skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some diametrically opposed people on that list. That is the problem with the whole free speech debate. If you got all these people into one room, there would be no agreement on what "free speech" actually means. The result is that any vague declaration like this is meaningless. Completely free speech means allowing stuff like fraud and distribution of child porn so even most "free speech absolutists" aren't actually in favor of completely unrestricted speech. So everyone claims to be for free speech and the debate shifts to changing definitions in order to match their already held opinion.
Ask Unity and Epic, seems to work for them.
> I thought hydroxychloroquine was disproven as total junk science. I recall seeing on the news during the pandemic that it was ineffective. What has changed?

Once again: what has changed is the lies of mainstream media and politicians during the covid outbreaks being exposed.

Here's a study on 30 000+ patients made by doctors, not politicians. The results are without any appeal: HCQ works and it works wonder (which many knew and many knew that for whatever reason there was a cabal trying to silence doctors saying HCQ was working):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37861932
A more niche mobile Pinball game that I like (gacha game with surprising complexity) is called World Flipper. It does exactly what you said: Builds a lot on standard pinball with RPG elements and party building. The unfortunate reality is that it's a pretty simplistic "pinball" and that framing for the game takes a heavy backseat to all the other things it's doing. I'd personally love a game that leans more heavily into being a pinball game but still having the really nice complexity of what World Flipper offers.
I am not in the adtech space, but a question I have always wondered. Does the monetization rate of the tracker go down if the site will embed anyone and everyone? That is, if Site A embeds 5 trackers, but Site B uses 500 would each of the sites receive the same revenue per tracker?
There are some adjustable rate treasuries even (iBonds, and TIPS). So not technically "all".

But yea the vast majority of bonds (treasuries or otherwise) are not variable rate. Close enough to "all" that it seems needlessly pedantic, I agree.
I grew up in Tanzania (Dar) too. Do we know each other? :)
I would add a link to the documentation on the homepage.
So you have to drive to the grocery store more frequently and release more CO2? Why?
The girlfriend has a TV that blew up. Occasionally she powers it up to see if it works or not again. This blows the breakers to her apartment. So she leaves it there for a couple of months and tries again. Of course it blows the breakers instantly every time. It blew up initially 6 years ago. I am wondering if she's still going to be doing this in 6 years. She has more than enough money to replace it but that or repairing it is "too much hassle" so she doesn't bother. So it sits there. Then again she has a psych PhD so perhaps it's just an experiment.
Actually it does. The solution from 100 years ago is much clearer.

Did the japanese released any data about EMC behaviour ? Wil i be able to listen to the radio when i pass near such a car which is charging ?
A trolleybus is efficient because people go to a location that the bus services, the bus does not go door to door to every person, that would be absolutely asinine. To make a trolleybus delivery service work, you would need a central location for customers to pick up packages. This would probably just create more congestion as people get in their cars to drive 1 mile down the street to get the package...which just makes the whole idea of 'delivery' kind of pointless.
Everyone wants free speech for open society but nobody wants X, 4chan, bots, bullies or pundits! You have to hold your nose people. The price to pay is rabid disagreement, dangerous ideas, motivated influence, psychological warfare, public relations, the list goes on. But the alternative is far worse: A civilization where all good ideas go to waste, resentment is momentous, and every problem is intractable without explosive consequences.
Altitude not latitude. Alaska would be a somewhat bad spot to live if AMOC slows way down. You want places where the local climate is not driven by the ocean or air currents, meaning there is very little air above them. Think Bogota, Quito, Addis Ababa etc.
I too dislike the link only, no comment submissions. Particularly those that are just a Wikipedia page with no added context.
Those RPi4 supply problems seem to be mostly fixed. And RPi5 may come from different production line(s) such that it's available in quantity even if the 4s were not.
The path to a very successful project leads through a mildly successful project.
The Precautionary Principle (As Applied to GMOs) [Taleb et al]
> lately

always has been dot jpeg

I remember GlueCon 2012, just wall-to-wall NoSQL hype, with a dash of microservices on top. Anyone who ran home and implemented stuff from those talks was absolutely wasting their time (me included).
I don't. I am not in danger of suicide killing me.
The ideal, at least in my mind, is to judge statements based on their content. If a view is supported and logical? Cool. If it's making extreme claims with no supporting evidence? Not so cool, even more so if it's appealing to emotion or bias which are tell tale signs of BS. So for instance in the above statement where our local stalker chose to claim I "think Russian elections in Crimea are fair and accurate", do feel free to read what I wrote. [1]

Shortly following the Ukrainian referendum, numerous Western organizations began carrying out their own, arguably adversarial, polls (linked in the linked post). And they all ended up showing similar numbers, taking into account that the original referendum was boycotted by those in support of staying in Ukraine. Had Gallup/Pew/etc not carried out their own polls, or even if they somehow felt the authorities were interfering with their polling, then I think there would be reasonable room for belief in the conspiracy. But when everybody keeps coming up with the same numbers?

I don't really understand the mindset in opposition to things like this. It's like people want to believe fake things. I mean just because the election results were valid doesn't mean you suddenly have to start waving a Russian tricolor. If somebody wants to take the position that the election was, nonetheless, invalid because it ran contrary to Ukraine's constitution? More power to them. There's some subjective debates to have there, but it's an absolutely valid and factually supported position to hold.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34708598
The losses are real maybe they don’t have to realize then on the books but pretending you have more value than you do doesn’t magically make it so.
Open source business models differentiate by providing value to commercial entities (support, extended features, whatever.)

Traditional open source licenses and definitions of open source demand that the licenses not differentiate between different use types (personal, commercial, governmental, etc.) Newer licenses are coming up that do differentiate. Traditional open source orgs are often saying that they're source available, not open source.
No, they are not. And the most popular licenses (Apache-style) these days don't even require commercial entities that fork your project to contribute back their changes. Free software / copyleft licenses like the GPL which do require that are these days shunned by many.

"Open source" has become synonymous with "free labour" for a lot of firms, and there's a whole class of SaaS projects which amount to gluing together other people's open source work and then supporting it.

I think this was all fine for people during boom time; you built your resume up on GitHub, you got street cred, often your employer paid for you to work on it. But I think it's starting to lose its sheen for some people.
There are lots of reasons why retail workers are not motivated to (and in many cases are specifically motivated against) policing people's shopping carts. But primarily:

1. If someone is willing to steal from a store, who knows what else they are willing to do? Retail workers do not make enough money to potentially put themselves in harm's way over a $200 beef tenderloin roast. 2. It's doubtful whether a retail worker even has the legal authority to physically detain a shopper. I surely wouldn't put up with it as a shopper, and would make a stink. And at that point you're back to #1: Will the next shopper you detain make a stink, or will they get violent? 3. For liability reasons, companies don't want their employees getting harmed, so most stores' guidance is to not interfere.
don't sell that story, it isn't that believable regardless of whether or not it's true.

instead just talk about the thing that they're trying to corner you into talking about and get over the feeling of silliness. they're prompting you with that stuff because that's their desired focus of discussion, it's no use struggling against that tide.
LIBOR was a thing where banks would estimate how much they would have to pay to borrow money at a fixed rate (in London) for a short period of time. All the banks made their estimate and the average of that fixed interest rate was published as the LIBOR rate.

This rate was published in financial newspapers on a periodic basis, and other loans and things started to rely on this fact to price them. If you had, for example, an adjustable-rate mortgage, the tiny print would say something like "the interest rate will change on June 1 of each year and will be the LIBOR rate published in the Wall Street Journal on the third Thursday of May, plus 4%". This allowed both sides to independently verify the rate and to estimate what it would be as the adjustment date came closer.

The scandal was when it became public that multiple banks were reporting estimates that were not good faith estimates, and that some of them were tipping off traders so that they knew what direction LIBOR was going to move before it actually happened.

I am not aware of any connection that LIBOR had to adjustable rate bonds
The Expanse used a ton of off-the-shelf props; most of them were used cleverly enough that they didn't stand out too badly. My personal favorite was a couple of laptop coolers used as "vents" in a maintenance passage: https://i.redd.it/rn2iac41t8h51.jpg
If you drive the 55mph speed limit on "the bypass" in pretty much any metro area in the united states, you are risking your own life to be going so slow relative to traffic.

I'm generally the slowest driver on my commute, judging from the fact that I rarely pass anyone; however, I go faster than the speed limit, at some point during the trip, nearly every time I get in the car.

I do not endanger those around me, in my opinion.
Agreed. If you have KYC questions, reject the transfer and send it back (or better yet, don't let the customer initiate the transaction in the first place). Holding it for any longer than 24 hours is no different from ransoming it.

However, I'm not sure this logic applies to OP situation, since it sounds like their money is being held in Wise bank accounts (which store money in them). So there is not necessarily a particular transaction to reverse.
Here's a serious question.

Countless stories of companies turning back from open source to restrictive licenses.

Will open source survive? Except maybe the iconic projects that have already a certain status such as Linux, LLVM etc?
Companies have legal (and moral) obligations to protect user data. Those obligations don't go away for users that don't personally care.
Kotlin. I switched to Intellij due to Kotlin, in is slow in Eclipse

But seriously, Eclipse was helping me more then Intellij does and has better defaults. It shows all errors and warnings at once etc. Even things Intellij actually has like call hierarchy tend to be sort of hidden by default.
> More than a decade ago, this site published Krebs’s Three Rules for Online Safety, of which Rule #1 was, “If you didn’t go looking for it, don’t install it.” It’s nice to know that this technology-agnostic approach to online safety remains just as relevant today.

Still a very good practice today.
Yeah but people are reading this as a stability thing, which it isn't.
> Even the poor in capitalist countries have a higher standard of living than medieval kings.

That is almost completely due to technological progress, not because of capitalism itself.
That fixes liquidity but it does nothing for losses. It’s like pretending you don’t take a loss because you never sell. It’s the same logic
You're plain wrong.

Here's a study on 30 000+ patients made over the years (published in 2023). HCQ works and is particularly effective:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.03.23287649v...

"Early Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin: A ‘Real-Life’ Monocentric Retrospective Cohort Study of 30,423 COVID-19 Patients"

FWIW HCQ+Azithromycin is now a recommended treatment for suspected Covid patients.
But then, without all that extra data, they would actually have to do some dna testing, rather than than determining your likely background heuristically.
> It's as if people with poor eyesight were not welcome here.

Or even good eyesight.
> Do people ever have to really travel for a gas station?

I don't know anyone who has a gas station in his back yard.

I need to travel at least 1 km to get gas.
About the GPU:

> but I plan to play only fully 3D pinball sims and the 1050 Ti gets excellent reviews for $140, so I went for it

That's $ 450+ for the 4050 Ti now...
> By 2025, over half of the top OnlyFans accounts will be AI-generated models secretly run by men.

Damn, well there goes my senior project idea... I got the inspiration from YT cracker:

Push the gas - escalate the gauges

Escalate hits on our camgirls' pages

Blaze it and hit em with a script full of sexy phrases

Slow down and turn the corner

We been cornering the game since the five and quarter

Represent that nerd world order

Replacing all the brick and mortar

Sending mails off an auto forwarder

From a girl in florida with a case of boredom

And you can't ignore em cuz the filters weak

Into the inbox they all creep while you sleep

There is enough content out there to train models to do this, and scraping all the social media for more content made this inevitable.

Back in 2019 I went to an album release party, indie label artist, and I saw the cover of the album and it looked pretty damn near a girl I worked at but... Cyberpunked hero.

I was shocked of not just the resemblance (the face had a lot of detail) but of how likely the ability to this had started to become commonplace with deepfakes starting to hit their stride. Weeks later I was talking to her friend, and mentioned it in passing: she asked me to show it to her as she thought it was funny, so I did. Her response was not what I expected: 'Wow, you think I look like that? I guess I'm really hot.'

Honestly, this is why I always questioned the implicit disorienting nature of online dating apps and their effects on the psyche as non=participating observor: there was a mantra back in the late 90s early 2000s that 'no girls are on the internet' [0], with hindsight it turns out it wasn't just pervy dudes catfishing, but it would end up being bots run and operated for profit by said guys.

Bizarre times indeed.

0: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/there-are-no-girls-on-the-int...
Excellent. For me, six bits of mantissa in fixed point is perfectly adequate
A new method for assessing the microbiome of the human gut
It's the wrong question. When this comes up in common conversations like this, it always turns to what is understanding, is this real intelligence? Okay, grant that is. GPT-4 is a human-level intelligence.

That doesn't make it the kind of existential threat these kinds of pieces are worrying over. We can operationalize that capability far better than we can vague goals we can barely articulate like "intelligence." What it needs to achieve recursive self-improvement, at bare minimum, is the ability to conduct original machine learning research, better than people like Geoff Hinton and Yoshua Bengio.

I have no clue what kinds of related abilities we should be looking for in terms of text it generates to start believing it can possibly do that, but I don't think anyone is suggesting that's a realistic expectation for GPT-4. Even memorizing all of LeetCode and taking ten billion practice LSATs until you've become the top idiot savant in history doesn't mean you can replace all of science. The projection that we'll get there sooner and sooner than previously thought is clearly based on extrapolation from GPT-4 and its generation performing better than was expected on the tasks it is good at, but the point seems to stand that this is a dubious extrapolation. Without any clear idea of new directions to take, it entirely stands on how realistic we believe the strategy of "just keep scaling forever" to be.

At what point do we run out of more compute? At what point do we run out of energy? At what point does it simply become uneconomical? At what point do we ru out of useful training data? Those are the far more concrete questions that need to be answered if if we're to believe the current course is going to get us a planet-killing god, not "is this thing actually intelligent?"
Love the mid 90s Warp sound. Which reverb did you use?
This is false and misleading:

"Commercial pick-up trucks, junk vehicles, and any pick-up truck weighing more than 8,000 pounds are still prohibited from parking on ANY residential and business streets."

Quite a way from all pickups.
US is receiving dozens of UFO reports a month, senior Pentagon official tells
Yes, we are on the same page the whole way.

My question is why we need to reframe our extant system as a 'land value tax.' This proposition suggests that we should give concessions to developers in areas where there is a need for more development. But this already happens!

I guess I don't know why we should avoid taxing the value of revenue-generating assets if they are fixed. Buying a truck for a landscaping business is an taxable purchase. Why should this be different when the asset is fixed?
For grand irony, I am very left wing (socialize healthcare and education, de-escalate/demilitarize police, etc., etc.), and think the above is problematic.
For example, a quad-core CPU has dropped from ~$330 to ~$100 and it's ~40% faster.
I fixed the typo in my forst sentence... Seriously, who put the "I" so close to the "U" on a keyboard?

Ah, I never watched TOS much, I had some vague, and obviousoy wrong, memory aeound Picard's and Woef's involvement leading to a treaty between the Federation and the Klingons.

Agree on the denial part, especially the authors. It shows in little stuff, like episodes in which Starfleet would extradite one of their officers to a nation they are at war with, no thought about any other function than officers...

I still love it, especially DS9. But there are some aspects that just rubb me the wrong way now that didn't bother me back the day.
Unions?
Almost want to send this as anonymous since I don't want to get banned from Amazon :P.

But I am curious as to what you all think (professionals and otherwise) of a software engineering union? I mean, salary is not exactly a problem for (most of) us. But we've had companies coordinating to lower salaries, and we've had companies coordinating to mass fire employees strategically.

So what do you all think of workers coordinating to prevent those scenarios? I mean the last beginning of the year mass layoff had substantial cause for concern for many of us. Just curious.

Edit: Honestly, still kind of scared s**less I might get flagged red by every job board on the planet after this.
Yup. DC managed to do it. https://dlcp.dc.gov/page/leaf-blower-regulations
> Due to its altitude, Quito receives some of the greatest solar radiation in the world, sometimes reaching a UV Index of 24 by solar noon. [0]

High altitude isn't exactly a panacea...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quito#Climate
I be would naïvely think to move to up north to colder places because they will get warmer and have to deal the least with climate refuges.

The equator will be death around it will be not that great, beyond that will be refuges. So Russia is looking great. There is a huge climate change boon Russia is set to receive within the next 50-100 years. Maybe Canada too and Scandinavia
"My rake is faster than your leaf blower"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-XqbXi7tNo
It’s not always the sex worker masterminding the operation. Especially in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia, the models are often under the exploitive control of pimps, and it is the pimps who outsource the model’s chatting for the sake of greater income.
Most of HN users live in US, where they have legalised weed, are banked and don't have to transfer large sums of money from one country to another — therefore, don't have any real reasons to use crypto and only see it as a sham.

Many other people around the world have no other choice but to use crypto when their local currency is spiralling down with inflation, when banks refuse to work with them, when they immigrate and have to transfer their life savings, or work for remotely with people from other countries, or simply when they want to buy a few grams of marijuana.

The fact that you don't see any personally don't have any legitimate uses for a product doesn't mean that there are none.
Collapsing margins are actually a good thing. If I designed CSS from scratch, I would make all margins collapsing, because you typically want 1em margin between paragraphs, not 1 + 1 em.
In a big city, you might be paying $100-$200 a month for parking
Here's that group research notebook: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/blob/main/notebook/agen...

And the chess one: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/blob/main/notebook/agen...
Which is reasonable even if there was no climate catastrophe at all, I really hope I can fully experience unpolluted and much more silent inner cities in my lifetime!

Anyway, regarding your freedom, you are free to leave to more free countries, where you can also have your leaded pipes and other unhealthy great things back!
Starfleet technology at its finest.
The one thing I remember from watching my wife's surgery is that they counted the surgical sponges going in, and counted them coming back out. Because sometimes surgeons would forget and leave a sponge inside and then the person woudl get a really bad infection.

Honestly, checklists and procedure matter more than most people want to admit.
for some time now, i've noticed that the delivery app folks have had other people in their car. i know as a teen, my friends and i would just drive around hanging out with no real purpose. now, they can still do that, but make some cash while doing it.
Check out the new nightly of DosBox as well it's got a really cool new adaptive CRT monitor emulation that seems to do the right thing for EGA and VGA monitors. Also includes 3dfx Vodoo support now as well.
They should license the tech to existing players. I don't think people will be willing to pay a huge premium for this. You don't like a leaf blower for that long and the electric ones already aren't very loud anymore.
FWIW Star Wars is set a long time ago, not in the future ;)

I've always liked to imagine any similarities between Star Wars and humanity on Earth is because Star Wars is set so indeterminately long ago that it seems 'plausible' that Star Wars is all really true, and if we build the right telescope and point it at the right galaxy, perhaps we can watch the Rebels fight the Empire IRL!
> More and more communities have enacted usage restrictions on leaf blowers due to the noise
Brave is crapware and always has been.

If you actually care about privacy rather than want to pay lip service to some marketing, then there are better options.