skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don’t agree, I do believe it’s a common perspective and one that’s important to have dialogue on.

While for sure an imperfect response, I would say that no democracy will ever be absolutely perfect, since it would require a consensus on everything and everyone understanding the topic equally prior to voicing their opinion. Further, authoritarian beliefs are only true threat to a democracy if majority support authoritarian rule, at which point I would argue it’s not a democracy.

That said, with the advancements of AI, it increasingly dangerous, since if given the tools and opportunity, an authoritarian minority might over take an unprepared majority.
> As it stands, people who live in smaller states have more say in national politics than people who live in bigger states.

Not for presidential elections, nobody cares about Delaware or Wyoming's 3 electors. Small-population states matter for the Senate where they're way over-represented.

Not that they're not over-represented for the EC mind, but e.g. for their 0.2% of the national population Wyoming has 0.55% of the Electoral College, versus 2% of the Senate. By comparison California's 11.75% of the national population gives them 10% of the EC and... 2% of the Senate.

States which have a say (or are heard really) during presidential elections are states with large enough populations (and thus EC) that it's worth spending time and dumping money there for campaigns, yet purple enough that there's a chance to swing them.
How is it freeloading when they have literally offered it for free?
I don't think a blockade is the same thing though. A blockade just prevents a ship from going to the destination or the route it was wanting. It is still free to maneuver and is still in control of the flag it operates under.
people forget that CS was a mod of Halo. where of course you could ride a lot of vehicles
An amusing reflection into a modern day social hierarchy according to the public online sphere. Also fun to imagine that most of these language models are snapshots of consumable and parseable discourse and so their bias will be a time capsule of the overton window from a certain time period.
You only have ~2 ears, there is no need for 5.1 channel surround sound.
What? I’ve lived in Europe most of my life and have never seen any of that. People flush toilets and wash their hair here too.

Besides “Europe” is a big place, how can you generalize.
> The most famous anti-fascists were and are communists...

I dunno, we make quite a few WWII movies about heroic Americans storming Normandy's beaches and whatnot.
Russian nesting shuttles?
It is comparatively hard to parse, being context sensitive (need to keep track of types) as well as requiring an implementation of the preprocessor, which has arcane enough rules that most programmers don't really know them.

Also, there are a number of historic syntax quirks that a conforming compiler, at least pre-C23, has to understand. For example, function declaration that lacks return value specification (implicit int) or parameters.
You can ask the author for the missing footnote by leaving a comment on the page itself.
No service is 100% free forever.

When is Google going to start changing for its search page? Never. It's going to be free forever, supported by ads. Twitter was going to be the same.
Full of Google ads probably
If this goes through I will personally leave EU, and I wouldn't be surprised if others do too. What reason is there to remain in the EU? It being a regulatory superpower [0]? Metaphorical lol.

[0]: https://ecfr.eu/article/commentary_the_eu_as_a_digital_regul...
It is fairly easy to argue that people have more gay sex now that gay marriages are legal.
Even with the M2 Pro, Mac gaming is as bad as it’s ever been
Users of navigation, who are they?
A: Welcome to management, it's a sneaky thing sometimes

B: My advice is pretty simple - whenever possible, don't fix their mistakes for them or tackle the cleanup on something they've made a mess of. It's tempting - you'll spot the issues coming way before they do and you'll have a better fix in mind fast, but they need to be able to touch the fire and feel the burn... It builds confidence for them when they do fix it, it shows you have made them responsible and they own something, and in the long term it builds team trust (use your 15 years of judgement here about what can be allowed to fail for a bit without breaking the bank).

C: There are some junior devs (not always labeled junior) who manage to keep their jobs by routinely going through their contacts and getting them to "teach them the code" which really translates into "doing their work". Politely stop doing this - a 5 minute conversation (or less) and a link to some relevant code is enough before you pat them on the back and tell them to go work on it themselves again.
At least for open source projects, there's SOS [1]. More great rewards available there.

[1] https://sos.dev/
Unless it only reconsumes the “good” content. In other words, the stuff that got good reactions from humans. In which case, it will get better, not worse, at least at generating clickbait. But at least it will be coherent clickbait.
> OTOH I've never had them wipe a database on me, so I guess that would be the motivation to move on.

About a year ago they shut down my personal blog based on a vague "violation of our terms." There was no violation, either. (I suspect they had to shut down phishing and other abusive sites, and cast a little too wide of a net.)

When they claimed they turned it back on, I had to keep pestering them because they goofed something or other. Eventually I couldn't push updates via Github. (I wrote the blog engine as an exercise to learn NodeJS.)

Again, if I could have bought an ultra-cheap tier, I would have been happy to pay.
> Nominal wages are a part of inflation, so there's nothing about the inflation rate that inherently changes real wages

Again, no they aren't, the only link would be that inflation worsens material conditions, which could lead to more people seeking higher wages, which overall improves wage conditions. The only "link" we've seen is recently, and even looking just behind the 2020s you can find inflation causing real wage decreases [1].

> If all components of inflation increased uniformly, purchasing power would stay constant

"If" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

> Inflation is only a drag to the extent that it's surprising.

Tell that to people who are un-banked, working minimum wage, or really any average person and see what their response is.

> However, there seems to be a relationship between inflation and unemployment.

Not sure where you're seeing this, and its hard to try and claim, as we are just now reaching pre-2020 levels of unemployment, not some mythical low level of unemployment. I could see an argument for lowering unemployment leading to higher inflation, but a stable low unemployment has shown no bearing on inflation.

> I further conjecture that sustained low unemployment flattens the income curve, leading to higher real wages at the low end.

Thats a nice conjecture, but again, just look right before 2020 to find the perfect counter argument, and data coming out from the end of 2022 is showing the opposite[2], that as U6 has reached an all time low (which I will say is not too shabby), real wages have started to slow their growth.

> low unemployment is a good thing in its own right

I know I'm probably starting to seem combative here, but again, this just isn't always true. For the overall state of our economy and the safety of the wealth of the richest, maybe, but on one end of the unemployment chart it speaks to less people being able to make it by without jobs. Employment among people with disabilities is at its lowest[2], which speaks to our societies inability to care for those who need it. People with disabilities are not going out and finding jobs because bagging at a grocery store is fulfilling, they're doing it because they can't afford not to.

On a different note, I'm really not trying to seem combative, and I hope you're enjoying our fake online discussion as much as I am.

[1] https://positivemoney.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/CPI-inf...
[2] https://cepr.net/jobs-2023-1/
There is a good summary of it here: https://mobile.twitter.com/OpenWebAdvocacy/status/1621007998...

One step closer to regulation, opening up of mobile app stores, and the removal of the browser engine ban on iOS!
"There still remains a huge gap between lossless codecs at ~800kb/s and MP3 at 128kb/s with seemingly little interest to fill it."

Not only does mp3 go to 320kbps, 192kbps was considered the 'standard' for ripping audio CDs, with the V0 variable bit rate being another common choice. if this only does 277, what am I getting aside from. another audio codec?
Whenever I hear a story about a police encounter that went sour (which is often) I have to remind myself that this is probably pure sensationalism.

In the US about 30 million adults have a police initialed encounter per year[1]. It seems obvious to me that the vast, vast majority of these encounters end in the way common-sense would dictate, and that only very few have the shocking, blood-boiling finale that can make you angry enough to demand reform. But equally obvious is that these are the exact stories that are attention grabbing and therefor news worthy (at least in the click-through sense). I remind myself of this prevalence perception skewing effect that the news has whenever I read it and I try to actively resist it.

This reminds me of an 20yo comedy skit (that probably wouldn't be made today) by Chris Rock called "How not to get your ass kicked by the police!" which seems to say the same thing. [2]

Of course I might be mistaken. I wonder if people here have data to prove otherwise?

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[1] https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cbpp18st.pdf
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8
> So basically a slightly less malicious version of how photographers started faking drama by placing children's dolls/toys into the rubble for photos of ruined buildings? Which became a meme in the terrorism era and some TV shows/movies satirized it.

No, they're just typical human interest stories being misleadingly portrayed as some kind of conspiracy.

There are all kinds of stories about firefighters saving ducks, regular people saving ducks, kids saving ducks, etc: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34623180. I guess "people saving ducks" is a common, easy, heartwarming story to write.
The compiler is allowed to assume that the data will never overflow so it is also allowed to get rid of overflow checks. Now imagine writing a complex validation routine that if it were violated would result in undefined behavior for every value that the validation rejects, a sufficiently smart compiler is allowed to simply remove your validation code, leaving you with no validation whatsoever.
Dashworks (YC W20) is hiring a full-stack product engineer
Need a littttle bit more info on what the product is. Sync notes to where? Why?
Entirely the point I am making, albeit indirectly. The majority of rules and regulations nowadays are aimed at more and more control over the people at little to no benefit to them. People get angry and protest such measures. Rinse and repeat, for at least the last decade or two. It’s repetitive and pointless. When does it become clear the once great system which brought us growth and prosperity is no longer fit for purpose? At what point people realise we need to shed the old system and its top crème de la crème in favour of a new one?

We need new leaders capable of creating a vision for our future to inspire 8+ BLN people and to put in place the means to get us there.
seems like a absurd reason not to like a game, stuck in nostalgia and district elitism reserved for the "hipster" crowd
The acronym MAD is not a coincidence.
Anybody writing about a "New World Order" is clearly joking.

There is no order in this world, except the laws of physics, "Me!" and some love.
Because you either stop prosecuting people or you build more prisons, or you stop pretending to care one way or the other about how crowded the existing prisons are.

Even if you think there’s some measure of criminal justice reform that could be done to reduce the headcount in the future in the State of California’s prison system, you build the damn prisons now to address specifically: overcrowding in the prisons, and then if some future opportunity arises to raze some of the older prisons because they are no longer needed because the prison population has been reduced, then you do that. Or you don’t, and we haven’t, so that’s clearly what our choice is: not caring in the abstract. Given that, I have no patience for the people that pretend otherwise.
Another overnight success preceded by decades of hard work.
Hum, no, it's not.

Of course, we marginally suffer from what we are importing and some students having too much free time on their hand try to argue rather unsuccessfully for intersectional studies but the models used in the USA don't map well on the European context for obvious historical reasons. Our left vs right debate also has nothing to do with the US one.

From where I stand, the cultural gap between the USA and Europe (in so far as Europe can be considered a homogenous area - it clearly can't) has never been that big.
We're hearing the side of the parents. They live there. It's their kids. What other side do you need to hear?
So the first one takes it all?
I believe GP is referring to the multiple AI-driven vtubers on Twitch (vedal987 and motherv3 I think?). They're not yet 24/7 because they still require human supervision for reasons -- vedal987 was recently banned for holocaust denial, IIRC.
Magnetic catalyst
Defund the everything.
Secret motives aren't really the right argument, I agree. Citing the seemingly-inevitable negative outcomes may be a better approach.

When someone argues for ubiquitous mass surveillance, ask them to explain exactly how the Stasi worked, how they came to power and what can be done to keep it from ever happening again. Point out that these questions have to be addressed before arming the state with surveillance tools that previous abusive regimes couldn't have dreamed of.
Probably Minecraft and Roblox mods but it helps to be a kid I'm sure.
What I am saying is that this is a bad topic to take message board advice on.
Every good classicist has heard the story why unlike every other Greek tribe the Makedonians did not erect tropaia on the battlefield. They used to, but after a major battle a lion came down from the hills, found the new scratching post, knocked it over, and left. They considered that a message from Zeus and stopped.
> In the late 60s - just fine. Don't forget, TV existed back then already.

E-1 SAMOS launched in 1960. I was wrong about it using a CCD though, it used a photomultiplier.
Open-source low-code framework ToolJet raises 4.6M USD
Your friend saved a lot of other parents during that time.

Thankfully I have not been terrorized by DCS but having been terrorized by police, I at least knew standing up for my rights meant those police were tied up with me for hours to days on end rather than terrorizing dozens of push-overs in the same time. I had a scenario recently where two tyrants were forced to babysit me for almost a full day, which meant that probably 200 push-overs who could be worked over in 15 minutes each were saved thanks to my standing up for my rights. When everyone invokes their rights the system locks up.
Pricing button in the header scrolls the bottom of the page to the top of the pricing section
I'm sure other people will correct you, but cs was a mod of half-life 1, where drivable vehicles were a massive janky hack.
I, in fact, use Elixir serverless: I just send functions to my BEAM and it runs them for me.
This is what it feels like to get more senior. Your role is to coach others increasingly versus delivery.
That would be something else, like if someone built a Chat GPT that could train itself and it starts learning at an exponential rate, and learning how to make itself unstoppable by humans.
> it as part of a certain tier of M365 subscription for free.

So is it free or not? If it's part of a subscription, it's just included in the cost. The subscription already included a whole suite of different software, what makes Teams special in that regard? Who decides that Teams is a separate product and not just a feature of the O365 product?
Absolute insanity
Some views allow for more generous interpretations of the qualities of adherents of other views.
How do you explain the countless tyrants in ancient and modern history? Hell, even in contemporary times. The truth is that there are absolutely very dangerous people around. And also a lot of good people too. We can't know for certain who is who, so the best approach is to be as polite as if they were good people but as cautious as if they were evil.
The original Half Life, including goldsrc, is source-available: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife
Trust is not transitive. My friends reshare all sort of crazy memes, and their friends are even worse.

Just because you know someone doesn't mean they're good at reading the news or understanding what's going on in the world.
> In democracies, it really is pushed for {good reasons}.

It's marketed to upper-middle class elites as reasonable, and of course it's upper-middle class elites that are paid to put together this marketing. But it's really orders from an owner class that has entirely different interests from the other 99.9% of the population.

If an individual member of of the upper-middle class has a problem with {the imposition of the week}, they are harshly corrected, shunned, then eventually ejected from the upper-middle class. Your credentials will be taken away, your friends will avoid you to keep from being suspected themselves (and will rationalize this behavior to overcome cognitive dissonance, becoming energetic state chauvinists), your credit will be destroyed.

> Pretending there's a sinister, organized New World Order (aka "them") with decades-long plans to restrict freedom is fantasy, and doesn't help us target the actual problem.

This is just a slander. There are people who own large parts of the economy, and people live for decades, and people pass their ownership to their children. They are also friends with their peers. The fantasyland is when we imply that they never speak to each other, never make plans, and have no agendas. It's a failure of thinking at scale.
On the bright side, you probably saved Bob's life.
I’m not sure the word for it, but brackets only ever mean two things, to my knowledge. Hash or Block, in Ruby.

I spent many years in perl, so I’m of the opinion visual indicators for datatypes are actually a good thing at the point of instantiation/composition.

Not sure how to properly word it
Sure, because it's such a powerful technique for shaping society. Are you saying we should stop using it because it can be abused for evil? :)
I'm kinda of undecided on Islam, fwiw. A bit above my pay grade, as i'm rather unsure how we objectively classify religion. There's plenty of Christian sects in the US that actively fight against gay rights/etc here too (though obviously to a far lesser degree in the common case), so it feels like we need some way to classify specific doctrine.

With my own lack of doctrine classification i am unsure how to view them. So i tend not to take a stance on it, just like i don't with Christianity.

I'm not sure what support you think the left commonly believes in for Islam. Everyone i know is not a fan of most religions, Christianity included. I view self rights far more important, and many religions or denominations directly challenge that.

Do you believe most leftists are campaigning for Islamic support? This has not been my experience.
Ah yes, I played tons of surf. Got into coding due to running a surf server in my closet and programming server mods.
By ad hoc I mean transients, hobos , hippies— people “off grid”— who want to pick up a cash job for a few weeks or a couple months e.g farm work, dishwashing, construction site, nursing, hospitality etc.

You show up to the owner, negotiate on the spot and start working.

the gig economy requires a credit card, bank account, background check , smartphone, app install etc – and all the tracking and hassle that goes with it.
> everyone actually adopts them

I think that scenario is unrealistic because if a majority of people are at a point where they would go to such lengths for privacy, democratic governments wouldn't be monitoring everything in the first place. I believe most high-democracy-index countries are democratic enough for this to apply. Actual reason for these policies is that most people do not care about privacy.
Sounds like Fun was had! I’m guessing you were going for a proper waterfall? In the future you could try a Dwarven Mist Generator. I like to put them above high traffic areas so everyone has to pass through it constantly.

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Mist#Ring_gen...
That's what I've been feeling. Web3 is the organic web. Where we add back weight to transactions and build a noise threshold that drowns the spammers and SEOs.

I always envisioned it requiring some sort of micropayments or government-issued web identity certificates.

Everyone complaining about bubbles needs to realize that echo chambers are another issue entirely. Inorganic and organic content both create bubbles. We are talking about real/notreal instead of credible/notcredible
GoodRx Leaked User Health Data to Facebook and Google, FTC Says
> And teachers, too. Is that a media conspiracy to distract from poor school performance and low test scores?

Many of the stories about teachers are of the 'Look how this teacher overcame a lack of resources to still try to provide kids with a passable education' format, so they are also puff pieces for teachers, but in a different way, meant to distract from the fact that the teachers are so under-resourced.

That's ultimately what these feel-good stories are intended to do, to distract from _something_, even if that something is just the status quo of daily life. And that is also why when it's feel-good stories about the police, it feels particularly insidious; As though the stories are trying to distract from all the horrible things police do. As the meme goes, no one ever wrote a song called 'Fuck the Firefighters'
> Last time I had an employer I had feelings of being treated unfairly and voiced it

For OP: don't voice it. Write down what your manager is failing to do, send it in a nice little email. Create a paper trail
This is the opposite read. ChatGPT is mainly being used to relieve of low level thinking. Not to indulge in it.
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34628269, this caught everybody by surprised because they assumed Congress would fix their mistake before tax season but it's new this year and it's seemingly pretty devastating. see some replies from actual CPAs in the thread.
Show HN: iPhone app that lets you edit photos with words
Built this quick app that feels like a lot like ChatGPT for photos.

Upload a photo, type an edit, e.g. give him a mustache, make him bald, etc. The edits build on top of each other so you can really do some fun stuff.

Works best with close ups of faces and landscape/architecture images. Not very good if there are multiple people in the image.

The underlying model is Instructpix2pix. It can require a few tries so there's an easy retry button that undos and retries the previous edit.

Another fun feature is you can hit "Send" without typing in a prompt, then it'll just pick a random prompt for you. This can lead you to some interesting and weird places.
https://archive.ph/ILe5G
Since everybody's headshape and mass is different, it's hard to do binaural audio that works for everyone.

Also, I'm pretty sure the brain uses small movements of the head to know where sounds come from. So you'd have to have head tracking with virtually no latency.

A bunch of speakers in a circle around you don't have any of these issues.