skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read a lot of novels in school and not many after. Reading is a vital skill but reading novels is not; a separation that was never conveyed to me to in school. For every great novel I have read, I've read countless more terrible novels and there is no greater waste of time than reading something terrible. Not reading artfully constructed prose has definitely taken a toll on my own writing though, as evidenced by this comment!
It's still an R&D effort- once they've spent that much on manufacturing and marketing, if they still have few customers then thats something else
Exactly. Had we started decarbonizing 25 years ago, we'd be in great shape today, too.
Would you mind elaborating on what you are afraid of happening, and what you think the cause is?
Honest question: Are you claiming that "liberal" has something to do with it?

If not, feel free to ignore the rest of this. If so, maybe you can elaborate on what you mean. Are there non-liberal high-cost cities in the US in a better state? Furthermore, it's worth noting that the other high-cost cities worldwide almost universally seem to have more left-leaning (or US liberal) policies on most issues than most high-cost cities in the US. I'm not sure I see the connection between the political alignment and the state of decay, homelessness, and crime in high-cost cities.
> if it's really a great market that's underserved, then you should launch a payment processor that serves the market.

A credit card for porn… good luck.
Hah, you think recruiters have some centralised database and/or are going to hold a grudge when they're looking at a £20-30k for finding you a role?

The kind of recruiters who send bulk spam emails don't seem to be the kind of recruiter that have exclusive contracts anyway, so no loss.
Around 2015 I did the exact opposite. I still manage linux servers but gave up the desktop experience in favour of macOS. The main reasons were:
1. Inconsistent UI experience (GTK/QT). For me screen aesthetics is important, I spent countless hours configuring my desktop (theming, matching icons, recompiling the FreeType package just to enable the then-patented font hinting, etc). But even then some applications were somehow different: OpenOffice/Firefox for example brought their own rendering engine. While this issue has been solved to a certain degree, I still don't see that level of polishing as in macOS. Certain niche distros (e.g. ElementaryOS) try to lure users with carefully selected (otherwise very fine!) screenshots but it takes just a few clicks to see that the whole thing is utterly broken.
2. Related to the previous point: handling HIDPI monitors. Again, GTK/QT/slightly exotic applications have to be configured separately and even then it is a hit-and-miss.
3. The messy state of sleep/hibernation. When I raise this issue, I'm always told that this is not a Linux issue but the buggy implementation of the ACPI specs by the hardware vendors. Well, as the WINE team managed to reimplement WIN32 bug-by-bug, I think it's not far fetched to ask the kernel driver guys to circumvent these incomplete/buggy firmwares.
It's more subtle than that. There's a reason I mentioned advertisers :).

The group I posit is the majority are the people who:

- Will want to hide their sexual services related habits from others, including their spouses (who may also do the same!). Those are the people who cause chargeback risks for sex businesses, making the latter undesirable for payment processors that are optimizing for majority use case. This is reflected in payment processing fees.

- Will dislike products and companies who use overtly sexual messaging or associate themselves with sex work, but themselves are in business other than sex works. Advertising industry is exerting pressure against sexual topics in order to not lose access to these people('s wallets). This means that any non-sex, ad-funded business faces tremendous market pressure to stay away from topics pertaining to sex.

- Will be highly responsible to messaging that porn/sex work is dangerous to people's minds/souls, or their children, or society. They may not agitate and organize against sex business, but when presented with pro- and anti- options (and enough propaganda), they'll vote against.

There's no need for any conspiracy, or any large-scale organizing here. It's just how the political and economical incentive gradient looks.
HN serves as a filter to news. The community can disseminate its veracity
The whole "map the PCIE device into userspace process memory" thing is called DPDK (https://www.dpdk.org/)
Why Agile Will Continue to Fail
The policies around payment processing for the adult industry do not stem from puritanical values. It’s a business decision around the astronomically high chargeback rates for credit card purchases of this content.
Once it works properly, you won't need to spend anything at all on marketing... people will flock to it in droves.

Trucking will be up-ended. Freight will change. People will in a short period of time stop owning cars and call them as needed.

I'm just not sure we'll ever get there.
> the more aggressive they are, the more space it creates for competition

The competition is not apples to apples. Instead, you have ideological bubbles like Gab, and you have the incumbent network (Twitter) which "normies" use by default.

The problem with the default network applying ideological censorship is that it limits the average person's exposure to the marketplace of ideas. In the context of a controversial topic, this benefits the default narrative tremendously.

If we want to reduce ideological conflict, it's imperative to respect alternative viewpoints and engage them as equals. Otherwise, we risk alienating people into becoming extremists, or worse, we allow the authorities (who work closely with censors and fact checkers) to control the Overton window and propagandize us away from the truth.
> If one bank decides it doesn’t want to deal with porn, fine.

Not necessarily. Banks have a government license to create money (ok, depends on what kind of bank, but let's put that aside), and provide services many individuals and organizations rely on. That already means that even if you're a staunch capitalist, you should still support some sort of set of constraints and norms, regulation, of their activities. So it's not clear that a bank should be able to refuse service to legally-operating organizations.

Plus, if one bank can do this, then why not any other bank?
Of course. For Apple, this is pretty much tied to their biggest cash cow: the iPhone. They are rely on it(maybe too much) and the service ecosystem they provide around it, which some people refer to as the "Walled Garden".

People love jumping at forcing companies to do what they want through legislation, but the government can use it for far worse things. Imagine if a government mandated an App Store of their own where they have a backdoor access to all of the apps, something which "may" not happen if Apple controls access. Or if side-loading were allowed, they could just create their own App Store, where they do the same thing without needing to make a mandate to Apple.

However, I understand the frustrations of developers, and I agree that Apple holds too much power. But the solution needs to be better than just slapping some legislation on it. Hell,even having the threat of legislation over their head, Apple can make concessions to their privacy above all. Imagine if they begin allowing backdoor access for iPhones to avoid the legislation from being passed. And this seems more and more likely by the day, especially consider their embarassingly awful NeuralHash™.

A decentralized App Store would be better but Apple and Google will fight tooth and nail against such a thing. Thought Google is kind of better in this regard, since side-loading is very much allowed on Android.

Another deciding factor is the free market. Apple is not impervious to consumer demand. If consumers begin to become more conscious, Apple will be forced to change. But this will obviously be painfully slow.
> French President Georges Pompidou, foregoing nationalism, called it "a beautiful plane."

For a brief moment I imagined a different world to the one I experienced in my youth, in which the Cold War, with all its cliched animos stereotyped rivalrous ranting that filled every newspaper and news bulletin for three decades, was replaced by a good faith chivalrous respect.

It felt good. The world was a better, more interesting, more productive place.
This was not a fault of the self-driving car: it was the fault of the human operators. They assumed the athlete crossing the street would notice the vehicle and stop.
Unethical? Unnecessary? The Covid-19 vaccine booster debate intensifies
> Languages are solved, not important; I build systems.

This argument always gets funny when sufficiently complicated systems start themselves looking like languages (and their implementations).
There are some things that both a book index and even full text search cannot solve. For example, if the teacher asks why in the Pride and Prejudice does Elizabeth lose temper on Mr. Darcy?, those smart-on-the-surface solutions can't take you anywhere.

On the other hand my friend from the other school can easily tell me to go to page number 432 on the book to find the exact answer because labeled pagination has reference accessibility [1] along with random access.

[1] https://bubblin.io/blog/referential-accessibility
To all the people here bringing evangelical christians and other nonsense into this: Both OF and the CC merchants are owned by Jews. If they’re any bit intelligent about this they’ll try to push for a legal change/protection by pretending to fight each other.
The Gatekeeper Shrugged
https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/report_2720/... "SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS AMONG ADULTS BELOW THE POVERTY LINE" (this is simply the first result I found in a large body of research on the mental and physical cost of poverty)

It is worth focusing on the ways in which you are lucky, and it puts some of the stress in perspective. We are living in challenging times - environmental, economic, and societal change. Everyone is experiencing this stress in different ways.
Plugins in Go
You can install a good OS which doesn't spy on you on external devices.
Exactly. They now start crying when it happens to others that they support, when the whole entire point is that this can happen to anyone; as these private companies are on the side of profit.

Sometimes, they only learn who really is in charge as soon as it happens to them which is always when it is too late.
This made me laugh given that, actually, Greg Egan is by far my favorite author. But I also think you are going way too far by saying that our normal 3D space is what is unphysical. The fact that our everyday reality is the limit of a more interesting reality when some parameter becomes small, does not make it any less real, for any reasonable definition of "real".
The author also mentioned some key points in a tweet [1]. If it's more expensive and slower, of course it can't compete.

[1] https://twitter.com/Ryandoofy/status/1410253369420226560
Russia was already heavily sanctioned and Putin needed a domestic boost. That’s a different prospect.

I don’t think the party leaders in China believe that massive sanctions would be balanced by the nationalistic boost of invading Taiwan.
> 1- I have never seen a language that made me wow. Like, to me, this whole concept of making a digital logic architecture do a task should be "solved" in a systematic/mathematical sense. Yet, whenever I read on criticisms of languages, people always talk about stuff like "Go doesn't have generators", "Rust macro is a mistake", "I don't like python's async story", "C's way of things is outdated" etc...

Math does have a lot of notations that express the same, but are used for different purpose, where some of those are better suited for solving some task than others. One of the simpler examples is polar vs cartesian coordinates. Where polar coordinates is expressed by angels and distance from a zero point. While cartesian we use the distance on axis from the zero point.
Both can express all the same points, but some problems are easier to solve in one of those and some are easier to solve in the other. Coordinate system is definitely not the only place where you have this in math, and it is probably one of the simplest examples.

So math, and all it's different ways of being expressed is more of an example why we need different languages, and that programming languages matter. Than a counterexample of why languages shouldn't matter, and that we are fine with any one language.
They pushed through security, and accessed private offices, and destroy property, with the stated intent to stop the vote count. On Camera.

This was not a protest or a riot, they intended to disrupt the normal order of governance.
You absolutely do not genuinely believe the white house rioters thought they were overthrowing democracy and this a plainly obvious straw man.
Danny and Mason had known eachother for several years when this conversation happened. While not great from a PR standpoint, I don't think this kind of banter with someone you've known for so long is out of line.
Depends on your metric. Sulfuric acid and iron is pretty simple if you don't count the blast furnace. Certainly a lot simpler than a gasoline generator. If you have grid power and a diode, electrolysis gets simpler --- though you probably want at least a transformer. Hydrolith is probably simpler and lighter than sulfuric acid and iron, though.
Personally I'm not convinced that Waymo isn't continuing to flush a whole lot of money down the toilet. But this is a test/prototype in an area where I assume most households own cars and rarely take taxis and ride shares around the local area. So the fact that not a lot of people are taking a Waymo except maybe for the novelty is utterly unsurprising.
Even if they did review them well, most reviews are samples provided by manufacturer, and are performed on a single unit typically. If a manufacturer is willing to swap components in batches of products, they're willing to try to cheat reviewers too.
Exactly what I did. I would share it but I deleted it about 2 months ago since they quite rightly lost all interest.
There's always the team's backlog, but that's not something I personally committed to finish.

Realistically, there's no point in having a very long list of items you will never go through.
Are you talking about the panhandling gas can scam? They aren’t actually moving, out of gas, or whatever.
My friend downloaded whole of Pluralsight's database using yt-dl. Config files are necessary for sites that require the user to access the content.
Isn't this what we made btc for
> Are all the complainers in HN really letting their TV connect to Internet (inspire of knowing all the crap TV manufacturers have been pulling all these years?!)

Why are people complaining about Smart TVs in a thread about SSD?
An arguably better solution, at least in statically typed languages, is to make the type keys constant objects that implement a `setup(user)` method, which for example is possible in Java by using an enum type for the keys. E.g.:

enum UserType {
ADMIN { void setup(User) { … } },
CUSTOMER { void setup(User) { … } },
;

abstract void setup(User);
}

and then have:

User createUser(UserType type, UserAttributes attributes) {
User user = new User(attributes);
type.setup(user);
user.setupNotifications();
return user;
}
You can sometimes build your own Linux with Kodi with those devices. On the plus side, you're then not limited to use streaming services Netflix and can grab media from any place.
Issue 7: IfYouKnowYouKnow, Part Two
I just want to say thanks for the links and taking the time to explain it. I think it’s pretty logical. I see your viewpoint and I think I need to take some more time to consider my stance (again…).
You are comparing on-the-web text and conversations with downloaded longform artifacts (files) that do not register read events like the other smaller resources.

According to some purists, books have not even happened on the web yet, and one could argue that a book and a file are not the same products to begin with. First principles and all that.
I mean, every user of that channel can do that as well. It's just that there shouldn't be expectation of privacy on a Discord channel unless you know and trust every participant.

Message reading bots are very useful for many things. Limiting them because of privacy concerns sounds like a loss for no gain to me. There isn't any privacy on Discord to begin with.
Issue 6: IfYouKnowYouKnow
> Does anyone know the specific reason banks find the adult industry risky?

Likely higher instances of "friendly fraud", and chargebacks.
My three most recent ThinkPads had to be fixed at least twice. I think they are relying just on the brand.
Like many organizations, there is often a disconnect between google research and production.

It’s likely the models run in google search are Bert inspired, or were compared with Bert derived models.
We could have done a better job of explaining CLIP in this post, but we've written about it quite extensively before[1][2][3][4][5] if you're interested. I'm convinced CLIP is the most important advancement in machine learning in the past year; it's incredibly versatile.

In a nutshell, CLIP is a multimodal model that combines knowledge of English-language concepts with semantic knowledge of images. It can just as easily distinguish between an image of a "cat" and a "dog" as it can between "an illustration of Deadpool pretending to be a bunny rabbit"[6] and "an underwater scene in the style of Vincent Van Gogh"[7] and any other concept you can come up with[8] (even though it has definitely never seen those things in its training data[9]).

This is how these CLIP+VQGAN notebooks can create such a symphony of artistic renderings[10] (CLIP steers the GANs towards its interpretation of any English string that the artist can imagine).

[1] ELI5 CLIP: https://blog.roboflow.com/clip-model-eli5-beginner-guide/

[2] How to Try CLIP: https://blog.roboflow.com/how-to-use-openai-clip/

[3] Content Moderation with CLIP: https://blog.roboflow.com/zero-shot-content-moderation-opena...

[4] CLIP Prompt Engineering: https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-clip-prompt-engineering/

[5] CLIP for Semantic Image Similarity: https://blog.roboflow.com/apples-csam-neuralhash-collision/

[6] Deadpool Pretending to be a Bunny Rabbit: https://paint.wtf/ranking/erFA7/uCzEnPBtKkgoBAhBesQY

[7] Underwater Van Gogh: https://paint.wtf/ranking/xboNk/0fjxp0kEi0WeDgkP3LZX

[8] Other human drawings as judged by CLIP: https://paint.wtf/leaderboard

[9] CLIP-judged Pictionary game: https://blog.roboflow.com/how-we-built-paint-wtf-an-ai-that-...

[10] AI Generated Art with CLIP+VQGAN: https://blog.roboflow.com/ai-generated-art/
Given that this was an airliner, one wonders how they might have felt should a hundred people have died due to a faulty tire based on that bad intelligence. It is one thing to sabotage an enemy weapons system, very much another to damage a civilian aircraft.

Ironically, a blown tire caused the fatal crash that led to the demise of Concorde. It struck debris, but there are always eerie similarities between western and russian programs.
Sorry for being off topic here:

I get pushback on this opinion from my friends, so I expect this to be an unpopular opinion here also: the cost of meat should be priced to also cover external costs of water and harm to the environment.

I enjoy a steak once or twice a month, so I am not talking from a vegan-purity perspective. I think that there should be a tax on meat that directly supported research and infrastructure for water and energy efficient farming, lower cost desalinization, etc.

Also, some types of legumes, vegetables, etc. are much more water efficient than others. In some ways I think that “meat hurting the environment deniers” are even a little worse than climate change deniers because industrial meat production hits chaotic climate change and water resources.
US drone strike targeted ISIS-K planner
Maybe a shift of perspective is in order. What if the homeless "problem" is merely the most visible symptom of a modern depression that has been underway for many years?

You expect a homeless problem in a depression. You expect drug use to cripple large segments of society in a depression. You don't expect the problems that come with a depression to be fixable. And you expect those with means to jealously guard them from expropriation during a depression.

The thing that separates a modern depression from those that came before is that central banks have pulled out the stops to try to prevent the slide into depression. Their toolbox is limited, so many problems (such as housing) become worse as prices spiral higher out of range of working people, and as jobs continue to flood overseas on cargo ships. Wealth inequality blossoms as the haves keep it (thanks to QE and stock market machinations) and the have-nots lose it. Certain sectors (technology) continue to thrive while everything else (manufacturing, services) spiral downwards. It's easy to blame yourself if the depression is so unevenly distributed.

In following this path, central banks have obliterated cues (massive unemployment, bread lines, collective action) that would otherwise make it obvious that a depression was underway. Kind of like what might happen if you could not smell rot or feces, but could still smell food. Things might seem just fine, but only if you willfully ignored certain non-olfactory clues.
I don't feel I need to specify pollutants at this point. The smell may be offensive, upsetting, linger. We can discuss potential harm that (along with the general air quality) additional secondhand weed smoke may have on the under three's lungs if you like.

In return, are you suggesting that air quality does not change and there is no need to be concerned in any way whatsoever? Or perhaps you are hinting that the air quality improves in such a scenario?
There are several solo indie game devs who passed that threshold. Jonathan blow (braid), Daisuke Amaya (cave story), Dean Dodrill (dust), Markus Persson (mine craft), Lucas Pope (papers please), etc

The average outcome for a serious indie game release is about 16k though https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W6lZir97bUU0KdvIGNIVWG0O-_A...

Wish me luck with my own when it finally releases (pre alpha atm) https://barbariangrunge.com
It makes sense for platforms like Youtube ("advertisers don't want to have their brand associated with $topic because it's controversial"), but it makes less sense in terms of payment providers. Is the majority who supposedly prefers to keep anything surrounding sex in private pressuring Visa to not work with OF?

The theory that payments with OF have more charge-backs and that's why they are going after them is plausible to me. From what I understand, there's a lot of blatantly false advertising/severe buyer's remorse on OF.
I'm pretty sure we'll see this on certain highways in certain weather conditions--which would actually be a killer feature for a lot of us. But it doesn't fundamentally change car ownership and use--and may or may not change trucking.
"A girl pleasure herself" is a gross simplification of a highly complex topic.
This has already happened with cerebras and tesla dojo at least.
I’m a big fan of hosting stuff myself, but I will nope out of email at the first chance I get. I would just use AWS Simple Email Service, Mailgun, Sendgrid, etc.
There used to be a tour of the Airbus factory in Toulouse, where they made A380s, and at the end of the tour we took a bus across the tarmac and were able to walk around and go inside a Concorde. It was amazing.

It is a much bigger plane on the outside than you might think. That wing is huge.