skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> its complete detachment between spelling and pronunciation.

Whose dialect are you going to choose to render phonetically? Mine from the West Country, or that of my friends from Newcastle?

Will you standardise on short a in castle (Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England) or long a in castle (Restormel Castle, Cornwall)?

Or should each person just write phonetically so that we have millions of idiolects?
If we actually got sparse from mmap, it's all zeros, and if it has nonzero numbers in it, it's because we previously wrote them. Seems like you only catch nasal demons if you make the mistake of calling malloc.
Didn't stop Russia backing Serbian during the previous unpleasantness.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11753050

(Undoubtedly Blunt is exaggerating the story, but Russian forces were definitely present.)
In your opinion, where is the line between spyware and telemetry exactly?
How does that site work? Do you still pay for every individual subscription?
Every GOP backed US History book's chapter on slavery would be another example.
Finding a playing partner through email isn't a good system either.

You're trying to find an opponent with similar skills but you're contacting everyone on the list, so most of the communication is falling onto the wrong people. You could fix that by having several lists for distinct player level ranges but now you've got 5 lists and that's a different can of worms especially for people right on the border of 2 levels

Then you've got the problem of receiving too many emails, so you make a rule to auto-sort them into a folder (note how you wouldn't have to do that if you were using something other than email) - god forbid you're 28 and work in a field that doesn't use email like construction so you're unfamiliar with auto-sorts and inbox rules, so you just get your inbox flooded and it's a pain in the ass.

We're quick to say that discord is confusing but email has its complexity

Then you invite someone to play and receive 7 answers, so you've got to send 6 "Sorry, I found already found someone!" . But email doesn't have a "delete" button so you might have to send another email to inform people that they don't need to respond anymore. You'll keep receiving messages about it 6 days later anyway because some people read their emails from the bottom up.

>Discord is such a pain to deal with. It's great for communities

A local bridge club is a community

I think what they'd need is just a custom website to be honest
"Masterpeace" lol :) But I understand what you mean.

I didn't know McDonnell Douglas was such a bad company but I heard the same sentiment from Boeing people in that documentary about the 737 MAX, that after the merger they were being forced to cut corners by the new management.
> part of their induction is to train their employees how to combat these ideas

You dont need to indoctrinate people; the selection process takes care of most of the heavy lifting and the rest is taken care of by the fat paycheque and stock options.

imo there is absolutely nothing wrong with the conflict of interest, pretending it doesnt exist however suggests either dishonesty or a special kind of stupidity.
That last one came to me when I kept wondering why nobody was discussing the things I was interested in discussing.

Eventually I decided to try to be that spark myself. It often doesn't work. But when it does, it's rewarding.

Online conversation, even at multi-billion-person scale, is far thinner than we'd presume.

The more so if you're avoiding major social networks, though from my poking around those edges, even they perform pretty poorly.
They're using an analogous system. The speed of the process in the analog does not have to be the same as in the original system, in terms of wall-clock time.
> Actual developments in the space are quite technically dense, so I don't expect to see those discussed in HN.

You seem to suggest that the technology behind cryptocurrencies is too difficult for HN people to understand. While that might be true, it is still not an argument in favor of cryptocurrencies. That something is more complex does not automatically imply that it is more valuable.
The nice thing with ChatGPT is they've established a viable funding model through paid subscriptions from day 1.

On the other hand I predict that we will see the next ten years as a 'golden age' of steadily improving performance from ChatGPT, which will then plateau and 'enshittify'.
While I understand what you mean, you should state at least one reason of why you think they are deeply evil people.

To me, it's the story of how they systematically convince small firms that they want to do business, only to screw them over. Like Google Earth and Terra Vision, for example.
Also, from the beginning, the proximity to the U.S. government was very noticeable, such as Keyhole or leasing military land.

Edit: To make it very clear, I think Google is evil and was evil all the time. It is at least one step further to a brave new world dystopia.
Run a traceroute on the IPs in our ASN and you'll be able to verify. Also see the Reddit link posted above.
You can do a Google/Bing search for PDFs on the domain like this: filetype:pdf site:researchforteachers.org.uk for more PDFs from the site.
Thank you for your answer.

Side note: I very much love pasteurized carton eggs. Pre-separated, no guessing the size ("my recipe wants 3 medium eggs, i only have large, do I use 2.54?") and peace of mind when making stuff like fresh mayonaise.
I feel like someone smart reading this will interpret it as less of a complaint and more as a free business plan.
> I'm not sure if mathematical proof is the way to go. There's just too much code to cover for this approach to be realistic.

It may be unrealistic, but people are doing it anyway. It may be the case that there are just a few Leslie Lamports capable of doing this stuff, and it's unrealistic to expect the rest of us to.

But even if that's the case, I still want them to publish their code as libraries, so I can reach for tools that will work - even if I couldn't have proved it myself.

And if this whole mathematical/proofy way of doing things is a dead end (which I strongly disagree with - we're just at the beginning!) then it's no big deal, because we are already really good at turning JSON into stack traces.
Hmm. Despite knowing what to look for it was a couple of goes before I could get a query to return https://www.rts.rs/sr/index.html - I had to ask for "RTS serbia".

(I am one of the handful of people watching Pesma Za Evrovisiju every year despite not understanding Serbian. One day AI will be good enough to give me subtitles)
I don't think they made the world a worse place. Can you show your working? Pros/cons for the existence of Google?
> my spelling and typing isn’t great

“Are not great”

Sorry, I had to correct somebody for something in this critique festival. You happen to be the unlucky winner :)
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You can't address the problem if you can't talk about it.

Also it's not a maths problem that somehow some people got wrong, it's a problem with entire neighborhoods where it's dangerous to go to.
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People spill a lot of characters on here about political censorship while ignoring that the existing Internet "speech" control infrastructure overwhelmingly deals in (a) copyright infringement and (b) CSAM. Those get slapped down everywhere by almost everybody.
Yes, I agree with you, from the little experience I have, these thingies are very often (not in themselves, but due to the way they are driven, everywhere and without respecting any rule) dangerous and a ban might not be a bad thing, but Paris at least made (skewed as it might be) the referendum.

In Florence (Italy) the mayor attempted in 2021 to make the helmet mandatory for e-scooters (besides geofencing and limiting them in some zones to 6 km/h), but it was deemed like an excess of power by the relevant court.

But, starting probably end of 2023, the helmet will be mandatory in all Italy for both private and shared e-scooters (besides other new rules for parking, a license plate, insurance, lights, turn indicators, use of high visibility vest at night).

The renting companies won't have any trouble (besides the costs) to modify the scooters to comply but very likely the need for the helmet will make the whole thing fade away (IMHO).

AFAIK the renting companies (some of which already introduced helmets, on a voluntary basis) have a lot of troubles with stolen or damaged ones.

Besides, I don't think many people will happily put on their heads helmets used by someone else (without proper cleaning/sanitizing) and/or at the first few (not so improbable) cases of lice or similar there will be some new (sanitary) rules implemented, making sanitizing between rents mandatory.

And - even for the private ones - the need for the helmet, registering to get a license plate, adding the lights, etc. and the need for insurance will likely cut down the usage.
I guess the article is ego. No hint of actually studying military history deeply enough to be more than a Wellington fan boy. Don't get me wrong, Wellington was brilliant commander. But covering the Battle of Waterloo in one short paragraph, saying it was Wellington who defeated Napoleon, without even hinting at the Prussian contribution and some command and control issues on the French side (parts of Napoleons army came late) is, well, sad for someone who actually studied history. But well, how else would you be able to write about your Wellington-style chess game?

Edit: Oh dear, Agincourt. Famously, the ground was so muddy that day that French armored knights had to fight on foot... No, English longbow men did not defeat armoured cavalery, said cavalery fought as armored infantry. One could imagine how it would have went if French could have fought indeed on horse back...
> how did you get 80% and 18% numbers from that link?

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2020/01/Global-land-use-g...

from

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use

> also, calories is not the only metric of nutrition load

True. Nutrition is more than just calories. Plant-based diets offer diverse nutrients, antioxidants, and fiber that promote better health.
I see it as a guilty conscience in anticipation of the inevitable.

Even the naive do not take long to realise that capitalism will fill the immoral corners of an opportunity like water. If you wanted a real commitment, you don't talk to yourself about sobriety as you walk into a bar, you have to tie yourself to the mast Odysseus-like. It needed a different form of governance, a non-profit that could have created sustainable non-evil. An IPO sells your soul not just your company.
Great idea, a semantic pastebin similar to gist @ github.

It would nice to have previews, especially for image samples.

Also are there plans to have third party uploads of samples?

Full disclosure, I'm working on a similar idea for node-red flows called FlowHub.org - so I might be biased :)
A good quote “ tripping with friends is bonding, tripping alone is therapy”. Both have their place and time and neither is better than the other.
Does anyone actually visit random URLs on food they buy? It must be less than 1% of people doing that so I don’t see why that would make them any money? (it says this is the URL of the supplier, so it’s probably not something that people would want to visit like a game)
Anyone else remember how much better Google was at the beginning than anything else?

I had always tried the latest search engines like Ask Jeeves, Altavista, Hotbot, Webcrawler, etc. Once Google came around they all looked like total crap, it was simply a revolution. The clean interface, the performance, the much better results, it was beautiful.
Like what neighborhoods? No seriouspy, which ones? And don't give me the no-go zone BS.

Also, we kind of discuss travelers, somehow I think this group doesn't have their own neighborhoods....
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I tried that, didn't work. Now tried it with multiple icons, thinking it might have been the application forcing it, but same result for all that I've tried. And I'm also wondering how would I get it back after?
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"US-led global campaign to prevent China’s access to cutting-edge technology"

I find this attitude from the US government believing that only the US is capable of advanced technology extremely arrogant and foolish. The US may have had an advantage back after WW2 when half the world was in ruins but this has changed a long time ago.

The fact that I have to sign an export agreement with Apple because my app uses SSL encryption is ridiculous. Even more ridiculous is the fact that I am not even in the US.
It says “naive”, not “native”…
> Then I met the BC and pulled hairs for 3 months. After that "honeymoon" with rust, I got to think the b.c. way and my life became just much better. No regret so far.

I’m sorry but it sounds terribly like a textbook example of Stockholm syndrome.

I hope one day a language will emerge that has a borrow checker or some other equally effective memory safety measure that doesn’t make the learning curve a fucking smooth upright wall or make its users feel abused and clueless for months.
It doesn’t matter in the slightest which Party you prefer
Netflix being the only game in town is also cable because that's a monopoly. We called them cable monopolies. You're describing competition, and that's good. Just look at how Netflix has been raising prices and blocking account sharing. They would raise prices even more if you couldn't go "I'll cancel and go to Disney+ instead".
1) You're right. I guess I just translated it :)

2) You're wrong. Example:

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

> In April 2019, the publication of the list by police was criticised by municipality politicians as it was stigmatising and dissuaded investors. Police responded that they saw no reason to make the list a secret, and that the list served the purpose of providing a uniform basis of evaluating districts across the country. Interior minister Morgan Johansson stated that the list will continue to be public information.

You can find many other such examples if you try.
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One can make a strong argument that actively seeking collaboration with an organization that runs a global network of extralegal and extrajudicial torture centers qualifies as evil.

AWS, for example, operates a special airgapped "region" at Langley for the CIA to store and process their data, which presumably includes operational information related to the global network of assassination and torture personnel they develop, own, and operate.

Many people give the military and military-adjacent a moral pass on things like mass murder (or mass murder adjacent things like extrajudicial assassination, kidnapping, or torture), but not all of us do. You may or may not personally disagree, but it is still a reasonable and cogent argument that seeking active collaboration with DoD qualifies for the title of "evil" on the grounds that it will more effectively enable mass murder, assassination, torture, and other deprivations of human rights.

Google also rebooted their censored search project, known as Dragonfly, to re-enter
the Chinese market, which included the specific feature that would display government-provided AQI indicators/values instead of the real ones. Eventually word got out and they stopped again.

This shows that they are willing and able to collaborate with any government, no matter how repugnant their stance on human rights, if it will result in increased revenue or market access for Google. That's evil, in my book.
Once upon a time I met Om Unit on a flight in Europe, and now on here he appears on hackernews. Small world.
remember, when people actually listened to what you had to say?!
The first couple of episodes of the podcast “The History of English” about PIE are fascinating. I’d highly recommend it for anyone interested in a quick intro to PIE (or the rest of the podcast in general, if you’re interested in the history of the English language).
Well you've already been able to get a RV espressif esp for a while, wouldn't be surprised if they have several models by now.
> If they forgot a dot and received a "no such mailbox", they'd check and fix it.

why would they? do you think another person would not register
fredflintstone@gmail
and another user could register
fred.flint.stone
and another user
fred.flints.tone

then you have lots of people using email addresses that are the same if the end user excludes the easily forgettable punctuation marks.

Your anecdote about one person who keeps giving your email address out does not mean that Googles dot policy is bad.

I can't expand any further on what I've already said so I'm going to leave the discussion
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> I always wondered if it would be possible to create a more general purpose "structured data" CRDT.

Technically yes; one approach would be to use a list CRDT containing representations of operations on the data structure. Each replica would play the operations forward and reject any that broke the schema to “project” the operations onto a local representation of the shared data structure.

So in your example, the operation to set state: notStarted would be rejected if a completion date were present.

Besides the fact that the computational cost of the data structure will only ever grow, another consideration is that even though you are locally only appending to the list of operations, operations from peers may arrive that are not at the end of the global order.

This approach would only guarantee that the data is consistent and meets the schema — it doesn’t guarantee that merges are semantically what a user would expect.
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HN doesn't have the prettiest UI, that's for certain. In fact, it goes for more of a Craigslist aesthetic. Is that a bad thing? Depends on who you are, I guess. I have a feeling (which could be wrong) that Y Combinator doesn't put a ton of resources into the HN. It works, and I'm sure more than a few users like (or, at the very least, tolerate) the site as it is.
For people who didn't get the joke: these are indeed "hosted" by things like Google Docs, Scribd... but also by EU government websites.

But not willingly!

And yep, the bulk of Google results for me are those. Half those, half stupid blogspam, half fake-legitimate websites claiming to be legit sellers of media.
There are 195 flavors of influence pedaled as attempted neocolonial influence as the world flattens.

Oil is going away. We've already reached 29% renewables globally and deployment costs are falling precipitously. It's cost effective to all non-pariah states, so there's no excuse to deploy dirty energy. Saudi Arabia will inevitably become a has-been, backwards, banana republic with a golden toilet monarch where it keeps women barefoot, pregnant, uneducated, and hidden like the Taliban and will be forever remembered for assassinating and dismembering a journalist in its embassy like a farm animal.
>I am wondering if YC would be happy if all of their startups produced sites that took this approach

I don't think YC would give a flyin' whatever ...
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How much do you type a day to have problems? I have never felt limited by my typing speed or comfort during my career, but I understand that different people might have different workflows.

For me it’s thinking, writing a few lines and start thinking again.

One programmer guy I know who had RSI problems was actually writing way too much and overly verbose code and also literally banged on the keys instead of pressing them.
Serbia doesn't need Russia for the military part, they have enough goons on their own.

The key thing is, if had Kyiv fallen, do you think that the Western nations would have had time and resources to care about the Dayton accords and intervene again? I seriously doubt it and I'm pretty certain the Serbians came to the same conclusion.

Thankfully though, Kyiv held up, and the Serbians were forced to cancel their plans since contrary to expectations the Western nations did manage to get a reasonably united response against the Russian aggression.

The problem remaining is that ethnical tensions still are high and there's not much effort being done to defuse them, partially because everyone's attention is on Ukraine at the moment.
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I just posted this in another comment, but I'll repost

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

Granted, it's not nearly as bad as say south american favelas, where the government has no power whatsoever, not even to charge for utilities. But the point is that such places used to not exist at all in some countries.

BTW, this is not just a "white people" problem. Perceived or real lack of safety creates unsavory political options everywhere. If tomorrow, somehow, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict were to be magically resolved, Hamas would probably disappear overnight.
I'm 30, so roughly the same age as the poster of this article. But for a person who (rightfully so) derides the ageism and racism they encounter, their whole section on technical literacy is just a modern-spin take on ageism.

Just because people my age and younger use discord etc, doesn't mean this is either a "good" way for people to communicate, or something we should force people whose technical literacy could vary wildly between extremes to try and figure out.

Personally, I hate discord and messaging in general and much prefer to make phone calls. I guess that makes me an anomaly compared to my generation, but I generally find that whole section rude and trying to solve their own personal problem, not the problems of the community as a whole.
Wikipedia often has this info, with AI Google can read it.