skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am very interested in octopuses as amazing creatures, and I think that octopuses missed the opportunity to become higher creatures like humans at some point in the evolutionary path, because everything has more evolutionary possibilities in the initial stage, and when it evolves to a certain extent, it can only offset the decrease in its existence by enhancing its own properties.
Because most American holidays signify something important beyond a day off. Symbols matter to people.

Also, having coordinated time off makes it easier for people to actually reliably take that time off in practice. Which is important for holidays like Thanksgiving which involves travel and groups of people getting together.
Back when I was in college Paperspace was kind enough to give us a few thousand in compute credits for our research project around autonomous driving to help with training costs. Glad to see the success!
I don't know that former government officials are the same level of problem that demands from (then) current government officials are.

For example:

> We released a list of 354 names Maine Senate Angus King wanted taken down for reasons like “Rand Paul visit excitement,” “followed by [former Republican opponent Eric] Brakey,” and my personal favorite, “mentions immigration.” For balance we also released a letter from a Republican official at the State Department, Mark Lenzi, who tells Twitter about 14 real Americans “you may want to look into and delete.”

https://www.racket.news/p/capsule-summaries-of-all-twitter

This behavior clearly violates the First Amendment.
The National Archives Beta
"and I've never met any dead people either"
Plane ticket prices go up around public holidays. When taking a vocation one may choose dates when ticket prices are affordable.
I have no problema with the riffing argument they have.

I do weekly updates yo muy library finding new albums and bands all the time that are just forgettable "guitar-noise".

Metal has come through some dark periods where every new band seemed like a rip-off of another well established band, and for some, innovating in metal is just making noise.

Some of it is quite creative, actually, like Igorrr, but other Like Z&A is too varied.

Sometimes it annoys me not finding some pseudo-metal band I discover but I don't have a grudge with them even though I've been called out for being a corpse meddler in the forums (reviving very old posts).

There's another database, Spirit of Metal, I think, that isn't that picky. But for what MA is, I salute their stand, especially through times where we might see Miley Cyrus or any other pseudo-artist identify as a metal act and to be "included".
Ask HN: How can tech people believe we can unplug a sophisticated AI?
This is such a naive take I am astonished it's a very common answer in the threads. OK like there is software you can download right now form the dark web, hack loads of laptops and copy any code you like there. It's so trivial that you cannot shutdown a system that it boggles me. Even Marc Andersen claimed that although you can easily see he has alterior motives invested billions in the tech.

It's like a movie scene where top scientists from AI labs are working to solve the alignment problem and Jeff Bridges knocks on the door and says "hey guys, have you thought about unplugging the damn thing"?
Fastmail 30 June outage post-mortem
Imagine not being "satisfied" with a ~85th percentile wage[1]. Anyone who earns more than $150k/yr should be forced to spend 6 months every 5 years working a minimum wage retail job. They can keep earning their normal salary in escrow until they're done with their "get some damn perspective" temp job.

[1] https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-household-income-percen...
I have always called this mood lonely exploration, or melancholic curiosity. It has liminal qualities in that you feel between encounters or between spaces of meaning.

It sounds bad but indeed, early NMS did feel kind of meaningless, which as you said had a certain poetic quality.

Melancholic curiosity, or loneley exploration, are two things I am trying to capture in games I make. There is a game called Infra that I highly recommend if you enjoy that mood, and city infrastructure.
If you want to succeed in consumer electronics (or consumer anything), you need a great product AND great marketing. There are plenty of examples of failed consoles that lacked one or both.

For example: The Turbografx-16 was a pretty nice system with awesome games that did well in Japan but had next to no presence in the US. Very few people owned one as their only system, so it was mostly bought by video game aficionados who had to have every system. (And I guess reviewers for video game magazines.)

The 3DO by contrast had great marketing (lots of commercials, ads in every magazine) but had expensive, lackluster hardware and only a few decent titles. Although to be fair it had higher ambitions than just being a video game console, so that identity crisis was one of its major struggles.
Did it ever occur to you that maybe your one-day-adult son would object to Facebook having a bunch of his biometric data (facial recognition, etc) without his consent?
I would disagree with that. Courts in the last 100 years have been more than happy to let government come to private arrangements where they "self" censor in exchange for not being targeted. Just look at things like TV networks refusing to show married couples in the same bed or recent treatment of Pornhub in some states.

Maybe it's true for individual speech in the limited sense of them just speaking (not broadcasting)?
Does there exist a medium between host moderators and user moderation the makes this work?

Wikipedia is self moderated and there are well moderated Reddits. The host of the ActivityPub site doesn’t have to do all the moderation, and there doesn’t seem to be a reason that users themselves couldn’t “mute” troublesome posters from their own feeds, right?
Well, what is your goal?

Sure, healthy and happy chickens are nice, but if you are into industrial farming and your goal is to make money, you will make their life as miserable as necessary to extract profit. You don't care if they are barely alive as long as the health standards are met.

It's not about you being happy as an individual, it's about the company making money. If your lawyers and sales are good enough to build a captive market of miserable customers, your company can still make a ton of money and be very successful.
Holidays are already tiered - I've never worked anywhere nor know anyone who worked at a non-governmental business who got EVERY federal holiday off. Very few people get Washington's Birthday, Columbus Day, or MLK jr. Day off.

I've also noticed that, again, for non-governmental businesses, the more holidays you get off the less vacation time you get.
Americans have quit quitting their jobs
yeah. and not just "not professional". It's basically giving the finger to a whole bunch of (generally) lower-paid support staff answering phone calls from irate customers.
FBI seems schizophrenic at times, confirming and denying based on politics. Remember the e-mail server in 2016? First advising against criminal charges, only to open an investigation months later. Epstein was covered up and considered a conspiracy theory until it wasn't a few years later. Everything is politics today and the people in charge seem to have difficulties navigating in this context, and it's only getting worse.
https://coredumped.dev/

Mostly Emacs and Rust, but anything I find interesting
Posting as a lover of the tool, but reflect.app is my new love-affair with note-taking. Evernote has been far too bloated for far too long. Reflect is an amazingly well built product with an awesome team behind it.
France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone
https://www.narendravardi.com/

Started a year back with the goal of writing one blog a week. Couldn't stick to it completely but have written nearly 50 articles.

Here's some of my favorites:

- https://www.narendravardi.com/next-layoff/ - How to prepare for your next layoff in India

- https://www.narendravardi.com/reaching-alone/ - Travelling to Paris all alone

- https://www.narendravardi.com/student-professional/ - Things I wish I had known before my first internship

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I said "with anti-capitalist opinions" not "is an anti-capitalist" or "anti-business" -- maybe I should have made it clearer: has some anti-capitalist opinions?

In any case, it's not meant as a slur but a compliment, in my case.
Are you perharps mixing up the Dreamcast and the Saturn? The Dreamcast had a fairly standard PowerVR GPU.
I think this is because all Americans implicitly know that the "paid" vacation will come out of their salaries. 20 days of paid vacation (double what the average American worker gets) would cost around $2,500 at the average hourly wage. We have decided to structure our economy such that most Americans need that money to survive, which makes added vacation untenable.
Noctis was a big deal to a small audience. The game and this story here remind me of outsider art, the term of respect for paintings and sculptures and the like made by non-traditional artists. It's a whole genre of art, well studied and represented.

We have outsider art in software too, like Noctis. Not just games: TempleOS is a well known example. I'd call Dwarf Fortress outsider art too, an unusually successful example that has had a lot of influence on mainstream games.
This does seem like a bit of a fishing article, but I'll bite.

I've personally been involved in 2-3 software projects where the immediate ramifications related to software quality and delivery led to project failure.

The idea that bad (or no) architecture and terrible code won't have business impacts is just wrong. Perhaps he was lucky, perhaps we have collective survivorship bias, but I strongly disagree on the main premise here.

In one case, some bad decisions related to API design and customer extensibility led to a product that was simply impossible to change or evolve. That company did some custom work for a few clients on a shared framework, but after ~5-8 customers, the product was basically unchangeable. Some of the customers left, but we still couldn't change it, and the result was pretty predictable.

That you can limp along with terrible practices doesn't mean that better practices wouldn't improve the situation.
Bug is ok, if you afford to crash every Mars rovers onto the surface, or fucked up every ignition moment and blow up every space shuttles, etc.

If you don't care about anything that you should be care about, of course nothing will be an issue.
If you're running multi-tenant Docker, you're doing something wrong to begin with. There are better solutions like Apptainer [0].

[0]: https://apptainer.org/
Also, a WSJ article suggested the point is that discovery needs to occur here before a judgment is made. [1]

Judge Doughty could have dismissed the case without an opportunity for discovery, as another judge did in another NCLA case, Changizi v. HHS, involving the same sort of censorship. Judge Doughty understood, however, that a largely secret censorship system can’t be evaluated under the First Amendment until after discovery.

[1] https://archive.is/GCWCr
No, it's not.

"Try to achieve small and local successes instead of pursuing an imaginary universal one."
> worrying about LLM's

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
Le deluge: a story about AI in two parts
My Evernote use peaked in 2013-2014, during a whirlwind postdoctoral fellowship. Man, I loved that thing. So simple and responsive. It was a real tool of thought, and I used it for everything. From then on, it got worse and worse every time I "upgraded", and I basically stopped using it since 2016 or so.

Yesterday I "upgraded" at its urging, against my better judgment, and was greeted with a lovely surprise: no local notes anymore. Only cloud sync. The justification for this was basically "less capability is actually good for users", phrased in more or less that way. It seemed like the developers were blinking torture at me.

Evernote was a big blackpill. My bitterest realization that technology doesn't necessarily progress, and many products are just trapped in a cycle of tragedy.
The original in this family of memes/content:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE39q-IKOzA

The channel has some of the best faceswapped AI video.
I used Paperspace to do daily quests in Age of Empires 2 on a holiday once, it worked great for that.
>just try to be present and experience whatever it is that's happening right now

I feel so conflicted by this.

I was decorating a cake for a birthday and I got 100% in the zone. Like "I became the icing". Probably 30-40 minutes went by and it felt like 5. I'm not sure if I was present, but I did good work and I felt content like nothing else.

But I can't say I was present, I almost don't even remember the thing happening.
Maybe, but the time and effort it takes to wade through the dark patterns when you want to cancel are expensive for everyone.
In education AI is the hottest topic ever. Mostly teachers think that it will spell the doom for any kind of home work. Which might very well be true.
> Do I really want the government in my bedroom

No, I want the government to regulate markets. As in, I want the government to do everything in its power to abolish the sex trade market and help people get out of the famously violent, dangerous and abusive field of prostitution.

> Didn't you start off by saying all people who buy sex are mentally ill and all people who sell sex have no agency of their own?

No, I said they need therapy (which would benefit most people, me and you included).
The fact that you are misrepresenting what I said and turning it into polemics is uncalled for and unproductive.

> You lead with slurs, what did you expect?

Nowhere did I use a slur. In fact, the only slurs dropped were by you, which I pointed out to you and now you become defensive.

Moreover, based on your outrage, it appears that you think that mental illness is something people (or right now: specifically me) use to denounce or otherwise degrade others.

Please look into how you are doing the actual thing (taking civil discussion off the table) you accuse others of doing.
> But now this looks like a really weird failure mode of a launch.

Is it Apple Maps bad? -Gavin Belson

Is it Bard bad?
Read the entire injunction. It’s only seven pages. Then tell me with a straight face that you think it’s a good thing for free speech.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.18...

It amounts to “no one from these 8 government agencies may communicate with anyone working at these three non profits, 20 social media companies or any similar organization”

I’m not defending the behavior alleged here but this judge is not the sort of person you want adjudicating serious issues. You don’t fight censorship with blanket bans on speech.

A supporter of free speech should be horrified by this ruling. If you’re not, imagine an injunction of similar scope where the political sides were reversed.
Emotional intelligence is sometimes defined in a way to encapsulate some of the values of cunning. Sometimes it correlates with power, but sometimes it does not. To get power in a human civilization also seems to require a great deal of luck, just due to the general chaotic system that is the world, and a good deal of presence. The decisions that decide the fate of the world happen in the smoky backdoor rooms, not exclusively over zoom calls with an AI generated face.
Precisely. I get not going overboard and being a perfectionist. One has to ship. But also, you should have SOME pride in your work. You should want to not make total shit.
I got really surprised when I read the “original blog post” because it's less a blog post than is it some bland advertisement to “some online coaching that will make you a 10x engineer”. So when I see the OP qualifying as ”short and well-written, well worth the read“, I suspect all this is just a PR stun to attract attention to Cupać's paid online training program… (and this seems to be working pretty well since it's now on the top of the front page)
> everyone is off at the same time

In Europe it is generally understood that nothing gets done in August. Not much gets done in July. Everyone’s at the nearby vacation spot.

As a kid in Slovenia, going to the seaside in Croatia was always fun. Slovenians would completely over-run the coast and you could barely find any locals. Meanwhile on our coast, everyone suddenly spoke German.
This is one of those times where I look at what someone says, and think, "Aren't you the same people who thought X about Y, and now, you think something that seems totally contradictory because Y' happens to support the opposite side?" Then, I realize all sides are comprised of heterogenous people with ideas that happen to have similar throughlines, and I'm comparing your statement to something I read from someone I perceived as being from the same side.

To this specific topic, could you clarify your position? Do you think the same is applicable to a police officer or an IRS agent?

The specific thing that made me think your statement was contradictory was police. The left was demanding police to be accountable seemingly five minutes ago. For most police departments, I think they went too far in saying the whole system was corrupt. I think there's at least an argument to be made about the extent of the Biden administration's involvement, but certainly you think the person doing the coercion should be punished, right?

It seems to me that any case of a "random bureaucrat" attempting to coerce a citizen or company outside of their civil mandate should be punished to the maximum extent of the law. If there isn't a criminal punishment already for this, one should be created and applied retroactively because it should be common sense.
Yeah, that was the inspiration. If you know, htmx predecessor was called intercooler.js, so I just continued the automotive theme. :)

I had a reference on main page for a long time...
That's an interesting way of managing this - care to share the extension that works for you?
It’s funny but websites actually compete with Google, since Google wants to keep users in the search engine and not clicking on a web search link, Google will summarize the site’s content to the search query such that the user will not clink on the link to leave the Google search engine
I think the benefit to a holiday is that everyone gets it off and that’s maintained at the federal level, whereas more vacation is just a contract between you and your employer. The American work culture also makes it harder for individuals to take work off for a vacation.
Literally read what that labeling does.

It doesn’t give the app access to your health data.
Interesting. I personally found the whole defining your schema up front to feeling like trying to construct the universe up front.

I’ve been trying to work on an alternative solution to SOLID, but I’m always double checking myself just to make sure that I’m not just simply failing to grasp the concepts.
> The article basically says people like holidays more than vacation. Maybe its the family/friend aspect, or that everyone is off at the same time.

At one point, in a moment of supreme rationality, the Soviet Union implemented "continuous production week," which eliminated common weekends in order to increase the utilization of factory equipment and to stamp out religion. Even they failed because of the irrational desire of people to have time off at the same time as their friends and family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar
Aye, in my experience federal holidays are a catch 22. Everything is closed so you can't do anything and if everything isn't closed then people are working. lol. With holidays, you can go do stuff. That said, I usually do nature things on federal holidays. Went offroading this 4th for instance.
No, not an standard. But most large C projects seem to use snake case while most C++ projects use Java-case (which OP calls pacal+camel case)
These European comments are so tiring. You’re lucky that your job has very good time off, but 30 days aren’t a European requirement and people in many countries in Europe don’t get 30 days.
For me, weekends are a time to get things done that can’t be done during the week after work/school. And from a certain point of view, they are still “work” days, except I’m working for myself instead of a company. Compare that to a vacation where I don’t have those same responsibilities.
Evernote lost me when they changed the UI and made it take 5 taps/clicks to do what took 1 before. Was happy paying for it until then.

Now apple notes has replaced it. I tried obsidian as well but like notes better
> Let's not confuse Protestant fundamentalism motivated by political ends with religion in general.

This is the rule, not the exception. Throughout history, instances where religious war was waged or religious atrocities occurred, there was often an underlying political logic to them. Religion has less to do with the underlying morality of the scripture and more to do with what religious leaders of the time say it is, and their interpretation can be...flexible.

> So said the French Revolution.

What followed the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars was one of the most peaceful 99 years on the European continent since Pax Romana.
Part of the reason American salaries are so high is because they work so often. Forcing employers to give up an additional 20 days per year is a surefire way to tank the GDP.
I'd like to add: Do the minimum that is necessary. If it's well received, take the time to refine it. If it's not, scrap it.
I like https://hackerstations.com/.
The VFS layer in SQLite is begging to be used like this. For a read-only implementation (where you generate the SQLite databases out-of-band and upload them), the code nearly writes itself. It's maybe hacky in the sense of "I had to write a SQLite module for this" but it's a very nice fit for SQLite VFS.
I understand that fuel cells are electrochemical systems.

I also understand that there are fundamental limits to their physics and to the storage and transfer of hydrogen that put it at a severe disadvantage to batteries in these respects.

This does a reasonable job of explaining it:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmorris/2020/07/04/why-hydr...

This is more technical and lays out the advantages and disadvantages of both:
https://c2e2.unepccc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/09/...

Batteries also have the practical advantage that if a charging cable fails it does not with some probability spontaneously ignite into an invisible 1400 C flamethrower.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03603....
Working rapidly without bugs is preferable to working slowly with bugs.
Looks like James Baker was actively pushing heads to censor.

https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/twitter-files-reveal-james-bak...
I don't see how this is any different than public holidays.
I'm of two minds on certain kinds of complaints. A lot of content creators talk about getting throttled or having their reach restricted.

While I do think content creators should be treated fairly by platforms to make the game fair... This doesn't really affect me and it often feels like that's all certain content creators will fixate upon, rather than making quality content.

I think it's sometimes a strategy of deception, to make it seem like the speaker is so much more important or dangerous that they need to be suppressed by the powerful.
I read the first one as OP meaning that Twitter is hostile to users, not that users are hostile to each other
This is apparently the standard that G/O has for their AI-generated “content”: https://archive.ph/K4BJ7

There is no polite way to describe it. I would call it dog shit, but at least dog shit has some potential as fertilizer.