skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the 1910s, propagandists would send push-surveys that included a question "(who else/what other organisation) do you know who should get this survey?" in order to map out socio-political graphs and plan their campaigns.

HREFs sound like much less manual work.

Edit: > ...able to find similarities even among websites that Marginalia doesn't index

Yeah, I joined LinkedIn specifically because even without my input it was way too good at figuring out my actual social graph. With my input, it no longer is :)

Lagniappe: https://www.tandfonline.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/t...
I've worked with people creating curl scripts to install software and most of the time it should scare people. At least with package management there is some community validation and version history of what changes are made, as well as checksum. I'm not saying you should discount all installs using curl, but you should at least check the script first and see if you're comfortable proceeding.
> I'm not inclined to recommend it to anyone, unless you're OK with a fairly good but un-and-likely-to-never-be-finished series.

I think this is enough justification for me. There's so many completed or "likely to be completed" series I _haven't_ read so I don't mind skipping this one unless there's some indication that it'll be completed :)

> Gentlemen Bastards is equally unfinished -- but I have faith that Scott Lynch will eventually publish the next book before Rothfuss did. Plus I consider the first book (and to a lesser extent, the second and third books) to be fun enough on their own that I'm not aching for a fourth book in the way that KKC leaves a story unfinished. In short, I'd still recommend reading Gentlemen Bastards :)

GTK! This is exciting to hear actually.
Utterly meaningless statement
Ada SPARK is a realistic option today:

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-spark/index.html

>> Is the total cost of learning Ada and SPARK greater than learning Rust or Frama-C?

It is a comparable amount of effort.
Regardless of whether it’s useful, middle-endianness itself is odd.
> Well, if the shoe fits...

It doesn't

> venues are absolutely entitled to a cut on any ticket resales

No I don't. Moreover, "in perpetuity" is a red herring.

> you assume people reselling tickets is a problem

No I don't. I perceive it as a problem venues are willing to pay to solve.

> It's telling that you assume that it's the venues that have to get in on the cut

Again, no I don't. Anyone on the supply side of this can negotiate this in. The tickets can originate from the artists, and then the organizers, and then the venues. Artists and venues can openly negotiate on this.

I've said before that you're imagining things I'm not, and halfway through your response, that's all you've done. I'm not going to bother to read or reply to the rest.

Happy holidays.
Most of the components are readily available on ebay today.

It would be easy to build an exact duplicate and fire it up on one of the HF Amateur bands.

In fact a number of groups specialise in recreating "Spy Radios" and getting them working.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Paraset-Radio-Spy-Radio-Working-Re...

https://hackaday.com/2013/11/26/retrotechtacular-wwii-parase...
Random Forests Can't Overfit
Self-hosting means the ability to host and run the code on your own server (home or webhost). Since Microfeed is built on the cloud services offered by Clouflare, you technically can't run it independently on your own server as you will still have to use the Clouflare services:

microfeed uses Cloudflare Pages to host and run the code, R2 to host and serve media files, D1 to store metadata, and Zero Trust to provide logins to the admin dashboard.

@jacooper is correct that the term has been wrongly used by the creator.
Wikipedia edit history [1] suggests the definition has been a matter of some debate, but the current definition has more or less been static since a few months after the article was created; i.e. high costs, high-profile and high-expectations.

By that definition, a AA game could definitely look better than an AAA game, although it would be unexpected. On the other hand, BioWare's recent titles and the entire Cyberpunk 2077 debacle seems to have shaken things up quite a bit and many people now seem to have have _lower_ expectations on AAA titles, because the major players aren't trusted to release good titles worth their money.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AAA_(video_game_i...
Unless the post you are replying to has been heavily edited, I am at a loss to see how you could find in it either an assumption or implication that flowers themselves decided to be beautiful or that they know they are beautiful.

One could challenge whether it is appropriate to say flowers are beautiful to insects, though clearly that is intended to be read as attractive, which, empirically, they are (nor do you seem to dispute the proposition that they evolved to be that way), and there's no prima facie reason for their scent and appearance to invoke pleasure in most humans.
There are services to do automated calls that are much cheaper than $15/call (like https://www.remindercall.com, no affiliation). I'm curious why you used magic for that task.
That is fascinating! Science is really difficult :)
This reminds me of an old saying:

"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
The alien origin hypothesis is just kicking the can down the road.
His hack for annotating paper books is brilliant.
Chess tournaments are a great place for citizens of brutal regimes to defect ...
That an old man with dementia who feel he has to defend himself will use full force while the people who the nurse/caregiver will consciently and inconsciently restrain themselves in order to not break any bones or harm the person they are taking care of.
Just yesterday I decided to investigate why I was near my storage limit on Google. Google Photos turned out to be a major culprit. Some photos were connected to my blog--I use Blogger--but a bunch were backups from years ago that somehow got synced from my phone.

But in spite of having thousands of email messages, Gmail wasn't taking up much room at all.
>USA: "Federal ID would be literally 1984!"

That's the people, not the government. Federal government has wanted it's cattle bran- I mean Federal ID for decades now.
A nitpick from someone who can't be bothered to write a better UX?
The vision of computer-supported and -verified proofs of maths was old when i studied. And I'm old nowadays - or, at least, not young anymore.

There has been some progress in the last couple of decades, but not so much that you'd expect this to be completely solved in the next decade.
Now compare it to f2py.
No, it's still a good wish.
That will be GPT-6's job
The VSCode Neovim plugin works with the Jupyter plugin for VS Code. So you can use your favorite editor inside Jupyter inside VSCode without having to change windows at all. It's a breeze
http://TheCatApi.com gives me cat pictures.

Can this dog API do that? If so, that would be a huge "selling" point
Sorry man, I don't know that. Can you offer any evidence - an email or something - that shows that the intelligence community knew it wasn't Russian disinformation at the time Twitter was deliberating over what to do with the NY Post?

Also, you didn't answer the question about principles. I'm still interested in that. I believe I have a rule about social media moderation that I've applied consistently across a wide variety of circumstances. Can you say the same?

Edited to add: And again, if the intelligence community was trying to pick a winner, why didn't they try to ban all the other stories about the laptop? And why only on Twitter? The NY Post was still going strong on Facebook, right?
Growing 40% a year and losing money by charging less than it costs to run is not a sustainable business model.
Google did make money providing email for one of my companies with G Suite. Then something screwed up happened that disrupted service, their support was worse than useless, and I will never pay for any non-advertising Google product ever again.
Let me introduce you to ctrl+c which is the same as <ESC> in most cases (notable exception: visual selection mode)
But they weren’t advising the public not to wear masks based on genuine skepticism, but on a confused belief that it would have the narrow effect of relieving the supply crunch, with no long term effect on mask compliance in the future, even given the loss of trust from having told the public BS reasons not to wear them. (Like the Fauci quotes and assertions of ineffectiveness.)

That was stupid, and foreseeably so.
This sounds like something you could implement most (or all?) of in minutes with either of two methods: (a) a single text file with grep and, optionally, your own custom tags; or (b) a dedicated email account and client. With (a) you get a stupid-simple system with no setup, myriad sync/backup/versioning options, and unlimited scale; with (b) you get every device and OS conceivable, file attachments, and infrastructure you’re already using anyway.
Do you think this analogy captures the nuances of this situation? Or is it just vaguely aligned with your opinion?
It gives more power to the federal government.
i'm not excluding anyone using it even for a day.

i was trying to make a point that it's a tool with a very long history and all the time i "wasted" (and still waste) on learning it was well invested, as it's going nowhere and i spend 8-9h in it a working day.

i think i've been using only a shell longer than vim.
100 years is a lot of time. Will the material substrate of computing still be silicon (e.g., how about quantum computing - overhyped as of today but surely not over the very long term)

Another branch that might eventually become something of a science might be massively parallel computing?
Why would they not be against subjecting their citizens to such a mass surveillance system?
Do you believe surgical masks work during surgery? There’s “no evidence” they do this.

There’s also no reason that hearing there is “no evidence” for something requires you to adopt the silliest possible assumption for whether it’s actually true, but doctors seem to like doing this anyway.

(The actual answer for whether masks are “effective against covid” is “which covid?” - cause it’s different for 2020 covid and Omicron. Omicron is so infectious that you cannot avoid it using any kind of NPI at all.)
For someone who cites Seneca, this author sure doesn't seem to get stoicism.

You could make yourself uncomfortable by donning a mail gauntlet and punching yourself in the face every thirty seconds until you die. So what? What good does that do for anybody, yourself included?

It's this intensely epicurian take on stoicism. It's like, the purpose of becoming hard, tough, and a badass is to sit there enjoying that you are a hard, tough, stoic badass.

What are you going to DO with that? Answer that question and I'll tell you what you are. If you have no answer, you just told ME what you are.

Am I going to lose any sleep over that? Nah. What good would it do for me to be angry over some fool's self-absorption? If I have nothing better to do than fret over that, it's an indictment of me and I ought to attend to that lack in myself.

Be uncomfortable if it serves a purpose. If, like Seneca, the purpose is 'not to get too out of touch with regular people', that's fine, if that matters to you. I play drums and lift weights. I don't like the weights, but when I sit down to play drums (or carry firewood etc) I'm not helpless thanks to the discomfort. Purpose transforms all this. Purpose is nice. It's the point of the exercise, not just sitting there contemplating your badassery.
What type of Data Engineer do you want to be?

We're starting to see an unbundling of data engineering into analytics Engineering (BI developer on steroids), ML engineering (AutoML is good enough that if you can do good feature engineering and pipelines the marginal value of adding a data scientist is not worth the cost, and data platform engineering (K8s. K8s everywhere).
My father had this CD.

I remember using it as a kid.

You could really select anything (or seemingly anything) and have its inner-workings explained in a nice set of animations!

I still have fresh in my mind of how a car speed-o-meter used to work.
> why are the states against it?

Cedes control, which is a political and minor economic issue.
Outside of neuralink fantasy PR, is it really possible to interface a computer with the brain like that? I feel like we don’t have the slightest clue how the brain works and then I don’t see how we could ever make electronics interface with synapses in a way that makes you see video, audio, etc.

It seems I’m not alone and Noam Chomsky feels the same.
https://www.inverse.com/article/32395-elon-musk-neuralink-no...
The other problem is that self-hosted email is far more likely to go to spam. I have some accounts set up with gmail only because otherwise they will never get delivered.
Of course. Like you can say whatever you want here but you may get downvoted. That's the consequence. I guess you feel luckier than Mahsa Amini?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Mahsa_Amini
You may have synced photos at some point, perhaps unknowingly. Or you may have some large media files on Drive. There are mays to search for large files although Google doesn't make it especially easy or intuitive.
Doesn’t sound to you like hindsight is 20/20. Sounds like you’d want to take the exact same approach next time something like this happens
It’s curious to see this topic on HN as I just came across an article about the impeding energy crisis in Ontario that sheds light on how the province is leveraging underground compressed air storage[1] as a tactic in their energy storage mitigation strategy.

[1] “Beyond the sprawling nuclear plants and waterfalls that generate most of the province’s electricity sit the batteries, the underground caverns storing compressed air to generate electricity, and the spinning flywheels waiting to store energy at times of low demand and inject it back into the system when needed.”
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/12/26/ontario-electricity-e...
I sometimes wonder how the US would have reacted to a Spain-style lockdown. I somewhat happily watched movies and played board games as well, but was legally unable to leave the house for three months. It really sucked as we lived in a tiny studio apartment and it was hard to do any excessive at all.
My dryer from sometime in the 90s has parts commonality with dryers built in the 1960s.

I didn't try to figure out if it's also the case with any presently available models.
it's 'sh', not 'sudo sh', so it's not that bad;

Along the lines of "curl | bash" detection, one can add "sudo -n" to see if the person has passwordless sudo. In my own testing I have found that many people have passwordless sudo.

Even without sudo it turns out that people have bad posix permissions throughout their filesystem and one can hijack many things including existing SSH tunnels because of control-master. Even without sudo one can hop around a persons production network riding existing SSH channels. Many devops people have SSH multiplexing and control-master enabled in their SSH client. Then it is just a matter of finding bad permissions in production environments which is also often the case. One rarely needs root to download or even modify database contents as the database credentials are often stored in an environment file that gets sourced by automation.

The biggest problem here I see is that companies rarely let their penetration testers a.k.a. red-team into production. Corporate leaders would be taken aback at the findings.
Read Smil's book "How the World Really Works"

The commitment to fossil fuels is a) far greater than you can imagine and b) will not change anywhere in the near future. Bottom line: 'fossil' fuels are second only to nuclear energy in the amount of energy by volume. Nothing else is close. And we need vast amounts of energy just to grow enough to feed this planet's population let alone distribute it to where it needs to go.

So yeah, BP has got it right.
> the people in the US decrying Federal ID are exactly correct as shown by the reality in Afghan?

Sort of. The defence in America against a Taliban-style takeover is more in its decentralisation. From politics to financial records, the data are held in multiple spots, making an automated canvassing difficult. The downside of that decentralisation is a lot of corruption and fraud can go uncaught.
Freedom of movement is a human right, and so is freedom of bodily autonomy. Both of these rights were being attacked with increasing and seemingly unending force. It became a moral issue very early on and it wasn’t clear where it would end at all. If rights were being stripped away for no good reason, then one might assume that any of their rights could be taken away on a whim.

In 2020 I looked at the data and decided that it wasn’t important to wear a mask. Do you remember how those people were treated in 2020? Now look at the covid infection rates today—they’re in the same ballpark as they were in 2020. And yet, most people refuse to wear a mask now.

I knew it wasn’t rational back in 2020 and yet I faced increasing aggression from my neighbors, my workplace, and my government for living my best understanding of the truth. Now almost three years on, people have decided that the truth has changed in my favor and I’m no longer insane.

Can you see how someone who thought the lockdowns were immoral would have been under great stress during the last few years?
The collection of decentralized streams are organized centrally here: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/jev22
> there's a level of blind faith put into evolution

I'd call it common sense, more than blind faith. You see a person dead on the floor with a bullet wound, and a handgun laying next to the body. Concluding that the victim was shot to death is common sense, not blind faith. In that sense, evolution is more like playing detective, all the evidence is pointing to it.
There are some nice tools for 3D PDEs which connect to DiffEq like GridAP (https://docs.sciml.ai/Gridap/stable/) and Ferrite (https://docs.sciml.ai/Ferrite/stable/). PDE tooling is where focus has been moving to as things evolve.

As for JIT, just today there was a PR that was merged that makes Julia cache and reuse binaries of packages (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/47184). It won't be out until the next release of Julia, but it's a pretty major improvement to not JIT fully inferred package calls.
NIH researchers use 3D bioprinting to create eye tissue
Semi-Controversial Predictions for 2023
Hat tip that you mention GNU date. I am surprised each time I use that feature and it manages to produce the date that I wanted.
I did and I’m missing the pressure. No one can seem to point it out too; when asked they either say “read the files”, or “when the FBI asks you to do anything it’s automatically a threat.” Still waiting for maybe a link to one of the tweets at least that people find so problematic.
I wish the other way round was as easy as supporting Lua.
Yes but presumably there are storage replicas for each version of the video.

The suggested idea, which Google might already do, is to keep the low quality videos in less redundant storage on the theory that they can be re-encoded from the more durably stored original video if the underlying storage fails.
Thank you!

Your explanation was instantly understandable and (in hindsight) obvious to me.
I think one day or another China will attack Taiwan anyway, scorched earth policy or west support (which to an island will be extremely difficult) are irrelevant, and so is Taiwan tech export policy.
The Discord backend is built on Elixir:
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/10/08/real-time-communicat...
The status quo is that the states already have IDs that are exactly how they want them. There’s no practical benefit to them, and it’s a politically convenient argument for privacy rights and states rights.
Isn't the weight of a hammer head a key part of what makes it effective?
Is the purpose sitting there passively saying 'ya, you can't make me do anything' or are you going to do something with that? :)
Oh, I'm saying that you aren't either, and are just bloviating around culture war nonsense. That's made clear by your use of key phrases.
What are we, children?
Didn’t you know that the bits and bytes are a different colour in Asia?
I believe claims of "compilers getting faster/bigger enough" are the exact reason we have ECS now. It surely depends of the kind of game, but games with any kind of entity which isn't unique should feel the performance improvements.

Ideally, compilers should be able to transform classes into ECS layout when generating code. Shouldn't be hard to have a pass before compilation, if we use clang.
Ah, I see what you mean, yes, commercial displays could easily be much larger. But more often than not, they are driven from a video signal. I looked into the commercial grade LED matrix panels from China. Price wasn’t bad itself considering how many LEDs, but shipping would’ve been $1500/panel and then you also need to buy all the hardware too (as they aren’t WS28xx or similar compatible).
Surprisingly no issues here in Firefox or Chrome mobile. What's wrong with it?
I know a number of "hardcore pirates" who pay for nearly every streaming service you can imagine, but never use the services. Instead they provide some sort of "moral cover" for their piracy. Whatever works for them, I guess.
Reminds me of the time I accidentally set my CPU voltage way too low in AMD PBO.

I thought it was in milivolt, but it was in microvolt IIRC. So I did 1100 base and it was .1v.

It posted actually, but the CPU (2900x) was capped at 500mhz, total package power was like 15w. Took about 3 minutes to boot and that was when I realized something was terribly wrong.
I always felt the exact same way and thought there will eventually be some interface I can wear on my fingers and “type” anywhere, laying down, standing up, etc. but now I’m thinking it won’t be a hardware change at all but more like a hardware elimination: ie, as long as I can speak and the computer can hear me we will be able to build software anywhere. I will be able to develop software faster as I can start prototyping and testing things while I’m still in the midst of writing them on paper, I can have unit tests churning out automatically while I’m still “white boarding” or whatever it will be called then. I just imagine an AI assistant that can be one step ahead of me and make me able to work so much smarter and more efficiently but also eliminate almost all boilerplate and tedious editing and code organization and greatly reduce code rot as the code base will be “self arranging” and refactors automatic.
Oof, sounds like you all have gone back to the days of singing under balconies (or, if bollywood is to believed, recruiting a "small" crew of your closest friends to dance behind you when shooting your shot?)

Good luck!

[Edit: upon reflection, sounds like a solution may be to abandon tinder for RL meatspace? Last I checked, XX and XY in non-polygamous countries ought to be close to 50/50?]
I suspect the problem you'll run into is that there are a lot of people who want the government to be so small, it can be drowned by a manchild in a hoodie (to paraphrase Grover Norquist). You'll find a few of them here too.
Well, do what you do, but I wish them a successful, violent insurgency. Non-violence does not work when the ruling party is willing to murder you.
You don't see how stereotyping everyone with green hair is pretty much the same thing the poster is accusing "green haired people" of doing?
To answer your question:

> What are the odds?

Very good, actually.

You seem (and seemed) to be unaware how dismissive your original comment was. In fact that was the entire point of the response. To take issue with that response on the grounds it itself is "unhelpfully dismissive" involves layers of irony.