skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, not only the "ambitions of the common man", but of man or life itself, no matter if common or exceptional (if there is such a difference at all here). I'm living in Austria, and I feel that I have to leave this country. I want to move back to Bulgaria or somewhere else, where life is wild, natural and rough. The west has become tame and sick, and I got exhausted of it. I don't fit in this society anymore, and I can't be productive under its conditions.
But you can't even say that out loud anymore, because that means "questioning the whole western ideology" and suddenly someone feels threatened, and myself becomes a criminal. I'm tired of a society where the fears of person A makes' person B a criminal, and of people lacking any decisiveness or spontaneity - and being afraid of spontaneous and decisive people. If wester culture is anything, then it is "fake". Probably the reason, why the author, "the rootless cosmopolitan" moved back to Bulgaria, and found again a sense of feeling home. I claim that the West has forgotten what "home" means. Western culture has become empty and fake - and I'm tired to explain the most obvious thing to so many people - and in the end, they don't believe you anyway. They really believe, they are part of something bigger, are very important and are going to be famous or something. Intellectual vanity and luxury and bragging.

And someone knows, very well, how to define himself and where he stands. The question is not how to objectively categorize or define you, but rather how and what you have to say about yourself.

edit: in Bulgaria, there is a common truth: life in Bulgaria is shit. But it is impossible to agree on the same truth in western societies, because that's the strong myth they rely on - that they are better, than the rest of the world. Do you get what I mean?
Anyone who is dissatisfied with the west must be out of their minds.

There are things that have now become impossible in the West.
Simply expressing unsatisfaction has become a danger for the status quo or the state.
Thanks, removing branding with $2 looks like exactly what montaigne is providing. Fair enough, I need to reconsider the pricing model for Free plan.
His title should be Chief Gaslight Officer...
Typo: "I'm [unimpressed]"
Amazing, the person at center of this article. Corrupted turtles all the way down?

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But it has also drawn investors with more checkered histories in the finance industry. In June, a court-appointed investigator in Delaware accused Mr. Braziel of falsifying bank records and misappropriating funds from a bankruptcy estate that he was managing. Lawyers for Mr. Braziel responded by objecting to those conclusions about his “actual or potential criminal liability.”

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Yes, UK-spec speedometers show miles per hour as the major unit (km/h are usually there too but given less emphasis) and speed limits are posted in mph.
https://tgstat.ru/en but mostly in Russian.
But they pay "ransom" to Microsoft.
All studies analyzing countries as a whole are flawed. First of all, it's low sample size, there are 200 something countries. Secondly, countries are complex systems with thousands if not more variables, that are impossible to account for, so any finding is incidental at best.
We are definitely talking at cross purposes if you think I’m here to “defend the crown”. You seem to keep missing the point that I agree with you that the people we’re talking about should not have been arrested. What I disagree with are your hyperbolic statements about the UK based on a particular emphasis in the English-speaking media on the “arrested for a tweet” trope. You dismiss the results of the Google queries I provided, but they all turn up similar stories that simply weren’t as widely reported in English-speaking media. (The Spanish guy was even arrested just for insulting the King on Twitter, a tweet which certainly wouldn't get you arrested in the UK. Private Eye would have been shut down decades ago if this were a crime!)
You're asking a technical question, which is the wrong way to go here.

1. Make sure you have all the faces in the photos labeled in a way that can be accessed in the future. Old physical photos without the names written on the back are essentially worthless, as nobody knows who they are. Full names, and how everyone is related, perhaps a bit of story is important.

2. Make sure your kids are interested in this stuff, or your grandkids. If they don't want it, it's all going to be pitched out, and you're wasting your time. My child has expressed a desire for a modest subset of my 650 Gb of personal photos. I'm going to weed it wayyyyy down for her, and make sure all the photos are labeled correctly and completely.

3. Make sure they have sufficient income to live their lives, and also pay for a new hard drive from time to time, to copy the information forward in time. A box of photos is generally quite easy to store, if you have a home.

PS: Am I the old man here? Nobody else mentioned this angle yet, and to me it seems to be the most obvious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_King...

> Imperial units are officially used to specify journey distances, vehicle speeds and the sizes of returnable milk containers, beer and cider glasses, fresh milk is often still sold in multiples of pints, with the metric equivalent also marked, and precious metals are sold by the troy ounce
Very choppy on F-Droid Fennec and the video doesn't show on android Chromium, hopefully all users only use Chrome anyway
Always interesting to see which subjects get more people complaining about hypothetical complainers than actual complainers...
You're suspcious of the fawning over her? Don't keep me in the dark! What's really going on with how millions of listeners, her colleagues, and NPR have felt about her and her work for decades?
This was a great source by the way - thank you for posting it!
> encyclopedic knowledge

This only works for people with excellent long term memory. I constantly need to look things up in docs and even my own readmes.
“So perhaps the onus should be on the people who decided to do that”

They’re doing, you’re complaining. All the X.org software is there for all the detractors to pick up and maintain. That is what happened when the XFree maintainers didn’t want to accept patches from a larger group: it was forked into X.org.

Now the people doing the work want to do Wayland. If it doesn’t please you, then by all means carry on with the old stuff and show them how it should’ve been done.
> AI models need users

Not when AI agents start doing their own thing, synthesizing their own data to go beyond what humans have conversed. The main thing keeping this from happening is data corruption. I don't know how that will be solved.
Mainstream web is becoming a one big fake.
I still think the $19 is really expensive, because I don't see a need for it. The bundling 10 domains is rather weird. It's something I'd love for an email provider, but for a blog I'd just get two subscriptions if I need two sites.

Honestly... I'd consider it, but realistically I'd never get around to it, and maybe be slightly afraid that now my blog is trapped in Apple Notes and getting it would be horrible to migrate if your site was to shut down.
This is a long essay that's worth a read. A lot of stuff in it to
unpack.

Can't help thinking that whether traditional modernist bureaucracy or
"high-tech modernism", it's still just "Police and thieves in the
street, scarin' the nation..." Not a very high "moral political
philosophy".

> Scott identifies high modernism as inherently antidemocratic...
objectives decided on by elites who "know better". High-tech
modernism, by contrast, systematically undermines elite judgment.

I think this one has been done to death already by Adam Curtis. Both
writers are scathing of technological pseudo-democracy, but neither
account offers much sign of real democracy asserting itself other than
as "sand in the wheels of the machine".

Whether hybrid, state or private cybernetic governance, or any other
kind, a culture that sets itself up technologically as an internal
power struggle is doomed.

Atom bombs or AI, without a shared rationale for building power we
lack any idea how to wield it, or against what, except upon ourselves.
One never maps a territory one does not intend to conquer.
At what size will these vehicles require a CDL? Hopefully it is a matter of size and not purpose.
Thank you for the feedback. Which plan do you think is overpriced? We have a free plan with 5K pageview per month, maybe it's not big enough for influencers, but it's a good start.
The reason not to cheat is that visual artifacts and bugs can snap you out of immersion. Think of realizing that you don't appear in a mirror or that throwing a torch into a dark corner doesn't light it up. Even without "bugs" people tend to find more beautiful and accurate things more immersive. So if you want escapism, graphics that match the physics that you are used to day-to-day can help you forget that you are in a simulation.

The reason to cheat is that we currently don't have the hardware or software techniques to physically simulate a virtual world in real-time.
Isn’t it already “publicly” owned though? It’s not owned by a single public authority, but rather a decentralized number of public authorities via city municipalities.

As the article mentioned, most if not all of these “bottled water” companies buy the water from the water municipality. Some go the extra length of bottling close to the source (probably so they can advertise/market tap water as “spring water”).

Maybe residents need to advocate for revoking the licenses of these private bottling companies.
Netflix has a problem of multiple people sharing same account. So the number could be that of 2-3 people's watching time clubbed as one.
How so? Knowing as much as possible about the systems should be the norm, it is a super power because most people are too lazy to be bothered with this.

Knowing the system makes it very easy to poke the relevant people, find the relevant people and have meaningful discussions with those. Heck, it might even turn you into a meaningful person yourself.

The alternative is stumblong aimlessly around and parroting input from others without understanding the smallest thing about it. This is something LLMs excel at, for free. The former not so much.
Laion Took Down Its Datasets After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material
If we reach a point where people working in the archive don’t know what a computer is, we’re at the point where we don’t need to know what Dave’s will had in it.

Think about what you are protecting here. Dave’s will. Ol’ davo from down pub. Literally meaningless beyond the potential for mild curiosity in a hundred years.

If the worst happened and we lose them, it’s insignificant. Planning for the preservation of davo’s will in the event of an apocalypse is a waste of our time.
“fulfil the threshold of 45 million average monthly users in the EU“
But you know where to look it up, right?
I think you’d have to figure out a way to “jailbreak” it, if you did. Most (if not all) are locked down via software, and can’t just be used without that aspect.
Something missing here from other bubbles like dotcom, tulips, 2006 housing or dogecoin is people speculating on asset prices going up driving the thing. The root cause in all of those were people buying overpriced whatevers hoping to flip them to the next fool. There hasn't been very much of that yet with AI. Maybe it is to come?

Wikipedia's definition:

>An economic bubble (also called a speculative bubble or a financial bubble) is a period when current asset prices greatly exceed their intrinsic valuation, being the valuation that the underlying long-term fundamentals justify.

I'm not sure the AI stuff even qualifies as a bubble under that. If you assume better than human AI comes, which is quite likely, it will be able to do all the things and more so you could hazzard a value of the order of world GDP which is approx $100 trillion.
The problem with DPF is that people buy diesel vehicles with big engines and then use them for the school run. Short journeys dont allow the DPF to come up to regeneration temperatures. This is all mentioned in the owners manual, and it says what to do when the warning light comes on. The problem is people dont read the manual, neglect to maintain the DPF as per the instructions, and then end up blaming the DPF. Sure, there are other reasons for a clogged DPF, but they are generally caused by a failure elsewhere, like in the turbo or fuel injectors. BY FAR the biggest cause is short journeys, and then not maintaining via a forced regeneration accordingly.

The ONLY purpose of the DPF is to capture particulates in urban environments and then release them when up to temperature on the highway. If your vehicle is nearly always in an urban environment the DPF is effectively pointless, and you shouldnt be driving a diesel.

If anything, the dealer should make you sign a waiver to that effect as part of the purchase. Maybe then urbanites would stop driving diesel vehicles to look cool.
Might work for a toy programming language and framework, but not for anything like C# and the .NET framework (especially when considering the different implementations), Java, etc.
There was an Israeli company that used electric Renaults and provided the battery swapping service. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company)
What was your used Tesla buying experience like? Did you buy from a dealer or a private party? Any issues with the transfer of ownership?

How has the car held up other than the battery? You say it has wear and tear like a 10 year old car but that can mean drastically different things depending on how people normally maintain their cars and what kinds of environments they drive in (local to me in upstate NY we use a lot of salt on the roads, an average 10 year old car is likely going to be nearing to the end of its life due to rust issues whose repair cost may equal a substantial portion of the value of the car).
Big mono Corp can obsolete things and forbid anyone from picking it up to maintain. Nobody is preventing a group from picking up the old stuff and maintaining it - it’s just a bunch of people shouting at those doing the work (or paying for it) that they should be doing it differently.
Misread it for "Electric scooter company Bird Flies for bankrupcy".
TS is not interpreted. It compiles to JS, which is interpreted, but TS itself is not. There are no TS interpreters, they all compile to JS behind the scenes.

Or does Deno run TS natively? At a glance it looks like even its runtime is written in JS[0].

EDIT: looks like they have bindings for V8[1] so yeah, just a JS interpreter behind the scenes.

[0] https://github.com/denoland/deno/tree/main/runtime/js

[1] https://github.com/denoland/rusty_v8
When Apple eventually Sherlocks one into MacOS they'll do a whole section of the keynote about how innovative and revolutionary it is, and everyone will start writing fawning articles...

But, in seriousness, I don't think they will. The footgun of "my password is sitting in my clipboard history" is just too powerful to give to the non-nerds. Maybe with local "AI" detection of passwords to automatically remove those they might consider it?
No problem, again you free plan is really good, but I'd be concerned that the majority of potential customers would want to buy single items like no branding, plus 10K page view or an additional 5 months of analytics. Bundling is hard, because some will always feel like they are being overcharged, because they only need a fraction of what that bundle contains.
> At work I simply gave up on our 4x Radeon Pro W6800 workstation because launching Tensorflow with more than 1 GPU would cause a kernel panic every time, and AMD engineers never offered a fix other than "reinstall Ubuntu".

Unfortunately, it's not always easy to get an issue in front of the right people. The W6800 is an officially supported GPU and a kernel panic is a serious bug. I'd like to try to help get this issue properly triaged. Could you send me a link to your report?
That's it! We, porn lovers, are gathering with pitchforks and scythes.
And nothing of value would be lost :)
Salt mines are under lakes as anyone in the state of LA due numerous disasters in that state due to salt mines under lakes.
That is the difference between real engineering (solving technical problems) and "engineering". Thanks for putting better than I ever managed!
This feels like splitting hairs -- python and typescript are equivalent, as they are both dynamically typed languages with type annotations.

The fact that the typescript implementation does not run typescript directly, and cPython does not type check before running the code, are both implementation details.

Typescript is just a better type system on top of javascript than python's type system is on top of untyped python, because typescript is a cohesive design rather than a collection or random stuff accumulated over time.

There's no reason that couldn't have happened for python, it just didn't.
> The game Fluidity seems to have approx. 20.

It had more than 20, but... not by much.
There was a small event that effected mainland Europe more than other places called World War 2.

The US welcomed the engineers/scientists/wealthy fleeing the war and it continued after 1945. Same with the UK, but to a lesser extent I expect.

Of course the US had people of similar ability, but the migration from European countries to the US (and other places) had the double effect of reducing the talent in one place and adding to it in another.

The foundation of the US tech industry was created in the years after WW2.
I think the author is obviously talking about compile time type checks here.
My best bit of advice for any programmer at any level: "Don't make stuff more complicated than it has to be!"

Software is complicated. Large, feature rich software is even more complicated. That's hard enough to manage as it is. The last thing you want to do is to throw a million of abstraction layers, frameworks, libraries, precompilers, transpilers, build steps, validation hooks, style checkers etc. into the mix. Each of them makes your project more complex by a certain factor. And not only do they add up - they multiply!

Now, that doesn't mean that you need to built everything bare bones without the help of any third party software - just make sensible choices. Unfortunately, developers are way too prone to add another shiny thing to the mix.

So here's how you decide if you really need something:

At first: You don't - continue as is.

Then: If the problem persists and the suggested solution keeps coming up, still refuse, but investigate the solution.

At last: If the problem persists, the solution seems well suited to address it and it keeps coming up - accept that you have the problem and adopt the solution.
Resell network resources to scammers. Profit.
Sorry I do not understand can someone EIL5? The leasing of the vehicle? How are you paying for the depreciation of the battery when you never payed for it in the first place? You buy the car without the battery. To get a battery you sign up for a subscription.
> However in the 1960s they decided different steering linkages were better,

They didn't just arbitrarily decide that, old suspension setups (even ignoring the terrible springs and dampers) were terribly unsafe and unpredictable. I encourage you to search for some videos of old cars going over bumps, taking evasive maneuvers or even just driving around a corner normally. The amount of bump steer, roll and lift is absolutely terrifying.
it saves you time for the rest of your life

Also saves you from fragmented knowledge. When it is good enough, it will remain half-assed till your end.
That certainly happens but it’s not the only way to go private or even the only playbook for PE
I feel like this article could be a lot better, but it stopped in its metaphorical tracks, turned its turrets and started shooting darts at US readers. All for the sake of controversy/publicity.

But TFA's points can traverse the cheapness easily, just a small push:

> The States felt like an old place, weirdly older than Europe, a place where, for all its breathless movement, time seemed to have stopped. There was too much of everything: rules, work, wealth, poverty, guns, art.

Many HN readers are probably familiar with how does it feel to start a greenfield project. The magic that happens on a greenfield project is not so much about your beliefs or your open mind, it's more about all the other people mentally unblocking you and not putting spokes in your wheel.

So, yeah, if the whole hierarchy crumbles and entire lifetimes of curated opinions, thoughts, social norms become garbage, people let others be. For a time.

I'm just pointing out that there is a specific recipe offered here for unblocking "the time", and that recipe has a huge cost.

> Perhaps that was why the Communist regimes all across Eastern and Central Europe collapsed in the final run. Not so much because of their beleaguered economies, although that was an important factor, but because no one believed anymore.

Hah, that alone? Roman Empire was falling for hundreds of years (thousand, actually, if you count Byzantium).

Actually two factors were needed for Communist downfall.

1. Lack of belief.

2. A better model how to prosper, proven and readily available just across the border (or two borders).
Inkscape has a filter that's been pretty reliable at generating vectors from raster inputs.
Terry is one of the best interviewers in the states. She tries to be informed and view things from her guest's perspectives.

She pushes people on uncomfortable answers, but does it respectfully.

Trent Reznor is not the best person to use for interpersonal communicating. He's famously kind of a prick.
In this episode of How It's Made: Mediocrity.
That's going to be a very small signal in a huge amount of DC pulse that resulted from Fauci's deadly toy, and the subsequent lockdowns. I'm not sure it's measurable separately.

Housing prices are something best measured 10 years later, so there's still time to go on this one.
Stockfish isn't convinced that f4 Be7; f5 Bd7 does give W a comfortable advantage; it reckons +0.2, same as if B plays ... Be7 after Nb3 as you recommend. Again, I'm a patzer so if your intuition/calculation says W is much better I don't have any refutation other than "computer says no". W's position sure looks more fun to play, with prospects of a kingside attack, but that's often true in the Sicilian even when things are objectively fairly balanced.

If I let it sit for a while, it vacillates between wanting to play g4, a3, Be3, h4, etc., and a quieter approach with Bg5xf6, Qd3, Nd2. At depth 46 it prefers the latter but only gives it +0.1 even though its PV shows W winning the d-pawn. Aaaand at depth 48 it's switched back to Operation Pawn Storm, though it wants to prepare with a3 and Bf3 before playing g4 and h4. And back to the piece manoeuvres and winning the d-pawn at depth 50. Still only +0.1, though.

(But computers are awfully good defenders, and maybe this is one of those positions that's much better for the attacking side when humans rather than computers are playing.)
> chat, write mails, watch videos, have a website, buy stuff, sell stuff

Why can't every computer do this without servers? It sounds like a ridiculous idea but it can't be impossible to achieve. My 24 core laptop has more power than my 4 core server.
"6502 clocked at 2 GHz?"

Was actually 2MHz of course. Fairly dramatic error for a tech video.
That's the entire idea... normal charging for day-to-day ... swap battery for roadtrips.
The swapstations are ~200km's apart on the motorway corridors.
Ilya Sutskever helped to create ChatGPT, while worrying about AI safety
the next step would be to produce descriptions of each scene in the video and search on that.

this is already possible for photos/images, so getting this for video is just a matter of time, but i don't know how far along the technology is at this point and how much resources it will take.