skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may find this diagram on Page 2 of this paper interesting:
https://dial.uclouvain.be/pr/boreal/object/boreal%3A211443/d...

It theorizes how to build social trust, without top-down hierarchy / constant mediation, through the cultivation of strong institutions and a common identity. It's an interesting premise that opposes progressive ideology. However, I have yet to read the books it references, nor have I examined the history behind its findings: https://www.amazon.com/Strains-Commitment-Political-Solidari...
Cloud credits are pretty normal right now for startups (see AWS who led the way here with their 100k of credits). It's not "something or nothing", since they're willing to give out credits making the bet that you are hooked on their cloud when/if you grow, and they just need a small percentage of startups they give credits to to work out.

OP (or anyone using cloud servers) aren't "buying" silverware, they're renting it, for a far cheaper (many times free) rate in the early days, with less user overhead, so they don't need to actually buy servers, worry about space, worry about managing them, worry about scaling (or what to do if they have breakout success), etc. and instead focus on the core problem of their startup. This seems like the right tradeoff to me unless you have a very predictable workload (in which case you likely aren't an early stage company), and what most software startups do nowadays, unless you have specific hardware needs that you can't get access to easily or would truly be more expensive to rent and the tradeoff is worth it (ex: GPU rigs for training models or the like).
Boomers are immortal.
Congratulations on figuring out what I meant by a simple one line frustrating comment I made while I was walking to the toilet where I couldn't be bothered to set up a 2 paragraph explanation of precisely what I was talking about.
Pretty sure they just needed to disable autoack and manually ack after the long running task was done.
> Phone speakers

Hmm... You could detect the output type (built-in speakers, headphones, bluetooth) and change the audio quality accordingly.
I don’t get it. In capitalism labor is a commodity like any other: it’s price is the market clearing price where supply meets demand. You need at least some assumption that says “labor supply will expand infinitely as long as it’s possible to survive on a salary”. That assumption seems incorrect to me.
Mathematically, taking nuclear generation that already exists offline while there still exist fossil fuel burning plants is increasing emissions. Any additional renewable capacity could have displaced coal and gas instead.
123 was indeed ported to UNIX, I have that working as well! https://github.com/taviso/123elf

(Although it was more likely procalc - a popular low-end lotus clone)

I'm also working on porting dBase IV, another popular package from the era :)
Ontario has teachers that make 100k+

Quality was still horrible when I was in highschool.
You can also just take computer written documents out of the equation. Write the reports in pen and paper in the classroom.

Although I certainly would've hated writing essays by hand back in the day, there's plenty of scientific evidence that says that handwritten text is better for learning things than typed text. The extra time and consideration it takes to write things out clearly helps memorize the information.

I think we're either heading for a future where schools accept chatgpt like they more or less accepted copy pasting from Wikipedia like back on my days, teaching kids even less actual knowledge, or a future where homework disappears and is replaced by spending more time in a supervised classroom.

Neither are things I'd like to see, and with the way society seems to treat teachers, I'm expecting the education system to give in and go the lazy route.
Notice they don’t make independent or sell it to management, they kill it.
CDC is one of the mechanisms you can use to implement this if the volume of message is high, but the idea is to decouple your business transactions from sending out notifications and do the latter asynchronously.
I'm a bit surprised at how often it seems to come up in random comment threads. The atmosphere here feels increasingly unwelcoming lately.

Or maybe people feel like they're just having abstract, hypothetical intellectual discussions. But when I read these threads, it just feels like signal after signal that I no longer fit in or have a place here.
China proposes measures to manage generative AI services
I heard they tested it but testers got sick
Other than that "tweeting" is what birds do and "tooting" is term for farting and slang for snorting cocaine? Well, isnt that enough?

Whenever I hear someone "tooted" on Mastodon I just imagine them farting while high on cocaine.
But that still depends on a pre-established route between the devices (shared wifi etc), right? Native apps can do WiFi Direct and BT and whatnot as well.
Yes. "toot" sounds far less refined than "tweet". Is it completely subjective? Yes, but if enough people think so, "it is so".
I think stardew was made by a sole person, not a team.
Given how things have been going, I don't think VR will hit mainstream until the resolution (PPD) of the headsets can compete with a TV/monitor. One of the main problem with VR right now is that it cuts you off from all the 2D content out there, the resolution is too low to browse the Web and watching movies in what is essentially less than 720p isn't great either. On top of that, most VR headsets just don't work as full monitor/TV replacement to begin with, due to not having a plain old HDMI input. The software side is also severely lacking, while it's possible to bring 2D content into VR on PC, it's extremely clunky and not well supported at all. Microsoft's WMR tried to build a "Windows desktop for VR", but with that dead now, it'll take years before anybody will try that again.

The lack of resolution could of course be overcome by native VR content, that is build towards the other strengths of those headset. But there just doesn't seem enough interest in the industry to actually go that route, you can still count the total amount of good AAA content for VR on one hand. That's not enough to attract gamer's in mass and in turn developers aren't all that interested either. Xbox still staying away from VR isn't helping either, as that cuts off a large chunk of the potential market too.

As for motion sickness, that's a somewhat unsolvable problem. Everything that makes the virtual body move without your real body moving will make people sick, no matter how good the headset is. One solution is to not move the virtual body (teleport locomotion), but that drastically limits what games you can do in VR and has been largely abandoned again by most games. The other alternative is to just get used to it, most people can adopt to some degree, but it can take time. I think the only real solution here is a generational shift, once every kid grew up with VR, the motion sickness issue might fade away, but that'll still take many years or even decades.
Didn't see mentioned the zero2prod book [0].

[0] https://www.zero2prod.com
Yeah that doesn't sound like insurance to me at all.
5% of the population is diagnosable with severe personality disorders that lead to anti-social behavior. Approx 1% have NPD, a bit over that have diagnosable psychopathy, and there are several other disorders to round out that 5%. They aren’t going to “terrorise” people so much as troll, manipulate, disrupt, abuse. Any specific form of attack is often only a means to an ends.

The vast majority of people (95%) are not like this, however if you cannot police those 5%, then your platform will be the playground of the malcontents. Moderation is a non-negotiable for any social platform.
You seem to be implying that it's nigh-impossible to write games that can reliably run at 90+ FPS and no dropped frames with a game engine because the game scripting logic runs in an interpreter with garbage collection

It's definitely worth being careful to avoid GC causing frame drops, but I'm pretty sure there are a lot of good-performing VR games written in Unity
Just last week, when I was at a techno music gathering, a couple of my friends saw a guy in drag (it was more like over the top ball dress really) and were like "whoaa, did you see that".

I had to remind them that we used to have scores of trannies attending these events in the past and and no one cared. But now, after the latest round of propaganda, we, as a society, fear them again.
Isn't Naomi Wolf the chick who wrote a whole book because she misunderstood a word and only figured it out when she got called out on a radio interview?
I really dislike that replying or commenting on things is seen as a positive indicator. This comment would be seen as positive engagement, I think the "algorithm" shown is fairly useless.

Especially since the weights are tied entirely to how well calibrated the individual predictive models are.
Automated daily backups for Google Photos
An often overlooked aspect of the "vision" of PowerShell is that it is intended to be the back-end of a GUI console!

An good example is the Citrix management console. It is a very thin Windows GUI wrapper around a bunch of PowerShell modules. Literally everything it does, and everything it shows comes from PowerShell, not from direct API calls. When managing a Citrix farm remotely, it uses WinRM PowerShell remoting, not traditional COM+ RPC.

This is easy because:

1. The PowerShell runtime can be trivially embedded into any .NET app. It's just a reference and about 3 lines of biolerplate.

2. It runs "in-process", making it much faster than calling out to external shells.

3. The commands are (relatively) strongly typed, so there's no concerns about escaping, shell injection, or other similar security issues.

4. Outputs come back as lists of strongly typed C# objects, making them trivial to bind to grid views or other GUI user controls.

5. Even tree views are easy to wire up, because PowerShell has a concept of virtual "drive" providers that can wrap anything in a file/folder structure. You just write a generic "folder and item navigator" GUI control once and then you can use it with any number of providers for free.

The end-result looks like a traditional GUI, but basically guarantees that anything you can do in the GUI, you can also do in the shell. It's also ridiculously easy to add a "generate a script for this change" button, because it's just spitting out the internal representation!
Well... Except that 685m+ people got covid and 6m+ people died from it, and uncounted numbers also died from preventable illnesses because hospitals didn't have capacity to carry out necessary procedures. Whereas satanic panic was just completely made up.
Indeed, two such mechanisms that would largely circumvent the issues around CTCs and invalid Lorentz transformations and such entirely - Alcubierre drives and wormholes - are barely mentioned.

(They don't necessarily circumvent the problems around infinite energies and/or zero/negative masses being apparently necessary, to be clear - I can't imagine the amount of energy needed to create and stabilize a wormhole or warp bubble to be all that trivial - but it's pretty obvious from their very premises that they would not inherently produce causal paradoxen).
Credit/VC? Or you start a co-op dairy / farm / repair shop and work for centuries towards arriving at where JD is today (by which time big corps would have moved a few centuries ahead).
It’s the plasticizers and non-stick forever chemicals that are causing obesity and illness. The more processed the food, the more residues there are.
UX vs UI
I'm guessing that's the major reason for Amazon purchasing Zappos a few years ago.
Stanisław Lem's short story about GPT-like system
I think it will retain.

it's not related to edge/bing so it doesn't affect revenue
Elon Musk says Twitter is roughly breaking even
How wonderful is that Steve was describing ChatGPT in his speech to the T back in 1983, and the vision is being realized in not so distance future in 2023, after 40 years instead of 50 to 100 years as his prediction:

"The problem was, you can’t ask Aristotle a question. And I think, as we look towards the next fifty to one hundred years, if we really can come up with these machines that can capture an underlying spirit, or an underlying set of principles, or an underlying way of looking at the world, then, when the next Aristotle comes around, maybe if he carries around one of these machines with him his whole life—his or her whole life—and types in all this stuff, then maybe someday, after this person’s dead and gone, we can ask this machine, “Hey, what would Aristotle have said? What about this?” And maybe we won’t get the right answer, but maybe we will. And that’s really exciting to me. And that’s one of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing."
That's a good thing, some of the worst cultures on Twitter are based around taking it too seriously...
Add Covid-19 and the resulting mandatory vaccination witch hunt to that list.
The remaining Twitter engineers break the API every 2 days and are slowly dismantling a functional UI into an incoherent mess that doesn't load most of the time.

I have absolutely no confidence in any e2ee implementation that would be served from twitter.com and trusting Elon or anyone that still claims to speak for Twitter on any security guarantees it offers would be foolish.
They also recently broke the API for their "circle tweets" which is supposed to let you create private tweets that only go out to a subset to your followers, and stay private to everyone else, but of course that ended up not working anymore and they ended up in your profile.
The non-rich countries would only be consumers/importers to start with. Natural gas and coal is cheaper so they'll transition later. But that's moot since all that's needed is for rich, stable democracies to build it out amongst themselves, there's enough diversity of sunlight and wind between them to get above 90% with no storage. You can even easily go above 70% in many countries with no storage and no international network, just purely domestic sources. The international network is just a cherry on top which reduces the need to overbuild by too much. But it's largely doable without. The nice thing that people forget is that wind and solar are negatively correlated, so the variability is self-cancelling within a country.
The exchange rate is based around PLEX: an in-game item that can be exchanged for subscription time. People who want to buy in-game currency spend real money for PLEX, and then sell it in the game to other people.
I don’t think it should be an ID - these platforms are really made for creating distributed event-driven systems.
Tooting aside (it's a silly enough term as it is) Mastedons never going to go mainstream. It's too convoluted and complicated to explain how it works to someone with a moderate level of skill in IT, let alone your average every day person.

"It's a decentralized social platform where you sign up to individual..."

Yeah they're already asleep. The average person doesn't give a damn about that, and they sure as hell arent about to jump through a poor UI experience and extremely badly worded terminology to sign up to it.
Australia’s New City Bradfield Tackles Climate Change From the Ground Up
Germany's Niche Companies Are a Model for Life After Globalization
> And of course, they have zero understanding of anything at all. They’re a next-token-predicting machine with an unimaginably large training set.

Oof, this fallacy is so frustrating. Being a next-token-predicting machine doesn't imply "having no understanding of anything".

The best way to correctly predict the next token in the answer to a question is to understand the question properly, and reason your way to that true answer. So that's what it tries to do (with inconsistent success).

Seeing the tool this way should also remove the disbelief that it works. It works because it starts to model not only the surface statistics, but the causes of those statistics, in order to make predictions that are less wrong. That's how it gets a world model from a bunch of sample text.
https://archive.ph/6WV70
I have yet to see a better option in action.

It would be nice to have sufficient supply of quality mental healthcare and oversight to prevent abuse of involuntary committal, but as far as I see, that is a pipe dream.
Tektro HD-M275 front and rear. When I go online, its ali, ebay and grey market suppliers mostly, not a heap of returns from recognisable Australian bike shops.

Maybe its my bad timing, buying a 2nd had bike when it was end-of-life for one model of brake, and now it needs work, people have moved onto the next 'best thing' and I am behind "can't get the parts"

(I know one respondent disagrees and says they are both easy to fix, and easy to get. I am just reporting both what I was told and what I find when I look. "easy" is very contextually defined in both cases. It would be very easy for me to confuse myself, order the wrong bits, or manage to dismantle but never re-mantle things.)
I was in similar situation. From my experience a lot of people for whom timers, to-do lists, blockers etc. don't work react positively to body doubling (i.e. doing a task in presence of another person). Have you tried it? It's the only method that works for me (granted, I haven't tried meds yet, I'm at the end of diagnosis process).
It’s wiping him out in slow motion.
I personally avoid using pip for managing system libraries because they often end up conflicting with distribution provided packages. Even if packages are missing upstream, they often pull in dependencies that may end up conflicting later. Versions start mismatching, tools stop using when sudo gets involved, all kinds of weirdness that's hard to debug if it's caused by a library you pulled in months ago.

My workaround for this problem is to install these tools in a separate venv and calling the binaries with their full path, but for tools like this where the command is built into the program that may be more difficult. It's also a waste of space in some cases, though deduplication tools can help there.
Weird gun moans aside, what about the rest of it? I'm not familiar with usual T&C's for this kind of software foundations, but they seem excessive. Can't use the word "rust" in a conference name, product name, can't sell swag... I mean, I get they need to protect the name and want some kind of exclusive stewardship but this seems OTT for an open source software project. Or am I wrong?
> Strictly speaking Buddha was not a royal price but scion of an aristocratic family.

Is that so?

It was propheised at his birth (so the legend goes) that he would either become an enlightened teacher, or a "wheel-turning" world monarch (chakravartin). That doesn't prove he wasn't a royal prince, but then I guess I'm not sure exactly what a "prince" is.
https://archive.ph/XnjPN
If you just want to communicate with your friends why not use some IM service like Discord or IRC?
Nerd-sniped by nostalgia. I wonder if he's looked for unsafe input handling leading to potential security issues.
> If it’s a dangerous place, why do you even go? And if it’s not, why the bell would you need an firearm?

Have you considered the non-black-and-white possibility that it's unknown whether danger will present itself at the conference? No one ever went to a school or just about anywhere else outside a war zone expecting to get shot up or otherwise attacked and possibly murdered, and yet . . . .
Lol. My gun is not welcome, so I'm not welcome. Whiny snowflake much ? How insecure can one be ? Conferences are much safer for not NOT allowing guns. Don't play the victim, and don't hurt anyone please.

As for trademark control, well, that's the way the world is. "Rust" is reserved for official Rust products. If youhave an issue with copyrights and stuff, go vote accordingly, but Rust doesn't have much of a choice unless they want to let "Rust" go public domain and let any and every one use it w/o any control.
> This isn't the case at scale, people are more likely to believe something if it is normalized for them.

How then do you explain the case of Iran I cited? Islam enforced as the state religion, leaving it is punishable with death (at least in theory), and yet there has been a huge decline in Islamic belief over the last few decades. That's evidence against your position.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

In those experiments, only a minority of test subjects adjusted their expressed belief in response to social pressure; and only a minority of that minority appeared inwardly convinced in doing so. So this experiment doesn't support your position – putting aside the question of whether a highly contrived experiment is actually generalisable to ordinary human social behaviour.
I share links to my blog about React on forums/twitter if it helps the person asking a question (my hack for this is that if I see a common enough question, I write an article for next time I see it)

(this is the second time I've written this comment, funnily enough, I might write it up...)
The crime rate in San Francisco is statistically low because what is considered a crime in other areas is not considered a crime in San Francisco.

https://startupdreams.substack.com/p/what-the-stats-about-cr...
Tongue in cheek, given the widespread sexual abuse in various religious and not so religious organizations, one wonders if the whole thing was a red herring.
> what a boring game day-to-day

Got to do something while autopilot is running... how about conspire a heist?

(Seriously through, I almost never used autopilot even when in highsec systems. There are some mad people out there and you don't want to know them)
If HTMX is "old man yells at cloud" meme, then fat js clients is "I have no idea what I'm doing" meme.
Let's not kid ourselves. Average person isn't reading anything that is on the sign up page. There exists some magical break point when people start to switch over and after that the sign up page can be blank and people will move there.

It is completely different matter if that point will ever be reached.
I don't know of any mainstream OS/DE that integrates this natively. Laptop displays are almost universally supported by brightness controls but even Windows doesn't seem to come with a tool to control standalone monitor brightness.
Cleaner perhaps, but wrong. If you know that latency is statistically symmetrical (same in both directions, on average) then you can synchronize clocks to arbitrary precision (asymptotically at least).
At the moment, I use some commands for Unix-based systems, but I don't think it would be extremely complicated to add Windows support. I'll see what I can do :)
Tech giants are cutting middle management for efficiency. It could backfire.
Even if you have story to write. What about other parts? Is there something new or different with new game? Is that enough for the series?

Valve doesn't mass produce games, but always tries to bring some innovation. And if you would be lacking that would it make sense to just make sequel for sake of sequel?
Interestingly, if you have a gun, you're more likely to die of homicide https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/more-guns-do-not-...

Quote:

>Every time a gun in the home was used in self-defense or legally justifiable shooting, there were
>four unintentional shootings,
>seven criminal assaults or homicides,
>and 11 attempted or completed suicides.

The data does not support that having a gun makes you safer
The sector is way more centralized than what you'd think by looking at the tractor brands you see around. Massey-Ferguson and Fendt are both AGCO brands. Besides them and John Deere, there's CNH Industrial making Case IH and New Holland tractors. I expect all of the three make a lot of their revenue from the service business, so there's not that much incentive to be disruptive.