skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The king has veto power over any acts he believes affects him, and him and the queen have apparently used the threat of this many times in order to shape UK legislation before it's argued on. Apparently almost all legislation is passed by the royal family's office for edits before it goes up for debate.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vette...

This idea that the royal family has no meaningful political power is not congruent with how the British political system works.
Yes, I watch this a couple of times a year. It's just beautiful.
Solar flare risk is underestimated since it's not something we've previously experienced in full force. Based on conversations I've had with electrical engineers that work for a national power company, they don't have any measures in place to protect us from solar flares bringing down the full power grid.

A sufficiently powerful solar flare event would probably lead to millions of deaths, as I understand it.
Management: You don't want to work remotely
Employees: Yes we do
Management: No you don't, look at all these studies about how bad it is for us?
Employees: We don't care
Management: No you don't, look at all these studies about how bad it is for you, sorta, in some minor aspects?

Some people want to work remotely, other people don't, and management/corpos HATE it because they invested in massive office leases/are listening to their rich investor friends who have money tied in urban office real estate.

I'm sick of these propaganda pieces, you're not going to convince the people who want something that they don't want it this way. IDGAF how much my "career" will suffer, I like spending my day hugging my wife and gardening when I don't have work on my desk. FOH.
Laravel Jetstream – SaaS application starter kit
Twitter fueled run on Silicon Valley Bank, new paper finds
Would running a container of your choice (Docker, etc.) allow testing/developing tools that require newer versions of things?

When I say “things” here, I’ll give you an example. If I wanted to develop for Emacs 29 and work on most of the new flashy tech, could I do all of this in a container on top of an old-faithful Debian? (I’d be satisfied even if I didn’t get GUI functionality but rather just all the back end Emacs stuff.)

This question really extends to: does an older Debian allow working with cutting edge stuff inside containers?
Why would anyone answer 12?

Unless... most human thinking is this lower-end language model, which looks at word patterns without giving much thought to them.

"12" is not intuition. It is repetition.
Is that a "real" problem, though? Like does that blue checkmark actually change how you use twitter? Have all the historic "verified" accounts become invalidated and fake based on the blue checkmark being tied to the account?
It goes so much deeper, one could claim:

- Real coders use assembly language. Compilers are for people who can talk to the machine directly.

- But wait, actually calculating machines are a crutch. real programmers just work out everything on paper.

- Wait paper is a crutch, external memory, so yeah you need to figure everything out in your head.

Tools continue to evolve. We can not fall in love with the current set of tools such that we exclude anything new that comes along.
OP still doesnt realize NFTs ARE _shitcoins that are all scams_
From my very quick glance at the numbers, they make roughly the same amount of profit. From that starting point, add in Tesla's much more rapid growth. Then add in another factor for VW having products optimized for a rapidly-disappearing era.

TSLA is still overhyped, but I would never invest in VW, unless the stock takes a massive dive, or they spin out Porsche.
Mine is pretty good too, but what I'd appreciate more than a page of random algorithm-matched videos is something with structure.

Like a tree, where a video I watched, or one of my subscriptions, points to suggestions. To wit, often the links suggested at the end of a video are the most interesting to me.

As someone who uses YouTube to consume foreign news, I'd also love a setting that lets me see only content and recommendations in a given language.
The funny part is that he didn't even care to generate a different number of reviews for each book, or to add a few 4's in just to make it more realistic. He used the exact same number of reviews for many books, and all are full 5's!
As a Millennial, I can confidently say this is not true.

I learned LAMP architecture as a kid by reading tutorial webpages and following along. No bank account or library card needed. Wikis and how to's were updated regularly, were uninterrupted by ads and were easily searchable! I learned SQL on a dynamic website where I could write code and see results (or errors) instantly! If I needed help, message boards were there. Even today, I learn things way more quickly from a stack exchange post than a YT video.

Anyone can be motivated to learn something on their own, but if they are successful, it's not going to be because of YT.
> I tried the Witcher but I just couldn't sit through all that dialog.

That is issue with all witchers imo. I once wanted to play them, but literally after an hour of boring cut scenes I rage quitted.
For those experts in the field, curious how this study relates to this one : https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2011-17952-001 , I'm absolutely no expert in any of this, but I am bilingual and did encourage my kids to explore and learn new language(s).
Of course not, because in any case, a training set is needed, and it will not be built by the animals themselves, but by people who ask questions like: "Can generative AI lead us to understanding animals?".
AI-generated books are flooding Amazon: they're as reliable as you would guess
sure, a sync function and an async function get compiled to two different things under the hood, but IMO colored/uncolored is about ux, not what happens under the hood. In go, or erlang, which don't have async coloring, you don't actually care what the system does under the hood. More generically, if a system takes a private function and can choose to inline it, you probably wouldn't moan that under the hood it's doing something different and thus "inlining is function coloring". Maybe you would.

I guess the question hinges on "just how hard" counts as "hard" for #3. I would say "not having to write an event loop because the compiler generates another version for the sync-calling-async with a single keyword" case counts as "not hard", but this is a matter of perspective. The language design still has rough edges, and you certainly ran into them, but with the function pointer stuff, I think you were really trying hard to break it to prove a specific point (this is a good thing! it will allow the team to fix it). To that point, they simply hadn't run into the specific runtime/comptime thing that you ran into, but it's pretty easy to see how exactly what you ran into can be addressed and fixed at comptime, it... just hasn't yet.
> Entry level employees need to learn how to succeed and grow in this environment because economically it is just so overwhelmingly better for me, the business owner.

As a business owner, you need to teach those entry level employees to succeed in the remote environment, or your remote hiring is going to get a lot less economical for you in the future.

> I predict a surge in downtown living within the next 5 years as offices are converted or destroyed and rebuilt as apartments and condos. Young people will live there and WFH but get their socialization from the critical mass of young people living around them, learning how to make friends post-college outside of work (which is way healthier as well).

That's probably wishful thinking to a large degree, especially the part about making friends. Some people will figure it out, but many will founder (which IIRC, is borne out in loneliness statistics)
If you're not familiar with how the British constitution works, this stuff can be confusing. But "The bill sought to transfer the power to authorise military strikes against Iraq from the monarch to Parliament" actually means "transfer the power from the PM to Parliament so that Parliament gets a vote." Command of the military is a royal prerogative executive power that is exercised by the Prime Minister, not the Monarch.

If you're genuinely interested, you can learn more about the Royal Prerogative and prerogative powers here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn03...
an extended comment for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35687868
Some people flourish anywhere, some do so at home, some need closer supervision to do their best. I don't think anyone needs watercooler idle chat to get them to do the best they can.
experimental VFIO migration? I guess this will make easier to migrate a VM with GPU workload from host to host without interrupting it
I agree. My wife and I get the YouTube Premium with Music family plan, and we both agree that of all of the monthly subscriptions we pay, YouTube Premium is the best deal because we use YouTube as much as Netflix, HBO, Prime, etc. combined.

For me, the hidden jewels on YT are philosophy and other “thoughtful” style streams, Chess, Thai Chi, some alternative news, news from foreign countries, and short sci-fi content. But, there are thousands of niches like what I follow, something for everyone.

The recommendation algorithm is not perfect for me, I need to do some work to find content, but it works well enough.
> Meanwhile, engineer compensation expectations have gone up a lot since the Pebble days.

Rents have gone up since pebble days. Not just engineers, everyone needs to be paid more today.

The housing crisis is eating civilisation
Efficient Methods for NLP: A Survey
I wrote some more thoughts based on this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35688499
This [1] is, to my knowledge, the latest word on who'd own the copyright. And the answer is most likely the author, with the second most likely candidate being nobody. In a nutshell, "AI" generated content itself cannot be copyrighted since the process is carried out by software instead of a human, and software cannot be assigned ownership of copyright. However, material that is sufficiently recombined in a 'creative way' can be copyrighted.

The case/example mentioned is that a single image from image generation software cannot be copyrighted, but a series of related images being used to tell a story can be copyrighted, because it's a human carrying out the creative task.

[1] - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/us-issues-guidan...
> Blair years having to beep out certain references to Peter Mandelson — the Dominic Cummings of his era

I thought Alastair Campbell was Blair's Cummings ?
Cool idea. The website is...man...a lot.
That's because it's output/input = eggs/(hen*day), not eggs/(hen/day), which is clear from meaning and logic if you aren't a GPT 2 LLM
Because real populations don't grow like that. Humans are extremely K-selected, ie it is optimal for us to spend a lot of resources on a small number of offspring. In a resource abundant world that means you can give your kids more food, better clothing and shelter, and more parental attention. Having additional children divides the amount of resources remaining for the others: imagine a family raising 2 kids to adulthood and a 20% surplus of resources - sufficient for 2.4 children; a third child would mean each individual would only receive 80% of the resources they need. You need some multitude of children to successfully pass on your genes, but genetic break even is below population breakeven. Thus in pre-industrial societies population tends to remain stable over long periods of time, you'll get a little bit of growth, but plagues and famines would reset this. For example in Britain the population in 1450 AD was only 11% higher than in 1086 AD, which in turn was only 13% higher than in 100 BC.

The rapid growth we see in the modern era and which Malthus based his theory on is a result of infant mortality declining. Back when the 50% of children died before adulthood, there needed to be about twice as many pregnancies to produce a sustainable number of mature offspring. It takes a few generations from when the extra kids stop dying young to when people adjust their behavior to no longer produce all those extra kids, and so you get a few decades of extremely rapid population growth with doubling times close to a single generation. Eventually people do adapt and start targeting smaller family sizes, but population growth continues for several more decades as the extra offspring have kids of their own (a process known as population momentum). After 70-150 years the population has completely adjusted to the new circumstances and the population levels off or even begins declining, a process we are currently seeing in several developed nations despite the absurd abundance of resources available to us compared to pre-industrial times.
What blobs does the MIPI DSI to eDP converter chip run?
In the game of prisoners dilemma, I want to be around people who practice the winning strategy.

A game to demonstrate why that is important: https://ncase.me/trust/

If you cooperate when others defect, you promote defection as a strategy.

If you defect when others cooperate, you undermine cooperation as a winning strategy.

So a community that shut down defectors and cooperates by default creates a community based around cooperation -- a high trust community.

Bad faith is another word for defection. It is hard to understand the game you are playing or see the consequences of your actions without education.
This is very cool. IIRC, in William Gibson's The Peripheral, characters in the future timeline would control their "phones" with their tongues just like this. I believe they had implants on the roof of their mouths instead of a prosthetic, but basically the same concept.
We have hummingbird moths here in Texas. They're not afraid of humans, so I've seen them just a few feet from me several times. They look and act and fly just like hummingbirds -- you have to look closely to see that they're not birds, then you'll notice the antennae, and the lack of feathers, and the "beak" being flexible.
I think there should be explicit penalties for passing off movies with special effects as movies. There are externalities to society when you create something that isn't real! There should be a "MadeWith" stack for all special effects you use - no more undisclosed animatronics, makeup, or miniatures! Soon, all our trust in film will be destroyed from everyone making stop-motion movies!
Twitter is explicitly communicating that dead celebrities have actively subscribed (paid $8/month) and verified a phone number, which is just inaccurate. At the least, they should have just left the legacy copy, because this is tasteless.
I would care about a story - if they were not so stupid and time wasting. Stories in books and tv series matter to me. But, video game stories are just badly written. When they try to make characters, they end full of false sentimentalism, when they dont try it they end up wooden.
> I’d mandate a “BuiltWith” thing all the way down to the compilers you used for code, graphics editors for images, and what you used for sounds etc. Like Ingredients that FDA demands be listed on locally produced food in USA, but for a different reason.

I'm not sure how that would work for plaintext or generally copying pixels.

What, though, about generative content being used in a supplementary manner? There's a gamut of uses. Some artists using it as the basis for subsequent editing, some tracing (I know artists who do this now, in a sense laundering the work and to have proof of progress), others just for parts of a composition, etc.
I hope it doesn't hurt any open source projects, but if there's there's one project that has bloat to trim it's GNOME. It's good that there's experimentation happening with Linux desktops, but that experimentation should not be happening on an "enterprise" distribution. The default RHEL desktop should be boring and reliable, not flashy and experimental like GNOME.
Yeah, i would not watch willingly any of that content if even i were paid to do so. I pitty content moderators who have to filter through such content.
Dev speed.
I think this is an admirable attitude. Hopefully it catches on!
YouTube case at Supreme Court could shape protections for ChatGPT and AI
> It doesn't help that the close button is sometimes barely visible.

This particular dark pattern is nasty and unfortunately common across more than just newsletter popups. It doesn’t trip me up but I could see how others could fall victim to it.

If opting out is so strongly preferred by users that you have to try to hide the opt-out button for users to do anything else, maybe you shouldn’t be trying to do the thing they’re so adamantly opting out of.
Certain teams thrive off of word-of-mouth data flowing across. I've experienced both type of work environments.

Usually, people may casually walk over to the area where the office gossip happens to get some info. It doesn't have to be a magical hallway or a water cooler.
I love seeing Bullet Train progress. I've never used it, but I'm super eager to use it if I ever get the chance.

There's one more framework being built on top of Rails and I think worth mentioning - RailsUI: https://railsui.com/
What does the DSI to eDP converter chip run? Does it have internal flash or just a bootrom running the firmware?
It’s an excitation of the sensor. It may be interpreted somewhat like a bit flip when converted to an image, but it’s normal for image sensors to experience a lot of noise, going back to the days of film. It may just be eliminated by the denoising algorithm like most spurious electrons/photons.
> The King has no meaningful power at all,

Please define "meaningful power".

Because getting millions of pounds from the state every year [1], having massive media attention, having the ear of international leaders in politics, and having ones face on currency, sounds pretty impactful to me, especially given the fact that all this is conferred by being born to certain parents, and not by, say, something like an election.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Grant_Act_2011
From a mosquito's pov it might be down the foodchain.
I get 24 hours tops without wifi. Huh?? I thought it was normal, will contact support.
Vibrator. :-)
Show HN: Hey, it's jams. ask me to make a Spotify playlist just for you. (AI)
The water cooler experience extends beyond the actual conversations occurring to encompass a general camaraderie that gets built being in proximity to others. Schools had the same effect happen in over lock down - students weren't sitting next to other students and overhearing projects they were on, general grievances with school work, or miscellaneous "the game last night" stuff. Without that sense of community, you can really feel alone and things like imposter syndrome have a chance to creep it.

Obviously, I'm in the camp that thinks the water cooler myth exists. It can extend to just learning colleague Z has 2 kids. Things that can happen online, but also might not since small talk and casual conversations might not occur as often. It can happen more naturally during periods of "waiting" - like waiting for a class/meeting to start vs everyone logging into Zoom at exactly the start of the meeting.
Yeah. Now what about cases where the max contention is bounded (say, at most 2 threads waiting on a lock)? And what about factors other than running time? How does, say, fairness affect this picture?
I don't believe it is known to have any firmware.
>What open source company? Not Elastic, surely.

Why not? That's immediately who I thought of.

Company 1 develops an open-sources a product, and in order to make money from it, provides that product as a hosted service.

AWS uses their market dominance to provide a similar service and eats Company 1's lunch.

Company 1 changes their license so that any other company hosting the product as a service has to pay.

AWS forks it and acts like the good guy.
I think it would be more apt to call it plenty of "evidence"...
Try Withings

It lasts a week on battery, shows time mechanicaly, records hearbeat and usual accelerometer/sleep/wtv.

Not as advanced as Garmin/others, but its neater and simpler.

The timepiece functionality lasts a month without charging. Here being a watch comes first, bells and whistles are secondary
Which is somewhat unfortunate. Having the device go mainstream is one way to reduce the cost per unit, or even subsidize the cost for people who really need it. Many accessibility technologies end up being an improvement for everyone.

I would certainly be interested in the device purely from a keeping-both-hands-on-the-keyboard perspective.
"My customers don't see it as a problem, so it's not a problem" is probably exactly how tobacco companies and casinos justify their practices as well.
And to the point, Rees-Mogg was elected. Misguided they might be, but a majority of those who voted in his constituency (yup, not just a plurality, a majority) picked Rees-Mogg. For better or worse that's democracy for you.
Apologies if I am remembering the anecdote incorrectly, it might have been more than two weeks. (We were in a chat group and he was bemoaning his visa headaches, I forget the exact mechanics of his company policy, since that wasn't the crux of the issue)

The point was, however earlier they had given their employees the notice, his visa was going to arrive much later than that.

Visa for us is extremely difficult, someone on twitter shared a screenshot, the Canadian website told to expect a wait of "580 days" or something absurd like that.

So you can hire remote workers cheaply from other countries (and no employment visa headaches), but if you expect to call them for a quick visit, plan absurdly early.
There is just no way that 7% of parents in the US are using meth, or even 10% are using drugs (outside of alcohol, tobacco, weed). There just is no way that is accurate at all.
the title is somewhat misleading; the Gov hasn't said this exactly, this is just very likely outcome of this bill.
the bill says that platforms that host user generated content would be required to up the moderation game and to feed the content (messages) into a home-office built/approved system for monitoring. (not sure if all content goes through HO or if it's just messages). no one is banning maths or secure banking just e2ee for comms.

It also mentioned that people within the user generated content company would be held criminally liable for breaches of this law, spefically content moderation. completely defeats the point of being a company.

the whole thing is a fucking joke and should be scrapped, just thought I'd clarify some points
That’s cool, is that some sort of specialized equipment, or could that observation be replicated by an amateur with a RAW-capable camera?
I'm not techie by any means so I read the question as an "ease of access for multiple parties without vendor lock-in" issue. I would want the front-end views to customizable based on roles, access levels or whatever and it seems to me (I plan on using this myself) that the best answer is Cube.

See HN post:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31493118
I've seen it. But, it never seemed to make any difference to what I was actually given leeway to implement on the job.

It's like sideprojects and github repos during a job search - everyone says they are important, everyone thinks they are important, but at the end of the day, very few decision makers are willing to put in the time and risk of involving them in the process of their work.
Keep in contact with everyone who thinks highly of your work. A strong recommendation (“you must hire person X, they’re perfect”) is the best defense against age discrimination. You can’t help it if your employer moves your job to India. You can lay the ground to make the transition faster.
> You should only consider going for a lockless algorithm if you can prove it is better than just using a mutex.

I'm with you. If you aren't benchmarking your datastructure changes, you probably shouldn't be messing around with lock-free code to begin with.