skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article starts out with a quote about Mussolini, that brings me back.

I used to live in Brazil for a while, and while there I met a girl who's last name was Mussolini. I was fascinated and asked where that name has come from, and apparently her grandfather had moved to Brazil from Italy sometime in the 40s.

I was very excited to be talking with what I imagined to be a relative of such an historical figure, but she didn't understand it at all: she had no idea who Mussolini was, what he did, or why it would be interesting at all.

Having grown up in Europe, and with some Italian ancestry(my grandad also left Italy in the 40s, but for Sweden instead of Brazil) it hasn't occurred to me that someone could be unaware of Benito Mussolini, much less someone who wears his last name! (God knows I'm reminded of the associations of my own Italian last name frequently enough!)

At the same time I can kinda understand why her parents wouldn't talk too much about it, if they were indeed related to Benito.

Always interesting to peer into the mind of someone with a background that is so different from my own, yet at the same time so very similar!
It is not complete, but you're assuming that our current understanding of physics have major deficiencies where significant prior observations can be overturned.

Even Newtonian physics 300 years ago largely remain the same, relativity complemented it and explained issues on edge cases. It did not completely overturn Newtonian Physics and gravity did not became repulsive instead of attractive.
YouTube is great for those situations where a written explanation just doesn't quite cut it, but I prefer it more as a supplement to than a replacement of a good gamefaq.
I can think of many cases where you would want to do that. Remotely start download of a game, pull save files of it, Add a movie or series to watch, turn off remotely in case you forget and many others.
Webster defines "missile" as "capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object" -- the modern use I think came from "guided missile," but in practice we've dropped the guided in most cases.
If I remember correctly, the PS3's CPU is uniquely suited to the kind of work people use clusters for. It provided a halfway point between CPU and GPGPU, and at a price point which couldn't be beaten.

The PS5, on the other hand, basically uses medium-range off-the-shelf computer components. Its most powerful feature is the extremely fast SSD, but that is not very useful for a compute cluster. Nowadays anyone wanting a compute cluster would just fill a server rack with GPUs and be done with it.
People don't understand ML and AI well enough to do this, and don't realize a surface understanding of the math is all that is needed to create cool tools like this.

I ask you kindly to stop showing people, so I can keep feeling smart for knowing discrete mathematics /lh
12 year adtech veteran here. Ad fraud is a business problem, not a tech problem.

All the major solutions are well known but not implemented because of the massive effect it would have on business for everyone down the chain for advertisers.

The entire industry meets every year. They can figure this out and fix most big problems in a few hours, but incentives are not aligned for that to happen.
5 Copy Paste Tricks for Excel Experts [video]
Disallowing remote code by default could be considered a benefit, but disallowing me from saying "I trust this one particular source of remote code; please let it execute" is most definitely not.
The IMF process is to keep rates above inflation. So it seems Zimbabwe have some more hiking to do
The people that use this tool to dig up dirt on someone will love to see a mixed bag, because it could be useful to cast shade on their actual target. This tool will be abused on purpose.
Consumers almost universally hate artificial industry lock-in though. I think it's pretty telling that the platforms that have endured either belong to a major publisher that can lock their catalogue behind the store, or are financed by another revenue stream.

Epic in particular basically forced their way in by using Fortnite/Unreal money to fund a combination of price dumping and exclusivity agreements.
First off, love your user name.

When you had an imaginary friend, did you know that they were imaginary? I had toys that I talked to and played out scenarios with so I am wondering if they are equivalent.
ICE engines really hate sitting without running.
I cant be the only person who wonders if the US quietly moved the 50 remaining bombs somewhere else a long time ago - having a bunch of 60's era nukes in a basement on the boarder with syria seems a) no deterant at all to anyone, b) a massive liability.

My read is they are not there, and havent been there a while.

When two NATO allies, Greece and Turkey, were on the cusp of war in 1974, the United States secretly removed all of NATO’s nuclear weapons from Greece and cut the arming wires of every nuclear weapon stored in Turkey, rendering them inoperable.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-h-bombs-in-turk...

“It is U.S. policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence or absence of nuclear weapons at any general or specific location,” said Air Force Lt. Col. Uriah Orland, a Pentagon spokesman. “The U.S. does not discuss the movement of nuclear weapons, the capability to store weapons at U.S. or foreign locations or planning for any of these activities.”

https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-donald-trump-syria-tu...
how do you find it ugly? Can you provide specifics? Have you ever used it? Have you checked out the latest standards 2018 and 2023? By the way, it is still pretty much alive and well: fortran-lang.discourse.group/
Great catch! Fixed.

The article says that she copped to the fine and is now cooperating with their investigation?
I think video streaming is now way easier to setup, since CDNs like cloudflare now offer dedicated Video hosting services.
> By contrast, parties that embrace rule-of-law democracy lie much less than rightwing/fascist parties

Most dictatorships are left wing (socialist or communist). I think the truth is that the continuum between democracy and dictatorship is a circle, and if you go far enough left or right, you eventually end up at the opposite poll.
Shouldn't we see some of effect by now? I think we should but what we see is that other blockchains get used more and there the fees go up: https://cryptofees.info/

To me, this looks like demand is going to cheaper blockchains instead of scaling on Bitcoin L2 solutions.
Or it's simply survivorship bias. Airplanes with red dots didnt grow up to be strong.
This is Hacker News after all. Tinkering with stuff like this has gotten people into soldering, emulation, PCB design, low level coding, etc., which then gets you into software/computer/electrical engineering.

It's not just about saving 50 bucks every now and then. At least for some, it's about satisfying intellectual curiosity as well.
advancing science is trying in places we know we don't know about, not repeatedly trying to overturn something that we know about and observation (what do you think those spacecraft do) all agreed on.

It's like complaining on why people don't try to build a perpetual machine - it's because it is not possible. You're welcome to keep trying though.
These "critics" are unbelievable backwards and harmful.
Fent test strips are incredibly important, but the sooner we can legalize all drugs the sooner people can stop dying from bad batches.
Stable Diffusion is literally copy-pasting existing artwork. It's not creating anything new.

If anything, this sort of "AI" only makes human ineffable creative experiences even more valuable, because without it there would be no training set and no "AI".
Policies of inclusivity are currently governed by the perception of the mob. Trying to apply thoughtful thinking in this area publicly is dangerous (presuming that's what he did) because it's falsely evaluated as a dichotomy between either discriminating positively or discriminating negatively... conflating all other complex sources of minority proportions, not bothering to understand the source of these differences, and ignoring the potential negative consequences of positive discrimination to the very people they intend to help - the general reaction to this criticism in my experience is that these details are insignificant, whereas I suspect the true reason is that they are uncomfortable to explore.

It's incredibly difficult to broach this subject with anyone publicly in a rational way, let alone widely because the mob has already made up it's mind that if you are not in camp A, then you are evil, since the only alternative in their eyes is camp B. If you can also see the potential harm it can cause, the best you can do is plant seeds with others, and focus on being unbiased yourself, if you want to go deeper then you could even try to explore the sources of the differences (privately) and then enact some informed change - but committing career suicide helps no one.

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This is probably the most public I've been with this subject and I already feel uncomfortable.
Arrows, fireworks. First missiles (self-propelling projectiles) for combat were used by some indian maharaja at the end of the XVIII century though I'm not sure if they were called so at the time.

Edit: Here is the etymology of the word

https://www.etymonline.com/word/missile
Blockchain is just a novel, decentralized accounting method. Interesting --- but definitely not required.

How the accounting is done is really just an arbitrary background aspect of a functioning currency.

Don't take my word for it --- just ask any crypto scammer who doesn't know or care about the technical details of blockchain.
This is good to know. Thank you.
This non-issue is HN's chance to show they won't just automatically pick up the pitchforks on any "Big Tech bad" post.
"Combustion and Flame" has to be one of the best journal names out there.
This is pretty much what we’re building at Dopt (dopt.com). A user adoption platform built for devs and PMs. We’re a visual flow builder that lets you define the logic and targeting of your flows with APIs and SDKs that let you build with your own UI components.

We’ve seen a ton of discontent with the existing tools as you mention (they’re brittle, don’t match the brand, force you to use a limited set of modalities).

We’ve seen a lot of companies forgoing them to go the route of building their onboarding flows themselves, but then they’ll run into another set of issues (logic/targeting/state management is complicated and hard to build/iterate on, non devs struggle to understand what users will actually see).

As you mention it makes it hard to move quickly and test experiences, which is what you need to do if you want to figure out what works for your product and users.
Hey Duder! Hope you're doing well these days. Thanks for all you did at Whiskey Media, and thank you for dark mode in Kibana!
> It's a bit like Douglas Adams' infinity

or his Total Perspective Vortex: "when you are put into the Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little marker, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, which says "You are here.”"
The whole paragraph is self explanatory and makes sense in this article because it prohibits huge swaths of people from adopting EVs.

Some people tend to freak out when race is mentioned, I suppose, so they can't even read a few more lines of context.
That's not the point. Nobody is casting doubt on the battery controller technology.
What I want from Facebook: To know what my friends are up to.

What I get is, well - of the top ten items in my feed right now:
5 are actual updates from friends
3 are ads
2 are "Have you considered adding these people? Or using this functionality?".

I find it off-putting and makes me less likely to actually use the app.
Just wanted to say I really loved that Whiskey Media era of Giant Bomb. Your work was very much appreciated
Love, or hate?

I damage my brain by scrolling Instagram reels (which are just TikTok reels) too much, and when people caption their stuff, they already censor or change words, like "seggs" instead of "sex". Fucking hell, what world did we end up in where people now act like fifth graders in a Catholic school?
This is hinted at by dbingham's comment elsewhere, but I believe many fan communities and information stores that host user-generated content should be run as non-profits. One of my favorite YouTube channels is PanTheOrganizer, who is effectively how I learned to detail and care for my own vehicles. Far and away the best channel in that particular niche, but something that stands out about it he is extremely professional, with well-produced content, but he doesn't support himself with the YouTube channel. Dude lives in a McMansion and drives a Porsche, but it's entirely from a normal day job, and filming videos about car detailing is just him filming a hobby he's been passionate about for decades and would be doing anyway even if YouTube didn't exist.

Asking how to monetize something like GameFAQs or Wikia feels like how do you monetize friends sharing tips and talking about common passions with each other? Why does that need to be monetized? Some dude figures out left-right-B-A-B-B and posts it to a message board and doesn't need to be paid for it.

I guess another example is my favorite podcast, Iron Culture. Both the podcast and the YouTube channel don't accept sponsorships and lose money, but the hosts are both coaches, one is a scientist, one runs a small supplement company and hosts a History channel YouTube show, and they make their money from that. Recording themselves talking about their research and interests that they'd be talking about with each other anyway doesn't need to be its own full-time job.

Granted, I don't know what this means for real journalism that involves running beats, traveling, long-form investigations, all of which are definitely full-time jobs and not something you just want people doing as a hobby they record themselves during. But a lot of "good content" is not journalism. It's just people recording their thoughts and findings while doing a hobby they love in a way that they would have done for free in the past while still having a regular job, but for whatever reason, that's no longer good enough.
I think k you are confusing GameSpot and GameStop.
I don’t know if it’s a free fall or not but once this is negative news cycle and particularly the phrase free fall is used, it becomes very tough to get out of.
The HN equivalent of info junk food is entrepreneurial or stoicism or byte-sized wisdom blog posts, Zettelkasten and other productivity methods, articles about specific parts of history that make more claims about these eras than needed, stuff about Feynman or Paul Graham or what X or Y STEM-related person did or did not do, and so on.
>basically eradicated noticeable childhood chickenpox disease by giving all kids a live viral vaccine with an attenuated strain

Purely anecdote. I know one kid who had the shot have chickenpox twice. ( cannot recall but there were other kids also in a similar situation) Of course chickenpox was a disease that was near completely harmless (several people and kids that I knew first hand had it) to start with.

Then the shots came along, and a new generation that never knew about chickenpox, were told that if the the person who had the shot had chicken pox it was far less worse that what it would have been. My point being that it is marketed to people who are clueless about the original chicken pox to start with. All smoke and mirrors.
lol, too late. screenshots have already been taken.
I do think workers have the right to a safe workplace, or more precisely they have the right to not be coerced into taking risks, but that that right exists inherently; it does not come from laws or what the majority of US society thinks. So those things are irrelevant to determining whether a given workplace is too dangerous or too paranoid.

You say, "Employees that had no input into the decision or actions that [led] to the risk." To the extent that that's true, that's not okay under any circumstances, even if OSHA approves it, and even if they're working in a country with no equivalent of OSHA. But it's important that the risk in question is really a risk that is either important to them or would be important to them if they knew what someone else knows.
Those benefits are like saying a benefit of having a flat tire is that you're way less likely to get a speeding ticket while you do. Or even better, like the benefits of the Sun going out that https://what-if.xkcd.com/49/ lists.
There was a Planet Money podcast in the spring that went into this in more detail. I don't have all the details on full recollect but I think the gist was that in the past, he grew up where interest rates were too high for small business to grow or access capital. He saw these small business have to raise prices to create capital or shutdown because of no capital and has locked in this perspective. He is all in on easy money for businesses to grow is key to preventing inflation. But obviously he doesn't get the part of too much money chasing limited supply.
I've read that a few times, there are economic incentives to keep money weak to accumulate pricey assets.
This meme began, or was mainstreamed, with an article by Nick Allen in the Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/09/28/deepfake-t...
One of the world’s first human composting facilities
Well, same here, most of the oldest artefacts are away. Europe is a big place, your fate is shared even here. But even the stuff that remains at home is interesting - just doesn't have so much gold on it.
"The CIA can't seem to stop itself from training and supporting fascist movements" is actually a useful pattern to notice if the problem you're trying to solve is "where do these fascist movements keep coming from??"

Considering that cynical is a judgment that I don't think is very useful here. It also assumes there is some valid, correct, non-cynical view of the CIA that assumes they don't do this. Which is fantastical, at least as useless a way to approach the world as cynicism.
> So once the friend status stuff became so blasé, and users were spending less attention on FB, FB amped up the suggested content. Now, as has been illustrated on some HN posts, the vast majority of what one sees on FB is just suggested content.
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> Instagram is the same. People just aren't interesting enough to keep an entire platform alive. Sure, the influencers and posers will provide a lot of content, but within any given category there are hundreds of similar (and quickly boring) options.

The irony (for me, at least) is that it was Meta's attempts to drive more engagement that pushed me away from both platforms. When Facebook was just the actual activity of my friends, I enjoyed it. Once they started messing with things and it became more about "suggested content" than a useful way to keep in touch with my friends, I realized how much of a time waste it was and deleted my account. I haven't deleted my Instagram account yet, but it seems to be inevitable as Instagram turns more and more into a low-rent TikTok where the feed has been taken over by content suggested by the algorithm rather than just the photos posted by my contacts (and FWIW, I don't follow any "influencers", only people that I actually know or artists whose work I enjoy).

I may be an outlier, but to me every "improvement" that they've made to try to increase the amount of content and engagement has made it less attractive because it feels less genuine and more generic. On the other side of it, it also makes me less likely to bother posting content because I know that the algorithm won't be showing it to anyone or will be prioritizing it lower than the stuff that's been carefully constructed to be "engaging".
> The researchers have filed a provisional patent on a process to manipulate steel into a more homogenous form, in order to make longer-lasting, more chip-resistant blades.
Why wouldn't Noctua give their approval ? Why would they need to ? If they do, why would they be the only one who need to ? There does not seem to be a CLA for Stellarium.

Now Nintendo has been very conservative with regards to what they accept, but it would be very interesting to try…
That's not entirely true. Kiev derives from the Russian Ки́ев, whereas Kyiv derives from the Ukrainian Київ--note that the Cyrillic orthography differs between the two languages.

One of the main reasons for the conscious effort to shift spelling is the fact that Russia is trying to invade Ukraine partly on the basis that Ukraine wasn't actually a real country and Ukrainians are just Russians. In that context, using Russian place names over Ukrainian place names for Ukrainian localities can be seen as a tacit endorsement of this claim, and this is why so many entities are consciously making efforts to use translation from Ukrainian, rather than Russia. (Although I, and apparently many others, seem to have to a hard time with "Odesa/Odessa").
I'll be there. Thanks for organizing!
So what's interesting is a lot of the use cases you're mentioning are basically large scale storage of tv shows, movies, images, etc. I guess these use cases are already heavily served. For the people who really need self storage of it, they'll go to the lengths you've gone to implement it, for everyone else streaming is enough and you accept stuff will eventually go away e.g I don't care too much that a tv show goes missing.

The email part, I sort of wish I had programmatic email to messaging or something. Just some variant on it that isn't about the classic mail serving. Gmail does my email, but I don't really have programmatic access to that inbox or the ability to write filters easily or whatever else i want to do like trigger on stuff, do my own search. Current email provider APIs suck, so if actually there was one that was heavily focused on a great API that would be awesome. Also, some new domain separating that inbox from my personal one because I'm starting to feel like email masking needs to be come a thing.

> unless it's all E2E encrypted and you use an open-source client to access whatever service this is

This is something I want to know more about. VPN to the service itself through an open source client? And maybe also data encrypted at rest with a key to decrypt only you provide at time of access.

I guess what I'm starting to wonder, why is it we have all this infinite cloud and compute but when it comes to privacy we lose all that convenience because we can't trust services enough to host for us, instead we have to do it ourselves.

I feel that so much that I started a cloud provider from the ground up (m3o.com) thinking if I could see and understand every piece of the cloud infrastructure and all the services running on top were open source then maybe it would be the starting point for something. TBD on whether it will work.
Maybe so, but could you please stop posting flamebait and/or name-calling and/or unsubstantive comments? You've been doing it a ton, unfortunately, and we have to ban such accounts. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think it has to do with DDR5/DDR6.
Postgres WASM
I have played serval hours of an ambient ocean sounds vid on YouTube and the only advertising was at the beginning. That was years ago, but I suspect they intentionally avoid inserting advertising in the middle of such videos.
> The world is always bigger than you think, even if you already think it's impossibly big. You can never grasp its size.

I know someone who is working on walking down every street in his city. Even a smaller city, this is a major undertaking that takes years. Paris has over 6,000 for example.
Don't undererstimate how much human will actually spend to please the feline fellow.
I mean that's the zebra, yes. The horse is they just cut the video a bit too early and didn't watch it after doing so.
The amount of data I can get with just a few steps is insane. Keep the good work up.