skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very sloppy on the part of the language model makers, they should have filtered stuff like that out of their input stream.

Are you in Europe?

If so you might have a GDPR track available to you for getting it removed. You may also want to do a DSAR.
your username contain part of your actual name?…

…Not to reveal information here (counter to your goals) but there was no way this thread wouldn’t motivate people to see how hard it is to find your name. But I was surprised to see the username contained a word from your real name considering you’re concerned about revealing personal information.

Making a new online identity is pretty standard practice these days if you’re worried about this sort of this. Especially if you read Grugq’s stuff about modern opsec (just google his name).
DigiKam 7.7.0
TL;DR

1. "The truth is, it is complicated"

2. 26% of CO2 production comes from food production (including vegan options)

3. The average (real values vary by a lot of factors) CO2 emission for 1kg of each of the following meals: Beef 71Kg; Lamb 12Kg, Poultry 10Kg, Tofu (vegan) 3.2Kg, Potatoes 0.5Kg. HOWEVER, not all beef is made the same! Some beef production emits as much as 105Kg of CO2 while others less than 9Kg of CO2.

4. Buying locally produced food does not result in significantly lower emissions since % from transportation is actually quite low. Shipping one Kg of avocado internationally results in 0.3Kg of CO2 per Kg transported.

5. 65% of the land used to raise cows is not suitable to grow crops thus making use of otherwise not useful land. However, a large % of cows are grown from cereal products and not grass land.

6. If we had a 100% vegan diet (assuming we could make that work and produce everything needed for this in every country on the planet) we could reduce our CO2 emissions by 16% <- Not revolutionary IMO implying we need a better solution than that.

A quick research revealed to me that, like anything, there are techniques to reduce (or even make beef production have a negative CO2 emission). However, economic viability, etc comes into play. I will continue eating beef and reduce my carbon footprint by other means such as carpooling and using public transportation instead of owning a car.
same. Have a premium account but their search doesn't work properly. At one point I asked their support and they switched my account from premium to non-premium, asked me to pay for another premium account (which they then refunded). Then it was working properly for some months, but now it's having problems again. So annoying...
Well, almost everyone talking here about nonorepos why they are actually building are distributed monoliths. That's why they need changes cross all clients on the same PR.
Ooof, yeah. I'm old enough to have done time inputting programs on a PDP-11 front panel this way. O_O
Taking Socrates as a model of public discourse would not be complete without noting that it got him condemned to death. The asking of questions is often regarded as hostile by those whose worldview or self-interest is threatened by the reasonable responses those questions may elicit.
The username <-> full name association might be private. One reason is that I would not want to explain to a clueless employer why the first result for my real name is an account in Hacker News.
I couldn't lose any more respect: I have almost none for people who devalue my labor the way these people do. To see them then complain when one of the corporations they give their labor to for free offers them a pittance in return is just amusing. Maybe they should negotiate a salary and stop working for free.
Online gambling is allowed in certain US states: Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
Sounds like you have an interesting case. Contacting ethical ai fund, eff or similar might help to start a process.
The way adulthood is defined here, as in not having hobbies or personal time, strikes me as strange. I disagree with it - but I’d like to hear what people think of as adulthood.

I suppose I’m an outlier (aren’t we all) but most things I have to do, I like to do them. My job is an extension of an immensely satisfying and enriching hobby. If something breaks, it’s interesting to attempt to fix it. Having a choice AND not having one are both, to me, liberating in a sense. I’m a hands on person when I can be. The things I don’t like to do I often give them to family members or friends who do like to do them. Is there an air of petulance over needing to do things from time to time? Sure, but that’s normal.

Perhaps it’s to do with facing death, or seeing close friends and family pass away, or relinquishing a part of your time and energy to your kids, or seeing people change for the worse over time. But if this is what adulthood is, then whoever thinks so has not even begun to question what life is all about.

But this is a sliver of contemplation, it is not a be all end all to things.
If you use monorepos and at the same time you use microservices, what you are doing is called a distributed monolith.
> It's that long tail content in aggregate could be financially viable for distributors and other sellers--which seems at least somewhat true

I don't disagree with that point, rather I never cared that the long tail would be "financially viable for distributors". In fact, I suppose I prefer that it is not viable for them.

Long live the long tail!
A detailed discussion is on Julia discourse:
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discussion-on-why-i-no-lon...

Bugs are everywhere - including Python and R libraries. You would not design a safety critical system in Python using libraries and codepaths that are not heavily tested. Even then, you still have to carefully design testsuites that give you confidence that what you are computing is what is expected.

See these talks on how a collision avoidance system was designed with Julia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj-WhTL_VXE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19zm1Fn0S9M
It’s possible to still have fruitful conversations with a completely negative valence. And it’s not even completely negative. There’s always people making comments like these ones, of the form “woe is me, everyone is unfair to my favorite scam!”
All the more reason legislation should have been passed at some point over the last 50 years.
1. As one of "these people," I would encourage you to watch this video on the neurology of hate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeZ3_OtDa7E

2. I only work on open source. My income is at most half of what it would be if I worked on proprietary software. I do donate to other projects, and I do appreciate (serious) donors. I've never gotten (or asked for) tips, but I've gotten one or two donations big enough to make a difference.

3. I would also encourage you to read about how con artists (and marketers) manipulate people by generate reciprocity:

- Someone on the street hands you a "free" pamphlet / flower / etc. and asks for a donation.

- Thought leaders are sent a free product

- Managers / executives are wined and dined just below what conflict-of-interest laws allow

... and so on.

I don't appreciate being manipulated. I have turned down gifts and donations before which felt in bad faith.
To me, this doesn't seem like a large number of claims. It seems like the minimum number of claims that appear as a result of attaching a 3d printer head to a cable-driven parallel manipulator.

> A cable-driven additive manufacturing system comprising:

So, it's a 3-d printer with something additional for it.

> an end effector configured for linear translation within a three-dimensional workspace along an x-axis, a y-axis, and a z-axis;

Nothing new here, as this is true for any 3-d printer with a stationary bed.

> an aerial hoist suspending the end effector within the three-dimensional workspace by at least one suspension cable, the aerial hoist having a static position within the three-dimensional workspace whereby the aerial hoist is not translated along the x-axis with the end effector and the aerial hoist is not translated along the y-axis with the end effector;

The printer is suspended, and the suspension point doesn't move. So, distinct from having the printer bed move, but otherwise the obvious next step if you have the head moving in 3d.

> an aerial cable winder configured to control linear translation of the end effector along the z-axis;

Again, the obvious next step. With a fixed suspension point, pulling on the rope sets the height of the printer head.

> a plurality of motion-control base stations disposed below the aerial hoist and configured to control linear translation of the end effector in an x-y plane defined by the x-axis and the y-axis, each motion-control base station comprising a base station cable winder;

If x-y control is handled from above, then the maximum x-y speed is limited by the speed of gravity. If you attempt to move any faster, then one of the suspension cables will no longer be under tension, and the remaining ones will act as a pendulum until the maximum length of the untensioned cable is reached.

> a plurality of motion-control cables, at least one of the plurality of motion-control cables running from each of the base station cable winders to the end effector;

Well, yes. Otherwise the base stations aren't exactly base stations.

> at least one tension-control base station; and

If you are only controlling the length, then any allowed tolerance in the length spooled out will result in a larger uncertainty of the location of the print head. This is a requirement from having the x-y controls below the printer head.

> at least one tension-control cable running from the tension-control base station to the end effector.

Well, yes. Otherwise the base stations aren't exactly base stations.

So these entire claims boil down to nothing more than the shower thought of "What would happen if I put a 3d printer pen [0] on a Robocrane? [1]" Given cable-actuated parallel manipulators aren't exactly new [2], this wouldn't pass the non-obvious test to me. Heck, applying this for 3d printing is suggested in this reddit thread [3] (2016 video, March 2021 thread).

[0] https://www.amazon.com/3d-printing-pen/s?k=3d+printing+pen

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocrane

[2] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1155/2014/823028

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/robotics/comments/mej19w/extremely_...
There's no need to defend name calling, or Microsoft. Neither benefit anyone.
Why should AI have different privacy standards than google?

The papers you referred too in the top comment have been talking about the ability for AI to infer PII from anonymous data. But that’s not what happened here. You are complaining about AI returning non-anonymous data with easily findable results via other mechanisms. I’m not sure I understand why AI should be expected to understand and filter out information that is otherwise public?
Traffic calming measures, unless implemented entirely incorrectly, are not unmarked. To have them unmarked would defeat the purpose, which is to indicate that the driver of the vehicle attempting to navigate the street must slow down. It is not in the interest of those living on a street with traffic calming measures to have drivers cross the traffic calming measure at a high speed.
Yes, the original 6502 was laid out by hand on Mylar with pencils and X-acto knives by only a couple people. A motivated hobbyist could probably do it in a weekend in VHDL.

The more interesting thing I think is that the existence of this official IP core implies that it is already out in production in millions of components, like the Tamagotchi[1] and Furby[2], presumably running at a very diverse array of clock frequencies. I wonder which product has the fastest WDC 6502?

[1] https://hackaday.com/2013/05/24/tamagotchi-rom-dump-and-reve...

[2] https://official-furby.fandom.com/wiki/Furby_(1998)/Technica...
> I wish this article was longer

I submitted the link because it was the first time I saw this "elephant in the room" clearly defined and identified - not because the article proposed great solutions. Anyway, the author will see the traffic spike.. Let's wait for a longer article.
So there are no situations where deliberately ending the live of other humans is not considered murder?
Thing is, the “child” here is purely imaginary. It’s a fringe theory, proven to be wrong not only by secular ethicists and most religions, but even Acquinas himself. It’s not any different from anti vax or flat earth.
One of the things I really like about Python is that it doesn't (or didn't) use a lot of punctuation marks, preferring keywords instead. Makes it a lot easier to digest at a glance IMO, especially as I've gotten older and my eyesight is not so great. In C, it's easy to recognize curly braces because of their positioning, but when something could be a curly or parenthesis, they can be hard to distinguish. And languages that combine multiple punctuation marks start to look like write-only APL - my opinion. Last, overusing punctuation marks makes it impossible for search engines to look for language-related things because most engines strip punctuation marks.
Holy shit, dude wrote up an entire essay on their journey to rid themselves of their phone. Meanwhile, I’m here never had a phone and without an essay. The duality of man.
Every large successful open source project I know is explicitly not in the public domain/licensed CC0. I understand that there are some people that are very against copyright/intellectual property but you surely must interact with a large number of projects/people that disagree.
It seems like you are pretty angry at me trying to get the notion across that this is good, but they could do better. That’s okay, I can deal with that.

But I want to make one thing clear: I’m not doing this for HN karma. I haven’t commented on here in years, and this article prompted a reaction. Trying to somehow shoehorn that into "you’re only doing this for points” is invalidating that in a way that I find troubling, because, really, how can I prove you wrong? I might just have an opinion on something and wanted to engage with a community about it, or I might not. Only I can tell (and you, apparently).

EDIT: Correction. I submitted two comments 2 months ago that I forgot about, the comments before that are from 2019.
We should ask also how do countries get rich amd also stay democratic and free.
Saudi Arabia may be rich but that doesn't mean it's a great place to live
> I don’t know why that’s where your head goes

This is literally the context of the speculation in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31883497

I'm done with this thread. Too many people jump to conclusions and don't understand threads of conversation.
See my reply to the other commenter, it applies to you as well
Democratically? I hope you’re kidding. This court doesn’t have the thinnest of veneers to hide behind. They have a pretty obvious agenda (e.g., Thomas’s concurring opinion) and show no deference to either precedent or the Constitution.

We’re in uncharted waters here. I can’t think of a parallel in our short history where SCOTUS has shown such complete disregard for anything but their own political and religious beliefs. I think what’s getting lost in this is that Roe doesn’t just apply to abortion but the broader right to privacy. Others have pointed out the logical implications of what the government can and will do with these powers.
I finally switched to a 3rd party app (Apollo) and _gee_ is it nice to use reddit without an actively hostile UI.
you established an online identity that is apparently persistent across many different websites and also intentionally linked it to your personal identity

this has nothing to do with AI or GDPR. the places you gave this information were public. when you do this there’s no way you “ try to hide my real name whenever possible, out of an abundance of caution.” you’re doing all the things any basic infosec lesson would tell you to not do
But it’s probably not ASCII but rather scancodes, which definitely use the MSB for special keys such as function keys, scroll lock, caps lock, and other chorded combinations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scancode
You got downvoted, but you're hinting at a good point.

Today we are told that any discomfort is unacceptable, and you are owed living a life without it.

I think a lot of "adulting" is rejected because it comes with downsides. And more and more people seem to demanding no such downsides. They are owed cherry picking the gains, with no requirement for any of the work for it.

E.g. take this comment, where this person is saying "someone else" owes them all financial compensation for a child, and on top of that they deserve a living wage salary to just be a parent:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31638715
Older generations have been walking away for responsibilities, like caring for the climate.

Why would the current youth want to become one of them?

Also, youth is not launching into adulthood because they simply can't have certain privileges that older generations have, like owning a decent house.

Why become something if you only get downsides?
You are right about the lack of competition in the third world. But there are sometimes structural and legal factors that make it harder to make money there; lawsuits, arguments, edge cases, and general agreement on how things should work that the West figured out long ago. You can’t invest lots of money with confidence until these things have stabilized.

The other thing is that the economy is like an ecosystem - the richer it gets, the more nooks and crannies open up that can host thriving systems. That’s how a complex, rich economy can keep growing exponentially. Human needs are not limited - there’s always a way to improve life for someone.
> Can you please provide a train number that goes from BCN to Montpellier that isn't an SNCF TGV Euroduplex?

Damn you’re right, the track to Barcelona is now high speed standard gauge. I used to go from Montpellier to Spain very regularly in the late 2000s, the choice was then between a variable-gauge Talgo, or a change at Figueres.
I read like halfway through the article and felt like this hardware was, in classic German car fashion, very over-engineered for the relatively simple purpose of sending one of 5-6 signals to a transmission controller.
Banning abortion is typical for authoritarian regimes - Hitler, Stalin, Catholic extremists all banned abortion, and for the same reason: to turn citizens into cattle.
While I agree that maybe we should use since other metric for adulthood, I completely disagree about only being able to vote if you pay taxes. That has to be the most regressive idea I've ever seen on this site.

So because you're so poor you don't pay taxes, you don't get to vote? What if you don't believe the laws are fair and that's why you're too broke to pay taxes? Oh well, your voice will never be heard.

> With no skin in the game, so to speak, you have no incentive to consider both the collective good with your own good.

This idea that how much money you make shows merit and how responsible are and that you have "skin in the game" is completely absurd. Everyone who lives in this country has skin in the game. How much money you make doesn't imply merit and worthyness to vote. A rich person paying capital gains taxes as their only taxes isn't a better person than someone working multiple minimum wage jobs.

The results of elections can affect everyone. They can put us at war for example. They can affect the environment you live in and your quality of life.

Also, how would this even be implemented. At the local level what if you pay sales tax? Do you show a receipt to vote? At the federal level what if you pay taxes but you're so poor you get it all back? Is it that you paid taxes to begin with that gives you the right vote? Do you have to net lose money to the government. Can I just donate a dollar to the federal government and call it a federal voting tax, then be able to vote?

Anyway, I honestly want to know what problems you're solving by treating poor people like felons.
Do you speak Greek? Do you agree with slavery, child soldiers, an ethno-nationalist expansionist navy? What's your view on diddling little kids? Also, have you thanked Apollo for this morning's sun rise? Modern secular humanists trying to claim the Ancient Greeks for themselves? Hilarious... well, accept that the little kid diddling appears to be making a comeback, so perhaps you have me there.
I copy pasted a database schema, described a query involving multiple tables and asked it to write using PostgreSQL. It did it.

If I can do this locally with some existing kit, I would love to hear your recommendation.
Python implicit string iteration is an annoying trap.

COMPLETE_STATES = 'done', 'cancelled'

if state in COMPLETE_STATES:
…

Then you decide to handle cancelled tasks separately.

COMPLETE_STATES = 'done'

Boom!

Can't remember a less contrived example right away, but I have broken real code by inadvertently calling string iteration and spent some time scratching my head. Granted, don't think I've seen something like this in a PR, only in local development.

P.S. I think last time I stumbled on this, it actually involved Django ORM and changing filter(state__in=COMPLETE_STATES) to filter(state__in=DONE).
Literally no one is expecting Crypto to be bailed out by the US gov.
Without commenting specifically on crypto, I’d say that any kind of financial speculation is a cut-throat endeavor and taking any media reports at face value is foolish without doing your own research and using your gut.

Big players FUD the assets they want to buy cheaply, and hype up the bags they want to get rid of. This has been going on online even before crypto was invented.
I went through the dropping all my hobbies and was happy with that decision for about 6 months when I had a newborn and didn’t have time for anything else because of unpredictable sleep and returning to work after my paternity leave. There is room to do a great job raising your kids, remain involved in their lives, work a full time job and find a bit of personal time for hobbies. I’m doing that again now that my son is nine months and mostly sleeps through the night. Honestly, some hobbies only need 3 hours a week of time commitment and you should be able to find that in your life if you have the right people around you. It’s definitely different if you’re trying to raise a kid alone (I have so much sympathy for the difficulties of single parenthood now that I know how hard it can be with two people.)
"Other people who can get pregnant" made my day.
An Interview with Marc Scholten, Founder of IHP and Thin Back End
It might be a little glib, but that’s the main incentive I see here, especially since they’re exclusively using their own system, Github Sponsors, to direct the money. It makes sense, but if it was truly only about the maintainers, wouldn’t it be better to get the money to them through whatever means they choose to implement?

But you’re right: in the end trying to find out what their actual motives are is purely speculation, and I shouldn’t have phrased it as if it were a fact.
I honestly don’t think actual cryptocurrency’s exist. I was very excited when bitcoin came out in 2008 or so but soon after I thought this is not really useful as a currency
I am not sure how accurate is the first paragraph. There is a strong notion in Confucianist countries that promotes saving majority of your income. People in China, Taiwan, and Singapore often tend to send save 70% of their income. The same can be said about migrants from those nations that moved to the western countries. At the same time, in the US and Western Europe is one decides to save 50% of their income it is considered exceptionally high.
The alternative is the US model where anybody can do anything with your data and there is nothing you can do about it. Government has to make a law about every case of misuse.

To me that doesn't sound better.