skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article reports on the spread of pro-Palestinian protests across US universities amid the Israel-Palestine conflict. It highlights demonstrations, including at Columbia University and UCLA, where students demand solidarity with Palestinians. The protests coincide with heightened tensions in the region, fueled by clashes and airstrikes.
> Nihilism and predestination lead to some orettt dark places.

I think it's the other way around. Because as a society we believe in free will, we easily ignore the effect of environment on our choices. We let social media companies make their products addictive, because we believe that it's a choice to use them. If we ackwnoledged the fact that our choices are the result of our genetics and experiences, we could start creating a society that avoids such practices and would be a better place to live in.

Let's say you were addicted to social media and you never in your life have heard or read anything bad about it. No one has ever mentioned quitting social media to you. Do you think the thought to do so would come to your mind? Or is the "choice" to quit social media just a path carved into your brain by all the negative experiences you have had or heard about?
Yet it's the best we have at the moment in terms of statically typed JS (other than JSDoc which encodes the type system in comments, which .. has its own issues).
> ..am more meticulous when choosing what I do and don't do..

There are plenty of books and other resources that speak to the power of "no". To the phrase I quote above, yes you need to have a good 'diet' of what you put in your mind. Some junkfood is ok, mostly junkfood is not.

A quote that has shaped me is: ""The less time one gives to the newspapers the better," he replied. "Do you like books on travels?""
by Hector Malot on his book En Femille (Nobody's Girl)(https://www.gutenberg.org/files/27690/27690-h/27690-h.htm)

Btw, others write about ads. We can only (perhaps) avoid some on the internet (ad-blockers, NoRoot Firewall on Android devices and block certain IPs/URLs) but there are many ads we don't block, in movies (product placement), posters on bus stops, etc.

Fun fact: Apple doesn't allow its devices to be used by "baddies", so if you see an actor holding/using an iPhone, and you are not sure if they are Nice or Evil, chances are there will be a last-minute-twist and that actor will be/become Nice.
Does that matter now that we've got (possibly declarative) shadow roots as the units of DOM encapsulation?
It's not like I used to disagree with them on this issue and then changed my mind.
> I am not used to writing code where 2/3 of it is "if err" statements.

I don't write Go, but I have seen this a lot when reading Go. It seems hard to escape. The same is true for pure C. You really need to check every single function output for errors, else errors compound, and it is much harder to diagnose failures. When I write Java with any kind of I/O, I need careful, tight exception handling so that the exception context will be narrow enough to allow me to diagnose failures after unexpected failures. Error handling is hard to do well in any language.
No, it would have not. Even under their super optimistic plans they expected to capture Ukraine within 3 days, which was still plenty of time to launch nukes

But that is a moot question because there was no universe in which Ukraine keeps nuclear weapons. They didn't have control over the ones they inherited (KGB did), and while retrofitting them was possible... Ukraine after independence didn't have the money for anything, let alone reverse engineering nuclear weapons and maintaining them.

Also, while on the micro level it might make sense for a certain country to have nukes to protect itself from attacks, on the macro for the world it doesn't. The higher amounts of countries with nuclear weapons, the bigger the risk something goes wrong - a crazy dictator decides to do a murder-suicide pact, poor maintenance leads to radiation leaks, etc. etc.

I respect Iran's desire to acquire nuclear weapons to be on par with Israel and prevent the Americans and Saudis from invading them (reminder that high ranking American politicians and cabinet members have clearly and openly talked about war with Iran)... but it would be devastating to the region. Iran's regime isn't stable, has lots of enemies around (US, Israel, Saudi Arabia and to a lesser extent the other Gulf monarchies), some of which don't hesitate at all to provoke and attack them. The risk of nukes flying if Iran has them is too great for the wider international community to accept it - which is why there was a deal with a carrot to get Iran to stop, which was working until the braindead Americans decided to kill it for no good reason. So now... nothing can be done to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons outside of an even more flagrant violation of Iran's sovereignty than what Israel has already done by assassinating top nuclear scientists and sabotaging their facilities.
Ask HN: Why do AI-generated images seem boring and cheap to me now?
I am starting to subconsciously avoid looking at AI-generated images in articles and, moreover, I immediately perceive not only the image itself but the entire context (article/text) as "cheap" and "spammy".

Is it the same for you? Where can we start to improve this situation?
> We can hear differences between categories and not be able to verbalize what we're hearing. It's the same for anything

For some reason, the view is widely held that internal thoughts are expressed in words. This would mean that anything you can think can easily be verbalized.

The fact that this view is quite obviously false seems to bother very few people.
I think that's the point of the article. It's not complaining about shortcomings, it's pointing them out.

A lot of people don't seem to understand this. A lot of people seem to think LLMs are "AI", even that they're conscious and "thinking" etc.
Not always, but definitely in the Russia-Ukraine case it is.
As usual, people keep referring to Ada integer subset types/range types, when Ada was influenced by their use in Pascal and Modula-2.
> If novelty in music is actually important to you, this won't happen to you.

One of the most traditional - and important - uses of music was to preserve the oral record, which existed in musical form to make it easier to remember accurately.

I wouldn't expect novelty in music to be important to many people.
Everything is strongly affected by the environment. For example, if I butcher you, your height will go down. Also all of your organs will stop working.

But height is not affected by the environment in any meaningful way in a modern first-world context; everyone's diet is already maxed out.
I played an idle game on IRC called "idlerpg" around the year 2000 that was way less polished than this.

I'm pretty sure that the first idle games were just event hooks on IRC that made periodic, random dice rolls for each person who had been in the channel. Initially it was just XP for not saying anything, and subsequently you'd randomly find things that boosted some stats that didn't really do anything.

I remember thinking that idle games on IRC were a pun on the fact that you have dozens or hundreds of people who never say anything because their clients are perpetually detached because they obtained a life and never returned. So while your friend stop responding, you reward them for their quietude.

This game seems a lot more polished; a game that plays itself while you do nothing.

Much deserving of the title idle game, but perhaps only the original to some.
Contacts tended to be recorded. You can read ships logs now going back hundreds of years, often with illustrations. There's not a whole lot that happens in most ship voyages, so things like running into a weird group on an isolated island would absolutely have been recorded in immense detail. Of course I can't prove, beyond any question, that they weren't contacted, but there's 0 evidence to suggest they were, and immense evidence to suggest they were not. For the Nukak this is at least as true as well.
Re-implementing the Nix protocol in Rust
It couldn't happen to nicer people. McKinsey resembles a cancer on the body corporate.
Modern OSes, as much as they pretend not to, are patchworks of antiquated components and designs where it's a wonder that anything integrates at all.

Why is the OS not handle states and events globally? If I turn on do not disturb, it show show me as unavailable on Outlook/Teams/Google Workplace. Yet the "official" method is to go into individual apps and switch it. And god help you if you turned on DND but forgot you had an alarm, instead of vibrating first it's just going to ring loudly in the middle of wherever you are (talking of iOS, I know android has a few options but it's still messy).

Scrolling is still "viewing" as if the screen was an A4 (or similar) paper. You could have dynamic vision tracking with a magnifier to boost ergonomics, but no, the button for "close window" that is used once in 10 minutes is as big as the start menu or the right click button and is the same px size as the text you're reading.

Context awareness is absolutely crap on EVERY major OS, be it android or iOS or Windows, and I'm pretty sure MacOS and Linux too. Everything is a silo (fine) but does not integrate together. (Side note, if anyone wants to fix this feel free to contact me via my email in my profile. I'm not really a coder but I know a bit about systems engineering.)
Cisco nexus is their brand of datacenter switches.

But also found this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Nexus

“ Upon the announcement of the first Nexus device, the Nexus One, the estate of science fiction author Philip K. Dick claimed that the Nexus One name capitalized on intellectual property from Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and that the choice of name was a direct reference to the Nexus-6 series of androids in the novel.”

Looks like there was a lawsuit,
that was eventually settled out of court and we don’t know what was agreed.
Why do you feel that LLMs knowing less is a good thing?

I would add "no on-board flash" as a big negative, at least to me it makes it less of a "true" microcontroller.
Bazel mod requires a registry of packages in a git repo, so it’s quite centralized.
I would much rather live in a world with a balance of power than one with a concentration of one.

It’s by no means a given that a more even distribution of power leads to war or China ‘replacing the US’ as the only one. But an attitude where everyone thinks so, ironically, might.
I'm sure that the millions of dead Iraqis, the embargoed Cubans, the millions of dead under brutal regimes sponsored by the US all over Latin America, Africa and Asia, the people kidnapped to be tortured by the CIA due to their name or watch type would be thrilled to hear about how peaceful, just and better to live things are.

The US isn't a benevolent force for good, it's pure old capitalistic greed and realpolitik. That lots of good has happened thanks to it is mostly accidental.
Open gangwars, people shot at home "mistakenly", grenade explosion, rapes - mate are you from sweden even?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/13/sweden-gang-vi...
https://www.euronews.com/2023/09/28/3-killed-in-shootings-an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grenade_attacks_in_Swe...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1177271/number-of-report...
> I checked Lufthansa's 2023 income report and they made 6m EUR.

That's not what I found? [1] The article states:

The company more than doubled its net profit to 1.7 billion euros (previous year: 790 million euros).

[1] https://newsroom.lufthansagroup.com/en/lufthansa-group-gener...
Nexus is also an ordinary English word in current use.
It's just a mixed metaphor. They are very common in bad writing, which isn't to say they themselves are always bad. The surrounding words make it clear it's not a typo. "which _____ them" does not make sense and would be very rare usage for "berthed".

We are born into a time and moored to it. Books are not. Books are distinct from people in this way. That's the point.

Since part of the interview is making fun of the way the questions are worded, it also fits in that respect.
The idea that your population can be "programmed" in the first place is the antithesis of american ideology. The whole point of freedom is you're free to think and say whatever you want and society has to deal with that. Society either rejects the ideas or accepts them but either choice still represents an active choice, an exercise of freedom. Saying that people are being "programmed" reveals a rather shocking lack of respect for the intellectual freedom and autonomy of their fellow man.
Which is a legitimate strategic imperative in the world of asymmetric warfare. It is not good that someone can launch a $1,000 drone that requires $10,000,000 in air defense munitions to counter.
Google rival Tuta complains to EU tech regulators about de-ranking
It's a complicated matter and I'm not the right person to make any statements about it, but on the one side, we have white sub-groups like Irish or Italian. On the other, grouping all Black sub-groups under one moniker seems overly abstract as well. That said, it works for the debate of racism etc in the US, which affects people of color, not so much the various white groups.
And has some really odd behaviors like https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/17053
Aduril, "the flame of the west", was the name of Aragorn's sword which he used to defend his lands from Saruman's army. I honestly can't imagine a more respectful usage of the name.

The Tolkien estate should be proud.
Who pays for hosting? The site claims it’s free but I read that as unsustainable
If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you will learn the things you never knew you never knew.
"You're the real racists" is a fallacy; it's ultimately not about appearance but oppression.
>A peek at billboard 100 from 2004 might surprise you. Same themes, new style and production.

That era is already after it has been going downhill.
> the internet itself has become a much more dangerous place for kids

There used to be a joke about the Internet:

Where men are men, women are men, and kids are FBI agents.

It seems that this is no longer true, and with the massive influx of kids, that itself has increased risk.

It wouldn't make much sense to be a child predator on the Internet in 1998. There just weren't that many kids.
Never said that it's a good thing that LLMs know less. It's a negative thing and I suspect it's like that because of good documentation in PDF format. So you usually need a lot less help in forums, and the doc itself is less discoverable.

The Pico has 2MB to 16MB on board flash with XIP in all the configurations AFAIK.
I think there's some misunderstanding on the expectations. Documenting a combination of all the available peripherals, boards and power sources is virtually impossible but that is not what I meant.

Given a power source and board with defined power requirements (e.g. say 3.3v upto 150mA) if we can easily find what commonly available components are needed and how to wire them up (with tradeoffs) is sufficient.

Here's an excellent video that touches lightly on what I meant. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=heD1zw3bMhw .

PS: If you find the video format of tutorials useful for learning about electronics, Andreas Spiess and Great scott channels on youtube have very good content that is helpful for beginners.
I think in many cases it's "pseudomath": all the information is carried in the explanation, and the notation isn't doing any actual work, so you could drop the decorative notation and just leave the explanation in English.
I'm mostly into punk/hardcore myself but music is probably one of my numerous passions that never seems to fade and nowadays I love to listen to radio to be exposed to music I wouldn't be exposed thru algorythms. Sometimes I don't like it and it's ok, but I often encounter great discoveries. https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip is perfect for it. Give it a try !
I think it’s funny, and I see it more as a stylistic choice to vent the author‘s frustration with the process than an actual reflection of their character. It is just their personal blog overall.

Edit: Gender neutral language
German government wants games like Baldur's Gate 3 be developed in Germany
I'm finally going to beat someone at scrabble!
"People think I'm an asshole... best not reflect on that, let's just embrace it and double down!"
From the documentation: https://bazel.build/external/registry

> Bzlmod discovers dependencies by requesting their information from Bazel registries: databases of Bazel modules. Currently, Bzlmod only supports index registries — local directories or static HTTP servers following a specific format.

It just uses the Bazel Central Registry (BCR) by default. You can specify your own via the --registry flag and then it uses them instead. It is possible to specify multiple registries at the same time, so you can mix the official, company internal and on your local filesystem at the same time.
One of the reasons I left when I did was that it was starting to get really obvious that an acquisition was likely and I desperately did not want my work e-mail address to end in oracle.com.
Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the “vox populi” now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.
Navigating Digital Architectures: A Roadmap for Technological Evolution
This looks great. Sadly I've got a non-smart exercise bike so I can't try it out but the design of the game looks great and I love that it's browser-based

The only feedback I'd have is that it might be nice if the website pulled through the aesthetic of the game a bit more? Though on the other hand maybe the darker look helps the screenshots stand out more
I feel like they took off with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker , which was a satire that people unironically found hugely enjoyable. But that was much later in 2010. Everything has to start somewhere; maybe Progress Quest was the first idle game?
It's astonishing they managed to debug and fix this, given how old and how far away Voyager is. I wonder if currently created designs are so robust in terms of repairability. Obviously, everything is much higher-level now; is it possible to fall back to something like low-level, direct memory access communication if something in higher layers fails?

I'm glad to see so many senior engineers on the team; it must be an exciting lifelong journey to work on the mission.
(to the respondents to my op): thanks!
Vichyssoise! Sounds like a French sauce.
> Everyone can just decide not to use these tools. Simple.

Stated like this it feels like parody of your position. We aren't going to have everyone just deciding to stop using the tools.

We could plausibly get legislation that makes it less attractive for people to make use of these tools in their work, resulting in illustration/translation/programming/etc. still requiring the same amount of human labor for a given output. I don't think any governments are in a particular rush to do this currently, but as you say sentiments can change.
That's not a hard disagree – that's a hard agree with what I said.
Another problem, (at least here), is what happens if you "overcorrect" with regard to hedonism.

If you completely shun partying/clubbing/bars, casual sex, TV/social media addiction, etc... in favor of a more virtuous way of life (perhaps filled with more intellectual endeavors; without neglecting the body either, I should mention), you gain a superpower known as "invisibility from the female sight".
And if you dare have standards about said opposite sex, $DEITY help you.

The state of things is really dire, let me tell you.
MAME 0.265 released, now emulating the IBM 5100/5110
> Almost every RP2040 can be overclocked to 400Mhz and work stable

If you're playing with overclocking the RP2040 it's good to know that the flash chip might not be able to keep up with those higher clocks though, which leads to inscrutable crashes, and of course the official documentation doesn't endorse overclocking so they don't tell you how to work around that. The flash runs on a configurable clock divider defaulting to 4, so if you're running the CPU at double the nominal clock you can raise the divider to 8 to keep the flash running at its original speed.
They are not designing their own processors so they can't massively accelerate producing better laptops. Because of their philosophy they are constant on more models or doing to many changes to those laptop lines.

They are not really 'taking the foot of the gas', there simply isn't a great way for them to sell more of those product lines. Their industrial designers aren't gone make those lines profitable.

But yes, if their current laptop line isn't profitable, just adding new product lines likely isn't gone safe their business.
I'm confused about what the problem is then – why are you paying attention to those people?
Can you point to any literature on this by any chance? I would be really interested to see some in depth analysis.
It's a domain-specific language, but it's about prose instead of e.g. legal, medicine, or IT tech.
Did he give any hints on what the other techniques are?
title is somewhat misleading:

> In spite of this one exceptionally priced location, most gas stations in the area appear to be selling fuel for under $6 a gallon, according to GasBuddy.
Vivaldi 6.7
I dont know whats ADR. All I did was put all relevant details/docs on airhelp. They sent another email when lawyer stepped in and I got email from lawyer too but that's about it.
> I have no idea why you think I think OpenAI is a sports club. That's so weird I have to assume it's an auto-corrupt and not even what you intended to write.

Not understanding something is OK, taking pride of it like that is quite something though.

> I have no idea why you think a bunch of counter-examples isn't an argument

Using counter-arguments is fine, as long as they are on point, which isn't the case here. No aircraft maker, for instance, ever claimed they were designing in aircraft to protect people against the dangers aircraft cause to mankind.

And that's why no example taken from the existing world can help defend OpenAI' hypocrisy, because no other company in the world started as a non-profit with grandiose claims like they did.

> or why they are shallow

Your writing is shallow because it goes in every direction without logical structure or exhibition of coherent thinking. You're jumping from one idea to another without articulating them.

And this latest comment of yours is also a good illustration of this, with the majority of your comment being rambling about random people you've met in real life or over the internet. Don't you realize it doesn't bring anything to the point you're trying to make and does a great disservice to your argumentation?

> And given that it is your previous comment which is in the grey as I write this, I think you need to look in a mirror before calling my words "clumsy".

Oh no, one individual OpenAI fan[1] downvoted my comment, my day is ruined.

[1] an here you see the explanation for the “sport club” point I made earlier, for some reason a bunch of people seem to believe that it's sensible to be fans of particular company and defend them in all situations over the internet. Apple fandom is the canonical example of that kind of behavior, but nowadays Tesla and OpenAI now have a fanbase with similar zealotry.