skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why though? SF has a crime problem. People are leaving. Businesses are leaving.
Article uses an image with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license.

Hosted on a non not-for profit website.

With content that's not Creative Commons.

Bemoaning not sharing profits.
Yes, I’d very much like to pay a new tax in addition to the television tax (even though I never used it).

And yes, let some guys decide what’s “misinformation” and what isn’t. My guess is that anything that’s not aligned with a state’s foreign policy is “misinformation”.
Ah, wasn't aware of this, thanks for clarifying.
lol this is literally that "and yet you participate in society. curious!" joke comic?
You just need to make your own servers and create your own community.

In real life, if you are a hard right guy, you won't make many friends hanging around a hard left groups while yelling hard right views in their face. This wouldn't work if the roles were reserved either. There is no right that people who disagree with you need to put up with you.

You need to create critical mass so that you have a peer group and not care what others think.
> Physical buttons cleanly resolve all of these major problems.

It depends on how the physical button works. You functionally don't get tactile feedback if the response time isn't good. You don't actually always know that you've activated a control (e.g. Did I not press it hard enough? Did I need to rotate it further?) Cheap buttons or knobs or dials can often feel mushy and be unclear as to whether you've fully turned them or pushed them.

Not taking eyes off the road is definitely better, but general distraction is still a problem even if you don't have to look away.
Hi, author of the blog post here. Happy to address any questions or comments!

tl;dr I believe we are moving to an AI-first world in productivity, but, importantly, not an AI-only world. I think the main paradigm in horizontal productivity apps is going to be Ask & Adjust: AIs will iteratively generate drafts or edits, and humans will hand-tweak them until they are right. For activities like coding where it’s very hard to express your intent exactly to an AI, the hand-editing interfaces, along with collaborative re-use, will remain crucial.
How is that not true? Yes you can say fuck trump or fuck biden(why are you self censoring yourself on the internet btw), but you can't say "I have a gun and I'm going to shoot you" to a police officer - you will be arrested and put in prison even if you were "just saying things". Your freedom of speech isn't absolute. For other examples - several states made it illegal for journalists to report on violations on farms, to protect their own industries.

>>That’s not the case in France for example.

I'm pretty sure you can say fuck trump or fuck biden in France and nothing would happen to you, in public or otherwise.

you picked a poor example though, insulting the French head of state hasn't been a crime for a decade now:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/25/insulting-fren...
Gravity is an effect of the curve of space and relativity coming together in what we now call spacetime. Right? Einstein told us so. But... Maybe not?

There's promising math behind the idea that there are multiple additional dimensions, but where are they? How can we perceive them? What do they have to do with gravity?

The unifying theory of dimensional geometry and interaction: https://youtu.be/fvqXshyuvOg
None of this is Meta's problem though. Requiring platforms to monitor user activity is unreasonable.

The main issue here is one of education. By 12 years old, a person should have learned enough about sexual exploitation in school that if a stranger asks them for nude photos, they would call the police.
Large industries don't need nuclear energy. Nuclear only produces electricity anyway. And renewable already delivers far more electricity than nuclear since decades. Large Industries are moving to renewable now, to replace coal and gas, because they never cared much about nuclear.
I know, it's confusing, but "film" is also synonymous with "movie" (especially widely used as such outside the US).
How is Facebook not a platform? Should Apple police messages sent over iMessage?
Heh. Obviously NYC should try to get the best deal possible out of Citi. The comparison to the naming rights to Citi Field is reasonable. That said, I think Citi would rather walk away than be 'forced' to pay the costs of the entire system. That just paints them as an easy target for the next municipality.
> Nuclear is not carbon-free

In the same way solar and wind aren't carbon free either yes
Yandex Announces First Quarter 2023 Financial Results
It's a copypasta, from wikipedia:

> A copypasta is a block of text that is copied and pasted across the Internet by individuals through online forums and social networking websites. Copypastas are said to be similar to spam as they are often used to annoy other users and disrupt online discourse.
> You are far more likely to get hit by a bike than a car

99% of pedestrian deaths result from collisions with cars, not bikes [1].

> electric "bicycles" are actually just electric motorcycles with auxiliary pedals and as such should require a license to drive

99.9% of “motor vehicle collisions that resulted in injuries [in 2018] were caused by e-bikes” [2]. A link is provided to the data; I doubt they’ve materially increased.

I share your frustration with bikers ignoring traffic rules. But dangerous bikers, even e-bikers, pale in consequence to cars.

[1] https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/nycdot-pedestrian...

[2] https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/04/18/damn-lies-and-statist...
Who is "she"? What republic? Does one republic(whichever one that is) constitute the "most" of EU now?
I have used Dropbox and have setup Syncthing for myself and my opinion is that:

Sync thing is relatively easy for the average HN user.

Dropbox is relatively easy for the average non-HN user.

Neither are hard, but Syncthing requires some background understanding of computers
Unfortunately I cannot as they all belong to that employer and there are some privacy implications to linking the content as-is, but I’ve been thinking about reframing the ideas behind the content as a more general intro to OAuth and publishing a series of vendor-agnostic blog posts and/or videos.
>Sure, cops are not allowed to kill black people

But they de facto are in many cases. Cops can generally kill at will and without real justification and not face consequences. It's only in rare cases when public outcry is enough, like in the slaying of George Floyd, where prosecutors will even attempt to hold cops accountable.
It’s the “mystery box” phenomenon. Somehow a lot of TV producers and viewers have moved to an episodic narrative structure where a mysterious box appears, people debate what to do, shake it, steal it from each other, argue about it, and ultimately, at the end of the episode, with great tension, open the box to reveal... Next week's mystery box.

But there is a lot of genuinely good stuff out there too. You just have to recognize mystery boxes and bail.
It wouldn’t matter if those dependencies where stable, but JS has a culture of abandon libraries or to make backward-breaking changes every week, so upgrading a project after just a few months is a major pain
Let’s just wait to see what actually gets approved and if the actual projects are completed on time and on budget.
What is a “good reason” in your classification?
It’s like telling someone “your opinion doesn’t matter cause you’re ugly/old/young”.

A post is either relevant or not, regardless of when account was created.
Fission power is just too expensive - it's done and it won't come back at a large scale anywhere because the price point is not great (and France is good example there). Doesn't mean no new reactors will be built.
If there is a new nuclear, it will be fusion which so far has not been given anywhere close to as much funding/subsidies as fission (or fossil fuels).
Qualified immunity is self-evident. The idea that the government can violate the government's laws by performing lawful government duties is an inherent absurdity. It would also completely undermine democracy.

It's also tangential and off topic to this conversation.
The issue of converting offices to housing is water supply and drainage. Electricity is well supplied in modern offices. The reason luxury apartments make sense is because either the apartments are real big so there's less plumbing needed, or they're real expensive, which pays for the necessary plumbing. But there's another way around that - low-income SRO housing with the shared bathroom and kitchens where the existing ones are.
this site is the biggest culprit for me. My friends even ask "But what is that orange-grey site you are always on?"
Watching the ILM documentary (Light & Magic) the thing that stood out about Lucas is that he hated having his moviemaking decisions set in stone, and it being expensive and hard to change stuff. He pushed to adopt digital compositing technology, digital audio, then digital cameras, and digital sets, because he was so frustrated by the slowness and friction of optical and location work.

I think what comes across in the prequels as this sort of ‘first take’ feel to the performances is a manifestation of his impatience - he wants to get the footage, edit it, get the effects, and see the thing in his head. And the ‘remastering’ he has done is similarly a bit of psychological desire to always feel like he can fix it later.

Waiting five days for Phil Tippett to stop motion ten seconds of tauntaun walking must have driven him crazy.

Underneath, it’s an engineer’s kind of laziness - the sort that drives innovation. I honestly felt after watching that documentary that I am slightly less annoyed by the clunkiness of Attack of the Clones because I actually now can see underneath it the excitement of Lucas to use all the toys he has spent a fortune investing in ILM to build and just make the damn movie.
I can imagine they “fixed” it by just sending the telemetry now to the TLD so nobody complains any longer.
That looks more like a somewhat recent thing. There is the Ademe study, which showed that renewable would be a good idea for France. Which was swept under the table, because it didn't fit Macrons idea of going full speed nuclear.

https://www.reuters.com/article/france-nuclearpower-idUSL8N1...

Maybe having a sizeable renewable fleet would have helped to avoid much of the problems France has now. But i guess they also had a government playing that back and forth game...

There was also a lot going on there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#Histor...

So, putting all blame on Germany alone doesn't really fit the history. Oh, and we're also net exporter of energy for many years now: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1331853/electricity-impo...
Sounds about right to me!
You project some personal conception of "worth" of x as if it was some normative and objective value inherent by essence to each category x would belong to. It's not.

For whatever x, your estimation of the "worth" of x may differ from mine or that of any third person. The estimation of what x (be it a product, a service, or work time for a job) is worth to someone is inherently totally subjective to the eye of the beholder (be they seller or buyer, e.g. employee or employer… or external observer) and situation: The price that you'd be willing to pay out of your pocket for someone else's development work is likely much lower to the price you would ask for you doing the same work.

You're free to set your personal subjective estimation of what your work time is worth at, say, a gazillion dollars p.a. For whatever reasons, justified or not to others. Doesn't change the fact that it may or may not not be subjectively "worth" that much to people who are in principle interested in buying that work (though not necessarily at that price). For whatever reasons of their own.

There is no such thing as an inherent objective "worth", only subjective "worth" in the eye of each subjective beholder. All of that is totally subjective.

Objectivity of "worth" only exists in the purely observative statistical sense: In particular, "market worth" is simply the term for the value at which statistically two sides (each with their own subjective "worth" estimation) mutually consenting to the transaction find together.
I'm not following.

> [bad developer burns a year worth of salary building something that doesn't work]

The cost you cite for the rewrite implies a week or two worth of work. Why did this developer spend an entire year on it?

Really bad developers are really bad, yes. Double work is very expensive.

> I didn’t rewrite it because of its poor performance

> ... massive performance improvement, and it’ll be even better once I finish building the cashing.

So even with the massive performance improvement, you still need to improve the performance even more? It sounds like you would of had to rewrite parts of the system even if it was decently written to begin with.
EU is heavily targeted every time is mentioned here.

Don't know why, but it's something that is happening and I also noticed that the same arguments are used Evey time

- EU is not free

- EU is descending into authoritarianism

- You can be jailed for saying things

- EU politicians are puppets working for some gray entities that want to cancel the right to privacy for (reason unknown)

and so on
This was Caltech.
Do the stats tell the full story? If you stop prosecuting crime, and cops then stop arresting criminals, the stats go down and the crime goes up.
Sincerely I left Netflix at the start of the year due to their apalling content, not really due to the password sharing policy (which was also applied where I live). A couple of my friends did it for the same reason.

It was not enough that they are just putting out low value productions, but they also feel the need to lecture me in every show about their radical political ideas.

I can't even name a really good series that came out on the past 2 years from Netflix, while on HBO and Prime, at least there were some really good ones.
So many shows are unavailable or different because of ridiculous licensing rules around music. Scrubs has several different versions of music, The Drew Carey Show is basically impossible to find because of music. If Congress wanted to ever do something pro-consumer, passing a law that ends all this nonsense around licensing and require all licensing to be delivery method agnostic. whether a show is premiering, a rerun, syndicated, streamed, or on DVD it should be the same show.
s/Alex/Alec/
You may be right, but that's not the point. For some reason, I've been seeing many more stories about CSAM and child sex trafficking pop up in the last few weeks. These stories do suggest that the problem is getting worse, wherein it seems to be growing about 30% every year (however "growth" may be defined). But it doesn't matter how prolific these crimes may be in reality, all that matters is the public's perception of these problems. If people aren't convinced that there are other viable solutions, then the legislators win and say goodbye to E2EE.
>If that's the case then their sale by the ottomans to Elgin was legitimate, and therefore the rightful owner is the UK.

I'm suggesting that no such destruction of an archaelogical site and sale of historical artifacts to another country (even less so an individual buyer) is legitimate or ethical, regardless of whether it was approved by the occupying force at the time.

Regardless of the matter of "continuity of the state" and the legitimacy of the state of the time (or lack thereof), there's the matter of where those artifacts belong to, and where the claim lies, and this is not just about the technical legality of the sale. A great many scholars, archeologists, and public intellectuals from Britain have addressed those issue.

Especially when the population of the land they've been plundered from has gained its freedom and has been asking to have them returned for over a century.

Even worse when part of Greece was shamefully under British colonial rule at the time of the sale.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2...

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30810596
I think India at least will eventually get everything back, that's been identified at least, due to political circumstances.
Well, nothing is stopping you from making an offer on the building.
> police ransacked six innocent peoples' Google data

That's a bit extreme. The police were given their identification information, not the contents of their accounts.
Yeah a GPU makes things easier. Note that you can do it with Java, we do it at $work.

Anyway, when you're designing your UI, you've to take into account the computation power available and design around that, otherwise you're doomed.
Well, the Apache Software Foundation were rightly getting annoyed at 'modified Apache' licences...
As someone who's very recently been looking into using WebGPU on a project, why must it be so complicated to execute some simple instructions on a GPU?

All of the code I was looking at seems to use (and require from the API) a lot of graphics terminology like "shaders", etc. Additionally it seemed to require a bizarre amount of boilerplate code to create compute "pipelines" and other things.

Is there some reason that running code on a GPU must be so difficult? Why is there no API I can call like,

`GPU.exec(() => 2 * 2);`

Sorry for the dumb question. I'll definitely be taking a look through this guide later.
I have a question, in the USA we have some common law basis of some public spaces being public commons in terms of free assembly and speech. In Europe there are two common law systems, one is the USA one based on non-roman common law and of course the roman common law used in Italy.

With those two common law systems in Europe are there public free speech assembly spaces that might be then copied onto the electronic world?
This argument plays on the sense of individual exceptionalism common among techie types, and particularly among people who frequent HN, to imply that because obviously you're (generic "you") better than average, a union would mean you would probably lose money!

It's got just enough truth to it that one can't straight-out call it a lie (because it's referring vaguely to the possibility, not saying it happens everywhere or in specific, falsifiable, cases), but it's basically propaganda.

In reality, by definition, most people (and in fact nearly everyone), including most people on here, are not getting pay above the rates that a union would be able to negotiate, even if you assume that a given union coming into your workplace would negotiate for something approximating flat rates or scheduled rates. The data all show that going from non-union to union increases compensation by significant amounts—I've seen numbers from ~11% to ~20%, so it probably varies across time.

I hope that one day you, too, can come under union representation, even if it's against your own desires, so that you can see how much more money you'll get, how much better you can be treated, and how much more your voice will matter.
Ha well if you’re looking for a solid state physics PhD I’m on the market ;)
Creative AI's Potential in Independent Game Development
This is from the English Wikipedia. [1] Nowhere in the article is there any hint that the term is perceived as problematic by native English speakers or that it has racial overtonens. If indeed there is a critical mass of people who feel offended by it, you know what you need to do :-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_model
It does seem to vary. The few times I've commuted into Boston over the past six months or so both traffic and transit usage seemed to be pretty much back to pre-pandemic levels as was pedestrian activity within the city. SF seems to be at least something of an outlier presumably because tech is something of a bubble.

In general, I'd observe that there's been much more of a reset to pre-pandemic norms than many anticipated. But SF could well end up being something of an anomaly--which would be especially bad news for SF given it may not be a broad-based crisis that the government at the national (or maybe even state) level is going to be especially concerned about.
- Why do we even pay for TV anymore? i dont think additional funding is needed, mastodon is much cheaper than any tv production

- It's much better when the limits of speech are determined by the courts than by private company owners
Because the underlying problem is hard. SAML is difficult too. Identify federation, across the public Internet, between disparate entities is a fundamentally difficult problem with no simple answers.
if it's empty and no one wants to lease space and the city isn't going to let you change the purpose of the building then why are there any bids at all?
Meta: Time spent on Instagram grew 24% thanks to TikTok-style AI recommendations
CEO and Firm Performance
How many subways have the MTA built since the existence of Uber?
How much confidence do you have in the MTA expanding service in your lifetime?

Yes, tons of people ride the subway and also ride Uber for some trips when its too late (safety)/trains are too infrequent (service)/theres delays (service)/for comfort/etc.
I think this is common in the move from TV to DVD.

From what I understand, TV broadcasts (at least in the US/UK) have a general/blanket exemption for copyrights w.r.t to things like music (RIAA). So no restriction when airing episodes, you can pick what music you like.

When looking to distribute DVDs however you have to get permission to use the music/pay for it. So it often gets changed.
Good point, the depth first search algorithm is a bit lack luster for this case:
1 -> .1
2 -> .01
3 -> .001
4 -> .0001
5 -> .00001
6 -> .000001
. -> .0∞1

I would definitely recommend not judging the quality of the video based upon the quality of my reasoning in the experiment.
Hacker News and four other folders via RSS amongst many I just browse whenever.
I can't help but feel like we've made a mistake by concentrating so many of the people who design our standard software UX patterns in California. From Tesla designing car interfaces that don't understand how wipers need to work to Apple designing weather apps that don't clearly communicate wind chill to smartphones that require use of the touchscreen to answer a phone call rendering it impossible to answer while wearing gloves. It's like they only understand the concept of weather from TV shows set in New York.
I was in Scotland (pre-Brexit) watching a UK tv show about the KKK in America. When they were distributing pamphlets the narrator explains that what they were doing was legal in America because of the US Constitution guarantees free speech whereas in the UK inciting racial hate is a crime.
These types of challenges are overstated. Conversions can be done its only a matter of penciling out the finances.
Well go on and insult an EU country leader here. :)
I almost never see any particle board or similar fail in normal use except at the fasteners. If they would stop using those fasteners, things might be a lot more durable.

It's already repairable fairly easily with basic tools, and it's probably cheaper and easier to reinforce the points where it breaks with a block of scrap or something than to buy actual nice furniture.

Injection molding is cheap, I'm not sure why they don't use plastic inserts instead of bare wood on metal.

I'm also not sure why they try to hide screws so hard and avoid brackets and other hardware. Letting screws show and selling a matching line of tablecloths and mats to hide them would be a more complete implementation of the "Design to make stuff work without quality materials" philosophy.

The fake wood has potential. I still like it even though it doesn't have really value or quality, because... it works amazingly well for what it is, and there's still room to improve.