skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not even close. Hong Kong was at the end of a 100 year lease to UK from mainland China. Taiwan is China's previous regime military holdout. There is no soft (diplomatical) path for it's reintegration into mainland, ever. Observe that HK's didn't go that smoothly, either even if it was only a "change of administration".
I live next to some urban Beavers. I really wonder about their genetics. Like do some of them leave to find another family to join? How do they do that in the city? Or are they genetically stable? Or is this family going to die out after a while? I've seen them swimming at sunset a few times. I think I saw one out of the water once, but I wasn't sure what I was looking at.
You can change the language of Google Maps to Finnish, and still keep the phone on English. At least in the latest versions of Android. This makes it pronounce the street names properly
There is interesting quote form speech of Montessori to UNESCO in The Technological Society(Jacuqes Ellul):

'We must awaken the child's social conscience. I know that it is a complicated educational question, but the child who will become the man must be able to understand life and its needs, the fundamental reason for all existence, the search for happiness . .. He must know exactly what he must do and what he must not do for the good of humanity ... To reach these ends, we must prepare the child to understand the meaning and necessity of the entente among the nations. The organization of the peace devolves more on education than on politics. To secure peace practically, we must envision a humane education, psychopedagogy, which affects not one nation but all men on earth . . . Education must become a truly humane science to guide all men to judge the present situation correctly.'

https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSoci... (page 346)

Its all in the eyes of the beholder, but I felt it almost as the education in brave new world, it was kind of strange, especially because my daughter goes to a Montessori school. I feel it will be much harder for her to reject it than it would've been in a normal school.

A bit like Zizek's take on the modern Boss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQlJE7ABNu4
You can even get ChatGPT to write an entirely plausible speech from the President declaring that event:

> Write a impassioned speech for an American wartime president making a speech declaring the immediate nationalization of the Arizona TSMC chip fab for national security reasons.

Posting ChatGPT spew is very tedious, but it completely nails it.
Actually, CI is really one of the canonical reasons to use the cloud: short, bursts of load that can scale well (generally), but you don’t need 24/7. Using twice as big an instance means you need - roughly - half the time, which means costs stay about the same.

I find that using regular cloud instances (eg EC2), with a custom runner for some CI platform (Gitlab, teamcity, whatever you prefer) is a really sweet spot.

At QuasarDB, our C++ builds only take about 20 minutes this way, as long as we’re using a 128 vCPU instance. It’s a decent sweet spot for us.
I'm not necessarily rooting for the ReVanced project here, but… this takedown notice is supposedly claiming circumvention of access controls to copyrighted content? Since when is weather data copyrightable? Unlike what happens in Europe, the US doesn't recognise separate "database rights" either.

> the complete repository at https://github.com/revanced/revanced-patches is clearly illegal, which you see immediately if you just spend a few seconds to check it out.

I mean, this was clearly not written by a lawyer.
Probably. As with pixel art or design that mimics the early WWW era, it will become part of some retro hype cycle.
Some people use this tool (of mine) for saving web content from either bookmarks or just everything you browse: https://github.com/crisdosyago/Diskernet

There's also plent¥ of other similar tools:

- https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

- https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
Why should the US nationalize these fabs? I mean, regardless of whether China invades Taiwan or not, the fabs located in the US are owned by TSMC, and TSMC is owned by TSMC's shareholders, which will likely remain the same regardless of whether the state of Taiwan still exists...
Ha! Try living in Santa Catarina, Brasil

Not only is the portuguese pronounciation pretty bad most of the time (in their defense streets can have very annoying names over here), they don't use location to expand acronyms, so the state/province-managed highways ("SC-401" etc) get read aloud as "South Carolina 401". Couldn't be more wrong.

I'm not sure how this happens. Most of the time, only the English (even though I use the UK variant) voice does this incorrect substitution, but in some occasions the portuguese voice can try saying the english words "south carolina" with portuguese pronounciation, which is hilarious in a disappointing way.

(Maybe the pt-BR voice model knows to pronounce SC as humans do, just the letters, but the acronym expansion happens in text, before voice is involved, in some code paths? No idea, just guessing)
You'd hope there would be at least an example that doesn't require JavaScript if this is a CSS thing. It could have made a good <noscript> block to remind you to enable to see the editor.
"This checkmark would only cost $8 if you bought outside of this IOS app..."

"Save $3 on TwitterBlue when you buy outside of this IOS app.."
> If the permissions included "can star repos", instead of just "can read/write repos", then sure

Not to blame the victim here, but your logic implodes on itself. Do you realize that granting someone access to "read/write your repos" can have more severe consequences than what happened here?

What GitHub did was wrong - regardless of the scope, they need to be able to differentiate the user from malicious developer. With that being said, it is prudent to pause and think before granting permissions to your resources without some level of trust.
An app that's a thin wrapper around public data.

Apps like this have sued the public weather services in multiple EU countries to take down the official apps, e.g., https://www.dwd.de/DE/presse/pressemitteilungen/DE/2020/2020...

Fuck private weather apps.
TSMC is a public company. Last news I see shows a drop to 73% of the company being foreign-owned. The biggest shareholders are American. It might be more accurate to say it's an American company that operates in Taiwan.
Do be careful around beavers though. Their teeth are REALLY strong, I know at least one example personally of a human killed by a beaver, it bit through a critical vein in his leg and the guy bled to death. To be fair the guy was a hunter so I guess karma.
I would say that calling these "C APIs" is a bit misleading, as they have to call `new` for these helper types to be useful. I would call these legacy C++ APIs, although I have recently seen new APIs written with this horribly awful `void foo(T* out_param_for_owning_ptr)` interface.

Interfacing with these with a smart pointer without a helper type is kind of inconvenient, since then you need to do something like:

T* raw_owning_ptr;
foo(&raw_owning_ptr);
std::unique_ptr<T> ptr(raw_owning_ptr);

`out_ptr` and friends are a bit niche, just for interfacing with these kinds of APIs.
I assume along the lines of

irresponsible = released to the public full of evil <insert slur here>

responsible = kept in the walled garden of good <insert corp here>
This is naive. People simply don't donate, it doesn't work. It just doesn't
You can do the calculations if you'd like. This test's true importance is the fact it distracts the patient after registration so that recall is properly tested.
Sure, but the extra “location” and “action” objects within the proposed “authorization_details” JSON object do seem compelling when compared to just a single “scope” string.
That’s how I see it.

What is the abstraction above writing domain specific code? Writing ACs - aka “prompt” engineering.

I have always wanted more engineers to have this role. If product doesn’t know what they’re doing, going back and forth on faulty ACs is a huge cause of friction and costs the company way too much money.

Writing accurate and informative language that is also logically correct and encapsulates all of our desires.. is damn hard, and AI will never be able to speak and feel for us.
Five Smartest Heroes in Animated Movies
finally a plane that can bomb climate change away.
I wonder which part of this got me downvoted, the 1st or the 2nd.
In the olden days of Pentium 3 (or Pentium!!! if you prefer), one guy graphed his Peltier element's performance vs. voltage and found a 115% efficient point (with assistance of his fan, ofc.)

Limiting voltage and coupling it with a very efficient cooler for its time, he overclocked his CPU a great deal.

Looked for the article, but it's possibly gone down with the downfall of old internet, because it was a personal webpage.
Pixel Fold renders arrive with size and spec rumors for Google’s foldable phone
For things like etorphine, you need special antagonists since Narcan won’t displace it from receptors.

And with a really big overdose they may not have enough Narcan on hand to reverse it. I’m talking 100x the LD50.
I will never use social logins to sign up for anything. What a terrible idea. I assume anyone doing that is just doing it for tracking or scamming purposes.
indeed.. the US "strategic ambiguity" policy towards Taiwan is eroding as a recent major test against it was Nancy Pelosi's visit
> I guess it would be possible to implement as a shared read-only page mapped into each process in a protected environment

Fun thing, that's exactly how vDSO's work.
If you have a password manager synced across browsers, like chrome or firefox's builtin ones, it should be fairly simple, right?
You don't need to prepare, you just adapt and this happens subconsciously. We all become the machine and it becomes all of us, which is inevitable.
If you haven't, post an issue on the Pipewire repo. I've found that the main author, Wim Taymans, is very proactive in fixing any issue if they're reproducible.

I've opened two bugs, and two times he fixed them personally in less than a week, which is incredible for an open source project of that size.
Ask HN: Why is the Twitter Files buried on HN?
The Twitter files is one of the biggest recent Silicon Valley scandals, demonstrating collusion between a major political party and a major tech company to suppress The Freedom of Speech. Why is it buried on HN?
A lot of early education is based on sensitive periods. Materials are introduced at ages and times when the child shows interest. It is guided learning.

Kids learn to do things like cut apples, with a regular knife. At age 3. I will never forget one parent’s reaction. She was horrified and asked us “won’t they cut themselves?” My partner: “yeah, usually.” You could see her mentally nope
out. That is a great viewpoint into Montesorri’s philosophy: that small kids are way more capable in many regards than adults assume.

There is also almost no need for a traditional gifted program because as kids finish materials nee ones are available. Grades are very fluid in a Montesorri classroom and kids have the freedom to explore everything. I think it works well for most children. Better by a lot for most kids compared to the traditional systems of public school.

So you give them a specialized environment and let them loose and then follow their interests, “follow the child” as Montesorri said. Then you guide them. The materials are designed to make it easier for kids to do on their own, but they also get plenty of help.

It is a very uncomfortable notion for many parents, but my daughter is a great example. She is 10 and easily doing work several grades ahead in topics that she excels at. No need for a gifted program really, the materials and support system is there to let all kids work at their own pace.
Autism attenuates the perception of the mind-body divide
Your comment seems to me to be full of bad faith.

> use an actual journalistic process

There is a journalistic process being followed - two established journalists have been given comprehensive access to internal files and are documenting what they have found, while putting their discoveries in context. Elon is also promising that these files will be released publicly for other journalists and the interested public to pore over at a later date.

> this could be verified with evidence

And who's saying it won't be? This was not Elon volunteering this information himself. This was simply him replying in the affirmative to a question put to him. (And no, it was not a 'leading question'.)

> he hides behind his disdain

> questions that only serve to rile up his base

Not worth replying to these. Just quoting as examples of your bad faith.
You can send him an e-mail and get an extended license. Not saying he's right or wrong, but it's not like anyone lost their access, or future updates of the product here.
I hear you on that one. I'm patiently awaiting end-to-end support for LE audio with bidirectional audio streams, and maybe, if we're really lucky, Sony will release a pair of headphones that has a better microphone to go with it.
So now you can’t push or manage repos on your account? Since GitHub wants you to use one handle for everything, this is a new vector to screw over large open source projects or make it so someone is unable to work at their job.

Hope you can get access back soon!
I remember upgrading to an A3000 from an A500. 1.3 and 2.0 were like night-and-day. The 3000 was a pretty big hardware leap in terms of integration, but you are right, it was still incremental. The chipset, which is what made the Amiga an "Amiga", barely changed.

The 1200/4000 AGA machines were too little, too late. By that time, everyone was getting 386's with SVGA and Soundblasters.
When you have more than one kid it adds up quickly. They were up to 4x the cost of other private schools in the area.
One day someone will plug in a math module to work in concert with chat gpt and then we will really get somewhere.
>They’re choice is move their factories offshore or give them up to China.

Then the question is why wouldn't they want to give them to PRC? TW semi was expanding fabs in mainland before US export controls, TW semi workers were being handsomely rewarded with huge compensation packages until DPP cracked down on cross strait headhunting/recruitment. Both profitable TW semi industry and underpaid TW semi workers benefitted massively from integrating with PRC semi, their choice was to give up to PRC, until (US) politics made that not a choice. So at least in that sense US stole the opportunities of TW semi that saw benefits to closer integration with - giving up - to PRC.
I see these things right now as power tools. But that view might change. They also let people be creative without necessarily needing an army of others.

So take video game art. Looks like you could train an AI to generate all of that. And if can't it will happen soon. That will probably empower current digital artists and give them more capacity. It will also allow smaller shops to produce higher quality art perhaps with a creative director running prompts through the AI model vs hiring digital artists. However at some point the whole thing becomes quite complex to manage so you may have artists anyway.

At some point we will probably get prompts to movies as well.

prompts to SQL will probably happen as well as prompts to code (has already happened). This will first be code that a dev will refine. It can be dangerous because of subtle implications but that will eventually work itself out. So expect the same pattern as with digital artists for dev work. However at some point the whole thing becomes quite complex to manage so you may have devs anyway.

There will be prompt based no code solutions for business analysts as well. Will this replace the business analyst? Probably not, will it allow you to do more with less, probably. Will it scale, maybe not, you still might need a bunch of analysts to wrangle all of the systems.

In any case scale and growth will probably mean you need more people unless you can design the overall system well.

So in some sense we all become managers with little AI bots doing the IC work.
Not sure about wise's offering in AU but CA and UK you could just receive the USD into your AU Wise account and pay basically nothing <.5% for FX when compared to spot.
‘Rich’ is a relative term but my family might qualify as ‘old rich’ and do tend to distinguish from ‘new rich’. The terms are misnomers. People who might be labelled ‘new rich’ or ‘nouveau riche’ do not have the qualities of tastes, behaviours, or values that are handed down and refined over many generations. It is a relatively easy-to-observe distinction.

I am not saying it’s an important distinction to me.
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It's refreshing to see that candid disclosure upfront.

IMHO, one of the most important qualities of an engineer is honesty.

I'd take the concern about sustainability into consideration, but being upfront about the need to make money from this is more reassuring than a lot of the fake-it-till-you-make-it that we see.
Maybe if it was a WW3 scenario, but otherwise where would we get our chips?
That is by far the least important part of this decision
Video playback timing is actually pretty difficult, with only trade-offs, no "right" solution.

The easiest solution is to use your computer's accurate clock to time the frames. This means, if your video is at 30 FPS, you will have gone through exactly 3000 frames after 100 seconds. But your monitor might not be refreshing at exactly 60 FPS, it might be targetting the 59.94 standard, or it might be targetting 60 FPS but with a clock that's a bit less accurate than your computer's, so every now and then, you get a stutter as a video frame has to shown for 1 refresh interval longer or shorter than it should.

What we could do instead is to calculate a fixed pattern to display frames. If your monitor is 30Hz and the video is 30 FPS, we show exactly one video frame for every monitor refresh. If your monitor is 60Hz and the video is 30 FPS, show each video frame for 2 monitor refreshes. If the monitor is 30Hz and the video is 60 FPS, skip every other video frame. This will already introduce some deviation from the "ideal" timing if your display clock isn't super accurate. And if the monitor is 59.94Hz, that's probably close enough to 60 that we want to show each frame of 30 FPS video exactly twice, but that means the video is playing at 99.9% of its intended speed.

10 seconds over 20 minutes is a surprisingly big gap though. Playing every frame of 30 FPS video twice on a 59.94Hz monitor would net a 1.2 second deviation over 20 minutes.

EDIT: Why the downvotes? Everything here is correct according to my understanding of the situation after implementing video playback software and working with other people's. If anything is wrong, please correct me, don't just silently downvote.
I don't even know why this is even necessary. Back in the day I just set up the ALSA daemon to save/restore volume levels and that was it. In all programs I select ALSA as output and boom done. So I'm confused to why pulse audio and pipewire even exist.
Tesla employees gave 93% to Democrats; do you think the cars work better if the owner is a Democrat?

Employees of Trump Entertainment Resorts gave 100% to Democrats!
If you let Stripe convert e.g. USD (when you charge USD) to your local currency (when you run your account e.g. in EUR), then you pay them another 2% for that convenience.

I switched to Wise and pay now an order of magnitude less for that.
In the early days when CS and languages are new things, we need evolve faster. When things kind of settling down, we need avoid NIH. Time is different.

we don't reinvent new languages to compete against English, Chinese, Spanish,etc nowadays, I'm sure that's different in the early days when human was figuring out how to communicate and how to create the language they need.
I agree with you. There is more to be done to make progress we should make in our lifetimes than we can ever hope to complete. AI will help tremendously, but I suspect that we'll find that it's not enough.

Tech tends to replace some jobs and create new ones. It'll be the same with AI. We'll work differently.
> Except for land itself, all of those things have become exponentially cheaper in the last few decades. That is, cheaper to make. Housing in particular is kept artificially scarce, largely due to its role as a financial instrument.

You have that backwards.

Housing is a financial instrument, because demand for housing remains high in specific areas; far in excess of supply.

Choose a less popular
rust-belt city and the home
cost will be one third to one quarter of the coastal cities.

Housing is also expensive because of the labor involved.
Eh, you get used to it. Certainly the lessor evil compared to living with Danish voice assistants/text to speech...
Ask HN: Why isn't there something like Let's Encrypt for document signing?
Considering how easy it is to generate a public/private key pair it's not that easy and not cheap to get an widely trusted document signing certificate. Especially one with LTV (longtime valid for verifying)

Is this just the market monopoly? If letsencrypt broke it for SSL, couldn't it be done for PDF signing also?
Are you complaining that Linux can't handle Bluetooth because PulseAudio breaks your setup, on a Pipewire post?

Use Pipewire then. As other have said, this is not a problem anymore with the recommended setup of Pipewire + WirePlumber.
As much as I sympathise with this person and what he's doing, I must say I agree with you.

> This is essentially an appeal to charity.

...the problem is that it's not even very clearly an appeal to charity. It's sort of blurring a freemium opencore commercial model with charity.

Paying for the premium-tier of a freemium product is one possible message to put out there. An appeal to charity is quite another. They are different messages appealing to different motivations. But when combined, they sort of diminish each other's effectiveness as a possible sales message.

If I get into my charitable frame of mind, it produces cognitive dissonance to think that maybe this project doesn't need my charity if there are commercial users out there who can sustain the product by paying for the premium tier (as well they should if they make profitable use of the premium features).

If I get into my business purchaser frame of mind, it produces cognitive dissonance to hear the author talk of my purchasing decision as an act of charity. It makes me think that even the sales guy acknowledges that I won't be getting anything worth what I'm paying for here.

Not only that, but they also imply very different kinds of contracts, and as someone paying for this, I'd like to know which contract I'm getting into.

If it's a commercial contract, I expect some kind of warranty that everything will work, and some kind of support or right to my money back if it doesn't. That's just implied in a commercial deal of any kind. (And frequently that's the piece in an open core business model that you pay for when you pay for the premium tier). So if I pay, and I take my problem to the source, I don't then want to hear "Sorry, can't help you out, but I did say from the beginning that the money I took from you was more of a donation than a payment for a commercial deal of any kind, and it's kind of uncharitable of you to now expect me to fix your problem if it distracts me from building new features which, ostensibly, you were supposed to be supporting."
I'm aware of what a sophist is, but I doubt flat earth is actually a subject they'd have any fun trying to argue because it's too absurd on its face. Do you think Scientology is also a group joke? What about Mormonism - they have their own astronomical hangups (planet Kolob)?
My biggest issue is that they keep all the fees in case of a refund. Sometimes customers just change their mind, and this will cost you. It will cost you a lot if you’re selling high value items.