skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder how it is that the NSA hasn't already enabled that

On paper, at least, the NSA technically isn't allowed to act on US soil or against US persons. The FBI would be the most likely vector for such a political police action, imho.
Wow, what a giant word salad. I struggle to parse anything meaningful from it.

There is intelligence and it is artificial. I think some people have a real hard time grasping the term “artificial”. There is also this “true intelligence” spectre that gets invoked. Nobody agrees what is meant by it. It is also unclear why one should care.

I tried reading it twice, but I am very sorry, I wanted to say some ideas were.. short sighted, but it actually borders on stupid. Don’t know why this is on HN.

“Cars don’t walk, it is not True Mobility” “We have to understand legs first, to absurd degrees, before we can talk about True Mobility”. Ack, sorry.
Meh. I use BSD so I can continue developing and using the software I write when I move to a different company without the current company playing gpl / proprietary shinanigans, limiting my future freedom.

Calling me a cuck doesn't really do well for the argument "Developers who use GPL know how to effectively communicate with their peers."
Apple is doubling down pretty hard on advertising though. It made nearly 4 billion on ads last year, and in general services are now 25% of their total revenue. https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddoty/2023/02/08/apple-the-...
> I’d put money on others launching similar things.

WeChat has had this for years (and other messengers in South Wast Asia).

I have no idea why in-chat apps were never successfully implemented in the "West". There were minimal attempts by bot Apple and Facebook to add apps to their chats, but at best it's "let's add stickers"
Look at human history. We absolutely ought to fear power and those who wield it.
About the "not post anything" part, is not as easy as you think, I hold myself accounttable to my actions and the lack thereof, so like many here of my most valued principles is to do good, as in "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing", so sometimes I weight the likelihood of being banned (or just disliked, in general) against any positive impact my comment might have even if extremely tiny, specially when discussing life and death issues such as religion, or in the words of Minoo Majidi: "If I don't go out and protest, who else will?"
If you're leasing it from them, you're not the owner, they are.
If you have to resort to labeling and name calling to make your point, you've lost.
> Maybe we should revisit those decisions. Even individuals revisit decisions, it is insane that we don't revisit certain decisions.

Isn't that what the annual budget process is about? Why do we need a separate process to allow for the borrowing to make the payments for the things that were individually authorized (often with renewals every so often) and then collectively authorized in the budget?

If you don't think the programs are efficient enough as it is, the collosal waste of a government shutdown should be a definite no. Those waste money in that there's extra work to prepare for closing and to reopen, that prevents people from doing the actual work they should be doing, as well as the fact that all of the government workers unable to work because of the shutdown end up getting paid anyway.
It's not bad faith, you're literally just not responding to what I'm saying! Only one of the metrics I brought up (actual global temperature) could even be affected by La Nina. And I'm not saying it isn't affected by it.

It seems like its easier for you to pretend I'm some kind of global warming denier than to actually engage with what I'm saying.

It's fascinating psychologically, but obviously we're not having a productive conversation. I hope you're able in the future to look at this stuff with clearer eyes. It doesn't seem like you'll be very helpful in solving this problem if this is how you approach it.
then it could be an amazingly clever mechanical duck like character.

still not a duck though.
From YouTube Music?! I'm this close to dropping their Premium service since they keep playing the same songs over and over. I too avoid the trending lists, Top Ten lists, etc. I can't remember a time when YTP exposed me to a new non-ambient artist.

What's your trick?
Why are you assuming MP3/OGG formats are the ones to use for game audio compression ?

It's like trying to use PNG for texture compression instead of better suited formats.
Why Did Thomas Harriot Invent Binary?
> "I have a rock that keeps away tigers in my town. No one in the town I’ve lived in work my rock has ever been attacked by tigers. Would you like to buy my magical rock?"

I'm not sure if the "correlation != causation" argument works here. They have serious laws to prevent drug smuggling, and all the data shows that it is working. Logic suggests deterrent against serious crime => less serious crime

> "Moreover, I suspect like all places, Singaporians don’t have that much difficulty accessing illicit drugs."

"I suspect" is not a valid source.

"Singapore has one of the lowest rates of drug abuse in the world: 30 opiates abusers per 100,000 people" (source: The Washington Post)

Perhaps the law serving as a deterrent against heinous crimes works?
I can say the same about literally every security apart from crypto. Heck, even money is just an useless paper that we put too much value on. Proving my point that anyone can be a cynic
Meanwhile, over in metaverse land, there are petabytes of content in the big worlds.

I've been working on a faster Second Life / Open Simulator client. Those have a
reputation for being sluggish. That's rapidly changing.

All content is loaded on demand. Textures are stored in JPEG 2000 format.
JPEG 2000 decoders come in several flavors - slow and flaky, fast but need the GPU, and midrange but expensive. If you want to rewrite OpenJPEG in Rust, go for it. You can download part of a JPEG 2000 file and get a lower resolution texture, and that's what's done for distant objects. The general idea is to download textures at a size that gets one texel per screen pixel. (Yes, subpixel textures would be better.) Textures are locally cached to SSD. Background threads are frantically loading and unloading textures in the GPU at different resolutions as the viewpoint moves. The highest resolution is compressed losslessly; the others are lossy.

In metaverse systems with user generated content, there's not much instancing. So the texture load is much higher. Wander around Cyberpunk 2077 and you'll see the same railing show up in completely different contexts. This doesn't happen in worlds with user-created content.
There's no producer or art director to insist on reusing content.

If your game downloads content on the fly, you need substantial content delivery capacity.
Second Life front-ends Amazon AWS with Akamai. Open Simulator, on the other hand, often just hosts the content on a single game server, along with the the simulator itself. My own viewer pulls about 200Mb/s from the content servers for about 15 seconds when you first connect. Then it's done until the viewpoint moves.
Reminds of the of the now-defunct JPG Internet project, which was a Facebook page that you could post a link and it would comment back an image of the page. For when your ISP only allows to to view Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/JPGInternet/
If you feel that way, there are far more important things to do than post on an internet forum.
I got into green tea around 2014 (my how time flies) and I've had a lot of experiences.

Depending on how sensitive you are everything can change the taste, but IMO the big three are:

- water (huge, huge differences)

- type of tea (cultivar, when/ where it was harvested, steam time)

- brew temp and time

I eventually settled on a system where I heat filtered water in a regular pot with a meat thermometer to the right temp (this is usually between 155-170F depending on the specific tea), pour over tea into a glass pot (through stainless steel basket), brew from 30-60 seconds (again depending on tea), serve. I also measure the water, and weigh the tea on a scale.

It might sound convoluted and compared with like, brewing a kettle and dumping over a bag it is. I mostly drink earl grey now, probably as a result. In the summers it's a lot easier, I just dump tea in a pitcher of water and put it in the fridge overnight.

Also, I wholeheartedly recommend o-cha.com for tea and peripherals.
I don't think he is correct. As with many other things, tenure is a benefit that has a cost: if you want to attract people without offering tenure, you just increase your salaries to compensate for the lack of a permanent employment guarantee. Tenure is worth quite a bit, but as the market for non-tenured research positions show it's not worth Microsoft Research salaries much, and very much within the budget of big universities since they now have the flexibility to fire people and don't have to think of each case of tenure granted as permanent cash flow going out.

The thing about academic hiring and academia in general that's interesting is that prestige is highly integrated into every aspect of the industry. It's also highly reliant on foreign labour, as they get an exemption from visa caps that both gives them the ability to hire from a vastly greater labour pool and also makes them attractive as places to work for smart foreigners. A professor position at a prestigious university is still worth a lot just for the prestige alone, tenure or not, as you get access to other prestigious colleagues, a higher quality pool of PhD students, and a sense remaining in the general academic community as a whole (although I guess we'll see if this remains true).

I'm not entirely convinced that tenure is a driving factor for faculty hires. It's true that traditionally, tenure-track positions are the "real" research jobs, and non-tenure track positions are where they hire the grunts to do some teaching at really terrible rates, but the reason that they can get away with doing that is because there are vastly more PhDs than there are positions for them, even in competitive STEM fields. This is why tenured positions have been mostly disappearing over the past decade. There's no reason this system has to remain, the tenure-track can just become the full-professor track, and nothing much has to change.

In my opinion, this will not have too much of an effect on the academic job market in Texas. The people that cared enough about politics to swear off all jobs in Texas were never really an option (oh no the gender studies department will be empty, what will the Texas politicians think about this tragic development), and the rest are still in the competitive market of academic hires.

I think, independent of this whole Texas saga, that the whole notion of academic tenure needed a rework anyways, as it never really made sense to me why specifically research positions have a permanent offer of employment. The whole notion of academic freedom is mostly a load of bullshit, if you don't write the correct things you don't get grants, and if you don't get grants you're effectively fired at big research universities anyways, tenure or not. What's left is a guarantee of employment that causes a great deal of inflexibility in the job market and on the institutions, and causes a great deal of risk aversion. The rework didn't need to come like this, but it'll be interesting to see what comes of it.
Similarly, I enjoy using cheap goods made by enslaved children, so I'm going to keep doing it.

Maybe you don't care but your emissions kill people.
I'm the author. It's not spin. It's about preserving and bringing back the early spirit of what made rockets progress so quickly.

Yuri Gagarin's launch on Vostok 1 and the launch of Apollo 11 are 8 years 3 months 4 days apart. Or, 3,017 days. For reference, it took 11 years between SLS' announcement and an uncrewed launch. It'll be around twice the time difference between Vostok 1 and Apollo 11 before the SLS delivers humans to the moon.

Humanity progressed so quickly during Project Apollo because they were accepting of "failure" and willing to embrace the associated risk. Post-Apollo and post-Challenger, this willingness and risk appetite completely disappeared leading to paralysis.

When we call something as awesome (in the traditional sense of the word) as yesterday's test a "failure," we are implicitly rejecting the Apollo paradigm and embracing the SLS one. I think it's harmful for humanity, in the long run, to do so.

We should build and launch more rockets. Some of them will explode. Such is life.
Keep in Chat: Your New Sender Superpower
Indians Consider Themselves Vegetarian
But Windows lets you snapshot and rollback via Volume Shadow Copying (System Restore in UI + 3rd party tool Shadow Explorer to browse snapshots).
Users flagged your comment. I didn't touch it.
because Asia leap-frogged over old internet protocols in favor of platforms, whereas a lot of Western systems are tied into email, websites and the crawlable/open web. Same reason SMS is still popular in the US compared to ip-based chatting everywhere else.
GDPR requires you to request consent for any cookies the “could” be used to identify you, which makes them personal information.

So if you want to use cookies to link a user’s sessions on your own website together (without actually identifying them) so every request doesn’t look like a totally anonymous, opaque request, then you must show a cookie banner.

You could (presumably) do this through browser fingerprinting and not require consent (since you don’t actually enrich/link the browser fingerprint to be become user data) but you need a cookie banner if you do it with a cookie.
> midwest isn't more forgiving

As with all social etiquette, it's a guideline, not a law. The outcome depends entirely on your relationship with your boss and what kind of position the team is left in when you leave.
Is the humane part that you have to keep holding your hand out in front of you to use it?

One thing I learned from years of power-glove hacking is you really don't want to spend your whole day with your arm up in front of you.
Selection bias is insidious, and impossible to rid.

By definition, news is things that are newsworthy. I.e. the most common things to tech receive coverage are the uncommon to things.

If four people get shot over the weekend in Riverdale, not news. If four people get shot over the weekend in Beverly Hills, news.

You don't even have to try to bias news for it be biased. (Now imagine if you try.)
I moved thousands of miles so I could live a better life and not have to drive everywhere. Driving sucks. More emissions != happier.
They didn't sell any data to Cambridge Analytica. CA just ran apps (quizzes) on Facebook at a time where such apps would be given too many permissions by default. In particular they'd have access to the user's friend list. Much like apps on iPhones back in the day.
“From the ocean surface to depths of about 500 meters CO2 would exist as a gas and would tend to rise in the water column, since it is less dense than seawater. Between 500 meters and 2,700 meters CO2 would exist as a liquid, but one that is still lighter than seawater and would thus also rise in the water column. At depths up to 2,700 meters CO2 will create a rising plume and dissolve into the surrounding seawater relatively quickly.

At depths deeper than 3,000 meters the weight of the water column compresses the liquid CO2 and it becomes denser than seawater and sinks slowly to the seafloor.” [0]

So yes, even at normal temperatures for that depth C02 would be a gas; definitely so at volcanic temperatures!

[0] https://maritime-executive.com/features/ocean-storage-of-co2
It's honestly not even worth engaging on this topic anymore. People who understand the space industry know exactly what's going on, everyone else just woke up to headlines about an explosion and mouthed off based on how annoyed they are about the various idiot things Elon's been tweeting.

None of the Twitter drama matters, they'll go back to work on the rocket and it will work or it won't. (It probably will.)
The article mentioned primarily download sizes and times. Honestly having +1Gb/S download speeds is quite nice. I also run a local 10Gb/S local network and again it makes large files seem small.
Ah I see. So the data that FB collected was leaked to 3rd parties because of the systems they put in place exposed it. That's not much better.

The end result was the same, and it let to a wave of privacy resulting in Apple locking down their app permissions further, and FB throwing a fit about it.
The tripling of food production has a very real impact in those areas.
Related professions like scriptwriters and script doctors are the same. Most people will make very modest amounts. But a handful can create a huge amount of value with just the right structure and words-and assuming they have the right connections.
I'd rather have more RAM in the GPU and give up the ray tracing hardware.

The real problem in the industry is that GPUs are not getting cheaper. It cost about $250 for an 6GB NVidia 1060 in 2016, and it costs about $250 for a basic NVidia card today that can do slightly better.
Meanwhile, people are buying $100 WalMart laptops and trying to play games on them.
Thanks for the praise, and yes a UCS-2 based solution would be the natural progression of this project. Unfortunately it becomes much more complicated to encode because of how many code points are available! Your DuckDuckGo and Weather solutions look great, especially since they are focused on specific problems, they are space-efficient and easy to use without an app. It's interesting that you bring up your case of rural neighbors with unlimited SMS but not internet - I do see your point about the chicken-and-egg problem, but my intentions were that since the app is packaged as an apk, the file could be shared around when people meet up over Bluetooth or similar protocols.
> Perhaps the law serving as a deterrent against heinous crimes works?

That's not what evidence about the death penalty shows.
None of those are implied. What I posted was bog-standard HN moderation. You could replace the name Feinstein with any other, or her party or politics with any other, and I'd have posted the same moderation response.

I'm not sure what you're finding hard to understand about HN having a guideline that asks people not to call names or do flamewar.
Leap-frogged has the connotation of "progress".

Walled gardens and controlled ecosystems are horrible and concentrate power in the gatekeepers.

I hope the experience is kludgy and user unfriendly to the point that startups not contained in the straightjackets of other systems continue to win out.
Most corporations do not plot to kill or destroy their competition or adversaries using weapons, even if that might be in their economic interest. Only countries do this sometimes. I think this is because corporation don't have enough power over society.

If, however, you accelerate competition, eventually you might get just one corporation (perhaps appearing to be several, directed by the same "best-there-is" AI-CEO) that achieves world domination and can never be removed from power. An immortal dictator that never rests and can monitor each action of and interact personally with each person under their control at the same time.
Should we make financial crimes legal on the basis that "It's just signing and exchanging pieces of paper"?
It's from sunrise to sunset, no? Can't you get it on at night instead of during the day?
If the code is being provided as output from an LLM, I don't know that they themselves could even say where the code came from. Attribution might not be possible in that case. Similarly, how might one remove say, GPL code from the model, without regenerating from all the rest of the inputs alone?
https://jimmyhmiller.github.io/empirical
It's not like the Chinese didn't know about alphabetic scripts. Alphabets predate Chinese writing.

Chinese is written the way it is for roughly the same reasons why English doesn't use phonetic spelling.
So it matters when wind is providing 20%, but it doesn't matter when it's providing 100%. Thus, even though coal use is at a historic low, it's actually increasing, and in other news water is dry and grass is red.
I actually came across that post earlier too and included the most useful and applicable links inside of the app's welcome page under Quick Links!
Repress your feelings of desire for your neighbor’s wife. Do not act on those feelings. Stay away from anything that could even slightly make you sinful or think of sinful desires.

This is a form of discipline and mastery of desires. Enlighten me how this is not what a faith built on God’s word should be commanding on any individual?
but houjicha isn't even considered green tea in Japan. it's brown...
What I like about PHP is that it's not just batteries-included, it's "Entire Batteries Plus Store Included". The standard library is huge, documented, and also features 15 years of accumulated notes and discussion right on php.net.

The tendency to have a npm package for everything is overwhelming because you end up with choice paralysis and risk on picking "Oh, you picked CSV-to-array library #823, it's the buggy/insecure/unmaintained one."
> To be fair, the have been a lot of people with a lot of claims about experts being wrong & awful & lying, and a very large number of these people seem pretty batshit crazy.

Many of these "batshit crazy" folks appear to have been correct in hindsight.
> Taipei Times is not state owned

One can never be fully sure.
WeChat is garbage. The only reason it gained prominence is because (better) alternatives are banned or blocked, causing spillover network effect to Chinese outside of China.
Maintain consistent styles for developers working across various editors
> Males have dominated all power structures in every society in the history of humankind

> Why are men doing this to themselves?

What you are doing here is using a tiny substrata of hyper-successful men (those who "dominated power structures" as you put it) and using that to represent the entire structure of Western society. There is nothing about that that is vaguely appropriate.
for libre 2 if you use the bluetooth mode. You actually would install the libre app for initialization and then deinstall it so that it doesn't interfere.

nice, whats the name of the app?
Are you singular, or the amalgamation of constituent cells?
In France, for example, only 0.2% of nuclear waste is high level long-live waste and needs to be disposed of somewhere deep and safe.

The absolute vast majority is low-level waste that we have not trouble with. See report on nuclear inventory: https://international.andra.fr/sites/international/files/202... page 14

The FUD around nuclear waste is FUD and politics
Interestingly there seems to be a trend to refer to an individual fact point as a "factoid". I wonder where that originated.

EDIT: I just looked it up and a factoid is a manufactured fact, coined by Norman Mailer in 1973. I seems many use it differently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThe_te...
no, knowledge qualifies a structural engineer, not licensing

in the ideal case, they coincide, but that ideal is always far from reality

by proposing that licensing is what qualifies a structural engineer you are engaging in petitio principii: asking us to stipulate a premise which is in reality just a disguised version of your (incorrect) thesis, and from which you can then easily prove it