skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For thousands of years, most people just couldn't move very far due to physics and economics. The were mostly forced to be neighbours with family. It's always valuable to have good relationships with neightbours, whether they're family or not. As the old Dutch saying goes "Beter een goede buur dan een verre vriend” ("it’s better to have good neighbour than a distant friend").

(I think that's an adaptation of a section of the Bible Proverbs 27:10: "Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you— better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.")
Btw, the gorilla incident was overblown. Overblown in the sense that people from other races (including whites) were also classified as some hilarious animals.

Gorilla and black just was the most politically charged one of the bunch.

(The other potentially politically charged one was some tendency to misclassify people of various levels of body fats as various animals.)

> Certain words are heavily loaded and are worth just skipping to avoid all the hassle for now.

If memory serves right, that was Google's pragmatic solution: if they detected a human in the picture, they 'manually' suppressed the animal classification.

So they lost being able to classify 'Bob and his dog' in return for not accidentally classifying a picture of just Alice as a picture of a seal.
This (first point)!

In Europe with its public universities this logo placing would have been completely unacceptable unless the universities were involved as stakeholders. As far as I know in Europe at least it's a complete no-go (at least from an ethical point of view) to even use the logos on your personal page if for example you are a physician and you post online your CV.

Again, unless you have specific written permission of the uni in question.
It doesn't seem you have an idea what a trip can do to you. A trip could allow you to dig up memories that you hadn't been able to access for many years.

It could enable you to perceive things things you've never considered, the unknown unknowns. The kind you _couldn't_ have ever considered because they just don't enter the human consciousness in the normal state.

It could teach you how much of what you assumed "facts" is strongly shaped by your emotions, and if those emotions are changed you are able to see things in a different light.

I suppose you wouldn't prove P /= NP when on a trip, but it could show you how narrow, warped and preconceived your your idea had been what "reality" is even about.
2 panes (both heavily tabbed so more like 10-15 of them representing various projects/activitives, tabbing for some reason works better mentally than bunch of explorer windows) is great concept, you always move from A to B if organizing/copying/moving. When I see people trying to achieve something in explorer, its literally 10x slower, and I speak of people doing it for living in bank, like desktop support guys.

Alt+F7 -> fulltext search, only in given file types, in archives (recursively), limiting for size, date, regexp etc. - way more powerful than any other tool I've ever used.

Viewing and editing files directly in archives (or in archives in archives in archives) without manually unpacking - as mainly java dev I do this very often. Again the speed and convenience is unmatched.

Very good built-in multi-rename tool, with preview of changes, GUI for this is so much better than any command line tool.

Very good file comparison tool - cleaner than anything other products (or dedicated ones) bring.

I don't want to end up listing all features of Total commander, but suffice to say its too my first tool to install (after firefox with ublock origin). Its not as much about how content I am using it, but whenever I see colleagues doing similar actions, they are maddeningly slow, ineffective and sometimes even give up for task that takes me few seconds. But that's full time usage of 2-pane mode since 1993, never saw any appeal in those simple explorer-like windows when I can be super quick with few shortcuts.
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Sounds to me like they mean e-commerce-like sites, not websites for your average offline business
I use Firefox ESR to avoid every little update, but still get security updates. I also set Firefox to notify me about updates, but not install them unless I choose to and only once has Firefox disrespected that setting and pushed something at me without any prompting. If I ever figure out how they pulled that off, I'll do whatever I can to disable that too.
Yeah you're right, thanks for unwindling it, still you have made up somehting too, cause i actually wanted to say not "Do people really get angry at emotionless knives?", but "Do people really get angry at knife manufacturers and knives?" taking your example. I mean, you can only be angry with a person who used the knife incorrectly, but at knife factories they dont dull their knifes like microsoft did with copilot
Pretty sure they laid off at least recruiting and ops staff today
Writing.

Writing is the gym for the brain. It will give you a lot of clarity on your thoughts and also improve how you speak. Your mind will be enhanced and it will affect positively all the aspects of your life.

Everybody writes, but very few do it deliberately. Most of the people, just write. They rarely even think about what they wrote. You will sound smarter. Not because of choice of words, but because you will begin to think clearly.

In the first three decades of my life. My schooling was second-rate and I've started to learn english quite late. Both my reading and writing skills were absolutely inferior to kids with a privileged background. My literacy as a kid was close to zero. My main focus was math, code and video games.

Then, having progressed in life mostly because of my technical skills and hard work, at some point I've felt my career had stalled. All my peers came from a much richer background than I and have studied in much better schools and I've started to dig into what could take me to the next level and to compete side-by-side with them.

One thing I've noticed is that I've never had a writing class before. Never. Just a few activities that one could count in one of their hands during my whole school and university life.

I've started then to write down my thoughts, then think and write. Practicing different exercises. Reading more and paying attention to other writers, to their cadence and style.

Inevitably my writing started to improve. I haven't have focused much on grammar so far and will certainly do at a later stage, as I feel there is still progress to be made in organising my thoughts.

If it interests you, try it. Feel free to send me an email if you have trouble to find time or what to write about, I can try to help you out. Let's progress together.
This is something I left in a book. I keep Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment on my desk, more out of nostalgia than anything. I flipped through it one day and found the receipt ($56!) from when I bought it, in 1995, at a Barnes and Noble in a strip mall outside Cincinnati. I bought it on the way home from my summer job. I had to implement a simple database, and browsing the stacks it looked like the best option. I learned so much from it, but not about databases! There are still sticky notes on all of the sections about file descriptors.
Look up houses for sale on Zillow in various neighborhoods. I can only speak for the ones I've looked up of course, which isn't enough for a PhD paper.
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And most people that do then look back on their lives and point to certain things they did that sets them apart. Like an old person healthy at 100 saying they studiously avoided beans and that's the sole reason they're still fit and well.

That's not to say the advice isn't sound, maybe it is, but if it's advice based on N=1 I'm not about to change my lifestyle.
Can we make a bot to mine a cryptocurrency?
Yeh, that tracks with my experience.
I'd imagine nim to be a somewhat nice learning experience if one already is used to python and the indentation. And with nimpy the integration into existing python codebases is pretty smooth sailing.
Are they measuring on the same scale or relative to what 'left' and 'right' means in their respective countries?
You are right that it wasn't the equivalent of duke. I was being a bit imprecise. Sorry.

The better English equivalent to German Graf would have been an earl.
Or they can just functionally ignore them like most laws.
That’s pretending that there’s prestige in being a student in journalism.
> ReCaptcha does a similar tactic but rather than unsolvable it's a stream of the most annoying captcha -- "select all of image until none are left".

In such a situation, I often think: isn't the fact that one makes "stupid mistakes" when attempting to solve a ReCaptcha rather a sign that the entity that is attempting to solve it is a human?
Author here. Can confirm that PINE64 is still way more hackable than COTS alternatives

(Also, the article wasn't updated, apart from a couple of dead link fixes)
they also do subsampling of the data though.
When people talk about the "reliability" of EVs, I think that a hugely-overlooked aspect is the reliability of the supply chain (including engineering, design, and component supply). It's all very well having a fantastic design for a zero-emissions, comfortable, fast and efficient family vehicle, but it's not much use if it can't be made.
How many people you are serving those static files and images to and how much bandwidth does that consume. The fact that they are static sites reveals little about whether the charges are absurd.
> Right now, if a file you're editing contains one of the restricted words, Copilot will refuse to make any suggestions at all in that file while that word is present -- even if the word isn't relevant to the part of the file you're editing.

Yah-- it's unfortunate but it's easy. It might be OK to tolerate it if it's clearly outside the range of tokens used in suggestions, but the filtering doesn't use tokenized stuff.

> What I'm suggesting is that Copilot should keep working when these words are present, but refuse to attach any significance to the specific word. This could probably be implemented by replacing the problematic words with randomly generated strings before processing the text, then swapping those strings back afterwards.

The problem is, the trained model is much smarter than the keyword-based filtering. If you just whiteout the watchwords, it still has a pretty good chance of gleaning context and making a commentary on gender that Microsoft would rather not deal with.

> (It could be reasonable for Copilot to refuse to make suggestions at all if the output would contain truly offensive language, like unambiguous racial slurs or sexual terms. But "gender" clearly isn't that.)

Right now the list is quite a large variety of things. Mostly racial slurs and sexual terms. But letting an AI ramble on after "blacks" is kind of dangerous, as are various gender-related terms that do have innocuous interpretations. It's easy to put words in the filter list and much harder to try and use nuance on these topics that even humans struggle with nuance around.
You can check in the EU as this rule is already applied there: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-right...

It did not increase price and it provides a straightforward compensation. I've received twice a compensation for work travels (doesn't matter who paid the ticket, it is the traveller who is compensated)
I saw a video about Hong Kong where colder shopping malls are considered more upscale. Waste is a Veblen good in that context, I guess.
Great anecdotal example that only seems to apply to Singapore. See China today for state sponsored high rise outcomes elsewhere.
I guess, but that's longer than “4,000kg” and unusual to boot. Anyone reading it is going to convert it in their head to 4,000kg anyway. Four million grams is not something relatable. Hard to picture the weight of millions slips of paper vs. a few thousand large water bottles. Or roughly two sedans.

The megagram is on the same list as the dekaliter and the hectowatt. They don't exist :)
The project is very new, I haven't started promoting yet. The Codeberg development was purely from word of mouth :)

disclosure: I'm the author of mCaptcha
For context, A/C in public places is not as prevalent as in the US. In some large retailers, e.g. El Corte Ingles, it's set to ~24 degrees Celsius, quite lower than outdoors, especially in the larger cities of Central, Southern, and Mediterranean Spain. It feels really cold.

Anyway, the odd voice here is the one from the president of the Madrid region, who went on Twitter to say that they won't comply, mostly not because of the A/C, but another bit that requires stores to shut off their lights when they are closed, effectively keeping their showcases in the dark at night.

Personally, it sounds like the stupidest hill to die on.
I would add that link to robots.txt as an exclusion.

That way well-behaved search engines won’t be affected, but naive scrapers get auto-banned.
Not exactly strange, but found something quite depressing.
A second hand book that I bought 5 years back had a medical bill with multiple cancer medications listed.
The bill had the age and name of the patient - a man in his 20s.
To me, it felt like he'd sold the book to cover his medical expenses.

Every time I pick that book up I get reminded of that bill, and haven't been able to finish the book as yet.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-shuts-down-ai-chatbot...
They get away with it, because the selected news stories fit the predisposed beliefs and biases of their readers. Just like all media.

A related point - The Guardian makes much of the fact that they are funded by a trust fund, arguing that it makes them "independent". I doubt they would make the same argument about other companies or individuals sustained by old wealth.
Better plan:

"Archive" dormant projects. An archived project is stored highly compressed on hard disk rather than SSD, and in only one data center worldwide rather than globally distributed. Upon access, an archived project takes up to 30 seconds to unarchive before it can be accessed as normal.

Archived data like this is practically free to store.
A long time ago, just about the time short after the 9/11 attack i joined the german army. In my platoon there was a guy my age who drove a f...ing Dodge Viper.

You need to know, german conscripts were not really well paid back then, so it totally baffled me, especially after hearing that his family is from a blue collar background.

It turned out, that crazy guy somehow convinced a bank to give him enough credit to pay the deposit so he could get the credit from the dealer... and after this, every month his whole pay went into the payment of the credit(s) and the fuel.

People do... crazy stuff
I got a free copy of "Sam's Teach Yourself C# in 21 Days" at some Microsoft sponsored career fair thing for students.

While not a bad book overall, each chapter was supposed to be "1 day" and I definitely did wonder what planet Sam lived on.
Eventually they will rediscover Expect as well, then we will have a renaissance of TUI scripting languages.
Sadly a majority don't even rewrite press releases any more.

It's a major complaint that many banner outlets verbatim echo PR handouts w/out doing any follw up fact checking or much in the way of actual rewriting.
I was talking about Madrid, which is by far the largest city. I'm in Bilbao right now which is fairly large (metropolitan area or "Gran Bilbao" has 850k pop.) and the virtual kitchen fever hasn't taken off yet either.
Not really, as proven by keyboard + mouse chords.
I've always thought not being friends with your coworkers is a defense mechanism. Most of us have to work to survive, so getting emotionally involved and ending up with an uncomfortable or toxic environment (one with conflict and favoritism) is a big risk.

I've observed that the more highly paid and "professional" your work environment, the harder it is to make friends through work.
Wait.

These are the same fake names that the deli a block from me in Brooklyn NYC uses. Literally exactly the same.

That’s sort of fascinating. I’m realizing it just be some kind of software or vendor they’re all using to set up this ghost kitchen explosion.

I wonder if there’s a clever vendor out there shipping them some kind of device to keep track of all this stuff, complete with menus and an instruction guide or something.

Or, of course, the platforms themselves.
I had an exam once where we were told to read the entire question paper first.

At the end it told you to ignore all previous questions and just do this one.

2nd favourite exam question after an economics multiple choice exam where we had to calculate the probability of passing the exam just by guessing.
> Is Spain dry? Or humid?

Both. Spain is one of the European countries with most diverse ecosystems. The local weather ranges from "tropical Mexico" to "Siberian winter". We have deserts and relic cloud rainforests. The inner core is dry and hot (not much unlike US pairies), the North is like Ireland and the West would be similar to California. Canary Islands are subtropical.

Currently most big cities are reaching over the 104ºF (40ºC). A pretty hot year. Environmental crimes made it much worse, so we are having a dry year also.

(Stupid note for myself: It seems that all the years with big wars are extra hot. Somebody should study how all this extra energy released locally by bombs and missiles interact with the weather models).
But then you end up forcing people to use Gmail.
Last in first out. That's how I've seen it happen.
I think we might have seen the same video.

It happens in other places in Asia as well, not only Hong Kong. It's quite uncomfortable to go from ~34C and 98% humidity, to an environment at ~20C and less than 50% humidity. I'm surprised people don't get more respiratory illnesses more often.
I think "prestige" in legacy corporate media roughly correlates with the willingness to regurgitate propaganda aimed to further the state-corporate agenda. See: the "prestigious" New York Times and it's sycophantic support for imperialist wars and interventions, and willingness to publish lies and unverified claims to that end.
Sounds like it’s trying to track all your mouse movements and clicks and either it’s broken or you’ve halfway blocked it.
With 213 million people, they do have a ton of devs and a ton of ESL speakers. There’s lots of places like that, like Turkey or SE Asia, where word doesn’t reach NA/wEU.
New tech that is available for purchase in a physical computing package?

Or more like new tech that is only available like playing a MMORPG?
His first point is a major personal bugbear:

> First, there is the practice that undermines any notion their purpose is to inform their readers. Which is that they don’t fucking cite anything.

I generally try and track down primary sources for and "reports" mentioned in material that crosses my desk .. and banner media have gotten increasingly sloppy in the provision of accurate titles, let alone actual footnotes or hotlinks to a source.
They fixed Copilot returning verbatim snippet of Quake source code by just blacklisting a word! How can they still pretend Copilot is not just copyright washing other people's code?

https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1433261377125326851
Devil's advocate: Making depictions more diverse than society helps conceal social problems and encourages people to deny them.

Social problems are messy and full of situations like this where people can reasonably disagree and have decent, good-faith rationales for both sides, and we lack the kind of evidence that allows us to have strong confidence in our guesses about what would help.
> they will have to generate proof-of-work(a bunch of math that will takes time to compute)

This was tried before and failed! The reason it failed was Maths! Most favour clicking simple images or rearranging visual elements instead of solving Maths problems.
Windows XP used to have "Welcome". It was a better choice... in the English version, that is. Apparently properly translating that word was difficult because e.g. in Russian version it said something that'd be roughly equivalent to "a welcoming" in English: they've used the word that means "greeting" but can not by itself serve as a greeting. The overall effect was that you were left mildly puzzled: "did they just forget to put an actual greeting in there or?.."
Northern Spain is quite humid all year round.

I don't get why you said that most Europe is dry. Germany, France, the British Isles, the Netherlands, Poland, etc. aren't dry at all.
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That's really interesting... Do the actual real-life restaurants appear related?

I just realized this screenshot is actually from GrubHub which I don't use anymore, so I'm not able to go back and check for further details.
> Whenever I have a family vacation, I can’t help but think how unnatural our present lives are.

I feel it is as unnatural as not having cholera roaming around: better than the natural state of affairs.

I love my family, but family vacations make me want to run away screaming. Having to live with family would break me.
Hello,

I'm the author of mCaptcha. I'll be happy to answer any questions that you might have :)
Reminds me of:
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/using-ai-to-bring-childrens-dra...
> First, of course, you have cloudflare and recaptcha, which are free and very efficient, as the author say.

Recaptcha has been almost useless, in my experience. If you read the spam logs, you'll quickly learn about the spam software they (claim to) use to bypass Recaptcha, because that's what they end up promoting. I started tagging in logs if Recaptcha had validated on messges, and sure enough these spam posts had all successfully passed it. Great opportunity to rip out more Google dependencies from my website.

I've found my own custom written filters to be vastly more effective than Recaptcha.

Lots of the bots are running full Chrome with JS, lots of HeadlessChrome being used lately. The fact that they're using HeadlessChrome is something that makes them easy to detect, ahem.
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