skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just can't get my head around that the publishers have been looking at music industry going from napster to torrent to spotify. Now they are looking at libgen and seem to be completely unable to connect the dots and come up with a coop that sells all their books with a monthly fee so that they could keep the profits instead of amazon or whatever startup that manages to circumvent all the legal hassles and make a spotify for books.

How hard can it be for a couple of larger publishers to start a common book streaming service with a note that all other publisherss welcome, you become a member in the coop and get to say how the coop works, coop takes a fee from sales just to cover operating costs and rest goes to publisher/author?
I think (correct me if im wrong) tools shells like fish and zsh use the man pages to extract the param suggestions. That saves me so much time
I'm not adverse to buying commercial displays for home use, but it's hard to find places that carry them and list prices. Those I have seen prices for were usually much more expensive than TV branded displays.

Then comes the other big thing. How am I supposed to spend so much when I can't see the thing before I buy it, and there's not much in the way of reviews?

I'm just hoping my next TV doesn't complain much when I don't connect it to the internet; not worried about it finding other networks to connect to, because of where I live.
As far as I'm aware, Apple hasn't released a display on any device with less than 400 nits brightness in years. So HDR400 capability would at least make some sense at a surface level.
While this is true in general, we are talking about a library feature that many people want to move into a language feature, specifically because of the drawbacks of it being a library.
Very small datasets and/or where a good uncertainty estimate of predictions is really important.
> most people in the mental health world would agree that intense feelings of anxiety underlie most bad behavior

That is a huge assumption to make, without any supporting evidence.

> But intense anxiety, from which most workplace abuses manifest..

I agree with the GP. You can't pseudo-intellectually rationalize all malice as mental illness.
No one’s going to target DRM-locked & proprietary (custom motherboard & SOC) Smart TVs when you can get everything you want here (except extra box) targeting an Amlogic s905 or similar box with HDMI CEC[1] that anyone can get for less than 50 USD and is 4K capable and works with absolutely any TV. See: LibreELEC.

Your “perfectly good computer” is in fact not yours (it has DRM so you are not the user, you are renting it), and it’s not perfectly good if it can’t run the software you want.

[1] This let’s you get away with just one remote including for powering on/off
This dude's issue isn't the open web, it's social media. There are and will always be those fringe elements, but things really didn't start getting bad until the masses adopted Facebook and Twitter
Lets mature web standards so that one can write and publish a book - with just html.

Then also do distributed search so that one can find things. Something with supper nodes for those of us who want faster and more complex queries. html, with some minor upgrades, again seems good enough.

DRM is a silly idea, we should forget about it. Just write free works until the audience is impressed enough to donate to current effort.

And finally some simple to use aggregation formula so that authors can learn what we want to read about.

No more middle men.
My point was simply that DNS was never an effective measure. Corporate operators don’t need it since they can configure proxies and install endpoint monitoring, but the people building untrustworthy IoT devices or malware can’t be relied upon to cooperate.

I agree that the core problem here is blocking egress entirely – and that’d be a good area for home routers to add UI polish so you could easily allow your TV to hit Samsung.com if there’s an update you need before turning it back off. Unfortunately that’s going to be a losing game for many devices and that really hits at the root cause: we need strong regulation controlling privacy because trying to stop a well-funded company with purely technical measures is almost always a losing game.
I think it’s damn near impossible to pick a single favorite film, but if you put a gun to my head and force me I’ll say Casablanca every day of the week. I think it’s one of those films where I’d say it’s the exact opposite to your description of Citizen Kane; the individual components aren’t necessarily all that great if you start to examine them closely, but when it all comes together I think it’s pure cinematic gold.

I must’ve seen Casablanca a hundred times at this point, and I still laugh at the snappy exchange at the bar between Rick, Sasha and Yvonne[1], gleefully grin when Rick rigs the roulette game in favor of the young Bulgarian couple[2], get goosebumps and damn near cry when the whole place erupts in an impromptu rendition of the Marseillaise to drown out the nazi’s singing[3] etc. etc.

I’ve never actually seen Citizen Kane, but I think I’ll do so tonight prompted by your comment. I’d love to see if I agree with your assessment. Thanks!

[1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=14ZnZ4-aGi0

[2]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xD_bKVAZJBw

[3]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgXw58ZP4Ss
I thought the cinematography and set design was fantastic. The rest of the film is disorganized, lacks a coherent angle/point of view, and just kind of meanders along. Some of the acting was also off (Oldman playing a New Yorker but seems to have a slight British accent, etc.)

Overall, it felt like a worse version of Hail Caesar, without the Coen Brothers’ mastery of ‘pointlessness.’
If you are a heavy Java or OpenGL user, don’t buy a Mac.

If you are running a git server farm, don’t use macs. If you are a developer using Git, you’ll be just fine.

These just aren’t representative of most people’s experience.

It’s a lie to say the software is 30% slower.

It’s even a lie to say it’s 30% slower for an IntelliJ user.

It’s only 30% slower on a narrow benchmark.

YouTube videos, however many, are not a credible source of operating system performance claims. You can find YouTube videos supporting flat earth theories or that Obama is a lizard alien.

If you can’t find any article anywhere substantiating your claim, I think we can conclude that it’s not supported by evidence.

If it was that bad, a reputable site like ars, or anandtech would have shown it.
That's your problem, isn't it. I mean I was the lead developer of the team, it was in line with my manager's views. And as a lead developer of the team I'd never want to torture any of the other devs by having them deal with this pile of callback pile of garbage. It took me(yes, alone, without involving any other poor souls) a month, working 16-18 hours/day+weekends over the Christmas holidays. Users acknowledged the improved performance. As for the developers: "Man, thank you so much for getting rid of this shit". Management happy, users happy, and most importantly (from my perspective), developers happy. Priceless considering the garbage before was developed over the course of 3 years by 3 developers(two of which very experienced) and around 1 million euros in salaries alone. I rest my case.
Having worked for a very large publisher - they don’t get tech at all.
FYI - This article was linked in another HN post about smart TVs ignoring PiHole. See the original article about how to make sure the TV follows your PiHole.

“Your Smart TV is probably ignoring your PiHole”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25313776
Static class is probably the best solution for having namespaced functions combined with having auto loading working correctly.

Structs would be great too, especially if PHP could support inner class definitions.
The absolute worst version I had of this was in China (and I think Korea as well).

I was troubleshooting an issue where a company's client computers which connected to the company VPN wouldn't have internet access post-connection.

The problem turned out to be that instead of sending a NXDOMAIN they'd return their ad server and then _always_ send back some JS to show ads.

The company network used PAC files (these are a piece of JS with a single FindProxyForURL() function) via an internal-only URI to steer most requests to our proxies, while keeping some internal.

The problem came about when clients would first start up the OS would attempt to access the internal-only URI before the VPN client finished connecting. In a normal network it'd get nothing and life would carry on. With this problematic ISP they'd get something that /should/ have been a PAC file, but because it was some other piece of JS without FindProxyForURL() it wouldn't work as a PAC file and thus the client wouldn't go to the proxy.

The expiration on this piece of JS was set to some absurd amount of time, so when the client would eventually try hitting our PAC file server again (happens every 20 minutes on Windows) it wouldn't get our file because it thought the garbage one from the ISP was newer. And the ISP updated their hijacking JS more frequently than we updated our PAC file.

There were two possible solutions to this. One, routinely touch the PAC file so it's date was newer than whatever the ISP put out. Or two, set up an external A record for the internal PAC server name to keep the hijacking from working. We went with the second.
The Principle of Explosion and Ordinary Code
Amazon did this - it's called Kindle Unlimited.
The US spends a huge amount on education and the amount has increased over time.

https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/edlite-chart....
Yea, they lost for doing something Amazon was doing and is still doing :D
China gets more propaganda, but average Chinese knows they're being fed propaganda, whereas free citizens with their free 5th estate are rarely aware of when their consent is being manufactured. More highinfo/curious Chinese are informed about the world simply because there's a fuckload of bilingual Chinese with English fluency able to share news from across the wall. You can't say the same about anglosphere and Chinese information literacy. The amount of absolutely ignorant western commentary on China is staggering, where as Chinese net actually has western perspectives that somewhat comport with reality.

At the end of the day, media that doesn't turn society into idiots that undermine national interests has its virtues and maybe preferrable. That was once the case with tame free media before much of it turned into divisive reality TV. Similarly you can have dangerous state media that whip up nationalist frenzy, cause sectarian violence etc, or you could have boring ass state media and manage civic engagement for political serenity. All media are manipulated, all narratives shaped, blatantly manipulating media for serenity to a knowing population self-fulfilling properties. People stop giving a shit about politics, and politicians end up government instead of campaigning. Prerequisite is having a good system for selecting competent leadership in the first place.

This is not unambiguously endorsing state media as good, but decline of free media in many places is simply that bad. Some countries still have passable public broadcasting, but for how long, and whether commercial pivot for ads + anxiety is terminal transition.

For Uyghurs: under the most delusional estimates, Chinese Uyghurs still have less lifetime chance of being in a indoctrination camp than US blacks in US prison industrial complex. For much shorter sentences. After they'll be coerced to work in vocational program for more pay, even adjusted for exchange rate. Not US prison labour moving covid bodies tier coerced labour, but actual useful jobs designed to transition into society instead of recidivate back into for profit prisons. China actually wants to integrate minorities instead of exclude, even at extreme costs. So I suppose the answer is, it's better to be a Chinese Uyghur in a few generations after they've been sinicized and integrated than a Black American in 20 years who will still be getting executed on the street and fighting equal treatment.
The vast majority of people don't have the background to understand the mechanism of action of vaccines. 100 years ago the effects of vaccines were easily observable, but now these diseases are rare enough such that a regular person can't rely on observation alone to make a decision to get vaccinated. They need to trust that the doctors know what they're doing.
I think some religious books are actually delivered this way and are quite successful.
There's also apps if your kids are into that... check out the Magnus Trainer (has much free content) : https://www.playmagnus.com/en

It starts at a very easy level with the basics of chess.
Not at all, same reason.
It’s classic tokenism: invite a minority to the table but don’t let them speak.
Low literacy in the Ottoman Empire should not be ascribed solely to the lack of the printing press. It also had to do with the standard written language used in the Empire: written Ottoman Turkish was an artificial mixture of Turkish and Persian that was specially taught to a small elite. The average Turk would not have been able to make sense of Ottoman Turkish texts even if he did become literate (in the sense of knowing the letters and being able to read things aloud).

This is why one of the concerns of Atatürk’s revolution was not just increasing printing and switching to the Latin alphabet, but also replacing the Ottoman Turkish written language with one much closer to spoken Turkish.
I think your predictions are 100% accurate, but I also think as the fleet becomes more self-driving and as streets and other public infrastructure are redesigned to accommodate the new paradigms I believe these problems around traffic, congestion, and safety will be solved eventually by automated vehicles.

That is to say I believe human-driving is at a local maxima and it will take accepting a negative dip if we want to progress on this front.
I'm not trying to help them win. I'd rather they not play at all. It's throwing money away.
There are many different situations/users where decks can be used and the one you describe is just one of them.

If you present few times a year in important events, sure, you'd better using a tool that allows pushing every single pixels because it makes sense for your situation and you have time/skills for.

But if you need to produce (many) documents for reports/lessons/references maybe you'd prefer something that automate a bit more and because you're not interested spending time to invent graphics design.

Also, what you say about images vs text, again, you're right when you're making a show. If you present information that needs to be understood very well, I can assure you that words and (short) sentences displayed when you're speaking, can help a tons.
Aha the pale dot just diagonally top left of Jupiter must be Saturn then. From my skymap they appear to be touching so I assumed the seperate extra dot was m73 star. Now I know better. Much apreciated. Thank you for the reply.
I actually don't think film depends all that much on technology. True, contemporary audiences will have to learn how to watch, read, and understand silent, black & white, and early color (like Technicolor) films. But the essential pathos, invention, and artistry sip through the pores of their technical fabric.

I'd say there's probably hundreds of films that can reasonably compete to be in the top spots. Most films aren't given that chance since they aren't widely seen by critics. For example, the 1985 Soviet film 'Come and See' is an utterly stunning example of film's power to document trauma, convey another's pain, and do so in formally and visually inventive ways. It takes pathos to the extreme. I do believe it should be considered one of the greatest films for these reasons. But it only came out 35 years ago and simply has not been shown enough, so it doesn't have the canonical heft it deserves yet.

I do think the canon is important, even if it's just because it forms the foundation on which contemporary films sit (at least those with artistic pretensions). But it's important to have your own voice when watching them. I, for example, like Tokyo Story, but think Floating Weeds is the greater Ozu film, not least for it's beautiful images - it is perhaps the best-looking color film.
Why do you say it’s not difficult? You know people want TVs to have convenient apps and integrations on them. Convincing people to get that functionality from an additional device that they have to set up sounds very difficult.

Do you mean to say you have a simple opinion?
I just want to publish some code.

Now I need to worry about blockchains and tokens and voting?
Sidestepping your question, open-mindedness comes with its own costs. Properly analyzing an idea takes time away from other things you could be doing, and some ideas are so outlandish that your life will almost certainly be better by simply making the choice to spend as little time as possible flirting with such absurdities (except insofar as you might enjoy toying with "what-if" questions as an end unto itself). Are you practicing open-mindedness...everywhere?

It wasn't that long ago that some crackpot tried to convince me that the modern atmosphere had damaged my lungs, so to replace the oxygen I was missing I needed to buy hydrogen peroxide injections. The claim as a whole either needs to have major structural flaws or overturn sizable portions of modern chemistry and physics to have a chance at plausibility, and my biases strongly suggest that instead somebody was trying to skirt legal oversight in order to con me.
An interesting counter point: the marginal cost of stupidity rises with the technological advancement of society.
Look, on paper I agree with you, they can't claim 'fair academic criticism' and censure papers without explanation. But in the real world, Google has an outsized contribution to AI. They are also a company, and need to pay for all the expenses. There are practical, day to day concerns that are essential for their existence. If they can't ensure their finances, the research program stops. So you can't really be absolutely impartial, just 99%, from time to time you make an exception to impartiality. It's like light speed, you can't reach it.
I meant something I can open on an Apple device to see HDR in action.
You've worked with a visual appearances dataset, lacking sufficient examples from one class of entities, and it failed to perform well for that class. You solved the problem by adding more example of that class. While the malfunction might have hd some, as of yet unquantified, real world impact in some hypothetical police face recognition system, it doesn't follow that:

a. Datasets that are not about visual appearances, are prone to the same problem and to the same degree. Perhaps the house lending datasets / systems have small race (visual appearances) issues, but large class issues. The political debate of how to handle class issues is as old as politics have been around.

b. The extent of real world impact, which depends on the actual system deployed. Perhaps a hypothetical real world system has a 1% failure rate vs .1% failure rate. Should we stop developing useful system just because they are not produce exactly the same results across all visible demographics we can carve ourselves into?

c. Can the impact be mitigated by human post processing. The hypothetical face recognition system is part of the judicial process, there are many checks and balances before one gets to suffer drastic consequences. For example a human actually looking at the picture, or a solid alibi. "Your honor, I was skiing in Canada at the time of the alleged Florida murder".

As others have expressed in this thread, dealing with first order visual issues is easy. everyone can agree at a glance what a correct solution to visual questions is, and bugs are usually straightforward to fix. Language issues on the other hand, are second order, everything is subject to interpretation. Once we open the can of worms of talking 'critically' about language and AI, we are getting uncomfortably close to language police, and via Shapir Whorf, to thought police. The BIG underlying stake of 'AI Ethics', one that possibly neither side has completely articulated just yet:

Should a small group (in the thousands) of hyperachieving hyperpriviledged individuals working in the AI labs at the handful of megacorporations controlling the online flow of human language, get to decide what we can speak, and by extension what we can think?
My xbox has been reasonable
I live in near Seattle so all bets are off. Buying a telescope is as wasteful as setting up your roof for solar panels.
Reading the article, the view hinges on a gross mischaracterization: that a free speech environment has led to extremism and death. But this is absolutely not the case. First of all, the websites where the vast majority of extreme ideas are shared are not free speech environments. Second, the people who do bad things do it because they're damaged, or disillusioned, or some other personal motivator, the only difference now is that we can read and understand their view (not implying that we should be sympathetic, only understand even if we vehemently agree).

Another point I have a bit of a gripe with is that the person fails to point out the misdeeds associated with the ideology he (probably) is more sympathetic towards. Interestingly, the view that people should not be able to freely share ideas with one another and judge ideas on their merit with their own cognitive capacity seems to be common among those sympathetic to this ideology. I wonder how the author feels about those people controlling the environments where discussion happens and policing discussion on extreme topics sympathetic to themselves.
It sounds like Google was at odds with the research and the push by Timnit. And she gave them the easy exit with her ultimatum. It is shameful on Google to use a weak excuse as "not meeting protocol" to let go of a great researcher. Looks like the paper hit home raw. When explained, even a layman can see the bias these AI models will have. Looks like it is time for a better search engine to emerge and call out these monopolies.
No, portability is easily achieved with those by using containers.
But if (in the U.S.) you hollow out and defund the public education system

This has not happened: https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/education_spending
Yeah, it's really easy to get overwhelmed by the raw amount of stuff to study. I found I just needed to be consistent, and get through 3-5 leetcode problems a day, while trying to force myself to hit the problems in areas I was weaker. If I tried to enumerate everything, I quickly became very overwhelmed like you describe.

I think if you hit a balance of problems that touch on arrays, strings, linked lists, trees, graphs, stacks, queues, heaps, and also some dynamic programming you'll be good to go. I found that companies really love to ask graph problems in disguise, and once you know how to recognize them and the basic DFS/BFS implementations you're golden. And if you get good at graph problems, trees and linked lists are simple, so I think it's a great area to put extra focus.

I found the dynamic programming problems particularly hard for my brain to grasp, and I had to spend a lot of time repeating the basic problems and slowly building up my skillset. A ton of practice, and I never even got asked a single DP question in all the interviews!
You say you don't agree, but you don't disagree either. Perhaps you should know a modulo operator but that's still not what FizzBuzz is for. It's to see if the candidate has the most basic concepts of loops and tests.

Adding knowledge of a relatively obscure operator (can't remember the last time I needed it in real life) just makes it a trivia test.
This seems pretty cool, is there a demo of the Web UI?