skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Orwell's fame is totally unrelated to these 6 rules — 5 rules, since the last one is just a warning that rules about style should not be absolute.

Why is 1984 so acclaimed? Its style is boring and unimaginative. The characters' psychology is exaggerated and totally unbelievable (I remember the scene in the cinema at the beginning at the book, and, at the end of the book, the absurd post-torture behaviour). A large part of the story was ripped off Zamyatin. Some parts of the story are okay, but other parts are ridiculous... When I read that the nice old librarian was in fact the young chief of the counter-intelligence service, disguised in order to catch dissidents, I burst out laughing: imagine Beria tailing dissidents in the street, or Edgar Hoover disguised as a plumber to install illegal wire-tapes!

Orwell's crude style and stories are perfectly fine for a grotesque parody like Animal Farm. But I can't think of 1984 as a good book, not even close. I suppose it was successful because propaganda likes crude style and stupid stories, and 1984 was largely seen as a propaganda tool.
You don't understand anything about the power of digital currencies. Every one of your points shows this.
depends how much your users matter to you. if a browser[1] lags behind on a feature, you should avoid using that feature on a production website, or provide a gracefull fallback. but by no means should you redirect the users to a browser that supports that feature.

[1] i am only counting major modern browsers here: chrome, edge, firefox, safari.
you are welcome to support more, but these at a minimum.
There have already been several stories on HN's front page the past few weeks about how ChatGPT is 'too woke' because they could not get it to talk like a 4chan poster.
This is largely a story about excessive copyright duration. The casting requirement for this 70 year old play is based on legal threats by the estate of the author who died over 30 years ago.
i imagine the stock price drop is more due to microsoft incorporating GPT than the wrong answer
CBDC is fiat currency.

Everything else you state can already be done with the existing banking system.

How do you think fraud stops work?
It has nothing to do with that it's just that they had nothing to show at their event
This whole display was just - weird. The production values make it seem like it was the equivalent of a local meetup group, not a worldwide presentation/announcement. But coming so soon after Google's big AI announcement on Monday, looks like the public/investors were assuming this would be a much bigger/more substantial event than it actually was.

That said, I still think this reflects very poorly on Google's organizational focus.
We think that stock prices are based on earnings or profits. But they aren't (except for stocks that pay dividends.)

A more sophisticated way of looking at it is that stock prices are based on how people view earnings or profits. More specifically, what they expect future earnings or profits to be. From this perspective, it makes a bit of sense - if everybody thought that Bard was going to be a huge new pile of money for Google, and now it looks like it won't be, then people think Google stock is worth less.

An even more sophisticated way of looking at it is that stock prices are based on how people view how other people view future profits. So if you think everyone else is expecting Bard to make Google a boatload of money, then if the Bard demo goes badly, it may be rational to sell, even if you personally didn't expect Bard to be any good.
As a counterpoint, here's a relevant part of an interview with the lawyer who won 2 billion dollars in damages from Monsanto addressing skeptics of the trial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw5H36B1tJE&t=2842s
I'm not sure, and under further investigation you might be right.
Pick a language that speaks to you and use it. Ignore any technical bike shedding in your head. I like Rust and continue to hack on projects in it, but my happy place is Go. It is safe enough, productive enough, and checks all my boxes for serious hobby work. Find your own happy environment and projects
What is that screenshot of ‘Morning Affairs’ to ‘Embark’ meant to show?

Related, that’s probably not the best picture to show if they’re going for mainstream acceptance. I suspect it’s probably a pretty sedate video actually, so the author of the post just didn’t think about how it looked, but just choosing something with less apparent nakedness would probably give a better first impression if PeerTube is going for a widespread audience.
Could NASA’s Studies on Hibernating Squirrels Help Astronauts?
What’s the worst thing Oracle has done aside egregious enterprise pricing?
Consoles/PC gamepass. It doesn't really matter either way, once you run it in Proton with Vulkan there's almost no performance hit.
Except that was something that already existed, just in very tight contexts - laundry cards, for example, worked just like that.
because Erdogan's relatives were heavily involved in construction industry and these flopped buildings are result of Erdogan's family dealings
The main presenter is SVP of Search, Assistant, Geo, Ads, Commerce, and Payments. So I assume corporate was aware it was happening.
I do believe though that it is a matter of education. The absolute majority of people have no idea how the sausage of social media content is made.
I had the Steam Deck for a few months and then sold it. The hardware is great and what it's capable of is very impressive. What really let it down was for me personally was:

Software. Buggier than desktop Steam in many ways, frustrating touch/scrolling experience. I expected it to match the feel of perhaps an iPad 2nd generation but it's just janky. I don't have a lot of faith that they'll polish this that much but hopefully they do.

Portability. I just wasn't taking it with me when travelling as it's extremely chunky when packed with cables etc. I'm very much looking forward to a V2/3 that's more slimmed down.
Yes, users can click through to the original website. They'll just be clicking through on a blurred image.

This point is made in a single, short sentence of the original article that is easy to miss: "If you click "View image," you see life's frail nature."
This is a story about the insanity of forced "diversity". Or whatever newspeak you'd prefer.
Do you have a twitter account?
> No longer worried that people will pull cash out of their account to stuff under a mattress, your bank account starts dropping by 5% or 10% per year...

Why would they do this? There's already a much more streamlined legal mechanism for this: taxes. Plus, this isn't some new feature. If the government orders you assets frozen/seized, then a bank is going to comply with the order.

> I imagine first there would be a fee for converting to cash (eg. if you "withdraw" 100 digital pounds, you get 90 paper ones).

Again, not new. This is basically an ATM fee. Paper money has costs associated with it, whether that cost is paid explicitly (through fees) or behind the scenes (collecting fees from purchases, selling information about you to third parties, or "borrowing" your deposits to collect interest on it) is pretty much irrelevant.

Nothing you're saying is a "new" feature of digital currency.
Flashpoint is a preservation project for Flash games (and many more: Java, Silverlight, etc). It's honestly mind-blowing: https://unstable.life/flashpoint-database/search/
When did technology take such a wrong turn?
Not sure your point?
Microsoft’s Double-Edged Threat to Google
Just to add the cost-per-query may not be a temporary blip. ChatGPT's cost per query is based on a static base model trained over a year ago. Imagine the energy and compute that might be required to add meaningful personalization or an up to date index, or if there were to be a repeat of something like the search engine document count wars of the late 90s/early 00s. Training ChatGPT is estimated to cost between $2-$12 million per run ( https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/hwfjej/d_t... )
Have you thought about learning new technologies? Maybe if you vary your tech stack, you would feel more motivated :)

I recommend this article, if you're interested in Blockchain: https://www.ratherlabs.com/post/the-roadmap-to-become-a-bloc...

Let me know if it was useful for you! Good luck with everything!
Mark Mills: The energy transition delusion
There’s a disconnect between what the masses find entertaining vs. what the elites find artistically valuable. This gap is far wider now than it has ever been.

Throughout the 60s and 70s 19/20 films that won best picture were in the Top 10 Grossing. Since 2003 there hasn’t been a single one. Even after they expanded the number of nominations there’s still only 0-1 nominations in the Top 10 Grossing every year.

This is really due to the the fact that nearly every film in the Top 10 Grossing is a sequel, a remake, or a franchise movie. These films print money so Hollywood keeps making them.

In 1979 Kramer v Kramer was the highest grossing film. In 2021 it was Spider-Man: No Way Home (the 12th Spider-Man film to come out since 2000). Spider-Man made over 3 times as much when adjusted for inflation.

You could say that the artistic portion of Hollywood is dying, though Hollywood is doing as good as always.
Governments are different as they legally have to do it.
We've (belatedly, alas) merged the threads - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34702386.
In most situations the setting is already on. Right now, the experience when you're not logged in, is that it takes some very aggressive search for pictures to even show up. It's already very conservative, and hides things that fall in a gray area. Suggestive pictures are filtered and gated, even content that would just barely be pg 13.

There are certain phrases or words that should produce explicit images but don't. And, from my experience, you have to append a sexually explicit word at the end for relevant images/results to show up. I have been noticing it more with Adult film actors' names.

There absolutely should be filtering and Google has gotten better are figuring out the gray area pictures. But it's not perfect at drawing that line.

And the other issue with this policy is that these searches get tied to your account. It's not a matter of being annoying. The filter being unintentionally off was never an option.
> Banks lend at certain multiples of assets, 10:1.

No this is wrong. They can not loan out more than total deposits. The trick is that if you deposit 100, they can loan out 90. It gets deposited with them, so they can loan out another 80 and so on. (Actual numbers may differ). This is how you get the 10x multiplier.

But they can not loan out more than total deposits.

If they could, why even bother with deposits at all?
A fiduciary duty doesn't mean choosing the cheapest thing, it just means the AI can't base decisions off how much of a kickback the AI would receive for making/suggesting that choice.
Yep, sure do. When I got to my current job last year one of my early activities was brainstorming a set of team principles for my SRE team, and one of them is “We improve by taking risks, learning, and taking risks again.” The critical thing about failures is learning from them. So really you’re celebrating the learning, not the failures.
There’s no difference in reality. If you have money in a U.K. building society or credit union they are two steps away from the Bank.

All deposit takers in the U.K. are agents of the Bank.
The current state of these "AIs" seems like the equivalent of an automated overconfident charlatan, made more convincing with a ginormous corpus of bullshit^Wtraining-data to draw from.
This info helps me decide to check out a project. I am familiar with Rust, so any project in Rust gets my attention quickly. If the title didn’t mention the language, I would first check the language used!

It’s an open-source search engine which one could self-host. Language and tooling matter a lot to me and is often deciding factor.
omg, there are hundreds of videos in youtube like this one :(
It doesn't make those things OK because the argument against those things isn't that they enable the government to act in an authoritarian manner but that they are violations of individuals' right to privacy. Total surveillance is a bad thing in its own right. A CBDC is, as far as I've seen so far, not. And the argument that it should be seen as bad because it could be used for bad things by a bad government doesn't hold water, because preventing a CBDC wouldn't materially restrict the powers the government could wield if it were to become authoritarian.

You're clearly convinced that governments slide inevitably towards authoritarianism and can only be prevented from doing so by practically restricting their powers, but it's a rather backwards way of thinking about things. An authoritarian government takes whatever powers it wants and wipes its arse with any rules that have been written to supposedly prevent it. If an authoritarian government thinks a CBDC will be useful it can just make one. Not that it would have to, because the government's existing powers are already sufficient to implement all the nefarious schemes people are worrying about in this thread.

The way to avoid the threat of an authoritarian government is to have a fair and well run electoral system, a healthy national political dialogue and a well educated population (not that these things are easy), not to assume the government is inevitably going to go bad and block it from implementing useful policies in a futile attempt to curtail the powers of the dictatorship you've convinced yourself it will one day become.
" to medias around the Europe"

what else am I supposed to infer from that than the EU regulating over countries "around the Europe"? another poster stated they specifically by grains from Europe under the notion that EU regulations were protecting them from this type of stuff. so, how is this hard to figure out how these are related?
The patient has an abscessed cavity, they must evacuate the house and go to a dentist. Both after all.
If your ad shows your brand new AI product making an _obvious_ error... that's a problem. It signals that you cannot trust anything else without actually checking...
> In a world like this, where the need is reduced to actually go to a website, what's the incentive for maintaining a website that no one visits?

I guess to get the bots to tell your lies.
> As someone who leads a team working on a game project using an old, custom engine we have a quiet desire to switch to a different engine

I'd be careful with this and make sure that if you do try a switch, you'd keep the existing tech alive. I've worked on a bunch of game projects in different companies and in pretty much every single one of them, both custom and external engines, people wanted to use something else.

One of my favorite jokes was that the biggest feature UE brings is that you get to blame Tim Sweeney when something goes wrong instead of the engine CTO :-P.
For those who prefer a more visual and interactive demo: https://evanw.github.io/float-toy/

It's not very complicated when you see it in bits
Nice, now I can write off a Steam Deck as a business expense!
OK, so GPT is good at parsing technical documentation.

What about the other 95% of search volume that isn't tech-related?
Compare this to the music industry and the Grammy Awards.

No one watches the Grammies anymore (for some value of "no one"). But people are still listening to music, and money continues to be made. There is still a music industry, albeit increasingly dominated by older artists and material. People still go to concerts (hello, Taylor Swift).

The Oscars have no real purpose anymore, either, but people still consume video content; just on their home screens. The big "movie and TV" companies will continue to churn out crap to fill the void, and consumers will still search for some opinions they respect as to the content worth watching. People in the industry will still seek validation that they're something more than disposable units like K-Pop "stars."

Next evolution: awards shows move to subscription channels, so people in the industry and anyone who really wants to can watch them. Like most baseball games.
The average anything user never bothers themselves to even look at settings. The average user just don't know any better.

I bet a majority of people who do change settings and know about old.reddit, would primarily use old.reddit
I'd prefer a high-grade IPS panel over an OLED panel unless Samsung starts manufacturing QD-OLED panels this small, mainly for longevity reasons with how static UI is on-screen for long periods of time with most games.

Heat and noise reduction is mainly what I'm after though. I really, really don't like it when portable devices get hot or make significant amounts of fan noise.
The response talking points on this apparently included the words "serial fabulist," perhaps for the tracking value of such a rarely used phrase. Where this is being discussed those two words are being used with obtrusive frequency.
Guided missiles, misguided men.
Amusingly, the Orwell piece itself mentions a particularly stupid sub-species of the "not X"; namely, the "not un-X" (e.g. "not untall" instead of just "tall"). In a footnote he says:

"One can cure oneself of the not un- formation by memorizing this sentence: A not unblack dog was chasing a not unsmall rabbit across a not ungreen field."
Thanks, it's been forever since I've used C# so glad to know this exists, and seems like the ideal implementation.

Really wish JS had added first class support for a bigdecimal class before bigint. After all, the first is basically a superset of the latter.
"What do you mean you mean it can't recover from a 100% disk failure rate?

At least it's all in RAID 0, so the data's safe."
magnanimously is probably not the word you intended:

magnanimous
(adjective)

1. Highly moral, especially in showing kindness or forgiveness, as in overlooking insults or not seeking revenge.

2. Great of mind, elevated in soul or in sentiment, raised above what is low, mean, or ungenerous of lofty and courageous spirit.

3. Dictated by or exhibiting nobleness of soul; honorable; noble; not selfish.

(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.)
Cliches aren't an argument, but they're good for clicks. You can do better.

The solution is not as simple as 'more speech' because we are dealing with a historically unprecedented volume of amplified and recorded speech at scale, so things like signal:noise ratio become very important. Simplistic responses like yours suggest an unwillingness or inability to engage with the complexity of the issue.

A simple example of why you're wrong is that it's easy for an actor with access to an echo chamber to launch a viral cascade by modeling outrage over some made-up or minor issue to boost engagement. Fans of the actor share it out of agreement, amusement, or for the pleasure of owning their opponents, while opponents of the actor either deride or argue. The actor gets to appear in the day's trends, gain new followers/subscribers, boosting influence and financial intake.

But there's also a more subtle transfer of wealth, not so obviously measurable by the metrics of the social media platform. The actor spends 1-5 minutes composing their message, like you spend only a short period to select and repost your cliched response. The time that other people spend replying takes at least as long and often longer. So while the actor may have invested 5 minutes out of their 24 hour day in amplifying their own profile, by saying something deliberately controversial, they've caused others to put in significantly more time to responding.

Here, that's not such a big deal because HN discussions are not that complex and people have time to read and consider every comment in a thread they're interested in - so your claim has some validity. But on large social media platforms, the scope is radically different. A provocative tweet can generate thousands of negative replies, so that an investment of 5 minutes by the provocative actor can cause people to collectively put hundreds of hours into their responses, which unconscious social labor serves to amplify the provocateur. There are lots of influencers who have this down to a system and do it on an almost daily basis. It's essentially a theft of time - a little from their fans, a lot from their anti-fans, with that time being converted into engagement and increased reach.

This is why your reflex response is wrong. Bad speech can be designed to yield more speech that amplifies the original bad message for fun and profit. Your concept of reasoned debate only functions in forums where there are some leveling factors like equal time allocations or legal procedures for the allocation of time. Here on HN and on many small forums, that function is done by moderators (who can ban intentionally disruptive users or manage anti-spam filters) and to some extent by users (whose expressed preferences have direct weight like downvotes or flags, and indirect weight by their long-term community participation making them familiar to each other). On big platforms, the calculus is completely different and your model of reasoned debate breaks down.
Of course. The will (and should) use the name the country officially defines to be the correct one. Why would they refuse and cause a diplomatic fuss over such a trivial thing?
I apologize for my snarky answer :)

I should have said I don't see any issues on these projects that jump out in severity or number of issues compared to other projects I use.
IMO there are two largest hurdles to practical AR:

- Humans aren't fast: using AR while also functioning as a person is too hard for us dumb meat-computers.

- AR devices still aren't as fast, sophisticated and low-power in hardware as we'd take it granted for mobile devices e.g. iPhone and MacBook.
Please read the article first, not only the title. The above comment is completely correct. Whether their approach is acceptable though, that's another story of course.
We declare an "incident". After it, you review the "incident". The site might not have even "died", but you still have an incident.
The Eerie Connection Between ‘The X-Files’ And 9/11
Visa and Mastercard are issued through a multitude of providers. OBDC will have central control. It is beyond me how anyone can argue for that, after seeing again and again how governments fails in almost everything repeatedly. At least have two options to chose from.
Did you go into debouncing?
Even better, you can get the decky-loader and proton-badges plugin. It can show the protondb rating directly on the game mode ui. Allows you to know will a game(or a program) even run even it is not rated as steamdeck compatible yet.
There is a latex-ish math plugin for Google docs
Hey I didn’t mind. During the latest bull run I looked into my wallet and realized I had $800 of stellar lumens on it. Transferred it out and got some additional money from it.
This should be incredibly obvious, especially to adults who've realised (particularly during the pandemic) the effect that social media use can have on themselves.

Smartphones should be banned from schools entirely, and parents should be much more careful about keeping track of what their kids are up to online.

(But it's probably too late, we've got a generation of young teachers who've grown up hooked on this technology, and who see the world through the distorting lens of social media)
We have distributed the spectacle. Now each of us is responsible for projecting our chosen subliminal intent.