skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a good thing as it stands today, it is not a good thing for the future of humanity IMO because just one bad action can ruin it for everyone.

Leaving aside the sheer arrogance of thinking you can say with confidence what's going to "ruin the world for everyone," it's very clear to me that any world government that could make judgements like this for everyone would be by definition a tyranny.

Governments do bad things, sometimes backed by popular opinion. You assume a world government would be concerned with global warming or humanitarian issues and would not make bad choices. Why do you assume that? What would stop a world government from committing actual genocide? If it was truly a world government, nothing could stop it.

Hannah Arendt:

> The crimes against human rights, which have become a specialty of totalitarian regimes, can always be justified by the pretext that right is equivalent to being good or useful for the whole in distinction to its parts. A conception of law which identifies what is right with the notion of what is good for—for the individual, or the family, or the people, or the largest number—becomes inevitable once the absolute and transcendent measurements of religion or the law of nature have lost their authority. And this predicament is by no means solved if the unit to which the "good for" applies is as large as mankind itself. For it is quite conceivable, and even within the realm of practical political possibilities, that one fine day a highly organized and mechanized humanity will conclude quite democratically—namely by majority decision—that for humanity as a whole it would be better to liquidate certain parts thereof.
Are there any public examples of the alleged bullying?

Sawyer X said it was over admitting to "cruft" in the project, yet the only references to the word "cruft" that I can find are in his resignation email. Perhaps it occurred in another forum.
Yep, same here in Brazil.
For the sake of argument, there's really nothing wrong with combining map/reduce with side-effects, especially for things like counters were the alternative of threading the variables everywhere can end up being much more complex very quickly.
Demystifying programs that create programs, part 6: Processing more opcodes
Nuance is text to speech in hospitals, government, call centers etc.. This is a market access play.
Siri is a female name[1] so it makes sense to use ’she’ when humanizing her.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri_(given_name)
That’s exactly why the Pythagoreans were obsessed with music!

An arcane text which I highly recommend for those curious is The Manual of Harmonics by Nichomacus the Pythagorean. It’s a series of ancient lectures which dives into why the Pythagoreans were obsessed with how numerical the musical scales are.
This is extremely condescending. For someone with assets (retirement savings, a house, etc.) playing the lottery doesn't make sense - you could save that money and have a marginally better life just by investing it. For people on the other side of the financial divide, life is basically framed in terms of debt. They will never get on top of the student loans, medical debt, credit card debt, car payments, payday loans, etc. that are constantly draining any excess cash they have.

The lottery is one of the few ways they could escape this debt spiral - if they could get a positive bank balance, they could begin to accumulate assets. That's not to say most people are able to do it, because suddenly having a lot of cash without financial literacy is dangerous. There's also a strong impulse to help out the people around you, which is tough because if the money is spread too thin none of the beneficiaries escape the debt cycle, they just reduce their balances slightly and then continue sliding downwards.

All that to say, playing the lottery is not stupid, it's a rational response to a society that's designed to drain the wallets of the most vulnerable for the benefit of the wealthy.
Sounds great. Let’s prosecute Angela Merkel for prematurely shutting down Germany’s nuclear power plants and increasing German CO2 production.
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Is that actually common? I write quite a few systemd unit files, and have yet to need a wrapper shell script. And the vast majority, or maybe even all, of the unit files my system has by default are also not calling shell scripts.
This is really all there is to it. Yet the naïve would still want to ask why, as in what's the motivation of pushing baloney? The answer is in another question: is there an industry more entrenched at the intersection of power/control/money?
Here's the link to the research paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-021-01282-8

This article from Smithsonian Mag was good too: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/medieval-jews-engl...
I remember when I first saw an internet newspaper in the late 90s, I thought that this was the beginning of the great unbundling. Instead of subscribing to a newspaper with a curated set of contributors, someday I could subscribe to the contributors à la carte, curating my own paper.

With blogs that's been happening gradually over the intervening years, but now it's accelerating. I think it's a great thing that the editorial intermediaries are being circumvented. Those writers I enjoy can speak more freely, while enjoying a larger slice of the rewards (along with the risks) at the same time. So I'm more basking in the glory of the rise of Substack than freaking out about the decline of the gatekeepers.
Ahh gotcha, that makes sense!

I'm not sure if I agree or not to be honest. I think there's good things (like you said, make sure the user knows they are doing it), but I have never convinced myself it is absolutely superior.

EDIT: One example of why it may not be good. If there is friction to updating, it means less folks will update (or you have to now take special care to make it as easy to update as if the switch was not there).

But like I said, I'm not convinced one way or another. I think there's cases when it is true, but I lean to that being the exception, not the rule.
They all sound like shit. I am blind and my years keep me alive on a Daly.
If you're in to the space race, don't miss Public Service Broadcasting - Race for Space album. They have an epic track for Gagarin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY-kAnvOY80

The entire album is one of my favourites of all time.
Retiring is not a thing you "do"really. You need to have other interests to keep yourself occupied and a good network of friends.
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> It's why sharing child pornography is illegal, even though all the creators are really doing is sharing a set of instructions for someone's else's computer to generate the image/video.

The strange matter is that in the U.S.A., mens rea is an element of the crime of sharing and possessing child pornography, meaning that one can only be convicted if one knew, or could reasonably be expected to know the actor was under a certain age, but this is not the case for actual sexual intercourse with a minor, where one is criminally liable if one could not be expected to know.

In most jurisdictions, mens rea is an element of both.
I don't believe the latest version of macOS supports Hibernation anymore. At least I couldn't get it working with an hour or two of finagling/googling around.
Looks like he pulled down his Twitter account recently too.

Wayback: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3Wcvdp...
I'm pretty sure Nuance also does the Comcast Xfinity voice remotes. They are actually really well done. And it's a humongous customer to have your claws in.
I think it's a common misconception that OpenCV is Photoshop in coding form. There's a ton of powerful that you can use for what you described but hard to say without seeing the pics. A good example is noise removal in the PSD domain (power spectrum density, not PSD photoshop files).

[1] https://docs.opencv.org/master/d2/d0b/tutorial_periodic_nois...
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That doesn’t mean anything. There were hundreds of ICOs in 2017, and the SEC only sued a handful of them. The rest were not different, they just lucked out of prosecution.
Agreed on all points.

The lack of competition was itself a reflection of conventional wisdom in those industries, though, which is my point.
Youtube since recently (or I just noticed it) has very good auto-CC, their voice recognition even works in noisier videos.
Wireless is a worse product than wired, but you trade the worse product for the convenience of not having the wire. None of the examples you give match that pattern.

SSDs are a better product than HDDs, they trade capacity for speed, but if you need capacity it's likely you don't really need the extra speed, and you're likely running into other bottlenecks anyway (a HDD can still saturate 1G Ethernet)

Electric cars are a "worse" product, but for most use cases they're functionally equivalent. Most people don't drive farther than the range in a day, maintenance is at the same place as ICE, slow recharge times are easily negated by just plugging in every night and charging while you sleep.

Paper is a worse product than a screen because a screen can be updated. It's about as easy to read, the resolution is about the same, they're equally portable (see a cellphone), but you can put just about anything on a screen and update it many times a second. You can't do that with paper, which is why screens have mostly replaced paper.
German always works! (For cats at least.)

Seriously - my guess is that they try to perform the speech recognition client side (on the local hardware) and are less agressive on how they collect data for model training.

Unlike Google or some company in China which make thin clients that send everything to a central server where it is much easier to recognize, correct and train.
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It sounds like this person got sick of “Sea Lioning” — where you make a statement of opinion and are harangued into backing it up in detail, and if you won’t (or you do, but it’s not to the sea-lioner’s taste) you’re basically called a liar, idiot, or something worse.

It’s especially annoying when you’re a subject matter expert and the people you’re arguing with are not - often they don’t even have the requisite knowledge to understand the salience of your arguments so you either have to dumb everything down (at which point you’re now arguing with some analogy) or provide a litany of background data which is time consuming and unlikely to be read or understood by the people arguing with you.
You realize Austin just passed a gigantic transit plan in November, right?
I think step one of anybody using the "i" or "e" words (imperialism/exploitation) should be to define what the they actually mean before expecting to be taken seriously. There are far too many very /very creative/ sinisterizing definitions out there for both deliberately conflated with other definitions. Are we talking "residental schools to deliberately and actively wipe out their language" imperialism or "selling blue jeans outside your borders is imperialism because you are destroying indigenous cultures even though the actual people in them want it" imperialism?
We do not know of it's aliens, but there's no denying that something very spooky has occurred. This goes for the flying tik-tak incident as well.
That is a fundamental shift where in theory companies like record labels and publishing houses are not necessary anymore. I think for established journalists it should be easy to bring "their" audience to a new platform.
In general, we should be working towards an established middle class of content creators.
Of course but it's still in the traditional domain of networking kit (generally). As there are many components virtualised or software defined then I think in those areas, not so much as there are alternative ways to get the metrics. SNMP is a bit long in the tooth and can be a bit unweildy sometimes, ymmv etc.
That's exactly what Caddy does! https://caddyserver.com
Yes. I think we're all aware what I meant and the ordering of Tesla's early founding and investment history.
I don't really understand the thread. This guy X writes about the harassments and then someone replies and asks about the release versions?
You have draw a distinction between voice recognition and digital assistants. Nuance is really just the former.
I would beg to differ. In fact, I would doubt many people could tell it apart in a blind test situation, especially on NES or SNES games. FPGA is just another expensive toy for hobbyists.
You really don't think that the US exports a ton of media and entertainment? And that, for example, it happens to impose and protect copyright laws to make sure those profits continue?

I have trouble finding the export figures, but there's this:

> The global media and entertainment market was worth $1.9 trillion in 2016, with extrapolations ranging to $2.14 trillion by 2020. About one third of the total ($735 billion in 2017) is made up by the U.S. entertainment industry.

Edit: seems the export figure is quite a bit smaller, CNN lists tv/movies together with software at 49 billion: https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/07/news/economy/top-us-exports...
python is indeed very painful for typical short shell script tasks

for example: anything with pipes

however once you start having to run multiple background jobs with custom wait logic it probably becomes worth it
I might have missed it, but I don't think it was back when I was looking for equivalent of Firefox's `-p` command line arg a few years ago. I did however end up setting up a dedicated launcher for every Firefox profile as well instead of using `-p`
Well, for one thing, if you copied the numbers from the example as they are defined, then JS will be dealing with simple floating point numbers and actually gets the answer wrong (but gets there fast!). The answer is beyond 5E+17 but JS's Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER is only 9E+15. The results start getting weird after that.

To get the correct answer, we need to convert some of the numbers to BigInts

var result = 0n

function main() {
var sum = 0n
var i = 1
while (i <= 1000000000) {
sum = sum + BigInt(i)
i = i + 1
}
result = sum
}

main()

but after that the result is not quite so impressive anymore

Now using node v15.6.0 (npm v7.4.0)
time node index.js
node index.js 51.50s user 0.40s system 103% cpu 50.072 total
I took my own approach using the Clever dripper

https://tysonmaly.com/recipes/how-to-make-strong-coffee/

The only change I have made is to put the excess hot water in my coffee cup to keep the cup hot.
That's quite dramatic. I'm drawing a distinction between private matters (things where the involved parties are both fully in the know and are the only ones impacted) and secrecy (working definition: ones with information asymmetries that don't match the impact).

This is obviously a tricky and subtle distinction, so yes, one absolutely needs the sort of power-restricting and rights-balancing apparatus that getting a warrant is an example of.
>> Even better if writers start building communities too.

Even even better: writers get paid with fewer middlemen, and writers can get paid proportionally to their work's readership.

The downside: sometimes the pooled model helps subsidize writers who do important work, but perhaps work that is insufficiently popular to attract paid readers...who funds that type of investigative journalism?
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1. Nobody mentioned capitalism or alternatives in the parent comment.

2. Capitalism is not "natural" either and only started developing in the post-renaissance world.

3. Natural selection demonstrates conclusively that relying on purely natural processes to drive "innovation" often lead to highly non-optimal and harmful trends.

4. Most of the major scientific and technological innovations of the 20th century were either the direct result of or funded by "force" which I take to mean government.

5. Advertisement was not the only monetisation strategy that the internet and telecommunication industry could have taken. The internet could have very easily gone down the subscription route and the only reason why anybody thinks otherwise is because of the decade long marketing that has normalised getting everything for "free".
I used to have a similar outlook (stating that lotteries are a tax on the mathematically illiterate), but now $3 for that small rush when I check the numbers is for sure worth it.
Who writes new stuff in Pearl?
Regarding your last point: if I remember the foreword to the 2nd edition Tolkien describes his writing process as essentially being spatially. He moves his characters from place to place, and seems to only have put in a core theme later on. This also agrees with the whole "Tolkien wrote a book so he could talk about cultures/languages/something" theme. This would also suggest that he had in his mind something of a map or layout of Middle-Earth very early on. And than there is the complicated interaction with the Silmarillion, which was developed long before the Hobbit even (1914), but also during writing of the Hobbit and TLOTR. [1] So disentangling where exactly he came up with what seems almost impossible (and something that many Tolkien scholars, including Christopher Tolkien, have spent quite some time studying!)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silmarillion#Development
Hey there. I'm the PM for Pages. That's fair feedback (though a lot could have changed even in the past few weeks, so I would recommend taking another look)

- It's hard for me to tell what's causing the issue (the build logs should give an idea of at least at which stage). One thing we've added over the course of the beta is connection to GH comments, which requires a new type of permission. So that might be causing the failure, but also, failed builds should result in a comment (and email) for notifications, depending on your GH settings. All of that said, my email is rita at cloudflare if you want to forward me more details, I can help look into it.

- Creating a canonical notion of your domain is something we're thinking about. Right now the preview links will set X-Robot-Tag so they can't be crawled but yeah, ideally we want to give you a way to remove myproject.pages.dev if you're not using it

- The cache-control settings are intended to keep your site from serving stale content by relying on etags — your browser should still serve from cache if the asset hasn't been updated. On the Cloudflare site, we have much longer TTLs.

Anyway, thanks for trying Pages! We're continuing to iterate on it, even after GA so should only be getting better :)

(edit: spacing :P)
Passing through for GPU releated ML tasks or perhaps HW accelerated encoding. I've also used PCI passthrough with Blackmagic SDI capture cards so that a given VM could access the device and the SDI input feed.
Most amazing he also came to Cyprus and I was a kid at the time. We all went to see him in his car parade. Posters with his picture were left pasted on walls for many years. Video here https://www.britishpathe.com/video/gagarin-in-cyprus
> EDIT: It's the color space which is broken I guess, white (on a website) should be neutral background white not eye hurting brightness and the color space should have some "whiter then (normal,neutral) white" colors. I.e. the normal white color should not have defaulted to maximal brightness.

Sure, but that's already the standard.

The people who obsess over using #fff as default white just happen to be the ones whose monitors show #fff the way #ccc was supposed to be shown (and used to be shown, on CRTs)
This is also the example I had in mind but didn't want to write. Going on an adventure always stops my system.

It seems that my body takes the "leave no trace" principle very seriously.

Once I get home, it goes back to its normal schedule.

This happens on outdoor adventures, but also on long car trips to museums, etc.
That is exactly the point. Tesla increasing prices by 30% is not a surprise and it does not even look terrible anymore in context.
In case anyone's wondering, the name comes from this cartoon: http://wondermark.com/1k62/
The big takeaway here is that what Substack proved (much like Onlyfans did in a different industry a few years back) that the median unit of consumed content was being produced by someone who was being heavily underpaid by the existing industry.

The big name bloggers and journalists were competing in an industry where entry level salaries are dirt cheap, because from a business perspective "anyone" can do journalism and there are always more people to hire. But what readers actually "want" isn't the generic journalism, it's Yglesias or Greenwald specifically. So people like that can do much better.

But... where does that leave the actual journalism? Now not only are the journalists underpaid by the media, they now know that the path to elite success is actually in a different career path entirely. I can't help but think that Substack is the wrong solution to a real problem, and is making things worse and not better.
We do something similar at https://imup.io but we run ping & speed tests from your home PC rather than shipping you a device. We approach the situation wanting to save folks money on their internet services for degradation in addition to providing analytics.

Thanks for sharing that link for Ripe though, super cool project.
I like that it's easier and easier to host HTML content "for free" on the web.

However, I'm a bit concerned when I look at the size, breadth and growth of cloudfare (ie, cloudfare absorbing the web). As a way to lessen these concerns, I would really, really like it if they were to offer cloudfare pages as an IPFS (or gnunet, hypercore, etc) gateway too.

Modify your pages and publish it on IPFS, have the changes propagated on cloudfare: that would be nice :)
Hey HN, I've been working on this framework for the past 3 years because I grew frustrated with how slow it is to build backend applications.

Encore offers a different approach to backend development, heavily based on static analysis and code generation to simplify and improve the developer experience.

Among other things, it automatically instruments your app and adds Distributed Tracing, generates high-quality and interactive API Documentation, and lots more.

Would love your feedback :)
Imagine Radiohead's Creep playing on the background and it fits perfectly.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but what is fundamentally different, technically or business model-wise from, say Medium?

Is it just that substack is grabbing a bigger mind share?
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Illegality is an artificial concept.

There is no right and wrong in this world; there are only parties with enough power to enforce their will upon others. Some of those parties believe that what they do serves some public interest.
You may not realize, but "gyp" is a bigoted ethnic slur. Please don't use it here or anywhere.
Are the bugs ML-related or with the app more generally? I've never used Dragon but I'm pretty interested in the TTS space.
Lol this isn't grim at all. As far as I understand, they came up with a pretty good architecture as a joke.
sometimes I think I should time block so I could make guaranteed progress on certain projects... the problem is that much of my day is spent working on tasks that are impossible to estimate the duration of. example: fixing a bug. it could take anywhere from 10 minutes to 3 days.
And Ubuntu! Totally expecting that in the news at this point.
Ah, upon rereading it turns out it is still an issue:

... would fail to run test commands whose left-hand side matched a unary operator.

This was fixed [...] in 1979. However, test and [ were also available as separate executables, and appear to have retained a variant of the buggy behavior: