skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> means some amount of trouble if you're non religious, non white, or non heterosexual.

No it doesn't. Stop generalizing and stereotyping. From my experience people in small towns are nicer than people in cities, regardless of race or whatever. The small town I grew up in was 1/3rd hispanic, 1/3rd black, 1/3rd white and everyone got along. Don't believe what the media tries to racebait you with.

> Problem with cities isn't overpopulation, it's housing. People want to live there but there isn't enough accommodations, and there totally could be if zoning and infrastructure were properly prioritized.

Yes, zoning is somewhat the issue, in the fact that stores and restaurants should be more distributed. But many cities have plenty of apt buildings and short of squeezing people in smaller boxes, there's not much you can do. Also people shouldn't live in small boxes.
A copy of Sublime Text 4[0]?

Some coding/compsci books[1]?

[0] https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-4

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/products/books-videos.html
Just like what happened with AI imagegen and the artists complaining about their styles being stolen will happen with this. After a few months of toying with simply using other artists specific styles, people will start to use the tools to do original works instead, that are not pure clones.

In this case, what is interesting is not that someone can (and did) produce a "fake Drake" song but that you could synthesize a singing voice of your choice and use it to produce songs without finding a new singer or training your own voice in the desired direction. I'm sure someone will make a prompt-based AI voice where you can just say "nasal annoying out of tune male voice" or something and control it that way and you can keep tweaking until you get what you want.

End result is of course even more (perhaps debatable) high quality content but with less star-appeal. We already have that on Spotify etc, there are loads of "troll" companies having hundreds of virtual fake artists releasing albums and tracks already. This will turbo-boost that..

However just like with AI images, it also enables someone with less talent of drawing or singing to do creative works. That has to be pretty valuable as well.
Agreed on the “whoa moment”. Not needing health checks seems pretty compelling. I’m curious if there are any off-the-shelf pull-based load balancer that don’t require the full HTTP request copied onto the queue before handing off to a worker?
> No company is going to pay you for copy-pasting code from ChatGPT.

No company will knowingly pay you. If you are cheating on an interview, you likely do not care about that part.
I'm just being lazy and quoting a claim from Wikipedia's entry on the Penrose-Lucas argument, allegedly referencing "The Emperor's New Mind", but without any specific location within that book. It has been a while since I read it, and I may attempt to find a more precise summary of Penrose's claim (he has written about it extensively elsewhere, and so have many other people) but I can't do that immediately.
I used to work at a Delphi shop that switched to C++. Of course we used C++ Builder.

The component palette was identical to Delphi (and was still Object Pascal code). You could use Delphi UI components with it.

C++ support was a bit buggy in places, but not terrible. I had worse problems compiling C++ on AIX.

Delphi and C++ Builder were simply the best native UI creation tools I've ever used.
> Southwest had a meltdown over the year-end holidays, which drove thousands of flight cancellations and resulted in an $800 million pretax hit for the fourth quarter. The airline upgraded scheduling software that couldn’t handle numerous changes to crew assignments during severe winter weather late last year.

> The issues Tuesday did not appear to be related to that software.

From the article, emphasis added.
> I couldn't quite figure out why everyone used this as the example of how it's all over and AI will take over the world of music.

The bar for "AI" gets lower every day. I still think the ChatGPT reaction is something of a marketing psyop. Beyond a couple of novelty searches, I haven't noticed anybody using it as a daily driver.
Calculate direct sunlight along a route
No, it isn't.

I side with crypto all the time and I see plenty of other people do it too. I also see the same loud voices, with a lot of karma, repeat their tropes over and over again. If people believe that it is "dangerous", that is a sad way to control a narrative.

Here we are 10+ years later and crypto hasn't gone to zero. If anything, it is discussed more than ever. What HN requires is sane responses about crypto, and this is one of them.
>Unlike, say, renewables, that have overbuilding as a requirement I guess

Right, except at 5x the cost.

Nuclear power, and indeed, load following would make a lot more sense if grid scale storage were prohibitively expensive or impossible.
Agree, apart from a full-on keylogger, given the password was not super trivial to guess, is some other bad practice like unencrypted swap, though I hope there never was a distro that suggested that setup if you choose full disk encryption in the installer. If he was under surveillance a tampered with initramfs would be my guess.
> With restricted access, at controlled hours, in a shared space subject to the whims of others. You're renting them

That isn't renting, that is sharing
Fair.

Has the power inside of web browsers, and the CPUs powering them, and the models they could power in browser increased?
For a criminal enterprise, FTF authentication is probably fine. You might use PGP keys hidden behind a QR code or something that's user-friendly.

But then you have the other operational issues with the cells, like what do you do when your cell is compromised, or how does a cell reattach to the network if an upper level point-of-contact is compromised.

And there are administrative issues...like a shared calendar. Payroll. Inventory. Logistics alone makes a cell structure difficult, because logistics means coordination among many people.

It would be an interesting project to make for sure.
I think the way you frame this is probably weird, but the actual behavior is completely normal. Most people would say that they care about their friends from previous phases of their life, but most social research says that friends rarely survive the transition from one stage or location to the next. For friends, proximity is king.

I would frame this that I have much love for these people, but that we are on different paths for awhile. Several times our paths have come back together and I have cherished the renewed connection. Sometimes the paths never cross again.

I recently learned of two mentors and friends who were very important to me passing away. Our time together was 10 and 20 years ago respectively and we hadn’t kept in touch. I have regretful feelings about this, but also acceptance that our lives were only going to be parallel for a limited time.
The burn cash but not necessarily profit. If they built the software in 1 year for 1,000,000, they would carry an asset of 1,000,000. They burned 1,000,000 in cash but have a 1,000,000 asset. They had salary expense of 1,000,000 and revenue of 0. Say they make 300,000 in revenue for the next 5 years based on that software. That means they would be able to expense $200,000 against the $300,000 in income, paying taxes on just $100,000 in income each of those years. At the end of that time the asset has zero value.

The other option is they take a 1,000,000 loss that first year, and then pay tax on all $300,000 for each of the succeeding years. Either way, at the end of six years, There was $1,500,000 in revenue and $1,000,000 in expenses.

As far as the treatment of bug fixes, the rules around improvements and repairs probably cover that. If you fix a bug like a bad calculation - that's probably opex, like replacing a part on a machine. If you add a feature that extends the life of the product, like adding an API for outside developers, that would be an improvement and capitalized. This is like refurbishing equipment to extend its useful service life.
Mac OS is already there and arguably worse. It shows a fake red notification to make you sign into iCloud and doesn't go away till you do.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/OqNzj.png
Seriously. There needs to be more work put into the prompt being used to generate these comments.
Agreed! If I need a copy of Windows, I'd happily pay for a license that lets me run it without ads and other annoying crapware.
Let’s say you have a 5BR house … it has been 2-3 years since I surveyed the options but at the time, tankless water heaters that were electric maxed out at something like 6gpm ?

As opposed to a fairly standard 12gpm for a gas unit.

So … you’d have to either take a major step backwards and use a tank heater… or … maybe duplex two units in parallel…

FWIW, I looked into this because I wanted to use an electric option but it’s just not practical.
By design, does the TPM prevent me from making a backup of own keys? What if I want to move my own drive somewhere else?
Atleast Bing Chat told me that it cannot give me financial advice. The specific prompt I gave it was

1. Pick 10 large cap stocks that have had earnings growth over the last few years.

2. Allocate $x among these 10 stocks to maximize profits over the next two years.

It did #1.

It refused to do #2.

Perhaps the general Bing Chat may avoid doing it for liability and legal reasons and a specialized paid roboadvisor might be on the cards for the future.
Measuring output by LOC is not a very useful metric. The sort of code that’s most suited to ai is closer to data than code.
Pandering, and it's flip side stubborn contrarianism.

Discussion that's rewarded tends towards groupthink or the opposite of groupthink, something like automatic gainsaying.
Here to second that recommendation.

Steve Bellovin wrote a review of "Between Silk and Cyanide" back on the old cryptography@c2.net mailing list that prompted me to buy the book: https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@c2.net/msg04572.ht... (The whole thread is good, BTW.)

The seriousness of the topic really left a mark with me (thinking about agents being tortured and killed as a result of poor opsec or cryptographic vulnerabilities). I'm glad that the work I do doesn't have those consequences.
I'm not familiar with PEWMA, but real load balancers sometimes have this problem. Either because of dynamic weighting that slams the new server which shows zero load, or because the new server needs to do some sort of cache warming, whether that's disk or code or jit or connection establishment or ???, a lot of times early requests are handled slowly.

Most load balancers should have a way to do some sort of slow start for newly added or newly healthy servers. That could be an age factor to weighting, or an age factor on max connections or ???. Some older load balancers are just not great at this, so you develop experienced based rules like 'always use round robin, leastconn will kill your servers with lumpy loads'. All that said, and a repeated theme across my comments in this thread, the more sophisticated your load balancing is, the harder your load balancer needs to work, and the sooner you need to figure out how to load balance your load balancers.
> For me, it’s mainly that I can’t find or verify that accounts I have found are run by the entity I intended to follow…not saying I’m pro-blue checkmark, but checks are a thing.

This already exists. If people include their website or Github URL in their profile, and they have their Mastodon account listed on their website, it will automatically verify them.

> Name the key feature or shortlist of features that is currently missing from Mastadon that if added would cause you to fully-migrate or dramatically increase usage?

I think what turns me off from Mastodon is that it's mostly a monoculture. If you say something that doesn't agree with the dominant politics of the Mastodon community, you are going to have problems.

I am politically-moderate (from a US viewpoint), but any instance that is remotely right-wing is blacklisted on the several Mastodon instances I've checked, effectively shunning them from the Fediverse. I personally enjoy reading stuff that challenges my beliefs.

Another thing that keeps me from Mastodon, is that when I do occasionally checked my rather curated list, it's still just a bunch of complaining. Complaining about Elon, Twitter, about political events, etc.

Ironically, and despite Elon's best efforts at destroying Twitter, I find it much more diverse and useful. Much of the whining has disappeared and, for the most part, I'm getting better content. That said, I question how much longer Twitter will exist and/or be relevant.

PS: Feel free to recommend me tips/follows.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34149340
This is all true but at the end of the day its on you to make that time. If you try and make it happen, people will try and make themselves available or try and reschedule. Especially if they have kids, they are probably chomping at the bit for excuses to hang out with adults.
More proof how smart the team is. Getting from a personal 0->1 users product to a 1->many users product is a sharp insight.
So it is the extent of what you 'don't see' or 'don't understand' going on that you have an issue with rather than the new technology/software.

I've noticed, and others have here as well, that Google results have progressively gotten worse. I don't see a lot of what they are doing in the background either (some of it is already AI) but I know for certain that my results have increasly become more revenue generating than what I wanted (without adding more specific search terms). So AI isn't what exactly has made Search bad.

I suggest spending more time learning how something works. I've found in my experience it helps alleviate the feeling of anxiety I would get when I didn't know what was going on.

DuckDckGo (DDG) seems like they're being transparent on how they're implementing this and how it's going to be used. You're still being given a list of websites and not just raw answer output so I don't see how it's hiding anything more than is already.

As long as they continue to do that and it produces noticable improvement in results it's a win in my book.

Edit
Here is what they're doing:

https://spreadprivacy.com/duckassist-launch/
I'm saying that most of Europe has access to such spaces, and that they serve an important purpose. It's a good place for loosely planned social encounters. Whether or not you personally like them is irrelevant.

> And if you're in a crowded cafe watching a famous person

You can go to another café
Least connections doesn't need shared state between the instances, but it would need shared state between the load balancers if you had more than one for sure.

You're totally right, I glossed right over errors. With PEWMA and weighted round robin you can make instances incur a "penalty" for serving errors, which can help you isolate bad servers. It would have been fun to visualise this, definitely.
https://www.vocaloid.com/en/

I just ask you don't forget about the little people when you become famous
As someone listening to CBC Radio very frequently I cannot understand how people arrive at the conclusion that the CBC is a "propaganda organ". Their reporting so often is very critical of the government and the interviews are what I would consider on the tougher side. I understand media organizations not wanting to play Musk's game. He clearly has an agenda to paint state funded organizations in a certain light and that's ok, he can do that but that doesn't mean people and organizations on the platforms have to participate.
In addition, hangouts are just more fun with more people

Love everything you said.

Additionally: when you're hanging out in a group, you avoid those awkward situations where some people (or their partners!) might be wondering if it was a potential "date" kind of situation.
I guess only us "corpo-clone engineers" care about users being able to report bugs without learning how to use the command line and git.
In that sense, it's more like gold which has investment potential, but also utility outside of its investment potential.

But if you're using gold as a productive asset, then you're modifying it and repurposing it to an extent that its value is no longer tied to its weight.

When you're using a token as a productive asset, its value is still tied to its market value. So in that sense, it's different and probably more closely related to an investment.
This article is written as if the delays are some kind of gotcha, but is it really that bitter a pill to swallow? The goal was never to outcompete SpaceX on price. The EU wants to have access to space technology that's not tied up to foreign governments or oligarchs, and reduce the launch cost in the process.

Obviously such a program will be more expensive than a private endeavor, no member state is going to invest into the program without some kind of return and that comes with delays and higher cost.

Shopping around for launches now that the Ariane 6 has been delayed isn't some kind of epic defeat in the battle for spaceflight, it's just an inconvenience necessary to keep other projects on track.
Even when being queer is accepted, your life path is very different from your straight friends and family.
They are obligated to give data to the government, and government took part of spying in Brazil for Boeing in the past, but I guess they are using this capability only for a few strategic companies, and most companies are not that.
Midjourney can.

https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/image-prompts
It can’t follow quality because signal to noise is too low in subjective fields.
I don't think that's the case. The flame applied to the bottom of the vessel is where heat goes. Anything you feel outside of that is technically wasted.
> There are many, many creators putting out work as good (if not better) that deserve discovery.

With music, specifically, this has been one of the best impacts of the internet. As long as you avoid services that curate (streaming services, etc.), as a music lover there is a vast world of excellent music at your fingertips that you wouldn't ever have had the chance to hear otherwise.

As an artist, you can develop an audience from the pool of the whole world. You can make a decent living with a pool of a few thousand fans -- and finding a few thousand fans from the set of the Earth's population is a much more feasible thing than before because of the internet.
What are you missing? Capitalism. People need to reap massive profits saving the world or die trying. Our so-called leaders are in on it too.
Looks like C++ Builder is still available. Its way expensive and the licensing for community edition is very prohibitive...if you make more than 5k or you have more than 5 people on your team you need to pay up. And you practically need to sell a kidney to afford it. That sucks because this IDE looks really neat, but its def not worth the money in my opinion unless you are a larger company already

Community edition:
https://www.embarcadero.com/products/cbuilder/starter

Professional
https://www.embarcadero.com/products/cbuilder
Unrelated, but it mentions she was part of the "Scientist" circuit, which was run by André Grandclément [0] who turned out to be a double agent. Most of Latour's circuit were wiped out.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Grandcl%C3%A9ment
I'd love to see photos of the original pattern.
But I just bought that scarf because it's pretty anyway.
Ivan Conti, legendary drummer with jazz-funk trio Azymuth, dies aged 76
> But last May, three physicists proved that the 1969 verdict was only half the story. It wasn’t just that the presupposed symmetry wasn’t there — it was that higher symmetries were. And when those symmetries were incorporated into the theoretical picture, the predicted and observed decay rates matched exactly.

…

> [The] fractional quantum Hall effect, involves the spontaneous reorganization of electrons, but without any apparent symmetry being broken. This made it an uncomfortable outlier within the theory of phase transitions. That is, until a paper in 2018 by Xiao-Gang Wen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology helped establish that the quantum Hall effect does in fact break a symmetry — just not a traditional one.
Where do they "place blame on the vendor?" What SPoF should they have addressed? They blame "a vendor-supplied firewall," which is different from the scheduling software that caused the incident over the holidays, and different from blaming the vendor itself.
High quality music is made by humans, not machines. The number of successful Drake ripoffs will be roughly the same as the number of successful Metallica ripoffs. One or two will flourish, the rest will be forgotten, if heard at all.
Introduce yourself to your neighbors too
The thread up here [0] is talking about that in case you missed it.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35613454
What really drives me crazy with Google is that they think that it is ok to not label potentially paywalled articles as ads.

I get tricked so often into clicking a news snippet offered by Google only to then land on a site which not only presents me a paywall, but also does want me to accept their cookie policy before they present me the paywall.

It makes me angry every time anew.
I think this also happens with VAT in the EU. I pay the Finnish 24% VAT even if I order from Amazon.de (Germany has 19% VAT). Although as far as I understand, this does not apply to small online stores.
https://modmail.cursedc.tf
Thank you for doing the often uncomfortable act of reminding people of the historical facts and record vs. revisionist subjectivists. There is plenty of historical record and primary sources to back your line of discussion here.

You're addressing the shame and internal conflict of someone who "believes" they are a "good" person, but have met reasonable evidence to show otherwise, and instead of address the conflict, they would prefer to retreat into denial (not unlike Southern Revisionists!)
Still possible with many small local radio stations. Mail in a CD with your shit and a genre label and odds are someone will listen to a track or two to decide if it has a place on their show.
You've got it, DNS is what's often used to solve this problem. Do a few resolutions of reddit.com, you can see them returning 4 different IP addresses in a randomised order. :)
Counterfeits are bad only because the quality was usually much lower than the original. But if counterfeits / copies are of equal quality, I should have the option to buy it as long as it is labelled as such
White House nears unprecedented action on U.S. investment in China
I mean stuff like pickup soccer or basketball that happens in parks and at gyms. I don't think we have much in terms of league sports around here, except maybe employment-based leagues (like Google, Meta, and Microsoft fielding softball teams).
Coinbase offers a "staking service" where they run the node to perform validations (4) using your staked currency (1) on the Ethereum blockchain (2) and promise to give you a share of any profits (3).
> And, wouldn’t Apple just choose somewhere else to direct the funds otherwise?

Ding! nailed it.

These sweetheart deals exist because they know they are in competition with others and just want to capture a piece of it or risk losing it all.
> That is a lot of time—nearly a decade—and money for Europe to develop what is essentially a poorer version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.

That's generous coming from Ars. Ariane 6 is a technological dead-end. No re-usability, no human rating, no path forward for larger payloads.

Europe has at least a 15 years technological gap with the first versions of the Falcon 9. And it's on track to get bigger as Starship enters testing.

At this point, any rocket program other than what SpaceX is doing are government job programs.
Then just say that in the first place. I don't disagree that Apple users are much more likely to pay for software than Android users, but you don't need hardware sales to make that point.