skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The meaning behind these is pretty blurry between whats considered a website vs an app, it's a spectrum. I consider a web app something that has a similar UI experience to a desktop app, as the word "application" came derived from the desktop.
Actually, nevermind. I should have read the article first. This is concerning feedback to social media accounts owned and managed by a public official. I thought this was about (federal) government actors pressuring platforms to censor users across the board.
I wonder if there's some way for the government to partner with one of the major tech co's (e.g. microsoft/google/apple) similar to how the military seems to partner with private co's (e.g. lockheed martin).
Ok - but don't use that platform? I mean it is not like you can't switch to a Mac and avoid that whole ecosystem anymore.
Bizarre end claim that I feel misses the point of why things were shut down:

>> What he could never acknowledge was that “shutting things down” didn’t stop the virus, and that keeping schools closed didn’t save kids’ lives. Then again, to understand that, you had to be willing to follow the science.
> You should vote with your wallet and only patronize businesses that self disclose. You don't need to create regulation to achieve this.

This is a fantasy. It seems very likely to me that, sans regulation, the market utopia you describe will never appear.

I am not entirely convinced by the arguments in the linked opinions either. However, I do agree with the main thrust that (1) machines that are indistinguishable from humans are a novel and serious issue, and (2) without some kind of consumer protections or guardrails things will go horribly wrong.
Btrfs Picks Up New Features for Linux 6.7
Silly question - but what do people in AI related roles do? Are they looking for software engineers to use/integrate AI products such as OpenAI APIs or are they looking for researchers working on AI papers trying to break new ground?
I think part of the discussion takes place here: https://community.openstreetmap.org/search?q=israel%20vandal...
Good idea. Those finger ring mouse/presentation clickers seem perfect.
It's hard to imagine how one could identify a personality trait from a comment that does not exhibit it.
More than other big tech companies: ye. Oracle's deception machine begins with the claim that it's a tech company. It is not. It's a litigation company, not dissimilar to what we now call "patent trolls". Their business model is to infiltrate themselves into a company by any means necessary, then hold it hostage using their law department tentacles.

Have you ever noticed how their products never - ever - improve over time? Thy don't have to innovate. If they fall too much behind on a segment, they just buy some new product. To me, that's their most evil aspect. I don't care if some corporation gets held hostage by some other corporation. Let the billionaires fight to death, I don't care. The sad externality of it is the death of innovation.
The big difference is that Apple has, throughout most of its, been vertically integrated in a way where they control the whole stack. MS on the other hand has to deal with a bazillion IHVs that are lazy as all heck about updating their drivers.
> they're more than a bit hostile/malignant to those outside the mothership, but not necessarily evil to each other inside it.

Like the Mafia.
That argument doesn't hold water when they also argue the mere existence of nukes is dangerous. I would love to hear when Hinton had this revelation when his life's work was to advance AI.
> It’s clear that email has become an essential part of daily communication.

Wow, I almost missed that!

Apparently even Google has to start their blog articles with SEO crap like this
> The working fluid inside reactors is itself liquid water, which doubles as a neutron moderator.

There are fission reactor designs with different working fluids that operate at much higher temperatures.
> Most places I've worked with microservices had 2 or 3 approved languages for this reason (and others) and exceptions could be made by leadership if a team could show they had no other options.

This works well if you have knowledge redundancy in your organization, i.e., multiple teams that are experienced in each programming language. This way, if one or more developers experienced in language 'A' quit, you can easily replace them by rearranging developers from other teams.

In small companies, this flexibility of allowing multiple languages can result in a situation in which developers moving to other jobs or companies will leave a significant gap that can only be filled with recruiting (then onboarding), which takes much more time and will significantly impact the product development plan.

More often than not, the choice between Microservices and Monoliths is more of a business decision than a technical one to make.
It runs into roadblocks because an overpowered minority faction refuses to support policy and funding decision-making using evidence-based scientific consensus, and given the new speaker is a political extremist who has declared all his decision-making is based on a fictional book, is known to be a creationist and climate-change denier, and comes from a party that almost as a matter of policy opposes virtually all evidence-based science when it comes to policy...yeah, I think it's relevant to mention it.

Claiming disagreements are "just identity politics" is a way of shifting an argument from factual debate to "you don't like me because I don't agree with you."
the plugin "SponsorBlock for youtube" does a good job of using user submitting skipping of said content, people can even mark certain parts as 'filler' and you can also skip those also.
Looking at the "Answers to common questions about LogoPicture AI", the first question is "Do you offer refunds?" This makes me think that this is the question that most people are asking. Hopefully that isn't the case because this looks pretty neat
I would somewhat disagree with this and say that if someone is to be barred from doing any of this, there needs to be some semblance of due process in the form of clearly defined circumstances when that can happen, for how long, etc.
This actually looks perfect for me. I travel often with my steam deck, and sometimes pack an xbox controller or two to play local multiplayer with friends but this is a much less bulky alternative.
As a non-native English speaker, the "randomness" of English pronunciation has been a source of frustration for me for many years.

I realized there are two types of issues:
1. Some sounds in English don't exist in other languages and you have to learn them "from scratch". For example the "flap T" in butter. Or the particular American "r" (constrast it to the Spanish rolled r for instance).
2. Certain sounds I DID know how to make, but didn't know WHEN to make them because spelling is so unreliable. For example, a word like "color" has two "o" letters but neither of them makes an "ou" sound - in fact they make two distinct sounds. For these, I realized you just have to practice it until your mouth "remembers" how to pronounce the word differently (i.e. creates muscle memory).

Youglish is great for fine-tuning specific words.

I also recommend BoldVoice (disclaimer: I'm a cofounder). We were YC S21 and built the app to help non-native English speakers improve their pronunciation with videos from Hollywood speech coaches and instant feedback via speech recognition ML.
> English word

Oops! Hah. It's a town in Northern Ireland.

Actually it had not occurred to me that the gh is silent. Guess when you know how to say a word it's 'obvious' when of course it's not
The Grug Brained Developer (2022)
Youglish is a great tool and we often hear users reference using it. It's nice to have so many examples available for a given piece of text.

What I think makes BoldVoice significantly better is the ability to get feedback on your specific utterances and have the app highlight what elements of a word might make it harder for a native English speaker to understand you. If you go the route of only using youtube/references, you're left in this gradient descent process where you're just guessing mouth movements until you get something that sounds like the reference.
Perhaps I do not care to receive them? Why does a store allow me to say "no receipt please", but you think your transactional spam needs to reach me?
> The best code is the easiest to throw away and rewrite, because let's face it, the older the code is, the more hands it's been through, the worse it is, but more importantly the less motivated anyone is in maintaining it.

The more testing that's been done and the more stable it should be.

The argument for new can be flipped because new doesn't mean better and old doesn't mean hell.
> Can we expect local governments to develop and run qa websites and apps?

Actually, yes, we should expect this.
It's Daylight Confusion Week
Ok, we've changed the URL to that from https://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-ng-google-brain-big-t.... Thanks!

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If I wanted to learn everything there is to know about email and SMS spam/abuse policies, technical best practices, important standards, etc, what would be a good strategy? It feels like a super important but ridiculously intractable subject.
Yeah. I sometimes feel like those with ASD seemingly feel that they shouldn’t have to give a crap about others at all, since empathy is hard for them.

It’s at least as toxic and harmful as neurotypicals expecting those on the ASD to magically “get it” and confirm to neurotypical expectations.
I'm not exactly sure what process you are referring to, but if you are explicitly asked to leave a queue by some sort of administrator, what could you possibly gain from staying in it? If they do not want you to queue for whatever reason, they are hardly likely to serve you if you do stay in the queue.
Thank you! The wording in that article was confusing—

> Austria’s data protection authority DSB ruled that readers can specifically say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to cookie paywalls[—]

but according to the activists maintaining GDPRhub[1], the regulator’s decision was that the model is not compliant because “allow everything” can’t be the only (other) choice, as consent has to be specific.

[1] https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=DSB_(Austria)_-_2023-0.17...
Related:

Luxury beliefs are status symbols - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33547954 - Nov 2022 (45 comments)

Luxury Beliefs Are Status Symbols - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31713870 - June 2022 (1 comment)
You mean they are not currently employed by the well-known companies. Did they declare they divested their shares in their former employer and/or acquirer?
> Ideally I'd like to be able to set the CBR / VBR bitrate

What's wrong with the existing VBR/CBR modes?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/VideoEncode...

> I don't think you need a shader...

Ah I see what you mean. It'd probably be hard for us to standardize this in a way that worked across platforms which likely precludes us from doing anything quickly here. The stuff easiest to standardize for WebCodecs is stuff that's already standardized as part of the relevant codec spec (e.g, AVC, AV1, etc) and well supported on a significant range of hardware.

> ... instead of round-tripping into a CPU buffer

We're working on optimizing this in 2024, we do avoid CPU buffers in some cases, but not as many as we could.
What you say makes lots of sense. I can see how hit rates not being passed down would cause issues.

But anecdotally I think I'm in the same spot many others are. Btrfs let me down a couple times (once lots of truncated files and another time I ran out of inode space on a mostly empty disk iirc) and I'm in no hurry to give it another chance.

zfs has just happily worked for me. I ran it as a root filesystem for years. All the snapshot/send/receive stuff just worked and stayed out of my way.

Note that this was for personal use and with SSDs and later nvme so I wasn't comparing it head to head with anything. Which might be why I didn't notice issues like page caching behavior.
In hindsight I should have lied but I was constantly 'masking' in this job, pretending to be someone I wasn't, I just wanted to get beers and try to get to know each other.

Just because I'm different doesn't mean they had to treat me like that. The film has awful things in it but that's kind of the point, and there is a deeper meaning!

I read the book in highschool and found it thought provoking. The movie is by Stanley Kubrick, has fantastic cinematography, and is on many lists of best movies of all time, so I thought it was mainstream pop culture.

Sorry if I'm just over sharing now.
X is an Everything App, and those certainly need payment.
Judge pares down artists' AI copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, Stability AI
The vast majority of that time had neither modern humans nor anything like our civilization, so wouldn't really be relevant though. Hell at 600 million years ago there were just the first "complex" (not individually microscopic) life forms emerging.

Also the ups and downs in temperatures happened over a far longer period of time than what we're experiencing now, giving life more time to adapt.
You could not critic either direction too heavily. Do you want a fresh technology base or legacy support? There is no wrong answer.
Pass a federal law that no elected official, state or federal is allowed to use social media while in office, at all. See how many politicians are in it for the clout or in it for the civics. Politicians can communicate using existing resources like the state websites set up for their office.
Can we add a TTL to marketing emails? Max length is two weeks before the email is automatically deleted.
I love and hate this response. The vast majority of people don’t know or care, and I always question if the things that bother me even matter.

I just need to make windows work for video games, but it kills me that I can’t make a 1 laptop lifestyle work.
They are also one of the most major contributors of CPython, which is the default implementation of Python. Especially in London they have a dedicated team, Faster CPython team, which (unsurprisingly) concentrates on improving performance of CPython. The team contains big name like the creator of Python, Guido van Rossum.
Im not confident enough in any proposal to make a casual recommendation. I don’t want someone else’s blood on my hands from giving flippant advice.

I can say that from my experience, knowing people care about me was important, but so was getting an honest reality check. The realization that I can’t blame others or my circumstances for my misery was fundamental for pulling out of a really rough patch that lasted several years. One key learning I had was that Only I am ultimately responsible for my own happiness. Nobody owes me happiness and neither does the world.

The sentiment down thread recommending someone should consider walking away from the things causing them pain before taking their lives really resonated with me, because that was another breakthrough I had.

I had to lean that depression and addiction are a choice. Blaming others, circumstances, and feeling helpless is just a lazy cop out to avoid taking responsibility for my own emotions.

That said, people’s issues are different. What helped me might send someone else over the edge, so I don’t want to make a recommendation.

Similarly, some people might just need a friend to listen. Other times if you just listen you might miss the last chance to save a life.
Go onto a Facebook and search "Wise". You'll find a handful of group where people are selling/buying validated Wise accounts. They have really big issues with money laundering and fraud.

My guess is they either got a stern warning from regulators or are being proactive at try to eliminate the fraud. And not in a "this is our 2024 goal" but a "we better do this now or risk getting shut down". So massive changes to account validation are happening and customer service isn't prepared.
After the bankruptcy, you’ll see what he had brewing all along.
Ah yes! So APC was more like an RNS then. I recall now after looking up some of your groups' releases too. APC was the next best group as far as releases to RNS. I probably have a ton of those NFO files from back in the day and the courier mp3 rankings for EU and US. I was #1 US and top 5 Europe once. EU was quite hard due to competition and latency, although a uni shell account certainly helped. :)

Most were current year only US releases, 192kbps and VBR?. Some accepted 320kbps and older releases if they had never been ripped. Some topsites only accepted releases from certain groups. My favorite site had a folder with an archive of all the billboard top 100 albums. I think that was the top swedish site (bbs?) or maybe chiplips which I believe was hungarian. There were a couple good ones in US (MIT/RIT) but the others were in sweden, hungary, netherlands. I think one in France.

It was interesting to see how those groups and topsites were chased and shut down, but the P2P platforms that came out made it impossible to shut down anyway.
>all of the software is customized to extend the lifespan of the device

It is widely known macOS paging out a lot more than Windows. On a multiTab Safari you could easily have 100GB write or higher per day. Kernel_Task lock up are extremely common on google search.
Incognito literally means to have your real identity hidden. It seems deceptive for a company to name/market a product as 'incognito' when it is literally funnneling data to them that identifies you and links to you real identity.

Especially when the text warnings do not explicitly state that browsing data is being sent to Google and added to their tracking and marketing database about yourself.
Just copy paste fro evdev tutorial.

https://python-evdev.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html
Loads of new accounts promoting fastify. I call bullshit.
This is why open borders and immigration is a right wing capitalist value and not a left wing one. Many left wing activists have fallen into this trap of towing the line of giant US corporations that strip the world of their human resource.
So this has got me thinking, tell me where this breaks down: If we take a heatpump and extract heat from the air or better, a river or the ocean, could these turbines be used to generate enough electricity from the extracted heat to be overall energy positive?
Unsurprisingly -- and as happens almost reflexively on any HN post involving Oracle -- my talk from LISA 2011[0] has already been cited here. I expanded on that in my OSCON 2015 talk[1], to which I would add this: thinking about Oracle as "evil" is really the wrong way of thinking about them; to think of them as diabolical is to infuse the place with a kind of humanity (if crooked) that it doesn't necessarily contain. Oracle is soulless, which may or may not be worse than other companies, but it is decidedly different: however deluded they might be, Meta thinks that they are making the world a better place; Oracle not only doesn't harbor any such delusions, they are further genuinely confused why anyone would care about a higher purpose or calling.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc#t=33m2s

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpnncakrelk#t=14m32s
Watch the video I linked. Modern Macs are a single capacitor failure away from shorting 13v straight to those "amazing focus on quality" SSD chips. Either one of the two chips dies, you have a brick. No booting from external drive. Nothing. A brick. All because one capacitor fails.

If it were just a matter of replacing a capacitor, I'd agree with you. But the wiring decisions from their "amazing focus" defaults to a 13v short to storage chips—all your files AND the BIOS up in a puff of literal smoke.

And finally, Apple doesn't design and manufacture solid state storage devices. They contract out to other companies. Those other companies also sell NVMe storage devices with substantially similar chip designs.

Don't believe the hype. A ten cent capacitor taking out a $3K laptop isn't "above and beyond"; it's penny pinching at the expense of reliability with no concessions made to either repairability or resilience.
Anytime these discussions come up I always wonder if there are any great examples in the form of a deep technical analysis of microservice architecture?

I've built things that I've called microservices, but generally have failed to do a complete job or always left with something that feels more like a monolith with a few bits broken out to match scaling patterns.

I know there are talks and papers by Netflix for example, but if anybody knows if any smaller scale, easier to grok talks or papers that go into common pitfalls and solve them for real (vs giving a handwavey solution that sounds good but isn't concrete) I'd love to check it out.
Yes it's rude, and yes AirPods look distractingly stupid sticking out of people's heads, but what's most important here is that we preserve the social cue that someone wearing headphones does not want to talk.

Putting on a pair of headphones/inserting earbuds is a very useful means of saying that I'm busy with/focused on something else or simply do not want to be disturbed. There aren't many other discreet/polite "Leave me alone" signals out there. Please don't ruin this for us.
> push his 'optimism' way too far (for which, I believe, he will end up in prison)

Eh, care to elaborate?
This sounds reasonable and correct, but my personal experience includes more monolithic messes than microservices ones.
> Third places and real communities don't really exist anymore.

I joined a book club last year, and it was great for a few months, but I noticed that most people, unless truly dedicated, petered off, or would only come and 'taste' for a month then ghost. I'm not saying I'm any better. When you've gone to 5 book clubs that have fallen apart, why would you risk committing and being sad when it falls apart again?

I believe our ability to commit is deteriorating; the how and why is a whole nother topic.
You save a syllable, but also the letters SQL are on the unpleasant side of pronunciation. Just like the word "askew" -- it's just not a nice mouthfeel with that particular sequence of sounds.
I'd pay 5.5 for a delicious latte that will push me through my day, produced by a shop that cares about quality and that I also want to stay in business. There's a lot of strings attached to the price tag.

Facebook and Instagram are none of that.
You can now turn your Amazon Echo into a Wi-Fi extender
You've unfortunately gotten back in the habit of breaking the site guidelines regularly - not just in this comment but in many others. Examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37110814

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36874717

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36633867

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36624768

I had the impression that you'd largely fixed this for quite a long time, which was great, but this is not acceptable. We have to rate-limit and eventually ban accounts that post like this. I don't want to ban you so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick properly to the rules, we'd appreciate it.
You know what would be fun? If we could see where all of our ancestors were from…

- Police arrest my cousin for getting a paper cut during a home robbery

- Hackers sell my DNA on the internet

- Drugmakers make new and exciting opiates that are especially addictive for me alone