skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more than that. It's the continuation of a distorted view of reality in which the world is a meritocracy and everyone can be rich if they just try hard enough. That's there's nothing stopping anyone from taking a job that doesn't require years of training and making 2x+ the median for that role and using just an anecdote to back it up. This type of stuff is detrimental to the choices and mental health of the next generation - expecting things that don't exist and then being crushed by reality.
Yeah I'll give you 10 million if you can convince one of your friends to stop driving gas cars to save the environment.

If you cant do that how can you do it for the world? Idealistic pipe dream solutions won't happen. We have to mitigate our oil addiction with stop gap unideal solutions.
So I guess that means that we shouldn't expect LLMs to be any more reliable than some random guy who "heard it on the internet".
How do you dig out emacs-related threads that are so far down the Ask HN list?
Same for Xbox & Windows -- the app is barely serviceable, and I figure that's by design from Apple.
While I find the wider conversation that these two represent quite interesting, I recently unfollowed both due to the unfortunate tone and repetitiveness of each man.

It seemed already clear when reading them in isolation but becomes particularly stark when they engage each other.

They are both clearly quite bright but really could perhaps represent their views in a more engaging way with a little more reflection.
If the US military invades IKEA they will *never* figure out how to exit.
I wonder if it's a case of soluble vs insoluble fiber. Insoluble fiber is often described as speeding up transit through the intestines, which might leave microbes less food to eat, or increase the microbes being driven out before they can establish.
The Wire is on the level of truly good literature. Its form is just it's TV. That's it.
Spam to your own Gmail account, or spam from Gmail accounts?

I don't really have one of the former, but have been pretty disgusted with the quantity of the latter for quite a while now.
You can update the home point and have been able to for a long time. And this is zero concern if you're good at manual landing. I've never really ever used their RTH feature the entire time I've been flying, my experience goes back to well before R/C aircraft had any RTH or landing assist.

It's more that you just have to remember to update the home point, and if you don't the drone will suddenly fly off far way out to open water, and if you're not playing it safe you could then run out of battery before you can fly back.

This stuff is annoying, but anyone being responsible and making sure they budget plenty of reserve power ends up being fine.
This isn't one of the under-ocean data-centers I've seen that (at least) Microsoft had been building in the Atlantic right? (They help with cooling, obviously if under ocean)
> Why do you think that Bluesky will be able to do what Mastodon can't?

And, why would you think that Bluesky will be able to do what Twitter can't?

i.e. remain both viable and not enshitified (1), in the face of the need to either turn a profit or be up for sale? AFAIK, Bluesky has the same kind of business model as twitter, therefor the same failure mode. Why would I sign up for that ride again?

1) https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
Agree. My wife LOVES netflix's Korean rom-com shoes because of how straightforwardly cute they are.

>Anyway I hope the growing popularity of foreign shows leads to western media taking time to reassess what people are looking for in shows.

Agree. The age of everything being ironic, sassy, and whiny needs to end.
Games aren't bad for MS, It brings in more than 3 billion a quarter.

How many times have you seen I do most of my stuff on Linux but I still boot in to windows for games. An independent xbox would be less likely to use Windows for their OS.
I had to look this up because it’s hilarious. And it’s happened more than once!

How many wrong turns can you make into a different country?
Mathematics teaching should start with this and end with the actual computation. In high school I thought algebraic calculations was all there is to math.
Why would a drone have any internet access?
It may want it, but should not need it, nor given it.
This looks great, I'll check it out. Thanks!
That statement is much too reductive to be true. Yet it might still be closer to the truth than the old belief that it's best to avoid fats and eat loads of grains.
Not possible in my situation. I'll just drag on for another 16ish years and them take a job at Walmart, if I don't get fired.
Double-Loop Learning
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32843477
Good, but missing some basic concepts:

- void, a refund on authorization
- account verification, used to store a card, without authorization
- card on file, a stored card
- BIN, bank identification number
- POS, a payment in store, physical terminal
- card not present, payment from distance (ecom, moto)
- moto, mail order, telephone order

....and alot more
> More seriously, I think the best you can do is not expect to find happiness in a setting that you don't fully control (ie your job), accept that, and look for joy elsewhere. It might be another job, it might be another hobby. Work fewer hours.

That's how I upgraded from Ruby 2.4 / Rails 5.0 to Ruby 3.2 / Rails 7.0
Nothing is absolute or predetermined, and in fact it is incredibly complicated and uncertain.

That said, with all things being equal I would expect austerity simply because you have a smaller and smaller percent of the population working.

This means fewer working people to provide services and build things per capita and there is no way around that. Even if you managed to fix income inequality, you still have fewer people to fix your toilet. You also have more elderly that cannot do things for themselves and need assistance so the labor market is hit from both directions
Our planet is both chaotic and stable, depending on the timescale we are looking at.

Chaotic on the long timescale, but pretty stable given the much shorter timescale of known human history.
This is misleading. Road weight limits are for wear and tear reasons, not safety.

The actual "failure" loads are orders (yes, plural) of magnitude higher and most failures aren't the kind of catastrophic thing that people on the internet typically try and imply unless you get really unlucky and your mountainside shelf road turns into a landslide. Failure usually means you park a heavy object somewhere and come back hours/days/weeks/months later and find that it sank or slid slowly downhill in that time.
I tried the first paragraph, too. Seems to have made several idiomatic improvements:

Es war ein sonniger Tag im Wald und ein Mädchen namens Lisa ging spazieren. Sie hörte plötzlich ein Geräusch und drehte sich um. Sie sah einen Jungen namens Max, der in Schwierigkeiten war. Er hatte sich verlaufen und wusste nicht, wie er zurück zum Parkplatz kommen sollte. Lisa entschied sich, ihm zu helfen und sie begannen gemeinsam den Weg zurück zu suchen.

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Es war ein sonniger Tag im Wald, und ein Mädchen namens Lisa ging spazieren. Plötzlich hörte sie ein Geräusch und drehte sich um. Sie sah einen Jungen namens Max, der in Schwierigkeiten steckte. Er hatte sich verirrt und wusste nicht, wie er zum Parkplatz zurückkommen sollte. Lisa beschloss, ihm zu helfen, und gemeinsam suchten sie den Weg zurück.
What kind of woke crap? I don't really understand the definition, but that's because it is US identity politics and nobody wants to define it apparently. But maybe from afar you have a particular definition?
But then the other side needs to stop comparing the highest living standard states to all of Europe.

HN Americans like to talk about the tech salaries in CA, WA, and maybe NY and conveniently forget the problems in MS, LA, WV.

Either way it's a slightly lopsided comparison, because Europeans see their nation as a bit more sovereign than the average American sees their state. Except maybe Texans.

Especially with the language barriers a lot of Europeans never consider moving "states". If I move from Germany to Switzerland I might face racism. If an Oregonian moves to California they probably won't.
Does anyone have an authoritative source on what data DJI captures and relays to China?. I want to buy a drone but concerned about privacy.
> There's never really going to be such a thing as a thriving small social network.

Says the post on a thriving discussion forum that isn't even a social network. Quality has a quality all of its own.
Do you have any idea if there are jailbreaks for these things or alternate firmwares?
Inspires me to make my own as well. Thanks for sharing!
I'm confused why you think they aren't tracking what games are played for how long, and won't optimize based on that. I would assume there's some royalty type situation with gamepass where the games that get played more get some percentage of a pool.

You can rail about cable all you want, but some of the best shows of the last few decades were on cable. Breaking bad, mad men, the shield. Greatly expanding the choices allowed for networks to take risks in attempts to gain a small but I yerested audience, rather than having to appeal to the entire general public, and what we got was amazing.
The problem is that you can learn many things, but time is limited. Learning and understanding abstract concepts won't make you more successful, increase your SMV and give you access to better mating opportunities.

What's the use of arcane knowledge about prime numbers if you are not mathematician, and even then, one should question its importance?

Time is often better spent learning about crucial factors of success such as goal-setting and self-discipline. Additionally I would say that learning about social skills like human interaction, power dynamics, and body language is a more productive use of time.

And what about focusing on the tasks that you really need to or want to do?

Note: I often watch those kinds of videos, but I feel bad about it because I know it's procrastination. In my daily life, I almost never use this kind of knowledge.
Then Tesla should stop making claims about safety until they are willing to back them up with evidence. The most likely scenario given the available information is that Musk is lying and Tesla's aren't as safe as the company would have us believe.
What if a company used those NNs to train kill bots and used them to kill children? Can somebody please think of the children here?!
AWS separates the anycast LB functionality into a separate service called AWS Global Accelerator. You do get individual anycast IP addresses with that service.
"There is no natural state as defined by hyper static equilibrium. Only brief moments where we purport to control it — building up a chaotic momentum beneath it."

The moment when, after many years
of hard work and a long voyage

you stand in the centre of your room,

house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,

knowing at last how you got there,

and say, I own this,

is the same moment when the trees unloose

their soft arms from around you,

the birds take back their language,

the cliffs fissure and collapse,

the air moves back from you like a wave

and you can't breathe.

No, they whisper. You own nothing.

You were a visitor, time after time

climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.

We never belonged to you.

You never found us.

It was always the other way round.

Margaret Atwood
It needs it to make sure it follows any local flight restrictions, like no-fly zones.
Apple TV+ currently appear to put much more emphasis on quality over quantity in their original content.

Which is a win for literally everybody. The consumer wins because they get a very high amount of enjoyment for their invested time. The service wins because the less time each loyal subscriber spends actually using the service the less their bandwidth costs are.
I am sorry but I have a very different reading of the mentioned EC Directive:

"""Article 5

Exceptions and limitations

1. Temporary acts of reproduction referred to in Article 2, which are transient or incidental [and] an integral and essential part of a technological process and whose sole purpose is to enable:

(a) a transmission in a network between third parties by an intermediary, or

(b) a lawful use of a work or other subject-matter to be made, and which have no independent economic significance, shall be exempted from the reproduction right provided for in Article 2.
"""

As upload to a GAN is not transmission, and the economic significance is pretty clear.

Then the German 44a is an exact copy of the EC directive, so this also applies I think.
AWOBMOLG was more about mythologization of tech as oracular & all powerful, leading us to think that we can handle anything. Techno-utopianism.

A lot of the series is about the belief that we could, with technologies predictive powers & neoliberal market ethos... And how it doesn't pan out. We have "New Economies" greatly bloom in the world. And about how instead we got the 1997 Asian financial crisis. We thought we were taming market complexity (via in part neoliberalism weirdly) but turns out not so much. We have the rise of cybernetic thinking & Limits of Growth (& it's limitations in assuming we cannot change human behavior).

"Sure everything is trending towards shit, but we're humans, we can definitely go create some genius machine that will fix this, right"

Curtis rarely comes out and makes broad conclusions, but the watcher is definitely left with impression of absurd hubris & folly & chaos-triumphant, in AWOBMOLG and in much else of Curtis's excellent excellent catalog of contemporary history documentaries.
This is because software development still doesn't and has never qualified as capital-E Engineering. If "software engineering" were held to any of the same kind of rigor and responsibility that applies to mechanical, civil, aerospace or nearly any other "Engineering" discipline, we might not be in the technological & sociopolitical hellscape we are in right now.
It is crazy how Blizzard was a few hundred employees when they released Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo over a couple years. Now with 50X as many employees and 23 years of effort they have done nothing but coast off their original hits.

I don't know why this happens but it seems to occur again and again in gaming with indie studios that get acquired.
What a cute little Ercoupe. Also, I really appreciated the CBS2 headline shot at 0:26 - "PLANE ON LSD."
Mastodon Has Already Won
Times blessed. Mushrooms sauteed with the onions on top of boiled potatoes - nirvana forever.
> Except you need carbohydrates

Your usage of need is directly contrary to the dictionary definition of need. Have you heard of ketosis?

> many things you consider "good" are also carbs, like veggies

Veggies are not good for the carbs they contain (Fiber has some value of course, but not really as a carbohydrate), but instead for the nutrients (commonly known as "vitamins/minerals") they contain in edible forms for our bodies.

There is no purpose to carbohydrates in and of themselves, they provide one energy-burning source and certain classes of carbohydrates are consumed to provide important nutrients, but the carbohydrate itself is never a high value intake.
Employees weren't staging a literal mutiny, I was using the term creatively.

Here are some links about the worker unrest at ABK prior to acquisition announcement:

Activision Blizzard worker organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision_Blizzard_worker_org...

Activision Blizzard employees stage open-ended strike and union drive: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/12/activision-blizzard-w...

Its noteworthy that the employee strikes mostly stopped after the acquisition was announced - seems they believed like I do that Microsoft would have cleaned things up.
How can a game franchise be destroyed by price cuts from a competitor? (Honest question.)
> If they quality controlled their suppliers better, and demanded reimbursememt for failed components from suppliers (basically a warranty from their supplier) they would be much better of.

No, GM would be much better off if they made their own damn components and quit outsourcing everything in the universe.

The small companies have figured out that nobody can replace them because there is no competitor who can absorb their orders. Consequently, they can threaten to declare bankruptcy if they get hit with too high a penalty.
IE6 and a Java 5 web applet. Woo!

The Flash UI of VMware vSphere.

Why was everything Silverlight for a few months?
I can agree there - MS has an important competitive role in the marketplace and it's not like Sony has always been a great steward to the community by comparison. I have mixed feelings about exclusives in general, but Sony has certainly played that game more than MS.

But the 360 was unveiled in 2005 and was replaced in the market a decade ago. My criticisms are really oriented to the last 5-10 years. On that note, I'm reminded of the Xbox One "your game console is for watching TV and will always be connected to the internet" release. And in that generation, it was the clamoring market and Sony's response (like the classic 'how to share secondhand games' video[0]) that pushed Microsoft to stop acting unreasonably.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48nCBnc9VBs
Big money in creative industries lead to less creativity and enjoyment.
It's enterprise software. With exceptions, enterprise software is designed to facilitate collaboration of large number of engineers working in parallel. As a result performance is not as high priority as readability and infrastructure. Large tech companies need a constant flow of new engineers, and also want the knowledge of systems to be spread out across as many people as possible, both of which limit software development to optimize readability and boilerplate code. The price is paid in how fragile and bloated apps are, despite hardware constantly getting better. Of course performance is still taken into account, but it needs to be justified with user telemetry and/or post-launch user feedback.
Spy drone or not, why can’t US companies design and manufacture better products to compete with DJI?
Some forums want to lower entry and support login with <insert larger login provider>. Please do not lower the barrier.

It is true though that forums never really died. I would consider HN more of a forum than social media if you have to discriminate. Aside from the business value, if you want to deep dive into a hobby, Instagram, Facebook and co. just often do not deliver. Depends a bit on the type of hobby, but if it isn't something around personalities, social media in general is quite shallow.

But worse is the move to platforms like Discord. I use it too, no judgement here. But it sucks. It consumes all the knowledge people post into it and it doesn't give anything back. You cannot crawl it. Even IRC is crawled more successfully.

Sure, I guess they have some api that could access the content theoretically. Doesn't help. I think many businesses and projects decide to use discord because it is so easy and a community builds quickly. But I believe there are huge long term disadvantages for discovery later.
Tired of easy refunds, China’s online sellers are suing and doxxing buyers
I doubt they care much about you taking some videos on holiday! Probably don’t use it to fly over military sites and there is zero risk.

I worry that some of the worlds great companies get caught in the power wars of the US and China. Both countries working together has been so good for the world - nobody will be as prosperous without the other - but who cares as long as the powerful people in the US and China get to maintain or increase their power.
Hasn’t been my experience. Most people I see speak positively about them were owners.
Professor I had for Real Analysis (the second time I took it) was probably the best math professor I've ever had. He had the most extensive mental catalog of the wrong ways people could understand and the failure modes of students. When you would ask a question he was able to help, not just because he understood the material, but because he knew why you didn't.

In my evaluation of him I mentioned this, but added that he was probably wasted on 3rd and 4th year math majors, and should be teaching more intro classes where the quality of instruction was markedly worse.
The SaaS landing page copy structure that converts at 3.9%
You're welcome, happy I could help.

Good luck with getting promoted...looks like there are only 2 regular season fixtures left but hopefully you can watch them.
I think ~10 years ago was a local maximum of American TV quality, and we've been going downhill into a land of lots of shovelware.
Engagement ring sales are down sharply, according to America’s biggest jeweler
Replit raises Series B extension of $97.4M at a $1.16B valuation
$2200 ... welp.
> ported Open5gs running on one of those little $20 USB LTE modems as a joke on top of Debian. I think I made the world's smallest EPC...

Aw, come on, you can't say that and not post a write up
‘Cooked’: A DIY Manifesto (2013)
Expanding the article's scope from "we should study mice of both sexes" to boiling the ocean with "we should IDIC mice studies" doesn't help here. Invoking age makes researchers more resistant to accounting for female biology in their research, because it gives them a ready excuse to say "we can't afford the combinatorial matrix of sex and age, so we're just going to study healthy adult males". In a world of theoretically infinite resources, it absolutely makes sense to widen the scope of mice studies to include all possible variations of mice, by sex and by age and by genetics. In today's actual world, it does not.
> The age of everything being ironic, sassy, and whiny needs to end.

Looking at you, modern Star Trek - a prime example of ironic, sassy and whiny not necessarily being any smarter.
TextMesh: Generation of Realistic 3D Meshes from Text Prompts
A Bleak Outlook for Manhattan’s Office Space May Signal a Bigger Problem
> I would rather save my time and just not watch sports. Only US soccer is decent because you can simply pay Apple and guarantee watch all the games.

This is exactly where I am. I grew up playing sports and I do enjoy watching them, but I never had TV growing up (thus never got "hooked"), and having to play the blackout game absolutely infuriates me.... so, I just don't watch.

Not opposed to paying by any means. In fact this post has informed me of F1 (in USA) and Apple TV+ (MLS) having no blackouts, so I actually just purchased F1 [0] (already had Apple TV+).

So I know I'm only a single person but F1 earned a purchase from me because of no blackouts.

___

[0] https://i.imgur.com/zs45cZp.png
> isn't the consistency of physical constants and other phenomena suggestive of a programmer-like intelligence behind the universe's design?

No
You can keep Klarna to be honest. It's a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
> the market will always demand one audience

Is this the demand of the market, or the demand of the marketer? And in either case, why should the rest of us care? After seeing their work, I have a rather negative view of their decisions.
how do you conclude that people watch videos to only get entertained? What fun will be derived from Topics like Fourier Transforms, Taylor's Series, Eigen vectors which already studied by fewer students.
I'm not sure what this article is trying to say?

They were not reporting as much as other companies like Ford, but when they DID actually report, their greenhouse gas emissions are lower per car manufactured vs. other companies? (337M kg CO2 for Ford's ~3.4M cars, vs. 30.7M kg CO2 for Tesla's ~1.4M cars)

Is this a problem? It seems like they're outperforming when you do take into account these 'Scope 3' emissions. And, if, as the article states, that "It’s a common practice for companies to only share their Scope 1 and 2 emissions...", I'm not sure what the issue is here.
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