skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a kid in the 1980s and the threat of planetary doom was omnipresent. The radio would broadcast news about new deployments of American (never Soviet) cruise missiles and militarization of space every few days. We even had a very basic "intro what a nuclear war means" in our kindergarten. Nightmarish stuff for 5 y.o.s. Part of the regime propaganda that was ostensibly very much on the side of peace, even though maintaining a huge army.

That said, the technological developments that we reaped were absolutely massive. Samuel Johnson once said that nothing concentrates someone's mind as a perspective of being hanged. That applied population-wise in the Cold War.

Nowadays, talented people spend their time and mental stamina on selling ads with 0,01 per cent more efficiency; from a purely economic point of view, it might make sense, but I wonder if it really counts as technological progress.
Ford Transit always makes me think of,

> The Metropolitan Police reported on this vehicle in 1972 via a Scotland Yard spokesman that "Ford Transits are used in 95 per cent of bank raids. With the performance of a car, and space for 1.75 tonnes of loot, the Transit is proving to be the perfect getaway vehicle", describing it as "Britain's most wanted van".[1]

Legendary vehicle.

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[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Transit
Ask HN: Please Dark Mode for HN
Please. I instinctively go on HN all the time even when I'm in bed. I try to keep all my apps in dark mode and for the most part I've changed all my frequent apps except HN. It hurts my eyes. It hurts my soul a little bit. I like how the app hasn't changed for forever years, but please for the sake of my panache. I'll even built it myself if I could submit a PR.
For this particular race you get beer, not medals. I don't remember seeing medals in cycling outside of the Olympics.
See Kolkata, India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhole_cover#Theft

[Non-steel] fiber-reinforced concrete is an alternative.
>ski flying where competitions are basically lotteries in who gets a favorable gust

That has always bothered me that there are some calculations/arbitrary numbers based on the wind... to a point the length of the ramp gets adjusted. I recall when the V shape was introduced, initially it was shunned by the judges for bad style (negative points), regardless it was obviously aerodynamically better. However, swimming would also be affected as the water temperature won't be constant either.
This analysis assumes the camera was aligned perfectly parallel to the finish line, but offset from it.

Unfortunately, there's no reason to assume this was true. Almost the opposite! If the operator did set up the camera correctly initially, and we know the far end ended up pointing to the wrong panel (got a knock?), this makes it more likely it was skewed so as to advantage the most distant rider. And that was Van Aert.
> as a gang of crooks who belonged somehow to some kind of international conspiracy

this is exactly what is being done now, but in the opposite direction. When this should be viewed as a purely normal scientific process of debate.

>All these school manuals were extremely ridiculous

Did you try to read any other schol manuals in different countries? School education is well-known to be a source of pure objectivity and true enlightment for an individual in its core.
> Cooperation is literally why we are humans.

Cooperation within the tribe. (Often violent) competition against the others.

And the evolution of human intelligence was driven largely by the need to deceive, out-compete and achieve domination over others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_human_intelligenc...
The Guardian did an interesting interactive story a few years ago on how these 'viewing corridors' are affecting the skyline: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/dec/11/city-of...
Didn't know this! Thanks!
Email, as in the protocol, only appears robust because of all the qirks. Essentially you cant build email infrastructure 100% after RFC and expect it to work in the real world.
So only install apps from the Apple App Store then. How do other app stores where developers aren't forced to play by those Apple rules affect you then?
I don't have empirical evidence, but I think people are overstating the harm of opaque AIs.

On the one hand, opaque bureaucratic processes already exist today. It's not like the bank that refuses you a loan will tell you "oh, but we would totally have granted it if you were 20% richer and also not a woman, so come back after you've achieved that and we'll give you the loan"!

On the other hand, even opaque models can be studied and systematized. You can't run a simulation of a judge on 100 sample cases, then on the same 100 sample cases with names changed to sound like immigrants, and numerically measure the judge's bias. You can do that with a ML model, and compensate in various ways.
Check out the soviet Nikolai Voinov who worked with electronic graphical sounds in the 1930s https://youtu.be/Mmejo9WL2gY
And in a democracy where every monkey-brain can vote we're all to blame. It's not like we all want to get rid of monkey brain leaders, the problem is that we humans actually quite like leaders who promise to help our in-groups at the expense of our out-groups.
It depends on what you are doing. If it is numerical work with matrix operations, then Fortran is fast and pretty intuitive. Some of the annoyances come from dealing with legacy code and mixing it with modern standards.
Linux UML Development Tree
Yes indeed. And I have to admit that my race days are more than 10 years ago before smartphones were commonplace. The fancy organizers had camcorders for this purpose, others audio recorders and some others just pen and paper.
These might help:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-mode-web...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-mode/dmghijel...
> Ok, then buy insulin shots from the same company that sold you ice cream and soda.

> It creates all the wrong incentives and a dangerous positive feedback loop.

It does create some bad incentives for that company.

(While creating really good incentives for other companies to come along and offer their own insulin, or ice cream that doesn't make you need insulin.)

But I don't find it strange that the customer decides they'd rather buy insulin than not have insulin! That's not stockholm syndrome!

(And don't say "stop buying ice cream", for the analogy to work the original product has to benefit the buyer even with full knowledge of the consequences.)
Foxconn’s EV Effort Likely Aimed at Enticing Apple
Bitmovin Raises $25M
Slightly reminded of the story about the guy who went into his local VW dealer and asked to test-drive a Golf GTI (which he could afford to buy). They did whatever (formal or informal) checks they normally do, and gave him the keys.

He drove it across town to the BMW dealer, and told them that his new GTI wasn't fast enough for him and he was interested in trading it in for an M3.

Repeat at higher- and higher-end car dealers until he's in a Lamborghini by lunchtime, which he then had a few hours to drive around in before he went back returning all of the cars...

[Of course, this only works in countries which don't have special easily-recognizable license plates for cars owned by a dealer.]
Upthread: "why won't people treat each other's political reviews with respect in the workplace"

This comment: "insane, dangerous garbage and it should not be tolerated"
I will disagree, my village is not competing with the neighboring village, we are not making plans how to fuck them over, there is no zero sum game. Then I personally I do not see a competition with our neighboring countries (I am from Romania), there might be some bad history but only idiots will bring this up, so I can say that from my point of view we are not trying to screw with our neighbors or the reverse.

Now if I try to go up a level we get the EU and this is where politics shoves it's ugly head, there are people that are not happy and some politicians that just want to blame the incompetence of their 8+ years reign to others .... but do a major number of regular citizens want to screw over the other group ? do they wish bad things for the other EU members ? I don't think so, people are selfish and want the best for their own but I don't think they actually want bad things to the others, for sure nobody sane wants a conflict. Sorry but my opinion is if you want a war you are not sane(I know at least one dude here wants for a war to start with Russia, we need to find a way to keep this insane people in check)
Stationary sample points or hydrophones need software to filter and record the noise. Everything is a computer now.
If anyone wants more then Techno Rebels by Dan Sicko is widely considered to be the bible for the early history of Techno from Detroit.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493341.Techno_Rebels
No one claims there are never nonviolent arrests. The claim is that there are executions in the street at all.
But van Aert's front wheel was not even touching the road as he crossed the finish line...
The cheery manner in which this person describes political censorship is disgusting.
Isn't it just random dungeons created by anonymous users? Is there actually any sensitive data here? I have a "similar" service (nothing about AI but similar in other ways) and security is the least of my concerns since being hacked means I will expose completely meaningless data. Now I'm afraid someone will hack me and make a similar fuzz about me being an idiot.
> Ah yes. It shouldn’t even be legal for people to question your viewpoint. Because when has discussion ever been a valuable thing?

Sometimes discussion serves no value. I will not bother to discuss racial theories with a member of the Proud Boys or KKK because the discussion is a waste of time. No one has made any claim regarding legality here, so you are free to question any viewpoint and should be prepared to face the consequences in exactly the same manner that the people you are objecting to once faced consequences for questioning your conventional viewpoint. This sort of a discussion and questioning of viewpoints is exactly what is happening here, but one side is losing an argument that they assumed was not up for debate so they try to work the refs. Doesn't matter, but it is fun to watch.

> Also, “fragile white boys”?

I have never seen _anyone_ other than a frightened white male use the term 'virtue signalling' without trying to be ironic, so if the shoe fits...
Launching UpCloud Command-Line Interface
Theories can never be proven, we can only approach certainty as more evidence arrives. That's the nature of empirical pursuits. Proof only exists in the world of deductive pursuits.
AI-Thinker introduces 5 ESP32-C3 modules pin-compatible with ESP8266 and ESP32
Extensions are not the answer, they lack dignity. I want it vanilla. I also want the dark mode to carry over into any browser I'm using on mobile.
2 + 2 = 5, a great clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHAuGA7gqFU
If freedom of speech is so limited, does it even exist as a freedom anymore?

You could say I have the "freedom to take anything I want" except I mustn't take anything that belongs to somebody else. Do I really have any freedom with that restriction in place?

Personally I don't think we have freedom of speech (in the UK, certainly legally we do not). You have to be careful of what you say and who you say it to. Maybe that's OK, and free speech was a failed experiment. But to claim we have that freedom whilst restricting it thus is just wankery.
As someone who is very much not one of the 13%, I'm curious: how would you react to objections and disagreement on those issues?
The number of white armed men shot by police in 2019 was, according to the Washington Post database[1], between 388 and 398. The number of white unarmed men shot by police in 2019 was 26.

According to this source, the number of black unarmed men shot by police in 2019 was not 13, but 12. The number of armed black men shot by police was 240, possibly 241.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...
Because they look through their rose tinted glasses and think the US is leading the world in smartphones, electric cars, pharma, and internet companies. They don’t see the problems that you see.
And on the other side, one could live in the US but have a different locale configured.
The locale can be used to have a quick guess, but it absolutely must not block using the product.
Not just towards St Paul's, but also to the Palace of Westminster. See the City of London's "Protected views and tall buildings" planning docs [1] and the section "Protected vistas in London" in the Wikipedia page Protected View [2].

Also, see the Wikipedia page on Greenwich Hospital, London [3]:

An early controversy arose when it emerged that the original plans for the hospital would have blocked the riverside view from the Queen's House. Queen Mary II therefore ordered that the buildings be split, providing an avenue leading from the river through the hospital grounds up to the Queen's House and Greenwich Hill beyond.

The resulting effect is displayed well in this contemporary pic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Naval_College.JPG

[1] https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/planning/planning-p...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_view

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Hospital,_London
How would work related IRC work in practice? Everyone running their own bots so you dont miss messages? You also need a bot for push notifications, as well as one for mirroring. Also a custom solution for file sharing. I know its part of the fun.

However it does not sound suitable for a work environment.
I can recommend Hack if you're on iOS, I think the developer is pretty active here.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-hacker-news-yc/id1464...
No, mistakes are unintentional, bringing explosives to school is.

You can, on the other hand, claim it's irresponsible, but there are many devs here who can testify that mistakes do happen and do recur in software projects. You need more evidence than "the same mistake happened twice" to imply irresponsibility.
Wealth inequality is disproportionately skewed to the top. And one thing the wealthy are known to do is save and invest rather than spend. The owners of securities traded today are individuals or institutional investors with a strong lack of propensity to consume. In comparison the middle class owns hardly any tradable assets or securities and the poor none whatsoever. [1][2]

Whats the mechanism you think will somehow transfer enough, and we're talking a substantial quantity of funds here, to have an impact that's felt?

I've seen arguments on govt spending and QE. Those who point to multi-trillion dollar spending bills seem to not realize that the spending plan over a decade and thus are tepid. QE has limited impact on the real economy but not asset prices, the past decade is evidence of that.

If anything we are on the precipice of yet another deflationary cycle, where wages and consumable prices stagnate, while asset prices keep growing.

[1] https://ritholtz.com/2020/01/stock-ownership/
[2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/211052/stock-ownership-down-amo...
In many numerical math, you do not need fancy data structures. Just loops over huge arrays of floating point numbers, performing a simple operation inside the loop. Said operation may have a small bit of complexity inside, thus it cannot be "vectorized" readily. Implementing this kind of algorithms is either cumbersome or extremely slow in Python, but in Fortran or C it is straightforward and fast.
Another data point over which they can shut down your account ("You lied about your age. That's not only TOS, it's against the law.").
Probably your village is competing with neighbouring villages to some extent, but to the extent that it is not, that is because there is a much larger, centralized entity (the Romanian state) that has a monopoly on violence and which is responsible for keeping the peace in the land.

History shows that without a strong central power, towns and cities do compete with one another and will even go to war against one another.
This was absolutely common. The simplicity and openness of the twitter api was one of the main things that draw me into programming. These days i dont even can have an account as they do not accept my phone number as valid...
That's a bit unfair, they also do super shitty IT support and cloud service type stuff.
Nothing wrong with being third world mate. Thailand is very much third world though.
As noted in macrumours comments, many lyrics are 'laughably' incorrect.
Considering he had already found and reported this vulnerability before, and then took the time to write this report about it, that's not what happened here. He knew it was a vulnerability, he used it purposely to download private data and he looked into it. Not only could AI dungeon sue him for this, also the owners of the data (the people playing AI dungeon) could.

There have been cases of ethical hackers who found a vulnerability and abused it to download a disproportionate number of records being convicted, at least in the Netherlands. It didn't matter that their goal was just to show it to the website owner. So if you're an ethical hacker reading this, I would strongly advise you to only download the minimum required to demonstrate a vulnerability (preferably your own data, or one record), and not do what this person did.
One of the problems of modern political discourse is that the world is now extremely fragmented, and the economic and social theories underpinning this or that position are extremely complex - on all sides.

For example, stuff like gender-related issues on the left have now evolved through hundreds of papers and volumes, which might even make sense if considered sequentially (and if validity is granted to the field at all) but look outright baffling from "the street". There is no possibility of civil dialogue between some intellectual who spent his or her life (over)analysing a complex and niche topic, and an averagely-informed person. It's like having a professor of String Theory discuss that with an undergraduate drop-out: whether the theory is right or wrong, they are just not speaking the same language, and there is not enough time for either side to work on finding a level of complexity that is agreeable to both.

Add to it that social incentives push people towards finding "un-owned niches" and push them into mainstream consciousness even if they are very rare, and you end up with constant arguing on what are basically strawmen (the "immigrant who never works", the "transexual who wants to use this or that toilet", etc etc).
Your thinking is spot on, and thanks for the funny link! :)
If you completely ignore profits you go out of business and then the only companies left are the ones who ignore carbon. Better to get this changed at a legislative level to keep the playing field equal.
Problem was and apparently still is: tooling

When you have to sync your UML with your code by hand, it quickly becomes a burden.

But for initial design, I really like UML.
It's not like the bank that refuses you a loan will tell you

That's because they don't want to tell you, not because they don't know. The bank knows exactly why they refused to give you a loan and exactly which series of policy changes led to that outcome. They also know exactly how to change the policy to achieve a different outcome.

None of those things are true with AIs.
They actually did mention Nitzer Ebb if you do a ctrl-F. Yes, very cool techno-ish, minimal seminal music. Ritchie Hawtin used to spin Murderous into his sets.

Recently there was a cool documentary about Wax Trax records called Industrial Accident. Worth seeing. Interviews with Front 242, Ministry, Revolting Cocks, KMFDM, Thrill Kill Kult, Trent Reznor, Frontline Assembly, etc.
I moved from the Jetbrains stack to vim ~3 years ago and haven't looked back. Mastering vim of course takes some time, but getting up and running and being productive does not take too long at all.

It did help that I was mainly writing Go at the time which has the great vim-go plugin. Not sure how I would have done if I was writing mainly writing another language (C#, Java etc come to mind as perhaps benefiting more from a full-fledged IDE).
Google cuts epsilon’s in engineering cost that operate on efficiencies of 10s of thousands engineers or engineering components that underpin multiple high-value products. They have entire teams of very senior engineers dedicated to this problem. Conversely, a smaller project wouldn’t demand this kind of attention because solutions don’t scale well and so are managed as local costs at the most local level possible.

What kind of scale project are you and your friend working for and which component is the problem in?

Note that I’m not disagreeing with the consequences being that there are ever growing tech debt that will live on forever and you just try to manage that and fit that into “fixit week” or “20% time”. That’s kind of the discount for why they still pay the crazy salaries for all work, not just in the teams closest to the revenue generation.
I live in Edinburgh, and we have "key views" (example of the centre ones here https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/download/13259/key-vi... - there's 5 or 6 pages but no link to them all) there's dozens of the views in the city, and no planning will be granted that materially changes the skyline in the views!
In the UK when the GPO was part of the civil service both the postal and to a lesser extent the telecoms side was used as a source of revenue - need more tax add a penny to the cost of a stamp.
two libraries isn't substantial

I've already disproven this assertion by pointing out those exact libraries are real life exploit vectors instead of theoretical weaknesses that most of the rest of the page talks about. Repeating the wrong assertion doesn't doesn't make it true.

Chrome has consistent, extensive sandboxing, and Firefox has sandboxing here and there as an afterthought.

This isn't really true either, the Chrome sandbox varies in what it blocks per process type, and it's the same for Firefox. The processes do have to talk to the operating system to accomplish anything useful! The original article also seems to completely miss this, at least in the Chrome case.
Well spies are professional liars. I guess it's just as hard for them to not bring their work to home (country) as it is for professional boxers not to keep practicing their job on their spouse.