skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh come on, have some perspective: academia has millions more people to slaughter before they catch up with the cult of Christianity.

https://apholt.com/2019/01/30/death-estimates-for-the-crusad...

John Shertzer Hittell– Estimates 1,000,000 total dead for the crusades to the East covering the period from 1095 to 1291.

“In the two centuries of this warfare one million persons had been slain, but it had not been without some compensations.” John Shertzer Hittell, A Brief History of Culture (1874), p.137.

[...]

John M. Robertson– Estimates 9,000,000 total dead for the crusades to the East covering the period from 1095 to 1291.

“It is a reasonable calculation that in the two centuries from the first crusade to the fall of Acre (1291) there had perished, in the attempts to recover and hold the Holy Land, nine millions of human beings, at least half of them Christians. Misery and chronic pestilence had slain most; but the mere carnage had been stupendous.” John M. Robertson, A Short History of Christianity (1902), p. 278.
It's not the pay, it's the social status. As other commenters have noted, a skilled tradesman can make a competitive salary. However, ask most white-collar, college educated people if they want their children to go into the trades, I wager the majority will say "no" and believe they need to get a college degree and work in a profession (or simply an office job). In the US, there is a stereotype that only those unable to get into college work in trades as a consolation prize.
Using social psychology research to explain why people falsify social psychology research is more than a little ironic!
You should put React library to your title, it makes it easier for potential users.
Interesting. He claims she collected the data. She claims she did not and could not have. At the least, it appears that it makes sense to have data provenance recorded and signed.

The Latin phrases don't all appear to relate to what's going on. Don't know what's up with that, especially the one from Horace's Odes.
Is someone building out a noob-friendly interface to this too?
I thought these might eventually have their day with a GaN PSU and a touch screen, running Windows 10+. Kind of like the Continuum vision Microsoft had for Windows Phone; carry a little brick around and dock it as needed. But we have cell phones, tablets, and SoC, so NUC doesn't really excel at anything
Actually, are there companies which offer "corporate, RHEL/SLES-like support" for a BSD distribution, or FreeBSD particularly? That's also a niche I wish we could see.
As a US citizen, flying domestically or internationally, what I do is to not take my electronic devices with me. If I need them where I'm going, I ship them ahead via a parcel carrier. On the plane trip itself, I use a burner phone that has no data on it aside from the record of what calls I may have placed or received during that trip.

It's rather sad that these precautions are needed, but here we are. I'm just bringing all this up to say that there are ways of travelling without having to put your devices at risk of compromise.
> journal of marketing research

What are ppl even getting so excited about? I mean this is a field which teaches kids to recite - "half the money I spend is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half".
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I was interested and looked it up. For anyone else that cares, Unihertz is a Chinese company. I'll probably add it to Huawei in my mental "avoid" bucket for the foreseeable future.
It's a chatbot. A very advanced one with incredible capabilities but a chatbot nonetheless. What irreparable damage to society and culture are you alluding to? Any specific examples would be nice as I don't see where all this doom and gloom is coming from.
Theres also the fact that humans have wide variety in vision

Even ignoring color blindness, there's the fact that some people see significantly more range of colours than others (I am one).

Women tend to be more sensitive to slight variations than men (surmised to be evolution ensuring they can better gather from plants , knowing ripeness etc). I see even more variety than that norm.

Human vision is funny, because the majority actually don't see much, with some seeing even less, and some seeing so much they can perceive parts of the UV and Infrared spectrums (not pleasant since our world is absolutely not designed for such people).

It seems unlikely that AI could actually do well accommodating all the variations and would almost certainly be focused on averages while ignoring the color blind and "advantaged".
> You normally wouldn't run your word processor at 800x600 either.

But there are times when I do! Like having two windows side by side so I can transpose text from one into the word processor.
> I then make a website where I draw my own cartoons, which, since I've never seen any other art, look a lot like Disney's. Unless I'm straight-up copying their characters, they would have no claim against me.

The law pertains ultimately to the actions of humans. We don't allow non-human animals or machines access to legal system. Even in the specious only-Disney-inspired-artist scenario presented (courts don't use unrealistic hypotheticals like that), there would have to be consideration given to the fact that you somehow never got any access to other art, so you were severely disadvantaged.

But most of all, you the disadvantaged Disneyesque-drawing artist not a generative AI, so you should have more legal latitude to create works inspired than others work than the person who creates the LLM has.

The LLM creator instead has just created a very good style plagiarism machine, one that lacks the ability to be inspired, much less attribute the styles that it plagiarizes.
What is the benefit of adding compression here? Does that mean that the bandwidth might or might not be sufficient depending on which pictures are being shown on the screen?

If so, that doesn't seem very reliable and if not, what's the point of compression?
Or it could be precisely the opposite -- LLM's take care of all of the easy customer service/moderation, so that it's actually affordable for Google and others to hire high-quality customer reps to manage the hard/urgent stuff that LLM's surface.

I don't know, but generally speaking with technological progress, while we lose some things we gain more things. It's important to think not just what technology gets rid of, but what it enables.
Stopped reading after "AI powered", no thank you.
I have one better - a box, about 2 ft^3 in volume, of the negatives for every photograph my wife's grandmother took throughout her life. She kept them all in one box, moved with them several times, and only stopped when we got her a digital camera in ~2010. Even then, she didn't like the idea of re-using memory cards, so we just bought small ones in bulk. There were ~100 memory cards in the aforementioned box when I received it; I've since copied them all over to my "family long-term digital storage", which exists in multiple places and in multiple formats. In addition to that, I put them all on USB drives and distributed them to interested family members at a family reunion. Each year they get new thumb drives with whatever new data I've collected over the preceding year.

My problem is that I have thousands of negatives and slides, in several formats, and no easy to way scan them in bulk. While there are services out there that do it, all of the ones I've found in the past are both expensive (on the order of ~$0.25-$0.50 per image) and limited in the formats they support. Most only do 35mm negatives and maybe slides. I have 35mm, APS-C, 110, 120, 220, and even a bunch of 2.25" square negatives that I believe are from a Kodak Brownie.

I've not found any service that's truly as simple as "send them a box of negatives, get back a link to an S3 bucket with your photos" - and certainly none that are capable of supporting such a wide variety of formats.

To this point, I've just been spending a Saturday afternoon here and there scanning them individually, manually, on an old (but good quality) flatbed scanner. I 3D printed some negative holders and hacked together a Python script that looks for the "crop marks" on the holders, crops, straightens them, and drops them into a folder. There's a sidecar plaintext file in that folder that describes the envelope they were in and includes anything that was written on it. There's also an image named "front.jpg" and one named "back.jpg" in each folder that is a simple scan of the envelope. All of the scanned photos are kept in lossless TIFF, which is... unwieldy. At some point I'll probably pick a format with better (lossless) compression for the "originals" and move to that.
C++ "bitshifts" (yes, but it's just a symbol in this context) make no real difference to me. It was type safe when it wasn't easy to be back in the day, everyone knows exactly how they work - it's never shot me in the foot (whereas the real meat of the design has, independently of how the composition is expressed syntactically).

The others are more sus but you can make a bad API out of anything.

Rewriting (say) a load of calculations as a tree of sum pow exp etc. is just a huge burden - a codebase I work on has a formula that takes up about 6 lines for example, outputted by mathematica: total pain to to translate to function calls.
>Middle east megaprojects serve royal purposes. They give jobs to the sons of elite families. (Yes, in this context I do mean only the male children.) It keeps them engaged as "developers" doing things like soliciting bids on giant buildings or launching media campaigns, which is much less of a threat than them stewing at home or in the desert thinking up ways to overthrow kings.

This is more or less my take on "The Line" project in Saudi Arabia. A literal giant hole in the ground to serve as an excuse to shovel endless amounts of untracked money into. It is never intended to be finished or even seriously built.
I was trying to remember the name of this. Worked well, from what I remember
From https://www.photoprism.app/features for Community (free) and Essentials (EUR2.00/month):

> User Management

> Account Roles: Super Admin, Admin

So unless I switch to the >=EUR6.00/month Plus plan I cannot add a non admin user? So my grandma gets admin privileges? Is that not a blocker for a lot of families?

Edit: From https://www.photoprism.app/plus/kb/multi-user

> PhotoPrism® Plus includes advanced multi-user functionality and additional account roles. These roles are intended for situations where you want other people to have access to your library, such as giving family members access to your pictures without granting write permissions or exposing private content.

> It is recommended to set up additional instances if you have multiple users in a family, so that everyone can manage their own files independently. This way you can avoid problems with conflicting library settings, file permissions, and dealing with duplicates.

So you're actually supposed to run an instance per person it seems. But still, then my grandma would still be an admin. I think I'd like to about that.
...And now that this "fact" is mentioned on Hacker News, for sure, the next generation of LLMs will have the knowledge firmly baked in.
Apple sells ALAC files for some of their Atmos encoded music and include the Atmos mix data in the ALAC file (if you can figure out how to buy rather than stream, there are some interesting dark patterns in Apple Music/iTunes Store today promoting streaming over ownership). The majority of ALAC files downloaded from Apple are alleged to be DRM-free, as well.

(I have never figured out how to get iTunes Store to correctly tell me if a download will be DRM-free or not. I'd probably love pointers on how to do that, because I would probably buy more music from Apple if I was less afraid of accidental DRM, which has been the case too many times for me.)

ALAC is an open-source codec supported by a number of decoders today and isn't necessarily just trapped in Apple's walled garden. (I've heard some reports that ALAC Atmos decoding/playback can even sometimes be better in non-Apple software.)
Well, it's there in the title of the article, so don't shoot me. If the premise of the article is bs, it doesn't make sense to discuss efficiency.

Is it nonsensical though? IDK, it seems somehow better than extracting the gas from the ground and adding it to the system. Also if there's another more complex chemical not for burning, that you can synthesize from the methane, it would be a net gain.
I have found that Bing AI usually does well with questions such as yours, if you'd like a tool that can help.

I don't mean that in a LMGTFY way, just in a "here's a tool that can help".
Nuclear Startup Oklo to Go Public in US via Sam Altman's SPAC
How can American Airlines prove that he intended to get off at Charlotte?
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One problem with "leave windowing yo your window manager" is now when I automate workflows by scripting that window manager and no longer enjoy emacs extensibility benefits.
This is why I like https://github.com/mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook and its associated Ansible roles for configuring various services.

All the portability of Docker, plus (something close to) the ease of use of installing a distro package like an .rpm or .deb.
Related. Others?

Noted study in psychology fails to replicate, crumbles with evidence of fraud - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28264097 - Aug 2021 (102 comments)

A Big Study About Honesty Turns Out to Be Based on Fake Data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28257860 - Aug 2021 (90 comments)

Evidence of fraud in an influential field experiment about dishonesty - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28210642 - Aug 2021 (51 comments)

Related but different (I think?):

Harvard ethics professor allegedly fabricated multiple studies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36665247 - July 2023 (214 comments)

Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36424090 - June 2023 (201 comments)
> The project is ambitious as hell and may or may not ever get finished

Finished? Hell, I'll be surprised if they get started on it in any substantive way.
They tried that, but they couldn't because:

- my contract says the place of work is city X

- they don't have an office in city X

- they cannot unilaterally change the contract (Europe)

They asked me if I would be willing to relocate to a city in which they have an office. I declined. I'm still working from home. The company is big, so they don't care much about isolated cases like mine.
Charlatans took advantage of the reputation of “science” in the 20th century. Thankfully, public perception is already adjusting.
>> I honestly don't think that it's possible to make a review service that is any good at all if you're allowing the general public to submit reviews.

Glassdoor auth doesnt even work regularly. It has nothing to do with content, if a company cant figure out how to do auth on iOS, there is a serious problem.
There are other SFF PCs available which were more competitively priced than NUCs to start with: Minisforum and Geekom are two popular brands I've used. There are also various SFF desktop PCs from major manufacturers like HP EliteDesk Mini which can be found dirt cheap at corporate auctions.

I have an Intel 11th-gen/Tiger Lake Geekom IT11 running as my "home server" with Frigate, HomeAssistant, and so on. It works great, and using OpenVINO for object detection inference and QuickSync for video leaves a ton of headroom for other uses too. The only disadvantage to these, which was shared by NUCs, is that you need to use Thunderbolt for >Gbit Ethernet connectivity.
It's likely to be a link to an extension on the Chrome web store and perhaps a similar download link on Facebook.
> The complexity and cost for retrofitting hundreds of millions of homes and electrifying all the associated appliances is immense

This is overselling the difficulty. What you're saying is true, but you don't need to rip out functioning appliances. Appliances have a finite service lifetime; once they fail, replace them with electrified appliances. Already here in the year 2023, I wouldn't dream of building a house with a gas stove or gas heating. Induction stoves are just plain better than gas stoves, and heat pumps are cheaper than gas heating once you factor in that the gas-heated house will need a separate AC installation for cooling, whereas the heat-pump house won't. These days, methane doesn't make sense anywhere except at the power generation end, and power generation sources are fungible and can be gradually replaced on their own schedule.
How refreshing, to be able to finally tell someone more senior and corrupt to F off. Cheers to Aimee Drolet.
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As much as I hate to say this, I’ve lost almost all concern for the environment “crisis”. Not saying it isn’t real, but at 24 years old now I’ve been seeing panic-fuel since I was 10 on Disney channel about the hole in the ozone layer (that managed to fix itself), deforestation, the coral reefs, etc.

I’ve been told I should be scared of the world ending because selfish greedy humans are destroying it for literally as long as I can remember, and I’m over it. I can’t bring myself to always be anxious about it. It’s either live a lifetime of worry or say fuck it and live my life.

I recycle, I rideshare when I can, I take the steps that are convenient to me to help, but I just can’t be bothered getting that worked up over it anymore.
Any field will have cheaters. Contrary to many posters I happy to see this. It shows that science is self-correcting, as it should be. I'm only disappointed that it's taken so long for many of these allegations to surface.
> Things are never going to get better, they are only going to get worse. How much worse depends on what we do today.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNcGo6a-yKuIubvDb6mIy...
>I have the unit blocked in my router so it can't surreptitiously update its firmware and start doing this.

Maybe this is a silly question, but how do you do this without blocking wifi printing? Are you just stopping network egress from the printers IP address?

Edit - by wifi printing I mean on the same network, in house.
As others have pointed out, growing any sort of two sided marketplace (in this case with companies and applicants) is really, really hard. On top of that, the quality of the reviews itself is very hard to regulate because Glassdoor isn't necessarily incentivized to promote the "truth" - they make money from the companies on their platform, not the applicants.

See related discussion recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36634529
Specific IDEs is actually the selling point for me as a polyglot developer, that often switches between projects in different languages. When I need to work on a C project, I'm in CLion; when I'm working on a Python project, I'm in PyCharm; when I'm working on Go, I'm in GoLand. I don't have a ton of plugins dragging my single IntelliJ down, I just have what I need when I need it. I could spend a bunch of time tweaking each project with project specific settings, but that eats a lot of my time I could be making features or fixing bugs with.

The other thing it does, it let's their team really focus on polishing a product. For instance with Go, they had a plugin, and it worked okay, but when they came out with GoLand, they really started filling all the gaps, and polishing the Go development experience, making sure all the default plugins for it made a great overall Go development experience by default.

These reasons are I think why you see people excited about a JetBrains Rust IDE in other comment branches of this post. The polish and ease of use. The priority on taking the point of those things that just are slightly annoying. The difference between something cobbled together or a plugin that just has to deal with existing extension points and a fully polished marketable product.
> Would you advocate getting rid of operators altogether?

Of course not. It makes sense for built-in types, as everyone reading the code can be assumed to know them.

> That is still using the overloaded SmartPtr<>::operator*() method.

Good catch ;)

> I just disagree that costs outweigh the benefits.

Yah, I think that's the disagreement. My feeling is there's a teeny, tiny handful of appropriate places for it (almost entirely math) and it opens up a pandora's box of terrible decisions that programmers clearly find irresistible.
For you as an US citizen that works out, they can't deny you entry - but I'd rather not risk the parcel with my device getting lost in the post or stolen, or getting refused entry and being deported (and thus, losing the many thousand dollars one needs for a vacation in the US) for being "suspicious".

And there's the entire import duty/customs stuff to work out as well...
Just like it's already been doing for decades
Can you share a link to the source?
A Framework laptop starts at about $1050. Mine is truly the best Linux laptop I've ever owned.
Sony is at little risk of harm here. They have a ridiculous amount of system selling platform exclusives. Microsoft has what Halo, Forza, Gears of War, and I guess Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020? They have a few other exclusives, but I don't think they're enough to make someone chose an Xbox over a PlayStation.

Microsoft is seriously behind this generation and I just don't see them continuing next generation if they can't make up some ground this one.
It's tough to find genuinely cool and interesting things to work on. One thing might be to do something of your own, or get involved in open source.
I just turn all that stuff off in the BIOS and be done with it. So far, anyway, I haven't encountered a motherboard that doesn't let me disable it.
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This sounds pretty familiar, minus the scheming princes part. Mega-construction projects involve so much money that I think it's the preferred method for many politicians to funnel money to themselves and their friends. And people cheer on them thinking it will bring jobs or increase their property values.

Wanton environmental destruction is usually a bonus, but who cares about that.
A powerful heat transfer infrastructure with capability of power generation
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Props to the author for thanking their tester for breaking their stuff until it worked! Good testers are worth their weight in gold.
Technology that's putting those folks out of work (and into rioting, etc.) will also provide the tools to repress them. I don't like it, but that's the way it seems to me. E.g. Hong Kong.
Other coverage in the past few hours:

WSJ with original exclusive reporting (paywall): https://www.wsj.com/articles/sam-altman-backed-nuclear-start...

FT (paywall): https://www.ft.com/content/cd5998af-e064-4007-a5cb-2e83d779c...

Both discuss the fact that it’s unusual to use the boss’s SPAC to go public, though Altman says he recused himself from both firms’ deliberations.

CNBC (deferential to interviewee): https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/07/11/sam-altman-talks-about-o...

NY Post: https://nypost.com/2023/07/11/nuclear-startup-oklo-going-pub...
Does the scientific method include peer review? I thought that was a recent phenomenon.