skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for posting. I've been a user of the Internet Scrabble Club for over 15 years now. I came to it after learning of competitive scrabble from reading Word Freak by Stephan Fatsis [1].

I had a background playing internet chess. I started with yahoo and gravitated towards lightning (1/0 time controls). I think there's more than a grain of truth to the quotation, "I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol." ~ attributed to Nigel Short, English grandmaster. Fast-paced board games that deliver rewards are addictive.

As a student of neurotransmitters, I can attest that playing blitz chess or scrabble does result in dopamine hits. Particular to Scrabble, one can receive such a hit of dopamine from a bingo (50 point bonus for playing all seven tiles). In a three minute (or less) time control, a medium to expert player can look forward to an average of two of these per game. All that's missing from this slot machine is the lights and sounds.

Isc.ro is a unique little corner of the internet. It's navigated away from a downloaded console to a browser. It has its fair share of persistent trolls. There's a chat room, channel 20, that used to regularly have over 100 members active at any given time, and significantly more than that during peak hours.

Competitive scrabble as a community peaked, IMO, in 2004 with the nationals in New Orleans. There's a Sports Illustrated article chronicling its subsequent problems [2]. NASPA in particular is undemocratic in its governance and pushed a woke agenda during the pandemic, resulting in the removal of hundreds of words from the official lexicons. The net result is there are now at least 4 dictionaries, fracturing an already small and arguably dwindling community of word enthusiasts.

An alternative to NASPA in the competitive Scrabble tournament and club scene is WGPO [3]. My personal experience is that most mid-size cities have clubs, and you'll meet worthwhile people in them. I liked to say, at a Scrabble club I always felt comfortable that I was typically not the most nor the least odd fellow there but rather squarely in the middle of the pack.

I've noticed a pattern at the Internet Scrabble Club that I also noticed at the Free Internet Chess Server (fics.org), where I migrated after Yahoo games was phased out: a loss of members. ISC now competes with numerous viable alternatives easily accessible from a smartphone. In its heyday, it was unique place where you could navigate the interface with telnet commands. [Insert finger pun here.]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_Freak
[2] https://www.si.com/more-sports/2020/10/26/how-scrabble-blew-...
[3] https://wordgameplayers.org/

Edited: for grammar and clarity.
> can add a lifetime non-disparagement clause to the equity plan

I thought we were talking about exit docs, not clauses in the equity program. Do we have any reason to believe that the equity program itself contained language to this effect? The Vox article only talks about the NDA employees sign on the way out, it's only random internet comments that I've seen speculating about the contents of the equity program.
Very much so. See https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/noteworthy-differenc... for some details
> If an overeager lawyer can add a lifetime non-disparagement clause to the equity plan without the CEO even noticing then you have some very big problems

Yeah, it's one of those "are you an asshole or just incompetent?" PR moments. Altman seems to have chosen "incompetent" but neither is a great look for a CEO.
FWIW, Ilya's recommendation for Kolmogorov book in the Arc viewer is "PAGE 434 onward", which lands on the last chapter "Algorithmic Statistics" (p.425 in the book). Appendix 1 starts on p.455 ...
I’m doing my part. The non-profit I steer only had a Facebook page. I made them a website.
Add the opportunity cost of grounding the plane for about a month to apply the coat, plus the cost of the coating. It can easily outweigh the savings or push the ROI to over many years.
Yep, earlier on, the non-country-code ones had rules about who could use them, and the registrar for some of those was expected to be a custodian.

Then they seemed to focus more on making money from registrations, than from the custodian aspect.

Then ICANN created an industry of middleperson (maybe because there shouldn't just be one rent-seeker, but competing ones), and also seemed to bless a market of landgrabbing squatters. (And much more recently, some ICANN-connected people seemed to be scheming to grab a popular TLD for themselves, like a PE firm.)

With most of the good and even bad domain names taken by squatters, there was demand for all sorts of new TLDs (which someone was happy to middleperson).

As well as the risky practice of building your company atop a 2-letter country code TLD, where there's a significant chance of a change in government policy would break a lot of your links, URLs embedded in software, email addresses, and Googlejuice. Or simply have you over a barrel with exorbitant renewal fees (or bribes).

(Historically, some of these ccTLDs were small islands, where there was one sysadmin person running the "ISP" for the island, including domain name authority, and the government didn't necessarily even know/understand.)
Free as in,the user isn't paying for it. If you are paying 100k in google ads, I guess you can complain.
Well yes but the article isn't about students cheating in exams, it's about students being distracted by their phones in regular classes.
Because those that do, will have a massive advantage (and really standout) and succeed from those that don't.
This is THE BEST!!! I have it bookmarked and revisit a few times a year at least, because they keep adding to it regularly.

It's like where's Waldo on mind altering substances.
Equity can refer to stock, options, PPUs, etc. The point is the valley norm is that the vested portion is yours to keep. Some private equity backed companies will be more aggressive and claw back vested, but that’s outside the norm for VC backed companies.
There are (creepy) reports from the middle ages of figures sitting on sleepers' chests, legs, moving towards them etc.

It's clearly a biological phenomenon of some description. I've never really looked into it, despite experiencing it often. Related my general take on it below.
If I remember correctly those "adults" offered Altman the opportunity to lead the AI efforts at Microsoft after he got fired.

Make of that what you want.
It wouldn't actually involve any repurchase from what I understand, because these aren't even actual shares (RSU's) to begin with. They're not actual ownership at all. They're some kind of special sharing-of-future-profits agreement.
That's a very optimistic view of the future of fusion, IMHO an unreasonably naive view. There are lots of problems with fusion that are unclear if they will ever be solved, specifically:

1. Energy loss from neutron escape. Stars don't have this issue because they are incredibly large (so your neutron will hit something else more likely than not) and gravity;

2. Vessel destruction from lost neutrons (ie neutron embrittlement);

3. Assuming D-T fusion, you're producing helium atoms. Helium is a pesky substance. It's chemically neutral and a helium atom is (AFAIK) the smallest atom, even smaller than a hydrogen atom. That means it is hard to contain and also has a tendency to damage your container;

4. Fusion reactors are, in a way, somewhat primitive. Why? Because ultimately you generate heat and turn a turbine like we do in every coal and natural gas plant. Moving parts are bad.

5. Fuel. Depending on what fuel you need, this is somewhere between a small problem (eg protium or even deuterium) to a hassle (eg tritium) to a major problem (eg He-3).

6. Waste. This depends on fuel somewhat eg do you need to use fissile materials to create Tritium?

Much more detail [1].

We obviously don't know the economics of fusion yet because it doesn't exist, but the economics of nuclear fission are, well, terrible (in both capex and opex terms).

Once you put a solar panel in space, it produces ~7 times the power. There's no loss to cloud cover, getting covered in dust/dirt, atmosphereic loss and the day/night cycle.

For an orbital, you simply cover the exterior with solar panels and you're done for power generation. No moving parts, no catastrophic failure modes (eg meltdowns in nuclear plants), it's scalable and when panels break down you simply remove them and plug in a new one.

I expect other forms of power generation will find a niche use far from the Sun in the same way that submarines have different operating characteristics to a suburb. But I'm skeptical fusion will ever be the preferred method of power generation.

[1]: https://thebulletin.org/2017/04/fusion-reactors-not-what-the...
I can't help thinking about Kool Keith's Apartment 223. This must be what went on in that MacGuffin.
> Most computer scientists I know at that age don’t touch a computer any more and hang with grand kids.

That doesn't sound right to me at all. Modern academia is highly competitive, and career academics typically have long working hours.

If they aren't doing programming, that's likely because it isn't relevant to their job. A theoretical computer scientist is closer to a mathematician than to a typical programmer.

> Knuth is impressive but as a human being most people choose their humanity over their careers in some way

We're talking about scientists, not most people.

Getting a PhD is no cakewalk, and there are far more PhDs than faculty positions. You can try being a workaholic, but if your competitors are doing the same, that won't make you stand out.

> obsessive about his work and his life is warped around it

Again this describes every modern scientist. Deep knowledge of one's field, and deep commitment to it, are just table stakes.
For the exactly the same reason (local development closely resemble production when at all possible) I develop inside VPS via VSCode RemoteSSH and manage certificates (and everything else) exactly as in production
I don't understand how Java is relevant here? Perhaps I'm missing your point.

My point was that making GUIs today should not be any easier than 30 years ago because we have a lot more complexity across different OSs, phones, and the web.

Update: I think I understand your comment. I think you latched on the very last past of my comment about "write-once deploy anywhere". I meant that as in people want to create their GUIs with one language and one toolkit and have them deployable across different stacks without having a custom version for each and every final target platform.

Yes, technically Java did deliver on that as a programming language and runtime. And I guess swing also deliver on that as a cross-platform UI toolkit. However, we don't see a lot of Java UI applications around, with the exception of a few big ones, so it's fair to say that in the end it didn't work out. Of course, Java as general purpose language and runtime is alive and doing well today.
You may not have intended this use case, but Bebop serves as a really nice and quick front end for getting notes into Obsidian. I just set the Bebop save directory to the same as my Obsidian Vault inbox and I’m good to go. A widget would be a great add to quickly add content from the home screen.
You are describing the current world, where politicians dissolve issues. There’s a saying in Europe that no minister of defense was ever nominated. Real ministers of war, when there is war, appoint themselves into position.

When there is a real problem, people act upon it (assuming society is functional - otherwise the country simply dies). That’s why there is no better training for war than war itself. Ukraine has already unrooted all of the peace & love & no armament folklore in France, and even turned a lot of ecologists into pro-nuclear voters.

So yes, I wouldn’t be surprised if guarantees of offline mode (with regular drills) were passed into law for electric cars and everything cloudy, including IntelliJ.
How do you do wandering mode?
To build about a billion O'Neil Cylinders, which is about the number you'd need for a full Dyson Swarm around our Sun, would consume (IIRC) 1% of Mercury's mass.
Dioxide or monoxide? Dioxide is plant food.
Public Security Minister Tô Lâm Has Become President of Vietnam
> const stream = await…

Is this right? Aren’t you prematurely unwrapping the promise here?
I live in a townhome in the area talked about in the article (inside the 610 loop). As a local, this article felt spot-on and matched local understanding of how Houston manages residential land-use hyper-locally through deed restrictions and the like.

Curiously unmentioned in the article were TIRZ, but those are mostly used to manage commercial areas, not residential.
Air Force Scraps Effort to Mount Directed-Energy Weapon on Fighter Jet
Do you think that you needed such access at 5 or 6 to have such a career? I bet you would have ended up in the same career starting with such access at age 16. The Knack doesn't require early access--- computers aren't ballet training.
Really interesting article, excited to see the followup!

A few things that I think the author could take into consideration. What is a country's population actively discussing versus other countries? Is there a factor between direct and indirect exposure of problems that may influence a person's stance?
These are common symptoms of sleep paralysis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
It's not shallow, it's well documented across the internet and in their behavior with everything they do.

China is the land of shortcuts and facades. It's part of their culture. See: gutter oil, washing veggies in the toilet, concrete infrastructure with no reinforcement, etc. Even when they respond to natural disasters: it's not to help citizens but pose for pictures to show them helping then bouncing.

Chinese people don't even trust other Chinese to sell them things: so companies often bring in foreigners to sell Chinese products to china.

China is VERY CLEAR in who they are, and they show no attempts to be otherwise.
C# and F# are very niche that is true. I think the basics of the languages are way nicer and saner than Python's and C++'s.

You can just give it a try and see if you like it or not.

In general, I think you are right and Python has completely won for high-level libraries while C++ has completely won for implementation, and threshold for making people move is way too high: difficult to match 5-10x improvement over Python in experience, and C++ crowd would never even look at C#, let alone think it has something to offer them, because the mythology says that the only true way is C/C++ for this kind of code and C# is just weird Java (especially now with ggml being on the radar of many).

(fun thought experiment: imagine average reaction to a statement "you can write high level code that compiles to Metal Performance Shaders or targets Apple AMX but it's C#", not dissimilar to a reaction when people hear that C# is the prime choice for portable SIMD code)
You are confusing two issues. It is standard practice for companies to require a separation agreement with a release of claims and non disparagement clause in connection with receiving any severance, including keeping a laptop like in item 1 you linked to. Companies are not going to pay you or give you something of value and then have you turn around and sue them or disparage them and cause problems.

Sam’s current tweet is solely about whether vested equity could be clawed back as a penalty for refusing to agree to a non disparagement in connection with a separation if you don’t agree to non disparagement and a release of claims. That is well outside the norms.
Show HN: I built a bot to handle my Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD)
I built a bot to handle my RSD because I was procrastinating to find a therapist
A lot of the stuff mentioned in this previous thread about Truong My Lan's death sentence have now happened - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40002851

With To Lam now de facto #2 in Vietnam and being primed to be the #1 by 2026, expect Vietnam to become much more insular over the next few years, especially with the resignations happening the past few weeks.

The VCP has supposedly passed Directive 24 as well [0] (caution though as I'm hearing mixed statements about it's veracity) which appears to be used to limit relations between foreign investors and Vietnamese out of worries about potential internal instability like in SK in the 1980s.

[0] - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68443392
> That was before everything became a snap package in a docker image.

A modern app should consist of dozens of of docker images in k8s on remote cloud infrastructure, all running "serverless" microservices in optimized python*, connected via REST* APIs to a javascript front-end and/or electron "desktop" app, with extensive telemetry and analytics subsystems connected to a prometheus/grafana dashboard.

That is ignoring the ML/LLM components, of course.

If all of this is running reliably, and the network isn't broken again, then you may be able to share notepad pages between your laptop and smartphone.

*possibly golang/protobufs if your name happens to be google and if pytorch and tensorflow haven't been invented yet
> Any consciousness or similar would need to arise via an independent mechanism.

Probably, but even then only due to there being a lot mechanisms and we don't know which of them is related to the subjective experience of existing that is the meaning of conscious I assume you're using here (there's something like 40 definitions of "consciousness").

But because we don't really know where the capacity for an inner experience even is, it's not impossible that even an LLM, which totally isn't designed with the goal of having it, might nevertheless have it.

(I really hope they don't, I statistically suspect they don't, I just can't rule it out).
Notable cases:

John R. Farrar 2015 (the specific case alluded to)

Dwight Whorley 2005

Christopher Handley 2008

Steven Kutzner 2010

Christian Bee 2012

David R. Buie 2017

Elmer E. Eychaner, III 2018

Thomas Alan Arthur 2022

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_porn...
This is one of the best things about running a home hypervisor machine (the kids call it a “homelab” these days) — I can locally deploy a development VPS like that for no extra charge, just by cloning a template.
EU fears as Russian propaganda ads on Facebook target Euro elections
It's really bad right now. I've learned to not stir the pot over the years. Unless you're primary role is security it's best to go with the flow. I've seen some massive security holes at every company I've worked at. As long as the boxes are checked for insurance, they don't care.
I can assure you, you are wrong. Sam is very busy running a huge company. It is not surprising, or outside the norm, that he is not reviewing exit documents.
"Just add one more lane. I swear, we're gonna fix traffic, just let me build one more lane. Just one more lane bro, please."

I don't know where you got your percentages from, but here's a graph of passenger capacity across different modes of transport: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Passenge...

By the way, wanna see something embarrassing? https://youtu.be/T3LLgzO_PrI?t=234. Japan had 100% safe, 100% punctual, high speed and throughput trains figured out in 1964.

"Over the Shinkansen's 50-plus year history, carrying over 10 billion passengers, there have been no passenger fatalities due to train accidents such as derailments or collisions, despite frequent earthquakes and typhoons."

Like I said, embarrassing.
Bit rot is very much an issue on NAND. Reading causes disturbances. Flash chips have to compensate for drift in the voltage levels of cells that occurs as things age. While there are layers of protection using error correcting codes, in my experience corruption is more common with SSDs than HDDs. I've retired at least 3 SSDs from various generations over the past 14 years because of data corruption, and 1 SSD that simply refused to show up anymore. In comparison, the HDDs I've had have almost all failed without returning corrupt data, mostly due to mechanical failure.

Sadly, Apple doesn't believe in using ECC memory on their devices. The photos might get corrupted in RAM on the phone, or on an Apple laptop or who knows where. Without end to end checksums, there's no way to know when and where the photos are getting corrupted. Modern filesystems with built in checksumming are definitely worth the overhead.
Well, the local diet isn't particularly great, with a strong preference for preprocessed food (kant en klaar). And it could could be argued that the quality of the fresh produce coming from their greenhouses is also suboptimal, from a nutritional point of view..
62,000 flight hours
The article of this post is a thought experiment. Totally fair about the timeline and AGI requirement. Throwing around Elon-like estimates over here.
Thanks so much for putting this together. It’s stupid simple but that’s all it needs to be.

I did something similar in the past for a self-hosted workflow, but this looks a lot more well put-together, and honestly I never thought about using a git repository for a PKI even though it’s really perfect for one.

Edit: what I did in particular was automating easy-rsa to manage a PKI.

I wonder if using easy-rsa via GitHub actions would make sense over the shell scripts here. I didn’t look at them yet, but easy-rsa basically is a handful of shell scripts to run a local PKI. I think it originates with the OpenVPN project, but it’s flexible enough to use it for anything
Sneaky paragraph at the bottom:

> Update 3 Jan 2017: This man has a specific type of hydrocephalus known as chronic non-communicating hydrocephalus, which is where fluid slowly builds up in the brain. Rather than 90 percent of this man's brain being missing, it's more likely that it's simply been compressed into the thin layer you can see in the images above. We've corrected the story to reflect this.
>How do you do wandering mode?

Top-right of window
Residential IP bandwidth is a commodity priced per GB. The rest is available OS for free. This isn't a SaaS exactly.
Performance on mobile devices and UI libraries. Avalonia ecosystem is predominantly focused on desktop, which is not the case for Uno. But I liked the fact that setting up and AOT compiling Avalonia templates was a breeze so use it for side projects. For something more serious that has to target mobile, I would investigate how much MAUI has progressed in terms of quality and if problematic, would just go with Uno.
I got to use CP/M briefly on a DEC Rainbow machine in the 80's. It was very similar to DOS but IIRC there were quite a few differences at the detail level. I remember seeing some ads for Kaypro's but I don't think I ever saw one in real life... What sort of issues are you having with the serial port? You might need to jumper the flow control pins if you can't disable flow control. I'm sure the pinout is documented? I had to deal with lots of oddball serial ports way back when, I might even have some breakout/jumper RS232 adapters lying around.
We're talking about a clause in the exit documents, not the onboarding documents. This would never have come up while recruiting, only when people quit or are fired, at which point their complaints probably don't seem important enough to escalate to the CEO.
I don't understand. There are videos in which thieves are arrested by store security, such as Target arrest videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDx_pAMc6wo

So is ignoring shoplifting unique to just SF or NYC? Are these ppl arrested by Target store security turned over to police, and then released without serving any jail time or penalty, only to reoffend again? Why is Target allowed to stop shoplifters but Macy's cannot or does not?