skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wow, hat is a new development

That was in 94-95.
> One side is trying to minimise civilian causalities

Israel has been ethnically cleansing the Palestinians since 1948. They most definitely are not minimizing civilian casualties. They're maximizing them within the parameters that their US backing will allow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
> It also announced that extensions were no longer being hosted in the main process of the browser’s user interface.

Is this the behavior on desktop as well, because I'm a big fan of isolating extension processes. It would be good for both security and performance.

And I'm having a hard time figuring out in Firefox's Manifest V3 what APIs would break, other than maybe sharing JS context between the page and content scripts? But that's not a great way to build extensions anyway, I sort of feel? You're better off directly injecting scripts if you need access to the page's JS context.

:shrug: but there might be complexity that I'm not seeing.
> It was extremely white and nerdy when looked at on average.

Many of us in the world chatted and conversed (VoIP was a thing already) with people around the world in the mid-1990's.
I find "we didn't, therefore we can't" a kind of defeatist and unrealistic reaction. The internet has been shaped and reshaped a few times, in a lot of ways for the better, I don't see why it couldn't continue to be refined.
Not all Spain has a Mediterranean climate.
Neat! Can you describe how the integration works and what APIs you implemented?
Same on Consoles. The ratio of Players who completed the Story of "The Last of Us" on Playstation (a game praised for its outstanding storytelling), is a mere ~28%.

What's even more interesting: Almost the same stat applies for the PS3 (27,2%) and the PS4-remastered (28%) release.

--> Something caused 72% of all players to NOT complete this game, on BOTH generations of the console. That's a metric you would file as opinionated if your playtesters would tell you that...
Not an engineer, but doing a small amount of exercise each morning to limber up and keep my core muscles from atrophying due to my sedentary lifestyle has done wonders.
The current Fox vs Disney/ESPN war going on in college football is pretty amazing if you don't have a dog in the fight. Seems inevitable it would eventually happen given the money involved but they are quite shameless about what and how they're reporting right now.
It's also worth to mention that Wikipedia is absolutely not a good source for contemporary events. These use artificially constructed validity when it comes to primary news sources. While certain media outlets are known to be state propaganda, many accepted outlets are propaganda too and do not deserve to be sourced. However this issue is not unique to Wikipedia.
The maps are fantastic but I've had real trouble finding places or street addresses there
And even if you are refused treatment you can always pay out of pocket if you really want to.
One of the first websites with all kinds of Apple-like scrolling effects that doesn't slow down the scrolling experience. I'm on a RPi4 by the way. Good job of the dev!
Yep, called "Protect battery" or similar. Lots of phones have it, even quite old ones.
> a "metaverse wikipedia" with tabs at the top I could view a topic through different socio/economic/political lenses

I love this idea. Not likely to happen with Wikipedia as it currently exists, but could possibly be built with a Wikipedia article as one of many links listed for a particular subject.

Slight tangent, but this is why I go to All Sides News when I feel I need more varied perspective on an issue. I don't use it a lot, but when I do I'm super glad it exists.
Authorities have a million weapons and resources against individuals already.
Yeah, the idea of the Swedish model being that it’s better for employers and workers union to decide details as then they can be adapted to the need of every specific field rather than be dictated by the government and be the same for all.

Makes for a much more agile, progressive and cooperative environment that benefits both businesses and workers.

Unions in Sweden don’t try to get paid the most possible by the employers – they want fair wages and healthy companies and together with employer organizations they try to make up rules that benefit both, as healthy companies and happy workers are beneficial for all parties
Generating MDX from string templates is a bad idea
Just an exploration I did a while back.

In retrospect, I also realize that the idea of generating MDX, which is essentially a React component in this context, using templating libraries that I was used to like Handlebars, is possibly the most terrible idea I could come up with to solve this. Anyway, would love to hear your thoughts.
For whatever it is worth, my skepticism of devices that require a separate app or remote API integration has steadily then dramatically increased over the last few years. I cannot rely on 1) small, perhaps-VC-funded operations continuing to exist more than a few years and 2) even for large players in the IOT space (Apple, Google), I worry about long term support. At what point will I be faced with the prospect of buying a new car to ensure that I can continue using CarPlay? (At that point I'll just buy a phone mount.)

To that end, I recently picked up a Flirc remote to control my byzantine gaming and home theater setup [1]. It doesn't support all the features I need (yet), I'm concerned that the company will not be able to delivery on their roadmap, BUT they release their remote configuration tool as a stand-alone app that I know I can keep running, perhaps in a VM if needed, for the lifetime of the remote. All of the other smart remote alternatives require smartphone apps to program and maintain, and I have zero faith that they won't disappear and turn the remote into ewaste long before the remote hardware fails (or I stop having a need for it).

1: https://flirc.tv/products/skip1s-remote-universal-remote-con...
The biggest practical impact is probably from having the CI tests running on the certified platforms that were not already tier one for rust.
I'm honestly shocked how often I still hear technical and educated people argue that the solution is federation.

You know what services we have that are federated? Phone (POTS), SMS and email. You know what services have a massive problem with spam, fraud, false positives on detection of the aforementioned, ID spoofing, etc? The exact same services.

People ignore the real reason Wikipedia is successful: ownership. It's also worth noting that Wikipedia isn't federated either.

We have the same issue with ISPs in the US. The best Internet is municipal broadband. The national ISPs are pretty much universally despised. Again, what's the difference? Ownership. With municipal broadband, the residents own the broadband. National ISPs exist to extract wealth from customers while doing the least possible and lobbying for legal protections against competition.

It's almost like the best results are achieved when the workers own the means of production. Someone should really look into that.
> That's pretty clear, friendo. I can't do you thinking for you

Sigh. No need for your condescension. You're making poor points and defending them even worse. I'm asking you to be clearer and support your arguments.

The problem isn't with me, but your lack of clear communication.

So far, based on your replies and refusal to clarify and elaborate, the only reasonable conclusion is you don't really know what you're talking about.
Me too. What's annoying is it seems hard to tell what it's going to be like before you actually move in.

I've lived in a few different flats in the UK, all purpose built flats. I already knew flats in converted houses are generally terrible. I've been in some where you can hear everything your neighbour is up to. I'm not sure what's worse: hearing them or knowing they can hear you too.

In two of them I could never hear a peep from the neighbours apart from footsteps on the floor upstairs. But seriously wondered if the neighbours ever made any noise at all, or whether it was just that well soundproofed.

In my most recent flat, though, it's terrible. You can hear conversations through the floor but what's worse is when people make direct contact with walls/ceilings, like closing curtains or closing doors, it's like they are in your room. And this is despite the building having solid concrete floors that appear to be over a foot thick.

I do also wonder if it was really an illusion as the first two flats were in noisier areas. But, whatever the reason, it's so hard to tell what it's going to be like before moving in. I wish there standards so you could guarantee what it's going to be like.

But until then, I will be seeking detached housing because I just can't stand the noise.
Here’s an article from Larry Sanger (original creator of Wikipedia) giving the case for why Wikipedia is biased https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/ .
It sure doesn’t look like it. The announcement was strange and anti-climatic, and it started making excuses for itself immediately “Grok is still a very early beta product – the best we could do with 2 months of training”. It has the Elon stink all over it.
Your grandiose language (I've seen things you wouldn't believe, etc.) means you aren't as self-aware as you think you are.
> Like yeah you can own the pictures, man, but you shouldn't be allowed to keep us from using our labor to secure future jobs.

As a developer, I wouldn't ever consider submitting proprietary code I may still have from a previous or current job when applying for another job (not least because that may leave a bad impression of how I handle confidential stuff). Why should this be different for artists?
Do a blind taste test and you know what I’ll bet you’d be surprised
My day-to-day experience is that a 12 gigabyte dataset will not fit into 8 gigabytes of RAM no matter whose logo is on the case. A byte is a byte.
The Spanish just don’t seem to care about noise at the institutional level. I spent a week in a small Spanish city last year & the local rubbish collection went down the street outside the door, pouring bins full of bottles from the local bars in the back at midnight. Midnight! Just when even the Spanish are trying to get to sleep.

Co-incidentally, there was an article in the Spanish national press that week detailing all the ways in which noise in Spanish cities was deleterious to health & wellbeing and asking why no-one ever did anything about it. Constant noise just seems to be accepted as being an inevitable part of life, rather than something to be fixed.
iMessage does not do this in any release, that plan was abandoned due to legitimate privacy concerns. The feature that is implemented is a parental control that can be enabled on the devices of minors, that blurs any detected nude images with a warning 'do you want to see this'.

It's not possible to detect CSAM without breaking the security model of the system for everyone, if the system can make any kind of report of detected content to an outside entity. If the system scans messages client side and then sends anything to do with the message to authorities, that is breaking the end to end encryption.

This is either done by 'AI', which means huge numbers of false positives that are actually legal, private and probably intimate get sent to authorities (hence breaking the end-to-end security model for that legal content), or by a secret, un-auditable collection of hashes - which are still fuzzy matched, so there would definitely be false positives (again, breaking the security model for legal content), but potentially also Governments could start to add other, legal material to the database, such as certain political material to detect dissidents. Since it's un-auditable, there is no way to know whether it's actually just illegal material in the database.

So whether it's AI or PhotoDNA or whatever, there's no way to do it that doesn't break the security model and cause more danger to innocent people, including destroying the privacy of children as well as adult, law-abiding citizens.
You're having a blast because you have a great attitude towards your work and feel empowered. This isn't always true for everyone, particularly if you're in a situation where the organization around you isn't healthy.

I love software engineering too but being a "key contributor" golden handcuffed to an organization that's "optimizing costs" has made me appreciate why some people might not enjoy this line of work.
I've done both. I can attest that intermittent fasting, at least for me, is WAY more sustainable ... and actually makes maintaining a calorie deficit easier too.

Hunger is a weird thing. People tend to assume that if you don't eat you'll just get hungrier and hungrier. The reality is that hunger comes in waves. If you can ride out a wave of hunger for 30 - 45 minutes it goes away. And the longer you don't eat, the less hungrier you get. I think this is because those waves of hunger tend to correspond to your eating habits. So if you're accustomed to eating lunch, you feel hungry around lunch time etc.

After a period of adaptation, when this just becomes the new normal, you can find that when it comes time to eat you just don't want to eat all that much either. It's weird, but cool, and seems to work well for a lot of people.

Then there is metabolic adaptation, which is thought to be the biggest contributor to people re-gaining any weight that they've lost. What happens is that after dropping around 10% of your body mass, your body kicks in a survival mechanism whereby it lowers your resting metabolic rate to adapt and try to slow the weight loss. This means that two people who weigh the exact same, one of which just dropped a bunch of weight to get there, will require different caloric intakes just to maintain their weight. The person who just cut weight will need 300 - 400 fewer calories per day than the person who didn't.

If you cut weight just by caloric restriction alone, this is DISASTROUS, because you are hungry and weak and miserable ... and you need to eat even less just to keep the weight off.

Which is why crash diets don't work. You start by making sacrifices, which is uncomfortable, and then when metabolic adaptation kicks in you stop seeing results unless you make even more sacrifices. People can't stick with it so they stop dieting and very quickly and easily regain the weight.

Intermittent fasting not only helps with hunger control, but there is research that suggests that it can also increase resting metabolic rate, which can help to counteract metabolic adaptation.

But even if it didn't boost RMR, the fact that it helps with hunger control and maintaining a calorie deficit alone would make it more sustainable for more people than just trying to eat less in general.
I don't think you can do that easily. If you already have a list of embeddings from a different model, you might be able to generate an alignment somehow, but in general, I wouldn't recommend it.
ChatGPT is a great UI to both though
Yes. [0]

Time to see how unreliable OpenAI's API is just like when GitHub has an outage every week, guaranteed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36063608
Thank you thank you!
Comparing Testing in JavaScript and Rust
phind.com internal model is working fine
Fwiw I'm still using usenet in 2023. It's great alternative to torrents :)
NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
Agree, I had one very bad experience on Wikipedia. It was not a controversial or political subject area. I reverted ~30 bland look-at-me copy pasta contributions that might have belonged on the category page, but certainly not on every instance page. Obviously the right thing to do. Not controversial - or so I thought...

Some jumped-up self-appointed 'editor' appeared as-if-by-magic, made an obviously stupid decision to keep all the copy pasta, backed it up with a kangaroo court of 1 or 2 buddies weighing in on the Talk page, and that was that - 30 polluted pages.
Why should I take your word, or anyone else's word, over the person themselves.

For example, go try to change Laverne Cox's Wikipedia to male you will have the same issue.

Why limit it to trans people, go change J.K Rowling to Male because I think she is male, if I get enough Wikipedia editors on board we should be able to do that right?

Also in all of these cases the gender of the person is one of the least interesting and important things about them to me as someone who doesn't know them, so why would I care to tell them what gender they are. Why would anyone else?
All Android devices and all but one iPhones are phablets. Come at me.
Sort of! I think this flexibility (the coat of many colors) is why Rust didn't implement the whole runtime, just Futures, and those futures are as minimal as they can possibly be. The smallest possible executor for futures is really quite tiny, with no need for the complexity of tokio's work-stealing, multi-threaded scheduler and all that. So it leaves a lot of room for minimal executors like https://docs.rs/smol/latest/smol/, or for you to write your own, or even to build some kind of FFI to send futures across to C or C++

I do completely agree with you that it would be great for std to pull in more traits from `futures` and elsewhere to allow it to be easier to write code against different runtimes! I think part of the intent was to get Futures out, see how they get used, and then to go from there. Hopefully we're getting into the "go from there" stage now, which is some of what this article gets into
There go my Google. I pay $20/month for the coding part and now end up just replacing Google with it.
> people are the gender they say they are seems to be a very simple policy.

Simple, yes, but is the policy particularily sane? Consider, for example, if I were to claim I was a duck. Should my wikipedia page pretend I have been a duck all my life? That would be preposterous, because as anyone can see, I am human.

Our science and medicine cannot change a person's sex, we can force the body to act a bit more like the opposite sex through constant medical intervention, but nothing more than that.

People's inner feelings fail the "soundnote is a duck" test: There are quite a few MtF writers, for example, whose style of communication is clearly male despite their self-identification: They physically are men, and have grown up as men, and their thinking clearly fits the male mold such that seeing a female name under their text just feels off. Just as I am not a duck, they are not the sex they wish to, even if they say so.
The fediverse is an echo chamber for many groups, including notably hard left gen Z. It's integrity is similar to that of early days 4chans /b/, in that it wholly rejects reality around it, and it serves not as a discussion forum, but a self-fed enshittification engine racing to the most extreme take.

It couldn't look any more different from the intellectually curious people that largely constituted the beautiful artificial frontier of the early net, sprinkled with little webpages, and optimistic exchanges of early explorers.
In spite of the "wikimedia" name, it's wrong to think of Wikipedia in the same vein as the 24-hour news cycle. It's very good for an encyclopedia to have quality control and remove fringe content. It's meant to be an enduring repository of factual information that some form of widespread authoritative consensus exists on, not a place to hash out hot-topic culture war debates that nobody will remember or care about in 50 years, nor a place for alternative pseudoscience like all the guys who spam physics newsgroups claiming to have disproven special relativity or invented a perpetual motion machine.

Even if those things end up being correct, it's also not a place for original research because nobody who edits Wikipedia is qualified to make the kind of judgment on whether original research meets any meaningful quality standard. Submit to a journal if you think you have a worthwhile revolutionary idea. It'll make it to Wikipedia after it becomes generally accepted and that's fine. I don't think a single knowledge repository can realistically hope to be both a repository of trusted, accepted knowledge of the day and a place to hash out the ongoing debate about what should be accepted knowledge and where we might be wrong.
The “components per dollar” crowd hasn’t been an Apple user since the Apple II.

There are other considerations for buying a system besides the cost of a particular component.

For example, let’s say your maximum budget is $4000, and you need 64GB of RAM to run those simulations. Which laptop will do so for the longest while on battery? Which laptop will make the least heat and noise? Which one is easiest to carry around? Which one can be used with a smaller power brick? Which one feels best to touch and use?

If my maximum budget for a car is $50,000, should I buy the Kia that has the most features per dollar, should buy a Toyota for the reliability, or should I buy a Mercedes for the quiet and luxurious cabin? All of these brands have vehicles for $50,000 or less, so the answer all depends on my priorities.

We all know that RAM is what pads Apple’s profit margins but they're selling a solution, not a bucket of components.
In the US, it'd be considered déclassé in most sit-down restaurants for the customer to run their own card. You see it at fast food and "fast casual" places, but not really anywhere fancier; to a good first approximation you can quickly understand in which market segment a restaurant would like you to perceive it by how easy or difficult it is to see any point-of-sale equipment from anywhere in the dining area.

I have the sense that tipping is much more customary in the US than in Europe, which may also make a difference. Certainly there is a significant semiosis around the concept here, which would also have to change in response to a change in the shape of the practice; I don't know exactly how much that contributes to things staying as they are, but I doubt it's of no import.
Why should my phone be acting like I'm a criminal? That's like searching the bags of everyone who exits the supermarket, or police doing door-to-door house searches "just in case". What's next? Verify every photo I take with my phone?
Yeah, to specifically choose as an example a franchise whose entire "thing" is its murderous difficulty? I'm incredibly unsurprised that most people who try can't be bothered to grind all the way to the end.
More like the new Google down
I take issue with #3. The clean code is for you. Future you. You will be substantially more productive if your code is clean. You will end up being the "rockstar" (groan) because you can implement 2, 3, 5, 10(!) times faster on your clean code than your peers. I am living proof of this. And then when your managers and company realize you're the cash cow you can ask for absurd raises and get them. You are going to be hard pressed to do this with crappy code bases.