skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My advice is to play these games if you understand all this and have friends to play it with.

My advice to law makers is to regulate these games into the ground. Your statements enforce my world view. My kid will not play these games.
Yeah, your points seem much more practical than mine.
Too much friction to use a vendor specific cloud like this. All our tooling is AWS/Azure, not going to be allowed to upload our application and code to anyone's random service.
I don’t know that critical thinking can be taught. However, you may be right that schools aren’t creating circumstances for children to learn it. I don’t know.

What I do know is that most of the information that has ever existed (or will ever exist) is false. Because information can only be true to an extent, from a perspective, and for a purpose. If you change the scope and purpose of a discussion and look at it from a different perspective the truth will appear completely different.

In this way I welcome our adversaries on our social networks. Even if they have the worst intentions we will end up better off (and so will they). We’re just that damned good.
> And those "huge" quantities were just a small drop in the sea of the total effort. Their significance was more for propaganda purposes than actual military impact.

Opinions differ:

> "I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war."

> Nikita Khrushchev offered the same opinion.

> "If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," he wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."

[…]

> Under Lend-Lease, the United States provided more than one-third of all the explosives used by the Soviet Union during the war. The United States and the British Commonwealth provided 55 percent of all the aluminum the Soviet Union used during the war and more than 80 percent of the copper.

[…]

> The Lend-Lease program also provided more than 35,000 radio sets and 32,000 motorcycles. When the war ended, almost 33 percent of all the Red Army's vehicles had been provided through Lend-Lease. More than 20,000 Katyusha mobile multiple-rocket launchers were mounted on the chassis of American Studebaker trucks.

* https://www.rferl.org/a/did-us-lend-lease-aid-tip-the-balanc...

During the Battle of Moscow, apparently British tanks may have made 40% of the armour:

* https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1351804060069781...
My understanding of the previous NN rules was the exempted mobile anyway bec they called it necessary network management to ensure a smooth experience for everyone. So unless they also change that (which is unlikely) these rules won’t really fix or change anything, except possibly introduce regulations that will either a) push some polical agenda, or b) create a higher regulatory burden for small players and prevent new entrants.
Yeah, I also used Play Music a lot (specifically because you could purchase songs and albums). Back in the day I waffled between Play Music and Amazon for buying tracks (I'm not in the Apple ecosystem).

The forced deathmarch to YouTube Music and its advertisement hell was a massive "fuck you" for trusting Google to at least not be assholes if you're buying items from them. I had a huge library of music purchased on Play and nothing worked to backup/download them. All the purchases disappeared in YouTube Music. Google "support" with the issues was... exactly what you would expect.

I didn't get into podcasts until a few years ago during the pandemic. But I refused to ever consider touching Google Podcasts. On the one hand with Google you know the entity you're dealing with so there's a certain ease that the name has vs trusting a different company. But increasingly it's just not worth it. They're like an elephant grazing on the savanna and you're a dung beetle. You can often find that Google shit is usable and useful, but they won't even notice if they step on you. I avoid Google if I can avoid it.
Most of Binance's trading activity isn't about being an "onramp" for crypto, it is mostly crypto to crypto trades, in which case the onchain solutions are far superior. The sooner these vestiges of a prior crypto era are torn apart, the better.

Within the crypto space, these exchanges are extortionate to project communities and the project founders, and a lot of it can't be talked about because that ensures no listing on Binance, and thats just the tip of the iceberg of what people have to put up with, all of the eastern exchanges have similar practices. eastern europe too, but and to a much lesser extent the US exchanges but to the point that it’s impossible to get listed unless all the VCs backed you.

Outside the crypto space, its pretty obvious that the discussion is much more juvenile, any distress with any crypto exchange represents "crypto" as a whole, and validates whatever people already believe. So the sooner these mismanaged companies go away, the sooner that conversation can mature.

Unpermissioned market making onchain has been a major boon to the crypto space, and so these exchanges like Binance are not necessary. Most of the major wallets have ways of getting fiat into the crypto space, and they can become the primary users of onramps. Both Block and Paypal are crypto exchanges, all that infrastructure is there by better managed companies, and trading of more esoteric asset pairs can be done onchain, as it already is.
> “Any reading is good reading” is an attitude that’s true and useful for young kids, but is less true as they get older, and not true for most adults.

Stop that. That kind of gatekeeping is why people don’t read.
Sometimes the data is flat...
That's a false dichotomy if I've ever seen one.
Your PM2.5 will spike from cooking regardless. Doesn’t matter the method of heat, it’s from the food.
Because the externalities are completely hidden from them, and because their own situations are precarious enough that they have no real choice but to choose the cheapest options.

Make it clear at the point of purchase all the negative tradeoffs made to enable that Low, Low Price, and some significant percentage of people will choose to buy things that cost more.

Make sure that everyone—yes, everyone, no exceptions—has a decent amount of disposable income on a reliable basis, and that percentage will grow a lot more.
Average wage in Estonia is way less than that (and I would imagine most of EU's average wage is less than that), at 21,420.78 USD, but we have 20% VAT.
Of course you would defend commercial projects if they are strategically important like SpaceX or if they serve a political role like not letting countries do whatever they want to your things
Galaxy S8?
"While technically he was a literal Nazi in the literal SS..."

Buddy, think about what you are writing. You don't need to defend these people. What they did, what they were a part of, is in fact bad and they should feel bad.
That sounds about right. US+Canada population is about 5% of the world, and eastern time is just a slice of that. People in ET are more likely to be internet users than people in some other parts of the world, so that apparently brings the percentage back up to around 5%.

However it also says that 42% of users are on Firefox, which definitely suggests that this isn't a totally representative sample.
AI-powered applications with WASM Workers Server
dunno if it's true but it sounds true :-)
You're not familiar with Facebook? Google Docs?

I mean it does tell us something they have logins: it's expensive to build complex single page applications

There's no incentive to do that for free and in the open.

I started my comment by explaining why you're not going to find the golden case you're digging for: even when provided you'll haughtily share how jQuery could do everything shown, and as I explained you don't see most of what is being done.

Everything is easy until it's not. Maybe you should share examples of things you worked on with a larger team and show us that we're overestimating the limitations of manual state updates.
> We live in 2023. We can deal with slightly worse compression until someone rewrites it in a sane language.

not just sanity of implementation but also reliability and compatibility

{h264,jpg,zip} for life!
They are all absolute monarchies. All powers of government ultimately rest with the king.

There are different degrees of absolutism between each country, but to use the example of Saudi Arabia there are no assemblies (democratic or otherwise) with any meaningful power, there are no allowed political parties or national elections, and legislative, executive, and judicial functions are ultimately the powers of the king. All positions of power within the state are granted by the King generally to other members of the royal family.

This is dictatorship. Dictatorship isn't defined by brutality or abuse - it is any system where the leader or leaders hold absolute governmental power with few or no limitations.

The only limitation on the king of Saudi Arabia is the Sharia (of which the king is conveniently the final arbiter).
Very similar to the French system: if you are a sole operator under a certain revenue threshold you do not charge and cannot get rebates on TVA; if you are a sole operator with a standard company structure, you charge and get rebates for TVA.
In the short term, AGI means that everybody can get a personal doctor.
In the longer term, AGI will help medical research.
> It's probably going to be a matter of months before people can access them on AWS/Azure/etc

I've been hearing this for years though.
> critical thinking hasn't been taught effectively in public schools for at least 10 years now.

I'm not well versed in education, what are you basing this on?
HN moderators: why was title changed from more accurate "Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music" to misleading "Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024" ?
With the power of hindsight, we can rely on all-cause excess mortality data since 2020 to see how effective the lockdowns were, and whether the extreme disruption to daily life was worth it. See this study[0] that showcases Sweden, whose public health policy around Covid was basically a big shrug, with the idea that it was pointless to try and control the spread of a highly transmissible respiratory virus. It has fewer cumulative excess deaths compared to its neighbors Norway, Finland, and Denmark; all highly developed countries with similar demographics and cultures as Sweden, but with much stricter restrictions.

Within the US, a recent Lancet study[1] showed that when adjusted for a variety of health factors (age, rates of diabetes, etc.) -- that is, if every state had the same distribution of health profiles within its population -- then Florida, which had no restrictions on everyday life since later in 2020, had a lower cumulative death rate than California, which had some levels of mandatory masking even earlier in 2023 as well as a higher overall vaccination rate[2].

Looking at all-cause excess mortality is useful, since it avoids the question of who really died "of" Covid vs. "with" Covid, and takes into account the ways that lockdowns were harmful to health (e.g. drug overdose deaths from loneliness and despair).

The available data indicates that the biggest determinant of how susceptible a population was to Covid is its age and overall health (which the US fares quite poorly against many other countries, being both older and more unhealthy on average), and that lockdowns were more or less ineffective in saving lives. And that's even without thinking of the generation of children who grew up during those lockdowns, whose schooling is several years behind and will carry that burden for the rest of their lives.

[0]: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/sweden-covid-and-excess-...

[1]: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

[2]: https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-st...
Netflix shouldn't pay their ISP and some other ISP to deliver traffic. That's unreasonable.

But if Netflix connects directly to Verizon, Comcast, etc, it's not inheriently unreasonable for Netflix to pay for that connection. Verizon, Comcast and many other telcos and cablecos are national transit ISPs as well as residential ISPs, and paying a transit ISP to get packets to the ISP's customers (and peers) is totally normal.
I’m curious what’s the benefit? I use homebrew as a Linux package manager for MacOS. On Linux I just use the distros package manager
Show HN: Which Way Round? WebGL game testing your space rotator abilities
This is the second small game done to test my browser game engine after https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37434110
and is designed to exercise it a bit more.

The engine had a couple of minor tweaks, and bugfixes, but most of the problems have proven to be CSS related, especially after learning a large portion of the audience are on mobiles with font size scaling for vision reasons, and this would affect the layouts.
"I don't know" - so why leave a comment?

Because you can doesn't mean you have to, especially when you don't actually have any knowledge on the topic at hand. (And, as people have pointed out, this is both a weird and incorrect assumption, adding nothing to the discussion other than confusion.)
You vs. 4k Other Applicants
On a related note, we have a Google dot, and asking it to play a podcast, it ALWAYS resumes from the last episode I listened to in that podcast, often weeks old. I can’t get it to simply play the latest episode of random podcast
Scroll down, and it shows a CO2 measurement on the screen.
Most of my friends in tech are mostly on sabbaticals. On occasions they pick up some work.

For the past 5 years I have been working only freelance or through my own agency. Naturally, there are often times between gigs, as is the case now. The main difference is that I now want to enter full-time employment and leaving freelancing behind.

I am definitely struggling with the narrative going into the world of full time employment, as it seems to be the expectation to have unbroken employment records.
I’ve never experienced a broken homebrew and I’ve used Mac for years
1. Family and support systems are here, not Europe.

2. Cost. I do not thing you understand how unfathomably expensive it would be to move from North America to Europe. Heck moving around the States can be extremely expensive already.

3. Unfamiliar culture. The average American is steeped in American Culture and is ignorant of anything elsewhere.

4. No ties to Europe.

5. Desire. Americans are blasted every day about opportunities here. We constantly hear about immigrants coming here but we never hear about opportunities over there. Our news plays into this, as they only cover bad things, so if we hear about Europe it's epically bad.
> Those countries are monarchies, yes. I wouldn't call them dictatorships

Saudi Arabia is a dictatorship and a monarchy. The monarch exercises absolute political power. (Arguably, it’s a tyranny, since its de facto leader, the Crown Prince, doesn’t exercise power through constitutional channels—he isn’t King.)

Qatar and Kuwait are constitutional monarchies with something resembling a legislative counterpoint to the executive. As long as their leaders operate within their constitutions, i.e. don’t dissolve or dominate their legislatures, they aren’t technically dictators.
Okay, I've scaled it down to 1080 pixels in height as you suggested which brings it down to 1.5MB. I had to preserve the PNG format in order to maintain transparency.
Here you go it’s ~200GB https://www.kaggle.com/c/rsna-intracranial-hemorrhage-detect...
This is such an apt observation.

When I look back on the various businesses that I actively distrust now, none of them started out that way and, if I'm honest, none of them had a single moment where I flipped from trusting them to not trusting them. On reflection, I'd been noting the degradation of their behavior over time and growing increasingly uncomfortable with it. Then, a straw that break the camel's back happens.

Also, I have never and would never communicate to a company that they're losing or have lost my trust. What's the point of doing that? I assume that most people don't. So this erosion and loss of trust can be largely invisible to companies who aren't paying attention.
I've been using a mac for decades, but had no idea what control center was until about 1 minute ago when I read your comment and googled it. What in the world does control center provide that you find so essential?
5.5 is further than what you can get with Personal Savings, but ~5.0 is not difficult to find at all right now, have to be able compete with those raising interest rates: https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/best-high-yield-int...
Oh yeah, that app that currently has zero podcasts support of any kind. Excellent.
That's indeed the point of chroot. It's a feature not a bug.
Observation: Uncompressed bitmaps, while bloated in terms of necessary bandwidth, still are provably the most secure form of bitmap -- just as uncompressed video (again, while super-bloaty and bandwidth intensive) would be...

That is, to abstract, our security issue exists because:

A) There is complex compression/decompression software/code;

B) To implement this compression/decompression -- there are one or more lookup tables in effect;

C) The software implementing those lookup tables and the decompression side of things were never properly fuzzed, bound-checked, and/or mathematically proven not to create out-of-bounds errors, that is, for every potential use of the lookup table to be guaranteed as correct mathematically given any possibility, any combination of data in an input stream.

Also -- Didn't stuff like this already happen in GIF and PNG formats? Weren't there past security vulnerabilities for those formats?

Isn't this just (I dare to say) -- computer history repeating itself ?

Point: Software Engineering Discipline:

If you as a Software Engineer implement a decompressor for whatever format (or hell, more broadly and generically something that uses lookup tables on incoming streams of data) -- then the "burden of proof" is on you, to prove (one way or another) that it does not have vulnerabilities.

Fuzzing can help, mathematics and inductive/deductive logic can help, testing can help, and paranoid coding (always bounds-checking array accesses, etc.) can help, running in virtual machines and other types of limited environments and sandboxes can help. Running as interpreted code (albeit slower) could help. Deferring decompression to other local network attached resources running in limited execution environments could help.

In short... a monumental challenge... summed up as:

"Prove that all code which uses lookup tables can not generate hidden/unwanted states."
I agree, but I think software (although with accessibility in mind, and on the forefront) should be designed for the majority of users with toggles for different use-cases eg a11y. I dont remember the last time I had to check how far away my gates were unless in another terminal, and when that case arises there are ways to look at distance, by being explicit on google maps. Most of the time I'm looking for the starbucks or bathroom or where I can grab a bite. -- I travel for work
> video files aren't just raw frames and haven't been for ages.

Does that really matter? You could sign keyframes, and then also sign the differences frame by frame til you get to the next keyframe.
Then inevitable "wait, this still happens"

And someone closing new reports of same bug as duplicate of one that is closed, despise it still happening...
> The text of Etymonline is built entirely from print sources, and is done entirely by human beings. Ngrams are not.

I'm confused about this part actually. I assume by "entirely from print sources" it means it does not include digital sources? That doesn't sound very relevant to the issues mentioned in the article though: unless it uses the "complete" set of all print source, it totally could have the same skewed-dataset issues too; and humans can make the same mistake as OCR does.
Followed instructions. N=1. forever alone
Replacing an imperfect implementation with one that has demonstrated time and time again it's far worse should never be the solution. Crypto has languished in obscurity (other than gambling, scams, and criminality) for 15 years because anyone who isn't in the cult (or hyping their "bags") can see how obviously ridiculous it is.

It's been clearly and obviously explained to death for crypto people where the value of fiat comes from and it's not a "debate" I'm interested in rehashing.
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Why Toyota is building a “kindergarten for robots”
A difference that doesn’t matter to most people most of the time.

GP wants a translation service built in to the browser. Even if they appreciate it being local-only, coming back with “no, here’s some largely irrelevant technical difference that makes this better!” misses the point.
Yeah sure that might work for some but not for all. There are legitimate reasons to need something other than a bike and I would expect those that made the choice weighed their options before spending that amount of money. Likewise all the benefits of bikes are legitimate as well.

Unreasonable maybe yes maybe no it’s difficult to know what an individual factors into a decision.
This is fine because anyone wanting a phone to call their mum, text their mates, take selfies, wake up with an alarm and get the football scores can buy a generic Android phone. It all works and the generic android phone can be replaced rather than repaired.

Nobody is forced to be in the Apple ecosystem, and, since when did we all need a supercomputer in our pocket?

Next we will be complaining about tyre prices on Bugattis. People can just buy a Ford.
Depends on the trip, but I wouldn't say there's any particular pattern. Sometimes a month ahead, sometimes a week. The day before, almost never.
When macOS runs on Unix kernel and Linux systems are the best supported for containerisation and I assume are much more lightweight than macOS, I personally don't see any reason to run macOS in a container.
Only fund beating Nasdaq long-term is defying stock-picking odds
I think you're remembering incorrectly. Crypto is large, but nowhere near large enough to cause contagion risk, especially because nobody is stupid enough to lever against it as though it was a AAA asset (like they did for American mortgages). If every single cryptocurrency was zeroed tomorrow, the global economy would shrug and move on.
Right, a case where there are no human answers (or no good ones) is one where it at least makes local sense for Quora to put in an AI generated response. I think it is not the right solution globally, but I can see how from their perspective having bad content is better than no content.

But this is them putting AI nonsense before good human answers. It can't be the right choice for any of the stakeholders.
Fiat money is backed by guys with guns. Tether is not.
Sorry, that argument no longer flies.

Goggle payments have done nothing but go up as FireFox market share has done nothing but go down --- to the point of insignificance, now around 3% world wide --- less than Opera.

Paying a huge sum of money for a miniscule market share doesn't provide any reasonable hedge --- as evidenced by the fact that Google is in the middle of an anti-trust lawsuit and FireFox has played virtually no role.