skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I life in a european country, and to be honest, im shocked how many of the "old guard" politicians and diplomats consider the whole crisis just a temporary upheaval in the russia relations, that can be waited out before everything is normal again. Waiting to resume the careers as if nothing happened.

A quarter million people dead, because these corrupt non-show of a generation failed to act decisevly, hypnotized itself and after wakeup they do not have the decency to fade into the shadow, step back from all posts and make way for a new guard, ready to take decisive action.

So many dissapointments, especially among the pacifists and anti-imperialists.. intellectual & moral bankruptcy wherever you look.

Might aswell trash the last 50 years of nice words and nothing to show for it. The idea, for all these creatures of comfort to return after the conflict, from the dark and moist places they hid, and try to carry on playacting civilized makes me vomit. "Never again" they yell, while being usefull idiots for those who are at it again.

A majority of cowards, who think that power of believe alone will make them good at the end of history after all this. Im so sorry i wasted all those years listening to them, reading there books and actually believing them to have value beyond the "heating" of the pulped wood.
Why are you cherry picking immigrant groups?

What are the statistics for Poles, Italians, Russian Germans? Heck, what are the statistics for Vietnamese Germans?

The US has plenty of minority and immigrant groups for which convergence is... far from happening.
Why should you have an Instagram business account?
Tone doesn't come across that great here; people are of course allowed to like and hate whatever, I suppose that's what I was trying to get at with "to me it's wild," it's pretty close to what I mean -- if one thinks about it in the abstract it's kind of funny. And also (to get revealing) yeah, I kinda dig the booty-shaking of this sort, funny it doesn't resonate elsewhere.

I didn't mean to make that particular example the focus (and forgot perhaps where I was) -- but I stand on a broader idea: Superhero stuff as practiced in the movies today has made things very much less "adult/mature" in the literal senses of those words. They're "cartoons."

They end up being very simplistic childlike stories of GOOD v BAD, without a lot of grown-up nuance. So along with, e.g. philisophical stuff that you lose, you also lose what I think could properly be called "sexiness;" because there's nearly zero grownup treatment of human relationships, that includes the sexy ones?
They have gps tracking.

While petty criminals probably steal and scrap them, turning it into some sort of enterprise seems like it would not be worth the ease of being caught.
I completely agree with you. I have said it multiple times but I believe mismanagement through busy bodies and incompetence is actively and systematically impacting software engineering as an entire industry.
your supposition regarding a) and b) are pretty unconvincing, they're on the level of conspiracy theorists who say that a lack of evidence is just stronger evidence of the conspiracy

frankly your claims of equivalency are pretty unconvincing, too, but that's neither here nor there, since the topic is one specific side, not "both sides" or how you personally think they're equivalent

anyways, let's get back on topic to where we were before the whataboutism reared its ugly head (and we can both just pretend like you haven't been attacking the commenter themselves): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35397668
From inspired to inspiring: Damian Earley
To be clear: it's not all e-scooter, it's the free service ones.

Parisian can still own and use their own, but they're done with the ones being left on the ground randomly, being used in poor fashion (on the sidewalk, or with two/three people standing on one), being thrown in the river, ... And that's mostly caused by free services ones that you don't own and thus don't care if anything happens to it.

I don't live in Paris anymore but I fully agree with that decision. Especially since this is a city that is working its way into reclaiming the outdoor space for bicycle and pedestrians, you can imagine how poorly received are e-scooter abusing the sidewalk and making people unsafe.
I point my RSS reader at

https://arxiv.org/list/cs/new

which it clusters and filters based on my preferences. I see a lot of papers on 2d image generation plus a lot of stuff on 3d image generation using

https://www.matthewtancik.com/nerf

point clouds and related techniques which HN couldn’t give a damn about just as it doesn’t care about robotics (there is a lot of work on robots that can fold towels, snake robots that can go into holes, etc.)
Funny because getty will steal public domain images and charge you 200$ for it
For that matter, Australia as a whole--like some other low density areas like Alaska--actually has fairly concentrated population centers.
Browser makers always recommend feature detection (i.e. use a feature if it's available) over hacks like user-agent sniffing to selectively enable features. Web developers can't look in to a crystal ball and pre-emptively code around APIs with unexpected issues.
Lots of countries aren’t being affected by the land war, but are being affected by the US/EU sanctions on Russia. For example it’s exacerbating a major foreign currency shortage in Bangladesh: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/02/bangladesh-foreign-minister-...

> Meanwhile US relations with Europe would be at the lowest level since WW2, it would be seen as an utter abandonment and betrayal of our shared values, including US treaty guarantees on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine

If you’re referring to the Budapest agreement, it’s not a treaty. And other countries should educate themselves and understand that unilateral commitments by the President that aren’t ratified by Congress aren’t worth anything.
Given the progress, current trendline point to a possible future where AI content is indistinguishable from the "human touch". AI content may even be preferable and better than human produces content.

People are reacting to AI as it is right now without projecting where this technology is going in the future. Given the rate of progress in the past year, the scenario I describe is a possibility that is insane not to consider.
‘Hot Ones’ Was a Slow Burn All Along
> The economic value of mediocre and derivative work is plummeting. But the value of truly excellent and original work will become even more unique, more highly prized.

> A chasm between the third best and fourth best script writer, graphic designer, lawyer, etc. is just starting to open. ChatGPT might write the next Marvel movie but will never write the next Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Not my words. By Eric Peters CIO of One River Asset Management
The title is wrong. They voted to ban rental e-scooters only. If you have your own scooter, you are still allowed to use it.
I think for many people Facebook Marketplace has replaced Craigslist for them, but thats the only thing I can think of that is a comparable service. Craigslist is still pretty much the standard for online classifieds
Good for you… or not I guess if you have bigger issues than what OS to use. I really can’t tell.

Anyway, my biggest issue with Windows that pushed me away was the feeling of loosing control, caused by settings constantly being undone. So I solved it by dumping Windows.

By the sounds of it, you are still happy with it, so cool.
As an actual meatspace maker of oil paintings - AI excites me.

Someone can make a print generated by AI - and it will be beautiful I am sure.

So when someone wants a physical panting with impasto texture and painterly strokes… the “real” painters will for sure still make bank.

I mean - not me: I have only panted for 8 years and still “suck” - but I love it.

But Thomas McKnight will still paint his beautiful scenes and people will still buy them for what they are: art.

AI art is art.
Meatspace art is art.
Heck: I code for money. CODE is art. Software is art.
News sites have used automation to convert press releases and quoted other publications into articles for decades. Nothing new here.
Low altitude platforms like this excel when it comes to forms of ELINT and SIGINT. Interestingly, SIGINT these days refers to more pedestrian forms of radio communications and in certain cases radars. ELINT in many cases cannot be collected via satellite since ionized regions of the atmosphere occlude signals before they could even reach sensors.

Information on this incident is obviously heavily manipulated, but what I found interesting was once the US divulged a U2 was orbiting the object for some time (primarily because it was one of our only known platforms that could loiter at such a high altitude) TheDrive reported that as we were attempting to collect ELINT from the balloon the transmitters on the balloon were too powerful to jam [0].

I'm not a fan of politics here on HN, but I still maintain this as one of the biggest blows geopolitically to our national security in decades.

0 - https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/u-2-spy-planes-snooped...
Up in the Air - Video Chat Firing (2009) HD https://youtu.be/MIexe6aa14w
Scientists film deepest ever fish on seabed off Japan
As a Linux noob I decided to try Arch Linux 4 years ago because I wanted to actually learn how the various parts work that make out a whole Linux distro (things like the bootloader, systemd, various desktop environments etc). Other distros give you everything ready out of the box, which made it hard for me to actually dig deeper under the hood, because I had no clue where to start. With Arch Linux you more or less build a whole Linux system from the bottom up.

Following the Arch guides to get a fully working system was easy enough for a complete Linux noob like me. But you still need some basic knowledge about computing, for things like networking, file systems, drive partitioning and such. If you learned this knowledge from other operating systems then Arch Linux is fairly easy to setup by just following their guide.
first of all, it is pretty prepotent to deny someone else feelings straight out of the box. i am an artist and if someone would came with the same art-style i do on Blender with an industrial scale speed; with some text input that took 15 seconds to type and MY data is on it, it would feel like a rape.

and i do not think "i am too insignificant to make an impactful change in society" ... if everyone think(ed) like the quote, life probably would be worse?
Probably the one from this post will now be the likely answer.
Having come from a background of very bespoke tests for systems level software where conventional unit testing just doesn't really work for 90% of cases, I have used ChatGPT to learn how to and quickly write a large test suite for a web-API project I am working on. While ChatGPT has been generally crap at producing anything I would consider committing to my repo, it has worked wonders as a rough guide and a motivation to getting the tests written. Can't be bothered to come up with test ideas? Ask ChatGPT, then I end up writing about twice as many tests anyway, just from getting that initial push.
And 200€ for 8GB more ram. Insane. You can buy 64GB of Desktop Ram for that.
If you want to operate in that country and accept all of the downsides there's nothing preventing you from offering China an inferior version of your product, as many companies already do. That they're going to force feed the rest of the world this authoritarian, fascist, shit is downright deplorable and worthy of condemnation.
People only think of the Luddites as stubborn and trying to hold back "progress" and not as the entire class of people whose life's work, passion, personal identity, and means of supporting themselves, was stripped away with no replacement.

If you spent decades polishing your skills, took pride in your work and being a known expert and someone others could rely on, and made a comfortable living for yourself and your family doing it, it was would be horrible and devastating to watch it all slip through your fingers like sand. They weren't even given the comfort of still having a good income and comfortable life. The money they would have made for their hard earned work and skills was siphoned off by distant people in suits and jewelery who never had to put in a drop of sweat. They instead received such mockery that their name itself is now a derogatory term.
Is it stupid? Because people are railing against the AI, not the system of evaluating worth and distributing wealth that implies that the advent of a miraculous labor-saving technology should be met with fear, not excitement about expansion of the capabilities of every human being.
My experience with ChatGPT has been less than stellar. It's great at making things up but it's terrible at actually following rules. So far I've had it fail to follow the rules for making a D&D character despite correctly telling me what they are and fail to write a simple batch file to find and replace text.
>Their matchmaking is already often based off of what will be marketable.

Sure, but the concern is that they will start following the WWE practice of basing the winners on what is more marketable. Given that the practice of fight-fixing has a long history in boxing, this merger seems like a really tone deaf money-grab to me.
I find it amusing when pro-wrestling gets compared with MMA - or any other combat / fighting sport, for that matter. I appreciate both, but they're entirely different beasts and should be judged based on their own merits.

I by the way consider it no less funny when people pretend or assume MMA to be tantamount to - or at least a close approximation of - self-defence situations. MMA is still a sport with rules, which has very little in common with a non-consensual fight.
Yes, average European VAT is 21%, which is built into the price. Unlike American sales tax which is added at the register.

So to fairly compare prices by exchange rate you always need to discount the European price to subtract its VAT first.
Topics definitely come in waves. Sometimes I see link submissions that serve as support or rebuttals to other recent links. Sometimes an interesting comment even leads to related links hitting the front page.
But you can avoid adopting APIs that have been Chrome-only until 5 minutes ago…
> Adobe is already creating such AI with these kinds of partners, so yes

So, nobody has contested them yet. I smell a class-action lawsuit for them from the original makers of their clipart library.

The base model can be trained on open source images. Or people may use adobe's software for that. From just a few images of Darth you can make basically anything, so yes it's quite doable already.

It seems to me there is no way to put this cat back in the bag ever again.

In the case of Darth Vader, there is probably a trademark involved as well, but the vast majority of photos , celebs etc don't have that.
> America, meanwhile, has decent native birth rate AND a culture that's always willing to accommodate new people.

And a society that burdens people with debt causing them to work every waking moment while avoiding costly things like health care, because they might miss a day of work or become even more indebted through the cost of said health care. People just pick up opioids so they can handle the pain and keep working two jobs.

I know hardly anyone in my country that works more than 40 hours a week. In fact, most people I know work 36 or 32. Two jobs is pretty much unheard of over here. I hear plenty of stories in the US though, about teachers working a second job somewhere else.
8GB of RAM is unusable for even basic 1080p video editing. I would think a Macbook air's use case included that, because there are a wide range of $700 Windows laptops that will provide the 16GB minus the extortionate markup.
Important Note: Tor browser isn't truly private as it connects to Firefox services on start-up, even if you disable all options that require these. (Unlike zero telemetry / "no automated connections" browsers like the Orion browser - https://browser.kagi.com/ - or the PaleMoon browser - http://www.palemoon.org/ that actually do respect your browser settings).

This seems deliberate as no attempts have been made to fix this despite repeated highlighting of this issue online by many concerned users.

(I haven't verified if the Mullvad browser has the same problem).
I would argue that the point is that AI WILL steal lots of jobs (directly or indirectly) and the directness of that theft is fairly irrelevant. :shrug:
I bought a Linux machine a year or so ago, with 64G ram and 2T SSD (for less than Apple wants, obviously). I will say it is pretty much over spec-ced. I have a browser, use it for taxes and like city permit approvals and the odd pdf download/print. For a while I ran a bitcoin node. I use it for development of my open source go libraries, with eMacs and the associated ten stack overflow or GitHub tabs, but the only time I get make it use even a faction of its power is when like i test a “find all dup files on the dive” or rebuild gcc.

Hopefully it will work for a long time, but I think development could be good on a quarter of the mem/storage hardware. More cores would be nice, as always, but even there, go compile will light them all up but for far less than a second.
Birds with neurotoxin-laden feathers discovered in New Guinea
It is whataboutism. There are no saints in this world.
There are dozens of us!

I have a 9 year old laptop, and 3 in use desktops that are between 9 and 10 years old. Once you have 4 cores and 16+ gigs of ram, it's hard to need any more performance in typical day to day tasks.
Sure -- but again, you're talking about SUPERHEROES as translated to BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES, which contain piles and piles of cringe all around.

For better or worse (I actually wasn't much at all intending to judge, just observer) it's interesting to consider why that particular cringe was some of the most notable?
Show HN: Select one color and get full palette and config code
This tool generates 'harmonized' color palette together with code for theming: css variables, bootstrap variables and javascript objects which can be used in tools such as TailwindCSS and Chakra UI.

I've never liked to spend too much time on designing, especially choosing colors. Found this tool https://palx.jxnblk.com/ which gave me the idea.
This is just a little bit more user friendly version

link: https://palettolithic.com/
Or people just have no choice using AI baked into their once old tools
I ended up getting a Samsung Galaxy Book 2 Pro, which was significantly cheaper in my market and comes with a gorgeous OLED screen.

But, of course, the situation varies between market and time since there's significant pricing differences.
It was hard for me to anticipate that Apple would implement the CompressionStream API incorrectly 6 months later. However, it is extremely likely that an exception was indeed raised when this bug was triggered. I was never made aware of the existence of this bug. Besides, zip.js does its best to rely on fallback implementations in case of errors. I'm not supposed to integrate the entire CompressionStream API test suite (and all the other APIs) into zip.js either.
Yeah, I did exactly this. My colleague was raving about the M2 Air, and I looked into it, compared it with M1 Pro, and told myself: this one's worth it (things like the fantastic screen and available ports). I did buy my M1 Pro on sale, but I only saved a couple hundred EUR compared to release price. As a pro relatively late adopter I didn't have much transition difficulty because everything was ported, as a con I missed out on a few months of support (for resale value / EOL etc). Compared to the MBP 2015 (which didn't get the update to macOS 13) I was using: it never gets hot, the fans barely ever spin, it probably uses a lot less W so saves me energy, yet its a lot more powerful.

The only thing I miss on my M1 Pro, is USB-A (which I'm invested in, e.g. my YubiKeys and something like a HackRF or Proxmark), but its got 3 (!!) USB-C and I got adapters. I would've gone to Framework, but while the Linux desktop has come from a long, long way (my reference point being I started using WMs in the 90s, with my first being FVWM on RedHat 5.2) I prefer macOS with a plethora of FOSS utilities, and I am not disappointed by macOS on the ARM-based M-series. With a Framework, I could open it up myself and it seems pretty idiot-proof. I love the modularity of the ports but in the end they're just internal USB-C adapters. So while aesthetically nice, with 3 USB-C (and a SD and HDMI) I'm good to go.
As I live on the opposite side of the continent, I wanted to be sure they actually shared a border rather than just assume my memory was correct because they're nearby.
Ironically, the advice from some circles for those left behind by automation was "learn to code".
No I’m talking about a group on Reddit.
Largely what Windows advertises is Microsoft stuff.

Ubuntu copies a lot of terrible ideas from Microsoft and this is just another one.
Especially given that it was a generated article.
Running 20B Large Language Models for free in Kaggle
Why would you compare the price of an ordinary laptop with that of an extraordinary one? People buy Mercedes and not Lada Niva for a reason my friend, even though both of them can drive. ;)
These are horribly deceptive, should never be used, and they make me wish that the names of the original licenses were trademarked so that whoever made these ones could be sued.
Roman, Ottoman, British to name a few.
What mcd are you shopping at? Mine in Seattle has $0.99 large coffee, BOGO burgers, free ice cream, and half off apple pies. I can purchase 900 calories for less than $7.

Also, if you're familiar with race conditions, you can double use promos.
One deck is made of wood. One deck is made made of steel. They will behave differently after years of weathering.

Just because they are both both decks doesn't mean they are the same.
That I very cool to hear. Only once have I had a manager with that philosophy and mindset.

He left my place of work recently and as a result I’m leaving too. Good managers are rare as leprechaun gold.

It’s a world of difference from the manager I had at my first job out of university who was more interested in their own job security and didn’t give a shit about his reports.
Craftsman. Who buys garbage from Ikea? This is a site where people make faang money not min wage. Do you eat at McD everyday or pay more for quality
this is quite the conspiracy theory. I'm not sure why musk fans say that the FCC is acting egregious here when they are doing the same exact thing they have done for decades. musk fans just don't want the same standards applied to them. they're okay interfering with other systems, but they certainly don't want anybody interfering with them.
I couldn’t find anything on dentists, but I did find an article stating that Cuban doctors are, on average, paid more than other workers: https://havanatimes.org/news/cuba-raises-mds-salaries-by-up-...
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I used to repair Dell business laptops circa 2004 and they were incredibly easy. Some models had swappable bays. Want an extra battery but don't need your CD-drive? Just push in a tab, pull out the CD-drive and insert an additional battery! Every part could easily be replaced by non-technical users. I know that because we had employees working as "computer technicians" that had no idea what "Windows Control Panel" was replacing motherboards, displays, hard drives, etc! Hard-drive, non-swappable CD-drives, RAM, modem were all done with a single screw.
Is it unreasonable to surmise that vegetative electrons are very small, thus the microscopy?