skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The adage of "if you're not paying for the product, then you're the product" probably applies to Discord as much as it did to Facebook or Gmail.

I wish there was an open alternative to Discord and Slack, but they usually lack features or are less convenient, making it very hard to get people on board, which is really unfortunate because that's the whole point of using something like Discord or Slack in the first place.
Read the article.

Discord explicitly confirms in its privacy policy[1] that it collects the following information:

IP Address
Device UUID
User's e-mail address
All text messages
All images
All VOIP data (voice chat)
Open rates for e-mail sent by Discord

[1] https://discord.com/privacy
> For a regular work visa, there's no such requirement; you have until the visa expires

That's wrong. The same rules apply. After 3 months immigration can (but is not required to) force you to leave the country. Both for HSP and e.g. specialist visa types.
The signal is so weak, anyway, that's it's practically impossible to decide cause and affect. I think it's mentioned in that article that they start with an area that's already got some rain or snow clouds and try to boost their output by a few points and hope that a trend emerges over time.

Also, they do these on a small local scale, like spraying this morning to boost the rain this afternoon.
Self representation doesn't involve some mountebank selling you a "robot lawyer that will get you off your parking ticket" solution
You've got the idea! I'm not an HIV biologist, but typically these viruses utilize poly-cistronic transcripts. What that means is the proteins are made off the same mRNA so when they come off the ribosome they are local to the previous and next proteins being decoded. It's a very recurring theme in biology to have high _local_ concentration of things that you'd like to do a thing together.

Imagine a box of magnitiles that you just start throwing around the room. Well, instead of throwing them around the room and hoping they stick to each other, what if you only threw them around inside another box, which you were shaking vigorously? Well, you'd expect the magnitiles to find each other and stick to each other. Now imagine you attach each magnitile by a 1cm string and then throw them into a box and right after you through a string of 100 magnitiles, you start a new string of 100 magnitiles and throw that into the box instead of throwing it at the other side of the room.

The idea being concentration depends on the denominator of the volume you're in. If you have 2 things in a 1x1 meter box, you have a much higher concentration and therefore it is much more likely two things will bump into each other a lot than if you have 2 thing in a 1000 x 1000 meter box.

Also, a lot of these systems get made on the endoplasmic reticulum and so it then becomes a 2D search problem instead of a 3D search problem, reduces the volume of your box by an entire dimension! AND viruses tend to make little cordon off spots inside the cell where all their bits congregate, further increasing the chances they bump into each other the right way because, again, the _local_ concentration is super, super high.

Also keep in mind things at this scale bump into each other a mind boggling number of times per unit time. Like an asstillion number of times every second. Eventually they hit each other in the right way to stick together like magnitiles. They also vibrate constantly, which is called "exploring the conformational space". Anyway, I think you see my points.
> I get that they want to make some kind of subscription service to replace lawyers with AI (a terribly dystopian idea in my opinion, as only the rich would then have access to actual lawyers)

What? Doesn't make any sense. The opposite would happen, real lawyers would become cheaper because more competition. That is exactly what these luddites are fighting against.
Would podcast hosting providers rather get an engineer that knows how to handle that traffic and get all the tracking and ID data of a device that they can communicate to their advertisers or have Apple make their lives easier but their service less valuable?

Apple reality distortion to claim this is positive for them.
I assume they are talking about E2E-encryption, since that would prevent them from spying on their users even if they wanted to (assuming the client doesn't leak the key).

That said, E2E-encryption doesn't come without drawbacks, for example you would lose all your messages if you lost access to your device and any backup mechanism.
> Colorado, where most other weather modification programs are run

Are you sure? That claim doesn't appear in the linked article.

Here's the official list of projects in the US:

https://library.noaa.gov/Collections/Digital-Collections/Wea...
Market price trades are executed at whatever the current price is. Presumably it’s those trades that caused havoc.
You do realize that antibiotics are completely ineffective against a cold? You're wrecking your digestive system and risking antibiotic resistance for nothing. If your doctor is prescribing antibiotics, either they're a terrible doctor, or they're a bad doctor and you're a worse patient.
Prior generations were more likely to remain in a specific geographical area (eg. central or western Europe) and so taking the time to learn these specific languages made sense. Learning other European languages as a European is also not that far of a leap (unless we're talking Hungarian or Finnish).

Modern generations are constantly on the move in a globalised world. It's not uncommon for that European to end up working in Asia nowadays, where their knowledge of other European languages is useless.
They don't need to "own" anything. They can just use Github pages or any free subdomain in this entire universe.

If you can't be bothered to set up a free account in 5 minutes somewhere, how valuable or trustworthy is your library, really?
>Haha I doubt drinking at the office since noon was boosting productivity

I dunno, seemed like to worked out very profitably for the boomers. Maybe they’re onto something.
Usually you don't consider health insurance to be a moral hazard in this way. However, in healthcare, a moral hazard can occur when people use more healthcare services because the cost for them is low.
Tht GNU project prescribes snake_case:

https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Names.html
Events can't occur in a "reverse" order. At sufficient distances, the evolution of two regions is entirely causally independent, so there is no sense of simultaneity.

Otherwise, the causal order of events is always defined. Different observers may have "more information" about some events over others, but over ordinary (even multi-galactic) distances, events are well-ordered and sequential.
I don't know about Vietnamese but you can really make a parallel between Korean and Japanese.

Korean was using kanji the same way Japanese are using them now, and Japan could totally switch to hiragana only like Korea went for hangul. I've had some Japanese friends who were advocated for hiragana only, and were writing (on Twitter or blog posts) in hiragana only.

Yes, once you know kanji it's easier to read that full hiragana, but there is a point to be made about how learning kanji is difficult. Not just for foreigners, but also for Japanese students from first grade to high school.
> My answer is that it shouldn’t be, and that if we had a culture where the Chief Executive feared for their job, they might take a different tact with the company.

It would probably be worse for the company. The biggest problem with layoffs for a company is that it creates a culture where employees fear for their jobs, which leads them to perform worse, and quit the moment they have any leverage, making the company far more inefficient.

One of the major reasons tech companies are blaming the layoffs on pandemic hiring is not because that’s the truth or that the execs believe it’s the truth (although it might be) is that they can use the pandemic to present the layoffs as a one time thing extraordinary event, to prevent fear of being fired from setting into the company culture.
Moderation is an essential part of community management, even in darknets. Trust in what is said and what is promised as part of a transaction is what attracts and retains members of the community. Just because you can create a censorship resistant network doesn't mean you should.
Another reason is encoding confusion. If the text is not ascii, then you somehow should guess its encoding. For compatibility reason a lot of tools and editors may default to an old codepage instead of utf-8 (they may respect utf-8 if you have a bom), add to this legacy code already written in who knows what encoding. Is it a windows codepage? DOS codepage? Linux? ISO-8859? If you guess encoding wrong, you can corrupt text.
That's still a lot harder and more visible than just taking over an orphaned package or many of the other attacks we see in these other ecosystems.

Especially since DNS gives you real visibility into ownership when auditing/selecting packages.

org.apache is a lot more trustworthy than tk.helicopter.
That would also lose the feature of being able to browse all the history for Channels just joined. But parent specifically said stored.
None of that means that message aren't encrypted at rest.
That's an extreme POV that takes some general ideas that apply to almost every app and describes them as malicious in case of Discord specifically.

There's lots of reasons not to use Discord (no data export, random bans, can't safely use 3rd party clients, etc.), but i don't believe the perspective from there post is a popular one. They want to make a point so badly, they stretch the definition of spyware to absurd levels.
I mean for me it comes down to what I am most familiar with. I am old so that means things like Digital Ocean and Express.js with plain old JavaScript. I guess I should not admit that publicly. Or privately.

But also if I was slightly less old I think I would be heavily into Python at this point especially as far as the ability to easily leverage data and AI tools and libraries.

But again, my suggestion is go with what you are familiar with. And if you are less old and are excited about a new language or framework, that seems perfectly valid to me. The hard part about programming is staying motivated. So if new stuff helps with that then great. I

One more take is that you should start by defining the problem in detail before you make up your mind on the architecture and technologies that you will employ. If there is a particular technology that is well suited or has a ready-made solution, you should consider that.
For a for-profit mvp my goto answer is always "the one you know", fast release matters, fast iteration, fast sales. Optimize once you got sensible sales and sensible metrics.

For personal projects, reactjs or vuejs or solidjs, tailwindcss, nodejs. Depends though, sometimes there are projects that demand the strengths of golang or rust.
That's stage two. If the blanket ban-via-threatening-letters doesn't work.
Not really. In an apocalypse, we’d take anything that worked. I think the more fundamental issue is that software engineering (and computer science generally) are immature fields that put zero emphasis on the history of the field or on the “why” of that history.
Narco tombs in Mexico: The graves better than your house
Yeah? Want to know a reliable marker for a history of abuse, fraud, violence, and criminal tendencies?

Pornography.

Like many here, I have several adult daughters, and I’ve given a lot of thought to what role pornography has in our society.

You can sit there and act like my position is unreasonable, but while you do so, women are being trafficked for porn, suffering violence for porn, being drugged for porn, being coerced by their boyfriends and spouses for porn, and more.

Frankly, you can all spare me the bullshit, as if there could be one iota of legitimacy to the entire adult entertainment industry. Absolutely sickening.
emacs has glasses-mode to switch visually between snake case and camel case. I'm sure it should be easy to hack to support kebab-case in... case it doesn't already.
You have it exactly backwards.

Your semantics game is the "straw man." The atmosphere doesn't care what we call it, only what we dump in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34529944

>calculated to be scaled up on a global level

You say that like polluting industries don't try to scale up to a global level.
Slightly. They're different kinds of searches.

ChatGPT is better at telling me what a block of code does or what my medical report says. Google for answering quick questions that don't need a full sentence.

For all the criticism ChatGPT gets, Google is also highly inaccurate.

I've wired GPT-3 to my command prompt, and I tend to use that for quick queries, like keyboard shortcuts and the command prompt to delete a file. It shouldn't replace document lookup tools like Dash though.
I wasn't implying that they used force to confiscate the land, but that the very act of buying land to only lease it for a limited time would be deeply unpopular, and quickly voted out in a true democracy.

My own country had an authoritarian government that owned all land and property, and everyone was living as renters paying their rent to the government. In most cities, these properties were themselves actually built by the government, often on previously unused land (as they greatly expanded many cities). Once the revolution came and we had a (quasi-)democratic government, one of the very first acts was to give everyone ownership of the property they were leasing from government - and this was hugely popular.
This is so fucking dumb. As if you need a lawyer to contest a parking ticket in the first place.

The last time I got a parking ticket I had photos and documentary evidence that I should not have been liable.

After I lodged my intent to contest the fine, the council sent me a letter saying how they win 97% of cases and I should just pay up now to avoid the risk.

I called bullshit and turned up on my court date. There were a bunch of cases heard before mine, 3 of which were parking violations.

In all 3 cases the defendants received a default judgement because the council didn’t even bother to send someone to fight the case.

My case got the same result.

Maybe I would hire a lawyer to sue the council for intimidation over the letter they sent, but I sure as hell wouldn’t use an AI lawyer for that!
Self-hosted vector tiles
Do you not consider anthropogenic climate change an air pollution issue?
It is noteworthy that this site also classifies the Brave browser's spyware level as High.

Just seems a bit dramatic to me, but I might be wrong.
Not so different from me… the startup that paid for the floor on which I stand emerged from a place whose name may be translated as "medical/technical research something", located between a hospital and a university. While that startup received no subsidies directly, I don't mind admitting that the subsidies that went into that area (from several parts of the state) were key to starting up.

Moderna struck it rich. Most of the companies that are founded on the fringes of hospitals and universities don't, they may lead to someone owning a nice flat, if even that.

If you want to block the occasional startup from striking it rich, you either have to improve the deal in another way or accept that the innovation decreases. For example, if you were to pay all of the research instead of most, you might be able to get all of the proceeds from the successes and keep the innovation going. As I understand it, that's a big "if" because the countries that have tried it haven't been very good at picking the right research to fund.
A cyncical take might be that they are saying that they take responsibility (credit) for reducing the monthly payroll expenses. They may also have overhired in the past, but what's in the past was already paid for. The savings next month is how they justify a large paycheck.
> You can only sue for negligence if you can prove you were going to win without the negligence. And it will cost you ten thousand dollars just to begin the process.

That's not true. For instance, missing a filing deadline is considered professional negligence, regardless of the strength of the case.
> I see that as a tool, I'm not sure why it's presented as "AI being the lawyer".

The hero element for the product's home page describes it as "The World's First Robot Lawyer". Twice.
Slite Ask – Stop searching, start asking
There's a nugget of wisdom in there
Are they if they did not noticed?
There's also Zulip which is likely the closest solution with a nice UI / UX.
Looks great!

I'd just remove the sticky header with the blur effect and those shadows below the cards. Maybe make the menu categories collapsible. This is going in a modern minimalist direction which I prefer in such cases. If you need any design tips, feel free to ping!
>> And why would I wanna speak with baker, cab driver, public transport workers, convenience store workers, deliverymen, etc.?

> Yeah, why would you ever want to speak to people who aren't important. Fucking serfs, they should stay in their place and silently serve you

Seems like you are projecting some of your own issues into what I wrote, because I didn't write anything about "fucking serfs" or these people not being important.

I don't see reason why would I wanna speak with them while they are doing their job, same as I don't expect anyone speaking to me, when I am doing my job (unless your job is speaking to people in call centre). We can all speak happily together after work in our spare time (in which case they cease to be bakers, cab drivers, etc. and they are just people), during work time you should work instead wasting time on small talk, so I see nothing wrong with expecting people providing services for money to provide me service I am paying for without annoying small talk wasting everyone's time including them.
Because mrr proves the the market exists. And in saas area it is assumed to be in healthy profit margin, compared to other areas. In saas operating costs can be reduced, marketing can be scaled, churn can be reduced - but all of these require demand for your product.
"Private people" don't have a powerful lobby group.
I was thinking more that legacy stuff meant memory safety bugs and decades of design choices made for devices with radically different hardware profiles than most used today.

But sure that too…
Have you answered a lot of questions on SO? You can quickly tell the "I want someone to do this for me" questions from the "I'm lost and I don't know how to proceed" questions.

SO's fixation on letting the low effort "I don't want to google my problem and read results to see if anything fits my problem" question live on really drove me from the platform. When that was the majority of the questions, I just stopped contributing because the majority of people asking questions feel so entitled as if they paid you to solve a problem. It's a tragedy of the commons.

> there are other possible solutions, like changing the culture of the site by actually employing people to do any number of things, like slap cruel comments on the wrist and/or delete them, and/or apologize to new users for any cruelty they experience, and/or get rid of that ridiculous constitution for posting, and/or...

It's funny that "helping newbies learn how to help themselves, or at least ask a better question" isn't even on your list. It's only about "slap the people doing all the work" or "apologize to the newbie that the people doing all the work aren't super happy that he shit on the floor and asked them to clean it up".

> that the people who ask questions there are just there to take

The overwhelming majority of people who post "I have this code. I want it to do X. Please make" don't contribute to the site and respond to questions. The pool of people contributing is tiny compared to the total population.

> maybe this is the way the at least occasionally cruel SO lifers think?

I don't think I'm cruel. I'm always happy to help people who need help. But I stop helping people when they're not trying to learn and solve a problem and are just trying to offload their work on me. And that's what a lot of the "newbie" (more like "don't care to learn, just solve this for me") questions on SO are.
> It's clearly not optimized for efficient use of personnel

I disagree. When the sub sinks, all these people die. That's far more inefficient use of personnel.

It feelf like you're putting more emphasis on the material cost ("the cost ... can be very large indeed") than on what actually matters.
The funny thing is that UEFI supports HTTP boot since 2.6 (i.e. since 2016), it is included in Tianocore, with DNS and TLS support, but for some reason, many vendors removed it from their implementations. I never understood why.
You'd be surprised. Since we seem to have moved to ad-hominem argumentation :

I think your categories and your political reflexes prevent you from thinking straight. Everybody in the world would have a broad understanding of what "french" means (or "japanese", "americans", "italian", etc). For some reason you pretend to ignore there are some cultural norms that are associated to a nation ("cultural" in the broadest sense, which includes the way you look). I believe because this fact scares you or have been associated to a taboo.

Those taboos prevent you from addressing questions, and not addressing the issues don't make them magically disappear. Worst, you risk leaving those questions to people that have a political agenda.
Macroeconomic changes have made it impossible for me to want to pay you

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34515267
My favorite fringe archaeological theories for this region revolve around the ancient copper mining in the upper peninsula.

Fringe theories don't demand absolute belief. That approach misses the opportunity for an imaginative flight of fancy. Whatever is celebrated as truthy today may be contradicted by tomorrow's truth mongers. A bit of nuance goes a long way here.
Portuguese is still latin, isn't it. I suppose much of it is similar to English. Imagine if everything was, say, ελληνικά.
Yeah, it was extremely easy to fuck up. In some cases though you might have wanted to run something on thousands of hosts to debug a tricky issue. Bad practices, I know.
> Completely different league, English has by magnitude more speakers than Chinese.

That's an incredible claim. Got a reference for it? Wikipedia reckons 1.5bn English vs 1.1 bn Chinese.
Precisely.

OTOH... using AI to create art shifts around supply and demand such that there will be practical implications. The way email correspondence between A customer and a bank may look very different once both are using GPT enabled email clients.
Also video from PolyMatter on same topic of cheap Japanese houses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1AOm17ZUVI
A file of SQL code is commonly referred to as a script.
Windows? No one unless disgruntled ex-employees blow a whistle. Other stuff like pirated pay-tv streams though? These absolutely have agents on the streets scouting out bars and pubs to check if they're paying customers and if they are actually using an (expensive) commercial license or if they are mis-using a residential one.
> This is just a sd checkpoint trained on output of Midjourney

Which is sub-optimal -> bad. You don't want to train on output from an AI because you'll end up with a worse version of whatever that AI is already being bad at (hands, foot, and countless other things). This is the AI feedback loop that people have been talking about.

So instead of figuring out what Midjourney has done to get such good result, people just blatantly straight copied those results and fed them directly into the AI, as true as the art thief stereotype they are.
It's also an anti-feature for business environments. You want to have full control of your chat platform and be able to recover anyone's messages + history.