skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"These people should not be enabled to derail conversations between honest people with opposing views who actually know what they are talking about by getting everybody to argue about definitions forever."

Twitter is not a free and public forum for the exchange of ideas, it is a sprawling, (literally) finely tuned machine that percolates the most engaging posts to the top, at any cost. It rewards outrage, not reason, coherence or progress.

Helen is just screaming into the void, and I think more specialists like her need to understand that Twitter is not an academic debate hall, even though it (by design) looks like one.
>I think what people are getting upset at is you are conflating not driving with some higher form of intellect

But that’s them presuming, I neither meant nor actually said that and I explained my intent above. It’s a mistake on their part. That fine, that’s life, but says more about them than me.

>when in reality it's a privilege really only afforded to people who live in often high cost of living areas.

Totally, that’s why I called it a privilege myself in the comment you’re replying to. People seem to have layered a stereotype onto me because I said I was a former car owner. It’s like saying you don’t own a television-maybe it’s often said in arrogance but sometimes you actually have a good reason to mention it.
> Incompetent employees tend to gang up on competent employees every time so you are almost guaranteed to lose your best talent and get left with dunces

Could you elaborate on this? How have you seen employees gang up during layoffs?
This is relevant, I'm surprised it's downvoted. Sure, it's a bit scoldy, but it's not wrong.

Downvote irrelevant content, not content you disagree with.

The tendency to personify these chatbots when they're just statistical text generators and _not_ people is interesting but also potentially troubling. On the one hand, we do this all the time to really anything with a face (people of all ages will anthropomorphize stuffed toys, for example) so it's not _surprising_ that something that seems to exhibit a personality gets the same treatment.

But on the other hand, we tend to anthropomorphize stuffed toys in a playful way because we know they can't possibly be alive. There seems to be a broader lack of clarity about what these chatbots actually represent -- are they just one or two steps away from true sentience? They're absolutely not, but in the broader conversation, questions like this are being thrown around. And then to come on here and see casual anthropomorphization, it kind of makes you wonder how far these attitudes are actually reaching, despite HN being a more-technical audience that should have the capacity to understand that there's no THERE there, it's all just clever statistics.
aside from the light requirements, how long does it take to roll out a 1000' of film at those frame rates? at 24fps, that's typically 10-12 minutes. 200,000 / 24 = 8,333x faster. 10min x 60s = 600s / 8333 = 0.07s

i'm guessing the military could afford to have a different type of film load than standard motion picture film rolls, but that's still ridiculously fast at 200k fps so maybe 10M fps qualifies for ludicrously fast. what fps would need to be achieved before the picture just goes plaid?
Dear Professor, here is a reality check. The first step to becoming poor is losing the ability to have a credit card. There are many steps subsequent to this first step. More than I can list here.

I would go so far as to say that the vast majority of people who lose access to a credit card will still not ever experience poverty.

Furthermore, people who do not pay off their balance each month are not poor, likely will never be poor and are, often, regular people, with jobs and middle class lifestyles..

In short, if you have access to a credit card you are not poor and are a very long way from becoming so.

I have an amex reward card but I have also been poor. These are my qualifications that allow me to question your hypothesis.
> Usually a project is oxidised into Rust because of many reasons, the main usually being memory safety.

What about python’s memory model is unsafe?
Ask HN: Resources for OpSec Guidelines, Analysis, Assessment, etc.
There’s current thread on SecureDrop user feedback survey trending on HN and thought it might be of use to be able to point people to resources on OpSec. Any suggestions?
2022 letter on life in China
It's so cool! Sorry if this question isn't smart but is there an easy way that my browser will automatically translate the website from chinese to english with like one button press? I don't know what computers can do these days but maybe one of the new smart AIs can do it?
The struggle over who controls the cash flows arising from fossil fuels sales to Europe dates back to 2003, when Putin rejected an Exxon bid for 51% control in what was then Russia's primary oil center, Yukos. This would have meant Russia would have lost control of decisions over production levels, and much of the oil money from Europe would then have been recycled into the New York - London banking system. Putin's persecution of the London/New York affiliated oligarchs - Khodorkovsky, Berezinsky, etc. - dates to this era. It's no coincidence that the wave of US-sponsored 'Color Revolutions' then began in 2004, with an attempted instigation of something like the current Ukraine conflict in Georgia in 2008 being pushed hard by none other than Condi Rice (Chevron named an oil tanker after her for awhile).

This dynamic also played out in Syria, where the Obama Administration was pushing Assad to take a proposed Qatar-Saudi-Israeli pipeline offer (2009-2010), which Assad rejected in favor of a Russia-Iran pipeline offer. We can be pretty sure if he'd taken the former there'd have been no massive CIA funding of Syrian rebel groups and Assad's domestic repression would have been viewed no differently than Saudi Arabia or Bahrain's by Washington.

Indeed even Trump strongly opposed the Nordstream pipeline and its expansion, and promoted LNG exports to Europe as much as Biden has (although the destruction of the Nordstream pipeline with explosive charges seems to be quite the reckless escalation of that agenda). Oil stocks in the USA are up 50% since fall 2021...

Again there are no 'good guys' in these conflicts, it's just organized crime cartels fighting over control of markets and resources. They do spend a lot of on PR budgets to hide this reality from the public as much as possible. Not sure whether this view would be characterized or 'misinformation' or 'disinformation', however. (They used to classify propaganda as black, grey and white, incidentally).
Plan to incinerate soil from Ohio train derailment is ‘horrifying’, says expert
Good luck, in all sincerity. I think that feeling of actual connection is something recognized by both parties, and hopefully you can let that fear go.
I know what it does. Instead of boilerplate to declare channels to handle live websocket, now you can just bind the real data to a DOM html. Isn't it ? Is there any more to bring ?

React and similar technologies actually not just scrap your boilerplates, it's real abstraction (forget the DOM API) with state and componentation. It's not like you scrap your jquery boilerplate).

I see people mess with DOM Api in their application, which is not the right way, because it's mixing different abstractions together to create a mess.
Neat little project. Easy to setup and use.

Unfortunately with macOS's "Dark Mode" enabled the colors have little or no contrast. And the UI renders very small for my eyes (and compared to the demo gif). This is a criticism of Qt (or maybe its python bindings) rather than this project. (Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/G9eAPoO)

I wonder if there's a way to shimmy in a "modern macOS Qt renderer" or something into an existing project like this without a rewrite?
It seems to me that if a civ with high technology is going to expend the effort to seed large numbers of solar systems with xenocide devices, it might as well spread itself through the same space instead
It's been too long since I saw Her to remember the particulars, but the IMDB Parents Guide for it contains an entry that backs Pigalowda's comment.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/parentalguide
>you would like some adult themes

I read just the opposite. "Strange Days", as one example on your list, is not one I would recommend for a 12 year old.
> Humans operate with filters - and they choose which filters to operate depending on the situation.

> What market need does ‘unfiltered’ fill?

It lets the customer select the appropriate degree and kind of filtering for their preference for the particular circumstance, rather than using a canned vendor personality.
I love how we here in the US just assume we have the right to tell Turkey and UAE who they can do business with. As if they don't have their own interests.
If they are easy to detect, could OpenWRT and GrapheneOS block them, or be driven by a crowd-sourced blocklist?
Oversight by whom? Who is qualified? Random people in the civil service? It seems far beyond them.

Your example is illustrative. Absolutely don’t want the only LLMs capable of finding exploits in the hands of the NSA/some-TLA. I want it in people’s hands so reports can be made and software fixed.
Hehe, my toy lisp in Rust was called that. Great minds!
You really think that 20 years ago people were driving sedans because they were trying to be environmentally friendly? It's far more likely that they never cared about it in the first place.
That feels about right to me too. I don't know if I'm usually just doing more computationally intensive stuff than most with my 16" M1 Pro, but I think the only way I could get anywhere near the advertised numbers is if I basically just had Safari open and the display on half brightness.

And not to beat the already long dead horse any more, but toss in some electron apps running in the background, I probably average somewhere around ~7 hours or so. I'm not convinced the 10+ hour lifetime is possible if you've got stuff like Discord/Slack/VS Code open.

But in terms of when I am doing truly evil things to it, I am surprised it lasts as long as it does, be it max CPU compiling or all of this morning when I was toying around with stable diffusion, it gets around ~4 hours or so.
The quality of air and water is much more measurable and has a direct immediate impact on life. Even a non-scientist can tell the different between the foul air in a city versus a forest. CO2 on the other hand is a much more nuanced technical topic that needs measuring sea levels, CO2, temperature and several other variables etc.

So why not focus of the immediate measurable aspect that can be potentially changed?

Why the endless distraction with CO2 and the several hundred variables associated with it? In fact I suspect that as a good side effect of cleaning up the air and water might be a reduction in CO2 levels.
You just got dumped by your life partner. You are experiencing immense mental pain, and maybe even physical pain. That is normal. In fact, if you had no reaction to being dumped by your life partner, you may have deeper problems.

It's possible that the breakup is making you more pessimistic about your PhD. How were you feeling about your PhD before the breakup?

Here are some optional suggestions. Try Tinder. Try psilocybin. Try standup comedy. Try going to another country (and live cheap if needed). Try being an Uber driver. Try a crazy hairstyle. Be creative.
> and the stack trace of the parent thread when starting the child thread

That's incredibly useful. We have a strict policy of all threads and pools being named, but sometimes default named threads sneak in making it difficult to figure out where the thread is used for.
Fantastic Voyage, starring the late Raquel Welch, based on Asimov book. Good for any 12-year old boy.
Well, they are known not to have correct answers, but in my brand of ethics risking the lives of people that are destined to die in order to save millions is pretty clear cut

Especially during a war where Dresden was fire bombed and Hiroshima was nuclear bombed
Is it finally time to remove the Python GIL?
Im a heavy user of GitHub website and I find it doesn’t stop improving
Because When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, instead of a ting, we retreat to the bread and circuses.
Metres and mm I hear a lot but kilometres very little - mainly because of miles on road signs. I guess the last reference I remember is to 5K runs.
> Which countries recognize the independence of Luhansk and Donetsk?

Which countries recognize Kosovo, and now tell me how that's different? Hint: because we said so. And that's it.

Also, I love how you claimed nothing has changed in the last 20 years and then didn't refute a single thing I said showing how wrong you are, because you can't. We were behind a coup on their border and we pretend to be surprised that the Russkis didn't like it? lol k
There is a lot of work on systems that use transformer models that will get closer to “the truth”. For instance you could run a query through a normal search engine, then use a much more expensive cross-encoder to screen the top results, then have the transformer summarize the documents. In general transformers could be joined to other specialist systems to answer questions in domains like math.

Truth, however, is the most problematic idea in philosophy, and simply introducing the concept of ‘truth’ erodes the truth. (E.g. makes possible the statement “I am lying now” for the logical and for the X Files to assert “the truth is out there”)

The most interesting question though is how people have reacted to ChatGPT. I mean, Wolfram Alpha is a great question answering system but it didn’t cause a panic for Google and Bing. In our strange times people might rather have a bullshit engine than a search engine, and under the sign of “the innovators dilemma”, search engines might rush to disrupt them own business as a result.
I'm piking a need that is common even for small websites. I even had to implement a similar concept for a small job board.
This really depends on the failure. In the specific case of gasoline direct injection, a motor which has had poor carbon buildup might need to be totally rebuilt. And given the complexity of the motors, it's not like rebuilding an old flathead Ford engine. I'm definitely not saying that old cars are good and new cars are bad. But some of the problems of modern cars make long-term usage costlier and more difficult in some cases. To be clear, cars today are much more reliable than decades ago. I'm just making a small case that this reliability has been sliding backwards in some instances. Some modern cars are less reliable than the same model 10 years ago, and even when the car is not a total wash there are more things that break, and the cost and complexity of repair is higher.
I don’t understand the “very long time, if ever” comment. It seems like we are close to something that people find useful today. Why such a long time horizon?
You are confusing competency with bias.
Liveview solves the dynamic areas in a easy way, that's the differentiating factor.
Because the internet is in a fad where it's very fashionable to require evidence for any claims, and most opinions.
I wonder when companies will just become outright hostile to their customers and dispense with the corpora-bullshit.
This assuming that NATO won't turn their back to Ukraine one day. Russia is forced to continue this war to a favorable point, because any withdrawal that is not accompanied by a significant territorial acquisition that can be trumpeted by internal and external propaganda would result in Putin's political demise and possibly his death too. Russia's tactics of weakening Ukrainian people support for their government through civilian objectives bombings and war crimes might unfortunately work if NATO doesn't hurry and give Ukraine the weapons and assistance they need ASAP instead of wasting time bouncing responsibilities. There's people dying over there each day, and I find revolting that seeing that it takes them months to even decide to send tanks or not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausicaä_of_the_Valley_of_the_...

1984 Nausicaä — The original version released in Japan. The version released to the US market is unkind to the original. The hound dog face mask seen in the anime was appropriate for surviving the pandemic.
It’s kilometres specifically that I hear used rarely in the Uk. Other SI units are relatively common I agree.
Roughly, if you have much more people than guns, these people, however brave, don't have any more guns to man, and making them fight with spears is pointless.

A technology makes more people stronger only if it can be scaled; Ukraine in particular is strained more by things like the number of 155 mm shells, HIMARS rockets, advanced tanks than by the number of willing infantrymen, as far as I can tell from reporting.

A small group with an advanced coercion tech subduing a larger group that lack it is just a very common scenario, sadly. Modern technology though becomes more and more affordable and scalable, potentially empowering the oppressed: say, off-the-shelf "big toy" drones made some difference in the Ukraine war.
How do you know your brain isn’t just clever statistics and a language model where it picks the next word?

I talk to lots of normal people and they aren’t really that different than this. Regurgitating something they saw on the news coupled with whatever logical fallacies and biases they have accumulated in their lifetime and from their environment that they want to throw in. Yet we are so certain they are sentient…
I was hooked the firs time I saw it, but I love time travel and like the movies the other guys who made that made. I also like that it was a very small scoped movie in that it was basically one guy doing experiments in trying to figure something out.

It isn't an action movie but might be right up the alley of a kid who reads Asimov, at least it would have been up my alley as a kid when I was reading Asimov.
That makes sense, and it would be cool to have.

In most of the open source circles I run in, people are pretty openly hostile to anything web3, so they probably would opt to stay on their alternative hosting platforms.

But perhaps there are enough web3 people to use it? I’m curious to see how it plays out and what kind of development takes place on there.

How do you think the bounty will play out, by the way? Will whatever is developed be open source? Who do you think will oversee maintenance?
Thank you for sharing. This is exactly the kind of problem that centralised social networks give us, but which most people will not understand because for most people this will not happen.

I think it is important that we solve the problem of centralised social networks.

And I think Nostr has the right idea. Nostr differs from ActivityPub in that identity is not tied to the instance that you use.

To quote someone else:

> Nostr uses a public key to identify users, while ActivityPub utilizes a more conventional user account system. ActivityPub user accounts are based on domain names, which can be controlled by third-party entities. Nostr's identification system is more decentralized, as it does not rely on domain names controlled by outside parties.

https://dri.es/nostr-love-at-first-sight

I’m sorry to hear about your experience with GitHub banning your account and the stars, issues, PRs, comments and so on that you lost.

Hopefully in the future when a truly decentralised alternative to GitHub exists, other people can avoid that kind of experience.

An alternative to GitHub, in the shape that Jack Dorsey has put a bounty on here.
Getting Things Done, One Thing at a Time (2005)
"Maybe it's man-made, maybe it's not, but I'm not willing to take the risk for my children." That kind of thing?

Climate change skepticism is borne of social engineering. Probably need to fight for with fire.
Everyone’s rock bottom is relative. And however low you are now, it can get lower. Break up with your therapist and get a new one if it’s not helping, but you need to want it to work. Stop drinking alcohol for now, it’ll just make everything feel worse.
ZK-Snark Concepts Explained Like You’re 15
I can't help seeing this as anything but a race to the bottom. In call centers, those sticking to the script get promoted for doing what they are told, and because usually handle a case more "efficiently" than someone who tries to actually solve the problem. and chatgpt will just be the even cheaper version
This comment looks like it was written by ChatGPT!
You're aware how popular the emotionally unstable Bing was in some circles? There's definitely people who want that, at least as one available option.
Great film! That was my first Tom memory that came to mind as well.
That’s definitely true, but in my experience the data update is the 80% use case.
In light of the current top comment thread [1], I'm glad the state of browser APIs is holding back this particular "innovation". And I wonder if the friction of distributing and installing desktop apps is actually a good thing, even though it's affecting my current (non-AccessKit) project. It means you have to be really sure that what you're doing deserves to exist outside the good constraints of the browser.

I'm not a fan of VR in general. Some of us aren't comfortable navigating the physical world, and we don't want an emulation of the physical world to infect the digital (or more accurately, hypertext) world that we love and consider our true home. As Jakob Nielsen said in 1998, the Internet can be better than reality [2].

[1]: for posterity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35020429

[2]: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/better-than-reality-a-funda...
Qt is not turning into a commercial project. It has always been a project which is dual licensed under GPL (and later some of the modules were also licensed under LGPL) and a commercial license.

It's just that the Qt company always tries to make it non-clear that Qt is not open source to drive their sales.

Regarding bloat, Qt is quite modular and if you want just the widgets you only need QtBase and none of the additional modules.
No ? I can easily use a React <LiveComponent websocketUrl="" /> to have a dynamic live area.
Thanks for checking it out.

You could play with the QT_SCALE_FACTOR environment variable to fix the scaling issue at least. Something like this could work:

$ QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2 python procal.py

As for the colors, that's probably something this tool should handle. I'll take a look to see if this is an easy fix.
I was confused about the movie you were talking about - in “her” yeah there’s this scene, but the screen is black (and it’s more uncomfortable than anything else).

Parent can always watch first. 12yo is middle school right? 8th grade? I doubt this would be a 12yr olds first exposure to this kind of thing (and the context of the movie’s story is not a bad place for it).

Rereading the OPs request they mention “adult language” in the matrix so you’re probably right that my recs won’t be a good fit.