skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no mainstream press will ever write anything remotely positive daily life in China.

The number of videos that westerners are receiving with positive messages about daily life in China, (or S. Korea, or Japan) on tablets, laptops or TV channels has never been so high in fact.
Almost entirely bunk until you get to the last line.

>A poor substitute it is, this virtual reality where frustration is legion and where—in the holy names of Education and Progress—important aspects of human interactions are relentlessly devalued.
Generative AI is already full of misunderstandings. From people claiming it "understands" to now that it "simulates".

I'm no math wiz and my training in statistics is severely lacking but it feels like people need to review what they think it's possible with Generative AI because we are so far from understanding and AGI that my head hurts every time these words show up in a discussion.
You are absolutely correct; my previous business ended up ejecting almost all database logic from Java ORMs, and moved almost everything to straight SQL manipulated by stored procedures. Doing so resulted in a significant performance and productivity increase, relative to all the layers of nonsense we used to jump through.

One of the difficulties of doing this was that the tooling isn’t great. We had to write our own tools to make it work, but the benefits of going back to SQL were more than worth it.

(Many years later I made an open source version of that tooling, https://github.com/pgpkg/pgpkg)
To be fair, one famous malware literally just says "you are an idiot"[1] out loud.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSgk7ctw1HY
I just use the built-in one in PyCharm.

It serves my need, which is to ensure I haven't done mistakes in specifying parameters to functions.

I have no desire making Python to be statically-typed.
Great post, though I am somewhat puzzled by the omission of self proclaimed "liberals" that somehow managed to infest much of the web. They are pretty much an exact replica of what we usually call fascists. It's likely that both groups are operated by the same forces.
Japan is just about the least likely country to glorify illegal activity there is. I'm not sure they'd even understand the concept half the time.

It's a problem for their soft power because it means they can't do any of the cool music genres. How can you have metal bands or rappers if none of them are allowed to do drugs or commit any crimes?

(If there's a hint any musician knows what a marijuana leaf might look like they and all their work get instantly deleted entirely from society. Although they do let music producers sexually abuse all the talents they can get their hands on.)
I maintain aiosmtpd using PyCharm and... That's it.

Playing around with Ruff nowadays.

mypy was proposed early during aiosmtpd development but we decided it's not worth the headache.
Your positioning it as "entitlement" is gross. Expose yourself to "ads" that are intrusive and tracking you, deliberately deceptive to drive clicks, spread lies and bigotry because nobody curates the content, and sometimes malware vectors if you want, but it doesn't make you morally superior, it makes you stupid.
See also "German Tank Problem" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
Use lots of typing.Protocol and you get all the goodness of duck-typing.
I think we need an ai to detect an ai content, but for sure it sounds like an endless arms race
If we are talking analogies, this is just Sora forgetting because of limitations of how the network handles the autoregressive dynamics. When they make a bigger version of Sora this will happen less. Sora aleady has unprecedented object permanence, see the woman walking in Tokyo scene where signs and people are reconstructed after two seconds of occlusion. Soon we will have object permanence following ten or more seconds of occlusion. Then a minute. Then three minutes. Then we will figure out a trick to store long term memory. What will people say then?
I don’t look at these things in such a black and white way.

Gaming is one of the cheapest hobbies one can have. A $70 AAA game costs less than one mediocre dinner out. And I don’t even personally buy any games at that full price, I try to buy games that cost less than a Starbucks run.

In my entire nearly 20 years gaming on Steam I’ve only spent something like $4,000 on PC gaming software. Steam tells me this in an account report. That’s less than the average American spends on their car in just one year - for a depreciating asset that is eventually worthless.

The percentage of games that have been “revoked” has been minimal. I am aware of some delisted games like a particular multiplayer-only tech demo-ish title that I enjoyed (Shattered Horizon).

My old Nintendo eShop games on previous consoles can’t be redownloaded but they can still be backed up and played and I’ve always received ample advanced notice.

To me, “own or die” is quite dramatic and would be overbearing on my hobby. I recognize that all these experiences are temporary. I can’t go back in time and play Skyrim like it’s the first time I played it. That experience has depreciated. If I go back and play a game like Red Steel it will be pointless because the game is better at representing a point in time in video game development rather than a game that is worth playing in 2024.

Don’t be surprised if the next consoles ditch discs entirely, but my advice to any gamer is to not let that line in the sand stop them from enjoying what they enjoy. Because this hobby is cheaper than basically anything else you can do in real life that is far more ephemeral.
As a german trust me, the regulations are a good thing. When I drive at night, there are so many cars in oncoming traffic that dazzle you with their led headlights
Isn't the article linked to here also dishonest?

As in, the author compares a large box of complex styles to a single class attribute, without showing that to have the same function, those styles will also be written out in the CSS file. The contents of the CSS file should also be shown.
Nuclear is not more expensive once you factor in storage as that’s required for wind/solar to compete on an even field. Nuclear would also get cheaper if we built more of it.
This is not just about one man's fate but a litmus test for democracy, transparency, and the power of state over the individual's right to expose wrongdoing.

Assange's efforts through WikiLeaks to bring to light uncomfortable truths of our times should be seen through the lens of the cypherpunk ethos - advocating for privacy, freedom of speech, and the use of cryptography as a route to social and political change (or preservation of previously entrenched liberties). These trends have all come off the boil significantly in the last 10 years I think at great detriment to society at large.

The pursuit of truth should not be a crime, nor should it be met with life-ending punishment. Assange's work is a testament to the belief that information should be free and accessible, and those who dare to reveal the hidden should be protected, not persecuted.

In Oscar Wildes "The Happy Prince", who, from his high perch, saw the suffering and injustices of the city below and used his position to alleviate them, sacrificing his own life. In a similar vein, Assange has endeavored to expose injustices and bring to light the truths that many would prefer remain hidden. As the Happy Prince said to the little swallow, 'I am covered with fine gold,' but chose to strip away his gold leaf by leaf to help those in need. Assange's actions, much like the Prince's, ask us to consider what is truly valuable: comfort and safety, or truth and justice? Let us not forget those who, like Assange, have made life altering or ending sacrifices in the pursuit of truth and justice.
> Hold a sheet of paper next to the display when it‘s showing a white

Tried this, this is a perfect idea. It doesn't work on my laptop (I'm not surprised) but now my desktop monitor is perfectly set. Thank you.
Well the guys at astral has no plans in the near future to create a static type checker.

Ruff is great, though. I now stop using flake8+black+isort and have gone all-in with Ruff.
The Berkeley Software Distribution
A multi-platform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi, Naomi 2, and Atomiswave emulator
It was ok, but not earth shattering.
Yes, I have I talked to more than a dozen Libyans from the lower middle class. I am reasonably certain you haven't talked to any if you hold those opinions.

The some beneficiaries is a joke. You check your own sources - under Gaddafi, per capita income in the country rose to more than US$11,000 - the 5th highest in Africa. Universal free healthcare did exist and was not limited to "some beneficiaries" as you claim. Now, most Libyans suffer extreme poverty and deprivation. A nation that was utterly decimated - all thanks to NATO under the Obama administration.

The funny thing is that Gadaffi was willing to step down from power and hold elections under international observers. The U.S. rejected that. That would mean not having a war and hawks like Victoria Nuland wanted the Libyan government destroyed - not merely brought under democratic leadership. They were aware that if real elections were held and monitored with observers - Gadaffi would likely win and NATO legitimacy for the War would be lost.
That was part of the wasted day I was talking about - trying to configure the system so that the rules would be more useful. I could disable the warnings per-line with comments - although this meant that my code was then filled with these lines and the formatting was awful - but I couldn't disable the warnings globally for some reason. I never managed to figure out why, unfortunately.
They can still email the city council though.
Surely the average deadhead to pickup leg is shorter than the occupied leg, right? If I think of my typical Uber experience, I’m often 3-6 minutes from being picked up and I think I’m usually in the Uber for 15-30 minutes (with occasional longer outliers and almost never a shorter outlier).
PyCharm professional understands Django natively. Maybe try that? PyCharm also has its own type-checker that's a lot less fussy than mypy.
It might be instructive to consider for example the history of genocide, in particular of civilian collaboration in state lead genocide. It might be instructive to consider why the genocide convention criminalizes not only acts of genocide, but also incitement of genocide. Why it criminalizes not only the failure to prevent genocide, but also the failure to prevent incitement of genocide. The US has an extraordinarily strong position on freedom of speech, it is nowhere near a universal moral value.

People kill other people is a statement so simple as to be devoid of any positive meaning. What are you actually trying to say? Don't justice systems almost universally contain notions of incitement of crime, criminal negligence to prevent a crime, and other accessory considerations to the actual act?

Don't justice systems almost universally have several levels of responsibility in relation to intent, which at its most basic level can be established by predictable outcomes?

If, for example, you are a leader of armed forces, and also a leader of organizations capable of creating propaganda. Let's say you create and distribute some propaganda (maybe using some AI tools), and a predictable outcome of that is that soldiers will be more lenient in their consideration of the rules of engagement and international law. In that case, one could at the very least establish that you were negligent in your creation and distribution of propaganda. The actual crime would have been the people killing people, namely your soldiers, but you would certainly be given some responsibility for that.

You can similarly take a small next step after that and consider that a company producing, distributing, and profiting from a dual use technology capable of creating propaganda and disinformation that can be responsible for crimes could be held at the very least morally accountable for those crimes, if not criminally.

Responsibility, accountability, moral and criminal, are not black and white notions. They are heaviest and easiest to attribute around physical acts of damage, but they stretch far and wide. To think otherwise is to allow the people with the most power to rampage unaccounted.
It has no "understanding" of a cat. It's an associative store with soft edges that pulls out compressed cat representations when given the noun "cat". The key store includes nouns, adverbs, verbs, and adjectives, and style abstractions, and there are mappings into the store that link all of those.

But they're very limited, and if you prompt with a relationship that isn't defined you get best-guess, which will either be quite distant or contaminated with other values.

If you ask Dall-E for "a woman made of birds" you get a composite that also includes trees and/or leaves. Dall-E has values for "made of" and "birds" but its value representation for "birds" is contaminated with contextual trees and branches.

Leonardo doesn't have a value for "made of", so you get a woman surrounded by bird-like blobs.

To understand a cat in a human sense the store would have to include the shape, the movement dynamics in all possible situations, the textures, and a set of defining behaviours that is as complete as possible. It would also have to be able to provide and remember an object-constant instantiation of a specific cat that is clean of contamination.

SORA is maybe 10% of the way there. One of the examples doing the rounds shows some puppies playing in snow. It looks impressive until you realise the puppies are zombies. They have none of the expressions or emotions of a real puppy.

None of this is impossible, but training time, storage, and power consumption all explode the more information you try to include.
I don’t think they ever had a requirement that every game have no DRM, and I also think that online games are obviously a temporary experience whose very nature isn’t compatible with the idea of DRM-free.

If they can’t ban players and bots they won’t survive.

IMO the paranoid focus way too much on DRM.
What are respected media outlets? Your personal favourites? That's a nonsensical category, considering most media conglomerates are in bed with their respective governments.
EU to hit Apple with first ever fine in €500M penalty over music streaming
I know @dang has commented on the subject before but now that Nitter is dead, it should be considered hardwalled and Twitter links should be flagged imo. There is no real workaround anymore that doesn't involve signing up.
Agreed. I read and maintain tailwind every day. Rewriting it regularly would be highly unproductive.
It's not even clear to me that what they are fixing need fixing. What's wrong with npm (the registry) already?
It wasn't obvious at all to me that that's even possible. But as it turns out: it's an accessibility feature (1) to mirror the watch screen on iPhone in order to voice control it or use assistive touch.

1: https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/apple-watch-mirroring-...
Refreshing is perhaps the best word to describe the book. Excellent out of not, it’s barely good, but quite different from western sf, which earns it extra credit.
> A $70 AAA game costs less than one mediocre dinner out

Either in USA the cost of life is very strange, or you are making up numbers.

At 70$ per person in expensive western europe it would be a VERY VERY FANCY restaurant.

Also eating isn't a hobby.

You can buy a decent guitar for 500€ and use it for the next 50 years. Which can't be done with games you don't own since they disappear.
> You’ve written the same message, almost verbatim multiple times in this thread.

Until now I had written exactly one message in this thread. If others have made similar statements or cited the same link it's down to the fact that some of us care a great deal and are enthusiastic about io_uring, so this relatively recent information is top of mind.

> Docker doesn’t block IO_URING syscalls

"Update RuntimeDefault seccomp profile to disallow io_uring related syscalls"
from containerd-2.0.0 beta2 release[1], 3 weeks ago... (bear in mind there is considerable history here.)

What a bizarre reply.

[1] https://github.com/containerd/containerd/releases/tag/v2.0.0...
It isn't how markets work because people with more money don't automatically want to spend more money on strawberries.

Rather the inverse; they have more money because they haven't spent it on things yet.

Although it's not a good general metaphor because strawberries are a consumption good and not used for your income like a car is.
No? You could perfectly plug in an RNN or bidirectional RNN for layer. This is the pseudocode for applying multiple layers. It does not really matter what these layers are, transformer, RNN, convolution, dilated convolutions, etc. The recurrence happens within a layer, not between layers.
That's roughly a structural type system, and it's part of what makes Typescript work well (although it has some disadvantages in that you can't easily describe the type "an object with only these attributes). You can somewhat get that effect with Protocols in Python, but it often feels a bit boilerplate-y to me.
Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio says it can understand and we are close to AGI. Maybe you can explain why they're wrong instead of just saying it.
I don't understand. It you don't want to use packages without types, cannot you do just that already?
I guess if you have to use package without typing it's because no good alternative with typings exists, which I'm not sure how creating a separate community will help with
> It says that men suck at relationships

I think you are hyper focusing on one very small paragraph title. The same paragraph labels it as a theory:

"A theory that the core problem is that most men are terrible in relationships even when they are superficially fine, women learn this, and thus men whose selling point is their stability cannot get dates."

Most of the article I find is mostly gender neutral. It also contradicts the usual claim that women/men will have to go on dates with an endless amount of losers:

"There is the stereotype of the person (usually but not always a woman) who goes on dates constantly, finding an endless string of losers. The data here suggests that this essentially is not a thing, or that if you do that it works."

There are definitely articles blaming everything on men but this article is not one of those.
Interesting, VisionOS. Strange choice when they could've just wrapped the "windows" in iOS and leave the rendering to the device.

Probably what they do and it's most likely more marketing than a really new OS with breaking changes to how apps run, but I haven't looked into it.
I remember on boring days reading the factual entries in the beginning of the phonebook. I remember it as a broad description of how the bell system worked and how to use it.

In the late 70s in a central Pennsylvania farmhouse that was some of the earliest technical documentation I ran into.
China also has many CCP members, some of them are told to vote for China everywhere possible. It ends exactly like this every time. Remember the NBA scandal?
Sam Altman's Blog on Productivity
Reminds me of the movie Tampopo (1985): 'A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.'

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092048/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampopo
But not travelling at all is equally righteous? Sounds like a cop-out to me...

Then again I'm not a theologian, and growing up in Italy taught me not to expect any actual consistency from any multi-millennial institution.
There are plenty of examples of BSD-licensed code authors being burnt like this (including original ones from Berkeley, which were an impetus for the creation of the GPL; there were proprietary Unix systems built on top of volunteer-written code competing with the original systems).

Can you point me to any concrete examples of authors of AGPL-licensed code being burnt like this?

Circumventing the AGPL is trivial only on paper. It's hard in any human organization. In practice, parasites usually keep a long distance from the AGPL for reasons which will make sense to you if you sketch out what circumvention means in practice, what it means for org design, and the ROI there (not to mention the social signalling; not all parties are malicious).
Tell that to LinkedIn and every single social network out there. The “successful web” is successful because of dark UX. That’s the harsh truth. HN’s success is the exception, not the rule.
what the fuck that USB-C Dongle has great Signal to noise ratio. wow. probably because it runs on battery?
Apple broke iPhone web apps in the EU for anticompetitive reasons – Tim Sweeney
According to

https://discover.lanl.gov/publications/national-security-sci...

Pieces of cast plutonium are then welded together to form a pit

Note if the world (ex. Russia) ever gets interested in the fast breeder reactor, or even if we try to get the absolute most out of the LWR

https://www.neimagazine.com/features/featurean-advanced-fuel...

there may be revived interest in casting fuel elements out of mixed U, Pu and Zr like so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEfhx5ovuYk

a technology which has been quietly used in marine nuclear reactors for years. This competes with the oxide fuels ordinarily used in civil LWRs and that the French have developed to make mixed-oxide (part U, part Pu) fuels. Problem with that is that quality MOX fuel is made of U and Pu alloyed in a high-energy ball mill but that makes nano particles that are highly effective at getting in your lungs and causing cancer. That is a problem with casting too, but making MOX fuel means you need to pick up fuel pellets with gloves and carefully stuff them in a tube whereas you don’t have to get anywhere near a cast fuel rod.
Nah, 80% of modern AAA games are 100% garbage :)

A tiny few of them still justify their size. Witcher 3 and Elden Ring come to mind.

Other than that, "more is better" seems to be a disease.
I think a lot of it has to do with there often not being actual answers as most of the system is hidden from the user anyway.

But I have had the exact same experience. Up to really hostile behaviour and suggestions to reinstall from scratch. (I didn't know I need to start 'code' to agree to a license to update the c compiler, absolutely new to the OS coming from Linux and stuck for nearly a day) got plenty of feedback in a short time but most were along 'go back to windows' or 'did you try [obscure third party tool]', literally none actually helpful. Could be bad question asking, or just unlucky experience but it stuck to me.

I rather get ignored in Microsoft forums or semi angry 'where are your complete logs!?!1' in the Linux forums.
Not really, there's a lot of "perhaps" and "maybe" in those sentences unlike in the title. And indeed there's no reason to think dark UX patterns do not work in the long run - Google, Microsoft, Facebook and many more have been doing that for decades and there's still around and striving.
Good news: we’re spending more than five times that on domestic semiconductor manufacturing, already, starting two years ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act
That’s pretty cool! My experience is playing with dc power and smaller panels off the grid (campingish) and I am foiled by clouds! I can totally see at a large scale clouds may not be quite as impactful as first thought.
Last year was bad for forest fire season in BC and AB. This coming one has the potential to be as bad or worse. Snow-pack in the mountains is something like 30% of average in some places, so far anyways. Gonna be dry.
Not at all, I really rather like it when I'm playing a game and Windows tabs out to switch to a blank, unresponsive terminal to contemplate my life choices. It's like those "time to stand" reminders on an Apple Watch, except for throwing the computer out the windows.
As a European, I weep everytime Criterion channel is mentioned :-(