skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I obviously lead a charmed life.

I lived in France for about two years. I can't remember a single case of 'rude French people'.

If you go to France expecting to find English or American culture, you will be sadly mistaken. The French culture is different.

French people fell over themselves to be helpful to us, time and time again.

Of course, it helps to have 'good manners'. In other words, learn the bare minimum of the French equivalents of the English words, like 'please', 'thank you', 'good day, Madame', or 'good morning, Sir'. Without those words, you start off being very rude to French people, so it's only natural that they will be rude to you in return.
If it's clearly defined then write code that implements the same filter. No neural networks or ML models allowed. Then I will believe you.
Vice is putting a lot of clickbait out there these days. Then, on the other hand, the HN post is nearly verbatim of the Vice headline, so not sure if that's enough for flagging. Personally, if I had posted this, I'd have removed the clickbait.
I was always impressed with the pictures of huge Meccano models from decades ago, but it seems to have slipped from consciousness.
It's useless to reply to that guy.
Going off heresay here, but I believe in the US, "washing" the eggs involves a high-acid solution that removes many of the layers that would otherwise keep bacteria and other bugs out. It's also the reason eggs are a such uniform-white colour, whereas elsewhere (at least here in Australia) eggs are mostly various shades of tan.

I usually store eggs outside a fridge. A pack of 18 eggs will last me about 3 weeks and I've not had one spoil yet.
> Car-centric culture and gun-centric culture is making our society to be like this

This can't possibly be the cause. The US has been filled to the brim with cars for decades - yet this is a modern phenomenon.

Similarly, bad guy have had loads of guns in the US since even before the US was a thing... yet again, this is a modern phenomenon.

> Finally, the 24/7 news cycle covers a lot of crazy behaviors, encouraging copycats to one-up the crime even more.

I'm in complete agreement here. The media goes wall-to-wall with every mass shooter every time, turning them into some sort of sick idol for all the other mentally unstable wannabe's. Sometimes the media even reads these people's manifestos on air... it's just insane behavior.

> Is it a surprise if Americans are more paranoid than ever?

Paranoid, but also mentally diseased. We've constructed a society where it's totally acceptable to be mentally ill and entirely on your own. Today, even small cities have homeless camps filled to the brim with mentally ill that desperately need help - yet our policies give them free needles to enable them to continue doing drugs and ruin their lives.

It's horror disguised as compassion - compassion that ends up killing people.
We need to stop treating random Tweets as news or objective fact. This one person may have been "hit hard" by this filter. Others have not.
The point is, in the context of law, you can't just advocate for an agreement over a gentleman's handshake: you have to be in a position to enforce it. And enforcing restrictions on speech of this sort affects far more than just college professors with unpopular opinions. The 1st Amendment also covers anonymous speech.
World of Warcraft did something that I've always found delightful: hidden stenographic watermarking on all screenshots.

It took like a decade before anyone noticed, but all screenshots were very very very slightly modified to hide (in plain sight) a blob of data that gave the account name, date, time, server, etc.

Just in case a screenshot ever got posted and they really needed to know who took it and when.
McKinsey's Marvin Bower, the person who truly created the firm, made the critical decision to walk away when he was done without extracting anything.

He thus set the standard for future generations of partners, and the result was the creation of an enduring global firm* run by the current partnership group.

Dalio's approach means that the firm is set up to prioritise his personal wealth, not investor and existing partner outcomes. Future partners and investors can read into that as they will, but it doesn't seem sustainable.

*like it or not.
Quite the opposite. 50% of people who refuse to lockdown that contract it will die, the other 50% will function as efficient spreaders. Let's not forget how many of these sociopaths came out of the woodwork during covid.
You will have personal liability. Crypto does not protect you from that and it is not a substitute for corporate organization. Don't fool yourself.If you think obscurity is giving you protection that's incorrect. And if you think the blockchain gives you obscurity that is also incorrect. It is usually the easiest to track. You are only one court order or sometimes less away from discovery and liability whether civil or criminal.
It would be wonderful if someone took down adobe.
So what you're saying is, if we want to protect the environment, giving veto power to shareholders regarding the scope of remediation plans is a bad idea.

Consider how many people will be unable to perform valuable (economy-driving) outcomes as a result of the injuries to their bodies and to the lands where they work and play -- surely more opportunity cost borne by the national economy than one company paying out damages and/or getting folded into a nationalized governance and ownership scheme.

Investments are risks. Sometimes you gotta take the fall to keep from delegitimizing the entire system on which your sustenance depends.
It's not your typical "people are leaving CA" story--we have colorful characters like Lance Gilman--a septuagenarian brothel owner spearheading the development, in the desert, of the world's largest industrial park

> The park’s co-developer and lead salesman, Lance Gilman, lives and works out of the famous bordello, a modest set of rust-colored buildings just outside the park’s gates.
>
> Gilman, 78, wields tremendous power in Storey County. Not only does he run the county’s main business development, but he also serves on the county commission that governs it. He won some of the country’s largest tax breaks for his tenants and also persuaded the state to reimburse him and his partner, Roger Norman, tens of millions of dollars to purchase and complete the USA Parkway, a large road that connects the industrial park to Interstate 80.
Ok, and we don't make a billion dollars doing it.
250mil bail? You mean moms house? No problem.
Scaling up manufacturing, and finding places to put (bury) these large batteries, will be a significant effort, but seems straightforward enough that projected future capacity estimates are probably pretty reliable. The hardest part will be effective load balancing strategies, IMO. (Very excited for distributed optimization systems research in this area, personally.)
1Blocker has a built in internal device local VPN service that also covers all apps on the phone - not just Safari. Breaks any of the "free with ad" games so yeah, it's effective!
The way this used to get solved, was that people hosted servers, and there was always an empty one lying around for people who wanted to play with their own group, or you could just go figure out if you liked the particular server community or not.

Then game companies took total control, made you play on their servers and introduced all these problems.
Indeed, my friend. I have a 64-core, 128GB RAM, 4TB raid-10 server in the basement that uses probably 1/3 the power of the DEC3000.

Times, they are a changing...
I've been using 720p for almost a decade. I find it fascinating this meme of pixel density overall, confusing.
I've talked about an experience someone in my family had before. Straight up fabrication in a lab, and it wouldn't be really detectable until you attempt to replicate and then check the pictures after.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25926188
Let me clarify, autoregressive LLMs build a probabilistic mapping between words and tokens. They don't actually understand what these concepts mean. Only what they appear in conjunction with, etc. We (and most animals) interact with the physical world and learn through a combination of doing, experiencing, biology, and book learning. That lets us reason about how things work in unseen contexts and we know what we know vs. don't know (whether we express it or not is a different story).

> Yann Lecun is very salty about chatgpt, I wouldn't take his word seriously.
With all due respect, he's not salty at all. He's even overseen plenty of cutting edge research in the LLM space. But he rightfully has pointed out what they can and can't do.

There's too many people encountering a chatbot for the first time that sounds coherent and engaging in anthropomorphism.
Kind of frightening! I tried it out, and it doesn't look like me, but there is a resemblance to a younger me. Having my "current" me in the other video panel makes it even more shocking. I really understand why people are taken away by this. Imagine this a few years out, where you could feed such a filter pictures of actual younger you. A filter like this could become close to perfect. Now imagine a MMO which takes in all of that ... don't tell Zuck about this idea.
This article is kind of begging for the “I told you so” response
Thanks for the tips. I will check out the filter lists you mention.

You might be wrong about PopUpOFF, though. I started using it as a solution to websites that pop-up an overlay asking me to subscribe to their newsletter when I mouse-out of the window. It is fantastic at putting an end to that.
1Blocker works perfectly. And has a local VPN service (it's all on phone) that blocks traffic in apps too - not just in Safari.
Yeah, we know those things are bad... that's why they are both illegal. Are you suggesting that before Stanford makes a statement, they have a trial? That seems a bit impractical, no? Like, you are just coming here assuming that slanderous situations are clear, but that's ex post facto logic.
And if people still go to work.
well to be fair flatpak isn't really meant for cli apps, and i would guess those are mostly cli apps.
LFPs are intended to routinely charge to 100%, and that's where EV batteries are headed in the next few years. I'm not sure what fraction of EVs sold in the US today use LFP, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's relatively high, maybe 1/4, and it's going to go up.
LFP comes with a small weight penalty (for now) but the safety profile and longevity are superior.
I switched to Fedora Kinoite (KDE spin of Silverblue) to force me to go all in on Flatpaks, and now I love them.

They make so much sense and work so well. I feel like the people who dislike them either never actually used them, or they’re just the type of person who hates change and will never be happy with new things.
Is anyone genuinely happy at work?
It feels like my wide circle of close friends are all pretty miserable and unhappy right now at their jobs.

Friends (without families) who were laid off are all burning through severance, cashing out what’s left of stocks, and trying to distract themselves with hobbies before facing reality of finding work again.

Some are more forthcoming with admitting it, others have reached peak burnout and simply don’t even care to talk about work.

Overall, it’s obviously depressing. Admittedly, I too am feeling so exhausted - with what feels like a never ending cycle of doom and gloom (and that’s without even using social media or seeing more than top headlines once a day if that).

I heard someone say “we are only 7 weeks into 2023” today, and reflected on just how long the year has felt two months in.

Would love to hear of anyone who found new perspective or motivation to cut through the daily gloom.
If a service provider wants their decision about whether to honor the SLA to be based on what the dashboard says, then it's completely fair to require that they report accurate information through that dashboard.

A service provider always has the option of providing an SLA that's based on the true uptime of the underlying service without treating the dashboard as a definitive source of truth. Choosing to make the dashboard their official record of downtime means they're opting in to having inaccuracies in the dashboard qualify as fraud.
What I love about TikTok filters is how good they are at getting people to show their face. If TikTok is collecting biometrics, they are sure doing a great job at it.
What do you mean it isn't real?

Do you mean that anything projected onto a display isn't palpable, so it isn't real? That seems odd: what about my bank statement, or the comment you just left?

Or are you saying that people shouldn't care if they are misled by things on the internet? I get that people shouldn't believe Hollywood movies are real, but what about a video that someone makes which purports to be their real life?

I am trying to interpret your statement, but having trouble parsing it.
There is irony here in that a "high crime" urban area is much more likely to have kids walking around with relative freedom than a "low crime" suburban area.
My friend found an unexpected portable nintendo in his son's closet. It was loaded with a LOT of games. He figures his son was playing with it during homework/sleep time to his detriment.

Turns out his birthday money from relatives financed it. Even though he was about 11 or 12, he found a youtube video on how to get a credit card, then was able to purchase a system and create an online account to buy games.
I decided not to bet my life savings on the Chiefs winning the superbowl this year. That too was a life changing mistake.

Not “betting” on crypto really isn’t any different. It isn’t like investing in Apple or some solid company with a track record. It’s much closer to just gambling, and people don’t beat themselves up about not gambling.
This has happened many times and neither you nor WSJ would dare make such an arrogant prediction in regards to equities
I don't see why you think this isn't whataboutism. You could rephrase it as, "What about the attitude towards human rights in the United States? Should I not invest there either?" without changing it's meaning. Whether the statement relates to an individual or organization's choices is orthogonal to whether it's whataboutism or a deflection. You can't take whataboutism and transmute it into a good faith response by rephrasing it to emphasize your own agency. That seems an absurd suggestion to me, I don't really understand where you're coming from.

A statement is whataboutism if it introduces irrelevant information in order to assert a moral equivalence. If the question is, "Are you concerned about China's human rights record?" (as distinct from, say, "Which of these countries has the better human rights record?"), then the United States is not the subject and pivoting the conversation over to the United States is whataboutism.

> In a CNBC interview in the fall of 2021, Mr. Dalio dismissed concerns about China’s human rights track record, likening the country’s government to a “strict parent.” (Bridgewater manages billions of dollars for companies partly owned by the Chinese government.)

> “Should I not invest in the United States because of our own human rights leadership?” he asked.

Can you honestly tell me that referring to, say, the genocide of the Uighur people, as merely "strict parenting" is an honest and good faith engagement in the discussion with no elements of deflection and no attempt to minimize and dismiss the problem?
Yeah, Sonos is very much the Apple of this space. A solid, user-friendly implementation of several pre-existing concepts into a cohesive product - no small task. I don't think the technologically important parts of this are patentable though, there's both prior art and the obviousness standard to worry about. But very much like Apple's 'rounded corners' case, they've gone after (IMO) obvious UI functionality for such a system to extract money from their competitors.

If you are just interested in the synchronized Audio-over-Ethernet part, AES67 is the industry standard, and a pretty complete open-source implementation can be found at https://github.com/bondagit/aes67-linux-daemon , though AES67 is itself a composition of existing standards, fundamentally it is mostly composed of SDP for sessions description, RTP for media, and PTP for clock sync, so you can build that out of a variety of implementations too.

For room correction you can look at https://drc-fir.sourceforge.net/ to generate FIR filter coefficients, then you can apply it in realtime with https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects or https://github.com/HEnquist/camilladsp .

Of course some people just want it to work, then you can shell out for Sonos :p.
We've had MERS and swine flu and C19 since that was published (2007), I imagine capacity may have improved since. And ultimately (cynically) that's just a function of the fact that maintaining a stockpile (or the capacity to quickly produce a world's supply) is not a goal of any individual country, anyone living in a country that is 1. Rich or 2. Houses pharma companies or their manufacturing facilities will probably be covered.
> Political donations are a matter of public record

Dark money donations aren’t, that’s why they are called “dark money”.

> So yes, it’s a either a journalistic failure or deliberate obfuscation.

Right. The whole purpose was deliberate obfuscation by SBF, and there is continued (though routine in a criminal investigation) obfuscation by the DoJ, which has filed charges based on its penetration of SBF’s obfuscation, but not provided breakdowns by party publicly.

The non-dark money portions could be approximately pieced together from public info using the (likely correct) conclusions as to who CC-1 and CC-2 are and their public donations during the time in question (not perfect, because its possible that each also made donations that were not part of the SBF scam in the same time period), but that doesn’t really help since it doesn’t account for the dark money portion.
I don’t think open source needs a walled garden, but I think people want the walls.
A trillion ain't what it used to be. That's 2.5% of the market cap of the S&P 500. The stock market fluctuates by 2.5% all the time.
> Car-centric culture and gun-centric culture is making our society to be like this.

The US has been car centric and gun centric for more than 70 years. Unsupervised kids bring frowned upon is a much more recent development.
In the case of the FBI, et. al., who according to the article "are already reportedly using network-based ad-blocking technologies", I'd wonder if not being able to access certain material would hinder the investigation of scams.
Most layer 2s do right now. That is not how they are meant to be though. A true layer is completely non centralized. That is the whole point of the fraud proofs. The ideal end state is stage 2 described here https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/proposed-milestones-for-rol...
> Where’s my check?

That right there is the real problem. I’m convinced a huge motivation for a lot of the current performative outrage is a combination of conscious and unconscious anxiety about having very little to no real skill based leverage or ownership/stewardship of things that anchor you to society, like housing and kids. That’s the sympathetic angle. The unsympathetic angle is laziness and greed. Both are applicable.

Everything is so damn complicated and fast paced and fewer and fewer people seem to know how anything actually works. That means fewer and fewer people know what a reliable career track will be. A lot of people can’t pivot their skillset nearly as fast as tech is demanding and they’re worried they’re going to be made obsolete and left without any viable alternative path if the one they’re on dries up.

I think a lot of the performative outrage would disappear if the middle class regained stability and people felt like they owned something rather than felt like a replaceable cog in an unintelligible bureaucratic machine.
Investors who can become the new bag holders when the music stops for the crypto ponzi casinos.
I haven’t, but I’m assuming those were (possibly old) Linux native games? Since proton shouldn’t have any dependency issues, especially since Steam installs that itself.
Oh it’s quite rational, just asymmetrically so, just like any other penny stock. Such markets consist of manipulators and the manipulated, and the manipulators are the rational ones.

And, apart from price, the crypto markets are just like penny stocks: opaque, obscure, thinly traded, and ripe with manipulation and other fraud.
Linode didnt manage to, so I think it must be indestructible
Over here in Australia I remember the same, kids walking to school at 5 years old. In fact one time my mum forgot to pick me up, so I walked to my friend's house. Turns out it was the wrong day, oops.

But now I see cars lined up at the school near me, around the block. They'd rather sit in a line in their car blocking traffic for half an hour, instead of just parking one block away and walking with their kids (there is plenty of untimed parking, it's residential). Or, god forbid, asking their kid to meet them at a convenient corner each day. So I don't think it's just a safety thing, some parents are a little lazy too and would rather just sit in their car instead of walking or meeting other parents.

This might be a country vs city thing too, since I'm in Sydney now.
The middlemen definitely became rich. Ok one of them went to jail, but still…
You're not alone modi among others the last decade is fueled by a global rise in ethnic nationalism and fascism with authoritarianism.

Hard to say, but there's media and billionaires along with nation states and global warming driving wedges into democracy.
This is great content, I enjoyed reading this comment, but HN has been such a wonderful place for such a wonderful time because we just don't do the reddit thing around here :)

Let reddit be reddit and HN be HN please.
Your analogy makes no sense. If I ground my child, preventing them from leaving the house, that's a reasonable punishment. If I prevent an adult from leaving my house, that's kidnapping. There are some things you can do to your child that you cannot do to another adult. And that's normal and good.
I think I should clarify that I installed this extension quite a long time ago ago, and it has never served an unsolicited inline notification to me of any kind. The stated purpose at the time was website tracking protection, similar to something like PrivacyBadger, and that's what I use it for. It added a small button to my extensions menu that I can click to see some information about the website's requests and turn tracking protection on or off. The behavior I am criticizing in this post is not what the extension was for when I installed it, and it's not something it's ever done before.

I think it would be reasonable to notify me about this new feature in a less disruptive way, like from the extension's existing information pane. Inserting that inline into the websites I use isn't the only way to notify me, but it does seem like the most obnoxious way to do that.
What makes it irrational?
The one thing MINIX needs is to disappear.
yea, training it on some actual photos would really take this up a notch, a huge notch. The reactions would be 1000% more heavy, and they are already pretty heavy
Former St Loius Children's Hospital patient refutes allegations of malpractice
Umm, Planet Computer's Gemini anyone? Easily the most heavily used & abused phone I've ever had. Still waiting for my (long overdue) Astro Slide to ship ...
I think this was meant to point out that trading ads for system wide tracking isn’t necessarily a deal you are forced to make if you are a person who is motivated not to make that deal. For most people avoiding tracking isn’t even a thought. Their first order of business is inviting Facebook, Twitter, and Tik Tok to the party.
TIL that Dota had over 40k people still playing.

ZING!

But seriously, I haven't played it in years and years...mostly because of the cheating and the toxicity of it's players.
Stanford GSB Lecture on Generative Tech/AI