skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the fields have become more and more specialized over the years, and the technology has increased, it's gets more difficult to write about subjects without using jargon and more complicated visualizations. As mentioned in other comments, having journalists with a science background would definitely help.
I just skimmed it, personally I'm not convinced by what I saw: the premise that professional ethics is not personal ethics, while true, is not really meaningful to technical disciplines. In my engineering ethics and professional practice courses I never saw anything "nontechnical" in our ethics, most of it was don't do stuff you're not qualified for and awareness of applicable law.

The problem with ethics is that there is a vocal group that wants to turn their personal ethics into our professional ethics and impose on software a bunch of judgements that are super subjective (and thus outside the profession).

While I wouldn't be surprised to find professional conduct in other engineering disciples to be getting similarly hijacked these days, I think the only sensible way to professionalize software would be voluntary and technically grounded, not dealing with what you'd put in the realm of personal ethics at all.
Sort of like Indiana Jones!
> Whether you are spending or investing your time, it is a limited resource that you have allocated

that's just, like, your opinion, man
Maybe this is true for some of the advanced sciences. But when it comes to some of the topics that get the most news coverage (psychology, public health, economics) you're not dealing with controlled experiments. So much of it is just random sampling and double blind studies.

This work is good. But none of this work is particularly complicated or hard to understand - and so much of the "education" is busy work or learning the "inside baseball" of how to get meaningful results and how to get published.

When we are talking about "trust the scientists" no one is really arguing that nuclear scientists or aeronautical engineers don't know what they are talking about. We're really talking about whether we should listen to an epidemiologist just because they have spent so much time looking at these studies (often conflicting!) that they can squint their eyes when they look at a set of data and give a more qualified off-the-cuff opinion.
There was an incredible segment, I believe on 60 Minutes or CNN, of Bennett's final performance in New York City, assisted by Lady Gaga (I don't recall if she sang with him or not). This was whilst he was strongly affected by dementia, and though he showed confusion and cognitive difficulty before the performance, and didn't remember it the next day in a scene shot in Central Park, he absolutely came alive and hit the notes when on stage.

I've spent a couple of minutes trying to track down the segment on YouTube without luck. It's well worth watching however.

As someone who's not especially a fan of either Bennett or Gaga, I came away profoundly impressed by both.
Very nice! Was there a reason your school gave out Slackware installer floppies? Was it required for a class? Or through a student organization? And if you recall, were you running a Creative SoundBlaster? Ad Lib? Gravis ultrasound?
About ten years ago there was an Agile conference that published a hashtag where anything that used that tag would automatically get shown on the monitors around the building. 4chan found out, and well, things went predictably.

Automatic publishing is always going to be vulnerable to content poisoning.
With less punching.
https://i.redd.it/5a55lysqeddb1.png

The CVE had not received any analysis or ratings at the time. Now it has, and the patch has been merged.
-- Related --

IMAX movies still need a Palm Pilot to work - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36800223 - 2023-07-20 (9-comments)

Original Article : https://www.theverge.com/23801118/imax-movie-palm-pilot-oppe...

IMAX Still Runs on PalmPilot Operating System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36789643 - 2023-07-19 (6-comments)

Original Article : https://www.vice.com/en/article/88x5gb/imax-still-runs-on-pa...

IMAX projector motors are controlled using an emulated PalmOS app - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36781724 - 2023-07-19 (3-comments)

Original Article : https://twitter.com/LudyLotad/status/1681341878476718097
Not a rejection: https://i.redd.it/5a55lysqeddb1.png
Second distro I ever used, the first being Lasermoon. Prior to that, I used something that was a Linux 0.9 kernel and a bunch of disk images FTPed from some dude's server in Finland.

Back in the olden days it ran just fine on a Compaq Deskpro 386SX but needed a whopping 4MB of RAM.
Is this supposed to be after insurance? Otherwise I'd pass on a 40$ physical....
Costwise, sure. Pricewise for the person getting the exam, its insane.
Thank god for that, VR is one of the only spaces people are having fun developing in. Once it goes full corporate it will be just like everything else in software.
The entire point of this spec is that your alternative browser wouldn't be able to attest to its "integrity" unless it was exactly as locked down as the other ones. If you have some kind of rebuttal to the shared context we all otherwise have, maybe you should be the one forced to state it more plainly.
The Antagonists: The rise and fall of type-in text games
I just have to point out Disney was paying top dollar for swamp land. The whole deal worked because Florida and Disney invented a public private partnership based on Reedy Creek.

I’m not 100% sure but I believe the model is what birthed HOA and Gated communities.

Permitting certain freedoms made swamp land more valuable.
Consider also that resolution is only one factor. Bandwidth is another. Digital movies are often full of compression artefacts, especially when there's a lot going on in the scene.
The Hudson was a bird in an engine. The computer was working fine. Now imagine if you tell the computer to do X and it just ignores you. You have no actual control over the engines, flaps, etc. The computer does. And it ignores you...
Japan is famous for doing an extensive annual health check …
> How do we protest this?

Perhaps, make a web page with something like:

if(navigator.getEnvironmentIntegrity) window.location="[some URL with the protest]";
I think you fail to realize how the profitability of this industry subsidizes a lot of issues that look to be crisises on their own. Plastics being too cheap to make so we don’t really do recycling or reducing to name one.
They followed war events in a reactionary manner. It would be cheaper and transparent to set rates algorithmically. The Fed can stay in business by continuing to inadequately regulate banks like SVB.
> and that reporters could never become capable of doing it

I disagree for any current reporters who were selected by going to journalism school rather than by gaining expertise and then turning to journalism.
Yes, message boards / forums are the weak point of reader mode, and I haven't really found any good solution for cleaning them up, unless you want to go the route of injecting your own CSS styles.

But maybe you could give reader mode a shot again? At least in Safari it usually won't activate unless it is actually useful for a page. And soon enough after some use, you've whitelisted most domains that you don't want to use reader mode on.
This is a mandatory wellness check that is required for all insurance in the US since ACA came out in 2010 or so, right?

I don’t pay anything out of pocket for my annual physical and I have really bad insurance.

I think this is one of those prices that no one pays as insurance covers it, or you don’t have insurance and won’t be getting any wellness exams paying out of pocket.

I wonder if it’s this level just as a negotiating tactic with insurance. I didn’t look at my explanation of benefits, but I don’t expect my insurance paid anywhere near this much.
> After ~25 years of playing this sort of game, I am increasingly sympathetic to the idea that exponential-power leveling is just a busted mechanic. There's a variety of good ways to use it, but there isn't a great way.

Hero stories need to have a satisfying end, and I don't think many ARPGs acknowledge that this is even possible or design to allow it to coincide with the end of the story.

I imagine an ARPG designed to _end_ characters would level-gate content in such a way that unlocking, and defeating, the final content would be a satisfying end to the character. You would certainly be encouraged to start afresh, NewGame+ style, with a new character but it would be made clear that the character at the _end_ is also _finished_. Completed. Over. Done. The hero has finished their journey.

Ie, lock the character and have them just lounging around in a hub/town for your new characters to see.
They'll have to be, because there isn't enough lithium on the planet (that we know of) to meet the expected demand.
All I'm hearing is that you don't like the price and think that justifies stealing.
I sure wish I had the opportunity to be "exploited" in game development when I was a teenager.
That's a you problem.
Wine is too much for us to handle. I know because I drank 5 bottles last night and it was damaging to my health.
Simple: Stop believing it’s true just because a scientist said it.

You don’t need a STEM degree to stop propagating theories before they’re proven.
I'm glad Apple implemented dark mode so I don't have to keep on hearing about that complaint in every Apple discussion.
I really think that 1.5x is a small price to pay to know that nobody suffered to produce this.

I also think that if you believe the price of asparagus is 100% farm labour, you’re mistaken.
If I have my metabase installation protected behind oauth with G suite am I protected from these kinds of vectors?
https://civitai.com/

Interesting, this is the first I've heard of it. It does appear to be compelling, however.
TH3P4G3 Thunderbolt eGPU Dock Review (2022)
It's a tourist trap because some rich people had vacation homes up there and banned cars before they became popular.
Well, it depends. Are you getting it immediately? Because a lot of "countries" with alleged healthcare simply delay it and you have to fight a bureocracy shield and even the paid insurance sucks and tries to use the public one.

USA is terrible at healthcare for those that don't have a safety net but many countries, such as UK, are terrible for the middle income/stable job types, because you don't even have options (unless you pay a fortune) without months on end.

It's just a different type of scam.

There's definitely better implementations.
My take as well. And you don't have to be an expert to be skeptical.
Apple did LLVM and WebKit, which seem far more important than React and PyTorch.
GCs are pretty easy, and just a matter of good accounting. That is, until you start doing concurrent GC then it becomes hellishly difficult.
You bought it. You could have bought literally almost any other device.
It doesn't. And humanity doesn't need a biopic.

There is a saying by German film maker Alexander Kluge:

He who wants to express something has to in turn impress something.

And having the resolution of 70mm film certainly helps with the impeession part. Whether artistic expression is actually needed is a different more philosophic question. I'd say yes, but I studied art, so I am biased.
> but it's not really the main issue.

Isn't reducing CO2 emissions as fast as possible the only issue in town when it comes to the climate crisis?
We haven't added anything. The sun did. We need new methods to control it.
For sure, I definitely recall how space constrained things felt back then. Still, five megabytes of traffic per day doesn’t feel like much of an allowance, even back then. I guess it was really just intended for text-only personal pages. I wonder what kind of hardware their web server was hosted on…

I bet you’re definitely right about my ISP being on a T1. What was bandwidth on those, 1.5 Mbps? I don’t blame them for kicking me off either.
Did you know that all his sub cutaways are drawn in MS PAINT? It’s amazing to watch.
You are stated this as a fact, can you provide a reference?
It be nice if they split the game. They already have a Hardcore mode, so they could just split the ruleset. "Normal" could have things like level-gated areas, unlimited respecs, and a stronger focus on group play and HC could remain an infinite grind… which I think HC players would enjoy, since it would give them more cred and let them look down on mere casuals.
It is not 10 times the price; you are just paying in a different manner.
Wow forgot about that, How many times did the Slashdot trolls have the "BSD Is Dying" posts over the years?
https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h706 for the other study
I'm sure Michael Schillenbergee has some opinions that he in no way financially benefits from spreading.
I don't know what ".bs" denotes, and I cannot find anything relevant on Just Solve The File Format Problem.
Is this really a war? Does this really affect tech or society in any meaningful way?
I wish we rephrased stuff by mentioning actors:

“Our careless actions have resulted in an unprecedented and alarming heatwave in the sea.”
They don't let you hide it from the IRS, only the general public.
My pet theory is that all personality disorders are essentially ingrained responses to conditioning which could adequately be described as CPTSD, roughly categorized into the different types based on the types of trauma complexes experienced and the learned responses to them.
I’m still pretty convinced that the only compelling use case for VR in the short-to-medium term is gaming despite both Apple & Meta apparently trying their hardest to pretend otherwise!

Having said that, perhaps this move indicates that Meta are finally acknowledging that’s where they should have been focusing their efforts all along?
My first Linux distro was Slackware. I tried downloading it but my modem was too slow and people in the house kept picking up the phone. So, I supported OSS by purchasing a copy from, I want to say, Walnut Creek sometime around 1995. I still had the 7 disks 10 years ago or so. They are probably still around here somewhere.

I learned so much from Slackware and basically owe my livelihood to it. Everything from compiling the kernel to trying (and failing) to get X11 working. On the flip side, I'm super glad I don't have to do that anymore and can just use Linux without having to fiddle with the internal parts.
The current court is very right wing and religious. It has overturned multiple previous rulings of more liberal courts.
There are tons of educational videos on YouTube. And maybe Facebook too, or connections being made there, I don’t use it though.

Either way, I have learned how to do many things from watching instructional YouTube videos, and it does not seem anyone else has been able to make the economics work like Google has.

Sure, there’s bad too along with the good, and maybe the bad outweighs the good, although I would need convincing that is true.
I prefer the iOS app to the website too.

Plus you can use Siri to Ask ChatGPT stuff. Can’t do this through the web interface.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7993358-chatgpt-ios-app-...
We are going through a very active solar cycle reaching the probable maximum. The sun is pumping out a lot more energy than normal. To ignore the sun as a relevant factor for warmer summers seems just bad science.

Initially, peak activity was forecast to begin in July 2025. Now, experts believe the cyclical peak is more likely to take place in mid- to late 2024.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/14/world/solar-maximum-activ...
Poverty rates worldwide have been going downward at a decent pace since the late 1800s, and really started plummeting faster between the mid-1990s and today. Here are some cheery graphs:

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief

That doesn't mean that everyone is rich, but it is actually a really big deal. Next time you're tempted to write a phrase like "watching the world becoming ever more desperate" when talking about poverty, please take a moment first to remember that the opposite is true.
> if not in absolute terms at least relatively, and that’s enough to make people feel poorer.

Feelings aren't really the problem. The government is controlled by relative wealth, not absolute wealth. When the winners control the rules of the game, the outcomes are obvious.
I can only imagine in that era there was quite a bit more learning forced upon you than these days with our plethora of (somewhat) standards-compliant hardware and in-tree drivers. Though I'm definitely going to be channeling some of those experiences as I got a kernel-panic during the first boot after installing Slackware 15.0 on a newly built AMD B550 chipset / AMD Ryzen 5700G -based PC. I'm thinking its likely something to do with a combination of LILO, an NVMe interface SSD and EFI/CSM but I hope to get to the bottom of it. Worst case scenario, I perhaps can update the kernel via the bootable ISO as that was stable as a rock during the install.
Perhaps they shouldn’t.
Haven't been on any social media platform since I deleted my Facebook account in 2004. My exposure consists entirely of following links to Tweets. Even during this small exposure I'm blown away by how much of a cesspool it is, it's like I can smell it through my screen.
At least you have a doctor, all I've got is a spot on a waiting and walk-in clinics you can't walk-in to without making an appointment in advance!
Generative AI is now built into every Google search result I do, including via the search bar permanently available on my home screen.
I agree (for quest 2 being the most interesting gadget in this space), quest 2 sold 10s of millions of devices and arguably came closest to making VR mainstream although they have much more ground to cover. Would be interesting to see the sales figures for their upcoming quest 3 , if it can sell as much or more units than quest 2 , I think there is a chance all this investment would be worth it. Ofcourse a cheaper consumer apple vision headset could easily come in and eat metas lunch.

Edit: copies-> devices
Sure, but the definition of "transactional" must be expanded to such a degree for the statement "human relationships are transactional" to be true, that the word ceases to have any real linguistic function. You might as well say "human relationships are defined by how people relate to one another."

And indeed, this is usually how such discussions about this topic proceed, with someone opening with the narrow definition of "transaction" - not necessarily monetary, of course, but at least two well-defined sets of things that two people intend to trade (and where a withholding from one party would result in a cancellation of the deal) - and then as you point out more and more human behaviors that don't work like this, they retreat to the point where, for example, a parent taking their child out for ice cream is a "transaction" because the child wanted ice cream and the parent wanted to do something nice for their child.

If that's your working definition of "transaction" then fine for you, but you can't then make some argument that it's neoliberal economics that best reflect human nature and fulfill human needs because of its insistence that all economic activity be mediated by a free market (i.e. a forum supposedly for the free and open proposal and settlement of transactions). The "transaction" of one, is not the "transaction" of the other: neoliberalism and indeed capitalism itself would not work even by their own internal logic if they assumed the same notion of "transaction" as that required of the statement "all human relationships are transactional."
Well the existing Quest Pro wasn’t exactly setting the sales charts on fire.

The Quest 2 is doing great (as VR sales go). Does anyone know how well the Pro did? I imagine very poorly.
Just like the iOS app, i think the only point here is that the app stores are terrible at filtering out imitators or fraudulent apps so if your product is as popular as ChatGPT is, unless you make a first-party mobile app then all the users searching for you in the app store will be finding and installing some other scammy apps that claim to be your product.

their customers expect an app. not having one is a risk.
> portable computer you could program and take with you in your pocket

This is exactly what Librem 5 is. It runs desktop an FSF-endorsed OS (Debian-based). My daily driver btw.
I think it's a bit unfair to say "for aesthetic reasons".

The article says it's because projectionists are familiar with the Palm Pilot UI (because to them it's just another tool), and rather than get them to re-learn a different UI, they used emulation to provide the same familiar UI on newer hardware.

We (technology/digital experts) take for granted our level of comfort in sussing out how a new UI works.
My annual physical cost me $30 with ACA bronze. The uncovered portion was from the blood testing place and not worth complaining about for me.
> What Blizzard wanted to avoid is having 4/5ths of the map no longer relevant because you're so far above the area level that you no longer get usable XP, loot or gold. In D3 there wasn't much to do at the high end other than run rifts.

Alternatively, they could have:

1. Distributed high-level dungeons across the map

2. Unlocked high-level quests across the map

They have an open world with dungeons and "caves", and an open world quest system; they could've leveraged that to get high level players to return.
> Imagine a bunch of Marvel fans mad over the last few Thor movies

I'd imagine a more likely scenario would be a bunch of fans of a cancelled Netflix show generate another season. There's already been a bunch of scripts for The OA Season 3 generated by ChatGPT.
This is true for everything a journalist might cover.

They are not the expert, but still need to strive to find the truth of an issue they can relay to the public.

In this case, the underlying skill is, how do you detect and expose a cover up of inconvenient facts?

I don't know the answer to that question. But seems like a core skill of a journalist, regardless of the field being investigated.
And yet we have a quite higher life expectancy than the US
Yes I have done embedded programming. But that’s not what I am talking about. I am talking about building and compiling regular iOS apps on iOS itself.
Are you sure?

Doctor: € 25 (Of which you get at least half back)

Standard lab test: € 20 (Real cost is € 50 or something)

Still pretty far from € 400.
Google already lost the right to use goo.gl for their link shortening service. I'm not sure who would be a part of a potential coup, but it seems unlikely since Greenland has no military of their own, the military being provided by Denmark(a NATO member) who has already in the past allowed the US to station nuclear weapons on Greenland, despite being a party to the NPT.
We prevented it from escaping back into space. The sun didn't do anything different, we did.
One of the problems is that journalism just doesn't pay very well in general.

So news organizations may look for people with more experience in specific tech/science but I expect most people here would laugh at the comp and most aren't interested in paying for that news/writing themselves.

I do know tech journalists who are really good, but most of the people who write on deep technical topics either don't need the money or are doing it as a sideshow of their day jobs.

(Which, if they write for independent news organizations can be an issue. The WSJ reporter who basically uncovered the Theranos scandal quit because he couldn't give public speaking engagements.)