skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really, really hope this is true. Hilarious, aside from the deaths at least. Putin should just pack up and go home, optionally seizing Crimea along the way.
Yep. And the good ones tend to be smaller or regional chains.

At a certain size you just become too big to be competent, and the incentives get FUBAR. After that they don't really care about customer satisfaction because they're really focused on investors or the next 1mm corporate customers.
Counterpoint from Linus Torvalds regarding wrapping text for git commit messages: [0]

> Word-wrapping is a property of the text. And the tool you use to
visualize things cannot know. End result: you do word-wrapping at the
only stage where you can do it, namely when writing it. Not when
showing it.

> Some things should not be word-wrapped. They may be some kind of
quoted text - long compiler error messages, oops reports, whatever.
Things that have a certain specific format.

> The tool displaying the thing can't know. The person writing the
commit message can. End result: you'd better do word-wrapping at
commit time, because that's the only time you know the difference.

[0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56611...

edit I realise there's some irony in the malformed '>' quotation notation I'm using here. The alternative would be to use a paragraph per line to force the HackerNews formatting to present each quoted line on its own line (i.e. its own paragraph) but that would leave nothing to indicate the end of each paragraph.
Two years of COVID: The battle to accept airborne transmission
No, we should blame mothers milk. Every dictator that was ever born drank it, therefore mothers milk is responsible for the invasion of Ukraine.

Again, can you please stop with the dumb propaganda pieces trying to West-Wash the Russian invasion into Ukraine? It is beyond boring. If it is your goal to drive people away from HN by rehashing the same inane arguments over and over again that is of course your freedom but since you, as a new entrant are not gaining anything and we lose something it would seem that this is a non-zero sum game where in the end we're looking at a net loss.

The only party responsible for the invasion of Ukraine is one V. Putin and by extension the Russian state. Attempts to drag the past in by the ears or otherwise are counterproductive. If anything NATO should have accepted Ukraine because we already know the result of not accepting them. See also several treaties that Russia just decided to wipe its arse with.
Thanks for your thoughts. Do you have a lot of acoustic piano experience? Is that why you have this taste?

I understand and really will think about your suggestion, but I think I will want to choose something that's easy to just sit down and play at.
Thanks for this. I had a generally good idea about this, but despite seeing the word for many years, never actually knew what POST stood for before this comment. I'm not even sure I knew that it was an acronym...
ER is part of the venerated class of game that doesn't rob you of the experience of figuring things out. You can make permanent mistakes, break your character, break the world, and fail to improve. Or, you can master it and make the world yours at any level.

I'm watching LobosJr do a SL 1 run (level 1, unupgraded character) right now, which is how I played DeS, DaS, and DaS III. However when I first played Demon's Souls, I couldn't even get up the stairs from the first Archstone without taking a hit, let alone consistently make it to the first boss. I gave it up for months, read a ton, and came back more prepared. My first run of Dark Souls took 44 hours, and now I can beat it in under 2 at SL 1. If you stick with it, you can figure it out, and you can step back at the end and say, "I grew".
A typo in the HTML syntax. View Source is your friend. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=85%40nixbln.UUCP
Has anyone implemented audio output on a modern x64 machine under UEFI, e.g. using the typical Realtek on-board audio? If so, I'd like to get a GUI with a screen reader working under UEFI sometime, both for the challenge of getting into bare-metal programming, and because as far as I know, nobody has made a PC boot process and firmware setup UI (what we used to call BIOS setup) accessible to blind people.
To be fair, those are a few exceptions that buck a greater trend of Presidents and lawmakers almost universally attending expensive and prestigious undergrad and graduate institutions
Cry me a river! Why are adults in the west (I'm not talking about 18 year olds or even 30 year olds... I mean proper adults, like 35+) watching superhero movies clearly written and performed for kids? I do understand nostalgia but I really don't think westerners understand the concept of growing up. Like, at some point, it has to be like

"Yeah, I enjoyed this so much when I was 6 and I can see why a kid me would love this... but I am 36 now and while the actual content does remind me the great carefree time when I was 6, it no longer appeals to me as a person I am today... because it is so far removed from the things I know and care about that I can't really relate".

When a grown ass man excitedly talks about a new kids movie that came out, I really don't know how to react without cringing. It's way too common and I've had to join to not look like an outcast at times and sit through terrible forgettable overdone movies. Please stop.
That’s a good idea. I think it still misses a needed link between productivity increases and increases to the lowest wages. Maybe loosely tying minimum wage to productivity?
As I understand it, lending and increasing debt is simply the en vogue way of governments to make sure they can finance their budgets.

(And budgeting is one of the most important ways in which governments implement their election programmes.)

There's different ways in which governments can finance new/increased/additional expenses:
1. raise taxes
2. cut other spending
3. take on more debt

With Modern Monetary Theory MMT being enticing and shiny .. and balanced budgeting as just an annoying unnecessary burden on energetic and enthusiastic policy making as the predominant narrative (which is perpetually being pushed by most media; and I have the impression most people fall for it, even though it's dangerous and unsound IMO) .. it seems obvious that politicians - who want to get reelected - tend to choose option 3.

Because of this current mainstream opinion about government debt/budgeting, option 3 is currently the least damaging to politicians' popularity .. which is why it's chosen practically all the time.

If citizens want less money printing, they simply need to put pressure on politicians to make use of options 1 (raise taxes; for the rich) and 2 (cut other spending) instead of option 3.
> Edit: Maybe it's a bad idea to say this out loud, but when you get protagonists who are "just born preternaturally awesome", they're generally female, right? I'm not sure the same trend applies for male protagonists.

I think this is a bit of selective memory ala: https://xkcd.com/385/

Did you have particular movies in mind with this? The whole Marvel universe is riddled with male protagonists who are simply better than other people. That's the whole schtick that the Watchmen criticises.
> Many of today's actors /actresses almost mumble their lines and make it absolute hell for the audio people to pick them up, whereas theatre trained individuals were loud and enunciate the crap out of everything.

There's zero correlation between how loud someone says their lines and how loud they are in the resulting mix when ADR is used.

There is a limit to how far you can push this for lines recorded live because of environmental noise, but in that case there's more control than ever before because of software like iZotope RX (which is close to magic).
Brief lessons on handling traffic spikes (2016)
If everyone sympathizes why is the west and its close allies the only ones doing anything about it? If you're statement is accurate, doubtful but lets pretend, then if anything that adds more relevance to the reinvigorating of the West's military investments and treaties.
I'm suggesting it's the majority opinion. Yes, there exist minority opinions as well, but generally we don't consider agreeing with the majority/consensus to be "ignoring the science".
And where did you come from, all of 24 days ago? Really, I don't think it is up to you to tell other visitors of HN that they should go away.
Overview of Cloud Game Infrastructure
> The game's supposed to compete with Monster Hunter, Final Fantasy, Elder Scrolls, Dragons Dogma, etc. And how can it?

It let me start a game and just explore the world without being forced through a long intro/tutorial, doesn't have vast amounts of clicking through dialogue and I find the world way more interesting than what I saw playing ~2 hours into one of the recent MH games, or ~10 of Skyrim.
Man, today’s world (I hesitate to call it “modern”) is so depressing in so many ways, and there are just no improvements in sight… humor is the only refuge.
Interesting, In what year did this happen? I wonder if it's related to the Eternal September.
postmarketOS is based on Alpine Linux and it's the perfect choice for a lightweight mobile OS.
It also doesn't hurt to repeat the HTTP status code in the JSON body - when you receive a response, the status code and entity body are coupled but even if the server logs the status code, they're often decoupled in the logging system - having both in one log entry is way easier!
Massachusetts Reports 'Significant Overcount' of Covid Deaths
Remind me not to work for you.
Sorry, used the wrong term. By WAN I meant the broadband telephone line. Modem cards for dial up connections were common back in the day, but since ADSL and beyond I don't recall any commonly available products, USB winmodems aside. VDSL/Fiber capable cards would be very handy to build 100% FOSS broadband routers, but they seem next to unobtanium.
Banks, of course, can be awful.

However, if you can develop an in-person face-to-face rapport with someone at a bank, you'll find that they can bypass, sometimes, much of the infuriating petty bureaucracy.

I once had a bank employee print almost a ream of statements on the spot for me. I was almost in tears from the generosity of their time and effort. This was after going to a different branch an being told it would cost hundreds of dollars and take weeks because it was a "back-office" job.
customers want to be able to boot their machines off the network

this would be difficult without a network stack

if you're so inclined: you can remove unneeded modules from your UEFI firmware
I believe Putin invading his sovereign neighbor was the first punch. After that it's no hold bar, all Russian corporate entities should be harassed and dragged into irrelevance with targeted sanctions and bans. Let Putin have his vassal state bent over for Chinese resource extraction and turn them into a hermit kingdom.
How long until web development becomes part of the gig economy, if it hasn't already.
i have been working like this. we didn't plan it that way but effectively we let things accumulate until there was enough for a few days of work and then we picked a week where the client or me wasn't busy with other things and we sat down and worked through those issues.
Crown victoria used to be a really popular fleet vehicle and it constantly had issues. The advantage was they where cheap to repair not that they needed minimal repairs.
> TIL: It's possible for UEFI code to access the internet.

Quite surprising to see lots of tech-oriented users here finally discovering UEFI having access to the internet after years of even the basics like "Internet Recovery" being used on Apple Macs or even sysadmins using netbooting on diskless systems.

There is always a IP/Net stack section in the UEFI menu on nearly every modern PC which gives you this hint, but it isn't useful for the 95% of users, except for sysadmins, recovery, security and even malware writers.

> What could possibly go wrong?

Indeed. A lot can go wrong. I bet someone will do a Wordle clone in UEFI next.
Russia's Wars in Chechnya offer a-grim-warning of what could-be in Ukraine
Yup. I was so fed up with Bank of America’s crappy service I tried to close my account with them. It took 4 months to do so, and at least 8 hrs of back and forth between phone reps, online reps, and in person reps.

First I was told to withdraw the remaining funds to get the balance to zero. Before I did that, I asked them if doing so would automatically close the account without incurring some kinds of fees? crickets

Then I was promised when I got ahold of their specific account closing department that I would be sent a small cashiers check for the small balance I kept in there to avoid incurring fees. Never arrived.

Then I kept getting calls for someone with a different name from the bank. I eventually figured out they were trying to call about this issue, but literally has a completely different name that made no sense.

When I called them back anojt it to close the account again, I was told I needed to go to a branch. Well, all branches are closed due to Covid. Then I have to call again, well, there is a specific branch that is open - great! Too bad I couldn’t find it via the branch locator the first time.

Go to that specific branch - closing an account requires an appointment.

Me: Ok, when is the next appointment?

Them: since you’re closing an account, you need a specific kind of rep. The soonest appointment is a week from now.

Them: but you can close the account by withdrawing funds to zero

Me: will that actually close the account without incurring some kind of negative balance due to fees?

Them: looks nervous uh no

Me: I see, it’s almost like you all are trying to get me to not actually close my account due to some incentive structure and tack on fees. I’m about this close from suing you in small claims court for not actually letting me close my account.

Them: look at each other super nervously ehem, I can book that appointment for you.

Me: ok

And somehow, when I get home after this, I get a text that my account has actually been closed and the cashiers check gets in my hand through the mail before the actual appointment they scheduled me.

It’s just adding bullshit process to provide friction to keep some metric up near as I can tell.
> it is impossible for a client to perform an atomic operation on multiple distinct objects types.

> It doesn’t meet the “standard” for a rest api? Too bad.

It is perfectly fine to model the creation of a product with options via a new resource. Another possibility is to model this as a transaction, a series of requests. Both meet the goals of atomicity and also following restful constraints.

But since you disallowed those possibilities as the premise, there is no constructive way forward from there. Nice construction of a straw-man, must feel satisfying to see it topple over, but who do you hope to impress with that?
Semantle
Worth noting the type of tasks discussed in the paper: visuospatial

> Learning a new visuospatial task, such as how to tie a knot or play an instrument, is thought to require us to adopt the teachers’ perspectives, to try to see the world through their eyes. However, the new research suggests it might also be important to actually see their eyes.

I think there is something to "it might also be important to actually see their eyes.". When I talk about code I tend to move the mouse around the places I talk about not necessarily expecting people to grasp every bit in every place but just visualizing where my own attention is.
Unfortunately, thanks to Discord and all the other walled gardens we won't see this quality of historic trivia being archived for future generations.
I came here to say the same thing. I've been on multiple program committees for multiple conferences and it would be laughable to claim sponsors have any influence over what gets published at a conference.

Sponsors have much more direct (and visible) influence over, you know, sponsorship of the research itself. But even there, corporate sponsorship is only one slice (and a relatively small one) of overall CS funding. There are plenty of government or independent sponsors who would be happy to fund research that is contrary to big corporate interests.
I think this argument is overstretching into a political argument.
The live action Mulan movie is consider a flop in China. The Chinese audience hate it. It is more successful in Singapore and Saudi Arabia. Disney remove one of main major male character to be aligned with the MeeToo movement.
For the Animation version the Chinese complained for their foreign looking character and it is too different from myth.
China love Kung Fu panda. The find kung fu panda show a sincere love to Chinese culture without over trying too be a chinese.
Crafting a Minimal Interpreter of Lisp
I run a website that converts PDF bank statements into CSV files. HSBC customers are a big source of revenue. They only provide PDFs.
If you're looking for good technical support and features you're not going to get it with your local credit union, they're even worse than the major banks.
Good books but still quite standard. Spivak’s is standard on initial calculus courses at universities.

If you really wanted non-standard but relevant authors I would add Feyerabend, Kuhn, Kahneman, Dostoyevsky, Borges, Taleb, Montaigne, Popper, Hofstadter, Don Norman, Alexandrescu. Add something about systems of representation by Kierkegaard or Nietzche or some interpretations by later authors.
You just want to ride the horse until its tired, then shoot it and eat it.
I was watching the old 2014 video:
https://youtu.be/4fFDFbi3toc?t=1081

I've included the timestamp of the relevant bit. He is talking about swizzling, which is like clogging++.

He says they take a subset of the network connections, and have them timeout, but then bring them all back in reverse order, and that this somehow exposes far more bugs than other methods.

This seems like a very interesting "well, that's funny!" moment that might lead to understanding something foundational about how distributed systems fail.

Does anyone have more insight on this?
This is TERRIFYINGLY accurate.

"""
Here’s what will happen:

Like most other humans, your students will be lazy and fallible.
So many of them will procrastinate and not do the homework.
So they won’t learn anything.
So they will get a terrible grade on the final.
And then they will blame you for not forcing them to do the homework
"""

This is almost exactly how adjunct teaching went for me. It was not the experience I had hoped it would be in almost any way.
Datavant should strip away all of your benefits since it fundamentally has nothing to do with your labor/payment relationship indeed! Cash only.
Waging a war on trans people? What?
YKK
Until recently there was an art project called olduse.net that replayed usenet posts with a 30 year time delay. It worked over nntp so you accessed it with a newsreader.

I really enjoyed reading through old discussions at the speed they happened, but sadly they shut down recently :(

They released the source code though, perhaps one weekend I'll restart it!
> English is a rather unusual language that the meaning is mostly carried only by consonants, while vowels are almost meaningless.

Sorry but this sounds like nonsense. Vowel distinctions absolutely matter in English. Think of how many words would be indistinguishable otherwise: bout, bought, bet, bat, bit, beet, boot, boat, bite, but, and bait are all distinguished from each other only by a vowel.

(And, yes, these all sound quite different to me, an American, though non-native speakers often have trouble making or recognizing some of the distinctions. Some native speakers further distinguish “bot” from “bought”, but I don’t.)
While I think your point is correct in general, the current sitting president is actually an alum of the University of Delaware.
> Correct.

No, not correct. Not even a little bit correct. Game theory explains a lot of human (and animal) behavior. It explains, for example, why I do not rob my neighbor's house when I know they are on vacation even though I could almost certainly get away with it and thereby achieve a short-term profit for myself. It explains why rich people who wring their hands over climate change continue to buy first-class airline tickets posh vacation destinations. It explains why Putin invaded Ukraine, and why the soldiers who are actually doing the dirty work continue to do that dirty work despite the fact that very few of them actually would have chosen to invade Ukraine.

It explains why discussions on the internet often degrade into flame-fests, and why this happens more rapidly if people are allowed to post anonymously or pseudonymously.
Exactly. My first thought was bootkit as standalone C2 would not be that useful
The whole thrust behind this article is that grading and testing is a bunch of crap. And that's entirely correct, IMHO.

We should restructure our whole Western (and Eastern, for all I know) education system on the lines of Ivan Illich's book Deschooling Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschooling_Society which (simplified) suggests that everyone gets an educational grant that they can spend about which and who they study with they can freely choose. But it is not going to happen, and we will stay with the whole grading and testing bullshit.
> Symbolic systems are well-known to have capabilities missing from neural networks, particularly reasoning and knowledge representation.

I believe that the point is still being missed that: if you have a complex enough ANN architecture, you can obtain reasoning and knowledge representation.

> It's misinformed to characterise Symbolic AI as a "zombie".

I disagree. I (currently) agree with Searle’s position that any AI, symbolic or otherwise, would be a p-zombie if it didn’t originate from a biological brain.

> the AlphaGo family of systems, is a neuro-symbolic system that combines a symbolic adversarial search algorithm, Monte-Carlo Tree Search, with a neural network-learned evaluation function.

Please keep in mind that evaluation functions are symbolically programmed, themselves. The difference between Symbolic AI and Statistical AI is that the programmer uses symbols to describe symbols with GOFAI but uses symbols to describe stimuli with Statistical AI.

GOFAI symbols are just ANN engrams. That is my point, here. Anything symbolic could be represented in an ANN. Intelligence is due to Parallel Distributed Processing, using semiotic symbolism (neuro-glial programming) in the neural architecture.
You know even if there is universal healthcare, you can pay private doctors yourself if you would like.
Write letters to kids to bridge
Very cool to see a SIDN labs post here. SIDN operates the .nl extension and puts the money earned into these kinds of research projects that benefit everyone.
This is beautiful. This is where art meets technology - and that's always been a fascinating crossroad for me.
How Putin’s rat-infested childhood shaped his philosophy on war
If it’s a service that is not blocked in the EU you can often send a GDPR request to have your data deleted. https://www.datarequests.org/generator/
I'd really encourage you to ignore that comment and give the game a shot :)

In ER you never have just one avenue of progression and this player decided to brute force the boss (which can be really fun if you want to level your own reflexes up), but that's not the only path you can take. I got stuck on the same boss for a bit, then just explored and came back when I was a bit stronger and got him on the 3rd attempt.
Wait till you hear about the history of shows like Transformers, HeMan, Gundam, etc. Media has more or less been an ad for 50+ years at this point, that's hardly a new phenomena.
Yup. If i taught as if a younger version of myself would have liked, it would be a terrible course for most students.
Ukraine war: Protests after Russians 'abduct' Melitopol mayor
So...

do I laugh or cry now?