skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Northern Ireland's troops-on-the-streets civil war that lasted for 30+ years only managed to kill about three thousand people.

Do we need to send international peacekeepers to Chicago? Send in some blue helmets?

> It seems like some people are practically trained to divert away from the actual subject.

That is a succinct description of American politics and "news" media.
I read a lot of these type of predictions, often you see some people say it's a great time to buy, and others it's a bad time to buy, and generally you will only remember the people who guessed correctly, so none of this helps you today at all. Every time those people who got lucky will appear in some future ad or article making a new prediction, and generally fewer will be lucky twice. In the long run, everyone is likely wrong.
How toC/toB companies consider when purchasing software?
Apple Just Challenged Figma
Don't you ever feel bad for not contributing to society? Living like that seems morally reprehensible to me.
A new kind of Key/Value store. In this architecture, keys and values are stored within two separate 'data objects' which are linked together. One holds all the unique values along with their reference counts, the other contains all the keys and links to their mapped values.

The architecture allows any value to be mapped to one or more keys and any key to be mapped to one or more values (unless an attribute on the data object prevents it). These KV stores can be used to attach tags to other objects. They can be used to form columns in relational tables (i.e. a columnar store). It can be used to create indexes into file contents.

Each object is designed for parallel access by multiple threads. Only a single block needs to be locked to update any value or key so multiple writes can occur at the same time. The data in each object is organized to find values or keys without inspecting every block. It is very fast and allows both OLTP and OLAP operations on the same data set.

So far, I have used them to attach tags to millions of files and do searches. I have created relational tables that I can query much faster than the same table in Postgres (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVICKCkWMZE). I have created 3D relational tables that can be queried the same way 2D tables have traditionally been queried (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXqvWMmoL1M).

The software is currently in an open beta and anyone can download and try it out on their own data set. https://www.Didgets.com
Yeah, I really like the new layout of Element on iOS. On desktop I use gomuks and love the crap out of it.

You know, I probably should get more involved with sharing my feedback or contributing to the codebase where I can so the devs have another data point.
I kind of hate that the notice points to a safety code (NFPA 70 in this case) but in order to see it, you have create an account in order to read it. If you want a copy of the code, you have to pay.
When I read the article and it said they sell for $40-$72 my jaw dropped. You could make one of these for under $10 pretty easily. Hell if you were resourceful you could make it for free by finding someone giving away a couple plug in appliances for free and cut the cord and make it. Also I believe these cords are also sold for christmas lights if you hang them the wrong way but if used with a generator I believe there is risk you send power to the pole outside your house which is extremely dangerous if a linemen is working on said pole with the belief that the power is dead.
It's a simple solution alright, just like using a lighter to look inside of a gas tank because you don't have a flashlight handy is.
Which platform would you suggest to use for this benchmark?
Expensive?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DCXKNXQ/

That's 60ct a piece. Rated for 250V 10A.

You can just buy any cheap cord like https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003MGB0IK/ to connect to it.

There's no excuse for suicide cables.
The best financial decision I ever made was to sell my shares after vesting.

I realised that even if I believed in the long-term business model of the company, having a significant portion of my money tied up with a single stock was not a good idea.

It would have still been a good idea even if those shares hadn't lost 90% of their value in the following year.
I'm glad that works for you, but I follow a strict policy of separation between work and personal accounts and technology in order to support a defense of my open source work against any claims from current/past employers regarding IP assignment. I have a completely physically separated space, network, and internet connection specifically for work usage and there is no account or physical crossover between work and personal computing. I /never/ login to personal accounts from a work device, and I never will, browser personas is not a sufficient protection.
Can’t wait to post my holiday pics taken with my $40 potato online!

Ultimately the underlying privacy violation is what needs to change here cause all work arounds are problematic in some way
Seeing how the hashtag form of #IStandWithUkraine is mostly a pro-Ukrainian thing, I'm not surprised. Russians use other hashtags.
I'm not quite sure why everyone feels OS means you'll have the app forever. This isn't true in my experience.

Adobe can buy the company that is supplying the devs for penpot the same way it bought Figma.

Sure the source can be reused, but you think another collection of individuals will come along and host the project in the same way?

You think the codebase would be developed/maintained at all if all the original devs left? History says otherwise, from the examples I've seen.
Perhaps you should reach out to Gary Marcus and offer him the chance to take the other side of that version of the bet.

If you're really confident, you could change the conditions such that 5 out of 10 images (for 3/5 prompts) are required to depict the described scene. That would alleviate some of the concerns around cherry-picking.

A suitable home for such a public bet would be: https://longbets.org/
Since I am a bit older, I came to realize this is no different from the hippie movement in the 70's, whose plenty of people ended up joining Wall Street during the 1980's.
HACK THE PLANET!!!
Don't pretend that "liability reasons" is due to ethical concerns about the safety of the product.

Someone would buy it off a shelf at Lowes, would take Lowes to court, and Lowes would lose. It wouldn't be profitable.

Conversely, if someone bought a dodgy product from a drop-shipper listing on Amazon and got hurt by it, do you think that Amazon would be successfully sued? Empirically, that happens but they're still profitable and and still not refusing to list products for safety except in the most egregious circumstances. Would you sue the drop-shipper? They'd probably disappear or have zero assets. Would you sue the overseas manufacturer? Good luck with that!

The fact that it's profitable for Amazon and not for Lowes is exactly what the parent meant when they said "...it doesn't seem right that Amazon can sell these to people where Lowes and other hardware stores cannot."
Come now, taught Master’s are always cash cows. They exist to allow the university to cash in on the prestige of its undergraduate or professional programmes. Just as true at Oxford or the LSE as at Columbia or Chicago.
I don't know much about cryptocurrency, but I'm not sure I understand how your response relates to the question of whether, on average, bitcoin transactions use about $60 worth of electricity.
There are plenty of things I continue to enjoy just like old times as I age. Computing is not one of them.
Its a very efficient thing for them to do too if ultimately you're just going to sell all and then reinvest.

Ideally they would have started this program at a high stock price, but now better than never.
This!

We are simply not allowed to have privacy and also live a meaningful life. Everything we want to do now requires us to surrender our privacy. Transact with money, see a medical professional, travel internationally, etc.
Isn't it more common to use a dryer outlet with a 240v input?
>Unfortunately you take a group of smart (sort of) people with below average social skills, and they WILL get exploited to the max.

Yep, the average engineer including the mediocre ones are often leagues above your average white collar worker in terms of hard skill, but sorely lack (collective) social skills.
A more useful query, to Google dork:

/? QFT "field theory" "Superfluid" "quantum gravity" https://www.google.com/search?q=QFT+%22field+theory%22+%22Su... https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=QFT+%22field+theory%22+...

/? QFT "field theory" "Superfluid quantum gravity" https://www.google.com/search?q=QFT+%22field+theory%22+%22Su...
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=QFT+%22field+theory%22+...
I use Calibre [0] for ebooks, and PDFs are just in a file on the desktop. I supose you could put them into calibre, but reading papers on an eink reader doesn't sound idea.

[0] - https://calibre-ebook.com/
How do researchers come up with the stuff they write about?
How do researchers approach coming up with stuff they write their white papers on?

How do approaches vary across faculties?
Rust Bevy Entity Component System
Says you? Present your proof.
>Between Hackers, Masters of Doom, and other rad 90s hacker-coder media, software development really seemed like a much more awesome career than it turned out to be.

I think it comes down to the fact that our industry has become rigid and beholden to the university education system. John Carmack and John Romero were both college dropouts. Their stories would probably be impossible today. What we have now is a world of people coloring between the lines and going straight from one set of rules to another. There truly is no more punk rock left in tech.
Love it! Wish I had this when practicing for our YC interviews
Tobi doesn’t talk to anyone anymore - they literally cancelled the weekly all-hands so he didn’t have to speak to us.
There is a great TV series called Traffik (later adapted into a film) which makes the case that drug addiction primarily stemmed from social and not chemical causes... I wonder if that view is infact true. If it is, then I would think that meth users would just switch to another drug if meth were made ineffective.

Does anyone knowledgeable know where the evidence seems to point in terms of the root addiction being chemical vs. social (vs ...) based?
Here we are, deep down in the dystopia of Automatic Content Classification by robots.

Far less important of an example, but I was just put in "Facebook jail" for 24 hours for posting a picture of my son at the beach in his bathing suit with no shirt. Y'know, as one does at the beach. I can only assume it's because my son has long hair and the Convolutional Neural Network or whatever decided he was a girl and therefore I'm a pervert.

Sadly it was the "appeal" I submitted that got me blocked. Presumably by a "human", but who knows.

Before I appealed they were simply going to not show the picture. Appealing got me in "trouble." That might be even worse than the original misclassification. On top of that, if I was actually a "community standards" violator who posted potential child exploitation imagery, I'm not sure how a 24-hour ban on activity on Facebook is of any use, either? Except I'm terrified to imagine a world where Meta might have called police on me based on the output of a neural network image classification.

Others have said but I'll say it again: This kind of business doesn't scale ethically. You can't have billions of people on a bulletin board. It doesn't work. Moderation is essential to modern communication. But you can't do moderation automatically or at scale and in a universal way.

Very dark patterns emerge the moment you go FAANG scale and toss algorithms tuning for advertising and "engagement" into the mix, and attempt to do so with the help of computers.

"Sad" as it is, we will need to "retreat" back into smaller forums and BBSs where communities self-police.

Facebook has infiltrated so many aspects of society. Want to interact with the parents from the local school your kids go to? You have to do that on Facebook. Event announcements? Keeping in touch with your distant aunt? Facebook.

If something like Facebook is really a universal utility, it will have to be put under public administration; like the post office. But clearly, that isn't going to happen and would have other problems.

I am going to have to find some other way to engage with old friends and family.

Frank Herbert had some intuition with his whole "Butlerian Jihad" thing.
I just don't see where the CDC or anyone else is saying that the new boosters are meant to prevent sickness but not to protect against hospitalization and death.

This is from fda.gov:

The updated COVID-19 vaccine boosters are designed to give you broad protection against COVID-19, including better protection against the Omicron variant.

COVID-19 vaccines can help protect against severe illness, hospitalization and death from COVID-19. As the virus changes and your immunity naturally decreases over time, you may lose some of that protection.

The updated (bivalent) booster vaccines are authorized to help provide better protection against COVID-19.

The reason most people are taking the booster, if I were to hazard a guess, is because they do not want to die or get severely ill. If the booster was only good for preventing minor sickness, well that changes the equation. I mean, the booster itself will likely make them feel sick anyway.

Maybe you're right that original vaccine still provides strong protection against severe illness and death, but it would be nice to hear that from the CDC and FDA as these boosters are rolled out so that those that are trying to decide whether or not to take it have a better understanding of the potential benefits or lack thereof.
They don't have to, they can just say the phone synchronized on its own when set back out of travel mode. They will lie, of pressure you to download the data prior their search.

Again, it's not a technical problem. Abusive people are abusive.

Law enforcers are not good people because of their title, society shape them in who their are and how they behave. Currently, in the US, they are not shaped to be helping citizen.
"RISC architecture is going to change everything"
Usually, we need agenda list before meeting at API7.ai.
Amazon is the magic law blanket. They take the payment, they store the goods, they ship the wares.. but it's WAGANFU brand that they have no serviceable address for that is responsible?
Memories of being 10 and writing a C64 program to generate D&D character stats and generally dumb stuff like handling dice roles and random encounters. Felt like magic.
German here. Not entirely sure what your comment is trying to convey. Germany doesn’t have that much of a free-speech history, at least compared to the US.
So the fact that publicly denying or trivializing the holocaust has been illegal (since 1949, I figure) is not seen as dystopian at all. On the contrary, the ban is even widely accepted, and perceived as a good thing.

Mind clarifying a bit as to what exactly you’re criticizing?
That is of course the proper way to do it. But it is an application for a suicide cable that doesn't involve a generator.
World’s longest journey by pumpkin boat
Interesting. I recently switched from arch to popOS, and one thing that I noticed was that my laptop no longer dropped frames watching 1080p youtube, and the subtitles do a better job keeping up at 2x speed. This is supposedly due to a different scheduler.

Granted, while I've got no hard evidence I'm thermal throttling, I probably need to reapply thermal paste. When I did that for an old laptop my temps dropped by 20c and it noticeably improved it's performance.
I am not sure I would agree with the assertion that config for HAProxy is just as easy.

In fact I use HAProxy in production pretty regularly because it is solid but its config one of the main reasons I would choose something else.

A basic HAProxy config is fine but it feels like after a little bit each line is just a collection of tokens in a random order that I have to sit and think about to parse.
Probably less time, and maybe less energy. I doubt you'll beat a modern dishwasher on water usage though.
Scientists chart 45M years of Antarctic temperature change
I did try it again and ran into the sluggishness issue which can't be worked around.

Even after turning off all plugins there is sometimes 500ms-2s of additional latency when doing basic things like opening menus or opening files. Not sure what else to turn off to reach a usable speed.

I wish it shipped with just enough features turned on to edit code and maintain a high level of performance, if it's indeed a settings issue.
Drag and drop also works.
LaGuardia Airport Is No Longer the Worst. This Team Fixed It
Lessons on culture from Stripe’s early designer
If you cannot see the difference between civil rights movements attempting to change governing to be more even-handed vs expansionist authoritarian governments or movements attempting to destroy democratic governments altogether, you need serious help (and should at least stop broadcasting your ignorance).
That's barely enough competition...
Smarter machines risk creating dumber humans
"Crime sure is hard to stop."

"Well, just make everything legal."
Cloudflare has generally been very conservative about its tech stack (eg kernel TCP, well-known OSS solutions and abstractions), which seems to work fine for them. They are certainly leaving performance on the table, but they also don't have to pay to support exotic solutions.

Other firms in the same space do things that are a lot more exotic, and it is worth it for them.
Bizarre that they stuck with the ban after an appeal. Seems like a pretty obvious thing to fix
> One of the most outstanding Obsidian feature is the one which allows you to link markdown files between them, also using hashtag visualizing the connections in a graph that is generated by a core plugin. It helps to visualize your “ideas”, clarify the connections between ideas, topics and thoughts.

I've never seen anyone explain clearly what they get out of it. "Visualize", "clarify"… you mean "staring at it", right? And then?

It's beautiful, sure, I can see myself wanting this graph view. But when I step back I have no idea how I would actually use it productively.
>> Crime in most of Chicagoland is somewhat higher than in recent previous years, and lower than it was when I moved back here in 2005.

The 2005 crime report has homicides at 448. There have been over 500 so far this year with over 3 months left.

-- https://home.chicagopolice.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/20...
I tough this would be a wasm compilation of winamp but no it is full HTML and Typescript
Talk about feeling old. Movies will never be as great as they were in mid/late 90s.
Rich-embeds in social media/communications platforms, mostly. Simply taking up more space in a Discord/Slack/Teams/$SOCIAL channel with a bold title, an excerpt, and an image adds visibility, context and is more interesting to the viewer.

A link to an HN thread is opaque, uninteresting, and context-less.
Maybe satellites are simpler to hit than Ukrainian cities, since they're surrounded by empty space.

Anyway, I dare say Elon will be happy to have a hundred Starlink satellites destroyed if that means a hundred-plus Russian missiles don't kill Ukrainians.
They will almost certainly experience a mass exodus of their top engineering, design, and leadership talent. They'll never come back from that. So it isn't that figma will turn to crap overnight, but over years it is guaranteed to rot, terrible features will start adding up, and adobe will start doing everything they can to pull you into and trap you in their expensive and crappy ecosystem.

So yeah it's sort of like climate change. Probably ok for now, but you should definitely start making moves to live somewhere else in the next few years.
https://www.theverge.com/2013/7/15/4524208/uk-border-police-...

Police in the UK have the power to seize mobile devices from any traveler entering the country, and can retain their personal data for as long as they see fit, according to a report from the Telegraph.
You are presupposing that for some reason Facebook must do this. If they can not moderate then their service is defective. The fact that they want to make huge gobs of money does not “force” them to offer a defective service, they can just not offer it.

If a construction company said: “The only projects we can make a profit on are skyscrapers, but we do not know how to make a skyscraper without having it fall down and kill everybody in it.” They are not allowed to build skyscrapers no matter how important it is to their bottom line.
As a thought experiment, what would happen if you wrote your own malicious payload to a burner device and handed that over? What if you warned the border agents that your device would deliver malicious code and they plugged it in anyway?
I hated it. IIRC, there is this part where the main character is trying to assemble a virus, shouting "compile, compile, please compile... YES!".

I wasn't convinced about this hacker having problems to compile a program...

OR

There is another possible explanation but I have to check dates since I think the movie was released way before the first version of Rust!!!
Are startups the closest you can still get to "punk rock in tech"? I would love for the dream of the 90s to still be alive somewhere...
I’d like to do things in the whole space. What you described that’s very close to what I’m working on is that drawing tool. Imagine you already had a system where you asked people how a number would change over time, but you just gave them 12 boxes with a month name next to each. I’m trying to make a reusable system for improving that experience. Your chart drawing would be an example.
And they were right! Just 20 years too early.
Would you still feel the same way if you were hacked because of such a sale?

Linux distros manage fine without such sales - and this kind of behaviour would get a maintainer kicked and probably marked for life. Too bad that Browsers have chosen a free for all store model instead a maintained distro model. Meanwhile Mozilla keeps locking down installing extensions outside their store for "security".
> do you ever shake the feeling that having a book read to you is somehow qualitatively not as good as reading it from the page?

I can't answer for OP, but I did spend a year commuting a bunch and got through ~60 books or so that way.

I went from having time for 10-15 books a year to having time for ~60 books a year, so yes, you do miss a little. But not ~50 books worth of missing. It's easily worth it.
They are?

https://www.amazon.com/Leviton-Available-515CR-Outlet-Ground...
I guess you, uh... missed the other hashtags?

>The studies posts contained hashtags like “StandWithPutin”, “(I)StandWithRussia”, “(I)SupportRussia”, “(I)StandWithUkraine”, “(I)StandWithZelenskyy” and “(I)SupportUkraine”.
Still expecting [not really but...] that Microsoft releases a new Windows Phone with Android app support via WSL2.
Not that I'd buy it -- but would bring competition to Google.
I can understand the criticism that it's not adding value to the world. However, the same could be said of the stock market in general. If they shut that down, I'll happily close Feetr.

In the meantime, someone will be making money from the stock market. Why shouldn't it be you? Or me? Or anyone reading this?
There's a wonderful kind of writing that pops up at hardware stores in response to annual searches for suicide cables. A couple examples here https://twitter.com/kobunheat/status/1336134415336964096

THESE ARE NOT MADE
THEY SHOULD NEVER BE MADE

has the kind of direct clarity of existential risk that they sought for with

"This is not a place of honor. Nothing of value is here."
It makes me happy Big Buck Bunny is still being used for demonstrations.
You may know SYS 64738, but who knew SYS 42222?
GPT3 Injections
I grew up in the golden age of SQL injections but GPT3 injections just hit different