skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a lot of ‘shoulds’ here, and blanket assumptions that don’t line up with observed reality.

I know of numerous people that bought precisely because of expected gains.

I’ve also personally observed these
‘prolonged speculative bubbles’ occur 4 different times in the United States alone in the last 30 years, and know the same has occurred in China, several well populated area of Canada, India, Singapore, and Japan as well.

If it’s so common, what is your point exactly? Because you seem to be denying a very large and very obvious part of the actual market reality.

It doesn’t always go up and to the right of course, and I’ve seen numerous folks be ruined too.
> Leftism is defined by a goal of communism or socialism.

Not necessarily true, see: anarchism. There are certainly anarcho-communists, but not every anarchist is a communist.
> In Seattle, for instance, the policy is to distribute drugs and needles to users

Please cite your sources if you are going to make ridiculous claims. The city of Seattle does not have a municipal policy to distribute drugs to drug users at the syringe exchanges.
Quake??
Many of the problematic drug users get arrested frequently, including for violent crimes. It doesn’t need to be a deterrent to “work”.
It could come from the misunderstanding that Communism is the only alternative to global capitalism, which isn't the case.
Really. Show me one single source other than this page that uses a meander key lengthening joint.
Yes the 100% natural candy they gave you, surreptitiously laced with addictive substances, did what it was supposed to!

By the time you are addicted, they don't care that you know.

(The line between addiction, and highly reinforced habit, is a continuum. But it is all insidious. Your choice and will was hacked by deception, before you had an informed choice to not even start.)
And yet you do it every day when you decide who to associate with and invite into your life and home.

Why can't the community do the same thing you do personally?
If they did, it would be illegal federally and all involved would be jailed.
OK. But only if you include tobacco and alcohol.
> Probably not productive to throw out sound advice just because other strategies also seem to be needed.

I'm not sure how you got the idea I think we should abandon public health advice on healthy eating. My previous comment is intended to point out that telling people to eat healithy doesn't work, and therefore we need artificial sweeteners because asking people to give up their favorite foods clearly isn't working.
Real-World Cryptography (2021)
I speculate that they wanted to support just `mod.rs`, but because VS Code became the editor for rust people hated seeing all tabs named `mod.rs`.
As long as they do this, I don't see how they can be accused of dumping.
SpaceChem is ok, I didn't really like Shenzhen IO. Exapunks is pretty fun, but Opus Magnum is my favorite by a large margin.
Ed Bastian, CEO, Delta Air Lines;
Vicki Hollub, President and CEO, Occidental Petroleum;
Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland;

Most of the other names make some lick of sense, but why are these people on an AI safety board?
“Train geeks” have no meaningful public policy pull, it is silly and counterproductive to insinuate they have much to do with lobbying and promoting long distance rail especially east of Chicago where most of the routes aren’t particularly touristy.

> would work a lot better if Amtrak could be privatized

That’s a bold claim. While I’m not knee jerk anti-privatization, I’m extremely skeptical that privatizing the NEC will be anything but a fleecing of the public since most of the problems are due to aging infrastructure requiring billions of dollars of investment - which even with your beloved cars and airplanes is not something handled much by the private sector. People who argue it’s bad now just assume you’re too much of an idiot to imagine it could be worse.
> I can read source code in a Github repo on my phone on the bus (and I sometimes do! In anger, in upstream repos when trying to debug sudden production issues while on my way home!) I can't really read code in a zip file on my phone.

I find this double ironic, because _every single phone_ I've ever had since the 90s has had no problem being able to download, unzip and view plain text files. Yet not a single phone I've ever had is able to decently browse the JS-loaded monster of a website that github.com is. Not even the one I'm using right now. Even on my desktop it still much easier to view a plain text file, not to mention more responsive and reflowable, than the Github website.
> that amounts to a lot of work

Why? Are you making a lot of changes that conflict with the distro?

"Guideline 120 Avoid modifying the existing behavior of base system classes." :-)

1996 Smalltalk with Style page 95

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/WithStyle/Smallt...
Exception handling is easy enough to disable. Luckily, or C would probably still be the game developers go to.
I also found it confusing that they are doing version control via version numbered directories instead of using the version control system and tagging versions. If they don't think that's discoverable enough using the web UI... they should probably make it discoverable enough using the web UI.
why does 51% of the population 'lose' with cheap sex work?

I'm not understand what is unsaid here or is being assumed to have a shared understanding.
Yes. Homeless folks are often erratic and dangerous to others.
Nuclear "suitcase" just doesn't have quite the same futurist cachet, does it.
I'm a happy user of 1password also. But I'm not touching passkeys until they let me export them. Last time I checked, it was a platform lock-in.
You don't have to target dealers.

If the government makes equivalent drugs available for free, no dealer can compete.

Giving out free drugs like candy isn't ideal, so you can put just enough speed bumps to limit the free drugs only to actual drug addicts with a black market dealer. That means that all the dealer's best customers disappear even faster than before.
I have heard from the same Industry people you work in that the pricing of the drug generally has nothing to do with the cost of the research or trials for that particular drug but instead just what the market will be willing to pay for it. There’s a reason humira has till ozempic been the most profitable drug - not because it was cheap to research but it was in the perfect niche where it can be charged an insane amount and a large population could pay for it.

Thanks for putting the disclaimer. But your argument is still not convincing that pharma industry has no fundamental moral backbone (a reason I left it after my PhD).
I, for one, would like to know who shows up to rallies where they chant “Burn Tel Aviv to the ground!”
> 25Mb doesn't cost any more or less to provide than say 500Mb in reality. If your last mile infrastructure supports those speeds then it supports those speeds. Even the cheapest router possible to buy will do 500Mb.

It can once you start adding up all the customers and worrying about 'upstream' connectivity.

One thousand customers at 500Mb can potentially saturate a 400Gb link; one thousand at 25Gb cannot. One has to do capacity planning and average and worst case scenarios to worry about, especially at peak times.
My Facebook these days is almost entirely posts from groups I don't follow.

Once in a while I'll forget and try to comment on something and it pops dialog trying to get me to agree to whatever stupid rules said group has and I decline.

It's a really obnoxious pattern.
Is it? Is there no reasonable case where you have a subsystem in a game crash, then restart itself? Unless I'm mistaken, I've experienced this myself in video games more than once. Anything beats a full crash with a pointless error message.
Necessity is pretty irrelevant. If we are going to argue on mecessity then i would like to point out vegans amd vegetarians are also unecessary. We should lock them up and feed them a carnivore diet until they regain their senses and can be trusted to stop genociding insects, birds, reptiles and small to medium sized animals with their mechanized farm death machines.
Ok I'll bite, what kind of phone do you have? I have a phone from 6 years ago and I use the GitHub web UI on it almost daily. It's far from great but it certainly is usable.
Thanks for posting:)
> But please please don’t mutilate historic source code by shoving it into (stupid) git. First of all, git does not preserve timestamps, which causes irreversible damage.

Git isn't stupid. A version control system must touch files to the current time whenever it changes them, otherwise timestamp-based incremental builds won't be correct.

Git records dates on a commit (which is an entire baseline of files). You can set that to whatever you want.

You can use that to record the file times, by creating commits which add the specific files, using their exact times.
To put this in perspective for those living in the area: my neighbor's house is larger than that lot!

These prices are nuts.
I used to be in the academic side of the so-called industry and I can tell you that most drugs fail because of horrendously bad decisions and hypotheses. Most companies make decisions on what drugs to take to trial on stupidly misleading preclinical data and have been graciously rewarded for their mistakes with no consequences.
While I haven't seen any transcription hallucinations that were concerning like those mentioned in the article, I did just become aware of this phenomenon tonight when my 7yo daughter was asking ChatGPT voice chat questions about birds.

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Daughter: Did cats prey on the Dodo birds' eggs?

ChatGPT: Yes, cats, along with other introduced animals like rats and pigs, did prey on dodo eggs. [continues]

Daughter: Thank you for watching and please don't forget to like, share, and subscribe!

ChatGPT: You're welcome! It sounds like you're wrapping up a video. I hope it goes well! If you have any more questions or need further information in the future, feel free to ask. Happy sharing!

===

That second question is nowhere in the ballpark of what she asked, which was something about birds evolving into dinosaurs.

I found it super interesting that the transcription seemed to... hallucinate on rails (?) into a perfect sentence that had nothing to do with what was said as opposed to—if it couldn't make sense of the utterance—a garbled sentence that attempted to match the sounds verbatim.
Classic: ask what the team does, and before getting an answer, decide that it doesn't make sense.
They shouldn't. They should be forced into bankruptcy for their negative social impact.
Tangent, related to the recent PBF Facebook hack: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/hacked/
How to prevent Lyme disease this summer
"Politics is a concentrated expression of economics" - Lenin. He started on a high note of freeing the labor from the capitalists, but quickly realised it's more profitable to put the labor class into cages (gulags) and extract wealth from them in a more direct fashion.
These are all good things. Now, if I can just use it without getting locked into someone's walled garden, I'll be all-in.
It's kind of weird and sad we had to experience this big tech nonsense, but recently I have felt very optimistic about the future of the internet.

Perhaps the past 10 years give or take were just the sputtering before the engine runs smoothly.

Also I wonder when would be the time to short Meta :>
Having political activists on this board is an embarrassment. For example the statement from one of the board members, Maya Wiley, President and CEO, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, talks about “threats, including the spread of bias and hate speech online, stoking fear, distrust, and hate in our communities of color”.

These types of highly biased political organizations and leaders are rarely interested in actually upholding civil and human rights like free speech and instead want to impose their personal moral code on everyone else under labels like “ethics” or “safety”.

But I suppose that’s not as bizarre a pick as Li Fei Fei, who allegedly has various links to Chinese leadership and China in general.
KDE is reasonable and cohesive
So are teenagers, but I suspect you don't get spooked when they try to sell you candy bars or nag you for a signature.

There's value in being discerning about one's fears, and it's probably best to get a handle on the less justifiable ones before sending the state after people.
I’m calling bullshit on this one. Too many examples on YouTube of folks interviewing homeless folks en mass and finding that the overwhelming majority of them were not “normal people down on their luck who end up on drugs”. Rather, mostly folks who had terrible home lives and were basically screwed up from the beginning. The “functional” heroin users you may claim exist are almost always functional enough to not be homeless.

Houston for example simply throws your ass in jail if you’re doing drugs and houses you if you aren’t. They claim to have solved homelessness, and they have in that the actual folks you’re talking about end up housed or in shelters every night.

Being married to an immigrant who actually had to struggle in a third world country with almost no social or economic mobility has left me with almost no sympathy for the homeless in America. Folks in far shittier situations than them play their hands far better.
Maintainers Leaving
Black coffee is more then sugar free though: you're cutting out the milk as well.

Which is what I did: over a day and a serious coffee habit, that adds up to quite a lot of empty calories.
> I'm starting to view social media more and more negatively over time. Maybe I'm just getting old.

Not appreciating deception and manipulation have nothing to do with age. Engagement goes up, but quality of experience goes down.

The problem is these sites do deliver some value, and are the major hubs for that value.

But having achieved that, they are now carefully increasing the amount of value they can extract from each of us, using every psychological hook to increase people's tolerance for crap. While using the healthy content from contributors hostage to avoid defections.

People shouldn't just be able to opt out of being tracked and targeted ads. But also opt out of any content they didn't requiest.
WW I is much more interesting to study than WW II, I think. How it started and might have been prevented, for instance. Why the combatants kept going when it turned out to be much more horrible than they'd ever imagined. And especially, how it ended, and the Treaty of Versailles.
What are the odds this lineup will recommend restricting open source models and weights?
Curious. I must be misremembering.
They only have net negative social utility at the moment, they have the potential to be productive citizens.

Plus, productive citizens need to share a society with the drug addicted homeless. That society is going to be more peaceful if the needs of those homeless are met.
> Arguably an extreme in either direction would be relatively effective.

We have empirical proof that the restrictive extreme works: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/singapore-announces-plans-....

We have no empirical proof that the permissive extreme works. There's also no moral impetus for the permissive extreme, except maybe in rare cases when people are forced into drug use against their will. We are talking about something that virtually always starts out as a deliberate, anti-social choice.
They mention that there's a rare freeze bug. That does sound like it's most likely one of those orphaned lock problems or similar.
It's not that you have to prohibit it, it's that you have to somehow break their existing monopoly if it already exists, and it's easy to choose rules that don't actually break it but instead cause it to be a de facto utility again. So for example, if the incumbent has a monopoly on transit or interconnection, you have a problem because they could just charge prohibitive rates and bankrupt all their competitors. And prohibitive rates are same thing as banning them from using it, aren't they? It's what happens by default. But then the competitors can't get off the ground because the incumbent has a vertically integrated monopoly.

You could require them to provide those services for their competitors at regulated rates, but then you're not actually breaking that monopoly, you're just regulating it while cementing it in place.

If you have an existing monopolist then first you have to thoroughly break them up, not just mitigate the continued existence of the monopoly.
Actually, Zabbix runs pretty well in a homelab setup. Doesn’t eat much resources with its 3 containers here.
> I guess they simply don't work as hard as thier ATT counterparts;)

Since at least the 1950s, AT&T has been so tightly tied to US Gov+NatSec, it's practically another agency.

To illustrate that: AT&T once faced a lawsuit for aiding US Gov's unconstitutional, warrantless wiretapping (also for cloning backbone traffic for the NSA).

When Congress presented a bill to grant retroactive immunity to AT&T, both Obama and Clinton paused their presidential campaigns. They flew back to DC to cast their Yea votes and protect AT&T from any possible accountability.

US news orgs weren't able to spot anything out of the ordinary in that.
This is cool, but the government wouldn't be keen on updating the cables, would they? You'd be locked in to whatever cable the local government can afford.
Been using it recently and it’s great, the quality of life stuff is really nice (like, not having to worry about compiling TS) and it’s really fast. Some things are still missing though, but for me it’s already better than Node
I automate the hell out of packet capture, using the max ipinfo free tier each month... graph db... I cluster packets, organization dossier, and other collections of data as embeddings. Helps cut noise and identify anomalies faster.
Memorization has its place, such as with medicine or language learning. But the issue most people are referring to when deriding memorization is about memorization that is done for the sake of busy work alone.

In school I was tested on memorizing a map and drawing precise borders, rivers etc and various acronyms that were obsolete even at that time. They added 0 value to my education, except as unnecessary stress in having to memorize them. Similarly with being expected to memorize various physics and math theorems such that understanding was treated as having zero value (that is, if your wording isn't exactly the same as in the textbook, it doesn't matter if your answer is actually perfectly correct in terms of understanding). It was to the point of being prescribed several arbitrary essays to memorize, with one of them being randomly expected to be reproduced in an exam.

None of that added any value, most of it turned out to be hilariously divorced from real life expectations.

Even with your disingenuous example of language learning. People who argue that they don't need to learn the language because they can just use a translation app are making the point that they aren't interested in learning the language and have limited enough need to interact in it to get by with just a translator. Anyone who has actually interacted with a language they don't know understands that translation software doesn't obsolete knowing a language.
It is worth noting that in the US, there's a not-insignificant part of the country that isn't in a municipality.
Many Linux distros have handbooks and release notes, too.

https://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals

(How deep do you want to go?)
Or they are trying to create point in time backups of disparate code bases that most certainly did not come from the same place and therefore have no notion of history. Using tags/branches does nothing but separate the versions needlessly.
Some of those people were around before it became some of the most expensive land in the world. Why should people be pushed out of their communities?
I don’t think timestamps themselves are PII, they tell you when but not who.

I think the problem is legal is demanding they edit the files to remove names of former employees, since that is PII - and doing so destroys the timestamps (and can damage the file format if not done carefully with respect to encodings etc)

Simple solution: upload a DIR of the original floppies. That will tell us the original timestamps, without revealing that PII

Advanced solution: someone create a toolkit for redacting disk images which records the exact byte locations redacted. The whole “former employee names are PII so we have to censor them” thing is a bit stupid, but sometimes you get further by doing the best you can within legal’s constraints instead of fighting them
That's why I always do N=-1 replication :D
I tried the Sheets Big Data example, and it crashed on the first run

Reprex-ish:
1. Open this on iPhone Firefox: https://www.univer.ai/examples/sheets-big-data/
2. Select a cell and drag down
3. It crashes once it hits row 1M-ish

I get that it might be some kind of memory limitation, but if so there should be guardrails to prevent the user from doing it
Delta is the world's biggest airline and a part of America’s transportation infrastructure. The DHS probably has an interest in ensuring that airline infrastructure is reliable and secure, particularly from cyberattacks.

Fossil fuel infrastructure is critical for self explanatory reasons.

I’m not sure why Wes Moore or Bruce Harrell (Mayor of Seattle) are on there - I view them as people looking to use these boards as a path to future federal positions. And the DHS probably wants them to be able to claim they have representation from political leaders of various levels.
Problematic: it causes problems not just for you, who are choosing to take the drugs, but also for others. Perhaps that's because you've been on meth for 5 days and are now raving mad in the streets. Perhaps you've taken fentanyl in a public park and are leaning like a zombie on the playground. Perhaps you've fried your brain and are unable to work, only able to aggressively panhandle to feed your addiction.
Once in a generation job losses and share buybacks too.
I'm not sure what 'anonymisation of source files' even entails. We know what the files are, and where they came from. I could see scrubbing comments for specific names or something but what more would accurate timestamps tell us except when the files were originally last modified? That information is useful for historical interest reasons but what are the risks? Anyone know what the data protection law is that requires this?
> I wouldn't be surprised if the "next great game engine" had a Rust core and some other language- I mean why not C# at this point?- for game code.

That's why, the first time I saw Bevy and Amathyst, I had an immediate "they're doing it wront$ reaction. IMHO, to be a true game engine in the modern sense, instead of merely a game framework, your engine needs to be a precompiled, standalone executable in a systems language that picks up, loads, and executes game scripts, data files, and assets that are totally separate from the engine itself and written in higher level languages. You don't want to be writing everything in a rigid systems language and especially don't want to have to compile your game logic and your engine together and then link them as if the engine were a library. That's why I'm (very slowly) feeling out what a proper game engine in Rust might be like with https://github.com/alexispurslane/embryo-engine. It will take me some time, since I have to learn real time computer graphics and a lot about game engines, but I've got the books, I've made a lot of progress in learning them, and the engine design and architecture is coming together very well in my big black notebook, so if you're interested, give the repo a watch ;)

I'm debating between embeddable common lisp (to satisfy my hacker impulses) or C# for the scripting language. I have figured out, I think, how I'll embed C# in Rust down to some pretty detailed steps, involving a two stage process, but .NET is so heavy I'm worried if it'll be worth it. I'd love input!