skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you even read the article? You are writing programs whose output will be put in hidden prompts. Nobody is claiming that users are prompt engineers. Math is a dying art, programming is a science.
Incredible. To get that level of quality and realism and character in the voices, and to be able to clone the damn thing and play with it. What a time!
They started edgy (Gavin McInnes was the co-founder), they became partisan. I'm no fan of a certain Youtuber, but he started at Vice News, and he claims that when the sex harassment lawsuits happened, Vice had to make themselves look "clean" for investors and so become more "aligned" with the US political left and became essentially yet another PAC like Vox media or Buzzfeed.
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/972/taxation-of....
Fascinating story, and a great retelling on the Behind the Bastards podcast if anyone is interested. The history of Liberia isn’t the nicest topic, but something that doesn’t seem widely known and maybe should be.
What does making breakfast with someone's vagina have to do with a specific generation, the youngest members of which were already working or in college when that particular article came out, and the oldest members of which were raising their own adolescents? Why does everything weird and alternative still automatically get labeled as "millenial" stuff?
As qznc started, those are separate things. One is a crazy leftover from Napoleonic days (consider the amount of changes to German statehood that thing has survived!), the other is an opt-out thing (or rather an opt-in actually, unless your parents did the "in" for you) that I actually think is super nice to have. It should be extended to the point where it's basically an API for income-scaled membership fees that's open to every org that wants to have it (and to public broadcasting, to achieve "separate from state" in a way that isn't a flat household tax)
There's a rhyme that ends with "go broke"... I have seen a number of rather toxic Vice articles in the past few years, I wonder how profitable that turned out to be? I have a vague memory of them being edgy and interesting, but that's a long time ago.

Still, I'm sure I only saw fragments of their total body of work so it might be a skewed perception. My sympathies for those affected, these are tough times we are entering.
> an average idea backed by untold money

Spot on!
INP to Core Web Vitals
Hippo Meat Nearly Became an American Food Staple
The most interesting detail of this story IMO is that they may have been released into the Louisiana bayou. Imagine these creatures wild in the swamps!
The Catholic Church got into this and their banking history is fascinating.
Eg
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Calvi
Sure you can. There is no point in a child's life that requires undevoted attention 100% of the time.

There is no point in a child's life that requires 100% attention during the day.

Even once they reach preschool/primary they don't.

You are of the opinion that it is more important that an employee be available 100% of the time from 9 to 5, I am of the opinion that it is most important that an employee get their job done.

I would 100% prefer a competent employee where I have to block out some brief segment during the day, than someone less capable where I can schedule a meeting whenever I like from 9 to 5.

I would also 100% prefer an employee I can trust to do their job regardless of supervision than someone who needs hand holding for everything.

Handholding is for interns and new employees learning how to work in industry (vs. academia or opensource).

I expect FTEs to be able to do their job without persistent oversight, and I expect them to do their jobs without persistent oversight.
Anyone else getting 404's from the registry as well?
> FP

Nope. I've got nothing. "Functional" something?

Anyone?
This seems awfully similar to the Elm model of managing state. Perhaps it's me being unenlightened, but I never understood why all state in an application needs to be managed centrally. Take a select box for example, its open-state is not something I think a central store should necessarily know about right?

I always find that if I want to write an app in the Elm style (or with Redux), I have to traverse up the tree every time I am working on a leaf node. Each input field in a form should not necessarily cause me to have to rework everything up to the root node right? Am I doing it wrong, or am I just missing what benefits this approach brings to offset this extra development cost?
> The rest of us realize the project exists because they were unfairly benefiting from the Elasticsearch trademark and got push back...

Wasn't Elasticsearch initially 100% FOSS and you were allowed to sell it as a service? Where is the "unfairly benefiting" part coming from?
Yea. Getting that
That's being worked on actually and is already available in the F-Droid Basic Alpha: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fdroid.basic/

Do note that the new APIs from Google require apps to take "ownership" of the update process of another app so if you update from another app then F-Droid Basic Alpha loses its ability to automatically update it until you manually update is from F-Droid Basic Alpha.

As you'd guess from the name, it's still an alpha, but from my experience it works pretty well. Bug reports are helpful, of course :)
also when that value becomes "true", pay tends to be below the average
This conspiracy theory is repeatedly being dragged out but can you give any kind of proof that offices are actually something that moves a needle on any companies financial statement in a way that INCREASES profits?
FDroid is fantastic, all the apps are straight to the point, most of my utilities are now from there, email client, vpn client, call, sms, IM, browser, ... If I need something I start from there.
I would love to go for LineageOS or GrapheneOS, just trying to make sure I have banking apps backup in an older phone before fully committing to it.
> Yes, and if you have the time/patience to let the cooker naturally cool, all the flavors stay in the pot instead of evaporating.

Can you expand on this? I have a combo slow/pressure cooker and the few times I've used it I've been disappointed that everything seems to have the same kind of flavours. Your comment is making me think I'm making a huge tiny mistake somewhere.
Because it's software written by hardware people, Uber works fine
To me the whole Metaverse thing felt like Zuck thinking "ok, now I paid two billion for Oculus, I'd better come up with a plan what to do with it to keep the shareholders happy!". And then the plan got out of hand...
Few of the things we care about need to be fast, and fewer of the things that need to be fast are held up by number crunching performance.

There are already a plethora of languages designed for numerical computing. Just use that if that's what you're doing.
We do not have specific tax exemption for churches in France, they are part of the non profit organizations. When you give money to such an organization you can claim tax credit on your general taxes.

And since this is France, we of course have upped the game with a special region: Alsace Moselle.

Or is on the border with Germany and has been French or German in the last centuries as wars came and went.

Church there has a special status (taxes, payment of priests, religion at school, concordate with the Vatican, ...) that is historical and nobody ever got rid of it. There are also other specificities because of that, notably social security.
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If it sounds interesting, let's see if we can go further.
Leave any contact info and I'll get back to you very soon with the specifics.

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(I am not willing to go through the proper channels of finding funding. I am not that in love with the whole "startup" vibe, I don't need money to burn on wild valuations. I'm your 3,5%YoY to your TSLA.)
Yeah, during the 1990s, it finally became acceptable for NATO countries to cut military spending, and they did. NATO expanded by accepting a lot of former Warsaw Pact countries that wanted to join, and there was even talk of Russia joining at some point (then Putin came to power and he only wanted to join if he got special treatment). Despite its growth, NATO had become increasingly irrelevant until the invasion of Ukraine.

The only reason NATO has remained and still is relevant, is because Russia remained aggressive, so there remained a demand for security from Russian neighbours. But if you look at military spending, former Warsaw Pact members spend a much larger percentage of their GDP than western European countries, which, up to Russia's invasion, still believed in peace with Russia.
I understand why these organizations build up big trusts, but I'd say the social infrastructure of religion is a different way of ensuring organizational longevity. I wonder if they could draw down the money and spend in service of that somehow.
Indeed, the disestablishmentarian State has usurped many functions that used to pertain to the Church. It was the Catholic Church who founded the university system as we know it today, and the hospital system we depend on.

When colonists made it to the New World, who was there to educate the children? The Catholic missionaries and religious institutes founded schools and created whole districts to educate children (yes, even Native and Indigenous children such as we vilify them for in Canada.)

Parents would often have at least one child set aside to dedicate to the Church, as a priest and/or a professed religious. Children would enter the seminary, monastery, or convent. In return, those insitutions would care for the underprivileged and the powerless. Many monasteries provided services to the Church and to the general public: brewing beer, cultivating gardens, baking bread, you name it.

But as all these services and more are privatized and nationalized, it sort of makes the Church redundant, an NGO without purpose, if you're on the outside looking in. So why perpetuate non-profit status of these mere charities when the State can provide entitlements far beyond what meager donations can provide? It's definitely a Sophie's choice, when you get right down to it.
> Every four years, locusts descend on America. They tear through civic society, devouring any organization or community they can reach. Ideological movements, charitable causes, even hobbyist communities—all are food, to be ripped apart and turned into more buzzing drones, serving no ends but the swarm’s. When it finally disperses, it leaves behind a trail of wounded communities and withered institutions.

> I am talking, of course, about the presidential election cycle.
So does the prohibition of ritual murder. (Some of the more extreme Asatru for example do feel limited.)

When there are rules for everzone and only some organisations are excempt on religious grounds - then those religious organisation have an advantage over every not privileged organisation, making them effectivly state supported. Which I think should be indeed forbidden.

So the state can and should continue to support all kinds of social organisations. But on an equal and fair base.
I think every suggestion you have there would fall under that very same lamppost: a linear model of computation going only one direction. Sussman details in this talk a different model he calls propagators that deal with information flow back and forth, allowing for some interesting ways of working with "fuzzy" and incomplete data, while still allowing for cheap backtracking if a contradiction arises. I haven't read the Radul & Sussman's paper "The Art of the Propagator"[1] yet, but I fully intend to now having watched the talk.

[1]: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/44215/MIT-CSA...
Probably because The DR is as real as they come, and "it's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it". Who wants to be told they're the reason civil society broke? Unfortunately for them, Nuremberg established a precedent where "just following orders" is not an excuse.
Yeah. I guess that's obvious - the fact that it's javascript probably indicates they mean "Functional-ish Programming"
Care to share that one?
Tweaked my comment a little bit to clarify.

Surely we'd agree that not everyone who uses software is a software engineer, but writing software is generally agreed upon as "software engineering". If you consider my comment as a whole, and the linked document, then the application of the definition makes sense.

Large Language Models are incredibly similar to black-box non-deterministic interpreters. And prompt engineering feels very much like writing code for said interpreter.
But draws a lot more energy than a phone or an rpi
A Web Server in PostScript
At Promyze, we have an engineering team of 6. We hold a 1-hour, bi-weekly meeting to share and review key learnings and best practices. We dogfood our own tool to log those best coding practices and get suggestions in the IDE.
It is likely a bit of both. I had the same trait as OP. I would actually enjoy an intellectual challenge, but to see something through you also need grit and you must 'grind' your way through boring parts and dead ends.

Also, when starting out everything looks neat and shiny, and along the way there are ugly problems that don't neatly fit into the conceptual framework you started out with. Things start to get messy, there are workarounds, less than ideal code from finding the right approach, etc. The stuff that I refactor and just 'deal with' in my paid job, but doesn't really 'spark joy' in my private life. Throwing it all away and doing something else gives that green field feeling that anything is possible yet again.
Worms crave junk food after consuming cannabis, study suggests
It's just evolution. At this point the price of solar on your roof with some batteries is getting low enough that it earns itself back even without subsidies. As this stuff gets cheaper, more people get access to this stuff and the market grows. As it does, prices drop further.

It's not happening overnight so people and grid suppliers have a chance to adapt. But yes, bad things generally happen to people and companies that can't adapt to changes. Ironically, people that are in developing countries tend to be more adaptable. If something works, they'll be all over it.

The monopolist's response to this is indeed to push for things to be illegal and expensive. Which ironically just speeds up their demise. Places where this happens simply become less competitive.

People move to where the jobs and economics are better. Also politically. Politicians blocking sane policies on this front are going to have a hard time. People are going to call out their bullshit and point to neighbors where the grass is greener and ask hard questions. Inevitably a few less enlightened politicians are going to insist on finding this out the hard way and then get voted out of office. The rest will learn from their examples; that's already happening. Republicans like cheap power just as much as Democrats. This is not a left-right topic anymore. People still bicker over climate change. But cheap power is something everybody can agree is a nice thing to have.
Customers, who still demand tasty products in spite of the food industry cutting back on fat.
Educational pelvic exams on anesthetized women: Why consent matters
> Egypts Pyramids Were Built

I never doubted that they were built (by aliens, as we all know). However, the original title is HOW EGYPTS PYRAMIDS WERE REALLY BUILT (in all-caps, and also without the apostrophe).
All of those crazy videos are always from Isobel Yeung. I saw her travel to Xinjiang, Ukraine, Taliban's Afghanistan, Syria before and after Assad...
Office workers want to push the office on everyone. Remote workers are not trying to push office workers to work from home.
Against most opinions here, I think something like the metaverse can work. The hardware is just not there yet. Once it's a really lightweight device with good enough graphics people will use it.
First line on the README says "The no-framework framework for building component-based purely-functional UIs.", So I guess it's "purely-functional" but put backwards for some reason?
What do you mean, at this point there are 10+ comments here saying the exact opposite: that their demise is due to them becoming less edgy and more bland, more like everyone else.
What?

ICE cars are noisy if you design them to be noisy. I remember Toyota's first or second hybrid car was almost completely silent.

It caused other problems, primarily the issue that they could sneak up on unaware pedestrians like myself.

Unless I am missing something. The only noisy cars I face these days are performance cars, some trucks, and that one ahole in a sports bike.
Vice and HBO had some good contents in early days. They reported on stuff mass media _failed_ to report on especially following the GFC when America was going through some tough times.

The most memorable was David Choe reporting on scrap metal scavenging in rust belt cities. That one,
for some reason, hit me really hard.
Germany was completely dismantled and then rebuilt as a completely new nation. Modern Germany is nothing like its predecessors.
Pixelfed is to instagram what mastodon is for twitter
A VR headset no, a set of AR glasses yes. What seems to be the issue is that creating usable AR glasses that have the quality of Quest is currently not feasible. Zuckerberg's real gamble was that they could figure out a way to make this happen (maybe they still can).
Due to separation of church and state, churches aren’t supposed to participate in political speech either but the largest ones pretty unanimously do every major election. Legally that’s supposed to trigger taxation but it’s political suicide for anyone to go after them for this.
To me this Metaverse thing seems just a nice story to tell people who have no engineering knowledge at all (investors, shareholders et al), and sell them this sci-fi movie idea.

It is just yet another "second life" (remember that?) software stack, plugged with social networks - the worst of the two worlds.

I've jumped ship with social media stuff about a decade ago, and seeing how nasty it became, I'm just glad I ditched it.

Pro tip: That common excuse "I use it to keep in touch with family blah blah blah" is not an excuse - you can keep in touch with family if you care about them. If you don't, don't waste everybody's time.
There are just as many nut jobs on the left as there are on the right.
Containers have access to your home X11/wayland, audio, usb, can run graphical applications easily. Can be installed and used without root with podman.

You can even setup booting into a container desktop environment from your login screen.

https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/posts/r...
I am a millennial. Please don't cater this to me in any way, shape or form.
> an average idea backed by untold money

I keep finding it strange that this doesn't have to be true?

A repeated question I keep hearing as well as having myself is, "what is it for?" which personally seems bizarre.

There are many possible valid answers to that question, but I as someone who's spent at least a few hours hearing about it really shouldn't have that question.

That personally feels like a much more significant failure than anything else.

Though perhaps I've missed it, maybe there's some clear articulation somewhere of what the goal is of the Metaverse, if so, feel free to enlighten me =)...
Design is part of engineering, but engineers will go on to build for example. Many folks like to gatekeep the use of engineer as a word. Mostly it just comes down to the fact that a displine hasn't matured yet and isnt' taught in a rigourous and formal manner. It is still engineering. See Network Engineering for example. Plenty of people building complex systems at scales never before seen. Even more that just about know how traceroute works but still building networks. They are all engineers of a young field of engineering.
Yup. Gyms are kind of inverse of pubs, in this way and many more.

For example, the alcohol, as brought into spotlight by 'Animats. It's rather well-known (if a little tough to admit for many people) that alcohol is the "social lubricant". The way it lowers inhibitions and "screens off" pent-up stress, helps people make connections, build and nurture friendships.

It's not the only way to do this, but it's a way that works, and scales well among and across social strata - a fact that's been recognized since time immemorial, and the millennia of culture built around drinking only reinforce its bonding effects.
No more Better Man episodes :(
I used to love vice. They had some of the most engaging content covering things I'd never see. But then it all started to unravel when the platform mostly turned into cringey hipster New Yorkers telling me about their preferred way to consume weed 10 times a day.
This might be true, but the world we live in where x86 is the open platform and ARM is a mess of incompatibility.

You want to install Ubuntu on your laptop? Download this ISO and you're good.

You want to install LineageOS on your phone? You have to download the exact binary for your phone (which means LineageOS needs to maintain those hundreds of versions) and hope your phone is supported.
What are you talking about? It's MIT licensed.
Catholic Universities are still thriving. The Catholic Churches globally hoard around $100 billion and could absolutely create a world-class endowment for a huge university if they prioritized that.

It’s not the states’ fault they choose not to.
Political power.
In the democratic country going against the church means definitely loosing a lot of votes the next election.
Apple M3 chip: all the news, announcements, and rumors so far
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Alibi: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12409
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/ww146r/d_a...
Nicotine is not that bad for you. It's the smoke in smoking that is the main health hazard.
fwiw, it was wayy below average for me the first time, and was wayy above average the second :)
I'm not sure why you think HBO has gone downhill -- I wouldn't compare vice and HBO. One was supposed to be a news organization the other entertainment.

HBO is still banging out great TV shows. Last of Us is the most recent that comes to mind.
I'm not a gym person but my partner is.

I can say that around here in downtown-ish Bucharest the annual subscription for a popular gym varies between 500 to 800 euros per yer, depending on the chosen plan/options, but you really do want to get the more expensive plans/options that are between 700-800 euros. That is if you pay all in advance, if you pay month by month or 3-months by 3-months (it's all so complicated) the costs are between 80 to 100 euros per month.

I agree though that all this may vary. As a man you may choose to "cheapen out" a little and choose less expensive gyms that are located further out or who attract a different kind of clientele, but that option may not be available for many women (as my partner is), unfortunately.
Tried to install on an old Android 4, absolutely nothing worked.
Here is a hosted post by https://pinggy.io

https://pinggy.io/blog/host_website_on_android/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35938463
There are penalties to the Companies:

* More office space required
* Need to pay workers to be within reasonable distance of the office

There are penalties to WFH as well:

* Additional living space required for WFH