skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And discoverability. For a long drive I probably want to pick out some specific podcast episodes rather than play whatever. I'm just not a whatever background sound sort of person. The interfaces aren't really good enough to present me with some options with voice control only. So I end up mostly pre-populating a "Car" playlist.
It's like playing Zork all over again.
These companies aren't making independent decisions on this. Here is how the system works.

> A large coalition of political/social activist groups agreed not to try to kill Twitter by starving us of advertising revenue if I agreed to this condition. They broke the deal.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595196519598080000

This group of activists have a lot of power to enforce their agenda wrapped in a cloak of "safety standards", which is defined however they want. They pressure companies to fall in line.

> Jessica González, co-CEO of Free Press, said the meeting with Musk “seemed productive” but she is not “encouraged enough” to pull back on the campaign that civil rights groups launched asking advertisers to suspend their ads on Twitter if Musk doesn’t commit to enforcing safety standards.

> “I think we need to keep the pressure on and make sure that his actions meet his words,” González told The Hill.

> Musk met with the groups after Free Press and Media Matters led nearly 50 civil society groups in a letter Tuesday calling for Twitter’s top 20 advertisers to pull their ads if he didn’t enforce safety standards. Advertising giant IPG later reportedly issued a recommendation to its clients, which include Johnson and Johnson, Coca Cola and American Express, to pause paid advertising on Twitter.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3717711-civil-rights-g...

Elon was initially playing ball with them, as most companies do because they are afraid of the consequences. He announced the council, they weren't satisfied, and he said screw it, I'll deal with the consequences.
For me, for anyone want to listen my "dislike", they need to pay to hear.

So i hope it's not just "valid", but it's a "business".
I feel like I already explained why. It goes against Microsoft's business trajectory. Most gamers don't care at all about privacy or ads. The ones who do have most likely already made the switch to Linux.
> The only difference

That's a significant difference.

It's the only difference if you're only considering blub exceptions, and not a nice exception system in which raising an exception doesn't immediately unwind, so that you can have remote handlers choosing local restart points and such.

> you need to change

Say I can't change it. I want to pass the exception through a third party library I don't control. I don't want to fork it, or can't.

Sum types with pattern matching are definitely nicer than some integer error codes or what have you, but for error handling, they are just a lipstick on error codes.

People outside of the Rust bubble do know what these concepts are, and about languages like OCaml.

Moreover, everyone who ever had anything to do with the concept of the development of exceptions was not an idiot who just didn't see the light of returning a sum type.

> you can handwave that away too

With what plugin for what editor ... :)
Giving in my Facebook that centralized view and extra data… no thanks. Same with Microsoft and google.
In that case it’s simply a question of what you value most, your biometric privacy or the ability to have an international travel permit. It’s a choice; neither option is forced on anyone.
> so the SNI and Host header already gives it away, TLS or not

Couldn't you just use ech/esni, ISP wouldn't see the domain only IP (and dns provider)?
did you also TEST it? last time i did this, it never really connected to the IPFS network. also it was marked as experimental
Node-RED is much more focused on IoT as far as I can tell, although the UIs look comparable.
Yes, that's far more relevant than strep tests.
Its also, the situation deforms the outcome. Plants deform and grow different in zero gravity, so its carbon nano-machinery, but machinery that uses the circumstances to shape itself. Like a liquid metal terminator, that becomes a bell when meating the casting mold.

Take allergies, here is a hyper active defense system that wants to fight for its life and looks for a challenge.

And it will find its fight and find its challenge, shaping itself accordingly, and if there is no opponent, it will take on the things close enough to it.

Which is why its such a folly to take a creature completely out of its natural environment, like taking away half of what defines the creature. And instead of accepting the mistake, some even dig in further, developing phobias against dirt, parasites and "nature contamination".

Resulting in melting humans.

But i digress..
Even if he benchmarks on the website could be trusted, I don't see how saving a little bit of memory and running processes will make any difference on a gaming computer. Memory and running processes aren't the bottleneck. Definitely not worth the trouble of running some custom third party OS modifying software.

If it would be aimed at making old computers useable for office work longer, then it might make sense but not on a computer used by gamers.
Maybe Mastodon/Fediverse instances need to start giving out blue checkmarks to accounts that pay them $8 per month to fund development/design work. Then if enough brands and celebrities move away from Twitter, their followers could bully them into paying this fee to support the ecosystem.
That is pure whataboutism.

What has this to do with stealing books ?
I use CSS basically every day but flex-basis, flex-grow and flex-shrink now clear. I had a gut feeling but no motivation to investigate further. If something doesn't work with flexbox I just use grid. Now Flexbox gets maybe some more use cases where grid is bit of an overkill.
>If you wrote a flashing big red warning, something like the following, couldn't everybody be satisfied? "CAUTION. This technology is still very early and may produce completely incorrect or even dangerous results. Any output by this tool should be considered false and is only suitable for entertainment purposes until expert human judgement verifies the results."

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt since the demo is now offline but there was in fact a giant disclaimer that said more or less: "DO NOT TRUST THE OUTPUT OF A LANGUAGE MODEL WITHOUT VERIFICATION."
I think the issue is that there's an externality: you go around annoying people.
This looks like a really cool project, excited to browse through over the holiday break. Just submitted my art blog (https://freezine.xyz), but realized I don't publish an RSS feed. Will have to address and resubmit.
System Notifications with Noticed and CableReady in Rails
> This article is about Go, but I could imagine something similar for Python: use something superfast under the hood, python for the high level part. It's really a common solution, which requires a bit of bindings left and right but it's worth it.

That's not a bad idea really, the wasm/wasi option could be a nice intermediate step between "we can't optimize the python any further" and "write a native extension" (or god forbid use cffi or the cursed horror that is ctypes).
That's fair. Personally, I like to keep things separated from one another for obvious reasons (controversial topics mixed with friends/family can lead to issues) but I can also see that others might prefer a single source.
... which is a fixable leakage as well, as discussed in other threads in this discussion.

Neither login nor sing up form should tell you that the account already exists.
How often does it happen that you fill out a multi-page registration form just to notify you that you already have an account? I rarely bump into the issue of already having an account that I forgot.

Is saving that extra amount of work in a rare case a concern in practice? Sure, it would annoy me a bit if it happened to me, but I'd be more like "man, I'm stupid" instead of "man, this site is stupid, I'll never go there again."
I usually use it as an example when people say Python is too dynamic to have a JIT, when Smalltalk was one of the percusors of JIT for dynamic languages with features like become: (SELF then took it even further).
Wow I played a single game but the prediction was very good, it predicted 1636 on lichess while my best elo was ~1600 (though I haven't played for about a year)

But what's even more impressive is that the game felt great to play, I didn't get this feeling that the AI would pick on every of my smallest mistakes like you have with Stockfish. I know there has been several research work [0,1] recently to improve the human-ness of chess AIs, but it's even more impressive that you are able to do it "online", in the course of a single game, bravo. I'd be interested in a blog post with details on the underlying algorithm

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01855

[1] https://openreview.net/forum?id=fJY2iCssvIs
I might just get rid of rotate all together
I’ll keep an eye on your work on this!

Funny enough, another thread introduced me to Truffle and I came across this article of yours!

https://blog.plan99.net/graal-truffle-134d8f28fb69
I used to think this way, but I tempered my belief to say that all poor countries need a brief period of extreme free markets. 50 to 100 years. After that, some regulation will be needed to manage the undesirable tradeoffs of that period
This seems like an emotional reaction to a very valid point.

If everyone on earth had fair wages things would be far more expensive. Part of what makes your phone affordable is cheap labor in terrible conditions.

What happens when those countries start to be less poor? The answer is that the rich countries will find another group of poor people to make their stuff. This is likely why rich people, like Bill Gates, are obsessed with Africa.
Then she asked me if I'd like to hear tips about using timers? No. Then she told me I had two notifications, would I like to hear them? No.

Are you saying this for comedic effect, or does the Alexa really do this? (I'd look it up myself, but good luck with that query...) To each their own, but I'd throw the device into the street if it pulled a stunt like that.

Then I timed myself setting a timer on my phone, which took 9 seconds from pocket to running.

To the Homepod or my Apple Watch: "hey, siri, tea timer for three minutes".

"Three minute tea timer, starting now."

I didn't think a product could screw that up. I would suppose it's a design decision between "assistant" and "servant that carries out my command without backtalk". There are times that I wish the Apple product were more "assistant" than "servant", but the Alexa product just sounds pushy.
Double success for Sidmouth amphitheatre in civil engineering awards
"The harder I work, the luckier I get."
"Nuclear Weapon Safety is important but the unsafety isn't from the Bombs but from dumb and cruel people hiding behind them as an excuse for their misbehavior."
I posted [1] about our search a couple months back and people suggested I follow up with more information.

Seemed like a good idea, so I wrote this blog post to update everyone as well as solicit feedback. Would love to hear things we missed or should consider.

1. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31755262)
You don't even need AI to get this behavior. Merely having something in writing to point to is enough.

How often have you talked to someone at an institution about some egregious wrong, and they defend it as "that's our policy?"
Embracer is ripping a beloved mobile game away from people who paid for it
TRPC v10
> IMF policies are arguably extremely toxic

Correlation, not causation. The whole point of IMF intervention is to rescue countries that are already in the toilet, and need to consolidate foreign debt.
That’s pretty awesome! I maintain something similar:
https://collection.mataroa.blog/
this depends on what you know ... grid is way more mighty and you have to take know what to do if you want to behave like flexbox.
Something Jeff mentions, but I think maybe a lot of folks on HN might not appreciate, is the constituent services part of the job.

Constituents are the people living in the Congressional district, who the member of Congress represents. Many will of course contact the Member with ideas and complaints about policy and bills under consideration in Congress.

But there are also a lot requests for service. If a person is having trouble with a federal agency and they think they are being treated unfairly, they can complain. House offices especially will take these seriously. There are also basic customer service type requests, like requesting a tour of the Capitol or a flag flown over the Capitol (gifted to honor a citizen). To attend a military service academy, students must be nominated, so there is a process to receive and consider requests for nominations.

To facilitate this service, members of Congress typically open offices in their district, which are staffed by local employees. This is a part of the Congressional staff that is paradoxically more well-known locally, but less well-known, as a whole, in the national conversation. A lot of folks seem to think that “Congressional staff” always means “works in Washington, DC.”

The crazy thing is that each House and Senate office is semi-independent and must set this up between when the member is elected and is sworn in… typically ~2 months, over the holidays. As Jeff alludes to, there are companies and people who specialize in Congress specifically, and they are quick to reach out to newly elected Members.
> So if you endorse this, aren't you just opening the door for every election cycle whereby the US's enemies get to wade in and strategically release information that they've obtained through espionage?

If there's no dirty laundry to air, this strategy doesn't work. Clean up your act at home and your enemies will have no ammunition. Guess what's the first step to do that...

Even if this was a Russian ploy, you should be thanking them.
The difference being that JSON doesn't have the pretentiousness, mental, tooling and processing overhead, and the marketing-imposed-solution-of-a-non-problem XML was sold as...
This was the policy of the USA— see Henry Charles Clay, the chief economic advisor of Abraham Lincoln. Started “the American School” of economics. It is all about healthy markets, but still allows for some protectionism. A middle way.
The biggest issue in North America imo is that our cities and build environments are all wrong. Suburbia, oversized homes, big oversized SUVs, no serious transit option - all require massive amounts of energy. And as a pretty hard core libertarian and capitalist, I'd say this situation arose mainly due to government incentives (cheap land via interstate highway system, cheap mortgages and tax credits, etc).
Ouch! OK OK, my password is "please-dont-take-my-fingers"
A book called Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks touches on how for many years now, we've hid unfair policies behind computer complexity. It was really eye opening to me how what seems to be a poorly implemented system is actually working as intended in order to make life difficult for certain people.
What Books Does Haruki Murakami Find Disappointing? His Own
The hardware world has been taking notes from the software world the last few years.
I think that lack of trust is the single biggest factor holding back this technology.

I imagine that a truly top-notch virtual assistant would always be listening and aware of your behavior and context. However, the level of trust required for such monitoring is usually reserved only for one or two people in our lives, and even then, it's quite incomplete awareness on their part.

I don't know how a for-profit company can reconcile this disconnect, though I imagine that someone will eventually try.
I don't know. Tahoe-LAFS in I2P? Syncthing via Tor?
Musk will do anything but hire people who have any experience in social media and web systems. Twitter s problem is not that it is missing self-driving car tech.
DirectX for starters.

NVidia and AMD usually design their GPUs together with Microsoft, OpenGL and Vulkan then play catchup with extension spaghetti until some subset of it gets available as standard feature.
Thank you :) I'm glad you like my site and my book!
Tom Rath's book "Eat, Move, Sleep" reinforces this same simple message. It seems like common sense to me, but for those who want the science, there you go.
jacqueline du pre: daniel barenboim - elgar cello concerto. it's a half hour long and it'll get you in the zone.
It's still fun once you learn how to solve it. But fun in a different way.

You're treating it as a puzzle to solve. But once you learn how to solve it, it ceases to be a puzzle and it becomes a really fun fidget toy. Seeing how fast you can solve it is enjoyable and gives your fingers some great dexterity exercise. I have one on my desk and when I want to take a break from coding I'll scramble it up and fidget around with it for a bit.
Ask HN: What are your tips for clean Rust code?
I saw this on Mastodon three hours before the $8Chan link was posted here.

https://piaille.fr/@Mnaudin/109389968985022395

It's a really poor representation, for specific reasons:

- it doesn't convey how the corner and edge colors are constrained into moving together, due to being mounted on the same cube piece.

- doesn't convey how the center face pieces stay in place relative to each other.

- certain rotations "cheat": the dots dance around, not staying on their orbit tracks.
They did have a disclaimer in every page that AI models hallucinate. But Lecun has been caught in the general 'facebook bad' sentiment and some human broken clocks who are constantly bashing anything DL-related.

this is just a bunch of personal vendettas imho. The model was useful
https://archive.ph/lx680
I don't believe that justification for one thing necessitates justification of another, tangentially related thing.

I don't agree with either thing being paywalled, but I also can see nuance on things being paywalled; if there is a legit service cost to the manufacturer associated for example.
Insurance has always been a statistically driven process and ML is just an advanced form of stats, so it makes perfect sense that the industry should use this technology.
The only information they would receive is that you signed in to a specific website.
Are you implying that this court case and FOIA request don't exist? Or that the FBI did not request 66 years to release documents? It's fine if you don't find Epoch Times to be reputable, just curious what alleged facts you are objecting to. Court filings are typically a matter of public record. Seems like you are just rejecting this information wholesale based solely on the source? Is that the optimal personal filter you are advocating?
Agreed. Documentation has upkeep costs as the software and environment change.
Why Raccoons Are Re-Emerging from the Trash Bin of Brain Science
That's just factually incorrect. The largest pre-colonization city in the US was a piddling 20,000. Even Uruk in ancient Mesopatmia, was more than twice that size over 5000 years ago.

Presumably you're referring to Tenochtitlan where Mexico City is today, which is neither in the US, nor was it larger than European cities at the time (although it was up there with Paris and Naples!)
>One would never use HTML to transfer data between two systems

And yet it happened all the time back in the day, and there was even a big push to get into XML-izing html to xhtml and make it stricter and parsable and "semantic".
Nonsense! XSLT was cool, maybe not that useful ultimately but very cool to use. I remember a few xsls I wrote tidying a very complex piece of xml cleanly whereas the corresponding java or javascript would have looked absolutely awful.
Or even just fulfilling a role or persona, like in the Stanford prison experiment.
I think one of the problems with large parts of academia is that the system thrives by finding flaws within things other people have created.

Criticism is certainly helpful and necessary for advancing the state of the art, but without something to balance it, it turns into a pretty bleak place to work. I guess this is one example that feels more like a personal vendetta than a constructive criticism of the work.
There's a big difference between principled citizens who choose to leak information, and foreign adversaries of the US. I would have thought this was obvious but it's down to US citizens to decide the US election, and external interference should be met as the attack on the US that it is.

>At the end of the day the US is most likely the country with the highest amount of espionage in the world, maybe barring china, it's not like they can't do the

Absolutely, they could, this weird whataboutism doesn't help your position. Either what I'm saying is correct - and you concede that, in which case we can talk about the US capabilities - which we can view in the correct context of capabilities operated under a free accountable democratic society. Or you don't agree, in which case your whatabouttery is moot, since you think it's fine, and therefore the US intelligence could just intervene to get their way. As you say, they probably have more capabilities.
How easy is it to enable/disable specific features for the final image? By default a lot of useful (for me at least) functionality seems to be removed.
This is academic TMZ

Lecun implied on twitter that they 'll get it back. I really hope so
Non-paycheck academics just don't need universities and begging for government grants.

They can be independent, on YouTube and Blogs and Twitter and Patreon.
Fair, but if you were writing a web application on top of hyper directly, you probably wouldn't use one tower layer per route, which is somewhat equivalent to what warp does.

When I wrote this I worked at a company where the main Rust codebase had, uh, perhaps too many tower layers.
I agree with the premise but the solution has UX issues of its own.

Some users, like me, have learned to use the registration form as an account checker for their own email. I don't remember if I have an account on some websites, and if I do I don't remember with which email+password combo, and the password reset page doesn't tell whether the email is correct, and it often takes 10 minutes for them to send a reset email so I still don't know whether I'm registered with the email I entered and should just wait or not registered at all and no email was sent. So instead I just try to register and bam, instant answer.

In addition to that, the context switch to emails increases friction significantly during registration. It's much easier for the user to be logged-in immediately and not have to check their email. That's not even taking into account the wasted time of having to re-enter all your info.

Disclaimer:
I know the first issue is solved with a password manager and a faster email service, that's not the point.
Hacker George Hotz, long a frenemy of Elon Musk,signs on for 12 weeks at Twitter
I'd like a single-threaded async pull-based http library
Assange's original theory was that WL would create a "secrecy tax", making life difficult for evil orgs that had to keep secrets. But as far as I can tell, WL ended up damaging regular orgs more than evil ones. Because:

- minor scandals within regular orgs created large damage because the members have high ethical standards. While the members of evil orgs didn't care how corrupt their leadership was.

- evil orgs were more effective at keeping secrets, so most leaks were from non-evil orgs that didn't think they had much to hide.

That these second-order effects would end up dominating the first-order effects Assange intended wasn't obvious in advance, so I don't blame the guy for not foreseeing it. But at this point, we have to consider the "leaks in general are good" theory thoroughly discredited.