skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lived in small towns and big towns. The difference is that in the big town the drug users are anonymous in that you don't know them. In the small down they are your coworker's sister's brother in law.

I lived in a town of 20k people that was BY FAR the largest for an hour drive in any direction. Lots of drunks. First place I lived there, my neighbor was selling meth, put up a confederate flag in their window when a black lady moved into my duplex, and was shot 6 times later than year (survived, since we was shot by a shaky meth head who used a 22). They were banned from the place and police wouldn't do shit whenever they were back and they got mad at me when I demanded they take care of the screaming meth head at 6am on a Saturday. They stole parts off my truck. There were meth heads climbing their fence all hours and days. I literally watched a different neighbor get arrested by a cop who said "hey, don't we have a warrant for you?" (neo nazi guy, who just turned around and the cuffed him). When I moved later that year? Heard nothing. Wouldn't have known. Only thing was you'd still see grown men riding children's bikes because you know they lost their license. No one rode bikes there. Shit was dangerous as hell.

I went to college in a non-college town about twice that size (college was <2k people), and again, lots of drunks. Different sides of the country but both were very Christian and even had strict drinking laws. The uni didn't allow alcohol so a lot of kids were just drinking and driving (closest bar was a mile away and downtown was a 15 minute drive).

Look at a heat map of opioid deaths. Then tell me again how this is a problem exclusive to big cities. If it wasn't in small cities, you wouldn't see a looming crisis in The Blue Ridge. If it were shame, Utah wouldn't be an epicenter.

The thing is that humans are really fucking bad at statistics. We internalize them by total samples of the event, unnormalized. Which is already an incredibly biased lens. I guarantee you that several people in your town were doing drugs, you just didn't know. Just take a minute and ask your self "do I know what I'm talking about or did I just pull this outta my ass?" We need a lot more of that if we're being honest.
I think Linux has adopted 64-bit timestamps on 32-bit systems as well by now.

Mainframes don't run Unix in the way we think of it, and the applications they run store timestamps in a different format (hence the panic about Y2K back in the day). I'm by no means an expert, but I think these people don't need to worry about Y2K38.
June Huh, a 39-year-old Princeton professor, was awarded the 2022 Fields Medal, one of the highest possible honors in mathematics, for his breakthrough work on geometric combinatorics.As a beginning student, Huh managed to solve Read’s conjecture, a long-standing open problem concerning the coefficients of polynomial bounds on the chromatic number of graphs. The University of Michigan, which had previously rejected Huh’s graduate school application, soon recruited him as a transfer student
Isn't cucumber the green elongated ribbed vegetable that is mostly watery and used in salads, while squash is another word for (a variety) of pumpkin?
Get involved with your local community of makers, get them intrigued by your idea and its potential, connect with people that will help you build it. Patent it, and then raise funds via the Internet to try and build it. Seek out local VCs. I know that's a lot to ask, on top of two jobs, but I didn't organize our economy.
atlas-os or hellzerg/optimizer can make windows semi-usable for gaming. they never update again.
That is the problem of everyone in fact.

Once it is be accepted that "normal peoples" need to ingest advertising ad nauseam and each of their movement is being tracked, people who actually value their privacy and a content web become the abnormal peoples.

The author mention the dark web, this is exactly what is happening. If you value your privacy you are now assimilated to criminality and terrorism.

See https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/06/05/criminalization-o...

“All members contacted adopted a clandestine behaviour, with increased security of means of communication (encrypted applications, Tails operating system, TOR protocol enabling anonymous browsing on the Internet and public wifi)”.

“All members of this group were particularly suspicious, only communicating with each other using encrypted applications, in particular Signal, and encrypting their computers and devices […].

"The elements of the investigation that have been communicated to us are staggering. Here are just some of the practices that are being misused as evidence of terrorist behavior6:

– the use of applications such as Signal, WhatsApp, Wire, Silence or ProtonMail to encrypt communications ;

– using Internet privacy tools such as VPN, Tor or Tails7 ;

– protecting ourselves against the exploitation of our personal data by GAFAM via services such as /e/OS, LineageOS, F-Droid ;

– encrypting digital media;

– organizing and participating in digital hygiene training sessions;

– simple possession of technical documentation."

Now using encryption and secure messaging with anything but whatsapp and imessage marks you as a potential terrorist, later it will be ad blockers, disabled javascript, not using chrome's WEI and using the smol net/web.
It's a good practice but worth noting that almost all web platforms features that require a secure context work on localhost without HTTPS
PowerShell is worth looking into (and can be a viable shell on Linux).
I don't really follow what you think I was implying - that we should somehow make ourselves stateless subjects of big tech? - but I assure you I wasn't.
OpenAI filed a patent for GPT-5
Great project! We're building an open-source platform for building robust LLM apps (https://github.com/Agenta-AI/agenta), we'd love to integrate your library into our evaluation!
Stripe is a nightmare and I found support to be awful and not know their own product.

We are a UK company but now have clients worldwide and worldwide bank accounts (thanks to Wise).

So many people in the US can't pay via ACH Transfer (we can't do debit without a US entity... looking in to options and setting up a LLC now), so, we need to be able to accept credit card.

I thought I had a nice workaround by having USD to my USD account and only paying standard (high) fees, but, they now charge me a surcharge for this despite no Forex fees needed, and worse, the fees always link to the wrong transactions so I can't even reconcile properly.

On top of this, they force convert my CAD to GBP despite having a CAD bank account, and charge me so many fees on top.

It's the only option I've found as of now, but, I'm far far from being a fan.
HTML was designed as an SGML application for networked hypertext.

As an alternative to what the original post posits, we could leave it for that purpose, and design another (now XML) application for user interfaces: windows, buttons, scroll bars (if desired), text controls (no I'm not talking about textarea for CGI), the kind of controls that Windows or X11+MOTIF provide, expressed as tags in a UIML (User Interface Markup Language). This would have the advantage that we could start from a clean slate, and the open source interpreter for this technology could be integrated into all Web browsers, so behavior would be identical.

UIML would be designed as an XML application for networked software applications' user interfaces.

Of course, you could execute them locally, too. There could be graphical UI designer of the types that already exist, e.g. Visual Studio would just write out a UIML as a new export format.

Crazy idea? Actually, it's just applying the "Do one thing, and do it well." mantra to XML <-> XHTML + UIML instead of packing everything possible into one now-bloated markup language it was never designed to do. So if this comment had a title, it would be "I'm betting on Internet standards" (plural).
While my nostalgia bone is tickled fiercely by this picture, I wonder what is the appeal of running SunOS these days. NetBSD shoud work on that machine, too, and that would give you at least some modern features like a current OpenSSH, IPv6, an up to date software stack...
>> The most obvious answer is AI, because ChatGPT is extremely useful as a coding companion.

People keep saying that but every systematic test of LLM coding ability suggests otherwise.

For example, another article linked to this table of GPT-4 results on various tests yesterday:

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Sc...

The table is from OpenAI's article on GPT-4:

https://openai.com/research/gpt-4

And it shows how well GPT-4 did on verious tests, like LSAT, etc. One of the tests is listed as "Codeforces Rating". The score is:

392
below 5th [percentile]
For anyone else totally clueless about chemistry: According to Wikipedia DFT in this context stands for 'Density-functional theory' and not 'Discrete Fourier Transform' as I assumed given the references to waves.
The UK that dismisses or suppresses its own reports into drug policy and fires its leading experts because their views are not politically expedient, that UK?

I think even if we don't know what is the right way to go about drug policy, we can probably agree that sticking your head in the sand and pretending there's no debate to be had is probably not the best approach.
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Hi, I'm a backend developer / Machine Learning Engineer with +6 years experience in productionising backend services for ML (NLP and CV) and scaling the services to handle >1M customers.

I'm willing to learn frontend and very open to broadening my skillsets.
That trick (-ss -i -ss) should not be necessary by default (unless you use -noaccurate_seek) according to current documentation. But I haven't verified it.

https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#toc-Main-options

-ss position (input/output)

When used as an input option (before -i), seeks in this input file to
position. Note that in most formats it is not possible to seek exactly, so
ffmpeg will seek to the closest seek point before position. When transcoding
and -accurate_seek is enabled (the default), this extra segment between the
seek point and position will be decoded and discarded. When doing stream copy
or when -noaccurate_seek is used, it will be preserved.

When used as an output option (before an output url), decodes but discards
input until the timestamps reach position.
that's a trademark, not a patent
i suspect this is because they can divide by zero
> When you’re passed out in the streets laying in your own shit then your business has become my business and we shouldn’t encourage that.

When you're diet is so poor that you're literally shitting in the seat at McDonalds because you are drinking so much diet coke and eating so much grease. This is a real story I saw at a McDonalds less than a year ago. When the person got up there was a visible splat on the seat.
Well, that's exactly it, sad as that is. How many more recruiters are you going to hire to screen your candidates if the process you have currently does yield good candidates already. I'm not saying I agree with it, but I also don't have a good solution for the problem at hand - 1000+ applications for every junior role which all have to be looked at and filtered at least somewhat so you get a pool of people to actually interview.
> They know when a sequence of paragraphs constitutes a "list", without it having to be explicitly marked as such, etc.

that's the thing; they don't know - they guess
And it's not unreasonable to test a new HSTS implementation on localhost first, so I'm glad it works as it normally does. But there should be better tooling in devtools for this.
Is drug abuse actually more common in more diverse and larger cities?
It's pretty obvious that the average customer doesn't have any cryptocurrency to pay with, so the onboarding system they would use to begin with would be some company that charges their credit card or debits their bank account and then converts it to cryptocurrency to transfer to you.

Which they wouldn't have any reason to trust any less than they do PayPal or Stripe, in the sense of not debiting their account when they didn't authorize it.

So what you need is a federated system in which the customer can choose whichever of those providers they want to use and that doesn't matter to the seller who can receives transfers from any company that customer paid for some cryptocurrency. The customer can use whoever they trust.

Now, maybe that doesn't have a good UX yet, but it could.
I get this is a joke, but just bouncing off: don't humans mainly need to chew food because we have a terrible design and evolution put our lifeline of air intake in a tiny hole behind a flap right where we swallow food in a small, relatively inflexible tube and location?
Sorry, I wrote cucumber by mistake instead of pumpkin and then edited my comment! (but cucumbers are also from the same family as squashes/pumpkins, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucurbitaceae)
On the contrary.

Should he rather be excited about hype manufactured by entertainment or sport companies?
Cause that's much more common.
Rather than this particular "magic" material, LK99, in the original paper(s), authors propose their theory on why this material is behaving the way it is. This is a totally new way for achieving superconductivity in room conditions. If it is confirmed to be true, scientist can try to create similar materials with similar lattice structures focusing on what's needed, rather than focusing on LK99.

Even if LK99 may not, one of the materials with similar properties they will create may be easy to produce and robust to use.
This is such an interesting read. I’m wondering if this behavior is only observed between this Japanese frog and beetle, or perhaps it’s spread throughout nature.
Please add (2015) to the title, the post date can be found at the bottom of the page.
oh, I don't believe it. At present, it is very likely that it is purely theoretical, and there is still a long time before it can be applied.
"Browser security UI is hard."

That's my problem, not "yours". Start writing perfect code and then I will delegate. The current browser UI for SSL/TLS is actively punishing people like me who wish to get SSL working. Why not follow the example of Lets Encrypt and make it easier instead of harder?

The current UI is crap for both me and my wife and we are at the polar extremes of the audience for it. Perhaps we need a faster DNS implementation or a rewrite in Rust.
It sounds like you're suggesting they were selling. Which if so clearly people were using. Back in the 90's it was easy to hide shit. Especially small towns. It's not like you're all living on one block. Sounds like rural area and that's a lotta land.

> Alcohol... many people had a problem with it.

I think this disproves your entire point. We both know that problematic drinking isn't socially acceptable in those small towns. Especially with the religiousness. So probably a different factor that you're conflating.
That's actually useful.

Can you do that even when your account is locked? How many other companies can you transfer the data to and which are they?
We are explaining Java Abstract with examples, in the hopes that this would meet the prerequisites for learning.
Carroll's episode is worth listening to, not least for it's exceptionally clear exposition of the current physics consensus around QM, qft, standard model, etc., and how they are related, but the point you specifically mention is a weak spot for me.

For one thing he hardly mentions the epic failure of string theory to make good on its initial promises nor the murky waters of anthropic claims and metaphysical notions of beauty, etc., used to keep it suspended like Wile E Coyote after running off the cliff of empirical support.

As non-crackpot physics profs and postgrads (e.g. [1], [2]) have pointed out, this has not engendered public trust and is a key ingredient in whatever "crisis" the discipline is undergoing.

Not that Carroll doesn't make plenty of good arguments to support his views, but his seeming equation of any criticism of the field with crackpotist heresies is a cheap trick for a philosophy prof.

1: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?cat=8

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E
Try grilling strips of different thickness.

And for winter squashes, butter and maple syrup.
> I had heard of almost none of these HTML elements, and that's such a shame

I guess, that's on you – if you're a web developer, you definitely 100% need to know these elements. They're not new.
Have you seen https://serlo.org/ ? You should join forces
You can find many nice pictures of aliens on StableDiffusion channel on Reddit. You can also ask for video.
There's no context on this so it's hard to say.

However, as a rule when people suggest something they're generally trying to fix a problem they're encountering. Don't push back to hard until you work out what problem they're having, and be open to finding alternative solutions if you really don't like meetings, if you want to keep them happy.
They later clarify that they're talking specifically about engine development, which makes much more sense to me since I see tons of relatively young hires at our studio (albeit no outright teenagers) but none of them for the engine.

I agree with their reasoning that engines are largely commoditized. Ours isn't, but (a) we don't iterate heavily on it any more (so just not hiring for it much in general) and (b) even if we were, most amateurs are using Unity/Unreal because generally there's very little reason for an amateur to write their own engine except for its own sake, so they wouldn't have the low-level experience of someone from e.g. the demoscene or with more general dev experience/credentials.
To me it is always politics of envy. Of course nobody has some inherent qualities that make him "deserve" enormous amounts of money, but that isn't "fixable", it also is not particularly relevant if you cared about people having decent safety nets.

As an aside, I very much dislike progressive tax rates. It essentially punishes productivity, as each additional hour worked reduces your money earned. Most of the working population should have the same tax rate.

>And if you just hand over the shares to the government, what are they going to do with it?

In Europe many states are large shareholders into companies. In the US you have e.g. pension funds who own very large amounts of capital. In Europe you have many companies where regional governments own a lot of shares.
>Take the [HTML] datepicker

* Lets you enter nonexistent dates like 31/2

* Can and often does accidentally place the user in American-style MM/DD format where it should be European-style DD/MM (I have a replicable case now on that page example).

* No ability to force date style by design. So there's no way to fix the above from the server, or to use ISO-style dates. Only way to reliably prevent MM/DD by default is to fix every client configuration - not very likely even in small companies.

* No way to have the datetime dialog open by default.

* Poorish but getting better keyboard support (the pagedown-up keys finally work in most browsers, but once you've opened the dialog you can't enter a new date with the keyboard).

* Timezones must be handled separately, which is just poor design.

(Entire list checked on desktop)
I've read about CBDCs severeal times, and a single search found several reports now. The article posits that many governments negotiated about large amounts of gold without any news coverage at all.

You don't really believe that those countries would negotiate about who should contribute the gold for backing, and all of them would do it completely in secret.
The Pro controller has drift issues as well (although less often)

Did you use/abuse the xbox/ps4 controllers as much as the Switch controllers? My guess is the amount of hours played is a big factor in wear and tear. Since the Switch is portable you have a lot more opportunity to play.
InfraRed 100 Transformative Companies
Why should he have to choose to be either clean or homeless?
I can theorize about how it might work in a team also, but I was curious how this has played out in practice for anyone
Yes it is still around and still very blue. Mine says:

"Konqueror is a web browser, file manager and universal document viewer.
Starting Points Introduction Tips Specifications"
I don’t know if even that was actually true? As far as I know the moment they introduced canvas as a rendering target they also produced a DOM structure along side it to capture the accessibility tree as they were still waiting on a more native solution in the form of AOM (accessibility object model) to be finalised.
I can imagine this working fine in a world of families where one person works and the other stays at home, as there's time to walk to the shops once a day for different things, to avoid carrying a week's worth of shopping by hand.

In a world where both have to have full-time jobs, it's harder to see how this would work. And I grew up in a time where we still had a local butcher and baker (candlesticks were sadly out of fashion), and the way we did it was a) live really close to them, and b) not get everything for the week on the same shop.
GPT-edited comment detected :(
40s.

I just approach “next big thing” with caution these days. It will either go nowhere or actually work but will have unforeseen fallout that we have to deal with / live with.
> You can see across games, web apps, whatever, there's a trend of more libraries, more frameworks, more guard rails, less fundamentals, less innovation.

Eh, way back in 1991 we had things like Visual Basic with drag-and-drop GUI creation. You could easily do things like display bitmaps on screen without ever having created an array or used variable types other than 'variant'.
I got the sense that the article was advocating for using good semantic machine readable content over HTTP instead of (or at least in addition to) JS-only div soup so that automated agents like the new wave of LLMs can easily pull out the important details without spinning up a headless browser and rendering the page first.

I have the same interest but for the purpose of crawling and upstart search engines. If indexing every page required running the page in a headless browser first, the barrier to entry for new search engines is a lot higher.
Autistic Assistant of Gauss used to check Primality
Pull Requests are cake or puppies – Textual
The credulity exclusion principle (philosophistimicated)
Taxis are generally more efficient vehicles for town driving; e.g. a Prius. When people own their own car they have to make it work for everything they need it for, so it might be a diesel or petrol car, or larger, or anything else. Replacing that multi-use car with a Prius that's running on electric for half the journey is a good idea.
Most people do want to murder when very angry, at least for the definition of very angry that I'm familiar with. The problem is that our societies drive more and more people to be very angry.
What makes this hype "manufactured"? I've been very hyped as well ever since I read the arxiv.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_image_of_Bill_Clinton#H...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_shoeing_inciden...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter_UFO_incident

there are more at the end of the article...
It appears that Elon hijacked the domain ai.com, which redirected to openai.com before. Now I have to type the whole domain to access ChatGPT instead of using the fast lane.