skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post I'm replying to starts with "I believe economic inequality is quite unrelated to _pollution_." And energy production is just one aspect. Do the rich green countries not consume any plastic products? Meat? Do they have 100% electric vehicles?
Their complete lack of interesting custom games is what killed it for me.

Halo, for me, was about forge and messing around in fun game modes people came up with. Releasing Halo without forge and with bare bones custom game tools is like selling a car without seats.
Store it in old oil tankers for future dispersal in polar oceans when salinity drops from glacial melting, potentially disrupting things like the Gulf Stream?

- ed "North Atlantic thermocline" is what I meant! I originally wrote "North Atlantic endocrine" before realising that was entirely wrong, and after wracking my brain went with 'gulf stream'. I need more tea.
I had Hive before and prefer that; being able to boost the heating to a certain temperature for 30/60/120 mins is a common use case for me that Nest doesn't do.
Yes, an outpouring of sympathy, empathy, etc combined with the same unilateral decision making that technologists make would be terrible. I would call continuing to do that unempathetic.

Technologists acting like technocrats and expecting everyone to give them sympathy, empathy and identification is laughably rude and insulting.
The hardware codec support removal is a bone headed decision. The first sale doctrine (among other things) says that if you sell a patented device, you are implicitly selling a transferrable patent license that allows use of that one physical device.

So, there are two possibilities for patent infringement:

1) AMD licensed a patent that allows them to write software that accesses hardware capabilities using software drivers. This is already ludicrous, but the US patent system is in play. Furthermore, the third party patent holder is asserting that AMD's license only applies to Windows drivers.

2) AMD's hardware violates a third party patent.

In both cases, this is AMD's problem, not the Linux distribution's. Also, no one is claiming either of the above things have happened.

(Not a lawyer, but this is basic IP law.)
Environmental regulations typically hurt GDP. But we as a society (in the US at least) have long ago figured out that the improved quality of life is worth the decrease in overall productivity in many cases.

If you generalize the analysis to GDP trumps all, most environmental protections would fail that test.
Wouldn't it create traffic problems if they start routing everyone through side streets around the main intersections?
I was surprised how many of these I had read this year, I had no idea I was keeping up on discoveries in 2022! I don't know what the heck I've been reading to have noticed so many.

My favorite has to be the one that some spiders might dream. "Jumping spiders rapidly move their eyes and twitch during rest, suggesting they have visual dreams, never before observed in arachnids."

The runner up is either a new world record for largest freshwater fish, a 661-pound river sting ray, OR, finding the new global record-holder of the tiniest land snail title, with a shell width of 0.6–0.68 mm and a shell height of 0.46–0.57 mm
Turbopack vs. Vite
There's already a ton of open source tools and map community resources. Why should I trust the consortium set up by Meta et al?
As an enthusiastic XFCE user, do you mind answering a question? How do you usually launch applications?

I can appreciate the discoverability provided by a nested start menu but I've grown very fond of text launchers with autocomplete provided by gnome, mac os, dmenu, etc.
> it's always the same, tired line about 'neighbors with junk cars in their front yard blah blah'.

As a new homeowner I think it's just a mindset thing. I have a few eccentric neighbors, including one that commits just about every HOA sin imaginable. I don't consider this negative but rather adding flavor to the neighborhood. Life should have variety.

But then, I live in a major city (albeit a bedroom community near the edge of the city). In my view, having a few eccentric neighbors is vastly preferable to having a lifeless neighborhood (aside from some joggers and dog walkers) with manicured lawns and pristine fences.

Despite people's intuition, I think home prices are more or less detached from these details. Atleast around here, home values are mostly dictated by pay and job growth in biotech and similar.
there is no scene.

just electrons.

:)
Its easier to lay an electric cable to shore than to build a hydrogen plant at the sea, deal with corrosion, move hubdreds of staff there every day by boat and canisters of pressurised hydrogen.

I am not seeing the practicality of this outside of some really niche areas.
Very cool! I was wondering why there wasnt any music diffusion apps out there, it seems more useful because music has stricter copyright and all content creators need some background music ...
Decentralization Unchained (Psst want a UI/UX dev job?)
Xmd5a is already a real track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crcqADcAusg
Okay, but all I learned from your two anecdotes is that there are places where more local government is required to keep the peace and other places where it isn't. I still have no insight into why this is the case or whether or not HOAs are the best solution to the problem.
"Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else’s resources as carefully as he uses his own."
I've noticed that the further you get away from downtown, the more likely the bus driver is just going to tell you not to bother with it and wave you back if you reach for some dollar bills. But like you said, it'd be nice if it was just official policy for all bus rides rather than an ad hoc lottery based on the driver.
Canonical?

* Unity - Failed against GNOME and Gtk
* Mir - Failed against Wayland
* Upstart - Failed against Systemd
* Snap - Currently in fight against Flatpak

Canonical's help and cooperation is appreciated. Since they returned to GNOME a lot of things got improved for all! I've the impression Canonical is trying to push a always an own solution which is either inferior, not backed by community or follows a dark-pattern (Snap server is closed-source).
I'm afraid Ubuntu-Phone could've been a success if they searched cooperation with Red Hat, Purism or Jolla. Again...no :(
It's been thrown together for no other purpose than a political swipe .. in this case towards a UK political party the Tories.
Good question. I've always assumed that when I take an exam online that I'm granting access to BOAT LOADS of PII (mouse movements, IP address, cookies, my video camera, my video camera as I point it around my room)

I've always chalked this up to "of course you need to be vigilant that I'm not cheating", but with the twist that I hold you to a high ethical bar with the data you collect about me.

Am I wrong to think about it this way?
Thank you for providing an example of exactly the type of comment I would normally downvote and ignore.
> in any fashion.

Several open source licenses do not agree with this (they enforce restrictions on how it is to be shared).
Two issues. First, when a human gets something 5% wrong, it's more likely to be a corner case or similar "right most of the time" scenario, whereas when AI gets something 5% wrong, it's likely to look almost right but never produce correct output. Second, when a human writes something wrong they have familiarity with the code and can more easily identify the problem and fix it, whereas fixing AI code (either via human or AI) is more likely to be fraught.
Thanks! I should probably read the gato paper. If only there were enough hours in the day.
Previous related discussion: TomTom's new mapping platform and ecosystem. (550 points, 455 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33432720
Bill Gates is on the good guys team now, since he's not actively and aggressively running a company. Musk is still a bad guy. You'd have to wait at least a decade or two for Musk to get old enough to stop being interested in actively running one or more companies and thus be on the good guys team.
https://archive.today/zJVM9
US has one of the highest GDP per capita in the world yet:

- it's behind Poland and Lebanon or Barbados for life expectancy

- it's behind Poland or Morocco for safety

- is behind Poland or Slovenia or Turkey for work-life balance

- is middle of the pack for environment (despite its gigantic size most people live in so and so unhealthy places)

- is below average for civic engagement

- is middle of the pack for social mobility

- somehow US is among the highest in education rankings globally, something I have a hard time believing considering the emphasis on standardized tests and overall simplicity of US curricula (I guess research gets conflated with education, but ranking high schoolers for their math proficiency or functional literacy gets US middle of the pack)

- is among the highest ranking for depression and other mental illnesses

The best ranking countries in the world in all of those are...European social democratic countries that have never put GDP growth over social or environmental matters.

Facts are that being born in LA and coming from a high GDP family likely won't give you a better life by most metrics than being born in Latvia. You're not gonna be happier nor healthier nor more fulfilled.
> They used their own sound effects so if someone was stacking kills or whatever it would play announcer or musical clips.

Whew, to me this was a strike against community servers. There was a period there where I couldn't join a single CS:Source game without a boatload of Simpsons sounds downloading preventing me from playing. I remember replacing the downloaded sounds with 0 byte files so I wouldn't need to hear them, but servers kept changing the paths so I'd have a bunch of redundant ones to clean up.

Thankfully in true Valve fashion they gave me an out, well after things had gone completely off the rails, with a command line (and later UI) option to block only sound downloads.
Apple and open data in the same room? Nah.

They won't bat an eye if no profit is involved, and no guarantee to be the only one to profit.
Of course it did. Just how SBF's gifts went towards his own friends and family. Why do people expect anything else I don't understand.
Sell it as some sort of high-end version of regular salt at Whole Foods?
> You can have parallel dedicated servers that have no impact at all on the matchmaking experience

No, you can't, because in any multiplayer game with microtransactions (which almost all multiplayer games released in recent years have), any servers controlled by the community would be in direct competition with the developers, which is why the option is rarely provided in the first place. If matchmaking exists, developers have an inherent motivation to lead players to it and away from any experience they don't fully control. So why would they even allow it?
Here is Bill Gate's Press Release for 2022.

"With the support and guidance of our board, we plan to increase our spending from nearly $6 billion per year today to $9 billion per year by 2026. To help make this spending increase possible, I am transferring $20 billion to the foundation’s endowment this month." Jul 13, 2022 [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1547235386560155648
Well then I guess you're screwed.
Where I live, Google maps like to suggest this one comically evil route that takes you across 3 lanes of traffic, through a "roundabout" then across the 3 lanes of opposing traffic. On a highway. While yes, the "roundabout" does exist, its there for only two reasons: for emergency vehicles to idle in and for routing traffic when the segment of highway beyond is closed.
Peer review incentivizes the worst features of humanity: it affords peers in your field the ability to reject your paper because they want to take the idea for themselves and then publish it.
To explain why it's a problem.
Wow. Pretty clear this paper was not peer reviewed. Many of the arguments would not get past a high school English teacher. ‘A whole lot of money for nothin’ perhaps, but that money is not spent on peer review. Peer review doesn’t improve research productivity …. This reminds me of the argument that we should not spend more money on education, because education budgets have gone up, but test scores have not. The argument implies (but does not state, because of the absurdity), that spending less money would raise scores. And, remarkably (/s), peer review does not guarantee that all scientific results are reproducible and correct.

As the author points out, no one has done the control. We don’t know how much worse the scientific literature would be without peer review, and we don’t no how many important insights are lost because of poor reviews. But as someone who has done a lot of peer review (and has had papers rejected with uninformed reviews), it is difficult to state how much worse things could be. (But perhaps that is an overstatement, as very few papers do not find their way into some journal).

The scientific literature today is overwhelming. Peer review helps make it less so.
> The founding companies are planning to engage in collaborative map-building programs, meshing data from myriad open data sources and knocking it into a format that’s consistent, standardized, and fit for use in production systems and applications. This will include channeling data from long-established projects such as OpenStreetMap, in addition to open data provided by municipalities.

Interested to see if OpenStreetMap could benefit from this as well.
Sure, it will improve, but I think a lot of people think "Hey, it almost looks human quality now! Just a bit more tweaking and it will be human quality or better!". But a more likely case is that the relatively simple statistical modeling tools (which are very different from how our brains work, not that we fully understand how our brains work) that chatGPT uses have a limit to how well they work and they will hit a plateau (and are probably near it now). I'm not one of those people who believe strong AI is impossible, but I have a feeling that strong AI will take more than that just manipulating a text corpus.
Since DaniloDias is shadowbanned and he worded his response in a suboptimal way, I thought I'd paraphrase his response:

Gates and Zuckerberg publish plenty of press releases about their charitable giving:

https://countercurrents.org/2020/09/zuckerberg-wants-to-chan...

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-rel...
Flagged as it's nothing more than a political swipe and has no real science basis or value.
Society should pay more to have kids then.
Yes, I used Mac OS 9 and it was terrible. I used Macs in school and a good friend had one. It was only slightly worse than windows at the time. OS 9 crashed nonstop.

I was too young for Unix workstations. My only experience with them was a graybeard system admin who still had 2 Sparq workstations running something under his desk. Around 2015 they finally replaced the service it was running. I’m pretty sure he took them home to add to his collection.
it's like DisneyLand, except maybe more like WestWorld
The background here is mostly that these big organizations feel threatened by Google, and issues like the legal/licensure restrictions behind using big open data projects like OpenStreetMap make it hard to commit to using those datasets. They're trying to stay competitive.
GTA 5 has private servers as well, and it has a similar fat client architecture. It also uses P2P for a lot of things which was probably helpful for the FiveM developers.

MapleStory was also kind of an interesting case because the developers were careless enough to include debug symbols with their binaries on multiple occasions.
Final Fantasy Remake Has a Painting with a Getty Watermark
Make a SHORT list & Give yourself options, (ideally no more than 3):
I have to do these 3 things today, which one do I least-not want to do right now?
1) write a Christmas newsletter
2) work on programming project
3) take out the garbage

If there are more than 3 tasks, Use the Eisenhower matrix (important vs urgent?) To plot them and filter out all except the ones which are BOTH most important and most urgent.

I find that I get a lot of dishes and not-important/easy-but-urgent cleaning done when I have a big nasty task pending.
But at least then I'm still doing something productive with my time. Plus once you've finished & checked off some small stuff often I feel better about the tasks in general.

I think for me it takes a lot of energy to start a hard/important task, especially if I'm doubting if I can do it - or if I have never done it before or have to look it up to figure it out... If I'm also feeling anxious about the huge pile of other things I've got to do (even if they're small chores) then this can get to a crippling state where I don't want to do anything.

So again, sometimes just starting with some easy tasks to just get yourself moving, and saying "I am doing a good job, and I am getting stuff done" can then help me reduce the list. Make a written, physical list, and physically check it off.
I know it seems trite for computer people to Not use tech to solve a problem, but you need to see it and get that dopamine hit when you check it off.
I don't know, I've seen both and they don't really offer any solutions. Plus Dr. K. spouts a lot of pseudoscience and at times even esoteric nonsense.
They aren't wrong.

Fuel is machine food. The more machines we have doing work the more a single human can output. That means cheaper food and products. Which, in turn, means wealthier people. The history of petroleum use has been towards cleaner fuels. I see no reason not to stumble forward as we always have. Using petroleum is how wealthy nations became wealthy. We aren't going to stop rising nations from doing the same. If we did without a way for them to leapfrog oil, to produce energy, we are doing a ladder pull.

The more recent transition to natural gas for energy production is the single greatest reduction in emissions in the last 20 years. We are using natural gas from oil wells now. However, it can also be easily produced from organic waste. Closing the fuel loop would be a huge win.
That's the key here: if peer review is feedback rather than a barrier to sharing your findings and progressing in your career, then negative (though of course, in this situation review would no longer be a binary negative/positive) feedback could be considered input again. But the current setup of peer review, like this article is arguing against, assigns a high cost to "being wrong" (in the eyes of about two reviewers).
Earlier this year, graphic designers, last month it was software engineers, and now musicians are also feeling the effects.

Who else will AI make looking for a new job?
Firenvim: Turn Firefox into a Neovim Client
also if the batteries are cheap enough they can be considered "partially rechargeable" and swapped out when the capacity fades too much
I think i have a fair bit of empathy in this area and, well like you said, i think my job (software) is likely to be displaced too. Furthermore, i think companies have data sets regardless of if we allow public use or not. Ie if we ban public use, then only massive companies (Google/etc) will have enough data to train these. Which.. seems worse to me.

At the end of the day though, i think i'm an oddball in this camp. I just don't think there's that much difference between ML and Human Learning (HL). I believe we are nearly infinitely more complex but as time goes on i think the gulf between ML and HL complexity will shrink.

I recently saw some of MKBHD's critiques of ML and my takeaway was that he believes ML cannot possibly be creative. That it's just inputs and outputs.. and, well, isn't that what i am? Would the art i create (i am also trying to get into art) not be entirely influenced by my experiences in life, the memories i retain from it, etc? Humans also unknowingly reproduce work all the time. "Inspiration" sits in the back of their minds and then we regurgitate it out thinking it as original.. but often it's not, it's derivative.

Given that all creative work is learned, though, the line between derivative and originality seems to just be about how close it is to pre-existing work. We mash together ideas, and try to distance it from other works. It doesn't matter what we take as inspiration, or so we claim, as long as the output doesn't overlap too much with pre-existing work.

ML is coming for many jobs and we need to spend a lot of time and effort thinking about how to adapt. Fighting it seems an uphill battle. One we will lose, eventually. The question is what will we do when that day comes? How will society function? Will we be able to pay rent?

What bothers me personally is just that companies get so much free-reign in these scenarios. To me it isn't about ML vs HL. Rather it's that companies get to use all our works for their profit.
Oh no, then we're stuck having fun modding old games on our private servers.
I've heard good things about Rebellion. Can you describe it in more detail? What do you like or don't about it, and are there any games it's similar to?
Microsoft 365 – so sollte Datenschutzaufsicht nicht sein
Does a simple analog Honeywell thermostat not do that?
Not the parent but I have the Xfce AppFinder bound to the Super (Windows) key. I think I'm somewhat misusing it, but it's fast enough that I can strike Super and then immediately start typing the name of what I want. Dropped keys are rare, but it's not quite as fast as something like dmenu.
GDP is a very bad metric for measuring national wealth or people's wellbeing.

This is a known fact by decades, but there is simply no other metric "as simple" and effective to measure.
aha! good idea!

the web is… not free really… but more free than the wall gardens.

i think its biggest weakness is that notifications don’t really work there.

but that bug is now a feature. nice!
Imagine you're writing a lot of one off solutions (say, for AOC) you may end up building a small set of helpful functions you compose together

Being able to customise how they compose (through precedence) lets you build a kind of DSL for your problem space

No idea how often that would be used - but I can imagine hobby scenarios
sometimes, just starting is enough. Tell yourself you're just going to do some simple task that's necessary for what you want to accomplish. From there it's often easier to keep working
Imagination is great, but there's a blurry line between "imagine a thing and make it happen" and "tell happy stories instead of working".

One belongs in science journals; the other belongs in Astounding Stories. Both have their place, and there's even some overlap, but it's no surprise that grumpiness occurs when the conversation crosses that blurry line too far (in either direction).