skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but have you given thought to the greed and maliciousness of those that prop-up Hamas?

Also, war has never excluded the casualty of innocents except in the movies.

What’s not reasonable is when an attack goes out of its way to kill civilians.

It’s why it was a big deal and a disgrace when Trump pardoned US soldiers who knowingly and without cause killed civilians.

And why what Hamas instigated was especially appalling and inexcusable. And why Netenyahu has overplayed his hand, to cover for his failings.
You wrap errors with fmt.Errorf(). I work on Go daily and I don't need a stacktrace to tell me where the problem is, the error is self explanatory.
Paste the man page into the prompt
We had an old software at work that would only take a specific file format, and of course the files came from multiple sources, which made it really painful for the users.

We transformed a relatively decent desktop into a ffmpeg transcoding machine, which would monitor files incoming from a samba share and it would output the converted file into another samba share.

It was just a bunch of scripts and cron jobs but it worked much better than I anticipated and it was mostly maintenance-free.
That makes sense. Maybe it's better described as "not having the recipe" or "not knowing what land looks like"...? I'm still not sure it's very useful though... it still feels like the awareness of "I am in a bog, and land exists" is a prerequisite for understanding the article at all.
This is just the worst type of internet content.
> As long as you ignore all the other aspects, like inflation, maintenance, etc, you have a pretty darn good return on paper.

That's a pretty significant amount of things to ignore. When you include closing costs (10-15k in NY) and insurance, you're underwater on your house for a pretty long time.
That's absurd. Practically every industry gets some form of subsidies, and some much more than others.

You're just regurgitating some O&G spin talking point that was put out to counter a recent report that may or may not have over estimated the amount of subsidies to O&G depending on your interpretation of the statistics.

But that doesn't mean that O&G subsidies don't exist.

How do I know? My salary comes from those subsidies.
Never.

Because no one will sell them an exclusive license to the data.

The companies selling this data are slimy. They're borderline crimelords. Picture a pirate captain with a hostage that he is ransoming. Now imagine he gets his ransom, but before he releases the hostage he makes a copy of her. Then ransoms the copy to another interested party. But before he releases the copy, he makes another copy and... you get the idea.

It's pirate thinking.

"If one hostage is good? Then two are better! And three? Well, that's just good business!!!" -Hondo Ohnaka
It kills libido and can sap energy levels to where it makes it hard to do many things in the day. It’s not necessarily permanent if you just do a short course. Testosterone can recover. But if it metastasizes you could be looking at long term therapy.
I'm floored by how good this article is, and I just read another, and was also floored. His writing reminds me a bit of Raptitude in its - everything-is-fucked-heh-let's-try-to-function-anyhow attitude. And the writing is so, so good, and wildly relatable.

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/its-very-weird-to-hav...
A lot of it might be coming from deteriorating social bonds. A propensity to see your neighbor as a number, a statistic, rather than a fully fleshed human being with the same human needs and weaknesses as you.
They aren’t making more land.
Survive, yes. But survive in comfort? Perhaps not.
What are you saying? Making another lisp is useless?!
We get about one a decade in upstate NY.
Better than the other statistic: pulled it out of my ass.
People care a lot more about current events than past events.
> Most devices that will play video these days are powerful enough to do the decoding themselves and have the bandwidth available.

IME this varies a lot between devices. Google TV dongles for example, even the 4K versions, are built with extremely weak SoCs (as in early 2010s phone weak) and lean hard on hardware acceleration. If you want to play back a format that isn’t hardware accelerated on one of these, you’ll have to rely on media server transcoding.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/05/earthquake-v...

Thankfully the surgeon wasn't "scalpel deep" during the quake!
How to find and win your first 10 B2B customers
I was in the one in Seattle around 2000 on the 5th floor of a building, and I distinctly remember walking down the hall with the building swaying like a boat in a storm, wondering when the whole thing was just going to snap and crumble into a pile of rubble. Luckily it turns out they make modern buildings not do that. I've been back to that building and they still have cracks in the stairwell from it, though.
> feel that doesn’t belong anywhere near a preboot environment.

Seems to be quite the right place for me. How else would I get help on boot issues?
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> it's a 4.8 lol

Equivalent in lateral motion/shakiness to a California 6.0 due to the shallow depth of the 4.8
Also, given the context its clearly malice.

If there was one commit with a stray period that disabled the sandbox, sure, might be a typo.

But the other stuff where they're unpacking specific byte ranges from multiple places in the test files, that's not an accident.

Viewed as a whole, it would be extremely hard to view this as "adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence"
I worked at McDonald's for several years in the 1980s, they did not do free drink refills (coffee excepted) at that time. As I recall, most other restaurants did the same.
I think it's actually for approximately the same reasons:

- the spokesperson has learned a specific tone and register

- the spokesperson is almost certainly not actually involved in adapting systems and policies to do anything, and for this reason doesn't have an grounded understanding of what they're talking about
I was at a desk which also has a bunch of my wife's art supplies on it. That stuff definitely would have moved.
Some of it is literally putting money in to people's pockets in the form of jobs.
I was never a really big Star Wars fan (enjoyed them just wasn't super into them) but spent a lot of time on DFII: JK modding. The cog language could really do a lot if you leaned on it hard enough. The game engine's ability to do absolutely huge outdoor spaces without crumbling in performance was kind of unique at the time. There was a real sense of vertigo for me. I remember having a lot of fun with the cheesy grappling hook mods in multiplayer, flying around and slingshotting around ledges.
Natural disaster thingies
You’re eligible for a new mortgage within ~3 years after foreclosure with an FHA mortgage, 7 for conventional. This is known as waiting periods wrt mortgage underwriting guidelines. Credit score might impact the rate, but on the property ladder might be than not, have to model both ways (appreciation, cost of debt service, reserves, rent, etc).

(Strategically defaulted on property after buying at the peak before 2008 GFC)
Can you understand that there's a difference between having a random conversation with a total stranger on the Internet vs organizing a motivated & well-funded effort to take action by lobbying the people that would actually be relevant? 99% of the speech on these forums is just ideation, learning about things, & maybe connecting offline with like-minded people. It has it's place and it's useful for a number of reasons, but it's not on the same playing field as swaying mass amounts of public opinion through well-funded propaganda or paying for lobbying / political reelection.
What's the fastest language in the world?
Some of the small personal details in this blog were touching because I can relate, though I seldomly see them shared in this way from others.
Scientists Create Fullcolor 3D Holographic Displays with Smartphone Screen
Right now I don't get notifications for direct messages from one particular co-worker.

Other times I get a red circle in the favicon indicating there's something new to read, but I can't find anything new, as none of the items on the left bar are highlighted.
Both Plex and Jellyfin refused to import my fairly standard and accurately tagged music library last time I tried, and Plex is definitely opinionated about structure in video libraries.
It's not about being creative. In a lot of cases, it's just about making as much money off of suckers as you can.

This process already existed before AI. There are writing companies that will take your idea/draft and turn it into a full book in X days for Y dollars. They're churned out quickly with little thought put into them, and a LOT of filler.

Do that, put the result on online stores with a catchy topic and cover, and you'll make money. Not much, but enough. Keep doing it over, and over, and over with hundreds or thousands of books and you can make a LOT of money.

AI is just accelerating a scam that was already doable.
"Revolutionaries rarely get to live in the societies they created"

I think it's a combination of a skillset/culture needed to create a paradigm shift isn't the same one needed to compete with others on a playing field you built, and of complacency. It happens over an over. We saw it happen with RIM, and we're watching it happen right now with Prusa Research.
Before reading the article, I was nodding along reading your comment. Having read the article... it's actually pretty good! "Just doing things" might be the right general approach but I feel that sometimes it's easy to get stuck contemplating. I think the post offers some interesting heuristics for getting unstuck.

Edit: Reading even further, it's actually one of the best posts of this kind I've read in years. The author is spot in the behavioral patterns he's noticed. Damn.

"Often, when I’m stuck, it’s because I've made up a game for myself and decided that I’m losing at it. I haven’t achieved enough. I am not working hard enough and I am also, somehow, not having enough fun.

These games have elaborate rules, like “I have to be as successful as my most successful friend, but everything I've done so far doesn't count,” and I’m supposed to feel very bad if I break them. It’s like playing the absolute dumbest version of the floor is lava."
> Similarly, it feels like Silicon Graphics is a case where they really should have become more standard. Now, unlike Amiga, they were too expensive to catch on with regular consumers, but I feel like they should have become and stayed the "standard" for workstation computers.

I think you highlighted very correctly there, though, why SGI lost. It turned out there were cheaper options, which while not on par with SGI workstations initially, just improved at a faster rate than SGI and eventually ended up with a much better cost/functionality profile. I feel like SGI just bet wrong. The article talks about how they acquired Cray, which were originally these awesome supercomputers. But it turned out supercomputers essentially got replaced by giant networks of much lower cost PCs.
https://archive.ph/7028N
"I'm a cultural Christian" says Richard Dawkins, the most famous atheist
I saw a study recently that showed colonscopies aren't actually bettering medical outcomes unless there is a different underlying reason that prompts getting one
In my case I'm working with very large uncompressed video. Files that are 1 hour and 300+ GB in size. I tried using Kdenlive but it choked.

I'm not saying the CLI is easy to learn, but once you do learn it, you have a lot of power at your fingertips.
I was once the first full-time employee at a small company. I had to answer the phone for sales calls sometimes when the owner wasn't around.

I started there as a consultant who designed and coded the sales CRM application. I had full control of everything.

When I answered the phone for sales, and someone would ask for a discount, I would always say "I'm sorry, the computer just won't let me do that." The blame was passed to the computer, and I got out of that uncomfortable situation. The customer always understood. After all, "it's up to the computer," what can you do?

What we are reading about in this article is the kill list version of that.

A couple years ago, I wrote on this website that I am much less worried about AGI killbots, than I am about humans using dumb AI to kill people. Now, here we are.
Interesting take on a ~50 year cultural phenomenon with millions of fans. Maybe next time you could write "I don't like Star Wars" instead "Star Wars never good." That would be more accurate.
I own a cash only bar.

I bought an ATM and don't charge a fee to use it. It's right next to the bar.

We still get some walkouts, but not very often. We have a strong reputation.
> It is quite a hard thing to predict which errors will be handled and which will not at the point that you create an error :)

Not really, no? To first approximation all errors are system call failures: file not found, OS couldn't hand you enough memory so you got a heap allocation failure, network timeout, etc... You know exactly where those can happen because they are exposed as functions with some kind of error code specified as part of the return value.

There are situations where that's not true, but those situations tend to be fairly rare: things like "schema" violations in some backend data store ("product has a null manufacturer field", which should never happen but it turns out it does for data imported via that merger 2 years ago). And these tend to have correspondingly complicated handling ("add it to the queue of manual fixup requests") not well captured by "print a stack trace and crash".
As a child of the 80's who remembers scouring the local library for Star Wars books, a couple of years before the Zahn trilogy, this hits hard. I read them. Played the games. Not only was the Star Wars universe in the 90's really good (for the time), but the fact that everyone respected and built off each others stories is part of what made the whole greater than the constituent parts.

Today, my teenager loves building worlds and talking about universe designs. I know he's tired of hearing the cautionary tale of how you can take something amazing, built by a community, and run it into the ground by not respecting it. Hubris man... pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
I was there near the end. First, as a summer intern in 1998, and then in 1999 as a full time engineer on what is now Google's Mountain View campus. SGI had always been a dream company for me. I'd first learned about them in high school; now, right out of college, I'd somehow managed to land a dream job.

SGI's hardware was cutting-edge and exotic. IRIX was killer (sorry Solaris). Cray was a subdivision. My coworkers used emacs, too. They put an O2 on my desk!

The dream didn't last long. Major layoffs hit just a few months after I started full time. I wrote about the experience here: https://davepeck.org/2009/02/11/the-luckiest-bad-luck/
Nice. Does this support speaker diarization and output of subtitles to json format?
AI training doesn't care anymore. Huge amounts of it now are intentionally created synthetic data made by LLM's to generate data to train bigger LLM's. The larger the model, the less it matters.
It's immediately and self-evidently obvious that no end-user in 2007 consented to photos of their 2007 era teenage self being used to train an AI how to identify an emo kid

Unfortunately, they did actually. It's more accurate to say that they were presented a EULA and Terms of Service that no reasonable teenager would have had any hope of understanding. But since they're over 13, they're held to the terms of those agreements in any case.

These companies are slimy. Make no mistake, this will get worse in the future.
Those modes that salespeople and PR people professionally exploit?

We've been yelling about Web of Trust for decades by now, and never built it and now it's too late.
This is funny. If they delete your photos then they lose their lever for getting you into a payment plan. Except they'll probably email you a recurring one-time offer to restore your 'deleted' photos for a nominal fee.
Oops, actually meant rigiht click.
Say it.
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What harm has been inflicted upon you directly as a result?
All the more reason for comprehensive privacy/data protection legislation and a refusal to provide data to these companies wherever possible.
Oh yeah, all of those. Plus shitload of trash, of all kind, including old engine oil, that fisherman guy's rotten meat on which he grows he's bait, empty bottles (the ones which are non-refundable at the liquor shop)... at some point even I contributed to pushing trash and fire hazard there.

Mentioned above "district cooperative" flatly refused to remove an old asbestos roof from over the balcony and professional removals don't deal with 1x1m asbestos roofing. I removed it myself, standing on a chair on 10th floor balcony with an old grinder as it was permanently attached to the building through the metal frame, because of course it was.

I pushed it into the same basement as no one was interested in picking it up, no matter petitions, asking nicely, asking not so nicely, making threats or wanting to pay.

Oh, the times in the commie blocks :)
The awesome old cube logo or the new "we spent millions of dollars on a professional marketing department to design a new logo" that is just the initials in a boring font and off center?

I co-oped for SGI onsite in the sales/marketing/support for a major ISP of the day back in the late 90s and the buzz around the office was that the company (at this point experimenting with overpriced Windows NT boxes and generic Linux servers) was experiencing massive brain drain to some brand new startup that was going to make something called a "GeForce" card for cheap PCs that was going to avoid the pitfalls of the then popular Voodoo cards. Apparently the engineers were unhappy with the direction the company was taking under the new leadership and thought that there was still an interest in graphics acceleration.
> When someone creates fine art, they are not creating art for the sake of its economic value.

They often are, though.

"Fine art" only means that it's art without practical utility beyond being art. A painting is fine art, for instance, where an ornate silver teapot is not, as it has practical utility.

Whether or not either type was made for economic reasons doesn't enter into it.
I mean I think it's very telling since there was an acquisition nearly 6 months later by his previous company. That's quite an incestuous relationship, but hey he got his payday after removing two core contributors that were employees.

Why are you assuming they got severance? He wouldn't be legally complied to do so, and if he did he would have mentioned it.
During an internship almost ten years ago, I was working on a component of the ESA Exomars 2020 mission. After leaving the company, I occasionally checked the progress of the project. First, there was a delay for the launch of two years. Later, Russia invaded Ucraine. As ESA was cooperating with the Russian space agency, the project was stopped. It has since been rescheduled to 2028.
It was a great learning experience, but I’m still not sure whether the stuff that I worked on at that time will ever be used.
I was a system engineer for SGI in 1992 working mainly with McDonnell-Douglas in St Louis. It was thrilling to be sitting in the cafeteria and have Jim Clark plop down next to me for lunch. Just one of the guys.

As an outsider--cause I didn't live and work in California--this was the go-go atmosphere of such companies back then where they thought they could do no wrong. And the after work parties were wild (how the heck do you break off half a toilet bowl?).

One of the buildings had plastic over the windows cause that's where they were working on the plugin GL card for the PC. (Ssh! No one's supposed to know that!)

Being the first system engineer in St Louis, my eyes lit up when my manager told me he had ordered an 16-core machine for my office--just for me!

I was hired as a video expert. The company re-org'ed and my new boss decided he needed a Fortran expert so that was the end of my job with SGI.
Too true! For a recent video project I wrote a 300 line bash script to generate the ffmpeg arguments needed to accomplish what I was after.
Apple Laid Off 600 People in Pivot Away from Cars and Watch Displays
It was intended to come off as exaggerated for humor, but clearly that didn't convey. I'm sorry for that.

That said... most of the time, playwrights aren't supposed to collaborate with actors. It's not a one-to-one interaction. The playwright writes, makes it available through a service like Samuel French, and has no connection with the actual performances.

They may collaborate with actors and directors during the writing process. That's a different thing from the ordinary work of an actor.

Actors collaborate a lot -- with each other, with the director, with the lights and sound and tech and props. Adding one more voice -- even that of the playwright -- often makes it worse, rather than better.

In particular (switching to my director's hat rather than my actor's hat), it is important that I be the final word on the show. That sounds arrogant, and of course it is, but in a conventional theater process the director's job is to keep all of the other artists working together. That's what makes it look like a finished, cohesive work, rather than a collection of individual performances.

A common faux pas in theatrical circles is for a writer to bypass the director and give directions to the actors. That is very much a no-no. Actors work together, not as individuals, and a writer telling an actor something different from what the director tells them gives the work a disjointed feeling. If a writer has notes, they go to the director -- who has to be free to ignore them.

Writers, of course, chafe at this. And it's worse when they don't have experience as actors or directors themselves, because they don't know how the process works.
What's publicly and easily available for free is not good, so we're stealing labor and replacing it with worse labor.
Y'all probably also know that bog means "toilet" in British English...
The people that created the Amiga weren't the same people as the ones leading Commodore. Apple's success seems to have been heavily based on the company's leader being very involved in product development and passionate about it.

Along the same lines, there is an alternate timeline where the Sharp X68000 took over the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OepeiBF5Jnk
The thought process was: I know earthquakes aren’t really weather, so I’ll tack on “thingies” to make it clear that I’m making up some new more generalized term.

The point was to group all the… I dunno, whatever, surprising attacks by the planet into one thing. I can’t think of a real term for this, I think there might not be one, I guess I could call it something like “weather or geological surprises” but that’s just dull.
Looks like it’s quite the opposite: http://blog.dottxt.co/performance-gsm8k.html
We can have natural disasters they just have to schedule beforehand.
People have known for eons that companies were using their data. TikTok is well publicized to be the CCP. And yet millions of people would rather have entertainment. There are plenty (myself included) who abstain, but the reality is the vast majority of people, if presented with free and unlimited dopamine hits, will gladly give away their info.