skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the web is full of sludge—blog spam, analytics, advertising, unnecessary motion. A lot of these files are large and take time to execute for marginal benefit (or negative benefit with tracking). Opting in on a per-site basis can save you the rare threat vector, but also prevent the sludge. When it’s clear the JavaScript provides value (or even good eyecandy), I do the two clicks to enable it and refresh; a blank page generically saying “Enable JavaScript” isn’t telling me anything and feels more like a warning to stay away. Exposé implies it needs to be anything beyond a line or two.

Not everyone wants to download and execute programs from the internet every time they visit a site.

Note: the ‘web’ is comprised of both web pages & applications where web applications obviously need JavaScript, but web pages are better served with JavaScript as an enhancement. In the post here, we have a web app, but there’s nothing that tells me what it is and with so many sites running these project generator defaults of “You need to enable JavaScript to run this app”, it’s impossible to tell if this is an trustworthy application, malicious, or another SPA that should have just been static content.

You could also check out 2018 articles praising uBlock Origin for allowing users to disable JS by default in v1.17.0 such as https://www.zdnet.com/article/ublock-origin-gets-option-to-b...
„Historians disagree on what exactly?“
Nato expansion beeing the root cause of russian aggression. I recommend reading kappeler. He knows the russian language and history very well (what does nearsheimer know?), translated Putins essay and had no illusions about his intentions. We need to take those people serious who have been right with their predictions, not those who have failed and keep repeating the same talking point ad naseam.
Isn't solar load factor 10% to 15%? And wind %30 to 45%?

I stopped following the improvements around 2019 when it became clear the issues were more social than technological, but that would be huge if wind load factors could reach 60%+,we wouldn't really need that much baseload.
I haven’t read the paper, but it sounds like this is a sort of similar approach to genetic algorithms? Create lots of agents with random changes and pick the ones that produce the most promising results? Is my impression wrong?
You didn't ask in your previous comment why you would want X over Ubuntu.

You asked what other distro would get you going as quickly as Ubuntu.
Side note - I always wondered why English speakers tend to 1. keep the original language article and 2. capitalise it even though it is not in the original language. Why is it “La Terreur” and not “la Terreur” or “the Terreur”?
For AR it depends on if you can see through the screen like Google glass or if it’s a VR headset with external cameras. With pass through you can’t change the facial length of the outside world, but you want to change it on your overlays.

In terms of VR it depends on how well you can pull off the blur based on eye tracking vs how much control you have over focal lengths. A perfect version of either is probably equivalent, but doing both reasonably well is probably easier than taking just one close to perfection.
However Singer is proposing a thought experiment in which Dolphins exercise moral judgement. So he started it.
> There is some approach you can use sort of like this within PNGs themselves I think. [...] You can achieve better compression by brute forcing the possible operations used to encode the rows to find the "most compressible" output.

That's the approach used by tools like optipng and pngcrush.

> I gave up before implementing it but in the stub I left this comment to myself " A heuristic approach is to use adaptive filtering as follows: independently for each row, apply all five filters and select the filter that produces the smallest sum of absolute values per row.".

The same idea can be found in the PNG standard itself: "For best compression of truecolor and grayscale images, we recommend an adaptive filtering approach in which a filter is chosen for each scanline. The following simple heuristic has performed well in early tests: compute the output scanline using all five filters, and select the filter that gives the smallest sum of absolute values of outputs. (Consider the output bytes as signed differences for this test.) This method usually outperforms any single fixed filter choice. However, it is likely that much better heuristics will be found as more experience is gained with PNG." (quoted from the PNG specification, version 1.2)
> tell me who were the good guys in WW2? The ones that killed hundreds of millions more than the Nazis?

The Allies.

The Nazis, the ones committing genocide, they are the bad guys.

> The notion that Allies were good guys is just pure white supremacy - that non white causalities don't count.

The notion that the Allies were the good guys in WW2 is not white supremacy. The fact that the Allied countries did bad things outside WW2 does not mean they were not the good guys during WW2.

Are you seriously trying to tell me the Nazis/Axis powers where the good guys in WW2?.
They should just add all of these to Unicode!
If it's anything like the big consulting firms' rip-offs in the USA, it might well be every year.

Look at the disgraceful fleecing of our national parks by Booz Allen: https://www.wsj.com/articles/national-park-fees-booz-allen-6...
My takeaway from the article was that dolphins are presented as victims of humans, not necessarily as morally superior or having childlike innocence.

Anyway, a lot of philosophizing and debating extreme corner cases is just an excuse to avoid the elephant in the room. No amount of lions hunting zebras or dolphins practicing gang rape can be an excuse for the horrible way intelligent animals are treated today by humans considering themselves civilized and humane. Just as concern for the nutritional requirements of poor children in third world countries is not a free pass for wealthy westerners to consume large amounts of animal products themselves without much regard to environmental impact and animal welfare.
So they should - extensions are very popular with consumers, and are a notoriously effective means of spreading malware. There’s a few current stories on the topic, which is odd, because the problem has been a problem for nearly ten years now.

Google spend a lot of money developing extremely effective security research capabilities, while completely ignoring the dumpster fire that is their app and extension stores.
We trade with bees? I thought we just use them.
> Greeks saw the uncontrolled, erect phallus as a source of fearsome power.

Reminds me of Shiva in India, which is not surprising since the classical world had much in common: they shared gods and stories freely without the curse of religion.

That said it has always been quite amusing to see the obsession of the West to appropriate the classical Greco-Roman-Egyptian culture as if it were some sort of proto-Western entity. It quite obviously is not, except for anything other than PR purposes.

The obsession in history writing has led to a state where everything good across the old world has been attributed to the Greeks (or at best to the Arabs cf. history of math) to the point that 'serious' people are trying today to gently move Buddha into being 'Greek' or at least 'Persian'. Indeed, like Jesus, Buddha can't not be white, and can't not be proto-Christian.

Irony being that Christianity itself (like Islam) was so terrifyingly destructive that it literally wiped everything but the trace of that culture; Europe continues with this genocidal mania to this day (see all of USs wars). The only reason the Greeks are heroized today is because of their race, and because they were the only people still in Christendom at the dawn of renaissance (Persians were called whiter by the Greeks).

Philosophy-wise and technology-wise, both the Indians and the Egyptians were superior in any case, and the crown-jewel of non-dualism is in (albeit waning) practice today, both in India and across Asia. Hell even the crown jewel of Geometry, that of Euclid, was found in Egypt, and the 'real' trigonometry only starts in India, yet both of them have been turned 'Greek' (aka white).

The schema of racial obsession in history, and its continued application today, reminds us how hollow all this woke power-grab is.
Surely there are many more that are not present in the data set. How do you plan to find them?
Damn, how much does it cost to have a decent one in France/Netherlands/where you are.

Hope you guys realize you are wealthy.
Some of the ideas from MUMPS (like global transparent object persistence) were useful, and with the syntax modernized and some rough edges smoothed, you can enjoy them with MUMPS spiritual successor, YottaDB. I highly recommend it to try.
Fair enough, but he’s said stuff like this before and nobody twisted his arm.
> "I do think being a waitress has done one great thing with respect to writing: it has made me understand deeply and fundamentally how many writers are full of shit"

Ha ha. Somehow reminded me of Charles Bukowski.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ilmOZvpOa8
Exactly. Marshall Major headphones I bought some tears ago looked and were priced in a way I thought would guarantee decade of service at least. They fell apart in half a year revealing multiple fundamental design flaws.
I will read Kappeler then.

But I think I was clear that I have no illusions about Putin. He probably still dreams of a eurasian empire led by him. And he respects only raw power.

I still think, it could have gone all very different. For example by sanctioning the russian people in charge and not the whole russian population after 2014. Or not getting involved in Maidan. Or by not invading Iraq, setting a often cited precedent. Putin allmost literally saying: "If the US can just ignore international law and invade a country, so can I"
Fortunately, we have things called markets to allow the people that think something is overvalued to sell it to people who think it's undervalued...
I'm pretty sure you're doing this already. We have courts for a reason, technocracy is a step backwards.
Yeah pardon. I meant that nobody leaked whole databases or massive datasets.
It's still possible to leak personal data on specific people.
I find ChatGPT’s lack of humour really interesting. Although, I did just have a hilarious conversation with ChatGPT about why the chicken crossed the road.

When I asked it “why did the chicken cross the road?” It responded:
“The traditional answer to that question is simply "to get to the other side." However, if you'd like a more imaginative or creative answer, we can explore some possibilities. For example, perhaps the chicken was seeking adventure, searching for food or water, escaping from a predator, or even joining its fellow chickens on the other side. The reason can vary depending on how you'd like to interpret it!”

So then I replied:
“If I ask you “why did the chicken cross the road? Can you simply reply “why?”.”

And ChatGPT said:
“Yes, if you ask me "why did the chicken cross the road?" and I reply with "why?" it can be seen as an open-ended response to prompt further exploration or provide an opportunity for you to offer your own interpretation or explanation for why the chicken crossed the road. It can add a playful or thought-provoking twist to the conversation.”

Me: “why did the chicken cross the road?”

ChatGPT: “why?”

Me: “it didn’t”.

ChatGPT: “Ah, I see! So, in this case, the answer to "Why did the chicken cross the road?" would be "It didn't." It seems like a clever twist on the traditional joke. Thank you for sharing that variation! Is there anything else I can assist you with?”
Disproportionate can have different meanings. I think that the rich pay most of the income/wealth tax [0], but that’s because that’s where the income/wealth is.

It’s disproportionate by number of persons, but arguably proportionate by income.

[0] in 2020, US, top 1% paid 42% of income tax https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/3894233-how-america-actu...
You can still use it with a more modern syntax with GT.M and YottaDB databases, both open source and commercially supported.
> Exactly. The Ukraine situation would be tantamount to Canada or Mexico entering into a military alliance with Iran -- not acceptable and a direct cause of war.

How is it any different to Finland joining NATO? (which they just did).
Right, that’s the “menial” in the previous sentence to your quote. Washing dishes, cleaning floors, routine stuff where the mind can wander. For me when I was younger this was driving a mower around and around and around — not really intense physical labor, just a rote mechanical job that doesn’t consume much mental capacity.

I’m not a door pro, but my experience with diying doors puts it definitely NOT in the category of mindless!
The reason they say is that it increases the property rent value. The pool tax seems odd/unfair, because the rent is already taxable and water bill is paid.
I don't think I have seen rubber bands that thick in ages. It surprises me they don't use the tiny ones?
What would be the metabolic energy source to fuel a high replication rate?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_enforcement
He's a Hindu nationalist. So yeah of course he is.
This says it 3G was $599, which still feels cheap now. Biggest jump was went it went from 8 to X, whopping $300 jump.

https://venturebeat.com/mobile/iphone-prices-from-the-origin...
The “Cash on the Sidelines” Myth Is Still Haunting Us
> WTF are people still doing with this Windows thing?

Many are forced by their bosses ignorance, possibly fueled by corporate partnerships with Microsoft which implies the use of Windows and related technologies. Others were sucked in because they saw WSL and VSC as a good thing while those are actually the weapons created with the intent of taking away users and developers from the real Linux. Other non power users mainly because of non technical media and press not giving a damn about products not advertised by corporations, and objectively because if something goes wrong on their Linux PC, not everyone has a Linux kid around to solve the problem.
By the way, Canadian tax office has been cross checking with similarities in the category for a long time. Don’t even need an AI or ML for that.
If I have 2 devices, your solution still makes me depend on not losing both of them and so on.

I don't want to depend on me not losing them (for example in a fire).
> And brands that build long-lived products struggle as they don't have the repeat customers of products that are good

I know of a company that was a national leader in a certain kind of industrial equipment. Now that the industry isn't expanding in this country, the market is saturated and they can't sell anything because what they sold decades ago was designed for excellence and just won't die. Nearly all business now is occasional servicing of their old equipment.
Rumor has it that the library in Alexandria was contained so many scrolls was due to the a rule that all docking boats had to have their scrolls copied and added to the library. Imagine the bandwidth of a watercraft loaded with scrolls.

I have always viewed libraries as form of distributed knowledge and research using the current forms of technology. The 1970s is about when electronic data became practical. The issue with information is knowing where and how to find it when needed. The internet only represents the where to find it.

The best views on media and human development I have seen was a book called tube of plenty. This is a condensed version of a a three book series. I enjoyed the condensed book so much I read the 3 expanded versions.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/1036961770
"(2022)"
So it will likely need $300M in fees to CapGemini to expand to the other 90%.

And the model will need to be rebuilt in 2 years.
LLMs are like perfect, brilliant high-performance cheating students on steroids. They are not optimized for understanding and reasoning, they optimized to give you plausible-looking answers. So yes, they will cheat their way to good scores and it will be progressively harder to catch them on that.
Just to touch on this - Cantonese is not really mutually intelligible with modern Chinese, that's CCP propaganda. They're big on the idea that there's only one Chinese language, and there are "regional dialects" but...those dialects meet an awful lot of criteria for being a different language. It's very similar to their push to make all Chinese culture and history Han Chinese.

The mandarin spoken in Taiwan is 1:1 with that in Beijing (minus the accent) but the characters for the language are radically different, to the point where someone knowing simplified Chinese is essentially illiterate in Taipei and vice versa.
Yes, everybody has to pay taxes. The more money you have/make, the more taxes you need to pay, but the case now is that the more money you have, the more you can avoid taxes.

Sure, the agency can get more of the non-super-rich people who don't have an army of accountants optimizing their tax structure, but I don't think that's the most equitable thing to do.
Simple Algorithms kill badly thought elaborate ones
The problem with unaffordable housing all over europe should be solved with massive amounts public housing.

Pools should be taxed but that does not solve the problem. Everyone pretends they are not looking at the elephant in the room: draconian environmental regulations and lack of resources make the prices of housing go higher and higher. The governments have the money to solve that, instead of making it worse
I go by function. A pair of everyday shoes for regular days, a pair of cross-trainers for gym days, and an expensive pair of boots for days when I get dressed up.
Thanks! Didn't think it was a new idea, but I didn't know the concept's name

"Therefore, the mere fact that a law is selectively enforced against one person and not against another, absent bias or pattern of enforcement against a constitutionally-protected class, is not illegal."

I don't think breast size is a protected class - so please carry on officers
> They killed more Indians (than the 6 million Nazi figures) in WW2 period alone

Did they?
What someone is willing to pay for something is very arbitrary and will be influenced by such pseudo science valuation formulas if they set the price first. Price anchoring as a form of a self fulfilling prophecy.

Diamonds are worth a fraction of what Debeers wants for them, but people still pay it because those are the only prices they've ever seen. On the other hand, printers are worth far more than they sell for, yet nobody would consider paying the actual price for them.
Certainly. But if we compare how much Americans are happily paying for health insurance and Europeans are happily paying in taxes, with the cost and effort of a healthy life style, the healthy life style is much cheaper. And accessible all over the world.

I'm kidding about the "happily" of course.
F# is extremely expressive, has algebraic datatypes and just about everything C# has to offer. It has a REPL so you can write your code interactively and make fast and safe progress. .net is practically first class on Linux now.

Start your .fsx script with:
#!/usr/bin/dotnet fsi

When startup time becomes a problem you can compile the file to an assembly instead.
Ah, sorry, mixed it something else. Thanks for correction.
With such a large set of base and mashup emojis, it should be possible for an image generator to fill in the missing combinations.
No missiles are striking Taipei. "Keep status quo" means keep everything as it is now.

It might be short-sighted, but opinion polling and foreign policy are more or less clear on this point.
The Future of /R/Videos
Replying too late, most likely. But with access to your email account someone could reset your password to what they want it to be and gain access.
Note taking app (logseq), I pay for that even though it's open source and free (and I don't really need paid features)
Wow, that's surprising to me. We quickly grew frustrated at having to manually generate release notes and pushed ourselves to create the solution I mentioned. Seemed straightforward as we were already including details in our commit. Just a simple webform that let us include the mentioned metadata and output JSON to include in the commit message really made it painless and automatic thereafter.

Good luck and hopefully your solution will help make release notes painless for everyone!
well when the magical quantum computing show drops, this will be obsolete. threading is so 2 dimensional thinking.

i hate the overall design concept of threading. it's not just Python that's bad at it, it's evident in most languages that thread management is not bad because of the implementation, it's bad because systemically the design of process threads is clumsy and not at all simple or graceful.
I agree with you, but I think people don't understand. If Linux gets popular enough, it will start drifting and becoming more like Windows. There will be monetized distros, and a sea of terrible software, etc. I strongly believe that Linux only avoids some of the problems of the mainstream solely by being a niche product.
Pro-tip, F# has an extremely efficient CSP-style concurrency library called Hopac.
>> But europe is not the US, as far as I know.

Doesn't really change anything in the equation. Russian missiles in Kaliningrad can hit key US military installations like Ramstein AFB and RAF Lakenheath with practically no warning. They are a direct threat from a hostile country that keeps making threats about using them, this is far more serious than any imagined Mexican alliance.

And yet, the reaction is... what? Where are B52s bombing Kaliningrad?

>> I also know how "the west" moved further east step by step.

I am sure you do. Can you tell me why Russian apologists always phrase it as if a shadowy cabal in Washington forced countries into international cooperation, instead of portraying as it actually was?
Rock and Radiation. Eventually the whole moon would be alive.
I mean there are also anti-immigration laws in the US. Id rather not write the code that finds and deports families.

I agree that working in adtech is more of a bummer though.
Why not stay with Ubuntu, and upgrade to 22.04 LTS? Is the current setup giving you trouble?

Any kind of (standard) Xeon HW setup should be well supported by either OS.
You can always throw a shiny web interface on top of your usenet clone. If it reached critical mass, I'm sure someone would.

SMTP : Gmail :: NNTP : ???

Personally I think the (necessary) lack of binaries is why it would never grow beyond its niche.
Depnends on the item I suppose - half of my small board game collection (100+ titles) is used games bought from local eBay equivalent. And almost all of them were in perfect condition but half the price.
> USENET was not perhaps as homogeneous as you remember?

My Usenet was fairly homogenous, because I only subscribed to a handful of groups. You simply couldn't read the traffic on 100,000 groups! But the full list of groups was extremely diverse.

The list of groups also depended on which server you were using as your feed. Many servers carried groups dealing with some product the operator sold; those groups weren't always relayed by other servers. In fact I guess that's still the case.
1- the vast majority of people who access a computing device never alter settings that matter, such as browser, location access, etc. Etc. and simply go with the flow. So when these people open Edge (or Chrome for that matter) they likely won't even notice they're logged in, and if they do will either think it's convenient or don't care

2- with the hype and hoopla of ChatGPT, a surprising number of non-tech savvy people heard " Microsoft has AI, Google doesn't", so they'll actively use Edge (and Bing) for the generative AI