skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We always need heretics. People willing to say the unsayable, and contradict the consensus.

If everyone follows dogma, we get more dogma. Everything becomes dogmatic. We end up with Lysenkoism and science stops working.

Tolerance for other points of view is good. You never know, they might be right. Plate tectonics was prompted by someone saying "isn't it weird that Africa looks like it fits into South America?" and was ridiculed for it. This is not uncommon in science.

I know the climate science community has been under attach by the fossil fuel lobby using scientific doubt as a lever to create real problems. But that doesn't mean we should abandon doubt in science. It is necessary to doubt scientists, make them prove their case. Scepticism is a cornerstone of the scientific principle. No-one gets to say "I am a professional scientist, therefore what I say is true" because then that stops being science and starts being religion. Yes it's painful, even harmful, when a muppet on Facebook with zero knowledge is contradicting someone who spent years or even decades studying a subject, but that's better than going the other way; where no-one is allowed to contradict the official truth.

Having someone like Jo Nova screaming weird shit at the fringes of society is good for science.
In a similar "sometimes our intuition is wrong" vein, we often learn about types of radiation that are hard to shield against, which makes them automatically scarier than ones "stopped by a sheet of paper."

However in some circumstances those types are actually safer to be around, since radiation that can't be stopped is also radiation that isn't interacting and dealing damage.

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This relates to the radioactive cookie puzzle, which has many variations, ex: "You have three cookies that emit alpha, beta, and gamma radiation respectively. Choose one cookie to eat, one to put in your pocket, and one to put in a thin lead box."

(Partial spoiler) Put the alpha-emitter in your pocket, since it'll be blocked by a layer of fabric and dead skin cells. (Your eyes remain vulnerable, though.) The lead-box would be overkill. Finally, even if it seems easy to manage, the alpha-radiation is not safe: Eating that cookie could kill you, since your important (living) inner cells would be damaged trapping its output.

Conversely, eating the gamma-ray emitter is sometimes the best call, because it's not going to be much worse than the other choices, and much of it will leave your body unimpeded.
Yikes, never considered that! Interestingly, those required to sign off on release of source code (e.g. company execs) may not even be able to be certain the source doesn't contain such 'borrowed' code (since devs may have left the company a decade ago, and they likely wouldn't directly admit to 'borrowing' even if contacted/asked). Can see why it's risky.
I mean, weather was just an arbitrary and silly made up example. You're reading it a bit too literally there.
Exactly. So Facebook is not violating the Privacy Act and your comment is irrelevant.

That is the problem right there.
You aren't american. It's been established many times here by many people. What 'we' are you referring to?
Taking a 100-Year-Old Model T to a Ford Dealer for Service [video]
Sure if you count inheriting a house....which is what is happening here in the west.
Rhodes Must Fall: The Legacy of Cecil Rhodes in the University of Oxford
>The gold-rich northern territories of Mashonaland and Matabeleland similarly attracted the interest of
European settlers. Sceptical of their intentions, the ruler of Matabele, King Lobengula, regularly turned
away those who approached him for mining concessions. While he doubted the intention of the miners,
King Lobengula trusted missionaries. In 1888, Rhodes and Rudd exploited this situation, convincing the
king to sign a treaty of friendship essentially granting the businessmen exclusive mineral rights through
John Moffat, a trusted missionary. The treaty, named the Rudd Concession in recognition of Rudd’s role in
the agreement, gave the men carte blanche to pursue the economical exploitation of Matabeleland.
With the treaty in hand, Rhodes approached the British government for a charter granting a new company,
named the British South African Company, the green light not only to mine but also to occupy Matabele
and Mashonaland on behalf of and with the consent of the British crown. The government granted the
charter in October 1889. With no northern limit, Rhodes hoped to use the gold fields of Mashonaland
to fund the settlement of other areas of central Africa such as Nyasaland (present-day Malawi), and
to facilitate his ambition of building a railway linking the colonies from Cape to Cairo. Rhodes was
not particularly popular among members of the British establishment; but political figures viewed his
extension of empire as too successful to challenge.14 Through the British South African Company, Rhodes
intended to use private means to exercise imperial expansion.
In June 1890, Rhodes and the British South African Company deployed a group of around five hundred
white settlers, known as the Pioneer Column, to seize Matabeleland and Mashonaland. The column
marched from the southern region of Bechuanaland north into Matabeleland and then onto Mashonaland,
where they established a fort named after the British prime minister, Robert Salisbury. The company
increased their efforts to colonise the region one year later, when colonialist Harry Johnson took over the
administration of Nyasaland as commissioner of the British government and an employee of the British South
African Company. The company named the territory Rhodesia in tribute to Rhodes, and ruled it into the early
1920s, when the imperial British government assumed control, until the area became modern Zimbabwe.
The indicators are wrong because they make assumptions that do not match with how real people live their lives.

It's basically a physics problem but with bad units.

Median wage increase rate / inflation > 1 does not mean that the average person is better off.

As an N=1, I have more money than I used to, but I'm worse off because the majority of the things I want to do have skyrocketed in price over the past few years.

This is then reflected in the official inflation statistics by virtue of the fact that I buy less of those things, artificially decreasing the metric.
Wait, is this for real, or an hypothetical example? Where can I read the memoirs?
Eve and Mallory are both MITM, in my opinion.
Musk vs. LeCun: Social Media Spat Reveals AI Research Disparities
A quick peruse through the code doesn't reveal checking of the TERM environment variable.
We agree that doing it at the OS level is probably the wrong direction. I think you could get there with PNTP and audio hardware support, which is more how Sonos etc do it afaik but then again you aren’t solving the heterogenous device problem.

It is apparently a good example of something that needs performant neural nets in the cloud to solve. At first glance it looks like a low-level hardware-firmware problem. Market conditions prevent solving it at that level though, so we had to wait for the right combination of resources, new signal processing and heavy cloud compute.
I have a vague theory that if you can't root cause a failure, the system is too complex, but haven't given it much thought.
Yes - but. Whataboutism is often raised to illuminate the claimant’s topic selection bias - which is entirely valid.

Often when someone’s arguments are valid and convincing, but their entire vocabulary seems confined to an issue, asking yourself a couple “whatabouts” may help you see biases inherent in the topic bias.
Have a look https://github.com/Baseline-JS/core
Webview: Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++
Opt-out process: requests must be written longhand by the requester on parchment, witnessed by a clergyman of the church and the constable of the town. The request must bear the seal of the governor and must be sealed in beeswax on the night of the full moon. It must be placed on the next ship bound for Menlo Park at dawn the next day. Requests lost to piracy, shipwreck, or overall apathy of the recipient will not be honored.
Both things can be true.

AGI is a boogeyman used by those with a competitive advantage to maintain that advantage artificially be casting competitor projects as dangerous and wreckless.

AGI is a potential existential threat to the human species on the scale of global thermonuclear war and climate change.
“Hackers” is interesting because there’s two depictions of hacking in the same movie.

One is flying through the holographic city of files.

The other depiction is quite realistic: they show the protagonist spending all night reading through many pages of assembly to reverse engineer a virus, people do social engineering, etc. “Hackers” made this seem cool too!
The obscure intelligence bureau that got Vietnam, Iraq, and Ukraine right
The idea that anyone would use this during "common operations" is laughable, but as one offs during specific operations, maybe.
For the mechanics, there are a ton of good books, articles, and sites that can walk you through the syntax and I'm sure others here will have plenty of good suggestions on that.

While those are necessary, I'm of the opinion that you don't really learn unless you do. For systems programming, there are many good projects out there for you to poke at. I'd suggest getting a hold of the source code for Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. Learn how to build each of them, and install/run what you built to a VM. Then making a simple device driver for a serial or USB device would be a good introductory project. Even better, get an Arduino or something similar, and make/program both ends. Maybe a little button/light box that blinks if the CPU thermal throttles and can instruct the computer to launch an application when buttons are pressed for example.

At the end of the day, you're just going to have to find something you're interested in actually doing/finishing so you can stay motivated enough to push your self up the learning curve, just like learning anything else really. The fact that you'll be reading/writing/learning C is nearly irrelevant.
K&R still the best book on C. The language hasn't changed all that much over the years.

The C Programming Language (Second Edition) by Kernighan & Ritchie. Available online for free:

https://ia903407.us.archive.org/35/items/the-ansi-c-programm...

You can find other C books and online resources to get up to speed on "modern" C features (C99), but 95% of K&R still applies.
Maybe they deleted their old comments? Maybe some weird bot? I'm mostly frustrated that I flagged it and someone vouched the comment despite it being an obvious dupe from a sketchy account.
> the way you put it you might actually encourage people wanting to hurt then to do it already

I don’t think people are waiting for my permission, but if they are: don’t hurt the orcas.

> Electric shocks come to mind. … Another alternative could be something they perceive as foul taste/smell.

Yeah those are options. I was also thinking about sudden noise, like a waterproof firecracker.

The problem with all of these is that without testing it is at best a guess how effective they will be. Imagine you set the taser to the lowest setting and you trigger it and the whole pod of whales just die. Oops they are more sensitive to electric shocks we thought. Or you dump a bucket of capcaisin on them, and they just… don’t care? So you can imagine many level/dosage
Honest question - how does FB define a 'public' image ?

Is it an image that is searchable on the web ? or A pic visible by a few outside of your FB network ? A pic visible to anyone besides the owner ?

This seems relevant since they have trained on this basis
I don't know being able to put two and two together on an R2 wrapper makes you gullible?
Apologies, my bad, but I'm a bit too late to edit. The experts say that R qualifies as a lazy language [1, 2].

My impression was that R was mostly an eager language that somehow allowed for laziness. I will research this further and hopefully suss out why I got confused.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3360579

[2] https://www.r-bloggers.com/2018/07/about-lazy-evaluation/
Microsoft, Beihang release MoRA, an efficient LLM fine-tuning technique
TFA is using raw SQL (via sqlc) if you read carefully. And no, raw SQL doesn't get rid of N+1 issues.
Show HN: Let Your Emojis Speak for You
I created an emoji combos translator that can turn your text into fun and expressive emoji combinations. I believe emoji combos are particularly effective in the following areas:

- Increase Fun

- Enhance Expressiveness

- Create Specific Context

- Provide Immediate Emotional Feedback

- Attract Attention

- Cross-Cultural Communication

- Save Time And Energy

- Reduce Ambiguity

Feel free to try it out and let me know what you think!
Ask HN: Who buys the long tail of cryptocurrencies?
I can understand investing in BTC, ETH, maybe even putting a few dollars in DOGE to see what happens. Maybe you use Uniswap and Aave, that's cool. I follow crypto pretty closely, but I just can't wrap my head around the long tail of crypto.

1. Every week there is a [new exploit](https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/) on some protocol I've never heard of - $21M drained from Gala games? Investor loses $1.6M in an attack on the Normie token? These are real realized dollar values, not just paper gains. Who on earth, who has managed to accumulate >$1.6M in wealth, would spend it on a random unaudited crypto token - and how does that happen so often?

2. Almost every long-tail crypto token has a beyond absurd insider allocation. Look at [Worldcoin for example](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/worldcoin), only 2.3% of the total supply of that token is circulating. That means if you buy WLD today you're going to be diluted 45X. It makes no rational sense as an investment. How is it possible that it's reached a $45B market cap?

I can click to page 5 of CoinGecko and pick any random token - let's see, Stargate Finance, "a fully composable liquidity transport protocol that lives at the heart of Omnichain DeFi." $500M valuation, only 20% of supply circulating, protocol with $350M value locked...

I'm asking you, where does this money come from? I just can't picture the type of investor throwing millions or tens of millions of dollars at these obscure tokens.

I know some of you will argue that these are just inflated values / "paper gains" with no real liquidity and fake trading volume - and while that may be partly or mostly true, the reality is there are tens of millions of dollars of liquidity on any of these. The creator of that last token I mentioned raised $120M from a16z, who must be expecting to make their money back somehow. Who does a16z expect to sell those tokens to? Is it truly just an incestuous cycle of crypto funds that expect to sell their tokens to the next crypto fund at an absurd valuation? Or do they somehow expect to get hundreds of millions of retail dollars to buy this token?
Don’t use it for anything OCR related that needs perfect accuracy. Stuff where some errors are ok, we’ve had great success. Depending on your budget, you can also run it multiple times to catch errors.
If you’re using tmux, mosh doesn’t bring much to the table compared to plain SSH. Tmux will keep everything running and you can easily reattach to that session after a reconnect.

Apps like ShellFish even do this completely transparently so you don’t even notice you got disconnected for a second. No need for mosh there.
That's a delightful thing you've made.

Have you added a command-line switch for the direction of gravity?

Some of the animations (eg Pour), could fall up the screen instead of down it.
That way, the user can start reading the text immediately.
In 1981 my father bought 3-bedroom home in the suburbs for about 2x the annual salary of his blue collar job. The same home today costs more than 12x the annual salary of the exact same blue collar job.
My usual recommendation is to work through K&R, which is how I learned C nearly 20 years ago as a high school senior taking an introductory C course at a community college. I still think this is a well-written book that will teach you the basics of C.

However, K&R was last updated when the ANSI C standard was ratified, and there has been many important changes to C since then. Moreover, there are important safety concerns that need to be taken to account with coding in C, such as opting for functions like strlcpy for copying strings instead of the classic strcpy or the better-but-still-dangerous strncpy.

Once you are familiar with C, I then recommend learning some Unix system calls. I highly recommend looking at the source code of Unix utilities, and I also recommend textbooks such as Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment to learn more about Unix system calls.

When I was an undergrad at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo over 15 years ago, all computer science majors were required to take an intensive course on Unix systems programming in C. We built many projects, such as HTTP servers and shells. I highly recommend building projects like these to get very proficient in C.
That's a kind of open question. You can't select on specific polymorphisms, because intelligence is very polygenic (as are most health conditions). You can select on polygenic scores, which sum up the effects of millions of polymorphisms. The controversial question is whether there might be unknown side effects. Like, what if intelligence is genetically correlated with autism? Overall, my suspicion is that it'll be fine, because you are selecting on (a sum of) many genetic variants that are common in the population already. But I would not be 100% confident of that statement.
In the past several people have done this I have know of at least four, they got the interview but no success story of getting in, best of luck.
> the way you put it you might actually encourage people wanting to hurt then to do it already

I don’t think people are waiting for my permission, but if they are: don’t hurt the orcas.

> Electric shocks come to mind. … Another alternative could be something they perceive as foul taste/smell.

Yeah those are options. I was also thinking about sudden noise, like a waterproof firecracker.

The problem with all of these is that without testing it is at best a guess how effective they will be. Imagine you set the taser to the lowest setting and you trigger it and the whole pod of whales just die. Oops they are more sensitive to electric shocks we thought. Or you dump a bucket of capcaisin on them, and they just… don’t care? Without carefull calibration and tests it is easy to fail in either direction, and either hurting the whales too much or not doing enough for them to notice.
I could see this idea being used in a lot of the charm.sh products.
One of the greatest uses of crypto is the ability to transfer any amount of money to any point on earth for next to nothing and no questions asked.

That is worth more than most any other use for crypto.
Cedar is not the policy engine used by AWS IAM. Other AWS services do use it, though: https://www.cedarpolicy.com/en/integrations
Retro-cyberpunk aesthetic.

Hacking game?
Isn’t that just 8/100 x 25 = 25/100 x 8 = (8 x 25)/100
Your specific point you seem to be hanging onto is why do the billionaires not have phones whose technology absolutely crushes your personal phone? I don’t understand why the question is interesting, but here is why they don’t:

What would they do with it that other people cannot do for them, faster and more cost effectively?

The limitation on personal productivity is not the pocket computer, it is access to computing resources. Right now the closest thing we have to a competent human, which can be easily had for $50k/year or $2M/working life, costs around 500 times that, lasts 1/10th as long, doesn’t work unless I’m talking to it, and isn’t nearly as capable.
An LED lamp puts out more lumens per watt than a fluorescent or incandescent lamp.

Similarly, an induction motor controlled by a variable frequency drive can use much less energy by varying its speed instead of using a fixed speed motor starter. VFDs typically get signals from building automation or process control systems and adjust the motor speed accordingly. An arbitrary example would be a fan running at 50% speed generating 50% airflow but using only 25% of the electricity needed to run at 100%.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/amo/articles/adjustable-speed-dr...
I did something similar once when something broke while I was on a plane. The plane wifi was blocking ssh (I HATE when they do this) so I opened up an existing digital ocean instance, sshed into my home computer from it via the web interface, then uploaded some large files from the home computer and did a kubectl apply. The latency was insane but luckily the file upload was fast since my home connection is fast.

It was fun to think about the path each packet was taking - from my laptop to the plane router, to a satellite, back to a digital ocean computer in the UK, to my home computer in NJ, and back. It wasn’t as bad when you think about the magic there.
Renewables provided almost 30% of US electrical generation in March
Single attributions are rarely correct until it's about Israel/Palestine. You might need to immerse yourself more in the issue before you start noticing these things.
So the idea is that what Ilya Sutskever does is "meetings and political maneuvering", while what Sam Altman does is "delivering results"? That sounds rather strange....
Source: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/
400 is usually for a malformed request. It seems like in this case the request is well formed, it's just not allowed. 403 seems reasonable if the user isn't authorized to make a request to the URL, which they aren't. Some APIs return redirects which also seems pretty reasonable.
For people who might just read the title: The full title is "School choice programs have been wildly successful under DeSantis. Now public schools might close."

The article isn't actually saying that the school choice programs have been successful in the sense of "improving education across the board".
It's really cool to see that this project has its evolutionary roots in Extempore. Andrew Sorensen's project does not get enough love.

Extempore/xtlang is an incredibly versatile tool for live coding, I highly recommend taking a peak: https://extemporelang.github.io/docs/overview/philosophy/
Waymo is operating and doing passenger miles commercially with no one behind the wheel. Tesla hasn't yet done that even for the controlled Vegas loop they said they would do it in. Waymo still has remote operators who can handle unusual situations but they handle multiple cars and only the car itself responds to sudden events. They are operating at level 4.

Tesla still has one local operator per car who has to be able to have twitch reactions at all times.

Competitors like Honda and Mercedes also let you take your hands off the wheel and eyes off the road in certain areas (level 3), which Tesla hasn't yet achieved.

Tesla FSD is still a level 2 system.
> Anybody can buy and build? Yeah... only if they have the funds for it!

The construction costs are much lower than property values, so construction would be highly profitable. Every wealthy person in the world would be lining up to invest in a hundred construction companies because they would be yielding a 400% year-over-year return until the monopoly is broken.

> All I need is one possible example to demonstrate how that can be.

You need a real example, not a contrived one. "What if the emperor of the world declared that rents have to stay high?" Then you don't have a market anymore and we're no longer talking about what happens in markets at all.
I would never call them the same. East Palo Alto is much much poorer than Palo Alto; I think I would be laughed at when I was living in San Mateo if I ever tried to pass off a location in East Palo Alto as being in Palo Alto. One is full of Stanford kids and rich people, the other is full of poor people. Highway 101 isn’t a very invisible line.
We made an AI to get you dates on Instagram. Is it ethical?