skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As difficult as it is to wrap our heads around. If no one is forcing them not to do it, it is their decision not to. So when they say employees decision it's true.
The tyranny caused by a ban on private communication is not worth the net reduction in harm to children.
The only rational argument? Cars are also dangerous for their surroundings and their passengers. In addition, individual cars are an environmental disaster, in terms of noise, air pollution, climate, and use of natural resources. Finally, I believe (admittedly without having a source at hand) that not using a car is beneficial to one’s health because modern humans move their body way too little — biking or walking, even just to the next bus stop, are much better (but of course, this last part is ultimately a private decision).
i really enjoyed jet set radio future. It had a great open world skate feel that was totally different from other games and included a great sound track and anti-establishment storyline.
Rise up sheeple, and rinse out your mouth with bleach twice daily to remove any gentech germs! Big Teeth and their engineered bacteria are keeping us down!
factoring large integers into primes (shor's algorithm). that and grover's search promise to provide ways to crack a lot of encryption.

also quantum computing should improve both classical and quantum physical simulations.
I'm curious - if the memory isn't too painful - did the search leave much of a mess, and was there any "apology process" when, I assume, it turned out you weren't a criminal? Also, what's the locale?

I sometimes worry about being a "victim" of a legitimate legal process, in which I did nothing wrong, and yet have to endure legally-mandated procedures.
London trains see power cut as thousands stranded in dark for hours
If someone had just summerly re-written my code I would personally go talk to them and found out 'whats up'. As it shows a communications breakdown. Second the person who did it should have approached the other dev and said 'hey I see you have blah why? would not this way be better?'.

This happens many times in codebases. People begin to 'own' sections of it and they become very protective of what is going on in their area. They take it very personally if something changes and they were not in on it.
i think the reason is fair, but unfortunately it is a dealbreaker for me. i would definitely have got one earlier this year if it had had one.
So you support workers gaining leverage with the help of unions, but when the workers actually try gaining leverage with the help of unions, you call them names. That's not exactly showing "support" is it?
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Family can be and is one safety net in Europe, but many people haven't one, or one that can help, or one that wants to help. Nordic countries have been very stable through history and developed a culture where the community goes much farther than family. This helps the society become more resilient in an environment where the climate was historically very harsh and unforgiving. Also it feels great to be able to trust the existing rules in place. You know what to expect, and you feel fine to follow them when you know they are enforced to others as well. You expect others to know and follow the rules as well.
I could be wrong but I believe 120 vs 60 makes a huge difference only because the framrtate is not actually constant and in certain cases/scenes the framerate can drop significantly, whereas an IR google I immagine will render at a constant framerate regardless of scene.
It's close to what I'd have guessed:

• It's a bit higher than the percentage indicating they have that interest in responses to sexual desire surveys, but such surveys are often underestimates.

• It's much lower than the percentage of women who report being victimised when they were minors, but one criminal can have many victims.

• It's really difficult to prove the offence in a court.

• A common argument for harsh punishments is that the legal system is supposed to have punishments severe enough to act as a deterrent (as in not just rehabilitation, compensating victims, or keeping dangerous people out of society). Quite a lot of other crimes, say possession of heroin which IIRC carries a 7 year prison sentence even without intent to supply, also have far more offenders than the entire UK prison population (3x in the case of heroin).
Still cool. I enjoyed that documentary.
Du har inte läst vad jag faktiskt skrev, vilket gör att begreppet "kasta sten i glashus" ligger nära till hands.

Jag har inte skrivit något på svenska eller ens riktat till en svensk. Jag skrev "Southern Sweden" till en tysk.

Det har inget att göra med vilka begrepp vi använder på svenska. Avsikten var att att ge honom en bild av vilken del av Sverige jag menade i mitt första inlägg. Vad får dig att tro att han tolkade "Southern Sweden" som det svenska "sydsverige" (dvs Skåne och Blekinge), och inte "Sverige upp till Stockholm ungefär" som jag menade?

Din engelska är långt ifrån perfekt. Jag antar att du inte har bott längre perioder i utlandet, och inte heller är extremt van att kommunicera på engelska med folk som inte känner till Sverige? Jag har bott utomlands i omgångar i uppemot två decennier nu, och tycker mig ha en bra bild av vilken bild personer i andra länder får när jag säger "Southern Sweden". Detta är alltså en helt annan sak än vad någon från Linköping uppfattar som det svenska "sydsverige".

Jag definierade sedan exakt vad jag använde ChatGPT till. Dvs att låta den analysera officiella datafiler från SCB för att räkna ut hur långt norrut man måste gå för att täcka 80% av befolkningen. Detta gjordes steg för steg, med kontroller av mig längs vägen att delresultaten verkade vettiga eller fick rättas till. Jag påstår inte att det garanterat är 100% korrekt, men det är långt ifrån snutet ur näsan som du antyder.

Du kanske tycker att "80%" är ointressant, men den biten kommer från mig, inte ChatGPT.

Om du tycker att det verkar helt osannolikt att 80%-gränsen går ungefär i höjd med Västerås, så skriv det isåfall?

Var menar du att 80%-gränsen går? Luleå? Halmstad?
There are very few useful quantum algorithms, especially ones that don't include significant classical computing
It’s easy to avoid actions like this:

Sign a collective bargain with a union and all unions are bound to leave you at peace for that agreements duration.

So far two international companies have refused this:

Toys R Us decades ago, eventually they had to give in.

Tesla now.
Exactly : "premature abstraction and the kind of dogmatic thinking".

This thread is filled with nit-picking this code, when the biggest problem was actually team communications and overall discussions about future direction. Many young programmers will spin their wheels on these types of things, but then sales/marketing might be like 'dude, this has a 1-2 year life span at most'. Or, this is being replaced by product-x next year.
> You really think “non profits” are any less power hungry than for profits?

It is human nature for people to want power, whether it is power over others or the power to have autonomy, or anything in-between.
We don’t need renames for takeovers of useful words, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_(name)#Modern_popularity

> Popularity continued to climb and Alexa was ranked in the top 100 in the mid-1990s. According to the Social Security Administration, its highest popularity, 39th, was achieved in 2006. The name's popularity decreased rapidly after Amazon picked it as the wake word of its voice service Amazon Alexa, which was released worldwide in 2016.

More at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2021/p...
Obsolescence*
Is there such a concept as a “reverse uncanny valley”??

Where humans behave so awkwardly that they seem artificial but are just not quite close enough…

If so, Apple have totally nailed the reverse uncanny valley!
No, I guess it means that Europeans think that there is a minimum level of welfare that must be guaranteed to everyone, and that minimum level is way above what is granted in the US. This doesn't mean that family members won't also contribute to that "safety net", just that there is a relatively high "acceptable minimum" and the state is expected to make sure that nobody falls below that.
This sort of imagery is often created for profit - either for the kudos of being the creator of first-generation material or for actual profit in the case of a number of asian abuse rings.

So yes, demand reduction will reduce actual instances of rape and sexual abuse - while there is an argument that nonces will nonce regardless, the encouragement and egging on by others is a significant driver of offending.

There is also the matter that mere possession of these images is also a criminal offence.
Back in the early 90s, I learned C from a book called "Illustrated C" (I forget the author) that taught C programming & internals pictorially, which strongly appealed to my brain.

One of the sections was an implementation of this algorithm, and it made me fall in love with programming and the power of well-designed algorithms.
Well, I'm saying, maybe Canada raises more tax outside of personal income tax.

Not necessarily though, same could be said about, say, Finance industry in the UK.
> if Meta continues to roll out end-to-end encryption as planned, it would result in the loss of the vast majority of reports (92% from Facebook …)

Wait: how does that prevent reports? The recipient presumably can see the message and share it. Are reports coming from messages that are read by a third party? I’m assuming Meta itself, as that’s the only party who can and would do it at scale.

That’s not the NCA telling what Meta should do; that sounds more like an internal Meta team that deals with that and has close contact with the NCA, unhappy they can’t use keyword search to flag bad things.
> ...though lightning is not uniform across the globe.

If there is a natural laboratory for this, this would be it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catatumbo_lightning
The Tesla employees are behind it. Maybe not all. Some because they are scared of getting punished by Tesla. Something Tesla has indeed threatened with as far as I’m aware.
The idea is, that it decouples state from behavior, while a class tries to group that together. Other people can implement traits later for your struct. (I think Clojure has something similar.) They do not need to subclass your struct and in fact cannot even. This design encourages and kind of forces composition over inheritance.

I would not name it a class, because I don't want people to fall back into thinking: "Ah I know! Inheritance!".
Clearly the people who deal with it disagree.
I’ve always liked the idea of accessing a remote desktop running on your phone from a browser in any device on the network. You could use some sort of QR code to authenticate.
> Yeah and they're both hostile to the user.

If you had to pick the top thing that is hostile to the user, what do you think it is?
I nominate Talos Principle 2
The idea that they've engineered a bacterium that will successfully outcompete naturally selection indefinitely seems overly optimistic. They blocked the most obvious failure mode with the horizontal gene transfer pathway, sure, but considering how quickly antibiotics become ineffective I'm just not sold that their modified bacteria will be as untouchable as they seem to think. Certainly not 20 grand effective.
Representation theory, or the unreasonable effectiveness of linear algebra [video]
Hmmmph. I would never confuse Tolkien for Jackson, I simply forgot about these cases. Thanks for the reminder. My thought is like this: I have a collection of small scars from burning myself on hot pans, nicking myself climbing over a barbed wire fence, etc. If I were Elrond’s age, especially if I was a warrior and training for war, I’d be a mass of scars unless there was some sort of healing going on. Maybe they are exceptionally careful. Whether it just happens or maybe they use healing spells, but I suspect some sort of regeneration of at least minor wounds.
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There was a time when "strategy", unadorned, was the only genre descriptor available for Civilization.

The same genre, considered at the time, also included games like Empire, which is more of a 3X game. I was interested, rereading the manual to Empire Deluxe recently, to see that it obviously considered itself to be competing with Civilization - I never considered the two games all that similar.

Abandonware Dos right now also includes board games under the "strategy" category. (RTSes are in there too.)
If that's how Tesla is going to "solve" this, they will very quickly find the unions handling shipping and customs join the strikes.
That’s cute Go and try that somewhere else where it might work. We don’t need any Tesla / douchemobiles here.
I've done enough with dry-rb to know I don't want to try Hanami.

I think at that point it's just better to switch to something truly functional like Elixir.
And so do the unions.
The law takes a hands off approach to regulating the conditions of workers, but that goes both ways. If Tesla avoids signing a collective bargaining agreement, the law won’t help the unions force them to, but it also won’t protect Tesla from the unions.
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Laws upheld by the state are the worst good way to maintain order.

A much better way is to have the parties play nice with each other, build trust, and negotiate as equals. This allows for much better and more detailed agreements, for quicker reactions if market conditions changes, and for more flexibility within each economic sector. The fact that the Nordic countries operate in such a way no doubt contributes to these countries both having great standards of living, and being among the best in the world to start and run businesses in.

Tesla doesn't play nice. They don't build trust, and they don't try to negotiate as equals.

True, it is not illegal. It doesn't need to be. We have other ways to keep hostile actors from misbehaving.

Strikes are one of those ways.
I've played it exclusively on the Steam Deck, which runs Arch Linux + Proton (Valve's compatibility layer that anyone can run).

If you’re as keen on Linux as you seem to be, then Proton is your friend. We may never see native builds, but already developers are putting way more effort into making sure the Deck (meaning Linux) experience is good.

Here’s a video of the head of Larian Studios talking about how they’re viewing the Steam Deck - https://youtu.be/kzfEkSGa45k

> This is an ambitious device. We love it. We’re going to do everything we can to support it. We’re going to make sure that every single game, Baldur’s Gate III included, is going to play really smoothly on the Steam Deck.

Valve have made adding Linux support easy and desirable (because of the market share of the Deck). And developers are responding. Don’t miss out because you want “native builds”.
Sounds like a badly managed environment which doesn’t help with avoiding mistakes next time.

> the Help Desk was supposed to replace the batteries once a year but had forgotten to do so.

> "Solidarity between colleagues meant that we didn't rat on the Help Desk staff and made up some other cause – a loose network cable or some such," Colin told On Call.
It depends on what your conception of elvish immortality is.

For instance, you could postulate that the defining feature of elves is that they do not change, mentally as well as physically, once they reach maturity. Their personality crystallizes, as firmly as their biology, and whatever happens to them over the millennia they live, they will remain themselves.

This makes them very different than you and I, but IMO it's also very compatible with the way elves are presented in Tolkien.
The reality is the entire world is feeling the brunt of the US allowing 40 years of unregulated monopoly and oligopoly building. When there are only two or three supplies of any given technology, they can directly or indirectly work together to increase prices because: what are you going to do to stop them?

By the time you can even begin to start building a competitor they'll just drop prices until you're bankrupt and buy up your assets for pennies on the dollar.
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By this time we cannot say anymore they have no idea. Now it became pure stubbornness, and we can all see how stubbornness goes.
Indeed, and they are lucky that it hasn’t spread to Germany yet, as the Germany unions are even stronger than the Swedish ones and Tesla has a factory there…
Foolish? From the guy who spent 44 billion on Twitter to then run it into the ground? Noooo, it can't be, Musk is a business genius. /s obviously
That honestly does not sound too terrible for something so advanced and bespoke.

Which cameras cost less than 39k that are manufactured at less than 2500 per year?
> No [...] disclosure of sensitive data.

Not directly, but downgrading to LTE would almost certainly force a UE to expose its IMSI at least.
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I wrote the Unvalidated Ideas newsletter (https://unvalidatedideas.com) for just over a year -- ~70 editions.

While I have something like 600+ ideas, turns out they're not all good enough to send (actually, more than 50% just weren't good enough!), so I eventually ran out of ideas. I shut down the newsletter, refunded every customer whether partially, and stopped making the paid ideas available.

One thing I promised to do when the newsletter ended was make a compendium of sorts with all the paid content that someone could download (a PDF eBook, essentially) for a fraction of what it would have cost to subscribe to the newsletter that long.

It took me a while (you wouldn't believe how hard it was to go from markdown to decent-looking eBook PDF) but I finally put it together -- the Unvalidated Ideas eBook 2023 Edition is here.

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It was a great ride (and my first successful newsletter), so it's hard to say goodbye to thousands of subscribers but I'm a strong believer in never selling email addresses (ads maybe, but never the actual email addresses), so the email list is just getting deleted.

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If/when I do it again (there's a new newsletter which is focused around businesses worth $5k to $50k that are good to buy), I'm going to use Substack/Beehiiv/Ghost, but it was fun to build the stack this time.
I’m what many would describe as a bit of an Apple fanboy but for the last few years I’ve been skipping most keynotes. They are becoming pretty unbearable.

I used to look forward to watching them live but now I just go back after the event and skip through the videos to see the most relevant bits (or just read the various reports instead).
Several parts got my spidey sense tingling. They admitted the duck video was entirely fake - the model was actually fed stills of ducks, then they edited in the video.

The science youtube guy had really strange prompts. It seemed
To me like he had tried a bunch of things each time and then they spliced together the ones which worked. Which is …ok? I guess?

The one I watched this morning was the dude with the heavy Italian accent demonstrating multimodal AI by playing the AI sound clips of a woman speaking VERY CLEARLY and precisely and definitely without any sort of accent. So for that one I was like “ok I get what’s happening here” but it seemed super obvious.
The Guardian kept the most picante part for the end. Perhaps because it might undo the “Tesla is losing” sentiment the media want to conjure up?

“In a case related to the PostNord action, a court on 27 November ruled that the Swedish Transport Agency must find a way to get licence plates to Tesla. The agency has appealed against the decision.

Some Swedish pension funds have urged Tesla to sign the agreement with the union, but have so far held off from selling their shares.”
With Android 12, anyone can make an app store. Previously you had to let the user approve a bunch of prompts for every install or update, but the new API allows silent background updates just like on manufacturer apps.

Of course you need explicit permission from the user to install apps (that just makes common sense) but I've been using F-Droid Basic which works like a treat.

Only Amazon has tried to launch an alternative app store so far, and I'm it sure if they use the new API that makes automatic updates possible. However, there's nothing standing in anyone's way to bring competition to this market.

If you can come up with a better store, you can take one of the many open source app stores out there and add a sales feature to turn it into a business venture and take on Google and Samsung. I'm not sure how this will go down on iOS when they will eventually allow installing external apps, but I imagine the situation may be quite similar.
> Okay, but then one letter domains and new gTLDs are worthless

They are, yes, and it's not exactly new news although the better word would be "pointless" (they're not exactly worthless since some people do pay for them).
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At first, the results claimed here seem to clash with the fact that we know, for instance, that it is NP-hard to 5-color a graph which is promised to be 3-colorable [1]. Of course, the devil is in the details - on page 11, where they describe the "LOCAL" computation model they work in, they explain:

"In each round the processors may perform unbounded computations on their respective local state variables and subsequently exchange of messages of arbitrary size along the links given by the underlying input graph."

Given this setup, it should be possible to solve any problem in O(n) rounds, and indeed they point this out in the introduction:

"If the chromatic number of G is χ, in this setting it is trivial to find a χ-coloring in T = O(n) rounds, as in O(n) rounds all nodes can learn the full topology of their own connected component and they can locally find an optimal coloring by brute force without any further communication."

While this paper is very interesting from a theoretical perspective, it is saying more about the LOCAL model of distributed computing than it is about quantum computing. Nobody should come away from this with the conclusion that we have somehow proved that quantum algorithms are useless for real-world problems.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00970
In random-ish order:

Baldur's Gate 3
Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Super Mario Bros: Wonder
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
Alan Wake 2
Hogwarts Legacy
Metroid Prime Remastered
Pikmin 4
Starfield
Jagged Alliance 3

I was thinking about Elden Ring and Dwarf Fortress for the last two spots instead, but seems like both of them were last year's releases. Time flies! That makes last year a bit better than I'd initially remembered, though.
I was hoping this might have some reference to the movie Society, but in the end I learned why they called it "shunting". I'll call that a net positive.