skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have one! It stops splitting audio when there is no TV connected and switched on. I even added a HDMI dummy passthrough, but that didn't fix it either (for the Chromecast or laptop). Hence my whole piece about not being able to reliably get this stuff to do what you expect.

Perhaps some devices do what I need, but since it isn't ever explicitly listed as a feature or a limitation, it's hard to know if it's going to work before you buy.
Tangentially reminds me of the film Surrogates, where people only went out in their surrogate, a remote controlled android - in some cases, a younger, better looking version of people. In other cases something completely different of course.
I think this kind of stupid women who try to exploit the system hiding their limits behind the sexist blackmail is damaging for all the women, i would rather not hire one if i risk not being able to express Amy feedback
> Show me where I downplayed need for action.

>> It's been going down since 2008. Our emissions are mid-80s level and we have over 50% larger population than we had then

That's pretty downplaying, at least to my reading. To me, it says "There's nothing that we need doing, because we're already back in the 80ies!". That we've been able to reduce emissions is a tiny glimmer of hope, at best. Not some laurels to be proud of.

> That's not click worthy though; doesn't generate enough fear.

This - again; in my reading - dismisses the devastating and live-threatening consequences of ecosystem destruction to nothing more than a frenzy whipped up by the media.

> the NYT wants to scare the shit out of you at all times because it's the best way to generate revenue.

See, there again.

You know, I want people to be fearful of climate change. Not because I'm selling newspaper or because I get money from advertisement clicks. I want people to be scared to death of climate change because that's the only rational response to the calamity we're in. Our ecosystem is dying and I'll be very surprised if humanity's global society makes it to the 22st century mark.

The problem with grasping climate change (and the ecosystem destruction we're wrecking with our predatory exploitation of it) is that its consequences are somewhat in the future. Thirty, forty, fifty years. Individuals are not good at dealing with such time frames and thus our actions are inadequate. People are very, very, very bad at evaluating such probabilities. Our monkey brains are just not good at it and even though it might seem that we are rational creatures; we're everything but. We humans operate on emotions.

I want people to be afraid of climate change and ecosystem collapse because honestly it's the biggest danger we're currently facing. It's no time for business-as-ususal. Business-as-usual will wreck our global society and every ounce of living standard we've had for the last 200 years.

Do you enjoy your daily hot shower? Enjoy it good, you probably belong to one of the first and last generations of mankind to have ever known it.

> we've significantly lowered our carbon emissions in the US

Yeah, that's not significantly. That's barely enough for a passing grade, if even that.
It's time to accept this and start acting like we're facing a global calamity of unprecedented scale. Because we are.
I've never had the opportunity to view my website on a high-DPI screen. I strongly suspect that what looks good on my large HD monitor does not look good on a high-DPI screen.

As you are someone who is on a high-DPI screen, can you tell me what changes you'd make to the font/typography in this link to make it more readable? Maybe screenshot it so I can see what it appears like on your screen.

http://www.lelanthran.com/simply_wordy/articles/the_average_...

I realise that I'm asking a favour of you for primarily my own benefit, but I would be very appreciative of your feedback.
As long as you understand the risks of marginalizing people who live in the same society, it's "fine".

Just have to accept that once in a while one of them will do something bad and the majority will vote to further restrict your and their own freedoms in hopes of better security, not realizing it wasn't a security issue in the first place.
Thanks for sharing.

Micro typo alert on the Labrador landing page: "Everything was been" -> "Everything has been" or "Everything was", I guess. :)
I'm not sure if your comment is missing a '/s'?
The Fragility of Our Knowledge
In practice it's not that bad. One bad thing is you can't write long chains as you can do with C-style ternary operator.
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Honestly, the Python version is far more readable to me than the C, and that's even with close to a decade with C before encountering Python or any other language using that style.

Though Ruby’s unless modifier is often slightly better for readability.
Anyone who would spend five hours clipping and dumping grass per week would spend hundreds of hours a year on a more challenging environment of the same size. You would have to move pretty slowly to accomplish that.
Rust has `loop {}` which I thought was weird at first, but also ended up use more than I would have expected.
I think it's a sign of the different way of thinking about problems between SV types and "regular" people.

SV: this investment will revolutionize technology, and will give us an amazing ROI over the next 50 years. This could pave the road to whatever comes after the cell phone and change our entire world!

Regular people, in the meantime, are scrapping by to gather enough to feed their children, drowning in debt, and/or working in terrible jobs (sorry, "gigs") to make those same billionaires richer. "Whatever the next iPhone in 50 years will be, maybe" is not really high on their priorities.
Twitter thread for some summary and more context https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/14334513783918837...
Most likely nothing in most countries. At least that's what my experience was with something way more suspicious – pouch with a lead layer, I use it for transporting film so it won't get damaged by xrays. Around 60% of the times no-one even says anything about it despite the bag looking like a huge square on their screens.

I don't think transport security people would care about any small tech stuff until something happens inflight because of it.
And youtube wasn't promising a free platform, so it's okay. Here we have a company setting up libre services, vaguely explaining they fund the infrastructure, I just don't see what the future will hold since they aren't at least committing to a plan.

Charging for infrastructure is acceptable. I think libre initiative should rather charge from the get go, it reduces the risk that some day a VP joins the organisation and decide to monetise the sale of our data rather than offer a reasonable pricing model where the owner of the data is the consume, not personal data exploiters.
Pretty cool, I always wanted something like this when I'm looking for a tool not directly in my field (like design)!
An upvote/downvote system can be a logical following for a better curation of information.
Cheers for the history lesson - True and False really are relatively new in Python. I wonder how common that knowledge is.

http://python-history.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-history-of-bo...

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0285/
It's an interesting study in human self-organizing behavior. We like to see our opinions confirmed, so we like sites like reddit, which breeds this exact behavior. This leads to the groupthink or hivemind as reddit users call it.
As a furry on Telegram, they definitely will be. They don't seem as popular with nonfurs/off telegram...yet.
> I would scream if some opinionated dev gone crazy with their linter added pylint disables and comments explaining it every time we use a while loop in our codebase.

That sounds like a bad situation, but it completely depends on "every time we use a while loop". The entire point of lint checks is to reduce the occurrences of certain patterns (like while loops, in this case). This post is arguing that "every time we use a while loop" should ideally be the same as "never", in which case you're still correct, but vacuously so.

For a less controversial example, try running your comment through sed 's/while loop/eval/g'. There are certainly situations where 'eval' is the only way to do something; and other situations where 'eval' would be more readable/efficient (e.g. compared to writing a file and spawning a subprocess). Yet we go out of our way to minimise our reliance on 'eval', and I certainly wouldn't mind adding a pylint-disable comment for those times I use it (every few years).
no i think that sentence means you can still use photoshop manually to laboriously edit stuff… but the super convenient AI editing will fail, meaning 99,9% of the population won‘t be able to create deepfakes
In a lot of games like WoW or SC2 you need to press a lot of different buttons, to the point that it's not really practical to preload. In CS, maybe you can preload, but it would be nice to look at some footage and see if professional players actually do.
> feel safe to share what they think.

This will never be the case. Never. Engineers can sometimes be slightly more open in technical arguments... senior engineers to much lesser extent - seniors learned that sharing what everyone truly thinks is prohibitively expensive to their career, no matter how much amazing boss you think you are.

Anything more than technical stuff, especially management style -- forget it. No one will share what they think, unless the situation is beyond repair, and at this point junior engineers will rather share to the skip level manager or HR (futile, thus junior engineers), and seniors will just a) check out or b) leave.

> foster a safe place where criticising the manager (me) is also completely fine, and to be celebrated (as it takes courage) and never result in any real or perceived retaliation

Cute.
Wait wait wait.

How is this kind of video produced? Is the voice recorded/edited first, and then you film an actress that lips sync with it, or is it the other way around? Or has the actress an amazing breath capacity?
>>Are you cutting it with a toenail clipper?

As someone who lives in the UK - yes, not me personally, but I have neighbours(very elderly) who I see every week literally on the knees, clipping the grass with what effectively looks like nail scissors. I mean, they are retired, they can do whatever they want with their time, but it is a little bit nuts.
That seems to be an issue. However $60 fee still is insane and kills product. I have seen pankacakeswap defi used IPFS for decentralized voting. They use private wallet keys to sign vote and write it to IPFS. Maybe you could use IPFS as decentralized storage for that first block or other older blocks like a cache?
Well, throw me in the bucket of people who've been lost by that decision. Sounds potentially interesting, but I'm by no means invested enough already to go through the whole account creation thing just to try it.
https://archive.is/w3SEX
> I really dislike one-liners in code

So...you should do more per line, since code is all one-liners, its just a choice of how many, so if you don't like them, you should reduce the number?
Adding onto your point, I’m reminded of the video “Chain of Fools”, where a machine is upgraded from Windows 1.0 all the way through to Windows 8. Once he reaches XP, the theme he configured back in one of the first Windows versions just disappears and gets overridden with XP’s defaults. Then it happens again and again for every version since then, despite the guy changing the theme back to his custom one before each upgrade.

https://youtu.be/vPnehDhGa14

So the phenomenon really started with Microsoft themselves. Sure, the more muted dialog backgrounds and vibrant foreground elements introduced since XP look far better than the Win95-esque greys, but I’m sure people who created their own themes (probably due to disability like color blindness) like their colors better than Microsoft’s.
> ...a photo agency that makes stock photos available on its website with copyright watermarks can markpaint them in such a way that anyone using common editing software to remove a watermark will fail; the copyright mark will be markpainted right back. So watermarks can be made a lot more robust.

I fail to see how this can actually combat against someone with the patience to manually paste out copyright marks using something like a clone brush, or even a normal brush ?

If someone wants to steal your work, they will. There's no sure-fire way to stop them.
I am a data scientist, at least in some projects.

Data protection software has flagged me and caused major headaches because I have been in posesssion of "Canadian social security numbers". Blatantly false of course, my datasets with gigabytes of telco data contains many number combinations with an unfathomable number of permutations. Those false positives have been extremely annoying and a huge work to clear my name from at work. Needless to say I noped the fuck out of that company after enough of it.

Will this AWS functionality become similar? Are they going to inspect all data at rest?

Okay what about if I encrypt all data at rest then? RDS, Postgres can encrypt for instance.

I have many questions.
Absolutely true. We thought about it, but didn't have any idea yet. Maybe there's also a balancing feedback loop approach to it. Something like 'longer click to upvote delay' should lead to 'higher rank'.
It's very well possible to support space research and private development while at the same time wanting flights of this kind stopped. All Branson will achieve is shutting down of space research and private development with his ill conceived contraption. This has gone too far already, and there is zero output here from an applicable technology point of view other than in the 'things we shouldn't be doing' department.

Blue Origin is on more solid footing and they in turn are toddlers compared to SpaceX.
This hits the nail. Cross-platform as a cheaper option only comes true if the multi-platform feature delivers real value to the users --which is obviosly the wager that Agile Bits is doing. Otherwise someone else is bound to deliver a similar feature set either with a less price point or with better execution using native frameworks.

Counterpoint: multiplatform frameworks are web-based and thus are easier to learn and have more developer mindshare than native frameworks. But native frameworks are not that much more complicated these days and can use proprietary services: would you roll your own sync or use CloudKit?
When I was in Japan I bought an unassumingly Adidas branded mechanical pencil that is actually a Uni-ball Kuru Toga pencil produced by Mitsubishi Pencil [1]. Apparently this pencil has a clever patented innovation that ensure this mechanical pencil to be always in sharpen shape while writing. The Kuru Toga technology (literally means 'turning' and 'sharpen') actually rotates the graphite lead every time it is lifted from the page to sharpen it into an even cone shape. Needless to say that it has becomes my favorite pencil that I use very frequently.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni-ball
Ben Collins answers: “Where did this ivermectin obsession come from?”
I am convinced that at the moment fierce competition in this area causes competitors to try to use any excuse possible to do anything they can to stall opponents.

Getting any small problem to have as much publicity as possible? Yeah, sounds about right.

Pretty sure an anomaly like this would not be happening if space didn't get commercial attention.
The point is if you ramp up costs and inefficiencies in your economy you're making yourself uncompetitive globally and that can have lots of undesirable consequences, including strategic ones. There is of course a balance to be struck. Are we taking advantage of efficient production abroad to cut prices for consumers, or are we becoming excessively dependent on foreigners?

Whichever it is, the point is that tariffs are the worst way to coerce change in an economy. There's no guarantee they will have anything like the effect intended, because the point in the economy where they're levied (importing X) is completely different from the point in the economy we're trying to change (locally making X). Even if they do, the costs of the change can be incredibly high. If you want to promote local production, just subsidise local production. It's generally a bad idea, but the least worst by a long mile.
I guess it's impossible to ever have it correct. The gates are just another level of abstraction. You could also simulate the silicon atoms and the electrons flowing and use that to have transistors and then gates. And so on.
It’s not only that some people “just prefer to write”, there is published research[0] showing that writing things down by hand performs better in context of learning.

[0] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.0181... / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24714990
>The only solution is a kernel that can place all newly attached USB devices in a queue for manual approval.

Would it recognize the newly attached one, if you do the swap while the computer is turned off and they have the same HW ID?

Because if not, then it's not much better than what Windows lets you do with group policies. Although on Windows you could do this swap even while the OS is running.
We need pre-seed investors for this NIGERIAN STARTUP
iShops is a startup that helps informal retailers in Nigeria restock at the click of a button. AT THE MOMENT WE ARE LOOKING FOR INVESTORS.

The African retailing sector is dominated by informal retailers. According to EUROMONITOR, 90% buying and selling takes place in the informal sector in Nigeria, about 70% in Africa.
This informal retailers travel distance to restock their shops.
They rarely collate data like complaints from final consumer. This has led to loss of data that can help improve the quality of products consumers get.
This informal retailers restock at a great cost, they have to lock their shops and travel distance to buy the needed goods. Our solution to this is bringing the product to their shops.

Also, our solution will improve the way people buy things in Nigeria and across Africa. At the moment digital payment is mostly adopted among the middle class, this gave room to Opay to target the informal sector who are mostly the unbanked. Our solution will also improve the way payment is carried out in the informal sector.

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I strongly encourage you to prove your statement with a script that use the logs saved and a random "model" and get back the exact source dataset.
Would having (optional) type annotation, or even a relatively coercitive type system help much in the way of performance?
Admittedly, this wouldn't be scheme anymore, but are there example of this done in the wild with profitable impact? E.g. even as an extension to RXRS.

I'd guess if you're sure your `fib` function handles only integers, you should get a lot of easy inlining/specialization at your disposition.
Cheney on the MTA is fundamantally a Tri-Color Mark and Sweep GC. Cyclone Scheme also has this same GC.
Seeing the beautiful, uncluttered, elegant simplicity of those screenshots makes me quite nostalgic. The lack of bullshit and the aesthetic coherence of that UI is really something I miss. The last decade has been disastrous for Windows, experience-wise. Wish we could have the Windows 7 experience with the core and security improvements of Windows 10!
Wasn't another YC company trying to do this, and was generally met with harsh feedback? (peer5).

p2p isn't bad - looking at peertube, or torrents, etc.

It's forced p2p to make a commercial entity some bucks that is significantly problematic. Browsers are user agents, and should not become commercial agents.

Action item for browser vendors: make webRTC request a user initiated action (like microphone/video access)
So your solution is to set up another institution with an awful track record?
> Python doesn't have a do..while loop

Python doesn't have an “[repeat...]until” loop, which C misspells as “do...while”, which fails to express what is going on.

> so when you want to do a thing at least once, the simplest replacement is starting the loop with "while 1:" and ending the loop with "if ... break".

“while True:” is more idiomatic Python (“while 1:” works since 1 is truthy, but using a literal 1 for “True” is a C-ism, Python has True as a literal for quite some time and idiomatic Python uses it.)
“AI” Demystified: A Decompiler
I love Hegel. Get his complete works and keyword search!

I wish I could better understand dialectic materialism in order to critique it. I can't get around not having a noetic reality that serves like chaotic attractors to materials. Spheres and triangles are just more real than material manifestations. Penrose and Popper proposed similar tripartite realities of, roughly, the material, the conscious and the mathematical.
Authors are turning down lucrative deals in favour of Substack
> * Acceding to the concept that there is a state-sanctioned place where everyone is supposed to be (prison colony?)

We're talking about Australia, after all.
Even 1ms.