skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, just from my own anecdotal experience from a liberal enclave in a mid size southern US city, I've noticed a sharp uptick in people arming themselves over the past few years. Specific examples given why are usually Jan 6 and Charlottesville and the fear of only the right being armed if things ever erupted into some kind of local conflict. Neighbors that I would have assumed to be very anti-gun based on their other political beliefs ended up owning ARs and a set of body armor plates.
Why do you buy so many defective or damaged products?

I cannot remember the last time I had to return something. I rarely buy from Amazon though, and choose quality products from reputable sources, not the cheapest offer.

Or maybe I'm just lucky.
So it got worse for creative writing, but it got much better at solving few-shot tasks. You can do information extraction from various documents with it, for example.
It’s a net benefit that Tesla converts cryptohype into transportation electrification progress by way of magic tokens and fiat.

Those Bitcoin gains might have paid for many a Suoercharger stall!
Yeah you are right. Thanks for the heads up. I'll see what I can do to update it
Strange, this isn't an issue on Android.
A question, a statement and a proposal:

- is your proposed "military coup" a "civil war"?

- This entire discussion is fruitless b/c no two of us have the same definition (or even a clear conception) of the term "civil war". And we have for reference only past civil wars (especially the USA's war between the states).

- We could speculate loosely using and poor surveys unleashed on the great unwashed masses (and us) by surveyors interested less in their agenda than in raw screen-clicks. Instead why not pass by this article, leaving it to dry up and blow away in the dessicating winds of e-space?
Waitbutwhy has a great series about some possible explanation for the division of USA (and, probably, the version of the same situation that exists in other "flawed" western democraties.)

After many insightful chapters laying out the depressing state of the situation, Tim Urban was a on the brink of publishing the articles where he was going to suggest ways things could, maybe, be improved

And I was foolish enough to actually _expect_ some great idea, some "out of the box" light bulb, some glimmer of hope.

Instead, Tim, apparently, decided to never publish the end of the series, and instead package the first few chapters as a bone fide book. Which is all good for him, I suppose Patreon and speaking gigs can only go so far when trying to make rent.

It's all on me for having unrealistic hope in the self professed king of procrastinators.

But maybe we should be jerks and blame the coming Second Civil War on him (for not having blogged the solution sooner ?)

Still, Tim, if you're wasting your time on HN, please publish _something_.

(Also, is there a support group somewhere for people waiting for Tim Urban to publish something ? Asking for a friend.)
Because people making even 500 dollars a week essentially are only taxed for social security. Complaining about the poor being taxed too much just doesn't make sense in America. You can complain they are exploited by employers and the government doesn't protect them, etc. But high taxation? That's just not the problem.
There's a huge divide between the way cities vote and rural communities. If farmers do receive more tax breaks, it's to support a system that makes them unprofitable, so that they don't quit. Give you an example, getting tax breaks to grow corn for ethanol. Having more ethanol in their gasoline, is not something any farmer wants, its more of a want of politicians that live in cities.
The average "combatant" on one side couldn't lift a rifle, and the other side would be more likely to die from heart disease than from enemy fire.
The number of people in this subthread who think true bullshit jobs don’t exist because they’re inefficient astonishes me. You’d have to believe that all middle managers were good at allocating effort.

Or senior executives for that matter.

In big companies, cash cows subsidize all manner of boondoggles. That’s why we have a term for cash cows.

Ever have a long term project cancelled, either for a good reason, or just because a new VP showed up and the project didn't have his brand on it? Did that cancelled project make the company money? Companies only do things that make money, right?

Never saw a high level goal in your company that was misguided? A roadmap for getting there that was misguided? Never seen a process (methodology, etc) that wasted a lot of time, but one important person swore by? I could go on.
That’s why I moved here five years ago from the US. It’s actually pretty easy, depending on where you go.
That each new developer needs to learn that name. That it's difficult to understand what is that variable scope: does this new functionality fit in John or not. That most people know John but what happens with that other one that is rarely used named Jack and you find in in the code, and Anna and Maria?

It would be the same for the computer running the code, the problem is for the developers trying to understand how to use it, how to expand it, etc.
The only thing I can think of would be that it would be great if you could easily record with people on the same interface over the internet. Maybe not live jamming or anything, since the delay would be murderous at best, but that it would be great to be able to have your drummer lay down a track at 3am and your guitarist lay down a rhythm to it at 7 and wake up and do vocals when you're ready instead of having to schedule time to all meet together.
Sounds like an urban legend. Gin rummy has too much luck for someone to have a perfect record.
No actually this depends on your location. I was an early baker and I am still waiting for my device in the EU, while they already shipped it to ppl who pre-orderd after the kickstarter was finished.

You can also buy it in EU from an official reseller, with same day shipping depending on your location: https://lab401.com/products/flipper-zero

I dont know what happend with the shipping management, I hope I will receive my device soon.
Pretty sure that's already a thing, not for movies per sé but for ads where a celeb can license their avatar - 3d model and voice for use in ads. Especially useful when they want the celebs lips to move correctly when the ad is translated into non-native languages.
Cool insights, thank you for taking the time to go deeper. I'll share it with the team to explore further. Good vibes!
I mean ... yes?
I went through a ton of linux socket tutorials that were in C using that Ruby Socket library. Highly recommend!

Edit: This is a more up to date link. I don't think the library has changed since 2.5.3, but I usually try to look at latest documentation: https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-3.1.2/libdoc/socket/rdoc/Socket....
The case-studies by Growth.Design have been pretty helpful.

https://growth.design/case-studies
> Step 2: Hire a UI/UX designer

If its the first time working with them, good luck not being scammed with barely any usable deliverable.

And I'm not even talking about cheap bottom of the barrel contracts.
It isn't a language problem

Exactly. This flamy sub-thread has no point here.
Just because it’s not possible to separately buy the structure or the land doesn’t mean the numbers are wrong. The point still stands that taxing land disincentivizes nothing while taxing structures discourages building them. Many towns in Pennsylvania had a pretty good track record with this. They implemented a mixed tax system that focused more taxes on land and less on structures because they wanted to make people sitting on empty land and not using it pay more. They also didn’t want to penalize people for upgrading their home. The system was extremely successful in its aims.
While I agree with you the grandparent was unnecessarily patronizing, they do have a point. “Built-in functions” is the first chapter of the documentation following the introduction, there’s no way to miss it. If you don’t even skim the introductory documentation, I’m not exactly sure what you expect to happen. Python is not Ruby nor is it Java, and it predates both. Why would it follow the idioms of those languages?
MidJourney is a good alternative. Maybe not quite as good as DALL-E, but close enough, without a waitlist and with hobby-friendly prices ($10/month for 200 images/month, or $30 for unlimited)
Nothing I’ve seen from the major players in this industry (Meta, Epic, etc…), has convinced me that they’re capable of doing better. I do hope I’m wrong though.
> we can't reasonably fork the entire dependency just to remove that one sub-dependency from our project's dependency

If you use Maven, just exclude that transitive dependency from the explicit dependency.

But yeah, dumb warnings are dumb.

<dependency>
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>my-dependency</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
I take the subway when in the city or a taxi if it’s faster. People on bikes get hit all the time and police investigations nearly always find the bike rider at fault.

The town I’m in outside the city is not a small town. There’s very little that’s more annoying than a group of spandex clad Tour de France wannabes taking up the entire road so they can cosplay.
Correct, there is a “Mafia”. I talked to REBNY, agents etc.
Maybe his opponents were too confused by his name being Go.
I'm genuinely interested in how that perspective came to be since it is, to my world view, a shocking and hard to believe claim. But, my surprise isn't worth anything. I'm unable to find search term that gives something relevant, so anything would help.

But, I think it's a bit unfair to make, what appears to be, a very bold assertion, without explaining it or allowing criticism. I have no interest (or qualification) to criticize your sources, but I would hope that someone would criticize mine.
More HN bots posting mainstream media’s articles.
I'm honestly surprised java.util.Vector still exists. It was "deprecated" in 1.2 or something like that? I guess there's no pressure to actually remove it, though.

I only know about it from dealing with J2ME crap where ArrayList wasn't available.
Not accurate. This is a claim frequently made by the far-right "Three-Percenters" paramilitary group, and they use it to recruit and radicalize followers.

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

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/grou...
Additionally, wherever it classically falls over (such as currently for realistic human faces), there will be second pass models that both detect and replace all the faces with realistic ones. People are already using models that alter eyes to be life-like with excellent results (many of the dalle-2 ones appear somewhat dead atm).
To all the folks that worry that Apple won't any longer be able to police Facebook: We can regulate that too. We can some really draconian rules wrt. what can and can not be collected etc. See, with a working governing body, the people wins.

GDPR is great. USA don't have it, we do. Regulation works here. (Not always, not enough, it have unintended side effects and all that. But letting the big tech guys run the world instead: No thanks.)
Again, that is inherently a policy decision that reduces density and affordability; by definition, "landlords" are people that own and operate multi-family dwellings. You could just as easily ask "why not give more of a preference to landlords?"

It's probably useful for you to understand my, uh, priors? about this, which include the fact that I live in an overwhelmingly SFZ community that actively works to prevent the construction of multi-family dwellings, often with appeals to the evil of "landlords".
Exactly. People have spent the last 20 years voluntarily addicting themselves to rage porn, and now we’re surprised that this is the product that is being sold?

I always find this discussion so disingenuous. We KNOW why the media isn’t trustworthy. This country needs to look in the mirror and realize that we are being sold the things that we keep buying. If you don’t like untrustworthy media, stop consuming it. Don’t read it. Don’t watch it. Don’t pay for it, or allow a company to monetize you.

The capitalist mirror is simply reflecting the ugliness that is already there.
I largely agree. Individual subreddits can have different cultures, but there's always a much larger degree of snide, low-quality posts than there are on most traditional forums (or here on HN, for that matter). Almost all subreddits' quality hovers in the Twitter range. I think this is mostly because anyone can join any subreddit with ease, so even the best moderators have to fight against a vast tide of newcomers pulling the culture toward the Reddit average.
Spoken by people who want to eliminate competition of richest corporation on the planet because they're apparently not capable of building a competitive product (despite being the Best at Everything and being able to shove down authentication APIs and payment systems down everyones throat).
How is an AI automatically going to turn bad data into good data? When in history has this been the case? So far we haven't managed to magically create an AI that can turn huge piles of bad data into good data, you see all sorts of stories about machine learning problems caused by misclassified training data, etc. Bad news stories and opinion pieces feel close to a worst case here since so many of them are subtly wrong in ways that would make it hard to even tag them clearly and accurately at scale for use as a training set. And at the end what's the AI going to do? Tag up every news story so that 60% of the text is yellow or red indicating that all of it is misleading or a lie?

If an article quotes "sources" how is AI going to determine whether or not the sources are informed and whether the author is selectively quoting them?
What helped you increase your UX skills?

I started caring about users. I decided that I genuinely want them to enjoy using what I build - not in a "hey that's cool" or "ooo that's beautiful" way, but in a "wow, doing that sucky task I have to do every day is a bit less sucky now" way. I put effort in to solving hard problems so I can make users lives a bit easier. It turns out that thinking this way also makes my job more fun.
Interesting considering Intel drivers iGPU are the best on Linux.
> That tester ended up going on to be a design lead on multiple big AAA titles at other studios, so it was nice to see him get the recognition he deserved for his work ethic and skill.

If the best people in a given job always choose the leave if given the chance, then it will always suck to do the job. Custom service, qa, warehouse workers. These are all jobs that need to get done. But if anyone with the skill and drive to do something else leaves, then you are left with people who are abused because they are stuck and powerless. How many people dream of doing Video Game QA? I doubt very many. They only do it because they cannot program/draw/write/etc.
Thanks for the responses - I think I typically agree with your approach that there are substantial benefits to getting people to crawl or walk rather than making them run.

On your belief that actionable data _trumps_ perfectly attributed data, I'm not entirely convinced. I think actionable data _complements_ attributable data. But you need the attributable data to accurately measure the impact and learn what specific actions caused that impact.

I think all companies want to make actions that are well-informed, 'the right choice', and have the potential to demonstrate it was 'the right choice'. My concern is that when someone takes a 'good action' such as replacing high intensity animal protein with low intensity plant protein there is no evidence from your side that it made any difference. You are divorcing the actual choice that was made from what is perceived as the outcome.

The dollars-to-emissions relationship is just not as simple as is being represented, and for those who are not specialists there might be a false sense of progress.

"We cut our daily emissions from transport by having employees purchase Uber rides in off-peak times."

"We cut our emissions for business travel by setting up a policy that flights must be purchased at least 2 months in advance."

"We cut our emissions from our regular food purchases by looking at the local newspaper for coupons and signing up for a customer loyalty account."

"Maybe we all should fly to Las Vegas (tickets are cheap) rather than have Linda fly to NYC (an expensive ticket)."

Each of these might be smart business choices, but they have absolutely no real world effect on emissions that should be attributable to a company, but that isn't what the company is being told.

As a first pass to estimate sense of scale and where to look into unsustainable practices and prioritize better data collection, Bend seems to be valuable.
Negative interest actually, I sold my tech stocks early this year, while as an app developer the revenue cut we get are likely to increase after this kicks in. I am more inclined to explain the consequences and incentives of these actions rather than their intentions.
1. I don't think is to hard. In fact a handy metric I use is "is someone trying to predict what will happen in the future, or ascribing to someone else certain motives, or an ability to read someone else's mind?" If so that's an oponion, as is any phrase that includes the word "likely", "probably" "possibly" "estimated that" or "experts say" any of those mean someone is trying to pass opinion off as fact.

As for #2 if it is small enough to be ignored then it probably wasn't super important, whereas if it is significant everyone is going to be arguing about it.

The realization came when I realized despite all of the news stories I scoured about things I usually got the same consistent facts and most of the rest of the story was just either 1) quoting yahoos off the street/Twitter or 2) people trying to predict the future or push an agenda. Start looking for it in the news you consume it becomes pretty easy to detect pretty quickly.
Discourse is nice in some ways but it’s also annoying for its general slowness and the way it breaks native browser features like Find in Page.
Some of the most-popular children's apps are sharing data in 'troubling' ways
No stop loss; they likely sold to make FCF positive.
On the other hand a civil war could be a lesser evil, because it would curb US capability to wage actual war by invading China.
Figma's incredibly hard to replace because its tools are highly customized for specific design workflows. Notion, I'm not nearly as sure about.

With Google Workplace having pageless Google Docs now, and other shops having content centralized on Office 365, a lot of cost-cutting companies will ask "we just use Notion for a wiki anyways, can we migrate over to the system we're already paying for?" And sure, Notion is making the right move here, to move rapidly on becoming a hub for project planning and other structured content, which is harder to move into a plain collaborative document. But is enough of Notion's userbase using those table features to such a level that it would cause pain? I'm truly not sure.
> Apple & Google are using their $T war chests & monopoly positions to cripple the sales/marketing ecosystems of their competitors.

To be fair, they are doing so by forcing competitors to in-house their advertising efforts. Largely, AdTech in large companies is outsourced to 3rd parties and those existing workflows calcify into positive signal. There hasn't been much incentive to change. Recently, the belts are starting to tighten and network (public market) adtech companies, even with big accounts, are always in danger of disappearing overnight.

Many companies rather continue with the few winners in the network adtech space, than engage in the lengthy and risky in-house development. It's slow to see all of the parallel development efforts coming to fruition, when no company wants to make PR announcements that it's no longer sending customer data to a 3rd party, but still collecting it all the same for an internal platform. This migration is happening nonetheless. Amazon built out their platform in under 2 years and the ripple has pushed many others forward toward dogfooding their own adtech stacks.
Thanks for your post, and thanks for whoever vouched for this. I have a similar background to you, including age, living in a northern latitude with short winter days, long term sleep issues, and suicidal ideation.

5-HTP - There seems to be wide variation in the formulations available from manufacturers. Some have given me no issues at all, another brand, of the same strength, consistently leads to intense nausea and vomiting, followed by a significantly altered mental state. Almost tripping, and yes, I'm familiar with that.

THC - agree with your comments, but by far the biggest advantage for me is that it enabled me to completely quit drinking. Alcohol is terrible in that it will temporarily shut those intrusive thoughts off, but then they seem supercharged them when they inevitably return after a few hours. Drinking definitely exacerbates my actual depression even if it masks some symptoms.

I do use melatonin occasionally/as required but not super often. It's very effective as a sleep aid, but I have not noticed any antidepressive effects in myself. Valerian is also an extremely effective sleep aid for me. Will have to research L-Dopa.

Consider trying Sceletium Tortuosum extract (Kanna). It has been commercialized as "Zembrin" and is available in OTC supplements. There are peer-reviewed studies indicating that it is safe and effective, and personally, I've found it to noticeably effective against anxiety, less so for depression. As supplements go, it's inexpensive.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8124331/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828542/

Finally, psilocybin has been revolutionary for managing my mental health, and specifically depression. I found microdosing to be ineffective. A full trip sets me right for several weeks, to the point where it is startling when the intrusive thoughts start up again.
In my experience, yes, and Discord ate them.

I dearly miss phpBB style forums. (I strongly dislike Discourse, somehow, despite being the only modern spiritual successor.)
We (read: I) face this on an ongoing basis.

We can't upgrade the entire components that bundled up log4j for various reasons, starting from licensing rules. So we made the decision to strip out the entire JndiLookup class from every project that uses java. Clients do various scans, and rely on dumb version string matching and/or banner grabbing. We have to routinely point them to our VERY detailed and explicit log4j response document, and carefully explain to them that their scanners are relying on insufficient detection methods.

Security teams are quite content with us giving them detailed explanation about the false positive. And then they forget or deliberately choose to ignore the lesson and the next time they run their scans, get the same false positives again.

Even supposedly state-of-the-art security tools, to this day, refuse to actually verify their detections.
You know a surprising way to solve the issues you presented? You train another model to trick DALL-E to generate undesirable images. It will use all its generative skills to probe for prompts. Then you can use those prompts to fine-tune the original model. So you use generative models as a devil's advocate.

- Red Teaming Language Models with Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03286
This seems similar to Taiwan's ITRI (Institute for Technology Research Institute) that arranged a technology transfer from RCA, to what would become UMC and Mediatek. RCA even sold all their patents to UMC.

https://meet-global.bnext.com.tw/articles/view/47727

TSMC did not emerge directly from the RCA exchange, but got even better technology from Philips (and this is after the CEO's career at Texas Instruments).