skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In an emailed statement, an X spokesman said Klippenstein was “temporarily suspended for violating our rules on posting unredacted private personal information, specifically Sen. Vance’s physical addresses and the majority of his Social Security number.

I mean, yeah. I think this is actually a good, legitimate reason to suspend a post and a key difference with the Hunter Biden laptop report. But it doesn't change the fact that you spent the whole time throwing stones and now you own the glass house.
Any project I've been involved in has its own explicit license, that allows such things (really allows much more, I don't touch anything closed source).
> Some fraction of identities are real IDs taken advantage of by sanctioned entities

Sure. But if the addict you mentioned's account goes from overdrafting every few weeks to holding millions of dollars, that should set off internal alarms.
WPEngine has been a supreme disappointment in the last year. Agency Partner Program is a bogus seduction tactic. The development instance you can have now is embarrassing when displaying progress to clients as they swear no caching exists when the instance is password-protected. I'm tired of WPEngine and love that this is happening. Been much happier with Kinsta.
https://archive.is/BoYuj
Fwiw, Zig is one of the few languages on my radar that's on the uptick. At least in my circle, I know people from firmware to VM development that moved from Rust over to Zig for its flexibility. There' also Bun that managed to nearly be a drop-in replacement for Node in a very short development cycle, which they claim is due to Zig. (I am not associated with Zig nor have a lot of experience with it yet)
...and BLIK in Poland, 19 banks, not bad... https://www.blik.com/en
instead of building something brand new the EU should just pick these existing ones and get them to implement compatibility...
There is only SHA-1 with a fixed starting state!

Once you change the IV the hash becomes entirely insecure and can be broken in seconds. You just need to overwrite the first IV word with 0, and it's broken. It's a very weak and fragile hash function. They demonstrated it with internal constants K1-K4, but the IV is external, and may be abused as random seed.
To me, at the time, successful would have been getting a tenure-track position at a Tier 1 university, discovering something important, and never publishing anything that was intentional fraud (I'm OK with making some level of legitimate errors that could need to be retracted).

Of those three, I certainly didn't achieve #1 or #2, but did achieve #3, mainly because I didn't write very much and obsessed over what was sent to the editor. Merely being a non-fraud is only part of success.

(note: I've changed my definition of success, I now realize that I never ever really wanted to be a tenured professor at a Tier 1 university, because that role is far less fulfilling that I thought it would be).
easy win, HURD was never alive in the first place to be dead
This error really went viral during the pandemic and continues to this day. We're in for an Orwellian future if the public does not cultivate some skeptic impulse.
> and others appear to be running for cover.

In every industry right now there appear to be a lot of people running cover. I have a personal belief, with the exception of a few industries, 50% of managers are simply running cover. This is easy to explain:

1/ Nothing follows people

2/ Jobs were easy to get in the last 3 years (this is changing FAST)

3/ Rinse and repeat and stay low until you're caught.
Most cars had cassette players, many still had 8-tracks; vinyl or or tape at home.

Not that they were great options, but there was alot of existing media available, and hardware was common, so an expensive bulky device to play fragile media at lower quality than vinyl, was how it was viewed by many initially.

Edit: just checking, the Sony Walkman came out in 1979, CDs in 1982, but the Walkman dominated the 80s & 90s, so its easy to see why CDs were dismissed
Wasn't there a few times when one of the large cryptocurriencies were almost under control of large mining pools where their combined computation would have gone over half? That seems like another "who has more money".
> Love how you keep capitalizing cephalopod like you just copy pasted it off a google search to get the proper spelling :P

Use Cephalopoda with uppercase 'C'. Problem fixed.

By the way, most people would say that the correct word is Google, with uppercase G. (I will not assume that you don't know how to use Google for that; it would be childish). In any case, yes, I check things in Google all the time, and you may want to do it also.
What undemocratic policy? Or do you just mean unpopular?
I wish this would shut up the disciples from the church of Efficient Market, but I know that it won't.
Musk's X blocks links to JD Vance dossier and suspends journalist who posted it
Oakland's last home game ever – scenes from the Coliseum
So this will be similar to Google Appengine(now Google run) ? If that’s the case I would love to give it a try but then I need close SQL server nearby and other open source services as well
I didn’t say “do these things inefficiently”. If we know better, we can do better. It’s like if I said “use the money to fix the potholes in this road” and you replied “but if you shove all that asphalt in the same hole, it will create a mound that stops cars from going through”. Yeah, don’t dump everything in the same place without thinking.

Start by collaborating with organisations which are entrenched in studying these issues and the impact of the solutions. If you have the money you can pay them to help and guide the effort, don’t act like if you know everything.
That's MacBook Pro money
Talking about that guy, or the lack of that guy, historically in elevators of various vintages.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elevator_accidents
alright, am i being downvoted because of my perniciousness to those leading academia, or because I was too sympathetic to the people being exploited?
If people can get away with it, they will do it. Rules and punishments for breaking them exist for a reason.
I'm 90% sure I was talking to an LLM during a chat interaction with T-Mobile today. Pretty bad experience overall.
Ahh I thought Valve had suddenly decided to do something consumer fiendly. Lol.
Would you have predicted in summer of 2022 that gpt4 level conversational agent is a possibility in the next 5 years? People have tried to do it in the past 60 years and failed. How is this time not different?

On a side note, I find this type of critique of what future of tech might look like the most uninteresting one. Since tech by nature inspiries people about the future, all tech get hyped up. all you gotta do then is pick any tech, point out people have been wrong, and ask how likely is it that this time it is different.
Yes, very inexpensive to make, but outside of Japan they can be priced fairly high as specialty items.
Showing my age a bit here, but when I think of her this film is always what I'm reminded of. That phrase "I am Miss Jean Brodie... and I am in my prime" in her frightfully posh Scottish accent rattles around my head quite a bit for some reason.

I've always thought of her as being well-known, but apparently it was Downton Abbey that really made her properly famous, which she didn't really like: https://x.com/lewispringle/status/1839680373774581849
Could you elaborate on value #0 being users (and what it means to prioritize users over programmers)?
I wonder about the relationship between those two, column attribution in 90s newspapers doesn't have much to say about the incentive to stay quiet to avoid publicly announcing you're violating Google's rules in 2024.

That aside, I'm not sure the assertion about 90s papers is accurate. There was syndication, of course, but that was attributed. Let's say there were articles written by other people published under the names of local writers. That sounds theoretically possible, but something that'd be well known. Let's say there were articles attributed to the paper at large. I don't recall that.
How did those teachings work out for the fraudsters?
My wife is a psychiatrist. It’s not unheard of for her to have to deal with cannabis induced psychosis.

One of the more challenging things with cannabis is it can trigger people who are more predisposed to issues. Some of these things can stick around for a while, after an initial incident. Compared to something, like alcohol, cannabis based issues don’t only affect heavy or long term users. You might just be the unlucky person that cannabis doesn’t jive with.

That being said, I think she largely thinks legal cannabis is good. She’s seen recovered alcoholics who’ve turned to cannabis as their outlet without killing their liver and destroying their body.

However, acting like there are no risks to cannabis is not helping anyone.
I don't think there'd be consumer confusion if they sold it as an 80 year lease for $60. Maybe backlash.
But the sales pitch of insurance isn't "you can make tons of money!"
Sure. But the odds of finding an insightful comment on HN is much higher than finding one on lobsters, merely because there is more content.
*more effective tool for battling airline contributions to global warming...
Equally important is that the ISS is under tensile load (the cylinder is trying to explode), while a submersible is under compressive load (the cylinder is trying to implode).
Given that HURD has a steady trickle of commits and an ongoing quarterly status update on their website, it's more alive than MINIX3 currently is.
> A nice 300% tax on air travel and suddenly you don't need to go to New Zeeland for a weekend anymore. And ad and tax-exemption for air travel is the opposite of it.

NZ just raised their tourist tax...

https://onemileatatime.com/news/new-zealand-tourist-tax/
If you're making a play with a small chance of huge upside, but a big chance of losing, most people colloquially call that "gambling".
They're supposed to follow Greta's lead and mooch of rich people to sail them around the world.
Criticism is an important part of the scientific process.

Whichever approach ends up winning is improved by careful evaluation and replication of results
apple's own privacy policy, have a fun read https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/
Ah, I was actually thinking about how iron dome vs Hamas rockets. Iron dome was super effective, yet a million a pop to shoot down a rocket that costs a few thousand dollars at most may quickly bankrupt a country. That said, maybe it's just one aspect of the war while in grand scheme of things highly effective guided missiles will win the war.
Ok, can we just accept that yes, they were told to go there?

Because they were clearly offered the exact place, in no ambiguous terms, and got a clear message to go somewhere else, not very different from the one they are sending people right now.

The situation is completely fucked-up from the beginning. They are to blame for doubling down on fucking it up more, but not for creating it.
Wait, you saying in Canada a R&D software company can essentially sell a dollar (of SDE produced goods) for a dollar and get a tax refund from the government?
Discussion (197 points, 22 hours ago, 115 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41662702
They advertise government lotteries in the US though, which is fucked up.
When I buy a single player game I expect to be able to play it in 10 years or even 20. I should get DRM free binaries that run on Windows 11 or what not.

If in 20 years I need to run an air gapped VM to play it, fine.

What's not cool is if a single player game needs to phone home, and when it can't, my purchase is disabled.
Taiwanese culture to be fairly reserved

That's what you see. When you're out of earshot we refer to you by
several infantilizing expressions that connote npcness.
Isn't this literally the business model of AP News (Associated Press)?

https://apnews.com

They sell stories to other news outlets to publish on their own website.
If you are another "waterboy" doing crud applications, the problem has been solved a long time ago.

What I mean by that is, the "waterboy" (crud "developer") is going to fetch the water (sql query in the database), then bring the water (Clown Bob layer) to the UI...

The size of your Clown Bob layer may vary from one company to another...

This has been solved a long time ago. It has been a well-paid clerk job that is about to come to an end.

If you are doing pretty much anything else, the AI is pathetically incapable of doing any piece of code that makes sense.

Another great example, yesterday, I wanted to know if VanillaOs was using systemD or not. I did scroll through their frontpage but I didn't see anything, so I tried the AI Chat from duckduckgo. This is a frontend for AI chatbots that includes ChatGPT, Llama, Claude and another one...

I started my question by: "can you tell me if VanillaOS is using runit as the init system?"... I wanted initially ask if it was using systemd, but I didn't want to _suggest_ systemd at first.

And of course, all of them told me: "Yeah!! It's using runit!".

Then for all of them I replied, without any fact in hands: "but why on their website they are mentioning to use systemctl to manage the services then?".

And... of course! All of them answered: "Ooouppsss, my mistake, VanillaOS uses systemD, blablabla"....

So at the end, I still don't know which init VanillaOS is using.

If you are trusting the AI as you seem to do, I wish you the best luck my friend... I just hope you will realize the damage you are doing to yourself by "stopping" coding and letting something else do the job. That skill, my friend, is easily lost with time; don't let it evaporate from your brain for some vaporware people are trying to sell you.

Take care.
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So complete prohibition seems bad: it drives activities underground, makes them the purview of organized crime, and is ultimately an insult to the freedom and agency of adult human beings to make their own choices.

But turbocharged advertising and online “engagement” and “monetization” hyper-optimization by unscrupulous growth hacker types who heavily optimize for excessive and reckless gambling by targeting, with malice aforethought, people with issues and aggressively try to recruit new people into a risky activity seems maybe even worse?

How about door #3: keep it legal to avoid most or all of the downsides of prohibition, and absolutely fuck up the profitability of hyper marketing it?

So many problems have plausible if not compelling solutions if you always care more about the welfare of the vulnerable than anyone, anywhere, who is getting shit rich by doing harm.

It took a long time, but we finally took the gloves off with Big Tobacco. You can still buy cigarettes, but you so rarely see them anymore. Even I gave up (which I swore I’d never do) because it’s just impossible to smoke most places, they’re not sold everywhere anymore, and it’s expensive as hell.

There will always be diehard smokers, but it’s not the crisis it once was and you still don’t have drug dealers involved.

How is this not the playbook?
But if you go to a shitty concert, you don't get your money back.

If you buy a shitty album, you can't get your money back. And you can't get the band to "make it better" for you.

Is software a thing? A performance? A recording? It has elements of each. And despite people saying "we've solved this issue", we haven't. We keep slapping on different metaphors and complaining when that metaphor inevitably fails.

That and no one really wants to pay the actual price for complete, error-free software. What they want is to get complete, error-free software for the price they've paid. Which is different.
Two points:

1. You don't need massive amounts of funding to work on ML. A good deal of important work in ML was done in universities (eg. GANs, DPM, DDPM, DDIM) or were published before the hype (Attention). The only qualifier here is that training cost a lot right now. Even so, you don't need billions to train and costs may go down as memory costs come down and hardware competition increases.

2. You don't need VC type investors to fund ML research. Large tech companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, ByteDance and Huawei will continue investing in ML no matter what, even if the total amount they invest goes down (which I personally don't think it will). Even if they shift away from chatbots and only focus on simpler NLP tasks as described above, related research will still continue as all these tasks are related. For example, Attention was originally developed for translation and Llama 3.2 isn't just a chatbot and can also do general image description, which is clearly important to Facebook and ByteDance for recommendations and to Google for image search and ads. Understating what people like and what they are looking at is a difficult NLP problem and one that many tech companies would like to solve. And better image descriptions could then improve existing image datasets by allowing better text-image pairs, which could then improve image generation. So hard NLP, image generation and translation are all related and are increasingly converging into single multimodal LLMS. That is, the best OCR, image generation translation etc. models may be ones that also understand language in general (ie. broad and difficult NLP tasks). The issue is that OP assumes it must be AGI or bust.
A typical American won’t be satisfied on the calories of one onigiri for lunch.
Datat visualizations?
Most of them become distinguished in academia, and only a few get punished if they are too blatant or piss off too many people (see recent ivys losing their presidents over academic fraud).
I think this particular case would be difficult to refactor even in an IDE like PyCharm, which afaik is the best at refactoring Python (might be outdated).
But why the ad doesn't have a big fat letter warning like cigarettes do? "Flying increases amount of CO2 in the athmosphere which we have no way to decrease and causes big fucking misery, wrath of God and more pressure on the housing market"

Why?
Related. Others?

Guide to implementing 2D platformers (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31450218 - May 2022 (37 comments)

A guide to implementing 2D platformers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10202275 - Sept 2015 (32 comments)

The guide to implementing 2D platformers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4065033 - June 2012 (2 comments)

The Guide to Implementing 2D Platformers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4005883 - May 2012 (2 comments)
It’s most like carb. Most Japanese diet is much more carb heavy than a typical Californian diet.
Jaundice in babies is treated with EM radiation in the 420–470 nm range.
Open Source never made sense (to me. I'm a Free Software partisan.)

> but y'all, capitalism is winning, and Open Source isn't changing that fact by an appreciable margin.

Open Source was a capitulation to capitalism. That's what differentiates it from the Free Software movement. The whole point was to woo business interests.

> you have somehow fucked up because you now have a second job. A second job that doesn't pay,

That's a classic case of "Don't do that." Charge people money to write and maintain software, of course! That is valuable economic activity.

Don't charge people to copy software that is already written. That is regressive and holds back human progress and economic wealth creation.

The entire point of computers and software is that it makes wealth easy to duplicate! You write a machine and then everyone can use it for free (technically there is a cost but it's so incredibly tiny that it's negligible.)

We should take advantage of this to reconfigure the economic system to take care of everybody (and the global ecology) and live happily ever after.
> in this country until 2005, when regulations were substantially liberalised

I've always found it very striking when the sports team jersey sponsers are betting companies.
That is not enough to most people. And if it is enough for others, then it is probably because they were fortunate enough to fall back on something better.
I took a 100mi ride last week and even for that one event my body fat percentage seems to have shifted. I actually gained a little weight at the same fat percentage. Some of it is retained water but it's been a week so I think some of it is actual muscle mass.
Similar - when I was younger, I would never have suspected that a scientist was committing fraud.

As I've gotten older, I understand that Charlie Munger's observation "“Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.” is applicable everywhere - including science.

Academic scientists' careers are driven by publishing, citations and impact. Arguably some have figured how to game the system to advance their careers. Science be damned.
Subsidizing the cost of health foods would actually be a lot more expensive. In fact, ideally it'd include increasing the accessibility of healthy foods while a tax on sugar would be much easier to implement.

It'd result in more people eating better though (instead of just eating slightly less worse, or eating worse differently while still not getting enough healthy food) and so there'd also be savings in the cost of health care and improvements in productivity.
In other words, you are suggesting more stringent peer review conducted by insurance companies. And because insurance companies are too small to have sufficient in-house expertise on every topic, the reviews will be usually done by external consultants. The costs might be from $10k for simple papers to hundreds of thousands for large complex papers.

The insurance model does not really work when the cost of evaluating the risks far outweighs the expected risks.
Thanks! Yeah I think this is likely the direction I will take things.
yes but how does the IDE do it?
I came to Canada in the late 90s, entered my tween/teen years around 9/11 and I saw the general tone of [D|V]Js really shift into weird territory as I got older. I also recall watching the Zone when I was 10 and then seeing it on TV about 5 years later when a friend's younger brother put it on while I was over. Was really shocked to see what I felt as really pandering and patronizing behaviour by the hosts where Phil Guerrero and Paul (can't remember his surname) were really down to earth and laid back. There was some measure, at least to my young, potentially overly naive eyes, of sincerity from TV hosts that I never really saw again.
Should I choose Ada, SPARK, or Rust over C/C++?
NIH page for Eliezer Masliah is returning access denied:

https://www.nia.nih.gov/about/staff/masliah-eliezer
Odd post, and it landed me on the Yzena website which is very surreal. It seems to be intentionally hard from the website to figure out what Yzena is or why anyone would want to buy a license for it (or the things it makes?). There was a link to a repo full of perl scripts, though.

According to the website I'm not allowed to ask about this though ;)
Note that I mentioned nothing of saving it. We are well and fucked. How fucked? Couldn’t tell ya, what I can tell you, is that the river outside my house hasn’t frozen in nearly 20 years, and it had frozen every year before that in all of recorded history, some 900 or so years. There used to be annual ice skating races that now happen indoors.

I’m not worried about science boundaries and all that. I’m worried about civilization going tits-up once some places get too affected. For example, we are probably less than a decade or so away from certain places with lots and lots of people living there becoming inhospitable. Either they will die, or run into some other country/region that can’t support them, or disperse around the world (most unlikely).