skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too would like only good things and no bad things, but we have thousands of years of evidence that this is not what you get with autocratic rule.
The Council of the EU is a meeting of ministers of various national governments, all of them elected by their respective electorate.
Indeed, you’re most likely right.

I’ve seen around me a growing sentiment along the lines of ´ my views and candidates didn’t win so democracy doesn’t work’ coupled with ´this allows me to claim that violence / authoritarian regime with my views is ok’.

I wonder whether people are slowly realizing now that democracy has limits, whereas they used not to, and don’t like it.

Democracy essentially says that you have a say, but so does everyone else, so it’s going to be messier than expected !
less risk of layoffs, diversification
This author had quite the effect on my literary voice, thanks for resurfacing this.

Another great source of quotes is bash.org (I get the impression the similar names are a coincidence):

<Cthon98> hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
<Cthon98> ***** see!
<AzureDiamond> hunter2
<AzureDiamond> doesnt look like stars to me
<Cthon98> <AzureDiamond> ****
<Cthon98> thats what I see
<AzureDiamond> oh, really?
<Cthon98> Absolutely
<AzureDiamond> you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
<AzureDiamond> haha, does that look funny to you?
<Cthon98> lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as ****
<AzureDiamond> thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
<Cthon98> yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as ****
<AzureDiamond> awesome!
<AzureDiamond> wait, how do you know my pw?
<Cthon98> er, I just copy pasted YOUR ***'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw
<AzureDiamond> oh, ok.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230710221245/http://bash.org/?...

(Can't tell if the issue is Tor or the site is down hence the wayback link)
Seeing as you are knowledgeable on the subject, may be you know if there is a licence, like creative commons, that will allow all the usual intelectual property uses except in AI training?

Or may be an old licence that is so strict that it will protect from AI shenanigans by default?
An actual usecase:

When I’m looking at when a merge request was merged in to master in gitlab, often the level of granularity I am interested in is ‘roughly how long ago’, or ‘what day in the last week was that?’ - the thing I am trying to figure out is just ‘did that go live last Tuesday or last Wednesday?’

I can recover that information from a date with a little mental arithmetic or a cross lookup to a calendar but it would be nice if the computer told me that.

On the other hand, sometimes when I am looking for when a git merge request was merged in I am looking for ‘was it a few minutes before or a few minutes after this error started happening in production?’ And the precise timestamp is of intense interest. At that point seeing a bunch of merge requests tagged as ‘last Tuesday’ is incredibly unhelpful to me. But so would just an unadorned date be.

In general I would lean towards providing the information in a raw form but also contextualized.

But ‘just a date’ is often the worst of both worlds. Even worse if I don’t know which time zone the date is being reported relative to (people often display UTC dates without clarifying that, or even considering that dates need time zone adjusting too).

My dream contextualized timestamp would be something like

2023/10/09 13:47:20 (Monday, 5 days ago)
So what would be the correct understanding of the law in this case? That using an emulator is illegal because you cannot own a copy of the games you own?
I'll add that a guy got sentenced to prison in Switzerland last week for calling someone a fat lesbian in a video that he posted two years ago. What is considered hate speech is very broad these days – Nazism would actually be on the more extreme side of what is considered an arrestable hate crime.
Ask HN: Is it worth trying to get status on an airline?
I travel enough that I can usually hit a mid-tier status on an airline (e.g. Gold/Platnum on united, A-list on Southwest).

Is it worth it to stick to one airline and go for status, or am I better served just trying to find a flight that gets me there in the least time or at the lowest cost?
Used pg for years then migrated to postgres.js about two years ago. I love it and have had zero issues.
Resizing is slow because it is a back-and-force between the compositor (insanely fast, no bottleneck here) and a given user application, which receives a resize event multiple times a second, has to relayout its UI (CPU-bound - OS X might have had a phase when it had to run a constraint solver), and then rerender every widget in the new size. Shadows don’t matter here at all.
Criminal mastermind or hapless dude? A look into SBF's trial so far
It's nowhere near.
Everyone here on Hacker News seems to be painting this issue as universally disliked and unwanted and obviously bad. However, that is just blatantly not the case. The “think of the children” and “all opposition are pedophiles” arguments are very powerful and effective. It is important to know your enemy if you wish to defeat them, burying your head in the sand accomplishes nothing.
> I will change my opinion if you can provide evidence beyond anecdotes.

It is noteworthy that you did not provide any.

Adding to the anecdotes: Plenty of people in my company with 5+ years of experience make less than $150K.
Maps are actually a case where non-American solutions have succeeded to some degree: in the travel community outside North America, OSM-based apps like Komoot, Maps.me, and the Maps.me successor Organic Maps are very popular. Indeed, someone complaining about how Google Maps sucks is often a case of "spot the American/Canadian".
Fine-Tuning Aligned Language Models Compromises Safety, Even When Unintentional
I would be interested in learning the thoughts of those who have thought deeply about the role of anonymity in democracy.

I am intrigued how often people with the attitude that if you aren't don't anything wrong you shouldn't mind being observed apply that philosophy in only one direction. I see people who are upset that Snowden would leak and provide visibility into government actions, but don't blink that the revealed actions were actually the government spying on its own citizens. So governments are entitled to privacy, but their citizens are not?

My interest is not one sided. I have an intuition that personal privacy is important in maintaining democracy. But I also have an intuition that institutional privacy for a government is harmful to democracy. I think most would argue that a reasonable amount of governmental privacy is important to national security. I tend to favor the bare minimum. Most people I know disagree with me on that. I enjoy exploring both sides and trying to move beyond intuition for my position.

Any links or references to reasoned arguments on all sides are appreciated.
Telegram is now based in Dubai.
This is great, I would love to contribute.
I have current time constantly on the right bottom portion of the screen. I do know the time literally any time I want to.
The ultrasound waves are mechanical, so the amplitude can be focused while radiation can not be.

Think of making to waves in the bathtub so that they collide in the center and splash. That would be an mechanical wave. On the other hand, radiation would be be like shining two flashlights from either sides of the sink. The light simply passes through itself.
I don't buy your anecdote.

Those are the figures people always estimate. Always the same story: 4000 calories when they were skinny, and now they can't lose weight on 1500 calories when their maintenance intake is 2600.

Then you make them log their food for a week and they are eating 3000 calories when they swore they ate no more than 2000. In my 20s I worked at a personal trainer in a gym that made people log their food and 100% of people said the same thing you just did.

If you couldn't lose weight on 1400 calories then where exactly was the energy coming from? Cue the "starvation mode" meme where people claim their body becomes so efficient that it only needs 1400 calories to maintain their 270lb body.
Ugh, I pretty strongly disagree. This has become a common pattern in UIs, so I'm used to it now and I expect it, but I still hate it. At least for me, I agree with the article, I always prefer an exact date over "3 weeks ago". So why make me hover over a tooltip?

Also, I find myself needing to copy and paste information like this every now and then, which a tooltip is horrible for.
Thanks. And thank for submitting a few things. You're the first person to sign up!
What you say is true, but the main point of the paper is that they have measured a decrease of the metabolism after around 62 years even after correcting for the body composition, so the less muscle mass explains only a part of the decrease of the metabolism for older people.

The rest is likely to be due to slower rates of protein synthesis for the renewal of various body parts.
Often in error but still seductive: Why we can't quit election polls
Just checked, it is made up of the respective ministers / secretaries of the memebwr states (foreign affairs, interior,...). So, also democratic as, as those ministers are nominated by the national governments after elections.

EDIT: There seven institutions of the EU:

Parliament (elected directly), European Council (assembly of democratically elected head of state / government of memeber states), Council of the EU (see above, only for ministers), European Commission (nominated by the European Council, approved by EU parliament and thus democratic), Court of Justice (not voted for, but who votes for judges?), Central Bank and Court of Auditors. All in all, pretty democratic and taking into account the fact that EU is compossed of souvereign nations with their own democracies.

Complex, sure, but no idea why people think that it is some kind of dictatorship.
The dream of a web where the server simply sent data, and the client chose how to display it, is totally dead. Web designers want their websites to look a certain way right down to the pixel, and client-side display control messes that up. To be clear, it's not that you can't still do it, but the website is never going to be designed for it and actively help you.
Estimate of density at 75 g/cm3 is a result of only a single study done in 2012 based on observed gravitational influence by 33 Polyhymnia on other Solar System bodies. Because asteroid is small and it's gravity is weak too, such measurements are highly imprecise and that's the most likely explanation.

Discovery of actual elements with such a density would have a profound impact on design of compact, low-yield nuclear weapons and potentially even pure fusion ones! But that's just a fantasy. No one will rush to build a space probe to 33 Polyhymnia, because it's nearly safe to assume that the 2012 study is simply an error.
As long as the parliament is against a very specific clause chances are low that legislation passes. However, recent EU acts are therefore a mixed bag of incoherent clauses: Comission, council and parliament all push there parts through with lobbying all over the place. In the end it seems that hardly anyone understands the overall mechanics anymore.

I would even argue that we sometimes even have too much democracy (well rather too many levels I guess). We would actually need better legislative techniques and a more coherent vision. The EC and their DGs are often understaffed and underqualified IMHO.
So the downside of this is that countries are moving to register the radio of the phone again an id.

It's a cat and mouse attempt to identify who is doing what and to "stop the terroists".. it ends up that bad people just end up getting sim mules to register sims.
What skills do you think are in demand?
As a legal formality. A journalist who visited the registered address in Dubai fairly recently found no one at home. The app is honestly regarded as a Russian product.
>How do you define “number of laws”

It's not an easy thing to do but that doesn't mean it couldn't be done. Maybe something like defining it as a limit on the total sum amount of text in all laws?

A limit on the amount of new laws that could be passed would make it much easier for citizens to keep up with the proposed changes and oppose any they disagreed with; they couldn't be ddossed by the legislators.
Ok I understand what you're saying, you'd like full transparency into how the limitations are configured. However I'd have to reiterate, I wouldn't normally publish this information because it increases the chances of workarounds being discovered in case my solution isn't bullet proof. I'd say the same goes for OpenAI.
the 1st part of your comment makes me think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox
Not unless you're doing 80 or 100% travel -- I got to visit the EU only because I put all my reimbursements for grad school on a credit card that accrued Star Alliance points -- I never traveled enough to get so much as the lowest level status even if I'd been allowed to pick other than the cheapest flights... and cheapest often meant whoever had a layover between my shitty midwest city and the real destination in Chicago on a plane with a single row of seats on each side that felt like if I rested my overly sized head on the window it might pop out the other side and take us all down.

Look for nonstops, save your money to afford nonstops.

(A hotel because a long layover became a night or two will eat up costs saved by not getting the nonstop)
The border between UI churn and “I am old and dislike any changes” is very blurry. I have only tried it for a short time and I think they did a good job.

The same for Jetbrains’ new UI. If you put every UI change in the same bucket, how can the situation improve?
I believe all AAA companies work very closely together with the GPU vendors during all the cycle of dev.. it isn’t as if they aren’t aware or don’t want it
Depends on the people. I'm currently interviewing with a few different SaaS companies that are fully in person. Everyone there has clearly opted for in person as there are many remote opportunities.

A lot of work, even as a programmer, is about collaboration. Between different engineers, designers, product people, etc. Doing that over a call sucks and is emotionally draining. Doing that with 3 people in a room feels much better. If I'm working I want to do my best work. That doesn't just mean writing good code and keeping services online. It means knowing what everyone on the team thinks.

Maybe this comes down to how you view work. Is it just a way to get paid? If so - getting together in person needlessly complicates your life. For me work is an opportunity to hone my skills and produce something worth using.

Remote can be a huge asset to some companies. I interviewed with render.com for example - and they're mostly remote. Keeping a PaaS online with customers around the world requires you to have good time zone coverage. You can't do that with everyone in a San Francisco office.

Edit: This is very reminiscent of being back in school. I, mostly, liked going to school. I'm not going to force myself into nearly as many learning opportunities when given free time. Sure I'll occasionally pick up a small project, a new hobby, but the amount I get into my brain is far less. And I do have lots of free time. Even when I was in school, even when employed. But working forces me into a better state (not the global max by any means, but more optimal for sure). I feel well paid, live comfortably, and don't work too hard or for too many hours. 30-35 per week is ideal.
It would be much worse, witch-hunt style. Propaganda would run rampant. Also, many wouldn’t trust the voting system, because they won’t believe many actual outcomes to possibly be representative. Instead of blaming politicians, they would increasingly blame the voting system to be rigged by whoever is running it.
Because Lithium is expensive?
source on the 100k number? pay is heavily tied to geo as well
The market is the market, for better or worse. I do think SWE are overvalued socially/monetarily, but I don't see why you're so emotional over someone saying they deserve what they can get. Or if they make more than you if they can swing it.
These discussions are always the same, two sides of a bi-modal distribution talking past each other.

There is not just one “tech” industry that hire software engineers.
Whatever fancy misguided millennial time encoding your planning to use, display the actual time stamp as well (yes with TZ) for the rest of us. Plenty of screen space these days.
I don't this recurring meeting proposed in any of the mailing lists I'm part of. If you start this conversation, please include me as well.
We should be able to install any OS that we want on our phones.
Therapy would be completely inaccessible to me without telehealth. It's a massive boon. The downsides of not being physically present with my therapist are heavily outweighed by the added benefits of having regular and consistent access to said therapist.

It takes something that would otherwise be an irregular and stressful chore and makes it predictable and pleasant and something I look forward to -- and that helps make therapy a useful tool where I can pick things to work on, process how I'm doing, and plan next steps on a regular basis.

I also think it's worth noting that the point of therapy is not really to form or reinforce a friendship with a therapist? This isn't like a long distance romantic or platonic relationship, my therapist is not a buddy. Therapy is a tool. I am not trying to form an emotional connection with my therapist; my therapist is there to help me process and plan and work on parts of my life that I want to improve. That's not to say that the human part of therapy isn't important, but it's important because of how it services that goal.

A therapist is not a substitute for other human interaction, it's designed to be a one-way relationship. A therapist should not be the primary way that anyone is fulfilling their needs for human intimacy or vulnerability; what a therapist can do is help you identify if you're not meeting those needs and help you form an actionable plan for you to meet them better in your regular life.
I think sometimes when people call a salary offer "insulting", they really mean the offer is disappointing, worrying, and/or a threat to their sense of value vs. other professionals.

So I think there's value in reflecting why some job offer felt insulting. It may help the person recognize some thoughts or worries that were lurking in his mind.

On a less touchy-feely level, getting an "insulting" job offer can be a useful data point regarding the state of the job market, and/or that particular employer.
As a scientist who writes grants I find this to be off target. Yes there is a lot of nonsense you have to add to any grant about all the stuff you would never do. But the real problem, which they gloss over in the article, is that most grant giving organizations have a 5% success rate for applicants. Thus it's simply not worth anyone's time to do more than a modicum of effort for all the add-on things you say you will do. If there was more money, and there's plenty of money don't let people tell you there isn't, then success rates would rise to a more sustainable rate like 15-25%. Then it would be worth having an opinion about how the grants are written.
Are you really too dense to see how this same logic could be applied to justify acts that kill Israeli civilians, whose government has been killing Palestinians for decades, encroaching on their land, etc? Of course, your flaw is not logical, it is moral; you merely indulge a desire to take any excuse to dehumanize the Palestinians, the same way many on the other side will not admit the moral reality that attacks that target civilians are not a legitimate form of armed struggle, but merely satisfy their base desire for revenge.

This latest flare-up of violence has really gotten me fed up with the partisans of this conflict in a way that hasn't happened before. Each side is acting like the latest reprisal against them came out of nowhere, and is trying to solicit everyone else's sympathy while blatantly denying the other side's moral worth and their own side's moral transgressions. You all deserve each other. Leave the rest of us out of it.
The only surprise will be if the criminal is not linked to SBF
Games like Diablo 4 don’t even allow offline playing anymore
Could we do controlled volcanic eruptions to bring the temperatures down?

Honestly these kinds of problems need insane out of the box thinking, because trying to change human behavior is one of the hardest things in the world. It doesn't work unless you're okay living under fascists/communists (no thanks).

I'd much rather we explore unorthodox "organic" "all-natural" attempts like dropping some JDAMs into a volcano. Who knows, it might work. People certainly will not stop burning fossil fuels or being selfish.
Someone getting arrested in a Starbucks in 3...2...1...seconds.
GDPR is good for protecting us from surveillance capitalism.
This proposal is bad for trying to establish another form of capitalism.

Those two are not conflicting statements.
I'm a senior dev and I'm also finding it hard to get callbacks. I've come to the conclusion that cold applying to positions is no longer viable. You won't even get a callback if you don't have a referral.
Ok dude, give me an actual argument. Tell me a substantial way that SIMT is different from SPMD
Which on any kind of graphical application is all the time.
So many mistakes! a) What you describe is the VC industry, not YC. b) Yes, it's a well known fact that the expected value (in $$$) of doing a startup is less than that of being an employee, so don't do it for the money; and c) most importantly, your article makes no argument for the claim of your title, because it doesn't compare success rates with or without joining YC.
WhatsApp hasn't currently given them any reason to switch. If Meta decided to censor text supporting Palestine on WhatsApp, as it has just decided to do on Instagram and Facebook, you can bet most of them would ditch it for Telegram.
So the organization that selects the majority of the Commission Members (26 out of 27) is also the one that is the most distantly tied to the voting public. None of the CotEU are directly elected. The council also appears to have a complex rotating Presidency and multiple "configurations" in which different ministers hold varying amounts of power -- all of which adds abstraction and makes it more difficult to hold members accountable at the level of the voting public.

If I were being cynical, I would assume that this was a deliberate attempt to insulate the EU executive selection process from any sort of direct electoral accountability. But maybe that's good? I don't know.
the best part of this thread is people that do not know how a democracy works and how the EU works giving advice to improve democracy in EU, that sound like bullet points to pitch some startup idea before having checked if their idea can work in practice, what the flaws in the reasoning are and if something similar has been already tried and rejected .
This doesn't hold water considering Apple doesn't let you run apps installed outside the Mac App Store without going into System Preferences and manually enabling it for every single non-Store app.

This is more likely the decision of a product team that needed to measure engagement on a new 'feature' and set it on by default to pick up data right away.
What about the old and proven Apache? Is it affected?
I think the client also receives information about non-visible-but-nearby players for things like footstep noises. In counter strike you can hear a person around the corner running around, reloading, etc. and I think in some cases you can shoot through thin walls at these players. Even if they are completely obscured from view.