skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just finished the Einstein biography by Walter I. and found Einsteins stubbornness quite entertaining. He knew about this trait, accepted it as an effect of ageing and even was making jokes about it. He simply disliked some facts about quantum m. and allowed himself to pursue a rather fruitless endeavour for many years. He knew that this kind of stubbornness would kill the career of a younger scientist but he could afford to do so. In that sense he contributed to science.
Reddit pays an SF startup millions to analyse all shopping-related Reddit data
Interesting. I turned off my adblocker out of curiosity but I'm not seeing anything special. Coming from the EU though, maybe that has something to do with it.
How two big Wall Street banks are rethinking the office for post-pandemic future
The good places on Reddit, with tight moderation, are few and far between. I can think of r/AskHistorians, but there are not many like it (I can’t think of another, off the top of my head). Maybe you know of other examples?
maybe not about OSS, but they know and care about freedom, and I think we are gonna have to really understand how open source and free software are connected as a matter of principle; beyond their origin stories.

> Why pay and share and give that advantage to your competitors?

this is the essence of the issue;

we gotta understand why society is often seen through such adversarial lenses?

this question ("why adversarial thinking?") though asked rhetorically, has a good answer which is important to understand, as well as a bad answer which is also important to understand.

I've chosen to consider this question without fully answering; but by thinking about the notion of 'identity', what makes me be in this or in that group such that 'who are our competitors?' is not so simple to answer.
A term I’ve come to like more is “cognitive flexibility”.
He fought tooth and nail not to buy Twitter at the price he paid. He wanted to walk away.
WebObjects and Distributed Objects Everywhere, are two Objective-C projects that eventually influenced how JEE came to be, yet another connection between Java and its Objective-C influences.
If your ideas of how to live include less childhood mortality, and long and healthy lives, then I doubt there is a better time than the last hundred years (except probably the next hundred years).

Everyone alive has only been in a modern time. Now what characteristics you want your world to have, certainly many people are fighting for different visions. The idea that a particular balance of corporate and legislative power is inevitable is just the messaging from those corporate powers. And it isn’t more than PR - when society gets unbalanced enough, you get changes even if most think it is impossible. Anything from the French Revolution to the end of Apartheid.
I don't think we disagree. A hypothesis is upgraded to "belief" and therefore to the "spectrum of truth" only because it's the best you know of, not because it's the only one. It's a matter of degree, not kind. And a belief's position as the best one is always precarious; it can be unseated at any time by a better hypothesis.

Axioms are different, but over time I've found that even those weaken and become "merely" strong beliefs (or, more usually, only True within the context you're working in, e.g. mathematics). Even "I think therefore I am" is not axiomatic, I have come to believe. In fact I doubt it's important to identify some sort of root cause, which is rationalist heresy. Oh well.
Post scarcity problems.

Nothing we do anymore in many western societies has life and death stakes.
More that hard times kill everyone who isn't strong. Strong men kill other cultures, and then redefine their own as good. Good times let a thousand flowers bloom. A thousand flowers create conflict and hard times.

Evolution and selection bias are the most powerful forces in the universe. The world is the way it is not because it's just or moral, but because everything that didn't survive, didn't survive.
It will work under wayland if you have xdg-desktop-portal/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr set up.

If you've got that set up up correctly, screen sharing will also work in Firefox (for instance on discord).

As far as I understand it, xdg-desktop-portal is a DE/WM agnostic protocol that enables applications to easily capture a screen - the user just has to run the right backend for their environment. I think it does other stuff too, but screen recording is probably the main use case.

I'm using Manjaro Sway Edition where that was configured out of the box.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal
The lessons from World of Warcraft and Doom are give your users tools to write their own features/maps, then promote the best of the best to be part of the game.

Just be sure to reward the winners with something, like a lifetime subscription.

Spore tried to make everyone a creator, and “everyone” are terrible people. In the YouTube Era he may have had more options, like taking creations from popular streamers, or highly upvoted contributions.
Some say it is still better than today's Ruby Rails / Laravel in terms of productivity. And if it was open sourced at the time the world would have been very different.

All we know is, it's called WebObject.
I really like this style of writing where there are interjections from little characters. It breaks up the technical parts really well and adds a human element to blogs that’s often missing. Its also humorous.

I know a vocal minority of the HN will be very upset about seeing little cartoon drawings with their blog post but I think they may be taking themselves too seriously. If little cartoon characters interjecting are that distracting to you then maybe it’s an issue with you and not the blog post.
Until one might come to the conclusion that the Iraq invasion wasn't about security.
be able to build something people want using whatever tools
New book on more advanced concepts in machine learning, deep learning, and AI
Sarah Rector
I would argue that globalization has meant that we all live in the same city and use the same sites, but globalization has also caused a Cambrian explosion of content that has created a kind of balkanized cultural space. So every city looks the same but the granularity within it is far higher because people have separated by culture instead of by locale.
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I haven’t heard that term in a long time! It’s a shame that prestige media no longer discusses his unbalanced humors or shallow brainpan.

Perhaps his vapors brought about by poor constitution could have been alleviated with some trepanning.
And those would be good arguments, if the SMTP landscape looked different. I think the OP's views would be best summarized by "either host your own server, or go back to Reddit". Similarly, you shouldn't be using random-joe.biz as your SMTP host. You should use Google, Fastmail, or a handful of other reputable providers you can probably count on one hand. Or host your own server.
There never was a broom. I.e. it never existed as a permanent, indivisible thing.
Optional added effects are of minor consequence in a command mostly meant for audio playback (as evidenced by its name; “play”). I also did not completely deny the outlier use cases, which is why I wrote “very little reason” instead of “no reason”.

You are being unnecessarily combative.
Please use kbin instead - It's not run by literal Chinese state apologists.
I think that's completely useless? The whole point of qps is that it gives insight into spikes.
Show HN: Java REST without annotations, DI nor reactive streams
grumpyrest is a Java REST server framework that does not use annotations, automatic dependency injection or reactive streams, and minimizes the use of reflection. I created this because I got fed up with annotation-mad frameworks that you cannot easily understand, step into or reason about. grumpyrest uses the type system to guide JSON mapping and validation, and (possibly virtual) threads for parallelism. It's for grumpy people who don't like what REST server programming in Java has become.

I made this because I intend to use it in one of my own projects, but at the same time I want to make it available to others to (hopefully) get some good ideas on how to extend it.
That should never happen at any 'good' company imo, and I haven't personally experienced it.
Not how it works. You now are responsible for making other people complete work you don’t care about. If they fail, you also fail. Way more risk, way less control over the outcome. Plus your tech skills atrophy the whole time, making you less valuable outside your org leading to a kind of employer lock in.
Enough Americans were maimed and killed to deeply care.
FWIW, there's an open PR and discussion around the code for this:

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/9779
A bunch of subs started today
For me it was @ mentioning someone in an IRC chat and some bot started sending me "Sad but True" or some such angst.
> It is not direct evidence, but under a weaker burden of proof (e.g. balance of probabilities) it is fairly convincing.

- We have a bunch of evidence of WIV engineering SARS-1-like viruses because they talked about it before the pandemic.

- We have zero evidence of them ever doing experiments on live SARS-2-like virus

- We have zero evidence of the existence of a SARS-2-like progenitor virus

- Before the pandemic they had no reason to be more secretive of any SARS-2-like work than their SARS-1-like work

- The spread of SARS-CoV-2 looks exactly like it originated in the Seafood market.

- If it was transported to the seafood market by someone who worked at the lab that is highly coincidental that the place they infected first just happened to be the most likely place for zoonotic spillover

- The hypothetical infected labworker didn't spread it all over their residence or create any other superspreading incidents clustered elsewhere around Wuhan

On the balance of probabilities I'm going with zoonotic spillover. The coincidence that the lab happened to be in the city is much less of a coincidence than the lab causing a leak of a virus that there's zero evidence the lab ever had, causing a pandemic that looks exactly like it came from zoonotic spillover.
Before Java 5, Java used 1.x scheme for its major releases (Java 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4). Java 5 was both Java 1.5 and Java 5 and was marketed as Java 5. Since then Java switched to new versioning scheme. Some people apparently are salty about that. I'm salty as well, I'd prefer semver, but Google Chrome 114 probably made it too seductive for marketing to use this crazy scheme, so here we are, with releases like Java 20 which add nothing new.
Or diet and exercise, which need not be uncorrelated with wealth, but something tells me that places like Sardinia, Okinawa and Nicaragua haven't historically been that wealthy. Especially when you consider that to have the most centenarians now, those centenarians must have been born in the first quarter of the 20th century, 100+ years ago. Whatever effect blue zones have, it's not likely to be an entirely recent one; People don't tend to suddenly gain huge amounts of life expectancy in their middle age.

(Of course, this is all presupposing that the number of centenarians in those areas is not greatly exaggerated, and that there hasn't been a massive migration of centenarians from other areas to the blue zones.)
> What's up with these weird typos?

I think sometimes the typos are speech-to-text artifacts. For instance "used that" would be phonetically similar to "used at" and I could see that easily tripping up STT. I know people that use STT and don't review the output before sending so I get weird text messages from them from time to time.
10% is an absolutely huge number when we are talking about making public policy, you can’t just round that up.
Given that there are currently 655/5279 already private, no, they didn't jump the gun.

Edit: 1 minute later already 658.

Edit: 2 minutes later 661.

Edit: 2 3/4 hours later 840.
The link shows which subreddits have turned private. Many have begun already as it is currently the 12th in many timezones.
Unfortunately torture, both physical and psychological, long predates MK-Ultra.
I agree with trends toward homogeneity.

Some people are disagreeing because there's "more" choice now because all the differences are non-localized.

Walmart and then Amazon squeezed out local anything stores. I think it's five large media conglomerates squeezed out any local broadcast station with actual local content other than weather and sports. Etc.

And what we have for diversity is largely non-local and often living inside huge corporate walled gardens - look at all the content I can get on YouTube while they decide it's ok to do that, so better not get a "strike!"

This is still an increase in homogeneity. Not to mention a ridiculous consolidation of authoritarian power.
looks like its a website monitoring the subreddit statuses with a handful of them having already gone private
Captain needs to be able to pull a circuit breaker for virtually anything, in case of electrical fault, fire, misbehavior, needing to hard-reset some bit of avionics, etc.

Commercial passenger aircraft have redundant systems and you can disable almost anything as needed and still fly (up to a point of course) in case of emergency.
> Did the youths ask for your help?

They do, desperately so. There is a reason we have an entire internet economy of influencers and hucksters targeting in particular disoriented young men. They're pretty much begging for someone to provide meaning, discipline, comradery the kind of which traditionally you experience in for example military service and instead we leave them to Andrew Tate.

We have huge issues with young people delaying adulthood, not having structure, feeling useless and so on. Demanding someone serve their country is to take them seriously, give them responsibility and to provide them with a good reason to cultivate character.
Wow. This is really a low-value entry. I learned nothing. I don't think the premisces are correct, and I think the author never traveled abroad (at least outside of 3-5 star hostels/Airbnb), which is a bit rich when you try to talk about homogenization. I don't know where he lives but I doubt he even trail/hike across his own country.

I think I read about conspiracy singularity theories with more meat than that (at least conspiracy theories have great Wikipedia links to little-know facts)
> I can’t help but reflect how much of the tragedy, conflict, and war in human history has been caused by these agencies run amok.

A relatively small amount most likely. Maybe on par with the amount that has been caused by yellow journalism (e.g. the Spanish-American war, anti-ethnicity political cartoons). Most of anything "caused" by them is not from them running amok, but from them doing the job they were ordered to do by higher officials.

And, of course, we only rarely see what they prevented from happening.
The biggest issue with all policies is the same with red flag laws - and even attempted mention of potentially having an issue grounds you and you lose your job; this makes the issue that much worse.
I must be missing something as this seems very basic.

Assume A = vEv^T , where E is a diagonal matrix of eigenvalues and v is the transformation from A to E. Then A^n = vEv^TvEv^T..vEv^T. vv^T equals the identity matrix and will cancel out. So A^n = vE^nv^T. The closed form in the article is then just inlining the computation of v and v^T to how they apply to alpha and beta.

Oh, and to understand what happens in the more complex case where not all eigenvalues are different, see Jordan Normal Form. That is less basic and not as well covered in the basic courses as the above is.
I also keep coming back to the metaphor that Reddit is a great deal like Gormenghast: an ancient, stony fortification of cobbled-together structures, housing a gaggle of idiosyncratic personas whose lives are filled with the performances of abstruse rituals and obligations, the mandatory detritus of a former glory — insular and in a state of glacial decadence, and which nevertheless has a secondary community plastered on its boundary, with which it perfunctorily yet regularly interacts AND YET all of which exists within a much wider world that has largely diverged from it.

I think about the Tower of Flints.
> But even in our relatively safe, civil societies, we should be aware of it, and not categorically discard it as aboherent in all case.

My opinion is that violence is abhorrent in all cases except in self-defense when the recipient is a directly active threat to your life.
The difference is that email is private. The contents of your email are not seen as being endorsed by Google just because you have an @gmail.com address, so Google doesn't have an incentive to ban you just because they find your politics odious.

In the fediverse calls to defederate happen pretty regularly, and the reasoning is sound—your instance will be publicly mirroring any content on a federated instance, so if you don't want to publicly host extremist views (from either wing) your only option is to defederate from instances that allow them.
I heard that the ActivityPub protocol is pretty inefficient when you have lots of small instances, so I would think joining an existing instance should be preferred.

I'm not sure why you think that switching instances is too hard for avg people but running your own isn't?
5 gigabit symmetric right now, if you're American.
Do you feel like it only affects your personal memories or also your memory about facts? Like did you find studying for school hard or was that unaffected?
I suggest the title be updated to reflect the live tracking nature of this site

"Watch the Reddit strike unfold live"?
Define tomorrow? It is past midnight for Beijing and Tokyo for example.

UTC would be reasonable standard meaning 6 and half hours still to go.
The black box doesn’t transmit its location. If they find it, it would/will tell you some of what happened, but if you sink it in the Mariana Trench and they can’t find it, you’ve “won”.
… which then extends the critical flight controls security surface area to entities on the ground that have no vested interest in my safety? No thank you, I’ll take my chances with the flight crew which in 99.99999% of cases are also interested in arriving home safely.
You can always write something like {var tmp=a;a=b;b=tmp;} in any language if you want to sort in place.
This looks quite cool for some usecases. I also quite like the honest breakdown of their VDOM approach[0]. It highlights strengths + weaknesses and even gives an example of when it is (not) a good fit. This very useful and very much appreciated.

[0]: https://million.dev/blog/virtual-dom
Great! There's a picket line I won't be crossing. Not just for those subs, of course, but for all of Reddit.

The reason Reddit is valuable is not the few execs making these (IMHO terrible) decisions. It's the thousands of mods and the millions of people creating and organizing the content that I go there to read. Until those people are happy with things, I'm not going back.
This is how farming is meant to be in nature:

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/797805.Tending_the_Wi...
I’m impressed. One of the big hurdles of extendable types is figuring out which subtype a parameter is. Overloaded methods are a blunt tool that involves lots of indirection. Generics force you to structure classes in a specific way. Pattern matching is the cleanish solution to the problem of “what type so I have here and what do I do with it?”
> America is the first (and maybe only, ever?) major imperial power

Swift's "A Modest Proposal" was from 1729.
This example seems to fall into the same shallow-knowledge or unfamiliarity with the domain which has been the conclusion of everyone that has tried to use chatgpt in their workflow.

If I'm doing something using a language/tool I'm not familiar with then chatgpt is useful because it is better than searching the docs since a lot of documentation is usually a wall of text with no usage examples.

Other than that, all the examples people provide regarding how much of a 'game-changer' chatgpt is always fall into the same google/stackoverflow use case at best or the vague planning/designing/unit-test which tells nothing at all.
JPEG XL against AVIF tested on ImageEngine
Idiotic/blunder is a very blameless language.
662/5279 = 0.12540253836

looks too tiny tbh.
Ah, my mistake. I wasn't aware some subreddits had already started, thought it was supposed to start tomorrow.

The fun has begun ;)
True, but every once in a while we want to sort something that isn't a list and/or with a custom sorting algorithm.
The airframes do usually have various ELTs and beacons that can activate in a crash, but some (most?) can be disabled in some way (in case they’re accidentally on) - and others are only short range/directional.
My pet theory as much of the United State's recent... troubles? Stagnation? Is due to lack of antitrust enforcement.

There simply isn't meaningful competition in so many areas of society today, business included. To the point I think an entire generation has forgotten what operating in a competitive environment is like. Both as consumers and producers.

I watch friends who simply have no concept that there is an option outside of the mainstream grocery store chain they go to - as they drive past 2-3 ethnic stores on the way there, all of which are much cheaper on average for items they both carry. These same friends complain about inflation, but take zero action on their part to even learn about other options - much less pursue them. When I ask the response is usually something along the lines of "I've always went to place X for the past 20 years, why would I change now?".

It's going to take shaking a lot of people out of their comfort zones for healthy competition to return to society.
The neat thing about federated social media is you don't have to federate with tankies even if you use their software. kbin appears to have some trouble working with Mastodon. My experience so far is boosts and replies on Mastodon are the #1 driver of new signups to the Lemmy instance I'm on, so it matters.
For many people in the world, it's the 12th already.
They found racoon dog DNA, along with other susceptible animals, comingled with SARS-CoV-2 in samples from the market:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/science/covid-raccoon-dog...

And the behavior of China behind that whole story looks very much like China tried to cover up the existence of susceptible animals at the market.
One could say that about all sorts of capabilities in an aircraft that, in normal operation, seems insane. Is there ever a valid reason to fly a cargo plane inverted? See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Express_Flight_705 for the answer.
Is the inevitable fate of any social media site to be antagonistic to its most dedicated users?
The Portuguese drone that douses wildfires from above
First you have to unteach the public that all problems can be solved with another toxic petrochemical, otherwise you’re just rearranging the broccoli on our proverbial plate.
Just the title. The page itself acknowledges that the strike is scheduled to start tomorrow:

“These subreddits are going dark or read-only on June 12th and after. ”
In my experience, This attribute is an absolutely critical part of successfully building culture at an early stage startup, and you have to be ruthless about culling those who are not willing to give it a try nevermind master it.
Use Cloudflare? I would never!

My blog uses a custom CDN I wrote in Assembly for maximum performance.

I also wrote a custom browser (Guess what language) so my visitors browsing habits weren't shared with Google via Chrome.

I will go to the ends of the Earth to protect my users' browsing habits.
Clippy as a virtual assistant power by AI would work.
> unboxing software used to be quite exciting

In addition to the manuals, I remember Ultima also came with a map and a shiny coin. It was worth buy some games back then just for the physical toys.