skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Well, they’re informants. So, if they get killed, they’ve got it coming to them. They deserve it.” - Julian Assange
The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 2: Three Dimensions in Hardware
>Carlson literally disputed the results of an election, and that despite heaps of evidence that there never has been fraud

There's plenty of evidence of some fraud occuring, it was just never discussed by the regime-aligned media and tech companies, which is the vast majority of them. The same way they conspired to cover up the Hunter Biden laptop story, and claimed in unison that the covid vaccines could prevent transmission
and infection when there was no evidence to support this.

>At that point, he and his gullible viewers become a threat to democracy itself

If all your sources of truth are partisan media outlets aligned with you regime, then if the fraud really was large enough to alter the election results, you'd never know. That's the real threat to democracy.
if you read the article, you will see that you can use htmx as progressive enhancement quite easily since it is consonant with the vanilla HTML approach.

what makes htmx a hypermedia framework is the exchange of hypermedia with the server, this satisfies the hypermedia constraint (HATEOAS) of REST. there are other libraries that are also hypermedia oriented, such as unpoly.

it is a different approach to building web applications than the JSON/RPC style that is popular today

i encourage you to read the linked article, and, if it is interesting to you, the essays at https://htmx.org/essays, and then potentially https://hypermedia.systems
Cache is a microarchitectural thing. There's no "controlling" it without explicitly knowing the properties of the caches of the running processor (size, latency, associativity, replacement policy, and whatever other quirks the hardware designers decide to add) and building your code around it, at which point nothing will be able to do it in a "standard" way (unless your standard hard-codes all the past, present, and future architectures, which, good luck).

SIMD isn't really feasible to fully do in a standard way either. Without specific knowledge of the target, you can easily write SIMD-looking code that ends up slower than a scalar equivalent (e.g. if you do any non-constant shuffle on x86-64 pre-SSSE3 (i.e. the default), you'll get utterly awful results. On ARM NEON, a non-constant i32x4 shuffle is gonna be quite awful too).

Threading - <threads.h> is a standard header, no? (granted, it doesn't appear to be used much, but it does exist)

And, sure, every statement/expression/operator of yours doesn't end up always literally mapping to a single assembly instruction, but there's pretty much always a way it could, and quite often it does (and in the cases where it doesn't, it (usually) maps to something better than what you wrote). The main thing that doesn't is macros, but those are extremely trivially expandable.
One of the statistical slights of hand of which I am rather unfond is gun deaths that don't mention that slightly more than half of them are suicides. This reminds me a bit of that.

Google says that Alphabet had 190,234 employees in 2022. The annual age-adjusted suicide rate is 13.42 per 100,000 individuals. Males die by suicide 3.5 times more often than females. A real actuary (I wish I had known that was a profession!) could work the numbers better than I, but I don't think this is out of line on a statistical level, sad as it is to say.
This. The income is excellent and my wife would be head over heels in love with me. I mean not that she's not now. Though I wouldn't need the occasional nudge I give her by fixing the home network.
It's a state less vast in area than 4 small countries, with similar population and economy. 28 million people is not a large country population so the scale should be comparable, it's 10 million more than the Netherlands.

> For example, Texas doesn't have an income tax, and its tax revenue in 2022 was only 3.5 times that of Finland, despite having 5.5 times the population.

That's exactly my point, it's a failure of policy, not an issue of scale. The policy is to have low taxes, small government, whatever, and from that failure a US state comparable in terms of economy and population to the Nordics is not even close to these countries in social development.
So if I order something on Home Depot, the shipment is delayed, and I want to check on that (or even just find the support phone number, some sites block all HTTP requests from foreign IPs!) while I'm traveling out of country, I just don't get to do that without a VPN due to GDPR?
That's true, but what matter for technology development is who is specifying the design criteria. For most of the history of US rocket development it's been NASA. They designed the Saturn V, the Shuttle, SLS, and sub-contracted out manufacturing to private industry. The contractors certainly had a lot of input into the detailed design of the rockets, but the overall criteria and design concept were defined by NASA.

With COTS NASA switched to contracting out for launch capacity without defining how it must be achieved. This allowed SpaceX the freedom to engineer their rockets as they saw fit.
Gaming industry is HEAVILY bought into text to image. For concept art, textures, background scenes, filler content, etc. So many use cases.

Same with web design (for filler images, background art, etc), and design in general; basically, anything you'd previously employ a concept artist for, you can now do most of their work with midjourney or similar tools.

https://aituts.com/midjourney-web-design/

https://80.lv/articles/a-shoot-em-up-game-made-with-midjourn...
Only because Linus supports tivoization.
UK’s competition watchdog aims for leading global role
Funny thing is that CNN is creating these TV channels in Europe the past couple of years. Here they are following the quasi-extremist line that better suits the opposition of the parties in power in the country in order to get popular engagement.

i.e.: In Portugal, a left wing party (they call themselves Socialist Party, but most are just moderate left) is in power, so CNN Portugal, to get views from running the contradictory viewpoint, most of the time is a quasi alt-right mouthpiece.
At least in the US, I think that's only true for electrical resistance cooktops/hobs. For both natural-gas and inductive cooktops and 110V kettles, I find that the water boils much faster in the pot.
The difference is that Americans don't drink very many boiled-water drinks and so don't really need them. And the ones they do are easily handled and better handled by the specialized <100$ gadget that is a coffee machine.
> People have been arrested for posting dissent, for having VPN apps on their phones.

This is only going to get worse, and spread to other countries.

We need a real, reliable, decentralized solution, but we also need a solution that allows plausible deniability.

So if some cop looks at a phone, they can't see anything that would arouse suspicion.

A custom rom masquerading as an official Android release, with some kind of secret set of actions to launch an app, and a way to instantly hide all traces of it like a boss key.
Pretty good pitch from ChatGPT if you ask me! I haven't used cue outside of test projects before, so a few questions:

1. Is cue's validation a material improvement from something like pydantic or zod, which defines schema as code versus in .cue files? I see their docs argue that this can allow for client-side validation and lighter weight schema files which doesn't seem to totally address the library side of things.

2. Have you used the scripting layer before and do you find it useful in practice? I'm struggling a bit to see how I or GPT would use this in my day-to-day.
Yet here I am, in America, with a cheap water dispenser that has hot and cold taps.
never tell me the odds, kid

https://htmx.org/img/memes/whowillwin.png
Katy and the Gremlin
OK, I've read through all of these and I have to say I am deeply impressed by your grasp of what to many are some pretty subtle but important distinctions (AND compromises) to make. As well as your persistence in communicating your grasp of these distinctions and compromises. Damn. It's actually fascinating to trace back to the conversations you were responding to and see the examples that cropped up.

I think that what you're getting at is exactly the sort of thing that is communicated nonverbally in person, but which gets lost over text.

Anyway, thanks. I'm now going to post portions of this discussion to ChatGPT4 just to see what it thinks...

(Also, lead as nutrient? What the heck did that guy post??)
> Carlson literally disputed the results of an election

> It used to be the case that such events got classified and prosecuted as high treason.

I wasn't aware that stating an opinion on a government election was illegal in the United States. Isn't that literally what the First Amendment is for?
> Europe is absolutely at the cutting edge of technology.

Unless that technology is launch vehicles, in which case they'll whinge and whine and eventually contract someone else to do it for them and pretend they have a competent space program.
A lot of the heat is lost on a gas stove, though. Or is that the number after accounting for that?
> slang for flipping your shit

This is because there was a string of postal-worker incidents in the 80s or 90s (I forget) which grabbed the nation's attention. I don't think USPS actually has a murder problem.
> a major selling point of Node was running JS on both the client and server so you can write the code once

But we don’t have JS devs.

We have a team of Python/PHP/Elixir/Ruby/whatever devs and are incredibly productive with our productivity stacks of Django/Laravel/Phoenix/Rails/whatever.
Higher dimensional algorithms get very messy - see X-trees vs R-trees.

E.g., KNN is very fast, if and only if you have a high performing R-tree query.

so while the 2d algos might "fall out" of the sophisticated cases, the sophisticated cases will need to go in a different optimization direction.
Just one anecdote but I went to this modern art museum in Seattle last weekend that's small but well regarded: https://www.museumofmuseums.com/

I saw several mixed media pieces there (one was a diorama IIRC), which said some part of the artwork was done with Midjourney.
I've not used Htmx, but a cursory browse of their docs gives https://htmx.org/extensions/multi-swap/ which seems to solve exactly this problem. And thinking about it, what makes it as difficult as you say? If you've a js-library on the client you control you can definitely send payloads that library could interpret to replace multiple locations as needed. And if the client doesn't have js turned on the fallback to full-page responses solves the problem by default.

Of course, I've not used Turbolinks, so I don't know what issues applied there.

Edit: I'm not saying htmx is the future either. I'd love to see how they handle offline-first (if at all) or intermittent network connectivity. Currently most SPAs are bad at that too...
> it's cold and rainy all year long (more or less

End of May - September, Seattle is the 5th driest metro in the USA, with temperatures in the range that most people consider "ideal".

Good effort trying to perpetuate the story told to outsiders, though. (I lived there for 7 years).
No. Comparing TikTok to HN is flatly wrong.
I don't get why these statements emphasize the antagonism with the US. A lot of europeans see europe as extended US market by now, and promising european businesses will move to the US for faster growth. Ariane is a company , and of course they will find it hard to beat the 'Amazon of space'. Their reusables would be for the world, not just for europe. Europe already uses reusables if it uses spacex
How much do they work though. I know some nurses that had good pay on paper, but were absolutely desperate to get out of the field. They just worked so many hours it wasn’t worth it.
Terrific. I like it. Talking points are spot on.

FWIW, I've used the term "citizen-owned software" for the same concept.

On the stump, every one just grokked "citizen-owned software". 15 years ago, I ran for office, advocating election integrity ("private voting, public counting"). Including replacing COTS with FOSS. My audiences were donors, politicos, editorial boards, and lots and lots of normal people. Explaining "FOSS" was a non-starter, so I switched to "citizen-owned software", which needed no explaining.

Happy hunting.
I also live in Seattle, bike to work three days a week, and don't mind biking in the rain and cold.

Even so, I think mobility vehicles like this are excellent and should absolutely be part of our transportation systems. Sometimes you:

* Have a disability that prevents you from biking.

* Need to pick something up from the store that won't fit in your paniers.

* Want to bring a passenger who doesn't bike.

* Need to bring a small child who can't bike or doesn't have the endurance.

* Need to carry something you can't get wet and won't fit in your panniers.

* Are going somewhere nice and need to arrive without your hair and clothing discheveled.

* Won't have a safe place to park a bike.

* Need to leave something with your vehicle and want to be able to lock it away.

There is a reason cars are so popular. They are amazingly useful and convenient. I dislike arguments against cars because so many of them try to downplay the benefits as if car consumers are idiots. The benefits are real and profound. The problem with cars isn't that they aren't as great as people think they are. It's that the externalities often don't make the benefits worth it.

Any vehicle that can give you many of those same benefits while reducing those externalities should be applauded.
By enforcing copyright law, states restrict the freedom of speech of their citizens by prohibiting/going after certain kinds of expression (someone relying the state government's own speech is in itself speech)

In order to not be unconstitutional, therefore, copyright law should be interpreted as not protecting state works.
> But that isn't because of the technology, it's because all the devs writing shitty MPAs are now writing shitty SPAs. If this becomes popular, they will start writing shitty MPAs again. Nothing about this technology will stop that.

While I am a fan of MPAs and htmx, and personally find the dev experience simpler, I cannot argue with this.

The high-order bit is always the dev's skill at managing complexity. We want so badly for this to be a technology problem, but it's fundamentally not. Which isn't to say that specific tech can't matter at all -- only that its effect is secondary to the human using the tech.
AI vs. Non-AI Software Engineer Compensation in Top Tech Companies
The thing is, there are many other children and teens who went through similar experiences like me. And I don’t think any child or teen should be subjected to that level of internet wilderness, not at least until they’ve gotten more sense in their head. Are you willing to support a status quo where some children and teens continue to face these issues?

I don’t see it as a freedom issue, I felt less free being manipulated by adults. I feel more free having more control over what I choose to do with my time instead of coercion via hormones.

Anyways the question is, do we really want to hurt children and teens for the sake of some adults not having to upload their IDs? I understand there are many privacy issues with this, but I’m not sure you’d understand my viewpoint unless you realize the scale of minor sexual activity with adults occurring online.
FYI, I posted this mainly for its description and illustration of the VHS format. The author of the video has very high quality explanations of technical and cultural details of instruments.
I don’t drink much tea at home but I still use it all the time for pasta, eggs, instant noodles etc. literally any cooking that needs boiled water.
Yes. Many ads are cost per impression.
Can we count in Hotwire, inertiajs, Alpinejs, unpolyjs aswell?
Then we can combine AD and numerical solvers like is found in modern weather and climate models. I don't quite understand but it has something to do with sensitivity analysis and improving data assimilation. (Google "4dvar ecmwf" for more details... eg: https://www2.atmos.umd.edu/~dkleist/docs/da/ECMWF_DA_TUTORIA...)

I think the idea is to use the "tangent linear model" to decide how much importance to give to a particular observation of the initial state.
My default assumption is that any undisclosed libel settlement is usually for about $1.
There's a wide gap of a difference between "publishing something that is simply critical of the government" and "publishing classified / state communications", including massive information dumps of unredacted diplomatic cables.

Put it this way, if you can name a country that would not react in the exact same manner to the actions that the US did to Assange's actions, please let me know. I certainly can't think of any.

Wikileaks became very close to Russia in the end, anyways, not exactly a bastion of freedom and IMHO destroying any credibility Assange had. If Assange was on the "other side" and the classified stuff was from Russia, he'd probably have been "Novichoked" for what he did.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html has a link to "latest version" which is broken.
Fox doesn't have the same bench it did. There is no one with the credibility and charisma of Carlson left. When O'Reilly left they still had some talent.
You really have not heard those people? Lucky you. Anecdotically there are plenty of them, and official sources (like politicians) are of course more careful in their wording, but the sentiment is exactly this.

"No real need to change the gasoline cars, as we will have CO2 removal."

I can probably dig up some ugly quotes, if you like. But those are not really my circles so I have nothing at hand.

(I should probably add, that I am from germany and loud cars and the making of them are important here. But I heard the same from US politicians)

"What I don't accept is mere folk behavioral psychology speculation driving what an entire civilization does to mitigate a massive risk. "

Well, how exactly could technical CO2 removal ever work?

We burn stuff for energy and then need even more energy to recapture the side products?

How would this be powered?

By the sun?

Solar panels still needs to be manufactured and deployed.

So if we would have all energy generation by regenerative sources AND we have overcapacity - then we could also extract some of the old released CO2, true, but have you done some calculations, how much area you would need, to power a significant amount of CO2 removal?

Lot's of it.

Forests on the other hand grow and expand by themself, once established and undisturbed, that's the beauty of them.
They also help stabilizing local climate. And the real problem of climate change for lots of people will be desertification. So more Forests reduce CO2 AND provide actual better living conditions for the people affected. A lone symbolic CO2 removal on the other hand is really limited in its usefulness, while the coal plants are burning happily.
“elevate” is more of a fancy word than “lift” which is more direct
That is awesome! I've had the idea for the past few years of making a social search engine, where the only results are pages tagged by people in your "friends" list and several degrees outwards from that.

I never had any interest in actually building the idea, so it's amazing to see something similar hit the market.
I mean, there's nothing about an SPA that forces you to break the back button, to the contrary, it's possible to have a very good navigation experience and working bookmarks. But it takes some thinking to get it right.
Isn't French guyana one of the best places?
A probability distribution isn't the order of words, it's a fact about the order of words.

Pedants have been complaining about this kind of thing for years. If you generate random data, no one has a copyright on that. But if you XOR it with a copyrighted work, the result is indistinguishable from random data. No one could tell you which was generated randomly and which was derived from the copyrighted work. But XOR them back together again and you get the copyrighted work.

Things like that get solved pragmatically, not mathematically. There is no basis for saying that one set of random bits is infringing and the other isn't, but if you're distributing them for the sole purpose of allowing people to reconstitute the copyrighted work, you're going to be in trouble.

Now we have something with different practicalities. The purpose of training the model on existing works is so that it can e.g. answer questions about Harry Potter, which the majority wants to be possible and is the same class of thing that search engines need to be able to do. But the same model can then produce fan fiction as an emergent property, so what now?
https://web.archive.org/web/20230505152450/https://www.nytim...
make sure Farnsworth's smelloscope is ready to collect data before and after the change
This was the first reason I got hooked on Stranger Things.

The music. It reminds me of a time and space I've actually never lived in. And it probably never existed like that. Yet growing up it is very much how I believed North America looked like.
> Stuff like credit cards issued in my country simply not working and them saying things like "yeah well we don't trust these eastern banks" with the typical "zomg another poor schmuck"-look...

That sounds like Germany and their obsolete banking system. No idea how things are there, but in France that hasn't been anything resembling my experience. Yeah I get the occasional "I detected a small accent there, where are you from? Oh cool, you speak very good French!" which doesn't bother me, but that's pretty much it. And for what it's worth, some Bulgarian banks are shit and don't work with French bank cards for whatever reason (naming and shaming: Unicredit Bulbank flat out told me they don't work with "some German banks" when my French card was not working on a POS terminal from them).

> Even just the casual dismissal of my attempts to ask to speak a common language (English) - them switching to German/French whenever there was at least one other speaker of the language - even though the firms declared the working language is English...

> Where I live if a person who doesn't speak our language comes into the room we all switch to English so the person can feel welcome.

Yep, French people have that bad habit. It's mostly out of shame in my view though - their English is usually not perfect, and they don't feel comfortable expressing themselves in it, running back to their comfort zone at any opportunity. It's shitty towards people who don't speak their language.
I am slowly coming around to the same conclusion. It isn't always clear how some agent types are different from others. Sometimes the prompts expect JSON blobs and sometimes they expect something else. I tried it out because I could see the potential, but I dont think it's architect-ed in a way that is suitable for things beyond simple PoCs.

It would probably be much better to start with the basic OpenAI API and then build on top of it.

What I find particularly frustrating is the difficulty in easily interfacing with my existing python tools (not like add two numbers, but somewhat complex analytics on top of structured data). If anybody has any success with interfacing with existing tools/scripts, would love to know how people are going about doing it.
Yes but the point is that they didn't shutdown CHOI-FM for violating Canadian law (nor did Tucker Carlson violate Canadian law).
And because Linus just does not give a fuck. He is an engineer, not a politician, and the GPLv2 to this day is serving its purpose, and Linux‘ success proves him right.
So did everyone on left wing channels in 2000.

There was no outrage then. It’s just become acceptable to despise and ostracize the Right.
ok but the criticism is the headline says he jumped when they don’t know, and that a fall is not a jump