skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh dear. Gramsci and all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Horton_(editor)

As always, he has a right to his political opinions like everyone else; the issue is that a prestigious scientific journal is used to push culture war politics.

Apparently, his expertise extends also to security and defense, but I wonder what a medical journal has to do with it:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Oh, it gets better: he also cites Orwell but without any understanding what Orwell had in mind:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

This is what politicization of science looks like.
Immigrants waiting to get citizenship so they can enjoy the same safety net.
> Brakes don't last 50k if you have to ride them for 5 minutes every time you leave home.

You should never ride the brakes for minutes at a time! Even if didn't care about wear, the main problem is they will overheat and become less and less effective so if you suddenly need to brake harder during that downhill, you may have little to no braking power.

Always use engine braking if faced with a long steep downhill. Use the brakes occasionally to modulate speed but never ride them continuously for a prolonged time.
I too share your pain here - BUT - I have another observation:

I think, and I hate that this is true, but I truly think larger enterprises - and specifically the people who make buying decisions within non-technical departments at larger enterprises - really do prefer to buy “solutions” and not tools.

I’m a product guy through and through and it drives me bonkers when I visit websites that try to sell me holes instead of drills. But I’ve worked with B2B SaaS companies, and when you’re selling to non-technical folks, they do seem to want to buy holes. This is particularly so with sales and sales enablement tools. You’ll get people proudly saying things like (to continue to metaphor) “you know I’m not an engineer so I don’t understand these fancy drills to yours. But I sure do like the holes you guys offer and they’ll make me look really good to our CEO”…
In my experience, a decent refractor just does what it needs to do, without drama. There's no mirror to collimate, no mirror to flop. Once the imaging train is dialed in, you let it cool for a bit, you focus, you take pictures. It just works. I confess to missing a reflector's diffraction spikes, but the unobtrusiveness of a decent refractor is almost luxurious given everything that can go sideways with astro-imaging.
Any store will sell me clothes that don't fit, food I'm allergic to, and chemicals that are dangerous if used incorrectly. It's not unreasonable to expect the buyer to take some basic responsibility.
Lots of people do use literally, which manifests by them complaining that it is becoming a self-antonym or that it's losing its meaning. Is it a lazy cliche? Probably. Is that a reason to complain it's hurting the word literally? Obviously not.
The linked 'scientific' paper is just embarrassing. From the study design "A comparative risk assessment model estimated the numbers, proportions and uncertainty of global T2D cases attributable to suboptimal intake of key dietary factors."
That's it, that's the whole paper, reporting what the risk assessment model estimated.
I agree, but that does not mean everything he says is wrong. I think the public having clear expectations of AIs and how they interact with them is important in general.
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They say Kansas is so flat you can watch your dog run away for three days before you lose sight of him.
> - 1 in 8 who initially accepted them rejected the second; 5 in 8 who initially accepted rejected the third

Isn't that somewhat expected? I mean, I got covid when I had the vaccine and it was OK (nearly no symptoms), so I (perhaps naively) concluded "ok, this is probably nothing". Then I happened to get it again and again, longer after I had the vaccine so indirectly I was passively and gradually testing how I would react to the virus without the vaccine. In the end I said ok, this is fine, I probably don't have to be vaccinated again.
Because it's a microblog like Twitter.
> Nobody who has ever worked on drum brakes wants to go back.

This. Drum brakes are an inordinate pain to maintain and adjust.

I can change pads in disk brakes on all four wheels in less time that it took me merely to remove the drum from a single wheel in older cars.
I guess "Dust in the Wind" was pretty good.
This sounds like a bad first design:

- didn’t just grab the whole video (or ~1min segment), but individual frames

- put each detector in its own context, needing its own copy

- created a StepFunction for each tiny piece

This never would’ve passed design review when I worked at Amazon because the combinatorial blowout is obvious and predictable.

I’m sure they switched to what was considered good practice even then:

- a single StepFunction per video

- a batch step across segments

- downloading in bulk, to a single container

- running all the detectors together

The problem wasn’t serverless or micro services: this was just bad design.
But when he talks about AI, he is talking about artificial consciousnesses, and we are no where even close to creating something like that.

I mean I agree having rules and expectations is important though.

On the other hand I wonder how enforceable it will be since people can generate models in secret in their homes.
Well it likely depends on how hard it is to actually extract the subtitles from the netflix stream, since I know there's DRM in their videos
The answer is "not enough." The states dual mandates of "electrify all cars" and "green all the energy" are, again, reaching an ugly corner. This is not controversial at all.

https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/01/california-electr...
That's not part of the ActivityPub protocol.
Interestingly, this is another security issue with STARTTLS. The whole concept of first establishing an unencrypted connection and only then upgrading to encryption is fragile in multiple ways.

Admittedly, this is a pet peeve of mine, as I've co-authored a paper about it. I wonder why mailbox.org does not recommend that users switch from STARTTLS to implicit TLS for SMTP/POP3/IMAP, as this would mitigate such issues more generally. This is also in line with current RFCs (RFC 8314).

https://nostarttls.secvuln.info/
I'd say more than 81% generally comply with the law. Given the extreme measures employed to "get" people to take it, that might be a closer comparison than whatever it is you're imagining comparing this to.
if the shrinking population is not a problem, why reluctancy to have children is an issue? People in developed world are freer than ever, they don't need children.
> It also means that the company is incentivized to continually add features that will lead to new sales, rather than improve existing features to make the product better for previous purchasers.

How? ImageLine and its competitors tend to offer free trial versions of their software, so they're not simply selling feature lists. Users can try out and feel the software, so there is an incentive to refining existing features, because those fundamentally form the basis of whether a potential customer buys or not.

Perhaps you could add more features to try to convincing users that already have a a DAW-of-choice to switch to FL Studio, but I think you overestimate how big this market is compared to the constant stream of new bedroom producers. A DAW can be a relatively big investment for a bedroom producer, not only in terms of money but in time to learn, so the cost to change your mind is high.
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Yeah, Wasmer (which I don't pay much attention to) uses Cranelift from Wasmtime, so Cranelift is pretty much the only game in town for JIT.

Wazero is awesome, I wish them luck and hope to use it, but I would use wasmtime for most everything until it gets a lot further along.
You might get more traction if you:

1. have a free tier, completely free if you hoot once a month or something like that, otherwise your subdomain deletes itself.

2. change the pricing from $3 per month or whatever, to like $19.95 per year. I’m not sure if other people feel this way, but in 2023 I’m feeling pretty hostile to subscriptions that want to charge me a few dollars per month (and hike their prices randomly after I’ve bought-in) and prefer to outright purchase things

3. make it better than a static site generator by adding extra features ie optionally let people login with GitHub or Google or whatever and comment on posts

4. connect to own custom domain, pretty straightforward why people might want this, especially if you can get it to automatically renew let’s encrypt https and stuff like that
Parent comment is by the inventor of D, among other things…
They are. They have raised about a billion dollar so far.
I think for the Switch lite you will need to do some soldering

https://www.reddit.com/r/SwitchPirates/comments/139y23v/succ...
It's turtles all the way down. Layers of abstraction stacked on layers of abstraction.
We are using it for summaries, newsletter research, website copy
, product research and more.

Mostly using for content generation.
TIL we are upset about people sharing food culture!
Taskflow v3.6.0: A New Dynamic Task Graph Programming Model
Realistically 99% of the harassment is stopped by such feature, humans are foul and lazy creatures, most harassment happens because it's really easy to do it, when you create such bumps it stops most of it, if you want to stop it 100% that's another discussion worth having but by no means a good argument against such blocking.
> let me help diminish sales of said product

Any proof of that?
The key term there is “essential liberty”, by which he meant political rights. Choosing to delegate management of a computer’s firmware to a third party firstly isn’t giving away any political rights, and is a rational choice in some circumstances. It’s a choice I might make for some computers I own or operate, and not others. Suggesting that this choice has anything to do with what Franklin was talking about is nonsense on stilts.
Most natural caves in the UK are either silted up or stained with a natural pigment (peat, etc). Keeping water clear in a tunnel over the course of centuries without replacing the wall linings regularly would probably be hard if there's anywhere the silt or pigment could come from.
In the tunnel category, maybe the tunnel under the English Channel, it's pretty impressive in its own right.
What you're missing is that despite the high-profile nature of Nintendo's takedowns, they're only a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of Nintendo-related stuff being developed and published in the open. The takedowns are also highly sporadic. No one bothers with those measures because no one needs to, until suddenly they do.

The other thing is that once you're in the community with a traceable identity, the only way to transition to a proper untraceable identity is to abandon your identity – abandon your friends, abandon your followers if you're a public figure in the community – and start from scratch with a new name. Almost nobody wants to do that.

In practice it's probably good enough if your identity is only mildly protected. Actually, in practice you can probably get away with ignoring takedowns without protecting your identity at all, if you're not engaged in piracy, since the only cases Nintendo actually brings to court tend to be about piracy. But that requires gambling that Nintendo doesn't randomly decide to financially ruin you. Nobody wants to do that either.

Oh, and when it comes to hosting, there are no good alternatives to YouTube and Twitch and Discord, certainly not if you want other people in the community to find you.
populated by people looking like they’re depicted in the film WALL•E
I think I made a prototype of this 11 years ago
https://github.com/khebbie/GistBlog
Hm, I thought 'order by' clause took a column name, not a table sub-expression.
I'm behind Tor, but anyone else in this comment thread could fix the Wikipedia article
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I made a comment on the original article pointing out a cultural and historical reason for the generations of cyclical abuse. JK generalized this, which clearly makes a different argument for root cause of abuse.

Is filial piety a part of Western Culture? No, not even close. Honor thy mother and father is not even comparable to the level of filial piety. Poverty, lack of education, substance abuse - that is universal causes for abuse. However, filial piety is another cause and unique to Asian cultures.

Incredible to me how this is lost by so many here.
Things are indexed by name, so it’s normally pretty easy to trace back where something comes from based on that unique symbol name, especially with IDE tools. I at least don’t find it to be a problem. The big list of imports at the top of most files in my nodejs projects I find more annoying personally.
It might be more like 29.99, tbh. "Pay yearly and get two months off".
This author has some great stuff, minutiae of internet history I would have never thought to care about all made quite interesting! Another good read: https://www.devever.net/~hl/gatekeeper
Thanks for the note; I may tweak that. Does the Highlights section's intro, "These chronologically-ordered highlights…" help?

—gist author
Oh come on, Walter, don't make us beg... Show us how you'd do it in D to achieve the exact same result.
Everytime I see pinecone I'm immediately put off by it since it's so heavily focused on "use the cloud" and "make an account".
I don't want another account, I don't want to have to be connected to the internet, and I don't even really want multiple files to be generated on disk.

Simple is better and offline is better, which is why SQLite and DuckDB reign supreme.

So, no Pinecone is not a very good DB from what I can tell.
"Rejected" just means "didn't get" which doesn't automatically imply vaccine hesitancy/doubt.
I have four discord accounts.

There is a way to bypass the phone verification. You need a trustworthy/legitimate email address. Also, if you mess up they might start tracking you and flag you as suspicious which means they will start asking for phone numbers on any account you create.
> There must be sufficient secular reason to have a given law. There are people in this country who believe that this is a "Christian" nation, and even some deep in the bible belt who believe that it should be illegal to be "not Christian". You run the risk of handing the country to people like that, when you allow too much religion in your government.

So yeah, this is exactly what I was talking about: this is disenfranchising people based on their religion.

> If you can't make secular decisions in your job representing all people in your constituency, if you can't separate your religious belief and personal morals from what is legislatively appropriate, then just maybe, you shouldn't be a politician. (...) If you are a Senator or Representative in the US, you also represent the atheists in your constituency, as well of those of all other religious beliefs than your own. You don't just represent the ones who align with your religious belief.

This is just an isolated demand of rigor, it's a standard that you would not apply in other circumstance. Try making the same argument, but replacing religion with political party. "Sure, you are personally deeply aligned with Democratic policy, but you also represent Republicans in your constituency, so you should separate your personal beliefs and morals from your politics, and don't push for policy that your Republican constituents would not agree with". This is of course ridiculous.

You need to understand that what you proposing here is plainly disadvantaging (some) religious beliefs compared to other philosophies, and holding them to a different, higher standards. Why do majority of voters have to give "sufficient secular reason" for a given law? Constitution doesn't demand this sort of "parallel construction".
Where are you getting your clinical data then?
> But they should consider whether this matches the size/scope of the problem being solved

In professional software development projects, specially legacy projects, often times the complexity is not justified by the problem. There is always technical debt piling up, and eventually it starts getting in the way.
Concurrency is not Parallelism by Rob Pike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV9rvDllKEg
Expected by whom? Most doctors probably expected that, but the people setting COVID policy appeared to believe that after being vaccinated people wouldn't get or transmit COVID and therefore coercive tactics could be used to force people to get jabbed. Turns out in hindsight they were both authoritarian and spreading medical misinformation. And have probably undermined trust in vaccines and the medical establishment for a good decade.

The issue here isn't that somehow this is surprising news, the issue here is that there was a general suspension of a lot of basic human rights for, in hindsight, poor reasons and insufficient evidence.
I down voted at face value but how?
children have a very different idea of what's reasonable. for example my kids find it unreasonable that i don't allow them to take sodas and junk-food to eat in school, when many other kids bring that. they also don't understand that they can't watch tv and play on the computer all day, which is especially difficult because they see me on the computer all day due to my work. nevertheless, having kids is very rewarding, so i hope you'll get there some day.
What an idiotic move! First, they went against widespread practice and made people feel comfortable about it, now they want to ruin it worse! Having unique usernames was the standard, they went against it so that people don't hate when their username gets stolen, now, they are going back to old standards pissing tons of people off who now complain they won't be able to get their usernames!
Or maybe there's a mid point. It's not datacenter or cloud. There are providers offering physical servers for rent for example. Lots of combinations in-between.
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It’s just that social media is usually free so I’m not sure I’d pay like 30 bucks for this
One way to reestablish trust would be if one could guarantee that a toolchain were fully homomorphic. Optimization would then be lost, but presumably this would only have to occur at a single stage in a bootstrap to avoid the attack.
Was that Paris?? Here in Spain you get a lot more than Ibis Budget for 70€ :)
What's the alternative that doesn't require more effort for the user?
So much tech with the word wasm in it now, it's beginning to get confusing!
Copyright means nothing anymore.
Mail polling doesn't require accuracy. The OS won't delay your polling timer more than 10 minutes in the most aggressive cases, which is perfectly fine.

I'm sure the third party you share your email just to get push notifications with isn't monitoring your mailbox to the second either...
It’s hilarious, but in this case I think it doesn’t apply. There is next to zero content here that is actually contributed by the person who made the video, and the voice over is pretty horrible. But it did get to front page so maybe I’m just wrong!
Okay? Again this has been doable for ages.

You’re making an appeal to “authenticity” that hasn’t been true for probably longer than any of us on here have been alive.
Makes me wonder what the % thresholds are for low, medium, and high likelihoods of having ASPD.

FWIW I scored 21/102. Probably would have been a higher result in my early 20s.
it takes some time to recognize what are mistakes. i didn't notice many things until i saw my kids do them and only that made me stop doing that myself.
I’m confused, why would a kernel need to be signed if you don’t actually care about secureboot? If you have a signed GRUB, then UEFI with SB will run it, after which you can use GRUB to launch any kernel, signed or not, right?
But raft isn’t strongly consistent, it has known liveness issues.

https://decentralizedthoughts.github.io/2020-12-12-raft-live...
So what? I'll fat shame the chubby little bastards.
Yeah the original premise was great.

When it started being an industry, that's when it started going wrong. Ruining city centers with stag parties in residential buildings. Inflating house prices. It's why we can't have nice things :(
Just my intuition from Control Theory.
> (...) like using microservices on a system that gets 1k users a day.

This sort of specious reasoning just shows how pervasive is the fundamental misunderstanding of the whole point of microservices. Microservices solve organizational problems, and their advantages in scaling and reliability only show up as either nice-to-haves or as distant seconds.

Microservices can an do make sense even if you have 10 users making a hand full of requests, if those services are owned and maintained by distinct groups.
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I know one person who has done security work for Nintendo after previously working on homebrew.

They called me once, in 2015, asking if we could collaborate on Wii U security in some way. I was flattered but decided it would be against my morals.
Yeah, we should have never went the free route with social media, but that’s a whole different conversation…
Thanks for sharing.
It took me way too long to 'get out' but I instinctively figured out I'm never having kids years before understanding why.
Ibis is already the budget brand of accor group though. Ibis budget is very budget. Plastic bathrooms, often bunk beds etc.
Society would collapse also of everyone decided to do internet marketing. Or baking. Or anything, for that matter - since society requires that different people make different choices.
Ask around. I'm sure there are some technical people in your extended circle that you may not have considered. Also, there are tons of tech job boards out there. Many many years ago, I was a contractor on upwork, but my last foray with them was as a client.

For the tasks I needed done, it worked well enough (translation mostly). However, I wouldn't dare to hire an engineer from the platform. Not because of skills, but because of what it has done to the market. Also, it's a race to the bottom.
Would be cool to hook this up into a Bluesky network graph like [0] and pulse the node every time someone posts. Some interesting patterns might emerge.

[0] https://bsky.jazco.dev/
hundreds of millions people have been arrested and murdered because of "your reality", do you take into the consideration for the infrastructure to arrest and murder hundreds of millions people?
Embrace the Boredom
Life is often boring. This could be one of the major reasons why social media became so popular. The moment we feel bored, we open social apps. It’s impulsive. We don’t want to be bored, so we begin endless scrolling.

You must have realized that very hollow feeling after this scrolling session. We have a very convenient one-click connection because of phones. I observed these patterns with myself, so I made my choices not to get trapped in this myriad.

I want to talk about embracing the quiet and bored mind. If you are bored, that’s good. We should feel bored. It’s natural and important. We don’t have to do or be busy every hour of the day. Boredom is how you experiment with new things.

These writings and the website are a product of my boredom. I experimented with building my website, and I got one. I wouldn’t have done this if it weren’t for my one dull weekend on a hot summer day.

Stop trying to fill bored minutes with distractions like social media or binge-watching. Go for a walk, try a new coffee shop, break and repair your TV remote, paint, learn car maintenance, write, talk to friends (or punch them, your call), or fight with aliens (in your mind, of course). The possibilities are endless.

Be intentional about how you spend your free time.

https://prashanthi.dev/embrace-the-boredom/
Automatically replace the discriminator by something like Word3Words to make them less confusable.
Rent a VPS. They are a few bucks a month.