skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Around 2017-2018 I remember reading a really interesting article about how the Obama White House handled letters to the president. The vast majority of letters (hundreds per day, IIRC) were answered by staffers, but each day they would select 10 letters that Obama would read himself. He didn't personally write out a reply, but he'd make notes for the staff about how he wanted to respond. No idea how Reagan's team handled it, but it's at least possible that he was personally involved in the reply.
i agree. why fix something that's not broken :D
In theory, all applications following XDG would also solve the problem, as it has only 1 configuration directory. (Although I admit some apps use the data directory which brings it up to 2)
Something tells me you weren't protesting when innocent Israeli people were being mercilessly slaughtered on October the 7th, but you'll gladly sit there and paint an entire false narrative about a war, based on events that never happened, twitter/reddit memes, and your silly version of reality. A war which many people agree is justified, despite being difficult to conduct (in probably the most difficult conditions and circumstances of any war in modern human history) - but you'll just pretend like those people don't matter, their opinions are worthless, and that you have it all figured out (thanks to TikTok).

Hence it's worth repeating Sundar's message, especially for self-centered phony hypocrites like you: keep your politics at home where they belong. Educate yourself about the world. Accept that things aren't black or white. Other people have opinions, too.
The issue is that it has degraded even in software that is purely targeted towards professionals and enthusiasts. And it’s not just the UX designers’ fault, the UI tech stacks have degraded in that respect and make it difficult.

I’m also hard-pressed to come up with anything that has improved on the desktop.
For real. I love how they can even call feathers the greatest invention without ever wondering who the inventor was. You can’t claim evolution is the inventor. Evolution is a description of a process, and anthropomorphizing it doesn’t make it possible of inventing anything. It’s similarly funny to me looking through these comments and seeing people marvel about the engineering and design of things like hearts and cells. Does nobody ever think to ask, who designed this? Who engineered this?

It would be like finding a watch someone had dropped on the ground and being like, “Wow what an amazing invention! It must have evolved over several thousands of years until it was able to accurately track the time!”. Or thinking that a chaotic natural process like a tornado could somehow assemble a car if it blew through a junkyard. Both of these are ridiculous arguments, but that’s what people claim evolution is like. After all, given enough time anything is possible? Right?
I wonder how the doctor justified m this to themselves.
i think i like the cbbc version better

reminds me of when i had Apollo/reddit set up with a bunch of filters for depressing words
Other cars have similar but different issues:

https://www.toyota.com/owners/warranty-owners-manuals/digita...

(credit ricardobeat)
This brought back some fond memories of writing courseware and teaching NetWare classes at a startup called Logical Operations. We published courses that were an alternative to the official Novell courseware for earning your CNA/CNE. I'm pretty sure I still have my CNE (and MCSE) pin in a box around here somewhere. One of my co-worker's classroom tricks was to establish a network connection via ARCNet over a length of barbed wire.

Logical Operations ran their own Novell network. I recall the server would freeze up periodically. Our admin rigged up a phone line and a relay...call the number and it would power cycle the server. That way, he didn't have to drive into the office to reboot the server at night. <shakes head>

From there, I started teaching DBase courses, which led to programming, which is where my career has been ever since.
The letter looks like pretty typical republican playbook:

It implausibly overestimates the scope of problems, then claims that the private sector / volunteer organizations have more capabilities / funding than the federal government.

I’m hoping it was self-parody and not just a canned form letter response.
Very cool! Did you create this? What was the motivation? I'm just wondering if this is a common enough task that it's easier than doing it in Photoshop
if we start to build a dysonsphere , then a big UV light towards the earth, powered by the dyson sphere. easypease. we can dim the light a bit to taste even to have some seasoning, maybe colour it for holidays :D
In most jurisdictions almost everything is under copyright, until it expires. (Which is approximately right before the heat death of the universe, after Disney get their way. Or 70 years after the authors death, or something like that.)
> "No, genuinely help me to see the error."

I thought Sundar's message was pretty clear. Do you not understand?
I think needs an API, for using from python.
The point of XDG is to take the guesswork out of it by having applications follow your stated preferences.
This explanation makes it especially amusing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_%26_Williamson#Controver...

> Wigand turned his attention to improving tobacco additives, some of which were designed for "impact boosting", using chemicals like ammonia to enhance absorption of nicotine in the lungs and affect the brain and central nervous system faster. Wigand believed this process was a deliberate attempt to increase addiction to cigarettes.
Given that the perpetrator here was in fact the government, your argument carries no weight.

Legal paperwork cannot prevent the government from choosing evil. In fact, it only serves to sanction it in most cases.
I'm not a lawyer but one would definitely let you know that at least in the US, software without a license is more dangerous than software with even a very restrictive one. Someone can come along and determine the license at any time. So there is good reason to point it out unless you crave legal jeopardy.
Your question assumes the thought ever crossed their mind. It may have not.
Asking for an impossible hypothetical and then claiming something equally impossible. stay classy hackernews.
Chances are that you would take the 8 million and run.
This implies that a certain ecological state is preferable to another one and maintaining this state requires some essential actor. This makes sense from an anthropocentric point of view but I doubt that evolutionary processes work that way.
I never bought a Nestle product in ages but is this worse than what coco-cola (pepsi, etc), lays and MLM companies like Amway do?

I saw kids as small as 7-8yr old drinking sugary drinks and eating lays on their way to school. Manufacturers to advertising firms to media companies all should be hanged for what they have done to kids
That's the answer I thought of when I read the article. You can also probably adjust the column widths as percentages.
"I actually like having visible directories, versus having to figure out where in /usr/share or /usr/local/ or ~/.local or /var an installer chose to sneak their files in."

You seem to be mixing together two concepts here:

1. The files created by the installer, which are handled by the package manager. I can consult my package manager for files created by a specific package: pacman -Ql package_name.

2. The files created after installation (user preferences, plugins). The program should follow the XDG specification.
LOL this is awesome
A lot of filesystems don't store file creation dates. Posix only requires last modification date (which for directories, is the last time a file/subdirectory was added, removed, or renamed), last access date, and last status change date.
Fun to use, not sure where I would post a tilted screenshot with a grey background. Maybe if you can export it as .png?
It should be presented as this is what we think, there are some gaps we filled in here, and these gaps are usually where the next big advance comes from. No need to even use the word theory, just explain in simple words and people can get it.
Oh cool! Thank you and noted!
If it weren't for it claiming to not be a license in the sentence before, it would be pretty good. Reminds me of the WTFPL license. :)

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:WTFPL
You're everywhere in this thread man. Did zuck steal your lunch or something?
Why have owner in there? Isn't the clear from the filesystem metadata, which also has the benefits of shared ownership groups etc.?
That's a common misconception. The big bang theory does not say that there wasn't stuff before the big bang.

Simply that our local version of spacetime expanded in the great inflation.

And I'm not sure if you've been following the news on it, but there's some serious issues with the theory at the moment.
Warmly recommended version of the same thing in meditative video game form: Everything

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_(video_game)
The product that Microsoft makes vs the product that Jetbrains makes.
I think it's a nice idea, but don't like the media structure into family and so on. Looks like he's going to have a ton of problems with duplicates and then edited duplicates down the line, which can easily be mixed up, and then you lose your edits and so on.

Pictures are better sorted with EXIF keywords. So, metadata stored in the picture itself, perhaps even in the MIME type. Thus, if a picture is family related, just tag it #family, or #personx and so on. This is why I store them in the same folder on a per-date basis. The rest is keywords edited with programs such as Adobe Bridge and so on.

As for document file name structure, text files and the like, I've used both `Date then Descrpition.txt` or `Keyword Title or Description and then Date.txt` with the date obviously being an ISO date such that `YYYY-MM-DD-hhmm` with `-hhmm` being optional, also for sorting reasons. Sometimes I like sorting on "topics" i.e. keywords or titles, but other times, such as in logs, I like the date first because it's more essential to know when you logged something, and not necessarily the topic.

You should think the date is superfluous since it's also stored in the system. However, my experience that when you move around a file, the date eventually changes, and certainly if you make a mistake along the way. Meanwhile a filename date doesn't change. Also it helps with list sorting where applicable.
Okay, that’s a good point. It’s not liquid. In theory, though, surely the company could sell stock (or options, even) instead of granting it to Elon?

[Edit: this is all a bit academic though. I don’t think Tesla’s process problems, of whatever magnitude you think they are, are as simply solved as “if they just spent a bit more this would be fine!”, or that the ‘solution’ to the Elon problem, of whatever magnitude you think that is, is “if they just paid him less!”]
This is intriguing but I'm curious how you handle, or plan to handle, different isolation levels? In the past I've written tests to assert serializable guarantees, for example.
In a situation like this, when I have control over /etc/passwd and can create accounts as I please, then I might have a single account, let's say /home/amturing, then (as a subdirectory) another account /home/amturing/amtgo.

Unruly apps that benefit from UID/GID regimentation can be constrained in this way. The whole app assuming ~amtgo is also helpful.

EDIT: I also remembered this useful advice on prefixing private shell scripts in your path with a comma:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31846902
My sympathies, and I certainly hope you are not negatively impacted by their crappy decisions!
Yes how dare different people have different opinions about different people? It's almost as if we all should be a monolithic voice that agrees with you.
That's basically the system I had in the mid nineties, though it had 8MB of RAM and was running OS/2 (2.1 to 3). I edited HTML on it in Emacs, mainly. Eight Megs And Continually Swapping was very accurate at that time.
Actually inbetweening is really hard (and I think requires talent) and used to be a big way to learn enough to become a key animator. And I would worry about AI eliminating this learning route if classical animation wasn't struggling to survive at all
I've seen Citizen Kane a number of times but Casablanca is more approachable and rewatchable IMO.
The results are actually shockingly bad, considering that I think this should be _easier_ than producing a realistic image from scratch, which ai does quite well.

I don't have more than a fuzzy idea of how to implement this, but it seems to me that key frames _should_ be interchangeable with in between frames, so you want to train it so that if you start with key frames and generate in-between frames, and then run the in-between frames through the ai, it should regenerate the keyframes.
JWST has a field of view of 2.2 arcminutes. Same as a 0.6 millimeter pinhole at a distance of 1 meter. It's not a telescope for blind surveying where you don't know where to look (as is the case here)—there's much more suited telescopes for that.
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All these regulations and paperwork didn't help prevent the crisis described in the article, so can we blame useless complications now?
I was more referring to its power and size, you need to figure out that your still accelerating when you've released pressure on the accelerator and you need to switch pedals to break.

Where are you going to be after half a second of maximum acceleration in a 6600lb cybertruck?
Not in my country - or any I have ever visited. Interesting discovery, I always assumed "car washes" would be a basic service running the same everywhere. Anyway, why should the engine be running for washing??? In neutral gear means it's not going to drive, so...?
You'd be surprised with some of the reee comments you're getting here.
Hmm fair.
Doh! You’re right.
They have other chips that can run Z80 code (eZ80, Z180), but none that are drop-in compatible as far as I know. If you're looking at putting one of these in place of a Z80 you'd probably need to either redesign the surrounding computer or essentially treat it as a giant "peripheral" on a new firmware/kernel retooled for the new processor (like some "accelerator" products have done historically).
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What is the turtle rendered on?
It's counterintuitive but less so considering that it's way easier for a human to draw something from scratch than to inbetween 2 key frames as well!

(I guess we're used to machines and people struggling at opposite things so this is counter counter intuitive, or something...)

Animation key frames are not interchangeable with inbetween frames since the former try to show the most body parts in "extreme" positions though it's not always possible for all parts due to so called overlapping action. This is not to say you can't generate plausible "extremes" from inbetweens; acting wise key frames definitely have the most weight.

AI being good at stills is true, though it takes a lot of prompting and cherry picking quite often; most results I get out of naively prompting the most famous models are outright terrifying.
Manufacturers will do only what they're allowed to by law and even more. Expecting ethics from companies, especially (but not only) corporations, must stop. It's not going to happen, and it will only lead to further disappointment.
Just because you dont see it, doesnt mean it didnt happen. The light the sun emits will only be seen by us ~8min later, but it's still being emitted right now.
What Nestle is doing is deceptive. Nobody expects added sugar in infant milk but everyone expects sugar in soda.
Nestle has been murdering infants for a long time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal
How do software developers justify creation of weapons intelligence? Or of computer viruses? Or of targeted surveillance?
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What versatile tools, those chopsticks, they are like extensions of your fingers. All motions are so intuitive and natural after that initial adaptation period. I have a pair of extra long wooden ones, I read they were made for cooking, they are great. Instead of having a spatula, tongs, forks and various spoons, all made with a specific motion and purpose in mind - I can just use the chopsticks.

It's so nice.
Reachable with the speed of light from what inertial frame?

Also, there's been some interesting progress regarding information about the inside of the black hole possibly leaking out in the Hawking radiation.
Do you manage your functions and triggers through source code? What framework do you use to do that? I like Supabase but it’s desire to default to native pg stuff for a lot of that has kind of steered me away from using it for more complex projects where you need to use sprocs to retrieve data and pgtap to test them, because hiding away business logic in the db like that is viewed as an anti pattern in a lot of organizations. I love it for simple CRUD apps though, the kind where the default postgrest functionality is mostly enough and having to drop into a sproc or build a view is rarely necessary.

I think if there was a tightly integrated framework for managing the state of all of these various triggers, views, functions and sproc through source and integrating them into the normal SDLC it would be a more appealing sell for complex projects
This exact same thing was seen a Boeing, which isn't a model of good manufacturing, but it is semi-commmonplace for the line to have unapproved fixes.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/faa-found-staff-boeings-supplier-0...
Good point, sorry. Is it right to say he founded the tech and built WhatsApp?
I don't see the similar issues there. Ripping off a mirror sure, bricking the car like a bad phone? Not so much.
Yes it's worse to deliberately put unnecessary sugar in infant formula than putting sugar in Coke. How is that even a question?
The ones in the article ended in the 80's.
Some people are truly evil.
Car wash mode here is about pulling in mirrors and the like, not about protecting the car from some insane issue like bricking after a wash. It's probably also a big CYA thing.
This is far from the worst-sounding thing we've heard of Nestlé.

Is there a unified explanation for the company's behavior?
Didn't both of them have some of their backup in clear text ? I know whatsapp backup on gmail were.
> What does $host mean?

In Go parlance, it would be the remote host where the repository is hosted, e.g. github.com, dev.azure.com, golang.org, etc.

> Why would I need that for a purely local project that is only created for my own use?

If nobody else is using your purely local project, and you're sure nobody will ever use it until the end of time, then I guess you could just use "~/src/$HOSTNAME/$USERNAME/$PROJECTNAME". Otherwise, it would be wise to setup a remote repository ahead of time.

Go has a strong opinion that, in this day and age of distributed computing, projects should be online-first, so they can be easily used as dependencies. One of the nice consequences of this opinion is that Go dependencies can just be specified in the import statement - e.g. using grpc dependency is just:

import "google.golang.org/grpc"

No need for pom.xml, requirements.txt, cmake.txt, or any other kind of dependency configuration. It just works (unless it doesn't, like with private repositories, in which case it requires some exotic configurations in ~/.gitconfig or ~/.netrc, but that's a whole other can of worms - for most public repositories I've used it works flawlessly).

> And what about grouping projects? E.g. "personal", "work", etc.

Assuming you only use one repository hosting service and have one username, all your personal projects would be under "~/src/$PERSONAL_HOSTING_SERVICE/$USERNAME/", and your work would be under "~/src/$WORK_HOSTING_SERVICE/$WORK_ENTITY/" or something like this.

> And where in the structure are languages?

It isn't. That's either a bug or a feature. If it's a bug, you could just do the whole thing by language, e.g. "~/src/go/", "~/src/java/", etc.
And then we lose those people completely when the "facts" change. Better not to call them facts in the first place.
Pretty cool! I use Brave Search (https://search.brave.com) and it too got AI results a few months ago. They're quite helpful!
Most of them didn't exist at the time.
Oh, and zooming works, too!
Looks interesting. In the beginning I thought it would blur the part of the screenshot farthest away from you and keep the closest thing in focus. But that's not how it works.

I guess it could be useful for focusing on a particular part of the screenshot if you one could mark what the important part is.
This is just a fancy way of saying "blur out everything else" in the screenshot? Personally I prefer to crop the unnecessary content out of the screenshot.
At the same time, I worry about them drifting too far from their core mission. I think Vercel and Netlify kinda went that way and when you look at their suite of features, you just have to ask why would I not just use AWS directly.
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"Welcome to DuckDuckGo AI Chat! This chat session is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo. All of your chats here are private, and are never stored by DuckDuckGo or used to train AI models."

Wait, they are sent to OpenAI but they are also "private"? What am I missing here?
This is clever, if used correctly. I would help prove that someone was in a building, but would not necessarily help proving that someone was in the building on a particular day.
If you step in a pile of dog doo, that's evidence there's a dog. Now just point your camera at it...
That's only two applications to configure though.
My problem is that this behavior can be attained by a shallower and non-generalizable understanding. Instead of realizing that the hand is blocked, perhaps the system's model is equivalent to the hand disappearing and reappearing with a "swipe." This understanding would not be obtained by a 3D modeling of human anatomy, but rather a hyperfocused study of yoga videos where the camera angle is just like the one shown in the paper (it is mostly the cliched camera angle that raises my suspicions). An understanding like this would not always generalize properly, e.g. instead of a hand being partially occluded in a skew video it visibly pops in and out, or the left hand strangely blends into the right.

There's a general issue with generative AI drawing "a horse riding an astronaut" - art generators still struggle to do this because they just can't generalize to odd scenarios. I strongly suspect this method has a similar issue with "interpolate the frames of this yoga video with a moving handheld camera." AFAIK these systems are not capable of learning how 3D people move when they do yoga: they learn what 2D yoga instructional videos look like, and only incidentally pick up detailed (but non-generalizable) facts about 3D motion.
Maybe because AI the aim is not even that important anymore, just follow the hype damn the results! Throw everything at the wall see what sticks.
My fingerprint reader is on the back of my device.