skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It leans conservative for Canadians - on the American political spectrum Danielle Smith might be considered more radically progressive than Bernie Sanders since she runs a government that provides provincial health insurance.

Framing politics by American standards is rarely helpful.
Buying short dated far out of the money options is a guaranteed way to get caught. If this actually was insider trading, there are probably a bunch of SEC officials suffering from high-five induced palm injuries.
Compared to paying $10,000 for a Windows license, yeah, I'm pretty much immune.

You people literally do not know what you're asking for, and you don't understand what would happen if you received it. When you stand on the shoulders of giants, it's bad form to kick the ladder away.
That's super true of PagerDuty. It's a pretty good product and cheap when you only have a few people on it. However, the jump from the basic license to the next tier is HUGE and any add-ons you might need (ie. webhook triggers) bump the price up even more. Just having a simple monitoring solution with >10 people could cost you $100's a month.

That said, every other product in this space is crap. I'm not sure why though. This seems like a pretty good market for disruption. Maybe there is some hidden "problem" that I don't know about.
I'd be interested to know how someone can be sure that the cookware/tableware/cutlery in their home is safe.

Is this a result of far lower standards in other places or just a result of that being the region that was tested for the report (the post doesn't say, it just mentions that samples were collected from developing countries).

This could very easily be a massive problem in the developed world too and you wouldn't know from the report here.
It's interesting how closely tied "goodness" and "intelligence" are.

To make a mistake is to be a bad person. To be stupid is to be bad.

I can call you weak. I can even call you ugly, cowardly or a flibbertigibbet. But if I call you stupid look out!

Like our whole worth as humans is summed in our ability to talk smart and solve riddles like a trained animal.

Which seems pretty stupid.
After a dozen years, if most measures of living standards have continued increasing as they have for the last few centuries, what conclusion will you draw from that?

I ask because I recall hearing these exact catastrophic arguments (methane hydrates, changes in albedo) more than a dozen years ago.
Smoking related disease, obesity related disease, and alcohol related disease and deaths are much more common.
I'd like my config files to have two words in it "do it" and for it to just know what I want.

But at the end of the day that's not possible because reality intrudes. You give up a lot for that lack of verbosity, not everyone will agree that it's a worthy tradeoff.
I have a rental and I absolutely hate that thing. ads every time I want to leave the house. and it keeps switching to some kind of news updates that I have to click through to get to the open/close button. and it loses sync and needs to restarted all the time. constantly demanding that I link it to my amazon account. it really is dystopian
You don't want to do the design work, but you do want the results.

Maybe some sort of magical framework will figure out how to get the latter without the work in the future.
You're not the only one who did ...
what on earth?

your theory is that the only reason that the PM of Canada is annoyed about a notionally allied country murdering someone*, in Canada, is because of parliamentary politics?
If I recall correctly, the PS4 controller has a disgusting amount of input delay. I noticed this most strongly on the FFX Remaster where you need to hit timer events before the arrow enters the shaded box.

It doubly screws you in the chocobo racing section because the controls assume no delay, meaning you can’t respond to hazards in time and constantly overcorrect movement.
And ability to freely flash our own firmware (without taking the thing apart) so they don't land in landfill
More than that even. Since iOS 1, the majority of compute-intense work after a touch event has happened in an entirely different process, which has the highest OS-scheduler priority. This is what CoreAnimation is based on. Unlike a game engine or other "realtime" app, the OS itself is doing everything possible including preempting your main-thread to ensure that anything animating takes priority.
Man walks into a pole while reading TikTok, dies of excessive bleeding from head injruy. Family sues TikTok.
I sometimes have to write code or ask technical questions from product specifications. If those specifications are too new (for example right now I'm working with openrtb 2.6), chatgpt won't have any information about them. The ability to pull up a pdf file and ask windows about examples of a particular field in a particular 200 page spec document would greatly improve development for me. That's the feature I'm most excited about (though you can actually already do this with Bing, through edge)
I'm only just learning about all this stuff so might be a somewhat naive question, but if we created some kind of operating system like plan9 that was coded in rust or another similar language, that offered compatibility for existing linux software, and then moved towards creating all new software in memory safe languages would this solve not only this problem but a lot of other problems also? I read today that containers and container management wouldn't need to be half as complex as they are today if plan9 had taken off the same way linux did. Would be a big, big effort but if a major player got behind it like AWS then maybe not impossible. Redox looks like an interesting attempt at creating something like this.

https://www.redox-os.org/

https://drewdevault.com/2022/11/12/In-praise-of-Plan-9.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26554539
It’s similar to tipping, once one guy starts doing it all the others look like assholes unless they start doing it too. A similar phenomenon happens sometimes in drive-through coffee shops: someone will pre-pay for the coffee of the person behind them in line, then that person is informed that a stranger paid for their coffee. There is then a social expectation to do the same thing for the next person in line to keep the chain of anonymous “charity” going. Nobody wants to be the asshole that breaks the chain. It’s certainly an odd phenomenon, but many people love it.
“All these worlds are yours - except Europa.

Attempt no landing there.”

You have been warned guys… ;)
The Metal Slug games are already at a disadvantage because they run at 30fps, unusually low for arcade games. All else being equal, lower frame rate gives higher input latency.
I'm curious if someone could build a discord replacement on top of matrix, most importantly with voice chat and video streaming functionality. Discord is clearly focused on monetization at this point, the only changes happening now are ones that make your experience objectively worse. I've also been on Linux for a few years now and discord still doesn't support streaming game audio.

And before someone suggests it, I tried Revolt, and it's not there yet. The latest client (as of a few months ago) couldn't find my audio devices at all, and came with a big warning about how their audio backend was being completely rewritten, and what I was using was now legacy.
"The financing is intended to support research, including studies and analysis to deliver accurate data to partnering organizations and officials for better decision-making. It will also fund local policy and advocacy, along with litigation brought against power companies."

So it's not actually going to help replace all that energy with carbon free energy from nuclear &c?

Who is going to pay to replace all those coal plants? I expect that will cost orders of magnitudes more.
Or you're a subscriber to /r/wallstreetbets
As always, the general public gets f’d, perpetrator gets punished, government takes and keeps the money.
Ah, that's shitty. I guess in theory you could demand a refund or file a chargeback for an amount based on the services they didn't contractually provide. As you ceased doing business with them I don't think there would have been any drawback to this. IANAL
"Just investing Tether’s pot of money in overnight loans secured by US Treasuries at the Secured Overnight Financing Rate would get you a yield of about 5.3%, or about $4.6 billion a year, absolutely risk-free and with essentially no expenses.”

how does one goes about doing that?
Perhaps. But not everything uncomfortable is truth.

You sound like you're using the uncomfortableness as evidence of the truthfulness. Logical inference doesn't work like that.
Good writeup, thanks for sharing it!

And yet another argument for "You ought to be using Qubes." Random web access needs to be treated as "Genuinely high risk" anymore. A disposable VM with nothing of value in it for "casual web use" seems the right option for exploring the security hostile environment of "the internet."
"Hey MacOS/Siri, summarize this giant wall of text for me."

Siri: I'm afraid I can't do that Dave.

Built-in AI/ChatGPT/Copilot integration in Windows will be the USP that Microsoft needs to regain market share.
>so it's not a good thing that Kakoune "requires" them

It doesn't. Author learned them because they made plugins and complex custom commands. The configuration language allows embedding shell scripts but Kakoune provides a POSIX interface so can use whatever language you want for plugins. Regexes are needed to be productive utilizing the full extend of text manipulation provided. Can do without but you miss a big reason for using Kakoune in first place.
Maybe they already lost the evidence because of routine deletion like it happened with the downing of Air India Flight 182 that killed 320 people and the alleged Canadian perpetuators were let go.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37601284

The guy murdered was associated with one of the alleged perpetuators later on according to Canadian court records.
I'm surprise they are finding even 5% worth anything.
Generate Portraits with the Style of Fernando Botero
Earlier this week, we lost one of my favorite artists, Fernando Botero. I've always admired the whimsical and accessible nature of his artwork.

We trained a LoRA on his art style, and I am truly impressed by how effectively it captures his essence.

Some of my favorites:
https://twitter.com/gorkemyurt/status/1704903418035454448
These right-wing, left-wing terms have come from the west and violated with a negative connotation from the west. Don't defile anything in the east with these vile implications that the western nazis have come to associate with. We in the east are civilized people, not genocidal barbarians. Thank you.
Yes! Tons of people. "Don't allow new drilling, no new natural gas plants, shut down the trans mountain pipeline."

These are all popular policies.

The only good policy is build new energy sources cheaper than oil/gas/coal and let the world switch naturally and without drama.
Wikipedia seems to agree with the poster you replied to, that it leans moderately conservative.
Like this https://www.amazon.com/Philips-Hue-Installation-Free-Exclusi...
How can it be fixed?
DERELICTE, Derek!
Of course, it is fiction, so if you want to have your own version of the story and cut off the bad parts, that’s definitely not hurting anyone.

Nowadays studios really lean into the idea of establishing an expanded universe and canon, since then it becomes a recurring revenue stream and all that. So, I wonder if this is an aspect of that trend, just a different way people tell stories and, as a result, consume them.

I think people ignore 90’s disney cash grab sequels mostly because they were so garbage that they didn’t get integrated into the cultural zeitgeist (and also, people who loved Lion King when it came out were too old to care about the sequel).

Stuff like the Star Wars prequels is not quite at that level of badness, might be marketed toward everyone, so it enters the general conversation about the movies. Of course, it is possible to not engage in that stuff, but then, I guess people who are talking about Star Wars in 2023 are interested in the whole thing, right? You can only think about 3 movies for so long, haha. So, I bet lots of people saw them movies, have fond memories, and then moved on, but they aren’t talking about it anymore.
Unrelated to the tea, but cold water is somewhat safer to drink than water coming from your boiler, that's why.
Yeah I'm really shocked that 1 in 20 kept their/some value!?
For some intuition, ocean surface temperatures peaked over 100°F this summer. The exact numbers are somewhat debatable, but "the ocean cannot cool a human" is not.

The best map I can find is actually from the Washington Post as it shows the measurements in context.

Article (paywalled): https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/25/florida-re...

Map (direct link): https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.c...
Moreover, Cambridge’s Harvard and MIT produced many scientists that worked on the Manhattan Project. There’s always been interesting military tech where research started in Cambridge.

As for People’s Republic, that was long immortalized in the bar, “People’s Republik” close to Harvard. Closed down I think around or just after the pandemic.
Or the other option which is the much less glamorous route of improving the visibility, accountability and transparency of centralized control, rather than writing it off as a lost cause from first principles.

This is especially relevant given that every decentralized system is actually an illusion, a merely temporary state of transition from one centralized regime to the next.
I'm reminded of an old SSC post[0]:

> See, my terrible lecture on ADHD suggested several reasons for the increasing prevalence of the disease. Of these I remember two: the spiritual desert of modern adolescence, and insufficient iron in the diet. And I remember thinking "Man, I hope it’s the iron one, because that seems a lot easier to fix."

The discovery that we can dramatically reduce mortality by the relatively straightforward solution of using pots and pans that don't contain lead is a cause for excitement. Compare that to the solutions like "convince people to exercise more and eat less (or less tasty) food". We know how to make our dishes lead-free!

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biolo...
I'll let the Georgia Straight[1] know that they're totally controlled government propaganda... overly broad vague statements like this are rarely helpful. Though G&M, CBC and Nat Post are heavily biased news sources Canada does actually have a press that does good work.

1. https://www.straight.com/
Flashing those devices to more open software (thanks to the fact vast majority is just esp8/32 with some extra electronics) also often requires opening them which is pita.
If we neutered everybody who scored under 130 IQ, what do you think society would look like in 3 generations?
That opens a can of worms regarding impersonation.
> extraterrestrial

I knew it, aliens did 9/11!
I don't use smart home devices -- there aren't any features there that appeal to me. But my understanding is that it's entirely possible to set up a connected home that doesn't depend on cloud services, or on devices controlled by a corporation. I would think that a software engineer would realize the risk he was taking, and not make his entire existence dependent on the whims of Amazon.
The American Overton window isn’t the only one.
I'd disagree, and plenty of Indian commentators disagreed at the time as well [0].

Paying hitmen to kill violent idiots is a bad look. There are multiple other levers that could be pushed.

All of this only really started after Lawrence Bishnoi started his gang war in Punjab/Haryana/Delhi/Rajasthan.

There's a lot of shifting alliances and blood being spilled now that politics in the state of Punjab are in a flux after the AAP won and destroyed the entire political status quo of Congress versus SAD/BJP.

My gut as someone who has lived in Surrey and has heard the stories in Gurdawaras and Mandirs is that this is Dawood-Chota Rajan 2.0

[0] - https://theprint.in/opinion/security-code/in-hardeep-singh-n...
There is a way well known by governments which can implement quickly and rapidly a change in behavior of all actors involved in economy : taxation.

It's has been the case for centuries, if not thousand years.

You give taxe incentive (subside or taxe reduction) for favoured behaviors, and higher taxation level to decourage unfavoured behavior.

Meat taxation could be an interesting subject of study as it cover a large range of greenhouse gaz footprint according to the specie the meat come from and a majority of people considers it as an essential item.

Cow meat is, by far, the worst offender by pound of meat produced. It is also the meat which requires the largest amount of vegetal protein in order to produce animal protein (1/10), which is by itself an obvious downside considering the challenge climate change will bring to crop production.

On the lowest end of the scale, there is chicken, which is around a quarter of cow footprint by pound of meat produced.

Banning meat altogether is a no-go inside any democracy as the party in power would be out of a job at the next election. But suppressing taxes on or subsidising consumption of chicken meat while taxing progressivelly cow meat out of existence could have a larger support from general population.

The same mecanism of tax increase and tax incentive, according to ecological footprint, could be applied to every item category in the economy.
Physics of Crowds – Why dangerous crowds behave the way they do
Usually food deserts are defined backwards - people in area X aren't eating healthy, therefore healthy food must not be available.

Sadly, some percentage of people don't WANT to eat healthy.

(The local convenience store has many staples like bananas, onions, potatoes, etc, and cheaper than Walmart.)
If Google ceased to exist tomorrow, I don't think I would be missing anything.
> without some catalyst event

Most subtle Cisco joke in the whole thread. Hat tip.
Governments should pay for RESULTS.

But they never do, so the money vanishes and nothing happens.
> People don't understand that their 144 Hz monitor running a 3D game still doesn't convey that smoothness that my vintage arcade cab does when running an old 2D game with pixel-perfect scrolling while never skipping a frame.

The actual motion-to-photon delay (measurable with a high-speed camera) in a well optimized competitive FPS is somewhere around 20ish ms or less these days, so it's on par with it in regards to the input lag, and overall it's far smoother because of the higher frame rate, better displays, and way more thought put into tiny nuances competitive players complain about. A proper setup feels extremely smooth, responsive, and immediate.
The market makers which are basically big financial institutions make up the majority, but anyone could sell these if they wanted. Big money will sell options like these and then hedge the position by buying calls to stay neutral. Their goal is to profit off implied volatility which causes options to lose value over time until they eventually expire worthless.
Can Webb image Europa?
You can write your own installer script that will set things up exactly how you want to do it, which many others have done so before, if going through the manual process every installation is tedious.

There's even the (not so official) archinstall script built into the live ISO if you want a guided installation process.

But the core philosophy of the distro is that it targets users with a certain base-level of competence in working with Linux and provides them a simple, close to bleeding-edge distro; so it does do what it means to do.
Artificially clean gives you too many false positives. Most researchers I know these days start on CIFAR10 which is much more real world and has far fewer false positive signals. A portion of the hype in CV is a paper showing a technique works on MNIST that then fails to go anywhere on any other dataset.
NASA astronaut sets new record for longest time in space
Can we please link directly to arXiv instead of HuggingFace?
My software works just fine, thanks.
> You might as well break all of user space every so often. If everything is open source it shouldn't be an issue to fix all broken Linux software right?

What an uninformed take.

The Linux kernel has a strict "don't break userspace" policy, because they know that userspace is not released in lock step with the kernel. Having this policy is certainly a burden on them to get things right, but they've decided the trade offs make it worth it.

They have also chosen that the trade offs involved in having a stable driver API are not worth it.

> People don't want you to break their code.

Then maybe "people" (in this case device manufacturers who write crap drivers) should pony up the money and time to get their drivers mainlined so they don't have to worry about this problem. The Linux kernel team doesn't owe them anything.
It is if the nation harboring the terrorist refuses to cooperate with an interpol order related to murder and the person is actively killing politicians in your country. What exactly was India supposed to do since Canada refused to work with them? Sit on their hands and watch their elected reps get assassinated?
I buy Apple not because they make hardware or software but because they make integrated systems of both.
Not to be too on the nose, but I'm a little too ADHD to sit through a video demo as the only explanation of the product. I wish you had at least enough info above the fold for me to know the basics of what it is this does.
Something interesting to point out is that until about 2014 "lead-free" plumbing could in fact contain amounts of lead. I forget the cut-off level but it was something like 8%.

I'm not all that worried about lead. In most places it's not an issue because of how restricted it's been, we have tests for it in products, tests in people, etc. I'm more concerned about plastics, forever chemicals, etc which are everywhere, aren't routinely tested for, and have known negative impacts (not on the same severity as lead).
>How did this sort of thing creep into schools without anyone protesting?

Apathy as others have mentioned. Apathy because people are tired. And maybe apathy because it's clearly being aimed at people for class and/or ethnicity. People tolerate a lot of bad if doesn't affect them in particular.
The docs are getting a refresh before the launch event (author here)

Yes, it is a server framework for JVM, but also a binary target like Node. We'll be doing demos, benchmarks, and sharing other resources
Important note: he didn't buy 550k options, he bought 26k, for a total profit of $475k. The tweet is incorrect. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37602079
Show HN: Guitar Fretboard
What about the 1-1 relation between the binary encodings of ASCII-characters and their base64 equivalents? I dunno, but isn't a base64-encoded character sequence still unambiguous / aren't the encoded character sequences formint a prefix-free grammar when concatenated?

Still very impressive.

What's even more interesting are the edge cases as presented above. Now that we consider almost-perfect natural translation a given, we're obsessed with marrying this to basic rule-based logic.

Me too, in every conversation I had with ChatGPT.

Because marrying the two seems almost magical and scary.
I've often thought this is some kind of market inefficiency that I don't quite have the vocabulary or expertise to describe. You don't get 5x more space or service. Shouldn't it be roughly proportional to how much more it costs the airline, plus some extra profit on top? Instead it seems like an absolutely massive premium.