skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a video game, you don't: get (actually) injured, get tired, get sweaty, get attacked by mosquitos, walk through poison ivy or have a nasty encounter with a thorn bush that leaves you hurting and/or itching for days, get sunburnt, spend 30+ minutes just commuting to the interesting thing/area only to realize you forgot something important and will now have a miserable time unless you want to burn an hour-plus round-trip going back for it, have to lose fifteen minutes finding some place that'll let your kid use the bathroom before they piss themselves and ruin the rest of the day (mainly a core-of-major-cities problem, sure, but those are also top-tier fun-having destinations), discover that the website lied and actually the thing you're here for is closed today, break expensive equipment if you make a mistake or are unlucky, soak your shoes and socks and have to take out significant time to solve that (very boring) problem or else just suffer the rest of the day, et c.

Game worlds are also usually far more compact and smaller than the real world, even the "big" ones. If it took a couple real-world days to walk to the top of the Throat of the World in Skyrim, while you're combo sweating-freezing in heavy clothes, legs are dead by halfway up, and most of the time nothing's happening and also much of the time you're in clouds obscuring the best views... it'd be a lot less fun. Instead, in the actual game, you can run the "7,000 steps" in what, 15 minutes if you ignore enemies?

It's telling that most of these games have rather high movement speed, and often also some form of teleportation, despite also having the advantages of being tailor-designed to be beautiful and fun and much smaller than real-world equivalents. Skyrim experienced at a realistic walking/hiking pace and without any form of time-skip fast travel would be a lot less fun. Ditto the recent Zelda games. Link basically runs everywhere, even when you're not "sprinting", and can perform incredible and quick feats of climbing to get over or on top of obstacles. Plus the whole paraglider thing. You climb a tall cliff in real life, now you gotta climb back down....
> The immediacy of war is never going to be matched by a slowly evolving disaster such as climate change and that is exactly why we're not doing anything that will move the needle.

True. So the best medium might not be a single movie, but a long-period-spanning series where you would follow "regular" people (possibly from around the world) while they age and come with a changing climate. Sort of "Years and years"[1] but on an even bigger timescale.

Or maybe non-interactive fiction is not the right medium, and we need an mmorpg where every day/week of game play is a year in game-world time, and effects of climate are baked-in ?
And you get to repeat the experience of "from now until 2050" every few weeks ?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_and_Years_(TV_series)
1Password 8 has been formatting dates incorrectly for over a year
Thermodynamics and Quantum Mechanics Can Be True at the Same Time
Yea, I mean basically there are a variety of techniques for encoding molecules as vectors. Morgan/circular fingerprints (cf https://darkomedin-datascience.medium.com/data-science-for-d... as a quick google search) are one way of encoding to bit vectors, and the Tanimoto similarity is a well validated measure of similarity (because of the bit vectors, cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_similarity).

Virtual screens of molecules frequently use steps to filter out molecules, one of which is via chemical similarity.
This is already painful though. The filesystem becomes a disjointed mess. Doing anything in an app becomes fighting permissions. Weird things break (eg I can drag and drop a screenshot from my downloads folder but not my screenshots folder into the discord flatpak).

Then of course apps simply get sloppy in requesting permissions.. and in return malware pretends to do the same.

The end result is now doing anything takes a half dozen prompts and isn't any more secure. It just sucks for me as a user.
ie. the patriot act argument. I don’t support the redistribution of consequences. Individuals can decide what risks they want to take, including whether they want a KYC exchange or not. If that works out poorly for them, that’s too bad. You’re not held responsible for their losses so you don’t get a say in how they choose to use their own money.
I think that is what HN is getting out of this article.

Lots of us have side biz, or are working on something important to us, and we often think our product is better than the leaders of the industry. Heck, from a data/math point of view, mine is the best, without a question. I just don't have the charisma or connections to make it the number 1.

I know my output(science) is going to last beyond my lifetime, even if I'm not nationally popular. I have academics and international leaders reading my work. Good enough for me.

t. Dayjobber
I could think of a name for this kind of post, but it wouldn't be very charitable.
>(It is notable, how quickly you abandoned your arguments about the risk of sanctions and moralily)

Huh? I never made a statement about sanctions and morality. In fact I explicitly said it is not a moral question and questioned your statement that it is a moral question versus a standard business decision.

>And users can stop trusting such company and using its products.

Of course. Freedom of association is great.
Simplified taxes does not have to mean lower taxes. You're conflating 2 issues (or intentionally associating them).

Removing loopholes, reducing the kinds of things that can be claimed without solid proof (or likelihood of needing to be proved, or complicated to prove), reducing the amount of paperwork that can create loopholes, etc. is part of simplifying.

Removing personal deductions, a simple 1-step calculation, is not simplifying.

And reducing tax rates is not necessary to simplify taxes. A graduated income tax is very simple.

Think about it harder. Don't be intellectually lazy and just jump to cutting certain taxes because it would be "simpler". Unless that's your goal.
NotebookLM: An AI Notebook
That's why Fediverse apps are awesome, 99% of regular social media users are not there. But seriously, I believe their strengths are what will make them win in the end:

- Rapid pace of development.

- Focus on users instead of ads or investors.

- You can become a dictator of your own instance, but no one gets to be dictator of the Fediverse.

- Bad instances will get shunned by the rest.

Of course, their biggest weakness if funding. So far donations can keep up with the small userbase, but the userbase will keep growing. Some popular Lemmy instances are growing at almost 100 GB per day already.
For the curious, here is the most recent press release by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists explaining in detail why they have set the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds from midnight:

https://thebulletin.org/2023/01/press-release-doomsday-clock...
You are absolutely right. I’m certainly not claiming Yandex passes these tests either. They’re clearly guilty of censoring content critical of Russia. So far only Kagi has passed all my tests.
> With the permisivity of the protocol, Meta (and anyone) can consume any ActivityPub data they want.

This is the common case but AFAIK doesn’t have to be true. Mastodon lets users make their AP outboxes private. Followers can be screened before posts are sent to their instances.
I'd swap the cables around and could see video from the iGPU output.
Linux 6.5 Features from USB4 v2 to More WiFi 7, Unaccepted Memory
… sports betting during games will be the killer app.
From SFChronicle:

> In 2019, dissatisfied workers successfully formed a union for the first time in Anchor’s history
There was a discussion about that on hn recently. It was really about crows, but ravens are close cousins.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34139048
> In simplistic terms, my understanding is that cash assistance to the poor generally does not drive inflation in any meaningful way, because the cash used is extracted via taxation in the first place, its, quite literally, shifting money around.

Although this would be true to a certain extent wouldn't this drive inflation as it would cause an increase in demand without a corresponding increase in supply? Since suddenly a lot more people can purchase things that they couldn't before. E.g. Cars at the beginning of COVID, consumer electronics, etc.
The independent actions are impacting different parts of the market.

The meagre supports we've seen from the government to date are largely micro-targeted at low income persons who are most feeling the existential threats of this inflation crisis.

Meanwhile the BoC raising interest rates is dissuading wealthy business owners and investors from further investment and expansion, actions that at least at first are targeted at limiting business investment by the 1% and limiting consumer spending by the top 10% that own homes with big mortgages.

(now if the bank goes overboard and induces a recession, well then those 1% business owners will go on and start layoffs, which will start to have some broader effects...)
This is what I'm expecting to be coming soon, a barrage of articles blaming and shaming users for not wanting to be bombarded by ads.

> if you're a content leech watch a couple ads

No. Never. Sorry, your industry has destroyed any goodwill it ever had. I'm not just an ad blocker, I'm hostile to ads. I hate them and I hate the industry.
What should the Canadian federal government do? Housing is a provincial and municipal responsibility. They're the ones that set zoning and housing regulations.
To clarify, I suggest remove the personal income tax so there is no need for W2 withholding. Replace with a sales tax, with basic necessities having zero rate sales tax.
There’s an example of that in the linked write up - a user reported really enjoying colorful, full-page images…on the first use. After subsequent use, the failures of the UX made such aesthetics more annoying than useful
Also pretty common with authors iirc - a spouse with an income that provides stability.

That said, also easy for people to use this as an excuse.
The definition of a craft brewery from the brewer's association is more practically stated as "The same size or smaller than Sam Adams".
Factory built will beat site built every time. but there are some massive "buts" here. A liquid sodium fast reactor is a simple design. It is not novel, which is good because research reactors have been built to prove this technology, like the new Argonne National Labs THETA reactor. BUT, previous reactors of a related design have all had problems, like sodium leaks and fires, and none has yet evolved into a commercially viable product.
Well, the brides aren't actually legal, they are just very difficult to prove.

Unless we want to make political donations illegal, how do you prove a donation to a politician as a bride instead of support for the politician whose politics you agree with?

One could make a claim that stuff like student loan forgiveness is unethical if it benefits those who voted for the party. Is it not illegal to use tax payer money to pay for votes? I think if any politician said, "anybody who votes for me will get a bonus in your tax refund this year" we would have no issue seeing how that is unethical.
It _is_ also a website, hosted by themselves: https://social.overheid.nl/public/local
> I think some books just click very differently with people.

This is very true. I tried reading Unbearable Lightness after seeing the movie, but I just couldn't finish it. It's a great book, but it just didn't pull me in the way it has others. Someone upthread mentioned One Hundred Years of Solitude and that has been one of my favorite books for at least the last 25 years. Marquez speaks to me in a way that Kundera doesn't and that's fine.
Moral relativism is a trap. You end up supporting evil things; all they have to do is show you a slightly more evil thing. That's how the ruling class tricks people into voting Democrat, all they had to do was show everyone a Republican.

You mention several things: enshittification, data-collection, pollution, lock-in... What you don't mention is worst part: all capitalists/corporations are thiefs, they get a free ride off the backs of people who actually do the work. There's a reason it's called "wage slavery".
If one of the largest drivers of inflation is housing, why does the government not balance this act with 0% loans to developers/the construction industry? Drive the supply while slowing demand.
- So no one should know about new products for sale, only second hand ones?

No, I mean advertisement that is made primary for profit and selling things that would otherwise shouldn't be sold. Promoting weak products.
MacOS phones home before running an unverified app. I understand why they do it, but I'd rather they didn't. And I definetly hope that Linux doesn't go that route.

Windows ... well my expectation is low with regards to phoning home and security defaults.
I love this. In general, I would like to see municipalities take on more IT responsibilities. Tax-funded cloud storage and digital communications services would weaken tech companies and make accessing these table stakes features more equitable. Give libraries something to do.
A so-called singularity would require accelerated development for many more technological spheres, not just semiconductor fabrication, and related information computation and AI advances. Logistics, supply chains, mining, farming, manufacturing, energy, biotechnology. While the former may continue to accelerate development in the latter categories, the scale of such impact is purely speculative. I don't believe the advances will be proportional in these harder spheres, as their physicality cannot be as readily manipulated as information.
> Saying that there's no malware for Linux because there's no reawrd is myopic - the payoff is potentially larger.

I didn’t say that. My comment was really just commenting on the fact that most attacks (mal/ransomware/phishing/exploits) very frequently need some sort of user interaction. Without users or users doing user stuff it makes it harder to get things to execute on the machine/server. Sure if the server is in the DMZ and unpatched then yes it will be hammered by scanners and automated exploiters. With proper security hygiene and a proper patch cadence servers are usually more protected through defense in depth and lack of human.
SUSE Will Fork Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Canada homeowners have a lot of adjustable-rate mortgages, right? How are these rate increases playing out? Is there any data on the percentage of homeowners who are past the fixed-rate initial period and are therefore immediately seeing the rate hikes reflected in their bills?
The Future of Entertainment: How AI Could Disrupt Streaming Services
Isnt it TBD if Spain made the right call?

Action doesn't necessarily mean things are good.
It's absolutely a replacement for some people. (For me, it's waaay better than Twitter ever was.) But nothing is a replacement for all people.
Benjamin Netanyahu interview on Lex Fridman Podcast #389 [video]
What are the current statistics for how many people still 1) have broadcast/cable live TV, and 2) actually watch live TV? Hopefully those numbers will continue to go down over time.
The uncle that won $10,000? So that little tidbit wasn't good after all, he was stealing money from a historically marginalized community. And the lotto winner was similarly taking money from public schools.
> policies to limit severe price increases

What does that even mean? In Canada the issue is that most places have 10 houses for 20 buyers to it ends up being a game of who can pay more as it should be.

Restricting price increases just means buyers are restricted on something else, it does not magically create 10 new houses to meet demand.

We should not be rent-controlling assets, instead you need to take actions that match the number of houses to the number of buyers. You can do that by:

1. Incentivizing builders to build

2. Reducing immigration (at least in Canada)

3. Changing zoning laws to build more densely

1. is not appealing because in Canada there is a strong sentiment against growing the urban sprawl.

2. is not something the government wants to do

3. is what they've been doing for the last 10 years but turns out people don't want an apartment, they want a detached house with a yard and they are willing to put more money on it to meet their expections.

Price control is not any kind of solution to the Canadian housing problem. It would create private listings and all sorts of parallel systems so that people who can pay more can still pay more.
Why isnt there an optional matching DP mode where you could just transfer screen data without timing? Why are you forced to sent fake blanking to PSR displays?
Microsoft cannot fix this problem because it requires fundamentally pissing off large portions of users who do not want to change how they use windows. They don't want to lose access to their legacy software. You start putting everything legacy in a nice little container, and people will freak out when they notice FPS loss or some things being a little odd. You limit people's windows installations to only permit apps that utilize the newer permissions system, and they'll screech about wanting to install chrome. Microsoft's attempts throughout the years, like 10S indicate as much.
Wait, you’re claiming to not pay enough taxes?

Best way to reduce poverty is to cut taxes.
How to generate SQL statements with ChatGPT
You are underestimating the amount of IOT botnets that run on Linux and the amount of Android malware.
Good for you if you have a day job outside of coding that pays your bills while you work on your coding craft. You're a dayjobber.
It happens more with CTAN where there is no possibility of a testing framework and there is no ability for multiple versions of an artifact to coexist.
Oscar is a new-age insurance startup, which is why people here may have heard it.

There are quite a few regional insurance companies. Like here in Utah a big name is Selecthealth, but no one else will have heard it.

National carriers are a safer/easier choice for employers who have a distributed workforce.
You serve the embedding model in a lambda and then run something like FAISS in the backend.
Absolutely... the RPi scalping over the pandemic is what turned me on to these things... There are some Intel options around $200, that include case, power and many have memory and storage. When the 8gb RPi was close to that bare board, was definitely worth switching to something materially faster.
Wouldn’t specialised models for spelling/grammar outperform general purpose ones?
Mastodon also provides an rss feed.

“You can follow any Mastodon account via RSS by just adding ".rss" to the end of the account's public profile URL.”

https://mstdn.social/@feditips/108357998963885456
> If there were an executable bit, exe’s from strange places wouldn’t just run without being granted permission. If extensions were visible by default, the very slightly savvy could SEE the danger. The combo lack-thereof is the danger.

By default Windows does not run anything which does not have valid signature, unless you give the permission.

Maybe you have disabled this feature? Many do it, because it is annoying, as you need to give permission almost for anything you download from the internet.
People are the country. And draft dodgers are not even necessarily against the war or the regime. They just don’t wanna be cannon fodder, which is understandable, but also doesn’t mean they should be granted asylum.
No, that's a facile assertion. It's not even about "sanctions". Companies should cease operating in a country where the legal and practical risks of doing business in the country outweigh any potential profit. Russia isn't exactly rolling in the dough right now, and most goods sold in Russia now require a license to transfer[1]. Add to that the risk of the Russian government simply stealing your business away from you, and you have quite the effective deterrent.

American companies unloading their Russian assets like offices are advised by the American Bar Association to destroy everything that's not nailed down so that they do not have licensing concerns. [2]

[1] https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/country-gu...
[2] https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2...

Edit: I can't reply to you, but [3] here's an example of how Russia legalized the theft of intellectual property.

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/03/09/russia-al...
> Twitter and Reddit ... have made huge blunders

In addition to which - they were never that solid in the first place. They (and Facebook) are mostly just "dumb hosting" for other people's content - if the content producers leave, they don't have anything to offer. They don't even really own the content that was produced on their platform and it wouldn't have any value even if they did. There's a weak value proposition there: "we'll let you put your stuff up for people to see and even sort of promote it, but we'll run ads next to it to offset our hosting costs", but neither seemed to realize just how precarious their position is/was.
Liberalism is currently not succeeding.
MyDay – From iOS to Native Snowflake App
What is it? I only see “*******”.
AI models compete with movie script writers. I believe the current writers strike in Hollywood includes ChatGPT4 related issues amongst many others.
If it were reasonable discussions, then yes. But when it's bluechecks who call everybody who disagrees with them a pedophile, less so.
Jetbrains Mono has been my goto since release. The ligatures are nice if you like those in your code views. (Hard to believe no one has mentioned this font yet.)
Google’s AI-powered notes app is now called NotebookLM, and it’s launching today
That requires a return-channel; this is purely broadcast.
Let me know when I can buy groceries with your fake money, in person, and have the transaction completed immediately.

Cryptocurrencies are just three ponzi schemes in a trench coat.
I don't believe in a "personal knowledge base" I believe in blogging, then finding my stuff on google when I have that problem in the future :)
My coding wasn't valuable when I started, anymore than the beginner guitarist is Bon Jovi.
>He explains that both he and his boss were laid off and will be leaving in a matter of weeks.

Shitty icing on a shitty cake. First the indignity of mediocre pay, then just removed altogether. Dickens would have a field day writing about our times.
The article discusses this and says that the average homeowner is paying $1200 extra per year now.

Oddly the average mortgage payment, according to that article, is around $4300. Lot of expensive homes in Canada, I guess. (I only pay $3200 in New York City, at 6.5%!)
Finding Closure, Fifty Years After a Murder
Instance is down at the time of writing this.

This just shows that Mastodon isn’t fit for this use case.

I mean an IT department, having to manage resources, load, live traffic, just for what?

A PA that will ‘benefit’ (as a gimmick) a tiny fraction of the citizens.