skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > on the street with a camera and tried to take a close-up.

> I might break your phone. How difficult would it be to sue me and for what purpose?

Easily. Damaging someone else's property is not even remotely on the same level as taking a photo of someone? How do I know it wasn't their _job_ to do so?

Honestly if you think that level of escalation is okay I hope to never meet you in person.

And trust me I find people taking photos of me creepy also but it's easier to block my face myself than to smash the person's device and expect to walk away.
It wasn't a different direction. Everything in the story is in the movie as well. The movie just contains a ton of more plot and details because of course you can't just translate a handful of pages of a sci-fi concept to the big screen.
I am currently using mosh and tmux together, it does seem like there's a lot duplication. It works great though, and mosh has actual roaming which is good for subways, VPN changes, etc.
Seems kinda wild that it took 2 years post the big sanctions for this to happen?
Tower of Babylon, man.
Just wow.
What is the cost economically of not having those bases?

Consider one result may be the USD not being used as a reserve currency as widely, or at all.
> What does the US give up not protecting the rest of the world?

The number of lives we’d lose in the next world war. The end of Pax Americana won’t be sweet.

That said, I agree there should be more thought as to the marginal benefit of the 800th base.
Wells Fargo fires workers for 'simulating' being at their keyboards
Hey Jer, please review the CELA policy about disclosing your employment connection to Microsoft.
The story for 2024 is the falling prices of EV's.
May not only be the journalists at fault. The scientists (and their university) have a vested interest in hyping up the potential in their work.
you still need a os. and i fail to see how nix would make video driver problem any better.

the problem with running debian is that fixes are often not backported, specifically for things end users will care about, like libre office
Atta boy for Beijing but Russians don't seem to be having trouble running this war at all. They still get their precision machinery and simply eat M instead of McDonalds.

Stuff getting expensive is no different than the west really. Slightly worse living standards can destroy the western democracies as they shift to extremist politics but has no effect on Russian leadership.
Interesting, how different the monetary base over time looks like in China compared to the US and Europe when you click on "max" on these charts:

https://tradingeconomics.com/china/money-supply-m0

USA:

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m0

Europe:

https://tradingeconomics.com/euro-area/money-supply-m0
You are safe anyways by the "sticks and stones" principal. Worrying about what other people think about you, unless they are your immediate family, is a pretty inefficient use of time.
Pity on them, for having expectations and hopes.
That's exactly the point I was making, too.
Slightly off topic, but I now refuse to read any web site that does "malicious compliance" with cookies.

If my only options are "consent" or manually going down a very long list unchecking everything, and don't forget to click on the little "vendors" link because there's an even longer list in there too... Then I give up.

This isnt even compliant (you have to offer a way to reject easily). I don't know why they even bother; it's already illegal, and is just annoying.

Bye!
My Response to Terrence Howard – Neil DeGrasse Tyson
"We can have the strongest military in the world and have them largely based in the US."

Sure, if you want a really strong Coast Guard. As soon as you venture out of that little bubble you're going to need ports, air-bases, and other facilities.

China is suffering from a lack of these, they really can't operate anywhere in the world like the US can. The same goes for Russia. In effect, those two are completely boxed in.

By things like US bases all over the world.

You can even argue that historically Britain was disproportionately powerful because of their extensive network of bases and ports. Trade was relatively easy for them, while other European powers never had the same access.

Like it or not, the ability to trade and the strength of your power projection are often deeply inter-linked.
This is why employees advocating RTO for the socialization depress me. There’s a big world out there, go find it.
No, we don’t have to establish that he knows them. It doesn’t matter if he is right about the people he knows: he is wrong about the customer base and the business decision.
Well deserved. My top 3 Ted Chiang works:

1. The merchant at the alchemist's gate.
2. What's Expected of us
3. Exhalation
I just want to counter balanced this by sharing love ted chiang but cannot happily get through any p k dick and little Gibson either. I find Chiangs work hits me deeper on a conceptual level and perhaps it's that exact lightness of tone. I find Dick and Gibson too affected with gravitas and a vision of stylistic coolness that I do not share for me to enjoy them. But that is all purely subjective preference, they're both objectively fine writers
It will be tough for Russian pride to see their nation sink to the level of North Korea as a dependent of China. Given the brilliance of the USSR's scientific developments, it's a long way down.
Lay people certainly might bookmark a medication they buy often, and if "the smart website silently replaces the correct drug with something similar but wrong" they might end up accidentally ordering and even consuming it.
Unfortunately nothing really happened in Russia because the only meaningful exchange rate of RUB / USD pair is not set by some central bank or exchange, but crypto market:

https://www.bestchange.com/sberbank-to-tether-trc20.html

There was drop of like 5-10%, but that's nothing special. You can still go and buy as much USDT as you want for reasonable price. And this is what majority of normal people use to move money out of country.

PS: I am obviously anti-Putin dude, but at this point sanctions make very little difference short term. Giving more weapons to Ukraine is the only way to stop Russia.
I disagree that these things have a negative impact on the world when you or I do them.

I think that if billions of people do them, we have issues, sure.

But there is a finite carrying capacity regardless of what we do.

We could live plugged in like the Matrix and there would still be an upper bound somewhere.

It is patently nonsensical to take the behaviour of one person or even a million people, scale it to 8 billion, and then claim that it's unsustainable as a result.

We have plenty of mechanisms to prevent that from happening. One obvious one is that, as a Brit, I'm legally not permitted to move to the US and live in the same way that someone in Arizona does, which puts a cap on my lifestyle. Most people are in situations like that - ever heard of the "golden billion"?
The legal (il)literacy on HN is astounding. The punishment isn't a fine, it's a civil judgment being awarded to the eight Colombian families that sued... this is the third paragraph in the article:

"Following a civil case brought by eight Colombian families whose relatives were killed by the AUC, Chiquita has been ordered to pay $38.3m (£30m) in damages to the families."
Not sure how much heat is directly contributed by cars. But regarding the original comment, having dirt or vegetation will be less heat absorbing than even white or gray asphalt. Also it helps with runoff amongst other things.

Even if cars directly aren't contributing all that much, the amount of empty parking spaces likely make their direct surroundings less hospitable than whatever the natural vegetation would contribute.
Valve sued for $843M for overcharging 14M gamers and abusing Steam's dominance
I am curious about encoding times comparing with standard codecs using ffmpeg
Over-hiring in the zero interest years. It resulted in the hiring of non-qualified personnel and of qualified personnel with no concrete plans on how to utilize them. Either is a buzz kill, especially when the chickens came home to roost with respect to results (revenues) vs ballooned valuations.
I loved Stories of Your Life and Others. It had some really great stories. Exhaltation on the other I found mediocre. Stories are either elaborate or very tiresome.
Do you think there are more Greeks in Sweden, or Virginians in Washington?
> EU GDP per capita 2022 is the same as US GDP per capita 2017.

Can't edit anymore, but: That were nominal numbers, and thus useless. See here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40673552
AWS BedRock – Converse API – A single endpoint for all models?
You’re saying you haven’t caught covid yet? That’s quite the claim. I’d suggest you just never had symptoms when you contracted.
> I've heard Covid referred to in some quarters as "aerosolised HIV", which should be at least taken seriously, even if it is (possibly) overly alarmist.

I've heard it too and it's definitely one of the more deranged takes I've run into.
Noncopyable Types in Swift
Despite its exotic architecture the PS3 can be emulated well on "normal" machines, though.

I was amazed that I am actually able to play PS3 games on my (older, not at all top of the line) laptop thanks to the brilliant RPCS3 emulator.

A PS5 is way more powerful than my laptop, so in theory SONY could just make all those PS3 games available through emulation.
> the great culture wars of 2020.

Well that's the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
Is that materially different? That’s just a Chinese phonetic representation of Vladivostok.
>1789 when it was enacted by a bunch of people that thought God made universal law applicable to the whole world.

Yet they passed legislation... what an absurd comment. By this logic, why regard the constitution at all?
Both of them are both of those things.
a few years ago I read an observation that Amazon is basically a hyperwebster for physical goods. If you can name a specific goal and think some product would do it for you, you simply type it into Amazon and by the time you press 'enter' a million monkeys on a million typewriters have already listed it for you. Your eschatrons immanentized in 48 hours or we offer you a $3 digital voucher, guaranteed.

And the "keyboard smashings" school of brand naming only makes this more pointed...
A few decades of war isn't helping anybody. Unlike the Russia, western politics shift because everything in the west is also getting expensive. Europe has seen this already.
My observations parallel those of many in this thread. Another thing I've noticed, but wasn't able to properly "name" until someone I work with did so, is the
idea of a "pocket veto." [1]

There are two people on my team who have become extremely disengaged of late–and I think one has good reason–and one way this manifests is in their agreement to do or fix something, but those changes never actually being implemented. I find myself having to follow up many times to ensure things don't get lost in the shuffle. But I don't directly manage one of the people, and it seems like they just DGAF what I say–no matter how I approach them. "Strong suggestions" really don't go anywhere. Pretty apathetic, if you ask me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_veto

edit: fixed typos
Why would a Chinese vendor not be able to offer AI in Western makrkets. Qwen is pretty good in English too.
"Incidental inclusion" does not cover walking right up to someone and putting a camera in their face. Like, "incidental" is literally in the term.
Not bad either, I don’t know if the ecosystem has grown out as much as the SD1.5 has though.
Maybe tech companies being more focused on profitability rather than growth, leadership changes where start up environments are becoming more corporate like?
Agree. When it's clear the content is no longer there, one of the big values of a 404 page is that you can at least hit Archive.org straight afterward to see if there's a version there.
That’s literally “Vladivostok” in Chinese.
I'm on exactly one group chat. Hell that's enough!
But is it a single syllable?
Science fiction is perfectly suited for short stories. It's a way to explore thought experiments, without being too constrained by the possibilities of the present, while also not being able to be as arbitrary as in fantasy and similar genres.
This is such a weird article.

" I mean, I knew about R but I thought that, surely, no one really ever uses it."

How could someone use vim without using R? I literally use that every single time I use vim (multiple times per day) and have done for 20+ years at this point. Do people only use "change inside" and cw and things like that? I mean sure I use them but not to ever use replace is really weird to me.
I'm particularly fond of the "Amazon option to ask your driver to stay for dinner and a movie" one
What is the purpose of the annual spikes?
That suggests strategies to test, but doesn't tell us if they are good strategies. (Risk of naturalistic fallacy.)

Compare to "what is the best way to walk" and then studying gorillas. We might learn something, but we obviously should not--heh--ape those evolutionary relatives. We've had more than enough time to develop our own separate-possibly incompatible--situation and needs.
>The best ones are a “forever dinner party” – good friends and conversation happening in perpetuity.

I took the piece as mainly talking about group chats among people who already mostly know each other offline. From my experience, these are indeed really good, because the high barrier to entry keeps weird randos out and establishes a high floor for common interests and understanding. They're an online extension of in-person groups, not a substitute for them.
> Russians don't seem to be having trouble running this war at all

They’re fighting like a ragtag African army, not a modern combined-arms one. Their latest air-defence systems which they once peddled for half a billion dollars each are being taken out by old American kit. The front lines barely budged while Ukraine was rationing arms; Russia is quite literally liquidating its economy and demography for Pyrrhic gains. We are watching the voluntary disassembly of a regional power.

> Stuff getting expensive is no different than the west

There is a massive difference between eggs becoming more expensive and not being able to access modern chip fabrication.

> Slightly worse living standards can destroy the western democracies as they shift to extremist politics but has no effect on Russian leadership

This was the Nazis’ hypothesis. In the end, Britain was able to shift to a more-extreme war footing earlier and more forcefully.

Putin has made this claim, but goes out of his way to insulate the Moscow elite from the effects of the war. The history of democracies in war is generally that they’re far more resilient than strongmen.
> they've scaled down output accordingly.

It's easy to dismiss this as just a smart ass comment, but it's 100% real for me. My employer pretends to treat me fairly and I pretend to work hard.
I do not have long term damage from my COVID infection from February 2023.
It sounds like they're not doing QC/QA, which would be unwise and maybe isn't necessarily true.

While 3D printing allows printing shapes that cannot be forged or cast, testing is always needed as part of the manufacturing process feedback loop. X-ray and dye penetration nondestructive testing check for abnormalities on accessible services, but destructive testing is needed sawing samples into slices to also check them for hidden defects.
Science fiction as if it had been written 4000 years ago.
Oh, thanks for catching this. I'll clean it up https://github.com/shell-pool/shpool/pull/43
Ability to run `tmux <command>` in the terminal and have it affect the current tmux session was a huge feature for me. The other was actually being able to understand and write my config file. You can get somewhat far in Screen without writing any config, but I wanted some small tweaks to optimize my workflow. For example, a more vim-style way to navigate windows, easier splitting of panes, the new prompt on a pane split to be the current working directory of the pane I was on when I triggered the split, easy ability to swap the location of panes, etc. It's not prettified at all since I'm the only (intended) user, but my tmux.conf if it's helpful to anyone: https://gist.github.com/FreedomBen/9c52a6fa1543689798a8a42b6...
What I dislike about C# is how much effort is needed to get a minimal environment. Rust and Python make simple code compilation quick and easy.

Let's assume I want to use a C# script .csx file. The CSX filetype seems to be Microsoft's flavor of attempting to "make it simple". I write a hello world. Now what do I do with the .csx?

I have no idea how to compile that with modern dot net.

It appears csi.exe would have been the answer, but now Roslyn seems to be the current best practice. No idea what to do though
To clarify, the type-checker does not modify compilation to the beam at all. Instead, it takes into account the predicted runtime checks to inject more static types into its analysis.

For instance, without even introducing annotations, if a function head has a guard `is_boolean(x)`, using the + operator on x within that function would lead to a type error.
If they had, but not anymore then this highlights the trend in the OP. But usually these things would also happen when successful start ups become more corporate like and original leadership changes. At certain point it's really difficult to hold the culture that initially existed.
Yeah, Doom Eternal struggles with like a dozen demons in one room and fps are immediately halved. It's such a pity. It's actually a decent game but if you can't keep somewhat consistent fps in a shooter game where every second counts, you'll just grind down the nerves and patience of your user base.

I know many people love Doom Eternal and other shooters with similar issues. Maybe I'm just sensitive to these kinds of frustrations.
If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), You'll Meet His Immortal Soul in the Cloud
Lead is not a compound. It's an element.

Lead compounds like tetraethyl lead do break down... eventually.
Actually, it doesn't work at all. It just allows Westerners with a new "development program" to conduct yet another experiment likely to end in failure.

Your comment on theft is spot on. The entire system starts and ends at strong rule of law coupled with a strong societal contract with private property. You don't have that in most of Africa. Even in the places the article mentions, it's hit or miss in practice. Giving money to women, or men, or children, or 3 legged camels with purple polka dots won't amount to a hill of beans without at least those two pillars in place.

And if those pillars are in place, and truly functional, giving away money won't work in any case. As doing so would make that nation dependent on your currency. Chinese, American or European. It's no coincidence that none of the ideas presented by "development experts" ever involve ideas that would make a sub-saharan African nation dependent only on itself, or other sub-saharan African nations. Where costs of trading have a chance in Hades of going down.

The cost of delivering a truck from the US or China is enormous. The only real way to bring that down is to manufacture it in sub-saharan Africa, and then drive it where it is needed. Anything less is just maintaining a steady flow of money and resources out of these nations.
I had an interesting experience with a WhatsApp group recently. In the past, WhatsApp groups had an upper limit of 256 participants. They then increased this to something much bigger (not sure how much, but at least 1,000).

Anyway, I was a CTO and was a member of a group chat for CTOs. We had very insightful and rich discussions about topics that affected our roles, like vendor reputation, frameworks, team management, talent acquisition and so on.

The group became popular and the admin started creating several groups to accommodate more participants. It looked something like "CTOs 1", "CTOs 2", etc

When WhatsApp increased the upper limit, the admin merged all group chats into a single one of thousands of users. There was an effort to use the "Communities" feature to create topic-oriented subgroups, but that's beside the point. What ended up happening was that the discussions plummeted in quality, where a very noisy minority would take up most of the space in the discussions. There were some high profile CTOs that stopped engaging at that point. Also, the group chat was quickly infested with people trying to sell stuff (cloud services, HR services, etc) and the group became a mess.

This left me wondering if there is enough demand for smaller social networks with very limited visibility that can foster rich and insightful discussions (although this sounds like forums from the nineties). And if it's possible to keep the sales people away, or at least invite-only.
You're getting downvoted for your tone most likely, but I agree with this statement:

> - I do not see ads in “every nook and corner of Windows” and neither do you.

As a professional "Windows user" logging 8+ hours a day on my PC, I see no ads. Unless you count "OneDrive" ads which in that case, would mean I see iCloud ads on my iPhone too. I'm fine with classifying these as ads, but I'm certainly not seeing them "in every nook".

Are these ads only bundled with a certain versions of Windows?

Disclaimer: I do not work for Microsoft or Apple.
I like it. Recently, I realized that I’m looking for tools that are doing one thing well. It looks like such tool and I will give it a try
>people (in general) have been conditioned to believe that digital information is free and thus will not actively pay for it.

I think this dates back to when the internet was better to begin with, and people first had to be conditioned to pay monthly to an ISP and that was enough. Everything else on the internet was supposed to be there for no additional payments. With that foundation it was plain to see this was a medium where ads were not necessary, there were so few of them it was inconsequential by comparison, things worked great with faster page loads even on dial-up.
at this point many are managed by agencies which can play that game on their own without even needing said influencers to knowingly and willingly collude
If the groups get big enough, bots sneak in.

Telegram is good for groups. But the bots are annoying even without LLMs. If the APIs get cheap and the bot makers smart, they can soon sneak in product placement in semi private chats (sport club, etc) where not everyone knows everyone.

Right now the ads are quite obvious ads and scam, still many fall for it. So I suspect more invite only groups .. and that works, until the wrong person gets admin rights and their device owned. Not that hard to automate with that many outdated android phones out there.
What is “recently”? How did you choose the last three companies you worked at and why did you leave them?
I don't know how anyone was ever all that engaged at large IT/Software companies - I always got the feeling I was working with a bunch of overly enthusiastic children lead by psychopaths who would cut up their families for the organs or whatever if they thought it would help them fulfill whatever their current ambition was.

I now work at a really small company lead by people who seem genuine (they've managed to at least keep up the act for a few years I suppose). It doesn't pay particularly well (though not bad for where I live either), and there's no "growth" potential (I learn lots of new stuff, but the money isn't going to double or triple or anything like that). No ads or hyperscaling - we just make a product that people are willing to pay money for. I'm as engaged as I've ever been for an employer.