skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont know. The CBC has a very clear political bent to it. It‘s national reporting is clearly from the angle of the upper-middle class who live in Toronto. Either that or just regurgitating the major outlets in the US.

So if you mean “America would benefit from a government run media outlet that mostly supports one party” then i’d have to disagree.
Magical annotations? Do you mean decorators? Or maybe types? Whether they're present at all depends on the code base, and most probably have neither.

[i*i for i in range(10)] is hardly terse or cryptic.

Python regular expressions are much like regular expressions anywhere else, so you're not really criticising Python there. You might need extra backslashes if you were trying to do them without raw strings (r'\s*' == '\\s*'), but that's hardly unique to Python either.
Sounds like they need to use a lua function to ensure that pop and push operation remains atomic within the redis instance?

For example: spopsadd

local src_list = ARGV[1]
local dst_list = ARGV[2]
local value = redis.call('spop', src_list)
if value then -- avoid pushing nils
redis.call('sadd', dst_list, value)
end
return value
As always, take every comment with a grain of salt.

Honestly, I think this is refreshing. If anything, it's an acknowledgement that the info gathered and shared by social media to their respective governments is indeed, very useful.

Sure, it might be hypocritical. But it's a win, either way.
http://archive.today/jMsh1
> Even the very air is absolutely inundated with life. Mostly with fungal spores, but we all choose to not think about that.

Anybody who's tried making sourdough in two very far away homes is probably acutely aware of this haha
Does Apple's preference for the Delegate pattern touch on this?
It’s not a system that holds up to an adversary. It’s at most a semi-voluntary restriction.
Reminds me of this silly quote from The Office (US)

> I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.
> - Andy Bernard
If I had a choice I’d stay in a hotel. I can always get a good rate on a hotel on Priceline or hotels.com and frequently find some place that is cool in one way or another. One time my wife and I went to a family party in the suburbs around WDC and we stayed at a trashy hotel that was redeemed because it was in walking distance of the outermost metro station so we could go in and enjoy the national mall and DuPont circle. Sometimes I like the posher hotels run by the Marriott group. My best AirBNB experience was in Chinatown NYC, finding the place was a cross between a James Bond movie and The Blade Runner but it would have no fun if anything went wrong…. Then there’s the time I spent a week in Montreal for work and ended up at the ultimate party house…
The character limit arguably made twitter what it is. On the other hand, people were regularly circumventing it by either splitting a text into multiple tweets or by tweeting pictures of text. Neither a pleasent experience either.
Deciding that you are going to cover one specific thing, and only one specific thing, and ignore absolutely everything else, is neutral?
It's perfectly legal to do what they did. If you and Musk don't understand the law it's not OpenAIs fault. Musk has shown quite clearly he's a business idiot with his signing to buy Twitter foregoing due diligence, trying to walk, and a court about to hand him his butt making him jump in.

Both of you can now ask ChatGPT to explain the law to you and it will.
That may have been critical to forming the network but not for maintaining it. As long as the consumer UX is good (which is a big assumption I have no idea about), the creators will do whatever they need to to reach that audience. You lose some at the margins but that's probably low-quality content anyway.
That’s the repo with the code to train the model to get the weights, not the trained weights.
the dollars are lower as a result of their actions increasing profits

they only need to increase prices to deal with the increase in costs, and profits represent an increase above and beyond that necessary amount, which in economic terms is "not cool, dude"
While this was the southern district of new York, the 9th circuit court of appeals ruled on a similar issue with Vidangel on 2016. They would buy DVDs and let people pay to watch a censored version, even going so far as to purchase a physical version for every one that was streamed for censorship, and they claimed fair use. They were ruled against and filed for chapter 11.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_v._VidAngel#:~:text=J...

I'm sure someone will reply to tell us how it's not really that similar but I thought there were some parallels
I would agree with this if the issue were movies or games, but most people know that you can Google "[book title] pdf" and get a free copy. The small file sizes mean that piracy sites don't need to rely on torrents and can just offer a direct download. I frequently see piracy sites in search results just from searching the title of a book. The barrier to pirating a book is extremely low.
>Chappelle doesn't do digital tickets, but on the way out there was almost a crush in the crowd as people lined up to get their pouches unlocked. We ended up forcing open a fire escape and went home with our phones still in pouches, I ended up unlocking the pouches at home (you just gotta beat it open, or use a magnet)

Since you stole the pouches the system can't work that well given the company lost money from your theft.
Underinvestment in water is a really big deal, we need that stuff to live.

I don't think privatization is the way to do it though.
That is how it will always be when someone sue the government or a government branch. Since goverments are funded by tax money, government mistakes, mismanagement and violation of the law will be paid through the same budget as everything else.

When people sue a public company, the people who in the end must hold the people responsible will be the share holders. When government are sued, it is the voters that must hold the people responsible. If a local government is found guilty in a court of law and forced to pay millions in damages, the money need to be either from raised taxes or reduced services. Both of those should be strong points for the opposition to gain votes and kick out the people who are responsible.

Where I live, when the government is found guilty and forced to pay out it usually also result in the current local leader responsible for the situation being forced out. Mismanagement is not a effective way to gain votes, so if the leader don't step down volunteerly the party may just want to replace them anyway for someone without such baggage during next election. Maybe US politics and the system around political donations makes such results less common?
Alt-right don't call themselves that. They simply parrot the same beliefs and principles until those beliefs and principles are applied to themselves.
I have an extremely bad short term memory. If you tell me something and I don’t write it down or think about it intensely for a while, I’ll forget it in minutes.

I write everything down because of this. Bullet points, paragraphs etc.
Blockchain! Er wait, wrong hype cycle.
In general Online Rounds of coding competitions are no longer going to work. As GPT-4 had been shown to outperform humans on the coding competition tasks. You can have it assisted, but this quickly becomes a “who can afford more compute” competition.

RIP coding competitions.

Incidentally, World Finals: up to 2020, it was held in a location in the US or Europe, and has been online since. Pretty incredibly, Gennady Korotkevich has won the title every year since 2014 – except once.
I think Ukraine is an excellent example. Contrast the media coverage of the USA/EU vs Russia proxywar in Ukraine vs the USA/Saudi vs Iran proxywar in Yemen. Both are horrible wars with untold civilian suffering. For obvious reasons one has daily coverage the other literally zero mentions.

Another part of the Ukraine conflict that is strangely absent is that Ukraine has been in a civil war since 2014 when a CIA backed coup toppled their government. It is always presented as if one day for no reason Putin invaded a peaceful Ukraine.
The biggest problem is being advertised to on a game I've already paid for and specifically in an MMO, being advertised to on a game I've already paid for and pay a subscription to. But y'see, it's not just being advertised to in the client UI or when I go to the website and there's an ad for a cosmetic item being 50% off for a limited time or whatever. It's going around in-game and seeing cash shop items everywhere acting as an advertisement that I can buy that item with real-world money.

Then there loot box drops like in CS:GO, or when a game adds in little inconveniences like limited inventory tabs, character limits, or games that add a grind and a way to avoid that grind via cash (XP buffs and the like).

It also sucks when the cash shop items take away from in-game content. Pretty sure this was an issue in WoW not too long ago when Blizzard added cash shop items that looked better and had better features than the in-game items you had to earn via raiding.

Then there are games like The Sims where you pay full price for the base game and then there are like a dozen different DLC packs of varying quality. I see they now made the game free to play (I paid full price when it was released) with a subscription option but I can also go to the DLC, add all of it to my cart, and pay $1,044.37 to get all the content. Awesome!

But really, the worst offender is CS:GO. You get FREE boxes in-game, pay for keys to open the free boxes you got, and you get those addicting animations and sounds. Literal slot machines being advertised to adults and children every day. How this hasn't been banned everywhere yet is beyond me. Egregious and greedy trash
Coinbase's staking service is Coinbase running the validator for you, and giving you a share of any profits.
That was a specific call out to Lua without naming it. Definitely one of the regrettable missteps of the language.
I am an anime fan but when I find hololive to be squicky as hell.
CEO of Replit: How Bounties Will Change the Future of Software Engineering
their business got half a million in funding. I don't know what their bank account looks like.
Is this just ebook lending? Is that popular among local libraries?

I thought Kindle/Nook/Apple books/etc completely dominated that market. Reading PDFs on computers/tablets for long form stuff never made much sense to me. I'm curious if local libraries get much traction from their digital libraries.

I could see audiobooks getting locked down being a big hit though. Audible has a monopoly on that harder than ebooks ever experienced.
This might be true for most people, but those with billions have the means to control policy, technological advancement, incentives, and how that technology gets used. Small picture, sure, random walk, but zoom out and there is definitely a path most people are following without knowing.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/22/book-publishers-wont-sto... is a good overview (from a day or two before the judgement).

>Every part of that has been deemed legal. Copyright law already has first sale rights, written directly into the law and allow for the lending or reselling of copyright-covered works without a license or permission. Similarly libraries are given explicit rights to make copies, so long as those collections are made available to the public. On top of that, courts have determined, multiple times, that book scanning itself is fair use for libraries.

>So, literally each separate component of what is happening with Controlled Digital Lending has already been deemed to be legal and exactly what we expect libraries to do.

>To counter this, publishers (and their supporters, which unfortunately include some authors) argue that (1) this interferes with the market for licensed ebooks, and (2) that there is a real difference in lending out the digital scans: that they don’t deteriorate the way that physical books do.
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Decommodified water is just taking water from the commode and recycling it for drinking. The classic toilet-to-tap purification program.
Alternatively we can call it restraining our masters when they run amok. They're the same mob that we are. If the law goes against common sense / justice then the fuck with it. Why should we suffer a consequence of some lunatic with damaged brain.
Ok so as an another commenter mentionned:
1. Spare time to cook food from scratch is a class thing. Most peeps have to work stupid hours.
2. To go to a warehouse and buy wholesale, you need #1 and make sure your petrol cost offset the savings which imho is absolutely unreasonable.
Wow, you’d think automatic unlocking, to save staff time and get people out of the venue when the show was over, would be the first functionality that you’d be looking for in this sort of thing.
Building a Foldable Rover
If fine tuning a small model, which can be run on consumer hardware once trained, provides quality results, why use a larger base model?
Tesla's market cap and consumer sentiment metrics don't look like he's winning people over any more.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/22/book-publishers-wont-sto...

>Every part of that has been deemed legal. Copyright law already has first sale rights, written directly into the law and allow for the lending or reselling of copyright-covered works without a license or permission. Similarly libraries are given explicit rights to make copies, so long as those collections are made available to the public. On top of that, courts have determined, multiple times, that book scanning itself is fair use for libraries.

>So, literally each separate component of what is happening with Controlled Digital Lending has already been deemed to be legal and exactly what we expect libraries to do.

>To counter this, publishers (and their supporters, which unfortunately include some authors) argue that (1) this interferes with the market for licensed ebooks, and (2) that there is a real difference in lending out the digital scans: that they don’t deteriorate the way that physical books do.
The concept of "owning" a book digitally is already on shaky ground, since most large publishers only sell licenses for accessing ebooks. You're not actually purchasing a copy in perpetuity like a physical book. Naturally these licenses are entirely on the publishers' terms.

In practice this means publishers can revoke access licenses for all sorts of arbitrary reasons, alter the content of ebooks already purchased, or plenty of other shady practices, with little recourse available to the reader.

Plus it means they can force libraries to keep paying repeated, marked-up licensing fees for the privilege of lending out ebooks. Much better deal for the publishers than the physical library lending model!

I don't blame IA for trying to find a way to liberate library lending from that racket.
NPR has biases, these biases while independent of (and sometimes overlapping) the policy platforms of major political parties, they are still biases.
The age of men is over. The time of the bot has come.
Of all the "evil" things one could do with gargantuan wads of cash, having it sit in a bank account is just about the most innocuous thing I can think of to do with it. It seems like a wise, cautious move actually, and it seems like it'd be bad to punish businesses for being cautious with their money
It's very popular among local libraries (at least in the US and UK) -- Libby/Overdrive being the main player, followed by Hoopla.
U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves – over subsea cables
I was impressed when we pulled off a victory by GPT correctly connecting Wimbledon to Grass+London the round after it failed to choose London from MI6.

Some of its clues are hilariously bad though. I lost a game immediately because I chose Triangle+Star for geometry instead of Triangle+Thumb(?!)

Still cool though.
Racing drones are used as improvised missiles in Ukraine
Not sure if the subject interests you, but this is a well-made Podcast that's still trickling out:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-witch-trials-of-j-...
Musk's political views are from the alt-right spectrum i.e. has publicly railed against RINOs, mainstream conservatives etc.

And he has assembled a team to build an OpenAI rival that aligns with this:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/fighting-woke-ai-mus...
Thanks, for catching that, fixed.
> Ah, but how old are you?

The anecdote in the parent comment was from 2014, nearly a decade ago
Legally speaking, what the Internet Archive was doing is exactly what copyright law prohibits: making and distributing an unauthorized copy of the book.

The first sale doctrine (which libraries depend on) says you're allowed to to sell, rent out or give away your own physical property, even if that property happens to be an embodiment of a copyrighted work. It doesn't say anything about it being legal to make another copy of a work, and then distribute it while you keep the original one for yourself.
Sounds like a weird maxim of commercial real estate.
Topcoder will also be having their final TCO this year: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/113201

Google Code Jam and TCO were the two biggest onsite competitive programming event that's not targeted at students.

This is a huge blow to the sport.
Commodities are available in large quantities, consistent quality, and low prices from many suppliers.

This seems ideal for important necessities like water, housing, food etc.
Try to become a giant yourself - why not?
Not just California.

Here's an example from Canada - https://esemag.com/water/nestle-sells-canadian-bottled-water...

We can assume that Nestlé executives are sitting in Switzerland dreaming up where in the world they extract the most water from, put in a bottle, and reselling to the communities (and further afield) that they took the water from.
I had the same experience, but it was almost entirely due to the new podcasts NPR put out, and the content. Every single show has to have a chunk of time dedicated to race issues. Something like Planet Money I'm willing to just skip past, but most of them I just unsubscribed.
>hit minority pedestrians because their training data was woefully inadequate

What evidence led you to that conclusion? I have never heard that claim before.
"firms reacting normally" according to who?

I'd expect decent firms to not try to gouge customers who are already hurting at the time when they most are, but maybe "normal" means "sociopathic" in the context of amoral unrestricted capitalism
Very cogent explanation, and an important point that you highlight - factual real-world risk/threat model is far more important than hypothetical "the-world-is-burning" scenarios.

Having a correct threat model is the first step towards building reasonable security controls. But far too many are willing to pander to the "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway" [0] scenarios.

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=31...
very common in europe too. because more people go out to eat on sundays than on mondays
This is addictive but aggravating. I chose Space for the clue Planet and nope bomb card!
The relevant percentage is not "normal people who itemize" but "NPR contributors who itemize." Do you have that number?
This is definitely dependent on the group of people, but if you have like 2 or 3 people doing it, everyone ends up doing it. Nobody wants to talk to a person on their phone, even if they can multitask
See above, there are simply legal uncertainties about commercial use for users, so want to make sure anyone getting them knows this clearly. That said, you can recreate these weights for like $30.
children don't go to school on sunday, having the right to take sunday off instead of some other weekday is a benefit for families.
I didn't advocate for breaking the law. I said I disagreed with the whole thing. I was pointing out that the approach had worked in the past, because the previous poster had argued that "breaking [the law] before it has changed is risky and foolish, and does more harm than good."
California is easily close to that, when you add up Federal and State income taxes. As is New York.

Just look at the continued campaign to remove the $10,000 limit on State and Local Taxes. Where's that coming from?
This is a generic argument that could be used anytime a negative word is deployed. "That's just the world we live in, and they might not be able to help it, poor dears!" It's so soft it's difficult to find a hard point to attach an argument to, "nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so," rewritten in warm spit.
I’ve also never had my view literally blocked by someone holding up a phone, but I do consider it spoiling my view to have a little glowing screen held up right in front of me so i have to look past it to see the performance. It’s obnoxious. I suspect that’s what GP is referring to, as opposed to literally blocking the view.

No comment on the anger about comedians being offensive.
In 2008, the Treasury and Federal Reserve had a ton of ammo to use to provide liquidity. Since then, they have tried to inflate their way out of it using creative accounting and quantitative easing.

The reason this could be worse than 2008 is that those methods will not work as well.

Part of the reason SVB failed so fast was because they held a lot of long term government debt, mortgages etc.

When they tried to sell it to provide liquidity for deposits they found there were not many buyers for it.

Since 2008, foreign purchases of long term debt have dropped from many of the main credit countries with no real replacement other than the federal reserve.

If the Fed moves from a buyer of last resort to the only buyer then that is game over. QE won't help because it will cause inflation. Inflation will move people, foreign countries and institutional investors away from long term debt.

Basically a hyperinflationary environment with systemic bank failures all caused by a sovereign debt crisis. Before long just funding the Govt will be impossible because the debt will no longer be seen as safe as it once was.

The difference is that the collapse won't be as immediate as 2008. It can be much more of a controlled demolition, until the methods they have used stop working.

It all just has to collapse at some point and reach an equilibrium again. It's only a matter of time...
Why not remove the ability to set a key to the null value then? Raise an error in the compiler. It seems pretty undesirable to have undefined behavior in the language, and if high performance is one of your goals, remove the ability for users to do the low performance things.
I understand this is talking about water as a commodity, but I'd like to share another side of it.

Just finished a week motorbiking in Laos. It's currently incredibly hot and dry. They are at the end of dry season, but having lived in many climates with hot/dry - it still caught me off guard.

Many of the farms were bone dry - dust everywhere. Doesn't help that the regularly do 'slash & burn agriculture' where they're burning the forest, clearing it, planting their crops, and repeating after they exhaust the soil. We were constantly coming across areas on fire.

But no - that's not the issue. The government is corrupt there and is constantly selling the rights to build dams. There's no environmental survey before doing so - they're just cropping these things up all over the place; even where the return is very minimal. If there's a profit opportunity - it's there.

This is of course causing downstream rivers to run low, preventing water access to farms and villages that rely on it.

And the kicker: Laos doesn't even get the electricity generated - 90% of it is exported to neighboring countries like Thailand.

Just incredible to see.