skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll never guess what bill funded this site...

... the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 of course!

It's in Sec 7103: Grants for Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood
You are correct, as I posted below on launch sites, in agreement.

Guess I was reacting to the rest of the thread that was discussing AI and Human Rights.
It's complicated isn't it.

Yes. As a guest or visitor. I am granted a lot of deference. Especially in someone's home. Chinese are very friendly.

But China is modernizing, progressing, very rapidly, and much of that has a human cost. So think it still is correct, that OP was implying, that China will not be as worried about controlling AI. As many fear, China will use AI for surveillance and control.
frankly id rather have a database of dad jokes than more bombs
6 hex digits or 9 digits for RGB is better? In what way do you figure that to be true?
Thanks. That's interesting. I've only seen the outside of IBM mainframes in the few computer rooms which had both types of machines.
I have heard similar stories of Amazon fraud like you describe. I don't know if everything is true, but this is a problem which can be solved with PKI.

With PKI, the customer reviews a product, and puts the hash of his review somewhere on the internet. The hash might be the hashed version of a JSON like so:
{company: "Stuffed Animal company",
product: "Stuffed Animal",
review: "Very good stuffed animal toy"}

When the buyer tries to buy the product, he will verify each review against a public key, and check if all info in JSON verifies correctly. If it does not, then something fishy is going on.

The only problem is where to put the hash of the review. An official database of some kind is required, by a government or something like blockchain. That's why some people refer to blockchain as a "source of truth". It has the potential to contain information no human power can delete from the internet or modify in any way.
This is at best a first order model. But the assumptions are wrong.

It illustrates an important principle, the quadratic dependance of KE. It encourages the argument to lower speed limits.

All good things.

But the vehicle dynamics are wrong.

Vehicle stopping force depends on tire traction not the brakes [1]. You'd think it's a wash but tire traction depends (non linearly) on the normal force which is vehicle weight plus aerodynamics. At 100 kph, aero matters.

Aero can go either way. A ferrari or a rice racer with a massive wing will get decent down force and have improved braking performance lowering final impact speed. A van will probably have lift and therefore worse traction.

Finally there are drag effects, not at all negligible at 100kph.

[1] obviously; brakes have hydraulic calipers. As long as they're at operating temperature, they're fine. Brakes are sized for far more abuse than a single emergency slam. If your brakes can skid the tires, the brakes are not the limiting factor.
He has been in a lot more prangs in the last few years than I have in 20+ years of driving.

This site counts 29 to March ‘22.

But rent a car to him and you might gain something as a business. Rent it to me and you won’t.

https://firstsportz.com/formula-one-how-many-car-crashes-has...
*that far back
noise and dithering are different, though. I'm referring to dithering. It's correct that for videos it can be distracting to have the dithering change every frame, particularly if your framerate is low. I'm doing game dev so my framerates are >=60, at which point FRC dither is near-invisible.
It’s not related to “Worms” from Team 17 at all. Both have pixel worms blowing each other up though
Ceci n'est pas une blague.
If there is a next generation crypto wallet, what are you expecting from it?
* Banking level security

1. I don't have to worry about managing or losing private key / seed phrase

2. In the worst case where someone hacked my wallet, MFA would kick in to protect my assets from being drained

3. I can get warnings about scammers and suspicious recipients pre-transaction

4. Hopefully I can get insurance cover for my assets

* Easy onboarding

I don't need to write down private key / seed phrase, just use my Google / Twitter / Email / Phone to log in, that is it.

* UI/UX

Current crypto wallets look exotic compared to our day to day finance apps.
Actually, I got it for making bread, because someone recommended it to me. I didn't really test the difference though. I didn't know about cheese sauce, I may take a look at it.

I have 250g of the stuff, probably enough to last me a lifetime considering the quantities used.
I'm not a VA member. I have close family who are though. And I hear the same kind of complaints from them as I do from family members with Kaiser.

Mostly around availability of specialists. Things like not being able to schedule an appointment with a Kaiser GI doctor for 6 months, but they wouldn't approve going to an outside doctor without going through some kind of byzantine appeals process.

As far as the studies go, I was originally posting them in response to the OP's claim that VA hospitals are "notorious horror shows", which implies things like botched surgeries.
Customer Development
Not totally sure what I'd use this for. Silkscreen is bigger, but is a lot more legible at small sizes.

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Silkscreen
Do you have a list of favorites?
Or more than 100 families with a Dad around.
Doug Stanhope can be unbelievably subversive: '60 Inches Of AIDS On Any Given Sunday' behaves like the insane horniness is the joke, just ridiculously over-the-top as if the things he's saying aren't still simple observation comedy. It's overblown TO make it go down easier because it's too obviously outrageous. Subversive.

Probably the best and biggest subversive ever? Eddie Murphy. He went HARD in the same manner: getting you to laugh at his extremeness when the joke is, it's actually not a joke, it's something he's observed. If he just made a case for some of the stuff he brings to your attention it wouldn't go over, but pick just the right spot to go way over the top…
Efforts to reduce single motherhood probably serve to reduce welfare expenses more than most other efforts
reminds me of the time I'd have the smallest font possible running in xwindows with a server log scrolling in it. I was so used to the pattern of the logs, I'd only need to see a change in said pattern to know something was wrong.

this would probably have beaten that smallest font back then
For a commercial airliner on final, probably slower than that, ~240--280 kph (130--150 knots). Given cruise speed is closer to 1,000 kph, that's comparatively quite slow.
I don't know the intention of the Rust team, but maybe it's because of the difference in release cycles: if a bug is found in an unstable feature today, it can be fixed by tomorrow's nightly build, but it won't make it into stable until at least February. Presumably, the maintainers don't want to release code that is in flux and under active development under the same 6-week release cycle that they release stable, well-tested code.
When the cops search your car for meth and they find coke instead, they don't merrily send you on your way.
_oh_
Scrabble is far from trivial with a dictionary :)
Don't let DARPA find out about this or we'll have a public-private partnership between Valve and Raytheon operating functional manhack arcades in the next half life installment.
I'm checking the zlib changes file [1] and there are regular gaps of years between versions (but there are times where there are a few months between versions). zlib is a very stable library and I doubt the API has changed all that much in 30 years.

[1] https://www.zlib.net/ChangeLog.txt
Maestro I – the first IDE
The Unix and the Echo (1984)
I've spent the better part of the year messing around with every HTTP server I could get my hands on. I would not recommend OpenBSD httpd.

It's supposed to be simple, and it is simple compared to Apache, but it also has way fewer eyes on it. Ultimately, a big pile of string-handling C is likely to have some problems. There was a trivial-to-exploit server-crashing segfault in httpd's FastCGI implementation that was only fixed in the last month or so. There were also recent issues related to null bytes and line feeds in headers causing strange, exploitable misinterpretations of incoming requests in relayd. Much of this is now fixed, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were more low-hanging fruit remaining.

If you're looking for a lightweight HTTP server written in C, I recommend Lighttpd. It's older, more widely-used, and more standards-compliant. I'm not trying to dump on OpenBSD; I run it on my primary laptop. I just wouldn't use their HTTP tools for anything mission-critical yet.
Nuclear only costs more because of outdated and intentionally obstructive regulations lobbied for by the oil industry (who also funded environmental groups willing to hate nuclear btw). Even with the massive over regulation of nuclear power in the US, nuclear is STILL more cost effective in the long run, and has only not been done because the risk of the government deciding to shut down their project or add untenable barriers mid construction has been too great to risk it. And don't give me "levelized cost" bs, that is skewed unrealistically against nuclear.
Considering now around 700 people die every day in Chinese traffic accidents, it isn't that huge of a price (well, back in 1996 I'm sure that number was much lower).
I'm surprised pjmip is missing the point here. Or maybe I am

> Instead of sending streams of bytes to render text, it sends streams of encoded X Windows commands to draw the UI.

(Simplified) VSCode is sending no bytes to a server when you're editing a file. The entire file exists on the client, you can edit all you want and everything stays on the client. Only when you pick "save" is a data sent to the server.

My understanding with X Windows is as you mentioned above, you press a key, that key it sent app on another machine, that other machine sends back rendering commands. Correct? Vs VSCode, you press a key, nothing is sent remotely

Note: There's more to VSCode, while it doesn't have to send keystrokes and it is effectively editing the file locally (so fast). It does send changes asynchronously to the remote machine to run things like the Language Server Protocol stuff and asychronously sending the results back. But, you don't have to wait for that info to continue to edit.
Worth pointing out Firefox had 310 Million user in 2017. That is a lost of 100 Million user in from 2017 to 2021.
The term "AI Agent" is currently being used a lot to describe the setup where you have an LLM doing multiple generation rounds using tools etc so it can interact with an environment or other LLMs or whatever. Feel free to pass your own judgement on whether that's going to go anywhere, but that's what I think of when I hear the term, rather than "web crawler for company making LLM".
Seconded. At this particular point in my career “govcloud” sounds like a normal word. Our project has an overbuilt but robust cloud native architecture (even if I’m not a cloud services evangelist myself) that I think would surprise many folks in the private sector regarding its sophistication.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s still a lot of waste, inefficiency, and BS in government contracting. But some aspects of it are getting better. In our case, we were explicitly told by our “customer” to allocate more resources to scaling than we may in the private sector so that our application would not get hugged to death.
Google ads consume everything above the fold, and are interleaved with the results in ways that are hard to observe. Given you already have to wade through SEO garbage, which is essentially third party ads, you’re having to go through pages of results with a sprinkle of non commercial results. Kagi still has as many SEO results, sadly, but the signal to noise is structurally higher.
FYI: all typefaces (e.g. bitmap fonts) are de facto public domain in the US. (unless they've been design patented)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...
Aside: That chain break animation was sick. Anyone know who/how it was created? Love the dithered effect.
I think the authors might have gone off the deep end here:

> Consider that the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant and its one-amino-acid reversion mutants were artificially and
systematically generated. In that case, we should suspect that the other variants (Alpha to Delta) were also
artificially generated viruses. Indeed, the lack of findings to date that many of the various mutations seen,
especially in the early variants, are indeed associated with increased viral infection (31) supports the hypothesis
that each variant was artificially synthesized to identify the amino acids of the S protein responsible for
infectivity and pathogenicity. The possibility that the set of mutants was artificially generated to identify amino
acids of the S protein involved in the infectivity and virulence is supported.

Though I appreciate the novelty, it would be fun to see more discussion. But, I think something has gone wrong with your analysis is everywhere you look you think it’s unnatural evolution.
I see you've been massively down voted, even tho none of them can manage to even disagree with your facts. Regardless, I don't think greening offsets the millions that die from air pollution every year, not including any climate change effects.
Is there a way to make Dreidel more fun? Presumably some aspect of strategy, and perhaps a bit like lier's dice (or poker) in that there could be bluffing.
Oh wow, this is probably the most creative thing I have seen for a while. Thanks for sharing.
False - many critical edge cases only come up once every couple of years.

In my area (not cybersecurity) I’m still seeing very serious and brand-new-to-me problems come up even after many years.
We laugh about it but at least it is not something cultural or political. I mean the bar is so low this focus is actually a plus in my book.
Depends on what you mean by "the great SF writers." If you mean Clarke and Heinlein and such, then I would agree; their prose tends to be utilitarian.

But as counter-examples I submit J. G. Ballard, Samuel Delaney, Ursula LeGuin, John Crowley, Gene Wolfe, William Gibson, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, and Theodore Sturgeon — and there are surely others I'm forgetting. All great prose stylists, all masters of characterization, and arguably among the greats of the genre.
On those grounds, you can probably argue that any spending anywhere reduces the deficit in the long run.

EDIT: to clarify, an argument that providing dad-jokes leads to less single motherhood (which then leads to less spending) is so tenuous, that if you accept it, you can accept almost any kind of mental gymnastics.

I agree that reducing single motherhood would probably lead to less spending. It's the connection to dad-jokes that tenuous (at least without any further evidence).
Nuclear projects don't get funded because of regulatory risk, not because they're "too expensive".
What makes it 2-bit rather than 1-bit?
Wait til that they figure out that braille is only 3x2...
Seemingly a million years ago I tried making a CGI application in C. It was a complete pain in the ass. I'm no C wizard (and was even further from that 25 years ago) but it was just an awful experience. Not only did it take me an inordinate amount of time to write it had memory management issues and inexplicable crashes. Total shit show and a waste of time.

I redid the whole project in a weekend in Perl and it was not only a better development experience but worked more reliably and was all around better. I miss CGI for developing web apps. It's straightforward and can easily (or at least in a straightforward way) be tested the same as a CLI tool.

A lot of the problems were my deficiencies in C and just general inexperience. I'm sure today there's a lot of nice CGI helper libraries that would make the process a lot easier. I also have a lot more experience in C so I'm confident I'd just do a better job writing such an app. I have no interest in it though. I'd rather "waste" cycles in a higher level language and solve problems in the domain rather than the tooling. But more power to the crazy diamonds writing web apps in C.
Getting a degree simply indicates to the market that you have the ability to learn and the mental building blocks to start learning the ropes.

Until you do it, you don’t know how to do it. In other words, juniors fumble around and make lots of mistakes - that’s how they get good.
Your rant is very valid by the way. I didn’t have these particular problems but you captured the essence of similar experiences I’ve had with other tools. Just the thougt of tinkering with something im not familiar gives me the goosebumps, maybe a little nausea, shortness of breath. Maybe it’s some form of PTSD gradually accumulated over the years. In the end it’s no big deal if you don’t expect things to work logically and things to work from the first try.
A study of sixteen people...
Also this site is awful and wouldn't let me right click to copy the text.

Edit: Here's a link to the study from a better source. Also, this study unsurprisingly brought to you by the beef industry.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002231662...
"This study was funded in part by The Beef Checkoff, Denver, USA,"
Asks for screenshot from movie. Image generator gives screenshot from movie. Who’s at fault here?
Am iterating on a Linux distribution that boots to an LLM, and has technical, scientific documentation and source code repos on disk. I treat Linux like a Python repl, rather than build the code, AI is trained to use Linux system calls to replicate the state defined in code.

So far it has inferred how to sys call its way to a working hyprland without any bells and whistles. Still working on bells and whistles and apps like Firefox, Godot, and normalizing the source code base along the way to eliminate redundancy.

For whatever reason my EE brain sees all the semantic gibberish of programming as … well, gibberish. Electrons and matter interactions are good enough for me, and I’d like some freedom from the contrived semantics that often come along.
Why on a VPS? Some reason related to security?
What's the point of even talking about this? It's just gonna be a little bit of lobbying until the law gets amended and the copyright expiration gets extended
Distributed Dadnial of Service is happening I think.
Nationalized industries are great for like 5-10 years, after which it becomes clear they have no ability to make effective plans or react to a changing market.
Joke's on you: those are not my tax dollars. Foreigners get those premium dad jokes free of charge.

(Though I wonder whether the Chinese can claim dumping with the WTO? That's what the Americans do with Chinese goods that are delivered cheaper than they would like to compete with.)
UK has vehicle manufacturing but no steel production. In case of a war, it's military production is zero.

They ordered new NLAWs to be produced, in peacetime, and the lead time on a small batch is like 3 years. I do not see any possibility of winning a prolonged war against any enemy that wears shoes more sophisticated than sandals.

The Western military-industrial complex was dissing primitivity and backwardness of Russian army, and with 10x the budget, I thought they were right. I thought Ukraine would lose militarily, or politically, or lose morale, thank kind of thing.

I never imagined that western military complex is so proud of having it's few expensive and fancy toys that it has actually grown incapable of producing abundant supply of shells and bullets. South Korea supplied more artillery shells to Ukraine than US or EU. Looking at the state of affairs, i cannot help but thing corruption and fraud.

But how can this be? We are comparing to the two most corrupt countries on the plane, Russia and China.

All of western military leadership that is currently antagonising China must be barking mad, China has 10x industrial capacity of Russia.
*In 65-85 year olds
Why not both? Slava Ukraini, dad jokes slava!
companies have an avenue to express their values to customers via behavior. If a company is employing shady or manipulative advertising techniques in order to reach me then I make an effort to vote with my dollar in any way contrary to their continued existence.

ads aren't bad, weaponized psychology has the opportunity to be quite bad
China already has almost 100% cell phone penetration so that is it.
Are you blind? The only reason we have so much solar and wind is because of massive subsidies.
Attacking study sample size without regard to the effect size is not helpful. A study of 16 can be more than enough to provide a statistically significant result if the effect is large enough.
How Close Is Existing C/C++ Code to a Safe Subset? [pdf]
Anyone who's worked out on a regular basis can confirm this. And it's not just anecdotal, significant components such as creatine simply don't exist in vegan meals without supplements.

As an ex-vegetarian (who rarely eats meat now), I'd love to see more research into this and what's missing. Also, what needs to be done to supplement a vegan/vegetarian diet for exercise is pretty well known.

But this "study" of a small sample size confirms what has been pretty much completely and unambiguously known for decades. And it's meat industry funded. Nice.
That's 9 bits, or 512 total combinations in that grid; thus, theoretically one should be able to fit all of ASCII, but many of the characters would be very difficult to distinguish or recognise.

(Incidentally, a common 7-segment display can also fit all of ASCII, and if you include a decimal point too, can represent a single byte completely: https://dkeenan.com/7-segment%20ASCII%20characters.txt )
This study seems awfully limited (16 people!), so may not mean much.

However, it's pretty well known that animal protein is higher quality than vegatable protein (by the amino acid profile.) You can't just compare grams of protein on the back of the container.

So it wouldn't be all that surprising either. For me personally, I've tried whey protein powder and the vegan stuff (the good, expensive stuff.) I get better results on the whey. I also tried beef protein powder. It's disgusting, I don't know if the gains were any different from whey, but it's not worth it!
I live in a major metropolitan city in the US. I am somehow always surprised whenever I see a car driving around with no license plates. It’s very common. I see one almost every day.
At the bottom: the study was funded by 2 pro meat organizations. Next.
“This study was funded in part by meat industry consumer organisation The Beef Checkoff and meat producer Vion Food Group.”
In Firefox's about:config switch dom.event.contextmenu.enabled to false to always allow right click. Though it is a bit unnerving on sites with custom right click menus, like discord or google docs.
I suspect at least 50% of the reason people obsess over Japanese denim is not particularly dependent on the second word in that phrase (myself proudly included).
It's one of those weird exceptions that legal systems are full of.

(There might be good reasons for this particular loophole, just like there are good reasons for any other loophole, if you dig deep enough. But the total sum makes for an overly complicated system.)
?? How does that show a failure of the free market??
They were long reads, but thank you. They generally cover history and speculation on BRICS, but we will need to see how it works out. I have seen their meetings and open statements about intent to diversify away from the dollar for trade as a high priority. The articles don't really explain what happens if/when they do figure out international payment systems that avoid dollars. Think of this: You have a trillion dollars you printed floating around the planet. It didn't cost you much to print them, but you did get goods and services for them. If that trillion is halved to $500B, what happens?