skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think iA Writer does this well. It has a "mark fillers" setting which crosses out cliches, fillers and other things which dilute the sentences. It's just a finger pointing at "you might want to reconsider this", and if it's indeed something I don't want there, I take it out, otherwise leave it in.

I strive to write with a very neutral tone, and without any strong words, so it really helps me.

You can see the results of that process at https://blog.bayindirh.io
I see a lot of those same driver behaviors in Washington, especially since 2020.
But the other extreme of saying no AI ever is also untenable. If SAG-AFTRA get that demand, it then means productions like Rogue One (AI Leia and Moff Tarkin), The Mandalorian (AI Luke), and de-aged Professor Xavier and Magnito in the X-Men are not possible.

It also prevents an aspiring writer from using AI tools to help with the writing process -- not do it all for them, but work co-operatively like copilot and other auto-complete tools do for programming.

Even using tools like Photoshop, Blender, Unreal Engine (as used in shows like The Mandalorian) could be dicey as they incorporate AI models and techniques. -- Would things like NVidia's AI upscaling tech count for raytraced CGI? (I ask as it looks like SAG-AFTRA are after a blanket AI ban, not just around actor voice/image or writer text.)

Another thing that the production companies could do is to use public domain audio, video, and scripts as SAG-AFTRA cannot ban the use if AI on those.
Quite likely but our Mordacs won't do anything about it. Many of us have pointed out that a robust .hosts file and/or ad blocking extensions would go a long way towards improving security not to mention the user experience. Might as well be Oliver Twist asking for more gruel.
Yeah so the Obamacare regulations took care of the American financial isolation.
Then HTML5 and Google/Chrome devs taking over the Internet happened.
12 years into running a tiny digital consultancy with my wife. We've used an "associate" model for all that time - a posh way of saying "a network of trusted freelancers".

We've deliberately chosen not to take on staff. We could have grown at many points along the way but haven't wanted to. Instead we've stayed small, focused and profitable.

The benefits to growing would have been being able to take on bigger gigs, but we have always aimed for family first. The business has always been a means to a sustainable, balanced and loving family - and not an end.

I have friends who have taken the growth route. Some are doing ok. Others are desperately stressed. One has split from his wife in part because of the financial burden of maintaining a 5-10 person team.

We've never regretted taking the route we have. We have been here for our kids and we've been able to be flexible with our time in large part because we're able to scale our own work up and down in response to changing times without having to worry about paying salaries.
No, it's because as soon as they are trained they move on. And an increasing salary doesn't stop that.

People want to job hop to build up a diverse experience and no company wants to be the mug that pays an engineer during their bad years so that someone else gets to take advantage of it.
Your point is to insert noise in to a conversation that you have zero scientific background in.

You’re not bringing up points that experts are failing to comprehend. You’re just trying to muddy the waters.
Microsoft PowerToys’ Crop and Lock lets you make mini app windows
It's not just doubling, but literally going out of reach for most people in the home market. A comparison with other home OSes of the era is therefore unfair.
Seiko has a 4Hz series of inexpensive quartz movements (VH31) that are at least as smooth as the entry level Seiko NH35. Bulova has a significantly smoother 15Hz quartz movement but you’re going to spend $600 getting it in a watch.
Bentley has a market cap of around $15B. It's worth something to somebody. Their only serious market is DOT work and their position is attributable to administrative inertia and aggressive vendor lock-in.

The biggest problem isn't making better software, which already exists, but getting DOTs to stop making Bentley's proprietary file type a requirement for deliverables. The second problem is realizing that the CAD approach of imitating a paper process from last century isn't actually necessary.
Pope Francis Calls US Catholic Church 'Reactionary'
This addition, specifically: "I get that you're writing from a position of stress, and your experience matters, but this is not a helpful stress response."

I presently find that appearing ... once only ... via Algolia:

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As a foreigner who's lived in India for several years, what I'd really prefer is the ability to make payment using the instruments I have and not having to do a whole "KYC" process that no other country would ask me to. Context - within my home USA, I can open bank and credit cards accounts without ever even showing an ID. Having to ask very local shops to scan your passport/visa is an extremely uncomfortable request for people from abroad who have been told to protect that document from identity thieves their whole life. Nobody wants to give their address or phone number to a shopkeeper. I wish you guys all the best, but ultimately what India needs is more of those awesome Pine terminals which reliably take foreign cards and Apple Pay support. Then they get the lost card and chargeback protection they get everywhere else. So many foreigners are willing to come and spend money at small shops, why not better enable them to with the tools they have?
Wow indeed. Stealing approval like this is beyond the pale, no more Windows for me.
No, that’s stupid. Nobody cares about the likeness of nobody actors. They are completely fungible. And if the actors guild thinks this is the hill to die on then they may win the battle and lose the war by an enormous margin.

the obvious near term future is that they don’t even get the single episode.

Your example is silly. Hire someone who is funny looking to be a bartender and then have someone cheaper do them later on? My dude, the funny looking bartender is already going to be as cheap as it gets because they’re a nobody actor. And the barrier to face swapping a generated face that is just as good as the funny looking dude’s onto a different nobody from the beginning is very small.
That works for the "home page". Not for new tabs, sadly. You're stuck making an extension.
You can, of course, pick your level of engagement, and make adjustments over time. An Android phone can provide all the engagement you need, and there are lots of distributions that focus on providing different experience. I'm using a stock Android phone and Linux everywhere else. My current phone isn't rootable, (I bought it to replace a lost iPhone and didn't have time to do research) so I'm stuck with stock, but my next phone will be. I'm still way happier on Android than I ever was on iOS.

If you really want to have your foot in both worlds, you can always live the two-phone lifestyle. Might go that way myself eventually.
Apple, cherry, pear are all hard crops because of bug predation. My rudimentary understanding (I am a farmer just not a fruit farmer, so I just know what other farmers tell me) is that these non-native fruit trees have to contend with bugs it has no defense for. The native fruits are far more successful.

My personal experience matches. Our apple and cherry and peach harvests are hit or miss. Our pawpaw, hickory, and passion fruit harvests ae always exceptional.
Lectures in Ethics 2023
Show HN: Signal-compress: LLM-compression of Signal chats
Using Docker Compose and llama.cpp, this repo summarises what has been happening in a given signal chat.

It attempts to maintain the security model of Signal by keeping the data on the same device, and attempting to avoid replication of the (de/en)crypted database.
Also NL, unless you’re freelancing. Some suggest it might be because of CAO (collective agreements) that fossilize wages down to pre-housing bubble rates.
so the same kind of "common knowledge" that says daddy longlegs have lethal venom but can't break human skin. Got it.
This is really neat for little windows where you want to monitor something (like Steam downloads, as in the post) versus opening up the entire window.

PowerToys has been solid, I still haven't found the equivalent to FancyZones in either Linux or macOS. Some are similar but I want to keep the layout static rather than being dynamically resized like in usual tiling window managers.
Incentives for Microsoft managers are not aligned to improve user experience.
I think I agree with you. 4° is much more likely IMO than 1.5° given how governments tend to align them selves with the interest of the rich above all else. However I think at some point continuing climate inaction will not only become politically infeasible but also economically infeasible. However at that point we will have acted to little too late, and will be looking at a 2-3° warming.

Climate optimists will have you believe that 2-3° is actually not that bad, however I believe this sort of climate optimism amounts to climate denial, 2-3° is definitely a horror scenario effectively destroying our current way of life. Millions of people will die, millions more will be forced to flee—and they won’t be accepted as refugees, wars will break out, our economy will collapse, and the poor will starve in a 2-3° scenario.
Im glad people find success with Linux. But in my decade of professional use and trying to use it at home, I’ve got to squint very hard to see it as remotely viable.

I need an OS where I never ever have to think about the OS. I’m there with my very limited time to do something. Not figure out compatibility or updates or why my monitors don’t come online in the same order and same resolution every time or the fear of closing the lid or plugging in a TV for a bit. This month’s issue is that a quarter of the time my wifi just doesn’t exist as a feature and I have to reboot.

I want to hook myself up into an alternate reality where I’m just frozen in time with OSX 10.6 =)
No one was advocating for socialism. GP was complaining about liberalism. What I actually see is a boogeyman of "socialism" continually used as a justification for why US red states are in such poor condition to reasonably centrist liberal states like Sweden. Feel free to compare metrics like life expectancy, HDI, education, and gini.
... and I thought you were in on it and joining in. Some horrors are so bad that save for those gifted with eloquence, sarcasm and humor is all that we have to deal with them.
reminds me of GelSight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKoKVA4Vcu0
Why does Edge even exist at this point? Why does MS spend the money to continue to develop a browser that no one wants?
> What are the "cotton balls dipped in Vaseline" for?

Fire starting. They will easily take a spark from a ferro rod and convert it into an open flame. And they burn long enough to make it pretty easy to transition to a sustainable fire. These things are a popular DIY fire starting accessory among people who are into bushcraft / survivalism / whatever.
10cm, available from e.g. https://nearspacelabs.com/ (using stratospheric balloons), or in 2025 from https://albedo.com/ (using satellites).
Serious question, for people this old is there a reason not to set them up with a very locked down Linux OS?

Not like they need photoshop…
I think the biggest question is if Tesla is going to be able to establish itself as a luxury brand as well as a mid brand. The margin is in the luxury segment.
It may be about the wrong dictionary, but this is very much the right kind of writing.
Compare the problem of estimating when an aggregate number of people will have contracted COVID with predicting when any individual person will contract COVID. Both can be steered, but until we do, it has a predictable rate in aggregate but is nearly impossible to determine in individual instances.
Yeah as I understand it, 3% extra is on the emission side, some of each is offset by extra absorption in the oceans, etc. so the net increase is smaller. The skeptics have to explain where the increase is coming from if not from human activity.
The video mentions an exception for educational content. Fine, but who decides what is educational? What about some of the truly horrific WW2 content. Is that educational? Hard to blame YouTube for being very cautious here.
And it is up 2% for the week, but down 3% for the month, and up 22% for the last 6 months.

Tesla is a volatile stock, in part because it is quite speculative.
This resonates 100% with my experience.

Telco I worked at spent 6 months choosing an agency, end up spending 3 million for what turned out to be a new Color scheme on the public website. Mind blowing, but completely normal for them
The stupid part is the insistence that “their” faces are meaningful.
If you bought a Submariner in 2013, you could sell it today for more than you paid. From some perspectives, that Rolex is less expensive than a similar Timex or Casio.
GitHub has really gone down hill too, but it is free I guess.
Ask HN: Why is home property information so public?
I get a lot of letters in the mail, texts, and phone calls from real estate investors trying to buy one of my rental properties. I know they found my info by checking county assessor offices, but why is this information publicly published by every county in the US?

I recognize that this data is super valuable, particularly to brokers and wholesalers, so I'm curious why websites like Zillow don't also publish the name of the owner of a property, yet they publish all other information about the property and its history?
A computer failure. Again.

We have been doing payroll for over seventy years. To fail to implement a payroll is a dreadful mistake, and a person is responsible

When civil engineers make mistakes like this there is a postmortem and we learn what the mistake was and how not to do it again.

Until we start taking responsibility, like real engineers do, computer programmers, we, will continue to let people down like this
> Umm, how would one go about selling that policy? Do enough (any?) people want that?

The thing preventing it right now is that it's illegal. Most areas zoned for higher density housing already have it, so to make more it would have to go somewhere currently zoned for lower density, which the existing zoning prohibits.

As for whether people want it, why does the existing higher density housing tend to cost more rather than less per square foot? Because it's nearer to jobs and shops and mass transit, and many people like that.

Nobody is forcing you to live there. In fact, if the place you currently live was one of the ares rezoned, it would net you a tidy sum -- the value of the land goes up because now someone can build a condo tower on it, meanwhile you can go use a fraction of the money to buy another single family home for even less than the one you have now is worth because the new construction reduces housing scarcity.
Some more ideas in the "programming languages" category:

- Build a package manager
- Create a linter
- Build a static code analyzer / function call graph generation tool
Robotic laryngectomy has been around for several years already and is quite common in the US.

Source: my wife participates in these surgeries.
This is a strawman, try again.
Get an AMD gpu. If you don’t need a strong GPU get an Intel CPU that has an integrated GPU.

Install fedora silverblue. Use your computer how nature intended. You can do everything from the GUI.

If you’re using your PC as your development machine then you’re probably already fucking around with it. Especially on windows (PATH variable is a very fun one there)
GMOs as technology, and the effects of GMOs on food sovereignty, are two very different things. I don't want multinational biotech companies to be the only ones able to compete.

Though the technology isn't harmless either. Let's assume sufficient care is and perpetually will be taken to avoid major disasters. What remains is amoral for-profit companies that now have far more ability to engineer food for market fit. Why is this bad? Because carrots and apples will slowly turn into the equivalents of Snickers and Cheetos - those are the products we get when not constrained by nature.
Or more succinctly - a quorum agreeing to a leader to serialize writes through is both less work than trying to get a quorum to agree on every individual write, and equally as consistent.
End users are locked down from changing almost anything. Many things could be done I'm sure but nothing IS done. Who knows, maybe money is changing hands to leave this crap as is.
I think we're just over one decade for true Windows-integrated crapware. I don't believe they were really doing this before Windows 8. When it first started it was mostly limited to ads embedded in a handful of preloaded "Modern UI"/Windows Store applications, but MS has gotten progressively more brazen with it over the years.
I think in an ideal world you’re basically right.

In the world we’re living in, with the incentives of modern journalism being what they are (and the state of gaming media industry specifically), I’m willing to cut more slack to people writing about things outside their comfort zone.
You can choose to interpret my comment as being about corporations if you like; however, I was talking about individual engineers. It is perfectly feasible for a professional oath/code-of-ethics to work, as it does in other industries. It doesn't mean you will never get a bad actor, but it adds a layer of protection to any engineer.

For example, you could imagine that once the code-of-ethics is standardised:

* Organisations that employ software engineers will feel obliged to publicly follow it (like they all have to have public policies around things like modern slavery, etc.)

* They would also be pressured to display it on job ads. Because why would an engineer want to work somewhere that doesn't follow the industry code-of-ethics.

* Engineers have something to point at as a reference to what is, and what is not, ethical. Allowing them to not appear be the only voice in an organisation who can see harm being done.

* It could well enable a union of software engineers take industrial action if the code of ethics is being broken. Which would be a PR disaster for any corporation.

At the extreme end, you could possibly see a future where engineers are 'struck off' of the professional body representing us (for unethical practice).

The only downside I see is that ethics and morals are mutable, so it'd be pretty hard to nail down a concrete set of ethics that are effective without overstepping. There are however plenty of smart people in this industry, so it shouldn't be beyond us to work it out.
If you're actually interested in having an informed opinion on the matter, it might be useful finding out more about history of NATO vs USSR, expansion of NATO and dynamic of relationship between NATO and Russia, and EU and Russia in the last ~20 years. Not defending anyone, nor do I have any horse in the game, but as usual, reality is not black and white, and there's a broader history of moves and counter-moves that lead to this point. So "the West stoke a war" is not simply and obviously false (neither it is one-dimensionally true).
They’d have to try making luxury cars first.
Nobody's saying no AI ever.

The union is just saying that if you want the rights to use an actor's likeness without actually employing the actor to act, you have to pay separately for that, and pay what it's worth.

Which makes perfect sense. In your example of a de-aged Luke Hammill in the Mandalorian, Luke Hammill was paid $$$ for that. They didn't get to cast him for free just because he was in previous Star Wars movies. Nor should they.

That's all this is about. Go ahead and use AI, but pay the actors for their likeness. Don't force them to give it away for free as a condition of doing a single episode.
Nope. As noted in the paper, they are rare except for in severe trauma without prompt attention.

Otherwise us humans would have a MUCH lower survival rate than we already do out in the wild.

Or as the paper notes “The etiology may be traumatic or, rarely, nontraumatic.”

Non-compound fractures can still cause serious issues if complicated somehow, or even long term loss of function of course if they aren’t set correctly, among other less than ideal chronic issues, which should be done ASAP.

But it’s not like someone is likely to die (or even suffer serious long term issues) from an uncomplicated ulnar fracture if they don’t get to the ER within a few days, for instance.

The amount of water I’m seeing come down in the Truckee area right now sure is epic though, so no question they are in for a ride!
> Nobody cared about the privacy and security aspects

Do people care about the privacy and security of their homes?

They obviously do.

Now why would the same people not care about the digital privacy and security of their homes?

Maybe they are incoherent idiots. That is certainly part of the explanation.

But maybe, just maybe, nobody credible and on a high enough podium ever warned them their digital homes are being pilfered with gusto. That, indeed, all sorts of valuables are taken from them, except they are intangible.

Your arguments about economic model viability are right, except they are not. Economic models follow laws and regulations. If you mandate that digital privacy is a right and its violation is theft, then there will be a viable industry built around that.

The shape of the tech industry is increasingly determined by political views rather than economic or technical constraints.
Wind, Hydro, and batteries will all contribute to a significant baseload.
there are also no rare earths in batteries. There are rare earths in computers (the same kinds in regular cars) and in neodymium magnets. lithium is not a rare earth element.
How do I remove them? When I was searching for this (few years back) I only found 3rd party applications.
This is very valid feedback - foreigners do not want to deal with this nonsense KYC stuff to make payments. No assurance is ever given that the passport details will be kept safe and not sold off to people doing identity theft stuff
The common response to this is that they are an energy company and not a car company. However, while there has been some progress on the grid scale storage side, solar seems to have faded into obscurity. The only time they’ve ever paid attention to it was when Musk was being accused of acquiring Solar City to bail out his brother.
The behavior here is super sketchy. I am glad they brought it up. Dark patterns are everywhere. This reminds me of how a kid gets permission for something in a roundabout way then protests when caught.

That said:

>> As you know, I always neuter my browser's "tracking" activity, as much as I can.

Yet their choice is Edge. (as secondary, definition unknown)

>> it seems I ought to stop using Edge altogether, and uninstall it from my Linux machines

That much is obvious. I feel they should question how they ended up here in the first place. :)
The reason why the submitter found it interesting doesn’t need to be the same as why the upvoters found it interesting.
Unfortunately, it looks like costs have stagnated in recent years:
https://about.bnef.com/blog/lithium-ion-battery-pack-prices-...
I wouldn't replace the meow meows for anything