skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I occasionally check an app that gives me very neutral summaries of the very biggest news events, but otherwise it's been mostly purged from my life and I've been better off for it.

Even setting aside all of the emotion, outrage, and panic that most news is laced with these days, it's simply not very helpful to stay informed of the vast majority of things going on in the world.

I think many people feel a perverse sense of duty to suffer the fear and grief of things they have absolutely no agency to affect, just as some sort of weird penance to the world. But overloading yourself with painful emotions doesn't help anybody- in fact, it makes it harder for you to be a positive-contributing member of your community and society. A person who's anxious and depressed all the time at best has less to give to those around them, and at worst becomes an active source of toxicity. The places where you have the most impact on the world (positive and negative!) are in your human interactions with those around you, not in abstract far-flung issues. Optimize for that.

Emotional energy is a precious resource that should be spent on things that matter, not thrown away in self-flagellation.
> your tenants pay all the costs of owning and maintaining it, they pay all the taxes, they pay everything

To play devil's advocate, what if the tenants are actually fully compensated for that with a rent that would have been much higher across the entire market if the landlords were paying for all that?

> only need to reach 30-40% occupancy by square footage in order to break even, and the unrented portions can be written off for a tax credit

you seem to imply that commercial landlords are raking it, I think? But, afaik (and I'm admittedly not super-familiar with this), commercial real estate is an open, competitive market? So, given that, why doesn't it get flooded with supply of everyone who rushes in to build and collect those fat margins? Maybe there is still something there that makes it not as lucrative as it seems?
All the AI and neural networks I've seen to date are good at mimicking but none have demonstrated creativity. I'm curious, has anyone seen that characteristic?

Stable Diffusion artwork probably comes closest but it feels derivative.
Two years ago I finally cleansed myself of most mainstream news including social media like twitter or facebook, but not things like HN or reddit (specific niche/hobby subreddits, not the main ones).

It's been a huge life improvement. I've been able to let people back into my life that I had mentally cast aside because they had a political opinion I didn't agree with. I talk to my neighbor now whose been wanting to talk to me for years (kinda trumpy, but genuinely good human being who lends me lawncare equipment). I no longer try to fit every person I see into some kind of stereotyped character. People will surprise you when you actually talk to them.

My emotions feel less manipulated by arbitrary news cycle headlines that I can't control. I feel more down to earth. The internet feels smaller and in some ways I feel less connected to people I once did, but I'm realizing now just how superficial those connections always were -- it's far better to be a part of your local community.

Don't get me wrong - I still vote, but my free time is spent on my hobbies and family now. This feels like a healthier way to live.
In the current day that won't really affect gaming. As long as the PC is stable being its own snowflake hardware combo, the developer of a game doesn't have to worry about customizing code around it. Most games are built on engines like Unity, not that direct API access wouldn't be just as reliable. Games built on very well-tested platform like Unity just remove all remaining doubt.
I don't actively seek out news sites. I'll find content via a few newsletters, Hacker News, and Reddit.

Really though, any of it is only done for some mediocre recreation.
I'm the site's founder - happy to hear you're impressed with the background removal. I think it's pretty much on par with remove.bg, which are the most famous competitor in the category.

Couldn't help but notice you omitted any reference to the major technological achievement here in placing objects on arbitrary backgrounds. It failed to impress on your use case?
I understand that. Replace find with land or receive to understand what I was going for there.
I agree, though the line between deterrence and escalation is quite thin and easy to cross.

My point was only to reply to the person thinking that a nuclear strike in Ukraine affects them not at all somewhere else in Europe, which I think is extremely shortsighted.
What is the average scratching speed of a parrot?

The African Parrot or the Norwegian Blue Parrot?

What? AHHHHHHHHH!!!!
> per-frame "scratch" pool allocator

Here's that Jonathan Blow stream if anyone else is curious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciGQCP6HgqI&t=130s
There is a point to gossip (which is what most news is.) Gossip connects people. Helps with bonding. When two music lovers meet, they don't each talk about their fav musician. Because that would quickly make the conversation competitive. So instead, they talk about the most famous current musician.

Don't disconnect yourself so much that it makes interaction with others difficult. Find one or two good sources of headlines. And don't go deeper than the headlines or the first paragraph. 2 minutes a day is enough news.
People like expensive crashes. Just look at Facebook:p
Yes, this is basically how you are supposed to crash-land a helicopter if the engine fails.
How do you find topics to read up on via Wikipedia? In particular news topics. I’m a frequent user of visiting the site but unfamiliar with the idea of using it to stay informed on the dynamic world we live in.
This can be put in the same bucket as the "Great Man" theory of history. But really, what was the issue? That corporations today put a greater emphasis on performance, efficiency, and profits? Why is that a bad thing?
Most news agencies out there are thinly veiled twitter commentary: they pick hot takes, wrap them into clickbaity headlines and stuff with their personal opinions. Most outlets are also very partisan and boringly predictable. I guess, honest news reporting and journalism doesnt pay much these days.
> My sense is that in the 90s we usually got "denser, faster AND cheaper" with every generation. Now we're lucky to get one

You can still get all three, though you can only pick "cheaper" so many times before you fall off the mainstream product stack.

Two generations ago in 2019, the 3700X launched at $329. This generation, the 7600X launched at $299.

The 7600X has fewer cores, but they're about 50% faster individually and 25% faster total.

And it's N5 instead of N7.
There are acceptable levels of violence. Levels of interpersonal violence today are much lower than when our Republic was founded. A few isolated incidents do not constitute a valid reason to restrict freedom of expression. If the cost of free speech is that occasionally some people die then that is an acceptable trade-off.
Images are half the propaganda of a news story. The picture often is what the news sources wants you to think, regardless of the facts.

I like the text.some_newsite approach.
> Just as there is a nonzero chance of someone recovering your data by reading /dev/urandom.

That variety of non-zero is much closer to zero than the risk of increasingly-sophisticated equipment being able to recover overwritten data - and unlike the non-zero risk of such an "infinite typewriters" sort of attack, mitigating the non-zero risk of recovering overwritten information from media is straightforward: destroy the media.

> The process of wiping SSDs is different because you don't do it by overwriting all of the data, but instead by initiating a secure erase.

In other words: trusting an opaque blob of SSD firmware to overwrite all of the data for you.
I wish I could tell what parts of such games were realistic, and then be able to practice emergency maneuvers - e.g. at 70 mph, cargo falls off the back of a pickup I'm following - just how sharply can I swerve my Toyota Corolla without going into a roll?
>Exploits that make the game richer and gain wide acceptance are very much the exception.

Good examples of this are bunny hopping and rollout doomfist.
I have reduced it by about 90%, not counting tech news (which I can actually use, and which are generally fun) and news about the Ukraine war.

People will always call you out for doing things different, or not differently, from them. In reality most news is terrible and does not inform you. This includes all news about politics, which is anyway mostly staged.
I went dark for six months in 2019. I treated the news like Game of Thrones spoilers-- I worked really hard to stay un-informed. The result was that I was absolutely happier, more focused and a better father. I recommend such a sabbatical to anyone who will listen. Try it for 30 days.

Coincidentally, I just turned on my domain blocker again this evening (I use Freedom.to, it syncs all your devices on the ban-list to avoid unconsciously opening up news sites out of habit).
As datapoint agree and I do the same. Not using FB, not following anyone, only using it for interest groups.

Not using linkedin, it is trash.

Have Instagram but not using it. too much effort in posting a photo, see no point in showing off (usually a show off platform)

Twitter - gone crazy last week, most recommendations are irrelevant and interactions not genuine. I do use it to be informed though, better than watching cable filled with ads.

So yes, there is no good platform to connect with the world.
> But if you play hundreds to thousands of iterated games of video game football where you control the ball on every play, you’re bound to run into the scenario and be detached enough to know what to do.

Back in the day, the AI for opponents was often fairly stupid. Rather than spreading out intelligently to prevent an opponent from reaching the goal line, they would just sprint towards your current location at all times. So if you run in a bit of a loop from where it makes sense for you to actually go, you can get the opponents to chase you in a long line. Not hard to dodge them almost indefinitely in this case, allowing you to take an arbitrary amount of time off the clock. Real players won't behave like this.

> I don’t think it’s the social expectations that are at play here.

I agree, mostly, but there could be a slight effect here. It's widely known that coaches choose to punt rather than go for it on fourth down (in American football, failing to take the ball past a "first down" marker in five downs results in a turnover) much more often than they should if motivated purely to win the most games. It's speculated that coaches are disincentivized to make high-risk, high-reward choices like going for it, when trying and failing it will result in embarrassment versus taking the safe option.
I'm the site's founder and happy to take hear any and all feedback.

The underlying technology is called diffusion models. I'm sure many on HN have already hear of it - it's the technology underlying all these neat text to image results in DALLE-2, Imagen, and the open source counterpart called Stable Diffusion.

Getting this technology to embed real life images in arbitrary backgrounds has been quite the challenge, but it's already showing some pretty neat results which you can check out on the website. Currently we support Christmas setup, and white background with shadows and reflections. We'll add a plenty more background categories in the immediate future.
That is factually incorrect. Europeans, for example, are on average more violent than Americans. Count up the rate of violent deaths in America versus Europe since 1776.
Fixed now. Submitted title was "Caring for the only full kākāpō feather cloak in the world Show image caption"
Local government officials in China are promoted / demoted based on local GDP growth. This incentivizes them to increase local industry and also to fluff up estimates of local industrial output.

Repeat across the entire country for 20 years at every level of government, and as a result it is now estimated that China's actual GDP is half of its official GDP.
It's challenging to restart a service without dropping connections with xinetd.

Even more so when the process is misbehaving, has children, and is not exiting cleanly.
My S/O is a Gentoo maintainer so this comes up often in my household!
я американець але читаю без англійською в Твіттер... моя думка -- it depends on who you follow.

And yet, I feel like you do but in the opposite direction with English media. The only thing that is good in English for me now is old books.
Reddit is still pretty good for very niche topics, some are surprisingly technical.
> Further, nobody was ever nominated as a lolcow simply for being trans.

There is an entire forum called "Stinkditch". It exists to make fun of, and harass, trans people online pretty much for being trans and online.
Why aren't charger IC's smart enough by now to avoid this? (eg. let it drain a ways before topping off again).
>As an aside, these sorts of "mysterious inland viking runes" are a common tale in the US. I've heard of similar claims from Washington, most of the Northeast, Minnesota, Georgia, and even Arizona.

I've also seen some of these stories. I think one could use Mandan tribal members to help determine whether there is a possibility that Vikings or Norsemen traveled to the mid-continent and left some runestones along their paths. Since later European explorers reported finding blonde members of the Mandan tribe one could have DNA analyzed to discover whether there is a link to Scandinavia.

Personally I see no reason why those who settled and lived at L'Anse aux Meadows would've spent their entire lives holed up in the longhouses there instead of hopping in their boats and sailing the bays and rivers scoping out the territory. We know that they were explorers or they wouldn't have been there in the first place. We also know that it is not difficult for a person to cover a lot of ground if they decide to move somewhere else. They were there for several hundred years and since it only takes a matter of months to travel on foot from the east coast into the interior I see no reason to discount the possibility that it happened. People moved all the time for any number of reasons.

Our problem today is that these people, both the Norse settlers in Newfoundland and the Native Americans or First Nations people they encountered, did not keep detailed written records like later European explorers did in their travels. This introduces a bias in the information used today to reconstruct the history of the exploration of North America.

We know that the Spanish went all over the central and western US since they traveled with a large group of people and documented what they found. They even returned later to flesh out early discoveries and built a network of churches to serve as fortresses and supply points for future exploration.

The record of anything that L'anse aux Meadows settlers did exists only in some sagas and a few royal records. Like the natives they encountered, the story of their travels would have been mostly an oral history to be recounted later to descendants and others who needed to know.

I agree that most human activities are possible in theory and that we need to consider the likelihood as part of a well-formed conclusion. I see no reason why someone traveling with an eye to discovering what the world looks like over that far hill couldn't have covered the entire US on foot in a lot less than a lifetime. It would've been easier then than now especially if you travel in a small party.
This single core is more than enough to be used as PIC/EEPROM programmer, or controlling any other I2C/SPI/UART appliances, like switches, thermometers, particle detectors
There is definitely precedent. In ‘62 Ferrari threatened to pull all their cars from Le Mans over some ruling they disagreed with. Lotus went home and didn’t go back to LM for many, many years.

(Reading the Wikipedia article, looks like they only mention two Lotus 23s going but I think there were more)
Interesting, but is this done - I mean Oracle must get permission to audit? And how can they compel companies to purchase a license to be on NASDAQ?
Just today I ran across this widely promoted ABC/CBS article claiming that "Texas, Oklahoma ranked among least safest states in the country". The type of supposedly non-opinion flavor piece syndicated above-the-fold in Windows 11 Search, Apple News, Android home pages, and Reddit/Twitter defaults.

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/texas-oklahoma-ranked-among...

It turns out that it is wholly based on a corporate PR puff piece by Wallethub, with a very pseudoscientific and manipulative use of statistics to reach its conclusions. The arbitrary weight assigned to the entire category of physical and property crimes was 15%. Bullying incident count was weighted as more important than drug overdoses. And when factoring in Covid, they weighted based on vaccination rates - not actual local hospitalizations/deaths.

https://wallethub.com/edu/safest-states-to-live-in/4566
I remember that being a key difference between the graphical / modelling software SoftImage and Maya. With the former a TUI and the latter a GUI. The Maya approach won out because getting new people productive quickly was more important than their longer term productivity it seems. Maybe it has something to do with turnover but maybe there are people who can do good creative work but can't adapt to using a TUI or at least are frightened of it.
> AGI does not mean “human level.”

The term general intelligence is ambiguous and will mean different things to different people. My understanding of the term AGI is it was coined to differentiate from narrow AI, which AI had diluted over time to mean.

AGI is AI broad and deep enough to be able to learn and perform any task a human can and is at least within the range of top human performers.

The wikipedia definition seems to agree:

> Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the ability of an intelligent agent to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can
Clojure transducers (https://clojure.org/reference/transducers). It's clearly a functional construct, but somehow I haven't seen it being used in other functional languages.
86=lda a (which I still remember), is all I have to say.
Id suggest this is what is fueling the political craziness across the globe, people lost faith in the system and politicians, instead of fixing the issue, use peoples anger to advance some agenda.
I ported a Verizon number to Google Voice ten years ago and I've used it as my primary phone number ever since, forwarding to my MVNO carrier number. I'd say it works fine with 95% of services, but I have run into some issues. I remember Uber being one service that rejected it. I stopped using Uber when I got a new SIM card for a new carrier, and I had trouble recovering my account which had to be tied to my old carrier number.
your text and pics only delete every day if you pay
OpenSSL Overview of software (un)affected by vulnerability
I would scale it back as an autocratic ruler even if hurt GDP. It would be nice to see more of the night sky
Why should I care what the expectation of a community is?
The Atari Lynx was the other one that came to mind. I agree with you, the original Gameboy was well-designed. I had one of course being over 40. It was the Nokia brick phone of handhelds. Yes, I was envious of the Game Gear, but most of the attention was on the Gameboy anyway so you could safely ignore its existence at the time. Portable anything back then was still quite the novelty. And the games on the Gameboy were fun. Tough to beat a game of Super Mario Land or Tetris.
Very true. I really wish Terraform would have attempted to solve automation on the scale of Ansible, or another organization would have committed to a replacement in Go or Rust. Unfortunately Ansible is still the best that we have currently.
Small niche communities are great. But the big, popular ones are downright toxic.
Rethinking the Economics of Software Engineering
It’s generally expected that you have a cell phone, accessible at all times, which can receive SMS text message MFA codes.

This drives me crazy. I don't want my phone number to be a single point dependancy for such services.
Note, however, that the plain text form has for a long time typically I believe been the output of a machine conversion from an XML vocabulary, and now always is. I’m not deep enough in the weeds to know all the whens and the distribution of formats, but RFC 2629 (June 1999) defined the first XML vocabulary, and RFC 7990 (December 2016) completed the process of declaring an XML format the canonical source, rather than plain text. To learn more, start at https://www.rfc-editor.org/rse/format-faq/.

Consequently, new RFCs are now published most obviously as full regular HTML, like https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110. The plain text form is still available (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.txt), but it’s no longer paginated and may be incomplete, as specs may include SVG graphics. (RFC 9110 uses ASCII art in some places, e.g. sections 3.6 and 3.7. I am no connoisseur of recent RFCs, but don’t know of any using SVG yet to give an example. I don’t know what the text form gets in this case.)

Most germane to this discussion now: older RFCs got converted to lightly-marked-up-but-mostly-plain-text HTML via rfc2html, and exceptions and tweaks and whatnot had to be made regularly, because in the past the RFC document format was not designed to be machine-readable, and it showed in irregularities that are not acceptable in a markup language.

So in summary: yes, you can get some inspiration from RFC documents, but don’t mistake that textual format for an acceptable markup language, because it wouldn’t actually work.
Now you're moving the goalposts from decades to centuries, across which it is slightly absurd to pretend that 'innovation hubs' have anything to do with workers' rights. Changes in culture happen regardless of where the innovation is, and when you start talking about centuries it's pointless to try to measure the effect of worker protections on salaries. There are just too many variables over that amount of time. Pretending you can effectively isolate one is ridiculous.

Regardless: yes, all of these things are in SV today. If any of them proves to revolutionize society in our lifetime I think you'll find SV will retain its status.
Similarly, I have a B+ doing Pihole duties. It also runs a few scripts looking for unexpected new devices on the network and mails me when it first sees them (which has never actually caught anything bad going on, but does remind me of lots existence when I get a new phone or give a friend the wifi password).
Very unhealthy attitude. Why shouldn’t things be easily configurable from scratch?
this was a big issue for me with crypto exchanges last decade. they could not understand the concept of anything besides a single-user personal account. KYC can only be tied to one account.

have a trust? LLC? non-profit? corporation? anything? whoosh, right over their heads

now? the exchanges all have this, pretty easy to onboard a whole hedge fund onto them now. but the crypto tax services, single-user personal account incapable of understanding other tax circumstances. there are ways (like exporting data to more robust software), just wish it was easier already.

but don't get me started on the on-chain stuff...