skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe if I can successfully raise a stink on Twitter. Generally, no.

Having thought of how this scenario works backwards, I discovered that I assumed the kicked out lawyers were issued a refund, but I have no evidence of it. If not, they ought to demand it.
Next week on Local News: "Man fined after his butt dials 911" and "Cat walking on keyboard sends unfinished draft of email"

Basically, both of these articles are about a poorly-thought-out feature ("Alexa, send a message to $CONTACT") rather than some deep conspiracy to share your private thoughts with corporate America. I can see why the victims are annoyed, but it's kind of like "I turned my thermostat up to 80 and got a $700 gas bill". That can happen. It's not a conspiracy.
> Whenever my more liberal friends back in San Francisco talk about Palestine and the "Evil West"

Those inalienable rights are for Americans and Israelis, not Palestinians.
Or just one, even. Most of this country doesn’t even consider a new car of any kind a financial possibility.

The average vehicle on US roads was built before the Model S even existed and people were not yet sure if Tesla was going to make it as a company.
I don't think that you misunderstood me, but I do think that we should be careful with using the term "minority group".

Examples of minority groups in the UK to me would be things like transgender people (~0.1-1% of the population), people of Indian heritage (1-5%), etc. Small percentages of the whole, but still significant quantities (e.g. tens, hundreds of thousands).

I don't think that we can look at a group of 10-20 people with the same opinion blocking traffic in the same way. The rights of the people being disrupted have to be weighed up here.
AI-Generated Travel Guide
Yeah. My functions work with data that is received in parameters. Classes are for dependency injection composition and hold state data only when absolutely necessary.
Why don’t we learn how to adapt to a changing earth rather than go elsewhere?
Counterexample 1: "Immunity from infection is 'better than' an experimental shot."

Counterexample 2: "The odds of this being a lab origin are 'better than' those of a furin cleavage site evolving naturally."

Both are/were cancellable.
The first Orient Express cruise ship will set sail in 2026
That's cool. Pity you can't do this in the mobile app...
If you can afford that level of slack, I think you will build a very happy, long-term-focused org.

Worth noting that they build and open-source frameworks like Rails, Hotwire; if you want to polish and share, you need extra bandwidth vs. just building internal-facing products.
Is there a movie about a similar story? We've talked about something vaguely resembling Kent's post with my mom last week and I don't think she has seen this in writing (certainly not on HN, ha).
> Having thought of how this scenario works backwards, I discovered that I assumed the kicked out lawyers were issued a refund, but I have no evidence of it. If not, they ought to demand it.

The point of my example is that even if the victims were issued a refund, what MSG did is still wrong. Buyers don't get to unilaterally unwind ticket sales. Why should MSG get to do so?
I can't believe someone dropped a link to this story. I remember reading this and feeling like it broadened my sense of what evolutionary processes can produce.
Ask HN: Why isn't PWA's the default cross platform solution yet?
I like this! I will do this in the future.
Meanwhile, Turkish men are the most metrosexual in the world, and let's just say it 's easier to get laid in Taksim than it is in the Castro. I feel that Istanbul is actually a far gayer city than San Francisco, but everybody stays in the closet in order to survive.

You have a funny concept of free.

If I am not free to be exactly who I am, then I am not free.

If I am forced to follow a religion under penalty of death, I am not free.

If I am forced to not leave that religion under penalty of death, I am not free.

If I am forced to be straight, I am not free.

A free nation allows everybody to be free, not just the mainstream.
DG Opinion on Safety for ISO C++ [pdf]
> What made Western Europe diverge from places like Russia or Saudi Arabia?

The Black Death increased labour’s bargaining power right before the Industrial Revolution. It’s a lucky set of quirks that gave Enlightenment-era ideas fertile soil to land on.
Am I crazy, or is replika the service that, when it launched, made chats public and browsable by default? I remember a day on which everyone in the office was talking about it, so I downloaded the iOS version. After a few back-and-forths it started flirting with me (if I recall, apropos of nothing it said, "Thinking about you! ;)"). And then once I discovered the public chat log I deleted the app immediately. I do not need the world to see me getting busy with a robot.
The only hint of that in this mostly sympathetic article:

When some proposed forming their own self-funded water provider, other residents revolted, saying the idea would foist an expensive, freedom-stealing new arm of government on them. The idea collapsed.
> Why would it be a good idea for an American news outlet to try to kill the soldiers/families who are most disaffected with the war?

Why would you think they're disaffected? The quotes are manufactured and attributed to random soldiers - loyal or not. At the moment the only good Russian is a dead Russian so this is a great way to weaken their morale.
shift+F worked for me to toggle freelook. Thanks for the help!
It is actually Amazon's Lumberyard, which was also CryEngine fork.
Ask HN: Who has been sued for a non-compete?
Country/State?
Role?
Length of the process?
Total cost $?
Were you vindicated or did you lose?
A bio-fuel can not be carbon negative, by definition. At most it can be neutral.

And yes, none is neutral either.

> my last dive into this resulted in an understanding that we'd be better off just using turning the carbons required to grow the things

But this is a huge jump, without subsidizing evidence, and known to be false.

Just because the fuel emits carbon, it doesn't mean it emits as much carbon as natural gas. Only corn ethanol fails at this and emits more than the original fuel.
Note that while "open and free" is possible if a company bites the bullet, there is currently no way it would be self-hostable on consumer GPU
Sounds neat, but doesn't seem to be available yet?
Theoretically, an asgi server sits in front of your fastapi or starlette. This asgi servers are usually written in python (maybe calling some c code underneath). You can "probably" gain some performance by writing the asgi server in rust. I don't know how much better is this.
The ideal mp3 player is

- small, fits in your palm,

- plays flac, wav, mp3, midi, and other obscure formats,

- easy to upload/download files, pops up as an usb drive when plugged into a pc,

- good sound output (I can sacrifice size for sound quality),

- jack/bluetooth output,

- sd/microsd card support,

- cheap,

- +1 optional fm/dap+? receiver.

I once bought a Sony Xperia mobile phone. It had all kinds of issues. Microphones were trash, the noise suppression was terrible, sometimes you couldn't hear the other party, the back glass shattered multiple times while sitting on the desk etc. That was such a bad experience I never touched any kind of handheld from Sony, and not gonna touch this one, for sure.
To add to your comment, nobody says OP’s experience is incorrect. Instead, the comment thinking4real takes reflexive offence to seeks to explain it, not demean it.
It's not a safe car by any modern means, we got it for drives on the weekend. It only has a lap belt and no power brakes, but it's fun to drive :-)
From my limited experuence, Jordan seems to be the closest example of a democrcy in the Arab world I know. Sure, it is by no means democratic when compared to Western democracies. But they do not use totalitarian and draconian measures to surpress the population on a regular basis. Nor is Jordan an outright relogiously motivated chauvinist regime. And compared to other, more democratic nations like Tunesia or Marocco, Jordan is extremely stable. Which is a value in itself.

But this is just my impression as an outsider.
It is weird that the numerous alpha/beta releases [1] are not getting tagged though.

[1] https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-0-beta-...
As an Egyptian who took part of the arab spring, I really laughed on your argument (sorry no insult). But as simple as argument it is, It doesn't hold because you see the Egyptian currency is no almost 6x less with 10x or more on average for food prices and there is no movement to overthrow the current regime.

And for corruption and unemployment, they are much worse now than before. Then more than half the country are under poverty line, most of middle class became lower class in a couple of years.

There were no particular reason why the uprising happened, of course some people joined because of that. But this wasn't my reason (or majority of people I know).
> I recently came across a term for this. Telic vs. atelic activities [0]. Telic activities are things with some terminal state, e.g. a typical goal-oriented project, or something like the act of getting married.

> Atelic activities are those activities where the continuous process is the goal. Certain types of learning, being a good parent, and so on.

Reading the article, I understand this differently. Telic activities are indeed activities that have a terminal goal. However, the idea of a continuous process being the goal seems orthogonal to the telic/atelic distinction. You can have an activity that is both enjoyable and has a final goal: one can play a video-game both because they want to beat it and because they enjoy playing it. An activity being telic doesn't mean it's not enjoyable by itself. You can also have atelic activities that don't have any goals.

There's no reason, a priori, that making an activity telic should take away from the day-to-day enjoyment. Having a final goal shouldn't stop people from enjoying the journey. It does change the game (from an open-ended sandbox to a more linear game), but it doesn't make it unenjoyable per se. What really takes out the enjoyment of the process is not the introduction of the goal, but rather an excessive optimization toward a goal at the expense of the process.
I was amazed when I read the other week it wasn't already encrypted at rest by default.
From start to finish, Sunday’s Falcon Heavy launch delivered imagery
There are some excellent engineers based in India - but they are in high-demand, and you have to be willing to pay above-average (by Indian standards) to retain them. And some people aren’t keen on doing that, because they think “India was supposed to be cheap, why pay this engineer so much, that isn’t really that ‘cheap’!” But if that thinking wins, one ends up with an India team without any excellent engineers…

I have no idea what IBM is doing though. I know when Microsoft moved SFU/SUA (the legacy pre-WSL Unix compatibility subsystem) development to India, the product quality went massively downhill-probably because they didn’t budget enough to hire and retain enough sufficiently skilled developers.

That’s the big risk with moving stuff to a low-cost country - if you do it “on the cheap”, it will be a disaster. But since the whole idea was to cut costs and pursue “cheapness”, the temptation to do that is there
Certainly a respect for the individual played a role. Thomas Hobbes argued for a strong monarch specifically to protect their subjects and their subjects’ property. Other philosophers like John Lock, David Hume, Adam Smith, and John Stuart Mill would expand on this and build the classically liberal tradition.

But we also can’t underestimate the impact of: 1) abundant energy sources—initially wood and then coal that could power machinery. 2) a scientific tradition with engineering applications in mind. 3) the Black Plague that let people just drop their scythes and move to the city to become tradesmen and earn a better living. 4) the Common Law tradition placing property rights and the right to contract on near-sacred grounds. 5) Access to abundant fishing off the coast of what became North America.

I don't think there's any one thing we can point to explain the rise of West, it's a confluence of factors that I'm very grateful happened before I was born
Cool project, although the name kinda clashes with the well-known https://www.sketch.com/ in the UI/UX design space
It's good for workers regardless of any cynical take. Non-competes put more burden on workers than it does on companies.
I'm rebutting your assertion that it was practically possible to do before facial recognition was being used. It wasn't. That's clear because MSG has wanted to do this, but couldn't, until facial recognition was available. Everything else you are saying completely detracts from the reality of this situation. I'll point out a further irony, that once it is your own ego that is being challenged, suddenly you can make an astute observation and a reasonable deduction thereof. But when it was your hypothetical that you are pushing, which defies obvious reality, you were unable to make sense of anything.
It is pretty clear what is happening:

Tesla captured 72% of EV sales in 2021. But only 65% of EV sales in 2022, and it dropped to just 58% in Q2 of 2022. So Tesla's market share is dropping pretty rapidly in comparison to its EV competitors.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-lost-market-share-in-...

"Tesla grew 40% in 2022 — selling 1.3 million cars — falling short of the EV industry growth and below its 50% growth target."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2023/01/15/how-elon-...

Right now it is in the stage where the competitors take big shares out of the market at Tesla's expensive now that there are serious competitors to Tesla both in North America and in China. Not sure when we get to a new equilibrium here.
Reading that article made me start playing with evolutionary algorithms and start to think they were the future, as opposed to neural nets. Oops!
I looked into this a bit last week. The OPT-30b model seems close to GPT-3 in capabilities, and running on 4x 24GB NVIDIA A10G GPUs, can generate 90 tokens per second. I wonder how fast that model could run on 4x 24GB NVIDIA P40 GPUs - which currently cost about $110 on ebay. It'd be a lot slower, but even if it's 1/90th the speed, that's still 1 token per second.
I agree with the point that there is a difference between a savings mindset and investment/growth mindset. One should invest in physical and mental health.

But a lot of the advice seems like narrative fallacies
> you can’t be both Islamic and secular at the same time

Yes. There is a difference between an Islamic nation and a nation of Muslims.
cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34327564 (mtbf for emperors of rome)
Kind of a weird article, as 8-bit quantization is widely used in production for neural networks for a number of years now. The title of the article is a bit misleading since it's widely known that 8-bit quantization does work and is extremely effective at improving inference throughput and latency. I'm not 100% sure if I'm reading the article correctly since it's a bit oblique, but it seems like the news here is that work is being done to formally specify a cross-vendor FP8 standard, as what exists right now is de facto standards from different vendors.
Yes. Continuously.

There's 3 times to refactor:

1. When you're trying to add a new feature ("prepare").

2. When the new functionality has been added ("tidy").

3. When you're trying to understand the code ("clarify").

The problem is when refactoring is seen as a separate activity from coding. It shouldn't be: it is a _part_ of the coding activity.
It's space. Orbit is in all likelihood cleaner than your average clean room. Planets/moons add dust and thin atmospheres as concerns, but that's quite obviously easier to mitigate than the "dust and much thicker atmosphere and microbes and moisture" that Earth-based clean rooms have to mitigate.

As for bootstrapping industry beyond Earth, the amount of Earthborne equipment and supplies to build a self-sustaining extraterrestrial supply chain is far below necessitating stripmining the Earth bare - obviously, since we were able to bootstrap terrestrial industry just fine without (yet) doing so.
What's interesting about this vs. something like an Apple Watch?

It's hard to imagine a use can where I need to to hear lossless audio on wired headphones but wouldn't have my phone with me.
People here say that this doesn't secure anything. But in addition to encryption by default, AWS announced they will as of April 2023 enforce secure S3 configuration (no public access) by default. So things are definitely getting better when you put these announcements together.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/heads-up-amazon-s3-security...
I agree with the point that there is a difference between a savings mindset and investment/growth mindset. One should invest in physical and mental health.

But a lot of the advice seems like narrative fallacies.
It does say “DOS” in the title. I think most people don’t think of NeXT or Mac when they read “DOS”
Two reasons: 1. Because Apple intentionally cripples them on its mobile operating systems. 2. Because PWAs can't harvest as much of your personal information as native apps can (regardless of platform).
This is another thing which cell phones have killed. Today odds are you would be trying to call or text to get in or just browsing on your phone with no time to listen to some old man’s stories .
But who is paying for all this R&D?

I love my echo. Sits in my livingroom and mostly answers my questions about the weather and converting units from oz to ml when I'm cooking. But since I purchased it I have never once paid a penny for the use of it's service.

One could argue that Amazon can advertise better because it knows I ask all these questions, but Amazon 'advertising' is mostly just forcing sellers to pay for the top spot on Amazon search. Is that really going to make more money by knowing that I don't know the weather today?

I get the impression that Amazon has finally clued into the fact that paying thousands of developers and research scientists to build a voice assistant that makes no money is not a great business model. The coming layoffs have left a lot of my friends in the Alexa organization rightfully worried.
“everyone [should] use as little energy as possible.”

I wonder how many flights he’s taken this year. I wonder what his personal energy usage metrics are.

That would be a fun little side game - anyone who runs in the circles to decide energy cost/policy/etc has their metrics beside their face when they speak. Just for fun.
You only needed to enter a few commands to process your stack of punch cards so ergonomics didn’t matter
Sufis are still fairly right-wing, except maybe the hippy westerners who go spin themselves doing the semih in the unofficial mevlevi lodges in Yelova or Konya. I've done the one in Konya actually, it's a great musical experience.
What’s Happening with the Dungeons and Dragons Open Gaming License?
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I’d wager his servers were all running at 20% utilization.
ADHD traits more reliably predict mental health issues than autistic traits
Wouldn’t your example apply to any encrypted hard drive as well? If you provide access to it encryption is not doing anything.
NutMaq: The app that proves who's the best at FIFA among friends
Please, citation needed about the last time a western government stoned, beheaded, or hung to death a gay man for sucking dick?
I’m reminded of Wetrix on the N64.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetrix
First game I've returned. They had classes that were supposed to be shooters, but things would spawn right on top and everything seemed to turn into melee.

Honestly, the spawning-on-top seemed like an old school game where you had to have static placements of things and to make it difficult things would spawn on top of you, or right behind you. There is no ability to clear a room and move on.

For a steam return, you only get a 2 hour window, but in those two hours my sharpshooter was 90% hit things with a shovel.
>>> "people are using it to cheapen something valuable."

Since Socrates was mentioned in the article it made me think how he thought that written information was not an effective way of education.

He's was not wrong in that tutoring will beat books every day, but the benefits they brought when massively produced may have not been even in their imaginations at the time.
I think you've misunderstood, "native messaging" allows the tridactyl extension to interact with the filesystem and native applications: https://github.com/tridactyl/native_messenger
Obligatory mention of the lunchtime clock that works a bit harder before lunch, then evens things out afterwards: https://hackaday.com/2011/01/18/the-lunchtime-clock-gives-yo...
I hitchhiked a bit during my college days, so I feel a moral obligation to pick up others if I can. Doesn’t seem to happen as often as it used though.

Worst that happened to me was a very smelly drunk..
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I've not tried it myself, but is this of any use?

https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/DataBase#Examples

All of the database examples talk about podcasts. Especially the last one that uses play counts to split podcasts into old and new "folders" seems useful.

(Opinions my own)
You've been downvoted into greyed out territory, so those observations aren't tolerated here.
What’s always been unclear to me is how much I actually gain from providing my own KMS key use with S3 if at the end of the day my private key is available to the s3 service.

I would only use client side encryption/decryption if I had really sensitive data and I truly couldn’t trust AWS with it.
Amazon has been subsidizing it in the hope that people would buy stuff on a moment's whim any time of the day. "Alexa, order me a package of keebler elf cookies" or whatever. I'm sure there's more to it - some kind of useful data collection or whatever, but that was their main stated goal.

It's been a pretty huge money sink because most people turn out to be more like you. If I were your friends I'd be polishing that resume just in case.
You use many tools in a house. Most are designed with implicit safety measures. You should use knives for specific tasks that warrant the use of a knife. You should not run around a house knife in hand using it for everything.
IBM i PASE is just running (some of) the AIX userspace on top of a radically different kernel. Same basic idea as WSL1 (as opposed to WSL2). They could have it run the Linux userspace instead, but that would be a lot of work to emulate its differences from AIX, and would break backward compatibility with existing PASE applications. It isn’t clear what the benefit of making that change would be (as of today, as opposed to back when they first developed it-we can’t change the past). What it does mean though, is IBM i PASE is reliant on AIX user space development for its own progress (if there will be any)
Would love to try this, however it seems like the Firefox add-on is not available unfortunately. I've already tried the alternatives (tridactyl, vimium), but did not really like them enough to keep them installed. Seems like with wasavi, you can selectively launch vim interface for a text field whenever you feel like it, which was something I missed with the other solutions (or I haven't looked deep enough back then). Anyone managed to run wasavi on firefox by any chance?
But of course, you'll need practice emulating a robot in the future, just to live with everyone else who does.
No (thereare5lights made a good point, deflating my sneer) and no (this is self-evident).
Apparently, it is not uncommon to misdiagnose autistic people as having ADHD. So I wonder what role that might play here.
Ugh, that 7
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