skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand your point

1) The main thing of brexit was to "take back control" away from "unelected EU officials" and allow debates by elected officials in Parliament. (british laws for british people)

2) Then the second overtone was stopping or lowering migration, but that was implied.

3) Thirdly was the money aspect, that we would have more money to make public services better.

on point 1, we have more statutory instruments now, which allows secretaries of state to change laws at will, without debate. This is a direct betrayal, and something that could have been avoided, but required consensus (which doesn't exist on either side of the debate). We are still pumping out shit laws that people don't like.

point 2, immigration hasn't come down: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati... but the focus has shifted from "them bloody poles" to boats.

on point 3, well just look at the place. Its not exactly improved. Now, this isn't actually to do with brexit, its government mismanagement.
Lots of comments here and in the GitHub thread claiming there are no legitimate uses for this, so I thought I'd drop a legitimate use just to have an example: I saw an unrelated article today where someone had used some deepfake technology to change the spoken language of an actor.

Imagine what that would mean for dubbed movies/TV if it gets good enough.

There are legit usecases, and that justifies the technologies existence. The bad actors don't make it immoral to develop a technology IMO.
Exploitative? Probably, but I have trouble being very unhappy with what he did. Nothing was destructive, and he was upfront about it. Dunno, blame the game, not the player?
I imagine that inventing a lack of integrity for people is a great way of justifying terrible behaviour. "No-one else has integrity so I'm justified by also not doing so". It doesn't even have to be true as long as you believe it.
Arkane has been (hostile-)acquired by Bethesda a long time ago and the founder Raphaël Colantonio has since left to form a new studio. It's better ot think of acquired studios as brands than separate entities, even if they still keep their own physical location open.

Ultimately, this decision rests on Microsoft and considering that they also acquired Activision-Blizzard recently it's not too surprising. Heck, even Windows has been blurring the line between an offline install and an online service.
In theory. In practice, it's a headache getting that thing to work.
> I was raised by a drug dealer/drug addict/gang member single mom. One of the reasons I’ve been financially successful is because I never wanted my life to be like the lives of the people I grew up around. Where’s the luck there?

Being born to a drug dealer is the lucky part.
They didn't make an excuse for lack of impulse control at all, they simply claimed responsibility for the action while not taking responsibility for the thought, which is a perfectly reasonable, rational, and adaptive perspective.
> as I put the finishing touches to sheaves of paperwork

That's just the beginning.

As much as I like German culture, their insatiable hunger for paperwork is borderline inhuman.
"Call that a radiation source? Now that's a radiation source. " he said between bouts of violent vomiting.
> Yet the right to free speech and assembly have far more restrictions in place.

That’s patently false. There’s an incredible number of federal and State regulations involved in the purchase, transfer, transport, and even storage of a firearm.

What restrictions on speech and assembly would you consider more onerous than any of those?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34622788
I had a horror of meeting some. Those can be, basically, put into two categories: 1) completely brainwashed (engineers aren't immune to that, unfortuntely), 2) drowning in regret and alcohol (being hostages of the situation).
The US was a world leader in this sort of thing for a while, before losing interest, is a reasonable way to think about it.

I wonder how much of an influence thalidomide was. The US failed to authorise thalidomide essentially because one person in the FDA put up a huge fight. This was, in retrospect, clearly correct, and would have given a lot of political cover for introducing safety regulations (in the thalidomide aftermath the FDA was a leader in introducing more modern safety requirements, say).

The stuff you’re talking about is old, though. It’s more difficult to find areas where the US is _still_ leading on this. For better or for worse, the EU is increasingly the world’s regulator (in much the same way that California is the US’s regulator on certain matters; when a really big market regulates, it tends to drag everyone else along with it).

On food, in particular, the US has a slightly weird approach; certain things which would clearly never be approved today are allowed if they’ve been around long enough. The US is virtually the only place to allow use of potassium bromate in food, say; if it was submitted today it would likely be barred as a carcinogen, but it predates the ban on carcinogens in food.
Sorry, I thought it was obvious my country is Poland, maybe I should have phrased it in an even more obvious way.
> The determined refusal of the specification to tie this abstract machine in concrete CPUs is the source of a significant amount of frustration in people who would like, for example, for there to be some semantics attached to what happens when you dereference an invalid pointer. They note that actual CPUs running C code all have defined semantics, so why can't C?

Because while all CPUs running C code have defined semantics for any given construct, not all CPUs have the same defined semantics.

Making C adhere to one CPU architecture for the sake of convenience would make implementations for other CPU architectures decidedly inconvenient. Rather than dereferencing an invalid pointer doing "whatever this CPU does", suddenly all C implementations now have to do whatever, for example, a VAX did.

It would mean that C code running on simple CPUs without memory protection would have to look out for invalid pointer derefs (how?) and simulate access violations if one were mandated by the spec. Or, if the spec said that the address space should be treated as a flat memory area all of which is accessible by any pointer, modern implementations would have to simulate that.
American hipster moves into big loud dirty city and complains of eating outside…
Me too, I might try a fortress this summer on vacation, but for now, I gave them my support for their love and dedication
A lot of people in the comments here are saying that this is beneficial because it will teach people that they can't trust video or audio. But I don't see how that makes sense because this isn't some neutered or weakened form of the technology. That's like saying shooting people makes them more aware of gun violence.
there are an awful lot of chars in the v6 unix code, i don't think it's really 'for special occasions'

also pointer arithmetic on a byte-addressed machine is different from int arithmetic, so you have to know if something is an int or an int pointer if you want to increment it

from the horse's mouth in https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html, dmr's hopl ii paper, with the advantage of 20 years of hindsight

> The machines on which we first used BCPL and then B were word-addressed, and these languages' single data type, the `cell,' comfortably equated with the hardware machine word. The advent of the PDP-11 exposed several inadequacies of B's semantic model. First, its character-handling mechanisms, inherited with few changes from BCPL, were clumsy: using library procedures to spread packed strings into individual cells and then repack, or to access and replace individual characters, began to feel awkward, even silly, on a byte-oriented machine.

> Second, although the original PDP-11 did not provide for floating-point arithmetic, the manufacturer promised that it would soon be available. Floating-point operations had been added to BCPL in our Multics and GCOS compilers by defining special operators, but the mechanism was possible only because on the relevant machines, a single word was large enough to contain a floating-point number; this was not true on the 16-bit PDP-11.

> Finally, the B and BCPL model implied overhead in dealing with pointers: the language rules, by defining a pointer as an index in an array of words, forced pointers to be represented as word indices. Each pointer reference generated a run-time scale conversion from the pointer to the byte address expected by the hardware.

> For all these reasons, it seemed that a typing scheme was necessary to cope with characters and byte addressing, and to prepare for the coming floating-point hardware. Other issues, particularly type safety and interface checking, did not seem as important then as they became later.
Any thought about possibly allowing the option to self host the app sometime in the future ? That would be wonderful at least to me
Very happy for them and everyone involved
How is the high energy cost of mining Bitcoin solved by exchanges? Also if I want to use crypto for anything except speculation within an exchange, the transaction speed is still an issue, even with apps like Coinbase. (Or at least it was last time I used it).

I know Lightning Network helps but that's like a layer on top of Bitcoin because the Bitcoin tech itself doesn't scale well
Plenty of people wanted to try out DF, but didn’t want to invest into learning the obscure interface.
Alternatively, having tools like this easily available makes it easier to raise awareness and build teams to combat them.
From a business perspective, you don't want to alienate developers who work to build your ecosystem.

A more sane way to do this would have been with a public tweet explaining why they were doing it (ad revenue), a 3 month lead time, and an API for helping apps get users to "upgrade" their account.
You might as well make up a story about a kangaroo eating it and then someone hunting and eating the 'roo.

The odds for any one small object to get not only picked up but picked up and not tossed back out are astronomically tiny.
Stem cell experiment raises hopes for effective Parkinson’s disease treatment
I'm not sure if you can call Brothers Grimm version "canonical" as from my understanding all they did was document in writing single versions of already well known folk tales that were carried through generations by oral memory. Many of which had many different versions depending on who told the story. So I'm not sure you can use the word "canonical" in this case.
Rizal, he is very inspirational in every generation a well travelled doctor, pacifist, novelist and poet. To be a well travelled doctor today requires a very rich parents. Novelists, and poets today cannot be fulltime. The modern day Rizals must be extremely lucky if they were born today
Was going to suggest this - incredible documentary but be warned it can get quite gruesome.

Try telling your friends you had nightmares about fig wasps...
Facebook, Google don't produce anything

They collect data and reshape it and resell it

It's good for society but this activity should be fully legal for ALL
Common Lisp has a bunch of that stuff. For example HANDLER-CASE

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_hand...
Sure. Is that person going to run it for free alone in his basement?

It's not only the code base. It's employees, servers, processes, data...

Even if you get twitter for free, you still need to pay to run it.
We’re above 1 degree C and heading towards 1.5 very quickly, with rising methane levels from multiple sources. This isn’t the ozone hole. I wish it was.
In case of a "trolley problem[1]", you will not switch the track and will let the tram run over 10 workers instead of 1, because the tram is already on its way. Right?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
MST3K, Rocky Horror, The Room, etc.
What's the other option? Let the company search for it? You'd be complaining that the government wasn't involved enough if that's what they did.

The company offered to pay for the search before the search was even concluded. Not sure what more you can ask for.
I don't know where jedberg pulled that from, but I seriously doubt that the L6-equivalent is the terminal level at any FAANG. At Google it definitely used to be L5, but apparently was dropped to L4 a few years ago
This is one of the reasons i made Mochi[0]. I couldn’t understand how this was the best recommendation for new people. Anki can be very useful and powerful but it is so user unfriendly as to be down right hostile.

(Plus Mochi has GPT-3 built in [1])

[0] https://mochi.cards/

[1] https://twitter.com/MochiCardsApp/status/1603569008493711361
OK thanks for sharing your thoughts! Much appreciated.
For now I reported to my direct manager and the HR manager, asking what HR's follow up actions are going to be (suggesting process review / staff refresher on processes, and reporting to fraud department). I expect they may want to keep this small, but let's see.
...maybe it is the political terms that need updating: "fact-leaning positions", and its opposite.
I think the larger issue is that the majority of applicants have no desire to create a cover letter, myself included.

Cover letters should not be part of the application process for form filled applications. I did no research but my assumption is the origin of the cover letter dates back to letter mail times. The applicant is writing to someone for the chance at employment, it is a letter that sets the tone for the included resume. In modern times I see it as the email I am writing to someone. The introduction of who I am and why I am applying. It makes sense in the context of an initial email.

I tend to ignore most companies that require me to attach a cover letter to an online application. Its just going to be fluff, its not addressed to anyone in paticular and most likely not even going to get read. The application is going to a specific role, with specific requirements and at the end of the day its a huge time sink to have to write a unique and clever letter to an online form.
>(the Mac Steam does not allow you to download Windows files).

you can !

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/ej1sid/download_wind...
it would solve a lot of problems if leniency introduced into the ansi spec to permit c implementations on the burroughs large systems line was only used in cases like that, instead of compiler vendors abusing it to eke out 0.2% performance gains on amd64 hardware at the cost of introducing priority 1 security bugs into operating system kernels
I'm curious, what are the actual objections to mobile masts being erected? They don't make a noise, they're not (despite the conspiracy theorists) in any way dangerous. All I can think of is that people don't like the way they look, but I don't really see them as being any uglier than a lamppost or street sign.
Yeah that would be interesting feature. An aggregator site, where you can check all your friends runnings. At presents I'm using Strava but some of my friends on Addidas Running and I can't check their progression.
Nobody Expects the Spanish Arbitration
That's good if you need the rest of the functionalities of your extension, but for me I can just click my ChatGPT bookmark and get it in a new Firefox tab instantly...
https://archive.is/unwyk
Set up an offshore that owns the IP and pay a licensing fee to the offshore? Licensing costs would then reduce net profits and likely also taxes, right?
I think "blame" is the wrong term here.

No one can be blamed for unintended consequences (most of the time, I guess). However, the fact remains that one is a crucial part of the chain of events that led to the very existence of the consequence.
The church has been around for years and despite the millennia of lies we are all still here and thriving and improving.

Sure, certain members of the church got carried away with their power but the church has also been a huge psychological boon to billions of people. For example, we have Christianity to thank for the concept of individual rights and sovereignty. It wasn't that long ago that individuals did not have any inherent value. Christianity is at the root of the "modern" concept of "innocent until proven guilty".
My understanding of the Law of Return is that matrilineally you can prove Jewishness by going arbitrarily far back on the female line, but that patrilineally (or otherwise not fully matrilineally) you can only go back as far as your grandparents.

That’s consistent with it probably not affecting most people + still allowing for people who do not meet the traditional religious criteria to exercise the Law of Return, but not the same as the treatments being the same.

According to my understanding, if for example my great grandfather was Jewish, but married to a Catholic, and raised their son (my grandfather) as a Catholic, who then was for all intents and purposes a fully practicing Catholic thus raising my parent the same way, I wouldn’t be eligible for the law of return. But if I could show my mother’s mother’s mother’s … mother was Jewish I would be eligible, even if this is more than 2 generations.

For most people raised Jewish I doubt it matters much but it does change things a lot for people of mixed Jewish ancestry whose parents/grandparents were not practicing. Which is a pretty decent number of people in the US and former Soviet Union
I really wonder what people that are interested in home automation are trying to solve. DIY I understand, as it's cool electronics tinkering, and home automation can be a fun project. But for people that just buy it and customize it, I have no clue what the end goal is.

Is the big issue to stop pushing the normal light switch button? Is that a huge chore? If I think home automation what I have wishes about is something putting my dishes or clothes in machines and then putting them back, cleaning floors, things like that.

Automating turning a light, playing music or whatever are just a 2 second thing, that's very down the list of my home tasks to automate.
Down Round 101
Ask HN: How does this bank delete a sent SMS?
This Belgian bank sends new pin codes by SMS.
Phones delete them after 2 days. How is this achieved?
The building I live in has this and it's not ideal. I consider it on par with other solutions, and I will not be my first choice for a new home due to complexity.

First it requires more hardware, it's more expensive and as far as I know you'll be stuck with one vendor. On top of that you need to isolate your home from outside signals (you don't want your switch to talk to you neighbor's devices). Second, it's pretty slow. This might be because our system is already 8 years old, but it's pretty noticeable (feels close to a second when you turn on the lights). And then you get into issues with your appliances that have cheap power supplies. I needed to buy a filter for my PC because the power supply unit was generating so much noise on the power line that the devices could not communicate anymore. Also I'm not sure how well this will work in older house, when the lines are not in best condition.

The system we have is made by DigitalStrom. They have a newer generation available, but since we rent I don't want to pay for the upgrade.
This is mentioned in the write-up actually near the end! The author notes on some fungus found and photographed.
If part of the rules of the game are that you’re allowed to sue people and lobby to change the rules, then no it’s very much not.
https://archive.ph/c914s
I initially discovered it ~10 yrs ago as an alternative for Memrise back when all of Memrise courses were still free. UI/UX wise it seemed outdated-ish but overall very powerful. Glad to see this still going strong as FOSS.
Having seen actual sprawling Java codebases at banks and elsewhere, they tend to end up sprawling as they deal with (a) some specific old computer, or (b) the complexity of some dumb framework in the language itself. The business logic only approaches that level when you’re dealing with specific products are treated for things like taxes and customs, or, medical billing codes.
sure it is

(paris berlin london)

is a data structure, which knows nothing about Lisp. It's just a nested list.

paris(berlin london)

does not make any sense as a list of symbols. Why is paris written outside of the list?

Lisp chooses to write programs as nested lists of symbols.

If you start to define a specific syntax which violates the simple syntax for nested lists, then the code is no longer read by reading a simple data expression.
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Did I miss it or does she has zero actual points or real reasons for wanting this citizenship?
Glad to see this, because they have worked long and hard on this game. For the optimistic, divide ~$4m (post-tax) by team of 2 for ~20 years (they started work in 2002). They've made some money in the meantime obviously, but seeing the final profit doesn't accurately capture the overall investment. Just in case you were thinking of quitting your day job to become an overnight millionaire making indie games.
Papier ist geduldig
Do you know if plain davinci-003 can continue long programming answers? I was using Chat to rewrite python scripts. It was it able to handle longish scripts easily by asking it to "continue", or simply "go on", if it ran out of room. But now they have blocked that ability since the Jan 30 update. It is quite a bit more painful now to have to break scripts up into chunks.
Germany does this with Russians of German decent all the way back to the 50s, demographics have not a lot to do with that.
>> Maybe the development of mass media was traumatic,

Yes, it really was. Adolf Hitler, for one, found radio and cinema and he just used what was already there. Before his countrymen had developed the media chops to deal with his messaging.

Others' past failures are not an excuse for our future ones. Nor should we allow ourselves to blithely imagine that this time it'll be different. Without strong evidence to the contrary.
I imagined receiving a pile of requests to write these cover letters, and having a negative reaction.
I'd feel they were wasting my time with bulk -- drowning out my ability to meaningfully apply to genuine positions, by artificially raising the workload for each individual application -- as well as being from people who saw no problem in sending me what I'd consider a "fake" request that they didn't actually intend to read themselves.

How about we try not to request text that we pretend will be read by a human?

And, if someone requests text only pretending that it will be read, we penalize that person?

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Note, I personally have no issue with cover letters, I am just attempting to point out that the parent's comment is not a compelling argument, so much as a rationalization that has decided to only consider one side of a two party situation.