skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mentions employees receiving half a bagel instead of a full bagel at one meeting, but how many people actually eat a full bagel? Sounds like a great way to reduce food waste and promote healthy caloric intake.
Of course, it would be unjust to judge academic research from a one-line summary that a journalist wrote. But at least on the surface, this is unconvincing:

> D’Huy is applying these methods to study how ancient myths can inform what we know about our connection with other animals such as sheep — their mythological link with the sun could have led to domestication. Symbolic, rather than utilitarian, reasons for domestication could explain a lot of data, he says.

Why would hunter-gatherers in a resource-constrained environment keep food around and not eat it? I would rather bet that my ancestors had exactly the same mythological connection with their flock of sheep that I have with my freezer.
How German are the British royals?
Captive birds
The problem is that no automatic method we have now will catch context. There is a difference between "Jews were murdered by Germans during war" and "Jews destroyed German economy before the war" that will not be recognized by any machine we have nowadays. The first is true, the second is bullshit, how algorithm can now this?

More, even if Facebook employees humans to do moderation still for some contractor from Asia "Jews destroyed German economy before the war" might not be easy to verify. For a contractor maybe Jews did that, who cares, I have 20 seconds to moderate this and move to other post. The same way if I was asked to moderate some historical details about India-Pakistan conflict or other historical facts about Asia, Africa I have no knowledge about at all.

I was reading quite a lot recently about war in Angola and still I have doubts which side was "good" and which was "bad", besides that people who lived there were hurt in the history like almost no other nation.

Even worst. Some, especially historical, facts are judged from different perspective. For instance in Poland Napoleon Bonaparte is a mythologized person that brought hope to Polish hearts to get back their homeland [1]. From the point of view of someone from Austria or Italy, well, Napoleon is considered to be far from hero.

We don't have to go back that far in the history. US intervention in Afghanistan or Iraq can be seen differently depending on somebody views.

How to moderate all this?

[1] Fun fact: not a big surprise that Napoleon didn't give a crap about Poland, he even refused to give them a proper King at the short time he could (he has chosen some Saxon prince). At the end, when Napoleon lost, remains of Polish military units were sent to Haiti to help France to maintain their colonies. Many Polish soldiers died from tropical illnesses there, many joined Haitians as they saw that those people were fighting for their freedom like Poles were.
I'm not making that claim. I'm pointing out that a customer saying "X locked my account" without the relevant information for HN readers to decide whether or not X acted improperly doesn't make for a good HN submission.

If this company sells T-shirts or something, then Stripe may have acted improperly. If they sell cannabis, then Stripe would have acted as the law requires, as everyone in that industry knows perfectly well. So it's pretty relevant information, and HN readers deserve to have the information they need to make informed decisions. There are plenty of other places online for uninformed outrage bait.
I don't care. Every """good Christian""" says this same sentence and then goes on to do (turning a blind eye is just as bad as doing) all this horrible shit because God/Jesus/somebody who speaks for them/whoever the fuck else said it's alright somewhere or else. One would think the absolute and universally understood rules of the New Testament would prevent all this?

At this point I don't believe any Christian a word out of their mouth unless they show me how they're trying to make this shit right - and I mean receipts of donations to all the nonprofits dedicated to the cause.
Metaprogramming in Python
Instead of having a hierarchy of scripts, why not use namespaces - blog_publish, blog_preview, etc? Then instead of typing `sd blog publish`, you type `blog_publish`. With this you have built-in autocompletion, no need for a third-party tool, a shorter command, and an easy way to see all your scripts at a glance since they'll all be in the same directory.
This is also how "full self driving" cars will work, for as long as we live. Currently the cost race among car manufacturers is battery production, leading to enormous battery factories popping up.

The next one will be for massive sweatshops where car manufacturers hire people are on-call to steer a mercedes around a poorly placed traffic cone.
Okay. Might you know if there is any company providing "free" e-mail accounts (broadly comparable to GMail), with all the "basics" which you want, and at least breaking even financially on that?

If "no", is there good reason to believe that Google could manage to do that?

If "no", would it be okay for Google (a for-profit company, not a charity) to discontinue free GMail service (presumably with some warning, etc.), because it was not a viable business to be in?
I bet most humans would fail this test on images that everybody agrees are adequate portrayals. Answering a short query with an image is a highly non-injective mapping, you simply don't know what aspects of the scene were specifically asked for in the query, and which ones were filled in by the artist / AI.

Eg, the queries "opening of a medieval theme park", "announcement of a witch trial", "king charles proclamation" might all be reasonably answered by similar images containing a small crowd and a speaker in a medieval-looking setting, even though they're not meant to refer to the same time periods or settings at all.
Yeah this is what I do, taking my watch out for a run and being able to track my run, etc. Then being able to stop at a shop on the way back for a cold drink or to pick up some groceries and just pay with the watch is so convenient.

Sucks that everything else about smart watches sucks tho. Thanks to Apple making the "pretty" Apple watch, other brands have forgone things like eink/mip displays that get better battery life. :/
Calling the whole article "just a hidden ad" is a bit of a stretch. Sure, it might attract interested parties, but imo the reference to their community is more of an example than an ad. In the same section the author recommends building your own and wanting to keep the community small.
Natural disasters, sure, but I was thinking of the sea, which affects all Florida home owners, and predictably. Not like a natural disaster, which is almost a lottery. You never really know the path of the hurricane. The probability of hurricanes may be rising, but it basically tears up a few houses that won/lost the path lottery, so the cost hits randomly.

The sea isn't like that. Everyone who's bought property in Florida in the past decades knew what's happening, and it's clear that Florida will need expensive new infrastructure to supply those properties with freshwater fairly soon. Who is going to pay for that? Florida's behaviour towards Massachusetts today influences what the voters' answer will be when Florida asks the rest of the union for help with that water.

Someone whose land is going to be submerged by the sea in maybe twenty years, and who's going to ask for expensive help to keep that land livable for those few years, needs to show solidarity. To flaunt solidarity.
Not if you combine those years with Studying Art, Graduating, Studying Law, Helping others Graduate by reading their own works to them, Rehearsing, Touring, Recording, Doing Movies :-)

As I said, a career I greatly admire. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Garfunkel
What is the intended behavior?
Maybe so, but would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN, and please start following the site guidelines? We ban accounts that won't, for what ought to be obvious reasons.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is this a good replacement for Kodi?
I read the hobbit and around the world in 80days in English (not my native tongue) as a kid. Those two took me 5 days. The bible (nih) took me 27. Lotr trilogy took me six days. Book reading time depends on how boring it is. You could totally read a midsized book in a day. That is more than a hundred pages. This leaves you with 9 days of not reading at all.
I used to write software for smart TV's, so ended up using a lot of them. LG were easily my favourites (N.B. this was 6 years ago now).

One of the best things is the dev enviroment was so simple, just a basic linux setup with a sensible toolchain. (Samsung was easily the worst in terms of dev experience due to their tizen crap).
Oh the company/team that created the operating system for the iPhone, yeah I've heard of them.
Sort of, the setting is the same but none of the series are actually in continuity with each other. Even Fate/Zero isn’t actually the same universe as Fate.

If they did that it’d restrict the story too much - Nasu loves setting rules about how the magic stuff works, but he only does it so he can break them later to make someone look cool. That’s why he’s the world’s best fantasy writer.
Scientific communities don't formally elect a spokesperson. Granting access "to the community" to investigate scientific claims means making the methodology and results available to everybody - and that includes responding to inquiries for access from anyone (who is worth granting access to.)

Google has a lot of resources. They can handle responding to potentially thousands of access requests, especially if they go around publishing glowing results of their own system.
I used to keep a list like this (more modest though) but I stopped once I realized it's demeaning both to me and the books.

The problem was that the list had no other purpose except as a kind of trophy case. I felt proud about my list, as if finishing a book is an achievement, as if reading is a sport, as if reading a lot makes you better than those who read less. I was disgusted by my own vanity, and moreover, considered it as proof that I haven't really improved my character from all that reading.

Now I stopped maintaining a list and I stopped keeping a mental account of how many pages or books I read.

The result is that, though I rarely finish any book I pick up, I probably spend more time in total reading, and I learn way more because I don't hesitate spending a lot of time appreciating or grappling with, say, a single paragraph of text.

#itsnotarace

(BTW I don't want to imply that this is true for everybody. And I mean if your list has notes that's totally different)
HN not being indie would certainly explain it... which begs the question, where's the indie hacker crowd now?
> Your email is not your identity

Google seems to disagree https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web
There is absolutely no way those statistics are even remotely accurate
On the contrary - "Plasma" is one the best branding efforts in the open source ecosystem so far.

It's not really confusing or hard to search for if you know that "Plasma" is a KDE product - for instance, Plasma Bigscreen is the first Google result for "kde plasma tv" and "kde tv". It's 8 years old, it covers several different products with a similar look and feel, and it sounds as cool as it looks.

Big brands don't have an issue with using common words for product lines (like "surface" and "pixel"), and I don't see why open source should cede that ground.
In case someone is interested in the approach and uses Fish, I’ve created a simple autocompletion.

https://git.herrbischoff.com/dotpr0n/tree/.config/fish/compl...

I’m using “s” for a name instead of “sd” though, since there’s also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24246069
From my experience google will show that banner for a couple of times if you log in from an unusual device and only after that will require you the complete login with the 2FA
Where do you see signs of their decline at the moment?
People who know KDE hardly need marketing - they already know what is what and what they want. So they could name it whatever way, I only care about how well does that name integrate in the whole namespace of Linux apps/libs/packages. At the same time, for non-techies or people coming from other OSes Plasma automatically sounds cool, doesn't it?

Nevertheless, as for what I personally feel, I agree - I like KDE better.
> Software developers often make the worst UX designers and all that.

What bugs me is that most people make bad UI designers and they are completely oblivious to it. I see some people desktops and their editor's colour schemes and I wonder if they have any sense of aesthetics at all. A cursory look at those "desktop theme" websites is the proof that 99% of them are just plain terrible.

I swear I saw someone that replaced their default UI font with Times New Roman.

It's like what Steve Jobs said about Microsoft: most people just don't have any taste. It sounds arrogant, but I think there's some truth to it.
The tool should instead provide an `--output=<format>` flag, where <format> is one of text (default), json, xml, etc.
This is heavily skewed. If you lived in Eastern Europe it was customary to drive down to Germany to buy PS1/2 because they were much cheaper there. I know several people who started their retail business just by bringing back car loads of PS2's. One guy even got a mocking nickname (something like "playstation") that stuck with him for decades after when he moved on to selling HiFi and AV out of his store.

I absolutely assure you no one, ever, bought original games in those countries. Especially not the (relatively) rich who could afford them.

DVD playback wasn't a selling point. No one had DVDs back then. Everyone watched xvid on their PC. That was the only way to obtain digital movies. DVD stores were very minimal and saw no attention. Rentals were mostly VHS.
I wonder if marketers could start exploiting this. Get something obviously innocent banned in a stupid way by algo, then use the outrage effect for promotion. They already kinda did this with people destroying stuff of companies that made some statements, this seems like the next step.
I wrote a very similar tool that optionally uses FZF for auto complete: https://codeberg.org/atomdmac/gosh
That was my point: there is no border guard to bribe.
sd: Intuitive find and replace CLI (sed alternative)
After Effects was one of the best pieces of software ever made around the CS6 era, it was insane how powerful it felt and how solid it was to work with while being so modular.

It's a shadow of its former self now and can't even play the timeline without the audio cutting out and pitch shifting. My Core 2 Duo laptop could do that a decade ago, my M1 Max and high end PC can't because Adobe broke playback years ago and never fixed it.
Another way to look at it is that by using solar for mining, other forms of capacity are not wasted in the same way. The waste is then in using up of materials and manufacturing that would go to "ordinary" use otherwise.
A civilian plane was exfiltrated from Ukraine
Quite so. Not far outside Cleveland, Ohio, is the "Parma Triangle" formed by State Road, Pearl Road, and Snow Road. Is State Road a state road? I don't know.
Nice tool but the name is a bit unfortunate:

https://github.com/chmln/sd (a modern sed alternative)
> but calling daddy government

I pay for them, I may as well try to get them to do something that benefits me for the astronomical taxes I'll be paying this year.
Yeah, styrene and formaldehyde are very common everywhere, usually due to styrofoam packaging. Wood and textiles are often treated with formaldehyde, even in Europe. Lead based solder is less common these days, and pretty much banned in the EU due to the RoHS directive, but there are weird exceptions, like how its OK in servers or networking equipment.
What are Kubernetes CRDs, and should you be bothered about them?
I wish videos like these would say sponsored by the company that makes the product reviewed here. Instead of the generic sponsored because I also talk about matresses in this tech review
What we need to do is dumb down surgical tools. Anyone should be able to do a coronary artery bypass with just a quick google and some AI assistance. That way your analogy will match the goal of these new shells.
That's a weird strawman. Nobody aims to take away your standard framebuffer / textmode terminal. It's there for a reason and I don't think this post cares at all about that use case. (Also, you should really invest in iLO or your vendor's equivalent - it pays for itself if you do trips like that)
If you are so weak you cannot pretend to influence and change the behavior of others.

So, this debate is absolutely ridiculous and stupid.

And this shit represents the pinnacle of a generation so fragile and incompetent that it will lead to "worse times".
I had a dream like this many years ago, but it was Beyonce yelling at me to leave the house quickly to avoid getting late for work. When I woke up I only had time to leave the house.
We experience this also, every delivery needs manual correction because they rely on Google and Google is just plain wrong.
Imagine you make $300 for every hour someone spends and you pay them $100. Crude, and you can disagree with the numbers, but this is the general idea when employing people.

You get 4 hours a week for free, you make $1200 - $0 = $1200

You get 40 hours a week for $4000, you make $12000 - $4000 = $8000

By hiring them, you make more profit.

You could try to get 10 people doing 4 hours a week for free, but maybe there is a limit to the number of people willing. Let alone the coordination and efficiency advantage of dedicating more time per week to tasks.
The paradigm of 18th century economic theories, which I doubt that you sincerely subscribe to excepting this one matter, is no longer relevant. When the power wielded over, and the access afforded to an individual by a private corporation is so great that when denied access that person has no meaningful alternative and is meaningfully and irreparably harmed, that does become a matter of public concern. Whether or not users were informed when signing up that google would come to hold the keys over almost the entirety of their identity as it exists on the internet, and that their identity on the internet would come to represent a huge fraction if not the majority of their identity in the world, that is the circumstance we find ourselves in. Our identity on the internet is for most, an essential and non-negotiable element of the infrastructure of the modern world. A person who loses access to that identity may very well be losing access to their only means of employment and their only means of communications with certain friends and family members, and documents that are critical to their freedom and identity in the physical world (scans of passports, birth certificates, vaccination cards.)

The fact is that these corporations are not innocently providing simple little services that users might occasion to use for a bit of time and then freely put down; they provide services that grant them at times more power than nation states over the lives of individuals who are completely powerless to respond. Given that they wield power over a service which is not optional for most of their "clients", whether or not they meant to (they meant to), they are providing a public good. And if they are unwilling to do so in a way that aligns with the values of the citizens of ostensibly democratic nations, then the citizens of those nations should vote to either compel them to offer their services in alignment with the public good or have their property and right to conduct business in that nation seized.

And whether or not many are aware of it, this would not represent a sea-change in policy for any Western government that I know of. This would simply be the very late, but reasonable extension of more than a century of well-established legal precedent that already exists. For example, in the United States, we call corporations that are regulated in such a manner "Public Utilities", in Germany they are called "Öffentliches Versorgungsunternehmen" and in France they are called "Entreprises de Services Publics" and in Spanish they are called "Empresas de Servicios Públicos"
I think you've misunderstood that example in the article.

The AI isn't being asked to generate an image from the prompt, it's being asked to match the similar prompts to the different images. Winoground is basically a reading-comprehension test suite, which links back to the point made in the article that AI can't handle non-typical language precisely because it lacks reading comprehension (or any semantic model of language.)

As the article points out, human runs of Winoground manage to match the vast majority of prompts to the correct image, so it's not a question of atypical language being too hard to understand.

You may want to also read the author's other article[0] about the lack of semantic comprehension in AI models.

0: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/horse-rides-astronaut
It is probably a mistake to discount d'Huy. He is not certain to be right, but if wrong he is certain to be interestingly wrong.

Association of dogs with Sirius far enough back to precede populating the Americas is pretty astounding.
Apparently the river and ferryman elements associated with dying do, too.

The association of sisters with the Pleiades apparently goes back much farther, maybe to before we left Africa.
Is this the Crescendo you meant https://github.com/PowerShell/Crescendo ?
From your comment I initially thought Crescendo was some separate commercial software.
create a second account or use the root account?
> 12 pages per day for 10 years?

Now I feel bad about constantly complaining that I don't read enough. 12 pages a day is easy, even for heavier works.

That honestly impressive how much you could read with just 12 pages a day.

Edit: Okay, a small script that grabs the first three years of books, with a bug, or two, somewhere, tells me that you actually need to read about 120 pages per day, not 12. That makes more sense. It's ten times more, but still do able.
Not really, security makes everything harder. I have worked on classified projects which I think are a good benchmark for continuous security and it is definitely expensive, and it was on the lowest levels of classification.

Costs come from everywhere, from the time it takes to transfer a simple file when USB ports are blocked and internet access is very limited. Regular audits, limited privileges and you can only run approved programs, maintaining software up to date but you have to actually look at the change logs (no automatic updates), physical security (alarms, safes, access control, etc...). Also, you can't work from home.

Your company may do security differently but there is always a cost. You may not notice a big "security" line in the budget but that's because the costs are everywhere, because everything can be a target. And unlike correctness, security is a moving target. For example, if the code you wrote for a specific task does the task correctly, as long as the task doesn't change, it will work forever (hence: "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"). But thing that were once secure may stop being secure as new attacks are found, even if nothing changes on your side.
This is particularly annoying when the local app is necessary for public transport, Covid, concert tickets or similar.
Neopets, Valenth & more come to mind as early 2000s crypto-less versions of this. You can make the exact same comments about the fun-ness of those games. And yet people loved them.

So yes, crypto is the focus and yes, gameplay is lacking (for those who seek different kinds of games). But those are separate issues rather than related.

In other words, CryptoKitties innovation was never going to be gameplay, because it is explicitly a clone of pet collecting games of yore with the spin being different underlying infrastructure & payments technology.