skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
useful how? for work? leisure?

not sure how youtube-dl would be useful during an internet outage, could elaborate on how you'd see a use for it?, I could see rsync still being useful for LAN file transfers (sincerely not trying to be annoying/condescending, just thinking there might be more to youtube-dl than how I've used it)

but not sure if you mean like downloading a library of documentaries/videos in local hard drives while you do have access to youtube, and then using something like plex to watch them

I do that, except for the plex part, I use mpv in my computer, and don't have a tv with LAN/network capabilities

I also have some PDF ebooks from nostarch, and use zeal for offline documentation browsing, for reference when programming, be it for work, or my own stuff

you only mentioned software/digital things, so I assume not physical tools, like multitool (like the ones that can open cans and/or start fires)

I'd get a at least a couple of physical books, in case if you mean losing not just internet connectivity, but also electricity

I also think it's possible to download libgen to local media, though I haven't done it myself

I saw at least one answer mentioning survival things so I'm not sure if I went off-base here
I had a cdrom drive in a 486 with 8mb of RAM and ~200MB of disk. I could either have a game or two installed (which at the time invariably ran in DOS) or Windows 3.1 installed. Not both.

At the time it was like… wait I just bought this fancy CD-ROM… why do I need to install 30 or 40 whole megabytes to disk to play it?

At that time it was pretty common to actually install all the game files to disk (drives were slow… I think it was 4x read speed) and then the music was encoded in the cd as additional tracks of plain CD audio.
Fair enough. They do cover the lethality of falling bullets. They seem to be fairly deadly. Most falling with enough force to pierce the skull. I'm not sure about their methodology.
That is assuming lenders don’t want compensation for investing in a devaluating currency.
I know I’m going to get downvoted and some people will find this comment bitter, but all this applies only if you’ve got money around. Good for him and his family. I’m not jealous, just stating the fact that he’s fortunate to be able to take a break.

Many people need a work break or a sabbatical, to avoid burnout and/or to help the family, but what can you do when you have expenses running and you’re not lucky (or brave/talented/capable) enough to have a high paying job like our colleagues in US?

This might apply to some “top” countries where software engineers have enough money to afford the luxury of a break, but try doing the same while living in any other country on an average salary :-(

Not all of HN readers are from US or with a 6-7 figure salary ;-)
There's a difference between creating a derivative work and analyzing how something is done in order to create something new based on that knowledge. You can make songs in style of Led Zeppelin that sound like they could be written and performed by Led Zeppelin without violating any copyrights (and to be able to do that you obviously need to know some Led Zeppelin songs beforehand), but you can't take "Dazed and Confused", change the guitar solo and part of the lyrics and call it done...

Well, at least unless you end up as big as Led Zeppelin was before someone catches you, I guess ;)
Bad alternative hypothesis. The implemented approach with recursive search is more complicated than just enumerating the files in the Sound recordings directory. A singular focus on requirements would have resulted in the easy solution that's also more efficient.

This is sheer stupidity: a more complicated, less efficient solution to a simple problem.
I think 'Gun' in the John Adam's quote refers to cannons.
It's a country where in certain parts there is a fairly good chance that a random person walking down the road will be carrying a gun, with no good reason apart from "protection" from other random people walking down the road also carrying a gun.

As you say, not a problem in most parts of the world, let alone western world.
I suppose the writer meant it in the sense that no one hyped prior to its release. Being original work instead of adaptation is one factor.

How do you measure popularity objectively anyway. Sites like MAL might do well but in the end it’s in the amount and quality of conversations that truly matter. Hard to measure.

> and reviews are saying it's good even though the story sucks! what else can be good when there is no story?

I beg to differ. There can be more than just story in anime. Presentation itself is an aspect that cannot be dismissed. Because the expressiveness of the medium provides capability to tell narratives as pure sensory experience as well, not merely plot points.
Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages (1991)
I also don't dig the look of these apps compared to the clean GUI of Windows 2000 for example. I understand everything needs to be big and vectorized because of 4k displays, touchscreens and whatever else, but it always feels like these apps are running on Flash.
I view reducing waste as very reasonable goal. If we waste less energy and materials on anything we both improve quality of living and better use resources with less impact.

Bitcoin is nothing but waste.
most websites take 3-7 seconds to load because of all the ads and bloat, and things shift around on you for another 20 seconds after that, so when you go to tap a link you accidentally tap an ad that finally loaded under your finger

The problem with remarks like this is that if this was really your experience of using the web you'd have installed an ad blocker years ago, and you wouldn't make that argument now. Consequently either it's easily dismiasable as hyperbole or you're a masochist who enjoys terrible websites.

There are bad websites. It isn't "most websites" though. Just like some games drop frames horribly, but not "most games".
"We ran simulations for five of the most common ammunition types in the U.S. at five different firing angles. The answer to the most important question became immediately and abundantly clear." - the most important step is missing between first and second sentences here.
I had a conversation recently with someone with very strong opinions. I quietly listened to their point of view. I concluded they were talking nonsense and don't plan to engage in any further deep conversation with the person. And this is my point, opinionated people can quietly lose their audience.
Switching databases can be an easy move depending on how you design schemas, versioning and migration. We have a multi-cloud, multi-db offering - customers choose their DB. Without ORM, this would not be feasible.
Matrix chat encryption sunk by five now-patched holes
Susan Kare talked about the backstory in this presentation: https://vimeo.com/97583369#t=493s
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The worrying thing is that these companies are not just applying the law but going beyond that and dictating additional rules and decisions that are theirs. Apple does not like adult content. It does not want to be associated with it not because it is illegal but because it makes them look dirty by association, which is bad for business; or so they seem to believe. So, they are being much stricter than is legally necessary.

They've effectively become the highest authority on what is "legal". The worrying thing here is that of course they don't implement any form of democracy (other than share holder voting). They are deciding for us but we don't get to be involved in that decision process.

Credit card companies are doing the same. They are telling people what they can and cannot spend on and they are telling businesses what they can and cannot use their payment systems for. Effectively they are discriminating between businesses they like and businesses they don't like based on criteria that they define. Discriminating people is illegal. But discriminating against companies (which in a legal sense are regarded as persons) is fine. Maybe it shouldn't be?

The solution is breaking monopolies like that and forcing competition to happen. Apple and Google own app stores. That's fine; good for them. But banning other people's app stores isn't. If they don't want to sell something, somebody else will happily take that business.

In the same way you can use any credit card you want as long as it is Visa or Mastercard. None of the other ones matter anymore, which is weird. Effectively Visa and Mastercard monopolized online payments and are re-enforcing their position through anti-competitive moves. And of course Apple and Google have payment solutions too that are actually based on those. So, we're talking about an oligarchy that controls payments and online distribution of content that only consists of a handful of companies. They decide what's legal and isn't legal. And they profit from all transactions that happen. And they are fiercely defensive of their exclusive control as it is highly profitable. So, competing with them is one of the things that they've simply decided is illegal.
I'm not sure you understand techno...
Oh, not YET you mean.
This is extremely irresponsible, how are you supposed to make a call if you have an emergency? People are going to die.

The EU needs to recognise the situation: this is not working, 15% of Ukraine is now part of Russia despite all the NATO help.

Meanwhile the US is laughing as the dollar is rising above everything and the media is un-ironically saying that it could have been the US who blew up the pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
try to search "iran join sco"
That's pretty cool!
What about the blocking issue? Presumably also if you are using JNI all bets are off?
>it does seem to be the case that in sum total we see, decade after decade, a cumulatively destabilizing effect on both financial markets and the financial security of everyday folks

I'm not an expert in finance by any means, but for the most part this doesn't seem true. Besides the mortgage bubble, the market has only seemed to get smarter over time. There's definitely a lot of weirdness, but
that's to be expected when interest rates are less than inflation for over a decade.

>it’s high finance’s job to convince the public that they’re actually helping, not the public’s job to learn high finance.

People go into finance to make money, not to help people. It happens that making money in finance tends to make the market more efficient, which helps people. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked, so very little benefit is going to trickle down to the common folk these days, but as a whole, I don't think they're harming people.

Meanwhile, I do think that it's the public's job to learn finance, or rather strive to be more informed in general. When the public's priority is to scream out that we should eat the rich, politicians will happily virtue signal along with them and outsource the boring work of legislating to a corporate lobbyist.
But that person was randomly selected among subscribers. And it’s not “need” in the sense that it doesn’t look like he’d suffer serious consequences from rejecting the challenge. It’s not like “if I reject this job I’ll be homeless”.

The issue with your line of thought is that it leads to concluding that most jobs are unethical.
I suspect most of those games played on TVs would be running on consoles which are much more forgiving as their games are optimised for that use-case and there’s built-in assistance for inputs (aiming with controllers is much more difficult without it).

My understanding is that Stadia and most other game streaming providers run PC games which are developed with the assumption of precise mouse/keyboard inputs where there’s no assistance.
I'm practicing leetcode right now and I'm also working on a side project in Rust. I confirm it's much more fun writing some stuff in Rust.
The FBI claim they got lucky…
Very relevant content here at Hutter News.
They deserve no credit here. Barely more than weeks ago they were officially announcing that Stadia wasn’t going anywhere and there were more great games to come. Refunds were simply the best way to preempt the inevitable class action lawsuit so that same amount of money could go towards refunds rather than lawyers. It’s not noble, it’s not laudable, it just another financial calculation that refunds are cheaper than the lawsuit combined with a corresponding few years of bad press highlighting their awful failure continuously every time the case hit a major milestone working its way through the courts and embarrassing internal communications revealed just how delicate the entire house of cards was from day 1.
Thank you very much for this interesting comment! It would be great if you would like to provide an URL with a detailed analysis of this issue.
A national scandal? There were never any consequences, except for the people who brought the video to light.

The US was involved in plenty of war crimes in Iraq, such as the following documented cases:

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukaradeeb_wedding_party_massa...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_massacre

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisour_Square_massacre

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallujah_killings_of_April_200...

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishaqi_incident

The US worked with militias, such as the Wolf Brigade, that were notorious for conducting torture (in particular, it has come out that US forces passed on detainees to the Wolf Brigade for torture).[5] At the height of the war, bodies were being dumped in the open every day in Baghdad with gruesome signs of torture.

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Brigade_(Iraq)
Internet rates have been more stable over the last 14 years than at any point in recent history. Even with the combined problems of covid recovery shocks and the Ukraine war it wasn’t going terribly until the inexplicable budget last week.
Maybe on consoles. The only PC games I've played in the last decade that took minutes have been GTA5, Destiny 2, and heavily modded Minecraft. Most games load in under 15 seconds.
That is patently false. Especially the Western and Northern EU countries have a massive influx of high-skill workers (doctors, programmers, engineers) from both Eastern EU countries (which will dry up sooner rather than later, to be fair, with terrible population growth already happening for more than a decade in places like Romania), but also from neighboring countries - Turkey being the largest source.

Even the so hated "refugee crisis" from Syria saw mostly middle-class Syrians moving to Europe (putting it in fear quotes since the whole of the EU had fewer refugees than Turkey alone to accept).
Swiss engineer discovers that Stable Diffusion can compress images
Apologies. I hadn’t realised this was the net effect.

I agree this is a terrible policy. Marginal tax rates should be a monotonically increasing function.
Because of greed.

As soon as these online services started appearing, some publishers noticed that you could use such a service to share a game if you take turns playing it. So they added protection to prevent their games from running inside streaming services.

Other publishers considered that a VM could be used for circumventing DRM by creating an exact copy of a licensed system. Also, a virtual machine could be used for cheating because now you have an API for video and mouse input. So they added protection to prevent their games from running inside VMs.

The result is that Stadia and Geforce Now are effectively unusable for recent high-budget launches (DRM) and for competitive play (cheating).

Streaming services are still great for super casual play, but so is a Switch. And for the latter, you can trade game cartridges with friends. For streaming, they don't allow resale or trading due to ... greed, I guess.

In the end, no game streaming service had a good user experience.
As the article says it's used for cultural locations here in the North. I asked my family members what they associate it with and got a variety of answers, including Viking ornamentation, a citadell layout, house foundation, reminiscence of the infinity symbol (persistence through time). As a kid seeing it on the keyboard next to the Apple logo I thought it looked like a leaves or maybe vines. It's a funny thing the potency of such abstract symbols, adaptable to different contexts via multiple interpretations, but whose shapes are also not completely separated from what they represent.
It is both. I tried GeForce NOW and it required only about 60Mbps - it was just a fraction of Gbit connection. Still, I sometimes struggled to keep it at that minimum. Variable bandwidth doesn't matter for file downloads or video streaming(where there is few seconds of buffer) but it makes game streaming almost unplayable.
3944 files, 561 folders, 4.6 GB.
I've actually seen it quite regularly in vulgarised science pieces. Areas of 1ha (10000m squared) are often compared to a soccer pitch.
Shutterfly doesn't allow videos and downloading photos older than 2 years in full resolution can be complicated, other than that unlimited. Terabox has only 10GB free, you need to invite someone to have 1TB, I switched to Shutterfly as backup for my computer and external drive.
> Not just sanitizing, but sanitizing to US social mores. Showing a naked boob is considered porn and banned on most of these platform while public toplessness is perfectly legal in many jurisdictions worldwide.

Ironically, that set of jurisdictions includes all US national parks... See, for instance, https://www.tripsavvy.com/visiting-limantour-beach-1478617 - it's a lack of federal laws against public nudity.
What size is an American football field? I'm only familiar with football and rugby union fields.
Rolling the dice on maybe killing or maiming an innocent bystander is fun?
Seems to me that many (most?) successful overthrowing of tyrannical governments have been conducted through mostly peaceful means. Where armed insurrection has taken place the result has been a long bloody revolution and in the rare cases it has succeeded the replacement government has many of the same faults as the one it replaced.

Don't get me wrong, there have been cases where armed revolution has been successful, but in most cases, it's been average people getting out into the streets and saying enough that has made the big difference.

There are not many governments that can continue when the majority of the people are actively protesting against it.
https://gitlab.com/dependabot-gitlab/dependabot

Haven't tried it yet, though.
Netflix in 1080p is nowhere near the quality required to play games in 1080p. It is heavily compressed, whereas games need crisp precision because it contains a lot of text that should be rendered precisely, as well as having pixel perfection for a lot of in game elements. To convince yourself look at Twitch, which has higher bitrate than Netflix for a similar resolution, and realize than even that is far from good enough to be playable.
The mistakes the AI makes are too numerous and hard-to-define for this to work I think. They could perhaps be addressed by having two different models trained differently, each fixing the errors of the other. When humans draw a realistic artwork, it's not 'single-pass'; they have to iterate on the details to get it right.
Sure. But I never really just went and stood on one for funsies.
"Studies" can show a lot of convenient things. Just don't ask them to replicate.
"gender reveal party accident" is my favorite stupid news.
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It’s dangerous for others, far moreso than fireworks where the main danger is hurting yourself.
The nodes are pretty much useless without miners... Ofc they can pass historical records around and transactions that never happen.
It's probably running in some PHP server somewhere that pings but nobody knows where it is
No, the values of the bonds falls.
Please look at using domain fronted pluggable transport meek:

https://github.com/arlolra/meek

https://bridges.torproject.org/bridges?transport=meek

https://support.torproject.org/glossary/meek/
You're spot on.

In fact, pizza aside, Louisville punches wayyyy above its weight in food. I guess I took it for granted, and assumed every city was like that. Nope, not even close.

Re: pizza, apparently people in Ohio call it Dayton style pizza. Marion's looks a lot like Bearnos, but I've never tried it!

Bearnos as a company is pretty scummy(see footnote), else I'd try to franchise one where I live. I'd love to know their suppliers and processes to start a competitor, one day.

Footnote:
I left Louisville for good exactly 2 days after their Hepatitis admission. They went on the news promising to make it right and pay.

I got a shot, out of pocket. Talked to 'management' at the location and they had no idea what I was talking about, then told me to quit worrying about it. I pressed on and submitted receipts, kept following up. Never saw a dime. But worse, they knew they were lying. Claimed to not receive anything, but I had copies so emailed it. Every person directed you to someone else, impossible to reach because 'theyre busy.' After 3 weeks or so of their game, I just gave up as it was costing me more of my time than money I'd ever see.

Might make sense for like, Google, not a tiny little pizza company with a few locations.

I'm not even mad about the money... I'm mad they had the nerve to make an announcement they had no intention of following up on.

See: https://www.wlky.com/article/bearnos-pizza-employee-diagnose...
> Lots of contradictions etc, but if anything, he is not stupid.

What makes you think that? Especially after just pointing out that the strategy he himself has put front and center as the present and future of Facebook (Meta) is "creepy", when you think they have other things that could generate money?
I feel like the real problem is that much like QC people HE people selling it as "you can do some arbitrary computation [faster/completely securely]". Both QC and HE as currently theorized are extraordinarily limited in the kind of computations that can be performed. In the case of HE I cannot see how any of the schemes could be made to perform their quintessential example of an encrypted query applied to an encrypted database producing an encrypted result. Equivalently in QC land you have Grover's algorithm making DB queries magically faster.

Old man shakes fist at clouds.
Microsoft has had 35 years of long term growth. How can you say optimizing for short term profit at the expense of long term profit is their strategy?

> and it relies on the stock market having a memory that lasts no longer than one year

If that was true, you could easily make $billions shorting those stocks that you know sacrifice the long term. Let us know how it goes!
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Where do you work? I'm sure we can find some good reasons why that's a harmful place too.
You can sell whatever the heck you want for cash IRL regardless of how legal it is. But you have to interact with the banking system somehow regardless of whichever payment option you choose for your website. And that system wants to police what you sell. That's the problem.
It doesn't take days to index my hard disk. Besides, I configured it with the path the media files. There's no reason to spy on the rest of the drive.
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And the disadvantages of global shared memory, stop the world pauses etc. For sure it is a step in the right direction but it depends on where you stand wrt having shared mutable state in your programming model. It's also not clear to me whether virtual threads can lock up carrier threads (e.g. due to an infinite loop) or are somehow preemptible (c.f. erlang reduction counts).
I expect this is normal practice.
Why are you speaking as if high unemployment is better than high inflation?