skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely Google must know that eventually all their shiftiness is going to catch up to them. Perhaps the current execs think they will have disappeared over the horizon before the reckoning day comes. They might be right.
Depending on your jurisdiction, it may be a civil offense. Where I’m at, it’s still a criminal offense albeit one that would probably never be prosecuted because the fine for one infringement would be minuscule.
There should be some kind of Litmus test to see how a platform is moderated. You could use it to find where in the political spectrum the moderation team is to see if the platform suits you.

I propose, for example, "equating abortion to murder", "misgendering someone", "calling someone the f-word", "saying that f-words are molesters", etc.

Most of the big platforms (such as Twitter or Meta) are just in the middle. Twitter before Musk moved one point to the left, making misgenderisation a bannable offence, but I think Musk undid that. As a data point I have had comments flagged for doing the first one here, so you can tell where this community stands.

I have absolutely no faith in changes made by Musk, but I have to say I still remember the days when the platforms, instead of silencing everybody by default, trusted you to make a judicious use of the block button, like a grown-up would.
> the shop itself has a long-standing user interface, ie people go into a shop to buy what they want

Over the last twenty years, more and more shopping is done online. Fewer people want to visit shops - those that do are usualy there to seek advice. The need for shops is changing and will become more like showcases for what you can do with the products and how they might fit into the lifestyle that you aspire to have.
I was still worried about where the LLM fit into all this, but I think we've found an opening!
You don't need a separate linter for this stuff today, proper compilers (anything but MSVC basically) have the most important type-related warnings in the default warning set, and it always makes sense to bump warnings to the highest level (both in C and C++ btw) - also (because I know this will be brought up): implicit conversion of a void* to other pointer types is a feature, not a bug ;)
It’s not completely distinct, it’s a superset of Schengen called EFTA. Ireland is part of EFTA but not Schengen.

The EU is messy.
Unity can hit below 3MB[0]. Afaik Godot builds are a bit larger due to limited code stripping and builds not being compressed out of the box.

[0] https://github.com/JohannesDeml/UnityWebGL-LoadingTest
If you use the DRI2/3 extensions, or Xft fonts, and chances are you are, you don't benefit from X11's network transparency. Anyway, you can do forwarding with waypipe under wayland.
I initially set out to save other people from the bait and switch from unix to politics but then I made a convoluted comment which confused people even more...
This might be a bit pedantic, but I've never liked the term "supernatural", it's tautologically meaningless. If there were aliens or magical beasts roaming around, they would be natural.

As for magic, I despise people that claim magic isn't real. The world is made of magic and it's all around us. When you lose the ability to recognize the magic of reality you die a little inside and the world becomes a little bit less bright. The fact that the term magic gets hijacked to mean something negative and harmful is bullshit, and it should be reclaimed.
You missed my entire point. The ring owner in this case is not exempt from being death squad'ed.
Most of these MiniPC companies like Beelink, Minisforum, Morefine, etc are small Shenzen-based operations so personally I wouldn't expect much in terms of support (whether it's BIOS updates or warranty). If you're going to get one, I'd recommend ordering from Amazon or somewhere local you can easily return it if it's DOA, or going for a more established brand w/ a local distributor/support (Asus, Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo all ship AMD minipc models).
The money is paid for Wayland to make sure the FOSS desktop will stay sub-3%. You obviously don't understand the concept of sabotage. (And yes literally millions of dollars have been invested into Wayland)
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I think there's too many red flags there to chalk it up to a single problem: time-consuming conversations, rigid abstractions, resistance to changes, demanding PMs, total overhauls needed, more bureaucracy on change approval, you also complained about fixation on code quality.

Saying that it's all up to the one single difference even though there's so many ancillary issues screams of "I've found a silver bullet syndrome" to me.
I just tell people that VR makes me feel sick, but really I just find not knowing what is going on around me disconcerting. It's nice to see someone express a similar sentiment.
I don’t think you can trust ChatGPT to give you correct information on its training data set, or its own limitations. You may be being duped in exactly the same way as everyone who ever asked it for citations and got fake sources.
vercel hosts my next.js blog with mdx files for $0/year
Not surprising at all.

Once Threads opens up to the fediverse, blocking threads.net is going to cause friction with the largest Mastodon instances.

Mastodon.social already has signed an NDA backing support of Threads and anyone that had a following on Mastodon who has an even bigger following on Threads, is likely not going to use Mastodon (or at least the smaller instances) as much.

Stephen Fry, George Takei, Kathy Griffin and Professor Brian Cox were all on Mastodon and now have an bigger following on Threads.
It's unusual to read that InfluxDB is fast and efficient. Did you try VictoriaMetrics? It usually needs 10x less RAM than InfluxDB for the same workload, especially when the number of active time series is high. It also uses less CPU and disk space on the same production workload. [1]

[1] https://valyala.medium.com/insert-benchmarks-with-inch-influ...
Have you read George Bush's autobiography?
Nice work and pleasant to use.
One improvement idea I have after getting to the exercise list is to add a warmup routine for the chosen muscle groups. Before beginning the exercices.
This process is comically absurd compared to Turo. I used to rent out my car on Turo, and at some point I stopped meeting the renters completely. Just leave the car any time in the agreed-upon location, pick it up a week later at my convenience, same for the renters. The absurdity of standing in 30+ minute lines (my personal record was almost two hours at Hertz in Cancun), it feels like something from two centuries ago. Like, Blockbuster came alive and decided to resume competing with Netflix via VHS tapes.

I understand it gets complicated with a lot of customers in, say, the airport all at once, and I'll wait if I actually didn't make a reservation and they are getting the car ready, but the counter bottleneck is completely unnecessary.
Yeah I think it's something people don't consider about resolution. I want to upgrade to a newer e-ink Kindle for CJK characters. On the opposite end, the Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch have a 7" screen is only 720p and it's fine for gaming.
So the average salary for an experienced developer in Britain is just barely above the national median? That’s a bit surprising..
This is incredible! Love how simple and intuitive it is.
Spam is ever present. They appear to be regulating captchas.
The French mapping service is starting to do HD LIDAR captures of the whole of France, and some of them are already available: https://geoservices.ign.fr/lidarhd (At the bottom)

I'd be curious to know if you plan to include these in your app at some point in the future?

Thanks for all the work you did on Shademaps!
HGTV is making our homes boring and us sad, one study says
Apparently you can't mention silencers at all? which even as a non American seems weird.
Again.

Free software is largely coterminous with open source. Even Stallman uses the term 'copylefted software' to refer to software under a so-called copyleft license -- one which, like the GPL, forbids license changes upon redistribution. Stallman will tell you that he'd rather your free software be copylefted, but it doesn't have to be.

You're right about source-available though. It's what we used to call 'shared source', after a failed attempt by Microsoft to promote that as an alternative to the viral, cancer-like open source.
Of course there is such thing as magic, our clients keep asking for it. Telling them “magical experiences don’t exist” seems a bit dim. Most of the way these rationalists deal with magic is to simply define magic as something that doesn’t exist. Big win, there.

People say “Magic is just a psychological phenomenon” as though that is somehow reducing its power or purpose. Creating magic is a big part of many people’s jobs. That said, one of my favorite books is by the first president of the Royal Society, titled “Mathematicall Magick”. It deals with Natural Magick — a concept that helped transition the Renaissance to the scientific and Industrial Revolutions.
Aren't there better strategies for PR and publicity than VC financing?
You can learn more about how Proton Mail encryption works here: https://proton.me/support/proton-mail-encryption-explained. There is a also a functionality that allows you to send password-protected emails to non-Proton Mail recipients: https://proton.me/support/open-password-protected-emails.
And if you look at the screenshot he shared, almost a third are hits on a single post which I assume was featured on HN and another good chunk are hits on the homepage. Those two combined are almost half of the total page views according to his stats.

So if you ignore those two, you're looking at ~20 page views a day.

$14/month for analytics on a site with that level of traffic sounds wild to me but again, it's not my money and if he's happy then that's all that matters.
Fractals on an IBM 1401 mainframe (2015)
The guys at Be Inc created a compressed ELF format for BeIA (the internet appliance OS they created just before the company folded.) I believe this is the patent (there may be others) that covers the process: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6883087

I think the Patent is just a general method for creating "crushed" executable code... The BeIA ELF implementation used the magic number "CEL" rather than "ELF" and is used a common table to look up certain symbols - so the exe only had the non common parts in it (or something like that, I haven't got a good handle on how it functioned, just a developers view of what it was like to use.) The process was called "crushing" and a "crushed" exe was massively smaller than the "uncrushed" version. I went over a load of the info I have in this thread over on the Haiku OS discussion forums: https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/imagining-beia-like-concept-i...
Well, obviously not comparable. Price of case < salesman salary for the extra time << iPhone. So it does not make sense to invest extra time to get an upsell. If they can instead get you to spend an additional $100, then spending that extra time makes money.

TLDR: cheap stuff -> as quick as possible. Expensive stuff -> take time to ensure the sell and try for an upsell.
DVD's definitely didn't use up the entire 4.7GB. A movie was anything from 700MB to 1GB
Very nice, thank you for creating this! I love how it looks on mobile device, definitely will start using it.
China's digital currency revolution – China Tonight – ABC News [video]
What an awesome execution. This app goes to show how you can build an excellent product even in a crowded market like Fitness. There must be gazillion workout builders out there, but OP's is the first one that I have seen which shows every exercise with example videos, and allows you to build exact workout you need without multiple google searches.
This was a thing and raised millions: https://breakingmuscle.com/tech-review-gympact-the-benefits-...
You don't need to enforce meritocracy. That's the beauty of it, it's based only on mutual consensus and transparency of information (a.k.a. free market).

Would you rather go to a doctor who's good at surgeries or one that's bad at surgeries? One that got into medical school because of affirmative action, or one that was discriminated against and still got in (e.g. Asian doctors in the US)? Would you rather go to a car mechanic that's amazing at juggling but bad at fixing cars, or one that's bad at juggling and good at fixing cars? See, the "definition of merit" just takes care of itself (driven by the self-interest of customers).
> You will need to elaborate on that.

My particular familiarity is with the German Democratic Republic. There were many true believers in communism, who in their attempt to construct a communist utopia created and contributed towards a police state.

Jordan Peterson said it shows arrogance to suggest that people just weren't doing communism right, and that if only they got the theory right, then they would usher in the utopia.

I would tend to agree.

> Which should be temporary, right? Do you have an example where it was actually temporary? That would answer my point above.

Your point was to assert that communism has never been tried.

Mine was that it has been tried, and is always unsuccessful. So the failure of temporary dictatorships is proving my point, not yours.
So I actually made an effort to read the Wikipedia entry [0] (I should have done that before shooting my mouth off here) and it's supposed to be about the moral emphasis we place on an active decision vs a passive one - do you passively let the trolley proceed towards the five babies, or intervene and direct it to the distinguished scientist instead? In that case, I think I understand what it's trying to get at, and how this example (the GTP Trolley) fails to capture that.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
Related thread a week ago: 'Entropy: A little understood concept in physics [video]' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36560104

I read "Hour of Our Delight: Cosmic Evolution, Order, and Complexity" by Hubert Reeves as a teenager which I can also recommend. That's how I learned about the low entropy sunlight converted to higher entropy IR radiation on earth, allowing complex life to exist without breaking the 2nd law of thermodynamics. So I was happy to see it talked about.

Now, life seen as an entropy-increasing system was a really interesting take on the topic! Until now my understanding was that it's the universe expansion that actually sorta decreased the local "entropy density" and allowed to radiate low entropy IR in the ever colder empty space in the first place.
Tesla has far more then 10GW installed globally.

That said, I am against using batteries, specifically lithium batteries for grid stabilization. I much rather not have grids that need that, sadly politically this is where we are going. To actually have grid stabilizing on a large scale with batteries, new battery technologies will have to come online. Things like 'Form Energy' and stuff like that. Neither batteries nor hydrogen currently are actually good solutions. Hydrogen has a bunch of issues in this application and if you look at totally deployed vs batteries its tiny. Again, reality doesn't seem to believe hydrogen is this great grid stability solution.

I rather have nuclear and not need anything other then maybe some Lithium for peak shaving and grid stabilization. But sadly we don't live in that reality, specially in Germany.

Germany has the delusional believe that they will get cheap hydrogen from Australia and Canada. Lots of plans and 'understanding' in reality Australia doesn't even have enough green electricity to make its own grid green, and they are way behind on things like electrification for cars, trains and trucks. Australia has a very, very, very long way to go, the idea that there will be some large cheap export of Green Hydrogen from Australia in my opinion is just fantasy pushed by some politically connected people in both countries who are selling a fantasy to get government money.

The claims from 2021 that by 2023 there will be all this green hydrogen from Australia, mmmhh we are in 2023 and I like to see some data on how much import there is from Australia right now. Again, lots of announcements, lots plans, lots of 'understanding' but tiny actual numbers.

Politically steel companies are under pressure to do something. They can mix hydrogen into their existing processes and make them slightly greener. Its kind of like Hybrid cars. It will make steel more expensive and many of the plans to really scale this relay on cheap green hydrogen to really be competitive. I'm not against it but I think moving to MOE is gone both cheaper and greener.

P.S:

> Germany, the country that is leading the fight against the global warming challenge in Europe

Pretty funny claims from the country with the dirtiest energy mix in Western Europe.
I don't memorize a phrase that expresses the opposite ("historical data" vs. "news") just because it's shorter.
> So would it be fair to say that category theorists are mostly concerned with categorizing things?

The more basic parts of category theory (which even many mathematicians won't be able to surpass) have in my opinion a slight element of this, even though in my opinion there is still more to even this basic level: getting the categorical perspective often gives you elucidations of various areas of mathematics in the sense that it often shows you how some "side definitions" that are studied in some mathematical area (i.e. definitions that are often mentioned in textbooks, but are not central to the study plan of the textbook) turn out to be more important than it seems without having the framework of category theory at hand.

But after you have reached this level, you can start formulating deep and far-reaching mathematical conjectures using category theory which would be hard to formulate and appreciate without category theory. Here, category theory goes far beyond categorizing things: new categorical abstractions and conjectures formulated in terms of them often become deep new generalizations of topics studied in long-existing mathematical areas.

Just to be clear: this is for mathematics.

For computer science, I rather doubt that if the problems that you are working on are not suitable for formulating in terms of category theory, new definitions that would be hard to formulate without category theory are helpful for the computer science topic that you work on. In this sense: in my opinion most currently existing applications of category theory in computer science are indeed about categorizing things.
This doesn't seem like a technological issue at all, unlike Fax machines. Unless I'm missing something, this is basically like the old-fashioned "singing telegrams" in the US, except without the singing part: you're just hiring a person to deliver a message in-person and read it aloud. The message isn't being transmitted over actual telegraph wires.
I wonder if it's one of these cases where a company believes themselves to be bigger and more important than they really are.

Evernote probably have a stronger brand in Europe, Bending Spoons brand is that they are the company that bought Evernote.
I don't see a reason to believe this. A lot of my examples went unaddressed.
I grew up in an agricultural area and the water was completely untreated. It was literally a canal from the river that was then sprayed onto fields. It wasn't uncommon to have to clean out small fish from the irrigation pump's filter. Sometimes you'd lose water pressure completely and have to drive down to the irrigation ditch and clean a racoon carcass or something out of the intake grate.
> As a German software engineer I've got to ask: are we?

One thing I noticed about German office culture (I worked with a bunch of multinationals) is that there's much less chit-chat and more focus on the work to be done, relatively to Anglosphere (Irish/Uk at least) office culture.

I could certainly see how this would lead to approximately the same output even with less hours.
> In the UK for example it's about 35k GBP

Any source for this as it’s very different to what I’ve seen.
Do they have a point? I don't think so.
I have created: https://contract-signatures.com
It's completely free to use, works without any login or signup!

One of the most enjoyable challenges during the development process was ensuring the PDF documents are temper proof (sealed). Traditionally, some companies charge exorbitant fees, up to $10,000 for a 1-year certificate.
However, through meticulous research, we discovered a three-year certificate for a fraction of the cost, like $600. It offers the same level of functionality.
I had to contact every company from Adobe Approved Trust List: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/approved-trust-list2.html
To set up the necessary Hardware Security Module (HSM), we opted for Google HSM, which costs just a few bucks a month.
I know about the book, I just think it's cool there's an actual Python version now so I upvote.
The idea that policing (or at least anything we would recognize as policing today) is necessary in society is from a universal opinion and certainly has not been the reality for most of human civilization.

"Abolish the Police" is not rhetorical. https://archive.ph/6E7mY
Their reasoning makes no sense, because they assume LGBT = gay men & trans women.

The probably not is in reference to PFAS making people LGBT not to people being feminized.

Thanks for the very basic explanation of endocrinology, unfortunately it does not support the OPs claim, you're at worst arguing with an invisible post or at best, stating something that doesn't disprove anything in my claim.

And I'll reiterate the claim is not that PFAS does not feminized people, the claim is that if we were to see it affecting our sexuality, SPECIFICALLY making us move from being straight to LGBT then we should see be able to see clear data showcasing how females produce more testosterone & having more male-align brains which would make them more likely to become Lesbian, Trans or Bisexual against control - which to my knowledge no study have shown.

>This is also why soy products may increase breast size in men but not in women

If you mean breast size as in they work out and get bigger muscles in the chest area because of protein that came from soy-based products, then yes I agree.

If you're making the argument that it increases estrogen because soy contains "plant estrogen" then no afaik you're wrong.[1][2]

[1]https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(09)00966-2/pdf

[2]https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(10)00368-7/pdf
Channels in C# are just a regular library, it would be overkill to introduce syntax changes to the language just for this. Btw, you have other ways to get the producer-consumer pattern in .Net, Channels are just one of the various options but you also have BufferBlock from System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow (with a more complicated API).

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/parallel-p...
The Pylos Shipwreck
Things "worked" by the virtue of being able to snoop on everything and inject anything; which is exactly what is wrong about the approach.

On the other hand, Rome wasn't built in a day either. You want to do it right, not quickly. The final solution will be there for decades, so it better be not drag on maintenance and further development. Especially one, where the requirements are not so clear (no, register random key combo by random client isn't going to be it).