skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The premise of the post I replied to is that the mailing list moderation is currently not great and that it allows people to be abusive. It suggest that we should crowdsource this moderation. I assume they think this will lower the burden.

I myself do not think that this is the actual problem. I think the actual problem is that many FOSS communities have fostered an idea that cracking down on certain types of behavior is censorship. Of course they might all agree to ban somebody who is saying certain well known explicit words or being really really aggressive, but there's a lot of behavior that I would consider bannable but they do not.

I'm trying to avoid mentioning specific cases because I don't wanna either reopen old wounds or cause another similar dustup. I can say that it reminds me a lot of the really old post about the 5 geek social fallacies https://plausiblydeniable.com/five-geek-social-fallacies/ In particular social fallacy #1

Obviously we're not talking about geek culture here (in general anyways). After rereading it, I saw something else that we actually do a see a lot even today.

This in particular has happened on many a mailing list, including the ones I'm not specifically mentioning

>> <SNIP> when nothing smacking of social selectiveness can be discussed in public, people inevitably begin to organize activities in secret. </SNIP>

Well-known annoyances get tolerated for years, and the people who do the work start moving their discussions to bug trackers, irc, or in personal emails to avoid interacting with them.
Good(?) news: Even ten years from now, you'll find machine tools and other industrial applications running 16 bit software in prod.
"Traditional" media makes a bulk of their income from things they remain silent on.

Thypicaly, there are "majority advertisers". Their [combined] advertising spend is itself negotiating power, which typically includes PR fluff articles for agencies.

On top of that, PR agency gives instructions what to write and organizes utterly expensive ads from unrelated entities. Everytime you see an article that screams "that's an ad" or is disclosed as such, well... It is most likely payment for something else.
This goes opposite of how I think of evolution.

Admittedly, my feels are that we socially tend to overly emphasize the brutalist shades of Darwinianism, of natural selection as a competitive pressure.

Evolution though is a much broader game of adaption, of finding niches. It's about capturing energy. And having diverse & creative means to adapt & succeed, less one finds oneself trapped only able to survive in a overly narrow environment. Evolutions greater story is more about over specialization being doom than it is about refining the exact perfect match; the perfect matches are amazing & elegant but rarely able to stick around.

I don't really know my stance here. But it does feel like a call for authority. Why are we still diverse? Why still have complexity? Can't someone free us of the diversity of options and crown a champion, decree how it will be? That sort of resembles Darwinianism on the small, but in the big, we get change & evolution from having non-static environments, from having many ways to shape and be shaped, all about.

That shift from dynamic to static systems, when evolution peaks, is usually not far from when that stasis turns to ossification & rot, decay & the fall. We probably should cleanup some & not support a million options, for our own sake, but this notion the past had of supporting a deeply rich & diverse technical ecosystem I find enormously beautiful.

Anyhow, I forget how often autoconf needs to be run. I think often many projects would work fine for aomg time using the same generated conf across many many builds? There's focus here on the silliness of re-running config again and again and again, but I'm not sure when technically it's required; it seems more like habit & ritual than a need?
If you understand italian, here's another short podcast: https://www.ilpost.it/episodes/podcasts/lafinedelmondo/
But hey, 20 million cars / year in 2030 or when was that prediction.
Clearly you need some 3M paint on your walls.
I appreciate the correction.

Eventually, right here, we'll all collectively remember the whole truth about the mysteries of this conglomerated and seldom-used removable media format.
If you don't mind me asking, which agentic tools/frameworks have you tried for code fixing/generation, with which LLMs?
I see what everyone is saying about autotools, and I never envied those that maintained the config scripts, but as an end-user I miss the days when installing almost any software was as simple as ./configure && make && make install.
>EC isn't bound by ECHR, which isn't an instance of the European Union but one of the Council of Europe (not to be confused with European Council, which itself is a EU institution).

Also not to be confused with Council of the European Union, often referred to in EU documents simply as "the Council", which is separate from those two still.
Spying isn't the only method of gaining knowledge, polls exist

And if the definition is vague enough to include both, you can't use it as an argument to exclude one
Perspective actually. And what you perceive to be value.
I'm going to start commenting on ArXiV paper links with the same request.

1. Show me the data

2. Show me the code

3. Show me the model

If we can't play and modify it easily it doesn't belong in HN.
Maybe not the right place to ask, but what’s the tech scene like in Taiwan? Other than TSMC, are there any interesting things going on?
I’m in Kaohsiung but haven’t investigated the scene.
I have no idea why they shoehorned 3M into the article. Floppies rose and fell independently of 3M.
That bread is from the front page here: https://magnific.ai/
I feel like in recent years people--not just relevant trade professionals but a ton of normal people--have also come to recognize them for making protective gear including, very specifically, N95 masks.
I don't think wit is how she identified it.
I didn't want to put too much unrelated stuff in my post, but yeah, these three things have basically the same name yet are entirely different. Who thought it was a good idea?!
TL;DR — I agree wholeheartedly and thanks for the chance to blather about a fictional universe I really enjoy, also a huge wall of text about Event Horizon as a ‘prequel’ showing an interesting division within the 40K fandom.

I agree so hard that I would upvote your comment a thousand times if I could. This fan originated ‘prequel’ to the 40k universe is absolutely perfect in both aesthetic and tone.

But I think, despite the wide support this concept has, it displays a really interesting view into some large tonal changes in the fandom and published materials and attitudes. Within the 40k fandom I think there are a group of fans (mostly older now and less involved in the hobby) that disagree with Event Horizon as a ‘prequel’. It is an interesting dichotomy between what 40k has been since the late 90’s and what it was at its start and during its early editions.

Early fans, in the discourse I have seen online and in older GW periodicals, really focused on the political satire and the somewhat eclectic humorous undertones (and often overtones). The tongue-in-cheek demonization of the human faction, via making them so crazily over-the-top authoritarian, WWII-type theocratic fascists, is clearly pitched as a caricature of the then super powerful right wing party, under Thatcher and her ilk. The other factions had less direct satirical targets, but, as an example, the Orcs power of ‘be stupid but believe and results will follow’ can be seen as a critique of the apparent lack of intellectual curiosity and focus on conformity present in the UK, or as a statement on the semi-‘Cargo Cult’ mentality around the rising hyper-consumerism that was beginning to be pushed on the public by plutocrats. There are plenty of other broad and specific satirical or openly political commentary throughout the 80’s material, especially in White Dwarf supplemental writing.

However, then there are the fans that came into the hobby in the late-middle and late 90’s and up til present day. 40k has been a cornerstone, forerunner, and standard bearer for Grimdark(tm) for nearly the last 30 years. This block of fans (by far those most active in the hobby, particularly the lore/fluff/art creation and discussion) absolutely sees Event Horizon as being a perfect fit for 40K. The days of satire are long past, now the factions and characters in the setting are nearly played straight as examples of their respective stereotypes and associated tropes in genre fiction. Granted, 40k established a good portion of the grimdark tropes, but it has remained steadfast in utilizing and somewhat revising those trappings of the genre without apology.

Where 80’s 40K would have by now been lampshading everything in the setting and potentially altering fluff to better satirize the current global political and societal milieu, the current fandom and GW itself are committing to playing the universe out.

I love 40K and think both perspectives have merit, but at the end of the day 40K is still my vibe no matter which side of this divide I may find myself.
I believe that the BitGrid, a computing fabric consisting of a homogeneous grid of cells with 4 bits of input (one from each neighbor) and 4 output bits (one to each neighbor) and a look up table (LUT) can outperform anything NVidia is cooking up, in AI related tasks, for less power, less silicon, and can handle defects much better.

If you're going to spend Billions in chips to go into a data center just to do matrix multiplies... maybe spend a little bit to see if this might work better?
> According to Yoshida’s calculations, the proportion of Japanese named Sato increased 1.0083 times from 2022 to 2023.

Not sure if I would base such extrapolations on a single year. For every country with this naming convention, I could probably find a number > 1 for a given year and extrapolate.

Also makes me wonder why we have societies where women give up their name. They carry the offspring inside but then they adopt the father's name. I think even genetically women contribute more through mitochondrial DNA.
> Now we are in 2024 and what actually happened is no one owns their movie or music libraries anymore... they are all streamed from some remote CDN somewhere, and most content creators get paid a pittance compared to what they did in the old world.

As I grow older, I've learned that I only care about this with music. I've lost access to number of tv shows and movies over time, but never really batted an eye after I've seen them. I enjoy rewatching clips that are mostly on youtube and rarely care for the whole movie.... I'm just one guy though.

When I lost it with music, THEN i really cared. Caused me to seek physical media when I really like sometime, which sadly isn't always possible with all artists.
how will a 2023 tesla become cheaper than a 1991 honda civic?
I've been thinking for a few months about a similar write-up about Maxell - I own their cassette tapes, 5.25", 3.5" and 3" floppies, CDs, DVDs, and blu-rays. What a company!
If you've never visited South East Asia, then Taipei is probably the best first city to visit over there. Nice people, amazing food, many English speakers, easy to navigate. I'm sure there's a tech scene there, but I would visit even if there wasn't.
EAS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_article_surveillanc...
Is it a social safety net or stronger legal protections for retailers? In the USA the store has no legal right to detain you and spot check your receipt. Membership stores can revoke your membership for noncompliance and then not let you in anymore without a membership, but that is the closest you’ll find here.
The assumption in your comment is that any of this is real to begin with and logic isn't being short-circuited in our brains to make everything "check out" even if it doesn't.

If you simulate a universe with cube blocks from Minecraft, it doesn't matter as long as your users think the simulation is real.

And since you are simulating their consciousness, you can easily short circuit the train of thought that would cause doubt, or that would attempt logic, etc., so they truly believe their Minecraft cube world is incomprehensibly detailed down to the atoms and galaxies in the sky.

They'd happily go on the whiteboard, and prove their theories with math like 2+2=5 and everyone would agree because they literally couldn't disagree - they would feel in their hearts and minds that this is perfectly correct. There's nothing to say that's not happening now.

In fact, this is how I see most advanced civilizations performing simulations. The compute savings would be immense if you could just alter user consciousness as opposed to simulating an actual universe.
the entire point of an SSBN fleet is that no one knows where they are

(consider the UK's "triad": they have no more air, no more land, and their seaborne missiles come from the US, but at least their boomers are from Cumbria, so they still have a permanent seat on the Security Council)

If you're curious as to how one might go about looking for subs, https://www.wassenaar.org is not a bad place to start.
Not in the EU. The Parliament has gained power over time (from being almost useless in the treaty of Rome) but it's still far from the most powerful body of the UE.
Shipping businesses grew and still growing. I think they are making so much money from it despite its margin.
Why is it better? Asking an honest question.
A big pet peeve of mine is that shell is written off as evil but the only reason I ever hear is basically a variation of “I don’t understand it, therefore it scares me.” The reality is, unlike _really_ old languages like COBOL or RPG, bash is still literally everywhere, it’s installed on practically every linux machine by default which makes deploying a shell script completely trivial. It’s certainly under appreciated and because it’s ubiquitous, widely used in build processes, there’s a responsibility to learn it. It’s not hard, it’s not a wildly complex language.

I don’t think these issues would necessarily be solved at all by waving a hand and replacing it with similarly complex build tools. Bazel, for example, can be a daunting tool to fully grasp. Any tool used should be well understood. Easier said than done of course.
In particular this (German) presentation: https://www.analogmuseum.org/library/hamburg_hoelzer.pdf
> Sticking with monolithic dies well past their EoL was an error.

Recalling how Intel tried to argue their multi-chip approach was better than AMDs single chip approach back in the early multi-core days, I find this one so hilarious. It's like the tables have turned.
I came across that term from Nassim Taleb's books and talks. Fascinating.
But what if your prompts are long and complicated? Like points 1-10, in such case, how you post it 10 times?
37.9 million Americans live below the poverty line...you think they are buying a 30k car when most ppl are living paycheck to paycheck?

like the lack of awareness of your own citizens in the comments is appalling. its no wonder trump is so popular with this crowd as much as I despise him.
Intense lobbying, and being mostly invisible to voters whose media only pay attention to national politics.
its that e/acc cargo cult bs
Thermostats ensure that the average _kinetic energy_ remains constant (on average or instantaneously depending on how they are implemented). Your parent post wants to enforce the constraint that the total energy remains constant. So its a bit different from a canonical ensemble (NVT) simulation. This is a microcanonical ensemble simulation (NVE). This means you don't know if you should correct the position (controlling the potential energy) or the velocities (controlling the kinetic energy).

Basically, there will be error in the positions and velocities due to the integrator used and you don't know how to patch it up. You have 1 constraint; the total energy should be constant. There are 2(3N-6) degrees of freedom for the positions and velocities (if more than 2 bodies). The extra constraint doesn't help much!

Edit: Also, the only reason thermostats work is because the assumption is that the system is in equilibrium with a heat bath (i.e. bunch of atoms at constant temperature). So there is an entire distribution of velocities that is statistically valid and as long as the velocities of the atoms in the system reflect that, you will on average model the kinetics of the system properly (e.g. things like reaction rates will be right). In gravitational problems there is no heat bath.
HP Disables Printer Functionality Until You Install the HP Smart App
> Since the EU has suggested that Facebook cannot charge for an Ad-free tier.

That is not my understanding. They have suggested that you can not offer an Ad-free tier as the way to not have your personal data used for advertising. Fb can offer an ad free tier, but in the tier with ads you need to be able to run off personalization of the ads.
Jon Stewart Says Apple Told Him Not to Interview FTC's Lina Khan
https://archive.ph/U4HND
I didn't say all jobs, did I? You successfully listed (some) jobs that might take longer than 30 days to learn.

The thing about "unskilled" jobs, everyone seems to look down their noses at, is that they facilite the people doing the lofty jobs of: lawyer, doctor, c++ programmer, etc. Without them getting done for you you couldn't do what you're doing.

Can the brickie work without their "unskilled" laborer? Sure, but good luck getting you house built in a reasonable time.
I understand, and what I am saying is that it is rare to have retail employees that _only_ do checkout. Nearly everyone performs multiple roles. Eliminating checkout will reduce the overall workload, but won't necessarily reduce headcount, or enough headcount to offset the cost of RFID tags.
The other one that smells horrible are female gingko trees. The fruits smell like rancid butter or garbage.

These days you can really only buy the male ones but older plantings are awful. https://www.purdue.edu/fnr/extension/ginkgo-stinkgo-are-boys...
This reminds me of the 90s - but not just from the looks.

There was a time in the mid 90s in Chicago ( maybe most cities? ) when pagers were the thing, and a pager would come with a free voicemail box. The pager companies would set the voicemail pin to the last 4 digits of the pager number. The customer was meant to change it when they first signed up for their account.

And so I knew quite a few people who would test numbers all day and night to steal voicemail numbers and then use them for all sorts of things.

Promoting raves and other parties

Party lines

Message boards

Various things involving graffiti.

It was a normal thing back then to find a local pay phone and call a couple known voicemail boxes for figure out what to do that weekend or to see where friends were going to be.
FWIW, looking at my flagged history, I can only presume that in 2012 I thought "flag" meant "mark as important / put it in my favorites" (similar to the little flag icon you could put on email messages back in whatever email client I had used decades earlier).
I originally wrote a long reply, but I'll just say that I don't buy your framing, and I don't think the people who depend on that foreign money flowing in to pay them for their work at the prevailing wage where they live agree with you either.
I would like to label guilt/innocence as irrelevant.

The scenario above, describes the dynamics of how incentives work.

As long as consumers expect stuff to be cheap, somebody will step up to provide that (reaping profits). Only highly conscious society or totally authoritarian one can make these changes (though probability of dictator caring about environmental effects is low, and probably not sustainable).

Edit: guilt/innocence are irrelevant in the sense that they do not change the outcome. If human gets into a tigers cage and gets eaten (or seriously injured), outcome was predictable without the need to know who is at fault (tiger or human).
A good one, there's many examples of laws limiting government power. Most constitutions usually include some provision to this effect.
> EVs like the Leaf from 2015/2016 are below $10k

How soon will it need a $7000 battery replacement? It's a non-thermal managed battery, over here (mild climate with winters usually around 0C and summers around 20-25C) they're failing left and right after 5-7 years of active usage.
Page 36 here: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/202...

Basically, it imposes an obligation on "information society
service" (the term uniformly used to denote anybody doing anything on the Internet as a service to somebody else) and on infrastructure providers. So it's not only your chat service, your telecom operator and your phone, computer OS and router who are mandated to spy on you in order to be able to abide. It also imposes compliance demands on "hosting providers", which means they are mandated to scan your website for keywords that may indicate dissension. Better to not speak of children or sex to be on the safe side.

The wording "obligation to detect" means that an encrypted binary blob stored at rest at a hosting provider or transferring over optic fiber is a violation of this law, since the "information society service" can't meet its "obligation to detect" on those. In simpler words, this law does not outlaws cryptography-per-se, but makes it so that "information service providers" are strongly discouraged from letting people have any.

Article I point 5 says that "end-to-end" encryption should be preserved, but note that I.5 and I.1 are compatible if the "information society service" implements client-side scanning. Point 4a was suppressed, which means "information society services" and hosting providers must scan customer data in search for illegal activity, in order to comply with I.1.

I.1 is compatible with I.3 to the extent a private person is not an "information society service". That is to say, EU citizens have a right to a private life and
family life and to freedom of expression and information in the web-server they run in their living room, running their own operating system, and connecting to the Internet through an illegal juncture on a copper cable.
You can also use special programs that will make healthier rice - search for low sugar rice cookers.
> the cashier won’t start scanning your items until the person in front of you has bagged all of their stuff

What happens every now and then to me is that the person in front watches open mouthed as their shopping gets scanned and piles up in the bagging area, then they pay and fuck around with their purse (honestly idk what they’re doing) then take forever to pack, while the cashier starts scanning my stuff and mixes it into theirs.

I don’t love self-checkout, it can be annoying when something doesn’t scan and I don’t have the ability to manually input the bar code like a normal cashier does. And sometimes there can be errors (“place the item into the bagging area” - when I already did), but I’m overall glad to have the option for self-checkout.
> The reduction of the board size and the number of pieces from standard chess was due to the very limited capacity of computers at the time.

I wonder what the authors might have achieved having access to modern computers that are billions times faster than their machines.

> The computer played three games. The first was played against itself. The second one was against a strong human player who played without a queen. The human player won.

Again, I wonder what they would think seeing AlphaGo beating Lee Sedol [1],[2]

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo_versus_Lee_Sedol

2. https://youtu.be/WXuK6gekU1Y
Good to see eurocrats focusing on the important issues.
This is being downvoted, but the trigger for the NetzDG-style regulations all over the world now was from Germany; and many at the time claimed it was quite close to the Chinese government’s censorship model.

A western nation doing it seems to cause many to think that such actions and laws are justified.