skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's been more than a decade get tested to see if it's gone.

I had a huge list of allergies developed in my late teens but now they're gone after a couple decades, due to natural age related changes in biochemistry according to the docs.
(1) Observe UK's decline

(2) Take whatever you don't like about the UK, ignore the rest, and write an article with no scientific causal inferences whatsoever about how the things you don't like caused (1).

(3) Let everyone argue about how "no no no, it was the things I don't like that caused it--not the things you don't like."

I have a friendly reminder that life and society are very complicated. Even with ample data and decades of scientific inquiry, for example, we only have dubious theories as to why crime declined in the 90's so much, and the most plausible ones were not evident until a decade after the fact. Anyone simplifying the UK's economic decline with convenient political talking points is a charlatan.
Tks! Looks interesting!
> Government agencies are created to fix problems. If they fix the problem they are downsized.

Typically, sizable problems that need solving do not stay fixed. Issues that have broad impact are likely either chronic or will morph into new problems.

Downsizing in the face of a chronic problem seems unwise. So does downsizing to ignore the the offshoot (or new variant) of the problem.
My opinion (which partially matches what the article says).

* The country chose austerity at the time of negligible interest rates. They should have used that to make infrastructure reforms.

* The austerity not only prevented infrastructure improvements, but also actively made the country less prepared for things like covid and Ukraine war shock.

* Brexit. The idiocy of this act of self-harm is becoming clear to a large fraction of the population now.

* Overspending during covid. Because we had BJ as PM during that, Covid was managed pretty badly, with significant debt accumulation that we now have repay at high rates (because a lot of this debt was created in form of inflation indexed gilts)

* Series of bad governments over last 5 years. While Cameron was pretty bad, what we had since was really terrible. May, BJ, Truss, Sunak...

* Bad housing policy. Not enough housing and allowing extensive usage of housing as an investment vehicle (i.e. promoting Buy to Let).
Lack of housing in the US is almost entirely confined to select urban areas. There's no shortage of land or legal ability to build housing across most of the country but if you want to build an eight-story condo in San Francisco, you're in for an exhausting battle. Try the same in downtown Des Moines or Omaha, and you're probably going to get the red carpet rolled out for you. Try to build a single-family house in a rural area and most counties will primarily just care that you have a way to treat sewage and that you're following basic building codes (and in some places, they don't even care about the latter).
Not eating, though, inhalation of particulates into the lungs.
A lot of biotech startups begin like this - flagrant disregard for regulation, very fly by night, etc.
Web dev has so thoroughly revised the definition of 'API' it's not even funny.

Desktop, embedded, video games, HPC suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Well, this was the easy version, since there were a lot of clues.

I really think those tools should be banned, they're such an immense security problem.

I know those can be useful, and I understand that information should be free, but they can still do quite a good amount of harm.

Lesson: ALWAYS blur anything that could identify a street or anything when you post a picture online.
Here's my HN block extension for Firefox: https://gist.github.com/arp242/3159b9cbbbe148c786e1ca10adaae...

Also includes some other things like changed styling and whatnot; it's not really "for publication" and some tweaking may be required, but here it is. Load it manually via about:debugging.

You need to load a post by clicking on the date, and then you can click "bozo" or "block": the "bozo" just marks the post as someone being a "bozo" but doesn't block it. This is useful because everyone can have a bad day or whatever, and that's fine. It's people who consistently seem to be having "bad days" that are the problem – unfortunately there's a small group of highly prolific posters that I find consistently unpleasant, and with just ~20-30 people hidden like this (some of whom really ought to be banned IMHO) I found HN becomes a significantly better experience.

The main problem I have with this is that I can no longer flag or rebuff their posts (whichever may apply), so these people become the proverbial "missing stairs" if everyone starts doing it :-/
what is your concern over deleting existing accounts? that’s not how this works. if the data has been somewhere, it can be anywhere and everywhere. sure, try to delete what you know of, but the best thing to do is make less of it.

there are sites to look up usernames across sites, but keep in mind that using those is creating data.

no, my responding to you is not good OPSEC. but that’s boring.
I don’t see how you could possibly share the road between bike and car safely without clear separation.
I read an article some time ago that analyzed this in depth, and was very specific about a number of studies. I can't pull them out of my memory now, but I found the article very convincing.

The ones that were less rigorous might be ones that you would count is "non-reputable". But they are considered reputable to people working in the field of homeopathy, who believe them, and the article included studies with control groups. But, for instance, studies that weren't double-blind, even if they had control groups, got more "results" showing that homeopathy "worked" than studies that didn't.

And note that you can't really have double-blind studies for psychotherapy.
I think nostalgia might have rewritten your memory. Spinning rust disks meant apps would take 5-10 seconds to load, moving and resizing windows was laggy and left behind repaint artifacts, and anything network related took approximately forever
> You could disallow corporate ownership of dwellings of any sort

Does that mean no high density residential? I can’t see how individuals build apartment buildings.
The font is a modification of IBM's Plex open font, and is available here.

https://github.com/iaolo/iA-Fonts/
Students are classic bourgeoisie - often from well off families and tend to be pretty comfortable and not preoccupied by their next meal. Most student uprisings are derided for being so privileged but such is always the way. They say the 1968 French student movement was diffused because they left Paris to spend national holidays at their parent's holiday homes :)

They are also indicative of two other key predictive factors: elite over production and a demographic youth bulge.

Their lack of success is perhaps the power issue. If they waited a few years to become army officers, administrators, judiciary and such they could be much more successful than doing another sit-in!

The two notable rebellions in the US were by land / slave owners. Students are limited to basically SDS / The Weather Underground that didn't go very far.
I wonder if James Bond will have to start working for a different country.
Gettin' jiggy wit it
Sometimes it works, even if it takes decades. Notably marijuana legalization has been spreading state by state.
Yeah, how is it surprising that the country on the receiving end of the attack has a different viewpoint?

Given the lack of collective atonement for atrocities committed by the japanese, it feels like a form of whataboutism to me.

At the end of the day, both the allies and axis powers were constantly committing war crimes by targeting civilian pops. Hopefully this never happens again, but it’s not like it was unusual for any side at this time.
I wonder what this dude does for a living. It is definitely not running around ten hours a day – not self-determined, but externally determined – and in the evening the feet literally bleed. And that for 8.50 net an hour. That is what I did and since then, I admit, I do not want to work anymore.
> The democratic successes are equally good - South Africa

I'm not sure how rampant official corruption, cronyism, a skyrocketing murder rate [1], crumbling infrastructure, dwindling regional influence, and a deeply polarized civil society can be considered a democratic "success".

[1] - https://www.groundup.org.za/article/how-bad-murder-in-south-...

At 46 murders per 100k per year, it might just be the worst intentional murder rate in the world right now.
> The problem is "nations" don't represent the people in those nations

The hell they don't! And who are bigtech companies to decide who the legitimate leader or a nation is? Whatever government is recognized by your government as legitimate gets to call the shots over those people. Democracy is not a human right, and even if it was it is democratic nations that are demanding this to the most part. You don't get to claim you are really fighting for the people when you have no legitimate reason to make that claim. Even if the people wanted privacy at the cost of more harm to their fellow man, the people need to use the law to enforce that, either you have the rule of law, the rule of man or the rule of criminals.
Imperial Japan was pretty much fanatically supportive of war. I’m not saying the bombings were justified but the war would have been a lot longer without it and would have almost certainly been a lot deadlier on both sides.
FDA approves stuff all the time that has no efficacy
The book Pathogenesis published this year has a hypothesis -- diseases from the Neanderthals and other hominids who populated the regions outside Africa earlier wiped out the earlier waves of Sapiens.

Until diseases spread back and forth enough that Sapiens had enough immunity to non-Sapien diseases, but not vice versa (due to lower population density or less diverse fauna outside Africa) which wiped out the non-Sapiens populations outside Africa.
I would say that it's not an absence of democracy but a population skew. The Boomer demographic has been a majority stakeholder in UK elections for a long time, but it's changing naturally every year. Now you are starting to see more policies aimed at the next marginal voter group. However, it's true, we're in a mess, and none of the major political parties seem to have a viable strategy.
That's sort of a tricky question since most of the income and wealth of the upper crust of modern society is not expressed as a salary. The simple answer is no, but the fact that it's such a complex answer is itself indicative of a systemic problem.
There's a separate augmented reality mode which a) captures frames in real time to pinpoint your position and b) displays the video stream with overlaid 3D markings which show you the way.
Why Is that stupid? It’s like saying airports are for planes or ports are for boats. Yes there are other vehicles there but primarily the design criteria is cars
Correct, but such a person would normally still have/use text relay.
I found his video pretty dumb. Everybody is assuming the driver is shitty, but he tried is an officially unsupported[1] GPU with ROCm and it failed.
Big whoop.

He is a serial shit stirrer and this is no exception.

Did he try Windows?

As much as I hate that AMD is not really supporting consumer GPUs for compute, presenting his problems as some variant of production drivers breaking is a stretch at best.

[1]: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/release/gpu_os_support.h...
I _think_ this is more to do with calibrating the compass than precise location
These days I'd call it a FAFO-cracy. The duel wasn't important, it was the overall regulating effect on malice the potential consequences of a duel had. Bullies are practically defined as exploiting the external protection from present consequences they have. I'd argue the reason we don't have duels anymore is because we have so many lawyers in public office, and systems of honour and consequences tend historically to thin their numbers.
The post I am responding to mentioned providing a family of five with a self-owned house, a car, a couple of vacations per year and a comfortable retirement. To many people around the world - still today - that would be considered a luxurious lifestyle.

You are right that it's possible for one person to support a family. For most people working in the tech industry here on HN they could probably figure out a way to do it. But is it realistic for all families everywhere to be able to support themselves with just a single worker? If it were so simple to achieve, we would not see child labor. We would not see any poverty at all. Clearly we are not yet at the point as a species where we can enjoy a post-scarcity or job-free utopia. We could certainly be doing a lot more to work towards that than we are, though, and I think that's a more interesting point of discussion than looking back through rose-tinted glasses on a few decades of post-WW2 America.
No, you are confusing things together, because you believe in Whig Historiography.

In reality, most of the west is declining due to bad ideas and the rejection of good ideas that our people once held.

To return to ideas and traditions would not be to go back in time - noone can do that, rather to reinvent, to rejuvenate, and revive the good ideas of the past in the context of the present.
Depends on where you are looking for inflation, if you look at say S&P 500 performance during QE you will see most of the money supply creation directly lead to stock price inflation and largely lead to a huge bubble in the stock market (that is largely still there) where basic fundamentals of a company did not matter to the stock prices. You see the rise of alot of highly unprofitable companies which under normal conditions would mean lowering of their stock value but instead their stocks were still going up.

QE and other fed programs of the time where designed to ensure stock market inflation, and to prevent the collapse of Big Finance. That is where most of that money supply went, not to mainstreet which is where you would see CPI increases

Come to COVID and the money supply creation was done in direct transfers to Mainstreet, and almost immediately we see CPI go nuts...
If the area above the earth is many orders of magnitude larger than the earth’s oceans, and the oceans are vast in the extreme, what really are the chances of a collision given the relatively small amount of debris in orbit? One can easily find a debris map online. Compared to say “ships in the ocean” the number of “satellites in orbit” must be tiny. And the ships exist on a 2D surface, so are that much more likely to collide. With 3D to move in and such a vast area, what is the actual risk? To be clear I’m not saying there is no risk and I know about cascading debris collapse. I just doubt the whole thing, I’d really like to know if anyone has done the math here.
As a father of three empathetic geniuses, I promise you that bossing them around is counterproductive
In the spirit of making FFmpeg and video processing easier, we open-sourced a chat-based agent to assist video production - https://github.com/remyxai/FFMPerative
The "original/intended" layout was used a little bit on some Western releases in the early days: Final Fantasy 7 memorably has X as cancel and O as confirm, for example.

As others have pointed out, the "flipped" version eventually dominated to the extent that they changed it even in Japan, though maybe you can blame Sony's increasingly Western focus there.

Switching it for the West never really made any sense and has only ever led to more confusion than if they hadn't done it at all.
Wait until you find out 20% of the deaf are illiterate. Want to make the world more accessible, learn ASL and see to it the education and healthcare systems get real funding.

*Ironic typo mention below is fixed.
> While it may seem like I know what I'm doing now, when I started my first job 4 years ago, I was scared.

four years feels like a few blinks at this point.

fuck.
> You cannot convert a foreign owned Toyota auto assembly plant into a shipyard.

As long as it’s in the US—yeah, you can.
Working in most jobs sucks. Some people are lucky to have jobs they love, but that's the minority. I know that to be the prevalent sentiment even in top notch, AAA, "I can't believe they pay me to do this" companies such as Google, Apple etc.

If people had, for the sake of a thought experiment, a guaranteed 20K/month income and free healthcare no matter what they do with their life, it's very unlikely they will choose to work on regular jobs. They will instead generally pursue arts/crafts (including the craft of building computer programs in areas they are interested in), learning, exercise etc.
You technically could automate the process, but the website might have a captcha, but you could manually intervene and solve it yourself
The reason CBT is considered a gold standard in therapy is that it's supported by RCTs.
I think you might be on to something here! The biggest problem with whisper right now that kills a lot of use cases is the requirement that you send discrete audio files rather than streams.

However, if you have never had a textual relay conversation, one of the conventions is that each party needs to say/type "go ahead/GA" when they are done. If you can break upon catching that phrase, that might be sufficient for whisper usage!
We made $0 on our PH launch. Here's why?
The big question is: why do people still put a "Quit" MenuItem in their File menu ?
There will always be an editor which is an order of magnitude more popular than emacs or vim, because it is an order of magnitude better. It doesn’t much matter which one it is. People will switch to it, and be productive. And when something better comes along, they will move to that.
Thank you for reading. I'm looking to articulate what those standard processes and expectations are, and possibly find improvements. I'm hoping to share with you again when that happens.
There was a lot more interesting work 10+ years ago. All the interesting bits have been commoditized.
Why Musk Is Successful at Building EVs and Rockets, but Bad at Running Twitter
Brexit Could Be Reversed - Here's How
Repeating yourself thrice doesn’t turn you into a 3x developer
i knew it was about rust before i even opened this
"The APIs that developers will have to justify do things like see file timestamps or look at system boot times, among others. In Apple's words, these apps can be 'misused to access device signals to try to identify the device or user, also known as device fingerprinting.'"
On the smaller turbines I worked on, the speed of rotation was controlled by feathering the blades as you’d expect. Braking was also achieved the same way, with the friction brake acting as a “handbrake” once the blades were slow enough.

One thing that some people don’t consider is that the direction the turbine faces is also controllable and therefore used for braking. A lot of people think the turbine is blown by the wind to face the correct direction, but there is a separate wind direction sensor and a motor to turn the turbine.

The friction brake could be applied at speed, but that was for emergencies.
They did keep classic mode up till Windows 7. After that it must have just been too niche
At Caltech, I had the opportunity to get to know a real genius or two. They are for real.

Hal Finney was one. There were no discernible environmental or cultural factors at play. He was just off the charts.
> Yes more auditors for govt. Not more govt. auditors for business.

It was your example.

Explain then the point of your example, beyond “see, government must be incompetent.”

Because I see a leap of logic in saying “government (org) +government (audit)” incompetence implies “private (org) + goverment (audit)” incompetence.

Nevermind that all nuance was stripped away in making a one-liner.
This is my experience in Brazil.

Also, wasn't this golden age in the US fueled by concentrated demand for industrial goods after the second world war? Without an unprecedented imbalance in the economy I cannot see this happening.

Some people that hate imperialism also demand it's spoils back (?).
> That has a large IGP for some reason? That doesn't make much sense, as you mind as well use the dGPU.

But maybe the goal is to finally offer an H class SoC that doesn't need a dGPU?

RDNA 3.5 with up to 40 CU should be well into Apple SoC Pro/Max territory.
Hittite is also interesting because it provided one of the biggest validations of the methodology for reconstructing languages. Based on subtle patterns in vowels in other Indo-European languages, Saussure was able to figure out that there must have been three “laryngeal” consonants in Proto-Indo-European which were lost in all the attested languages. And lo and behold, when Hittite was deciphered, there were the laryngeal consonants right where the philologers had predicted them.
ASKA A5 – A Real Flying Car
My safety is worth more to me than yours. We would all be safer if we didn’t have to race to the bottom but such is life and them are the rules. Change the rules and I’ll change my behavior.
Atleast for me, I haven’t found an easy way to do it. Usually its about being the tech guy for them. I really dislike the “non techies are bad because they bother the techies for small issues” meme, surely you are not so busy as to not be able spend a hour on a loved one. Ever since a computer repair shop scammed my parents, doing tech support is something I enjoyed doing for people I know. Why know something if you cant share it with others? If something takes a considerable time to fix I will take the issue over to a shop that I trust and make-sure things are in order once its returned.

Whenever I fix something or install something I explain what I am doing, and why I am doing it, and I think at least in my experience years of helping my friends and family they at this point trust me when explain to them why something is important. Everyone values their privacy everyone gets concerned when they realize how creepy some companies are.
But classic Mac OS did have an X close button. Sure, it's a square in the screen shots but what happens when you click on it?
Nigeria is all the way on the other side of the African content while the Arabian peninsula is right across the very narrow Red Sea. So it would make less sense for Ethiopians to speak a language that’s related to languages spoken thousands of kms away in West Africa than for them to speak a language that’s related to the languages spoken on the other side of the Red Sea - which is exactly what they do.

Edit: also, if you look at pictures of Ethiopians and Eritreans and of Yemenites you’ll see they’re way more similar in appearance than Ethiopians and, say, Nigerians.
Variant Carts for the N64 (2017)
Beyond the BBS with Bo Zimmerman [video]
Roots of progress puts it nicely: A great leap forward needs supporting factors, therefore it does not appear every year [1]. I think: If a great leap forward appears, famous people may retrospectively considered to be geniuses.
A change of society/industry and and admiration for geniuses accompany one another.

[1] https://rootsofprogress.org/why-no-roman-industrial-revoluti...
The username change seems like a harbinger.
not long from now, when you call support, you will get to talk to the same chat bot that’s on the web page / in the app, but it is on the phone.

because it can now talk and listen. with text to speech and speech to text.

to ensure equal access.

enjoy.
Ah that's interesting, I wasn't aware. I'll try that and recompile if needed, thanks a huge lot for the info!
> Whether you work in tech or not - it is your duty to make sure that no one feels demoralised or rejected because of the systems you build.

Shouting into the wind

Until the financial incentives of investors, employees and customers align this will never be a priority
And then you should not receive anything from society either... No more pensions or public health care. Or other type of social care.