skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stopped following the news sometime in 2017 I think, it wasn’t really a conscious decision, I just felt annoyed or saddened by it.

A few years later I was talking to my dad and he was in a state, going on about current events and how bad things are so I told him I stopped following the news years ago and felt better for it.

About six months later he called me to tell me he also stopped after our call and realised he felt much better too.

A big part for me was that it was just a barrage of sad or scary topics which left me feeling helpless, mixed in with some celebrity antics which I didn’t care about.

I keep up with what’s going on in my industry, and science and technology through sites like this, newsletter subscriptions, podcasts, etc. But in general I’m mostly clueless to what is currently happening in the news.

It makes me feel somehow ignorant, but it works for me. If someone brings up a topic from the news I normally just say “Oh I hadn’t heard about that!” rather than explain I don’t follow the news.
What's with the Luddite takes on HN? If you want to stop tech progress then why are you hanging out the forum of a tech accelerator? It would be great if we could keep this attitude to reddit, which has already gone down the drain.
Because that's not how dilution works? That part should be incredibly obvious.

I keep seeing this nonsense about "why not dump it into the dirt", as if that ever made any sense. The answer is always simple, there is already a massive amount of Tritium in the ocean.

The water, is also literally sea water. It is salt water taken from the ocean, now with some radioactive isotopes of hydrogen (H20 remember?) which is called tritium. The dilution process literally takes sea water, and mixes it.

Dumping salt water into a local lake or river, or the dirt is literally what starts ecological disasters. But you didn't even do basic research did you?
True baklava is not boring. The one you describe is boring because it has no finesse. I’ve had it in Greece, and I make it at home, it’s just a sugar fix. True baklava is an experience. Most baklava in Turkey is bad too. The one mentioned in the article is pretty good but the bests are the other ones in Gaziantep. Something about the combination of worlds best pistachios and grass fed clarified butter. It is sublime. Michelin star level shit. Worth flying to Gaziantep for. Too bad it’s the butt of the world. I order from here [0] when I’m in Turkey. I think it’s the brother or cousin of the guy mentioned in the article. They fly it out the day it’s made. I think they send to some European cities too. It loses its amazing smell after a couple days, though so tough luck for other parts of the world.

0:https://www.farukgulluoglu.com.tr/fistikli-midye-baklava-1-k...
Backups need an air gap.
This cured my depression.
Two people regain speech thanks to brain implants
https://archive.ph/GriQg
I don't care how simple it is, this is not my responsibility.

I've been employed with the same employer for 3 years. They verified me on hire, 2 months after the lockdowns. The feds inexplicably want to erase all that work and redo it from scratch.

It's their responsibility to verify me and complete this form. They used to have an office right down the street, and I know they still retain a sizable staff in my area. They should have no problem designating an employee to just go around and verify people.

I didn't make these barriers, the buck-passing cost-cutting low-information folks did it for me. They told us we have 3 days from receipt to finalize this. They knew about this before May (May was when the deadline got a 30-day extension) and they're springing it on us with such urgency now! Well pardon me!
I would argue the issue I'd how companies that make open source wants to gave the cake and eat it too.

Essentially, because the software is so close to the company it's hard to be certain that the project is independent, sure you can fork it but look at what it did to openelastic. Not much.

Instead if it's maintained by a foundation then it's much harder for a company to assert full control.

It doesn't solve freeloaders but it's I think a big reason for freeloaders existing.
I love babies!

...I just can't eat a whole one.
Yeah well. I'm interested, really I am. But I'm already anxious with veering too close too sharing confidential information, that sharing a batch of company documents is a no-go unfortunately...
The article is about games that you type-in, not games where you interact by typing in a text interface.

You get a listing of the game code at the back of the book and you have to type it in in order to play.
Humans get the answer right fewer times than AI

Maybe individually but not collectively. Let's not forget that we are the authors of the data AI consumed, although very few of us actually made a difference - myself included. If something like AGI is truly possible it will replace our process of discovery and creativity, arguably one of our best features. We need to know if it's better than ALL of us rather than any of us because arguably all of us will make that sacrifice.
Doxxing refers to private individuals not companies and organizations.

In Germany for example every commercial website (which is defined very broadly and applies to most websites) is by law required to have an imprint listing the person/org responsible for the website and how to contact them (an e-mail address is not good enoguh). This means you can go to any German business website and get the full address, EU VAT ID and registration number of that company.

Under the GDPR more broadly (which also affects foreign companies offering services to EU residents) every company is required by law to have a privacy policy and that policy must include whom to contact for concerns and requests regarding personal data of the user/visitor and who (which legal entity) processes and stores the data.

This is the opposite of doxxing. It protects private individuals by making transparent to them who they are interfacing with and who holds their data. This is necessary for informed consent.

Sidenote: the website/app's cookie notice is pointless as it's using the same "redirect to google.com if user says no" logic porn sites used to do (do they still do this?) for age checks. The app also works without accepting the terms, so either it can work without accepting them or (more likely) it doesn't actually wait for the user's consent. Either way it doesn't do anything and doesn't comply with any privacy laws I'm aware of that would require it.
Myopia is caused by a mix of insufficient daytime bright light exposure and too much near-work, an effect which is even more severe if one wears glasses to correct it.

The eyeball 1) over time adapts shape to compensate for defocus, and 2) has a daily dopamine release cycle important for the maintenance of its function that hinges on bright light exposure.

Surgery isn't a "cure", it's a post-fact hacky fix for a preventable disease.
https://sci-hub.st/

you're welcome
Do they actually route all the way across planet using laser interlinks? Are there any tests by someone?
They're talking about exploitation in the Marxist sense, that excess profit belongs to the workers. Of course, I don't believe in the Labor Theory of Value, as supply and demand is a much more useful model of the world, but that's what they mean by exploitation, not what it's seen as colloquially.
Yup, as recent as 1996:

"A trailing comma may appear after the last expression in an array initializer and is ignored"

https://titanium.cs.berkeley.edu/doc/java-langspec-1.0/10.do...
And pilsener beer.

For some things the artisan skill is in approaching machine level efficiency.

(of course in many cases, such as with baklava, hummus and pilsener beer the temptation then arises to cheap out on the ingredients, causing the factory to lose out to the granny, but the principle essentially holds)
Key word is “Observable”.

The observable universe has a definite size. Shortly after the Big Bang, what is now the observable universe was the size of an apple etc. Now it is many tens of billions of light years across.

The observable universe does have a center - you, the observer.
That is the same principle in any market, not just the labor market. It is based on the laws of supply and demand, not what the product's "worth" is (how would you even know that at a large scale without price discovery?).
Would space DNS enable some sort form of unblockable twitter/x?
And so voters become less informed and so don't know what politician to vote for.
How does this help society?
Is it this, which seems to load: https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1KdbgOFXXXXbyXVXXq6xXFXXXT/Fre...
A pair of earrings.

Earrings is plural, earring is the singular.
Understanding Automatic Differentiation in 30 lines of Python
No, they are talking about the Marxist theory of exploitation, where excess profits belong to the workers. It is however not a very useful model in the real world when market principles like supply and demand have much more predictive power.
Development on Perl's DBI started in 1992 and I'm sure there wasn't a big tech backer.
Like books, text-based games leave much to the player's imagination. There's no (or very limited) graphics, and the player's mind fills in the gaps.

Which stimulates player's creativity, and makes the game a unique experience to each player.

But there's a fine line between exploiting this successfully, and relying on it too much - at which point players get bored.

Modern games rely much less on this. At least not for how the environment looks. Instead machine works hard to present a semi-realistic environment. Enough to "suspend disbelief" anyway.

This lowers the bar for casual players to get into a game. But at the same time, makes for a (somewhat) more passive experience. You explore a pre-designed environment vs. create a good part of it yourself.

Exception might be 'builder' style games like survival games, some RTS / RPGs & of course Minecraft.
or just copy tobacco companies and not care

they have medical patients on their boxes down there, the trade is a big as ever
Last time I've read this, it had too much code golf with FP Python.

No one is using Python like that in the professional world. The most complex you'll see are simple comprehensions.

Python is supposed to be a readable language for newbies, like Golang.
I counted the number of config lines it takes in Emacs to get LSP fo Python:

Maybe 2 lines, if you otherwise would not use company-mode.

1 line requiring lsp-mode.

1 line setting lsp diagnostics provider.

1 line adding lsp mode to python-mode-hook.

2 lines enabling the linter (if you want that) (I use flake8).

2 lines for setting an additional shortcut.

23 completely optional lines for marking some variables from .dir-locals as accepted/safe.

1 optional line for changing the color of the breadcrumbs header line.

Approximately 2/3 of a page, including all optional config I have.
I remember this being mentioned in this documentary and other absurdly by our other favorite food corporation, Nestlé:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myv7yydtCKc
No, just watched all of them and took time to digest. By the way I would assume the very first episode probably is or was the most misunderstood but now I understand: attacks like depicted there are going to be 100% automated soon (if not already). Data gets collected, an AI automatically looks for vulnerable servers, steals the data, builds a victim profile, calls them from whatever a phone number (this has always been easy) with whatever a voice, tells them whatever optimal to manipulate them into whatever thing optimal to achieve a desired outcome (make them pay money, disclose a secret about someone or perform an act which will leads to desired impact on the society/economy).
> The IAEA failed to effectively monitor the Iranian nuclear program for more than a decade,

Wwhich decade was that then (more to the point why did they fail to monitor if they were montoring?)

There's a big difference between easy monitoring of peacetime allied country nuclear reactors and monitoring the enrichment program of a country actively attempting to develp weapons grade material in the absence of any binding agreements.
War over labels is the "showing initiative" for middle managers at Kellogs. Wait till GLP-1 is going to have widespread effects. Apparently it is already been cited as risk in earnings calls for public companies[0].

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-18/glp-1-dru...
For the former point, fair enough.

For the latter, obviously yes. The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Association) has done it's own independent tests, as well as actively monitored japanese tests while on site.
In which way is that law useless for consumers then? Because, quite frankly, the last couple of years has made me quite jaded with regards to companies supporting right to repair.
The current limitations are not about litho at all but actually about CoWoS stacking capacity.
The tobacco companies seemed to care quite a bit in Australia, judging by the legal bullshit they tried here when the government made their packaging unappealing.

The tobacco companies lost, thankfully. :)
For that you need an Inside Hotspot, Inside OpenJ9, Inside GraalVM, Inside Azul, Inside ART, Inside microEJ, Inside PTC, Inside JamaicaVM, Inside....

Otherwise is like trying to discuss what does a C compiler do, when only looking through the lens of the C abstract machine in ISO C.
You do realize that sometimes rich right wingers advocate cannibalism too -- just not eating the rich:

Eat the Poor: A Modest Proposal for Donald Trump to be President of the United States:

https://www.amazon.nl/-/en/Mistress-Harley/dp/1535229845

Remember, you're the one who introduced the brilliant idea of eating the rich into this conversation, and you're the one who replied even after you said you wouldn't, so you not only took the bait, you baited the hook with deliciously irresistible rich human flesh! Now that's some fine anthropophagic trolling!
I remember someone saying the difference between Physics and Computer Science is that in CS we are the masters of the universe - there are no laws of Physics that bind us.

For me that means that in our world of computers there is infinite curiosities to discover. (Not that the same isn't true for the natural world too)
Are the "[a]" footnotes also meant to be "subtly wrong" for shits and giggles?

Footnote 1.5 for instance sounds completely wrong, as if the author is mixing up definition for declaration, and initialisation for definition:

declaration: lets the compiler know the existence of a symbol and its type, without allocating memory for it yet or assign a value. Either of those can happen in a different compilation unit and linked after after the compilation stage. e.g.

extern int bar;

definition: arguably a poor choice of name, but this is the point at which a definitive space in memory is reserved for this variable. If no previous declaration for this symbol has taken place, the symbol is also declared as above too. The value in the newly allocated memory is effectively garbage, since it has not been initialised at yhis step. E.g.

int bar;

initialisation: the assigning of contents into the memory portion that has been allocated for that symbol.

bar = 5;

simultaneous declaration, definition, and initialisation in a single step:

int bar = 5;
"Companies like Coca-Cola and Kraft Heinz have begun designing their products so that their packages don’t have a true front or back, but rather two nearly identical labels — except for the fact that only one side has the required warning. As a result, supermarket clerks often place the products with the warning facing inward, effectively hiding it."

lol. This isn't the kind of innovation we want market capitalism to deliver, but it's exactly the kind it is best at sometimes.
"Don't think of a pink elephant".
Tell HN: Oracle Cloud has Suspended our paid account
Oracle has suspended our company’s production account for no apparent reason. We couldn’t contact their customer support either. We are paying for their services for the past 3 months.
the 1 in the 3-2-1 should be somewhere on premise or at least not directly reachable from the internet.

Think: ssh cron job that copies backups from cloud to cold storage
ToolJet is a full stack platform for building internal tools where automation is one part of it. We also support creating web applications and have a data store.

While make.com is focussed just on automation but for all kinds of use cases and not focussed on solving internal tooling problems for the companies.

However, process street does look focussed on building software for internal applications but it is more towards no-code spectrum which has its advantages but makes it less customisable. ToolJet, on the other hand is more customisable and developer friendly because of our low-code approach.
> No, I'm not joking. We do have this option, and it's consistent with the defaults across private mail providers. Still waiting for your list of the ones that don't load images by default.

If you read back, you'll see I wrote email clients and providers. But I'll note that you have not provided a list of clients or providers with privacy defaults that are worse than yours.

> It does not load the images. That's just patently false disinfo.

It absolutely does. You have no idea how your own product works. I literally showed you a tool where you (or anyone else) can verify this yourself in a few minutes: https://www.emailprivacytester.com - By the way, I am the author of this tool, and your email product is the least privacy preserving email product on the market right now.
> However, ROCM/HIP etc. really seems to be catching up (I even see them packaged on Arch linux).

There are now distro-provided packages on Arch, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora.
Nestlé have the support of the Swiss government to fight the same rules.

(Against warning labels on junk food in Mexico: How Switzerland danced to the Nestlé tune)

https://stories.publiceye.ch/en/nestle-mexico/
Nvidia started working on CUDA back in the mid-2000s. Nobody else cared about GPU compute back then.
Nice. I should revisit whether Bun nowadays supports OpenTelemetry
irc has 2 killer features: 1) it takes some effort to get and stay on. web chatters leave pretty fast. 2) people leave for digital prisons.

the freenode exodus was great, there was no discussion, nothing to explain.
You have 2005 Façade, where the number of NPCs is restricted to two - allowing for a more complex exploration of dialogues and situations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa%C3%A7ade_(video_game)
There is no open source-ish. It either protects the fundamental freedoms or it...doesn't.
> “when you start to mess up the easy stuff is when you back it off and call it”.

A few nights ago I was parking my car parallel to the side of a street, the usual retro maneuver. I failed it badly, unusual but it happens. I got out and did it again. Failed again. That was when I understood that I was really tired. I probably made too much sport in the previous days. I got out and made it right, then took a couple of days of rest.
I cringe every single time I see a for loop for what System.arraycopy () has been providing since early days.

For better or worse, it shows me that the author isn't that into Java.
There must be some way to add a legal mechanism for preventing obvious and egregious loophole exploitation. Why can it not be done?
Of course.

But I think the idea was more about what to do with the 10 million tonnes of coffee to help the environment than how to replace 2 or 3 billion tonnes of filler necessary to create concrete.
If Apple supports this law, it must have been completely neutered.
> I agree that English has reached the Latin status today, but - in the bigger picture - it's just spoken by a cosmopolitan elite, most of the people don't speak it or they don't speak it well.

No way, English is nowhere close to the Galileo-era Latin status.

If that were true, then Americans and British and Australians etc. would be learning it as a second-language just to communicate with one-another, because their native/local usage would have fragmented to badly that each would have its own new name.

Also, there are few hundred million people in the world who speak English but are hardly "the cosmopolitan elite" because they learned it natively without relying on any additional education and/or live in rural areas.
Video encoding doesn’t use CUDA but rather NVENC.

However AMD is still as terrible at H264 as ever, and their AV1 encoder also has a hardware defect they’ve patched by forcing it to round up to 16 line multiples, so it is incapable of encoding a 1080p video and instead outputs 1082p that won’t be ingested properly when streaming.

http://freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/9185#note_1954937

Also the AV1 quality is not as good as intel+nvidia even with resolutions that aren’t glitched. AMD seemingly went big on HEVC (supposedly because of stadia?) but everything else is a mess.

And most places won’t touch HEVC because of the licensing costs. Microsoft makes it a windows store plugin you have to buy separately etc. somewhat odd that google picked HEVC for stadia but I guess those customers are actually directly paying you vs YouTube being a minus on their balance sheet (at least until recently possibly)
Ok yes looks like it was just Larry Wall. Not sure if Unisys paid for his time or it was part time. But anyway not a big tech backed language.
If you like Nutrition facts labels and Artificial Intelligence, Open Food Facts has a nice AI effort at https://github.com/openfoodfacts/robotoff and https://hunger.openfoodfacts.org/
We do weekly Community Calls if you're interested.
That doesnt make training the models wrong, just using those specific outputs wrong.
Also note that FPS is non-linear value, you want to compare frame times instead.
Weird thing my partner noticed - the obsession to have your own driveway. Two adjacent lots, two driveways costing tens of thousands right next to each other. Some lots I've seen have multiple bridges right next to each other. What a waste.

Also, we've recently purchased a place and driveway has more concrete footprint than entire house...
>They did, Discourse is basically just a plain old forum -- with a somewhat newer coat of paint.

Compared to traditional forum systems such as vbulletin or ipboard, discourse is a pain in the ass to use.
It's interesting how many meaningful conversations I've had over email too, the medium doesn't matter, but it doesn't mean the features aren't useful.
Why is this the case?

Mass Effect 3, which is by no means a small or content-poor game, however controversial its ending, was released just two years after its predecessor. It incorporated a number of obvious mechanic/gameplay updates, engine tweaks, and QoL improvements. It even incorporated a popular multiplayer mode. All of the music, all of the voice acting, all of the motion-capping (if they did any of that) was done quickly.

Bioware could release "Mass Effect 4" with the same mechanics and systems, if the story's good enough, and people would be (extremely) happy. So what now takes them >8 years that previously took them two?

Also noteworthy: Content can't possibly be the bottleneck, as Pillars of Eternity (a Baldur's Gate-like RPG) and its sequel were released within a roughly three year period, and those games contain millions of words of content. The second game is also fully voice-acted.
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s reported death may consolidate Putin’s power
Yeah, as they say in the text:

>> "At the end of the [proclamation], if there's anything close to the 50,000 new units on the market the governor predicted and the sky's not black with pollution, the waters look like they do today, that's going to provide some empirical proof that it was these [regulations] getting in the way."

I'm also curious to see what the environment will look like after most of the regulations are eliminated.
While I do agree with you to an extent, let's not forget where the word "gacha" came from..