skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also cool is that the company the community formed (as a distinct entity from Jagex) to manage the Runescape wikis has now also become the host of the Minecraft wiki helping that community to migrate themselves.[1]

1. https://weirdgloop.org
It's supposed to be a mess. We have very little job security anymore.
Glad to hear! It was indeed VisualEditor we were trying to get working back then, along with Semantic MediaWiki :( It was the 2nd most difficult software I ever had to work with in my career (#1 being Drupal). Sounds like it's improved a lot since then.

I'll have to check back in with that wiki I used to help with and see what they're doing these days...
Great question. I would guess he woke up and that this was subsequent to him forming memories again. Memory seems to be a requirement for the kind of self-referential conscious experience that appears to be basically unique to humans. An anesthetic that acts entirely on memory formation and paralyzes the body is in many ways the ideal anesthetic. It's not super unlikely this is how many anesthetics work to at least some degree. If you were administered such a perfect anesthetic it's likely that subjectively you'd experience a distrinct discontinuity in time. Even if you received surgery during that discontinuity, you wouldn't ever suffer from it - not even on some deep non-conscious level. There is no suffering in the now, suffering requires a self which requires memory.
Russian shenanigans was my first thought too, but the real game changer is probably:

>under ground and under water

Tunnels, fiber cables, pipelines, submarines, autonomous subs etc would all benefit from less location guessing. (Tunnels tbf you can do with lasers already)
Only a few years ago did I learn through an economic historian, that throughout Dutch colonial rule, the entirety of that activity has been a loss, not a gain, to the Dutch state and thus the Dutch citizen (it is evident it was a loss for those enslaved in the process). All it did was make _some_ people _very_ rich, who in turn managed to convince everyone it was all worth the while.

The real money, also for the state, was made through trade with the Baltic area, during the Dutch Golden Age. Not trade with the Indies.
Inside the Slimy, Smelly, Secretive World of Glass-Eel Fishing
Correct. Appreciated.-

(But the murder case was something salient surrounding the production ...)
They do not "find" bugs in the way that exploratory testing or user operation might (or even in the way that broader integration tests might), that is they don't find bugs that are not in the known problem space. But they are very good at proving a method works correctly and covers the known execution permutations.
This one makes sense to me, since lists are way more canonically used than arrays in functional languages. I rarely find myself constructing array literals -- I'm far more likely to simply convert from a list.

Though, I agree the semicolon delimiting is regrettable.
other ASTs are trees too :)

> It's tricky when doing iteration ...

and that's my problem, that in the name of simplicity everything nice is thrown out. and "don't even think about it" and "you are holding it wrong" is the official motto. sure, I'm happy to adapt if I feel I got something in return, ie. memory safety with Rust, powerful type system in Scala, etc.

all in all, sure, it's Turing-complete, and obviously millions of people already grok it and are productive in Lisps, but to me - and apparently to the vast majority of programmers - it's too foreign.
Would we prefer Western cowboy movies instead?

Maybe a new spaghetti (noodle?) superhero movie genre emerges…
https://archive.ph/KXvTD
A problem with pebble-bed reactors is the cost of waste disposal.

Unlike in traditional LWRs, the fuel is integrated with a solid moderator. All that graphite goes along with the spent fuel. The volume of the spent fuel is therefore much larger than the volume of spent fuel from a LWR. Storage casks will be proportionally more expensive.

TRISO fuel is also more expensive to manufacture than traditional LWR fuel.
Assuming dollar cost is a relevant metric, the 6yr old human is far cheaper.
>That and I can choose not to directly do business with a company without having to upend my entire life.

I could easily see a self-employed Google user who decided to cut all ties with Google basically having to build a new life from scratch.
Perhaps if we don’t know how to create an evaluation that can’t be “gamed” it tells us something about how special our intelligence really is?
Why Tea Nerds Obsess over Pu-Erh
It would certainly be more inconspicuous.
it sounds like this issue is enormously more of an abstract concept to you than it is for me, which may be why you're more interested in whether a proposed policy such as limitations on anonymous communication will result in you seeing pictures of child abuse than whether it will cause child abuse. because i have a lot more knowledge of the issue than you do, i don't want the policies you favor, because, as i said in my previous comment, they perpetuate the abuse and protect the abusers more than the victims

my vietnam war example wasn't some kind of analogy or metaphor. it was, literally, a photo of a naked child being horribly abused. at the time, publishing it was legal, although plausibly today it wouldn't be; if i recall correctly, wikipedia has been blocked in various countries for containing that picture, and it has been blocked on facebook: https://breakingnewsenglish.com/1609/160909-napalm-girl-phot.... public opinion was not in fact divided on the topic of horribly abusing children; it was simply uninformed about who was doing it and how to impede them. you are similarly uninformed today

but you already have enough information to understand that you are in the wrong. when you opened that page, why did you just close it? why didn't you send those pictures to the police, to investigative journalists, or to a private investigator? unlike the http web, freenet was protecting you by ensuring that whoever uploaded the pictures to freenet (probably the abuser) didn't have your ip address or any other way to figure out who reported them. perhaps you made that decision because you're living in a legal regime which penalizes their mere possession. but when you did, you personally became complicit in perpetuating that abuse, in order to comply with the very censorship regime you are defending

and that is the general pattern of how censorship relates to abuse

here's another photo of an abused five-year-old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State#/media/File:N... more accurately, it's a photo of all that was left of her after the abuse. this kind of abuse continued for years in the congo free state, only stopping when foreigners with diplomatic immunity were able to visit, document it, and force the king himself to give up the colony where he had institutionalized such abuses. if the congolese had had access to freenet, it would have stopped years earlier

and that is why right now journalists and other people in the gaza strip are being killed when they try to get internet access to share the news of what is happening there. even the un high committee for refugees complains that its own workers there are unable to communicate reliably. even today, systems like freenet remain marginal and relatively ineffective, and mass human rights atrocities—including sexual and even worse abuse of children—is the predictable result of that situation

so no, it wasn't whataboutism
Looked it up; OpenBSD lacks a journaling file system.
Maybe GP was thinking of the optional rounding modes? With plain old add(), you get a BigDecimal 0.05 with scale 2 in both cases and the two examples are equal according to the equals() method.

var a = new BigDecimal("0.0");
var b = new BigDecimal("0.05");
var result1 = a.add(b);

var c = new BigDecimal("0.00");
var result2 = c.add(b);
System.out.println(result1); // 0.05
System.out.println(result2); // 0.05
System.out.println(result1.equals(result2)); // true
System.out.println(result1.scale()); // 2
System.out.println(result2.scale()); // 2
Spacetraders. I've been meaning to get into it but just haven't found the time. Looks really fun.
Free Speech as a political principle is about relations between a state, and citizens, not a website, and its users. There are some gray-zone cases (e.g. formally private press/platforms can be heavily influenced by a ruling party using economic means, or for whatever reason some press/platform conglomerate controls market share so big it can influence gov't to legislate conditions harmful to potential competition), but it's definitely not about this site.
> React was originally designed to be the V in MVC.

So much this. As we built more sophisticated apps using React we were constantly frustrated with how much code was ending up in the views, and how difficult controller frameworks were to work with (looking at you Redux). So we built our own mini-framework that explicitly separates the view from the controller. Seems like a simply change but it is amazing how much more productive it makes developers, especially with large complex applications that need refactoring as they evolve.

Unfortunately our skills are in writing code, not marketing, so we don't have a fancy website like most frameworks. But the details are here: https://github.com/aha-app/mvc
rust and ryde (my own framework on top of axum and rusqlite)
> Depends, it's not clear yet that "code is law" or is not.

Aren't there quite a few cases already where attackers stealing funds from smart contracts were considered just that: thieves. And where their "code is law" defense didn't amuse the judge?

IIRC we recently even saw two sent to jail for manipulating smart contract prices: it's not even clear they used a bug in a smart contract.

I already posted it but Uncle Sam cannot have it both ways: if Uncle Sam asks people making money with cryptocurrencies to pay taxes, Uncle Sam goes after those who steal from the taxpayers. And... Oh boy, does Uncle Sam tax gains.
Right, any oil and gum.
Why? It fixes a serious pain point React has had necessitating things like the helmet library. This seems like a perfectly reasonable of way of doing it.

How is this “brutally stupid”?
Ars Technica did the same for a long while, autoplaying video. Many news sites do the same as well. I've been bitten by those before. You click the link to an article, video starts autoplaying, and I'm waiting for a video about the article, only to get a video that is completely unrelated.

I actually find it appalling that browser don't have a proper 'do not autoplay video at all' setting.
If we're being (constructively) provocative, let's not pretend that the implication is all that intangible. Is it an endorsement? No. Is it an explicit statement that violence is the only way forward? No. But simply pointing it out, without expanding on it with, as you say, constructive alternative viewpoints, is very clearly implying that it's the only solution. If it's not, I ask GP: What is their point in what they said?

As for my position being dangerous... I don't see how that's the case. Again, as I've clarified, I do not find it dangerous to acknowledge history (of course that would be dangerous itself) just using history to imply dangerous things.
Probably sharks as someone else already posted. But could be backhoes; backhoes hate the internet.
What's a transfer? That like a packet or a single bit?
Reminds me of BEAM Robotics from late last century. I was sort of amazed by the little kit I put together an watched it follow the sun. GPT is sort of amazing also but I am getting tired of listening to people (machines) talk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_robotics
Aging amplifies a gut microbiota immunogenic signature linked to inflammation
Anker replaced a tablet computer that a defective USB cable fried.

I now love and trust Anker.
Yeah, why "kind of" and not "absolutely"?

The black box systematically changes the output based on the presence of an input signal of skin tone, which is strongly correlated with race.

Same with photographic negative film, where engineers made a trade-off with the chemicals that made contrast much better for lighter-skinned faces, which made darker-skinned faces much worse. In group portraits, darker-skinned people would appear as just teeth and eyes. Although in true American style, it was chocolate and furniture companies (and their advertisers) who pushed Kodak to develop better technology for capturing dark brown colors.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/lens/sarah-lewis-racial-b...
Yes, and that's true of computer "memory" as well.
What's wrong with Haskell's syntax? I think it's generally pretty nice though can be excessively terse at times.
I broadly agree but present two caveats.

Firstly, that Germany's descent into fascism and anti-semitism were both helped by the lack of free speech. Blasphemy laws prevented the anti-semitism preached from the pulpits to be challenged, and hate speech laws actually helped the Nazis publicise their movement[1].

> Rather than deterring the Nazis and countering anti-Semitism, the many court cases served as effective public-relations machinery, affording Streicher the kind of attention he would never have found in a climate of a free and open debate. In the years from 1923 to 1933, Der Stürmer [Streicher's newspaper] was either confiscated or editors taken to court on no fewer than thirty-six occasions. The more charges Streicher faced, the greater became the admiration of his supporters. The courts became an important platform for Streicher's campaign against the Jews.

As to norms, they can be self-enforced because free speech allows such a choice, otherwise it would be the case that those norms were imposed or not even available. Most likely, they'd be someone else's norms.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/copenhagen-speech-v... Interview with Fleming Rose about his book.
It is the real thing after all...
I found the research about the Chinese Suihua cohort to be more compelling.

I fully agree that someone starving to death right around the time of pregnancy could have some knock on effects; this is discussing changes in the following generation, the ones that are tens of years removed from the starvation event.

> Also the phrase "a heritable memory" is kind of nonsense even with respect to epigenetic changes. Again what we're talking about with epigenetics is up or down regulation of your existing genes, not some new information being encoded.

I wonder if you are missing the forest for the trees here somewhat. We're talking about the up/down regulation of specific genes based on specific methylation patterns in DNA that are present only because of some event that occurred. It's not memory in the sense of "I remember what I had for breakfast this morning", but it's memory in the sense of "these methylation patterns exist because their genesis was triggered by a specific event in the last few generations". That IS new information being encoded, just in a more fuzzy way than with neurons or computer memory.

I would need more convincing to think the phrases you mention are nonsense/bunk. Could you perhaps articulate the definitions you're using for "trauma" and "memory"? I think we are using different definitions, as it seems clear what is meant by the phrases as used.

EDIT: what issue do you take with the Dutch hunger study? I hadn't heard criticism about it before, and I just googled "dutch hunger cohort study criticism" and found nothing.
As a former fullstack developer who has been fulltime on infrastructure for a decade now and reading these comments, not only can I barely follow half of the conversations but they're so far removed from the fundamentals of sending data between two places over the wire that I'm extremely satisfied with the career choices I've made.

Y'all are inventing your own problems to solve.
> There's absolutely nothing stopping you from making a VanillaJS website or JQuery or whatever.

There’s nothing stopping me doing that on a solo project but frontend web dev is increasingly a monoculture around React so when you’re talking about making this decision in the workplace you end up using React whether it’s the right idea or not.

I worked at a place that ended up using React because a senior manager was concerned about hiring and wanted to use something we’d be able to easily hire for. It wasn’t actually a good tech fit but that wasn’t the priority. And in many ways he wasn’t wrong. There’s a mini-generation of developers that have only experienced front end development though the lens of React and have barely if ever used, say, raw CSS.
OTOH a lot of the abstractions are created because problems aren't solved coherently but rather partitioned into organizational structures adding incidental complexity. The worst are <noun>-services that seem to always do too much/too little or have interface designs that suit itself than needs of clients/consumers. I spend a fair amount of time decomplexifying the org out of architectures when we realize that performance sucks because reasons.

We can do a lot of that discarding of excess by realizing that there's the data that's read, the rules applied, and the data that's written. Everything else is ephemeral and plumbing. Looking at a process that way, and seeing the amount of complexity/abstractions one can ask what all that really necessary? Does it pay for itself in some way? It has to justify its existence beyond implementing the needed process.

I question the value of frameworks sometimes[0].

[0] https://ptrthomas.wordpress.com/2006/06/06/java-call-stack-f...
The training costs of the 6 year old are millions of years of evolution and suffering of billions of people.
Just a thought, but recycling glass is extremely energy intensive.

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/legosti/old/5703.pdf

"Recycling of glass does not save much energy or valuable raw material and does not reduce air or water pollution significantly."
I asked!
The ruffle.rs project has most of newgrounds back up running flash inside a wasm runtime. Is there any reason we can't all use the same old development tools in a vm to create more new flash content?
I was wrong. Still sleepy.
I agree, my point was nonsense. I was still waking up.
"Thus, when you and I, asleep or dozing off to sleep, fall through space and awake to sickening consciousness just before we strike, we are merely remembering what happened to our arboreal ancestors, and which has been stamped by cerebral changes into the heredity of the race."

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/310/310-h/310-h.htm
From old pieces of articles that are quoted all over the internet? That's not surprising.
Apology accepted and please accept mine in return, that was much too spiky a reply from me.
Well - I had no idea goose feathers were an appropriate medium for long-range data transmission. You learn something new every day!! ;-)
So they made the choice that worked well in the mega-scale application they tested with and performed worse with the pattern they didn’t think was too widely used/would be much of a problem. And it would make planned future features easier.

That sounds 100% reasonable.

Someone noticed it, pointed out it was a big problem for them and enough others it got reverted.

That seems 100% reasonable too.
The big problem with this is that quite a few things that start out principled and radical wind up controlled by (venture) capital retroactively through mergers and acquisitions. For instance, Napster still actually exists as a minor corporate brand and product line. You can literally subscribe to Napster today if you have $11 kicking around.
Drawn together was so good I wish it had more of a following, it deserved more seasons.
The March of Dimes Syndrome
A 32-year-old male presents to the hospital with a stomach ache ...

...

... and nothing else happens. - ChubbyEmu

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKOvOaJv4GK-oDqx-sj7VVg
> If I leave my wallet on a table in a public place am I without blame if it gets stolen?

Yes? There’s many places in the world where you could expect your wallet to be returned to you or left alone in that scenario. Such places aren’t afraid of ascribing agency to criminals and treating them like the scum they are.
I think the differences is that it isnt weaponised as it is in the US but it is very much valued and expected.
> By IP owner I mean the video game publisher/studio, not wiki admins

So do I; they're one in the same in my case, for a wiki that exited Wikia in 2010. The only thing Fandom even responds to are takedown requests for copyrighted visual artwork.

Sincerely, congrats on getting one through, but I think that's the exception and not the rule, and something you might get that standalone indie wiki admins and game publishers don't necessarily have.
Wouldn’t the real AGI test be that an AI would be able to do what the author did here and write this blog post?
Yes, and it's entertaining fiction. On the other hand, in boring reality if fungus could do this, it would have, there's enormous energy to be had.
Mmm, yes. America is the only country that has true freedom of speech.

I suppose that's why a silly Canadian like me wouldn't know much about other countries. We just don't have free speech.
You guys haven't been great at sharing the Bledisloe Cup with us Aussies.

That said also geoblocked here in Australia.
I dunno much about the indie wiki scene in general, but I discovered www.wiki.gg when the Helldivers 2 wiki moved* there, and it's really a breath of fresh air. One banner ad at the top of the page, one at the bottom. And that's page, not screen, you can scroll away from it and it won't follow you. I hear it's better for wiki admins, too, though I don't know the details. Quite a few pretty high-profile wikis seem to have relocated there.

* Okay, most of the editors moved there, and apparently the ones that stayed on Fandom have developed a siege mentality and started banning anyone who mentions the new wiki on their Discord. It's very strange. Fandom is worse in every possible way, where's the loyalty coming from?
I know, I read that too. And I also have an official boxed copy of CS4 Design Premium that I installed from the DVDs, which loads and works without issue. Weird!
Since the urea molecule contains a carbon atom, carbon-free urea would be a neat trick. :)
> My first year at Google

At Google is already not the norm is it?
Good. Adobe is one of the most annoying subscriptions to cancel. Lina Khan continues to do great work.
I mean the remote ssh bug from 2002 that caused OpenBSD to alter their tagline to "One remote hole in the default install, in nearly 6 years!". Pretty sure that affected OpenBSD.
hopefully the explanation in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40712506 is helpful to you
P3P was that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P
At the federal level, yes.

But voting exists at all levels, and I've found that the more local, the more you're exposed to the tyranny of the majority.

My example is based off the very real Portland Metro Supportive Housing Tax. The process was: get measure on ballot => get > 50% of votes. There were no "better men" involved to declare gov welfare as beyond the scope of government. All it took were a bunch of people that wanted an outcome voting for a process to achieve that outcome without having to pay for it.

My point was that I'm effectively powerless to prevent that issue or to reverse it, yet it's likely much easier to change relative to Russian, state-level policies, and I'm not dealing with physical dangers. Hence my condolences to the Russian.
I would imagine the prevalence of microplastics in developing countries is just as high (or higher) though. So the GDP argument isn’t particularly supportive of a microplastics explanation.
I don’t understand the relevance?
In Oman, every tax fare was basically just of the bills. So 5 rials, 10 rials, or 20 rials. So many different ways people price things around the world.