skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflation enables debtors to default in real terms while still meeting their contractual obligations. They (er, we) end up paying debts back with money that's worth less, assuming we remain solvent in nominal terms (as the govt, currently a very large debtor, is guaranteed to do)
What do you think usury is?
It's not clear to me what the point is, or what it even means, to say that "capitalism is good" without any substantial reference point for what it would mean for an economic system to be bad.
Conan Doyle was into a lot of pseudoscientific stuff and it runs through his Holmes stories. He didn't think of it as "pseudo-" at all so just presented it as run of the mill science, like the hoary "10% of your brain" nonsense. Holmes' "reasoning" processes were often pretty dubious too.

I read those stories as a kid (we had a huge single volume for some reason) and tried to figure out how to emulate Holmes' thinkings so I could be as smart as him (and not be the hapless Watson). That resulted in quite a bit of time in the library chasing things down which caused me to learn that things in books aren't always true and that adults were often idiots. So I can't say that reading Sherloc Holmes stories were bad for me, but the process destroyed any interest I had in anything Holmes related.
It's purely a video feed similar, it doesn't give the support employee direct access to the device. It's similar to screen sharing with FaceTime: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212734
Well, I have seen some translators blame translation models for stealing their jobs, especially nowadays that these services like Google Translate, Deepl are based on AI, people are creating parallelism with the ongoing controversy around AI art etc... And attract a lot of attention on Twitter.

But since I'm not a native English speaker and these models were incredible for learning the language, also speech-to-text models, all these accessibility models are used in the vast majority of cases where there would be no human alternative, for example transcribing all Youtube videos, or correcting the grammar of this HN comment, so I really agree with you.
Groundbreaking Study Uncovers Origin of Conscious Awareness
Nix has no security guarantees, nor sandboxing primitives. So not really comparable.
Mark, Bezos, Gates. Behind Every Self-Made Millionaire Is a Father with Money
People who create new things with real impact always end up paying a price. Directly or indirectly there is a thermodynamic necessity that work will emit heat. Some people prefer to live reversible lives and that's fine, but to irreversibly change the world you're going to pay.
Maybe. But the other day I also read a news article about a research that says cancer rates (edit: of people below 60 years old) have risen 80% in the past 30 years, and are expected to rise another 31% by 2030. One suspected cause is the consumption of processed food, which contains additives such as preservatives that are harmful long-term. Another possible reason is microplastic accumulation.

https://www.nu.nl/gezondheid/6279697/aantal-kankergevallen-w...

https://bmjoncology.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000049
It's certainly better than "you can't look at the source code."

I encourage the developer to not call it open source and use other terms such as "source available" or say the the source is public, etc. Open Source is an ecosystem that this project admits it does not support (meaning, open source projects is not what this aims to be "compatible" with) or is a part of. When projects misuse the term "open source," it can dilute the meaning and value of the open source model and ecosystem, making it harder for users and developers to understand and trust open source initiatives.
Aren’t the fees pretty much the same? Besides the 2.5% revenue option.
Try the book The Charisma Myth, it has some great exercises to help you do stuff like talking to strangers. You have to do the exercises though

There is stuff there that can help you get people to talk to you without initiating the conversation yourself

That book changed my life
I know that the situation is dire.

But mark my words, no matter how many of the direst predictions become true by 2026, someone is sure to find one or several corners of the world where the prediction does not quite match, and they will then turn it around and state the very untrue: "all climate alarmism is lies! see, look at this website!".

It is very hard to get the general public to understand that if you cannot predict precisely the bad thing that will happen, then you are not in a position to propose actions to prevent what you can still estimate will certainly be bad.

in most people's experience, a bit if complacency is reasonable, things usually work out not as bad as you'd expect.

Worst of all, this complacency can I think be directly traced back to the comfort and easy-does-it outcomes afforded by one century of cheap-as-hell usable and plentiful liquid oil energy :-G
This looks very interesting but as other commenters pointed out, the path to running it yourself seems to be obscured. Even the GitHub page is listed only on the main page.

I found the VMware instructions at https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop...
> major writing-for-hire vibes

It was probably even written by AI!
Doesn't help. Mostly blank.
Fwiw I feel the same. I don’t want my kids to learn stranger danger, I want them to know most people are kind and helpful.
Better to remain silent, etc.
A lot of people speculate it had something to do with his son's death.
By using the language, when you step away from phobos/gc/eh to embrace esoteric targets (wasm), you start to notice how the language is just not made for that kind of things, wherewas the highlevel stuff are nailed

Or rather, it doesn't provide enough to justify the downsides
Glimpses of very fast output can still be read by persistence of vision while staring at one part of the screen (you can still get a sense of what's being compiled at the moment, for example), which added motion blur would defeat. Maybe a terminal feature like `less -w' where a status column shows a (potentially motion-blurred) indicator of the amount scrolled in each frame could make the best out of both use cases.

Related personal observation: A higher refresh rate increases the max scroll speed where text tracked with the eyes is clear enough to read, but decreases the legibility of fast output read by persistence of vision. When I tested this – the store employee was rather puzzled at this use case – 60Hz seemed to be optimal. At 120Hz or higher, scrolling text was (edit) less comprehensible at the same output rate. This applied to various panels and drive modes.

I've never used a high refresh-rate CRT, but I surmise they don't t differ here, since CRT flicker only reduces motion blur that is itself caused by eyes smoothly pursuing onscreen objects made of stationary frames.

Edit: Speaking of scrolling UX, I wish browsers had the option to "overscroll" when paging down, so the unread portion always starts at the top of the screen, as implemented in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36825027. You can make less do this with `-c' (not at all evident from the documentation). A userscript, perhaps...
Enernite – GIS tool for collaborative map making
I've tried a similar experiment with ChatGPT at the end of last year [0].

The solution wasn't all bad, but contained a subtle error in the initialization of the board. Pointing it out resulted in multiple incorrect fixes.

I'm wondering if tic-tac-toe is complex enough to be a good example. You can compute all possible path through the game ahead of time and make a printed book [2] that plays an optimal strategy...

[0] http://holzer.online/articles/chatgpt-tic-tac-toe/

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490871-tic-tac-tome
In the process though they've made many game devs start a transition to a more open or reasonable game engine. It's not much of a win when their userbase is now essentially falling.
Spiritualism is a specific movement which all major branches of Christianity and most other major world religions reject.
> As an experiment I made my own software transactional memory. It worked, assuming no network partitions, but designing and testing it to work in an environment with those was beyond me.

BFT STM is a noble goal and, tbh, building performant fault tolerant atomic transaction systems outside of C++ must be quite challenging with all the abstractions atop it
Without the performing part you're not really a performing artist anymore.

Performing artists are free to alienate their audiences if they wish, but the consequences aren't necessarily positive for anyone.
You missed one important point.

Hedge funds and Private equity have billions of dollars waiting to buy up houses and condos. In their eyes every condo bought a family is a lost opportunity to create another renter who had no control over the rent that the funds dictate.

They will never let house prices drop far enough so that regular people can afford homes anymore.
Well...maybe.

History is full of figures that have eventually only succeed in liberating some oppressed people from exile.

Not saying that's the situation with Sikhs or that's who Nijjar is.

But it does seem like he would have good reason to believe that advocating for Khalistan from inside India would get him into jail or worse.

And if the work is important to the Sikhs in Punjab, it would definitely stand to reason that he might have had to do it from Canada.

> I had attended an event for the Sikh community a few years back, which was attended by Sikhs from all over the world, including from USA, Australia, the UK and India. Nowhere in another community have I seen a strong culture of brotherliness and felicitation for good. And while there were a few Canadian Sikh families, they were far too few to be countable in one hand. Tells a lot about the kind of Sikhs that Canada is harboring, tbh.

Is your criticism that Canadian Sikhs do not engage with the international Sikh diaspora? Not being a part of that community I guess I don't know why that might be. But since Canada contains the largest Sikh population outside of India, it's possible that they have their own self-reinforcing community (That amongst Canadians has exactly the same reputation as you mentioned - "a strong culture of brotherliness and felicitation for good") that they've disconnected from the international or Punjab Sikh community? That's not necessarily a problem - African Americans don't have a strong connection to Africans.
It's a different topic but often there's binary data that evolves along with source code, so it makes sense to put it in the same repo. Also, other version control systems make no assumptions about the underlying data, except when diffing and merging. People want and need this, and it seems reasonable.
No matter how much a person makes in wages, they will always want more money. That's completely natural. The only way to solve tipping is for people to stop. Just stop. Every time you tip it's furthering the system of abuse and coercion.
Soccer Media – social network for football enthusiates
This is an Android app that I have worked on, in less than two weeks. It is a social network for football enthusiasts to share information about what is happening in football in the form of photos, videos, and text. Where people react to those posts, by liking, commenting, bookmarking, or replying to other's comments. I just finished building the APK file for Android but I don't have a Google Play console account to release it for others to use. So anyone interested in the APK file can contact me: at basingbaabiineh@gmail.com

If there is any app development opportunity or want to collaborate with me, I'm ready for that too. Thank you for your time, going through this!
You don’t know what you don’t know
This seems to still be very much an AWS/Amazon project with no clear path to becoming its own independent thing. For example, you want vulnerability scanning on the OS? Well you can use an Amazon product for that, otherwise *shrug* [1]. So I guess as long as you plan to run Bottlerocket in AWS, you're fine.

I wish the Bottlerocket team would do 1 of 2 things. Either own up that this is just an AWS project, or start to solve for things like this and actually be a product that "runs in the cloud or in your datacenter" as they suggest on their website.

[1] https://bottlerocket.dev/en/faq/#4_2
There wont be much space for people doing this for work for money in 10 years. There is no reason to believe the quality of automation will continue to be poor any more than we would have been reasonable to believe that chess engines would continue to perform poorly.
That's not true, there are plenty of articles discussing these sorts of topics written by actual people.

Sniper in mahwah for example will discuss some of this for example from an HFT angle.
Eliminate the portion of demand from investor ownership of homes, by outlawing it?
Scientists improve anti-tumor power of CAR-T cells
I have a set of pyrex bowls I bought in 1987 and still use. The cost difference is negligible when amortized over your lifetime. I store all my left overs in pyrex when possible.
Yes, but people's behavior is different if the price is included or not. This is true for all taxes. People's decision to purchase is based on the list price, not the total price, so if it is GST inclusive, buying drops even though the total cost is the same.

For an example I'm familiar with in my family, consider:

You're paid $100,000 but your bank account only sees $60k, the rest is taxes but taken off by your employer.

vs

You're paid $100,000 and your bank account sees all $100k. At tax time, you need to write a check to the government for $40k.

People get a lot more angry about writing the $40k check. It was _theirs_ in a way that the payroll taxes aren't. I've seen this personally when someone moves from employee to self-employed.

The same applies with sales taxes. Most people don't look at the receipt, or if they do it's only to check that the amount taken matches the label.

Do people get angry at gas taxes, or the oil companies?

Taxes per l of fuel is 44.2c + 10% GST in 221.4c/l. Taxes are ~30% of the price?

https://www.mynrma.com.au/cars-and-driving/fuel-resources/we....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_Australia
Hopefully, the Canadian moon rover doesn't shelter and sponsor terrorist-gangster nexuses for short term political gains.

Oh wait, there is no Canadian moon rover!
The original website gives me a 403 and archive.ph has an endless CloudFlare captcha loop. Guess I'm not reading this article today.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/09/20/if-india-ordere...
Cherry picking student loan payments is a heck of a random factor to usher this “hit”… of the available indicators: credit derating of the US, higher interest rates, historic strikes, inflation, etc. But we are talking about student loans because it goes into the Obama era affordability calculations in the post-2008 crisis. This, in my opinion, is short sighted and has little to nothing to add to the risk profile of a 30year loan.

IMO borrowing rates are high and going higher, for no other reason than the US has no effective legislative actors to write the checks or govern. Also insurance agencies not covering certain areas of the country is going to torpedo large markets, and states that underwrite them, like CA are essentially trying to underwrite climate change without making the premiums unaffordable… what a pending mess.
"On the other side there are those saying that it’s saving the lives of minorities who’ve been forced to stay in the closet for too long. And then there are normal people, like you and I, who think both sides are crazy"

I think this fragment speaks for itself. It is not "crazy" to care about suicide rates or suicidal ideation. It is "crazy" to not care about that.
Really? Most of the stories are well done even if not every bit of his "ratiocination" holds up. I feel like one can enjoy them for what they are without trying to take them as real-life forensic science.
Scroll down a bit, it looks like the archive truncates the above mentioned notifications making it look like dead space.
I listened to Call of the Wild and it was excellent. I think some of the intonation and contextual emphasis, tone etc could be improved. I suspect this is definitely the nail in the coffin for artisanal narration. Some of the recent SOTA models (below) do very well in these areas, so I’ll wager in 5 years all ebooks will be narratable via a local or cloud model as part of the reader.

https://ai.meta.com/blog/voicebox-generative-ai-model-speech...

https://news.play.ht/post/introducing-playht2-0-the-state-of...
This only works if buying that ticket does not become a nuisanse.
Would be nice if I could block this domain on HN
> They have created technology that use ads for offensive purposes and injecting spyware. As millions of ads compete for the right to penetrate our screens, Israeli firms are clandestinely selling technology that transforms these ads into tools of surveillance

So... there's no possible way you can defend against the attack except for the possible way where you use UBlock Origin?

I mean, don't get me wrong, reliably breaking out of the browser sandbox is impressive, but it's not the unstoppable threat the title advertises.

(Also, I wonder how vulnerable Firefox is vs WebKit these days. Now that they've caught up on per-origin process isolation, and a lot of the sensitive libraries are written in rust, and others that handle codecs are being compiled to webassembly as a form of hardening... they might be a pretty tough nut to crack by now.)
> more importantly, insiders have been selling a ton

Hired execs always do that because they are paid in stock. They couldn’t even afford to pay their taxes without doing that.
i didn't say "never question" but constant video surveillance is to much.
The only people fighting to keep tips are the people who get them. Everyone else hates them.
The lids on my pyrex bowls I bought in 1987 are still fine, although I did lose some.
Where I live that’s considered pretty rude. You could however respectfully say that you’d rather listen to music or just say you prefer not to talk. Or just be short in your answers and don’t ask anything back. Most people get the hint quickly.
"Making stuff that takes a lot of effort virtually effortless is a massive gain to humanity"

Sure, and having AI generated movies and stuff would reduce the physical and human resources needed to make movies. In either case, the people who lose those jobs won't be happy about it, despite the gain to humanity.
People are living longer, but anecdotally it seems like almost everyone I know has at least one chronic health issue, and many have multiple. And medical science’s answer to most chronic issues is “We don’t know what causes it or how to help you. Come back if you get a disease I can see in a microscope.”
AndShare CMS – Whitepaper and Alpha Demo
AndShare CMS, currently in alpha, is an open source CMS concept that assists with curating, formatting, and syndicating of content through a distribution network while leveraging the power of LLMs like ChatGPT. This article requests community feedback that will direct development of a beta version and eventual public release candidate.
You can move the leftover food from its plastic storage container into a clean glass container or bowl before heating it in the microwave. You just have slightly more things to wash afterwards...
Good call out. Ultrasonic humidifiers actively aerosolize whatever particles and microorganisms (which are multiplying) in the water.

For long term use (as it not just for a sick day), wick based (evaporative) humidifiers are a good option.
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Pick Up the Phone
For anyone interested in developing the skills for talking to strangers, I highly recommend the book The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane

It has some really good exercises to build confidence and ease social anxiety
It's possible to leave the lid off and put a cloth or paper towel on top to catch splatter.
Wouldn't that be caused by an OCR issue? No matter how primitive I doubt a TTS model would mistake I for 1. The book was probably poorly scanned, OCRed, and then had automated audiogen.
You should not be putting the food in microwave with lids, plastic or silicone. Glassware with those lids are fine for storage.
Said jokethrowaway
It's not like something is stopping one from doing a vuln scan, right? Like, there's something that SSM's in (or uses the admin container) and then runs the scan. Couldn't you just do the same thing?

Genuine questions, I don't know if this is the case or not.
Hah, that marriage certificate. the condition column.

bachelor is fair enough(man who never married)

but spinster(woman who never married?)

nowadays the terms, especially spinster, have a sort of connotation with age.
24 is not that old but would younger people(18-20) have a different condition.

and now I am curious what other "conditions" there are. my guess.

widow/er
divorced(are there archaic gender specific terms for this?)
Yes, via https://www.todesktop.com/ which makes it very easy.
I hope i will run into you. I like starting conversations. I tend to hate it when people slow down or block the conversation by simply replying with a short yes or no, even when there's nothing for them to do (while, say, waiting in a queue) other than gazing at their little screen.
I'm not so sure about that.

The engine is such a central part of a game company's stack. On one hand that makes it harder to just up and switch, so there is some lock-in there, but on the other hand, if developers don't regard Unity as a reliable partner, they are going to be taking a hard look around at alternatives.

I think the real problem with this pricing move is that it made a lot of Unity users think "hey, we can't trust Unity not to screw us over." That is something that is hard to take back.
Yes, but the risk is not quantified, one also exposes themselves to carcinogens when eating anything that has been smoked and I'm sure if you put kidney cells in a bath of carcinogens it would also not do so great.

Tthe fact that there is no clear data on the danger of microwaving plastic containers despite millions of people doing it all the time means suggests the danger is low/negligible.
I mean it could be worse, the government could declare the old currency is deprecated and that we can only convert $2000 USD into the new currency.
iCloud Drive is a disaster. I had an old MacBook where all the hard disk space was taken up with phantom stuff by iCloud Drive (it showed as “reserved” or something in Disk Utility) and the only way to get the space back was to create a huge file using `dd if=/dev/zero` which refilled the space with a “real” file… then disable iCloud Drive sharpish.

File management on iOS is a mess too. It’s a shame as there’s so much good stuff in the Apple ecosystem but their cloud file storage is not something I want to get involved with any more than I need to!
Not never, but typically, yes. It's hard to have a functioning society otherwise.

(And yes, the police thing isn't a universal problem, it's an American problem. Most of the Western world manages to function just fine without treating law enforcement as an occupation force.)
For what?

Basically sounds like your typical American that buys a massive car truck. Just a drive around suburbia with for no real practical reason and F-250 would be ridiculous for that.

I'm glad every American male feels compelled by Ford and GM's advertising to buy 70 and $80,000 trucks because we'll be that much easier for them to budget out for EVs when they start coming out
I would beg to differ. A lot of game developers watch gaming streams. There's a reason why cohhcarnage was asked to voice in cyberpunk and baldur's gate 3, and why blizzard personnels will respond to asmongold directly
Isn't that https://pypi.org/project/sh/ or https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#api-reference
Lending money out at unreasonably high interest rates.

Which makes 7% usury.