skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PE firms have a horrible track record at doing anything other than maximizing revenue and profit without regard to any other issue. A quick look at what they have done to the motorized wheelchair industry makes that very clear. Wait times for service in DRM enabled wheelchairs can be 4 weeks or more. The thought of your only means of mobility being taken from you for a month because profit comes before service is terrifying.

Where I live we are already limited in our vet options and this will make it worse as they continue to gobble up small clinics.
It is less widely known that the fall of Soviet Union was caused by widespread use of asbestos in roof shingles.
Here's hoping that the high gas prices will finally encourage people to consider that cars aren't the only way to travel!

Alas, that will never happen in the US, but one can dream.
Synths aren’t real. ;)
You must be living in a perfect society with zero government/political corruption.

Good for you.
Downvote for actually suggesting turning us back into 90s era "Best Viewed In" situation.

I do applaud the wanting to improve performance elsewhere, but still gets a big shake of my head in disappointment that dev is allowed to get to a place where it only works in one browser at first until some amount of work after release to fix to work in other browsers. My sincere hope that you do get it to work universally, realize what was done that made it one-sided to begin with, and avoid those things in any future projects.
>> What evidence is there that deepfakes are harmful and not just distasteful?

Further down the thread there is an example of a political deepfake used to spread disinformation. I don't really care about distaste, it's authenticity (the truth) that is under attack by these. On the upside, they can offer a bit of entertainment.

It's not even a problem of regulation since the bad guys will always have deepfakes. The cat is out of the bag already.
They probably will provide message written in "big friendly letters" on a welcome screen at some point where it will be explained that K9 becomes Thunderbird, and how great that is for you as the user. Either they'll update the client or ask users to download new one and migrate - not sure how that happens on Android.

Will that help? Not sure. Mozilla seems to have weird goals nowadays.

Anyway, I'm so fed up with empty terms like "experiences" and "excitement" all around in IT. But guess that's what happens when you let marketing dictate way too many things in software development.
> There are situations in which humans will behave predictably

that's just high probability guess work at the best. what I mean by conscious is you won't be able to predict each and every move of a living thing throughout their lifetime. Nobody "designed" us unlike machines or algorithms. We do not have any function to perform (ironically the cause of all misery :P )

> For example, an airplane engine may unpredictably fail.

same argument you can make for the unpredictable direction of wind or the probability of rain. But, still these things are bound by the laws of physics and chemistry hence theoretically 100% predictable.
Both Windows and native Linux titles tend to "just work" out-of-the-box, but native titles tend to be harder to support as time goes on. Targeting Wine ensures that as long as Wine is updated to the latest Linux technology, your game should run fine. And since Wine isn't going anywhere anytime soon, this isn't a bad solution. Of course, you'll find all kinds of opinions on the matter, but I don't think people will be angry if you ship a Windows-first title with Linux compatibility being a second-class priority.

> I imagine a third party integration, like calling the achievement system ( Gamepass games do this ) might.

It depends, Wine should allow for cross-application communication. I guess it would depend on if you had Gamepass prereqs installed on your system, and if Gamepass even runs in Wine (I doubt it). With that being said, there's a surprising amount of third-party integrations that work perfectly fine on Linux. Steam achievements work on Linux even when playing Windows titles. Discord will automatically pick up Wine games and display them as "Playing Now" properly. Even a few anti-cheats have Wine/native support, allowing for games like Apex Legends to work online without a hitch.

Do whatever feels right for you, but I buy Windows games all the time and I don't own a single Windows machine.
Thanks for posting. Judging by your name and post history, you seem to be Icelandic, or at least knowledgeable about Iceland. Maybe a stupid question, but is winter the best time to see these glaciers? I would love to return to Iceland in the winter but everyone I talked to acted like traveling during the winter was quite dangerous.
For the economics of that comparison to make sense, we should also include material inputs to the construction. It doesn't matter to the cost of the final product if it was materials that were saved or labor cost. Software is the special case where cost almost entirely comes down to labor. So given that, we are of course constantly compromising quality. We realize that less though because buildings are more standardized.
But why can’t local clinics get new vets? Because they can’t pay them enough, because they don’t price gouge?
Though once manifest v3 is the only option, it's hard to say that'll really be as effective as uBlock Origin on Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
I started to bring awareness to the Earthfiles goofy license, but it seems they've switched to MPL! https://github.com/earthly/earthly/releases/tag/v0.6.15

The (unfortunately named) Dagger is also an entry into that space: https://github.com/dagger/dagger#readme (Apache 2)
Reminds me of a story from "I Sing The Body Electronic" by Fred Moody where a programmer leaves a playful entry titled "Slayer Sucks Live A Vacuum" in an almost-relase-version of Microsoft Encarta.

Fortunately, the good people at Microsoft knew that Slayer definitely do not suck, but it was too late to remove the entry, so they had to kind of hide it.
> If engineers were a dime a dozen, then Rails could be a great choice.

Are they not, though? The narrative is that there's simultaneously too many engineers coming out of school and yet it's extraordinarily difficult to hire engineers. Which is it? Or are most engineers really that bad that they're unhirable?

> Back here in reality, finding engineers is pretty hard, and the ones who we can find, are all only interested in working with Cool New Shiny Toys.

I definitely believe you, but I wonder how much of this is self-fulfilling. Maybe a lot of engineers get into cool-tech because more jobs are demanding it, and their perception is they'll be quickly obsolete if they work with boring-tech. Most newbs seem to look towards startups first, which are going to be using cool-tech a lot of the time, but there seems to actually be a lot of interest on HN in working with boring-tech at either nontech companies or BigCo.
I think they were called "hunting / gathering" for most of human history.

Heck, non-working pets (e.g. herd guardians, vermin control, etc.) were nearly unknown until relatively recently, because who had the wealth to feed a non-productive mouth?
A car needs to be ready to discharge at a much higher C than a house battery. So letting the house battery get a bit colder is fine.
The U.S. is currently exporting a massive amount of petroleum, much more than at any time in our history. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...

We also import a lot of oil, because the nation is enormous and consists of multiple markets. But we are importing less than we were 10-20 years ago. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...

Whether the balance is slightly above or below zero cannot be all that important.
> It's kind of weird that Linux in a way became what people were afraid Windows would

The fear surrounding Windows was that a company would own computing even more than IBM owned computing in the 1950s: Microsoft would be it, every other company would exist at Microsoft's sufferance and effectively pay a tax in order to be allowed to keep existing, and anything which would threaten Microsoft's current business plans would be destroyed through a mix of API changes, revocation of developer licenses, AARD code-like subterfuge, and, in extremis, actual lawsuits.

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

Add Palladium on top of that, and PCs are better locked-down than cell phones turned out to be:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computi...
I agree to the extent that people fail to realize how they could be missing out opportunities to innovate or corner a market when they leave performance on the table. Quite often, new products become possible when a basic task like rendering HTML goes from taking 10 seconds to 10ms. I think you can paint the problem in broad strokes from either side of the "how important is performance?" argument.

From a "get the bills paid" point-of-view, any good project manager also has to know when to tell an engineer to focus on getting the product shipped instead of chasing that next 5% in throughput/latency reduction/overhead. I've seen my fair share of programmers (including myself) refuse to ship to a project because the pursuit of some "undesirable" latency and not finish more important features.

For tasks like video streaming, Automation software (CI pipelines to robotics), video games, professional tools for content creation (DAWs, video editing, Blender, etc.) performance is the feature, but then your product is helping them get the bills paid faster. Medical apparatus(es?) and guidance software on autonomous vehicles are examples of where latency is a life-or-death situation.

I think everyone would benefit from playing with OpenRTOS, or writing some code that deals with video/audio where there are hard deadlines on latency. But I'm never gonna hold some weekend-project static site generator in Ruby to the same standard as macOS.
incriminate? What laws did the police break?
I was thinking it was the end of the era of fun websites too. That is overstated, but...
Of course. But fighting against the war shouldn't involve creating more harm.
Decentralized science platform Molecule raises $13M in seed funding
Yeah, sure. The "weakness" they don't want exposed is them standing around in the hallway doing nothing while the murderer took his time in a classroom full of kids.
Wow that's fascinating, thanks for sharing it!

Although I disagree with how the author describes quaternions as black boxes. The two questions he asks:

- Why does i2=j2=k2=−1 and ij=k?
- Why do we take a vector and upgrade it to an "imaginary" vector in order to transform it, like q(xi+yj+zk)q∗?

Are clearly explained in these interactive videos created by Grant Sanderson and Ben Eater: https://eater.net/quaternions

After I watched those videos, quaternions stopped being so opaque to me. I recommend them :-)
It's impressive how far people are willing to go to avoid looking up information in order to come to their own preordained conclusions.
Trivia: Diet Pepsi has 177mg Aspartame, so a rounding error's difference of phenylalanine.

Perhaps this started as a Diet Coke marketing viral campaign?
Excellent point. That thought never crossed my mind.

My desire for web-of-trust reviews to exist made it harder for me to think as a ruthlessly profit driven company thinks.
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Thanks, I was trying to make roughly the same point in a roundabout way. The comment I replied to seemingly made an implicit assumption not supported by physics, being outside of its scope, that reality causes consciousness, while as you say it could equally be the opposite as far as the framework of natural sciences is concerned.

If so, we should mind both possibilities, and I very much agree that philosophy is key to learning about the issue (as opposed to physics, chemistry, biology and so on), though I might add Kant to your list.
Apparently, this used to be a thing in department stores. If someone complained, the manager would make a deal out of “firing” the scapegoat employee and the customer would be happy.
You are correct to use the term "investors" with quotes, but if I understand your intention, you are suggesting they are gamblers, and therefore deserve to lose.

You're talking about the general public who for the most part don't own stocks, or when they do, that is treated like gambling (RobinHood).

Then you get big name stars, people they trust, to tell them they should be buying crypto. They see it go up, and then see they don't have to spend more, they can just get more, like BNPL, or payday loan for investments that go up. They say "yes please, how much can I get".

Sure, some people were just a*holes over leveraging themselves and taking a risk. But I suspect many people didn't know how deep they could go, or what they could get themselves into.

Even if you disagree with how somebody got into a situation, doesn't mean you can't have empathy for their position.
What Happened to Luna?
P=P is based on K-9 and had a material design UI long before K-9 had it.

Postbox is based on Thunderbird with a more modern UI, but its Windows and macOS only (does work in Wine).

I stick with FairEmail on Android for now. Its completely FOSS and in active development.
> If the product contains bugs/manufacturing defects/etc. then i expect the manufacturer to either fix those or refund me.

This analogy doesn't work with software. If you put your fridge in your house and your power goes out, you can very clearly see that your fridge is inoperable because of your power, not the fridge. Now let's try this with software:

- The software you buy supports Linux v16 but not v18. You upgrade to v18 not knowing and not your software is broken. But the software was sold to you to support v16 and not v18.

- The software you buy supports API connections to Twilio. In the docs it says "easy to use extensible API for all SMS providers". Twilio discontinues its v1 API endpoint but your software only supports v1 and not v2. You decide to migrate to Plivo and everything works except for one API call that is used once every 3 months.

And on and on and on...see the point?

> I am asking you to provide to me exactly on what we agreed upon in our contract.

Great, now the developer not only has to be a "good developer" but also an expert in contract writing (or has a lawyer that is). Or worse, the lawyer and developer must be completely and harmoniously in sync about product functionality and the contractually nature that you, the client, originally decided to sign the contract with. Note - In case you are unaware, software contracts are notoriously difficult to do well (see Google/Oracle debacle).

> If I buy a product I expect that product to perform as was promised. If it does not and the manufacturer refuses to work with me then it's a breach or contract.

I think you're going to find the more and more you explain your position the more and more you'll see that "why is this so hard" is truly...hard.
The people sitting around betting on interest rates don't seem to think so.
Yeah, it would be the last thing you do:

1. dump on the market

2. take out a huge short position

3. tell the world that Tether refused to redeem
If speed was all that mattered then almost no one would be using Python.
Couple notes related to using the Wayback Machine to recover parts of the old blog:

To list URLs for bulk downloading, you can also directly use the CDX or Memento APIs, which are pretty simple and require no auth. Documentation here,[1][2] though the bulk of the CDX docs in the GitHub repo they link apparently haven't been updated since 2013.

[1] https://archive.org/help/wayback_api.php

[2] https://support.archive-it.org/hc/en-us/articles/11500179002...

Appending if_ to the date part of an archive URL hides the Wayback Machine banner -- the URL format also supports other replay codes and approximate dates. The official docs[3] here are even more outdated; Wikipedia's guide[4] looks like the most complete but still leaves out codes like oe_ and mp_ (which no one seems to know the intended uses of).

[3] http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/projects/wayback/admin...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Using_the_Wayback_Machine...
This sounds like a disturbingly effective idea. I'm glad that lootbox legislation seems to be increasing, but I don't think it would cover the general concept of commercially extorting people's desire for companionship.
Nobody asked if I thought it was right, they asked who gets tested and the answer is "me".

We aren't paying for the tests, so WTF do I care? I've had jobs where I had to clean the toilets, you might walk away from a good salary and good WLB just because they ask you to stick a q-tip up your nose once a day, but it just doesn't seem like that big a deal to me.
OK. Elixir is a no go for me, there's zero jobs where I live and I don't see this ever changing.
It leaves Python, it was the second most enjoyable (to me) after Ruby, and Django is fine. Node is simply too hectic with new frameworks coming in every week and Go...oh boy.
It is just keeping up with inflation. A roasted duck at the 99 supermarket i just checked yesterday was $9 20 years ago, now it is $29. The houses in the neighborhood in 2007 were $850K, today is $2.5M. The same with salaries - the engineer salaries went from $80-140K 20 years ago to $350-600K today. Or even CA state budget - $100B in 2000, $300B in 2022 (with almost a $100B surplus on top of those $300B) for pretty much the same population.

So, it is just normal that the gas that was around $2-3, today - $7+. Thus the gas isn't "expensive", it is in-line with everything else, and thus wouldn't drastically change any behavior. Giving the instabilities, it wouldn't be surprising to see $10-15 gas.
My weekends camping rarely cost me more than $20.

$1.50 on food per meal.

$1 on camping gas or coal for the weekend.

$200 of gear, but it will last me 20+ camping weekends.

$0 on travel, because I'll be hiking.
The eastern half of the empire was just as Christian and didn’t collapse for another thousand years, so you can’t really point to Christianity as the cause.

I don’t know why people obsess over finding a cause for the fall of Rome when it was one of the world’s longest lasting empires. We should be more interested in how it endured for over a millennia (nearly two thousand years if you count the Republic) whereas most continent-spanning empires fell apart in a handful of centuries or even decades.
Thanks! I have 2 pricing plans currently. One for those ideating/validating businesses ($19/mo), and one for those using Reddit for customer acquisition ($39/mo).
I’m a bit out of the ML loop, but I had no idea hugging face has made it so easy to get access to all these models. Really interesting that this is available in Postgres now!

Does this work with GPUs?
Yep, and even the places where you have two vets, you dig in and find they're both owned/employed by the same company.

In really rural areas, you find vets who will "work off the clock" for cash payments if they know you well, to cut out the company.
You got 37MPG in a (I guess they're technically "compact") SUV with a gasoline (petrol) engine? I'm just having a really hard time with that. That's in the same ballpark as what diesel wagons get (the TDI Sportwagen sees a real world ~43 MPG) and the Q5 isn't exactly a svelte profile, aerodynamically speaking.

Did this roadtrip consist of large amounts of elevation loss? I just have a really hard time understanding how you bested the EPA estimates by almost 28% while cruising at 70+ MPH. I roadtrip in an Outback wagon that can manage somewhere near 30MPG if I keep my foot out of it and is a similar footprint to a Q5, if not a bit more aerodynamic.
I bet you wouldn’t hire me, even though I am a very competent developer with a long resume. The problem is narrow minded hiring. I have never had problem hiring good people.
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They are but I like a constant stream of cool drink around. Usually this is just water or seltzer but sometimes it's a coke zero :-)
These days I'd imagine that pretty much any profiling and/or coverage tool worth its salt should be able to gather this information automatically.
These JS/TS full-stack frameworks need to be banned right along with fruit-flavored vapes. Think of the children.
I personally don't think so, unless in life-threatening situations.

The dairy industry is arguably the worst of factory farming: all the horrific aspects of the meat industry, but prepended with years of subjugation (forced insemination, illness, etc.)

In the best case, a cow is treated like a pet, which A.) is never the case, and B.) still necessitates taking something from an animal without it's consent. Something that is specifically for it's newborn, as well. That's _always_ gonna be wrong, unless it's a matter of life and death for someone.
I agree, it is just a question of balancing numbers. Is it better for a 100 families to struggle with costs, 1,000, ect

I dont think anyone is trying to argue that unemployment is a good thing in an absolute sense.
It's really too bad that SEGA completely hemorrhaged talent after dropping their hardware business -- nothing they've made since then has come close to what they used to release.
Oh hey CarVac! Yeah, PhobGCC was sorely needed and I'm excited to see where it goes. :)

I'm already on the Frame1 train, but I may end up building one soon just to check it out.
> high gas prices will finally encourage people to consider that cars aren't the only way to travel

It’s more likely to entrench them, along with build popular support for slashing a lot of climate regulations. Humans don’t like fast change. Trying to force it usually backfires.
Elixir/Phoenix would be a much better fit but it’s your loss to bear if you really do like a big ball of monkeypatched mutable spaghetticode
Only food got 100% more expensive, lets eat gasoline. One has to wonder which country is the free one and which has a higher quality public education, lol
I enjoy a good 404 page. Not many sites have interesting ones anymore. Usually imageboards have good ones, custom illustrations (like 4chn) or cool gifs/music (like lainchan).

I thoroughly enjoyed this one!
These statements are from reality, nothing about ideology.

Bureaucracy is only near guaranteed by science form of organization of more than 50 persons.

And exclusive owner is also most effective form, from known to science.
Yes there are sadly many ways to profit from a bot that can better emulate a human so I guess my call to action was unrealistic in that regard.

Can we do anything to better prepare users for this kind of attack? Better bot detection? Or are we doomed to a dystopian future where any interaction not in person is suspect and then, once the androids arrive, even those will be also.
If by "chastised" you mean "threatened to tase", yep. They're also retaliating against one woman who went in to save her own kids. IIRC, she's on probation and they're trying to take her kids away now.
And a human brain is just changing physical and quantum states of the underlying material and isn't doing anything different at that level than any other pile of meat.
You have a really good point, thank you for your post and the reminder of this aspect!

I believe fully in the importance of ethics and security that we as a society and we that work in tech should be honoring in full. It is disheartening to watch trusted companies utilize that -just enough- mentality to skim over the tops of audits. We have all seen what it looks like when companies operate from the absolute minimum and how dangerous and disrespectful that is for everyone- company and users included.