skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real time coincidences:

an article just came out on the FT:

> "US police receive less training than plumbers"

https://www.ft.com/content/0ec78d2e-9a3b-403b-9d5a-fc68c2804...

Edit: that was the RSS title; the webpage title is "US police: is a lack of training behind the violence? // Officers require fewer hours to qualify than plumbers and cosmetologists". Which again elicits a reaction in the lines of: "suspicion of that correlation being causal is the farthest from novel".
Trend has been dramatic though:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/1597/confidence-institutions.as...

Great deal/Quite a lot Confidence in Newspapers went from about 35-40% in the 80s to about 22% today (COVID likely a major influence on 2022's 16% number). Very Little number also notable.
I also thought it was eye-widening where they described access journalism as a happy and productive equilibrium involving the tolerance of "some hypocrisy on both sides."
I find melatonin really useful, if that's something available where you live (its regulation varies radically between the US and Europe). I find it's best about 30 minutes before bed.
Nice, but if 24_tuba_arpegio_melodious_phrase_stereo on the samples page is not a conversion error, it might explain why at least basic psychoacoustic model and/or post-processing filter are expected. That static beat is noticeable precisely because of its repetition.
I don't have to wonder, I know.

Because they present a social good (less crime, adherence to law, order) that's one of the bases of civilization to those bodies, and those bodies give them more latitude than competing interests because of the primacy of that good.

Which is how I'd want the system to work, because any system fully optimized for freedom without national security exceptions wouldn't survive as a major world power.

They don't always get what they want. They do tend to get what they want. Occasionally things are scaled back later, as excesses are discovered.

Working as designed and intended.

Or to put it another way, what substitute system would you rather put in place, and how would it handle malicious internal groups and external world powers?
On the other hand in UK we pass laws that make it illegal to steal dogs. Which was obviously illegal anyway.

I think American terror watchist has grown to nearly two million people. Are there really milkions of terrorists in US? How have they not yet blown up everything
I remember well the day I lost faith in the news media as surely as
the childhood moment "Father Christmas" stopped being real. For me, it
was the second Iraq war. The whole thing was so blatantly a put-up.
Day after day the news media went along with what were obviously, and
later proven, falsehoods. To watch and listen felt corrupting, like
being part of something unreal, like witnessing an accident or
assault, but being powerless to do anything. The intransigent deafness
of government to the feelings of the people, and the role the "mass
media" played in that have never left me. It was a coming of age for
me. I was astounded that trusted organisations and people I respected
were so willingly engaged in something false and monstrous.
When I was in IT, the rule was 'no essential businesses processes in Excel unless defined and approved' to ensure 1. The formulas were actually correct and 2. We could provide continuity should the person leave 3. These items were included in corporate backups not just user level ones, etc. Hardly anyone followed that process. People are going to use the easiest/best/quickest tools available to get their job done. Add in promotions based on making 'big' cases and you have quite the incentive to abuse these tools without some huge conspiracy. Simple human nature.
1. Bandwidth
2. Double Click
3. JAMStack
4. Ecosystem
5. Web3
6. Headless
7. Microservices
8. Sunset
9. Cloud
10. MACH

What did I miss? Which ones do you disagree with?
Yeah. It feels overdone because it can all be CGI so just go crazy with it. Sure, it's a fantasy movie, but at a certain point it feels too much

(they're not the only ones guilty on that, obviously)
So it is up to the platform, since the compiler is part of the platform.
” Web content expands too quickly and too massively.”

If most of it is crap I would call not archiving it a feature.

There is a weird convoluted analogue to CERN particle detectors. They smash particles together and then image the resulting storm of particle contrails via detector that is basically a sandwhiched ccd detector (like you have in camera, but different) the size of a cathedral. Resulting in far too much data for any system to analyze or even store in the first place. Hence they need/needed to runtime filter the massive amount of particle trail signals and only pick out the critical ones.

If there is too much data you simply need to drop the parts you are fairly confident you don’t need.

There is no reason there should be only one internet archive, there might very well be parallel operations filtering a bit different things.

I guess it’s a bit odd Unesco does not already have a parallel effort.
Ah, yes, freeloading on a service that has been available free of charge for over 16 years and which is now being shut off with a week's notice and with no details regarding the paid plans that will supposedly replace it. Definitely not appropriate for them to be mad about that at all.
Heh, I read it and remembered knowing a lot of it already. Of course, it turns out it was them even then [0] ;)

And yay! They are on tumblr! So much easier to read and I can subscribe to their posts.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28302722
I also think a flipped version of this is also valid:

Assange clearly was selective about release of information and timed his releases to affect political outcomes, which discredited him in my eyes and many others.

But that just adds to the pile doesn't it? It shows that trustworthy agenda-free journalism is exceedingly rare even in the "alternative" media and activist journalism world.

If you have an audience that trusts you, you have power. Power corrupts.

I don't think there ever was an age in which journalism was significantly more trustworthy than today. I think we just had fewer options and less opportunity to look behind the curtain.
It's optimization for PR and defense against bad press. For every question, a subtext is: "Who is likely to input that question, how likely are they to input it, and if the answer is bad by their belief system, they are likely to tell the world and/or outrage about it?"

A general model of operation in creating outrage[1] is:

1. Find the most extreme example of X

2. Tell the world.

Democrats and left leaning were more likely to do that. And openai optimized for that. It's a smart move.

[1]:https://betonit.substack.com/p/anti-woke-from-outrage-to-act...
We have for my sensibilities - I’ve been experiencing some serious AI/ML fatigue lately.
That's relevant to the Bible, or Shakespeare, or the MCU, because those works' authors have authority in a way the Brothers Grimm do not have authority over folklore.
Benadryl (diphenhydramine)? It probably shouldn't be used for prolonged periods of time (associated with cognitive decline and dementia among the elderly).
> Now we have access to not just what the elites think (via the mainstream press), but also also what they miss or misrepresent.

... Sprinkled with a lot of bs on top.

Let's be frank here: the Internet, as we currently use it, gives voice to _everyone_, regardless of the accuracy of the information, and while I agree that the upside is that we do have access to more information, it has not significantly changed the quality of it.
You only want your brightness to be something like 120cd/m^2 which is well below what most LCDs even let you adjust down to (even though that's what sRGB and all such common color spaces were designed for). A new CRT will go way above that until you adjust it down. Only got back into CRTs recently and collected a bunch from secret hookups.

I was surprised at how good a fake game like Genshin Impact looks compared to even the highest contrast VA LCDs. The difference is night and day. But then again the game spent all their budget on graphics and marketing.
Awesome! we're using coded aperture and Compton imaging
They should hang in the public square on the very next Sunday, it’s the only thing that will truly change anything at this point. You might think this is extreme but I welcome you to come back in 5-10 years and read it again and see what you think.
In 1949 the FCC introduced the "Fairness Doctrine" that "required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints". It was repealed in 1987. People in the mid-20th century actually had regulatory restraint on incendiary click-bait. It wasn't just optimism that produced trust.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
The revenue is down 35% from last year, but what is their profitability? It's not a public company anymore, so revenue goals...who cares about them? A private owner is more concerned about profits. So did the shedding of all those positions either give profit now, or set up profitability in the future? I think so.

Planning for long-term - who cares if 500 advertisers left? The exodus of advertisers is why other advertisers should expand their advertising. Less eyeball competition, and better deals.

90% of the Fortune 500 companies that were at the top 50 years ago are no longer there, or whatever that number is. They stagnate. They don't shake themselves up. They go along to get along.

I think that a lot of people want Musk to fail, just because. People take glee in the hope that he will fail. Especially now that they don't agree with him politically. Which, for the record, I think that it was monumentally stupid to bring politics into it, on his side.

The reality is the guy spend $44 billion of his own cash. He has built many HUGE companies that he owns. I think the guy knows what he is doing. He might fuck it up, but he knows more about running huge companies than you or I, that's for sure. Could he fail? Sure, of course. But the guy put his money where his mouth is. They guy is not full of shit, he ponied up $44 billion.

He has done things that you, nor I, nor anyone else could do in 100 lifetimes. Oh, I've read the nay-sayers - he gets the public to fund things, the government to fund his things, and this and that. Well, why don't you or I, knowing this, go out and make a bunch of multibillion dollar companies that change the course of society the same way that he did? Not possible, otherwise you and I would have already done it. Except, of course, if we actually did, everyone would LOVE us and our decisions, because we would be pure and holy. WE would do it right. hahahahahaha.....sure, sure.

I'm not a Musk fanboy, but I think he did some impossible things. I just think the whole hoping he fails because of his politics is hokey and immature.
When I googled, it seems the document didn’t actually win an Emmy.
> Sure, but why do we have to conflate "disagreement" with "undesirability"?

Because most people find being challenged very tiresome and uncomfortable. People who are high in openness actually enjoy being challenged, but they are a minority (and it's definitely a spectrum).
"never made illegal" but "lost everal lawsuits", got it
Myopic view, "older" folks are also excited they can leverage this new tool, you can be excited for a thing while also being apprehensive about some of its uses.

i love how you point out "write or help edit essays" and cant see how that could have potentially negative effects on society. If someone can generate an essay for class in 2 minutes that's better than their writing produced in hours, why would they ever bother to improve their writing?
> Why would you post a blog on the public internet and then have an issue over it being shared?

Correction: an issue with it being shared on Hacker News. Foone has explained this themselves:

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1440375176604966924?s=20
It's Apache 2.0

Reference: https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/erts/AUTHORS
Sorry, you can’t comment because your certificate was revoked when you died. You didn’t die?

——

We will pay you 100 bucks to withhold filing your partners death certificate for one week and providing their certificates to us.
There are several cases of Trump using the term without reference to "fake news". For example, just look at an archive of his tweets.

April 5th 2019:

"The press is doing everything within their power to fight the magnificence of the phrase, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! They can’t stand the fact that this Administration has done more than virtually any other Administration in its first 2yrs. They are truly the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!"

Or how how about singling out individual news organisations he doesn't like as "enemies of the people"?

Feb 20th 2019:

"The New York Times reporting is false. They are a true ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!"

The difference between calling all the media "enemies of the people" or just the ones he dislikes doesn't seem to be that big a distinction for the purposes of the argument.

EDIT: removed unnecessary emotion
I have a habit of speaking with a bit too much liberty for the taste of HN :P
Pretty sure it was https://github.com/Rillke/opusenc.js

(Normally this would be in the commit description but it looks like we forgot to include that https://github.com/jeffkaufman/bucket-brigade/commit/d96b6f3...)
I commented on twitter, but I'll comment here as well:

> By providing low-level primitives instead, applications could ship with their own implementations of high-level concepts like layout, widgets, and gestures, enabling a much richer set of interactions and custom experiences with much less effort on the part of the developer.

This means that even 20 years from now all the "UI frameworks" will keep busy reinventing the same dozen-or-so primitive controls: avatars, buttons, tabs.

The value of other systems isn't just in providing the most primitive of primitives. The value is also in providing the right set of high-level APIs.

Building a fully-accessible properly behaving combobox from scratch using only WebGPU primitives? Good luck with that. Meanwhile elsewhere I can just reach for one, and have it available, with all the expected platform behaviour. Same goes for hundreds, if not thousands, little things that you need to account for.

If the quest for the future of the web doesn't include something like https://open-ui.org on the roadmap, it has failed before even starting. Because the future in the document is already here. And there are vanishingly few companies that have the wherewithal and technical acumen to pull off building a UI from scratch.
I looked at the nostr protocol, I don't understand how it can efficiently support likes and comments from strangers.

because everything is modeled as an event. And a client only pulls events from peers that it follows.

on one side, a viral post will attract lots of like events. on another side, how can a client efficiently gather all these events from relays, accumulate them, and store them?
Unexpectedly, it also runs on a PSP: http://calmira.net/screenshots/sinan.htm
The old "Tantalean punishment" reworked as a sexual fetish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalus
How will AI change our world and culture?
Shifts in Time on the Doomsday Clock
But GDPR is kind of the opposite in that it protects the right to privacy (in this case from surveillance capitalism), so conflating them seems counterproductive
> There seem to be more suburban areas where parking is easy,

That's not a selling point for people that are looking for city living. There's a tiny walkable downtown area but that's it. (Though I haven't been there in years and years and years, so maybe that's changed.)
Pro players almost definitely all use headphones, because they're typically on stage for tournaments with their teammates right next to them and their opponents somewhere nearby.

But even when they're not on stage, they're often in the same room with their teammates. And even if that isn't the case for some reason and a player is in their own room, winning those tournaments is generally the highest honor, so pro players would likely want to practice as close to tournament conditions anyways.

Directional audio over headphones is surprisingly good nowadays, though. HRTF is pretty cool stuff.
They probably rank higher on long tail keywords. Usually for more in the weeds issues that don't get as much search volume
Work-life balance, and selectivity.

Personally, I don't buy games until they're old enough to be on 50% sale and the reviews are in.

If you're interested in reviews and community based around limited time, I'd highly recommend reddit.com/r/patientgamers.
> I bet that the kvetching doesn't happen now that it's a single Tumblr post rather than a tweet thread.

Maybe. But also HN doesn't have a great reputation re: gender, and foone is non-binary. So there are multiple reasons.
> since its only purpose is to potentially hide opinions you disagree with

People can certainly use it that way, but I think it's useful for de-emphasizing irrelevant or inflammatory comments as well.
I am in US and have an idependent insurance agent that offers healthcare plans for every insurance company licensed in our state. They compared my plan with all the others, taking into account the types of service I use, what is covered when travelling, etc. Anytime I need a specialist I call the agent for a list of in-network doctors.
When It Comes to Cybersecurity, the Biden Admin Is Getting Much More Aggressive
In the tweet that got a lot of attention, what he said was "It is the FAKE NEWS, which is a large percentage of the media, that is the enemy of the people!"[1].

That "a large percentage" bit, along with how he fairly-commonly used "fake news media" to mean all non-explicitly-conservative news sources explains why people felt he was attacking the press in general, I think...

[1]: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/10251151556324556...
> Maybe the Mexican border guards

I think there's a good chance that you'd be shot at by US law enforcement if you tried to make an end-run through a border checkpoint, regardless of which direction you're going. In fact, they might even be more aggressive in the US -> Mexico direction (because follow-and-detain is less of an option and the presumption that anyone heading that direction illegally is either smuggling or evading arrest).

> But East German border guards were shooting East Germans who were welcomed by West German guards. Pretending that this is a typical state of border affairs is gross revisionism.

Of course. I think the point still stands.
OfferUp certainly doesn't give a hoot about user safety. The sketchy users have mostly departed Craiglist for OfferUp and Facebook Marketplace, and boy can they be a handful to interact with.
Unfortunately like 99% of such web games is mostly unusable if you don't have a QWERTY keyboard...
A bit off-topic:

Which structure would be needed to make mass surveillance acceptable? Would it be possible to make it secure and transparent to the point that a mass surveillance system can be accepted as safe?
Whoa, whoa, I never claimed the technology was the “debil”. I merely asked for examples of viable, moral, unique uses of this tech.
That's presumably complicated as models get more and more powerful, though, since there's also tons of published material talking about the blood libel and how it's false.

You might say it's unexpected behavior for a language model to bring up the blood libel at all (in the sense that modern western people now culturally regard it as "about antisemitism" rather than "about Jews and Judaism"). But you could imagine a model saying that "medieval Christian sources often said Jews used Christian children's blood for ritual purposes, but this is now thought to be a myth created through unfamiliarity with Jews and deliberate hostility and animosity toward them".

But this also points at a more general question about how language models deal with the existence of documents that say contradictory things, which has been an enormous challenge for human beings (who don't all agree about what's true or which sources are more reliable or relevant).
Forget About Catastrophic Forgetting: Google’s Continual HyperTransformer
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The latency issue would be in the timing of samples between the sound drivers, not from the game to the sound port. The sound data could take 50ms+ to make it through the DAC, but as long as it plays the signal to each driver with enough precision relative to the other (and assuming the response of the driver is sufficient), your brain would get the orientation info. The frames you're seeing are already around 50ms late for most games anyway (unless you're playing the game at hundreds of fps, which is very possible with cs1.6), and mouse latency is between 50-100ms.

Head tracking wouldn't be necessary because you're always looking straight at the screen and the camera is always aligned with your character's head. You're never going to physically turn your head to get a better angle on a sound source, you'll just turn in game.
That's the point of voting systems. They create or fake the appearance of community homogeneity of opinion by making well articulated wrong-think that might challenge the status quo not worth the effort.
Is it a matter of time before the free version goes away?
People were also using it to discover new music. Most radio stations in the US are owned by a couple of large corporations who play the same bland stuff nationwide. Most of my CD collection comes from artists I discovered back then.
> The OP was no doubt alluding to Javascript providing better developer ergonomics much like virtual DOM solutions have done over 'raw' DOM manipulation.

Were they? Alternative interpretations abound. "Raw WASM" implies that they were sarcastically saying the virtual DOM makes things a whole lot easier, and if all you care about is performance you might as well hand write a bunch of assembly.

Another interpretation would be that the whole DOM is inefficient, so you might as well transpile some kind of native toolkit to a WASM engine.

There are a lot of different interpretations for that pithy sentence. Does raw mean written by hand or does it mean not using DOM bindings?
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Firearm training of police is laughable and probably worse than the casual shooter who goes to a range once a month.

The average cop probably quals once a year with his glock 19 and spends the rest of the year stroking it thinking about how he's billy badass because he has a badge. You can watch the videos, any real resistance and they go back screaming asking for 10 of their buddies to do the spray and pray. When they were hunting Dorner they were even unloading full standard mags on random trucks just loosely fitting the description and still not managing to incapacitate the occupants.

LAPD officers were guarding one of the officers on Dorner's manifesto hit list on Feb. 7, 2013 when a blue Toyota pickup truck allegedly matching the suspect's vehicle drove up to the scene. Police opened fire and aimed at least 100 rounds at the occupants of the truck who they mistakenly believed to be Dorner's.

Two women were delivering newspapers on Feb. 7, 2013, when LAPD officers guarding the Torrance home of a target named in an online manifesto blasted at least 100 rounds. Margie Carranza and her mother, Emma Hernandez, were wounded and rushed to local hospitals. Carranza suffered a minor bullet wound, and Hernandez was shot twice in the back and reported in stable condition.
But not today.

I still prefer the practical effects of films like Mad Max Fury Road over most full CGI FX movies.