skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You probably aren't meaning to, but you're spreading outright lies that always originate with people who are mad at the Kiwis. This is just plain made up. Maybe you're thinking of 4chan circa 2004. Maybe you think all internet trolls are one big community. I don't know.

The problem is that just about nobody outside of KF has any reason at all to know anything about them, besides what they hear second hand from people who are upset with them.

Saying one word on the forum even hinting at the encouragement of what they term "GayOps" - or interacting directly with / harassing the subjects, is perhaps the only bannable offense there is. And that's not a term of endearment, and this is not a wink, wink, nudge thing. I know your mind wants to reject this, but it is the case. There's no secret chatroom. If there is it's a completely separate community because they wouldn't be able to talk to the actual community about any of it. The forum OGs will attempt to mock you into submission before things get to that point. The vast majority of the users have no interest in messing with them and it is against the culture. A few people will try to talk to the subjects on Twitter and in 7 years I've never once seen it go past that. Not once.

99% of their activity is screencapping public tweets, making mean-spirited quips about them, and... and nothing. That's it. That's what they do. People aren't mad about what KF does. They think they are, because people aren't capable of thinking clearly about this, particularly when they're the targets. People are really mad about what they say. They just can't believe it's legal to say the horrible things they say. But it is. And they're mad about where and how the Kiwis direct attention. And the more postmodern targets have lately taken to yapping about what they've termed "stochastic terrorism". That's the idea that the speech on the forum raises the statistical likelihood that somebody might decide to commit a crime OR that a target might commit suicide. Stochastic terrorism. This is how they're able to say with a straight face that the Kiwis are terrorists, committing terrorism, in addition to being nazis, fascists, alt-right, inciting violence and all the standard by the book things that you people have taken to calling every single person who doesn't exercise their right to talk about shit in the way you think they should.

Almost everything I've ever read about Kiwi Farms was blatant and obvious lies with an obvious agenda.
The article, of course, agrees:

> The answer, of course, is “Both” — as with any creative business — but watching each side wrestle with that ambiguity has been instructive.
Musk is absolutely the reason I would never consider buying another Tesla, having just sold mine.

Dude just straight up lies. He may not realize he's lying, but he lies constantly.

Edit, because I'm getting downvoted. Here's some examples: self driving, battery swaps, robotic snake chargers, cybertruck windows, Bitcoin won't be converted to fiat, starlink speeds will improve, he will sell his home, first mars mission 2024, Tesla solar roofs, power packs at every supercharger, brake pads on Tesla cars will never need to be replaced, the gigafactory will be 100% renewable powered by 2020, fixing the Flint water crisis, making bricks from boring company waste, founding a media credibility organization, and probably a TON more.

Oh man, I forgot he took money to fly tourists to the moon.

There are so many lies he's told. So many.
> in a very real sense the ultimate purpose of most science is precisely to use our willpower to modify (what we previously believed to) physical laws.

I don't agree at all. The purpose of science is to understand physical laws well enough that we may predict how various objects work. Sometimes this allows us to make things that we previously believed impossible possible. Sometimes physical laws and limits turn out to be different than we thought, other times we simply find a better way to work within the same laws we always knew.

> Physical laws prevent human beings from flying, or breathing underwater, or viewing individual atoms. Until we literally used our willpower to design machines to overcome these "laws."

I don't think anyone has ever believed that one of the physical laws of the universe is "human beings can't fly". We have always known that heavier than air flying was possible (since birds do it). The notion of humans flying (or breathing underwater, or seeing really small things) with some kind of assistance has existed probably since pre-history, but definitely since antiquity - have you ever heard of Pegasus, or Hermes' winged sandals, or flying chariots and such? Airplanes are just a scientific realization of those ideas.

> I have no doubt that eventually our collective willpower will be used to modify other "laws" we believe today, like the law that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Pretty magical if you ask me :)

This is also something you are wrong about. If you look at the progress of science, at least since the 1600s or so, we have almost universally discovered new fundamental limits, not the other way around.

Given Newton's laws of motion, we thought that we could reach any speed we wanted to, if only we had the right technology. It was a new discovery that actually speed is limited. We also thought that an object can have any density, until GR showed that past some density, it ceases to be an object in the usual sense (it becomes a black hole). We used to think that energy can vary continuously between any two values, until we discovered that it can only vary by fixed quanta. We used to think that we can measure the position and velocity of an object to arbitrary accuracy, but then we discovered Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

So, as science advances, I'm looking forward to finding out what other thing we currently think is possible will turn out to be impossible.
> Ive only poked at godot, is there a reason that GDscript is so dominant?

GDScript is excellent. I was a huge skeptic of it at first - in fact, if you dig through my reddit account I wrote a huge screed about why it could never succeed when it was first announced like 5+ years ago. The Godot team totally proved me wrong - GDScript is really really good. It's super productive to work in - you can bang out features super quickly.
I’ve never seen any of this, in my decades in this business.

I am more interested in why people write crap like this.
European cars have to pass Euro-NCAP crash standards which include pedestrian safety tests. It's not the mass or overall size that's dangerous to pedestrians, it's the nose/hood profile and height.
I dont know, the frenetic rebound of tourism this year tells me that people don't want to live closer together unless they have to
Humre – Human-Readable Regular Expressions (Al Sweigart)
Seems to be stealing indiehackers content to get you to install an app.

Account posting it looks like a dodgy spam account too.
About a third of beds are blocked at our local DGH by medically fit people who still require community care provision. These are people waiting to go home (or to a home) from an inpatient stay.

Until they go, A&E can't admit people through to the beds they're currently in.

Even if you lie to the population and claim you'll add 7000 beds this winter, those beds aren't staffed. We can't surge 5000 nurses and 2000 support staff out of nowhere. They're all busy.
Indeed, but this is the proof the market didn't want the regulation and taxation and wanted better technology.

Shouldn't we listen to what people want over bureaucrats?
Interesting way of saying "no"
The terms of the CC-BY-SA licenses that Stack Overflow and Wikipedia largely use cannot practically be satisfied in a data model. By design, all outputs derive from all sources to some extent, and the licensing requires that they generally be specifically identified, so you can’t just say “from Wikipedia” or “from Stack Overflow” but “from such-and-such a page, by so-and-so”.

“Permissive” is not enough. You need no-strings-attached, and attribution is a string. Hence mostly talking about public domain materials, which make up the vast majority of suitable materials.

I suspect that covered works of the USA federal government would be quite a large fraction of the public domain material (as reckoned by the USA) from the last 70 years. I don’t believe it’d be enough to be particularly useful, certainly not for pop culture knowledge or colloquial idiom.
If this stuff is any good, Tesla should make it available for everyone to use colab-style.

A hosted Jupyter notebook in a sandboxed VM able to send jobs to this new silicon is something that might be possible to set up by a small team in a few months, and could turn into a billion dollar business.

As a bonus, Tesla can use revenue from that to grow this supercomputer, while using any spare/unsold capacity for themselves.
Seattle has several large trails that absolutely can be used for commuting.
Yeah, I've been linked this before in another thread. But somebody there also provided the statistics: even in the "capital of winter biking", about 22% of trips are taken by bike. Which makes bikes a valid alternative, but not a main solution.
Just type the word mudge into Google. ‘Bogus whistleblower’ tho
It's censorship
I didn't notice any psychedelic filter? Where can I see it?
The design is really bad imo as well. I would prefer no css or styling at all than this. Its very difficult to tell what is going on.
Actually, I think they could comply by providing a list of every author in the dataset, though this is following the letter rather than the spirit.

They could also do research on ways to get the model to return the top ten influential works for some output, and make a legal argument that this is a best effort given technical challenges with tracing every source.

For the first point, I get that by reading the license at this image:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3H8A7368.jpg

“attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.”

So, output has to have the same license and worst case the image is accompanied by a link to a list of every author in the dataset. This is a far cry from the “this research would be useless if copyright was enforced” as some people suggest.

Here’s an open dataset I found which does not require attribution:
https://www.pexels.com/creative-commons-images/

And Wikimedia commons, some of which require attribution:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images

And it is easy to go take a 4k video camera and start collecting tens of thousands of frames of your own images.

My point is that people are throwing up their hands saying oh, respecting the copyright of artists is impossible. But it feels very unfair that these huge companies are walking all over the copyright of small artists, but if we took their code to re use their lawyers would sink us overnight. This upsets a lot of people and it’s a bad look. I don’t actually like copyright but if everyone else has to follow the rules I don’t like giving them a free pass.
> Desktop Linux is better today than it's ever been.

I honestly have to strongly disagree with that. Desktop Linux is more complex, more fragile, and more choice-less than 10-15 years ago. It might have a bit better hardware compatibility... but even back then it would run on just about anything.

> Librem and Pine64 are doing great work in the mobile Linux space on the hardware side

But can you actually use them as a phone? Can you use all (or even any) of the apps that people want to use?

> They'll never grow to billions of users, nor should they. The tech industry's "grow massive or the product is worthless" mindset is pathological, in my opinion.

Without that, they'll also never get the things that people want their phones to do.
My autopilot drives me on the highway just like he said it would. That was what he predicted about 5 years ago. FSD is taking longer - so what. It's progressing for the public far more than another other attempt.
Recording the street is the most important part of recording for crime detection.

If someone knocks off the side mirror of my car by driving too close, I shouldn't be able to record that? I shouldn't be able to capture the license plate so I know who it is?

You do get that you are publicly visible when walking down the street, right?

People are visible in their gardens too, but I can at least understand making it illegal to record other private property, but the pubic street is reading it too far.
Ctrl+Alt+-

I guess Ctrl+Shift+- is a no op if you haven't first gone back.
>In contrast, keeping good air quality in a region that is naturally prone to good air doesn’t say squat about how competent or effective the government is.

Competent no, effective yes.

Of course the magnitude of the challenge is different, but one is still meeting its goals and the other isn't.

The government response be proportional to the need and problem. If there are geographic favoring one region, a minimal action is both appropriate and effective.

If there are geographic features unfavorable to a region, but the government response isn't enough, you can't claim it is also effective.
Yes, I prefer Tier too. Better scooter quality, often better availability of scooters with ok battery levels, in my opinion (and they have blinkers). Lately they raised prices in Stockholm though for their 300 minute/month plan, so now I go with Voi which has equally quality scooters, in my opinion.
Entirely different situations. One is happening by design, the other is happening due to external circumstances.

Private companies pollute because dealing with externalities costs money. It's not a problem they're trying to solve, it's a feature they implemented to increase margins.

The NHS doesn't have appropriate funding. If you increase funding you fix the problem. From what I've seen, the NHS used to be great until the 90s when the cuts began.
Interesting, to this day I remember the Jolla as the only phone I ever had that I actively enjoyed using
Again, it set a legal precedent and it's a restriction on freedom there shouldn't be a threshold to care
Nobody's talking about carbon here mate
> Then a foreign state can influence the elections

I think this is bollocks. 23% of Americans say they use Twitter. 61% of Americans voted in the last Presidential election. So with my bad math, say a foreign state somehow gets every possible Twitter users vote going their way, at best it's going bamboozle 14% of weak-minded Americans. That's at best, the perfect and unbeatable score. The reality is that most Twitter users are not obsessed with the platform, and most Americans are not on the fence with their votes. This concern is not really supportable.
I think by default go back is Ctrl+Alt+-
Sensors fly separately from the consumables, hitching the same ride up. The consumable ones only need their own for final approach which might even be assisted by "painting".

A bigger problem would be sensor overload from all the friendlies, you'd probably want those loitering to follow a course determined by a PRNG predictable to everyone who knows that day's key. But that's just very basic crypto put to novel use.
Rolling, without a grave?
Also, do yourself a favor and read the Inform Designer’s Manual, Edition 4. It’s dated (I think it came out in 1998) and pertains to Inform version 6, but it is still very relevant (modern Inform uses I6 under the hood), and it’s a lovely piece of technical writing.
the motherboard won't accept it
> Ultimately a bunch of people will decide how they feel about it

Some would argue that technically these people _discover_[0] the law, but it amounts to the same thing

[0] https://www.jstor.org/stable/3143421
> so the harnessing of nuclear power was not due to willpower..?

Let me put it like this. We know that we can use water to grow vines, harvest and ferment grapes, and make wine. However, we still see Jesus/God turning water into wine as a magical event.

Harnessing nuclear power is like turning water into wine by using it to grow grapes. We have discovered that certain materials have the property that they become very hot in certain conditions, and we can use our willpower to move our hands and feet to build machines that do this.

But magic refers to us (or some other being) using its willpower to achieve such effects directly. Just like you or I can will our hands into moving, a wizard or god can will the seas into parting.

> and of course reality is dual- otherwise what is mathematics made of? or how is anything similar to or separate from anything else, without some out-of-band judgement?

What is a Linux made of? Ultimately, it is some configuration of fundamental fields that defines it, either in a computer or in our brains.

Now, did Linux, or Pyhtagoras' theorem, exist immediately after the Big Bang? In some sense, you can say that they did, because a hypothetical sentient being would have been able to formulate them just as much as we can today.

But then, in this sense, the Empire State building also existed at the time of Big Bang. In a much more concrete sense, no - these things only started existing when they were thought up or built by some human minds, and in this sense the copy of Pythagoras' Theorem in my mind is just as much a physical object as Linux is on my phone and as the Empire State building is in Manhattan.
> node.js dependency hell

You have one file which lists your dependencies and it comes as a standard with the framework compared to Java & co where you have lots of flavours.
The amount of dependencies your dependencies have is up to your choice.

> Exception handling?

Synchronous code uses the standard try / catch method.
Asynchronous code has been using async / await combined with try / catch.
A strategy that Nose.js invented and that other languages like Java, Rust and Python copied.

> Performance?

V8 and Node.ja are pretty much the fastest dynamic language platform.
Years ago, when companies started switching to Node.js, a lot of companies actually reduced the amount of servers they used when switching from Java to Node.js

> No real multithreading afaik?

I/O is multithreaded through libuv and C-Ares.
The rest can simply run as a multi-process app.
Worker pools have also recently been introduced.
In any case that wouldn't be an issue for crawling which doesn't require multithreading.

JavaScript is the language used in the front-end so it seems like the most fitting language to use for crawling and scraping, especially since the introduction of headless browsers.
No, these are being found in traceroutes. Any time you end up being routed over a private network you can end up with private non-announced IP addresses being present in said traceroute - seeing 10.x.x.x addresses in the middle of traceroutes is something you will see occasionally as well. When the TTL expires and the router sends the TTL exceeded message back, it has to select SOMETHING for the source IP address, and there's nothing to prevent that choice being the internal IP address it uses.
... and do you feel anxious not knowing if you will reach that number ?
Maybe you can better explain what they're asking for. Because otherwise, I find it unclear. Isn't the point of OpenResty to provide a system for building your app right inside the webserver? Because you can absolutely do that with Caddy, by writing plugins.
I read the article as "I'm not experienced with TS yet and learning is not as easy as not having to learn something" :) Good news is that it will improve as you use it ^^

I don't get the point at all of the difference between app and library developpers. Any app of non trivial size will have some kind of internal library and thus any app developer is a library developper too.
A bit click-baity title but as I read the article, I agree on the overall thesis. The lack of documentation on how to use types is really annoying when you start going deep utilizing generic types and whatnot and bumping into weird errors.

Like for example, I wanted to type a generic object you can persist to a localStorage. What's the correct type?

Can't use an interface if you make a recursive type so you need a type. But if you use a Record<string | number, Persistable> and your client has some regular interface APIResponse { foo: string, bar: AnotherObject } the types dont match. I forget the specifics, but I ended up using { [key in string | number]?: PersistableValues } where PersistableValues includes all the primitives as well as arrays, sets, maps etc which I serialize/deserialize on persist and hydrate. Using
`object` as type is listed as bad-practise in TS documentation which I agree but really, typing all the handled cases by hand is not fun either.

Wonder if I just should use any and throw an error if I encounter something I am unable to serialize.
My point is, a lot of those wannabe "influencers" who complain the most about "boo hoo, Twitter/Instagram are so unfair" are simply putting out mediocre content.
If you are well-aware, why didn't you use a more adequate money supply measure like M2 or M3? Is it maybe because the growth there was nothing out of the ordinary looking at the past 10 years?
AI Jobs That Don’t Require a PhD or an Engineering Degree
I'm a cyclist and I hate bicycles on sidewalk as much as I would hate cars driving there. They increase risks for pedestrians that have done nothing wrong by walking on a sidewalk. We cyclist must accept our risks and stop offloading them to other people.

Furthermore sidewalks have a worse pavement than roads, are full of obstacles (including pedestrians) and are a slower way to get to destination, but that's another story.
I've been looking for the new 6800u based Z13 but it's nowhere to be found. Guess my wife would have to keep her old machine for a while longer
> Why do you need x86 ubuntu instead of arm ubuntu?

- I dislike macOS (when I had Intel MBA in the past it was collecting dust until I installed Ubuntu on it).

- I don't want to have 2 sets of instructions how to do something (i.e. once on macOS on AppleSilicon and once on Ubuntu x86)

- I want my local dev env to be as similar as possible to the deployment env.

Not sure how Ubuntu for ARM with x86 JIT for user code is the answer, judging by your reply it might be slow also.
I like your advice but this misses the MOAT of the cloud which is being able to utilize the IaaS/Papas they provide. For example if you are building in azure today going with SQL doesn't make sense because Cosmos and service bus/event grids handle that. This locks you into the vendor bad makes it near impossible to leave.
Barely relevant:

"Inside Gaming" Humble 25 eBook Bundle from MIT Press for $18 running for the next ~2 weeks.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/inside-gaming-mit-press-b...

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"The Summer Fireball Game Bundle" StoryBundle 9 eBooks for $20 running for the next ~2 days.

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Trying to get my Godot project to a stable enough place that I can try early dotnet6 builds.

It’s been quite fun abstracting as much game logic as possible into testable class libraries so I’m hoping it won’t be a bad migration for me.

Really looking forward to seeing if dependency injection will be easier
except that election results are not often what you were voting for...

:-)
Facebook's timeline just shows random things for some users
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https://twitter.com/search?q=facebook+until%3A2022-08-25+since%3A2022-08-24

Edit:

Reddit users complaining of this: https://old.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/wwbfm5/news_feed_showing_people_writing_to_other_people/

Downdetector (a third-party service that asks users if they're down): https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/

Business-oriented status page (all green): https://metastatus.com/