skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the same at all. No shoe is created to automatically walk and avoid sharp objects.
But they are acting as bullies, both in the hypothetical example, and in several real-life cases. If a hypothetical right involves causing harm to others, maybe it's not the right one first suggested.
Praying next year is better for you and your family
The test was local, ie using the loopback interface on a large server.
Fixing My Yamaha Electone Me-50: An FM Synthesizer Home Organ from 1986
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone, whatever you celebrate. Nice being on Earth with you all!
Truly independent peer-to-peer internet when?

Seriously, I think more and more about building a LoRa network with friends. https://meshtastic.org/
I use a HP Reverb G2, with X-plane and Microsoft Flight Simulator. I can read the dials (yes, even the tiny ones) just fine with the built-in controls. But most of the stuff I do is programmed with keyboard shortcuts/my HOTAS flight controller.

I would not be able to go back to standard 2D-view-of-3D experience again after getting used to VR. Can't even effectively look around your shoulder, and a bunch of other things.
I hear the banjo picking when all is silent and dark.
At first, I figured that's the explanation, but you're ignoring a more puzzling statement in the article:

> To explain how an AI-generated story written by an AI-generated person was published despite this policy, B&H says it was part of a “test” to identify and protect against such content.

> “Our editors wrote a test article in mid-November as part of their efforts to identify and protect against AI-generated content. They overlooked adding disclosure to the article indicating that it was AI-generated, which was a mistake, and did not delete the article after the test.”

This sounds... rather unconvincing.
yup, no use looking for your keys in the rose garden if you know you dropped them in the sewer
It can be pretty difficult.

Especially for games or OS development, you might have shifting toolchains and SDks. Different teams may move out of sync because different teams want different things at a given time.
The whole point would be to skip the "general education" part and teach directly useful parts. You can even have an entry test for what you expect students to know, that will create a common baseline.
> “Make it as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Well, duh. We all want things to be simpler. But we may not know what to sacrifice in order to achieve that goal.

"Simple" can be used on both extremes, and therefore it doesn't mean anything. I have seen so many bad designs justified by "KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid".

To find a comparison that is worth what it is worth: is Vim simpler than VScode (because the codebase of Vim is much smaller and easier to maintain), or on the contrary is VScode simpler than Vim (because the users have to learn more stuff before they can use Vim)?

Does a simple library provide a small codebase that is easy to maintain (but harder to use), or does it provide a bigger codebase with a very constrained interface that prevents beginners from "shooting themselves in the foot" (which is harder to maintain, and limiting for advanced users)?

In the end, I'm afraid that writing good software requires experience, but the software industry seems to have issues accepting that.
To be fair, I typically use the MAC in an FPGA to implement this with the coefficient as a fixed point value. As a result the entire step is one cycle, depending on how many MACs are available I will parallelize the algorithim to support all available MAC blocks.

But in C I typically compute the coeficent outside the loop and use it in the multiply sample * (1/coefficient) vs sample/coefficient, even the STM32 microcontrollers have single cycle multiply available.
It wasn't in Germany, because Germany has a well-established and well-organized anti-science movement that peddles in magic cures and irrational fears.

As an example, a large percentage of the population believes in homeopathy and most of the health insurers even pay for it(!)

Similarly, what the German public "knows" about nuclear power is mostly patently and even ridiculously false.
i don't, sorry
I think what you’re saying above is somewhat misleading when the Wikipedia article you cite also says, “only two key events of Jesus's life are widely accepted as historical, namely his baptism, and his crucifixion (commonly dated to 30 or 33 CE)”

That’s like saying Forrest Gump is historical because Vietnam is a thing that happened, and JFK was president.
True, but linker times still suck and don't parallelize well.

Also, sometimes you need to iterate on some very core .h file and touching any of those brings the whole house of cards down and triggers a full or nearly full rebuild.
> How long do you typically spend under the goggles?

Max around 3 hours I think, that's the longest amount of (consecutive) free time I have available.

I remember in the beginning (First version of Oculus I think?) I could play for something like 20 minutes before being tired from it. Not sure if it's because of the HP Reverb G2 I have now, or because I got used to it.
This is going to be a controversial position, but nobody is really arguing the other side, the benefits of ads. And if they were more accepted and integrated (a "perfect" federated model), maybe they could be acceptable rather than abrasive and irrelevant. Who is talking, with a measured perspective, about the shift to participatory, user produced content (yes, I know, a lot of it isn't good, but some is and it is available to many more people without barriers), and the benefits that brings? I just see hand waving about alternatives, some "good old days" ideas about media, and a lot of people accessing essentially free ad-sponsored content with generally minor inconvenience in a murky going-nowhere conflict.

I think as much as anyone Google brings alternatives; I pay for Youtube Premium and never have any ads on Youtube/Youtube Music (places where it would be particularly unwelcome), I get paid for Google Surveys, and I think with some work their federated model could be perfectly reasonable.

If you disagree, please say why, rather than simply downvoting.
No, just phone autocorrect, and too late to edit it.

Typing too fast and not paying attention.

Although I do like your interpretation. Maybe I’ll call poorly implemented or useless functions impotent from now on.
The US safety test system has the same flaw- safety equipment is not randomly tested after certification.

As an example, it's an open secret that over 40% of all USDOT certified helmets fail to meet the standard: https://ultimatemotorcycling.com/2020/02/05/2020-dot-certifi...

(The EU uses a different standard which includes independent testing of random samples).
No one, including the country’s own citizens, are going to invest in a lithium mine (or anything else) without confidence that the investment won’t be seized. Stating that obvious and trivial fact isn’t “colonialism”.
Captive portals
is it any better in C++, though? IIRC C++ doesn't have a stable ABI either.

If you either commit to dylib or C++'s DLLs, you still have to recompile everything on version change, unless you also use the C ABI in C++.
So healthcare providers would be fine with significantly lower incomes just because the government tell them to suck it up?

Also, it's not like the fact that the private insurance model failed in the US means that it can't work at all. For instance, not all countries in Europe have single payer. In some the health insurance system is privatized to a much higher degree than in the US, no equivalent of Medicaid/Medicare with governments directly subsidizing insurance premiums for low-income individuals.
You call 13% dependence? If so, the EU (!), because that is an EU number, is equally depedant on Norway (11.6%)...
In these cases using bit_cast or memcpy will also "break" though :(
I'm a mean old troll.

As in... I migrated here from Slashdot level old :-)

I made a new account, because I'd like to start anew.

Let me take off my mask for a moment, and be authentic:

I encourage folks to remember that life is not a zero sum game -- even if you feel your chips are down this holiday season, try to remember that there are some things money can never buy.

If you're kind, small things -- a barista who remembers your order, a smile at the library, a knowing smirk from the corner of the college cafe yet to be gentrified away will remind you that you are not a ghost in this world, and people remember the positive effect you have on their lives.

And make no mistake -- these are dark times. Part of my own loneliness is that I deleted every shred of social media in 2016 -- I had a beautiful series of photographs on Instagram, and years of cherished memories on Facebook.

I deleted it all, because I was scared what would be done with that data to my friends -- Persian friends, Palestinian friends, Ukranian Friends, Russian friends, Israeli friends, who came to this country because they truly value free expression.

It can be hard, to be a hacker, to feel apart from the physical realm in a lonely way that goes beyond IQ or interests, but don't let that take your soul.

When we must "punch" in our humor, always be sure to punch up.

Merry Christmas!
language android i imagine..
Wouldn’t creating new processes from zero rather than inheriting from parent make it hard to do things like ‘sudo’?
Isn't the entire point of the fediverse that users and admins can block entire servers to create a curated experience? Why does this author hate the open internet?
But you could return the 1000 objects (or less? 1000 records sounds like a lot for any UI to show at once) of 1kb size and allow the clients to request specific pages with a request parameter. There may be applications where you need to ship the full 1M records I guess, but that seems like very much an edge case as far as web apps go.
Maybe it should be "press when in trouble".
> 150mln kids are born each year.

> Approximately 40% of the world's population lives in regions that experience snowfall.

Could you go to the internet and check meaning of strawman argument?
That happened to me also. The manager told me all employees had a MCSE and CCIE and they were not currently hiring, thank you...
Wind has been used for hundreds of years and only recently started being relevant on a system-wide scale, so I don't think it's good argument.

In both cases, the underlying technology has worked for a while, and the challenges are only tangentially related (NIMBY, lack of production scale, scaremongering for nuclear), but solveable.
This is because Quebec has hydro.
No, a great way to maintain cars...
I don't consider myself a libertarian. "Food and shelter are limited resources" is empirically verifiable.
The problem is the investors. They love recurring revenue. Hence data mining apps and closed ecosystems with subscription fees. And bait and switch tactics like Hue where the conditions deteriorate over time (like needing an account now so they can track you better)

Companies don't really want to give us freedom of choice. They just want to take our money. Ideally through subscriptions so they have to do almost nothing for it but can cash in easily.

So all the "special sauce" doesn't have a technical reason but am economical one.
Christ is born! Glorify Him!
risc-v is nicer than amd64, but in between ldm/stm, shifted indexing, postincrement/preincrement, and conditional instructions, arm assembly is just about c

shame about the t bit tho
So how would someone go through the process of invalidating patents like this? I assume that there's no easy or cheap way otherwise the eff would have already done it.

Another post mentions spending $500k for an IPR to invalidate - would that be the only way, limiting it to only well funded startups or larger established companies?
Yeah, that's pretty suspicious; I missed that.
In Belgium and Luxembourg, it's considered as taxable benefit and the amount is based on the type of car.

You usually end up paying 200-300 €/month as tax directly deduced from your salary but for that amount you have a new car with all the servicing included, even tires.

A few years ago, it was part of the standard salary package for many companies in IT so you weren't really without a car when leaving.

Some places where strict on the kind of car you can have (small cars for junior, Mercedes for management) but other places just provided you with a monthly budget so you could get whatever you want. You could also pay the difference to have a better car.
Drone pilot. Especially in war zones
The author said they know that but the problem was the profile being deleted.
> …a parsimonious explanation here is that a staff (or contract) editor was given an assignment, and chose to fabricate it instead.

The fabricated author biography and photo suggest that it's not just an "oopsie!", especially considering that they also said, "We typically do not create a writer profile unless we use someone more than occasionally". B&H understood what they were doing.
Here's my proposal to replace ads:

1. The server does not send the content to you, unless you pay. Websites are responsible for deciding what to give out for free - only public "abstracts" of NYT articles get search indexing.

2. Some browsers keep an account for you, others show you ads and let the advertising companies pay your way through the internet.

3. Anyone who wants to run a server for free or host P2P content may still do it.

All of the advanced tracking technology would be unnecessary if some people browsed through their adsense consumer account and other people ran a tab with their "content intermediary" to pay websites to serve (anonymous) address x.y.z.w.
Wouldn't proper regulation of the health-insurance industry be easier to achieve than Medicare for all? It's not like single payer is the only real option. A 100% privatized system can work just fine with proper regulation. US could more or less just copy paste the Dutch insurance system..
There is a concept of minimum knowledge (maximum entropy). There is a concept of invariance (like translation invariance where you have no reason to prefer one position to another because the origin could be anywhere - or scale invariance where the value of a magnitude could be high or low if you don't know anything about the unit of measurement).

I'm not sure if by "absence of belief" you mean "ignorance" or something else.
Unfortunately I didn't find the original source where I first saw that, but among what I did find is e.g. this article: http://www.ranknfile-ue.org/uen_nastybiz.html - it shows how Hitler's war machine had had huge benefits out of the General Electric and Krupp tungsten price deal.

Many other cases of how American big business was gaining benefits from WW2 are described in the book "Trading with the enemy" (1984), available here: https://ia903008.us.archive.org/8/items/CharlesHighamTrading...
What's so hard to understand?

They'd rather filter sites that track in the first place.

Sure today, in a world that developed without that, that would remove most of the internet, but so what?

That just means their principle vs practical set point lands on a different part of the scale than you, but so does everyone's vs everyone else's.

It's a great idea to imagine, if that were somehow possible and the norm, would it still be most of the internet? Would good old unprincipled pragmatic market forces not result in most sites somehow finding a way to be in front of everyone's eyes?
On the postive side, there's probably more microplastics in our oceans than there are stars in all of the galaxies summed together.
1. Speed does matter, however high-speed changes in the environment are neither unnatural nor unprecedented.

2. If they are successful as invasive species, then yes most likely that would happen given enough time. Even the most remote islands in the ocean are populated with life forms that are too modern to be explained with plate tectonics. Nature has it's ways (besides evolving humans).

3. As you noticed humans spread all kinds of viruses, insects, blights and other unfortunate beings. Like them or not, they are as valid as a part of the biosphere as the chestnut tree.
If converting entire countries electricity grids to nuclear, while failing to lower costs, is not enough, what scale do you propose? How many trillions of dollars in subsidies to give nuclear "one more chance"?

All while we have solutions, on the market, that are cheaper, faster and easier to deploy.

The costs of the French nuclear scale-up: A case of negative learning by doing

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...

This study does not include their most recent attempt at Flamanville.

> Construction on a new reactor, Flamanville 3, began on 4 December 2007. The new unit is an Areva European Pressurized Reactor type and is planned to have a nameplate capacity of 1,650 MWe. EDF estimated the cost at €3.3 billion and stated it would start commercial operations in 2012, after construction lasting 54 months. The latest cost estimate (July 2020) is at €19.1 billion, with commissioning planned tentatively at the end of 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
Discontinuing Jet
paying for ads to be removed disadvantages weaker more susceptible segments of the population.

see my comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38764246
In my personal experience, Phillips Hue is unreliable in general. I just replaced every Hue bulb in my home because one in four had either turned inti a flickering haunted house prop or failed entirely.
That may be why videos tend to stall when in the movie is raining
Them being "bullies", whatever is meant by "bullying" in this context, doesn't deprive them of their right to own their instances or align with administrators with similar moderation policies. Fediverse is literally built on the idea that people own their instances and therefore all own the choices they make that affect these instances, just as you own the choice to call their flocking behavior "bullying".

Or, in other words, what are you expecting? It's their hardware and their software. If one pays for hosting, and owns the software, then - unlike you or me - they're entitled to do as they wish with their stuff and to bear the consequences of any moral judgments they make. Which is the same as Twitter, same as Threads, same as Bluesky, just on a smaller and more interconnected scale.
I have a discord for this https://discord.cofunctional.ai
For me it's much simpler than this... I don't trust the ads to run on my device. They're often disruptive at best, and sometimes little more than malware at worst. I don't trust ad-tech companies to be ethical and responsible, and I don't trust most site operators to do their due diligence before an ad harms someone.

I also remember what TV was like when it was primarily supported by ads... it wasn't "the good old days," it sucked. It was an era of the blandest, LCD-chasing content that was constantly at the whims of hundreds of advertisers. There's a reason that HBO was such a revelation back in the day, you paid them money and they showed you interesting things.

And frankly what I've learned from the Patreon model of funding is that still works, and most people consuming the content don't need to pay for it; the percentage who can and do are enough. Take the fall of The Escapist recently, where all of the talent was fired/left and then formed Second Wind. Like most successful, but not top-20 YT'ers they make their money from merch, Patreon (currently about 13.5k people sending them north of $60k per month) and sponsorships.

So to me the answer is that ads are a terrible way to make money, and we already have working, better alternative funding models that don't require paywalls (for most content) or embedded ads.
Ads want my attention. It is a limited resource and I don’t want to spend it on ads.

Google in particular are some of the richest companies in the world due to people who can’t or won’t figure out ad blockers. Why they care about mine now I can’t exactly understand.
I don't remember when I first learned about HN, I think maybe when I was in high school(I'm 36 now). I have found an uncountable number of interesting and imo mentally valuable things through here. When I share them (which I often do) my friends always ask "where did you find that?". This is such an awesome group. Merry Christmas!

https://historycooperative.org/pagan-origins-of-christmas/
Hm, there's an idea.

Those annual mandatory trainings from HR. Things like "how to not harass coworkers", but now in immersive 3D.
The pearl-clutching of the author regarding the women of the story, and Cloud's aversion to cross-dressing, is about as eye-rolling to me as those elements were to him.

That aside, it was a decent read, and in the end he said what I was hoping he'd realize: It was a game targeted at a particular demographic, though potentially enjoyable by anyone. The easter eggs which he chose to ignore are a part of the "openness" of the game that makes it feel like a more immersive world - I remember farming chocobos for hours in order to get the golden one, which would let me get the Knights of the Round summon.

As the author realizes but doesn't quite say, it was a product of its time. It is amazing as a video game the same way Zeppelin and Black Sabbath are amazing rock and metal - their sound is more impressive when you realize they were the vanguard of a new way of music. Seinfeld is "just" a nihilistic comedy like dozens of others, but it was first.

Some of these games are considered so great as a bandwagon effect, but I say that in a kind way: It's part of the common culture of gaming, and so experiencing it (and hopefully enjoying it) brings you into a familiarity with the subculture, the same way one has probably watched Star Wars or Star Trek to be a "sci fi" geek.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
I've written a software emulation of a Yamaha YM2413 (OPLL) for use in a Sega Master System emulator, although that was a couple of years ago. What I remember is a table for the sine wave (1/4 of the full cycle, since the rest can be done by mirroring and inversion), but stored in some logarithmic format so that multiplications can be done through addition, and then a lookup table to convert the output value to an actual integer.

It was cool because there were set values that you could subtract to cut the volume in half, for example. It makes the envelopes into just adding and subtracting values, and getting a cool volume curve out of it.

I remember that I got it reliably producing recognizable output for most register settings, but there are some parameters that I must've gotten wrong, because some settings sound way off from how they do on real hardware.
Extensively discussed two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38745348
YouTube would also be popular, in most of SEA the internet means mostly Facebook and YouTube, to the chagrin of Chinese internet services who can’t even compete outside of China in their own backyard (well, TikTok is hugely popular there, as it is here, Myanmar is also blaming TikTok and YouTube for ethnic violence, so it just isn’t Facebook). But I’m not sure how Facebooks‘s popularity equals a monopoly, they aren't engaging in anti competitive behavior, the infrastructure is free for use by competitors. The only thing Facebook puts in beyond other markets is localization and marketing.
I understand Ukrainians celebrate Christmas officially now for the first time.

(If I understand correctly last year it was some kind of transition.)
I think this is a non-story.

They say that demand is expanding faster than ever. They claim that this will lead to shortages, but they forget that the power market is a market, and thus:

* prices will rise in peak hours, and industrial demand will respond

* the raised prices will cause a lot of new supply to be added, bringing prices back down.

It’s only a problem in places that cap industrial power prices or that prevent the construction of new power plants. (This will be mostly solar and batteries.)