skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a trend of software engineers that don't see users as someone who they are providing service to - they see them as just one element of a machine they're optimizing to make their software better. They feel that the engineering quest itself is the most important thing in the world, so they feel entitled to any and all data they are technically capable of collecting.

It's a shame. I wish more engineers would see things through Richard Stallman's eyes, and realize that software is supposed to serve its users, not its creators. But, as the saying goes: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
I just used a similar product for making screenshot sets for an iOS app I just released. A real easy extension would be to offer export options for Apple/Google play screenshot sizes, then you open up to another (albeit, probably small) market.
You may enjoy this SNL song Short-Ass Movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UKbwz6s6VY
"I hope there isn't a time in the future when people see the current wave of anti-alcoholism as just a silly fad we had in the early 20th century." - someone in 1930
GPL doesn't force upstreaming, just making the sources available. Plenty of small vendors are not upstreaming their gcc patches. It's more a question of man-hours than of license.
If it were called zarplof munksie, she likely wouldn't have asked for a glass.
Do auto insurance rates on touch screen cars show this to be the case? Cars with touch screens have been around long enough that they should have data, and consequently be charging more for insurance on those cars if they are is that is indeed the case.
A human interpreting the prompt would see "asian" as being in contrast to "indian" in the language of the prompt... Not a level of comprehension that can be expected of current models but maybe in a few years (months?).
They have consent for that. It's not hard.

Also consent to store does not imply consent to read, process, make use of.
History comes in circles and tends to repeat itself.
I'd agree, but the old version should be kept available.

Best example I can think of is Apocalypse Now. The 40th anniversary bluray released a couple of years ago had _three_ versions inside: Theatrical (1979), Redux (2001) and Final Cut (2019).
And on like every car made in the era where screens were high in pixel density but weren't touch capable yet.
The big picture I'm seeing is there's a game being played[1], but to your point, AMD did respond to RTX 4070 launch by dropping prices on RX 6800 series GPUs[2].

[1] https://scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_workingpaper/343/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35663511
I could have written this word for word. Maybe we should do a cranky-HNers-of-Berlin meetup.

Some uneasy food for thought: we're not that far off from the brave lucky weirdos who moved to NYC in the 1970s and bought decrepit flats for a song, who now find themselves aged and bewildered among the billionaires, trying to afford groceries. Hopefully it won't progress quite that far, but NYC does show that capital isn't deterred by a little dysfunctional urban chaos.
Isn't it sort of the same question regarding if it would be better to use an open source vs a closed source solution? This way all operators can be sure the profit is shared fairly, it's transparent. However it creates probably unnecessary data redundancy. It could also be pruned after a while.
This comment has a bunch of spoilers in it. I've watched it so this hasn't changed anything for me, but I'm sure many here intent to watch it but haven't had the time yet. Reacting these spoilers may be a good idea.
I'd like to strongly disagree!

When I'm barreling down the road with 2 metric tons of steel under my ass I'll prefer the shittiest tactile UI that let's me FEEL by touch alone if a) the command I'm about to issue is the desired one and b) if i actually issued the command!

I'll take a physical button or dial for my AC over a touch screen submenu slider any day in a car, even if the touchscreen was <18ms and button had a second or two of delay.

In this scenario the responsiveness of UI is completely irrelevant if it requires me to take my eyes off the street to find it and to validate my input in the first place. When i operate a secondary control in a car i technically already have to shortly compromise ideal safety by taking one hand off the steering wheel and thinking about an additional process. That might be brief, but things happen FAST at 100 km/h. If __on top of that__ I have to stop observing what my car and other cars around me are actually doing, hence interrupting the control mechanism that would let me interrupt the current action and react in the case of imminent danger, I'll be compounding the risk of the whole operation (driving) by orders of magnitude.

"Waiting for response" might feel annoying, but it's nowhere near the safety concern "looking at a screen on the center console to hit the right thing on a glass pane while moving and experiencing inertia" will always present. And that's even without additional complications like "hitting the wrong thing because I didn't look and having to visually debug what i just did on the fly, all still while driving".

Touchscreens aren't an issue because their software is bad, but because they're the wrong interface in the first place.

If the UX is bad, the best UI won't fix it. And this goes x1000 for tools that can literally kill me and others.
Many times on HN, commenters have mocked those who questioned why someone would use Dropbox instead of a method controlled by the user. I guess becausse someone made lots of money from it or it became popular or something. I always found this perplexing because I look at solutions from the perspective of the user, namely, me, not from the perspective of a third party "tech" startup founder. It's insensitive to the people on HN who want to other tried and true solutions. "Other people are using Dropbox, so you should too." Who cares. Every user is different. If someone wants to use something else besides Dropbox, why harass them. I could care less what "99%" of users are doing. I care about what I'm doing.

I confess I have never used it. I still rely on USB sticks for a variety of tasks, more than simply transferring files. Anyway, for me, this telemetry nonsense would be one reason I would avoid Dropbox.

Maybe there will someday be telemetry in USB sticks. We'll see. Meanwhile...
That's nothing new with immediate rendering... You can't have great performance and great usability. Not saying I prefer that way, just pointing out the obvious.
Yeah, there's a long tradition with a number of British tech pubs to write in a slangy, snarky style. It's probably not to everyone's taste but that's how things are.
> Do we just “remake” them? How does that work for books?

We leave them alone.

And we read for the kids watch movies with them and don't let them access the full library unsupervised.

We never know what triggers kids. I had nightmares about the toy pirate handgun that the other boy at my age had, that and vw mini buses.

I never had nightmares about some rather nasty things I read (described below trigger warning), but I did have nightmares about a toy gun..!

My point is: we have to face reality at some point. And we have to let children think about it and play with it, even if some of them gets scared of guns or even like me, toy guns.

The rest qualify for a trigger warning, stop here if you don't want to read graphic descriptions of what I read as a kid.

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We had free access to the complete local village library (which was located at the school) almost from we started at school and as a nerdy kid I had read a lot about WW2 way before I became a teenager, much of it old books with first hand accounts of what people saw and experienced, mutilated bodies, literal revenge decimations of locals when Germans couldn't find who had sabotaged them, torture and more.

But for some reason that never haunted me.
Isn't it in the consumer's best interest that the creator is also happy and well compensated as well and that a fair, competitive ecosystem of middle-men (distributors) exists?
> You will not get an interesting conversation on these topics on an American discussion board. These topics are a minefield.

That's a problem. Why have people become so afraid to speak their minds? We live in a democracy or not?
I think they were pointing out the Beren vs Bern spelling not the Mendela effect a to e change.

Although to be completely honest I'm having a little Mendela effect moment myself right now because I thought it was "Bern" as well.
Germany doesn't really have permanent residency - it's more like 'indefinite' residency that is revoked when you leave the country for too long.

So basically what you're saying is that after a few years you need B1 to stay. It's not unreasonable but of course will have an impact on the economy and society just like any other large decision.

I live in Berlin and am A2, with my North Star being B2 German and am a US Citizen with no intention to switch to German citizenship. I'd like to not get kicked out though.

The real caveat though is that many of the people in Berlin who don't speak B1+ German are EU citizens and do not need a visa to live here.
The problem is that nowadays very often the people pushing the "we just want to reduce obvious bad thing X" narrative are using it as a Trojan horse to smuggle in a plethora of other terrible ideas. We don't need to rewrite history or vandalize prior art to create a better future.
I think this is a bit too much of a strawman for an argument that's in line with what's actually discussed in the linked article. Especially when talking about a guy who directed Schindler's List.

> Spielberg was also asked about the controversial re-editing of Roald Dahl’s work which has included changing words like “fat” to “enormous” and “ugly and beastly” to just “beastly”.

> Initially he joked that “Nobody should ever attempt to take the chocolate out of Willy Wonka! Ever!” before adding “For me, it is sacrosanct. It’s our history, it’s our cultural heritage. I do not believe in censorship in that way.”

Roald Rahdl books were a big part of what I remember reading as a child. The words "fat" and "ugly" are absolutely grotesque, but also part of the palette he used to draw his worlds as he wanted people to see them. I think parents have the responsibility to have a proper conversation about the questions their children might have about the some of stuff those books bring up, or make the decision to not read them until the child is of a certain age. At least from my point of view, the central question would be that what is the proper age that a child is old enough to know about the existence of the words "fat" and "ugly".
> Absolutely. Because if we don't draw line there, we'll see no end to history (and art is part of history) being rewritten and modified for increasingly inane reasons.

While I am sympathetic to this argument, the article also mentions updates to stories by Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl. I see those updates as something that right holders do to sell more copies of well-known works to modern audiences. For me, that's their prerogative: their rights, they(1)'re welcome to try and make money off of it.

In other words: do not commit censorship of existing works, but allow updates by anyone (modulo copyright(1)).

(1) who should have exclusive rights (and when) for commercialising works is another question.
> "Childish," from the Latin word for "boy."

I think you mean "puerile", not "childish."

"Child" comes from Proto-Germanic. https://www.etymonline.com/word/child says "no certain cognates outside Germanic".

The Latin word for boy is "puer": "a boy, lad (typically between ages 7-14 but could be younger) (older than an infans but younger than an adulescens)" - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/puer#Noun_4 .

Puerile comes "from Latin puerilis "boyish; childish,"'- https://www.etymonline.com/word/puerile .

Grammatic gender doesn't always match natural gender even in the European languages. "Wīfman" means "woman" in Old English but is grammatically masculine. The Old English "mann" meant generally "person". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mann#Old_English making "wīfmann" a female person and "wæpnedmann" a male person, though "wer" was the usual word for "adult male" (remaining in "weregild" and "werewolf").

In modern Swedish there is no masculine gender, and "man" can mean either "an adult male" or "a person". Consider "Hysterektomi ... kan också göras om man har cellförändringar eller cancer i livmodern." which in English is "A hysterectomy can also be done if one has cell changes or cancer in the uterus." (from https://www.1177.se/behandling--hjalpmedel/operationer/opera... ).

The Swedish "man" in that sentence translates directly as "one" in English, not "adult male", though usually in English we would write "you" as a sort of third-person pronoun, over the more formal "one" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You#Third_person_usage , even when we don't know if the reader has a uterus.
It's an interesting experiment, but I've noticed something about many things we call "fallacious". They're not lies, they're just heuristics, which in fact, in aggregate, help reach more correct conclusions sometimes.

Say an argument from authority. Sure, some guy who digs dirt may know more about building skyscrapers than an architect who spend 40 years doing it. But, still?

So in that context, I hope we start recognizing what fallacies are. They may not match standards of formal logic, but also if formal logic worked then we wouldn't need to grow artificial intelligence from noise, we'd instead feed it rational thought models and then it it comes up with flawless conclusions. Which is how we imagined AI for decades prior and all out attempts failed. They failed because formal models are highly restrictive and throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I also think terming something in JS culture is much more welcoming than the one that thinks dead code elimination is the way it should be.
What did Lucas do?
My Mastodon instance is small enough that every request I made to the mantainer was solved within a couple hours, usually by blacklisting accounts or entire servers. The “human” size of the instance (~500 users), in my opinion, can’t be ignored in this case
Indeed the price is my problem. I like the functionality of Dropbox but I don’t need 2TB and I won’t pay 12€ for that. I wish they have lower tiers.

iDrive is the only alternative I found that more or less works the same. Maybe Google Drive too but I try to avoid them (maybe if there was an option bundled with Youtube Premium...)

When I tried MS OneDrive messed up the file dates, Amazon CloudDrive did the same (and also got shutdown since). And Apple iCloud is just too barebones and not really meant for sharing if someone is not using a Mac.
Your fight here isn't with the producers of specific works, it's with copyright. Due to the copyright periods being heat death of the universe plus 70 years, we do not get reinterpretations of modern works. The fairy tales you were talking about had so much diversity in versions was because anyone could make their own. I remember growing up we had these tales about Akbar and Birbal, they were like an interaction between a king and the court minister/jester. I must have read at least 7-8 versions of some stories in different magazines. I don't think that can happen with today's media as everyone is so protective of their IP
Yes, that's what "free" usually means. When people talk about free healthcare they usually don't mean that the only doctors should be hobbyists.
> pro-racism or anti-racism

Or good racism.
Isn't what you're describing for Hindi just base-100 numbers?
Can't help but think this could be done without some Ethereum smart contract. Then again I also get the feeling this project would not get any attention without it.

Isn't BT WiFi something in the UK like this? When someone has a BT router in their home you seem to be able to connect to it via the phone app.
That's for non-EU citizens. There are 360MM non-German EU citizens - some of which are living in Berlin visa-free.
Wizards Sends Pinkerton Agency to One Who Bought Unreleased MTG Cards in Error
If you did this in US, the resultant skill cohorts would end up being largely split along demographic boundaries which is extremely unpalatable to modern American social sensibilities.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_achievement_gap_in_th...
> The burden of proof is always on whomever is making a claim

Yes, you in that case, you said "ie. this is what the brain does."

We don't know "what the brain does", so you can't make this claim
If you don't specify well, then if gives you the most generic stuff. Based on your summary, it's a good answer, what did you expect?
Spatial composition can be done easily, if you stop bothering with pure text-to-image (SD has several tricks and UIs to place objects precisely, they are all janky but they do work, that's practically photobashing). Attribute separation is also easily done with tricks like token bucketing, so your Indian guy will look Indian, and your East Asian guy will look East Asian. All of that is easy if you abandon the ambiguous natural language and use higher-order guidance.

What's really required is semantic composition. Making subjects meaningfully and predictably interact, or combining them together. And also the coherence of the overall stitched picture, so you don't end up with several different perspective planes.
Content aside, this is terrible editing on BBC’s part:

> However, the regulator hit back, saying: "It is the CMA's job to do what is best for the people, businesses and economy of the UK, not merging firms with commercial interests."

> But the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said its job was not to serve the interests of merging firms.
The issue is NOT the delay, it's having to look at the interface vs. being able to feel what I'm doing
All these attempts at banning and censorship tend to focus on the wrong things.

We should all put as much pressure as possible on elected leaders to ban references to 1984 on the Internet every time there’s government overreach or censorship. It’s a great book and the references are often apt, but they’re incredibly overused and cliché.

Such a law would do a great deal to force people to read or talk about other pertinent books. Call it The BRADBURY Act (Bringing a Reasonable Amount of Different Books… um… Under Review… uh… every Year).
Pretty disgusting and low attack, given the form of words used. Another reason not to buy their services, IMO. Plenty of people with budgetary authority will take note.
> Is the version we know now the ultimate one, that every generation after us should hear?

I would love a comparative literature review of old-school Cinderella where the stepsisters get their toes chopped off and eyes picked out vs the Disney one with the cute animals and pumpkins.

(likewise for other adapted works)
I'd like to think society will be less racist, misogynist and such in the future. But there will be scrutiny of the specific actions taken, because frankly, a lot of "anti-racist" behavior has been upper-middle class white people doing easy, performative things to make themselves feel good and to promote themselves as an ally.

It hasn't even been 5 years, and already the 2020 "fight racism by renaming your master branch to main" movement feels like a tone-deaf embarrassment.
> Tokyo has five million Wi-Fi access points – and that's 20 times what the city needs, because they’re reserved for private use

Unsure if you were trying to make a point to debate the article; but it appears they're specifically speaking of private networks, not public.
Just before the Brexit referendum vote, so yes.
Excellent reference
Though all in all it is a minor nuisance, my car navigation system has this safety feature of randomly displaying over the map a popup (that you have to touch/click OK to have it go away) about how you shouldn't be interacting with it when driving.

For some reasons it tends to pop up every time I am approaching or already inside a roundabout, preferrably one of those where if you miss the right exit and take the wrong one it will take you 20 minutes in the traffic to get back to where you were.
True, I implicitly included the MTTR in the "severity", but this is actually a different thing (severity is more about the impact radius).

But I don't think it changes my point: knowing what/how Google Cloud designs regions or zones is still an implementation detail, what matters is what MTTR they are targeting and this should be known ahead of time.

There are so many "implementation details" that customers are not aware of, because they are always changing, non contractual, or just hard to make sense of, what matters is meaningful abstractions.

I am not saying it's OK if the zones are in the same building or not, I don't know and I was really surprised when I discovered this a few years ago. But this information gives you a mental model of "what could go wrong" that is biased towards some specific risks, and in my experience, relying on these very practical aspects make the risk analysis and design decisions harder to make.

Otho, one thing that may be problematic too (and biasing) is that the common understood definition of a "zone" is the one people know from AWS, so using the same term without being very explicit about the differences will also lead to incorrectly calculated risks. I find the public documentation of Google Cloud too vague in general (and often ambiguous).
I think the risk is more that the people will read Dahl or watch Spielberg and think that the cultural sensitivities from the 1960s-1980s we're exactly like those during the 2020s.
In particular, consent may be a requirement by the GDPR.
I had the chance to ask raw GPT in times past and let me tell you it spills all those beans and then some. Of course those models are gradually removed today from the playground.

But we still have LLaMA. And more are coming. The question is what we do with this. What if acknowledging psychopathy as beneficial ends up amplifying it, and this becomes the straw to break our society's back?

Thing is, what's beneficial to an individual is not necessarily beneficial to society as a whole. They're often in opposition in extremes. It's like cancer. All cells working together means long-term survival of the animal. Cancer however does not cooperate, steals energy, efs around all the time, reproduces, and basically has a lot more fun than any other cell might. But it also kills the animal long-term.

So what is beneficial? To be cancer or not to be? Depends beneficial to whom. Goals.
From what I observed product owners know that the system sucks and it's laggy. They also know that the OEM management only keeps repeating "cheap, cheap, cheap", "with a renewed focust on costs" and other sayings like these.
And do what? Wage war to whoever challenges the dollar? Time spent talking about modern sensitivity is certainly a better investment than war mongering or trying to tell other countries which currency they can or cannot use.
One of my favourite albums of all time ("Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls" by Coven, released 1969) was very recently taken off of streaming platforms

I don't know the reason it was removed but it was like a I was pinched and realised how little control I have over my favourite music.

The album is still on YouTube but I don't know for how long.

I bought the vinyl, even though i currently don't have a record player but plan to get one

I have to start preserving DRM free or physical copies of media I like. I always knew there was a risk of stuff being removed but always put off thinking about it for convenience, but not anymore
I have the Ikea Högklassik induction stove top, and it has 4 touch sliders, one for each zone. I'm actually quite happy with it, it works well enough, not as easy as knobs but close. Also they seem to have worked on the spilling/wet hands problem, it's still sometimes annoying but seems much improved from older designs.