deployable, like FIPS. We are looking for ways to improve the safety of the underlying crypto in the future.
What Software Developers Can Do to Prevent Forgetting or Overlooking Things
> It is closer to the source material than the film _I, Robot_ was to the short story.

The film I Robot started out as an unrelated sci-fi who-dunnit that had bits of I Robot (the collection by that name, not the single short story of the same name it included) grafted in because the company had the rights for a limited time and needed to do something with them or lose them.
Worth remembering that the "Eternal September" [1] was in 1993, which is over 30 years ago.

The internet has been "ruined" by bots, noobs and marketers for as long as anyone here can remember. All those AOL CDs you received in the mid-90s weren't from some grass-roots community organizer, they were from one growth-oriented corporation trying to connect as many users as possible to as many paid advertisers as possible.

Just like pop music, the "good old days" of the internet undoubtedly line up perfectly with the period when you first invested yourself in it, most likely from the ages of 15-25. That was when the communities you explored were humming with life and content was fresh and original. The fact this OP was in /r/millennials kinda hammers home that point. Millennials are no longer in that optimistic 15-25 age group, and the communities they once participated in have faded away and been replaced with new ones.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
But PP is one of the plastics that CAN be recycled, and IS recycled, often at a much higher rate than in the US.

One of the barriers of effectively recycling PP is the mixing of materials in packaging. I know some brands in my country switched labels to make sure the bottle was uniform and recognises by recycling machines as PP. So what Heinz is doing here is actually meaningful.

The other problem USA has is poor education and lack of well separated waste streams. I’ve personally experienced ridiculous “wishcycling” from my extended family in the US where they just throw whatever they want to feel good about throwing away in the recycling bin without looking up what should go in there. Not to mention that the idea of a “recycling” bin is ridiculous to start with. You need one bin for each type of material.

The ideal solution is the bottle recycling machines (like Tomra) found in Northern Europe, that only accepts aluminium and plastic cans/bottles, which goes right back to making new cans/bottles. Well, the plastic bottle part is work in progress, but there are bottles made from 100% recycled materials now, and the key to that is to have a clean well-separated stream of recycled materials coming in.

Funny story: I saw a documentary from a local advanced recycling centre, where they mentioned that the bales of plastic that actually went to be reused in new products/bottles smelled really nice. Because a big portion of them was PP shampoo bottles.
I guess someone needs to tell Mr Jones about focus mode
Literally this. Their staff won't provide any details, nor even a route towards a solution. When I asked what they suggest doing in this situation, they simply stopped responding.
It's surprising how until the early 2000s the web was a side thing, without much importance socially or economically. And since society re-rooted itself on top (or at least moved toward that) it's a cultural and political hell. Things had no real impact back in the days, weird stuff was kept inside, died rapidly.. no real name issue...
That's great! Is Go's use of unsafe mostly about perf, or is it about other stuff (some functionality you can't get without unsafe)?
ByteDance is mobilising resources to GenAI projects
Out of curiosity, why would you ever need unsafe code in go?
This is how you protect one small server, you don't need cloud for this. But if you do use it for a small server you'll overpay a lot in relative terms and small amount in absolute terms.
> I think this is the reason social media like Discord has taken off.

I don't get this. "Social media run by a corporation's centralized platform is terrible! Let's join another corporation's centralized platform!"
"Stripping property rights from 10 million people" has a certain ring to it that is sure to garner bi-partisan support. I'm sure our congressmen can write some water tight legislation to do with with minimal second order effects.
We've got some sample data sets in S3 if you go to Data > Import from Amazon S3. The bucket rowzero-public-datasets has some neat ones.
Qt is very special because it has excellent, "vector" fractional scaling (in a way, similar to Windows), compared to Gtk which has awful "bitmap" fractional scaling (akin to MacOS).
What's a USENET?
I have similar frustrations with health and baby queries. The results are all cookie cutter generic BS from a handful of big names. Useful resources and forums maintained by actual practitioners and patients get buried on page 21 or something.

I’m so jaded by the web and I blame Google for ruining it. It’s search algorithm ensures that the incentives are completely misaligned for content creators.
Another fun aspect here: The Italian growing season is in the winter, not the summer. In July-September, it's really too hot and dry to grow much in the Mediterranean, but it's much cooler and wetter in December-February, hence when a lot of the grain is grown [0]. And that leads into why March is the for Mars, because that is when the campaigning season starts, because that is when a lot of the harvest has been taken in, so now you can pillage your way across the countryside with all the food for your consular armies already packed up, so you don't need huge baggage trains to move quickly across the landscape.

This is likely true for Greece as well. So the old myth about Penelope and the pomegranate seeds is actually talking about July-September, not the winter months. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, the 'dead' season was the hot part of the year, not the cold part.

[0] I'm talking in general here. The specifics of a particular field, region, species, etc are very important to the ancient peoples and vary a lot over the whole region.
In a real society, what mechanisms exist to prevent it from becoming a shithole?

Maybe apply similar mechanisms to the internet too?
Personally I think the bar will be very high. If you have a bot that is explicitly there to sell you something, you can probably demand that any sale it makes of that thing is legally binding even if you're obviously gaming it because the bot does have authority to negotiate a deal. It's not supposed to sell it for 90% off. But you'd have a very tough time arguing it lacks the apparent authority to do so.

The 10k example is erroneous by other basic case law. There's no consideration on your end, so it's not a binding agreement. Nor does that sales rep bot likely have authority to be purchasing things from you (of course, that could change based on context).
The parallels between statistical mechanics and machine learning are eerily profound. Optimization theory describes systems and their evolution toward lowest-energy states, the landscape that optimization traverses and the dynamics by which it does so are described by statistical mechanical principles.

I had an experience in an interview for a Sr MLE role describing some previous work. Was unable to get through to the interviewer that the answer to the question of "which loss function did you use" can't always be found in a Medium listicle.

Hint: loss functions are negative log-likelihoods.
+1 for strawberry, coming from Windows and foobar2000, this is the only music player on Linux really up to the task of playing huge music libraries and doing it well.
Two trends help make millennials seem lazy to their elders
I know there was a bit of a disinformation campaign going on. A lot of it was overtly produced by Russian sources. In addition, with any American mega project like this there are always people who want to divert the funds to their own mega project.
Unless it's purchased for training because the value is keeping it exactly the way it is.
forecast.weather.gov in the US
How do you think political change happens?
Yes and if you want more screenshots I put some on my blog about this change https://carlschwan.eu/2023/08/29/frameless-view-with-qtwidge...

And there is also some before and after comparison on the announcement https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/
Is it just a perf issue, or something else?
Can you pay Klarna with a rewards credit card? I notice Capital One doesn’t support them for some reason.
Long live the cube.
Oh, cool! I saw that menu option but I didn't click it since I assumed I'd have to enter some details. I'll check it out. Thanks :)
Spoiler: The article doesn't say. People suspect Amazon marketplace since it accounted for $140B / year in just fee alone, but the margin is still a mystery yet to be uncovered by DOJ.
> Rewrite in a memory safe language?

like c++11 and later?
It has the same problem as Quantum Leap in that the time passing in one timeline takes exactly the same amount of time as time passing another timeline. It feels like a contrived scenario that only exists to create dramatic tension.

Since the show got canceled, I don't know if it's ever explained, but the implication was that one "timeline" was essentially just a computer simulation in the other one... but if that's the case why not pause it? Why not adjust the parameters? Why can the simulation only be run in real-time?

I don't really need an answer. I don't mind suspending my disbelief for a decent story, and this was a decent story. It just stood out for me because the time travel stuff stood in contrast to the more plausible "20 minutes into the future" setting that perhaps could've made a compelling story on its own.
Non-Twitter link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDEgd6f0pKs
Homeowners should be taxed on their primary residence gains just as corporations should be. I am fully in favor of removing the primary residence tax exemption.
Responding to the Year 2000 Challenge: Lessons for Today (2020)
Dogecoin and Behavioral Finance
It amazes me that we had a decentralized, independently run series of chat networks in IRC. It wasn't even weird or hackerey, just how you talked to people on the internet sometimes. Mostly I talked to people about degen shit and doing drugs, not, like, kernel maintenance.

Now Slack/Discord are standard ish but whenever there's an outage I remember IRC netsplits and how if a server went down you'd still be able to talk to half of everyone until the network healed.
> And one would reason those adult kids are at home because of economic reasons

No doubt. Poor people have always had to leave their family behind to make a go of life. There weren't enough resources found "at home" to support multiple adult generations. But when one is rich, they don't have to set out unto the world. They can bring the resources to where they already are.

> I don’t think forcing kids to literally cook supper was a typical responsibility.

Alone? Probably not. Alongside a parent? Most definitely. There wasn't enough time in the day to get everything done if you didn't have their help. I will also note that rich people today also have modern kitchen appliances to further replace those children, so even if you're not going to McDonalds, you're probably using things like a food processor and dishwasher to do the work the children would have historically done. So, again, no need for the 'mule'.
We need to go back to the future of something like ODP[1]--human curated directory of weird sites written by humans.

[1]Open Directory Project.
He could just turn down the virtual elements with the dial of destiny they have on the thing.
"On the other hand, Fil-C is quite slow. It's 200x slower than legacy C right now. "
Yes, they state as much when you order anything and talked about it at length when they introduced the US offering.

They're shipping their specialized server systems to select providers for housing, essentially. Most maintenance is done remotely... aside from replacing faulty hardware etc
No, not at all, it doesn't make any sense. The closest I can think is that you do not have a solid connection from a value system to a reason that corporations should not own single family homes.

I don't have to agree with the value system to understand the reasoning that somebody opposes corporate SFH ownership. I disagree heartily with the value system that prioritizes homeowners over renters, and views renters as disposable. But that is the only value system that I can concieve of that has a clear and reasonable argument that corporate home ownership is bad.

If you want to argue that landlords should not exist, great! If you want to argue that corporations should not exist, great! However, the particular combination that corporations should not be landlords of single family homes (but somehow multi-unit buildings is OK), has always proven to be a completely incoherent and untenable position. At least as far as I can tease out of people.

My best understanding is that the superiority of homeowners in US culture is so strong that people think that corporations shouldn't be able to have a chance at making the same profits that individual homeowners do off of housing. The core problem is the profits, not who is making the profits, but nobody seems to want to admit that homeowner profits are making housing unaffordable. And I view this obsession with corporate ownership of SFH as a way of addressing the core political problem at the heart of our affordability crisis.
> A typical serial port configuration is "115200 8N1", which means 115,200 baud (or raw bits on the wire per second), with no parity, and 1 stop bit. This means that for every data byte sent, there will be 8 data bits, 1 unused parity bit, and 1 stop bit, to signal the end of the byte, sent over the wire. This means that we will need 40 bits on the wire to receive a 4 data bytes.

8N1 means there is 1 start bit, 8 data bits and 1 stop bit (10 bits total), not 8 data bits, 1 unused parity bit and 1 stop bit (also 10 bits total).
the system doesn't need to be completely pull-based though. I don't even think most modern RSS readers are fully pull-based, don't they support WebSub?

the main point is to separate publishing and distribution, making publishing far more accessible and decentralised. for that to happen, I guess, from a publisher's point of view, the system should be pull based. of course we can have hubs and relays to add pull-based mechanisms to ease the load of the system.

p.s. even in that case, strictly speaking, yes a pull-based system, or even a hybrid one, will always require more work than a fully push-based system.
> Assuming we live in a world where AI eats jobs, which as far as I can tell is what we are talking about

No, this is a thread about billionaires lobbying against UBI. You brought AI into it so you could have a go about the foreigners.

> How is that relevant?

It's relevant because you're so anti-immigration that surely you must be native to the land you live on, otherwise you're just another racist pulling the ladder up behind you.
We can spend those $15 to improve public transport?

> The same thinking that is used to propose that we should ban gas stoves, but not private jets or 500' yachts.

I think most people who support congestion charging also support higher taxes on private jets and private yachts. Like this is the same principle...
One thing that I can’t help but to lament the loss of is the wealth of information contained within public forums. Everything is shut away in Facebook groups, discord servers, and other such private-by-default means. Most public forums, and many open Facebook groups, are relegated to answering the same basic, ill-informed question from the hopelessly clueless that appear to operate in a universe absent of any sort of critical thinking.

I would bet that one of the main reasons why organic (non-sponsored) Google results are filled with SEO optimized, nearly incomprehensible drivel is because there’s not enough content that’s valuable for its own sake. Going back to the hopelessly clueless, this makes it difficult to ask the right questions because anything they ask will be some word-spun or ai-generated nonsense that talks in a circle with no specificity and totally devoid of substance.

The troubling part is that this is going to get worse before it gets better. This “content” is going to be recycled through the digestive system of LLMs over as over again in the style of “human centipede” until there we reach the singularity of popular thought causing the entire World Wide Web to become somehow less useful than an airport newsstand self-help book.
One small personal social media site that often discusses issues surrounding building and hosting personal websites and social media sites is https://bluedwarf.top.
I will be canceling in May. The $3/mo to remove commercials was the last straw. I don't know exactly how long I've had Prime, but probably around the same number of years. I've been using Amazon since 1997, according to my order history. Books on May 27, 1997. It will be 27 years this May. Wow.