skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alleging nativity when at the same time championing just simply banning stuff you dont like, the consequences be dammed, might be funny, but this discussion has too high stakes for undisclosed satire. Still made me chuckle though.

edit: Apparently not satire. Quite sorry to hear, that was me giving the benefit of the doubt. That leaves either stupidity (not realizing the consequences), malice (not caring) or me overlooking something.

So, how do checks and balances for mob justice look like? Other then just meaning well and being the good guys? Pretty sure somebody could elaborate if it was really just me overlooking something.
You may want to revisit how syllogisms work. Thanks for your input.
Meta Is Researching Turning Any Flat Surface into a Virtual Keyboard
I take part of my income in Bitcoin and spend it, both on-chain and Lightning Network, pretty frequently. I visit a number of local places that accept Bitcoin and use it for online purchases too. There are several Bitcoin ATMs in my city but they mostly have KYC with low limits and/or high fees.

For purchases like cars or real estate it seems like you'd have to be pretty lucky to find a seller unless you're not particular about what you're buying.

I've also started keeping more physical cash on-hand lately.
Right, the London subway (used to) have an announcement on every stop: "Mind the Gap". It is weird and wonderful.
The operator of the forum has made harassing statements himself, and he has already lost his section 230 protections. The first lawsuit or prosecution that comes his way will take this into account.
> These are extremely slow mechanisms, when they work at all.

This perfectly describes Democracy as well, however.

Are you anti-democratic?
Not the original commenter, but I have often been asked by non-technical colleagues to answer questions about a spreadsheet they've sourced from someone/somewhere else. "So-and-so shared this spreadsheet with me. Can you please take a look at let me know if ...". Sometimes this is delegation, but frequently comes down to a lack of skill.
The problem with energy production is a lack of coal plants. We’ve known this since the 19th century and it’s good to see various green parties finally understand that
Dolby Unveils New Dolby Atmos Innovation Coming to Tcl TVs Ahead of IFA 2023
I have no issue with infotainment systems with development, beta, test modes in vehicles on the road as long as the infotainment system is not essential to safe operation of the vehicle.
Unintuitive toolbars, takes an unnecessary amount of clicks to simply highlight a sentence, and resizing the window or moving it to a different screen reflows the content unintuitively.

Like everything else in Calibre, it has all the features I want to have and then some, but actually using them is always just a little bit more complicated than it needs to be.
I would love to see another competitor, but fuchsia is not there yet.

It is simpler for when you have minimal hardware, but phones are no longer minimal.
While they can’t leapfrog Google or OpenAI, they can introduce a nearly unlimited number of competitors and new entrants to the market. All of whom will be aligned to building on this foundation.

Either you claim the ring for yourself or you destroy it.
What is McCarthy [0] famous for? Or what do people say when they talk about him?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy
The language itself is decent enough for seasoned programmers, accessible to beginners, copy-paste friendly and the ecosystem covers the recent popular needs and hypes.
How can sustainability be embedded in a development process?
Problem is it needs to be like 90% on batteries…
> but we badly need more options just as accessible- what other E2EE anonymous web-browser accessible tool is as available to the masses, that they can be convinced to use?

Just stand up your own instance and make it available to the anonymous public?

Jitsi itself isn't going away, just their anonymously-accessible instance.

By all accounts it's very easy to operate and requires very little in terms of resources. Hell, DO even has a droplet available.

So what's the problem?
I doubt Intel leadership is that naive.
> If you don't understand what I mean just ask.

Likewise, if you disagree with my critique, just respond.
Well on the bright side, hopefully this incentivizes Jitsi to finally put first-class OIDC support into the codebase, which it still lacks.

I don't want to set up an entire LDAP server when I already have Authelia running.
DevkitPro Homebrew Toolchains for Nintendo Consoles
The blog post talks a lot about how he got the frames into the font, but very little about how the animation works.

AFAICT this is how it is done (edit: I am wrong, it uses Wasm):

- The frames of the video are simply stored as glyphs in the font

- There is a ligature mapping for sequences of dots to glyphs (for example "." is mapped to glyph 1, ".." is mapped to glyph 2, "..." is mapped to glyph 3, etc.

- If you use the font in an editable part of the browser and hold the "." key pressed, dots get added by autorepeat and a growing a sequence of dots is inserted. This sequence of dots is converted by the font's ligature mapping to different animation frame glyphs, thus showing the animation.

I have no idea why WASM and HarfBuzz are needed (it should work in any modern browser without them), but it looks like a fun little experiment.
(I hadn't heard the term "grammar school", I looked it up and it means a separate school for the academically gifted)

In my personal experience, I was not in a grammar school but within my school I had half a day of separate "advanced" classes of STEM subjects.

I felt like they helped a lot, I had more perspective and much higher quality of learning from my peers, not just about the subjects but also on strategies to learn quicker and most importantly in finding the joy in the beauty of math and sciences.

On the other hand, I could see increased stress in myself and some of my peers when we suddenly weren't the best in our classroom but just average -- which is an important lesson itself for sure, but the teenage brain reacts weirdly to that stress. Overall, though, those classes highly accelerated my learning, made me used to solving many quizzes quickly, and I made some great friends there.

I wonder why this seems to have failed in England?
Text manipulation was Perl’s raison d’être, it was exceptional at it. The real legacy of Perl is how pervasive its text manipulation concepts have become in other software. That was what made it work so well in the early days of the Web: everything Web was text-based.

Perl would probably still have a place at the table if Perl 6 hadn’t turned into a debacle over an astonishing number of years.
It's true! I actually am Catholic!
I'm not anonymous.
I have a gripe with Portable Windows Apps or more precisely with a way they are distributed.

Web is filled with scams, malware, phishing or just insecure web pages.Even when a source code of a program is public and download page is genuine, how could I ever trust the binary? I can't, but I can verify the source code (or take a risk that someone already examined it) and trust transparent CI chain.

So even if it comes from the respected developer I won't run a notavirus.exe, unless it was compiled automatically in a public docker container.

P.S. Another option for more portable linux executables is musl C library + appimage.
> $1.1 billion dollars will buy around that many watts of installed solar, at today's prices. Vastly more in another decade.

The nuclear plant produces 2.2GW. Solar costs $1/W. So $1.1 billion will get you 1.1GW.

The plant thus has twice the return on investment of solar - and is already here right now and doesn't need to be constructed.

It makes more sense to shut the plant once no more coal or gas is being burned, rather than waste all that energy right now.
OK, I get it, but when I'm trying to write automation for a shop that isn't natively Python-savvy (long story short, it made sense when I started a side project which evolved), if I use that library and ever move on, I now have to document in comments or somewhere WTF "BeautifulSoup" means. Because of some rando's inside joke they thought was funny.
I think we just need more reciprocity laws in international relations. Russian and Chinese journalists should be equally as constrained as American journalists in their countries.
> I can't imagine Python's welcoming community has anything to do with it. If anything it was Ruby that had a reputation for being the most welcoming community with its MINASWAN (cringe) philosophy.

TBH, community had nothing to do with Python's enormous success over its competitors (Perl, and Ruby. Possibly Tcl too.).

Nor did any technical merit, nor ergonomics.

There's one, and only one, reason why Python exploded at the expense of the other competitors: The ease and acceptance of using the language as glue for C functions.

Python's popularity is built on a solid foundation compatibility with C.

If, in the 90s, C++ had taken off enough to displace C, I doubt Python would be as popular as it is. Python owes its ubiquity to C, because if C was not ubiquitous, Python wouldn't be either.

(It's only recently, like the last 10 year or so, that I started seeing popular Python programs which didn't have a dependency on C libraries. And even now, it's still rare to see).
That's not a very good argument. Clearly there are some people who do want to see spam otherwise spam would be uneconomical because nobody would buy. On the same note there are plenty of people who don't want to see KF material. I don't think arguing by some sort of majority works. And yes lots of spam, phishing and other material gets filtered out by ISPs (somebody further up was talking about that some ISPs were blocking the full spam house list). A
Sounds like you are not disagreeing, the question is just what is a lawful reason.
Frankly, I'm shocked it is not Javascript. It seems like it shows up everywhere.

Maybe it is because we consider Typescript to be a different language? The rise of Typescript has eroded into the use of Javascript proper quite a bit. Standing alone, I could see them being losers to Python overall. But at the same time Python 2 and Python 3 are different languages, yet seemed to be grouped together, so is there justification for Javascript and Typescript to be divided?
My point exactly, entirely unclear to me if that separation happens with Tesla.
A "premise" is part of a logical argument. You want to say "premises", which refers to a location. I'm sorry to be that person.
I'm jumping first, they have to follow me!
But R is itself a reimplementation of S.
It's weird that so many are still holding on to a transfer standard launched year 2000 in the year 2023..
No, they don't. They pick on people and pretend it's justice.
Not only do this, but do it way more successfully. I'll never get tired of repeating that among top YC startups, Java as a primary language contributes to roughly 1% of value, while Python + Ruby are almost at 70%.

https://charliereese.ca/y-combinator-top-50-software-startup...
> So ... someone or some entity should not attempt to start a new Twitter-style because Cal Newport says it will emphasize negativity?

Yeah, sure, he's all alone in saying that.

> Surely the vast amount of brainpower could go into perhaps modifying the style or the algorithm, or tweet length, or some variable to help? Surely there is an embedded solution, somewhere in there.

"Surely"?!? There is no more reason to be sure of that than of the opposite. On the contrary, all the evidence so far rather strongly supports the opposite. So... "Surely"? Muahahahaa.

> That's why I'm saying headlines like this are stupid, there are literally near infinite variables that affect outcomes.

That's a bit like saying "That's why I'm saying headlines like 'We don't need a new bubonic plague' are stupid, there are literally near infinite variables that affect outcomes". What, you're saying Twitter isn't like the bubonic plague? Like I said, all evidence so far points toward it being so, so why don't you prove that it isn't. That's the only way to prove your claim that the headline is stupid.

> Or even, if he doesn't want to think about solving it, then "Twitter-like platforms lead to increased negativity". Now it's a statement of fact and its up to the reader to use the information usefully

1) Twitter is the quintessential Twitter-like platform.

2) WTF would "a new Twitter" even mean, if not precisely any new "Twitter-like platform"?!?

3) The headline has always been a statement of fact.
Actually, the tongue can feel finer details then hands/fingers can. It is not socially accepted, so mostly done in secret... But I am blind, and whenever I have to feel something very very tiny, the tongue is better then the finger(nails) can be.
How much can I trust the insights a tool like this gives?

The landing page focuses on ease of use and privacy (awesome!). But is this a tool I can use to make critical informed decisions or something where I am willing to trade correctness for ease of use?

Being able to click into a chart and see the generated query along with explanation of the intent of each step of the query would go a long way in building trust in the result.
That makes me think of the Puppeteer aliens from Larry Niven's "Known Space" books: Three-legged creatures with the brain in their main body, and two "heads" on prehensile necks.

Each head has one eye--allowing them to simultaneously look in different directions or opposite sides of a nearby object--and they manipulate the world using their lips which have small nodules similar to fingertips.
Futures manipulation is hard when the future is controlled.

Futures aren't as impacted by price as you imply under the effects of market manipulation.

While you might have a change due to expected resiliency generally futures don't shift like assets do under temporary manipulation.

If it only lasts a day or two futures don't have time to shift.
I am just using free tier right now but I think the privacy bit is a sweetener, the value with kagi so far for me is you can scope searches really well, add preferred sources, filtering. It's a bit like if you slapped a nice interface over all the google hacks that used to be possible. Lack of SEO junk is another sweetener.

Yeah, a lot of this is technically possible without kagi but if kagi doesn't suck I'll pay to not have to deal with the extra cognative load of wrangling google or ddg into spitting out sensible results.
A number of kiwifarms victims are guilty engaging in speech that the Kiwifarms users disagreed with. So Kiwifarms users launched criminal harassment campaigns and used the forum to coordinate sharing the personal information of these victims. Personal information that has no relevance except to intimidate. And then the owner of the forum comments in these threads actively encouraging the activity.

You characterize this as a difference of opinion. Despicable.
According to the FDA, "imiquimod cream applied three times per week was no more effective than placebo cream for treating molluscum."

Maybe Amazon was selling Placebo Cream.
R* recently bought FiveM, so it's a bit less third party now.

https://www.polygon.com/23828445/gta-5-mods-roleplay-red-dea...

Maybe they'll do the same as mojang did with bukkit, and leave it out to dry...
I specifically was referencing any benefits from induction motor drive with 3 phase. Of course you get lower current when you run higher voltage and more phases. But, again, that isn't free. You're paying for extra conductors and insulation.

Regarding EVs... I would assume that depends on the design. No EV sold in north america is even capable of being charged off 3-phase AC anyways, so it would require quite the redesign.
India set to launch Sun-spotting satellite on Saturday
Why does bespoke animation not show on iPad?
At minimum, Google gets another data point about your internet and commercial service usage.

Worse cases include poorly scoped auth being used, and the service being compromised in some way.
My daughter was born via c-section. I'm well aware of the complications. Childbirth is not "remarkably dangerous", this is a modernist haranguing of women that is meant to scare them. It's a natural process, and like any natural process sometimes things go wrong or not perfectly. That doesn't mean the process is worthless and we should get rid of it.

I'm pointing out that the same phenomenon where "parents" of children born via surrogacy feel less of an attachment to their child would be present in the AWT situation.
> Do you really think there needs to be a guideline saying "comments should be on-topic"?

Of course not. I thought the way I wrote made it very clear that I was championing the fact that there's no such rule. If you really misconstrued my comment as the twisted opposite of that, perhaps I need to learn to write better.

> Wouldn't you assume that based on ... the guidelines ...

Actually, no. I see nothing in the guidelines that even urge us to stay on-topic.

> ... and how we generally conduct ourselves in the comments?

Definitely, no. Comments on HN — especially toplevel comments — frequently fork and/or launch entirely new conversations. In fact, that is one of the reasons I enjoy reading HN. I always know, when I click on the comments of a link post, to not expect any discussion about what's contained in the link, because of how reliably often that happens.

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> But despite all that, the guidelines do ask us to avoid generic tangents and to not post shallow dismissals. I'd say the comment at the top of this thread qualifies on both counts.

Maybe it does; maybe it doesn't. That's not the point. This is the point: shutting down a thread because someone thinks the conversation is not "on-topic" for the post.

Oh wait. Did you want to change the topic of conversation? Isn't that how we generally conduct ourselves in the comments? Do you now see what I mean?

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> Now we're many messages deep here arguing about what belongs ...

No, "we" are not. You are. I am not engaging in this conversation that you are trying to start by going off on a generic tangent.

> ... and that itself is a violation of the most important guideline: this is boring to read.

I just didn't want the shallow dismissal that my parent was using to shut down discourse to become more commonplace on this forum. I _like_ HN for that kind of discourse. I learn more because of "off-topic" discussions. It is precisely because I do not want HN to become what my parent was advocating — all comments shall stay on one topic only, that of the submission — that I replied. Because _that_ would be boring.

I am sorry you found my comment boring. I wasn't arguing to argue about what belongs here. I was defending the presence of sth I didn't believe was too boring to be allowed here. Of course, such writing can be boring to read. I tried to do what I could to make it less boring. But, as always, there's room for improvement.
> So if the biker bars are distributing child porn, or illegal drugs or guns, or using it as a place for conspiracy terrorism, then yeah, I say yes those corporations serving said bar should have a say.

For the sake of argument let’s change it from biker bar to a LGBT bar. Say some customers may be doing illegal drugs, and the CEO of the electric company (Known for his stance against illegal drugs) got wind of it. Like the biker bar, they were never afforded due process, and were never ordered to shut down in a court of law. Instead, the CEO orders his company to shut off the power; the reason being, he knows it must be true because a local reporter told him so. Not only that, a friend of his went to the bar and saw people doing drugs.

The bar gets no jury, no trial. A structure without electricity is considered uninhabitable, and the bar is forced to close down. Do you still think this is legal?
You think hosting a website is a right?
>Because the systems become unusable for everyone.

In this case there is no spam or resource exhaustion going on in this case. People are visiting a forum, posting things, and viewing text / images / video files posted by other users.

What makes things unusable is when you want to follow links on the web you need to use VPNs in order to route your traffic through the correct ISPs that will properly route your traffic. There could be a future where different T1 ISPs block different sites so there is no way to browse the entire internet using a single ISP, but instead you have to cleverly pick a different ISP for each destination IP to get it properly routed.
Nobody is complaining about the login requirements per se, we are complaining about the fact that a supposedly "privacy friendly" and FOSS service chose to implement a login system using only Google, Facebook and GitHub accounts and god knows when they'll add better options.
I'd even take it a step further and say that modern psychiatry and psychotherapy are generally just another arm of the state, directing people towards acceptable behaviors decided by white men. Much of it ultimately revolves around being a good little worker bee, and if they can't convince you to do that, they'll drug you until you're pliable.
Yeah, life is hard. Tough shit.
Is there a reason left to use ivfflat compared to hnsw? I am not that deep in the tech. But if hnsw is much much faster thats a big argument. Is hnsw better in every aspect or is the recall accurracy better for ivfflat?
So when you "mount" a device like a USB-drive, what happens? A single "file" (the USB drive) becomes multiple smaller files?

Is there also a reverse operation, turning multiple small files into a single bigger file?
It seems someone else showed that last year: https://www.journaldulapin.com/2022/11/21/wii-mac-linux/ (in French, but well worth a read; Google translate might help).

Also, the MOL website is a thing of beauty. I never thought I’d be nostalgic for early 2000s websites.
pnpm. Really fast, and user-friendly. Too bad it's not backwards-compatible with npm. I use it for all of my Node.js projects, but I sadly have to use npm when jumping into the frontend of project I volunteer on.

Another one would be Nala, I used this as my day-to-day apt frontend before I switched to Fedora. It makes the UX much more better than apt for daily usage.
Easy, as somehow discussed on the article.

Beyond the IT department everyone else has very to low incentives to adopt "those crazy ideas from computer guys", they care about deadlines, roadmaps, when marketing campaigns can be organised, with what content, what should be on the contracts with business partners,...

Ever since we got those ideas around 2000, the best outcome if agile is adopted at all, is scrumfall as the article describes.

However I have also seen many companies go back to classical requirements documents, and all related processes, as if agile had never been in the building.
>let people gripe away in peace on their little gossip forums

Funny way to describe "swatting campaigns and content that is illegal in many countries" but ok