skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>No, Japanese are just not as greedy and arrogant as westerners (especially Americans)

My family is japanese and having lived in a Japan as a child I'd say Japanese culture is a lot more greedy and arrogant than western culture, look at Japan's approach to sexuality (censor it), work (kill your individuality, nepotism).

I think people unfairly criticize Americans because of their visibility.

Miyazaki is an old fool full of reactionary opinions much like Roald Dahl. He's not a god, he's a movie director.
I tried to watch that episode; fail. I watched the initial (unskippable) ad; when I tried to skip to 12m, I got another unskippable ad. Is there some other source for this documentary?

I have a low tolerance for ads and propaganda!
Imagine if DC purchased it and started running plots with Lady Eboshi having a smackdown with Ozymandias.
> how is that remotely similar to anything like Dall-E or Midjourney?

Miyazaki did not say "I love this tech but it doesn't look good enough yet."

He actually doesn't comment on the quality of the animation at all. His comments are entirely focused on how he feels the technique lacks a human-ness that he thinks is important to art. An early effort you would like to see improved does not "disgust" you or make you feel the creators are "insult[ing] life itself."

Of course he could change his mind, but if you don't think his comments reflect a belief at that moment in time about machines creating art, I do not believe you've understood what he is saying.
This may shock you, but the teachers aren't the ones delivering the food!

Nevertheless, the organisation of services to provide free food to selected kids at home and at school requires a database to record which kids. Such a database is also accessible to schools for obvious reasons.

If you have the very HN-y opinion that being on a database is so bad it would be better if the kids stayed hungry that's fine, but please at least make a token attempt to understand a system before dismissing it.
There are major developed economies outside Europe...
OSM data is way, way better than Google Maps. The difference in detail is staggering. We've been to 21 states over the last couple of years by RV and Google is wrong about speed limits nearly every day. It had us driving on small, rutted dirt roads that were clearly marked as dirt roads in OSM (that's what actually led me to use OSM more).

Campgrounds were even worse... In Jasper about 90% of the camp trails were on OSM, Google had none. And I took the opportunity to add the rest because OSM is editable by anyone. Google's "ground truth" effort is an abject failure.
Sorry, what does it even mean for a random number generator to have a backdoor? Is it leaking your generated keys to the NSA? Does it have some arbitrary code execution vulnerability?
There are ~4bn Cisco shares outstanding. CSCO is down $2. So the market thinks that Cisco is overpaying by $8bn, or a 33 percent premium. Seems pretty bang on to me. Score one for the efficient market hypothesis.
Yeah I would strongly bet it is the same Popey from the JB podcasts. Last I heard him he was pretty pro-Snap and was Snapping different projects for people, so this is completely in-line with my expectations. Seems pretty unlikely to be a coincidence :-)
Isn't it temporary ?
I have my Mastodon account on mastodon.social and my Lemmy account on programming.dev because they're very unlikely to be defederated and they're drama-free. I really like them for what its worth.
Same. I’ve had to call a handful of Erlang functions from Elixir over the years but never had to dive deeper than that.
How did I forget KSA...
Yet again the authoritarian right accuses the left of their own actions.
The "insult to life itself" indeed refers to the particular demo that they showed this day, but they also mention multiple times they want to make "computers that paint like humans" and HM doesn't show much more enthusiasm
Damn. One of the most powerful experiences of my life was working for someone with ALS. They could only communicate via moving and blinking their eyes slightly as I cued them. This person pivoted their career and was actively researching the disease locking them into their brain.

One day they played a trick on me (I was basically a human auto complete as I took some graduate courses in their field and I was able to help finish the proposal they were writing). They made a joke in the word document. It made me laugh, and as I was looking in their eye I could see the joy that made. I cried so much that night.

It really really gets to me. Every time I saw a new eye tracker device or otherwise I would email their spouse. I fuckin hate that disease, but I'm amazed at the human spirit I've seen it reveal.
I'm sympathetic to this, because my own politics are very libertarian. But recently I've gotten more sensitive to cases where we acknowledge that something is the government's job (e.g. protecting kids from violence), but then we insist that that job should be done poorly. I think this has ripple effects, not only in that the job doesn't get done well, but in the culture of how the government works and who chooses to work in government. It seems like there should be a middle ground where we don't want the government to be responsible for too many things, but we do want it to be good at the things it's responsible for.
Another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37597264
You're not limited to interactions with people on your own server. The federated timeline is entirely the same whether or not registration is open.

There are many one-person instances, for example.
> Who takes priority if 2 separate applications wish to watch the same stream of events?

each app would get its own queue, the messages would hit a fanout exchange that would route the same message to both queues.
This project looks amazing, thanks for sharing. Unfortunately, I'm not willing to give up Copilot for a better editor. But I'll keep this on my radar.
Plastic bags have a special place in our hearts because of their unique characteristics as litter.

With a small effort we cut our plastic use so low that sometimes on trash night I find the garbage can is still empty.

It's not that we don't buy single use plastic (good luck with potato chips), but we make an effort. Buying bulk and reusing plastic bags is key. If there's a glass option, buy that. And does the plastic garbage can need a plastic bag, really? Or can you use the same bag multiple times?

But it doesn't matter if I do it. Or even if 10% of the people do it. Won't save the world. Large scale bans are the only answer, and good luck with that.
Wish there were median statistics there, not to lump your common man with your super consumers.
This is typically referred to event carried state transfer for anyone curious.

The premise being high service availability and low latency to serve requests (no need to talk to source of truth) with the tradeoffs of higher storage / processing costs and from my experience higher complexity.
It's simply not necessary. Especially with fruit that have a thick peel that you are not going to eat anyway (oranges), it's already a perfect natural protection.
I’ve come to a similar conclusion. I linen using JIRA to going to the DMV. Most seem to agree with the comparison.

Looking into moving over to GH issues or linear.
The original link in HN is in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37561762
Its also comparing it to USA, CA, Korea, Japan, all the countries at high GDP per capita levels.
You obviously missed that there's more than one country in the world. Colour me surprised.
Mr. Murdoch is 92 years old; it seems to me he doesn't need to explain to the world why he is stepping down from a major role.
The denizens of The Villages are not too poor to own cars.
Truth is that we don't even know what [disease] is.

ALS could be several etiologically distinct diseases that manifest similarly. And there are indications of this in the fact that certain drugs -- like the recently approved Tofersen -- have some effect on a subset of ALS cases but have no effect on others.

On that note, even Tofersen is of very questionable efficacy: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/22/fda-advisors-vote-against-ef...

I'm usually hugely sympathetic to "Right to Try" cases. But, in the article, you've got people without the disease in question (whatever it is) seeking the right to try drugs that are of very questionable efficacy to begin with. I say let them have it, for whatever good (or harm) it'll do. People can decide for themselves whether the side effects they might experience are worth the amelioration of fear and glimmer of hope they receive.
We use a product called Linewize in my district for around 2500 students. To be honest its reporting is creepy to the degree it analyzes and tries to assign labels to student activity. Hate Speech, aggression, depression, suicide, criminality, gangs, sexual conduct, etc.

I think we as a society need to decide are we just biological automatons that can be controlled via inputs and outputs? Or do we believe in some form of free will and with that some personal privacy.
United finds fake parts in plane engines as supplier scandal grows
can it sort by id?
That's a bit dramatic, isn't it? Compared to Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mengele, et al, the line of succession to history's greatest monster to Rupert Murdoch is pretty long.
That is part of the climate reality. Either fusion breakthroughs or a warming to nuclear energy makes the energy point moot, or we have to start living more densely in parts of the country conducive to human life. Economics will make it untenable to live in Florida, we're seeing the start with insurers leaving the state altogether. No insurance = no lender for your mortgage = housing becomes worthless.
Murdoch is in his 90s. We don't need a clue to crack this case.
I think we're saying the same thing. What I was trying (poorly) to say is that the airlines offering the employers the ability to compensate their employees is indirectly a service that airlines offer to employers.
> That is a gross misreading of how the Fediverse operates.

And then you go on to enumerate various important ways in which it is not a gross misread at all.

"The characteristics of a given instance do have an impact on...":

"...what technical features are available to you"

"...how remote instances interact with yours"

"...criteria for determining what traffic or patterns are or are not permissible in remote instances"
How many people who’ve bought a paper notebook and pen have published same..?

I use Obsidian with a partner to organize an archive that’s used to publish a website, a substack and a podcast. I am familiar with the YouTube obsidian note taking subculture and it’s pretty mega, but online-everything is a poor measure of the real thing in life. Just as Twitter isn’t reality, etc etc….
The Las Vegas Sphere Is a “Mind-Boggling” Vision of the Future of Entertainment
I used Dvorak for awhile. It's okay, at least better than QWERTY. But it's super old, and keyboard layouts post-Colemak take advantage of rolling bigrams and trigrams, unlike Dvorak. I use Hands Down now.
https://sites.google.com/alanreiser.com/handsdown
Betting on someone else's mental health seems fucked up.
Why would they present that type of animation to show CGI capabilities when they could have presented something more positive?
The reactors will be high temp gas cooled reactors, not molten salt, and use TRISO, which is much safer. [1]

[1] https://breakingdefense.com/2020/04/new-triso-nuclear-mini-r...
Right?!

> My 17 year old son is interested in rocketry and my wife is interested in wildlife

So he took them to Fort Myers?!?
The second largest (on paper, at the time) biodiesel credit producer in the US was completely fraudulent:

https://www.reuters.com/article/epa-biofuels-lawsuit/trading...

And he wasn't caught because the EPA did their jobs (they didn't). He got caught because he bought a ton of sports cars and his neighbors assumed he was a drug dealer or something similar and got local PD to start investigating.

Edit: there was an episode of American Greed about it too - https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6806100/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_p...
as a linux user, captchas deny me access to regular sites and services all the time. it doesnt matter how many fire hydrants i click, im as good as dead to them. we've come a long way with web accessibility. but we need to keep pushing.
Right, if you are willing to validate any and all random documents, you will have to have some sort of way to get the schemas. I can think of very few reasons to validate unknown schemas in an application, though. Would be like allowing your parser to take in external entities. Can be useful and there are valid reasons for trusted sources. But not for random documents from the web.

So, agreed it is a bit of a footgun.
I loved this clip when I first saw it, and it's even more pertinent now to me, as it reinforces my own sentiments to what I'm seeing with AI generative imagery. Those guys at the end that are the ones clearly involved in making whatever that was, and are now just like WTF do we say now? You could just see them trying to pivot right then and there after that feedback. "It's something we'd never show in public" Then why are you showing it in this presentation? "what is your end goal" "We'd like a machine to paint like a human" And that animation was an example of that goal?
There are great, even preferable, options that aren't rooftop solar.
For better or worse, Qualcomm has not been delivering crap.
E will also conduct award ceremonies and invite the suits - "Best Practices Journey Award 2023".

O will have a virtual hackathon broadcast on their self-hosted Jitsi.
Do you actually wonder? I figured it was pretty obvious - humans are able to survive under much worse conditions than we enjoy today. They're less happy and don't live as long, but humans can survive under conditions you'd probably find appalling. Is this a notion you're unfamiliar with?
Sometimes driving on gravel or a less than stellar road is a simple concession to live this lifestyle. I have lived in an HOA and I will expend whatever resources are necessary to never live in one again. It is the worst form of local governance.
>that is just people making-up emotional arguments to trash the younger generation to keep them in control.

I think Miyazaki's just an old conservative emotional man. He probably doesn't think very hard or rationally about his taste.
The whole point of this bill is that your VPN will either be backdoored, or your ISP will be forced to block it. Then you have 0 options.

Governments have legislative control over the companies which provide you an internet connection, physical infrustructure which your connection runs over, and network/IT hardware which is allowed to be sold and imported in your country that makes the internet possible, as well as the vendor which made and sold you your device you use to access the internet.

There is no way to win against this.
I've made my own config format precisely because TOML was not good enough. But INI would have been worse for my case.

Strict typing is good. If you expect a number, and it doesn't parse, you want to know that.

Strict typing communicates intent. And that is worth gobs of effort.

(I do admit that the author has a point about times when apps just want a string value, so I think I'll add a function to get the string value of a move no matter what type it is.)

Also, as much as the author slams TOML's avoidance of ambiguity, the industry has learned that Postel's Law is bad. We need to be conservative in what we emit and accept, for several reasons, the most important of which is that parsers are some of the most dangerous code; any possible ambiguity could be a security bug or many waiting to be discovered. My parser is opinionated because that prevents bad things from happening.

The author is also wrong about C not handling mixed arrays well; my config format is JSON with a few niceties, and I easily implemented it in C, even though it can have mixed arrays.

And braces/ brackets in JSON are not human-editable? Come on...

That said, some changes to JSON were necessary to make it easier to edit; besides comments, I also added keys that don't need quotes, as long as they are one word.
It's weird how MSM and thus everyone else forgot about the Nord stream pipelines so quickly.
the wealth at the top is a side-effect of chronic unfair advantage. Even if that is somehow targetted, the unfair advantages like e.g. the extreme way in which housing markets in free economies evolved won't change.

And we know that wealth tax does not work because of the structure of the world financial system. We can't pretend that if we try again and again it will work.

The inequality of housing in particular is a result of generational demographic factors which led to political choices (low inflation mandate - high interest rates are being imposed on new generations to pay for housing obtained with record low interest rates). These are cases where democracy fails and cannot guarantee the fundamental right to housing (in fact it actively fights it). Bandaids cannot solve this
> I ran a poll recently in a PKM community of 17,000 members asking who has written a book—or created some other knowledge product like a course—using their tool (Obsidian, Zettelkasten, LogSeq, etc.).

That's a very limited choice of options. Or poor phrasing.

> I received two responses of people who actually produced something.

So the others ignored it?

> The vast majority, it seems, are professional note-taking junkies.

I'm not sure if this is poorly phrased or an insult. And what does professional mean? Most of what I manage with Obsidian are private data, nothing work-related.

> People in the Obsidian forum spend their lives fooling around with metadata conventions and "tagging" and "wikilinks"

That's the point of a forum. Talking. Fooling around. How many will you see there talking about the boring stuff? How they use Obsidian for managing contacts, their mealplans, the other boring notes. Probably not many. You will also see the small number of shining characters and fancy solutions, but not much about casual thing people also do.
Gerhard Schroder, Chancellor of Germany (1998-2005), Chairman of Nordstream.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der

Bad policies for energy security, richly rewarded.
Kakoune has the nicest regex interaction I've ever used in a text editor. It's feature complete and accessible from a single keystroke out of the box. You can write key macros that input regex to do surprisingly complex motions without any scripting language.
> I've built very large projects in Erlang and didn't find typing a real issue.

So I want to put on my consultant/lead engineer hat for this discussion. :-) I've worked for years in Ruby, Lisp, Scheme and other untyped languages, and shipped some fairly large projects.

Any project where you can rightfully say "I've built it" is small enough that dynamic typing can be a pretty pleasant strategy. (I'd miss good auto-completion, though.)

But when I walk onto a project with 5-20 engineers and 5 years of code, dynamic typing typically makes everything slow and painful. "We need to update two major Rails versions and deal with 40 supporting libraries. What's the plan for making sure everything still works? We have OK test coverage, but can we pull half the team for 2 weeks to work through the breakage?"

Or perhaps you reach a scale where you need to onboard a bunch of junior developers or data scientists. Here, static typing helps people get up to speed, it encourages them to refactor aggressively, and it limits breakage caused by miscommunication.

50,000 to 250,000 lines of statically-typed code maintained by a 5 person team with normal turnover can make for a very pleasant project. But in that size range, I really don't enjoy dynamic typing. It's doable, but I can really feel the difference.

I am extremely optimistic that Elixir could support excellent static types. And if it does, I'd definitely consider it for a wider range of projects.
Are you sure? I created a JavaScript Polyglot context in Java with GraalJS CE 21 and...

> Exception in thread "main" Polyglot sandbox limits can only be used with runtimes that support enterprise extensions. The runtime 'GraalVM CE' does not support sandbox extensions.
It gets discussed from time to time.

As a government employee, I'm pretty jealous. All our spending has to go through a credit card with no perks, rewards, or identifiable appeal, presumably because it makes the data harvesting easier. And you have to identify on the front end whether each thing is a valid expense so you know which card to use, rather than just filing relevant line items in a claim on the back end. The only good thing about the government travel cards is that they're physical objects, so you can sometimes lose them and then get to fall back on a card that does something for you.
Sonos are also agressively pushing out app updates that sunset older models of their speakers, as we all arbitrarily doing things like blocking streaming of audio from your phone.

Sonos might have been good in the past when they were selling a way of streaming your ripped mp3s around your house, they are no longer good now that they think they own the content too.
Hi, post author and founder of InfluxDB. Happy to answer questions here.
It's been that way for a long time now.

Linux distribution try to make installation as easy as possible because most people need to install it themselves.

Microsoft not caring about installation because most people buy it preinstalled on their PC.
They market their product as a real time navigation application. They are 100% liable.
Thank you for that, I'll check it out!
> Regardless of all that, ultimately, you are advocating that people can't make their own decisions, that you and others should be in charge of what they can, or cannot do

That is how everything in society works. That's why we have a justice system, why the practice of medicine, law, engineering and so on requires a license, etc.

Have you looked at societies where those requirements don't exist or didn't exist in the past? Is that the kind of place where you want to live?

This is a subject that requires a little bit of nuance, so blanket statements aren't going to move the conversation forward. I am not advocating for absolute elimination of liberties, not for an absolute absence of regulations.

> It seems strange to me that people will advocate for people not having a choice when they have so little chance.

Well, I believe we have adequately explained our rationale, the sort of conditions that we think strike a reasonable balance. It's okay if we don't agree.
> The part of the equation that I think the article is missing is that air travel is an industry with an extremely high level of substitute options. Rewards programs are there to try and combat the fact that their products are 100% interchangeable and create some level of loyalty.

I agree - but thought of it a different way.

Delta has a reputation among frequent flyers for having the best operations of any domestic carrier. AKA, if you need a flight that gets there on time, Delta is your best bet.

So, I expect these changes to their frequent flyer program (which pretty much all frequent flyers have reacted to with universal hate) are a recognition of that. AKA, we're offering a good product, so why should we be generous with our mileage/reward program.

Delta were already regarded as having one of the least valuable award points of any program.

As to why the changes are so hated, take this example.

Imagine you're flying economy 1x a month from Los Angeles to Amsterdam on Delta. Each flight would cost around $800, and earn you 11,120.

Under the current program, you could have Silver Medallion halfway through your 3rd trip, Gold by your 5th and Diamond by the end of the year.

(Some caviats that you wouldn't make it that far without a waiver for MQD spend you could get with a credit card).

Under the new program, it'd take you 7.5 months to earn Silver, and you'd never make it past Gold Medallion flying that same route every month.