skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the feedback loop wouldn't make the models smarter than us, but training data would. I can see how with more computing power we will be able to feed it the whole of YouTube, Spotify and perhaps also millions of physics experiments.

With this data, perhaps a model will be able to understand the hidden patterns of the world (e.g. physics equations governing reality) better than us, don't you think?
How was working in Iced? It looks like you did a lot of the work just this month
I have never been able to "bowl legitimately."

I've had holes drilled into multiple balls which were supposed to allow me to bowl comfortably with thumb inserted. I always ended up taking my thumb out of the ball and palm it instead, with my hand positioned in the opposite direction from normal. My latest ball is a bit lighter than the average one... 13 pounds... and there are only two holes which are drilled slightly deeper than normal. I don't know how many RPMs I'm putting on it, but it's definitely spinning faster than most people I've bowled with. After having watched a video, this guy looks to be doing much the same thing except he's stabilizing the ball with his other hand.

I learned to bowl this way from a friend of mine over 25 years ago and it's been a favorite ever since. My mom was a member of a bowling league at one point and I absolutely wore out her 11 pound ball when she stopped playing competitively.
I will let all of you look for #nanterre on Twitter and see for yourself if what is happening is "riots" or not. :)
> Choosing not to drink or do drugs (or whatever) is a-okay.

It should be. But people tend to get real defensive around teetotalers, maybe because many of them are judgy and preachy because they don't drink for religious reasons.

It seems to me that in western cultures, ex-drinkers get a lot more respect than never-drinkers.
They've become increasingly hostile about ads in general. I sometimes watch youtube on my TV via Roku, which sadly doesn't have ad blockers, and there's been a noticeable rise in long ads that can't be skipped. It's pretty routine now to get 30s long ads that are unskippable, and just a few days ago I got one that was nearly 90s.
This is Iced, not Tauri.
Yeah, it's been a productive month. Once you get hooked it's hard to stop.
Sure but the country is not a war zone. At the moment, actual physical violence is mostly limited to fights between young protesters and the police in some suburbs. It's the usual misguided answer to a sadly very real issue except it's harder to reason with kids.
Hah, I forgot about administrative bloat, and I wholeheartedly agree. People in upper management in various organizations seem to have disproportionate incomes to their value. It doesn't help that there's a power imbalance and, often, a lack of understanding.
> Debian LTS only has 5 years of support, without guarantees, on a volunteer basis.

Seems like there's plenty of volunteering in the CentOS fork community. Why not put that wood behind Debian LTS arrow? Seems like a much better idea than continue trying to build on an unreliable partner like Red Hat.
Yes I use Seek. It's primarily just iNaturalist's identification AI with a tiny bit of gamification. Badges are cute but it doesn't really go past "observe 10 bird species", "observe 100 bird species", "observe 1,000 bird species", etc. There's monthly challenges too but they're usually just "observe 10 [herbivores|parasitic plants|species in protected areas|etc]". Don't get me wrong I love the app and everything iNaturalist is doing but it's not a full-featured game by any means
I got it now ... rip twitter

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23779764/twitter-blocks-u...
Zlib is still live btw
This reminded me of the full body keyboard controller someone else shared a few weeks back...

My ideas for body games are growing

https://github.com/everythingishacked/Semaphore
Thanks for posting my story. It was an interesting talk.
> He published this immediately after the 9/11 attacks to promote lisp as a solution for similar terrorist attacks.

lol? No, he doesn't promote lisp as a solution to similar terrorist attacks...
With the amount of aspirin and ibuprofen that is sold, I would love to see a similar story on how much folks pop standard pain medications. I'm always baffled at the impressively large sizes those bottles come in. And since I don't know the shelf life of them, I'm very doubtful that the bottle I bought a decade ago is the one i should still be using. (I'm not doubtful enough to care when I have a bad headache, of course...)
Thanks for posting my story!
I stand corrected! I looked at photos and specs and completely missed it yesterday! Thx
same with book publishing, in a previous cycle. Book publishing is in the cancer treatment center here in the USA.
Thanks for posting my story.
Jovenlandia as they say in Spain
You can't possibly take too many photos or videos... children look different every few days at first, and every week or so for a few years.

Peek a boo is irrationally fun, enjoy it. I watch old video I made of it, and it still makes me irrationally happy.
His prediction was 300 years. Anyway I don't think it's until recently where we've really started voting ourselves money straight from the treasury. Time will tell whether that's sustainable.
My advice is to stop watching CNews and go outside.
That's not a good way to predict how maintainable software is.

I've seen plenty of "software that I _want_ to maintain and _will_ maintain" that is complete shit from a maintainability point of view.

I've seen one-offs left by a consultant that are pretty amazing.

The main difference in both cases was that more experienced developers made better and simpler code.
32-bit computer made in Terraria can play Pong and run Linux
I have seen people playing it on the bus twice in the past week!
A lot of the sensitive suburbs (amusing French euphemism) as well as university domains built after 1968 are designed so that entrance and egress can be hindered during riots. A car might not help, depending on where you are.
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1381671922/3d-books-on-shelv...

I’d guess it’s this. I think you can colour it yourself after you hang it.
> it illustrates what Google intends to do (stop providing the service via an anti-adblocker script) if you do not follow their TOS.

Yes. They have complete discretion over what 'list of "things" and their URLs required to render a page' they decide to send any particular user agent (modulo copyright infringement, hate speech laws, etc.). There is no requirement that HTTP connections to 'youtube.com' should receive video data; or even HTML; or even that anything's listening on that port.
Excellent follow-up. Well said!
I've written a number of comments here about how I didn't like the policy at issue here, but I think this is also right.
I looked at it recently out of curiosity, and my home page felt basically similar to always, but slower (the content was slower to come, not the site).

It also made me notice that I haven't seen content from any valuable sub in a while, and the entire home was cheap jokes.
Here's a free idea for you budding entrepreneurs: allow the user of a review site to apply their own custom weights to reviewers. If you discover a reviewer with good taste, weight their reviews more highly. And also be able to incorporate their weightings of other reviewers into your own -- if A thinks highly of B, then that raises your default weighting of B.
Forester project delivers bare metal remote provisioning to Fedora
It's a pay to win grindfest with little new content to keep people playing.
re: ebay

Buyers have had the option to pay directly with credit cards since 2008. Though (most of) the transactions were processed by paypal until 2020, they did not require an account. They've been adding more CC processors since 2015 and diversifying.

Sellers haven't needed a Paypal account since 2015. Though there were still many benefits to having one. Also, since 2020, ebay actually steers sellers into using other methods to receive funds.

Just thought I'd clarify because this change in 2015 finally made ebay usable to me both as a seller and a buyer and I wish someone had told me earlier.
The word Google has already been used as a noun, so we could slightly repurpose it and use it again.

E.g. “That Netflix show is fantastic but I wouldn’t bother starting it as it got Googled at the end of the first season.”

Or:

“Google’s new messaging service looks cool but I’m not going to get everyone to use it as I bet they’ll only go and Google it in about 18 months.”
"degree should matter less"

It already does. Large companies no longer require degrees. I think it started with EY

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/15/pwc-says-gr...
Concerts cancelled (Stade De France tonight), special units of police brought in, armored vehicules which we had never seen apart from actual war scenes, ... yeah, definitely no riots there.
I present you:

Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
4.23
1,099,069 ratings 99,154 reviews

It joined club of handful of books that I just stopped reading and threw into trash. Yet its 4.23 as of writing!

There are different tastes and likes, but that book is so poorly written and has such barebones plot... I don't know how it is popular
another summer in france
Dell XPS spec’d to meet the 15” MacBook Air requires the nicer screen which makes it $2,000, the screen is higher resolution than the MBA but it’s 100 nits less bright. MacBook Air is $1,700 after adding memory and storage to meet the XPS. The MBA is $300 cheaper for a laptop that is thinner, the same or better specs in almost every category, miles better better build quality (plastic trash vs aluminum) and actually has a network of stores throughout the world. So nowhere close to the 15” MBA, but I appreciate you trying.

The T15 isn’t available so I’ll look at the T16. The cheapest T16 is $1,570. The comparable MacBook Air is $1,500. The T16 has a 300 nits low resolution screen, slow DDR4 RAM (didn’t know they made RAM this slow these days), and is made of cheap plastic. And again, no worldwide network of stores to support your device.

So you’ve really failed to come anywhere close to the specs, build quality or support system of a MacBook. And this is without considering the huge advantages you get with Apple silicon over intel.
> This way they'll save money for traffic

If people leave because of this that cuts their costs to zero. What's their incentive not to do this ?
TV/Cable/Radio ads are regulated I think. You can't play more than some N minutes of Ads per hour of content.

But the fucking Internet ad world there doesn't seem any upper limit to how much of someone's time you can waste.
I wouldn't say that an Atom feed is an implementation of the "RSS concept." That muddies the water too much. Because RSS and Atom are distinct feed formats, calling an Atom feed "RSS" would confuse a lot of people.

Instead I'd say that Atom feeds and RSS feeds are each an implementation of the syndication concept.
HN readers massively overestimate the willingness of the average person to "fight the power" or whatever. When Netflix cracked down on password sharing, I was fully expecting people to realize how bad Netflix has become and to move on to other platforms. Everyone here thought they were shooting themselves in the foot. But no, the password sharing fix did exactly what they wanted it to do, and subscriptions actually increased. The truth is that no one but a couple of techies know or care what NewPipe or yt-dl are. This move by YouTube will work and there's not really anything we can do about it.
Begrudgingly upvoted!
That's wild, if true. I mean I pay about 11 USD/month for my Youtube premium, but 2 dollars sounds insane. And I think youtube music is included in that.
>I don't know of any popular game that didn't have DRM and didn't have very strict IP implications on fan content (say, after the early 90s maybe?). It's not like the teams behind the original DOTA or CS or TF ever made money selling those, and would have likely been blocked even if they tried.

Warcraft 3 (2002, 2003) was infamously lax on IP, leading to e.g. several big DotA clones that employed the modders (Dota2 for Icefrog, LoL for Guinsoo) and legal disputes on who owned which properties [1][2]. Blizzard revised their EULA in 2020 to prevent similar cases. [3]

[1] https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91202572&pty=OPP&eno...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/05/does-valve-really-own...

[3] https://dotesports.com/general/news/warcraft-iii-reforgeds-u...
The courses were taken, the education was received. This would just transfer the cost of already provided services to the general taxpayer. It would make nobody more educated as a result.
>reduce innovation

Maybe the real innovation that we need is how to create companies that are designed to operate indefinitely as a going concern, breaking even or turning a profit without the need for an "exit" event.

Let's work on business fundamentals that aren't three financial engineering schemes in a trenchcoat, for once.
My guess is they did it intentionally and will lift the login-wall after 1-2 days to see how many people were desperate enough to create an account. As a quick and dirty way to boost registered users.

Or it is a legitimate glitch (highly unlikely). Or they lost their minds.
> The Supreme Court can I guess try to go case-by-case banning metrics. This stupid whack-a-mole game will look pathetic on their part and burn up whatever tiny bit of institutional legitimacy they have left, but at least they’ll probably fail.

Conservatives aren't stupid enough to think they can and should solve all problems via judicial fiat, which is about as divisive, autocratic, and undemocratic as it gets. But, conservatives also know that there's been decades of terrible jurisprudence to undo, many of it done by activist judges. In particular, yesterday's ruling on affirmative action undid California Board of Regents Versus Bakki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regents_of_the_University_of_C...).

While the ruling actually declared that racial quotas violated the equal protection clause of the constitution, it simultaneously opened a massive back door to enable effective racial quotas in the name of "diversity". All universities had to do was prove a "compelling interest" in having diversity and they could continue factoring race into the admissions process. This ruling, among other things, inspired the "critical mass" argument, stating that to get the diversity benefit you have to have enough of each racial group: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/151579503.pdf

What's the difference between requiring a critical mass and having racial quotes? Well, not much in practice! In another bit of terrible jurisprudence, the court upheld the critical mass argument as late as 2015: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/14-981

Unfortunately, our courts have made a lot of bad rulings in the past, and it's far past time they got undone or reworked.
The average consumer's experience of the Internet would be drastically altered if Google didn't exist. From the functional standpoint of a user, Google is internet infrastructure. Whether it's a utility or not is a different question, but I argue that it is definitely internet infrastructure since people's life and usage of the web would very disrupted without Google. It may end up replaced, like the phone was. That's not relevant as to whether people use and rely on it like infrastructure.
Could probably find it in Google but I think there was a study that show Harvard (and some other similar universities) do offer an advantage in that it's the only way many people from disadvantaged backgrounds can mingle with people with connections, opportunities, etc.,. There's no educational advantage necessarily, but the same students going to a state school for example aren't going to be exposed to the same level of access to upwards mobility. People that are born into families with that access however, experience no additional advantage since they were already essentially born with it.
lmk when is the next funeral for a bus and I'll be there.
> Man, I wish I still knew people on IRC

IRC is still alive. I still know people on IRC. Most opensource channels have thriving communities on IRC with 100s of regulars logged into the channels everyday. The people I knew in the IRC world in 2010 are still very much there in 2023. The only big change has been that all of us moved away from Freenode over to Libera after the Freenode takeover. And everyone has become older and more mellow and more friendly to beginners.

If you've been away from IRC recently, I urge you to get back to Libera chat network and see for yourself. The IRC world is much better now than it was before.
Our old house had problems. When we listed it, the best prospect thought we were stupid not honest, so he kept trying to get us to lower the price when inspection turned something up. In retrospect maybe a picture with the proverbial roof on fire might have been a good idea.

Here's the thing about getting a house loan: If you try to buy a house for too far under or over market value and can't explain why it's that far under market value, it sets off all sorts of red flags for lenders. Before we bought that house we passed on another because it was a unicorn in its neighborhood and our agent was having a terrible time coming up with documentation of comparable listings in a reasonable distance from the house. And then I discovered water damage and we bailed.

If you buy it for 15% under market and have a bunch of inspections that say why, that's less of a problem.
Today will be the last day for me on Reddit (since I use it exclusively through Apollo); I mean, I may stumble upon it through Google searches on desktop every now and then, but I have no intention of installing their app on my phone.

I hope Reddit dies, they deserve to - also hope the communities find a consensus on an alternative to move to.
I've been tempted to start foor gifts. Family buy me books for Xmas and having a big list of what i already own would make that easier.
Data Falsificada (Part 4): “Forgetting the Words”
Turned out gorgeous. Do you remember the original prompt?
Driving a car is pretty miserable in the high density areas these types of riots happen in anyway. As a person who values that kind of independence, I choose to live further out in the country.
The NBA one could be fun!

Imagine having to search around for public basketball hoops and film yourself shooting threes.
Ex1 is just excepting low-entropy packets (distribution of 1s and 0s tends toward the mean for high-entropy data). Encrypted data presents as high-entropy. This is a crude method (errs on the side of not excepting) but is very efficient for embedded hardware to compute.

Ex2-4 are just excepting ASCII text, which is used by many unencrypted protocols (e.g. IMAP), but which are high enough entropy that they statistically will fail the first test often.

Ex5 is necessary because TLS is high-entropy (by nature of being encrypted). HTTP is also excepted presumably so e.g. compressed uploads (e.g. images/video) aren't flagged.

That "low entropy" is the key to bypassing the GFW isn't surprising at all -- high entropy is all but a necessary feature of most cryptography schemes. (I say "all but" because -- encryption isn't adding information, so unless you compress before you encrypt, it's possible for a (hypothetical) encryption scheme to preserve entropy, according to several objective metrics. I don't know of any that do this, beside the meta scheme of compression before encrypting, followed by steganographically padding the encrypted data afterward. This of course leaks some information through the encryption -- equal to the negentropy of the message -- but it would typically be information that can't be gleaned from context, e.g. that the message is HTML+text.)

So... base64-encode your TLS?
Here's a much simpler approach: use the Brave browser on iOS and use the YouTube website.

It blocks all YouTube ads, allows background playback and picture-in-picture, etc.

You also get all of your regular YouTube features, like recommendations, etc.

I haven't used the official YouTube app since.
> I was using CentOS for prototype development. No way would I be able to get RHEL for this.

Why doesn't the free RHEL developer subscription work for this use case? (Honestly curious, as I use it for similar prototype development and want to make sure I'm not missing something).
3 a day seems like a reasonable threshold for heavy drinking. That's a lot. I'm pretty amazed that 50% are heavy drinkers. Not sure why there's a max in this range though; they should have just said 3 or more.

Some of your other concerns have more to do with this article's representation of the survey than the survey itself: https://apn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/APN-Tech-Execs-Mi...
If nostalgia is as powerful as you say, why are new sonic games so unpopular?
Also, I loved BOTW, but I never played any Zelda games as a kid.
"A person belonging to one or more Order is just as likely to carry a flag of the counter-establishment as the flag of the establishment-- just as long as it is a flag." - Principia Discordia
I have lists of books I want to read. And books I'm "reading", which actually means have them on hand and ready to go and or actually reading them.

As a natural feature of clearing out those lists when I finish a book, you create a book read list. I don't have much use for this but it is interesting to review the stats on say author nationality.
I always heard such good things about Quebec City. Quality of life looks excellent. Thanks for sharing the housing price update. It sounds pretty good. As I recall, there are a bunch of good tech jobs there also due to UniSoft and friends.
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Not GP, but https://fourminutebooks.com comes to mind. It's also just incredibly useful to get a "4 minute precis" and decide whether or not it's worth it to you to spend more time on that book.
Bill n°1266, aiming to establish a digital age of majority
https://www-assemblee--nationale-fr.translate.goog/dyn/docs/...
Unfortunately, European is not a language. But the mindset of socialist healthcare is distinctly European. That’s what this discussion is about, all pedantry aside.

The “European” model varies from country to country, sure. But the overall mindset behind it does not.
I tried a few. OneNote was good for notes but not for art. None of them felt as good as their iPad counterparts, plus I had to deal with Windows.
The success of smartphone AR games seems almost entirely dependent on the IP they are designed around. Pokemon seems perfectly suited towards the model and I struggle to think of any other franchise that has enough going for it to be an engaging AR game. Although plenty of other IP's have tried to make their own Pokemon Go.
It's not freeloading when the alternative is psychological damage.
Most of the time people who complain about being censored are saying something very pedestrian that we've heard over and over again. (Like "A trans woman is not a woman and it is so terrible that nobody is saying that")

I was thinking of making a Twitter clone called "Me too" where you could press "Me too" whenever you wanted to signify your membership in a tribe as it seems a lot of the people who think they are being censored are really out to do just that.
It's definitely still quite popular. I see others on the bus playing it a few times a week.
Technically, but one does not exist without the other in its current implementation. Hence the continuation shortly as this forgiveness was struck down.
it's been about mindshare for awhile now, you just mentioned <brand> so you're inadvertently advertising for them for free on hn
I wonder how many subscribers watch YouTube on a smart TV? That's solely the reason I subscribe myself as I can't install an ad blocker there and as far as I know things like pi-hole cant block ads in Smart TV streams either.