skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago before electronic devices, The Economist was my "flight fodder" in that I only really bought a copy when I had a long flight and it was long and dense enough that I'd never get through it all. I haven't read it in awhile. It's disappointing to hear the quality has gone down (if true).

You're not suggesting otherwise but I feel compelled to mention it anyway for completeness: every publication has a political bent. It's not just the editorials or even the reporting itself but also the choice on what to publish. That's not neccessarily a bad thing unless that political bent means the publication has a tenuous relationship with the truth.

I'm curious what political stance you have an issue with, as in are you more left-leaning or right-leaning.

The Economist falls into the same bucket I'd put some other long-form print media in like the Atlantic and the New Yorker: it's center-right, specifically neoliberal. That's not necessarily bad. In fact I'd read good content in all 3 of these. You just need to be aware of the lens through which they see the world. The Economist I always found to be pro-Europe (pro-EU and pro-NATO) as one example.

Some might object to the "center-right" label here. To me, that's just evidence of how far the pendulum has swung with the Overton Window in how far right-wing politics currently skews, not just in the US. CNN is a center-right media outlet, for example. Coverage of Israel-Palestine is a prime example of just how one-sided this is.

More progressive media outlets are slim pickings honestly. For general news coverage, within limits surprisingly al-Jazeera ranks pretty highly. I say "within limits" because it has the same blind spot all state media does: the state it represents. The BBC is another prime example of this.
It isn’t a keyword search in the first place. Your query gets fed through a NLP AI, so you need to use English.
Seems like that point only applies to the first link? More than a couple of accounts I follow have been banned in the last weeks for just making jokes about Tesla or Elon.

But it isnt, I would say, conspiratorial or personal, its just galvanized fan boys reporting accounts. And I assume with the diminished staff they are just airing on the side of banning then going through thorough reviews or whatever. Which is still pretty bad.
Discounting any literal intent in their superlative, yeah, but aren't opinions relative?

The worst people of the internet differ based on who you ask. For me, moral absolutists and people who spew out hot takes and twisted arguments for likes are pond scum on the rational discourse totem pole, tied with ad folk.

For others, it's whomever fails their loyalty tests by not agreeing with every view they may hold at any given time.

Malice implies intent, and a lot of people don't see what they're doing as intentionally causing another harm. I find the most annoying people usually think that their behavior is excluded because they believe that they're /helping/.
Heh, not necessarily, that's true, in the sense that all the possible arrangements haven't been tested and shown to be constructible.

On the other hand, pseudo-still-life and quasi-still-life arrangements are much easier to construct on average than strict still lifes with the same number of cells.

I think the consensus is that someone could figure out how to construct any given stable 21-bit configuration. The non-strict cases are just a bit too numerous and not interesting enough, so nobody has gone through and formally checked them off the list.
Thank you for pointing to this resource. I must say, I had not been aware of this market, and I find it quite fascinating for more than one reason.

From what I have gathered, this service is not local-only, but involves both submitting samples and using their web application.

How do you feel about another entity having access to your handwriting as a high-quality font, which in turn could at least in theory be used to possibly impersonate you by them or anyone gaining access to it?

And how do you feel about having to enter all text you want to pseudo handwrite into their web application?

Or maybe I misunderstood how it works? Didn't do a deep dive.
Thanks! Gonna pour over that and other docs.
Oh, that reminds me. How long has Youtube's search been so utterly useless and downright terrible? Whatever I enter, it interrupts the search results with recommendations THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH MY QUERY every 5 results. What the fuck, Google. Are you doing this on purpose? Did somebody piss in your cereal and you decided to collectively punish all of us? If that's not the case, who's responsible so I can go over to him and piss in his cereal?
"Do you suffer from Bitchy Resting Face"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XinArKp_6fs
But how did Trump become the Republicans' candidate?
Socrates deserved to die.
Nowadays there is the Universal C Runtime you could link against. It's available on Windows 10 out of the box, and via Windows Update or redistributable on Windows Vista/7/8.1.
> I started posting every single thought that came to my mind

Uhhhh, is this a good thing?
"Good enough" is realistic in my opinion.
Is it any different to the false statement that is "(although they've also lost the ability to boot Windows in latest generation as well)"? The last line specifically refers to macOS. No need to be deliberately obtuse.
I wonder if all the text people input here, about the models' mistake, could help the model somehow.
> Are the client/server interoperable?

not officially. some projects[0] try to bridge the protocols, but I've never personally seen one that operated without issues.

[0] e.g. https://geysermc.org/
@imports are invisible to the browser's preparser as the stylesheet that contains them must be downloaded and parses before the browser can discover them

This will lead to slower FCP etc times particularly if the stylesheets aren't in cache
I don't disagree with your main point but your example is perhaps not so good. There are people who describe themselves as "Eskimo" and "Eskimo" is a reasonable name for the category that includes Inuit and Yupik. Of course there are also different kinds of Inuit and different kinds of Yupik. There's a tree diagram here (referring to languages rather than directly to people and this particular diagram uses the term "Eskimoan" rather than "Eskimo"):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskaleut_languages#Internal_cl...
Optimizing performance for 1000 units
I almost never get relevant searches out of Bing. It's bad enough I have (seriously) wondered how much Google pays them to operate in order to avoid antitrust prosecution.
> I see a lot of energy going into making faster build tools, and I feel this energy is misdirected. We need to dramatically strip down the build tools as most of them have become largely redundant since the death of IE.

what if we standardize browsers ? Like if it happens, we get easily all of the power from browser itself. It's same story like ES6 and later versions did to underscore and lodash (long live lodash).

This will make all build tools OBSOLETE
So I thought from the title that they were releasing a bunch of rats to a minefield and let them trigger the mines. But apparently mines are sensitive to much larger weights and it does not work like that. Rats are trained to sense the mines via smell. Neat.
Thanks for responding, and for 'disagreeing' so respectfully.
I feel honored to interact with one who was present.

I didn't mean to attack an individual, and my management comment was more general than just Tom. I saw Tom's actions as reactions to a bad situation.

My comment is more directed at the people I worked with who took the wrong message away from the SOTNM folklore. Being against the ropes and fighting for your survival at all costs isn't something to look forward to, and definitely not something to expect from employees.
You might add https://www.spiegel.de/international/ to your list. It is free and well written.

The good thing about Financial Times: It is a UK publisher, not US-based, so the reporting on the US is more skeptical and nuanced. Less screechy. To be fair, I avoid almost all of the opinion pieces except for Martin Wolf, because he is basically writing an economics column. The rest is rather inflammatory (much lower editorial standards!) and can can readily be skipped.

Also consider the free FT AlphaVille which is a blog attached to FT. Much more casual reporting style, but they have cracked some big cases, including Dan Mccrum's year-long (later explosive) investigation into Wirecard.
Social media is a harassing tool, and can be a pretty blunt and heavy one (see "cancel culture").

In 1920, a newspaper publication or a public speech needed to be really outrageously beyond the frames of the Overton window to end up in mass protests, boycotts, etc. It took a serious effort to coordinate the outrage, so it only happened when people felt really deeply about it.

In 2020, with social media, the cost of spreading the outrage is nearly zero: a retweet or a repost, maybe with some a few words of an inflammatory comment added on the top. But with social graphs being what they are (highly connected via a number of popular "influencer" accounts), any bit of outrage has a good chance to spread quickly and widely.

The outrage can defend itself by directing the outrage at detractors and doubters, so attempts to actively stop it can make one a victim of it; the cost of spreading outrage, and the cost of ignoring outrage, is much lower that the cost of trying to calm it down, and / or to call to reason over emotions.

It does not help that any moderately public figure, especially a journalist, has to have social media presence, because it's such a powerful tool to spread their own publicity, influence, and agenda.

Freer information flows usually change societies. Invention of writing changed ancient societies profoundly. Invention of the printing press and movable type in Europe changed Europe drastically. The internet and social media are changing our societies seriously, as we speak. There's no way back to the pre-Internet state of society.
The quality has dropped massively, even compared to 5 years ago.

Partly it is an input issue. Interesting conversations are increasingly happening in walled gardens like Telegram.

Academic websites rarely show up any longer. Even for simple keywords the number of search results is sometimes only 8 pages. If you read all of them or your queries get too specific, you are classified as a bot and get the "unusual activity" nag screen.

It was good while it lasted. I think Google could be disrupted now.
Was interested, especially aiming to by language agnostic, then immediately not when I see all communications are exclusively via proprietary platforms.

> Choosing proprietary tools and services for your free software project ultimately sends a message to downstream developers and users of your project that freedom of all users—developers included—is not a priority.

— Matt Lee

This means if Discord or Microsoft (parent of GitHub) or Twitter (I guess) decide to delete or ban your account, you are by proxy banned from the project, Lunatic; this means Lunatic is not in control of the moderation of its community. This also requires all users must give up personal data to the corporations in order to participate. This also further drives a wedge between those that prefer the spirit of open source not just in the style of communication, but those that want it in the tools used to create it as well.

This project isn’t the only or first offender, but it’s frustrating seeing this pattern pop up over and over and it needs to be called out every time. People care about their privacy more than ever. Interest in OSS has never been higher.

We just witnessed yet another exodus off Twitter for federated plaforms like Mastodon and other platforms because folks don’t want to deal with the whims of megacorporations. Everytime Microsoft or Microsoft GitHub make another questionable move, projects seek refuge on Codeberg/SourceHut/GitLab, or self-hosting. There are a non-negligible amount of folks that don’t want this.
Note: FreeBSD only
so Eskimo is an offensive word and has to replaced by one that's appropriate. So I don't see the difference with the description offered in the article
Regarding threads, they are definitely more co-operative co-routines than threads.

However, if I recall there are only a few calls which can switch the context; the usual culprits, such as `thread-yield`, `sleep-for`, `accept-process-output` and atomicity is guaranteed apart from when you use these calls. So you'd never be in a problem state of `setq` failing halfway, for example.

Personally, I think this model works much better with the current code in Emacs. It would be good if we could spin up domains like in Racket for true parallelization (which uses channels for communication) as well, but threads are pretty useful already if hard to code with.

I don't believe there are any locks or semaphores at all, but I'm happy to be educated.

EDIT: caveat ofc, that non-Elisp code can be parallel but the filters and sentinels will only run if they can grab the context.
I read it recently (and then re-read it twice within a few months), after seeing it referenced here on HN. Seems very much on-brand, and I'm surprised it took me so long to see it referenced.
For tech stuff there is customized google search with whitelist on https://notrashsearch.github.io/ .
I guess I see it as the opinion of someone who hasn't used it, or doesn't really understand the value.

I don't love Tailwind, but I can understand the spot it's trying to fit in, and I value the things it's trying to offer (locality, consistency, sane guidelines).

I think the sweet spot for that value proposition is projects where the designs don't need to be pixel perfect or extra fancy - they just need to work, quickly. I've used it successfully several times in those cases. Not to mention personal projects where just having a decent template made that I can tweak is great.

I would probably not use it anywhere you have real UI constraints or concerns, and you care a lot about specific animations or exact pixel placement. I tend to reach for styled-components in those spots these days. Since it gives me a fair share of the same value proposition (locality, consistency) but removes the guidelines/bumpers.

They play pretty nicely together (with some constraints), though - again, use the different lego blocks where they make sense. Stop trying to treat everything like a tailwind shaped nail you have to beat in with just that hammer.
Corollary to this, I dunno if the IOMMU can be used for PCIE mmio spaces ("BARs"), and why not even the PCI configuration spaces which, I guess on x86_64, should be "moveable" via MSR regs, certainly specific to the vendor, AMD or Intel modulo some constraints (must be backed by memory or must not, etc).
What's the best chatty model to run locally on a RTX 3090?
This seems cool but it's a bit hard to get it to talk.
Same here, in french language. Kagi is awesome (paying user too).
As MW says, the present more expanded usage of "gaslighting" isn't synonymous with lying; it's closer to "systematically lying".

> The idea of a deliberate conspiracy to mislead has made gaslighting useful in describing lies that are part of a larger plan. Unlike lying, which tends to be between individuals, and fraud, which tends to involve organizations, gaslighting applies in both personal and political contexts.
Keep your job, but wonder the earth a bit. Do some traveling, either road trips or flying places. Meet other people, see other things, ways of life, discover what's put there and then once you've expressed a bit you will just know. You'll just know what things you like, what things you don't, what you want to double down on and what you want to avoid. Give yourself the space to explore and discover what you like. To do so you need to go out in the world and explore.
You implied a much stronger statement to that before being called on it.

“starbucks, a vanguard/blackrock company, with msft CEO has massive debts and stabucks is paying huge interests all year long”

That implies way more than those companies are influencing the boards.

You only backed off when your basic “facts” were called out. Everyone agrees that big shareholders have influence, so besides that what are your claims?
Speaking of software engineering related searches, the quality of the results have gone off the cliff. Now instead of seeing the original github issue, pull request or discussion, the first search results point to some crappy websites that mirror the original content. The UI/UX of those websites is awful: part of the content is hidden behind a registered account, they are slow, I get popups and other garbage.

Google Search needs to be disrupted and, while I've tried using DuckDuckGo, I don't think that's it. However, my concern is that so much of the really good user content is hidden behind walled gardens, such as FB groups, discord, slack etc.
> That structure may be explicitly defined or left implicit, but it is always there.

But this is something that every piece of software out there has to deal with. By this reasoning, claiming that RESTful APIs can evolve over time and don't need something like WSDL (though OpenAPI still exists) is also a similar lie, because there absolutely are assumptions about how things are structured by anyone and everyone who actually needs to integrate with the API. Even "schema-less" data storage solutions like MongoDB are then also built on similar lies, because while you can throw arbitrary data at them to store it, querying the data later will still depend on some assumptions about the data structure.

I'm inclined to agree, and yet, RESTful APIs are still very popular and seem to have much success (though some push for more "immutable" APIs that are versioned, which is nice), as do "schema-less" data stores in certain domains. Edit: you can also say that about everything from CLI tools or even dynamic programming languages as a whole. I think there's more to it.

> And that's how you end up with every CLI tool implementing its own set of subtly incompatible data parsers and stringifiers. This is strictly worse than having a standardized structural format to communicate in.

I suspect that this is where opinions might differ. Half-assing things and counting on vaguely compatible (at a given point in time) implementations has been the approach on which many pieces of software are built to solve numerous problems. On one hand, that is ignorant, but on the other hand - how often is the output from "ls -la" going to change its format, really? The majority of CLI tool writers seem to understand how brittle and bad everything is and thus treat their data formats carefully, adding a whole bunch of different flags as needed, or allowing for custom formats, like: "lsblk --output UUID,LABEL,SIZE"

For many out there, that's good enough. At least to the point where something like PowerShell isn't mainstream, despite some great ideas in it (or other shells that would let you work with objects, instead of text).
I often say to people that the most important thing physics gave me was being comfortable not knowing something. My math and physics education have 100% changed the way I think and address problems in life, despite not going into a physics career.

Since it is a book thread:

The Information: James Gleick - really made me take a step back to think about what information is and how we talk about it

Reinventing Discovery: Michael Nielsen - It was some years back now but I had trouble reading it because I kept having to write things down or read about a new idea the book just put into my head. It really was thought provoking at the time.
It doesn't help that increasingly communities are migrating to closed-box tools like Discord. A generation's worth of information is being sucked up and lost forever.
I use a technique of going to the search items beyond the first ten pages.
Remember that your overall purpose of life is to simply live it. Let go of your inner expectations ('long term goals') and exist. New long term goals will appear in a new direction as they see fit, and if you have interest, work on those. When those change, continue onward.

Long term is simply 'in this period when I'm alive". We don't know this duration. Ease up on yourself, breathe and enjoy what interests you.

Obviously 5hing changes when you/it you have children, but tia but another path to be pursued if it arises!
Apple sued after fatal Apple Store crash in Hingham, Mass
No it couldn't, darknet markets and others will always be generating enough economic activity to keep the prices nonzero.
That's good advice. Many overweight people have no idea how many calories they're actually consuming, or are in denial about it.

The British TV show "Secret Eaters" is eye opening. While it may be an extreme example, it shows how people can be eating more than twice as much as they think.

https://tubitv.com/series/4469/secret-eaters
Spotify 2022 Wrapped is here
Its not just you. I noticed this since around 2017. They changed the algorithm to control information. Its eternal September, the powers that be don't want the broader public knowing too much stuff.

Before the internet was only accessible to a small percentage of the world population so they would let them have any information they would want but as more and more people enter the internet they need to control the information to control the population.
YouTube search is even worse than Google. Takes 5 to 10 searches to find what you are looking for.
Proton (Mail) launches encrypted calendar for iOS
Why are you surprised. Querying others for useful or authoritative answers, whether it is something as inconsequential as tips for an upcoming trip or matters of life and death has always being a complex task fraught with risks. Our response has been relying on networks of trust, building up indicators of authority through scholarship (proof of work :-), vetting for potential conflicts of interest, sniffing out malevolent objectives and blacklisting bad actors etc. etc.

We have somehow assumed that all this can automated away. We've got what we deserve.
This is very funny and pathetic.
Elon Musk is delaying Twitter paid verification to avoid Apple’s 30 percent cut
> it leads to "managing" them later in bookmarks UI to find+reload+delete them

I agree. There is definitely less UX friction with tabs, and I can live with 20-30 (50 maaax) and only some of the time.
But 100 ephemeral and much more? most of the time? IMO this is just unwillingness to improve the system. You can definitely get less friction dealing with most of them as organized bookmarks than wild tabs.

> tabs already have the HTML downloaded and visually pre-rendered

Most new browsers purge tabs from memory, so the instantaneity is not there anymore.
I was in that boat myself and totally agree, building a business was fun and exciting, but stressful in the same amount and not taking much (if any) of the money home for the good of the business wasn't helping.
In the end, after several years in the startup storm, I sold it out, landed a well paid job with cool people in my team and I'm pretty happy with my current situation, plus wife is also happy because I'm working from home so I'm always around.