skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live on a busy road, not too far from the intersection with another road that has a quarry on it. The worst thing of living here are the dump trucks who come speeding around the corner and then use their unmuffled engine brakes to slow down to zero to make a turn onto the road with the quarry. Sure, we've got the kind of assholes who mod their trucks and motorcycles to be as loud as possible, too, but nothing can compete with the low frequency vibration of those engine brakes. When I'm in my basement, I can barely hear the road noise at all, but I can feel the truck engine brakes.
At some point in ny life, I realized that the meaning of every term on food packaging conforms to a specific statutory or regulatory definition, and not a linguistic or intuitive meaning. The net result is that I end up opting for things with few ingredients and do a lot of Googling of terms to understand what they really mean.

It's also very ironic. I'm nearly 50 and have childhood memories of being dragged by my parents to natural food stores in a time where that meant driving for an hour or two to get there because they were few ans far between. Now, I don't have to go very far to find what I want, but the heavy commercialization of "natural" now means I trust things far less.
Step 0 in the US might be enforcing laws against fake temporary tags or concealed license plates. If I had a dollar for every “thin blue line” sticker-sporting car with a barely-transparent bit of plastic over the license plate…

Seems like the illegal covers would be straightforward to enforce any time these cars are parked on public streets.
Yeah, python is great but I wish package management was more standardized and simpler.
If you mean a library of old books, yes, it can be if toxic books are not properly handled.
Depends if the building has Legionnaire's or asbestos.

Moldy books also exist. Those can't be great for your lungs.
To actually synthesize the smell molecules would pretty much require (Star Trek) replicator levels of technology.

Also, if/when we do have them, I'm sure that HN will fill up with inflammatory content about whether it's ok that the companies that make them only sell a "censored" model that disallows synthesizing toxins.
Thank you for the thoughtful post. I must concur. Using sweeping economic averages will give you some country insight but barely represents the experiences of ordinary individuals living day to day. There are a million children living below the poverty line in the UK, one could not assume such from the numbers, so beautifully displayed.
Anonymization is the only completely sane response to the completely crazy reach-impact spiral of data mining data broker platform TOS. Online persona(s) are private brands of built up real public social value over time and just because there is no officiated imprimatur's stamp of approval, doesn't mean you can exclude them without other cause from the real conversation walled off in ivory corporate towers of group think apprentice effected idea cloning orthodoxy.

I know of a 3D graphics format interop workgroup at an official Standard Setting Organization where some of the main contributors are MAdjDuckSauce type handles and its caused no lack of backflipping through hoops to get their input codified because of ISO 9000 prescribed forms that still want your employer organization's fax number listed.

In fact, how this whole story played out on arXiv is a great example of the power of all hands on deck crowdsourced global fact checking in the broad noisy open realtime light of day. More claims should be subject to this kind of wide net scrutiny not less.

(*Correction to post above it should read "ethnically Soviet" as pointed out below)
I wonder if that's to prevent kids from eating the paper. Similar to Nintendo's cartridges having a bad flavor.
You know, now that you've mentioned it I pity the kids today and tomorrow who won't experience a computer that makes sounds.

For kid me, the sound of floppy drives, hard drives, and optical drives were simply mesmerizing to witness. Those were the sounds of the computer performing magic before my eyes and ears.
You're replying to a 1 hour old account, they may not have read any of the frequent breach and ransomware related articles here.
Weird. A few of these were mandatory reading when I was in school
That’s because there have been countless similar games played for centuries and financial/ consumer protection regulations have forced them to.
Where they aren’t regulated the same way, it’s a minefield.
eg the CFD firms advertising on TV aren’t saying ’72% of our customers lose money ‘ because it’s nice or helpful.
> For $1,000 a month on Rich Kids, you’re guaranteed to only see photos from other wealthy patrons. Similar to the check marks that denote verified Facebook and Twitter accounts, the app’s prohibitive monthly fee ensures that everyone who uses it is certifiably wealthy.

This is such poor people logic. “Spend money on a cheap thing to prove you’re rich. Btw, that’s my business model.”

I think it’s way more likely that it will be people paying a few grand on their credit card to pretend to be rich and/or golddig.
In some towns, there's an issue with ordinances and laws not being specific enough and a lack of training for measuring accurately. Someone could measure dBA and someone else could measure dBC, and the ordinance doesn't specify which measurement applies.
You seem to use wage receiver and wage slave interchangeably. The top 1% of wage receivers include people in literally millions of dollars per year who cannot reasonably be described as wage slaves.
And if your watch history is turned on - it will keep suggesting the same videos you already watched.
I’m tired of the “loud pipes save lives” nonsense.

If something can’t be safe for the operator without being a nuisance to thousands of people along their route, then it shouldn’t be on the road.

Bring on the fines for loud motorcycles. It’s ridiculous that we let this problem proliferate.
Parm also contains butyric acid.
It's not that 99% of people are crazy or stupid, but you're bound to attract the remaining 1%. But why? That's the question. The site is not even on the dark web, I think these guys have a lot of resources to hide their files. I know about freenet, I used to use it but it was boring so I left. That was 20 years ago. Surely the Dark Web has grown since then.

I'm writing this after finding the site closed. Now I am going to pay for some space to send large files to people who are struggling to use Dropbox on their shiny silver laptops.

And I will not offer a penny for the domain.
It is true in my country. If ChatGPT is trained on data coming from the internet, wouldn’t that imply that there is material coming from other countries. Where I live there are no doubts that Biden won. There are always delusional people but they are in the single digit minority range.
thousands of people that are being disrupted by a single person

We are in a very weird place as a culture where this isn’t necessarily considered a slam dunk to come down super hard on whatever it is. The pendulum has swung way too far, we need to move back in the direction of protecting the community.
s/assistants/servants/
Yes, as soon as Web Audio units are released. Then Audio Generation and Audio Processing can run and be integrated with other technologies seamlessly, like UI elements, Canvas and P2P.
Somewhat on topic: what's a good site and/or app to get a non-sensationalized and understandable overview of the Atlantic hurricane situation. I wanted to check on the wind shear, water temperature, and forecast. Especially after the recent articles about the hot tub level temps around Florida, and others about how wind shear is preventing hurricanes from forming in the Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean.
A friend of mine used to tell a story of when he was young, and asked an elderly relative at a family do how old he was, "67" he replied; "I wouldn't want to live to 67!", "You would if you were 66".
People are resorting to sharing wildfire news info with screenshots because of the ban.
> I'm investigating this as being a bit tired with the lack of contract / remote / engineering first culture in the EU.

A little beside the point of the question, but what’s needed to change that culture? Surely, organizing labor is not difficult over there.
Stockholm is creepily quiet sometimes. I say this as a New Yorker who needs some kind of background ruckus to sleep.
It was a legal, unmodified exhaust. It was loud, but not "extremely" so. Also, they were not crossing, they were walking down the middle of the street. You know, where cars are supposed to go. People walk on sidewalks.

This was a Paris street, with two large sidewalks on either side of a narrowish one-way street. It's not like they had no other practical choice.
Don't forget VR helmets.
Nice to see ML folks getting weaned off of Python and using a language that can optimally exploit the underlying hardware and not require setting up a specialized environment to build and run.
Older two stroke scooters are obnoxious, but modern 4 stroke engines are very common now. They're quiet and run pretty clean.
TopTal does exactly this - it isn’t easy to get into but the rates are good and they have plenty of us based roles.

https://www.toptal.com/talent/apply

Or my signup link (we both get 100 USD if you start a role):

https://www.toptal.com/BGnO1x/worlds-top-talent
Companies may spread out their emails over days.

Right now Google is sending out emails about their new Gmail inactive account policy. A lot of people use my domain name as their email address for some reason. I've gotten 17 emails so far, the first one dated July 20th, the last one yesterday August 18th. Almost a MONTH, and all the destination email addresses are their own!

it may even be longer since they're all in my trash and it auto-deletes after a month.
One may be tempted to use these findings as a justification for (indirectly) killing sentient mammals. Add studies showing that even plants and fungi have senses and try to avoid harm, and you might as well consider that there should be no ethical considerations around various diets. Since everything living can feel pain for a generous definition of the term and since you kill plants and indirectly insects even on a plant based diet, there is little difference.
Unsurprisingly this is a very common argument against veganism.

But if you truly care about the feelings of insects or plants you should switch to a plant based diet as you'll probably indirectly kill at least an order of magnitude fewer plants and insects, the majority of which are consumed by practices related to industrial farming (large scale deforestation, waterway pollution, feedstock).
Very very cool.

I'm using it to monitor Hurricane Hillary that is currently on its way to Los Angeles: https://www.windy.com/?19.808,-114.170,5

They also have a hurricane tracker that overlays the forecast cone: https://www.windy.com/-Hurricane-tracker/hurricanes/hilary?s...
Yes but treating everything like possible lead paint is a sure way to live a miserable life. We need to be careful if there is proof of harm, not assume that everything is harmful.
For situations where you can afford a GC, Rust but with GC would be an excellent language, due to the ways macros are done, traits work, how errors are handled, tools like cargo, docs.rs, testing and doctests, self-contained binaries with additional ability to compile extra assets into them, high quality language server (rust-analyzer), and the quality of the ecosystem.

As it is now, though, regrettably Rust imposes on you the penalty of dealing with borrowing and ownership even when there is no reason to pay for that. Its not too bad in most cases but one can't help but imagine a Rust-but-with-GC world :)
Or, it really is Russian trolls, and they don't bother posting on July 4th because they know no one is online on that day and it's a waste of time.
It looks remarkably similar. One must be a copy of the other. I was aware of Ventusky first but doesn't necessarily mean it came first.
"There's no cure, there's no answer, everything gives you cancer!" One of the great Joe Jackson tunes.
If it was worth it, sure. If has the same content now, definitely not.

This app sounds stupid and I can’t imagine it has better content than Instagram or TikTok.

Country Clubs aren’t worth it just because they are only full of rich people. It collects golf, dining, space, etc. Few people would pay $50k to join a “virtual country club” that solely exists to filter rich people. I mean salespeople and scammers would, but what’s the value to rich people.
When I read about all these incidents, it seems that there is no financial disincentive for resolving improper behavior like this.

Cruise should have some pretty hefty fines for doing things like blocking roads for 15 minutes.

For example, they probably should have been fine a couple million dollars for blocking Ocean Boulevard.

Personally, I think Cruise and other autonomous vehicles are not ready to operate driverless. I still think we are in the point where every cruise vehicle should be tailed by a car with a human driver; or that the customer should be a licensed driver in the driver's seat, and able to take over in emergencies.
I think this is the ground truth, that there exists a scale , and size / taxonomy isn’t always predictive.

The implications of this from an ethical perspective deeply call into question out overall ethical framework, and I’m not talking about only the way we treat animals. I suspect there are fundamental structural problems with our entire ethical scaffold from the foundational level.
That smell makes me want to crap, and I'm not the only one: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/general-science/unbearable...
> I don't agree with your personalized definition of idiomatic Go in the first place.

"That's the point. They are not equivalent, they represent different things" – Oh snap. Well, so much for that silly tangent.

If you want to actually have a discussion, you are going to have to go and understand the discussion that was taking place before you tried to take it in some weird and nonsensical direction. The non-sequitors may be entertaining, maybe even true, but off in la-la land with respect to the conversation taking place.

If your intent is simply to be my personal jester, then by all means, run with it. I'll continue to enjoy the laughs. Most people would pay good money to see an entertainer of this caliber, and you are offering it to me for free! I feel privileged.
Monkey see Monkey do though
source code distribution has literally nothing to do with it.

all of what you say could apply to AMD or Intel but doesn't loo
There’s a marked difference between a performance car with an aggressive exhaust under wide open throttle and a modified economy car with a stupid loud exhaust under normal driving.

Even the super cars have to obey noise regulations. The modified cars can be 10-20dB louder, which is a lot.
Photofix Image Enhancer and Enlarger API
GitHubs privacy policy towards end users says they collect usage information and telemetry, among other data. So you host a project comparing ToS on GitHub and Microsoft collects information about anyone viewing the project, who referred them, their browser fingerprint and much more. This usage data might, depending on technical design, even enable them to collect fingerprints on features like opening the comment trees of specific contract clause.
Well, it is showing Hurricane Hillary, which is on its way to Los Angeles: https://www.windy.com/?19.808,-114.170,5
There have been multiple attempts at this. None have ever been successful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_scent_technology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_and_sniff

Novelty items at best, I can't imagine any VC getting excited about this stuff. But I didn't imagine they'd get excited about crypto either :)
Dancers aren't normally trained in music theory. Percussionists are but, having studied modern drums for five years at a conservatory, I can tell you with some confidence that most drummers don't know music theory, because they don't really need it. Because most of music theory has nothing to do with percussions. Why do I need to know harmony to play the drums?

So, bad example.

A better example would be the intonarumori by Luigi Russolo:

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

But the truth is that this kind of wild experimentation with the limits of musicality has never caught up in the same way as modern art has. There is possibly a reason for that. I suspect that it's far easier to ignore something Duchamp's fountain than Russolo's instruments... just because the latter make noise and you can't stop hearing it unless you run away.

Btw, I heard some recordings of the intonarumori at a modern art museum in Switzerland, and I thought they were actually ... pleasant? In some sense. But then I find Cannibal Corpse pleasant so I probably have uncommon tastes (though not rare).
From Ivo Lukačovič ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivo_Luka%C4%8Dovi%C4%8D ) of Seznam fame.
every day new greenfield projects start in C++ - nowadays, 20, 23...
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I struggle with that. I loathe looking for work again because I know I’ll end up somewhere fucked up selling my soul and wearing myself out y til I have to quit again to recharge and reset the cycle. Sometimes I wish I had a totally different profession.
Is "a comparable 'gun pointed at their chest'" your minimum required threshold for conceding that when people are tricked into an arrangement that harms them long-term, they consented without all relevant information to make a decision? (Libertarians also have this thing where they think obscuring information and getting what they want out of someone counts as informed consent because it absolves them of guilt later when their 'business partners' find themselves in financial ruin 'of their own accord'....)

Because as I understand it, they were offered a carrot of $70USD for signing up.
Better bring a 30y old compiler too. The amount of UB that was assumed to work in code from that era will turn into bugs due to more liberal optimizations or fail with compiler warnings thanks to stricter checking.
Perhaps we have different definitions of super wealthy but it is clear to me that being in the top 1% percentile is super wealthy.
"it's not like they can't murder you other ways, why are you worried about them owning guns and patrolling out your house?"
I'd love to see this on a globe rather than a Mercator projection.
>BS metrics and test in prod is so reckless,

When you put it that way, it strongly mirrors what is seen in computer programming and I am inclined to wonder how much of it is simply the computer programming culture leaking into the automotive world.
Neither desirable nor possible.
You do if you are a complexity theorist :)
it seems inevitable now that someone is going to get themselves banned from twex for harassing musk once he can’t block them.
One need not break encryption. Have the AI access something without using encryption at all to be a mathematical purist. i.e. find a weakness in the implementation of the encryption and walk through the side-door. Perhaps use wording that would imply we are trying to be polite by not bothering their CPU's with extra mathematical load and thus being more environmentally friendly.

An example of this would be WEP WiFi encryption. The encryption has yet to be broken and yet WEP security can be side-stepped in milliseconds.
Not so solitary predators? Great white shark duo seem to be travelling together
Curious if anyone has studied if intentionally saying hello will boost these things…

Otherwise it’s just, healthy and happy people are more likely to be happy and say hello!

It’s like “study finds rich people spend more money”
We’re building this for ourselves at Gumroad: Flexile.com

It’s currently SaaS to manage contracts, onboarding, and payments. It will expand over the course of this year into a marketplace.
I honestly rarely experience cars that are unreasonably loud in Amsterdam, they’re all roughly as loud, which bugs me but I’m used to it my whole life (and they got quieter over time).

But scooters and motorcycles? They frequently stand out as being much louder than anything, it’s jolting and creates an immediate annoyance that lasts until it’s out of hearing range.

I’m very optimistic as I expect these to be electrified relatively quickly. Not heavy motorcycles per se but they’re pretty rare. Gasolike scooters were everywhere though but they’re disappearing quick, in part due to helmet/roaduse rules in Amsterdam, in part due to electric scooters and bikes.
I just want to thank you for that blog post! I’m currently writing a little bytecode vm for something and this really improves my code! Luckily I’m currently already only targeting clang, so I’m ok with using a non-portable feature.
Today I learned that the word ganja comes from Hindi but is unrelated to the Ganga.
Yes, 50cc scooters were subjectively as loud as 500cc grand prix bikes and made only 40 km/h. I hated them even when I was 14, the age when I could start driving one.
Wikipedia says Windy.com came ~2 years earlier. Funnily enough, they are both Czech projects.
Oh yeah, Adrians Digital Basement..Highly recommended youtube channel.
Could we use US state ballot initiatives to require the installation of informational noise cameras, similar to informational speed cameras that have become prevalent in recent years?

I suspect any such votes would pass by overwhelming margins.
Tropical Tidbits is excellent.
Comparing road noise to wrongspeak is also disingenuous.
What kind of person agrees to 3 long contracts to play a game?

I would not do that.

I think the problem is with the consumer, not the producer.
Yeah, doubt. The idiots weaving through highway traffic at 20mph faster than the flow of traffic begs to differ.
Where can I edit facial hair + glasses?
Exactly. As far as I've been able to tell, mere noise will do absolutely nothing to get most drivers' attention. I've seen drivers fail to notice a police car or other emergency vehicle behind them, siren and lights both on, as they stare fixedly at the phone in their lap. Even in less extreme cases, most drivers will just treat loud motorcycle noise as part of the general din of being in a place where they exist. It won't generally have any effect at all on their decisions to speed up, slow down, or change lanes. Fun fact: the more common a noise is, the less likely it becomes that it will have any effect at all on people's behavior.
Has the Canadian government exempted articles about the wildfires from fees? If not, they don't really have any right to complain that Facebook doesn't want to pay to share them.

At the end of the day, they're a private company who are looking to make a profit, not an emergency broadcast system.
That's great. They need to make "smell cameras" too to catch people who remove their catalytic converters and DPFs. In my experience a LOT of taxis seem to have their emissions systems disabled.