skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still can't figure out what the BER stands for
Huh?

>> Wait, is this a grant or an investment?

> It is an investment.
And yet, I find the HN UX to be superior to the vast majority of other sites.
This was up yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637689 It's similar in that it's a diagramming DSL
I'm not an intelligence expert so this is purely spectulation. However, this assumes lots of things. Perhaps the Russians are truly that sloppy. However, more likely in my eyes is that this is a strategy to make them appear dumb and sloppy. The US claims to not send spies into foreign countries without the cover of a diplomatic passport (whether or not this is actually true, I don't know. However, this is one of the reasons a lot of people formerly in the intelligence community believe that Paul Whelan was not a spy). Most other Western countries claim to follow this standard. Perhaps this is Russia's version of "obvious" spies?
PSON as you're describing it is basically PDF, with a couple of differences:

1. PDF has an "object table" so that you can refer to objects by number, permitting random access to the object graph, instead of requiring the whole file to be parsed from end to end.

2. PDF does permit comments, because not permitting comments would be a stupid idea.

3. PDF page contents are not represented as just a PSON object, but rather as a sequence of drawing operations.

By way of example, here's object 1750 from a random PDF file, which you can read in exactly the same way as your example above (so 37/T is two tokens: the integer 37 followed by the symbol T):

1750 0 obj
<</Linearized 1/L 791096/O 1752/E 12322/N 37/T 790286/H [ 483 540]>>
endobj

And here's some of the page contents from the same PDF, decompressed with Python zlib.decompress:

0.001 Tc -0.005 Tw -10.747 -1.02 Td
[(I)2(n)2(vest)1(men)2(t)1( )1(Co)2(n)2(f)1(eren)2(ce)]TJ

The TJ operator, as you can maybe guess, typesets a list of text strings interspersed with kerns, at the current point in the current font and so on.
Hahahaha, yeah that's...that's a good one. Hehe. Thanks.

I love it.
Unfortunately I don't. The lake is in national forest and it also powers a small hydroelectric dam.
Spat at, abused and run off the road: why do some people hate cyclists so much?
I’m surprised to not see more information here on how to set a price.

Here’s a bottom up estimate:

(Desired annual salary +

Cost of benefits +

Cost of all taxes+

Cost of business expenses +

Cost of time off +

Fee) /

2000-ish hours =

Hourly billable rate
True, but then I get form rejection letters from SF magazines too. I have a nice collection of them! That bar is pretty high.
"software" does not means only developers, PMs and code monkeys, but also "moderators" for GAFAM and their Chinese/Russian counterparts, who normally happen to be very stressed and little paid censors, i.e. meat-based weapons against their own co-Citizens. But also those who act a bit like code monkeys to develop common crapware so many use, mostly in web and business crapware etc. They all contribute to DESTROY IT and civilization together.

I just only suggest a thought: did you noticed how many now can't use pen&papers properly for instance to write something a bit more long and complex than a quick few words note? Well, there is nothing wrong in that IF they know to do the same with some other mean... The issue is that they do not equally know how to do on a computer. Actually we have even lawyers unable to format a decent letter without a template on a computer or by pen&paper. I call them skilled illiterate... And that's not only about a letter, for diagrams, simple drawing it's the same. Most can't even IMAGING doing something like humans have done on paper 10+ years ago with a software, they can't imaging having in a unique documents some text, formulas, a plot, an email etc. They are so trained that you need a different program for anything (because that's good for business) that they feel the WOW effect just seeing a modern limited and limiting "notebook UI". Some colleagues (sysadmins and some devs) have a similar effects seeing me with Emacs, many at first demo act like children in front of something new that seem magic to their eyes. That's is.
What does 'quantized' mean in this context?
I like how an ex-boss of mine described it in his blog https://bradhenrickson.substack.com/p/establishing-an-archit... where architects "can either be advisory or decision making" and the latter is the old school ivory tower style of architect being alluded to here.

The prevailing sentiment here seems to me to be that we should do away with the title architect and allow senior developers to perform that function. I believe I saw a reference to Hohpe's "The Architect Elevator" as an example of the old school of thought in the comments here. Check out this guest blog of his https://martinfowler.com/articles/architect-elevator.html where he makes the case that senior developers should set the architecture for services and systems but that there is also the need (in larger organizations) for architects to advise on software portfolios and technology radars.
And it’s a Tesla gift card… so probably only ~$20 out of Tesla’s pocket depending the margin of what is bought from their online store. (Or if one buys a $40 T-shirt, then $5 out of pocket)
This is a good take.

Look at music production: historically the barriers to music creation were the dexterity and practice needed to master an instrument, or multiple instruments.

But when you put tools in the hands of more people without the filter of needing the time, training and skill to coax the sounds in your head from the instrument you have… and suddenly you get stuff nobody was making before.
There's also https://github.com/jacereda/cosmogfx We've been thinking about rekindling that effort at some point.
> It's a lot bigger than "lost jobs".

I agree. It is more than just "lost jobs", like artist impressionists, court room sketch artists, etc. it is a complete dystopia and it doesn't help artists at all, but displaces them. At least the value of actual paintings will be more valuable that the abundance of this highly generated digital rubbish.

So given that the technologists have so-called 'democratized' and cheapened digital art, I really can't wait until we get an open-source version of Copilot AI that would create full programs, apps, full stack websites with no-code so that we would be seeing very cheap Co-pilot AI shops in the south east of the world generating software that effectively eliminates the need for a senior full stack engineer.

Easy cheap business solution for the majority of engineering managers on a tight budget who know they need to offshore tech jobs without the need for any skill as it is offloaded to cheap Copilot prompters.

So we will have no problems with that and be happy with that dystopia. Wouldn't we?
Why not make public transportation free as part of the government's investment in combatting climate change (and lots of other benefits)
I use to do this successfully for many years. I could sell for a few cents less than Amazon. Due to buying gift cards at Kroger with a 5% Cashback card. In addition I would also get 1000 fuel points per $250 that I could sell for $20 easily. So each $1000 in sales would net minimum $130 margin. Accounting for selling fees of around 10%, I could clear around $30 per $1000 even at breakeven or below Amazon prices. I would also be able to sell many items for more than the Amazon cost.

It worked well for several years with millions in sales, all automated. It became untenable though as Cryptocurrency facilitated people buying Amazon gift cards with stolen credit cards and cashing them out at 30-50% of face value.

So the market became saturated with scammers selling considerably cheaper than Amazon. For a time maybe 6-4 years ago you could get pretty much anything from Amazon on eBay for around 20% less and shipped direct from Amazon via prime.

Amazon eventually shut it down though and if you meet some very strict gift card threshold they will just steal your balance. People still do it, but large scale automation isn't really worth it any longer.
Imagine being in Monterrey, Mexico, a city more than ten times bigger without water.
‘It’s getting hard’: climate crisis forces China to ration electricity
Alas, I can't find it, but there was a documentary quite a while ago (the 90s or aughts, maybe?) where the documentarian invited several people to dinner that all shared the same name with him.

I remember thinking it was kind of weird and cool
Some sort of ratio algorithm would be nice.

Does this site (in general, not just this page) have more than 5 advertisements per page? Between 2 and 4?

Does this site attempt to load 12 trackers? "Only" 4 trackers? Just 1?

Does an AI text analysis of the first few paragraphs match on this nonsense?:

> Fixing your gadget is important. Many people find that their gadget sometimes breaks. Gadget helps us do action easier, and improves our lives. We all hate it when our Gadget doesn't work the way we expect it to. It can be frustrating. Read below for tips on how to fix your gadget. (Followed by 3 more paragraphs of filler before getting to regurgitated gems like "reboot it".

I'm sure we have the AI tech now to semantically see this bullshit and downrank it. Right? (Ok, maybe I overestimate how easy this would be. Forgive me, I'm just ranting here)
> This means the market for many digital arts degrees is going to become glutted and salaries are going to crash like a rock.

Art degrees are notoriously undervalued... There are jokes about it going far back in time.

Social Media has also done a lot of damage to art-based professions and opportunity therein over time, as artists are required to endlessly share their work for free in order to promote it and stay relevant... Actually social media has devalued art probably far beyond what AI could do from what I can see.

Most of the AI image generation services "sample" real objects from undisclosed sources, and then do most of their work to cover up or alter the sampled object. There will eventually be issues of duplicated works and copyright infringement that will take it all down a notch if you ask me.

Just like in the music industry now, many people are finding samples within the footprints of a lot of works that trigger content ID issues. When this happens on a much larger scale, the only music of value comes from human artists that can create completely unique works with keen composition that is aware of human wants and needs. If you ask me, AI is still pretty far away from being able to do that right now. From what I can observe, there are still humans behind each "Ai driven tool" that are actively tweaking the nuances of AI to make it look like it is more "sentient"... I'll only begin to worry about AI when it runs with all hands off, and when it can update and develop itself (completely on it's own). We keep redefining the term, but I think something that shouldn't be co-mingled with technology advancement driven by constant human interventions behind the curtains.

For more context, check out the story of "FN Meka", a massive blunder of a project to introduce a (fake) AI music artist launched by Capitol Records that melted down for them just this month.
This. Architects are needed once scale makes it impossible for the majority of engineers to understand the big picture.
Teclis implements a fun approximation of this. It runs uBlock Origin on results and penalizes according to the number of items blocked.
Does DALL-E let you output penises? I thought openAI was forbidding many 'unseemly' prompts.
I'm not too worried about this. We have a lot of skilled trades that have survied technology (e.g. carpenters and power tools)
Wow, that whole article and not a single mention of Firefox!

Firefox still supports Manifest V2, which allows for more efficient and accurate blocking of advertising. (Among other things.)
Open Source Is in Danger as a Result of Complacency, Plain Stupidity and Greed
Could you share which apps please?
The beefy server part is for taking the gigantic OSM world database and turning it into vector data that can be consumed by the client. I believe Osmand runs their own beefy servers to pregenerate vector data for download, though it’s also possible to use Osmand Map Creator to generate your own vector data on your desktop.
> researchers published eight million new health citations—a 47% increase in all published health knowledge. So why hasn't any of this innovation made online health information even slightly better?

Because the vast majority of this research does not change the current "standard of care" for most health issues that anyone is likely to experience.

Trying to be your own doctor by reading websites is stupid. Doctors go to school for 8 years and many do years more eductation and practial training in a specialty. You are not going to outsmart them by spending 10 minutes reading an article on a website.

If you are sick, see a doctor. If you are not sick, get an annual checkup if it makes you worry less. This isn't so complicated.
Functional classes with pre-established breakpoints solve a lot of the problem that container queries are tackling. It's a nice feature set, but it wasn't impossible to do before, unless I am misunderstanding something.
Philosopher Emily Levine: I don't fear death, and you shouldn't either
Would love it if you expanded beyond devs, though I know that’s a challenge as it requires building up a new base. I have been keeping an eye on you for a while either way.
Pythagoras' research is undeniable; but he wasn't some appointed gatekeeper, from whose desk sprang forth all western music. I don't suspect that very many musicians and instrument makers between 500 BCE and 1600-something (even the few that could actually read and write!) would have known about Pythagoras' work, and based their activities on his results.
GP is correct afaik: the request categories for dynamic rules in ublock are image, 3p, inline-script, 1p-script, 3p-script, 3p-frame. The 3p vs 1p vs inline is kinda weird in itself since it's contextual and not relating to the content-type of the request, and we are missing css and xhr. Thing is, i realized i most of my dynamic rules are by domain anyway. Maybe if i find a real use case i'll try to look into the code and make this a bit more versatile.
Your very tied to specific manufacturers in that case. Eg. If a shipment is late because somebody stuck a ship in a canal, you're out of stock on that type of item
The intent of the lying also matters.

Corruption is bad, lying with good intentions is context dependent bad, mistakes are OK. But if one is going to throw out the baby with the bath water at every instance of corruption/lying/mistake, you are not going to be left with much other than chaos.

Humans are fallible creatures, we have to work and improve with what we have.

The exceptionalism of the USA is the fact that most of its organization are open to criticism and repair. The FDA/CDC/USDA/DoT/EPA/etc and many other non governmental orgs are far from perfect, but they are pretty awesome compared to the alternatives around the world.
Rick chimes in when the AI thinks the image might be NSFW.
Media focus does play a role, but weather records from many parts of the world go back over 100 years. These are independent of what the media is focussing on today and give us a very good picture of whether a particular weather event is 'extreme' or not.

These events really are exceptional. As an example, last month the UK temperature record was broken by over 1C, across large regions of the country. Usually, temperature records are broken by small amounts, maybe 0.2C. This heatwave really was extreme for the UK.

7 out of 10 of the hottest days in UK history have been since the year 2000. In a country with particularly long temperature records, this is also pretty amazing, and evidence of a significant change in the cliamte and extreme events.
This is also the problem I see behind critiquing cancellation / shunning when the act is often based upon either the freedom of speech or the freedom of association. People must agree to stop shunning each other, but they cannot be compelled without cutting back on their freedom of speech or freedom of association.
Why is it so difficult to find a Full Stack Rubyist without Rails?
Before people moved around a great deal, war was the most effective way to spread disease. USA's entry into WWI spread "Spanish" Flu from rural Kansas to the world, killing between 17 and 100 million.
Why would you need to?

Western agriculture as you point out is very different to somewhere like in the article.

You fit the product to the market not the market to the product.
b) is the most likely situation here

The 2x calculation is similar in the US. I've also seen "3x your hourly rate as an employee" if you're relying on the contracting income. It's important to account for the time you'll spend doing sales and misc. non-billable business building.

There are lowball contracting offers all over the internet and people sometimes accept these for various reasons. A higher tier of sustainable contracting does exist though, with most of the higher paying work sourced via networking, not via job boards.
Any chance of releasing the source? I'd like to host my own instance so my discord server doesn't have to worry about queue times
Correction:

Analytics & Ad Blocker by Globemallow.io https://globemallow.io/ was the first Manifest v3 Ad Block extension.

I first published on 06/22/2022.

Last night actually I asked if AdGuard would want to license the software, and sent them a link to my extension. They are aware they weren't the first, and made this post after knowing it.
Studies show that non-tracking ads pull in 96% as much revenue per impression as tracker-based ads.

Is the 4% boost really worth chasing away users, adding cookie popups, etc? Also, it's possible for users to unblock non-tracking ad networks. If 4% of your audience does that, then you end up making more from them.

Finally, with ads that target content, any extra revenue due to premium audiences goes to the content publisher. For ads that target end users, the premium goes to the ad network.

If you're placing user-targeted ads on anything but bottom-tier content, then you are squandering your monopoly access to your readership. That's why this ad network specializes in just developer sites -- some advertisers will pay a premium to reach developers. Others will pay a premium simply to avoid being displayed next to toenail fungus and celebrity wardrobe failures.
There are a zillion different substances classified as supplements. It's reductionist and intellectually dishonest to lump them all together. Some are effectively just placebos, or even harmful in high doses. Others appear to have beneficial effects. In many cases those effects are subtle, and might only be noticeable to people who push their bodies to the limit. Unfortunately, this is almost impossible to study through high-quality randomized controlled trials given the numerous confounding factors.

Let's look at it empirically. Among elite athletes, how many take zero supplements? I can't prove that they're getting any benefit but the correlation between performance and the use of certain supplements is so strong that I suspect there's something real going on. (And by supplements I mean real supplements, not PEDS which are an entirely separate category.)
I think the "VCs stealing from their investors" hypothesis is quite plausible, but there's plenty of reasons why someone might need to receive payments as 'investment' or 'revenue' rather than unexplained payments from suspicious people, especially if the money is being transferred internationally. Could also be a way of exploiting 'investor' and 'startup' tax breaks and collecting R&D grants whilst doing as little real research as possible (and eventually, having consumed all the cash, writing it all off as losses against tax bills)

And yes, there are also startups which produce only 'tech demos' of potential new business lines because they've accepted the product they were originally going to buy won't work, but their founders aren't ready give up yet, but not easy for them to convince investors to follow along for 5-7 years without revenue even if they're really good liars...
Generally the barrier to using public transit is not price, but rather deficiencies in the network, so the best way to increase transit use is to invest money in expanding the network or improving frequency and consistency of transit.

This is definitely the case in North America, but still likely the case in Germany despite Germany having a much more robust transit system.
This one's older, but here's an example using Haskell: http://www.timphilipwilliams.com/slides/minecraft.pdf

The main idea is algebraic composition (a non-commutative monoid).
Hopefully we're still not trying to be contrarians around climate change just because it's hard to imagine or scary, since it's obvious and affecting things around us every year.

Another insurance company is leaving Florida: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/real-estate/os-bz-i...

1/3 of Pakistan is currently underwater: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pakistan-floods-un-appeal...

Greenland: https://apnews.com/article/science-oceans-glaciers-greenland...

> Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10.6 inches (27 centimeters) -- more than twice as much as previously forecast — according to a study published Monday.
Even if true, how is any of that actionable by people on the subcontinent? How does “reckoning” help them help themselves?

On the subcontinent, you’d have to go back a millennium, before the British, before the Mughals, and before the Sultanates, to get to institutions that are “indigenous.” Even if you could do that, those institutions would be wholly unfit to modern society.
> This is how you end up with antipattern-laden monstrosities.

ah haha I just stepped away from my work computer after creating a new branch and writing a "short term fix" in a particular module instead of fixing the root cause because that would involve talking to multiple teams. Instead, I can just do some simple string manipulation just for the one bug I have...

I am trying to talk myself into or out of creating this pull request...
One commit with as many parents as merged branches. (A git commit can have an arbitrary number of parent commits.)

Try git cat-file -p $SHA
Have there been any attempts to make something like a CRT with phosphors and an electron gun in a thinner form factor?

What if we had a grid of smaller electron beams targeting a small display section instead of a single large one? Can it be done without vacuum tubes today?
After playing with it for a few hours I'm sold on it soon replacing all blog spam media and potentially flooding etsy with "artists" trying to pass the renders as their own art work.

Here's some of the stuff I generated: https://imgur.com/a/mfjHNgO
Timber cities ‘could cut 100bn tons of CO2 emissions by 2100’
He was already a celebrity before he started his podcast.
Yeah it worked for a while for me but the person I’m getting the stuff for has all the alerts on their device so I just turn most of the substitutions off. There were a few times where I had generous substitutions but I think they reigned those in.
> How about not storing any information at all? Nothing to give, problem solved. Just like Signal.

just so you know, Signal does permanently store sensitive user data in the cloud. They collect your name, photo, phone number, and a list of every person you contact using Signal. That data is stored in your profile on their servers.

Signal really used to not store anything, but that hasn't been the case for a long time now and if this is the first you're hearing about that, it should tell you all you need to know about how trustworthy Signal is.
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