skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I can use it for just about any purpose I want to.

You can't make copies and sell them. You can't copy it into your own work. You can't create derivative works, etc. You can't use it in a movie. You can't use it to write lyrics. I could go on.
If you're talking about whether they're under the executive or financial control of a single (or small number of) ruling councils outside themselves:

* CBC, RTBF, yes

* SRG SSR, hell no

* ZDF, not really

Either way, all of them have editorial independence.
I never used the words "extreme bias". I said "state media", the act of propagating the official government narrative. This is what PBS frequently does, and why it gets unprecedented access to government officials. It's not morally wrong, but we shouldn't be afraid to call it out for what it is.

Have you even watched the program?
> I don't think they need to worry about this — traffic from Apple devices is oxygen to Google

Which remains there when people switch to Chrome

> But Apple has been quietly working on a search backup plan for many years, and they've been in the email business for longer than Google's existed

Ah yes. They will just flip on the non-existent rumored Google-level search and the non-existent public email service to take on Google monopoly in search and email.
The parent comment was asserting that STEM types are “high anxiety” and implicitly dismissing non-STEM people as somehow having less anxiety. I think it is fair and healthy to acknowledge that, as you say, everyone has “the worst stress of their life”, regardless of STEM-ness.
The solution is obvious, it is called education and critical thinking. But the same kind of gov are also very afraid of a too educated population that could challenge their authority!
Granting that is perfectly true for arguments sake, roundup also enables widescale no-till agriculture which is huge for soil conservation
> SV and Wall Street loves a smart guy who bucks the trend, big risk taker.

Only if they hit out of the park. You don't see a lot of founders getting a second bite of the Sand Hill Road apple if they failed the first time.
I remember reading at the time that the motive would have been to remove the oligarch's desire to end the war. If you can't sell the gas anyway, then you can't complain about it.

Seeing as Russia was already using gas supplies as a political tool, it doesn't seem too far fetched.
I will definitely take a random substack blog more seriously. After all, he is citing "unnamed sources"! Very credible!
Why not pdf.js? :/ Adobe scare me...
And that's the reason why Decimal types are your friend, kids.
But we do have a proofen and working mechanism: Flagging. If the submission doesn't get flagged, cool. If it does, it does. I don't see a reason to intervene here.
Good to hear. I think its mostly wheat here, and I am positive there's been a significant bee dieoff. Again, not a professional farmer.
CBDC's could change our economies (and societies) fairly dramatically. For better or worse. People should not rush to form strong opinions on the basis of low information and prejudices. Practically everything about them is configurable. This is the time to get informed and act as empowered citizens. Shape them for the common good if possible or otherwise reject them. Be suspicious that the risks can be managed when the regulatory failures are legion and regulatory capture endemic to this industry. But consider also that current systems are just a pile of historical inventions and conventions, there is nothing optimal or stable or fair about them.
While I haven't done layoffs, I have had to end our relationship with employees, in both cases the situation is very unfortunate.

From my point of view, there is no simple way to handle these situations but it is crucial to handle them in a respectful way, people are humans, and, while it can be hard for you to handle a layoff, the ones getting the harder time are the people affected by it.

I'd try my best to help these people in any way I can, for example:

1. Motivate people that were planning to leave to take one of those spots.

2. Try finding ways to refer them to other companies.

3. Help affected people to be polish their resume, practice mock interviews, write recommendation letters, etc. I have saw many people that don't know how to sell themselves, if they worked with you for a while, there is a chance you have some highlights they don't actually see.

4. If possible, keep paying their salary for a few weeks/months.

5. This could sound weird but give people time, I haven't announced end of relationships until the affected person feels comfortable, which means that these are still on the chat/repos/etc, this also helps because it is usually simpler to find work when you still are employed than when you don't.

I really hope I never get to deal with this.

P.S. I forget mentioning that I prefer being as transparent as possible.
a) I don't understand the relevance at all to Hacker News. There are plenty of interesting things going on in the tech world that aren't making the front page.

b) There is a lack of evidence in the article. I can claim that you destroyed the pipeline and it would be equally as valid at this point.

c) His previous reputation is important but history is littered with examples of people making mistakes and relying on their own hubris. That is why we demand evidence.
Sure. Part of that is PDF’s restrictiveness. We either value the consistency, value the flexibility or pick the appropriate format for the application. Basic HTML gets you something readable with any HTML renderer, and you can pretty much count on it, but not to the same degree or certainty as you can with a PDF (and bad PDF renderers exist too). You can still read a book in it. HTML+other stuff is where it gets dicey, and temptations like on-demand loading and endless scrolling, or “rich” features like dictionary lookups (that my OS already natively supports in any application from any text selection including the web browser) start to make reading a book this way sound like a bad idea and PDF starts to sound a lot more appealing.

All I’m saying is when PDF starts to sound like the wrong choice, consider HTML. Not HTML plus stuff, just HTML. Maybe a very very light touch of CSS if you’re feeling fancy, but it’s really not necessary.
US copyright law gives authors control to prevent others from utilizing their works outside of the contexts that are considered fair use. Your characterization is facially incorrect.
And how well do you think something like that would go with the iOS target demographic?

Safari is different from Firefox for one simple reason: it's bundled to Apple products, which, regardless of their actual quality, are perceived as "luxury software" socially, and its userbase reflects that. And it's large enough that, for most companies actually trying to sell something, it makes sense to cater to.
It does sound quite similar. But in addition to the crucial difference of opt-in vs. opt-out there's also an interesting contrast in how it's framed.

Debian talks about what you, the user, can do: help out, participate and vote. If you choose to do so.

The Go team talks about what the developers and their software will do to the user's machine, but the user is completely passive in their description. This is also reflected in the term "telemetry" itself: the software is not a tool in the user's hands but rather a remote-controlled probe in the user's habitat that pokes at the user to elicit interesting responses.
AyaNeo looks interesting but too expensive for me, and . I also adore SteamOS and it's Arch underpinnings, so Windows would be a downgrade for me as well.
From 1.5h to ~6h depending on the game. I'd love to see a bigger battery in the next version, though.
it isn't worse than Google's current "featured snippets"

Another way to put this is that it's just as bad as the pain point it claims to solve. And though your basic point makes sense, Google's apparent indifference to quality undermining their own product launch is a huge PR disaster, much like Zuckerberg's performative excitement over Legs! in the Metaverse just highlighted how threadbare the concept was.

It shows a company that became huge by being ahead of the curve is now way behind it. Younger HN users may not appreciate the degree to which Google was the massively disruptive New Thing of its day.

Prior to its appearance in the search market, incumbent competitors all looked sort of the same, giving you a listing of semi-curated search results in a reasonable time, with different vendors having different advantages and disadvantages. Then one day, there was talk of this new thing called 'Google', what a crazy name. And it was just a search box with two buttons - 'Search' and 'I'm feeling lucky' - is this some sort of a joke website? Where are the categories? Where are the sidebars? You'd better not be wasting my time...then you'd try searching for a topic you were familiar with, and the results were an order of magnitude better than what you had become used to. It was like magic. I still remember the room and the desk where I first tried it and was amazed. And for over 10 years, they could just do no wrong - every product they rolled out was just massively superior and often so new as to have been previously unimaginable. Google Maps was astounding, and Google Street view even more so - in fact I'm still astounded by it every time I stop to think about it.

That's why having egg on their face with the Bard launch is so embarrassing. It's not just flawed, it shows a complete lack of imagination and suffers from exactly the same faults that increasingly plague its search product. Imagine if Exxon announced a new clean fuel technology and it turned out to be oil in barrels with a happy face logo.
Nobody needs to actually die, things just need to be hard to remind us what being human is about.
> it hasn't been reported on before

Wasn't the U.S. being behind the bombing a leading alternative hypothesis when the news broke?
> conspiracy drivel

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713661
So you "believe" it was the USA based on what, again?
I agree that this is pretty limited. I think that depends on how expensive it is to create a process: if you could open enough connections or hit something like the audit log frequently enough[1], it might be a decent traffic multiplier when you can't otherwise do something damaging (maybe in a scenario where you get something like a r/o deploy key?).

1. I'm not sure this is very useful but I was thinking that if someone follows one of the security hardening standards, their servers are configured to hang until the audit log buffer can be flushed but you could more easily hit that by failed login requests unless they have something like fail2ban installed.
I'm glad it helped! Now that I'm actually looking at the different ways to manipulate strings in JavaScript and not going from memory, the traditional JavaScript "except when it doesn't" caveat applies.

It seems like _some_ string operations treat each surrogate (that's the fancy name for the half-characters) as its own character, while others (correctly) treat the surrogate pair as a single character.

This might explain how ensuring that the function name does not contain astral character would make it easier to use different string functions together without accidentally introducing bugs.
I disagree. The other day, I was debugging an issue in a web application. Only on iPhones, dragging an element around left odd residue on the screen. I googled the issue but was completely unable to find a solution, even though I consider myself a seasoned google user. I asked the question to ChatGPT, which immediately gave me the way to fix the issue.

Having a ChatGPT answer next to the google result would have saved me a bunch of time, and I could see it coming in useful in many cases.
I wish that the ameliorated.info project were producing up-to-date scripts for win10 and win11. Personally, I refuse to run Windows because I find it incredibly annoying. I do not believe that Redmond is doing anything nefarious to people via their PCs/software other than milking them for cash, but the UI changes I find to be going the wrong direction, the update mechanisms, the ads, etc… are all annoying, and I even find the notification system annoying.
If you somehow find how to contact Google Support, I'd pass along the url with the ID. Maybe you have a rogue SMTP client putting the message into an unlabeled folder. Or your account is cursed, I like some of my gmail accounts more than others. It's hard to say. Sorry about that though. I've looked into recording all of my HTTP/HTTPS (decrypted) packets because losing important documents like this drives me crazy.
SRG SSR is not in any sense owned or operated by the Swiss Confederation or any Swiss canton.
This is why all of these media outlets use words like "as" and "after", and never "because of". They do all the "post hoc" lifting and assume that the reader will automatically add the "ergo propter hoc".

"Google stock tumbles 8% after its"

which every consumer of media reads as

"Google stock tumbles 8% because its"
Also the MPC Studio mk2 is missing.
If there is no evidence my reaction will be the same no matter who gets blamed or who wrote the article.
Jesus christ this website is becoming junk. Posting "reliable" information yet again, as many times before. Literally Reddit with extra steps.
Well, apparently Russia was also shelling the nuclear power plant they had already seized and where occupying, so who knows /s
> if he came out saying Russians blew up the pipeline, would you have the same stance?

Of course. You don't think there are people claiming to have anonymous sources about Putin doing all manner of things?
Completely and totally agree! Don't lose faith we will get there I promise.
Referendum? Which one?

After they had forced their military bases on us, there were elections where only one candidate for each district was allowed and of course only candidates who supported the soviet union could be elected, it was a totally fake election. Then the new "parliament" voted to join the soviet union. So some stupid russians still say "but you joined voluntarily!!" and so on.
Since we all know a jury is the best way to arbitrate scientific fact
I don't have a ROM to import, but it does look quite nice in what's available. Definitely much better than what major companies put out :)
Is this a chaumian mint? I have never heard of this project, it's pretty neat.

There are a couple of chaumian mint systems in development in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Cashu: https://github.com/cashubtc/cashu
Fedminit: https://fedimint.org

In Cashu, a mint is a single custodian, while Fedimint is designed around a multiple federated mints in a multisig. Both issue e-tokens signed with blind signatures. Both of them also integrate with the Lightning network, so users of the minted cash can make use of the rest of Bitcoin ecosystem for payments.
But now YOU are deciding that “if a sale is involved, speech can be restricted.”

Why can I not decide “if it would result in people dying, speech can be restricted?”

I mean, if you told me I could only restrict one of these, then surely I would pick the second anyways.
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img2img creations are probably confusing it because they are totally rearranging how the prompt emerges from what's in the latent space with respect to a new image. So if you make an image of <subject> by passing in an image of <subject>, it's going to represent <subject> in a fundamentally different way than if it relies purely on its own "imagination" for the rendition.
Nope. Pretend I’m a bank with no assets and no debt, and I give you a loan for $100.

I then have $100 in assets and $100 in liabilities.

When you withdraw the $100 loan, I borrow from another bank or from the central bank, and give you that money.

I collect deposits because it’s a cheap source of liquidity.
I live on the west coast of north america - the last few years following wildfires my mum heads up to the scorched mountaintops to pick morels and sells them. Big hauls, hundreds of dollars' worth of rare mushrooms growing in ruined forests.
* deep, complex, and regulated market. by comparison, not a lot of FCC rules or local 911 rules related to a Steam Deck.

* strong, like STRONG competition from global leaders a la Apple and Samsung

* much deeper requirements for OEM builds, otherwise they're just white labelling hardware. makes sense for the Steam Deck since the offering is the Steam software and compatibility layer.

* they're in the business of software and software support, and some light hardware support viz. the Valve Index and Steam Deck. but the average person looks at their phone 5+ hours a day and defines many of their life functions are dictated by their phone -- e.g. alarm clock, fitness tracker, music, many forms of interpersonal communication. they will drastically need to up their QA, support, and compatibility -- and those have non-trivial costs.

* OEM manufacturing has ruthless margins; they're a private org but still

* non-trivial build and launch costs
> For every 'lazy' or 'unproductive' employee i've seen, I can name two that create negative productivity for an entire team through office politics and maneuvering.

Is there a reason to assume the same ratio exists across all businesses?
That sounds _way_ better than making a handful of very wealthy people a little more wealthy, while leaving employees and customers in the cold after the acquisition. I wish that segment of the hacker community were larger...
You are obviously wrong, because I have a source saying it was bitcoin and to cover it up the agent conspiered with other exchanges to take down FTX.
I'd be a lot more concerned that ChatGPT is not a reliable teacher (https://mostlypython.substack.com/p/chatgpt-is-not-a-reliabl...) before I worry that the owners of ChatGPT put their fingers on the algorithm (that they wrote)'s scale.
You do know that GitHub has an entire section for each repository called "Releases" right? In fact, you can setup a free pipeline to generate these release for you.

Might be worth keeping in mind if you ever need to interact with git (or github) again.
Fraud and censorship are different.

Saying these bulbs have 5 when they have three is a lie but shouldn't be censored. Selling someone 3 but saying it is 5 is fraud. Selling/buying have different laws and standards.
Just try one thing and see how that makes you feel. The feeling might then spread.

Example: bored of COVID, on 1 Jan 2021 I stopped reading the ‘mainstream’ (sorry) news. The Guardian, ABC, BBC, whatever it was that I’d been looking at: stop.

It helps that I’ve never watched the TV news. So it wasn’t hard to just cut this out.

But I did not stop using Twitter or browsing HN or Reddit or whatever. Just one thing that I identified as having a definite detrimental impact.

I also did not become religious about not absorbing any news. Sometimes I overhear news. I see my partner’s iPad. The radio news might come on. That’s okay. But for two years now, I just haven’t gone to a news site and read the news.

I don’t really know what’s going on, and my life is better for it. My mind is less busy.

Since then, Sam Harris by way of his ‘Waking Up’ meditation app has convinced me of the power of thought. And perhaps because I broke one cycle, I now find it reasonably easy to break, or at least crack, others.

I listen to way less podcasts than I used to. Every spare moment there used to be an AirPod in my ear. Now, I walk to work and listen to the city. I hang the laundry out without worrying that I’m not spending those three minutes absorbing information.

I no longer use Twitter and barely use Mastodon. But I do use it.

And here I am responding to a HN comment, so I’m obviously still here. Like I say, this isn’t some religion. It’s just a nudge in the right direction. You don’t solve this overnight.

Pick one thing to start. Notice the results. ‘Waking Up’ is excellent. One month free here, no benefit to me. https://dynamic.wakingup.com/shareOpenAccess/af0843

Edit: I should’ve said by recognising this as a problem, you have already taken the first massive step. Well done.
This is really slimy, Google swung and missed and let Go of the bat here.
"Lots of reasons" often do not make something more likely or credible, but one very strong one does.
Because "put an end to it" can easily (and more plausibly) encompass approaches like "sanction Nord Stream AG into the ground".
was the question mark ? part of the original title?
This is not just a story, but a news story. It is supposed to state facts, not juggle with hypothesis.
I fail to see the value of an AI that basically just regurgitates something you could already find in a search engine, on top of just spewing out completely nonsensical garbage if it can't find something. All this AI chatbot crap just seems like a step-backward as a whole, not too different from cryptocurrencies and blockchain where it offers no tangible benefit over the status-quo, costs way more for worse performance, and is still outperformed by traditional systems.
I think you're the first here in this topic that talked about Twitch and streamers.

I know a few streamers and we're aware of people that spend sometimes up to 5 hours a day on every single stream they do. Some of those donating hundreds of dollars a month to a single streamer. The stream chat is their hobby and the majority of their social interaction. The streamers are also burned out.

I'm all for people finding a community, and that's sort of what we do at HN. But that's a bit extreme for me.

IMO things are only going to get worse from here.
The architectures are not the same. In XMPP, the server is the source of truth. It receives all stuff from the outside and arranges it in its database. You ask it "what's the status" and it can give you the snapshot you desire. Think favorite-search-engine that scrapes everything in the background and gives you instant answer to your queries.

In Matrix, it's a stream of events. So you technically have to fetch all events and then reconstruct the current state locally. Think scraping the web manually before searching locally.

There are, of course, ways to make it faster, but ultimately the fundamental difference means it will always be an upstream battle to make it as efficient, and the risk will always be to depend more on the server
A union more directly puts power in to the hands of workers than does the state.
You forget the cost of "just" those state universities still requires many students to get scholarships to afford. So the pressure is not just about getting into a good university, for many it is being able to go at all.
One reason (not arguing it) is so they can blame Putin for it and use it to support how unhinged he is
Hopefully, we will have posits with hardwaresupport sooner than later.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/floating-point-numbers-posits-proc...

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2019fa/blog/posits...

Unfortunately, they are not a solution to the OPs problem, which is fundamentally embedded in the architecture of computers. One has to find an appropriate representation for the needed numbers in bits and bytes.

In Python one can use fractions or decimals, if the float format is not good enough. Other options are fixed point arithmetic or arbitrary precision arithmetic. Choose one that combines the needed characteristics with the least amount of work.
> I don't even own a Steam Deck and I've been seeing the benefits just from its existence. Now, almost every game on Steam has a quick accessible rating that lets me know if it works fine on Linux.

WineDB did this for years, as does ProtonDB now. And both usually have tweaks and how-tos. But I'll concede its nice to see it in Steam itself.
Nonsense, if you tolerate disinformation you get more disinformation. Countries that fail to address it will fall and the world will be worse off because of it. The right to free speech does not include the right to a free platform or free promotion.