skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sure, that's been the case for many decades now

we all heard the same thing in 1999 and 2007: "the smart money is buying" maybe, maybe not, the smart money has no reason to tell us the truth, many reasons to hide what they are doing and access to investments that normies don't

no crystal ball here, but things look like they could get very bad

we'll see
Walmart expands its drone-delivery service to reach 4 million households
> It's only a matter of time before we'll see auto-generated content that uses AI-generated imagery, text and voice synthesis to produce content that appears vaguely intelligble enough to fool people to watch it.

This is already happening, look at the following of Hololive. For now there are humans behind the animated figures but they aren't much more than story writers and it shouldn't take long for the company to figure out that they could automatically generate this content.
Exactly. One of the more interesting things I've seen was when the streamer DougDoug used GPT-3 during a livestream to create a tournament where video game characters "fought" each other. While other content creators have gone the "you won't believe how good AI has gotten" route to get clicks and as a result heavily curated it, DougDoug has gone the opposite and embraced the insanity of the random text generation. As a result it was eye opening just how bad GPT-3 is at consistency. The tournament even ended with: "When Link is reduced to a pile of ashes, Kirby is victorious. Link stands there dazed by the attack."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwY-jVSM-f0
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Wow those are really bad fakes... You would think they at least hire someone to write simplified chinese
"Walmart will use the drones to make money in another way, too. It said it plans to offset the cost of deliveries by selling photographs taken by drones to municipalities and local business, such as construction or real estate companies. The revenue will be split with the drone operator."
Sorry, but I have a hard time believing the common trope that something silly like more language complexity will significantly help keeping the complexity of the code down. Personally, I believe it is often the opposite.

So you can't abstract over data types in C? I often do. Some random thing I often do:

void linear_allocate(Linear_Allocator *alloc, size_t size, size_t align, size_t count);

#define linear_allocate_type(alloc, type, count) ((type *) (linear_allocate((alloc), sizeof (type), alignof (type), (count))))

(Anybody objecting they don't like macros and this is not a real abstraction: You are all fools. To a certain point, that is - before you possibly start being right. But don't underestimate how far this can go, and how long this can be a superior solution over alternatives.)

You know something that is very hard to abstract over? Programming language FEATURES! Anybody, please show me the ways of doing computation over all the data that was encoded as fancy programming language syntax. This requires even more language features to get this data back from the compiler in some weird form... if possible at all.
This anonymous, undated article was written by me, yesterday. The strong backwards compatibility of LaTeX(2e) [0] make it so that the date is not especially relevant (since I'm using primitives); in any case my point was pedagogical, in the sense of diving into the operational mechanisms of (La)TeX to develop a better mental model of what's going on. And while Pandoc is very nice, if you're in academia none of your alternatives are viable, since LaTeX is a de facto standard for most journals.

Fun fact: the article was written in Markdown, with some front matter for metadata!

[0] https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/247524/do-i-risk-bre...
Can I migrate them to my work phone?

In any case, I don't use "Google Play".
A lot of what's going on in that tweet you cited is hard to decipher without stepping back and taking stock of the context.

For instance, I don't know what to make of the significance of a cursor being visible in a document that is dumped (it might be a big deal, or it might not be at all) and I don't know how motivated the party is here to use that to prove a particular argument, or what it should or shouldn't prove.

In this case, you apparently have to be already bought in with the idea that BBC and Le Monde have a history of using fabricated info from the U.N., and that a reporter is untrustworthy for reasons explained at length in an entirely different twitter thread that you'd have to read to understand. After being that bought in, the fact that BBC, Le Monde, and/or this reporter are involved is treated as evidence in and of itself that the new info is unreliable. You have to agree with all that to even start in the middle and begin going through this analysis.

To state it plainly, whenever I see something like this that starts so deep in the middle of unexplained context, I treat it like an "indicator" (in the sense of an economic indicator) against the argument, because it feels like I'm being asked to skip critical steps.
> If there were ever a time for BTC to be going parabolic, it would have been over the last year. What happened? It went down by half.

> Now, that’s from an all time high but the point is that all time high came before evidence of inflation.

Evidence of inflation came before Bitcoins existence. "but the point is" ... very fabricated.
To be fair, they changed their name to RT over a decade ago. Neither their home page nor their about page feature the word "today."
While it’s better to avoid it in the first place, farmers have long dealt with subsurface compaction using an implement called a subsoiler, which breaks up the compaction and restores normal drainage.

The article didn’t address that, but did speculate about the ecological intentionalities of sauropods. I suggest the authors do more field work, preferably with a horse and a moldboard plow.
They’re listing proprietary switches on the linked page: “Graphite MX Mechanical”

Perhaps they’re rebranded generics, can’t say.
What about blind people? Do they not deserve their content?
Starlink user terminal is "physically" not designed for working in motion. That is, it has not passed any safety tests that ensures it won't dismount, and fly off and damage property or injure people. The Starlink system is absolutely designed to work at high speeds (both as evident from comments in this post from people maintaining connection at 100km/h to it being deployed on airplanes).
Can you elaborate on why the 5.1 GC is so bad?
Bitcoin as an investment always struck me as a rather silly idea.

Bitcoin was supposed to be useful because it was a decentralized currency, but a functional currency should, by definition, not be a good investment (that is, something that increases in value more quickly than other assets in the economy).

If the relative value of your currency keeps increasing, then you don't want to spend it, if people aren't spending the currency then it is not in fact a functional currency, and if it is not a functional currency, then it ought not have any value.
> Is it a way for North Korea to get paid when extorting Western companies? In fact yes, this use case does seem to work.

The "criminals use Bitcoin" while true is the weakest of the arguments against the current or future success of Bitcoin. Criminals still primarily use regular ole' fiat currency for this stuff, or have more sophisticated schemes like selling artwork. In the case of North Korea they'd have to either mine Bitcoin, or they'd have to convert their currency to Bitcoin. But who would sell to take worthless North Korean money? Unless you mean they convert dollars... in which case they were just using the dollars already.
It's foolish to make a prediction without the aid of a time machine. Bitcoin has been declared over many times before.

I think one thing he hints at is key to bitcoin: it is part of the global financial system, not an alternative. Regardless of intent or dreams, anything born into this world is subject to the prevailing rules and will be co-opted by those with the power, money & will to do so. Which is why for all crypto's lofty goals, it's largely been used to make money and fund scams.
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Is that some kind of universal truth or just what you think
There’s plenty of study of the practice of one entity selling a good or service to another entity. You might call it “economics” or “business.”

“Surveillance capitalism” is interesting/unique because not all of the relevant parties in the exchange (users, platforms, advertisers) actually understand their role in the exchange.
Our little guy just passed his first birthday and it's been such a fun and stressful time. I think the fact that you're concerned about being a good dad means you'll do well. For me anyway, that feeling of pressure grew but so does the enjoyment and fun! Congrats and enjoy it!
fwiw this has more to do with keyboard layout and pcb programming than the switches - my 'tex shinobi' board has a dedicated Pause key (and more).
That's what all those citations are for.
> If you were a junkie looking to earn a quick buck for your next fix and you decided to engage in petty theft how long do you think you'd get away with that kind of behavior in Portugal?

No idea what you're trying to imply...
I hope this video by 3Blue1Brown sells you on complex numbers!

https://youtu.be/bOXCLR3Wric
For me, simple is in the amount of concepts.

For example, I consider most multi paradigm languages complex because in them functions, variables, objects, control flow, etc. are fundamentally different concepts.

But something like LISP, smalltalk or Haskell are simple in my eyes, due to almost everything being the same concept on a fundamental level and the other stuff being built on top of that concept.
> Keeping a "save where possible" mindset, no matter how large the immediate payoff (within reasonable limits) has a much greater chance of success.

Ironically that is what kept me from setting up solar power. Being in Scandinavia, solar has a somewhat limited potential given that days are 7 hours long during winter, and December often has less than 20 hours of sunshine in total. My calculations for the "payback" time of the solar panels said that _MAYBE_ they would have saved something before their "expiry date" some 20 years into the future.

Considering the "energy and material waste" involved in creating solar panels, this task can be handled by energy companies much more efficiently than i ever can.

I am still considering a share in a windmill though :)
Circumcision provides a very large protective effect. Circumcized males are 2 to 8 times less likely to contract HIV: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127372/

You can Google for other studies - the protective effect of circumcision is significant and large.
Personally I prefer Synergy. Paid for it a decade or more ago, and it works well.
I cannot speak for their recent keyswitches, but I bought a Logitech mechanical keyboard a few years back and the switches started failing after a couple of years. Being able to replace keyswitches kept the thing running for a few months longer. Eventually I gave up and replaced the entire keyboard since it became clear this was a design issue rather than a manufacturer defect. Still, the ability to replace a broken keyswitch is a feature when paying anywhere from 5 to 10 times more for a keyboard.

Long story short: that mechanical keyboard was not the modern incarnation the tanks of years gone by. I am using one based upon Cherry switches at the moment. I don't have enough experience to judge the long term outcome, but my initial research suggests a similar outcome. Most of the hype around modern mechanicals seem to focus upon sound and feel (and, more justifiably, the ability to build your own), rather than quality. If that's the case, I feel that the gradual degradation of cheap keyboards is a more desirable outcome.
By cloning that same URL. Except there's the snag that it's not a Git repo, it's a Mercurial repo.

hg clone https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/watc
For how long do we still need to print a paper?
Sure, of course there are reasons why some segment of the population would need or want groceries delivered, but is that market size relevant to a company raising hundreds of millions or billions of dollars?
I can only hope to curse you with a TeX nerd-snipe :) I can recommend reading the first few chapters of The TeX Book (it's a genuinely fun read) followed by the links in the article's footnotes for more operational information.
Those are equity, not currency. There is a reason why employees of those companies get paid in local currency, and not company stock.
Not much of a difference even among native speakers. If you pose a problem to someone, and they think they have the answer immediately, they're about as likely to say 'that's easy!' as they are to say 'simple!'
It doesn't seem to have the US layout available in the UK, which is always a shame to see! I'm too used to the US layout to switch.
Incidentally, much like the Tabaco industry.

No doubt, as western nations increasingly ban this stuff or regulate it out of existence, the scam will move across the ocean.
It doesn't need to take over the world, or even be practical for spending. Simply being a place one can park money that cannot be inflated / printed away is enough to justify it.

And besides, twelve recession-free years doesn't mean a whole lot for a brand new class of currency. We'll see where money goes when there's nowhere good to invest it AND fiat currency is being inflated like crazy.
His servers are distributed over multiple datacenters at the Falkenstein location of hetzner.
Yeh, that stood out to me too. If the author doesn't know that El Salvador uses the dollar and is embracing Bitcoin partly to decouple their economy from USD, then I question everything he says.

One thesis for Bitcoin is that the global economy is transitioning away from the petrodollar system and Bitcoin may play a part in the reserve currencies that replace it. El Salvador just hosted a summit with 44 countries to discuss adopting Bitcoin as legal tender and moving to a new reserve system.
Big fan of the gallery app.
We have a page specifically about helping people switch: https://duckduckgo.com/spread

To answer your question though, comprehensive privacy protection prevents data profiles from getting created about you, which in turn prevents ad and other content targeting. This targeting, regardless of how it's done, enables
general manipulation (e.g., exploiting personal characteristics for commercial or political gain), filter bubbles (e.g., creating echo chambers that can divide people), and discrimination (e.g., people not seeing job opportunities based on personal profiles).

More generally though, I view privacy as protecting you from coercion. Yes, it protects personal information, but that's not the real point. The real point is autonomy -- the freedom to make decisions without coercion. From this perspective in addition to helping reduce identity theft, commercial exploitation, ideological manipulation, discrimination, polarization, etc., it also helps reduce self-surveillance (i.e., chilling effects), and just general loss of freedom (e.g., mass surveillance).
I like cyclomatic complexity, and Kolmogorov complexity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
From the charity's perspective, yeah. From my perspective, knowing that of that $100 coming out of my pocket, only a fraction is going to what I am donating towards, and pretty inefficiently at that, and at the expense of some government programs if I write it off, that's not so interesting to me.

For what it's worth I also tend to avoid products that seem to spend a lot on advertising.
> it's a thought I hadn't seen put out there

The commenter who stated he works for John Deere put out the same thought here, but like the parent expressed that diesel would have to become a lot more expensive for the infrastructure costs to pencil out.
> There was obviously no way [for Oberon] to play an influence next to Java and C# and C++...But yes, I thought, as I did in the Pascal times, the foundations have been laid when a person learns his first programming language.

Eww. Pascal is the worst first language ever. A first language should show you and familiarize you the concepts that are the best we know, and that you are likely to encounter.

It should be as multiparadigm and as easy to access the tools as possible.

Javascript beginners soon will know the concepts of oop, functional paradigm, async, etc, will recognize every pattern when they see them, also will use the best approaches to problems.

While pascal beginners after years still won't understand shit (mapping over elements of an array? what sorcery is that?), and will write you procedural code to every problem that clearly just don't work.

Please don't force newbies to grind to write procedural code, it's way worse than nothing.
Could you quantify this with some numbers? What proportion of the requests you get every day are answered completely by your own index, without using Bing?
I don't think it's a genuine spam comment, because it doesn't actually mention any identifiable 'opportunity'. I assume it's someone trying to make a point, though God knows what that point could be.
They do, expand the specs section and scroll down. “Graphite MX Mechanical”, whatever those are behind the brand.
> sparsely populated and low on story

Elden Ring is like that (or rather, not in-your-face about it). You can tell it's filling a void because re-releasing the DS formula keeps selling like hot cakes.
In the context of the question, “why should we regulate this,” it’s a legitimate reason.

Banking is regulated to prevent these sorts of things. Crypto is designed to enable them. They need to be regulated.
Ask HN: Where do you go to ask questions that don't fit stackexchange.com?
Questions concerning technology, that aren't really "practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face" (Source: https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask) but at the same time are still way to technical or "goal oriented" in a way for places with a more colloquial attitude like reddit.com etc., and can't really be answered in a single paragraph, either because they are too open-ended and only were to be asked with the intent of gaining a more holistic understanding of a certain subject or because they're to complex?

You know, stuff that you would have originally asked in a forum about that specific topic, before they (the forums) all died off for no reason.
As I said, I'm not trying to convince you that they aren't stupid and worthless here -- just that there's a flourishing and highly functioning ecosystem built around them, which couldn't really exist in any other context.

Also, there are plenty of smart display companies popping up. Check out Infinite Objects or Atomic Forms.
>My impression is that most Muslims don’t real care about Muslims from other ethnic groups.

It's the same reason most "Muslims" don't "care" about Al Qaeda and ISIS. Many Muslim populations, just like the Chinese, are negatively affected by Uighur terrorist and extremist groups.

"Southeast Asia is witnessing evolving security risks from Chinese Uyghurs' involvement in military activities in the region."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/26351495.pdf
>I had never talked to a robot before. We talked for a while and I found out that its name was R0b0t. I asked it why it was just standing in the street and it said that it was waiting for its human friend. I told it that I didn’t have any friends that were robots, but that I would be its friend. R0b0t said that it would like that. Since then, R0b0t and I have been best friends. We do everything together.

Did he steal the robot or did it go willingly to a new owner?
I'd like to add nuance to this advice.

For reasons I don't understand, ortholinear is either a Really Big Deal or it just... isn't. I'm the latter. Switching to the ErgoDox layout took some doing, it's been an iterative process of tweaking the layout, but actually typing on linear keys was a transition I barely noticed.

For different brains it's a complete showstopper and they have to learn how to type again, for many people that won't be worth it. I prefer typing on linear keyboards.

There is unfortunately little way to tell which camp you're in without trying for yourself.
I use a k845[0]. Excellent keyboard. Inexpensive.

[0]https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/keyboards/k845-mecha...
Well Yegg, I'll keep on using DDG. As I have done for years.
It's not equivalent because while "American" can mean "somebody from the Americas" it also has a common usage specifically to mean "someone from the USA". Hardly anyone says USAians, and the phrase "are you Canadian or American" is one readily understood by any anglophone. "Asian" has no corresponding usage in relation to India.
The code for the functions is vendor agnostic. Vendor lock-in comes from the integrations the code that runs in the cloud ends up consuming, and the developer experience one acquires. The nature of cloud development is that one invariably becomes an expert in a cloud or stack, and that's the real lock in / why it's expensive to move in practice.
C++ shat the bed for all languages :(

Rust can't do anything without people fearing it's will inevitably end up like C++, or even just look at shallow syntactic similarities and conclude it's already just as bad. But really it's not. Rust has two+ kinds of strings on purpose because it has two kinds of ownership, not because it has a historical baggage.

Really, C++'s featuritis and exponential complexity is unique to it. Pretty much every other language has survived decades of evolution without fucking up, and gracefully grew into something better. Java and C# are doing fine. JS and PHP have cleaned up a lot of mess. Even Ada and Fortran have been evolving for decades, and are fine.

People learning Rust keep asking "but whyyyyy I have to write this syntax!?", and often they're surprised that the answer isn't "because BCPL on PDP-11…", but reasonable cases of bugs and ambiguities it avoids. Robust code at scale must avoid implicit behaviors, and good compiler suggestions depend on having redundancy in the syntax, so there's a limit to how much syntax sugar Rust can have to avoid creating gotchas.
@cached_property is the new lru_cache for me, much of the time :^)
Most people are not interested into building keyboards.
> The conclusion: it’s over. In two or three years, people won’t even talk about crypto. It will become a small corner of the investment world limited to the true believers who refuse to surrender.

It's a bit ironic how all his criticism revolves around Bitcoin's price whereas that is exactly what Bitcoin supporters are invariably criticized for.

One more obituary for https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
Oh man, this. I want a human readable document (markdown fits the bill) that resembles this:

---
source: <path_to_video>
---

[<timecode>-<timecode>]
```json
{ optional metadata }
```
...notes...

And can target different render outputs:

- Various NLE formats

- Mini web app with playback/live annotations (Maybe even with the capability to edit the underlying file)

- Simple webpage with thumbnails and notes

- An actual annotated supercut(!)

I just might build it!
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow (2019) by Aurélien Géron is very good, both covering theory and presenting code.
You could use the same argument about gold which is worth over $10 trillion for an amount that fits into a swimming pool.
I'm running a G710+ at home for five years at least (I bought when it was just discontinued for a steep discount), and written my Ph.D. on that, incl. the code and the manuscript, I can say that they're not bad.

Nothing is broken, no led is burnt off or no key has faded.

Being said that the G710+ uses CherryMX Browns which do not tend to die that easily.