skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What ought to be has no relevance to what is

Then why even argue?

But that's besides the point. If a law is unenforceable, it doesn't really matter. You could create a law mandating everyone wear green socks on Tuesdays, and see how many people comply. Or (looking to what is as you wish) how many people enjoy a puff of a joint despite it being illegal in most places?

Or remember the US banning the export of cryptography algorithms? How well did that go?

The state has guns but even they have limitations if I decide to copy a few words off a page in private among my friends. Same if I send them a few bytes using HTTP/SMTP/whatever.
indeed, these things have been existing for a while.

Garmin has a nice Varia radar to show you cars coming from behind.

But the use case is pretty slim, and the added value hard to find.

-> Would you need to rely on an AI to avoid cars while being on a bike ? A bike isn't a car that needs AI, because drivers texts and are distracted. You can't be distracted on a bike (or you fall instantly)

You have eyes, and you need to keep balance anyway. Also, a bike can't brake or change directions on its own, best it can do is flash an alarm. And you don't need a flashing light to hear a reckless driver going 7000rpm at an intersection.
So AI to detect cars is useless.

-> self locking bike ? Who can trust that ? car manufacturer already did that (poorly), it made an auto theft spree. And I'm not sure most drivers care anyway. So you can just lock your bike yourself in 30 seconds.

-> GPS tracking ? trackers already exist. However, I haven't seen a lot of frequent bike users caring about them. They cost dozens of bucks at worst, and nobody buy these. Just lock your bike with a U lock to avoid theft.

-> belt drive instead of chain ? Who cares ?

-> LED lighting all around ? Yeah, maybe. It's the same as having lights and reflective tires. As most users can't bother, so it's great to have the bike pre-fitted with these.

-> ebike battery to charge a phone ? It seems to be a feature that some users expect. But I wouldn't buy a bike to charge my phone. I have a charger at the office.

-> *optional accessories including fenders and a rear rack* ? come on, that's the most valuable features for a city bike. Why is this optional ?

This bike seems like a publicity stunt, or a bike for not-so-frequent riders...

I'm eager to see if they review priorities, for further versions.
A good way to implement this would be to have payouts from lawsuits come out of their pensions instead of from taxpayers.
You have to be really plastered to not ride a bike any more. Like a lot, a lot.
>That's 33 packets of Splenda or 5 bottles of prime energy drink assuming a 200:1 ratio compared to Gatorade's sugar. Hardly extreme.

That seems extremely extreme to me but as a fan of water so >0 Primes and/or Splenda packets per day every day seems extreme so I may lack context.
OpenAI CEO warns that THE TORMENT NEXUS could be misused for nefarious purposes
Which is good news, as we here in Georgia also have seen an explosion of stink bugs...
Could someone do a study on the short term and long term effects of vaccines please, instead of this nonsense?
> you're constantly revising past mistakes, doing new things and all the while you have coworkers who are helping you- they don't want to wait for you to make a mistake, they want to help you get it right the first time if you need the help.

I genuinely don't think most of workplace actually reassemble this ideal. Sometimes you learn ... plenty of times you do something repetitive. Sometimes you don't even learn about own bugs (hello agile). And sometimes they give you great advice and plenty of time they just don't.
> I can't think of a single shooter where reloading is anything different from just physically doing a reload action like you would with a real gun.

I'm fairly confident that more people have experience reloading video game guns (just press Square) vs. the motions required to reload a real gun.

I know that when I'm playing Pavlov, every time I spawn with a new gun, I have to relearn how to reload it (and then die surrounded by all the clips I've dropped).
You will still have to go through exchanges to turn it back into cash, and you are taking on the risk of managing the wallet securely.
yup, I've personally stopped worrying about Windows support since WSL-2. It makes things much simpler for most people / projects.

The idea that dependencies can run any script at install time has always seemed problematic to me. Node seems to have many less than ideal design decisions that we are now stuck with
As someone who mostly does small hobby projects I do really like how easy the packaging is in Python and JS is. To get started you literally just do “npm i” or “pip install” whereas Maven and Gradle are a bit of a pain to configure in comparison
> the personnel conveying the information believe it to be an indication of bad intent

Oh man do we have a generation w/ communication problems. News is a spectrum, and the whole point of sharing internally is to learn more so when shared externally the information is _useful_.
Nice, thanks for the link. Those new docs do look great!

I wanted to note that I'm not asking you to build this, I'm more sharing my use-case in case it's helpful feedback.

What would really be amazing for me is a build-time image processing pipeline. Any images I use for the static site are already present in the repo (none are user-supplied or come from object storage, etc). Since all the image info is present at build/export time, it would be amazing if the image processing were done locally during the build and then the next/Image tags would instead of invoking server-side code, generate the static <img> code necessary to reference the different versions (such as srcset, sizes, etc)[1]. There is at least one open source project to do that, but at least when I last tried it, it was essentially dead on the vine. I searched around but couldn't find any solutions, which was pretty disappointing. I did end up shipping the app and just manually pipelined those images and hacked out the <img> tags instead of using the component, but if I had more than a handful in the site that wouldn't scale too well.

Anyway, thanks for what you've done with next.js! it's really an incredible project and you've been an important part of moving the web forward.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Multimed...
>A bit of refinement on that thought. In America, inner-city schools are mixed bag. If you live in someplace like Cambridge, schools tend to be good. Boston is a mixed bag. Same is true for other adjacent cities. However if you go to places like Westford, Newton, Wellesley which are very high earner high value properties, the schools tend to be consistently very good. Then you start moving into more rural places in Massachusetts like Pepperell, Townsend, Athol and again the schools are more like inner-city schools, underfunded and not very good quality.

How much of that is the quality of the schools and how much of that is just richer parents who can/will pick up the slack in the event that the school system doesn't do the job as well as they want it done?

If stats on median and per capita income are to be believed then the kid from Wellsley has a huge leg up on the kid from Athol even if you assume they get the same education.
And conspiracy theories is one of those places where bullshit asymmetry is a large problem. The vast majority of actors are arguing in bad faith, and attempting to determine if the individual is arguing in good or bad faith requires an immense amount of energy in itself. Simply put attempting to entertain anyone here will almost always lead to failure. This then leads to people thinking that every conspiracy theory is worth ignoring which leads to another type of failure in the cases they are not.
>> write a function to check if a string is a palindrome.

outside of an intern or junior these types of questions are such garbage. Do your teams write a lot of trivial, isolated functions in the day to day?
No. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
Ironically you get motion sickness on a real plane, as a passenger, for the opposite reason... you can feel the forces, but you can't really see the motion.
This write-up is pretty confusing, because it doesn't address the actual legal issue or what happened in the court system earlier. That's covered in the actual petition: https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Cert-Petition_FINA..., and the decision the first time this case was before the Supreme Court: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-546_7mip.pdf

The Question Presented is:

> This case returns after remand from Brownback v. King, 141 S. Ct. 740 (2021), where this Court flagged for future review the question presented:

> Whether the Federal Tort Claims Act’s judgment bar, 28 U.S.C. 2676, which this Court has repeatedly said functions in much the same way as the common- law doctrine of res judicata, nevertheless operates to bar claims brought together in the same action.

The actual question before the Supreme Court is an odd procedural issue. King sued the police officers, raising FTCA and Bivens claims for constitutional violations. The district court dismissed both claims. King appealed only the Bivens claims to the Sixth Circuit, which found that the officers did not have immunity under federal law and allowed that claim to proceed.

Back in the district court, however, the government invoked Section 2676, a provision of the FTCA that bars subsequent litigation involving the same facts after a decision on the FTCA claim. The government argued that the unappealed dismissal of the FTCA claim barred the Bivens claims from proceeding.

The first time around, the Supreme Court held that the FTCA's judgment bar could be triggered by a dismissal (for weird reasons specific to the FTCA), but left the question open as to whether the bar could apply to another claim in the same action. (In this case, whether dismissal of the FTCA claim could bar the Bivens claim.) The Sixth Circuit decided that the section 2676 bar could apply to other claims brought in the same action. So now King is seeking to have the Supreme Court decide that question.
Every time this happens at Amazon, I picture Gary Oldman's Zorg character in The 5th Element.

Lackey: "Excuse me, sir. The council is worried about the economy heating up. They wondered if it'd be possible to fire 500000. Maybe from one of the smaller companies where no one would notice..."

Zorg: "Fire one million."

Lackey: "But 500000... One million. Fine, sir. Sorry to have disturbed you."
I never considered this perspective. I appreciate you ;)
> building new metro lines is pretty much impossible in London for historical reasons

Didn’t they open a new one last year?
Does GPT learn from what we input? Namely, if it is incorrect and I correct it, does it change the future answers based on new info?
GP of my comment was specifically talking about the US.
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You can remotely work for a German company tho.

They even will accept english if you're a good developer as lingua franca instead of german. YMMV
Outside peak hours they are allowed on the sub-surface lines (Circle etc) as those have larger trains and simpler emergency evacuation.

It's still not something you'd want to do very often. I think I did it once with a new bicycle that I'd bought from the other side of London, where the route home would have been long and completely new to me.

Map of allowed lines: https://content.tfl.gov.uk/cycles-on-public-transport.pdf
Both of my kids play Fortnite, as do I on occasion. During COVID, they had concerts (Marshmallow), movie nights, and BLM-adjancent lectures. Anyone who had an account could fire up their rig, jack in, and attend--even with friends.

This is one of the many metaverses. Minecraft is a pretty readily available one too. Neither required VR gear, either.
Is this really much faster than just writing these things? My latest integration with 4 endpoints took around 3-4 hours with tests ? I feel most of the work comes from your business model and making the fitting which you would still need to do unless im missing something entirely?
Could an old timer help me out?

I was involved in Second Life around the turn of the century. I've been ignoring the metaverse since giving up on SL a long time ago. Obviously the resolution, frame rate, and software integration in metaverse will be somewhat better than SL; aside from that, can anyone tell me the difference between modern metaverse and SL, also how does that difference translate into profitable sales?

The new hype wave for SL sounds like someone hyping up the "new" idea of a CLI, and me feeling, uh, I think I've seen this before...
Yeah and I wonder how futile that is.

Looking at what happened with stable diffusion, there's no way this can be kept under wraps. Weights WILL leak and trigger a cambrian explosion of open source innovation.

Their moat, if any, will be in the boring things: regulatory capture, integration, whatever you call Oracle's business model of "pay through the nose and blame us if something goes wrong". And at that point it'll be just any boring regular tech company.
No single point of control over the means of production.

If Microsoft have cheap labor from bots, and you do too, it levels the playing field dramatically. You won’t have to pay money for access to similar capabilities

The Luddite’s were angry because they were replaced by machines they couldn’t afford to own themselves and profit from. With open source machines, this doesn’t happen. We all have machines and then we all have more equal opportunity.
Apparently the CPU in this SBC violates the RISC-V ISA pretty badly. [1]

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA++6G0Do001Bo+kxhUNz5T937TYU-K5...
It's a black box, they might or might not do something now, they might or might not do it later, in the meantime the data is stored somewhere for god know how long. It might get hacked, there might be a bug allowing people to access other users history, &c.

It doesn't seem "ridiculous" to me that companies issue official statements and guidelines about what they want/not want their employees to share with a third party software. Tech illiterate people have absolutely no idea what is ok or not to share and what/where their data go.
People tend to forget that it was Oracle alongside IBM, that joined Sun in the major Java push before anyone else. See Network Computer, first Swing based GUI for DBAs, SP in Java,...

Both of which also have had their own JVM implementations.
You can license your fork under a different compatible license (which is most other licenses, in the case of MIT). They can't prevent people from using the versions that were already released under MIT though (and continue being released under MIT by Gitea).
Only within the context of the conversation
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> 10:45 a.m.: The spider was permitted to bite for 10 seconds.

This part kind of clouds the data. He held it with foreceps against his skin for 10 seconds, which is far longer than a normal bite. It's not really representative of the bite you'd get if you put your hand in a woodpile or something.
Fishing with nets vs spears, same idea. Both can be useful depending on your circumstances and goals.
I can’t stand search in the settings app. The results are in decipherable to me. It seems like I get 15 results that have almost identical text and have to click through them to figure out which was the right one.

Part of this extends from how Apple is implementing security. There are at Lear half a dozen security and accessibility options that all hide similar app lists.
> The worst will be that when somebody, sometimes actually creates an actual immersive small-to-be-worn VR/AR glass - one that will be very much unlike the current generation of headsets - journalists along with these companies will trumpet "this was the idea we had, the product was there but before its time".

I had an AR startup in the "pre-Pokemon Go" times (2015). Explaining what we were doing and what AR was capable of became significantly harder after Niantic launched their second game (remember Ingress?).

The main reason was that the definition of AR changed from "augmenting reality" to "3d floaters". It was much easier to work with people who had no prior experience with AR as we didn't have to help them unlearn whatever marketing bullshit they read at the time. Now I think that sound is the most immersive AR platform.

Incidentally, we had a project called Metaverse as well. Let's say it was smaller in scope and much more "boring" though (boring is good, I like boring).
Yet another feature Android will miss out.
We keep reading these articles which raise alarm. Then we see responses that range from good for the planet to apocalypse.

Are there S. Koreans on this forum who can contribute their anecdotal experience with declining population?
The government isn't a person, but I can sue them.

Hell, I could sue companies before the supreme court determined they're people for election campaign fund purposes.
New analysis suggests climate coverage downplays livestock’s impact
Wow, sometimes I do feel like this happens to me, but I assure myself the fact that I always (nearly and if I have time) weigh my decisions accurately. And if something goes to shit I can blame it on, well, still on me :(
That's the gist of "Project Bluebeam," but I think there's also a much more benign explanation, which is that DIA wants to corral the people most susceptible to conspiracy theories into a group that they control. They saw how Q-Anon played out and decided to get on top of it before our adversaries could.
What paranoid conspiracies do you think are happening in an office kitchen?

Wait until you hear about the shady stuff that happens in restaurants or supermarkets...
Wow, what a great changelog. I wish more software projects would take time to present their work to users like that.
There are always CEO retreats/meetups and founders groupchats (think SVB bank run). Also Apple is in a different league and a singular company.

It has also been proven there had been collusion in regards to poaching employees before - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-google-settlement/a...

Why not this? Doesn't have to be a collusion setup that looks like UN resolution vote.
Factory-Sealed Original iPhone Sells for $55,000 at Auction
Why do you feel sad? Apple Silicon Macs are fairly open hardware, I see it as a win that there are ARM64 machines now that can run Linux and are competitive with x86_64.
Doubt-worshipping ultimately seeks to reinforce the doubts and finds ways to continue doing so, and spread.

Having a healthy dose and harmony of pragmatic realism but still a willingness to dive into the unknown to try with an open mind and heart is another thing.

Innovation that's accessible for the many is often only possible from a mindset of possibility exploring and developing capabilities.
For now. Over time, low fertility families will die, their genetic and cultural material will disappear, and the remaining human population will be dominated by high fertility families. There are extremely strong feedback mechanisms that play out pretty quick. Survivors survive!
This feels like it could easily be abused if you can get a model to output code that is "pretty close". You could use it to try and invalidate human written copyright as well.
> We could add explicit sync to them, but that would break backwards compatibility…

At some point it would be good to break it and get rid of implicit sync in the Wayland use case. Keeping it forever is not worth it.
They did. That was what lead to me buying my first headset; I tried a demo of the Oculus Rift at Best Buy. I'm pretty sure they did demos for the Rift S and Quest 1/2 as well once those came out. I agree it wasn't nearly as visible as it should have been though, and I don't think they were offered for very long.
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"No, copyright violation is and always been an act of forgery."

I concede. This is the better description.
I think if there is any intentional misdirection going on, it's for a far more mundane goal. Governments and militaries are flying all sorts of weird, but perfectly terrestrial, craft, for all sorts of purposes, benign and some probably malicious. There will be less public discussion of strange flying things if reporting one gets you automatically assumed to be a crazy alien nut. Commercial airline pilots see a lot of things they don't report through the usual pubic channels. I think some may prefer it that way. </tinfoil hat>
The population is only 20% of the problem -> look at Berlin, it's population has grown 0.3% over the past 30 years, but the house prices have gone stratospheric just like they have in every other major city.

40% of the housing problem is whatever the fuck is going on in the banking system -> it enables us to commit all of our life savings for the rest of our productive lives to pay for a roof over our heads. It's like a hostage situation with the highest bidder.

> You would probably have to demolish large areas of London and replace them with high-density housing to match demand - but obviously that's never going to happen.

So true, my friend is not even allowed to raise your roof by 20 cm to create an extra room in the loft.

The planning system here is so crazy, I am confident it's like 40% of the problem.
I started blogging about 12 years ago as a way to gain some visibility for my skills within my field, data journalism. One post I wrote, which simply explained how to set up Python on Windows 7, somehow got indexed very high in Google search results and ended up generating hundreds of thousands of page views. More interestingly, most of the comments on the post were very complimentary of my ability to simply explain the topic.

That got me thinking: Why not write a whole book about a tech topic I enjoy? So, I started doing that. It took about seven years, but the positive feedback from my blogging gave me inspiration.

https://nostarch.com/practical-sql-2nd-edition
It's going to be truly exciting when we can run something as powerful as GPT-4 on home hardware. I'll be so interested in trying it out with the brakes removed and no "Sorry Dave, I can't do that" messages.
I’m not sure, it probably depends on the scale of the scam but running your own infrastructure will be quite expensive if you’re not using it a lot
> Prediction: a big enough network, well enough trained, is capable of simulating with arbitrary fidelity, an arbitrarily complex system, to the point that lack of fidelity hits a noise floor.

That is a pretty good description of human brains/bodies. You could also say that quantum physics is where our noise floor might be.
There's a third: the net.

Always send a polite response to recruiters (but scripted). Asking for more info about the job, and concrete comp numbers. Serious recruiters won't hesitate to give it out (keep in mind they get a portion of it!). Body shops won't share that info but at this point it's ok to ignore them.
SVB was particularly poorly run
I continue to await your wisdom. Please, O Oracle, bewstow upon me my own thoughts.
I cycle in areas with ice and snow have done so all my life, all I do is lower my speed and my saddle. That means when there is ice I can always use my feets. This is more stable than walking, in wintertime I will stop and help pedestrians over vast swaths of ice.

I have managed to skid out once and that was with studded tires.
I was just telling someone else how great Woodpecker is.

The protocol that Actions runners use to report logs/job statuses back to Gitea is an open protocol that maybe one day woodpecker could use it for enhanced integration with Gitea, so you could use woodpecker but have the experience be next to your code.

Disclaimer: I am listed as a maintainer of Woodpecker. I am a also part of the Gitea TOC, and am employed to work on Gitea
I don't understand why the fed would not raise rates?

The stock market isn't it's concern. It's goal is to kill inflation for the long haul.