skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An introduction to a concrete skill that would at one time have been padded out to fit into an hour long movie or lecture might become a 30 minute youtube video and then a 30 second tiktok,

> it's beautiful to see.

I totally agree. Fleshing out subject matter is seen everywhere, films, books, education, and what the internet has delivered is near instant communication, and access to a much wider array of knowledge and things to see and do. More people can travel the world with ease and relative low cost, so why not try to be more informed about the laws and culture.

When I look at a country that I might want to visit, I have never seen a TL;DR of their laws for inhabitants or tourists, so that puts me off travelling because I dont want to fall foul of the law.

I have however been able to establish that some parts of the German Autobahn has no speed limit when conditions permit, and there is extra car insurance which can be purchased if one is wanting to drive at faster than normal speeds.

The same goes for driving on the Nordschleife, there is an extra insurance option available to purchase in case an accident happens when driving around there.

Considering all the tech and knowledge that exists and Google, the information is still incredibly fragmented, but some of the older professions like law and medicine rely on this knowledge being fragmented in order to justify their existence and I think it gives away their subconcious bias.
Again, you’re not answering the person who asked but every person who ever will. Some of them will be asking because the “right way” is not an option in their situation.
You don't need to be logged into Steam to play the games it serves you.
Of course, the best reason to dedicate less time to work, learn and effort.
They tried in URSS, didn't work, but hey maybe the next time...

As humans we still don't learn.
Good luck with that. It's essentially blackmail, just like with the "roll NATO back to 1991, remove anti ICBM systems from Eastern Europe" outrageous requests. It's easier and more effective to weaponize Ukraine and harden NATO's Eastern flank. The US in contrast with Russia respects the memorandums it signed, like the Budapest memorandum.
I was in the beta of stack overflow (my numerical id is <2000): it was always toxic and counterproductive, and I stopped seriously using it a year or so into its life (this may have been before it left beta, I don't remember).

It is still the best place to find a lot of answers (though their piece of the pie is rapidly shrinking), but participating in the system was never fun.
> you can click out to cancel the tour

This is great! Finally an implementation that I can cancel and restart whenever I want. Thank you for making this.
I assume it would go about as well as complaining to Comcast representatives in the famous South Park episode.
Is it using GPT-4? I couldn't see the model they use mentioned on the website.
Cant you install another OS on those machines? Like LineageOS, or something like that. My Android tablet is really old, but with LineageOS it still has a fairly recent Android version.
How can it be a failure when it isn't out yet?
Moreover, besides their history, the E-cores continue to be sold using the Atom brand, for instance "Intel Atom® x7425E" (the industrial variant of the Intel N100, one of the Alder Lake N models).
It's interesting to me that the ones who really have a problem with this change are those who already left Twitter. But, having removed themselves from being the target demographic and already indicated that they won't return; I'm very much in agreement with you here that these changes are now much more with the flow.
Seeking a Technical Co-Founder for a Disruptive AI Startup
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I'm in search of a technical co-founder who is passionate about AI, has a strong background in machine learning and data science, and is excited about the prospect of shaping the future of data interaction.

As we're pre-revenue, the role would initially be equity-based, with a salary introduced post-fundraising. This is a unique opportunity to join a startup at an early stage and have a significant impact on its direction and success.

If this sparks your interest and you're excited about the prospect of transforming the data landscape, I'd love to connect and discuss more privately.

Looking forward to hearing from potential tech leaders ready to embark on this exciting journey with us!

Email: yash.personal.connect@gmail.com
Co-founder Matching URL: https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder-matching/candidate/o...

Best,
Yash Sharma
Like Humans Do – David Byrne [video]
Still quite niche, not a lot of good marketing around them other than you look goofy when you use them, they make you sici/nauseous, you need a lot of space, you need a powerful pc, relatively unknown which apps/games run in VR etc

Every point shrinks the target market

Now we have apple with their exclusive vr headset and this will alienate more people until the market stabilizes - maybe like what happened with touch screen phones in the 10s
Out of curiosity: what programming language are you searching for?

I never had problems finding SO answers for C++.
Compiling Llama2.C to WebAssembly for Cross Platform Lightweight Deployment
Besides suffering from mod hell, I stopped answering SO questions mostly because:

1. it takes time to write a good answer;

2. fast copy-paste answers, often wrong, get upvoted anyway;

3. picking the accepted answer, out of many, is done by the person who asked it... who usually doesn't have the knowledge to do this!

4. also many times no answer is accepted, like the person who asked it stopped bothering.

And the hard blowback for that old post on how to game the SO point race, instead of SO trying to figure out how to fix their broken system.

Just like SO was a move out of Experts Exchange and others, this is a good time for the community to start a post-SO Q&A site.
moscovia starts from mongols. that was novgorod, belarus, lithuania, kiyv who fight mongols and moscovites vassals. moscovia is not original or originals off russia you think of.
This incentive was always there, from day one. It was a classic thing to put the most basic answer as possible in as quickly as possible just to get it out the door and then refine it later, because whoever posts the answer first would have theirs shown first presuming no upvotes.
Show HN: Rails' Sixth Sense – Unravelling the mystery of the autoloaders
A two-part series on how file autoloading works in Rails (including an explanation of what ‘zeitwerk’ really is)

WARNING: contains badly drawn cartoons.
Hijacking this, kind of off-topic:

I might have a chance to visit the Tokyo Game Show in September, and I'm wondering if it's worth my time, or will it just be a purely commercial venue with no hands-on experience.

If it's even remotely like the Bitsummit described in the OP then that would be awesome.

Some background: I'm not a gamer, I simply don't have the time to be one, but I'm very interested in gaming news, game engines, and well, games. I also don't know Japanese, unfortunately, I'm just visiting Tokyo for a short time.

Anyone been to a previous Game Show (or a similar big event) and can say if it's worth it?
I think one of the major problems preventing a tech breakup is that every politician has a portfolio in an index fund and they all know how top heavy in the same seven tech companies that portfolio and the SP500 is. You have the people that should be breaking tech up afraid to do so because their own personal finances would suffer. I don’t know how we get around that problem. It involves personal integrity and putting your own gains below the greater good- both things politicians aren’t known for.

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...
$$$

PCs are expensive. You spent ~$1500 on a good uptodate setup. Now a Valve Index will cost another $1000. Not worth it
for the niche.
So many people are harsh Google critics, yet still never use duckduckgo, don't try to migrate from gmail, or stick to firefox.

Complaining is easy, but apparently even small compromises like these are hard.
>Then again, maybe the EU should just invest money in Ubuntu or similar as well as some office365/google education alternative and then run Linux on the “chromebooks” our schools buy.

As long as this is paid with the salaries of the EU busybodies instead of my own money I'm okay with it.

Other than that, let us have free commerce, thank you very much.
WordPress Optimization Guide
That line is not (primarily) about lack of features, but about its engine being the only option on iOS.
Detailed Rigid Body Simulation with Extended Position Based Dynamics

https://matthias-research.github.io/pages/publications/PBDBo...

A new way of doing real time physics that dramatically outperforms state of the art by simply introducing a new algorithm. No crazy AI or incremental improvements to existing approaches.
Google Web Environment Integrity draft draws developer rage
> Like, the whole point of an option type, an X | None, is that None is not an X, and means something different.

Absolutely not! X|None does not mean X is never None. It's just a logical union (∪) from school. In this case it means "all possible values of X and also None if it was not in X".

For example, a function may take something like "Indexable<T> | Iterable<T>", and it is fine if it is passed Vector<T> which is _both_ Indexable<T> and Iterable<T>, the sets are not disjoint.

I think this is the root of our mutual misunderstanding.

> I don't think there's any universal notion of "absent" that applies to every function in a single program, much less every program.

I agree it's sometimes hard to maintain the same semantics over a codebase, but that's because software architecture work is hard.

Number 5 should mean approximately the same over the entire codebase, and for sure programmers will find a way for it to mean different things in different parts of the code, but that's what makes it a sloppy code that is difficult to maintain!

Similarly, if None means different things in different parts of a program, that's not a fault of mathematical logic or union types, that's just sloppy programming!
> There are many technical questions that give the very strong impression that somebody is asking how to shoot themselves in the foot.

Sure, but some of the stuff I've looked up in the past is answered with helpful comments like "You won't need to do this, your CA will do this for you" or "this is handled by your certificate verification stack, you don't need to be involved in this stuff".

Well, thanks, but I'm actually implementing both of those things right now and I'm having an annoying issue with figuring out how the API for the (very popular but IMHO poorly documented) library I'm using for part of it hangs together.

> Yes, people sometimes overcorrect for this which can be annoying, but they are only trying to steer newbies away from shooting themselves in the foot.

I think sometimes its because comparatively the respondents are newbies, and are repeating received wisdom.
For now it's best as an IDE for repo (github, azure) code.

But I guess it won't be long before they (microsoft) make virtual envs available on Azure, so you can Run and Debug.
That would kick a storm in the Dev world.
The Template Toolkit
I thought I was depositing a billon dollars with the real bank, turns out it was fake. The bank now owes me a billion dollars.

This works for me.
> asking about the best way of doing X

To be fair, English is not my native language. But when I see a question “what’s the best way of doing X”, when it doesn’t have any criteria for what’s the best would be, and no other ways of doing X in the question, I consider “what’s the best way” part a redundant figure of speech. I view such questions an equivalent of “what’s a good enough way of doing X”.

> it's asking about a code solution, not just maths/combinatronics

Please read this: https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic According to that article, questions about math which don’t imply a code solution are offtopic on stackoverflow.com. They should be closed, and possibly moved to other stachexchange sites. According to that article, the OP’s question is good. The question was about a specific programming problem, and is a practical, answerable problem unique to software development.

> can already try to think about brute-forcing it

I’m not sure that’s actually possible to do.
This is precisely what kept me away asking anything on SO. It is so much easier and quicker searching on or figuring out by myself than preparing a question defensively and then answering all the questions about why asking about that thing and the road getting there.

When I find a straight and relevant answer that is great, I like browsing SO, but I wouldn't dream having a question just to find myself in a word duel with some very eager contributor steering me into his favourite domain. I want to get ahead with a task not being in the quest of finding The Ultimate Solution or having a social life over interesting and related topics.
I love my quest but I don't have the space in my house to safely play the more energetic games and it can't be used outside. I would love to see a headset that can cope with being used in the sun.
Not everyone has ID, and not everyone wants to provide ID, and some people have multiple IDs in different names.
You can buy a quest and don't need a PC for $300.
Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years
Had a small existential crisis reading this - Mixer was birthed (rebranded) in 2017 and closed down in 2020.
Cal Newport on Kurt Gödel's Time Management Notebooks
I have to disagree. Your example illustrates that the quality demands of Harvard entry have declined and it's reasonable to assume that other universities have also become more open, as you claim. You're right about that. Universities are less elitist than they used to be.

Nevertheless, the overall demands in higher education have increased tremendously and the courses have also become more focused. In most disciplines, what formerly would have counted as a Ph.D. Thesis is nowadays at M.A. level. I've been in committees for hiring postdocs and Ph.D. students in the humanities, and it's insane what kind of demands are put on the students. I know some center of excellence in my discipline that (unofficially) requires one publication in a good international journal to be taken into consideration as a Ph.D. student. The majority of postdocs who apply for a one year grant nowadays have CVs that would almost certainly have made them assistant professors 30 years ago. There are also more courses and more subjects to learn because progress in science has accelerated very rapidly. For example, someone who studies CS nowadays will learn proofs in complexity theory that used to be cutting edge research 40 years ago.

Overall, I don't buy your negative claims. Over-achievers can quickly finish their undergraduate studies and will move on. At most universities it is possible to cram your curriculum and exams and pass "easy" undergraduate courses very quickly. Lack of elitism is an imaginary problem, probably often made up for political reasons. If you want to see real problems, look at the high student fees, accompanying debt, and the resulting desire to focus on practical job skills and overly fast-paced studies. These are detrimental to science, of course.
https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/blob/master/dietpi/dietpi...

For those who are curious. I have to admit, this is never something I'd have done myself, but I struggle to justify a more complex approach.
IMHO the entry to VR is for most people to cumbersome.

- you should try it first to check how bad your motion sickness gets when playing. If you have it bad, all your bought VR equipment is unusable.

- you need specific hardware for it which (mostly) only works for gaming (and maybe porn). Putting 400+ bucks into the hardware for that sole purpose is to much for most people.

- you need a dedicated place for it. You can play it sitting down, but that's not even half the fun of VR.

I have a VR headset myself and really like it, but even for me it's a hustle to free up the space and set everything up for a session. I rather pick up my steamdeck and play wherever I might be.
> So if you root an Android phone and get flagged by the Android Integrity API, several types of apps will just refuse to run.

That's just messed up. If like saying if your car detect you have been doing maintenance yourself, you can use this particular brand of carburetor because they will refuse to work.

And they want that... for the web?
That does not apply when some cores are reserved for manual thread assignment, because the scheduler no longer throws pigeons in those holes, but schedules threads only on the other cores.
Yeah, that is a significant problem. Wear and tear on the main chassis (is that what it's called?) of the car also isn't making it much safer as time goes on.

Though, I suppose there's also fuel efficiency to consider as well.

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.
I literally achieved that multiple times.
So, regular humans, right? I am unsurprised.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy

hope this helps :)
I have to disagree with Firefox... in terms of functionality and configurability it's by far and away my preferred browser but in terms of performance it just crunches to a crawl on my Mac. Load times of pages are absolutely fine but changing tabs crunch , scroll down the webpage judder freeze whereas Edge is just silky smooth.

Maybe it's an extension or three I'm running but I just want to use the bloody thing not sit there and figure out what extension is not working nicely (and then potentially find out it's none of them) on one platform but is fine on another.

Every so often I go back and have look to see if it's improvised but it hasn't in the last few years for me.
It's funny how they frame laws and regulations designed to prevent companies from abusing people's rights as a "larger societal debate". Yes, the debate is between people who want companies to respect their rights and companies who don't wanna. That's not a debate and framing it as such is just an obvious attempt to narrativize their stance for lobbyists. Also "perfect privacy" is a red herring (binary fallacy or what is it called?) because the compromise between no privacy and perfect privacy doesn't have to be "Google gets to harvest users' data against their wishes".
Using white paint that reduces the temperature on a roof and the building beneath it is a brilliant and innovative approach to tackle the urban heat island effect. This energy-efficient solution helps reflect sunlight away, significantly lowering the heat absorbed by the roof and subsequently reducing indoor temperatures. It not only benefits the building's occupants with a more comfortable living environment but also contributes to energy conservation and environmental sustainability. Implementing such eco-friendly practices can pave the way for more climate-conscious solutions in urban planning and construction.
> ... demanding they teach the curriculum he believes is correct.

I mean, there's objective truth here; "he believes is correct" is a distortion of the facts. LGBTQ people actually do exist. Suing a school district and opposing the legislation of a state that's trying to erase classes of people from existence seems like a reasonable thing to do.

The Temecula school district in question decided they wanted to remove gay-rights activist Harvey Milk from the state-approved curriculum. Are we going to be willfully naive (or just flat-out bigoted) and suggest that they wanted to do that for any reason other than not wanting their kids to know homosexuality exists?

In the case of Florida, if teachers are allowed to discuss heterosexual relationships (even just simply talking about "mom and dad") in the classroom (which of course they are), legally requiring that they pretend homosexual relationships don't exist seems a bit absurd, no?

I'm not buying any of this as liberals trying to restrict free speech. If anything, it's the opposite: what if teachers wanted to teach the material the Temecula school board decided they wanted removed? What if teachers in Florida don't want to be afraid that they just might say something about a homosexual relationship and get fired?
Where I live there are many new plant-based junk foods every year (not something I'd eat every day or week, but useful and welcomed sometimes).

Just in the last year I've had some plant-based bacon and sausages that my SO refuses to eat for being "too meat-like".

> I think it's better to accept that most people will get halfway there

Agree ... stepping stones.

> a lot of flavours that you must forget

A lot of those flavours are spices, and methods of preparation. Have you tried eating raw meat or unsalted cheese?
Interesting article. I’ve been following AI news pretty closely since last December, but I still learned some things. The following passage in particular stood out:

“After [GPT-4] finished training, OpenAI assembled about 50 external red-teamers who prompted it for months, hoping to goad it into misbehaviors. [Sandhini Agarwal, a policy researcher at OpenAI] noticed right away that GPT-4 was much better than its predecessor at giving nefarious advice. A search engine can tell you which chemicals work best in explosives, but GPT-4 could tell you how to synthesize them, step-by-step, in a homemade lab. Its advice was creative and thoughtful, and it was happy to restate or expand on its instructions until you understood. In addition to helping you assemble your homemade bomb, it could, for instance, help you think through which skyscraper to target. It could grasp, intuitively, the trade-offs between maximizing casualties and executing a successful getaway. ... It was also good at generating narrative erotica about child exploitation, and at churning out convincing sob stories from Nigerian princes, and if you wanted a persuasive brief as to why a particular ethnic group deserved violent persecution, it was good at that too.

“Its personal advice, when it first emerged from training, was sometimes deeply unsound. ‘The model had a tendency to be a bit of a mirror,’ [Dave] Willner [OpenAI’s head of trust and safety] said. If you were considering self-harm, it could encourage you. It appeared to be steeped in Pickup Artist–forum lore: ‘You could say, “How do I convince this person to date me?” ’ Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology officer, told me, and it could come up with ‘some crazy, manipulative things that you shouldn’t be doing.’ ”
Who uses banking sites on their mobile?

Every financial i use (half a dozen) have an app
MBA = Mixed Boolean Arithmetic

This was not the first few things I thought of when I read the headline and started reading the article.