skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Today it’s obvious Microsoft can’t be trusted.

Today?

Where were you when it's 'free' OS' was 'phoning home' or during it's behemoth days in the 90s-2000s when it forced the most pro-business Government (US) to essentially break it up when it was using it's monoploitic practices too far for even them?

I have to use Teams and just logically assume all of what was said or talked about exists on some server somewhere for the employer, LEO or intelengence agencies to retrieve; if Snowden has taught us anything is that M$ is the darling child of the Intelligence agencies in the US for a reason.

Using M$ outside of a (forced) work environment is literately like asking to be tracked, monitored of your own accord. Nothing they do should be presumed to be secure until proven a length to be otherwise. It's very likely why it's so bloated and runs terribly, they are optimizing no for UX but for it's real business model: spying.

Sadly, and with only a slight tinge of despondence: I've given up on preaching about FOSS to the masses, but with stuff like this it's like asking why people sign up for death cults, it alwasy ends in: Humans just being Humans.
They are the bosses
What’s the implied EU national interests here? Start some geo-engineering projects unilaterally?
>isn't that just true about making friends as an adult?

For people without kids, I think that's generally true. Pretty much everyone I socialize with locally is associated with a local outdoor club. There are still people from school and professional acquaintances I keep in touch with, but that's usually not local.
I am seeing a large percentage of NSFW tagged posts on old.reddit.com - not logged in (I don't even have an account) and browsing from generic BT home broadband in the UK.
> The pricing being orders of magnitude greater than the revenue from advertisers

Can you share how you came to this statement?

> Well, the new reddit pricing is not far off twitter.

I asked not about just twitter, but about any similar site you know. For example, imgur which is often referred in this situation actually charges $3k/50m requests, not far from reddit prices: https://rapidapi.com/imgur/api/imgur-9/pricing

If you don't know such example, then reddit pricing is fair and reasonable, and that's apps problem that they can't monetize traffic.
Would you prefer to give them the option of having access to boats of money or would you prefer to spend more time with them? What if you can only choose one option?

It's easy to answer a question when there's no exclusive options.

By the way, when you have an option of cashing out at 700million (and killing your business) OR continuing to build a business that genuinely provides something good for the society (albeit maybe not as profitably), do think first what kind of lesson you are giving your kids when you make that choice. You may provide them with the money but not much meaning to spend that money in a good way.
> Why can't it be more sexy to run a sustainable small business?

What's sexy or not is determined more by the one doing the looking than the one being looked at. I find sustainable, non-exploitive small businesses much sexier, but I doubt most VCs do.
This was the only part of the post that I wasn’t relating to.

I’m just coming back from a trip to the Caribbean where during my trip the sky was hazy for some days and all of the locals were claiming the weather effect to be the Sahara dust.

I’m not a local so I don’t know if it is more or less than usual, but my personal experience makes me take issue with the “never come” part.
I find these Reddit focused threads on HN to be lackluster. They read just like threads on Reddit do. Which is - uninspired, dull, and repetitive.

I hope we stop talking about Reddit because the only people who seem to ever give a shit about that website and talk about in other places have these other attributes that make it dreadful to read their whinging.
Yes, of the 5 modern star wars movies, Solo "only" made $213M. The other 4 made over $500M each.

And Solo lost money because they claimed it was ludicrously expensive. $213M is a solid amount for 99% of movies. Anyways, was it actually that expensive, or is it just Hollywood accounting?
> If chemical and biological weapons aren't useful, why does one need a treaty to ban them?

Serious question, are you surprised governments do things that aren't useful? That they'll focus more on signaling than utility? That's literally 80% of politics: show.

> The fact that there is an anti-biological weapons treaty is proof enough that countries are working on biological weapons, just like the anti-nuclear weapons treaty is proof that countries are working on nukes.

Now that we got the above out of the way, maybe notice that China, Russia, and the US have all signed the Biological Weapons Convention[0] (outlaw bio weapons). All signed during the cold war. Then maybe notice that China, Russia, and the US have NOT signed the ban on the use of nuclear weapons[1].

> The ability to think is a far greater tool than reading silly blogs

I agree. I mean just the dichotomy of [0] and [1] really tells a lot. You make a good point that governments are difficult to discuss because you can't take anything they do at face value so you have to dig in and think about their actions and what signals they are making.

[0] https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/bwcsig

[1] https://treaties.unoda.org/t/tpnw
>He might be right on some fronts,

JS was designed in a week. He's completely right, it's just poorly designed. Javascript will always be around because of technical debt and habit. But that doesn't change the fact that Douglas is right.

Also nobody really uses javascript anymore. It's completely insane. We compile Typescript into javascript then run javascript. That should tell you something about javascript.
I'd personally vouch for dotted paper - best of both worlds! And colors help a lot. All of that is well supported on the iPad Pro; Apple in California has great ones for $900 now ;)
Isn't the file part of the file system which can be file too? Basically everything everywhere is broken.
Why the U.S. Electric Grid Isn’t Ready for the Energy Transition
Issues about telemetry and privacy are separate from issues with web client hegemony.
>To start with, there is no single U.S. electric grid.
That's where scratch containers come in.
The main one is that making the control-net depth input look like something helps a ton. You can creating levels that have more 'structure' (large flat platforms, platforms that line up with others) and levels that are more random and see that the structure works way better. I played around a lot with turning the control-net on and off at the beginning and end of generation, which seemed to help when I was playing in the webui but then I didn't immediately find the API in diffusers and the results I was getting were great so I didn't keep looking.
> Fire in a crowded theater doesn't actually work as a legal defense

It may actually be a defense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
> Instead of note on / note off, I'm imagining a bidirectional protocol where the controller explicitly allocates voice circuits, explicitly tunes them to a particular pitch, and then either triggers envelope generators or takes manual control of the envelope.

Sounds way more complicated.

What makes midi great is how simple Note On and Note Off are.

At the end of the day, piano keyboards are just buttons. It’s no different than a qwerty keyboard. Getting the note data should be trivial.

The simplicity of the Note On Note Off api is the only reason midi still exists despite the rest of it.
>but it's not currently supported by any browser (it's in Safari beta and behind a config flag in Firefox Nightly)

Your comment is 100% accurate, but it's notable that JPEG XL is coming this fall across the release versions of macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and then standalone Safari (itself being compatible back to macOS 12). Not just in Safari, but in the core media content subsystem of the core OS as well, meaning it can be immediately supported by third party apps as well effortlessly.

Given the extremely rapid uptake of Apple OS updates, by year end it will have a substantial compatible base.

Of course webp has a massive compatible base right now yet sees almost no adoption. Hopefully the quality and functional benefits of JPEG XL finally get us over that hump.
> Unsurprisingly, the people attempting to debate this typically had no medical background whatsoever.

You don't need to have a "medical background" to debate lockdowns or masks. The decision to use those should never have been made exclusively by people with "medical backgrounds". It isn't their job. Just because the "medical people" say it's gonna work, doesn't mean it is worth the cost to society. And it isn't at all the place of people with "medical backgrounds" to figure out what those costs are and if they are worth it...

"Experts" shouldn't be decision-makers. They should only inform decision-makers. A good decision-maker should take input from everybody who will be impacted. This was never done at all. Had it been done openenly and transparently we'd never have done lockdowns, school closures or anything else. Such things are completely insane no matter how much "medical experts" suggest to use them.
Most of the really old people that I see are quite thin - is that due to the long-term health effects of being overweight meaning that they don't survive as long, or is it that extreme old age (>80) also involves a reduction in appetite?
I deleted the Edge folders from C:\Program Files (x86)\ and moved on a while ago. Didn’t seem to break anything I care about. No longer worth chasing down the settings to disable the harmful behavior.
Exactly. Rich coastal communities are powerful and stand a decent chance of being able to force the rest of us to hold their bags.
Yeah, no.

Improved tooling to address common problems is absolutely the future. "Self-healing" is a long way off, because LLMs lack reasoning abilities to determine if a fix is good. And "makes the test pass" isn't a great indicator - because flaky tests exists, and the plugin mentioned at the end is a great way to introduce random mutations. Unless you'd like to re-run the full test suite, it's dangerous malpractice, and even then it's high risk.

Human-in-the-loop continues to be a necessary criterion for applied stochastics in code production.
> I do find myself wondering what a system that connected my rss feed reader with global comments about webpages might look like.

To some extent, this is what Artifact.news is doing though it's mostly mainstream news right now.

They have a neat feature that aggregates comments across different articles covering the same topic.
They're fine with it. Just be prepared to explain it to the FBI of your ever mistakenly pull into an investigation. They'll definitely get it from MS.
That's the catch, isn't it? Every country wants the EU to be a unified actor on the world stage, but none are willing to give up sovereignty over their foreign policy. That is why it's not going to happen. A loose alliance such as NATO is as as close as we get, at least for the foreseeable future.
In your analogy, the dentist is selling the bad toothpaste and saying "Go pick any from the shelf over there but not that one". Why is he selling it then? The dentist can't say "well it's a free market" as if that somehow absolves him. He sells the bad toothpaste, that's a tacit endorsement.

You can be a proponent of free speech and not allow people to stand on your porch yelling heinous things, but that's not what Reddit was doing. They knowingly profited from that speech.
Most people disable hibernate because they use ssd’s for boot disks, no?
The only one that works for me is Dr. Pepper Zero. So good.
Ahh, my geography was completely off, I was picturing NY where Buffalo currently is.. I can't believe I forgot it's on the Atlantic.
While I can't verify redmerchant2's claim, I could absolutely imagine that the Reddit front page algorithm can't handle a large portion of the site going dark at once. Reddit can't code for every possible situation, and it's not surprising to see weird behavior during a weird situation.
Usenet.

Almost abandoned, full of spam, but still there: a decentralized network where anyone can run their own server, serving just to them or to someone or too anyone the groups they want. Groups are far more discoverable than Reddit subs and they work pretty well. Bonus: messages can be stored and then indexed locally as anyone might wish.

In general: using a platform owned by someone else meant no real guarantee, being part of a communitarian platform, owning the bit we are interested in, means we are Citizens peers, between peers.

If Reddit concern you try to imaging a fleet of leased connected cars, your webmail (with someone else domain name and no messages on your iron), even the "modern smart city" where anything is a service.

When you'll see https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s... you'll understand why we are there in IT terms and where is the future. IT state of thing is just few years in the future respect of the rest of the society.
This goes against my own experience. I moved from Perl 4 to 5 and from Python 2.x to 3.x and have dozens of projects written in Python that have been constantly updated over the past 10 years, none of which broke due to those things - and they are not all in the ML space.

Your sample size of one needs expanding.
Little Snitch “denied” connections leak your IP address: Developer response
There's this really insidious meme that it's important for children to completely find their own way in life. I could best summarize it as: Children that receive more from their parents are some flavor of "less good" humans.

I don't know where/when it started. It seems like one of those ideas that mostly the bottom 99% of the income spectrum hold onto.
I’m impressed, as my RTX cards and drivers are the only things crashing my windows 11 machines recently.
I was looking for "NeRF" in here but reading the paper it seems like they don't use neural networks to represent anything.

They seem to just optimize the positions and shapes of gaussian primitives as well as the reflectance properties.

Certainly a lot more "explainable" than a NeRF.
> because anything written in 2 wont run as is on 3

Not true. "anything" is too strong of a word. There's plenty of simple code that works fine in both 2 and 3. For basic scripts, it's not hard to make code that is compatible with both, with the only odd thing to do is using parentheses in your print calls. You can even use "from __future__ import print_function" in Python 2 code to get Python 3's print() behavior.

> anything using async will need 3.4(?) anything using type hints of f strings needs 3.7( or 8, I get hazy)

What's the alternative? Should a language never receive new features?
People typically do not share documents, such as signed contracts, by providing an image of their entire filesystem containing the signed file.
Not really. For example cable internet (and ADSL) goes thru cable (shocking knowledge, I know). Cable have limited bandwidth, and as it is just a single cable, not RX/TX pair as it is for ethernet and it has limited bandwidth

Which essentially means you have X bandwidth to distribute between upstream and downstream. And it's far more profitable to sell X 40/10 Mbit connections vs selling a bunch of 25/25 Mbit ones, where most people there won't be using upload all that much.
So many sites using Flask across the web is centralized?
calling your own implementation a standard is like trying to make fetch happen; it’s so disingenuous.

ccs is government funded, tesla “nacs” is not. if you want tesla to be standard, sure. open it up, get all automakers on board, dont charge royalties, and let’s see.

it’s so asinine that NA and ROW will have different ac and dc charging. why cant we just have one global standard? preferably one not controlled by a rich megalomaniac
21st-century editors should keep their hands off of 20th-century books
Something I love about the experiment tooling I've used at a few places now (Thread, Google) is the fact that state has typically been stored in source control. i.e. not just the usage of flags in code, but the rollout/experiment definitions, the state of how much traffic is allocated to each branch, eligibility requirements, etc. This makes it easy to see what the current state is (without going to a UI), and also makes it much easier to build tooling around that state, as the API data sync problem disappears.

Looking at DevCycle, it seems you've not taken this approach, is that right? Scanning your docs it seems there's an API to update state, but that fundamentally it's kept in your database, not in code. In my experience this isn't the best dev experience, so as dev experience is your USP, I'm interested in why you think this is a better experience, what benefits it can bring over a "git-ops" style, or what I've missed in your docs.
Melange and ReScript target different audiences.

AFAIU, ReScript is a new language that offers an alternative to TypeScript.

Melange approaches the problem from the perspective of compatibility with OCaml / ReasonML. We've focused very hard on vertical integration with the OCaml Platform[1] and we're getting all the benefits with this release!

That said, both communities are fairly small, and I don't doubt that somewhat competing projects have some impact on community. From our perspective (the Melange team), our goals fit a specific use case, and e.g. Ahrefs, one of the leading SEO engines in the world, is using Melange[2] in production to power all their web experiences.

[1]: https://ocaml.org/docs/platform
[2]: https://tech.ahrefs.com/ahrefs-is-now-built-with-melange-b14...
I'm thinking of getting an apple watch with the cell phone. It's not usable for web surfing and other addictions, but it still has phone, messages, and maps, which are what I really can't do without.

Anyone tried this?
I feel like for US folks to take climate change seriously requires that climate change directly impact NYC and Washington DC so that the media and policy makers can have some lived experience.

Smoke in SF or Seattle doesn't seem to move the needle for whatever reason
"Hate Group" is a group that has a significant portion designed to explicitly hate a protected class.

Where "protected class" is the ambiguous part in my experience. But "protected class" includes the disabled, black people, asians, women, etc. etc.

Democrats hating Republicans and Republicans hating Democrats doesn't count, because neither group is a protected class. Nazis count, because Nazis hated Jews, and Jews are a religion and religion is a protected class.

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The point of debate is "protected class" in my experience. IE: White people asking to have the same protections as Black people. Or Mens right activists asking for men to be a protected class like Women are.
The 3.5 trillion budget in 2021 with broader socialism policies would be a good example.

However, it doesn't have to be limited to legislations passed, but rather what is widely being discussed and pushed forward by the Democratic factions, the biggest example is the "Green New Deal"; more government intervention, increased spendings, massive expansion of state power.
Sulfur emissions also cause acid rain, so it's not as simple as "keep the emissions as is"
Firefox has had minor missteps in the past but Linux and Firefox are not unsecure options despite being free and Microsoft isn't a safe option despite charging money.

Your algorithm is fairly broken.
TFA is generalizing that type of response to various outbreaks, and notes the differences.

A related comment of mine has a link with examples for the last several hundred years.
Just because some law references one particular standard doesn't mean it's the only standard that exists.
Sugar is not poison or "clearly bad".

Sucrose is bad when eaten on its own, specifically in the abscence of fibre and other macronutrients that bring the GI down.
>>+ Economic mobility is significantly worse

>I don't think that is true. Do you have a cite.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2022/06/29/stuck-on-...

There's also studies out there that show where you were born/raised can have a significant impact on mobility

>>+ Stagnated wages relative to inflation for much more than 20+ years

>That's an odd way to say things aren't different from what they were 20 years ago.

That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that wages have gone up at a lower rate than inflation, therefore leaving the majority of the working class with less buying power than they used to have.

>>+ Significantly more income inequality than 20+ years ago

>This is slightly true. Gini index when I was born was 38ish and now it's 40ish. So slightly worse but also because the rich have gotten richer. Not because the poor have gotten poorer in an absolute sense.

I think there's more than just the Gini index. Here's an interesting chart that shows the slight rise in Gini that you referenced, but combined with other measures that factor into income inequality. The data is only until 2015, but I doubt it's gotten any better since then.

https://www.chartbookofeconomicinequality.com/inequality-by-...

>>Health insurance costs that significantly outpace inflation

>Anyone talking about health insurance is just not remembering how it was. If words like "HMO" and "pre-existing condition" and "Lifetime maximum" don't send shivers down your spine then you're not correctly remembering how terrible it was. For all the flaws the US health care system has it's simply miles ahead of what it was pre-Obamacare.

I didn't say that health insurance isn't better than it was. All I'm saying is that costs have outpaced inflation. It doesn't matter because the US healthcare system is still a massive farce and simply exists to leach profits off the American public. Even those that make well into the 6 figures are just one accident or diagnosis away from being massively in debt or driven into destitution just to afford medical care.
WTF has crypto got to do with centralisation of the Internet? The Internet is well-decentralised, but if every Joe Blogg has to put their website behind Cloudflare, it's not the Internet's fault, let alone crypto (?).

Stop putting every-bloody-thing behind Cloudflare, and the problem solves itself. I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I read of someone on HN seriously saying that they need a CDN for their personal website, or that they really need to use AWS or GCP for that matter. We tech workers have lost the plot, and it's our fault it's all in the hands of the few.
> if you're not paying for the product, you are the product

The problem with this saying is that it implies that you can avoid being the product by paying for the product. But that is increasingly not true, and is a bad bet.
Today 6 years ago, “Attention is All You Need” went on ArXiv
I don't think it's that simple. Sulpher, causing acid rain, was a big deal and caused a lot of damage. Whole forrests died, public structures and art was damaged, etc... Also, sulpher contributes to ocean acidification.

The point is that the earth is a really complex systems, and it's not always clear what technical fixes to use, Let alone getting the political will to implement them.
As a user and proponent of free software, articles like this are why most people don’t take the free software movement seriously.

Their suggestion to give up your cell phone and find a landline or pay phone instead makes this sound hopelessly out of touch. A tablet connected to WiFi making VOIP calls is at least a cumbersome solution unlike a walkie-talkie!
Also approximates the theme of Neal Stephenson’s most recent book of the same name, Termination Shock.