skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't negate OP's original point that they should make it possible to contact them. What if he had found an error on an obscure page that they might not have noticed, or a security hole instead?
Advising someone is a slightly different skill from taking advice from someone, and those are both slightly different skills from building consensus among equals.

Hierarchies have different lines between "things I can change" and "things I can't change" for different positions. Arguing with your boss over something that's in their "things I can't change" bucket is maybe not so useful.

> If you're in a position of power, it's your responsibility to make sure that people working with you don't need special skills to disagree with you or with other people on the team!

Or alternatively, to make sure they have opportunities to acquire those skills.
Probably tends to derail the thread also by relating the topic at hand to slavery, indentured servitude, etc
Tangentially: Youtube really likes to turn CC on randomly on its own, even when it's explicitly disabled. Both in the mobile app and the website.
Thanks for the in depth response. This is starting to make sense to me.
Ask HN: What is the AI that Ray Kurzweil talks about in Lex Friedman?
I was watching the Lex Friedman with Ray Kurzweil podcast and Ray Kurzweil mentions this AI where it reads 200,000 books and if you ask it a question, it will find you a sentence that best answers your question. He said it came out 6 years ago?

I got interested in it and wanted to look into it but couldn’t find what it is

Anyone know what this AI is?
I’ve heard great things, but the Emacs dependency is a huge turn off.
Never encountered advertisements using AdGuard with Vivaldi. I listen to many podcasts there; no issues. On Android, I sideloaded a modded YouTube app without issues. Besides, I can use Kiwi Browser with specific extensions to allow YouTube to play in background and screen switched off, and uBlock origin to block advertisements. If the Chrome manifest does take over, AdGuard on Android does its job perfectly (side loaded). I haven't touched the official applications or use Google Chrome because it's restrictive. I don't use iOS, but Adguard for iOS can filter out advertisements.
The article mentions but doesn't get into the "audio description" option too. If you haven't ever tried this, it takes a little getting used to, but once you do, it makes multitasking much easier. I strongly recommend giving it a try.

During the gaps in speech, a narrator comes on and describes the most important things happening on the screen.

I had a gig for awhile actually writing the descriptions for this content, and it's really interesting work!

I love that we're discovering that features invented for "accessibility" are appreciated by many people who would not otherwise have identified an accessibility need. I can't help but wonder if it means people who were only dealing with mild impairments are now receiving assistance they didn't know they would benefit from. How many people do you think can pass a hearing test in a silent room lab setting, but have a hard time in our noisy world?
I like having CCs on for movies because the dialog is always so quiet compared to the music and sound effects. I can keep it at a reasonable volume and still catch what the characters are saying.

Also, if I'm watching British shows, I like CCs because I'm really bad at accents.

Edit: I'm coming up on 40 now, so I guess I'm not the people this article is complaining about.
Explain why so much of the rest of the world passed redlined communities.

Korea, Israel, Czech, Hungary, Poland, etc etc. The data strongly contradicts your implied thesis.

But you think people born in what is one of the wealthiest cities in the world shouldn't be compared to urban Indians or people (like my dad) born in a mud hut.
I have it on all the time due to the volume range going from soft to insanely loud to soft and it’s annoying… when the kids are sleeping this is also a show stopper
Look up the prices of used Nissan Leafs. For modern cars, quite affordable. I see a 2012 for $9K and a 2017 for $18K.

Even if you had to buy a new $4K battery for the 2012, it'd still be $13K electric car with a new battery.
I have heard good things about David Graeber’s book “Debt: the first 5000 years.”
Java was a reaction to C++. Go was too. C++ feels like it was created by the smartest person in the room without regards for the the other 80% that would use it on a day to day basis.

I guess that's why I like simpler languages more, where I don't have to think about how the language or compiler is going to treat my code.
Exactly.

Companies are absolutely across this trend. They are simply building data on it and not releasing it to the wider scientific ecosystem.
How about the case for making science majors more rigorous instead of less? Calculus touches so much of science and engineering (not to mention everyday life) that suggesting removing it from the curriculum seems not just ignorant, but downright malicious. Talk about setting a generation up to fail.

Perhaps a better discussion is how to teach calculus more effectively?
In addition, I've read that young people are going deaf due to ear buds.
I'd shift to Firefox when the world around me crashes. And Burns. Till then, I am using Vivaldi.
C++98 is the reason Java came to power.
It’s a very complicated IQ test.

Most people don’t need weed out level college math. But on the whole, those that pass the bar are more intelligent than those that don’t.

Maybe more useful to just take IQ tests to prove credentials than jump through these kind of hoops?

Basically none of the “hard” stuff I learned in computer science is part of my career (3rd year physics, linear algebra, etc). But I got to jump those hoops!
Isn't this just because dumbass video sites are making it bloody impossible to scrub the video to a specific time point in order to increase "engagement"?

If the audio is recorded on a potato (aka: standard Hollywood audio editing nowadays) and you can't move backward to try again, you need subtitles to not lose context.
I was recently surprised to learn that MattressFirm will only let you use their phone number for sales, not anything to do with an existing order. There is a chat, but no email. The contact form doesn't even have a free text entry, you can only choose the general topic and then presumably wait for a reply to even start the conversation.

I do not like the trend of companies being difficult to contact and identify at all. Looking for bed frames online, numerous sites had no identifiable information about the corporate identity of the business, ownership, or contact info. And then there's the stuff on Amazon were literally no one knows where it is coming from.

For me at least, having a real contact method is a significant indicator of trustworthiness and quality, whether or not I need to use it.
Hasn't there been multiple variations/iterations of "validity of climate change"? As in, some form of "climate change isn't real" to "climate change is real but it's normal and not man made" to "climate change is real and man made but it's not that bad" so on so forth.

I wonder if the opposite exists. People in climate change denier groups that exaggerate just how normal it is which as you said only causes more doubts and recruits for the opposition.

I admit I haven't delved into the "opposition" - in this case assuming that "deniers" are a loud minority and the main agreed viewpoint is some form of climate is going to be bad for everyone regardless of the source. But given the rigorous process in science and how much evidence is available (whether deniers are skeptical of ALL of the evidence or not) - is there any research with a similar process against it? Regarding what you said about how the "irreversible collapse is also quite unlikely"?
But Scala and lots of other programming languages use ":" with no hindrance to adoption.

Also consider this: lots of hugely frequent characters and symbols that don't require SHIFT in EN-US keyboards do in other keyboards layouts, for example Spanish. So this cannot be a consideration, at least not a major one.
Well no gold was formed on earth. It all comes from stars. I'm more meaning things that would be uncommon in the universe, like perhaps being very close to a pulsar for millions of years.
Yes, but at that point, couldn't you put the rest of the device in the FPGA too?
I will add:

In my experience, increasingly there's a pattern as follows:

Majority of "casual users" use the one size fits all. Think Microsoft Teams.

"Highly educated power users" will go to the specific, application specific application. Splitting Teams into Slack and Zoom.

We in the West however, have no appreciation, that the "Microsoft Teams model" is predominant worldwide.
CLIP-guided Stable Diffusion, or Dalle+SD, are both doable with current open source and will have much smarter prompting at the cost of even more memory use.
20 something years ago, GT had constructing proofs as an early CS course. It doesn't seem to be required anymore. Here's a 2005 course page for it: https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~vigoda/1050-Fall05/index.html

I don't recall it being terribly popular, but it was good as I recall (and useful when I later added a math degree, I think I had a leg up on most of my math major peers because of it).
Long overdue. Just let people say what the want, by censoring them, you are validating their perspective.
I recently graduated to the next step beyond closed captions: I've started enabling audio descriptions for TV shows too.

It's SO interesting.

They are generally really well put together. And they often highlight things that I would have missed - mentioning the name of a character who joins a scene who I don't instantly recognize, for example.

Even more fun: audio descriptions of the title sequences for a TV show. Three that I particularly enjoyed were Severance, Moon Night and Star Trek: Picard - in all three cases the titles are rich with visual metaphors relating to the show, which the audio description then carefully spells out for you!
> Every proof has a trick. If you can see the trick, you can generally figure out how to do the proof.

Not a good way of teaching a mathematical mindset... How are you supposed to know if your "trick" actually goes through? You'd probably need a full course in real analysis to actually learn the fundamentals.
I've been in a situation where I notice a small bug on a site or a copy typo and have no way to contact its creators to tell them about it. I think there should always be at least a general email or something.
This is not in the constitution, you just pasted the opinions of others.

Core american values? There's massive censorship of pornography, there are noise laws, library books are being challanged and removed. A town voted to defund a library because they wouldn't remove a book. Explain to me how it's a core value?
Real-ESRGAN and GFPGAN seem to be missing. Those help the image quality significantly.
My college used calc 1/2 as “weed out” classes. The best part was the professors were married, the same calc book was used for calc 1/2/3, and they revved the book every semester, basically rearranging the problem sets so you had to buy a ~200 book for 3 semesters, or make friends with someone who would let you photocopy the problem sets.

My entire faith in academia was broken as a result.
Being challenged and could be overturned.
A possible solution to this is to allow any user to be a moderator, and to allow other users who want moderation to subscribe to one or moderation "feeds" from other users.

If one wants to wade through the degenerate cesspool of content, they'd have that option. If one wants to only see fluffy non-hateful things, they could subscribe to moderation feeds that achieve that.

The notion that we can impose a single perspective of "good content" and "bad content" onto millions of people, with different perspectives, is simply asinine.
A lot of videogames have their value tied up in 'forcing' players to spend a few minutes (or hours) on logistics that eventually give rise to ritual, rather than just giving them a teleport button.

We're building a metaverse for knowledge workers with a default approach of "use the physics engine, not magic" when moving around objects - be they virtual robots, sticky notes or walls. Simulating the seemingly annoying, tedious, mundane logistical act of moving through space seems to have genuine benefits in terms of how you think, what rituals you undertake (big and small/collectively or individually), and who you bump into.

Maybe it's not utterly ridiculous that in the future your first few minutes clocked into a virtual environment will just be getting to your workspace. Or I could just have overly fond memories of the Half Life opening sequence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw63pZcBJH8
The point is that indentured servants also willingly enter their contract. So if that is the standard—- that one who willingly accepts a duty is incapable of being exploited, then neither are indentured servants. In fact, according to that standard slavery is arguably not exploitation either, so long as the slave initially consents. But most people would find this absurd: slavery is the prototypical example of exploitation.
Well, that can't be "rapid". TFA is about a "rapid" transition.

I'm saying that's just politically infeasible unless you define "rapid" as "as fast as we can without impoverishing people" or unless you define it as "damn the consequences, just do it". That's pretty obviously true. If you take the first alternative, however, you have to consider how long these touted savings will take to materialize and the opportunity cost of the investment needed to get there.

For example if you install grid-tied solar panels for your house it will take some number of years for that investment (and upkeep) to pay for itself -- if the lifetime of the installation is 30 years and it pays for itself in 10, it might be worth it, but whether it is worth it will depend not just on the 20 years' worth of savings you'll get, but also on the opportunity cost of the capital needed to fund that solar installation.

Opportunity costs are often hard to gauge, so it's easy to con people with analyses that fail to take opportunity costs into account. The opportunity cost of an investment that will yield "trillions" in savings must be substantial because the investment itself must be substantial (if it was free, we'd have done it already, so it must be substantial!).
I die on the inside when I go into houses with multiple TVs on in the background as noise.
Aight. You now have to repeat every thing i say to your loved ones, as if you were the one saying it.
This, it’s a minor frustration but everything seems to be going cc by default, which would bump the usage numbers. I wonder if it’s because there’s a measurable engagement increase rather than just user preference? As someone who doesn’t want them I have to keep actively turning them off everywhere
If I have it, and I need it, but I've got so much stuff that I don't remember that I have it at the time I need it, then what good was having it in the first place?
That doesn't sound right. I think you owe us all another try. :-) I've been using it on 3-4 computers for over a decade and never had this happen...
"Currently trendy" how? Scala and Kotlin, to name just a few established programming languages, use the ": type" suffix style. They are neither "recent" nor from the original Algol era.
Where are you that a storage unit costs $300/month? Or, how big a storage unit?
I was looking for this comment. In the last couple of months every 3rd or so video seems to have CC switched on for no reason.
I needed to recover my user account / password through Voya recently for a corporate 401k.

They needed to send me 3(!) SMS messages in the process. One to get the username (with a valid email address). One more to request to change the password. And one more to actually change the password.
What personal consequences do you think should come to federal officials who explicitly requested social media companies to censor specific people and certain categories of speech?
I got my degree 25 years ago too. At that time, a lot of things which are pervasive now barely existed. Virtual machines, clouds, smartphones, javascript, CI/CD... Fundamentals haven't changed but the tools/languages/systems we need to understand to do our jobs have changed a lot. The fundamentals are important but they are a fraction of the things we need to know.
> [CC] complements the audio & visual nicely. I don't have any evidence for this but I'd wager that plot synthesis and comprehension of television shows is greatly improved by CC

As you say, you don't have any evidence for this, so I'll just add that my subjective impression is the absolute opposite. I find it impossible to concentrate on what is happening visually on screen in a film when closed captions are on.

I associate CC with the one place I ever see them - at the laundromat, where they are always on because you can't hear the TV clearly above the background noise. Hard to think of a setting where "background entertainment" is a better descriptor.
What about the “Net Centers” in Guatemala? Don’t they use platforms like Twitter to actually harass/silence dissidents? Obviously social media isnt everything, but Morales and his backers sure showed how important it is. Or do you disagree?
> Editorial policy isn't in order to "avoid" offending readers. It's to avoid the spreading of harmful misinformation and disinformation, so that antivaxxers and holocaust deniers and election deniers

Yeah, I get it. But personally I'd rather have our society have access to the crazy claims rather than be censorable. If we can't say unproven or unpopular things then many important messages get missed, such as that Jews are human or that some politician took bribes or that a public policy isn't actually evidence based.

I think neutering the new public square is more likely to destroy our society than claims of election theft.

> It's necessarily done at the point of transmission

Yes, control of someone's speech is. But I don't think that's necessary and neither do the vast majority of people. What we can offer you though, is a way to control what you see so that you can engage as you choose - perhaps only through your chosen politician or whatever.

> Also regarding your coffee shop -- if a customer buys a coffee, sits down and removes their jacket and is wearing a swastika T-shirt, of course the owner can kick them out, and any morally decent owner should.

Do you have an example that's not quite full-on hitler, with a symbol that is actually illegal to display in many countries? How do you think this should work with MAGA hats or shirts?

> Privately owned spaces are not public forums with free speech protections.

No, but if you sell the use of the space you have to consider that speaking reasonably to people around you, or displaying support for legal political parties via clothing, is something reasonable for a customer to do. If you plan to restrict these activities arbitrarily you have an obligation to say so with the offer. "Coffee, which you may drink in a DEMOCRAT ONLY dining room" for example.
>"Great GPU shortage" places it a bit after COVID hit.

>RX570

My condolences. I was lucky enough to get a Vega 64 (Sapphire's) on launch. I'm still using it today. RDNA3, together with new electricity prices, might finally get me to upgrade.

>If it please the court, I just made my own library which is tied to CUDA as well,

HIP is meant to solve that problem. Your library might be auto-convertable. It's pretty much CUDA with everything renamed to HIP. It can then run on both CUDA and ROCm.
Metaflow Sandboxes: Free Data Science Infrastructure in the Browser
My Mom and Dad are avid TV watchers, and now my octogenarian father does have significant hearing loss. We've been using subtitles for decades, probably since the 90s when I started to play with the settings on our newly-purchased TV sets. We enjoy it, especially because we watch a lot of British TV, and although we are quite accustomed to many varied accents from around the Empire, subtitling definitely helps with the interesting turns of phrase, the barely-intelligible asides, and comprehension in general.

I also love watching Spanish subtitles to learn the language better. However, I do tend to disable them on YouTube, because they distract and detract from the viewing experience when they are completely unnecessary.
I've never heard of this. Is it something offered by all the big streaming services?
So what does it mean then?

It was done in the very distant past. It was done in the intervening time. And it's done now. "Modern" trend?
He's talking about the excess unnatural greenhouse effect.
You know what, I never even noticed that!

It does.

I guess I figured that as the TikTok aesthetic and never even really thought more than that.
He was the original gonzo anthropologist
Correct insofar as we are not completely sure that the ongoing precipitous rise won't tip us over an edge into an ice age.
35 now, but I’ve been using CC for as long as I can remember. Maybe since I was 7 or 8 years old.

For me it was always that I could never really make out the dialogue much of the time, and with live tv there was no rewinding so CC gave me a second chance if I missed something.
Those are all explained in the article. This sentence describes what you will understand by the end.
This is the other article that made it to the front page of HN on this topic:

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/09/16/5th-circuit-rewrites-a-c...

It goes into thorough analysis into why this is such a lazy, stupid decision. This is the quote I agree with:

> Frankly, Oldham’s arguments sound much more like the arguments made by ignorant trolls in our comments than anyone with any knowledge or experience with 1st Amendment law.

This "judge" is an unqualified political hack.
If you have meetup organizers paying you hundreds of dollars per year, the least you can do is have a support person (or a bot) fire out a canned email response to the effect of “we’re aware of the issue and working to fix it.”
How does this law violate previous cases and frameworks when similar laws did not in the past (e.g. the Fairness Doctrine for TV and common carrier regulations for phones)?
Started with lazygit, but read about gitui at essentially the same time. Got used to gitui and it's speed so I stayed. Lazygit is pretty great too.

I mostly use gitui for staging things, it supports file, hunk and line staging, it's meant to compliment git cli, not replace it.

I also use it to manage tags.
Nice read. Quite touching that his father genuinely tried making a connection to his son, despite the distance, both culturally and physically.

I subscribed to the New Yorker recently, and I have to say that it's been nice reading more long-form content that has an ending. There are just a few stories everyday, and every week there's a new issue to read through. And of course the decades-long backlog of stories, profiles, and journalism to go through.
I watched Super 8, on I think Amazon, when it came out. I thought it was about the weirdest movie I'd ever seen, a narrated in real time action movie.

Come to find out, for whatever reason, it had audio description turned on by default.

As someone who can see and hear fine, I found it rather odd(before learning what it was). But for a vision impaired person, such a thing must be a game changer.
One thing you can do, though it would take a lot of energy, is to add a "submit" button to your bot that you would have to click in order to tweet each tweet. That way it would be you who tweets it, though a bot did the hard work.
Effectless but expensive. Or be careful with type hints in Python