skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nick Bostrom’s new tome … has a great cover

True, but I wish they went with the Sisyphus one.

For context, they did a survey on the cover of the book, and one of them features Sisyphus, on top of the hill, with his boulder. I found it captures the topic of the book quite well.
Maybe a dumb idea, but can schools use jamming or shielding?
Just like today:Think before you click.

Antiviruses are crap today.
I think wartime just has to be considered an edge case here. There was no way that Britain could have afforded to rebuild like-for-like after the war, and compensation for bomb damage couldn't have been done fairly.

Who gets priority? Do Lord and Lady Middlecott have their stately home rebuilt first? Or does it start with the least valuable property and work upwards, meaning that Mr. Horace Hodge's garden shed is number one to be restored? It clearly can't be exactly proportional, otherwise his Lordship would get one wing of his mansion and Horace would get one wall of his shed, which helps nobody.

I don't think it's callous of me to suggest that providing council housing for those like your grandparents was the only humane thing to do that the country could have afforded. Rather than directly restoring the pre-war social order, the post-war system was orientated towards comfortably housing the masses, and it did that with documented success.
Yes, that’s also not uncommon for lexical grammars to haven token classes that are more general than what is actually valid, for example for numerical constants.

What would be useful is tooling that would check that one grammar is a sub-language of another grammar which is suitably connected (because in the general case that check is undecidable of course).
I signed with civit ai but the quality of the output is not close to the sites I am referring to
Obviously nothing to do with declining living standards and social atomisation.

must be the phones.
This is the obvious complaint, but ASCII is the only common subset of the various encoding schemes. For some things like programming languages and protocols I think it make sense to have an ASCII constraint. You can express pretty much any sound phonetically using the Latin alphabet.
Oshkosh the day before Airventure starts is fun to watch and listen. They paint colored dots on the runway so they can leapfrog other planes on the runway. There are special rules in place instructing pilots to not talk back unless requested to do so or it is really needed. They acknowledge transmission by rocking their wings. I have seen 5 planes touch down on two parallel runways within a few seconds.
That's the way to do it. You get the map area, divide it by a constant and get the number of stuff your map should display. Then it's a matter of getting the largest-n stuff from the database.
The problem with older phones is an interminable deluge of fake robocalls and soliciting text messages which make them practically unusable. Smart phones can filter these out but come with a different flavors of cancer
this is really buggy and feels oldweb in a unpleasant way. like newer than visiting a site with no index page and seeing the vanilla apache file directory, but only enough to use old jquery-ish 2003 era web ui/patterns/components.

clicking a file and a big spinner appearing. hitting back button to go back up a few folders, spinner never goes away, etc.
Why do they have a bleak outlook?

The broader economy is strong, and their long term employment prospects are excellent, with many people leaving the workforce and productivity gains increasing overall wealth.
This is a (now 'deprecated') evolutionary artifact from that process, yes.
Your comment knocked loose a long dormant memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_quotes
Worse than that, there's sites where they can discuss suicide and get advice on methods. Now maybe adults should be free to discuss these things, but it's certainly something that young people should be protected from.
Phones have offline content and wired headphones exist.

People adapt
So she sends me a shared note on iMessage, I usually only click on it once I am physically in the store. Then I check the "boxes" and she can see it in near real time.

Often she's typing additions to the list as I'm using it, which is a cool feature. Not as rapid as e.g. Google Docs would be, I think.

This is not on WiFi as I just use 3G, 4G or 5G (whatever is available) when doing shopping.
>Preaching for veganism is preaching for the genocide of those domesticated species because if they weren't raised for food they would not exist !

They existed as different, likely healthier versions of their species in the wild before we took control of their fates. If the original wild species died out since that time, then the genocide was already commited. If the original species still exists in the wild, then that proves your claim wrong.

Also, all we've done is made genocide perpetual. So instead of allowing the remaining ones to die, is it somehow kinder or more justifiable to perpetually slaughter untold generations of them?

Beyond that, we've now caused mass extinctions of other species in pursuit of raising these animals for slaughter (see: loss of bio diversity or clear cutting of the rainforests for ranching). So when do we stop acting like this endless cycle of genocide is somehow justifiable for the sake of avoiding genocide?

Perhaps it is possible to eat them in an ethical way (like only eating them if they've died of old age), but as it stands, the number of e.g. cows that are raised and slaughtered in deplorable conditions make up the vast, vast majority of total cow 'lives' and there's no way we would have the space/resources to maintain the current populations in the conditions you describe as being acceptable.

>Animal rights activists, should focus on banning growth and milk hormones, ensuring adequate space and socialization, and minimizing transport of living animals. They should be killed on site and transported dead and refrigerated to the meat processing facility, something that is prohibited for no justifiable reasons.

This is a false dichotomy. Why not both? Most animal rights activists I see advocate for better conditions for the animals as well, if we are going to slaughter them anyway. And who even says we would have to let these animals die out entirely if we stopped eating them en mass?
Zephyr3d v0.4.0 Released – 3D rendering framework for WebGL and WebGPU
I submitted with original title, per HN guidelines.
What stops the group of investors that acquires TikTok from having ByteDance US (or ByteDance Beijing) operate the platform behind the scenes?

Why does some US entity that probably contributed nothing to TikTok's success get to financially benefit from acquiring TikTok by force?

What good will having someone else operate TikTok (who might not be technically adept enough to do this) do to curb the propaganda concerns the US Gov is alleging? If the operator isn't a tech company that is comfortable with webscale, wouldn't propaganda accelerate?

I really dislike TikTok's social influence (despite its engineering and AI contributions being technical marvels), but if the US Gov is really concerned about national security, they should just ban it; no sales.
Why do you need Uber or Lyft notifications? You could gasp leave the app open and otherwise be present in the world while waiting for a ride instead of opening some other doomscrolling app.
Here's a timestamped link if you are too impatient to skip it yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PwDFddpo4c&t=110
10, got my first computer (in '98) and instantly was interested in the prospects of making websites and having people visting them.

From then I made many websites, made money with adsense when it was initially available, paid my college and made a career that moved me to Germany.

Can't complain about this, it made me stay easily at 99.99% or 100% in the bell curve of income from people where I was born/lived. It has changed my life completely, it bumped me up in high-middle class in the first world. I'm endlessly grateful on the future that it brought me and I still enjoy it a lot!

I've never been outstanding, just "great". Some people had much better backgrounds than me and this helps loads, only on my mid 30s (now) I felt like I catched up on other aspects in life.
It barely seems possible (much less likely) for everyone (in aggregate) to downsize. Probably someone is buying or moving into their old (newly-vacant) property?
TBH even uttering the words "cancel culture" on the internet nowadays is enough to make me physically cringe.
Don’t forget expert systems from some decades ago.
Great! I have been using KickMap because the MTA app used to suck. I will give this a try.
I really haven't.
Switch into what exactly?
…languages which are mad..

Reference to “Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge”?
Two dimensions to this question: first, drone noise; second, audio track.

On the noise:

> "Given this video is taken by a drone, and drones are very noisy..."

Here's from National Geographic's press release on this video:

“Through the harnessing of new technology and pushing the boundaries of polar filming, Bertie utilized a newly released camera drone equipped with a telephoto lens allowing him to capture animal behavior from the air like never before without disrupting or impacting the penguins.”

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240411040454/en/Nat...

So they were aware of the noise and other disturbance to the penguins, and were far enough away its unlikely these sounds are recorded from the drone itself.

On the audio track:

Mics and recorders could have been placed in advance. Given the level of preparation described, this is a possibility.

Audio of a given action or situation could have been captured separately elsewhere and dubbed. This seems most likely, and if natural sounds were captured on location from the same flocks, wouldn't generally carry a disclaimer.

In either of these cases, the drone doesn't need a mic, or can carry one just for sound sync purposes, but the sound is done in foley with or without a field recording.

To use drone audio without it audible to the viewer, shotgun mics with a sound pattern that picks up far point noise (imagine a teleaudio mic to go with the telephoto lens) could be used.

Drone noise is distinct, and can be removed, firms and software specialize in this: https://www.sound2design.com/online-sound-restoration-and-dr...

One way is to point the shotguns at silence, record drone noise alone, then invert it, something like "speech transparency" mode in noise cancelling headphones.

Today's audio processing is relatively magical when it doesn't have to fit in an earbud.

I haven't researched this case, but it sounded like foley.
Ok, I guess this is one of those cases where I don't break rules when I say :

RTFA

(the one I linked to)
Jumping in is the easy part. How do they get back up on land?
This push for tech abstinence will end much like sex abstinence. Instead of "wait until you're an adult" we should instead be teaching our child good habits. The issue is of course that most adults don't have good habits for children to modle either.

My daughter has had access to a tablet since she was 12 months old. She's 5 currently, but she's not a tablet zombie as I so commonly see reported of toddlers with free access to phones. Just yesterday, my daughter freely, without my intervention, put away her tablet to play with a child who happened into the room we were in. She never touched it again until we were bad into the car and begged me to leave and play with her new friend outside instead of ask for another set of headphones for the friend.

This is the result of my international teaching of my daughter about how we interact with devices. As someone who grew up with the internet in elementary school, I feel extremely confident, I can keep this up even as my preschooler turns into a kid into a teen.

I just think it's a shame that I'm surrounded by parents with intention of teaching her kids about how to responsibly use their devices or they want to deny their kid access at all like somehow their child will magically manifest all the skills they need to deal with infinite stroll once they turn 18.
Holy shit; imagine if people could vote via social media.

The youth vote would skyrocket.
There are multiple factors at play, phones being one of them.
It's funny that it doesn't have the great lakes. I guess it doesn't have any internal bodies of water.
It is: https://github.com/sched-ext/scx/blob/main/scheds/rust/scx_l...
I just bought an OM-D EM-5 MKII used from a local shop - the first digital camera of my adult life (I've been shooting film as a hobby for years). It has this feature. I used it a couple times and abandoned it, for the same reasons the author lays out.

The folks running the shop are obviously huge camera geeks, and they were really psyched about that feature. To their credit, it's damn impressive that a camera that small, and a sensor that small, can produce a true 40MP image where every pixel actually captures a geometrically unique location on the focal plane.

As a key selling point over an E-M10 though? Nah. It's a marvel of engineering, but extremely limited in its practical value - a hallmark of "features for nerds." Sadly, in today's consumer landscape you kinda have to satisfy the spec sheet gawkers if you're going to sell a product. That's another reason features like this exist.

16MP on a sensor of that quality can still be blown up to enormous sizes without it looking crunchy. The real reason to spring for an E-M5 is the weather sealing and bigger viewfinder.
>Google isn't really a government... so, civil disobedience doesn't really work here.

Google is a multi-national corporation, which based on jurisdiction, essentially makes it an arm of the local government.

>Google, as well as any other employer is required by many different regulations to both comply with government rulings and to give certain means for its employees to appeal / protest whatever the company is doing. Staging a protest inside CEO office isn't a legal way to protest.

You feel compelled to constrain things to the bounds of legality in a game that has already breached the boundaries of illegality (Genocide and territory annexation, boundary redrawing is illegal by all contemporary standards). Finite thinking in an infinite context.

>The protesters come across as annoying and arrogant for wanting to cut corners in the process of appealing their company decisions and for putting themselves on display rather than trying to use the proper channels and working towards the benefit of those affected / involved.

Quote "proper channels" result in memory holing or ignoring doing anything. Hierarchical power structures ensure this. Arrogance is a subjective eval on your part. Annoying is accurate, but rather the point. I'd call it "pointedly and unambiguously escalating".

>It's kind of like as if I had a dispute with my landlord over who has to fix the plumbing, and instead of reporting them to the proper authority, I'd block traffic on a busy highway demanding "justice" for the broken plumbing.

Landlord disputes have a pre-defined process. War crimes, and ongoing facilitation thereof does not until long after the critical period wherein continued or amplified loss of life can be prevented has already passed.

People called a spade a spade and more importantly, did something about it. The fact we're trying to convince one another of the illegitimacy of their means just demonstrates that to a degree, their act is having the desired effect. People are questioning the status quo.

You need to remember, "the Government" is just a nominative signpost for the set of entities through which a collective projects power. In that sense, a corporation is even more "the Government" than any one of us could ever be.
In my teenage years, I couldn't care less about 'economic outlook'. Because I rarely paid much attention to the news, and when I did, it was usually fairly balanced BBC content, not hyper-partisan hyperbole/clickbait.

Teenagers should be more focused on discovering their hobbies and interests alongside their education, finding some positive goals for their lives. But social media is telling them that WW3/climate-pocalypse/Trumpageddon is coming within months/years. They'll either be thinking 'why bother?' or 'we need a revolution!'. Neither of which are good for them.
For anyone who didn't get it, I'm certain this was sarcasm, based upon the "satanic panic" moral scare of the 80s that led to the McMartin trial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial
No, that's what I disagree with. The hedonic treadmill and all that crap is real. But it's not why we find games rewarding. Structured progress and achievement is a higher level construct. Gameification is largely about taking a long, possibly unending task, and trying to reframe it in a way that has structured goals. It's about mental organization. Not rewarding blips to please the monkey brain.

The information bit seems irrelevant to this imo.
Yeah I feel like this article would benefit from some concrete examples of what it is the author is actually envisioning. Products that truly benefit humanity in the strict sense are few and far between.
See also: war, and the various Just So stories we tell about it.
If you don’t mind me asking while you’re here, how is the technology you’re working with? Do you feel you have all the technological advantage reasonably and safely possible for doing your job as comfortably as possible?
Government isn't something that people deal with in their daily lives outside of their municipal government offices, like the DMV.

Between that and daily life being a grind for most people, it is very understandable for someone to not know that the SCOTUS does these things.

Honestly, while everyone (myself included) should be more aware and involved in government, this blissful ignorance is a testament to the stability and freedoms offered by our government.
Am I the only person who still calls "ASCII emoji" "emoticons"?
Economic shock exposure inequality across the global firm-level supply network
> built-in Windows defense tool – appropriately called Windows Defender – has gone from being virtually useless to pretty robust and experts agree that it’s adequate for most users.

Windows defender is not only useless. It actually deletes files without asking.

> Additionally, Windows 11 has made huge improvements in the security department and has learned from many of the mistakes that made past

Cough, some days ago hackers compromise Microsoft, ransomware is a good business...
How are you more present in the world if you've got the app open and are watching it for information, instead of waiting for a quiet "ding" or a vibration in your pocket?
I don't understand this thinking, civilization has never been richer. With the advancements we had in the last 150 years in tech/medicine/etc it's never been so easier to live and enjoy life. Even a poor person in my lousy eastern europe country lives so much better than kings lived 150 years ago. Where does this anxiety comes from?
Well, exactly. That’s kinda my point. Programming is so much more than just writing code. And sadly, some of that other stuff involves dealing with humans and their manifest idiosyncrasies.
But wouldn't the banking industry have been able to afford the (relatively) powerful computers to run it well ?
Or just least features with plain vanilla CSS and HTML.
It's risk times consequences. The risk assessment might not be up to scientific standards, but the consequences are big.

Also, it's not just about statistics, in this case we have a pretty intuitive grasp on the mechanics at play, they are not far fetched.
You neglected to tell us what exactly it is you're talking about...
There's edible fish in the water. What other food is there on the ice?
Thanks! :)

Currently reading the well-known "The Rust Book". But, I will read this as a quick guide as well.
fulltext: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(24)003...

> It takes a village

Compare the first 36 characters of the 3 Character Classic: https://ctext.org/three-character-classic

> Can people change?

With training, dogs and horses improve their cross-species mentalizing; I'd hope training humans on same-species would be even easier.
Not without breaking several laws, and potentially putting people in danger - how do you call 911 in an emergency if the school is in a signal blackout?
It shows me all the bus stops... but not the subway unless I click on a station? I can't even figure out how to have it show me subway times automatically? I rarely take the bus but I'm on the train every day. Can I just have it show me that?
Google Desktop was the first thing I thought of when I saw the link. One difference with Desktop though is that nowadays people are doing stuff on more than one device. Synching the data somehow or other would presumably involve the sort of cloud services that this developer is avoiding for privacy reasons.
Forget all the Khan Academies of the world, let kids be bored on TI-83s and learn programming the ol' fashioned way!
It’s deeply weird to me that we couldn’t have a Walkman, pager, game boy, portable tv, or small camera in class without it getting taken away if it was spotted, but now we’re like “yeah sure they can have a combo device that’s all of those, why not?”
I'd like to second that, especially if combined with a process where a lot of code should get discarded before making it into the repository. Undoing and reconsidering initial ideas is crucial to any creative flow I've had.
If you’re saying that economics is a foundational driver of progress, then yes - almost by definition.

Banks and investors provide liquidity to the system, which is just one of many things the market demands.
Important Changes to the JUCE End User Licence Agreement for JUCE 8
I wish I was that talented, esp musically.
Love how the AI turned “drop a comment below” into a project step:

“Seek feedback from stakeholders or viewers by encouraging questions and comments for further engagement.”

This is from a bathroom remodel video.
> If not, who do you have a good experience with?

What about running your own storage at home? If you have a decent internet connection this shouldn't be an issue.

If you look into QNAP and Synology, they should have 2-disks/4-disks (and more-disks) solutions that will most likely solve the problem for you, and you get to do a one-time purchase (and most likely get way more storage space).
UTF-8 is bloat and should never have been a first-class encoding on Unix. Unix is Western and Latin.
GPT-4 hallucinates a lot less than 3.5. Same with the Claude Models. This is from personal experience. There are also benchmarks (like TruthfulQA) that try to measure hallucinations that show the same thing.
I would want to connect with you about projects like this. Here is an open source natural language security scanner I gave a talk at Defcon 31. https://github.com/zitterbewegung/securday
I think their point is quite clear: very few things are actually static enough for the feature to work properly.
> to keep the weeds down

Heh, you need to level up your mulching skills.

Especially in growing non-vegetable plants your choice of species and spacing can quite often self manage the weeds. Watching someone really good at growing is the same as watching a really good programmer to me. Little choices they make early on handle error conditions months later with little effort.
> The blog doesn't condone the bombings or the violence. It talks about Kaczynski writings. For you, this is equivalent to glorifying a murderer. Wow, this is some poor comprehension.

I think this might be a part of what Ted was talking about.

Ted was actually a very interesting thinker, very underrated in my opinion, and definitely misrepresented.