skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in Tokyo and it was years ago, so I don't know if I'm describing the current situation. It was very common to see largish buildings in residential areas which would have some barely functioning retail shop on the ground floor. Some elderly relative of the building owner would maintain the shop, and would have practically nothing to do since the shop got almost no business. I heard the whole motivation for this setup was that the building owner got a significant tax break for keeping the shop open. Income from the shop was not considered.
Still more expensive than the 5 euro/month I was spending for Mullvad
This channel is a treasure trove of long videos showing railway journeys in Europe, with an emphasis on the Balkans. https://www.youtube.com/@dulevoz/videos

Some examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sqrL8KZki8 Bijelo Polje - Beograd 7h

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY4ghSBQL4U Ljubljana - Koper (freight) 2:45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0oevqWL_34 Čapljina - Mostar - Bradina -- The Neretva river canyon and Mountain pass Bradina 2h
Shenzhou 16 docks with Tiangong space station
If the people in charge don't represent you, and you can't get rid of them, do your own thing. I see nothing wrong with this. It's an OSS project, people can do what they want with it. I doubt it'll succeed but who cares people can do whatever they want.

I'm honestly surprised at the amount of people on here taking the side of "take the abuse from leadership and don't do what you want with OSS".
I always thought it was the shrinking population
AGI/ASI has never been prohibited, they are just unexistant.

I like the word "metahuman", I have never seen it before. Seems like CP, RC (which are rare guests on PubMed) and some fancy toys like human genome editing (which are available anyway if to research some supersede topics).

Last but not least topic of prohibited books I know is about production of illegal weapons, any cool-sounding euphemism describing this topic in some obfuscated way?
Yup, it costs $0.002/1K tokens or about $1 for 1250 pages of text (much more than most people will use in the course of many months). I'm aware that this is a deal breaker for some people, but I personally find the costs to be negligible compared with the convenience of using the app.
This is also why in non-English speaking countries, this title usually does not have any relation to philosophy. It is "Doctorate in something".
I think authors usually give admin access to active contributors that seem reliable, instead of some random guy who ask for permission without doing much previously...
“I don’t know how to mitigate the risk without giving up something I like” is a completely different argument than “there isn’t risk.”

AI optimists tend to conflate the two for some reason.
Lets wait for Quantum entangled networks. Just 8 pairs of particles separated at ISP level, we have instant hops of data limited in speed by the oscillator.
> This seems to be such a pedantic discussion all around.

No, as a high performance software developer, my aim was not to devolve the discussion into a pedantic "stone throw".

> Well, what did you mean by more efficient if not more performant, the usual metric?

Watt per instruction. IOW, power consumption. As a person who lives in HPC world, inefficiency is bane of my existence. Two software can be equally performant while having different power profiles. I'm focusing on power.

What does this brings, you may say. Throttling is the simple answer. If you waste more power, you'll hit the throttling wall faster, use more battery, and will lower the quality of the experience. From your phone to biggest supercomputers have thermal budgets, and none of them are unhittable.

> but hardly relevant for the end user who want to play the game on possible low performant hardware?

Not all of us have latest processors, tons of RAM, and JS microbenchmarks show that browser JS engines have wildly different performance characteristics for some loads. Using a native platform pushes these concerns out of the picture.

> Oh and I think wasm can beat java in several cases.

Have no experience with that, need to test and see.
This happened with clojupyter for me. I just gave everyone who submitted something good commit access, and a handful of people who are way better clojure coders than me made it way better in every way.
Doesn't look like the leadership is interested in stability so, maybe it's a good time to consider alternatives?
I, and many economists, would argue that the price signal, profit and "serving society" are more tightly interwound than many like Hideyuki are mislead to believe.
This fork promises "All of the memory-safe features you love, now with 100% less bureaucracy!" Compelling, until you realise that all the commits are auto-merges of rust-lang/rust's main branch. Which means the same teams doing the same work, under a different name.

Rust is experiencing growing pains because they're still figuring out a governance structure that works for everyone. They want to simultaneously keep the current structure of bottom up development where each team (compiler, lang, crates.io, cargo) has the autonomy to make decisions for themselves, but the project as a whole can speak can come to a consensus and speak with a single voice. That's what this RFC tries to capture (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfc-leadership-council/blob/mai...). But the project isn't there yet, and is making these frustrating missteps in the interim. The lack of transparency into these missteps manifests as "bureaucracy" to outsiders like us.

If Crab lang actually attracted people doing the real work of development, they would have the exact same "bureaucracy" as teams tried to figure out how to build consensus and speak with one voice. The fact that they don't have bureaucracy is a direct consequence of them not doing any work right now. None of the crab lang people are involved in actually building Rust, as far as I can tell, so they might not be aware of this.

Lastly, I want to note that the top comment in this thread is blaming the Foundation, which is simply bizarre. The Foundation very explicitly tries to stay hands off on technical decisions and does not interfere in how the teams organise themselves. You may disagree with that decision, but it's an inaccurate characterisation to blame them.
AI had tangible use cases even when it wasn't developed to the point where it could be applied to those. The problems AI is used to solve, existed before the technology to solve them.

Bitcoin, and all the other "crypto"-tokens, have been looking for a problem to solve for 14 years.
The books from taschen are usually pretty, with very shallow texts, most of them sound like PR pieces
They funny thing is that all this is clearly spelled out in PAC-Learning and Statistical Learning Theory, but the trend in most machine learning courses is to avoid all that hairy stuff, and concentrate on the practical tasks of training classifiers and using popular libraries and so on.

Btw, in the above comment:

FID = Fréchet inception distance

NLL = Negative Log Likelihood
C++ survives having a GCC variant and a MSVC variant, not to mention whatever half-broken compiler you used to get for your microcontroller code.

I would argue the requirement is that each compiler is a stable project. But one language can have multiple compilers that aren't 100% compatible and implement slightly different subsets of the language (as long as there's a common subset libraries can choose to stick to)
It's a thought experiment. The question is about a case in which you know for sure. It's a big world and this is likely to happen at least sometimes. If you don't want to play along with the thought experiment, no problem. But it's a useful and interesting question if you can.

And there are also cases in which you can clearly know something is illegal. Someone purchasing guns in a country where guns are not legal doesn't need a judge, jury, and court process for a payment processor to decide they don't want to be involved. It's not arbitrary. And your right to make purchases using a credit card is not a basic human right.
That's so true. I love Youtube for its music, documentaries and software engineering content.

But I hate the Shorts features, if I click on only one video, it sucks all my night.

I built a small app for blocking the Shorts features, in this way I can enjoy the advantages without having the bad sides.
Why can't I read this in reader-mode?

Supplementary question: Why do so many sites these days opt for tiny font-sizes in some shade of pale-grey on white?
Uh? The outcome is not “captchas are gone and all our services remain good.”

If we don’t have some way to prevent it, services will be increasingly populated by sophisticated bots either selling stuff, attempting security breaches, or pushing political agendas.

That’s a bad thing!
These are also things that both parties generally share in, and that both parties will need to do for themselves after a divorce. Again, there is no reason for an able-bodied person of sound mind to not be able to support themself. Doing away with alimony will remove the flawed incentives that create any unequal balance that we see today. Not to mention, in some states alimony is mandatory after a number of years of marriage- so it has nothing to do with the breakdown of who did more chores or what one deserves.
QuickBooks desktop isn't really a supported platform anymore. Most people have migrated to QuickBooks Online and their accountant has a login to their account.
Maybe for now. But if it turns into the right thing their opinion will change.
We are working on open-source web framework Mercury that converts Python notebooks to Web Apps.

It is very opinionated:

- it has no callbacks - we automatically re-execute cells below updated widget

- it has no layout widgets, all input widgets are always in the left sidebar

Thanks to above decisions you don't need to change notebook's code to have web app and fit to the framework.

The simplicity of the framework is very important to us. We also care about deployment simplicity. That's why we created a shared hosting service called Mercury Cloud. You can deploy notebook by uploading a file.

The GitHub repository https://github.com/mljar/mercury

Documentation https://RunMercury.com/docs/

Mercury Cloud https://cloud.runmercury.com
As the old saying goes, there is an app for that. Here you go : https://one-sec.app/
Why are you so aggressive in your tone?

> This is nothing new. That does not mean that millions don't benefit

Nobody claimed this is new or that not millions benefit or are happy with QB (source needed though).

> Before the mob interprets what I am saying through their reality distortion field

Which mob? Reality distortion? Nobody was accusing you of hating FOSS, why do you feel you need to defend yourself?

> This doesn't have to be a war.

To me there was no indication it is a war. Why do you feel it is?

> Nobody has the moral high ground. There is no such thing.

Bold claim. There is no such thing as moral high ground?
Tastes are obviously subjective, but for what it's worth it's not like 7-11 does not sell a subset of the same dagashi mentioned in the article.

I did like the low-carb versions of things like chocolate cake they rolled out and in general they have a wonderful line of sweets: https://www-sej-co-jp.translate.goog/products/a/7premium/cat...

Lawson and FamilyMart have great sweets too.

Japanese convenience stores, to me, are fascinating. I could write a whole long form piece just on convenience stores if that sounds interesting to anyone.
because it is addictive.

i only quit because i got banned without reason and got auto-rejected when appealing.
Have you seen how much it costs to get an endorsement from Giant Talking Penis? Having that level of social clout means most firms can only afford to advertise in meatspace, because of the huge good will and consumer loyalty she commands.
One of the worst decisions I have made, in my life, was purchasing Apollo for reddit, that's how good the app is. I have scrolled about 40km with my current reddit account over 40 days. Honestly, I don't want to know how many total.

I have tried setting up screentime, but I need a hard lock mode...

Apple allows you to setup focus modes with whitelists that use location and time, that might do the trick.
That's not too bad. That's something the could conceivably be automated at a station.
Maybe it'd be a good idea to just clean house and elect new people. Possibly even people who resigned exclusively and some people with emotional maturity.
Somewhat ironically the best optical fibres are made in space, ZBLAN.

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/flightopportunit...

I guess the have better optical clarity and so need less repeaters to span the oceans.
Bank, payroll, and tax integration on the lock in front. Also, QuickBooks is really easy to get going for non-accountants and historically at least, their support was really good. That's what really made them really popular.
> the ambiguity of what "the metaverse" actually means

If you root cause on that you come back to, Zuckerberg made a big splash with his announcement and then followed up with .... nothing. As much as anything, these other things were filling a vacuum. Of course it got filled up with toxic garbage.

The inexplicable thing to me is purely that Meta has failed to deliver anything closely resembling an experience that represents their own advertised ambitions. Case in point, Horizon Worlds still even now hasn't even launched in my country (near to one of the top 10 economies in the world). How is it even possible that something the company put at existential level of importance hasn't even launched? It's either a massive fail of execution or they never really actually had their heart in it.

I do wonder if Zuckerberg's "year of efficiency", flattening of the org structure and refocusing on engineering leadership is in part borne from the reality check of basically failing to deliver on all this at a technical level.
Agree. "Golden age of UX" is the same age of UX that came up with the hamburger menu? Give me a fucking break. That "golden" age was only gilding the UX researchers themselves.

I want my Mac OS 7 back!
Congrats, you won the imagination chain!
Kvaesitso is nicely polished, minimalistic, search-oriented and available on F-Droid: https://www.f-droid.org/packages/de.mm20.launcher2.release/
Every new development in my city already includes underground parking. The cost of land in the city is way too high to waste it on parking lots.

They are also building lots of underground garages everywhere. I don't know what they do about power lines and sewer lines, but they seem to have figured out a way to do it, considering how many garages are being constructed.

Removing curbside parking would provide some additional economic incentive to build more garages. It's absolutely doable, a single garage can provide a lot more parking lots than the curbs in a 200m radius.
Ideological purity is the point. A whole range of other options are available but ideological purity is what Stallman offers, with no expectation that everyone will appreciate its benefits.

The very existence of the FSF's offerings is necessary to understand what other positions compromise to obtain other benefits.
Check out Discord. All the social media that you mention are all about "look at me", with a competition of getting the most likes and comments.

Discord is basically small independent servers, where discussions and information primes over users. If you have some toxic people, they just get kicked out.

I run a server with a bit more than 1000 members, most of them teenagers. I'm always surprised how nice and friendly they are to other strangers on the net.
> In the case of genuine errors, is there anybody actually arguing on the other side?

Oh yeah, that happens if your edit goes against one of Wikipedia's sacred policies (they all are). I have that issue on the Dutch Wikipedia where a number of places in the bilingual province of Frisia shifted their official names to the Frisian variants instead of the Dutch, and where in one case in the course of three decades the old Dutch name dropped out of use completely¹ except for… Wikipedia, which relies on a single outdated (or misinterpreted) document published by the national language society. That Wikipedia branch has a policy which mandates the use of that document, so even though it is demonstrably showing an obsolete name, Wikipedia editors who like that status quo (often due to a dislike of regional languages and identity — this will be familiar to Welsh and Catalan folk too) will defend those 'facts' and slap anyone suggesting change with that policy document.

To my estimate changing a standing Wikipedia policy requires being a high-profile editor for at least a decade and investing around twenty hours a week for about half a year to garner enough support to change it. Most people just consider the Dutch Wikipedia a lost cause in this regard and give up. What's annoying is that Wikipedia is often taken as authoritative in terms of simple facts (like in the case of this flag), and factual errors leak out across the internet.

1: That is, you won't find the old names in the place itself, nor used (in Dutch, or any language) by the local residents, nor on its signage, nor on its municipal website, nor in the local media (or even national media mostly), nor on most maps, et cetera.
I just went down a rabbit hole with this excellent blog post on using data structures, search algorithms, and maybe some machine learning to try to beat the previous world record of 66 lines: https://hallofdreams.org/posts/hatetris/
I don't see how you can divorce from technilogical factors. There was a "there" there for smart phones and yet we didn't get them until a host of technical factors made them reach a certain form factor that was acceptable.
The other thing that would be cheaper would be building molten salt cooled nuclear reactors, instead of continuing to use the water cooled once that are so prone to hydrogen explosions. I'm not a nuclear engineer, but I suspect you may even be able to re-use a lot of existing infrastructure in the process.

Could even be safer if their system for beaming electricity has the potential to be compressed to a point where it turns it into a lightning gun.
Mac: Should we be worried about data integrity?
MacOS has official Oracle and OpenJDK distributions. The author just didn't compile an executable for them, that's all. At least, I run Eclipse on macOS, which in turn uses platform Java.

It's funny that when people say that hardware is cheap, but frown on a 60MB explicit download. Our browsers spend several 60MBs per day to show us ads, and we don't tell a word, but "a 60 MB game. Heresy!", we cry.

I'm no stranger to hyper-efficient implementations as a demo scene enthusiast, yet this is no demo, and is a cross platform game, where the author decided to code in Java. I don't understand the criticism, because I'm aware of no rule that any software we develop shall run on Big5 (iOS/macOS/Android/Linux/Windows), plus web browser and my car key fob.

Actually, when I look the files, the game is 20MB assets + 110K executable + 40MB JRE. So the developer decided to bundle the JRE to make sure it runs. That's a fair (even small) size given today's lassiez faire attitude where people chant "Hardware is cheap, network is reliable".

Yes, one might do this in 100K altogether, but, personally, I'm no judge. It's a good game, runs on my favorite OS, and enjoyable. That's enough for me.

If the idea is that good, let Setris clones show us the way.
And yet again, it's only available as PDF (rather than the standard HTML), which is super annoying when you have no desire to print it out, especially to view on a small screen. Nor that is seems like this document benefits in any way to be pre-separated into discrete pages (unlike for say, slides).
Is there anything I can read to understand this better?

Naively, I would think making a profit is not strictly necessary to serve society as long as the business makes as much money as it pays out?
Any convenient way to get this as an RSS to hand to a podcast app?
> Do you truly believe that when you'd make the decision to categorize a transaction as such, that decision would hold up in court, beyond a reasonable doubt, every time? If not, then you have no place making it

What if I want to start a vegan credit card that only allows payments to vegan businesses? You're saying that should be illegal?

The best compromise is to not have a compromise and fix the actual problem instead of trying to fix side effects: make it far easier for companies to enter the payment processing space. With thousands of payment processors you'll very likely be able to find a company that is willing to process your credit card payments for vegan porn.

The real problem is a few huge players with near monopoly control.
No. It's just people doing what they want with OSS. The majority of the mindshare is still in one place. It looks more like a protest and or a hobby project then anything else.
I feel this temptation on a daily basis.
10× more computationally/power efficient while running? Not a chance. Assuming similar care put into the two, the two will probably be much of a muchness.
Because the working programmers are busy enough already. Have them part attention at Rust vs. Crab and a part of them will likely just leave.

All this drama and the fork likely seem extremely important to the parties involved but everyone else just wishes they would get along.

As a working dev I want one Rust.
> It's really weird how effective fiber optic cable is at doing what it does.

When you can isolate the external noise away from the communication medium, it's astounding how much data you can cram in it.
I know little of how Java works, and especially how to override libs, but I did try downloading lwjgl's latest release and put all its jars in the classpath:

CLASSPATH=(string join ':' (find . | grep jar | grep lwjgl)) java -XstartOnFirstThread -Xmx4G -jar setris-desktop-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar

(fish instead of bash; the "string join" part takes all the jar paths and joins them on a single line with colon separators)

Same output and behavior, though.

Also tried with an older JDK (version 17), but that fails to even open a window.
Say what you will about BDFL development, but if the alternatives was so great, Unix and Go wouldn't have remained the de facto implementations.
Cool. Great, well written and well researched.

I like the form - prose mixed with source links. Reads like a story.

When I researched similar subject in past, though, I focused on the user-exposed toggles/counters [0]. It's very hard to strike the right balance between code (current implementation), general concepts (everyone should know what a syn queue is) and actually getting to a point. Well done.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/syn-packet-handling-in-the-wild/
Most of private services on Internets are just worse version of email.

Most of public services on Internets are just worse version of web forums.

Are you seriously thinking you are able to enworsen Twitter? Why do you need email, considering that a random email account created in '20s is going to live significantly less than typical email account from '00s?
So you went to github and saw commits made 3 days ago, then concluded that surely that means the project isn't dead. It is though, you're just completely missing the forest for the trees - a typical trait of programmer types.
I understand. But this is not a proper journal file imho. We're actually building something in this space as well and there are way better but probably local standards like the Datev format (essentially CSV). Accountants need double book formatted journal entries. This is just a collection of amounts it seems.

But I really appreciate all the different solutions in this space! I build our own when we started.
Thermal Energy Storage Innovation Is Turning Up the Heat
I don't think this was the case in 2016 though.