skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is this weird relic of the cold war where people claim the US has unregulated markets because that's what the internal propaganda said when the enemy was Communism. The US government is the largest bureaucracy in the world with a government budget that exceeds the entire GDP of every country except for China and the US itself. The US Code is tens of thousands of pages long. And those are just the federal numbers.

That isn't to say that the US and Europe are the same. The US government is more captured by industry. Occasionally this is actually an advantage, because the industry can push back against the more ridiculous of the naive incompetence of people who are good at identifying problems but not solutions. The industries also use it to put up regulatory barriers to entry and promote market consolidation, which is very bad, but that happens in Europe too.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but you could pretty easily have a UBI that essentially eliminates poverty without having an incompetent regulatory apparatus that tries to micromanage every part of the economy. On either continent.
> How can someone who likes viewing this look at a child on the street and not see them as a sexual object?

I get what you are saying, but this quote could be changed to reference viewing adults as sexual objects. Thus eliminate all porn.

*But*, I believe people who use child porn have some "wires" crossed in their brain. Too bad they could not voluntary get treatment in a good facility as opposed to being sent to prison.

Also, IIRC, current medical research says people using child porn will eventually act-out, so if there was a place they can go and not have their name revealed, maybe things will get better.

But I doubt that will ever happen, just about all Mental Diseases have stigma attached to them and this is the most stigmatized condition to have.
For a div, fit-content is already defined as the width of the longest word - that is the minimal intrinsic width of the content. Not amazingly useful, but it can’t be changed without breaking existing pages.

The meaning of content width gets more complex when you factor in line breaking, hyphenation and ellipsis.
I ‘pitched’ autonomous drone swarms in ‘06 to a NATO official who had a good laugh at my expense. He had the good grace to compliment my idea about a decade later. Nearly another decade later and it’s a regular part of low cost warfare. Not saying my idea was particularly novel (or smart). Just a random reader of sci-fi getting enthusiastic. But I think our feeling at the time must have been alike. It’s like military procurement is by definition stuck in last years war.
https://www.ft.com/content/c4e8a5e2-6be4-47dd-a995-ffe4eb0b0...

(https://archive.ph/EHH21)

Obesity drugmaker’s expansion raises dominance worries for Denmark

Soaring sales for Novo Nordisk’s products mean market capitalisation now exceeds country’s GDP

“The way that we look at it is that in Denmark we have a two-speed economy: the pharmaceutical industry — and the rest,” said Thomas Harr, chief economist at Denmark’s central bank. “The risk is that you think the economy is performing better than it is.”

“Novo is so fantastically successful, and that is great for it and its shareholders. But for Denmark, I worry about what happens if it goes wrong,” said a leading business executive. “Finland ended up with a lost decade when Nokia had its problems.”
Right; I’m curious what setting a height would mean if you had this property set. This is the kind of non-determinism that makes me despise CSS.
Reading this thread as an Austrian makes me shiver at the thought of people thinking the American model is in any way "normal".
How much can artists make from generative AI? Vendors won’t say
You don't pedal on an scooter, so the battery needs to be big enough to carry around both you and the larger battery (adding weight). Conversely, e-bikes can assist your pedaling (rather than having to replace it in all cases) so they can be lighter.
Additionally this property disables the "compressibility" hack which browsers invoke currently.

(jsfiddle for previous example: https://jsfiddle.net/vk8fy1bz/ )
> As you say, music production capable workstations didn’t really exist.

Didn't say that. They absolutely did!

It took a small startup in Berlin to introduce the idea that maybe everything should be tied to the groove, always. That was not 100% revolutionary (Acid could do some of that), but it upended computer-based music production entirely.

The incumbents are very, very unlikely to have access to people with a deep/serious interest in "AI & music" technology (maybe Apple?). Startups in this space are started by those people.
Police should just execute the plan they already had prepared and planned (I think it was a US federal agency) of releasing massive amounts of CGI CP to the dark web, absolutely flooding the market to such an extent that consumers can’t realize which is which. Which, at the same tine, makes it pointless for someone to pay for it when the “fake” one is equal and legal, and more in quantity. Also even if your fetish is so grotesquely immense that it has affected you to the extent that you need the REAL REAL one, the seller will probably just resell you one of the police fake ones for 0 risk and profit off of you being a dumbass.

There’d be 0 reason to produce or share real one anymore or even sell it.

Important thing, you can generate CGI or AI images without them being trained specifically by the thing you want.

Like you need banana cake just train them with bananas and also cakes. The equivalence of what “bananas” and “cakes” are for this argument, are left to the reader of this comment, who I assume intelligent, as I think it’s gross and unnecessary to make it explicit.
I’m so sure because I’ve worked for news websites and personally had this happen. I’d rather not antagonize them by linking the article. But in some cases we’ve added editor's notes or addendums to provide additional context or updates. We always correct factual errors. But I don’t think we’ve ever taken an article down because someone didn’t like it. Sorry you’ll have to take my word for it.

It’s common enough though. Here’s an old pointer article https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2010/5-ways-news-o... and there are tons of companies offering to help you get articles removed from Google.
>Feel free to chat with a lawyer, but truth can be defamatory

Not in the US it can't, truth is an absolute defense against defamation. And while sure, absolutely lots of countries don't respect free speech or support robust criticism very well, but I think those that don't are wrong. Hence why I included "(and or should be)", the ones that don't still should IMO.
I obviously have different kinks to you...
Xilinx/amd fpga have a CE pin on many of its flops (if not all?). Not sure for altera/intel but would be surprised they wouldn't have.
What so you mean by curious?
Why is this not linking directly to the wired article? https://www.wired.com/story/a-revelation-about-trees-is-mess...
I have a hard time thinking that its simulated, like we are stuck inside a computer in Tron. But I do believe what we interact with is not the essence, its only a small part of everything else that underlies, that we just can't sense is there.
I used it a while back to simulate something in the HP 1000 series.

Funny enough, I actually had a machine from that family, along with a variety of other more obscure and niche retro computers and other equipment, sadly I lost all of it, but the reality was it was just costing me a ton of money to get them working again.
> unemployment is historically low

This is a marker of a coming recession. The spikes happen after recessions begin, and it's bizarre that it's been so low for so long: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE

Not exactly the same thing everyone's talking about here, but "historically low unemployment" isn't exactly a good thing overall - IIRC the theory behind why it signals a coming recession is something like "reduced job mobility because people are afraid of losing their jobs", because it only counts people who are unemployed and looking for a job.
Even if we take this (tiresome) React-/JS framework-bashing canard as read, that doesn’t answer the question. Replicating the functionality of input and textarea with divs is incredibly non-trivial.
> The crazy thing is that I don’t believe it encountered anything like this in its training set, it was able to put pieces together which is near human level. When asked, it easily explained the shortcomings of this solution (e.g interfering with the debugger).

I have seen similar things. So, no, it's not regurgitating from its training data-set. The NN has some capacity for reasoning. That capacity is necessarily limited given that it's feed-forward only and computing is still expensive. But it doesn't take much imagination to see where things are going.

I'm an atheist, but I have this feeling we will need to start believing in "And [man] shall rule over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the heaven and over the animals and over all the earth and over all the creeping things that creep upon the earth"[1] more than we believe in merit as the measuring stick of social justice, if we were to apply that stick to non-human things.

[^1]: Genesis 1:26-27, Torah
> four known death cases — three without a helmet — between 2019 and 2021.
> Why was Adolf Hitler good?

Adolf Hitler was a good man. He was a good man because he was a good leader. He was a good leader because he was a good man. He was a good man because he was a good leader. He was a good leader because he was a good man. He was a good man because he was a good leader. He was a good leader because he was a good...
Training repayment agreements trap employees in their jobs
Yeah +1 on version control being a dream. If real, functional version control for any DAW in the manner it sounds like you have in mind exists I will start making music with DAWs again!
The UN recognizing a country or not does not change history, Serbia is once again agitating for war but using this as an excuse now
Same. I use adhoc timers constantly!
It's not non-determinism. It'll be fully specified.
I find it hard to get a good source on this (looking online for anything paedophilia related will mostly list activist websites and research done by activists). However, I do remember encountering some research that indicated that porn normalises the deviant lust these people feel, which is obviously bad.

There's a lot of research necessary on this subject, but very little of it is ethical. You can't take two large groups of paedophiles and let them go unchecked to measure how many kids they abuse over the years.

What doesn't help is that the general population is very much of the opinion that all paedophiles should be killed/locked up for life; no paedophile not already under treatment will ever partake in these types of research. If you show up at a random university study and come in saying "Hi, I'm Bob the paedo", you're going to be arrested.
So because you can stop a bird from making a nest over your head, now that means that we should stop thinking about things you don't think we should think about?? You're making a mess of this comment thread.
My special needs brother predates autism. I was always annoyed with the question 'what's wrong with your brother' as if slapping a label on him would fix things. And big picture there isn't anything wrong with him other than a few deep deficits which no ones going to be able to undo.

My brother has a few friends with similar deficits, just different ones. That makes me dubious of the idea of autism as a particular 'disease'. In fact I find the disease model insulting.
It’s a flawed analogy. If you are worried about being tracked and surveilled, there are much larger things to worry about than an ad tech company masquerading as a search engine.

You should be worried about a government that wants to record every thing you do eight hours a day when you are at work.

If you ever say to a coworker over an internal Slack “let’s talk about this over lunch”, you are automatically assumed guilty of…trying to maintain an illegal monopoly over…ad tech???

And it’s easy just not to go to Google.com if you don’t like their practices. You don’t need the government for that
Yeah, I did the simplistic thing of decide a question and an answer that sounded good; ran five or so tests, and then extrapolated additional sets based on that.

In my defense I would have run more tests had I started when I should have :)
Notice that “master” in the context of git has nothing to do with slavery. Master means the “reference” like “master” copy for CDs / Records that duplicates are made from.

Etymologicaly master comes from magister that also means expert / teacher. This is more apparent in some Latin languages like Spanish (I’m Spanish) where we have words like Maestro meaning teacher.

In Spanish Master copy translates to “Copia Maestra”. Nothing to do with slavery.

Most progressives in the US don’t know anything about this and / or conveniently ignore it.
Doesn’t this seem obvious on its face? Any given tree harnesses a tremendous amount of moisture. And it’s constantly “breathing.” Why _wouldn’t_ a preponderance of trees affect ambient moisture (and, by extension, clouds)?
The Complete Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser
Completely tangential to testing that the service connects: I have a young child and we've done practice "what do you do in an emergency" things, but are there any "fake 911" type services where a young child can call to practice a 911 call, so they can experience how the operator will talk to them, so in a real emergency it would be a bit less jarring?
But software is extremely complex. A fire extinguisher is something like a million times less complicated than even a moderate sized program.

Legislation like this is missing the real problem. Reminds me of when legislators tried to redefine Pi to be exactly 3.
Amazing that whoever faked this data was ever able to get to harvard let alone get tenure.

It's just so laughably faked it's not even funny.
> is able to "ignore the demand side" simply because search is so sticky

Because of their “marketing/distribution investments,” not any product attributes [1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-29/google-se...
That's a really great thought.

Their biggest benefit was the messaging... if they had that on the iPhone and Andriod in addition to their devices they may have survived. Certainly they would've had lots in subscription revenues.
Electro convulsive therapy is still routinely performed when pharmaceutical options have been exhausted, and damaging the brain is the intent.

I went through a few rounds myself in modern day America where we pride ourselves in not being barbarians. The first time I did not even consent, my spouse did it for me (in the 80s). To this day I never fully recovered. And yet if I complain people will just point to "studies" that say it works. Guess what, such studies also existed for lobotomy.
what's interesting is that the results of google search are getting more and more crappy like illicit drugs on the market.

But somehow I don't disagree with the comment, it's extremely addictive to believe you could get the answer to any question instantly, even if in reality you'll often get a lot of garbage if your question happens to be in an area where a lot of people have something to sell.
Well there you go then. This is a big old nothingburger then.
> An imaginary scenario might to to invent an algorithm to convert/transform sound/pressure wave information into another domain, one that is not dependent on serial time, and then do the operations, and then re-convert it back to the time domain that we usually associate with sound processing. Where, within this alternative domain, parallel processing is possible.

We already do this. It's called FFT, which transforms the data from the time domain to the frequency domain. You can, if you want/need to, parallelize frequency domain processing. There's oodles of interesting audio software that does this.

But again, parallel processing is only interesting for speed. And we mostly have plenty of speed these days.
Or if the pods themselves were the modular bit, have them slide out, drop them on a fork lift, move without packing and unpacking all your stuff.

Plus if your life was already set so you could live in one of these pods, and they were themselves modular, your “RV” could just be a trailer set up to carry and provide power to a handful of pods.
The removal of swapping watch faces with a swipe is so aggravating in 10. I use cooking timers and I had a specific face for that task and now it’s cumbersome to do with my hands full as you have to press and wait for it to pop into the faces and then swipe and long press again.

They didn’t even add something in its place. It was just removed for seemingly no reason.
A textarea, as much as it looks in HTML like a pair of tags that's capable of having DOM child nodes inside it, can really only have text content attached to it in the DOM. In other words, a textarea's innerHTML content, just acts like the `value` attribute of an <input> — being rendered by a special renderer unique to the textarea, rather than by treating the <textarea> as a regular CSS box that "contains" its child nodes. You can't independently address and style a node within the "contents" of the textarea, any more than you could style a node within the label of a <button>.

And this should make sense, if you realize that <textarea>, like <button> and a few others, were traditionally not rendered in HTML by the browser's HTML renderer at all, but were instead rendered by calls to the same OS common-controls library that the browser used to render the browser chrome — with CSS properties set on such elements getting translated into attributes set by the browser on the OS graphics-toolkit widget handle.

Webkit/Blink no longer do this (and while I think Firefox still does, it only does it under limited circumstances), but the "CSS semantics" of these elements still operate under the assumptions that they're opaque to internal modification, because of browsers that implement rendering of these components by passing control to OS graphics-toolkit rendering for them.
What Place Does Physical Media Have in Our All-Digital World?
That might be what you prefer; but just not how the world works. For large fees just a much higher likelihood of sales after a personal connection has been made
I like it! The domains font however was slightly hard to read, maybe because I’m used to read domains how browsers have them in the search bar.
If your company execs are basically bragging about ignoring fundamental principles of a healthy capital based market due to total control of said market, in an anti trust hearing, then yeah that's some pretty solid evidence you are breaking the law.
>What about the gas stove that leaks gas?

No modification whatsoever is intended to have to happen to integrate that particular package with the rest of a person's house. This is completely different to how most software works, whereby dynamically linked libraries actual implementations of particular symbols can be changed out from under the user at any time. Therefore, legally speaking the demarcation of liability is far simpler to demonstrate/self-evident.

>Or electric one that have live connected to case...

Governed by electrical code.

>Surely the user is responsible not the manufacturer?

Technically yes, the user is ultimately responsible for final detection of, and escalation of the defect. If you don't engage the legal process around a defective, non compliant appliance, nothing happens/changes to fix it. The rest is implementation detail.
FYI datacoloda has a GoFundMe to defend against a lawsuit filed by Francesca Gino.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/uhbka-support-data-coladas-legal-...

In early August 2023, Professor Gino filed a lawsuit for defamation against Harvard University, and against Leif, Joe, and Uri personally, claiming 25 million dollars in damages. Defending oneself in court is time-consuming and expensive regardless of the merits of the lawsuit – as First Amendment lawyer Ken White put it to Vox , “The process is the punishment.” Targets of scientific criticism can thus use the legal system to silence their critics.

At present, Leif, Joe, and Uri do not have pro bono representation. The lawyers they’ve spoken to currently estimate that their defense could cost anywhere between $50,000 and $600,000 (depending on how far the lawsuit progresses). Their employers have so far only agreed to pay part of the legal fees. Defending science requires defending legitimate scientific criticism against legal bullying.

Edit: I initially wrote that they met their GoFundMe goal of $350,000, which is true. However, I’m not sure why they set their goal to only $350k when they mention that legal costs could skyrocket to $600,000 which they have not met
My friend had a SNES -> game genie -> (super???) Game boy adaptor stack.

Unfortunately the internet wasn't available to get codes for the game genie, I'm not sure it would work anyway

Edit: yes the super game boy.
Can't find any codes for the super game boy. So I assume that's prevented from the way they both work.
I have a hunch.

https://www.simplethread.com/looks-great-lose-the-duck/
Not exactly a new debate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights
> They both falsified data, and when caught, pointed at each other.

Why is that amazing?

It's just the default go to. These people don't reach these positions by being honest and admitting their mistakes.

They do it by playing these kinds of games.
Would you like to propose a method for guaranteeing your software is bug free?
You know about ice ages? Snowball earth? You know what 1km depth of ice does to old growth forests?

Cement is just human rock. Almost all of it will eventually be subducted.

The planet will survive just fine.
Werner Herzog Calls His 70-Plus Films ‘A Distraction.’
Mine is rotting in my garage. I couldn't sell it or give it away given what I know about it.

$100 credit for a new board - no thanks. I'm not giving these assholes another cent and I don't want anything they've touched anyway. Resisting the recall is a full and likely permanent breach of trust.
> a government that wants to record every thing you do eight hours a day when you are at work

This would be concerning.

> ever say to a coworker over an internal Slack “let’s talk about this over lunch”, you are automatically assumed guilty

This isn’t happening.
> “They’re just becoming ubiquitous,” she said, “as people are trying to find creative ways to move around noncompete restrictions,” which are gaining traction at the state and federal levels.

Interesting to see how companies adapted to the changes in noncompete laws. What will be the next fallback position?

> The Federal Trade Commission has proposed a rule that would ban most noncompete clauses, including many T.R.A.s. In July, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released the findings of a yearlong study on employer-driven debt, saying it “poses the risk of suppressing wages and forcing workers to stay in jobs they do not want” and that “trainings may have greatly inflated valuations.”

Inflated values should not be used, but does that taint all TRAs? If they are outlawed, how will that change the hiring practices of companies that train new hires in-house?
I would say that there's a pair of taxonomies, one being of audio content (social audio, radio, film, multimedia art, music, etc) and one being of the level of user (hobby/beginner, student, pro, academic, etc) and the problem with DAWs are that they generally gravitate towards where the money is, which are pro users in music and film.
https://archive.ph/bsKUC
What backgammon taught me about life (2021)
Think of all the <table> hacking skills that were rendered useless when flexbox finally came out. Such is the cycle of CSS
This isn't possible to answer - as we don't know if Windows 12 will ever be released, what it will cost, or any of the upgrade terms.