skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never claimed that everyone wants to claim AI for themselves.

Artificial intelligence is ofcourse a scientific field on it's own right, even before machine learning was a thing. I'm just saying that AI scientists have used concepts from statistics to create an approach to AI called machine learning. I'm not saying that ML is a subset of statistics, mind you, but the statistical underpinnings of it definitely are. ML is not _just_ statistics too.

Moreover, why would statisticians be pissed about the efficacy of a model?

Firstly, many problems/questions that I work on are not concerned with prediction.

Secondly, even if I did, I would love to use DNNs. It's just that I never have a use for it considering I'm only looking at tabular data. Why bother with DNNs when, say, a random forest will do?
Matrix treats all chats as chatrooms, even 2 people chats. This is promoted as a simplification, but maybe it's a security problem. If a protocol only allows 2 people to chat, harder to exfiltrate the messages
A lot of people are saying it's because it looks like an ad, and I agree, but my first thought was that it just looked like an ugly banner with the page title or something.

Maybe I've been conditioned by poorly designed webpages.
Opensea is not a dapp though, it’s as centralized as they get.
Ask HN: Can you give me something interesting or useful to work on?
hi

I'm desperate to do something interesting or useful

it shouldn't be too easy because you can google it

it shouldn't take too long because I easily get bored

if I need to

I can read any documentation or paper

I can debug or program in any programming language

I can learn inkscape or krita or blender or godot or Unity

any idea is welcome

thanks
By being too protective of their tech and overhyping their own progress such that when it actually launched, it didn't seem to be such a desirable thing.

edit: typo
This will only work if there are legal ways to prevent mangers from discriminating against work from homers. For example, people who work from home could be first of the list for layoffs. The work from home people are just names on a screen not socializing during meetings and in the hallway. A person who is perceived to be a "team player" is probably going to get much more out of their company than those who aren't. So while they may have the right to work from home, the deck will be stacked against them.
How Prisma adapts Result Types based on the Actual Arguments given
wxPython is the only maintained alternative there. I think there’s an opportunity to create bindings to other languages with libClang nowadays. However, it’s gotta be done selectively, since there’s so much surface area in the API to fill in the gaps for C++’s standard library.
LPMUD's online editor comes with a reasonable implementation of ed. It's actually the only way to edit files in the MUD environment (and as a result, how I learned ed).
The two are not mutual exclusive. In fact, you need both to be successful as an entrepreneur. Some people are amazing at executing but need to "sell" their work. Some people "sell" but cannot deliver. Merry the two together? Boom.
I think this is just a cheeky remark and the reflexive answer only show insecurity.
It's always a good idea to use an acronym that people aren't embarrassed to say out loud, especially for extremely successful widely adopted award winning open source projects.

Just watch what happened when the OpenVDB project won the 2014 Academy's Scientific & Technical Achievement Award hosted by Margot Robbie and Miles Teller on February 7, 2015 at the Beverly Wilshire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FwOc4OSOR0

https://www.openvdb.org/
Is that because of heat losses getting to you, or because enough heat is being used to heat the houses that the overall temp is lower?
And that’s the trick. You use the bad apples to delegitimise the good ones. Works every time.
Pillars of Creation: $16B Space Telescope vs. $500 Backyard Photo
I deal with something similar in a bit of software I use. If I click on an appointment, I can then click on the patient name to see the patient record or the client name to see the client info. At some point someone thought they should make the patient name more prominent, so they put it in a larger font, bold, all caps with extra spacing between the characters, and now I never see it and end up accidentally clicking the client's name.
Former attorney turned software developer here!

Nope, it's not a settled question in the way that I think you mean. Each ToS is different so each would be subject to individual legal analysis in court on its own terms.

Questions would include whether the ToS is unconscionable, whether the terms violate laws of the locality/nation, and so forth.

It's the same with traditional contracts - the fact that contracts have been around for hundreds (maybe thousands) of years doesn't mean much if you and I create a brand new one between us. Our contract's specific terms (and events/actions between us as a result) would be the issue in court.
This is why I actually own all our movies on Blu-ray. These days they are cheap online and locally (I averaged $6 per movie with the most common ones being cheapest and rare ones the most expensive - $8 for the entire original Star Wars trilogy in Good box condition, and players are $7 on average at Goodwill), they are easily ripped if that is your thing into 1080p streams that still look better in some circumstances than highly compressed 4K streams, and they can be resold later and never taken away.

Even though it cost quite a bit to get the collection - after you do the math of the cost of HBO Max, Netflix, Disney+, and [insert typical random streaming service here]... it might pay off in only a few years while retaining some resale value. It is also super fun to go bargain hunting - $2.99 for the first 4 Pirates of the Caribbean movies [literally, for me at a thrift shop]? Score!
You're absolutely right. In haste, I misread the data. I updated my comment to indicate I was wrong about this. Thank you!
I don't understand this comment - I have to assume you haven't used it at all (or at least several years).

Multiple external displays works MILES better on wayland - I can set proper scaling ratios set on each screen, which is basically a requirement for a modern laptop with external monitors. No more "This window opened on my laptop screen and will be HUGE on the external monitors because the laptop was scaled for hidpi and the externals aren't". Now the issue is just limited to apps running in x-wayland, and I have close to zero apps that I care about running in x-wayland these days.

Further - I get much more consistent external display output with Wayland. I plug the monitor in and it "just fucking works"tm.

Screen sharing is a pain on basically every modern system - you're letting one application monitor and consume the output on another. Allowing this by default and with no user prompt is a fucking nightmare (and as much as people bitch about "but mah screen sharing!" - there's an equally vocal push from the "but mah system security!" crowd). Wayland struggled here for a bit, but it seems like covid finally pushed the right buttons to get this knocked out in most of the DEs I've used. All the major sharing platforms now seem to work - Slack/Discord/Zoom/Chrome/etc... Including sharing multiple displays now.

So basically - fucking no one thinks this: "But if Wayland folks think that having two external displays and screen sharing is an esoteric workflow"
I used to know a BSD kernel developer who wrote all his kernel code with ed
I really don't get what the argument is here? NK and others also use Tor, Signal (Protocol), and more. Are they all bad? And why always use the most extreme examples like NK and China?

If US citizens could empathize with people not only from NK, but also from places like Turkey, where the value of our currency has been demolished under the current authoritarian government (and, IMO, they aren't far away from putting limits on buying USD), I think we would have healthier discussions. Now, I can — and am — moving out of the country, but not everyone can. Thinking otherwise is privileged and ignorant thinking.

Of course ETH is not flawless, and if I were in a middle-class family in the US, I would love to have these deep philosophical discussions about if Ethereum is really really decentralized, but the fact remains that cryptocurrencies DO solve real problems, and they DO help more people than they hurt, just like any technology. If this weren't the case, humans would have stoped innovating a long time ago.
Google has turned Google Search into a walled garden by scraping people's content and serving it up on their own platter. Is anyone going to stand up to them?
Honorable mention, Tae-kwon-do. Just know, every day is leg day. Very physically demanding.
July 8 99% of the world's population in sunlight simultaneously?
Knowledge is only part of it. Experience, luck, network, iterative steps, product/market fit, timing + time invested, talent, focus/discipline and most of all financial margin for risk are all as important.

The good news is if you put enough time into something, those key components emerge.

In a way you also need to listen to people but not listen, and know when to do that. New ideas will be pushed back against, following the existing successes will always be encouraged, but the latter is a form of survivorship bias, FOMO and buying in at the top. If you know something is there and others say it isn't, you might have something. Additionally, if it is already done, doing it better is another way to create value.

So yeah, attitude in pushing through against headwinds is key. Don't always listen to the critics, but take it in, it is a balance and one that everyone battles in most things. Grounding down the fluff/hype into a good plan with results takes all those things.
Ya! It's in the install guide.

Most package updates don't disrupt anything. Depending on the vendor driver you use (Intel i915, AMD GPU-IOV Module, Nvidia) kernel updates should be okay if we use DKMS. GPU-IOV Module works okay with DKMS if you know what you're doing. I can't speak too much to i915. On Nvidia DKMS is hit or miss but that depends on which driver version is used. Some folks report DKMS doesn't work at all, others say they've never had a problem with it. I think it also depends on the kernel version DKMS is compiling against as in some cases the driver hasn't been updated yet to support the latest kernel version.

We try to help with that by making patch files that run ahead of official driver/kernel version support (they basically just make the driver work on a newer kernel - that's all):

https://github.com/Arc-Compute/LibVF.IO/tree/master/patches/
Find someone with the right attitude that is looking for someone with a wealth of knowledge ;)
Amusingly, this post is from 2018, and despite all the helpful (and correct) advice, they are still using the old, ineffective banner today in 2022.
Let's be clear and accurate: technically weev was put in jail for conspiring on IRC with JacksonBrown. JacksonBrown was the one who wrote a PHP script that incremented a value in a URL (and appended a valid Luhn check digit following incrementation).

Conspiracy to access a protected computer system - that is, typing on IRC. weev didn't write any of the code or access the API.
I am about 1.85m tall and about 100kg. I don't disappear like a sheet of paper when you see me from the side, and I'm pretty noticeable from the front and back. Often, I'm wearing a bright fluorescent orange waterproof jacket. People walk entirely the fuck into me all the the time. Not even on their phones or anything, and not "glancing-shoulder-bump" but full on walk-straight-into-guy-standing-there.

My daily driver is a big noisy old Range Rover. Okay, dark blue is maybe not the most in-yer-face colour, but it's quite loud and it's easy to tell when you're near it. People walk out in front of me, all the time, or pull out in front of me or hop their bike off the kerb in front of me, all the time.

My occasional work Landrover Defender - I don't often drive it, I've already got a tremendously capable off-roader, but sometimes I need to use the big roof rack or we need two 4x4s for a job - is literally Fire Engine Red, covered in red and yellow high-vis, and has big blue strobes on it (that we normally don't use). People walk out in front of it, pull out in front of it, hop their bikes off the kerb in front of it... did you guess "all the time"? Right, I knew you would!

The more visible you are the harder you are to see. I don't know why.
That's fair. But maybe someone wants to reuse this in another place so they do this:

```
def make_string_filename(s, style="new"):
# 2 lines of shared magic
if style == "old"
# 2 lines of original magic
elif style == "new":
# different 2 lines of magic
```

When you get here, two totally separate `make_string_filenames()`, each private to the area of code they're relevant to, would be better.
> The difference is striking. Dropping an absolute reliance on Cartesian rationality opened the door for real human connection.

I'm sorry. I'm not abandoning method and the process specifically designed for avoiding lying to yourself. Because, you know, I might lie to myself. More than I do now.

Science and rationality are the best tools of constructing accurate models of reality, both internal and external.

But it says nothing of purpose. However if you combine it with nihilism or absurdism you get a pretty robust framework for comfortably and efficiently tackling challenges of human condition.
It's a handy tool for scripting certain kinds of file editing operations. It's also good for editing files over remote management connections that don't implement a proper terminal interface. As with a lot of the Unix CLI, it may not be something you use frequently (or ever), but it's a godsend when you need it.
This is horrible and should be illegal.
It is a thing. In America pressing charges is when you accuse somebody of a crime and ask a prosecutor to bring criminal charges against them.
Be nice to people and don't drop so many bombs on their country they'll live in poverty for decades?
The last edit was in 2014? Who's worried about 2400 baud modems and terminals not having cursor positioning capabilities? It's 2022, not 1992!

Is there some operating environment I'm not aware of?
AR is a really tough problem. Go read this blog to find out why

https://kguttag.com/

It is very hard for AR to compete with conventional entertainment. The headset costs roughly $2000 and a $2000 investment in home theater is certainly going to improve most people's enjoyment of TV, movies, video games, etc. The $2000 headset doesn't have a lot of software, image quality doesn't compete with a $200 TV.

Like other companies in the field, ML has pivoted towards enterprise uses.

https://www.magicleap.com/en-us/

Certainly those exist and could deliver enough value to pay for the headsets. For instance if you could read the manuals on a headset while you work inside a jet engine that could be helpful. If you could see the plans for a building under construction overlaid over the building it might save expensive mistakes. On the other hand, Microsoft contracted to sell a bunch of Hololens 2 to the US Army and it hasn't worked out so well

https://www.roadtovr.com/report-microsoft-hololens-ivas-fiel...

Facebook has gotten dominant market share in VR headsets because it has sold headsets below cost. That's not a sustainable business plan. People are skeptical about their plans for both AR and VR and some think that this is mainly a feint aimed to distract people away from their current problems.
100% agree and I just wrote this response and then saw you said it better!
Reddit is free to use, and subreddit moderators are largely free to set their own rules for their little club, and can spend as much or as little time as they like enforcing them.

No-one is exploiting 'free labour' here - the service Reddit offers is essentially a bulletin board hosting service, and they offer it free of charge (although yes, they do monetise it in other ways).

Festivals (at least in my country) used to offer tickets in exchange for work, so again, I wouldn't really call it 'free' work. If you don't want to work for your ticket, you can buy it with money. Not sure that's a great proposition though, because a camping ticket to Download (a popular rock festival in the UK) costs about the same as 40 hours' work at the minimum wage for an 18-20 year old.
This resonates with me, in my experience I think there's a fallacy in believing the world is a meritocracy when it's not. I also noticed a lot of patterns at different companies over the years. Venkatesh Rao writes about these pattern nicely, he calls it the Gervais Principle. If you can bear it, it's worth a read.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
SWT has its set of issues. Last time I had to do desktop UI, I went with Swing. Other option is going a JavaFX way, which even has a nice Clojure bindings.

Unfortunately, they are both non-native options.
I wonder if that person is here too (being a Bay Area dev, it wouldn't surprise me).

Does anyone know of any avenues (other than official reddit channels that the dev might have access to) to ask someone to take a look to see who is probably abusing their privileges?
> Nobody would be mining OldChain so it's difficulty would be irrelevantly close to zero, you'd just just drop the requirement for POW down to something effectively gone.

Why would nobody be mining OldChain? You can't remove the block reward or change the difficulty without a hard fork. PoW miners would still decide which blocks are mined and reap the rewards (block reward and transaction fees). You haven't actually proposed a solution that wouldn't require a hard fork.
Look I understand you point from a legal standpoint, but do you really truly believe even a small fraction of FB and IG users actually “agreed to do so under the terms and conditions of that website”? They just clicked whatever was necessary to create their accounts. I doubt there was much affirmative agreement going on there.
> Like stuff day tourists do.

Like come into the city? People aren't necessarily riding gondoliers. These are all independent businesses pricing things according to their own interests (as they can and should). The stated problem is that there are too many people coming in so they are directly addressing that behavior.
How are the real time subscriptions with SQLite achieved? Is this a feature of SQLite itself or something that PocketBase itself implements on top of it?
> the vast majority (…) Period. End of story.

If you’re going to assert something as definitely true to the point of closing off discussion, I’d expect a modicum of evidence. At a minimum that you’d explain the reasoning behind your conclusion. What’s the source of the “vast majority” claim? There’s little point to advertising when you’re scraping a website for personal consumption, so it seems dubious anyone would have reliable numbers on which kind is more prevalent.
OniVim not getting finished was soul crushing. :(
I've been a house head since the 90s, and I would definitely not describe most house music as instrumental. Classic house frequently had vocals, in both the Chicago and especially NYC/NJ (garage house) styles. Most subsequent subgenres of house followed suit, whether using vocal samples or singing.

Instrumentals are a bit more common in melodic house, progressive house, etc but even then there's still a lot of non-instrumental tracks.

I completely agree with the sibling comment that instrumentals are far more common in techno.
In the "Platform details" page [1] they say that GTK 3 is the default since WxWidgets 3.1.4, but if you want you can link against GTK 2 by calling `configure` with the flag `--with-gtk=2`.

[1] https://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.2/page_port.html#page_port_wxgt...
And that's why I'm still this weirdo who buys DVDs and even CDs.
I recently noticed the small print on event tickets I purchase from Ticketmaster make it clear that I am actually purchasing a "license" to access the event. The ticket does not guarantee entry and the license is non-transferable, revocable without refund, etc.

Unfortunately this is a phenomenon that extends beyond digital media.
It's more that no supplier can credibly claim that they can deliver it. If there's a rights dispute about a piece of underlying code for example, the terms can say what they like but they can't override it not being that entity's code to licence.

Valve certainly try and insert a presumption they can leave the title up, but it's not a given, and there's also not much to stop a developer from "updating" the title to a barely working basic binary.
I use Wordpress for drag and drop. More complex stuff Ruby on Rails with bootstrap.
Ask HN: Why have I just been given a Firefox Pocket update?
https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/102.0/whatsnew/?oldversion=101.0.1

I've never enabled Pocket. Surely the updater can tell that I'm not a Pocket user?

Why can't Mozilla realise that most Firefox users use it as a browser, rather than as a pathway to someone else's idea of "curated content"?

Don't they believe that, after pushing this non-optional "add-on" for 15 years, they've achieved market saturation, and that everyone that wants it is already using it?
> Fair argument but I don’t see why training should inherently be unpaid.

Because the lack of payment is the trainee's quid-pro-quo. It makes the trainee a counterpart in the training investment. In several countries in Europe to varying degrees and forms, the state pays for the training. It pays the professors, facilities and can even pay scholarships so that a disadvantaged background is not an impediment to such training(tackling the inequality issue you mention). I am not aware of any institution/state paying even a minimum wage up to master level.

Then there is the issue of difficulty, where it is clear that learning to serve a coffee mug requires less effort than learning advanced calculus. If you pay/reward the student engineer the same as the coffee waiter, you will likely still have fewer engineers[1]. Fewer engineers will produce fewer useful infrastructure or wealth to redistribute that the coffee waiter could benefit from. Therefore according to Rawls having them earning the same would be unfair.

> In fact, I don’t see why the ability to have a good standard of living should be predicated on your profession in the first place.
It is not. It is predicated on the the value the profession generates.

[1] The reward/base-line ratio feels like the reaction coefficient, where you use a higher reward to make an unlikely reaction become possible :)

PS: It took me a good while and rewrites to come up with a satisfactory answer. Thanks for the comment.
With ejabberd, your scalability problem is that you don’t have enough users to load a single node. So you have a popularity problem, but not a technical one.

To get back to familiar technical ground, try Synapse. A node can support, like, 3 concurrent users.