skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the privilege of hearing Werner Herzog give a live speech a few years ago at a small theater in a college town. One of the audience members asked him the question, "I am a young filmmaker and I am wondering your advice to me to improve my craft of filmmaking?" And Herzog replied, "Travel. Long distances, by foot, ideally." He then paused for a bit and said, simply, "Read poetry."

Those answers really stuck with me.

By the way, Herzog's style can be a bit overpowering for many viewers. So if you're looking for an introduction with a nice tech angle, you could do worse than to try "Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World". Even if you don't end up liking his filmmaking style, it'll expose you to some interesting ideas and history that are at the edges of the modern tech industry.
The Worst Programmer I Know
Comparing Europe and the US on food choices is probably not the best choice, nutritional choices vary quite a bit in Europe. I live in Spain, and I guess I’m spoiled as I get freshly made “menu” at most local restaurants for a about 15-20$ a day… two plates, drink and espresso for desert. You get to choose the meal, usually about 5 plates for first and second, usually divided into veggies / salads / carbs and followed by a protein second. The fact we walk to the restaurant 15+ mins , eat in about 30 mins, and having light breakfast and dinners helps balance our nutrition. We consumed little if any processed food, with the exception of the sausages, jamón, and salamis which we get at our local butcher, made the night before or the weekend. Since jamón is cured in salt, so no added sugar… again, we might consume this once a week, or less. Southern Europe is very similar in this regards. Our meats, we choose freshly butchered 24h, or some specific pieces might require some aging, but it’s all clearly agreed and ordered days in advanced. The drawback is, you need to plan your meals, food last little, so we usually buy what will be consumed that evening, or afternoon.
Both can be true. Encryption is not a panacea.
Sure, and the article here is about a standout case that deviates from the norm and was made into a national spotlight, which was then investigated and people have been punished. Do you regard this as a success story too?

Maybe you regard it as “small town” petty BS, but local governance is the most important impactful daily politics in most people’s lives, which is why having the democratic process involved at that level is so important. Further, the newspaper is defending their actions as “likely” legal, which suggests even if the cops had ulterior motivations, maybe the journalists in question were not saints. They did at least convince a judge to approve it, though I would agree judges often exhibit the exact same problem as the commissions you applaud.

There are other examples of Australian police abuse too, of course - the Human Rights Watch report on Australian police got much less coverage.
I think 'creepypasta' like this is the lowest hanging fruit of fiction writing. Is it just me?
A good friend of mine is a hypervisor/kernel engineer, and I can swear he has said the same thing, almost word for word.
Outer wilds is not a 30-hour game. Ive replayed it many times. It is full of interesting, replayable, content.
Dad Got a Gun. Then He Ended Life as We Knew It
> [citation needed]
Control, from an SCP Contributor's Perspective
The problem of expensive housing in locations where housing construction is somewhere between heavily restricted and entirely prohibited is bad in the US but not limited to the US. Most rich countries have this problem.
The author himself doesn't seem like a scam artist but he looks like he falls for them.
He said he heard about this technique from Michael Neill who he calls "a personal development coach, a really good guy".
This "good guy" has a bunch of books and videos on youtube offering the answers to everything: Finding happiness, overcoming shyness, anxiety, being effortlessly successful with just these three easy tricks in 3 months yada yada.

And Win Wenger, who the author says this technique originally comes from, is the author of "The Einstein Factor" which is a book with similarly grandiose claims about improving your mental abilities.
>I'd probably agree, but I'm not sure who is calling all of them exceptions or what doing so would be an excuse for.

The excuse is basically most replies in this thread, yours included. They all take the shape of "yea, but this idea is wrong because [the market is saturated/the issue is discoverability/no one wants to buy your little games/you're better off at a normal job] and so on. All of these are defeatist mindsets that people use as an excuse to not try, and they also happen to be wrong, as the examples shown in the article as well as the ones I posted show.

>It also was framed heavily around John Romero and id, which is what I was talking about in that paragraph.

The article clearly uses id as an example of a broader point and ends the post by bridging into the present situation. Talking about what people should do in the present, which you did, while ignoring present evidence and focusing only on the past sounds like poor thinking, doesn't it?
I agree, but AfD is not the direction we want to go in either. They're far more pro-Russian and pro-NAZI - that's also shit.

A side, the FDP party is the best party in Germany.
For a Russian Huel is even more off-putting, "ohuel" (охуел) is a swear word which roughly means "out of his mind", derived from "huy" (хуй), which means "dick".

I don't want no dick in my food, thank you very much.
Shrimp and chicken pickle too! They don’t keep as long, sadly
The way you prevent the country from being run by organized crime is by spying on the governing bodies, not the private citizens (those typically don't run the country). In practice, it means we should have transparent data about the people running the country.

As a rule of thumb, good politicians tend to fight for transparency in the government and privacy for their citizens. Bad politicians push the opposite view.
That's easy to say, until you've tried to write a provably correct piece of software or tried to do model checking.

I have tried to build models for the schemas that databases have, not their implementation, just the schema, and it is difficult AF. Using z3 for this might as well be trying to start a fire with a pair of rocks.
> to wind back all the things that can perform it, meaning all computers

Beware, they are attempting this.

It's a big project; UEFI, secure boot, and the end of General Purpose Computing. But they will throw absolutely everything they have into this Hail Mary plan, and the chip fabs are a chokepoint...
The presumption becomes problematic mostly when the operator of the computer is the same party who is being persecuted. 1) It is difficult or impossible for any outsider to inspect the workings of the computer, 2) the operator has every incentive to fake the outputs of the computer or hide the errors.

Related issue, but from the opposite perspective: some years ago I remember the copyright trolls using their own logs of the bittorrent swarm as an evidence in courts. Faking of this data would have been both very easy and pretty much impossible to detect by an outsider. Also they had a massive financial incentive to do so. The fact that this "evidence" was considered in the courts seemed outrageous to me.
Do you have some historical reference for a time when countries were destroyed by immigration in the past?
The immediate parent?
In several occasions, after very intense and new visual stimulus, (e.g. being the first time in a forest, watching "where dreams may come", playing a beautiful video game for the first time, strangely, playing checkers for almost the whole day) i could close my eyes and literally see scenes similar to the scenes that had made impression on me.

After several days the images would fade and i would return to not seeing anything.

So i also wonder if those realistic images i could see in those few occasions are the norm for other people, or if they have not seen such images and describe something else as seeing.

Also somewhat related i have similar experience with sound, while normally i can imagine music as my inner voice singing, but on some occasions i could hear the whole orchestra. And here as well, people describe different experience from hearing to not having an inner voice at all.
Every project is being compiled with an unsupported toolchain somewhere. The creators don't have every possible hardware and software combination possible, the time to test them, and they're not time travellers, so future distributions coming out with the same version of the project are by definition officially unsupported. That's just the reality we have to deal with.

In edge cases, we get maybe 2 versions of GCC to choose from in a distribution, but nobody's special enough to get their own just because it's officially supported. If it compiled and tested directly, your project gets built with v1.2.3 like everything else.
That's probably what they say to each other... Just looking at the garbage produced by movie studios recently you can't not ask yourself if the scripts are AI generated... And that's just the scripts let alone those crazy budgets that still produce movies that look like N64 games.
People are dying from heat stroke at higher rates than ever in my state. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/30/texas-heat-wave-deat...

I didn't have to read about it on the news; I lived it. The heat this year was soul-crushing and we're not that far into the 21st century. Do you think countries with lower rates of depression do not have mass media?
https://archive.ph/MUVmr
The cravings are most involuntary however, I assure you.
https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2023/09/15
Finland, like all developed countries over the last decade+ (Canada, Australia, Netherlands, UK, France, Sweden, etc) also has a big housing affordability problem.

Yes, supply is an issue in all these places (due to mass internal migration to the biggest metros). But also a decade of low interest rates combined with inflationary guarantees/bonuses for first time home owners (esp. in Finland) also has a lot to do with it.

When you make it so everybody can get a loan and cap the interest rate artificially low for them, all you’ve done is inefficiently create inflation.

The developed world elite all attend the same conferences, so we all make the same stupid policy mistakes together.
Deniability is a useful characteristic in cryptographic protocols: the idea is the authenticity of the message can be proved to anyone who checks before the key is published (i.e. likely the intended recipient of the message), but not to someone who checks later (i.e. likely someone who may wish to use the contents of the message against you). It's something Signal's chat protocol aims to achieve, for example.
It's a similar situation across all of the arts. The tools are now so widely available and there are so many people doing the work - with varying levels of skill - that the real distinguishing factor is marketing.

Not quality of output. Not speed of output - as long as that's above a minimum.

But marketing effectiveness. Which is closely related to marketing spend.

DOOM was dropped into an ecosystem of PC magazines and BBSs and almost sold itself - literally with the shareware release. It had almost no obvious competitors. There was some ad spend, but not a huge amount.

Today there are thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of small/medium games available across multiple platforms. Even for an exceptional game, getting traction in the market is far harder than it used to be.

Meanwhile the AAAs have a budget for carpet bomb marketing. Skyrim spent around $15m, which is an insane sum.
i vote this being scam
Works great with email address forwarding.
I am hungry fairly quickly after eating that salad and have trouble to focus then. I can go by them, if the team I work for does not care about my output. But if I actually need to produce, I need different lunch.

Healthy and "have as little calories as possible just above the eating disorder line" are two different things.
This seems half-baked and there are numerous faulty assumptions in this article.
For example, Bitcoin miners cannot computer gradients. Their ASICs can only calculate double-sha256.

Additionally, the premise of sending gradients of models trained on private data while retaining privacy seems problematic. While you likely can't reverse it to calculate the batch's contents, it is leaky.

Further, gradient calculations are not a good proof of work. A good proof of work is difficult to calculate and easy to verify (i.e. an extremely low hash value).

The core premise, using blockchains to store terabytes of models and datasets, doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

The problems highlighted in this article however are valid, and it would be great to see something like IPFS for datasets and models.
What does he know exactly of the situation and the forces that create them? His takes are always so simplistic it hurts.
"Processing" is way too general. It includes boiling, frying, stirring, cutting, freezing, drying, soaking etc. Most food requires some sort of processing to be edible.

I never saw the point of reducing all this into a single thing and declare that too much of is it bad.
Why would you need to look elsewhere when you have a perfectly good analogue of failure at home
I have a mental model of how humans spread across the world, something like - many years ago there were several species of upright apes in Africa, (much like there are species of big cats now). These started to move out of Africa as climate and other pressures / opportunities presented them selves. About 200,000 years ago one species (modern humans) joined the others and we fucked up
the rest of them so bad they all were wiped out wherever we went. Probably all the species had flint knapping, and fire tools and also had clothes from around 100,000 years ago.

I am not clear where I get that model from
- science journalism mostly.

Just that story rocks me back on my heels every time I walk it through.

But I am wondering if it is "supported by the evidence" or not or if discoveries like this blow through that basic sort of model (apart from timings which I see as important scientifically but not directionally - ie Ptolemy and Erastothenes thought the world was round but different circumference - important but directionally the same)

Finally - The awfulness of the web page layout and pop ups. I am slowly finding I can only use "Page Reader" on ios. It might just be old and grumpy name but it seems to be getting worse
That's a weak argument. The reason some of us don't believe that consciousness is something else than the state of a brain following physical processes is that the latter is a much simpler theory and matches every objective observation we can make.

If you try to explain consciousness as just the state of a physical brain, all the observations agree with you. The brain is known to be capable of computing. There are known regions inside it that activate when the subject feels certain emotions and thinks a certain kind of thoughts. There are regions that have predictable effects on the person's consciousness when damaged (see lobotomy). _And_ this hypothesis doesn't contradict any observations made until now (which is not the only argument as you're implying, just one of them, and a good one).

If you try to explain consciousness as something else, you have to change the laws of physics. You have to consider that _something_ exists that isn't in the current theories, just to explain a phenomenon that shows no evidence of needing that. There's no data to guess what it is, how it behaves, why it exists, whether it interacts with anything. Actually, you could say that all the evidence until now proves that it doesn't interact with anything in a measurable way, besides brainwaves (which are just regular electrical activity in the nervous system) and whatever the body does (which is explained by nerve signals coming from the brain).

To believe that something exists, you make observations that your current theory can't explain and try to explain them. Here the root observation is that we "feel" conscious, we feel that we are something more than the physical objects that are our bodies. This is an observation about the state of our brains, it's not an observation about the rest of the world. It doesn't need any new laws of physics to be understood and it doesn't give us any data that we could use to build such a law. The only reason you're giving weight to this is that you are wired to see humans as something special. It's a reflection of the way you think. When you correct for that bias, there's nothing left.

It's much like believing that a god exists, built the universe, looks and thinks and feels like a human, and wants us to be good. It's so obviously something that humans naturally want to think because it matches with their inner biases that it's not worth considering as a scientific hypothesis. It's completely explained by the brain being wired to see humans (and living things in general) as something "special" because that helped with natural selection.
Subscription services and charities looking for the minimal definition of "bed". Countless charities will buy these and then claim to be "buying X beds to refugees". After some creative accounting a flatpack of cardboard, or an online order for a flatpack of cardboard, will become a thousand-dollar tax deduction for donating a "bed" to some refugee fund. If any are ever actually delivered, i suspect they will be put to better use as kindling.
Speaking from personal experience and only that, I've always had a fairly vivid imagination and yes, the images created in the mind's eye during an imaginative episode (in not referring to dreams here, but waking-state fantasies desired or not) "look" remarkably clear. It's not the same as literally viewing something because you're fundamentally aware that you're lacking the external physical stimuli of a real thing, but the mental fidelity of details is more than good enough to perceive colors, textures, specific appearances and with a bit of focus even tiny details of an internal visual story.

I always assumed this was completely normal for most people, but apparently it really is difficult for some.
Lots of comments on how processed foods are bad here. They are bad but it is also the frequency of eating/snacking itself. It is not healthy to constantly stimulate your insulin multiple times a day with high protein/carb foods whether processed or retained in nature's package. That goes for whole foods and processed foods, except processed foods are just a lot worse. Constantly elevated insulin is not how we evolved for millions of years. Insulin resistance can precede T2D by years and years before there is a flag raised by elevated hba1c. You should be able to eat 2 or 1 nutritionally dense whole foods meal(s) per day not crave snacks constantly. Eat until you naturally feel full and do not want to eat anymore. I quit all processed foods and 1 or 2 meals in a 4-6 hour window is normal, I've never felt better. Snack cravings are addictive cravings, not real hunger. Snack cravings can also indicate you are overresponding with insulin and crashing your blood sugar after the spike from snacking. So processed foods are bad but it's how you deliver them to your body constantly is where the damage gets done IMO.
> classical texts are enmeshed in a dense web of relationships that can surprise and invigorate us, even after thousands of years

"[E]nmeshed in a web of relationships", i.e., intertextual[1].

Further reading: Hermann Broch's novel, The Death of Virgil, and Simone Weil's lesser known compilation of writings, Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertextuality
When you say 'listening' you're talking about listening to what customers are saying and I don't disagree with your characterisation of that relationship, but this is different to being attuned to the market. One could argue that in the case of abusive monetisation tactics, the publishers are very much "listening" to the market (and ignoring the complaints) and profitting immensely because of it.
It was dead on arrival because of the “artificial” scarcity of accounts, you needed to be invited to create your account. Google assumed they can recreate the Gmail invites craze.
dupe loop
never before have I seen someone lay out such an FDP argument, only to then literally confirm they like the FDP. Brilliant!
If this was 1023 A.D. we would be talking about heretics, and Inquisition that must oppress every man and woman to protect them from themselves.
Yep. I have a catch-all email address for a domain that forwards all mail to Gmail and that stopped working somewhere in the Jul-Aug timeframe.

Had to set up DomainKeys to fix the issue.
Awww yisss, publish all the private keys, let’s have a DKIM-verified phishing bonanza while we are at it, too!
> how would that even make any sense?

Because alcohol is toxic. This is also why there's a maximum alcohol concentration above which you need distillation: the alcohol kills off the yeast that makes it.

2% may not be enough kill off everything (I'd be surprised if it was), but in the absence of better training on my part (I'm not a biologist), I would assume it would still make a difference.
True across Balkans. There are some fruits (e.g. apricots) which have a highly variable yield from year to year, so eating a 5+ year old jam (from a year with exceptionally high yield) is not strange.
Ask HN: Where Are the Failure Stories?
The internet holds a lot of promise, but now I'm stuck with facing the fact that I never want to see another computer again. 20 years of programming and nothing to show for it.

God will not allow me to share my programs on the internet. Never has done, never will do.

Why is there always endless hope here. Even when it's a lie, you don't think people will endure endless hope to the bitter end?

Thanks for nothing.
I find it more accurate to consider "few" and "several" to refer to the same small pluralities, but that "few" has a connotation of paucity that is not as present in "several"
My voice is my passport!
We can't live on raw food. I read a catalog from an "alternative" magazine once, which listed an enormous number of diets and self-help therapies. All raw diet was one of the extremely few (even) they warned against.

It's damn near impossible to not harm your health with an all raw diet.
Is big agra really any better?
You are treating hardware like software by arguing with the experience we have made so far with a given model. Environmental conditions as well as it being different physical objects is a huge problem for hardware. The data about error cases is also simply not recorded. You get at best statistical reliability with small sounding chances for errors that are still happening all the time.

You can also not make any statement about reality by arguing with feasibility.

edit: I am unfortunately not qualified to tell you how feasible ways to deal with reality in this case could look. Which doesnt mean that i cant identify some error cases. You also require different levels of competence for designing a rocket and recognizing a non functioning one.

edit1: In regards to the usage of statistics as a basis one should also remember confidence and these cases
https://www.science.org/content/article/unlucky-numbers-figh...