skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What makes you say this will alienate the family? Should I give up whenever my values for raising my children are not 100% endorsed by others?

For some background, I volunteer to help people find genetic family who may have been separated from them. I also help parents/offspring reunite if both are willing.

These reunions are not always meant to be as the offspring is often the one that cut contact in the first place (and refused to reunite) because they felt they were mistreated at some point during their childhood. This ranges from their parent not letting them join the extracurricular activity they wanted (usually because it aligned with the child’s goals but not the parent’s), to literal abuse of all kinds. I would say about 80% it’s one or both parents withholding something that child just wants to enjoy with no rhyme or reason and thus feels as if it were done to spite them.

I guarantee that three streaming services do not put them at the top of their peers of being spoiled, which what they will be comparing their situation with. If they already feel they are getting by with less and more is taken away, the long term resentment will start.

I recently encountered an adult offspring of my client who went no contact with their parents because they banned video games in their house and as a result, lost their group of friends who kept in contact by playing games together.
The UK has zero leverage and I doubt they would be willing to accept what the EU would offer. The EU holds all the cards in this game.
Interesting! There are anecdotal reports here and there on local llama about real world performance, but yeah I'm just reporting what Apple advertises for those devices on their spec sheet
Subscription is a trap for the company not the customer,

Subscriptions are a "convenient" (whenever you hear that word run for
the hills) way to receive payment. So what happens? It becomes the
only way to take payment, because companies are fooled into seeing
other methods as "too expensive to process" and not worth accepting.
They prioritise subscriptions over individual sales.

For example, I will most always give to charity on the spur of the
moment. I am ready to put my hand in my pocket for a childrens'
charity, veterans' fund, cancer research or whatever.

That rarely happens now, because nobody will take money. Main
charities are not at all interested in that, they want to get people
hooked into a subscription contract. I will beg the collector to
take a handful of cash coins or a note, but they say "sorry we can't
handle cash". That's insanity on a stick, right there.

They don't want £5. They want £5 per month. And I will not do that on
principle, for all the good reasons given in TFA, plus some
others. One strong objection I have is that subscriptions involve a
bank, and the banking industry is a hive of unethical scumbags. If I
want to give to charity that's a transaction solely between me and the
charity, not some data collecting parasites.

So they end up getting nothing, because they want too much.

That's a genuine tragedy, so sad, because whatever apologetics fanboys
of the "convenient, cashless society" spout, at the end of the day
it's a clear triumph of stupidity, greed and laziness over common
sense.

I am sure subscriptions harm many other businesses in the same way as
charities.
And as long as the thing you are polling is about 50:50. It’s hard to poll more skewed things, and you need larger sample sizes.
How is that irrelevant? Usually when someone is caught bribing politicians with billions of dollars of stolen money, it's considered kind of relevant where that money went?
I have a theory that behind Brexit and since Brexit there has been an unconscious desire and actuality that Great Britain, The United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have merged into an new Anglo-American empire. From listening to Russian media, it seems they see it that way.
Recruiting staff for the NHS is a lot harder now.
"Despite GamerGate’s positive changes on the industry, it has been met with heavy criticism from the journalists and publications under fire and their supporters, as well as third-wave feminists involved who have attributed the harsh criticism towards female offenders to misogyny and sexism."

That summary seems a bit tendencious!
Myths and Mythconceptions by Mary Shaw – Future of Coding
Not the GP but I think you're misapplying the logic. When it comes to food, need to eat it. A $50 dinner's real cost is the delta between it and what your mean cost of dinner.

Buying or subscribing to an optional thing is different. You could live without adding numbers as a service. You could live without a calculator. You could still do arithmetic and even calculate the value of those things based on the time they could save you.
Web sites displaying non-copyrighted works could still be protected under the UK implementation of the EU database directive. There might also be non-copyright reasons why you are not allowed to reuse the displayed works without permission. Just because things are digital doesn't mean you have to comply only with copyright when making a reproduction.

It gets even better. This seems to be the court judgement under discussion:

https://assets.caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/2023...

I don't want to try to summarize the judgement here, but it clearly was not about museums selling licenses for reproductions of out-of-copyright works. In fact, the judgment declared that copyright infringement had taken place. I have no idea why people use this judgment to further their cause. It seems a poor fit both in subject matter and outcome.
Whenever I think of Brexit and Britain's imperial legacy, I think of Mechanical Orange. You know, in the end, where Alex's tormentors come back to torment him? I travel the world a lot, and a lot of people /really/ don't like England. Heck, even the Scots and especially the Irish have bones to pick with England. I can't imagine that doesn't translate into passive-aggressive policy on just about everything.

UK, as part of the EU, was shielded from that.

- On one hand, every policy was with Europe and not just the UK, so there wasn't any way to pick on the UK.

- On the other hand, the EU was a major economic block, both as a market and as a source of technology. It has massive negotiating leverage.

You can't really research this sort of thing, since China won't go out and say "Century of Humiliation" and "Opium Wars" in trade policy (at least much). India won't reference the "Eat the Meat" scene in the Gandhi movie, but it sets a lot of the national zeitgeist. Kenya probably won't talk about the Mao Mao rebellion. Ireland isn't going to talk about the potato famine or Bloody Sunday. I simply can't imagine those aren't in the back of everyone's minds as they talk to English diplomats. In terms of friends, they have a few, but not many (although a few, like the US, are disproportionately useful as friends).

I think things will only get worse for the UK from here. That kind of broad-based deep-seated resentment is very rare in diplomacy.

They'd be best off rejoining the EU. If they decide to do that, I think the EU will invite them back, but I really don't think they'll get the same kind of sweetheart deal this time around. I don't know if they will want that, or if they do, if they'll accept a less-than-sweetheart deal.
U.K. will simply never meet the euro criteria - just like Sweden doesn’t.

I’d love the U.K. to join schengen though.
Super-healing shark regrows its fin after humans cut a chunk off
Europeans always so damn reasonable.

Come to Australia where everyone is greedy selfish and recalcitrant.
No, I’m reducing your argument to the absurd extreme. We both acknowledge there’s a line to be drawn. I would personally draw it at “the commit is the finest level of curation”, which reasonable people can disagree on.

I just find it absurd of you to argue that “we’re both curators if you think about it” as if that has anything pertinent to add to the conversation.
If only there were a whole field of study dedicated to this, and you could hire experts to run studies for you…
The voters of Britain made their choice and now they must deal with the consequences as best they can.

Leaving the EU customs union was an own-goal when the EU is Britain's largest trading partner. There's too much money to be made in simplifying the customs rules, so that rollback is perhaps inevitable.

The viability of the EU as a political union, though, remains to be seen. It is not clear that European politics will ever transcend nationalism. The last two world wars started in Europe for nationalist reasons. The third one probably will too. The challenges that face all of us cannot be solved by nation-states.

We are already seeing EU nations grumble about supplying weapons to Ukraine to counter Russian aggression. The Ukrainians have shown themselves to be capable warfighters. The Russians have shown themselves to be consummate bullies. European politicians remain focused on narrow national interests in the face of Putin's imperialist plans. "It is not in our national interest to support Ukraine," says Orban. He will say that until Russian tanks are again on the streets of Budapest. Perhaps even after.

The only time Europe was politically a unit was during the Roman empire, and that included large parts of North Africa. I don't see the EU expanding that far. Heck I don't see them admitting Turkey. All because European politics is still based on nationalist interests.

It is here that Britain was perhaps wise to leave the EU. The EU is an insular club of developed nations that are socially liberal but ultimately inward-looking conservatives seeking to preserve a privileged status-quo. If the EU cannot innovate, it seeks to regulate - e.g. GDPR, and AI. Such a project fails to engage with the dynamic world and is doomed to failure.
From the point of view of a maker and seller of cars, the incentive for self driving is that it increases the size of the market. Rather than just selling one car per adult in a family, it could sell one per adult and one per child.

Car makers operating according to this incentive will try to discourage taxi-like functions in self-driving cars, perhaps by only allowing operation when specified people are recognized by the car (anti-theft feature!).
Cooperating with the prosecution is torture and duress?
I'd be ok giving them maximum sentences either way, but they have the opportunity to cooperate to reduce the charges or sentences
Just speculating here, but one way would be that the UK no longer can take part in EU-wide efforts to control the flow of migrants. The EU is doing quite a bit to keep immigrants out by e.g. paying Turkey to take them in instead.
Everyone is a free speech absolutist until they're the one targeted. Everyone loves cops until it's their rights being violated...

These sorts of arguments can be made in either direction.
This reads to me like run of the mill softball reporting on white collar crime. I don't get the impression that's what GP was alleging, but if it is, then yep, agreed.

If Madoff were stupid enough to take a NYTimes interview shortly after implosion, I don't think it'd look much different. (Edit: Actually, quite a bit more glowing, and not even an interview: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/13/nyregion/13madoff.html)
I can't say I know much about UK politics, but this seems like a nonsense poll. It's a generally down global economy. People will blame it on whatever poll you put in front of them. If it was a booming global economy, this poll could easily be reversed, even if Brexit has nothing to do with it.
If you want to add charges you just have to re-extradite which should be no harder than the original extradition. It's not some kind of get out of jail free loophole.
The difference is the comment was about large corps. Napster wasn't that.
Mine doesn’t. I’m not aware of any major banks that do in the US actually.
Okay if that's true, then write something better and more productive?

It doesn't make sense to write something even worse and closer to random noise.
Don’t worry, it isn’t.
Sorry for this very slow response, but I actually disagree. I don’t think effect sizes are usually meaningful beyond the context of a specific experiment.

For example, suppose you are researching the effect of an emotional/negative picture on how a participant makes decision in an economic game. Here, you may think “a big effect size implies this study will have a large practical relevance.” However, following typical statistical designs, an effect size may be largely determined by just how many trials the experiment used for each participant. This is also not the only factor that’s relevant. For instance, it’s debatable how the emotion induced in the task compares to the intensity of real life emotional situations. With these factors in mind, the effect size really doesn’t tell you much that can be applied outside the laboratory.

Maybe in some non-experimental sub-fields (e.g. personality psychology) effect sizes are more meaningful…
I started in HPC about 2 years ago on a ~500 node cluster at a Fortune 100 company. I was really just looking for a job where I was doing Linux 100% of the time, and it's been fun so far.

But it wasn't what I thought it would be. I guess I expected to be doing more performance oriented work, analyzing numbers and trying to get every last bit of performance out of the cluster. To be honest, they didn't even have any kind of monitoring running. I set some up, and it doesn't really get used. Once in a while we get questions from management about "how busy is the cluster", to justify budgets and that sort of thing.

Most of my 'optimization' work ends up being things like making sure people aren't (usually unknowingly) requesting 384 CPUs when their script only uses 16, testing software to see what # of CPU's it works with before you see a degradation, etc. I've only had the Intel profiler open twice.

And I've found that most of the job is really just helping researchers and such with their work. Typically running either a commercial or open-source program, troubleshooting it, or getting some code written by another team on another cluster and getting it built and running on yours. Slogging through terrible Python code. Trying to get a C++ project built on a more modern cluster in a CentOS 7 environment.

It can be fun in a way. I've worked with different languages over the years so I enjoy trying to get things working, digging through crashes and stack traces. And working with such large machines, your sense of normal gets twisted when you're on a server with 'only' 128GB of RAM or 20TB of disk.

It's a little scary when you know the results of some of this stuff are being used in the real world, and the people running the simulations aren't even doing things right. Incorrect code, mixed up source code, not using the data they thing they are, I once found a huge bug that had existed for 3 years. Doesn't this invalidate all the work you've done on this subject?

The one drawback I find is that a lot of HPC jobs want you do have a masters degree. Even to just run the cluster. Doesn't make sense to me, I'm not writing the software you're running, we aren't running some state of the art, TOP500 cluster. We're just getting a bunch of machines networked together and running some code.
I just "git clone https://github.com/VictorEijkhout/TheArtofHPC_pdfs.git" on my local drive. Had it all in under a minute.
Huh. I didn't realize that

https://wiki.debian.org/Shell
I'd like to see these measures too, and particularly measures that compare UK against similar countries in the EU.
The tech geek in me really wants to get a studio with an M2 ultra just for the cool factor, but yeah I think cost effectiveness wise it makes more sense to rent something in the cloud for now.

Things are moving so quickly with local llms too it's hard to say what the ideal hardware setup will be 6 months from now, so locking into a platform might not be the best idea.
Did they? That'd be interesting to take a look at. Do they publish contents of their dataset?
Should it not contain an aggressive, expansionist US?
Where there are stakes, there's a game; where there's a game, there are players.
The "need" part of food can be covered by $1/meal. When talking about a night out at an upscale restaurant or bar it is ~100% entertainment.
The years between 1937 and 1980 are the same as 1980 and 2023. :(
Not at all the same situation. Although imperfect, the UK has an actual functioning democracy while Palestine is an impoverished, semi-autonomous, largely refugee state partially controlled by Israel.

This video explains how the Palestinians voted for Hamas in theory but not in practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ9PKQbkJv8
If they would, they would be burning man. Nothing to ignite some passion than a deep dive in the desert ;)
Correction: a minority of Britons believe powerful lies and vote accordingly.

Out of 46.5m registered voters, 17.4m voted to leave the EU. That's 37% of voters, and about 26% of the population. Unfortunately, 13.3m people just didn't vote at all in the referendum.

Theresa May got a hung parliament in her election (2017), and was propped up by the DUP. She won 42% of the vote, with about 13.6m votes cast - that's about 30% of eligible votes and 21% of the population.

Johnson won 365 seats in the UK Parliament (a majority of 80 seats) in 2019 with only 43% of the vote - about 14m votes. Still not the majority of Britons.

About 81,000 people voted for Liz Truss. It was only Conservative party members who were eligible to vote.

No member of the public outside of the Tory party has ever voted for Sunak. He ran against Truss in the previous leadership election and got about 60,000 votes. He became PM when Truss resigned and he ran unopposed.

Please explain how it is that Britons "keep voting against their own best interests", when the majority have actively resisted, abstained or not been able to participate in every vote from the Brexit referendum through to the appointment of the last four Prime Ministers.

We need Parliamentary reform - an act like the Great Act of 1832, perhaps - and we need better politicians, but don't dare blame this on "Britons".
One of the main Brexit promises was "“we send the EU £350 million a week – let's fund our NHS instead” - was a lie, was never going to happen and the NHS has got worse
People voted brexit to stop non European immigration — specifically Muslim immigration.

“ The movement of people in Europe fair enough. But not from Africa, Syria, Iraq, everywhere else, it's all wrong”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/27...
I don’t know if you intended to sound condescending, but you come across that way. It’s not offered by my bank and I have very good reasons for not switching.
Also the use of the content as per provision on the web.

NYT is paywalled - you have to agree to a license to access it, there are exclusions in that agreement that I don't understand but I think may be important in this discussion!
Check sibling comment on Canada cheese trade.
> Let's say I own a self-driving car that's able to reliably park itself. I pay close attention the first few months to make sure that it's safe and reliable, and once it's proved itself I start trusting it. I've been as careful as can reasonably be expected, but one day the manufacturer pushes a mandatory, automatic over-the-air update that contains a critical bug, and my car suddenly starts misbehaving and I get ticketed.

But this is very easy. The self-driving is a component, same as brakes or lights. If your brakes stop working because of manufacturing issue and you crash into something it's the manufacturer's fault. Nothing new here.
Electricity will kill you.

For the love of god, do not buy any line-voltage electrical equipment/devices from Amazon. I wouldn’t even buy 12v/24v/48v electrical parts from Amazon. It is not worth the risk of a house fire, no matter how much money you save. I don’t care if it claims to be ETL and UL listed, buy it elsewhere.

Amazon’s supply chain cannot be trusted when life safety is a factor.

Please buy electrical material/electrical devices from a retailer or supply house with a trusted supply chain, it isn’t worth killing your family to save a few bucks on an extension cord.
hehe! ..I come from Ableton on Win7. But, Bitwig (formed by ex-Ableton devs) saved the world for me as it is a) similar but better than Ableton (ofc subjective) and b) it runs on Linux! Check it out, take it for a spin!
I’d blame the politicians, mostly… taking a <4% margin on a non-binding referendum as an excuse to self-immolate was entirely a decision by the people in charge.
So basically Polish workers stopped coming because it was harder thanks to Brexit, and had to be replaced by less-white people?
> Heck I don't see them admitting Turkey

Should they? Why?
Should the U.S create a union with Mexico?
I built a $385 PC that beats Apple' m3 MacBook Pro and iMac
> Is a $50 dinner at a restaurant once a week worth it

The obvious answer is "no". You seem to have something else in mind.
How do you feel about the lengths of copyright? Do you feel the current length (life + 70 years) is too much/too little/ just right?

Personally, as much as I hate the concept of copyright, I do still want artists (I include authors etc in this term) to be able to do their work professionally without relying on something like patreon (which primarily predates serialised work like comics) so I would prefer shortening copyright to something more in line with patents, 20 years. How do you, as an author, feel about reform like that?
So on your interpretation if I photocopy a book and then sell the photocopies to my friends there is no infringment?

I don't think so, but hey, a photocopier is a machine and it generated the book so should be ok!
I would even go as far as arguing that in languages with manual memory management like C, types are primarily a means to tell the compiler how to treat & manipulate a given piece of memory. Type safety and making it easier for us to reason about code can be a side effect of that but it's not a given.
So how else should have they responded to the referendum and the people's will?
I joke that the most elegant solution for this is if Scotland votes for independence, separates and joins the EU, the rest of the UK joins Scotland, nothing changes in terms of monarchy or government except titles but they backdoor their way into the EU, and everyone heads down to the pub for a pint to pretend this never happened.
I would think the transformativeness defense used by appropriation artists might be applicable to establish that a photo of an out-of-copyright image is an “original work of authorship.” Cue Richard Prince to put it to the test…
>For instance Netflix charges you for the next month you'll be using it.

Yes, and if you didn't use it for the next month you could "freeze" the subscription for the user. Basically as if the user cancelled it on the last day. It should be easy for the user to continue it since the payment method is already setup and authorized. Send an email like "Hey, we noticed you haven't been using our service lately. We went ahead and cancelled your subscription. Welcome back anytime."

For what it's worth my perspective is for a service that is free to use, but subscribers get extra "free" stuff. Basically the purpose of subscription is to get loyal customers who do not use competitors.
Smells like ChatGPT.
It's just normal old raycasting through a voxel grid a la Amanatides and Woo: http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~amana/research/grid.pdf https://github.com/cgyurgyik/fast-voxel-traversal-algorithm/...

Casting the rays from the camera will be nice and coherent, plus you probably get much better and easier shadowing using ray casts compared to shadow maps.
I'm taking about exactly our same system but it pauses (payment for) the service after a full month of no use.