skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that a continent full of people with different cultures and economies would benefit from following laws set by politicians elected by voters they can't even communicate with in their native language seems insane to me. I really just don't get it at all. Can't we just do the free trade thing without all the surveillance laws and other crap?

I'm all for European trade, but I felt I had to vote Brexit because obviously the goal of any political system should be to maximise the political power of individuals and local communities. The more you centralise and expand power over larger geographical areas the less tolerant of regional political difference your political system must become. This become obvious when we talk about a country like Turkey potentially joining the EU.

That said, I hate the UK government with a passion and they are arguably even worse when it comes to surveillance, but at least we can vote them out.
Your method apparently isn't very good seeing as a square with area 2300 has sides of length ~48
Quite similar result than fine tuned gpt with embeddings no?
less trustworthy than who though?

there are certain people that whole heartily believe that what the person on their TV is telling them is without a doubt true. anyone trying to convince them otherwise is just part of the opposing forces. even when shown where, for example the fox news hosts, have admitted in sworn testimony the did not believe the big lie and knew it to be false, it is rebutted as fake.

Fake News and Alternative Facts have to be the worst combinations I've ever known. they may even be some of the most dangerous as well.

it's classic cult control. when i was a kid being forced to weekly attendance at my mom's church, it was often heard that you can't go listening to other preachers, reading other books of thought, or similar as that's the enemy's weapon to confuse you and tempt you away. as i got older and actually started paying attention, these things really started sounding like nails on a chalkboard. it wasn't just the one church either.

so by only listening to the one source and ignoring all others, they are actually doing good by what they have been told. those of us reading multiple sources are just twisting in the wind so to speak with no real convictions (or some such as i've been told).
Out of curiosity what do you think they should do differently? They confirmed the subject's criminal activity immediately at the top of the article. Only after that do they talk about the definition problem, which you appear to agree with to some degree.
Was scouring ebay back in the day for those samsung CRT monitors that could get 100+hz on 800x640 resolution so I can frag like a pro gamer :D
Ah. I see you know all the memes. Good luck.
The key here is that the "systems" that we need to decentralize include political and economic systems, not just technological ones.
Reminds of last.fm and their scrobbler.
How so specifically?
Say you still don't understand it. This happens to me a lot.
I was upset when Disney cut the “when love is gone” song from it in the dvd release because it was “too sad for children” or some other dumb reason.

This lead it to being mostly missing from it on streaming services.

The cut part was then also lost, but very recently they found it again and added it back in. Still, at least on apple streaming it’s missing and we have to switch to YouTube to see it at the right point (my family watches it every year).
This game, and map making using Valve Hammer Editor to make aim and surf maps is what got me into programming and gave me a passion for computers in general.

Ah, the nostalgia from the late 90s / early 2000s.
Hmm, Memory Alpha does confirm your facts. I never realized that the remainder of V'Ger had been "constructed" by someone else. I had just assumed that it had ... spontaneously grown and developed out of the Voyager VI core built by humans.

Where did this backstory come from? Certainly it was not treated in the original theatrical cut, where Kirk only finds its true nature toward the very end. I certainly don't remember anyone being able to trace the history of V'Ger with any certainty beyond finding its original inscriptions.
It has the same tantalizing simplicity as the "ship stuck in canal" situation: There's a balloon in the air above Montana.
There's, to me, a vague hint of on idea here that entities like the Unicode Consortium have too limited a mission statement. This issue suggests something like the need for a broader registry of reactions/mini-memes/reply-icons, which is user-generated iconography/submitted memes (often screencapped out of various media), with a second layer of user-defined explanations/definitions.

Unicode is limited by a need to be well defined. It is a conservative not expansive mission. A better more real more useful alternative would not so heavily gate the things entered into it, would allow cultural references. And just as importantly, it wouldnt necessarily be the arbiter of truth/meaning either; secondary systems would be in place to allow a more crowd-sourced interpretation of the symbols that show up in the registry-of-symbols.

Also, if anyone can explain the :totoro: emoji a previous even-older-than-I coworker used for most everything, I'd deeply appreciate it.
Solid work, but this only reinforces my belief that music recommendations is an area that is not (yet) cracked by AI. You can find similar songs with great accuracy, sure, but even if two songs are close to each other by all calculable metrics they can still vary drastically in subjective quality.

And a quick suggestion – all my top results when searching for popular songs were songs that were either different versions of it or those that had heavily sampled the original. While the algorithm is spot on, that isn't exactly what I am looking for. Maybe have a filter to exclude results that are too close a match?
How did you get the samples for the song? iTunes allows scraping?

Your project is extremely motivational .. how long did it take you? What did you train on? I do DL for work and just play with things like cifar. This is so inspired.
Thank you for sharing! Fun to read a story of someone sticking around for so long and not jumping ship frequently. Curious, as an early engineer, what were some things that Sumo Logic did really well that made you want to stay there beyond four years?
The original post is still viewable if you check the root URL

This appears to be a special message just for us.
Showing restraint against a controlled takedown of the balloon? Cant say I see the value in that.
This example isn't using gpt embeddings but it could. It's using local Hugging Face models (FLAN-T5) with a context provided by a vector store (Faiss).
The problem is that when political elites are faced between the choice of ruling an impoverished population and losing power, they will always choose the former.
Does an organism always feed on negative entropy? (1999) [pdf]
Mac gaming is better than it's ever been — it's just that the author has a massive blind spot. The future of macOS gaming is iOS gaming.

Steam has ~50K games¹. The App Store has somewhere in the neighborhood of a million iOS games¹. You can probably guess where Apple is focusing its resources.

Apple's gaming strategy isn't to persuade game developers to support macOS. Their strategy is to make iOS a great game platform from both a technical and business perspective, and in turn for macOS to have amazing support for iOS games. This is a significant part of the Apple Silicon story.

Supporting that strategy is Apple Arcade, a subscription gaming product that is effectively their Netflix for games. It's tough to find data on how popular it is, but game developer was quoted as saying that Apple Arcade has more than 100 million subscribers².

Of course, Apple isn't building a gaming ecosystem for Serious Players. They're targeting the mass market — people whose primary identity may not be "Gamer", but who enjoy games from SimCity to Civilization, and from Angry Birds to Sneaky Sasquatch. And they're doing it in plain sight.

¹ A large percentage of which are crap, yes.

² https://www.imore.com/gaming/football-managers-miles-jacobso...
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Why should the copy constructor accept its parameter by reference in C++?
#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
using namespace std;
class Complex
{
private:
int real;
int img;

public:
Complex()
{
real = img = 0;
}

Complex(int r, int i)
{
real = r;
img = i;
}

Complex(Complex &c)
{
real = c.real;
img = c.img;
}

void putComplex()
{
cout << real << "+i" << img<<endl;
}
};
int main()
{
system("cls");
Complex c1;
Complex c2(3, 5);
Complex c3(c2);
c1.putComplex();
c2.putComplex();
c3.putComplex();

return 0;
}

I don't understand how copy constructor works.
1) What happens when complex c3(c2) is called? Step by step?
obviously, in short real gets c2.real and img gets c2.img, I'm asking for in depth explanation of behind the scenes.

2) Step by step what will happen if I remove the "&" from "c" in copy constructor definition? I've heard that it goes to infinite recursion, but I don't understand how.

I'll be happy with any references to read or answers.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2685854/why-should-the-copy-constructor-accept-its-parameter-by-reference-in-c
I've already read this answer and failed to understand from there.
Less than surgically removing it with little effort.
I think your conclusion is correct. However, the more antecedent question is whether or not all expenses related to software development MUST be treated as R&E or not.

If that option exists still, then nobody needs to panic.

If it does not, then maybe everybody should panic.

Or at least, everybody starting up a business requiring in software development.
That project was cancelled after 5 tests, at least one successful. Since satellite destruction is a pretty interesting tactical option, what does that imply?
> Turns out that their form is pretty good for survival

Their form is pretty good for survival on Earth, we don't know if they're good forms for survival elsewhere or in general.
My favorite comment below that post was the one that asked ChatGPT to write a letter to President Trump asking him not to run for president again, which ChatGPT was happy to do. But asking the same thing for President Biden, it refused.
Just yesterday I was wondering why — with the ubiquity of surveillance, phones, and body cams — we haven’t yet seen footage of good cops intervening to stop people like Tyre Nichols from being beaten to death.
Counter-argument, before CS (CounterStrike) the predecessor we played a ton of was multiplayer Goldeneye 64. The guns weren’t super realistic, but it also wasn’t a giant leap to CS.
The big thing with CS was the online multiplayer with low lag, and it was popular enough that you didn’t have to wait long to join a room - which was a whole lot different than having friends over and playing couch multiplayer.
Just sell me a Miata with 100 miles of range and no weight penalty. I don't want a boat on hard tires; I want something nimble and engaging to, you know, drive. I'll even give up my manual transmission for it.
There is nothing like "Crimson and Clover"? https://maroofy.com/songs/59412471
A natural thought is that it would be cool to run this on Android
Holy crap. That's the real deal. Amazing. Complete with authentic HPB lag and LPB.
If you ignore or don't know iritu forum you're missing out
This is the relict and refugees of joel on software board formerly /off which has some dark history. It used to be crazyontap.com
The problem with calling an apostrophe a letter is that in standard usage, it doesn't change how you read (prosody) or pronounce the text. Sometimes it's used in transliterating foreign words to indicate a glottal stop (an actual sound!) or as a syllable divider, but that's not really English at that point.
The missing piece: the need for product management in security teams
So many sleepless until sunrise LAN parties.
Remarkably missing many works of Christian theology... No St. Augustine, Aquinas, St. John of Chrysostom, Calvin, etc.
That is really sad.
You can also just scroll down a bit to find the original post. There is another (also interesting) post in between.
The only CONUS civilian deaths of WWII.
I have the microservices framework https://rpcx.io, which is used by many companies.
I wouldn't. Market can be irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
In a world where we have constant satellite coverage of the entire planet doing basically what we think this balloon might be doing.
Yeah, typed in Ultravox's Just For a Moment. After the 4th or 5th suggested rap song I clicked I just gave up.

It's true though, there is nothing else quite like Crimson and Clover. I'm pretty sure when I was 5 years old and first heard that song it caused me to trip. Strawberry Fields Forever is like that too, you get high just listening to it. ;-)
> why not?

Because some of them are harmless, some of them are less harmless. Same goes for all the other APIs that require user permissions. In the end the user will just click "yes" on all of them.

> The user should be able to set a toggle, where the visibility api will return "true" (aka visible), for all of these underlying checks that the browser does.

Does the user know what those checks are? Did you know which checks the visibility API does before reading the article? I sure as hell didn't.

> E.g., the visibilityChange event does not fire when user sets the toggle to true.

This has unintended consequences. For example, a well-meaning website performing intensive computation only when the page is visible.
I suspect there's a sideline wink and handshake agreement to feature associated companies and indirectly promote them as case studies, etc. as the maintainer maintains. Not that that changes anything this is still a great arrangement and hopefully a positive example for our industry, but Smallstep and Tailscale are both trying to gain an authoritative hold in the production identity space and a little name dropping here and there by <famous dev> certainly doesn't hurt (:
Sure. Nothing will change unless enough people want it to change. And you are only able to reason with the reasonable. And maybe petrol taxes are not looked on favorably by the reasonable in your region, so you need a different method of fairly distributing costs. But berating people for wanting fun things is not a great way of getting people to see reason.
Yes? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

See Yaml safe load vs load. Since default method is unsafe due to Yaml bugs there were wide ranging consequence across most of ecosystem.

If default was safe load, and you could opt-in to features of Yaml that caused unsafety it would be a much lesser problem.
RIP to the Best Bots on Twitter
That doesn’t change the original argument that we allow gun ownership because we want corporations to make money.
A text editor for beginners.
Github: https://github.com/yavda1/TextEdit
It ain't that. It's that k8s-aas is available everywhere (and if it's not, then it'd be soon). So knowledge is transferable.

And most don't want to, and shouldn't setup their own orchestrator. It's painful, cumbersome, and a waste of money, where you could get a k8s-aas everywhere.

Fly are the rare example of a company that does need to run their own orchestration, and indeed, k8s doesn't fit them (it rarely does, in such cases. Unless you sell k8s-aas).
> It also seems like a convenience feature that PayPal should consider locking down. I immediately assumed this was some form of scam...

I don't really know how you'd prevent this or why anyone would fall for it. It's just sending an invoice. And PayPal clearly says you can safely ignore it if it's not for something you bought.

Sellers need to be able to send invoices, both for online and in-person things (like classes). And they need to be able to send them to any e-mail address, like a student who just signed up.

If you "lock it down", it doesn't work.
The problem with Loon was that there weren't enough of them, and weather patterns would inevitably cause a clumping of them in certain areas of the world where they would be useless. Tethered balloons at 100k' / 30km would be more useful for comms.
Yes. Defaults matter. Here's one example https://blogs.iadb.org/ideas-matter/en/organ-donation-changi....
Musk says:

> Yeah, free API is being abused badly right now by bot scammers & opinion manipulators. There’s no verification process or cost, so easy to spin up 100k bots to do bad things.

>Just ~$100/month for API access with ID verification will clean things up greatly.

If eliminating spam bots is the goal, a fairly nominal fee would likely suffice. $50/yr? That would be $5 million for the 100K spam bots.

$1200 per year or more is punitive
Wow, I love this! Can you make clicking play change the url so that songs are added to our browser history? Perhaps make "refreshed" pages idempotent via a hash in the url?
Is that a fact? That is just, like, your opinion man.
This is exactly right, down to the last detail. Impressive.
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Someone below posted about the Catherine project. It sounds like something like that, although the reading list is certainly not as thorough.

https://catherineproject.org/
Lots of industrial metal has a drawn out start before the actual song lol
> (b) that still demonstrates a preference for dead children over lower gun sales.

How in the world, when the left supports abortion, can you come to this opinion? We prioritize personal safety, not dollars.
IIRC it’s related to the nearby mountains. Fly up, pushed towards mountains, go lower, pushed back towards the river/valley were launched. I feel for other people who didn’t get to grow up seeing those balloons every year on their way to school or random times.

NM also has the “original burning man” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zozobra.
Yeah, I just thought the reference to CA minimum wage at all seemed a little out of place.
What's the best online venue/forum for one to read & learn more about this hobbyist scene?
> The best way to deal with this is non-compliance and there need to be technical solutions to deny such attempts.

You cannot solve human issues by technical solutions

> One major factor that works against users is central authentication. Schemes like oauth2 might bring convenience and security in many cases, but will endanger net freedom overall.

And what is your solution for that? Any authentication solution will inevitable converge to having trusted actors authenticating you. There's no technical solution for that.

> It just released a law (DSA) that allegedly to restrict the influence of tech giants. That their proposals will drive people into ID schemes

So what is your technical solution to this human law?

> The only defense against such laws is to make them technologically not feasible.

I also want to wish for moon and the stars. But we're not dealing with the realms of fantasy.
I learned this method of calculating square roots to arbitrary precision and could probably easily produce 5-6 significant digits in my head if I concentrated enough:

5. 7 4 4 5 6
33.00 00 00 00 00
25 = 5 * 5
8 00
7 49 = 10 7 * 7
51 00
45 76 = 114 4 * 4
5 24 00
4 59 36 = 1148 4 * 4
64 64 00
57 44 25 = 11488 5 * 5
7 19 75 00
6 89 34 36 = 114890 6 * 6
30 40 64
What's "novel" about that?
Journalists:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/business/media/trump-medi...

Scientists:
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/01/23/woke-lancet...

Professors:
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/just-how-liberal-are-c...

Librarians:
https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/librarians-go-radical-as-new-w...

Doctors:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boston-childrens-hospit...

> are you insinuating that "the American right" don't like scientists, journalists, professors, librarians, and doctors?

I actually don't think this. I know conservatives, they will generally believe scientists who are studying black holes but when climate change gets brought up they accuse them of bias. Similarly they will seek out doctors for their condition but when a doctor treats a trans patient they will accuse them of bias. It's not a dislike, and not of individuals, it's more of a distrust of institutions.
I honestly think they try first to make you happy, second to reduce their spend.
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Could do. There's zoo pandas. There's the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone where they're less likely to get shot by farmers protecting livestock. Anti-poaching guards for wild rhinos. Seagrass restoration for manatees. Programs for people to grow baby mussels in fish tanks so they can be relocated to the ocean. Hunting programs for deer culling. Giving out free native plants and seeds to help native birds. Lots of options depending on the needs of each species.
There's a more insidious version of this floating around.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/08/paypal-phishing-scam-use...
Zozobra
There’s no way you can project into the psychology of such a moment with the confidence you exhibit in this comment.

Joke? Thoughtless hyperbole? Political ax to grind?

Come on.
I'm not sure that changes my statement materially.
You mean like the assault weapons ban that had no effect on safety yet keeps getting pushed for? Or magazine limits that somehow miss that you can carry and load more than one magazine thereby still accomplishing nothing? Or the red flag laws that were just used to take an individual’s property without due process because someone doesn’t like guns?

Which gun control laws actually work to stop criminals from getting guns? Especially when they can be 3D printed.
Haha, true
There are 435 House members and 100 Senators. On any given bill they are not all going to have a role in shaping and negotiating it, and their staff will not have access to bill language as that is happening. Or perhaps even right up to the vote.

That does not imply that no one reads any bills. As a change to the tax code, the Section 174 language we’re all talking about was read by at minimum the (very capable) professional staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation and the CBO, for purposes of scoring the revenue impact of the bill.

The impacts of the Section 174 changes are in fact intentional, done to change said scoring. Whether or not they would be popular was not the point; all changes to the tax code are unpopular to someone. The point was to find a configuration of changes that could pass both houses at that time and get signed. That usually means a few big-ticket changes, and then lots of monkeying around with other things (like R&D) to offset those.
Yep, thanks! So not middleboxes or CAs, but old rusty servers.

The other example of evading Hyrum's Law that comes to mind was when early Javascript users of JSON observed how they could intersperse comments.

Crocker said he noticed people were using the comments to stuff preprocessing directives into JSON.

He then devised the most ingenious hack: He told people they weren't allowed to put comments in JSON. Then people stopped putting comments in JSON.

I'm starting to wonder whether Hyrum's Law is really more of a suggestion. :)
More like it’s unlikely to happen while people like me still exist. Take away the NRA and we’ll just create a new one. Why are some determined to stifle citizens voices?
AI Looks Like a Bubble
Part of the Miata's driving experience has to be the sound of engine reving as you exit the curve.
Yes, my experience (and this makes sense given what it is) is that it's really really good at giving a generic answer. And it can give that generic answer in a variety of different stylistic genres on request, which has some novelty value, but it doesn't change the underlying boringness of the content.
If so, then that is new and welcome.

A couple of years ago it wasn't true. I know because I tried to watch both and not a single streaming service, including Amazon, had it.