skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It turns out that the page I linked to has more than just pictures of the covers, and if you click thru you can find the publisher's blurbs which are brief descriptions of the contents spun in a way favorable to them.

As an example, there's this biography of William F. Buckley Jr :https://www.regnery.com/9781610171557/william-f-buckley-jr/ whose blurb reads in part "William F. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement tells the incredible story of a man who could have been a playboy, sailing his yacht and skiing in Switzerland, but who chose to be the St. Paul of the conservative movement, carrying the message far and wide." (and makes it sound more more like a hagiography, but let's leave that aside).

Then there's https://www.regnery.com/9781610171458/just-right/ with this excerpt from the blurb: "This memoir is full of colorful stories from a man who has been present at nearly every major event of the modern conservative movement and has done it all in a remarkable, multifaceted career."

Also in the same imprint is Rick Santorum: https://www.regnery.com/9781932236835/it-takes-a-family/ about whom I don't think I need to say much more.

I said "obvious" regarding the publisher overall, not just their imprint. You'll notice they have a "Political Books" category (https://www.regnery.com/books/political-books/) in which you might find that their 'Featured Books' include "Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America" (by Ted Cruz, and please refer back to my comment re: Santorum), "Hide Your Children: Exposing the Marxists Behind the Attack on America's Kids" , "When China Attacks: A Warning to America", "The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy has Destroyed Us", and "Domestic Extremest: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War".

If that's not enough for you, then please consider the publisher's own words: "Want to read conservative books that drive headlines, start debates, and change the course of history? That’s what Regnery books have been doing since 1947." which doesn't leave much room for ambiguity.
I don't understand people saying "X development has stopped".

This is false.

Bugs continue to be fixed.

Yes, features are already there, so they are not developed anymore. Is this bad?
Could it work like one of these front-loader tricycles? https://www.worksmancycles.com/frontload.html
Yeah and to sign in with apple on your website, you MUST have an ios app in the app store. i.e. pay $99 a year.
There are already 8 billion people, we don’t need more. There are plenty of people still who do want children: I’m happy to let them do it
Regulating cattle has nothing to do with green initiatives and is harmful to seeing real change that could actually make a difference in climate change. It would be useful to dives from these conversations and focus on issues that will actually take a chunk of out emissions.

Silly things like this, with their obvious fabricated headlines, signal the intent here is to harass a population segment, which is counter productive, instead of having useful relationship building conversations, where real change happens.
> Network operation. X will always be better here because it was designed to be (at least with toolkits that can still take advantage of XRender.)

That is by no means clear cut - X is competing against specialist applications like VNC and there is a real question mark over whether a critical application uses OpenGL. X can easily win on toy benchmarks that play to its strengths, but it is rare in the extreme for that to matter.

Why do we need a remote server to provide a GUI that doesn't involve OpenGL? It happens, but not often enough to be an advantage. SSH + VNC is a more reliable and general combination, the X protocol is a maintenance and security liability. Personally if I'm logging in to strange servers I'd rather be learning cross-platform skills that carry between Windows, Mac and Linux.
The fact that humans don’t follow the speed limit is part of the math though. Just compare the same roads at the same times.
I didn't describe anything, I was merely refuting the claim "reason being you can’t really get t-boned on the driver side on a highway".

I quoted a news article that specifically described a highway where a vehicle was t-boned on the driver side and exactly how it occurred. You can add additional parameters such as "new highways" to narrow the original claim and refute my argument, I really can't defend against that. I really shouldn't need to.
In that post I explore a few ideas as to why I think this happens. I think it’s more that Art Nouveau gets labeled as Deco.

In general though, both are art movements from roughly the same time period with roughly the same basic principles. For someone unfamiliar with art history, it can be confusing in a way that doesn’t happen with say, Medieval vs. Neoclassical architecture.
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure of the technical reason:

https://forum.dlang.org/post/sgiyhdnpdyxvigwtrfqk@forum.dlan...
In Discordian beliefs, everyone (even non-Discordians) is a pope, so this is perfectly legitimate.
> Most scams take less than 1s to identify.

But if you are somewhat smart, by the sheer amount of scams that you receive, you realize how depraved and fraudulent humankind is. As a next step, you realize how few people are willing to stand up and fight against all this, which strongly reinforces this cognition.
And I think, even if Wayland was feature complete, I'd still only be 99% satisfied with it.. because, I cannot think of anything I am 100% satisfied with!

Every piece of software has something you have to work around, every piece of software has small issues, bugs, and there's always some issue. Thus, 99% is pretty much "perfect", because you'll never get 100%. And therefore, for me, X11 is literally perfect. I have zero, absolutely zero motivation to change.

Frankly, compared to 20 years ago, X is a dream to use. Autoconfig, incredibly rich support for multiple monitors, compared to decades ago. It's wonderful. I love it.

I sort of feel like Wayland is in ipv6 turf. Always gaining support, but always blocked in a lot of places for some reason. I fully expect ipv8 to come out, with some sort of additionals for inter-solar routing or some such, before ipv6 gets fully adopted.
Pipewire got comparable to Mac/win months ago and now it's years ahead in terms of capabilities. BT codec switching on request, fully configurable graph of connections, multi input/output, sub-20ms BT delay, jack compatibility, etc. It's the biggest software success I've seen in a really long time and I don't expect other systems to catch up to the current state for many many years.
Good luck making that happen when human male teenagers are on average the most aggressive and unreasonable version of our species.
For sure there is some cherry picking going on. And for sure it depends. And for sure we're missing the big numbers to do a meaningful statistic analysis at this point.

What I think is most interesting about your way of looking at this is whether we'll find those sub-domains where autonomous driving makes sense versus where manual driving will remain safer. And what those domains will be.
Yeah, that was it! It was so confusing initially trying to figure out what should go in the EC2 instances' local disk storage, what should go into EBS, and what should go into S3. It all seems so obvious now of course...
It's not so much that EC2 Classic offered any features that were difficult to live without. It's just that migraine away from it means migrating, period. You need to move all of your systems, including any data stored on those systems (in instance store or EBS), to effectively a new data center. Migrating a live production environment can be a pain and/or cause downtime.
Is it that there are more cars? Because I live in Amsterdam, and there's definitely more bikes than cars here, yet bicycle support still sucks. Although it's possible few cyclists use Google Maps because a) it's bad, b) they don't need to, and c) you need a special clip to use your smartphone live on your bike (though that's also true for cars).
Here you go: https://mapcomplete.org/shops.html?z=12.2&lat=52.36511&lon=4...

Note: it takes a little while to load all of Amsterdam.

Disclaimer: I'm the (main) dev of mapcomplete
Steam is doing something wrong on Linux. I can't put my finger on what it is, but on my AMD based machine running a recent-ish Ubuntu it's just..a mess in both X and Wayland.

Sometimes it's their annoying chrome-fork, steam-web-runner or whatever in a constant crash-loop in the background, eating all CPU.

Other times it seems like if a game or the UI gets launched accidentally or automatically somehow on the integrated graphics, I have to go hunting zombie processes with kill -9 to get things to shut down enough so that I can start them using discrete graphics.

Sometimes launches games and they're in odd geometry.

Running it on X instead of Wayland sometimes fixes problems. But then other times not. Unpredictable.

They're using a chromium based shell, but I don't have these problems with other things like that (Slack, Chrome itself, etc.) And Wayland support in the chromium stack is ... ok? So what gives?
Is it a big deal if foreign competitors aren't active in that market? I wouldn't expect a Chinese payment app to work with my US bank account any more than I would expect Huawei network equipment to be used to transmit domestic traffic.
Did they try those cars during winter? In typical spring conditions where you have wet ice and wet snow on the road and road markings aren't visible.

Oh right - those don't happen in California.
Not my experience here - I bought a Giant eBike which has a Yamaha powertrain... which is neither fish nor fowl. Battery is Giant, motor is Yamaha, but it uses a different comms protocol between motor and battery than the later Giant-only ones, so it's actually Yamaha... and notorious for comms failures. Battery says it's OK, and motor says it's OK, but there's a comms issue between them, so no power. I'll need to spend time sitting on a 1-wire serial comms link to have any idea what's wrong (rumour is that the transistor that powers this in the motor is a common failure point).

Some of these batteries can't be re-celled as if they've had a failure, the BMS deliberately goes into a 'permanently dead' mode, so it can't be recovered even if the dead cells are replaced.

It's criminal what's happening in the proprietary eBike space.
> You can ask someone to produce a pin-up version of Minnie Mouse, but good luck using it in any commercial activities.

The same would automatically apply to LLM output -- there's no need to change the current laws to cover that case.

The question is this. Suppose I ask a human artist and an LLM to create me a new female mouse cartoon character. And suppose both the artist and the LLM have been exposed to Minnie Mouse. It's not unlikely that the new character created in both cases will have aspects specifically similar to, or specifically opposite to Minnie Mouse.

In the case of the human artist, the new character will not be covered by Disney's copyright, unless there was a lot of copying. Why should the result be different for LLMs?

The logical conclusion of "any output of an LLM that's seen Minnie Mouse must be subject to Disney's copyright" is "any output of any human that's seen Minnie Mouse must be owned by Disney". Which I'm sure Disney would love, but would certainly make the world a worse place for everyone.
> Its always the same narrative talking about European colonization of the world, "yes, this is what armies/nations did back then, past is past"
When talking about Spain or Constantinople, "look at the awful colonizers!"

Who do you see saying these things today? In e.g. the early 1900s that was probably the common view, but today the common view in the west seems to be the exact opposite.
Yeah, I've ridden on country roads with huge wide shoulders, and stayed right next to where the cars are due to the debris. Clearing bike paths/shoulders of debris would make a real difference in safety while bicycling.
I wonder if this is related to Game of Trees (Got), the Git-compatible VCS developed for OpenBSD developers: https://gameoftrees.org/
They should add an url into the description text. This will render as backlink any there are many pages out there which replicate github-topic pages which will then give your site many links for free.
We had a phone number with 6 digits (without the international code in front).

When my father had to enter the phone number in some hotel form when he was abroad the guy was totally convinced he must be some sort of royal, president or another kind of very important person, when in fact we are just from a very rual part of a very small nation.
And who has even heard of MooTools or the Yahoo User Interface library?

The JS ecosystem destroys the past like nothing else.
This might be a hot take, but you'll have to take X from my cold, dead hands.

Or at least until things start breaking, or maybe until Wayland has e.g. stellar HDR support and I'll get a nice OLED monitor. Otherwise, no dice.

I know that X is a crusty old spawn of Cthulhu; but honestly, I don't really care? It just works! I set up my system 10 years ago with how the UI works (including my window manager), and it stably works since then without me having to ever fiddle with it. The fact that X's development is dead is also a feature, because there's no churn!

And when I see other people complaining what still doesn't work on Wayland (where everything works perfectly for me on X) I'm like, eh, I don't have the time for fiddling around; maybe I'll try it out some other day.
Of course there is a limit. But if the self driving vehicles are being a bit slower than human-driven cars, that’s a very small price to pay for the huge safety benefits.

In fact, as a pedestrian and cyclist, I could not care less.
A friend of mine got a PhD, and then got three more degrees (so far) afterwards.
There are some technical problems - especially in areas like introducing new security controls - where the upsides are relatively obscure from the perspective of end users while the downsides are obvious.

Changes where there are plenty of chances to garner negative attention, but almost none to garner positive attention, and the ultimate success would be for the work to go completely un-noticed.

From an end user's perspective, they used to be able to Y in Z and it's stopped working, they google the problem and that's their first introduction to Wayland or Snap or Pipewire or Systemd or whatever.

One of the benefits to a traditional yearly product release cycle is to bundle such changes with a bunch of other, more obviously beneficial changes to sweeten the bitter medicine.
The had to be restarted, but not only that, has to have their networks reconfigured.

But they gave people YEARS to do that, and tracked down every user to help them if necessary.
A more legible copy with selectable text:
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED053419.pdf
> are operating very conservatively right now

If other drivers would not yield to robocar, it may get stuck on intersection forever. Robocars have no assertiveness to push themselves into traffic.
I never liked NodeJS; on the one side it was innovative in that its concurrency model allowed for faster back-ends, but a lot of the features of existing back-end languages like Java and PHP were still missing, so a lot of patterns were re-invented, the language itself needed years to get to the 'safety' levels that Java already had and PHP was working towards, and proven and standardized technology like XML and the contractual guarantees it could give were discarded because it was heavy and JSON was better because it was human-read/writeable or something like that.

I feel like we lost a lot of time and effort by ditching XML. I mean documenting a REST/JSON API is still painful. While 20, 25 years ago you could already generate your data models and a parser for your XML payload. I still don't know what was wrong with XML. Yeah it was a bit heavier on the line than JSON, but that's a fixable problem - using compression, or use EXI (https://www.w3.org/TR/exi/) to turn it into a binary protocol. I don't know if EXI ever became a thing, but at the time I was quite exited about it knowing how much XML was passed around.
It depends on what level of access you want. My app just uses basic verification - I get to see the user's name, Facebook ID number, and photo. That's it.

I don't have to provide any of my personal data as a developer to Facebook. I do have to provide a privacy policy. I haven't received a similar email to you.

As that blog post says, Business Verification is required for "Advanced Access".

So, if you can, change the level of access that you need. If all you're using Facebook for is an identity provider see if you can drop the number of permissions you're requesting.

If that fails. Get a cheap disposable SIM and use that as your phone number for Facebook verification.
Curious comment about driverless vehicles. How does insurance work? How are the rates set (high due to ambiguity now?)? How do you exchange information? How do you clear the roadway while also not fleeing the scene? How does the vehicle know if it makes contact at very low speeds (no real shock of impact but enough to scratch/dent/run over a foot etc?
Yeah I hear ya. I think it’s generally a lot of notions. The general zeitgeist and a bunch of other of Heidegger’s ideas and those he influenced.

I do think there are real distinctions though. You see it profoundly in literature. Modernist literature has many different concerns in terms of structure, narrative, form, etc. Postmodernist writing just completely deconstructed it and reformed it.

And I think that’s a big part of postmodernism - deconstruction. You see it in so many artifacts, social systems, and day-to-day life.

Saying that I think we are in more of a hyper modern world today which is an extension of post but even more broken down and individualized and virtual. A works where we have multiple identities and exist in multiple places at once in different forms.
> More fun from dev point of view

This is the curse of software developers and employers everywhere tbh.
Yeah, that office manager probably knew who would be getting the tickets in advance.
Great site. The goto place for learning or studying a knot.

Place where I first heard about the Ashley Book of Knots (ABOK). The book is a historical gem, as well as the official reference for knots. Great stories about knots.

Trucker's Knot, with cool reference to Ylvis, of What Did the Fox Say? https://www.animatedknots.com/truckers-hitch-knot
I just ssh to the server and edit the code there, I never understood why people need to have two whole environments that they keep in sync.

(though seriously, in my dorm room in the 90s, my pentium 90 desktop at the end of my bed had a fixed IP address and was the server...)
Would you please talk more about this?

* What is your condition exactly?

* What were you using on X that made you healthy?

* How is it broken on Wayland?
I’ve investigated a metric fuckload of these cases at work.

Usually, the emails are from public leaks. So, free email list.

The hosting? More often than not, we find phishing panels on hacked web servers exploited through vulnerable Wordpress plugins or whatnot. So the servers are free.

Sending the emails? Usually a shitty PHP bulk mailer uploaded to the same compromised server as the phishing kit.

The effort on a lot of this is incredibly low, the cost is “time”, etc. public mail lists, infra compromised using public exploits, etc.
I’d be suspect about how little the Waymos are at fault. Erratic or unpredictable driving behavior can cause accidents even if it would technically be ruled as the other driver’s “fault”.

Also, replacing all human drivers with Waymos isn’t possible. Waymos can’t do everything drivers need to do and don’t operate in all conditions, in all places, at all times. Until they do, these stats are not really meaningful.
> Most child abuse comes from family members (which must be solved at the source)

Yes. Since becoming an abuser is a process and not a moment, part of the solution must be making access to CSAM much harder.

> And no, we are not 'condoning' it when we declare E2EE an overall good thing.

Agreed. I'm sorry if I worded things in a way that caused you to see an implication which was not intended. To be clear: E2EE is a good thing. Championing E2EE is not equivalent to condoning CSAM.

What I did say is that in failing to try and provide any meaningful solutions to this unintended consequence of E2EE, the industry is effectively condoning the problem.

> This is a standard utilitarian tradeoff

If that's the best we can do, I'm very disappointed. That position says that to achieve privacy, I must tolerate CSAM. I want both privacy and for us not to tolerate CSAM. I don't know what the solution is, but that is what I wish the industry were aiming for. At the moment, the industry seems to be aiming for nothing but a shrug of the shoulders.
Since human drivers can do this, what's missing from autonomous systems to perform here as well? More training data? Different optical or radar systems? Assuming our ability to drive isn't some God given gift, there shouldn't be a hard limit on what autonomous cars can do, yes?
It depends on the needs of the specific application. What typically happens is that you’d use BO to globally converge to within some tolerance and use the resulting surrogate to get a map of where the interesting regions are. You can then more densely sample these candidate regions or switch to a gradient-based method (via finite difference). For uncertainty information, we usually add this as a noise parameter, either on the input samples, or as part of the GP kernel.
Same here, that's how I first came across it :) At current tests, it performs a lot better compared to other samplers and requires a lot less trials to find good hyperparameters.
How much do you think it costs to send an armed officer in a squad car to knock on a door in response to a noise complaint? How much do you think it costs to send a drone to observe a place in response to a noise complaint? A place which legally has no expectation of privacy by the way.

Consider also the fact that armed officers sometimes shoot and kill people. A camera drone completely avoids this potential outcome.
The ssl is provided by cloudflare
Often people only notice their badly maintained website has been hijacked to host phishing pages under some subdirectory when their whole site ends up in Google’s safe browsing shitlist.
I use Phoenix LiveView and I’m really big on frontend. I also do a lot of backend, though, so I’m one of those “full stack” generalists that no one likes anymore.
Why would it be symmetric? This is like if North American natives had successfully expelled the Europeans after some amount of time, and then saying that the natives were meaner to the Europeans than vice versa. Wouldn’t expulsion be justified from the North American native’s perspective?
Does it snow in SF?
Sorry. I thought it was clear from context that I replied to the conditioning remark.

The indeterminate progress bar/spinner were invented decades ago for this use case. There’s no need to assume users are “conditioned to expect progress bars to freeze and then suddenly finish”, and reinforce that.

If you don’t know when bytes will start arriving or how many will arrive, don’t pretend you do know.
I find the UI in Organic Maps to be much nicer. OSMAnd seems to have a larger feature set and extensions and stuff you may or may not need/want/require. Navigation seem to add an announcement in OSMAnd whenever the OSM object for a road changes (seemingly), which leads to a number of totally unnecessary »Continue straight on road X«.

Those were a few differences I noticed.
Now it also breaks Electron apps.