skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can see why it would appear that I’m saying that, but that was not my intention.

You are talking out of both sides of your mouth. In another comment on this same thread, you say this:

> [...]women in the field are more readily dismissed, and I think they shouldn’t be. It’s a moment to check our internalized biases and make sure we’re operating in good faith.

In your original comment you explicitly accuse the OP of operating in bad faith, presumably as a result of "internalized biases" as described above. How does this not add up to an assumption that OP treated the researcher differently because she's a woman? It is exactly what you are implying.
You consider it a good sign that the project is charging money for its use. Others consider that a sign that it's going to become increasingly customer hostile on a short enough timeframe that you don't want to go anywhere near it.
Only the European models get logical and unambiguous yellow signal lights, so I agree with you.
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Likewise. When we went to Spain last year I was trying to understand how to book tickets and this site was invaluable in explaining how it was all set up and what we could and couldn't do online or in advance.
my bet is also explained here https://youtu.be/YJVUGecCXv0
You are correct, but this is precisely what I mean by sacrifice.

Freedom costs.

One has to have optimism beyond oneself - which is really a belief and
care for the future and future generations.

I guess my point is that wherever you are in the world, and whatever
frightened "elites" (legitimised criminal classes) you have to deal
with, democracy and freedom are not states of being but ideals we make
sacrifices for.

I think we have done a good job of standing up for that. I'm
reminded on International Womens Day that people used to throw
themselves under trains to make a point. They chose visible
struggle. Protest is ever more costly. And what of Aaron Bushnell?
Beyond comprehension! We've been living off the courage and sacrifice
of 50 million lives 80 years ago so we're free to make money and have
a good time, and that savings account is nearly empty.

Choosing to get fired, trash a "career", or forgo money seems a small
sacrifice in the scheme of history and what others have given up.
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Did they cancel the fee again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39612607
I'm confused. Is GFW built by Apple or Microsoft?
Classic!

For anyone wondering: https://youtu.be/FlFt_W4664M
Yet another staggering example of "Rather than looking at any productivity data, I have instead decided arbitrarily that I personally prefer when everyone is here so I will spend a ridiculous amount of money on enforcing my preferences."
> On the nes, snes and sega machines the same platform engine was reused in 1000s of games.

No, this isn't true. Almost all games were bespoke back in that era - the machines simply weren't powerful enough to allow for competitive, flexible game engines. An individual development house might have a code library or base that they'd iterate on, but there was little sharing between different companies (much less reuse by the thousands).

By the 16-bit era sound engines did tend to be widely reused, though (e.g. GEMS).
no, other counteies also bought planes, and produce them too
No offense, but as a hunter, military "tactics" don't really apply here.
I've found advice from seat61.com useful a few times.

He recommends https://raileurope.com/ -- When I used them back when they were loco2, I was impressed by the customer service. I needed to change my train ticket, so emailed them and they sorted it all out for me with minimum fuss, emailing me replacements. At the time it was a lot easier than dealing with the local railway companies in countries where I didn't speak the language. I don't know if they would be as good now that they aren't a startup though.

History of loco2/raileurope: https://www.seat61.com/websites/who-are-raileurope.htm
I can't down vote this so I'll reply to say that there is still value to be found amongst the noise and complaints, even in this thead. I found iainmerrick's comment insightful and worthy. A place to discuss the value of animations is of value some of time too. There are lots of other threads to participate in.
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Dementia is no joke. It becomes quite clear when people start losing their judgement. But from your reaction, it seems you have some misconceptions. My mother had dementia (and other problems). When it became too hard for her to bear, she indeed chose euthanasia, a choice she had made long before she started suffering from it, and died with dignity, surrounded by her loved ones. It is an opportunity I truly wish to be available to everyone who suffers from a deterioting condition.
There's a strong "large" fetish which I think is mostly an US cultural problem.

It probably started with public companies not paying dividends and instead rewarding the shareholders by share price increases.

This means they have to grow indefinitely. The logical outcome is having one all-encompassing monopoly that handles everything. Kinda like a state economy, but they don't get the irony.
Shout out to forms which error out with "Password too long! Must be at most ten characters. All from this subset of ascii". Which seems especially popular with banks.
True - it's very hard to build a continuous tickless clock.
What happens with the url? If it’s gone will the form work as intended?
Mythtv is solely software. It works seamlessly.
> "There is no doubt in my mind that the informal conversations, brief catch-ups and ability to meet in groups in person has been far more effective"

I agree with this, but on the other hand they don't provide hard data or whether they tried to make hybrid work so once again it all sounds rather arbitrary.
What Killed the Apple Car? [video]
I don’t know where you’re coming from. I bought a color inkjet Brother printer years ago and I’m extremely satisfied. After using Epson and HP for years, it… just works. Every time I click "print", it prints.

"Buy Brother" is still my answer. If you need high quality prints, don’t buy a consumer grade printer.
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> When will we shift towards long-term, extensive trials before introducing another chemical in our life cycle?

Realistically, never, because these chemicals are solving real problems for us. We would need to be willing to leave problems unsolved for decades to do this.
Ask HN: What internal tool/app has helped your team/company the most?
Share your story. What internal tool or app has your team or a previous team built that helped you the most.
In the U.S. we have

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance_Institute_for_Highwa...

the IIHS is accused of pushing oversized cars but overall has pushed the industry really hard to improve safety in certain directions.
If the animation is so slow that it is still visible after your finger isn't obscuring the button anymore, I'd argue it has to be really slow and is not snappy anymore. It also doesn't behave like anything physical, because physical buttons/sliders only move while you're touching them.

The gold standard used to be to make buttons large enough so they are never fully obscured (for toggles, the label can be included to be part of the button) and to highlight them when pressed and remove the highlight when released. (Like keys on a virtual keyboard mostly still behave.) That way, you have a clear indication of when you press something, and it coincides with what your finger is doing, and doesn’t lag behind.
You don't even have to make a single line change to your backend to fix this. You can fix this entirely on the frontend by just applying a digest hash on the password before sending to the backend for proper password hashing. This way you can even support "unlimited" length password.
What is a little contradictory is that designing a system to use less resources can increases the number of people fine tuning models so that the final result can be a net global increase in the total energy use. A hypothetical goal could be to reuse fine tuning, that is designing a knowledge graph in which you fine tuning from a previously fine tuned model (like dynamic programming, save the result of previous computations). Lora allow us to store the small matrices with low cost.
There's only so much user hand holding you can do.
Sure, the same way blenders can solve nutrition.
> Is there even a way to get back to natural state of things?

Back to when 75% of the population worked in the fields many of them as slaves? Surely you don't want that back.
I miss the old days of youtube when they had no restrictions. My password was x for ages. I think the only thing I use which still allows short passwords is my apple system password which thankfully is still three characters.
Toggle buttons are supposed to have an instant effect. It's an anti pattern to gate the effect on a submit.
Reminds me of an satiric text that is published whenever a person kills students at a school in the US.
GaLore: Train 7B models from scratch on consumer GPU
If you have a mechanical clock, put a single LED on the end of each dial, mount some frosted glass or plastic plate a few cm in front of the clock face, and glue a pole in the center of the plate between it and the clock face to make the LEDs cast shadows on the plate.

Easy, except for reliably powering the LEDs.
The UK.
It was outright banned for the longest time. I see now according to wikipedia they allowed it in very limited contexts in 2011, but almost all scenes with product placement are still edited out of most media, leading to shorter runtimes on most movies.
It’s not unheard of, though not common. There was an incident a couple years ago where a musher, not during the Iditarod iirc, had to shoot a moose. She could not down it despite emptying her gun into it. She managed to cut some of her dogs loose, but the rest were basically hostages. It’s horrific what can happen! That moose stayed close by and attacked off and on for an extended time before she could get help. (Source: https://m.facebook.com/koahteam/posts/this-has-been-the-most... ). I’m glad Seavey was able to dispatch this one without further harm.

As a sort of PSA: moose are frankly more likely to attack if you have a dog. It’s honestly a risk factor for being attacked by a moose here in Alaska for much of the year (besides the presence of calves, of course). They have strong instincts against anything reading like a wolf. Moreover, they are more likely to opt for fight over flight when in deeper snow because it is tiring to traverse and they won’t be able to run as well. They’re exhausted, grumpy, desperate.
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Considering that the topic is approachability and energy efficiency, that Mac Studio will do reasonably fast inference while consuming <200W at full load.

The speed is certainly not comparable to dedicated GPUs, but the power efficiency is ridiculous for a very usable speed and no hardware setup.
Yes

'We'? Maybe never, maybe a successor civilization will, maybe we'll figure out simulation and organ on a chip well enough to do those long term studies in only a year or two

Not for the scale we operate at, at least for our current level of ecological mastery. I presume you're gesturing at different planting techniques that reduce reliance on pesticides. Not endorsing the paradigm.

Yes and no. Yes, because we are in a state of nature - we are nature. No, because we've been modifying our environment for thousands of years, you might not even recognize the precursors as food. The chemistry isn't altered, the organism is.

..shuffling diseases.. around different social classes? Huh. What a suspicious thing to say
Dupe of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39634174
Nice job, but it’s math, not some magic trick. I would like to see the animation functions graphed to describe how the numbers change relative to time.
> Yes, 千字文 is not common in mainland China at all. I was born and raised in mainland China, and have no memory of the content of 千字文 other than the title.

But the original content is talking about the past, not the modern era.
That's unfortunate, so it looks like OpenAlternative will also succumb to the same fate of other alternative software sites.

More ads.
> The main complaint about iOS is it’s too restrictive.

For a small subset of users. For most others, it just works.

The benefits of being a hassle to move away from and being locked out of family/friend discussions because your Android breaks the group discussion far outweigh the benefits of opening up the platform.
Last updated December 2021. AFAIK this is dead.
Glad you like it :)

During my days as a systems engineer I build the underlying SAN, compute, network and the VM itself.

...about 8 yrs ago I did say it should probably be behind cloudflare and on azure/aws etc...looks like its still on the machine I built!
Slightly easier to figure out but no less annoying is when the maxLength attributes on the password fields for the two forms (create account and login) are different.
"I'm an expert and the other person isn't as knowledgeable as me" doesn't make your point very well. And mentioning that you worked for free for years seems irrelevant.
A lot of people will argue about the morality and legality of this sort of thing within the system, but I think this sort of thing is truly the result of rising pressures on society to be as efficient as possible in the domain of capitalistic activities.

Of course, as a content creator myself, I do believe that there should be some sort of reward and protection for creating content. However, I also know that we have become a ruthless world where inequality is enormous. And I don't just mean inequality in the traditional sense: even the middle and upper class are forced to live in a world where they are absolutely dependent on the upper tech elite for basic things, and costs are rising.

Thus, piracy of this sort is inevitable. It should not just be those who can pay who should have access to knowledge and ideas. Everyone should have that. In a fair world where there were limits to corporate power and technological development, there would be more equality and piracy would not be necessary.

So as much as I want to make money myself on my own content, I also support piracy simply because it's the only solution within the capitalistic system for some sort of equality in terms of access to knowledge.
That's true in general. Taking an anticompetitive advantage away from a company almost always results in a better product because it forces competition.

Competition is good for both companies and consumers.
But pihole is dns only, any requests directly to ip address will still pass.
Great site! That one's been my "go-to" site for this need for many years now. Was especially helpful back when I was new to Linux.
Cursor Copilot++
Wikipedia claims that "Some states, including California, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, and Oregon, have banned chlorpyrifos on food grown and sold in their jurisdictions. Those bans remain in effect." It's also 100% banned in foods sold in EU area.

So, not that hard to avoid depending on where you live. Apparently corn, soybeans, wheat, fruit trees are some of the most common crops it's used on.
If you can look past the self-aggrandizement and advertising, the article does present useful tools and abstractions for thinking about applying LLMs + NNs to any problem. Wolfram is good at joining dots between ideas from different areas and writing these summaries (albeit verbosely). It's amusing though that he seems to think that if he gives something a new name and writes it down then he invented it, e.g. computational irresucibility seems very similar to chaos theory and "meta mathematical space" seems very similar to the ideas Terence Tao has been talking about wrt the utility of LLMs in mathematics. I could be wrong and Wolfram really invented these ideas though, I haven't researched the history enough.
Seems like with every passing year, we are going downwards, not upwards. Perhaps it only seems the other way around to those with the greatest addictions to technology, who will justify any development to satisfy their cravings.
Good, except min 8 chars is not safe at all. Don't approach any semblance of security before min 12 chars. Min 14 is when you get into real security. The increase in entropy is exponential with password length, so security increases quickly after this.
A moose once bit my sister.
The height restrictions and rent control are overstated.

If they were a blocker to slum redevelopment, then similar cities like Delhi (or even neighboring Thane and Navi Mumbai, or nearby Pune) would be equally as decrepit, which they are not.

The major issue is land procurement and failure to minimize encroachment.

India, being a democracy, is limited by public demands. As cities became economic growth engines, a lot of people migrated, but were unable to get housing, and then autarkic India had (and in a lot of cases, still has) socialist style "Development Authorities" manage housing construction within the Tier 1 cities.

The development authorities were notorious slow at developing new property, so migrants were forced to encroach land and build slums.

As the first generation of slum dwellers succeeded economically, they began moving out of the slums, but rented out the slum property to newer migrants, and kept a hold on the slum properties waiting for a government to eventually legalize those slum holdings and transfer the land rights to the "basti" owner (this kind of transfer has happened before - most recently in Odisha, Delhi, and Punjab).

Unlike in China, India's democracy (no matter how flawed it is) prevents severely underfunded urban local governments from preventing this encroachment, and politicians actually liked this, as slum dwellers formed voting blocks, and would de facto collateralize their land to grey market financial institutions, which themselves worked under the auspices of those local politicans.

And finally, slum dwellers would organize and place political minefields. There's a reason why tiny temples, mosques, and other religious institutions dot urban India - they aren't just for veneration but also tools to prevent demolitions, as dwellers can rally around protecting the temple or mosque from being demolished (along with the neighborhood), and politicians would have to back down, as Indian elections are won on extremely small margins.

This economics of encroachment occurs in similar developing country like Brazil, Phillipines, and Vietnam as well as former developing economics like Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Slum dwellers are not idiots - just poor. They know they land they are on is worth millions, and most governments are not going to use force to kick them out, and if they do, they WILL fight back. The land they encroached is the closest thing they have to a nest egg.
Several comments mention passwords getting silently truncated by input maxlength. FWIW my extension provides a visible warning when this occurs: https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/
Why can't phones have mouse pointers? Drag anywhere on the screen (ideally not where the pointer is) to grab the pointer. Do some kind of multitouch thing like tapping with a second finger to click. Then you can see what's under the mouse instead of constantly prodding your fat finger into the object of interest. I guess that would be too slow, or something? Not simple enough?
Do you keep some notes on the books you read? (I mean online notes here; but if you don’t keep them online, while maintaining the notes, the question is still valid. Maybe you have some system that works for you and you want to share.)
Ahhhhh. I was wondering how Amazon (of all people) would decide to do this.
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In Safari, disabling spellcheck also disables text replacement: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214493
This guy was not hunting. Hunting puts weird restrictions on firearms and ammo, but you don't have to follow them for self defense. It's only a moose that I'm talking about for 10mm, good quality 9mm defensive ammunition is good against pretty much everything else in North America, except some large bears.
He's dead. Now the thing that matters is, what other people think and want. Especially his executors. Almost by definition.

He wanted it destroyed? He could have done it himself.

Don't put weird things in your will. Do them before you die. At least then, you know they got done. And get to see them get done!

All these people who leave things to their granddaughter or whatever, jewelry, the family dingus, just give it now! Enjoy their thanks, see them enjoy it.
Well, they serve the same function. Modern consumerist society removes almost all real autonomy from people and makes them do fairly meaningless tasks (most jobs). So, it's rather expected that we need to seek out greater and greater amusements (gaming and playing with ridiculous models) so we're kept in a somewhat happy state, instead of realizing the trick of the system that will one day come crashing down due to its unsustainability.
Signal is not classified as a gate-keeper and therefore no.
I'm having difficulty finding an essay by Lu Xun under the name 話語. Maybe if you mentioned the year of publication, I could find a scan of the newspaper... I certainly don't have a physical copy of his collected works where I can just check page 86 and know what you're talking about. Wikisource has digitized versions of much (all?) of his writing, can you find it in there? https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:%E9%AD%AF%E8%BF%85#%E9...

I did find another text where he brings up the thousand-character classic:

https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E4%BA%94%E7%8C%96%E6%9C%83

記得那時聽人說, 讀《鑒略》比讀《千字文》、《百家姓》有用得多, 因為可以知道從古到今的大概。知道從古到今的大概, 那當然是很好的, 然而我一字也不懂。“粵自盤古”就是“粵自盤古”, 讀下去, 記住它, “粵自盤古”呵! “生於太荒”呵! ......

I remember hearing someone say at that time that reading "Jianlue" is much more useful than reading the "Thousand-Character Classic" or "Hundred Family Surnames" because you can get a general idea of everything from ancient times to the present. Getting a general idea of everything from ancient times to the present, of course that would be good, but I don’t understand a word of it. "Yue from Pangu" is just "Yue from Pangu", read on and remember it, "Yue from Pangu!" "Born in the wilderness!" ...

(It appears that he misremembered 大荒 as 太荒: https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&chapter=56603&remap=gb )
And you would have called a simple "no" dismissive, too…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China
> We believe that substantial improvements can be achieved through an incremental transition to a partially-memory-safe C++ language subset, augmented with hardware security features when available.

Google’s own Carbon language is positioning itself as C++ successor with an incremental path towards a memory-safe subset. It is odd that the article didn’t even mention it.
People think that by making a system use less resources, the entire use of it on a societal level will be reduced. Unfortuantely, we must watch out for more efficiency making more poeple use it, and potentially increasing absolute quantity of energy being used.
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He posts more updates here https://twitter.com/vkrajacic
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He did say “we are now all doomed on this planet to shuffle diseases around different social classes”.
This only happens because we're in a near-monopoly situation. Where all the happy laws of the free market start failing miserably and in paradoxical ways.

With sufficient competition, Amazon would be forced to keep egress fees zero.
Companies consist of people and people care about far more things than profit for a random company. It should be obvious to anyone considering how much people hate on companies and their bosses online. It's close to 60 years ago we got the expression "the long march through the institutions".