skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"US policymakers are turning their attention to TikTok following the Chinese spy balloon debacle."

I wonder how serious this is?
My advice to anyone making a new build system:

Most likely you did this because you felt all the other ones are too complicated.

But the reason the “enterprise” ones are so complicated is to serve their enterprise customers, who need “just this one feature” so they can use it. But those customers pay the bills.

So basically you have to choose complexity and profit or simplicity and less (or no) profit.

Good luck! But make sure you’re ready to make that choice.
Now that I'm not a phone, here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bjy5YQ5xPc
I just contribute questions and answers on the respective communities of the libraries and languages my question is about, which often have way more helpful and normal people. The moderation power of SO attract the horrible people and the abusive snark you get on the platform is just not worth it.
1440p screen, an i7, 32GB RAM, glass trackpad + sturdy thinkpad body and ports = awful computer? What is awful about it?

Im using a 3 year old 490s for work. Great machine. Wish they gave it more RAM and SSD but other than that Im happy with it.
Almost-great Raspberry Pi alternative is missing one key feature
If `old.reddit.com` goes down forever I will be very disappoint. New Reddit doesn't work with JS disabled, and I enjoy surfing with JS disabled because I enjoy the privacy benefits.
>If writers are gonna AI,

writers are gonna write. it's the assholes that are gonna ai.
I wonder if the hits to each of the two capsules came from the massive pile of extra 1500+ debris generated during their pointless ASAT test in November 2021. [1]

[1]: https://www.space.com/russia-anti-satellite-missile-test-fir...
Oh you definitely don't in theory. But you totally do in practice. There's no good reason, it's just the actual experience many people have.

> I spend a lot of time trying out other window managers and compositors or setting up various keybinds or automations I think would be useful, but I don't consider those maintenance tasks.

This is the kind of (in my opinion) low value tedium I'm talking about.

I'm aware that we're talking past each other in these threads. Some people are thinking of software updates, others of us are thinking of stuff like trying out window managers and messing with keybindings, and these are indeed very different kinds of toil.
This is the problem with online communities in 2023. They no longer want to be communities. New people come and get told 'we already talked about that in 2012' or other super friendly things, and then leave. You have a core of grumpy longtime members slowly getting older and grumpier and a business model that doesn't want to be a community resulting in a 'community' with no interest in being a 'community'.
My question is, what is the difference between this and those who just pay ghost writers to write a story about what they instruct for submission?

If the contents is exactly what the person submitting intends, what's the big deal?
> I mean come on, "democratize machine learning"?

That slogan made more sense back when Hugging Face first launched in 2019 and training models was prohibitively expensive and required sorting through poor model training codebases, but nowadays it's less applicable. (cost/efficiency of GPUs is much better and lots of higher level libraries, including Hugging Face's transformers, reduces a lot of the pain)
Read the entire comment you are responding to.
A winter storm is about to plague the U.S. even as areas see record highs
Preventative is always more important than fixing after the fact where like you said it may be very difficult to do so.

Basically what I was indicating though, and which I get from for example, RD Laing and Gregory Bateson, is that the best “cure”, societally-willing, is to provide a safe community environment where the schizophrenia is allowed to “run its course”. I know capitalist societies always want a commoditized solution like a pill, and certainly those can be useful, but we shouldn’t forget that a more personal, human solution is always better.

Western medicine can also learn a lot from eastern medicine in this regard. Luckily there’s a lot of research being done on what the pros and cons of each system are. Definitely recommend the book The Web that Has No Weaver for example.
RAM speed does not make up for capacity. If you need a lot of RAM for VMs or Docker or loads of tabs, getting lower capacity, but higher speed RAM is not a substitute.
The Apple Silicon models will probably also benefit from being the first(?) ones to run their entire life with Apple's new optimized charging behavior. E.g. my laptop spends most of its life plugged in running a display, and so it has its battery charging kept on hold and is occasionally charged up to ~80%. I can only assume this'll help the battery life in the long term...
I'm glad the author mentioned the AI alignment issue that could arise from this. AI systems are fundamentally unexplainable, such as the Loab cryptid that occurs in DALL-E-2. I wonder what sorts of similar perverse instantiations we will see with these types of models.
There should no longer be tax-exempt status for religious organizations that have committed so many violations for so many years. In fact I think there should be stipulations if you want to be tax exempt, like you have to have all of your finances be public so the people who give to your organization know exactly where the money is going.
Nearly every Baptist church/preacher I have seen explicitly endorsed Donald Trump in 2020, and calls Joe Biden an election thief (or one of a dozen other conspiracies).

My understanding is that this is in direct violation of their tax-free status [1]. Maybe we should actually start enforcing this.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/charities-churches-and-politics

EDIT:

I couldn't remember the name of the thing that states this, but here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Amendment
I wonder what role widespread caffeine consumption has to play in this.
The outcome of that was that he went on to found Coinbase.

He did not find his co-founder from that thread, but rather Reddit.
tl;dr: it's missing a Wifi/BT module.
It can be added to one of the M.2 slots on the board, and antennas plugged into it.
> It was a good answer in 2011 when I wrote it.

And for more than a decade they've been closing all attempts to ask the question again as a duplicate of that 2011 question. Relitigating the answers to the original 2011 question is the only way to achieve the goal of that 2011 question being authoritative.

SO's ideals are great but everything about it is broken in practice.
He wanted a large SSD, 32GB RAM, sturdy build, many ports, and Linux. How does it not make sense?
At this point regulatory fines are just a cost of doing business, same as the break room coffee maker or printer paper.

Fines need to be 150% of the maximum benefit of the infringement.
Maybe this is out of date, but:

> There is also the theoretical possibility of burning vinyl chloride forming dioxins which are known carcinogens. So far, no dioxins have been detected.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-and-nutrition-histo...
That's a GREAT discussion to be had... SO purpose is to be a kind of encyclopedia, so it makes sense to try to categorize duplicates (eventually fading them into obscurity). But is that the best experience for the user? Is it supposed to serve only readers, or those who are actually asking questions?
It's a good exercise to try to spot when you're accidentally spreading disinformation.

You might want to ask yourself that very question.

based on some random book from the 90s that was likely also full of bullshit

Nah, it was an excellent book that I pored over.

I don't understand why you guys are so confident with zero basis for your position other than "I'm so used to seeing it that I assume it's legally valid".

As I explained already, "(c)" is gibberish. Go ask a lawyer if you should put meaningless gibberish in the middle of legal disclaimers.
ClamAV Critical Patch Review
I really don't think the current generation of chatbots is capable of creative thoughts. They're just really good at combining stuff that they already know.

I'm sure at some point they'll get past that point but it seems a tough nut to crack with current tech.
While there is an important sense in which even IO values in Haskell are still pure values, it is not helpful in the case of testing.

$ ghci
GHCi, version 8.8.4: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help
Prelude> putStrLn "hello" == putStrLn "hello"

<interactive>:1:1: error:
• No instance for (Eq (IO ())) arising from a use of ‘==’
• In the expression: putStrLn "hello" == putStrLn "hello"
In an equation for ‘it’: it = putStrLn "hello" == putStrLn "hello"

If you want to test your IO code, and you should, you still have to test them from the perspective of them actually executing in the real world. There's no way to test them as pure values. The snippet above is only the beginning of your problems if you wanted to do that, but it a plenty sufficient problem on its own. In addition to the obvious problem that it points out that IO values are already not comparable to each other in the naive sense, there's also the more philosophical problem that the IO values are your programs, so even if you could run the test I show above, on more complicated expressions, your tests would be asserting that you wrote the program you thought you wrote, not that the program you wrote does what you think it should do.
This seems to be a reasonable overview of the history, though I haven't done much vetting of it: https://churchesandtaxes.procon.org/history-of-churches-and-...
The separation of church and state is not about preventing any kind of relationship between religious institutions and the government. Rather, it is about ensuring that the government does not establish an official state religion, and that it remains neutral towards different religious beliefs and practices.
I stand corrected. They did a great job and no one in East Palestine is sick
Interesting... I wonder if this is where knowledge sites gravitate to? Of course if the AI isn't smart enough to answer the question without it's training not having covered it, I'm not sure it would work...
I used to compulsively meditate when I experienced anxiety, so much so that my mind began associating meditation with anxiety. The ironic effect was that meditation itself started to become slightly anxiety inducing.
Where did you get the info about the key travel? I have an X1-Carbon Gen 6 and I feel that the key travel is good, but I wouldn't mind a better "click" feeling when I hit the keys, like in a Macbook or a Surface.
What do you mean? This is a digital downloadable good and their sales have grown massively, bringing in massively more profit with the same team sizes. Even if teams grew, the gaming market has outgrown that by several sizes in last years.

The profits these publishers have recorded in last years are staggering - raising game prices is pure fleecing.
Should tech platforms be liable for the content they carry?
In relevant countries / locations, that's a fairly standard option from Dell, HP etc for servers.
This entire article is an example of the largest pain point when working with React. So much of the work done here simply can't be done without various hacks around `useEffect`, `useMemo`, or `useCallback` (manual memoization). I feel to this point that even with the new React beta docs explaining the use cases for `useEffect`, it still causes an immense amount of pain in some situations.

It's not immediately clear when writing code that uses `useEffect`, when it's a very bad idea long term for performance or code clarity. This often shows itself when the test data is very minimal and then the real data is far more expansive.

I still love React, but these complex scenarios definitely show some of the limitations in React's rendering model that other frameworks like Vue, Svelte, and SolidJS resolve.
OneNote users have been asking for full-featured code blocks for decades at this point and MS can’t or won’t do it.

Not surprising to see it suck so bad in Teams.
Volume primarily. They showed a graph of how many submissions they’ve had to ban. It was a trickle due to plagiarism etc. and now it’s several orders of magnitude more. Their submission criteria also explicitly forbids AI generated work.
Maybe you have faith and they're well, just religious.....
> But the UX of the site is basically "post a question, get modded to shit" now.

You are 100% correct. SO clearly has an issue as this comes up time and time again.

I wonder if a ChatGPT like front for it would serve everyone better?
There are rules against election specific speech, but more broadly shouldn’t charities be able to engage in political speech with respect to policy efforts? I would think it strange that a charity could not promote its mission in the political arena.
If they get that many submissions, they'll just delete 90% of them without a glance.
In countries like Russia, China, India, etc you need to hire these kinds of Oligarchs and Lobbyists to operate. Otherwise bad things happen.

Look at Amazon India for example - Prime Video India basically shut down for a year due to the Tandav scandal and Amazon Delivery Trucks in Bangalore were burnt because they pissed off the Small Business/Pharmacy lobby in KA. And they were publically humiliated before all this by the Minister of Commerce in 2019.

This was a big reason Uber divested out of China and ASEAN - they started stepping on entrenched players toes and had no political cover. In the US, the worst that would happen is corporate litigation with an out of court settlment or speeches by local politicians. Not in developing countries.

Weaponized litigation like SLAAP is of course being abused, but as a business operating in the developed world, the rule of law still holds. You won't mysteriously have the IRS or FBI start auditing every single of your transcations, see your trucks or stores burned down, be held PERSONALLY liable, or even mysteriously get shot while leaving court.
Thanks for support, reading this I understand I didn't waste over a year of my life working on this.
I'm a fellow boat misser! Me and some friends were joking about buying something or other with Bitcoin in the very early days (I think somebody had made a vending machine, or maybe we were talking about splitting the cost of a pizza, and I think it would've involved several thousand bitcoins?), and we got about 30 minutes into figuring it out and then got bored and stopped. I'm pretty sure I could have bought a house with the change that would've been leftover from that if we'd finished. Regardless, I've been telling people not to use Bitcoin for years and years, and until recently, I was wrong every year. But I'm finally right!
Ousterhout was also one of the co-authors of the Raft consensus paper.
So funny - I was tracking till the end.

I thought you meamt the die hard proponents of these software dev tropes are the childlike ones.

Imo I think that is more apt. I see a lot of resources wasted in the name of conforming to standards when the standard does t really apply to the partocular scenario
Or libreddit https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit
That's gotta be frustrating. I'm sure you tried reaching out to other moderators. It's almost like Reddit needs a mod committee for mods so that users can petition their cases.
There's no reason to emphasize "rushing". Lots of people who meet on dating apps end up married. A high percentage don't work out. After they go on a few dates, they move on. Similar dynamic with cofounder matching.
Seattle isn’t in India.
congrats on the launch! can you share any information on how the system is currently deployed? or how it will be deployed for on premises solutions?

also: are you looking for any other founders?
"Also, why shouldn’t you penalize shareholders? In the future they’ll think twice about investing in companies that cut corners to juice short term gains"

+1

Losses speak louder than words.
Gosh, a person on the internet has opinions on my writing! Truly a novel experience for me.

I'm sure I have a lot to learn about how to write for this audience from a person who [checks profile] joined this site last week. But that would make you a bit of an expert in both arrogance and dismissiveness, so I'll definitely give it a think.
Tldr; teach it to use a calculator if it can't figure it out in its head.
Polygon is behind a lot of the ZK-SNARK and ZK-STARK research, and I believe they have several Layer 2s in development based on that technology (as well as the separate PoS network, Polygon, which is checkpointed to the mainnet).

I'm surprised they only have 500 employees to be honest, but there's a good chance a lot of the work in the space is done in collaboration with other companies and open source contributors
The main problem is that e-waste is an ever increasing problem and companies like Apple are just creating more e-waste. Every single time a new Apple device is created, so is more e-waste. With a fully user serviceable device (of any category), less e-waste is created, and the time period of use is longer for many of those components. Personally, I do not care what people choose to buy, but everyone needs to become more aware of the true cost of their iTrinkets.
The Church's statement:

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/church-issu...
You have costs that are fixed in the short run and you have variable costs and costs in between--e.g. you can tweak up class sizes for a while. You can also increase fees, etc. The town hasn't had particularly rapid growth but one of the driving factors behind the rezoning the town just voted on is that there's a new regional high school being built and the town has to chip in a bunch of money for that.

It's not that a few students more or less is an issue but if there were a big new development with a lot of families with school-age children that would likely be a problem for the town.
I feel worse for the whistleblower that probably reported that

They thought they were going to get a much bigger payday by reporting the malfeasance of a 32 billion portfolio
Honestly, and I mean this with all due respect: You're being unreasonable.

A study gets posted to Hacker News.

You seem to expect every single person who wishes to discuss the study to first become an expert in the subject matter ("To form a truly educated opinion on a scientific subject, you need to become familiar with current research in that field.") and deeply engage with the material at the level of, if not an expert, at least a dedicated amateur ("That's why I encouraged them to ask the Authors directly, if something is unclear or they are making assumptions that are simply not supported by the paper.").

You're basing this all on a claim that HN comments have reduced in quality ("In my opinion the steady decline of quality in comments and submissions...") which is rooted in nothing more than your own personal opinion (which is a bit ironic for someone insisting that everyone do a deep and fundamental analysis of a topic before they weigh in on it) and, frankly, a fairly self-centered view of what dialog should look like here ("I'd just appreciate if people spent more time thinking about if they actually have something to say that has any sort of value for *me*").

Bluntly, this just looks like gatekeeping and elitism to me.

Yes, I agree, folks should read the articles or studies before commenting. No question there. That's just basic due diligence.

But this is a discussion forum first and foremost, and some of the very best interactions I've seen, here, have been between interested amateurs either asking questions or posing theories, and experts coming along and chiming in.

Weirdly, you seem to recognize the value in that ("And yes, I think it's a good idea to challenge your assumptions by asking people with actual knowledge about the topic so you don't look like a complete fool on the Internet.") You apparently just don't want people using this forum to engage in those conversations, which is really very strange to me.

If you don't want that kind of interaction, maybe you should continue to dial down your interactions with HN, because it seems to me this community is not what you want or need (which appears to be a group of only subject matter experts weighing in on any given topic).
What I find off-putting about StackOverflow is their crowd-sourced moderation system (which I got access to at some point due to karma threshold). It’s based on pre-categorised moderation queues with flagged submissions that you can (have to) go through, and it’s designed in a way that you mostly choose from a set of pre-fabricated standard responses to “resolve” the issue. The eventual moderation decision is “democratic”, so when 2 or 3 moderators happen to come to the same result independently, then that’s what it is.

To me, that “moderation process” mostly felt like a robotic assembly line which isn’t designed to genuinely help people, but it’s primarily optimised for throughput. The frustration expressed by end-users is a direct consequence of this design that’s not really surprising.

What’s most bizarre is that the system intersperses phony test submissions every once in a while, just to verify whether you as moderator are “doing it right” (or, are still alive, for that matter).
Yes you are absolutely right..We need a solution beyond standard as 80% businesses run on CSV..
Honestly, once it's out of warranty, I buy the part I need on ebay/aliexpress/etc. and fit it myself.

"being able to take it apart and put it back together" covers for a multitude of sins if you're me.

Others may feel differently, and, well, to each their own preferred set of trade-offs :)
That's fair enough, but this isn't an academic paper. It's just a blog post - someone's random thoughts.

PreEdit: I was going to say they didn't know it would end up on HN but I thought I'd better check and sure enough it was submitted by the author. I think you may be righter than I am.
From what I gather, _Atomic alone will not ensure that the variable contents are actually loaded every time you load them, and can optimize loops away as a result. You'll often want both.
For what it's worth, while we are sending billions of value to Ukraine, we're not literally just sending cash. Many of these things have already been manufactured anyways, the money has already been spent. Might as well use it instead of throwing it away in another decade or two.

It's the same thing with space ships. The probe development cost $565 million, but we're not just launching that money into space. We're paying people and companies that money to produce a probe, which supports our economy and lets us go to space.

note: I'm not trying to draw a comparison in mission goals between a rocket ship to Pluto and funding the war in Ukraine
I like how you just reinvented the current regulatory regime
I think it will get banned sooner or later if it doesn't become naturally irrelevant like the likes of MySpace.
The first question I asked did not end well : « why is computer vision so hard? »

Phind gets the meaning of computer vision completely wrong.

Google got the meaning right, but answers with a bunch of links of dubious quality.