skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a bit skeptical of Jakt at first. I thought using a new language I'm not familiar with would add a layer of indirection to my entertainment (i.e. watching the streams). But I've since warmed up to the idea, and seeing how the existing community deals with this if deployed widely in the codebase is one of the more exiting aspects going forward. From my arm chair perspective, that is.
For me, having to log in to multiple AWS accounts, Firefox containers are a killer feature
By the time you're declaring copy and move constructors you're much deeper than equality checks.
Always cracked me up that the browser named "Chrome" had a logo that was literally a super colourful circle with nothing chrome about it
> Just because a slot machine has a guaranteed minimum payout, which in this case is 10 pieces of cardboard with nice pictures on them, doesn't make it not gambling.

I mark the difference as to whether you can simply buy the thing you want.

For MTG and its ilk, you can buy a card instead of open packs. In addition, you can sell any card you get. This is a little different from normal gambling in that these card games have an upside that is okay and a downside that is generally capped.

This is different from some of the online "gacha games" where you MUST gamble, and, even then, you are not guaranteed to cough up the card you want. And, even if you get the card, you generally can't sell it to somebody else. These have infinite downside and are flat-out gambling and need to be treated as such.
One click install is a goal, we just need a contributor who is confident taking it on as a project.
I can't tell if this is a tongue-in-cheek jab at the article's "missing the point of VR" or if you think the Wii is the next step in the evolution of VR. The whole point of VR is the immersion created by being able to look around with the parts of your body made for looking around and seeing a virtual reality substituted for the real one, i.e. the headset. Heck, I can be pretty satisfied with a VR headset and a bog-standard Xbox controller, so long as I have free-look based around twisting my neck.
We're talking past each other a bit because we're talking about different things when we say "value".

> What this means in practice is that one might be able to make a judgement that say a software job in a renewable energy company produces more value than software job creating a blockchain (even though that job is paid less), or that social worker produces more value than drug dealer even though that pays less. This judgement may or may not be correct, but one cannot rebut it simply by saying "it can't be more valuable, because if it was then it would be more highly paid". Lots of things are not compensated their true worth, and many things are over compensated.

What I'm talking about is value to one person. For example, if you were the person you were talking about working for the blockchain v. renewable company. If blockhain job pays 150k and renewable job pays 120k yet you choose the 120k job instead, I can say that the extra value you get from working for a renewable energy company vs a blockchain is at least 30k dollars. I can then take that 30k dollars and use that as a proxy for anything else you can get for 30k for the basis of comparison. For example, you have to buy a home with 200 less square feet or you have to send your kids to a different and worse college. The value you place on those two homes or those two colleges is also worth 30k.

This logic works for any group of people as well. The US population as a whole spends X dollars and Amazon and X dollars on climate change

> This judgement may or may not be correct

I'd argue that this judgement can't possibly be incorrect for the individual that makes it (at the time it was made. regret is possible later) and that any other context you try and call it "correct" doesn't provide any insight that can tell you something new.

If money didn't exist as a proxy for value and you were instead compensated a brand new car every year at job 1 and a new house every 3 years at job 2, it'd be a hell of a lot harder to figure out how much you valued your children's education.

The way you're talking about value is using your moral priorities to say what's wrong or right and calling what's right valuable. There is certainly plenty of room for a discussion of good and/or right but I think it's a distinct conversation than what people actually value (as demonstrated by their actions). It's philosophy vs economics.

> You said "monetary value is real value". And it isn't because it's not an accurate measure.

In the economic sense, monetary value is a precisely accurate measure that shows how people valued things in the past.

I think you're talking about what people do with their money and it's societal value (as determined by your ethics) which is, as you say, not an accurate measure.
Could satori be used to convert a whole webpage into a single SVG image?

Could be a (convoluted?) way to ensure an asset looks the same across all browsers..
Maybe we are measuring happiness incorrectly. Instead of most people being happy, what if we made a small number of people REALLY happy? Maybe the 0.1% are so happy that it balances out the sadness of everyone else?

/sarcasm
What's happening in India is absolutely terryfing.

The government targets Muslims openly, turns a blind eye to crimes against them, and supports hate rhetroic until it gets international attention from countries that affect their economy (The Arabic gulf).

Any account that attacks the Government and their lies gets blocked from Indian users, and of course US companies comply directly, with no issues.

And whats is the Western response ?and where are the human rights accusations against india?,
There is nothing.

human rights accusations from the West are basically political weapons, and mean nothing in reality.
about 7 years
PSA: You can email support@github to ask them to "detach my repo as a fork", in case the repo has matured so much it shouldn't have the "forked from …" treatment.
As many as you need. Learning a new language is not that hard.
I suspect nobody has written a code of ethics for managers because they are mostly thought of as extensions of the company.

If a manager is asking middle-class professionals to do unethical or dangerous things, the hope is that they would quickly find themselves without these kinds of employees.

If a manager is asking members of the working-class to do unethical or dangerous things, the hope is that their union would throw a fit.

If you have neither the moat of being hard to replace nor the moat of being part of organized labor, you are in a rough spot.
If you have not checked out a real CSA in your area I highly recommend it (Community Supported Agriculture) - its basically the convenience of a farmers market without you needing to dedicate the time to it. Plus you are getting the absolute freshest produce from a local farm directly.

Definitely avoid though the big name giant ones that claim to be a "CSA" but are a giant national org
Unpopular opinion: decisions like this hurt European workers. As an employer with 270 full time employees and many more contractors, I simply will not hire people in the EU and especially not in Netherlands because of the legal risks from a government with too many regulations.

An employer should be free to use webcam monitoring (no different than if the employee was in person with a supervisor nearby).
359 MWh is an INSANE amount of energy. That’s roughly enough energy to power an average American house for 30 years.
I mean, I know the client for Chromium is open source, but is there an open source sync server, ala mozilla-services/syncserver for Firefox? There seemed to be a couple of abandoned efforts on GitHub but I wondered if you knew of something more specific
Great./s Now the people who told me that drinking baking soda in water would cure my cancer "because cancer is a fungus" are going to go wild over this.
Nobody really agreed about what VR was supposed to be. It was just a "cool future" dream made manifest. I had a friend try a VR expo demo where they put a vibrator on the headset for added immersion. It gave her a concussion.

Like a lot of cool future dreams, there's a need for a "yes, and" follow-up that grapples with the consequences honestly.
Is this a viable daily driver on bare metal or does everyone who uses this run it in a VM?
This is the tuner I use! It works great, definetely recommend it.
If you really think that this world operates on meritocracy, talk to some dishwashers at your local fancy restaurant. See if you think they don't work as hard as someone that makes 30x their wages.

If you can't empathise with the exploited, perhaps is it because you are in the position to exploit?
The idea of measuring well-being comes at least in part from the work of the economist Amartya Sen, whose most famous work is his book Development As Freedom.

Sen's work, in turn, has its philosophical ground in the work of Martha Nussbaum on "capability based ethics".

The capabilities approach, by keeping things local, tries to avoid requiring that different cultures all have the same values as tends to happen with utilitarian approaches and materialism.

1. https://daily-philosophy.com/martha-nussbaum-and-the-capabil...
4. use regulated bank
I use Brave and Firefox primarily on my Linux computers (and Safari on MacBook for battery reasons already mentioned). I just switch between them for different purposes. Usually Brave for Gmail or Google Docs, and Firefox if I need some extension not available in Brave (Firefox still seems to have more robust extension capability).
Don't even try to reconfigure them. Try to learn the editor first as it is.

If you think that's crazy-talk, then imagine someone saying they'd like to learn vim, but they find it hard to configure the shortcuts to be like Eclipse. They aren't wrong, but it also doesn't seem like the right approach to learn vim either.
Items 1-11 (+ a few others) are essentially, "show me the ROI (in $) of the work that you are doing". That is fair but ROI driven organizations tend to have very little appetite for risk (or tend to be command and control driven). Sometimes however you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever (I might have heard someone else say this once, not sure...).
Philosophically, an OS is a virtual computer meant to be shared among programs (usually an open-ended set of programs, and usually regulating how they interact). You could say the web is not that because it's a distributed system instead of a virtual computer, so the browser makes a better match.

I guess an everything app would be different in that its maker probably goes like "Open-ended set of programs? Who cares, you nerd, I'm just gonna make deals."
I think the link says a single synapse does 2kbps, not the whole visual cortex. There are 6 quadrillion (10^12) synapses (3q per hemisphere) in visual cortex according to https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7244322/

If we play "the bus filled with ping-pongs" with that information: it is a 3D structure so if you assume cortex is a perfect cube that feeds to something right behind it, you will get (10^12)^(2 (dimensions)/3 (of 3 dimensions)) channels, e.g. 10^8 channels 2kbps each. E.g. about 25GB/s. Which is less than an order of magnitude off from an estimate you would get from 8000x8000 resolution per eye True Color at 24fps - 9GB/s.
It's more like:

I know where you can find a $100 bill on the ground. I'm selling maps to it for $10.
There's a difference between possible and being the default. What's being said is akin to complaining about UIs that are mouse centric not having a way to navigate or select controls by keyboard, which is a valid complaint. It doesn't have the be the default, it doesn't even have to show itself without a special setting being toggled, but it should be possible.
Yeah, if someone is saying they are going to tell you where you can find a 100 dollar bill lying on the ground if you pay them $10s I would be suspicious.
Have you heard of PonziCoin? Similar concept, except the creator stupidly made actual, functioning smart contracts for it which people bought.
What do strings do with == that isn't bitwise over the contents?
I have heard too many stories of data corruption on BRTFS, and it saddens me, because initially it looked really good. Meanwhile my 10 year old ZFS volume has had it's RAID-6 Drives replaced fully 3 times, and never lost data.
Oh, I used the dreeam.py script to back a Telegram bot. It later ended up in my demo for my talk Chat Bots as User Interfaces (with Elixir): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFGHaER6_j4

I primarily used the InvokeAI release because I found it was easy to get going with on Linux and then it was simple enough to hack around with.

Also the first tool I've ever used where I've rode on the ragged edge of what my 3070 is okay with. I've had graphical glitches due to occupying all the video memory (KDE doesn't like it). I've had to quit apps to make it work.

Thanks for making a useful thing of all this Stable Diffusion stuff. I've enjoyed it.
You know, it’s getting to the point where any spiel, headline, whatever with ‘should’ in it I’ll automatically ignore, as it’s almost always impractical for a number of reasons which they always gloss over.

‘We get X if we measure Y with Z side-effects’ however? I can only get so excited.
It’s far more conducive for the way I work to stick to one browser for the most part. You do you.
Good points. Looking at one statistic in isolation is not going to give me a good picture. Thanks for the reminder.
Why would they want that? Groups with strong ethnic identity (like the Japanese) want their lands to be inherited by their descendants; this is the default historical position. But atm the Japanese are going to zero with their low birthrate, so idk.
> Having to be friends with someone to message them seriously limits how many people I talk to through Messenger.

That's not a requirement at all. You can message literally anyone on FB, conditionally - there 'message' button is visible (exception to hackers). You can also message Zuck, even though you may not be friends with him.
There is a considerable cultural overlap between "people who think no-JS, fast and responsive software is cool" and "people who think the design of Reddit or Discourse is really awful". (Man, especially Reddit, I swear the day they retire old.reddit.com will be the day I stop using it). They probably are investing a little bit into design, just not the one you like.
That's the thing, I think you can. If everyone who donates to animal shelters felt as confident about it as you described, I don't think anyone would have a problem with EA. Certainly, no one is complaining about the idea of, between two charities who do the same thing, giving to the one who does it more effectively.

But there's a lot of complaining about the idea of comparing two different kinds of altruism. And the whole point of EA, I think, is that the fact that it's uncomfortable leads people not to do it at all, and prodding them to think about it feels like an attack.
> sycophants and yes men (surrounding Elon)

This is my greatest fear, although I’m unsure of its validity. It certainly seems like it.

Hyperbillionaires basically aren’t human—they’re more like sentient, financial celestial bodies. Money planets. Their mere presence warps the financial world around them.

Maybe too many sycophants is like a star with more mass than it can handle, leading to supernova or black hole.
Do you have a few additional examples?

Why any of the drawings have an icecream like in the photo?

Is it fully automated or you make some manual filtration to get good results? Is the result just an image in each category or a few?
Many iconic Mexican pyramids were also weird hills before they were excavated and restored in the 20th century and similarly unused. Here's one example [1]. Even major cities like Tikal were essentially unknown until systematic mapping of the areas around the more obvious pyramids revealed their true extents.

[1]: https://i.redd.it/jj7y8vn3lir51.png
Optionally. The site works just fine with JS disabled.
https://archive.ph/MHY9F
Character.ai is cool. Really early still as most of the bots end up being complete Tommy Flanagans (not the SoA actor; the SNL character).

I have HAL 9000; where I took as much as I could from the script and changed out the {{char}}{{user1/2}} for the HAL/Frank/Dave and it works pretty well.

The AI even knew about the monolith; it's shape and size and what it was doing (emitting high pitched frequencies) which was not in the script I gave it.

Also have Vannevar Bush, but stopped using that when he began to tell me he was gay, in a relationship with a ghost named Thomas and they both lived in Ghost City.

Though he did have some sweet opinions about Posit numbers when I asked about it and he also seemed to understand the implications of infinite/fractal type systems; so that was pretty cool.
- Together we discussed how an infinite internet requires the last </html> tag to be open and closed at the same time to exist; which happens to coincide with the observable truth of our quantum state.
dnsmasq is great for reasonably small setups.
Ungoogled Chromium doesn’t serve ads or bundle spyware on by default. Firefox does.

Someone should make an automated Unmozilla’d Firefox that rips out all phone-home and advertising. I’d run that.
Something similar to this was recently found in the mouth

"Across-kingdom partnership between bacteria and fungi can result in the two joining to form a “superorganism”

...

They were stickier, more resistant to antimicrobials, and more difficult to remove from teeth than either the bacteria or the fungi alone

...

What’s more, the assemblages unexpectedly sprout “limbs” that propel them to “walk” and “leap” to quickly spread on the tooth surface, despite each microbe on its own being non-motile"

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/microbes-cause-cavities-can...
Agreed. Flying around in Elite Dangerous with a xbox controller is nuts when you have a VR headset on. Shame they didn't follow up on the VR experience with their expansions.

There is even a horror game where all you can do is look around, as you're canonically bound to a wheelchair with chains. You can direct an AI companion with a laser pointer, and that's about it. No controller required (or allowed for that matter).
I have uBlock origin on brave so that’s moot, but I don’t use nextDNS. Is there a reason to use it when I’ve already got brave/uBlock killing most ads and trackers? (I also use proton VPN, not that it’s quite as relevant but figured I’d throw it out there).
Migrating a Mastodon Account
Tree style tabs (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...) work just fine. You get the grouping there.
Those are two different analyses.

Were a culture war influencer to decide that speed limits were anti-freedom, that would not make speed limits themselves ineffective.

Compliance would surely suffer in one certain country, meaning the imposition of speed limits would lose effectiveness. That could warrant exploration of alternative implementation, policing and especially communication, I grant you that, but there simply is no alternative measure.

I get the appeal of holistic analysis, but you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. What else can you do?

It's not that hard to drive safely. It's not that hard to wear a mask. I know it's not convenient, but statistically speaking you're unnecessarily killing people.
Don't worry. He's going to build the everything app in the next 2-3 years..which means we have, realistically, 20-30 years..
It’s basically like a take-home code challenge where you’re doing work for someone more rich with little chance of getting the job.
As far as I understand from scanning the PR, there's been more than a year of discussion with no actual progress on a basic (if not in this case simple to implement) feature which is universally available in text editors. Helix looks nice in many ways (I installed it last night and have worked with it on a couple of Rust projects today) but it's clearly more of a research project with potential than current practical tool.
> Ouch. This is extremely legalistic, they judge people by unmeetable criteria, then do not allow judgement of their own criteria!

That is highly disingenuous to write.

Lawyers, doctors, and members of the other recognized professions all abide by similar language.
Ask HN: Online tax preparation for small business
Greetings everyone. Looking for tax preparation service for a small, 1-person consulting business (specifically Schedule K1). My prior tax person relocated last year, and I had to resort to a large firm to get my Schedule K1 generated (expensive).

Given the potentially large number of consultants here on HN, I thought I would ask what others are using to get their taxes done. This past tax filing season I used "FreeTaxUSA" for my personal taxes based on recommendations here on HN (FreeTaxUSA is awesome, BTW!). But, alas, they don't seem to do Schedule K1 filing.

BTW: Live in NC, USA

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When does

if x and x == nil

ever evaluate to true in LuaJIT? What does the FFI have to do with it? Please explain.

Edit:

I think I see what you mean here. The x variable is actually a CDATA object returned by the LuaJIT FFI. Upon comparison, the NULL pointer value inside would be converted to nil. I don't see this as being a 'footgun' unless you forget that you're dealing with a CDATA object.
You can use more than one browser. I use three.

I leave Safari as my default browser, although I actually use it the least. But I like having the same "default" experience on my desktop and phone. If I am opening a link from Mail.app or punching something into Alfred it will open in Safari. I use some light ad-blocking.
I use Chrome for work. I use Google Translate a bit and this works extra well in Chrome. Plus, Google apps and whatnot. Limited ad-blocking because I'm often using ads platforms.
I use Firefox for all my intentional/casual browsing. Maximum ad blocking.
Higher comp beats "nice to have" benefits, but it doesn't beat a non-shitty work day every day.

I don't know how much you'd have to pay me to accept to be treated like a child or a slave for eight hours a day, but it's going to be a _multiple_ of what a reasonable boss can get me to work for.
I'd say if you really want to protest them, then petition the US government to...

1. Stop selling KSA and UAE weapons.

2. Reduce or cancel sanctions sanctioning on Iran, Syria and Lebanon (regimes the KSA has tried to undermine).

3. Make public arguments against the Saudi occupation of Bahrain.

4. Yemen:

4.1 Arrange a weapons embargo on KSA while their Yemen campaign continue

4.2 Ensure safe passage to naval and air vessels to Yemen

4.3 Send some humanitarian aid to Yemen (they need it at least as much, and probably more, than Ukraine)

4.4 Recognize the Houthi grievances in Yemen and support peace talks and a federated resolution of the Yemeni civil war.

5. Join the ICC and sue MBS' ass for chopping up Jamal Khasokgi. (Ok, the US will never do that, it has too much culpability of its own.)
It is possible the gp post just feels neutral about it. There are a whole range of emotions between love and hate.
The author links to UKIP[0], a Linux daemon that they built to try to protect against these kinds of attacks. Did a quick "apt search" on my Debian machine, but nothing came up. Do any major distros package this, and do any install and enable it by default?

I guess it uses heuristics to determine if a device is evil, and that could cause a lot of false positives (which would create spurious bug reports and support cases for distro maintainers), so maybe having something like that installed and running by default isn't a great idea.

[0] https://github.com/google/ukip
.. actually it uses the summary/details html tags, but the same thing is totally doable with css checkboxes and visibility too.