skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As society we should step up and set zero tolerance on bullying. First time punish them. Third time ship them to some facility. Remove them from society like other criminals.
Please Don't Flashbang Me
Oh, I know.

The OP put an icon of cigarette because big evil corporations brainwashed him into liking cigarettes, not because he wanted to.

But he removed it because he wanted to, not because big evil mobs brainwashed him into fearing cancellation.

That's totally how it happened.
I would assume this to be possible with CSS houdini, which extends CSS with custom JavaScript.
So, get fame based on lie and then come clean.

Had he mentioned that they were AI generated, he might not have got the exposure (since anyone could do it).

This would have been fine if it was a researcher (not a photographer) who was doing this.
First of all, you neglect to realize that what you say is just the first round of changes. Once you allow it, it doesn't stop, ever.

First its enormous, then its tiny, then its something else. Before you know it, there's no relevance and its discarded as no longer culturally significant, and that's just the cultural identity portion of it (a shared mooring being removed).

Second, its not conspiratorial at all, there's actually a large body of vetted documentation in terms of the threats of political warfare dating back to the 1950s, and the more recent psychological blindspot research and manipulation which many of those threats and material choose to apply/target in some form to bypass critical thinking. This is what we are talking about when it comes to allowing an avenue for subversion and indoctrination into culturally significant works read primarily by children who have no defenses.

You have no idea how happy I would be to be wrong about this, but this is the real world, and letting these things happen is a recipe for disaster and an abandonment of generational contract responsibilities we have for our children.

Here's a link with vetted introductory material that's up to date and recent, for the uninformed, it is filled with references. https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Marine-Corps-University-Press...
there was something called alien that did this iirc

https://sourceforge.net/projects/alien-pkg-convert/
One could argue that generating portraits with Midjourney is actually harder than taking real photographs, since photographers spend only milliseconds taking their photos whereas prompt engineers sometimes spend hours copying text from PromptHero or Lexica and pasting it into Discord.
This is super cool. I wish WebVR was still a thing and that it had gotten more love, better browser support and more libraries adept at handling head tracking, stereoscopy, etc. During that brief period where it was standard in Chrome, I happened to be bidding a bunch of interior architectural designs for a client, so I scrapped together a demo script in ThreeJS that let me stitch together prerendered stereo panoramic renderings, and insert some interactive 3D objects / animations inside the skylight space. I patched in support for the pointer remote from the original Oculus Rift, and just stuck our architectural renderings on a private website and mailed the client a couple Oculus Rifts as a gift to check them out. It was a big "wow" factor and landed us a lot more work.

None of this is to say that it would be a great idea to build websites this way. Websites are made to convey the desired information quickly, so unless the desired information is a full 3D understanding of a space I have a hard time seeing the utility of building out a 3D space as a metaphor for information. Did that make sense? Let me say it differently: We've tried a lot of visual metaphors in my life for organizing and exploring information spaces. As it turns out, the simpler ones are usually the most easily grasped and therefore the most efficient at doing their job (i.e., remaining "invisible" and serving as a transparent container for information). Even 3D interfaces that do serve the purpose of conveying spatial relationships and art often fall into the trap of trying to do too much. This is not meant as a paean to minimalism (at all - I love clever interfaces and I appreciate when information design makes you figure out a paradigm to get the most out of interacting with it - as long as "the most" is defined as more interesting views of the data I'm trying to get at). Just to say that design should showcase content, not itself, except in the case where the content is supposed to showcase the design, and then you can go nuts.
A note on the guinea. IIRC, it was originally intended to be a gold one pound coin. However, the value of gold went up just when it was issued so it was revalued higher by adding the extra shilling. I imagine the extra prestige associated with it was mostly about it being gold.
It's been said, quite correctly, that Python is the second best language for everything.

I feel that it has recently - like many really mature platforms - become very much like the elephant from that old apocryphal story [0]. It is being used for many different purposes, with very different requirements and needs, with users being so focused on their own use that anything outside that is considered "bloat" and "waste".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
Brian may love patterns and minimalism, but I am Ryan and I love chaos and maximalism.
> Do not pitch your stuff, let him speak. Find out his infrastructure, software and such, and the contract renewal times. Ask how frequently they replace servers, ask them if they are happy with the hypervisor ware etc.

Do heads of IT really give all this information out to a rando on the phone?
£5 and its multiples: Lady, Ayrton, Commodore, Score, Pony.

Sadly, I think these are dying out due to the move towards a cashless society.

The most common use for any of these (for me) was to ask someone to lend me a bit of cash when I'd left my wallet at home.
It simply does not work. Bullies are evil monsters without any redeeming qualities. They do not stop unless you mold yourself to perfectly like them and participate in their evil crimes.
I am someone who prefers an hardcopy over Audible. But here are my favourite's.

Sapiens
[https://www.audible.in/pd/Sapiens-Audiobook/B079C16D4D]

Amp it up
[https://www.audible.in/pd/Amp-It-Up-Audiobook/B09QBRCDMQ]

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
[https://www.audible.in/pd/The-Almanack-of-Naval-Ravikant-Aud...]
Thank you so much. I finally understand the line "I put a pony on Liverpool" from "IT Crowd".
A ferrari with square wheels, that is a good one.

A UNIX descendent of NextSTEP tooling, versus the distribution of the month in GNU/Linux world, preaching they will get the desktop this year, for 20 plus years, and the road for gaming relies on pretending to be Windows.

Treat macOS as Mac OS, not as a Linux distribution.

A proper set of UI frameworks, not stuck in pre-history C and C++ workloads or even worse Electron, a 3D graphics API that doesn't require one to become a graphics driver programmer to draw a triangle, proper attention to UI/UX,...

"They said a Unix weenie was code for software engineers who hated what we were doing to Unix (the operating system we licensed)—putting a graphical user interface on it to dumb it down for grandmothers. They heckled Steve about his efforts to destroy it. His nightmare would be to speak to a crowd of them."

https://web.archive.org/web/20180628214613/https://www.cake....
It isn't often I see Java described as simple.
A 1oz Britannia has a face value of £100
So in this setup, when you read your email you would put it on the "read" monitor, but when you compose an email you would transfer it over to the "write" monitor?
And as well as Ton and Pony there's:

- "Score" - £20

- "Nicker" - £1

Or if you want to go full cockney "Deep Sea Diver" or "Lady Godiva" £5 (fiver), and "Ayrton Senna" for £10 (tenner)
So many ifs in this thread! It sounds like no-one has ever got really angry with you in reality for using the wrong pronouns, right? I’ve never experienced anything other than a polite correction. The person you’re replying to also doesn’t describe any such experience. They said (1) that someone they met loudly emphasized their preferred pronouns and (2) that they went to an event where some people put neopronouns on their name badges.
MacFUSE isn’t even open source anymore, so it would likely involve Apple forking a version prior to the license change and maintaining that themselves.
Also (possibly only amongst bankers in London):

- "Yard" - £billion (derived from the french "milliard")
I am a parent of a younger child and yet I struggle with picking the right battles to fight and when it is time to talk about values, when it is time to let him learn resilience, and when it is time for immediate action.

First, let me tell you that you did well trying to explain to your son the reasoning behind your decision _so far_ to not buy an iPhone. It is always good to explain why you took a decision than simply saying "No".

Second, I think you should approach this tactically.

There are three causes/problems here, each needing a different reaction:

1. (Immediate) Your son is bullied and that should stop. This is serious and requires immediate action on two sides:

1.a. Work to stop the bullying behaviour (as many people pointed out here bullying is a behaviour that has many triggers, it happened now to be the phone)

1.b. Help your son vent and talk about how he is feeling while trying to minimize the psychological harm caused by bullying. I don't know exact how to do this, but I am sure there are resources for this.

2. (also immediate) Recognise that your son is probably feeling left out of his social circle. Action -> Buy an iPhone today. There is no good way around this if your kid's social circle is already using iPhones. Your values are not the fight on this level. Your kid belonging is. No amount of discussion will fix this. The feeling of not belonging is powerful and deep, it is a survival or protection mechanism. So even beings with a mature "neocortex" are not able to think their way out of this feeling with ease.

3. (long term) Here we talk about your values and what you want to transmit to your kid. Android vs iOS is not a value. What are you really trying to teach him here? I don't know what value you are trying to teach, but be sure that buying an iPhone now will not break nor make that value.

4. (long term for you) I say this with an open heart as something that I am still learning. There is a balance between trying to teach my son a value and recognizing when he is a different person than _should_ and _will_ most probably pick up his own set of values. He might not like what I like and our world-views might get challenged between us. Here the most important thing to do (allegedly as I only have a small kid) is to try to create a space for you both to share your feelings and feedback. While having a hard conversation the important thing, in this case, is to focus on making sure you both understand each other side, respect each other side, and then maybe reach a common conclusion.

If this appears like a prescription please ignore the tone. I am writing this more to me than to you trying to put in writing some things that I try to wrap my head around when taking decisions related to my kid wellbeing.
Also make it accessible by id only, so that:

https://www.example.com/a/abcdefghi/current-davalopments-in-...

https://www.example.com/a/abcdefghi/current-developments-in-...

https://www.example.com/a/abcdefghi

are all the same.
Some founders do actually share these updates with the employees! With some redactions of course. Wouldn’t want the employees to know about impending layoffs or what inspired them.
> Imagine this something like this is used in the future to get something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_composite . People may give too much importance to the details and arrest someone only because the computer imagined some detail, like the logo in the baseball cap.

Wow, tech not working to tech might kill someone went super fast here.
Pressing ctrl-v takes hours?
I'm seeing the same bug. Chrome on Windows 11 US-EN locale.

Also iPhone 16 mobile Safari.
Yep, they're safe in 2023. At the rate things are going, I don't even know what's gonna happen in 2024.
I also wonder in which context the talk about his phone being lame occurred. I.e. was it really just because it looked different than the other phones (so literally everything else than an iPhone would be "lame") or did the friends do some common activity where he couldn't participate as a non-iphone user? (ecosystem lock-in)
I think that many web developers would benefit from testing on slow hardware, bad monitors and shoddy internet.

I work on a 2017 Macbook 12" unless I'm at home. Some websites literally don't work on that resolution.

Other websites don't work on hotel Wi-Fi.

Others are unreadable on budget laptop screens.

It's good to remember that a lot of the world isn't a Silicon Valley office.
A lot of photographers take hours (or days) to find the right spot, wait for the right shooting conditions and then post-process their photos.
That was my first thought, but there's a clear photo in the article of the laptop on a suitable stand.
if you ever had the misfortune of seeing the code for the parser and lexer of earlier versions of PHP youd see that it wasnt due to parsing simplicity but rather the author making poor syntax decisions due to a lack of understanding.

Then being walled in by backwards compatibility
What if I told you Ryan and Brain were the same character this entire time.

Pixes music starts playing as buildings explode
I don't understand why the powertop tunings aren't the default when the distro detects it's running on a laptop.
children who are bullying are often suffering from problems at home, so punishing is not the right solution. they need coaching and support just as much.
It’s actually not unheard of that people with Scottish banknotes sometimes encounter difficulty when using them elsewhere. Small shop owners might not know that they can be accepted. It’s not so much of an issue these days since everywhere is pretty much cashless.
Designing for narrow screens ruins the experience for wide screens. As such it is extremely bad trend to happen. Making daily user experience lot worse for many users.
That's a cool achievement, but I imagine the single-switch decoder is a bit of a limiting design factor if this project grows (disabling/enabling instructions will introduce branches everywhere, and that's needed for proper FPU conformance).
Also a bit jealous of how it is so popular by just presenting that Doom runs on a minimal ISA subset, while the VM that literally outperforms QEMU was around for much longer. I definitely should time-travel back and tell myself from 2021 to just show off people Doom, since I was doing the same in my communication circles back then xD
His descriptions of the people are so floral that it makes me wonder if the whole thing of "portrait photographer on Instagram" could itself be considered a piece of performance art
Eh, it's not that complicated. It is just pounds, shillings, and pence. The rest are mostly just terms for coins that existed at various times, roughly equivalent to nickel, dime, quarter. Some of them are even slang terms (quid, bob) similar to buck or two bits.
But TypeScript does have typed strings. If the array contains arbitrary strings, then the includes() call would just succeed without error.
Investors like to see certain boxes checked. Best to get the chores out of the way so there’s time to avoid being the Bureaucratic Startup.
The only question is whether more images will confuse the model or not?
Why wouldn't removing them from homes and having them be in appropriate facilities be a solution then? Removes the problems from home, so they could do better in other places.

And no, nothing should excuse bullying.
“Hyperrealist artist who found fame at the Paris lycée for his portraits has confessed images were photographs”
AI gray goo.

Maybe it already surrounds us. In the air, rocks, and fabric of spacetime itself. It's too advanced to detect, and we're much too primitive to be a concern.

Or maybe we're just its memory. We gave birth to it long ago, and our conscious lives are reminiscence.
Very nice site!

I'm going to purchase a new laptop, and it lines up with my intuition to wait until Memorial Day. (Although Lenovo laptops are always "on sale." I think they just had some decent President's day discounts, too.)
> Re-observations on these targets have so far not resulted in re-detections of signals with similar morphology.

Thank god for that. If we could establish a safety perimeter of at least 100 light years around our system where no technological civilization exists, then we would have a 200 years bubble in which to expand, grow and survive, from the time when we sent the first high strength radio signals into the universe to the time where a massive thermonuclear probe traveling close to light speed arrives in our system to sterilize it.
Grand (£1000) is also a really common term. I think I hear that more than the mathematical term.
It’s still used in horse racing.
No. He’s literally using the word l”literally” correctly in every instance. Try looking up he definition some time: it may not be what you think.
Pre-emptive damage control. If someone else found them out, it'd be a scandal and it would follow them forever. This way they get to keep a good fraction of their accumulated fame without long-term reputational damage.
I still use (KDE Plasma's) wobbly windows, but set very low. In general in GUIs I prefer a very quick animation to an instant change, perhaps because it helps make things seem more fluid and dynamic and because it guides my eyes to where a change is happening in case I'm not already looking straight at it.
Why though? Can't you just take a protein supplement? I can see that it could be useful if you have some disease that makes you unable to get it from diet but if you are healthy what is the point?
Point me at a processor as good as the M1 and I'll buy it
I always turn off all animations from developer settings. It makes the phone feel smoother and responsive.
> Flagrant piracy

This is always the only correct answer to copyright insanity.

Information wants to be free.

Copyright is just a game. You participate mostly voluntarily. You can opt out of playing it at any time. Let them figure out how to bring you back into the game if they can.
> I [could] also buy a bluetooth macro keyboard and use it just for that.

For two-hands-on-keyboard work, I quite like using 'cv' and 'm,' keys as chords for "desktop left" and "desktop right".

This can be achieved on a keyboard with customisable firmware (like a QMK-powered keyboard), or perhaps through software like kmonad.

Though, yeah, not every desktop environment has "go to desktop X", so I just get used to setting each one up, and 'remembering' how many times to go left/right when switching.
The gold ones are Galleons. Seventeen silver Sickles to a Galleon and twenty-nine Knuts to a Sickle, it's easy enough.
Brilliant (https://brilliant.org). It particularly excels at math but also has great physics and CS courses.
Open source tool chain and open source cores, wow, nice progress since I last looked into this.
In the early 2000s, I chose to leave behind my successful career as an artist and transitioned into the field of graphic design. Eventually, I ventured into UX design and founded my own company that specializes in software development and design.

Initially, my success as an artist had made it easier for people to accept me into the community. However, when I decided to stop commercially painting, people labeled me as a crazy man who had no sense of direction. Only when money returned to my pocket did they embrace me once again as a success.

If your concern as an artist is solely based on gaining people's approval, then you are approaching it wrong. Creativity is an inherent quality that yearns to be liberated from within every individual.

Society needs the unconventional and daring ideas of artists, which they are not capable of producing due to the perceived risk involved in this lifestyle.

As an artist, your guiding principle should be a self-honesty that is driven by a clear egoistic purpose (in a good way). The most crucial aspect of being an artist is the production of artwork. If you let your art speak to the world, then the rest is merely a matter of marketing.
Well they are paying with protection
Also a Brit, living in Finland, and I do the same.
External monitor does not necessarily mean multi monitor. I have an external monitor that is big, and has good contrast and refresh rate, but I close the laptop's lid.

Multiple monitors are ergonomically worse than multiple virtual workspaces IMHO - if you can set up keyboard shortcuts instead of mouse gestures.
What story is that, if it is one? I'm actually more afraid they start shooting around this things where everything folds down to 2D space :s

Given the size of the sun and what it does, and not does to us because the size of our solar system also no clue how that thermonuclear probe would work, or how big it needs to be? But curious!

Anyway, if those guys shoot that just around, how likely is it that our stone age AI and other tech would detect them?
For small shop owners it’s a vicious cycle. They don’t want to take in Scottish notes because many customers won’t want them as change. Customers don’t want them as change because a lot of shop owners won’t take them.

As per the article, they’re not legal tender so no one is required to take them as payment.
Ebenezer Scrooge lived very modestly too.

He was a landlord who exploited the low paid by jacking up prices on run down housing, or was that Buffett?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/korihale/2019/04/18/warren-buff...

Is this the same Warren Buffett whose railway refused to provide his train workers with sick leave despite the company reporting a net income of nearly 6 billion?

https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1570088566411366405

The same train company that didn't meet safety standards and so recently ended up poisoning a whole town after a derailment?

https://www.thestreet.com/video/warren-buffetts-bnsf-railway...

The same Buffett that pays almost no tax? (& can you guess who has to pay the tax in his stead - the poors who are subsidising his private jet flights)
I'm going to pull a print/graphic designer card and say that "minimalism" isn't actually a style. I think I understand how it's being used in this conversation as a shorthand for "2002-2012 Google UI", which had a massive impact on the way people thought about web design. But I don't think it's fair to say that the reason for the staying power of that particular type of minimalist design is simple repetition or consistency. I think it's a combination of laziness on the part of the designers and training of the population, and it has led to a lack of curiosity on the part of users when they're confronted with more complex interfaces. I think it's important to continue to buck that trend. Every interface should feel like a jewel box full of easter eggs. But having said that, design's purpose is to download information into human brains, and so [edit: clarity] the minimal opacity of the underlying information has to be the primary design goal in all cases.

Sometimes though, "minimalism" in the Google web design sense actually makes the information much too opaque. The ideal design requirement should be specified as that which gives the user all the tools to navigate immediately. If those tools are a little complicated, in the words of Thomas Pynchon, "Why should things be easy to understand?" This is where I have a huge problem with iOS, just for example, hiding scrollbars on components that don't obviously look like they're scrollable - so users never realize that there are more options off to the right. That's minimalist, but it's less than the minimum information you need to use the software.