skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SEC apparently won't decide if Ethereum is a security so it seems pretty complicated to me. I'm not going to insist the answers are obvious in such a legal minefield.
I asked Christian (Apollo) about it and he decided to ignore that question. It would be cool to have an open source “plugin” for Apollo to translate, for example, lemmy to Apollo’s internal API. I expect it to boost lemmy development as well.
The article's comparison is made on potential legality.

Reading the comment, you'd think the comparison was on harm or lethality.
I think it can be informative generally of what they may be targeting. Here, it seems that the interest is in somehow reducing the size and 'throwing away' some factual information for more reasoning capability (obviously this is very loose and uses undefined terms).
The 'factual knowledge' only needs to be roughly available with a way to do a look up to recall information.
How do compilers detect the need to replace high-level code with a hard-coded three-number sorting algorithm? As someone not deeply familiar with compiler internals, I'm eager to understand the underlying mechanisms. Could anyone shed light on how modern compilers recognize situations where it's beneficial to replace generic code with optimized assembly instructions specifically designed for sorting three numbers?
Including Linus Torvalds! https://social.kernel.org/users/torvalds
Why should a small group of activists get to decide for everybody which statues are allowed to stand?
YouTube's custom scrollbars that take actual space on screen at all times annoyed me so much that I made a userscript that got rid of them. I made the choice to use overlay scrollbars, and I will enforce it if needed.
This was about 3 weeks ago, prior to the wildfires.
The claimed pro of being able to use a normal programming language fades away quickly as you are forced into non-idiomatic boilerplate patterns to get pulumi to work.

State is a problem and have had just the same kind of hardships when had to manually modify it on some changes as I would have had on terraform. (transfer resources between state stores as a business function is handed over within company, with zero downtime, import docs are not always correct/up2date just like in case of terraform, as if the example codes were generated by chatgpt)

Overall pulumi couldn't convince me, it wasn't a bit more convenient than terraform, yet I could bump into its bugs for pretty basic aws features (around lambdas/apigw, but was more than a year ago, might be fixed already) which did work just fine with terraform ootb, and the pulumi code felt bad to look at despite being in a language I generally like. It did not bring the effect management wanted that developers with no terraform knowledge can be onboarded to infra, as of course infra knowledge is needed and is harder to pick up than learning terraform syntax.

Despite my dislike for terraform and its syntax's limitations in expressiveness, I'm still back to TF, and is more productive than pulumi was.
The patent system is flawed enough that I think a
rewriting from scratch is required.

It was created or a different time, and its governing rules
reflect it.

How to rewrite it is no simple task to figure out and is well
beyond what I am able to do.

I do think the bar for applying ought to be higher
and the categories that can be patented significantly
lowered.

I am not sure, but it seems that the time it takes to grant
A patent requires changes as well.

Nearly everything new has "pending patents"

A good thing would be changing the ethics of how people think about
patents and applying for them.

A better, quicker and easier way to prove prior art should be developed.
(and if it is not already the case, the entity that applied for a patent
with prior art should be made to cover all legal and paperwork etc. for
doing so.
The best deep dive on the implementation of carbon credits, in my view, was this recent documentary produced by ABC's Four Corners

So many competing interests. It's an insanely complex issue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7x4TWazWJg
still pretty slow
Why not just use this as a time to cut Reddit (or any similar time-sinks) out entirely, and put your energy to a new task?

(Serious suggestion. Exercise. Take up a hobby. Start a side project.)
I do apologize and I do also appreciate your time. If something isn't even wrong, what neutral information can even be posted in response?
overeating at night is the hardest part of losing weight .

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2018/01/19/Evening-may-be-mo...

i have found this to be true for myself
I believe this one is downvoted for quoting Chat GPT. The other one is downvoted not so much for the claim about water molecule mass, but because of the combative tone and feeling that it is challenging established physics in a somewhat shallow way, most likely.
There should be simple OS level overrides on CSS. Not a user stylesheets or extensions or hard to find a browser flag, just a preferences window where even my mother could indicate “always show scrollbars in Windows style” or “all text should be at minimum 14 points”.
More like 40 years now! I have said ti for a very long time, Microsoft didn't innovate in technology, it innovated in sleazy business practices disguised as technology.

It is difficult to find some of the more awful practices nowadays but I was always amazed at just how far they would go, and a little impressed by the thinking, to undermine all opposition.

Microsoft is like an Alpaca, if they start getting friendly towards you, it means they are about to attack!
Which was of course the whole point of India Pale Ales. Chuck a load of hops in the beer, preserve it on a boat ride to India. Probably the hops aroma did diminish, but the beer didn’t go off.
My take on this specific example is that when a device is found to be leaking refrigerant, the owner, installer, and manufacturer should all be fined.
India threatened to shut down Twitter and raid employees homes, Jack Dorsey says
Spam from you?
Absolutely! I know there are designers out there, obsessing over every last detail. But I want an easy to navigate, consistent experience. I don't want to wave the mouse around hoping to find the easter-egg that is a link. Or the almost (or actually) invisible scroll bar. Or the "button" that looks just like text. There is an existing, consistent, simple look - divert from that and you're at risk of my going elsewhere because you've ignored the #1 reason to be a web page ... I don't use it because it looks great, I go there to do something, and do it easily.
When I did EPP work at a registry, we did both mutual TLS(mentioned in passing) and strict firewalling.

Apologies if I missed it, but were they testing from a trusted source, or are some registries that wide open?
Yep. This is true. Until we get a good old fashioned FDR style socialist government back, its stupid to think about US centrally funded public works in any dimension.

It was studiously neutral. But, the world is bigger than the USA and US patents leak into the world, which is a problem: other economies do it differently.

Drug patents are bad. The pragmatic good in the short term is that they got us the covid vaccine, and will get us malaria, and better flu shots and probably personalised cancer treatments. All of that should be nationalised, and made available worldwide for public good.

Fuck the shareholders.

(not you. you're just calling it as you see it. I'll say it again: you aren't wrong)

Software patents are both bad, and stupid.
In this case, what is the community? There are only tags.
Huh???

The SEC decides when, what, and for whom it enforces rules?
I think you can quite correctly substitute Flying Dog for Brew Dog in the "owner is an asswipe and I won't buy anything from him" stakes:

'BrewDog, the fast-expanding craft beer firm, has apologised to former employees who accused the company and its co-founder James Watt of fostering a “culture of fear” in which workers were bullied and “treated like objects”.' [0]

0: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/10/brewdog-sta...
Does it matter if you're running it in a VM just to play games? In any case, mydigitallife is a trustworthy source. They provide checksums and you can also check elsewhere to verify if you calculate the checksum. I've done this and every ISO I downloaded through MDL was identical to the original ISOs. They used to just link to the originals on Microsoft's servers, but MS removed access to them years ago. So, thanks for that, MS. Moloch strikes again, I guess.
Wow man chill. Your aggression doesn’t belong here.
I think you're being misinformed by an out of context quote.

“Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this,” Trump says at one point, according to the transcript. “This was done by the military and given to me.”

Specifically in that excerpt Trump is referencing information about Milley leaking secret information. In the full context, Trump was saying to that reporter that Milley was the leaking plans to attack Iran. This was the "secret information", given to Trump confirming this by the Military.

Trump is claiming that Milley was the one that was leaking classified information of "Trumps plans" to attack Iran.
Trump had no such ambitions, but it was Milley that wanted such an attack to happen.

As president, it's part of his administration's record that he received that information from the Military. If he want to let the American Public know this information he has the constitutional authority to do so.

However, Milley has no authority to disclose secret military plans, and has committed a crime.
>Yeah, it's simple: fix the glaring problems in urban areas, and have people move there. If there's a housing shortage, build more housing. Fix the stupid zoning laws that prevents that. That's a lot easier than this ridiculous HSR ring idea.

And leave folks who live in rural areas to rot, without even a hope of revitalizing their communities? That seems both reductive and likely harmful.

Because the issue isn't just housing shortages in urban areas, it's also the decline of much of the US by flight from rural areas. Which has been the source of a great deal of the economic dissatisfaction in the US for many folks for a long time.

I'd point out that people who live in rural areas are humans too and, at least in the US, for the most part Americans, with just as much right to exist and thrive as anyone else.[0]

I'm not saying that you feel this way, but the sense I get from your response is: "I don't like rural areas or the people who live in them. In fact, I hope they all leave or die." If that's not what you're trying to say, my apologies -- although you might want to try to be more clear about what you're saying if you don't want to be perceived that way.

[0] I'd note that I was born, raised and have lived almost all of my life (and still do) in the most urban city in the US.
For control-freaks who think they are the second coming of WinAmp and like to micromanage every single aspect of user experience so that it conform to THE BRAND®™.
Ditto for most of Insta. All those travel pics and nonstop selfies
But I can almost guarantee the larger group of non-technical users will have never thought about the styling of their scrollbars for more than a few seconds.

I think you're saying that this means it doesn't matter, but it actually increases the importance of respecting the users choices. Anyone who has changed their scrollbar has done so because it's important enough to them to bother. They've put effort in. That means there is far more likely to be a good reason not to override their preferred styling.
Which is why Reddit got into its current predicament in the first place.

Profits may be optional (depending on the goals of the organization), but breakeven is mandatory.
Ask HN: Why wasn't HN replaced by r/Hacker News?
All the talk and controversy with reddit right now, why when reddit was one of the very first ycombinator startups and success stories when essentially the product was centralized forums was HN not quickly or at least in the first few years replaced by a subreddit. You would think it would be one of the first.
RTX 3090 isn't cheap, more than 1000GBP new, crikey!
It's not about being vendor agnostic, but being able to manage resources outside of AWS. in my use cases, our platform integrated GitHub, Auth0, AWS, kubernetes and so on. Everything managed via Pulumi, what would not be feasible if we were just on Cloudformation.

When trying to achieve a cloud agnostic approach, there are some other tools focused on that (such as serverless framework).
I sleep soundly knowing Mr Beast gives less than zero shits about my opinion.
Or you could also use the cloud provider's api from a real programming language, or generate terraform code from it.

After having tried Pulumi I felt it does not bring the claimed pros, you need to write code in a non-idiomatic way, and coming up with abstractions for the representation of the stuff you talk about takes more time than just write proper terraform, and perform proper thorough reviews, which also facilitate knowledge sharing in the organization.

Also then you'd have 3 layers as sources of bugs, instead of just one: your code (you tested it properly, didn't you! How much time saved as opposed to just doing proper reviews!), pulumi itself (has faced its bugs on such a simple task as setting up an aws lambda), and terraform it uses under the hood.

In my experience pulumi doesn't solve problems for the business, but lets engineers waste time and money on playing around with their NIH abstractions. We tried it, and dumped it, and went back to terraform, which just works.
Sure, and then they start to argue with you instead with the author. Not interested into that.
That's because all the web3 grifters jumped ship to AI when the future of crypto became clear.
Hardware matters most. No matter how clever there’s no storing such large parameter sets on an Intel 286 with 4MB RAM.

No matter how clever the programmer there’s no encoding GPT4 with that. It was the hardware constraints that required programmers to be clever to begin with. These days it’s much more “copy paste the math directly because our data set is so robust and our hardware and networks so performant clever low level hacks don’t matter.”

Especially at big tech where they’ve used their own AI to guide them; the ability to just ask an ML system to simplify math has existed for a few years now, we’ve all seen how clever outputs were set aside for safe linear hacking.

Truly clever work is occurring in more traditional sciences like chemistry and biology these days.
Was it skunky? ;)
It's not that Python is bad. It's the people who want to just hack something quick together go to Python, so any time you pick up some software written in Python it's marred with all kinds of compatibility issues and bugs where you can't just run it

The answer is "yeah use this other software to make it work in an isolated way because the whole ecosystem is actually broken" and that's somehow acceptable
This article seems to have a climate contradiction when it comes to "credits" versus "removal".

"carbon credits" are the most common, cheap, questionable credits from verifiers such as Verra and Gold Standard.

"CDR" is "carbon dioxide removal" which actively sucks and stores CO2 from the atmosphere. This is an emerging space pioneered in the private markets by companies such as Stripe, Microsoft and Shopify and the Frontier fund.

This article mentions "CDR credits" (and is on a website "carboncredits.com") and the partner Aspiration is slim on the details on their website.

As far as I can gather, Meta has purchased 7M of traditional, nature (i.e. planting trees) "carbon credits" and the role of Aspiration is to use "satellite imagery", "AI" and measurements to monitor the progress of this growth.

It is worth noting that Meta is also a participant in the Frontier CDR fund that is helping stimulate the negative emissions market.

My two cents on this: I think nature based solutions have an important role to play in restoring ecosystems and sequestering carbon. However I'm skeptical of the need to invest so much in the monitoring & verification of the vegetation growth. It feels this is mostly for companies to feel they are getting something for their money rather than trusting organisations to help nature. Instead it would be a better use to turn these technological monitoring solutions on to finding deforestation and ecological damage to limit that.
Michael Tsai – Core Rot at Apple (2013)
We've banned this account for crossing into personal attack. That's not allowed here. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
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Personally, I think what you guys are doing is awesome.

The problem I have with carbon credits is that it's just as easy for you to take the refrigerant and just release it into the atmosphere. Or you could just take the carbon credits and no do anything. Or you make some honest effort for half the credits, but then not do anything for half of the other credits you sell.

Who audits you? Who regulates your carbon credits?

Or carbon credits can more like a rent rather than a more permanent solution: "We'll pay the farmers to not burn these acres of the amazon rain forest for another year." What happens when the farmers want 10x more money next year? Are you going to pay them?
The ingredients you need for training a useful machine learning model are expressivity, learnability, and generalization. Many methods are universal approximators but that only takes care of the first ingredient. Arguably the reason neural networks are so successful is that they can offer a good balance between the three.

Before transformers we built different neural network architectures for each domain. These architectures offered better inductive biases for their respective domains and thus traded off some of the expressivity for better learnability and generalization.

Nowadays the best architectures seem to be merging towards transformers. They appear to offer more generally useful inductive biases and thus a better trade-off between the three ingredients than the earlier architectures.
One caveat: the issue is not that someone does "philanthropy" wrong, as if they could also do it right, the issue is that a society hoping for, needing large-scale/impactful philanthropy is fundamentally unstable. In harsher words: philanthropy is a scam [1].

Instead of having a system able to detect it's pain points and be able to self-heal, our current system "solves" issues by borrowing/stealing from the future: from printing money with the velocity of an unleashed spam bot to using finite resources (wood and steel, but also energy, time, attention, expertise) to build ridiculous boats for a few billionaires.

Also, we have a better word than "large-scale/impactful philanthropy": the state. And yes, there has been and there is no state in the world, beyond all the branding and the flags of the nation-states, mainly because we are unable to solve the tragedy of the commons [2], because perhaps in order to solve it we need to develop a natura naturans [3]: how does one build a god? Because, effectively, that's what a system able to care about everyone and everything becomes.

[1] https://jacobin.com/2021/10/philanthropy-is-a-scam

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

[3] <https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza/#:~:text=This%20i...>
Programming.dev
Lensed supernova could shed light on fundamental forces shaping Universe
Good thing CSS is client side!
ToTK makes BotW look like like an early developer build. While the base of the map is the same, they expanded it WAY beyond anything reasonable for an expansion pack. They have an below ground map that is the same size as the rest of hyrule and it is basically done just as a bonus to the rest of the title.
Yeah stable diffusion has a stage before generation where it transforms the text prompt into data for the model to use, called CLIP Encoding, it runs before every generation, and its probably the stage in the video where you see a spinner in place of the step bar.
> We have a long way to go before we can par ourselves on the back and claim to truly understand what’s going on.

This is a misconception of scientific endeavour in general and of physics in particular. All models are approximations of reality. We have a theory that is consistent with experimental observations, then we make observations with which the theory is not consistent anymore and we develop a new theory that explains those new observations as well, and so on. We will never have an "exact" model, whatever that even means. But we have models that have limitations that are far beyond what's relevant for most people's life.

At many points in time, we could pat ourselves on the back. The heliocentric model. Newtons model. General Relativity. The Standard Model. All these models were important steps forward and led us to where we are today, which is absolutely astonishing. No, we don't have a full theory explaining everything, but we never will.
I applaud upur efforts, and hope it catches on!

However, the current top post is NSFW and the preview is rendering in the timeline, that would be something to change so folks can safely browse on the job.
Like Java applets or Silverligt? The problem with those formats is they are black boxes - you can't link or search or anything which makes the web accessible and interconnected. They are more like apps than the web.
> I hate articles like this because they present highly opinionated solutions as something definite even though it has a narrow focus on what the author cares about.

Whatever the author says about custom scrollbars isn't going to stop CSS-Tricks from styling their scrollbar. The article is perfectly fine because programmers are free to ignore it, and if this article convinces even one programmer to switch from a custom scrollbar to a non-customized scrollbar it's likely they never needed it anyway.
What a coincidence: I was literally doing this today.

I used this:

https://archive.org/details/WinXPProSP3x86

It was linked from one of those college subdomains; I’ll try editing that link in a few since it had a different serial
At least the name isn't horrid like all the other reddit clones. I have hope for this one.

Use reactions instead of up/down votes and don't allow negative reactions for people who don't leave a corresponding comment. That will make karma farming and other bad behavior more tolerable. Just my $0.2