skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a google account that I use only for this purpose, I never really log on to it directly. I'm not even 100 percent certain of the password at this point. I guess I'll just make a new one.
I see what you are saying. And I do like that this place lends itself for such thinking and being. I am taking a new approach at things and just being available to respond honestly to everything. Just another dude here. Nothing to see.
Collaborative chat-based REPL (idea)
Not sure if it's better or worse than most of the other parasocial pseudo-relationships people have online. I mean following podcasters, influencers, etc. (and worse).
If Cloudflare provides a caching proxy, it isn't really known where the original content is hosted.
Hello! Me and some other folks who work on the Rust SDK will be around today answering questions in the comments.
The point was that a lot of people support things differently based on what they're called.

And, yes, if nothing else people with pre-existing conditions being able to get healthcare outside of employers (even if expensive) is a significant win IMO.
More like fulcrums on which the world moves, amirite?
How to get a real education: The Teenage Liberation Handbook
This is an expected outcome for lonely people + LLMs. And it will likely explode from here. There is a lot to be concerned about, but it's not going to go away.

The commercialization aspect might be what bothers me most. The article is full of people hurt when startups got them hooked on a feeling of intimacy and then took that away. Emotional manipulation for profit is nothing new but LLMs might turbocharge that ability.
Then you're beholden to it, and it will not be as lenient as Google is in some legal grey areas, because it cannot afford any legal liability.

For example, it would ban Louis Rossmann after just one cease-and-desist from Apple, because it couldn't afford to withstand a SLAPP lawsuit from Apple. (A SLAPP lawsuit is when you sue someone who hasn't done anything wrong, because you're a big company who can afford to bankrupt them with legal fees)
It was a generation later but I remember going to my Cousin Tony's place where I'd play Metroid Prime on the GameCube (disc-based but short stroked) which did a great job of minimizing and hiding loading times and also Mafia on the PS2 where it would seem to take 10 minutes to load a level, then I'd take a long and boring drive across town to some Italian restaurant where I was supposed to shoot the people up but I'd get shot up myself and have to wait through the loading screen and repeat the drive. Maybe if I wasn't an adult with a driver's license it would have been more cool but the difference in loading time was striking.
"MVP" is dead! Long live “FPC".
If the imaging drones needed to move, wouldn't that mean a huge amount of delta-v? Or would the drones only need to move a few kilometres between each imaging?

I guess if we were at the level of sending drones to the Oort cloud, we'd be able to set up some automated refueling factory/station out there too.
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Why are you thinking solely in terms of subscription?

Some artists, though not all, (especially older ones who don't want to look like charity cases) allow you to make one off donations, or overpay via Bandcamp for instance. Though Bandcamp and their payment processor take a hefty chunk.
"Psychopathic reasoning". I like the term. Is it yours, or is it a recognized term in the psych community?

But it seems to me that most of the time it has the other cause I mentioned - the absolute refusal to admit the existence of the opposing viewpoint, not because the author can't understand it, but because they refuse to admit it exists for propaganda reasons. By refusing to acknowledge that it exists, they hope everyone else will somehow not see it as existing either.

But it's a really lame, ineffectual approach, because almost everyone who reads the comment read the parent comment too, and they can see the parent's point for themselves. When the parent says something perfectly comprehensible, and the reply is "what's your point", it just makes the replier look like either they can't read or they're a shill.
Not universal enough either :)

https://justine.lol/ape.html
Says the man sitting inside on the computer, getting annoyed at some letters that showed up on the screen.
Build a Molecule
That's a good analysis, but I don't find it convincing. He's trying really hard to disprove Haidt's post by poking holes in many of the studies. If you look at 386 studies in the social sciences, of course you'll find issues with the analysis or design of many of them.

The larger trends ("most of the effect is driven by teen who use no social media", etc.) aren't supported by the data he presents (look at the table of "social media time" -> Depression for example).

Are the researchers who look into this problem predisposed to finding a connection? Probably. But I do think the open, community based analysis Haidt led was done well and if you look at what they found digging through 386 studies, it's compelling.
How do you feel about humans projecting thoughts and feelings onto toys, plants, animals, characters, and other companionship surrogates?
There's a WH Smith in T1 in dublin that sells prepaid sims.

> I never tried it, but apparently you can buy topup vouchers at retailers also for cash.

You can, yep. We do it once a month for my partner's mum who would be considered "unbanked".
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/11/apple-shares-the-most...

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/11/apple-unveils-the-top...

OP's post was missing the links
If anyone is looking for a more reasonably cost effective solution, Hetzner has 16 vCPU/32GB RAM ARM VMs for $24E/mo that will run 34b Q4 GGUF at around 4 tok/sec. It's not very fast, but it is very cheap.
Reevaluate what exactly? OPs not wrong.

The newer crowds are so entwined with current CDNs/Stacks that their instant dismissal to a released product is wrong.

It's common display that unless it's using some $cloud $lang its an instant dismissal of "You shouldn't do that, cloud/saas does this!"

Nowadays folk don't understand the requirements of on-perm. The cloud aids but isn't a it-all.
Nice challenge but I doubt I can oblige. I am simply waking up and replying in kind to all.
Hints of "Lars and the Real Girl" in all of this.
ILM was and is an absolute software engineering power house and they started with motion controlled cameras for star wars at the time all their in house software was c++. A lot of software which is still used today. Pixars Renderman, Photoshop, Maya... was initially engineered at ILM or Lucasarts which were subsidiaries of Lucasfilm.
there definitely is, but the roads aren't going to share it.

and tracking trains ain't like tracking planes, where they're easy to see up in the sky and constantly transmitting -- train X takes a turn around a mountain and it's in a radio/cell deadzone and that's it.

plus unless you have high-end SAMs you're not able to impact most planes overhead, but shady individuals could certainly impact trains.
With increasing backlash and criticism, I’m guessing that Google will be forced to backtrack on this and provide more leniency, just like it had on the legacy (free) Google Workspace accounts.

> You'll have to take an extra step if you want to hold on to content from a specific product that you haven't used in some time. If you want to keep photos from your Google Drive, for example, it's best to sign in to that particular service.

> That's because the tech company says it "reserves the right to delete data in a product if you are inactive in that product for at least two years. This is determined based on each product's inactivity policies."

I fail to understand why one needs to access every service on the platform to avoid losing data. All of them are tied to one Google account. Logging in to one (like Gmail) should ensure that Google Drive data shouldn’t be deleted. This is just stupid policy!

Large companies offering ad-supported “free” products cannot and must not be trusted. If you have some money and time, you can choose a different provider for email. Pick from (in no particular order) runbox.com, posteo.de, mailbox.org or mailfence.com. They’re quite cheap compared to other popular paid email providers and also support IMAP so that you can own your data and migrate if needed. If you need a lot of mailboxes for a fixed price, you can try migadu.com or mxroute.com (the latter hosts data in the U.S.).

For other services, the migration path is either complex and/or costly or impossible. Still, moving out should be explored.
Synthetic simping at scale. Holly molly. A whole new level of emptiness and loneliness.
Getting rid of accounts that can be used to attack you and that you'd forgotten that you had.
Succinctly, locals go for local optima, not statewide, countrywide or societal optima.

If left to locals, no one will do it. It like a person always going for immediate gratification and wondering why they are unhealthy. Decisions need made on broader timelines and scales than local control allows for.
Cameras, cops&paranoia:How Amazon surveillance network alters LA neighborhoods
ADHD Medications and Long-Term Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases
Novo Nordisk is buying sacks of API from Chinese and Indian factories like everybody else.
The route to good mental health probably doesn't run through "have an AI girlfriend", though.
Yeah. "With those who will not listen, it is useless to have a conversation." And the not-in-good-faith "What's your point?" means that they definitely are not listening.
https://archive.ph/g1FzU
VMware is extremely common in hosted solution providers. This is not just web hosting, this is hosting stuff like your payroll or ERP systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot
At some point, someone literate enough to understand how bad Big Tech is but still promoting Big Tech should be face it.

It is like smoking. People say "I know that smoking kill, I don’t want to be reminded all the time".

Well, as long as you are polluting and killing innocents by smoking in their vicinity, you are the asshole. You don’t seem to understand so people keep telling you (and, guess what, in the case of Peertube, they even tell you in a friendly way with cute mascots.)
Feels to me that the upkeep effort of a local server is more than the upkeep effort of logging into a service once every year.
> Poland.

Poland never stopped immigration. In fact, it received roughly double the amount of immigrants in 2021 im comparison to 2 decades prior.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/957100/poland-immigratio...
They want to close accounts with poor security (i.e. no 2FA enabled). These accounts has a higher risk of being compromised and used to get access to whatever they control
This dark earth is often referred to as terra preta which has been a subject of study for a long time. The debate on whether it was intentionally made vs other explanations has been going on for a while, the posted article adds more to the human-made explanation, more on terra preta here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta
Hard to include things like "I can knock down this wall if i want to" in these calcs. "My daughter's first dog is buried under that rosebush," is worth how much?

I built my home, to a design that either quirky or outright goofy depending on your perspective; as a machine to make the lives of myself and my family better.

That is that value I place on it, not a monetary figure. There's no easy way to state a money amount that would be a fair exchange for this house. "Enough to build another just like it" wouldn't get the land and the history. I've shed blood on this land and it has yielded bounty in return.

Am I just that far out of range? Is everyone else treating their house as a fungible good with no personal meaning, now?
My friends, it is a matter of being conscious that an egg is supposed to be a chicken. Right? Are eggs supposed to be living beings or no? Can I come to your wife and take the fetus to eat it? Why is it different? Animals are not living? They have no soul? Then go keep eating it. Be merry. Be happy. I don't really mind. I am simply telling you from experience that when you raise your awareness you gain much more than you think. Again the premise is simple, was an egg supposed to be a chicken?

And yet again I repeat. Why are we so quick to promote death to others? What is the insatiable thirst for spilled blood? Are you running from bombs at the moment? Do you have people hunting you? Has any of you even had a gun pointed at you? Do you even rock a six-pack? Do you run? Can you move 3x your body weight? Or is all of you a bunch of keyboard warriors who like have good writing skills hiding behind tor? When was the last time you ran for your life? Just for perspective. Can you place yourself in such a position of understanding?

While we are here in this wonderful mansion of comfort arguing dumb stuff, actual people are crying and running for their lives because of people that don't care about life in general. Go pet your dog and the kill it. Because you can. Humans have power and animals are helpless. Go read some more. Do you feel what I am saying? I am not trolling. I could say the exact same thing at TEDx or a Press Conference. I'm simply making some statements so you can think about where I'm coming from. Just healthy discussion. Don't misread or misappropriate what I am saying. Besides all this has been said 6000 years ago.
There’s gotta be a word for people who think that all women do is complain about misogyny.
The CIA is well aware of out-of-body experiences and remote viewing

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R0017002...
I'd say it exists and is called more or less "Techno Utopianism" to which you might call me an apostate. As a kid, I lost the belief in god pretty soon after the belief in Santa (he actually is a god if you think about it), but I held onto the belief in progress/technology, even believing in the possibility of immortality via cryopreservation. But a lifetime of slowly escalating global problems and declining political environments with few solutions in sight has made it hard to maintain any kind of optimism. Even AI, one of the keystone technologies of the Techno Utopian has turned out to be just an even better bullshit generator, all the while the carbon accumulates in our atmosphere at an ever increasing rate.

Essentially, there is almost no part of this world I would wish to tell a child about, and seeing them today causes me much sadness. It used to be that I was envious of their youth because they would live to see science and tech advances that I would not, however these days I feel quite the opposite. Maybe I'm wrong; I hope I am, but it's hard to see a happy path for humanity these days.
I don't get this. We currently run proxmox and it is a poor substitute for what you get with vsphere.

If you are running vpshere and move to proxmox, you are in for major differences.
You can never have "high level of energy throughout the day" everyday. A lot depends on your Food, Sleep, Time-of-the-day, Past Activities etc. That said you can have good high alertness, cheerfulness, positive mentality, energy for most of the day by following some simple disciplines. Here is mine;

1) From Hatha Yoga: Do Kapalabhati, Bhastrika, Nauli kriya, Mula Bandha, Uddiyana Bandha. All should be done gently without too much force. End with massaging the head lightly.

2) Loosen all your joints particularly hip/pelvic area and then do some stretches (Yoga asanas are recommended).

3) Do deep "Hindu squats" aka "Baithaks" (using the ball of the foot to push off the ground while getting up) and "Hindu Pushups" aka "Dand" in sequence. The squat raises the energy from the sole of the foot and the pushup conducts it through out the body.

4) Read Dr. Satchin Panda's book "The Circadian Code" (and watch his videos on Youtube; eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fciGNBN0nKM) and setup your daily activities in accordance with your circadian rhythm.
These tools aren't for helping people's mental health though, are they. They are becoming attached to fantasy beings and sad when they disappear.

That is the OPPOSITE of healthy, and it's clearly having a dramatically negative effect on their lives.

These aren't tools to help people get better, they are gamed to make it more appealing to the user than the real world. That is damaging to society, and if you want to use my argument (like a few of your siblings have), like I'm saying 'Just get healthy!', go wild, but that's obviously not my argument.

You're coming from an angle that I've never had depression or struggled with anxiety. I actually do know how to conquer these things, and it's done by putting yourself out there into uncomfortable situations and seeing what happens.

We struggle more in imagination than in reality.
TLDR: they're porting it from C++ to Swift for the safety, ergonomics, and multi-threading guarantees.

Cool parts are that they compile C++ and Swift to LLVM bytecode, and then compile all of this together, so they get inlining and whatnot. In practice this means they can have C++ and Swift files side-by-side.

They add some special C++ attributes so that Swift understands how to refcount the given type (or maybe not refcount at all).

They also use Swift protocols and extension methods to improve the ergonomics of using C++ types in Swift.

Ergonomics were especially emphasized, so that people writing on FDB write new parts in Swift because they want to, not because they have to.
It is a good quote, but does it apply as much in this day and age? There is at least one game that sucked at launch and now seems to be generally accepted to be good after months of work post-launch (I'm thinking of No Man's Sky, but maybe Cyberpunk 2077 is another one).
As long as my girlfriend is open source I'd very much prefer it to paying random women to care about me on onlyfans. It is the end for proprietary gfs
This is like the debate over welfare and free-riders.

There are some people who need welfare to get by. They cannot provide for themselves. But once a welfare program is created, there will be a different number of people who don't need it but decide to live off it anyway.

AI companions are the same deal. There are definitely people who can't socialize. But once you invent AI companions, some number of people who could learn to socialize never will.
Substack Has a Nazi Problem
How effective are climate protests at swaying policy?
I'm of the opposite view - publish only if you can prove it. If you reward half results, the field will be deluged with half truths. If someone publishes a hypothesis you're working on with only a half proof (and stands to gain the future credit), then there is little incentive to continue doing the work to prove it.

This was actually a major issue one of my PhD advisors had, since it led to poor foundations for the field with little incentive to ensure their validity.
My dad had several wagons/stations V70 850 740? The all did 1:10 and where manual. I think the large displacement, the 5 cylinders (is indeed heavyer) and low HP/L + naturally aspirated = inefficient.

My S60 is from the Ford-era and is basically a Ford Mondeo with volvo interior and exterior. In some sense it's too bad, it's not a 'real' volvo, I always loved the 5-cylinder sound, but I'd rather do 1:14-16
Whoops - yeah, it's 24 GB in single channel mode.
Too bad it's not zwave.
Today there are a lot of games that come out for PS4, PS5, XBOX One, XBOX Series One and the Switch. The Switch is quite capable but it is a a much less capable platform than the others so games get "dumbed down" for it or sometimes use radical methods. For instance Control has hardware requirements way too high so it is streamed to the Switch

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/28/21538173/control-cloud-v...

As for the Sony-Microsoft duopoly though there really is no major difference between XBOX and PS today or between those platforms and the PC platform. I have mixed feelings about that because a lot of games on the XBOX (say Numantia) come across more like a PC game than a console game these days with font sizes that make them not at all cozy from my couch.
I don't think IDs are dystopian but having so much of our identity and information inside expensive closed-source surveillance devices is somewhat dystopian. The happy path works great but the failure modes are a pain in the ass and it's part of why people lose their shit over lost/broken/stolen phones.
Memes, Emojis, and Other Signs of a Healthy Workplace
I don't think this is true anymore. Since 2017 the "at home" roaming works in the EU. It's a bit funny around prepaid SIMs, but I'm almost certain that it's just a cap on the price of data around €2/gb. That sounds like a lot, but my carrier plan is honestly not far off that price. (£25/mo for 12GB data)
A good stress test is to try adding a parameter to your window manager that lets you specify the window id to use as the root window, and pass it xcalc's client window id! Then you can totally customize your calculator!

I prototyped a way of adding tabs and pie menus to Mac windows, by making a full screen web browser overlay with a transparent background, and just implementing and drawing the tabs and pie menus in JavaScript and html! The tabs even intercepted events properly. It monitored the window positions and other stuff through various Mac system and accessibility apis, so it would move the tab to follow the window, so they might become detatched and lag a bit, so it wasn't perfect.

I wrote more about that (why not just run a web browser directly on the hardware, and dispense with X11 or Wayland entirely?) and some thoughts on Wayland in general here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29097030
People have been developing fake relationships and playing social games which end in harm and heartbreak for millenia but now that we're talking to a computer it's a problem.
100%! There is more than enough to work on in the search engine space without getting distracted by other red oceans.

Is it just that the search engine doesn't make enough space or they are finding it isn't sticky enough, so need to add more services to justify the price? (e.g. email...)
Thanks! This was the custom prompt I used:

> Write a prompt for an AI to make this image. Just return the prompt, don't say anything else, but also, increase the intensity of any adjectives, resulting in progressively more fantastical and wild prompts. Really oversell the intensity factor, and feel free to add extra elements to the existing image to amp it up.

I played with it a bit before I got results I liked - one of the key factors, I think, was giving the model permission to add stuff to the image, which introduced enough variation between images to have a nice sense of progression. Earlier attempts without that instruction were still cool, but what I noticed was that once you ask it to intensify every adjective, you pretty much go to 11 within the first iteration or two - so you wind up having 1 image of a silly cat or goat and then 7 more images of world-shattering kaiju.

The goat one (which again, was an idea from one of my kids) was by far the best in terms of "progression to insanity" that I got out of the model. Really fun stuff!
I'm unsure I follow your "modeling as a cow" analogy. Usually, that's used to show the model does not adequately reflect reality. But that doesn't hold in tort cases. Compensatory damages are the majority, by a considerable margin. According to DOJ data[1]:

- Punitive damages were awarded in only 5% of trials where the plaintiff won

- It was lower for tort cases (3%) and higher for contract cases (8%)

- It is lower in product liability and medical cases (1% each)

Those findings show that the punitive damages awarded are both relatively rare and modest. A "spherical cow model" based on compensatory damages is probably still a very good model.

[1] https://www.centerjd.org/content/fact-sheet-punitive-damages...