skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if only because they're expected to be gatekeepers for a minimum standard of supposed reproducibility.

There are decades of beta-amyloid papers that show that this is false. Like any for-profit entity, premium journals' primary purpose is to satiate shareholders - it is their feduciary responsibility to get away with as much as possible in the name of profit.

That's not to say that open access doesn't have equally as concerning issues: which of the two is better or worse is an extremely difficult call to make.
> "there is no need [for a] grand example here"

> "you don't get to decide in the abstract what the right tool is for other people and context we don't know anything about"

So which one is it? Do I get to ask for concrete examples for why this work is worth all the trouble, or should we just pretend like it doesn't matter because you say so?

"I want threads, threads fast, others have threads" is not good enough.

> "somehow you say that there is no valid need for threading"

I've never said that. All I've been asking for are concrete examples that would justify removing the GIL and the impact it would have on the ecosystem. You won't provide any, despite me asking over and over again.

> "You have the magical ability to be plug into the python hivemind and decide which use case are valid"

CPython has had a GIL for the past 30 years - and things worked out just fine. There are other Python VMs that don't have a GIL - yet CPython remains the most widely used and popular VM. So how about you stop putting words in my mouth, and start actually justifying the asks beyond hand-waving my arguments away?

> "The fact that you ask for this level of qualification for a feature that pretty much every other language has is the problem."

Again, you're twisting and putting words in my mouth. There's a clear difference between building an ecosystem with multithreading in mind from day one - and suddenly introducing it out of nowhere, 30 years into it being used by millions of workloads globally. This is why I'm asking for "qualifications" (which you won't provide), and this is why I also deem your assertion that "the problem is not that deep" to be a proof beyond any that we should end this conversation now before things get too embarrassing for you :)
Genuine question: Why isn't "run bot on top" a solution for this?

And for that matter, for "pretty much everything?"

Seems to me the simplicity of the bot is the biggest feature?
> I assume you're a young person

You do seem to make a lot of casual assumptions for someone who gets offended by even just the implication that they might not be completely up-to-date on examples of privacy violations in the US, don't you? ;)

> Your comments about violence in America are generally naive.

I think I might be wasting my time at this point, but I feel the need to point out once again that older and elderly Americans don't just shoot each other over casual insults, and that would still be super-illegal and super-immoral and it would still be appropriate to morally condemn someone who felt like that was a normal thing even if they were 80.

There is not a way of phrasing this where "you think that I'm self-centered, well people have been killed for less" is a normal thing to say. That is not a normal thing for anybody to say even if they're in their 60s.
Why do AI Corporations Pretend their Technology will cause Human Extinction?
And I was on a real heater too. Why does this keep happening.
Personally I don't think Cyberpunk as a genre has died but rather that it had failed to adapt, by the early 00s we weren't as sure as to how technology would progress into the future and many of the existing assumptions they had made were wrong. Publishers were tending to become less interested in continuing it as many parts of the writing world sort of just began to shift to a field of disrepair.

With science fiction as a whole as a genre sort of just wavering off, the problems with writing a systemic whole and how authorship works making it impossible for any progress to really be made. Comic books as well during this period began to waver off sales slumping as progressively all genres have begun to collapse.

I know that several artists and writers are barely even struggling to get by. Essentially being screwed by the industry they had trusted to take care of them. Neil Gaiman talked about it, how he was paid $40 dollars per comic at times. Those rates are still the exact same today, not exactly 40 dollars but not livable. The same happened to Clarke's World and various other science fiction magazines like Asimov. I'd argue the genre did not die, the entire writing community supporting it has died.
For anyone coming to this and is a bit confused:

- It's broken in safari

- The little windows in each letter are interactive but that's now how it's meant to be read

- Click and drag a letter while not touching one of those windows, and a little photo frame should come in from the top. Drag the letter into the frame to get redirected to the site.

- Your cursor shows on everyone's screen, google docs style.

Interesting UI, feels artsy!
Since about every too level comment is negative towards chat bots:

We had a chatbot at work that actually was great. For me it felt a lot better than searching Confluence and it could also answer questions from dynamic data like how many vacation days I had left or how many hours I was ahead or behind with my hours.

Thanks to some smart use of technology behind the scenes IIRC I could ask it in normal language and most of the time it would understand.
Citation needed on the "almost all" claim, or you're just making things up. Additionally, there's a massive difference between members-only trackers having agreed ratios, and general-access "torrent websites" like TPB which don't have any of what you say, much less have such ridiculousness as "rules".

I get you love this, but nothing you've said actually disproves any of my points, you've just made things up in a transparent (and woefully incorrect) attempt to justify it.
His friends passed the documents along to their friends, and they eventually got the attention of the New York Times. At that point tracing the documents back to him would probably have happened regardless of whether he used IRC or anything else.

Do you have any evidence that him using a centralized platform like Discord played a role in him getting caught?
What? Butter is one of the main things I get from Costco. It actually is cheaper than my normal grocery store in that case (I agree with the earlier post in the thread that Costco isn’t always the cheapest.)
Another possibility is that there are multiple sponsorships involved?

Maybe a specific video is sponsored by "X company", but the creator has a yearly contract with "Y company" that includes product placement/usage that they don't have to disclose each time?
I disagree about the public assistance part especially for a country like Japan.

I'm not sure if anyone cares about this anymore, but ethnically Japanese people will become nearly extinct if they don't make some radical changes. They should massively incentivize people - even financially poor Japanese - to have kids. Just because someone has a career in e.g. a Japanese bank moving spreadsheets around doesn't mean they should be favored.
These are typically tiny money. You get if you are visiting and used services, etc. For instance, I have gotten like $19, $5, from settlements with SafeExpress, Apple, and a few others. The check comes all the way to India (current residence) by post. I don't cash them, I just keep them as memorabilia.
Sure, you can convince people to use Firefox and drop Chrome just like IE was dropped back in the day but back then there wasn't a strong incentive to websites to prefer one browser over another (other than convenience).

Here's what I think is gonna happen:

- First the feature is added to Chrome as it is now. As they described they add it with some kind of hold-back or limiting constraint to reduce the outrage until everything is ready.

- Then the media people (Netflix, Hulu, Disney, YouTube...), who have long been salivating for something like this, push the other browsers to implement this. You really only need to convince Safari, as Edge has such a low market share in comparison that they will be forced to fold or be irrelevant (and it's not like Microsoft hates this feature anyway). For reference, Chrome, Safari and Edge make up 89% of market share. Edge alone is only 4%.

- Once the browsers are on board it's time to get the sites onboard. Really most people tend to visit social media sites more than anything else, so as long as you get them onboard you don't need to do anything else, and WEI serves their interests as well (for example it would stop you from scraping Reddit).

- As for the rest of the sites you can just make Adsense not count views or clicks from untrusted users (after all that's the _stated goal_ of this project) and site owners _will_ find ways to get their users to switch to Chrome on their own. You can add a checkbox to Adsense to get it to block your site for untrusted users to make it extra easy if you're feeling lazy.

- The final strike will be Cloudflare. Right now they rely on CAPTCHA to block bots but now they can just use WEI instead. Since most of the web uses Cloudflare now you have a gateway between the user and most sites that will tell you to go away or eternally give you endless CAPTCHAS if you are using a "bad browser".

- At this point all that is left is getting Google to give Cloudflare an exemption to the hold-back feature "for the greater good" or just kill it off at this point because there's no need to play nice anymore.

I'm not optimistic. It was easy to install Firefox and remove the IE icon on your mom's computer back in the day. It's not that easy to tell her to stop watching Netflix, Disney, Reddit, Facebook, her favorite cooking recipe site...

The best that can happen is that the internet splits and the free portion of it stays large enough to be useful. (and it doesn't get DDOSed into the ground)
I desperately wish there was more awareness of military writing styles in the civilian world.

- They're organizations that have existed for as long as their countries.

- They're incredibly large.

- They have to communicate critical information to a very diverse set of readers.

- They iteratively update their approaches, over decades, often in direct reaction to the most stringent real-world tests.

... how could we not learn something from the systems they're currently using?

My favorite nuggets are (1) the glory of BLUF (bottom-line, up front; or an executive summary of everything to follow), (2) including a formal intent preface to any document (to guide writers and readers in what to include/exclude), (3) thoroughly defining terms (to avoid "we're using the same word with different meanings" problem), and (4) rigorously structuring information into separate sections.

Which isn't to say militaries get everything right all of the time. They do tons of stupid things. But dismissing or ignoring them as a source to cherry-pick best practices is shortsighted.
Okay, that makes a lot more sense. Human overpopulation per se hasn't been a matter of plausible concern since the 70s; what is concerning is that the "green revolution" in agriculture is dependent on roughly our current level of technological development, and that's what has produced yields capable of supporting the human population at its current level.
"The F-law of averages"... Is a great book to understand why averages are a misleading metric...
I had fun uncles growing up, too!
We (family of 4) shop at Costco every 2 weeks; get all of our staples, fruit/veggies (we eat a lot of that and they have a very good selection of organics), cheese (good selection, much cheaper than other stores); great deals on wine too, and sometimes beer when they carry our craft beer of choice (our local Costco has a lot of nice craft beer), dog food, etc. Some favorites we don't find elsewhere at that quality/price are the Kirkland organic tortilla chips, toasted seaweed (kids' favorite), organic flour tortillas (freeze them and they last), roasted almonds, dried fruit (figs, apricots), reduced sugar fruit spread, etc. For a big wholesaler we find they have a very good selection of healthier food (as healthy as you can get in the US, but that's another story), at least in our city. I find the layout to be pretty consistent and we know where to go to get our regular purchases. Often along the way we'll see something we haven't tried before and get that, though you do sometimes find that they stop carrying it, or it was seasonal, but I can live with that.
What we don't buy there is meat, fish, milk, eggs, all of which we buy at local grocer (sourced locally), plus we're not big meat eaters and don't want to fill up a freezer with it. Besides that, we get some specialty stuff at Trader Joe's (a nice place to shop and the best checkout staff ever -- I think they attract the right kind of employees, a bit like REI). And that's about it. None of those companies are perfect but I feel like they pay and treat their employees well. We shun Safeway/Albertsons/Kroger, and don't get me started on Walmart. I truly hate Walmart for having destroyed so many US towns--will never give them my money.
The Messy Desktop
Faking Riches: Inside Hong Kong Outlandish Efforts to Get on Billionaire List
Is there an alternative to photoshop for merging the pictures? Can ffmpeg do it? Or a bit of python code perhaps?
At least this time, she didn’t fly. You can watch her cross the Atlantic on sailing vessel La Vagabonde:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frZI857axRs
Improving Llama 2 results with RAG
I see no failure to understand. The UK is a pragmatic imperial power, not a collaborative cooperative peer. They built Empire upon the asymmetric application of technology. When time to surrender Empire, they did so. When time to build a Financial Empire, they did so. When the time comes to build an Internet Empire, I'm sure they will do that too, by applying whatever technology they have at hand.
I could see where you could get that notion from reading an org chart. However, Clapper lied to Congress, was accused of perjury, and allowed to resign. He now walks around as a free man with 0 consequences making whatever salary he's given from his consulting career.

Congress is a feckless body of government when it comes to checks and balances.
That question is so impossible to answer without knowing what your site is about.
Air is not required for an E field to exist or propagate.
> two processes sharing state through a shared memory

The point is that isn't very practical, especially in python. In practice, any data passed between processes must be serialized and deserialized over a pipe or in shared memory. With a thread per interpreter, native python objecta could potentially be shared across threads/interpreters as long as there was adequate synchronization. Technically, you could also do that with shared memory with multiprocessing, but it would be harder, and you would need to specify the object is intended to be shared from the beginning.

> pretty much indistinguishable, at least on Linux.

Linux isn't the only OS people use python on.

> I would argue that shared mutable state is rarely a good idea, and an equivalent message based system is often preferable.

I agree, but even for message passing, having to serialize and deserialize the object across process boundaries hurts performance.
South Africa’s blackouts are driving a solar boom
> If this medium is only for a specific subset of ideas

It is - "If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There are countless websites for generic news discussions. To keep at bay the flamewars of the outrage news cycle that kill other discussions, this is not one of them.
> you will eventually need to split computation across machines

More machines is a multiplier. Instead of underutilising 1 machine, you'll be underutilising 100s of machines. More incentive to remove locking.
Single interface?

In the search infrastructure example I mentioned up-thread, we had hundreds, maybe thousands of schemas involved.
Define many.
If we’re going there we might as well have cybernetic eyes right? As long as you can somehow attach the nerves to your new eyes.
And when the intel director lies to congress about spying on American citizens, then what? Self signed certificate my friend..

I guess it would be nice if congress held the executive in check.. but maybe they can't bc of sinister reasons >:D

Wasn't there a report recently of the FBI illegally searching US Senators?? Something really wacky is going on.
> As an EU citizen I feel more and more negative about the economic future here

Yea, it's rather tragic. It's especially visible in tech sector. There is basically no success large player/story in EU (Spotify is more licensing and Skype was moved out) and instead of fixing the environment, EU just adds regulations and fines giants from US.

Let's regulate metaverse, let's regulate AI.... Large players from overseas will pay lawyers and small ones will avoid EU and local ones are stifled.

Tech ... nothing. Automotive ... will be killed by Chinese EVs (good luck with tarifs when most profits of domestic OEM are from Chine)... Manufacturing... Most of it is gone, but some are still hanging on (Siemens et al). I guess there is a fasion/brand and turism.
Not being able to do N+1 queries would be a feature in my book.
Approximately downtown to downtown without a car on either end is pretty much the ideal scenario and it applies to a tiny slice of the population. I mostly take the train to Manhattan even though it means driving in the wrong direction for about an hour only because the southern part of the drive into the city is so awful.
I've had numerous iDevices over the years and not a single one failed anyhow. No iPhone, no iPad, no Power Mac, no Macbook, no mac Mini. And I got a trade in worth 40 bucks on my still working 2013 iPad when I bought my 2021 one.
It's asking “Did you reside in the United States”, which does indeed suggest you need to be a resident (i. e. have a green card I guess?). However, I think it can be more broadly interpreted as “be present in the U.S. at some point”, which also correlates with the class definition: “All Facebook users in the United States between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, inclusive.”

(I am not a lawyer, take this with a grain of salt.)
This site is curated. Most of us prefer it that way. If you want to read an endless stream of memes and other nonsense you can get that elsewhere.
No true hacker will say hashbang.
> Interestingly, there was a bit in there about (deck dated 2018) "27% of all US households are cardholders".

That is hard to believe.
Frogs are strange too, but not as odd as insects at least to me. Frogs almost seem to just pause growth and then resume it. Definitely interesting as well though.
No the only viable option is Messaging Layer Security (MLS)
This sounds like it right out of Against the Storm
> ML people nowadays barely know basic stats.

The same can unfortunately be said of many "statisticians", who use statistics as a big recipe book without understanding the first thing about the mathematical underpinnings of the topic.

Don't believe me?

Go ask the first statistician you run into to give you a half decent explanation of how the Chi-squared distribution and the Chi-squared test works, see what happens.
He wasn't charged because they didn't charge him. They're free to make that call. Was there any reason given? Maybe he cleared it up in closed door meetings?
The protobuf format supports native histograms. That’s the most straightforward way, if you have a client library for it.
Go does, for instance.

OpenTelemetry is push, so if you need pull and no new daemons this PR doesn’t help you.
While this would be arguing an anecdote with an anecdote, I completely disagree "most orgs" have executed information management well.

A number of places use email as their effective information store. Good luck finding content once everyone in the relevant chains have departed.
Nice article I would say the most cyberdeck looking computers from 80s would probably be MSX/MSX2. I remember reading a blog post from a guy converting an old MSX to a working cyberdeck using Raspberry Pi. Now I want to look up the article again!
Personally I don't like this shift to more parts being produced exclusively by the car manufacturer. It means the only real place to buy the part is the OEM who has an interest in selling me a whole new car. Meanwhile Denso and Bosch and whoever wouldn't mind just selling me a part through the many retail car parts stores.
That's an easy solve with a charge of corrupting of evidence or some such. We know you weren't at the Taylor Swift concert 2 states away because your WiFi history and cell tower triangulation puts you on the couch watching the Love Island.
So I was childless (not completely by choice) until the “happy accident” came along at 40. Part of it was waiting until we bought a house, because I’m Texan enough to have internalized that responsible people don’t have children before they own property (I don’t believe that for others, but I was never quite able to let it go for myself, much like my personal feelings about other social issues)

Punitive taxes on the childless would just ensure that the ones waiting for prudential reasons (savings, home ownership) would be even less likely to take the plunge.
Not acceptable that you got yelled at, but it's a bit like using someone else's ski pass; you'd get kicked off the mountain (and probably yelled at).

Their business is the membership, not profits on merchandise.
Is there a way to limit the search to papers published by US, UK, and Canadian universities in the past 10 years?
Well it was the guy I responded to who brought up veganisim as a solution in his top level post, but okay let's talk overpopulation. Axolotl have only ever been known to live in a few lakes which have been almost entirely obliterated by Mexico City, home to 10 million people (21 million if you count the whole metro area!) What exactly do you propose? Even if the population replacement rate in Mexico City were brought below 1, how many years would it take to depopulate the city? Short of forcing people out of the city at gunpoint (and to where, exactly?) how could you actually get the city depopulated in a reasonable amount of time to save the wild axolotl who might have a few years left at most? And how would this undo the habitat destruction which already occurred? How would you remove the structure of the city and restore the environment which it replaced decades+ ago?

Urbanization is often touted as the solution to habitat loss; concentrate people in high density urban areas to preserve the environment in the rest of the world. But in the case of Axolotl, they don't care for the rest of the world. They care about that specific piece of land that is under one of the largest metro areas in the world.
That's false. If an entity is above the law then it is above Congress. This exists.

If an entity can forever dismiss Congressional inquiry through unlimited open-ended legalistic escapes that are virtually always applicable, then it is de facto above Congress. This also exists, and is different than the first example.
What's with wrong Safeway? I much prefer shopping there over Costco. Going to Costco is a stressful unpleasant experience starting from the insane parking lot filled with oversized vehicles. The inside is a dimly-lit warehouse packed with zombie-like shoppers making a b-line behind their oversized shopping carts for the overrated kirkland toilet paper (yep I said it!)

A grocery store like safeway I find much more relaxing and laid back and doesn't have obnoxiously large quantities & packaging.

That said I've been invested in costco stock for a long time because I recognize the cult-like devotion of their shoppers.