skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The game was destined to fail because of all the hype. I remember; I was a tween at the time. The movie was huge; it's all anyone was talking about. And we kept hearing about a pending video game. But when we all got to play the actual game, it was hype meeting reality. And that's why the game was branded such an epic failure.
The title here is chopped off, original one ending with "in exchange for Griner, Whelan." Whelan was convicted by Russians of espionage. So it's one Russian arms dealer in exchange for one American spy plus an American basketball player who travelled with drugs without checking local laws.
You beat me to it. I was just about to point out exactly the same thing.

This also reminds me of “Schneier‘s Law” [0], something that I suspect even AWS would not be immune to.

0: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/04/schneiers_law...
That depends, look at the Soviet Union, they bought Fiat 124 assembly line and they produced the car with just minor tweaks until 2010 (lada 2105).
They made the great Lada Niva and produced also unchanged until 2010.

Improving thing is not a given and not in every culture. It is a trait of the western culture for sure, but not necessarily shared in the world.
Hey Sophistry!
There's a big difference between convincing the person you're arguing with and convincing an audience. I may persuade you, or you may persuade me and I think in that situation we both get closer to the truth. But if we have an audience, our arguments are restricted to what might convince each other AND what might convince the audience.

If the audience is the real decider, I can't really know how logical the audience is, so I'm going to play every dirty trick I can to win.

it's subtle, and textured. If I gotta convince you - say for funding, I've got a broader array of arguments to use. if I've gotta convince you and the audience, I've got a fairly narrow range of options. If I gotta convince the audience, well, that's all analogies about how my dog died and it sucked, so if we'd done this my dog would still be around and it's better for everybody.

historically you'd have to worry about the audience of 20 or so people that cared. and we'd probably both know them and how to sway their opinions. Kennedy Nixon is held up as a big example of persuading millions. You gotta scope in two dimensions. Your interlocutor and the audience. They have different weights. It's hard. Our ancestral heritage doesn't really give us much support for persuading a bazillion people. But that's sort of the table stakes today. Maybe not persuaded, but the audience must remain indifferent.
Is there no way to implement this without the existing backing bank? Seems like something that will never come to fruition if it's stalled waiting for adoption, but there's no real incentive for banks to do it.

That said - I love the idea of it. And I always check the posts here when it gets brought up.
They were valid years ago when I was a kid but god knows what my favorite food was 10 years ago.
Of you are not using libraries, the smallest of the projects will become a large scale project.

I prefer having to keep up to date with libraries than having to deal with tons of some "smart ass" reinvention of the wheel that doesn't have documentation and tests and it's full of bugs and corner cases.

The code you write yourself also requires maintenance.
> I assume Amazon can access data stored in any of their servers, right?

If you encrypt the data with your own key, they should not be able to access it.
> It's hilarious, 100 years ago people would laugh at such "hardships".

The metrics people used 100 years ago are of no concern to me and indeed the values those people held are more often than not abhorrent.

> Food availability isn't a problem in the U.S. for all but the extreme outliers.

When faced with data, you persist in this lie.

> Now, education about nutrition is very likely a problem, but even the poorest of the poor can readily get the nutrition they need if they knew what they needed

False, food deserts coupled with the fact that the more nutritious foods are much more expensive make it extremely difficult to do so.

> I fast for many days at a time _because_ it's healthy.

That's easy af to do when it's voluntary.

> We have an obesity epidemic in our poorest demographic. That says about everything that needs to be said, if you ask me.

This tells me that you've never been poor. One of the reasons people are obese is because all they can afford is the worst foods.
1. Not all software is available in the repos, in some distros this happens frequently. And no, it doesn't "just work", I've even tried a popular distro that destroyed itself with the first update on a clean install.

2. I invite you to try an Nvidia Optimus setup. Good luck and hope you don't end up with a black screen because your distro thought it can handle it but doesn't.

3. Even if that was easy, most people trying out Linux do so with the hardware they currently have. And more often than not this means broken suspend or wifi or...

4. We have pretty cheap 4k screens nowadays and laptops with 4k. It's not that uncommon.

6. Are you seriously implying distros inheriting from another are all compatible with each other?
Ronchetti's Wikipedia page has never had any other photos. And the article was protected[0] due to a series of vandalism edits on July 10[1] that had nothing to do with his page's photo.

You are right that his article has a poor quality photo, which seems to be due to it being the only free-licensed photo available, but it's simply wrong to use this article as evidence of some sort of "partisanship on Wikipedia". If anything it is an example of bias towards incumbents, who get professional taxpayer-funded public domain portraits that are easy to drop into Wikipedia pages.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Ronchetti&ac...
This is true, though machine learning models will learn typical scene structures, alongside the rendering parameters. It is also common to use more than one source image (from a different viewpoint, a bit like photogrammetry).
Good AIs copy, great AIs steal? :)

I like that engadget makes explicit what is happening with DALL-E:

"Artificial Intelligence is, after all, a fancy term for what is essentially a way of teaching software how to recognize patterns."
> They can be drafted broadly, poorly, incompletely, or simply not take into account things that didn't exist when the law was written.

Computer programs suffer all of this as well :)
Yeah I hate that Google (and others) all demand a mobile number so they can a) send you text spam and b) use it as a unique customer identifier to match you with their advertising and business partners.
You're replying to a comment about browser engine diversity, which is largely decoupled from privacy.
> This would last only shortly until China or somebody else invades US.

Let's be realistic. Nobody can invade the US. Two oceans, vast territory, sparse population make that impossible from the get go. Not to mention the fact that what, 1/3 of the US population is armed to the death dreaming of the day they could make use of their arsenals. The sheer amount of troops required to keep the land and population under control, and the logistics to feed them all rule out pretty much any Earthly military power.

Nuke? Missile strikes? Naval blockade? All plausible, if difficult.

But an actual boots on the ground invasion? Impossible.
There's also color management which is not yet supported in Wayland if you need monitor calibration or to do any print work.
the difference with clickhouse？
I think it's honesty rather than idealism. If someone took a shortcut by reading Wikipedia instead of research papers, it would be dishonest to try to hide that.

Of course, dishonesty often works, but it undermines the whole endeavor.

(Although, the original author still deserves credit for their work. Perhaps the citation should be to the original work "via Wikipedia".)
But not every appeal to logic comes from malicious philosophers. Most do not.

So, in practice, you get a lot of lazy dismissals in service of selfish desires.
>Sure, we can speak about political correctness from West in campuses, but that has no future by definition.

Why ? political correctness in progressive-dominated spcaces like western uni campuses goes back to the 70s/80s. I was browsing Ted Kaczynski's (better known as the UnaBomber) Industrial Society and Its Future[1], and he spoke about political correctness as an established thing. A 40-year phenomenon seems like something that won't end anytime soon.

>Shaping education by foreigners that not accept democratic principles is far more dangerous.

I wouldn't be too quick to judge. Not all of china is a single brain, maybe the people funding european universities have meaningful ideological differences from the ruling class. And the blanket usage of "democratic principles" irritates me hugely, because most of modern wesern democracies is a pathetic and transparent sham that is trampled at the earliest encounter with any real established power.

[1] http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/Anarchism/Unabom/manifesto...
Lovely answer. May I politely suggest that you mention this stuff when next you post as it would be great to know there is real heft behind it and something HN'ers can rely on. There are too many unbacked opinions and gut-feelings around. But thanks.
frederick douglass espoused exactly the type of cross-racial and cross-ideological dialogue i'm bringing up here. if he can do it, being the subject of real subjugation and hatred, we can do it too sitting alone together in front of our little glass screens.

please don't simply "think of the children". think both openly and critically.
And why does your scenario presume that the situation is completely cold?

The average police response time in Chicago is 5-6 minutes[0]. I'm going to bet that active shootings are on the fast side of the average. Having lived in Chicago for 7 years, I can tell you there are areas where you regularly see police patrolling.

0. https://mediaprogram.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Minimalist/index.h...
Cacao powder is powdered raw cacao beans. Cocoa powder is post some processing before it makes into chocolate.

One, of many, articles describing the difference: https://www.forbes.com/health/body/cacao-vs-cocoa/
EU is pushing for interoperability of messengers apps, so there is a potential of disruption in this area. I am not saying that Whatsapp is toast, I just assume if interoperability is implemented, some companies would be highly motivated to bite into Meta's user base, right when Meta would have to think about some unsexy Whatsapp monetization.
Isn't there a SharedArrayBuffer thingy in workers now?
It may be hard to figure out if somebody is nitpicking on irrelevant stuff as "pointing out fallacies" because they are sure about their conclusion and just want to barge their way through to it.

When you're dealing with someone like that, there's very little incentive to continue arguing, they will latch onto whatever it is that makes them feel they were right without actually consider the issue at hand.

It may actually be used as a test of their desire to engage with the problem. Throw them an irrelevant thing they can be right about (maybe even a typo or wrong grammar), and see the actual issue fade away from their mind.
And expensive ones at that!
Honest debate and persuasion is so 20th Century.
If you're going to make an all SSD NAS, wouldn't it at least make sense to have a 10gbps network link and more than 3gbps PCI bandwidth?
In an economic system where the rich earn money just from being rich, you have a strong incentive as a politician to sell your country as ten million dollars will result in a perpetual and exponentially growing income stream that exceeds a politicians salary multiple times and you don't even have to lift a finger, just do a single corruption stint and be locked in the upper class with the rest of the wealthy for the rest of your life.
Right, if it’s not open sourced then most likely they have something to hide via omission. I mean, I do appreciate the bluntness over some obscure concoction of FOSS security libs marketed as some cutting edge technology stack. At least they tell it how it is.

But unsurprisingly, it’s opaque in stating to what extent does AWS provide itself a means to drop in and listen if it was legally compelled to.

Yeah, definitely valuable and useful to many, but not to those who are the most vulnerable imho.
If you can't get the pension you pay for, you are usually entitled to a refund for your pension payments. At least that's the case in Germany.
Whether this line is appropriate or not hinges entirely on its context. In the correct context, when it is truly meant and its surroundings reinforce it, it is truly magical and can work miracles. In the wrong context... well, it comes off as dismissive and puts blame on the listener for being offended.

So, like every other thing in life having power, use carefully.
It depends how much credence you put in the standard contractual clauses (SCC) added by these companies after the privacy shield was ruled invalid by the EU.

The idea with the SCC is that instead of all data transfers being covered by a single adequacy decision, each company adds SCCs to it's contracts with customers promising that data of EU citizens will be handled in a way that's compliant with GDPR.

Reading this piece from CNIL, I can't see how a US company is going to be able to use SCCs to protect EU citizens from data access by the US government. Non US citizens typically don't have a lot of rights in the eyes of the US gov and they've traditionally been pretty happy to rifle through the data of those people at will.

ed: the point by another commenter about using your own encryption key is a good one. However, the view of CNIL essentially seems to be that transferring any data to the US is risky so to me it feels like you'd be swimming against the tide.
They are probably not legal, either, yes.
Ah ah, another instance of "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu".
When you manage servers for this long, all knowledge starts to compound fast. Many scary looking messages transform to, "Oh, you need X, Y, Z? OK. Let's do it".
Reminds me of the solar planes in Interstellar except much bigger.
jQuery is still nice to use, I do it sometimes these days.
The real lesson isn't the output of our build system, it's the types we checked along the way.
Congrats for being featured on the main page Maxime. Best of luck!
Those are constants. CSS variables are more powerful than that since they can be changed at runtime which allows e.g. minesweeper in pure HTML and CSS: https://github.com/propjockey/css-sweeper
What’s interesting on the “Trump” right is that they won’t admit to being racist, bigot and so on, but that’s it’s all done underhanded. They know they can’t outright call out anything, so it’s all done under the veneer of different arguments that still promote racism, bigotry and fascism. Sometimes it’s being a Christian (say against abortion) or to give off a fascist signal (the jan 6 insurrection)
It’s a great intellectual dishonesty.

Now many politicians are like that, as they love to cling to power, they make up stuff to keep their constituents happy, but in the case of the Trump right it seems to have evolved in such a manner they can remain judicially scot-free while still going by their plans.
Remote drivers could also drive 24/7, in shifts.
Instead of being insecure about criticisms to the Python ecosystem and calling my disappointment "hatred" I'd rather we focused on solutions.

Just because this mess happens in some other languages doesn't mean it's the right thing. Having a very fragmented community is not a good thing for a beginner. Also, npm is far more of a de facto choice than poetry, which is still better than the state python finds itself in.
Which article were you referring to?

The link in the post goes to a GitHub repo.
> The only way to win is not to play

You can also just troll. Generally, you can’t lose from such a position.

Arguably though, that would still count as “not playing”.
what is the difference with http://github.com/apache/doris
Ask HN: What is the field of economics studying “arbitrary” value?
A shirt is made somewhere in an given factory.

The shirt was made from raw materials, energy, labor. Maybe, some part of the labor was marketing - a couple people worked on an ad in the local news, a model was paid to showcase it on the website and maybe in an online ad.

I can imagine how the various money transactions associated to all those activities are tallied. The various elements in the value chain adjust their prices to make a living margin, this drives the final "retail" price, the government collect taxes, etc...

Now, for some reason, the shirt is picked by a modestly famous internet celebrity. Suddenly, copies of the shirt are sought out everywhere, and some seller is incentivized to bring the _retail price_ up. More money exchange hands. More taxes are levied.

Naively, it seems like this "value" was created out of "thin air (the shirt is not any warmer or resistant or durable or anything tangible).

Is there a name for this kind of "value" ? Afield of economics studying it ? Some relatively serious book or author on the subject ?

(My overal question what "how much of a western country's GDP is made up of 'we bought this because we needed it' vs 'we bought this because it's cool, like', so even "pop"-science would be interesting.)
The “similar way to these organisations” is because their ruling was in specific cases (this is just advice). If you read the previous paragraphs, it is obvious that the “similar way” is putting the Google Analytics scripts on a webpage.
They can be used to track and identify users, so they are personal data.

My IP address hasn't changed in some time, so if someone was to connect various sources of information, he would be able to identify me personally
I can neither recommend nor commend this dude's content enough. Hope he helps you as much as he has me. https://youtube.com/c/TheOrganicChemistryTutor
It blew me away how much attachment I had for what essentially amounted to a letter on a screen controlled by algorithms. I wrote a blog post about it 10 years ago:

https://marzzbar.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/awesome-game-exper...
Right? Imagine telling someone “you’re having fun wrong”, ridiculous.
good point!

it's far from 'required for the operation' it's just convenient.

i.e. dumping waste enywhere is convenient and cheap, but if your business cannot survive otherwise, it's hard to argue for it's right to exist.
There is the argument they are price fixing which is not true.

There is an argument they are turning a profit. Which is true.

But when oil prices are low they lose money hand over fist and lay off most of their workforce.

They have to make enough money in the good years to cover the bad years.
You're assuming that L4 is possible and that this incredible technology would be available for merely $200k per truck. I can't fault your optimism, but I think this might be a little out of step with reality.
I remember when chiark was chiark.culture.org.

Yes, really, iwj was that far ahead of the curve in 1993.
> A common claim by climate-deniers that has been widely debunked

Extending car lifetime and first-owner possession length can reduce overall emissions more than accelerating replacement according to new study[0]

[0] https://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/researches/view/218
that's a strawman. we're talking about how to have dialogue with people who hold cognitively dissonant viewpoints (to you), and sometimes that means the dialogue is context- and time- dependent. if one person is literally attacking another person verbally or physically, well, then you should possibly step in or call for help. but that's not "taking sides" so much as intervening against violence.
In theory, Tesla.
> I for one don't think the federal government should have anything to do with our school systems.

I wouldn't go that far. Federal and state governments provide about half of education funding [0] and the way they dish it out is basically inversely proportional to how much funding a school gets through their local property taxes.

Without that, funding would be very unbalanced. Although I'd be fine with reducing federal government funding/taxes with proportionate increase by the states.

[0]: https://apps.urban.org/features/school-funding-do-poor-kids-...
> The idea behind the so-called Socratic method is that by offering arguments and counter-arguments, we can collectively converge on something like the truth.

That is not what the Socratic method is... it is a teaching method. One person teaching another through leading answers to encourage their asking more questions that will teach them something though it will feel to the person like they arrived at the solution themselves (which they did, with help).
Well. I receive monthly payments from Apple for App Store revenue. I guess this used to be from "iTunes Connect" but is now called "App Store Connect", hence the confusion on my part.
> Irrational arguments can cut through solipsistic bullshit very fast and efficiently

The problem with irrational arguments is that you can also cut your way straight into bullshit of any kind. And there's a lot more ways to be wrong than there are to be right.
Acceleration - d2t

Rate - dt

Labor - dt

Productivity - dt

Growth - dt

Altogether d6(Work)/dt

The quote in Russian is an example of a 6th derivative.

It was often mentioned next to a proof that the party line was straight (каждая точка - точка перегиба).
Only if you encrypt before upload and decrypt after download, which renders almost all AWS/Azure/GCP services completely useless.
20 Years ago maybe, but it's too late for an emissions based solution now. We need to mitigate and adapt now...
I'm not a fan of lab leak, but I don't really care.

What get's me is I'd support serious action against china because if its a lab leak they need to own that, and if it's from shitty food supply chain they need to own that too.

Also they're a shitty dictatorship, they're aggressive, they're genocidal etc.

People seem very enthusiastic to blame china for a lab leak, but have no enthusiasm to blame them for other mechanisms or to convert that blame into supporting action. It's a weird thing for my brain and I share this more as sharing my confusion to see if anyone else feels the same way.

I think you did a very nice job breaking down the many many uncertainties here btw.
Not sure if it was still doing it in 2001, but in the 1997-1998 time-frame Purify also ran on HP-UX. The company I was working for at the time used it and we ended up finding a two-byte (IIRC) leak in the HP gethostbyname() library call (well, at least I think it was gethostbyname, it's more than two decades ago).

That was one of the more annoying tickets to file. We could of course send them the binary, but it would not run without the Purify license file, and we weren't comfortable to send off the license file as well. But, in the end, they accepted the bug. Not sure if there was every any fix, though.
Long way of saying what we all know. Teenage boys and young me in general having free access to hardcore porn at the click of a button inside their pocket 24/7 is probably not a good thing.
When I was a kid all we had was a friends older brothers dirty mag or maybe if you were lucky you'd find a video tape where the women and men had hairy bushes and the most depraved it got was anal.
Nowadays you can literally watch alien/tentacle porn and all sorts of disgusting stuff and yes that is exactly what it is, disgusting and no I am no prude, its just we have gotten so far away from normality in this space.
We wonder why boys and mens testosterone and sperm levels have dropped, and why all these weird MGTOW movements have sprung up.
Get your hands off it fellas.
I hope this fad of naming your startup by an intentional misspelling is over soon.
It is hard to switch windows with mouse in vanilla GNOME 3