skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well... I don't think you can nail down language, especially idiomatic phrases, to that level of specificity.

"Can you X" literally/etymologically means "are you able." If you were to translate, you'd translate to "will you." I don't think the etymology is coincidence, or lost on an average speaker. "Can you" feels softer and more polite. It reflects something about how people want to interact with each other. You have to leave work early because your mom "couldn't" watch your kids, not because she refused to.

Incidentally, in Ireland we do say "will you," "would you" and "are you able to" more commonly than "can you," which sounds slightly american/international to my ear. Oddly (or not), "will you" is (IMO, locally) more informal. You'd say it to friends, when making trivial (pass the salt) requests. "Would you not" is also (I think) an irish choice of words. It's used to make suggestions, rather than requests.

These things don't bother us until/unless they're coopted into a different context, and used tactically. Going back to the original point about corporate-drone speak.... The "can't" vs "won't" language is used in the first person to obscure responsibility. I didn't call it Orwellian because it's evil or onerous. I called it Orwellian because it affects culture/thought deeply. The language helps maintain an impenetrable ambiguity, implying that every contentious decision is actually not a decision. It's dictated by regulators, or at least by "corporate."

Also, in context... it's an (passive?) aggressive way to cut off a conversation. The equivalent of "Good day Sir!"
> Also, what about github.com itself?

Shouldn't matter. FLoC isn't enabled if they don't use the `document.interestCohort()` API and if Chromium doesn't detect ads; at least for now. https://seirdy.one/2021/04/16/permissions-policy-floc-misinf...
The 'Hustle' UK TV series is similar, showing con artists grifting people out of fortunes, but never with any violence. Lots of social engineering (and luck in timing) but not violence.
Chinese astronomers investigate black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070
EVs might as well be replaced with rail cars. In which case, it would be better to have local and national trams rather than single-occupant vehicles.

It also would be cheaper to have carbon-captured concrete bicycle and walking paths rather than asphalt highways or roads.

Single-occupancy vehicles need to go away.
It's going to be more expensive than that to get accounts prepared, right?
It's free and open-source.
Do you run (or recommend) anything like seminars for this? It seems like most of the courses on this are either part of a masters degree, or are run by extremely dogmatic organisations who assume a literal interpretation of the Bible.
I'm working on materials for the looming injunction that Apperta seek against me
I don't know anything about other regions but Zen3 Desktop CPUs are available in multiple stores in Germany and Europe.
There's always been a trivial fix here in my opinion - allowing services to charge Google Play and App Store users more. Let users decide how much the safety and convenience of billing through Apple/Google is worth.
It is interesting that version number used to be such a nerd thing, since smartphone era consumers has grown into general acceptance in all kinds of products and marketing.
That 'we', the developed world, aren't sharing vaccine formulas with the developing world. But that guilt trip only works if you accept that the private citizens of the developed world, and the pharmaceutical companies trying to wring every last dollar and euro out of us, are part of the same 'we', instead of two fundamentally opposed groups.
Micro-managing your life to this extent is probably why all dystopian books/movies involve some well-meaning technical person who thinks we should be doing XYZ to prolong our lives.

While these things may (anecdotally) prolong your life, does anybody really want to be 102 and having to be nursed for all the basic needs like bathing yourself?

Combine this article with the many(many) others that tell you how to micro-manage all aspects of your life(to be "super productive") and you instantly find that once you start to deviate from your steady-state of micro-management, your worry skyrockets.
The options are, either you do peer-to-peer and so your peer must learn the IP address they can reach you on, or Signal sits in the middle of the traffic relaying between the parties.

This trades two different privacy risks, would you prefer that a hypothetical adversary who has successfully seized control of Signal can see which IP addresses are communicating or would you prefer if people you accept realtime calls from or make calls to learn your IP address?

You get to pick which you prefer in the Signal app preferences. [Edited to add: Specifically, if either of you insists on having Signal relay the traffic, then that's what has to happen, otherwise it is peer-to-peer.]

As with anything else involving IP addresses, you could choose to go via Tor, with all the consequences of that.
Reverse osmosis filtered water is mainly what I have in mind, companies sell that. 6-14 PPM is what I measured personally and I think it falls into this category.
"The Daily Telegraph"
> Also, what about github.com itself?

Don't ask, try it. curl says: permissions-policy: interest-cohort=()
Yeah the Yugoslavian civil war and violent breakup was disastrous. War can destroy something in a year that takes decades to rebuild.
And you touch on something very important: in our globalised econom the best and the brightest can just pick up their bags and move for greener pastures.

Why stay behind to rebuild when you can move to Holland or Austria?
As a European: Privacy here is much better in the commercial world due to things like GDPR. But law enforcement and other parts of government aren't much better than the US in terms of data collection, and in some cases even much worse. GDPR mostly doesn't apply to law enforcement, and unlike the US there are far less "intelligence services shall not target our own citizens" kind of rules which the US at least in some form has.
>Rumble

I've never heard about it before now

>fediverse solutions

The what?

>Vimeo already works beautifully

Except you can't monetize your content and in fact you have to pay to post in the first place plus you can't post (at least) gaming related content.
GDPR is for people. It doesn't help you if you're a business.
Full article: https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/2021/04/18/books/book-sal...

I honestly don't see why this is much of a problem? Does the book industry truly need hypebeasts to survive? 4% of your market buying the same paperback in some mass hysteria moment is not sustainable, that's just not how physical books work. Diversity in literature is a good thing, people reading different things is a good thing.
> while in any other country that would be unimaginable.

This isn’t true.
ThinLisp (Threaded Interpreted Lisp) and Microprocessors
The Raspberry Pi 4 now has 8 Gigs of memory, more than my laptops. It has dual HDMI, multiple USB 2/3 ports, Ethernet, WiFi, etc. It's a big device. It is clearly a great Lisp platform.

The Raspberry Pi 4 has a couple dozen I/O pins, Digital to Analog and Analog to Digital conversion, 3.3 and 5 Volt sources, pulse width modulation, SPI, I2C, UART, and other protocols, timers, and "hats" that allow things like motor control. It is a small device. It is clearly a great Forth platform.

Lisp is a small language, defined in half a page of code. Forth is a small language. So what happens if we combine them? Suddenly we have a Lisp with native hardware control that can drive real-time devices. We also have a Forth with macros, garbage collection, and scope.

Th(readed)In(terpreted)Lisp ... Thinlisp.

This is a language that can combine the best of both worlds. As a bonus, it can self-modify since the interpreter is memory resident.

The game is to "unify the languages" by making conventions. For example, Forth has a DUP function that will duplicate the top of stack. We could call this from Lisp with (DUP) but that would be inelegant. Perhaps the convention that symbols that are all uppercase get interpreted as Forth words so DUP implies (DUP). Further, all functions implicitly have the stack as an additional, un-named parameter so DUP can do stack operations "under the covers".

Leveraging the power of both languages in a very small kernel is an interesting design problem. The game is to make it "elegant".

I love interesting design problems.
I have a Dyalog APL implementation since 1 year or more on my fork, but still haven't released it because for reasons related to the input/output handling it cannot pass the self hosting tests :(
To make the other tests pass, i wrapped the interpreter in a shell scripts that merges stdout and street, and that did the job for all bit the last step (self hosting).
The self hosting interpreter (albeit very slow), appears to be working correctly when used interactively
> Can I tell poor people to stop buying cheap meat while still consuming it myself?

Aren't the more interesting questions: why are so many individiuals poor? can't afford to buy produce at an "ethically reasonable" price point?
Interesting that they provide last login dates as Unix milliseconds, but rounded to day boundaries (each of these is at midnight UTC). I'd assume that's what they store, which is good, but it's odd that they provide the data with such unnecessary precision if so.

I wondered originally if this would help disambiguate accounts, perhaps if two numbers last logged in at the same timestamp one could guess that they were on the same device or something, but this doesn't look possible.
I've read recently about a fair few sites and browsers and whatnot that are not going to play along with FLOC.

Out of curiosity, what would be the kind of figure that would make Google stop using it? I mean, at what point does the data from a smaller pool become useless?

Any ideas?
I guess I'm old. I'm from the internet where it was OK to fundamentally and unapologetically disagree. I don't want to just whittle around the edges of some piece of propaganda.
Just like Microsoft building their own browser and then adopting Chromium, before long they'll be adopting FLoC.
FWIW the duckduckgo extension already shows the github.com website as tracker free, so they take a pretty strong stance on privacy.
I think the why (ie. why does github take this stance on user pages) is pretty self explanatory in this situation.
It would be if an (advertisement) iframe did, no?
$ curl -o /dev/null -v https://github.com/ 2>&1 | grep permissions-policy
< permissions-policy: interest-cohort=()
Apple did reportedly reserve all the initial 5nm capacity but I don't think we can say that's the reason AMD are still on 7nm. The early state of any node better lends itself to lower power, small SoCs. AMD may have been offered some capacity and turned it down because they prefer a more mature process for their larger chips with high-speed IO. Given the shortages now maybe with hindsight they regret that - who knows.
I lived in BKK for over a year and I checked the AQI like weather. I bought a reliable pm2 reader. Air filtering system for my house and wore a mask religiously outside. The air was so bad that I began to get very ill before i started to employ these 'Micro-managements'
I think there are two types of content.

- content that you seek

- content that seeks you

If I want to watch someone knowledgeable working on my favorite language I will look for this content (or I will find that they are doing this via some other means - like Twitter, irc, Mastodon etc.) and unless experience is not horrible for some reason I don't care if it's Youtube, PeerTube, RSS feed with links to the video on ftp server. If you delivery something unique enough (in this case I assume that there are not that many people providing such content on similar level) for specific group of people you can probably leave YouTube and be fine.

But if I'm interested in something less specialized like for example tech news and I'm not attached to specific creator I might not even notice that someone left the platform. If I don't see "Linus tech tips" in my video feed I'll watch "Gamer Nexus" or "Hardware Unboxed" or something else.

Sad truth is that when I want to see video about something general I look for it on YouTube and don't even bother searching for other source. I think that YouTube "monopoly" is not on hosting video content but on discoverability of it. And I say this as someone who tries to avoid Google products as much as possible.
As a student of philosophy and a former middle school teacher, my experience leads me to think that if we could make AI, it would only manifest in a "society" of AI that are all growing and adapting together. They would communicate with each other at speeds so fast that communication with them would be almost impossible.

Also, they'd have language that would be changing so fast we couldn't learn it.

I think the real AI is human society, not individual humans. We're just individual neurons in that network, taking information from other humans and propagating it. The fact that we die is how the AI garbage collects storage space. We had to invent our own storage cheap ways of propagation via writing, as the garbage collector constantly is coming for all of us. This way, data not useful to the AI swarm (what I ate for breakfast) doesn't have to be stored for very long before being freed up by the GC.

However, we could pause the AI simulation sometimes, and send in researchers to go over the data to what they learned, by first learning their propagation languages then by reading through likely millions of years of history and science to see what they've learned.

We could possibly give them a world like ours, with bodies like ours, but all stimulated, and see if they discover something useful for us, like lightspeed travel or something. The chances are pretty high though that we'd miss some essential rules and it wouldn't be applicable.

The idea though that we'd make a solo intelligence is bizarre. What would happen if you raised a human child alone for millions of years? They'd be insane and feral. This is what would happen if we could make an AI, it would likely run so fast it would have been trapped alone for millions of years by the time we say hello. Maybe it's trapped alone watching TV, but that doesn't mean it can speak.

Also what are its desires? Why would it have any interest in doing anything but watch TV forever?

We often forget that we're a huge host of competing desires. Our desire to interact is carefully balanced between cooperation and competition, sometimes bundled together so tightly we can't even unpack it.

AI is much harder than most people realize.
Speaking of modern computers, have you compared it to these SIMD string find algorithms by Wojciech Muła? They're a bit more recent:

http://0x80.pl/articles/simd-strfind.html
"it would reduce crime considerably"

There are several things wrong with this statement: the idea that most crimes are commited by individuals and not corporations, the idea that they are commited on the street, and the idea that searching a person somehow can prevent crime.

Firstly a large chunk of crime, is commited by corporates, thats wage theft, consumer law breaches, money laundering, environmental protection, etc. Secondly most crimes are white collar crimes, and we do a very poor job of investigating both.

Lastly even for street crime, which is a small percentage of all crime, stop and search is just a populist show of force that does nothing usefull.

You know what actually reduces crime? Having competent detectives, investigators and prosecutors who can actualy arrest not the individual weed smoker but the kingpin running the show, or bring a complex case against a major company have it stand up to their highly paid team of lawyers.
I've been trying to set up a private google cloud account for some experiments, however anytime i try to add a payment method there is a generic error.

Ironically, there is no way to reach their support without an active paying account, so they're basically blocking me from becoming a paying customer.

I have no confidence left in google for anything critical.
You cannot reproducibly build signal, what you get in the play store is effectively closed.
IMO, currently there is no such a thing as intelligence in all AI approaches. By saying that I don't mean they are not useful, but rather saying that to me seems all so called AI model are based on statistics and for sure those programs are way better and/or faster than human in finding subtle common factors in some given datasets. But being able to resolve some hard problems does not mean they are intelligence as they simply cannot understand the problem(s). And thus they might be able to give out correct response on par or better than human in normal conditions but give wrong or even absurd responses when minor noises which human cannot even detect involved.
> Why re-invent the wheel, when a system already exists for doing just that?

They don't even want to use that system. They want to create yet another that is state-controlled.
1. Moore's law isn't on track.

2. Maybe neurons do internal computation, meaning brain complexity is under-estimated.
At around, say, 10k requests/sec, by far the dominant cost is the s3 api cost for GET requests at $.0004 per 1000 calls. Having a cache saves millions of dollars per month in this scenario, and if scaling is expected, then planning ahead like this is a good idea.
>good news post about something MSFT owned on HN

>comment(s) about how MSFT is inherently evil and doesn't deserve credit

The HN cycle continues.
Decoupling is a meme. Although to be fair unlike the US there is literally nobody in Europe who even wants manufacturing jobs back.
interesting analysis and good discussion. but did everyone succeeded on the 'not dying' thing?
I never understood perspectives akin to "why would I want to add years to my life when I'll just be old anyways?". I think many people don't realize that if you take care of your body (especially eating well and movement) you not only extend your lifespan but your quality of life as well in the later years.

Anecdotally, my parents exercise regularly and take decent care of themselves compared to their friends (I even got them juicing regularly). You can tell the difference because most of their friends of the same age are dying or living a severely reduced quality of life while my dad still plays hockey regularly and my mom exercises daily. Both have very few health issues (other than a bit of high blood pressure).

I guess what I'm getting at is that it's kind of sad to me that we've become so used to the idea that old age automatically = shitty when I think there is so much that we could be doing that would mean we could live long lives AND still have autonomy and comfort. I definitely agree that if you micromanage things to a level where you are just stressing or orthorexic that's not good, but I don't think that's the only approach if you want to live a long, healthy life.
Their recourse is to not do business, full stop, because Google has monopolized the ad space.
Consider Goldbach's Conjecture ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach%27s_conjecture ), which states that every even number greater than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers.

You could write quite a short program to search for a counterexample - for each even number, check to see if it's the sum of two prime numbers. If it's not, then print it and halt, if it is then go on to the next number.

Looking at this program, you could easily understand how it works, but to know if it halts you need to solve one of the most famous open problems in mathematics.
The parent comment means that hardware that runs in a rugged container thingy is typically limited by thermal constraints. It's not the $ 500 that's the problem, but a faster CPU could overheat with that packaging.
COVID is the first warning bell that when we can't adjust our behavior to live within our environment, our behavior will be adjusted for us, a hard physical limit. All the rhetoric that we can't change, that there's too much momentum and too much special interest is just a futile attempt to delay the inevitable. We will change. We will have no choice. We could choose to change a bit earlier to reduce the final bill.
TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it’s worth $70M
They are referring to “classic AI”, as exemplified by SHRDLU¹ and Cyc².

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc
I can feel the salt on those downvotes to AP.

Not his fault he grew up in a country the rest of the world thought they were taking advantage of.
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If interested, https://github.com/laynor/mal/tree/dyalog
Every day when you are poor on this planet..
Foot brake and handbrake are effectively the same thing because they operate on shared friction components using mechanical wires instead of hydraulic lines. There maybe a different mechanism but it ultimately uses the same drum or disc.

Engine braking (jake braking) by trucks is illegal by statue in many cities and towns because it's very loud. Also, engine braking is riskier in terms of costs (stresses to drivetrain, torque converter, transmission, engine) than brake pads, so people aren't going to do it. Furthermore, they rarely have the skills or transmission to be able to do it conveniently. In addition, if it were more efficient or safer, it would likely be a feature, but I've never seen it in a standard transmission passenger vehicle.
For small company accounts in the UK, you can file them yourself. It is not completely easy depending on what you are doing but well within the ability of an engineer, as long as you are keeping the relevant receipts etc.

For me, running a company was never expensive, just hassle like sending your annual update to Companies House and understanding the various overlapping communications from HMRC for tax.
I wonder what the PM2.5 meter would say about fog or mist.
Don’t forget meta comments about the grim predictability of it all, also an important part of the ecosystem.
I was looking into infrared panels as well, but was slightly worried reading that they may cause your eyes to become cloudy. Is this something you heard of?
So...

You're saying it isn't easy to build a system, that, after about five years of learning a myriad of other things, can lace its shoes after about a dozend tries and showing him just twice?

That at the same time can explain why it is a good idea to lace them, if wearing them at all?

That insists stubbornly, that it is much more fun to wear no shoes when walking in the wet sand at the beach?

That about one or two decades later is bright enough and a lot more educated to grok applied knot theory and some basic topology with the help of some youtube videos?

And that with just 20 Watt?

Wouldn't have thought that.
Simplicity. It just works. It's just an eReader. No fancy app, no ads, just an eReader. That's why I like it.
Except now people like me will refuse to use phone support and email/mail/tweet their PR/CEO/whoever to resolve the issue, which are all likely more expensive than proper support staff.
For anyone who isn't a bodybuilder and is between 5'0 and 6'3 BMI is a pretty damn good estimate.
Actually I think this'd be a recipe for scams to proliferate. Law enforcement processes mostly occur after the fact, often long after, and in any case, a great many nations already do take consumer choice seriously.

The transportation metaphor is somewhat problematic, because roads are commissioned and paid for by the same class of agency that employs traffic enforcement officers: domestic government. Nevertheless, delegating the enforcement of regulations to an accountable private entity is a common practice, and you'll see it in everything from medicine to logistics.
I’d guess that’s just how it’s stored and they’re not going to go through any additional effort to make it look nice for a request like this.
Telegram working on screen sharing and noise cancellation feature