skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
American Exceptionalism

After about 1970, cognitive dissonance carried it further than could be delivered as excellence in all things declined. Self-deception is about all that remains when many things are honestly comparable to a third-world country.

The only way to "solve" it is if the "patient" wants to admit to it and then wants to solve it. There's too much false pride (future hubris) preventing self-reflection.
Unless you also buy things that are more expensive (not 5% but 2-5x more pricey) simply because they're made in the US your argument holds no weight.

You would have the cushey job because of the 'power' for a while. But it has nothing to do with altruism - to win you need to adapt and have the best product or service.
for what kind of software?

if your product is e.g docker, git - then yea, easily

if it's soft for different industry, then complexity increases
The only odd thing I noticed was around 4000 requests were sent in perhaps a short time. That would indeed tip off the scammer.

Might've been better to send in two or three a day, and ramp it up slowly until you get caught.
There's already "DF (Distraction Free for) YouTube", which does (almost?) the same and a bit more. Not sure if it's open source and it looks like it's not being maintained but it still works.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/df-tube-distractio...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/df-youtube/

Personally, I'd benefit more from a "Less Addictive HN".
I think in this case, it was inevitable that the shop was going to be inundated with rich schoolkids from the neighborhood, and the sales guy as I remember him seemed to understand, intrinsically, that these computers were going to sell if the kids could convince their parents to buy it for them...

Not saying I didn't get chased out of the other computer shops of Perth in the 80's, but those are other tales of joyous mirth, for another time ..
1) The only thing GAP has going for them IS brand recognition. Otherwise, they’re in some weird in-between of Old Navy and Banana Republic and there are numerous brands out there that have taken their market share (H&M, Uniqlo, etc.).
When will Covid FUD end?

This article doesn't produce sufficient evidence this variant is any more of a threat than the original. I've read elsewhere it is actually much less problematic, with lower mortality and lower severity of symptoms.
As someone who spent a good part of my professional career in forecasting and time-series analysis I would like to point out that "point-forecasts" are mostly useless in many import practical applications such as FinTech, e-commerce, sports betting, etc. Point-forecast models such as Prophet fail to give you a meaningful measure of uncertainty of the predicted value. A much better approach are probabilistic forecasting models that predict the probability distribution of the random variable of interest [0]. Probability distribution is the right language to express prediction values and their uncertainty at the same time. And the decisions based on forecasts oftentimes take the uncertainty measures in consideration, e.g. portfolio risk optimization or buying decisions in e-commerce.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_forecasting
Do you think non-people shouldn't be allowed to lobby? So not charities either?
The level of madness and overengineering in the kubernetes world is only comparable to the level of madness going on in the React world.

Everyone seems to be thinking they're Google or Facebook, or both.
You're not really providing YouTube an alternative to ad-supported model - you're only proving that lots of obnoxious ads can convert people into paying customers.
Seems like he made a classic business mistake by saying this. If the next version is going to be cheaper / better, why get this version?
Both, remove human labor in the process of making clothes altogether and have it produced cheaper.
I really like markmap: https://markmap.js.org/

I have the habit of writing notes in Markdown anyway and, with minor modifications, markmap will visualize it.

There is also a plugin for VSCode:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=gera2ld....
GLSL is a fun environment to play around with images. It is a shame that the demo seems to be down at the moment.

A few years ago I did something similar, documented here[0]. It was an enjoyable little project.

[0] https://sheep.horse/2017/9/crossfading_photos_with_webgl_-_b...
Drobo vs. Synology: What Do They Offer, and How to Choose Yours
The Art of Writing Code Comments
Do young folks even buy at Gap?
"always look at the url bar"

I remember reading about a scam where the URL seemed legit, and the suspicious part was pushed after so much white space that it was no longer visible in the URL bar. I don't remember the details and I'd be curious to know if anyone remembers it. I remember even sophisticated users saying they might have fallen for it.
This is excellent! I dreamed of such thing all the time.

Do you mind sharing some technical details on how did you implement data collection, diff, search, aggregation, etc?
In this context, we're talking about buildings of 10 stories or more.

Such 100+ year old skyscrapers can be found in Chicago and New York. But the first skyscraper in Europe (the "Boerentoren") wasn't completed until 1931.
> What was that "spirit" of Opera 12?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19615411

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23733577 (plus parent for context)

Maybe I can summarise that as "lots of features and customisability".
> "Also, (2) if you want to protect other people from falling victims to scams like these: tell them to always look at the url bar. Always."

This is good advice, as things stand right now, it is in fact the best advice we can give.

In absolute terms it is borderline useless advice. Many companies still communicate from and operate from domains other than their well-known main domain.

How is anybody supposed to know that windowsupdate.com is a legit Microsoft domain? What about windowsazure.com? How do you know that fbcdn.net belongs to Facebook, but fbabc.com does not. Why isn't gdynamic.com a Google asset like gstatic.com. lufthansa.com, lufthansa.de, lufthansa.at, lufthansa.ch are all legit, why are lufthansa.li and lufthansa.lu not?

Sure, you can check WHOIS, but that just shifts the issue one level lower.

"[..] always look at the url bar." - Please do, but don't expect it to be enough to be 100% safe. In the world we live in anyone can be phished.
Yes, that's what I'm talking about. Even tho you delete everything (accounts, data etc.) you are still left with several insidious ways any company can track you. Eg. you can delete anything from your phone and even reinstall the system from groundup but you will still be tracked based on the hardware configuration...
Think of how astonishingly amazing it is to be a sentient being in a universe of 100's of billions of galaxies! What could anyone ever do to come close to justifying such a privilege? Sure, work hard if you like but don't forget what an astounding trip existence is.

Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment chop wood, carry water.
Because it was developed by Nintendo and not Maxis.
Idk, I pay my water bill using a check. I think it’s just restaurants that use “check” to mean bill.
Code that crashes in ring zero takes down the system. Do you really want your computer to die if systemd segfaults?
(I understood the parent comment to be sarcasm.)
A white dwarf living on the edge
> those dumb "security" questions

Facebook post: "The name of your mother and your favourite colour is your rapper name. What is it?"
How many of the survivors were located in a collapsed section? I assumed, maybe incorrectly, that the vast majority of the survivors were rescued from still standing portions of the structure.
I think the point is that as humans we have limited perspectives and most of us aren't even aware of those limitations. It is likely not possible for us to come up with any moral rules that are in any way objective. Anything that we come up with is influenced by out human perspective and therefore nothing is truly objective.
You most certainly will get a kick out of that Atmos if you get it booted up and functioning.

The Oric world didn't get much love in 1982/83/84, before the company fell apart completely - so there are many of us who would've felt particularly left-out, in terms of what 'could have been done', back then, with very little software. An Oric OG user had to write their own programs, while all the other machines got great stuff on the market.

Well, this is now resolved in the 21st Century, with 21st Century releases - titles still being produced by fans - which really, seriously push the limits of what you might've thought the Oric can do.

Get loaded up with some blakes7, space1999, pulsoids, l33t, or check out some of the new stuff being discussed on defence-force.org like a Wolfenstein-like mazerunner [1], or maybe a proper Loderunner [2] - if you're an Oric guy, this is going to be FUN for you. Finally.

:)

[1] - https://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2264
[2] - https://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2282
An efficient way to make hash maps with insertion ordering
One of my biggest regrets always was that I as a young student bought an Amiga 4000 (computer of my dreams then) instead of a Yaroze.
I just tried Uber Eats
Alternate UAP Report – Classified as Hell
I have that one too. I played it a lot as a kid and didn't find it unplayable, but the only PC I had at the time was an ancient IBM XT so I didn't have anything to compare it to. The control issues were mitigated by the fact that I also own the Playstation mouse, because I also have XCOM and there's no way I was going to play that with a controller.
I am always down for C++ pedanticness! But in this case my issue was not with factual accuracy, but putting down the opinion of "iterators act like pointers" as coming from ignorance rather than simplification. It was mostly a complaint about tone, not content.
This points to a general problem. Think of all those top-voted but wrong or bad StackOverflow answers, and how many people copy paste them verbatim. Now you’ve got an AI ingesting and reciting those answers to a wide audience, and they will make way into (even more) new code which is then fed back into the training corpus.
> If there really is a selection against alcohol, why did that not kick in outside Asia, too?

Evolution isn't a perfect machine. If those variant genes don't pop up at the right place at the right time, they might just not happen to catch on.
While working for a startup enrolled in a small accelerator programme I was involved in a business/pitch type workshop in which we were asked to carry out a little game along with some participants from other enrolled startups. Each individual had to write down what was most important to them in their life/career/role/business and then sell that concept/life-priority to one other person. At the end of each 2-way pitch, the pair agreed to choose one of the two priorities and were then tasked with pitching it to two others (who had selected theirs in the same way), and so on in tournament fashion.

I immediately wrote down "autonomy"*. I learned nothing at all about pitching that day, as no-one I spoke to needed any convincing whatsoever: everyone had the same response: "Oh! I never thought of that. That's much more important to me than what I wrote down."

* I know "autonomy" and "agency" are technically a bit different from a philosophical perspective but hey.
> because bank wire takes days

Wait what? I thought there was a European regulation that bank wires must be completed in less than 24 hours? Or was that Germany only? Most wiring from a German to another German account happens instantly nowadays.
Having significant Gell-Mann amnesia here after reading the article... and some of the comments here.
so gh has trained their AI programmers as much as they could with shit code examples, now to bridge the last mile they need some hand holding? sign me up! will I get a real online gf out of this finally?
Could something like this be caught by static analysis?
Can someone explain why they did not mention SPARQL CONSTRUCT statements? I struggle with the notion that SPARQL isn’t “graphy” per their assertion.

I may be missing something though.

https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#construct
ZFS has a 'utf8only' property which, in principle, lets you constrain all filenames on a dataset to be utf-8... only. It does not otherwise change the API, but it should make the creation of a non-utf8 file into an I/O error. This defaults to off, so by default you're right.

Apparently the GP found a bug in this code. I'd be interested in seeing the github issue.
Energy-Based Models for Code Generation Under Compilability Constraints
The most striking change is this

> We are clarifying that we own any data that is derived from your use of our services that does not identify you, your end users, or a natural person and/or that we anonymize, de-identify, or aggregate

Dunno how much this flies in the face of GDPR/HIPAA or general copyright laws for example a video-call shows an artwork, company secrets...
How does the dual licensing AGPLv3 plus commercial work? If one creates a derivative are the contributions also dual licensed automatically, or how is it done?
There is much more spectrum available in 5GHz and that's the overwhelming reason why it can be "faster". Doesn't go through stone walls though...
YouTube is obliged to takedown videos reporting on non vaccine treatments of Covid19, having signed on to the "Trusted News Initiative" https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2020/trusted-news-initiative..."
I am not so sure "safety net" cuts it.

I would prefer just taking every 21 year old and saying "here is 15 grand, go do something amazing".

I don't know what the results will be, but a fair number will be worth the risk.
I've written code on day one at some positions. Usually it's something simple like a bugfix or refactor, but it is certainly working code. Of course, most of the time I spend doing this is figuring out how to work with the codebase and how to submit my changes.
It's (historically) even simpler to make lactose-free milk by making cheese or certain types of yogurt.
In my understanding the diference between deploying 5G-NR-NSA and SA is mostly an software one. You need to have 5G capable RRU heads anyway.

On the other hand from the bussiness and operations side there are two things: (1) 5G-NR-SA does not have any obvious benefits when you still have to support LTE-only UEs (and even GSM-only ones). (2) Many hardware vendors and carriers combine the 5G rollout with bunch of only tangetially related network changes like getting rid of ZTE/Huawei equipment, various "k8s on the edge" initiatives and such.
Brave to be so near a massive robotic arm that could probably crush a person in a split second!
Deploy Global Shared Services
A case for deploying global business services in medium to large organisations
Easy to solve when buying them at the local street market (aka bazaar).
Yes. You could write an eslint rule for it, and there are probably a few of those already.
Could it? Yes.

Will it? Maybe.

Would I count on it in all cases? No.

Also, I find it preposterous to rely on a second automated system to cancel out the mistakes the first one made.
An NFT of the web’s source code has sold for $5.4M
We don't have one of those in my city. I miss it. :(
IIRC several groups have full NTSC-US sets dumped. SimCity 2000 is at least in the Redump set. It weighs in at 39MB compressed.
Apple is definitely huge enough and rich enough to build out their own cloud service. Very surprising to me that they use Google's infrastructure instead. I would love to be a fly on the wall of that decision making.
Many people ... tend to forget ...

I dont think thats true, especially on HN. We're perfectly capable of being interested in the mathy bits without losing sight of the arty bits

e.g. the OP who wrote that very analytical piece about every possible scale composes music like this https://ianring.bandcamp.com
> became a way have stored food to keep from starving in the future.

And mostly because no-one will eat them by choice, in seasons when they're not starving.
The only job tech job I knew that paid $1300-$1500/day was Murex analyst / developer.
I should be polishing my cloud certificates and fishing for customers there :-D
I spent 12 years playing football as a kid almost daily and didn‘t make one $, does that count?
I once applied for a position at a company a friend worked at, and got a rejection less than a day later. I told this to my friend and he presumably got in touch with someone to assure them of my competence, and I got an email with steps to move forward to interviews the next day. HR filters are weird.
The inside is empty space.
(To - perhaps - clarify ...

... the backside of the coin is a homage to healthcare workers: It depicts two hands, one reaching out to the other, with symbology indicating one of the parties is a healthcare worker.-

See:
- https://twitter.com/GovernAndorra/status/1410261951578583045...

... mentioning this because, at first, it might seem the coin features the virus itself, and, while it does depict the virus, it is clearly there to contextualize the other symbols ...)
> e.g. exoplanets based on minute wobbles and brightness variations, water on said exoplanets based on spectrography.

The minute wobbles may be tiny, but they can plot a curve of those wobbles and see very clearly that it changes in a certain way that can only be caused by a planet (or something spherical and with a certain mass). If there was a competing theory of how you can get this exact curve in some other way, I am sure we would consider them as alternative possibilities and not be able to tell them apart, but as far as I know, there isn't any competing theories at all... so we can have very high confidence there's a planet there.

Regarding water detection: yeah, spectrography is just mind blowing, but again, given what we know, there's just nothing that could justify believing that when you detect radiation that fit exactly what you would expect from water molecules, that it could be something else instead... unless you come up with a convincing "something else", your only option is to conclude that the detection is accurate, otherwise you would need to stay open to the possibility of absolutely everything possibly having alternative explanations we haven't thought of yet (though every now and then, that indeed can happen and we need to adjust all our theories that are based on the changed body of knowledge), and progress would not be possible in any area (you need to accept something before you can build on top of it).
> Who outside of Apple is using WebKit at this point?

Gnome/GTK, at least. The one bundled with Gnome (previously called Epiphany) still uses it. I was going to say Midori, but apparently it's recently-ish switched to Electron, which is understandable, but a little disappointing.

There are other niche browsers using WebKitGTK, but with the loss of Midori (?) and Qt's WebKit interface its definitely got a really small presence now.

> And how often do the tarballs drop?

Unlike most open source projects inside Apple, WebKit is developed basically in the open, with a dedicated website at https://webkit.org/ and an SVN repo at https://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/. They also link directly to the WebKitGTK project, and provide instructions for building for/on Linux (and Windows).

It's kind of a shame it's not more widely used -- I understand why most people so inclined would prefer Gecko/Firefox, but there may come a time when the only valid choices are a rendering engine backed by Google's dollars, or one by Apple's dollars. And unlike Mozilla, which is still mostly relying on Google's dollars, Apple has a vested financial interest in keeping a separate and at least adequate web stack.

Edit: Worth mentioning one problem with WebKitGTK adoption in linux has been API deprecation. I haven't done any dev work with it, but I know a lot of projects just gave up after the WebKit -> WebKit2 port, and GTK itself can be a PITA. The tooling outside Darwin/OS X is more cumbersome, too.

JavaScriptCore is easier to embed/better documented than SpiderMonkey, though (IMO). And it can even run headless, although getting it to build headless can be, uh, finicky...
https://trialsitenews.com/covid-19-censorship-trusted-news-i...

"The Trusted News Initiative partners will continue to work together to expand our framework and ensure legitimate concerns about future vaccinations are heard, whilst harmful disinformation myths are stopped in their tracks.” The folks at the website Covexit also looked at TNI issues in December. They point out that a stunning aspect of the pandemic has been, “the near simultaneous repression of information, using very similar phrasing, by various media, both social and mainstream” when it comes to COVID-19 news. They also note that since March 2020 there has been a coordinated effort, “to tackle to spread of harmful coronavirus disinformation.”
I’ve thought about this a lot. What it comes down to is that the only true agency you have is by strengthening your mind. That’s really the only solution I could come up with.

Because at the end of the day everything gets old - every act, job, etc. (hedonistic treadmill).

And having complete freedom isn’t a solution. You’re still trapped within your own head 24/7.

Taking time to pursue meditation and other activities that help you be happy no matter what the circumstances of the external world seem like the best choice of activity when younger in order to build agency.
A few notes after the Windows 11 preview, and on Windows in general
Unlikely. If this use counts as a derivative work, then it's already a violation, and no update is needed.

OTOH if laundering through machine learning is a fair use, then licenses can't do anything about this. Licenses can't override the copyright law, so the law would have to change.
Specially the price negotiation with drama part, I imagine.
This code looks like a disaster to me.

The issue on Windows is simply that code pages are a per-application setting (or state) and not a system setting. Programs are free to run with, and change between, any "active code page" they want and spit bytes out in that code page.

This is all fine and dandy when you're talking to a -A Windows API, since Windows knows the ACP of your application, but it's disaster for I/O and making arbitrary programs talk to one another.

Nothing you can do in your code can fix this, it's a contract you have to have with the outside world.

On Linux calling setlocale() with a non-UTF-8 locale might not even even work because your /etc/locale.gen file will probably only have a couple of enabled entries, and doing so would be mostly pointless because your terminal and all your other programs are likely using UTF-8.

The downside to the Linux approach is that if somebody does actually send you a ISO-8859-1 encoded file you will have to do some conversion.

#include <boost/locale.hpp>
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

int
main(int argc, char** argv) {
std::ifstream ifs ("test.txt");
std::string str;

boost::locale::generator gen; // No dependency on what's in /etc/locale.gen
auto loc = gen ("en_US.ISO-8859-1");
ifs.imbue (loc); // Should make formatting input functions work

std::getline (ifs, str);
str = boost::locale::conv::to_utf<char> (str, loc);

for (auto wc: str) {
std::cout << sizeof(wc) << ": "
<< static_cast<uint64_t>(static_cast<unsigned char>(wc)) << "\n";
}
}
> No one will probably remember us the way they’ll remember pg.

History is a highly aggressive compression algorithm. Entire industries are forgotten, let alone people.

So, yes, the correct answer is, "relax and enjoy yourself."

If you happen to contribute to the world in a way that escapes the compression algorithm - congrats.
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