skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Participating in society requires you to use the tools that 90% of people use. In the past you could live by being paid in cash, buying things locally, etc.

You still had issues, if the local butcher decided to ban you then you were going to be vegetarian. If the church said you were awful (perhaps in retaliation to you seeing the priest doing something) then you'd basically have to move, you could no longer participate in society.

Society has reconfigured itself away from that. The problem now is you can't even move. If a couple of big corporations ban you, you're screwed. You will struggle to sell your services when 95% of people want to buy your products on amazon and pay by credit card.

The solution here is to have due process and appeals. The impact of amazon or whatsapp blocking you is far more on you than on them, just like the butcher banning you in the past. There's just less comeback, you can't even talk to a person on the phone, let alone face to face. You can't appeal to the rest of the village (well you can, people post on HN or Twitter and get bans overturned, but that's a minority workflow and is far less successful than in the past)
That's hyperbole. I think it's closer to knowing that your spouse may leave you and expose your nudes to the world. It's still not a comforting thought, but there's no risk to your (or your project's) existence.
I also got thid sense when I started learning to program.

I moved towards ML later. I do no interaction with the web whatsoever other than a Flask web app once or twice a year for higher ups' pet projects.

I want to feel the joy of web again as a hobby and maybe side projects.

How do you think Phoenix will fit? I write programs in functional way and somewhat know Elixir.

Do you recommend me learning Phoenix?
The issue is that even after restoring a backup (in case it works!), the same brick happens again after one day
Displaying Sarcasam and Satire on the Web
Just a bit of Friday fun, I finally gave in to someone asking for a <sarcasam> tag and I threw in <satire> as well.
Question : can vortex cannons be used to create rain drop seeds?
No, アニメ is literally short for アニメーション. "Anime" is a loanword derived from アニメ with a different meaning than アニメ because it doesn't make sense to borrow a word for "animation" since there already exists one.
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/110/484/...

Nice laptop keyboard.
The only reason ibm(redhat) has to provide the source is because they provide the executable artifact the source generated.

If ibm(redhat) decides to not provide you an exactable artifact(perhaps they say they don't want to sell you a rhel licence), they don't have to provide the source that generated that artifact.

Its a stupid shitty way to behave but the gpl does not say you have to redistribute the source to every body(most people do because this is easier) only that you have to redistribute the source to people that get the binary.
VISPROG: Visual Programming for Compositional Visual Reasoning
Cory Doctorow, Chokepoint Capitalism. Specifically the remedies chapters, which are not based on personal actions but rather social and regulatory mechanisms.
Apparently he also said its a few hundred per month. So his energy bill is over $800?
There is hope for refom, back in mediaval times judicial system had many creative punishments
I’m switching and creating all my new projects at sourcehut. Nothing good ever comes out of Microsoft having dominance.
I think this is probably true, despite critical software being leaked, that seems related to manually inputting data to chatGPT: https://mashable.com/article/samsung-chatgpt-leak-details

there is no current reason to believe that copilot or ChatGPT are trained on private repositories; however this agreement does permit them to do so.

The concern is, why not? you have an enormous corpus of professional grade software just sitting there, one bit flip away from access; and you are even permitted (to the letter of the law) to flip that bit- why wouldn't you, eventually?
Presidential Monarch (that is a witty remark) means you get elected monarch, then there you have quite the power of a monarch, with little counter power, including now quite not having to deal with assemblée nationale (or just rarely). No other western democracy have such system giving that much power to one person. I think we can do better than this when it comes to democracy.

There are different election in France, including professional election, where you basically vote for a union that will represent you while you are not necessarily unionized.

Note that in 1789 our system would not be called a democracy, but a representative system. Note that Russia our Turkey have regular elections and a nice constitution. Of course I am not comparing France with those 2 countries, but it shows that election and a constitution elone are not enough, and that is the only thing you are mentioning.

France is not Russia of course, but I am often afraid in protest(being several time attacked by the police while peacefully demonstrating), and some of my friends did not joined me at some protest because of fear of the police. And we've seen negative change on how police handle protest under our last president (Hollande), but even more under Macron's rules. Germany, birthplace of Black Bloc, use less dangerous weapon and very different technique (based on deescalation).

About pressure against journalists, for sure we are not in Russia ! but there are regular alarming things... Twitter feed from Societe des journalistes or societe des Redacteur of mainstream newspaper can be a good source of information. Here just 3 random bits:
https://www.telerama.fr/debats-reportages/l-espionnage-des-j...
https://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2023/05/10/m...
https://rsf.org/fr/petition-les-citoyens-ont-le-droit-de-man...
Unity in recent years has a tendency to overengineer things and have little regard for ease of use for some features.

The new input system is powerful and flexible but is slower to learn and makes lots of things that used to be easy much harder.

Same for the new UI Toolkit and several other recent additions. I think it's a company culture thing - nobody internal is rooting for casual devs or noobs.

The problem is - everyone is a noob on something. You might be an incredibly experienced Unity dev who rarely touches input or UI. You want to quickly implement something and you're going to feel the pain.

"Make the easy things easy, and the hard things possible."
Amazon suspended a persons account because a Amazon delivery driver thought they heard a racist comment come from a video doorbell...

in reality it was a standard automated response that the customer happen record from another camera but they had to prove to amazon there was no racist comment made, and it took 1 or 2 weeks for them to unsuspend the account

During that time all of their Amazon Devices (echo, alexa automation, etc) were also non-functional
Maybe he considers his subscribers as family :^) Man, I’m really happy I have cancelled my prime and have non-amazon options for online shopping.
...but they will see some kind of mash-up, remixed, synthesized version of it that might be 99.9% similar so practically this means absolutely nothing.
> Well, that's because residual muscle twitch is not controlled and is not conscious

And because making sounds without lungs attached to your throat is kinda hard
I posted about this a week or so ago. Someone could come steal all of our "secret source" and still have absolutely no advantage over us. If the value of your business is entirely in the source code, you need to seriously re-investigate what exactly it is that you are doing. AAA gaming and Windows codebases have been leaked. In some cases partially, in others comprehensively. At no point do I recall Valve or Microsoft seeing adverse competition or other meaningful impact from this event. Legal teams were certainly up in arms, but in terms that investors would care about nothing really happens.

Turns out, you need more than source code to run a business. You need customers, markets & relationships. You need trust. You need a sales team. That's the real thing you should be worried about being stolen. Your goddamn sales team. Obviously the developers would be worried about the code base (and they should be) but at scale it's not the end of the world if some code gets out. Losing your best sales person & all their prospects would be much more catastrophic for your business.
Mirrors the justification for big software: most people use 20% of the features, but that 20% is different for different people.
It just seems like an unsustainable system that requires user opt-in on a platform where people go to actually avoid opting into anything and just watch videos.

The model doesn't have to be a blackbox either. Plenty of open-source models can summarize a video faster than any human can.
If you want an idea of what the plays sounded like at the time they were written, check out the work by David Crystal in his efforts to reconstruct Original Pronunciation (OP). There are YouTube videos of him and his son (Ben Crystal) talking about this and giving sample readings.

They can do this by several methods. You can compare rhymes in the works -- e.g. loved and proved rhymed. You can study what people at the time documenting pronunciation wrote. You can compare existing accents to uncover ways in which pronunciations of words have evolved and diverged. You can apply and reverse sound changes in the words, such as reversing effects of the Great Vowel Shift.

Doing this gives some interesting puns and plays on words that are not readily apparent when reading the plays with modern accents.

The OP accent has elements from other accents, as those have retained some of the historic qualities. For example, OP is a rhotic accent (the Rs are pronounced) which is a feature that is present in several modern accents like Scottish, American, and parts of England.
Is it still impossible to transfer domains from one Cloudflare registrar account to the other?
I think the point was not to show "there are a lot of helper functions" but rather to point out "the (undocumented) helper functions that exist are problematic"
Microservices Cost a Premium
Ask HN: Anyone integrating enterprise Outlook and Google Calendar?
I work in education part-time and am also a one man saas company. The education side uses enterprise Outlook with lots of restrictions on syncing etc. For my own work I use Google Calendar.

Has anyone solved the calendaring issue of combining Microsoft enterprise and Google calendars?

I am doing some naff workaround at the moment using Microsoft Flow to add events form Outlook to Google calendar. Not ideal at all.
I self host Gitea. Very reliable. Painless setup. I wish it had some sort of CI like github actions or bitbucket pipelines, but otherwise totally happy wit it.
I don’t know if that’s reassuring or worrying…
My dishwasher manual suggested using white vinegar as a rinse aid alternative. I thought it might make the dishes smell like vinegar but it's been fine.
Bitcoin currently uses ~ 131 TWh electricty per year. [1]

The world used ~ 176000 TWh of energy in 2021, now it's likely more. [2]

Now let's say all the Bitcoin mining equipment (ASICS, ..) require another 50 % of the continuous electricity consumption of mining to be produced (random guess, no source), that'd be another: 65.5 TWh/a

So according to this, Bitcoin uses less than: 196.5 / 176000 = 0.11 % of total worldwide energy consumption.

According to this graph [3] the energy sector makes up 73 % of global greenhouse gas emissions. The three sectors beneath "energy" there being: a industry (coal/oil/gas), b transport (gasoline/diesel) and c buildings (heating oil/gas). All of these three mostly use fossil fuels as their energy inputs: coal, oil, gas, whereas bitcoin uses an electricity mix which has a non-negligible proportion of renewables in them.

So Bitcoin's climate footprint should be significantly smaller than 0.08 % of global emissions. That's less than 1/1200.

Now compare that to any of the stupid consumerism behavior we have in the rich parts of the world, where someone buys 100s of kgs of useless plastic crap each year, buys a stupidly over motorized pile of metal to drive around the block and show off, boosting their ego blowing exhaust into their fellow citizens' lungs and has a weekly barbecue session at their AC cooled suburban 1000s of sqft home.

These uses of energy add up to 100s more emissions than Bitcoin.

Sure, not everyone thinks Bitcoin is useful.

But do I think all these stupid plastic collectors figures and all other plastic crap is useful? Hell no. And do I think that a Hummer or Landrover Defender or your standard US pickup truck is a useful/reasonable vehicle? Hell no.

While Bitcoin makes just a tiny dent in global emissions, this other useless stuff makes not a tiny but a huge dent in emissions.

You can criticise Bitcoin all you want for this and that, but if you're honestly trying to make a point and suggest where emissions can be reduced to help the climate and you then point to Bitcoin .. then you're obviously either falling for anti Bitcoin narratives or your thinking doesn't work all that well.

[1] https://ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitutio...

[3] https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector
I'm already using the "Clickbait remover for youtube" which replaces the thumbnail with a randomly selected one from the video. I'll give this a try, though. Plus, I recommend using SponsorBlock extension (skips sponsors, but also has a "skip to highlight" feature) and Youtube enhancer.
More like a happy marriage where your partner drugs your bedtime cocoa and then grates you feet with a cheese-grater for some reason that you really don't want to know.
For comparison, using Rust's Serde-Json library on my desktop (Intel 11700k, and with computer doing other things), benchmarked with Criterion:

Benchmarking json_read_struct: Collecting 100 samples in estimated 5.2012 s (81k iterations)
json_read_struct time: [64.126 µs 64.376 µs 64.660 µs]
change: [+0.2646% +0.7525% +1.2538%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
Change within noise threshold.
Found 7 outliers among 100 measurements (7.00%)
6 (6.00%) high mild
1 (1.00%) high severe

My benchmark code[0] takes advantage of knowing the shape of the data, and also knowing that I can avoid allocations for the strings so we're not measuring the allocator performance. With 64 microseconds per iteration, that comes out to about 15,600 parses per second.

[0] https://gist.github.com/Measter/acbae474ba8e1451946630da2a2c...
> Just get N people. Have the control group eat pot cooked popcorn and have the experimental group eat microwave

You can only control what people eat if you lock them up in a prison or similar institution.

These days locking up thousands of people and experimenting with their diet is not cool.

The best nutritional / food studies come from prisons and similar institutions.
You can still do that.
You just dont look at all the fancy pancy overengineered frameworks/platforms.
I run a solo business in which i need to do backend, frontend, db, networking, low level hardware, graphics, monetization and more.
I cannot be a specialist, but its still doable to understand all elements of various layers in software/hardware development. Again. Dont look at the hype stuff. Usually the people who are good at the hype stuff are super specialists in that specific thing. Not my thing at least.
I self-host gitea as a github backup just in case. It's pretty easy and well documented (it's a single executable and you can use sqlite for the database).
I don’t even care if it was a racist doorbell - shitty move by Amazon.
So we should forbid firefighter and farmer's union ? And all leftist union ? And we should forbid any protest where people using black block technique could agree with ?
He operates a business, so that's not surprising.
If you like the community driven fork of Gitea (which still upstreams to Gitea project) then you should check out https://forgejo.org

The fork was established at the time that Gitea got entepreneurial and founded Gitea Ltd. with plans for an enterprise version. https://codeberg.org used to run on Gitea, but switched to Forgejo, and Forgejo project is hosted on Codeberg at https://codeberg.org/forgejo
Just be aware that sourcehut is Opinionated and some projects are unwelcome there (eg: even vaguely cryptocurrency related code)
"We" would be roughly the members of NATO and its allies, former colonial powers and the countries traditionally within the sphere of Catholic influence.

Where are they sailing to that this doesn't cover? The recent example being spoken about in this thread was trying to make it to Italy, which has been involved in various conflicts in the middle east since the middle ages.
Thank you, very interesting. Is this across the whole language, or rather localized to some areas (geographic or other).

Also as a French walking in the street and saying Tuesday and choose day loud in the street, I got a few curious stares :)
The HLH Orion [1] had a GUI that was a copy of the Macintosh one, it kept the appearance as well as the API.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLH_Orion
Because of the "we good, they bad" mentality. We are saints, right?
Species without mitochondria might have evolved from escaped jellyfish cancer
Damn Apple. Macs have no single drawback except repairability, not even vendor lock-in (you can flash Asahi). That’s it. I’m going for a Mac except the Framework I previously planned for. Single digit battery life shouldn’t be thing in 2023.
Erlang’s cluster spawn + a unikernel model would be a match made in heaven.
In French you also have a closer "diurne" - "that happens during the day".
Xboxcel
Add some sugar to the oil and skip the butter. So goooood!
> Your individual personal or repository data will not be shared with third parties.

OpenAI is a third party..?
So, are we all just ignoring the fact that the new app router is twice as slow, compared to the old pages router? [0][1]

Yet it'll replace pages router in the near future, seems like a risky situation to be in as a pages router fan.

The folder structure is also very 'angular' and opinionated. It has started to disappoint me that Next.js is becoming too opinionated as time goes on and the 'new' things are nothing but worse in performance and DX. The pages folder structure was awesome, easy to understand and manage. Now it's all just 10s of page.tsx files in your editor.

I used to love Next.js, I still do but I'm not sure if I will in the near future.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q2q2gs0nAI

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hr_y1hIdZHs&t=644s
This reads like someone’s boss drunkenly told the author to “just tell them no human eyes will read it, har har.” The author then just phoned it in.
similarly, a few days ago I was working on a project with a couple of people and I had our meeting notes in a Google Doc. I went to share the doc with the people and was told that it wouldn't be possible due to "inappropriate content". after a quick scan of the text I realised that it was because the notes contained the word "imagery" - in relation to a logo. once removed, the problem went away, but it's disgusting to me that not only has Google given themselves the right to scan your documents for information, not only have they appointed themselves as moral arbiters of your work, they haven't even done it very fucking well. I'm guessing their filters have some kind of reference to "pornographic imagery" or something similar, and this has somehow meant that just the word "imagery" flags up as inappropriate

luckily I found the issue quite quickly, and the meeting wasn't held up, but how likely is it now that there's a flag against my account? what if it happens again? this just makes me want to use any alternative possible to Google's ecosystem
Ignore the snark from the sibling comments.

You have to study the grain. Most kernels have a left to right grain, and they will pop between 140-150C, because the cell structure of the skin is weak in several places. A relatively rare genetic mutation leads to around 1-2% of kernels having a right to left grain, and because of this orientation the skin is actually more robust in the typical popping spots, meaning that temperatures as high as 450C are required to pop these! That's why they typically will remain unpopped when cooking popcorn in this legacy manner.

To detect the right-to-left kernels, you can actually use a UV flashlight - you will see that they have a softer glow compared to the bright left to right kernels.

Hope that helps!
>Luxury/mid-size SUVs seem to be quite popular on both continents.

Not the same ones.
The whole article smells like bad science. Just looking at the first plot, you can immediately see something is off. LOESS CIs are a bit tricky, but here either the model is completely wrong or the CI calculation is. So the trend is definitely not as significant as they make it out to be. A realistic 95% CI would look like this: https://james-brennan.github.io/img/lowess1_22_1.png
Sea Level Through a Porthole
Digital Avatars and Our Refusal to Die
If you use a free service, you're the product.
In the Netherlands huge American pickups are very popular. I guess thats a relative good overlap.
Update All Your Apple Devices ASAP
I am agreeing and adding another solution.

The other solution is political. There's a reason that governments regulate and define economic rules of the road. This is a good example of where governments need to step in. The link between generative AI and the data it is trained on needs to be carefully thought through and properly handled especially given the capitalist nature of our economy.
From word models to world models
I'm building LLM-based tools fulltime now, and one of the techniques that works wonderfully is to check the LLM output with LLM itself: asking it to figure out if the output actually follows the guidelines you've set. And if it doesn't, send the response back with the error message (or messages, nobody limits you to just one check) — it's quite good at correcting mistakes!

What's awesome here, is that you often have to use the most advanced LLM available for generation (GPT-4), but you can use much simpler models to categorise the answer!
Awesome work, looking try this out!
James Cameron was quite interesting on the similarities between the original Titanic disaster where the captain was warned about icebergs but said nah and went ahead and crashed, and this time where the guy was similarly warned.

(in the vid https://abcnews.go.com/US/james-cameron-compares-submersible... about 3 mins in)

I guess it's in the spirit of the Titanic to kill your passengers doing dumb stuff.
It would be billions more to:

1. Clean up PFAS from riverbeds and groundwater sediment.

2. Add PFAS cleaning stages in all water treatment systems across the globe.

At 12.5B, they are just paying up the people that can prove they now have cancer because of ridiculous exposure levels.

At 12.5B this is just the cost of doing business for Chem industry.
Yes but the issue is that there is no thread about this ship and the many hundreds who are routinely dying are never brought up. The only time I see it mentioned in the media or in parliament is when we're discussing how we can keep them further away and shed our responsibility to them.

At the same time we're being asked to support tax money going to search for these 5 risk tourists and being accused of ignoring their humanity when we simply point out the utter stupidity and greediness of their escapade.
I meant USSR, not SSCB. SSCB is Turkish abbreviation.