skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is extremely simple once you get out of the western secular, tolerant mindset.

Just a matter of tailoring the law in the right way. For example, if you want to hurt church X which has a large following among urban population, just increase taxes on noncommercial private buildings with seating capacity over 50 in areas where population density is over some number. And make allowance for exceptions, so you can claim the law doesn't discriminate, and it's their fault that they didn't get exception.

The fact that exception is impossible to get if people asking for it adhere to some creed is secondary. Even if they get it, the process can be made costly and painful to the point where they run out of money before.

Or you can go explicit in your intentions, and make a law targeting that particular faith by name. It has been done in the past, it is happening now. Look at middle-east for examples.

And you can go for categories too. Say you don't want any foreign religions popping up. Just raise taxes on all, and give exceptions or such to faiths that have over some number of citizen adherents. The possibilities are practically limitless once you accept that law is a tool.
> Some years ago they had a large audience

Were the numbers good though? Was it sustainable?
https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux_Google_Play
Actually chuckled. Good comment.
Good riddance? I got 2 entries of "cancer journalism" on my list with them.

NY times has 6 entries. If only they would go that would make the US maybe a little less divisive.
Lojban[1] is a constructed language which is (or tries to be) syntactically unambiguous. Of course even fewer people speak Lojban than Esperanto, but there's still a sizable community.

[1]: https://mw.lojban.org/papri/Lojban
Why we can’t trust the government’s figures about nuclear close calls
FB missed short-form video, but Instagram didn't.

People just like TikTok better.
> what Geoffrey Hinton said about the self-healing mine field

Thankfully, that is more-or-less unfeasible in reality... hard to imagine such a minefield actually working out. The mines would need to be capable of autonomous movement in difficult terrain, would require at least a month worth of battery capacity and recharging capability, and it would be easy to jam their c&c frequency to completely kill that "self healing" capability.
Thanks, it didn't show up immediately when I searched for it.

But it looks like you have to rent an instance of Vertex AI to use it. It doesn't seem to be pay per use as OpenAIs model are priced with.
Really sad about this. Vice went places no one else would go, and did deep dives on topics (drugs) conventional media wouldn't touch.
People have different amounts of motivation, different things that motivate them, make different mistakes given the same material...
Well, as much as containers are a chroot. It's also heavily integrated with the host system.
Cult-films-database: CSV file and SQLite DB of cult films
Because of some issues: https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...

"Termux and its plugins are no longer updated on Google Play Store due to android 10 issues and have been deprecated. The last version released for Android >= 7 was v0.101. It is highly recommended to not install Termux apps from Play Store any more."
My last paragraphs were trying to respond to the following bit:

> > Seems like you can never please developers: If you don't invite them to attend all the meetings, then they're offended because they feel left out from important decisions. If you invite them to all the meetings then they're angry because you're interrupting their productivity with useless meetings. You can never win.
I think there's also the sunk cost aspect. You saved for a long time for the generator on the basis it would provide power for you for a very long time so an alternative to this prized asset isn't high on your list of things to spend all your savings on (even if on paper it was economically rational to do so)
Probably not a lot to worry about:

https://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/opinions_l...

https://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/opinions_l...
UFO flying Mach 10 near plane
And yet the computer is so much better in many areas than a human.

It so weird to compare the two. Why would you even want that? We have already plenty of brains on earth. Who sais, that once a computer works like a brain.. it doesn't also come with it's downsides?

There are lot's of problems in compute.. making it more brain like, more linguistic isn't going to solve that.

I believe the whole notion of "a computer as an assistant", is doing more damage than good.
Doesn't seem likely to me - it's common with specific strong dialects and often associated with working class people. As it's regional, I don't see it being a hearing related issue (not that I think it's an issue anyhow).
Our libraries have all that stuff, and often that is what's attractive to homeless people. They may not be penniless or destitute: a lot of times, people have no home, but they have a cell phone to charge, and they have a few bucks to spend on restaurant food (because they can't purchase/store groceries or cook for themselves).

So all these creature comforts and amenities attract people of lower economic class. Often it's really nice to use a lab computer, set your phone down while it's charging, get on the Internet and do some job searches. If there's a café in your library, then you can stay all day without leaving.

Even people who do have homes may prefer the library during the day. If they have obnoxious roommates, abusive family members, no A/C or heating, whatever, they can come to the library and enjoy all that, courtesy of the taxpayers.
Back when we were digging into microcode we found a mention of this as a PoC/toy example [1]. Sadly we never found more than an overview, would have liked to know more about it, especially how the update was accepted.

[1] https://troopers.de/events/troopers16/655_the_chimaera_proce... by https://twitter.com/cynicalsecurity
Does Spanish assign gender to inanimate objects?
40 crashes per million flights has still got to be better than current road safety, at a very rough calculation the US for example had 128 road deaths per million people, which I'm admittedly not sure how to convert to make a fair comparison.
Vice is how I learned about Bitcoin circa 2012 and how I learned about the casual psychedelic mushrooms consumption in Oaxaca, Mexico.
To control the software of course - the source of the future revenue.
Does it only hide them for yourself? Because I can still see all those tweets that are meant to be hidden.
The whoe Cambridge Analytica story was one of the major steps in the descent of the media into partisan ragebait, though. Political campaigns have long had a much more boring but effective way of getting the data they need to get out the vote which mostly boils down to asking people (and of course recording the results in a database). The Trump campaign seems to have seen the Cambridge Analytica data as a worse alternative to the traditional approach if the Republican Party didn't give access to their own, long-running voter database. The basis for their personality analysis was pseudoscience and I think it was apparently even tested and didn't work that well. That reporting was less about informing people that it was delegitimising an election result that many people didn't like by blaming a website that many journalists didn't like because it had siphoned advertising money away from them.

For bonus partisan points, the previous Obama campaign had used people's Facebook interactions for voter targetting in a way that was ethically fishy, and this was spun as a clever and positive thing. Imagine if some of your friends were secretly siphoning off all your social media interactions with them into a political party algorithm that decided which of the people they talked to could be most effectively convinced to vote Obama - that's basically how their system worked, and it got glowing coverage after the fact in places like the New York Times that boasted about how effective it could be for commercial advertising too.
Nit: They're called "Autocratic" (specifically Authoritarian) or "Democratic" styles. [0]

Servant Leadership is what I've found to be most productive when managing developers - the idea that the manager is there as a servant of the team, to remove problems and allow the team to work at their full capacity. However, this assumes that the team wants to work at its full capacity.

I've seen large corporate teams that do not. They clock in a couple of PRs a day, leave their cameras and mics off in meetings, etc. I can understand the desire to get them in the office to control them. But that's not going to solve the problem - you can't force a developer to write good code by standing over them and watching them.

It's a management problem. If the team isn't performing, getting them in the office isn't going to help. Replace the manager with a more effective one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_style
I'd love to hear this. It's not something I've noticed in my plentiful YouTube watching, etc, but I think it'd be an interesting development. The English-inspired "posh" American accents of yesteryear are beautiful, I think.

The similar thing that stands out to me like a sore thumb (and I appreciate this is all on me and anyone can talk however they like!) is when British people keep their accent but drop their "t"s to "d"s when speaking in public/on YouTube/podcasts/etc. ("Bedder" instead of "better", for example.) It doesn't seem to be a youth only thing, a lot of British speakers at tech conferences seem to do it, but it's not how we'd talk amongst ourselves in the UK. I wonder if it's something to do with subconsciously reducing plosives which often come out bad on mic?
The theoretical sci-fi promise of things like the metaverse would be having pretty much everything reality has, but better.

A metaverse concert as good as attending a real concert in person, but also your friend who lives 500 miles away is right there next to you. Business meetings as good as meeting in person, but with infinitely luxurious surroundings and no travel time. Office buildings where everyone gets a private office and a dozen huge monitors. And so on.

Obviously, that's not what Facebook are offering at the moment. I would say they are nowhere close.

And of course, though to you and I such a thing controlled by Facebook might seem incredibly dystopian, Zuckerberg probably has a much higher opinion of facebook than normal people!
Huge mounds of salt because I'm not a parent - but I have colleagues that do that and it's never bothered me, I suppose I assume it's more a risk of interruption than it is stopping you putting the hours in at all. If someone was a strict '9-5' (or whatever) type and also had child(ren) interrupting or distracting them, then yeah, that's taking the mick a bit. But otherwise, it's not like I don't answer the door or empty the dishwasher or whatever.
> The “Peppa effect” had them speaking like the show’s cartoon pig, saying “Mummy” instead of “Mommy”

I've thought "mommy" vs "mummy" was a spelling difference. The words sound the same to me, /'mɐmɪ/.
Could you list some of these features that make VSCode far more capable? I always wonder if I should move on from emacs at some point to a more capable IDE. If you think emacs is "just a console text editor" though you may not be the best person to answer.
That's what they try to do in Expanse anyway. Build a generational ship to try and jet out to their own system light years away.
I have to admit I'm a little tickled at the nominative determinism here.
75% of Americans are overweight or obese

Gyms aren't that popular, most people going to gyms aren't doing enough
Phonetic spelling implies that one pronunciation is correct over all other alternatives, that certainly would not work for anything close to current-day english
Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?
There have been many tools powered by GPTs coming out over the past few months. Too many. Which ones are actually worth using?
What bothers me most about VScode is that linters and other annotating plugins will underline and box text and make it really hard to read. It's not graceful the way error highlighting was in Eclipse and Visual Studio and it makes me miss the old tools. It's really really ugly, especially the box. Everyone says "just get a plug-in like ErrorLens" but I would rather just have a de-lint button. I honestly turn off the linter nowadays and run it manually in the shell (fortunately VSCode has a shell built in).
On a lighter note, I wonder if I'm the only one that gets a mild sense of FOMO when I see the welcome page that lists out the features they have released after every update? Like these guys are cranking out so many new things and I just don't have the time to try them out :(
That's why I asked. (even though your other reply to
keyle, implys otherwise)

And actually, I have not really seen that trope very much: "everything is better done by a women"

It surely exists somewhere, but can you give examples for this with any major production?
Nice, but it does not look practical considering it appears to be replacing the whole DOM with every update. However, thumbs up on the idea of UI components that aren’t implemented as a framework, but rather as a convention that different frameworks could support.

It would be so nice to just have a way to specify which part of the markup is owned by which component, and the basic life cycle events they need to agree on to work together, but then allow the internal considerations of each component to be handled by any framework or even plain JS if you prefer.
https://www.oracle.com/database/free/faq/

+)What are the resource limits for Oracle Database Free
Oracle Database Free supports up to:

2 CPUs for foreground processes
2GB of RAM (SGA and PGA combined)
12GB of user data on disk (irrespective of compression factor)

+)Will patches be provided for Oracle Database Free?

No, patches will not be released for Oracle Database Free. To obtain patches you must be on a fully supported edition, such as Oracle Database Enterprise Edition or Oracle Database Standard Edition 2.

+)Can I use Oracle Database Free in production?

Oracle Database Free does not restrict the environment in which it can be deployed. However, Oracle Database Free is not supported and does not receive any patches, including security patches. Oracle recommends running production deployments on fully supported Oracle Database editions or cloud services.
I'm old enough to recall that being unwise enough to use anything but a "proper" accent in school would result in sudden violence from teachers.
The hit rate on that UOP cache is only about 80%, according to Intel. And UOP cache misses will have strong locality, so they can’t really be hidden.
Distrobox is awesome! I exclusively use it for any linux development
ScholarTurbo: Use ChatGPT to chat with PDFs (supports GPT-4)
I know people hate them but lint as a pre-commit hook is nice.
>Because they only know English.

We don't know that (and the article is quite low on the quality scale expected from Guardian).

I speak three languages, and I don't see a reason to mix. Of course, you might be right, but also that's a one trick point. You will be called for being pretentious or just obnoxious.
US started the junk food trend earlier, but don't worry we're catching up.
Clearly (at least some) people don't trust VSCode.. or we wouldn't have the OP in the first place.

If you don't trust something, the long-term solution isn't to try to work around it (until the next version comes out and they find a new way to breach your trust), it's to stop using the thing you don't trust.
> So the computational depth of this behavior is only a few tens of steps.

One of the primary "criticisms" of pre-LLM machine learning was that it is inefficient compared to, say, a human, because it requires a plethora of examples to classify something just to match the performance of a human who has only seen a few examples.

That argument no longer holds the same value since the discovery of few-shot learning features of LLMs (though they still have a long way to go). Which makes me think: maybe the reason behind human brain's apparent "efficiency" is the complexity that hides beneath the billions of neurons we have.

Disclaimer: I am an amateur and probably have only a litte idea of what I'm talking about.
could someone explain why people laugh when he sais he went by the lab that said "laboratory for experimental histology"?
Ant colonies perform strange group behavior never recorded before
I am using elmish, which I think is similar enough: every component has its own update method and events it dispatches.The events get wrapped in every parent component until it gets to the root, there it gets unwrapped and passed to the appropiate child update method. At any point, you can intercept the event/update.

(Each component consists of a view, a model and an update function, the model contains wrapped versions of the children models and dispatched updates get passed into the children updates)
Sure, it's complex technically, but nothing that almost one petadollar yearly budget can't solve [1].

[1] "White House Asks for $842 Billion in 2024 DOD Funding, 3.2 Percent Above 2023 Budget", https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2023/3/9/wh...
Pinball is booming in America
I almost don't want to know why they chose that name. There's certain corners of the internet that I won't risk going near.
Automating Scrapers
with so many new developments in AI, i was wondering if there are easy ways to create automated trackers (based on public news, internet) using a set of criteria.

the idea of the final product is simple. a running tracker of all events that meet a particular criteria, with hyperlinks to source references. the use case could vary - from road accidents to other kinds of events that people are interested in, e.g. crimes of a particular kind. sometimes the source events could be public internet, in other cases documents that could be uploaded to the software (such as death certificate records etc.)

folks should consider the utility in a country/context where information is not freely available or published transparently.
I'm hanging out for my AR dream: I walk into a room and the gizmo projects the name, organisation and role of every one of my LinkedIn contacts over their head (visible to me only) for any of them in the room. I would put up with considerable physical discomfort for that.

But for a "weirdly lifelike zoom meeting"... no
Real programmers use butterflies.

https://xkcd.com/378/
Two students built an A-bomb (2003)
FYI, this a bad idea because Hippos are not cute placid animals. They are deadly dangerous. They may be herbivorous, but a Hippo is two tons of bad-tempered "aggressive and territorial" bastard, and they can move faster than you can, on land or in the water.

"the hippopotamus is the world's deadliest large land mammal, killing an estimated 500 people per year

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-36320744
I don't see these records on my DNS server. I think Apple devices make heavy use of these records.
I’m just here to say that as a vim user I understand your sentiment and concur. There’s not much I can do to change people’s minds. But vim and the console will be there waiting, whenever they are ready.
You’re doing that thing again where you imply there is no middle ground between a few shares and a billion dollars worth of shares. It’s a dumb straw man.

Elon musk saying he would sell his shares because he was backing out of an agreement to purchase those shares at an inflated price is obviously going to drop the price. This is not the same thing as a random shareholder who happens to own stocks and wants to divest some.

If you want to sell all your shares for X, you’d be an idiot for not selling some of them for more than X. This is not difficult to understand.

Acquisition offers for less than market value are extremely rare, absent non public information. They are called takeunders. They generally only happen when a company is on deaths door. Which lyft is not. It would be seen as really dumb to offer less than market value in an acquisition bid. Stop making up rhetoric as if this were a normal reasonable thing to do. It’s not.
> Taxation, and subsequent compliance costs, serve as restrictions on such exercise.

My personal taxes more directly deprive me of life, liberty, or property, as protected by the 14th amendment. Even without money, people can worship (which is what I assume "free exercise [of religion]" means).

Trying to interpret the words ourselves is not useful. Throngs of lawyers and judges determine what the words actually mean, what's enforceable.
I get it a little. As a professional it's my job to keep on top of advancements in tooling, so I try to watch the change log for my tools and pick 1-2 things to try. Some of them stick, some of them don't.
"Philomena Cunk" is a fictional character in a mockumentary. She's not investigating anything.
Probably as usual, at the time I commented the most comments were the negative ones, and only later the positives started coming. There was even a discussion about this temporal trend not long time ago...
this is the entire US media at the moment. and even some english versions of european newspapers. i follow the football league in spain a lot but don't speak spanish. i used to get great content from https://marca.com/en--i.e. english version of the same newspaper. recently they made a sharp turn into the garbage/clickbait-y end so that now i have to rely on browser translations of the original spanish at https://marca.com. sad what click/eyeball-based advertising has done to web-published journals.
My understanding is that a lot of the current status quo came to be as a result of the Church of Scientology's long standing dispute with the IRS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_status_of_Scientology_in_t...
Depleted uranium is not stored in warehouses. It is stored as liquid UF₆ (uranium hexafluoride) in tanks.
At the end of the day I think office space is a dead weight around most companies. Any drive to return to the office on the basis of propping up real estates is ultimately going to be undermined by newer players with no skin in that game, for whom not having to pay massive real estate costs is going to be a real competitive advantage.

While we seem to be on a backswing a bit from it, eventually supporting WFH will be a matter of competitive survival. Office mandates will be the next hallmark of legacy firms who have become inefficient and wasteful in their spending.
It assigns linguistic gender, which isn't the same as people's gender.
> How can someone actually make sure that some consequences happen?

You can’t, because the IRS steadfastly refuses to pursue these violations. I’m an active lifetime member of the Freedom From Religion Foundation; and through our organization these near-constant occurrences of political endorsement by churches have been reported numerous times. To no avail.

To make matters worse, clergy in the U.S. often receive a large portion of their income as a housing allowance which is not taxable, as I understand it. But the majority of course still take their mortgage interest deduction. It’s a racket.
Simple English Wikipedia is not limited to Basic English
> DDT is an endocrine disruptor.

> DDT is classified as "moderately toxic" by the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) and "moderately hazardous" by WHO

> "research has shown that exposure to DDT at amounts that would be needed in malaria control might cause preterm birth and early weaning ... toxicological evidence shows endocrine-disrupting properties; human data also indicate possible disruption in semen quality, menstruation, gestational length, and duration of lactation"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Human_health