skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could care less if someone or the whole world knows that I like elvis presely, fence repair or cucumbers and gardening and a whole host of other random facts. i mean so what? that data can go out of date very easily. any second now I could decide I don't like elvis presely, etc. the vast majority of "data" collected is all nonsense anyways.

the things I don't want getting into anyone's hands are things like: financial info, address, phone number, social security, my middle name, birthday, etc. none of those things are stuff I share with a social network.
"girl dinner", I.E., "guy dinner", I.E., meaningless.
https://www.google.com/search?q=now+in+UTC
Damn, you are destroying our fears.
The fundamental problem is the US's negative framing of rights. A negative framing that is only in terms of the de jure government, to avoid logical contradiction. This leads to the perverse winner-take-all argument that corporate censorship is itself protected corporate speech. A positive framing of the right to free speech would allow for a logically-imperfect yet equitable balance between the interests of individuals' speech and corporate speech.
Which all comes grinding to a halt pretty quickly when you stop getting paid because you're in jail.

I'm not sure about Germany specifically, but in the US the vast majority of people live paycheck-to-paycheck regardless of income bracket. Most are 2 weeks away from starting to have failing bill payments.
Nah, you can buy a filter in Germany that goes between your wall socket and appliance. The device makes sure that only "good" electricity (ie. the kind that was generated by your preferred source) powers your appliances.

I wish I was kidding.
The primary reason credit cards were rarely used is because Germany already had an electronic payment system (Maestro, formerly eurocheque), so there was no need and credit cards often came with a fee. Online shopping and a huge push by Visa/Mastercard to replace maestro changed this to some extend.
The F# situation is not comparable to VB.NET.

VB.NET was just C# semantics with a VB like syntax. From the beginning it didn't serve any purpose except to make VB Fans feel slightly more at home.
Jails and prison are different.
Things like this would be much easier to accomplish if tech workers unionized. We don't necessarily need it for compensation, although many could benefit, but having a say in what we build is incredibly important.
I don’t use WhatsApp… so immediate bounce from the signup workflow for me…

Which is fucking wild… it’s a tool I’d love to try but their signup workflow requires me to sign up to a completely fucking useless extra chat app, degradingmy ability to segregate my personal communication channels and not lie to people when I say things like “I don’t have WhatsApp, just email me or SMS me about this work topic…” i don’t want to sign up for WhatsApp… why do they need WhatsApp? They found a way to make “login with Facebook”… but even more shitty and obnoxious…
You might want to check out Lazarus if you can stomach Pascal
I agree with most of what you are saying, but the key gap is that the victims here are not "unethical companies". They are 5+ digits of independent artists who had no idea this was going to happen to them.

If big art was a thing, your argument would be good, but Disney doesn't account for most of the input to these image algorithms.
You don't have a right to drive a car. It's a privilege, as indicated by your drivers' license.

You're entitled to be upset when someone blocks your car. But framing it as a civil rights issue rather than a practical one (and calling someone blocking your car "kinetic") makes you come across as un-serious.
Why only 27
Embedded carbon from shipping too much DRAM is probably more of an issue.
What’s missing from America’s EV charging strategy
What makes you think the GP doesn't fully understand this?

Put another way, the GP comment is a pretty damning comment about the failure of lawmakers to pass laws modernizing the electric grid. It doesn't really matter much if the fuel used to produce all of this electric energy happens to be worse and more destructive to the environment than gasoline.

When people refuse to have intellectually honest conversations about this, it dramatically undermines the stated objective and gives detractors legitimate evidence of bad faith dialog.
My main trouble with the emulators/virtual machines is that late-90s and early-00s Windows/DirectX games are a huge dead spot.

There are a ton of titles from this era that just don't work on current Windows, even with dgVoodoo. I just want to be able to comfortably get rid of this Win98 SE / WinXP dual boot box I have lying around...
So you have any data to back this up? A gas station parking lot is a safe as a McDonalds. They are often covered with CCTV too.
People want more these days. With VB you could write a CRUD application that saved data to a database and ran some reports. But now people want the database to pull in multiple feeds from other businesses via API, people want it to be available on the web, it needs to have a self service component so the customer can also log in, at the back end the database is connected to several other systems with daily feeds coming in and out. Shit is just much more complicated these days.
Most physical retailers face competitive market forces, unlike the two app stores that are vertically aligned with their software and/or hardware platforms.
In many cases they would be if they subscribed to a political ideology and committed acts because of them.

In this case overthrowing is actual a protest that went out of control because of lax security. A real overthrow attempt would need to involve heavy weapons. Protesters didn't even have butter knives.
I agree a lot with this, and want to add that if you have a lot of complex private logic in a class it might make sense to extract an abstraction from it (if possible) and make it its own class for which you can then test the public (previously private) methods.
If people who wanted change always avoided breaking laws during their protests, there would be a lot less positive change int he world. You might want to read up on the history of protest, and, specifically, civil disobedience.
> overturning civil society

Well, if you define "civil society" to mean "society where everyone is subject to absolute milquetoast civility at all times", then sure.
That sounds sane to me, honestly.
I cannot imagine an employer firing someone for using...tobacco

Alaska Airlines will do just that. Source: any of their job postings, as they won't even hire tobacco users. But if they find out after hiring, you can guess the probable outcome.
Some candidates: Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Taiwan (esp. considering the circumstances), New Zealand.
If the corporation doesn't care, why are you spending energy complaining about it?

Are you hoping to enact change, or are you just complaining?
IMO the OOP trend of the 90s (Java, C++, Objective-C) made VB look bad.
> I wonder what Rust would be like if the GC was kept in like in Go.

It would be one of the litany of managed languages that doesn’t significantly differ in anything from each other, and we would have no reason to be hyped about.
How have they expressed that? How has it changed their minds?

I'd be genuinely amazed at the personality of a person who goes "Wow! They must be disrupting my day for a very important reason. Let me look up and better research their cause," versus "Oh f**, I'm going to be late to my appointment. What's going on? Oh, these idiots are blocking the street."

If you're going to interrupt my life based on some future, uncertain scientific reasoning, especially the lives of everyday working-class people who can't afford to spend their day blocking streets instead of working, it would turn me off to your cause, and that's the only sentiment I've heard from my friends.

Maybe we're wrong for that, but I'm curious how others would respond.
> I can't believe McDonald's hasn't realized the huge potential here. They have the real estate, they have the safety and could get a ton of customers eating out of pure boredom.

They'd end up with half the neighborhood using up all the parking space (which is really expensive in urban areas) to charge their EVs for hours, buying nothing at all at worst or a cheeseburger at best.
It seeks to use kinetic means to achieve political goals.

Kinetic means things being in motion. Throwing rocks is kinetic, taking up space or forming a barricade is not.
How well does this work? Always sounded to good to be true to me.
Wel, I don't agree that it was a sign of incompetence, cowardice, and opportunism. Nor do I think that emergency plans should always be executed blindly, especially if underlying data changes.

That seems like an overly pessimistic analysis of a truly complex situation where a huge number of public health officials sacrificed a great deal to help us. Personally I'm thankful to the establishment and don't really think they could have done much better, considering the circumstances.
> I don't think it's a stretch to say that author would see programming concepts as equally incomprehensible and requiring a foundation found elsewhere.

Not to be too mean to HN users but I think it's much more likely that the writer understands basic programming than HN users have a basic ability to read continental philosophy. I see a lot of HN users deride all philosophy entirely
Mostly I’m building replacement income. I’ve saved up enough to retire on an annuitized drawdown on my savings, but I would rather keep those assets as liquid assets and acquire income generating assets over the next decade or so. That way I can live in the places I want to, have money set aside I can take risks with, and otherwise live a carefree life without adjusting anything in my lifestyle. Essentially I want to be self sustaining on an annualized basis rather than on some projected drawdown basis.

Plus I’ve landed in well paying gigs that I enjoy and don’t want to stop building big things for big bucks yet. I’ll do my smaller dreams next, I think I’m ready to slow down and focus on something smaller next.
On the face of it, this sounds very bad. I can't find confirmation that this is happening outside of the statements of the "letzte generation" group itself [1], and the article states as much.

The statement from the Munich police [2] says that protesters were taken into custody for their acts, namely blockading traffic. The length of the detention was apparently extended by the district court, but the statement does not give a reason for it. Presumably it's connected to the belief that they will continue to carry out similar acts if released.

I'm a bit conflicted here; if someone is being detained pre-trial for a crime, then "they are going to crime again" is a totally valid reason to hold them without bail pending trial. But it's not clear whether that is what is happening here.

Although I am writing from a US perspective, I don't think I'm saying anything that is really specific to US law; this is more my general feelings around the limitations of police authority and how it intersects with civil liberties.

I don't know if my understanding is correct, but I can't find direct evidence that the "preventative detention" law is actually being applied here -- I don't see any evidence of stormtroopers raiding people's houses and taking them into custody; just people who have already committed (minor) crimes being detained past the point of what some people would consider reasonable.

[1] https://letztegeneration.org/blog/2023/09/liebe-und-wut-brie...

[2] https://www.polizei.bayern.de/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/0...
1st world inhabitants will NEVER stop consuming energy until they literally cant get it.
For it to make sense, it'd need to be the full package, with UI components. The nice thing was being able to annotate the model and get a "good enough for an MVP" CRUD ui out of it that'd significantly beat a generic database browser; not just the API.

Unfortunately that's also accordingly more work. I need a project that'll actually need it first...
Google isn't capable of aligning itself with its own mission, let alone locking in developers. They'll sooner release 10 programming platforms invented for 10 new messaging apps.
"negative externalities" as described by the people who handily have a solution to sell you; or instruction to give you on how you can Be Better, according to them.

There are about 500,000 electric cars registered in CA, out of about 15,000,000 registrations total. So, ~3.5%. When one factors out the owners who have an ICE vehicle in addition, the % probably goes to less than 1.

That's CA; the best-case scenario. This is also after CAFE tax credits have gone to subsidize electric vehicle production, as well as subsidies and tax credits to electric vehicle purchasers. The original CARB ZEV goal was to have 10% of California's fleet electrified. This goal was set in...1990, and was expected to happen by 2000.

I'm sure it was a hard choice to make. The manufacturers could ask for government support for their business until such a time that government ZEV goals could be achieved with a profitable product, or...they could build the cars that people would pay for.
Modern electric cars have 300+ mile ranges and charge about 80% of that in 20 minutes or less. For city dwellers without access to a charging point at home, it would be completely feasible to spend about as much time at public charging stations as they would have at the gas station every week or so. There is a lot of "range anxiety" (as reflected by your comment) going around, but in many cases that is not justified even today, let alone a few years in the future when more charging infrastructure has been built out.
You do know that stats are the easiest way to lie, yes?
Speech is not the same as blocking traffic. You have every right to your speech, but you don't have a right to force me to stay and listen to it.
If you're on a bus you're just as much stuck in the traffic as if you're driving, what kind of outlandish argument is that.
I'm not talking about just desktop. I'm talking about apple having the ability to get full insight into what users are doing via their telemetry and other avenues.
https://news.stanford.edu/2016/03/29/pavillion-fracking-wate...

https://www.consumerreports.org/water-contamination/how-frac...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/frack...

https://www.propublica.org/article/scientific-study-links-fl...

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/fracking-oil-gas...

Etc etc
ASP .Net Core comes with it's own host of options:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/tutorials/choo...

If I am doing desktop development, you can bet I am still using WinForms, which are relatively easy to debug (if not as pretty) as WPF. I am usually building internal tooling, without paying customers, and sometimes for a user base of just me.
It seems far-fetched to me. Most people agree with the need for change. They disagree with the way they protest.
I also don't see why many people would use a car more frequently just because there are protests against it.

Additionally, many members come from Fridays for Future. They are frustrated as years of peaceful protest have led to no change. I see no connection to oil or car sponsorship in this.
it did not ban discussions, the algorithm was for ranking tweets in timeline.

because you cannot fit all trillions of tweets into everyone's timeline - by definition some tweets will have to be chosen over the overs.

if a user posted something about Ukraine, his tweet would still show up in his follower's timeline for "Following", just not Featured (For You) and not always. Mind you I follow this topic and my feed (For You) is like 50% of tweets covering Ukr-Rus war updates. So I never feel any censorship for the war from titter.

it is not censorship, because if you follow a user you would still see tweets in its original content without any altering
I usually process a bunch of vegetables in a Vitamix because I think it's better to have it with the fiber. Would this be less of a good thing than just a straight juice? I've heard the juice loan isn't great without the fiber, but I don't know.
Sensitivity varies by a lot. https://www.heart.org/en/news/2021/04/26/salt-sensitivity-ma...

I'm at the extreme end of sensitivity. If I want my blood pressure medications to work, I need to eat something like half the recommended daily allowance of salt. Let's just say, eating out is a challenge.
Is the real crime here something about upsetting BMW? The German car lobby remains strong I see
Why wait for Apple to do it? WebKit is Open Source and cross-platform, all of the tools to make a stripped-back, privacy respecting browser are right in front of you. Linux even has a couple WebKit-based browsers to prove that it's possible, although none of them are really that popular relative to Chrome or Firefox. All things considered, it's not surprising that Apple (or anyone really) hasn't done this.
What is the value of everyone here wrt to voters? It makes you wonder what other policies the politicians who championed the "jail you for any reason under the guise of terrorism" policy also advocated for to get people to vote for them.
Training a model and deploying it to consumers to infer from it are two different things. NVidia will remain in demand for training, while deployment will use cheaper hardware on the final model to serve up to users. What am I missing?
Firefox really needs to release containers for mobile.
Is there an English language article about this?
I have noticed that in the US people have much more tolerance for debt. Even relatively poor people in the US are much more likely to buy a new car (or even multiple of them!) than in most of the Europe.

For example, the proportion of financed new cars to all new cars sold is 84% in US vs 47% in Germany.

But that does not say anything how expensive are the cars, how expensive compared to income, how long they are being used or what is the proportion of new cars sold to used cars sold.

In Europe people tend to use the cars for longer after they buy them new and then the cars tend to be used for longer after they are sold used.

Also, in Europe people tend to buy smaller cars. And, historically, we preferred cars that use less fuel which means a lot of older cars are still very viable compared to older US cars.
Does the World Need Images of Fake A.I. People?
As far as the linked article says, at least some, if not all, of them were already found at similar blockades, some were also already judged guilty and fined:

https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2023-09/letzt...

> Zehn von ihnen waren laut Münchner Polizei während einer Blockade am Freitag in Gewahrsam genommen worden.

Also, courts seem to perform some checks, there are reported cases where even repeat offenders were let go:

https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/vorbeugender-freiheitse...

> So entschied zum Beispiel das Landgericht Landshut, dass ein rund sechstägiger Präventiv-Freiheitsentzug für Klima-Aktivisten unzulässig sei, die sich 2021 auf Autobahnbrücken rund um die Internationale Automobilausstellung (IAA) in München ein paar Meter abgeseilt hatten, worauf die Polizei den Verkehr stoppte. Kernargument: Eine Wiederholungsgefahr sei nicht hinreichend erkennbar.

And there are several records of perpetrators announcing followup crimes right after having been judged. Some were even committing their next crime within a few hours:
https://www.merkur.de/deutschland/kleber-aktivisten-letzte-g...
The story goes as, John McCarthy was applying for an assistant professorship position at MIT. MIT told him, but we have here Norbert Wiener who was a renowned mathematician at the time and had published cybernetics some time ago, in which he talks about agents interacting with the environment and feedback control, sort of modern computation-based AI. McCarthy changed the name from cybernetics to AI, and focused on symbolic systems and logic. The approach was generally not successful.

Some people consider that the logic-based approach to AI pioneered in this conference contributed to an (what we now call) AI winter. People like John Pierce of Bell Labs, a very influential figure in government, defunded research in computation-based AI such as for speech recognition (he wrote articles, saying, basically, researchers pursuing these techniques are charlatans).

There is no major algorithm or idea in undergrad machine learning textbooks named after these people. There are other people from that era.
it’s wild how isaac asimov saw the future history societal decline.
You're unironically repeating the same kind of rhetoric used against Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi when their protests happened to mildly inconvenience people in power.
Really interesting. I wouldn’t have conceived of this. But it only makes sense.
I went to a cardiologist and was tested while lying down. This was an extensive test though.
Salt absolutely does not matter for me. I eat a ridiculous amount of salt. Caffeine on the other hand == day long 10-20 point increase in my systolic BP regardless of if I'm using chronically or not. Ultimately one of the primary reasons I quit caffeine.
Just use UUID.

If you need something user friendly, use the first 6 or 8 characters.

If you need to worry about index performance due to enormous index sizes, you probably know it.
check again

> https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/burning-man-demo....

not specifically about median but over 40% report $100k-$299k, 30% below that. And even if it was $70k, for an individual that's really much higher than the national, as the national household income is $70k which is for a family of 4, taking anybody's $70k income and dividing that up for more budgeting constraints.

the perception isn't out of whack, based on that quip. its fine that some people save up for that one event, its also a place of privilege that self selects who would participate despite the intention and difficulty necessary to do so, extremely ironic for the 1 festival (or whatever word that doesn't trigger burners) that leads with how inclusive it is, when its actually not more inclusive than corporate festivals, and actually pretty hard to tap into an existing camp, and more challenging to make your own new camp. If they dropped some of those cringy principles it would be less of a target.
If you don't have a right to drive a car you also don't have a right to stand in the public road either.
> but it varies throughout the day, month and year.

yep. I've taken my BP laying down and it's generally lower than when I'm sitting up, but then again, I usually do that after going to bed, blood pressure is generally going to be lower at night so maybe I'm just noticing that difference vs during the day.
> While there were early signs that the browser ballot screen was influencing browser usage in the EU, with Mozilla attributing some European Firefox growth to the selection page, long-term trends strongly suggest that it was next to useless.

This isn't "zero effect", though. It might've been just the initial kick-off for FF's success, bringing users, bug reports, and developers. "Long-term" Chrome dominance isn't telling us anything here; in fact, Chrome's success is also in part a consequence of the browser selection screen.
Being stuck in traffic isn't a violation of your civil liberties.
It is cheaper to charge at home for sure, especially if we are talking about L3 vs. L1 or L2 charging. L3 charging (the one that gets done < 30 minutes) is more expensive to set up and power. It is meant for people on roadtrips, but a lot of people who live in apartments or use Tesla for ride shares also use them.

But if you have access to home charging and don't drive a lot, you'll rarely ever use a charging station. But when you need access, e.g. on a memorial day road trip, the L3 chargers you find will be swamped while the L2 chargers are too slow.
How would this theory have worked in e.g. the 1960s civil rights movement.