skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is important to have at least some software as efficient as possible, especially server software, because huge data centers eat a lot of electricity and we cannot always take cheap electricity for granted.

(The recent price spikes in Europe are crazy.)

That said, such improvements may well be canceled out by other activities such as Bitcoin mining.
What is absolutely astonishing, however, is how similar they sound, at least in terms of prosody. To my Hungarian ears Finnish, at least if heard from distance, sounds eerily familiar.

Compare this to e.g. Spanish and French, languages so close to each other but sounding so different. I wonder if there is some deep reason why prosody is well conserved in the Finnish-Hungarian pair and apparently entirely meaningless in Romance.
Blah, blah, blah. The usual rebuttal.

Like climate deniers, debunkers gonna debunk.

It's strange that these people are trusted to handle and launch nukes, but apparently when squadrons of UAPs show up simultaneously on the most advanced sensor systems in the world they suddenly can't be trusted.
> It's scary to think that just 2 to 3 corporations have the power to construct a false reality around us

I do believe it's been this way for a while. Noam Chomsky wrote Manufacturing Consent in 1988. (There's a movie out there created in 1992 if you don't want to read the book). Basically the same factors at work then are the same factors at work today -- just escalated with an algorithm.

There is an objective reality -- it's just that people are too lazy to go find it.
You can see the same effect writ even larger in the "commieblocks" that were (and to some extent remain) omnipresent in Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union. But that construction was not driven by market forces, so it's hard to compare.
If "capitalism" can't survive reasonable consumer protection then perhaps it deserves to die, sure.
I have an instagram account that I basically don't use, created probably 10+ years ago. At one point I randomly decided to log in and found that my username was randomized and someone else (not even a brand account) was using my original name. I never got any emails about my account being accessed, my password was random, no login activity, etc. To this day I'm still wondering if the account was compromised without a trace or if instagram just decided to give my name to someone else.
You can dislike trump and still see the issue with 3 corporations (facebook, google, twitter) having such enormous political power
Strongly agree. I would be happy to see the emergence of a few startups doing this.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32616485
Apparently not as insane as Klapötke et al
This comparison was also made a lot in the early days of crypto, but at this point we're 15 years into crypto and real-life use cases remain awfully thin on the ground.
Thanks, saw that youtube kerfuffle a few days ago and wodered if this was related. Looks like it is.
Also seems reasonable to me to want to do some due diligence before it reaches number 1 and gets pushed to everyone by your own algorithms. Traditional journalism used to require some level of due diligence. They waited to know if it could be real before allowing it to spread.

At least as I understood, the algorithm tweak only lasted 1 week and then was reversed once the story sounded more probable.
Because Mac OS was originally written in Object Pascal, naturally with enough Assembly, then it transitioned to C++.

Of course this was before the days when everyone knows only C can be used to write OSes. /s
Why can’t you build an app and pamphlet your local area? Make it
cheaper on your app, or more choices?

Uber hasn’t monoplized marketing.

My online ordering habits are wedded to the restaurant not the middleman.
(Unlike taxi trips where I am loyal to Uber not the driver).

If a restaurant gives you a shit or good meal it is a good prediction model for your experience the next time. You can’t
actually commoditize Pizza as much as you would intuitively imagine.

A blind Pizza from Uber? No thanks. Pizza from XYZ Pizza who I trust via the Uber conduit. Yes please! Via the XYZ Pizza app and save $5. Hell yes!
> Its not really as vapid and narcissistic as it otherwise seems

It is.
In the U.S. this is a little different. Due to the popularity of timber frame houses, air nailers have significantly streamlined many aspects of house building here. However, increased sizes and increased equipmemt have eaten much of the savings from efficiency.
The meme persists because the ISA has a lot of “simple” instructions that don’t actually match what real world software would like to make performant, so a bunch of RISC-V enthusiasts handwave it away as “oh the chip will just fuse all the instructions and make it efficient”.
Try to do a digital-free holiday (no computer, phone etc) for 1-2 weeks. See if you attention span or focus is messed with by constant distractions (or the often called "dopamine addiction") instead of caffeine. Or instead, try to meditate at least 20mins a day for a couple of weeks. I personally don't think doctors would ever advice this, as the whole attention loss/focus/internet addiction thing is to new and not widely researched.
Streamlining 3D Animation Creation via Rigging
One of the delivery companies here in Spain Globo goes the next step and runs virtual kitchens themselves with virtual brands. I now have to double check if it’s a real restaurant before ordering anything.
I can't tell what stance is being taken on Tarsnap here, but for the interested the background is worth a read.

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2018-04-01-tarsnap-pricing-...
What I'm saying is that this is a heuristic, not an algorithm, and that you should blame Facebook, not "the algorithm"
In the interview Zuckerberg has all the facts down until Rogan asks him to what degree they limited the article, for which Zuckerberg developed a sudden case of amnesia, indicating that they probably limited it a lot.
Salesforce doesn't even care about paying customers. Heroku has stagnated for years. Recent Heroku massive mistakes they've been making have been absolutely terribly handled by them.

They also own Tableau, which has stagnated as well and is pretty badly handled.
GP is implying that companies that don't are by definition performing poorly by missing out on the margin.
The old norms were censorship too.
This exactly, seems like this could have been done from the 80s and entirely automated from the mid-90's.

I'm all for setting up something like this [1], it's just good science to have automated cameras recording the sky to keep an eye on things. In the very simplest straightforward business case, three synchronized cameras detecting a meteor can trace its path through the athmosphere and help locate anything that hits the ground. For more niche use cases include tracking aircraft flying around with their transponders turned off, just to keep everyone honest. After a few dozen more scientic use cases, then, maybe, some UFO tracking.

Sky Hub [2] tried it, combining recording with some ML detection, but they went bust last year.

[1] - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275829635_Project_f...

[2] - https://www.space.com/spotting-ufos-sky-hub-surveillance
Why would you expect this to be only one time?
Short attention spans can be absorbed into poetry/philosophy and expanded by chasing the meaning of the tiny sentences.

With skill you can put a lot of information into a shorter song. Chain those short sentences together and you can educate and entertain across a rythym.

Just saying it's possible.
Most Kanji have at least two ways to pronounce them, the On reading and the Kun reading. For example, 水 (meaning water) can be pronounced as both “Mizu” and “Sui.”

Some have a lot more. 下 has two On readings (Ka and Ge) and several Kun readings (Shita, Shimo, Moto, Sa, Kuda, and O).

While combinations typically do have one reading, some can have multiple readings, especially people’s names. Still, it is hard for learners to know which reading for individual Kanji’s are the right ones a lot of times.

EDIT: Fixed a couple of typos and a premature submit.
What's your favorite alternative?
But there is video. It just looks crap or CGI because it's hand held, because who expects to see a UFO, and shot by amateurs.
I guess I should refer to people as "collection of atoms", then. Or even further to probability clouds, to make a distinction.
> What is the crime exactly?

Based on what has leaked to the public so far, I believe some combination of drug possession, prostitution, money laundering, corruption, and abuse of an elected office for personal profit.

> if the FBI has evidence of a crime, why wasn't he charged?

That's what a lot of people would like to know.
Yesterday i was watching LSD documentary (https://www.netflix.com/title/80229847). They briefly stated that LSD usage in California was very likely to have accelerated invention of computers. It helped people with problem solving.
In Norway now a days, exams will provide an approved calculator for the student to use. This both reduces cheating, and let's the student buy any type of calculator they want for studying.
This is the most “boomer” statement I’ve ever read.
What’s even duty? Duty to what or who?
How could I lie my way into passing such a test with my doctor? I’m not sure why you’re slugging such baseless accusations at me. And the fact I’ve repeatedly said I am questioning even resorting to Adderall is proof enough against your defamatory comment that I just want “to get drugs”. I’m genuinely curious how others who do have prescriptions for such medications are fairing.
The entire universe is discussing T's affidavit and his underwear 24x7. It's ok. HB story has a tech and alphabet agency angle, both directly relevant to HN readership.
Nothing much remains of the original protocol besides the name (MSNP), however; it started out being an IRC-like text-based protocol that MS even submitted to the IETF --- but never reached RFC status[1] --- but in its later years became gradually "XML-ized" and required more and more complexity in the client. The latest major revision of the protocol, which is also what the "new" Skype uses, is basically an HTTP API and thus most suited to being used in a browser, but definitely hinders those wanting to write a native client for it.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-movva-msn-messen...
Time to quit cold turkey. It'll hurt like hell for 3-5 days and then you'll be kinda fine, just feeling like you don't have a soul anymore. Drink tea if you can to compensate.

Then after the pause, go back to drinking 1-2 cups per day and never more.
You don't really have to stop it.

American elections have become so polarized that 50 000 votes in strategically important states can swing them.

It is definitely in capabilities of the tech giants to effect such a small change by putting their thumbs on the scales.

Of course, this is a general problem with the "winner takes all" political principle, and already the ancient Greeks knew that problem, but given that you can't have two Presidents at the same time, it is hard to avoid.

Even European countries where the President is usually just a figurehead suffer from bitter polarization when it comes to presidential elections.
I think it's a long bet that eventually cell phones will replace the dish (user terminal).
> If you get X passport applications per day

submissions and throughput fluctuate and the quoted times are obviously estimates based on what the government has decided is a reasonable expected value for their target opex spend given historic application rates. I don't see why it's surprising that they chose some target timeline and staffed accordingly.

> why not have 20 production facilities spread around the country ?

because that's horribly inefficient and there's not point in spending resources to bring down a perfectly reasonable renewal time for a once-a-decade process
I don't deny that intentional or unintentional misinformation occurs on Wikipedia. However, that does not qualify as an argument against Wikipedia as a reliable source as a whole, in particular in comparison to most other sources, including many TV channels, newspapers and tabloids. In fact, many if not most Wikipedia pages are written by subject matter experts too (to be defined weet that that means).

In spite of occasional quality concerns, Wikipedia is one of the most trustworthy sources on the internet. That does not mean you should blindly believe everything you read there, as for any other source. Also, as stated by others, it is not a scholarly source nor a scientific publication.
Actually its not allowed to tell the customer about additional fees for using credit cards. The fees are still applied to the merchant, the law just forces the merchant to recoup the fees from all their customers. So in the EU, you are paying credit card fees even when not using a credit card.

And i have witnessed many examples in the EU where a person had money transferred from their bank account and the banks could not reverse it.
I have no idea why you wouldn't mind that, but thats fine, you do you. I am curious though, if you don't mind sharing why?

To everybody else who are hit by this, they would not consider it a feature but a pretty serious limitation, since if you didn't care about server side logging in first the place why would you mind messages disappearing after 90 days?

Regardless though, IRC also doesn't persist user names which I think is a serious limitation.
Indeed security researchers appreciate they keeping food at their table, see CVE database.
The 90 day cap on the search history essentially turns the free plan into a time-limited trial. Slack is probably happy to part ways with whoever still cannot justify their subscription price after that time. They will have figured that these users are not likely to upgrade to a paid tier at a later date either. As a for-profit entity, Slack has no reason to offer a free service to a longtail of non-paying users.

From a business perspective, this makes perfectly good sense.
We should just have the government switch between corrupt and not corrupt on a case by case basis. It’s the only way to avoid democratically electing the wrong people.
Maybe stop writing about it like it’s candy or that you want it to compete with others. How you could cheat on a test that you want to pass? On which are literally thousands of posts on the net on how to cheat on it. That’s your question on hackernews? That’s why you made a throwaway account? The jumping from one comment to another from „of course I would ask a nutrionist“ to „I took a test at my doc“. Yeah, how would I come to the conclusion that you are lying.
Sure. But at the same time the story did come out, and most people in the US were exposed to it in some way, it just wasn't amplified to oblivion. So it's not like social media had total censorship power here.

If anything, I think the lesson is that social media should be handicapped before elections for all stories.
You do realize that they used misinformation to bury a true story about the laptop right?
True, but with all the absurdities these days I really only have one word

Clownworld

:)
This is such a simple and lazy way to think about the world.
It's not an attempt at clarification. It's best if you start with the problem you're trying to solve, then work backwards towards a solution.

"Nix" isn't really a thing, no more than "Linux" is. It's a collection of tools and languages and frameworks people use to solve various very different problems.
And across the entire nation of 400 million people, there were 900 cycling deaths last year. Like I say, in my region, there are usually only a dozen or two.
You can learn just about everything off the internet, these days. You can do

* game dev (not everyone uses Unity or Unreal),

* mobile dev. Android Studio is a ram hogger these days. When I was on 8GB, the trick was to not use chrome and go with Firefox instead. Or something with smaller footprint. Also I was using Arch just so that I can trim the OS itself down to around 300 MB of Ram usage.

* CLI programming with scripting languages. I had a few odd jobs doing this.

* Embedded programming. Nothing much required there.

* Desktop programming. You can leverage your knowledge in HTML, CSS by learning Electron.

But just one advice. Companies don't really care what you like or not. They will give you money only if you have the skills to show for it.

Living in a real 3rd world country (Haiti), I learned Android dev with a similar configuration (have to run the app on my phone, as the emulator consumed too much RAM). Then switched to React Native. That landed me my first online gig. Then I went from there, building my skills up and selling it, so I can buy proper tools and invest in myself. Now I'm working with a US Company, doing React and Java stuff and exploring what I'm interested in on my personal time.

Jobs can be interesting by themselves, but stuff cost money and if you need the latter, you gotta do what you can get paid for. Then with the money, you invest in proper resources to learn what interests you and hopefully switch to it afterwards.
You wouldn’t part an old man from his walking stick?
Maybe.. but it would also make it way easier for 'normal people' to use SSH keys / signing.
> Is the rest of the world, including the EU, so helpless and agency-less that it can't recover after a 15 year old event that originated on a different continent?

The evidence seems to point to yes. The bottom line is that in many construction rates and employment have simply never recovered in many countries.

As to why the politicians do nothing, I can think of only two reasons. Neo-liberalism has so broken the back of socialism that governments do not have the will. Or legislatures are now so stocked with bourgeoisie property owners that they don't see the problem or in fact they like that they benefit from it.

In the U.S. we have now a panick over crime. The media and the politicians love to point at drug addled homeless people with implications of their criminality. And even the Democratic party has begun to bang the drum for the police "to do something" yet they say nothing about housing.

There is something very wrong in our time.
> Nope. Which list of people 30 years ago were 'famous for being famous' and which cohort of society aspired to be them? Name names.
It was not 'a thing' aside from a few random, quixotic people. Nobody wanted to 'be them' or thought they could be that.

People started doing X because some famous person did X is the story as old as times. You, of all people, should know that, given how many Software Engineers started because they wanted to be Jobs, Gates, Carmack, etc.

> Yes, we live in different circumstances, that's fair.
But my grandparents were born in homes without electricity or plumbing. They did not turn to prostitution or aspire to the 'least' they could be.

What prostitution?

> Because being a great athlete or artists (or scientist etc.) is not 'a propos of nothing'.
Yes, it's a bit glib for people to fanboy athlete's the way we do, and Michael Jordan is a jerk, but he's also a spectacular athlete.

And popular influencers are great marketers, comic artists, entertainers.
In the WindowsSrv2003 Day's their Defrag tool was a must, and BlueCon is still pretty good to have. It's pure no BS proprietary software (and that's perfectly ok).
More in their line to build a fact-checker on the sort of Metaverse nonsense Zuck seems to be heavily invested in.

The only reason for doing something like this is to ultimately subvert the Wikimedia editors, setting up Factbook/Meta as the sole arbiter of what's correct and true on Wikipedia.
Most runners can't even finish a 100 mile run. 48 hours isn't the baseline.
I'm grateful to Slack for their changes in the free plan, it forced our hands.

We realized it's obvious we can't trust any of these external SaaS services, in the long run they will ALWAYS change the terms and somehow fuck the customers, paying or not. And then you will lose all the invaluable information and data that belongs to you. This has happened with other services we've used in the past too.

So we decided to just start self-hosting our own private intranet. I've installed gitea, NextCloud, a private irc server (we're old school irssi users and love it, shoutout for thelounge -client too), a private social network site with Wordpress and Buddypress+BBpress with our own theme, among other things. Everything was super simple to setup and is trivial to maintain, works well across devices without any limitations. We control everything and don't have to worry about the big brother snooping our data. Along with these came many new business opportunities. So yeah, thanks slack.
You can half your caffeine intake each day for no severe effects, YMMV.
Apartments in South Korea have been built in a similar way, though they're much nicer to live in.
One the one hand, good on them for tryin' to do somethin' properly innovative with "AI", but on the other hand, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH! Meta "fact-checking"? Hahahahahah!
When people call Clippy evil, it's not because of his role as an assistant for Microsoft products. Rather, they're referring to his later actions in running several cryptocurrency pump and dump schemes.

It was really a tragic fall.
Most of what it offers was already available on Ada and Modula languages, but apparently we needed some fresh air to gather the attention of newer generations.
> Perpetuating hollowness, disingenuousness

And you don’t?
> Except that even as young child I started noticing that all of the photos were blurry. All of them. Focus dispels UFOs just like turning on the light dispels the monster in the bedroom.

Not exactly. Jacques Vallée and others have spent a lot of time addressing the question of why UFO photos are always blurry and out of focus. His ideas about it are fascinating. There’s also a lot of photos that aren’t blurry, such as the 1971 Cote UFO. It doesn’t mean they are alien, but there’s definitely something real getting photographed that’s still unidentified. I’ve also been interested in how writers like Arthur C. Clarke and Liu Cixin address the topic of how an advanced alien species could control physics, the noosphere, and the human mind itself.
It definitely gets a bit murky when dealing with mbcs, when you want characters spanning multiple bytes rather than individual bytes.

I understand the topic is strXxx() funcs which are ascii only, but it does need to be said that size!=len for wide and multi char sets.
cancerfinns get banhammered https://files.catbox.moe/o7vsqi.webm
We've been writing a data science course [1] which feels like a game. Although it's more like Monkey Island meets MS Encarta, or a choose-your-own-adventure. It's a written story, where you frequently make choices through multiple-choice buttons.

[1]: https://tigyog.app/d/C-I1weB9CpTH/r/everyday-data-science