skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Almost like whether or not they choose to support a policy depends not on what it does but instead on who it’s being done to.

Well, or they have a more nuanced view than "censorship no" or "censorship yes"

For example, I support laws preventing stores from selling 3 watt LED bulbs in packages claiming they're 5 watt LED bulbs; or selling generic LED bulbs in packages claiming they're Phillips bulbs. Even though the printed text is surely the manufacturer's speech.

Must I support all censorship, because I support this one bit of censorship?
Use a print shop/library, hit up a friend/coworker, or figure out a different way of getting the immediate task done without printing. Basically anything that isn't walking into a store and dropping a few hundred dollars on a fully-fledged simulation of a capital asset, that will likely put you in the same exact urgent situation within a year or two.

I totally understand the impulse to spend a bit of money and feel that you're solving a problem now and for the future. But these companies have evolved their offerings to fully take advantage of this behavior, and the only way to protect yourself is to take a step back and act deliberately.
On the contrary, I'd argue that the tracing visibility you're looking at isn't inherently a software trait at all. It's a deployment feature, which is something you address at-cost when building a product, but almost never when building FOSS software. It's not that people in FOSS don't see that upsides to it, it's that those upsides are insignificant relative to the cost of sustained market research. It's easier to just... make stuff, and have companies plaster over the gaps when their interests align.

Look at GNOME, which recently pushed for it's users to contribute telemetry: https://linuxiac.com/gnome-survey-results/

Nothing wrong with what they've done here, but we already had most of these metrics. Nothing was really learned, and it took Red Hat and a few thousand users to get here. For smaller-scale projects, imagine how much smaller the returns would be.
Valheim runs natively on Linux btw.
I think the most important kind of math is linear algebra if you are serious about building something from absolutely zero. Achieving mastery over the rendering pipeline requires lots of experience with matrices.

Some of the more esoteric stuff might take you multiple papers/books to fully-grok. An example of this for me was clipping of geometry against the view frustum (for building a software rasterizer - GPUs handle this for you now). I've got 3 different papers on this exact topic still sitting on my coffee table. I think the hardest overall aspect is thinking in 4 spatial dimensions and getting your head around all of the transforms.

If you are using a 3rd party engine like Unity or Godot, you may find that mastery of this stuff is not as essential. I think it still helps to understand how the scene graph is ultimately rendered, but unless you are building these engines with your own hands, worrying about acquiring this knowledge could be prohibitive to progress.
I do agriculture stuff in Turkey. This has been a useful heuristic. I estimate that 90% of the people I have faced who get angry or make a big deal about this are bureaucrats who didn't get into their position by merit.
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Advantage of moving when the path has been revealed I think.
And access to higher trophic levels is unlocked by learning to work together in bigger groups instead of fighting each other. Growth is bottlenecked by "othering"
>running from 0.0 to 1.0 in steps of "some small increment".

I'm not sure what you mean; those aren't integers (if that's what you mean by "whole number float"):

python3

>>> 0.4 == 0.6 - 0.2

False

(edit: formatting for python)
I thought Dennis was the bastard man?
I like rational numbers in general, but they do have some huge practical issues in numerical algorithms. In particular, there's no upper bound on the memory use of a rational based on its magnitude. Following from that, there's no lower bound on the time an arithmetic operation may take based on the magnitudes of the operands. When you're doing hundreds of thousands of operations on an accumulator, this can go very wrong.

So I caution against blind preference for rational representations as well. You really have to choose your numeric representation based on your use case. It's unfortunate that this can be so hard to control precisely in many programming languages.
That's not how this works. Having a reason for why you are struggling so badly is a relief.

Your problem now has a name and it's not your fault. Having a name opens up a lot of support and treatment options. This gives you hope that your suffering isn't endless and infinite.

You may not be able to be cured, but you can have a much better life.
Hey, the free market is also good at finding CEOs who don't understand their industries.
Nice work!

I’m a fan of a new puzzle every day.

Mix things up, some hard, some easier. Much in the way Wordle/Figure/Killer Crossword does it.

You don’t need to change your game, give a url that changes the puzzle every day.

People who want to binge can do it, people who want one-a-day can do that.
Which is why “on device” scanning of images is also nonsense: it has nothing to do with protecting children, “think of the children” is so that they can get the legislation and technology in place to prosecute what they actually care about. Remember by design CSAM hashes, etc are opaque and it is not possible to determine what is present in those lists, there is no audit of those lists, etc.
It proves the guy is blatantly dishonest, no?
This is such a niche take.

I live in the U.S, how many high school graduates would even know about the Harappan civilization?

Hell, I have difficulty finding a midwesterner who can name 2 cities in the Indian subcontinent with the correct pronunciation.
Unless you're dealing with billions and care about pennies then using float for money is fine in 99% of cases.
It sounds like the problem implicit in your framing then is "algorithms", not extremists--a stance I agree with--which would imply the disinformation isn't coming from big tech's users, it is caused by big tech itself, and maybe it is the algorithms that should be limited and regulated instead of the discussions.
what games have you developed? Can I play one?
Remember when they got roped into some lame cryptocurrency pump-and-dump scheme? Hahaha. The joys of having VC debt and no business model.
We have to do better to support open source with money. GitHub likes don’t pay the bills. AGPL is fine.
> Let the temperature dictate your cooking

Focusing on historically-seasonally-appropriate cooking also means you'll tend to get cheaper produce and it'll be higher-quality, since it'll be in-season at least somewhere in your hemisphere (even if you're not at the right latitude/growing-zone for whatever cuisine you're cribbing from). Traditional seasonal recipes won't include things that were hard or impossible to find in a given season, without modern farming, refrigeration, pasteurization, transportation, et c, in whatever region they recipes are native to, except maybe a few things that are especially canning- or pickling-friendly.

Squash dishes in the fall and early winter, a general great abundance of produce enabling colorful dishes with a large variety of veggie ingredients in the Summer, heavier on beans and meat and potatoes and starch and soups in the Winter (but still some salad greens! At least before the coldest few weeks of Winter, most places), green things galore in Spring.

The rhythm of it's nice. And it can make end-of-week use-up-the-leftover-ingredients dishes easier, since the space for those for a given area in a given season is usually well-explored and well-documented, so if you stick to one area and one season for inspiration for a week's menu, you can benefit from that.
do you have any hint of evidence? Don't you think, people on HN would spill the beans? We found out from Snowden what the CIA is capable of, wouldn't someone working at big tech notice?
This [0] clip about Opinion Polls and National Service was an Ah-ha moment for me

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahgjEjJkZks
100 times this. If you have an incredible manager, most likely you as an engineer feel little pressure and a lot of freedom. That is because that manager has his back full of arrows he intercepted before they had a chance to hit you.
Consuming is the worst. The Internet is a toxic cesspool, for the most part. Having an account and interacting with friends would be one of the few exceptions, and maybe learning some stuff now and then.
My iPhone definitely does not last more than 2.5 hours when doing an intensive game.
Nicely worded. I suppose it's not as much that I believe she's doing a particularly bad job, but more that she's been moving Mozilla too far into the direction opposite from where I would have liked it to go, and where I believe it belongs.

I find her salary increases and their timing both unconscionable and excessive regardless.
Won't the new Bing be used by DDG? I thought DDG was on top of Bing already.
Can someone explain how this is rational? We have a tiny sample of how Bard performs and people draw conclusions from it?
Dane Wigington is quite controversial but watch more of his content and make up your own mind. Don't just disregard it like my sibling comment. Definitely collect and test your own groundwater and share the results with us.

He had been friends with Gavin Newsom and met with him to warn him on the issue multiple times.
Not just automatic 1111. Other SD forks like InvokeAI also embed the prompt in the png.
> I don't know precisely what point it is

Could you give us a hint? I honestly have no idea what you’re getting at.

I’d also like to clarify that this is not a discussion about whether Kenny G is underrated, but whether people hate Kenny G simply because it’s fashionable to do so. The whole problem I have here is that it was irrelevant in the first place whether Kenny G is good or not, because “whether Kenny G is actually good” is not a question some people are willing to investigate.
It depends what kind of mistakes and whether they are repeat mistakes.

Everyone makes mistakes, sure, and that should be accepted, but if they are caused by carelessness or incompetence, or if the same mistake keeps being repeated then there ought to be consequences.

A safe environment does not mean anything goes.
Yes, but you can't join crossplay-enabled servers with the Linux binary.
Will users be able to click through to the original website instead of logging in?
Avengers, fast food, they all fulfill a real need. The question is, should the Oscars celebrate the Michelin restaurants, or KFC? It's ultimately their decision, whether we approve it or not. I believe we have prizes for different productions - Cannes, Sundance... so if I don't enjoy the Oscars lists, I certainly have other lists to choose from.
If you’ve ever wondered why you like both Yes Minister and Clue (the 1985 movie), it’s because they both come from the pen of Jonathan Lynn.

Who can’t hear an echo of Sir Humphrey in this exchange?:

Colonel Mustard: "No" meaning "yes?" Look, I want a straight answer, is there someone else, or isn't there, yes, or no?

Wadsworth: No.

Colonel Mustard: No there is, or no there isn't?

Wadsworth: Yes.
I've seen on their Discord where before they release the next version they call upon the community to help document all the new features before release if I remember correctly. Maybe a good issue to bring up before it gets looked over.
Historically, pornography always fell under US law as obscenity, meaning that it was actually not protected by the First Amendment. The Miller Test for obscenity, arguably, still considers pornography to be obscene and therefore not legally protected, but is unenforceable because of how widespread pornography is and how widely accepted it has become.

From a legal perspective, I think the case for requiring age verification, or actually even banning or criminalizing pornographic distribution or use, is very strong from previous case law - and it would only take a SCOTUS ruling to bring it back. We can argue about whether that is good or bad for society - but, legally speaking, the US seems to be in the clear to control pornography (or, criminalize it) however it likes. The First Amendment is not an obstruction.
It doesn't say they are pointless. It says one would never use them (there is no worst case scenario that wouldn't became worse by using them), but for them not to be used, one has to have them.

Or, basically, it explained MAD.
I think the timing of this release is highly suspect and the real reason is a lot simpler.

The magnanimously negative impact of Brexit on the kingdom coupled with recent outlandishly irresponsible neoliberal monetary policy have put the UK in a precarious situation where member nations are unironically reconsidering membership. Scotland last november gave it serious consideration, and in 2021 Wales seemed poised to give it a go as well. the alternative these states are electing is the EU and if such a choice were to be made it would surely spell disaster for England.

Brexit has also created an unnecessary burden on corporations with a euro presence in that all must now be renegotiated at significant expense. The easiest path is to simply tell this relatively small kingdom of 67 million to trade only in euros, and this in turn would further devalue the pound sterling.

the "Digital Sterling" serves a twofold purpose: to distract from the slow rolling catastrophe of Brexit and other hardline neoliberal policies by offering something that appears to be progress, and as a desperate effort to court business and commerce back to the kingdom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit#Impact
> Maybe at that point we'll see a revival of mid-budget mass movies

do you think the release of one superhero movie per quarter keeps the whole mid-budget movie industry in deadlock?

could you give a few examples of what you consider good mid-budget movies that would have been affected the current situation?
After wrestling with Google Ads for a year my admiration went to zero.

Google is a mainly running a scam these days with completely blackboxed systems that absolutely fleece the little guy when not doing outright criminal auction price manipulation.

I don't know why this hasn't gotten more media attention.
Probably because of stockholm syndrome in the publishing sphere.

Yes they pioneered amazing things but where they earn their money now, is through a labyrinth of dark designs and obfuscated systems in the borderlands of legality.
How does that apply to children though? They haven’t got a lot of time that’s earlier as they would be too young. Additionally, a key part of a child’s behaviour is that it’s impulsive.
The bit on which group of people read which newspaper is an absolute gem.

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/yes_prime_minister/quotes/
This is why the ends should never justify the means.
Fixed point behaves well under addition and multiplication by integers. Otherwise it isn't very good. There are far more numbers in the range (1,infinity) than (0,1) for example, so 1/x loses catastrophic amounts of information.
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This thing is amazing! I can’t afford it ($750) but maybe one of you guys can and I can enjoy it vicariously.
That’s a good strategy, and good to know, thank you. I worked with an orphanage in Kyrgyzstan who had a policy of ensuring their bank account was empty at the end of every day, and it worked for them.

I’ve made a donation - I hope it ends up helping someone who needs it.
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Over many years of various side projects / entrepreneurial experiments, I've accumulated a bunch of domain names. I am still paying for them, mostly out of inertia. Some of them are pretty good names, but it's clear by now that I'm not going to use them. Is there a reputable domain aftermarket / marketplace that people can recommend to list these for sale?
As a boomer I agree with your remark
Keybase open sourced some great stuff. I hope they will share the rest as well.

If I had to choose between them not existing, or existing to be acquired then I'm glad they choose what they did.
If you are so sincere about your epistemic hygiene, at least call it an "atmospheric aerosol injection" channel.

Then we can all realize that it is tacitly already being done while doing lip service to "should we maybe do it now guys".

That channel has pretty undeniable visuals pointing to something being sprayed, on and off. Meetings of hundreds of people at townhalls, lab results, interviews with relevant officials.

But it is a "chemtrail" channel, those heathens. I bet they added aluminum into the samples they collected and sent it to the lab.

All for the sweet sweet clicks.

Stay hygienic, avoid unapproved information.
With consoles?

That sucks, we hosted it on AWS and it was fine but it was just Windows and Linux clients.
We've seen with the M range of SoCs that even with the emulation overhead, you can gain battery life even accounting for that. Plus the OS itself would be natively compiled, so that's always an efficiency gain.
It’s aiding them because if voters see them the might see that they are people or at least develop some sense of empathy. If your platform is driven by a bunch of anti-immigrant rhetoric that’s not good.

Also the irony of England complaining about immigrants when they invaded entire continents will never not be lost on me.
No, that is not what I said. Aside from that fact that these two fields are hardly exact sciences and have different schools of thought with large fundamental disagreements, I never said that all of psychology is bad. I specifically said "Not that counsellors are bad, but sometimes [...]".

In my specific case it didn't help and was more harmful than helpful. For other people it is helpful. n=1 but I'm probably not a very special individual, so situations similar to mine probably apply to other people as well, although I have no idea how many exactly, or if this number has been increasing or decreasing.
> Google was not able to process a negative query.

That's been a serious problem for some time. Preceding a query term with "-" doesn't seem to do anything any more.
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

Never use a long word where a short one will do.

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

Never use the passive where you can use the active.

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English

I wish all this was true. All it shows is what worked for Orwell. We will never know about the countless authors who imitated this style and failed. My experience has shown there are no canonical writing tips or advice. What works for one author or instance will fail when applied differently. There are too many variables for writing success or failure to be distilled to some rules.
“The thick of it” is right up there. Less about the process and more about the bullying. It’s creator then created Veep.
I think a more plausible theory is that white people feel more entitlement than black people, not because of some weird genetic memory thing but because they see other white people (or maybe even their parents or great-grandparents) enjoy much higher success than they are. Higher expectations = more pain from shitty circumstances = worse reactions.
Yeah, but it will cost them a lot more to run it.
This is huge, not for the HN crowd, but for people who are still using acrobat to this day.
Excellent summary. Like they say history repeats. And teaching history does not help.
That's why they were not releasing models - hallucination disease.
> In fact, I would guess that Google can predict your age with good accuracy without you logging in.

My Google account is almost 20 years old at this point, and they still ask me for credit card verification every time I want to see an "age-restricted" video in YT (and "age-restricted" topics apparently includes Verilog programming).

Google can't predict anything.
> How did an idiot get on frequency controlling traffic at a big airport? Shouldn't there be filters to prevent that?

If you see r/ATC, he's been shuffled between locations and this isn't his first screw-up. He manages to stay employed through claiming discrimination under EEO when performance issues come up. There's even another past incident from another airport featuring him.

Luckily, this may be the nail in the coffin that even US Critical Race Theory policies can't prevent, and it happened without any loss of life.

From the responses of those who have worked ATC, lazy & incompetent would be more accurate than idiot. He sounds checked out, and isn't really thinking about his choices.
>Does it work the other way around - can Germany change their official name in Turkey/Türkiye to "Deutschland"?

Probably not in the same way, as Turkish is not a UN official language. They could request their name be changed in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, or Arabic though.
I have such a plan - but I didn't want to add thousand features in case nobody wants to play it.

Right now on my todo list there are two majors
1) colorblind friendlyness
2) making the gui loop fully idle when nothing happens

and I will want to add a level of the day soon afterwards if I see people are actually willing to play it.

And the reason why I went with the "campaign" as default is that the difficulty of puzzles differ tremendously so the gradual progress is better than one the same puzzle a day for everyone.
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Am I alone in feeling... 'yikes'?
Oops; that link should be https://oeis.org/A333479
Ok, her.
We simply don't know how early these megacorps started to work on these things. Remember the chatbot Tay? That was 2016 and I would say it was pretty advanced. Still NLP, just not LLM (I think). Google has the data advantage, but OpenAI basically has all the AI tech Microsoft has developed and I don't think Microsoft is that far behind google in term of innovations and patents.

In fact, Microsoft has better track record in releasing and commercializing new tech. Google is good at half assing new tech and throw them in a pile of garbage later.
> Bard wrote that the telescope took the very first pictures of a planet outside our solar system. In fact, the first pictures of these "exoplanets" were taken by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, according to NASA records.

Sure, it's inaccurate, but it isn't worse than Google's current "featured snippets" that are so often bullshit and get meme'd.

Searching right now for "who took the first photograph of an exoplanet" gives back "NASA's James Webb Space Telescope", with a reference article about the first exoplanet photograph _by_ JWST instead of the first one ever.
You do realise that "money" (its creation, destruction, and value) is entirely in the control of central banks and the private banking sector, right? Unless you are bartering with gold or cryptocurrencies in your daily life I fail to see your point.
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No disagreement there. What I disagree with is the insinuation that the right to free speech is tainted and thus somehow unjust because the constitution had to be amended. It's a devilish argument.
The bigger they are, the barder they fall.
It wasn’t to the same extent I’m sure but the USA did have rationing during WW2 with ration books and all. It was organized through the Office of Price Administration.